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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1944
Page
3
A British ship sighted a derelict lifeboat with a bottle of champagne aboard. The crew drank cocoa before a rapid attack on a U boat by H M C S Drum Keller and a coastal command Sunderland. Two direct hits sank the U boat in five and a half minutes. Oil patches appeared after the wreck.
Eva Curie recounts Churchill’s defiant moment in June 1940 as France faced German terms. Brigadier Bishop, present at a War Cabinet meeting, recalls Churchill’s line We are alone and his subsequent calm resolve. The anecdote appears in Curie’s Journey Among Warriors.
Dick Higgins watches the Plaza as troops reposition and Almirante Higgins fires blank and live rounds. News of a naval intervention shifts public mood as the revolution ends and attention turns to gold finds at the Callano mines.
Canadian Boy Scouts plan to fund 1000 copies of Scouting for Boys in multiple European languages and continue relief work. The Chins Up Fund has raised about $38,000 to assist blitz victims and support Scouting rehabilitation. At Landsdowne Airport Ottawa, Mexican Scout Luis Perez Gomez, who learned English here, earned his RAF wings and was commissioned after graduation.
Thirty one non commissioned officers and nineteen commissioned officers among sixty two London Boy Scouts, led by Jim Osborne of the RAF who shot down the 1000th plane over Matta. A North Africa veteran asks for moth balls for his uniform. One hundred sixty Scouts will form the nucleus of a reorganized Boy Scout Movement.
Cut hard cooked eggs in halves and fill white halves with a smooth mixture of egg yolks mayo salt mustard chives and cottage cheese. Arrange two stuffed eggs on crisp lettuce nests with tomato slices and garnish with parsley. serves 6.
A political leader visiting a mental institution greets inmates near the gate. One inmate grins and replies, Because we're not all there, reflecting a sharp party joke from the Windsor Star.
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