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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1944
Page
7
The Winnipeg Free Press reports Vancouver testing a plan to shift sedentary clerical workers into four hour night war shifts. Early signs are encouraging as office staff adapt to new roles and find satisfaction, though long term feasibility remains uncertain. If successful, the scheme could spread to other war production centers.
Vernon Upton, 22, second officer aboard a torpedoed British merchant ship, was awarded the George Medal for swimming between lifeboats through shark-infested waters to perform a burial service for a dead shipmate. He led 40 men in two lifeboats after their officers were killed, surviving a month at sea before rescue on the 13th day.
Writer compares a thunderstorm to Allied strength in wartime and describes farmers weathering wind rain and floods. She notes a chestnut tree a maple sapling and the resilience rooted in Canada and the British Empire. Concludes with farming woes post storm and paradoxical love of heat.
Sunday School lesson excerpts from Leviticus 19 1 4 11 18 32 34 urge Israel to holy living under Jehovah God. It covers Sabbath reverence honesty justice kindness reverence for elders and love for the stranger with a period tone and moral instruction.
A compiled fill in crossword style list with clues and answers across and down. It includes abbreviations for states and metals, numbers essays, and references to ancient gods, energy units, and celestial bodies, all arranged as a large puzzle key.
A sea-going jeep once towed by a submarine ends up on a South Pacific island beach near a naval officers club. An officer recalls the sub removed the jeep’s tires, carried it on the conning tower, and sold it to a ship’s captain for three gallons of ice cream. The vehicle reportedly still runs well.
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