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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
7
The British Empire, after years of war effort, plans postwar reconstruction under the Colonial Welfare and Development Act. Authorities emphasize continued progress to raise living standards and improve colonial status in Africa, the West Indies and the Far East while wartime needs persist.
The article notes disease as the top barrier to progress and describes British efforts to raise health standards. Modern hospitals are built in populated areas while bush clinics serve remote districts. Initiatives focus on education about tropical disease prevention, sanitation, feeding, and safe drinking water.
A British Ministry of Information article notes agriculture as the chief industry in colonies, with efforts to modernize cultivation and alleviate insect damage soil erosion and labor issues. It also highlights education drives building new schools expanding teacher training and adult education to raise living standards and enable greater self government toward eventual partnership within the Empire.
Jean Hall of the YWCA program department says young women across Canada want an education system extended to prepare them for marriage and homemaking. She cites regional conferences in Western Canada Ontario and Quebec and notes desires for coed recreation better housing welfare equal pay for equal work and 60-year pension prospects for domestic workers and veterans.
Following reports of an assassination attempt on Hitler, German radio replaced the upcoming program with music. The cancelled lecture was titled Extermination of Rats.
The Vancouver Sun quotes a farmer saying a superb crop, stored properly, may become the most valuable in history not for high prices but to aid a starving world. If nature aids Canada in growing this food, the country will not begrudge proceeds to those in need.
Twenty Red Cross workers in London, a mobile team, obtained 2512 bottles of blood for the forces in Normandy. The donors were all volunteers from the Canadian forces in Britain. Four sergeants gave blood in the morning and returned in the evening to continue as orderlies.
A man and his boy find a glove on a quiet street. The man remarks on honesty and places it by railings. A hundred yards later another glove appears, fits the man, and he sends the boy back to fetch the first glove, hinting at a neighborly connection.
In China clocks are rarely given as wedding presents because they are considered bad omens. The note reflects cultural beliefs about auspicious gifts and superstitions surrounding marriage timing.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board answers questions on canning sugar coupons, noting they remain valid until declared invalid and may be cashed in any quantity. It also allows full leather soles on children's shoes up to size three and loggers' boots, and requires farmers to forward butter coupons to their local ration board.
A successful auction of registered polled Angus cattle conducted by Malcolm McGregor at Brandon Exhibition Grounds Manitoba sold 1 head at an average 296.48 dollars. Ten bulls averaged 213.90 while 71 females averaged 307.50. Top bull Unity Domino Ex Oth 155744 brought 510.60. top female Domino Lassie Ltd 100245 sold for 750.00. Purchasers included Treffry Bros Portage la Prairie for the top bull and Howard Stephens Wawa nesa for the top female. About 300 people attended in excellent weather. Other buyers included John Mason Friday Hawley Mann USA buying ten head at 2,885.00, top 400.00. L. W. Babcock Wallaceburg Ont eight lots 2,700 top 550.00. Ray Emmett Calvin North Dakota seven lots 2,850 top 500.00. Denver G. Rosberg Washburn North Dakota four lots 1,300 top 350.00. E. Moore & Son Tofield Alberta three lots 950,000 top 450. One bull went to D. L. Cobb St Croix Falls Wisconsin. General average satisfactory with strong demand for females and weaker demand for bulls. More cattle could have been sold at satisfactory prices.
Three Boy Scouts depart Bacchus Marsh Victoria for a hike. Their haversacks gleam with a sharpened tomahawk. Their mother watches silently, then later to a doctor to treat a wound from the boy’s swinging tomahawk. She proves she can be a good scout too.
Cpl. Belle Traill of Trail B C leads a reform push in Currie Barracks Calgary using a tin swear box to collect five cents for each profane utterance. Italian language training boosts CWAC unit efficiency in Italy led by Capt. Cynthia Oakley. Banting’s widow enrolls as a medical student at the University of Toronto. A leopard skin drum corps recruit named Peter joins the CWAC Military Band with sister Susie joining Drumming Corps.
The New York Times recalls the Distomo massacre in Greece where 1000 villagers were killed in June after a clash with Hellenic Liberation Front partisans. Nazis destroyed the town in reprisal, the carnage likened to Lidice, but without a premier orchestrator.
A compact collection of quotes on moral strength, faith, conviction, and integrity from Eddy Clarke Garfield Lowell Smith and Lincoln. Each line delivers a historical reflection on choosing truth, standing for right, and facing danger with resolve.
FO Jack Winship, 28, a former Winnipeg bus driver, flew a Mosquito photographic reconnaissance plane home on one engine over 700 miles of Japanese-held Indo China jungle. The port engine cooling system failed and he jettisoned 100 gallons of fuel to maintain altitude after losing 6,000 feet. Winship trained at High River and Dauphin and was joined by RAF FO Peter Haines of London.
Seven thousand dogs serve in the British Army with 60 days of training each. After completion, each dog joins a unit with its trainer where duties include guarding airdromes depots dumps installations power plants and secret enclosures.
Floating kitchens among British landing craft are LBKs, barges fitted out to provide hot meals for crews of amphibious landing craft, as described by the Journal of Commerce in London.
A wartime note observes a shift in the Canadian forces. In World War I about half the men were British born, while in the present conflict nearly nine in ten are Canadian born and bred.
The plan calls for 1,000 four engine bombers to strike Berlin from British bases requiring 50,000 ground personnel to support 7,000 to 12,000 crew members in the air.
A sequence of light vignettes and jokes exchanges. A maid jokes about a man who visited, a sailor in a boarding, a driver questions repairmen on poles, and a Dutchman delivers a painter punchline. A recruiting office quip contrasts a job with a commission. A German Heil leads to Rembrandt punchline. A crying child and a club crowd react to Mrs Stoneleigh. A bandmaster quips about week-end performances. Ends with a prompt to buy War Savings Stamps.
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