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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
3
HARROGATE England CP Dr J D Kershaw health officer says late talkers may grow up socially odd and become misfits. He cites parental anticipation of every need as a cause, noting speech delay may arise from overprotection.
The Bestfalo Courier-Express recalls Geo. Pershing and allied leaders Foch Haig and others, noting one conspicuous exception to Petain of France living in captivity and dishonor while Pershing rests in an honored grave, awaiting the final bugle call.
Ottawa Citizen notes McGill University intends to establish a four year course for the bachelor and degree of fine arts signaling encouraging intellectual and artistic growth in Canada. The move is expected to attract many enrolments as Canada gains a premier university offering degrees in the fine arts.
The Moose Jaw Times-Herald reports 1946 data: 732000 farmers engaged, 40000 paid income taxes. Of Dominion income tax revenue 895 million, farmers contributed 9.843 million, a figure likely to surprise many who supplied 685 million.
An advertisement in The Moose Jaw Times Herald touts a new pool room with special rest rooms and a cozy balcony lounge for ladies. The piece notes a shift westward where pool halls become billiard parlors and women are invited, while men stay home with the baby.
The National Progressive Conservative convention will be held September 30, October 1 and 2 at the Coliseeum in Lansdowne Park Ottawa.
Singapore and British forces advance as infantry to quell guerrilla activity. Troops order scorched earth tactics targeting any building offering enemy cover.
Mrs. J. R. Johnson, 58, plans to move into a new house next September. After 37 years of renting she funded and built the project herself except for roofing, with a neighbor helping to hold rafters while she nailed.
The piece notes that the proposed luxury tax on refrigerators lingered unresolved, but summer passes with no clear lift. For many households, refrigeration is essential not a luxury, especially as food saving becomes a priority and ice-dependent homes face difficulty and hardship.
Peoria reports Bernie Shelton, noted member of the Shelton gang, was shot and killed in an ambush today. Police are investigating the homicide and seeking information from witnesses about the attack and possible gang links.
Ottawa and the United States agreed on a distribution of television channels within a 250 mile belt on each side of the border. There will be an exchange of diplomatic notes to consummate the arrangement. Montreal report notes an order for Canadair 1V aircraft will boost staff from 2,000 to 6,000 at Canadair Ltd.
In New York City Mayor William O Dwyer officially proclaimed Babe Ruth Day as he visited Memorial Hospital where Ruth remains a patient since June 23 after several operations. Meanwhile Raymond K Arnold 24 an automobile worker and Canadian was sentenced in Philadelphia to nine months for illegal possession of marijuana.
Burma's foreign minister Atin Tut claimed evidence shows communist uprisings in the Far East arose from a master plan formulated at a Calcutta conference last year.
Australia's first entirely local automobile is nearing mass production at General Motors Holden's Fishermans Bend plant in Victoria. Up to 20,000 Australian-made cars a year are expected, with sales anticipated early in September. A separate note from London reports a simple two seater helicopter under construction, weighing about 1,200 pounds and priced under $8,000.
The Ottawa Citizen notes a novel strike by Toulouse postmen, the factors of the wealthy city famed for troubadours, who refuse to deliver letters that contain income tax demands as a protest to secure higher wages.
Victoria Times questions why motorists enjoy the island’s famed scenery yet leave roadside garbage from picnics. It lauds public works for a robust highway system and urges preservation of landscapes admired by many.
CPI A liaison team from the RAP empire air navigation school in Shropshire will embark on a month's tour of Canada and the United States leaving in August. The delegation will meet Canadian and American Air Forces to discuss problems facing air navigators as high speed high altitude jet bombers enter RAF service.
Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, urges other nations to import American know-how to help revive lagging industrial output and industrial growth.
After visiting skyscrapers, factories, and natural wonders across the United States, a famed European responded to a question about his greatest impression with one blunt answer: the size of the American garbage can.
Hon J A MacKinnon federal minister of subsidies and resources told Edmonton that if postwar immigration keeps up Canada could welcome 100000 new residents by the close of 1948. He warned the pace depends on policy and global conditions.
Telegraf reports Russians are enrolling large numbers of former German Luftwaffe pilots especially jet instructors for the Soviet air force to train and teach. In other items a grain elevator fire in Hussar Alberta destroyed about 10 000 bushels of wheat and was blamed on spontaneous combustion with losses over 20 000 dollars. Three children drowned near Sault Ste Marie after a car left a bridge. parents injured. Postmen of Toulouse praised for support of their cause. New Brunswick Oil Fields Limited halts land around gas wells near Moncton to guard against fire. Pickets injured in Dayton Ohio strike clashes at Walvis Lens Company plant. Yugoslavia abandons Balkan federation plans with Bulgaria and Albania. Canadian Congress of Labor accused about assault of textile union members in Carleton Place. Malayan rubber planters threaten no protection no production amid guerrilla activity.
The St Thomas Times Journal notes how fixed pensions and rising costs hurt older workers. A New York Herald Tribune case shows a man who retired at 70 now 90 returns to making fishing tackle after five years of high prices eroded his savings.
Joseph Grabek aged 23 and Gerald Yetman aged 21, members of the Canadian Seamen's Union, were sentenced in Cornwall Ontario to six months each for illegally boarding the J. O. McKellar freighter of the Sarnia Steamship Company last June 13.
Britain plans to end shoe rationing next month and relax restrictions on wool clothing sales. The move, part of postwar easing, signals broader market freedom for consumers and retailers while addressing wartime shortages.
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