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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1945
Page
7
Warnings rise that more money should be spent on training scientific workers and promoting research. Canada risks falling behind, with universities and the National Research Council expanding during the war. Dr. C. J. MacKenzie estimates annual scientific spend around $10 million and urges maintaining and increasing funding after the war.
Government and industry primarily fund research, with public opinion shaping policy. A Federation of British Industries committee led by Sir William Larke argues that research drives employment and new industries while stagnation risks bankruptcy. postwar markets may shrink, making continued funding vital for agriculture and overall national progress.
The Royal Aeronautical Society announces a new annual British Empire Lecture in London. Speakers will alternate between Britain and the Empire, with each receiving 50 pounds and overseas speakers a 100 pound travel bounty. The inaugural talk is set for September 1945 and will cover technical ideas with broad concern.
A Kitchener Ontario resident saved half-dollar coins for ten years and paid $800 toward his house with five pounds of coins. His wife later produced three lard pails full of coins for the payoff. The text also notes a cat eye’s cornea curves differently, extending side vision.
The Dominion Experimental Station at Morgen Manitoba advises homemakers in the Prairie Provinces to plant additional apple pear and hybrid plum trees every three to five years. The fruits are only partly suited to the climate, needing more moisture and milder winters, and heavy winters can reduce vigor in heavily bearing trees. Young trees growing well will replace aging ones.
Consumers' News explains auction sales pricing and rationing rules. It covers auctioneers as agents, fair prices, and prohibitions on selling above a new item price. It advises on ration book use via grocers and notes store exchange and refund policies vary by shop.
Newest mail hazard multiplies repairs at the Ottawa base post office as chocolate syrup joins jam honey and molasses in delaying overseas parcels. Glass jars crack and cardboard crushes. metal push-on lids pop loose in transit. Authorities report 40 to 50 parcels daily need repair. Send jams honey syrups in leak-proof metal jars with soldered lids, ample absorbent, shockproof packing, layered with heavy paper and secure wrapping.
Rehabilitation plan under Trans-Canada Air Lines completed another flight of trained personnel. The twelfth class of repatriated RCAF and army agents graduated at Stevenson Field Winnipeg in February, totaling 125 since March 1942. Eleven graduates including three Winnipeg men received proficiency certificates at a Fort Garry Hotel dinner hosted by D. R. McLaren.
The Abraham Lincoln public school in Boston's South End is described as a miniature League of Nations with at least 31 nationalities represented among its students.
Report describes how octopuses commonly attempt self harm when seized, a defensive behavior observed by observers. The note highlights the creature’s instinct to injure itself rather than yield to captivity.
Postwar readjustment and veteran reintegration pose challenges as governments regulate reemployment. Many returning men cannot rely on large industries to absorb them. the reservoir of small firms and farmers, employing up to 100 workers, could absorb labor and stabilize the economy. A small firm example shows $2,000 set aside to fund one veteran’s year of employment, illustrating practical paths to work and peace.
After liberation Belgian industry is shown to be heavily harmed. Of 2629 communities, 2205 suffered damage to homes, factories and public buildings. Estimated damage runs to 25 billion francs with 250,000 property claims since the German invasion through last December. Factory damage totals 3430, with 449 total losses, 2105 badly damaged and 1831 partly damaged.
The fourth District CWAC conference in Ottawa was presided over by Colonel Margaret Eaton. Western officers including Lt. Kathleen McConvery, Major Madeleine Nation, Capt. Mabel Fearnley, Major Mary Barker, and Major Madeleine St Laurent attended from Winnipeg, Vancouver, Regina, Calgary, and Toronto. A CWAC recruit, Corporal Alice Jenny Hawkins, was promoted to sergeant in Winnipeg. A Clerks Course at Kitchener crowned Pte. Jeasie Buchanan top honors, with several other named cadets completing the program. A brief profile highlights Blanche Nottingham, an early Saskatchewan CWAC member who married a U.S. Marine officer and later worked in Regina. A light feature extols CWAC coastal defense wear, detailing GI gear and Red Cross aid keeping the women warm in rugged Atlantic duties.
The document circulated two days after France fell, sent to British officials by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It exposed ghastly facts of Britain's position and carried a note begging for guidance a week hence on how to proceed to win the war, signaling urgent strategic concerns.
A collection of snippets and quips from townsfolk in a chatty, period voice. Jokes cover shopping woes, marriage, navy service, tailoring woes, money from husbands, old maids, boot repairs, a self referential poem, prison life, and a cheeky line about a judge’s timing. Distinct people and places are hinted through dialogue in a light, humorous cadence.
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