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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 29, 1945
Page
8
Reader questions address emergency shelter residency in Victoria and other cities, preserves coupons for canning sugar and fruit, ration book validity after discharge, fur price controls, and guidance to obtain the Consumers' News pamphlet or the Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Progress in medicine after the war is expected to bring broad changes in living standards. Some foresee sweeping societal shifts from wartime discoveries, but everyone agrees medical science may yield significant benefits for population health as new wartime knowledge becomes widely applied.
The piece argues that advances in medicine do not equate to better disease treatment and stresses preventive medicine. It notes Canada's health education efforts and cites wartime data: by March 1944, 468,303 of 1,064,888 examined were A category, with about 300,000 of the rest deemed unfit for military service.
Dr Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association spoke in Canada about the need for a population standard of health. He warned that beyond disease avoidance the aim is living with vim vigor and vitality for all ages.
Found Good Market War Assets Corporation revealed it had a surplus of 19 000 old tin helmets and 47 000 dummy wooden rifles from the First Great War. A Vancouver boy solved disposal problems by purchasing the helmets at low cost, sparking a nationwide rush as 18 966 helmets sold in hours. The firm can supply 50 000 more if found.
A survey shows 654 women employed across Canadian National shops, roundhouses, coach yards and car repair tracks. They work as boilermaker welders car scholars blacksmith helpers and electric crane operators. others assist machinists sheet metal workers boilermakers and carmen. the remainder are labourers seamstresses car porters and a turntable operator.
A short note on the common cold offers reassurance as doctors discuss simple remedies. The piece remarks that weather and health topics dominate casual reading, while one physician provides a comforting update amid ongoing remedies.
A quotation from the Ottawa Journal notes how radio altered consumer choices from soap and laundry soap to beauty standards and breakfast foods. It contrasts past practicality with modern romance influenced buying, praising radio’s unifying cultural reach while lamenting intrusion of pushy peddlers and sensational voices.
A wartime note contrasts peacetime foods with boyish theft in Britain as a juvenile court case reveals a child who stole grapes from a truck saying they were round black things he did not recognize. The text also notes humans require artificial oxygen above 23,000 feet.
The article notes a clear link between Canada's butter ration and the Red Cross fundraising push. It details weekly needs of 140,000 parcel kits for prisoners of war and liberated territories, each including butter milk powder and cheese, and calculates that annual dairy needs from Red Cross parcels total about 10,134,000 pounds of butter, equaling a city's yearly ration for 400,000 people.
An elephants heart may weigh over 60 pounds and has a circumference of about five feet, noting the remarkable size of the creature's internal organ.
Trans-Canada Air Lines announces the appointment of Captains J. D. Storie and L. L. Dunamore as check pilots under flight operations chief B A Rawson. Based at Winnipeg, they will support an intensified training program using ex service R C A F personnel as the carrier expands in 1945.
The Port of London published figures show that from June to August the port loaded and dispatched over 311000 British Liberation Army personnel, 123400 vehicles, and 666000 tons of general stores including ammunition. Dockers and unions kept 2000 ships moving under dangerous conditions while aiding Arromanches caisson construction.
Prime Minister Churchill, the war’s most travelled statesman, has covered about 150000 miles to advance wartime and postwar plans. He has met leaders including Roosevelt nine times and Stalin four, with talks in Cairo, London, and overseas. He crossed the Atlantic ten times, visiting the United States five times and stopping in Canada, Russia, Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus, Tripoli, Algiers, Malta, Italy, France, Greece, and Gibraltar.
Campers cook meals over a steaming crack in the ground and sleep in steam heated tents in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in southern Alaska, a dramatic landscape shaped by volcanic activity and geothermal features.
Type designer Frederick W. Goudy, aged 80, was honored at a dinner in New York hosted by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Typophites and the Distaf Side. He said he was designing his 121st type face at his Marlboro home and that no other designer has created as many. He recently declined Ethiopia’s invitation to design a new Armadaric type and has completed a Hebrew type face for the University of Palestine.
Two Saskatchewan CWAC members, L-Cpl Lena Goulet and Pte Ruth Allen, received overseas promotions after 18 months in No. 1 Static Base Laundry Unit. Capt. Marist Mosher, Nova Scotian CWAC officer, and Winnipeg’s Helen Ruth Swift also featured among notable service members and postwar plans.
A collage of jokes and quips on marriage, dentistry, money schemes, family routines, and social observations. Snappy lines include a dentist on a patient stepping on a corn and a husband and wife dinner plan call. A mother remarks on compatibility and hypocrisy, while tourists ponder village life and government ownership. A leg pain joke closes the snippet.
A collage of names from Canadian West provinces appears, followed by a playful note about Penelope CWAC and Pte Buttercup. The text hints at a humorous wartime cadence with a line about her wearing her hat at the alert.
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