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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
7
Canadians are urged to support the war by paying higher taxes and contributing to war savings while maintaining national health. The message links heroism of sailors airmen and soldiers in Hong Kong and Dieppe to home front duties and stresses the need to guard public health amid wartime production and daily life stresses.
The Canadian Tuberculosis Association reports an uptick in deaths from tuberculosis in 1941, rising from 5,790 in 1940 to 6,057. Saskatchewan lost its long held lowest death rate, with increases across Manitoba Alberta and British Columbia, while Ontario and other provinces show elevated figures. Dr G J Wherrett warns disease can be as damaging as bullets.
Dr Wherrett warns against delaying health measures to after the war and urges immediate actions to prevent disease spread. He notes wartime finances will force curtailment of some peace time services and praises nutrition and preventive medicine efforts for troops and civilians. Public support should back health measures for those supporting the war effort.
The Round Church of the Temple, built in the twelfth century and modeled on Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre, with walls five feet thick, withstood incendiary bombs during a prolonged blaze. The fire gutted the interior but left the outer walls intact while Middle Temple Hall and other medieval structures suffered earlier calamities in London’s history.
A Calgary citizen's sleep was disturbed by train whistles, and columnist Richard J. Needham responded that he likes hearing them. He notes northbound Midnight trains, southbound whistles, and the CPR staying nearby, offering a nostalgic defense of rail noise and security.
Pressure of war has fostered unprecedented co operation between the United States and Canada in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Officials in Washington and Ottawa are collecting data on how this works to plan future exploitation of timber fishing mining and agriculture. The Alaska highway project and new telegraph links aim to improve communications and transportation to open up the north.
A satirical poem recounts Frederick the Great’s siege of Prague and the costly lesson of a vain victory. The speaker muses on a failed campaign, noting the starving Austrians, ruined fortifications, and the drained Prussian force, ending with a reflection on hubris.
A roll of graduates from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan is published, naming trainees from No. 1 Central Navigation School Rivers Manitoba and No. 11 Service Flying Training School RC AF Yorkton Saskatchewan. The list includes numerous air observers and pilots with hometowns across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Alberta. Names include E J Anderson I Anderson C Beattie W Bell P Hiekelmans A Brown R Buchanan W Davies D Davis TL dePencer J Doherty I Dorel J Dryden MB Foster Fraser G Goodwinn Hutton Kine Mok Mate Malcolmson Milne Nugent Ransom Renton J T M Rodrione Rowe Sadkowski Beott Beene Seaker Shepherd Smuda Stan Strange Sweet Treteaven Waters West Wilkinson Wood Young Rhodes Sokulsky Bolton Bracken Brayford Clark Gootwin Hutchison Look Marcil Ready Reid Riach Robertson Schumacher Shiach Shutteworth Sobkowicz Sacietz Waddell Watson Watson Wilson Baysal
Canada shifts from tool shortages to export growth with machine tools up about 800 percent, due to the machine tools branch of the Department of Munitions and Supply. The Brockville Recorder and Times notes Canada’s production surge and export to Britain and the United States.
The piece argues age should not bar service in wartime. It highlights veterans filling roles in administration, logistics, and nursing, noting older workers’ prudence and steadiness. It urges all capable citizens to contribute, including conserving goods to shield merchant seamen and curb inflation.
A compact collection of quotations on prejudice and bias from Bancroft Jeffrey Barrow Mary Baker Eddy Bovee and A Eustace Haydon. The excerpts contrast ignorance and interest shaping opinion and urge self awareness to curb false beliefs.
The article explains how assigned pay and allowances for dependents are handled when service members are missing. If POW status is found, full payments continue. if no trace is found, dependents are moved to the pension fund via the Department of Pensions and National Health. The process varies by service and circumstance.
The London Spectator argues Germans feel a pathetic longing to be liked and believe they are worthy of love. It notes a pervasive cold hatred surrounding them from Narvik to Bordeaux and an intangible fear that unsettles them.
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