Arctic distress call brings Father Adam to hospital
Radio Edmonton reports a faint distress signal aided a stranded missionary, Father C. Adam of the Oblate order, east of Copperville NWT. A CPR Airlines freighter flight from Newknife with pilot Ernie Boffa and mechanic Thornton Tweet carried him to Fort Resolution hospital after a day of field distress signals from Burnside Harbor Bath Rat Inlet. In the Caribbean, Martinique records 33 hurricanes in 300 years.
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Edmonton
Father C. Adam
Arctic
Coppervine Nwt
Fort Resolution Hospital
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Ernie Boffa
Thornton Tweet
Ye Nowknife
Father Adam
Burnside Harbor
Bath“rat Inlet
Botta
Tweed
Fort Resolution
Education In Canada Meet Highlights School Funding
The Canada Newfoundland Education Association meeting in Winnipeg reviewed a Dominion wide survey on Canada’s educational needs. Dr W P Percival chaired the committee and presented recommendations including funding reforms, doubling education costs, extending schooling to sixteen and partial attendance to seventeen and eighteen, and a teacher minimum salary of 1321 dollars.
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Canada-Newfoundland Education Association
Winnipeg
Canada
W. P. Percival
Quebec
British Columbia
Citizenship Emphasis in Education Postwar Canada
The report recommends future emphasis on moral principles and worthy citizenship in schools. It urges training in useful crafts alongside academics and notes a push for more practical subjects as education adapts to postwar needs in Canada and Newfoundland.
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Canada
Canada-Newfoundland Education Association
Wartime Education Provisions in Canada
Wartime needs in Canada are met through special school provisions and the Youth Training Plan, expanding technical training for armed forces and war industries. Universities train Navy Army and Air Force personnel. debates arise over teacher salaries school units and curriculum broadening as key postwar changes.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Navy
Royal Canadian Air Force
Army
Nixon’s Daughter Oversees RCAF Women’s Division Staff
Kathryne A. Forbes daughter of Ontario premier Harry Nixon led a draft of Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division personnel whose arrival in Great Britain was announced. She is wife of Capt. R. B. Forbes and was formerly junior administration officer at Uplands. A brother Pilot Officer J. C. Nixon RCAF was killed overseas in 1941.
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Kathryne A. Forbes
Harry ©. Nixon
Ontario
Nixon
Royal Canadian Air Force
Great Britain
R. B. Forbes
4Th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Canadian Army
Uplands
Air Force Headquarters
J. C. Nixon
R.C.A.F
Protecting Gardens From Cutworms Advice From Agriculture Dept
The Dominion Department of Agriculture suggests methods to guard gardens against cutworms. In small plots wrap stems with paper or place tin cans over transplants, burying their ends in soil. For larger gardens use poisoned bran bait made with bran sugar green and water, applied at dusk in two doses three days apart, keeping it away from children and animals.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
List of RCAF appointments and names
The Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters announces recent commissions of airmen in Canada. Names include Phouw J Gibson Caron Sask Thomas Fost Arcola Sask N B Currie W L Gwinn Puentet W D Harrison Walter Winkler BOL Jones Plistere J B Browne Darkeith Rudolf Millous Mai Karieth Mob Stranos Whigs Te ram Sinheyn Rivers Man Vellamy Arena Sask Ha Elophitis tate Gilchrist Wythebrit Herittery Merrie Mu n Colborne Bea x Lookout Ont.
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Phouw
J. Gibson
Caron
Sask
Thomas Fost Arcola
N. BE. Currie
W.L. Gwinn
Puentet
W. D. Harrison
Walter
Winkler
Bol. Jones
Plistere
J. B. Browne
Darkeith
Rudolf Millous
Wow
Mai Karieth
Stranos
Whigs
Teram Sinheyn
Rivers
Man
Vellamy
Arena
Ha Elophitis
Tate Gilchrist
Wythebrit
Herittery
Merrie
Mun
Colborne
Bea
Lookout
Ont
Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund Attracts Millions
More than ten million Britons contribute regularly to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week fund, representing nearly twenty per cent of the population. The donation drive highlights broad public support for humanitarian efforts across the country.
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Britain
Red Cross
Smiles and Snippets of Classic Household Humor
A collage of light vignettes and jokes from daily life including quips about a father, a mail order misread, and polite banter over soup. The pieces mix family scenes, theater anecdotes, and rural humor with brief punchlines and character observations.
Forget the Faults and Slander Embrace Lovable Memories
A quotation urges forgetting neighbor faults and slander to prolong happiness and life. It advocates dwelling only on good points, blotting out yesterday's disagreeables, and starting each day anew with lovely memories. The note then mentions Alaska and Swan Lake near Sitka freezing in January 1940 prompting school dismissal for skating.
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Alaska
Swan Lake
Sitka
GEMS OF THOUGHT QUOTES ON SELF DISCIPLINE AND INTEGRITY
A selection of terse maxims on inner law, loyalty, and moral integrity cites Browning, Publius Syrus, Mary Baker Eddy, J B Walker, Long fellow, and Buckminster. The lines urge self rule, conscience, and virtue over outward pomp.
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Jesus
Mary Baker Eddy
Buckminster
Rattlesnake Quote: Fifteen Species In American Range
The report states there are 15 species of American rattlesnakes, all venomous.
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