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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
2
Public guidance on wartime price controls covers P coupons and sugar, meat rationing timelines, and slaughter rules. It explains labeling requirements for dress items, restaurant butter quotas, and how to request the Consumers News pamphlet or the Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Canada emerges from the war with increased maturity and prestige among nations. Although 1 percent of the world population, Canada ranked highly in Allied service and trade. At Bretton Woods Canada was ranked among top nations by income, trade, gold, and foreign exchange. Canadian delegates influenced the World Security Conference in San Francisco, signaling strong national influence.
The article argues future uncertainty remains high yet Canada can overcome postwar economic shifts. It reflects on wartime labor demand and strong markets, urges continued determination and cooperation, and notes the need to adapt production and shipping to normal conditions while maintaining optimism about solving complex transition challenges.
Dr Eric Englund of the US agriculture department told a Saskatoon audience that expanding foreign trade remains vital for Canada. He warned markets for agricultural goods may grow slowly and no instant magic formula will create demand, urging stable employment to sustain prices and progress.
Canadian war artists from the Field Historical Section displayed watercolors and sketches at the Amsterdam Municipal Art Gallery. Maj. C. F. Comfort and captains Pepper Fisher Tinning Colville and Lieut. Bobak led works depicting portraits and battlefield landscapes. Dutch visitors and army personnel attended as the works head to Ottawa and other Dominion centers.
Sir George Binney, commander of British blockade runners, describes how he and about 400 British and Norwegian sailors hauled 35,000 tons of Swedish raw materials past the German blockade in the Skagerrak for over four years. The cargoes included critical ball bearings and 20 machines that boosted British aircraft engine production by 400 percent, with shelters built for shared use by war industries in the United States and the British Commonwealth.
The Soviet News states that about 40 percent of blinded soldiers treated by Russian doctors during the war left hospital with their sight restored to a considerable extent, highlighting medical advances and wartime recovery efforts.
A traditional bounty awaits every Royal Navy seaman as the admiralty prize court governs the disposition of captured cargoes and enemy ships. Reports note vast sums, with war loot distributed among sailors, while references to China's tin mines mention extensive tunnels sometimes only crawlable by children.
A collection of old time quips and jokes about family life work queries and social ironies. Lines include a wife preferring mid story humor a labor exchange cashier search and a bevy of domestic and travel gags set in a bygone era with references to a War Office and reindeer coloration.
J Wendell Reid of Sydney Nova Scotia now a Trans Canada Air Lines pilot between Winnipeg and Toronto was decorated in Ottawa by the U S ambassador with the Distinguished Flying Cross. The citation notes extraordinary achievement in patrols over the Normandy Beachhead area and leadership that helped his squadron destroy at least 20 enemy aircraft since D day. Reid, 24, earlier won the Webster Trophy as top Maritime Canadian pilot and was licensed at 17.
Lieut Hans Pingel, awaiting demobilization, led a gang of about a dozen soldiers in a hair cropping sortie against two German women, Musche and Schippe, aged 35 to 40. The women were pulled by their hair along a road, three men cutting off their hair and stuffing it into their mouths, after accusations they had aided British authorities.
Nine year old English musical prodigy Jimmy Osborne, adopted by members of the U S Ninth Air Force stationed in England, studies at Perkins Institution for the Blind. Since flying to the United States he has composed The New York Bounce, gulped milkshakes, and plays piano after hearing a recording once. American fliers raised funds to educate him in the United States.
The piece covers C Q M S Mary Scholey of No 12 CWAC Composite Stores Regina detailing supervision of outfitting recruits and replenishing issued gear. It notes sisters Mary and Betty Scholey, Mary’s postings, and a Newfoundland line about their Yorkshire origins. It also cites the No 1 Canadian Women's Army Corps Training Centre graduation in London Ontario with names of Saskatoon and Alberta graduates and ends with humor about night duties and a cartoon exchange.
A collage of quotations on pleasure and truth from Selden Bacon Foster Eddy Collins Collins and Bovee contrasts true and false happiness. Each author notes virtue or mental discipline as the source of lasting bliss and the burden of great joys.
Professor H A Innes of the University of Toronto argues that a free exchange of scientific knowledge between Canada and Russia will immediately follow the war and will significantly aid the development of the Canadian Arctic.
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