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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
2
Adult education is highlighted as a public concern with war driving changes. Provisions for vocational retraining exist, but leaders foresee a need for more facilities after demobilization. Emphasis is on citizenship, health, and vocational guidance alongside ongoing studies.
A Canada and Newfoundland Education Association report warns of a postwar need for trained adult education leaders. It urges provincial education and university extension departments to train instructors and run study courses, with local school boards coordinating locally. It cites Britain’s people's education movement and a U S Office of Education backed program as models.
Canada hasa long standing organization the Canadian Association of Adult Education formed in 1935 to aid study groups nationwide. It offers publications conferences radio library services and supports the National Farm Radio Forum financed with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. Registered listening groups reach 20 000 weekly with 16 000 study material packages distributed. The report urges continued support for the association in this field.
Milton industrialist Arthur F Wallace enters a Valatie chain store to shop for dinner. He sees a "Boy Wanted" sign and asks the manager how much celery costs. The manager answers eighteen dollars a week to start.
A compact collection of light humor and wry one liners drawn from everyday life. Jokes range from a widowed caller and a thief report to a chemistrys price punchline and a guardhouse quip about juries. The piece also notes a wartime tank scene and a playful exchange about a wedding calendar.
Citizens ask about ration books and sugar coupons and whether they remain valid. Instructions outline who must surrender hotel ration books, how often coupons are detached, and that no evaporated milk or canning sugar coupons are to be collected. It covers farm transport limits until November 15 and shoe repair price ceilings during the 1941 period.
British Information Services released details showing the National Federation of Women's Institutes organized and packed 375 million spares for invasion transport. Members worked in odd hours across homes and halls, praised by the ordnance services controller for aiding invasion preparations. They also continued canning and jam making and plan to help with harvest as volunteer land work needs grow.
The official marching song illustrates hands across the sea cooperation. Poet laureate John Masefield wrote the lyrics and Zoe Elliott from Vermont wrote the music.
The term Bible comes from the Greek ta biblia meaning books, and many people refer to it simply as a sacred book in everyday language. The phrase highlights its revered nature as a collection rather than a single writing.
A reader claims relief from constipation by increasing dietary bulk with Kellogg's All Bran. The ad suggests stopping harsh laxatives, eating All Bran with milk or as muffins, and drinking water, noting production in London and Canada.
The Canadian government launches a joint survey across British Columbia Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Mineralogists study mineral structures near the new Alaska Highway and Northwest Air Route while foresters assess timber. Fisheries experts monitor Great Slave Great Bear and Mackenzie rivers. An agricultural station is planned near Whitehorse to test soils and climate. The project follows wartime investments in the Northwest.
Winnipeg reports say the CWACs at Fort Osborne Barracks now enjoy after dinner music from the District Depot Band directed by Warrant Officer Robert Sumner. The group provides half hour concerts for Depot Company No. 4 and the Administrative Unit, Fort Osborne Military Hospital, and also performs for Active Army soldiers within the garrison.
Regina’s Mary Moynihan, a CWAC soprano with an Italian unit, writes home about Italy’s land and children. She recalls rescuing a wounded girl named Maria after a chocolate rush and sharing treats. Mercedes Lemay pursues stenography. Private Steve Constable in New York meets Richard Rogers and Broadway stars, then returns to Ottawa with stories of a memorable leave.
Two Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm eggs from China to Europe hidden in pilgrim staffs around 522 A D. The incident marks the early spread of sericulture beyond Asia as monks transported the eggs to seed European cultivation.
Dr. George E. Simpson of Pennsylvania State College urges families to let veterans move forward. He says service men and women prefer looking ahead rather than recounting past experiences and should engage with community, political, and technological developments.
Ohio Crankshaft Co in Cleveland has perfected a heatless heating method using high frequency electrical induction to continuously harden steel bars. The new process enhances physical characteristics of the steel used for industrial equipment and engines. John Boyd Dunlop, a Belfast veterinary surgeon, created the first hollow rubber tires over fifty years ago for his child’s tricycle.
A quick summer snack idea uses chocolate bran refrigerator cookies kept on ice until baking. Melt unsweetened chocolate with butter, beat light, add egg and flavoring, blend with All Bran mix in flour and leavening, shape slices, and bake on ungreased sheets at 400 degrees F for about 12 minutes yields 4 dozen cookies.
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