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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1949
Page
2
The Rossburn Review announces it is printed weekly at the Review Office Mountain Ave Rossburn with R Hodge as editor and publisher. Subscriptions priced at 2.00 per year in Canada and 2.50 in the United States.
Canada’s 564 weekly newspapers urge the federal government to revise sales tax rules. They argue the 8 percent tax on paper used by weeklies while magazines weekends and comics are tax exempt distorts competition, threatens small-business publishers, and undermines free press.
The United Emergency Fund for Britain appeals to shippers through U E F 8 to forward food parcels to Britain. Depots are working to dispatch all parcels by the holidays, with strict adherence to British import and Canadian export rules. The fund may redirect parcels if recipients are ineligible.
Editorial notes how the magazine condemns food waste while Holland floods markets with surplus vegetables. It highlights Prof. DeVries whose personal loss spurred a gift of food to the Ruhr and government funding to cover transport, improving Dutch German trade relations and shifting Marxist views. Also includes a clearance ad for typewriters and adding machines from Capital Equipment Co.
D. M. McLean outlines the Junior Farm Club program as a voluntary educational movement aiding farm youth and the agriculture industry. It trains in agriculture homemaking and citizenship, developing initiative and leadership while supplementing formal schooling.
Reports from the Third Western Canadian Weed Control Conference in Edmonton highlight rapid adoption of chemical weed control led by 2 4 D. From 1947 to 1949 acreages treated rose from 0.5 million to 8.44 million, covering 21 percent of grain crops, with prospects for chemicals targeting other weeds and improved application methods alongside strong cultural farming practices.
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