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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1946
Page
6
Byrnes backs merging the American and Soviet zones into a single area, aiming for 1800 calorie norms as soon as food supply allows. The plan would cost about 100 million dollars more in 1947 but officials predict self sufficiency within three years. Congress has not yet been consulted on the higher funding.
President Truman appointed O Max Gardner former North Carolina governor as ambassador to Great Britain to replace W Averell Harriman who left the post to join the Commerce Department Gardner will assume the London embassy as soon as possible The appointment awaits Senate confirmation when Congress reconvenes in January
A Labour government source states Britain is not drafting any military pact with the United States that would force action in future scenarios. He rejects Daily Worker claims of a secret 10 year de facto alliance and says current talks concern armaments integration within UN framework. Attlee’s position aims for UN participation including Russia.
The Board of Grain Commissioners reports visible wheat stocks in Canada for the week ending Nov 29 totaling 158.6 million bushels, down 1 million from the prior week and below 204.8 million at the same time last year. Pacific coast holdings stood at 8.5 million and Atlantic seaboard at 2.7 million bushels.
Paul Sykes the new Canadian trade commissioner to Singapore said Canada aims to restore rich pre war trade with the Orient and is making a strong bid.
The War Department reports German and Austrian scientists have saved the United States over 750 million dollars in basic rocketry research. About 270 experts are at Wright Field, White Sands, and Fort Bliss, with plans to rise to about 1,000. They work on diesel engines for locomotives, parachute tech, light metals fabrication, wind tunnels, jet propulsion, and synthetic fuel from coal and shale using Fischer Tropsch methods.
The king appoints Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis governor general of Canada and six other leading wartime figures to Knights of the Garter, the highest British order.
A U S army aircraft landed in Cairo from Germany carrying streptomycin for Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha. The delivery marks health aid amid ongoing wartime tensions and regional needs.
The United States Navy expedition to Antarctica departed Hampton Roads on December 2 headed for the South Pole. Led by Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd, four thousand men aboard the Mt Olympus Northwind Pine Island and Brownson carry eight months of supplies for the four month voyage.
Wembley resident Altan B. Hamm reports proof that ducks migrate from the Peace River district to the Pacific coast. He mailed 1,111 ducks last year with 120 returns, 87 of which were killed on the coast. This year he banded 1,163 ducks and awaits further proof. Wembley lies about 240 miles northwest of Edmonton.
Navy ministry sources say Argentina plans within a year to purchase an aircraft carrier a cruiser three submarines and landing craft for a marine battalion from foreign suppliers.
A Rockefeller Foundation study for Manitoba recommends a four province training pool to cover dentists medical and psychiatric social workers dietitians and medical specialists. It calls for a joint planning commission and provincial planning committees. The report endorses Manitoba’s health plan as realistic and urges full time university appointments in key medical departments.
In St Thomas Ontario thieves broke into a city laundry and stole five shirts from three parcels while leaving other items untouched. Police seek information about the incident and urge vigilance after the unusual theft.
Mrs Florence Paton, Labor MP for Rushcliffe Nottingham, among 12 chairmen named by the Speaker for the current session. A former school teacher, she becomes the first woman to receive such an assignment.
Alberta stockyards moved a record 3.35 million dollars of livestock in November, officials said, with total value over 3.5 million when including plants not barding through the yards. The figure reflects a new monthly high for livestock handlings.
Saskatchewan selects James Albert McDonald of St Albert Alta as 1946 Rhodes scholar. A 27-year-old veteran of World War II, he served six years in the navy and recently earned honors in arts and sciences. He will pursue advanced economics at Oxford.
Army authorities say most of the 1 800 troops overseas will return by mid January. About 1 020 sail for Canada on December 10 aboard the Samaria, another 600 depart January 8 on the Aquitania. Around 150 plan to discharge in England, and the rest will stay in the United Kingdom at Canadian army liaison offices.
Britain’s export oriented drive lifted output in October with steel, motor vehicles and merchant ships rising. September employment reached 6,845,000, up 30,000 from June 1945, while registered unemployment stood at 359,000 versus 170,000 in the pre war month.
Ottawa reports the Dominion agricultural conference set 1947 targets: 24.0 million wheat acres, down from 25.9 million this year, with oats up to 14.31 million and barley up nearly 20 percent to 8.0 million. Rye would drop to 487,100 acres, prairie summerfallow at 18.81 million, and mixed grains up to 1.453 million acres to boost feed for meat and dairy output.
Dublin reports that Wire four sugar beet factory workers remain on strike seeking higher pay and better conditions. Provisional agreement with Irish Sugar Company was repudiated by workers despite union orders to return. Government backing maintains talks only with unions amid deadlock.
Ottawa researchers unveil a simple radar device for pilots to gauge distance from a ground station at a glance. The National Research Council says the dial is as easy to read as a car dashboard and remains accurate even without ground visibility. Preliminary models tested. an experimental installation on a Canadian airline is underway.
Berlin reports railway police and Russian military police have arrested 15 members of robber gangs active in the Russian occupation zone. Officials note more than 800 attacks on German trains since the zone began, with October recording 27 gang robberies and 22 single-bandit incidents.
In London a sheep dog testified for itself, its master praised its docility and invited magistrates to inspect. The judge left the bench to stroke the animal as it wagged its tail. Verdict reached: not guilty.
A rule invoked by American contract bridge league tournament director A. M. Sobel barred Leon Beard of Port of Spain a 43 year old Trinidadian from participating in the Toronto Whist club’s Ontario bridge tournament held in Toronto.
The RAF chapel at Biggin Hill in Kent, built in 1943 to honor 200 dead and missing Battle of Britain pilots, was destroyed by a blaze. No further details were provided.
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