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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1945
Page
3
Military authorities move to reorganize education in postwar Germany opening schools and securing teachers and textbooks. By mid October about 6,500 schools had reopened with around 1,150,000 pupils in attendance.
The article notes a severe textbook shortage in postwar Germany as British authorities destroy Nazi era materials. Reprints of pre 1933 German texts are used, with one million books printed for lower grades. English via Basic English teaching and school broadcasts aid instruction, while teachers trained to counter Nazi influence strive to teach values of peace.
The piece notes a severe shortage of school buildings during British occupation in Germany with many restored but overcrowded facilities. Schools share spaces, hours are staggered, and classes run from eight in the morning to eight at night. Teachers face difficulties. older children were taught Nazi ideas and must be re educated. younger students are slowed by air raid disruption and postwar confusion.
A collection of jokes and dialogues about optimism versus pessimism domestic life and misunderstandings. Witty exchanges cover waitresses, maids, innkeeping, car ratings, spice of danger, and tired workers with playful wordplay and character contrasts.
The page presents a crossword with horizontal and vertical clues covering fruits tools rivers languages bodies and common words. Answers include items like seed conductor stick mountain range and various short terms with numbers indicating puzzle positions.
Britain imports 28 million sardine tins from Spain and the old issue of opening the can reemerges after the war. Letters to newspapers question why an easy method to extract sardines from the can has not been invented.
Readers asked about permits for new autos and how to handle ration books. The Wartime Prices and Trade Board directs applicants to their nearest office for permits and explains guest ration books when staying in quota hotels. Farmers selling turkeys or meat must follow price and coupon rules and send coupons monthly to the local ration board.
A collection of quotations praising Christianity as life shaping and a companion to liberty. Included are lines from Coleridge Lander Tocqueville Franklin and a biblical verse promising believers will do greater works.
An Army captain visited a Baltimore library requesting Marguerite Steen’s novel The Sun is My Undoing. He explained he read to page 735 before going overseas in 1941 and now has 441 pages remaining to finish the book.
The article notes that the birth of the modern oil industry dates to the mid 19th century with the drilling of the first well in a determined search for crude, described as black gold, signaling a new era in energy and industry.
George W. Spinney the Bank of Montreal president told shareholders at the 128th annual meeting that while social security has value, no system can guarantee a high living standard without work. He urged continued voluntary restraint to curb inflation and highlighted bank profits and lending aims for postwar Canada.
Construction resumes in Moscow on the Palace of the Soviets aiming to surpass the Empire State Building in height and capacity. The palace will use 360000 tons of steel, 148 elevators and 62 escalators, rising to 112 stories with a 28 foot Lenin statue atop.
A fleet of mobile dispensaries for sick animals will be the memorial to the birds and others who have suffered or died in active service for Britain. A service record of animals has been compiled for inclusion in the Imperial War Museum permanent records.
Excavation will begin soon on the McGill University campus to clear the site for an atom smasher building. Officials say a banana tree will be sacrificed as part of the project plan and site preparation.
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