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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1948
Page
2
Sir Boyd Orr, retiring FAO director, doubts any surge in world food production meeting global needs. The British farmer scientist and new Scottish Universities MP remains a leading authority on nutrition amid market instability.
Sir John Boyd Orr, aged 64, left his Stotland home two years ago to head the Food and Agriculture Organization in Washington. He became familiar with Canada’s agricultural problems and was well known to many Canadians. At the FAO he stressed the need to raise nutrition standards through centralized food information and international cooperation.
Sir John Boyd Orr argues that concern must extend beyond scarcity to include malnutrition caused by ignorance. The FAO faces the task of ensuring food reaches those in need and that nutrition standards rise globally, despite economic barriers. He contends that achieving these goals could lessen the risk of future wars.
A collection of famous maxims on adversity from Johnson Seneca Carlyle More Chapin and Eddy. The selections explore how hardship reveals character strengthens resolve and deepens faith. The card blends insights on resilience growth and the relation between suffering and virtue.
Percy Dean cut yew timber from the Broadlands estate to craft two hand-turned bowls and a sandwich tray as a souvenir for Princess Elizabeth in her honeymoon at Broadlands in Hampshire England.
In Tibet temperatures swing across a wide range with midday highs around 110 degrees and nightly lows near 30. The stark contrast reflects extreme winter conditions across various locales.
Hal Boyle predicts a strange year with high prices and oddities. Expect a prewar steak exhibit guarded at the American Museum of Natural History, Leap Year proposals, and humorous glimpses of public life. Bears will have more fun than people as 1948 unfolds.
A string of light humor and social quips lands in a chaotic patchwork. Jokes range from vendor woes and domestic banter to love letters and courtly misread signals. The snippets showcase playful exchanges and mistaken intentions across everyday settings.
A Daily Mirror dispatch from Brisbane reports banks are buying more US one dollar bills bearing love messages from servicemen. Girls cash in at six shillings two pence Australian each, while the bolder ones sell on the black market for nearly twice that, turning wartime romance into profit.
Viscount Alexander Governor-General of Canada opened the 68th annual Royal Canadian Academy of Arts exhibition featuring 189 oil and water color paintings. The event was held in Quebec at the open fire display.
Ottawa reports a rise in business failures for the third quarter of 1947 with 136 failures, up from 64 in the previous year. The total is the highest for the period since 1942, with earlier years showing higher counts in 1940 and 1939.
Ottawa dispatch reports Colonel John F. Bingham of Winnipeg has been appointed Canadian military attache at the Canadian embassy in Turkey and will join General Victor Odlum s staff. Since 1946 he has served in Ottawa as director of army cadets.
Meerschaum, the renowned pipe material, is chiefly mined in Asia Minor. The substance is prized for its light weight and ability to take a fine polish, attracting collectors and smokers alike.
In New Haven Connecticut welfare workers planning to move a destitute 62 year old woman from a squalid apartment found $1200 hidden in the sleeve of a ragged coat taken from a closet to clothe her.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King quoted a letter from Princess Elizabeth praising Canada for a generous wedding present of silver and a mink coat. She says the gifts reflect Canadian goodwill and expresses desire to visit with the Duke of Edinburgh to thank the people in person.
Premier Manning announced February 12 as the tentative opening date for the fifth Alberta legislature session. He declined to comment on whether it would be the final session amid unofficial forecasts of a 1948 provincial election. The article references Greece's 776 B.C. founding date.
Paris report says postwar restlessness drives French citizens to seek emigration to the Americas. Daily inquiries at the Canadian embassy surpass 300 with only about 350 visas issued monthly. Language ties push most to Quebec while transport and currency rules hinder many applicants.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports production of washing machines rising in 1947. October output reached 21,701 units, with September at 22,328 and October 1946 at 11,433. For ten months the total reached 173,727 units versus 9,404 in 1946.
London hosts its largest Royal wedding photo exhibition at Dorland Hall featuring over 100 photographs including Norman Hartnell dress sketches. Proceeds support the Soldiers Sailors Airmen's Families Association.
Johannesburg reports United States buyers push South African diamonds to fever pitch with large deals in process. A shipment valued at 10000 pounds (about 40000 dollars) illustrates rising trade as jewellers note bigger sales ahead.
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