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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1944
Page
1
A wartime notice urges salvaging waste paper to aid the military. A Board bans certain paperboard uses and caps supplies due to shortages of linerboard, virgin pulp wood, and rising demand for paper products. Brown paper and containers are emphasized as needed for food and munitions packing for the Canadian Forces.
A Manitoba Ontario feature lauds Canadian women for economic stabilization during May 22 to 27 with 760 liaison officers praising housewives. It credits price control success to women who resist overpay, curb black market growth, and adapt meal planning to rationing, calling for continued patriotism on the home front.
The Provincial Exhibition in Brandon expects its biggest livestock show in five years with July 3 to 7 dates. Prize money rises by about 2500 dollars with allocations to horsemen cattlemen and sheep and swine exhibitors. An extra prize will be awarded per additional entry where entries exceed prizes to ensure every exhibitor wins something. Frolic land by Conklin rides will debut on the Midway behind the grandstand, promising a top midway under wartime conditions. Air Force buildings are returned to exhibit use, boosting displays.
Improvements to the building by the Air Pore will aid fair visitors including updated washrooms. A livestock rule allowing flexible arrival and departure times remains in force to ease fire and gas shortages. Exhibitors may enter unlimited animals but compete for only two prizes per section. The 2.32 pace offers a $600 purse, boosting total purses to $3100. the 2.22 pace is canceled. About sixty boys attend the Fare Boys Camp, judged beef cattle and swine Thursday, with billeting in the automobile building and grandstand entertainment Wednesday night. Strip tickets sell at $1 for four admissions. regular gate price is 50c. Children’s Day with free school tickets, a grandstand show at 2 pm, and patriotic notes marks the program, along with acts including motorcycle riding, costumed oriental acrobats, bareback horse riding, and other stunts.
A wartime reflection from Philadelphia on the role of the ordinary worker. Delegates from many nations discuss work, management, and reconstruction at the International Labor Office Convention. The piece urges workers to lead by personal reform, build moral strength, and foster character to secure victory and shape the postwar world.
The Bracken Club began in Winnipeg as a nonpartisan group to educate citizens on the Canadian Parliamentary system and current political issues. Its expansion includes clubs in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec, with plans to organize more across Manitoba and the Dominion.
Sugar supplies remain tight as jam and preserves coupons tie to sugar availability. Officials note that meeting canning sugar coupon values would require about 115 million extra pounds if all were purchased. With Philippines and Java under enemy control, West Indies remain main source, keeping jam ration constrained.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board fixes ceiling prices for domestic and imported new potatoes effective May 25. No imports will be allowed while the 1943 Canadian crop remains available to dispose of last year’s crop without loss to producers. Officials say supply is more favorable than last year, despite a brief period of weakness in the market.
Government reveals removal of ration controls on six farm machines enabling sale without permits. Items include Diamond Drag Harrows Flexible Drag Harrows Spring Tooth Harrows Cream Separators Power Sheep Shearing Machines Animal Clippers Egg Cleaners and Brushes.
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