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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1946
Page
2
Canada welcomes the decision to place the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization permanent headquarters in Montreal. The move highlights Canada's central air routes, wartime aviation capacity, and 280 land airports as bases for civilian flying, with 120,000 workers in aircraft production and 250,000 trained for RCAF service.
The text notes rapid aviation progress during the war with new routes planes and devices. It highlights civilian international air travel challenges and the formation of PICAO to standardize civil aviation. Canada leads the effort and will host the permanent headquarters enhancing interest in its success.
Official figures list 357,116 Britons killed in the Second Great War with 60,595 civilians, 30,248 merchant navy and fishing fleet deaths, 1,206 Home Guard, and 624 Women’s Auxiliary Services. Navy 50,758. Army 144,079. RAF 69,506. Civilians by action include 26,923 men, 25,399 women and 7,736 children. About one third of First War losses. 537 unidentified bodies.
Benjamin Franklin founded the first circulating library in Philadelphia in 1731, creating a public access resource for books and knowledge. The move marked a milestone in American literacy and civic learning.
The London Sunday Chronicle argues that Britain sustains a high living standard via its empire centered on island nations. It claims India Egypt Malaya and Palestine tie into daily life through economic financial and industrial structures. Severing imperial links could lower living standards and population.
A compact collection of aphorisms from Coleridge Hitchcock Irving and others on national character morality and peace. The piece references the United Nations flag and four freedoms with a note about its unofficial status.
Wartime guidance explains how to use spare ration coupons to aid starving people and directs community ration boards to verify groups with official Ration Administration cards. It covers extra coupons for twelve meals or more, validity of Beaver and sugar coupons, US sugar points for visitors, and how to obtain pamphlets from local Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Scientific American reports a new rail safety device now used by Rock Island Railroad. Radio distance indicators installed at train front and rear emit coded signals and convert received signals into distance, warning engineers of approaching trains up to eight miles away to prevent accidents.
Judge J. H. McDonald chided nine applicants for Canadian citizenship in Sault Ste Marie for failing to name the Canadian Prime Minister the Ontario Premier or the local mayor. He warned that understanding country leaders is essential to new citizens as he delivered his courtroom guidance.
Witnesses reported a light emitting ghost rocket crossing over Helsinki in a southwest direction at 900 to 1200 feet. A smoke trail trailed behind it. It was the first sighting in Finland, with several recent reports across southern Sweden and Denmark in a similar path.
Leslie A. Boosey, prominent English music publisher and president of the International Confederation of Authors and Composers, urged expanded recognition and rewards for Canadian authors and publishers at the Canadian Authors' and Publishers' Association annual meeting in Toronto. He warned Canadians underestimate the value of their writers and limit rewards to individuals and societies.
A fragment shows a vertical clue set for a crossword with entries such as Deuce step and French for and hints like Proportion and snare. The readable items include a mix of abbreviations and end markers suggesting a puzzle page section.
The Ottawa Journal argues that radio speeches should fit the speaker, not a fixed half hour. It notes some speakers bore listeners by long or rambling talk and urges radio or platform speakers to address audiences at home with grace and good manners.
A humor page collects quick wits and quips about married life mothers children and recruits. Banter features a business magnate on traveling husbands a bride seeking understanding and a playful exchange about a diamond ring and a will contest with a pun on death and being alive.
In St Briavels England a Whitsunday custom seen since medieval times let townspeople gather bread and cheese from a wall for the Forest of Dean wood right. W G Cheswick funded the refreshments as rationing eased. The ministry did not require coupons.
Reader wonders if chronic backache is tied to kidney health. Medical guidance notes that persistent dull flank pain, fever, or urinary changes warrant evaluation by a clinician for kidney function tests and possible imaging. Early assessment helps identify infections stones or other conditions.
Foundations laid for an orphan village on eleven acres near Trogen in eastern Switzerland to shelter 350 children from devastated European countries. Fifteen farm styled dwellings will start the project, with clustered houses forming communities taught by Swiss and foreign instructors. The village is named Pestalozzi after the educator who died in 1827.
The insecticide now known as DDT was first compounded in 1874 but its practical value was not determined until 1939.
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