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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1947
Page
2
The article notes Canada has abundant food production yet 30 to 40 percent of the population faces malnutrition or risk. It cites ignorance of nutrition standards faulty distribution and related factors as causes of widespread nutritional disease.
Health authorities call malnutrition an insidious menace more deadly in long term effect than some more feared diseases. In 1944 polio caused 38 deaths while nutritional deficiency caused 42. Rickets remains a major Canada problem with 11 percent of children affected and preventable by fish liver oils. Nutritional anaemia from iron deficiency is also prevalent in certain areas.
Under Dr. L B Pett’s direction the nutrition division surveyed distant parts of the Dominion and found ignorance the main cause of malnutrition. Public health and other agencies have worked through education and distribution to improve health, aiming to eliminate malnutrition as a national menace.
The Globe and Mail explains that cigarette prices include deep federal and provincial taxes totaling about 25 cents per pack of 33 cents, plus sales tax and a war revenue tax. It notes 8 cents go to non tax components, while most of the price funds government revenue, highlighting inflation from taxation on smokers. It ends with a note on Branded Lines advertising and consumer value.
The late Sir Sidney Kidman, the Australian cattle king, imported twenty five London bus drivers and their families to Australia to become boundary riders. Some had never ridden a horse, yet they adapted quickly and proved sound horsemen able to handle cattle with the locals.
The contract for a new school at West St. Paul Manitoba has been awarded to Manitoba Engineering Company of Winnipeg for 45000 dollars.
Coral Gables Florida reports a deadly yellow tide sweeping from the lower Florida Keys to Cape Sable in the Gulf of Mexico. An unknown plankton type multiplies massively, leaving millions of dead fish. Dr. F G Walton Smith of the University of Miami Marine Laboratory notes a natural freak event.
A compact collection of quotations praising beauty and goodness from historical figures. It argues beauty as a divine, universal gift guiding humanity, urging cultivation of loveliness and virtuous action to renew the world. Names invoked include Stowe Howard Ninon de L Enclos Eddy Chalmers Thomson.
The first issue of the Russian paper Vedomosti appeared January 13, 1703, published under supervision of Peter the Great.
A collection of short humorous exchanges and punchlines includes a clerk faking illness after races, a hair tonic gag, a doctor’s stimulant line about tongues, price complaints on cottage pudding, job interview quips about electricity and armatures, and a seven year old recital encore.
Ottawa reports nails in the British West Indies are rented out for concrete reinforcements due to a critical shortage. W F Bull of the Trade Department told the Commons committee that nails are placed for building then removed after use.
More than 100000 Britons and Europeans will swap holidays this year under the World Friendship Association founded in the UK on VE Day. Dutch and Danish hosts number about 25000 and 5000 respectively with others joining, costs about 40 dollars per person covering travel and meals, while hosts pay remaining expenses. The scheme matches members by tastes and occupations to foster international understanding and world peace.
A proposal at the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses convention would let nurses from other provinces work in Alberta for three or six months without Alberta registration. The plan aims to attract more nurses to Alberta by easing cross provincial practice.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced in Regina that hog slaughtering quotas are discontinued effective April 19 while price ceilings on pork products stay in force. Slaughtering permit holders must still file monthly reports of all livestock slaughtered.
The Eureka Sound station on Ellesmere Island sent the first Arctic weather dispatch via wireless. The report notes clear weather and a temperature of 15 below zero with a light east wind. The station is part of nine long-range forecasting posts planned in three years.
Admiral Byrd returning from the Antarctic expedition says long range planes and ice breakers will open the continent for exploration within 25 years. He cites coal and the ice cap as possible storage for surplus crops and notes U.S. action toward territorial claims may follow exploration.
The concertina was invented by an Englishman in 1829, marking a landmark development in portable keyboard free reed instruments and shaping early European folk music.
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