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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
2
Immigration interest has surged since the war, in Canada and other nations. Rebuilding homes, factories, and stores created widespread labor needs while wartime constraints boosted demand for goods and higher living standards. Skilled workers are in unprecedented demand, shaping post war attitudes toward immigration.
The International Labor Office reports future immigration will be limited and selective. Nations seek small skilled groups to meet specific labor needs, using this as a short term approach while permanent policies are developed.
Writer notes policies will likely be revised but large population movements will not recur as many lands are filled. Mexico and South America remain open for settlers though South America favors skilled technicians. Australia New Zealand restrict, South Africa limits unskilled workers, Italy Britain Belgium France Sweden supply labor for postwar tasks.
The London Daily Mirror reports a House of Lords ruling by Viscount Simon that a policeman may not arrest without giving a true reason. A false or withheld reason could expose the officer to a charge of false imprisonment, affirming that a free person is restrained only with a substantive explanation.
A historical advantage of old transport is shown as the handsome Victorian cab kept the driver out of reach of a potential robber. The design placement aimed to protect drivers by ensuring space and visibility during rides.
Ottawa reports the Mosquito, once a versatile all wood fighter, is retired from active service in the postwar RCAF. Officials cite maintenance issues in Canadian climates and handling difficulties, noting the Spitfire and Lancaster remain in use while jet powered fighters rise in prominence.
Prime Minister Smuts aged 77 and leader of the United Party marked his golden wedding anniversary with his wife. The party caucus presented him with a wood and gold casket as a tribute.
The fruit possesses high acidity and low sugar, offering substantial nutrition with minerals and vitamin C.
A collection of short witticisms and anecdotes shows characters debating wages jokes about prayers and meals, a porter mishearing luggage, a punchline about Edison and the phonograph, golf gadgets in rabbit holes, recipes starting with Take a clean dish, a Sunday misadventure with a missionary boat, and a quirky suitor knocking at a back door with haste.
In Whitehaven Tennessee the principal at Whitehaven High School issued a circular banning co education lingering eating and marriages. He warned indefinite suspensions for marriage and five day suspensions for eating together lingering walking as couples visiting in home rooms and other actions. Since September eight student marriages have occurred.
Advertises pattern 4747 with a frock, slip, panties and sunsuit for sizes 1 to 5. Includes illustrated instructions, sizing options and yardage. Price is 25 cents, with order details to Anne Adams Department Winnipeg.
The Tennessee celebration of Honor the Mule Week is noted with approval by T. D. F. in the Ottawa Citizen who muses about creating an Honor the Horse Week elsewhere and critiques Father’s Day as insufficient tribute to the Old Horse.
The giraffe holds the record as the tallest living mammal. Its height surpasses all other land animals, with adults commonly reaching impressive heights that enable a wide field of vision over savannas and woodlands.
Canadian born W A Waterton tests Gloster jet planes at Moreton Vallance Airdrome in England. He recalls world speed records set from Tangmere to Paris London and discusses impatience as a cause of test flight accidents. Waterton, 30, Canadian-born Edmonton native, earlier served with the Royal Air Force and Dunkirk evacuation details.
In Havana on Galiano and San Lazaro, opposing secondary school groups engaged in a gun battle over control of their student association. One bystander, the nearby grocer, was wounded. Three students were arrested.
A compilation of quotations on silence from Carlyle Lavater La Rochefoucauld Mary Baker Eddy Zimmermann and Addison. The pieces praise silent strength warn against loudness and highlight silence as a powerful response to insult and contradiction.
Maj Gen Hjalmar Riiser Larsen will head a Norwegian Swedish British expedition to Antarctica starting late 1948. The project, costing about £100000, envisions 150 members with studies in Queen Maud Land from November 1948 to January 1949 and a later nine month meteorological study by 12 scientists.
Wall Street Journal recounts a boarding house landlady in Alabama who collects overdue board bills with a silent method. A new arrival sees a boarder with an extra fork and learns the utensil signals delinquent payments, a humorous custom implying fork over.
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