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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
2
The article notes Canada's wheat acreage and harvest bear heightened importance due to a global food shortage. It explains that Canada has met export commitments but with depleted food reserves, especially wheat. Crop prospects are crucial as last year's European failures contribute to the fragile supply, making this season highly watched domestically and internationally.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a national wheat seeding rise this year, with about 3,000,000 more acres sown than 1946. Canada would reach roughly 26,451,000 acres, led by a 3,265,000 acre increase in the Prairie Provinces, offset by a 230,000 acre fall in Ontario fall seeding. Local conditions may adjust the final totals.
The report notes that Canada’s wheat acreage in 1946 could reach levels near 1938’s 26,756,500 acres but stay below the 1940 peak of 28,726,200 acres. Barley acreage may fall eight percent, flax about one percent, and summer fallow around 18,724,000 acres. If conditions are favorable, Canada should have enough wheat to aid world food supply, underscoring agriculture as a foundational industry and heightening interest in the harvest as a potentially pivotal 1946 crop.
A London correspondent recalls Lord Dowding, who on his 64th birthday, directed and inspired the design of eight machine gun fighters, planned tactics, trained crews, and led RAF airmen in the decisive Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, praising his affection for the Spitfires and Hurricanes and the gallant defense of England.
A collage of quotes on home and peace from Goethe Henry van Dyke Mary Baker Eddy Montlosier and others. The excerpts reflect that love, comfort, and belonging make a house a true home and the heart find rest there.
French Nobel laureate Frederick Joliot Curie, France’s atomic research chief, suggests a peaceful test to convert coal into diamonds by tunneling into a mountain, sealing it with an atom bomb, and remotely detonating it to observe heat effects and mineral changes.
The editorial notes Churchill’s call for a United States of Europe as noble but impractical in our era. It argues unity cannot be forged across languages, races, and creeds without a common foundation, unlike the United States. Only a distant future might see different progress, with the United Nations as the current feasible unity.
Ninety five art leaders urge President Truman and acting Secretary Acheson to send back 200 valuable pictures taken from Germany last December. The resolution, released by Juliana Force of the Whitney Museum and Fred Mortimer Clapp of the Frick Collection, says the move cannot be justified on technical, political, or moral grounds and questions their safety claims.
A look back shows coffee, chocolate and tea among the earliest products advertised in newspapers, signaling the rise of commercial advertising and consumer culture in the printing press era.
Atomic scientists describe health sanatorium methods using Hanford graphite piles and concrete walls to confine lethal rays. Port openings could emit fatal radiation unless filtered by steel, aluminum and lead plates. Filters would tailor dosages, enabling simultaneous treatment of many patients and a cheap, abundant neutron ray supply.
Mukluk the husky survived a cliff notes incident on a Muskox Arctic expedition after gobbling 1000 vitamin pills. A defence spokesman said a snowmobile accident near Baker Lake led to pills being dispersed and consumed by Mukluk, who then returned to the trek with a shinier coat.
A lemon pudding recipe combines grated lemon rind butter sugar yolks lemon juice flour Grape Nuts milk and stiffly beaten egg whites. The mixture is baked in a greased dish in a pan of hot water at 325 degrees for about 1 hour 15 minutes until a sponge crust forms atop a custard. Serve cold with cream and yields six servings.
The London Daily Mail comments on Princess Elizabeth’s costume for the Hurst Park races with the King and says she wore a blue serge coat and blue hat with a veil. It notes she lacks clothing ration coupons like others and has few outfits made for her, with most of her wardrobe from her mother altered for her.
Radar systems used on airborne operations have helped the Royal Air Force deliver twenty one million newspapers and nearly fifteen hundred tons of mail and freight to Allied forces in Europe over the past six months, even in fog or poor visibility.
A fragmented report notes a skeleton found in the Canterbury region, with unclear dating and a dated reference suggesting a historic discovery. Details are incomplete, but the finding is marked as significant in local archaeology records.
The ad states that two golden grains, wheat and malted barley, are combined in Grape-Nuts Flakes. They are specially blended, baked and toasted for flavor and crispness and easy digestion. The second sentence suggests moving to a breakfast room to shoot a giant economy package.
A British children's theatre, backed by the London County Council Education Committee, uses Glyndebourne's troupe to stage Dickens Great Expectations. The program runs at Toynbee Hall then tours Britain for 15 weeks, offering free schoolchild audiences of about 20 per class during school hours.
Frederick F. Deuerlein a retired glassworker who said he blew the first test light bulb for Edison in 1879 and that Thomas A Edison ordered 165 bulbs later died after a short illness. He worked 60 years at Corning Glass Works before retiring in 1936.
A disclosed wartime device, the leader cable, used a single core insulated line laid on the seabed to steer ships in storms. Low frequency current from shore created a magnetic field detected by ships, allowing position fixes and steering corrections to keep vessels above the cable as they entered harbors.
A dense crossword puzzle grid lists horizontal and vertical clues in mixed language fragments. It includes terms like ancient instrument, molten rock, and agency words, inviting solvers to map clues to answers across a traditional puzzle layout.
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