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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
6
Canada adopts a national swine policy to improve live hog grading and carcass quality. Since 1922, standards under the Livestock and Livestock Products Act have paid farmers for top grades, reflecting consumer-set expectations and market needs.
Paris dispatch reports Italy asks the 21 power peace conference for a navy increase from 22 500 to 35 000 officers and men and for permission to keep certain artillery positions. Rome also seeks postwar fighter bombers and self propelled missiles for defensive use and a swap of excess wartime shipping for scrap iron. Yugoslavia presses to gain Monfalcone near Trieste.
The unique clock that tolls thirteen times was given by the Earl of Ellesmere to a parish coalfield during Britain’s industrial era. It was made after workers missed midday due to the single extra chime, with a clockmaker in Eccles crafting a two piece strike at 1 pm. The clock was later moved to House, London, following the Ellesmere family sale of the Bridgewater Estates.
In Waterford, Erskine Childers, parliamentary secretary to the Irish government, declares Ireland remains a republic within the British Commonwealth with sovereignty rooted in the Irish people, not the King. He notes relations with Britain are close, except for partition, and foresees strong friendship once that issue is resolved.
Resourceful Clydebank yards export small craft by crate not launch them whole. Dismantled plate by plate, crates sent to the Far East for assembly and service. Clydeside busy with shipbuilding and war damage repairs, aiding reconstruction in the Far East.
The Sioux City Journal extols corn as the most versatile grain while the Ottawa Citizen lists only three common uses corn on the cob corn bread and corn fritters. It omits other varieties such as corn on the radio corn hitcher and corn plasters.
Viscount Montgomery visits West Point and Washington with modest fanfare. He greets Eisenhower and Bradley at National Airport, reviews cadets, and pays tribute at Arlington Unknown Soldiers tomb, highlighting his El Alamein victory and role in the Allied coalition.
Maj. Hugh Paul Seagrim of the 19th Hyderabad Regiment led a party in the Karen Hills Burma. After surrendering to the Japanese and enduring torture to spare natives, he was executed in Rangoon. His mother received the George Cross from the King at Buckingham Palace.
Canada exported more than 35 million pounds of seeds in the year ended June 30 1946. Alfalfa clover and grass seeds totaled over 3.11 hundred million pounds while field roots and vegetables seeds exceeded 3.14 hundred million pounds. White clover led with 11.06 million pounds, chrome grass 7.93 million, alfalfa 5.14 million, and timothy 4.02 million. Pea seed reached 2.26 million pounds and onions 0.34 million, with mange seed red at 0.24 million. Exports surged in clover and grass versus 1944-45 except red clover and slender wheat grass.
The piece contrasts the horse and buggy era of rural doctors with modern transport and scientific medicine. It notes medicine is shifting from art to science, with specialists and clinics expanding, yet hopes the personal doctor patient relationship remains central.
A Scottish college tale has a professor attempting to dissolve a two-shilling piece in acid. The student answers that it won’t dissolve because if it did, the professor wouldn’t drop it in. The exchange ends with a sharp classroom retort.
The earliest documented sea clash occurred around 665 B C between Corinthians and Cyraeans, marking a formative moment in ancient naval warfare.
Britain showcases a £200,000 exhibition of modern consumer goods from radio bicycles to air cooled beds organized by the council of industrial design. About 5,000 of 20,000 submitted items are shown, highlighting postwar conversion with displays of home comfort and practical innovations across fabrics, furnishings, and leisure goods.
Sydney reports Australia holds about 13.7 trillion tons of unmined coal and 35.5 billion tons of lignite, suggesting resources could last 800 years. Officials estimate reserves and plan for future energy needs amid growing demand.
In 1856 a new papermaking method used corn stalks as a raw material. The report highlights a significant shift toward agricultural byproducts for paper production, signaling early industrial experimentation with less traditional fibers.
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