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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 02, 1944
Page
2
The Russell Banner is a weekly Hassell Manitoba newspaper published each Thursday. Cecil Sanderson serves as editor and publisher under the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association.
The Legislature approved estimates totaling 18,349,006 dollars for 1944 45, a 413 450 increase over the prior year and higher than the 1942 peak. Major rises include 50,000 for road construction 80,000 for gravelling and highway upkeep 182,000 for health and public welfare and 139,000 for civil service cost of living bonuses. Controllable expenditures total 12,872,399 with uncontrollable debt interest at 5,776,007 dollars. A 750,000 reserve fund is set aside for postwar times, with about 3,500,000 in the fund after paying in. Last week education and sericulture budgets were voted at 2,619,041 and 378,59 respectively.
The Manitoba legislature discusses future education funding shifting to provincial responsibility, teacher shortages, scarce textbooks, and bursaries to address doctor shortages. A bid to drop the provincial election deposit faces resistance. A special committee proposal aims to broaden justice inquiry across all provincial courts.
March 2 meeting at James McKay's home attended by reeves and councillors. Petitions target taxation of lands of half breed minors and adoption of the Torrens system. Proposals set fencing times for horses and livestock and assign duties to Charles Miller to repair a nearby bridge. Council adjourns to a Revision Court at Silver Creek schoolhouse May 26, 1884.
The article explains the Veterans Land Act offering three settlement routes for returning servicemen including full time farming, small holdings near work sites, and fishing areas. It details finance terms, deposits, and state assistance to enable veterans to own land and equipment after ten years, plus pension and treatment provisions, while noting civilian employment and wartime economic context.
Ellis announces a St. Patrick's Dance to be held in Russell on March 17 with festive activities and community participation planned for the evening.
The article notes an island named for a railway detective in the South near the New Gesega group. It discusses Lt-Col James West of Portland Maine on leave and mentions Army Service Company and Division commands. Canadian and U.S. forces are cited as pursuing Maloe’s Na and a notable record set by a Canadian field unit.
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