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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
2
The Russell Banner issues weekly editions from Russell Manitoba. Editor and Publisher El Cecil Sanderson oversees production with association membership and annual subscription set at 1 50 in advance.
The legislature discussed maintenance funding for non trunk highways totaling 80 000 with federal help. Debates on old age pensions followed as M A Gray urged a 30 dollar monthly increase, while D A Best proposed delaying any rise until a national pact with the Dominion is reached. S F Rogers added a rider linking pension increases to cost of living during negotiations.
Weekly House notes project new Manitoba industry in Altona and a postwar land survey while debating cattle disease controls, debt-collection limits, and a proposed Juvenile Delinquency Commission. It cites Dominion tax shifts on insurance and corporations and a planned War Labor Code adoption.
The Silver Creek municipality minutes show revised and corrected assessment roll, adoption of last meeting minutes, payment of accounts to Robert Richardson and William White, and a motion to adjourn to meet again at the Reeve's call. Reeve W. S. Crerar and Clerk W. McKay signed.
A report from Ottawa outlines small shifts in rations for armed services with butter cut to 1 1/3 ounces daily and cheese to 3/8 ounce while jam and lard rise to maintain calories for prisoners and Allied prisoners abroad. It notes milk permit controls to prevent shortages, farm income rising to a new high, and Red Cross and Victory Loan efforts including Canadian bonds for troops overseas.
A note on the decline cites the winter subsidy payments of 1943 44 as key, diverting milk from fluid to cheese production and impacting dairy output.
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