Coronation Rebekah Lodge Marks Eighth Anniversary
Coronation Lodge members gathered for the eighth anniversary celebration at Pine Falls Lodge No. 6% with guests from Cotongten Lodge. The event featured a U shaped table, floral decor, a birthday cake with eight pink candles, and a short program including toasts to the Rebekah Assembly and hostess lodge, plus saxophone solos and community singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Une United Charon
Maren
Pitino Ems Kreen
Uooshowers
Coronation Lodge
Ong
J. Lyons
Uwen
King
Rebekah
Bovan Malsen
KR. Farmer
Henry Halpin
Pine Falls Lodge
Halpin
A. B. Smith
Noble Grand
Oddfellowship
Lawrence Frayne
E. Gretsinger
Edith Robson
Pine Falls notes on births visits and church event
Pine Falls topics include a daughter welcomed to Stan Powell and his wife Alice Marie born March 22 at Pine Falls hospital. Visitors attend Coronation Rebekah Lodge banquet. Gunner Walter French returns on thirty day leave from four years overseas. Several social events, card parties, and a Minshall electric organ dedication at the Anglican Church are reported along with local farewells and travel plans.
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Stan Powell
Annie
Stan
Alice Marie
Pine Falls Hospital
Alice
Pine Falls
Walter French
Walter
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Canada
London
England
Cecil James
James
Fern French
J. H. Nixon
Nixon
Pine Falls School Date Outlook And Social Gatherings
Doug Lauchlan leaves Pine Falls hospital and returns to school but cannot work much due to eye strain. Hints of deep plans from recent meetings. Easter exams not yet scheduled. Ken Randall hosts a gay party with lunch and food prep praised. Ross Halpin hosts another lively weekend gathering with square dancing and a French play by Grade X students.
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Doug Lauchlan
Pine Falls
Doug
Ken Randall
Ken
Ross Halpin
Local Play Draws Laughter With Finale Neckline
A community theatre production delivered strong entertainment as the final scene drew laughs. Madame Merger, played by Pat Gohn, was carried off stage on a stretcher by Jack Richardson and Mickey Lalor, then sat up just before the fall. The postman’s cap kept slipping, adding to the humor. Jeanine Mastin assisted in the production.
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Madame Merger
Pat Gohn
Jack Richardson
Mickey Lalor
Jeanine Mastin
Abril synthetic wax to enter mass production in Britain
The Birmingham Post reports that Abril, a synthetic wax, will be produced at a former ordnance factory in Bridgend Wales within about a month. It will replace natural waxes in lubrication, textile finishing, gramophone records and cosmetics, with uses in carbon paper inks insulation and furniture polishing. At half the cost of natural wax Britain imported two thousand tons at six hundred pounds per ton.
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United Kingdom
Birmingham Post
Ordnance
Bridgend
Wales
Abril
Britain
Carrier Reenters Civilian Life After Plutonian Pipeline Work
The vessel, once engaged in combat with the enemy and moving vast quantities of material and pipeline for Pluto, has shed its war role and resumed civilian duties as armor was removed. The shift marks a return to peacetime operations for the small carrier.
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Pluto
Aircraft to aid British whaling expedition to Antarctica
The British whaling expedition plans to use Walrus aircraft for reconnaissance and assistance. Catapulted from a base ship, these biplanes with dual land and sea undercarriage will land on the ocean to support the voyage, set for next autumn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antarctic
John Grierson
British United Whalers
The
Daily Sketch
Civvy Street CPR Training for Veterans in Calgary
The Canadian Pacific Railway launches a on the job training scheme for veterans in cooking and baking at the Palliser Hotel Calgary. Veterans must inform DVA of address changes after discharge to speed dental treatment and other administration. A London Ontario ex serviceman George Matthews had his new home burn Feb 17 while he and his son visited neighbours.
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The
Canadian Pacific Railway
Palliser Hotel
Calgary
DVA
George Matthews
London
Ont
Owen Sound
Scientific devices aim to end coal mine dust diseases
Dr Charles Fletcher leads Medical Research Council work on dust diseases among miners. After eight months, medical and social engineering studies show promise in eliminating silicosis and pneumoconiosis. A ward will open at Llandough Hospital for experimental treatment. Researchers seek early diagnosis methods before X rays detect illness. Engineering tests report progress with three dust suppression systems and a new method reducing dust density by ninety percent and aiming to prevent dust explosions.
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South Wales
Charles Fletcher
Medical Research Council
Llandough Hospital
Fletcher
News Chronicle
Veterans urged to apply to university now
The Minster of Veterans Affairs asks all service personnel and veterans planning to enter university next September to apply immediately to the university of their choice. Fred Topham, VC recipient with the First Canadian Parachute Battalion, has joined the Taranto police force. The police commission expects to add about 100 more veterans to the force before year end. Edmonton housing chief says no veterans lack accommodation but small homes are in demand.
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Minster of Veterans Affairs
Fred Topham
Taranto
Police Commission
Edmonton
Three Lone Scouts Fly to Manitoba Scout Course
Three Island Falls scouts on the Churchill River in Manitoba were flown to Flin Flon to attend a Boy Scout Patrol Leaders Training Course. Field Commissioner John Howorth of Winnipeg says they then returned home ninety miles away by snowmobile.
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Island Falls
Churchill River
Manitoba
John Howorth
Winnipeg
Flin Flon
Century of Service At Ottawa Boy Scouts HQ
Four Dominion Headquarters staff members of the Boy Scouts Association Ottawa have over a century of continuous service among them. Chief Executive Commissioner John A. Stiles, Publications Editor Frank E. L. Coombs, Dominion Quartermaster George Ferguson, and Assistant Accountant Miss Anna Brown each surpassed 25 years at national headquarters.
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Dominion
Boy Scouts Association
Ottawa
Association
John A. Stiles
Frank E. L. Coombs
Dominion Quartermaster
George Ferguson
Anna Brown
United Kingdom makes huge stainless steel tubes for food plant
United Kingdom manufacturers announced a record setting stainless steel tube production. The tubes measure fourteen inches outside diameter, a quarter inch thick, and exceed twenty feet in length. Intended for use in a food processing plant, they will face severe high frequency vibrations.
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United Kingdom
Smallest public railway demobilised and revived for passengers
The Romney, Hythe and Dymechurch Light Railway in Kent, a fifteen inch gauge line, was demobilised and reopened in March to carry passengers. Independent and locally owned, the steam railway serves three towns along a roughly twelve mile coastal route, with wartime requisitioning adding anti aircraft gun fittings to its use.
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Romney, Hythe
Dymechurch
Kent
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Stead
Man Wah
Coronation Rebekah Lodge
W. McLeod
Portage la Prairie
Viv
A. B. Robinson
McLeod
Barbara Robinson
Barbara
AL Irvine
Whce
N. Cameron
W. Bishop
Mr. Cameron
Great Falls
Port Arthur
Mr. Bishop
Toronto
Leo A. LeBlanc
Camberley
Surrey
Leo
B.E.S.L
F. Lidstone
L. Seguin
J. Aseltine
A. Chevrefils
A. Coulombe
O. Dupont
Montreal
Taxe
Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra
Helen Kahle
Beverley Smith
Mall
Donalda Stewart
Jim Macdonald
E. Kahle
Bridge
Hollywood
Helen
C. Groves
R. E. McDonald
McDonald
Iva Heubner
Pat Johnston
Clarendon Hotel
Jean Champagne
Jean
H.P
D.C
Atlas
Rosemount
Luke
Notre Dame
American Hide & Fur Co
Rupert
Man
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Wick
Civvy Street
TCO
Este
George A. Parkes
Phoenix
Barney and Linseed Flax Committee
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Agriculure. Oy
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