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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1946
Page
2
In the House of Commons a month of debate on agriculture highlights three conclusions. Farm production has been maintained by strong effort, farm incomes lag urban earnings, and farm population may shrink. Migration to cities and war work erode farm vitality, threatening urban employment balance. Average gross cash income near 2000 prompts calls for reform.
A historical note argues subsidies distort farming incentives, citing prairie Canadian farmers losing about 100 million annually on wheat support while aiding consumers and transport. It estimates overall subsidies including tariffs and unemployment taxes exceed 200 million yearly. It also notes stock levels in Australia and Argentina, and improving European crops with North Africa harvests above average.
Worldwide appeal urges Europe and the Far East to conserve food and waste less. Citizens are urged to buy less, use less, and waste nothing to aid hungry humanity.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced that butter coupons R-1 to R-9 and meat coupons M-29 to M-39 in consumer ration books will become invalid after June 30. Beaver and other temporary ration coupons remain unaffected, sugar coupons stay valid, and distribution of Ration Book No. 6 begins the week of September 9 with volunteers from 627 local ration boards aiding the process.
A reflective quatrain urging acts of kindness and shared wealth to ease sorrow. It envisions blessings spreading when rich and powerful aid the poor and when nations embrace inner peace. The verse imagines a world freed from greed through individual goodwill and mutual care.
Canadian farm households face rules on temporary and long term labor in summer. Wives may apply for Transient Labour Rations for hirelings staying under two weeks, while longer stays grant access to the hired helper's regular ration book. A new baby is also entitled to its own ration book to obtain sugar and canned foods for formula. Applications for the books are discussed.
Forms labeled AB 64 are obtainable at local ration offices and are available in most hospitals and maternity homes. They must be accompanied by a birth or baptismal certificate or a doctor’s letter. The doctor may sign the form in the space provided and no additional certification is required.
A weekly report shows total moisture across the three Prairie Provinces at 83 percent of normal, up from 82. Alberta runs 89 percent of normal with districts 2 6 9 10 and 12 normal and 7 8 13 better than normal. Saskatchewan at 80 percent with district 9 normal. others below. Manitoba 87 percent with all districts below normal except 3 4 and 6 at normal moisture.
The General Post Office of the United Kingdom operates telegraph services with most European nations by cable and wireless. Worldwide, the British system handles global cable and wireless networks, offering a glimpse of its vast reach through European and other services.
The article reviews the Reliance lifeboat with 155000 nautical miles of cables and 140 wireless circuits, showing it remains stable under heavy weight tests and can be rowed or sailed. It also details a new wool fabric from UK research that combines pure wool softness with georgette-like lightness, using aliginate scaffolding washed away to leave wool.
In Parliament Mr Hugh Dalton noted the tax per head climbed from 3 pounds 1 shillings 4 pence in 1913 14 to 64 pounds 3 shillings 7 pence in 1944 45, highlighting the heavy wartime burden and the uneasy peace between conflicts.
During World War II Britain's textile industry announced a epoch making discovery of waterproof cotton materials. Their first appearance at a Manchester fashion display drew admiration from experts worldwide, signaling potential global impact for textile fields.
A Cradley near Mavern Eng lambing record shows six ewes owned by Mr Ambrose Hitchings Ridgeway Cross producing 17 young in the season. Developments in UK industries prompt first postwar trade fair next year and shift of the British Industries Fair to May due to weather and Leipzig Fair's nonexistence as a destination.
A special all express trans Atlantic flight carried no passengers and loaded over 6000 pounds of Canadian manufactured cargo from Montreal to Prestwick for distribution across the United Kingdom and Europe. The four man crew included Captain Roger Smith Radio Officer W Tritter Navigation Officer Pat Roy and First Officer Henry Titvon as shown with cargo checks by a customs officer and cargo agent.
Questions cover ceiling prices for merchandise and services, farm product restrictions like Devonshire cream, barbering and hairdressing rules, hotel rate posters, pharmaceutical pricing, butter ration changes, and sugar coupon usage. Board notes no blanket list exists. specific items must be requested for pricing, with enforcement in all regions and sectors.
The British Government and chemical makers spent about £3,000,000 to expand factory space and machinery for penicillin. From 1943 to 1946 production jumped from 300 mega units monthly to 260,000 mega units, and is now over 1,000 times higher, with April last year at 178,000 mega units. A Columbus Memorial Lighthouse model was shown in London, designed by a young British architect from 455 submissions, to be built in the Dominican Republic.
A chart in all stores shows the value received when buying any produce other than sugar. The same applies to canning sugar coupons, usable for sugar or commercial preserves.
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