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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1946
Page
2
A collective Salute To Agriculture marks the June 7 week across Canada’s weekly papers. Editors praise farmers for wartime sacrifices and boosted food production, urge fairer economic standing, and call for continued attention to agriculture in peacetime.
The Manitoba Federation of Agriculture lauds Eastern Manitoba farmers for wartime food production and urges united effort to win peace. It highlights needs for education health facilities rural electrification and modern farming training, urging expansion of Farm Electrification benefiting 58 000 farmers with a projected cost of 30 to 35 million dollars.
The Manitoba Power Commission argues farming drives provincial prosperity and must be modernized with electric power. It notes high pole costs for farmers, equal rates with town residents, and urges farmer cooperation to keep costs down and make farming more efficient, productive, and appealing to keep rural livelihoods viable.
Record of Manitoba farmers and families sustaining wartime crops and production. From youth to elders, uniforms, overalls, and seasonal help formed a vast cooperative effort. Despite rationing and labor limits, yields exceeded normal, with dairy and other specialized farming adapted as needed, and millions of Canadians mobilized for war industries or service abroad.
Lillian Kollar observes Manitoba farms welcoming electricity bringing rural life to modern efficiency. Electrical devices promise labor saving comfort, letting farmwives store vegetables and dairy with new refrigeration while reducing drudgery, though urban envy and the hard work of adoption remain.
Vernon News argues that much construction planned for today may be postponed until the housing shortage is resolved and believes some government controls are necessary unless Canada can avoid muddling through. The piece reflects wartime era policy discourse on housing and regulation.
Canada must send more grain and farm products despite domestic labor troubles and strikes to prevent a Europe wide food emergency. A local cynic joked that tax inspectors should resign to improve the income system as communities discuss labour issues.
A collage of brief readings from Canadian papers humor and concern the era’s realities. Observations range from debates on senatorial prose reform to the waning of fences and rising wire and steel. Other notes touch hash prosperity postwar and youth preparing for future challenges.
Manitoba Power Commission and National Film Board preview Farm Electrification in Minnedosa area. The film shows extensive farm electricity use, questions from farmers, and outlines steps for rural electrification starting with farmer sign ups and ending with service to 58 000 farms within 10 years. It highlights cost sharing, priority service, and the role of agriculture amid world food shortages.
Mr and Mrs Holgar Magnus of Winnipeg and Great Falls residents hosted weekend visits with local families. Lawrence Lee won a $200 Manitoba university scholarship among 300 class peers. Several other residents and students shared weekend visits and travel to Winnipeg. A free T B clinic was held June 12 at Lac du Bonnet with the Great Falls School attending.
The Martin Wold home hosted a large gathering with visitors from Fosseton Vancouver Transcona Lac du Bonnet and more. A Lee River Hall dance capped the evening as attendees report a enjoyable time despite chilly air. Weekend fishing trips by Mr Bliss and son Donald were successful with Louis Lavallee buying a used car. A Winnipeg Chicago tourist party picnic at Giles Bay enjoyed swimming and fishing, while local anglers tested new tackle over the long weekend.
Bertal Lundquist and family returned home for the weekend. Mr and Mrs C Holmgren and son were also home for the weekend. H Lundquist visited Winnipeg Friday. Margaret Nelson and Mrs A Heaney with R Pearson visited Winnipeg Friday and Saturday. W Millar family visited A Krampetz home, followed by guests Davis and Keroach at the Guest House over Saturday. Davis and Keroach spoke on fire prevention.
British inventor Gilles-Pie Williams unveils the Delicolor Control System in London. Jack Hulbert introduces the system in Here Came the Boys at the Saville Theatre, enabling up to 50 shades from one dial and aiming for 100. The fluid lighting synchronizes with music and dance, projecting colours on a rear screen and white light across the front for the first time.
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