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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 14, 1946
Page
2
Canada faces high costs in shipping carcass and boneless beef overseas while prewar hoof sales decline. Economists warn the industry cannot easily match Southern Hemisphere competition, suggesting gradual herd reductions unless overseas markets expand beyond 1946.
The article contrasts Canada’s price control, distribution and rationing programs with those elsewhere. It notes broad public acceptance and high standards, asserting success measured by support amid wartime or crisis conditions. Entitled voices quote Donald Gordon on black markets and life or death stakes in other nations.
A wartime official credits the Enforcement Branch of Wartime Prices and Trade Board and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for keeping Canada free from a large scale black market. Panic buying and shortages fuel stories, but enforcement focuses on helping business and public support rather than mass convictions.
The column answers reader questions on home canning sugar coupons maple syrup orange prices and farming labor ration rules. It explains coupon validity dates permit rules for slaughtering cattle business permits and how coupon removal is regulated during wartime price controls.
After two years in the East Miss Clara Raban visits Winnipeg to see her mother Mrs M Raban and sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs J Noga Clara’s former home was Bird River Man
Local items report Elms by C Wendeborna and social news from Port Arthur to Winnipeg. The Barskis plan to move to Ontario with sons Cashmir and Thomas. Miss Clement fills in at a CN R station. J H Leegus returns from Winnipeg to Grace Hospital recovery. Funeral in Gonora for Mrs Sophia Luchka. Leeyus visitors from Winnipeg. Dryden guests at Kurian home. Dora Swenson and others visit Winnipeg, new permanent for Swenson. Kawecki couple misreported anniversary. correction noted with plan for future fiftieth anniversary.
A collection of briefs notes a continuing shortage of teachers despite postwar quiet. Advocates urge higher pay and better living conditions to attract the best candidates, while other items report on irrigation talks and civic remarks from various communities.
Readers note the gap between promised future cars and homes and present transport. The piece suggests rockets and lunar radar ideas as fantasy while rail travel remains marred by tobacco smoke and smell for non-smokers, highlighting rights and comfort concerns.
The National Barley Contest Committee invites farmers to enter by producing one carload of barley in four approved varieties O A C 21 Measury Ottawa 60 Ollli and Montcalm. Entries require 40 acres minimum per field or 25 acres per farmer for joined entries. Closing date is June 15. Booklets with rules are available.
In Lachute Quebec the Watchman notes a strong immigrant push to Canada seeking plentiful food and better living. The Acton Free Press links labor unrest to centralization and large work units. Picton Gazette jests about spies and Northern Spy apples amid a spy shortage. A local scholarship fund idea is mentioned as a foundation for a permanent program.
A Beauce County building housing La Banque Canadienne Nationale was heavily damaged after a truck rammed the front and shortly after an autobus skidded into the main entrance breaking windows and injuring the bus.
A new British plastic building product will enter mass production for prefabricated houses. Made from waste materials like saw dust and straw, it uses synthetic adhesives and produces a high grade low priced board. It can be cut, drilled, nailed and bonded with timber, glass or steel, and is rot and vermin proof. It suits inner walls partitions and commercial fitments.
The Bristol Aeroplane Company has government authorization to build four Brabazon One airliners. The giant UK airliner aims for trans Atlantic service with propulsion from orthodox engines on the first, and gas turbine engines on three others. Cruising speeds reach 250 mph for the conventional version and 350 mph for the jet version. The first prototype is under construction and due to enter service soon.
Plans call for a hangar to house eighty in berths and one hundred eighty in seats. The Bra Bazan hangar will cost about one and a half million pounds. It will be over fifteen hundred feet wide, four hundred and ten feet long and one hundred nineteen feet high. Concrete flooring will cover eight acres with an additional six and a half acres of concrete apron in front.
The British Navy shown a new radar unit named the A F device with automatic following. When radar warns of an approaching aircraft a button on the A F equipment is pressed and an aerial searches the sky. It locates the target in seconds and locks on. It then follows the target memorising its course and speed and transmits information to gun predictors.
During preparations for Operation Pluto engineers faced a serious seal and gasket problem for floating drums pipes pumps and other war machines. British industry solved it and now can supply seals and gaskets to machines of all kinds with improved service on a larger scale. A notable innovation is a high pressure resistant yet elastic rubber pipe.
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