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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 15, 1946
Page
4
The Manitoba Cancer Relief and Research Institute launches a September campaign with the slogan Cancer Won't Wait. It urges early symptom awareness and medical consultation to prevent spread, noting about 1,000 Manitoba cancer deaths annually and detailing warning signs and the role of education in rural areas.
The piece outlines the V D Manual for Teachers guiding high school health education on venereal disease, its sections on disease description and teaching aids, and urges integrating V D education into health programs. It then reports Canada’s rising fire losses from 1945, noting uninsured risk and government property damage amid ongoing fire prevention concerns.
The 1945 fire tally lists 52 173 fires with property losses of 41 903 020 dollars excluding 9 867 000 in government property. Deaths include 146 children 159 men and 86 women. Causes cite smoker carelessness 2 286 430 dollars defective wiring 3 813 133 dollars unknown causes 18 686 000 dollars and 113 large fires totaling about 15 000 000 dollars.
Poem by Gemmill on native tongues, cultures, and wartime strife. It envisions tolerance, shared goodness, and justice leading to peaceful understanding after fear and greed subside. Courage to endure suffering is urged as a path to an enduring peace.
The White Mouth Baptist Church celebrated its fortieth anniversary on October fifth and sixth with a program led by Minister in charge and Rev. Philip Daum of Chilliwack B C who spoke on church history. A later letter reflects on local life, farm scenes, and community trade.
A nostalgic reminiscence of a rural country store trading butter eggs and calico for sugar tea and sewing supplies. The piece notes how export trade keeps Canada’s wheat cattle and eggs from piling up and explains trade as essential to the nation’s economy and daily life.
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