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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Apr 03, 1943
Page
4
Local Twillingate newspaper notes publication details for the Saturday edition issued from the North Side office in Twillingate Newfoundland.
Hon ora Wild, Commissioner for Finance, outlined the 1942 tax plan in a Friday broadcast. He explained excess profits tax on a $50 000 to $60 000 rise and defended the measures as vital for public health education utilities and wartime needs. The Dominions Office in London backed the government arguing the tax is not retroactive. The plan increases surtax normal tax and excess profits tax, aiming to raise about 741 000 dollars despite anticipated revenue shortfalls.
It is not official but probable that the mail in will close Saturdays at 6 p.m. Seals were taken at Channel with 200 landed last week. At Open Hall a few seals were fed likely old. A patch of bed camera was sighted off there Monday. Registration cards for rationing are in town and some teachers are filling them out.
The text notes that Householder will not respond to references directed at him but may revisit the issue of more important road needs.
Reverend T. J. Pitt remains invited to stay another year as a Congregational meeting notes extend his stay. The article urges Newfoundland families to grow their own food to improve health, save shipping space, and aid wartime food relief with daily targets for milk fish potatoes and vegetables.
A compiled list details donors across Twillingate, Exploits, Botwood, Grand Falls, and other communities contributing items such as diapers, towels, sheets, pillow cases, blankets, bedcovers, infant garments, hot water bottles, and medical supplies to local charities and churches including Jubilee Guild Pentecostal Assembly Salvation Army and UC Ladies Aid.
Confederation Life reports Miss Randell and Miss Hodder led a Sale of Work at Crow Head Schoolroom on Friday night week. A large crowd attended and proceeds totaled 32 dollars 60 cents.
Civilian Aircraft Detection Corps observers aided by local civilians tracked three distressed single engine planes during Wednesday snowstorm on Avalon Peninsula. Reports from Kelligrews, Harbour Grace, Carbonear, Heart's Content and other towns enabled rapid landings with minor damage and no injuries.
Russian forces overrun new German positions as they push toward Smolensk while other fronts report Axis setbacks east of Kharkov. Allied raids intensify on Berlin and Rouen. In Newfoundland, memorial plans and political commissions surface amid wartime disruption.
At Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital Association meeting, after losing Dr Wood and Dr Hardy, officials propose a modified home visitation system. Dr Mainald and a nurse will cover Twillingate Islands. a nurse in Herring Neck. another in Mortons Harbour. Other doctors will be consultative only with nurse accompaniment.
During the week ending March 31 admissions included Mrs. Bennett Bulgin Gilesporte Willis Bridger Twillingate N Gladys Ellott Port Albert Wa Rideout Blot Head Cove Mrs. Obadiah Bort Fairbanks Miss Ida Miles Mrs. George Grimes Her ring Neck Miss Mae Pike Sum merford Shirley Watkins Cottles Island Isaac Mercer Mrs. Isaac Mercer Port Albert Mrs. George Stuckless Darrell's Arm Discharges included Harry Guy Twillingate S Mrs. John Watkins Indian Cove Mrs. Norman Barnes Ragered Point Joseph Elliott Robin's Cove Mrs. John Barrett Twillingate N Mrs. Harold Boyde Tizzard's Hr Mrs. Manuel Troake and infant son Durrell's Arm Mis Muriel French Moreton's Hr Miss Blanche Burt Virgin Arm Mrs. Reginald Peddle and infant son Cottle's Island Miss Gertie Snow Noggin Cove Roland Boyde Tizzard's Hr Mrs Marela Hopkins Miss Helena King Victoria Cove Leslie Morgan Change Islands A Feb 26 birth for Mrs Bennett Bulgin Gilesporte A Mar 31 birth for Mrs George Games Herring Neck Shirley Watkins 5 died at hospital Sunday March 28
Fran taxpayer disputes a writer signing Fisherman over annual spending claims. He argues the Fisherman statements are not reliable and urges more accurate government spending reporting, promising further remarks in a future letter.
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