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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1942
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun states notices of thanks memoriam notes and announcements cost 25 cents each and that submissions received after Wednesday noon may not be inserted. It disclaims responsibility for communications and opinions of correspondents and notes the publication location Twillingate Newfoundland.
The piece discusses shifting clocks to a single time amid mixed adoption of a second hour. Most people favor keeping a consistent time, while some uphold the March shift. Education, commerce, and industry are affected, with Defence Department guidance urging practicality and local settlements allowing choice where possible. Public offices may align with centralized decisions in St John.
A Saturday St. John talk on labour shortages in woodcutting for paper mills notes Corner Brook and Grand Falls may close without more workers, estimated at about 3000. Prices for men range from 3.70 to 5.00 dollars daily, with subcontracting used to distribute work and ensure skilled labor.
The article argues wages and job placement influence work in timber ops. It questions workers leaving construction for temporary forest labor, and ponders how to fill pulpwood crews and airport labour near Corner Brook and Grand Falls. It urges the Woods Labour Board to act decisively to avoid conscription while seeking diplomatic solutions.
wartime bulletin notes Sevastopol fall threats and Manstein advance on the Black Sea base, Rommel nears Alexandria with heavy resistance, Churchill cites Libyan collapse as a probe of initiative, Russians pin Germans on the central front, air raids urged to aid Russia, Western front opening anticipated, troop movement remains a hurdle, British resolve framed as pivotal to winning the war.
A mine near Change Islands is described as a large buoy. This year several glass bobbers used by fishermen have been taken from waters and can be bought in the country. A whale was reported as an enemy submarine near C. I.
Magistrate Abbott and family recently moved into their residence on Wednesday. A surprise house warming was held in the evening with several ladies and gentlemen gathering, a quick spread, and a few speeches. The event was planned as a June house warming honoring Mrs. Abbott's birthday.
Personal Miserate Churchill from St John s visits. Mrs Beauchamp visits Port aux Basques to see family. Walter Vega from St John s tunes organ at United Church. Downton from Grand Falls visiting. Frank Stuckless visit to Grand Falls. John Moors from Argentia to Botwood. Marion Woolfrey from Bell Island guest at UC Parsonage, leaves for Canada tomorrow. Reverend Woolfrey moves to Canada. Pitt to Gander. Lewis Clarke from St John s. Edith Manuel on holidays. Eleanor Roberts back from Grand Falls via USA and Canada. Reta Harnett from Grand Falls plans marriage. Stanley Elliott visits Lewisporte. Neil Bishop at bank relief. Kate Hopkine to St John s. A B Legrow transferred to Musgrave Harbour. Horwood and Adams leave for Port Blandford. H King to St John s. W J Yetman in town from Change Islands. John Gillett from St John s. Ernest Peyton from Canada. Major Rideout and wife on vacation. Wm Sturge visiting Moreton's Harbour for summer holidays and teaching Blaketown. Mrs Whiteborn in town from Springdale. George Phillips from St John s visiting. Adjutant Wight at Grand Falls. promoted Major. to Congress at St John s. Magistrate Abbott departed for points along the Straight Shore.
Confederation Life announces Memorial College will open its summer school shortly. Four local students will attend: Thomas Pict Wilson Earle Vera Hodder and Reone Wight.
On leave again are Allan Boyde and Andrew Roberts who returned briefly. The NPA Entertainment Committee held a Welcome Home social Thursday night. Allan left next day and Andrew, who arrived Monday, plans to depart in the coming week as more leave days are granted.
General Mihailovitch of Yugoslavia receives Albanian troop support in Serbia as he leads the Serbian Army. Italian casualties mount in Albania while the Yugoslav government in exile proclaims him Minister of War in Hondog.
Week ending July records list admissions from Stager Grand Falls Peter'n Arm Gander Bay and more including Rev D C Noel Herring Neck and Port Albert. Discharges include 14 names with towns Fogo Twillingate and Little Bay Islands. June totals show 110 admissions 108 discharges 13 births 6 deaths. Dr Kalwai to St Johns for a short trip.
An explosion at Lewisporte, attributed to dynamite stored under the soldiers’ shacks, killed four Canadian troops and a fifth died of wounds. Thirteen others were seriously injured and hospitalized at Grand Falls. Officials call the incident purely accidental.
A reader demands clarity on daylight saving clock shifts and questions who decides time changes. The letter asks whether government action or local citizens should set clocks and urges officials to justify the policy amid wartime duties.
The obituary confirms Rev A H Boyles formerly of Little Bay is the deceased U C clergy man, correcting prior misidentification of Rev Armenius Young-re as the deceased in this paper’s instant issue.
June 27 report notes Prime Minister Churchill back in London with Averill Harriman. Britain and U.S. forces clash near Alexandria as Rommel advances. reinforcements arrive to Egypt. Soviet and German fronts show heavy fighting across Ukraine Sevastopol Kursk Kharkov. Luftwaffe strikes Bremen and a large German fleet near Leningrad. Production in May shows thousands of airplanes. U.S. ships and bases bolster Allied efforts in Africa and the Mediterranean.
German U boats sunk three Argentina ships while eight German spies were captured in the United States with sabotage gear and two years of planned operations. The Red Army halted German tank waves near Kursk, with Sevastopol yielding ground as fighting intensifies. Cairo evacuated Mersa Matruh and Nile defense lines hold with withdrawals, American air crews and New Zealand troops arriving in Egypt. US bombers hit Wake Island as China repels a major Japanese assault near the Sin River. In Sevastopol fighting continues with German entry to the city, Libyan counterattacks push enemy west, and Tobruk receives air attention as Bremen reports from northwest Germany.
In loving memory of Mrs Hellen Pittman who died peacefully on June 29 in her 80th year. She leaves three daughters Mrs Peter White Ragged Point Mrs Dorman Anthony Pilleys Island and Mrs Albert Weir Heads Hr, 18 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren, along with many relatives and friends. Dearest mother thou hast left us, thy face on earth no more we'll see, but we hope to meet in Heaven where there will be no parting. Signed Mrs Peter White.
A note of gratitude expresses thanks to friends for a Surprise Party and presents a clock and verses. The verses speak of respect, memories, storms of life, and condolences, thanking friends for kindness shown during a stay in Twillingate and wishing God’s protection and eternal reward.
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