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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1943
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun announces policy on letters and communications submission by Wednesday noon. It disclaims responsibility for correspondents opinions and notes publishing from the North Side office with S. Roberta as editor and proprietor.
Forrester Davis credits modern youths and elders with bravery and virtue, contrasting past pranks with present safeguards. The piece argues evolving morals and skills, noting fewer open dangers, greater security, and continued acts of kindness. It affirms pride in current generation.
On June 24 Thursday the SUN marked its sixty third milestone with a quiet anniversary observance, reflecting on years of local reporting and community ties. The day underscored the paper's enduring presence in the town.
The Al Johnston Construction & Co calls for 300 common labourers to work in Labrador at 25000 dollars per month with board lodgings and transportation from St Johns provided.
The Girl Guides conducted a Monday evening country trip using Anstey Brothers two trucks.
End of May bait stock across thirteen depots and the Malakeff reached 602500 pounds with 456000 owned by the department. Fishermen sold and withdrew 313000 pounds during May, and most stock is herring. Availability noted at Maynooth sites and Fortune Bay along the southwest coast.
A Newfoundland proposal envisions a Twillingate public library funded by a $10,000 Carnegie grant for purchased books to serve 25 centres. Twillingate must appoint four Public Libraries Board members, secure premises, and maintain circulating books to receive ongoing support including a basic $400 stack, annual $90 book additions, and $175 yearly grant for librarian and expenses.
T R Ackerman cannot furnish the $50,000 bond on fraud charges. He allegedly obtained $1000 from Burt at Botwood by claiming American Airways backed a $250,000 venture with hotel, motor buses, trucks, garages, and other local utilities.
Good progress has been achieved at the Clarenville shipyard despite material shortages. Four keel blocks of 300 ton vessels are laid with a fifth keel nearing laying. three keels are half framed and a fourth is being set up. About 150 workers are employed, using West Coast yellow birch timber of good quality as reported by the general superintendent Mr Hayes.
Icebergs are becoming scarcer as winds drive removal. Men with jiggers catch a few barrels of codfish daily while Hetle struggles with bait.
June 19 reports Sir Archibald P. Wavell appointed to a five year term as Viceroy of India. He will retire from the Army but keep India’s strategic organization to support a drive against Japan after Europe’s war turn. Allied air power pounds Italy and Sicily. RAF and US bombers strike Naples and Sicilian airfields Comiso and Discari with 150 tons.
A damaged letter to General Eisenhower lauds the nation while Nazis claim praise. Reports say Detroit riots killed 11 and injured 500, with arrests totaling 25 dead and 30 arrested, amid widespread bombings across Italy and North Africa.
The United Church South Side Woman's Association and Sunday School teachers honored Mr. and Mrs. L Duffett and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Horwood with a surprise party as they leave Twillingate at month end. Duffett becomes principal of Clarenville School and Horwood takes a principal post in Grand Bank. Presentations were given by Mrs. T J Pitt, with refreshments in Marshall Hall as Rev T J Pitt conveyed best wishes. Correspondent.
Dr J M Olds was elected president of the Nild Medical Association during the convention held at St Johns this week.
The Allied Merchant Navies' Club at St John’s, opened by the Governor on Tuesday the 15th, was partly gutted by fire Wednesday night. The top floor was destroyed and water damaged furniure across the building. Origin of the fire remains unknown. The former Columbus Club had been converted into a sea men rest centre with modern facilities.
A few rain showers cooled parched ground on Wednesday night as south west to north east winds shifted. Mid Summer began around the 21st with a nearby 24th date brightening the outlook. Seeds sowed again in Nil d show slow emergence with limited vitamin content. A light snowfall on the 24th may act as fertilizer and warmer July could lift harvest. Potatoes likely meet average while hay yields lag behind last year unless a miracle occurs.
It is expected that by end of July enough salt will arrive for all fishery requirements. Shipments are arriving regularly and about 35 000 tons will have been brought here in the next eight or ten days. Another shipment is expected in June followed by a major one on July tenth.
Personal Miss Vernon Ellott and Mrs Phillip Reid and children came from Grand Falla on Saturday. Misa Ellott had a two weeks holiday from the Telegraph Office. Mr S Loveridge leaves for Lewisporte to attend a Confederation Life Conference in St John s arriving on the 30th. Various locals including Librarian trainee Hedley King, Miss Mollia Peyton, Peter Fudge, and others are noted for library work, schooling, church events, and visits to Botwood Deer Lake St John s and Gander.
Sugar is not to be rationed. Ration coupons apply to Tea and Spares, wording that may cover any食品 in the food line the Controller designates. Sugar appears more plentiful than in autumn last year.
Capt. James Philpott sails the Stanley Smith from the Bay on Tuesday after repairs. He takes over from Radbournes Ltd. The vessel re formed. Mr Martin Anstey’s boat ships fresh salmon to Lewis porte from Hodge Brothers.
Frank Simms of the 166th Field Regiment in North Africa, reported wounded, is now improving. He is the son of Mr and Mrs A J Simms of Fogo.
Former manager P M Coady departs Twillingate for Burin ending years at the Bank of Nova Scotia He previously led the Fogo branch and the Change Islands post He received an address and gift on departure after treatment at Memorial Hospital and a string of good wishes from local friends
In stock items Maple Leaf and Islands Best Flour including Whole Wheat Flour 98 and 14 lb sacks. Also listed pork neck portions Navel and Extra plate beef Fat back pork. Packages appear in a local grocery advertisement.
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