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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 15, 1945
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun edition from September 15 1945 lists notes of thanks memoriam and announcements as 25 cents per inch for notices up to one inch. It states no guarantee for late letters and disclaims responsibility for correspondents opinions with editor S Roberts listed as owner at Twillingate Newfoundland.
Readers discuss the impact of removing Grades 6 to 8 a decade ago and the shift to a technical and vocational focus under Mr Shaw. Editorials blame curriculum changes for lower pass rates, while others argue exams once a year misrepresent progress. Educators weigh classical versus practical standards for a changing economy.
The Commissioner for Public Health and Welfare outlines a government aid plan to fund medical students. Loans of 500 dollars annually will be given to five students after premedical studies for five years, with five more students added each year until 1949. Recipients must return to Newfoundland and practice medicine for at least three years after graduation.
The medical page records discharged patients including Clayton Sansome Lillian Chipp Rayfield Oxford Dorothy Milley and others from Hillgrade King's Point Botwood and Botwood areas. It also lists operations on patients such as Henry May Ethelwin Warren and Marjorie Burton and reports births to Seymour Mahaney in Indian Cove and Cyril Watkins in Twillingate.
Public notice from St John s dated August 28 1945 proclaiming regulations issued under the Game and Fisheries Act 1934 as amended. Authority cited as Published by Authority. A J Walsh Acting owner for Natural Resources signs the document.
Mr S Sheppard at Harbour Grace runs a small factory offering Potato Chips at 10 cents per packet and Doughout cookies. He hopes local firms will buy at wholesale prices. Mrs Sheppard was Miss Joyce Scammell formerly a nurse at Memorial Hospital.
General MacArthur unfurled the Stars and Stripes at Tokyo and ordered a broader occupation push. British and Allied leaders plan a London peace conference as surrender ceremonies occur in Singapore and Hong Kong. A body is found at Mundy Pond in St John's, and radium treatments begin in Newfoundland hospitals.
Fishermen at Crow Head dig beaches for clams while dogfish hamper cod catches for weeks. Shellfish remains the only bait that works with dogfish. Herring trades rise where dogfish abound but cod is scarce. Off the Arms, fish are more plentiful yet catches stay low.
A letter circulated to a young person urged forwarding a prayer to 13 people with promises of happiness on the 13th. The writer avoided signatures, using a 4 cent stamp, suggesting a breach of law. No ill fortune or happiness effects followed.
Regulation changes in Newfoundland on May 19 1942 adjust closed seasons for ptarmigan and other birds. New daily limits set five wild ducks two geese six ptarmigan and ten erimp. restrictions place penalties on vendors and premises owners for selling or serving ptarmigan with liability extending to managers and staff.
Mrs. Elizabeth Anstey, widow of Andrew Anstey of Purcell's Harbour, died at age 90 on September 13 and was laid to rest at Hill with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rice on Black Island involvement noted.
Abraham Vidkun Quisling, traitor of Norway, was condemned to death by the Oslo court on Tuesday for aiding the Nazis and collaborating with Hitler. He faces a firing squad as punishment for enabling the invasion.
The Dept of Supply pledges adequate sugar for isolated northern posts this winter. Capt. Thomas White returns from the fishery with 1160 qdls. fish and Capt. John Whitehall reports 1660.
Died, at the Memorial Hospital, last month, Arthur Warren of Herring Neck. He leaves a daughter in town named Myrtle Warren and several sons. One daughter remains at Herring Neck.
Bessie Marie departed this week heading to St. John's and Sydney after leaving here Monday.
A testimonial from a daughter about her father once crippled by rheumatism who improved after taking Kruschen Salts. She credits it with relief, noting the father is now active and nearly 70, maintaining the family’s health. The ad explains Kruschen salts disperse uric acid and aid its expulsion.
A fragmentary report notes a week long matter linked to Steer’s Ltd and individuals Herbert Young and Georgy Osmond tied to a sale from Port Union. The text mentions inspection of a pact and references a person named Ies Hunter Captain g from Steer’s Ltd. The readable portion is garbled and incomplete.
The report notes that electricity could illuminate Newfoundland via generators at Grand Falls Labrador fed from the Hamilton River. Private plants are expensive and only a few may benefit from the service.
Eveleigh Brothers at Cottle's jetland are energetic sellers offering fresh fish fillets and packed herring.
The motor vessel Malakoff brought a load of herring bait to the depot on Wednesday.
A series of brief reports lists residents and visitors plus a discharged seaman and pension details. Names include Miss Mary Pyne, Miss Mildred Manuel, Mr John Manuel, Rev Herbert Pond, Mrs Walter Parsons and others from Grace Hospital, Botwood, Grand Falls, St. John's and Corner Brook with movements to Pacquet, Fogo, Herring Neck and Bonavista.
The report cites estimated Russian wartime losses totaling over 100 640 000 000 dollars and 25 million homeless, with 1 million Soviet deaths. Japan asks to arrest suspected war criminals, while European and Balkan leaders are discussed in London talks. Tot Anstey of the Canadian Army arrived yesterday.
A loving memorial note for Roy who died September 13 1944. The message from his mother father wife and family at Bluff Head Cove recalls a year of grief since the loss. It speaks of his peaceful rest in a home he loved and the emptiness left behind.
The booklet Mirrored Moments by A R Scammell is available for 50 cents in St John s at Ayre and Sons and Dicks and Co Corner Brook Grand Falls Windsor Botwood Bishop s Falls and by mail to the author In Twillingate Ashbourne s Ltd has stock See note on direct order options.
A historical roster lists educators across several locations including Crow Head, Gentes School, Jenkins' Cove, Arm Academy, Kettle Cove, Bluff Head Cove and St. Peter's Scout. Names include Mr. Wilson Earle, Miss Lillian Starkes, Mr. George Walsh, Miss Gertrude Batstone, Miss Mable Thistle, Mr. Harry Moores, Miss Stratton, Mr. George Warr, Miss Ella Noble, Miss Margaret Randell, Miss Margaret Dalton, Miss Olive Young, Miss Dove, Mr. Raymond Boyde, and others such as Miss Mildred Loder and Miss Mary Short.
Latest report from Labrador lists Hina Louise scoring 900 and Stanley Smith with 300 at Cattlroat. The brief notes results for the pair in the event, reflecting a strong showing by Hina Louise and Stanley Smith.
The Bonnie Nell has a split cylinder and was towed here on Tuesday from Coachman’s Cove by Ted Drovet and Ww motor boat towed the vessel for repairs.
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