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The Sylvan Lake News 1942-01-07 - 1944-12-20
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1944-10-11
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Stores 0 Hidd Are Awaiting e D yielded -miner v ut $21,000,000. This doe t radium prodw n 1942-45 figures of which are not available for publication. Of this total $6,655,9 was produced in the last two ye Gold. radium-si and petroleut products made up the bulk of thi uJ contribution, Copper, lead ten and several other valuable minerals have also been recovered promising quantiti eral produc of that mi » the chief source in this region during the Impetus to mining stimulated trategic It is e: tion will employment : Tert intensive ostw the year tories has beer h for 2 i by war minerals carr! to the geological inves he «don qui gations and mapping by field parties sent out by the Department of Mines and at Ottawa There has been considerable activity in the Yellowknife District during 1914 More than 2800 claims have heen staked there already this and 70 m1 companies are pecting c work completed Resources pros nada’ in the rict gold field is therefore receiv-| full share of attention from n in these diffi- uction of the road newe: ing “its the mining public cult times. Cons’ hich parallels the Canol pipeline has opencd up a new country for the Geological prospector reconnais- sance has been carried out along this road as well as along the Alas Highway during the past two years. | There is also likely to be more fentifie management of wildlife In this far-flung region to ensure permanency to its oldest industry—| fur, whi second only to mining in value in the territory, The reindeer ndustry too, which has got off to a yood start, is providing a convenient ind dependable source of food and jothing for the natives along the Arctic const, east of the Mackenzie Delta, and will form a valuable reserve against periods of life fluctuations. Consi st is being shown in the tourist pos- sibilities of the Western Northland, mainly as the result of the building of the Alaska Highway, No doubt there will also be further agricul tural development In suitable areas. But the far north still remains as in the days when Robert Service wrote mgs of a Sourdous a pl the strong. It to provide plenty of adventure f the y generation when the worl settled down to peaceful pu once me Already the N ritories Administration at is being inundated with inquitie: the possibilities of set tlement along the Alaska Highway, maps of the hwest Territori the Yukon, homesteading and nber regulations, hunting, trapping ind fur-trading, mining and pros pecting regulations, tourist camp- sites, gas stations, and many other activities which are being planned by fnindreds peeking wider horizens, who, for the most patt are busy at war johs at the present time In the ority of cases the applicants de sire to be scmewhere close to the Maska Highway in qu with nd States. Some from wornen married couples Some mere! to know what spportunit ure for employ ment without specifying any particu- ference Since most of these inquiries are i mainly h territory the Alaska Highway, cor- g advised that all uated within one mile of y in Yukon Territory and ritish’ Columbia are being dispose! at the present time, that much of the region traversed by the highway {s not sur- veyed, and that it is unlikely areas for tourist development, homestead are bs reserved {rc n evelop Canada’s Wesiern Norti Wealth ient In | F land aut during ing or other purposes will be able along the route until aft war It is felt that, in the interest of Would-be pioneers of this last fron-| lier country of Canada, it is well] for them to know the hard facts, as| vel) as the possibilities of emplo: ment and settlement conditions, be- re making up their minds to migrate. For anyone who has not} dwelt latitudes it is difficult to visualize conditions of life there as compared with his present environment. Only the strong in mind and body should ittempt to gain al ivelihood from | this region, and then only after care fully volved, But weighing many 1dventur of all factories in-| ‘ous spirits will be found ready and eager to wrest the tre long guarded in her no * north may ye of re hidde w which stern nature has hern domain; eld immense itl ealth un- dreamed of by even the most optimis- tHe. A Lucky Waiter Received don Bennett, paper publisher Big Tip Because Man Did Not Make Mistakes One Christmas morning James Gor the New York news- presented the waiter erved him breakfast at who alwi Delmonico’s with a small rell of cur rency. later, tained that wi he wa Mr. mistake, to his employer. The publisher took him “Of take yesterday, Mr bills. quietly bristled w! height, T must hack at ence te your man. time you ought en the wai rocked, $1,000 bil Bennett mv he turned who u next mon appeared a course, yo! B But the put h ange excla ask you ned to gi to kn de and held out Rising to hi ter examined it The roll con- Believing st have tnade a he mon over locked it in his when the Delmonico the six uu made a mis- ennett,” he said plisher suddenly full “Mr. Delmonico, ive that money By this now that James ning, Mr Gordon Bennett never makes a mis: take AL COMPLAINT Constable Wilf Sadler at the police|and sailors who, when station in London, Ont. Jy| complaint of the year when a tenant received the telephoned headquarters and report- ed that his landlord, provoked over some imagined wrong, had fed a pet canary ‘Line, to a cat. Germany's much-vaunte: afoot | Helps London Live | tio: and riding the back of a bull “impregnable” defence tish Navy) The sailors 6f the Brii | Fascinating Story Of Events arding Tea Producing Deeg Reg ladustry authoritatively states the New York Herald Tribune. For whatever rea for a time in these northern| have been helping to repair and make son, the Germans left the treasures habitable Londoners’ homes damaged of the Louvre and most ‘of France's by flying bombs. The photo show A.B. EB. J. Rawlings, left, and A.B. A. |great chateau museums behind them in their hurried retreat from France. Walton stripping a roof before re-/Not a single painting or sculptural slating it lowly healing in London Remember Our Sailors Much Work To Be Done After Germany Is Defeated Almost everywhere, it seems, there is lalk of what ate when the war and her Eurcpean allies is over It going to be tremendously hard, if we have an official celebra- of the defeat of Germany tak- ing place on the same day in lied countries, to regard the with Japan as anything but a sec- ondary cleaning-up of the war mess. And yet we in Canada, afford te think that way ember the statement of the Allied leaders that, in response to demands by our Prime Minister, Canada is to be allowed to participate in the war with Germany war t ear when. against Japan in the proportion of her population amongst the other Allied countries’ populations. We have bilter fighting yet to do| after Germany is cleaned up and our) sailors and merchant seamen will be directly concerned in it. Young lads training in Canada's navies presumably, man ships operat- ing the Pacific either fighting |the Jap naval menace or convoying merchant ships manned by Canadian now in will over merchant sean! The Navy League know that our men of the seas must be looked after for a long while to come and that i why they are still seeking ditty bs in the scores of thousands, magazine in the millions, wooilens in the hun dreds of thousands for the seamen Germany is licked, will still go on fighting. We mustn't let down on our care for and service to them. China produces 561,160 sticks annually in normal times eo dozer tank, pas Ine. Th we will do to cele) all| we| Thus are the scars of war) work of national importance js miss- ing it was stated by Second Lieuten- ant James J. Rorimer, of the art and monuments division of the American Army's civil affairs section. Matchmates For Fall ane by Alice Brooks You'll want eve js ucene Is near Roetgen worsted yet costs little. Crochet that brings touch to early Fall clothes. -yone to know you've crocheted this set yourself—it's so professional-lcoking and becoming in that _smart| Pattern 7228 contains directions for hat and During Wartime Rosa L, Sh T WAS liber on day f the old t vn teapot or ber 19 when of “fee rat ng restored that*h y tenstl to its old place r the back of the kitch, tove in thousands Canadian fart © more the men can stop by for a moment on their way fron lds to the barn and quench thelr thirst with a cup of the steam ing bj without having to go short of tea some other time E hind the Lift nd coffee Nothing Missing rationing is a fuscinating story of aa events on the other side of the world Germans Did Net Curry Away Art){tom Canada. After Sumatra and pekaants OF RTARSA |Java were overrun by the Japanese, Parag ave ieear tee el a ee \cluding the famous "Venus de Milo”| Ve arhot iy one reason why it and Leonardo de Vinci's “Mona| oo cccany to rath Se ae Lisa”, of the Louvre, are safe and in| ows the wee, Ta ce | good condition, it has been learned a Se eae in 1942 a large part of India’s tea producing industry has been operat ing in a front line theatre of war in which tea planters have mixed agrt Joulture with a variety of wartime activities. When the Japanese in- vaded Burma, the tea planters took alerts and air raid precautions, and helped build military roads and airfields. They toarfed lthousands of workers from the tea gardens to the military authorities, and the network of communications they helped construct is today play ing a vital role in the offens Jagainst the Japanese in Burma In the jungle-covered hills part in invasion the planters set up camps which supplied food and medical aid to thousands of Burmese refugees, Elephant trains carrying quinine, bandages and other supplies, guided by tea planters pressed even further into wild coun- try In which refugees had to be ferried across raging rivers on rafts strung together by logs and jungle vines. Doctors from the tea planta- tions fought epidemics while the wives of the planters nursed the sick, wounded and exhausted And all this time the planters were also increasing tea production to partly compensate for the loss of other scurcés. In a single year they produced the record tea crop of 570 million pounds. And that, along with the improv ment in the shipping situation, and the co-operative way in which Cana- dians accepted rationing when sup- plies were short, is why the old brown teapot is in its accustomed spot again on the back of the kitchen range. Work Of R.A.F. | How They Struck At Radio Stations In Belgium purse; stitches. Within hours of “D" day R.A.F. To obtain this pattern send twenty|rocket-firing Typhoons struck at cents in coins (stamps cannot be 8-|every radio station from Brest to cepted) to Household Arts Depart- iy 5 tole Wineines Newspaper Union [OE = THe enemys syeter! OF 175 MeDermot Avenue B., Winnipeg,| Warning, devised against invasion Man few days longer than usual,” Germany. Be sure to write plainly your ‘ame, Address and Pattern Number. “Because of the slowness of the malls hockey | delivery of our patterns may take a day, was thrown into confusion, and the Allies achieved a great measure jof surprise during initial landings: |The second task allocated to the RAF. immediately before invasion was the silencing of ten coastal bat- teries within the immediate vicinity of the beachheads. A force of 1,000 R.A.F. bombers dropped a load of 5,000 tons of bombs. Practically all the batteries were accounted for and the odd one or two which were able to fire were silenced by the guns of the Fleet Used Stone Quarry Large Alr-Raid Shelter Accommodated 20,000 French War Workers The world’s largest single air-r shelter, a 400-year-cld und stone quarry in Fr: | viewed with interest Air Force officers conducting # |damage inquiry. ‘The qua pre-war days to grow mushrooms, is near the Renault Automobile Pla and was converted to a shelter to ac- |commodat« 20,000 plant workers. Tts 100,000 square feet of floor space is used in an orderly labyrinth of cpnnected tunnels 10 to 50 feet high, miles in length. | rade names for tea comes from leaf ¢ the position of the he stem, ‘not from different plan | The tea drinking habit was largely 3 easily through a break in the Siegt-ed| responsible for the development of fine English procelain, 2589
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