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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1951-08-09, Page 2/MI .44....AGE:1571r9"- SiMEIMIUWIRVIOSLIMIMWMP:4•-•-• . . . . -0, . , , ,.•:.7, ,.' ''',§'"' . , • . , • • . .,- . . . . . . . • • ' TI-P110,IJAY, AUGUST 9th, 1951 THE LiVCKNOW SENI1141;‘, iAJCICIIQW1 QlSriA.P.I0 4 .....---- .. , ft • rgan ancl Ena Saw Swiss AIps nd Paris On European Tour Ilefore Morgan 4fid Etna Hen- derson left on a two months' trip to Europe. arid the Old Country; • •We requested' Mrs. Henderson to •write for TheSentinel describing • their trip. 'The f011owing article.rwas pen-' ;led in Paris ,ctri July. 22nd, and •.h,:descrilbes most inter ingly the 'highlights ,oftheir tour.,- of the Continent. • .: •• • • paris,•`France,, ' •Jul.y 22nd, 1951 Tear Cam,, . We .arrived in Paris last.night 'after a rnost interesting .trip an• the-eontinent.• • • .. We sailed from. New York on ,-board the Queen Elizabeth, Sat- 0urday 3uly 7th. Jut after leav- ing New.York we saw -the spec- ' tacular-loil fire at Newark, N.' 3., ••'where over one hundred,oil tanks. explodedi We were five.days in crossing • the. Atlantic. Life. ,on board ship •. Was a very leisurely " one. The •• weather as good and 'had, a fairly calm. crossing, 0• . Our first sight. of ]and •Was • , France' for the. Queen ° Elizabeth doCked at Cherbourg.' This liner Cannot go right, into the harbatir • because : of war wreckage lying in the bottom of the harbour •A small boat comes ont ;to take in the 'paSsngeri •Early . that Mori*0 0 , ing our ship pas.sd salvage crevvS Working On the submerged ,Sub-;;. marine,,_Affray,which sank 'lastMay. • ' • ••' We docked. at Southampton On Thurday, ..July:' 12th, It *as -a• thrill, indeed; to set foot on Eng- • lishsoil, a land SO full of history •and tradition. 'my first irnpres- sion of .Eriglancl was the many , - tiled roofs, all red, and the count• less eliithneys.•W had one day in London before WE left for the/ • coritinent. We walked .te Trafal. •' gar SqUare-; PiecadillY Circus and • • 4.;: • to St Paul's: Cathedral. This • cathdral. is magnifcent. It, wag designed by ,Sir, •Christpher • Wren, who is binged in the crypt:, We also saw the. tombs of Nelson and Wellington and the last rest ing place Of Jellicoe Beattie and Kitchener. • , • In the evening we Walked ;to uc)r.inghAin,Palace,_ and. to Clar- ence HouSe,the home of Princess • Elizabeth., Here and there we ••• passed bombedout pates.,'. .•' •.Saturday, .July 14th, we • went td. Dover from where we crossed• the -English. Channel to Calais, Trance. There A very Mod, ern bus Awaited us. Our • driver was' A Trenchinan and our tour guide was a 'Belgian.. There were 280 on our tour and they p4ved to be • a vey jolly crowd. •• • n France we passed thraugh Armitieres Lille and Flanders. We crossed into . Belgiuin to ar- rive at 'Brussels for .our first night: Brussels is " ry beauti- 4 ful city „with man 19 ely horpep and we Were tgl ha 'e wealth of Belgium is centre there. We went: on to • 'Luxembourg,' a duchy te the south Of Belgium. We stayed in the capital which is also called Luxembciuri The O steel mills here , are the 8th larg- est producing ones in the world and the People in the Capital de- riVe „their -living, directly •or in- directly from thisbuiness. • -Switzerland was our next des tination, but .we had to cross a bit' of 'France again -and alse a Short t drive through Germany to, get there. In France we •crossed the. fahrnOue Magiriat Line and on through such plaes• as Nancy, Metz, A1sace4,orraine; and into Switzerland. There we. followed the Rhine river for a time Thi-• country: fs very beatitiful and so tidy. While. drivirig along the guide pointed, out the place -where Queen Astrid of Belgium (first wife of Xing Leopold) was:killed in a car accident in 1938 or 39. We drove through the, tOwn of Altdrf, 'birthplace • of ;William Tell. We spent one night in Li.. cerne, Switzerland and it is 'a Very peautiful resort. There We heard sorne• real Sivviss 'yodelling. To ket to InterlalF6n.Sw14erland, we' had to CrosS the Swiss Alps at a place called Susten Pass. We elinibed 7000 feet.for 11/4 hMirs, in low gear .to get to this pais, which was only cleared 0 off snow: end ice eighteen . days ago.', At the top of .thispass •we were;.able to throw snawballs`for there is plenty Of snow there. 'QUI- guide told us that this Pass Wasblock- ed by 60 feet' of ice and SnOW . .., • this Winter. Thep We went down the mountains to a• lovely town, Interlaken,, Which is nestled be- tween two lakes. . 00 We had a day, of leisure at •this place which issurrounded by .mOuntains. W/hile 'there. we • . , .• ' • 111 • 44 TRUS. • r-,-, it . r?j• . • . . • . . • • * ' • !'s • • • ,r • 1. -Short Tem -5' -years' 2. 3Yi% intereit payable half yearly • •• 3. O Principal and. interest uncon- ditionally guaranteed' Yusi FOR T joAVI, •'.11.1St for 'today i will tryto live through this. day only land not tackle my Whole life's prOb- . • - r „ lem at once. I can. .4o sornething. for eight hours that would appall me if I felt that 1, had to keep it -up 'for a lifetime Just for today I will be haPpy, This assumes to be trtie What Abraham Lincoln said that,.°t folks are as•happy asthey make trOrtheir minds to be": •just for today will • adjust Myself to what is,: and not trY to adjust everything 40 •y own de- sires. I Will take my "luck' as it comes and fit 'inirielf •to 4t Just for todlay I Will •try to stremthen mY Mind! I will study I will.learn something useful.. I• will not be a mental:loafer. I will read something :that requires fort; thought and concentration, justfoir:n ttohdrre .wI will', exercis° mysoul .somebody a good turn • and riot .get found out—if anybody knows of it, it will not cOunt. 'I /will 'at least two ,,things I • don't want to ;.do• just for exercise. 1 will not showanyone that my feelings , are hurt. They may be, hurt, but today. I wril" not shoiiv. Just for toaay.1 will be' agree- able. 1 Willlook as Well As I Can; dress !becomingly, talk' low, act courteously,. • .criticize'. • not one. bit, not find fault with anything' and nottry to".iniprove orlate anybody except.. myself: Just for today- .,I will have h program: I may not. follow. it ex- actly but 1 will have it...1 will. .Saire myself. •from two , peati—, hurry and indeciOon... • , Just or today I will have, a quiet; half 'hour all. by' MYselt and relaic. During. this ,half hour sometime I will try ,to get abet ter perspective of 'my. life. lust for today .1. will 'be .un' afraid.' EspeCially r not be afraid .to enjoy what: is beautiful and to. believe • that ,as Is give to •the World so the world',will :giv , • • at. • Authorized inveStrrient for Trust • Funds •No fiuctuation in Principal Amounts Of $16q.00 and, up mily be 1m/cofed 104E STERLNG TI CORPbRATION ' Head Wilco 00 372 Bay St., TorOn0 0. • • • '..- • . tie I • , • • • %--OantribUted.' by -Student went, 4000 feet up :to the lop of a.,mountain. by cable -car. There. we 'got some .splendid pictures Of Jungfrau, one Of Switzerland's most famous mountains. Inter laken was ° tkke first town we had been in; on.. the 'continent Where there is al large:number Of Erig,, lish speaking tourists. We drove to 'Berne, capital of :Switzerland and found it a. very.. interesting O • Ve were sorry • to: leave this country. The Swiss Alps are mak, nifieent;in. Many. :Wayslike; our C though-.-per--- haps not so' rugged. In all, we enjoyed, our Visit in Switzerland very much.' •• • . • Again .we came inta France, We; passed through 131,4rgundy, the head of the Wine district and saw field 'iupon • field'„ of graps. :We stayed overniftlit , in -the-town 'f-AuttinF,'Lln-Lottr-•hotel there was a retoni. where Napol, eon and JpSephirie stayed in 1802. 'NYO-, girls in Our tour had • :the moth for that night. ',We arrived • in Paris Yesterday . afternoon Last night we had a tour othe city. It is. attnarvelous city, unique in all its architectire. Many bouleyards are, wide and tree-. lined ,andO there, are beautiful floWer gardens. Froin our • hotel can see the Eiffel, Tower,- Are de Triomphe, Seine River ancl Notre' Darne .datherlral. .This Morning viiited the Eiffel Tower arid . this afternoon We took' a bus tour to' Versailles Miles ',train • Paris) • and in the, immense Palace Of -VersaiileS: we V,LAVci' the , table where the Treaty of Versailles Was ,Signd in June • okfter four days here, we re turn ,to :London. On August '1st we -leave on a tor of England and Scotland, ' • •h • We •haye enjoyed our viSit to , the contineht :vry muh, „SOte of their euqtoms are quite different to ours. Our French i.S* not So good but We manage to make ourelves understood, Now I Can •say nlost, fluently "cafe ab We, are -lookirr. forward tie tour of England arid Sctland. • SincerelY; ' Eno Hendersn: 1.• PEi Si. 014 FORM SIMPLE • TO. old ages secTuhrliY'a‘PisPip.cr:tbi°ab41;f°thre government .ques4onna1re on re - Cord. For authority to make a $40 p monthaYment, starting he, end of:Jnuary, 1952, the'director of old .aige security has to knoW. cdilu• sYjairotyw,,.°,,•lth95i:. 1:11ea.t:on re- ceiving federal .old, age pen,. ovr, and. voitt is not now re- forms are to be filled in by any one Who today. is 691/4 or 1. That you will be 70 in Jap • 0 00 g, That you have 2,.4years• • •`.,dence in Canada: The appli, kcant :is...asked to .give partiCU- .•lars•Of..Wilere he hs' lived. 'and for' what periods.since• 1931.., With thee. two obj.ectiVes 'the for* halve wasted,n& 'space or time asking nimcessary.. ones- tions,.Only one thing is repeated. In three different.places is the warning not .tO send .in the ap- plication, if you are 'already re- ceiving a federal, governMerit old • age pension of any amount. All these • pensioners will be trans- ferrdo to the new r011s: autoinati- aily. • If you ,are getting $40 a month 'old age pen.sion it .Will, ecintinue et the • saine ieyeL If. YOu are getting a smaller amount Will 'be raised to $40 at the end of next January without your having to do anything about it Application- forms will Available at post .offices across Cana4.• The applicant* form listi the • Sart of •:clacumerithry eVicierice • that will be•accepted as ,proof of ate, including birth Or baptismal, eitificaes, records Bibli, church -rolls or registers, Marriage ° records,' cOnnunion. certificates, naturalization eertif- icates'. and aelinoWledgernentSaf age by insurance camPanies:, If ; the. aPplicant'. Can :obtain none of these he is instructed to Send arty dcUnient.he •has shW- irig age If he .has ;nothing .to proye age he is to send hiS apt- pliCation With A note Stating, that faet and the' department' will ad• vise him What to •do ' about it One of ,the last resorts :willbe cheek with ;the eensus',-recorda • of 30 years ago. The census Act will not allow diseloiire,-even O for this is Purpose, of individual forfnation • on 'any More 'recent. date. ' • There are ,two Plages provided far listing places of residente the first for the period up to Decem- ber 1931, add1 the second. ,an., mare •important •far the 16 -year priod after that tirne. , For • this second period the applicant is asked to 1st „Place's of ernploY- Merit. ,EmPloy.rnent-,of course has nothipg4-de-m,Eith-Lreceipf-Of-old age security bid, the nafrnes of employers, Can be used . as ,a check -back on the infOrmatiOn: it is hoped fOr this reason that any one who can give, this infrma- tion 'With 'rea.sonable. aocuracy do sor The -form calls for the . names f-tWo-personsH-outsicie-the4a ily Wha have knowledge Of the facts; about residende :as refer-, • ences.. lf the applicant can't sign. his or her riarrie the mark must. . be 'witnessed by two pefions. •In any event the forth requires the signed declaration 6f A non-rela- tetifying' to' the. identity of the applicant: This witnOs does not have to vouch for 'the aeur, acy of the infOrmation. • . . • • NEPHEW KILLED . • NEAR- KINCARDINE Dvid 10 -year- , old son of Mr. ,and Mrs. Melvin Dahmer of Kincardine ..Townhip Was killed Instantly on:. Friday .4fternoon when struck by a truek On Highway No. 9* thred Miles east Of Kincardine. • The yOung; lad is a nephew of Mrs. Lloyd Cline ,of Paramount'. David • Was riding an the .high.;,` way with two • young friend, When, it mias. repotted, his bike Werved siiddilly, throwing the lad off into the path .Ofthe truCk, tefore could scramble' out' of the Wa5. the .truk hit him. Pavid stiffeied .two.•fractured legs,•a trashed died. and head injuries arid died almost' instant- dIte truck' Was John't •LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; O Aireliviil! ri'e$1133rWtereisatriHCihilu, rOchn't,. • 0 I have been going tO ‚Write to . , .. Dr C.44110..b04. ' . •— • . you ' ,a1 t" b t . e,• ing , al,WayS, ir;f0rVoPed. 1 have so ' '1/4. -. _many JleNy 'Io...ba..e]Vedto-ink reg.,. .• ,, -.. . War work nere that 1 eapnot in. . justice undertake writing the • • ' with any certainty of regular• • articles -wanted to do for you ., , contributions. You are doing an , , 4. • PthPrerclitSo9ITIrs eafti'llituersailiwpapers°hd erre a il f. • * , Ize the fine service they excellent,•VVork there 4iatilre.YrO::: • . ., dering the,:• eorruhunity 'or hOy1/4r:- . . •. much thei..,4ghlenee the daily lives of ,' the. people,.:Not °always dphavtsheitpeOisPlustrea:1aizse.iwta-cl,l,nddritoii might not be,so•easy to influece, - ., • . thern! I have alWays had a Vamp-, , ... . ... . spot in my heart for the rural Weekly/ and. still believe that •it , .inis.:nniieys.senti•,_al faCto. r.in 'any coin_ . ., ,. . .."I intended dropping in wIgn 1 ° • ; was up. last winter but the wea- ther Was so, bad that I ',Eid not •get A .chance. to 'call on y.ou.• As: a matter of fact; I spent the ater; • 0 ' • • noon I. went up • with 'Charlie' '. IvlacDonald. at Blueirale. He ht" . • taken a radie •broadeast that ' ' morning and. :had oVer-done it. • With the retzlt. that he •was look-.. ... ' • •'. ing Very ill when I arrived , We sat and talked all afternoon and° • . . - I had. the feeling that lShould .• never see him again aiive otherr: • , • Wise% I .should. have left earlier. : . .. •He Went to 'the h9spital a few, . ' days later. That day,. he was his old self; full of stories and fun. . • . . We lost a fine Mari to, the ChurCh ' • : I.: ', and:the community when he died. : .: Isle did a great. deal ta.malte the name of Lucknow .wll. known, thratigbout. canada.' With 'every good, • wish arid fraternal ',greetings. • , Yourssincerely; • ° Sutherland' • -0-;' „ , • • pruggit: Mean to • say' those moth balls .1, sold you wouldn't • , • . • your 1111 0 Customer No,•I tried all after- . . noOri but didn't hit one. . • Hewitt, 16 -year-old ion Of Mr. • and, Mrs. Otto 'Hewitt; A. 4..4, Kincardine. • , • • The, funeral service was •, held • on. Monday. • . . • WE'LL PAY ,‘ • for any size... any brand... - a e of • LI) R WHENYOU TRAPEIM IN FOR . , NOW . . . .• - ' GOODTTEARS , O . . ' Piked 60 ../i. $111/1g ' . " 9 LESS JO • . I 1 TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE I1Y4 , • SEE US FOR• • 164 THE BEST Pol\ .• , TIRE DEAL sk' ' ••••• , r IN TOWN!. ri . • Montgomery Motors 0 Ford ales & SerViCe 40; Luckc44Ont., . • • • • / ir •