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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-07-13, Page 7ThV SDll►y, • mit `lath, 1944 The LincIntOw Sentinel, Lu W3 Ontario Decorated Flier Spent Week:End In Huron t-1 • F : James Borden, D,F,C., has mother, Mrs: Wm- Borden of Stratford, • and his sister Shirley spent the week -end in , Huron 'Township at the Moine _ of• his uncle, Mr. W. s Roulston and with othier relatives in the com :t unity Rte. Harvey Johnston of Camp Borden spent two/ weeks' lough with his parents, Mr. and1 • Mrs, Frank_ JohnstO of Holvrood.: Bili Treleaven : of 1 o. 4, Bomb- ing and •Gunnery. School, at Fin- gal spent the week -end • with •:his parents, JIr. find Mrs 'Harold "Treleaven. = , • • .Posted To Debert . t LAC_ Ted Collyer of the' R. C. the crew of a big bomber,. For A. F.' at Grand Bend has been.1 "courage, •determination and °de - posted. to Debert, N.S., and left 'notion to -duty" FO. Borden was Jim his concluding a month's furlough with his • parents. at Stratford, `.,before leaves: for Vancouver. where he; has. •been posted . as_ an instructor.` His re- turn' to- Canada followed a period of -2%, years "overseas service!' with the, R,C-A:F.. during which time he made sixty-nine opera- tional° flights in the European and' Mediterranean theatres. as one of A* d�x PAR AM 0 ParamountWomen's Institute will meet at thee home of Mrs. James Aetchabaw on July 19th. Ladies are asked to bring their yard of print and donations for the Russia drive as the 20th the last day. - Program • corn.; Mrs. Wm. • Kempton, Miss Verna Ham- ilton. •• Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henderson visited at WhitechurC on Sun - for the East. the First of the week... We appreciate items for this a,, erbium in order to keep our readers • in .touch with the boys and girls ins the .service in whom everyone is deeply interested-.• We would also appreciate receiving impersonal letters, from the boys who are with the invasion .forces. • Word has been received here that it was in Englandthat Sgt Elliott (Tillie) Webster . was wounded • Elliott received a shrapnel wound in his -leg during • an air raid on • July 1st. His .in- juries were not serious . and. it was expected . he would • soon be back on duty.: • . Itt Stalag Luft• IIf Arthur Young,, who has been a prisoaler• 'of war in Germany for along ♦period,. was in Stalag tide III •*hen word was, last re- w "ceiVed diff "h`ii"it`"u sfrom this campthat a mass escape of Al- lied • prisoners was made,, to be followed by the • cold-blooded kill: ,.ing. of fifty - of their number, in- eluding six Canadians. Art is well known here haaving,. frequently: visited at the Holly - man home in pre-war days. awarded the Distinguished Fly- ing 'Cross. ly-ing'Cross. His tour of operations concluded while he was based in Italy.. Hee` was ' married. while overseas and expects to have his bride join him here . shortly. As a curly headed lad Jim .re- sided in Huron* Township with his parents; who•. moved to Strat- ford about 18 years ago- While visiting with ' his uncle . over the week -end Jim tried out his hand at pitching hay and milking cows. Its great to be back in Canada, he. says, but we rather surmised that he misses.the roar of the big motors that carried him so often over enemy territory—and each time brought, him safely back. NORTH MAWS The strawberry crop is respon-• sibi'e for no correspondence from this neck of the "Greenock Swamp" for some weeks. The wild . orchids are blooming at present in the marsh places. - A ^ �I Mrs, V. Ensiso .-_4 e on y spent a few •days . rm here. 11ttr., and Mrs_ Frank King and son. Billie of Toronto are' hoiiday- ing with;. Mrs:. James MacDonald.. i11ar Norville Richard of Guelph spent a, recent week -end with his Ipa_ rents- . Mr. and Mrs. E. Taylor • spent Sunday with Mr. and M. Grant MacDiarmid- . Mr. Jack McIntosh spent the first. of . the week in . `Toronto where he purchased a carload of young cattle. . BILLED IN ICELAND • Last week wereported the. -death-of-Flt-Lieut.-David ieut:-David (Bud) .j._.of MTS Hornell of .town, who was .be- lieved to have .been killed over France. Official .'• information re- veals that Bud was killed on June. 24th in . Iceland. where he was a bomber pilot on . patrol -duty. Upon the death of his father, Harry Hornell, in 1935 David be- came president of the Hornell RecoveringW ds A quilt and a ,top -are being patched every two • weeks all summer in the homes: Lately the. ones having quiltings, with good attendances, are Mrs. Joe Wall, Con. '14 and Mrs. Will Haldenby. Vie- next -quilting wilt be at :Mrs: Brown's ,"Glen Douglas , , Mr_ and Mrs. Alvin Baaiaieranan and: four little girls had 'tea with . Brown . at "Glen .Douglas" Sunday.. The :t', Irene :& : Eil- een, aged five, defy any .Person is to tell be - "AGE S • in' Ontario. He states his son John is homeon furlough from the thick of operations overseas. except their Parch tween them_ They are identical but without success, as over in weighty .height, features, col- more were found dead a few oring and voices. nights later. Traps had •,been, set 'Mrs. John Beckinhad a visit it -after the first night's loss and a from her' son Harvey 'from Long big rat was finally caught which Branch. A former missionary to is now blamed for nearly wiping China, he teaches and farms now lout the flock. Many truckloads of longtim- bers pass along Con 14 presum- ably to the L.ucknow• M- • Much sympathy • is felt by friends' of'the Kung family over the double droving of their two sons ages 17 and 15. They . visited the Ruth home quite recently and - are , cousins of Mrs, Linus Ruth, ebicks $ea i r iiped :Ont In two nights, E. • J. Thorn of StPHelens , lost 'about • 70' out -of v' ♦. one hundredbaby chicks. The. first •niglit • close to , fifty were killed' and a weasel. ways 'suspect - 'ed as the culp� it. Precautions were taken against'a second visit from Wounds Fashion Waist Co. of :Toronto. Of In a letter received by Mr. and° a number of relatives who mourn Mrs. John A. Johnston, Cones- his death; none will feel the Joss siQ11..3. Ashfield, froth their son, more keenly than his aunt, Miss Tor- . Harvey. :Milton Johnston, Elizabeth Hornell; with whom who was "dangerously wounded" . Bud made his home since his in „Italy on. February 8th,. ported that he is now able to be in a wheel -chair and is improv- • ang and hopes t4• see them soon-. He, i ras posted to England, via Nortl1 `Africa, April 20. *Hesuf- fered from concussion, a fractur • ed arm and i crushed foot, which is . was :found necessary to ampu- tate. He said his leg healed rapid- , ly after -the operationd that • he suffered, most from artn?-JI but wrote a cheerful letter. Leave .For' C►p The 99th (Reserve) Battery of Wingham:, :will- leave the' end of the, week fortwo weeks' training at Pettawawa. The advance party left today (Thursday). . , WAS CRY COMMANDER D ,BAT'T'LE FOR : CAEN Major Bob . Hetherington of Wingham is "one of the Battery commanders of a central. Can- ent.which has been hi' re 1 boyhood days. HAS DESIGN NEW TYPE PARACHUTE To Flight - Lieutenant W. ' E. Cowie goes credit for designing a new type of It.C.A F. parachute -1 .. Iris wife was ,formerly .Conic Burrell; daughter of Mrs- = rell who was formerly Eunice Graham of :Luekpow Flt, -Lieut: Cowie is anengin- eering graduate of Toronto Uni- versity and was assigned the task of devising ail imprciaed and more economical type 'of para- chute for fighter pilots and train- ees, This has now been approved by the R-C.A.F. The .new type parachute, is more comfortable to wear, anion greater ease of movement, . is • less costly • and completely foolproof: The pack is separate from the harness and is kept in the cockpit of the air - anion regiixi . the thick of it hi ;France: Major l craft' and is snapped on in Hetherington's gin battery took' twinkling before the take -off. It 1 part in the defence off the.salient taken by Canadian infantry who captured the village of Car`i'quet. on the fringe of the vital Caen sector, HARRY CI3Th WRITES • . FROM FRANCE Received an • interesting titter Barry last week from LAC. ' Chin of Mr. and Mrs. of. town. Harry is With the R. C. Ay . F. in France, 'having landed .as says as yet • he can only understand: a Il few simple words of the French language. Harry expressed his appreciation of a fountain pen received from the Fire Corapa?iy and of cigarettes received from various local organizations. Har- ry's letter" would certainly have no difficulty getting passed the censor for his only reference to action in Prance was, "things are ' t l,..00 special as used as a seat and has been named the "fit Type Parachute, Detachable Pack"- "SUCCESSFUL FISHING TRIP In• the wilds of Northern Ont- ario, north of Thessalou, local fishermen made a .great catch. There were three in the party, Dr: W. M. Connelly Howard Sher- bondy and Freed Armstrong from Goderich. 'T'hey Were a .week in the bosh and ; they •,e _,home l with their- full quota of spckled trout; and three ;lake trout that totalled 25 .pounds in weight The speckled trout were truly dandies, the ` largest of which weighed 5 pounds. One weighed 4% pounds and .some Were,f the 4 and 3 pound' variety. They were the answer to a fisherman's dread. . The` lake trout were caught in South Bay on the way q anadian Motorists civasion of Europe lirs 1 a vast and critical , burden upon the petroleum resources of the United Nations. Ii the first eight days of the cam- paign alone Allied aircraft flew 56,000 sorties. Many thousands of oil -burn- ing warships and ' landing blirges are sluitdirtg ceaselenly across the Chan- nel. Tanks, trucks, jeeps, mobile artillery, ambulances, by the thou-, sands, are in action. The .driving power behind all this activity is petrOleUnz -- gasoline and fuels •drawn from a dwiandlan" g crude oli suppll. But—there is only . much oil. If existing Supplies are _to prove adequate, the most stringent economy of gasoline and fuel. 'oil: must be prac- tised Here at home. Canada is able to produce only 1596 of her own gas and oil nes.. " he " uremainder must be imported from the common pool of `the United Nations 8 ,and die bulk of this is shipped here by tankers. Critical manpower is'. needed to produce our gasoline and oil.. Precious lives and precious ships $5 ailill:asorAN 096"1116° must be risked to deliver it to our shores Invasions, and the difficulties of supply and asportation are not our only problems. Right here in Canada. gas and oil are wed in manumits quantities for vital war purpases- The. Commonwealth Air Training Plan has consumed as much as 548,000 gallons in a single dad. Canada's : ` Navy -• expanded since war began from 15 ships to 6 ooh. 2,150,000 gallons every_ week- Ariny training!, war plant operation, food nioducttion, . essential trurkiog —all are ; huge mutts of gasoline and petroleum products. ' • Gasoline is ammunition-- ammu- nition of which we have all too little. To waste a gallon of it is a cruse against our fight - ling men. orroorravernent Booted fry The Dopoitioeot o ittirstsroof ' tiesiciteatit PiresiMet IIHS.11 AUL e 4 g Your Questions about the, Gasoline Shortage Now rood& spooks* war cooraprooti ins des 54 oars ofPte'bad- -• ing?. Moro tilos 28%900.000 gaols.. Pacer 'semi foal ca dors 0 Rake in ow efae ? - .to boot go avor boos, far 3.50 yews. Hwy mode Creel does ewe onsowrod sfivisiost siorto ,io overt Mire Naos of Vie? ...7011 -tom many wilisse eV petrokoos proof - rots ars rogiiiiif to sib tiro beefs o 4:0000 lostiorror iseroarom troops for - ter t"c.082000 griforro. ' '1