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TNECaIVPrt SPORTS COLUMN
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It came into being only three years ago,
as winter's answer to Little League baseball,
but today, Biddy Basketball has grown with
giant strides as another development cal-
culated to interest the kids of our nation in
clean competitive sport, and thereby combat
the inroads of juvenile, delinquency.
Canada hasn't quite kept step with the
United States, even comparatively, in the growth of Biddy
Basketball, Nor, in fact, has the game grown in Canada to
the same extent as Little League baseball. But it is malting
rapid headway. For there are about twenty-seven Canadian
cities with Biddy Basketball fairly well organized. There are
probably twelve to fifteen hundred participants whose ages
according to regulations range from thirteen years down to
nine. Most of these cities are in Quebec, Ontario and the
Western Provinces.
Most of the Canadian Biddy Basketball Clubs are. organ-
ized and sponsored by Social Centres, Boys Associations and
the odd community project. The schools have not as yet taken
it up in any official way. The physical welfare of the boy is
taken into consideration and a careful check is made so that
' they do not strain themselves, either physically or emotionally.
In the United States, the growth of the game has »eeri
ahnost fantastic. From the original 16 teams in one state it
has spread, until now it has more than 10,000 small fry play-
ing on 1200 teams in 44 states. And it is being played in 11
foreign countries.
The program is regulation basketball in miniature, de-
signed specifically for the younger set. .The rules are tailored
to their measurements and immature strength, such as lower-
ing the hoops a foot and a half, shortening the foul line three
feet, and using a smaller ball.
The appeal of this youth movement is almost irresistible.
And it has received great impetus from Jay Archer, former
State Teachers College star, who tours the country spreading
the gospel of sport. Canada has gone along without such
inspirational help, carried on the wave of Little League base-
ball success, but as in baseball, Canadian teams will soon be
ready to compete in the national tournaments held annually
across the line, just as did our champion Little Leaguers
compete with distinction in the Little League baseball play-
offs last autumn.
These juvenile leagues are great, things for the youngsters.
They cut across race, creed, and other beliefs and social dis-
tinctions in a fashion that is more truly democratic than pre-
vails in anything outside sport. They start our kids off on
truly democratic lines, something that only sport, the great
leveller, can accomplish. •
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be wekomed
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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1953
RCAF
Station
and
St. John Provides Fun
'For RCAF Trainees
iand sic
Retreat on physical educe -
tion play a big part in Air Force
training and to carry out this
specialized work the RCAF has
some of the best instructors in the
field.
To the recruits who receive
their first taste of service life at
the manning depot at RCAF Sta-
tion St. John, P,Q., the large,
well -stocked recreation building
offers almost unlimited recreation-
al and physical training facilities,
Carefully chosen instructors,
who are specialists in their line of
work, are on duty to implement
the physical training program laid
down by the RCAF and also to
Instruct and supervise -the recruits
during their off-duty hours.
These instructors know their
business and some are nationally
known athletes who have compet-
ed in°the Olympic Games and the
British Empire Games.
Leading Aircraftsman Eddie
Haddad, 25, of Winnipeg and Vic-
' toria, former Canadian light-
weight boxing champion, is one of
the instructors the recruits will
meet at St. Johns, Prior to join-
ing the RCAF last year he served
'for five years in the Royal Canad-
ian Navy, based at Esquimalt,
near Victoria. During that time
he served in the Korean war zone
aboard HMCS Athabaska.
LAC Haddad started his boxing
career, while waiting to join the
Navy in 1946, by winning the
Manitoba light -weight boxing
championship. From this start he
climbed the ladder of success to
enter the Olympic Games in Lon-
don in 1948.
"I won three bouts but lost the
decision and wound up in third
spot," the athletic specialist re-
called.
Training harder than ever, he
again went after the champion-
ship crown and in 1950 competed
in the British Empire Games in
New Zealand. He wound up in
third place.
A shoulder injury suffered in
the Korean war zone put an end
to LAC Haddad's boxing career
but he is still keenly interested in
the sport and spends many off-
duty hours coaching the young
airmen at St. Johns.
And for those airmen who are
interested in weight lifting, LAC
Rene Lake, of Montreal, is on
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Adastral
Park News
Returns Home After
Trip to Japan
Flight Lieutenant R, J. "Bob"
Burnett returned to RCAF Sta-
tion Clinton on Monday, April 20
after a flight to Japan.
Host of the trip was a crew of a
North Star aircraft from the fam-
ous 426 Thunderbird Squadron,
based at Lachine, Quebec,
The trip which began in Mont-
real lasted 21 days and included
stops in Edmonton, Vancouver,
Tacoma, Alaska, The Aleutians,
and Tokyo, Japan.
F/L Burnett has been a flying
instructor on the staff of Number
One Air Radio Officers School in
Clinton for the past 18 months. He
enlisted in the RCAF in April
1941, and served throughout the
war. In 1949 he was transferred
to London, England and spent a
period of two years as an Air
Radio Officer on an aircraft which
flew senior government officials
throughout Europe and North
Africa.
hand to get them started in the
right direction. ' The 24 -year-old
airman, who has won many weight
lifting awards in the middle -
heavyweight class, has been sta-
tioned at St. Johns, P.Q., since. he
enlisted in the RCAF in July last
year.
LAC Lake has chalked up quite
an impressive record in his field.
Recently he won the Montreal
Senior Championship for the four-
th time in five years, at the same
time setting new Canadian re-
cords which remain ' unbeaten in
open competition.
Foremost in his mind now is to
prepare for the pre -game trials of
the British Empire Games to be
held at Vancouver in the summer
of 1954. He will again compete
in the middle -heavyweight class
for weight lifters.
These men have learned the
value of physical fitness and daily
at RCAF station St. John they
are passing this information on to
the thousands of Air Force re-
cruits that are posted to the unit.
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LONDESBORO
The sudden untimely winter of
this week has put a halt to seed-
ing operations on the farm.
Misses Flossie and Esther Jam-
ieson and Mrs. Townsend attended
the Presbyterial at Goderich on
Tuesday.
Mrs. William Lyon, who spent
the winter months with her dau-
ghter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Moroso,
Hamilton, returned to her home
here on Sunday.
John McDonald and Mrs. Alvin
McDonald, Walton, and Miss Jean
McGale, Toronto, Mrs. Neil and
Jim were Sunday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Allen.
Mrs. Nellie Watson is a patient
in Clinton Public Hospital, having
underwent an operation on Satur-
day last. Her many friends wish
her a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Gordon Garrow and little
Beverly have been visiting with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Shobbrook and grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Shobbrook, in the village.
WI Will Meet Tuesday
The meeting of the Londesboro
Women's Institute will be held in
the Londesboro Community Hall
on Tuesday, April 28. Mrs. Willis
VanEgmond, Clinton, will gave a
demonstration on rug -baking. She
also will give musical numbers.
Please note the change of date.
YPU Meets
The regular metting of the
Burns-Londesboro YPU which was
held in Londesboro United Church
on Sunday night was in the charge
of the Citizenship and Community
Service Commission. The meeting
began with a sing -song, after
which the business part of the
meeting was conducted.
The devotional part of the meet-
ing began with the Call to Wor-
ship given by Beryl Pollard. The
Scripture was read by Edythe
Beacom following which Beryl
Pollard led in prayer.
The offering was taken Up and
Gail and June Manning sang a
duet. The theme "Home Is What
We Make It" was given in the
form of a panel discussion with
Jim Radford, Beryl Pollard, June
and Gail Manning and Gordon
Howatt taking part, This part of
the meeting was brought to a
close with Rev. Candler leading in
prayer. Following a short recrea-
tional period, bench was served
and the meeting closed with
"Taps."
Ontario Pilot Wins
Air Force Cross
For Flying Exploits
Across the far-flung wastes of
the Canadian Arctic are a group
of men who are ready at a mom,.
ent's notice to risk their lives so
that others might live.
These men and their exploits
are fast becoming a legend among
the thousands of people who live
in the far North, thousands of
miles from the nearest hospital.
They are part of the search and
rescue branch of the RCAF and
one of their jobs is to carry out
mercy missions in isolated parts
of the .Arctic where other suitable
means of transportation is not
available,
Sometimes these mercy mission$
are carried out under almost im-
possibiei conditions and call for
the highest degree of skill and
courage on the part of the air-
craft crews.
An example of the hazardous
flights these men sometimes carry
out so that a sick or injured per-
son may receive medical aid was
disclosed last week when an Air
Force pilot and his crewman won
the Air Force Cross and the
Queen's .Commendation for Brave
Conduct for their flying exploits
in the. Canadian Arctic,
According to the citations ac-
companyingthe awards the men
were stationed at the RCAF base
at Goose Bay when in September,
1951 an urgent request was re-
ceived from Hopedale on the Lab-
rador Coast for the evacuation of
a seriously injured civilian.
Despite forcasted extreme ad-
verse weather conditions Sr L
Cuthbertson, 34, Brantford, Ont-
ario, and his crewman took off in
a single -engined Norseman air-
craft equipped with floats to ev-
acuate the patient.
Weather conditions, as forcast-
ed, were encountered and on a:•=
rival at Hopedale strong winds
were churning the water into wav-
es up to five feet high. Despite
these hazardous conditions the
pilot managed to land the aircraft
and pick up the seriously injured
passenger.
However, immediately before
taking off into the storm the pil-
ot received word that the young
son of a missionary at Makkovik,
about 60 miles southeast of Hope-
dale, was in critical condition af-
ter being mauled by Husky dogs.
Air transportation to the nearest
hospital was urgently requested.
Without thought of personal
danger, the crew took off for
Makkovik, with the full realizat-
ion that the landing would be ex-
tremely hazardous. However, the
landing was completed without
mishap and the critically injured
youngster was placed aboard
the aircraft.
At that. point a heavy bank of
fog rolled into Makkovik and S/L,
Cuthbertson made his take -off
with only a hundred foot ceiling.
The return flight to Goose Bey
was carried out in below freezing
temperature and although twice
the pilot encountered engine
trouble due to carburetor icing he
managed to keep the aircraft air-
borne and on course.
Arriving at Goose Bay S/L
Cuthbertson found the base blan-
keted by heavy thunder showers,
an indefinite ceiling of three hun-
dred feet and visibility varying
from one quarter to one half mile.
Despite heavy radio static and
adverse weather conditions the pi-
lot executed a masterful let -down
into Goose Bay harbour using a
procedure he had worked out earl-
ier for just such an emergency.
The citation accompanying the
award to S/L Cuthbertson reads
in part: "Throughout many hours
of search and rescue flying, he
volving flights into remote sect-
ions of Canada's Arctic and North
Atlantic regions, S/L Cuthbertson
has displayed superb airmansltip,
disregard for personal safety and
outstanding devotion to duty."
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GC H. C. Ashdown
New CO at Clinton
Group Captain Harold C. Ash=
down, MBE, 48, of Montreal, has
been appointed Commanding Of-
ficer of RCAF Station, Clinton,
Ont, He has been serving since
last July as chief telecommunica-
tions officer at the Canadian Joint
Staff at Washington.
W/C B. G. Miller, chief tech-
nical officer, has been acting com-
manding officer of Clinton since
the death of Group Captain E, A.
Hutton in January.
A native of London, England,
G/C Ashdown joined the RCAF in
April 1940 in the telecommunica-
tions branch. He was named sig-
nals officer at RCAF Station, Pat-
ricia Bay, B.C., a post he held un-
til 1942 when appointed command
signals officer at Victoria, B.C.
G/C Ashdown served overseas
during the Second World War
from March 1944 until January
1947 as the senior signals officer
at Overseas Headquarters in Lon-
don.
Upon his return to Canada he
was appointed command signals
officer at No. 11 Group_Headquar-
ters, Winnipeg, where he remain-
ed
emained until appointed Chief of Signals
for Plans and Policies at Air Force
Headquarters in September 1947.
Senior NCO's Wives
Discuss Bake Sale
The Senior NCO's Wives' Aux-
iliary, met in the Sergeants' Mess
dining hall on Monday, April 20.
Mrs. H. E. Paterson, president,
presided over the meeting.
The business included a discus-
sion of the arrangements for the
forthcoming rummage: and bake
sale, under the direction of Mrs.
C: Pinnell. A demonstration of
children's clothing and ladies' un-
derwear was made by Mrs. B.
Amirault following the business
meeting.
All members are reminded that
the next meeting will be held on
Monday, May 4, and . a bingo will
be the feature of that occasion.
GODERICH TOWNSHIP
The cold backward weather has
held up seeding but quite a num-
ber of farmers are through al-
ready. This is a very early seed-
inWe are sorry to.. report that
Robert Stirling recently has und-
ergone an operation in Victoria
Hospital, London.
Garth Postil had the misfortune
to suffer a broken leg, when his
motorcycle was in collision with
a car near RCAF Station, Clin-
ton, on Saturday night.
About 40 of the family and
friends of Mrs. Bert Shilby gath-
ered at their new home on Satur-
day night for a house-warming
and enjoyed a pleasant evening of
cards and dancing.
Mrs. James R. Stirling and
Douglas and Mrs. Robert Stirling
were in London on Sunday to see
Bob who is in hospital' again. He
has spent seven months on
crutches and now has to wear a
cast. His many friends hope that
this will fix him up alright.
Three Infants Baptised
The ministration of the public
Baptism of Infants was conducted
in St. James' Church, Middleton,
on Sunday, April 19, by the Rev.
Eric Carew -Jones, rector of the
parish. Those children received
were: Janice Lydia, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Middleton;
Patricia Colleen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Wise; and Douglas
Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith
Miller.
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