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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-07-31, Page 3TOE 'EXETER TIME&APY0CATE mOWM, MW wt W YEARS ASO Mr. Victoy Hogarth had the mis- fortune to have the first finger of his right hand badly crushed, i‘e- quiring five stitches to close the wound, * , Messrs, George Snell, William Rivers, W, E. Sanders and William Snell spent last week on a fish* ing trip to the Bruce peninsula. ,Mr. Frank Newman, of Kings ton, visited during the week with Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Seldon. Mrs. Newman and son, who have spent some time here with her parents, returned home with him. At the recent musical examina tions held by the Rondon College of Music, London, Eingland, at the Exeter cehtre, the following pupils prepared hy Mrs. Gambrill, were •successful; violin, primary grade, Russell Mills, of Woodham; inter mediate, 7 Willie Stanlake, Stephen; vocal, intermediate, Miss Mary Dick ens, of Lucan; Piano, primary, An nie Cos; elementary, Misses Ruth Collingwood and Margaret EJllering- ton; intermediate, Misses Kathleen. Heid and Violet Gambrill; advanced intermediate, Miss Luella Stanlake; •senior, Miss Irene Stewart; advanc ed senior, Miss Pearl Wood, kfiss Adileen Gaiser, A.L.C.M., of Cre- diton and Robert GambriJl, A.L.C.M.,' of Exeter, graduated from the col lege, which certificate qualifies them as teachers. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Coates of' St. Thomas and Mr, and Mrs, Chas, Coates, of Detroit, visited with re latives in this community. Initial Training School Full of Scientific Marvels 25 YEARS AGO Miss May Armstrong, milliner, has rented the south half of Mr. James Lawson’s store and will establish a millinery business therein. Miss Armstrong will also continue her business at Lucknow. July has been without a doubt the hottest and driest month ever ex perienced in Exeter or any part of Western Ontario. James Street Sunday School pic nic was held at Grand Bend on Thursday of last week and was largely attended. The following were the prize winners in the sports*. Primary race, girls, Marjorie West cott, Meta Salter, Doreen Westcott, primary race, boys, George Frayne, Willie Hill, George Dunn; boys 8 years and under, Harold Penhale, Harold Fisher, Werne Roujjston; girls ;8 years and under, Loretta Yellow, Wiolet Bloomfield, Jean Bloomfield; girls 12 and under, Perla Sanders, Cecilia ..Christie, Ruth Lamport; boys 18 years and under, George Hind, Lloyd Parsons, Reggie Taylor; 100 yard dash, John Willi’s, Preston Dearing, Wilfred SJhapton; married ladies, Mrs. Geo«. Westcott, Mrs. Hiram Shapton, Mrs. Hill; ladies’ racej Stella Southcott, Anna Bell,- Laura'Harvey; married men’s race, O. Southcott,-Ed. West cott, JDr. Reid; three-legged race, Willis Bros., Penhale and Westcott, Reid and Dearing; string eating con test, Harvey and Jones, Southcott and Southcott, Bissett and Willis; couple ra.ce, Southcott and South cott, Bell and Dearing, Bissett and Willis Willis, ii er. ; watermelon contest, , Milton Slqamon, Chas. Elmer Trieb- MBS,R. CHARTERS , Din TUCKERSMITH WAS 95 YEARS OLD t •An outstanding resident of the Seafox •■th district passed away on Wednesday, July 23rd, at her home on the Mill Road, Tucker smith, in the person of, Elizabeth Chesney, widow of Robert Charters, after' an illness of about three weeks. Mrs. Charters was remarkably well and active until June 6 last, when she celebrated her njnety-fifth birthday, but after that /She began to fail. A daughter of the late Mr., and Mrs. Plepry Chesney, Tuckersmith pio neers, she Was born on the home stead,* June 6, 1846, and lived in the same township ever since. She was married on Dec. 2, 1868 to Mr. Charters, who died' in 1913. A family of four survive,, William, on the homestead, Harry, .SeafdrWt Mrs. J. H, Mason, Saskatoon, and Miss Margaret, at home. She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Thomas Grieve, Egmondyille, and six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A brother, Samuel Chesney, died a fdw.' Weeks ago. Igooiiing Eczema (Salt Rheum) I No rest, day or night) for thoao afflicted with that awful skin dia- oaao, eczema, ,or Mlt rheum as it is commonly called. (The intense burning, itching and smarting, especially at bight, dr when the affected part is exposed to Strong heat) or hot water, are almost unbeatable, and relief id gladly Welcomed* , To get rid of eczema it isneces- Mry io have the blood Cletmscd by the uSb of a thoroughly reliable blood modicum such as Burdock Blood Bitters which during ths past 60 years has met with groat suecoss in relieving such diseases by its blood ’ cleansing and purifying properties. T. Milburn Co.. Lid., Toronto, Ont. fourth vf -a Series Articles an the Royal Canadian Air Force, Written specially for the Weekly l*apers of Ontario, By Hugh Templin “Were you planning to visit the Initial Training School at Eglinton?” asked Flyipg Officer Nicol, our guide whose duty for the time being was to. get us past the sentries and the barrier gates and explain what the Royal Canadian Air Force was do ing,I said I hadn't thought of it: my desire was to get on to the camps where there was actual flying Just as quickly as possible.4 Flying Officer Nicol thought that would be a mistake In his opin ion the Initial Training School was the most interesting place of them all, It was customary to take dis tinguished American visitors up to Eglinton just to let them look around and see for themselves that there were certain things w Can ada which Uncle Barn’s Air Force didn’t have, Walter Lippmann< the eolUm’uist, had been there just a few days earlier. My guide was right; as usual. If I had missed the Number One In itial Training School, I would never have realized just how thorough is the early testing of the young men who are destined to become fighting pilots and observers. Carrying on Sir /Frederick’s^ Work It is generally known that when Sir Frederick Banting died in a plane crash in Newfoundland, he was on his way to England to carry; on his .scientific work for the Air Force. 'His death did not stop that work. It began at the Banting In stitute at the University of Toron to, and. since last November, it has been continued in the buildings which formerly belonged to the. Eg linton Hunt Club in North Toronto. The Eglinton Hunt Club used to be a favorite resort of Toronto so ciety and the kind of place where a village editor would hardly expect to find himself. Inside the main building is a big arena, large enough for a game of polo and ideal how, since the seats have been taken out, as ah indoor drill ground. There are class-rooms where dance floors used 'to be, for the students at the Initial Training School are already studying a stiff course of higher mathematics, armament, signals, sanitation and navigation. It is easy to - see Why matriculation standing or better is a necessity for every aspiring pilot.* I looked over the layout admir ingly. Even , though it had been toned down to make it useful rath er than beautiful,”’signs of its for mer magnificence were apparent. “This must have been a swanky place in the old days,” I suggested. Flying Officer Nicol used ‘to be another working newspaper man. “I wouldn’t know,’’ he said. “My dues in the Hunt Club weren’t kept up very well.’* When the land and buildings were purchased, there Were ques tions in Parliament and suggestions that they.had been bought to help out an organization which was about to pass out of existence. I don’t know anything about the truth or otherwise, but the people who built the old Hunt Club never dreamed of the Scientific wonders it would one day contain. Testing? Brain Waves After a brief- call ah the office of Squadron Leader McPherson, Of ficer in command at No. 1, LT.S., I went to the office of Flight Lieu tenant C. B« Stewart. This bril liant young doctor, a graduate of Dalhousie University ih the Mari-' times, is carrying on Dr. Banting’S work, but he'-took time off to guide me personally through the building where the aircraftsmen are tested, mentally and physically, to see whether they Will be able to 'Stand the strain of flying and* fighting five miles above the earth, As we started down the hall, we met a young man whose appearance was startling. He looked as though he had just come from the hands of an electrician. . Five „ long wires hung down front his head. Two of them secftied to be soldered to the top of his head, in among 'his hair, two more were attached to the back of his neck and one hung from his left ear. Little patches of hair had been.; shaved off and the wires at tached at important points. Dr, Stewart explained that ,the two in front were over the part of the brain controlling muscular coordin ation and the two on the neck in dicated the place where the optic nerves entered the brain. The one on, the ear was just a ground wire. By using a complicated electrical machine, it was possible to mea- sure the brain waves of the man. who now looked like something that had wandered out of a cartoon com edy. The young aircraftsman was told to enter a small room and lie quiet ly on a bed. The wires were attach ed to binding post® on the -wall, Ho was told that he wasn’t to think of anything exciting, such as an ev ening with‘Ms best girl, but to try to come as near a$ possible to thinking about nothing at all. Gut in the next room, the Flight Lieutenant touched a switch. A broad ribbon of white paper* began to creep tover a table. On it were four wavy lines, drawn by pens ac tuated by the wires from the head of the man who I could see through the window, lying peacefully on the bed This patient was normal. The wavy lines had no sudden varia tions. His electra-encephalogram showed that he had passed one more test. A few are abnormal. Suddenly the black line takes a jump to one side. An aircraftsman with a re cord like that may take a fit up in the air some day, He won’t be re jected on that test alone, but the chances are that • the time and ex pense of training him would be wasted, so when he shows other symptoms as well, he is finished as a pilot. Low Ri'essures and. Oxygen In the next room, a large cylin drical structure stood in the centre of the room. It looked like the bottom of a silo. The outside was reinforced with steel and planking and large metal pipes ran around it. A porthole of heavy glass was built on one side and there was a desk with a microphone near the window. Dr. Stewart opened a, door and we entered a circular room, lined with burlap. Seats for ten persons ran around the sides and in the centre was a table with a chair where the doctor sat. This strange room is used to test the ability to stand high altitudes, where the air gets thin and oxygen scarce. Usually a class of ten takes the test at once, with a doctor keep ing watch through the window from outside and giving instructions through a loudspeaker, while an other doctoi’ sits at the centre table. The officer on the outside manipulates valves and the air is gradually drawn out. Indicators” show the altitude mt which the air is similar to that inbide the circular room, 5,000’ feet above sea level, 10;000 feet, 15,000 or more. There is no particular sensation felt by the person inside the tank, but above 10,000 feet, or two miles, the nails turn a bluish tinge, which /is also apparent in the lips. The brain seems unimpaired, but that is an illusion. To prove this, the air craftsmen are given simple little problems to do—to change a sen tence into a common code, or some thing of the kind. Like*a. car driv ed with a few drinks, who thinks he can drive as well as ever, they don’t know they are Making mis takes. As the air is exhausted, the margin of error rises. Another test follows. A rubber oxygen mask it fitted over the nose and mouth. A tube hangs down from it and the end of this is plug ged into a small pipe which runs around the inside of the wall. "With a supply of' oxygen available, the tests show normal brain operation no matter how high the .pilot may “fly”. It is an impressive lesson, thoroughly taught. 43 Degrees Below I wondered what would happen next as Dr. Stewart led me into another room. Young men were climbing out of flying suits of var ious types, and hanging them on hooks along the wall. Equipment, as well' as men, must stand the tests. The Flight Lieutenant opened a dooi’ similar to those on large re frigerators and we entered a cold chamber. The temperature there was said to be 20 above zero, but we didn’t stay Idng, going on into a second and a third, through large' insulated doors each time. The sec ond refrigerator chamber was kept about zero and the third at 20 be low. In ordinary summer clothes it began to feel chilly, but such tem peratures are encountered in high flying. In the third refrigerator room, there was a, metal chamber, some what like a large concrete mixer, coated outside with an asbestos compound. My guide unscrewed a circular door like a big porthole and the two of us climbed inside. Thbre was only room for two at a time there, and a cold artificial wind blew continually. Dr. Stewart pointed to a thermometer, which re gistered 43 degrees below zero, a temperature encountered four or five miles above the eartli. It is possible to exhaust the air from this chamber also. ’ We did not stay long. As we came out again through the.various chambers, even zero temperatures felt warm* Next Week—-The Link Train er < QUINTS DIG business The Dionne quintuplets now have a combined estate of §1,000,000.. Their earnings In one year,, have run as ‘high as §200,000. Thfe in come Is derived from the sale of various advertising privileges and movie pictorial rights says an article in Maclean’s Magazine.! Clinton Town Council has Voted $250 tor providing equipment and in fitting up the Legion Hall for sol diers and Air Force men. eeriezz Sales Books are the best Counter Check Books made in Canada. They cost no more .than ordinary books and always give satisfaction. We are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or quantity required. See Your Home Printer First RICHARD JONES FOUND DEA.D AT EAHM HOME NEAR LUCAN Richard Junes, a farmer who lived on the town line between Un borne and Biddulph townships, was lo'und dead in bed when John. Smith, baker from Lucan, called at his home Thursday. Mr. Jones was seen by neighbors around his house Wednesday. He was 81 years old, a bachelor, and lived alone. Dr. J. W. Shaw, coroner, was called and pronounced death due to natural causes. He was the son of the late ‘Daniel and Mrs. Jones and was; born qn the farm lived there all no relatives, been in good was an Anglican and attended Patrick’s Church, Saintsbury. Rev. Mr. James conducted the funeral service on Saturday at the home of William J, Dobbs, South Boundary, Usborne township. In terment was in Kirkton cemetery. where he died his life. There Mr. Jones had health recently. J I’m going to step out of charac ter and tell you about a neighbor. It seems that after a three-day rain his lawn needed trimming so he decided to borrow a lawnmower from his next door neighbor. Before he stepped off his porch he began to guess what his neigh bor would say, growling to himself, “He probably won’t give it to me.” He went a few feet farther, and muttered, “The old skinflint has a Ipt of nerve refusing me his lawn mower.” By the time he reached his neigh bor’s house, he was burning up. When the neighbor opened his door, the would he borrower shouted in dignantly: “To heck with you and your lawnmower.” I SCHOOL AIBWN i TO FER'BN BLANKS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—On the . barren, sandy wastes of Mesas, over looking this Rio Grande town there has mushroomed a new kind of aerial college, symbolic of the Un ited States’ determination to speed ' delivery of its bombers to Britain. To this school from all over the United States come pilots with a minimum .of 75 Q flying hours. Here they undergo intensive post-gradu- ate'schooHng that will qualify them as pilots, co-pilots and navigators■ for tbe Atfero Corporation ST Mont real. Base pay fox' a ferry pilot is $1,500 a month, pilot can earn a year. But Capt. army flier and Western Airlines chief pilot,, who is general manager of the " “Eagle Nest,” says the pay isn’t the chief j reason the school has more appli-{ cants than it can handle.. “Some of these men have left good air line jobs and other good-paying jobs to get'a type of instruction in big ship piloting, which is not available elsewhere in the country,” Bryan . said. The school began instructions, a month ago and the first crop of ferry pilots will be turned out shortly. An official desire for secrecy pre vented Bryan and T.W.A, Presi dent Jack Frye from commenting foj' publication on much pertinent in formation, including number students in training and number types of airplanes in use. But it was no secret that it hoped ultimately to turn out 100 ferry pilots a month. . Under a bonus system, a ns much as $28,Q0d Otis Bryan, former Transcontinental and -TORONTO ‘ W HOWl, WAVCWEY ' oq WJd# Spidina Mil at Colley BL |Ea»y Parkin# Convenient to HIphway# Close to the University, Parll#went BMildlnflii, Maple Leaf Qard|»ns, , Th««tre«, Ho»ptt.»Ur Wholesale Houses, th« Fashionable Retail Shopping District. A, M. POtyKtX, Pj»a»JDKHT The World’s Finest Anthracite Trade Marked Blue. Orderis IBlue Coal and we have it, also Large Lump Alberta Coal HAMCO Dustless Coke Prices are Right of of is A. J. 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Q Walk to and from the movies. q Boat owners, too. can reducing speed. mon will slodly Consult lum.•vr regular service station HI 5( Ti "’IS I c w B May REMEMBER : The slower you the more you save I ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Keys, of VJarna, have announced the en gagement of their daughter, Sybil Ldrraine, to Mr, William Russell Allen, son of the late Mr. and Mrs, Sylvester Allen, of Seaforth, the ■marriage to take place early in August The Government of the ' DOMINION OF CANADA r