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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-09-21, Page 3THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO. THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER ?1, J944 ‘ Gleaning^ from No. 9 Service Flying Training School, Centralia, Ontario J. U, Inch, Y.M.C.A, AVar Services, Dow Flying Aircraft Any person observing an aircraft flying excessively low over the town of Exeter, or in fact anywhere in this part* of the province, is request­ ed to take the ‘’number" of the air­ craft and phone this information together with the "time" of the currence, fleer, oc- Ofcto the Commanding 9 S.F.T,S., Centralia, Loving Obedience loving obedience to the com- of the Lord Jesus Christ and confession of his faith in as his personal Saviour No. In Mother’s Corner Two ladies from the Exeter Red Ci’oss came out to the Station Thursday night to sew and mend for the Airmen, Mrs, Hookey, affec­ tionately knoAvn to the boys as Mom, was recently discharged from the Air Force where she worked in the Airmen’s Mess, It was as natural as life to -have her back again doing things for the fellows. This is a grand- service the Exeter Red Cross supplies and we really do appreciate it. . In : maud upon Christ Howard IFader was baptised by im­ mersion last Sunday mornjng. The Chaplain Fit. Lt, H. G. Martin con­ ducted the simple and impressive service in the swimming pool at the Station. The choir were In attend­ ance and to the accompaniment of the Thou Padre water raised He Leads Me I Will Follow; Go With Him All the Way." The Padre desires it to be known that he is willing at all times to perform baptismal services or Dedi­ cation Services (otherwise known as Christening Services) for infants. Any of the families or friends of our Station personnel who wish such a service should contact F/»L Martin,at the Port. hrs. portable organ sang,, "Break the Bread of Life," As the lead the candidate into the the choir and bystanders their voices in singiiig “Where I’ll the largest Sunday settled themselves easy chairs. There the shadows around of the Battle of Martin in a brief the great miracles place already in can be attributed Sunday* Evening Musical^ LAC, IClimer, J. E. Last Sunday evening at 1900 the lights were once more dimmed in the Rec Hall. -From the practiced fingers of Sgt, Potter flowed golden melodies of well-known piano clas­ sics as one of evening crowds in comfortable was a pause and us took on the form of furtive Rus­ sian figures fashioned in .music from the pen of Tchaikovsky in his fam­ ous Melody in E. This was followed1^" with the dashing Torreador song from Carmen and the comical Largo Al Factotum from The Barber of Seville sung by Lawrence Tibbet. The mood changed then as the calm Mezzo Soprano of Marion An­ derson was loaned to two of the most beautiful selections from Han­ dels Messiah. 'He Was Despised Rejected and He Shall Feed Flock. Then on the wings of music were taken back to the happy days of an Austria long dead listening to the strains of Josef and Strauss’ Pizzicatto Polka. Our program closed with tions from the Operetta New AVe left the Rec Hall with a melody in our heart and a song on our lips. and His we Johan Selec- Moon. GonnncinOrating the Battle of Britain At the Commanding _ Officer’s parade on Friday morning both the Protestant and the Roman Catholic Chaplains took part to commemor­ ate the final engagement exactly four years ago (September 15, 1940) in the winning Britain. Fit. Lt. address spoke of that have taken this War which only to Divine intervention in ans­ wer to prayer. As one example—on the eventful night of Dunkerque 9 0 per cent of the British Expedi­ tionary force was rescued, after I-Iitler had announced that it was surrounded, trapped, doomed to im­ mediate annihilation I Under cover of a heavy, persistent fog, screen­ ing the entire operation from Ger­ man aircraft, British barges, laun­ ches, every type of ship that could be pressed into service, evacuated 33 5,00'0 Allied troops. Heavily and dangerously overloaded, many of the boats would have surely been lost, had not an unprecedented calm on the English Channel made the- crossings a mill pond, ■been as quiet years. A Miracle? prayer! On May 18th, King George VI announced on, "Empire Day of Prayer” for May 2Gth. King, Prime Minister, Government officials, sol­ diers, ambassadors and leaders of nation met in Westminster Abbey, while countless citizens the Empire over knelt in churches on that Sun­ day proceeding Dunkerque, plead­ ing for divine mercy. And God an­ swered. The Protestant (Chaplain then read Psalm 91 "I will say of the Lord, He fortress; my trust. Surely . . . For He charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. as uneventful as on The Cannel 'had not for a period of many Yes-—in answer to is my refuge and my 'God; in Him will I He shall deliver thee shall give His angels Bootsellers, who kneel and know, say that women’s feet are, in sober measurable fact, getting steadily larger, and I believe it so because of the way that the sheep shearlings being made into slipper*, melt away on the Station, Here today and scraps tomorrow is what happens to the skins that we will have to order b.y the dozens, I guess. One night Sgt. Elisey’s inventive brain started to function at the sight of all these odds and ends stacking up, so he designed a neat little Shoe polisher. This will no doubt lead to button buffers and such useful devices which are all in’ the interests of neatness on the Station. They’re entertaining, they’re in­ structive, they’re useful, they fill up your spare time-—we mean the book covers, key cases, bill folds, picture frames, gloves and purses you can make in the Craft shop. The regular meeting night is Thurs­ day, but there is a room, next to the Y that you’ll-find convehlenjb to use during the week* , . . • ’ The Weather Office Just a short time ago' an airman, about whom there hovered a strange sense of the mysterious, was posted to our station, and by some coin­ cidence was given the bed next to mine., After a few days had passed I learned that his trade was that of a Meteorological Observer. Now, that terrifying name certainly wor­ ried me, but after diligent practice I was able to pronounce it quite dis­ tinctly after only two weeks. -But all this chatter is quite irrevelant. , AVhat I was about to say was that | T soon became acquainted with this I airman, and after I had aroused my courage sufficiently I asked if I might visit the Met office and learn all about this intriguing subject. When I first entered the office I was by no means positive that my hearing had not, in so'me unfortun­ ate manner, become impaired. Every­ one on duty certainly gave me a very cheery welcome, and I smiled a knowing smile, for these people after, all appeared quite san, and not at all like the mad weather Joe we read about in the newspap­ ers. But the weatherman was talk­ ing to a pilot who had been enquir­ ing about the weather, and I, eager to gain knowledge, listened intent­ ly. There was a great conversation about High and Low pressure areas, Warm and Cold fronts, Polar and Maritime air masses, etc., and then the pilot Kand Meteorologist exchang­ ed sage smiles and the pilot depart­ ed. Now, all this time I had been standing within a foot’s distance of this conversation and I knew no more when it was finished than when I had entered the office. As a matter of fact my ego had suf­ fered considerably in the interim and I was about to take my exit as gracefully as possible when this air- ' man with whom I had struck up and acquaitnance, grabbed my arm j proceeded to explain the workings of the various instruments in the room. Since everyone seemed to have their eyes on me, I bravely decided that an exit at this time would bo most unseemly, so I let myself be shown around. He had just finished showing me an instrument called a barometer when a lovely LAAV. made her appearance, and- noticing myi frequent glances in her direction the LAG. became disgusted and ask­ ed her to take over his job. Now this pleased me greatly as you are undoubtedly aware, and from then on I became a model pupil. I asked the LAW. what a barom­ eter was (for my interest hud in- -creased considerably you. will no­ tice) and.she straightway answered ! "it is an instrument for recording the pressure . IL. . Now that was all well and good but I was by no means positive what pressure was, and so I questioned her in my sweetest voice. J»lie, as though anticipating my Jgtiorance exclaimed "pressure means the weight of the air above the station at that particular moment and ill Varies continually. How or why it varied continually did not worry me at the moment. This girl certain­ ly, had beautiful, eyes, Nekt she'pointed to* ah instrument 'it is an instrument for above the station". ,,,, ,, 1 ' I belieye she called an anemometer, or ap instrument which records the speed and direction of the wind, Upon the recording box were print- I ed wind directions to 16 points pt the compass, and the wind speed was calculated by a red bulb which; flashed on and off at intervals, timed between two flashes of a green bul|j, Then the speed was doubled. It was all very confusing I thought, but then I have never been noted for my brilliance. No doubt you would have been faster than I. Say, I just noticed it! This girl sure has lovely lovely legs. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to be even slightly interested in me, even though I just took a shave and plastered my hair with Bryl- .creme. Maybe that’s the reason. I was shown relentlessly around. Next came the large maps which the airmen and §md the airwomen plot. Upon one of these maps the Meteor­ ologist was drawing pencil lines, and on studying this man it seemed | to me that he was quite young and i hot nearly old enough to be senile. And so I uneasily gazed at the map and planted my feet more firmly upon the floor- I was ready for any­ thing. Now the Meteorologist start­ ed to explain the meaning of the lines and the letters H and L which j were printed inside these circular ■ lines. The lines were evidently call ed Isobars and were drawn through places of equal pressure. Upon my enquiring is to how he knew th« pressure at these various places, he gave me a sad smile and pointed tn thousands of little round circles represented different cities—say Cal­ gary or Halifax The round circles were known as the Station circle, and about each of these circles was a multitude of very tiny numbers. They represented the wind speed and direction, temperature, dew point, visability, present weather, low medium and high cloud, the pressure and pressure tendency (whether the pressure was increas­ ing or decreasing), past weather and the total amount of cloud cov­ ering the sky at the time of obser­ vation. I shook my head to clear the effects of this burden of know­ ledge, and cast my eyes longingly toward the door once more. I found myself pitying not only this-morsel of pulchitrude, but also the LAC. and Meteorologist who was .merrily delving into the intricacies of his subject. But- no! They fiendishly trapped me in a corner and con- 'tinued to explain the phenomena of weather. At that particular moment I do believe a hurricane would have been most welcome, but it was not destined to be for the weather man proudly proclaimed we were to have fine weather for the next day or so. In one corner of the room there stood the noisiest machine aside from a locomotive that I ever did see. Nobody in the room was even near it and yet the thing was typing happily away by itself as though played upon by the devil himself. ’ ’ ' from the the room it took a strength) Evidently It hadn’t stopped typing moment I had entered till that moment. Then rest (as though to gain and away it went gain. .............. it was a teletype or an electrically driven typewriter upon which wea­ ther reports were received and sent. Toronto was the head office, I was infomed, for this particular district and they collect all the weather re­ ports that are sent in every hour from all over the continent, and transmit them to all the stations in their particular circuit, so that each weather office knows exactly what is happening in any part of the country. Four main maps are plot­ ted daify. The information on these maps is the basis of modern fore­ casting. I was watching the machine intently, much intrigued by its al­ most continuous flow of letters and numbers when suddenly the airman let out a bellow and went rushing down the stairs, almost knocking me over in his haste. Naturally I was convinced that the Met office had suddenly become too much for him and he* was bent on some rash course of action. Quite truthfully I I wouldn’t have-blamed him a bit. However he soon arrived back again with a slip of papier and a pencil in his hand, gazed earnestly out the window, made some calculations as to the height and type of cloud above the station, took the pres­ sure, wind direction and speed and inside of a moment bad made a Weather observation arid had put it I on the teletype. This was the last, straw. I had seen enough. I got off my kn^es and made my way unsteadily toward the door, The officer was busy explaining something to another officer, the LAAV. was plotting a map, and the LAC, was plotting some upper ah* data. I .mumbled a weak “good-bye" and stumbled dOAvn the salts. Never .gain will I belittle a weather man. bo glad to get my weather the morning paper. Bob Liss. tii "I’ll from An upon 3 officer of the law chanced a man pacing the sidewalk at a.fti, Being alert to the responsi­ bilities of his post, he paused to inquire' into the unusual situation, "Oh, it’s ali right, officer," he was assured,-> "1 live/here. I forgot my keys ..and, .I’m waiting .for my child-1 ten to tome home arid-lot me in."1 DRUMHEAD SERVICE at AIRPORT Commemorating the winning of the Battle of Britain, a Drumhead Service was held on trie grounds in •front of the Administration Build­ ing Sunday morning, Sept, 17th, for| Protestant personnel on the station. The parade was led hy the Brass Band and lined up smartly in front of the speaking platform by Group Captain Fullerton. The Station choir was in attendance to assist in the singing during the worship hour which opened with the inspiring hymn, "Unto the HlUs." Squadron Leader Wilson read the scripture, Revelations 5, verses 1-10, After another familiar hymn, "God of our Fathers", the Station Padre, Flight Lieutenant Martin spoke on the topic, "Reclaiming a Usurped World in Complete and Final Arictory". The closing anthem was approj> riate—"Rise up ye men of God." (After the singing of oux* National Anthem the parade was again form­ ed and led off by the band. Drumhead Services have been -held almost every other Sunday during the summer with fine wea­ ther for all of them. AVe have been pleased to have friends and relatives ; of Station personnel come to these—p they are -welcome at all our Sundayp morning church services, ! WINCHELSEA, Mr. and Mrs. and Aldeen, of Sunday with Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. arid children, of on Sunday Walters, Sunday Mrs. AV. F, A, E. Pym, Leona Elimville spent W. J. Veal. Wilbur Glanville Cromarty, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. visitors with Mr, and Batten were, Mrs. R. AV. | Batten and family, of Exeter, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wright and family, I of Seaforth, Mrs. B. Itowcliffe, of Clinton, Mrs. W. Batten, Mrs. C. Batten, Marion and Bob, of London, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Delbridge and family, of Exeter, visited on Sunday evening at Delbridge. Mr. and visited on Mrs. Goldwin Glenn, of Brinsley. the home of Mr. Chas, Mrs? Sherwood Brock ■Sunday with Mr. and ’ Hensall Council The regular meeting ot the Vil­ lage Council was held Monday eve­ ning, Sept. 11th, at 8 p.m. in the Council Chamber with all members being prepent, The minutes of the previous meeting were read, It was moved hy Parkins and Kerslake:1 That the minutes he adopted as read. Carried. Reeve .Shaddiek reported re the well at the corner of Queen and Wellington streets as needing a new top, same to be looked after at once. Correspondence was read as followis: School Board, estimates, Judge T. M, Costello, La France Fire Engine & Foamite Ltd., Work­ men’s Compensation Board, Dept, of Munitions & Supply Wood FUm Division, Dept, of Public Welfare, Royal ICommission on Public Halls, Dept, of Municipal Affairs, Bell Tele­ phone, Commanding Officer RCAF Station Clinton, same considered and filed, -Bills and accounts read as follows: Dr, D. G. Steer, innocu- Jations Bo H $28,75; County of Huron, hospitalization 56.85; Pro­ vincial Treasurer, insulin 1,74; Thiel, labor hall 2.00; A. Spencer &. Son, material hall 16,07; N. Jones, labor hall 5.40; G. R, Hess, printing 37.50; Huron Expositor, printing 3.15; Hensall Hydro, hydro hall 7.57; F. G, Bonthron, postage 5.00; T. Kyle, salary 73380; J. A. Paterson, express .40. Total 238,23. It was moved *by Kerslake and Fink: That the bills and ac­ counts as read be paid. Carried. It was moved by Smallacomhq and1 Fink: That the Tax rate be set aiT follows: (County 6. mill; school 12.1; -Library ,75 and Village 15.15 or a total rate of 34 mills less the 2 mills Government Sub-; sidy or a total Taxable rate of 32 mills. Carried. Kerslake and Par­ kins: That By-Law No. 5 be given first reading. Carried.. Fink and Smallacombe: That By-Law No. 5 be given second and third reading and finally passed. Carried. Par­ kins and Smallacombe tliat the Clerk be authorized to add the fol- 3 J, L insure...I Confederation. ''jr f"*Lite Association. Eranch Office: 101-5 Royal Bank Building, London E. Mae, Squires, Manager A. W. Morgan, Representative, Hensall [try a WANT ad—THEY PAY! authorized to bill Hay $2.25; Stanley 2.25, being 2,25; their lowing rates for cutting weeds Mrs. AV. Hyde 40c, G. McEwen Estate $1.20 to the Collector’s roll, Car­ ried. Fink and Parkins: That the Clerk be Township Tuckersmith share of innoculation cost as charg­ ed^ by the local .Medical Officer -of Health for the school children. Car­ ried. It was moved by Kerslake and| Parkins Oct, That we now adjourn to 2nd, 19 44. Carried. James Paterson, Clerk. An ambitious young man heard of the death of the junior partner of a big-firm. Being full of self­ confidence he hurried to the offices of the firm whose senior partner was a friend of his father’s. 'How ’s place?’1 Excellent ner. "If you undertaker." ne about taking youi’ part- he asked. !” said the senior part­ can fix things with the SOLDIERS! A ATTENTION! JI STAND M YOUR FEET MINARD’S LINiHNT _ _________________IM-2. YOU can’t have one without the other... you can’t share in the Victory unless you are ready and willing to take your place with the hoys who are earning it. The fight- is overseas — in the face of the enemy — and you must be' an overseas soldier to get into it. So get that GS badge on your arm right away. There’s still time — and there’s a place for you in the Canadian Army — for all the young men who want to be fighting soldiers. And when you come home again, you’ll be one of the boys to lead the Victory Parade! Join up now... and go GS.WEAR. IT ON YOUR ARM