HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-02-26, Page 7THE TIMC.S-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26th, 194B
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Thanksgiving
Harrison, who is a pretty timid
fellow, decided to kill the tur
key himself. He couldn't bring
himself around to wringing
meek,
heart
•cided
His
watching Daddy try to kill
bird, while Mrs, Harrison
and he didn’t have
to use the axe. So lie
to shoot it.
sou Jimmy, age 6,
its
the
de-
was
the
was
waiting in the kitchen. Minutes
passed and no shot. Finally,
Mrs. Hr-risen yelled out the
window to .Jimmy and asked
when the turkey was to be shot.
Jimmy yelled back “We can’t
I
must be
Therefore,
education
early as
for that pur-1 education will I
to seven thou-1
on the course,
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ir
editor of
Tribune”,
a univer-
or girls?
such an
t lir-
Mr.
Mrs.
las!
where the males
the females by
and chemistry “for
ain't got, no more
pockets to a frog”,
contends that they
useful,
GREENWAY
The Harmony
United
social
the church op
Mrs. Jas. Dixon
give an address
England. Everyone
Mr. and Mrs.
lock and Morley
funeral of the late Rev.
Foster on Saturday. We extend
sympathy to the bereaved rela
tives.
Miss Marion Hicks, of London
spent the week-end
parents, Mr.
Hicks.
Mr and Mrs
Ross and Carl
(lay with Mr. i
Taylor and
Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. .Russell
tosh, of Ferndale, Mich.,
the week-end with
here.
Mrs.
the funeral
Borthwick
Wednesday.
Miss Winnie
week-end with
Gray,
Church
evening
Class of the
are holding a
and bazaar at
Friday evening,
of Brinsley will
on her trip to
welcome-
Lawrence Pol-
attended the
J. L.
with her
and Mrs. Wm.
i Milton Pollock,
visited
and Mr
family, of
on Sun-
. Carlyle
Grand
Me.In-
spent
relatives
Gordon Young attended
a uni
Thedford
of ' her
at
i>
shoot it yet, it won’t get in the | and -Wrs-
I
II
way!”
Pa- “My
up, I want
man.”
Son: “I
gentleman,
you.”
m... . Q
son, when you grow
you to be a
don’t want a
pop. I wanta
you don’t
fellow who
then, when
gentle-
■be a
be like
to
Gray spent
her parents,
of Mitchell.
WOODHAM
Kenneth Mills, of London,
the week-end at his home
board at Twelve Dollars a week
and with prices skyrocketing.
Using some iigures that were
compiled on the cost of the
various Canadian colleges, we
figure that it would cost close
to a thousand dollars to get by
on during a nine-month school
year —tuition, room and hoard,
clothes, laundry, books, travel,
spending money, etc. True, a
; student has three months dur
ing which he may work, bat the
bulk of the burden
borne by his parents,
provision for h i s
should be made as
possible, when he starts primary
school at least. Several Exeter
families are already doing so ! and are making monthly pay- i
merits to insurance and invest-1
meat
pose.
cost
sand
but
since
dollars for every dollar spent in
additional earnings during
lifetime.
Who should receive
sity education, boys
What is the cost of
education?
Robert Quillen, the
“The Foundation Inn
cannot see the use of parents
starving themselves so they can
send their daughters to college
to learn French which they will
never speak
which they
use than hi£)
Instead, he
should learn something
like “what to do for the colic,
and how to overcome the in
fluence of grandparents, an’
how to make a mother-in-law
mind her own business without
starting a family row”.
With most girls .getting mar
red within five years of gradua
tion from high school, Quillen
may have something, for
Canada
number
333,000 according to the
Canadian Census, there is
chance of any .girl
matrimony, especially with her
mother’s help. Although college
girl to lead a
parents
companies
A college
from four
depending
it is a . good investment
it will pay more than ten
in
out-
over
1931
little
avoiding
Mr.
spent
here
Misses 'Fern, Edith and Marion
Rodd, of Loudon, spent the
week-end at their homes here.
Miss Jean Copeland, oL’ Si*
Marys, spent the week-end at
her home here.
Mr. and Mrs. William Thom
son and Clarence visited on Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs, Robert Ross, of Kirkton.
Mr. Lloyd Brine, of Rannock,
visited on Sunday with
Mrs. Oscar Brine.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert
'Farquhar, visited on
—o—
The annual At Home Dance
was held last Thursday amid
balloons and cupids. Under a
false ceiling of red and white
streamers, Dr. and Mrs. Cowen,
representing the school board,
Mr, and Mrs. Sturgis, the staff
and Anita Datars and Maurice
O’Dwyer, the students received
the guests.
After the grand march, Bettv
Mickle and George Rether were
chosen King and Queeu of
Hearts. Betty was crowned with
roses and George was given a
boutonniere. A cigarette lighter
and a ring were the gifts of the
lucky couple. It was a very suc
cessful dance, and we’re sure
everyone had a delightful eve
ning.
may prepare a
fuller , life, unless the
have several thousands of dol
lars which they can afrord to
spend on lier in order to keep
her from associating with store
clerks and office stenographers,
it may be a financial waste. It
would seem more reasonable to
educate boys, who besides ac
quiring all the cultural values,
would put it to use long enough
to at least get back their pa
rent’s investments with some
thing to boot. Nevertheless, few
boys seem to realize the oppor
tunities that come with a col
lege education. In our high
schools, the boys are outnum
bered two to one, and few com
plete their academic training.
An Exeter parent said recent
ly that she wished that her son
could continue to university
since learning came easily to
him; he seemed interested; he
wasn’t wasting his time like the
majority of liis chums were, and
he wasn't mechanically inclined
so wasn’t suited to his father’s
work. She felt that even with
the aid of scholarships, it would
be heavy going with room and
On the back oi your war Savings Certifi
cates, you’ll find instructions to endorse
and mail each one to Ottawa as scon as it
matures.
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you’ll have to deposit or cash the cheque
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Scott, of
Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rundle.
Mr. and Mrs. Newman
of Wellburn, visited on
with Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Mrs. Ernest Smith Mr.
Rodd, Mr. and Mrs. E.
terton. of London, spent
with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rodd.
Young People’s Meeting
The regular meeting of the
on Sunday evening with the Li
terary committe, Glenn Cope
land and Bessie McCurdy in
charge. The meeting opened
with the Theme Song. The Call
to Worship was given by Glenn.
Hymn 381 was followed by the
Lord’s Prayer in unison and a
poem “The Brotherhood of Man”
by Ruth Hazelwood. Scripture
lesson was read by Bessie, Mc
Curdy. Hymn 275 was followed
by prayer by Jean Copeland,
reading “There’s Always a Way
Out” by John Rodd. .Roll call
and minutes were read and
adopted. A piano solo by Rhoda
Thomson, poem “Beauty” bj£
Merle Hazelwood, story, “Stray
ed from the Fold” by Florence
Kirk followed. Bible drill was
led by Glenn Copeland and hymn
109 was sung. The meeting clos
ed with the Young People's
Benediction.
Sunday School
Mrs. George Wilson, mission
ary convenor, had charge of the
service at Sunday School. Mrs
Laverne Rodd read the lesson.
Verla and Merle Hazelwood sang
a duet. Betty Mills read a poem.
Mrs. Goodger gave a very inter
esting talk on missions and mis
sionary work.
Quite a number from this
community attended the comedy
“Disraeli”, presented at St.
Marys Collegiate Institute by
some of the students, held on
Thursday and Friday evenings.
Several residents attended the
Young People’s skating party
held at the Exeter Arena on
Saturday evening.
Euchre Social
On Friday evening a euchre
social evening under the auspices
of Woodham Orange Lodge was .
held in the Hall. Prizes for high ■
score were won by Mrs. Harold
Davis. Mr. Ronald Paton. Lone
hands, Mrs. Thomas Near and
Mr. Alex Berryhill; consolation
Harold Levy and Bill Irvine.
Programme was as follows:
Vocal solo by Helen Webber,
piano solo by Gladys Switzer; a
dialogue “The Sniggles Family”.
Lunch was served.
Baker,
Sunday,
Dickie.
Donald
J. Wa-
Sunday
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Basketball
The Senior Girls’ team is
again Huron Champion. The
girls earned this by defeating
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games. The scores were 40-11
and 34-15.
The Junior Boys lost out in
the round with Goderich by a
■total score of 37-34. Although
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Exeter Branch: J. L. HENDRY, Manager
The roar of airplane engine:
at the R.C.A.F. station at Cen
tralia is mounting to a crescendo
rivaling that of wartime as this
important link in Canada’s aer
ial defence program swinge into
its roll of training airmen for
the peace-time airforce.
Containing three schools in one
Centralia is the only station in
Canada training and graduating
pilots. On its parade square a-
lone will be held the familiar
wing’s parades where the covet
ed pilot’s wings of the R.C.A.F.
will be pinned on the tunics of
newly-trained fliers. Together
with its sister station at Clinton,
key radar base in Dominion de
fence plans. . Centralia trains
wireless navigators. These are
the only other aircrew members
now receiving wings under the
new R.C.A.F, set-up.
Teach Instrument Flying
In addition to the Flying
Training School grinding out pil
ots and the Radar and Commun
ication school instructing naviga-
i tors, Centralia also embraces an
i Instrument Flying School where [experienced pilots take refresher
course in advanced flying pro
cedures. They gain experience in
piloting a plane along the radio
ranges, invisible highways in the
in
to
and
safely
able to
i
if fog and cloud obscured the
airport. Centralia has no radio
range for this type of flying so
training is done over the
done drome. The trainee
with his vision outside the
pit obliterated by a hood
can see only the flight instru
ments. The instructor sits along
side with
ion
emergency,
school is the
and has been
the war-time
graduate pilots
flying training centre.
Students in this course are
seasoned pilots, many of them
wearing gallantry decorations
for overseas operations. This
course, of four weeks duration,
keeps them in trim before they
to operational bases.
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BRINSLEY
Mrs. Marwood Brest and Mrs.
Roland Neil were joint hostess
es at a progressive euchre party
at the former's home on Thurs
day evening. About 3 0 guests
played. The prizes going to
Mrs. Jack Hodgson and Wheat-
ley Watson for high score, and
to Lon. Hodgins for lone hands.
Stanley Steeper and Mrs. Levi
White got the consolation
prizes. Lunch was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Suther-1
[ land visited on Sunday with Mr. |
j and Mrs. Fred Neil and family. }
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sky. They practice operating
bad weather with reference
their instruments only,
bringing their machines
to earth without being
see. the ground.
The Flying Training
was the last unit, to be activated
in this three-sided base. Already
one class of pilots is well on its
way to graduation and the sec
ond has started aerial training.
Tn the initial course the officers
who served in other
activities during the
re-enlisted in the
force to become
wearing on their tunics their.
navigator, bomb- aimer or wire
less operator wing of the Second
Great War they are working for
the famous double wing.
The second group of pilots
which started training recently
Is composed half of new recruits
(flight cadets they are called)
and half veteran ground crew
who remustered to train as
fliers. This school uses the well-
known Harvard training plane
from first familiarization to
final graduation test. This is a
thajor change from war-time in
structional procedures when pi
lots started flying easier elem
entary airplanes and graduated
to the more advanced designs.
Embryo pilots now start right
out on the advanced Harvard.
These planes are the two-mo
tored “Expediters” and Centra
lia’s instrument flying schohl
and the pilots the practising
landings “on instruments,” as
School
are sent
Training
Third
training
and Gommunmations
this section airmen who
guide the fighters and bombers
on their missions through the
skies receive practice and train
ing in navigating over Western
Ontario with no reference to the
ground. The fast and sure chart
ing by radio signals and radar
screening is the modern method
of navigation. The day of pin
pointing along railways is
thing of the past.
Big twin-engined Douglas
kota transports which were
work horses of the .airforce
the Second Great War have been
made into flying classrooms tor
use of the radar and communi- <
cations school. More than 20
I students can work in these aer
ial school rooms receiving lec
tures and learning the art of
navigating an aircraft through
unplotted skies without the use
of visual aid. So advanced is the
, science of radar and radio navi
gation that these planes can fly
by use of these, devices alone.* Wireless navigators are the
only other air crew trades left
in the R.C.A.F. During the war
bomb-aimers, air gunners, navi
gators and flight engineers all
wore wings but this practice has
been discontinued in the post
war policy of the air arm.
Wireless navigators receive
technical radio training at Clin
ton radio school and then are
posted to Centralia for practical
experience. They complete the
course at a navigational school
at Summerside, P.E.I.
This three-sided cog in 'Cana
da’s aerial military program
knit into
under the command of young,
energetic Group Captain M. D.
Lister. Under him are many vet
erans of aerial warfare, all pool
ing their excprience In the
training of new persohel.
i
air crew
war and
peace-time
pilots. Still Perfect Tracking
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Mo Whip
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is
one efficient station