HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-05-10, Page 11
WOODHAM TROOPERS . and Ray Mills, whb
have entertained on many stages in this district, supplied
the comedy touch to the Woodham Community Association
operetta Friday night.
Council Opposes Sales Tax,
Orders War On Stray Dogs
Exeter council opposed a pro
vincial turnover tax at their re
gular meeting Monday night.
They instructed Clerk C. V.
Pickard to write the Dominion
and Provincial governments that
they do not favour a proposed
amendment of the British North
America Act to allow provinces
to levy the sales or turnover tax.
o Council felt the tax would be
an unfair burden for
inessmen and would
bookeeping “nuisance”.
Council declared war
dogs in the town. Less than half
the town dogs have tags on them
and many are running loose. The
mayor instructed Police Chief
John Norry to take action on
owners whose dogs weren’t tied.
Four members are expected to
attend the Huron County Muni
cipal Officers Association Meet
ing at Goderich on May 21.
Central Mortgage and Hous
ing have sold two more houses
making a total of 24. Reg Mac
Donald and A. J. Denneau are
the new owners.
The high school levy is $4,-
070.90.
Huron County will pay 25%
of the road levy back to 'muni
cipalities which do not have
county roads in their boundaries.
Civil Defence
Mayor B. W. Tuckey reported
meeting
the bas
er e ate a
on stray
I done before July 1. All available
cement will be used on the walks.
It was reported that Comstock
I would vacate the Arena in time
I for the fall fair.
Council will make arrange-
I ments to secure equipment from
| Aylmer to clean out Carling
street and other drains.
Irving Snider and R. E. Balk
will were granted building per
mits for houses.
The town authorized an ad
vertisement in the Federation of
Agriculture Year Book.
Appeals Not Granted
On Stephen Drain
Appeals on the Eagleson Drain
Survey were not granted by Ste
phen council when they held the
court of Revision on Monday.
The engineer’s assessment on
the properties of both William
M. Eagleson and Herbert Harle-
ton were upheld by the council
and the survey, plan and report
of engineer Jas. A. Howes
adopted.
Council authorized the
and Clerk to apply for aid
the provincial government
subsidy on the drain under the
provincial. Drainage Act.
Two petitions, from Arnold
Keller and others, and H. Peter
son and others, were heard
passed by the council.
Tender of Walter Weber
the 19 50 % ton truck for
225 was accepted.
The by-law for Grand Bend
incorporation and vote was pass
ed.
Reeve Alonzo McCann presid
ed and all members were pre
sent.
were
reeve
from
for a
on the Civil Defence
in London recently.
-“The need for civil
he said, “is great. We
treat it pretty lightly here since
far from the dangers of
But they impressed upon
need for organizing for
civil defence. If we are
a bomb we must depend
defence.”
seem to
we are
attack,
us the
mutual
hit by
entirely upon outside aid.”
He mentioned RCAF station
Centralia as a possible'target for
enemy attack.
The meeting decided that a
county organization would be the
most efficient form of civil de
fence organization and that
Huron county council will pro
bably consider the organization
next June.
The clerk
inquire about cold mix asphalt to
repair Huron
Construct Sidewalks
Call for tenders for the con
struction of sidewalks will be
issued by council. Work is to be
and
on
$1,-
was instructed to
street.
New Tax Notices
More Informative
When Exetei’ residents
their (Ugh) tax notices
month they’ll find a more
venient and Informative state
ment.
The new (boo) tax statement
tells how (d - - ) taxes are spent
and how many mills are levied
for each department.
The new form will also help
the (bah) tax collectors by pro
viding two places for installment
records. Window envelopes will
be used to save two addresses.
Ah, h-a-( who wants to hear
about the ($%tf) (&) taxes any
way.
Trumpets, Jets, Ambassadors
To Attend NATO Graduation
‘Melting Pot In The Sky‘
Story Of NATO Pilots
By NELLEN ARMSTRONG
(Reprinted by permission from Saturday Night)
, Because of Europe’s diversi
fied educational standards, it
'was difficult for the Centralia
| instructors of engineering, aero-
j dynamics, navigation and meteor
ology to know just where to ' begin. One instructor, lecturing
I on engines, was pleasantly sur- I prised to find that a pupil, who
had obviously been writing let
ters all during the lecture, could
answer the subsequent questions
(despite his laboured English)
far more adequately than the in
structor had originally explained
the theory.
It was however, a very isolat
ed case, as the NATO trainees
unanimously agreed that for all-
over thoroughness the R.C.A.F.
training program is without par
allel, And so, by shouldering
the -cost of aircraft, maintenance
and instructors, together with
food, lodging and winter cloth
ing, Canada has faithfully dis
charged her first obligation to
her NATO partners.
—Please turn to page ten
This week the sky over RCAF
Flying Training Station Centralia
in South Western Ontario is
crowded with black and yellow
Harvard Trainers and the radio
telephone at the control tower is
thick with European accents.
“San-trail-ya Tou-wer, dees ees
verd Tree, Ate, Too, Seex” can be
heard all hours of the day and
night.
This familiar R/T patter, well
sprinkled with Italian, French,
and Belgian
be heard no
airwaves, for
boys are now
up their final solo
preparing for their
and Wings Parade on
Norwegian, Dutch
accents will soon
more on Canadian
the 80-odd NATO
clocking
hours in
graduation
May. 18.
Foi’ the
Airforce station has been play
ing host to some of Canada’s
most distinguished visitors, the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion trainees, all specially screen
ed men from five out of twelve
NATO countries. Group Captain
W. F, M. Newson, DSO, Com
manding Officer of RCAF Cen
tralia and
under his
luctant to
creme” of
tential air strength
their various homelands.
Language Barrier
Yet this training program
been neither a holiday task
the instructors, nor smooth
ing for the pupils who crossed
the Atlantic as members of the
first course of this type to be
trained in Canada. There have
been difficult language barriers
to be overcome, historical back
grounds and social traditions to
be considered.
But the social and diplomatic
adjustments have not all been
on the side of the visitors. It is
a foreordination that a future
Italian Baron and a RCAF vete
ran of World War II cannot
spend many hours aloft in a
dual trainer denying Mr. Newton’s
law of gravity without feeling a,
sincere respect for one another
The firm grip of a hand-shake
after their first hour in the air
together is enough to prove that
the
for
cial
vice
It
London,
boys made their first Canadian
appearance. Here, for six short
weeks, they were lectured on
indoctrination. The Belgians, It
alians and Norwegians tried to
understand the English lectures,
while the French followed
French-speaking instructors.
Makes Successful Speech
‘‘At first,” admitted 25-year-
old Lieut. Andrea Maes froih
Waregen, Belgium, “we could
only catch one or two words in
each sentence.” However, after
a short nine months of using
English, Lieut Basilio Cottone
from Messina, Italy, who, before
coming to Canada, had known
no other language but Italian,
has already made his first high
ly successful speech—in English.
past nine months this
dozens of instructors
command will be re-
see the ‘‘creme de la
Western Europe’s
return
art of flying can do more
internationally desirable so-
relations than years of ser
in a foreign office.
was at RCAF Crumlin, near
Ont., that the NATO
pro-
for
Coronation trumpets, Vampire jets, foreign ambassa
dors and Canadian dignitaries will all be part of the
(NATO graduation at R.C.A.F. Station Centralia on Friday,
;May 18.
And the station is undergoing a thorough “spring clean-
ling" so that it will be in the pink of condition for the inter-
I national ceremony.
[Kin Advertize,
[Elect Officers
Advertising and elections
vided a spirited meeting
Exeter Kinsmen last Thursday.
I Each member was allowed
; time to advertise his business
i and to auction off merchandise.
i Winner of prize for the novel
advertising presentation was Art
Cann, of Cann’s Mills Limited.
The item which brought the
highest price in the auction was
■ a merchandise certificate donat
ed by Irvine Armstrong on be-| half of Hopper-Hockey furniture.
i Sixty-eight dollars were raised
i by the club for service work.
Don Southcott will head the
new executive. Vice-presidents
are Winston Sliapton and Ray
Frayne. Reynold Wuertli was ..... o elected secretary, Robert South-, i Wins rony
cott, treasurer, and Irvine Arm-1 Gerald Lawson, Exeter,
strong, registrar. i the lucky winner of a pony
Warren Sanders will become J draw at Zurich last week.
the first past president of the j The winning ticket was drawn
club. He has been in the chair [ at the benefit bingo and dance ------771„K . Zurich Arena and
the hockey club,
was raised by the
be turned over to
Local Boy’s Painting
In London Exhibition
Murray Stephen, R.R. 3,
ter
of the
League
Library
One
chosen
9 9 were chosen out of 300
vases which were submitted
all over Western Ontario
from parts of the United States.
Exe
attended the opening night
Western Ontario Art
exhibition at the London
Friday evening,
of his paintings
for the exhibition.
was
Only
can-
from
and
was
in a
since the club organized in Feb-; held in the
ruary 1950. [sponsored by
Doug Pryde presided for the i Over $250
elections. Jack Fulcher was in club and will ____„ „
charge of the advertising pro-I Earle Youngblut who dislocacted
gram. Sgt.-at-arms for the meet-! his shoulder during the hockey
was Lee Learn. season.
INTERNATIONAL SALUATE These Harvard planes will join in the salute to Defence
Minister Brooke Claxton when NATO pilots graduate on May 18. Ambassadors front .Eur
opean nations are expected to attend. The ce remonv is open to the public. —RCAF Photo
Sixth Operation
“Tupper” Anderson, of Credi-
ton, is a patient ;in St. Joseph’s’
Hospital, London, where he has
undergone the 6th operation.
This time the doctors have taken
a piece of bone from his leg and
are grafting it in the arm. Since
the operation Mr. Anderson has
again been suffering from shock.
It was on July 11, 1949, that
Mr. Anderson was injured '
auto accident and for
months carried the arm at
height by the use of a
bone having failed to knit,
many friends will hope that
operation will prove success-
in an
many
shoul-
brace,
,L'
t V;: •&;« '1
OPERETTA CAST — This is the east that packed the
Woodham Orange Lodge Hall Friday night when they pre- in the district,
seated the operetta “An Old Kentucky Garden’’, They have
Friends Seed 37 Acres In Day
To Help Convalescing Farmer
There was plenty of action on
the farm of Norman Jaques, in
the Woodham district, Monday
when friends staged a farming
bee and seeded his* land.
It was a co-operative effort on
the part of the men to help out
a neighbour who is convalescing
from a recent operation.
“It was a complete job”, said
the grateful Mr. Jaques, who is
barely able to get around, “They
I even
seed
“I
field-
did
was
told
—I’d
right
land
seed-
• H
the harowing after the
in."
them to leave the corn
get that done when
ever I could. But they went
ahead and even got that
ready.”
Thirty-seven acres were
ed and there were IS tractors
on the land during the day.
The men started coming in
the morning and had finished
their job before five o’clock.
Mr. Jaques' farm is on Conces
sion 7, Usborne Township, about two\ and a half miles south of
Elin\ville. He went to the hospi
tal oh. April 2 for an operation.
Unfortunately, the operation re
acted op Mr. Jaques and lie’s
been in v bed most of the time
since.
The farmers who put in his
seed were Hubert Heywood. Al
vin Cooper, John.
Skinner,
Herdman,
Brooks,
Johns,
Miners, Delmar
Bell. Squire
P y m,
Jaques,
Harold
A 1 v i
Clifton
Jud Dyckman and son
Paul, Norman Brock, Wellington
Brock, Warren Brock. Angus
Earl and Harry Hern.
n Ray
Ray
Minister of National Defence
Brooke Claxton will speak at the
graduation and wings will be
presented by Air Marshall Curtis,
(Chief of Air Staff for Canada.
Jets From Toronto
I A flight of Vampire jet planes
(from Toronto Auxiliary Squad
ron will perform during the
ceremony. Two aerobatic teams
l of Harvards will also perform,
[and an air salute will be given
[simultaneously with the ground
[salute.
I The coronation trumpets, sym-
ibolic of royal announcements, [will be brought from Ottawa for
(the occasion.
Invited to the ceremony are
His Excellency Viscount Alexan
der and his wife; Their Excel
lencies Vicomte and Vicomtess
du Parc, Belgium ambassadors;
His Excellency
Guerin, French
Excellency and
Stefano, Italian
Excellency and
Lovink, Netherlands ambassador;
His Excellency and Mrs. Steen,
N o r w a y ambassador; air and
military attaches and consuls,
A garden party for the dig
nitaries is scheduled to take
place in the Officers' Mess. Fac
ilities on the station are being
arranged so that the ceremony
can be held«inside in case of wet
600 On Parade
Some 6 00 men will be on par
ade with the training command
band from Trenton and the Cen
tralia bugle band. Defence Min
ister Claxton will take the sal
ute.
The men will be fully armed.
Group Captain Newson, command
ing officer of the station, will
carry the R.C.A.F. sword as par
commander. The squadron
flight commanders will also
carrying the swords. NCOs
supernumerary officers will
carry side arms and the airmen
will have rifles.
The graduation parade, salute
and presentation of wings will
last approximately two hours. It
will start at 2 p.m.
NATO Wings
Sixty-three NATO trainees,
from Norway, France, the Nether
lands. Belgium and Italy, will
receive the special NATO wings.
(There’s a story behind these
wings. The NATO trainees want
ed RCAF training wings because
of the prestige now’ associated
with the Canadian training pro
gram. Unable to comply with
this request because of regula
tions, the RCAF designed a spe
cial NATO wing with a cluster
of maple leaves and the letters
“R.C.A.F.” on them.)
Canada has undertaken to-
train more than 1,000 airmen
from NATO nations as part of
her contribution to the Alliance.
This graduation will be the first
part fulfillment of Canada’s ob
ligations,
weather.
Schools Will Close
Many visitors from the dist
rict are expected to attend. Most
of the local schools will close in
the afternoon so that children
may attend the graduation with
their parents.
Press
present
and will
tunities
national ------Besides the NATO pilots,. 17
Canadian cadets will receive
their wings.
Trophies will be presented to
the top European and Canadian
cadets.
The
will be
held in
parable __ .
the British Commonwealth Air
Training Plan Gates at Trenton
two years ago.
Dress rehearsals of the cere
mony will be held on the station
several days before the gradua
tion.
and Mrs. Hubert
ambassador; His
Mrs, Mario de
ambassador; His
Mrs. A. H. J.
and radio men will be
from all over Ontario
be given special oppor-
to interview the inter
guests.
international ceremony
one of the largest ever
Canada, It will be oom-
to1 the presentation of
i
received many requests to put the show on in other centres
Fowler Bros., ^Mitchell
Usborne Students
To ur Niagara Falls
’The teacher and pupils of
No. 3 Usborne took a trip to
Niagara Falls on Monday, Some
"mothers were able to accompany
the children on the trip. They
visited the locks of the Welland
Canal, Brock’s Monument, the
coloured lights on the falls, and
saw a few peach trees in bloom.
All had a most enjoyable trip.
s.s.
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