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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. Where To Find It Editorials, Years Ago ...... Warden Appeals To G.B. .. Hi Lights .......................... Hensail District News .... Bargain Counter ............... Baseball Schedule .............. Feminine Facts ’N Fancies Post Scripts ............... Woodham Operetta .... District News ............ Lucan District News 4, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ....... 10 ..... 11 , 12, 13