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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-09-27, Page 5THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1951 R.C.A.F. CREW WHO WILL FLY ROYAL TOUR PLANE — Members of R.C.A.F. 112 Transport Squadron, from which crewmen have been selected to fly C-5 aircraft carrying Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on the flying- portions of then- tour of Canada in Oc­ tober, stand beside the luxury aircraft now undergoing- overhaul. Left to right are: Wing- Com, Bob Trickett, 36, of Winnipeg, officer commanding the squadron; Sqdn.-Ldr. Stew­ art Cowan, 31, Winnipeg, pilot; Flt.-Lieut. Les Hussy, 28, co-pilot; Flt.-Lieut. Bob Thorn- dycraft, 32, Vancouver, navigator; Flying Officer Douglas Stonehouse, Toronto, original member of crew who will be on training course during- tour and has been replaced by Flt.- Lieut. Ken A. Wark of Richmond Hill, Ont.; Fit. Serg. Edgar Benoit, 35, Ottawa, flight engineer; Serg. Girard Mignault, 31, Quebec City, steward; and LAC Walter Dear, 24, Hamilton, air traffic assistant. ■ —Central Press Canadian SHIPKA ' Mr. and Mrs, Norman McCal­ lum and Mrs, Christiana of Lon­ don spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Matt Switzer. Rally Day Service will be held in the United Church on Sunday September 30, at 10:15. Rev. Mr. Wanless of Woodham will be the speaker. Mr. Herb Haitton is still in Victoria Hospital. At last report he is slightly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Switzer and Jimmy spent a few days last week with relatives at Fenwick and Buffalo. The regular meeting of the W.A. will he he)1 on Thursday evening, October 't, «t the home of Mrs. Rev. W. C. Parrott at Crediton at eight o'clock. A number from here attended Crediton Anniversary service on Sunday last. Mr. and Mrs. Lome Devine spent a few days last week in northern Ontario. H---------- -------—---------------------------—13 Service with Courtesy Exeter Cab Supertest Station PHONE 465 DAY OR NIGHT ■----------------------------------------■ County Backs Pinery Plan Middlesex County' Council last week placed its support behind ef­ forts to have the Pinery Area along Lake Huron, south of Grand Bend developed as a pub­ lic recreation area. Support for creating a park of the lakefront, presently owned by the Canada Land Company, has been growing since initiated some months ago by London Chamber of Commerce. ; Power to develop this area . lies with the Ausable Conserva­ tion Authority. Reeve Donald Waters? of Park­ hill, who moved county council's backing, said it would be a great loss to the public if it were kept from the beach. ■ The more support given by | municipalities Reeve Waters said j the more weight the project j would have with federal and pro- jvincial governments, which he i said would have to finance it. I Reeve David Morley, McGilliv­ ray Township, said the Pinery would make, “an ideal recrea­ tion area.” j Two thoroughly lushed men were driving like mad in an automobile. “Shay,” one fumbl­ ed his words, “be sure to turn out for that bridge that’s cornin’ down the road toward us.” “What do you mean, me turn out?”, the other retorted. “I thought you were drivin’.” It’s a GREAT SATISFACTION! To put a sum of money away regularly each pay day, no matter how small, gives you a feeling of security. It’s a great satisfaction to know that, even in these days of high costs, you are at least trying to put a little aside to meet emergencies. CENTRALIA Miss Ada Mitchell, R.N., and friends, Miss Elsie McKay of Delaware Ohio, spent the week­ end with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Thompson of London were week-end guests with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hodg­ son. Mr. and Mrs. George Baynham and Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Hux­ table motored to Midland and Penetang on Friday of last week and visited the Martry’s Shrine. Mr. and Mrs. H. Schroeder of Birmingham, Michigan, were re­ cent visitors with Mrs. E. Knight. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McFalls visited for a few days last week with their daughters in london. Mrs. Lome Hicks spent the week-end with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. O. Pollock and family in Ripley. Mr. and Mrs. W. McRoberts of Lucan - were visitors with Mrs. Clara Abbott on Friday evening of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hodgins were guests at the Steeper-Mc- Gregor church wedding in Park­ hill on. Saturday afternoon. Miss Corley, R.N., of Toronto visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. A. Proctor. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin I-Iarlton and family and Mr. John Morley of London were Sunday visitors with Mrs. A. Harlton. ; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baynham and baby and Mrs. George Bayn­ ham motored to Port Huron and visited with the latter’s aunt, Mrs. J. Lockner. Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Honsberger were Mrs. S. Honsberger and her bro­ ther, M. Harry Tuffey of Otter­ ville, also Mrs. Honsberger’s par­ ents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hutton and baby of St. Marys. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Proc­ tor and Douglas of Clinton were recent visitors with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Proctor. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell and family of West Lome Were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mitchell and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hodgins. The service in the church on Sunday (September 30) will be at 10:30 a.m. standard time fol­ lowed by the Sunday School ser­ vice. Rally Service The annual Rally Day service was held in the church on Sun­ day morning with Mr. Reg. Hod­ gson as leader. A Sunday School choir under the direction of Mr. Cecil Skinner with Maxine God­ bolt at the piano provided the music. The story was read by Dr. Johns Tells Of experiences With UN In Northern Greece The filth and poverty in the mountain villages of Northern Greece is beyond all belief in the opinion of Dr. E. E. Johns who has just returned from, a tour of that country. A well-known local dental ex­ pert, Dr. Johns spent seven weeks in the towering mountain coun­ try of Northern Greece along with a representative of the Greek Ministry of Health, and Dr. Robert E. Moyers, head of the department of Orthodontics at the University of Toronto. The trip was sponsored by the ITnited States National Research Council with the intention of finding out how well food ship­ ments by the United Nations Re­ lief and Rehabilitation Associa­ tion were reaching the out-of-the- way northern villages. In addi­ tion, Dr. Johns and Dr. Moyers found time to examine some 1,- 200 children between the ages, of three and six for dental de­ fects. Filthy Living Conditions “I was simply amazed at the filthy living conditions which still prevail in most of the vil­ lages,” Dr. Johns said in an in­ terview. “Why, one out of every three children born there dies be­ fore the age of three as a result of dysentery, food poisoning and lack of proper sanitation. “The main trouble, of course, is that the people allow their animals to live with them in their homes. The houses are us­ ually two-storey affairs with the family sleeping on the second floor and the animals—pigs, goats and mules—using the low­ er floor. “Naturally this leaves plenty to be desired from a sanitary ,” Dr. Johns said. "Chil- usually covered with ; and skin diseases are We saw one old man the floor of a house so badly crippled with that he couldn't move I children had tremendous cavities | in their teeth and it wasn't at i all surprising to find some with as |many as 50 or 60. Only three he examined had ever had any den- ; tai work done on them and none jof the children had ever seen a toothbrush. Photograph Rare Pictures On their return trip, Dr. Johns and Dr, Moyers stopped off for a brief visit at one of the famous Greek monasteries in the mountainous north’ country. Here the monks allowed them the rare privilege of taking pictures of their most priceless possessions dating back hundreds of years. It is believed this is the first time outsiders have been allow­ ed to photograph these works of art and the pictures are going to I be displayed in a future issue of ithe National Geographic I zine. I Dr. Johns was born in | and spent the first five y< this life there before his Dr. A. Johns of Usborne ship, now of Hamilton, who was a missionary, returned to Cana­ da. He received his lower school j education in Hamilton and then entered the University of Tor­ onto. He took a post-graduate course at both Varsity and Colu­ mbia University. He is now con­ nected with the department orthodontics of the University Toronto besides taking care his practice in Toronto. Mr. Wesley Johns of Exeter an uncle of Dr. Johns. I I Maga- China ?ars of father, Town- I Weeklies Said i Last Frontier J ........... ” ' ■■■■ I W. E. McCartney, managing director and secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Weekly News- paers Association, said last week that weekly newspapers are “the last frontier of the free press ‘and free enterprise.” Speaking ing of the the CWNA, Carty said: “This is fact that in weekly newspapers are edited and published by an individual—and individuality * free enterprise, Cites Fallacies “Corporation taxes, deferred g ulations and < are killing incentive, the same time asks for greater production from worker, farmer and industrialist. .. One of the chief thinking an more business han you can your- at the annual meet- Manitoba division of at Brandon? Mr. Me- due entirley to the almost all cases, ie the essence of ■centive for a farmer to more, a workman to work longer and ultimately result in lower prices.” He blamed “under-consump­ tion” for the country's ills from 1930 to 1939 and “under-produc­ tion” for the present inflation­ ary conditions. Living standard. Irj> Using figures obtained from the Dominion Bureau of Statis­ tics, he pointed out, however, a. Canadian standard of living im­ proved since 1939. “With a basis of 100 in 1939, the basic wage index of 1937 was 9(T.7. On the same basis, the 1951 index is 225.5. , is this inflation or the normal growing pains of a .new country certain to become great in this half of the 20th* century. i i of of of is taxes, income depreciation re- •redit restrictions while at our Government >f the of Government governments i; tly fact, self. run your your life fallacies is that efficien- and, in ments at all levels“. . . Govern ... have assumed that they have an almost divine right to regu­ late any and all businesses.” Private Enterprise .Plea Mr. McCartney urged a return to private enterprise and recog­ nition of the laws of supply and demand, allowing price his goods at whatever the traffic will bear, would provide “the necessary in- Portable Arc Welding Acetylene Welding Steel Fabrication Machine Work Grinding the seller to He said this M arshall & Murray Machine Shop viewpoint, dren are flea bites rampant, lying on who was arthritis 1 his hands to brush away flies from his face. We were told he had been lying there like that for a year and a half.” Dr. Johns said the food situa­ tion in the villages was also very grim, mainly because the people didn’t have any means of trans­ porting it from the low-lying plains further south. This state of affairs blamed partly on the Communists who occupied the northern part of the country shortly after the Second World War. Before the Communist invasion, nearly every family in the vil- mule a p&auw... io ■ ■ Bi /Z} IBS & - J £<OB lage owned at least one with which to transport food- j stuffs up the steep crags. Now, i however, only every third fam- I ily has one because the Common- I ists commanders requisitioned so j many of them for use by their i own troops. Food Situation Grim !Dr. Johns said, the average vil-1 lage household contained nothing j more in the way of food than a quart of olive oil and some corn i and wheat flour. Meat and pota­ toes were practically unheard of and fish was eaten only ally. One women said one pound of sugar to for 1 years. Dr. Johns said that orthodontic standpoint, concerning the straightnes of teeth, the village children were well off with only about three persons in every 100 he examin­ ed sporting any type of malocclu­ sion. In this country he claimed nearly 60 persons of every 10i0’ have some form of malocclusion. But on the other hand, Dr. Johns said, many of the village oceasion- she had last from that Ox her Biddulph School Appoints Trustees Harold Westman was appoint­ ed trustee of S.S. No. 5 Biddulph Township, Revere School, at a ratepayers meeting. He succeeds Charlie Gowan, who resigned. Cecil Bowman was appointed caretaker. Lhasa is the “forbidden city” of Tibet. Miss Doreen Proctor. A very fine address from the text “Speak Lord, Thy Servant Heareth” was given by the pastor. Rev. Bur­ ton. 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