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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-09-22, Page 6WEDNESDAY, . SEPT. 22nd, 1954 f / c .fr I c* E. % 1 jn'- t.he writer’s name stands blocl BUSINESS-AND YOURS! J’lVE 3%% GUARANTEEb TRUST CERTIFICATES1.”^ THAT “P” IN THOMPSON LABELS US AS A FOREIGNER • Authorized investment for trust funds. • Short term—5 years. 334% yearly interest, payable half-yearly. In five years, $415.24 accumulates to $500.0© Write for descriptive /older ter, (Mrs. A. T. S. Hawkins from Ottawa; and Mr. and Mrs. D. Rogers of Calgary. 1 .t : PAGE SIX THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO “It is our traditions that inspire us to bear the brunt of the teysks .ahead”, - ' • As he spoke, he clutched in nis hand a part of that tradition, the symbolic sword Robert the Bruce —the one who started all this— Used in the Norman conquest of [ England in 1Q66, About 35 of those attending the CHIEF OF BRUCE CLAN CWUEETS FELLOW SCOTS . A bunch of Scots from away back, greeted the chief; of their dan recently when members of ' The Clan Bruce in Ottawa and district gathered to pay tribute to the Enrl of Elgin and Kincardine and Lady Elgin, who are on a _ __ __ ___________ ____ _ .an^nth’s visit to eastern Canada. cjan meeting .were Bruces or of The 73-year-old earl—Lord Ed­ ward James Bru e, baron’of the . domains of Stenhcuse, Downhill and Kinloss—t^ld’ the more than ^9-Scotsv^ Bruce descent. Many touched or I kissed the 900-year-old, 12-pound claymore, among,, them John ' Bracken, former national leader of the Progressive Conservatives. WEDDINGS VILLENFAGNE—STOTHERS Aj very pretty wedding of in­ terest in this community was solemnized in St. Paul’s United Church, Tisdale, Saskatchewan, when Mary Leone Stothers, eld­ est daughter of Mr. arid (Mrs. ,1. F*. Stothers of , Tisdale, became the bride of Mr. Robert de Vil- lenfagne de Leon of Calgary, son Of Baron and Baroness R. V. de Villehfagne de Leon; The. /bride entered the church on the afm of her father and looked lovely in a white bengal­ ine - afternoon-length dress -with- fitted jacket and carried a white Bible topped with a^ gardenia art sweetheart roses. The bride! tendant was her . sister Miss Anne Stothers, who wor a tur­ quoise noon silk aflern n dress. She w®re a bandeau of/plucked pink carnations in her carried a colonial pink carnations. The ceremony was by Rev. S. R.,-Vincent Hugh MacMillan Writes From Far Eastern Trouble Spot, Formosa. air, and uquet of \ ve <>ot Mote AfOOt IN AAY SOCK ■ ? THE STERLING TRUSTS C O R R O R A T I O N BRANCH OFFICE' 1-3 Dunlop St., Barrio "HEAD OFFFiCE 372 Bay St., Toronto ' All your farm^animals thrive better with Swift’s Mineral 5u|»pleihehf l You get mote for your money with any Swift’s v feed. Because th^ Swiftreputatiowdepends on thc product you grow, Swift’s,..want you to have research and manufacturing facilities to see you get them.- You get the most foryour feed dollar • / when you Swx/Z’s bars! erformed efore an altar banked with, white’ and pink peonies. Miss Kathleen Down was at the organ, The groom was supported by Mr, ^D.“Tr^Flbt^“^f“Caigary~ Ushers were Mr. George Hill and Mr. James Hill of Star City. IMrs.. I. F. Stothers, mother of the bride, Wore a .navy and white cqstume with a corsage of roses. The groom’s mother appeared in a cocoa lace dress with pink ac­ cessories and corsage entone. . A reception followed immedi­ ately after the ceremony at the borne of the bride’s parents. The bride’s table was,centred, by the w’edding cake embedded in white tulle, white daisies and smilax. The toast to the bride was pro­ posed by Mr; J, W. Clark. Look­ ing after the pleasure of the guests at the reception .were Mrs. Norman .Bernstrom, Miss Helen Whitson and Miss Joan iFripps. The bride and groom left later in the afternoon for Saskatoon.. From Saskatoon they travelled to Vancouver by plane for their honeymoon. The bride chose for travelling a suit of blue-grey silk with pink hat and gloves, navy handbag and shoes. The young couple will * tnake t-^ieir home in’Calgary. Out-of-towh guests attending the wedding included the bride 3. grandmother, Mrs. Jas. C. Thorpe and het aunt, Miss Edna Thorpe of Saskatoon; Mrs. Jas. O. Fripps, the bride’s aunt and her daugh­ ter, Miss Joan. Fripps, from Van­ couver; (Constable James Fripps, RjC.M.P., . from Blairm.ore, Alber­ ta; parents of the groom, Baron and Raroness de Villenfagne do Leori from Calgary; anjd his sis- Church Guest House, Hongkong, July 31st, 1954 My dear Campbell Thompson: Many months have passed since I last wrote to old friends around Lucknow. May I therefore again use the good auspices of The Sentinel to renew this contact? My wife and I are in Hong-, kong fori a brief holiday to get some renewal of health and strength for another year iri“For< ^T^Being^a^British Colony, this is a home-dike place in many ways. Union Jacks fly in the breezes and many friends have Scottish, English or Irish accents! Life here is conducive to thoughts of home and home folk. . In Formosa we rarely hear,of Canada.. Newspapers nor radio rarely mention the name. Here in Hongkong however, we. are made more conscious of the pres­ ence in the world of our Land of the Maple* even if only to read the prominently displayed Can- -adianwhisky ads .or .Sheaffer’s_ pens, made in Goderich! This summer there has been more of Canada. A few days after arriv­ ing the destroyer ‘Crusader’ came into port. We had the privilege of a four hour cruise into some of the paval practice waters out­ side the harbor to see the crew do some of their exercises; tar­ get shooting with anti-aircraft equipment, depth charge drop­ ping, speed tests.and radar con­ trol of the ship. It was interest­ ing to meet men from all over Canada. Every province seemed to be represented. Everyone we spoke to knew some person or some place we knew. We met no one from Lucknow, but that may have been due to the lack of publicly making our home town known! Some time after Dominion Day we heard a recorded broadcast celebrating the 37th anniversary of Confederation. It was encour- agaihg to note that the feature item of the program was a ren­ dition iby a Toronto choir and orchestra of Healey Willan’s Cor- NUTRITION IS OUR To all* true Scots that letter JlplLJ out like a sore thumb in indicat­ ing our Irish ancestry on the paternal side^ This fact was emphasized in the following clipping from The Sunday Mail, published in Scot­ land, arid, “presen ted Us” by Mrs. Jim MacNaughtori of town: “There isn't .another kilt throughout,, the length and breadth of Scotland like that of Mr. Robert Thoms. Not only did he .have it made for him, but the cloth was specially designed and woven with a ‘new’ — and yet a Very .old^-npattern, “This, is the tartan of the Clah MacThomas. “Never heard of it?; It is reck­ oned to be 600 years old, one of the most ancient clans in Scot­ land’s' history. _“If your name happens to be ■Th_diri7^rhoms~or—MacThomasr (McCombie , or. McComie (Gaelic variations me “art i n g ‘son of Thomas’* or even'just plain Jock Thomson (so long as it is not spelt with a foreign ‘p’ in it), you too might be eligible io weaf this rare tartari.' - - ■ “Mr. Thioms, rin Edinburgh businessman, has, with the heir of the 2.0th chieftain of the clan* spent years On research into the lost. history, of the; clan,.; , onation masterpiece. Canada is coming along in music and drama; Would that we could tUne in, in Formosa, to CiBC for more • of what friends at home hear of frequent feasts. ■ Then into the world news came the dramatic climax to the Indo- - China talks in Geneva in which Mendes-France managed a cease fire agreement to become effect­ ive.,-in. that blood-soaked battle . area. It was announced that.Can-’ ada was to- have a hand in peace maintenance, along with India and Poland. ,.The other night’ we enjoyed hearing Blair’ Fraser speaking through BBC’s “Radio Newsreel’’ from Ottawa, express- • inig the sense of responsibility arid mission with which the assign­ ment was accepted. I hope the Canadian ’ press - may find- good reporters and commentators so that the general public may real - ly get to know more about South East’ Asia and its problems thru interest in . this big project. “ ^hd™now™b~egins ~the~Em — sporting, event in Vancouver and the Duke of Edinburgh’s “flyihg carpet” visit to Canada’s sub­ polar regions? This will keep Canada in the Hongkong public’s eye for a fortnight at least. Recently Hongkong itself has been in the news, as you doubt­ less known Not doubt you/ have been following reports of the shooting down of the Cathay Pa­ cific Airliner off Hainan Island. We were at the Kaitak airfield that afternoon seeing off three Formosan church leaders enroute to the Christian World Assem­ blies at Princeton, N.J., and Evan­ ston, Ill. just when we arrived back we heard over the radio that* an aircraft was in distress, one we had flown in over a year ago. We’held our breath moment­ arily lest it be the Philippine air­ liner we had just seen off. Later came the ruinour that this might become a disaster with internat­ ional complications. Soon we found ourselves in a Hongkong that had become a hot spot in, the cold war. As a summer resort cool spot, . ■ Hongkong could hardly be com­ pared with places like Pt. Clark . or Bruce Beach. Daily and night­ ly temperatures have averaged 90-92 With* very high humidity which makes perspiration an al­ most constantly flowing stream.' But .there are compensations. A cable car station is about three ‘ t . ...J Treleaven Milling Company Phone 9, XiUc&now, Ont. “Until recehtl^ hacT 'been regarded as a' . sept of . the Clan Macintosh, but the heir. and my­ self feel that Within the next few years we shall be able to hold our otyn Clah MacThomas Gathering”, said Mr.- Thoms. “Af­ ter all, it is about time that we became an organized clan again, as- We were one of the 17 who signed the Roll of the Clans in ... in<g breezes we can be on the mountain 2000. feet up in about ■half an hour. Up there are lovely walks and memorable bird!s eve view .of sea and islands, arid ot this cross-roads of sea and air commerce crowded by nearly 3 ' million people. Hdre live repre^ sentritives of every province of . China; chiefly of course Canton­ ese, the Chinese best known to Canada, and to LucknoW with, your noted hockey family, Other land “foreigners” are few; only about one in 20, including Brit­ ish Commonwealth people. Now we are on the point of • • leaving “for Forrriosa again. We expect to sail on. a Jardine Math­ eson ship, two nights arid a day . up,the channel This time of year We’-“keep fingers ^crossed” lest we meet a typhoon. Those Who ’have'read“ConTad’s—“Typhoon^—- written about a Formosa channel experience, may imagine what . such a storm may be like. Thoughts about stormy sailing rerriinds us that the' Formosa to which we return may not give ' propiise of very fair weather pol­ iticallyIt has been a problem, bastion in the political cold wtjr . between the, democracies and theautodracies. Arid now,, after jthe shooting incident off the big island.farther south, abatenTrnr^-” of storm and stress- is not, at pres­ ent • apparent. Indeed “Formosa*’: may appear in your headlines in the months ahead*no less1 often that in the past few, years. . This- note is to bring greetings to Luckno-w friends and* to say to all; as . Canadians often .say to each other-, VZe’ll be thinking. or youH'z 1 . . ’Sincerely,^ --iIugh--MadMinafL-...... .