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AUSTRALIAN OFFICER VISITS CENTRALIA — Group
I Captain A. M. Cameron, commanding officer of Centralia,
is seen welcoming Air Commodore I. D. McLaclan,' of the
' Australia Air Force, to the station. Air Commodore Mc-
i Laclan, on duty with the RAC as the director of flying
a training, "was given a detailed briefing .on the . training
done at Centralia. Another visitor at the local station
recently was Air Commodore R. Soedjono, the air attache
of the Indonesian air force at Washington.—RCAF Photo
Fluoridation Results
Proven Satisfactory
Despite, the fact that fluorida
tion „of pity water as a means of
preventing tooth decay among
children has the support of top
most, . medical authorities, so
much alarm has been voiced
about possible dire results that
the people of many cities are
against it.'
Fluoridation is today a fight
ing Word, says the October Read
er’s Digest. In both Canada and
the United States it has ripped
apart many communities in one
of the angriest 'public-healthi fights of this generation. !
While more cities and towns
are fluoridating their water than
ever, many people are violently
opposed to it. Ills ranging from
. kidney disease to inter-cranial
lesions have been, attributed to
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Garages
Your Airforce in Action
Albert Airport
Now Herd Pasture
Since I commenced this series have long since disappeared.
....................... - ■ - , Their concrete floors are all that
' is left. These floors and the
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fered badly over the years. They
of articles, I have devoted my
attentions exclusively to the roads passing by them have suf
various phases of the training fered badly over the years. They
programme carried out at Sta- are all practically overgrown by
tion Centralia. However, in this iqpg grasses and shrubs. The
week’s column, I would like to paving is cracked and broken
depart from the usual trend, and. and a general air of desolation
draw the attention of my read-1 hangs over the entire scene,
ers to those things, activities One building does stand, how-
and people with which they were ever Thjs js a large steel and
once familiar during the days of iconcrete barn of relatively new
War, when the British Common- con5tructjon which is sited near
wealth Air Training Plan was in.................. ...
full swing in this part of the
country.
The circumstance's which
prompted this desire involved a
drive, north on Highway 21 one
blustery and overcast Sunday
afternoon. Having had time on
our hands, my wife and I de
cided that we would drive up
towards* Kincardine and take a*
look around the countryside be
tween that town and Goderich,
As we passed by the sideroad ; which turns off the highway and I
runs down to the village of Port •
Albert, we could see, in front i
of us, and to our right, the large
tract of land from which all
trees and heavy growth had been
cleared. There is ■something
about an airport which makes
it unmistakeable to recognise,
even though it may’long have
’been abandoned- This large
cleared space could only be the
Old Port Albert aerodrome which
was used during the war by the
RAF as a training station.
Concr«t« Floors Remain
From the road it was possible
to see the sites of the hangars
and the various station roads
leading to different parts of the
field. However, all hangars, bar
racks, mess halls and the many
other buildings which go to
make up an operational station
to the highway in the approxi
mate position of where Number
1 Hangar once stood. This barn
stands alone, unique in its posi
tion as the only vertical struc
ture in an area which once com
prised a small townsite.
We could see, over by the
barn, the greater part of a mag
nificent herd of Hereford steers.
Two men were talking beside a
car.
One of the men, observing us,
climbed into his car and came
over to meet us as we walked
in. He introduced himself to us
as Mr. Reg. McGee, of Goderich,
the owner of the land, and of
the herd grazing upon it. To our
request to explore the old air
port, he extended us full wel
come and insisted on driving us
over the old runways and ex
plaining the various phases of
life as they had been and cur
rently are at the field. Mr, Mc
Gee told us how he had bought
the land in 1947. The area con
sists of some 400 acres and on
it he grazes his herd of over
200 Herefords. As a matter of
interest, a large percentage, of
his cattle were recently brought
down to Port Albert from
toulin Island.
Plane Ramp Desolate
In Mr. McGee’s car we
out 'onto the old ramp
Mani-
drove
where
IT
i fluoridation. '‘Mass liquidation”
of the people, if fluoridation, be
comes widespread, • has been
warned'against by- a New York
group. One .critic says the Rus
sians have obtained phony con
fessions from prisoners by forc
ing them to .drink fluoridated
water.
In several cities, says Reader’s
Digest, the public expressions of
such fears have caused citizens
to vote against fluoridating their
water. Yet many positive results
in tooth-decay prevention can' be
; proved, the article says, and
■ cites as an example the towns of
Newburgh, N.Y. and Kingston,
N.Y. For the past 10 years, New
burgh has fluoridated its water.
Kingston, a neighboring city of
the sanie size, has not. The NeW-
’■burgh childrexp pf .6 To lb' years
old have 60 percehf' less 'tooth
decay and no sign whatever of
ill health due to fluoridation.
Equally promising results have
been achieved, the Digest article
says, in Brantford, Ontario,
where a 10-year study of. fluori
dation shows only about half as
much tooth decay among child
ren as in other cities where
water lacks fluoride.
i once aircraft had stood in order
ly lines. Now this ramp is deso
late and weed grown. We drove
along a broken up taxi-way to
wards the north end of the air-
i port. Port Albert airport is built
i in the same manner as all the
I other air force fields in this
I vicinity. This is, the runways
are laid out in the form of an
almost equilateral triangle, with
one runway lying parallel with
the hangar line, and the other
two running out from either end,
to meet at the far side of the
field.
Arriving on the north to south
runway, which is the one which
runs parallel to the hangars,*we
were very surprised to qbserve
that the runways showed none
of the marked signs of djsrepair
which had been evident else
where on the field. The only
visible signs of deterioration con
sisted of the occasional frost
heave under the tarmac surface.
The grass infield between the
runways is very heavily grown
over, but it has been regularly
grazed upon and does not exhibit
the wild profusion of vegetation
which is so evident on the re
mainder of the station area.
Mr. McGee'told us that during
the winter months when the run
ways at Sky Harbour are too
soft for flying, the Goderich
pilots often land at Port Albert.
He also stated that any pilot who
had reason to wish to make use
of the runways for landings and
take-offs was more than wel
come to do so.
'See Faint Tire. Marks
As we- drove on around the
runways, it was still possible to
see the faint tire marks at the
touch-end of the runways. Newer
tire marks were also in evi
dence. These, it was explained,
were caused by cars which had
used the old airport as a track
for a race meet in the Spring.
To substantiate the claim the
runways are safe it should be
mentioned that during this meet,
speeds well in excess of 100
mph were recorded without any
damage to the cars.
Our tour around the field end
ed as we drove back onto the
ramp from ' the south end. For
some time we stayed' and talked
with Mr. McGee and, his assist
ant about the field ■ and about
his cattie. We were shown many
of the outstanding specimens of
his herd, including one old steer
which had become domesticated
to the point of nuzzling its owner,
and tolerating passengers on its
back. This animal follows Mr.
McGee around like a dog when
ever he is on the field.
Reg. McGee- knows the story
of Port' Albert air- station per-’
haps better than most of the
people in the neighborhood. The
son of a cattle drover, he was
born on a farm only about one-
half mile north of the airport.
He pointed', out the ruins of his
birthplace to us.’ When the
Government bought the land at
the outbreak of the war, the
proximity of the McGee farm
made it necessary to tear down
the buildings as they formed an
obstruction.
Recalls Training Syllabus
He remembers well the ar
rival of the first RAF personnel
and aircraft At the station, and mentioned in detail the heavy
syllabus of training which went
on there constantly.
He recalls the roar of the old
twin engiried AnSon trainers as
they -started up on the ramp,
taxied out to position, ran up
their erigines and took off, many
times passing only a few hubd-.
red feet over the ruins of his
birthplace. Mor4 recently, he
remembers the end Of the war,
and- the departure of the men'
and the- aircraft.
■ H6 mentioned the period of
peace that prevailed for a while,
when the 'hangars and quarters
stood desolate, unlit and silent.
Finally there came the day when
the land was Released by the
Government, the buildings were
finally torn down. Mr. McGee
seized his opportunity to buy the
land for his cattle.
Perhaps, as we. walked back
to our. car, I was feeling sus
ceptible • to suggestion, but it
seemed to me that on that cold,
overcast and blustery Sunday
afternoon, there -hung over the
old, abandoned airport an atmos
phere of .brooding, sadness. It
was reminiscent of the some
times wistful expressions that
can occasionally be seen on the
faces of those men who came
back from the fighting. They
will never deny the horror and
misery that was prevalent in
those days, but occasionally they
will express a longing for the
old comradeship, arid say to one
another, “Yeah, we did have
some good times, do you re
member when . . .?”
To Prevent Diseases
“Canada’s record is as* gqpd as.
any country’s with regal'd to
Immunization, hut it’s still not
good enough. We won’t rest con
tended until total immunization,
is achieved,” stated Dr. R. J*.
Wilson, Associate Professor of
Public Health and Preventive
Medicine in the School of Hy-i giene, University of Toronto, in',................I......I................... ....
a National Immunization Week ents may have their children
interview. '’....... \ ..„
“There are still children in this lever there is a school service,
country who are not immunized. | there is a health service as well.
While this situation exists, the
danger of epidemics is still with
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widespread public health meas- j tion and ^immunization may be
estimated 70 per cent coverage, j
“The big hazard is during the!
early part of life. Take for in- i
stance the matter of whooping
cough. This disease is caused by
bacteria which affect the mucous
membrane of the lungs. A tiny
child is not sufficiently strong
to cough this mucous up,
and the throat passages are
Dr. Wilson said that between
1945 and 1949, 60.2 per chnt of
all deaths from whooping cough
occurred in children under five
months, and that 77 per cent of
the total were is childreri1 under
one 'year of age.
“It is evident that ail children
must be immunized early in life.
They should be immunized al
three months of age, having
three doses at a month’s inter
val, and a booster shot between
six and twelve months later.
To achieve the ideal, children
should receive another booster
at the age of three, and another
at six years. This is a precaution-
ary measure to take care of
those odd persons whose im
munity may wear off a bit unless
fortified by the booster.
“There is no need for any
child in Canada to go unprotect
ed by immunization,” he contin
ued. “Every province, including
the Northwest Territories, has
public health services where par-
immunized free of charge. Where-
Large urban centres, as well as
___________ ,.T„.. many rubai towns have child
He pointed-out that despite i health centres where vaccina-
™:y
ures in effect, there is only an: obtained free of charge, regard-
’__________less of family income.
Immunization may be obtained
from the family doctor, who re
ceives the vaccines free of charge
from the Provincial Government.
Today, there is no smallpox,
hardly any diptheria, and whoop
ing cough is declining. What we
would like to achieve is a lower
ing of the general incidence of
disease throughout .Canada, in
order to achieve tlie same re
sults as we did in the case of
diphtheria,--that is, to eliminate
carriers of disease, thus elimin
ating the risk of exposure to dis
ease in the first place,”
Dr. Wilson urged all Canadian
parents to have their children
Immunized during National Im
munization Week, sponsored by
the Health League of Canada,
when it is still fresh in their
minds.
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