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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-08-28, Page 7Thursday, August 28, 1941 4#, ........ . SWITZERLAND... CZECHOSLOVAKIA . BRITAIN .., FREE FRANCE . 4 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES CUT COARSE FOR THE PIPE CUT FINE FOR CIGARETTES /and the four corners of the world! • In spite of submarines and Nazi "statistics”—in defiance of bombs and bombast—you’ll see eye-open­ ing exhibits from all around the world! Canada’s greatest Exhibi­ tion brings you a dramatic picture of life today in a war-torn world. t SEE Canada’s Fighting Men in Action! Canada’s Navy, Army and Air Force will give you a "ring-side seat” for today’s war of swift, smashing movement. Canadian-built fighting machines go through gruelling tests on a specially constructed "battle­ field”. Guns and shells and other tools of war will be finished and shipped to Empire armies. Humbled Messerschmitts from the Battle Britain will be on display. Music Everywhere! On the con­ tinent’s largest dance floor in the C.N.E. Dance Pavilion, you’ll swing and sway to the rhythms of Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Tony Pastor, Vaughan Monroe, Ina Ray Hutton, and The Modemaires. The U.S. Navy Band and hundreds of other outstanding musical organi­ zations will fill the Exhibition air with grand, martial music! Indian Native Dances and Old-Time Fiddlers’ Contests are part of the colour and charm of this 2-week Wonderland. SEE Agriculture on a war-time basis; a Woman’s World of To­ morrow; sports classics every hour, every day; the brilliant C. N.E. Horse Show. See it all and see it often—the most dramatic, impor­ tant and inspiring Exhibition of all time. z l' ll tfiesweto" p TIGHTER PILOTS EARN THEIR WINGS AT CAMP BORDEN By HUGH TEMPLIN Camp Borden is- Canada’s best known flying school. With its six square miles of flat, sandy land, it is probably the largest as well. It was an air training camp during the last Great war, from 1914 to 1918. In those far-off days, it wasn’t too popu­ lar. Sand got into the buildings and the clothing and the food. Occasion­ ally a veteran pilot remarks: “I won­ der if the old hangars are still at Camp Borden.” The pilots of the last war would see many changes. Some of the old buildings remain but they are hard to find among all the new ones. The sand is now subdued, with green grass hold­ ing it down, though it was necessary to keep the seed in place with wire netting on s’ome of the dunes until it sprouted. The administration build­ ings, and some others are of perman­ ent brick. Camp Borden is now the No. 1 Ser­ vice flying Training School of the Royal Canadian Air Force. My own guess is that it is also the largest and A. H. McTAVISH, B.A. Teeswater, Ontario Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public and Conveyancer Office: Gofton House, Wroxeter every Thursday afternoon 1.30 to 4.30 and by appointment. Phone — Teeswater 120J. YOUR EYES NEED ATTENTION Our 25 Point Scientific Examin­ ation enables us to give you Clear, Comfortable Vision F. F. HOMUTH Optometrist Phone 118 Harriston MONUMENTS at first coat Having our factory equipped with the niost modern machinery for the exe- cution of high-class “work, wd ask you to see the largest display, of monu­ ments of any retail factory m Ontario, All finished by sand blast machines We import all our granites from me Old Country quarries direct, in the tough. You can save all local deal­ ers*, agents* and middleman profits ny teeing us. E. J. Skelton & Sen M Wot End Bridge-WALKERTON in some ways the finest air school on the continent. It is developing rapidly. I visited the R.C.A.F. at Camp Borden twice. Within a few months, I found notable changes, particularly the fact that the collection of assorted planes at the camp last Fall has been replaced by long lines of sleek Harvards, ..with a few Yales. It it another indication of the way the supply of training craft has caught up to the needs. Ten Weeks of Flying Of the six months necessary for the training of a pilot in Canada, the last ten weeks are spent at Camp Borden or one of the other Service Flying Training Schools. On arrival, the student, now with the rank of Leading Aircraftman, is able to fly a plane at a hundred miles an hour or so. He has learned to find his way across country, has done simple aerobatics (or stunts, if you like) and has had .lectures on a variety of subjects from signals to navigation. Advanced flying is taught by exper­ ienced pilots at Camp Borden. The sleek and lovely Harvards fly at speeds over 200 miles an hour. They are the yellow, noisy, single-motored craft of­ ten seen in the air over Southern On­ tario. ’Everything at Camp Borden is larg­ er or faster.. The three main runways are paved strips 3300 feet long and 600 feet wide. Commercial airports near the largest cities are tiny by compari­ son. Even that isn’t sufficient. There arc two auxiliary landing fields at Ed- cnvale and Alliston, each as large as a commercial field, but used only in cas­ es of emergency. Other things are speeded up as well. Planes’ sometimes seem to rise in swarms; a control tower is necessary to sort out the traffic. It is said that landings In a year may number 250,000. Gasoline consumpion is enor­ mous. Lectures Still Continue On my second trip to Camp Bord­ en, I arrived at the gate just as a black thunderstorm swept over the plains. Six or seven pilots were up when the storm arrived and they had to stay up till conditions became more suitable. It was an hour before the last one was down and the crew in the control tow­ er breathed a sigh of relief. No dam­ age had been done and the young pil­ ots had gained valuable experience.. It was no day to stay outside, so I talked with Squadron Leader Carter, the. Commanding Officer, who has since been transferred to a new school at Clareshotm, Alberta. Flying Offic­ er Douglas showed me the lecture rooms, the armament rooms and the course of study, and Squadron Leader Bradshaw initiated me into the myst­ eries of the control tower, Xtt the Control Tower The flying field at Camp Borden is a huge flat plain. Because of the sandy soil, it dries quickly after a rain. Huge paved, runways criss-cross the field, giving ample room for landing, no matter what the wind direction. On the edge of the field, near the hangars, rises the control tower, which is the nerve centre of the flying field. To the casual visitor, the control tower looks unpretentious? It is three s.toreys high, covered with asphalt shingles. Around the edges of the roof hang all kinds of odd things that mean nothing to the outsider, but much to the pilots. On a all pole above the roof is an anemometer, or instrument for measuring the velocity of the wind. Each of its four cups is about the size of a half-orange peel. Inside the glased-in compartment on top of the tower is a crew of three or four, surrounded by instruments and signalling equipment. On a desk is a list of all planes in use, with the num­ bers, the names of the pilots and oth­ er’ information. As each plane comes down the runway, it gets a signal from the tower with an Aldis lamp, then gains speed, takesythe proper runway, and is off into the'air. The Aldis lamp is used for signal­ ling in the Air Force and the Navy, both day and night. On active service, in convoy work and the like, it is safer to use than wireless, as the messages cannot be picked up by the enemy. The signal lamp is about the size of a large automobile headlight, with a lens that concentrates a nowerful ray of light in a narrow beam. Above the lamp is a sighting tube, so that the ray of light can be aimed accurately, and under­ neath are a pistol grip and trigger. Words in Morse code can be sent, or different colored lights used. A green signal gives the pilot the sign to go; a red to stop. As a more general signal to pilots in the air, Very lights are used. They are bright flares, like glorified Roman candles fired from large Very pistols. The flare looks like an oversized shot­ gun shell, and fits into a pistol with ‘a large .barrel. A red flare indicates that something is wrong; the white is a general recall; the green a signal that everything is O.K. A switchboard controls the elabor­ ate electrical equipment — floodlight, searchlights, rotating air beacon and the rest. One is marked “Ceiling Light,” but the ceiling in this case is the sky. A powerful light on top of a distant hangar points straight up to the clouds. By sighting along a rotat­ ing arm to the spot where' the light strikes the clouds, and reading the fig­ ures on a metal arc, it is possible to determine the height of the “ceiling” for flying. A system of flags, colored balls and tin cans indicates weather conditions and directions to be taken in landing. On a flat roof nearby, oddly shaped and colored pieces of wood are laid out to give similar information. On the rainy afternoon which I spent in the tower, they said: “Use runways only”; “Land from the south,” and “All flying washed out.” Beside the control tower stands the “crash crew,” with fire fighting truck always ready m case of accidents. If a pilots gets into difficulties, the crew will be well out on the field before he lands, with an ambulance not far be­ hind.' The crash truck drives from all six wheels and carries equipment for all types of fires. There are the ordinary fire extinguishers and a 100-gaMon tank of water. For fires in oil and gasoline, carbon dioxide is used to quench the flames by depriving them of oxygen. A foam tank lays a blan­ ket of bubbles over the fire, keeping away the air. The fire fighters use as­ bestos uniforms and blankets of the same fireproof material. Runways are not illuminated for night flying, but pilots must learn to land with no more equipment than is use'd on active service on British air. fields. Small flares, not visible above 900 feet altitude are laid out in the form of a “T” in such a way that the pilot knows where the runways "and the horizon are and can come in with scarcely a bump. Pilots Get Their Wings After ten weeks at Camp Borden or some other Service Flying Training School, the student pilot is ready to go overseas for final training under combat conditions. In token of this, he is given his "wings” and the rank of Sergeant Pilot. The wings ceremony is simple and impressive, The graduates stand in the centre of a hollow square, with their comrades around them. Among .the class may be young men from Austral­ ia, New Zealand, England and Scot­ land, the Straits Settlements or other pa-rts of the Empire. There ate likely to be some Americans and a large pro­ portion of Canadians. The Commanding Officer calls out the names of the graduates, one by one. They drop back a pace or two, march down to the end of the line, around the front and then proudly up the centre. A salute is returend by the O,C and he pins the pilot badge, a pair of wings, with the letters, "R.C. A.FJ* (for the Canadians),’ surmount­ ed by a crown, on the breast of the tunis, offers congratulations and a handshake, This is one time when vis­ itors are present, usually relatives who come to see the graduation ceremony. Most of thq graduates of Camp Borden are “single seater” fighting pil­ ots. They have been trained in the Harvards by day and by night. They are taught to find their way across country alone in all kinds of weather, to use machine guns and advanced gun sights. They will take over the Hurricanes, the Spitfires and still new­ er models after some further training in England. But a few are trained as bomber pilots. They use the Avro An- sons, a slower, twin-engined plane. As the various camps are turning to spec­ ialized work, the bomber pilots will probably be going to other schools in future. *WESTFIELD Miss Alice Hiles, R, N., of London, visitpd on Wednesday with her uncle, Mr. Wm. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hoover of Brussels called on Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Campbell on Saturday. Mr. Donald Stonehouse of Goder­ ich, spent a couple of days last week with his cousin, Donald Taylor. Mr. and Mrs, Wesley Stackhouse, Miss Eva of Brucefield, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Neale and children of Glen­ coe visited last week at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wightman and Mr. and Mrs, .McDowell, Mr, and Mrs. A. E. Johnston and Mr. Morley Johnston of West Wa- wanosh visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Cook were guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cook of Belgrave. Miss Coline Clark, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Marvin Mc- BARGAIN FARES TO TORONTO EXHIBITION In effect from many points in Ontario SINGLE FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP Gov’t Revenue Tax Extra GOOD GOING AUG. 21 - SEPT. 6 RETURN LIMIT - SEPT. 10 CANADIAN NATIONAL / Dowell, spent a few days at Toronto this week before returning to her school at St. Catharines. Miss Minnie Snell of Wingham, Little Miss Barbara Jean Smith of Goderich, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McDowell. -Masters Victor and Cecil Campbell are spending a few days this week at the home of their uncle, Dr. V. John­ ston of Lucknow. Rev. H. C. Wilson took for his text on Sunday from St. John 1:4G, “Come and See.” Mr. Stanley Sibthorpe of Blyth favored with two solos, which were much appreciated. Mr. J. D. Elsley and Mrs. J, E, Ellis of Molesworth visited 'on Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Deans and babe of Wingham, visited on Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Norman McDow­ ell. Mr. Verne Thornton, Miss Lillian Thornton, Miss Watson, Mrs, Thorn­ ton of Guelph and Miss Ellen Thorn­ ton of Fergus visited on Suday wtnh Miss Mildred Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. Norman McDowell, and Gerald were Hamilton and Tor­ onto visitors this week. Miss Annie Clark, who has been vis­ iting her sister, Mrs. Marvin McDow­ ell, returned to her home in the West this week. The Mission Circle held their meet­ ing on Thursday evening at the home of Miss Phylis Cook with 10 present. The meeting was led by Mildred Thornton. The Study Book on, Liv­ ing in Korea, was given by Phylis Cook, Scripture lesson was read from Exodus, 27 chap,, by Mildred Thorn­ ton, who also led in prayer. Reading by Dorothy McVittie, Piano solo by Phylis Cook. The president, Mrs. Earnest Snell, was in charge of the business. The girls decided to make baby’s booties. Lunch was served by Margaret Vincent’s group. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sibthorpe and children of Blyth visited on Sunday with ,Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McDowell. Miss Jean Campbell of Kitchener is spending a’ couple of weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Campbell. ' Mr. Bob McIntosh of Hamilton, spent the week-end at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Marvin McDowell. Mr. W. H. Campbell is spending a few days at the home of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Crozier of Crewe. The monthly meeting of the W. M. S. was held in the church on Wednes­ day afternoon. The devotional pro­ gram was in charge of Mrs. Alva Mc­ Dowell’s group. Mrs. McDowell led the meeting. After the opening hymn the Lord’s Prayer was repeated in un­ ison. The Surgeon of the Skeena was the study book, which was taken by Mrs. Charles Smith. A musical num- beh was given by Mrs. Fred J. Cook and Mrs. Fred W. Cook. The Scrip­ ture reading, 23rd Psalm, was read by Mrs. Alva McDowell. Mrs. Marvin McDowell led in .prayer. Readings given by Mrs. Earnest Snell. Mrs. Lloyd Walden, Mrs. R. Vincent. The j Norman McDowell and children, Miss with her husband?” president, Mrs. McVittie, was in ( Mildred Thornton were recent London charge5 of the business. The roll was ] visitors. called with 17 answering. A motion I Mrs. W. Wilson of Clinto visited ot the last meeting was recinded and 1 with her daughter, Mrs Wm Carter it was decided not to have the Rally ; Mr. Alex Nethery, Miss Dorothy here in October for Mission Circles,: Nethery of Hamilton with Mr. and L T’ grt?ups“ Mrs- J- L-'Mrs. Telford Cock. - - - Miss Alice Cook of Wingham, spent ance. It was deeded to have the baby. the week-end with her parents Mr. McDowell gave a reading on Temper-! band meeting in September, and the ' and Mrs. Fred W. Cook. Thank-offering meeting in October, tl • .Mr. and Mrs. John Petts of Blyth was decided to make crib quilts for Miss Hazel Petts of Losdon visited. Red Cross. Several tops were donated, with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cook Miss Minnie Snell presented the lad-■ Mrs. Wm. Kelly and Jimmy of’Wai- Mr. and Mrs. John Petts of Blyth, Miss Minnie Snell presented the lad-■ Mrs. Wm. Kelly and Jimmy of’wal- ics aid with two crocheted doilies for ton, Mr. Wm. Kelly of North Bay Miss Eva Killough of Toronto visited with Mr. and Mrs. Alva McDowell and other friends. Mrs. Wm. McDowell visited at the home of her brother, Mr. Wesley Stackhouse of Brucefield. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Campbell and Donald, Mrs. A. Speigelberg and. Barkley visited with Mr. asd Mrs. W. Crozier of Crewe. Rev. E. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, who are holidaying at Port Albert, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Taylor, flower stands. Mrs. Stanley Cook clos­ ed the meeting with prayer. (Intended for Last Week) • Miss Minnie Snell is spending some time with Mrs. Carl Deans of Wing­ ham. j Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Campbell were: Mr. and Mrs. Colin Campbell, Billy and Keith of Ottawa. Mrs. A. M. Rogerson, Mrs. Robt. Blanchard of Jamestown, New York. Mrs. Arthur Speigelberg and Barkley and Mr. Verne Filsinger of Kitchener. ! Mr. Wm. McDowell, Mr. and Mrs.’“So Poppy has gone back to live “Yes; she couldn’t bear to hear of him having such a good time.” The keynote of today is work. And where you find work you find a welcome for ice-cold "Coca-Cola”. In affiles factories and workshops the pause that refreshes with ice cold "Coca-Cola” is a little minute that’s long enough for a big rest • • • contributing to more work and better work. Authorised bottler of ’'Coca-Cola*’ Stratford Bottling Company, Stratford, Ont. refreshed