The Wingham Advance-Times, 1943-09-16, Page 7•
DR. W. M. CONNELL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19
W. A. CRAVVFORD, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Located at the office of the late
Dr. J. P. Kennedy.
Phone 150 Wingham'
HARRY FRYFOGLE
Licensed Embalmer and
Funeral Director
Furniture and
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service
Phones: Day 109W. Night 109J.
J. W. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money To Loan
Office - Meyer Block, Wingham
J. H. CRAWFORD'
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etel
Bonds, Investments & Mortgages
Winghain Ontario
J. A. •FOX
Chiropractor and Drugless
Therapist.
RADIONIC EQUIPMENT.
COMPLETE HEALTH
SERVICE.
Phone 191.
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A Thorough Knowledge of Farm
Stock.
Phone 231, Wingham,
K. M. ,MacLENNAN
Veterinary Surgeon
Office-Victoria St., West.
Formerly the Hayden Residence
PHONE 196
Wingham, a..:.. Ontario
ly to bother denying• vague rumours.
• *
Among the vast, sprawling tempor-
ary 'buildings which the war has
brought to Ottawa one finds that
Munitions & Supply occupies a con-
siderable part with thousands busily
engaged in this important activity.
M & S as it is known here sounds
humdrum, unimportant, but it -has a
tremendous job. Take just the our-,
chase of food for the armed forces
alone-one item. I am told that for
the first five months of 1943 this de-
partment negotiated the purchase of
22,000 tons of meat; 41,000 tons of
vegetables; 16,000 tuns bread; 3200
tons butter; 7,250,000 dozen eggs;
800 tons coffee and tea; 4000 tons of
evaporated milk. See how it's grow;',
ing, compare the 22,000 tons of meat
for 5 months as against the total of = 32,500 for all the year 1941. '
* * * *
In war industry women are now per-
forming 70% of the operations in
manufacture of machine guns, com-
prise more than 80% Of those employ-
ed in instrument factories, are over
27% of the 86,000 aircraft workers .. .
15,000 tons of wheat go out to Greece
every, month as a gift of the Canadian
people.
* *
Mr. Churchill's reference to Russia
in his recent Canadian radio talk
prompts me to gather a few items of
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cm Wednesday.
Seaman Elvin Wighiman has return,-
ed to his post at Halifax after spending-
a couple of weeks with Iljs Parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wightman,
The Septerdber meeting of the 'Rea
Cross, was held on Wednesday a.m.,
in the basement of the Westfield
Church, when three quilts were com-
pleted, A pot luck dinner was served-
to 14 ladies. In the afternoon regu-
lar W. M. 5, mating was held with,
Mrs. J. L, McDowell in charge of the
devotional programme, The meeting-
opened with a hymn,' The Bible les-
son taken from Luke, chapter 10, was
read by Mrs. J, L. McDowell after
which Mrs. Howard Campbell, Mrs,
J. L. McDowell led in prayer, The
Study Book was taken by Mrs. Wm,.
McVittie, The president, Mrs: Mc-
Vittie, was in charge of the business.
The minutes of the August meeting-
were read and approved. The roll
call which was responded to by 16
members was the name of some mis-
sionary and something of his or her
work. Temperance reading was given
by Mrs. J. L, McDowell. Plans were'
made for the Autumn Thank-offering'
to be held October 13th, A special
speaker to be provided. Mrs. Walter_,...
Cook was appointed as delegate to thZ
Sectional meeting. The treasurer re-
ported over, $105 raised to date. The.
Red Cross report for the. Westfield ,
Unit to date is 20 quilts, 12 girls dress-
es, 5 ladies' dresses, 16 sheets, 20 pr.
pyjamas, 12 pr. socks. They have
also 'sent boxes to the boys from this
district who are overseas. Mrs. Rev.
Snell closed,..the meeting with prayer.
Mr, and Mrs. Maurice Bosman visit-
ed on Sunday with Mrs. D. Taman of
Blyth.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Deans and Eliba-
beth of Wingham, visited on Wednes-
day with Mr. and Mrs, Norman Mc-
Dowell.
Miss Noreen Cobbe, of Hamilton,
spent the week-end with her aunt,
Mrs. W. A, Campbell and Mr. Camp-
bell.
The Mission Band met in the Sun-
day School room on Sunday afternoon
with 18 present. The president, Vio-
let Cook was in charge. Scripture
lesson was read by Lloyd McDowell.
Reading by Kathleen ,Mason. Stories
were told by Mrs. Wm. _Carter and
Mrs. Howard Campbell.
Mr, and Mrs. Wm., McDowell, Mrs.
Norman McDowell, visited on Mon-
day with Mrs. Wm, Kelly of Seaforth.
Mrs. Wm. McDowell remained for a
longer visit.
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Thursday, Sept 16th, 1943
WINOBAM ADVANCE-TIMES
COMBINED U.S. AND CANADIAN TASK FORCE CAPTURES KISKA IN THE ALEUTIANS
Vice-Admiral Thomas Csssin
kaid, ABOVE, was let command of
the Allied operations at the recap.
,ture of Kiska,
Part of the Canadian troops which had a share in the capture of Kiska, passing embarkation offices at
a west Canadian Dort.
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A WEEKLY EDITOR
LOOKS AT
Ottawa
Written specially
for th• weekly newspapers of Canada
By Jim Greenblat
With the tag end of summer vaca-
tions, the Prime Minister on the move
between Quebec, Washington and Ot-
tawa, these have been dog days for
news in Ottawa, although it's business
as usual with government and depart-
mental and bureaux activities continue
apace. There was even a little flurry
of excitement over the Prices Board
decision to cut out the hot dog "roll";
it was even press-rumoured that public
indignation was causing the Board to
reconsider its decision, but that was
promptly denied by the Board-one of
the few times it has come out public-
WELLINGTON FIRE
'Inswance Company
Est. 1840
An all Canadian Company which
has faithfully served its policy
holders for over a century .
Head Office - Toronto
H. C. MacLean Insurance Agency
Wingham
DR. R. L. STEWART
PHYSICIAN
Telephone 29
4
A. H. McTAVISH, B.A.
Teewater, 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.
Frederick A. Parker
OSTEOPATH
Offices: Centre St, Wingham
Otteopathic and Electric Treat-
ments, Foot Technique.
Phone, 272. Wingham.
carry-over tip to July 31, 1941, You
know an unusual feature this pa$t
[ crop year was the fact that almost a
I third was carried over an the farms,
An outstanding development was the
use of wheat for animal feed and by
I distilleries for ,industrial alcohol, It
1 is interesting to'know that in the past
crop year, too, the people of Canada
only consumed about half as much
wheat as went- into animal feed and
alcohol production. It was estimated
- that nearly 8 million bushels of wheat
were used for =alcohol production,
making 14 million gallons.
* * *
Russell Smart, real property admin.-
istrator 'here; has I'varned .that if the
pressure ebntinues on areas where
there is a shortage of housing it' may,
be necessary to consider regulations
restricting movement of families to
these areas. Of course you all know
"deficiency housing areas" exist in
such places as Halifax, Ottawa, To-
ronto, Vancouver, Victoria. This is
an appeal which could be well heeded
all over Canada, much as it is regret-
ted that families have to be separated
due lo war exigencies. In Ottawa for
instance, the -housing registry has 1850
applications for units and only 25
vacancies. Of the new applications it
was shown that ,309 are from heads
of families in the armed 'forces and
227 in civilian occupations, The tales
one hears of "house chasing" in Ot-
tawa (as well as' in other centres) are
really tragic. I have seen ads, ia the
local papers where they offer as high
as $100 reward 'for information lead-
ing to getting accommodation. The
moral: stay at home if you possibly
can.
* ,
Statistics seem to grow on trees in
Ottawa, but they usually show some
extensive phase of our widespread
economy. Here's something interests
rural people. There are 22 projects,
or .Phases of farm work under study
on the 161 Illustration Stations and
DONALD_ B. BLUE
Experienced Auctioneer
Licensed for Counties of
HURON & BRUCE
All Sales Capably Handled.
R. R. 1, Kincardine
Phone: Ripley 30-24.
44 District Experimental Stations
throughout the Dominion in 1942, and
during, that year 14$ field days were
held when nearby farmers visited the
stations with a total attendance of
about. 20,000 persons, or an average of
131 per -meeting. Neighbouring far-
mers are, of course, welcome to visit
the stations at any time and observe
how the projects suitable to their own
districts are .progressing. Up at my
home Stall r.n. in Swift Current, .S.ask,„
it is nothing unusual to have 2000,
people at the annual field day.
* *
Director of National Selective Serv-
ice Arthur MacNamara says that soon-
er or later an ,.order will be issued re-
. emPloyers to satisfy them-
selves that ail male employees in age
and marital classes designated under
Mobilization regulations have papers,
to showz,,that they have been rejected
or discharged from. the Forces, or
otherwise that they have complied with
the Regulations. Which seems CO put
it up to employers.
* .4= *
4n experimental farm tip for those
interested . . where cull apples can
be secured at low cost conversion of
the fruit into ensilage isa an economical
method of supplying succulent foods
for the production of milk and beef,
At the present time with an acute
labor shortage many 'farmers find it
difficult to grow either roots or corn,
the two chief sources of ,ucculen.ce
for winter use. To prevent leakage of
juices they should have an absorbent
such as alfalfa or grass hay..
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
We are now coming into the season
when the hens begin to be a sort of
nuisance.. 'Hens are for the most part
workers but they lack the brains of
many other creatures on the farm, A
hen can work like a trooper all day
digging worms, scratching for food
and trying to pick holes in all the ripe
tomatoes but she doesn't know what
to do when night comes.
The older hens are of course train-
ed to go into the hen-house but the
young fowl and the pullets take a lot
of persuasion. They will seek out a
cold, windy branch of a tree in the
orchard or along the lane fence in
preference to the clean safety of a,
roost in the henhouse. I'm certain it's
not adventure in their blood because
hens haven't even the sense to be ad-
venturous. .
The evenings are rapidly gettin.g
shorter now and the hens in the first
dusk wander around vainly looking
-for a place to sleep. The older ones
will pick through the chaff in the barn-
yard and the wheat sprinkled on the
gangway and then sedately walk into
the henhouse. The younger ones
head for the trees however and there's
no sense in trying to head them off.
If you do, they'll run squawking all
over the front of the farm taking a lot
of the more sensible ones with them.
After supper when you've settled
down to your pipe, newspaper and
stockinged feet warmth and comfort
from the fire in the kitchen range,
somebody brings in the alarm. I feel
almost like a sailor snuggling into his
bunk just as somebody shouts the
alarm that a sub is in the vicinity.
There's no submarines on our farm
but a vagrant fall breeze often brings
Miss A. Williams of Detroit, was a
guest last week of Mrs. J. Bell.
Mr. Jason Ellis of Toronto, was a
Westfield visitor on Tuesday.
Mr.. R. R. Redmond, Mrs. J, Bell,
MONUMENTS at first cost
Having our factory equipped with the
mast modern machinery for the exe-
cution of high-class work, we ask you
to see the largest display of .monu-
ments of any retail factory in Ontario.
All finished by sand blast machines.
We import our granites from the
Old Country quarries direct, in the
rough. You can save all local deal-
ers' agents' and middleman profits by
seeing us,
E. J. Skelton & Son
at West End Bridge-WALKERTON
interest. Of the billion dollar gift to
Britain last year, supplies to the value
of 61 million dollars were transferred
to Russia. Canada has also seat Rus-
sia more thae 1400 Canadian tanks,
2000 Uttiyersal Carriers, naval guns,
Bren guns, anti-tank weapons, small
arms, machine tools, clothing, etc., to
'a tremendous figure; also a ten million
dollar credit for 'wheat and flour, and
the people contributed millions to the
Red Cross fund for Russian Relief and
the Canadian Aid to Russia Fund.
Our' friendship, for Soviet Russia has
been translated into deeds.
* *• *
House members on the ,War Ex-
penditures Committee will be back in
Ottawa to start work on September
13th. The spade work is done by' sub-
committees and in the past two years
has already turned in some searching
reports on many phases of the war ef-
fort. I talked with the Chairman re-
cently, Hughes Cleaver (Liberal, Hal-
ton) and he feels that the committee
has a tremendously important function
and he likes the way members of all
political affiliations get together
around the committee table and dig
into a job.
* *
The Bureau of Statistics here states
Canada closed its 1942-43 crop .year
with ia carry-over of 601,500,000 bush-
els of wheat-121 million bushels
greater than the previous record
Business and Professional Directory
a suspicious hint of a skunk, in .the
neighborhood.' Mrs. Phil may recall
having seen an evil weasel slinking
around a stonepile sometime during
the day.
Then you have to light the lantern
and gather up a pair of bran sacks
and strike for the orchard, A half
dozen sleepy pullets blink at you from ,
the limb of a plum tree. They
squawk in -indignation as you jam them
without ceremony into the sacks and
go on to the next tree. One thing
about them, they are too sleepy or
stupid to pay any attention to the
disturbed ones. You feel a little like :
a thief as the hens persist in squawk-
ing and stop to listen.
A hound bays on a far off ridge -
a horn toots solemnly on the road
across the river and then you see a
glimmer of light in the neighbors
orchard, You hear hens raising a fuss
and it eases your task to know that
Neighbor Higgins is probably cussing
as he goes about the same job, anxious
to get back to the comfort of ,the'
kitchen on such a chilly evening,
The hens and pullets are dumped
Without ceremony in on the henhouse
floor, They mope around for awhile
and straggle off to the roosts. Some
of them struggle around and don't
even bother to get on the roosts. I
think hens are stupid . 6 . a lot of the
time,
APPLE PICKERS
NEEDED TO SAVE
ONTARIO'S CROP
Apple Crop This Year Is One Of The
• Best On Record
While most other fruit crops have
been below average in Ontario this
year, the crop of apples is one of the
best on record. There is urgent need,
however, for volunteer help in 'order
to ensure that this large crop is pick-
ed and saved for use in the war ef-
fort, The Ontario Farm Service'
Force is appealing to men and wo-
men who have time to 'spare to go to
work in the apple orchards of the
Province, in order to help save this
vital contribution to our food supplies.
Calls for help are coming in from all
the apple-growing sections of the
Province, both east and west of To-
ronto, and hundreds of pickers are re-
quired at once.
The Ontario Farm Service director,
Alex Maclaren, recommends that
those who can spare time for apple
picking endeavour to secure this kind
of work on farms in their own neigh-
bourhood: There are ample opportun-
ities in every: apple-growing locality,
and by finding places where they can
pick, men and women can make direct
contacts with growers and save time.
Those who are unable to do so, how-
ever, can be placed at once by apply-
ing to the Ontario Farm Service
Force, Parliament Buildings, Toronto,
The need is extremely urgent, and
must be supplied immediately in order
to save the apple crop. Good wages
will be paid to apple pickers, so that
those who volunteer for this work can
make extra money for themselves and
at the same time render a valuable
national service.
WESTFIELD