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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1945-04-12, Page 7FREDERICK A. PARKER OSTEOPATH Offices: Centre St., Wingham Osteopathic and Electric Treat. ments, Foot Technique. Phone 272. Wingham. J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc Money To Loan Office - Meyer Block, Wingham J, A. FOX Chiropractor and Drugless Therapist. RADIONIC EQUIPMENT COMPLETE HEALTH SERVICE Phone :191. J. II. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Bonds, Investments & Mortgages Wingham Ontario W. A. CRAIYFORD M. 11. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 150 Wingham DR. W. M. CONNELL 101EYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 10 Thursday, April 12th, 19,45 WINGHAIL ADVANMIIMES .granune of songs, recitations;, readings and piano numbers was presented. Margaret Cttais told the Easter story, Mrs, W, j. Johnston conducted the Worship service, 02'010S were enjoyed and hinds was served, The attendance was good, BranliAnill Mr. and Mrs. Stanley El- liott, St. ..Catharines. Rev. C, Tavener Qi I-T.(4110\411e, con- ducted the Church of the Air service over .CKNX on Monday and, with Mrs, gamer, visited with friends here dui.., ing the afternoon, Bred, A. number of cases have been reported Where the farmer finished sonic particular operation early in the. season, sold his, equipment to a neigh- bour, and later made application for new machinery, stating on his appli- cation. that he had no machinery of that type Farm equipment supplies for Cana- dian farmers are equal to those being made to American farmers in relation to the Output in both countries during the years 1940 and 1941, In both the United States and Canada, however, the .supply which can be built under existing circumstances falls short of meeting the demand. are a supreme testimony to their Courage and strength of character. Da it is in the °flags. where offic- ers are confined, and in the StalagS where .1`.1.C.0,'5 and men not on '4corn- Mandos" are kept., that the Legion educational services are most welcome. Even here, hunger, cold and over- crowding create constant difficulties, Quite a considerable amount of the prisoner's time is consumed in other essential tasks - laundry, mending, housekeeping, cooking,. etc., to say nothing, of course, of the "`security" tasks which cannot be described. In spite of these handicaps, in Stalag 383 - a, typical camp 2,373 prisoners out of a total-population of, 4,686 were attending school. on Octo- ber 1, 1943, Classes were being ,con- ducted in 84 different subjects, rang- ing from accountancy and aerial survey to transport finance and welding, from chemistry and horticulture to motor engineering and applied mathematics, One large building - unheated - had been partitioned (with Red Cross ;box-wood!) into seven rooms - still fireless, but permitting classes to be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. More than 50 out of 200 Canadians in one Lager (prison compound) at Stalag Luft III in December, 1943, were attending agricultural classes on swine breeding, dairy farming, sheep husbandry, bee-keeping, poultry and fruit farming, Farm management and economics. And there were young airmen shot down over enemy territory often within a few months after leaving high school in Canada. In crowded Oflags I have seen of- ficers studying under most difficult- and yet amusing-circumstances. In a dining room about 35 feet wide and 60 feet deep, without partitions of any sort, 12 and 14 classes were conducted at one time. Singly, or in groups of two, three or four, other officers were studying or attending classes on stair- ways in window alcoves,/ on a plot of ground 20 by 60 feet which formed part of the "outfield" of the softball diamond, in wash-room cubbyholes - or flat on their backs in double and triple-decker wooden beds! Yes, these prisoners appreciated the Canadian Legion Educational Services more, I think, than any other single effort on their behalf, with the excep- tion always, of course of Red Cross food parcels. Man must eat even be- fore he learns. They appreciated the educational services for what they of- fered in opportunities to improve them- selves'and prepare for their eventual rehabilitation, but, most of all, per- haps, because they 'were concrete evi- dence that the folks at home under- stood one of the most critical prob- lems of prison life and provided a most practical solution. In the third and concluding article of this series I will give some examples of individual accomplishments by prisoners of war in the educational • 'field, and tell how the Canadian Legion, in particular, has assisted Canadian prisoners-of-war to help themselves, DONALD 11, BLUE Experienced Auctioneer Xicensed for.. Counties. of NI.TRQN BRUCE • AU Sages capably Randled. Ripley, Ontario . 'Phone 49. 'Mrs. James Master of Parkhill, was a week-end visitor with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. John Hall, Mrs. John E. Elliott, W. J. Elliott, Mr, and Mrs, Robert Montgomery of Wingharn, were Sunday callers at the home of their cousin; Miss Duff and Mrs. M, L. Aitken, Marilyn Moffatt of Ingersoll, spent the week with her cousin, Norma Moffatt. Mr. and Mrs. James Peacock have returned to their homeafter spending some weeks with their son, Will and MrS, Peacock in Morris, where Mrs. Peacock was gaining strength follow- ing an operation, Pte. Norman Barnard, son of Mr,' and Mrs. Edward Barnard, has been transferred from Camp Borden to De., bert, Nova,' Scotia, GRATUITY PLAN HAS BEEN EXTENDED BLUE FOR PIP' OR ROLLING YOUR OWN 1/4 'Congregation Listened to Broadcast The congregation of the United Church enjoyed the Huron Presbytery 'United Church Service on Sunday morning broadcast over CKNX from the church at Wingharn. Rev, Jesse H. Arnup, I3,A, D,0„ Moderator of -the United Church of Canada, deliver- ed the address. Rev, a G. Burton, M.A„ chairman of Huron Pres- bytery, and. Rev, R, C. Copeland, B,A., President of London Conference, took Dart in the service. The decoration of flowers added to the beauty of the service, Payment of Gratuities to Estate of Deceased Members of Service Allnwod household word in so many farm* across Canada, works. * Any Mining Prospectors? Saskatchewan is short of experienced mining prospectors, So Resources Minister Phelps has announced a plan by which the Saskatchewan govern- ment will give free air transportation to qualified prospectors who will ex- amine mineral areas 'in the northern, part of the province, LIFE IN NAZI PRISON CAMPS IS NOT 'LEISURE UNLIMITED' Veterans Minister Mackenzie tabled in the. Commons an Order-in-Council extending the war gratuity plan to, allow payment of gratuities to the estate of deceased members of the services in cases where no individual qualifies to receive the gratuity. The amendment applies to all mem- bers of the forces who have been or who become eligible for gratuities, Under the original Act the gratuity, which would have been paid to the soldier, had he lived, could be paid only to those who were able to estab- lish that they were dependents. Either dependents' allowance or assigned pay Was necessary before application for the gratuity could be approved. The only exception was dependents who would have received an allowance or assigned pay had they not been members of the forces, themselves. Mr. Mackenzie also said the Govern- ment still was considering the possibil- ity of extending gratuity legislation to cover merchant seamen •and members of the Canadian Firefighters, Corps, Grow Flax If You Want Linoleum! If your post-war plans include new linoleum for your floors, it will come from the farmers themselves, for over a period of years one-quarter of Can- ada's flax crop has been used by the linoleum industry. Like so many other Canadian pro- ducts, linoleum has been at war these last few years, Battleship linoleum has been used extensively in battle- ships, as well as in military buildings of all kinds, The oilcloth division of the industry has been at work proofing the cotton duck used in tarpaulin material for army vehicles, cargo covers and other war transport. All materials of this kind, as well as camouflaged cloth and netting, tents, rope, thread, etc., have been tested for resistance to water, mildew, flame, gas. and Arctic weather. New processes have been developed during this immense program which will be of value after the war, When the time comes to start measuring the floor-space, there will be ample sup- plies, of newer and :better linoleum on the market from which to choose. By E. Thompson (Captain J. E. Thompson was wound- ed and captured at Dieppe in August of 1942 and was repatriated to Can- ada last September. He 'has written three articles, of which. this is the second, dealing with educational facilities available to Canadian pris- oners by the Canadian Legion Edu- cational Services). Preparatory Service Friday Rev, Arthur Back, a retired minister from Paris, conducted the morning service at Knox Presbyterian church. He spoke on the journey of the Chil- •dren of Isreal to the Promised Land. Next Friday evening Rev, D. B. Cram of Teeswater, will conduct preparatory service which will .be followed by a congregational meeting, Next Sunday .the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be observed. WINO OVER CANADA Mrs. John. Pugh Mrs. John Pugh died early Satur- day morning" at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Larkwcirthy at Mitchell. She had only been ill one day having suffered a stroke the night before and did not regain conscious-' tress, • No, 2 by Russell L, Gibson and Robert Reeds * * "What a wonderful chance you must have had to study! Did you learn any German? What did you do with your time?" These are typical questions fired at repatriated prisoners-of-war, and they illustrate an understandable, but none- theless erroneous, concept of what life is like ill the barbed-wired compounds of German prison camps. Boredom is the chief complaint of prisoners-of-war which leads natural- ly to the conclusion that prisoners have little else to do with their time but to study or play. - But this does not apply at all to prisoners below the rank 'of commis- sioned or non-commissioned officers, the group classified in the army as "other ranks", who constitute the main body of the army and, by the same token, the largest group of army pris- oners in Germany. Under the terms of the Geneva Con- vention, other ranks are required to do do whatever work is assigned to them by their captors, provided only that it is not directly part of the war effort. Definition of this exception is difficult and can be obtained only by appeal to the protecting power. Hence Cana- dian, prisoners-of-war in Germany who are not wounded or 'not of- ficers or N.C.O.'s-work on farms and •oad-building, in factories and salt nines. Their hours of work are lorig and he work usually . very strenuous, so -on would scarcely expect them to pend their few hours of relaxation in erious study. Yet the amazing fact s that these boys do hunger for the hance to spend these few hours tudying, and that they welcomed the anadian Legion Educational Services ]most as much as any , other group f prisoners., These boys live in wooden huts when hey are out on "commandos" - the rison word for ,"work parties"--and unger, cold and over-crowding are heir normal companions. Their ef- orts to study under these conditions Canada's aircraft industry is playing an important part in the job of bomb- ing Japan. The big Boeing Aircraft of Canada's Sea Island plant near Van- couver, B. C. is making sections of B-29 Super . Fortress bombers, The section made in Canada begins just forward of the .front bomb bay doors and extends to just back of the rear bomb bay doors, Maybe this business of making just part of a plane doesn't sound exciting but even that bit of aircraft extends for some 35 feet or a little over a third of the Super Fort- ress' 100-foot length. If you placed the tip of one Super Fortress wing on a street, and let the other wing tip stand upright, it would extend above the top of many a 10 or 12-storey building. Pugh was the former 'Mary Ramsay and was born in Morris Township 82 years ago. Fifty-nine years ago she was married to John Pugh who predeceased her by seven years. She lived the greater part of her life in Brussels, moving to Mitchell 38 years Ago. She is, survived by one daughter (Edna) Mrs. George Larkworthy, of Mitchell; one brother, Allan 'Ramsay, of Tara, (late of Bluevale); three grandchildren and one great grand- child; one son Roy Pugh, died. three years ago. The funeral was held from the home of her son-in-law, . on Monday after- noon, conducted by Rev. Norman Mac- Kay, minister of Knox Presbyterian Church. Interment- took place in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Mitchell. Plan Parsonage Improvement The Women's Association of the United Church. met at the home of Mrs. Arthur Shaw on Thursday after- noon. The president, Mrs. M. L, Aitken, presided, Mrs. Robert Shaw read the scripture lesson, Mrs. W, J, Johnston recited the Covenanter's poem "James Douglas". .Mrs. G. Thomson gave the secretary's report and the treasurer, Mrs. George Heth- -erington reported a substantial amount on hand. It was decided to contribute •to the Dominion Women's'Association Council. Plans for the improments at the parsonage were discussed. The various Sunday School classes were named as committees to provide flowers for the Sunday services. Mrs. Arthur. Shaw, Mrs. Richard Johnston Mrs. Harry Goll and Mrs, Will Pea- cock were the hostesses. TIGHTEN MACHINERY RATION RULES Farmers are urged to continue to repair and keep in operation farm machines which they already own and are strongly advised to consult their nearest farm equipment rationing of- ficer before disposing of the machinery they now own, with the thought of replacing it either immediately or at some later date. Abuses in the distributiOn of farm machinery have necessitated an amend- ment to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Order No. 347. The present provisions make it plain that, if a per- son disposes of machinery which fie owns and is of a class or type which is rationed with the thought of replac- ing it later, without first having con- sulted the farm machinery rationing * * * * Department of Agriculture Of most interest to farmers, the Department of Agriculture also'comes first alphabetically. So here's its story, The purpose of the Department of Agriculture is to assist in the improve- ment and development of agriculture, the chief industry of the country. This it does through five principal. services, namely. Science, Production, Market- ing, Experimental Farms and Admini- stration. The Science Service deals with the practical problems of agriculture through scientific investigation. It studies insect pests, diseases affecting plants and aminals, the deterioration of plant and animal products caused by fungi and bacteria, the nutritional re- quirements of animals and plants and the chemistry ot soils and dairy pro- ducts. The Production Service gives na?- tional leadership in organizing agricul- tural production, and administers the acts standardizing the Canadian sales of many farm products, and also the acts framed to fight diseases of animals, The Marketing Service works to- ward the efficient marketing and gardening of agricultural products. The Experimental Farms Service operates a national chain of farms and stations conducting and demonstrating experimental work on farm problems. Under the Administration Service comes the Publicity and Extension Division which has charge of exhibits, distribution of publications and gen- eral information. It is in this service that Miss Laura Pepper, head of their Consumer Section, whose name is a • * * * Perhaps the most interesting exhibit to be shown at a conference held in. Hamilton the end of February. was a little Cub grasshopper, the frist one made in Canada. This is the little plane which takes off and lands in small spaces,and is used for artillery spotting and as an ambulance plane in Europe and the Far East. Incident- ally, with a change of paint and one or two other minor alterations it will be the first post-war light plane pro- duced in quantity in both Canada and the United States. * * * Canada can be proud of the fact that she has designed and produced what has been accepted by aviation author- ities all over the world as one of the 20 "best" planes built. It is the Noorduyn Norseman, a single engine utility plane originally designed for bush flying in Canada's Northlands by R. B. C. Noorduyn of Montreal. Be- fore the war it was used widely by bush pilots. Now it is being built in hundreds and is going all over the world as a utility cargo plane. It may well be one of .the world's formost feeder-line models after the war. * * An interesting post-war flying de- velopment in Canada will centre around the air force veteran who lives in a small town, owns his own plane and provides flying service and in- struction on summer evenings and over week-ends, while he works at full- time bread and butter job. Relatives froM a distance attending the funeral of the late John Messer were, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Messer and Betty, Chas. Messer and Miss Lois Elliott, R.N., Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davidson,-Hensall; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Messer, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon McKinney, of London; Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McKinney, Northville, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Archie McKinney, officer for his .district, his application Leamington; Mrs, Cecil Griffith, of for new equipment will not be consid- Mission Band. Easter Meeting The Mission Band of the United 'Church held the Easter meeting in the 'Sunday School room on Friday after- -n when the members entertained 00 mothers and members of the Sr. LS: Auxiliary. A special pro- I -t 3' 5 c C a 0 p h t f Business and Professional Directory Wife Preservers HARRY FRYFORE A. II. FAVISH, B.A. WELLINGTON FIRE Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service Ambulance Service Phones: Day 109W. Night '109J. Insurance Company Est. 1840 An all Canadian Company which has faithfully served its policy holders for over a century. Head Office - Toronto H. C. McLean Insurance Agency Wingham 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. Try waxing-the underside of furniture legs so that they will move easily over waxed floors. DR R, L. STEWART By R. J. SCOTT c..7)" '• 1"" ' SCOTT'S SCRAP BOCK . 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