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"THE CORN H;SKERS:" popular ce'ebrtt`es cr RCAF -
operated Ceylon radio station CORN. From tie ;est:
LAC G. B. Smits, Cpl. N. Corbe:l, LAC J. R. C'-apr*nen,
LAC A. M. Carr. The announcer is LAC 'DeWitt !`ee'-0e'.
of V1, seg^am. The photo appeared 'r the Septe-
issee of the RCAF rnagazir-e "Re rce`.
Magazine Recalls Days in Service
When Norm 'eelwQod return-
ed from a trip to Arm; an'd Air
Force bases it Europe: last weer
he brought with hire a cops of
the September issue of ''Round-
er,
Roand-e:', official publication of the
Royal Canadian Air Force,
The magazine contained a
article of particular interest tie •
one Wingham man, DeWitt
`ille:. It is the store of No.
41e Squadron, with winch he
served &ring World War II in
fa: -away Ceylon. The squad -
.on .was fo.=ed ea in the war
years, with its base in. Scotland.
After the Japanese attack or:
Pearl Harbor in December of
1 4e, owever, and the rapid
spread of Japanese forces across •
the Pacific, the life -lines of
India and Burma were so threat-
ened that No. 413 was sent to
a new base in Ceylon. From
this vantage point the Catalina
flying boars operated by the
squadron ranges our over the
Bay of Bengal searching for
energy surface and submarine
craft. Several Catalinas and
their crews were lost on these
hazardous reissions.
Service inn the heat of Cey or
was monotonous and as a res It
the personnel of the station .-
vented mane tapes of rec:eat:on
and diversion They com-
mended the pui=lication of a
Ooodyears Take
Second Game
In .S ;: ' a:. t`: ..:e :.::'s .
quer .:..:e :"iron e. eee .S.'a:s
l fLaz d a:: ::, •,::c.reeees-e:,
leezat::a Ski:;::
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A sem:fee-1:s.
interesting little newsraper
called "Tropic Topics' and also
opened a faire radio station
which was dubbed CORN, Its
short-wave partner was COB,
Apparently DeWitt had a
-gift of gab" even in those daye
for he was station announcer •
over CORN. Range of the
stat:on was as far as the build-
ings on the establishment,
reached by wire connections.
The "broadcasting" station call-
ed itself the "voice of Ceylon"
located on the "ground floor of
the RCAF building'', which,
incidentally, was a one -floor
I::it.
One of the officers attached
to the squadron at that time wast
Squadron Leader L. H. Randall,
now Group Captain Randall and
commanding officer at RCAF
Station Centralia,
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Mike EL:es of c:i ::c .
HOSPITAL REFORMER
Charles O'Reiill, of Mar::l-
ton, Ontario, is recalled the
pages of E,4ycicaed_a Ameri-
cana. Born :r: la4'' and educt-
ted at McGill Universire,
O'Reilly began the practice of
medicine in ' 7 . the year of
Confederaticr. Medical super-
intendent of Toronto General
Hospital for :,ears, he turned
it into a model institution. In
1e35, Dr. O'Reilly organized ,
the Toronto General Ambulance
Corps in the North West Rebel -
Lon of !835.By. the turn of
the century he was considered
one of the world's top hospital
experts.
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with a colic of the big ones taken from Lake Nip-
issing near ane mouth of the French River Saturday
while on a ;fishing trip with Ray's father and Merrill
Canteion.Grnald caught a pike weighing close to eight
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Vikings in America
Before Columbus?
Norwegian explorer Helga
i ingstad says he has discovered I
positive evidence of a Viking
settlement in Newfoundland
dating 500 years before the i
landing of Columbus in Amer-
ica,
The settlement atLance aux •
Meadows on Newfoundland's
north coast yielded remains of
a primitive forge, large nails;
and a fragment nt of bronze. Ra-
diological checks dated the set-
tlement at about 1000 A.D.,
he said.
Mr. Ingstad, who has led
three expeditions to North
America to locate early Viking
landings, disclosed his find at a
press conference in the Norwe-
gian Embassy.
VOYAGE DESCRIBED
He maintained the Lance
aux Meadows settlement could
be the "wineland" mentioned
in Icelandic sagas telling of the
voyage of Viking Chief Lief
Erikson to a rich country south-
. west of Greenland about 1000
A.D.
: Mr. Ingstad said he believed;
the site of Erikson's landing was
much farther north than the
New England and Virginia
coasts generally accepted by I
natural scientists from the de-
scriptions given in the saga
history.
He was guided to the site at
Lance aux Meadows by a fisher
man and found traces of a set-
tlement an a sand terrace, Mr.
Ingstad said. His wife, Anne
Stine, discovered important
-outlines of building foundations
when they were shadowed by
the rays of the setting sun,
SITES EXCAVATED
One large and several small-
3er sites were excavated, One
!measured 60 feet by 45 feet
;with five rooms. One of the
:rooms was a large hall about
48 feet long with remains of a
long fire in the center.
"It is of particular 'import-
ance that we also had 12radio-
logical carbon dates from the
sites. They are all groupings
around the year 1000," he said.
Mr. Ingstad said several
points supported his theory of
"wineland" including a possible
• mistranslation of the syllable
"wine" in wineland, which ace
cording to a Swedish linguist
might mean grass, not wine,
PROTECTION PROVIDED
The Canadian Government
has arranged for the preserva-
tion of the site at Lance aux
Meadows as a historic site and
is erecting wooden buildings
around the remains to protect
them for the future.
Mr. Ingstad's expedition was
financed by Norwegian scienti-
fic funds, private sources in
Norway, and by the Arctic Insti-
tute of North America.
He said, "I have for years
got valuable assistance from
Canadian authorities."
EXPEDITIONS LED
Mr. Ingstad led three ex-
peditions to the eastern coasts
of North America, between
1960 and 1962, all closely con-
nected with his examination of
Norse settlements in Greenland
which Erik the Red colonized in
885, This community existed
about 500 years before it disap-
peared. — Reuters.
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from the cradle to the grave,
with the government using enor-
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normous tax funds to pay for these
services, The whole scheme is
exttemely complex and fuses
social, health and economic
problems,
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