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Sugar and Spice' •.7.- -..7. .
By Bill: Smiley
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its breed of the Battle of Britain, My special friends were Nils,
Far from making ine nostalgic, Van, Singh :and Paddy. We flew
it gave me a certain satisfac- in the same flight, ate ,and drank
tion. "Probably", I said to myself together, and pursued various
"one of those clapped-Out dOgs We' ;;Yoling women together. I've never
flew at' liednal." -,seen one of them since, but in
* * _ •,those days •we were as close as
That's what, they gave us to brothers are 'supposed to be.
train on,—Spits that ..had been :; * * *
through the Battle of Britain, and Nils was a long, skinny Norwe-
flew as thoughthey'd been through :'gian, who had made his way across
the Battle :et Hastings. NO, DU '',the North Sea in' a fishing boat
afraidy,1 sentiMental =with two ethera. He was solemn
about the daltinf little Spitfire, ,,and shy until he .had few beers,
When 1 read of its demise.' I got ,then turned into a Viking. Van
so many bad 'Scares while flying -was a saturnine Belgian ex-army
those things I always looked •officer, who had escaped via
on them' with a jaundiced eye France and SPain, rotting in a
afterwards. 'Spanish' jail for six months before
*• '* * getting to England. Both had
But, it"'did start me, thinking :trained in Canada,
about one of the happiest times I ' * * *
i have ever had, and remembering Singh was the son of a wealthy
some of the 'best friends I ever Sikh:faintly in India. He had all,
made. We took a •three-months op- the paraphernalia; hair down to
erational training course -on Spit- his waist, which hp tucked 'under
•fires• in the • heart of: Shropshire, one of a, ,series- of brilliant silk
in the dead of an English winter, turbans; curly black beard; flash-
than, which there fig nothing dead- ing brown eyes and white teeth.
er, ' He laughed all the time. When lie
had a hangover, he would tell the
What a crew - we were!.-- Poles flight commander it was a reit-
Australians, -*Canadians, a Nome- gious holiday for him, and he
gian, a couple of Frenchinen, a Bel- couldn't fly, They never caught on.
gian, a . brace , of New Zealanders, , * * 'I'
an Irishman, a handful of Scots Paddy was a lugubrious Irish-
and English, and lour pilots from man,, with a soft Dublin brogue, a
India. And how well we got along, yery'•dim view of the English, and
though so different in outlook, and a -7,vonderful gift, for rnaking„,Yi?n,
,upbringing!.:•-pie" Only' `onei who laugh, 'A brilliant pilot but a reek:.
Scrapped were the bulimia, among less one. They're all dead now.
themselves, because they were a Nils shot lown in France, Van
Sikh', Moslem, a Chrbitian and 'a 'Crashed, burning, a few miles from
Hindi" and couldn't abide mai his hOme in Belgium. Singh flew
other. ••Hurricanes in Burma and was
* * e miSsing, Paddy went into the
On a winter night, we'd mount ;channel
tOo r ee e 'day yw
vijohwen
he could
c9wualds
our bikes; about a dozen "Of us, and ;trying
head off down the black road for go without 'touching the water,
one of the neighbouring pubs. In ; * *
c- But often warm myself with out of the wet night we'd troop, the Memory of those halcyon; hit- as high es the sky, into
the warmth of the fireplace, and aliens three months. I can close
the shining pewter, and the bar- my eyes and see them, grinning
maid's cheeky salutation. and a little bit crazy; and I can .
* * hear theM, in, their assorted ne-
And the locals would turn from
* cents, trying to cope with "Allow
their darts or dominoes and shake
' ette" 1 led 'them through "a 'fast
round. And I'll still think of them their 'heads its• they smiled a wel-' when I'm seventy Rothe. .would the pints oind flow, ' •
anti the darts would By, and in '
no time at all the pub would be ,
a dozen different accents:
rocking with good cheer and good 4 .R fellowship and geed singing, in eminisCing
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The. singing 'Was the beat . part, ..,_.,.
Have you ever heard ,a French- ;'PIETY YEARS AGO - ,,---'
Man, singing "I wangle gale jus Mt. W,- R, rOpikie,litte of the' Or-,
-ok e ,e old *a mat,r64 deerole illia branch of theborninion;l3ank,
Dad"? Or maitto:i wa:,g,lian yodelling has been appointed manager of the
an Wingham branch. Mr% U. I Tor,
Aftinwstrdaeliran ottbtetliiot*, origjou"Airl4oengititiswe r ranee',
law 'weeks, .has' been transferred
manager herere for the' past
4f 4 riii '
to Moose
another business
le'Arriv""? . .
On one way h*oine, we'd PraCtlee 'change has talon place in Wing-
tomato* twijt; an .0tir Isities, ham, Mr. Bltnet Moore has sold
With Ato luiti.dit, *Molt • frentientiv , his restaurant business to Isift.)Ettl-.1
Meant 'winding un In a thorn 'heihre,, bett Johnston; a 'Milner tesident oi.
The, -elitinita to the tide hack 'WAS' WItightl-frt_
a face down the Steep :kill 'to' Mir Misses Edna and 'Rattle trove ':
huts, with 'no lights, he hands *ea' were suddenly called from Otidert,
very often Ae• Whites, tiketel be; 16.)1 on Sunday night inking to the
tretriendout .0111eiant, With `twee., 'serious "Ulna's (if their blether. Mr;
ing., "Iletighing bodies 1104 in oil W. toppard made the trip with hie
directions, At •the lietteivio automobile and the' trip froth
* * * whelitheitt, to tleiletieli ttheE.toturn
It sounds pretty ,silly, and it WAS Made in three MIR'S 'and- -$6
Wet, But "we 'Were all very young, ,minutes, • This :la ;pretty 400d time
And v ery :gay, :MOM the kiirOpehhk , dour 60 mile trip on' a ;dark tdsht.
tkotigh their gayety had an edge' A, a, Plenty,' who luta for
A news story the other day told I of bitterness to it, a 'touch of vio-
of the crash landing of a 20-year- fence,
old Spitfire, the last survivor' of
11110-GrAI1UINer TIVEl "WASTE
I have a word
fo.groitude and .:
praise for the'
men who collect
and dispose of
our garbage and.
other like trash,
They Carry out
their hamble
duties faithfully
and thus 'Our
community is
kept in a sanitary state, The hyr
dro range and the oil furnace make
their Service essential.
When I lived in the open coun-
try it was necessary to deVise
thods of my own for this imper-;
tant phase of our household life.
the incinerator provided a -partial
answer, However, certain mater-
ials do no burn easily. n became
necessary to store these neatly
until I could conveniently take a
16e:a ' township 'dnn11:1,
It is always interesting to visit
these rather unsavory institutions,
Usually we find strangers there,
They sort, collect and make" up
loads often of the very materials
we are' eager to throw' away. If
you ask, their purpose' you may be
answered in 'a foreign accent and
told that such materials can be
reclaimed, •melted down and used
again to serve mankind in new and
widely ,different ways.
Sometimes I have found in the
homes of ray people curious sou-
venirs or even articles of furniture,
When I remark that these are un-
usual I am answered, "Can you
guess where I found it?" "In the'
dump!"
Now I reflect that many great
and good devices and ideas have
been developed out of discarded
notions that other men thought of
little or no use. A, certain
agent that advertises that "it :
hasn't scratched yet" was develop-
o. from the discarded Waste of
factory phese chief function was
.the making of abrasives, Perhaps
Tennyson was correct when he
said:
"That nothing walks with aimiesa
'feet
That not one life shall be
troyed„ •
Or cast as rubbish te' the void
When GO bath made the pile
complete."
Certainly, if it is true that Shake-
speare built his ,plays around the
stories that .other men had written,
4t also :tale • that such stories
would have been lost entirely had
not 'Shakespeare used them. Otba
Pr examples are nbe difficult to
Lind.
Jesus Christ, V all men who ever
weiked earth was the most
lkOddCrinl O'ff. +lost or
Roiled lives, Look again at what
'He did for His disciples, Peter, at
the first cries, "Depart from me
for I am a sinful man,: o. Lord,"
'Fear not," said Jesus, "henceforth
you will be catching men." At the
last, when Peter pleads' his, love
for Jesus against his base denial
the master still speaks words of
confidence, "Feed my sheep."
A whole host of names in the.
New Testament suggest themselves
here. There were Matthew and
Zacchaeua, men willing to make
rich profit by -selling their race
to the occupying' power, only to'
find that the- bargain was a poor,
one. Their souls starved for -fel-
lowship :and their lives were listless
because they had nothing worth-
while to live for.: One of these
Men became the loving biographer
of his Lord. The other found. a
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ONE MOMENT, 'PLEASE!'
Talking with on of our readers
the other day, we heard him come up
with the verbal expression of a idea
Which has often run: through our'
IV1I, thinking. He referred to the
fact that a nuclear power plant will
be constructed only 25 or 30 miles
,from 'here and that •it was highly
.possible that industry and increased
population would follow in its wake,
'You know," he said, this is,
just about the last place in Western
Ontario, where the old standards
and the old ways have survived
without any major changes." Our
friendivasyeferringinPartiP-119,1 to
the strongly religious inclination of
most folks in our area, and to the
rather strict moral code which pre-
vails as a natural consequence.
Though there would certainly be
many in other parts of the Province
to give him an argument, his 'words.
are more than la little bit true. Iii
STAGGERING LOSSES
Canada's 1958 dollar loss in fires
amounted to over 115 million. This
represents only the cost in property,
and at that, excludes forest fire loss-
es. The cost in lives is equally high,
with some 529 persons, 217 of .thern
children, having died in fires in'1958.
Althougleit may be deeply buried
in the past, a little tug at the memL
ory will rekindle the sense of horrOr
and anger-you felt the last time, yOu
saw, heard or'rea.d about a fire which
took lives, particularly lives of chil-
dren.
Do you remember •the. tragic
holocaust at Our Lady of the Angels
Sehool in Chicago last year, when
almost i00 children perished?.Many
of' "them. weregOund, still sitting at
their little 'deSkS,.. ?'"
It could have been YOUR school
and YOUR children ! Last year it
happened in Chicago . where will
it happen this year?
fire Prevention Week is being
observed this year from October 4th
to 10th inclusive. The Board Insur-
ance conap.anies,. through the co-
operation of Canadian newspapers,
radio and television stations, banks,
railways, fire. departments, com-
merce and :industry, are spread-
ing the gospel/of fire Prevention
throughout the country.
These messages are directed at
YOU, the potehtial victim of fire.
Over 75' per cent of fires:are pre-
ventable. In other words they are
caused by carelessness! People, as
a rule, are , seldom careless about
big or important things; it is the
"little" things they are inclined to
gloss over quickly or forget and
it is these little things that cause so
many fires.
Running a lamp cord underneath
a carpet where, unseen, it can be-
come worn and frayed to the point'
of short circuiting;, replacing a
blown 15 ampere fuse with one of a
higher rating, and thus inviting disas-
ter from overheated wiring; not
bothering to have the furnace check-
ed before starting it up for 'the win-
ter,because it ,looks all' right ; buying
and using electrical and other appli-
ances that do not bear the under-
writer's laboratory label; permitting
• rubbish to accumulate hi attics and
,basements.
The responsibility for priventing
fires lies with you. Let's make the
coming year a little less tragic.
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Adeettlildrikittes
our particul4* area the influence of
modern eivilization has crept in
rather softly, so that the traditions
of the past have been altered but
little with the passing years, Surely,
we drive up-to-date cars and have
our TV's and our deep freezes, but
Unlike So many of the densely popu-
lated :City areas, the majority of
folks here still see -that the kids get
off to Sunday School and belong to
the Boy Scouts—old-fashioned insti-
tutions which have suffered tremen-
dous inroads in places 'where life
moves at a faster pace.
• Pne. of _tile, greatest.,-.benefits of.
this. elinging to the older ways has
been evident in the class of young-
*I'S we see about us. So far there
has been very little of the violence
and crime which have bedevilled -pa-*
rents and police alike in the larger
placcs.: And we certainly want to
'keep' it that way.
A HELPING HAND
At the ;present time the annual
campaign in aid of the •Canadian
National Institute for.the Blind is in
progress. Though this colurim has
repeatedly offered its support to the
campaign we have not the slightest
hesitation _in doing so once_more.
The appeal is: one which merits the
undivided attention of every person
in this-community. •
The outstanding factor 'about the
collection for the blind is that it is
in no waY:a handout to a collection
of beggars: The sightless persons
are among the most independent and
self-reliant we know—an admirable
demonstration of the courage and re-
sourcefulness which many of their
sighted bbrothers lack.
‘;•• • So active''is .the'teNIB that at'
present. there are Somewhat more
than a dozen blind persons right 'in
our Wipg-hain district who are assist-
ed by the -association, to a better
and fuller life; despite their discour-
aging handicap: A-large-percentage
of each dollar given is used, not in
direct aid, but to provide tools and
materials with- which the blind can
aid themselves.:
There will be no house-td-house
canvass for the CNIB campaign..
Letters have been sent out, to all
households in the community, asking
for contributions and on Saturday
the Boy Scouts will conduct a tag
day with the proceeds for the blind.
Be generous. You are so fortunate.
STARTLING FACTS
Members of the Wing-harn'Lions
club listened, on Friday evening, as
their district governor, Hardld Fos-
ter of Barrie, told of a few Of the
accomplishments throughout the
less 'fortunate' areas of the world.
• One of his most graphic tales
Was about the Lions Clubs in India,
where the first group was chartered
only seven or eight years ago, In
that short time the clubs have de-
yeloped, among Other things, a sight-
saving program which is almost un-
believable.
Most •of us are now familiar with
the campaign'to collect unused spec-
tacles for shipment to India, and
distribution to those who :simply
could never get; the money for eye
ekarninations, ,leriSes and frames.
A less known and even more won-
derful program is carried on by one
of •the world's greatest eye surgeons,
a 'native of India, who has given up
his own practice and donates his full
time to the Lions' eye program. A
specialist the removal of cataracts,
he operates on the staggering aggre-
gate of 360 persons daily, -lis work.
alone has granted reneWed vision to
some 300,000 persons,
i'erhaps this old wOrld it not en-
tit' bad after all,
,
new 'outlet for compassien and a,
fuller Afe as a true son-of Israel.
Then there Was Mary, .called
Magdalene, freni w glom seven de-
Aliens had geRe Pet:. and vie wo
Man in the crowded street -who
touched Jesus and found herself
healed, Thete was -demon-
possessed .riian' of ,Oaclara and the
man in the synagogue with' a with-
ered Ilona—his right hand Luke
tells us, ,•Theae Jesus healed; and
another poor, lacy/ who who was car-
ried on his 'bed into the Master's
presenee because he was paralyzed
to whom Jesii$ spoke, assuring him
of God's forgivenew of his sins,
Then He healed his pain-racked
body,
The gospel' stories- abound in
such Incidents. But Jesus is do-
ing the same wonderful service for
men and women today and in our
""03
found picOhOl a bad master until
Jesus gave 'them a great victory.
Countless t persons have found life
to be meaningless, their aims fail-
ed to satisfy or even justify their
existence until they found that 3e-
sus gave them new direction and
purpose and, moreover, power to`
live 'on the higher level., Mark, in
his second chapter,telis of the way
the bystanders were affected by
Jesus' cure of the paralytic="they
were amazed and glorified God
saying, we never saw anything
like• this'."
'So you, my friend,, may find it
too. Let Jesus control, your life,
Tell Him bow you have made a
poor show of iiving, You will be
amazed as you have not been for
many a Iong day. -
Try Him! He is the great re-
claimer of men's lives!
some years been on the staff of
the Southampton Beacon, visited
for several days with his mother
in town. He left for Orillia, where
he has,. secured, a poLtion on The
Packet.
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'FORTY YEARS AGO
Friends of George Moffatt are
pleased to see him returned frdm
overseas after five years of ser-
vice,. Murray Ross, son of Mr,
and 'Mrs. •Alex T. Ross, Morris, has
also returned to" his• home, as well
as W. Percy Merkley, eldest son
of Mr,. and Mrs. Ezra Merkley. •
The people of Wingham and vic-
inity will be pleased to know that
the Aero Cushion Tire and Rubber
co. eX:peet to "be Manufacturing
tires in four weeks' time. The ex-
cavation work is ,completed;;., and
Wm, Guest, Wii'OThaa•-tbe 'con-
tract for the cement work, has a
staff of men laying the foundation
and floors. All machinery will be
delivered ;at Wingham within the
next `two' -Weeks.
Mr. Shackleton, Lucknow, has
disposed of ,his house on Frances
Street to Mrs. Black. Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Smith are at 'present occu-
pYing the house. Mr, and Mrs.
Chown ',of Whitechurch are moving
'into Mr. A. J, Nicholls' house on
Victoria Street. alas. Joynt has
moved into the cottage on Frances
Street which she recently purchas-
ed.
Mr. James V. Breen has purchas-
ed a firm on the 9th concession of
Turnberry from Mrs-. Robertson,
0 - -
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Miss' Catherine; Ross, White-
church, Who, had her 'legAroken
when she fell jrorrOhe• hay ipow
'SO ei '4 'of' het ••ii in a , as
taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, hi
London, -last week, for further
treatment.
Early Monday morning R. S.
Hetherington went ,hunting puff
balls, and his luck wasthe .very
-best. On the farm of John Salter
on the Belgrave Road, he picked
three dandies.. One measured 3
feet, 7 inches in circumference and
weighed nearly 9 pounds:
Miss Lottie Hammond, of the
high school staff, who has spent
the past year in France, studying,
Was the:guest Speaker at the Un-
ited Church Evening Auxiliary
Meeting, '
The contract for widening the
pavement oft No. 4 Highway -from
Clinton; north to the Blyth curve,
to 'the -regulation 20-foot width, has
been awarded. A single ten-foot
width has juit been completed on
the same stretch.
Miss ;Grace Brackenbury of Port
It-lowopn. e was a week-end Visitor in
Mr, W, B, McCool sl)Olt a few
days latt week in Chicago, Visiting
the World's Pair,
0
•urPrtEN AGO
William T. Abraham Son of Mr.
and ,
Mrs, 'Tom 4brakaan of Wrox-
eter bas'been ehosee as the Winrier"
of the Ul/SSey Scholarship fot
Ruron 'county this yeat,
George Brooks, Lower Wingham,
bagged 'sit owl When • ,he Was out
Minting last week. The 004 had a
Wingspread of 49 ;Macs, • '
At the High School tin 'Tuesday
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