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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-04-25, Page 10.r A 4 THE GODERICH JG AL -STAR MUM , ADM , 25th, 1057 PUT TO GOOD USE MANY ARTICLES YOU HAVE SAVED OR STORID THESE ARTICLES CAN BE CONVERTED TO THE GREATEST ASSET A COMMUNITY CAN HAVE --A SINE HOSPITAL. HERE'S HOW — — Look around your house and see what good, saleable household furnishings you wish . to donate to the Goderich Lions -Club for their° o May a ° ° ° ° o. W. o h Monsteri.uctron dale u 18 Then call any one of the following for additional information: W. W. Haysom, phone 81 : B. M. Armstro n 9phone 14; K. F. Wilkinson,phone 150 W. Proceeds from the sale will go towards supplying f furnishings for nur ser of1 ; ` - ,,. h � u y new hospit�. �,��� ° Here's -�ouY chance to help! Why not phonetoday? - morning at eleven o'clock. They I will be joined in the parade by a! squadron of air cadets from Strat- j ford. The annual Air Cadet tag day will be held on Saturday, May 4. Next week, the Maitland Air Cadets will pay a visit to Stratford. Statistics show that 25 per cent of the active air crews- in the come from -enlistments of former air cadets. AIR CADETS TO PARADE SUNDAY To launch Air Cadet Week -- April 28 to May 4. ---Maitland Air Cadets it w lholdachurYhparade to Knox Church chapel on Sunday PLEASE NOTE The Lazy River Ranch Hands wish to thank the persons responsible for their past engagements and also to announce that they are now open to play for any of your dancing, concert or banquet engagements in the future. For full particulars, please phone or contact Schram at 189 Bridge Street, Goderich. Thank you. Francis -17 JAC BINE LEGION HALL GODERICH Saturday, April 27 rte" POW OF $80.00 FOR FULL HOUSE IN 56 CALLS. 1st GAME STARTS AT 8.30 P.M. . 0 o e y9tr,ineedm m ®on one day! You may borrow up to $1000 from HF(' in one day and choose your own repayment plan ... with up to 30 months to repay. For under- standingct,unsc•landprornpt money service. visit HF(' today. Borrow with con fidenci .,.Broin ('r,nada 's largest and inost recommended consumer finance company. - HOl E � LD FINANCE t d ZlG fd/G b alta° R. K Fitch, Manager 35A West Street, second floor,phone 1 503 GODERflCD , CONT. OUT ON A LIMB WITH BILL SMILEY Had a ride in an airplane the other day, the first in years. It made me sad. Oh, not because I was sorry I don't fly any more. One of the happiest moments of my life was when somebody shot my noisy Pegasus out from under me, back in '44, and after crunch- ing it into a plowed field on the wrong side of the lines, I realized there was a good chance I'd never have to climb aboard one of those bellowing, fearsome monsters again. What made me sad was the realization that science is destroy- ing one of the last frontiers of adventure. Just as surely as the farmer, the schoolteacher and the preacher took the Wild out of the Wild West, the radio expert, and physicist are taking the Wild out of the Wild Blue Yonder. During my flip the other day, 04tAYTALU THAT"PEACHES AND CREAM COMPl ay!'N`°°° COMES FROM USINfy PLENTY , OF ANDREW DAIRY CREAM ON YOUR. PEACHES! GODERICH IS NOTED AS "THE PRETTIEST TOWN IN CANADA" lf-\• Do your part to help keep it that way by making your property clean and attractive. * • 'AV - g ace. o rtrtitioteal in the cet vice of the eomaflt1i1 by ny Sohn - Ldhdtt Li it d, 1 (4, iii;;;/4 BREWEit$ SINCE. t828 ai the pilot was testing some net ! radio equipment installed at the � local airport. I'd had some idea ase Of Tw® Apologetic Gunmen of the giant strides made n the Caps 25- Years Of ° -17 use of radio in aur navigation, but was astounded to find what a push button affair it has become. They've taken all the salt out of flying.Finding your ourwa Y through the footless halls of air is about as tough as running one of those modern electric stoves with all the buttons and bells on them. 5 * You loll back in the cockpit, smoking a cigar and hurtling along in the general direction of the airport. When you start to get bored, you pushya button, and there is the comforting voice of your) friendly radio announcer. He tells you where you are and what course to fly. You set the course on:,your compass and head in on the beam. The only thing that's lacking is a blonde angel to fly out, meet you, and hold your hand during the landing. * * Well, maybe it's not quite that simple, but it's a far cry from the guess -and -gamble system of navig- ation in vogue ,when I learned to fly. Air navigation was one of my weak points, anyway. -'1 never had any trouble getting from one place to another. But "another" very often .turned out to be some place I wasn't going. On my very first solo cross- country flight, I had trouble. It was a triangle flight: St. Catharines- I-lamilton-Toronto-St. Catharines. was doing famously. Toronto was quite a sight from the air, so I did a couple of circles, to have a good look. Then I set off for tt. Catharines, being careful to keep the shoreline- of Lake Ontario in sight, so 1 couldn't get lost. 1 landed safely .and happily. At Oshawa, 70 air miles from home. Seems I had kept the shoreline on ray left instead of my right. After that, Iused to rock at my - compass, but. it didn't seem to help much. I got lost practically every time I went up, unless I was flying in formation. Alone, I would just fly around Aimlessly, peering anx- iously at the per j sexing maze of rivers, and road, below. When I found a railroad, I'd go dawn low and fly along it until I came to a town with a water Rink, I'd read the name of the town on the tank, and find out where I was. That was known as dead -reckoning - navigation. 4n England, there were no names on the water -tanks. It was rugged, 1 One day I was up in a Spitfire on a routine training flight. Low cloud Came in and I got lost, After panicking around the sky for al while, I got hold of myself, set 1 course, and flew steadily in the right direction. When I figured 1 was., right over the airport, I let -down carefully through cloud. There, to my delight, was the air- port, with the shining__ expanse of the Mersey River proving I was in the right spot. Do you know what the "Mersey" was? It was the English Channel, just 180 miles due south of where I was supposed to be. Another 20 minutes and I'd have landed in France, beating D -Day by aiWiost a year. x • Then there was the time I was night -flying in a Spit. Right after take off, I was lost. ',batted around the country for a while, looking with despair at the utter ,blackness below. I was' just about to bail out when, to my, infinite joy, I spotted a row of barely discernible lights. It was the flarepath at the drome. I carme in carefully and was just about to touch down, when I real- ized the flarepath was ,moving. It turned out to be- a convoy of trucks, with dimmed lights,/ that I was trying do land on, I *a.s so shaken that I pulled up and DID bale out, later reporting I'd been shot down by a night -fighter. When I got an operations, the C,O. realized I was a little weak in navaigalion, so he let me fly as his No. 2. Everything went fine after that. Except for the day 1 lost him. We were dive-bombing a railway bride. As usual, my bombs, about $8,000 worth, landed harmlessly in a field half a mile off the target. 'When I pulled out of my dive, the C.O. was nowhere to, be seen. 0 was flabbergasted, and had -visions of winding up in Yugo-Slavia or somewhere, if I had to go home, alone. Then I spotted him, high and about two miles away,, and my heart leapt with relief.- I poured on the coal,. climbed up behind him, slid under his tail and into tight fdi'mation. I turned to grin at him and show him he couldn't shake erne off that easily. He turn- ed his head`. t� me 'at the same time. I don't &now who was the more surprised, Obergruppenfue- hrer Pfeffersehnorlrel of the Lu'fPt- waffe, sitting there in his Messer- schmitt, or yours truly. p :1 4 4 We parted, with mutual consent sold incredible alacrity. But that' Whrft I meth. With all the new gadgets, pilots tWiI know wheys they are all the Watt,, and will attics a lot of (good, 'lean fun. "I've., heard a lot of tales in the last quarter centbry, declared Magistrate D. E. Holmes, "but 1 think this caps them all!" - The magistrate had 'keen listen- ing in court here last week as Murray Grainger, 46 -year-old Varna farmer, told how he was ro'b.bed at gunpoint by two apologetic hitch -hikers -he had befriended. The magistrate decided to com- mit Thomas ,Welburn, 24, to On- tario Hospital, London, for an ex- amination. He will be returned to Godericli court, if the authorities so desire, for sentence. Douglas Weaver, 18, was remand- ed to jail until next week for sentencing. The youths, both from Halifax, had pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery, car theft and illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and sawed-off rifle. Mr. Grainger said he picked the hitch -hiking youths up on Satur-' day, April 4, as he was driving to Clinton. There was nothing, to suggest that they were drying guns, he said. Mr. Grainger made an effort to 1 help them find a young lady in whom one of the youths was inter- ested. The girl was supposed to be at Clinton RCAF Station. He also took them to church and bought meals for them in restaur- ants. Displayed Weapon Later, the farmer drove the youths to London and brought them back again. On -.the- -way back, he said, they opened a bag to show that there was a gun in- side. Mr. Grainger did not say whether this disturbed him or- "trot. On Monday evening, the- you the had 'been visiting the young lady at 'the Clinton CAF Station and Mr. Grainger picked them up at 10.30 .p.m. ,o take them to his haeme for the night. "They brought the -two guns out and showed them to me, he testi- fieft in court. At this point, Pro- — --- e,, ttineial Constable D. Trurnbley, of .••••••••••••••••••••••• Goderich, brought forward a sawed-off shotgun 'and sawed -oft i file a.s exhibits. One of the youths ,suggested shooting a Bole in the stove, said Mr. Grainger. Then they asked - him if he believed in the Bible. When he said that he did, one youth had asked him if he thought the Bible would stop the bullet if the youth fired the gun at him. Mr. Grainger saki he replied, "It's possible, but it doesn't say so." Then there was a disagreement between the ' two youths because Weaver wanted to leave but Wel- burn wanted to stay and get work. They dealt cards to settle the dis- pute, and Weaver won.. Unperturbed By Happenings ,Magistrate Holmes a.ke$, , r, ' Grainger what he had been (Thing while all this was gong on. Mr. Grainger replied that he had ,been standing beside the stove all the time. The magistrate then asked, -"At that point, had you any apprehen- sion? Any fear?" "No, sir; I had not," replied Mr. Grainger. The magistrate indicated he was somewhat surprised to hear this. "It was then that the elder asked if I thought he could shoot hie," said Mr. Grainger, continuing his testimony. He said he had replied that it was "possible." The pair finally decided to take his ear and drive to Hamilton. When Mr. Grainger offered to drive them to Hamilton himself, so they wouldn't get into any trouble with police, Welburn had replied, "No, it's got to be this way! Welburn, who did most of the talking, said he had never met a man like Mr. Grainger, according to Mr. Grainger's 'testimony. He „ had offered to give the farmer a chance to make a grab for the gun, but the offer was declined. Though they trussed hint% with his own neckties, said Mr. Grain- ger, "They bath said they hated to do this; I'd used them good." After laying a Bible on the table in front of him, the youths "built it up so I could turn over the pages with my tongue," he told the court. Took Small Sum The youths took more than three dollarts in cash from Grainger, taking his word that this was all he had in the house. Before they left, they asked if there was anything more they could do to help him. Mr. Grain- ger said there was. There was a draft coming from somewhere and he asked if they would mind clos- ing a door. This they did. Before they disappeared with his car, the robbery victim' said he had told Welburn as follows: "Tom, I ��Still love you and I'll still be pray- ing for you. I had hoped for some- thing different. I guess 1've failed or come short in some way. , "Tom said, 'Don't ' say that, . Murray! If you say that, I'll shoot you!" Mr. Grainger then revealed to t'he court that, on Sunday, Weaver had told him that he "would have got it" if he had talked anything ,but religion, when he first picked up the youths. - The -.younger man said that they had originally, planned to "give a snug" to the man who picked them up, then throw hirh in the ditch and take his car and money. ` About 10 minutes after the pair left his farm, Mr, Grainger - strug- gled free of his bonds and tele- phoned Provineial Foliee6 Later the same day, the car, out -of gas, was found abandoned on highway 8, near Holmesville. .. London Township Poliee arrested the youths as they walked along high - way 2 at (,runaiin. Magistrate Holmes expressed surprise at the "practically brand new" condition of the shotgun and rifle. The youths said they had sawed off the WeaPons themselves and had brought them all the way from Halifax.' The magistrate termed the case "the screwiest tale I've heard in a long time." The court was told that Welburn had a record of seferal past con- victions, Pbut°there was no record on his younger companion. 0 0 0 PORT ALBERT PORT ALBERT, April 22.—Mr. and ,Mrs. Ivan Grigg and Mr. Earl Martin, of London, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs,° David Mar- tin over the week -end. Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Eliza Stewart returned with them to London for a week. Mr. and Mrs, Art Forester re- turned to their home here after spending the winter in Goderich, Mr, and Mrs. Carl Smith, Mr. John IMcPBride and Miss Isabel Tigert, all of London, were week- end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tigert. Mr. and Mrs, Don Bowden and son, of London, and, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Knight and children, of Sarnia, visited at Clarence Hoy's over the week -end. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crpssett and family, of Sarnia, spent Easter Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Petrie. Leena and Margo Crossett are spending the week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Petrie.. TO HELP KOREAN CHILDREN. P.S. CLASS RAISES $51.31 Thirty-two public school pupils from Miss Bowra's class will bring health and happiness to needy children in Korea 9n i!h°e form' of health kits. This grade seven class recently oll c e cte d used coat hang ers and empty pop bottles around Goderich in order to raise cash for the Junior Red gross. A total of $51.31 was realized fro -m the effort. This money will 'be used by the Red Cross to buy health kits for Korean children. 0- __ o----- —o Signal•StarClassified ads get results. *00006101411111111110611111111601111114111111110 Attention Farmers! SPECIAL LOW PRICES ON BELL IMPERIAL THRESHING MACHINES UNTIL 15 MAY, 1957 IT WILL PAY- YOU TO CONTACT US NOW FOR PARTICULARS. REPAIRS AND PARTS — Now is the time- to look over your older machine and have any repairs done, so that you will- not be held up later. We give careful atten- tion to later., and orders for parts. Robert Bell Industries Limited SEAFORTH, ONTARIO PHONE 268 w -17x ••••••••••••••••••••••••- ELECTRICAL TIPS FOR. THE HOME ` If You Use Several Lamps and Appliances in the Bedroom .. Men go for the girl who never takes chances with per- sonal daintiness when it comes to clothes. With hot, sticky days ahead, make it a point to have yours dry cleaned regular- ly. We'll send thein back fresh. and clean as an April rain. GODERIT DRY CLEANERS ! WEST'T, , /2 2 Ls C.R.,LOWERY, PROP. OBC-TV'S FRIDAY NIGHT HIT SHOW AND DANCE! Country Hoedown -- ' STARRING — KING GANAM Lorraine Foreman Tommy Hunter ,Hames Sisters 'i Tommy Common Cour in Clem Sons of the West WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 MESTER, COM EUNIT Y ,ARENA. Show Starts. 9 p.m. ---= Pance 10,30 to 1. n pq Reserved Seats may be secured at Lloyd W`ord's Men's and Boys' Wear,, $2.01) owl" Regular admission is Sponsored By Ezbtere I isasmen "1i DON'T put up with "octePus" outlets and the inconvenience of disconnecting one piece of _ equip- ment in order to plug in another. DO install duplex outlets near each bed and within 6 feet of any spot where lamps, radio, clock and other appliances may be used. THIS_ ADVERTIISENIENT IS PROVIDED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE, BV GODERICH PUBLIC . UTILITIES COMMISSION li NO MORE MORNING BACKACHEwhen you sleep ou a Sell%y POSTURiPEDIC© month 't for a Ivy at our expensu OFFER �R��'tR�N EFFECT �®W LIFE Biackstone's Furniture WEST STREET " PHONE 240 , 17 +d t'Jc 0