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Clinton News Record, 1954-07-08, Page 10er. Stanley. Township Man Recalls Early Days at Bayfield 1(By our Bayfield correspondent) ' •We enjoyed a chat on -Thurs- • day last with Charles Donaldson, former resident of this district Who was accompanied- by his son- • in-laW and clauthter, Mr. and Mrs, Percy Lewis, Ottawa. They have • been visiting his brother James in Goderich, and spent Thursday renewing acquaintances and going over old scenes in Stanley Town. ship. We had never met Mr. Donald- son, since he left here before we •arrived on this planet, but we • knew his children when they vis- ited their grandparents, the late Mr. and Mrs: James Donaldson, • and He had been a patient ef the late Dr. N. W. Woods, he told us, and the latter's uncle, Dr. Ninian Woods, before him4 • In his 85th year, VIr. Donaldson is wonderfully well has a clear memory and keen sense of humor. He was born in Bluevale bit 1870 and moved with his parents to 'a farm on the Goshen Line which they purchased from Thomas El- liott in 1877. Later his father bought the farm on the Bronson •Line which is now owned by Ral- ph Cornish. _ In speaking of Thomas Elliott; he recalled that his daughter Mary the late Mrs. John Fraser) taught him at S.S. No. 4 N. And could she strap) She stood up on her toes and came down on her heels with the desvent of that in- strument of punishment. One day she gave Dave Dewar a "Licking" and tried to make him ely but he never shed a tear, • James Donaldson owned the first steam tractor that came in- to Stanley Township.. The first portable steam tractor was owned by a man named Aikenhead On the Second Concession of Stanley, • but .it blew up, In the 1880's, perhaps 'about 1888, Mr, Donald- son told us, his father bought the second portable steam tractor to come into Stanley. He had been running a steam tractor for his father at the age of 15. • His un- cle Bill Perdue had a Leonard en- ' gine, and with the steam tractor, • 15 ••••-•••••••••.+1.,•11....111v,.......T•••••••••••••• J. S. Scruton Oils - Greases - Gasoline Petroleum Products Phone Clinton 3717 Phone Goderich 320-W ----- CITIES SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR ..16.•••.+11....kawalls..4111a.Allamalla..440..116.0116.40.4 they opened a saw mill on Jamea Donaldsons farm. During the off- season they chopped grain, went thrashing and cutting straw. Later on James Donaldson bought a big 40 11,P. Woodstock engine, A Joker He recalled for us spine of his practical ° joke% Charlie was threshing at Henry Steckle's farm and he had to sleep with.,the hired man. The latter was crowd- ing him out of bed so be began to scratch his leg. "Did you ever have the itch?" -he asked. The hired man replied in the negative. "Well," replied Charlie, "I've, had the seven year's itch and I've- got it for the third time," And with that the hired man moved well over on his own side of the bed. Charles chuckled as he recounted that next day the hired man told Henry Steckle that he Wouldn't sleep with that fellow because he had the itch. At Edmund Westlake's he hid all the ,men's hats, including his own, Of course it was easily found, and he walked out leaving the others searching frantically for theirs. Then there was the trick he played on William Johnston (nick- named "Jew"). lin those days there was a ladder up the side of the straw -.tack. Charlie and some of the other lads tramped a hole in the centre of the stack, cover- ed it up with loose straw, and stuck Johnston's fork on the far side of the stack. Then they stood around to watch the man go up the ladder for his fork and fall into the hidden pit. But no harm came of it. First Electricity His brother Jim never liked farming so his father gave the farm to Charlie, moved into Bay- field, and bought a saw mill for Sire—behind Walter Westlake's garage. Jim Donaldson started the first electric light system in Bayfield, the poWer being gener- ated by a large dynamo fed by the refuse from the mill., Good Dog Then he recallad Jimmy Johns- ton who teamedifflour and bran from Zurich. He always had well-trained collies. Charlie bought a pup, "Buff" from Jimmy Johnston and trained him' himself. No matter how dark the night, if he and his wife came home late, all he had to say was: "Buff -get the cows." The dog brought them to the stable—and only the milk- ers. If a cow calved, his master took Buff to the cow and told him to bring her next time. And he did. Once he was helping erect a barn at a neighbour's and he saw that strange cattle had broken in with his cattle. So he carried Buff up onto the structure in his arms, pointed out the cattle and told him to put them out. The faithful dog went dff to work and put every one of the intruders off the Donaldson pasture land. Buff also helped herd the lambs to Zurich when they were sold in the Fall. Huron M.P. Raps Minister; SuggeSts• Partiality To West • L, Elston Cardiff, M.P. for ur- on suggested recently in the Ccnrirrions that pernaps Canada has had a minister of agriculture from Western Canada, for .."-too many years.. ' Though not saying . so in so many words; Mr. Cardiff' told Mr. Gardiner. that the Minister of Ag- riculture was not looking to the beat interests of all farmers in Canada. This followed •a brief clash -between the two men con= cerning the spread of prices be- tween the selling price of western.. wheat and the cost price to the eastern farmers The minister had explained part of the higher cost was due to the fact that eastern farmers bought grain in small quantities. Cardiff stated that "If the farmer in the west were getting a high price, it would not be so bad.But he is not getting the price.They are not getting _any great amount of money after they have grown it out there. And when I get in Ontario I have to pay more than I can afford to pay for it as feed, to feed it at a profit. And we would produce far more hogs and far more cattle if we could get it, perhaps more than you would want." Gardiner went on to suggest that difficulty arose in figuring out the rise in cost to ,the eastern farmer, after the grain had been mixed and a variety of other mat— erials such as fishmeal had been added. Cardiff responded with, " You have said it is the dealer who is responsible. All right; we will find out if it is the dealer who is responsible. But if it is not the dealer, then somebody else is. .And I would like to know who it is." We asked Mr. Donaldson if he could tell us of any of the election battles in the district in those days. He didn't recall any in particular, but remembered a prominent figure, John McMillan, who could neither read nor write but had a marvellous memory, and was an exceedingly well-in- formed, clever leader. "In those days," he said, "there were only the two parties, Liberals and Con- servatives, They got up on the same platform and argued it out. And that is the way if should be today. All candidates should be on the same platform." Charles.Donaldson sold his farm in 1901 to William. Johnston and moved to Thessalon where he op- erated a livery, stable for four years. But he couldn't stand to see the horses abused, so he sold it and became a Commercial Trav- eller, first with Frost & Wood Implements over territory rang- ing from Thessalon to Ft. William, North Bay and the Manitoulin Is., forg four years; with Case Thresh- er Co., for six years and then with Sawyer Massey Road Machinery Co,, for 13 years. , He moved to Ottawa in 1921 and now makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Percy Lewis where he still keeps active in a large garden. SHOP . at home with the friendly merchants who ADVERTISEII at home! 1 You see their names regularly in the columns of the Clinton News -Record; They are interested in a progressive copimunity. "They Advertise - — You Patronize" .When the great Mark Twain edited a news-. paper, one of his subscribers, on opening a copy, found a spider. He wrote to the editor to find out whether this was a sign of good tuck or bad. The reply was, "Neither. The spider was merely • looking over the advertisements to ascertain who didn't advertise, sothat he could go to that merchant's doorway, spin himself a web and live in peace," • Advertise at Home Shop at Home • Clinton News -Record ni ter Centre To p Opened. At - Prince,. Rupert, The ROAF's •Ground Gbse:rver Corps is - to organize a Filter Centre in .the near future, at Prince 'Rupert, DC., and will open recruiting, for, more •than 200 sup- porting observation posta in the surrounding district, • The hew filter centre and ob-: serration posts will aid. the Air Defence System in providing in- formation upon low-flying aircraft in the mountainous regions of the area and the Queen Charlotte Filter Centred are manned on a 24-hour a day basis by civilian volunteers and a small number. of Regular Air Force personnel. Pur pose of the centres is to collect and assess information passed in by the—various observation posts within its- area,and to plot the track of these aircraft. Observe- btiyoncinvonistasn avroeiumgenresd. completely GOC work entails reporting on /ow -flying aircraft, and training Is given on plotting procedures, "air- craft tracking and passing of in- formation, and identification. On completion of training, a GOC badge, is awarded' qualified per - The GOC is of particular value in providing information on low- flying aircraft, thereby suplement- ing the radar system. In addition to its obvious value as an addi- tional warning aid of approaching, unidentified aircraft, the GOC has proved itself .of great value in reporting on friendly aircraft and aiding in search and rescue opera- tions. There are at present more than 60,000 civilian members of the GOC, serving from Newfoundland to British Columbia. The organ- ization is considered vital to the nation's early warning sYstem. Electronic Board Proves Help To Instructors Visitors to Station Clinton on Air Force Day viewed one of the newest developments in the teach- ing of radio. For many years the air force instructor in electronics had to rely primarily on his own ingenu- ity, blackboard and chalk, to teach the very complicated processes which go on inside modern radio equipment. Realizing this situation was anything but satisfactory, the RCAF was continually searching for a training aid which would effectively assist in this difficult task, An ideal solution te the prob- lem was found in the "Electronic Trainer" produced by the Philco Corporation of Canada. Essentially the trainer is a dis- play panel on which is mounted all the various components that make up a radio circuit. Each component is positioned in its proper place against a diagram which shows the function of the component and how it fits into the overall plan. Instructors using these display panels can demonstrate simply and effectively the inher workings of any piece of electronic equipment. The "Philco Trainers" have been in constant use at the Radio and Communications School, RCAF Station Clinton, since August, 1953. This type of, equipment is also currently being employed by the Canadian Army, RCEME branch, and the. Provincial Institute of Trades in Toronto, CONSTANCE (Intended for last week) Mrs. Charles Dexter is feeling much better, and is able to see a few more visitors, but is still con- fined to her bed. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stevenson and Mr. and Mrs. Max Stevenson, Brussels, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Charles Hoggart. Charles W. Riley and Ronnie spent a couple of days in Kitchen- er 'last week, Miss Brenda Riley returned with them for a vacation. William Moore received word froin Toronto this week that his brother Milton, is very sick in a Toronto hospital. His friends wish Milton a very speedy recovery. id The Ruins of Her nospita Dr. Constance Murray, Halifax, N.S., explains to two iellow Canadians her plans for the reconstruction of what once was Seoul's most modern hospital. The SeverancesHospital has been bombed, shelled and sacked but still exists through the kind donations of various church groups throughout the world. Dr. Murray, supervisor for the, hospital has spent 33 years in Korea, administering to their sick and needy. Although only one-third of the hospital is intact Dr, Murray tends to the medical needs of an ever-growing number of Korean natives. The Canadian Army in -Korea has always done what ever possible for the Severance Hospital. Recently a group of officers from the Dental Unit of the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade visited with Dr. Murray and presented her with a considerable amount of dental supplies for her hospital. Here, left to right: Major S. G. Bagnall; Dr. Murray and Lt. Col W. M. Sinclair, all of Halifax, (National Defence Photo) OVER 2,000 VISITORS CALL AT HURON COTJNTY MUSEUM Well ahead of last year's total at this time, the Huron County Museuni in Goderich had its 2 000- th visitor for 1954 on Sunday: Miss Nancy Aitcheson, R.R. 2, St. Pauls, Peith County. Including Sunday's total of 143, there have been 2,203 people tour the Museum so far this year. , Curator J. H. Neill is hoping to boost the num- ber of visitors well past the 9,000 mark this year.—Goderich Signal - Star. anad,i00 Nay- Welcomes - "Hong Kong Susie'''. Normally, mass leave for a shipS company is a nightmare for the - executive officer and chief wain's mate, who must keep things, ship-shape though more than the crew may be away at a time. Not so in Hong Kong. The Most recent Canadians to discover thia were the crew of HMOS Crusader —there recently for a few days of well-earned leave from duty with the United Nations fleet- in the Par East, As the destroyer •slid into her:. berth at Kowloon, a small battered sampan flying a red and white flag marked "IINICS" Cayuga,pula led quickly alongside. To the ship's side clambered a half-dozen . laughing Chinese girls, It was 'Hong Kong Susie" and her side party. • During the next 12 days they became the sweet- hearts of the Cayuga, beloved of all the seaman branch and col-. lectively the apple of the executive officer's eye. The ever -cheery girls scrubbed, washed' and polished with prodig- ious energy. They painted the hull from stem to stern in five days ° and then set to polishing brass washing dishes, scrubbing decks, dusting woodwork and peeling potatoes. , Naturally the crew was over-- joyed at this timely and welcome intercession. Thanks to the girls one of the biggest cleaning jobs that faces a ship in infrequent lulls between patrols was accomPlished.. The hands got their leave and the. ship gleamed like a queen in her new coat of. paint. • The price? — the right to take. away the ship's unused food each day and a soft drink concession on. the upper deck. Since leftovers: are thrown out anyway and since. Susie's pop prices are reasonable,. the Crusader was more than anx— ious to do business. Susie was satisfied. 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