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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1944-12-21, Page 2PAGE 2 The. Clinton News -.Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW 'FRA TER&IS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to. Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or. ...ether foreign countries. No paper •discontinued until all arrears are repaid, unless at the option of the pub= -licher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the diabel. • §DVERTISING RA'7tIGS —, Transient' advertising12c per count line for first- insertion. Se for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 £lines. Small advertisements not to -exceed one inch, such as "Wanted,". -"Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once ,for 35e, each subsequent insertion '15e,. Rates for display advertising :made known on application. Communications intended for, pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the . writer; Proprietor _l in-. II T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent ! ?Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies 'Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, $.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to'W. Brydone, K.O. Sloan Block ..,.. -- .... Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law :Sclieitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner t'lffices in Bank of Montreal Euildinr Hours: 2.50 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. 'Dr. F. G. Thompson House and Office, Ontario Street Clinton. Telephone 172 OFFICE HOURS: 2-4 in the after- noon and 7-8 in the evening daily. Other hours by appointment. D. H. McINNES 1 CUIROPRACTO R ]Electro Therapist, Massage 'tOffice: Huron Street, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat•, and by i FOOTCORRECTION by Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist. in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seal'orth, phone 14-661. 06-0121, THE CLINTON NEWTS -RECORD Love at First Fiight 1 y Charles Spalding and Otis Carney CHAPTER VI rung, with a red blur streaking down runway. i eve tie ari'port planes circled waiting.to land.' L' had stepped on Atlas' foot and he had dropped the globe., The crash truck drew alongside. "Are you'all right?" The Officer of the Day asked for the records. I nodded. Mr. Glossup Clammed his large face' Into the cockpit.. "Yost ground-looped,"he gasped. "You ground -looped." "I didn't do it. She did." I pointed all over 'the plane. • "You unlocked the tail -wheel too 01 soon," bawled Mr. Glossup. "You idiot. You idiot!" Barred Loin the Navy's : V-7 .pro gram because he `,lacked two:years of college math,' Lester Dowd tries to enlist in the Coast Guard but is turned clown because of a "facial squint," The.' doctor refuses even to examine hint. Commander Whitman, au old friend of the family, en - de r ors to get , a waiver for beater so he can join V-1, but after weeks of waiting Lester learns they still insist on two years of college math. He is successful in joining the V-5 Naval Association and is sent to Anacostia Naval Base. Six ' weary weeks of preliminary ground scho pass by and he is finally driven to a flying field. Scene time later he: makes his first solo flight with con- siderable apprehension. the ,Ab ] As soon as I was decently out of sight, I began to fly aimlessly in large • potbellied circles. After twenty minutes I `convinced myself I could stay up or come down at will. Flying was enjoyable! If I skidded in the turns, the •Glossup lash could not fall on my ;shoulders. If I' wandered off the beading, There was no one to object.' I flew over the Potomac and circled around an excursion boat moving slowly down the river. My control over the plane was absolute. I was sure of my mastery. Could this be love? I jam- med the nose down and pulled it right back up. That was the way to treat the little woman. • After an hour of sleighing about the sky, I started back to' the field. There would be no little enjoyment in striding unconcernedly past Glos- sup. This repine he would have to cone to me. I ..practised a suitable mono- logue in ,the smug dialect of the ex- perts, "Very nice upstairs today, Glos- sup. Very nice indeed. Smooth at four thousand. Average r.p.m:s 1700 fuel pressure 25. The left wing was a tittle heavy, but that doesn't bother or, does it, Ace?" I might throw' in a 'nudge under his navy wings, a sort of fraternal high sign. I turned my attent'on to number two -ninety-six We had never got. along like this before. Perhaps' it wasn't too late to try again. "Oh, you b.autiful doll," I sang, 'end patted her on the instrument panel. t iri! The field was 1-elow now. I fol-- lowed the correct procedure and prepared to land. "Oh' you beautiful doll, you great big beautiful doll!" l courted ex- travagantly. The approach was rrofessionaI, The tail struck lightly, and the wheels followed immediately. It was •a perfect landing. We rolled swiftly down the runway. "It isn't generally • known," I cooed in a raptors at this totally unexpected success,' "but you have the cutest ailerons is the base. Believe me." There was a notideabie swaying "Easy, dear," .I called in eleven.. I moved the stick to counterbal- ance the disturbance. 'There was no response; We skidded. We spurn around in h lircle. After two dizzy gyrations we Stopped at a erazy angle on the runway. The propeller continued to spin absurdly. Dazed by the wicked turn of events, I pushed the goggles up my head and ° looked around at my world.. The tower. was busy haul- ing down the course flag. All the cadets had gathered in a hunch in front of the hanger= and .focused their twenty-twenty visions on me and my situation. The crash truck, with officers hanging from every DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Bloor Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. OFFICERS— President W. R. Archibald, Seaforth, Vice -President !6'rank McGregor, Clinton, Manager Seoy-Treasi M. A. Reid, Seaforth. , ,'7)IRECTORS- W. R. Archibald, 'Seaforth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Alex. ' iBroadfoot, Seaforth; Chris 'Leonhardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar- the, Clinton; John L. Malone, Seaforth Alex. IiIcEwing, Blyth; Hugh Alexan- der, Walton; George 'Leitch, Clinton. AGENTS— John E. Pepper, Bruce- field; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; George A. Watt, Myth' ° % B • Parties desiring, to effect insult - wise or transact other business will, be romptly attended to on applies •tiort'to any, of the sibove officers !ad - ,dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected bythe director. TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from,Clinton as fol'fows: Toronto and Goderich Division Going East, depart 6.43 aim.. 'doing East, depart : 3.03 p.m. • Going West, depart 12.09 p.m, •Going West,, depart 11.10 p.m. London, and Clinton Division Coining North; arrive 11.20 a.m: Going South, leave ....,,. 3.10 p.m. OLD VIRGINIA PIPE TOBACCO It's a real pipe e smoker's tobacco No amount of` technical evidence to the contrary could persuade me that I had not been deceived by feminine guile in a highly mechan- ized form. "I didn't do it," I repeated stub- bornly. I rode sheepishly back to the i hangar •on the crash truck, while a crew pnAhed the plane off the run- way, and life recommenced to flow in its normal channels. I In council it was decided that I should solo again the following day. Their lenient opinion was predi- `cated`on the fact that I had upset the consensus by returning at all. The ground loop was frowned ,upon, 'but still it was an improvement 1 over the anticipated flight of the 'rock - Elated by the reprieve, I still felt that I had been purposely sacked by number two -ninety-six. There was something spiteful and heartless about that landing. I waited until all the planes had re- turned front their.last flight and then slipped down the line again. She stood tinted, vain, and defiant lin the evening colors. There was ning,lit his eyes. "When I :'am talking to another, you will not interrupt me. Is that clear:" he said icily. He tutned;back to me. "'Good luelc at Corpus Cha•is$r, he 'said under his breath. "Oh, excuse me," mumbled the cadet. "Excuse me what?" dentanded 1 Mr. Glossup, speaking from Olyan- Pita.' "Take over, Freud!" I mur- mured, making . for Fearless' car- riage. With luck, I could pack, cheek lout, and catch the evening train for Chicago, ,We weren't ordered to Cor pus Christi until October six- teenth. There was time for a three- day leave;, . r fi * I arrived home on a bright Octo- her day, A fresh wind was strip- ping the trees of their colored !leaves, whisking them off the branches and blowing then about in swirls. Sometimes one would flatten out on the car window, all but in your eye, and you .could see its ribbing and the cracks in its dried surface. Everywhere, in driveways and lanes, in school yards and squares, autumn fires smoldered • unattended and smoke I bent by the wind drifted, spread and dissolved in• a blue haze. When. I reached the house,. Elsa raced outside and then inside again. "He ees come!" she shouted. Mother came squealing down the stairs: Father emerged from the library in a cloud of smoke. "Darling, don't squeal like that," he protested, shaking my hand. "My baby]" cried Mother, swamp- ing me with affection. "Easy, dear, don't get dewy," cautioned Father. Mother disengaged herself. about her something will and un- h •d to ' principled i Father, "and I'll take the back." • "You ta)ee the front " she said "You St. ' Louis woman!" I cursed her softly, and walked' abruptly to , the bus. For two weeks I,,stiugglcd for precision, learned to land in a cir- cle and how to make emergency landings. There must have, been some progress, because planes that formerly bolted off like achool tots fleeing the eighth -grade bully when- ever two -ninety-six appeared in the shy, now exhibited at least outward calm. Gradually any status changed, and at the enol T was regarded more s a cripple who had learned to tap- dance than as a sort of floating haz- ard. '' l Hawse.] my tweety-hour check and became eligi.:le for advanced training, at Corpus Ghristi. After the ordeal. Mr. 'Glossup called me aside, IIe took my arm and hustled me around the. hangar. I was used to being treated like cactus, and gentle hands unnerved me.• "Well, I got you through." IIe broke down completely in private. it was Glossup unmasked. "And da you know hat .olid it? Psycholo- gy!" He mouthed the password. I stood mute before the revela- tion, deprived of my faculties. "Without psychology, • you'd have been a dead duck" he snapped his fingers. "I wouldn't have given that Toa' ,you" --,he snapped his. fin- gers again. It was the same asbe- ing a dead duck. "It's a marvellous thing"— I paid my respects to science. "When I saw you I said to my- self, this fellow has to be handled psychologically. And, 'boy" — he slapped me jovially --"diol you re- spond!" - After a minute he said: "I couldn't be like this and do you any good. You understand that" lie explained his past behaviour. In the real ,Glossup, psychologically- speak- iny,.there was apparently no there- peutie value at all. "Yes, I've been using it since rl'dlho d, mused Mr. Glossup,re- ferring to his art as if It were an old boot -jack, "I must send you some of the new hooks,'sir'• It was the 'least I could do. A new eadet iu'lecl tip; not at all sure of his ground. "Pardon me," he introduced him- self. "My name is Green. I ani your new student." Mr. ,Glossup winked, at tie. Cun- She took a stand a few paces be- hind pre. "Now, look!" I protested. • 1 herself. However, grand occadion were entrusted to - the professional hands of " Mr. Raymonde, a man whose highly stylized work could be recognized as Milessoneo. Along Life's Thorny Path. It included such items as the First Birthday,_ Little Hunter, Achilles, and a suc- cession ,of graduations. Mr. Ray - monde wore much more hair than our period requires, and about his neck he wrapped a silken scarf that shone like chromium.,. When h smiled, he looked like a shark, which explains to a great exten the 'quailing expression in Little Hunter. t "Lester," ter,,» Mother called, "Mr Raymonde is here to 'take a few pictures of you." s "The harbor was filled with sunken and° wrecked ships, German and French," said ';the coxswain, CPO. Frederick McCarville of Charlotte- town "The forts' and the waterfront were pretty badly battered, but there wasn't ,much .damage in. the ' city itself. THESE MEN ARE THE SEA - SWEEPS SWEEPS OF 'VICTORY The following is a clipping from t an overseas paper. The men ,of the aninesweepers, who led theway to the beaches on • D -Day, are still sweeping from a,nt. till 10 pan. ,each day, keeping the , p g channel's swept and destroying the "He just made it, •clidn't he?"; I said suspiciously, "I'llbet you've had hien, locked in the attic for days." "Don't be absurd, dear. He stay ed in, your room last night just to be ready when you came,". said Mother. "That ,Neanderthal Beaton slept in my bed!" The dentist was proba- bly chained. in the, 'guest room. "Here he is, Mr. Raymonde,' said Mother, leading me gingerly into the hallway., "Ah," said Raymonde hungrily "I suggest we go into the garden, I stood fast. THURS., DEC.). 21 'r'. 1911 ."-�—*---•rte good ,bowler .hat, and carrying an um- brella to the city in, 1939—and anade a bit of money when nobody was looking. "And then `2 was given sixteen hours' notiog to go' to Sing• apore.' 2 . dropped my bowler hat in' the waste- paper !basket, threw my umbrella on the floor, kissed the typist politely, and off L event," ( Once the skipper of a sweeper said to a staff officer of a flag ship "If you could let.us have some food, we should be awfully glad, because we have run short. The staff officer told- him, "You will have to go on hard. tack!' The sweeper officer re - 'plied: "That would be grand, sir, batt. we have not even got gay hard tack left." mines which the Luftwaffe drops by night. , I When the sweepers anchor at To Protest Issuing Of Beer night they have what is mostly dos -,1 y ctike:l as "a rather- warm time, Licenses In Huron watching enemy aircraft drop mines f Meetingo f Huron C will have. to sweep next'•aunty which they day. Temperance Federation at Clinton One night a sweeper signalled a . The 'position of Huron county in captain: "A. parachute has just relation to the Canada 'Temperance grazed my Oerlikon platform. I ,Act was under discussion at the an- , think I had better move." The cap- i nual meeting of the Huron County tain replied!' "Good show. Unbutton, i Temperance Federation, held im Wes. drift away and have faith in God." z 2s church, Clinton, on Nevem "That skipper is still alive, with th- only one anchor and •one cable miss- Mr, F, W. Lewis, of the Ontario ing, which seemed fair ` enough," Temperance Federation, addressing said the captain." i the meeting pointed out that as the "The men in the minesweepers aria county of Huron is under the Canada in grand form and don't care two Temperance Act all hoer authorities, ' penne'orth of cold gin for Hitler or issued in this county are illegal: anybody else,"" he said. I It tuns decided to authorize the "They just slog along doing their Ontario Temperance Federation to stuff, and I am proud of them. It is !appear -before the meeting of . the I an arduous and dangerous job, not r Provincial Liquor Control Board at at all romantic. Kitchener on December ,it to ,pro_ "We have had a considerable a- test on behalf of the Huron Feder - mount of success, and more marvel- ation against the issuing of author- lous still"— he touched 'wood --"we ities in this county. have had a very small percentage o casualties, fi i Rev. A. Johnston, educational sec- ZRIII retary of the Ontario Temperance Federation, addressed; the meeting „GOOD MORNING" on "Temperance Education." A me- tion was passed requesting the mins "In my own ship the.NAAFI ean-!isters and superintendents of Sunday teen has been empty for a month,!sehoois in the county to carry on and 'no man has seen an egg or a temperance education as outlined by piece of chocolate for weeks, They the Ontario Temperance Federation. have had very little leave. They' Officers were elected for the com- d have not complained or worried ing year as follows: Hon. presidents, about it at .all. They realise what Gordon Lamb, Goderich, and Miss •their job is only too we11." Jean Murray, Hensall; past presi- When a ranine is blown up people dents, W. G. Medd and R. J. Watson; who Iive down ibe'ow, like ship- , president, R. H. Lloyd, Wingham; wrights 'and mechanics, come up to vice-president, Mrs. Geo. Johnston, • have a look at it. !Goderich; secretary -treasurer, A. T. "You see them then for the time". Cooper, Clinton. said the captain, "One day I said toe—Goderich Signal Star. them 'Good morning' They looked 1 1' puzzled, and said. 'Beg pardon, sir?'I I said. 'Good morning,. T have not i A pessimist is a span who thinks seen you for three weeks," I l everybody as nasty as mself, and "They are mostly amateurs like hates them for it—George Bernard myself. I was wearing a perfectly Shaw. "Why won't you go into the gar- den with Mr. Raymonde?" asked Mother in distress. "I won't de it" Mr. Raymonde absented himself by gazing out the window until the situation settled. "What had you planned, Mr. Ray - monde?" Mother asked. (To Be Continued) v, J. Durno Innes Appointed Chief Inspector For Holstein Assoc The Holstein -Friesian Association of Canada has announced the ap- pointment of J, Durno Innes, Wood- stock, Ontario, as Chief Inspector Of Selective Registration. Mr. Innes has had a wide experience as a show- man having exhibited Holstein an Jerseys on the show circuits from one enc] of Canada to the other. He is recognized as one of the country's ablest judges of dairy cattle, having done a masterful job at the recent Oakville, Championship Show, gen- erally conceded to be the top Holst- ein 'Show of the year. Holstein breeders are fortunate indeed to se - "You ju. t talk, dear," eon inancled cure a man of his seasoned judge- Mothei'. "How was it? Did . they'}�tnent for :This important position, whip you?"' : ithe holder of which wields such an • u ! No they didn't whip me. Are influence on the future type of the breed. For the past four years he "Wonderful. You've no idea how has been a Director of the Associat- they've improved your rear," she ion. mused. "She's been well, hasn't she?" Failing heath has'forced R. M. Father nodded. Holtby, Poit Perry, former Chief l'No, really. It's svelte now,' she Inspector, to -curb his activities. insisted. "How's the: front?" she However,: his wide experience will called to Father. not he entirely lost to the Associat- "Glossy," he, said, ion as he will still be available for consultation and advice to the newer I "Talk, Lester," Mother said.: members of the field staff. "There was a young man from W. L. Carr, Huntingdon, Quebec, Racine." a former president of the Holstein "Talk- about horsepower," Moth- er urged. "You'll love that." Unwillingly I was launched on a technical lecture concerning amen widely known locally. dynamics and the theory of flight, power plants, and the complex me- chanics of •the carburetor. Mother mover] around in front next to Fa- ther. Both of them heard me; but neither listened. They looked at each other and then at me and then back at each; other . ivith an in- credulity' of two yokels gazing for the first time upon the marvellous doings of the latest electric icebox. "Isn't that wonderful!" Moths% broke in. "He used to be vapid,' she said to . Father. "I've got to go ,ipstnirs a minute," she apolo- gized. • Father and I retired to the library and fell to discussing the progress of the war. He had lined the room with maps, all marked with vari- colored pins, and' wherever an ac- quaintance was stationed his prog- ress and feats and the latest news you having a gliod time?" Friesian Association of • Canada, has been appointed to serve, under Mr. Innes as Selective Registration in- spector for Quebe . Mr. Carr is or him were duly logged. ' We talked : on awhile until I heard the buzz of quiet talk iii the front hall. It sounded like the low; un- intelligible drone doctors cud nurses speak in ,_outside their patient's room n. I r o ized Mother, d ec gra , an then in a warm agonizing flash I knewth other. a. ire "Ts that who I think it is?" I asked Father. "That's who it is," , said Father sympathetically. It happens that Mother is one of those collectors for whom a family photograph is "a Oleg of beauty and a joy forever." Her albums fill bins. Casual, • candid work she did V Kenora Crew Return to Canada Of and men of H,M.C.S.'Ken- Ora, one of the tiny Canadian minesweepers which helped clear a path to the Normandy .beaches for the Allied invasion, have returned to Canada on Ieave, the Navy amioun- ccs, Sane, Lorne Brown of Clinton is a member of the Kenora Crew,. The Kenora and three other Cana- dian Bangor sweepers were in a mixed British -Canadian flotilla which made thevital pre -invasion sweep the night before D -Day -June 6. A naval •press release quoted Lieut, 11 W. Lowe of Calgary and Vancouver, the Kenora's 'commanding officer, as saying that about the mostdifficult part of the operation was manoeuvring en the Channel through the "heavy traffic" of Allied Alps. Ile described the invasion itself as an "impressive" sight but .said that apart from the mines they brought up with their ggraear the Grew saw . nosign t of the enemy during the :first week of operations. :They were under fire once, when enemy shore batteries opened fire -and missed. 'The Kenora took part in sweeping out the approaches to Cherbourg Harbor, and that job gave the crew a chance to get ashore in France.,` 0114.20 citie S Ns A P314 0 GULL WATCH THE SURROUNDINGS Watch your back- ground. Our illustra- tions show What a difference it can make Th the appeal and attractiveness of a subject. CO '%'OU have probably read the ad- monitions Tn this column against trying to get Hollywood glamor into pictures made of wives and girl friends' to send to those in the Ser- vice. It seems now, judging from reports, that some sanatem•s'have taken this to mean that it isn't nec- essary toe give much thought to the positioning of 'the subject or the camera before snapping the shutter. Well, that is important. Extraneous obiects appearing in the 'background or at tile sides of your subject,' or oven in the fore ground, will detract interest from your principal subject. Correcting this photographic era•or is very. sim- ple. All you have to do is change the position, or Iocation, of yetis Our illustrations are examples of good and distracting backgrounds. To the left is an appealing sub ect —mother and child—ttltieh• would he welcomed by anyone itt the Ser- vice. It's an excellent story -telling type of picture but it Is weakened. by an unattractive background. By merely selecting a location a few feet away, reversing the posi- tion of the subjects and taking ad- vantage of the sky and winter back- ground, alt 'attention isdirected to the subjects. Although the sand on the beach is a natural reflector for illuminating the shadow in 'snap- shots like these, a reflector was used to keep the subject brightness range as even as possible. ow a•reflector mayleadyou to N think of Hollywood and added ex- ° pense. You can dismiss that thought from yoa• Mind because a reflector can be ofairlYy large square of white cloth or paper held or placed in a position to reflect the light Into the, fasces of your subjects to eliminate. harsh shadows. The next time you start taking pictures resolve tet think :and'look before you 'shoot. Film is scarce and you should :strive to make every p!eture . a good one..