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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1944-12-28, Page 2PAGE � Y .The Lhnton IN ews-ttecorfl with which is Incorporated', FRE NEW ,ERA ,TERIVIS Oh SUBSCRIPTION 51,60 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; 82.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued . until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub. lisher. The date to which every sub- seription:is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RAVES - Transient advertising 12c per count line. for 'irst.insertion, 8c for each subtle querit insertion. Heading, counts 2 \ lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost" "Strayed' , etc., inserted once ' fax 6e each subsequent 'insertion 16e. Rates fax display advertising Arcade known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a' guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name) of the writer. G. E. HALL Proprietor Ii. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B Banister, Solicitor, Notary Publi Successor. to W. Biydone, ILC, Sloan Rloch .::,. — .... Clinton, Ont THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD L.ve a# First 1;47iight By Charles Spalding and Otis Caney �.wswi® Barred from the Navy's 'V-7 pro- gram because he lack.d two years of college math, Lester Dowd tries to enast in the Coast Guard .but is turned ,down because of a `facial squint." The doctor reuses even to examine him. Commander, Whitman, an old friend of the '.,family; en- deavors to get a waiver for Lester so he can join V-7, but after weeks of waiting Lester learns they stili insist on two years of college math. He is successful h joining the V-6 Naval .Aviation and is sent to ,Anacostia Naval Base. After making his first solo flight he gets, a three-day furlough and visits his folks in Chicago. • Mr. Raymonde turned, raised one c hand and waggled its fingers. "1 visualized hire framed in the second • arch by the sundial, leaning against the stonework, chrysanthemums banked behind. His young face bur- ied in a copy of 'Jane's Fighting Ships.'" There was a moment of stunned silence. Mother recovered first "Oh, really," she said in a childlike voice H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Q7}tario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner Offices in Bank of Mpntreal Building Hours: 2,00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. Dr. F. G. Thompson Rouse and Office, Ontario Street Clinton. Telephone 172 OFFICE HOURS: 2-4 in the after- Troon and 7-8 in the evening daily Other hours by appointment., D. IL McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electra Therapist, Massage Office:, Huron Street, t!'ew Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat., and by appdintmetit 1?O.OT CORREGTION by Mrinipulation• ;San -Ray Treatment t.' Phone . e 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 Seaforth, Rhone 14-661. 06-012 DR. G. S. ELLIOTT, Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Blear Str. W. Toronto Ont. ,THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. OFFICERS President W. R. Archibald, Seaforth, Vice -President Frank McGregor, Clinton, Manager Secy-Treas. M. A. Reid, Seaforth. DIRECTO+RS— W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris Leonhardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar- tha, Clinton; John. L. Malone, Seaforth Alex. McEwing, Blyth; Hugh Alexan- der, Walton; George Leitch, Clinton. AGENTS— John E. Pepper, Bruce- field; R. F. Megercher, Dublin; .1. F. ?meter, Broc1hagen; George A. Watt, Blyth, i73# Parties desiring to effect Inman mule or transact other business will btopromptly to m ntyot heaabo a to offin cers ad,- dreased to their respective post offi- ces, Losses inspected by the director. ANADIANN AT 0.M A WAYS. TIME TABLE', Trains willid air a at and depart from m Clinton as follows: ' Toronto anti Goderieh Division Going East, depart 6.43 ,ata Laing East, depart 3,08 p.in' Going liV'est, depart :..I,12;04 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. months' time was ever a joyless.. duty. ,In young:r years it was part of an exchange system. The other member matrons tai;their ` turn di- rected outbound or returned off- spring to our house, where they sul- lenly stood to receive . Mother's benediction, • Because" of an unsub- stantial .theory developed by the mothers, who held that the children' improved year by year in mind and! spirit, you were ° always favorably criticized and told how much finer a little lad you were than at the date of your last visit. Consequent- ly, 'I was not unduly, jolted when' Mrs. Bishop fluttei<ed about the' brass buttons on the uniform, looked ' ticed you in the mob." ' "I was downstate with the Com- mittee,"- she apologized. "The executive type," I said_ pull- ing the glasses down from her eyes. I"flow was it downstate?" "Fat and Greasy," she laughed, pushing the glasses back up again. }tow did you Committee?" I ed for the sofa. "It's the only anybody now/' ",Sit here." "How do you the girls?". ever come by the asked as she start - way you can see she complained. like working with "Not so nsueh as playing with the piercingly at me, and solemnly con -1 ve never seen such eluded: "There's something there th wasn't there before." boys. But you' energy. 'Do you remember Mrs. ' DeRalb?" ,My house-to-house survey pro that Mrs. Bishop's insight was ino than the traditional greeting'. was public opinion. People insi ed that a great change had to place. They Iooked at the dark bl serge, and underneath they saw evolution of character spiritual its implications. I was treated Ii one of the reprieved Touhy b at "The woman who looks like a shod?" e accounted ved' for, two tons be - re ' tween Rockport and Moline." It "I always said that territory could st- be developed.' For whom are you ken working your fingers to the bone?" t-lue I pointed to her knitting.an 1' "That's going to be a mitten for in Anthony.""ForW ice aters? What happened to oys�his other hand?" m.I "Give me time," she pleaded. as • "He won't be home from the Arm - as if she had just seen angels. "How 1 who bad taken up Buchmanis nice, how terribly nice!" Mrs. Paul, as was her custom, wa tine for two weeks." d" "That departure will rank as a e master stroke in Pan:American 'di- g- plomacy," poses . in tainer fastened on me, and I ne the library. MI-, Raymonde, de- the ,tea was. proving• a sluggish a "We'll call it 'I Must Go Down To The Sea Again,' " suggested Fa- gluing a tea when I arrived to co elude the contracted tour. .T trie Cher. 'to break away at the door, but th After much bickering we compro- shrewd eyes of a i.reeticed cite After ueh ,. r ring ear. "I've had a wonderful time with f_ hint" asked pressfax s. ng or in orma ton. i don. privet' of the garden capitalized en fair. The brackish tale of Mr maps, shadows, , and gestures, e*'' I Pintail's ulcer had lost much of it treating atmosphere like juice from' enchantment. What the party nes the props .on hand. ed was the stimulus of novelty. "I am more than a photogra- I "Oh, do come in, Lestuh," sh pher," he avowed at the end of the urged in poised, gut.ural tones ordeal. Nobody doubted that for a ! She heaved me into the room. "Up in the Adirondaeks?" ] s that was lovely." 1 I winced. , e "When I am with hung" she eon- ' tinued, "I' have the feeling that I ani in touch with the importance • of our day." } minute. I started upstairs to change froii my uniform into -a pair of tattered flannels, a shirt, and.'a sweater, an- ticipating mufti like an old `'man looking . forward to , his rocking - chair. Before I had taken two steps, Mother came over to tire• banister and commenced. ' "Lester," she started, "I don', ask much, do I?" "Nowt ureic is a silly question, ' '1 mean' , tat doo't team or me tee typical uunrd.,urno n1.4./ .,' .. ,:o.,?" she persisted. "two, wear, you've been more like a xori.man to an," I said neve-tally. • "Do ins a favor, will you?" She asked, dropping all_sh_,m. `I prom - • "Look, everyone," she said, with out raising her voice. "It's Lestul Dowd. He's being an aviatuli, you know." Well, she might have got the same effect if she had tossed a glittery constellation of stars on the carpet and announced wanly from the di- van, "That's the Big. ,Dippuln" ` The room was filled with > the shrill, high-pitched racket of 'excit- ed female conversation. I was passed around after the sugar cook- ies and scrutinized like the choicest article at a Grenfell Sale. BuF.:,. chatter flowed 'on all sides. "Is that Florence . Dowd's boy?" "Yes, and this has done Trim more good." r F ised Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs.- Bishop,' "Lester," said Mrs- Troy, slowly Mrs. Brooks, said Mis. Pani that feeling her way, "your eyes are you'd go to see their this after- c tighter." noon. Will you do it?'; "Thank you," I murmured. No - "Don't forgot anybody," I said, t,ociy knows what I went through and started upstairs again. with those cloudy eyes. Anil your shoulders are straight- "g'hat s sweet, and in • your ani- or." Thus Mrs: Wright spoke. She form," she instructed: seemed to remember ,the bobbling I stopped. "In niy uniform!" 1 about like the jongleur of : Notre moaned, I Dame. • "You can't take it off," she said I hunted methods to destroy the sternly, pointing an accusing finger insinuated rebirth, but time is a aj ire. "Don't tell me. I know." skipping thing, and if the hamlet "Nobody will care." chooses to hail you home as . a "1S you go to see those people, 1 regenerate , Prince Han who are you won't talk," she bribed. against sue!} numbers? I was Well "All right. What'll I clo, ring the aware, however, of the unpayable b I d bt I d th d- f tl e 1 and e1 thein I'm working. my o owe a esigner, o ie way through the, Navy selling ncag_ cadet's blue serge uniform with its "Tunis will be ours because of azine subscriptions?" one lone star. I never could have superior mechanized, : equipment," "They all expect you, They she. scaled such heights in tweed. . he said softly, and pressed his lips ply want to look at you:". s 0 t' to hers. "If you . Irired a float, we could Her ranking position on the Com Was this plastie Genghis Khan make scheduled trips around Mar- mittee for Fats and Greases and the to sweep all before him? I started ket Square?" 1 proposedin defeat, duties entailedkeptme from sem, an arm across the :back of the sofa. Mother laughed. + Miss Winward until the next eve- • 'Miss 'Winward, totally unaware ming. I carne over after dinner that tin attempt was under way to "It's wonderful to be home," 1 and found her ` alone before a noir strike at the soft under -belly of ro- called sourly from my room. fire knitting something blue ane, mance, stood up suddenly and be. "All, it's : good to have you home, shapeless. A pair of glasses were' gan to divulge .' aeeumulated Mother replied from downstairs. pushed back on her 'head, where thought, " i` * the , y -were of questionable value.l "Lester," she said, I've been Her blouse, sweater, and skirt were thinking that ' you and I ought to all slightly displaced by the fury of have a relationship." her knitting, bot 'somehow it all! _ "If ,you'd s'at still for another two blended in a fancy disarray. She seconds there'd • be no necessity for. was so absorbed in .her labors she long-range planning." did not notice me. enter. 1 "Platonically I like you better, "Whose what will that warm?" than anyone in the world," she an - I asked from the door. pounced, sucking on one of the long "Lester!" she cried, jumping up white needles, and coming at me like 'a picador "Platonically; that's very nice," with the anonymous drygoods still And now that I'm entering a impaled on the needles.,, new stage in my development I "You'd better :-put these knives don't want ,to lose you," down," I cautioned. I "What new stage are you enter - "Oh, I'm glad to ;see you," she ing?" 1; asked abruptly., said in my ear. "I'm sorry'I wasn't "Never mindhat stage, u W g, B t, at the City Rail to welcome you afterward everything 'is going, to be home." 1st) different. Anthony says all this "No matter. I wouldn't have no- is doomed"--,s1e, waved her hand "It must ,belike sleeping in a i newspaper." , - "One time we were playing ten- nis and he stopped just like that and said, 'Ellen, lge're going to win ' this clanrin war' in forty-four.' For 1the rest of the afternoon we sat to- gether by the court while he out- lined a campaign to get at Germany by way of Italy. That's the soft under -.belly of Europe, you know." "He's mad," I said. "He may be right, and he may be 1 wrong," Ellen went on, "but an ex- perience like that makes it more than just a .tennis game." "It certainly does, If you'd been playing doubles you could have had a Round -Table Discussion." We talked ahm'essly for hours. Occasionally, I could hear the hall clock strike. Finally, exhausted of hnconsegnentials, the conversation flickered and went out. I watched her bend over, silently attack the knitting. For some reason I began to wonder if Waters had ever kisses Ilcr, and if so, how he went about it. Probatly smbaisadors with black dirt and water came . to state the Master's impulse,' and then the Prince himself arrived on' a litter. He leaned out of his transport,, mor- mored words of magic and tender- Hess, words of, love. Passing among" Mother's' friends at the beginning or end of any event consuming at • a minimum, two OLD GINIA PIPE TOBACCO It's' a real pipe smoker's. tobacco to include the house and its sur- roundings. "I'd hate,to 'lose track of 'you." "I can't hang around you like a pool hall while you're developing, I argued. "Always so restless, Like a little boy. You never will grow up," she said sadly. "I don't know. Everybody says :in much improved." She was silent again. "I'm getting sleepy," she said, unfortunately. "You'd better go "Good night," she ly. "See you toren At ' home later I airport and inquired et to Corpus Christi. be sure of space. traveling. to , bed, then," agreed prompt - ow." telephoned the about my tick- It was best to Everybody was A newsboy was standing by the plane's exit ramp. He was selling copies of the Corpus Christi Caller Times to disembarking passengers: A front-page story told how a gen- tleman named Cowboy Henry `had plugged another gentleman out a ways by Six Points. An attendant at the gate, I observed, has strapped a twenty-two revolver to his waist Texas, it seemed, was still Texas, only the callibre was slightly res daeed. The day was warm, almost hot and I unbuttoned any coat. "Is it always like this?" I asked "The weather den't change much down here," allowed a native. (TO BE CONTINUED Due Dates for 'Ration Coupons Coupons now valid are butter 86 to 91, sugar 14 to 49, preserves DI to 36, canning sugar F1 to F10''. Coupons expiring December 31 include butter 86 to 89, sugar 14 to 45, canning sugar F1 to F10 and preserves D1 to ,D16 and 17 to 32. All eoupons in books three and four become invalid after December 31, Y IN THE LETTER BOX Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Weston West Street, Goderich, received the fol- lowing letter dated October 7th from P.O, Gurgoyne of the L rncas- ter bomber of which W.O. R. V. (Dick) Weston is one of the crew. My dear Mr. and Mrs. Weston.— Introductions through the medium of pen and paper are, I am afraid, not very satisfactory; yet fear the At- lantic which lies between is no mere. paddling pool, and the intro must of necessity be this -wise: You may or may not have heard of me, most probably referred to as Skipper, but I doubt very much if you have had my pedigree laid out :before you. So here goes. Firstly I should mention that the name is Burgoyne, which was born -the name, I mean—'way back about the year one in some re- mote hamlet in France. All, as far" T It R> ., DEC. 23:h, 1944. Com ; a,, madam Lady Welsh Head of Britain's , a ® a Li, ,v ,rs Picture shows; Air Commandant Lady Welsh,, li as E eats gather,, went well until about the year two, when the old folks apparently decided that work was rather a trying occupation and robbing and plundering a more fitt- ing pastime for the purpose of ob- taining the daily crust of ,bread. Soon,. as you already have suspected, the "B"s"' were on the run, and it appears that they ran so fast noth- ing more was heard of there until they turned up in Scotland,, about the year 1200, when they were promptly huddled .into. the . dun- geons in Sanquhar Castle in the. Soutar of Scotland. Scotland tieing what it is soon 'had the wild bar= barians cooled off, and: it is a gen- erally accepted .theory that, pro. vided the progress continues, we might be quite •a civilized people 2644 A.D. That, then, very briefly, is the "make-up" of the person now writ- ing, who is proud to have included. in a crew, which nowords could adequately praise, your son Dick— Curly to us. I wilt not even attempt to say how numb I like this son of yours; yet if I say that the great poet Burns wrote, "An honest man's the noblest work of God," you will appreciate that is do hold Trim in very high esteem. to associate him with such a verse the' 'nighty pen has never bettered. As you will no doubt have heard, Curly was best man at my wedding Monday last; yet I' fear you have not heard that this was our first experience of him in a really nervous condition, Much Iaughter of course from the rest of the Brew. This, I am sorry to say, is the end for snow, so taking this opportunity to wish you God's blessings I71 say Cherie for now. S'neere regards from toll the Crew. JOCK B. A PARABLE I nsssde the cross myself whose weight Was Tater laid on me. This thought is tortm'e as I toil Up Life's steep Calvary. To think mine own bands drove the nails! I sang a mera'y song And chose the heaviest wood I had To build it firm and strong. If I had guessed, if I had dreamed Its weight was meant for me— t should have made a Iighter cross To bear up Calvary! Anne Reeve AIdrkh (1866-1892). Is The Stork Losing His Joh? Canadian flying men have moved a lot of strange cargoes both at home and abroad in the last peveral years;, but when a Quebec Airways Boeing took off from Quebec City Airport the other day, hound for Clucoutimi, it carried one of the strangest loads of all — 26 babies, not one of them over five months' old! t The infants were being trans- ferred from La Creche Saint -Vin- cent -de -Paul in Quebec to Chicou- timi— a long train ride, but only an hour away by air. L'Abbe Ger- main, priest in charge of the orphanage, contacted officials of Quebec Airways, a Canadian Paci- fic Air Lines subsidiary, with the result that the babies ,flew, and all in one plane -load. Ordinarily, the ;aircraft carries ten passen- gers and a crew of throe. But with Sister Coeur Iinmacule and Sister Marie de la Reparation, who were also snaking their first airplane flight, the number , total nu bar ofour s s aboard was thirty -one. Even so with each babyweighing an average of ten pounds, it was a far lighter' load than customary,. Special three -place cribs, made. of plywood, were built so •that, each box would fit into one seat in the airplane. Wrapped snugly. in baby'blankets, and strapped in both boxes and seats, even, the roughest of air could not have tossed the tiny infants out. And as it '.turned out, there wasn't even one bump on the entire trip. "They didn't give a bit of trouble", said Stewardess Joan, Harland, a veteran hostess of the airline. "After the take -off, they just went to sleep, and that's all there was to it!" Bachelor Captain Art Leach, pilot of the plane, didn't have much tos a y "They squeal- ing s aP- ing when I went forward before take -off, and they were squealing after. I landed", ho announced; grumpily. Said First Officer Gordon Alex- ander: "I• didn't hear a.thing. Had the ear -phones on all the time." Then, musingly, "Seems to me static was a little worse thank usual, thought"