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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-04-23, Page 6PAGE 6 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS,'APRIL 23, 1942 Change in Addressing Mail for Troops Here and, Overseas Postmaster General Honourable W. P. Mulock announces that owing to the recently authorized, change in the. title of the military forces in Canada, the, designation "Canadian Army" will now be 'used instead of "Can- adian Active Service Force (C.A.S. F.)" Mail for soldiers on active ser- vice should, therefore, now be ad- dressed as follows: Mail For Delivery -Overseas The designation "C.A.S.F., % Base Post Office, Canada" is to be omitted and the wards "Canadian Army Over- seas" substituted therefor, as follows: K-52937, Pte. John Blank, "B" Company, Seaforth Highlands of Canada, Canadian Army Overseas. B-12345, Dpi. A. J. Jones, lst Anti -Tank Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, Canadian Army Overseas. If a soldier is overseas the word "Overseas" must appear in the ad- dress, but no plaee name. Mail For Delivery in Canada The usual complete particulars regimental number, rank and name and details of unit and name of regi- ment or braneh of 'service, and, in addition, the Post Office name of the place in Canada where the soldier is stationed, must be given. For example-' 0-12963, Pte. Joseph Wood, No 7 Field Hygiene Section, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Debert, F.P.O., N.S. G-12345, Gnr. John Jones, 15th Heavy Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, Saint John, N.B. v HELP THE RED CROSS WHAT YOUR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS CAN ACCOMPLISH $10 will stop a 6antc with one round of 18 .or 25 -pounder shells. $20 buys a cannonade of four 3.7 - inch anti-aircraft shells. $75 will provide a 500 -lb. bomb to drop over Berlin or Berchtesgaden. $5 will let a soldier fight for you with 100 rounds of rifle ammunition. $5 may bring down a German plane for it will buy one round of 40 mail. anti-aircraft shells. $5 will stop a Hun • with five ma- chine-gun bursts. V HELP THE RED. CROSS "YOUR HOME STATION CIiNX 920.kcs, WINGHAM 326 meters WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, APRIL 24TH: 8.30 a.nm, The Early Jirds 10 a.m, Mid-morning News 12 noon Farm. & Honxe Hour 6.30 p.m. Wingham Review SATURDAY APRIL 25TH: 9.30 amt. Itiddiee Studio Party 1.15 pan. The Westerners 4.46 pm. Songs of the Islands 8 pan, GKNX Barn Dance SUNDAY, APRII. 26TII: 11 a,11. Oltunolt Service 1.16 pan, Gene Autry --songs 5,15 p.m, Nat Shilkret Orch. 6 p.m. Venus Concert MONDAY, APRIL- 27TH: 7,30 am. Rise and Shine 2 p.m. Kay Ryser Oreh, 4,39 pan. Laura at the. Piano 8.30 p.m. GICNX Ranch Boys TUESDAY, APRIL 28TH: 9.45 a.m. George Hall Oech. 10,30 a.m, Church of the Air 6.45 p.m. Your Evening News. $.45 p.m. "Salute to Empire"' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29TH: 8 a.m. GKNX Breakfast Club 11.30 a,m. Weds Morning Variety 4 pm. "At Home with the Ladies" 9.15 p.m, Barney. Groves—songs e THURSDAY, APRIL .30TH: 10:10 a.m. Chas. Kuntz—piano 2 pan. Benny Goodman Orch. ". 4 pan. Songs of the. West WE ARE PAYING 0 3/2°J ON FIVE YEAR GUARANTEED TRUST CERTIFICATES ISSUED IN ANY ,AMOUNT An ideal authorized investment for individuals, companies, come- tery boards, executors and other trustees. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION r 372 BAY ST. TORONTO Florida Note, Coldest Spot Is in California I Not long ago a man dropped an orange in Santa Monica, Calif., and the citrus fruit shattered into a mil- lion pieces because it was frozen so solid. The man who dropped the orange was wearing sheepskin un- derwear and an air -tight suit of leather. His head was covered with a helmet fashioned of spun alumi- num and welded to the shoulders of his insulated outfit.And since the air he stood in might have given him pneumonia if had breathed re . b at d it,an ingenious valve in his suit bought air that had been warmed by Isis body up to his nostrils. The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce does not deny this story because the most frigid spot on the North American continent is in the ' so-called cold room of the Douglas Aircraft factory in that community. The temperature in this room is con- trolled by a mechanism which elim- inates heat so that the mercury falls -as low as. 104 degrees below zero. I The purpose of the cold room is to reproduce the weather conditions under which men and planes must function at great altitudes. The test pilots et the Douglas airplane plant have found out that, at 35,000 -feet, ! the temperature is usually about 67 degrees below zero. Long and painstaking experi- ments in the cold room have made it possible to know, in advance of actual flight, that motors will work in the intense cold of the upper at- mosphere and that the' men flying the ships are properly dressed for their jobs. Cat Does Not Masticate Food; Tears It Apart The cat is a carnivorous or flesh - eating animal. It does not masticate its food as does the herbivorous ani- mals and as man should. Its teeth and jaws are not made for that pur- pose. It cannot move its lower jaw as man and herbivorous animals do—from side to side. It opens its mouth by lowering its lower jaw and closes it by raising it to the upper jaw or mandible, It uses its teeth for gripping, puncturing and tearing its food to the size it can swallow easily in a lump. As a cat does not masticate its food, the salivary glands are small, there being little demand for the saliva to mix with the food and partially predigest it before it en- ters the stomach, where the principal part of the digestion is carried on beforeit enters the intestine to un dergo further digestion and assimi- lation. The larger and tougher the masses it swallows the longer they remain in the stomach. The dog .and cat have compara- tively large stomachs but somewhat rudimentary intestines. The longer the food takes for digestion, the less craving there is for food until the next feeding time approaches, Metal Finder Developed A radioscope—a strange gadget that, when unfolded, is its own trans- mitter andreceiver, has been in- vented by John Patrick 'Halloran, Los Angeles mechanic and air pilot, The instrument, he explained, is mounted on a pair of carrying han- dles between which the operator stands while carrying the instru- ment. When carried the transmit- ter floods the earth with strong radiation waves that are balanced with respect to the receiver so that signals can be registered both in the headphones and the detecto- meter dial which is .in front of the operator's eyes. As soon as the wave encounters metal within the earth the metal be- comes energized by the radio wave and sends back a radiation of its own. This reflex, he explains, is picked up by the receiver, resulting in a loud signal in the headphones and a strong deflection of the point- er on the visual indicating instru- ment. The News Sharks Once Shunned, Now Vital Source of Vitamin Science has turned the tables or the sharks. After roaming the seas for cen- turies-'shunned as a scavenger and feared as a killer, the shark is find. ing a place of importance in the American home, Tiny capsules, designed to. bring health to thousands, are being pre- pared from this killer of the deep. Recent research by the medical world has disclosed vital .vitamin content in shark liver oil. Leather g manufacturers goods manuf have found a e h__ place in their industry for shark skin. Other uses will no doubt be made of the finny monsters in the near future and the shark is now the hunted instead of the hunter. Just so you will know what kinds of sharks might have contributed to the little capsules sitting in your medicine chest—here's a bit of busi- ness about them and where they may be found. Perhaps the best known of these babies is the white shark or man- eater': He is white on the belly and brown on the back—and when you see him coming toward you th‘only thing to do is pray. Another man-eater is the blue shark. He is also of the white belly clan and has a -slatey blue back. These can be found` most anywhere in the warmer waters of the world and when they go after a school of fish they'll run them right into the fisherman's net. They aren't babies—they grow up to and better than 20 -feet in length. Very similar to these is the dusky shark -only smaller. The thresher shark is easily iden- tified by the very long upper tail lobe, which this type uses as a pow- erfuI flail when it attacks a school of fish. The thresher runs from 12 to 15 feet long. A common small species along the Atlantic coast is the sand shark which has sharp teeth but according to mariners will not bother a human in the water. Curb Disease It is much easier to keep plants free from disease than to control the disease when established. Go over your borders at least twice a week uprooting weeds andremove faded leaves and flowers. Plants that are prevented from going to seed continue to, develop flowers. Better prune your : honeysuckle several times during its growing season. It only by constant prun- ing that it can be kept within bounds. After the fruit has formed on your, currant bushes, if you notice evi- dence of currant worms, spray With hellebore' or pyrethrum. Literally soak your lawn twice a week. Semi-weekly soaking is much better than daily sprinkling. Smallpox Still Here Many U. S. citizens, believe that smallpox was wiped out in this eo1,n try decades ago. Metropolitan Life Insurance company's Statistical, Bul- letin recently pointed out a striking statistic: the U. S. in 1939 had over 10,000 smallpox cases. "With the single exception of India (with . alp. most 130,000 cases)," said the bul- letin, "we still lead the civilized world in our tolerance of this loathe- 'some .anddangerous disease." The reason: failure to ,vaccinate. Only ten states (nine of them east of. the Mississippi) have compulsory vac- cination laws. Smallpox is rare on the Atlantic seaboard, occurs mostly in Indiana, Iowa, California, Tex- as, Illinois. Seminole Indian Chief Didn't Pull Punches Osceola, wily half-breed leader of the Seminoles, regarded murderous deceit as a fair weapon in his re- lentless warfare against the United States government in defending the right of his people to live in the thick, steaming everglades of Flor- ida. His cunning method was to ob- tain supplies for his men by prom- ising at intervals to keep the peace, and then later ambushing scouting parties of American soldiers in the fastnesses of the swampy grass- Iands. Though it was done under extreme provocation, it is generally. admitted that the government itself was not fair with Osceola when, un- der a flag of truce, it seized the savage and put him into the irons in which he died, The Seminole war lasted seven years, ending in 1842, and cost thousands of lives and more than $20,000,000. The van- quished redskins were sent to reser- vations west of the Mississippi. One band of Seminoles was never caught. Its descendants are the few hundred harmless Indians now residing in the Florida Everglades. Machine, Machineless "The machine method is older. In this type of wave, the hair is pre. pared and wet with an alkaline preparation, and the heat is sup- plied by heaters (one for each curl). These units are attached by cords to the central heating unit, an elec. tric machine. "In the machineless type, the heat is supplied to each curl by a small chemical pad, which is heat producing when moistened with wa- ter, or in some cases a specific chemical solution. The pad is usual- ly still cold when applied to the hair and does not conte in direct contact with it. The chemical re- action generates heat, the maximum temperature is quickly reached, and the pad begins to cook" First Photograph Maj. Albert W, Stevens, com- mander of the National Geographic society -U. S. army air :corps strat- osphere balloon Explorer II, took the. first photograph ever made showing the division between the troposphere and stratosphere and also the cur- vature of the earth. This unique. picture was obtained above 96 per cent of the mass of the earth's at- mosphere, and is the first photo- graph ever made with the line of sight from the camera to a far -dis- tant objective (the arc of the dust horizon) wholly in the stratosphere. Major Stevens also made the first natural -color photograph in the stratosphere, at an altitude of ap- proximately eight miles above sea level, in General Japanese Stones Crying Japanese stones are free to com- plain. "If you happen to hear," says the Japan Times. Weekly, "a strange wailing sound when travel- ing through the districts around Fujiyama . . . you'llbe surprised that it is the poor stones crying be- cause they have . no place to go." The explanation is that these pieced of ancient lava are prized, as gar- den stones and many people have lived by gathering and Selling them. But under the Anti -Luxury, Regula- tions luxurious things are forbidden to be -transported, and garden stones are deemed a luxury. A' Draws Large Salary Just t For Showing Her Hands Three years ago a beautiful black, haired young lady was sitting at a manicurist's table. The tall man stopped besideher on his way out. "Young lady, do you know you have the most beautiful hands I have ever seen? What's your name?" She said: "Florence Pearsall." "Well, Miss Pearsall, I'd like to pay you for a picture of your hands." That was the beginning of the career of Florence PearsaIl s hands. The man was a nail -polish -company. executive who had been searching vainly for a pair of beautiful hands to use in an advertisement. Today, they earn between $300 and $400 every week for her just by letting photographers take pictures of them. They are so valuable that they're insured for $40,000. The policy stern- ly forbids Florence to dial a phone, play golf or tennis, or do anything else which could possibly damage her precious manual extremities. Florence's business overhead is high. Expenses. include the cost of 35 pairs of gloves and a ' private manicurist, paid $50 a week. She wears gloves all the time. Even, when she cooks. The manicurist carries a kit with 25 different nail - polish shades, changes the color of her employer's nails five and six times a day. She keeps her hands in perfect condition by exercise, too. She's gained such perfect control over the movement of each finger that she's"now able to balance an egg on one fingertip. On occasion she has been the hands of Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, Merle Oberon, Barbara Stanwyck. For advertisements showing them holding something, the clever photographers used the. face and bodies of the movie gals but pasted FIorence's hands onto the pictures. Just the other day, she turned down a Hollywood offer of $20,000 a year to use her hands in close-ups. She'd rather wait until they want her face, too. New Twist to Earning A Living in Hollywood Bhogwan Singh has been making a good living in Hollywood' for 27 years simply by lmowing how to twist a cloth approximately 100 dif- ferent ways. Maybe this sounds on the silly side, but to Hollywood it's a serious matter and Bhogwan is a very im- portant person, because by follow - hag his advice the film-makers pre- vent riots in Asia. The reason for this is that thecloth in question technically becomes a turban when properly wrapped, and Singh is Hol- lywood's official turban -wrapper. Turban -wrapping assumed impor- tance in filmlandsome years ago, when directors discovered there were dozens of ways to wrap a tur- ban and that every little wrapping has a meaning of its own. Each little twist denotes a specific caste, and if a Brahmin twist is accident- ally placed on the head of a Hindu, the customers tear up the theater seats in righteous—and riotous—in- dignation in India, the Malay states, and sundry other Oriental countries where they take `their turbans seri- ously. 'Fall Guys' Americans are the greatest "fall guys" on earth. Last year 25,000 of them died from falls -16,000 in their own homes—while two million "luckier" ones were either perma- nently disabled or merely painfully and expensively injured. And if you don't think a careless stumble can run into real money, bear in mind that It cost each of those 2,000,000 victims an average of $117 for not being able to keep his feet! Just how expensive a simple fall can be was indicated by a recent National Safety Council study of 4,602 home accident cases that were treated in Cook County hospital, Illinois. Two- thirds of those patients went to the hospital as . a result of falls. And each of those fall cases averaged 13 days in the hospital, plus 54 days' disability at home—with attendant loss of wages. Tips for Gardener If you are a beginner gardener, here are some do's and don'ts that will simplify your work and pay div- idends in flowers and fruit and fo- Hage. As a starter select a few essential tools, with others to be added from time to time as their need is shown or your purse permits. Essentials are a spade with a square edge for digging, a long -handled shovel for moving earth about, a garden rake, a bamboo one for leaves, a hoe and a trowel, and at least 50 feet of gar- den hose: All tools, after being used, should be cleaned and rubbed with a dry cloth ,before being putin the tool shed. This will prolong their useful- ness and they will give better serv- ice if kept clean. Shiras Was First George Shires III, a trustee of the National Geographic society, made the first flashlight pictures of wild animals in their natural habitats. His famous "Midnight Series," estab- lished the beauty and accuracy of camera and flashlight in big -game photography, and won highest awards at home and abroad.. CANADA OFFICE OF THE CHIEF PLEBISCITE OFFICER PUBLIC ANN CEMENT EVERY CANADIAN. CITIZEN IS HEREBY ADVISED: (1) THAT. a Proclamationof the Governor in Council dated the 9th day of March, 1942, ordered a plebiscite to be taken in every electoral district in Canada on the question set out in the ballot papers to be used thereat in the following words and form: Vote by making a cross, thus X, after the word 'Yes' or after the word 'No'. Are you in favour of releasing the gov- ernment from any obligation arising out of any past com- mitments restrict- ing the methods of raising men for mili- tary service? YES NO (2) THAT the date fixed as polling day for the said plebiscite is Monday, the 27th day of April, 1942, (3) THAT polls will be open in each polling division from 8 o'clock a.m. until 8 o'clock p.m. (daylight saving time). (4) THAT new lists of vdters have been specially prepared for the said plebiscite. (5) THAT the said lists are what may be termed "open lists" which. means 'that, in either urban or rural polling divisions, any qualified voter whose name has been omitted from same may vote on polling day in his polling division upon taking the required oath and upon being vouched for on oath by a voter whose name appears on the list of voters for such polling division. THAT National Registration Certificates are required to be pro- duced by qualified urban voters whose names have been omitted from the lists of voters, and by those voters only, before being allowed to vote. (7) THAT advance polls will be opened in the same localities and on the same conditions as at the last General Election. (8) TIIAT, as a general rule, every person who has ordinarily resided in Canada during the last twelve months is entitled to vote at' the said plebiscite if he is twenty-one years of age and a British subject. (9) THAT voters will be entitled to vote in the polling division in which they were ordinarily residing on the 30th day of March last. (10) TIIAT urban voters have been advised of the location of their pollingstations on the notices left at their dwelling places by the enumerators. (11) THAT rural voters have been notified in the Notice to Voters posted up in the post offices, and should have been verbally advised by the rural enumerators of the location of their polling stations. (12) THAT, generally, polling stations for the said plebiscite will be established at or near the ,same premises as at the last General Election. (13) THAT arrangements are being made to collect the results of the plebiscite on the evening of polling clay as is done at a General Election. (14) THAT every Canadian on active service or in training in any of His Majesty's forces or corps, within or without Canada, is entitled to vote at the plebiscite in advance of polling day by virtue of a special procedure provided. Dated at Ottawa this 20th day of April, 1942. 1ULES CASTONGUAY Chief Plebiscite Officer. (6) BRITISH PRESENTS THEIR FIRST, TANK FOR RUSSIA TO SOVIET AMBASSADOR British factory workers crowded round a big tank named "Stalin" and Plastered with "V" For Victory" mes- sages to listen to the thanks of M,, Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to Brit- ain, for this symbol of Britain's aid to his country. The tank was but a symbol of this ever-increasing aid to. 'Britain's g'all'ant ally, and the cere- mony marked the opening of "Tanks for Rosie" ' week ,:ming which every tank coining from British factories was sent to Russia. The week's out., put set up a British record.