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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-12-03, Page 3TkIURS., DEC. 3, 1942 THE HAPPENINGS IN CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Notes of The News in 1917' '•A•&i.bl teniN•1.ON •t`1J+1WSdtECOKf7, brought down from. Goderich, where he spoke the previous evening and Nov..29th, 1917. A remained over until the Wingham Mr. Gordon W. Oiininghamc receive train came along and carried him err a fine .deer on "Thursday last, south. which was shot by his brother-in-law, •Mr. Earl East, who spent a couple of weeks with a hunting party in the woods'' at Fort Colonge, Quebec. Mr. East said that the party of three got six deer. The one sent to town 'vas' a good specimen and has been dis- played at Castle's butcher shop the past couple of days. Mrs. (Dr.) Arthur Bean and babe, 'who nearly lost their lives in a fire which destroyed their home at Con- geeon and in which Dr. Bean perished early in August last, were brought to the home of ,the lady's parents, .Rev. J. E. and Mrs. Ford of Goderieh last week. The marriage took place at the home of the bride's parents, Queen's Avenue, London, on Saturday after- noon last, of Gladys', eldest daughter of, Mr. W. N. Manning, formerly of Clinton, to Captain E. B. NeIles, adjutant of the 1st. Depot Battalion, who was invalided home about a year ago. The bride is very well known in Clinton, which is her birthplace. Miss Emma M. Biggin, daughter of V THE CLINTON NEW ERA, Nov. 29th, 1917 Miss. Dorothy Rattenbury accom- panied Mrs. C. C. Rance to Toronto on Monday after visiti}ig there for a short time will go on to Peterboro where she will make her home with her brother. Miss 'Rattenbury. is the youngest member of a.<family which for three quarters of a century has been identified with the life of Clin- ton and their departure from the town is matter, for regret. Mrs. I. Rattenbury will join her husband in Peterboro shortly. Messrs W. Jackson, D. C'antelon and J, Schoenhals were among the Clinton eitizens --who went to Goder- ich on Tuesday evening to hear Sir George E. Foster, Mr. Jackson re- mained over night and came down with the minister yesterday after- noon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gould are iit Wingham today attending the grad.. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Bomber Press in Great Britain Another in a series of :articles writ- ( hours after the bomb had struck, there ten• by W. R. Legge and C. V. Chart- were hundreds of men at, work at top. ers, who represented the Canadian Weekly' Newspapers' Association in a recent tour overseas. THE IMPORTANCGE OF AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS By Walter R. Legge speed, Police and guards kept .all except workers from going close to the bald- ing, and as we were intensely interest- ed in their organization, which we waisted to study with the idea of tell- ing to the people of Canada, we pre- sented our credentials and asked per - One does not have to stay in Eng mission to enter. Here as everywhere land very long before the importance ease in England, 'we were received of A. R. P. or C. P. C. work is seen, with the greatest courtesy and con - and we Oanadains became, quickly ductedto the 'chief officer of the. convinced that much more serious local -A. R. P, attention to these precautions should Hie organization was working be given in Canada. smoothly and efficiently, and he Much of the work of the Army which personally took us around, introdue- we saw was in the form of demons- ing us to the heads, of the various trationns, but we had an opportunity to study A. R. P. work in actual pract- ice over there. We Dame back to our headquarters one afternoon to learn that a short the building, (it would have taken too time before some raiders had come over the vicinity and had caused cone siclerable damage to a very large apartment hotel. Four of our party including myself went down to see just what had happened. We found that the building `which: had been struck was a tremendously large apartment houses nine stories in height, much longer than an ord- inary street block, with a large pro- jecting L at each end. There were. probably a hundred or more apart- ments of three or four rooms each in 'As soon as all casualties are Te - the building, which was a eompartively moved, the first thing is to set up a new fireproof block, largely of cement thein office known as the A. R. P. and stone construction. It was a Liaison office, which keeps in close building which would not easily be da- touch with everything that is going waged. on. In this case, the office of the building made an ideal location, but such a room is not available, the near- est suitable place is taken. The office work is broken down so that there is a section looking after each activity. All this is done almost in as Iittle time as it takes to tell about it. Then an intensive search of the building is made with the double purpose of ascertaining if there are any trapped persons, and to study if the building can be repaired and what it will require to do it, At the same time any bodies not previously re- moved are taken away. Another group: is taking rapid steps to salvage anything that can be sav- ed by quick work, and this is follow- ed by a more leisurely effort to sal- vage everything possible. ment of Dr. J. W. Shaw as surgeon of Transportation'' must be arranged the Huron Regiment and Dr. Hunter as required. as medical officer superniumery. Capt. Other groups are arranging for Shaw has always been. one of the most food, providing money where neces- efficient and popular officers of the regiment so that his position is re- ceived with pleasure, The News -Record congratulates Mr. Harry Darrow of Bayfield who on Wednesday of last week joined the ranks of the benediets. His bride was Mrs. Elizabeth .Pollock. They are well known and much respected residents of Bayfield and numerous friends join in wishing them much happiness. Having removed from West to East Huron Mr. G. W. Holman has resign- ed his position of sec -treasurer of the West Huron Teachers' Association, a position he held for the past fifteen years. . TO intimate to us that the rose grown in Miss Mountcastle's garden was not the "Last Rose of Summer". Mr. Ed. Carter ]aid a well developed In the courtyard ware a number blossom upon our table on Saturday of men sweeping the grass. Otte of evening, and hinted that he would the party called attention to them re- have another for us 'next Saturday. marking that there was an example A quiet wedding took place on High of typical British efficiency, to which street yesterday when Mise Lillian our guide replied, "That is something Ferguson, daughter of Mr. James that is absolutely necessary. These Ferguson. became the bride of Mr. men have already recovered two val- Wm. Carter of Stapleton. The sere uable rings and a cigarette case." We niotiy.; which was witnessed by only a Fore told that' the action of a bomb few intimate friends, was performed is about as usipredietable as that of a by Rev. Dr, Stewart. The happy* stroke of lightning, and frequently couple 'to'ok the afternoon' train. for the explosion will `suck all small particles right out of a building London where they will spend a per - Another important, detail which must be carried out at once, is to test the walls and buildings to make sure that they will not fall on workers. the late John Biggin of the second uation exercises in connection with conces'sion of Hallett, died at the the hospital there when their daugh- home of her sisters, Mrs. W. J. Miller ter Irene, will graduate. Ontario Street, • yesterday afternoon. Messrs. J. P. Sheppard and D. The deceased was born in Hullett Cantelon went to London last Friday township and for the past thirteen to hear ,Sir Robert Borden and Hon. years had resided in London until a N, W. Rowoll speak. couple of months ago she came up to Mrs. J. E. Holmes of London spent be with her sister. She has not been the weekend as the guest of her par - in good health for some time but her ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Doherty. death was unexpected. One brother Mrs.. A. J. McMurray returned John Biggin of London„ and one last week from a visit with relatives sister, Mrs'. Miller survive. in Winnipeg. She was absent several On Wednesday afternoon a quiet weeks. wedding was solemnized when Minnie Mr. Frank Hutchings and bride Irene, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs spent a few days of their honeymoon C. W. Lowe of Allendale, Ont., be- as the guest of the groom's mother came the wife of Frank G. Hutchings Mrs. E. Hutchings of town, during of Hamilton, son of Mrs. E. Hutch- the past week. ings of Clinton. Rev. A. J. Paul of- Mr. and Mrs. McConnell were at Deleting. ' ! St. Augustine attending the funeral Mr. 3. A. Irwin received word yes- of the late John Perham. .terday that his eldest brother, John Miss Fraser of Stratford was 'here Irwin of Toronto, had died suddenly over Sunday taking the place of Cap- in that city. Heart failure was the twin Scott in her absence. Capt. M cause. The deceased has two sons Scott of the S. A. Deices was called overseas and another in uniform in home to. Stratford last week on etc - Canada. count of the illness of her father. Mr. D. A. Forrester received an I The engagement is announced of official wire. on Tuesday telling him Frances M. (Fannie), eldest daughter that his son, Pte. Frank Forrester, Lof Mr. and Mrs; C. Blackstone, Goder- had been killed in action on the 9th: (tch, to Mr. Stafford Atkinson, Halters last. Frank Forrester had been west Wille, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. for some years and enlisted at Reg- Atkinson, Caledonia, the wedding to ina, He went overseas with his unit take place the first week in December and was almost immediately :drafted This is, certainly a land of promise, for the front, going over, a little If you doubt it get into'business and over a year ago. He was wounded give customers credit. somewhat severely, at the battle of It is reported that Pte. Hitchan, Viniy Ridge and spent about five who enlisted with the 161st. Battalion months in hospital after that only may be on hie .wai homeward.. He returning to France about a month was wounded while serving in Fiend, ago. Two other brothers, Roy and ers' Sd Ross, enlisted with the Huron battal- Word was received on Wednesday ion and are now in Fr;:,khat Pte. Al. Doherty had arrived in France. Mr. aro, •• Mrs.' Forrester only a couple of Halifax, ands would be home shortly. months sago lost a son who died very Word was received this week that suddenly in the west. Pte. R..1. Blakey, who enlisted with Among the names appearing in the a Battalion at London bad. been woun- casualty list this week was that of ded. His mother and brother resjde Sergeant Douglas Goodwin, son of here. sections, and explaining what they were doing and haw they carried out their duties, He also took us through a part of long to go through it all), to see what the effect of such a bombing was. In the event of a bombing causing such damage, two things are started at once, looking after casualties, and summoning the members of the A.R.P. They use what is known as the snowball system to summon the mem- bers, that is, each man has to call four others. In this way all the members are very quickly notified. SSEeTTING UP ORGANIZATION The bomb, had landed directly in front of the centre of the building only a few feet from the wall in the courtyard formed by three walls of the building. As there had been some casualties, considerable damage to the building, and as the construction was compare able to the heavier type of building here in Canada, it was an ideal situat- ion for us to study, front the stands point of what would be necessary in Canada to cope with raid damage. WORKIiIR.S SOON ON THE JOB The first thing that struck us was the tremendous activity all over the place. Although it was only a few Mr. Alfred Goodwin of Goderieh formerly of Clinton. Sergt. Goodwill who is reported as having been gas- . Saturday's papers Announce that there were 116 hien arrived in Quebec and among them are: A. E. Cooper, sed, was living in the west previousGlinted. It. 0, Bentley, Blyth; E. to the war and enlisted, with a west: Clark, C. Cockfield, C. W. Newan and ern unit. F. B. Riley: of Goderieh; F. R. Smart, • Seaforth. Mrs. F. /French was in Exeter on Recently the G. T.. R. painters Friday last attending ,the funeral were here and -gave the station an of her sister, Mrs.' W. R. Elliott, who overhauling and also painted the died vefy suddenly in Toronto, where water tank. With the. brick platform she l gone for medical treatment. (we are dresseeup for another year. The deceased is survived by her bus -At the annual meeting of the Ont - ban and a family of,two daughters I ario Horticultural Association Mr. ,.W an son. . She,had an 1 o - several elected v c Ilirty "of Seaforth was el dn 2 asions" visited' her sister in town and vice-president and Mr. John Grieves • 'ill be remembered by many here. I of Seaforth, .District Director. for On Thursday evening last at the Huron. home of the bride on Albert Street I. From the Oakville Record we see , Mrs. Susan toting was united in near.'- that Gunner Fleuty, son of Editor elage with Mr. John Govett, the Rev. Fleuty, and who was born in Clinton„ 4'. A. Agnew performing the' were- had started eastward' with, the 7013r, onony. After the edited -toner Mr. find Battery. • Mrs. Lovett went to•"the groom's hbine on 'William: etreet, where a number of ladies Of Ontario Street Church and of the immediate neighborhood had prepared an appropriate wedding feast,, and were ready with their good wishes. stay, to the unfortunate victim, and a housing department finds aceom- modation for the bombed out people if they have no other place to go. If, as in the case, it is possible to repair the '.building; contractors and workmen are called to start work without delay. Otherwise the debris is more or •less cleaned up and re- placement postponed until after the war. All these various groups were on the job at once and parrying out their tasks as if it were everyday routine. On the street in front of the build- ingwas a canteen truck which bore on its sides a sign showing that it had been presented to .the Lord Mayor's Fund by Ford Victoria, Southern Rhodesia. tion of their honeymoon. Ote Saturday morning last Mr. John Twins of Seaforth' was killed by- an electric wire •' attached to an inean- desceet' lamp. 'It is claimed that it wtrs nal properly insulated and an' mquesi` vias`held ' Mr:'. Twiss, lived •for several 'Yeats hi Goderieh town- ship and was well known here. His °wife •and nine'•e'hildren 'survive Isss' S t1l Pet'ter has been engag- ed by tTte t, -tees of S S. No. 10 fiillett, for ;1 03` to 'succeed "'Miss kgn:es O'hidley who ' we understand intends taking'a-course at the Noi'inal College, Iiamiltoft 'TYIfss Porter one of the' brightest'stidents thathas aticnded' our' educatidt'ta1 mstitutian: r!'Mr" Robt, Johnstone,{ formerly oto; almesvtlle nowt manager of. the rl#right cheese tattory,TWei to towel f''bsiday and Sdturday and was' th e' (guestof his friend, Me . S law- rence, Mr. Robert Welsh . and 1Vlre.. 'Q. Aart ily attended the funeral of their cotisin, Mrs:"'Robert Marshall of','tlhe Cut `Lixi e, Goderieh' township, whfeh tobk.place"yesterdey V i When the 'Present Century Was Young THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, ,, Clinton had the honor yesterday of Nov 27th. 1902 { having the minister ,of tthe crown • sPend a hour: or so in town 'When Sit t The last Gazette contained the George'. Foster's private—` car was official announcement of •the appoint In spite of the fact that in some Canadian cities butter supplies recently have not been sufficient to meet the greatly increased demands, the situation does not constitute an emergency; nor is it as serious as some people seem to think. There are two main 'causes for these temporary and local shortages: ' For the past year we have been consistently using 10% to 15% more butter than in normal times -- with consequent disturbance to the distribution of Our butter supplies. Many people have been buying more butter than they currently need. The limited nature of the present shortage is, shown by the fact that if every home would reduce its consumption of butter by only one ounce per person per week (for the average hoarse this means a quarter of a pound a week)—or if we reduced our national consumption to the peacetime rate—the shortage would soon disappear. There is no Reason for Panic Buying It is unpatriotic and unnecessary for housewives to rush out to beat their neigh- bours to the nearest grocery store. Butter will not be rationed to meet the present situation. Butter production is actually above normal for this time of year. The Board itself is taking special action which it is believed will speedily; restore normal supplies in retail stores. These supplies will however be adequate for normal, consumption, if ,housewives in all parts of Canada co-operate. You can help in these ways: Scrupulously avoid waste and extravagance. Waste is wrong at all times. In time of war it is sabotage. Reduce present connsunnption of butter by at least one ounce per person per week --(for the average home this means a quaeter of a pound a week.) Do not buy more than is heeded for immediate use. HOW TO SAVE BUTTER AT MEAL -TIME 1. Use butter only for spreading on bread. 2. Never use butter just out of the refrigerator: Wait until it is soft enough to spread easily. S. Add a small amount of milk when creaming butter for sandwiches, IN COOKING 1. Do not use butter in baking and cooking, when lard, shor- tening or meat dripping can be used. 2. Use level measurements of butter... , Guesswork means waste! 3. When adding cheese to a cream or white sauce, use only half amount of butter stated in recipes 4. Use paper wrappings from but- ter to grease baking dishes. 5. Do not use butter for re- warming vegetables. 0. Serve meat gravy to avoid the use of extra butter on potatoes. 7. When adding butter to vege- table dishes, add h sparingly. Do not melt it and then pour on. THE:WARTiME P'RTCESAND TRADE•::;BOARD Jetted, However, real compensation is not given until the end of the war. New houses could not be supplied now anyway, on account of shortage of materials. If a house can be repaired, easily, or if temporary repairs will enable it i to be used, the cost is sometimes al- lowed, but this will be deducted, from any future settlement. I i TRAINED .WORKERS. REQUIRED It will be seen that many of these details require trained men, and it was' not surprising to find that our guide in private life • was a building contractor. Even by, the time we got there, workers were already preparing to make repairs,. and were chipping out the remains bf broken windows, and wiildow-glass' was arriving to re- place necessary windows., • One essential thing is thanwardens know all the people in their territory and that they account . for them to make sure that nobody is missing. after some city has suffered a bad womem, that it was too hard and too In the same way that the telephone l icism was that twice as many women+ raid. dangerous. The answer to this crit might be interrupted, the water train volunteered for this work than was• may be destroyed with disastrous asked for. effect. Therefore provision has made When you look on the roofs of n every community in England to have plenty of water in storage. Thousands of basements of build- ngs that have been destroyed are up to a dozen or more of these pots. being used for this purpose. These The roofs :tie generally more cut up, basements have been cleaned, out, withall kinds of turretts than is the cement on the walls and bottom so casein Canada, and with these shim - that they will hold and have been nay pots it makes the roofs hard to filled with water. We saw many of get at and hard to patrol, Ladders these, and also other great storage are usually kept on them so that am* tanks ready for an emergency. 'part of the roof can be quickly reach- i 'r posted indicating i ed. , This work is most important dur- Large sats are p ing raids, and the proper control of where static water is to be found. incendiaries on these roofs just means This is necessary so that in the excite the difference between damage and menu and confusion of an einergeney staggering losses. the nearest storage of water is locat ed without delay. I In the parish magazine of St. Mary While all other direction s'ign's in'Red.cliffe Church, Bristol, the church • which Queen Elizabeth in 1574 deo- England ere entirely lacking even the gibed as being the "fairest goodiiest, smallest community has no ctrl of and most famous Parish church in signs indicating where the warden England". i read this appeal, "With - lives, or can he found, where static Qat question the greatest material water is stored, where air raid sheltie treasure in Bristol is St. Mary Red- ers are located, and the location of cliffe Church. I now ask the women stirrup pumps, Probably there are of Bristol if they will help to guard mare signs in England reading "Stir-, against fire. We want two, at roast rap Pump here" than any other. and, three better still, to be on duty In addition to working hard at' every night. Women between age of 17 regular work, nearly every man in and 50 will be welcomed, and if yon England has to take his share in Civil arrange with a friend or friends to Defence work. take on one night shift a week, you WOMEN WORKERS will be doing great service, Now is• the time to strengthen our band of The organization known in Canada as Civilian Protection Committee, or Air Raid Precaution or A. R. P. is now called "Civilian Defence" in Eng- land and is considered most import- ant work. As Mr. Morrison told us; it is now a major act of war, so local + authority is not enough. The studies made of this work and its 'results are of great benefit to others. Quick communication is necessary, and as the telephones are state owned. there is full co-operation, but more than that is necessary as the tele- phone might very possibly be put out' of action. Therefore a system of messengors..must be provided for. Sabotage has been surprisingly little, so we were informed, and theft or taking advantage of other's mis- fortune is practically unknown. EARLY EFFORTS IMPORTANT One thing should be impressed up- on the people of Canadef and that is that much of the early damage by raiders could have been prevented' if proper •precautions had been taken before the raids began, and if the or- ganization had been prefected in ad- vance. . That is to say, much damage was caused by fires which got out of hand because •there were not enough properly trained fire fighters to deal with the •emergency when it arose. The time for Canadians to pre- pare for such •emergencies is now, not r•:,COMPENSIATION DESCRIBED In regard to eampensationy the Hon: Herbert Morrison,' Minister of War Services told us that victitns are giv- en' alothee'and, if necessary money to carryon. If' their'hoine' is so damaged that they cannot use, it, they are bil- English cities, the first thing that strikes you are chimney .pots, Every building has a battery of anywhere • While we were in England, Mr. !watchers before the winter begins." Herbert Morrieion issued an appeal for a very large number of women I Some say that the reason there o work as fire watchers have been so many churches destroyed to volunteer for inn England is due to the difficulty in This means- night work patrolling ( buildings, climbing on roofs and other protecting these roofs .from ineendi h work. There was a eat deal dries. It seems to , be very difficult work to ask women to do, yet they are, of criticism of this appeal because it was felt that it -was not fit work for (Continued on Page 6)