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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-07-15, Page 4PAGE 4 TRE \CLIMON.NEW S -RECORD TH'UM., 31.111_,Y 15, 143 .4HFHa'?! "cal H ♦ e simmer Wear for Ladies A Letter From en and Children .+: on second 3: Full assortments o floor :t` PHONES 36W X 367 1.1.,14: M414'a'4:. i,2t:1 MH 4$',$44::4. 144,t4iI4:4 :13 1H♦HHeHtH 1: a 4"4. f44. Auer. COOPER, STORE OPEN EVENINGS 6 TO 8 As Fit As A Fiddle An old saying, but the backward season is effecting even a strong healthy person's efficiency. You can build up your health and nerve force with FERROPLEX A Vitamin B. Complex with Iron Compound. Its fine for Blood and _f Nerves: 16 oz Bottle $1.25 TWO SPECIALS IN Nylon Hair Brushes THE BRUSH COMB TUE ALL NYLON $1,39 $2.00. 1. S. H. HOLMES PHM, O. CLINTON, ONT. P$QNE 81 .`«IiestreF nzee .: ; «; , ::::H :.»:»r+«ro .Ht : 44 t vl»A . 4. 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Got word on the 13th of '' April to come up and started on the 15th. The 13th seemed to be my lucky day as I had gotten 7 or 8 letters that day and two parcels, 'my one officer I was batting for that owned me 4 bob thinking the same way gave me 13 and the other three I had more than they owed, so they fat corporal who was always hungry surely used me good before I left. and no pep, they soon found out the trouble and starved him for four, This plant is in a suburb' of Lon- meals, stuck a rubber tube through. don, but then London is actually only a small place composed of hundreds of these snalIer towns and villages making it such an immense. size. It is approximately 20 miles into Trafal- gar Square by bus and underground railway, an hour's run. when you can buy tea so cheap, aren't) I Scotch. • The war news ceztainly: is very heartening for we of the Allied Na- tions thanks tq Abe great'African campaign and manyratds, etc and now with thesmashing.of'' the dam in Germany it must be causing. -terrific setbacks to the Germans, Oh, I was in the hospital for fifteen days having a rest cure since coming her and that is the last time P go no sick parade I hope, they get you stuck in bed and just won't let you out and to make things worse taka your thing's so you can't T tried hard to get nut after five days as I. was afraid I night lose out on this job. Hadn't felt so spay since the taxi hit me and guess it was the after effects of that bpt am in the pink now. One amusing incident was a big There are .quite a number of us here and the boys are all very nice to work with, and several A. T, S. girls here also, in the shop we have a French, Jewish and an English Girl. Started of in the bindery depart- ment, the past few days have been on the guilotine (electric paper cutter) hope to stay in this department for a few monthsand then get into press room and composing room; have my name in for a linotype course one night a week when it starts up again in •the fall, these courses are paid for by the Gan.Legion and are .down around London Bridge. We go into work at 9 a.m. 'till 1 and 2' till 6, have tea and sandwiches if we order and pay for them at 11 and 4, and get among the many Meeks we take ten minutes for our tea which usually turns into 15. The gang are always telling me ` to take my time, well I will say they surely do, and the many Frenchmen always look for the softest and easiest jobs going. We get ten bob a day living out allowance and it costs five bob ($1.25) day so we're in pocket on that deal and• are now getting the $L50 day instead of•$1,30, since first of year. Bought $100 Victory Bond (cash) last week for the 1943 Victory loan, and art now pretty near broke but will catch up again soon.' I board near here, five minutes walk from work. gra. Bennett's bus- band is in the army in England and her son in Africa, both she and the daughter have been working at war work then the mother decided she would quit and take in billets, so has two of us, but think she will soon be losing one, they drive me wacky list- ening to thein, and their so daft_ The Hamilton 22 year old who don't know his own mind was engaged to the 19 year old daughter the first week and she was going around wearing her mother's ring, but now it's all off and she says she's engaged to her old boy friend in Africa—that is a typical Londoner, all they.think of it made me disgusted to think that is .getting a ratan and then try and lead to happen to only me out of so hold them after you do get them, and keep' them out of the pubs when many here and the first week when you're not around. Mrs. Bennett often I was uuttine• on my best: brings me up a cup of tea before ] Usually go dancing in Beaver Club get up at• 8, and we usually always Saturday nights and have a swell have a real meal before we go to bed. time, was just leaving there Saturday We live well for war trine and she has afternoon when I spied Angus Pur - our ration cards to get a lithe extra. chase of Alliston, so we went to a Our ration cards are good for 1 egg show in the afternoon and back to week, 1-2 pt. -milk day, 1-2 lb sugar Club in evening to the dance. Often week, 2 oz butter and 1-4 lb marjar- wear my civies but find you can get inc week, 2 oz, tea week, 2 oz, cook- further in battledress when they then ing fat week, and then we have forty know you're not a limey. . points a month that you have to dish Going back to shop talk, most of out fory everything racticall i - pin tin- the equipment is practically new and ped goods; 1-4 pounds of bacon week; such a lot of machinery I never saw you get tinned powdered milk and in a printing plant before. We are in gf eggwithout points though—the milk an old shoe factory and is guarded is hard to dissolve but she'niakes night and day, all strangers, produc- niee scrambled eggs out of latter for ing' their credentials before they're our breakfast, and,I usually have a admitted; ani signed over twice to cup of Bovril or Oxo made out of keep- lama on what we turn out o powdered milk with niy meal before don't , ask me, I'm not. talking.; and I go to bed; even porridge and Cereals ere 'on points; you can buy all the the quantity isn't in hundred lots but breadyou want so far but • no fancy 1000's and million. Likely as not this will be one of the last places to close calves and no.banana splits bits we do up after the war, so I niay get seeing often get whip cream on our sweets .London illuminated after the war yet as they :,all desserts. if they keep me here:' Last'Siunday heard the Westminster bells ring from the Y,M.C.A. across 'the road, for the great African Vic- tory; to Inc they seen like a loud jumbled up clang clang, but oh very nice. In the afternoon went to Hyde Park and saw the hundreds :of Home Guard men on parade, 'celebrating their 3rd Aniversary, and once more the King, but didn't get a chance to talk to him, you know with sucha crowd around. This morning went to his nostril down into his second tum my and fed him about a quart of dope you can't drink and soon landed a 55 ft tapeworm, head and all, if you don't get the head they grow again, apparently they fold. up like an accor- dion and are very small and narrow niers subject, I shouldn't have started it, but do you ever get hungry eh, eh. I don't go out much in the evenings except on the week end when I usu- ally go. down town and stay at one of the clubs. In my spare moments work on something I'm very proud of to take back and -show you what I've seen, a snap album with post cards and snaps I get when in a new place. Hope you can make this sloppy typing out, hate to tell you how long I've been at this and have five carbons in so everyone gets the same old lingo—my one -finger look and find letter, system isn't so fast, if I could only go out and set it up on the Lino- type and run off as many as I wanted it would be much better, but here you don't touch anything until you're told to or else. Each of us haveto take our turn on the switchboard at the plant and this is my night from 6 p,m until 9 a.m., it only happens about once a year as there are so many of us, and I'll guarantee I'll never here the phone when I get this finish- ed and go to bed. Well friends I've been in another episode—the first week here the Sgt. Major came out one day and said the Colonel wanted to see me, he took me in,I should say paraded nie and then was excused by the Colonel acid left inc facing )tint and these two civies who turned out to be .Scotland Yard Detective plainclothesmen, I nearly passed out when introduced and ques- tioned on tiny whereabout for the pre- vious two weeks; there had been some English girl killed by a Cana- dian and apparently they traced 010 up through my suit that must have been in the same cleaners as this bloodstained one; all in all they had two long pages of questions written down for me to verily and sign, and noticed some few weeks ago they got a Canadian for murder so guess I won't be hung now; I told them I couldn't even fight little own mur- der a person and the colonel laughed, Mr. J. J. Zapfe' will' be pleased to receive any inquiries �H:HLaN HHH a H W HH H H HHHaia'li H-HaH HH HaH HiNHa i iHH �i �HaHa �HW+H af�1��' M ... M.... , a , a ........ P :.....H.ta .:SAM . M..... M.M.. M.M+'p4 Prolatex Rubber Saving System • EXCLUSIVE TANK DIP PROCESS Prolatex is a penetrant—it has: none of the characteristics of paint or ordinary, brush applied so' called preservatives. "The Prolatex base, like rubber'•is a vegetable product—Soya bean oil. With : it are compounded a number of materials valued for their rubber saving qualities. It Ieaves no "Shine" on the tire -instead, it restores the soft, dull carbon black "'new rubber appearance." Get your tires Prolatexed every 5000 miles or six months, which- ever comes first at White Rosc Service Station, Loudesboro. By the use of Methane, a by -pro- has been able to save 1,267,000 gat - duet the e t Ion offueloil a 2 8' 1 uriftca to he W s s ncl 00 gallons- of duct of sewage ,, g drink, . pl but if you want'to find crowd a J1 ran retro) i • Bar (England) t. r in r. a d a ex a a Middlesex D g ( g ) I the,' 1go. topub,t takes t M �t a s so much mace beecho t i t y an eco or some hng•that muffles The women at the house smoke like troopers and one night they came in from the pub and the mother pas- sed out and Bab's had to put her to bed, they are typical . English :like their beer and spirits. If England ever closed the pubs the majority of the reople 'would go crazy, as it is the pub crawlers 'can hardly wait 'till church is' 'out when the pubs then open up; yoti jet so' siert of seeing such fooliehnes's of a gang sing- ing another bunch singing and try- I1St. Paul's Cathedral church service, ing to step -dance, and another lot in a )there are loud. speakers all over the place and the seats are old chairs; give me our church any day with the nice. seats; you couldn't even makeice e h ut t r from service 7ia1£ way back from pulpit as there seems to haughty argument ready for blows, after many of theta close for the ev- ening, I don't are a great Ileal for' it ei-sons)) p y myself yself and very seldom Maga]; Rationed — Need Mone` 11ogaey; (Experimental Farms News) Because of sugar rationing' every; pound -of honeythat can be produced. is urgently needed, consequently bee- keepers in Canada are being urged to work their bees and equipment -be the utmost capacity: The main sources of honey in Can= ada are Alsike, White Du'lch and Sweet Clovers. Although the major portion of the honey crop comes from the clovers grown under 'cultivation a great amount of it is secured from those that grow under natura:1 condi- tions along roadsides and on uncul- tivated land, says C. B. Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist. Usually the cul- tivated crops are cut .for 'hay before they finish blooming, so that the flow of nectar is prematurely stopped and possible honey crop reduced. Under natural conditions, however, the clo- vers will continue to blossom until late autumn, so the flow of nectar is con- tinued over a longer period and the honey crop thereby increased. Phit is particularly true of sweet clover. It is estimated that under suitable wea- ther conditions for nectar secretion, one acre of clover allowed to blossom normally will yield from .1 to 200 pounds of honey. Just now there is an abundance of clover of all kinds growing along roadsides and on uncultivated land which, if allowed to bloom would add many thousands, .perhaps millions of pounds to the honey crop of Canada. In 'order that this potential crop of food may be secured it is hoped that in any region where cutting the veg- etation along roadsides and on waste land, is practised, an effort will be made to leave standing as much of the clover as possible. the sound; I think it's more of a place to admire as it surely is beautiful in. side. When coming out run into a 'Yank so we went for a walk and landed at Guildhall and wandered through it, over around Bank of Eng- land and back to our separate clubs. The people still go down to the Underground with a large pack of personel belongings, quilts, mattress, etc., as we notice any where from ten on until midnight when the Under- ground closes up. When the alert goes the tubes stop at first station until all clear warning goes. This last while almost every night the air raid siren goes, often .after you here the guns with their loud boons boom- ing and considerable damage has been done in parts; about 5 miles from where I stay 100 homes were roofless from a bomb that came down last last week around 2.30 a:m., heard a lot of unusual noises and then a crash that broke the neighbors window from the' vibration, but was soon of to sleep again; there is a shelter in al- most all backyards but very few bother using thein anymore, and what's tite sense of going to bed and lying awake thinking of it, we have many good guards and searchlights to protect us, but the occasional one slips by, One Sunday 250 of us went from the Club to Windsor, an hour's train run and sttw around the Castle gro- unds and through the Cathedral; have a number of post cards and snaps of that trip to show you; the Royalty were there but didn't appear; we just got inside the gate as the siren went but the All Clear shortly after, It was 0 most enjoyable trip and we could see Eton College from Castle grounds. The country is very pretty now with everything at its best; light out until 1 p.m. (course we're 2 hours ahead of the game) and gets light around 5 a.m: I don't know when I ever ate so many onions and leaks before as I have. since corning here to London, and in the holding unit we couldn't get eyes on either. I dug up Mrs, Bennett's garden and planted it for her when her men are -away and have peas, beans, radishes and potatoes up nicely. We have a nice big Welsh coalie at the house and a cat, so are well protected. Was from one end of eity to other last Monday in our Lorry going tip to the other plant and back, it surely is a big place. See my name is up on the board for my leave from June 9 to 16 when I'm going to Ireland of they'll give nue a ticket. Here we get a perman- ent pass within the radios of 20 miles and jw 48's unless you take a chance. While eating dinner rather lunch in Beaver Club the Home Guard band carte in and entertained us with a musical variety; I had,to eat two pan- cakes with maplesyrup,' two dough- nuts and coli of tea. I'm , getting desperately tired of setting here pounding at this letter and believe I've told you almost everything I know, or at least canre.t member of, however may add more yet !before I get it posted, as I'tn going to putt it away and go to bed and will look over r it to -morrow and try and patch up mistakes. Goodnight, Duncan Home and Farr. Owners Share thesex,.70 Minions Between April 1, 1935,, and March 31, 1943, direct financial benefits to municipal' tax- payers from .the Ontario Liberal Government totalled $70,543,0$3.05. Here are the Savings for Tnxpoyers of Huron County Municipal Subsidy - - $268,732.12 King's Highway - o. - - - 393,761.09 Township and County Roads - 134,962.50 Mother's Allowances - - - 90,076.00 Old Age Pensions and Pensions for Blind -- 109,237.00 Indigents in. Sanatoria Total 41,098.50 $1,037,837.21 Every Elector in this riding has a direct and vital interest in maintaining the Nixon Administration's policy of ever-increasing relaef for municipalities from tax burdens. Keep kizion, ®t the Wheel for Progress and Unity VOTE LIBERAL AUG. 4th ISSUED BY THE ONTARIO LIBERAL ASSOCIATION By the middle of November 1942, Britain had sent to Russia equipment for 20 armoured divisions on the Ger- man scale. In Ceylon there are 324 rural school where, besides there ordinary school subjects, the children are taught prac- tical agriculture, house -building and carpentry. Chiang Kai-Shek's startegy is the "magnetic plan" of drawing the en- emy on. The American plan, of course is to draw first. THE FIRE WEED Where forest fires have swept the land The musing traveller sees These little bright faced flowers stand In crowded companies, So in the heart that grief has char- red, New fairness decks the sod, And every blackened life is starred With tender gifts from God. ISthelwyn Wetherald. Huron Holsteins Qualify for R.O.P. Certificates Several members of the purebred Holstein herds of Bisset Bras., and W. Hume Clutton, both of Goderich, have qualified for Record of Perfor- mance certificates, The largest pro- duction reported was that of Banos - tine Poach Princess from the Bisset hens. She gave 15,080 lbs. milk and 518 lbs butterfat in 365 days as a six- year-old. A three-year-old stable - mate made 471 lbs. butterfat and an eight-year-old finished with 470 'lbs. butterfat. Meadow Glade Mattie Posch from the Clutton herd produced 1$,021 lbs, milk containing 452 lbs. butterfat as an eight-year-old. She, too, was milk- ed twice daily foe 365 days. Swimming Lessons Commencing on Monday next, Mr. Clarence Trott, life guard at the Sea - forth Lions Park swimming pool, will give swimming lessons at the pool each morning at 10 o'clock. 'All boys and girls, as well as par- ents, should be interested in this an- nouncement, and take advantage of this opportunity. V Planes to Use Beam Approach St. Joseph's Airport, about six miles north of Grand Bend on Lake Huron, is being equipped with a standard beam approach, one of two in Ontario for the Ianding of planes in fogs and darkness, St. Joseph's is. Relief ]Field No. 2 to No. 9 S,F.T,S., Centralia and is also being epuipped with a 4,400 - foot summary for the landing of heavy four engined bombers. Also under construction andnearly finish- ed fit isi - . ed. at the airport situated in the heart of a French settlement is an "11" bar- racks, five compartment garage and control tower. Training' at Grand Bend Airport, Relief Field No. 1 to Centralia has been in progress for some time. Airmen predict that eventually Cen- tralia, with its relief airdromes, will soon be one of the largest in the com- monwealth plan and is to become art operational school. V OBITUARY MISS EDITH M'ILLAR News has been received by friends in town of the death at Toledo O„ of Miss Edith Millar, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Millar of this town. After the death of her father, who for some year conducted a suc- cessful drygoods business in Goderich the family moved to Detroit and later to Toledo. Miss Millar had been ill since January last, She is survived by two brothers, Frank at Vancouver and. James at Toledo, aiid two sisters MrS. Lee of Edmonton, Alberta and Miss Louie of Toledo, who was her sister's lifeloltg companion. Burial took place at Toledo. -Goderich Sig- nal Star. JAMES H. JOHNSTON James H. Johnston, brother of Geo- rge and William Johnston, of Gode- 'rich, died on June 14th at St. Cath- arines at the age of seventy-three years, A native of Goderich township, deceased lived for many years in God- �erioh, being a machinist and black- � smith in the employ of the Iate D. ,11. Strachan, the late William Marl- ton and the Dominion Road Machin- ery Co., After leaving Goderich he lived for some time at Drayton before moving to St, Catharines. He is sur- ivived by his wife, formerly Miss An- nie Beavers of theBayfield road and by three daughters and two grand- children.—Goderich .Signal -Star,