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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-09-25, Page 6THURS., SEPT. 25, 1941 ,IncomeTa on the Government Monthly Plan You must start at once ! Next Tuesday will be the tart opportunity to pay ,your 1941 Income Tax on the Government )Monthly Plan. Thir giver you the privilege of paying in twelve monthly in✓tallments• without intere,rt, instead of by lump ,rum in March, 1942, Dere is how to get the monthly payment privilege) Divide the total of your 1940 Income Tax by twelve. This is your first payment - and must be paid to the Receiver General on or before September 30, 1941. You will then pay the same amount before the end of each month for the balance of 1941, When you have estimated your 1941 income tax at the 1941 rate, you will deduct the four payments you will have already Made, and, pay the remainder in eight equalmonthly installments, starting January, 1942. ',The Government offers the above plan as the most reasonable andconvenient method of meeting income tax obligations. Ask your local Income Tax Office for Installment Income Tax Remittance Form—andany further information you may require. C. W. 0. GIBSON, Miniskr of National Rerrnue• C.F. ELLIOTT, Commissio, er of Income Tax ti i ;Mit. HArYBAHNUS IN CLINTON EARLY IN THE CENTURY Some Notes of The News in 1 916 FROM THE CLINTON NEWS- Johnston of Varna, in memory of RECORD SEPTEIMIBER 2151', 1916 The firemen had a run on Tuesday morning when about two o'clock it was discovered that a flame house on Albert street, formerly occupied by Mr. S. Mitchell, was in flames. The fire had made too mueh headway to be controlled and both building and contents were destroyed, Mr. Mitch- ell, who had removed to Stratford a few weeks ago, had left his furniture in the house and all went up in smoke. The house belonged to a man in Guelph. The origin of the fire is un- known. Mr. George Phalen has been promo - •ted to the positoin of head cutter, sun seeding Mr. W. Collyer, who has re- tired. Mr. Phalen has been with the Jackson Company for a gool many years and is well qualified for the position, Mr. W. Kennedy has been -transferred from the pressing depart. went to the cutting room, A gang of men have been at work during the past week digging up Clinton's perleetly good macadamized streets in order that the Bell Tele- phone wren may be put underground. Mrs. (Dr.) Gunn left on Tuesday mina sail on Saturday per steamship St. Paul from New York, being ticket- ed through by Mr, W. Jackson, agent of the American line. She goes to Glasgow to join her husband, Dr. Gunn, who is stationed in that city in charge of a iced Cross hospital, Pte. Arthur W. McMath of Gode- rich was, reported last week among those who have made the supremo sec:r'ifice in the cause of freedom, hav- ing died of wound's on Sept. 8th, He was a cousin. of Mrs. J. C, McMath of. town, The caboose of a frieglnt train on the L; H. and B. jumped the track at the "Y" on Monday afternoon and for a few hours interferred with traffic, The track was cleared before the Tuesday morning train was due. Mr. Harry Cook was over from De- troit the other day and while here disposed of his holm on Albert street to Inspector John Torrance, who has occupied it for the past two or three years. Mr, and Mrs• Thos. Mason returned last week after a six -weeks' visit in the stated across the border. They travelled through the greater part of. Michigan and also made a trip down through some of the Southern States A memorial service was held in St. Andrew's church, Bayfield, on Sunday +evening last, conducted be the R.ev. D. Lieut. «'rat. Carrot Macfarlane of, the 4th, Argyle and Sutherland Highland- ers, killed in action in France on Aug- ust With. The deceased was only nineteen years of age and was the only son of the Rev: A. Macfarlane of Dayfield, and Mrs. Macfarlane, who is in the old country. Bell—Ferris -In Hullett, on Sept. 20th, Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferris to WiIIiam Bell, both of Hullett. Forest—McQueen-- At Brucefield, on Sept. 16th, Elsie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McQueen to Lorne Forest of Stanley township, Dr, and Mrs. Garrett left. Saturday Wiz their home in Hamilton after spending a fortnight as the guests of the latter's mother, Mrs. H. W. Cook. Mrs. Cook accompanied them and will probably spend the winter between that city and Toronto, most of her family being located, there. Mr. James Doig left yesterday for Jacksonville, Florida, where he in- tends spending a short time, He is going to travelabout a bit for the benefit of his health and it may be some little time before he returns to Clinton. Mrs. M, H. Elliott, who has been spending a week or so with friends in towit returned to her home in Toronto on 14Londay, Capt. O. E. Dowding reported Mon- day at Quebec! leaving ahnost imnneti- iately for overseas to resume his mili- tary duties in Eng]and; FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1916 The Clinton young people who ate attending the School et Commerce among the thirty-seven present are: Miss Verna Ohler, Miss Stella Copp, Miss Nellie Rapson, Miss Sara Spoon- er, Miss Hannah Argent, Miss Laura Wilkin, Miss Roselle Schoenhaln Miss Pearl Shipley and Miss Viola Powell. Mre. Hugh Miller of Brooklyn, N.Y. is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Thee. Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs, E. Munroe and Master Barry were visitors in London this week, Miss Wheatley is at Toronto this week looking up the latest fashions in dressmaking. While running to the fire on Tues- day morning, Mr. Charlie Cantelon, juinior at the Maisons Bank, fell on the sidewalk, spraining his right '.vrist and damaging his knee also. Miss Isabel Gunn is with her father, THE ON . Ni,S-RECORD who is in charge of a Red Cross hospi- tal in Glasgow, Scotland, Mrs. Gunn will join them shortly. Miss M. A. Robertson of Toronto was the guest of Miss Margaret Mc- Lennan last week. Miss Marion Gunn is spending a couple of weeks in Toronto. Mr. John West and daughter, Edna, were in London last week. Mr. Harry Thompson of Goderich township recently purchased part of the barn on D. A. Forrester's farm and has had it torn down and re- moved. It is now reported in Toronto Liber al circles that Hon. George P. Graham may be a candidate in one of the Tor. oto ridings at the next election. Mr. Wesley Walker, who has, had his insurance office on the "Midway," moved this week to Mr. H. T. Rance's office on Rattenbury where the busi- ness will be attended to in future. Rev. W. D. Turner of Blyth has ac- cepted the call to Calvin Presbyterian church in Montreal. We understand that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sweet and their daughter are moving back to town from Sarnia. Mrs. Sweet has been under the'doc- tor's care practically all the time she has been away and they decided to move back to a healthier town. James Snell & Son made a clean up at the state Fair held at Syracuse, N.Y, last 'week with a flock of eight sheep. They won the Grand Champ- ion prize for the best flock of Leices. ters; Champion prize for ewe and Champion prize for ram. They also took first for flock; best ewe laznb; 2 year old ewe; shearing' ewe; lamb; aged ram; shearing ram; ram Iamb; ram and two of his get. There were four competitors. Mr. James Snell, who had charge of the flock sold them all before returning home. People hardly realize that it an honor to Hur- on County as well as to Hullett town- ship and Clinton. also to have such men as James Snell & Sons to keep this part of the Country before the eyes of the people in Canada and the states. Before Police Magistrate Andrews here Saturday morning, were Thos. Berry, a horse -dealer of Hensel), was fined $60 and costs for violating the Canadian Temperance act, and Reeve Smallcombe, of Hensel' was fined $10 and costs for obstructing county con- stables n their performance of their duties. In the afternoon Mr. T. Step- hens of Seaforth, was up and pleaded guilty and was fined. When The Present Century Was Young FROM THE CLINTON NEWS - RECORD SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1901 Mr. John Aikenhead, accompanied by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Aikenheady of BrucefieId arrived home from London on Tues. day morning. John's many friends will be pleased to know that his health is much better, Mr. and Mrs. John MacKenzie of Brucefield returned safely last week from a trip across the Atlantic to the Old Country. Ed. Muggridge of the organ factory staff had his hand cut the other i]sy while operating a Hp saw. A Huron Road farmer, who lives west of the town, has noticed for some time that the grain in his granary has been disappearing at a rapid rate. He is charitable and would rather not be- lieve that thievery was going on but the evidence became too conclusive. On lane last visit the thief had a bas with a hole in it out of which the grain dribbled as he walked . away from the barn and towards town. There is trouble in store for the light- fingered individual if he visits that granary again. Dr. Gifford is taking a short holi- day and ere he returns some time next week will viist friends in Windsor, Sarnia and' other places. On Monday night he gave his celebrated lecture, "The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky," to a large audience in Springfields The death of Dr. Shannon of Gods - rich has vacated the post g,2 gaol sur- geon, which, with salary and pickings, is worth about two hundred dollars per annum. Warden Holt has appoin- ted Dr. Hunter pro tern or until the meeting of the county councol which will make a permanent appointment, Mrs. Thos. McIIveen has rented the store until recently occupied by Mr. C. C. Witts and will open a restau- rant ie a few days. While shaping bricks with a saw at Cooper's factory on Monday Mr. W. T. Sloman cut the tops of two of his fingers and has had to take vacation. As Billy was laid up the previous week by illness he is feeiing a little bule over this double afflic- tion. Thrower --In Clinton on September 12th, the infant son of Mr. Louis Thrower, aged 1 month and 6 days. Mr. Frank Hovey, who has been working Western Ontario in the inter- ests of Trinity College, Toronto, was horse this past week but went to Fergus Saturday to occupy the pulpit in the Anglican church on Sunday. Mr. James Hearn left on Tuesday for Minnedosa, Man. He has owned a piece of land near' that town for many.years past and will', take advan- tage of the good times now prevailing on the • prairie to get rid of it. Mr. Hearn has not been in that provinnee CANADA AT WAR (This, is the first of a series of five articles written by Bruce M. Pearce, editor of The Simcoe'Re• former, for member papers of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assoc- iation, in connection with the recent tour of. Eastern Canada military camps, munition plants, R.C.A.F. Schools and naval yards, made • by a group of prominent weekly, daily and trade news:paper editors and publish- ers. The first article is general in nature, summarizing impressions! of the trip and outlining the various highlights encountered en route. Sub- sequent articles will deal with the Array, the War Industries, the R.C.A. F. and the Navy.) Ey B. M. P. On the morning of August 2;3rd last a group of nearly fifty represent- ative Canadian newspapermen assem- bled in Hamilton to commence a jour- ney that is probably without precedent in Canada journalism. On the night of August 31st, eight days later, they arrived in Montreal to complete the last leg of a trip which had taken them to the Atlantic coast and given them a complete panorama of the great war giant which is rapid- ly, taking, form in Canada. Sponsored -by the Department of National Defence the tour was initiat- ed primarily to give the editors an in- sight into Canada's military and nidu- atrial activity awl. to provide them with an enlightened eoneeption of what is actually taking place in this country, with the thought that they would then be able to discuss mare intelligently in their columns the var- ious phases of Canada's war enter- prise. That the editors gladly embraced this unique opportunity may be taken for granted. Heretofore they had known all too little of the inside *story of the huge machine which constitu- tes Canada's contrbution teethe fisht against :/Iitlerism. Not being in a position Co inform their reader, the majority were inclined to give voice to the growing impatience on the part of Canadians at the apparent tack of all- out effort. Until the fall of France in June, 1940, it is probably true that Canada had done all too little. That is no longer true today. The truth is tkat Canada is rapidly shaping a formidable war machine that will hare a notable part in licking Hitler. In the short space of eight days, the Canadian editors were treated to a spectaelo that not only literally open- ed ther eyee but inspired pride and strengthened tains in the part that Canada is playing and will play on an evergrowing scale in aiding the Mother Country. Everything Wide Open Everything was thrown wide open to the prying eyes of insatiably cur- ious editors. Nothing was held back. We had with us Brigadier Kenneth Stuart, D.S.OI, M.C., Vice -Chief of the General Staff together with dis- tinguished representatives of every branch of the service, including the Department of Munitions and Supply, as well as G. Herbert Lash, Director of Public information and J W. G. Clark, Director of Public Relations for Army and R,C,A.F., and members of their staffs. Their policy was that every bit of available information should be forthcoming. And it was. Nor did they place any restrictions on the contents of our stories aside from the well-known rules of censor skip. Not only did these men untilize ev- ery waking monment to answer the million questions levelled at them by their guests, but they made sure that every Celan Cotxmandant, every tam tory head and every officer revealed the whole show and held nothing back. since the boons period and will find a great change. The trip wilt tend to recall the early days when the gold fever prevailed on the coast and he was one of the hardy host which pan- ned the glittering sands o2 the Sac. ramento and Fraser rivers. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reynolds and family left yesterday for London where they will make their home in future. Mr. Bert Mellveen was home for a few days of the past week brit left for Wingham Monday and next day wont to Toronto where he leas enroll- ed in Trinity college as a student in medicine. Bert has for the past couple of years held engagements in drug stores but now goes in for it stili stiffer course. Mr. S. G. Plummer of Hibbing Min- nesota, son of our worthy citizen, Councillor Plummer, is home for e short visit. Ile is engaged in a Men chantile business with his brother and, we are pleased to hear doing very well. Hibbing is situated in a mining district. Messrs. G. Routledge and 7, W. Cantelon, who are making a tour of Western Ontario on their wheels, are spending a few days with friends in town, Mr. Cantelon is taking an arts course at Vietor]a University, Tor- onto, and resumes, his studies there in October. Miss Tillie ,Akam left on Friday for Buffalo where 'r she will visit friends" and also the Pan American. Miss Carrie Akan has returned after Mel- ting friends in Sebringville, At Ottawa the editors were entertain- ed at a dinner at which Hon, J. In Ralston, Ron. C. D. Howe and Hon. C. G. Powers were the principal• speakers, The general impression was that these men were •sincerely trying to do a job. They were frank in admitting their mistakes aed lion. Mr. Ralston declared that one chief mistake was in having failed' hereto- fore in letting the light flood into edi- torial minds that their readers, she Canadian public, might know the true story of this country's war achieve - merit. A Real Aekieyement It is an achievement; too, as theee articles aim to tell, not just an 'effort', a word that fails to give: the true em• phasis. We would also add that not once throughout the entire eight-day pilgrimage was the word 'politi ,3' heard, The peen who were our hosts, were far too intensely absorbed in the vital task of sharpening Canada's tools of war to worry for a moment about polities. It was one of, the last. ing impressiones of the trip that these men, many of them doller.a-year pub- lic servants, were out to de a job for Canada, that they were sparing neith- er, strength nor talent, to perform that service and that they were admirably fitted for the key posts which they oc• csvpieel. The sane applies to the in- dustrial leaders, the military camp commandants, the chiefs of the navy and air force, with whom we came in contact. They gave the impression of being on top of their job and they in- spired coefideace by their brisk, alert and confident bearing, Many Caned - tan editors are resting more easily as a result of those contacts. • Not a Joy -Ride Where did we go? What did we see? What did we learn in those eight days? If any reader has the impression that it was simply a joy- ride at government expense, we can only say that it was the most stren- uous joyride that most of those ed - More had ever experienced. From 8 am, until late at night we were walk- ing miles through military camps, in and out of barracks, machine shops and airdromes, through huge muni- tions factories, naval dockyards and arsenals. We were bounced over hill and dale in trucks, tractors, carrion„ blitz buggies and many other of those frightening vehicles which form the mechanized and armored army of 1941, (We saw not a single horse ex sept on a back street in Halifax and we learned that only nine horses re- main in the Canadian army and they are headed for the glue .factory). We were driven about in opcu army trucks in weather that penetrated to the marrow; we were embussed and de- bussed until we loathed the sight of a bus; we were thumped by depth charges tossed from a destroyer on the broad Atlantic; we travelled some 3,000 miles by train and were finally disembarked in Montreal on a Sunday night in the midst of a downpour of rain. We forgave all except the sharp nudge of a heartless porter every mindeeornd)ing at 6.80 a.m. Yes, a joy -ride Highlights of the Tour In concluding this initial article, just an outline of a few unforgettable highlights. There was the astonish- ing demonstration of tracked or arm- ored fighting vehicles and wheeled passenger or load -carrying vehicles at the General Motors proving ground near Oshawa, featuring movement over the roughest ground which putt the machines to the sternest test and which proved convincingly that Cana- dian industrial genius is prepared to meet the, ohatlenge of mechanized warfare. There was the nocturnal visit to the National Steel Car plant at Hamilton where several thousand men are turning out artillery and anti-aircraft shells, with the largest output of any similar factory in the British Empire. There was a Sunday morning preview of that remarkable exhibit by the Department of Muni- tions and Supply at the Canadian National Exhibition, giving a vivid portrayal of the achievement of Can- ada's war industries. At the Inglis plant in Toronto, apart from viewing the production of l3ren machine guns in full swing, we were addressed by Major Hahn; who earlier in the war was Beverly maligned by some sections of the press•, but whose enterprise and ingenuity have created one of the most intergral units in Canada's war Joachim, Tanks, Planes, Guns On we travelled 46 Cane Horden and Petewawa, names inseparably linked with the Great War, but which have undergone tremendous expans- ion inn.the past year, where impressive displaryt of Canada's armed might were provided. In Montreal a. process Hon of Canada's new tanks roared up and down ..the street rain front • of the all -Canadian factory in which they were produced; while at the Fairchild aircraft plant we watched huge bomb ere being constructed and sembbomb - ere start to.finish. Then re was the memorable morningthere wm here the agnnificient new 25-emnd- Send. er artillery guns are being forged where corvettes' g are coming off and . the (continued on page 7) PAGE 6 "Doxil'you wish we, couldrshorten the wax?" Hs:. "Well, in a way we can, you know." Sher "But, George, we're not trained to do any- thing..." ny- thing..." He: "Training doesn't matter for what I'm thinking about. I was wondering whether we couldn't put more of our income into War Savings Certifi cater." She: "And why not? We might have to go without one or two pet luxuries—but wouldn't it be worth it to bring back peace again?" He: "And won't ive be glad of . the money—and the interest it will have earned—in a world without war restrictions 1" The help of every Canadian is needed for Victory. In these flay* of war the thoughtless selfish spender is a traitor to our war effort. .4 reduction in personal spending is now a vital necessity to re- lieve the pressure for goods, to enable more and more labour and materials to be diverted to winning the war. The all•out effort, which Canada must make, demands this self-denial of each of us, 1 SPEND CESS —70 BUY MORE WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES Huron County to Have Complete Series of Air Training Schools In the eleven months' operation of Spy Harbor elementary flying train- ing school 26,000 miles flying hours have been put on the records without the semblance of a major accident. The record speaks highly for the efficiency of operations of the school, which holds a high place in the Brit- ish Commonwealth Plan. Within six months there will be two or three times as many airmen in Huron county as there are at present. This is the prediction of a well -in formed gentleman who has followed the developing of air -training in this area from the beginning. He says that eventually every branch of avia- tion, from the training of the raw re- cruit to the turning out of the finish- ed product, will be taught within a radious of thirty or forty miles of Croderich, thus centralizing supervis- ion and maintenance and cutting down transportation and transporta- tion costa, This gentleman points to the ele- mentary flying sehool at Sky Harbor, the navigation and wireless schools already in operation, the service !ly- ing school under construction at Cen- tralia, at which three types of 'planes will be used, an auxiliary landing school at Grand Bend, under construc- tion, and one at St, Joseph, and a bombing and gunnery school at Am- berley. He says students of the last named will be accommodated at the navigation school a short distance away, at Which new buildings aro to be erected to take care of the stud - dents. He says that all this and more is in the air because Huron county ter- rain and the absence of bush is par tieularly adapted to flying: Natural drainage and economy of construction ire other itennss. From the very be- ginning Commonwealth Pian officials have been "sweet" on Huron county. Asia matter of feet, the county Was "spotted" by Government scouts more than a year before the war. Leigh C preol, a 1914-18 war veteran avia- tor, new over North Huron at the time of the fillet air show at Sky Harbor in 1988 and brought back .the, news that there were a good many wonderful airport sites' in Ashfield.. Although Cepet'ol was then employed by a Montreal airplane manufactur- ing• corporation, he also had a mission from the Government to spot and re- cord potential training sites. Thus the air shows that preceded the pre- sent development had much to do with what is now taking place. A visitor from Exeter on Monday brought word that giant machines are working night and day levelling off the Centralia airport in prepar- ation for the building of the paved runways by the Warren Paving Oo ,• the same firm that built the runways at Port Albert. Similar work is be- ing done on a landing field south of Grand_ Bend by the Towlands Com - pony of London. There appears to be no shortage of labor, our informant tells us, far literally scores of men are on the ground each day looking for employnnent. The long -sought paved road into. Sky Harbor from highway No. 21, a distance of Six -tenths of a mile, is to become a reality. Manager J. R. IDouglas of Sky Harbor made the an- nouncement, as did Reeve William Thom of Colborne township. They said that the Department of Trans- port, the Ontario Department of Highways and the municipality were sharing the costs. The work is to be done under the supervision of Coun- ty Engineer Patterson and the road is to be practically of the same type as that on the 8th concession of Col- borne, and that is good enough for the most fastidious motorist. With its' airport roads andwalks greatly improved and the entire plant looking as neat as a new pin, Sky Harbor is looking forward to a m•udless aut- lu ne, The next class will "graduate" from Sky Harbor• on September 25th. It has the largest percentage of Amer- icans of all the classes • that have yet attended the school and there are many fine athletes among them. On the Goderich softball league ,champ- ion team, for instance, are Joe Mc- Carthy, a New Yorker, who, as a awimmner, was in a class by himself at the recent swimming meet, and Curtin, another fine swimmer who helped win the intersectional 'relay swim, the sweepstake event, far his school, • Sportsmen here are hoping that the first class to come in. 1942 will have' a dee 1y "'pebctdnitage of hockey Players.