The Clinton News Record, 1941-12-11, Page 6PAGE 6
TH E CLINTON NEW
THURS., DEC. 11, 1941
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NO. 5—MINESWEEPERS
By C. Earl Rice, formerly of the Spri ngfield' Times, Lac Du Bonnet, Man.
One of the vital' contributions
our war effort it that of the ship-
building industry. In this article
I shall deal 'with just one type of
ship being produced in Canada.-- the
Minesweeper.
Minesweepers are trim speedy
boats, extremely maneuverable, and
capable of doing convoy duty as well
as that of minesweeping. Their dia.
placement is close to 1,000 tons. Dep-
th chargee are carried, and guns are
mounted on their fore -decks. When
travelling at moderate speed a mine-
sweeper can be turned around in its
own length, ant) at full speed) ahead
can be turned in the opposite direction
in twice its length.
When the Canadian Government
decided to build Minesweepers one
contract was let to a construction
company in an eastern Canadian pelt.'
Lying adjacent to the property
where this construction company had
its offices, machine -shop, stores, etc., '
was an old shipyard where freighters
were built during the last war. For
many yeare the property had been us-
ed by a steel company . for storage
purpedes. Today in this shipyard
one can see five ships under construc-
tion at the same time. A year ago
there wasn't a man employed in ship
construction in this yard, but now
there are 1,200 working 24 hours a
day.
The' superintendent in charge of
construction is a man of wide ex-'
perienee in the ship -building indus-
try. He supervised construction of
freighters for the Government dur-
ing the Last war, and prior to that
Nerved on the River Clyde in Seat -
land, and in India. He is, in fact,
'the only member of the aragnization
who has had any experience in the
direction and supervision of ship-
building. '' 1 j A 'I
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Before the construction can be
started a full size plan of the ship
must be made from the blue -prints
and laid out on the floor of the "loft."
Moulds are made of wood, exact in
design and detail dawn to the last
rivet hole, for each plate that goes in- ,
to the ship. First, the moulds for the
keel are laid down, and from the
keel the sides are reconstructed, The
moulds are then taken to the punch -
room and plates are cut to fit them.'
A year ago the large punch -room,
which covers about six acres, was ab-
solutely void of machinery. Rollers
capable of rolling steel twenty feet
long, six feet wide and a quarter of
an inch in thickness, to any desired
shape necessary are handling up to
twenty tons of steel a day. In the
centre of the punch' shops is a large +I+
heat -treating unit. This unit is used I
to heat the girders until they are a 1
mass of glowing red steel. They are
to then taken onto a steel form and! bent
to fit the shape of the mould, and
when cooled bedtime the ribs of a ship
The toolthg of this punch shop is a
miracle of efficiency.
it There are several hundred' plates
of quarter-ineh steel in each ship,
There are approximately 160,000 riv-
ets in each ship, and' outside of the
furnishings practically no wood is
used.
I The wheel -houses are constructed
almost entirely of brass, the reason
being that only: non-magnet"o metal
must be used winthin a radius of ten
feet of the compass.
These boats are powered with twin
Diesel engines. They are capable of
carrying several thousand barrels of
fuel oil. Several hundred gallons of
oil are used an • hour when travelling
at a moderate rate of speed.
The piping in a minesweeper, if
laid end to end, would run to several
relies! in length, while the electric
wiring, if laid in a straight line, would
reach more than 20 miles,
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"YOUR HOME STATION"
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
920.kes. WINGHAM 326 meters
FRIDAY, DEC. 12TH:
7.30 Eveready Time"
11 a.m. Hawaiian Strings
4.30 a.m. Piano Ramblings
8.16 Henderson's "Old -Tuners
tATURDAY, DEO. 18.TH:
11 a.m. Saturday Morning Frolic
4 p.m. Shut -In Request Time
7 p.m. Glen Miller Oreh.
8 CKNX Barn Dance
SUNDAY, DEG. 14TH:
11 a.m. Church Serviee
8.15 p.m, Guy Lombardo Orch.
4.16 CIINX Program, Gossip
MONDAY, DEC, 16TH:
10.10 a.m. Charlie Kunz, piano
6.15 p.m. Secret Service Scuta
7 p.m. "Ogden's Hoedown"
9.16 pm. Miss Eileen Bogie, piano
TUESDAY., DEC. 16TH:
9.15 a.m. Sweethearts
3.45 p.m. Genu Autry, song.
4 p.m. "At Home with the Ladies"
9 p.m. Memories of Hawaii
WEDNESDAY, DEC', 17TH:
8.05 a.m. "Your Breakfast Club"
12.46 p.m,.Circle Bell Ranch
7.30 p.m. The Lone Ranger
9 p.m, Wilf Carter
THURSDAY, DEC. 18TH:
10 a.m. Mid -Morning News
3.30 p.m. Church of the Air
6.40 p.m. Telephone Tunes
8.30 p.m. CKNX Ranch Boys
gfieSNAPSNOT GULD
"PROBLEM ' PICTURES
'Problem" pictures—showing, amusing situations at home—add interest
to your album. Think of such situations that have occurred at your
house—then re-enact them for the camera.
HOW a subject in an amusing
"fix"—a problem situation—and
you have an entertaining picture.
All manner of simple everyday
problems, can be used for picture
purposes—and 3f you just show the
situation clearly, these snapshots
never fail to be interesting.
If there's au old, worn-out alarm
clock in the junk box or the attic
fish it out, let Johnny take the
works apart, and then get a shot of
him trying to make everything go
back in place:
If there's a puppy at your house,
pose him with a couple of C9,313 of
dog food, and a can -opener on the
floor in froht of him. Scold him a
bit, and you'll get a doleful expres-
sion that makes the picture perfect.
Here's another, Once I tried to
bake an angel food cake, and it fell
so fiat -we tried to• use it for auto-
mobile tire patches. Now, why not
get hubby to don an apron. Then
have him hold a cake pan, and pic-
ture him lifting a big brittle sugar
'cookie out of it. That's the cake—
as his baffled expression will reveal
—and you'll have a shot that really
'"rings the bell."
Again—how about pictures of
bubby or Uncle John struggling
into a full-dress shirt, and losing
the collar button? It has happened
to everybody. And It is worth sev-
eral pictures—a sequence—conclud-
ing with the final triumphant recov-
ery of the elusive button. Just
try .it!
Often, in the comic strips or hu-
morous magazines, you find situa-
tions that will makegood snap-
shots, with real people in them.
Some time ago, one comic strip
showed a man trying to even up the
legs of a tall kitchen stool, so it
would stand level. Bit by bit, he
sawed small sections off each leg—
until he wound up with nothing
more than a footstool. If you have
an old, broken-down stool around
,somewhere, try this—it,. too, will
snake a marvelous snapshot se-
quence, with five or six pictures all
equally funny.
Just sit down and recall amusing
things that have happened at hone
in the past. Does the kitten get him-
self all tangled up•in .Grandmother's
yarn—beyond escape? Did you ever
thump your finger with a hammer,
trying to hang a picture? Note
clown such things :then put thein
into "situation" snapshots. It's a
splendid way to have lots of fun
with your camera.
326- John van Guilder
:'err eJygi.::eee is
THE EYES OF THE BRITISH NAVY
This aircraft of the British Flet.' Aar; Arm is a Blackburn Skua and
is photographed her about to land on an aircraft carrier after a recon-
naissance flight. It can' be scan taxiing in with it flaps down and landing'
hook ready to engage the arresting gear.
Wartime Price and Trade Board
(By Frederick Griffin)
Christmas shopping in Canada this
year is taking place under the tight
batter of price control. Merchants
cannot charge as They please for
goods: Price tags have been held
back by law since December 1 to
Fall levels.
Over 300,000 Canadian traders from
the big city store to the merchant at
cross-roads — baker, milkman, jewel-
ler and hardware man alike --are now
operating under the retail. price ceil-
ing set by, the Wartimes Prices and
Trade Board as of the beaic period
September 15 to October 11.
The cost of such essential serviced
as electricity, gap, plumbing, painting,
laundering, cleaning and tailoring are
likewise held against a rise.' Funerals
end movies, hairdo and hot dog, pep,
beer and hard ligi}or are equally an-
chored down.
Beer gave the Board, its first chance
to crack down. on aprioe raise. On
Saturday, November 29, Ottawa hotel
keepers took occasion to boost it a
nickel a quart, from 30 to 35 cents,
because they had perviously, been
selling at a low price to outsell their
rivals across the river in Hull, Que-
bee.
On Monday, December 1, the day
price control went into effect, they
had to take that nickle off fast at
the Board's order and go back to
their price as of the basic period.
This illustrates simply bow the con-
trol works,
business and the public are being ask-
ed to play ball in their own and the
nation's interest.
Self-regulation is Keynote
Indeed the Board from the start
turned to business and asked it to
forge its own controls. Administra-
tors were appointed from within the
ranks of ,business men ,manufactur-
ers, and producers. These are work -
ling out with various groups and trade
assbeiations 'the "squeeze" sharing
which may be required down the line
from retailer through" whoesaler• and
manufactured to producer in order to
keep under the ceiling. 1.. ! r -
Merchants, fishermen, farmers,
milk producers, bikers, clothing
manufacturers — any of these groups
might have resisted. Instead, the ev-
dence is that all have sought to
shoulder their share fairly and agree-
ably.
Consumer Interest Quickening
Reports received during the earI.y
days of the control showed it in full
operation. The public saw little chan-
ge. There was nothing dramatic
about the way it went into effect.
People bought and sold as usual and
there was no one present to say them
-nay. The only real sign of the change
was a quickened interest in the prices
.charged.
Biggest misunderstanding reported
on the part of the public was the
Great Human Experiment
Since December 1, Canada has put
into effect under the democratic .sys-
tem one of the greatest human experi-
ments in economic control in history.
Dictator states have established such
controls by gestapo methods. Can
Canada make it work by business co-
operation and the public will?
Heavy penalties are pl;•ovidect, it
is true, for chisellers and cheaters.
A license may be revoked and a busi-
ness shut down for serious infraction,
Stiff fines and jail teams are provid-
ed. But here at Ottawa headquarters
it is said frankly that'Tolicing alone
could not make price control a suc-
cess, especially if business were re-
bellious and the public indifferent,
It would be obviously impossible to
check the billion and, one transactions
that take place daily across Canada.
That is not contemplated, Instead',
CHURCH DIRECTORY
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor
2.30 p.m.—Sunday School
7 p,m.—Evening Worship
The Young People meet each
Monday evening at 8 p.m.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh.
11 a.m, Morning Prayer,
2.30 p.m. Sunday School.
7 p.m.—Evening Prayer.
THE SALVATION ARMY
Lieut. Deadman
11 a.m. — Holiness Service
3 p.m. — Sunday School
7 pan. _ Salvatfon Meeting
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
Rev. G. G. Burton, M.A., B.D.
10.00 a.m,—Sunday School,
11 a.m.—Divine Worship
9.30 a.m. ,Turner's Church Ser.
vice and Sunday School
7 p.m. Evening Worship
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
??,ev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D.
11 a.m.-Divine Worship
7 p.m. --Evening Worship.
Sunday School at conclusion of
morning service.
PRESBYTERIAN CHUIRCH
Rev. B. P. Andrew
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service 11 a.m
3 p.m. Worship Service at Bayfield
2 pan. --Sunday School. Ssyfiei,e.
A BRITISH AIRCRAFT -CARRIER IN STORMY WATERS
H.M. Aircraft Carrier FURIIOU'S, i stricking force to ships of the British (seen in a rough seaway. Spray is.
whose aircraft have given an added Royal Navy in many sea battles, is' breaking over the bows of the ehip.
belief of many that a one -price ceiling
•had been set for each and every com-
inodity.
A number of housewives complained
to the Board, or to a regional.office
that merchants were charging vary-
ing prices for butter, eggs, shirts and
other items. They felt that Mr. Jones
I•should! not charge more than Mr.
Smith up the street; that department
store, chain store, and independent
'should all show one price.
Competition Remains
There is to be no such levelling.
The Board made no attempt to hit
at trade freedom. Competition re-
mains and the prices of various com-
modities will vary from store to store
as they always did—so long as each
store sells within the prices it charg-
ged during the basic period.
In Ottawa the Board, its committees
and administrators stay )card at work
evolving principles, meeting problems
that arise„ and making adjustments
to ease the strain on a particular in-
!dustry or group. One of the most
important problems it has sought to
solve is that of imports. After a
thorough analysis of the situation it
announced a system of subsidy pay-
ment by the Government in case of
,certain cost rises on imported goods,
The purpose is to maintain the price
ceiling in respect to imported as well
as domestic goods.
This • means that the Government—
in the last analysis, the public, -takes
its share of the "squeeze" where im-
ported materials or goods figure in
a transaction at a fixed retail price.
Certain Exemptions
There 'will be exemptions from this
subsidy and the Board reserved the
right to exclude any goods. Looked
at generally, it will have the effect of
easing the situation irr many branches
of the clothing and textiles industries,
for example, and in other essential
manufactures dependent in whole or
in part on imports.
Another important order exempted
farmers from licenses when they buy
feeder cattle, lambs or weanling pigs
for fattening or finishing. Only when
they buy such stock for quick turn-
over must they have licenses as deal-
te{a.
lThus the Board is meeting condi-
tions as they arise and seeking to re-
move inequalities or bottle -necks in
the flow of commodities as a result
of price fixing. It is evident that
there is a strong desire to interfere
as little as possible with trade pract-
ices and channels. The only aim is to
maintain the ceiling established.
There will be no tampering with that.
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