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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1939-07-13, Page 3THURSDAY, JULY 13,."1939 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE THREE Highlights of the Week: Sunday, 'Jelly 1116th: 7.30 to p.m,, Sunday' Symnphone�tte, ,from New' Y�onk; 0 to 2,310 p nn., .Ghamlber Music,' tfrom :6 'Montreal; 6 to .30 p.m,, 'Grena- dier Guards Balm), from Montreal; 7 to 7,310 p.m., Melodic Strings, froth Toronto; G to 9 +p,an., NBCSynnp'hony Orchestra, from New York; 9 to 9.30 !pan., Appointment 'with Agostini, Montreal TO to 10!30 p.m., Music )from :Manu•script, from Toronto; 110.30 1to,11 p.m., By the Sea, from Vancouv- er,. Monday, 'July 17th—:8.30 to. 9 p.m., 'Sevillama, from Montreal; 9 to 9,130 pm., Friendly Music, from Toronto; 110 to '10,30 'km., Blue Shadows, from Toronto; Ih0!310 to 110.45, •Clement Q. Williams, from Vancouver, Tuesday, :July 118th 9 to 9.30 p,m., t 'Summer Concert, am Montreal; 10 to '10.310 p.m, Geoffrey' Waddington `Conducts, Winnipeg; 110.45 to 11 p,m., Evening Serenaders, 'from Toronto; 11113118 :to 1111,30 p.m., Jean de Rinnanoczy violinist, (Vancouver. Wednesday, July 119t11-9 to 9.30 1p,m., Song of the•World, from Montt - real; 9.30 to 10 .p.m, , ;Percy Faith's Music, from Toronto; 1111115 to 112 mid..m Suener Symphony Concert, Winni- peg; 10 to 10.30 a.m., Everymanmh•eatre, from Winnipeg; Thursday, 'July 20-17:30' to 7.45 p.m. The Lyric Trio, from Montreal; 7.4!5 to,18 pm., Popular Science, talk, from Vancouver; 3,80 to 0.00 p.m„ Serenade for Strings, front Montreal; 9 to •110 par., Promenade Symphony Concert, Toronto. Friday, ,July 31-7.30 'to 18 p.m., Make Mine Music, from Toronto; 9 to 9.310 pin., Ten Musical Maids. from Toronto; 9.30 to 110 p.m., Weekly Song Sheet, drum 3f,ontreal; 101115 to 1111,310, Barbara Custance, from Van- couver. 'Saturday, July 02-7.30 to 7:45 .pan., Young 'Canada; talk, from Toronto; 9 to 9.30 pant., Leon eickent1s Orch- estra, from Toronto; .10 to 10.30 pm., Symphonic Strings, from New York, 10.30 to 11111 pan., Music 'by Moonlight, ,from INew York; 1111,115 to 0111.30 p.m„ Random 'Rhythm, from Vancouver. {All programmes •listed in Eastern [Daylight Saving Time.) Morning News Bulletins The recently -introduced, enlarged CBC news services have been mtg.rented by the addition of a regular morning period of broadcasts. Final arrangements for this addition have Just been completed. As they are now constituted the CBC news services are designed to fill the needs of the different Canadian regional districts and are beard at strategic hours of the day. The original expanded ser- time this season, 'Th'ursday, ,July 27, From the time: of the arrival of the when. the CBO will again present an Empress of Australia in. Quebec. City hour's broadcast to its international on May 17, most.of Its travelling: with i?dience, the CBC party rsaw: Their. Majelsties many times. And the last time E ROADcASTING The ROYAL VISIT brought just as great a thrill as the (Observations by (J. W. Gilchrist, first. Was it the .crowds, the pageantry, CBC Press„Representative who ac- ,�� I conipanied the Royal Tour.) 0 vices were introduced on July ant And for their Canada be watch - The new schedule is as follows: cul ever,- (Monday to Saturday inclusive) Grant us this boon ,if there be one 8 to 8.15 a.m, EDST—Canadian alone, • To do our part in highand pure en Press news from CBY, Toronto to cleaver Ontario Network. 1 ,To build a peaceful Empire round 12.30 to 12,45 ,pan,[DST—Canad- the Throne.” Ian Press news from Toronto to Mid- As the words of this prayer travel- eastern Network. led down the airwaves on the even - Prom Concert to be Conducted by. Ing of June 15, while far out to ' sea Dr. Kindler . the Empress of Britain disappeared The twelfth concert of the Toronto.. from view in the early summer dusk, Promenade Symphony Orchestra's, there ended for the Canadian Broad. 1939 season will be played from Var- casting Corporation a month-long sity Arena, Toronto, with Dr.' Hans stewardship. Kindler as guest conductor -and Viggo . It was the biggest• effort in the his- Kihl; Toronto, pianist, as soloist. tory of radio broadcasting, the task An international radio audience will of bringing to millions of listeners in hear a portion of the concert when Canada and throughout the world, the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- day by day as the triumphal tour tion presents one hour of the program progressed, accurate word pictures of on Thursday, Judy 20, 9 to 10 p.m. events and scenes. EDST. The broadcast will be heard It was a task fraught with many in Canada .over the CBC National difficulties and problems because Network and in the United States as there were no similar past experi- an exchange feature over the NBC ences upon which to draw. But the Blue Network. task might haste been more difficult The program will open with the had it not been for the attitude' of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford arrange- the King and Queen themselves. anent of "God Save the King," and His Majesty displayed a keen int - will include the "Ouverture Solen- erest in the radio broadcasts from nolle," popularly known as the "Eesti- the very first day he arrived in Que- val Overture," by Glazounoff; "Suite" bee City. That day, at the official by Bluck, arranged by Mottl, and Government luncheon, he commented "Concerto No. 4 in G Major" for piano on the CBC's specially made micro - and orchestra, by Beethoven, which phones which had been placed on the will introduce Viggo Kihl as soloist, table in front of him to catch his The "Festival Overture" was writ- address—the first ever made by a ten by Glazounoff in 1901, seven reigning British sovereign on Cana - years before he became director of than soil. the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and On several other occasions Their unlike most of this Russian compos- Majesties commented on the radio er's concert pieces, has no program. broadcasts and on one occasion, in It was evidently intended as a fitting Winnipeg, they even went "behind overture for any pageant. the scenes" to shake hands with the One of two suites of airs by Gluck, engineers and others on duty in the arranged by the Viennese conductor, improvised control room set up in Felix Mott], will be beard next, The. Manitoba's Government House for the airs are from the 'operas of the 18th Empire Day broadcast, There they century Austrian composer, whose spent several minutes chatting' infor- continued efforts to "reform" opera mally and asking questions. met with success in his "Orpheus . Early in the tour, the King and and Eurydice" and "Alceste." Gluck Queen came to recognize the obser- was honored with distinguished pat- vers who bad been assigned to the renege, among his patrons being job of reporting the Royal Tour for Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette.) the listening audience. When the The broadcast will conclude witb Queen happened to spot a commen- the performance of the 'Beethoven tater at, his post in some new and Concerto N. 4 in G Major, with `trig- strange city. she"'` never failed to go Kihl as guest pianist. favour him with a smile • and a little Dr. Hans Kindler returns to Toren- wave. to ,as a popular favorite. As founder And to the men behind the micro. and director of the National Symph• phones that little gesture meant a ony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., lot. It meant that the long grind, the he has established himself in the past weeks and months al planning, and seven years as one of the greatest of now the days of bard work and the the young conductors onthis contin- sleepless nights, of irregular meals ent, and jostling crowds everywhere and He will conduct. the Promenade of congestion in hotels and trains— Symphony Orchestra for the second all were worthwhile, Counter Check Books We Are Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily: All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on—Your Next Order. . 0 Seaforth SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, News the martial music? 1 don't think so, for it was the same when there were. no crowds, no fanfare. l think it was the' strong magnetic personality of the King, the charm of the Queen—a charm that is like a halo. .And the blood -stirring scenes we witnessed! There was Quebec and the crowd that swept like the waves of the sea across the Plains of Abraham. There was Montreal where we heard 45,000 French-Canadian school children shake the rafters of the baseball stadium as they roared "Vive le Roi! Vive la Heine!" 'There was" Ottawa . on the King's birthday when with all the pomp and ceremony of old England the colour was trooped for the King on Parlia- ment Hill and the Queen looked on from a window high up in the east block. An hour later, she had made three stone masons happy for the rest of their lives, as she • chatted with them after laying the corner- stone of the new Supreme Court building. Then there was that memorable Sunday in the nation's capital when the King, with his consort beside him, paid homage to Canada's war dead and honoured the living as they moved freely through the ranks of the veterans, shaking bands and giv- ing words of encouragement. There was Toronto and. the Christie Street Hospital where Their Majesties stretched a scheduled ten- minute enminute stop into a half hour and bad the officials biting their nails, but left many glad hearts behind among the wrecks of the 'war. There was Winnipeg and the rain, Their Majesties insistedon having the top of their car down, and set off beneath umbrella s in a 'downpour while thousands cheered. There was .beautifully decorated Regina; Calgary andits colourful Indian village; Banff and the little towns up and down the Rockies, gay with bunting; Vancouver where Tbeir Majesties first glimpsed the blue Pacific. Victoria brought the breath of the homeland for the Scottish broom was painting the hills and dales with. yellpw. Victoria's day was the navy's day; and the King made history as he presented his colour to Canada's guardians of the sea. It was Edmonton, gateway to the north that provided the most spon- taneous, most spectacular welcome to the King and Queen. From the farm- lands, from the towns of the prairies and from the settlements of the north country they came, thousands upon thousands of people, "new Canadians" and old, They packedthe two miles of grandstands along both sides of Por- tage Avenue—now Kingsway—and that night they massed in front of the MacDonald Hotel. For hours they stood there and song followed song. Unrehearsed and undirected they ran the gamut from "0 Canada" 10 the "Sidewalks of New York." . And when several companies of troops marched out to keep the crowd in check -not because there was any rowdyism, but just as a precaution— the singing and cheering went merri- ly on. Their Majesties appeared on the hotel balcony in late evening and the roar that went up made the cheers before sound like a whisper. It must have rolled across the prairies for miles, and it fairly made the old hotel tremble. When the King and Qneen left, a hundred thousand voices sang "God Save the King," It had never been sung- like that before, probably never will be again. There were the little prairie "sid- ings"; where people for miles around gathered just to see the Royal train go by ' There was Niagara Falls and Can- ada's "au revoir" as the King and Queen wrote a new and sparkling page in international history by visit- ing the United. States. There was the return to Canada and the warm greeting of the historic Maritimes, the visit to Fredericton, New Brunswick's capital city and St. John, .old Loyalist seaport; the trip was won by Mrs, Ila Wood of Santa by H.M.C.S. Skeena to Charlottetown, Barbara, Calif.; a soda biscuit race cradle of confederation in. Prince Ed- by Mrs, "Gibbons of Auburn, and the ward ,Island, Canada's smallest Prov- ladies' walking-to=spot by Mrs. Phil - ince, and back again by destroyer to lips of Hamilton. The officers for the Nova Scotia's mainland. reunion were President, T. W. Butt, Then came the Beal day of the four Kippen; vice president, Harry Mew, given to Canadian and United. States listeners. Then, as the sound cf rushing waters melted into sett music fi_am the Halifax studios of the CBC a re- cessional ode, written especially for the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora• tion by Duncan Campbell Scott, 'na- tionally known poet and author, was read. ' It was the voice of Canada praying Godspeed, George and Elizabeth had gone home. ton Dame to Canada from Yorkshire, England, and in 1844 Margaret. Currie left Ireland to live in; Canada. They were married and settled in McKillop ownship, where almost ,all of their. descendants still live, Mrs. Samuel Gliddon, a daughter of Barnet Bolton and Margaret Cprrie, in, her 85th year, was the .oldest member, present, while two-year-old Marlene Elliott, daugh- ter of Oliver Elliott, was the young- est. Dorothy and William Bolton, who travelled front Rochester, N.Y., came the 'farthest to attend the reunion. Prpramme in Honor of Confederation Several of the younger members pre - The 75th anniversary of the Char- sent went to the beach after the lottetown Conference, the meeting at races had been run off. Upon their return to the park supper was served, which the first step towards a united Canada was taken, will be commem- after which the officers for next orated in a nation-wide broadcast on year's reunion .were elected. The re - Monday, July 17th, ' 9 to 9.30 p.m. • sults of the races were: Children up EDST. On this occasion, the Canal- to 6—Bobby Managhan. Boys 7 to 10 Ian Broadcasting Corporation will)—Earl Gliddon. Girls 7 to 10—Marj- join with Charlottetown, capital city orie Baxter. Young ladies' race—Earl of Prince Edward Island„ in celebrat- Bolton. Married women's race—Mrs. ing the event with a specially writ. Chester Gliddon. Marded men's race ten presentation, "Unity—A Caval- `"George Glazier. Balloon race, lad- ten of Confederation." I ies vs, men, resulted in a tie. Kick - Designed as a dramatic narrative the-slipper—Oliver Elliott. Jelly bean and written by Harty E. Foster, well- I race—Mrs. Cecil Baxter and Russel known Canadian author, poet and Bolton. Ladies' rolling -pin race—Mrs. teacher, the work'will be adapted for Cecil Baxter. Men's rolling pin race— radio by Ian Smith, Bert Gliddon, Pie plate race—Mrs. C It was in September 1864 that the. Glen McKnight. Finding the mysteri- ous man—Mrs. Cecil Baxter. Officers Fathers of Confederation gathered in the Parliament Buildings at Char- lottetown to put into practical effect their dreams of a great western na- tion, united. and Forward -marching William Humphries; sports convener, with common ideals and high ambi• Bert Gliddon. elected for next year were: Presid- ent, James Elliot; vice president, Rus- sel Bolton; secretary -treasurer, Mrs. tion. In this same room, on the mor- ning of the day set aside to com- memorate their achievement, willbe unveiled a commemorative tablet, honoring such men as Tupper, Tilley, Grey and MacDonald. The tablet bears the striking inscription: "In the hearts and the minds of the dele- gates who assembled in this room on September the First, 1864, was born the Dominion of Canada. Providence being their guide, they builded bet- ter than they knew." Once before, Prince Edward Is- land was in the midst of plans to honor the Fathers of Confederation. In 1914 all was ready for the 50th anniversary celebrations. But the Great War came instead. During the week of July 17, 1939, twenty-five years later, leading fig- ures from all over the Dominion of Canada will gather in the garden pro- vince to pay a long postponed tribute, The commemorative ceremonies come at a fitting time, following the visit of Their Majesties, Ring George and Queen Elizabeth to the country which claims the honor of being the first link forged in the chain of the British Commonwealth of Nations. "Unity—A Cavalcade of Confedera- tion" will be produced from the Tor- onto studios, by J. Frank Willis, for- mer CBC Marf-time regional director. The CBC will broadcast the unveiling of the commemorative tablet from Cbarlottetown on the same day, Mon- day, July 17, 10.0 to 11.30 a.m. EDST. HURON NEWS Butt Reunion— The annual Butt reunion, held. at Harbor Park, Goderich, on Dominion Day, brought together about 150 members of the family, descendants of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Butt, who came out from Devonshire, England, over a century ago and settled in Colborne township. Members of the family have since scattered far and wide, for representatives were pres- ent from Windsor, Sault Ste. Marie, Stratford, Bay City, Mich., Santa Barbara, Calif-, Seafortb, Clinton, Cottam, Hensall, Kippen, Varna, Ha - Tavistock, Parkview, New Hamburg, • Londesboro, Auburn, Clin- ton and Goderich. William Butt, of Seaforth, in his 88th year, was the oldest person present. He is a grand- son of the pioneer couple. Another grandson, William Palmer, of Hamil- ton, 84, also was present. Joseph Butt was married twice and had thirteen children in one family andtwelve in the other. Mark Butt of Cottam, who was present on Saturday, was the second last of the 2.5 cbil.dren. He is ie kis 75th year. A series of races and other contests was planned, but the park was so crowded that it was considered inadvisable to carry out the full program. A clothes -pin race week's visit. Goderich; secretary, Amos Ball, Au - On that day the world - heard burn; entertainment committee, Bert through the facilities of the CBC the 1 and .Ted Westcott, Hamilton. These King's fifth and last address of the were re-elected'. for 1940, and it was tour and received an unexpected and decided to have next- year's reunion unscheduled thrill when they heard again at Harbor Park and about the the voice of the Queen saying good- first Saturday in July. bye to her Canadian people. 1 As the Empress of Britain sailed Bolton Family Reunion— out of Halifax harbor, the last . A largo gathering at Harbor Park glimpse of Their Majesties, caught at Goderich last Wednesday was the by a CBC observer at his post ott the Bolton reunion, attended by over bridge of H.M.C.S. Saguenay, was eighty members. in 1840 Barnet Bon WORLD'S CHAMPION TO RACE IN STRATFORD Ontario harness horsemen will pay homage to the illustrious Dean of their profession, Victor Fleming, at the grand circuit meeting of Ontario, at Stratford on July 22nd, This first of the regular two-day race meeting to beheld here has been designated as Vio, Fleming Day and Vic. will be on hand personally to mingle among his old friends and acquaintances and to give the general race -going public an opportunity to see the man who has brought fame and many honors both to himself and to Canadian rac- ing and breeding interests. For the first time in the history of the trotting turf in Canada a World's Champion Harness Horse will make his appearance in a race against time, Billy Direct 1.55, the fastest harness horse that ever lived, will be driven by Fleming and will also be paraded both harnessed and on the halter :be. before the grandstand crowds. When Vic, drove Billy to an all- time record of 1.55 at Lexington, Ky., on September 28th last, he smashed the record of Dan Patch 1.553,4, by one-quarter of a second, that had stood the onslaughts of numerous great horses for 33 years. Vic. Fleming, well and popularly known wherever harness horse sten congregate, has been a scintillating figure on the Grand Circuit tracks for over 15 years and today is recognized as one of the greatest trainers and drivers of all time. He has driven more miles faster than two minutes than any other man dead or alive and has 10 different horses to records of two minutes or better. He was born in Dundas, Ontario, and still re- tains his home there, although his training beadquarters are located at Syracuse, N.Y. HIBBERT TP. DECLARES AUG. 7 CIVIC HOLIDAY The Hibbert Township Council met in the Township Hall, Staffa, on Tuesday, July 4th, for' the purpose of holding their regular monthly meet- ing. The Clerk was authorized to write the Bell Telephone Co., giving them permission to trim trees on concessions two and three. A resolu- tion was passed declaring Monday, Aug. 7th as Civic Holiday. Mr. Rus- sell Scott was paid for a number of hens, which were killed by a dog. A large percentage of the private loans which were held against the Munici- pality were paid off. The following ac- counts were paid: Mrs. Catharine Connelley, part payment on Liffe Drain contract, $400.00; the Munici- pal World, $1.19; the Stratford Bea- con Herald, advertising, $22.02; direct relief, $11.79; Russell Scott, hens killed by dog, $30.00.—Tilos. D. Wren, Clerk of Hibbert. Tales of the 'California Gold Trail One of the few survivors of that epic in our country's history—the days of '49—when California's gold beckoned the adventurous, reveals the 'drama, romance and tragedy of that picturesque time in a series of articles, the first .of which is appear- lag in The American Weekly, the great weekly' magazine, with the July 16 issue of The Detroit Sunday Times- Boxer- "Have I done 'int any dam- age?„ Disgusted Second—"No; brut 'keep on swingin' your amts about. The. draught might give 'int a cold,"