HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-01-02, Page 7URSDAY, JANUARY 2 1941
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Coughin
Here's Easy Thne-Tested
Way To Get Relief
st after those distressing spells
coughing and ease misery of
e cold the widely used Vicks
ty...Boil some water. Pour it
to a bowl. Add a, good spoonful
Vicks VapoRub. Then breathe
the steaming medicinal vapors.
ith every breath you take
moRub's medication soothes
tation, quiets coughing, helps
;ar head and breathing pas -
ms. FOR ADDED RELIEF.. At
dtime rub Vicks VapoRub on
roat, chest and back, Sts poul-
e-vapor action works to bring
a comfort while you sleep.
CRASH DOCTORS
rain fro7e as it hit the high-
, smart sedan 11100ed eantiousle
ie treacherous lee. et the crest
111. car gathered unexpected
ek touch on the brake locked
eels ,Iltat could find no traction;
swerved and plunged ott with
lig momentum until it skidded
he road, turned ,Wer, and
1d 011 its side through frozen
ad otones. Thanks to fortune
2 Modern all -steel body of the
ocenpantswire able to climb
iken but uninjured, and survey
triage—crumpled fenders, bent
crushed roof—more work for
sh doctors, says James Rich -
t the 1.'. 1. 1.. ()val.
doctors, in auto body or col -
0014e. Etre zeueonnithile surgeons,
eta+, collision and refinishieg;
with modern technique and
int, can set the "ibones", heal
in'', and restore the 'beauty of
my wrecked auto so that it will
:ection in looks or perform -
1101' alone, the hleitwood Auto
1(1 l'aitil Shill, in Tor,loto, I -es -
:arty ;Um cars last e tm,
retie:ed. ;ell the way front
fender: to :eentingly hope.
ele,. The man leer of thi- ,11:322
a se .lan that 2,1,1 -ll like a
212 111,, 112. "That is 212y car", lie
2, emit:pleb-1y gutted by fire
on it.'" -1-111: ear leel ettheet
eerage 22: ni 2111--.21o•eiely
snitililerin; :4.2 :reit:. Tee
terior ileeemo 2 eh :reed mass,
eau poure.2 2.,tor ou 11.1! red -
an 1 le'e' t 1ee110.
eel iires e,repeel
with 11 2 el toids,
•hrou"; '011.1 1.1,11(11 iyick
oirinee. and
2"- 11(1 rid ":::: "heir leveler
t: it, erre 1.1.!1'a t iv up -
ell now -1).wo" 2221ish
22t2r101, .15 is
thr Ihe scienve, (21
mrstry eine
rimee lend .12111 .if the orash
02(201) emit, ewe
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a truck athl .t street eitr.
trunk is smashed in and the whole re
•of the body is wrinkled, crushed a
:pushed forward :meal the back doo
overlap the front doors by inches. T
men Ibrace Et steel rail inside across t
solid front of the 'body, and auoth
rail against the back. Between the el\
rails they set a light 'hydraulic leo
This tool, buildiing .up a force of ton
actually stretches the wrinkled ole
body 1.0 its original length. Sunil
Mole of different sizes, with s:pong
rubber pads 'between them and tl
body sleol, terve other parts of th
'body steel back to shape front th
inside. Where edges of the trunk levy
ime:Wed out weird, the men temporaril
'weld wires so that a turnbuckle ra
draw the edges into line again.
Bent frames and axles are als
straightened thy hydraulic pressure
ford without applying any heat. Ili
use of heat to facilitate straigheenin
destroys the temper of the metal an:
weakens it , as some owners hay
lea:rued get heavy cost and risk to lif
when have been Thole cheaply i
ill-equippe.d shops. The same applie
10 wheels, which are straightened by
special machine. Even striking a cue
sharply can put a ilieel off true -
:perhaps not enough to he detected .11
the eye, but quite enough to eaus
costly wear 011 tires, 111 a reliable shot
all ropaire to running gear nuts
conform exactly to factory specifica
tions, and aro checked with elaborate
+testing equipment. For safety. steer
Mg part, are never repaired 'but are
always replaced,
\Vith the general contours of the
'car restored, fenders and body meta
ar
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lie
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:tell have many bumps and hollows to
'be ironed out. Ae one time this Wa 1
laboriously aecomplislual thy plaeing
a heavy iron :form against one side of
the steel while tapping the other side
with a. hanoner. Now the work 111(5
been. tremendously speeded up by the
use of a :pneumatic vibrator ehtiped
like a huge "C". The two poinite of
the "C" are adjustable to :fit closely,
one on each side of the sheet metal.
and are .greased to slide smoothly. 'l'en
thousand tams 1 minute by this tool
:non restore the smooth curves, tbnt
not smooth enough for the "Deco"
or "Dulux" finish that must remove
the last '2 rare of damage. 1 -land work
with a steel rasp cuts off the more
pronounced surface blemielles; a spe-
cial compound fills up small depres-
sions and seratehe,; and finally power
driven sue:helper produee, a ,atiny
entooth serface ttf gleaming metal.
S-2net1111e, 22 kit,' 1 (1CI1 Or 'g,200e in
11414 -.teed results from contact with a
or sharp owner. T., pound the
2120.11 -1112322111 wo:11:1 necte-sitate re-
moving uphol:tery, and to elm a torch
2:21 the metal in order :2.2 till the dep-
ression with solder would 'horn the up-
1101,.r.ry. a 41111111 1711'01(1('
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THE SEAFORTH NEWS
colour matching, since luost cars d
nolt require complete :refinishing.
For years "Ducts" and "1/23111e2'
finishes have been standard on mos
makes of motor cars. eVitihin the pas
fiv'e years alone no less than seven
thousand :different shades have ap-
.peared on cars made in Canada and
the United Sites. The average eye
might be Ale to elistinguish about two
thousand of these as different varia-
tions of the three primary colors, hot
many of them are so close that even a
color expert is compelled to 22:e an
apparatus to assist 1115 22151011 in deter-
mining them apart.
:Yet a call for any one of :these
1400021 thousand colors may arise at a
moment's notice: from 211131 eross-
o LONDON ,HO'S?ITALS 'CARRY
ON iDESPITE RAIDS
---
t The bonThiing at hospitals in +Great
Britaiu by the German Air Force is
not having +the effect which the Nazis
would hope. It 14 2102 causing terror
or confusion, It is matting the ./.031 -
don eurgeons, 'doctors, nurses and
hospital staffs generally more Than
ever 021 :their mettle.
A vielt ito a London Hospital which
has been bombed, to see the hospital
staff at work, to hear the stories of
quiet Ibraivery amid raids is something
never to be forgotten, This is the
story of just one late:pita'.
On the seventh Boor, where :the
bomb fell, the chapel has +been dest-
royed. The :beautiful windows are
gone, the roof 'has ifallen, the Ether is
42attered, and the orgen ellattered.
'22112 someone has lent us a grand
+Piano," Sister Prior, the assigant :Mat-
ron, told nte. "lit is surprising what
WC managed to 511V0, it is wonderful
what you can do."
thought the same as I Looked
around. It le wonderful what they can
do. I noticed that even 1110 splintered
wood of the chairs had been repaired
with little pieces of sticking plaster.
"We :don't want people running
splinters into their hands and legs,"
explained Sister Prior with a quiet
smile; "There's quite enough trouble
as 11 1(2,"
"Only the first three of seven
floors are used as wards, 422 there is
VientY of seeuritY, with four reinforced
concrete :acmes above. There are spec-
ial wards for air casualties, and those
who have been rendered homeless. \Vie
had a number of old married couples,
but we couldn'j, fix them together so
they had to +be separated until they
moved off to the country where they
:go gaiter a few :clays :rest 221 the hospit-
al."
In the casualty station on the
ground :floor :everything is ready for
emergencies. Nurses and doctors are
always on duty; volunteer stretcher
hearers are ready 22o take the patiente
from the ambulances as they come in.
'in .the operating theatre lives are
saved by the most skilled surgeons
n thy world,
III:ere is 0101 story - grim, yet inspir-
ing, Outside, the night planes :droned
overhead. There was entrap of drop-
ping bombe. 12121 fir:t easnalty to the
brought in was a four months, old
thaby„ He had heen blown front his
mother'e arme as she hurried to a
shelter, She, hereelf, was uninjured.
"I was down there at the ttinte,"
said Sister Prior. "The little mite 01114
badly thurned-----221111 se silent.
l'hitt's 112W2(3'5 ',1 lbad sign."
Quietly the doc+tore 'got to work.
They foneht to fan 22 tiny eperle 02
1112!,The battle event on, The child
o Itimpered. 1Within fifteen minutes he
1V321 creing.,\ cry of pain, hut to that
grout, of w hit ei coated workers till'
CO' 1)1271)11that anether life was saved.
roads village in it22222ada that boaets t2
refinishing shop, bet elbviouely with-
out facilities :for matching colors ex-
pertly, The solution to this problem
is provided by a special service main-
tained to equip every relinisher
provide an exael Inateh to the rotor
of any car on the road that i8 1101 1,0
badly wrecked that its serial plate is
obliterated. And it's all simple as
this.
leach color scheme selected by the
1210100 cEtr manufacturer for the :cliff-
ereet models is assigned an indieidual
number which appears on the ear's
serialpl.ate as a :permanent record for
refinkhing: IC -1-1. color service re-
leases the information to all TefilliSh.
CI' in advance of actual car produc-
tion, and en:3.1100e that distributors 10
all parts of the country receive ample
stocks of the same colors selected by
the car manufacturers, Thus, if a ear
is even slightly scratched in transit
from the factory to dealer, its finish
can he speedily renewed in exactly
the same color thy the nearest retin-
isher, who has already :received his
color record on that :particular model,
and has only to phone his distributor
:for the required shade. Nor does the
age of the car present any prothlem
11111112 all l'4,1:111',1 A1100111
firolom will,Iuys are
rofitto I with ' '.o.v ol,ts• for which
('21tern, are 201 11(1(41 for all make, and
1112,1221,--1n2I the j2412 i- re ely :for the
refinidlitaT shop,
12(4' 121t,t•e:s 1 primer anti sort:Icor
ere app"ited 310 '111112422 ,10011 112
.01121 WI 2011121 '1212)2 for the "01100" Lir
D21111x" finieh. era,11 doctor thee
ou.nes to that one 1111ilin11 or:obit:ill of
111
for color records on all cars made he
Canada for over ten years ihack are
ingtintained, Iiilven 22 "jaloppy" dated
11)30 could be refinished in the orig-
inal colors as long as the color
scheme number remains :legible.
So your car or truck Beet! newer
'become a motley assortment of odd
+fenders, doors and patchwork colors.
The happiest sol.111
.011, of course:, is to
remember that the 'greatest valise of
accidents Is too much speed for pre-
vailing conditiolle. The second is lark
of attention by the driver. Respect
icy reads and :follow the traffic linee,
bet, if accidents do :happen, look :for
the crash doctor who lets ecience
211111011 the finishIic"Il prohnibly be
just ae careful to restore safety as he
is to restore beanty.
To Make Us In.visible In War
en article - 211 The American
Weekly with the January .5 issue of
The Detroit Sunday Times - will tell
how the :best braine of the nation
a112o11.2, architects, artists, phi1o5oph-
or.1, en...fineers and other technicians
are tem' :being trained to turn out new
tricks for hiding .\merica from an
enemy, fly sure to get The Detroit
..-binflay Tittles.
With n modest tap mi the door, the
now melee boy entered the manager's
room.
"Please, sir," he said nervously. "l
think you're wanted on the tole-
phone.P.
"'Von think. bny!" snapped 1120
nomager. 2•Whare the good or think-
ing?"
"Well, sir, someone at the other
('211! said, 'Is that you, you old
idiot'?"
Send 115 the names of your 21,it0rs
"THE PUREST FORM IN WHICH
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ON GUARD
Hach weele airplanes ofthe Brayed Canadian Ail' Force fly thousands of
miles along Canada's sett coast on constant patrol. This Mg Hudson is. show11
as its wings over a merchant ship, poet of an Atlantic convoy.
THE NAVY THAT FLIES eir titan heavy .bourbs, may have been
Story :Behind the Fpiie of 'Parente by used.
a Naval Corrv-Tondept, . 11 this is the case, still greater cre-
()nee reiferreci to es the Navy's dit redounds to the Fleet Air Arm,
yotlngest child, the I'leet Air \r111 tie- 'To fire a torpedo, the machine Must
clay has egroeen into a young stal,Aart come so low as :to risk the almost
that has nothing whatever to learn point iblanilc range of the enemy's arrti-
Amu 1 air figh ting. aircraft guns. Despite the barrage the
For many months of the 21 (1' th: machine must be poised with great
naval ..Air Arm came little into ithe neetnetcy at the low height and angle
111'1VS. The traditions of a -.Silent from which :the :torpedo reaches its
Service" are 11S traditions too, 1eitt1e mark,
or nothing was said of :the 11e:us:tads No natter how the epic of Taranto
of miles of the ...North Sea and Aden- was accomplished. the Fleet Air Arm
tic ceaselessly patrolled, of the clashes inflicted a smashing naval defeat on
with enemy aircraft, the sighting and the :enemy. In addition. it :Provided it
sirdcing of (mettle- IT -boats. In the .1, great new feather in ,the cap of the
lantie, Start:thing: for enemy raiders Navy that iles, and shows, if we did
the "Ark Royal" coeered 75.2,00 miles 1101 airea<IY 1C11011' it, that the Fleet
while her planes reconnoitred live Air Arm hae taken 12110 the air :the
million square' miles of sea.
Then came Norway. Within a few naval tradition of centuries.
days of that gallant, ill-fated expedi-
tion the :deeds :of the Fleet .kir Arin
leapt into world prominence, when it
Played a great part in protecting 0111'
troops and shipe against enemy bomb-
ers, and 'winched its own daring at -
:tacks upon the enemy bases, war-
ships, transports and supple: ships,
are proud of the Fleet Air
Arm" was the signal made bo the
Admiralty to the young tiers at the
conelueion of these operations. It is
rare :for the deeds of the Navy to ihe
so warmly commended.
There was a Royal Naval Air Stir
vice before 121114. In 101+7 the 11. N.
Ni\'21,lositelec
e)fiTlsiw(1212iti1it tr,2:2'1t
,1 .iitillf ofikii.ksi'olli:2:
eervers were prOvided hy the naVy
while the R.A.F. :Implied the main-
ie117111(.70 ,:tor. ...\,, th, need for a
stronger Naval Air ii%orce became ap.
Parent, it was decided to ahan 'on tlie
:1111221.23.1% method In i1111,12, 101.11). the
Ale .\0111 111551-.1 to ,r
lilt. 10101%/1 of till
5
T0,1713" the 111'0 :1ir .1r222 live, in
1101222M', growieir fleet of air.:”0%,
oarrior,, in warships' carri.T_T v.. 1,
four planes each, in s,r, s..i..,-
',.:Iiicit, liko ail i1:1,-11 e..tahlirlituottl.
ashore. carry the liana. ot 1 if. ‘,:. i
There 1, fiLiel.S, Deed
211114. 11.e2.21. lee:40:1, ileel.S. Per-
.rino -to name fiv11 a few
.• notoldue, down .by th.....' ...al
.1"1,,t Air ,1rie
are ,t firsl.,•la---. f1e...1:::. met -an ,'....
for !lc...I:. OVI, r: ,...10....s5e. -rm.,
are 2 n ..n.l.or ot typos in aso, 122114.71.2
!Iwtt, 112e karst S 1 ., Iti,01, '17 - 1112421,
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\.:' ti _vlit yrs, lon,...-rave.... ree.ann ,f —
sail: CO Waehif tt, and 1.0.ped, ....00m 1,
4., tiro have more th 111 proved their
rutioloe,-...
re: „firing of a 1reedo front en
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WOMEN OF BRITAIN
Give Up Silk Stockings to War
Industry
The women of Britain are going
1vithout, new silk stockings this win-
ter to supply the increasing demand
from overseas for British furniihing
fabrics. Despite the temporary loss
of important markets, including
Scandinavia, the makers of theie
fabrics are sending abroad to -day
more than they did before the war.,
Exiles from the Invaded countries
are 1102(2 Malitilg their special cOntri-
butions to a craft dating far hack
into the centuries, which, for genera-
tions, has furnished the royal
houses of Britain mid other coun-
tries. Ieelgium and Holland were ee-
nowned for their folk weavers, Italy
for her quilted tapestries and dett.i-
asks. France for her exclusive 'per-
iod" designs, Craftsmen from thesg
countries are now. with a new var-
iety in design and fresh colour iteat-
ntent, definitely influencing an 110
210822')' which tradition may have left
somewhat conservative.
Although at least twe..nhals of the
workers are wumen, es-sential eructs -
men are rost-rVeti 201121214 neCessary in
mrry out the new designs; and all of
theln keep weaving unh•ss raiders
t, %equally overhead.
This now bun on tho sale of real
still $toekinge, the limitation of other
textiles for the holm: market, and
strict controle 02,1' eetten, wool and
silk yield to the industry a steady
supple. of the material 2100essary for
expert. There has also been estab-
212:feel a seeegial Export Group which
sees to it that nothing is allowed to
hinder orders, from this supply of
the rely material to the delivery of
the goods.
Boarder — "These biscuits are
entailer than usual. aren't they?"
Cook ---"Yes, I made film smaller
so that you would have less to find
fan] with."2
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SEAFORTH
Chr'Cysler, Plymouth and Fargo Dealer
Vishing Alt Our Customers
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and Friends
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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