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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-12-31, Page 7tc K OUT, ALASKA You're apt to get your signals crossed up there, now that those comely young ladies, recruited for civil service jobs with the Signal Corps, are heading northward. Ilam -m -m, and there Foe 25 men to 'every woman in the frozen north, Restrict Air Mail Service To Britain Public Asked To Use Air graph Service For .Messages Pdstal • patrons arra, especially requested to note that effective immediately' trans-Atlantic a 1 r mail is now confined to aircr'aph and armed forces air letters, The increasing demand on trans. Atlantic' aircraft capacity for vital war supplies Itas treated an 'al- most complete absence of space on aircraft. Conditions have be-. come so acute in repent weeks that practically all correspondence prepaid at air 'mail rates has had, to be dispatched from Canada td Great Britain by ship•. The same situation has obtain- ed -as regards the dispatch of air mails from the United States and also in the reverse direction from Great Britain to both Canada and the United States. Weight Limited In these circumstances, the Can- adian public is asked to use the air,graph service for messages to civilians and members of the arm- ed forces in Great Britain and other places to which this service Is available. A limited amount of space has been reserved on aircraft for arm- ed forces air letters which will be a'ooepted• and dispatched .by air subject to space availabld. The public, is therefore asked to send their messages by airgraph or surface transport, but, if de- spite this advice the public insist ou sending their mail by air in its original form then the Postal De- partment will give it the most ex- peditions treatment which the eir- euanstances permit, No guarantee of air transport can be given. It is to be remembered that no such items must exceed two oun- ces in weight. If any item exceed- ing two xceed-ingtwo ounces is prepaid at air mall rate It will be forwarded to destination by surface means. Turning Wheat Into Livestock Prairie. Farm Set -Up Ex- plained by Lethbridge Herald Those who do not understand the Prairie farm set-up will say, why do not farmers turn ,their wheat into livestockforwhich there is a good market, and then they, could pay their debts. Let us look at the suggestion. We raised over 600,000,000 bush- els of wheat in the West, this. year. We have a market for 280,- 000,000—that is all the Govern- ment has obligated itself to take. That leaves 320,000,000 hnshels surplus in' the ' farmer's hands. Suppose we divided this .equally slid fed 160,000,000 bushels of it to hogs and the' other 160,000,000 bushels to. cattle. It takes 16 bushels of wheat t0 Produce a 220 -pound' hog worth 325. That 000000 -we would be able to fatten 10,000,000 more ]togs. The whole of Canada will not produce 8,000,000 ' it the next year. We couldn't possibly find 'the breeding Mock to produce another 10,000,: 000 hogs, and we couldn't process them if we did produce them, It takes a ton of wheat, about 36 -bushels, to fatten at two-year ofd steer: So 100,000,000 bushels would ,fatten almost 1,000,000 beef cattle. 'Mere were only 5,800,000 cattle of: all kinds,including near- ly 4,000,000 milk cows, on all the farms of Canada in 1941. Whore world the Western farmers 'get 5,000,000 beef cattle to fatten' on their surplus wheat? So it is not as easy as It sounds to convert wheat into pork and beet. ' it would be. fixe it we could do 11 during the war, but what woultt we do with all that protinetioa after Ilia war? Rural Sociability Still Flourishes A writer laments the decline of the old -thee community spirit in the rural districts, and claims that with the passing of the' barn rais- ing, the husking bee, and the saw- ing bee among men, and the paring bee and the picking bee, and the like among the women, there is not the spirit of sociability that should prevail, says The Chatham News, He seems to overlook the fact that time has only worked its change here as elsewhere, and that now we have the church tea, the garden tea, the family reuuion,'w,ar work, women's institutes and clubs without number and sporting leagues of all sorts. We fall to see where the rural, or any other sections of the coun- try are sueering from a lack of get-together functions. Most people• find it difficult to keep in touch with even a small portion of what is going on about them In the way of recreation and amusement. Douglas Fir Used For Aircraft Skin Several Veneers Bonded With Resin Glue Make Flat Panel of Plywood Paper -like sheets of Douglas fir wood, one forty-eighth of an itch thin, are now being shipped' East to he fabricated into '"skin" for itl'ywood gliders and planes, These shipments, as yet, are neither' large nor many, but they are seen es highly significant; The standard, plywood fox which Oregon ' and Washington have become the world centre and which is being used so extensively in the ,war effort of the "United Nations is the familiar flat panel inade'np of several veneers bonded with resin glue and of :steel -like strong.% Many a person has tried futilely to visualize this sturdy material as a substitute for' alum- inum in the covering of planes. The plywood 'used for "skin" involves an entirely different pro- cess. This plywood region, while it has had an extensive part in supplying manufacturers of, both metal and wood planes with such parts as bomb doors, wing tips, structural members, floors, and gusset plates, has not,. until re- cently, had part also .in supply- ing 'plane and glider coverings. That is why this paper -thin fir ply is seen as so important. The regulation plywood is pro, duced by peeling the great fir logs with a rotary lathe much into unwinding a huge roll of paper. By the new process the veneers are sliced vertically with the grain of the wood. In the regu- lar plywood of the region the liquid glue is smeared on the plies; in the new process the glue is used in sheets like paper. The regulation plywood may be curved or molded after it is fabricated; in the new process it is glued and molded in one process. A Specialty Job This plywood that ' takes the Place of aluminum for covering the fuselage and wings of planes isaspeeialt jobwhich is done y ` in the plywood plants of the East, using mostly hardwoods. Mahog- any, birch, spruce and walnut are the favorite woods, sliced into thin veneers for this purpose. It was not until after Presi- dent Roosevelt set the goal of ■ THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguscl TQTEM dSM, THE BELIEF IN RELATIONSHIP WITH CERTAIN ANIMALS,, _ IS NOT JUST A NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN IDEA/ IT HAS BEEN FOUND IN ONE FORM OR. ANOTHER IN AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, ASIA, AND MELANESIA. LAVAL iS STILL_ LAVAL WHETHER YOU READ HIS NAME aAcA1WA,4'.os` OR- F'0, kY.G.eos. COPR. 1942 BY NEA 99419E, INC. 5-28 ANSWER: The explosion shot. The club head hits into the sand back of.the'bali,and the ball is set in motion by the impact of the sand. yf WHAT SHOT iN GOLF �/.�y I5 PLANED WITHOUT THE r CLUB HEAD TOUCHING THE BALI- COM ALL NEXT; A new use far golf balls. t IIADiO REPOIII FROST Exit 1942, Rentor 1543, The turn of the year is usually a period of review and resolution. As we oo;ne to the erase of an- other year, it might be interest- ing to loose book briefly into the calendar of •radio broadeasting during the -past twelve months. Fon the standpoint of the aver- age radio; listener; in Canada, few changes have been visible. With scarcely any major •exoeptions most of the popular national and internatidIiai broadcast ,features I have beep maintained. In spite of the` rigors of war the customary routine of news, entertainment, 'education and instruction has continued over -the ether . waves on a scale comparable with simi- lar servibes during days of peace. Radio has continued to provide a rapid means of dissemination of war news, and it has been exten- sively used as a medium of pub- lic information on questions re- lated tel our war effort ... per- haps even more so than was the case in 1941. About the only out- ward and visible indication of change has been the shortening the United States production of planes 'per year at 126,000 that the industry began looking about for new materials. Metals, it was seen, could not supply such an enormous order, not even with the inoieased production of alum- Not. even the favored woods would fill the bill. The supply of mahogany from South America is limited by restrictions on cargo vessels, and the supplies of spruce and other woods are limited for large-scale production. Other 'woods have had tp be considered, among them Douglas fir which has the advantage of being both an abundant and permanent supply. One method is to save mahogany for surface veneers and use other woods for inter . sheets. The Douglas fir industry of this northwest region is far too busy just now to stop and tinker with this new process. With labor shortages, labor freezing and stretching of the work week, it is difficult enough to fill the mass production orders for military. • construction purposes. Bub the industry is intensely interested in the newcomer as a challenge to meet, Already four stills in Ore- gon and Washington and two in British Columbia are equipped with slicers and are shipping these new, vertical, paper -thin veneers tp eastern plants. Started in World War l The region was deeply inter- ested in plywood' aircraft during World War I because of the pro- duction of spruce for this purpose en the Olympic Peninsula. A rail,• road was built into the forest wilds and there was considerable activity, but not much came of it. As a result there has never been much faith in "wooden airplanes" in the district until the successes of recent years. In Western Flying for July, Stratford Enright explains that the fault with these early air- planes was in the glues that were used. The development of syn- thetic resin glues in the two de- cades since accounts largely for the improvement in plywood fa- brication which, under heat and pressure, become impregnated with the wood and forms what is fairly a new, steel -like material, water and weather resistant, "The boom of plywood aircraft construction is now on," Mr. En- right writes. "This boom is seen in- both the all -wood plane and in use of wood in metal planes wherever it can save aluminum." The article speaks of "the phe- nomenal speed with which the all - metal aircraft industry has sud- denly started producing all -wood aircraft," Cargo ships, twin - engined bomber trainers, and gliders are all being constructed of plywood, using both the flat, regulation ply- wood, and the new process molded "skin" type. of the hours of broadcasting by certainstations across the Derain ion. Even this has been aoeont- pliished without any undno incon. public. venieneo to the listening pu ic. Certain stations have opened up a little later in the morning, and signed .off somewhat earlier at night, That's about all. Behind the scenes of radio. however, :1942 has seen many changes and Horny causes of anxi- ety. There has been, of course, a period of transition of werising staffs Clue mainly to enlistment in the armed forces. This has been particularly true of engin- eering staffs. The armed ser- vices have sought technicians -for special duty, particularly with the Royal Air Force and its branches. The radio broadcasting industry, frequently to its embarrassment, has 'responded Loyally to the call,, Often young, inexperienced en- gineers have stepped into the breech and carried on. In sev- eral cases young women, with brief training have successfully taken over the control panels from the men. There are now several young women in sole charge of ,the engineering and transmission equipment of the smaller radio broadcasting units in Canada, The transition has taken place smoothly, and, in most cases with surprising effici- ency. } * 8, But the big headache, the great anxiety of radio in 1942 has been replacement equipment. The huge transmitting tubes used on madastinquipmt, costinostg., broincidentallyeg froem 3800 ento 31,000 each, are becoming very few and far between. In their construction, alloys and metals of a strategic war nature are re- quired ... alloys and metals which are urgently needed for the manu- facture of direct fighting equip- ment. It has been necessary therefore to adopt measures for the conservation of radio trails- muting tubes. Many firms who formerly manufactured parts and equipment for broadcast transmit - tors have discontinued their foriner activities. One, 'for lne stance is now solely engaged le malting fine electrii'ai parte for depth bombs, the terror of the enemy submarine, Another is Making electrical panel instru. moots of a precision nature for army bomber's and fighters. .At the present time it is impossible to get repairs made to micro- phones without taping sonic tech- nician away front a direct war job. s * So behind the scenes of radio broadcasting, the business of car- rying on liar become iner'easingly difficult. My guess is that it will become progressively more diffi cult' in 1940. The larger pet. works of the United States, as well as individual stations in Can- ada have found it necessary to establish a "pool" for replacement equipment, and it is becoming quite the vogue for stations to "swap" parts and technical appar- atus. 1942 has seen extensive plans put into effect for the safeguard- ing of radio transmitters. Radio is too important in the national life of our Country to permit sabotage or carelessness to inter- rupt the flow of news, of relaxa- tion and inspiration. Inconspicu- • ously, but nevertheless effectively, every radio transmitter is guarded to the teeth. Radio's resolution for 1948 is "To carry on." LISTEN TO "COUNTRY NEWS" Items of interest From Ontario Weekly Newspapers EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. CFRB-860 on your dial L m HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle LABOR MINISTER i 1,6 British minister of labor, 10 To eject, 11, Norse god. 12 Mongrels. 14 Periods. 16 Organic basis of bone tissues. 18 Golden plover,; 19 Born. •20 Of the thing. 21 Circle part. 39 Heavenly 22 Senior (abbr.). bodies. 23 He has been a power in the labor ---- 4241ItalianTribunal. ver. VERTICAL. ri since 1926 43 Parts of weeks. 2 Anything (pl.). 44'Snakes. remarkable. of 27 South Carolina 46 Measure. Its kind. 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