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THURSDAY; MARCH 4, 1943
VARNA
"My Wife And I"
My wife unci I don't disagree,
Except on things concerning me,
Our tastes run similarly straight,
For twenty years no touch of hate
Has marred our love. Our only spats
Slave risen from my choice of hats,
My wife and I as one will think
Concerning meat and bread and
drink,
My business judgment she respects;
We have well -mated intellects,
Yet publicly she'll criticize
My most outlandish choice of ties,
My wife and I can get along,
In things of literature and song,
She likes the plays I like to see,
We live almost harmoniously,
She is only scornful when she views,
My awful taste in boots and shoes.
"That awful hat again," she cries,
"I wish you'd let me choose your
ties
You've got those ugly shoes again,
Why can't you dress like other
men?"
I'm sure we'd lead a happy life,
If I could dress to please my wife.
— Varna Scrap Book.
Hal Stade Transferred
To Windsor —
Ld, Sto, Harold Stade, RCNVR, who
has been transferred from Halifax,
N,S., to Windsor, Ont., is taking up
an E. R. Artificer course in that
city, and spent a very enjoyable week
end at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs, R. F. Stade. Zurich Herald
New Use For Stoneboat —
The recent storm resulted in a
unique means of transportation in
Minto Township. A young swain, who
lives 3% miles west of Harriston,
used a stoneboat to bring his lady
friend into town so that she could
catch the Mount Forest train, The
stoneboat skimmed over the huge
drifts in fine style. — Arthur Enter-
prise News.
Was Native of Seaforth
Mrs. William Neeb, of Hay Town-
ship, died at her late residence, lot
18, concession eight, last Thursday,
in her 26th year. She had been 111 for
three weeks with pneumonia. She
was born in Seaforth and had resid-
ed in the Zurich community for four
years. She had also resided ou the
1410 concession of Hay Township, and
was a member of Zurich Evangelical
Church. She is survived by her husb-
and, two small children, Lyla and
Earl; her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Rob-'
ert Adams, 14th concession, Hay
Township; also three sisters, Mrs.
William Forrester, 14th concession of
Hay Township; Mrs. Henry Phillips,
of Hamilton; Mrs. Garnet McClinchey 1
of Egmondville; two brothers, James
Adams, of Hamilton, and John
Adams, in the Canadian Army over-
seas, The funeral was held from the
home of her father-in-law, Henry
Neeb, on Monday, followed by a pub-
lic service in Zurich Evangelical
Church. Interment in Bronson Line
'Cemetery. Rev. Mr. Heckendorn, of
'Zurich, officiated.
:Froze On The Spot —
On Main street, a small dog quite
Innocently got into difficulty when It
deckled to "lick" an iron post. As its
tongue came into contact with the
frosty iron it immediately froze to
the the spot and had to have human
assistance before it was freed. The
severe cold was also too much for
some of our feathered friends as life-
less
ifeless little bodies were to be seen
where they had perched the previous
night. — Mount Forest Confederate,
Arrived In England —
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Park of
Mitchell, have received word of the
safe arrival in England of their son,
Flight -Lieut, Norman Park, who is
attached to the RCAF as a doctor.
Deer Took Rest On Verandah —
Last week a deer pursued by dogs
parked itself on the verandah at the
home of F. R, Oliver, M.L.A. where
it remained until rested and the dogs
put off the scent. The animal was
almost exhausted when it climbed up
on tike ,verandah, but after a couple of
flours' neat; tools to the fields again
at a pace faster than any dog cotild
follow, -- Barham Chronicle,
Joins .Provincial Rolioe -
• County Constable \Vat, L, Gardiner
has joined the Provincial police fort
and leaves for Kitchener March 1st
to take over his duties . there. Mrs
Gardiner' and Hilly will remain in
town for the present at least. Since
his appointment as a Huron collar)'
constable Mr. Gardiner has been ]o-
cated in w'inghanc. It was about five
Years ago that he came here and
during his stay here has tirade many
friends wbo wish hint the best of ,
luck. He was faithful in his duties'
and the people of this community
will be sorry to see hint go. We und-
erstand that he has been granted six
months' leave of absence by the
County. — Goderich Signal -Star.
Married Forty Years
Fliers Injured When
Planed Collide—
TM:, twin englstea Anson bombers
from Centralia Airport collided in
itrid-a13001
il' over file farm of 7
Rohde, Thames Road, east of Exe-
ter, recently,the Instructor and pilot
of onmachine suffering injuries
while the pilot of the second nta'olitu l
•
c raped unhurt, 'i`lte 'uninjured .Pilot
said he was fixinglow to Practice
forced landing, and with the ,height
' rays of the sun shiniug in his eyes
lie had been unable to see the other
pint. The planes were not llyin
high, probably 2;i0 feet from the
earth, One of the bouebers eame down
Brantford, later going to 'Toronto and
then 'to .Claremont; Cal„ where 1Ylr,
Verity eondueted a fruit grove and
lill'g0 frust lacking establishment,
Survirleg are "thre edaughters and
three sons, . Mrs. \V.. W.' Davidson,
and Mrs, L, 8'i. Collins, Toronto; W.
13, Verity, A, H. Verity and Mrs, A.
Collier, Los Angeles, CAL, end R. C.
l SII try, COl'ona; Ctlh 1lIte1'rrtetlt 1yas
knack in Pomona Mausoleum, Cali-
fornix, — Mieaten Advocate,
"Visiting Canada's
g Army Overseas
In England
in a nose dive and pinned the 1051000-
e tor and pilot beneath the Wreckage, By Walter R. Legge,
The nienlilue was 0 contpletewreck. WIti1e in England the Canadian
The student pilot had his leg broken editors were shown in great detail all
the various activities of the Cmiadian
Army in England,
There was no effort to show all of
the Canadian army overseas, but at
least one milt of each slinks was
visited and studied, and the ramifica-
tions of the various activities are
Daily amazing,
The first unit visited was' an Ord-
nance Corps work shop, manned by
highly skilled- men snaking all kinds
of repairs. There was an armourers
shop, making repairs and adjustments
to all kinds of guns; an optical shop
staking repairs to field glasses, mic-
roscopes, and similar instruments, a
wireless shop repairing and making
wireless receiving sets and transmit-
ters, and a tine instrument shop :
which could even stake parts and re-'
pairs to a watch.
The main shop at this unit is. in
charge of Capt, M. H. Hastings, who
conies from Stanstead. Que„ and who
reported that he receives the Stan-
stead Journal regularly and enjoys
every word of it. He has been over
setts since September 1940, Another
elan at this unit Is F. Beaseley, of
Guelph, Ont„ who was a runnel' up
for the King's Prize for shooting at
Risley a few years ago.
The work of maintenance of equip-
ment is a very important part of the
army as we realized more and more
as the tour progressed. While we saw
many places where maintenance and
repair work is curried on, this first
unit was the only one doing the high-
ly specialized work on instruments,
which we visited,
The same afternoon a study was
made of Field , Battery Operations.
This was an illuminating demonstra-
tion of the close liaison between army
and air force. It was shown how the
decision is made as to whether air or
ground gun gun action is to be em-
ployed and how each one is called
into action.
As part of this demonstration, two
batteries were set up in hiding under
camouflage and a patrol of Mustangs
were called out from a nearby air
field. It was their job to locate the
batteries and photograph them.
These tremendously fast and power-
ful planes gave the editors a real
thrill as they circled and dived over
the field, swooping down at times so
close that it seemed as if they were
going to take off our hats. It did not
On Feb. 24, AIt'. and Mrs, Thomas
M, Johnston, Goderich, quietly observ-
ed their fortieth wedding anniver'sar'y
at their home on the Huron road. It
was Rev, 11, Miller, now deceased,
who united in marriage - Sarah C,
Johnston. daughter of the late Mr.
anct Airs. J. Johnston of Varna, and
Thomas M. Johnston,' The late Mrs.
Fred Elliott, sister of the groom, was
the bridesmaid, and J, W. Johnston,,
brothel' 0f the bride, was best man,
The ceremony took place at the home
of the br'ide's parents.
Joins Ferry Command —
Miss Marion Orr, who has been em-
ployed in the control tower at Sky
Harbor for some months, is leaving at
the week -end, having joined the ferry
command of the R.A.F. Miss Orr is a
flying instructress with over four
hundred flying hours to her credit and
it has been her ambition to get back
behind the controls. She will report
to Montreal, where she recently pass-
ed her tests, There are quite a num-
ber of women pilots in England
ferrying planes in non-combatant
areas. In any event, Miss Orr, whose
heart has long been in aviation, is
about to see more of this war than is
in sight from a control towel.— God-
erich Signal=Star,
Extinguish Fire —
Fire started in the residence of
Airs, Joshua Heywood of Exeter re-
cently and but for the heroic effort
of two ladies hte home might have
been destroyed- Mrs. Heywood had
taken a cardboard box from her bed-
room and had emptied the contents
into the stove. She had replaced the
box in iter bedroom and shortly after-
wards Mrs. Forth. wife of Cpl. Forth,
smelled smoke and found that fire
had broken out in the bedroom. Mrs.
Heywood, who was sharin ghee home
with the airforce couple, had moved
practcialty all of her clothing into
her bedroom and a fur and other gar-
ments were destroyed. The ladies
brought the fire under control.
Suing County for $25,000 —
The supreme court action of Mrs.
Irene W. White, of Goderich, who is
suing the County of Huron for $25,000
damages in connection with the death
of her husband, Kearwood White,
former turnkey of Huron County Jail,
will be heard at the non -jury sittings
of the supreme court on May 3rd by
Mr. Justice Keillor MacKay. at Gode-
rich, Mr. White died on Christmas
Day, 1941, from the effects of a blow
inflicted on his head by a prisoner
during an attempted jail break. Mrs.
White is suing on behalf of herself
and seven children, all minors, Plain-
tiff claims the County of Huron, along
with other things, failed to provide
safeguard and reasonable protection
in the shape of cell equipment ouch
as has since been installed, whereby
the doors of the individual cells
could be locked and unlocked with-
out the necessity of the turnkey's
locking 'or unlocking the doors going
into the cell block in the presence of
the prisoners ht the: corridor and
common room, and it was as a result
of the lack of such safety equipment,
it is claimed, that the death of the
turnkey was caused, It is pointed out
that during the twelve months pre-
ceding the 14th -of December, 1941
(the clay of the assault on Mr.
White), there had been at least two
serious assaults by prisoners on an
official, and notwithstanding this the
defendant corporation took no action
to correct conditions until after Mr.
White's death, Frank Donnelly is
cotmsel tot' plaintiff and R, C. Hays,
K.C., for defendant.
Want and h'or Sale Ads., 1 week 25c
and was releasedwithdifficulty.' Part
of the machine had to be dropped
away. The wren helping worked ft'ati-
Beatty' as the danger of fire from the
leaking gasoline was ever present.
The second machine leas brought
clown about tht ee rods away. The
undercarriage was ripped from the
plane, but the pilot was unhurt and
assisted in the rescue of the other
two. An ambulance was the airport
was soon on the scene. The sten con-
veyed to the road on a sleigh. '
Takes Course at Sea —
AL', and Mrs, W. G. Medd have re-
celved Word from their son, Capt,
Bruce Medd, who is with a field
artillery battery in England, stating
that he has had a most interesting
experience while taking a three
weeks' course in gunnery at sea. He
spent some time on a battleship, also
a cruiser and a Canadian destroyer,
He was selected with another Canad-
iatn to take the course and they were
the only two In khaki among the
blues and Were treated quite royally.
— Exeter Times -Advocate.
Elected President —
Miss Helen Anthony, on the staff
of the Ryerson Senior Public School,
in Hamilton, and daughter of Rev.
James and Mrs. Anthony, of Exeter,
was elected president of the Hamil-
ton Teacher's Council for the ensuing
yeas.
Mrs, R. H. Verrity —
Word has reached town of the
death on Sunday, February 14th, of
Helen Felicia Burritt, wife of the
late Robert H, Verity, at Claremont,
California, daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs, Alvin Burrett. Mitchell, and
sister of the late Dr. C. H. Burritt,
who event south a few year's ago to
reside With his 'sisters. the b'ttly,re-
maining member of the family now
being Miss Katherine Burritt, Clare-
mont. The late Mrs. Verity spent her
early life in Mitchell, their hone be-
ing the one now occupied by W. W.
Burgess. It was her father who
founded the Burritt Knitting factory.
She was very active in church work,
was an alto soloist in the old Tra-
falgar St. choir and for a time served
as organist. Following her marriage
to Alr, Verity, they lived for a time in
take theta long to spot the hidden
batteries and with a pay 11011[rish they
Were off. We were hurried over to
the aerodrome and. On our arrival
were shown the finished pictures 01
the batteries taken from the planes,
Leaving the dome, we drove 'for
many miles, stomping for 001' evenieg
steal at East Grinstead where we ate
it the room which the local Reta
Y
Club uses for their meetings, Passing
through utalty lovely.old villages, we
linttilyarrived at the hotel which was
to be our headquarters los, the next
ten days.
Accommodation Difficulties
It is most diffloult at this time t0
find, accommodation for a party Such,
as ours, which with drivers, photo-
grapher and officers numbered about
sixteen, Many hotels are closed, many
taken over by the government and
those which have rooms are short of
food, or if they have food, are short
of looms,
However, a quiet hotel in a seaside
resort was able to loose after the
party and so arrangements had been
ntaile there in advance. Such resorts
today are almost deserted. Pleasure
travel is most definitely discouraged,
and moat seaside places are uncles'
severe restrictions as to visitors,
Each day we started out early and
travelled many utiles in our private
bus to various units, and most nights
arrived at the hotel very 4ate, usual-
ly travelling for many miles itt the
blackout. The way our advance rider
and our bus driver could drive at
good speed through the darkness was
always a thrilling experience to a
party who had always been used to
driving with powerful headlights. To
add to our wonderment, there never
was a single direction sign or name
post, and how they found their way
withoutt pause at intersections was a
mystery,
Dieppe Units Visited
When we areived in Englan, the
thrilling story of Deippe had just
broken and everybody was discussing
the exploit.
Therefore the next itne on our
programme, a visit with units that
had just returned from Dieppe was of
special interest. We were greeted by
General J. H. Roberts who led the
Dieppe expedition and who spoke in
high praise of the men and officers.
The men then broke ranks and we
had a most informal talk with then,
sitting on the ground with small
groups of sten, who grouped them-
selves according to their home dis-
tricts, -They spoke regretfully of
many missing comrades and were
concerned as to whether they would
find the replacements jst as con-
genial. Their stories of Dieppe were
gripping. One lad told of being in
charge'of two Garnet's, which they
finally landed after two attempts, Af-
ter establishing a machine gun post,
they carne off again and landed am-
munition. Another told of seeing
bombs dropping all around his boat,
also many falling planes which he
was unable to identify. He told of
seeing a Spitfire and a Messerschmidt1
collide nose to nose and both fall
nto the sea.
LEFTOVERS
TRANSF,4,RMED
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Last night's
leftover roast.
makes tonight's
"Magic Meat Rolls
2 tbs. soft butter
1 cup chopped leftover' meat
2 lbs, chopped onions
2 cups flour
4 tsp.Magic Baking Powder
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tep.salt
4 lbs, shortening
14 cup milk, or half milk and water
Mix meat, onion, butter. Sift to,
nether dry ingredients, mix In
shortening; add liquid to make sof t
dough. Tarn on, floured board;
knead lightly. Roll 14 inch thick,
spread with meat mixture. Roll like
jolly roll, cut in slices. Bake on
baking sheet In slot oven (415°lr,)
for about 14 minutes. Serve with
tomato Bailee. - 111'
MADE
IN
CANADA
One told of seeing Frenchmen wav-
ing them in with evidence of joy at
seeing then[.
A story they were chuckling over
was of some men who finding the
firing Intense, took refuge behind
some cases which they soon found
out were filled with dynamite,
Many of these boys had brought
back souvenirs of the raid, such as
German badges, pencils, tobacco, etc.
Winter Sports Turned
To War. Uses At
Camp Ipperwash
1 New zest has been added to the
infantry training at Camp Ipperwash
now that there is plenty of snow for
skiing, and the men are learning that
this exciting winter sport can also
be used to advantage in the grmi
' game of 'war.
Among the first to have organized
instruction in this mode of travel
are the sten of No. 3 Company in
charg eof Nlajor L. G, 13, Lavoie, This
group of 40 soldiers who have com-
pleted their advanced training are
being taught the rudiments of ski -
nig by Lieut. D. M. C. Shaw and Sgt,
C. Gowan an dthey are taking to it
like ducks to water.
The first organized run at Camp
Ipperwash was to Port Franks and
back, .a distance of about 12 minutes.
Although only a couple of the men
had been on the long runners before
they managed the trip with few spills
but plenty of thrills.
Canadian soldiers doe used to car-
rying on their regular routine work
during sub -zero temperatures and the
men now being trained should make
excellent ski troops if the time comes
when they will be battling in north-
ern
orthet'n climates.
The district surrounding Camp Ip-
perwash is especially adapted to the
training of ski troops. The land is
rolling and there is the odd large hill
that allows expert manoeuvres. Bush
trails teach the men to be on guard
and ready to execute turns quickly
,and accurately,
The outfits worn by the men are
the regulation white hood and cape
that have been found so effective in
winter fighting, They camouflage the
wearer so that he blends into the
landscape.
The melt are taught, not only how
to ski but also how to take care of
their equipment, The importance of
having tlrent in good shape at all
tithes and ready to use at a moment's
notice is stressed.
Enthusiasm for the sport is spread-
ing throughout the camp, stimulated
greatly by the fact that skis are
available for the asking, There are
many pairs of the best quality here
and the ;nen a;'e at liberty to 'test
their skill any time they wish,
FIRE IN iv];ILAN'S INDUSTRIAL AREA DURING R. A. F, DAYLIGHT ATTACK
In synchronisation with the 8th Army's attack on the Axis in Egypt, the It. A, 0, carried out a great offensive
on the heart of Italy's war liidustt'les and communications lying in the Milan, Genoa, Turin triangle. Two devastat-
ing tiny and night blows at Milan followed. Within 4,htours of one another, fires started in the daylight raid lighting
tip the target for the night attackers. The Ztalians admitted that great damage was caused. Picture shows; -- A
well established fire burning in Milan industrial area at the beginning of the daylight attack. View from an R. A, F.
attacking bomber at about 4,000 ft.
MRS, HOUDINPS FUTILE TRYSTS
WITH HUSBAND'S GHOST
Read hiow,,,as told in the Ameri-
can. Weekly With this Sunday's
(March 7) issue of The Detroit Sue-
day Times, , , the fainous magician's
widow tried for 10 years to contact
Houdieti's spirit, but finally was con'
vihced before het' recent death that
'his greatest feat of ail" was impoe-
sible, Get Sunday's Detroit Times;