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rich Elevator Co. A number of plea-
sure Yachts Were in harbor at the
week -end. The Str, Georgian had a
passenger list of about 150 on her
upbound call on Sunday morning.—
Goderich Signal -Star.
Drilling An Extra Well a
The ddrilling machinery arrived in
Clinton Wednesday to drill an extra
well for the P.U.C. This well will be
drilled on the east side of the pres-
ent wells on the lots purchased from
Mr. Peter Douglas, being part of the
Schoenhals property. The extra wa-
ter is needed to fill a contract made
with the new radio school south of
Clinton, which expects to use two hun-
dred thousand gallons per day. The
new contract will necessitate twice
the supply of water being pumped for
town use. The E. F. Roberts & Co.
of Brantford have the • contract.—
Clinton News -Record.
Placing Pheasants
Over eight hundred pheasant eggs
were "successfully , hatched by the
Huron County Fish and Game Assoc-
iation this spring and the birds, now
two months old, Will shortly be plac-
ed on specially selected locations in
all parts of the county. The dry wea-
ther has helped, materially in thel!ir
rearing,=''Clinton News -Record. f,
Fire Destroys Farm House
During the severe electridal -storm
on Sunday' evening the house On the
farm owned by James Heffren, a mile
west of Blyth, on tb,e Auburn -Blyth
road, was struck by lightning. and de-
stroyed in a yery short time. The
house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
.Shoebottom and family, who lost
practically all the contents.—Wing-
ham Advance -Times.
Brussels Youth Drowned Sunday
Body of 20 -year-old Gladstone Mc-
Kay, of Brussels, was found Sunday
.at the bottom of a Listowel swimming
Pool by another swimmer who was
diving into the pool. McKay, a poor
swimmer, had gone to the pool a
short time. before with three other
youth. He was not missed, however,
until 12 -year-old Glen Cockwell acci-
dentally found the body in a dive in-
to the deep end. A lifeguard recov-
ered McKay's body, but artificial res-
piration proved futile. McKay was
the son 'of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mc-
Kay of Brussels where he lived ex-
'cept for several years spent in Strat-
fprd attending Avon public school.
Surviving are three brothers, Archie,
of Sudbury; Duncan, of Moacrieff; Al-
len, of Toronto, and a sister, Mrs.
Howard McNaught, of Monkton. -•
Wingham Advance -Times,
May Have Saved Serious Blaze
Alertness on the part of Mrs. Sadie
Cuming, night operator at the Blyth
Municipal Telephone` System, may
have saved a serious firefrom start-
ing in the basement of,, Sibthorlpe's
Barber Shop on Tuesday night. ,Just
:after 3 a.m., Mrs. Cuming was awak-
ened by the smell of smoke, and af-
ter .,investigating she discovered
smoke coming I from the front cellar
windows .of Sibthorpe's. - immediately
Mrs. Cimaing phoned Mr. Sibthorpe
-and .Chief of Police- J. A. Cowan.
When`the men arrived they discover-
ed an overheated motor in the 'cellar
and it was not necessary to call the
fire brigade, as the motor had not
contacted anything inflamable —Blyth
Standard. `� ,
Joins the Arm J
Mr. Harry Browne left on Wednes-
day for Toronto, where he has signed
up with the Ordnance Corps, as a
shoeifiaker. Harry has been in the
shoe repair business in Blyth for the
past five years, coming to Blyth from
Wingham, where he learned the busi-
ness with his father. It is with regret
that we report his departure from our
midst. Mrs. Brown and Eleanor will,
continue to reside here and will short-
ly take up residence • in the Fingland
house on Queen St., recently vacated
by Mr. mitt Mrs.' Wm. Hamm. -Blyth
Standard.
Safe in England
Mrs. Baggs received a cablegram
recently from her husband, Pte. Har-
ry Biggs of his safe arrival in Eng-
land. Harry is in the same regiment
over there as Pte. W. Cameron, son
of Mr. ancl Mrs. Alex Cameron, town.
—Mitchell Advocate.
..Injures Hand Severely
Lorne Harmer, of Fullerton,
Painfully injured on Monday after-
noon when his hand was drawn into
Abe large circular saw. His hand was
'badly lacerated and it was necessary
to amputate the thumb and little,
finger at Stratford Hospital.—Mitchell
Advocate.
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Fighter P4ots
(fiioahtuuetV from $age. 3) .
ei` i Ontario.
Everything at Camp Borden is 14r -
ger or faster. The three main run-
ways are paved strips 3,300 feet long
and 600 feet wide. Commercial air-
ports near 'the largest cities are tin
by comparison. Even'that isn't suffi-
cient. There are two auxiliary landing
fields at Edenvale and Alliston, each
as large as a 'commercial field, but
used only in eases of 'emergency.
Other. things are speeded. up as
Well. Planes sometimes seem to rise -
in swarms; a control tower is neces-
sary to sort out the traffic. It is said
that landings in a year may number
250,000. Gasoline consumption is en-
ormous.
Lectures Still Continue
On my second trip to Camp Bor-
den, I arrived at the gate just as a
black thunderstorm swept' over the
plains. Six .or seven pilots were up
when the storm arrived and they had
to ' stay up till conditions became
more suitable. It was an hour before
the last one was down and the crew
in the control tower breathed a sigh
of relief. No damage had been done
and the young pilots had gained valu-
able experience.
It was no day to stay outside, so I
talked with Squadron Leader Carter,
the Commanding Officer, who has
since been transferred to a new school
at Claresholm, Alberta. Flying Offi-
cer Douglas showed me the lecture
rooms, the armament rooms. and the
course of study, and Squadron Leader
Bradshaw initiated me into the mys-
teries of the control tower.
In the -Control Tower
The flying field at Camp Borden is
a htige flat plain. 'Because of the
sandy soil. 'it dries quickly after a
rain, Huge, paved runways criss-
cross the field, giving ample room for
Landing,, no matter what the wind di-
rection. On the edge of the field,
near the hangars, rises the control
tower, which' is the nerve, centre of
the flying field.
To the casual visitor the control
tower looks unpretentious. It is three
storeys high, covered with asphalt
shingles. Around the edges 'of the
roof hang all kinds of odd things that
mean nothing to the' outsider, but
much to the pilots. On a tall pole
above the roof is an anemometer, or
instrument for measuring the velocity
of the wind, Each of its four cups is
about the size of a half -orange peel.
Inside the glassed -in compartment
on top of the tower is a crew.af three
or roily, surrounded by instruments
and signalling equipinent. On as desk
is a list of ,all planes in use, with the
cumbers, the names of the pilots and
other information. As ea Th plane
comes down the runway, it gets a sig-
nal from the tower with an Aldis
lamp, then gains speed, takes the
proper runway,' and is off into the
air.
The Aldis lamp is used for signal-
ling in the Air • Force and the Navy,
both day and night. On active ser-
vice, in convoy work and the like, it
is safer to use than wireless, as the
messages cannot be picked .up by the
enemy. The signal lamp ie about the
size of a: large automobile headlight,
with a lens that concentrates a
powerful ray of light in a narrow
beani. Above the lamp is a sighting
tube; so that the .ray of light can be
aimed accurately, and underneath are
a pistol grip and trigger. Words in
Morse code can be sent, or different
colored lights used. As green signal
gives the pilot the sign to go; a red
to stop.
As a more general signal to pilots
in the air, Very lights are used. They
are bright Bares, like glorified Rom-
an candles fired from large Very pis-
tols. The flare looks like an over-
sized shotgun shell, and fits into a.
pistol with a Iarge barrel. A red
flare indicates that something is
wrong; the white is a general re-
call; the green a signal that every-
thing is O.K.
A switchboard controls) the elabor-
ate electrical equipment—floodlight,
searchlights rotating air beacon and
the 'rest. One is marked "Ceiling
Light," but the ceiling in this case is
the sky. A powerful light on top of a
distant hangar points straight up to
the clouds. By sighting along a rotat-
ing arm to the spot wlYere. the Light
strikes the clouds, and reading the
figures on a metal arc, it is possible
to determine the height of the "ceil-
ing" for flying.
A system of flags, colored balls and
tin cans indicates weather conditions
and directions to be taken in landing.
On a flat roof nearby, oddly shaped'
and colored pieces of wood are laid
out to give similar information. On
the rainy afternoon which ,I spent, in
the tower, they said: "Use runways
only"; "Land from' the South," and
"All flying washed out."
Beside the control tower stands the
"crash crew," with fire fighting truck
always ready in case of accidents. If
a pilot gets into difficulties, the crew
will be well cart on the field before
he lands, with an ambulance not far
behind.
The crash truck drives from all six
wheels and carries equipment for all
types of fires. There are the ordinary
fire extinguishers and a 100 -gallon
tank of water. For fires in oiland
gasoline, carbon dioxide is used to
quench the flames by depriving them
of oxygen. A 'foam tank lays a blan-
ket of bubbles over the fire, keeping
away the air. The fire fighters use
asbestos uniforms and blankets of
the same fireproof material.
Runways are not illuminated for
tight flying, but_ pilots must learn to
land with no more eduipreent than is
used on active service on •British air
fields, Stnall flares, not Visible above
„900 feet altitude are laid out in the
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LUNCH HOUR IN HURRICANE PLANT
"Kitty Hacker," the plant mascot, comes in for her share of the
eats, as aircraft workers of the Hurricane manufacturing plant in'r
Fort William, stop for lunch. This plant, is now turning out fifteen
fighting planes a week and "Kitty" is proud of the achievement df
her "co-workers.
A Reporter
London
In
(By Stephen Watts in The New
Yorker)
One danger of a peace that lasts.
as long as twenty-one years is that.
a generation grows up with a lot of •
false ideas about war. Depending on
whicih country they live in,, the mem-
bers of a peace -raised generation ma-
ture in the belief that v r.... is (a)
their duty and their destiny, besides
being a lot of fun, or (b) an improb-
able nightmare which, because of
laboratory and workshop develop-
ments, would end civilization as they
know it in about twenty-four hours.
The mental picture conditioning the
outlook is' either a .Nuremberg rally
or a Korda-Wells set from "Things to
Come." Then, when war starts again
and as it goes on, these preconceiv-
ed ideas and theories are battered a-
side by experience.
Take this, for example: We young
Englishmen used to say, "They'll nev-
er bomb London. Of course, if they
did, it would be knocked flat in a
couple of hours. But by then our
planes would be doing the same to
Berlin. So you see it cancels out.
They might as well Stay at home and
bomb themselves out of existence.",
This piece of reductio ad absurdum
comforted us mightily.
For•,me, the concrete foundations of
such reasoning began to chip a little
at precisely 11.2(1 a.m., British Sum-
mer Time, on September 3, 1939. At
that moment, • about two hundred
yards from my Chelsea apartment
while on my way to join the Ariny, I
had to turn back and for the first
time enter the basement of my home
at the bidding of an air-raid siren. I
remember reviving my old they -won't
bomb London theorem in my mind war, when a night out in the West
and wondering if maybe, after all,. End was a thing of pleasant routine
they were just crazy enough to do rather than an exciting novelty.
exactly that. Some had other engagements and
Then„ when we used to talk about wandered off. Finally we got down
personal danger from bombing, we al- to eight,' all set to make an evening,
ways said, after learnedly discussing -of it; Where should we go? The fa -
the effects' of a blast and flying mas- miliar , haunts were reviewed, and web
onry, "But, of - course, if You get a took 'expert advice from those who
direct hit—well, it's just too bad." , had been staying in London. Which
We didn't linger on that. We knew., spots were best for weathering black-
out and blitz? The Cafe de Paris,
,having already survived one bomb.
beat the Savoy by a narrow margin,
and after them came the Suivi, the
brightest of the current night spots.
The Suivi was -tiny, we were told.
and beautifully decorated, and cham-
pagne was bound to be about a a
bottle. The cost didn't matter (though
a British subaltern gets little more
than that for a week's war service)
just for tonight, a night out on the
town once again. We telephoned,
booked tables at all three places, and
got organized.
The sky was bright with flares
when we came out onto Piccadilly. A
man in my taxi wanted to call at his
-Club on Pall Mall. While be was in-
side, I stood on the pavement • look-
ing at the flares, which were coming
down thicker than ever. Then 1
heard my first bomb whistle. Every-
body 'shad told me how a whistling
bomb always seemed to be coming
straight for one's own head, and I
now confirmed the truth of this. The
high-pitched "whee-ee-ee" went on at
least twice as long as it seemed reas-
onable any missile should take to
drop. The instinct to hunch the
shoulders and sink the head was ir-
resistible. When at last the "crr:ump"
came, it sounded surprisingly far a-
way. Back in the taxi I made a fool-
ish remark. "Thank heaven we're
going to the Cafe first," I said. "No
place is ever hit twice." ^
As we got out of the taxi at the
door of the Cafe another whistler
came down — louder and nearer. A
few people on the crowded sidewalk
dived into shop doorways. One
frightened woman took a header down
the Cafe steps, butting from behind
.and toppling over a girl in evening
dress, who, at the end of her fall, sat
up and ruefully examined a tear in
one of iter precious silk stockings.
Quite possibly her last pair, I 'thought.
I, had often been told by London-
ers with more experience of being
bombed than I that the ideal antidote
for raid nerves is to to into a busy,
gay cabaret where a good band is
playing and where wh;'tt is happening
outside is quickly folgotteii. It work-
(Coirthelled lila Page 6)
We knew•a man who had been to
Spain. I had it most certainly fixed
at the back of my head that you
couldn't be in a building when it took
a direct hit and, live. Now I' have
at the back of my head a neat surgi-
cal dressing about an inch' square
which proves that I was wrong. I
have been in a building when it took
a direct hit—two direct hits, the of-
ficial communique said—and I am
alive to tell this tale.
During nineteen months of soldier-
ing following that September of '39,
London has always been my leave
goal. Leave and London—they team-
ed up in my mind like Crosse and
Blackwell or Lunt and Fontanne.
Then, for the first time, Army busi-
ness took me -to London. London be-
tween leaves—it was almost too good
to be true. The British Army, father-
ly even to the miscreant, always
sends an officer to a police court
where a soldier is appearing as a
defendant to do what he can in the
prisoner's behalf, and I was ordered
to London one Saturday to Tepresent
a man in such a case. The proceed-
ings were short and I was ,free before
luhch; the rest of the week -end was
mine. I telephoned friends all over
town. My luck was good, and by sev-
en that evening our party •in the Ritz
bar had swollen, to seventeen. One
of the men happened to be passing
through from one war station to an-
other, a second had wangled a night's'
leave from the country, and so OIL
Therewere a number of _girls, too.
Several of us had not seen each other
since the dear, dead days before the
Wad' Efp'"1
A Weekly Revi of Developments
On the me Front
1. Canada's chellnicals and exip><0-
elves' program. to be integrated with
that of United States, IHbn. Q. D,
Howe, announced July 30th informal
joint committee of the two countries
to be established. Purpose is to meet
present heavy demands icor chemicals
and explosives in North America,
2. In the past three month's eight
more Canadian chemicals and explo-
sive plants in production. Sixteen
out of 23 .planned now in operation.
Construction work on program now
85 ;per cent complete. Total outlay
is $110,000,000.
3: First made -in -Canada anti-air-
craft gun turned out. Many more to
be produced in next few weeks.
o 4-. Production of passenger automo-
biles for sale in Canada in 1942 to be
cut to less than half of 1940 figure.
Number' of models available to be re-
duced from 147 to 79. Color and up-
holstery options to be curtailed and
accessories to be simplified. Spring
manufacturing peak to be avoided.'
5. Preliminary calculations show in-
dex of physical volume of business in-
creased in June over May. Acceler-
ated by war demands, business oper-
ations in June highest in history.
6. Wholesale prices in June advanc-
ed 1.9 per cent to highest level since
April, 1030. Index still eight points
below August, 1929, peak.
7. D.B.S. cost -of -living index for
Canada advanced from 109.4 in May
to" 110.5 in June. This is 9.6 per cent
above August, 1939, level.
8. Canada's domestic exports in
June totalled $145,338,750, a 30 per
cent increase over June of last year.
Imports in June, exclusive of gold, to-
talled $114,924,000, 26 per cent higher,
than June of last year.
9. In, first six months of this year
Canada's imports from the United
States totalled $453,,650.,000, compared
with $337,.877,000 in corresponding
period, of .last year, This was an in-
crease of 34 per cent.
10. New all-time . high in level of
employment recorded on May lst. In-
dex rose 3 per cent over April lst,
pr•eviotls all-time high.
11. Workers at Arvida plant of
Aluminum Company of Canada return
to work after five-day shut -down caus-
ed by 300 workers' taking possession
of plant. Government investigating
situation. Possibility that enemy
plotting was responsible for shut-
down.
12. Air Commodore H.R.H. Duke of
Kent arrives in Canada for extensive
tour of training stations, schools and
units of R.C.A.F. H.R.H. left Ottawa
August ,3rd and Will travel by air in
R.C.A.F. craft 011 most of trip. His
tour will take him through every
province in Dominion.
form of a "T" in such a way that the
pilot knows where the runways and
the horizon are and can come in with
scarcely a bump. ••
Pilots Get Their Wings
After ten weeks at Camp Borden
or some other Service Flying Train-
ing School, the student pilot is ready
to go overseas for final training un-
der combat conditions. In token of
this, .he is given this "wings" and the
rank of Sergeant Pilot.
The wings ceremony is simple and
impressive. The graduates . stand in
the centre of a hollow square, with
their comrades around them. Among
the class may be young men from
Australia, New Zealand, England and
Scotland, the Straits Settlements or
other parts of the Empire. There are
likely to be same Americans and a,
large proportion of Canadfans.
The Commanding Officer calls out
the names of the graduates one by
one. They drop back a pace or two,
march down to the end of the line,
around the front and then proudly up
the centre. A salute is returned, by
the O.C. and he pins the pilot badge.
a pair of wings, with the letters,
"R.C.A.F." (for the Canadians), sur-
mounted by a crown, on the breast of
the tunic, offers congratulations and
a handshake. This is one 'time when
visitors are present, usually relatives
who come to see the graduation
ceremony.
Most of the graduates of Camp
Borden are "single seater" fighting
pilots. They have been strained' in
the 'Her -yards by, day and by night.
They are. taught to find their way
across country alone .in all kinds of
weather, to use machine guns and
advanced gun sights. They will take
over the Hurricanes, the Spitfires and
still newer models' after some further
training in England, But. a few are
trained as boniber pilots. They use
the Avro Ansons, a islower, twin -
engined plane. As the various camps
are turning to specialized work, the
bomber pilots will probably be going
to other schools in future.
Next Week—Training An Observer.
Lightning, Strikes
A bolt of lightning struck the chim-
neyon the C.P.R. tool shed in Blyth
during an electrical storm on Tues-
day afternoon. Apart from a demol-
ished chimney, no other damage could
be noticed.—Blyth Standard.
` THE SPORTING THin% '.
Like a chip o* the old b100l1, OW,
ada goes in for sports la a very big
way. In addittea to ssess] zg alt
inborn leve for the out -of iloore Can
adians have been blessed with a.
country unsurpassed for variety 0
climate ands' terrain. Mbuatains and
seashore, prairieand bushlandbecks',
on the sportsman the year around,
Catering .to the ever-growing needs
of a playful public constitutes • the
work of one of the Dominion's lead-
ing indnrstries. In 1939 there were 33
establishments across Canada , engag-
ed in nothing but the manufacture of
sporting goods, having a total pro-
duction vette of over two million dol-
lars.
A glance at a detailed report of
these firnvs would lead one to assume
that there . are more golfers in Can-
ada than is generally believed to be
the case. Evidently the fairways are
coming to the "fore" in sporting at-
tractions. Supplies and equipment
for the tired business man's chief di-
version were produced in 1939 to the
value of over $482,000.
Next in order of production value
that year were tennis and badminton
supplies. Tennis has come along
way since the days of its infancy. At
one time only ladies indulged in the
game, and they flitted about the
courts in a- supposedly graceful man-
rer, their billowy skirts demanding
Brno-st of their attention. Today it is
a fast, skilful game, requiring all the
speed and dexterity it is possible to
acquire through constant and gruel-
ling Practice. It has graduated from
a petticoat pastime lute. an interna-
tional sport . of champions. Small
wonder it is that sporting goods man-
ufacturers devote so much time- and
attention to the needs of players and
would-be players. In 1939 the pro-
duction value of equipment and •sup-
plies amounted to almost $407,000.
In recent years winter sports have
come into greater prominence in Can-
ada than ever before. Young and old
are leaving their habitual winter
nitdhes at the fireside to take an ac-
tive part in winter games. Skiing
cspecially is _coming into its own.
With the inauguration of ski troops
in certain sections of the Canadian
forces, the value as well as the en-
joyment of the sport has been brought
more forcibly to the attention of the
general public. In 1939 the produc-
tion of supplies for thousands 'of en -
Tool Shed thusiastic ski fans jumped almost 50
per cent over the previous year's out-
put.
These figures, of course, do not re-
veal the varying degrees of popular-
ity enjoyed by the different sports:
The. relative costs of supplies must
ue� pi
spy To;tl e
'act that..pn(re
ins, skiing ad
ins ..,.However tlh�,e iia
rs what enun`ts -xnd ;t';I
duetry,• 01 sporting sou,.
ed aridfae in; 1930 nianu
ada produced the requisite e
supplies and accessories to,.,,1
tent of over o MI,11tonr do
twl.;
addition to which over iilires
of a million • dollars were iiriporte
Has Contracts
A local manufacturing firer
benefitting from the construction
the Clinton airport at the present.s
time, Eizerman & Sons having receiv `.
ed contracts for 300 wireless desks.
and between five and six hundred
wooden screens to partition double:, e:
bunks. Some of the former have al-
ready been delivered. All orders call.
for delivery as soon as possible,—
Mitchell Advocate.
CKNX =- WINGHAM
920 Kcs. 326 Metres
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, Aug. 8-6 p.m., Geo, Wade;
6.40, Guy Lombardo Orchestra; 7.45;1
Shep Fields" Orchestra; 8.30, Gulley-
Jumpers. .
Saturday, Aug. 9-9.30. a.m., Kid-
dies' Party; 6.30 p.m., Hanover.
Sports; 7.30, Guy Lombardo Orches-
tra; 8, Barn • Dance.
Sunday, Aug. 10-11 "a.m., United
Church; 12.35 p.m., Mail Bag;. 1.15, •
Gene Autry; 7, Presbyterian Church.
Monday, Aug. 11-11.15 a.m.; "Cecil
& Sally"; 6 p.m., George Wade; ::8,
Songs by Sarah; 8.30, Ranch Boys,
Tuesday, Aug. 12=8 a,m., Howard
Bedford; 7.30 p.m., Royal -T Party; S,
Captains of Industry; 8.30, Piairo
Ramblings.
Wednesday, Aug. 13-11.15 a.m.,
"Cecil & Sally"; 6 p.m., Geo. Wade;•
8. Sewers Brothers; 8.30, Clark' John-
son. '
Thursday Aug. 14-7.15 a.m., Hymn
Time; 11.15 a.m.; "Cecil & Sally";
8.30 p.m., Make Believe Ballroom.
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ACRES A DAY
TIM AT CPU IITS
There is perhaps no better illustration of co-operation between an industry
and the people it serves than that of the implement industry and farming.
Its inception was the making available to other farmers the tools which one
ingenious farmer developed to lighten his own labors and enable him to accomplish,
more in the always -too -short seasons.
Its support b'.farmers to the point which has enabled the building of organiza-
tions financially strong enough and technically equipped to carry, on .1 arge scale
experirnehtal engineering has increased its efficiency and usefulness td the benefit
of every farmer. -
In the implement engineer, the fanner has had a partner ever intent on finding
easier and more profitable ways of doing the jobs he has to do. The co'opefafdrlt'
of the implement makerb in this respect, has transformed farming and matte farm life
pleasanter and more profitable—,a ea-ooerat'ron that really counts.
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