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The Huron Expositor, 1943-04-16, Page 57.4 4 • • f • c 4 0 a 4 • e • 4 e r • • JIB •i.t,71 t1? .•N..i .. -psi,•: Via'. r'3' The Week At the Sieater .00111411111,1 i$y This week at .the Seaforth Colleg- iate finds examinations overlaid restate oaoming back. • By the lochs on the [•aces . of . some students, .one can tell whether .lite results have been sup- gesful or--! Much planning and preparations have been made for the. "Open House,"'to be held in the Collegiate Friday evening at 8 p.m. Diplomas and prizes Nl*ill be presented and the residents of Seaforth will be given, a glimpse of what goes on in various class rooms. If you want to see what Joey "does in art classes, .,or Mabel in chemistry, or even 'bring back your own sehool.days, come to the Seaforth Collegiate for :the evening. aF �F aF Thursday. morning representatives from the Ontario Farm'' Service Organ- ization Organization paid. a visit to the school These representatives pointed out the need for more people to work on the .farms and urged that every available student pitch in with this year's crops. A disaster almost happened last week! The War Savings Stamps eats nearly went off the 'chart, but the Work of Grade $ saved the day. It seems that the • rest 'of the students didn't care whether the boys overseas had guns to fight with and ammuni- tion to use. Only Grade X realized the importance of winning this war, and they at least put a hand grenade in some boy's hand.. However, this week the sale of stamps went up the chert, but not enough to be really proud 'o'r; ' The regular meeting of the' Junior Iced •Cross was postponed this- week owing to .,the fact that some of the girls in Grade XI have work to do re- garding "Opera ".louse" on Friday eve- ning. Question of the Week? What certain Fourth Form student has turned poet but hasn't acquired the knack of writing a really witty ditty? Keep trying, kid! You'll make the grade! Ask him about the •Iworm or the fish and you'll get what I mean, KIPPEN was given in marriage by her father, wore a turquoise gabardine suit with white and British tan accessories, and The April meeting of the Kippen" East Women's Institute will be held at the home of Mrs. W. Cole on Wed- nesday, April 21st, at 2:15 p.m. The • roll call will be the payment of fees. There will 'bo -'an exchange of flower and vegetable garden seeds. Conven- ers request that all Red Cross work be brought to this meeting as it is to be packed at the end of the week. We are asking the men and women of this community to participate in lblood donorship work, Your name may be left with Mrs• W. E•. Butt, Mrs. ,Emerson kyle or Mrs. George Glenn. You may save •a'life• by help- ing with this; .worthy work: Let us all do our part. Shower For Bride -Elect A number of friends gathered et the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wat- son on Thursday evening of last week to honor their daughter, Miss Theda, with a miscellaneous shower. Theda thanked her friends in a very pleas- ing manner. A dainty lunch was sere= ed. The service on Sunday will be con- ducted by the minister; Rev. A. M. Grant, who - announced that he will discuss "The Angel and the Disciple's -Sandals.""' Mr. Arthur . Long returned to St. Catharines on Sunday morning. Finch - Watson A quiet wedding took place on Fri- day afternoon, when Aev. A. M. Grant, B.A., B.D., of St. Andrew's United Church,' Kippen, united in marriage, Theda, second daughter of Mr• and Mrs. Clifford Watson, of Kippen, and Pte. Rods, Finch, of R.C.A:S.C., Pet- awawa,eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Finch, of Clinton. The bride, who a corsage of Talisman roses. Mrs. Leslie Sinn, sister of the • bride, as 'bridesmaid, chose a mauve suit with grey accessories, . and 'wore pink car- nations. ' Mr. Charles Brandon, Clin- ton, lioton, acted as best 'man. After a buf- fet lunch, served by the bride's mother the young couple • Ieft for a brief. honeymoon, after which the groom will return to his military duties and the bride will reside in London, The April meeting .of the Gauld Mis- sion Band war;` held on Sunday morn- ing, first meeting with the congrega- tion for the devotional period, then retiring to the school room. Prayer was offered by the deader, followed by the, prayer for peace and. the Lord's Prayer repeated in unison. .Mrs. J. H. Henderson, in a most interesting and instructive manner, told the story of Harr". Hal, a Trinidad boy, and how. a school was built at Diggity Swamp. Warren • Thompson moved a vote of thanks to Mrs. Henderson for telling the story, which was seconded by Ivah Wren. The meeting closed with the Mizpah benediction repeated in uni- son. There were 24 present. VARNA (Intended for last week) Dr. Harvey and Mrs. Reid and two daughters, of Toronto, spent theweek end with the forrner's mother, Mrs. M. Reid. Mrs. James Stephenson, GoshenLine, spent a day with her sisters, Miss Mossop and Mrs. M. G. Beatty. Pte. Harvey Parsons, of London, spent a few days with his grandfather, Mr. Coultice. ' Pte. Billy McAsh, of, the R.C.A.F., Toronto, spent a few day at the par- ental home with his wife' and little U01-11acct. `7 Go to Sea by Rail \ '01E14 Ships ,o cioavn to'the sea by rali :.i difficult Fre+^3portation problem - is ;evolred. A record in rail transport hale been set by oleratiag officers of the Canadian 'National"Railways in -the recent successful movement of +ti''i large tugs, built far inland, to t he seaboard. " \Varci" and "Watch," terms as- sociated with security and guardian- ship, are the nanies of these tugs. They were transferred from their native clement in Georgian Bay waters over the lines of tire National System to an Feast Coast .seaport where they are now engaged in war work. These 60 -foot •overall tugs were built at. Owen Sound, given Their trials there, taken from the water and'ewung on board flat cars to begin a railway journey of more t h.an 1,300 miles. That sounds .simple but a tug cannot be knocked down or' folded up, particularly in this instance where lire steel hulls are welded. Height and breadth of the hull provided material for alot of operat- ing headaches . which lasted from Owen Sound to the. Atlantic. Placed on her side on a flatcar the top of the• load was 18 feet, 9 inches above the •top of the rail The actual beam of the tug is 14 feet 6 inches so that • when loaded on the car the hull n%rli Sr ,r 'w,zi projected two feet beyond the car edge on one siele, the awkward posi- tion being due to the necessity for establishing a safe centre of -gravity. Overhang constitutes a problem on any part of a railway and particularly so at curves. It i'vas necessary for the National System' engineering depart- ment' to check the plant of- every bridge between the terminal points, a big task when carried out over 1,300 miles. Some clearances were of the scantiest, the smallest being barely one inch from the top of the load at a point where a highway crossed over the railway. The side overhang was a bigger problem than the height and it was necessary to arrange for every train in Which this load was included to move at restricted speed when the second track was vacant. The entire transportation involved a series of carefully planned movements. The transportation was carried out successfult'y and • "Ward" and• "Watch" are now in salt water performing their tasks of moving barges in the Canadian National lighterage service which daily handles great quantities of supplies and war material taken from the rail terminal and transferred .40 ships, 'carrying vitalcargoes for -the United Nations. +ai L4 i r,0iir/ ' rte. " t�•pt 50 years a favorite for light -textured, delicious, tasty bread ff," b. xA c�rtr Meer gra k Service* WI be, held In 'St, OChn'0. Anglican able , 'Wa4n, at 1180.1 the a teenoou wi'ti ; 44'4 604114'4 i ''4 2.30 . pain' 11 Mode bat DAALVI %l Mrs. 0. W. Rhyme ".iii tinned last', week after ppend1ng . the past two months with her filMOtnt ' 9tis' wife, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rbynas, at Toronto. Professor Penrbeutoa and. Professo, Kalbifeisc%, of London,. spent the week -end in their cottages: Theo directors of Ba,rleld Agricul= tural' Socitty are arranging • for their annual` masked carnival and dance In Easter weep the -proceeds for the Red- prose. Many loeal fishermen are waiting for the smelts run, which should be on the first mild weather. Several members, of L.O.L. No. 24 attended the annual meeting^of South Huron district at Hensall en Wednes- day evening of last. week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. 'Jowett hav- ing spent the Winter in Kitchener, arrived home on Tuesday, • •Miss Elizabeth 'Reid, of Torpnto, is visiting her 'sister, Miss Margaret Reid. • Maple syrup is a scarce .and much - asked for article on they market this spring. " Mrs. R. • H. F. Gairdner arrived home on Saturday from New York, where she spent the past three months with her daughter. - Mr. and Mrs. A. Seeley, of Clinton, called Sunday at the home of Mrs. Austin and family, Mr. Wilfred Chtiter and his staff have been busy planting 'evergreens for a, windbreak, supplied by the Gov- ernment. The House- of Socrates One could not do as he might please, Even in. the,, days of Ancient Greece If we may judge by Socrates. For when he tried his house to raise, His neighboes came from various ways, To -blame his work, but not to praise; The carping -tribe of querulous men Are not more eager now than then To judge some fellow citizen. And so this house of Socrates,,-'• The wisest head of Ancient Greece, Seemed everybody to displease. .One said the building was -too low; One thought the owner ought to know No house ,pefore was built just so. Another thought the chimney's mean, And he ought to place between The house and street a shady screen. So passersby looked upon And wondered where -the cash came • from, , And ',would it be fit to live in when done. The tongues•went on in.endless ways, One fault and another seemed to raise Through all abe gamut of dispraise. - 131aming the inside and the. out, Each, part was newly talked about, When Socrates, soon stepped without_ - S•aid ,ie, "I see my house you hate -- It is not lofty, proud or great, " With palaces it.' would poorly mate." "But mean or low, bowe'er it tends, ' It's faults will make •me full 'amends When once I fill it up with friends." —Varna Scrap Book CONSTANCE Miss Hazel Jamieson, R.N.;-of Gode- rich Hospital, spent the week -end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rgbt. Jamieson. Mrs. Frank Riley and Mrs. J. Riley held quilting bees on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Mr. Cleve Carter, of Toronto, epent the week -end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Carter. rtr. Donald Buchanan, who spent the winter in- Toronto, returned to his home for the summer months on Sat- urday. • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jamieson, of Camp Borden, slrent . the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. James Medd. Miss Woods, of London, visitetieleis aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mont- goniery. Mr. George Hoggarth has purchased William Jewitt's 50 -acre farm, and Mr. Prank Coleman has bought the Liv- ingstone farm ac r ors bo road oa from f om where Mr. Wm. Livingstone lives. Mr. and Mrs. George Leitch and William Jewitt visited, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Lawson, of Auburn, on Friday. Mr. and Mrs• L. Lawson visited Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Lawson, of Tucker - smith, on Tuesday. Mrs. R. Lawson returned with them.' Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ferguson visited Mr. and Mrs. Foray Carter in ' God;e' rich on Sunday. WALTON Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bryan moved their household effects to Shedden, where- he is training in the- R.C.A.F. Mr. Gordon Holland, of London-, spent -the week -end wi•tih, his brother, Robert, on the 16th Concession, Grey. a r. S. Miller, of Mitchell, is holi- daying with his brother, Fred, at Pres- cott. CROMARTY t%3 Corporal Alex Rainey is visiting his wife and' family after returning to Canada from' overseas do account of ill health: ' ' - • Joseph Spectre and brother, Rich- ard, have returned to their home from Toronto., Guelph and Harriston: The Rev. W. A. MacWilidam deliv- ered a fine sermon on Sunday morn- ing in the Presbyterian Church from the text, "7ihis beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and man- ifested forth' His glory; and His dis- ciples believed on Hint" The Young People's meeting was held in Staffa .church on Wednesday evening when a returned missionary, gave an address, Personals: Miss Margaret Scott, of Ottawa, at her home; Mr. and Mrs. Olive MacDonald and daughter, Tor- onto, with Mrs. MaeDoriald and Miss O. Speare; Private Lloyd Sorsdahl, 'of Stratford, with Mrs. Sorsdahl and family. Mr: Ross McLellan, 'of Seaforth, spent -the week with friends here. Mr. Ralph Speare, of liarriston, vis- ited with friends here. at;' Mr. and Mrs. Colin 134c`Dou'glad; of Harrington, visited at the home of Mrs. Quance on Sunday. Mr: and Mrs. Clive Macdonald, of Toronto, spent the week -end at the home of his aunt, Miss Olive" Speare. We are glad to learn that,'rhonias L. Scott,'' after spending, - some two weeks in Scott" Memorial• Hospital, in Seaforth, is recovering from his severe illness and expects to be home the early part of the week. Miss Margaret Scott, of Ottawa, en- joyed -a week -end stay at the home of her mother, Mrs. R. J. Scott.', Bush Pilots of - The Far. North (Condensed from The- Toronto Star Weekly in R:eader's•.Digest) The plane was an old high -winged, Flattering Spring Hats New Straws and Felts with that Spring air about them you'll .-like at a glance. Gaily `'t'r i m m ed with flowers and veils in a multitude of shapes and shades.. 2.25 to 5.00 .. New Spring Blouses New ieoven skirtings in stripes; crisp sheers and plain shade crepes. Neat- ly made in ' the popular tailored designs. Mostly short sleeves. A wide range of colors and sizes - 1.95 to 2.95 Casual Suits Here's a brand new number, made of Angora flannel in Rose, Blue, Tor- quoise and Green. These suits have that smart cas- ual dressmaker look and are popular for business or sport. As sketched, with pleated skirt. PRICED 17.00 • Stewart Bros., Seaton earear- months. • Now,' suddenly, the North has be- come' crisscrossed by scores gf all - year air routes. For this new frontier the plane is the coveredwagon, pony express, stagecoach and railroad, all in one. This development is' due chiefly to the +busli 'pilot. He is" a man of .infinite courage and resourceful- ness. When he learns to. fly he has only begun to know his job; he must be able to repair his plane with what- ever materials may be at hand—for instance, to make a_netF propeller out of a••'pair of, sledge boards and •some moose glue, as one did lately. He must find his way, over un - single -motored Bellanca. I. sat on' a t knownaenaniapped country, where the crate of tree -tor parts; back of me- compass is useless because he's fly - were cranberries and celery for the the near the magnetic pole. He may boys' Christmas dinner up on Great' have to make a forced landing in the Slave Lake. Nearby were'a baby car- wilderness with passengers, wheh the riage, a gasoline motor, and . mail temperature is 40 below, then pitch a sacks. In the rear of the cabin were tent, cut wood, • make a fire, find a a rifle, an axe, a pair of snowshoes, caribou and shoot it, cook a meal, and two sleeping bags "and a first-aid kit =nurse his passengers , until rescue —equipment that has saved many .�ames.- lives in ,emergency landi'pgs,' • 'Chore's always some new problem• ,' The Bellanca was a flyingdelivery',to solve. This ,winter a pilot was fly - truck covering a route • from Edmon- i ing •a small ufderpowei•ed plane; it ton, Canada, all the way to the Arc -lovas on skis, andevery time it took tic Ocean. off from stick snow somebody :had to The Peace River country 5,000 feet: push to get' it started. One day, fly - below me was a checkerboard of : ing alone, the pilot made. a forced homestead plots. An boor. north of I landing a hundred miles from the Edmonton the terms grew scarcer un- I nearest hum -an being. After repairing til there was only wilderness. For two ' the plane he tied one end of a long hours we follbwed the Athabaska Riv-, cord to the throttle and the other to er twisting across the flat Country like -.his wrist, got out, went behind and a white snake, then landed at Fort - pushed. The plane moved, quickly Smith in the Northwest Territories.' picked up speed. The boy raced for I.nciiens mushed their dog teeny down, the door but failed to make it. For- tbe main street. '•1'he few • olie-story. tunately, as he had planned, the• cord frame houses looked ,as if they, had, shut off the motor. He tried -again, just been put up, and evidently they this time•faster on bis feet. He scram - hadn't had time too paint.tare new- ad bled in, hot to the controls,' and was clition to the hot 1. The?'vers out- `en his way fitters' stores (id a .. it. atronized - eafe. The whoa tbin • shed famil Packing d Wn the snow to mak a e g c g o e e lar. Suddenly I rea.li.zei�wJtiy. It. wars ; runway'takes ingenuity. If there's an another Dodge'bity or Poker Flats; it ; Indian bandy, you hire him to tramp was any cow town or mining town of Lup atld down in snowshoes — large the 1570's—the old frontier, alive and; ones the first day smaller the next, booming in the 1940's. to break up the air pockets, in the Nearly all of Canada's population snow so that it will freeze solid. If live in a 300 -mile -wide Strip close to you can't get an Indian, you do it your - the southern border. , Between this self. - and the Arctic Ocean is a land neat, A plane may fly on wheels, pon- ly es. large ea the IInited' States, in Loons and skis, all in the same season. which until recently only about 3,000 Once two trappers•, burned in a- gas White •people and a few thousand -Erne explosion on a lonely lake, radioed' linos and Indians lived. •.;'Yet that re- an appeal for help. It seemed impos- -eel +s o7r ' t' the richest on• earth, a sible to reach them, for the lake had - r : horse r- gold and silver, copper only two- inches of ice, too much for raid tin, tungsten and Platinum. ''in it pontoons, not enough for skis. The is the world's largest source of rad- beach was' rocky and the strip of clear rum. Its oil reserves could supply space between the water's edge and the world rot hundreds of years. nit the trees was too narrow for the could furnish enough fur to keep all smallest plane. But one pilot thought the natiohs warm. In large sections he might make it — Grant McCon- of it meat and grain could be produc- achie, one of the best of. the bush ed. It's Cold, but not much colder fliers. than Minnesota. Its settlement. has • With a mechanic he flew to the lake been retarded, as Was our West, by in an old Fokker on wheels. He cir' Mr. and Mrs. James Humphries, of lack of transportation. Until 'lately Windsor, spent the week -end with his there were •...ollty., two •.e titter routes, Shite'; Mr M. Shanlion, -and brother, both open for only a fear summer cled, studying the shore line, then set the plane down with one wheel on "the lee at the edge of the lake and the other on the rocky 'shore. It bounced like a bronco; a tree branch ripped open the fuselage but at last it lurched to a stop. ' They loaded the trappers in. The mechanic sewed up the belly of the ship with fish gut. " The take=off, with tall trees ahead, was the shortest Mc- Conachie had ever tried but they made it. The bush pilot is an essential,aid to mining. He does the initial exploring by eihotographing thousands of square miles of the wilderness. These aerial maps are scrutinizedeunder a magnify- ing glass by the geologists of the big mining companies and •by independent prospectors. Th -e prospector puts his thumb on a tiny, dark' circle; one of the Innumerable lakes. "Set me down there," he says 'to the airline agent. Thealatter is bound to secrecy. Opening a sealed envelope just before taking off, the pilot learns hie destiva- tio'ti. A canoe is strapped on top of the fuselage and the interior of the plane is loaded with tools and dynamite, tent and supplies, leaving- just ,room for the prospector and his partner They fly in early in spring, when the ice is still on the lakes and a landing can be made on, skis. The pilot helps the prospectors set up their tent, shakes hands with them,•and present- ly he's a black dot in the southern sky. That's the last they'll see of him for six weeks, until the ice melts and the plane can come in on pon- toons. If anything happens—a broken leg or •appendicitis—they are out ,of luck. In the early days of unorganiz- ed flying, one or two prospectors were mislaid and were never heard of again, During the summer the pilot carries out specimens of ore to be e assn d•. Y If the prospectors hit it rich, next sea- son there will be a mining town on that lake, supplied entirely' by air. The plane has revolutionized the fur business also. Formery trapping was done chiefly by Indians who work- ed' near Hudson Bay posts or other traders' centers. Now most fur is brought in by white trappers, who op- erate in as bleak and desolate a coun- try as there is on earth. The ther- mometer sometimes plummets to 70 betels-. The plane flies the trapper in at the' beginning of the cold weather with food, traps, sledge and dogs, re- turning six months.'later for the balers i- •,.. v - of. atipelts.on- Occasionally the pilot &We'' ne trapper, and -the dogs dead of star= - There are weather observers on the . Arctic' Coast and islands. farther .: • north. The plane• may visit them omit, once or twice• a year,. -but it .hringsk'* ' then". all the necessities and is their unfailing life line.. .Them are a ,few . doctors, too, who com:mute'srrund they . Arctic in jumps - hundreds : of miles long, and there's , a ':flying, :dentis"., - whose practice extends hal?wa,,across the top • of the continent :, ,' . Bush flying began in ke Os, a'% Canadian pilots' tack: . En; a war began making,.flights to tiny northern • settlements; formerly Teadied•only .by long dog -team journeys.. 'As prospec- tors began to use' the pienee, regular routes were established. In 1938' the Yellowknife boons came as a great beak for the bush lines. It was a• gold rush like that in California is. '49 and the Klondike in '99—and most Of it went by air. Any old.crate that would fly was 'kept shuttling back and forth -between Edmonton and the geld fields. In 1041 the Canadian Pacife Railway acquired a-nd merged the numerous amall bush airlines. Now its huge resources are helping to builds a new empire. and the war is hasten- ing the process. Today you can fly from ' Edmonton to "Dawson in big plan -es, with stewardesses and all the trimmings. . The Alaska. Highway was an aerial route before it was a road, and still is probably more important as an air route than as a land route. Over it fly 'fighters and bombers on their way to Alaska. The route „they follow wase pioneered by bush pilots of the 1920's and 1930's. Another 'air route skirts theArctic r c 'tob t e nort st hes leading to the Eastern, Hemisphere. Eventual- ly- it may be the more important of the two, but today no one is permit- ted to write about it. The military Supply routes of 1943 will be the avenues of commerce of tomorrow. After the war the sub - Arctic will no longer be the end eft the earth — it may be the center. Through it will run the direct routes between the old world and the new, It will be settled and developed. And much of the credit will belong to Abe Canadian bush pilots ,,who pointed the way. Nerweesesaltia Dead v;,n+d Disabled Animals REMOVEDPROMPTLY - PHONE COLLECT: SEAFORYH 15 exerErl Lr95 DARLING AND CO., OF CANIAi)A;""u (l seeirtial Wa Industry), it N