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CANADA PREPARES TO
DEAL WITH DISASTER
DEAL WITH
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HOW .TQ BUILD A BLAST SHELTER
•
Mother earth being man's age-old hideout against peril,
scientists recommend its use, again; 'as protection against disas,
ter, particularly against such hazards as tornados and, in this
modern age, the 'Atom Bomb. Civil defence authorities of Can-
ada, in publicizing methods of dealing with disaster and in.
recommending the construction of shelters, admit that no known
cover will protect against a direct hit with a powerful explosive,
but they do insist that : many lives will be •saved,' under air
attack, if, people take cover in adequately -reinforced under-
ground' shelters. "
• Many leading concerns through-
out Canada have taken steps to
strengthen their factories and of-
fice buildings for use as shelters,
particularly •those portions of
structures below ground level and
shielded by substantial super-
structures.
Details on the construction of
simple home shelters are contain-
ed in publications issued by the
Department 'of National Health
and Welfare: Engineers, archit-
ects and building contractor$ will
be interested in the manual ?Tech-
nical Guidance on the Construc-
tion of Air Raid Shelter", prepar-
ed for the federal Civil Defence,
Co-ordinator' by the ' professional
•�
staff of 'the bepartment. of Public
Works. The average home owner
and small merchant will find much
useful information, in the general
handbook,' "Personal Protection
under Atomic Attack".
Basement Shelters
In considering reinforcing a
basement ,as shelter, authorities
advise study. of the likely angle
from which an attack could come,
before work .is begun on strength-
ening the structure. • •
How to calculate these proba-
bilities'is explained in the manual.
Instruction also cover the erection
of 'a framework of• .stout Wooden
beams; with •supporting struts,
provision of adequate emergency
exits and the outfitting of the
shelter •with tools and supplies
which • may be urgently needed if
ilecupants of the shelter are un-
able to get out ininiediately after
' contents of Shelter
Among other items, it is recom-
mended that shelters be proVided
with such things as bottles of
drinking water, flashlight, port=
able radio, if possible, some tinned
food;,..blanjcets, a first-aid kit; to
include bandages, etc., changes' of
clothing, detergents or s d a p,
simple ...tools, such as wrecking
bar and hammer, ;and water and
sand to extinguish fires. Many of
these items, .it is ,noted, may be
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put . in containers and kept n
shelters at all times --- not just
rushed there at the last minute.
Outside' Shelters
Experience under air attack In
the World Wars provided that
safe shelters could be constructed
outside buildings ,where, among
other advantages, there was less.
likelihood .of them being buried
under .debris. 'Personal' Protection
under Atomic Attack" 'gives dem
tailed requirements `" for outside
shelters, recommending that walls
be built either with ',reinforced
concrete six inches thiclt or with
timber two inches thick and well
supported by square frames about
one foot apart, much in 'the" man-
nor of an excavation for, a" newer
in mud or bad ground, ' ' ' .
The shelter should be approxi..
mately70 inches :high an the roof
constrcted of reinforced concrete
12 inches thick or of timber simil-
ar to the walls. The soil excavated
from the hole °sl-fould then be pack-
ed around the walls and over the
roof—at least three' feetthiek. '
As with the basement type, au-
thorities remind Canadians that
outside shelters must be provided
with ample' emergency exits on •all•
sides, to facilitate escape should
debris from collapsing buildings
cover them. In fact, the recom-
mended procedure,' is to build a
blast . wall, approximately two pr
three feet in front of windows and.
doors, covering the ' intervening
Spaces with boards to prevent de-
bris choking these. exits. •
All that the prudent will 'want
in the way of guidance to the con-
struction of safe places for their
families, will be found in the gov-
ernment. handbooks, which are
available through civil defence
services everywhere. • • -
The ABC of • modern warfare -,warfare
biological and chemical, • as well as
atomic weapons pis the subject of
the next of these articles on Can -
aches' preparedhess plans. •
Weed of• Week
Dodder: Vicious Enemy
Of Farm Clover Crops
A parasite in every sense and
not a true weed, Dodder is number
one enemy as far as clover crops
are concerned. Living on the host
plant Dodder becomes a ruthless
destroyer by strangling the grow-
th to which it attaches itself.
It is for this reason that Dodder
is sometimes known as Strangle
Weed, or more inelegantly, Devil's
Gut. It is a dangerous weed as it
can affect legume crops wherever
it gets a foothold.
As Dodder seed is difficult to
separate from clover seed, every
attention should be given to see
that it does not spread, if we wisl*
to produce and market clover seed.
Every precaution must be taken
to prevent its introduction to
farms that are at present free
from this menace.
Dodder is easily recognized as
it has no leaves. The numerous
fine yellow stems, twine them-
selves around clovers, buckwheat,
flax and most weed plants. By
sending short teeth or suckers in-
to the. host plant, Dodder absorbs
its food, depriving the plant of
nourishment and in time killing
the host. As soon as Dodder seed
germinates and forms contact with
a plant, it releases its hold on the
ground and spreads from plant to
plant. Thick clusters of White
flowers in turn produce seed pods,
with many hard, grey or yellow-
ish -brown seeds.
Prevention is the best means of
control. Use only seed that has
been officially graded by the Can-
adian Seed Laboratory. Under the
Seeds Act, Dodder is classed as a
prohibited noxious weed seed and
seed containing Dodder cannot
legally be offered for sale in Can-
ada.
At the first sign of Dodder, all
crops must be cut before seed is
produced. If mature seed is pres-
ent, the crop should be destroyed
by burning to be sure that Dodder
does not spread. Dodder must
never be allowed to produce seed.
Infested land should be summer-
fallowed, followed by a good hoe
crop. Seed may lie dormant in
the soil for years but when suf-
ficient moisture is present, seeds
are more likely to germinate. Al-
though cereals will not support
Dodder,it will grow on broad
leaved weeds and clovers. There-
fore be certain that fields are as
weed free as possible and seed
down only with grasses.
Wesley -Willis YPU
Close Season With
Lakeside Weiner Roast
The Wesley -Willis YPU held
their closing meeting of the sea-
son in the form of a weiner roast
at Nediger's cottage, in Elliott's
Grove on Friday night, June 26,
The worship service was taken by
Ken Carter, Don Cornish and
Margaret Holland.
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• Quite . often 'I like to spend 'an
evening with ari old 'book. From
the top',shelf',. which is .a collecting
place for.all manner of book and
trinket, I:haVe taken down John
Langdon -Davies' `"Man and His
Universe", which I • see by the
ownership page is ,the 1937 edition
which,I came by. in Brandon, Man.
It ,is an interesting book ..about
the universe and how it has made
man. I thought my readers might
be interested, to contemplate this
extract.,' •
The folloing paragraphs.. ap-
pear in the will, of an old English
gentleman who had died as a re-
sult of a hunting •accident:.
"At death • my body shall be
placed in the cheapest decent con-
tainer and taken in my own trail-
er and car to the mostconvenient
crematorium and cremated. ' My
gardener William Gittes and my
chauffeur will accompany my body
and no one else, taking • a small
box, (deal of about 12 inches. each
way) to bring. back the ashes,
which are to be .broken ,Up and
scattered, in My wood at Breinton
Court, • as were, my ' daughter
Alice's ashes in 1901. •
'"I believe'(and 'some of the
leading scientific. men of the day
assure me that I believe rightly)
that at my death the organic con-
stituents of my .body will be
quickly• converted into carbonic
acid and ammonia;•and that gases
will by law of diffusion be at once
distributed over the whole world,
and will help to build other plants,
and in their turn animals, so that
in the future every plant and ani-
mal in the world -will contain an
infinitesimal portion of my body.
"The inorganic parts of my body, -
the phosphates of lime, etc., will
also be dissolved, and by the ag-
ency of rains, .rivers and ocean
currents will: also be distributed,
but more slowly. The energy left
in my body at death, degraded to
heat; will quickly Ieave it and
form part of ' the energy of the
universe. This I believe to be the
true Resurrection of the Dead and
the Life Everlasting."
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Among the newspaper features
which have grown up over the
years as traditions among the peo-
ple are Dorothy Dix's advise to
the lovelorn column and H. T.
Webster's cartoon panels on
"Life's Darkest Moment",
"Bridge", "The Timid Soul", and
"How to Torture Your Husband".
Both of these creators are dead,
but their features continue to cir-
culate among the newspapers of
the continent.
Some people cannot be replaced,
so it is best not to try. The syn-
dicates which handle the Dix and
Webster features have made a
compromise with the public, and
another woman is carrying on the
lovelorn column while a cartoonist
named Roth is doing a good job
of carrying on the legend of "life's
darkest moment" and "the thrill
that comes once in a lifetime".
Unfortunately for those who have
stepped into the shoes of Dix and
Webster, it is doubtful if the read-
ing public will ever accept them as
being equal or anywhere equal to
their predecessors.
Dorothy Dix was i11 for a long
while before she died and during
this time her column was written
by a ghost writer who still \writes
it, but under the Dorothy Dix
name, a stipulation in the writer's
contract. Webster had a number
of cartoons ready for his paper
The New York Herald Tribune,
and these were published in 121
papers in the United States and
Canada until they ran out. But
the spirit of Webster's humor and
understanding of human nature
was indestructible.
°The panels which Harold Web-
ster and Herb Roth had worked
opt together have now been used
up, but the Webster pattern con-
tinues under the "Webster -Roth"
name. Mr. Roth in time may find
an audience for his own style, but
at the moment the drawings seem
to lack something. That some-
thing, of course, is the tall, good-
looking cartoonist from West Vir-
ginia who taught a whole contin-
ent to laugh at itself.
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The Tip Shelf ..
Marian Anderson, the colored
contralto whose voice Toscanini
said was one that came only once
in a century, and who was refused
the opportunity to sing in Consti-
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FAIR GROUNDS
KIRKTON, ONTARIO
Wednesday, July 15th, 1.953
Girls' Softball Game -6.00 p.m.
Juvenile Programme -7.30 p.m.
Professional Programme -9.00 p.m.
Ample Facilities for Refreshments & Seating
Free Supervised Parking on Grounds
ADULTS 75c CHILDREN 30c
Cone and Enjoy Superior F`. ntertainnient
tution Hall in Washington because
she was a Negress, has left Korea,
She sang in hospitals and theatres
there, and on one occasion in,Pu-
san so many people tuned out to
hear -her rich voice that she could
not get through the crowds her-
self.
Miss Anderson is 45. She began
to singin public when she was
six, and her widowed mother took
in washing so that,she Might fin-
ish. her schooling. The day would.
come, too, when this great concert
singer would trlumph over the
prejudice against her race. Barred
from Constitution Hall, she sang.
from the ••steps ofthe Lincoln
Memorial to 75,000 people, And
she did, eventually, get to sing in
the great Washington Hall.
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!..'Filing clerks may blush at this
story whieh'is told in newspaper
offices from time to time. ,
A young reporter, wishing to get'
Some background on the life of
mystery writer S. S.' Van Dine,
went to the newspaper's' library
and' asked the girl in. charge. to.
giv6'him what she had on the au-
thor. • But there were no clippings
filed under that name. The re --
searcher suggested it might be un-
der Wilbur Huntington Wright,
the writer's real name. But this
also failed. The file on S. S: Van
Dine was at long last found under
"Steamships".
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OBITUARIES.
David ' * Lochart
DaVlli 'T. Lochart died in Alex-
andra Hospital, Goderich, on
Thursday' morning, June 25, in
his 75th ytrar. He had been in
poor• health for two. ears.
Th er 1 was el
e due a h d on Mon-
day, from ,the Arthur ,Funeral
Horne and was largely ;attended
iitev. H. J. Snell, Exeter, conduct-
ed the service.
Pallbearers were: Messrs Ed.-
gar" Lawson, • William Haggl'tt,
Wilmer Howatt, Lewis Ruddy, Sturdy.-
George Bean and Harry.
Flowerbearers • were: Arthur'
and Victor Yungblut,• Ivan and
Maurice Bean, Kenneth McDoug-
all and Carl Gooier. Interment
Was in Union . Cemetery, Blyth,
Mr. Lochart, sora of
Matthew, Lochart and Mary Ann
Taylor, was born in West Waw -
afloat]; on February 21, 1879, In
1905 he 'married, Euphemia Th-
ompson, Donnybrook.
the late
,
•
Following, their marriage ' he
farmed on the Auburn, -Blyth
road, one-half mile east of -Au-
burn until four years ago when
he sold his farm and retired. to•
Goderich. • Mrs. Lochart died in
1920. • • . •
He. is survived by two daught-•
'ers, Mrs. Ray Meriam, (Euphem-
ia), Goderich. 'and' Mts. • Malcolm
'Bennett, ' (Georgina), 'Windsor;
one • •son, John,- East Wawanosh;
two sisters; Mrs. Rose Bradnock,
Goderich; Mrs. William' Havens,
Kelso Station, Sask,; one oro
er, , Charles Lochart, Chath
11 grandchildren and t
great-grandchildren. ,A caught
Helen, and a son, Norman, P
deceased
Mrs. Minnie A, Cole
Funeral service was conduc.
on Friday, June 26, for, Mrs.
nie A. Cole, by ReV; Glen Ea.
Ontario Street United . 'Chur
Clinton, and Dr. U..Laite, Str
ford.
Pall -bearers were .her gra
sons,. William ' Ashton,'
White„ Gordon Gilbert, Geo,
Lamont,. Nisbet, Hilli
White. Interment was in Clin
Cemetery..
The many floral tributes w
carried by her grandchildren, H
old •Cole,. Fired Ashton,4,Keaw
White,Dbrothy Cole, Shirley Fi
er, Joan White,. Gerald Cele..
Friends were present from
gara Falls, Toronto, London,.
laceburg, Stratford, Goderich,
grave, New Hamburg, Hanmilto
Mrs. Cole wasborn in •,Gode
Township 82 years ago,. , She
the daughter of 'the late, Mr.
Mrs. C. E. Jervis; Clinton. In 1
she was married' to the- rate
Iiam H. Cole, who died' in • 193
She is ' survived by one
Charles W. London; three dau
ters, Mrs. R. E:. • (Olive) Fis
Mrs. Irene White;' Mrs.,. Cecil
(Bessie) • Ashton..
Other members of her f
who predeceased her were one
ter, Nellie (Mrs. J D. Cur
Goderich and' three. brothers,
• win, - Saskatchewan; Oliver, C
ton; Albert, Nappanee;. Indian
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