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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-07-24, Page 4cents a word per insertion, with a minimum charge of 25c. :0E3C ’©E3O; MEN WANTED — To Work During Tomato Season beginning about August 15th» Make Applications To LIBBY McNEIL & LIBBY CHATHAM, ONTARIO. Applications from those engaged in war industries will not be considered. ,THESE WANT AITS BRING h RESULTS 111 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, July 24th, 1941 FOR SALE—Charles Bondi Property on Josephine Street. Terms can be arranged. Albert Shifrin, 100 Ade­ laide Wv, Toronto. [OE3OC=XOE3OQ A WEEK AT GODERICH SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SALE—One Robert Bell Separ­ ator, size 32x50 Cutting Box Ma­ chine with Milverton feeder and grain thrower. Can be seen at Clif­ ford, Ont. Information at Clifford Hotel or write H. Parker, at 30 Page St, St. Catharines. Instruction, Training and Recreation Pleasantly Mingled in Fine Surroundings FOR SALE—Renfrew Cream Separ-' ator and Glass ‘Churn. Apply to Ben Rich.________■ .______- FOR SALE — Late model Dodge Coupe in excellent condition, new tires and battery, low mileage, Ra­ dio and Heater, car has had the best of care. Apply Advance-Times. FOR SALE—Windmill, 30 ft. tower, in good condition. Apply James Smith, R. R. 1, Phone 600r31. FOR SALE—Flock of sheep, 15 ewes and 20 lambs. Apply A. D. Hooper, Box 42, Wroxeter, Ont. FOR SALE—6 roomed house on Pat­ rick St., in good condition, all mod­ ern conveniences. Apply Advance- Times. HOUSE FOR RENT —On Victoria St., newly papered, also some good property for sale. Apply to F. J. Mooney. , / PIANO WANTED—Plain case med­ ium size would prefer a Heintzman •or a well known make, will pay up to $50 cash, state, make and condi­ tion in your early reply. W. Martin, Exeter, Ont. STENOGRAPHER—Experience and good education required. Give full particulars and references. Box A, Advance-Times. WANTED — Capable girl or woman for housework. Apply Ed. Williams. WANTED AT ONCE—Experienced, dependable female cook. Excellent wages. Apply stating experience, age, reference, and salary wanted’. Miss A. McMillan, S.upt. Listowel Memorial Hospital, Listowel. WORN TIRES are unsafe in hot wea­ ther. Play Safe. Get Quality and still save money. Buy at Campbell’s Garage. Canadian Tire Corporation Associate Store. NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons have claims against the estate of William S, King, late of the Township of Turnberry in the County of Huron, Farmer, deceased, who died OH or about the twenty-third day of June, A.D. 1941, are notified to send to J. H. Crawford, Wingham, Ontario, on or before the second day of Aug­ ust, A.D. 1941, full particulars of their claims in writing. Immediately after the said second day of August, 1941, the assets of the said testator will be .distributed amongst the parties entit­ led thereto, having regard only to claims of which the executors shall then have notice. DATED this tenth day of July, A.D. 1941. J. H. CRAWFORD, Wingham, Ontario, . Solicitor for the Executors. >f NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons have claims against the estate of Maria Lout tit late of the Town of Wingham in the County of Hurdn, .Spinster, deceased, who died on dr about the third day of July, A.D. 1941, are notified to send to J. H, Crawford, Wingham, Ontario, on or before the second day of Aug­ ust, A.D. 1941, full particulars of their claims in writing. Immediately after the said second day of August, 1941, the assets of the* said testatrix will be distributed amongst the parties entit­ led thereto, having regard *only to claims of which the executor shall theft have notice, *DATED this tenth day of July, A.D. 1941. J. H, CRAWFORD, Wingham, Ontario, Solicitor for the Executor. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late Mrs. John -Lafie wish to express their sincere at»" brecinfion to all their friends and neigh bots for the kindness* and sympathy extended to them during their recent Bereavement CARD OF THANKS Mr. Hark Campbell and family wish to take this opportunity of expressing their appreciation to their friends and neighbors for their, kindness and help dtiring tlieif recent bereavement - The Goderich Summer.. School of •1941, held at the United Chuich camp ground’s,: north of Goderich, was under : the .direction., of Rev. Clarence Beacom. of,-Grand ;Bqnd, President and Dean, and* Clarence Mc’Clenaghan, of Luck­ now, Business Manager and Registrar. The school opened on Sunday evening, July 6th, with a rally in charge of Perth ‘Presbytery Y. P. Union, ad­ dress by Mr. Colclough, of Stratford, on the subject “The Compensation of Religion and Youth.”, The delegates, some 45 in number, retired for the first night in camp and were awakened .bright and early by the whistle calling them to begin a day’s activity. After a dip in the lake, Morning Watch was held, under the leadership of the Dean, and then breakfast was in order in the dining- hall. At nine o’clock came the group study period. The campers had a choice of the following courses “How the Bible Came To Be” led by Rev. G. Wylie, of Oakdale; “Youth and Cit­ izenship” led by Rev. A. Rapson, of Kirkton; "The Christian View of Life” led by Rev. C. L. Lewis, Brussels,and “Youth and Dramatics” led by Rev. R. G. Hazelwood, of Benmiller. At ten o’clock each morning there was a twenty minute recreation per­ iod. This was under the guidance of Rev. H. J. Mahoney of Stratford and Miss Barbara (Michie of Brussels. From 11 to 11.20 there was a .per­ iod of free time—an opportunity for catching up with such matters as as­ signments. At 11.20 the school was addressed by Mr. Norman Knight, business Man­ ager of the United Church Hospital at Weihwei, North China, who is at present on furlough. Mr. Knight told an interesting story of his Great War experiences in the Army Medical Corps; his first association with the Chinese was on a hospital transport returning coolees to that country from France, and later-his connection with the Mission Hospital at Weihwei and in Tientsin. At 12 o’clock the noonday meal was served by Mrs. Thornloe and her as­ sistants hi the camp kitchen. The tables were, looked after by helpers from each cabin, a different cabin be­ ing responsible for a day: After dinner, a singsong and music appreciation hour was conducted by Rev. Mahoney and the Dean. Lake Huron An Attraction . From 1.30 to 3.00*was a period of reading and rest, followed at 3.00 by the ^afternoon swim, in sparkling cool Lake Huron. Even if the beach was stony, the campers all enjoyed the time spent in and near the water. At 4.30 group games were in order, usually softball, and at six bells stipper and a' singsong finished our regular meals for the day. Evening vespers were held on Sun­ set Point, and as the sun slowly sank into the waves, and the lake breezes whispered through the leaves, we turn­ ed our thoughts again to the Creator of all the wondrous beauties of nature. The Camp-fire was one of the high lights of the evening programmes. Ei­ ther at or after the fire we had some special feature. Oh Monday evening, Mr, Knight, oui- Missionary, spoke; on Tuesday Rev. H, J. Mahoney led the campers in group games; Wednesday night Rev, W. A. Bremhef, of Sea­ forth, addressed the camp in the inter­ ests of the Temperance Federation; Thursday programme was presented by the group studying drama, under the direction of Rev, Hazlewood, They presented several humorous acts, and then a sacred drama on the life of St Fatih ■ t i; After Camp* fire,/interest groups i gathered .utnlej?, the stars for a half- i hour. ’These groups, led By the leaders of the morning study periods, discuss­ ed matters of current interest, such as Sunday Observance, Youth and the Church and other topics. Open Night Program Friday was open night at the school and parents and friends of the camp­ ers gathered to see and hear our even­ ing program. A Presbytery softball game between Nile and Whitechurch was the first event. This was won by Whitechurch after a lively and interesting game. Later an outdoor concert was pre­ sented beside the dming hall, with our genial Dean acting as master of cere­ monies. High lights^ of this concert was the sing-song led by the inimit­ able Rev. Gordon Weir, missionary to the Indians of Walpole Island. Hum­ orous skits presented by the various groups, and the “Torch and Scorch’’, the camp paper edited by Marian Silk of Mitchell and Glen Gemmel, of Sea­ forth. Still later after the many friends had left for their homes some of the more exuberant members of the staff and students staged du impromptu war­ dance and serenade on the campus. Quiet finally reigned and the camp slumbered peacefully. Some of the more ambitious of our campers arose early the next morning and were taken on a tour of the sur­ rounding woods and fields, where un­ der the direction of Rev. G. Weir, a keen and noted naturalist, they studied some of the specimens of the district.. There were no regular classes on Saturday morning except that of Mr. Knight, who gave his final talk on ex­ periences in China. Dedication Service On Saturday evening after sunset and vespers, the annual dedication ser­ vice of the Summer School was held, in which, after a torchlight parade, certificates were presented to those who had taken the courses under the different leaders. The wonderful spirit of the students and their co-operation in the school was shown in the fact that all students completed their cours­ es and so there was a 100% dedication at this service. On Sunday morning at 8 o’clock communion was observed in the tree- enclosed chapel on the north side of the campus. This impressive service in the stillness of the morning hours, was conducted by Rev. C. E. Beacom, the Dean. At 11 o’clock the closing serv­ ice of the school was conducted by Rev. G. Wylie; Mr. Wylie addressed the group, making a plea for closer un­ derstanding between the young people and the adults of the country. • Sunday dinner brought to an end the 1941 school. During the afternoon and evening our members departed to their homes, all feeling that their week together ’had indeed been one of in­ spiration to them for better living and had awakened in them a new sense of the all-pervading presence of God. May July, 1942, bring together again another week at Goderich Summer- School. Woman to friend: My husband and I share equally the financial arrange­ ments of the family. Friend: That’s fine. Woman: Isn’t it? I hand him the hills and he foots them! WROXETER Mr, Graham Wray, Brantford, call­ ed to see .his mother, Mrs. J. A. Wray, Wroxeter, over the week-end. His wife and little daughter, Patsy, return­ ed home with him after spending their holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herb. Shiell, near Bluevale. Misses Bonnie and Lulu Gibson, Pauline White and Mary Meahan are spending their vacation at the Pres­ byterian Camp, Kintail. BORN NASMITH—In Wingham General Hospital, pn Friday, July 18, 1941,- to Mr, and Mrs. Don Nasmith, a son. , < R.C.A.F. MANNING DE­ POT MAKES RECRUITS INTO AIRCRAFTSMEN I 4 ■ i either. Here the newly enlisted man comes from a recruiting centre somewhere in the province. His papers are made out for him and his records filed in the of­ fice. He js given an identification card, signed and sealed. Without it, he cannot leave or enter the depot. He gets a number and a bed, and the sys­ tem is so complete that when his friends come to visit him, a runner knows where to find him and “pages’" him more effectively than if he was a guest at an expensive hotel, The entrance hall is impressive. Long racks hold the “time cards” of the men at Manning Depot, and there are literally thousands and thousands of them. I watched an Aircraftsman come in, pick his card out of the rack, fumble in his pocket for his identifi­ cation card, punch a time clock as he passed the entrance, and then deposit his card in another long rack inside. A glance over this rack showed that while mosjfof the cards were white, a few were blue: those unlucky men were confined to barracks because they forgot to make their beds, or for some' other offence. Beds — Then and'Now To an old soldier who had spent many a night in Exhibition Camp in 1916, sleeping on hard boards, those beds seemed unreal. They stretched in endless rows in every direction, like the young stalks in a field of corn— and each one had Springs and a mat­ tress. But my guide, Flight-Lieuten­ ant R. L. Puxley, Wing Adjutant, pointed out that there were also white sheets and pillow cases. Some, of the boys who come in have never used them before and keep them carefully folded up under the mattress all the time. \ J sat in the Adjutant’s office while he explained to me just what they do with the raw recruits at the Manning- Depot to make them into creditable Aircraftsmen in four weeks or so- — drills, inoculations, lectures and the like. A knock at -the door interrupted the talk and a telegram was delivered. It was from a wife with’ a foreign- sounding name, living out on the prair­ ies somewhere...- She wanted to know where her husband was: she had not heard from him for six or seven weeks. Neither had the Manning Depot. He had far overstayed a leave. But there are few like that. The majority are keen to learn and get ahead. If not, they are soon weeded out. Once or twice, two different “wives” have en­ quired about the same man. But as I said, -these are the excep­ tions. The young man comes to the Manning Depot in civilian clothes with the most exciting weeks of his life ly­ ing ahead. A'Jew are probably home­ sick at first, though the Adjutant said he had no complaints along that line .—and few about anything else in the camp. The man get hi’s uniform and his kit. I saw two men in brand-new uniforms going out that afternoon and a proud looking pair they were. In the first week, -there are lectures in service methods and the first drills. After that comes guard duty for the future air crews, with lectures, drill and physical training. Then the com­ ing pilots and gunners go out to vari­ ous schools on guard duty till there are vacancies at the Initial Training Schools. The men of the ground crews stay three or four weeks, then go on to various trade Schools. Feed the Five Thousand Lunch time was past before I went ■to the Manning Depot. When I saw- the dining room, I was sorry. I would have liked a meal there, but there might have been complications. I was with two officers and there was a sign on the door saying that officers were strictly forbidden to eat in the men’s mess. The officers solemnly affirmed it was because the men got better meals, so some officers had formed the habit of slipping away from their own mess and eating with the men. I asked some of the men about it- and they just smiled,"but they said the food really was good. I think maybe the officers told the simple truth. I saw their mess, too, and although it had white table cloths, it didn’t look any I 1 ISARD’S Of July Sale You can make Genuine Saving's on Fine Quality British Worsted and Canadian Tweed Suits in smart Single and Double Breasted Models. See our Money Saving Values at $16.50, $19.50, $22.50 and $25.00. Complete stock of Boys’ Suits, latest models in wool tweeds, choice of pat­ terns, wonderful values at.................................$6.50, $7.90, $8.95 and $10.00t Our Stock of Men’s and Boys’ Pants is . complete. 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In parts of the building, there -are double-decked bunks everywhere, A portion that us­ ed to house the trucks and farm mach­ inery and the flowers at the Winter Fair, is now a huge dining room that will seat five thousand at one time, and there’s a mechanized kitchen that enables the five'thousand to-be fed in­ side an hour—a modern miracle—and they don’t just eat loaves and fishes SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE* For TORONTO Civic Holiday Train Times - Eastern Standard CHANGE IN TIME TABLE MONDAY, AUGUST 4th only KINCARDINE - WINGHAM PALMERSTON - GUELPH TORONTO Train No. 332 will leave Kincardine 11.45 a.m., Wingham 1.30 p.m. Arrive Palmerston 3.50 p.m. Leave Palmerston 4.30 p.m. Leave Guelph 5,50 p.m,, arrive Tor­ onto 7.30 p.m., Monday, August 4th Only, ATTRACTIVE HOLIDAY WEEK-END FARES Consult Agent for Details. T-216B Canadian National more attractive. Nowhere does one get the impres­ sion of size at the Manning Depot so much as in the men’s dining hall. Row after row of long tables stretch across the width of the Coliseum. A skylight makes the room bright and a great eagle emblem covers one wall. The tables were being set for supper and the waiters were’carrying in big bowls of Canadian apples, one more surprise for an old soldier. The kitchen completely fascinated me. This is a mechanized‘war, as ev­ erybody knows, but even the cooks must be skilled mechanics. There were huge motor-driven food mixers, with monel metal bowls large enough to mash a bushel and a half of potatoes at a time. Another machine peels them. Half a bag is dumped in a big hopper, a switch turned on and a stream of water from a hbse directed into the machine. It whirls around and the peelings are taken off .by coarse disks of sandpaper and washed, away down the drain. There isn’t any waste because of unskilled peelers. Intsead of hundreds of unfortunates doing kit­ chen patrol, half-a-dozen men were digging out the eyes. There seemed to be wonders every­ where around that kitchen. I went in­ to a big refrigerator room where the meat was stored and into another where deep pans of jelly cooled on the shelves. The meat stock for tomor­ row’s soup boiled in great monel metal vessels and tempted the appetite. Fresh bread and cakes lined the shelv­ es of the big pantries. Plenty of Recreation Beside the dining room is the re­ creation room, with easy chairs and reproductions of painting of Canada’s air heroes of the last war oft the walls. There is a radio, the gift of some friend, and writing desks here and. there, most of them in use that after­ noon. The theatre is in the north corner of the Coliseum, and it has a full-size stage, the letters, “R. C. A. F.” on the curtail), and thousands of seats. An electric organ provides the music, Current moving pictures are shown there several times a week, The arena where the horses per­ formed during Winter Fair Week is used for .games. At first it was left with the tanbark on the floor till an epidemic of colds cast suspicion on the tanbark. Now there’s a new asphalt floor in the ring and the colds have ceased. Several different games were in progress there that afternoon. The day begins at Manning Depot at six o’clock, with physical training for half an hour before breakfast. At 8.30, there is the first parade, with drill till 11.30. An hour and a quarter is allowed for lunch, followed by more drill from 1.15 to 4.30. Supper is over ------------,—,———----------------------” by 6 o’cuock. The evenings are free, except for some lectures given ,by col­ lege instructors on mathematics to brush up the future air crew members, who will need their trigonometry and algebra again. A month at Manning Depot and the future pilot or gunner is ready to go to the Initial Training School, which is one of the most fascinating branch­ es of the Royal Canadian Air Force.