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Thursday, February 21, 1946 THE WINGHAM A VANCE-TIME$
NAZI WAR
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BORDULAC E . VIII D
RNOR HABITANT
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The New Line of Strike.
1$4$'4,
The recommendations, which Iv the
way were discussed: at a recent. Meet-
ing of .manufacturers of Agricultural in,
'sectitudes, are given in detail in the
publication concerning its use in the
form of dusts and sprays against ap,
bids. and other insects attacking pota-
toes, fruit, 'vegetables, ornamental and
greenhouse plants, This publication is
available from the Dominion Depart,
merit of Agriculture, Ottawa, NORTHWEST QUEBEC
Rice. ]Sktortage-1.114Y Starve
Half the World
London,--Foreign Secretary Bevin
said that 1i00,00,000. persons half the
population of the world---soon inight
face famine because of a rice .Shortage,
""Civilization itself depends .op really
solving this problem", Mr.. Bevin„said ,
in a speech to the United Nations As,
sembly endorsing a Big Five resolu.,
tion calling fora world-wide effort to
conserve wheat and rice and distribute
the m equitably,
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the camp et Lethbridge. Alta,, leave Halifax shortly homeland.
American Steel. Strike Ends
Washingtonr-4inal settlement of
the troublesome United -States Steel •
strike on Saturday jarred the stalled
American reconversion bandwagon
back into motion again. Administration
leaders were jubilant over. the termina-
tion of the dispute, for they looked for
a salutary reaction in the strike-bound
automobile and electric manufacturing
industries, •
United States steel long has been
considered the bell-wether of American
business and other enterprise were ex-
pected to follow, as in the past, the
broad general pattern is set.
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Loss Of Life Was Heavy
When. U Boat Sank Liner
London,—The Belgian liner ; Leo-
poldville was sunk by a German sub-
marine Christmas Eve, 1944, as she
was ferrying 2.200 American soldiers
across the English Channel as rein-
forcements for the Battle of the Bulge,
an authoritative naval source said lase
night. With her to the bottom went
248 American troops while another 517
were officially reported missing.
Mr, Cecil McNeil, Lloyd and. Mel-
vin, of Maple, spent the week-end with
their friends here.
Miss M. Jeffray visited with Mrs.
Harry Mulvey on Tuesday.
Resolved that Our Grandmothers
contributed more to Home and Com-
munity than the Modern Mother was
the debate at the Wroxeter 'Women's
Institute meeting. The Judges were in
favour *of? the negative. We cannot
see that this was doing justice to our
Pioneer mothers. As a rule they rais-
ed a large family, and started the ball
a rolling or there would be no modern
Mothers, they provided for their child-
ren, there *as no Baby Bonus in those
days. It has been proved time and
again that the modern home is only a
place to sleep and eat, our Youth of
today seek their pleasures elsewhere.
Just Dad and Mother sit at home.
The high wind on Friday and icy
roads made gciing very treacherous,
not much business was done.
Elvir Gold Mines Ltd.
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TORONTO ONTARIO
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r WORLD WIDE NEWS CONDENSED FORM
genteel and brave,
(Twas on a jam ati Gerry's Rectos *el^
met a wat'ry grave.
The song goes on to tell about
pile of logs and the boss calling Mkt
men out on a Sunday morning to lime*
the jam, The nett verse was Wen Sig^
metnbered by grandfather anti I ZOO'
almost hear him yet as he said:
"Some of them were willing enmagill,
but others hung back,
`Twas for to work on Sabbath they tirdf
not think t`was right,
But six of our brave Canadian Iwo
did volunteer to go
And break the jam on Gerry's Bodes-
with their foreman, young Montetre,.."-
The song was pretty gory with der
jam breaking up and carrying .4itiritjr
Monroe and the six Canadian begya_.
The love interest came from a Mow
Clara Dennison who took on ougitzer
badly because of the tragedy and dieElt
three months later. The song vat*
with this verse:
Come all the rest of ye shanty-Nam
who would like to go and seer
On a little mound by the river's has&
there stands'a hemlock tree_
The shanty boys cut the woods.
around. These lovers they lie barn:
Herelies Miss Clara Dennison and it
shanty-boy, Monroe."
I guess it isn't very good from :es
artistic standpoint but it was alwars,a,
fascinating thing for me
ing things about some of their cwn kin-
folk. Some of the letters are both
amusing and pathetic in the, way that
memories have of being half sad and
half happy.
The other day I picked up a book
about American folk-Iom arid started
looking through it, Some of the mat-
erial about such characters as Buffalo
Bill and Wild Bill Hickock made me
think of my grandfather and some of
his stories, It was kind of fan to read
the words, I must say grandfather did-
n't always have the right verses.
Then my 'eyes came upon something
that would have delighted him. It was
a song called Gerry's Rocks. How oft-
en I've heard him start out to tell the
story of the jam on Gerry's Rocks, He
catty never quite remember all the
words and ,,it would provoke him. If
he could have only had someone read
him that poem, As I m emember it he
was always lamenting the fact that
these great' old shanty songs lied never
been put down on paper.
Some of you may find it interesting
to recall some of the times you've heard
this song. So far as I can make out
Gerry's Rocks was always a. classic
with the lumbermen. It went like this:
Come all ye true-born shanty-boys,
whoever that ye be,
I would have you pay attention and
listen unto 'me,
Concerning a young shanty-boy so tall,
University At London
Plans $25,000 Addition
London,—An addition to the science
building of the University of Western
Ontario will be built immediately, it
was announced. The addition, first in
the $2,500,000 building program, will
cost approximately $250,000. It will
be ready for use by Oct. 1.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
'Ottawa-Moscow Break Regarded
As Possibility
. Ottawa,—A curtain of official sec-
recy screened developments in Cana-
da's sensational spy ring inquiry, which
one unimpeachable source said would
show the growth in the Dominion of a
virtual "fifth column" purportedly
guided by Canada's great northern
neighbor and war-time ally—Russia.
Observers saw in this statement,
which came from a source high in Gov-
erriment councils, an indictment of such
far-reaching. international implications
that it could involve a rupture of dip-
lomatic relations and perhaps reach the
floor of the United Nations Assembly.
By Harry J. Boyle
A few weeks ago I smile] reminis-
cing about my grandfather, Quite a
few people have commented on it, be-
cause I suppose they started recellect-
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ment of crude rubber since the war
started-24,000 bales from India and
Singapore—is being unloaded from the
British niotorship Empire Wilson.
Pact Signed With Ford Workers
Windsor,—Signing of a new collect-
ive bargaining agreement between the
Ford Motor. Company of Canada, Ltd.,
and the United Automobile Workers of
America (C.I,O.) has brought to• an
end two years of disturbed Labor-man-
agement relations.
The agreement signed Friday. incor-
porates all the decisions of the Rand
formula which brought to an end the
clay strike called Sept. 12, by the Un-
ion's Local 200 in a bid to enforce de-
mands for a union shop and a dues
check-off, The strike kept . 10,000
workers idle.
First Rubber Shipment Since
War Reaches U. S.
Long Beach, Cal.,—The first ship-
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD VIOLINIST MAKES OWN INSTRUMENT
Users In Two Provinces. Show Gain
A net increase of 62,583 Bell Tele-
phones in service in Ontario and Que-
bec, payment of $27,044,000 in wages,
and of $17,059,000 in taxes, are reveal-
ed in the 66th annual report of The
Bell Telephone Company of Canada
for the year ended December 31, t945.
Net income, including the refundable
portion of the ,excess profits tax, ex-
ceeded dividend requirements. Taxes
-Were equivalent to $16.85 for each tele-
phone in service. At the end of the
year 15,349 employees were on the
company's pay roils.
Referring to the fact that 77,000 ap-
plicants were waiting for telephone
service at' the end of 1945, the report
'signed by F. Johnson, president, states:
"As the result of advance planning. in-
stallations were speeded up as quickly
as additional supplies became available
following the end of the war. Where
only telephone instruments are invol-
ved, the next two or three months
should serve to clear our lists, but in
tha:ny localities additional central of-
fice equipment is needed and its manu-
facture and installation will take many
months."
Great revenue from all sources total-
led $70,329,901, or 9.5 per cent. more
than in 1944, while net income rose
from $7,721,966 to 8,304,081,
Taxes, including the refundable port-
ion of the excess profits tax, amounted
to $17,059,000, an increase of 19.4 per
cent, In addition, 8,222,000 in, taxes
were collected by the company for var-
ious governments.
Earnings for 1945, after reservation
of refundable excess profits tax, were
equal to $6,96 per share of average out-
'standing capital stock, compared with
$6.'08 in the previous year. To pay reg-
ular dividends, it was necessary to
draw on surplus to tine extent of
$894,899.
At December 31st, there were
1,050,113 Bell Telephones in service in
Ontario and Quebec.
New construction for local plants to
serve waiting applia.aniS and additiona
long distance facilities, amounted to
$14,200,000 or $6,000,000 more than in
1944.
` The names of 86 Bell 'employees who
gave their lives in the cause of free-
dom in the Second Great , War are re-
corded in a special section of the re-
port.
Cantor Program
Below CBC's Par
Ottawa;'—The Eddie Cantor Wed-
nesday night radio show was refused
by the CBC 'mainly because it did not
meet CBC standards •of program ac-
ceptance," a corporation official said,
He was commenting on an item in
a recent Walter Winchell column,
which asked: "What is the real reason
for the Canadian networks banning the
Eddie Cantor Program"
Eastbound Ocean Trips
Off Priority List Soon
New York,—The British Ministry of
War TranspOrt confirmed here, the
wartime Government priority control
of passenger traffic across the Atlantic
by ship will be partially lifted by Feb.
15th.
The priority system is being lifted
only on eastbound trips, an official
said, and, he emphasized that, although
passage may be obtained to Britain, it
may be difficult to get back because
of :the still large numbers of Canadian
And American servicemen awaiting re-
patriation 'home.
hat's the freshest
product that _at you use every day ?
it's NOT eggs
Will Continue Aylnier School
St. Thomas,—The continuation of
the RCAFTechnical and Engineering
School at Aylmer in the permanent
training setup is said to be virtually as-
assured, with large groups of instruc-
tors now in training there and the
buildings undergoing rehabilitation.
This week more than a hundred non-
commissioned officers, many of whom
saw overseas service in the war, arriv-
ed at Aylmer to start an intensive
three to four months course as pro-
spective instructors in the permanent
force.
Jirn Innes, senior, watches carefully
As Jimmy, junior aged seventeen works
on a violin he is making. Recently
when the young Jimmy turned up. to
play on "Parade of •Sone weekly radio
show on which he replaced his father
last fall, he used a violin, he had made
himself under his father'S direction. It
sounded good too and the older violin-
ists in the orchestra, who have long
paid tribute to his musical ability,
made another bow to his talents as a
violin-maker.
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LORD HALIFAR MEETS MISS. AMERICA
New 10-Point Reduction
In Army Score System
Ottawa,--'-A further 10-point reduc-
tion in the priority score system of the
Canadian Army in Canada was announ-
ed, lowering to 60 the minimum point
total required for discharge from the
service, effective Friday.
A corresponding reduction is made
in the point total required for industi-
rial discharge, making soldiers with 45
points or more eligible for discharge
for return to former civilian employ-
ment,
With a bin full of• coal and a larder full of food;
you might well face a cold week-end with confidence:
The fact that you do not have a bin full of electricity
somewhere does not worry you. Hydro has proved to
be so dependable. Yet, electricity cannot be stored . :
must be made and delivered the very instant you use
it. That is "Hydro Service".
BELMORE
Although there has been a falling off
in membership of the Women's Insti-
tute a most encouraging and interest-
ing meeting was held Wednesday af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. William
Edwards, Wtih Mrs, Herb Miller as
organist the meeting opened with the.
Ode and prayer. The forepart of the
afternoon was taken up with planning
for a bonspiel. Mrs. Thos. Abram pre-•
pared the topic, on Food and Nutrition,
bringing out many practical hints on
health, Motto on the Home, iMrs•
Arhur Fitch; Roll Call, an exchange
of homemade Valentines. Lunch com-
mittee, Mrs, Rev. Hewitt, Mrs. Elmer
Zinn, Mrs. Ray Rutherford. Minnie
Jeffray, as this was Valentine, Mrs.
Zinn and iMss Isabel treated them to
icecteam which added much to the
supper table,
Two rinks of Gorrie curlers played
a friendly game here Tuesday evening,
Monday our men were in Walkerton:
it's NOT
bread
DDT FOR FARM PESTS
STILL EXPERIMENTAL
couNitR: BOORS
PRINTED l'dumMEp
, ,
$tyles for butinp'ts.
Vrieti As.colqt:.1.,,sn.cl' des lens.,
S4ttipleS,,' 04' ge:Stions and
prices Without ebligoions
Suppose it is 2 a.m. The baby has just fallen out
of its crib. Half awake, you reach for a switch. You
want light fast. You get light instantly. Yet the elec-
tricity that lights the lamp is made after you flip the
switch ... made at the source of water-power, perhaps
hundreds of miles away. It flashes to you through
many miles of transmission lines, through transformer
and distribution stations, and you use it before the
water that makes it can leave the powerhouse. One
single break or failure in all those miles of wire and
equipment might cut off your light . and newspapers
would write about it, it would be so unusual.
To keep all these millions of dollars worth of
equipment operating, with no mistakes or serious
interruptions, is the continuous job of a large and
wide-spread staff of watchful Hydro employees. Yet,
the cost per unit of power is very low. Ontario power
rates are among the lowest in the world. That Is
`'Hydro Service".
DDT is still in the experimental
stage, and as there is not—and prob-
ably will not he for several years—a
sOffieient background of research and
experience on which to base more pre.
else and reliable directions for its em-
ployment, emphasis is laid on the fact
that the retonunendations for use of.
DDT against agricultural Pests are
tentative, saysl,V, a Ross, Dominion
Entomological Laboratory, Vineland
Station; Ont, tt his introduction to
publication No, 87 just issued by the
Division of Entomology, entitled "Ten,
tative Recommendations for the tThe
of DDT Against Agricultural Pests in
The AtIveneeuThnes
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boardwalk at Atlantic