Clinton News-Record, 1951-10-11, Page 10PAGE TEN
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURSDAY, OCTOBER li, 1851%.
RCAF Stalion and Adastral Park News
RO 26 and 27 Included.
In Royal Honor Guard
One hundred flight cadets and
three officers have been going
through their paces at RCAF Sta-
tion, Trenton, for the most im-
portant parade of their careers.
On Friday, October 12, `come
rain or come shine', these men
will 'present arms' to Their Royal
Highnesses Princess Elizabeth and
the Duke of Edinburgh when the
Royal couple visit the RCAF Sta-
tion, Trenton, tomorrow.
Two of the officers with the
Royal Guard, F/L - J. M. 'Jim'
Wicken, Victoria, B.C., and F/O
C. V, `Frosty' Frosted, Saskatoon,
Sask., have been out in front
Of guards of honour on three pre-
vious occasions -first, was the
graduation o'f North Atlantic
Treaty Organization pilots at
Centralia in May and later dur-
ing the Colours Presentation cere-
monies at RCAF Station, Trenton,
in June. The third guard officer,
F/O D. T. `Doug' Rivoire, Ot-
tawa, received his ceremonial
parade baptism at his own wings
parade some years ago.
F/L Wicken is fast becoming
as proficient with a sword as he
is with the controls of one of the
Air Radio Officer School aircraft
at Centralia where he is deputy
flight commander. F/O Frosted,
too, feels he could give Tyrone
Power a few lessons in the manly
art of sword wielding.
"Frosty" has been en instructor
at Centralia for three years. First
he was with the Flying Training
School teaching fledglings to loop
and roll the Harvard. Then he
moved to the Instrument Flying
School where he helped impart
the homing pigeon instinct into
veteran pilots. Jest recently he
has been moved to Trenton where
he will again fly Harvard aircraft,
this time from the front seat,
giving potential flying instructors
the benefit of his experience,
F/O Rivoire is an instructor
with the Flying Training School
at Centralia.
The 100 Flight Cadets who
make up the Royal Guard are
representative of the type of
young air minded Canadians that
the RCAF is seeking to fill the
aircrew ranks of the fast expand-
ing Canadian Air Service. They
include. Radio Officer courses 26
and 27, RCAF Station, Clinton.
ON ROYAL PLANE
Two former Clinton affikers are
flying on the Royal plane bear-
ing Princess Elizabeth and the
Duke of Edinburgh are F/L Ro-
bert G. Thorndycraft, Rockeliffe,
navigator, and F/L Ken Wark,
radio officer.
MOVE TO TRENTON
F/L and Mrs. J. H. Lynch and
sons, Freddie anaul, left Tues-
day for their new home at RCAF
Station, Trenton, where F/L
Lynch was posted recently. Sev-
eral parties were held in their
honour prior to their departure
after five years at Clinton.
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Guard Of Honour Inspected
AIR. COMMODORE H. B. GODWIN, OBE, CD. Assistant to the Vice -Chief of Air Staff, is
'shown (foregrouna- left) inspecting the guard of honour on 'arrival 'at RCAF Station, Clinton,
for the graduation of Radio Officers course No, 24 Friday afternoon. The Air Commodore is
accompanied by the guard commander Flt. Lt. Robert McKee, Clinton, and in the background
(left) is Group Capt. E. A. D. Hutton, commanding officer of RCAF Station, Clinton, and Flt.
Lt. Robert Thompson (right), personal aide to Air Comenodbre Godlw'in.--Clinton RCAF Photo.
White Elephant Sale
Proves Interesting
The highlight of the regular
monthly meeting of the RCAF
Officers' Wives' Auxiliary last
Tuesday, October 2, was an auc-
tion sale of white elephants.
BADMINTON
LEAGUES PLAN
ACTIVITIES
Western Ontario Badminton
Association "B" and "C" leagues
were re -organized for the coming
The meeting was held in the season at a meeting held in Clin-
dining room of the Mess with the ton with R. S. Atkey, Clinton, as
president, Mrs. George Bury, in president, end D. E. 'Symons,
the chair. There was an excel- Clinton, as secretary.
Clubs represented were Zurich,
Bayfield, Clinton RCAF, Strat-
ford and Clinton, while Kincard-
ine and Exeter sent their regrets.
Team entries must be in the
hands of the secretary .not later
than October 14, and a schedule
meeting will be held October 21,
with the league matches getting
under way the first week in No-
vember.
In addition to the above, it
was decided to invite Listowel,
Goderich and Centralia RCAF in-
to the league in addition to Sea -
forth, which was represented in
previous years and is expected
to be again, although no delegates
were present at the meeting,
A suggestion was made that an
(By Ken Ashton) attempt be made to organize the
CDCI Redmen played and lost clubs centring in Owen Sound in -
their first game of the season in to a northern group, with win-
Wingh'am ball park on Thursday ners playing off with winners of
last, October 4, The final score the south group,
was Wingham 28—Clinton 5. It was decided to forward a
The locals also ran into trouble letter of sympathy to Mr. and
in their game with Seeforth on Mrs. Ernest Hovey of the Bay -
the Clinton RCAF gridiron yest- field Badminton Club, in the
erday afternoon when they lost death of the dormer's mother,
to Seaforth 11-0. whose funeral took place at Lu -
The visitors scored all 11 points can Monday.
in the first quarter. McMillan Clinton, Stratford and Clinton
and Dale each secured a touch- RCAF Badminton Clubs all an -
down for five points each, and flounced that they would enter
Rennie converted the second. teams in bath "B" and "C" series
The game at Wingham opened this year; Bayfield and Zurich
with Wingham kicking off end stated that they would each have
Clinton receiving. After ten only a "C" team. Representation
minutes of interesting play a of the other clubs still is doubt -
touchdown was scored for Wing- ful.
ham by John Hanna. ---o
Clinton was haying a hard time
to keep back the Wingham line,
but the one and only touchdown
of the game for Clinton was scor-
ed by Ron Steep. This was Ron's
first game of rugby and he is
going to make a rugby star
The next touchdown for Wing -
ham was made by Ray Lott. It
was followed by a convert by
John Hanna which added another
point. Three minutes later,
Brophy made another touchdown,
making the score Wingham 16,
Clinton 5. Wingham's next touch-
down occurred when the ball was
fumbled by Clinton and recover-
ed to make five more poinits
for Wingham. It was followed
by 'another convert by Hanna.
Unfortunately Clinton's players
were not too good at the tackling,
and Lott was the major runner
for the Wingham team. Wing -
ham has a good team this year
and we will too, at our next
game, we hope.
In the first half of the game,
Clinton was just practising, but
in .the last helif they buckled 9ei
down and Elliott, Carter and M.
for Clinton. La GUY IVES and SONS
"
Colquhioumr were the fast runners
CLINTON: T. Jenkins, centre;
K. Younglblut, R. Armstrong, 'in-
side; B. Cowan, B. Elliott, middle;
G. Coleman, R. Steep, ends; G.
Teblbutt, quarterback;' R. Carter,
J. Porter, M. Colqu'houn•, K. Gib-
bing's, halfbacks. ' .101110111011111.101101110111:*
Clinton subs. G, Beatty, Tom
Colquhoun, M. Taylor, D. Ross,
B. Managhan, L. Gilfillan, C.
Falconer, H. Oakes, U. Fairser-
vice, J. Cowan, B. Shearing, E.
Refausse.
WINGHAM: Gerrie, Ram,
Crawford, Nimmo, Elliott, Hop-
per, McIntyre, Lott, Stainton,
Hobden, Brophy. Henna.
Wingham subs: Porter, Foster,
Cameron, Hopper, Kiibert;' Gre-
wan, Lancaster, Anderson, Sex-
ton.
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NEW MAIL C.O.LIRIER
James Makins, Clinton, has
received the contract for carry-
ing the Rgyal Mail to and fro
!from Clinton Post Office to the Priced complete
CNR Station at the require- d®®•0®
hours.
lent turnout.
During the business meeting it
was decided to dress a doll for a
Christmas raffle. Under the able
auctioneering• of Thelma Bangs,
the white elephants were quickly
disposed of. They ranged from
children's clothes to costume
jewellery and small furnishings,
all in good condition. $52.75 was
realized from the sale, which will
go into the fund for charitable
purposes.
CDCI 'LOS'ES
TO SEAFORTH
AND WINGHAM
HEAVY POTATOES
Kenneth Stewart, Brucefield,
grew some fine Katandin potatoes
oh his farm, on concession 4,
Stanley Towiahip, this year. He
showed The NEWS -RECORD one
weighing 21/4 pound's, another
weighing two pounds, end several
around 11/4 pounds.
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tor, R and C School, RCAF Sta-
tion, Clinton, was promoted to
that rank recently. He is now at
AFHQ, Ottawa.
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Electronics Warning
System Defence Key -
"Without electronics, the air
defence of Canada would be use-
less; electronics is the key to-
day," declared Aid Commodore H.
)3. Godwin. OBE, CD, assistant
to the Vice Chief of the Air Staff
at Ottawa, in his address at the
graduation ceremony of Radio Of-
ficer Course 24. conducted under
excellent weather conditions on
the parade square at RCAF Sta-
tion Friday afternoon, lest.
The 18 Flight Cadets who com-
pleted the course, indluded as
Honour Student, F/C J. R. Bright,
Stettler, Alta,
RAF OFFICER VISITS HERE
Air Vice Marshal E. B. Addison,
assistant chief of the Royal Air
Force for signals, visited RCAF
Station, Clinton, Thursday last, to
view training facilities a n d
methods.
Members of the RAF may com-
mence taking courses at Clinton
as radio officers. At present the
UK airmen are being trained in
Canada only as pilots and navi-
gators.
He was shown through the Air
Radio Officer School which grad-
uates airborne -electronics per-
sonnel and the Radar and Com-
munications School which trains
ground operators and technicians,
by Group Captain E. A. D. Hut-
ton, commanding officer.
A pass with credit was achiev-
ed by F/C Harold W, Madsen,.
who was born in St. Stephen,.
N.B., and graduated from Clinton
District Collegiate Institute with,
Honour Matriculation in June
1950 while residing with his bro-
ther, WO2 Murray Madsen, Clin-
ton, now living on the Station.
The graduates completed 38'
weeks of training at No. 1 Air
Radio Officer. School at Clinton,
receiving airborne experience in -
the electronic -trainer aircraft at*
Centralia. The graduation mark-
ed the fifth anniversary of,.this
type of training at Clinton.
A full ceremonial parade mark-
ed the graduation with the cam-.
mending officer, G/C E. A. D:.
Hutton, in command.
"The RCAF together with the
Canadian Navy is committed to,
the defence of the approaches to
Canada," A/C Godwin declared..
"We are dependent almost entir-
ely for early warning of attack
on our electronic detection equip-
ment" Many of you graduates
will become part of that organ-
ization, so you have a very irn--
portant position to fulfill."
He recalled that 18 years ago
the air force spent only a few
hundred dollars annually on
electronic worn at Camp Borden,.
but today the cost is figured in•
tens of millions of dollars,
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