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The Clinton News Record, 1941-07-31, Page 7THURS., JULY 31, 1941 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 7 B "The longest day at last Bows down to even." The subject of sunrise is a topic to be taken up by itself, but it is difficult to speak of the Sunset without a back- ward glance. When, we obey the summons of the coming day we do so either with a dis- satisfied fear.of the hours to come or With a joyousness which helps not on- ly ourselves, but also everyone with whom we come in contact. If the lat- Sunset PEG" The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorpoorated THE NEW ERA TERRMS+ OF SUBSCRIPTION a1.50 per year in advance, to Can- dian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discentinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of thepub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is • denoted' on the label. ADVERTISING RATBS -- Transient The colors in the scene, which we have advertising- 12c per count line for list insertion. 8c for ,each aubse- been observing gradually fade. Then ter be our choice then we join the ranks, of the smiling brigade, but if we want to enlist with the daily fight- ers then we are free to do so. During the day we have made many mistakes, chiefly :becausewe failed to ask• our Saviour to keep us closer to Him. The hours slowly or quickly move along and the routine of the day, brings us to the time when the sun, is ready, to sink into the west. How many of those who are able, take the trouble to Took at a sunset. Int may be that we live in a city, where the view is 'obstructed by 'buildings,. and probably we have to travel miles. to see the sun sinking to rest. Never- theless it would be well worth our while to make an effort to obtain this view. In order to receive the most bene- fit we should go alone, make' oursel- ves as comfortable as possible on the bank overlooking a lake and there watch the changing sky as the sun leaves us and sinks behind the horizon to bring the dawn to other worlds. eluent inertias. Reading eonnts 2, lines. Small' 'advertisements not to exceed one inch, such, as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for35el, each subj.equent insertion 15c. Rates 'for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - Proprietor H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LLB. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.G. Sleet Blau s 41i?toa f DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203, Clinton EL C. 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Every effort made to give satisfac- tion. Immediate arrangements can be made for sale dates at News -Record Office ar writing Gordon M. Grant, Goderich, Ont, conies the afterglow and the appear- ance of the evening star, followed by the stars, planets and constellations which take their places in the firm- ament of Heaven. There are those who for years now have not been able to see a sunset. God has seen fit to lay them aside in order that they better may carry on the work He has given them to do. To them, the discription of a sunset received recently may carry happy memories. "The sky was one mass of fleecy white clouds with a Heaven- ly blue behind them. To add to the beauty there was that glorious array of sunset colours to tint the fleecy clouds. As a foreground there were the tall elms' along the line fence and a little wren sitting singing on the bird house." It was a picture which no artist could transfer to canvas and no words of poet or writer could adequately describe. To be appreciated it needed to be seen. As with God's. out of doors, a sun- set is just as free to the .pour as it is to the rich,' There are few who at some time or other have not seen the' beauty of 'a sunset. Then, and only then, have we been able to real- ize that' Christ is the perfect artist of the setting' sun. We come away from viewing a scene feeling better able to say with the Psalmist of old. "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.'! At the same time there isimpressed on our minds the sooth- ing thought that the God who paint- ed that picture is the creator of the world, and is still on the throne to rule and to be our comfort in time of trouble. How different people view this stupendous scene. If we were to ask several'• people who were in a position to see a particular sunset just what their thought of it was, the answers would be as varied as the number of the people. One has appreciated the work 'of the Great Artist and would describe it in such a way that anyone who could not see would be able to get a real mental picture of it; to another it may simply have been a prophesy of the weather for the com- ing day; the next one has been occup- ied with other thoughts to have even seen it at all. In the _north 'country Ian elderly couple were watching the , sunsot from a high cliff, Their en- joyment of it was plainly to be seen from the expressions on their faces. A young lad who was standing with them began to hove away saying "I must go and tell.my Mother and Dad to come and see the sunset." "Oh!" replied the woman "they have seen it hundreds of time." "But I want them to see your faces as you look at it." As we view one of God's Master- pieces in the sunset, at times a great loneliness. cones over us, partioulerly if we have recently said farewell to some one whom we loved, some one who has gone on that long journey from which no traveller returns. The idea has been brought forward that Heaven is in the Northern portion of ,the sky, 'where the stars are not so numerous. Be that as it may. It matters not where Heaven is. What does matter is whether we ever ex- oect to be there or not: We visualize our loved ones in the Land beyond the Blue; in the region beyond the setting of the sun; in that glorious realm where peace forever reigns. Would we recall them' if we could? Much as we felt their parting and lonely days have been without them, we would not wish them beak. As we .look at the Sunset we like to think of the unexcelled joys which are theirs. They are in that happy Home,• waiting for us and we must decide -whether we want :to go to thein oe not. No one else can make the de- cision for us, Whether we want it or not the Sun- set of Life conies to each one of us. Children have very little realization as to the significance of the passing years, but as we grow older we lanow with a certainty that sooner or later we must set sail to yon shore. We take nothing with us but our'unfor- given, sins. The little we 'have done to snake the world brighter` and better has gone on before. God has used it to help to build our mansion or shack, Pilots Learn How To Handle Planes At Elementary Flying Schools This is the sixth in a series of art- be any immediate change. exceptlnin- icles about the Royal Canadian Air Force and, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, written for the weekly newspapers of Ontario. By HUGH TEMPLIN One "year ago, Mount Hope was a lit- tle crossroads village south of Ham- ilton, about half -way between that city and the Grand River. How it got its name, I don't know, but the hopes of the early citizens must have been realized at last. The village it- self is little changed' as yet, but on the high ground nearby there are two air training camps, one of them oper- ated by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain, the other by the Royal Can- adian Air force as a unit of the Brit- ish Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Previous stories in this series have followed the future pilot through the first two months of more of his train- ing but he has not been in the air yet,, He has had to prove his fitness in many ways, but the nearest he has corse to actual flight has been in a miniature plane, anchored firmly to the . ground. At some one of the 26 Elementary Flying Training Schools scattered across Canada, he will ex- perience the thrill of his first flight, unless he has, at some time before enlistment, paid for a ride as a pas- senger, or is one of those rare re- cruits with training as commercial pilots. The "No -Admittance" Sign THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company- Head ompanyBead Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President. Wni. Knox Londesboro; Vice -President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton;Thos. Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEw- Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31. Clinton; Jas. Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Bruce - field, RR. No. 1; R. F. McKercher. Dublin, ER. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen; A. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R.R. No, 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton;' Bank of C'ommercee Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ail- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director It isn't easy to get inside the gate at any of the R.O.A.F. training schools. That is as it should be, and no one can object to the rules, but sometimes, the guards interpret them more strictlythan at others. I drove up to the gate, armed with letters from the Training Command and accompanied by a Flying Officer in uniform. The Commanding Officer was expecting Inc. But the guard at the limier -vas adamant. I had no pass, so I didn't get in He must have been an N.C.O. in the Imperials— rules to hien were rules. Protestations by my guide and a telephone call to the Commanding Officer didn't alter the fact that I had no pass'. Finally, it was suggested to the guard that he write me out one himself. He did so, and I passed triumphantly. inside. There isn't much beauty about the Mount Hope School. The countryside is flat and uninteresting. A year ago, the camp site was still farm land. The landing field hasn't grown up in grass yet, though the runways are paved. The buildings are of the fam- iliar pattern found at all the schools, with everything standardized for rapid and economical construction. The outside of the huts is covered with roofing paper. Everywhere there is a look of newness. or details. ` All other types of schools are directly under the R.C.A.F. All the planes used at Mount Hope are Fleet Finches. Some other schools use Tiger Moths. There was a time, months ago, when they used. some of each or whatever training planes were available, but there is no longer any scarcity .of training planes. The Fleet Finches, and the Tiger Moths are both double -seated biplanes. Two pairs of wingsenablethem to fly steadily in the hands of beginners and to land at a safe speed Flying speedis slightly over 100 miles an hour; landing speed less than half that.. Officials at Mount Hope are proud of one record. Since the school was opened last October, not one student has been injured or killed. The hos- pital hasn't had an emergency case to handle. I found similar records at other schools. It is not the begin- ners who crash, but those who think they are experienced pilots. Parachutes` and Their Uses The student takeshis first flight in the front seat of a Fleet trainer with an .experienced pilot in the rear. Be- fore he goes up, he puts on one of several types of warm flying suits, a hehnet with ear phones, so that he can listen to the instructor, and a pair of big, soft moccasins. A para- chute is strapped to his body. There is a broad belt of webbing around the waist, with two narrower straps over the shoulders and two more around the legs. All the straps are. fastened to lock in front of the body. The parachute itself is carefully folded inside a bag which serves as a cush- ion on which the student sits while flying. The "rip cord" isn't a cord at all. Fastened to the belt, on the left side, is a large metal handle, in easy reach of the right hand. When it is pulled a metal cable, like that used in camera shutters, jerks open the bag in which the parachute is folded. Few students will ever have to use one, in Canada at least, but the feel o£ a parachute on the back gives added confidence. The First Flying Instructions After graduation from the Initial Training School, the future pilots part, from the other students and go to the Elementary Flying Training Schools, of which Mount Hope is a typical example. These schools are not run by the Government, but by private companies, each one sponsor- ed by a Canadian Flying Club. One result is that there is a certain div- ision of labor at each of these Ele- mentary Schools. There is a civilian • manager, whose duty it is to super- vise all the actual flying instruction and maintainance of the planes, and an R.C.A.F: officer in charge of dis- cipline and of the classroom teach- ing. The arrangement has been critic- ized, but it seems to be ;working well. Early in the war, when the great Air Training Plan was first put into op- eration, it enabled the R.C.A,F. to take advantage of the most experien- ced instructors available, the enthus- iasts who kept alive the Flying Clubs. That saved precious weeks and has CANADIAN RATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going. East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going West, depart 9.50 p.m. London—Clinton Ging South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. One of the buildings at Mount Hopp is the parachute room, The parachute is made of the finest grade Japanese silk, with braided cords. The length is about 40 feet and the cost of one is about $400. Parachutes are given con- stant care, since lives depend on them. Every few days, they are un- packed and hung up in a tower, look- ing like a flock of big hats hanging from the ceiling. Folding and re -pack- ing are done by experts. Toronto Baseball Notes The last chance fans will have to see the Newark Bears, Jersey City Giants and Baltimore Birds this sea- son will come in the next couple of weeks when those clubs mage their farewell visits to Toronto's Maple Leaf Stadium. Neaeark's final series with the Leafs in Torontao starts with a flood- light game on July 31st, followed by another on August 1, and winds up 50% GASOLINE SAVING Here are seventeen easy ways to wands a fifty pereent'gasoline saw ng, as approved by automobile ex- perts: Reduce driving speed from 60 to 40 on the open road. Avoid jack -rabbit starts. Avoid useless or non-essential driving. Turn motor off when not in use, do not leave idling. Don't race your engine; let it warm up slowly. Don't strain ,you engine; change gears. Keep carburetor cleaned and prop- erly adjusted. An interesting 'chute story comes horn another school. New parachutes were taken there for testing. A weight was attached and the parachu- te taken up in one of the big bombers, It was laid on two planks across an opening in the floor of the plane. One of the ground crew, not tbo bright apparently was given the duty of going aloft and releasing the pare achute to be tested. His duties were simple. The weigh t rested on a couple of planks stretched across the opening. All he had to do was tip the planks at the proper time, to let the parachute go. All went well un- til n -til one day when a plank got caught. Jerking at it, the aircraftman lost his balance and fell forward through the hole. Quite unexpectedly, he test- ed a parachute, but it was his own. Tune up motor, timing, etc. Keep spark plugs and valves clean. Check cooling system; overheating wastes gasoline. Maintain tires at right pressure. Lubricate efficiently; worn engines waste gasoline. Drive in groups to and from work. using cars alternate days. For golf, picnics and other outings, use one ,car instead of four. Take those short shopping trips ON FOOT and carry parcels home. Walk to and from the inovies. Boat owners, too, can help by re= during speed. How To Aim A Spitfire At the Elementary Flying Training School, the student pilots flies about 50 hours, 25 of them under the eyes of an instructor and the rest alone. He may go up as often as four times a day, but never over four hours al- together in one day. The other half of the day is spent in the lecture rooms. Two afternoons a week, there are sports at 4 o'clock, tennis, soft - worked so well, there is not likely to ball and soccer. One building houses the Link trainers, which, are contin- 1 rally used for testing the students. as the case may be, in His Kingdom, Lectures include such subjects as We are told in God's word that Heav- navigation, engines, rigging, theory en awaits us if we have taken Christ I of flight, armament and signals. as our Saviour and we know that His Realm is a place of happiness. Is Classrooms vary according to the that not a wonderful and satisfying subject taught. I will describe only thought? The joy of it! There is one of the most interesting. nothing in the world can give such Itis obviously important that pilots pleasure. Why hesitate any longer. of fighting planes should be able to Gm* decsion must be made quickly for recognize an enemy at a distance and no one •knows the day nor the hour get in the first shots --and those when the son of man cometh. shots must be accurate. Crossing the Bar All flying schools teach aircraft re - Sunset and evening star cognition. Walls of classrooms and And one clear call for mei halls are covered with pietu.res of And may there be 110 moaning of British, American and enemy planes. the bar Models, made of plastic and brought When I put out to sea, from Britain, or carved from wood, by For such a tide as moving seems Canadian boys, accurately measured asleep, to scale, are suspended from wires in Too full for sound and foam various positionsand can be moved When that which drew from out across the icon. the boundless dose, Using these models, the student Turns again home. learns to aim with the, eights used on the famous Spitfire planes. I found Twilight and evening bell, this sight a fascinating niece of op - And after that the dark! tical epuipment: It is not much larger • And may there be no sadness of than a fla'shliglt and is illuminated. farewell by a email bulb at the bottom, The When I embark; pilot looks through a sloping piece of For though from out oar borne glass which is transparent and yet acts as a Mirror: On the glass, a cir- with a daylight doubleheader on Sat- urday ternoon, August 2. Jersey City Giants open a three-day stay with a daylight double bill on Civic Holiday, August 4, and conclude with a floodlight game on August 5 and a twilight-floodlight,doubleheader (starting at 6.80 p.m.- on August 6. Baltimore Birds finish off the week with floodlight games on August 7 and Aupgust 8, and play a double- header on Saturday afternoon, Aug- ust 9. All floodlight games start at 8.80 p.m. and the afternoon doubleheaders at 1.45. a camera. The pilot sees an enemy plane in the distance. He sets one dial acording to the type of plane, say a Messerschmitt 109, and the other for the distance at which he in- tends to open fire, say 300 yards. After that he can concentrate on keeping the enemy plane inside that circle of light. When is is close en- ough that the wings of the approach - plane fill the space in the broken bar of light, the pilot touches a but- ton and the fire of eight machine guns converges on the spot narked by the bright point of light en the gun - sight. In training, no gune are fired but the pupil Iearns to judge distance and to aim accurately and quickly. Commanding Officer at Mount Hope is Flying Officer li'. P. Pleas- ance. The Administration Officer, who was our guide, is Flying Officer L. W. Code. .-.--.t, If you are curious to know just what it takes to make a winning club in the International League, have a look at those Newark Bears. The New York Yanks' No. 1 farm club has power, good pitching, a tight de- fense and speed on the bases—all the necessary ingredients and a proper balance. They have the home run power to pile up High scores when runs are needed in quantities, and they have great pitching to win the close ones. The Bears have no less than four reliable starting pitchers in John Lindell, George ,Washburn, "Ford- ham Hank" Borowy and rookie Russ Christopher. The last named is one of the finds of the season, They have power in Francis Kelleher, Tommy Holmes, Ken Sears and Henry Majes- ki. Kelleher is leading the league in home suns and in. runs battled in the number of hits' made. George Stirnweiss, youthful second baseman who was plucked right off the cam- pus of North Camillo University, leads the league in stolen bases. With this array of talent nothing but an accident will keep the Bears from copping another pennant. Snooker Arnovieh, Gorden may be the percentage player they're looking. for. If they hand out any medals in the International League this summer for managerial magic, they should pin them on Tommy. Thomas, the jolly' Skipper of ' the Baltimore Birds. Though the team is not even a con- tender, so great is Tommy's magic that Baltimore fans are proclaiming him the best all-round manager the club has' had since the days of Fritz , Maisel. Isere are some of the feats Tommy-. has performed to date, He has taken a couple . of Baltimore high school boys, 18 -year-old' Val Flanigan and 19 -year-old Rues Niller, and made winning pitchers out of them. He has developed Hal Sieling to the point where the peppery shortstop is now being eyed by half a dozen major lea- gue scouts. He has filled a gap in his pitching staff by converting Tom Hafey, an indifferent third baseman, into a promising hurler, and then con- verted catcher Kracher into,a sueeea. sful third baseman. Tommy now has a contract to man- age 'the Baltimore club for the next three years. New York Giants, parent club of the Little Giants, have shengthed their Jersey City off -spring in the latter's bid for a playoff spot by turn- ing Nick Whitek over to them. The Polish lad from Pennsylvania was something of a disappointment to Bill Terry, who had figured him to succeed Burgess Whitehead. But Nick didn't hit well enough to satisfy major league requirmeete. He will undoubtedly help the Jersey City Club, as Ile proved himself a standout in Double -A company when he was with Newat1c in 1939. The Little Giants, incidentally, have a starry young infielder in Sid Gordon who may get his chance on top next spring. The Giants have been searching for years for a Jewish ballplayer who would be iiig box of- fice in New York. They failed first with Andy Cohen, and later with of Time and Place The flood may bear ane far, cle of light appears, with, a cross -bar I hope to see my Pilot face to of light, broken in the middle. In the face exact centre of the circle is a spot of When I. have crossed the bar." bright light. There are two dials on the gun "PEG"' sight, similar to those on the lens of With the acquisition of Lennie Mer- tile, youthful shortstop, the Toronto Leafs now look stronger than they have at any time since the season opened. All season long it has been said of the Leafs that the other clubs didn't beat them, they beat them- selves. They have lost thirty-three games to date by the margin of a single run, 'and most of those losses can be traced to "boots" at shortstop. If they had won those games, they would now•be in second place. Merullo, already a big favorite in Toronto, can run like a rabbit, has good hands, a rifle arm and a fine competitive temperament. He is a graduate of Villanova College where he also played hockey. His icontract is owned by the Chicago Cubs, who shifted him to The Leafs from Los Angeles. He is twenty-two years old. Ralph Hammed, the young left- hander who used to pitch for Guelph in the Intereounty League, is rejoin- ing the Toronto Club and will be giv- en a thorough trial between now and the end of the season. Such shrewd baseball men as Paul Kriteheli, New 'York Yankie scout, and Lena Black- burne, manager of the Leafs, say that all Ralph needs to become a ,great Pitcher is confidence. The Leafs, incidently, have been getting some swell pitching from a skeleton staff. Porter Vaughan, Her- man Besse, Walter Lan Franconi and Dick Fowler have been going to the post every third day or so, and have pitched an amazing number of low -hit games. If their mates had been get- ting any runs for then, they would probably rank close to the top in the won -and --lost records. French River and Devil's Gap Lure Visitors A cottage on the shore of a tree -lined lake with oppor- tunities for fishing, boating, swimming and other warm- weather recreation provides the kind of summer holiday which is essentially Canadian. But life in a cottage sometimes means a lot of work owing to the lack of city conveniences, which is the reason for the great popularity of such resorts as Devil's Gap and French River where visitors live in cottages which are as well ser- viced as hotel suites. The simple life, with all the informality and .ease which the expressionimplies, is the watch- word at these two famous 'Cana- dian Pacific resorts. Mother' is relieved of the cooking, daughter of the dish -washing and sonny of. the lawn -mowing, while father dresses in his oldest and most comfortable clothes to pursue his .own peculiar ideas of summer life. There is a strong family re- semblance between Devil's Gap Lodge, near Keuora, and French, River Chalet Bungalow Camp, on the Canadian Pacific Toronto - Sudbury line. In a beautiful section of lakes and forests, they offer endless possibilities for re- creation. No part of Canada has better fishing, and there are facilities for tennis, golf and similar sports. Great expanses of water and wooded country make exploring a pleasure, by canoe, motorboat, automobile, horse or on foot. . Individual bungalows or cot- tages, self-contained' and cosily furnished, have electric lights, running water and maid service. The central chalet or lodge is the nerve centre of the eommunity because it is there that visitors have their meals and enjoy clan - dug and other amusements in the evenings. Although there are amuse- ments for every member of the family, the most popular sport. at these resorts is fishing. That is because the fishing is so good. Pickerel, pike, sturgeon, plus those scrappiest game -fish of the Canadian water -world, the mus- caiunge and the small -mouth black bass are found in abundan- ce. Both districts have produced record fish, the most outstanding of which was the sixty and one- half pound muscalunge caught by J. J. Coleman, of Evansville, Indiana, in Eagle Lake, east of Devil's Gap, in 1939. That pea holds the world's record., ,