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The Seaforth News, 1941-03-13, Page 7nt. THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941 f I I H • .cs JI I • "He was at Ariny camp for a month—he's done this ever since!" County Council Holds Short Special Session At the special session of Huron County Council held on Wednesday of last week, the proposed program for the complete remodelling and re- turnishiag of the large court room and council chamber in Huron County's ancient but stately Court House was a dead issue, for this year at least and perhaps for the duration of the war. It was to be one of the chief gestures to mark the couuty's centenary. but the comity council in the special session, voted fifteen to thirteen against em- powering the property committee to spend up to $3,000 on the work. The contention of the opponents of the Program, that with the Empire em- broiled iht a bitter war the present was not a time to spend rnoney on new flooring, new furniture or even venetian blinds, won the day. Soveral attempts to reach a compromise were made during the day -long de- bate, but they all failed. First the council voted 15-13 against approving or the elaborate program, It defeat- ed by 19 to 9 a motion to speed W- OO on curtailed plans. Reeve .Alex McDonald and his property committee, sponsors of the improvement program, voted against TEE SEAFORTH NEWS hind the report. "The furniture in this court room has been In use for eighty-four years. I am in favor of doing a complete job or none at all," said Reeve McCann of Stephen. De- puty Reeve Ratz, also of Stephen, expressed. the same opinion, as did Reeve Webster of West Wawanosh. All are members of the committee. Warden Leiper said he would like to see something done to mark cen- tennial year. The comity was now free of debenture debt and had the money available to pay the the work. Council was told that the estim- ates provided for raising $37,000 .this year over • and above ordinavy re- Oull.ements, without increasing the tax vale, Of this ono -half Mill, 927,- 000, had been appropriated for war effort, of which $16,000 already had been allotted. Reeve Robert Bowman of Brussels said he would not for a moment think of voting for the im- provement program If it was going to interfere with the county's war effort but in his (minim it would not. Reeve Turner of Gederich said be was ashamed of Htiron County's court room after he had seen others, and ho supported the program. Reeves Tuckey of Exeter and Heth- erington of Wingham both said they were heartily in. fovea. Reeve Gamble of Howiok also gave mild support, but Reeve Grain of Turnberry was non -committal. After the noon recess Reeve Whit- more of Tackersmith, introduced 0 motion to defer action until the coo - elusion of the war. This was sec- onded by Deputy Reeve Weir of Howick, who has a son overseas. He urged that the County go all oat in its war effort. "The war is at a criti-. cal stage," he said. "New furniture and decorating of our conrt room is immaterial in times like these,. We shall be condemned for spending money like this at a time when our 'Empire le fighting with its back to the wall." "I wish again to point out that we are not neglecting our war effort" put in 'Reeve Bowan. "Why advocate going back to the horse and buggy clays, to the pre -hydro days by say- ing we can get along 'without mod- ern improvements? I take it that nearly every member of this Coun- cil owns an automobile." "We are going to be at war a long time," warned Reeve Raymond Red -taped of East Wawanosh. "We do things in county council we would not do in our own municipali- ties. We should hesitate. Have„...'we any money to do this work? I say to that: No! We are working now on borrowed money. Go carefully. Leave things as they are." "I am not In favor. We are not out. of debt. We owe the bank moneY and it will not be paid until the taxes come in in December," said Reeve Armstrong or Hay, "It will be a shock to many to read in the newspapers that WO ttre spending $3,000 on' work that can well wait" opinecl Deputy Reeve Frayne of Ashfield. "That is not economizing. The ,war haa just atarted and it is going to cost plenty." Reeve Shaddick of Hensall said he fully agreed with Reeve Israyne. 13oth are War veteraim. When it was suggested that per- haps the proposed new floor could be eliminated, Reeve Turkey exclaim- ed: "There you go. Doing things backward. It has already cost the county a torture doing tillage piece by piece." Reeves Dorrance of McKillop. Passmore of Usborne and Wilson of Grey all spoke against the program. Reeve Wilson said that 1041 was the centennial of every county in Ont- ario. He said he was very flinch op' posed to the proposed expenditure on furniture. He would like to know what portimi of the 95,200 would go to labor. Reeves lltiorritt of Myth and Dun- can of Morris were in favor of going ahead with program or doing noth. ing at all, but Deputy Reeve Alex- ander of Grey, youngest member of couucil, said he got 0 jolt when be heard the program was going to coat $8,000. Previously he had boon in favor. He pointed out that the De- partment of Municipal Affairs had cautioned that economy be practised at this time. Said Reeve Livermore of Clinton: "When I lint came to this cottecit five years ago I was shocked to see the state 03 disrepair Into which our court house had fallen, The working- man is doing his best to help win the war; but he must have work to help. Hitler will never get into Eng- land. I hear regularly from relatives there and I believe them. I believe in spending within revolt during war time, I believe hi fhe 'huginess as usual' slogan. Coventry was al- most bombed off the map, but the factories there are operating again," "It is all right to say Hitler won't get into England, bat he got hp Ist.ance and Other countries, We are going to sweat before this war is over. We will need all our money and resourcea," was Deputy Reeve FraYee's final allot just before the vote was taken. There was little dis- He Trains Young Hockey Champs Home Town Kids Are Taught AeViiinning Hockey Sys- tm Tic Mery of how the mining com- munity of Eveleth 111 Minnesota has built champion hockey teams, Is told In Collier's.. The youngsters are trained to play lawitey under cap- able coaching. Cliff Thompson has been coaching hockey in Eveleth since 1026. Ills Eveleth junior Coll- ege teams have won 179 games and lost only 31 during the fourteen yeal'a. The Eveleth High School woe 108 and only lost 16. That's an aver- age of one high school and two jun- ior college games lost per season. There were three different seasons when eeither of his teams lost a game. Many or his boys have grad- uated into professional hockey jobs. Everybody knows Mike Karalcas and Frankie Brimsek. And there's Lo- presti, Marincci and &Mailer, who went to the Chicago Blackhawks. Rootlike]. to the Boston Bruins and dozens of other multi be named who have joined impoetant teams. "No jumble hockey," Is his con- stant slogan. Many peaches teach jumble hockey, he says. They put on one stick handler and two fast skaters In the front line, or two stick handlers and one speed merchant. That kind of a line means the boys can't possibly go down the ice to- gether. Thompson puts three stick handlers in the forward line, or if speed is required, he puts i41 three fast, skaters. A hockey player muat tirst learn to skate, and skate all the time, Only constant skating will get any Player into the big leagues. To a111 his battle against jumble hockey, Cliff Thompson's coaching system includes frequent use of the black- board for diagraming plaYs. There are plays doped out and diagramed to cover ahnost every situation that arises in a game. When play stone for a face -oft, the Eveleth lads glide to positions they know as well as thelr a b es. When play starts they skate, pass and :Moot by their well' practised plays. He has a system for training goalies. There are three special abil- ities a good goalie mast develop, he says. One is courage, one is correl- ating his eyes and hands so he's as got, at Belding as the best shortstop hi the country. The third is' Outing angles—angles on the shots that come rifling for the net. Another interesting feature of CIiff ThomPson's system is how ho gets players for his champion teams, He trains the home town young- sters, little kids' teams; one whiter he had sixteen. Later, he cut clown to six kids' (Kuno. but lie's handling as many as he can this year, he says, because it pays. He brings them up in the right style so they won't need so much coaching in high school. Why do his Eveleth teams win ? Remise the other teams "play like a lot or jumble bunts." That's the story behind Cliff Thompson's champ factory. ed that the committee, told at the January session to spend "two or three thousand dollars" on the work, had found, after visiting 'Walkerton, Stratford and London court houses, that a good job, one of which the people of Huron County would be Proud, could not be done for less than $7,000 or $3,000. This program called for a new floor costing ap- proximately 91,000, new furniture 95,200, redecoration $390, and new blinds $260. All were estimates ex- cept the amount for. the furniture. It was a tender. Plans or the pro- posed layout and samples of the fur. niture were submitted. At the outset council went late committee, Warden James Leiper asking Reeve J. It Scott of Seaforth to take the chair. The public were not excluded, it beteg explained the committee Idea. was simply to give members more latitude in debate. Every member spoke, some several times. Reeve McDonald, of Ashileid, as chairman of the property com- mittee, submitted the report, and said that he and his felloW-members of the committee had taken the stand that they were not justified in proceeding, with the program In viow of the additional cost involved without the sanction of the entire council, and hatl asked Wardell the $6,000 compromise. With t tem Laper to call at. spec a n e g. It was all or nothing. It was explain- said he would stancl seuarelY be - 0 ?' *, The World's News Seen Through 4 84. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR \ An interne/Vona/ Daily Newspaper .', is Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational- .; ism —Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily ',.. 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Consideration of 5 plan to inter. change the County Engineer's and Sheriff's offices at an estimated cost of 91,500, also on the special session agenda, was put over until June. The cost includes the purchase of two large safes, costing approximately $1,000, for the safe -keeping of docu- ments in the sheriff's office. A letter was read from the inspector of Legal ()Mies stating that the elurrige-over Was not Urgent. • PAGE SEVEN LEARNING TO SHOOT HUNS An Instructor in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Trenton Air Base, Oat., explains the different parts of a machine gun and their function during a. class period, have removed the annoyance of nu- merous appeals, the duplication of effort and expense. For years busi- ness men, labor unions and news- papers have urged this step, Now the people are getting what they have cMnianded. "Every cent of the net proceeds of the campaign will go to make camp life liveable for our men in uniform and ta carry on the home services of certain of the organizations. Our people have been helping and will continue to help to buy wins, planes, ships and tanks. Now we can give to the lads themselves. They are real - fighting men but they aren't mere cogs in a. slaves' machine; they are entitled to what recreations and comforts we can give them, As His Excellency the Bari of Athlone has said: 'The comforts we give them are the evidence to them of the af- fection and thoughtfulness of the folks at home.' "To enable contributors to give with full confidence a corporation was formed under the dominion companies act and registered under the war charities act to act as a trust for receiving and paying out the funds. The name of the corpor- ate body is 'Canadian War Services Pend, Inc.' Sir Edward Beatty is honorary president, Beaudry Leman of Montreal, honorary vice-president. and J. A. McLeod, Toronto, boom- er), treasurer. The president is Ni. J. Y. Murdoch, K.C., of Toronto. Other members are: Mrs. David A. Dunlap, T. D'Arey McGee, Maj. -Gen, A. D. McRae, F. K. Morrow, Gordon Perry, Brig...Gem Alex Ross and Vernon Knowles, asettre impartial centrol of this corporation a dominion -wide Cit- izens' Committee was set up. The Personnel of this committee consti- t31tt7s In itself a guarantee that all funds will be conserved. Members of the citizens' committee me in effect `shareholders' of the corporation. They will continue the eorporation :and at annual meetings will elect Vic. executive for the coming year.' MANNEQUINS LEAVE ENGLAND SIX ORGANIZATIONS OPEN CAMPAIGN ON MARCH 24 Six war service organizations W'111130 ordinarily appeal to the public separately for funds have united 01 one drive for 95,500,000 under the name of "The Canadian War Serv- lees Fund." The campaign wilt open March dlth, General A. D. McRae, National Campaign Chairman, an - flounced in Toronto on Tuesday. It will be the only national campaign this year on behalf of the men in uniform. Included in the campaign, said General McRae, will be: Canadian Legion 9910,000; Salvation Army 91.- 425,100; Y. M. C. A., 91,741,000; Y. W. C.A. $289,965; timights or Columbus 9506,000; I. 0. D. E. $104,000. This leaves a margin of 9317,835 for tbe expansion 'which the campaign com- mittee believes will he required by Canada's expanding war effort. "These organizations have united in response to a growing public de- mand," explained General McRae, "It is unthinkable that we should have six or eight separate drives in dine of war. By uniting, the organizations To Show London Fashions in South America 1.011ilkla Iratalle111,1111, are leaving for South .\ merica to display seventy - two model: at intent. Aires and Rii de Janeiro in the spring. Nine London dres, designers ar' at work 111 the models: Creed, Nor- man 11 art 11(1 1, 1.aelia,ae. Molyneux Dieby Morton, Paquin, I'eter Russel., Victor Stiebel, and Worth. These famous designers are nom 0114y -creating nen fashions from British fabrics in n.001, cotton, rayon, silk, linen and lace, The displays. 110111 under the aus- pices of the United liingdom 1;ot-em- inent, ;I re being organized :by the De• partment ot 0..erseas Trade with the co-operation of the Export Council. and other dance nuisie into tam.,.oes. SILK OF GLASS Glass silk is 1100. being sent over- seas from Great Britain in increasing quantities. The manufacturer ex- ported 250 per cent more of it ilast year than in .1939, It is used for saving heat. Not less than .seventy-five pc!" cent of the heat made yearly by millions of tons •of fuel is wasted, This specially clans- ufactured glass silk is perhaps the most efficient manorial ior stopping sudh wastage in domestic equipment boilers, pipes and stoves. In the last few months, this glass silk insulating material. nvhic14 is un- affected by temperatures up to 901) degrees Fahrenheit, has been ship- ped froin Great iBritain to South Africa and Calcutta in the form of blankets: as mattresses to East India (for railway locomotives) and 10 North-west Stutia (for insulating petrol wagons): in rigid sections to New Zealand, Trinidad and Portugal, and, in sheets, for separating the positive and negative plates Of Inc accumulators, to 'Canada, New Zealand, Ails:raga. and Eire. Various other glas: silk products have been recently despatched to Arabia and the whole of the insulat- ing material required for the new Bulawayo ,Hospital and Nurses' Home. Rhodesia, will consist of tish-made glass silk. FOXTROTS "TRANS-LATED" INTO TANGOES . • "There'll Always Ile An Englattr is one of three favourites with which 01-11141) rnttsie t)tit-ilist-lert: are meeting a growing demand from the Doniin- ions, The other two ,s.re "The Last Rose summer- and "1 Hear You Calling Me." Australia in 1'l ('11(31115!' is asking fe, more and more sheet music fro -i 'Groat Britain, the result of a els', paid to the Commonwealth last by Peter Da W,011 and Brian 1• rence, both Of 'whom have clone um...", to popularise English -ballads. To -da'. British music pititlisiteri ate exporting as -fast as paper 411.• plies permit. EXports 10 South \inerica. are 8111(1(11)' 110) bv 5191 per 0ent since the ivar began. The chief buyers are .Vr.4entina. Uruguay, lirazil and Chile. Npwatlays ,Iltiettos .Aires ninsc• lovers who want the latest thing music are not sending to 'New Vor.: or Bo -int. They send to 'London. 1111 i1 35 four times cheaper /Ten... London than iNew Voric: andit conies in half the time. It is the nii favourites that are in demand, melol, ies like the "Grasshopper's Danee.". mid the ballads of 35 years aga. .Yloreover, British musicians art adapting themselves -to rapture a market ;formerly held- by Italy and Germany. and for _South .Nnierica thee are "translatirtz" their foxtrots CBC completes ne v studios at Ottawa. Modern design and new equip - runt establish Ottawa studios as Most up-to-date 141 the Dominion.