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Zurich Herald, 1942-12-31, Page 3LOOK OUT, ALASKA You're apt to get- your signals crossed up there, now that these comely young ladies, recriiited for civil service jobs with the Signal.. - Corps, are heading northward. Hum -m -m, and there are 25 men to - every woman in the frozen north. Restrict Air Mail Service T© Britain Public Asked To Use Air - graph Service For Messages Postal patrons are especially requested to note that effective immediately trans-Atlantic a i r mail is now confined to aircraph and armed forces air letters. The increasing demand on trans- Atlantic aircraft capacity for vital • war supplies has cisat e d an al- most oeraplete absence of space on aircraft. Conditions have be - comae so acute in recent weeks that practically all correspondence. prepaid at air mail rates has had to be dispatched from Canada to Great Britain by ship, The same situation has obtain- ed as regards the dispatch of air mails from th;e United States and also in the reverse direction from Great Britain to both Canada and thea United States. Weight Limited In these circumstances, the Can- adian public is asked ter use the airgraph service for messages to civilians and members of the arm- ed forces in Great Britain and other plaees to whieh this service is available. A limited amount of spaoe has been reserved on aircraft for arm- ed forces air letters which willbe accepted and dispatched by .air subject to space available. The public is therefore asked to sdnd their messages by airgraph or surface transport, but,' if de- spite this advice the public insist on sending their mail by air in its original farm then the Postal De- partment will give it the most ex- peditious treatment which the cir- cumstances permit. No .guarantee of air "transport can be given. It is to be remembered that no such items ' must exceed two oun- ees in weight. If any item exceed- ing two ounces is prepaid at air mail rate it will be forwarded to destination by surface means, ' Turning Wheat into Livestock Prairie Farm Set -Up Ex- plained by Lethbridge Herald Those who do not understand the Prairie farm set-up will say, wiry do not farmers turn their wheat into livestock for which there is a good market, and then they'coud pay their debts. Let us look at the suggestion, We raised over 600,000,000 bush- els of wheat in the West this Year. We have a market for 280,- 000,000—that is all the Govern - meet has obligated itself to take. That leaves 320,000,000 bushels surplus in the farmer's hands. Suppose we divided this equally and fed 160,000,000 bushels of it to hogs and the other 160,000,000 bushels to cattle. It takes 16 bushels of wheat to produce a 220 -pound hog worth That means we, would be able to fatten 10,000,000 more hogs. The whole of Canada will not. produce 500,000 In the next year. We couldn't possibly find the breeding stock to produce another .10,000,- 000 0 000,000 hogs, and we couldn't, process thtim if..we did produce them, It Itajcos e ton of whetit, about 811 busliels, to fatten a two -yeas - ofd 'steer. Seo 160,000,000 bushels would fatter aiiuost 5,000,000 .beef cattle. There' were only 8,800,000 cattle of all kinds, including near-' iy 4,0.1207000 milk tows, on all the Earns .of Canada in 1941. Where would the Western farmers • get 5,00(1,000 beef -Cattle-to fatten on' their .surplus wheat? So it•'is not as easy as It sounds to convert wheat .into pork and beef... It would be fine if we could do It during; the war, but what •would wog -do , with all that production atter the wart Rural Sociability Still Flourishes A writer laments the decline of the old-time community spirit in the rural districts, and claims that with the passing of the been rais- ing, the husking bee, and the saw- ing bee among men, and the paring bee and the picking bee, and the like among the women, there is not the spirit of sociability that should prevail, says The Chatham News. He seems to . overlook the fact that time hes only worked its change here as elsewhere, and that now we have the Orwell tea, the garden tea, the family reunion, was work, women's institutes and clubs without number and sporting -- leagues of all sorts. We fail to see where the rural, or any other sections of the coun- try are suffering item a lack of get-togebher functions. Most people find it difficult to keep in touch .with even a small portion of what is going on about them in the way of recreation and amusement. Douglas Fir. Used For Aircraft Skin Several Veneers Bonded With Resin Glue f4ake Flat Panel of Plywood Paper -like sheets of Douglas fir wood, one forty-eighth of an inch thin, are now being shipped East to be fabricated into "skin" for plywood gliders and planes, These shipments, as yet, are neither large nor many, but they are seen as highly significant. The standard plywood for which Oregon and Washington have become. the world centre and which is being used so extensively in the war effort of the United. Nations is the familiar flat panel made up of several veneers bonded with resin glue and of steel like strength. Many a person has tried futilely to visualize this sturdy material as a substitute for alum- inum in the covering of planes. The plywood used for "skin' involves an entirely different pro- cess. This plywood region, while it has had an extensive part in supplying manufacturers of both metal and wood planes with such parts as bornb, doors, wing tips, structural members, floors, and gusset plates, has not, until re- cently, had part also in supply- ing plane and glider coverings. That is why this paper -thin fir ply is seen as so important. The regulation plywood is pro. darted by peeling the great fix logs with a rotary lathe much .like unwinding a huge •`roll of '.paper. By the new process the veneers are sliced vertically with the grain of the wood. In the regu- lar plywood of the region the liquid glue is smeared on the plies; in the new process the glue is used in sheets like paper. The regulation plywood may be curved or molded after it is fabricated; in the new process it is glued and molded in one process. A Specialty Job This plywood that takes the place of aluminum for covering the fuselage and wings of planes is a specialty job which is done in the plywood plants of the East, using mostly hardwoods. Mahog- any, birch, spruce and walnut are the favorite woods, sliced into thin veneers for this purpose. It was not until after Presi- dent Roosevelt set the goal of THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson �■��l TOTEMISM, THE BELIEF IN RELATIONSHIP WITH. CERTAIN ANIMALS, IS NOT .JUST A N O R.TI-1 AMERICAN INDIAN IDEA/ IT HAS BEEN FOUND IN ON>=' - FORM OR. ANOTHER IN ' AMERICA, AUSTRALIA* AFRICA, ASIA, AND MELANESIA. LAVAL 15 STILL.. LAVAL. WHETHER YOu READ HIS NAME egACAWA' 'f.'S OR. C,A21444/ 'S. COPR. 1042 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. S-28 HAT SHOT IN GOLF I$ PLAYED WITHOUT THE CLUB HEAD TOUCHING THE BAt-I- ANSWER: The explosion shot. The club head hits into the sand back of the ball, and the ball is set in motion by the impact of the sand. NEXT: A new use for golf bails.. Blaney and Curley of the Anzacs rey A LETTER WITH A %LACK ii1ORDR FOR 3-Ac►cv ( ;02 . 1. D 10 REPORTER ifZx Exit 1942, Enter 1943. The turn of the year is usually es period of review and resolution. As we come to the elose of an- other year, it might be interest., ing.. to look back briefly into the calendar of radia .:.broadcasting during the past twelve months, Fora the standpoint of the aver- age radio listener in Canada, few changes have been visible, With scarcely any major exceptions most of the popular national and international broadcast features have been maintained. In spite of the rigors of war the customary routine of news, entertainment, education andinstruction has continued over the ether waves on a scale comparable with simi- ler services during days of peace. Radio has continued to provide a rapid means of dissemination of war news, and it has been exten- sively used as a medium of pub - lie information on questions re- lated to our war effort . per- haps even more so than was the case in 1941. About the only out- ward and visible indication of change has been the shortening the United States production of planes per year at 125,000 that 'the industry began looking about for new materials. Metals, it was seen, could not 'supply such an enormous order, not even with the increased production of alumi- num. Not even the favored woods would fill the bill. The supply of mahogany from South America is limited by restrictions on cargo vessels, and the supplies of spruce and other woods are limited for 'large-scale production. Other woods have had to be considered, among them Douglas fir which has the advantage of being both an abundant and permanent supply. One method is to save mahogany for surface veneers and use other woods for inner sheets. The Douglas fir industry of thin northwest region is far too busy just now to stop and tinker with this new process. With labor shortages, labor freezing and stretching of the work week, it is difficult enough to fill the mass production orders for military construction purposes. But the industry is intensely interested in the newcomer as a challenge to meet. Already four mills in Ore- gon and Washington and two in British Columbia are equipped with slicers and are shipping these new, vertical, paper -thin veneers to eastern plants. Started in World War 1 The region was deeply inter- ested in plywood aircraft during World War I because of the pro- duction of spruce for this purpose. on the Olympic Peninsula, A rail. road was built into the forest wilds and there was considerable activity, •but not much came of it. As a result there has never been much faith in "wooden airplanes" in the district until the successes of recent years. In Western Flying for July, Stratford Enright explains that the fault with these early air- planes was in the glues that were used. The development of syn- thetic resin glues in the two de- " cades since accounts largely for the improvement in plywood fa- brication which, under heat . and pressure, become impregnated with the wood and forms what is fairly a new, steel -like material, water and weather resistant. "The boom of plywood aircraft construction is now on," Mr. En- right writes. "This boom is seen in both the all -wood plane and in use of wood in metal planes wherever it can save aluminum." The article speaks of "the phe- nomenal speed with which the all - metal aircraft industry has sud- denly started producing all -wood aircraft." Cargo ships, twin - engined bomber trainers, and gliders aro all being constructed of plywood, using both the flat, regulation ply- wood, and the new process molded "skin" type. of the hours of broadcasting by certain stations across the Domin- ion. Even this has been accom- .plisn,hed without any undue incon- venience to the listening public. Certain stations have opened up a little later in the morning, and signed off somewhat earlier at night. That's about all. Behind the scenes of radio, however, 1942 has seen many changes and many causes of anxi- ety. There has been, of course, a period of transition of working staffs due mainly to enlistment in the armed forces. This has been particularly true of engin- eering staffs. The armed ser- vices have sought technicians for special duty, particularly with the Royal Air Force and its branches. The radio broadcasting industry, frequently to its embarrassment, has responded loyally t Pthe call. Often young, inexperienced en- gineers have stepped into the breech and carried on. In sev- eral cases young women, with brief training have successfully taken over the control panels from the men. There are now several young women in sole charge of the engineering and transmission equipment of the smaller radio broadcasting units in Canada. The transition has taken place smoothly, and, in most cases with surprising effici- ency. * * * But the big headache, the great anxiety of radio in 1942 has been replacement equipment. The huge transmitting tubes used on most broadcasting equipment, costing, incidentally from $800 to $1,000 each, are becoming very few and fax • between. In their construction, alloys and metals of a strategic war nature are re- quired , . , alloys and metals which are urgently needed for the manu- facture of direct fighting equip- ment. It has been necessary therefore to adopt measures for the conservation of radio trans- matting tubes. Many firms who formerly manufactured parts and equipment for broadcast transmit- tars have discontinued their former activities. One, for in.. snce is now solely engaged in making fine electrical parts for depth bombs, the terror of the enemy submarine. Another is making electrical panel instru. ments of a precision nature for army bombers and fighters. At the present time it is impossible to get repairs made to micro- phones without taking some tech- nician away from a direct war job. So behind the scenes of radio broadcasting, the business of car- rying on has become increasingly difficult. My guess is that it will become progressively more diffi- cult in 1P43. The larger net- works of the United States, as well as individual stations in Can- ada have found it necessary to establish a "pool" for replacement equipment, and it is becoming quite the vogue for stations to "swap" parts and technical appar- atus. 1942 has seen extensive plans put into effect for the safeguard- ing of radio transmitters. Radio is too important in the national life of our Country to permit sabotage or carelessness to inter- rupt the flow of news, of relaxa- tion and inspiration. Inconspicu- ously, but nevertheless effectively, every radio transmitter is guarded to the teeth. Radio's resolution for 1943 is "To carry on." LISTEN TO Items of Interest From Ontario Weekly Newspapers EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. 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