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The Huron Expositor, 1941-10-24, Page 3
• OCTA 24, 10/0 ! An Ahne Not Enough Three essential minerals also Found <in Dr. Chase's Nerve Food (Continued from Page 2) Junior Red Cross, Miss Betty Peltier, Mise Gail Saunders, Miss Madeline Shackleton, Miss Mary Gallows Miss Patricia •Graig and Miss Kathleen -11 - Ewan. Those taking part in the m0us- icale were Miss Eileen Bogle, Miss Madeleine Lane, Mrs. W.,F. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Walter, Miss Mar- jory Hays, Miss Claire Reynolds, Mrs. J. J. McDougall, M -r. J. F. Gil- lespie and Miss Pauline McEwen. The program concluded with community singing.-Goderich Signal -Star. Attending University Centenary Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Redmond left for Kingston to attend the 100th an, niversary celebrations at Queen's Uii,- iversity.-Wingham Advance -Times. Portion of Toes Amputated Robert H. McKinnon met with a painful accident on Monday while as- sisting with the installing of the wa- ter wheel at McKinney Bros. mi11, a piece of timber fell on his foot. He was taken at once to the Wingham General Hospital where it was found necessary to amputate a portion of 'two. of his toes.-Winghaii Advance- -Times. Now At Petawawa The Non -.Commissioned Officers of the 99th Battery wiho :have been sta- tioned at M'egantic, Que., are now at Petawawa where they are enrolled in a three months' course. They spent Sunday in Montreal on their way to their new camp.-Wingham Advance - Times. Celebrates 37th Wedding Anniversary .Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Cooper, of the London Road, celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary on Friday, Oct. 10th. They were at home to their friends in the, evening, When quite a ,anumbe.r called to offer their congratu- ' dations and best wishes. Mrs. Cooper also ,received a beautiful bouquet of red roses. -Clinton News -Record. Coal For Clinton Radio School Two thousand tons of coal were •shipped to Blyth last week via the C.P.R., for the Clinton Radio School., and is in the process of being trans- ferred from cars into trucks,,•, after which it is whisked' away to the school. A large loading crane is load- ing the trucks at the C.P.R. freight yards. -Clinton News -Record. Breaks Arm • Friends of Mrs.,. Z. McCallum re- gret to learn that she shad .,the mis- fortune to tall in the,woodshed of her home on Friday evening, sustaining .a fracture to her left wrist. It was only about six months ago that she broke the same • arm, when she fell •while hanging• clothes. -Mitchell Ad- vocate. Two Accidents At Bornholm The Staffen family at Bornholm, R.R. 1, have been having their share of misfortune during the past few weeks as- ,far .as accidents are con- cerned. About three weeks ago Mrs. Ed. Steffan was' attempting to round .up the cows when one of them knocked her into a gutter and an- other • attacked her with the result . that she suffered a broken leg. We are. glad to state that she is able to be about the house on crutches. On Wednesday of last' week, her hus- band's father. John Steffan, was un - For KITCHEN and BATHROOM YOU need Gillett's Lye in the kitchen and in the bathroom. Keep it handy for • drains.,, for pots and. pans, for numerous other household tasks. Gillett's Lye will save you hours of hard work -it's the easy, efficient, economical way of cleaning. *Never dissolve lye in hot water. The action of the lye itself heats the water. FRES BOOKLET -'fbe Giilett's Lye Booklet tells how t opowerful dean a rr daddbs ears clogged &w keeps out - bowies clean and odorless by destroying the contents of Clete t ... . redora m dozes of Backe. Soma for a ireo copy to Shindird Mande Lt&, Primer Ave. and Liberty Street, at+snta Ont. help to make this a true tonic for -blood and nerves. , Buying the lame size eaves you money and ensures, a supply for all the family. 180 pills $1.50. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food con- tains vitamin B,p dertaking to get some horses. He had one on a halter and in endeav: oring to catch another, a third horse went between.. them, injuring him in such a manner that he sustained a broken collarbone. He, is also pro- gressing favorably. - Mitchell Advo- cate. Our FoodSupply (By John Atkins, Farmer -Journalist) No. 1 -FREE .FOOD PIERIOD ENDS Every fourth mouthful of food eat- en in Canadian towns and cities has been donated to those who ate it by the farmers who =grew it, for almost twenty years. ' Vast quantities of food, which should have gone to feed the people of Europe, had depressed prices and enabled urban families to feed them- selves at less than cost. .This sur- plus -food piled up in Canada and other food -producing countries be- cause Hitler had decided that Edrope must quit peaceful trading and pre- pare for war. While urban Canadians were able to. buy their food at less than cost they were indifferent to what was .happen- ing to rural Canadians. Although they should have realized that. their own wellabeing and security depended upon a sound Canadian agriculture, they were quite content to let the farmers do all the worrying. Unfair conditions, against w'h'ich urban peo- ple rebel and strike, made a gigantic sweatshop of the agricultural indus- try. During this prolonged agricultural depression all Canada -suffered, but urban people suffered much lest' than farm people. For the ten years fol- lowing 1930 the one-third of Canada's people who live on farms received less than one-tenth o+f the total\ in- come of all Canadians. Farm people could not take proper care of them- selves nor. of their plant and equip- ment. When the war broke 'out far- mers as a class had not the health and strength nor the capital that they needed to early on and produce all the food that we now requite. Now.. the, farm problem, our food -supply problem, has caught up with Canadians and we all must face it:, Our surpluses of food melted away as more and more food was required by Great Britain;:,:icy our flies, bys our forces; by our own people for harder. ,work, and by the hungry in other lands. Our wheat surplus, which seemed to be a dead weight oil our economy-, is now a live source of ccsm.fort when ;we are being asked to go easy on the'use of poll and cheese and other foods that Great Britain needs. Ali good Canadians will glad• ly change their diet for the sake of those who need these foods. It is a little more difficult to make ourselves see, the necessity of paying more for our food to ensure -the 'production • of it. After yea'r's of getting one-quarter of our food free it is hard to give up the idea that we can continue to live at the expense of farmers. If we are fair and reasonable, as most of us a:e, we°«'ill see that we are insuring our own food supply by giving the food grower a square deal. If we re- fuse to see the wisdom and justice of paying farmers at least the cost of production, the average farmer will not be able to grow the food we need. Canada's farmers have filled every British food quota since the war be- gan. They might have produced en- ough to supply fully Canada's domes- tic needs as well if their advice had been taken in,; the first place. But OA is another story. The simple hard fact that underlies our whole food supply is that- farmers cannot grow food for less than it costs them to grow it. Prices that will enable the average fa.im family to carry on, and enough help 'to grow the food, are the twin solutions of our food supply problem, our farm problem, for the duration of the war. CKNX -- WINGHA,M Canaan s War Effort A Weekly Review of Developments On the Home Front. 1. Wartime Prices Board imposes restrictions on instalment buying. Down payatent on wide range of art, icles from radios to engagement rings must now be at -least one-third of to- tal cash price,, with balance ,paid in leis than twelve months. For pas- senger automobil s, down payment of 50 per cent. ruired with balance paid within 12 or 18 months, depend- ing on cash value of sale. Purpose: To put brake on rising prices; con- serve materials for war industries. 2. First two of 150 freighters or- dered built in Canadian shipyards for British Governmentlaunched; one in Montreal, the other in Vancouver. 3. National War Service regulations amended to broaden powers govern- ing effective use of manpower for successful prosecution of. war. 4. Canadian industrial emiployment at all-time high. Unadjusted employ- ment index of "Dominion Bureau of Statistics at 160.6 on August 1, an increase of 25.6 per cent. over August, 1940, and 36.2 per cent. above that of August, 1939, the last peace -time month. 5. Joint Economic Committee of Canada and -the United States, meet- ing in New York, considers most' ef- fective way to provide food for Bri- tain from North America. Machin- ery, establishec)., to prevent' leakages of • strategic defence materials. G. Total value of contracts placed and commitments made by Depart- ment of Munitions and Supply from July 14, 1939, to September 30, 1941, total $2,578,186,766. 7. Identifying bad to be issued (a) to men 'honorably d charged from the navy, army or air fo 'ce after ser- vice in the present war, (b) to those who have unsuccessfully offered themselves for enlistment. 8. Canadian airmen join with Brit- ish in air attacks on Nazi occupied Norway and France. 9. Canada's output of gold in July. tutalled 456,650 fine ounces compared with 453,987 in the previous month and 457,330 in July, 1940. During, first seven months of 1941, output ag- gregated 3,092,896 fine ounces com- pared with 3,033,310 in .corresponding, period of 1940. 10. Consumption of meats in Can- ada during 1940. estimated at 122.8 pounds per capita,"increase of almost four pounds over 1939. Increase due largely to gain in consumers' pur- chasing power. 920 Kos. 326 Metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Friday, Oct. 24-8.05 a.m., ' Break- fast Club; 5 p.m., Victor Herbert's Music; 6, George Wade's Cornhusk- ers; 7, Telephone Tunes. Saturday, Oct. 25-8. a.m., Jim Max- well; 9.30, Kiddies' Studio Party; 7.30 p.m., Artie Shaw's Orchestra; 8 p.m., CKNX Barn Dance, Sunday, Oct. 26-11 a.m., Church Service; 1.30 p.m., Melody Time; 7, Church Service. Monday, Oct. 27-7.30 a.m., Ever- reay Time; 11.15, "Cecil & Sally"; 5.30 p.m.,. Kiddies' Carnival•; 8.30, Ranch Boys. Tuesday, Oct. 28-7.15 a.m., Hymn Time"; 11.45, Songs by Dick Todd ; 6 p.m., Wilf Carter; 8.30, Piano Ramb- lings. Wednesday, Oct. 29-8 a.m., Jim Maxwell; 9.45, House of Dreams; 7.30 p.m:, The Lone Ranger; 9.15, Or- gan Melodies. Thursday, Oct. 30-11.45 a.m., Bil- ly Cotton Orchestra; 1 p.m., John Harcourt; 6,' Venus Concert; 7.30, Highlights In Harmony. THE PARACHUTISTS In these swiftly moving days it is almost impossible to pick up your newspaper without running across some comments praising the latest achievements of those gallant fight- ers--bhe men vwlth wings. The untold dangers they face •daily .as a matter of course are beyond the limited bounds of our comprehension. At one time or another during the course of their dangerous careers, most of these heroes have has some rather harrowing experiences, in which their ver-edives were hanging in the balance. Wine such experience, breath -taking to onlookers, but which the pilots themselves\take quite mat- ter-of-factly is "bailing out." In those frightful moments of sailing through space they trust their all to a few silken threads and we wonder at their nonchalance. However, their faith is well placed for the parachutes of today have been developed to the point where there is •. practically no danger of failure. Had this been the case in the last war, scores of men could have been spared; when their planes were shot down out of control. New,_and,greater importance is be- ing'"attached to then manufacture of parachutes today. .In Canada the new Empire air training scheme has brought this industry to ,the fore in 1. Tenders called for construction of naval base at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. 2. Wartime Prices and' Trade Board' 'fixes De,eember 1st as date by which' all persons or firms manufac- turing or dealing in food, feeds, live- stock, poultry, yarn; cloth, clothing or footwear must obtain a license. 3. Offices established at Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg in connection with the formation of the .Industry a. ni d Sub - Contract 'Co-ordination Branch of the Department 'of Muni- tions and Supply. Purpose of the branch is to spread war effort to smaller shops and plants throughout the Dominion.. • .1. Announced at R.C.A.F. head- quarters that two weeks' ground - school work are to be added to initial tr-hining.school courses for pilots and observers., ..5. Pay at the rate of two-thirds of that of officers and airmen of the Royal Canadian Air Force announced for the newly established Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force. 6. ,A one point rise in cost of liv- ing index during August brings total gain, since war started, to 13.8 per cent. 7. Announced that Canadian tanks are to be shipped to Britain. Objec- tive: 100 cruiser and infantry tanks before end of year. 8. Canada's national income in first eightmonths of 1941 $3,446,000,000, increase of 10.5 per cent over same -period of 1940. National income is now at record height. 9. Canadian munition plants turn- ed out on October 7th the ten mil- lionth cartridge case of the present war. 10: Contract awarded by the De- partment of Munitions and Supply, from September 24th to 30th inclu- sive, numbered 2,086 and totalled $3$,- 216,586. 11. Aircraft orders to Canadian 'Car and Foundry Ltd., Montreal, to- talling $17,496,000 headed the list, 12. G. W. Spinney, Joint General Manager, Bank of Montreal, to initi- ate and organize' National War 'Fin- ance Committee. Committee will as- sume responsibility for organizing sal© of Government securities to the public to provide funds for war needs. HEADS GRAIN CLUB Donald Simpson, Science Hill, R.R. 1, headed the St. Marys Grain Club with a score of 876 marks out of a possible 1,000. Eighteen boys partici- pated. --Mitchell Advocate. A group of college students enter- ed theid classroom one morning to find a hat on the front desk as mute evidence of the possible presence o' a mentor.' After overstaying the cus- tomary ten minutes, the group agreed that the hat might have bean left the evening before; so they departed- .. o.. to meet the remonstrating in- structor coming up the stairs. "When my hat is on my desk," he said, "I want you to consider mo present." The following morning when the professor arrived to take the roll, he found a hat on every seat --bet not a student there! It rldpf,‘.r „o eaten n eaS.tbk(L 0 • a{ •the o0410,rs^ l0 a,».a; ►arspbtntR le ju4�t ya 40; a 4.,yI ria 9„t 0014„.40„w4 toget1 ee to x'ook Ake laggi34 ton1F J - la, 'liOWever, Of 41oZen' Cr mere o ;- alions, are neeepsary 'before Para+^ ante is >firnan eomploeted. Vlrs't pf all each 'cbute consists of six prinpl- pal parts; Canopy, shroud Iinctsr Don. tanner, harness, rip cord and pilot chute. The proces0 :briefly is as fol- lows: The canopy is made of silk having a tensile strength of forty pounds per inch of width. It ie formed by join- ing gores -.cut in four different sizes into a panel, and it'takes twenty4four such panels tomake a eomplete can, opy. These are thoroughly insllected for the slightest imperfection. The shroud line's are formed by an unbroken 680 foot skein of silk cord doubled to make the •twenty-four lines in a twenty-four foot parachute. These lines are also tested for "flaws and subjected to a tension of 450 pounds. The shroud lines are sewn securely to the canopy and a final inspection is made before the assembly of the parachute. The containers are made from heavy brown canvas, reinforced with were frames. Flaps, pockets, ,hooks and fasteners are attached by special machines. The holiness consists of a number of linen . webbing straps, sewn together with linen thread. To the harness are attached the shroud lines, and here the webbing is tested to 4,500 pounds. The pilot chute is attached to the apex of the canopy, and helps to pull the chute away from' the wearer when the rip cord is pulled. The rip cord }r; comprises a. steel ging about 5 #ntjhea in width, and a jerk Which a child can exert is all that is necessary to open the chute, The final operation is packing the chute, and this requires special trainr- ing and infinite care. It takes about half an hour to fold one chute. Formerly the silk used in,parachute fabrication was imported. Now, how- ever, orders are being 'placed with Canadian firms. Experiments are be- ing conducted with nylon fabrics, which may perhaps eventually replace the silk in the canopy. A new type of cotton yarn with bonded fibres has been developed and is being used suc- cessfully in parachute harness. It is understood this development will free the National Defence program from its dependence on flax. Parachutes are now being produc- ed 'by Canadian plants and with the exception of housings and a few small fittings, all materials for the • manu- facture are made right here in Can- ada. t,4 'Captain Lexi 1:114eY: and ,Carol AMR : th ve.' rb _ Nanaimo, WC:, and be• ban ing his embarkation leave ,50. Mit,- he os a$- m1lld4r intering of .Mhellain.where Street Unitserved, C7 'ur,°t 4. he has been stationed at Pef;.alln4wG},` and Nanair o. .Mitchells. Advocate. ONLY GRADE OF MOTOR - FUEL 'outstanding in every desirable quality-. Now that all gasolines are being graded, we will continue to make _ ONLY ONE MOTOR FUEL DEALERS -W. A. Wright, Seaforth W. J. Hanle W. H. Dalrymple, Brumfield J. McCully, .N .t. kl ;A 1