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, Whereever in this world of turâ€" molitoday, there is a fighting force, you wili find a Grimsby boy. Last week The Independent reâ€" ceived a letter from Corp. Bruce Swayze, Somewhere on the African Front. He is the third son of Anâ€" drew and Sarah Swayze, Robinson United States Army. Previous to enlisting Bruce had been connected with a large conâ€" a Plumbing and eHating Engineer. Here is his letter: Well! I will take the pen out o dry dock, run it down the ink we‘i , and give you.the Jlowâ€" down on‘ yours truly in the Service. I wantâ€" «d to write you before and not beâ€" ing in your class for throwing the , full (the word I wanted to use the | mwauldcutouu-olud’ too walt and save up the good maâ€"‘ stop was the induction Centre. Beâ€" tween the shoes and vaccine I put on five pounds and my shues are only eights. I hear the same shots, "Hypos" are good for "hoof and mouth disease". Then yon have on all the clothes you own and start out on a hike, no place in FIFTEEN BEAUTIFUL LADIES ARE particular, After you get tired of the correct walking then try your hands ana| _ . ; ."~_._ knees to toughen you up. nelve & .MX (Continued from page *) _ {tion FREE: DONATING BLOOD ON MARCH 17 Response By mm Grimsby women are to :w"‘w t again. Last week The Amnounced that a special Grimsby day for blood donors would be ho at Hamilton Clink on We) iay, March 17. 8t Patrick‘s L1y, and vesides the men 4 trat 15 wom«D would be accepted. m _ Tadanandent came off the Next 1 don‘t like writing to forâ€" igners (you darn Canuck).. First trat 15 wom«d WO The Independent press at 2.30 in ! I «4 ue telephone and personal cane . ladies of Grimsby offeri? their blood. As enly 15 ladies can be 0C modated at this Clinic, the names received kave Scen C Mrs. Muric! Bourne, Mis® Mrs, Ada Bromley, T . AhomBens. Miat L | Interestingly of His Army Experiences â€" Thinks Africa is Beautiful Counâ€" of Walkking Try Hands And Nora C is m e"""" ~ aa Audrey Hewson, Miss YirDiA t Mewson, Mrs. Lilian Hildret is Isobe! Ingishart, Miss Eisic Mas3® T2 > _ sfica Dorl RIMSBY BQY IN_ LONDON FOG Mrs. Margaret L. Â¥ Audrey Hewson, M TA and w the ladios nfmh-ltol M‘l”: .“_" & teat for Losnunaknl. ty Overv.sims Committee In Charge â€" More Men Donâ€" ors Are Needed As Replaceâ€" Three Until Seven O‘Cocl â€" Certain Foods Only Should Be Eaten For Lunch MARCH 17th THE DAY WITH ENGINEZRS No Use For Ship‘s Hamâ€" n Whyte The Grimsby ndzpenéggj (Continued on Page *) A Camp in North Africa, Feb. 6, 1943. "Some of Grimsby‘s Peaches" "B" 817th ED UP IN NORTH AFRICA Went South For Wi;te'r-”‘ +u. Isabel Trecy, Kathieen No. 33 the morning e hairman n deluged calls from offering to Writes In e accome the frst nk we . The Livingstons sold out all wn on | their interests in October 1925 to I want.|J W. Taylor of the Sentinalâ€"Reâ€" nct be_| View, Woodstock, who in turn disâ€" "umpoudolutoc.s.seudew- mmiloo.lnlm. Mr. Bean sold the | ,lm‘mandphntlnlmtok.l..‘ q mi@\ Taylor who disposed of it in 1940\ ; to Robert Glendinning, now a F ro m L Pearl Freeman, With Mr® now defunct Hamilton Times. In October 15th, the same year it was | purchased by the late James A. ; Livingston and was conducted by him until 1910 when his two sons, | J. Orion and J.A.M. were taken inâ€" ‘to the business as a partnership. Thg Independent Has New Set Up For First Time In 58 Years ta nliab tablishment in Ju)~ of 1885 â€"§58 years agoâ€"The Im° ~ndent with this issue cease, t« »e an indiviâ€" dually owned newspa.ver and henceâ€" forth will ts publishei by a joint This new company will be known as The Grimsby Indepencent Pubâ€" lishing Limited, with John William Glendinning as President, Wilfred Morris Lawson, Viceâ€"President and James Orion Livingston, Secretary and Managing Editor. This first issue of Lincoln‘s Leadâ€" ing Weekly came off the press inl July 15th, 1885, its pubiisher being W.H.Mram(mml member of the RC.A.F. The first nonâ€"subscriber to The Independent who turns in the correct answer will reâ€" ceive a six months subscripâ€" "Little Dynamite" For the first time since its esâ€" Stock Company Now. â€"-â€"'l Ju:.ux:.l.o.l.m_mmk- EDHILL lu ic the report of Mr. Fonâ€" agonrge GLE ger, declared that "it speaks voiâ€" m"uw.,.mmdmlfl‘ mes for the success of th» «ystem i mmmoxc-&:dmmwwuam mmml“wmdm Brothers under the chairmanâ€" Ns atations in ship of Ald. A. E. Coombs, The Big and B .meville. Married, has AYV® Brothers are thanked and comâ€" o vdwwwuomlrmnddbylr,w tor their Wm“" Nepartment. ..Mn‘:im searvices." Th wat in BAE Has one i The movement was started here " Ti ove ; with R. C. A. F.on the suggestion of Judge Stanâ€" Thinks Grimgby is the oply ToWNbury . _; / . . in Canade, Te \ were investigateo Year 49 charges Robert C the fine buy e fine building 10t At U9° """°" | / y s were ) 8 fatke Bovievare . and Main| O ©tC" Priics Only 20 came streat and @hater Broms "ill Ti |jugge pbntore Juvemt _ Court a new storey and a baif house 98 it . _ . .. â€"â€" 12 from the wu__o.,.,...,,mbyc.a.[ "and 17 fro.s the city, â€"â€"â€"â€"WHAT ARE _ Homonyms: of the Sentinalâ€"Reâ€" ock, who in turn disâ€" C. 8. Bean of Waterâ€" Mr. Bean sold the | ant in lmtol-l.l..t lownacdA af i in snin Bourne has purchased in 58 Yeare To Be Indiâ€" 7 scssachiur THFSPT Grimsby, Ontari0, in | \Regular Full Course Meals, | Short Orders Will Be Feaâ€" | tured All Day And Evenâ€" \ _ ingsâ€"Closed Since Septemâ€" Since last September the dining room at the Village Inn has been : closed but was opened for business Ilnlnonlenfiyudwlllbeeon- ducted in semiâ€"restaurant style. YOUR DOUGH 15 NEEDED Village Inn Opens Dining Room ‘The most beautiful dining room in any hotel in Ontario, is open again to the general public. _ Regular meals will be served, breakfast, luncheon and dinner, alâ€" so short orders of food at all times, Including the evening. Mr. and Mrs. King of Hamilton, both of whom are Chefs with years of experience in catering to the public will be in charge of the kitâ€" chen and dining room. Delinquency Of Juveniles Is Cut Effectiveness of the Big Brother Association in St. Catharines and Lincoln County is seen in the fact that they have cut juvenile delingâ€" uency to oneâ€"fifth." A ording to the anmual report for 1942 of H. Funger, probation officer of the juvenile court, 131 young people were brought to court In the single year of 1937 In the spring of 1938 the Hig Brothers were organized, and in the fve years since then, a to«l of only 128 cases have been brougat up in court. 131 Court Cases in St. Cathâ€" arines And Lincoln in 1937 â€"â€" Only 128 Cases in Next were investigateo Y®Ar 40 Chatges officer, 19 were the probation County and 3#T¢ from Lincoin af St. Cathar were from the city Five Year Period. One Brigh: Spot in the Thursday, March 4th, 1 943. Anyone Who Reads lIan __llur- GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! Canvassers Are Now At Work In Grimsby And North Grimsbyâ€" Has Your Subâ€" scription Ready When They Anybody, who reads the excerpts from the letter of Lanceâ€"Bombarâ€" dier Ian Murdoch, published on this page this week, and then fails to subscribe liberally to.the Red Cross campaign, must surely be a soulâ€" less and heartiess creature, and not deserving to live under the Unâ€" lon Jack. It is up to you and you and you to take the elastic off the bill fold and give the moths a chance to breath. By so doing you also give the Red Cross a chance to keep some human beirs in«athing. Nobody but a trained newspaper man, which Ian Murdoch is, could or would observe and write as he has. He is bringing home to you the cold stark truth of what the oakâ€"hearted people of the Britisa Isles are going through and how much, oh, how much they need the help of the Hed Cross. Just as much as the boys in the fighting forces do. Local campuign hboadquarters have been opened in trie Mods! Dairy. tiock, in the store torme, ~ occupled by "Bob" Hillier 7* telephone number is 139, tkeir rounds, and the following (Continued on page 7) Estimate Now For Canning Sugar w‘a‘ or Johnson, Chairman of the | Loeal Rationing Board ldoflm, ‘l'lclnd.'-duu'.hnthelould. "““mmfldmlcuptfmmi houscholders their estimate of the amount of sugar that they will reâ€" quire for canning purposes mt’ frult season. Is each of the new ration books will be found a card that this estiâ€" mate is to be made out on. Bit mmmum..mm much sugar you will need for canâ€" ning and preserving purposes. Turn this card into the local ration otâ€" fice in the Municipal Bullding. All women will have to plan now how much sugar they will need ao doch‘s Letter In This Paper Will Realize How â€" Badly Money Is Needed. oner _ Housewife Figures Out H&i Rew@u‘rements For Next Scason The Surer She is of Getting Supplies, 17 on page (Continued World IT WAS SUCH A LITTLE HOLE IN EARTH TO HOLD SO MUCH Pay County Rate Well In Advance Warden Durham And o-gty Reeve Crittenden in Over Cheque For $24,000 ' Miss Vance and her staff of the A. & P. store set up a record for a | store the size of the Grimsby one |wbon $507.50 was â€" realized, St. John and Shaw were the next ; highest with $125, Warden Charles Durham and Deputyâ€"Reeve Geo. Crittenden of North Grimsby, are in St. Catharâ€" ines today, and of all the trips that Mm.nmnnnuhu the County town, in the past seven yuu.oln-dclpduun-.thh m,uuowdm.n. Murfldwlthumncul- dian Bank of Commerce marked mmlbhlomcwtyof Lincoln, for the sum of $24,000. This money will prepay North Grimaby‘s County Rate. for 1943 and thereby save the township four per cent interest. If the County Rate drops one or two mills this year there will be a sizâ€" able sum of money coming back. Councilior "Bill" Mitchell says that in his 50 years of municipal life he has never known Grimsby or North Grimsby rate to be preâ€" paid before, Food stores in Grimsby particl« pating the War Stamp Sale conâ€" ducted all across Canada by the food stores and wholesale houses, during the mor‘s of February, done a fairly neat job in the sale of stamps. Final returns show that the Grimsby stores disposed of $8902.50 worth of the little pleces of paper. 28 GYRATING PERFORMERS TO SKATE AT RED CROSS CARNIVAL sGT. Nav. 0. w. "Dick» Foncer Who according to cablegram just received by his parents, Mr. and Mra. H. Fonger, Port Dathounie, has been promoted to the rank of Miot Officer in the R. C. a. ®. in England. P.Q, FGRger has maan having been: zesented wings at No. % Air ¢ Behool, Ancienne Lorette Ostober 2, 1942 He is and Mra. Fonger with bai ter, realde in M.â€"d.( tesy" St. Catharines Btardard. Today â€" Pays Township County Rate. War Stamp Sale Over $800 Grimsby Arena, Friday Night Promoted For 31 Little W hite Coftins } me K. C, A. F. in . Fonger has meep early in November, wesented with his % Air Obsorvorsa‘ $2.00 Per ~°, yue., on is married, baby daugh. â€"â€"Cut cour. Year, 2 PAE CCE ‘Grimsby Soldier in Attendâ€" | ‘ance at Funeral of British |\ UChildren Killed by Blackâ€" |\ _ guard Hilter‘s Bombs While | _ at School. So Much Sorrow; ~o @uen Pain; There Was No Conâ€" solation That Could be Ofâ€" _ _ "In a long, sorrowing line the relatives walked ° through the _streects behind â€"a great shining cross. They passed the school | where the classrooms gaped empty ‘ and broken, and workers were atill | clearing away the heavy stone that |had crushed‘the frail young bod» ; fes." The following descripzon of the funeral of 31 child victins of a Nazi bombing raid on & Londen suburb in January is taken from a letter written to his parerts by L/Bdr, Ian Murdoch, R.C.A. but little space to receive INCIN. Yet those school children who died when a Nazi bomb hit their school lnnlnndonmhub.mkmnnd wha ware buried vesterday in a victims were so small and the thirâ€" communal grave taught son. They showed us the black soul of the enemy and what we are fighting against." ‘"The church was packed with people, all close relatives of the k! ‘dies. When the Bishop said, ‘It wrings our hearts the more when we think of your children going off happily to school and not reâ€" turning home‘, there was an agonâ€" izing sob from one of the mothers. As this one woman released the pain in her heart, others broke down, and the rest of the service was broken with the sound of sobâ€" bing. Men wept too, for so much sorrow pierced even their reserve." $2.50 In U.S.A., 5e Per CopY "As the mothersa caught sight of the school they hid their heads on Colorful Pageant With Brilâ€" liant Skating Artists To Be Staged â€" Hamilton Skatâ€" ing Club Members Donating Nervices, Ningle, Double Under the magic Master of Cereâ€" wmonles Wand of "Cammy" MBâ€" yard, a spectacular carnival and akating party will be hew at the Orimaby Arena on Friday night of lhl-mk.luuddmmw campaign, Niagara Packers have CGonnted coinmittee in charge © have been succersful in securing the Anest fancy and acrobatiec skaters on the Club, ‘These performers are amo dunating their services a0 that T proceeds go to awell the Red Cross carpiyg1 y‘ /t RrMant one. ‘The carnival will come Arst. while the in /) S not out up, and After their performance av ary uo d y Mrats, It Wl probably be the tant akatiny seasion of the yoar, Included in the HWat of 5 ors is Jan .l‘-un".. l. Il-; Beverly Coons And Aum Ry_cc."~ the A coffers 8,80 shary fancy terapersed. Al t artists in t..u A COMMUNAL GRAVE fered â€" It was / ~ did Cause â€" erwards, "Wes «P uuney ulw. A" Precision Drill Acts â€" A (Continued from page 7) A WORTHY CAUSE was such a little hole in the little white coffins programme which starts at wvoons and m*."‘! I"‘""'. ; Audrey H1D, single _ "4.. N Aorchart uU whh acrcbatic skating in 8. All told their aro 2 orll) in