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the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 21st 1941 page seven glaremont by staff correspondent oeoa willi ontario student observers xamk costs job mss enid cook or toronto spent fche weekend at her home here miss marjory ward rn of tor onto spent the weekend at her home tiere miss burton of toronto has been visiting with her friend lmrs wal- iford miss lena phillips of toronto spent over the weekend with friends ihere the w i met at the home of mrs itlenry johnson on august 20th mr iwotten of brooklin was the guest speaker mrs lumsden of toronto visited loneday recently with her mother i mrs wm bingham the marriage lias been announced i to take place at claremont on saturday august 30 of inza mar- igaret only daughter of mr and mrs ii f dopking of claremont to wm i reginald verden ware of montreal jouly son of imr and mrs bex ware lot toronto naturally our people will look forward to the event with much interest the baptist mission circle will i meet at mrs irichards home tues day august 2g at 230 program in charge of mrs james coates group roll call answered by what im pressed me most at the association mr gordon spencely who has been in toronto hospital for some time is recovering from severe burns and has returned homealthoiugh con fined to his bed here for a while he is improving the claremont and north picker ing red cross branch held a meeting on august 11th at the home of dr tomlinson it was decided to hold regular meetings at the different units of the branch the next meet ing is to be held at mount zion or balsam oil sept 15 at s pm it was also decided to hold an auction sale in community park on or about sept 27 in aid of red cross work the treasurer reported that the total receipts of the salvage made by the branch was 6ss0 and the public are asked to continue the work as the officer commanding no 20 another collection will be madeiefts rcaf oshawa requests later the cooperation of residents of the mrs wm kennedy of hamilton i townships of whkby pickering also mrs bates and two mrs thorn by hugh templin i sat in the secretarys office at the no 1 air observer school at mal um and wondered what would happen next things always seemed to turn out that way when arrange ments had been made for me to fly in an rcaf plane if there was t a thunder storm there was some thing else tho days thunder storm had already passed the sky was clear but orders had become mixed up on the other side of his desk j a munroe secretarytreasurer of the school was keeping the telephone busy and now and then someone came hurrying in with a correspou dence file or other information it was obvious enough what had happened a phone call from the training command at toronto had informed me that all arrangements released from a teaching position were made meanwhile a sudden call which she acquired only a short had taken the manager of the mal- time ago because of what ratepayers j school to montreal and no one of the hampton school section term ed her foreignsounding name ldyearold mae kozak of oshawa ontario says she has another posi tion near columbus sons of toronto called on imr and mrs james leggitt during the past week mrs thomson remained and is spending a week with her friend mrs lonsdale here miss dickinson of toronto has been visiting with miss s e evans here also her brother mr and mrs wm dickinson glad to know that imr joe ward is improving after his serious accident he is at his home now and able to go around a little with cane jack brillinger is also improv ing and will be able to come home before very long word was received here that mr james mcfarlane of wembley alia is in very poor health and is renting his farm and moving into grand prairie mr mcfarlane was a form er resident of claremont and farm ed on the place where bacons now- live little miss mildred ward daugh ter of mr and mrs frank ward had a birthday on friday last and enter tained several of the wee ladies at tea imiss jean ward who has been working for mr frank- barclay transport has severed her connection with the firm it is reported that mr jim norton has had word to go to train for over seas mr harold loyst who has been in the employ of mr jack brignall for a long time we understand is working now in toronto there is a little bottlefed pig in ashfield township says the lucknow sentinel that insists on having its milk sweetened with corn syrup which ought to give the syrup companies some new ideas in advertising we all know babies thrive on it and how it puts zip in to athletes but now it remains to tie seen what it does for little pigs this little pet pig lives on the farm of elwood drensan when just a few days old it had a broken leg and was takon in charge by young douglas drennan who doctored the injuries and coaxed the piglet to drink from the bottle to induce the invalid to drink douglas added some corn syrup to the milk and now piggy has become so pernickety that he insists on the continued use of the sweetener and you just cant fool it when its meal time for the little porker the pet pig will follow douglas around until he gets his rations farmers gnrajjo burned fire completely destroyed the garage driving shed and contents on the farm owned by charles puckrln on jhe third concession pickering on monday afternoon besides a car owned by the tenant ernest smith a girls bicycle sever al mechanical toys lawnmower gar den- tcols and motor repair kit else knew anything about the arrangements as we waited for word from tor onto the big avro alisons out on the runway roared away it was two oclock and time for them to go out on their afternoon exercises flying officer mcleod tried to be consoling it was a rough day he said and i wouldnt enjoy it he menibered one newspaper man who went up in a plane on just such a day he wasnt up five minutes till he was sick and his trip was a total loss and so was his lunch besides the exercise for that day wasnt the most interesting kind the student observers would be trying to make out a course as though they were flying blind above the clouds an other day would be more interesting and would provide better flying con ditions there seemed to be nothing else to be done it was a quarter after two now and i hadnt heard a plane go for five minutes the night flight wouldnt leave till nine oclock and might not return till two in the morning and i would have go miles to drive home after that i hart work seugog reach and uxbridge inlto do the next morning and two supplying immediate accurate and members of the family waiting for detailed information concerning mis- me in the city there seemed to be were destroyed the absence of a telephone on the farm which made it necessary send in the alarm from a neighbors house delayed the arrival of the pickering fire engine so that he firemen could do nothing to save tho building but were able to prevent the flames from spreading to the house and nearby buildings the smith family who were at home at the time were unaware of the blaze until the whole building was on fire and were at a loss to explain the cause the loss is partly covered by in surance procedure in case of flying accidents haps to aircraft in the area of these townships detailed information is essential so that the service ambulance the medical and rescue squads may reach the scene of a mishap in the short est time possible vague inaccurate information may so delay rescue operations that the life of an air man might be the penalty immediately you witness a flying accident in your neighbourhood or have information concerning such a happening kindly be guided by the following instructions in sequence 1 telephone reversing charg es 3600 oshawa and ask for the airdrome control officer 2 give him the following infor mation distinctly and as accurately as possible a if the accident is in the im mediate vicinity of a town or village give the name of such town or vill age b if on a farm give the lot number north or south half as tho case may be concession number and township having phoned in the above infor mation then take action to post someone on the road nearest to the scone of the accident to guide the ambulance when it conies along when an accident occurs you will be rendering a most valuable serv ice by taking the action as above intended and your cooperation will he sincerely appreciated nothing left to do but to come back again the delnyed flight suddenly things began to happen flying officer mcleod had gone out but he came hurrying back everythings ok well have to hurry though we trotted across the road toward the hangar on the way he explained that one plane was delayed by en gine trouble spark plugs might get to it in time a quick trip to the pilots room where i was fitted with parachute harness two straps over my shoul ders and one around each leg all locked together in front of my stom ach the day was hot so i left my coat behind and went in my shirt sleeves another dash across the runway to the place where the twin engines of avro anson no g037 were turning over smoothly and noisily now the pilot was already in his seat hasty introductions to the two student ob servers k allin and r evritt both of melbourne australia that was interesting two fine young fellows i shook hands with them its hot i said just by way of making conversation it was a stu pid thing to say because so obvious the thermometer said 95 degrees we like it one of them re plied rather surprisingly they were in shirtsleeves too with the same kind of parachute harness later pilot joselin said the australians just eat up this kind of weather a little door was open up on the side of the plane and i climbed up one of the australians fastened my safety strap a quickrelease type that was new to me allin took his seat beside the pilot and evritt in the stomach in the nose of the plane and read the drift indicator showing how- much the plane was being blown off its course by the wind directly behind the pilot sat the other australian student he was doing his exercise for the day on a table in tront of him lay a map with no towns roads or landmarks except the outlines of the great lakes and here and there circles with an arrow marking the compass variations not much help that to a visitor from the other side of the world on the table lay his simple instruments a triangular ruler a few pencils a circular card with rows of figures and the name some bodys rapid calculator beside him was a compass and up in front two dials one indicating the engine speed and the other the altitude above sea level i sat in the rear seat directly be hind the student with the exercise but with my view to the front partly i cut off by the wireless instruments i worked by remote control from the pilots seat occasionally i saw the dials turn and the wavelength dicators change but of the messages which passed through them i know- nothing in front of me was a table on which i was able to write in my notebook some towns easy to identify the avro anson is noted for its visibility there are windows all around it has even been likened to a flying greenhouse the rear seat was opposite the huge wing but it was easy to see the landscape below and behind the sky held many clouds and the shadows mottled the landscrape be low the air iwas hazy and ten miles was aliout the limit of visibility after we climbed to 4500 feet we were up in the lower layer of clouds occa sionally one would drift past almost close enough to touch the heavier clouds holding a hint of thunder wer higher two or three times we ran into rain but i couldnt see it out on the wing only the odd sing ing of the propellors and the drops on the front windows showed me the difference i hadnt any idea whether i would know where we were from nearly a mile up in the air i couldnt see the compass but the sun shone most of the time giving a rough idea of the directions there wasnt any doubt about the first town acres of greenhouses shone in the light as we circled over brampton gaining height i imagine it would make a wonderful target day or night if i had been able to lay hands on a stone i could hardly have resisted the temptation to drop it overboard on these glass roofs we headed west after that and the credit river dirty even from that height was the next landmark then a little village that worried me until i decided its mill ponds were like those at alton then came orangeville i was nearer home now and knew most of the landmarks the provincial highway to arthur straight as a ruler gleamed in the suhfor miles till it crossed the grand river the lovely hockley valley lay ahead the hills looked almost flat but the road by the river was plain enough by that time i had the road map out of my brief case and from then on was never lost we passed south of camp borden over the great hol land marsh and the tip of lake sim- coe and down beside yonge street to king then in a beeline for mai- ton there the students changed places and we went around another circle slightly farther east but in sight of brampton caledon lake orangeville aurora and down to the shore of lake ontario near malvern a turn to the west brought us over the eastern suburbs of tor onto the flight over toronto was inter esting out to the left was the wood bine race track then the harbor with a freight boat steaming across deserves the best famous for their purity and quality for more than two generations stovers baked goods are made from the finest canadian flour creamery butter sweetest honey and the purest sugar when buying bread and pastries make sure you get the products of the stouffville bakery your family deserves the best the stouffville bakery bakers for two generations seat behind the pilot i was in the the bay the skyscrapers looked like back scat opposite the door tall toy buildings to the north the the plane began to move at once reservoir shone as all the other down the broad nun way we passed ponds had done we parallelled dun- a silvery transcanada plane just das street out to west toronto i coming in and turned into tho wind saw a mile below me the school- gets new post group captain a duncan bell- irving who has been posted to no 1 air training command toronto is one of canadas air aces of the great war ho was co of no 4 servico flying training school at saskatoon since this unit in the empire air training scheme opened operations ins year and in a few seconds were off the ground heading westward into a 25milc wind an exercise flight one of the australians had repeat ed the warning that the flight might be a rough one but i did not find it so particularly after we had climbed yard where i once tried to teach a girl to skate all large buildings were easily seen it took about six minutes to cross toronto from the eastern suburbs to the number river at weston we circled the great malton air port slowly watching other planes above a thousand feet these large coming in and finally with a clear planes fly much more steadily than runway came down to earth without the small opencockpit planes in which most of my previous flying had been done up in front on the loft sat pilot a hump from the delightful coolness of the upper air we stepped out into the heat again the students cheek- jocelln two or three rows of inslrued their maps with pilot jocelin and ments in front of him holding on to in submitted mine it was just two a wheel that looked like the steering rough pencil marks on a road map wheel of an automobile with parts but he seemed surprised that i had of it cut away beside him sat one of been so close to the real route most the young australians in front of i people he said got completely lost him under the dash was a hole in- in the air without safe training to which he crawled from time to there was time for conversation time so that he could he flat on his now the australians had been six weeks at malton another six and they would go to jarvis to learn bombing and giunnery with practice bombs and real machine guns it wouldnt be long till they were fly ing over germany continuation school graduates are invited to consider the courses and facilities offered by uxbridge high school complete upper school a special oneyear commercial course which gives a complete commercial training in one school year this course is open to stu dents who have completed two years in any secondary school early rising i reckon said a farmer that i get up earlier than anybody in this neighborhood i am always up before 3 oclock in the morning another farmer said he had part of his work done by that time the first farmer thought he was not speaking the truth and decided to test him a few mornings later he got up at 2 oclock and went to the neighbours house he rapped at the back door and the neighbors wife opened it where is your husband asked tile farmer expecting to hear that he was in bed he was around here early in the morning answered the wife but i dont know where he is now western canada special bargain 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