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\Vednesday, August 13, 1941 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE THt FLESHERTON ADVANCE Published on Collinwood Sttwt, Kirvhfiiun, Wednesday of *ch .-* Circulation ovr 1,000. Price in Canada $2.00 per y*r, when paid in advance 91.60; in CJ S. A. S&50 per year, when paid in advance $2.00. P. J. 1111 US I UN, 1x1 it,. i EDITORIAL NOTES FIGHTER PILOTS EARN THEIR WINGS AT CAMI' BORDEN In an effort to prevent any in- crease in the price of bread the War- time Price* and Trade Board has placed a ban on the sliced loaf after August llth and has prohibited the use of double or fancy wrappers after this date. It is felt that this change together with the removal of the fifteen percent wheat processing tax should keep the Staff of Life at its present lerel. Bakers generally can- not see what great economy is to be effected by doing ajway with the slicing of bread and in any event most housewives like to cut their own loaf. Women are holding; the centre of By HUGH TEMI'LIN Camp Borden is Canada's b*st known flying school. With its six square miles of flat, sandy land, it is probably the largest as well. It was an air-training camp during- the last Great War, from 1914 to 1918. In those far-off days, it wasn't too popu- lar. Sand got into the buildings and the clothing and food. Occasionally a veteran pilot remarks: "I wonder if the old hangars are still at Camp Borden?" The pilots of the test war would see many changes. Some of the old buildings remain, but they are hard to find among all the new ones. The sand is now subdued, with green grass holding it down, though it was necessary to keep the sand in place with wire netting on some of the dunes until it sprouted. The admin- istration buildings and some others are of permanent brick. Camp Borden is now the No. 1 Service Flying Training School of the Royal Canadian Air Force. My own guess is that it is also the largest, and in some ways, the finest air school on the continent. It is developing rapidly. 1 visited the RX.A.F. at Camp Borden twice. the stage in Ontario more and more 'Within a few months, I found notable these days. A call has gone out for fifteen hundred women as an auxil- iary force to the defence program and now it is announced that the On- tario Farm Service Force has decided to absorb the Ontario Women's Land Army. The Land Army will now be known as the Women's Land Brigade of the Farm Service Force. The Brigade will deal with and recruit for farm service women outside of student circles and will concentrate on general farm placements on a more or less permanent basis. As is perhaps appropriate, the Can adian National Exhibition this year will be quite warlike in its character The waterfront will bristle with guns tanks, and other war equipment. In one of the big buildings a demon- stration will be in progress showing how the famous Bren gun is made and the operation of other munition manufacturer* will be in progress. Aviation will be a highly Impressive feature of the Fair and many types of airplanes destined for action overseas will be flown over the grounds and lake front for the edifi- cation of spectators. * It is expected that millions of bushels of coarse grain from the west will be required in Ontario this win- ter for feeding purposes. Although the crop outlook in this province has vastly improved the expansion of the export trade particularly in bacon and cheese will call for an unnusual- ly heavy feeding program. A con- ference has been arranged to per- fect an organized movement of jrrain in which there would not be any speculative margin between the prices paid by the Eastern farmer and the price received by the West- ern growers. Last year Ontario in a n organized movement bought tHrcc million bushels of western grain and obtained the benefit of a Dominion Provncia! trad<- subsidy. While it is estimated that this province may need eighteen million bushels of west- ern grain this winter it is not likely under existing circumstance that any government frc-ight bonus will be ex- tended. changes, particularly the fact that the collection of assorted planes at the camp last Pall has been replaced by long lines of sleek Harvards, with a few Yales. It is another indication of the way the supply of training craft has caught up to the needs. Ten Weeks of Flying Of the six months necessary foi the training of a pilot in Canada, the last ten weeks are spent at Camp Borden or one of the other Service Flying Training Schools. On arrival, the student, now with the rank, of Leading Aircraftman, is able to fly a plane at a hundred miles an hour or so. He has learned to find his -way across country, has done simple aero- batics (or stunts, if you like) and has had lectures on a variety of subjects from signals to navigation. Advanced flying is taught by ex- perienced pilots at Camp Borden, The sleek and lovely Harvards fly at speeds over 2*>0 miles an hour. They are the yellow, noisy, single-motored craft often seen in the air over Southern Ontario. Everything at Camp Borden is lar- ger or faster. The three main run- ways are paved strips 3300 feet long and 600 feet wide. Commercial air- ports near the largest cities arc tiny in comparison. Even that isn't suffi- cient. There art two auxiliary land- ing fields at Edenvale and Alliston, each as large as a commercial TIP!''. but used only in cases of emergency. Other things arc speeded up as well. Planes sometimes seem to rise in swarms; a control tower is neces- sary to sort out the traffic. It is said that landings in a year may number 250.000. Gasoline consumption Is enormous. Lectures Still Continue On my second trip to Camp lior- den, I arrived at the gates just as a black thunderstorm swept over th? plains. Six or seven pilots wore 117 when the storm arrived and they lia ! to stay up until conditions became more suitable. It was an hour before the last one WHS down and the crew in the control tower breathed a sigh of relief. No damagp ha ' hc?n dom and the young pile .^ had p lii.-v) va! iiiible experience. It was .o day lo stay outsid., so i EARLY RISING "I reckon," said a farmer, "that I get up earlier than anybody in this neighborhood. I am always up be- fore 3 o'clock in the morning." An- other farmer said he hnd part of his work done by that time. The first thought he was not speaking the truth and decided to test him. A few mornings later he got up at 2 o'clock and went to the neighbor's house. He rapped at the back door and the neighbor's wife opened it. "Where is your husband?" asked the farmer, expecting to hear that he was in bed. "He was around here early in the morning," answered the wife, "but I don't know where he is now." ROl'NI) TRIP RAIL Travel Bargains AUGUST 15-18 from FLESHERTON to TORONTO $2.55 HAMILTON $2.90 Belleville $5.95 Peterboro $4.85 RUh K.llN $8.70 Windsor $8.9S nd mn\ Intermediate points Goinjr.: Afternoon & evening train* AUK llth all traiu Aug. 16th. Rot urn Limit Up to Aug. 18 Commit Agent* - Procure vice, in convoy work and the like, it is safer to use than wireless, as the messages cannot be picked up by the enemy. The signal lamp is about the size of a large automobile headlight, with a lens that concentrates a powerful ray ol li#ht in a narrow beam. Above the lamp is a sighting tube, so that the ray of light can <bt aimed accurately, and underneath are a pistol grip and trigger. Words in Morse code can be sent, or different colored lights used. A green signal gives ithe pilot the sign to go; a red bo stop. As a more general signal to pilots in the air, Very lights are used. They arc bright flares .like, glorified Ro- man candles fired from large Very pistols. The flare looks like an oversized shot-gam shell, and fits into a pistol with a large barrel. A rec flare indicates that something is wrong; the white is a general recall the green a signal that everything is 0. K. A switchboard controls the elabor ate electrical equipment flood light, searchlight rotating air beacoi and the rest. One is marked "Ceil ing Light, 1 ' but the ceiling in this case is the sky. A powerful light on top of a distant hanger point straight up to the clouds. By sight ing along a rotating arm to the spot where the light strikes the cloud's, and reading the figures on a metal arc, it is possible to determine the height of the "ceiling" for flying. A s> .-.ti>m of flags, colored balls and tin cans indicates weather con- ditions and directions to be^taken in landing. On a flat roof nearby, oddly shaped and colored peces of wood are laid out to give similar information. On the rainy afternoon which I spent in the tower, they said: "Use iCnways only;"' "Land from the South," and "All flying washed out.'' Beside the control towex stands the "crash crew," with fire fighting truck always ready in case of accidents. If a pilot gets into difficulties, the crew will be well out on the field before he lands, with an ambulance not fai behind. The crash truck drives from all six wheels and carries equipment for all types of fires. There are the ordinary fire extinguishers and a 100-gallon tank of water. For fires in oil and gasoline, carbon dioxide is used to cquiidron Lender ter, "otn.iandinjr Officer, who ho.L march <low " to the cn d of the line, around the front and then proudly transferred to a new "hool at Clnresholm, Alta. Flying (.iricer Douglas showed mo the lee- tur" rooms, the armament rooms and the course of study, and Squadron Leader Brculshaw initiated nip into the mysteries of the control tower. In the Control Tower The flying field at Camp Borden is a huge flat plain. Because of the sandy .soil, it dries quickly after n rain. Huge, paved runways criss- cross the field, giving ample room for landing, no matter what the wind direction. On the edge of the field, near the hangars, rises the control tower, which is the nerve centre of the flying field. To the casual visitor, the control tower looks unpretentious. It is three storeys high, covered with asphalt shingles. Around the edges of the roof hang all kinds of odd things that mean nothing to the outsider, but much to the pilots. On a tall x)le above the roof IB an anemometer or instrument for measuring the vel- ocrty of the wind. Each of its four cups in about the size of a half- orange peel. Inside the glassed-in convparlment on top of the bower i a crew of three or four, surrounded by instru- ments and signalling equipment. On a desk is a list of all planes in use, with the numbers, the names of the pilots and other information. Aa each plane comes down the runway, it get* a signal from the tower with an Aldis lamp, them gainx speed, takes the proper runway, and ts off into the air. The Aldis lamf is used for si|rn*l- Miitf in the Air Force and Navy, both duy and night. On active er quench the flames by depriving them of oxygen. A foam tank lays a blan- ket of bubbles over the fire, keeping away the air. The ftre fighters use asbestos uniforms and blankets of the same fireproof material. Runways are not illuminated for night flying, but pilots must learn to land with no more equipment than is used on active service on British air fteldj. Small flares, not visible above i00 feet altitude are laid out in the form of a "T" in such a way that the pilot knows where the runways and the horizon are and can come in with scarcely a bump. Pilots Get Their Wings After ten weeks at Camp Borden or some other Service Flying Train- ing School, the student pilot is ready to go overseas for final training un- der ccmbat conditions. In token of this, he is given his "wings" and the rank of Surgeant Pilot. The wings ceremony is simple and impressive. The graduates stand in the centre of a hollow square, with thoir comrades around them. Among the class may be young men from Australia, New Zealand, England and Scotland, the Straits Settlements or other parts of the Empire. There an.- h'.-fly to he some Americans and large proportion of Canadians. The Commanding Officer calls out the names of the graduates, one by one, They drop back a pace or two, L U G E W 1 A There will be no service in he church here on Sunday. Rev. Dr. Mercer is on a month's holidays. Sunday School will be held at the usual hour on Sunday morning. Little Miss Blanche Walker, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Walk- er was organist for the services in the church here the past couple of Sundays, and played exceedingly well. Mrs. A. Carruthers spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. A. Black- burn, 4th line. Mrs. J. Cairn.s is spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. Stewart El- kins, husband and family of Niagara Fulle. During her absence, Mrs. Alex Mac, Donald of Weaton is assisting her brother Frank in the store. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker in company with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fawcett of Vandeleur visited on Sunday with the former's son, Harry, and family at Tavistock. We extend our sympathy to the Rae family in their sad bereavement, caused by the death of their dear mother. Mr. Will Campbell of Toronto vis- ited in the village a week ago. His wife and her sister, who have been visiting here, returned home with him. Mr. Chas. Park, with the H.E.P.C. of Lucan, visited over the week end with his wife and little daughter. Miss Hem' Sloan of Chatham is visiting with her friend, Miss Jean Proctor. Mrs. K^ Rowbothain and daughter, Mrs. McRae, and husband of Toronto visited a few days with the former 1 ! father, Mr. John Williams, end her brother, Charles, and other relatives. Miss Delores Betts of Rock Mills spent a few days with her cousins, Dennis and Jacqueline Campbell. Sgt. Geo. Paul of the R.C.A.F.', visited one day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Paul of Lang, Sask., who were visiting at the MacMillan norne last week. The Ratcliffe family of Vandeleur visited on Sunday with the Genoe family. It was Diana Genoe's birth- It*' "Duncan's for HARDWARE HAY and HARVEST TOOLS B. T. Forks, Pulleys, Rope Hitches, Plymouth Rope for draw, Trip and Sling Ropes, Binder Twinje, Forks, Scythes and Snaths, Mower Files. FOR YOUR WAR ON PESTS Fly Spray, Spray- ers, Screen Doors and Windows, King Bug Killer Arsenate of Calcium, Paris Green. PREPARE TO PRESERVE Preserving Kettles, Cold- Pack Canners, Mixing Spoons, Ladles, Strainers, Zinc and Rubber Rings, Fruit Jars and Glasses. HOLIDAY NEEDS Fishing Tackle, Guns and Am- munition, Flashlights and Batteries, Softballs, Bats, Tennis Balls, Vacuum Bottles, Sta-Away Insect repellant. F. W. DUNCAN HARDWARE "Blue Coal' Phone 54 BUCKINGHAM Mis* Marguerite Mullin of Toronto sipent a week recently with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mullin. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Conn of Wind- sor visited a couple of days last week with Mr. Mrs. W. J. Conn. The Community Club met on Wed., Aug. 6 at the home of Mrs. Cyrus Shortt with attendance of 14 mem- bers and 11 visitors. The meeting was opened with the usual devotional Stayner, also Mrs. Steven* daughter of Stayner visited last week with Mr. and Mra. Alfred Haw-ton. Congratulations are being extend- ed to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Taylor, (ne Miss Elsie Bowes of Nottawa), who were married recently. Mr. Leslie Hawton left for Toron- to the first of the week where he has a position with the Anaconda Braaa Company. Mr. Bruce Brownridge is home oa a short leave off his boat. Mrs. C. Long spent the past week exercise* and the report of the list wkh Mr and Mr3 j Br(xwn meeting read by the Sec., Mre. J. Brown. The afternoon was spent in up the centre. The salute is returned by the O.C. and he pins the pilot badRis a pair of wings, with the let- ters, "R.C.A.F.'' (for the Canadians) surmounted by a crown, on the breast <>f the tunic, offers congratulations ;md a haml'shake. This is one time when visitors arc present, usually relatives who come to see the gradu- ation ceremony. Most of the graduates of Camp Borden are "single aeater" fighting pilots. They have been trained in the Harvard* by day and by night. They are taught to find their way across country alone in all kinds of weather, to use machine Rims and advanced gun sights. They will take over the Hurricanes, the Spitfires and still newer models after aome fur- ther training in England. But a few are trained as bomber pilots. They use the Ayro Ansons, a slower, twin- engined plane. As the various camps are turning to specialized work, the bomber pilots will probably be going to other schools in future. (Next week Traning an Observer) day. We wish her many happy re- turns of the day. Miss Evelyn Campbell of Markdale spent the week end at her parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Annette of To- ronto visited over the week end with her father, Mr. Jacob Williams. Trooper Norman Williams of the 5th Division Tank Corps, Camp Bor- den, spent the week end with rela- tives in the \ u.ge. Miss Marjory Proctor of Toronto visited over th week end at the Proctor homes. Driver Jack Traynor of Camp Bor- den visited over the week end at the MacMillan home. Miss I. Dinsmore of Thornbury called Monday on Miss Marge Park and other friends in tfce village. Mr. and Mrs. Cook and two daugh- ters, Barbara and Evelyn, of Windsor visited a few days with Mrs. George Ward at the Eugenia House. Mrs. Gordon Kellar of Markdale and son, Sergt. Ken Kellar of the R.C.A.F., stationed at an eastern Canada port, visited with Mr. and Mra. Bert Magee and family on Sun- day. Ken is home on sick leave, re- cuperating after an operation for appendicitis. We wish him a com- plete recovery. Miss Lillian Mag*ee spent a few days the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McTavish and family at Flesherton. Miss Georgina Smith of Toronto and Mrs. Morgan of Flesherton vis- ited recently with their sister, Mrs. Evalena Graham. quilting a quilt which with others will be handed to the local Red Cross to be included in a bale. As is usual all enjoyed the lunch hour. The Sept- meeting will be held at the home of Mr Ern Davidson. Mrs. Ed. Hawton of Vancouver, B. C. accompanied by Mrs. A. Brown- ridri- and daughter, Mrs. Currie of Miss Irene Hudson of Toronto ia spending a few weeks holidays at he r home here. Keep eggs cool and keep them clean. When Joe Louis' wife sued him for divorce was it a knockout, blowout or a blackout? NOTICE TO CRFDITORS ALL PERSONS having claims or accounts against the late JACOB ANDREW LEVER, of the Township of Artemesia in the County of Grey, Farmer, deceased, are required to snd full particulars thereof to the undersigned on or before the Twen- ty-third day of August, 1941. After tnat date the estate will be distrib- uted amongst those entitled thereto having ropard only to claims and accounts of which notice shall at that time have been received. Farmers' Chance TO BUY SPARE PARTS FOR FARM IMPLEMENTS As I have bought the Heard building and contents I will sell everything at any reasonable offer. Every- thing must be cleared out at once, as I am taking the building down. Plow Shares. 10 kinds Buggy Repairs Wagon Parts 1 Light Wagon Back and Seat Cushion, new Buckles, all kinds Bolts, all kinds Wagon poUs Buggy Shafts Pumps Wagon Boxes Slings and Parts Some Bicycle Parts Buggy Top Parts Doubletrees Bolts, all kinds Pea Harvester Parts Corn Planter Parts Singer Sewing Machine for leather and numerous other things needed on the farm COME IN AND SEEFOR YOURSELF ! H. A McCauley, Flesherton j . i GO 50/50 WITH OUR FIGHTING FORCES > RKMEMBF.R: Th* you drive, th* mor you at*! landing still totals a yaUonag*. So nr Uar* your oar TOO for a tow minutM with tho motor nuwlng. It's Ju.t as .a. T to witch It ofi and <W*0 ga.olin*. R.m.mb.r TOUT SO/JO Pledffot don't Ut T our motor Idlo. City Hall, Owon Sowid VICTORY '