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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1948 Wives Take Over Mess Halls Several London women are now spending week-ends in camp with"their husbands, father, or sons as the case may be, of the 599 Heavy Anti- # Aircraft Regiment near Epping Forest, Eng. The idea was that of Capt. "A. Williams who couldn't find enough cooks to prepare meals at the camps (counterparts of our reserve army camps) and so he asked the men to invite their wives, mothers or "isters. The women take over the cookhouse and do the cooking. They must supply their own rations, which may or may not match the free rations of their kin, It is a great recruiting idea, too, because many wives of ex-army men were loath to permit any more Jong separations over week-ends. Here is a seldom seen sight. A sergeant . is "spud-bashing" with the aid of two ladies of the cookhouse. --Central Press Canadian C.R.A. Provides Means For The Development Of Crafts And Talents "The activities of the Commun- ty Recreational Association," pre- sident George Roberts said today, would be "forced to a standstill without the assistance of the Com- unless the organization receives its full allotment of $15,000 from the Community Chest, there is a danger that even the present services, re- garded as essential, might be cur- tailed. | munity Chest." The Community Chest, he said, provides over seven- ty per cent of the funds which the ORA uses to keep it many program activities running. "Many of the people of Oshawa," y).e said, "do not realize the size of *.he job being done by the CRA. They do not realize that we are running a full-time, day and night program for both adults and child- ren, and for people of all classes." Among the activities which Mr. Roberts cited as costly and import- ant were daily lessons in wood- working, leathercraft, shellcraft, and weaving in the handicraft di- vision. Classes are held in all of these activities, both for adults and for youngsters. Athletic Training Daily athletic training is given in gymnastics, tumbling, boxing and (within a few weeks) in skating and hockey. There are also thera- peutic classes in such things as dramatics and musical games. At weekly and periodic intervals such activities as art classes, radio and stage dramatics, movies, needle- crafts and community square dances are held in the CRA build- ing, and of course the cost of these . activities in fuel, instructors' fees, and materials is high. Also held at intervals are many other events, including such things as Plastic Craft, Fly Tying, and Weight Lift- ing. Regular sessions of a local boxing club also take up time, space, and money. These are only a sample of all the many activities vhich the Community Recreational @ Association undertakes on behalf of the people of the Oshawa com- munity. The CRA building is also used by many other community associations for activities beneficial to Oshawa's citizens, Although the demand for con- tinued expansion of CRA facilities to take in even more groups is con- tinuous; Mr. Roberts warned that Eire News Letter By MICHAEL MARA Canadian Press Staff Writer Among the other activities which are sponsored by the group are such special teen-age interests as a stamp club, weaving classes, a ski | school, leadership training classes, a model flying club, rehearsals for | community projects such as con- | certs and operettas, and many, | many other things. | Each of these is regarded as an | essential element by those who par- | ticipate in it, and for almost all of these groups there is no other place | available for meetings, activities, | or rehearsals. Organizations Use Building | Many gatherings make use of the facilities of the CRA Building, when other halls are not available. The regular bi-weekly meetings of the Central Council of Neighbourhood Associations are held under CRA auspices, as are occasional skiing and skating parties, service club meetings, church organization gath- erings, and others. In addition to the many indoor activities which take place in the CRA building, there are numerous outdoor sports groups which age | held under CRA auspices. During | the summer months, the Red Cross | swimming program is supervised by | CRA instructors, and is held in| swimming pools run by the CRA, | the Oshawa Parks Department, and | the Board of Education. "This program is undertaken by the CRA for the Red Cross," said Mr. Roberts, "but it is run at a distinct loss to the CRA. We re- ceive only $600 from the Red Cross for this service, but we are forced to pay out more than this amount in salaries alone." The CRA also provides supervis- ors for en city parks during the summer months, as well as special- ists in softball, boxing, tumbling, the various city playgrounds giving special instruction to Oshawa chil- dren, jand women, plus 16s. weekly for an adult dependent. 1S Closing The Books Irish hotels, restaurants, railways, | airways and shipping companies have had the heaviest tourist sea- son in history. The Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire Steamships carried 15 per cent more last year; the passengers than THE DAILY TI Remembering Canadian Pioneers Something different in the way of cairns is this one at Yorkton, Sask. erected in memory of early pioneers of the district. Embedded among the native rocks are around 3C Indian stone hammers, said to have been used by the plains Indians in making pemmican, a mixture of dried buffalo meat, fat and native berries. The inscription on the cairn is framed with colorful stone arrowpoints and reads: "In memory of those men and women who, in the early eighties of the nineteenth century, endured the privations of pioneer life and founded homes hereabout." --Central Press Canadian COMING TO gg v Toronto, Oct. 19 -- (CP) -- Very B tt R d Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of e er oa S Canterbbury, will arrive in Ottawa Nov. 2 for a series of speaking en- gagements in Canada and the United States, it was announced Monday by Dr. J. G. Endicott, mem- ber of the provisional committee of the newly-formed Toronto Peace Council which is sponsoring the Dean's talks in Canada. He will speak in public meetings at To- ronto Nov. 7, at Ottawa Nov. 8 and in Winnipeg Nov. 24. dation in Canada is scheduled to be discussed today at the third annual Dominion.Provincial Tourist Con- vention. THINNER THAN PAPER |da as the three-day convention mov- Aluminum can be rolled into a [8d into its second day. At a busy foil so thin that 10 layers the convention needed to equal the thickness of a | heard newspaper page. ; 1. Trade Minister Howe announce are | session Monday, "a Drama of the W MES-GAZETTE Marshall Not To Resign rro-- a Lieut.-Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (left) U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union; Paul G. Hoffman (centre) economic co-operation administrator, and Secretary of State George C. Marshall are shown on the steps of the president's plane, "Independence," just before all three men left Wash- ington for Paris. Marshall, who flew to Washington from Paris a few days ago to discuss the critical Berlin situation with President Truman, was emphatic in his denial of reports that he would resign as U.S. secre- tary of state. He told reporters, "That is not the way I do business." --~Central Press Canadian . PY ° | that the Canadian tourist season be Main Topic lengthened by delaying the celebra- tion of Labor Day from the first : Monday to the third Monday in September, 3 As Tourist Experts Meet construction of a trans-Canada | Highway. 2. Hon. J. 8S. McDiarmid, Manito- | ba"s Minister of Mines and Resour- ada Highway but also north to south | 'roads should be built for the use of tourists. 4. R. G. Perry of Montreal, gen- eral traffic manager of the Provin- cial Transport Company, urge that Ottawa, Oct. 19--(CP)--Improve-|that a Dominion-Provincial confer- | Canadian organizations be asked to ment of roads and tourist accommo-| ence will be called to discuss the |hold their conventions either before or after the peak of the tourist sea- | son. 5--C. V, Blythe of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics report that in- The two items were on the agen- | ces, say that not only a Trans.Can- | dications are that 1948 will see new | complaint of American tourists still tourist records set. 6. Mr. Blythe also reported that Canadian tourist spending in the PAGE FIVE King George Host to Visitors His Majesty King George VI is shown on the steps of Buckingham Palace with the delegation of African chiefs whom he regeived. Tha delegation, from various parts of Africa, is attending the Foloniai conference in London. At right is Nang Sir Taibu Darku, Afr¥an Gold Coast Chief. ~--Central Press Canadian and currency restrictions. | roads, delegates discussed the possi- In his summary of statistics on |bility of extending the tourist sea- tourist traffic, Mr. Blythe said that son. Mr. Dolan said he had been it is expected that American tour-|urging for years that Labor Day be ists will spend much eore than the put back from the first to the third $235,000,000 they spent in Canada| Monday of September. So far the last year. idea had proved Yageceplable 2 stimated that Canada will [Some organizations. Representd- a 5s gslindior pt trade bal- | tives of the railways said they could ance of about $150,000,000 this year not keep their resorts open much compared with a favorakle balance [beyond Labor Day because students employed for the holiday had to go t ,000,000 d $90,009,- Seen tlh back to their college and university , | classes, Mr. Dolan reported that the mai- PHOSPHORUS AIDS BRAIN Phosphorus is essential to the functioning of the brain. Because is directed against Canadian Oigh- ways. Mr, McDiarmid said a cross- country highway should 3. D. Leo Dolan, director of the | U.S. likely will be down about 50 international interest. fish is rich in the mineral it is po- le anadian Travel Bureau, suggest |per cent this year because of import . | pylarly called brain food. iierness by John Fisher ® The baby didn't whimper as the min- ister lifted up the tikinagum --the strange cradle in which our Northern Indians still carry their papooses. The minister's words had a familiar rhythm in the little church. ' I couldn't understand anything, though, save the name 'Robert George'. I saw the mother's shawled head bow in rayer, her soft Ojibway face reverent. ide her, the father stood bareheaded; his features sharper, more hawklike--a Cree. Neither spoke English, so the baptismal service flowed onsalternately in two Indian tongues. It was an unexpected moment inmy life. A few hours previously I had stepped off a modern train at this remote outpost. Now, I felt I was back in the days of Champlain's voyageurs. 18 miles through the wilderness After the service I looked closer at tiny Robert George, just two weeks old. His brown eyes blinked, then his plump little cheeks creased, and he gri . Healthy! That youngster would have taken prizes anywhere, The minister said the family had hiked into the tiny settlement a few weeks ago, eighteen miles through the never-ending spruce forests. Why? So the Indian mother could have her baby safely at the Red Cross Outpost Hospital. I had heard that these hospitals are dots of mercy and Kiesaving fom McBride on Vancouver Island to the Magdalena in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I had read dramatic newspaper stories of how blood plasma was parachuted by mercy plane to the Red Cross Outpost at Hudson Bay Junction in Saskatchewan. But here, as a mother had her healthy baby christened, I realized that Red Cross Outpost Hospitals meant more than dots on the map and newspaper headlines. A story as big as Canada Sometimes, very rarely, these outpost stations get publicity for startling rescues. More often such drama goes unnoticed. More often still we all forget the everyday hospital round. Babies being born, routine operations, the sick cured, broken bodies mended. To me this case was symbolic--parent walking 18 miles for help; receiving it (and more) at the Red Cross Hospital. I went to a christening in a little outpost and found a story as big as Canada. Red Cross Services include: Blood Trans- fusion, Outpost Hospitals, Aid to Sick and Disabled Veterans, Treatment for Crippled Children, Disaster Relief, Nutrition Ser- vices, Home Nursing Courses, Swimming and Water Safety, etc. | | and gymnastics who travel between Dublin, Oct. 19--(CP)--Ties be- | Liverpool service was 100 per cent tween Britain and Eire are, in many | up; Aer Lingus pronght in 50 per ways, growing closer--despite Pre- | cent more Britons than usual; lor Costello's avowed gon to | Transatlantic travel by ship into "cut the last link with the British | Cobh and by plane into Shannon Crown." was well ahead of 1947 figures. Latest example of this ---------------- Anglo-Eire reciprocal agreement on | CHILD DROWNED sickness and maternity benefits. -t| Brantford, Oct. 19--(CP)--Cheryl is expected that agreement on other | Diane Edgecombe, two-year-old The work of mercy never ends . . . Give generously to the CANADIAN RED CROSS is an | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jovial welfare schemes. will shortly dgecombe, Mohawk Street, In future title to these benefits E was drowned Monday in 15 inches of | water in a small fish pond a block True reports on the work of the Red Cross Which Is Included In The by leading Canadian writers » *. * tain minor conditions, be accepted for payment cf such benefits in the | i Mi Vlg other country, ; about the same age, when she Those insure@ in either country slipped into the water. will be able tq draw benefit from that country at a rate not exceed- ing that payable in Eire for the first six months after moving to the new country. If they stay longer, their previous insurance will be transfer- red to the new country and contri- butions paid in both countries will «count toward benefits, Under Eire legislation a man who has contributed to national insur- ance for two years receives sick- ness benefit at the rate of 22s 6d ($4.50) e week for 26 weeks followed by disability benefit of 15s. for as long 'as is necessary, Correspond- ing rates for women sare 18s. and 12s. i In Britain the standard smount | of sickness benegt--as well as un- employment benefit and retirement pensions--is 26s. weekly for men OSHAWA COMMUNITY CHEST ONE CAMPAIGN ONLY EACH YEAR GIVE ONCE and HELP 16 ORGANIZATIONS G Yes Friends! * It's Important To Give Generously To This Worthy Community Fund If BACKACHE is Holding You Back It's Dodd's You May Need! When your kidneys act up and backache follows--get and I 's Kidney Pills, the 50-year-old Canadian remedy. 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