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the georgetown herald wednes february 14th 1945 thejeifth man by frank benm tt hccluco syndicate wnu features i he bombing had stopped when the lieutenant came with the men into the officer s dugout the colo nel s lean weathered face looked al most cruel in the uncertain lantern light he stood and returned the salute and was displeased to note there was one man too many i asked for four men lieutenant hi said stiffly there were only five l ft in due out c sir all volunteered the colonel was no ibnger young his shoulders sagged and the chance these men must take terrified him men he said harshly the boat will hold only five lieutenant culyer and four oarsmen he looked sharply at the faces gray in the shadows stabbed a finger at the man on the right you he or dccd wi rem r beh nd the rest of you listen tht c i nel hurried on you ire to rt lieutenant cuhcr icrobb the nvt 4 ere he u 11 receive a dispatel from one uf our agents the boat ready tin oais arc muffled n cj less to s y the less noise you make the better god pity you if you fa into entmy hands you have on chance m ten it s that one chanct ve re counting on you are to shove ff in exactly ten minutes he sat down heavily the lieutenant led the men out the colonel turned to the one wh remained i asked you to stay he said not unkindly because you look exhausted go back and rest the man moved forward listen bir he gasped you ve got to lei wakm1ng up voices with that easy to listen to overtone are owned by norma locke and art hallman the singers featur ed with canada spotlight band on lhe mu ic club program shown just before going on the ur the singing pair joins murt kenney md lhe clubs ensemble tverj monday at 8 00 p m over obc s transcanada network me go they 11 never make it wjth out me i tell you i ve got to go the colonel began filling the heavy bowl of his pipe sit down he said soothingly you seem un strung what s your name private ellis ur will you listen to me for a couple ofminutes i 11 talk fast i 11 hae to or they 11 be gone let me tell you why they 11 never make it without me please ellis leaned forward people get hurt or killed when i m left behind let me explain the first time i realized it was when i was a kid just twelve 1 lived in the country a neighbor boy invited me to stay with htm one night just as i was ready to go my dad hurt his hand and i had to stay home to help milk a tornado destroyed the neighbors house and the entire the colonel had forgotten his pipe go on he said there isn t much time left sir 1 could teu you a dozen things that would prove what i m trying to say there was a time i was flying to tbe west coast we stopped at a town in new mexico four army officers were to be taken on and that meant four passengers would have to get off i was one of the four that plane never reached its destl nation now dont you see why i must go the colonel got to his feet he turned sharply on guis this is a lot of nonsense he rasped such things dont happen but he glanced at his watch made up his mind follow me ellis we can catch them if we hurry he led the way to the river s edge lieutenant culver he called soft ly yes sir send one of the men out the colonel ordered private ellis will take his place he gripped ellis shoulder on your way he said then to the man who had come out of the boat return to your quarters he said ellis will ex plan why he took your place if he gets back the colonel returned to his dugout and sat watching tha minute hand on his watch creep onward twen ty minutes later the lieutenant and his four men came in re laid a heavy envelope on the colonels desk the dispatch sir he said briskly tha colonel relaxed and smiled good your government a terrific explosion sifted a thin trickle of dirt from the roof the men stood as they were listening but bearinc no sound other than jtheir own hard breathing an orderly afid m tinder tha can tm nan atrajdhtened saluted a 1 raider dropped a single bomb wm m dfrect bit an dugout c jibe others raoaaanelaaid for rtmsfprt- ross segsworth hedds halton holstein breeders prie presented to top colt clob boy ward brownridge ross segsworlh freeman was elect ed president of the halton holstein breede club at lhe annual meeting held feb 3rd in the community hall palermo emerson ford hornby was chosen as first vice president claude f picket getrgetown as second vice president while victor j lawrence oafcville was re elected as secretary treasurer in view of the blocked roads in the county there was a surprisingly large attendance of 80 breeders w h ro binson georgetown the 1945 president presided at both the business session and the noon hour banquet the lat ter put on by the wives of the club members and was really something to remember agricultural representative j e whjteiocfc supervised the program and introduced the guest speaker c d graham director of agricultural rep resentatives branch ontario depart ment of agriculture the three basic interests of dairy farmers should be good farm practices breeding fine dairy cattle and marketing their pro duct said mr graham in e post he continued too little atten tion has been paid to the marketing end of the business b dairymen gen erally he urged that lhe product be i prepared with the idea in mind of meeting the requirements of the par tlcular market in which it will be sold as a case in point he quoted the recent declaration of the hon root s hud son british minister of agriculture to the effect that britain will in the postwar years buy cheese and butter according to price and quality mr graham expressed his conviction that if canadians were to retain their war time hold on the british market they must pay very careful attention to quality the reports of the two club field men w h robinson and edgar lyons showed sales totalling 128600 during 144 elton mclean oafcville con trasted this ith the 4 000 figure for sales made by himself as fleldman in 1933 and expressed lis belief that it was symbolic of the progress made since that time an interesting feature of the pro gram was the presentation by prest dent w h robinson on behall of the club of a true type model of the holstein cow to ward brownridge georgetown who had the high aggie gate score of the season in county calf clxb work mr brownridge expressed the thanks of himself and the other boys and girls for the interest in calf j chib work shown by the club members i and by mr robinson in particular george f drennan holstein fleld man for this district led a discussion on the proposed amendment to the by laws of the association that would permit the registration of a bull calf only if his dam is either graded oood phis or better in selective registration or has a bwiceaday milking record of performance teat at least fifty per cent above the amount required to qualisy another proposed amend ment calling for an increase of the transfer fee from fifty cents to 1 00 was discussed by j e powell director of publicity of the holsteinfrieslan association of canada after which a motion endorsing both amendments was unanimously passed mr powell pointed out that holstein breeders of the dominion had iad a good year in 144 this was reflected in the membership of the association which passed the 9 000 mark for the first time in its history and in the total number of animals registered this ex ceedng the previous record total made in 1943 indicative of the clubs interest in junior work was the presence as guest of a number of calf club boys the directors for 1mb are as f ol tows craig held oeorgsto f o hunter nerval w 8 hall and w h sagamr omkvtde w r tutu horn- ay ltethaan desrtmj palermo fred bbsmoton freeman money watson tanatay a t woodier afilton fjrank roast beef on sundays the sunday roast week ends in the country the old family jalopy these things mean a pleasant way of life these are some of the things every man overseas is fighting for today they wont be his unless all of as make sure when our fighting man comes back his dollar will be worth a dollar to protect his dollar we must realize now the dangers of care less unnecessary buying we must buy only what we need never buy two where one will do we must not evade rationing or price control or deal in black markets if we break the rules our country the country hes fighting for will start on that uncontrollable rocketing of prices known as inflation prices will rise as prices go up wages try to tag along and never quite catch up the value of money goes down soon your dollar will buy perhaps only 30c worth of goods and there is no limit to its drop look at greece today the nation is plunged in poverty and depression so lets all make sure our soldiers dollar when he gets back will buy a dollars worth of goods 1 we cant give back to him his lost years or his lost youth but if we keep up the fight against inflation he can look forward to pleasant satisfying living the canadian way of life make this pledge today i pledge myself to do my part in fighting inflation black markets i ihapc or fty rtpcttm frum cntrla and other lou inflation mcuurci and re framing from csrele and unnecei taxr bajidg 1 will not buy io where one will do nor will i buy a new where an old will do by bvytnfl pmhutbtd by the brewing industry ontario to rncal tb dancer of inflation mpponmg las aiion and abiding by all aacb mcuaru which will lower i be cott of living and help keep pricei at a normal level kirtehart and arthur c adle camp- bellvllle j e whrt lotlc wu appoint ed as auditor town council pashed follow 1ng accounts the following accounts were passed for payment at the meeting of town council monday feb 5th a livingstone fits 1 14 70 municipal world stationery 2 04 bell telephone co 21 48 p b harrison registrations postage etc 19 bo k m langdon legal fee 5 00 silvers dept store police prot 15 00 james a cook st son bd of health 1 18 moore business forms ltd bd of health 2 04 halton county sts 5 35 axtostronar8 oarage are truck 1 80 j b mackenzie at son coal 68 56 w o marshall licenses 4 00 scott s oarage sts 120 l hydro electric 100 41 lane cartage sts 60 00 welfare 18 06 umehouse mr arthur hu1 entertained s num ber of friends at a surprise party in honour of mrs hill b birthday annl prsary on wednesday evening the evening was spent at euchre mrs s wright holding highest score those present report an enjoyable time spent the wms meeting was held at the home of mrs a vf norton on thurs day afternoon text word mercy wa used as roll call the worlds day of prayer program was followed mrs mitchell set a date for an after noon social for the scott mission to ronto mrs a norton sang the gar den of prayer wlarrarrtofqcer alex m wright son of mr and mrs m wright has arrived back in canada following completion of his tour of operational flights over enemy territory and is enjoyimj thirty days leave at his home here miss mu4redramebottom of toron- to visited bot sister mrs c a fos ter recently mrs s oisby spent a few days in toronto last we to be with her fa ther ur d 8 mcdonald who it engineer rctlrn8 paul johnson engineer in cbcs overseas unit has returned to canada after extensive service at the war fronts and in london mr johnson will shortly take up his duties as assistant to r d cahoon in engineering operations of cbcs international short wave service undergoing treatment in st mlchaefs hovpttal toronto miss dorothy shelboume is able to be home following removal of appendix in st joseph s hospital recently county councils last meeting oram of 200 made to institute for hlint county asks province to ploofh blocked road warden heo- lop objects to flan of stgninc blank cheques and a changs fa made the second meeting of the halton county council was held in uny on tuesday with the new warden reeve c h heslop in the chair and all members present with the excep tion of messrs gilbert and huhnsr minutes of tbe last meetlnt wars read and cobtlnned and coram unfaw- ttoni read tbe tsfxvt of the standing oom 1 mittees were considered in coromlt- i ee of lhe whole with reeve w j robertson in the chair j i a rep ti n ui from the canadian national institute rpr the bnnd in urvlewed counctt with regard to a grant hit spe iter himself was blind and spolec to the council from notes in braille he outlined the activities of the organization and stated that ta halton county there are 22 reglstar ed blind persons all of whom wan visited personally by a blind person from the institute during the past ear and that all were given a christ mas present he also drew attention to the good work done b lhe blind in war industries and the fact that among the blind absenteeism fa prae ucally unknown the pensions of four blind persons in the county is sup plemented by lhe society and plans are already in operation whereby every effort is made to train every hlmdat service man or woman in order that they may take their places in the pro fessions and industries of the country when the grant was discussed la counoti it was suggested a 8100 grant be give the warden was of ths opinion that this was not enough an4 asked that it be thoroughly discussed since in his opinion no more worthy organisation exists in the country to day and it would be hard to think of any greater auhctlon than that of being blind it was finally decided that the institute for the bund b given a grant of 300 other grants given were as follow navy league of canada 600 salva tion army 100 reforestation asso ciation 25 mr j e wbitetock halton county agricultural representative and mr hewitt p s i addressed council with regard to reforestation projects it was suggested that means be takes to arouse interest in this work among the school children of the county and that they be given instruction in the plaating and care sf young trees i the warden introduced a decidedly ontroverslal subject with regard to the signing of county cheques dr heslop asserted he had no intention of signing blank cheques as had been the custom in the past and asked that a change be made requiring ttiatthe chepues be coimterslgnekl mr rob ertson agreed with the warden othss members also agreed that a chang should be made it was finaor wand by mrs pettit seconded by k mao- donald that all cheques issued by ths treasurer of the countjr should as countersigned either by tbe waidcss or in his absence b the county dark carried the following accounts were passad for payment finance 948 50 prina- ing 155 60 education 31b6j1 county buudings 4400 hospital ac counts 815 65 special communtoa- ttons 895 00 road accounts 3 806 js total 37360 51 to conform with the rulas of sh newl organised halton county ctoo- dren s aid society it was moved by mcdonald and craig that the mottom to appoint mr hillmer and mr ort- bert to tbe halton county obudnns ma society passed january 18 lmsv be rescinded this alter an ezptanauob of society bylaws as explained by mr thompson carried mmed by craig and smith that harrj m saunders be appointed a the burlington high school board for ihr years 1945 67 carried mn pettit asked that a letter ad dressed tcv the couny snglneer bs- plared before the council and ad she also asked that any municatlons hereafter be placed 1 the council in order that might have some knowledge county council procedure back to their own councils explalalns tlat ratepayers repeatedly ask infor mation about various matters of which she has no knowledge because they had not been placed before tbs council several other members expressed agreement with mrs pettit a dis cussion then took place regarding ways and means of improving snow-clsar- ince of county roads oonsmerattea was given to a suggestion by j it mcdonald that morv machinery be purchased as far as finances permit ted with regard to the road referred to lr the etterdlaced before the coun cil at mrs pettit s request it was moved by mr robertson and mns petut that we tbe roambexs of hal ton county council do petltiqsi 4ba depaxtmctit of highways to aoespfe that portion of road ljrtas sooth of 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