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the georgetown hewd seventyfourth year of publication wednesday evening november 26th 1941 5c a copy 00 a year flying over the atlantic on a magic carpet this is the second of a series of articles about conditions in sat britain and other countries 1 dmlnr six wetw spent in it is written specially canadian weekly news- 9 by the editor of the fergus i record flying across the atlantic is pure ere is no other way to describe no modern novelist has ever told the story it is necessary to go away back to the arabian nights with its taogii carpets to icarus with his wi x wings and his unsuccessful attempt to fry over a mufch narrower body of water or to pegasuj with his broad pinions clipper trips are more mod em than our literature writer in one popular american jazlne recently tried to tell about the flight from new york to lisbon but he depended heavily on photo graphs he did say though hat those who had crossed the atlantic by clipper belonged to the most exclusive club in the world the membership fee was 1 000 tor less than a week and one requires pull besides to become initiated into this society pfnclallv the term is not pull but priorities perhaps there is some truth to hat but it does seem a prosaic way to ipeak of magic in many ways modern science im troves on ancient fairy stories i al ways had some doubts about the de slraoilitv of travelling by carpet high above the earth the carpet was sure to be draughty if one moved too near the edge there was always i dinger of falling off and after all tha adv of the arabian nights and the other ancient storv tellers knew rothlng of the actual loveliness of the world for above the clouds and particularly at sunset or the approach of a thunde storm or when a rainbow spread it self into a full circle in front of the plane nothing they ever imagine 1 could equal the beauty of tha world and it is almost impossible o iesenbe it to earthbound readers meetlnr the other editors at new york i met five of the other editors who were to make the trip to england three were from ontario and two from montreal b k sand well and bishop r j renison of toronto gratton oxeary of ot tawa oswald mayrand and lionel shapiro of montreal the last named uvea much of the time in washington and knows new york which was for tunate for we learned that a por tujrese visa was necessary before we boarded the clipper and this required much running around and he pay meat of eight precious american dol lars each to the portugese embassy before we embarked f later we learn ed lust how much travellers through portugal have to pay toward the up keep of dictator solazars govern th new airways terminal op poslte the grand central station in now york is surely one of vw most beautiful and aopropriate buildings in the world the entrance is a semi circle of inchthick doors of olate glass or one of the new plastics insiie the doors the passenger ascends bv a moving stairway into great blue dome studded with stars circling across the torn are the signs of the zodiac and a bronze man with wings on his back not until the traveller reaches the too of the stair does he see the offices of the vario is airways companies almost hidden a ound the horizon when the time comes to go large motor buses rt e through the noor at the rear of the building coming up from deeo cellars and the trans- atlantlc passengers are hurried awaj by tunneisind roads to the airport the dixie clipper rides at nchor the bav it looks exactly like a whale with wings the wings seem inadequate not at all the kind o size of wings that one would expec a whale to grow if it had to fly 4000 miles or more in the next two days but the four big wrinht motors look efficient enough to drive their three bladec propellors indefinitely a six boomed house with wings fifty fv puscngers lert new ork the dixie cupper that day but more an half of them stayed in bermuda ev sat around in six rooms most of them laree enough for ten persons for the clipper is as large as a house inside and upsta rs the ele en men of the crew sa around in another room which the passengers nevr saw it took 20 minuter to get rh- dixie clipper up ofl the water it taxied back and rorth over the bay vhlc the pilot tried the feel of the wind against the wings and manoeuvred for the lamest run over the water once we passed three of uncle saim s nw motor toroedo boats each one with two machine gun turrets and four tocpedo tubes we were almost touch jnr one of new yorks marvellous bridges before we anally started down the bay at full speed spray flew up over the little square windows and goon the slapslap of the waves lost the bottom of he hull grew violent and then disappeared the clipper as in he ah it d over the edge of new york twice gaining height awtthen turned east over the marshes and swamps and then the broad atlantic two bbps were nearlng the coast after that nothing but waves and clouds in everv direction wonderful above the clouds t t at as fr said b realize it at first flying was not a now sensation for me i nid beei doing it for 20 years in planes large and small but never for more than a few hours at a time this was piffer tnt i sat on a sofa with two others one was a young americat girl who had saved her money for a luxury holiday in bermuda the other a dc troit newspaper man returning to europe the plane was heated ard air conditioned even the wall covering added to the feeling of luxury for it wa a tapestry with maps of tie coni tinents and oceans dinner onslsv ed of consomme chicken salad ice cream and coffee all these things were mere man made attempts at comfort the leal magic was outside the windows bverv time i looked out the long slender dolnted wing was still there with its two whirring propellors far down below us wei the clouds for we flew at 6 000 to 8 000 feet where the air is still and there are few bumps it was fortunate that we had clouds all the way across the atlan tic seen from that height grows des derately monotonous when the air is clear but clouds are always changing shape and color the sun set behind a distant row of thick clouds which looked like faroff mountain range a long path of vellow light stretched over the whiteness or the nearby clouds they looked like masses of spun sugar candv as the sun dropped away tne ky flamed with color in three quai ters of the dome of heaven it m already night but out in the west the full range of the spectrum stretched across the sky brilliant red it t le horizon going up through he yellows and the blues to the deep ndlgo of night overhead with a few stars al readv brightly shining lurhtnin around the wings nearlng portugal we met a ugh thunderstorm this time the clipper seemed unable to rise above it th clouds were close around and often we v ere in them like a hick fog the lightning was around us too sometimes just beyond the wings but there was no sound ofthunder above the roar of the motors it was oampy too and for the first time wo ladies felt sick and strapped themselves lo their seats for some others m- i and women alike it was just a new and enioyable sensation at night the steward made up the berths that was after we had left bermuda there were 23 passengers then and room for them all to sleep i had one or the worst positions up close to the wing and number hree and four engines but the bed was comfortable and there was a rhythm to the noise that was soothing so i slept well outside the window there was a tiny silver of new moon and the verv bright stars magic doesnt always work yes flying the atlantic is maglo but sometimes in the hands of hard headed americans the magic goes wrong we should have wt new york on tuesday morning and have been in lisbon on wednesday night but number four engine wasn t be having too well even before we eft new york out of bermuda six hours the clipper turned back because of bad weather ahead on the second try we reached the azors but after landliur there for more gasl nc the ailing engine died as we were oppos ite the last islands of the group and we turned back to horta wher the atlantic clipper came along and picked us up taking us the rest of the way even food ran short at las before we dropped down out of the darkness on to the tagus river at lisbon on friday night we had been 47 hours in the air instead f in usual 23 and had done some 2 500 extra miles of flying and the next morning we wre in the air again this time headed for england fined for nonpayment of radio licenses twelve georgetown residents paid fines of 3 00 and costs for falling to have radio licenses when they ap peared before magistrate w f wood liffe last wednesday in the public library two other cases were dls missed and three were adjourned to a later date flare is pure magic one joes not the annual meeting or the george town branch of the upper canada bible socibtv was held on thursday evening november 20th in george town baptist church the devotional exercises were conducted by rev j e ostrom assisted by rev woo thomoson rev c cochrane and rev r c todd after the business was concluded mr j d godfrey introduced the guest speak rev walter mtocleary of to onto who gave a very instructive ad dress accompanied with moving pk lures of the work of the society n algiers he also showed a fine series of dlctures of the german attack on paris and the evacution of dunklnc a motion was passed thanking mr meoieary for his helpful talk and the resident ministers gqrfmd- their ap preciation of his speech there was a fair attendance at the meeting an objective of 6000 was adopted for bible society work in the coming year special announ concerning this churchi be made in tne local xairl in c waaf miss margaret long daughter of mr and mrs w h long is shown above with two other girls who haze been accented bv the canadian women s auxiliary air force the group snap ped at the rjoaf recruiting depot in hamilton shows left to igit miss long miss wynlfred kenyon dough ter of mr and mrs carletwn kenyon brantford and miss lorraine hearns of milton are ratepayers interested in municipal affairs it would seem not according to at tendance at public meeting to re view interim statement by g mcg it must have been disappointing to some town officials last friday itn ing when only two or thret rate payers were on hand to review the interim statement as presented by the treasuier mr p b harron to be more specific the gath r nj intiud ed onlv three memdxr- of the coun ell maor joseon gibbons and coun clllors s j mackenzie and c word bradlev others present wcr two hvdro commissioners two press re porters and three ratepayers there was not must to be ei thused about for there were no speeches however in a verv informal way town affairs were discussed in general mayor gibbons stated tha municipal affairs were the best they iad been in a number of years with a credit bank balance on current account of sll 51605 this is due to large fxtent to the collection of taxes aid tax ar rears the tax arrears amounting to over 15 000 00 collected up to o ember 15th and another 000 00 an ticlnated before the end f the year waterworks account also showed an operating surplus of 1392 90 another encouraging atatemen was the fact that the debn urc debt of the town had been reduced to sll 000 bv the gradual reduction of the de benture debt the interest harges have been reduced likewise thus ovidm txtra motiu for other puipn e mavor gibbons was vc y drlln ir in his issertion that thi tax it lor another tar could bt red i d it lei t 4 mills tlits will no do ib b good news for tht taxpayer hvdro commission affi wtr i so touchi d it which point co ncillor s j mackenzit injecukl not a lit k h imor whei he said uiai thi pro iertv committee ol tl e council of which hi l chairman ind included councillor clifford bradley werv in antmoi tl at the hydro commbmnn it ave t he office in the iwn hall which the are vacating tor new quar ters down town in the me oond tion as thev found it back some iwen tv five vears ago by thin he mart that any partitions erected by them bt takei down and the room made into one lanre room which is to be oc cuuled bv the band as a practice room however the argument aose is ti who could rightly say the hydro commls sion had added these said partitions ind with the mayor as a member of the commission also it looks as though the proderiv committee n th town would have ut make iny changts ne cessnrv themselves hydro commissioner hugh lindsay stated that the power shut oft on sunday was necessary so that the hvdro power lines could be enlarged to increase the voltar of the prim arv line through gecrgeown thla wh n coinnleted will decrease the vol uikt iriatlon by at leas 7i ana gcoitttown and district ndustries an bt i snt i of adttu ill power to meet their i eeds yes it would havt be n a i ntirest iiil mtei u had tht rjeatrs and thtr members of council lined out o disc i thf attaii u tht r com muniu one mtnibtr ir the council said nat shows what the two year ttim f council dnnft wpi ut hit he meant are you wellknown citizen pied last wee james wood burled in greenwood cemetery after an illness of several months james woofl well known georgetown resident passed away on saturday november 22nd at his home on edith street born in stirling scotland he was a son of alexander wood and marv shanpe he came co canada in 1901 and had resided ln town for the past 38 yeafs he was 59 years of age and is sur vived bv hwlfe the former lillian m bullivaru and ave children kmre a robinson louvalne of hamilton mrs j saunders evelyn of george town and ethel jean and james at shoine a brother john lives in ed- lionton alberta and the rest or hfc family still live in the old country the funeral service from jjis resi dence on edith street on monday af ternoon was conducted by rev w o thompson pallbearers were frank sykes herb distance james atul- holland wesley murray arthur bvara and thomas bulllvant interment was in greenwood cemetery georgetown former residents dies iirtoronto mrs angus mckinlay a former resident of georgetown passed away on thursday november 20th at her home in toronto she was 90 years of age mrs mckinlay was predeceased by her husband who died in georgetown in 1894 a son captalnerankmckw lav was killed in thegreat war sur viving are two sonst murray and aw of toronto and thre daughters lyla and edna at home and mrs dr devincfjessuuof beaverton the funeral service was held in to ronto or saturdaj with burial in greenwood comcteiv gorgeuown mr merehaiu whj not plan to ise the col imns of this new pe io- youi chrlstmas advertising we lave attracth e lllustrath e cuts to chdose from we understand that there ii some misunderstanding regarding the poppv fund and we make this state mert that regarding the tdmln stra- tion or distribution of same the cost is nil and all popples and wreath sold are made bv disabled veteran branch 120 canadian legion j f mccartney presidnt naval gun objective in esquesing war weapons drive under the chairmanship or mr ar thur beaumont the war weapons drive in esquesing township got un derwav last week the campaign takes in all esquesing township with the exception of georgetown glen wil liams and aoton the objective is a naval gun 2 000 monthly the school boards in the twenty township school sections have been asked to be responsible for the cam i palgn in their district returns are already in from one of these with 910 worth of war savings certificates purchased assisting mr beaumont on the exe cutive are l devries publicity e sm the secretary dan charles or anizations and members of the town shin council a farmto farm can vass is being made chief difficulty in putting across a sustained cam paign is the fact that a farmers in come is not a steady one and many feel that they cannot pledge to buy anv certain amount of certificates per month angus shops craftsmen celebrate 100th tank t t was a proud moment for em- ployeea of the canadian pacl- fto railway s angus shops at montreal when the 100th army tank rolled off the shops assem bly line to take its place with others in the british armed forces the important produc tion milestone was marked by a gala ceremony during which tank nocjoo gaily bedecked with flagaand placards was par aded down the shops midway to the strains of the employayf brass band thr o s lined the broad runway as the tankof honor rumbled by ayrd bolizlng the stepped up tempo of production since the first cana dian built tank was released from the big plant early in the summer large placards affixed to the tanks khaki sides lndlcat ed the determination of the em ployes who staged the cere mony on their own initiative to do all in their power to con tribute to victory as the procession drew up be- hfore the tank shops where other finished tanks stood in a grim hoe the band played o can aha the national a nth em cheers as the angus workers sur veyed their handiwork many or the tanks 99 angus built pre decessors are already in service with the armed forces and as the above placard says hundreds more will follow quickly the cerempn recalled the message of d c coleman vice- president of the canadian pad fie railwaj when the first tank was produced at angub shops on that occasion mr coleman re marked this machine is trh chud of sweat and tears it will followed b hundreds and thousands of oititn to l th fmpire to its victory large crowd enjoys legion stag there was a good crowd of local members of branch 120 canadian le gion and their friends for a stag partv last friday night in the legion rooms on mill street the evening was staged for the le gion cigarette fund and though ad mission was free a number of raffles were conducted and 36 06 was nicd for the fund among the prize winners were lt col gordon cousens and william stewart of erin both of whom won chickens jack avt and jimmy goode well known toronto entertainers feaurec the variety program and brought along a company of singers and dan cers to entertain the gathering a hawaiian duet from guelph also con tributed to the entertainment during the evening mr jack hurst president of the guelph branch of the legion was presented with a banner bearing the words god bless ameri ca fred mccartney president of th local branch was in charge of ar rangements for the evening assisted bv bob muir who was chairman of the entertainment committee and tom grieve who had charge of the raffles active service notes congratulations to cpl harom mar shall who is with the canadian postal oonpe at ottawa and was recently promoted to corporal our apologies to stg bruce zim merman whom we recently congratu lated on his promotion to sergeant we got a letter from bruce a few months ago and as former letters had been signed pte we noted the word beginning with 8 and somehow got itrtwisprl into sergeant a note from bruce this week with a christmas card draws our attention to the error n forgive you trds time he says even though i took a lot of razzing sorry bruce but we hope our mis take wll be in the nature of a pre diction and well soon be able to run another news itm this time a oorreov one i mr and mrs arthur wilson have received word that their son sgt j p wilson r c a j has arrived in ball- fax ac3 horace hurley has been trang- oatarto to ouesph