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Canadians are second highest phone users Canadians have Main lost out to our southern neighbors as the world a telephone users An Increase of conversations per person gave the United States total of calls per person for the year Canadians stayed In second place with an average of conversations per person However oven while dropping back In the talking race Canadians made nearly five telephone calls every second of every day throughout the year almost all of them local calls Only 2 per cent of the calls made by Canadians were long distance Wc ve got the lowest long distance colling rate among all countries with developed telephone systems VS Leading the world In numbers of telephones ore the United States with with the United Kingdom with West Germany with 456 260 and In fifth place Canada with Canada has the fourth highest ratio of telephones to population with phones per 100 people The US has 50 Sweden Switzerland By comparison the It has Japan 22 and France 16 USE OUR BUDGET TERMS This fine contemporary cabinet is almost classical in design with its bold rectangular panelling and dimensional framing plus the tasteful treatment of theantlquebrassomaments Fine cabinetry should be complemented by a comparable sound system so we designed the speaker system to match the performance of the Designer Series chassis ONLY C Kelly Corner Wyndham Guclph 8226041 2 ft far New York leads Of the world leading cities New York toads with has Paris 2 and Tokyo Montreal and Toronto lead Canadian cities with 1 WO and 1 3D4 351 telephones respectively Toronto has the highest ratio of phones per population In Canada with followed by Ottawa which has and Montreal with Washington DC Is the only city In the world with more phones than people 100 phones lor every residents ACTON ONTARIO MARCH 31 Second Section Vic Smith hand crafts violins in his basement workshop When Vic Smith of retired from in his friend Ed of Acton enquired what he was going to do with his time It came as no surprise when Vic replied he thought a fling at making fiddles would be appropriate both have an affinity for violins that goes back long way violins and a lot of experience liter Vic Smith Is still making fiddles at his home on 30 Sldcroad in township He has also turned it into a fiddle hospital for violins that have seen better days He an enthusiast more now ever holding the fiddle up as the instrument responsible for settling this country Bridges gaps if it t been for the fiddle wouldn have able to pioneer tliii country says Vic VIC SMITH PLAYS ONE of his own finished that It lacking In machine produced products made In the workshop at his home instruments Staff Photo Hie hand crafted violins have a unique tone Conservation club elects executives By Cecil Patterson The organizational meeting of the Halton Conservation Club was held at the Agricultural Of flee in Milton at Friday March this year are Bob Merry and Hugh Cook There were eight members present The election of officers was held as follows president Janet Hunter vice president Cathy I secretary Liz Anderson press reporter Cecil Patterson and delegate to leaders council Carol Somerville Busy Program Hugh Cook the assistant agricultural representative for Halton county briefly outlined what the conservation club did last year In the way of projects It was decided this year that there would be a group project and individual projects A film about landscaping was arranged for the April meeting A guest speaker will be on hand A brief outline of the rest of the monthly meetings was set up A film entitled The Patterns of the Wild was enjoyed by all The meeting was adjourned by Janet Hunter TOP PART OF EACH violin is fashioned from soft wood which comes from Europe Here Vic Smith shows part of a violin he is repairing for an old time fiddler Parts of them are glued together Staff Photo NEWEST IDEA IN HOME DECOR Scented DECORATOR FLORAL BOWL AIR REFRESHER ROOM SCENTER now decorator dotal bowl Dtleront Ex beauty Glass decanter holds floral arrangement of Empress Rosa art but amazingly true to Hie Remove lid delicately rose a refreshes air helps banish stale odors Use in living room bedroom tchon den or Wonderful Ideal or patients or shut Ins fiddle was one means the fit oncer hi I of relieving the wellness and bridging between neigh bom It was also Lite instrument made good use of for urn dances and gettogethers Iks an avid of old time fiddlers Sometimes his new aluminum house on rocks with old time when he hufl a get together going an a Saturday night So making fiddles eamc as naturally an ting for this retired fanner tannery worker who first learned to the violin in ngland Me recalls a blacksmith shop across from his home where boys took horsehair from the horsei being shod and strung it over a elgar box to make a crude violin It wasn t long before the youngster Vic Smith was being taught the violin In the parish church where he sunn In the choir love of violin music became stronger and miles away from his home In York he still has a special fi ndncss for religious music as It is played by violins He bought his first fiddle In when he came to this country and still has the bill of sole for that instrument Knew little But when it came down to making a violin Vic admits he knew very little His first Impulse was to go to an Acton lumber yard and purchase Canadian wood Friend Fd Watson set him right there however advising him that the wood for violins comes from Europe where they have more sonorous vanei ties So he and Watson went to Co in Toronto where they ordered pine and Carpathian maple Canadian maples and spruce the Heinl people advised Vic were too hard and Indelicate to carry sound properly Violins have pieces of different wood in them with hardwood underneath and the softer woods on top A new violin does not have the proper resonance and it takes years for the tones to mellow On his third Vic is working on his third instrument now in his basement workshop between fixing up violins brought to him for a rebuilding job This latest model is a Stradivanus and like the first two starts with blueprints on paper from which he makes patterns with a variety of delicate tools and chisels some of own design Each violin requires fresh start since makes produce different tones the first thing e docs is cut a pattern llicn he cuts out the shapes of the vnrioas pieces of that go Into making a fiddle Uic base or the violin is one Job thai requires a great deal of dexterity us the wood must be made into various thicknesses and down to oneeighth of an Inch from the original inch wood must not bo weakened since the strings of a pressure with a downward pressure of His Glued together I arts are assembled by the use clumps and good old fashioned fjuc which must be clamped hni ly for over U hours Then lie whole package is done up with a spec varnish Imported from Germany first violin Vic finished he tailed Bertha It has since been sent out on trial with a musician from area who belongs to the fiddlers association from Membership in the association delighted there is someone close who can fix their Instruments hove been leaving them at the Smith house for repairs an side to the business Vic never suspected when he took the plunge What the difference between f and the violin asked the enquiring Press reporter None at all replied the enthused violin maker I Iddle is Just a name they have pinned on the violin Vie fiddles have a quality of their own like most handcrafted instruments which retail at around A cheap violin made on an assembly line basis costs around and the sound is something different again 11 you happen to be around 30 Sideroad in township and hear the strains of Mendelssohn Spring Song it might Just be Vic Smith trying to coax the weather to change with an appropriate theme Or you could hear a violin virtuoso on the rddio because the Smiths both Vic and his wife love the sound of the violin And now he has added his own particular sound to a list of craftsmen TICKLISH PART OF making violins is adding the sides to the instrument which are built thinly but strongly to withstand up to lbs pressure Vic Smith has designed some of Ms own tools to assist in several of the painstaking tasks Staff Photo