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Bull moose dexterities Summer Is slowly winding down Soon children will be back in school and life will return a more structured existence Summer is a time A time for beaches and bar picnics and parties Fall on the other hand a time for organizing and preparing for the activities that will help us make It through the long cold winter In the fall set our work goals we Join community groups Speaking of community groups Why not consider Joining the Arts New members ore always welcome As member you wilt receive our Calendar of the Arts an Invaluable guide to the activities of local artists craftsmen musical and dramatic groups If you are interested In joining you may pick up a membership form from the Arts Council Display In the Georgetown Library or write lo llalton Hills Arts Council Box Georgetown The Arts Council Is not an elitist group made up of people who are too too cultured lo mix with the hoi It is made up of your neighbors and It is mode up of people who are creative in different croft areas as well as those who have the manual dexterity of a bull moose There arc no prerequisites of talent required All you need is an interest in the cultural life of your community CONTINUING Until Sept at the Ha I ton Hills Library and Cultural Centre Ichlhyosaurs Sea Dragons of the Mesozolc An Exhibition circulated by the Extension Services Department of the Royal Ontario Museum COMING EVENTS August 31 Summer Finale Special Acton and Georgetown Libraries at m A grand wind up the many summer activities sponsored by he Libraries Call your library for Information First taste of war This book is Fit to eat Budge of Terra Cotla tries out one of the more than recipes In her new cook book Fit to Eat Twolhouiandcopiesof the book Collection 1 wholesome and nutritious meals are on local book now The proceeds from the sales will lo Ihe Canadian national orienteering team Herald photo EXCHANGE TAVERN Georgetown 8773541 Across From QO Station LICENCED PATIO NOW OPEN DAILV SPECIALS HOT COLD LUNCHES 11 am 2 Entertaining In The Station House Lounge KENT TOCHER Thurs Sat August 25th 26th 27th Carter spends time with famed Devils Brigade before his capture CHRIS Herald Staff Writer Ormie Carter a Nor val resident for most of his life is about Ihe several months he spent In a German prisoner of war camp towards the end of the last World War You tend remem the good limes he laid The Herald last week You did alright it you did as you were told It was quite an experience really something Mr Carter and his brother In law Browne another resident spent lime In he same camp although they came there by different means A 59year old packer at Georgetown Price Mr Carter Is looking forward to his retirement Ing his first taste of war as a soldier As a new recruit In the Canadian Army Mr Carter his first year travelling across the country Finally he was old enough alls to see active duty and was shipped over to Alder England SPECIAL FORCES From there he went to a Canadian forces base in Abellno Italy All the reinforcements went to Mr Carter said But I wasn t there for very long the First Special Ser vice Force and went to with them The Force notoriety reached deep behind enemy lines They were called the Devils established as a special commando by US president Franklin Roosevelt and British prime isler Winston Churchill The cheers from a liberated Rome June fell on the Brig ade ears first From Italy Mr Car ter and his comrades headed on to southern France They landed on a couple of offshore Islands and then moved on to the mainland pushing through the French Riviera At one point German artillery was shelling the town of Menton Mr Carter and a squad of men were climbing a mountain to get a better vantage point from which to spot the enemy artillery for walling Allied ships offshore In the Mediterranean It was Sept 1944 The Germans Mr Car must have seen the advance coming from below and opened fire mortally wounding one of the nine men from Mr Carters loon section That left eight of us four Americans and Next week The Herald interviews Gord Browne four Canadians who were captured he said Two radio men further down the hill were not Now the men were taken to divisional headquarters where they were Interrogated before being shipped to Mantova Italy At the base of the Brenner Pass through Ihe Italian Alps ova was a kind of clear house for captured in Ihe nearby theatre of war When the Germans were ready to take the they were crammed Into box cars for a fourday rail trip to MoBseburg in southern Germany the location lime just waiting and waiting he said It an experience you never forgel On arriving men were deloused splash with a paint brush loaded with turpentine They lived In huts and they scrounged for tidbit they could find or pick up the efficient camp currency cigar Cigar els came In Red Cross packages made up by thousands of faceless and unknown volunteers around the You bought every thing with Mr Carter said One lime Gordlc and I hit it big with 1 make camp life even remotely comfortable On every trip out as a work detail for clean up In Munich or to work nearby forms the men would try to bring something back like extra wood or potatoes were great scroungers Mr Cart laughed Running water was limited a cold water lap for each hut The lea was so bod Sou couldn drink it c said But at least you could shave In it Breakfast and lunch meals were occasional at best Supper usually consisted of a potato and rotten sauerkraut and sometimes soup made with You could live on it Mr Carter commented tactics like a reveille with Alsatian An employee of Ab I lib I Price In ear get own Carter spent time a teenager with special commando brigade called the Devils Brigade before being captured by Ihe Germans in World War II loved he was bunt will treated by the Allies He was Inclined Mr drier explained lo case up on his Canadian prisoners something which Mr Carter fuirs may have been his downfall Capt helm was by the because he was too lent just before the was liberated by tan in Red Cross Red Cross packages gained Mr drier and several I Ing Mr Browne a little freedom They were essentially on heir honor not lo escape The drove convoys of trucks picking up packages from the Swiss border and delivering them to and concentration Mr Carter made two trips one lo the camp Dachau arriving the day before was liberated By July 1945 Mr Carter was back in Tor onto About a year later he begun what lias stretched to year career Price in Georgetown indeed he said It was quite an experience PLAY IT SAFE Never lake trouble in the water Remember Ihe about the boy who cried wolf once too often Path A Th MILTON Cln I monthly postcard of Stalag 7A There were fifty men to a box car Mr Carter said and we given much food or water There was no room to He down and only a little wire window from which lo look out Mr Carter arrived at Stalag on Oct 1 slightly less than a month alter his capture His brother In law was already there and two of his friends took me under their wtng and looked after me Mr Carter said I was cooker We used a little cooker made out of tin cans with a blower one en and a crank at the other which forced Ihe names where the potatoes were In a pot While he know how many prisoners were at Stalag Mr Carter recalls It as be ing an enormous community of of numerous nationalities French Polish Russian and Slavic and East Indian as well as Can adian American and British troops CAMP HARDSHIP There was the We were like million aires The two friends were able to supplement their Carter made a lucky discovery while helping to clean bombed out railway yards In Munich Mr had been watching freight cars load and unload He noticed a white powder coming from one of them and went over lo take a closer look The powder was salt and while a German guard watched he fed as much of It into his mils and pockets as he Repackaged into smaller containers the salt as good as gold SCROUNGERS There was little to dogs snapping at your heels Mr Carter does t hold much animosity for his German They l have much more than we had and we trade them as well SYMPATHY Camp Commandant Mulhelm was a very good army Mr Carter said Apparently he had a brother Interned In a camp In bridge Alberta and be In darkness of captivity were some bright moments Mr Carter remembers plays and musical nights put on by the prisoners usually be rtreiifullhoiseulthlhi- front row scats occupied by German officers There was on out stand camp band of North Hilton present TV BINGO Each Tuosday start ng 603 on Cnblo1 A TRENTON HALTON HILLS ELKS LODGE BINGO EVERY MONDAY 1 loss ally 900 pro CA nslble thai works Lose weigh quickly safely DENTURE THERAPIST 2 Main St Georgetown 9am Wockchy 8772359 ROBERT TAIT INSURANCE i Jtt AGENCY LTD 174O0ELPHST GEORGETOWN 8774814 8776148 or car home life boit and business insurance Jet WEEKENDS includes movies includes movies Includes movies o FnTues includes 9 movies NO CLUB MI Mill Watch your choice of movies 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