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r the georgetown herald wednesday evening august 13th 1941 the british commonwealth air training plan one w a series of articles written s 1w weekly newspapers by as we see it by j a strmnc important of bombers cbkw previous stories in this series have described the training of a pilot la the royal n air force from the day be enlists rather nervously perhaps to that other proud day six os seven months later when he goto his wings and completes his training in this country after that he is ready to proceed to great britain where he rets some more experience under the somcwoaf different conditions in a land where enemies may lurk then he is ready to take over a 3q0mllean hour fighter or to pilot big bombers over germany in these stories i have completed the task i undertook thanks to the hearty cooperation of the ofndata of the royal canadian air force but before the task was finished i knew many things i hadnt realized at the start one of these is that while all the recruits want to become pilots if they can the pilot is not the only important member of the air crew possibly he isn t even the most im portant member for that reason i am writing something about the training of the air observers pilots observers and navicators i sat one day in the office of mr w w woollett civilian manager of the air observer school at the great malton airport there s a tendency on the part of the public observed mr woollett to think of the observer as the man who just sits in the plane and looks out occasionally while the pilot does all the work and takes all the risks per haps the word observer is at fault a more accurate term would be navigator the time is coining when the navigator will be the captain ot the large planes and the pilot will be only the wheelsman mr woollett should know what he is talking about he was a pilot him self inthe last war and has had much to do with flying ever since in 1929 he returned from england and with another pilot of the great war op erated a company in the north coun try dominion skyways limited they called it and their planes flew over much of northern quebec and on tario name any place north of the transcontinental and he is sure have been there when war broke out in september 1939 mr woollett and his partner c r troup were asked to form the firs- air observer school they had it going by the end of may 1940 and it has been in operation ever since in all that time there has not been one accident to students pilots planes not so much as a fiat tire on x larking gear canada may not have bees prepared to go to war but in our experienced bush filers we had a great asset the air observer school at malton is operated by a civilian company do minion skyways training ltd under an arrangement somewhat timiiw to those whereby flying clubs operate the elementary flying training schools for pilots that enabled the rjcaf to take advantage of the ex perience of older canadian pilots and it speeded up the early stages of the british commonwealth air training plan the company looks after mainten ance of flying aircraft buildings and flying in general it supplies the ex perienced pilots and the repair men the rjcaf takes cner the ground instruction and the discipline squad ron leader g w jacob is the com wrmnrrhtst officer a speclaliied job the course last twelve weeks f new class comes in every month and another graduates but there are al ways three distinct classes at the school at one time the educational requirements for an observer are higher than for a pilot the course lb suffer and entails more hard work though it undoubtedly has its share of thrills even in canada the fu ture observer has a specialized job and he must make no mistakes sometimes those who start the course as pilots and tail to make the grade are shifted to the observers course at first they are disappoint ed but mr woollett say6 that lnvarl ably they are all glad they changed before they have halffinished thei- course the air observer must learn several things and all of them must be done well rather tbey must be done per fectly he must learn to lay out an exact course in spite of wind and weather that will take him where he u ordered to go more important he must return again and know when he eta home he must learn to operate a tricky bombsight so that his bombs find their target and he must arn to use a machine gun if need be at the malton school he learns to navigate everyttilng else la subor dinate to that he does not have to worry about piloting the plane that 1b done by an experienced pilot who knows ontario as you know your own home the observer charts the course for him to steer and the pilot oarrie oat those instructions to the letter unless they may result in possible danger to the aircraft and the crew apart from that he follows the course the student gives him even tf he knows it is st right angles to the di rection in which he ought to be go ing at the end of each trip be bands in a detailed report it omits nothing even noting whether the student became atefc and whether he spite of hla port and the little yellow elementary trainers from another raj school were in the air but the avro ansons the observer school were being called home from the wireless room perhaps that wasnt entirely a disad vantage mr woodett was able to spare hours to the visiting newspaper man and when hei had to keep an other appointment duty pilot smuck acted as guide all down one side of the control room were wireless sending and re ceiving sets two way conversation can be carried on from anywhere in southern ontario later i saw wireless eqinpmerit inside the arva anson plane and marvelled compactness and efficiency but that is not all recently a direction finding station has been installed a lost aviator can send in a call for help and when the answer goes back it will tell him exactly where he is and how to get back home in any kind of weather laid out on a large table in the centre of the room was a map of on tario on it was marked the exercise for the day colored pins were stucx in the map at halfadozen places and a black thread wound from one o another this marked the course the planes would be taking that day it was not a straight trip out and back but had several turns and angles the student must learn to navigate such a course accurately and he should be able to tell to the minute when he will be back at malton again he may have travelled 300 miles or more sim ilar exercises are conducted at nignt out on the edge of the runway a long line of avro ansons was drawn up mostly yellow but some silvery and a few camouflaged some of them had seen active service tney are altered for use in the school the gun turret is removed and some of the windows taken out guns are no needed for protection here and the planes gains speed and saves fuel as a result of the changes everywhere around the observer school at malton were evidences of similar economies the oil is all filtered and reclaimed and when tested 88 is as good as new one serious problem at all schools usinc british or american planes is the ob talnlng of repair parts fit malton most of them are manufactured in a little workshop a mechanical genius and a small staff using machines of their own designing which look as the director put it like something out of a heath robinson artoon make many of the repair oarts out of easily obtained materials savng more money and keeping the planes flyirg planes are overhauled in two nuge hangars after so many hours lying the armstrongslddley motors are overhauled each avro anson has two of these big engines giving a top speed to the altered planes of 200 miles an hour at longer intervals the whole plane is torn doun and re built that day there was a visitng plane in one of the hangars a huge douglas bomber belonging to the american army a committee from the alt corps was visiting canadian schools and gathering information the visit ing bomber dwarfed the avro ansons but it was somewhat older and lack ed something of their sleekness the buildings at all air rorce camps are much alike but two rtlnjts impressed me at malton though officers civilian personnel and mn all have separate mess halls their food comes from the same central kitchen and there is a hospital with space for 25 beds yet it has never had a ras to handle at this school in 20 mm ths though an ambulance always stands ready and two crash beds are always kept warm with hot water bottles in the men s mess hall a fullsize propeller hangs on the wall backed by a square of blue carpet used in westminster abbey when the kins and queen were crowned on the hub is a silver avro anson and on the blades are replicas in silver of the observers badge each one bearing the name of the highest ranking graduate in a class in the office tie pictures of the graduates and scrap books with clippings and more pic tures of students winston churchill s nephew the brother of a famous opera star and so on many of them are tn britain now a few are dead in the battle for freedom next week bombing- and gunnery school at jirrli mary had a little limp and furrows in her brow she couldn t wear a number two but tried it anyhow the word bacteria has taken on a sor of boogejman meaning during these last few years that it doeant de serve at all we seem to regard bac teria as a sort of enemy something that if possible we should have noth ing to do with and yet we couldn t exist for very long without it we forget that bacteria has just as im portant work to do in this world as we have and that it does that work faithfully the study of bacteria takea one into another world almost and that thickly populated one we reckon the humans by the millions but bac teria would be reckoned by its bil lions we eat bacteria we drinc and at times we breathe it we recall one da during- bacteriology lectures the professor asking us to tell him where the skin of our face and the fining of our mouth met you just think that over and see if you could answer that question of course he didnt want an answer the point that he was trying to put over was that there is very utue difference n our skin and the lining of our diges tive organs we all know that if our skin is in a healthy unbroken condi lion that it is not apt tcf become in fected and the same applies to the lining of our digestive organs if they are in a healthy state the bacteria that we eat and drink may not do us any harm because of publicity and also because of a government ruling think of pasteurized milk as being pure however there are bacfila in milk that the pasteurizing tempera- tuei has no effect on there is one particular bacteria that is found in all flour that will withstand a tempera ture of 700 degrees and still live bread is baked at 425 degrees so that the baking of bread has no effect on tns particular bacteria at all while we wouldn t want anyone to expose jiem selves unnecessaril to bacteria yet t is just as necessary in the doings 6t this universe as is anything eke that we can think of v v v the recent ruling from ottawa pro hibiting the slicing of bread by on canadian bakeries will no doubt mean little extra labor in the kitchen however we never did think tha it was necessarj at all and we ustd c wonder what certain bakeries ould introduce next afttr the novelty being able to buy bread all ready slic ed were off one point in regard to this ruling that we haient noticed discussed is the large lmestment that early all bakeries have in sllcers tha will be of no use at all to them now no doubt there will be plenty of bar gains in used sllcers that might in terest camps restaurants and other larger users or bread one thirg sure the bakers will neer go back to slic ing bread no matter how soon the war may be over and these restrictions re moved we imagine that they have learnt that lesson v v this time of the year is often des cribed as the dog days we arii t sure where the title was obtained how ever it is the time of jear that cer tain foods spoil and they maybe stud to have gone to the dogs pehaps that is where the title originated moulds seem to flouish at this time of the year and the study of moulda is just as interesting as is the s udy of bacteria there are seernl differ ent kinds of moulds one kind puts on runners no unlike tnwberrie ard thi5 particular kind when ripe in ters its seeos in a manner similar to that of the dandelion the worst fea ture of moulds is the odor which does no develop until the mould is rlp the only real mould prmenlative is cleanliness and bright sunlight is its worst enemy they were fine looking fellows and kept themselves shaven they to belong to the eucaua they would settle their ac counts once a month and after con cluding this business they would want us to drink whiskey with them they never seemed to understand why we wouldnt do this and yet ihey knew eough to not be offended at us of course they referred to wtuskey as vodka we liked these chaps ctfttoamu ww rwi old chum cutfing m cloamitttswt ihxriuotr another bed cross si the following shipment of knitted goods is going forward to the ware house in toronto this week navy qaete 4 urtle neck sweaters 1 pullover 5 scarves 14 ribbed helmets 9 pr plain mitts 3 chest protectors 7 pr seaman s boots 1 pr seamans long stockings 13 pr seamans socks army and air fore 14 scarves 2 pr plain mitts 3 pr twoway mitts 5 ribbed helmets 2 pullovers 66 pr socks tuesday welland city council night granted all city five per cent cost of jiving bona ef fective as of july 1 j cooke floor contractor iuhk latino ustmracnxo tw out fboobs good worfcmuatllp 3t prtc i new st room m h o t o n y two slogans for victory and 3 for buy at home v for victory is helping to rid the world of a dictatorial oppressor helping to make the world free and to bring the lasting prosperity which only freedom can bring b for buy at home can bring prosperity also because when local merchants prosper then does georgetown prosper too you cant go wrong when you shop in georgetown buyers guide oi the itand that is being irtad by the russians r ccnth is the surprise of this war the didn t do so wll in the last war and vve didn t think niuvn of their stand agalnst finland either no doubt lhey have learned a few les sons since then previous to jie list war we were living up in northern ontario and at that time quite a number of foreigners were engajted cutting wood in that locality we dealt with them in supplies to their camps and became well acquainted with thorn they were all hones and we liked doing business with inem each nationality would have have a camp of their own and there were russians finns danes austrians ita lians and poles judging by thelr camps we would class the poles as hav ing the lowest standard of living of these groups we recall looking nto their sleeping tent one evening it was strewn with dry hay and the men merely took off their shoes and slept on the hay it wouldn t get first prize for sanitation perhaps the russians would get the prize of these groups for being the better informed of them a katay day at lftslsan u was raining when z arrived mfttton bat a um planes win np the sfi rjwz t bsaa rjaj photograph brills dept store mens furnishings ladies ready to wear boots and shoes main st phone 167 geobgetow n w j cain invites tour patronage auto repairing any blake tire batteries welding all work guaranteed phone 284 w victoria st college view exchange hotel room and meals good accommodation phone georgetown 250 acton 140 georgetown lumber co everything in lumber sash doors and interior finish we also handle hydrated lime hardwmll plaster fibre board cement and boobng of ah kind hollywood hotel norval a home away from home every accommodation r licata fruit vegetable market a good place to shop phone 71 georgetown lillicos for best service and cleanliness we try to make an ad of every permanent machine or machlneless our prices are right too call 278j or w hugh lindsay radios refrigerators kdvinator philco stewart- warner main st phone ii mcbean co importers of dry goods genu furnishing shoes caps overall house furnishings phone 64 h c mcclure home furnishings femoral director and amtatenee serrteo phonc s4w georgetown why not make mcgibbons hotel your meeting place visit mackenzies one stop service station can picked np and delivered all oars insured we invite tost patronage phone 355 brace maekemde propriet why spend yoer morjeyoat-ef- town when rachlins an gin yoa better eentoe a try wiu satistt cleaning pressing tailoring an work ouannteed phone 233 scom garagrt international track saks and service richardsons hardware phone 25 sis electric fence 18 complete with bveready hotshot battery msalatora troond red and fence lead phoni we dbuvxsl white rose service station and garage spedalbt irniuon and cfcrbvetor bepein f sdjclatb hjdn street georgetown phone 26 saxe motors omx boas 8ikv1cx podge nd pesoto tyers milk prod high gfk dairy twr