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Page Eight THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1945 (C.P.R. Photo). POSSIBLE JAP HEADACHE: Members of the technical committee of the National Resources Commission of China show great interest in the Canadian Pacific Railway's Angus Shops, Montreal, where they are inspecting a marine engine taking shape for use in an invasion barge, which may see service in the Pacific. The visit was part of a fact-finding tour of Ontario and Quebec plants in November to aid Chinese post-war reconstruction. McCracken & McFadyen AMBULANCE SERVICE and E. McFadyen, Embalmer Undertaking Prices to Suit Everyone SERVICE THE BEST Notice, Fruit Growers! THE NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM APPLE GROWERS ANNUAL CONVENTION in St Peter's Parish Hall, Cobourg Tuesday, January 9, 1945 commencing at 10.00 a.m. Instructive Programme on Insect and Fungus Control, Orchard Mannagement, including Pruning. Please forward your Resolutions to Secretary or hand same in morning of the Convention. Banquet at 12.30 p.m.--Rev. P. J. Kelly, Guest Speaker EVERYBODY WELCOME Harold Gibson, President. E. A. Summers, Secretary-Treasurer. Magazine Subscriptions We are Subscription Agents for all LEADING CANADIAN, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PERIODICALS Also Foreign Ones most likely to be asked for GET OUR CLUBBING OFFERS ! Reduced Rates on Any Combination of Magazines Phone 44 THE EXPRESS Printing: Office Colbt Your help is urgently needed --please mail a donation Today! /f^so urns children may play once again Everywhere in Ontario ore little children, once crippled, who now walk --thanks to successful surgical and hospital care at The Hospital for Sick Children. The continuance of this essential public service depends on funds contributed by charitably-minded Ontario citizens -- the money can come from no other source. MACHINERY SUPPLIES Information from the Administrator of Farm Machinery of the War time Prices and Trade Board reaches R. C. Banbury of the Northumberland Agricultural Offices giving a general outline of the situation for next year. Jt is pointed out that rationing must be continued owing to lack of material but that there wiil be no limit to the repairs available if requested in sufficient time to have them made before needed next spring. While machinery will be manufactured in slightly greater volume than 1940, it v/ill not be sufficient to supply all that may wish to purchase, but will look after most essential cases. When a farmer decides to purchase an implement he must sign an order for the machine with his agent and complete essentiality application forms which his dealer will have. If more than can be supplied as asked for, the rationing officers must deicde from these forms whose need is greatest. It is pointed out that the policy is to take any line of equipment off the ration list as soon as sufficient supplies are available and at this time many things may be purchased that were previously rationed. These include all hand tools, wheel-barrows, walking plows, hay forks, slings, etc., pumps, beekeepers' supplies, milk cooling units, harrows, cream separators, shearing machines, and many other farm needs. In view of the fact that repairs are now available, many farmers will continue to use their old equipment knowing that better machines will be available after the war. - V - FARM COURSES The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph are planning short courses in Agriculture during the week of January 1st to 6th, 1945. These will be of special interest since the college rooms and meals in the dining hall will be available this year as the air torce has vacated these buildings. Dr. G. I. Christie, president of the college writes Agricultural Representative R. C. Banbury that the students from Northumberland will be anticipated and that the full cost for board and room will be $8.00 for the period Courses on most lines of farming are given and while young farmers are chiefly in mind, anyone interested may attend. Such a trip to Guelph is an ideal educational outing for farm people as not only are subjects of value to the conduct ing of the farm business discussed, and much of value learned but a general contact is secured with the institution which serves Ontario agriculture. Those wishing further details should write the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, or the Northumberland Agricultural Office at Brighton. _v- SLAUGHTER PERMITS "Slaughtering regulations affecting cattle, calves and sheep are still in effect making it illegal for the trade to buy or sell such carcasses if they have not been stamped," F. L. J. Seldon, prices and supply representative for the Prices Board points out. Mr. Seldon explained that in some cases slaughterers had not understood that the lifting of regulations in August affected hogs only. Since .August 21 it has not been necessary to have a slaughtering permit to slaughter hogs nor do hog carcasses need to be stamped under Board regulations. Pointing out that beef must be defatted at the time and place of slaughter, the W.P.T.B. officer explained that defatting is necessary because fats are needed for war purposes and ceiling prices are based on defatted beef. -V--- SHOPPERS ASKED TO SAVE PAPER Retailers and their customers are urged by the Priees Board to use paper as sparingly as posible in the packaging of parcels. While wrapping paper is necessary for many articles, there are others, bueh as those already packaged, which do not require it and where its use becomes waste. Wherever it is possible to eliminate wrapping, the Board asks that it should be done so that limited supplies of paper may be conserved for essential uses. --V - BABY'S RATION BOOK Parents of newborn babies may now secure the baby's book right at the hospital or maternity home. The attending physician, the superintendent or other person in charge of the institution may complete the statutory declaration. When applications are sent in to fhe local ration boards it should be stated whether or not the baby will require evaporated milk, so the necessary coupons may be issued. -V-- ALSIKE SEED LESS Production in 1944 of alsike clover seed in Canada is almost 75 per cent less than the crop of 1943. The output of red clover, brome and other grass seeds in 1944 may be below that of 1943. United Church, Colborne Rev. Geo. D. Campbell ........ Minister Mr. Floyd Edwards................ Organist Mrs. C. McMullen ....... Choir Leader Sunday, January 7th-- 10.00 a.m -- Sunday School 11.00 a.m.--Morning Worship New Year's Service Holy Communion. 7.00 p.m.--Evening Service. Subject--"The Balcony and the Road." Monday-- 7.30 p.m--Young People's Union. Tuesday-- 4.20 p.m.--Mission Band. 8.00 p.m.--Prayer Service. Thursday^- 8.00 p.m.--Choir Practice. Salem United Church 2.00 p.m.--Sunday School 3.00 p.m.--New Year's Service. All are welcome ! Trinity Church, Colborne Rev. R. E. Lemon, L.Th., Rector Sunday, January 7th-- 9.30 a.m.--Holy Communion. 10.30 p.m.--Church School. St. Peter's Church, Lakeport-- 3.00 p.m.--Service. Old St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Co!borne Rev. N. B. Reid, B.A., Minister Sunday, January 7th-- H).00 a.m.--Church School. 11.00 a.m.--Morning Worship. St. Paul's Church, Lakeport-- 3.00 p.m.--Service Messages and music you will want -b hear. A warm welcome to all. Baptist Church, Colborne Rev. T. J. H. Rich, Minister Sunday, January 7th-- 2.00 p.m.--Sunday School 3.00 p.m.--Service Monday-- 8.00 p.m.--B. Y. P. U. meeting. Tuesday-- 8.00 p.m.--Prayer Meeting Mennonite Brethren In Christ Church Rev. H. L. Kennedy, Pastor Sunday, January 7th-- Sunday School--10.00 a.m. Services--11.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. Wednesday-- Prayer Meeting--8.00 p.m. Friday-Junior Meeting--4.30 p.m. Come and Worship! Emmanuel Faith Mission Rev. L. E. Rabble, Pastor Sunday Services-- Sunday School--10.00 a.m. Morning Devotion--11.00 a.m. Evening Service--7.30 p.m. Friday-- Bible Study--8.00 p.m. Good music and singing You are a stranger here but once. Mystery Man Takes Baby To Hospital Then Vanishes Into The Night That heading sounds like the title page of a mystery novel by Edgar Allan Poe, but it isn't. It happens to be the beginning of a real life story. That of Baby "X". Our story opens in the Emergency Ward at the Hospital *for Sick Children late one evening not so long ago. Suddenly, from the gathering dusk outside: there appeared a well-dressed man. In his arms he held a baby, carefully wrapped in a blanket. At once the nurses and doctor on duty sprang into action. Brief examination showed the child to be suffering from a spinal injury. The strange part of the story is, that when the doctor turned to question the supposed father of the child, he could not*be found. Quietly he had come, and as quietly had gone away. At the time there was no way of knowing to whom the baby belonged, so pending investigation, the little patient went on the Hospital register as Baby "X". NO CHILD KNOCKS IN VAIN However, this incident was really nothing new in the history of the Hospital for Sick Children, whose doors have never been closed since the day they first opened nearly 70 years ago. During all those years no child has ever knocked there in vain. All who are in need are cared for and nursed back to health. No distinction is ever made. Regardless of race, creed or the ability of parents to pay, children are given medical aid and nursing care. Accident cases, children with deformed backs and limbs, defective eyesight, rare diseases and physical disabilities are nursed back to health. AMONG THE BEST No matter where you may search on the North American Continent you will not find any hospital of similar type with a better record of low cost operation, or with a higher standard of efficiency. This fact is weU known and fully recognized in the hospital world today. There are over eighty physicians and surgeons on the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, all of them leading specialists in child ailments. These men give their services free to all public ward patients. NOT SELF-SUPPORTING TTie Hospital is not self-supporting and the reason for this is not hard to find. i Only 5% of the Hospital's little patients are able to pay the full cost of their care. 414 of the 432 cots are in Public Wards where the cost per patient last year was approximately $1.50 per day more than the combined income from patients (or their municipalities) plus the Government grant. Children of tender age must have individual care. This, together with special diets, medicines, orthopaedic appliances, physiotherapy, and many other items essential in medical cases, are costly expenditures not covered by Government or Municipal grants. WHEN EMERGENCY THREATENS At aU times the Hospital must be kept fully staffed; equipped and ready to cope with any emergency. It is a serious matter if immediate attention cannot be given to accident cases. And prompt aid must also be available for children with deformed backs and limbs, with defective eyesight, and with rare diseases. If it is not forthcoming, permanent disfigurement, deformity or chronic disease all too often result. Fourteen days is the average stay in the Hospital. But unfortunately, there are many patients who must receive medical treatment and nurs* ing care for weeks; sometimes for months, and in some cases for years. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY These; are the reasons why, each year about this time the Hospital must appeal for funds to meet operating losses, and to carry on its vital and important work. There, is no other way. Were ft not for the generosity of sympathetic and understanding people, business organizations, societies, clubs, etc., the work of the Hospital could no! be maintained on its present scale This year $115,000 must be raised. Because of the fact that patients arc admitted from every part of the Province, the Hospital does no4 share in the funds collected through Toronto's United Welfare Chesl appeal. Therefore it must make its own appeal, and it does so, confident in the knowledge that generous and understanding people will come tfl the aid of little children who de* pend on them--and them only--foi a chance for health, a chance to take their place in the years to come, ai members of a prosperous and industrious society. Since no canvassers are employed by the Hospital, please send yout gift addressed to--The Hospital foi Sick Children, 67 College Street, Toronto 2. 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You ought to s ss because only then will you realize import of this service of You'll realize what blood service means to our fighting mt to boys close to you or to your friet ids ... who are taking their chances o\ er there ... for you. Register now . . . help bring them . back alive! This is your chance to help Red Cross maintain the life line! SIO0D DONORS-HEEDED CANADIAN 4" RED CROSS Date of Colborne Clinic to be Announced THE HOSPITAL for 5ICK CHILDREN