page 8 THE OAKV TLLE-TRAFALGAR J OURNAL dens. Greetings from England; tiful gardens, is something I : bled _------------ : 1 roses, everywhere, and in every [shipped to Canada and assem e > Flow is everyone at home this| shall always remember. a 2 "ime and colour, all summer long. |at DeHavilland's plant, Downs- | told us they La Cy --_--_eee -- LR Ca fe routs ee avert] oe RHAVEN sun in the morning and |add vividne: : ad brought. and I'm afraid I was not averse z ; . " rc i v i rl d- i f) I 2 d one a names san win 10, LS 0 SE mamta 1 a 0 here has changed and today it is | worn stone steps and ancient iron | o1oq galaxies of colour but | apted to fighter aircraft op lady. nfortunately oo KENNELS overcast and cool with what they | boat rings, set the imagination | Ho etulness and sug- tions, because they require 10 the item, but I was surprise z J call "light showers" Although wandering. We went to a little gestion of complete enjoyment, warm-up period; as soon as the | ear from as far away as that. (Regd) i the south coast and 2liengt j ing they are village on the s engine begins turning they "1 had calls from Clarkson and (B. K. Snider) it is now September and Indian summer being something native to North America, is not general- ly known here, I am hoping we can count on more er in the next month or so. To continue where I left off last week, it was late afternoon when the train pulled away from As I recall sions of Devon,the miniature per- fection of the countryside, with Plymouth. Of Oud Land . . . parts of England from the tiniest By Audrey Watts McNaughton u {ts brilliant green fields and neat |e Rose Cottage Almost every home in the I have country estate set in wide par] land, has a name, with at leas! village. | DeHavilland Aircraft Company at per The reason for this is obvious--| Stone Grove, RCAF Vampires The Vampire jet-propelled air- k-| craft used by the Royal Canadian t|air force are manufactured by seen, Middlesex and Pres- to Results Count, Sa Journal Advertisers Say When two recent classified ad- rs dropped into the office ts--for The nal accepts classified adver- vertise! Jour _ Peterborough, England, Sept. 3rd, 1948. road: lovely weath- side seemed in immi rather steep grades and thatched cottages at inent danger of being run into. The upper dor- spent nearly three weeks enjoy- ing Devon from there. s into Dawlish wound down he quaint the road hedgerows, shady lanes and beau- All the never have I seen such wonderful | ton, Lancashire, England, and are Even the butcher had bright red geraniums in his window boxes, in fact his show of flowers was much more impressive than his meat display. We went to Cockington village, a perfectly preserved bit of 13th century England. The ancient ready to fly. The R.CAF. has a total of 85 of these modern fighters. The R. C.AF.s Central Flying school at Trenton, Ont, is the nucleus of all R.CAF. flying instruction on Vampires, The auxiliary fighter at to tisements on a char; mers, shaded by heavy eyebrows of thatch, leaned at every angle _ some looked skyward and some down into their neighbours' gar- forge is still impres- slowly by the mil in use under the original smoke blackened timbers and the old water wheel revolves 1." The squadrons in Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton send instructors to Trenton for conversion course, af- mill- | ter which they pass instruction on pay their accoun Bronte," the gentleman told us. "Adding these calls to the ones I had locally, I Wi I can tell you. to the first person who called-- I hated disappoint the people Who were still calling on Saturday. I sold my 10 o'clock Thursday. If you have household articles or services to offer why not avail yourself of this Thursday, Sept. 16, 14 publ If it is not convene for you to drop in at the ofp, before Wednesday noon, at hg time our classified adyertisy, closes, just call 1298 and pyc, your advertisement to be paid later at your convenience on ge basis--they as a busy man A HOME for your Dog while you are away WASHING - WORMING| GROOMING - DEFLEAING article the public, CONDITIONING UPPER MIDDLE ROAD Oakville - Tele. 457. | pond was as still as millponds are| to other auxiliary squadron pilots. widespread, interested reading i supposed to be and a duck was : | CONSULTANT REPRESENTATIVE £|zentiy herding her aucleings ue EE nn § r i i Te if wil - ] | FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MATTERS Bae a ive which nan 2 i { All departments, Duties, taxes, Classifications, import ctl Hl a a. fou | maximum rpm of 10,200. Their | 8 export regulations, permits, quotas, etc. Direct Soneted years seemed neither Het SSXimuL: Service ceiling is 44,000 i contact with your particular problems. nor thore. Long shadows stretch | feet and, ratejof climb at combat i Formerly with Reconstruction, Customs and Income Tax ed across the wide expanse of vel- | Weight with full fuel load and | at Otiews Ot lawn in front of the manor| ammunition, is 4,100 feet per | house, where boys were playing minute. Maximum speed at sed go P. J. WARDLE cricket, and the chapel-bells rang level is 524 miles per hour; 75 per 79 Queen Street East Oukville, Phone 1265-W = | out for evensong. The stone|cent of the speed of ound. Nor Toronto, Ont. Toronto Phone PLaza 2040 = | manor house had a perfect back-|mal fuel load is 330 gallons and drop of large trees, and that even-| With this the Vampire has a still ng Cochington was England, the|2ir range of 805) miles at combat, | weight after a take-off and climb to 30,000 feet. England I had read about fo years, and loved. The sunset over the hills on the drive back WeS| Tycy can be equipped with ex- magnificent and cloud reflections | (long-range fuel tanks fitted gave the sea the appearance of |," tne wings adding 200 gallons mother of pearl. to their fuel capacity, extending The simple purchase of a feW| po range to approximately 1,225 postage stamps involved much jes Armament consists of four hore mental effort than I had|0 milimetre Hispano, guns, 'All expected. Tu' penny and ha' pen-| ounted in the fuselage. Air ny pronounced quickly With = a|sorce crew trainees who are sel Devon accent bore absolutely no quod to be fighter pilots are resemblance to anything I had| sopequled to fly the Vampire in learned in my elementary Sterl-| iy, gina) stages of their training. ing Exchange lessons. I hadn't a clue, so hopefully I shoved a shilling through the wicket and|led aircraft, the R.C said I'd take two. I collected my | viding its personnel with the lat- change and read the price on the est developments in the field of stamps with interest. I never | modern aviation. would have guessed it.I shouldn't though, as I am constantly being | (ion for an American. One day in a tea-shop a pleasant middle Mliy aged pr this and when I told him I was Cana- Jit dian, he beamed and told me he had a friend in Canada. To my relief, he didn't ask me if I knew him, so I asked him if his friend lived in Ontario. He re- plied, "No. Where is that other place in Canada? I believe it starts with an 'S'?" I suggested Saskatchewan, at which he smil- ed delightedly--so then we both knew there were two places in Hy Canada! Perhaps I should have worked west from St. John. : "TONIGHT AT 5.30 -- OVER -- STATION CHUM 1050 ON YOUR DIAL MORE THAN A MILLION SAVEATTHEBOfM. .. In making available jet-propel- AF. is pro- Bank or MonNTREAL MY BANK 104 10K craDiry WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 Oakville Branch: W. B. E. READE, Manager | Reminders of the war exist all along the coast. Tangled barbed wire is still seen on the Cliffs, where heavily reinforced brick gun sights and signal posts stare blankly out over the sea for an enemy that never came and To- tices are posted warning the pub- lic to watch for small mines which may have been washed up on the beach. But more clearly than any of this evidence, one fig- ure stands out in my mind. He was a young chap, possibly in his early 20's, standing on a sta- -- For -- tion platform. The sun was shin- ing on his fair hair and he wore It was summer An Important Announcement -- ABOUT -- a navy raincoat. and peace had come, but he was alone and carried a white cane. What price liberty. The Chamber of Commerce's INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION VICTORIA PARK ARENA Friday Evening and Saturday afternoon and Evening There is hardly space in this letter to tell you of our Exeter and its wonderful cathe- dral, so I shall describe that next week. Bach cathedral tically a library of English his- visit to is prac- tory and after visiting some I realized how much history I had forgotten--so pardon me while 1 reach for a volume and do some reviewing. Your Industrial Exhibition is of vital interest to YOU "Bye for now. IN Two short years we have added over put in hundreds of switchboards and trained thousands of people Sa 257.000 telephones, = to extend and improve your telephone service. We are adding more telephones to meet the continuing demand for service just as fast as equipment becomes available. All this is being done in the face of rising costs. the basic tele THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Yet, up to now, there has been no increase in phone rates established 21 years ago. 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