DECEMBER 22. 1949
THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN
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f” i i NO. I ‘pl/I ‘ I Charlottetown “f S 1 Branch / ‘ Canadian Legion B. E. S. L. i ‘
hristmas Tree
SEND A GIFT to a Hospitalized War iiet THEY GAVE, WILL YOU?
The City Branch of the Canadian Legion, assisted by the Contact Club and Overseas Nursing Sisters As- sociation, is sponsoring an appeal to provide CHRIST- MAS GIFTS for all War Veteran Hospitalized Patients ‘from P. E. I. All you need to do is PURCHASE 0R MAKE the article. Purchases may be made in ANY STORE ANYWHERE, but MUST BE PLACED UN- DER THE CANADIAN LEGION CHRISTMAS TREE located at MOORE 8i MacLEOD LTD.
zoo Gifts Are Needed
HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS
These Are Articles Suitable For and Desired by These Hospitalized Veterans
IIANDKERCHIEFS
PLAYING CARDS
CANDY AND FRUIT PHOTO FRAMES
SLIPPEIIS
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS WRITING PAPER
ADULT GAMES
CIGAIIETTES TOILET Anricuss
1 .. - 1 siiAYiNG KITS ' ii-izon BLADES ‘ ZIPPER BILLFOLDS PIPES AND TOBACCO cniisBAGr: BOARDS POCKET NOVELS
PLEASE REMEMBER! MAKE IT YOURSELF! BUY IT ANYWHERE!
But, Place it Under Christmas Tree at Moore 8r McLeod‘s
NOTE-Please do not put more Lhan ONE Gift in each [IINPL You will he provided with a Card st Moore ll MW- mo‘. on ivhlch you should fill in the contents of parcel, size ll uni‘. and your name and address.
Your Co-operation in this Plan is Gratefuily Welcomed
Lmoons a Maison ales
NOTIOE -OF RETRAOTION
T0 WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Certain statements made to me reflecting on the character of LloydVessey and Mary Vessey, York, P. E. I., and repeated by me were later, upon investi- gation, found to be without foundation and I retract same.
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in Year Di Peace Danadian Defence zkes New Shape
By DOUGLAS HOW (Canadian Press Staff Writer) OTTAWA. Dec. 20 — (UP) —
In many ways. 1948 was the most impoliint peacetime year Canad- ian defence has known.
The defence budget iimiped more than 50 per cent to $383,- 000,000 _ a record for s. year of peace. The forces were wedded to the country's first formal milit- ary alliance in the Atlantic Pact. The air force stepped out as the No. 1 service.
The regular forces, with past re- cruiting difficulties over, netted some 8,000 new men and moved towards a total standing strength of 50.000. Thcy were some 3.000 to 4.000 men short at year's end.
Construction of barracks. homes and installations, such as hang- arS. cost. some $100,000,000. Orders for new combat planes and naval craft and for repairs and modern- iztlon of those now in use prob- ably exceeded that total.
The H. C. A. F‘. established its first regular fighter squadron and an Ah- Dcfence Group set up headquarters in Montreal to dir- ect defence preparations. A radar eflfiy-irarning system to protect vital approaches got under way.
Addition of Newfoundland to Confederation added s. great de- fence bastion to the nation. Can- ada made no effort to disturb U.S. military rule at three bases on the island but pressed for mod- ification of certain civilian privil- eges "given under a 99-year lease.
Joint Defence Link
The forces united to establish a joint communications system that‘ linked through relay centres not. only all military bases in Canada but. defence headquarters in such
capitals as Washington and Lon- don.
The framework of ready de- fence was taking shape in the
radar system, the communications, regular and reserve fighter squad- rons. the continued training of elements of the zirm_v's airborne brigade. the navy's anti-submarine preparations.
But 1040 also ha-l its frustra- tions and its moments of doubt. The government kept hammering at the U. S. for an arms-exchange bargain, without. making any not- iceable headway. It was hoped Canada could make and sell to the United States equipment us- able by services of both countries as part. of a projected over-all arms unification program.
A three-man commission found a widespread feeling that the navy is stretched too far and too thin. that there is s broad lack of experience among its officers and an artificial distance between officers and men.
In the Commons. Mai-Gen. G. R. Pearkes. V. R. Pcarkcs. v.0. \PC - Nanalmoi made the first major assault. on defence policy and advocated that $3 be spent on the R.C.A.F'. for every dollar spent on the army.
Press reports on Exercise Eagle. a week-end air-land exercise along the Alaska Highway. were gener- ally critical of equipment used. Army reserve units were gener- ally w-ell below strength and re- cruiting aimed at another 10,000 men to add to the 39.000 now in. Reserve units of the other forces
were below strength. too. but
officials said new recruits couldn't be absorbed any faster.
The nsvy’s 18.000-ton aircraft carrier Magnificent went aground and was laid up for months in drydoclc. But that piece of bad news was counteracted by the feat of the destroyer Haida in rescuing 18 U. S. airmen off Bermuda in winter seas.
Unity Comes Slowly
And among these highs and lows many things proceeded quietly. The administrative headaches root- ed in the drive to unify the de- fence department were slowly eas- ed by young. able C.M. Brig. C.M. Drury. new deputy minister.
The experimental stations at Suffield. Alta. and Churchill. Mon. went ahead steadily with bacterial. chemical and Arctic warfare tests.
The navy opened a recruit-train- ing centre nesr Digby. N. 8.. ex- ercised in anti-submarine warfare with U.S. and U.K. fleets, hand- qg out; 540,000,000 in orders for new ships. The srmy moved ahead with training in a network of schools. tested its first airborne battalion and found it good, kept building towards an airborne brigade.
The R.C.Ii.F. launched s. mar-
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lVlNTElt IN TIIE GARDEN OF TILE GULF
BELLS IN
'Tis winter on the Isle today. The snow files o'er tho hills Hiding all the red-brown clay And every nook and corner fills.
Soon we'll hear old Sarita call Merry Christmas to everyone Lct all hc glad and gala
Merry Christmas to each and all.
Methinks I hear the bolls stringing In 5t. Dunstans far away. The SBCTEII message they are bring- 8 Of the coming Holy Day.
Once we heard the bells ringing, lBefore the autos came to stay) Sweetest mLlSig somehow bringing On the Blessed Christmas Day.
sleigh
When (he ice was glib and strong Upon the river Montague. The happy young folk there would throng And their fancy skating do.
In summer autos have the sway
Upon the lovely thorofare
But. give inc horse and jauntnig sleigh. ‘
with soured of bells on winter air.
-Lens Vcssey.
Portland. Maine. formerly of Mon- Lagiic.
ESTER w. i.
The annual meeting of the Or- well Women's Institute was held at the heme of Mrs. Percy McLeod. with an attendance of seven members. Roll call was answered by paying the annual fee. Minutes of the last regular and annual meetings were read and approved. The financial report was read by the secretary, showing that $676.61 was made during the year, and that. $530.41 was paid out.
An address was read by the president, thanking the members for their co-operation during her two years in office.
An election of officers are as follows -- president - Mrs. Leo McDonald, vice-president — Mrs. N. H. McLeod, secretary - Mrs. Percy McLeod. directors ~— Mrs. Jas. Hughes. Mrs. Owen MCKEIITIB. and Mrs. N. H. McLeod. Auditors - Mrs, John Naddy . Airs. D. Mc- Donald. Meeting closed and lunch was served by the hostess.
ltime squadron in Nova Scotia. mapped tens of thousands of square miles in the north. carried
out regular transport flights alonJ-r thousands of miles of regular routes. 11.8. Defence Secretary
Louis Johnson came and went as the most important of numerous important visitors.
In the headlines temporarily- were the Haidirs rescue. the R..- C.A.F.'s mercy flights and rescue of five air-crashed U. S. niirl Brit- ish servicemen in a northern wild- erness. the loss of m lives in the crash of an air force plane in Manitoba.
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Elissa Qiaspeii
Warren said Lydia had s. right to it if she wanted m; she did orant to and was setting out with a great deal of spirit.
"But why doesshe want to live there?"
"You've got rne there. 1 wouldn't want to. But the funny thing is, Lydia seems to have more affec- tion for the past than any of us."
I don't see why anyone should have affection fou- it."
"Well, I do." he said.
She regarded him anxiously. "Warren, yyirve changed. You seem to have forgotten all the talk."
“Darn the talk. I'm sick of it. I've been tied up in that talk long enough."
But Ivy did not respond to this emancipation. “If you have no regard for your own family." she Said stlffly. “you might consider your sister herself. I mean the money. It isn't practical. Lyrdis doesn't. know ivhat it ivill cost and you should tell her. Your Aunt Jenifer wasn't rich."
"Now there we needn't worrflv." and you should tell her. Your Aunt. Jenifer, Lydia has another legacy."
"Who freon?"
"Someone she rnet in traveling."
"Well that's very strange."
"She evidently made warm friends. You'll understand better when you see her. she was left a hundred thousand dollars by someone she met in her travels."
"Why I never heard of such a thing! It doesn't seem right!"
“It's a very nice sum of moncy
- wish I'd traveled more myself Now. Ivy, will you go out. there in the morning. with two stout cleaning women - mops. pails. soap
- you know the things one cleans with. so Lydia. can sleep in the house? Tonight she's sleeping out in the varrl.
"Out in the yard?"
"She says she used to it. But it may rain any time."
Ivy said again that Lvdia was crazy; all the Chippmans vrcre crazy, that you couldn't get clean- ing women, either stout or thin. and she did not run with mops slid pails. Hard enough lo got people to work in her own house! Elfreda was having a bridge luncheon the next day and for her part she never wanted to set foot in that house again!
Warren said he was sleepy Ivy would be all right. once she had had her say. Curiosity would get her there. if nothing else. He didn't g0 right to sleep: he was ivonder- inr what Lydia was thinking about.
Sure enough. first thing next morning he heard Ivy telephoning for cleaning women. she had an iniured mariner at breakfast. but asked if the radiator in her ca:- had been fixed: she had no desirc to he stalled on a country road with mops and pails.
He didn't go out that day. for if it were left to Ivy she might think it was her doings and feel better about it. And he had faith in Lydia. Maybe Lydia would get Ivy. seemed to hlni sh:- could get almost anyone.
Ivy came back in the evening declaring she was dead tired and adding. in a superior nay: "You'd be surprised st all we accomplish- ed."
"I-Iov did you like Lydia?" he asked.
She sat down. saying she sclied in every bone. Never in her whole life had she done so much work. "Lydia? Wei]. tine trouble is you can't help but like Lydia."
"Yes." he agreed, "that ls the trouble."
"And it might not ‘be so bad if it weren't for those children. They will be the talk of the town. Why, Warren - that little girl is Greek. And the buy is half Indian. And she calls him Chippman!"
"Did you and Lydia talk about things?"
“No, we tallied about the house
- getting it cleaned - though what's the good cleaning it when workmen will have to tear it sll up? You touch the plaster and it comes off. Really. I felt sorry for Lydia - though she's so impractical. I've never in my life seen a, more impractical woman."
When it -beca.me known Lydis Chiprpman was actually going to stay. that Wan-en was engaging workmen to restore the place. feeling was divided between curi- osity about Lydia and wondering what was going to become of the dead of the next twenty years. You would have to count on her living: at. least twenty years.
The workmen who returned to town at night held out little hope or hcr becoming discouraged and giving it up. She was spending s. good deal of money. they said: (‘crtniniv didn't look as though she had any ides of having the place torn down.
One evening the men had a good story to tell. for a donkey had arrived, his name was Pancho Villa. and the children rode him all round the edge of the cemetry. 0nd, of the men took his little boy out to play with the Nfcxican and the donkey; later the plasterer did this too. and thr- children picknickd together and all rods this Pancho Villa.
Miss Chippmnn was very nice to work for. She made coffee everv noon and often added to their lunch with things she had baked herself. She was a darn good cook. The men working out at. the old Chlppmnn place became less con- cerned vllth the dead of the next llwentv years.
In those first days Lydia thought less about the clcnd of hc-r own family than she would have ex- pected herself to do. she ivorkcd all day and went to bed so tired she slept. “Later? she would Si? to thoughts that came. First she must get home ready to live in. that and the chlldlhen toook sil her time . there wasn't even much time to consider the strangeness of being there.
T9 he continued
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UNION ROAD W. I.
The monthly meeting of the Union Road W. M. S. met Dec. 8. 194D at the _home of Mrs. Harold Yeo, the theme of the meeting be- ing "Our Faith in Jesus Christ". The programme in the Missionary Monthly was followed using the candles. During the programme the following were the hymns sung, "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and "Silent Night".
Roll call was responded to by l1 members and two visitors. Min- utes were read and adopted. “Tem- perance Reading" by Mrs. Lamont.
Following is the election of of- ficers for 1950: President, Mrs. Harry Newman; vice president, Mrs. Everett Lamont; treasurer. Miss Tillie Prowse; assistant treasurer. Miss Mary Gill; re- cording secretary, Mrs. Richard Holmes: ssistant recording sec- retary, Mrs. Keith Bryenton; cor- responding secretary. Mrs. Earle Livingstone; Christian steward- ship. Mrs. Maund; Temperance secretary, Mrs. Mallett; organist, Mrs. Ravenhlil; assistant organist. Mrs. Sterling Yeo; Baby Band president, Mrs. Everett Gray; Mission Band president. Miss Norms Yeo; leader. Master Dean Ravenhill; secretary. Miss Mildred Hardy; treasurer, Miss Marjorie Lamont; organist, Mrs. Keith Bryenton.
For the programme Mrs. B. MacMillsn gave s reading entitled "reaching our children to endoy themselves."
Mary Gill gave s read entitled "I Shall Not Want". Programme committee for next meeting. Mrs. Ravcnhill, Mrs. Mallett Mrs. Gray.
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BURYED T0 DEATH
WATYIRLOO. Que. Dec. 20 -- (CP- - Ferdinand Lsdurantayc '13, burned to death and I'll! would-be rescuer suffered burns in a fire that destroyed a one-room shack today. Maximo Bergeron 37. attempted to rescue the aged
man before firemen arrived.
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