». their equipment. : brigade. 7 goes. a motor. vehicle. ne this matter. , “ROADS — “will-be an- expensive. one, ~~ pleted: werht: away, motorists on the. oc Avinter, in greater: comfort: and ‘Bafety, ov poadé Leas Sattenen fos mvc _ 'k ration, PAGE FOUR " Published at Sidney, Vancouver Island, B. c,, Every Wednesday — . ~ . J. S. RIVERS, Publisher _ . , ‘Member of -B.C.. Division,. Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Associution Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Telephone 28, day.or night. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.50 per year by mail in Canada; $3.00 per year by mail outside Dominion (paid in advance). Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Display advertising rates on application. Wednesday, October 5, 1949 A CONTEMPTIBLE ACT NE or more members of this immediate community last week earned the contempt of every other right-think- ing man.and woman. recently. at the new Army, } Sidney. The building is being erected by ex-servicemen. The Review has reference to those who. desecrated the cornerstone laid with due reverence: Navy and Air Force Hall in The stone was laid by an esteemed citizen, Major-General G: R. Pearkes, V.C., M.P. church dignitaries. lums.. It was dedicated by the prayers of It was wantonly destroyed by hood- Whether the act was a protest against ex-servicemen generally, the highly-respected soldier who laid it or the church at large, matters little. The lunatics responsible should be found and punished to the full limit of the law. ahey should not be at large in this community. -Volunteer Fire Department: * gation:-of: willing workers. “The firemen not only respond to each fire call. | THE VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE IRE Prevention “Week is at hand. area receives its sole fire: protection from the Sidney. It is a most valuable organi- . The North Saanich They also spend their time in erecting a: hall.to accommodate Money is urgently needed to finance the The suigeestion: is made this week that every electricity ‘user inthe area give one dollar to’ the department. _ would prove sufficient for the need. The Review. endorses. 7 this: suggestion’ and. ‘urges all to. get. behind it for the benefit cof the. ‘community. at large. “This EW TESTS Fe OR DRIVERS | “years: excessive, af - “move on. ‘the part of: our: _ “0 rning wets Ghelehoneae “And ‘it feels. that the driving os edlaneadl Co- operate: with, ‘the: intent of: the. new. meas re to: be. ‘checked more ie “only common. sense. = “They. will. ‘not complain: at: this: ‘special .attention: They. ‘know. that their reaction time may not be: et a was “years, ALO” ee eee ‘The great bulk. of ‘dvivert e tiekudatly. ‘tha Older “peoplear S: will be checked | ‘every “eivd ~This* seers: “reasonable, ‘too. ‘aside’ for: this valuable” purpose” every” ‘five years “A few: ~The: Review. approves: ‘of. the. new ayatene as far as it Tt’s just possible.that the’ new regulations do not go far. enough.» ‘Pr ‘equent tests for-very tion to the: aged | ones should be considered. “care caused by. drivers'still in their ’teens. : --checks would: impress: on them thé seriousness of operating: . 200: ‘much, emphasis: can not ‘be ‘put: on y young drivers in addi- Frequent drivers’ HE Review has no wi ish to’ labar the subject: of roads, But modern day living has-made highways a. necessary part of our Whole existence, ave never amiss, Recently The Review visited Salt Spring Tsland, 30, a few thoughts: on roads of this area's most progressive communities, ‘There, many, many miles of scenic highway have been hard-surfaced. The -cost:of this surfacing job ran into a very substantial figure. Normal maintenance. is all that would be required to keep these roads in tip-top condition for. many years, The Review took note of: dozens of holes in the. Salt “Spring: yoauds. Which are crying: for immediate attention, If this normal maintenance work is carried out now before the -arrival of winter, it ean: be done cheaply, By next “spring the stirface: will have deteriorated so that the task In addition if the job is com-- Island: will’ drive all: -Pheir ‘automotive repair bills will-be considerably jess.” so Some weeks ayro-this. newspaper called atlention: Loe tt ‘portion of the Wast Roadin North Sannichs Tt was pointed “out: that, this” valuable. asset to, the community urgently ~ evequires. repairs, -To date nochange can be reported, The - ; highway: is in the same condition, if not worse. Rach puss- ing. ear is: contributing: further: to -the doterior ation-of the tothe centre, .. ‘“The-edgres on: euch side ae av owing: daily’ closer The proper authorities should act now, There’s only one more highway. thought, A ¢ onsid Qr- able ‘time has: ‘Glapsed -xince the ‘provincial government stated that work might be started this fall on construction of the proposed new express highway from Victoria to Patricia Bay. The big job is not yet undey way nor js there any indication of when'a start will be made, The explann- tion for the delay was searcity of engineers. It-is te be ieee hoped- Lhat. the. necessary personnel will be f near future and this Wischway promise implemented with- ont: delays. ~ cogs 7 AL etters To. The } some Ye mtcnonenion saaienlarimearianenneiane 18 JUBILANT Review. Sir , Readers frequently avail them. Ing to the paper” to aly “righteous “2 qnddanation,’® so-why nat jubilae:- tlon?. .For it. surely should he “jubilation when. an ‘aging person: ea come. to your town, a stranger PE 8 STAN BO ANG BHAWAN NUL ane, “single soul, and in a few. months’ erneshnraraterecarsehananane srk Rata Sy ructen ow Aire wearctenetee eam “beauty found ine the so Lanetgrawonerenabepehmnebatnnenameearcnnal Edi itor. Hime. aceuniadate 4h “Wntidleslt grubs slike’ “fai the winter “Muy. be. dhere. owas “toil nwt and leat dspace ted ana Walt ; it for the: human-animal is very “selves of, the privilege of “writ- prone to feel eorry.. far. himsely, but nevertholess it heen an necaanplished fact,’ Wo. have. Jelters paradsing the the JOY eee wn HOWETA UNG prar:. fusion of fruit, but mane needs to. - cisions of. civil: aviation... i "from: ‘Matfield - of a: “swept- back: _ stratospheric’: EN Could’ cruise. at 450. ‘m.p . then chanced the subject... Tues “There: was: good ‘reason: “tor! this: : At. that*.time= secretive . ‘policy. «Britains was’ the ‘only ‘country: in’. the world which was’ building jet. “or prop- jet:air! liners. chines (including the 100": and . the Vickers) Viscount). were being minutes set: “is” “not” , ‘Many accidents oto “rush? ‘similar, one. Necessity fore July 2 -COnMNEOUS and the prandeur of. the. “sconery, the ploasast elimate: To counter a serious epidemic ‘of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), the United Nations World of Health‘ Organization (WHO) has -been speeding’ iron lungs to India, Here the Director of WHO's SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW - Iron Lung for India’s Polio Sufferers regional office for Southeast Asia shows a group ‘nurses and officials how a jung, just delivered, operates. Altogether, WHO plans to send 20 of the big machines to India. portable iron Britain’s New Jet Airliner (By CHARLES GARDNER) ; (Of United Kingdom Information Office) After three years of secrecy part of the veil has been lifted from Britain’s new airliner—the four-jet De Havilland Comet. This sleek 36-seater has now been moved from its natal hangar; it has been shown to a _ select party. of correspondents and im- mediately they were safely on ‘their way back to London it was _taxied out and flown for 31 -min- utes.. Only official observers. saw this ‘maiden flight. - The timetable of the hush-hush Comet is not without interest. It was first -conceived:in 1944 and 1945. In 1946 the final major de- concerning — its ‘and air line. experts... It was a gamble pared: ‘the best kept. secret--in: the’ world speedster. on they - said ‘and These: ma- relied: aviation -back ‘on“the - niap.” They | “were postwar * “aeroplanes - makeup . were. taken by. R..E. Bishop, De . Havilland’s chief designer, =. the. plane « vas’ promptly. ordered “> straight from the> drawing: board ae by the Ministry: of Supply.: and: -Rumors $° came”: photographs were allowed of the outside of the plane. As soon as the pictures were taken and the photographers were clear of the airfield, Test Pilot John Cunning- ham climbed into the cockpit and taxied the Comet for the first time. Two hours later he had the airliner up to 7,000 feet and kept it there for half an hour. On his return. he reported ‘a highly sat- istactory flight.” The “outside -only” inspection which has been allowed” of the Comet shows it as a beautifully streamlined but conventional- looking machine with.a fuselage - -shape .not: unlike that of the _ Douglas-DC’ Four Skymaster. .. Wings are of moderate. thickness have medium - sweep . ‘back - while the tail and single rudder . and are. of normal: straight-edged- de- sign. The- engine .‘intakes “grouped‘close to the fusalage, two -, but. one. .which) -they.. were “pre- . to:.take* for~: the Sake. Of. ‘British: supremacy, 222: : ©" Between. 1946’ and. 1948 ‘détails. Of: ‘the -De- Havilland 106. :Cit«: was...) not.:then::named ‘the Comet) were. - quarter. of ‘usual: by -the: extensive a ‘use. of: metal-to- ‘metal: glue: which‘: “De-“Havillands: first.proved: in® thes “-construction®: (O£- the: “Dove. - -windows’. are:-smallish®. but strong, olhg Ss. "Minister ~. has. upon: to:; put British ” civil cmateh winner: ‘for: 2 *“phasis’ was: again laid on: -the*fact : that the: Comet*is a: sound money=*: . making project:and not an: expen- = ‘on either side, ‘and the “Ghosts”, es themselves: are ‘well buried. |: The finish’ of the metal -work. is -of a" very high order and costly .rivet-: ting. has: been kept down™to-~a enough ‘to ‘stand :much: ‘mor the: Be ‘bounds: “per.: square’ 11 ch:40 ‘of ‘Civil J ‘Aviation described: vas ia = “potential “Britain, BEE sive =. freak~-and within © the: next. two. oor ‘years, whieh ©. were. to catch ‘up all the lost: lees | way, of. the war years: until the’ new planes’ were’ fin: - ished and’ flying it was still theo: . ~ retically . possible for: competitors 7 / something And. for ‘that: reason and. ‘ahead: “with. that reason-alone no: technical -de- tails of the Comet were ‘released ~ Until.March. 30, 1949, when. De Havilland announced - the: ‘follow- -ing ‘facts: - Firstly, that the Comet was ‘in- tended for, express services. along the trunk routes of the Common. wealth..and for inter-continental: peiVicea, seconals, that at was pressurized to fly at 40,000: feet, nearly double the height used by any existing civil machine: third: jy, Wat ib would hold && passen- Bers in fully” reelining “sleeper- atte” chairs; fourthly, that it was alow wing monoplane with mad- uate sweep back; fifthly, that Its.. four jet-engines were De Havil- land =<“Ghosts" - of euch ‘und: were ‘expected ta pro- 500 Ibs. thrust. Britain’s. © “lead in jets was’considerable, but 2"e. few air “Although, the Comet. has: anty. yet. made “one. flight (within, an” hour of. its. first taxi test) there experts. in) Britain “who. have any doubts’ that.°the Comet will live upto its:promise.’ =‘ This “plane is a really logical: step “‘forward.in? design—not.:a |. blind ~ jump‘ as its crities sometimes aver, Five’ hundred. miles ‘certainly. * compared - shave © ‘On the. speed vide a crushing speed. of nearly: “ 400 nip; The. firir:awse- underlined © to handle the "106" with fuel. SAY dng ‘sickness and. they added that the plane was expected to. have highly competitive, economies: and vould use any normal airport, That was on. March. 80.1ast up in’ ne Comet airframe” was: towed .out.. That saine afters hoon, watehed by. Sir Frank Whit: Ho, Slr Geoffrey De Havilland sand designer. Bishop, all fow'.en- Hines were run and two days later — Sree Fags Ra Bek. on BE ba ime OR Ent Ame NHL ARNE -eat and: he may provide himself with the monns if ho will Ro berry : niekings The task may be humble mad simple, but the opportunity of it is a very valuable asset in this strangers opinfon, and one to he pyateful for, Also, those who find tine hang heavy on theiy hands for the sim- ple reason that their “prubstalee” is-seoure. wold: find a let of fun sO. the berry pickers, who The . * sAbeatshs “newscomer's abe teak Lies deeded hte cobb boda tale ACPOSS the cstrawberry raws:. and Uirougthy the Jogan> vines, And “there is. stinghine, ama ahye : a ether Mount Baker, and. (he alittesing Olypian. There as tne. sare cand. neate breezesy ana the laughter of youth. These are Hie delhihts te set wpdinet the weariness that: comes: with- any tusk, und oof then solves offre ua day's: full enjoy- Sanent, and) has earned the pratiy BUR oe et “BERRY. PICKER.» aes WR WA The? ~ Hentoweek Inside the hangar Iwo. ot the “Cihost'! engines were Tran and ane § those hangar: doors finally - opened and the completed airliner loneliness - the improvement. in, World Ain ‘Traffic. Contral so “as. -honrsi chalf aeday. and: Gondon - Karaehi | “in-even less. trom vibration: . itis quite‘a moderate performance with. the - high: -speed fighters with whieh’, De: Havillands had’ so. much. experience, and ‘engine side there: should be :no great snags— ner shoukl there be trouble with pressurization’ or air conditioning, both.of which ‘are cngineering problems about which a great deal ip ald caniy hnowsn, The Comet is not due for air- line’ serviee until 1952 or 1953—- leaving three full years of devel- opment before BOAC and. BSAA take delivery them. Thon Just’ think what this plane- will have to offer! Tt will do’ London-Calra in: five London-- Sydney. in. 86 hours: London « Johannesburg in Jt will be -offering aly travel oat nearly twee the speed of any com wHltars AL twee << i MeN at ee oe sits ainls. o¢ Rayal Engineers do-the:danger-: ous fuse work:on the bombs. The the over-weather height and with jet -conifort, © safety and freedom. What is: mares IL: Swill be doing it’ economically, © And then. laterscons: plying between London and“ New York in slx or seven hours, nearly keeping. pace with the. Westward Moving. supe “One® “cannot |. imagine that by 1952 there will be many of the “world! s major alniines not.on the ~ order st forthe. plane whieh is designed to put Britain baele at spares daughter Vataves VWevay ytd Vay he Oh td cD Mrthplace. ~ come fron the professions av well a from the. anskived class. the head. af the world's: Civil adr. erart Industry, ; BHP Set eoetinarmR ENR UNE Shannen et ceorey Fome of Bard’ 8 Daughter Bought shame in “Which Shake- once Jived has wa its Bid Hall's Croft ts The: Truat. Of fine half-llinbered 1th century chouse: tn a ceharming garden, nnd e wast the “onl ohisterie -bullding: WALEED SDAKESPCATHAD ASSOCTOLIONS M1 Stratford-on-Avon not ovwned by the Trust, : Ttowad thre hate far nvany vente of Shakespeare's daurhter, | Sus. wun. who omorred aowell-knewn physictin, Dis Jahn Hall 1607, |. Agart fruits. its sisOClalions, Halls Croft is an extremely pic. turesque house with many inter esling arehitectural features, It ds considered the best example of a Pador tawr letiwe in Qtrattave. Une AND LE cn orevent. years. it hus ere The are Digging Up- one Roa ane sitting ‘ : feet” “down * =over the ‘country. “corresporidents - : Were. told -that-it ‘is’ hoped:to “de- =. “velop it into: an’ Atlantic machine : three gh “Others: are an hour. -is-' a--revolutionary. ‘speed: for a. 100,000-pound airliner but ~ teriorating. fuse, “a bus“ rumbling ‘Garthed. In of the first of the ined only three vivilians, but a0: 14 machines already: ordered : ‘for: it muy ‘be. “voleed deputy bomb disposal chief, “We.. don't want! rewards.” | Sree atte trie Up bls from. Battle of Trafalgar Ship To Be Sunk One of Britain’s most highly- treasured links with her seafar- ing past is to go—the old “Im- placable’ which shared with H.M.S. Victory the honor of sole, survival from the fleet that fought at Trafalgar. The ship has been examined by experts and declared beyond hope of _ preservation. During the war, she could not have the same care that had been given. her for nearly a century and a half, and decay began which - - has now. doomed the old ship. Implacable will be given a fit- ting funeral: she will. be towed out into the Channel, to a point. - 70 miles off Portsmouth, . where, laden with iron, she will be sunk: ; The Royal . will do her honor and : _ France. proposes to send a war- in 90 fathoms. of water. Navy ship-to witness the ‘end.. Nelson’s :.flag-ship, :Victory, will be the only: ship. left that fought at Tretalen. : Nazi.’ “Sleepers” (Sault, Ste: ‘Marie Star). Hall and ‘family. ‘of Stepney. ate ye, 2 yard’ started ® to-: Hitler’ there: since® ‘Todi. ; a Britain still: has’ hu dreds } like “it. They" are! Scattered all Néw: ones: are ‘reported ‘every: day." Twelve’ hundred men=2German ee - former prisoners-of-war ‘and -Brit- . ish. soldiers. of :-the ‘Royal Engin-:: ‘-eers—are digging them up. Seven British-laid: anti-invasion coastal... minefields still have ta: ‘be elparesh, _ too, Moe GR bo sone !: haywire, It’. doesn't. take ‘A little water seeping into'a de- along a nearby street could mean sudden death ‘to scores, : Bomb-disposal ‘chiefs — dislike: -discussing: the possibility of such au tragedy,’ but. they say it could happen. A “sleeper” dropped in 140 could awake with a roar in 1950 or even yours sfterward, Whether such a disaster occurs, they « av Aevends lirgely on luck. So far the luck of British civilians has been miraculous. Since 1945 countless mines and unexploded bombs have been un- that: period Royal Engineers anc three Ger. mins dled, Lo ; e. + a) The ‘three: Germuns—prisoners vat that) thaie---awore kiled dn 1946 The. while clearings aominefiold: VO Germans now engaged in the ~ tasks are volunteers who! turned: ‘down repatriation. ‘They pet £5 S30) a week. § Some ‘are anarried Germans do the digging, - The en- Hineers. don't. :peb even sixpence. SCO "conts extra forsthe job, “tvs oan honor! - SUYS quiat- Angus. Buchan, iBritidin’s Buehan, (a 80-vearald seven years, More than bombs have lost thetr sting under his nimble: fingers, Scoffing -at the danger, he prefers to have people belave the only havard is catching cald in ue damp shafts. * * Bul the records show that alto- gether from 1990 to the present, 240 of his comrades died work and TT were injured, mast of them Curing the desperate dlity haya of budbuedd, More that AS, 0 bombs have heen dag wpe y: The “bemb © hneipeus Prygelseryy tople resident © we One eNasperated rather than have othe squad -dig Harden, "We bral one byeles gertlays That thing out" lavehed Buchan, haat all the chap sida was Oh, my ‘oor Maye" a eR ce ae owned: by Lady Elizabeth Montagu whom ‘the trustees. have Wettohe de Th tha Meet Wad ves dequired it, the house would-have heen gold: by: publle auction, -connection .. nore’, God”’)," shelter’ y ‘picked | up. on: the streets of;Rome -are kept: for. a:few..days or. weeks, “until:they.can: be? placed: in.:regu- For eight -years™ “Mrs. “Wannah ern part..of; Rome. : : cently: : ° .culosis), ‘Some of ‘the. “usleepers” ” are. im * paet. bombs awhich for: some -rea-" son didn’t’ explode when: they. hit. deadly. time: ‘Garba ‘ “Was food there, : father -had just died, cosas” abandoned ‘by - Much. to. start’ them ticking again, they - - 6 GIT: ‘\wniform, “Hon now is. ta-get enough funds - te rent another. two-story plaster family -to -obtain, major;..- ‘has lived eloge to Instant death for 1,000° at their, has’ lta, . who’ ctned ine vain to keep his bamb' Sead eh ERE ARN ee oe aT Oe SIDNEY, Vancouver Island, B.C., Wednesday, October 5, « 4 eae: 1 Eh 2 a CED 0 NO OEE EE 0 1) A SE) CAD OG ERD END 6) CER U GUED (RDC) CA END | HE am tgs oe oye a | Reflections KF rom the Past | | 20 YEARS “AGO The business on Beacon Ave., known as The McKillican Supply Co., has been taken over by H. J. Readings of the Bazan Bay. Cash Store and will be run on the up- to- date system of “Cash ans Carry.” The many friends of Douglas Horth, of Sidney, will be interest-. ed to hear that he will make his debut in grand opera this winter in Milan, where he has been given the leading tenor solos of ‘La Boheme”, by Maestro Caronna, who is one of the greatest macs- tros in Italy. Rev. M. W. Lees left vesterday for Salt Spring Island to attend the induction of their new min- ister, Rev. W. A. Allen, recently arrived from Terrace, B.C. Anyone wishing to make jam for the Solarium can obtain empty containers for sume by applying to Mrs. T. Reid, secre- Salt Spring Fulford Har- tary of the South Women's Institute, bor. It is reported that there was about 30 per cent increase in motor traffie through the port of Sidney this season, inclusive of. the C.P.R. service. On Thursday last the B.C. Jer- sey Breeders paid a visit to Salt Spring Island to inspect the herds of the Island Jersey Breeders. The visitors spoke very highly of the cattle they had seen. 25 YEARS AGO At the school sports held in with the North and South Saanich Agricultural So- ciety’s Fall Show, Sidney School once more distinguished itself by winning the David Spencer Cup Need Knows No Season By Roger Butterfield (Author: “The American Past”; “Al Schmid-Marine”). Contributor leading National Magazines. For 26 years - “Andrea Azzena was.a soldier in the Italian Army. In 1945 he retired as.a\sergeant- major; which is the highest non- * commissioned: rank. He | has taken... army. :pension -— not» enough for even one man to live. “on.— and opened: what he’ calls. “es the “Piccola Assistenza del. Sig-. : -@Little Assistance’! from, for. Italian war: orphans.: ““For’ 26 years” T eats ‘Temperance: Hall; was: given: ating, last Friday- evening, by Kent Edison.: oe people in® “conjunetion with: local. oa : aa: Pon z eth : Churches te North Saanich | “Pentecostal Church. “SUNDAY SERVICES — OCT. 9th — | “a 00 am, 7.30 pam, The Rev, James Andrews - from, Tibet. ANGLICAN SERVICES For October 9th _ Holy Tr inity; ucharist Pamily cetenescteseseveca 11.00 am, St. Andrew's, 8.00 aa, Holy Communion; 7.30 pm. Even- SON. St. \ugustine’s, 3.15 pam, Even- song (Tarvest. Thanksgiving), anetnennceannteemmtnan terete eet msnaea ST. PAUL'S UNITED -— CHURCH © REV. FE, S. FLEMING, BAY, BD, STM minister, National, Day of Thanksgiving _ Special Muse and Sermon sabe Services Shady Creak cence ee OGO shank St. Paul's, 11, 1S 1m.-7.30 p.m, Sunday Sehools.-Shady Creel and St. Paul's, 10,00 aan, Deo Cove: 11.00 am. Seanad T cmmanaahininmanat PROPHETIC BIBLE LECTURES EVERY SUNDAY EVENING IN THE K.P. HALL 7.15 P.M. SUBJECT FOR Oct, 9th | “THE REVELATION OF GOD TO MAN” Music and Pictures Special Feature for the Children WELCOME, ~The Society of Missionary Men | From Rest Haven (eeenees accents YOU ARE ‘Avenue, this: city, still, _ remains ", “Phonograph