WASHINGTON, DC. -— The United States weather office in its !0-day forecast predicts fine wea-

MILl3 TREND

ther for almost all of Canada. Only parts of northern British Col-

,iimbia and Alberta are expected

CONTINUES

to have below-normal tempera- tures. The remainder of Canada will be either normal or above.

Bracketed figures average temperatures (CP Wire- photo) '

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Rabbit Meat Appeals To Troops On Cold Exercise

By KEN CLARK Canadian Press Staff Writer KIRKLAND L IIE, Ont. (CP) —The only casualties were the rabbits when about ‘to Canadian soldiers roughed it on a cold- weather e..=rciser near here.

Rabbit meat was used as a change from army fare by snare- setting members of the 2nd Bat- talion Royal Canadian Regiment.

The paratraop unit, along with four small supporting units, had regular meals of everything fro mbeefsteak and onions to pork chops, hamburger, chicken (white meat only) or wieners and beans. The rabbits were ex- tra.

MEN WARNED

The unofficial rat‘-it meat was consumed despite a warning in the unit newspaper that the rab- bits were suspected cam’-iers cs“ a germ tha-t started a minor mumps epidemic during an exer- cise last year.

There was no official estimate ,of how many rabbits were coil- .sumed during the 10-day exer- cise which ended Jan. 20, but the number was’ believed consider- able.

Eor breakfast, everybody from Lt.-Col. Donald E. Holmes down might have oatmeal, sausages, biscuits. raspberry jam and cor. fee

After working -up ‘an appetiteby hauling the food and other sup- plies around on a toboggan for a few. miles, the hungry- soldiers tied into corned beef, ‘more bis. .¢lli1>8. raisins, cocoa and a choc- olate bar. '

PLUS‘ RABBITS

There were five different daily menus—six if you count the rah: bits. ‘

The b1s'me_ai was at night, «consisting of pea soup, beef steak, mashed potatoes, corn, steamed fruit cake, biscuits, cheese and tea.

Between meals, soldiers on the march nibbled at cheese, choc.

Can Move Only Head But Draws

MONTREAL (iCP)—A little girl named Brenda who can move only her head can take some of the credit for an invention that is helping other afflicted persons to write and draw.

_It was Brenda who inspired de. signer Joel Barg -to think up the writing. device that is the next best thing to a hand for armless

,01‘ paralysed persons.

The device consists of a long P135510 arm attached to a cir. culai‘ head band with a‘ clamp 3 1101d D611. Pencil or brush at

e other end. The slightest movement of the head controls t-he instrument.

The model he made for Brenda ‘Phat S the 01_11y na-me disclosed -—is an exclusive one. Thehead. band was scaled to a cast of her head, and would be a perfect fit for no one else. ,

IN PRODUCTION I Now however he

fun Scale productio‘ is supervising

l of the inven-

tion with adjustable headbands’

Their cost is about $35 and M1- Barg Says he plans to put an proceeds from sales back into “her 5'91f'he1l3 devices for the b°;211yBincapa«citated.

1‘-_ arg was first intomduced bo_ crippled children by a doctor with whom he used to play pen- }I1iis. ‘Aftena visit to the Sh-riners’ ‘ ospial I cquldnut get the kids 0"“: Of my mind.” he said.

MA“ flilcee-lance commercial artist Fmn is worked for the National ‘afia d °"’;""5». taught handicrafts flh—e treV€ Oped his own puppet lea; 1;; M15 Barg volunteered to , _ *‘~‘ Y‘°1111'gs~ters in a class in Painting and drawing. (3031:; Brenda snemained apart. “I Whlilchllt get her to participate, Sim hwas hardly surprising heatignshle °‘?"1‘d m’°Ve Only her up trying ‘Sud. llrenda had given wri ' » in her mouth. e wlth a pencil

HAPPY PATIE.‘."l‘

_ He began a series of exper. iinents with the aid of a plastics firm official, Charles Senecai tWh0~ loaned space, power ools and other facilities for

working with a lightweight p1ag..

tic. He finally produced Brenda's model and she learned to paint Ind write with L

n

olate bars, raisins, sweet bis- cuits, hard candy, almonds and other energy-giving tidbits.

Food for each fiv-e-man tent

came in 30-pound cartons and

contained one day’s ration. Quartermaster - Sargeant \Bill

‘Blake of Kitchnener,\0nt., said

each, day’s ration contained about 4,200 calories and was “more than enough” for each soldier. “Often he cannot eat it all.” FOOD COST HIGH

The food cost the army -about five times as much asordinary vcictuals prepared in the mess.

Col. Holmes said barracks food costs about $1 a man per day. On the exercise, the pre-cooked,

, \

‘ice, landing on lakes near tem-

cost about $5.

Getting it to the men was a logistics problem. Soldiers on the move could carry no more than

two days’ ration. A ski plane ran a shuttle serv-

porary RC.“ camps. In other areas, supplies went overland as far as snow tractors could carry them.

After that, the men dragged

" . mitter. Within seconds the urgent message is on its way.

Page 16 The Guardian

Thur. February, 6. 1958

Perforated Tape ls Faster Than Red Tape Finds RCAF

ST. HUBERT. Que. (CP)—- Chimes sound, bells ring and red lights blink in a busy basement room at the RCAF’s Air Defence Command Headquarters here.

A priority message is passing on perforated tape through the a 1 m 0 s t automatic communica- tions relay system.

Quietly, an attendant notes the destination, glances for garbled words, walks to an tugoing trans-

“Speed with accuracy—that’s what we’re always aiming for,” says Flt. Lt. Henry Holgate of Hamilton, commanding officer of No. 5 Communications Unit, one of six such centres across Can- ada.

PRIZED TROPHY

His unit combined speed with accuracy to win an unnamed sil- ver trophy as the most efficient communications relay station in the RCAF’s trans-Canada chain. The trophy glistens in the office of Flt. Sgt. William (Woodie) Wood of Saskatoon, relay super- intendent.

Winning it brought quiet de- light to the St. Hubert crew, who placed last in the previous com- petition.

The job of the air force com- munications system-—set up in 1954 after a tri-service network was reorganized — is to relay messages over many thousands of miles of leased land lines on a teletype network. Radio teletype, eliminating the need for wires, is also used.

Millions of words are handled each year. A survey in the first seven months of 1957 showed 18 messages went astray in more than 7,000,000.

To keep mistakes at a mini- mum competition is encouraged between key stations and a pierc-

quarters at Ottawa‘: Rockcliffe

airport. BIG NETWORK

Major relay stations are also located at Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, - Rockcliffe and Hal- ifax. Each relay has at least a dozen “tributaries.” St. Hubert’s tributaries—27 in all—are scat- tered across Quebec, part of On- tario and the Eastern Coast. The closest is next door, five feet away, and the farthest is at Goose Bay, Labrador, 800 miles northeast.

“The system is like a river

it,” explains Flt. Lt. Holgate, 38, who believes morale “the higher the better”-—rnakes for proficiency.

He was born at Sault Ste. Marie, 01113., and is married with four young children who spent their tender years in the Yukon, his last posting before‘St. Hubert, eight miles south of Montreal.

The “streams”—radar stations in the Pine Tree network or other RCAF installations -— pour messagesvinto the “Main river” which passes them along as quickly as possible.

Rockcl-iffe tested the speed once. It sent a message to itself via Vancouver, Australia and England. Three minutes later, af- ter circling the earth, the mes- sage reappeared on teletypes back at Rockcliffe.

Many messages

are multi-

dozen different, scattered sta- tions. A “tape factory” repro- duces the original perforated tape as many times as needed, and each goes its separate way.

The system has capacity‘ and

involved in the event of war. It

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