Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pub Nom Lator Dat. Hat Page it seven thousand feet up the wild mountaintops of sum. A frail Young English girl mat grimly in her Uny open cockpit she did not need to peer into the dense envelop ing Raincloud to sense this new desperate danger. The sudden horrifying splutter of the single engine of her aircraft warned that the air was too thin. She knew now that she dared not. Risk climbing higher. Yet when flying Blind above the mountains at ten thousand feet her Altitude had been dangerously Low Thane after time drop Ping through Clear patches in the Cloud she had searched with tired for a Way through the mountains beyond Moulmein. But always the Hills loomed be Low. It took Amy Johnson three frightful hours to Clear those mountains. It was not the first time death had touched her Wing tips on that lonely flight nor was it to be the last but still her eyes red rimmed beneath her goggles she flew doggedly on into the open sky. She had told them ail that she would Fly to Australia. Nothing should Stop her now. Anu singly no thing did. Fog sandstorm Monsoon minding rain a damaged undercarriage Jason the Little second hand it Havilland Moth somehow Shook its rudder gaily dear at them All the world watched bound. Newspapers and radio bulletins headlined this epic Conquest of half the world. Thousands rejoiced at each new landfall Watt de with bated breath when Jason was reported Over due logged the route in i pocketbook charts. And on May 24, 1930 Empire Day just 30 years ago tears welled in 26 year old Amy s weary eyes As she banged Jason s sides in wild exultation ahead Lay the first dim outline of the North australian coast rings on his fingers but to Bells on his tees dear or. Ouster. Are there any special rules about the amount of jewel by a Man can Wear when going out in the evening my wife has Given me some clothes 1 your Man Fine pieces including a watch ring tie clip cuff links key Chain and Money clip. How much can i Wear and Well dressed and not criticized for overdoing it Donald t. A any Given amount providing All the items go together. As with other accessories they should be in Harmony and blend with the Type of clothing you Wear. Don t mix a formal tie pin with flashy cuff links and a heavy looking sport chuckles i be been with you for 25 said the faithful employee and i be never asked you for a raise be returned the employer is Why you have been Here for 25 two morons each had a but they could t decide which belonged to whom. So t h e y. Cut the mane off one to differentiate but it soon grew Back. Next they Cut the Tail off one but that also grew Back. Finally they measured them and found that the Black horse was four inches taller than the White does your Hus band one wife asked another. He is an what is Well it s hard to explain but if we women did what he does they would Call it an indignant Home owner living on a 470-foot Long Street in a new sub division petitioned the City to Correct a typographical error. They said the Road Way passing their Home was supposed to be called Viscount Street. When maps were recorded and Street signs installed the name read discount Street. A do Ives tucked this note under the Windshield wiper of his automobile i be circled this Block for 90 minutes. I m late for an appointment and if i Don t Park Here i la lose my Job. Forgive us our when he came Back he found a parking ticket and this note i be circled this Block for 20 years and if i Don t do this i la lose my Job. Lead us not into temp a youngster rushed from school one Day insisting that his Mother immediately buy him a set of. Pistols Complete with holsters and Belt. Why whatever for asked his Mother. You re not going to Tell me you need them for j yes i he said. The teacher said that tomorrow she s going to teach us to the one who is absent from the Bridge party gets the most slams. Joe was having trouble getting up in the mornings so his doctor prescribed some pills. Joe took them slept Well and was awake before the alarm rang. He took Hisk time getting to the office strolled in and said to the Boss to did t have a bit of trouble getting up this that s replied the Boss but where a first grader was asked by the teacher to name Man s Best Friend the teacher gave him a hint. It begins with she said. Replied the. Youngster shipwrecked sailors marooned on a Des Ert Island were in despair after several months but one Day they became hysterical with Joy. With a note in it came floating in on the tide. With trembling hands they opened it Only to groan it s from a line. From a recent obituary in the Dublin paper told about the impressive rites and then wound up t Patrick Mcgovern slip Ped at the graveside and broke his leg. This Accident cast a gloom Over the whole watch. Apply the same Basic rules of Good dress to your jewelry. Please Settle a few problems. My husband is getting a White dinner jacket to Wear at a Semi formal party. He says he has Wear Black trousers. I say Navy will do also does this outfit require a Black Bow tie How about a Cummer bund Man will he howl if it is . A either Black or Navy trousers Are . If he s buying a new pair i lean to Black. The Bow tie can be Black Navy Maroon or in the presently popular Madras patterns. The cummerbund completes the out fit and should match the tie. Maybe his howl will turn to a purr after he takes a look at himself in the Mirror. My wife and i and two other couples plan to spend a Long weekend in Las vegas. The Way the girls have been buying clothes you would think we were going for four months in Stead of four Day is we men would like the Low Down on what main items we need Lor this time of the year. We re flying so want to keep it at a minimum. Bill m. A plenty of Money in addition one suit which you can Wear on the plane. You can get by with one or two sport jackets couple pair of Sev eral sport shirts and regular shirts. Don t forget your swim trunks. Keep every thing on the lightweight Side. Enjoy yourself. My husband has a habit of wearing a patterned sport shirt with print neckties. I have told him repeatedly that with a sport shirt he does t necessarily need a tie. But if he does Wear one a patterned should be worn with a solid sport shirt please in form us who is mrs. . A Yot fre right one of the first rules of Good dress is to allow one Strong pattern to dominate rather than create a clash. Offset a designed shirt with a solid or very neat subdued tie. Let go with patterned neckwear when wearing a solid color shirt. Simply Tell him in Plain words not to get too fancy. Tip for the Day have Ever gome to work with ubin atoned socks say Many of us Don t function ver cent until sometime after lick any pos sible clothing mix up by Lay ing out your next Day s out fit the night before. Then you la avoid winding with trousers of one Milt and the coat of another. Amy Rohmen my clip of a firl Alwn flight from in fun to in May if30. Tim in ult it during top Rii Goen tit route. Load on to Darwin had taken just 19u Days. Alone without Blind flying instruments radio or adequate weather re ports she Hadvick Steved what they had toy her she would be a fool to try. Little miss nobody Amy Johnson from Park Avenue Hull England was the Pride of Britain the world s heroine she had won her place among the immortals the hard Way. It was a glorious con quest yet there had been Btttle hint of glory when it began. Few people had known or cared about the crazy dream of the slight Young solicitor s clerk. Those who did smiled Toler Antly and advised her to go by Steamer. Even Amy seemed to have no very Clear explanation of her burning stub born ambition. Fly ing Solo from England to Australia was not new an austra Lian Bert Hinkler had done it two years earlier in Days. At first the press the aircraft Industry and the Public saw Early exciting in the idea of a woman trying it of the few who thought she really meant it fewer still believed that she would succeed. Bot they underrated Amy and her questing Yorkshire stubbornness be fore1 Ever she soared into the sky from Croydon air port her Grimm est Battle was already behind her. She had fought it with a Broom sweeping out., the hangars at the London aeroplane club s Stag Lane Field where she persuaded mechanics to teach her something about Aero engines she fought it at her of fice desk hoarding Penny she could spare for flying lessons. She talked lord Wake Field into putting up enough to pay for her Gaso line on the flight and her father into buying her the Moth which had Al ready clocked up Miles. She became the first qualified woman Pilot to hold a ground Engineer s licence As Well. But Australia her flying time amounted to less than 100 hours 200 Miles was the most she had Ever flown. Jason and Amy look very tiny As they skim med into the morning sky on May 5, 1930. There was not even a cheering crowd to Speed them just Amy s. Father a few friends and an Airport worker or two. The great adventure had begun. But few cared even a saturday Section Flashback by Guy Jones when he reached Vienna two hours later bar a hand Ful of experts who thought she had been mistaken in her Choice of route. On tuesday May 6, Amy took a twelve hour 800 mile hop to constantinople in her stride. The next Day she jumped blithely from her cockpit at Aleppo 550 Miles further on. The world began to look interested. Now came the Challenge. Halfway to Baghdad a Swift sandstorm forced Jason Down in the Barren Des Ert. For two hours while its intensity threatened the slight 24-foot-Iong machine Amy clutched desperately at the plane. Her revolver was at her Side. There might be raiding arabs about when the storm s fury was spent Amy climbed in again and skimmed off across the Sand for Bagh dad. Six Days and Miles out Little miss nobody was at Karachi two Days ahead of Hinkler s time aviation men began to real ize. By the Amy was at Calcutta and a he Roine a weary windswept heroine. The Long hours of Merce concentration had be gun to take their toll by the time she set off on the ninth Day on the 650-mile flight to Rangoon. Now it looked really i dangerous. Through driving rain and Strong winds she had to climb to feet to Clear the mountains then plummet to 150 feet to find the coastline. Missing Rangoon race course by 12 Miles Amy landed in a football Field and hit an Litch. The damage to her undercarriage meant two Days delay and the loss of her Lead on hink Ler. On May 16, flying to Bangkok she lived through her spine chilling moment with a spluttering engine above the mountains. There was worse to come. For 250 Miles in tearing Monsoon weather even the shape of the coast 50 feet below was blotted out. The rain was a solid Sheet. Pushing up her goggles Amy flew for More than five hours with her head stuck out of the cockpit. Her eyes bared to the sting ing rain Felt As if they were being wrenched out. But not for a moment dared she draw her head in. Mile by mile she battled her Way against the driving gales along the malay pen t insula. As she neared Singa pore her Hope of a record time had gone. On the fifteenth Day skirting the Java sea she was forced Down Short of so Rabaya by Thunder storms. With an erratic Magneto still the perilous Hazard of the timor sea to Clear. When nothing was heard of Jason for a Day and a night the world feared the worst then when Hope seemed vain word reached civilization that Amy had touched Down safely at a Remote spot in the islands. The timor crossing on the last Day proved almost a pleasure flight. After a cheering encounter with a Tanker half Way across Amy touched Down at Dar win at 3 . She s headlines exulted across the world. The news touched off a frenzy of Delight Amy re turned triumphantly to face an almost Royal Progress through dense cheering London crowds in Flag draped streets. At a memorable luncheon attended by Louis Bleriot and Many More air Pio neers she was handed a British newspaper s Cheque and a Gold cup. Amy Johnson had Little to say she had done it that was enough. She had proved what a woman could do. She went on to prove it again and again in later years and with her Hus band Jim Mollison. To break record after record. Then on january 5, 1941, Amy vanished Over the thames Estuary while ferrying a plane for the air transport auxiliary. But her name lives on. Liter with Jim Mol Liten Amy broke cd. This business booms because they made it in Dryden Ontario in strategically located 230 Miles Eist of Winnipeg and West of the Lakehead the editor of the weekly news paper is re writing a time honoured principle of the Western Canadian economics handbook. Most Small towns Fortun ate enough to have local Industry have either been born to it or had it thrust upon them for Industry most often blooms under signs of Arun Dant natural resources strategic location. The tourist folders boost Dryden As a wilderness area but Alex Wilson who has been publishing the Dryden observer since 1941, has developed some Indus trial sophistication which ranks with any of. Its Type in major cities of the North american continent. His Success in the Deli Cate Field of color Litho Graphy Alex Wilson publications Sells postcards an across Canada and occasion ally As far away As Uganda has been a source of Surprise to those who know the complexities involved. Dryden population now has had its share of Industry born to and thrust upon it. The Wilder Ness aspects of the urea have made it popular for tourism and a natural for lumbering and Paperman ing. The Wilson Enterprise has no such favouring circumstances. Despite apparent draw backs however the firm meets Canadian and Ameri can Competition in Quality Price and the important matter of delivery Speed. In 1959 five of the 15. Prizes awarded in the Cana Dian tourist association Fol Der Competition went to Alex Wilson publications. Each year Christmas cards Are printed for a select Cli Estelle which includes dignitaries like general George Pearkes Canada s defence minister. Actually Alex Wilson Wolfl never have started work on color reproduction if he had been fully aware of the involved in the process. Not know ing he continued blindly on until he was committed to going All the Way. Blindly is a relative term. At each step some thing new and the inadequacies of the old techniques were realized. Over a three year period research carried on in dry Den Cost in labor and waste materials alone. Trips to photo laboratories in the United states were also included in the learn ing process. One Factor that has aided Wilson s Success has been a family inventiveness. Alex s father a retired machinist shares a practical turn of mind with his son and was Able to Alfer Standard equipment in Small but important ways. Family spirit has played vital role in the deter Stry and photo Dave Hunt by min atom to push on. And perfect the color printing process. Involved in the ration of Wilson publications Ltd. With. Alex Are his two Brothers Jim and Roy. They came to Dryden when Alex sent out the Call for further staff help in the running of his Ever expand ing business. At present the firm is still located at the main Street site where in 1940 Alex Wilson arrived to take Over the Dryden observer. The old converted House which sheltered the print ing shop is still the nucleus of the operation. It has been drastically altered of course and the firm has expanded on either Side to the rear taking Over in its Progress the town s old Community Hall. In the for next year is a new foot building with air conditioning and humidity Eon Tirol so important to Deli Cate color work. In a Way the Wilson Suc Cess has been a result of this very remoteness which makes Dryden appear an inauspicious Centre for in because of it the firm was forced to perform All functions of color work itself. There was never any. Question of sending out transparencies for separa Tion by another company. The common practice. Members of the 40-Man Wilson staff Learned to do it themselves right there. In the end and after a seemingly endless series of frustrations this made for essential economies in time and Cost. Today the firm has a four Man Art department and five darkrooms with the photographic experts to go with them. The 230 Miles Between Dryden and Winnipeg and the Lakehead is conquered by extensive use of the Long distance Telephone. It s much easier for a client to phone me than it is for him say to go from St. James to St says or. Wilson. A Small Centre like Dryden too has Advant Ages in such matters As mail service. Alex Wilson Points out that he May pick up his mall almost immediately after it has been dropped off the car main line which passes through Dryden. There s no waiting for mail sorting or delivery to a main Post office like that encountered in a Large City. Several times in the past the Wilsons were tempted to pack up their operation and move to Winnipeg where they d be in the Centre of a Busy Market. Now the firm is Over the Hump Alex Wilson is Giad they did t a new electronic Cher separates postcards at the Dryden printing Plant ;