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2 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, ELECTRIC TYPING DUPLICATING DICTATION BY PHONE §Kafl1urine Williams 3 â€" 'I'Il. 4-2208 â€" Many were surprised by last week’s news item reporting a shortage of vol- unteer firemen in Richmond Hill. Surely the very necessary job of fighting fires hasn't lost its glamour. What has be- come of all the boys who told enquiring aunts and uncles that when they grew up they wanted to be “a fireman”? Richmond Hill Fire Brigade has a long and honourable history, dating back to days before the village was in- corporated as a municipality. A search through old records reveals several photos of the boys of the old brigade. The bucket brigade gave way to the hand-drawn hose reel, the old engine pumpers, the horse drawn fire wagons Ar ~___-.....J .yv-..’ -u' - Eu" -vâ€" ~ 7 , and then the modern motor powered fire-fighting equipment. We can find no record of horse drawn fire wagons, as Richmond Hill seemed to jump from the hand-drawn, to the motor truck. Turning back through the pages of history it is notable that last week’s report to council by the Mayor is a first, in that nowhere can we find previous record that the local fire-fighting force was short of help. Old copies of “The Liberal” are evidence that through the years membership in the Fire Brigade has been a coveted honour. Members were carefully selected from waiting lists of considerable proportions. Pros- Hallowe’en . . . a time for spooks and goblins, fun and excitement for the youngstersf _ u a I 17777:. av“. ~‘rvâ€" Not a time, surely, for tragedy and grief. Yet a few careful measures must be taken to ensure that everyone enjoys the fun . . . parents and young spooks! There are two important areas to watch for: first, the streets and high- ways. Drivers beware of the unexpect- ed on this night. We can’t expect child- ren to take as much care as they nor- mally do, so it’s up to us to be especial- ly alert. ’fhén, at home there are some Sim. ple ways of avoiding Hallowe’en misâ€" haps. 'An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 ’\â€"â€"J Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Publisher W. S. COOK, Managing Editor MONA ROBERTSON, Associate Editor Look ahead . . . buy ‘ 716W TH E Toucan-roib'ommon .-â€" AAA-r- “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawn‘ STENOGRAPHER Volunteer Firemen SAVINGS BONDS at Hallowe’en Safely ~ VII IANK THAT LOOKS Allle 3113132 1111an Dyson, fianager Richmond Hill Branch Ontario,‘Thursday, Oétober 29, 1959 pective members were scrutinized by a brigade committee and the village coun- cil. Only in comparatively recent years is there mention of any remuneration for those who at the sound of the fire alarm, whether in day or night, dashed off to fight the threatening flames. 11, VAL vv “5.... __,- ,, Chat with any old fireman and he will keep you for hours with tall and ex- citing tales of racing through the night to save flaming homes and many other thrilling experiences. One of the big thrills of his life was that he had been a fireman, and you gather the impres- sion that he wouldn’t have missed it for anything. Now the Mayor tells us there is a shortage of volunteers for the local brigade. Frankly, we’re wor- ried. No so much at the prospect of the tax burden of a fully paid fire brigade, but by the fact that the clang and clat- ter of the fire bell and fire engine is losing its glamour and appeal for our young folks. We wonder what kind of A 1,113 vane, ---_ 3 world we Vina-3‘7 have when at least half the boys don’t want to grow up to be firemen. Fire-fighting is mighty important business in every community, and through the years Richmond Hill fire- men have rendered outstanding and un- selfish public service. We hope that as long as necessary there will be no shor- tage of volunteers. 1. Light your porch, and avoid the danger of visiting children tumbling in the dark. 7 72. Clear obstacles from your back yard . .. . this will discourage practical jokers, fand pcevent falls. _ 4.Make sure if your children go out that they wear light colored clothing, so they can be seen by motorists. Tou- ches of fluorescent tape on a costume are excellent protection. 5. Masks make it hard for the small toddler to see where he’s'going. Encour- age children to make _their own inter- esting faces with make-up. .' If yofi have a dog, keep it secur- The meeting was opened with the CGIT Purpose, hymn and the Lord’s Prayer. After the business was discussed, we went into our groups. (Group activities: Mrs. Patton’s group discussed the up-coming Halloween party, and then started their Bible study based on Rom- ans. 7 rers. Sandersons’ group have been learning to tie their ties._ Mrs. Willizaâ€"ms’ group is starting to make “Tic-Tac-Toe" pillows._ _'1‘7l717éfirineeting was cloéed with Taps. CGIT Doings PAUL DELMER SOME AMAZING INFORMATION finds its way onto the desk of an editorial writer. I’m sure you must be interested in your vital statistics which have found their way onto my desk recently. Every 24 hours your heart beats 100,000 times and pumps 5,000 gallons of blood through the system. It uses enough energy in that time to draw a train along a one-mile stretch of track at 60 mph The pressure set up is equivalent to that needed by a mechanical excavator in shovelling 20 tons of snow from the ground into a tipper truck! throne year you speak 1f:800,000 words. Ehough electricity is generated to keep an electric motor running twelve hours a day for a week, and none of this power is harnessed! Your eyelids have fantastic power. In a year they lift themselves 94,600 times with a total “lift pressure" of 50 lb. The average woman walks 800 miles a year! Mothers top the scales at around 1,200. If you weigh 140 lb. you contain enough fat to make seven cakes of soap, Water to fill a 10 gallon barrel, phosphorus to make 2,500 matches, magnesium for a dose of salts, iron to make one medium sized nail, lime to whitewash a chicken coop, and carbon to manufacture 6,000 pencils. And a good-sized pencil will scribble some 40,000 words, or a line roughly 30 miles long . . . SO YOUR BODY GOES A LONG WAY! Your Vital Statistics According to Professor Fishbein, an average woman eats in her lifetime the equivalent of 6,000 loaves of bread, 6 calves, 300 chickens, 85 geese, 100 pigeons, 2,000 large fish, 3,000 sar- dines, 500 1b. of lobster, 9,000 lb. of potatoes, 12,000 lb. of other vegetables, 14,000 lb. of fruit, 1,000 lb. of salt, 5,000 eggs, 800 lb. sugar, 2,000 lb. of cheese. She washes this gargantuan feast down with 10,000 quarts of water, and 12,000 quarts of tea or coffee. If you like milk, you drink about 6,000 quarts! - How little can you eat to stay alive? Dr; Ronald Smith of Onada County, New York, existed on two slices of brown toast and honey each day. The blood works out at 1/13th to 1/20th of the entire body weight. One pint of blood weighs 1 1b. The red blood cells are l/300th part of an inch in diameter. Placed end to end 12,000 are said to make one square inch! Your brain consists of 9 thousand million nerve cells, each having its own fibre. There are 2 million sweat glands in your body. Your lungs contains "sacs" or'bags from which the blood vessels are fed with oxygen. There are 4 million of these bags. The lungs weigh 2 lbs., and pump oxygen into your cells at the rate of 1.000 times every 24 hours. Coughing badly? Get it off your chest, and relieve the bronchial tubes of extra-overtime! They contain 300 million cells . . . each 1/100th part of an inch in diameter. The retina of the eye has half a million cells and each is equipped with a sensitive nerve. There are 10,000 cells in your ears. So highly geared are they, you can “tune in" to 5,000 vl- brations per second. And your tongUe is sensitive, too. The cells taste a two-millionth part of a strong herbal tonic when dissolved in water to the proportion of one in 100. You think you are healthy? Your body is full of microbes! One pint of milk left uncovered for 12 hours produces 10 million microbes! And you drink an awful lot of exposed milk. The TB bacilla is 1/200th part of an inch long, and 1,000 of them can go onto a pin head. One microbe in three days produces 280,000 million offspring. 'Your Kidneys act as filters. In 24 hours they secrete three pints of urine. If th y don’t, see your health advisor quickly -- there's a blockage injyour waterworks! Having a baby? He will be 1/100th part of en inch long at first. And when he grows up, your son will become a student of pognology. It's nothing to do with medicine but means "ye gentle arte of shavinge”! A youth’s chin hairs grow at the rate of three twenty-fifths of an inch per week or six inches a year. In 70 years a man grows a beard equivalent to 30 feet long, or over five times his own height. So your husband could look like Santa Claus! ON- THE LOCAL FRONT this week, we have the opening today of the new Self Service Woolworth’s Store on Yonge St. First 700 shoppers to enter the store receive a packet of coffee free of charge. And on Richmond Heights Plaza, we have an- other three dollar days, today, tomorrow and Saturday. There is a co-operative draw with a fine prize in merchandise; free par- cels of groceries in another competition, various draws with prizes organized by some of the stores individually; music, including an organ recital to be held in Kaye’s Casual Toggery with dollar savings in all the stores displaying the dollar day banner. Make a point of shopping in these stores to obtain maximum benefits. Several of the stores are giving free apples, free lollipops, free candies, etc., to children accompanying parents on a visit to the stores â€" so make it a family excursion. And there is a beauty contest for Miss Richmond Heights,. and a Children’s Contest. Judging also, takes place in the drawing contest organized by Judy's Children’s Wear and the prize will be awarded the win- ning child. Shop locally and watch your town grow. and its community facilities improve. HALL’S SERVICE STATION LTD. TU. 4 . 436i 7% No more aching backs and freezing hands, shovel]- ing snow. 593 Let our men and machines keep your driveway clean the whole Winter through «fir We are accepting a limited number of contracts for driveway snow remoyal. ' «fir Make sure you are one of the lucky ones. fig Driveways 100’ long and under, $35.00 per year. over 100 ft. slightly more. ‘ TU. 4-4096 Is that _enoughrof your vital statistics to be going on with? SNOW FOR THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS Driveway Snow Removal By COWELL PAVING CO. DOMESTIC FUEL OILS AND BURNER SERVICE CALL US NOW! FOR YOUR RESERVATION Have you ever doubted the re- liability of the Bible? I think most people have today. The Bible is a very ancient book and for this reason has often been rejected as an authority for mo- dern living. But, the study of archaeology has helped to restore confidence in the Scriptures as an authorita- tive account of what happened in those days of long ago. Wendell Holmes once said, “Age. like dis- tance, lends a double charm." When the Bible, which is a very aged book. is examined in the light of archaeological discoveries, it takes on a glamour which is certain to excite all of us._ It is true of course, that the Bible is not a scientific text book on religion. It is a book which witnesses to the fact of God, and the revelation which He has made of Himself to Israel and through Jesus Christ. Even though it is ‘not written from a scientific point of view, it is good to know that sciences, such as archaeology, help to authenticate the biblical ac- count of things. A Wfia'fs-éfizige does archaeology render the Bible? There are several things which should be noted. First: It illustra- tes and explains‘certain sections of the Bible. This is the most important contribution it makes. The study of ancient cities has opened up the Bible in a new and exciting way. Archaeology sheds light on so many subjects, no matter where you turn in the Bible. You may have wondered a- bout the people who lived before the flood, (called antideluvians), or the great Tower built in Baby- lon which brought about the se- paration of the nations. Archaeâ€" ology has done a great deal to uncover information about these situations. You may have puzzled over the building of ’the Taber- nacle in the wilderness, the erec- ting of the Temple under Solo- mon. Archaeology helps to explain some difficult questions. What a- bout the missionary tours of Paul or the visions of John on the Isle of Patmos. Again, archaeology has given us valuable information about the journeys and the condi- tions on Patmos. In other words, this great subject of archaeology has explained many things which have often bothered sincere peo- ple in their reading of Scripture. A’rchaeology also helps to sup- plement the Bible. There are many things in the Bible which are not fully explained. Gaps ap- pear quite often. This is due to . the fact that the Bible is not meant to be a detailed account about certain historical happen- ings. I-ts sole purpose is to present the action of God as He worked in and through the people He had chosen to fulfill"His purpo e. But when we turn to hrchaeol gy we see that it fills in many of the gaps, and thus aids us togain a fuller picture of things that hap- pened. For example, the destruc- tion of the sanctuary of Shiloh is only inferred by the prophet Jer- emiah, but archaeology has uncov- ered the 'ruins of the shrine and thus proves that it was actually destroyed. Such Kings as Omri, Ahab, Jehu, Josiah, Hezekiah and others, are much better known in the historical records kept by the Assyrian emperors. Thus compar- ing the Assyrian documents with the account in the Bible, we are given a better picture of these men who ruled Israel. _ (By Rev. Calvin Chambers) Archaeology and The Bible nu,” u u- _ .._- .V Thus e have in archaeology a science hich might easily be cal- led. “the hand maid of the.Lord." Up to now the Bible has been ful- ly substantiated by archaeological discoveries. We have every reason to believe that as the future pro- gresses many things. which are at present vague in the Bible, or ev- en challenged as untrue, will be prqven _byAthe work done by our archaeologists. EARL GRANT gaging 'hzuovion 0! w Facts and Faith Binds”, i COME TO HILL CITY MOTORS Ir. Richmond Telephone TUrner 4-1212 ‘ u p 7 FREE PARKING REAR 0F THEATRE WINTERIZE N 0 W x FOR CHECK-UP â€" ANTIFREEZE â€" TUNE-UP WE HAVE THE EQUIPMENT, SKILLED MECHAN- ICS FOR PROMPT DEPENDABLE REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES 0F CARS Hill City MotOrs MA'I'INEE ONLY 2p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday November 2, 3, 4 and 5 DOUGLAS SIRK Show Times 7 and 9 pm. 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