The Icelandic Canadian - 01.03.1954, Qupperneq 38

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Spring 1954
this national sport were slower it
would be more interesting to watch. I
thought that the players often over-
ran the puck, and as a result a finer
degree of passing was lost. I had to
wait until I arrived in Canada to par-
ticipate in the game of curling. I en-
joy it if the ice is smooth and good.
But of all sports I enjoy association
football or soccer, as it is called here,
the most. In my opinion there is no
other game which demands such ac-
curate passing and concentrated
thought as does this outdoor sport. I
am glad to hear that the Scots and
others in Winnipeg are making good
progress with the building of Alex-
ander Park. Britain’s national game
may in time gain a respected place in
the hearts of all Canadians. Here at
Arborg we hope to build a team, and
also at Riverton. The material is here;
only the coaching and interest are lack-
ing.
I have every reason to believe that
the people of this great Dominion are
healthy, but I have seldom seen so
many people with false teeth. Too
much candy and pop may be tire
reason.
It is the people, however, who have
caught my imagination and my heart.
I speak mainly of my parishioners and
the few others I have met around the
Arborg-Riverton Parish and in Win-
nipeg. They are a few Scots, but for
the most part Icelandic Canadians who
are now a part of this great country.
Of the Icelandic Canadian I can al-
ready say this much. He is in the class-
ical sense of the word an Aristocrat,
that is, a man who tries to give more
to life than he expects to take out of
it. Canada and Manitoba are richer
because of him. Many of us agree with
Lord Dufferin and Lord Tweedsmuir
that the Icelanders have played a dis-
tinctive part in the settlement of the
country and that their worth has been
shown in almost every sphere of Can-
adian life. Here in northern New Ice-
land the fortitude and physical cour-
age of the pioneers and their descend-
ants are forever recorded in the annals
of the Canadian nation. In the hurly-
burly of a rapidly expanding nation
SHARES IN DEVELOPING
PLANE CONTROL DEVICE
Jonas Hallgrimson, Saxonville, Mass,
a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hallgrim-
son, formerly of Mountain, N. D. was
one of the air force scientists, associat-
ed with a revolutionary electronic con-
trol device, according to a story in a
Boston daily newspaper.
The Massachusetts scientist was
among the group at Air Force Cam-
bridge Research Center that revealed
to the public recently the details of a
device, which controls incoming planes
at busy air bases. The scientist’s
mother now resides at San Jose, Calif.
In a well-guarded underground
bunker at Fort Dawes, at the entrance
of Boston Harbor, according to the
newspaper account, more than 30
newsmen watched Volscan, the pop-
ular name for the new air traffic sys-
tem, as it contacted air force planes
and guided them safely, time after
time, to four separate airports in the
Greater Boston area.
Mr. Hallgrimson, who is 30 join-
ed Air Force Cambridge Research
centre in 1946, following service in the
Signal Corps. He has been engaged in
the design and construction of the
equipment used in the radar portion
of Volscan. He has been active in radar
work since 1940.