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McMillan's Upholstering & Furnishing Co.
• Makers of High-Grade Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses.
• Dealers in Haberdashery and other Household Supplies.
65 East Street • Kingston • Telephone 23111
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To Climb the Stairs or Take an Elevator?
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TO bring up a family today without the protection of life insurance is as foolish as to neglect to use an elevator in a skyscraper!
Comforts, conveniences and facilities unknown to our forbears are now an essential part of living.  To enjoy them and at the same time accumulate large sums of money through laborious step-by-step saving is impossible to most earners.  Yet it is disastrous to take too much for granted and forget about the future.
How, then, can a man of modest means protect his dependants against financial hardship in case of untimely death – or himself against the hazards of declining years?
The answer is by taking an elevator – Life Insurance.  It can whisk a family to the level of a protected future by a few strokes of a pen.  It provides independence for retiring years without unreasonable sacrifice.  It is a modern development in the economic field to enable men and women to live wisely, sanely and safety in the modern way.
THE MANUFACTURERS INSURANCE LIFE COMPANY
HEAD OFFICE (Established 1887) TORONTO, CANADA
BRANCH OFFICE: Corner Duke and Barry Sts.
BRANCH MANAGER: George W. Woolner, C.L.U.
REPRESENTATIVES –
H. R. Demetrius
D. C. Hughes
R. W. Gunning
F. I. Guiselin
R. S. Reid
C. L. Robison
L. Ho Sang
S. J. Lopez
E. A. Ross
G. S. Mullings
J. A. Finzi
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Rated the most popular American in the island, chain-smoking "Jimmy" seemed a fixture in Kingston's commercial and club life and St. Andrew society.  Then almost out of the blue in November came an order from New York head office packing him off to take charge in Honolulu.

So short was the notice that Wing's buddies hardly had time to throw him the kind of farewell party they would have liked.  By spontaneous high-pressure organization, however, they and the office staff got in a few last drinks and an armload of costly souvenirs.

Up Harry.  Instead of sending another Yank to take over, New York appointed tall, energetic, Manchesterian Harry Southby, manager.  Just turned 40 Southby has been with Standard Brands since '31, has acted during Wing's absences up north.  He knows the firm's clients by first names and natures, and credit rating, was highly recommended by his ex-boss.

A very heartening gesture to the staff and a well-deserved break for long-timer Southby, the promotion seemed.  For Jimmy Wing, however, there could be no substitute in the affection of his friends and ex-staff.  "He's one in a million guys", Southby fast-talked to congratulators.

HANDCLASP, KICK, FRANCHISE

In the bright Jamaican sunlight Saturday morning, Nov. 27, a big gleaming passenger plane alighted at Palisadoes Airport.  Out trooped 40* of Canada's biggest names in business, press, radio and government.  Trans-Canada Airlines had sent them in the beautiful new Canadair North Star on a pre-inaugural flight.

Free rum punches and a committee of top-layer government and civic officials headed by Colonial Secretary Donald MacGillivray bade them hearty welcome to "Paradise Isle."  That night they were cocktailed at Myrtle Bank Hotel.  Next morning, while newsmen and other privileged local persons (including two kids) settled aboard the super-deluxe plane for a courtesy-with-cocktails flight, the Canadians were car-driven (via Abe Issa's Tower Isle) to Montego Bay.  There they received another red-carpeted welcome.

At MoBay's airstrip Monday evening, the plane picked up its load of VIPs and headed for home.  Jamaica had given the group a big hand.  But it had also given one of them a kick in the pants.  He stayed behind to find out why.

* Included:  G. R. McGregor, President TCA;  Sir William Hildred, Director General International Air Transport Association;  Hon. L. P. Cecille, Minister of Travel & Publicity (Ont.), who brought Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent's goodwill message to Governor Huggins;  Miss Claire Wallace, Canada's foremost Radio Commentator, sole woman passenger;  Gillis Purcell, General Manager Canadian Press;  Henry G. Birkis, National President Canadian Chamber of Commerce (Mont.);  H. C. Collier, Editor-Secretary Canada-West Indies Magazine (for whom Jamaica Press Association had arranged a party but had to call it off);  Radio-Newspaper Owner Roy Thompson.

30  SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.