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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-11-27, Page 3Savings in Education After ten months of county school administration, it was a pleasure last week to publish the fact that a consid- erable sum of the taxpayers' money will be saved. When 'the insurance was fin- ally' placed on all the school propetties in Huron a saving of $17,468 was -re- corded. That is the first sizeable 'saving we have heard anything about since the county system was set up. No doubt there have ,been other and smaller ones, and quite probably the nextfew months will clarify the financial picture to some extent at least. At-a reeent meeting of the board of education the'director, John Cochrane, stated that it would not be possible to present a logical pieture of school fin- ances in time for nomination meetings this fall. He indled that it would be several months unti such a comprehen- sive report could be prepared. Admittedly the saving of tax money is far from being the only goal of a 'County-based educational, system. The main purpose is, or should' be, a vastly improved brand of education for our 7.hildren. These improvements, however,, will take lime,. perhaps several years, fo-r-alferations in curriculum and teach- ing methods cannot be made overnight. Teachers have to be trained, and to put it quite bluntly, the parents have to be given time to .change their attitudes. Though 'saving tax money may not be the sole aim Of the new plan, it is certainly the aspect in which the pub- lic- is most vitally interested 'at the pre- sent time. It is not hard to find those who will predict, without' any ...Prior knowledge, 'that any sort of regiOn'al control means that costs will spiral. Frightened by reports of high salaries and proliferating adininistrative _Posts --as well as the highest tax bills in their lives, the people who' have to foot the bill can hardly be blamed for worry- ing about costs. In numerous conversations . with school board members, we have 'been assured that when the skein'is untangl- ed, the taxpayers will be able to breathe more easil‹3 or total costs will be low- er under' the new system. A lot of us are looking forward to the first finan- cial reportS' from the board of educa- tion. (Wingham Advance-Times). . li O'LlE TO' CERTAIN INCIDENTS HIRE IN MONTREAL, COULD YOU REFRAIN FROM USING THE TERM `THROWING THE LONG BOMB' ',etre-eve, • f? Since-1.86g, Serving Ma communilY Firet . Publidifa It SEdiORTA ONTARIO, every 'Thursday morning 6y MeLEAN BROS,, Piibliebers ANDREW Y. Me14441, Editor.' Member Canadian Weekly rfewsPa r AanoelatIon Ontario Weekly Newspaper latlen and Audit Circulation Newspapers- Subserlptten Weft: - Canada (in advance) $6.00 a Year outside cauLds (In advance) $1.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES'--1e CENTS FA.C,H'" '- Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 un - I C C 6 It is forty-five years ago ska.ce the Seaforth Lions Club came into being. Members marked the occasion at a din- ner here Monday evening. 'And it is fitting that they did. It is not often that an organization makes such a sustained contribution to a com- munity over as many years as has the Lions Club. , It was on: December 2, 1924, that, the decision to form the dub was taken and within weeks' rnemberS' were invol- Ved in the first of the series of projects, many of which are continuing todayg and which have made the community a% better and happier place in which to live. ' Among the first programs was the ,elimination of an unsightly dump at the eastern entrance to the town and the preliminary moves towards the develop- ment of the Silver Creek area now widely known as Seaforth Lions Park. The club 'throughout the years has co-operated with, supported and partici- pated in many community projects, in- cluding the bowling greens on South Main Street and the new Seaforth Com- munity Hospital to name but two. But perhaps the members greatest concern during the past forty-five years have been the children of the communi- ty. In those years before responsibility was assumed by government the care of and assistance to the crippled 'children of the area received high priority. Many who _today are leading full and active lives would be crippled and de- pendent had it not 'been for the work of the Seaforth Lions Club. Early in its history the club detere mined that area children would have the opportunity of learning to swim. The result has been that for more than thirty years as many as five-hundred children a year have attended swim-- ming classes 4.)the, Lions Park during the summer months: Most teachers become very fond of certain students. And, believe it or not, some students . become very fond of certain teachers. ' This was made painfully clear to me over the weekend. I became involved With a veritable spate of my former students. They're all at univer- sity nqw -and each was going through some part of• the particular hell that• that involves. It began oh Friday afte• rnoon. Gern appeared at my classroom door r looking• like a rabbit that has just had a runin with a wolf. While the class I was about to teach chattered about what they were going to' do tonight, chewed their gum waved their mini-skirted legs, or dropi- pad into a deep slumber, Gerry told me his troubles. -• He is one of the nicest boys, and one of . the weakest English students, it• has ever been my fate to encounter. He's the kid who rushed about last June and bought me a 'bottle of burgundy and six golf balls after receiving the incred- ible news that h.e.'d passed in Engiish. His only problem Friday was that he had three essays to write in six days. He was looking for a life belt. I was fresh 'out of them, but gave him some ,referene books, some sympathy and some ideas on how to tackle his essays. I don't think he has a hope in heaven of p,assing his semester, .under those conditions, but he's learned something; you don't walt until an essay is breath- ing down your neck before you write it. Tit a Very nigh t.. another former student called her mum who lives across the street f om us. She wanted to know if the • Smile were going to be home for the weekend!"'If so, she was coming home, because she had to see Mr.Smiley. She has graduated and is-attending a college of education, purportedly learn- lng to he a high school teacher. Her problem was a little different. She had to teach some poetry this week, as part, of that 20th century form of the Spanish Inquisition known as ',practice teaching." This" involves facing a class of Strange students, with an eagle-eyed professional teacher watching from the back of the room. Harrowing- is the word, So I spent Saturday afternoon going over all the poem 3 with her and getting her all muddled up. But she left with a pile of notes and the feeling that she' could survive the ordeal, _ Sunday afternoon I met two more former students, under different cir- eurnstances. I couldn't help them with ,their ' work. It was in a funeral home and their mother was dead. tragically, after a 'orief illness. I kissed the girls and hugged them There wasn't anything else to do or say. •Sunday night. one of them Liz, closest friend of our daughter since Grade 7. came around .and spent two hours talking with. my wife and me. Not weeping, just MIking in her sensib,le, sweet, 19- year-61'd way. A 441 nd last of all there was another former student, my own kid. Kim, staf- gering around in that horrible chaos of first-year university. Bell Telephone stock took another good shot in the arm when her mother called her Sunday night. She had Just discovered that she'd been missing two biology lectures a week, all fall, becauSe they weren't on the , timetable, And maybe this was the reason she wasn't doing so well in biolegy. And she has an exam in it this week and she knows she'll fail and she'd like nothiqg better than to quit the whole silly businegs end, get a job as a waitr ess. And that's the way it goes, if you're a teacher. I'lte 'been at it for only ten years,f bilt in that time, I've found very few youngsters ettio are vile or despicable. There are some. But most of them are funny, tonfuSed, lost, brash, shy, aggres- ive, kooky. It's only 'when they become adults that they seen to turn into pompous bores, nagging wives, stuffed shirts, shrews, gossips a,nd all manner of un-, pleasant creatures of both sexes. Perhaps there's a great universal truth in there somewhere. But I can't fihd -it. However, it makes up,for a lot of the frustration and nerve-rending days of teaching when the blase, `sophisticated teen-agers come back to' see the old man when they're-in trouble. FROM MY - WINDOW' By Shirley Kellar I read with interest the other day this little bit of humor; Another reason why romance lasted longer in the Old ',days was that the bride looked much the same after washing her face. Isn't it just amazing the agony one young lady will inflict on her face in the name of beauty? It is very possible that a young man might not recognize his new wife the' morning after the wed- ding when all the p.aint and polish has rubbed off on the pillowcase. Like.a. snake shedding its outer coat of skin, many a woman has two faces these days - before and -after more aptly named with and without (makeup that is). I once knew a cosmetic counsellor' who called to Show ma the proper method of looking lovely. Oddly enough. the first step is to Wash your face - either by the conventional soap and water method or by the mote posh cleansing cream treatment which beauticians 'prefer (be- cause its good for their cleansing cream sales no doubt). It is hard zo figure how beauty experts figure "things out.' They'll give you the hard sell on things to make your skin spanking clean and greaseless then ask •you to""spend a small fortune to clog the pores you' have -worked so hard to un- clog. My personal counsellor want to great lengths to remove every trace of blemish-causing dirt and grimfrom my skin, and just when she ha ltee con- vinced me my countenance was f sher - than ever before she began -smearing me with foundation lotion and liquid pow- der: Following this came the hint of rouge, the face powder, the, lipstick, the dab of ,. perfume and whoops -- the most important single set of paints ifi a modern woman's bag of tricks -- the eye makeep.' Whether miladys' eyes are blue,brown, green, black or pink, you'd never know it Ti ts the same set_ of peepers when the 11 order of eke Milteup. has been spread and brushed on. In fact, some eye makeup is so heavy that Daisy, Doll can't lift the lids to see where she's going. I'm convinced that's why all, the gals pictured in the magazines are Shown looking down at the floor. It isn't because it's sexier to have parted lips and hall-clostd eyes - it's just mechanically necessary that's all. Liner comes III brown but the most• popular shade is black -- jet ebony black. T'ie little woinan cozies up to thtibat,hroom mirror and with chin high, spits on the Continued on page 6' '' I ovember.3O,•1tp4. The dredge wm.Ph has been working in joilett, has, now reacheq•the' of J01144110091V4 f.arm Quigley conces- sion. I.. has certainly .doe4 work, and 4,9 .1e4 in trio vicinity algTactit*.IPPWs'.. the beOffit, PA it is 00.4410rOplgtpoci; John Pf310.towni.lett" for Mapleton Elgin to take •charge of a winter creamery there, He 14:01e,, of the best bufter •Malcer.s to caqaclaie Thee. Case of town has .Pligq440 the pork packing establishmerkof the mossp. Robb Bros. and will •COMMet/CP work at once. . A,M.Stewart, who has realded for some time in a house 14,1sMOrg to Thos. Govenlock, about one mile north of Seaforth, has removed to Winthrop. Wm. GrahamAl? Brucefieldtas returned from his trip to the Old Country. He disposed .of hie' cattle in Liverpool and then want for a. visit to Old London. Henry Monteith of Brucefield, iS now busily engaged in dehorning cattle. James Turner had the horns removed from 51 of his young cattle, Wm. Hall of Chiselhurst is at Present finishing new cutters for —the winter trade. He also has put up a barber shop. Beatty Bros of Varna are hustling the pOultry. They shipped 1800._pounds of geese and turkeys. There is.some talk of the old Meth- odist Church being torn dow at Constance and made into a dwelling which would pay. At a meeting of shareholders of the Winthrop p%tter and Cheese Co.Ltd. held in the factory, Messrs.Andrew Gov- -eniock, Robert Campbell 'and Francis Morrison were elected dirxectors. November 28, tele The Corporation of the Township of Hay has purchased the property.upon which the central telephone office in Zurich is located, from the owner A. F H ess This atep was deemed necessary ,by. ,the council owing to the cost of installing the new cable in th6 office. 'The stable ,on the premises will be used for storing the tgephone supplies. .Mr. and M:s_ Wm. Mctavin of Leadbury, residents of that locality for the past 53 years, celebrated the 59th anniversary of their marriage. The bride was Elizabeth Graham of Stanley Twp. Mr. John Pfaff of Zurich recently disposed of eight, two year olds for which he received $1,080. An enjoyable time was spent at the home of Mr, and M:s. C. ,Eckert, in Seaforth,, when the neighbors gave them a pleasant surprise by presenting them with an address , and mantel clock. D. McDonald read the address and Thos. Grieve presented the clock. Henry Regele of I14(Killop had the misfortune to lose two head of cattle by the straw stack falling upon them. A large number Of the members of Ladies IMO of' 'Walton of ,' the Methddist " ' Church gathered. at the' home of Mr. and M:s. John Bennett to spend a social time with them before their departure for Seaforth. An address was read and; she was presented with a casserole. Miss Eva Fee, daughter of Mr.. and Mr's. Wellington Fee, Church Street, and a pupil in Principal Fowier's room in the Seaforth Public School, was the winner of the second prize in the Prize, Essay ConteSt for the schools in Huron County on the subject, ',Why I should buy a Victory Bond in 1919 " Mrs.' Ab'erhart Sr. has disposed of her residence on Centre Street to. Mr. Smale of Weyburn, Sask. FJiter T.Fewler, principal of the public school, has started a night school which is receiving liberal support. Mr. and Mr Chambers.have taken up residence at th store in Chisel- hurst and 'are settling down to their new duties. - • 4 December 1, 1944. Winter is here. At least it looks very much like the real. thing. This week we have had the first real snow and tee first real freeze-up of the season and the: weather continues to get colder. The highest hopes of the members of the Rt.d Cross Society were more than -,:alized IA fen heir mammoth bazaar .ve ," ompletely s •essful. The proceeds amounts to $486.00 net, The lucky winner of the pair of mats was MrS. t Bechtel,' of Seaforth and the draw was made by. little patsy Htc.vkins. Victim of a plane ac Merit at Hagers- ville'in which he was instantly killed, Sgt. Harold Drake of Staffa was honored in death when a funeral service was held at Staffa with full military honors. The employees of Libby"; McNeil & Libby of the Qtblin branch of cucumber growers, sponsored a free dance in Looby's Hall as a first get-together of • all growers in the district. T' ‘e m ,-.Quaid- fRoyradnanOcg iincliestra furnished the frriSIC Harold Glew of Clinten shot a timber wolf one mile and a half north of Clinton; weighing 40 pounds. Ken. Elliott of Clinton bheaden llrkeipoerdt.ed that one of his goats had no dl sold her farmMtros KennethSnel l oTf hConstance ndhainste5' to return to British Columbia. Over 150 persons gathered at the T,,wn Hall „ Mitchell, to do honor to two populat' brides and grooms, M r. and Mrs. Ross Gordon and her brother,Dalton Malcolm and his wife, Margarettieb.Both received purses of money. - Hobart „Smith was in Brantford Wm. Waldron. a 'Close Met of Mt. attending the funeral of thelloate Rev. Smiths in World War 1 The Lash ?s Club of Dtiblin, sponsored a special bingo at the home of Mrs. James Elliott, The prize winners were, 1st. ladies - Mrs. Harold Wilson; 2nd Mary Stapleton; lucky prize,- Mrs,Wm. Sh11111; ofiShratien - -Joan riurdette. An interesting feature was the presentation to Mrs. Dennis Dillon prior to her de- parture for Lohdon. • 6 NOVEMBER 27, 1969 Forty-Five Years of Service ' hs el • a. Of equal importance is the contribu- tion the club has made for many years to the local Scout and Guide program. Here hundreds of boys and girls have gained in wisdom arid,stature through their scouting activities. , Many of those who forty • years ago made the decision to roduce Lionism to Seaforth are now gone. On- ly two of those charter Lions, C. A. Barber and R. N. Bisonette, now of • Stratford, are living and they were honored guests at the anniversary ev- ent. They and the many others who from time to time have been members of the club and who today are members have earned -the deep gratitude of the community for their contribution. With it should go an assurance of continued support in the years that lie ahead. Winter In Seaforth In November • Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley akr......:ar