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). .
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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
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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
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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. -
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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.
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NOVEMBER 27, 1969
Forty-Five Years of Service
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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
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