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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-03-18, Page 1• tl Single CO1i$P "1, eq, • Itear • • • • a • • • • • • O 4 the public. Let's take a look at it first." In the meantime, Director of Education Cochrane received the permission to hire 270 fulltime teachers for, gie secondary school system when it had been hoped that 255 would carry the load in Huron this year before the new system was imposed. . "Maybe we should regionalize small demand options," said Dr. A. B. Deathe. Mrs. Marilyn Kunder, Seaforth, agreed. She noted that a very small percentage of the Seaforth High School students were taking Latin this year.Since Latin is not requiredfor anything but entering a course to become a Latin teacher, suggested Mrs. Kunder, maybe the Latin course should -be offered at only a couple of schools in the county with the students desiring a Latin course travelling, there to take it. "I've been there and back," stated Bob Elliott. He reminded the board that Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton had been built with the agreement of all secondary school boards in (Continued On Page. 8) Twenty boys aged 11 - 16 registered Tuesday night to participate in the Boy Scout program which is being reactivated in Seaforth. The program will be conducted by 'a joint committee' from the Lions, Optimists _and Legion. Above,' Doug Stewart, vice-chairman of the Group Committee registers John Hulley of Church -Street and Murray Sinnamon of Jarvis Street in Seaforth. The program will get underway in about two weeks and further registrationS will be taken at that time for those boys who missed on Tuesday. (Staff Photo) Reject Move Dr. J. A. Munn To Rent Buses Long Time Dentist Part of the new approach to education is the use of correlated projects in elementary schools. One such project at Huron Centennial School was a study of Japan by pupils of Grade ill. The project combines subjects such as History, Art, Music, Science and Geography to present lo students a total picture of the country and its aspects. Discussing the project with two students of the school is Grade 111 teacher Mrs. `Norma Gemmell of R.R. 2, Kippen. Modelling the traditional Japenese kimono and parasol is Grade 111 pupil, Vicki Ste. Marie, R.R. 3 . Seaforth,. while Grade 1 student, Elizabeth Ayres, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Ayres, Egmondville, holds, a Japanese wooden doll. The results of the project were on display at the Brucefieid School during Education Week. (Staff Photo) A feature of St. lames School's open house Tuesday night was a Physical Education Display. About one hundred interested parents and friends were welcomed to the school. Above, Debbie Dorssers, Diane Jansen, Connie Van Dyke, Kim Anstett and Ann Janma.attiffili the audience with a circle of headstands. (Staff Photo) Underlevy $18,572 • HuronPerth RC Board Clears Audit Statement Ontario Demands No* Credit RequitiemeOts, • - Cost Huron Added !1.50;000 „ ... Seaforth Firemen were tend& to the 10th ,Concession of McKillop Wednesday morning to' hose' down gasoline and,,, fuel oil which spilled from an overturned tanker. The driven by Ron Williamson, overturned when it hit the bank trying to get by an oncoming car driven by Mrs. Marion Murray, Route 4, Walton. No one was injUrliin the miShpr which was investigated by Constable Bill Kreps f the Got rich Detachment, O.P.P. The mishap blocked the road froth $:30 A.M. until after neon while the gas and fuel oil remaining in the tanks was transferred to anotner truck. (Staff Photo) • being April 1, 1918, Dr. Munn was transferred to it and re- DR. J. A. MUNN tired in 1919. He was 19 at the time. • Resuming his dental studies he graduated in 1922 from North- western University, Chicago, later taking post graduate work at the University of Toronto. Early in 1925 he began his Seaforth practise which he con- tinued until his retirement in July 1963. During the second war he 'served four years in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an in- strument flying instructor. During his long years in Seaforth Dr. Munn took an active interest in the community. He was a member and past. president of Seaforth Branch 157 Royal Canadian Legion. He was a Past Master of Britannia Lodge and a fowler member of the Seaforth LlOns Club. An ardent curler, he was !active in the planning and or- ganization leading to the con- struction of the present. Curling years. In He served as president of the club for several In 1925 he was married in St. Catharines to Lois M.Holmes, who survives together with two sons, Dr. Donald J. H. Munn and Dr. William D. Munn, both of Listowel. He is also survived by eleven grandchildren. The body was at the R. S. Box Funeral Home where- mem- orial services were conducted Sunday by Seaforth Branch 156 Royal Canadian Legion and later that evening by members -6f (Continued on Page 8) • Whole No. 5;75 jl2th, Year First Section Pages 1-8 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH '18, 1971 , 14 PAGES fib 4 r • 0 The Huron-pertn uotnay Roman Catholic Separate School Board approved the audited 1970 financial statement as presented by Jack Lane, Business Admin- distrator, at a rneetirg inseafortly Monday night. The net underlevy for the,year was $18,572. Maximum provincial assist- ance was attained by reaching the ceiling in allowable expenditures as imposed by the Department of EducatiOn, The total expenditures for the year were $2,077,163. preview ,of the 1971 grant regulations reveals that the De- partment of Education has included a one-third cash grant towards the deficits introduced • by the former school boards at December 31, 1968. This payment is to be applied directly to the deficits as established by the board of arbitrators in relation to the , former school boards. Trustee Arthur Haid, R.R.4, Listowel, Chairman of the trans- portation committee, reported no word ha,s been received since November, 1970, from the trans- portation committee of the Perth Board of Education regarding co-operative sharing of bus ser- vices. The Superintendent of Edu- Cation, John Vintar, was reques- ted to write again in an attempt to arrange a meeting with the p,ektti Board committee to dis- cuss avoiding duplication of bus services. Tlie board approved the following report of the build- ing and maintenance committee as reported by its chairman, John McCann, R.k..3, Ailsa Craig: that a ventilator hood be installed on the roof of Precious Blood School at Exeter; to award the contract to convert .the coat alcove to a paper and book stor- age room at St. Joseph's School in Clinton to Clarence Ryan, R.R.1, Dublin for $145 for labour and painting while the material for the job is to be supplied by Ball and Macaulay Of Clinton for $180; J.P. KrauSkopf of Dublin, is to install water pipes to the Although it means an increase of only two teachers across the • county next year at the secondary school level, the Orkarie•Depart- ment of Education's mandatory introduction in September 1971 of a revised credit system ih Grade -13 will id actual fact require a total of 15 extra teachers in Huron County and cost the taxpayers approximately $150,000. , That's because the new credit system requires, more teaching, time. The board had hoped to cut the secondary school teaching staff back during the 1971-72 school year but now, since the new regulations, two additional teachers added to last year's staff will be needed to meet bare requirements in Huron's secondary schools this fall. D. J. Cochrane, director of education, explained that, under 'the current system in use, a Grade 13 student could get two credits Engltab-,-fOr inStantei• with seven periods of English per week or cycle. • Under the new system, Mr. Cochrane 'said English Literature and English Composition will become two separate courses, English One and English Two, . and will require five periods each per week or cycle or ten rather than seven' classes per week or cycle to get two English credits. Similar conditions exist in almost all courses offered to Grade 13 students in Huron Couaty and will necessitate many additional hourS of teaching in the classroom. 'The Department puts a. lid on spending and then offers a course which will require more teachers," stated Chairman Bob Elliott shaking his head. "I can't , follow their reasoning Dr. A. B. Deathe,' Goderich, told Mr. Elliott his problem could be that he assumed the Ontario ,,Department of ,Education rea- soned. things out before pe-Ssing legislation. Mr. Elliott asked the director what benefits the new credit system would have over-the old one. • Mr. Cochrane admitted he was not convinced there would be too many benefits but added the new system would be a "resolution of some of the knequities of the past". The director also told the board there is the distinct pos- sibility ,of a credit system in Grades 9 to 12 becoming manda- tory in September 1972, and in that case, it would become neces- sary to reassess the whole question of number of staff, "If it is going to take this many teachers for the nevrsystem in Grade 13 only, what will happen wheri it . goes into the other grades?" asked John Henderson, McKillop. "Isn't it foolish all round?" Mr. Cochrane told him that in the other grades there is a broader base of both teachers and students and the change would' staffing. Although as much additional Although some board mem- bers expressed displeasure at the new system and suggested that a letter be . forwarded to the •On- tario Department of Education, voicing that disapproval, it wa's agreed that a document from Huron would be a "little premature. "This credit system is a new game," stated Mr. Cochrane. "It will involve education of the teachers, of the students and of Check On Accident Series - O.P.P. Constable Ray Primeau of Seaforth reported this week that only two accidents had occurred in the area over the week end. One involved a car and school bus and the other was a personal injury accident involv- ing a snowmobile. On Friday afternoon a school bus operated by the Huron County Board of Education and driven by Harry ,Rapson, R.R. 4, Walton, and a car driven by Louis Duffy were in collision. The bus sus- tained little damage but a loss of $500 is estimated to the car. The accident occurred on conces- sion 10 - 11 of McKillop Township about two miles east 'Of Huron County Road No. 12. Constable Primeau blamed road conditions for the mishap as the concession Was extremely • narrow where the accident took place. On Saturday night about 10 P.M. a snowmobile owned and driven by Douglas E. Dale of R.R. 4, Clinton ran into a barbed wire fence on the farm of Earl Nott, also- of Route 4 Clinton; A passenger on the vehicle, William Crich of Clinton, received lacerations to the cheek" from the wire. He was treated and released from Clinton Hospital. Two persons riding on a snow- mobile in blowing snow south of Exeter Monday night were injured when the machine collided with a car on Highway 4. Leslie McAdam, 19, of Ailsa Craig, is inSt.Joseph'sHospital, 'London, with—a broken leg and pelvis. The driver of the snow- mobile, Floyd -Pullman, 21, of RR 2, Staffa, is in South Huron District Hospital, Exeter, with a d broken leg. The driver of the car, Leroy Hector Hern, 21, of Exeter, was not injured. Rebekahs Give Grant Wins Award For Safety For the third time Frank Kling Ltd. has received a safety award from the Ontario Aggre- gate Producers Association. The award marks an accident free year at the gravel plant in Mc- Killop. The presentation was made at a' recent convention in Niagara FallS and accepted on behalf of the firm by Glenn Chesney who with Mrs. Chesney attended the event. A donation was made to the Visual Research Foundation at a postponed meeting of Edelweiss Rebekah Lodge with Mrs. Joseph Grummett, Noble 'Grand, pre- siding. Final plans were made for the St. Patrick's afternoon euchre party and preliminary plans for the annual Dessert Card Party to be held on the lodge's 59th an- niversary. Invitations were received to attend Dessert Euchres at Hensall and Goderich. Mrs. Lois McFall's, Exeter, District Deputy President for Huron, plans to pay her official visit here April 12. An invitation is to be extended to- the officers and members, of her lodge to visit here at the same' time. The annual district meeting is (Continued on Page 8) kindergarten room in the former Continuation School in Dublin; that a storage -Shed at Our Lady of Mount' Carmel School, R.R.3, Dashwood, be built for the gar- bage barrels. ' John' Vintar was again re- appointed hiring agent for the board. . -Mr. Vintar reported that a letter had been received from the Department - of Trade and Development that "Ontario Place", Will be opened this “"-- spring and that all students are invited to visit, at no charge, this showplace constructed off shore from Toronto In Lake Ont- ario. Jack Lane, business adminis- trator for the board, reported on the Stratford transit study meeting he attfilbded on March 11, The meeting was attended by representatives from the City Clerk's office, Stratford Public Utilities, Perth' Board of Educa- tion, the Department of Highways (Continued on Page 8) Served In Two Wars Dr. James Alexander Munn, 71, long time Seaforth dentist, died Friday in Stratford General Hospital. He had suffered a heart attack ten days earlier at his home on Church Street. Dr, Munn was born in Hay Township of a pioneer family on the farm near Hensall now occup- ied by Donald Munn. He was the son of the late Alex •Munn and Margaret McMahon. He attended the local elem,nitary school and on graduation from Clinton Col- legiate Institute began the study of dentistry at the University of Toronto. • In 1917 shortly after he began his dental studies he enlisted at the age of 17, Dr. Munn went Overseas with the dental corps and later transferred to the Royal Naval Air Service. He,, flew twin engine F3 flying boats and Shalt sea planes from Malta while escorting convoys and on anti submarine patrol. For a time he was in Lybia with a detached flight of four aircraft. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was mentioned in despatches. When the R A.F came into A suggestion by Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Goderich, that board- owned school buses be offered during the summer months at a minimal cost to students desir- ing to "see Canada" was not approved by Hnron County Board of Education meeting in Clinton Monday evening. In fact, when the suggestion became " a. motion to have, the administration. look at costs, the vote was 7 to 6 ,against the proposal. "This is not our business at all," stated vice-chairman John Broadfoot. "We would be binusd li irneecs., direct competition to charter "We could take' that view with regard to school gymnas- iums, too," retorted Mrs. Wal- lace ':Busses and buildings are two different things," argued Mr. Broadfoot. "A child is not a school child but somebody's son „ or daughter when he or she is .1.-not in school." Mrs. Wallace was again ap- p9inted to the board ,,of direc- tors for the Ontario Public School Trustees Association. Mrs. Marilyn Kunder and Alex Cor- rigan are new 'board directors from Huron to bPSTA. 0 • .