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St. Patrick's Day was
celebrated at Seaforth Manor
with an afaternoon of games and
singsong with Mrs. Beth
McCauley, Mrs. Judy Fleming
and Mrs. Anne Carnochan
leading the singing. Lunch was
steed to all residents.
On Wednesday afternoon
March 24th the Hicknell Family
visited and presented a lovely
program for all our residents.
Taking part were Mrs. Francis
Hicknell and daughters Teresa
and Margaret with brother John
acting as M.C. for the program.
Everyone' enjoyed this fine
program of singing and dancing
with Teresa accompanying on
guitar and piano.
Miss Bessie Davidson was
visited by Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Cowan of Midland • also Mrs.
Peter Dunlop and Mr. Stanley
Hillen.
Mr. Sam McSpadden of
Norwich visited with Mrs. Minnie
and Etta Hawley and his father
Mr. Zachariah McSpadden
returned to Norwich with his son
for a week's vacation.'
Mrs. Leila Dundas was visited
by her daughter Mrs. Evelyn
Pickering also her grandson
Dennis Reid and friend of
Toronto. Dennis also presented
his grandmother with a lovely
pot of blue hyacinths in full
bloom. Also visiting Mrs. Dundas
was Miss Tillie' Dundas of town.
•Visiting with Mrs. Ada Reid
were Mrs. Frankie Ball, Eva
McCartney and Elsie Dinsmore.
Mrs. Elva McKellar visited
with .Mr. Lindsay McKellara.
Mrs. Mabel Crouch and Mrs.
Ruth Malkus visited with friends
at Seaforth Manor.
Mr, Morley Bloomfield
enjoyed an outing on Sunday with,
,his sister and family.
Mrs. Mabel McAdam of
Clinton visited laer brother Mr.
Thomas Churchill.
Thirty-eight residents attended
bingo .on Friday afternoon 'and
winners were) Fuji House - Miss
Wilma Brill, Mr. • Morley
Bloomfield, Mis Edith Salo and
Miss Bessie Davidson, Four
Corners — Mr. Wilber Keyes,
Miss Mary Neville, Mr. George
_Shular and Mrs. Etta Hawley.
Straight Line — Mrs. Lillie
Hudie, Mrs. Ada Reid , Mrs.
Minnie Hawley and Miss Ila
Gardner. • Full House — Mr. 'Bert
Hendy, Miss BeSsie Davidson,
Mrs. Etta Hawley, Mr. Ludger
Sequin and Mr. James Walmsley.
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Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
Whining universities
When I was a boy, 1 used to havt
occasionally what were known in those
days a "bilious attacks." They included a
splitting headache and a stomach so jittery
it would accept nothing but hot'lemonade
and lady fingers of toast. They would last
two or three days, during which 1 would
withdraw from the world into whooping
and pain and darkness.
Today, of course, I would be sent first to
a specialist, who would diagnose
migraines. If they persisted, I would thep
probably go to a psychiatrist, who would
decide that I was too se hsitive for the
'world and put me on tranquilizers. At age
10, I'd probably be an addict.
We've come a long way. In those 'days,
my mother would spend hours stroking her
fingers through my hair, and gently
rubbing my scalp. And 1 would emerge.
rejoin the world, and ravenously gorge the
senses that had been starved for a day or..
two.
I haven't had one of those attacks since I
was a kid, thoiigh a bad hangover, if I had
ever chanced to have one, would probably
have been a reasonable parallel. Maybe
I'm not too sensitive for the world any
more.
But I have been feeling rather bilious,
occasionally, in the last year or two. And
ever the. curious observer, I have looked
around to find what was causing the
priThlem.
Finally, I zeroed in on it. The nausea is
caused by the whining of ' university
professors concerning the communicative
skills• of today's ,students.
They'd never At it so simply. But what.
they mean is that-two thirds of the people'
they accept into university can't write 'a
decent sentence, let alone a paragraph,
and can't express • theinselves orally• in
standard English.
It's perfectly true, of course. But why do
they whimper about it? Why do they try to
blame the high schools? Why do they
• accept these students in the first place, if
they're not up to scratch?
I'll tell you why. It's because they are so.
hard up for money, they'll accept anything
' that can pronounce its own name and isn't
walking on all fours.
The universities have lowered their Own'
standards, even the best of them, and
proliferated, their courses, and introduced
"Mickey Mouse" courses and highly
flexible guide lines in the desperate, effort
to get living corpses onto their campuses.
They are body, snatchers of the 20th
century, in the scramble for, government
grants.
A dozen years'ago, if you failed a subject
in your graduating year in high school, you
failed your year, and repeated it.
Nowadays you would graduate, even
though your over-all average was 56, and
some third rate university called Sir
Wilfred McDonald University of the" ine
Arts would sweep you into its folds with
little squeals of delight.
And six months later, the head of the
English Department at good old (five
-years) Sir Wilfred would bemoan in the
newspapers that the college had to set up a
course in remedial English, because it
wasn't being taught properly in the' high
schools, 'and the Head of Math would say
the same thing.
would never occur to them to look at She
high school marks of Joe, who with many
peers, is giving them the headaches.
They would find that Joe actually got 47
in English. and was given 50 as a gift, so as
not to "hold him back". A mark of 50, to
anyone in the know, means a failure. 'They
would find, on inquiring, that Joe had
received 42 in math, but the guidance
department talked his math teacher into
giving him a 50, because he had komised
he would never take math again. So he
enrolls in architecture.
I have taught both the old and
systems .of education. The old
ridiculous, a formula of rote learning.
The new is just as silly. It is so muddled
that no one, least of all the students, knows
what is going on. Stiotieords as effort,
challenge, excellence, ha-Ge been thrown
out like stale dishwater. They have been •
replaced by flexibility, individual choice, a
good learning situation, and the creativity
of the child.
What poppycock. What it means is that
everything is, twice as easy as it was, the
chance of failure is remote, and the
students are being shoe-horned into an
alien world that is as different from school
as Draeula is from Anne of Green Gables..
• But all is not lost. What the university
people, and those who would revert to the •
old days of lock-step, regimented
education, fail to realize is that today...the_ ,,
high schools are, at least, giving some ,
insight into the human spirit, compassion,
dignity, and what life is really abaft:" to
thousands of young people who,, a decade
agO, would have been turfed into the
• factors and dead end jobs at age 16, grade
10.
Maybe that's one of 'the good things
about, high unemployment. There's no
room for this generation, so they stay in
school. They learn something.
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THO HURON EXPOITQR, APRIL, 8, 1978'
new
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Milk quota frozen April. 1
As of April 1, all milk prodncers
will have their market share quota
reduced by 15 percent, Huron
County Milk Producers were told
-at-4iffeit annual meeting of the
Clinton Legion Hall.
Guest speaker Ken McKinnon,
vice-chairman.of the Ontario Milk
Marketing Board, told the milk
producers the reduction was
necessary following the Canadian
Milk Supply Management
Committees' decision to reduce
total industrial milk production in
Canada by 18 percent.
Chairman of the Huron County
milk producers, Stuart Steckle
welcomed Huron's Dairy
Princess, Janet Gielen.
Bill Broadworth from the
ministry of agriculture and food
conducted an election of members
to the County Milk Committee.
Elected for a three year term were
Cliff. McNeil, Jack armstrong,
Douglas Trewartha, Simon
Hallahan and Eric Finkbeiner.
Elected for a two year term was
John Campbell.
Larry Hunter, Milk Marketing
Board fieldman, stated that
shortly he would be setting up
office hours 'at the Agriculture
Office in Clinton.
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that effective April 1, values on
quota would •bc frozen at $16 per
pound for fluid quota and one and
one half cents per pound for
market share quota. These
controls are. to apply for, at least
three months. In the meantime
other ways to control the buying
and selling of quota will be
discussed.
Producers were also told that
there would be a significant
increase in the within quota levy
in the coming year.
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