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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-12-30, Page 1• Weather thilorirk 20cous Rain 142" Snow .7" 1 06 Year No..5 2 • Thfursday, Dee‘emlfrer 30, 197) 01111MININIp.1121., •:V.ses:•,.. • •:..4.3"Kik,„.„?'3,...k.iiiMslA NUol"1* •As, Clinton News-Record 1971 HI -LO 1970 HI l-t) 19 34 18 37 32 20 35 32 34 25 21 36 25 25 11 Snow 1" 22 26 8 19 10 23 39 1$ 26 10 24 41 30 32 16 25 37 23 25 16 26 36 28 21 13 27 49 25 22 $ Howes voted top player in tournament It's a long way from the Blyth Arena to Madison Square Gardens in New York, both in miles and prestige, but Allan Howes has made the trip because he has always reached a little higher than most of the other people his age. Ever since he took on the task of playing goal for the Blyth midgets when he was only 11 years old, Allan has been aiming high. He reached a new height last Monday night in the famed New York sports palace when he was judged most valuable player in the Holiday Festival Tournament for college hockey teams in the United States. Back in those early days when he was playing in Blyth, Allan's father, Don owned the Blyth Dairy. When the family sold the dairy and moved to Clinton, Allan played bantam and midget hockey. He moved up to play Junior C and Junior B hockey in Goderich. With only a year of junior eligibility left, he classed up a chance to play Junior A hockey with St. Catharines Black Hawks and instead took a route many other young hockey stars are taking. He accepted an invitation to attend St. Lawrence University, on a hockey scholarship. So he came to play in the tough Eastern College Athletic Conference in the United States against larger schools such as Cornell, where the famous rookie goaltender Ken Dryden gained much of his non-pro experience. Periodic bulletins from the small town of Canton, N.Y., where the college of 2,500 students is located, have informed the folks back home that Allan was doing well, but no one knew just how well until last week when he put on a great display of goaltending to help his team gain the finals of the tournament against Notre bame. In the finals, despite his heroics, Notre Dame squeaked out the victory. Here is how the New York Times described the game: "Howes, who played a brilliant game despite the loss, was named the most valuable player in this 11th annual tournament sponsored by the Eastern College Athletic Conference. "When Mike Shannon went off for a holding penalty, Notre Dame got its chance. The Irish slammed shot after shot at Howes. The Larries' defence and Howes weathered the barage With the St. Lawrence goalie performing brilliantly. Howes turned aside five straight blasts." But finally Notre Dame broke through and scored, then went ahead to stay when St. Lawrence pulled Allan for an extra attacker. Some might think the accomplishments of Allan Howse are not large. After all he's only playing college hockey, and with an American team at that. lut college hockey is much tougher, especially in the U.S. than many realite. Fifteen of the 22 players on the St. Lawrence roster for the tournament Were Canadians, Many were former Joni& A players here in Ontario who chose to further their education. College hockey in the U.S. is becoming big time, while Canadian college hockey is a poor relative of the pro and junior leagues. The coach of .the Notre Dame team, for instance, told the New York Post during the tournament of the 4,000-seat hockey rink that is part of the new' $8 million sports- complex at the . South Bend, Indiana campus. St. Lawrence's 4,000-seat arena is one of the smallest in the ECAC, but it is packed for every game. When the team plays in New' England it plays in such rinks as the Boston Garden, home of the Bruins which is filled with avid college hockey fans. There are 22 teams in the ECAC. Each team maps out its own schedule each year playing a required number of teams in its conference plus any other teams it wishes to play, At the end of the year the top eight teams in the conference play off with the winner going to the NCAA national championship tournament. Presently St. Lawrence has six wins, one tie and two losses overall and three wins, one tie and one loss in games against other ECAC opponents. They're presently in good position in their league. Allan has high praise for the idea of combining hockey with gaining a college education. The trouble with junior hockey, he points out, is that there are so, many games that school work has to suffer. His college team has to play only 27 games a year. He is in favour of Canadian universities granting scholarships and points out that students on athletic scholarships must have good academic qualifications in order to play sports. He also said that American schools use athletics as a method of gaining funds to offset the cost of education programs. St. Lawrence, for example, pays for all other athletic programs with the money it gains from admissions to college hockey games. Several wealthy alumus also give grants to the privately operated school to show their support for the hockey team. Allan refuses -to say whether he has ideas of following Ken Dryden's road from college hockey to pro ranks. He says he's a little interested but also talks about the possibilities offered by the New World Hockey Association, especially with the possibility of playing with a team closer to home than many of the American teams. But he is also looking farther afield and is interested in an offer to go to Europe to play hockey. But all that comes next year. Right now it's back to Canton for those last few months of his college career and hopefully the chance to lead his team to the National Championship. Allan Howes -of Clinton last week was voted most valuable rally& in the Holiday .vistival Hockey Tournament tit Madison Square Gardens in New York. The senior at St. Lawrence University in Canton New York played his minor hockey in Blyth, Clinton and Goderich before going to the U.S. on a hockey scholarship. He is shown with the silver tray he won and a silver mug presented to all players in the tournament, Margaret Hapk, first prize winner in the Clinton News-Record colouring contest received her prize money last week from J. Howard Aitken, manager of the News-Record. Margaret is 11 years old and lives at R. R. 2, Clinton. George Collins, R. R. 3, Clinton won the second prize in the colouring contest. Here he accepts his prize from J. Howard Aitken, manager of the News-Record. Little Brenda De Ruyter of R. R. 2, Bayfield took third place in the News-Record colouring contest. No wonder the five-year-old did so well. She obviously enjoys her work very much. Conestoga's Huron Centre offers first courses at , CHSS After an exhaustive survey of education needs in Huron County, Conestoga College's Huron Centre will launch full scale st Column Because New Year's Day is on Saturday, the News-Record offices will be closed on Friday to give employees the chance to celebrate the holiday with their families. The offices will reopen on Monday morning at 9 a.m, ti Next week, thank goodness, things will get back to normal, if there is such a thing as normal in the newspaper business, • * * Police Chief Lloyd Westlake would like to know the feeling of the public toward a by-law to control the use of snowmobiles inside the town Although there has been very little snow aS yet this winter, the chief said the department has received many complaints about dangerous and illegal use of the machines, He would also like to receive suggestions as to what should be included in any such by-law. * * * Mope than 100 persons turned out last Monday night for "one hour of Christmas carolling," a nondenominational program at the Central Huron Secondary SChool auditorium. Plans for the program were initiated by the Christian Reformed Church, with their minister, Rev. Alvin Beukema, acting as master of 'ceremonies. * * * Clinton police report a relatively quiet Christmas period with no accidents or crimes. They are hoping for the same at New Year's. Un to him a son is givett Praise Pierre, Canadians Sing Glory to our new born Xing. Peace on Earth and Stanfield riled, All the Liberals have gone wild. Joyful All in rain and SnoW, Join the triumph of Trudeau. CEC and Star Proclaim, A son is bom for future reign, Praise Pierre, and Margaret too 4. ChristMas gift for them to youi —Bob Ityerse educational programs next month at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. In advertisements appearing in Huron County weekly newspapers this week the college invites applications for four courses which will enable county residents to upgrade their educational credentials and qualify for training for better jobs. "We know now what is produced in Huron, by whom, what skills are necessary and what the problems of industries are," Ross Milton, director of Huron Centre said Tuesday while discussing the information gained from the survey. The survey took place in the county over the past year and a half and included brochures sent to county industries and personal visits to plants. Some of the findings of the survey, Mr. Milton said, were shocking. "We find people getting along on next to no education at all and the waste in some cases is terrific. "We find people in small industries envious of each other and not wanting to talk over common problems with each other, even though they are not in competition with one another. "We find totally illiterate people either too proud or too scared to attend an institution of learning. "We find people who have made their way up the ladder of success with very little education, yet they do not wish to attend college for fear of exposing some mythical ignorance in that they lack mere paper certification." Mr. Milton emphasized that education isn't necessarily tied to the number of years of school attended, that many persons have gained a wide knowledge through doing things, absorbing knowledge and discovering better ways to do things. A person who runs a-grocery store, he said for example, might continue to learn more about mathematics through dealing with figures and about science by studying the composition of foods he sold, Those who want to verify just how far they have come on their own, he said, can perhaps find out through one of the tests, offered by the college. Many people with only grade eight education can pass grade 11 or 12 tests. Huron Centre, he said, invites applications from students of all ages. Plans are being laid for a course this summer for the 16-19 age bracket on the art of living. Adult students are thought of as the person between 19 and 69 and probably education is more meaningful for this group because they can see their goal while for younger students education is just something that has to be undergone. "We know," he said, "that some people mature early and others retain their learning ability beyond this span and We must Stand prepared to adjust our education process to all ages." Educational authorities, he said, know that the average adult who is Moved to seek more education is much faster at learning things than a regular, run-of-the-mill student Who went to School merely to keep his parents happy. "We would expect that an adult student would master the equivilent of a grade nine and 10 education in a mere 32 weeks," Mr. Milton said, and this in fact is the length of the college's course. "At the time when many of our middle-aged citizens attended school, they went about as far as they could go _ or thought they should go," he said. "If they were a rural dweller, chances are they were interested in agriculture and acquired 80 per cent of their education from learning by doing, right on the farm. Formal education was only to bridge the gap of communication through reading and writing, mathematics, so they could figure things, and a bit of science so they understood more about the soil," But the age of technology has passed many by, he said. Farms have expensive, high powered machinery and a farm of 300 acres or more is really a small industry. The age of the computer has made a program of business and finance a must for farmers unless they are successful enough to hire such a service. Mr. Milton said a provincial survey showed that people in rural areas seem to have difficulty relating to the full spectrum of education. Young people thinking of career possibilities can think of such possibilities as doctors, nurses and even the legal profession but not of fields such as business management or fashion design. This could be because of the scarcity of professional people in these fields at the local level he said. With this knowledge in mind, he said, Conestoga plans to make a modest start with programs it feels stand a chance of success. Programs will start in Central Huron Secondary School and move to the College's new building at the former Canadian Forces Base, ,Clinton sometime in March. The building has been purchased but the college will not acquire title until March 1 and the building must be renovated to meet fire regulations before the college can begin to operate. Mr. Milton said he had been assured by the college engineer that the -alterations would take only about two weeks and cost only about $6500. Besides the courses now offered; the Huron Centre would like to offer more courses in business management and encouraged county residents to watch their newspaper for further information on such courses. Management development courses deal with four basic areas: management of human resources, management of material resources, management of financial resources and management of marketing. There are ten courses offered in each of these areas. Successful completion of each course brings a credit and one credit from each of the four areas plus two additional credits Will qualify the student for a government certificate of management which is recongnized across Canada. A course on farm business and taxation is planned for February in time to help farmers With tact return problems. Mr, Milton said he would like to get more people to write in to Huron Centre telling What they would like the centre to offer.