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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-05-01, Page 3 (2)• Area students do well in Canadian facts test Several thousand high school students across Canada found out they didn't know much about their own country recently when they completed a test covering Canadian history, geography, politics and current affairs. An astounding 62 percent failed the test. At South Huron High School in Exeter the results were con- siderably more encouraging according to history teacher Bill Johnston who along with other history teachers in the school, gave the test to about 200 SS board -- Continued from front page raises", trustee Looby com- mented. The 1975 mill rates, with the 1974 figures in brackets are: Clinton 29.92 (27.66), Exeter, 29.09 (25.59), Seaforth, 26.14 (23.13), Goderich, 33.57, (30.18), Wingham, 31.95 (29.29), Bayfield 34.95 (31.45). Hensall 26.55 (23.43), Zurich, 31.29, (29.96), Ashfield, 31.47 (28.50), Colborne, 30.92 (28.21), Goderich Twp. 28.50, Grey 25.36 (24.72), Howick • 25.55 (22.0), Hullett, 25.18 (24.22), Morris, 22.99 (20.10), Stanley, 26.12 (22.62), Stephen 31.19 (31.19). Tuckersmith 29.0 (25.42), Hay, 34.41 (30.91), McKillop, 26.32 (23.88), Turnberry, 25.63 (25.20), East Wawanosh, 27.34 (24.47), West Wawanosh 23.21 (23.21), Biddulph, 27.75 (24.25), McGillivray.,, 33.45 (33.45), Culross, 5.40 5.40). Kiploss 5.36 (5.36) (both to*hships have been reassessed by the province to bring property assessment more in line with market value). East Nissouri, 28.50 (25.0) West Zorra, 30.10 (26.60), Stratford, 30.75 (27.25). Mitchell 22.75 (19.96), St. Marys, 6.67 (6.05) (assessment here has also been equalized by the province). Blanshard. 32.50'(29.0). Downie 31.94 (28.44), North Easthope 35.54 (32.04). South Easthope 28.25 (24.75), Ellice, 27.46 (24.541, Hibbert, 25.48 (23.50). Logan 27.95 (25.83) Mornington 31.80, (28.39), Wellesley. 32.11 (28.61), Maryborough, 28.05 (24.62). Peel, 24.42 (21.37) Usborne, 24.88 (21.38). Wallace 26.21 (22.71), Blyth, 27.20 (24.20). Fullarton 25.20 (21.70). • students. Locally, 55 out of 70 tested, about 77 percent, passed the test. The average mark locally was about 70 percent. The test, originally drawn up by ' the Committee For An Independent Canada and later revised and distributed by Mel Ifurtig of Edmonton, a Canadian publisher, would best be described as general knowledge with heavy leanings in history geography and politics. There are 25 questions on the test. The first question on the test asks the name and political party of Canada's prime minister; not too hard considering Trudeaumania is still relatively fresh in the minds of Canadians. Question two stumps quite a few as they are required to name in geographical order, Canada's ten provinces. Considerable con- fusion resulted in the Atlantic provinces as well as in the prairies. Most were able to answer when Canada became a nation and even the question on the per- centage of French speaking Canadians was answered fair y well. NDP Continued from front page Mr. Walker has been involved in the operation of the Oakwood Inn and Golf Club in Grand Bend for the past 20 years. He has also worked in the hotel industry at Fort Lauderdale Florida. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Mr. Walker did postgraduate studies at McGill University. He is married and has one daughter. Mr. Walker said he felt Ontario was facing increasingly serious economic problems due to rapidly rising energy costs and -dwindling supplies, increasing unemployment due partly to foreign domination in both the raw materials and manufac- turing sectors of the economy, along with the simultaneous problems of urban crowding and rural depopulation. He has been a member of the Huron NDP association for some time and currently holds the position of vice-president. Other association officers are president Shirley Weary and secretary Mary Carroll, both of Goderich. •MRS. WARREN SCHILBE Funeral services were held Monday, April 28, for the late Mrs. Warren (Mc Clinchy ) Schilbe who passed away on Thursday. April 24, 1975 at Clinton General Hospital. She was in her seventy-fifth year. A member of Exeter United Church, Mrs. Schilbe was predeceased by her husband Warren in 1948 and by a daughter Kathleen in 1972. She is survived by daughters; Mrs. Mervyn (Grace) Hodgert of Bornholm, Mrs. Wilmer (Jean) Ferguson of Hensall, and Mrs. Norman (Olive) Ferguson of Exeter. She is also survived by a sister Mrs. Boyd (Alice) Murray of London. seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Services were held from the Hopper -Hockey Funeral Home in Exeter with interment in Exeter Cemetery. Pallbearers were Bob Elgie,Morley Cooper, Bob McGregor, Ben Tuckey. Murray Greene. and Cliff Ersman. FRANCIS GEORGE LEEDER Francis George (Frank Leeder passed away at Peel Memorial Hospital on Thursday, April 17. He was the husband of Evelyn Bullock of Alton. He was the father of Wayne and Carl at home, and is also sur- vived by four brothers. Funeral services were held from the McKillop and Coates Funeral Home, Brampton, on Saturday, April 19. Interment was in Boston Mills Cemetery. MRS. ARTHUR SIMPSON Mrs. Arthur Simpson, of RR 2 Lucan, passed away at her home, on Wednesday, April 30 She was the wife of the late Arthur Simp- son. She was the mother of (Alice) Mrs. Kay Thompson. (Marion) Mrs. Andrew Thompson, William and George all of RR 2 Lucan and Clifford of London. Mrs. Simpson is resting at the Murdy Funeral Home, Lucan. Funeral arrangements are in- complete. FREDERICK CLINTON " SHOE BOTTOM Frederick Clinton Shoebottom, formerly of London Township passed away on Thursday, April 17 in St. Joseph's Hospital, Parry Sound. He was the husband of Pearl Shoebottom. He was the father of Gordon, Leonard, Ronald, Willard, and Robert all of London, and Ray of Centralia. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren. Funeral services were held on Monday, April 21 at the George E. Logan and Son Funeral Home, London, officiated by Rev. Arthur 11. Jared. Interment was in St. John's Cemetery, Arva. r; ELISE LYNN ZEEHUISEN Elise Lynn Zeehuisen, infant daughter of Hans and Paula Zeehuisen, passed away in War Memorial Childrens Hospital, London. on Thursday, April 24. She was born February 12, 1975. Surviving are grandparents Ted and Marion Day of Exeter, and Case and Jean Zeehuisen of Exeter. Funeral services were held Friday, April 25 at the Hopper - Hockey Funeral Home, Exeter, with interment in Parkhill Cemetery. JOHN ZEMEKO John Zemeko, passed away on Monday. April 21 at the Green Gables Nursing Home, Parkhill in his 70th year. He was the husband of Elizabeth Zemeko of London. Funeral services were held from the M. Box and Son Funeral Home. Parkhill on Wednesday April 23. Interment was in Parkhill Cemetery. JOHN GORDON WALLACE John Gordon Wallace formerly of Anne St.. Exeter, passed away at South Huron Hospital. Exeter on Wednesday April 23. in his 72nd year. Ile was the husband of Mildred Gould. Ile was the father of Dr. John Gordon Wallace of Seattle. Wash., Mrs. Dianne Wooden of Exeter, and Mrs. Mary Lou Boisvert of London. Also sur- viving are eight grandchildren. Cremation took place at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. London, with Hopper -Hockey Funeral Home, Exeter in charge of arrangements. PAUL CLEAVE Paul Cleave, of Bayfield passed away on Friday. April 25 at his residence in his 95th year. He was the husband of Florellinor E. W.Watson. He was the father of Logan Samuel Cleave, Bayfield, James Brooks Cleave, RR 3. Bayfield, Charles Eric Cleave, of Wingham, (Ann) Mrs. Edward Twentyman, Waukegan, 111. Also surviving are 17 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday April 27, from the Westlake Funeral Home, Zurich, conducted by Rev. Ivor Bodenham. Interment was in Bayfield Cemetery. ELIZABETH PHYLLIS O'BRIEN Elizabeth Physslis O'Briend passed away on Friday, April 25 at the Queensway Nursing Home, Hensall in her 92nd year. She was the wife of the late Charles O'Brien. Funeral services were held on Monday, April 28 from the Hopper -Hockey Funeral Home, Exeter with Rev. Wilfred Jarvis officiating. Interment was in Exeter Cemetery. "Our local 'students seemed weak in national geography and national culture," stated Mr. Johnston. He pointed out that the test was only given to students studying history at South Huron High School About thirty of the students asked to take the test home for their parents and mom and dad scored better than their children, according to Mr. Johnston. There was a wide range in the results when one compared the senior and junior students," said Mr. Johnston, indicating that those senior students answering the test had picked up con- Tuckersmith bills more than required There was one unexpected change in the mill rates presented to the Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board for approval Thursday night at a special meeting in Seaforth. Trustees were all set to pass the 1975 rates that levy an average increase of 3.41 mills on the various municipalities, when trustee Michael Connolly of Kippen told them he had already received his tax notice from Tuckersmith Township. "And they are billing at about 1.5 mills over what we had required." Mr. Connolly's tax notice -from Tuckersmith set the mill rate for separate school purposes at 29 mills. The board's finance committee had planned to set the rate at 27.46 mills. IIPRCSS board chairman David Teahen• of Stratford said the township had in effect billed for the board. Business ad- ministrator Jack Lane said the township had every right to do that. , He said he had had discussions with the Tuckersmith clerk last week and had told him the board expected to set mill rates at Thursday night's meeting. Mr. Lane said he had been under the impression then that Tuckersmith would wait to send the notices until the separate board had set its rates. He said the township was ahead of the deadline set by the province for tax notices to go out by about a week. "I don't want to aggravate anything", Mr. Connolly said. "The clerk is just trying to do his job." He said he was just con- cerned to make sure that the taxpayers of Tuckersmith are credited with the money (the difference between the 29 mills and the board's planned levy of 27.46 mills) for next year. reams Dear Sir: We really appreciated the opportunity of telling our story in your newspaper during March of Dimes month. The response from all mem- bers of the media has been very encouraging. and in those areas where we conducted a fund- raising campaign. the results to date already indicate a sub- stantial increase over past years. Thanks again for your generous support. for it is only through an informed public and the co-operation of the media that we will make any progress in change for the disabled. Yours sincerely. ( Mrs.) Pat Mortimer, Director. Information Services. "How can he set this mill rate. Why are we meeting here tonight?" Dublin trustee Joe Looby wanted to know. "So the rest can't do the same thing," board finance committee chairman Ron Marcy of Stratford suggested. If the board set the Tucker - smith levy at the estimated 27.46 mills. the township could hold the alrnost 1.5 mills for this year, Mr. Lane explained. The township will only give the board what it asks for, he said. Mr. Connolly and Mr. Lane attempted to phone the Tuckersmith clerk -to make sure they understood the situation correctly, but reported to the meeting that there was no answer at his house. Trustees decided to accept the mill rate of 29 as set by Tuckersmith instead of the 27.46 set by the board and to apply the over levy as a reduction on the 1976 mill rate for Tuckersmith separate supporters. New member on T -A staff Joining the Times -Advocate staff this week is E. T. "Ted" Rowcliffe who recently held a position on the editorial staff of the North Bay Nugget, a daily newspaper. After graduating from the Ryerson Institute of Technology where he majored in advertising and business ad- ministration, Mr. Rowcliffe joined the national -advertising agency of McKim -Benton and Bowles in Toronto. Later he held posts as ad- vertising manager of the Wingham Advance -Times, editor and subsequently managing editor of the Kincardine News and as editor of the Temiskaming Speaker published in New Liskeard. Mr. Rowcliffe's duties with the Times -Advocate will encompass both editorial and advertising responsibilities. siderable knowledge while at- tending school. "But culturally we were weak. A lot of students had the idea that we have produced Gord Lightfoot, Anne Murray and a lot of hockey players." Radio and television shows didn't fare too well. A list of six shows including CBC's "This Country In The Morning" and "As U Happens". Most students weren't familiar with them. As one stated on the test, "They are the only ones I've never heard of, so they must be the Canadian ones." Canada's magazine industry, currently a topic of discussion in the media; was also the subject of one question asking students to pick out the totally Canadian magazines from a list including Rolling Stone, Time, Chatelaine, Playboy Readers Digest, MacLeans and Weekend. A question on Canadian authors asked students to pick out the Canadians from Robert Frost, E.J. Pratt, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, Al Purdy, T.S. Eliot, Margaret Laurence and Morley Callaghan. In this question, South Huron High students -did -better than average; probably because of of the course in Canadian literature available at the school, as Mr. Johnston pointed out. "The results are pretty sobering,"' commented Mr. Johnston. "Just for fun I made up a similar test using American people and events and asked the students to identify the Americans. The South Huron students invariably did better in the American test than the Canadian one." Mr. Johnston said this in- dicated to him that the influence of the American culture, par- ticularly through the electronic media was having a drastic effect Minister's oppose - Continued from front page He had predicted upon his return to Canada, that China would one day dominate Asia. He then went on to say that, "I am convinced that the form of Communisim that is now taking over Viet Nam and Cambodia, is far different than the type of which we normally think. Ile felt that it was the best alternative to the corruption that now exists in these Countries. We can have no idea of what goes on, and thus it will take a "puritanical, highly -disciplined group" to overcome it. ; He concluded, however, that • great good will eventually come after a five to ten year period of Communist domination. The people will one day develop their own government and future. A number of local churches will be experiencing changes in Ministers at the end of June. The new Minister coming to Grand Bend is Rev. Harley Moore from Cedar Springs. Ontario. It was also election day at its meeting and the following were elected as new officers for 1975 76. The new chairman is Rev. Bert Daynard of Staffa, and his vice-chairman will be Rev. Cecil Wittich of Blyth. The remaining officers will continue in the positions they have held for the past year. OPEN McGILLIVRAY ADDITION - An addition to McGillivray Central School was opened Friday night. Above, principal Mrs. Ila Hamilton Middlesex board chairman Gilbert Dafoe, area board representative Jim Scott, Huron MP Bob McKinley and Middlesex director of Educotion John Gummow cut the ribbon. McKinley predicts education will return to teaching basics A return to basic instruction of basic subjects in the Ontario educational system in the late 1970's was predicted Friday night by Hurbn-Middlesex MP Bob McKinley. Speaking at the official opening of an addition to McGillivray Central school McKinley said, "Education is like construction, we need a good foundation in elementary schools with some compulsory subjects but still have a system flexible enough to meet new demands." The Huron MP said he was in favor of the break in studies used at some post -secondary levels where students work for a year or two before completing their education. He continued, "1 agree with this system. A taste of work is very beneficial and the ex- perience gained can't be un- derestimated." In referring to using only Canadian content in our school system. McKinley said, "We need a healthy helping of Canadian history and culture hut to sacrifice the quality of our reading material would be only fooling ourselves." The addition at McGillivray Central school includes a large gymnasium, library resource centre and improved teachers' lounge and office facilities. Gilbert Dafoe, chairman of the Middlesex Board of Education said the McGillivray additions cost a total of $293,313 including furnishings. Dafoe said the entire Middlesex budget for 1975 would be up about three million dollars to about $18,600,000. Provincial grants would increase this year to $926 for each elementary school student and $1,441 per secondary school student. The increase in ceilings for the County board would reach $2.712,666 in 1975. The official ribbon cutting was handled by McKinley and J. M. Scott the Middlesex board representative for the township of McGillivray and Biddulph and the village of Lucan. Most of the Middlesex board members and administrative officials were on the platform along with school principal Mrs. Ila Hamilton and McGillivray reeve Gerald Wright. on Canadian culture. "Generally students come "into high school knowing nothing about Canada," he said. "A lot of kids need work in the very basics when they are corning into high school." County council - Continued from front page each receive $25 per week in addition to their regular salaries. Council authorized the pur- chase of a memorial plaque in recognition of the 26 years of "faithful and dedicated service to the County of Huron" by the late John G. Berry. Miss Cathy McKinley, daughter of Warden and Mrs. Anson McKinley has been hired as program co-ordinator and supervisor for the history project in Huron, providing the project is approved by the Ministry of Education. Miss McKinley worked on the project in 1973 with Professor James Scott who had been engaged to supervise the project at that time. Professor Scott is unavailable -this --year. "The committee is confident that Miss McKinley with her educational qualifications and former experience on the project, can capably finalize this un- dertaking," said Robin J. Lawrie, reeve of Blyth and chairman of the Executive Committee. Miss McKinley recently graduated in journalism from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. Bruce Tyndall has been retained by the county as a caretaker. He replaces Len Westbrook who retires in May. Reeve Stan Profit, chairman of the county property committees, said that 22 applications had been received for the position. An offset duplicator and bin- ding equipment has been authorized for the county building at a cost of $11,794.02. It is believed that considerable money should be saved in prin- ting costs with this installation. . County Librarian Bill Par- tridge has made application for two students under the Experience '75 program spon- sored by the Ontario government. These two students would be engaged providing paperback books at certain summer facilities in Huron County, such as Point Farms Provincial Park. Mrs. Margot Loucks ucks has been appointed supervisor of the Wingham Branch Library. reported Library Board Chair- man Norman Durst. 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