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Last spring, while pertniklit,
about 80 applicatiOnS 000
teaching English, I eprsed
sympathy for the yoUng WOW,
ales of teachers' colleges, an
to go, wanting to be teacherSi; aria
scarcely a job in sight.
At the time, I suggested it Wa-f!,
rotten planning: graduating
about 10 teachers for each Ph
available. I still think It is.
But the column brought ai
couple of interesting reSPOWS,t
which 11 haven't managed to gex,
around to answering. Thought 11
do so now, as we are latalehad
into a new year of teaching and .
learning.
Miss M. A. Buck of Windsor,
Ontario, read the column in tIN
Tillsonburg News, and took issue'
with it, in a lady -like fashion and
the most exquisite handwriting
I've seen in years. She writes:
"You have described the situ-
ation very well as it applies to the
job market in the area of Secon-
dary English; however, it con-
cerns me that young people who
are considering a career in
teaching might think that there
are no opportunities in teaching
at all. This is far from true.
"There is a demand for Secon-
dary teachers of Mathematics,
Physics, Girls' Physical Edu-
cation, Home Economics, Art,
Music, Business and Secretarial
subjects, and Technical areas.
There are also excellent oppor-
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teach in the Public or .Separate
Elementary schools."
Well, thanks, Miss Buck. This
is heartening news. I don't know
about the Maths and Physics.
doubt there's a "demand" for
them, but there's always room
for a good one.
Art and Music teachers are sit-
ting pretty. But only because they
are scarce. Any dope can teach
English, as I am frequently re -
inn ided, but few young people
have the talent and training for
the arts.
Girls' Phys. Ed., yes. Perhaps
,this is because of attrition. A lot
of the younger ones get married
and have babies. And it's tougher
and tougher to put the girls over
the hurdles with each year yOu
put on yoarself.
Elizabeth Taylor, I am happy
to say, will be able to make ends
meet. And she has no need for a
reunion with Richard Burton to
do so. Liz is a young friend of
ours, a contemporary of my
daughter, and I nursed her
through Grade 10, 12 and 13 Eng-
lish. She graduated last June as a
Phys. Ed. teacher, and was hired
by the first school she applied to.
She couldn't believe it when I
dold her how much money she'd
be making — about $11,000 a
year. "Migawd, I'm rich!" Then
we started to figure inccime tax,
salary deductions for this and
that, and cost of living. She won't
even by well -do -do.
Home.Ec.1 Again, I agree. We
lost .a young lady last June, be-
cause she had to move to the city.
She had another job in two weeks.
I don't know Why they're scarce.
Technical teachers? Yes.
There's a shortage. And a' reason.
About 15 years ago, quite a few
technicians deserted their trades
to enter teaching, not for more
money, but for better working
conditiong, security — many rea-
sons.
Over a decade they saW their
former trades become more and
more affluent, as wages went up
and up, until the former elec-
tricians, mechanics, draftsmen,
:low leachers, were making con-
siderably less as teachers than
they would be as skilled workers,
and with three times the tension.
There ,are, very feW young
technicians coming into teaching
now. Who needs it, when he
ca o make $80 a day at his job, and
leave it behind when he finishes
wi wk ?
From F. W. Reinhold, Superin-
tendent of Schools in the Fort
Vermilion School Division, in the
Peach River district of Alberta,
came another missive.
Written at the end of last June,
the letter says: "I read your ar-
ticle in the Brooks Bulletin re
Tough Time for Teachers and am
wondering if you are serious. .
There is no surplus of teachers in
Western Canada.. . we still have
22 vacancies at the Elementary
level and six at the junior -senior
high level." Twenty-eight vacan-
cies at the end of June. In one
school district!
Mr. Reinhold enclosed a terse
but shocKing resume of his school
board's attempt to staff its
schools.
After extensive advertising in
Alberta dailies, American news-
papers, and listings with Man-
power, here's the picture:
December, 1974: Wrote to 15
first -semester graduates at Uni-
versity of Lethbridge expressing
interest in hiring them. Not one
replied to my letters.
February, 1975: Extensive ad-
vertising and Manpower (re-
ceived 45 applications).
Feb., 1975: Extensive advertis-
ing U.S. papers (approximately
400 applications received).
Feb., 1975: Conducted " inter-
views U. of Calgary and U. of Al-
berta; 49 applicants interviewed.
Three agreed to sign a contract.
May, 1975: 32 vacancies listed
with Manpower. Two replies.
April and May: more advertis-
ing. ,
June, 1975: 40 vacancies. Only
54 applications were received
from Canadian Leachers.
Result: three accepted con-
tracts; 30 accepted contracts
elsewhere; seven will not accept
a contract at this time; five are
not suitable.
So. When he wrote, Fort Ver-
milion School Division was short
28 teachers for September.'
I take back all my sympathy,
for young teachers. One of two
things is •obvious:
Either the Fort Vermilion
School Board is one of the worst
in the world, which I doubt.
Or all you young idealists, of
both sexes, don't really want to
teach -that much. You want a nice
job, in a nice .school, not too far
from Morn and Dad.; M the City or
close to it, where you won't get
your feet wet or your hands dirty,
won't be too cold or too lonely.
Otherwise, you'd be up there in
Peace River, getting the experi-
ence of your young lives and find-
ing out what makes you tick.
Baked pork chops are a
favorite dish around our house.
Many housewives feel that pork
is too expensive to buy right now,
but everyone likes to break their
budget at least once. You 'won't
regret it Once you have tried this
dish.
BAKED PORK CHOPS
4 or 5 pork chops '
flour
Coat pork chops with flour.
Brown in cooking oil in frying
pan. When brown put in saucepan •
and cover with the following
sauce, and bake at 350 degrees
until chops are tender,
14 cup water
1 cup vinegar'
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons Worcestershire
sauce
12 cup catsup
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon paprika
dash �rpepper
Simmer sauce for 15 minutes,
before pouring over chops.
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Fried rice goes well with the
baked pork chops. I have tried
several recipes for fried rice in
the past; and have found that the
following one is the 'best that I
have come across yet.
FRIED RICE
Prepare 3 cups rice according
to instructions on box. Let the
rice cool.
Place 3 tablespoons of cooking
oil in a heavy frying pan. Add a
dash of pepper. When the oil is
hot break in 1 egg, and fry until
firm over low heat. Remove to a
plate and cut the egg in shreds.
Add 1 can of mushrooms to the
oil. Cook for 5 minutes stirring all
the time. Add the shredded egg,
and the 3 cups of cold cooked rice,
2 tablespoons of soya sauce, and
1/2 teaspoon of sugar. Stir with a
fork until well mixed, and the rice
is warm.
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At this time of year, applesauce
is almost a basic staple. But did
you know that you.could turn that
everyday apple into a delightful
treat? The answer is applesauce
fudgies . . . try it, you'll like it.
APPLESAUCE FUDGIFS
2-1 ounce squares unsweetened
chocolate •
cup butter
V2 cup sweetened applesauce
2 beaten eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon baking pwder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teasPocn Salt
V2 cup chopped nuts
Melt chocolate and butter
together. Sift flry ingredients
together and add to applesauce
mixture. Stir to blend. Add
chocolate, butter, and beaten
eggs. Blend well. Pour in greased
9 x 9 x 2 pan. Sprinkle with 'Wal-
nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 30
minutes. Cool and cut into
squares.
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restricted diets but I will need
yourassistance. If you have any
favorite low -calorie recipes,
would appreciate hearing from
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may be some time before your
'recipe is used, but I.do attempt to
use all the recipes that1 receive.
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three-quarter inch band from
around the middle of the apples.
This prevents them from crack-
ing open.
If you want that real old
mahogany look in your next
chocolate cake, add a few drops
of red food coloring to the batter.
For a new icing treat, arrange
chocolate covered mint patties in
a single layer on top of your
baked cake. Return the cake to
the oven for about one minute.
When the patties are soft, spread
with a spatula.
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Remember how in the days be-
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lined with wall-to-wall Kraft and
our mothers took pride on how
many jams and jellies they "put
down" every autumn, the choke-
cherry was such a memorable
part of our growing up? Because
there was no jelly in all the world,
not even a jelly by Mr. Kraft him-
-self, which could ever match the
flavour of the genuine, royal pur-
ple chokecherry jelly which our
mothers used to store away so
proudly on their cellar fruit
shelves. And the picking of those"
chokecherries was nearly always
a job for us youngsters.
The chokecherry, in case
you're a city slicker, is a small
purplish -red berry with a pi.t in it
which is so large that there seems
very little else. That 'very little
else' however, that bit of Skin and
pulp around the pit, is remark-
ably potent. Suck one and your
mouth will pucker up as if you
had sampled a spoonful of alum.
But forbidding as the chokecher-
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bush, it makes an indescribably
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(There was a rumour in those
days that it wouldalso make a
rare and powprful wine, but at
,)ur house we all observed the
temperance laws of the time so I
can't vouch for that.)
Te chokecherry grew on a
bush which was related to the ap-
ple and plum family, and w
rarely more than ten feet higl
and because it generally yielded
heavily, a half dozen youngsters
could usually get all the choke -
cherries Mother could use in an
afternoon's picking.
But as I recall it, the thrill of
rt•okechhrry pickinv vas not in
the abundance of the harvest or
the ease of filling your pail so
-incl. as the threat of violent
death which allegedly hung over
c‘ cry bush. For every boy or girl
fected chokecherry bushes. So a
eaMpaign has now been launched
to eradicate the chokecherry,
much as western wheat farmers
eradicated the barberry years
ago to stem the threat of rust.
Well I suppose the chokecherry
outlived its usefulness yearsago
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homemade chokecherry jelly for
20 years or more. Nevertheless I
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Maybe it's because I have al-
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There must be a few chokecherry
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longer believe in hell and my
stomach has survived such things
as ham cured with , embalming
fluid and baker's bread and Que-
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who set, out with his lard pail to
pick them in those days had been
warned repeatedly that if we ate
SO much as a single berry, it
would take only a drop of milk to
set up such a dreadful chemistry
in your system that you would
most assuredly die. I don't recall
that this affliction.. ever had a
name. It wasn't cholerea morbis.
That was what you would get
from eating green apples, and if
you sprinkled your green apples
with salt, you could survive that.
But no one ever survived the
agonizing death which came of
mixing milk and chokecherries.
And since there was only one
breakfast in the whole country in
those days — that of porridge and
milk — and no one was ever sure
just how much time had to elapse
before the milk would be safely
out of the way, it took a foolhardy
lad indeed to test the truth of that
legend. And since 1 till believed
implicitly in hell in those days, 1
never did test it.
Now conies an edict from the
Department of Agriculture that
the chokecherry must go. It
seems that the peach growers
have now discovered that a virus-
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