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/supposed b ' °.art pedagogy. nobody tried to sup-
This was to$ n press my opinions here, Many
�twQ q f a series on educ tion in disagreed violexily -Others
MO Wintry,i Last week 'I com• „threatened to cancel their.subs
plgirsed aput; : gbsolescence, scriptions. Some said f was vul•
the leek orf. everything but Pu- $. ,And.. one reverend'gentle-
pil>sl; ifie,tlxairnes of the fund- man even 4of feted to thrash me
• ratising_for education; the lack-,; •w,ithin an inch of my life, I re -
.0f any national • standards; and, , minded him that my big broth,
the rigidity' of practically ev- ei, was a six-foot,two, 210-pouo.
•
plied lightly that Ed do what I
always do ,with letters from.
cranks and bigots -- chuck 'em
„in the wastebasket. He was an-
noyed. Pihned down, he admit-
ted there were two such letters.
Aad I was .annoyed.,
- Second . subtle suggestion was
from an inspector: A lady. She
passed the word that the Depu-
y sinister, no ass; v a •Wi
-- engineerrntut-I-never-iheard— j
Smiley
erything in the system. Not bad
for a start.
In all the years I wrote this
column before -I began peddling would do in his position. I re -
another word. •
The first hint. 'that I should
tone it down came from a
representative of the mighty
teacher s' federation. Said
- they'd had .several letters, from --
Members. ,urging that I be
drummedout of the,.service be-
cause .I' was destroying the '
tfia cher's-ir ge by mentioning
here such •human horrors as sex
and -drink, and by using the odd
epithet:
He asked` me heavily what I
Approve Telephone
3ysfenris Hook-up
BLYTH - Subscribers of the
Blyth Municipal Telephone 'Sys.
tern have voted 164 to 2 to merge
with; the Brussels and -McKillop
telephone systems.
A meeting in Blyth Memorial
Hall Feb. 1 was attended by 61•
Blyth subscribers. Blyth has 800
telephones, Brussels 1,050 and
McKillop 415.
Blyth manager 'Donald Young
explained, the needforthe meet -
g rd -stated; -" We-•-have-tried---7
over the past- four or five years
to strive for a progressive pro...
. -gram. For- some time there has
been an agitation in Auburn for
free :service with Goderich, and
by Blyth for the same service'
with Clinton. An amalgamation
• between Blyth and Brussels has
been bantered around•for years.
Now is the time to make a de-
cision, one way or 'the other.".
Mr. Davies of. the Bell, Gowan.
lock • Company, • advised - those
in attendance to invest their
shares in the newcompany.
Mr; Daviesalso said that as
the: company made money it
would be. reinvested back into the
system and in this way the shares
• will become more valuable.
Blyth Reeve Borders Cook ask-
ed if there would be any change
in the Blyth setup:, would the vil-
lage lose anything such as equip.
The question was raised, would
it be possible for a large company
to come in and buy up the shares,
thus becoming the major owner.
of the. system. The reply was
that the people'in the area are
the ones who will be given the
first opportunity to purchase
shares and only they will have
the privilege of disposing of them.
George Michie, Brussels Com-
missioner4 was present. He stat
ed;-“Brussels-Commissioners—
are in favor of the merger and
their meeting, will 'be held Wed-
nesday evening."' He feels 'we
should all join together in form-
ing one large company. He said
Brussels would ' not be affected
by the Blyth decision.
Harry Snell, McK1114 Com-
-rnissioner,-•spoke 't -o the meeting
and said he ' thought .the merger
was in the best interests of all
concerned.
A vote was taken by ballot
with the following result:
In favor by proxy, 105; in
favor, by ballot, 55.
• Two negative votes were cast;
one by proxy and one ;by ballot.
TWenty
'"--•'rnent tsr urnpToyees- Chair -man -of
the Blyth System, Archie.::Young,
replied, "not for the time.being
• at least." Reeve Cook'ezipre
the opinion that any a ment
made should contain the fact that
Blyth keep ttietr building, equip.
ment and employees.
° The meeting was told thatBlyth
now operates' in seven munici-
palities and the directb s feel •
• sure. that the shares will increase -
.in value. Many 'people who know
the telephone business have al-
ready been.consulted,
Seek Trip
Twenty Goderich bowlers ,have
earned"°the-.right tb continue to
compete for a . two -person trip
to Bermuda. -
They ' will bowl in the final
for ' the prize March 12. Harry
Little; of ' Little Bawl, said the
-'1eeaiien-•has not been decided.
Two hundred bowlers compete.
ed in the Bowling Festival. House
Round in Gdberich. •
corned about my column and
its contents.
I turned indigo and snalled,
"You mean the Department is
trying to tell me what I can say
and can't say in my column?"
"Nonononono!", she blurted,
Lochalsh
Visiting
LOCHALSH--M.rs, Frank Mac.
Lennan was a visitor 'with Mr-.
and Mrs. Don Ainsley and family
in Toronto recently.
Phyllis Bradley, Stratford,
spent the weekend with her par-
ents Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Bradley
and. on Sunday 'went to Brant.
ford where she .will do practice
teaching,
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Mc.
Charles returned from Montreal
on Friday, where they had visited
with Mr. and Mrs. Allan Mc -
Charles and Susan:
Barbara 'MacKenzie, 'Kitchen-
er, spent .the •weekend with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mac-
Kenzie.
_Logy. and Mrs, Lorne Luther
were recent ,visitors in Ridge.
town,
ifer -Cash
tl
or Story
Mrs. W. R. Morrison, „ pre-
sident of -l?htiie.Provinciaapter
of Ontario, IODE announced to-
day that the '20th consecutive
short story competition will close
May 1. The awards , offered are
$250 and $50. The competition
is' open to writers, citizens 'of
Canada, resident in Ontario.
ti
visions of headlines dancing •in in,
inspector, bethought he should
her head "It's merely hoped tell me, for my own sake, that I
that you'll use your own good
judgment."
Next time, it was another in.
spector. At the time, a now -de -
was .getting in wrong with the
federation.
-_,"Waddaya,tokkin about!", I
enquired hi 'my best Head of '
fungt : newspaper for teachers . English Department manner.
was running, my. column. The And got no answer that I could
paper we happy;. the fanmail pin dawn.
as he . But whir eyed this - .1 seem to be down on inspee-
tors this week. And so I am. We
got the word• the English in-
spectors Were coming. ,1 alerted
my 15 -odd birds in. the English
department.- •
Next morning, the English
staff . 'would -have gladdened
your eye. Gals ,all in their best
• dresses, hair fresh -done: Men
with their shoes shined. And
Congregational eeting Approves
1,
Ieautifyirg: Lawns Wi ndows
HOLlV1Z$VILLE The annual
every., single one' glowing with
virtueafter working till one
a,m. preparing the sort of un-
realistic but mode: lessons that
inspectors expect.
Nine a.m. Word_ comes :that
they wouldn't be there. Snow-
ing and blowing. .Any .of us
would have struck, off for any-
where: But these city -nurtured
"--dIVersare-terrifiedbit-ef-
Wind and snow.
latrugl;le through, it will be an
anti.cllmax,„ •The girls dresses
are . crushed and their hair.
coming down. And I- sure as
hell am not going to shine my
shees two days in a row.
rust another of the evils of
onr cystem. A teacher is given
•
tor,
a recorwhod, of
sees mehirm mit b'yayhtApan ipsee peca-
__",year for one or • two lessons,
So we shot off ' all ,those ter-
rific 'lessons on the kids. Mine
laughed heartily when they saw
my desk -cleaned off. 'It was the
first time they'd seen me below
• The`,officera ,for 196.7 are as ers Equipment Association Show the breast -bone in months.
in Toronto recently.
'
congregational meeting of the follows: Supt.; Ja'iiibs•Lobb;• A5s
And tomorrow we have to do,
Holmesville United Church was • ist. Supt., Carman • Tebbutt; it all over again, because , the
...held Jan. 31, . Secretary, Barrie Walter; Trea•, inspectors are still 'coming, if
sur
Rev. A. Mowatt opened the er, William Norman; Miff.- they -can make it. May they go
Seeks
Information
meeting with - a short worhig ' ions- _ , cktoxdinator:,- Mrs, . Les ..
period.
rt•
The, sal,# o fidenf .,` 'ho" ► •
io`
w may be a lazy btimyhormal,
ly fwhips . up a flashyiiesson •fox.,
inigection, and scores ,high,
TO self-conscious teacher, who
normally does a terrific j'ob, be-'
cores . nervous and makes a
,botch of things, and scores low.
I. don't really hate inspectors.
They've changed. They are no
longer the old terrors, but a
pretty decent, helpful lot, But
into a- big_ snow -bank and'. sit .t; - vstem is dunk.
Jervis; Pianist, Lucille Bond,. there for four hours.` If they do More, next week, may. e.
f the were assist, Shirley Norman, Marilyn
o
Reports pastyearTebbutt Teachers Beginners
be in a healthy.'condition. James Norma Walter assist. Mrs. Ray
reviewed and showed finances to
Potter; P; 'mai,r, Mrs. J. Loblb,
Lobb and Orville Blake were assist, Marilj,n Tebbutt; Junior
elected to the' session and 'Ben Mrs. D. Normae assist, Mrs. R.
Whitely, and Gordon Steepe to the , +
_ Mrlier;
Board of Stewards, The cell-� Intermediate,)Mrs. E
`tennial project of the congrega. Grigg, assist. Mrs. J. Grigg;
tion ' is to be the beautifying of Senior Mrs: W. Norman; assist.
church laver and windows. Mrs. "H, Cudmore; Bible Class;
At the close of the con e�- _Irvine Tebbutt, assist, Mrs. L.
" Bond.
,tional meeting the Sunday School
annual was held. The -Sunday
School had
of 50:
an average attendance
RAIN
Personal
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Potter
attended the Ontario Farm Deal.
Mayor Dr. Frank Mills has'
received a• request -from .r. H,_,_
Neill, former curator and founder
of Huron Pioneer ,Museum; -for
assistance- in - locating rotor.
mation on Goderich harbor as it
was in 1$67.
Mr. Neill plans to build a model
of the' harbor. Hehas,con structed
152 models in 31 years.
- In a letter to Dr, Mills, Mr:
Neill said he hopes to locate a
picture Or -written material that
would guide his model building.
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