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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-01, Page 6Tethers To Tecich �- .t.'.;er'ks To 'Clerk T tt. buttal teacher shortage vitt Holy be solved if Milli unl start acting like colleges, ie :,dn t; educator recently told etenfcrence on the problems of eendary education at 1hc' Ifni, ready of San Francisco. I.,et the teachers do the teach - clerks do the eleritisi„ Hostess Favor."'o 6t ea 11M, e Enjoy tee i,a tuty or ruses all year with this chair set -- adds a touch of elegance to any room. Precious filet crochet — lovely chair or billet set, scarf ends, Pattern 975: charts; directions for chair back 16 x 121„ armrest d x 121r incites in No. 50 cotton. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS istamps cannot be accepted, use postal not for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Sox 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. News New! New: Our 11)60 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book 'is ready NOW! Crammed with .exciting, unusual, popular de-. - signs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave -- fashions, li.otne furnishings, toys, gifts. heeear hits. In the book FREE 1 quilt patterns. Hurry. send 2a rents for your copy. net let machin+:e heti out as teeming aide the educator said. Many surveys have concluded th_ii the current nt teacher short- age' is duce to a hark t5: effective Utilization of teaching talent within the lith schools then- :avcs where Le:where i'cported- ly spend one-third of their time performing clerical task.e ec cat- p,arvising student activities. Future high schools, the Caii- f.:'iia a.teemblage was told, must t.. ,r. t up along the general lines :, levee university with oneiie teaching specialists '.el a reduction of the time a to udcnt spends in class to allow ter more individual research and directed study. It has been suggested that stu- dents should spend forty per cent of their time in large classes taught by an experienced pro- fe.sional and the remainder of the day in small discussion groups led by 'general teachers' and in individual study super- vised by 'instructional assist- ants,' - 'rhis combination would take the burden of unnecessary work from trained teachers and there- by eliminate a duplication of effort and waste of teaching tal- ent that is a basic element in the teacher shortage. Too much togetherness in schools was also cited as a dis- tinct liability in the teacher - learning process. All of which brings ne home from San Francisco, The plan outlined at USF wes originated from findings result- ing front the Ford Foundation experiment now being conducted in Jefferson County R-1 school, now in its third year. The entire experiment lute received wide acclamation from leading educators and school ad- ministrators .from around the. country. Things ere being done. Our own neighbourhood is. partaking of a program promising bounty for all. And even in the early ;cages our program is becoming a model of endeavour.—Outlook (Golden, Colorado). THIRD TIME UNLUCKY Caught siphoning g a s from a car parked in a Pittsburg) street, John James was put un- der arrest. At the police station he gave his reasons for the theft. He had stolen a car, but it later broke down. He stole a second car to tow the first one but it ran out of gas. He was in fact, stealing gas from the third car to put into the tank of the second vehicle An old timer is someone who remembers when pickets were just part of a wooden fence. You Song -Writers, Here's Your Chance I .African Nations Search For Anthems by Tan A. Cullen Newspaper Enterprise Assn. LONDON --Front Africa comes new,: that should gladden the li rax of tune -smiths. .Africa's newly - independent nations desperately need nation - el anthems; they offer cash prizes for the best tunes. Among,those recently in search of national airs are the Congo Republic, the Mali Federation, Somaliland and Sierra Leone, For Tin Pan Alley's benefit, the anthems need not be long— nothing like the 158 verses of the Greek national hymn. for example. Nor need they be par- ticul:.rly African. Ton• -tarn effect; are out in favor of simple words that- stir up patriotic sentiments. (No emeagent. Atrican nation Isar yet to Guinea, hail to you! Be bless- ed, thou benefactor of Guinea, apostle of the good cause, infant prodigy!" - Nigeria solved the problem by offering 52,800 for the catchiest. tune and throwing the cunteat open to comers from all nations. The winner was Mrs. Charles 1Cermot, a London piano teacher, "Nigeria, we hail thee" will swell from the throats of 35 mil- • lion Nigerians after independ- ence day, October 1. Mrs. Iietnnet clahns that it took her only ten minute- to compose • the winning tuna. She debar that is sounds like the boating song of a well-htu,wtt girls' boarding school. The fact • that their national anthem was written by a Briton hae incurred (lift ire of Nigel fan :teen fit e t follow the: examplea of Afghanistan, the Vatican and they United Arab Republic whose srtiectna are wordless.1 t'l sed also it essential. _Inde- ;,er;dence cannot. wait for po -tic. inspiration. The ostim! anthems adopted int' Ghana and Nigeria are un - !tette, to make tinct r,e's hit pa- red,•• Ther are either jinguisuc rand to extoll the ration's ri,ulti.rc and it, rm.t.tol"ingy. titt.ba t:: relied t "1)r _rl,t star shiny;; in therites." . fl puhlie of (;titer,,,, tree. n;e.ti`: ltrgob (:Ifo, in, ol, the oti„r r,,hil. ±soca itt tr,r r�s%;in.' kis icy e1 lass. i d-t,aln r1 t1(: 111iUr.-IHhI@. t.t ., . student '. ho threaten to boy- cott the trite. "No self-respecting nation per- mit;, fee eienete to compose its national tnthein," write:, a pro- fe;or from the Univonity Col- lege et Ibrcdatt, Nigeria. "It will make us the laughing stork -of the African world," Ghana offered an $8,400 prize for ib. national a Mitten, but re-.trieted the 0001e:1 to Ghanian oationale. Winner wate Philip (helm, a nli:ntbrr of the nn,sical- l:'-oInri d Ewe tribe, whose stir rung ditty is tilt, "Lilt'hit+ll tic, 51 tat of C I 'rna,-• "rihanieris erre like Ih:• Peet ;t'dcet: iron :Ar•cra said. the 1 etionsl .n,ih••m 1, r,ur. i,tt Inc tree. PRINCE ANDREW — With royal detachment, observes preparation for his family's departure Scotland. He is five months old. Prince i1( Andrew for Balmoral, J toe ewcbrtdolbr.•e t)- C to.,rke When we have an unusual experience I like to share it with you. It might help some time. So here is our latest. We have two cheques lost in the mail — Ontario government cheques — interest due on several hoods that we own. The bonds are ful- ly registered; the interest pay- able twice yearly. Up until now the cheques have always arrived absolutely on time. This time sev- eral days went by; finally a week. Still no cheques, So I made inquiries at our local post office We have rural mail delivery in our district so I thought it pos• sible the cheques had gone to some other family by the name of Clarke and would eventually turn up. Two weeks went by. No cheques. So I looked up the Treasury Department for the Province of Ontario in the tele - Far East Allure PRINTED PATTERN 4645 SIZES 12-20 t V erred 414 Sew it now -- wear it now and on through fall! This strikingly "lint dress has an exotic, hi-lr, •ceclaine, midriff drama, Basic t.n' day in black or navy — daz- ding in Oriental colors. - Printed Pattern 4645; Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 10, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3 yards 35 -inch fabric, Printed directions on (tach pat - torn part. [:nsi r, eccuiutt,'. Send -FORTY CENTS (los) t stamps cannot b • accepted, use pti,47,1 note for safety 1 fm this putt'rn. Please print l,lsinly r'IZE, NAME, ADl1RESS, STYLE „1111:l;I1. Serol 111(61 to .ANNE \lt\tIS, x I, Pie Eighteenth St.. New. eeinln, Ont. - phone book. After the usual switch front one person to an- other I eventually got through to the right °Melee He looked up the records and found the cheques had been mailed at the proper time. He suggested con- tacting our post office again and if the cheques did not show up with a day or two to notify the Department in writing. This we did and got word back that the cheques had not been presented fcr payment by any unauthoriz- ee. person, therefore the bank had been notified to stop pay- ment. In due time duplicate cheques would be sent to us -- that is, in about six weeks! In ell, that means a two month's delay before we get our money. It could be quite inconvenient. The big question is — where did the first cheques go? The post ()Nice suggests they might have gone to an entirely differ- • ent town or village bearing a similar name. I know it can happen. When our address was "Milton" quite frequently mall was sent to "Wilton" — some- times because it was addressed that way. Now our address is "Erindale" we come up against Erin, Evansville, Erinsvllle and Ehinvale. Sometimes it is the result of a typist's error. We have yet to get mail correctly addressed from one insurance company with whom we deal. Anyway, if you get cheques or important documents lost in the mail, contact the office front which they were sent. The mee- ter will eventually get straight- ened out. In the old days, accord- ing to a time-honoured saying, "the mail always gets through". But these are not the old days. There are now more people, more places, more time -saving machinery — and more mail. Fut it is questionable whether there is more efficiency. We experienced another little inconvenience last week. It was good drying weather so 1 un- dertook to do some extra wash- ing — blankets and so on. May be you can guess what happen- ed, Yes, in the middle orf things our washing machine gave tip the ghost. After resting a while, it would go for a few minutes, then blow a fuse and - quit. We thought it must be the motor although the machine is only throe years old. However, the repair man said the trouble was in the drainage pump, By acci- dent, it was half turned on, al- though not in use. This caused lint to collect -and plugged the works. We paid • the service charge but did not have the pump repaired -- for the sim- ple reason we don't use it. Part- ner drains the water into pails and uses it to- water the garden, That way it saves water and keeps the septic tank free of de- tergcnts. Detergents, as you nifty know, can play havoc with sep- tic tanks --. also sewerage dis- posal plants. But from now on we shalt watch that purnp. Well, what you you think of this little story? We were hav- ing a cup of tea on the freit porch when the paper -boy Cao;e, l offered him a cookie. "No thanes," came the an- swer. "Whet ._. don't you like vv,;;.iest" - "Yes, I like them all right but they nt'd-e 111(1 'pe'rspire" too match!" le Herds, since when did Leon•• year-old boys start worrying about perspiration? Incidontaily he even had quite a time to pro- nounce the word. I remember when boys thought it sounded "sissified" to say perspiration. Good old honest "sweat" was more to their liking. Years ego 1 was trying to educate our son Bob into using the more polite term for excess body moisture. What answer do you suppose I got? "Gee, Mum -- don't try to make me a sissy, Girls pers- pire, boys sweat! Don't you know that?" Whichever way it is, we have done quite a bit of it the last few days. But now it is cool again. Maybe too cool in the re- sort areas. Daughter sent word (tome that if we planned a visit to the cottage to take an elec• tris blanket. However, s h e doesn't say anything about conn- ing back to Toronto, To all ap- pearances she intends staying to the very last day of the school holid.ys, The bays arc still hav- ing a wonderful time. BEAR, AFAR.! An eccentric old man invested in one of the new hearing aids that are almost invisible. A few cloys later he returned to the shop where he had made his purchase to express his delight. "I'll bet your family likes it. too," said the salesman. "Oh, they don't know I've get it," said the old fellow. "And I'an learning things! In the pant two days I've changed my will twice!" The are -of printing was first introduced to the Americas in Mexico in 1536. How About A HOluse Built Of Ice ? The possibility oI Wang ice for large-scale building projects i4 being investigated by the Mt+tia- thuseltt? Institute of Technology, whose chief r•':eeat'ehef, Dr. \ht, David Fiingtery, foresees n great future for ice -built dwellings. What is now tate most plenti- ful and so far least useful sut,. stance on earth may soon be valued very differently, lie says To hint, ice is a metal, one whieli melts at about 32 degrees Fah- renheit, As a metal, in its natural state, It breaks under a pressure or merely 300 llis, per square inch. But the professor and his teen, have found methods of remedy- ing that weakness. Their experiments prove that ice can be turned into a metal alloy by adding quantities of glass-type fibres, This binds the lee, and ice metal, • so made, reaches a tensile strength of 3,000 lbs. r' square inch. That give a durable alloy, a piece of which, merely a quarter -inch thick, can support the weight of a 200 pound ratan,- - Modern Etiouette Dr Anne Ashley Q. When eating with the folic, is it all right to spear the pieces of meat with the fork held prongs -clown," . A. While it is all right to spear tate neat with down -pointing prongs, you must be certain to lift the fork to the mouth with the prongs upward, Q. When I have borrowed a needle and thread from the at- tendant 111 a powder -room, in or- der to make some minor repair, .aro I supposed to tip the attend- ant? A. Yes, this is expected. ISSUE 36 — 1960 First Photos of New Paris Fashions NEW YORK—(NEA)—The first pictures through from Paris show fall and winter fashions to be feminine and wearable, not at all drastic. Hems are just below the knee and, for both daytime and evening, get the luxury of fur trim. Many coat collars come up to the ears only to be met by hats reaching down to the ears. We show here daytime and evening clothes from the top French couturiers, all of them very flattering. — By GAIL'E DU - GAS, Newspaper Enterprise Women's Editor. A LIGHT and airy look is ach- ieved in this double-breasted turquoise coat by Michel Goma in a shaggy surface fabric. Semi -fitted at the front, it has high waistline with slightly flared skirt. THE "RUSSIAN LOOK" prevails in the collection of Nina Ricci, designed lay Jules Crahay, Typi- ca lis this evening gown of pale gray satin banded in sable, The high waistline is another Cra- hay trade -mark far evening. THIS SPORTY and casual suit has jacket with smooth fit, high pockets, cravat tie and saucer buttons. It's designed by Jean Patou. It's shown here in a new, light -weight tweed, THIS IS THE PARIS version of the flamenco dancer's costume, done for evening by Castillo of Lanvin, The enormous ruching at the him is typically Spanish. Body of the dress is slim rnd simple. This t'';'r n a dere tri a cool, calm ihade of gray.