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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-08-10, Page 3Malmo Homework llei,Jiti :cls1 Of Nw 5s is tlh I c being altered. one Of warm old-ta-. eh tined 1.tt'tc1::tik cookies to 'hear gill; or t, ame-writing and st'•fei: 1 , t uw:.:k assignments for spice . , P;.pill, - The pub .o elementary schools it St. Lout$ hate just received novice that trey are going to have to dig In on homework next school year. There also wi:l be more tempositions, And the' compositions are to be care- . fully corrected, They are not to be just a pupil's evening busy-. work that the teacher shuffles into the wastebasket after school the next day. The policy site:emelht from an assistant superintendent • calls for fourth- graders to receive a nightly budget of approximately SO minutes of n omework, Fifth and sixth graders will be asked to put in 45 minutes on home assigllinents and :he seventh and eighth graders may' expect at least an hour's extra work every day. As for the composition-wul- Mg, there will be an essay or other form of dame every ,wo weeks, or about 20 a year, Says Assistant Superintencent William C. Ke -leyer: "Because the bulk at to 'ng in the last 10 years lira involved the mut- 'tip_e - choice r,ge of question which lends 1 aif to machine scoring, actual i :ting has been minimizer Nov we are getting complaint., by coiieges that the high schca: st,dents they are getting are unao e. to write sim- ple English. The new emphasis on essays and. compositions is In- tended to meet :nese complaints. "Every semester since 1957 has s e e n. an improvement in our tesching technique here," ex- plains Mr. Kottlneyer, "Now we think it is time to place more emphasis on the student's work outside of school hours, Suffi- cient homework teaches the stu- dent -to work on his own, some - t h in g he will need in high school and cege, It also teaches him TO organize his tittle•" In these times of teaching ma- chines and airborne television classrooms (and cookie mixes) the sturdy accompaniments of ante - honoured ciao -kat educa- tions — many more than 20 themes a year and more like - three hours of homework for an eighth grader than one — must be struggling to survive, writes Robert Colby —Nelson in the Christian Science Monitor. Even . the current hubbub about rapid reading, highlighted ate recent week by the perform - Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 13® �- ®I t: A iy 1110 ' E1!-3li4F]mon OM mum 0 . umm rum ® iv01 SIri ni 3©110• IN MOS a --® HE V d REFUGEES FLOCK INTO WEST BERLIN -East Germans at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin wait for flights to West Germany. The Allies have arranged for the evacuation of about 1,000 refu- gees per day by air to cope with the heavy influx of refugees. Refugee centers in the divid- ed city are overcrowded by the unusually large number of persons crossing the border because of the threat by the Communists to sign a treaty with the East Germans and seal this last opening in the line between free Europe and Communist countries. ' ranee of a young man at an edu- cation convention who zipped through 120 pages in mere min- utes with apparent total com- prehension of all the facts he had read, has set some to wor- rying about appreciation for writing style, structure, and mood, etc. Steps such as the homework - composition edict just issued in St. Louis may help keep' balance between the best education tech- niques of the past, and the new. It faces time-honoured perils, of course. Principals here are reminded to make their purposes clear on one of the rustiest of the old-fashioned educational techniques in most homes. The new quota of homework is to be done by the pupils — not by their parents. Want To Rent A Kangaroo? You are a Cree Indian visiting New York City on your vacation. You want to write to the braves back home, but you don't have a typewriter that writes Cree dialect. Where do you go7 The answer is the Tytell Typewriter. Co. at 123 Fulton Street, which rents 'such machines for $16 a month. The source of this and other hints is Elizabeth Squire's "The New York Shopping Guide," published recently, The fruit of five years' burrowing along boulevards and back al- leys, Miss Squire's compendium is proof that in New York you can buy almost anything. Sam- ples: Kangroos (rented) — Animal Talent Scouts, • Inc., 331 West • Eighteenth Street. $50,000 Russian Easter Eggs— La Vielle Russie, 781 Fifth Av- enue. Human Skulls — George M.' Juergens, 1100 Third Avenue, These days we know so little about the things that at one time. we knew so much about, SPACE CREATURES—T/Sgt. Jack Thompson and friend Jeanne Pentecost invaded the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. Actually he and Jeanne, who is "Miss Florida WestCoast Press Photogra- Fher," mode their "invasion" only to call attention to an Air orce space age display, Tll1SA!N FRONT J06 r • A woman near Belleville, brought up on a farm, told her husband that she didn't like the taste of the butter she had b o u g h t at her neighborhood store. He agreed itwas a little off the usual high quality of Canada First Grade Creamery butter so they called the local representative of the Canada De- partment of Agriculture's Dairy Products Division. He took the butter for laboratory examina- tion, From that point on things moved` swiftly. There were phone calls,.inspections, checks back to the factory, checks on individual churnings and on plant, several more analyses, and the provin- cial dairy . authorities were also brought into the picture. In the end, the trouble was found and the housewife's com- plaint' wasremedied. Thanks to her initiative and the energy with which the dairy , products division went into action, a de- terioration in standard had been checked before much loss was incurred. b , According to Dr. H. A. Derby, director of the division, there are 'new complaints because the qual- ity, of Canadian butter is gen- erally -very high, But he wants consumers 'to be aware of their right to submit to the division any dairy product which is con- sidered below standard. Fieldmen of the division are instructed always to follow up complaints, . and refer them to the head office where further investigation is made. While. provincial graders su- pervise grading of the cream and milk from which butter is made, the federal department is re- sponsible for enforcing quality regulations for the finished pro- duct. Officers grade for certifi- cation for export and for inter- provincial trade. Grade checks are taken at all levels of trade manufacture by Dairy Products Division men, dairy produce gra- ders and inspectors of the Con- solidated Retail Inspection Unit. Maintenance of the quality standard is essential if butter sales are to .be sustained in the face of keen competition from other spreads: , , Measures to protect the con- sumer, Dr, Derby said, also safe- guard the manufacturer by giv- ing him a double check on his operation. Most provinces have adopted federal regulations and all creameries must conform to the Baine standard. Dairy division officers spot- check consumer - sized packages from retail stores for 'labelling, weight, correct marking and moisture and fat content, if the product does not meet the stand- ards,, its sale can be halted until the discrepancy is rectified. Through the manufacturer's code, packaged butter can usual- ly be traced right back to a par- ticular churning, * 4,a Canada First Grade Creamery contains no more than 10 per cent water and not less than 80 per cent milk fat, no other fat being allowed, It must score not less than 02 points, 39 of them for flavor. Commercial butter gen(•I'ally sc-ins 93, of which 40 are for flavor. Flavor is influ- enced by the quality of the raw milk and cream used in the make. • * The dairy inspector expects butter to be clean, with no ob- jectionable 'flavor; and of firm texture, close and waxy with the minimum of free moisture. The color should be practically true and even, and of a desirable shade. Achieving this by artifi- cial means is not illegal. Where used, salt must be welldissolved lb the butter and the product should be packed solidly in clean boxes, neatly and cleanly lined, branded and finished. * o * Butter adulteration is punish- able by court action, but policing of the manufacturing end of the butter industry is a matter for the provnicial authorities. Federal, provincial and com- mercial co-operation is at a high level and consumer representa- tions are readily investigated. r: * ;. A new potato top killer that is safe for cattle and other ani- mals which may accidentally eat the treated plant tops, is being introduced in Canada. The product, called "Region," is a potent, water-soluble herbi- cide described technically as a "quaternary ammonium com- pound." Unlike the arsenical compounds still widely used in this country for potato topping, it has low toxicity. It was tested last year in po- tato growing areas of Ontario and the Maritimes and results showed it to be an effective po- tato top killer in seed and main crop potatoes. Leaf kill is rapid (three to four days) with kill of stem taking place gradually (10 to 14 days) giving conditions that closely approach 'natural" ma- turity. The highly poisonous nature of arsenical compounds used for po- tato top killing lees long been a source of concern to farmers and conservationists. (Their manu- facture was recently banned vol- untarily in England by the as- sociation of British manufactur- ers of agricultural chemicals).. Extreme care must be taken when applying it to crops to keep livestock away from the fields. Inevitably, some accidents have occurred that resulted in injury to humans and livestock. Even when a small amount of arsenic spray has drifted into a neigh- boring pasture, symptoms of poi- soning have been observed in the cattle, Applications of "Reglone." on the other hand, have been tree of these harmful effects, In fact, on one 'farm in the Maritimes — where many tests were earned out — Hurricane Donna last year blew "Reglone" treated tops on- to an adijacent pasture in suffi- cient quantity to kill all the cattle there if arsenic compounds had been used; but none was in- jured. Carry a handy tube of rubber cement with you on your camp- ing trip, It will help start a fire very fast, Just put a few squeezes of this rubber liquid under or on the wood, Touch a match, and you'll have a hot fire in no time, ISSUE 32 „-, 1961 No End hi Sight For "My Fair Lady" Disregarding the gallantry which usually prohibits discus- sion of a woman's age, the man- agement of "My Fair Lady" proudly noted last month that the Mark Bellinger Theatre hit has become the longest -running musical comedy in Broadway his- tory, The record was established on the warm afternoon of Wed- nesday, July 12, when the Alan Jay Lerner - Frederick Loewe version of Shaw's "Pygmalion" gave its 2213th performance, It thus passed "Oklahoma!" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hain- merstein II, which was acted 2,212 times in New York. Like "My Fair Lady," it was an adapt - teflon (from "Green Grow the Lilacs," by Lynn Riggs), Three principals — Olive Reeves -Smith, Gordon Dilworth, and Rod McLennan— and nine members of the chorus have been in "My Fair Lady" since it open- ed on March 15, 1956, The pro- duction now stars Margot Moser (the first American permanently assigned to the part) as Eliza Doolittle; Michael Allison as Henry Higgins, Melville Cooper as Colonel Pickering, and Ronald Radd as Alfred Doolittle, On the afternoon that "My Fair Lady" became the new long - run champion, the national com- pany was giving its 1,774th per- formance (currently playing the Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles). The London production is hi its 167th week at Drury Lane. Other overseas duplications have been given in Australia, the Nether- lands, and Sweden, A German version is scheduled to open at the Munich Opera House, Berlin, in October. And the end is nowhere in sight. School Boards Love To Dish It Out! Already the highest salaried school official in the country, Benjamin Coppage Willis, 60, Chicago's able, energetic superin- tendent of schools, last month became the third highest paid of all U.S. public servants, The Chi- cago Board of Education (after a month's deliberation) voted to give Willis, who once worked as an auto salesman and hotel clerk, a new four-year contract at $48,- 500 a year — a $6,000 raise, Am- ong public officials only Presi- dent Kennedy ($100,000) and New York's Gov. Nelson Rocke- feller ($50,000) earn more. Hospitality is the art of mak- ing people feel at home when you wish they were. HO-HUM — Sis, anall-month-o d lion cub in Portland zoo opened her mouth to growl for the cameraman. But all that came out was a big yawn, UNDAY S . 1 LESSON By Rev. K. Barclay Warren 93.A., R.Q. Making Good After Failure Acts 12;25; 13;4-5, 13: 15: 36-39; Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:llb; 1 Peter 5:13 Memory Selection: Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 3 Timdtby 2:3. We incline to remember the failures of people more than their successes. Are we trying to make ourselves feel more comfortable about our own fail- ures? John Mark's home was one of prayer. It was here that the saints were praying when Peter was miraculously released from prison. Thank God for praying homes. Mark went with his uncle Bar- nabas and the apostle Saul, on their first missionary journey. The Holy Ghost had appointed Barnabas and Saul to go. Mark did not have such a Divine ap- pointment. When they came to Perga in Pamphylia, Mark left the party and went home. When Paul (formerly ell known as Saul) and Barnabas were preparing to go on their second missionary journey•they disagreed with re- gard to taking Mark. The result was that Barnabas took his neph- ew Mark and Paul took Silas as his companion in travel. fierce there were two missionary groups instead of one. Mark proved himself as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Later he was sought by Paul as one who was profitable to him for the ministry. Mark also laboured with Peter in Babylon, His great- est work was in writing a record of the life and ministry of Jesus. It is believed to be the first of the four records. It is thought that much of the information was received from Peter with whom he laboured. We have all had our failures and we may all, under God, achieve success. I am thrilled at the success of some of those I taught during my sixteen years in Bible Schools. One of them in a recent letter said, "Thanks for being so patient and understand- ing of me when I was growing up." I needed patience, too. But he making good and I rejoice in it. I think of another who went home, determined to give up all thought of the ministry. There was no use of trying to pressure him but I reasoned with him and prayed with him, To- day he is a successful minister. I am thankful, too, to those who were patient with me when I was growing up, Deficit Spending By Governments The bolder advocates of defi- cits are usually honest: They can- didly contend that the money can be more wisely spent 'by officials than by citizens. They frankly go a long way toward more powerful government, But poli- ticians who find it expedient to lure votes by spending are more deceiving about deficits. They talk about tax incentives for pri- vate enterprise but instead take more money for government pro- jects. They try to get the people to look at "pie in the sky" instead of new debts under their feet. They destroy not only fiscal in- tegrity but political integrity- — an editorial in The Christian Science Monitor. And two shortstops, Ray Chap- man and Lennie Merullo, each made four errors in one inning. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS G_. 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