The Lucknow Sentinel, 1961-06-21, Page 711.
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WEnNESDAY, .JUN.g :21st, .19A1
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.L, „Q.KNOir SENTINEL, .LUCKNOVI, ONTARIO ••
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THE' C013PLES' RACE at the
Kinloss Township COrnrounitY
• • Picnic last week • was an
teresting "feature. The first Up,
• 'the, men were required, to lay
, cardboard pieces, for • theladies to
procedure was reVersecl. •In the
winners, circle with their Win-
ning" smiles are' left' to tight,
Mr.• and Mrs.. Lorne ,Eadie, first,
and Mr: • and Mrs. Fraser
:Kinnon, sechricL • •
step, on .and'• in the • last lap the , • • • Sentinel Photo
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CULROSS CORNERS
Holidays are drawing • nearI.,
The 'children of :bothpublic and
high ..schoolS. have ,been busy,
Mrs..Douglas Haldenby haa're-
•. „turned' from. London' Hospi-
tal,... COngratulatiOns on the
• rival of a son.
Mr. and. Mrs. Ezra Stanley,
• Sharon and ,Leonard, • Kinlough,
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spentThursday evening • with
•,.Mrs. Frank BroWn. and Reg.Mrs Stewart rmstrorLg Ber-
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• vie has been , engaged to, teach
• our schoolfor the conning Year:r.
Congratulations to
Par-
ker on winning a scholarship at
Guelph. •
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....Mr.' and Mrs. John Scott,' :10th.
,con. east, spent Saturday .,even -
mg with Mr. arid. -Mrs. James
:Wraith. • • ••
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Mrs. wri ....teWart,• Kincar-
dine, spent the. week -end :with
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Sunday visitor s With:. Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Stewart were Mr;., arid
Mrs.' Ronald 'Stanley' and farnily •
,Kiriloss and Mr; Ian :McPherson
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, 'Mrs:Frank Brown and. Reg, ac-
cornpanied by Mr. arid Mrs:. Har-
„yey„,".;N,ighOlson' and Miss Shirley
Nicholson, • ..Bervie, %motored .to
Tobermory on Sunday •
.Martin Nelson .is holiday-
ing -with NEI:. and Mri. Tom pe, -
Wart. ••" • • • . .•
Vacation
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c• all aheador reservation—
CALL BY NUMBER— IT'S TWICE AS FAST!
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Hostess
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Mrs, Walter ThoMpson was.
hostess for the June meeting of
the Kairshea W.I. With. 13, mem-
bers and 1 visitor preSent. The
Opening Ode and Nary SteWart...
Collect opened the meeting fol-
lowed by the scripture read by
Mrs. W. F. IVIatDonald. Wednes-
day, June q1t, was ' decided . upon
• to hold • a cleaning bee at The•
.Kairshea W.I. Hall and all ladies
are asked to come, PPssible: A
:grant of $10.00: was given ° to
Luckriew.. Agricultural Society &
a donation ,of $.5,00 td the This-
trict' Project of a Count jr H6rne
Beauty • Shoppe, .On • July 31st,
• Kairshea W:I. • members will be
hostesses at the Log 'Cal:3441, at
the M•useum; Southampton. Com:
munity singing • was enj oYed. The
motto, .".1..iook • back and give
thanks,. —.look forward and give
courage," prepared 'by Mrs. G.
,Wall and. read by Mrs. E. Keith,
was followed by a. reading •by
Mrs:• H, Campbell 'and. a contest.
by Mrs.G. Hamilton. Courtesy
remarks Were 'given. by Mrs. Y.
Moffat. The meeting Closed with
God Save •The Queen' and •The
Institute Grace. The Tweedmuir
History Book was on display. and•
enjoyed .by those'present. A ,tasty
• lunch WO served by .the hostess
• and directors and a social hour
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• In a recent editorial, Hugh
Templin of• the Fergus News -Re-
cord,' one of the deans of ' the
• weekly, nevyspaper field, out-
lined :.thearduous ' duties of the
weekly editor. He described.a
typical, week in' the editor's life.
It was not exaggerated. It shoW;•
'ed the. editor working a,• kiiling
week, taking an 'almost super-
human role inthe affairs of the'
'community, and : serving as •a
general wailing wall: and inform-.
ation servipe for his :readers:
Closing hi editorial, here-
• marked that, it was no wonder,
in .view, 'of all this, that some
WdeklY editors with. *college de
grees were leaving the field for
the sinift' hours and high 'Salaries
of • the teaching. , profession. I
flinched , when, I. read' this:. Then
I flushed. 'I .felt like a deserter.
Then I got mad. "Why, the sono.,.
figun," I thought,: "I'll bet he
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SILVER LANE, vv.L HosT.
TO VISITING: BRANCHES
The June .meeting of the Silver
Lake:•Woriien's Institute was held
• in: The L.O.L. Hall, Kinloss; when
they had as --their guests, the
Kairshea:and Holyrood Institutes
• on Wednesday evening, June
• 7th. Mrs. Sill • Cainpbell Opened
the. meeting With. the Ode and
Mary: Stewart Co1lect.repeated in
•couldn't Stand: it fOr a' week:"
unrson. rne scripture was read
by Mrs. Bill Stanley.Roll cali
was :answered withan .Indtistry.
in Which women -:participate: It:
was decided to. give a • donation
• towards helping with 4..the' furn-
;ishing of the beauty parlour at
Bruce Lea Haven,•:Valkerton,•the
Horne for the Aged. The
dent welcomed the :visiting In-
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stitutes and theit...;, turned the
meeting over: to the COnvener,
Yrs:. John Hodgihs: Th theMe
the' meetiniI: bein6. l•riduStrY'"
• being , •
The :: mottoon this•Subjoct::. was
• "/011,. prepared. 'by, MiSs Emily
.Met7,ger and read by Mrs John
H'drns. 4.: pleasing piano .,solo
Was giveri by Helen . Campbell..
Miss Dean MacLetcL.of KairShea
recited aOry good invitation of.
'Miss; McTavish the Matalimak•-.
•?:r." Mrs; Hodgins introduced the.
tiest speaker; MrS. William' Ar-
nold .Of PurPle...G,rove :Institute.
!he spoke on Industry ,and , dis-
played. a great Many . cans
terentfood products- .which' we
,store : on our ,Sherves.-, for our.
dailyuses 08% of these Cans.are.
teel.and „as •many as • 400 can
be. na'aele,in a •minitte.by rnaohin-
iy
Mrs.. Morgan,. Johnston of
Holyrbod Institute sank.the love-
ly :number •"Now .0.reat Thou
Art". •wth!. MO.: James McEwan
the.'piano.• Mrs. George )(bung
gave' ;a • humorous „teacliftg.. The.
.ne.e.ting was., •closed with the
• .and In..itittite•Grace. Lunch
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vas sr cd by the..ladies of Sil-
.1.ver Lake Institute,
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Before this, trickle of ..traitors
beaOrries..a stream, hear me :out
old .friends in the publishing
business. Piest,. cling. • to that
swivel chair . with 'both hands.
,Hook your legs arOtind that
bat-
tered :desk and •hang on. Sayto
yourselves 10 t Ines a •day,"I'm
a happy weekly .editor." Don't
even admit that.. you ' went to
co1leEe. •
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I have j/ist completed one
year ..of teaching high school stu-
dents. On the surface ..it has had
'little effect on either of us The
students are a little.' taller; or
• fatter, or thinner than, when. we
began. Some of the girls..have
• different :coloredlair., Otherwise
theyare unmarked by the ex7
.perienee.' Nor do 1„show. any.
'Signs of :the ordeal. Aside'from 'a
,tic thatt.inakes. 'theleft side of
my, face look like Boris, Karloff
every 29 Seconds. • • .•
But inwardly neither of us will
etre'. :.be the same.: The students
have had to revise their ideas
about 'teacberS.entitely,They.lie-
gan• on the third '.day. Of.,School,
when, •their”• teacher. • ,howled,
"Turn around, i ye dainned gawk
at one of . the class' delinquents..
8iricethat day, we've, roared
with laughter together.' We've
argued bitterly, with them ,Win
ning sometimes. • We've ,:teased
each:, Other.. I ye, . bellowed, at;
them, :and they've, glared right.
back at. me. • . •
• Arld'. 1, :too; • have had ,to refur-
bish: my notions • abOut teaching !
and: teachers:, First of all, let me
say Ws- • a' ::grinding,'
mentally and physically.If the.
teacher had :nothing to. dbbut
invert knowledge; il Would be a
But this ison,y a portion
of 'his • dUt'es... The, • ret.'ofthe.
time, as occ4.3ion' demands, he •18•,,
cop,,• 'coach, counselor, father,
mother and baby-Sitte,r. .•••
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• I „don't know whether it's' true
Or not, but I heard Sorne'one say.
the other day that there are'more
Metal breakdowns in the teach-
ing profession than any other.
It no no Wonder, Recently, I ,was
teaching a sea story by Conrad.
carefully MstruCted the .kids in
such nautical •tertns as port,' star-
board, aft the bridge, the hold;
hatChes. Then I gave thetri a tet.'
One girls defined "bridge" as
"a' 'group of hard boards nailed
together to crOSs, 4 lake; river,
ete." ••I had to giVe her a mark,
as 1 hadn't specified the 'bridge
of a ship,' but 1 almost' had a
breakdown right there. • The
sante kid, told Me "starboard"
Meant "a: board covered with
stars in the captain's cabin,' by
which;be na0gateS.° • •
Ariother bo/ 1•0
•Ail, 'essay,'• that there' are More
'.people drowned in. summer than
off higiwiays,.- tteuldn't argue
with him there, but 1 nearly bust
a gusset when he warned that
we niust be :careful not to get
caught by the "undertoes" when
swimming: . • •
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Now; about those short h urs,
Hugh Templiii, • Teachers; Work.
nine to four. Unless they are
coaching a team; directing a play,
helping with the yearbook, pr
doing one of a hundred similar
• tricks, in whiCh Case they are
around the factory..,at .411 hours,
• Md to this abodttwenty hours
:of .lesson , preparation . at • four
hours a night, and we find that
.teachers work a minimum: Of
fifty hours a' week, a fair stint
in this day and age.,, •
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Big salaries? ,111y take-home
pay is little over $80 a week. A
union: linotype operator or brick-
layer, working • the same , hours,
would sneer at my pittance.,Triles
,after fifteen to twenty years of
:teaching, one can make 'frOnl•
10,000 to . 10 000 depending on
qualifications There.aren t many
lawyers Or dentists Who ,.,aren't
oing as weIl or. better,and in
a lot less thne. •' .. •
These salaries have been' achi- •
eyed . only' in...the past .couple of • ,
Years. They are not the result
of ,a sudden waye of benevoleneo
• on pie: part: Of schOO1 boards. They ' .
are they 'direct ,result of• the• rule •
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of supply anCdemand. Teachers
were scarce because of the shab-
by Salaries. ; . ,• ..•
. Now, the salaries and security
of teaching are attraing many
of our best and brightest, the
,people who should be teaching.
This cannot fail" to raise our
.standards. of .education. •
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Th mc ease in education costs,
hurt the, individual taxpayer It's
going ,to • keep • on hurting:: .1$o
lOnger can •a boy quit school:•a
16, with a;Oracle. 10 education, •
and hope to find a' happy life,: - • .
Technology is 'rapidly'. wiping out ' 1.
the : -laborer: One man with a
power shovel 'does the work of. .
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twenty ditch -diggers. The
vest. Excursion"' to thewest is •
a thing of 'the peg: The machine: •
.has .• 'replaced. the • men once re-quired
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••••Je e, Wait'a. Minute now, I'rn •
starting' to talk ( about :stuff that •
is .way over My head. 'Let's. get
down to bragsfacts. can ••
'say' about teaching'.:is. that I've ?'
never:Woriced.hardet in my life.
But it was worth itf, tO'see.those;
.*Shys,'..sinfles:.of gratitude and:'af-
fection' on the faces of my •stu-
nts, as they trarnPled, e into
the floor Op their•.way out, the
last. day ••schOol.
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Don't WOrry, old 'friends in the• . •
Weekly business,- I'm not letting •
down the, team. You Should hear
; talking . to; these teacher0,
when • they., start, complaining
about how hard they. Work, "Why
' you, spOileit• pampered .pedago
gites." 1 Oil them, "you don't
know what WOrk . is. This is' a
snap. Yoiere overpaid and under: • .
worked Now, When 1 was inthe:
weekly rieWspapet• business .".
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You'll notice, friend Thigh, that
1 have careftOly avoided the Matz-
• ter- of -holidays, This Summer &
next, I' have •to g6 to summer
at • considerable •expense •
Making. .plans 'for th.e.
•surnrner .of, '03. • .•••
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At first, 1 tnought ,a` trip to •
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EbroPe rtighk, be nice. But I've
pretty 'well deeided s*pend.iluly
and August on a. tour ef Canad,
• dropping: in .on ;weekly editors. in •
• rny. Berrniida shorts, ,and letting •
-.0-tern cry -on the shoulder of rny.
. coot4 crisp sport shirt, • •
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•• ConnmisSion§. are"..not•:.,:palet On• ;
arguments "Won; !bill t .,;tklet•." • •
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• \one sale leads to . another. , •
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