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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1966-02-23, Page 1t SISK •. 100. C. 17c 30c 9c 27c 19c E 9c,. lc.: ,•••• . 24c •!i.� .Herder ren; Mrs; of Luc rn of Sa or. a holt rned on , eek, to , om Wesr ,ondon, a patient Lewis. ore Che Miss E Plumsteel designs As Teacher The Lucknow' District:.High School Board has received with 'regret the resignation of Miss Eleanor Plumsteel, the Senior English, teacher in the High School, Miss Plumsteel has taught in Ontario Schools for over twenty five. years. She has been on the' , staff'for the past four years and served for a period of time with this, Board on a previous occasion. She suffered `a heart attackearly in the Fali Term and returned in X January, : Ill health has forced her to give up teaching permanently. She is currently a patient in the. St. Joseph's Hospital, London., Miss Plumsteel will be well re- membered in this community by the many students who 'received her counsel and advice concerning their education; ' A new English.teacher from the'. Althouse college of Education will takeover. the Senior English ,,classes in the .School this coming Monday , on a temporary basis. Ions inlay risiian a stalled as ucknow lie meet Exeter, • or ,Jaid cknow' Cl Injured. : Badminton Game. Beverly MacDonald, Grade 10 student. at Lucknow District High School, wads 'admitted to Wingham Hospital last Tuesday. , She suffer? • ed•a slight concussion when She ran into the wall while playing badminton in physical .education • class Tuesday morning. She was released frm .hospital Thursday and returned to school Friday.' Beverly is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs; Jack MacDonald` of town. am and yrs nderson, lenders% e WOO 2 'Ghent! crones. ,' Willias ,f 9'I:oj,ao� A GIRL IN GOAL —'is what opposition teems "'found when they dos - ad ,in:on the Lucknow PeeWees this season. Behind the mask and other equipment they were probably, surprised to see Mary Jardine, daugh- ter` of Mr. and Mrs: Ken .Jardine of Lucknow: `Mary, who will be: . 12 years of age in. March, has been tending the Lucknow P..Wee net in recent playoffs and as well takes a • regular . turn at the :Saturday morning house league. Mary does a creditable job end certainly is a bit of a novelty in the hockey rink. She is shown with . fellow house' league players. Lawrence Jay, son of Rev: and Mrs. Stanley Jay of • Lucknow, •on the.. left and Ken Farrish, son of Mr. and Mrs, Duncan Farrish of Lochalsh, on; the right., Len FOr More Farmers have problems :-' and ' many of them -- and the. Sentinel reporter spent an interesting three hours last Thursdayevening at the •Lucknow Town Hall where another in •a series of meetings was held by the Ashfield Local 342 of the Ont- ario Farmers' Union. This was the fourth in a series of meetings held by the group in a membership drive and membership is increasing stead• ily in the township. About 50 men and women attended the meeting on Thursday .of last week'. The meeting was chaired by Ed- gar Rathwell of Clinton: Huron County representative of the Ont- , ado Farmer's Union. Speaker for the evening was John Hutchison .of Markdale, District Director' for PoliceOfficer Has Resigned Post Lucknow Village Council have • received the resignation of the village's police officer Joe Wenn- eau effective 'Match 31st. Joe came to Lucknow .from Palm- erston Police:Department May 1st of last year. Ripley -Huron Towns Schedule, Minimum Ripley=Huron Township School Area Board has adopted its first salary schedule: providing increases of, from $400 to'.$600, for the ten teachers on the staff at Ripley- Huron and Pine River Central Schools, Category 1 provides a of $3500 p minimum and 'a maximum of $4700; Category 2- $3900 to $5700; Category '3 $4300 to $6400; .Grey and Bruce :for the Union. Mr. Hutchison stated that his home area was the birthplace of the Ont- ario Union with the first interest stemming at Maxwell in Grey Cou- nty. ou- nt . The` first rovincial meeting yp g,, was held is the old armories. at Markdale. , Mr. Hutchison said that if the, Union had organized 'strongly after •• ,the second world war, at the time when trade unions found their. stren- gth, the. Ontario fanner : would not be in the position; he has found himself today. He referred to re- • centfarm c" redia legislation by government and said that credit. is no cure•for farm, prices;. itonly gets a man in deeper than before. He stressed that it• was the duty of CONTINUED.ON PAGE 18 hip Area Sets Salary' is Now $3500 Other. benefits include $5 per day for unused sick time. ' Principals will be allowed $120 per classroom Teachers in category 1 will receive $100 'for completing summer courses. Representing the teachers at the meeting were Floyd Stanley and Mrs. Isabel Martyn of the Ripley- Huron Central School and Mt. Joan MacKay Of the Fine River Central • School, • Set New -Dates For FaH Fair Lucknow' Agricultural Society held a special'meeting at the Town Hall on Friday night to deal• with the date of the 1966 Fall Fair. The previously set. date had con- flicted ,with on-flicted.with 'a district Women's Institute rally to be held in. Luck- now and the Friday meeting de- cided to'hold the, Fair on Friday . r and Saturday, September 16 and.' Mr. and Mrs, Oliver McCharles were appointed delegates to.the Fairs Convention'in Toronto this week, Several dates were sugg- ested for a variety concert with no definitedate set.. It will, how- - ever, be sonetime.in mid March, Bill Hunter was added to the associate directors for Ashfield and. Toni' Todd and George Kennedy for "W est. Wawanosh. • li#oriaf Comme LUCKNOW DISTRICT HIGH SCH( THE FUTURE lS IN DOUBT. For many Months now, the fibre of the Lucknow District High School ha,s.been discussed. We have beard discussion over.: the coffee cups, we have heard it in living rooms and ewe have Beard it at public meetings.. It has been a .topic of much dis. cession in the area and the trend of the conversation hasalways led up to the conclusion that "its days are numbered". It will therefore be no treat news .to the community that this very subject . is the main topic confronting the local high school board atthinvery moment. It was a,,,battle to get a district high school in Lucknow or- iginally r iginally and one. of the main drawbacks at that time was lim- ited enrolment. It would be mainly this fact which would end a district high school here, if this should be the ' case. / The advent of vocational training programs by the de- partment tment of education m the past few years has caused the enrolment of the students attending, Lucknow District High School to drop with vocational pupils being transported to Wing - ham . District High School where this course is available. It was, not practical to provide these facilities at every school In Ont- ario, and for this reason; Lucknow pupils must obtain this part- icular type of 'education at Wingham, ' the closest ; centre Pro- viding it. An expected increase in the future in the use of these. facilities by .Lucknow? students would only greater aggravate the silage ofenrolment here and make it more impractical to continue Lucknow as a centre of secontdary. learning. Meetings . have been held with the' department of education by the Lucknow Distriet. High School Board accompanied by district elementary boards .jbcr best determine the future sof the Lucknow District High calabool• The . Sentinel has discussed the matter with two members of the delegation, and although! the. discussions with :depart- meat officials were "only discussions," with no concrete decis- ions made, it was agreed that an early decision will have ,to be made on whether. or not Lucknow District High School will .con- tinue as a centre of secondary education for this, community. ;' The Sentinel does not wish .to be an alarmist, : and we 'd0 not want to heap extra problems on the shoulders' of the ,school board -who will have the hardest decision of their term in office to make, but' the fact remains that this subject has become • street calk, it is no longera matter known only te the boards concerned, and the public have a right : to know what is being done by . their,elected and appointed members,.... 4 We donot want to • infer that the Lucknow District' High .. School Board was attempting : to hold—hack any.of what ' has taken place. Itwas they who came to the Sentinel and offered to provide a press release on the subject for which we were,:: quite grateful. But much of the press release dealt with matters which had'appeared in recent issues, and in view of the "street talk". on the subject, and theimportance of .::thedecision to be made, we felt it did not go far enough. , We felt it our duty to present to the public what, we know of the matter to date. The High School board were in agreement with this view. ' Several things which make. a ° decision on the high school: very urgent are, the fact that Lucknow Public School will soon be 90 years. old and in the present thinking of the department of . education, . does not provide facilities necessary foil element- ary instruction ' in this day and age. It would seem foolish to •finalize plans for further 'additions or a brand new public school if the Lucknow District High School would be abandoned in the Kinloss School Area Board are planning an addition to their school and Ashfield and ' West Wawanosh Townships ' are pre- sently planning the building of a new school. These Townships, along. with Lucknow; are all part of the Lucknow District High School and the High; School' Board feel every effort shduld be made to make it known to these boards of the possibilities of ' the closing of tuelmow High Schoolso that they Might take this into consideration .when makingtheir • plans. , tf The London meeting with the department . of education t1hih was attended byall. these boards, recommended that if Lucknoww District High School . would be closed in the future, the building could be used as an intermediate school for grades 7 and 8 throughout the entire area. Department of Education "' officials feel this would be a perfect set up and this is a Mkt - ter for future thought by. all concerned. The Lucknow District High School serves all these munici- palities and the board is ing to make sure that all Arlt- palities would have an opportunity to make use of it in the future. The Lucknow High School Board deserve great credit for grasping this problem as it erdsts" today. They • very. well put it off for a future board to but this ,group . of men realize the importance of e1 • ion being made now, and they -have come face-to-face with it. w ,t1 acctoe44ieoe000a,e -oe oe 00r• •e000aaaraaeaaaao, .flantesting . Ifl Ashfield • . • When some farmers are begin- ning to think about spring seeding, harvesting is stillin progresS in Ashfield Township.. Marvin Scott was combining sun flowers last week and Alex "Bud" • Farrish was harvesting some osis ' corn. • eseonsomee nconic•eeeeeeee.ea`eel eeee cams tr o.