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SEAFORTI-J, ONTARIQ, JUNE 25, 1964
Grade .13 and
Today's Students
During recent months, Grade 13 and
all it implies has been the subject of
countless words—written and spoken
—and most of them have been critical.
Many of the complaints . centre about
the demands which Grade 13 exams
make of students. The exams are too
hard; they involve too much study for
the average students; the strain which
they impose may well scar a pupil for
life, the critics suggest.
Perhaps they are right, but we doubt
it. Unless progressively •higher de-
mands are made on a student as each
year passes, there is little -point in
bothering with school at all. Unless
the established standards are of a na-
ture to challenge the student to greater
effort, he may as well live out his school
life in Grade 9.
Certainly there well may be adjust-
ments necessary in order that the con-
tribution which Grade 13 may make
to a pupil's education is maximum and
we trust those responsible are looking
at the requirements, with this in mind.
But this is not to condemn out of hand
the entire concept of Grade 13 and
Grade 13. examinations.
Prompting all this is a letter appear-
ing elsewhere on this page. The writer
questions some of the arguments being
advanced to support the contention that
Grade 13 pupils are being placed at a
disadvantage.
Huron and the Town
Parking difficulties which may face
Huron County reeves when they visit
the -county town prompted a long dis-
cussion at County Council earlier this
month. It all came about because Gode-
rich town council proposes to limit
parking about the Square.
Any discussion of the matter . in-
volves the relative contributions which
the county and town make to each
other and their rights and privileges as
the Goderich Signal -Star indicatesin
these words:
"Local municipalities have tb pay
for courthouses, but use only a small,
part of their facilities, which by arid
large are neither a service to local tax-
payers nor to the municipality. Com-
pared to the direct expenses met by
local municipalities, the money return-
ed through fines is insignificant.
"The foregoing is a statement which
Hurpn County Council made its own by
concurring last Thursday in a city of
London resolution calling upon the. On-
tario government to 'note the inequi-
ties in this situation's and to assume
the entire cost of administration of
justice, including the cost of building
courthouses, courts and jails, law lib-
raries, etc., are not only no asset to a
town in which they are situated, but a
liability.
"Some county • councillors may be
surprised to learn' the terms of the
London resolution. • It was among docu-
ments distributed .on first day of the
session, sent to a co m,ittee for recom-
mendation, and the concurring report
adopted in due course without the docu-
of Goderich
ment being read in council.
"This may account for some mem-
bers expressing, minutes afterward, a
completely opposite view. In discussion
of proposed parking restrictions here,
along with certain suggestions for get-
ting back at Goderich, it was said that
the town 'has the privilege of holding
court' in the county building. The
chairman of the property committee is
reported as saying that the payroll of
the courthouse is the equivalent•of 'a
nice little industry for Goderich.' For
purposes of this particular discussion,
the courthouse was represented to be
an important asset.
"One hesitates to endorse one or oth-
er of these conflicting views; there may
be something to be said for both. It is
appropriate, however, tb point4qut that
more than half the county's budget of
two and a quarter million dollars comes
from `grants and subsidies' from the
Goverment of Ontario. County Council
to this considerable extent is primarily
a funnel for disbursing what the pro-
vince turns' back from its collections of
sales tax, gasoline tax, license fees, etc.
The remainder of county revenue is col-
lected from the municipalities through
a mill rate on property assessment, and
the municipal councils get it front their
property owners. Goderich ratepayers
contribute $100,000, an item to • be
taken into consideration in weighing
the conflicting opinions in county coun-
cil regarding the courthouse. It should
be noted, however, that the `no asset'
statement is official, and recorded in
the minutes."
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
June 30, 1939
Sylvester Allen, for 15 years
an employee of Seaforth PUC,
was instantly killed late Satur-
day evening. He came in con-
-tact with a 2,200 -volt line while
working on a pole in front of
the Seaforth Lions Park on
Goderich St. East. It wasat
almost the same spot that an-
other PUC employee was elec-
trocuted just eight years before.
Mr. D. L. Reid was awarded
•a prize of $25 in a contest con-
ducted by Unique Picture Co.,
Toronto. Mr. Reid's entry was
of a tree near Milverton. The
local agent of the Unique Co.
is Keating's Pharmacy, Sea -
forth.
Among the students from this
district who successfully passed
their examinations at Stratford
Normal School were: Dorothy
J. Drover, Beryl Carter, Eleanor
Hudson and Reg Pryce.
Rev. T. P. Hussey, L. be
Franier, Leo Hagan and Frank
Reynolds attended the first
Provincial Holy Name conven-
tion in Toronto last week and
were a=long the 15,000 who
attended ' at Varsity Stadium.
The Barbara' 'Kirkman Auxil-
iary held its June meeting on
the flats of the river at the
home of Mr. John McDowell
on Tuesday.
Fror The Huron* expositor
June 26, 1914
On July 1st the annual Sun-
day School picnic of Cromarty
Church will be held a8 usual
tft 1ihe Metintain Gi'O 'e.
16, T. F'''oi`ayt1i, of Kipper
iyy1to„ri%ways has something. good
in lite' horse Line, last week
,.l
purchased from Mr. Norris,
horse dealer of Hibhert, a heavy
drpft Clydesdale registered filly.
This fine animal is four years
old, and weighs over' 1700
pounds, and for quality is• hard
to beat.
Mr. William Mackay, the ef-
ficient principal of Hensall
Public School for over twenty
years, as well as the two efflci-,
'ent assistant lady teachers,-.
namely, Miss M. Ellis and Miss
A. Consitt, have had their sal-
aries advanced.
Miss Bottoms, of the com-
mercial department of the Sea -
forth Collegiate, has sent in her
resignation, having accepted a
similar position at North Bay.
Mr. William Murdie, son of
Mr. Michael Murdie, clerk of
McKillop, left .. last week for
Port Arthur, where he will
spend the summer in Govern-
ment survey' work.
Mr. Gordon Gould, of Toron-
to, graduate of the Seaforth Col-
legiate Institute, spent Sunday
at Thornton Hall, with Mr and
Mrs. A. D. Scott.
Mr. John Sproat, of Tucker.
smith, has sold his 50 -acre farm
to Mr: Leyburn, of Wexford,
Ireland, who has recently come
to this township.
From The Huron Expositor
June 28, 1889
The horse shed at Turner's
Church, Tuckersmith, has been
enlarged by the addition of 40
feet, which makes it a very
commodious establishment.
,i1. vote taken 'by ballot .in the
'Blyth Presbyterian Church re •
-
ceititly* has resulted in favor of
the toe of the organ in coni
ttectibn with the regttlar church
services, by a majority of 17.
There were 55 tickets sold at
Seaforth station and nine at
Clinton station on Monday for
the cheap excursion to Toron-
to.
Mr. C. L. Papst has returned
to Seaforth from Harriston and
has taken a position with Scott
Bros.
On Thursday, June 20, about
100 of the members and friends
met at tthe Methodist Church
in Londesboro and proseeded
to the parsonage, where b --host
enjoyable evening ' was spent.
After two years of faithful
work, Rev. Rogers is about to
move to his 'new field at At-
wood. Mrs. Tamblyn made the
presentation and, Mr. R. R. Jef-'
frey, agent of the Grand Trunk
Railway, read an address:
Statute labor was done on
the Harlock sideroad "last Sat-
urday, when seven teams haul-
ed for an average of two miles
50 loads of gravel, and repair-
ed -a mile and a quarter of road.
One evening last week 16
Zurich villagers started in a
livery rig to go to Exeter to
hear Crossley and Hunter. It
took some time to gather up
the crowd, and finally there
was only an hour and a half in
which to make the distance. At
last they were off and making
fast time until they reached
the swamp east of . Fanstown,
when the front axle of the ve-
hicle broke. Finally a big lum-
ber wagon was procured and
the whole party returned to
Zurich, driving into town at
Such a ,humping and bumping
speed as to bring out all the
school children and a god'dly
number of the grown popula-
tion.
• SOME CANADIAN SYMBOLS
Letters to the Editor
Too Much 'Sympathy?
Sir: The spate of sympathy helped separate the men from shop provides a I
that has beenpace caner
poured over the the boys at the rehabilitation each camper may purchase `
Grade 13 students in the past schools in the years immediate- to 20c of treats per d
ay. r✓om
few weeks is ridiculous. More ly following the war. It could petent counsellors p r o v i d
serious has been the supercil- be that they still can perform round-the-clock supervision an
ious downgrading of the acquisi- that task, or is our society helpful direction to all boy
tion of facts. The experts wail lapsing into perpetual boy- and girls.
that the students are' supposed hood? • The camping costs and cam
to think,. to' use facts. How can (Miss) JUAN TAYLOR periods are as follows: Junio
they use facts until they, have camps for boys and girls; `age
learned them? And the only Seaforth. 9-12; cost: registration fee, $3
motivation
Sugar and Spice
By Biu Smiley
I WISH YOU SAFETY ' on you. If they want to keep
As I drove the long, tired an eye, that is.
road home Sunday night, I be- a:* *
gan to realize why so many fel- Never swim where there's a
up.
lows of my age are cracking crowd. ' You went on your holi-
The old lady was sitting
there, talking as though word -
rationing was going into effect
at midnight. The radio alter-
nated between shouts of some
group noisies and nausipuser
than the Beatles, courtesy of
my daughter, and the smug an-
nouncements of the disc jockey,
who broke in every few min-
utes to tell us with triumph of
another fatality on roads or
water.
4c * a:
After 17 years, I've given up
trying to do anything about my
wife's talking jags. After 13
years, I've abandoned all hope
of improving -rimy daughter's
taste or temperament.
• But by George, I still have.
some love for my fellow man.
Once a year, whether I like
it or not, I publish some safety
hints on hunting, driving, try-
ing to get along with women,
or a similar perilous under-
taking, , strictly in the public
interest -
For example: When canoe
e ing, never kneel in the bottom
up-
"of the thing. It's too hard on
the knees. Use a Ione -handled
paddle, and paddle standing up.
That way, you can jump if she
rolls over, ' If you're merely a
passenger, stand in the bow,
so that you can warn of rocks,
large turtles, or waterfalls.
days to get away from people
remember? Pick out a nice
lonely spot and dive • in.
It's old fashioned, but the
best way to teach kids to swim
is to throw them off a dock.
It can be embarrassing if you
can't swim yourself; and they
refuse to float.
About fires. Never scatter
sand and water on your bon-
fire when you leave. Maybe the
next fellow doesn't have a
match to start his own. This is
known as common courtesy be-
cause it's so common.
You have to use a little com-
mon sense to get your barbecue
charcoal going, too. We've tried
a couple of those commercial
fluids, but there's not enough
action. What I do now is give
the charcoal a good sloshing
with lawnmower gas. Then ev-
erybody hits the deck. I stand
away back and hurl lighted
'matches at the thing. It may
not be the status way to do it,
but it sure as hell gets that
charcoal going.
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that prods many of board, $18. (1) From July 1 t
them into doing that is the big July 10; (2)-- From July 11 t
stick of the June examinations. July 20; (3) From July 21 't
They don't have to cram, -that is' July 30; (4)' From July 31 to
their own idea. August 9; (5) From August 2
Many teachers exhaust them- to August 30.
selves from September .until • • Junior Auxiliary Camp—F
June exhorting their pupils to Windsor, Ont. members of. the Junior -Auxil
master each section of their 19th June, 1964 iary; No girls under the eight
work as they go along. But get ,Sir: May I' thank you you for year of age will be accepted
close .enough to a group. of your very kind efforts, on be- Cost: registration fee, $3; board
these fascinating, exasperating hall of Huron Church Camp, $18. From August 10 to August
fifth -formers and they admit' both in the'past,and at present. 19. Campers may register on
quite cheerfully that the work Your valuable newspaper .has the evening of August 9th after
they did during the school year on other occasions published an 6 p -m• '
consisted of knocking out as- article similar to that which • Teen -Age Girls'. Camp --. For
signments with a maximum of follows,' in an effort to acquaint girls, ages 13-17. Cost: registra-
borrowing and. a minimum. of the. people of your..community tion fee, $3; board, $19. From
mental involvement. The time with what our Camp offers to July 1st to July 10th.
saved in this way was spent on boys and girls. Teen -Age Boys' Camp — For
aimless driving around or eq- Huron Church Campis in boys, ages 13-17. Cost: registra-
ually aimless hairdressing (the session.. The Anglican Diocese tion fee, $3; board, $19. From
amount of time spent by some of Huron invites all boys and August 21st to August 30th.
girls in one school year ,on do- girls,' regardless of denomina; In view of the fact that our
Ing their hair would be suffici- tion, to consider making an ap increased facilities are now
ent to get them through a plication to enjoy, a camping available, ..we find that we have
course in .Sanskrit without a period at Huron Church Cannp, some openings in most of the
teacher) 0 21 Highway, 13 miles p for additional campers.
Huron
Camp
• on N. cams i
They are convinced that they north of Grand Bend, Ont., If any are interested in avail -
can cram for the last twoweeks some time during July and ing themselves of these oppor-
and all will be well. Indeed, August. tunities, please feel free to ap-
for some of them, the amount The Camp has a capacity of ply•
of cramming they do is a status 200 children per nine -day per- For further information and
symbol—listen to them in the iod. They are instructed in re- an application form, please con -
halls before an examination. ligion (by the clergy), swim- tact any Anglican clergyman in
Let them sweat it out right ming, handcrafts, nature lore, the Diocese of Huron, or write
now; they won't learn any sports, etc. Children can learn to the registrar, Rev. H. Don -
younger that they have :to pay to swim while at Camp. There aldson, S.Th., Registrar, Huron
for self-indulgence and pro• . is a registered nurse in the hos- Church. Camp, Seaforth, Ont.
crastination. pital unit at all times, and doc-
The Grade 13 examinations tors are on call. There is a
are not perfect but they aren't telephone available. The Camp
as worthless as, some ,lieople has hydro, a flowing well, 80 -
seem to think. They certainly rods -of sandy beach; a tuck
A McDuff Ottawa Report ,
Yours sincerely,
B. A. S1L,CQX,
Chairman, Huron
Church Camp Com,
Feed Grain and Pensions
OTTAWA — Canada's bluff
Minister of Agriculture from
Calgary, the Hon. Harry Hays,
may lack polish and experience
as a Parliamentarian. He has a
knack of 'getting himself and
the Government into mild trou-
ble with 'naive answers - that
leave him exposed to opposi-
tion broadsides,
But what he may lack in this
field he makes up in imagina-
tive ideas that rival his pre-
decessor, the Hon. Alvin Ham-
ilton, who never lacked them.
Mr. Hays' latest is due to go
understudy by the Agricultural
Committee of Cabinet very soon
and seems likely to get full cab-
inet approval before Parliament
adjourns for the summer re-
cess.
It is legislation to allow the
Farm Credit Corporation to
make loans to purchasing co-
operatives formed by farmers
who make arrangements to
share ' the use of costly farm
machinery such as combines.
Interest on the loans would be
atonomic rates, perhaps be-
tw n six and seven per cent,
but the financing would be in-
finitely less costly than the 10
to 18 per cent that many farm-
ers have to pay to finance com-
panies. It Will also make avail-
able to the individual farmer
modernized: machinery that he
could never, otherwise, afford
to buy:
And it is at this point that
Mr. Hays used his imagination.
The House of Commons Com-
mittee on Agriculture in its
last session took a look at farm
costs that turned a record shat-
tering gross cash income on
the farm last year into a de-
cline in net income. One of
the major troubles, for the
Eastern farmer, it found, was
feed grain. By the time the
milling companies had turned
the Western grain into millfeed
the farmer, in spite of a heavy
transportation, subsidy, paid a
price so stiff that livestock feed-
ing in the summer months' was
almost unprofitable.
Parra machinery companies
are now looking into sugges-
tions that they might manufac-
ture a mobile feed unit. It
would be costly, probably in
the neighborhood of $20,000,
but purchased co-operatively, it
might solve one of the major
problems of the farm. •
There's many a slip between
an idea and legislation, still
more likely slips between an
idea and an end product but
that's no reason fqr not push-
ing both.
The third edition of Canada's
pension plan has one great ad-
vantage •over its brothers. It
was born alive and will survive
and grow in the paternalistic
smiles of its joint godfathers,
Prime Minister Pearson and
Premier Jean Lesage. The first
plan was stillborn. The second
survived to the stage of legis-
lation that died on the. House
of Commons' order paper.
About three-quarters of the
new plan represents acceptance
of the Quebec provisions (which
Ontario Premier Robarts ex-
pressed such a liking 'for) .the
other quarter, compromise be-
tween the Quebec and Canada
plan. But it must be admitted
that its Iast state is better than'
its first. The main trouble may
be that it is too good. Higher
benefits and contributions are
going to make it more difficult
to integrate the Quebec plan
and the Canada plan with pri-
vate, pension schemes.
Berrying an 'unexpected dis-
solution of the Parliament at
Westminster inclusion of sur-
vivor and -disability benefits in
the plan are now assured. The
bitter flag debate was inter-
rupted almost at the start to
whisk through the necessary
petition for an amendment to
the British North America Act.
The Quebec Legislature, having
been given details of the Feder-
al Gay,ernment's, survivor and
disability plan gave ,;its consent
after a one -day debate.
These beneflts will Cover a
death benefit to the estate of
up to $500 and payments to a
disabled pensioner from time
of disability to age 70 of 75
per cent of the full pension he
would have received at. 65 plus
$25 a month. For those earning
less than. $400 a month the to-
tal benefit is larger than. the.
pension, for those at $400 it. is
the same, and for those at the
maximum pensionable earnings
it is .$1.04 -a month less. At
age 70 the $25 a month is re-
placed by $75 a month old age
security and he switches to full
pension.
In addition, survivor benefits
arise on death of husband as
follows:
. 1. To a widow aged 45 to 65
or at any,,age if there are chil-
dren, $25 a month, plus 371/2%
of husband's pension had he
contributed until 65. Maximum
total $64,0:6 a month.
2, To a childless widow
younger than 45, the above
amount less 10% for each year
she is under 45. At 35 she gets
nothing on her own account.
3. To a woman' widowed be-
tween 65 and 70 or a widow
reaching 65, a complicated for-
mula providing for the greater
of (a) her own ,pension plus
37%% of husband's pension ad-
justed downward by averaging
his earnings over the full per-
iod to, 65. (b) 60% of what
the combined pension would
have been, or (c) $25 a month
plus 371/2% of'usband's pen-
sion with the $25 replaced at
70 by present $75 Old Age Se-
curity payments.
Also, on account of each
child under 18 or dependent
and attending school to age 25,
an additional $25 a month up
to a maximum of $104.17. A
widow with more' than four
children will be able to receive
a total on her own and her
children's accotint of as much
as $168.23 a month; '
All benefits are adjusted up-
ward with increase in the cost
of living.• r
Eb: "Checkers is the oldest
game.”
Zeb: "Oh, no, poker is old-
er. Didn't Noah draw pairs on
the ark and get a -full- 4house
when, the world had a flush?"
If you're boating with' an out-
board motor,' don't be afraid to
display a little panache. Al-
ways approach a dock straight
on and at top speed. At the
last conceivable moment, cut
your motor and swing the tiller
hard over. Some day you might
cut the tiller and swing the
motor, but who wants to live
forever?
Never take life jackets when
you go fishing. You'ie liable to
trip over one of them, and fall
overboard, while innocently
walking- up to the bow for a
cold beer: If you insist on tak-
ing lifejackets, tie them to your
tackle box. Fishermen are a
drug on the market, but good
tackle is expensive.
Speaking of fishing, don't
look around before you wind
up to cast. It's considered a
slur on the agility of your'coh
panions. It's up to the other
guys in the boat to keep an eye
Well, that's about it. Just
. follow these safety hints, and
you will never have any more
worries about summer. Or any-
thing else.
SPARKS by Wills Forbes
One con trust a
fat man, for he
seldom stoops to
anything low
"Think we should wail any
longer:?"
"Stewart; you've changed your mina, '
VVIebr
''Best/ idea we ever had!"
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