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He TON DF EIR SiN 5 CARL », PRAT ERY BL (SRR RTE RTE re DIPEY RE 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 11, 1919 Three good buildings are being erected in town. Two of them. are houses being built on the old skating ® rink lot on Lilla Street by Dave Carnegie and the third is an office and storehouse put up by Messrs. Hogg and Lytle, to replace the building burned on the 4th of August. Everyone of these buildings is a valuable ad- This picture taken in 1920 shows log house built house can still be seen at the site about a quarter mile by John Hoople at Poole's Hill, Cartwright Township east of Nestleton Station. The land was the first in 8| after he bought the 200 acre farm from the Crown in. Cartwright purchased from the Crown. No account is 1916 at ten shillings an acre. The remains of the' available of Mr. Hoople's subsequent experiences. Photo courtesy of Marian Heaslip dition to the town. : : At the fair this year for the ladies there will be a "hitching contest". Any lady who intends taking part in this event should remember to do the job promperly. Don't leave a buckle strap out of the keeper, or a tug end hanging loose. Correctness is the thing in this con- test. ] (Turn to page 6) chotte BACK TO SCHOOL Since this is the week that students everywhere turn in their summer cut-offs and t-shirts for attire just a little more appropriate to the classroom, I read with interest a report in a Toronto newspaper about a study done this o summer which says that high school students should have the right to sit in judgement on some of the decisions made by their principals. . / The study was commissioned by the Toronto Board of Education, and suggests that a committee be formed in each high school made up of an equal number of students and teachers, along with the principal, who would act as @ chairman. It is interesting to note that those working on the study included three trustees, a rep from the Teachers Federa- tion, and ten students who served as researchers. One of the students who worked on the report is quoted in the newspaper story as saying that the students don't ¢ want to grab power, they only want to share it, and only when decisions or rules made by the principal "disrupt the "school" would the committee swing into action. I'm tempted to say that if a board of education anywhere ever adopted such a report, it would be like turning the keys of the "you-know-what" over to "you- know-who". But I'm feeling a little mellow these days, so ® let's just say the idea is stupid. What ticks me off is that the Toronto Board of Education spent $8050 for the preparation of this report, and the student quoted in the newspaper who worked as a researcher is the son of one of the Board's trustees. You can draw your own conclusions. = ; But aside from that, high school principals these days ' have enough on their hands without having to worry about a ' committee of students and teachers second-guessing their decisions. While I'm all for making the education process in high school a more broader experience than just the basic three R's, let's not carry it to foolish extremes. If anything these day, the principal of a high school should be given tighter @ authority to make decisions. 'After all, they are paid well, and should be complete masters of their own ship. Now it has been a good many years since I last attended high school, and 1 guess things have changed a lot since then. But reading about this report, I couldn't help but 2 MN ITY XN a VION Fad ESA [LF ah ROSA LANNY "i ve L Lg BO | ; EAE SE AYRES REY] RAT SA MIRTLE SERIES SRE RFT SOLE VEINS SETH RFIS T5200 "3A, 0.7 SPR SG FVUR S ORT TN SIV ows FES A DV VRAIN JS SS Research team try to develop anti-rabies drug Research aimed at devel- oping a system of immuniz- ing potential wildlife carriers against rabies will be guided by a seven-man advisory committee named by Natural Resources Minis- ter James Auld recently. Advisory committee chair- man is Dr. A. J." Rhodes, a virologist at the University of Toronto and a former director of the Ontario Minis- try of Health's laboratory services branch. Other members are Dr. D. G. Sinclair, a physiologist and dean of arts and science at Queen's University; Dr. K. M, arlton,_ a rabies virologist at the Animal Disease Research Institute, Agriculture Canada; Dr. L. P. Spence, a virologist' at University of Toronto; Dr. D. S. Willoughby, director of the Ministry of Health's lab- oratory services branch; Dr. S. M. Smith, an ecologist at the University of Waterloo, and Dr. C. D. Maclnnes, a biologist and supervisor of the Ministry of Natural Resources, wildlife research section. 'With a large and complex research program like this, it is essential to have the best advice available," said Mr. Auld, "especially in those fields in which my ministry has no staff experts." The Ministry of Natural Resources is administering a $2.65 million program to ( b OX by John B. McClelland chuckle to myself at the thought of my old high school principal if such a thing were ever suggested in his day. He ran that school with an iron fist and heart. A mere glance from him could set the most belligerent of students ~ ; literally quaking in their boots. And woe to anyone ever summoned to the "inner office". That experience happened to me a couple of times during my undistinguish- ed high school career and I can assure you that his particular brand of discipline had a lasting affect. One of his favourites was a brief run around the parking lot, in the dead of winter. Sometimes, students could be seen still running long after everyone else had left the school for the day. Another was to shovel the snow off the football field, which often lay under three or four feet of hard snow. He was tough, sometimes to the point of being cruel. But I'll say one thing, there wasn't one student who ever went in the front doors of that school who didn't have at least a fearful respect for his authority. Anyway, I could just see him if a report such as the one I'm referring to landed on his desk. "They what?" he would thunder. "They want to form a committee to have a say in how I run this school?" "Ill show them who is running this school." And that would be the end of that. If the students who worked on such a report were foolish enough to put their names on it, no doubt they would be summoned to the "inner office" for a chat, which was always completely one-sided until the very last when the principal would say "is that understood?" and the student would have the chance to utter just two words: Yes Sir." End of chat. I may be wrong, but when 1 was going to high school, the chance that such a report would even be contemplated was an impossibility. I recall that a lot of things about high school got under my skin, but never do 1 remember ever wishing that I could sit on a committee to suggest to the principal that certain changes were in order. 'It just wasn't done. I mean boys were not even allowed to wear jeans, girls had to wear dresses or skirts, and anyone caught smoking within sight of the building was in deep, deep trouble. You knew who the authority was. You knew you could pull the *= wool over the eyes of a few teachers, but there were certain things that just were never questioned or tampered with. And one was the potential wrath of the principal. perfect a system of mass- producing a safe, effective rabies vaccine in a bait and distributing that bait to wild- life. The provincial lottery funding for the program will be used by industry, univers- ities and a ministry team to carry on a variety of research projects to perfect each step of the system. Mr. Auld said the rabies vaccine has been developed in laboratory trials, but it has not yet been safety- tested in various species of wildlife in the field. "Before any product is released into the environ- ment, we want to make sure itis as safe as possible," said Mr. Auld. The vaccine, when ready, will be placed in small cap- sules or granules and mixed in balls of meat which will then be distributed by air- craft over countryside inha- bited by animals that are potential rabies carriers, he said. But, he said, methods for mass-producing the vaccine and the final bait product still have to be developed by industries that are exper- ienced in such manufactur- ing. k "The advisory committee for the oral rabies vaccine research program will play an important role in main- taining the highest possible (Turn to page 6) Certainly, students today have a lot more personal freedom within the walls of the school, and well they should have. My high school was more like boot camp in the army, but there are some today who feel that maybe things have gone too far in the other direction. Hopefully, the Toronto Board of Education will accept this report and then put it on the shelf where it belongs. But that $8050 would have paid part of the salary for one more teacher this year, g"year when there are hundreds of teachers walking the streets begging for work in their chosen profession. I can't help, but feel that hiring one more teacher could have had a betfer effect on the lives of students that a silly recommendstion that they have the right to second-guess the man of woman who is supposed to be in charge. What'a way to get the new school year off to a flying start. I'll bet there will be a couple of trustees on the Toronto Board who will take the whole thing seriously. Do you think we have héard the end of it? (port perry star 3) Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Sait, (#civn 3 (oun) : 5; IN a Serving the Township of Scugog J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. 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