Vocational School Training Will Get Greater Emphasis With completion of the n e w , their m erits from their periodic White Oak Secondary (Com ' six months' work peroda i n posite) School on the S i x t h the employer's plant. Line scheduled for August of To apply the sam e principle this year, the area will soon to vocational training a t t h e have facilities for a broade nd high school level, combining vocational school program o r with actual plant experience is vital concern for industry. a fascinating possiblity to vo Two main facets of vocation- cational educators but w i t h al-industry relationship are the schools open twelve months of s u r g i n g I n c r e a s e in school the year handling two courses e n r o l m e n t each year, in of six months each, and the re cluding students in technical or visions needed in teaching staff vocational courses, and t h e and equipment the whole pros fact that automation in indus pect is still very much in the try is making it increasingly future. diffcult for tlie unsklled young The Oakville vocational trai worker to get a job. ning in high schools is however Expansion in vocational trai beginning to prove its value, ning program s in Oakville has although most of tlie courses continued since these w e r e a ie still uncompleted since the started a t Conxion Perdue High pnogram is only in its t h i r d School and today courses a r e year. being given in automobile m e The preference of industrial chanics. machine shop, electri city, drafting, the buiiding tra employers for new employees des, industrial chemistry a n d with a technical v o c a l ional school course behind them i s m etal fabrication. confirmed too by Miss Evelyn new cou rses Hartwell, m anager of the O akW h e n the new composite ville office of the National E m school opens it will have t h e ployment Service. She has tak usual accommodation f o r a c en a keen interest in the pro adem ic courses but the voca gram since its inception coop tional aspects of training w i 1 1 erating closely with educational include automotive mechanics, authorities as well as employ machine shop, electronics, ele ers to ensure courses and sub ctricity, two drafting rooms, an jects are in line with the de estate maintenance shop which mands of modern technology will include landscape training in industry. and allied knowledge, a motor Miss Hartwell has said this body shop and later on there will be a sheet metal shop. combination of training, practi The new' school's vocational pro cal as well as academ ic, i * gram provides for a course yfor strongly preferred by industrial girls in Short order cooking, employers to the more orthodox and another leading to skills in academic schooling which was tlie rule in high schools for so the merchandising field. Personnel executives in indus many year's. The skills gained school by actually handling try are keeping close watch on in these developments as a guide mechanical machines and pro cesses, and the "industrial" to recruiting future staff while outlook gained during formative educational authorities are bu school years. sy on long range planning t o The question asked by some meet the demand in an expa- parents in Oakville is whether ding economy for skilled work a vocational training course in ers who obtained their ground school limits a boy, or a girl work knowledge while still i n 'to the lower echelons of indus school. trial employment, but the truth Something of the future is in is there is no l i m i t on dicated by the ifiact that Oak the advancement of such stud ville Secondary school enrol ents who start with an advan m ent will reach about: 4,560 by tage of fam iliarity with their J969, only f o u r years away, work and can develop greater from a present total around 3 ,- skills, judgment and executive 850. And educational planners skills as well or better than tiic must consider t r e n d s f a r student who has had only on beyond 1969 in preparing now academic career. to equip students with a sound Miss Hartwell cited the com basic knowledge of vocational m ent of a University of Toron skills for which credit will be to dean of engineering to show given or their entry into indus the head sta rt enjoyed by the try. vocationally trained high school STUDENT FLOOD student. He stated th at t h e According to A. E. Robinson, university preferred the engin Oakville's director of education, eering student with a vocation five factors are a t work in the al background for the univer amazing increase in secondary engineering course to e n .school attendance as a whole. sity One of course as the increased trants with purely academic birth rate of Ontario and in schooling. "There is no limit to how far a boy can progress. creased immigration in post He has the background to lau w ar years, a second is t h e him to the top in industry wide development of subdivis nch thanks to a pre-training back ions as in Oakville wfiich has ground," she noted. concentrated young families in suburban subdivision areas intro duction of new educational options and program s have had the effect of retaining students in school for longer periods of time is also a factor. The two most notable factors however are the upgrading by employ ers for educational standards for employment, coupled with a reduction in the number of available jobs as automation in creases by leaps and bounds. Courses in the new W h i t e Oaks composite school vv i 1 1 follow the pattern generally proven at Gordon Perdue. As an example more than 100 stu dents a t Perdue are training in the m etal fabrication depart ment alone, the largest single course a t the school. Obviously those who complete their train ing in such a course have a decided advantage in the labor m arket of the future but, a s one educator put it, there is the "dropout" problem in these courses ais well, and sem i trai ned students in some cases are tempted to go after* b igger mon ey where it is available in " blind alley" jobs. W ATERLO O SY ST E M ? D a lly J o u rn a l-R e c o rd P ro g re ss E d itio n , Tue«., M a rc h SO, 1965 Oakville's Oil Well Omen Of The Future? OAKVILLE -- The forerunner of a new and m ajor industry for the town of Oakville m a y have come into being early last year when eight weeks of drilling operations on a Horn by area farm brought m t h i s town's first producing oil well. Anthony Seynuck, president of Anthony Oil and Gas Explora tions Company of Acton annou nced last July that drilling op erations on the farm of George Hall near Hornby had brought in Oakville's first oil well, and that it was producing 100 b arr els of crude per day. The company holds leases on more than 3.000 acres of farm land in the Hornby area, a n d drilling operations will be car ried out on all of them over the next two years. During the initial stages sin gle wells are being sunk on each farm. Additional w' e 1 1 s will be sunk a t later dates as circum stances warrant. Acid under pressure was pla ced in the Hornby well to eat away any obstructions t h a t may have prevented the free flow of oil. Seynuck said that oil leases are held by his company on 30 Hornby area farms. The Hall farm strike came as the drill hit the 1,700 f o o t level. A shallower strike was made, but drilling operations were continued when drillers felt that the first strike was insuffi cient to w arrant economic oper ations. The final strike produced top grade crude that, Seynuck said, would bring from $3.50 to $4 per 35 gallon barrel. It w as Anthony Gas and Oil Exploration Company that a few years ago successfully dril led for natural gas in the sam e general area. The first success ful gas well was on the farm of former Halton MLA Stan Hall. The successful Hornby well brought to fruition a longstand ing dream of Mr. Seynuck. He has lived in Acton for the past 15 years, and has long b e e n convinced that the lands in tlie Hornby area are ideal far oil. The H o r n b y strike placed Oakville in the category of a producer, as well as a proces sor, of crude oil. The area is well on the way to b e c o m in g Canada's second chemical val ley. B-A Oil, Shell and BP refin eries are all processing crude oil, and the area is served by two pipe lines and a $30 mil lion gas pipe line from Sarnia to Oakville is now under con struction. MERAY MOTORS LIMITED SERVING O A K V IL L E FO R 6 Y EA R S MERCEDES BENZ -- RENAULT STUDEBAKER -- VOLVO S A L E S - S ER V IC E ·· PAR TS RECENT VISITOR to Monsan to Canada's Oakville plant was H arry Harley, right, federal Member of Parliament for Hal ton constituency, seen here dis cussing a Department of Trans port-approved life raft made of Monsanto products with Oak ville resident Wally Burkart, sales director for foam and vinyl products. MERAY MOTORS LIMITED 300 South Service Road between Kerr and 4th Line Monsanto's Vinyl Output Boosted As Demand Soars % 845-6623 Known irom 1960 to 1963 as Monsanto Oakville Limited, the Monsanto Canada plant in Oak ville has for tlie last two years been operated as a fully inte grated division of Monsanto Canada Limited. In addition to its Oakville operations, the Montreal-based plastics and chemicals produc e r has manufacturing facilities and sales offices in Montreal, Woodbridge, Edmonton and Van couver. Employing over 180 houiiyand salaried personnel, most of whom are Oakville residents, the Reynolds Street North plant produces a wide range of plas tic film, sheet, fabric and foam products for important segments of Canadian industry. Oakville-made Monsanto vinyl and urethane m aterials a r e found in Canadian automobiles, in high-fashion clothing, on sea going and pleasure craft, i n household furniture and bedding and in literally scores of pro ducts used by the construction, printing, advertising, retail sell ing novelty and many other in dustries. USED IN TOYS Vinyl film and sheeting is used in the manufacture of toys, shower curtains, in packaging, insulation materials and tapes and in countless other specialty products of general industrial and household use. Also produced by Monsanto Canada in Oakville are special compounds of vinyl resin, sup plied from tlie company's poly vinyl chloride plant in Montre al. So-cailed " flexible" com pounds are delivered in pellet form to manufacturers of jack eting for electrical wire a n d cable, while, since mid-1964, " rigid" vinyl compounds have been supplied to makers of plas tic pipe and rigid plastic wall panelling used in the construction industry. Principal users, however, of Monsanto products are the Cana dian automotive and furniture manufacturers who employ Mon santo's vinyl as Quality uphols tery materials, and in a num ber of insulation and jacketing applications. Since the majority of Canadian car and furniture makers are located in south western Ontario, Monsanto Can ad a's Oakville location provides a convenient and low-cost dis turb ution centre for the m ateri als. NEW EQUIPMENT The latest range of products, expanded vinyl fabrics, is used In the manufacture of durable, seats. These m aterials are pro duced by new equipment, in stalled at a capital c o s t o f $250,000, which went into, pro duction in January. Just one of the vinyl m ater ial production units in the Oak ville plant, the new equipment consists basically of a highly sophisticated oven-one that would give a housewife nightmares. Requiring some 3,000 square ieet of floor space, the n e w including cocoa, avocado, tur quoise, black, char brown and white. The leather effect is em bossed right into die material. The 102 hourly-paid Monsanto workers in the Oakville plant are represented by Local 292 of tlie Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America. Both salaried and hourly paid Monsanto employees play a n active role in Oakville affairs and in the operations of t h e plant's welfare association. Un der association auspices, social gatherings such as dances, re ceptions, outing and golf a n d curling tournaments are fre quently held throughout t h e year. Monsanto employees are also NEW PRODUCT members of the O a k v i l l e Also produced at Oakville Is Volunteer Fire Departm ent and an entirely new upholstery m a on the executive of the l o c a l terial known as "Vynaplush" . branch of the Canadian Legion. Unveiled at the Toronto Furni ture Show in January, it con OUTLOOK EX CELLEN T sists of a flexible vinyl outer The outlook tor Monsanto Ca Skin, a core of soft urethane nada operations in Oakville? foam ( produced in Monsanto "The Canadian vinyl market plant) and a backing of jersey has doubled in the past f i v e cloth for added strength. years, says president Jack R. ` M ajor advantages of the new Glatthaar. "This growth rate is fabric are its superior tailoring likely to continue for some tmie qualities--it will tailor a r o u n d to come. In the same period the comers permitting neat uphol increase in Monsanto Canada's stery effects-and the fact that vinyl sales has greatly exceed it eliminates tearing along sti ed that rate." The outlook for increased vin tch lines. A year in develop ment, Vynaplush is offered as yl applications in the automo a durable, economical yet high tive field continues to l o o k quality alternative for use i n bright as more and more plas handbags and dinette furniture. tic materials are used in Can The fabric is in nine colors: adian built cars oven and its associated equip ment is operated by a sevenman crew. Called a Jetzone Oven it heats vinyl to a semi fluid state. Temperature-contro lled, high velocity air is direc ted onto the product by a ser ies of jets that heat the vinyl as a carrier web moves the hot plastic material through the different heat zones of the oven. Installation work on the big Oakville oven began last Sep tember. " Dry runs" in Decem ber worked up the equipment and provide on-the-job training for the seven-man crew. The first production order of expanded (cellular) vinyl up holstery material came off the line in mid January. e c ia n s T . . . AND SO IT IS WITH RE AL E S T A T E Another Oakville educator spe culated on the prospect that Oaikville some time in the fu ture might even have the `"Wa terloo" system here, by which students study six months of the year in school and spend six months in actual industry. This is the practice for en gineering and other students at the University of Waterloo i n Kitchener and graduates a r e eagerly sought by employers who are already fam iliar with (Established 1900) We' re New But Watch B. E. Willoughby -- President of Canadian Assoc. 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