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Shorthand expert tells students The Acton Free Press Wed May Stenography key to good career By Ann Ha op rich Nielsen Young people considering careers as stenographers worry about losing their Jobs to automation internationally renowned shorthand expert Marlon told local students recently Speaking before com high school students Horn Milton Acton and Georgetown at Milton High School Thursday Miss Angus told of the need for good short writers and of the bene fits that go hand In hand with tne profession You never regret having learned shorthand Miss told the mostly female audience But you may well regret not having learned it Boys too She suggested the girls should encourage their boy friends to learn the skill as well Too few INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED shorthand j expert Marion Angus took time out to talk with SportumS students after lecturing at Milton District number and expanse The High School Thursday Miss Angus travels about miles a year as part of her job as Business Education Consultant for the Pitman Publishing Corporation she Being secretary stenographer is a fascinating and wonderfully well paid career Miss Angus said citing annua salaries of to for ex penenced legal secretaries and to lor court reporters There is an increasing demand all over the world for competent people in these fields she said Dictating and transcrib ing machines are less lm pdrtant than they were five years ago Automation will take its place alongside you in the office it won I put you out of a job So don you believe it if you re told auto mation is putting shorthand writers out or business Its true she assured the students Lite in the air Originally from Scotland Miss Angus now resides in New York City but spends most lime on the road or in the air I have travelled the world on my shorthand pen she quipped explaining she travels about 100 lies a year as part of her job as bus mess education consultant for Pitman Publishing Corpora Hon Home centre request referred to planner Hal ton Hills planning board has referred to the town planner for a report a request from G Cavallo to amend the official plan of to allow him to construct a home im centre near the intersection of Highway and the Sixth Line It would be a one storey warehouse and office building Harry Raymond Cavallo s solictor told the board last Tuesday that his client had asked Council for permission to build Ihe home improvement centre there in 1366 and had been told all he had to do was take a building permit Since that time the official plan of the old township has come into force That particular piece of land is designated rural in the official plan road is designated extractive industrial and that a junk yard is situated to the south of Ihe land He also suggested it is scrub land slightly swampy and not suitable for residential purposes In Raymond said developments similar to home improvement centres selling such items as roofing supplies hardware are considered lobe rural uses of the land when they ire situated in the country Councillor Miller said he d like to knov more about the operation before board makes a decision Councillor lite Morrow said the board should look at the surrounding area to see if the use is compatible with and good for the area Our concern added Councillor Hick is for the three existing houses right behind it Raymond said his is prepared erect a barrier of screen fence or both to shield the operation from the view of residents there The building would cover square feet and include no outside storage area Cavallo no operates a centre in He plans parking space for languages Miss Angus said The latest was in Tanzania where they write in She showed the students a handful postcards she from acquaintances the world all written in Shorthand and urged the students to use shorthand not only in school but outside as well next time you re on a date write down every thing your boyfriend says she advised It good tice and proof of what he has told you You never know when it will come in handy Used by celebrities Miss Angus told the students of such celebrities as Diana Ross George Bernard Shaw Merman and Bailey all of whom use shorthand in their private Did you know Ethel is a fine Pitman writer ind was a steno- for a number of us a young woman she spent all monty she earned as a stenographer on singing and dancing so thai she could the real star she is today Shi said Miss Merman still uses shorthand every day of her life because it Ihe greatest time saver ever invented Miss Angus said Shaw used to write all his original manuscript in Pitman short a rate of words per minute He wrote that speed be cause it was his thinking rate she explained In that way wouldn become fati fuetl and could just hand the shorthand manuscripts to his secretary to type But being able to write shorthand is not enough she cautioned It does you no if you arc to transcribe your Farmer pooh poohs Hydro on land acquisitions A farmer who dumped a load of manure on an Ontario Hydro car pooh poohed the utility land acquisition me thods for the Bradley to Georgetown power corridor during a meeling at Durham Leonard Manion a mem the Interested Group told a meeting on citizens rights that there are Iwo kinds of manure The kind most farmers have comes from a cow The type Hydro gives us comes from a bull he said The people in the aud responded with la ugh applause for the man who last summer unloaded a pile of manure the farmers kind on an Ontario Hydro car Hydro officials were visiting the Manion farm to about buying or making a rcn la I a rra In Durham Mr Manion of Conn was one of several ICG mem hers who followed New Democratic Party Stephen Lewis in addressing thecrowd in the Durham high school gym last Wednesday Mr Lewis told the group that the would undertake an independent study of the en tire proposed corridor from the Bruce Nuclear General ing Station to Georgetown if the parly formed the next Ontario government The audience turned out to hear about two issues the closing of the Durham and 000 watt power line uniform Mr Manion said that ario Hydro offers for lands with similar characteristics arc not uniform Mr Manion used an example in Benlinck between Hanover and ham where Hydro offer on two adjacent properties fered by as much as per acre Hydros method of issuing expropriation notices like the ones lasl March was termed sneaky by Mr He said the notices left the aver age person baffled Twenty five farmers were polled by Mr and he said only one person knew that if he failed lo respond to the expropriation notice with in days he would lose his right for a hearing More stones on page 20 Challenging right Mr said that Ont ano Hydro Is challenging the right of a group to be repre sented by counsel at an ex propria lion hearing Surely the right of a group to be re presented by legal counsel is basic in our tern Mr said Along with the sneaky side of what Mr calls Hydro s divide and con strategy is the spread ing of falsehoods he said Mr recounted how Hydro had old different concerning the route of the transmission corridor to two neighboring farmers One of ironies of the method of acquiring farm lands Mr maintained is the condition of a farm building Ihe more Hydro is able to from the property val This is because kn to most of us until now Hydro bases its socalled market value on properties no buildings Mr Man on arm buildings ire short chanted by Hydro Mr Man ion claimed He said thai des pile the recommendation by Ihe Hearing Board that percent for properly devaluation under the rental option offered by the utility was realistic and sufficient Hydro is offering nothing he said On its purchase option Mr said Ontario Hydro is offering a slight sum for diminishing of property value from ugly transmission lines and lowers The utility would like to own rather lhan rent land surrounding its towers Mr Manion said Hydro would rather than rent the land in order to avoid fights with farmers about food production and to ease the construction of additional power lines he suggested Mr said that lo prompt Ihe utility re thinking its methods of quiring land for men should refuse lo cooperate with Hydro and also hold as long as they can on Ihe lllys fnal offers for Iheir land Her average speed is words per minute and on she has taken down words per minute Prefers pen Ninety per cent of Pitman shorthand can be distorted and still read Miss said but sueested using a fine ball point pen rather than a pencil would aid the ily of most symbols Don scribble or draw your shorthand symbols she advised Write them as they are meant lo be written and never lei your hands lose contact with the paper Miss Angus visit to the high school was arranged by Mrs D Brampton business education instructor Milton High Translation To illustrate the porta me of knowing how to transcribe she told of an author friend of hers in New York who phoned once with a sad story He had dictated a tic novel lo his secretary and one of the sentences was Ho kissed her under the silent stars Miss Angus told But when the secretory transcribed her notes the read He kicked her under the cellar stairs ruined the whole feel she said Miss also stressed the importance of a broad understanding of the ngllsh language including punc tuition and age i mended a book entitled The for people who are to under the S section of their regular dictionary for such words as psychologist The right attitude is also very important Miss Angus said Be prepared to write at the rate dictation is given Your boss is not going to soy All right today going to dictate at GO words per minute hes just going lo talk The students then watched in amazement as Miss Angus demonstrated her shorthand skill the chalkboard as a volunteer from the audience dictated to her KILIDhFR This noisy is a member of the plover family Widespread in distribution it is found in open country both dry uplands and the of marshes lakes and ponds Hi loud cries of kill killcc kill are re pealed over and over as it flies or runs about On the ground plays the broken wing act to perfection run nmg ahead of the intruder dragging first one wing and Ihen the other to distract at aw from Ihe nest I- our eggs are laid in a slight hollow around which a few slicks and pebbles are scrap ed loeeiher to form a crude nest FOR THOSE OF YOU who can read shorthand This horses head contains a message from Marion Angus Miss Angus drew the Shorthand Horse on the chalkboard as part of a demonstration of the many ways in which shorthand can be used outside the office when she spoke to local students last week HIOH SCHOOL STUDENTS and history teacher Bill Taylor top off one of the eighteen gallon drums they filled with refuse glass Saturday Jank Rick Van Cliff Bntton and Ray Kingsmill were among several students collecting glass They exchange the glass bottles and jars for money which they will use to fund a trip to Boston and Washington for the bicentennary celebrations EXAMINING A MIRROR at Page Glass are Bob Page and John Vlietstra The business has recently moved to new expanded quarters on Mill St Likes new business spot A move from Ihe corner of Main and River to a locjtion juM west of Main on Mill has been a profit venture for Glass Manager Hob Page has noticed the inereased busness in the past month and a half since opened in ihe new locition He is beside Denny Insurance in the form laundromat higher building more people notice Ihe sign and remember name when they need glass or mir rors Most of the work done by 1 age his helper John VhelHlru is for individuil infractors such things as house windows and patio doors P1LC estimates about half of his business is in and the other half in Acton He can see himself in the near future opening a Georgetown office but as he says it takes time is operating the business the help of his wife Sharon and John Vhet stra He is no newcomer to the business though Before opening Page Glass last June he worked for seven years for Twin Windows 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