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Fife the Newmarket Em and Express Dee 1954 Mount Albert News Acclaim Nominations for trustees for the police village of Mount Al bert passed quietly with only ratepayers attending Ernest Davis Seymour Harper and Harrison the former trustees were acclaimed to of fice for another year Addi tional nominations were receiv ed for Jos Harrison Bruce Roll ing Bill Mitchell and Dow Rose but they declined their nomina tions Mrs was return- Morrisons sale of mens coats mens suits mens jackets and sport coats now on Morrisons Newmarket and Aurora officer and chaired the meeting which followed The trustees answered many ques tions regarding street lighting the paving of Main St high school tax and other matters The trustees said that replace ment of street lights was left un til several needed attention- Mr Harper explained that the excessive cost had prevented the paving of Main St Reeve John Rye said that the township rates were much the same but that the county levy was up Now that the township is in the Health Unit the costs of public health are greater The public wants improvements and thev must expect to pay for them the speakers explained The trustees thanked the rate payers for having returned them to office They concluded their talks by promising to give gen erously of their time and energy to the villages business for an other year Mr and Mrs Clinton Leach Toronto were weekend guests at the home of Mr and Mrs N Wilson A bridge opposite Mr George Prices farm on the Centre which had been washed out by Hurricane Hazel has been re placed it was only a small bridge and part of the season the stream was dry but it took loads of dirt to fill the washout- Mr and Mrs Douglas Price Toronto spent the weekend at the home of Mr and Mrs Hugh Price Mrs is visit ing friends at for a Christmas Seals TUBERCULOUS few days Mr and Mrs John Summer- called on friends in town on Sunday after noon A recent meeting of the Ml Albert Cemetery company was held to discuss repairs of the havoc made by the hurri cane They have been unable to secure trucks to draw dirt but if the weather keeps mild they plan to have some of the work done this fall It will be com pleted in the spring Cheerio Bazaar The Cheerio bazaar held on Saturday at the United church was a success with the proceeds being The annual meeting was held at the close of the ba zaar The following are officers for the coming year president Mrs first Mrs Jim Harrison second Mrs Ken Mitchell third vicepres Mrs Don Thompson Mrs pianist Mrs assistant pianist Mrs Ralph visiting com Mrs Hopkins Mrs Rate Mrs Murray Mrs Miss I Campbell Mrs N Brooks Mrs J Harrison Mrs H Leek and Mrs Sanderson The members voted to the Womens Missionary auxiliary and to the Chamber of Commerce for the Santa Claus parade Santas Visit Remember the date of Santa FOR the girl who wears size to 3 shoes Junior sandles by the makers of 795 West Main St Newmarket ANSNORVELDT Mr and Mrs Sidney Van Dyke spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs London Mr and Mrs Matthews spent the weekend visiting friends in Chatham arid their soninlaw and daughter Mr and Mrs London- Mr Weston visit ed at the home of Mr and Mrs Miedema over the weekend Mrs M and Mrs and son John have re turned to Holland to live Mr P ffierling Mr P Van and Mr have left for a trip to Holland They ex pect to visit relatives there for two or three months before re turning to Canada Miss A Rotterdam has returned home an extend ed trip to Canada Mr and Mrs Van have gone to visit relatives in Mich They accom panied Mr and Mrs Horlings Training Of Mentally Retarded Is Theme Of Talk By Dr KESWICK Mrs Gordon Winch Graven- hurst spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Perry Winch Sun day visitors were Mr and Mrs Gall and family Toronto Claus visit in town Saturday Dec 18 Many organizations are preparing floats and the Cham ber of Commerce ask that every one cooperate to make it the usual success Mr and Mrs Graham and Margaret spent Sun day at the home of Mr and Mrs Theaker 300 Y0NGE ST Toronto v tt NATIONALLY ADVERTISED i i More Than 90 Worth of Power Tools in One l JIG HORIZONTAL WVrrxC r -iv- t tin Pictured a- 18 TILTING TOP AND CROSSCUT AND RIPSAW BLADE AS AC 0 395 Down 100 Weekly It is over years since the special school was established at for mentally retarded children Dr Harry Amoss Hamilton advisor to the provin cial minister of education said when he addressed the Novem ber meeting of the Newmarket and District association for Re tarded Children Since then and particularly in the past decade we have realized that there Is much more we should he doing for these slow learners these children who can only to do by doing Two more schools have been provided at Aurora and Smiths Falls hut there still insufficient accom modation It is through associa tions such as this one many more of these children are being trained so that they can become self supporting independent members of society We teach children to read in a regular school not so that they can continue to read Mary saw John but so they can read bus schedules income tax forms and such things We teach them arithmetic so they can plan In figures These normal children learn indirectly They use their knowledge to do many other things The mentally retarded child can only learn directly Dr explained that per cent of the children to be found in the Mentally Retarded classes were mongoloid per cent were cerebral palsy cases and other forms of brain injur ies and only five to percent were from low grade stock They were low intellectually because they inherited it No one knows what is the cause of It occurs in every level of society and age of parents Extensive study is continuing on the sub- But mongoloid children are alt alike They reflect a stage of re tarded development and it might be best to think of them as a group of people who to thousand years ago They have short stubby fingers good for grabbing a club but not so good for using precision tools or holding a pencil They have short thick tongues with rough tops grand for eating coarse foods but not so good for con versation They belong to that level of the human race when it did things rather than gabbed about them Dr Amos said Their tongues arent nimble and because they havent many words in their minds to use the words must be concrete ones they ore trained to do things mongoloids like to do them and take a great pride In doing them well Dr explained Dr told of many in stances in his own experience where mongoloid boys and girls after having been trained were earning their own living They did routine jobs which a normal would have found dull but they were happy in the work They were necessary jobs and the young people were leading useful lives Next Dr told of the types of mentally retarded child ren whose brains have been in jured at birth through some ill ness or as a result of an acci dent He said that lite took many forms ami when the speech centre is not injured they can acquire and use an astonishing vocabulary he add ed The brain injury in some cases Is as if the transmission gears are out of kilter They cant put forth the effort to transform he thought into action but with time patience and assistance through participation in special classes these children can es tablish detour paths from the thinking part to the doing part of their brains Dr Amoss explained that be cause it is realized that these children cant learn as well as normal children they arc taught differently regular school child reft have trouble in reading words as with what and this So these words a re stripped from the vocabulary of the mentally retarded Such Words as ball doll boy and house words which they can associate with things are used And then when they have learn ed the alphabet they come to those words which confuse the norma child and they are grad ually introduced to them Similarity in arithmetic they dont spend a lot of time learn ing multiplication and division in a school for the mentally re tarded They wont need to be able to use the technical type of arithmetic As long as they can add by counting they can handle money and do other simple tasks Dr said Dr Amoss congratulated the local group for the progress made since Its organization earl ier this year He said that one of the must important functions such an association was that it gave parents of mentally re tarded children an opportunity to meet others with similar Mrs and daughter Ha Toronto visited her sister Mrs Win Sr on Sunday Mr and Mrs Rosa Grant De troit were guests of Mr and Mrs John Grant during the Andrews Robert Wil son and Alfred Oliver are the village trustees for They received an acclamation Mr and Mrs Bill and daughters visited Mr and Mrs Arthur Watson on Sunday Mrs was the solo ist In the United church choir on Sunday morning Mr Cole had a baa chimney fire at his home on Sat urday night but fire men soon extinguished it Mrs Elmer Stick wood return ed from a weeks visit with her daughter Mrs Credit Mr and Mrs John Grant visited her sister Mrs Craig Brighton last week Mrs Oliver has been spending a week with her daugh ter at OakvHle Mrs Caldwell St Thomas has been the guest of her sister Mrs and her mother Mrs for several thing That Is a wonderful part of the associations work An other is that it can help people without mentally retarded child ren to better understand these children and their special needs air William Warden chaired the meeting Reports were pre sented by committee chairman and at the close of a general dis cussion period light refresh ments were served Era and Express classifieds bring results FIRTH suits and top coats An ideal gift suggestion 325 samples featuring greys and blues at Wests Main St Newmarket They use words for hems and not as gadgets of think- Tito association fills a need of REVERSIBLE RIP FENCE FOR JIG SAW OR SAW They cant concentrate They cant go into the library of the mind and put plans and ideas together but they are the most stable minded people in the world 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