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r- V VV WED FEBRUARY J VOL No a I County Education WfESH rWS fc WW i V i A Oil JI J rfW tfjifcl rrf Hard on the heels of the announcement of a convention to study the facts of the Consultative Committee Report on Education in York County members of County Council have requested that a meeting be held by the council together with the Consultative Committee before the convention so that all County Council members might have the facts before them fail to see the necessity of this meeting prior to the con vention planned for on March 15 If the members of County Council have not the facts and findings of the Consultative Committee veil talked over by this time then they never will have All members of County Council received a copy of the Consulta tive Report last November they have had over three months to study the contents but they are shying clear of taking charge of any workshop sessions as suggested at the meeting The Consultative Committee was set up under rather positive suggestion from the Ontario Department of Education and unless the Department is changing its attitude the suggestions contained therein are expected in the main to be implemented We would also hazard a guess that members of County Council meeting with the Consultative Committee will come away with little more knowledge than they might find in last Novembers report At this stage the committee will neither add nor subtract from Its report There is no doubt that the County of York together with other counties will soon have to come up with something less complex and more economical than the present school administration systems In York County it will be more difficult than in most others The southern portion of the county has a density of population requiring a greater concentration of school accommodation than the more sparsely settled areas of North Gwillimbury or Georgina Townships The proposed meeting at on March should at least clarify of the questions in the minds of trustees and teachers who attend It could also give the County Education Committee the feeling of these same trustees and teachers as to whether the report of the Consultative Committee finds favour in its present form or whether certain modifications might be suggested to the Department of Edu cation more in keeping with the requirements of this particular county By Ray It may safely which could result In A the United States barring -ah- Is possible the outright Russian abdication of the may also have lost meiftitf the space race has lost its bid to in this decade Americas threeman A 1 o spacecraft was to have flown for the first tlme next Tuesday And although the United States would have been months behind the Soviets in orbiting a threeman space vehicle Russias Voskhod I achieved this in October America seemed to be catching up Refuse Her Never The male hasnt been born who could bypass such an invitation as this one offered by Debbie Ann Dressed up in her finest mini outfit she fired the arrows which were heard around the world Feb II Hut fellas dont get any ideas about this gal she was booked solid for Valentines Day i My Final j I know Enough is enough of todays students will have to T i Year Round Brotherhood Every week should be Brotherhood Week The true spirit of brotherhood is not a matter for selected weeks or seasons It Is a spirit for all seasons Nevertheless there are values high purpose in inviting con centrated consideration of this most worthy theme at regular jreriods Thus Brotherhood Week has become an important Canadian institution It has come to be recognized as an occasion for contemplation of the significance of brotherhood and a reminder of its inescapable importance It will be observed this year from February to 2G We need make no apology that it is cither annual or a reminder The great Dr Samuel Johnson once said Men need to be reminded more than they need to lie instructed The theme of brotherhood is of such overriding import that it demands a recurring recognition a On every side we see throughout the world dire need of the heal ing and unifying work of brotherhood Misunderstanding intolerance suspicion distrust fear abound and beget their ugly progeny rancour strife hatred violence and war Mans ancient inhumanity to man is starkly modern In this Centennial Year wc Canadians are challenged to love our neighbours as ourselves There will be more wisdom more fruitful effort more wholesome cooperation more true patriotism in Canada if there is among us more of love of our neighbour and more of the genuine spirit of brotherhood In the face of differences disagreements divisions and diversities let the spirit of brotherhood prevail Such is the message of Brotherhood Week Let each one of us do all within his power to proclaim it and practice it This is positively the last in a series of columns on education Let me repeat that Im no expert just a parent taxpavcr and teacher and equally concerned in each role Ive been critical In some quart ers no doubt my remarks have been considered rank heresy But there is a positive side Lets look at it Most cheering is the tremendous interest in educational improve ment both from within and with out the system Departments of education arc spending large amounts of time thought and money in an attempt to scramble into the second part of the twen tieth century- New universities arc springing up like mushrooms with fresh and invigorating ideas vital young teachers Men and women in of life arc taking a hard look at what they are getting for their money and what they want for their child ren As a result of these things much of the old rigidity and in flexibility are crumbling under heavy fire Changes are coming Its not been any easier to get them start ed than to make a team of oxen break into a gallop But theyre coming even though they may gal lop right through the fence Thomas hasnt much to say to the swingers of today with the New Morality on one side of them and nuclear annihilation on the other In fact a punning colleague suggested Should Old be forgot is not exactly haunting the halls of Institute Its more likely hes hold ing his heavenly head in his hands with horror as he sees the students listen to boring talcs from their parents about the good old days when there was a teacher in every classroom This revolution in turn will eliminate the lockstep progress of the present where the swift arc held back and the slow are scrambling because courses are aimed at the average The kids will move at their own speed Learning will be satisfying and exciting Therell be strong opposition to this Therell be dark whispers that it is undemocratic that it will pro duce an elite Theyll say its bad for the bright child because he wont be emotionally mature if lets say hes ready for university at Education isnt demo cratic now Now when one kid has to slug groceries after school buy decent clothes and a class mate is out skiing Not when he first kid hasnt a chance to go on because he must help support his family while the second kid goes off to university to find a husband Better an elite of the mind than an elite of mindclass money and morality As for the emotionally mature bit that too is poppycock Some people are emotionally mature at others never Another big change will be cur ricula Kids will be taught less facts more about life That is instead of square roots and dangl ing participles and the Wars theyll learn about themselves and other people about beauty and economics about lei sure and love Annual examinations which have about as much to do with education as I have to do with Sophia will vanish Schools will have shorter terms more frequent holidays but will likely operate yearround Dear Editor Your article in last weeks Era about being a family affair Is not true around where I live Last Sunday I had to leave my dog at home while 1 took a hot meal to a sick friend of mine I V THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since was gone about an hour and When I came home I couldnt believe my eyes There was snowmobile tracks all over my front lawn What was nice clean white snow was all chewed up Chunks of snow were scattered all over my drive way and sidewalk Some cedar seedlings had plant ed in the fall were flattened But to top it all off my poor dog was frightened to death from the noise of these machines and was hiding under the bed I finally coaxed him out with a nice hot supper I learned from my neighbors that there were no families on the snowmobiles but two fullygrown men who should know better They must have been the same pair who were roaring around on the road hi of that establishment putting away more ale per capita than their It will become a dynamic creative However drift Here arc profession attracting the dynamic some of the improvements Some Lou may flop But at least the ponder- pachyderm is pulling its feet I hale to spoil this vision of out of the mud at last With a educational Utopia but I have one resultant resounding squelch fi cent of the dissemination of know- and more hats the only prophecy ledge Theyre a fact now The kids ill unconditionally guarantee The US Gemini flights had been spectacularly successful Docking and rendezvous Had been accomplished smoothly One crew had set a space endurance record of hours and two others had pulled off space walks which out performed earlier Russian man oeuvres But there will of course be no high drama at Cape Kennedy next Tuesday because the three men who were to have ridden Apollo I into orbit died heroes deaths dur ing a routine ground test Jan The full impact of the deaths of space veterans Virgil Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee have yet to be felt The National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion has postponed indefinitely the three manned flights scheduled for this year although unmanned will continue The investigation of the tragedy will take several weeks but the report from the inquiry is sure to insist changes be made in the space program to make it impossible for such an accident to occur again It is highly unlikely either scientists or the Congress will be able to justify going ahead with the billion space program without radical changes The first change will have to be made in the atmospheric environ ment of the Apollo space capsule It was because the Americans chose the easy way out all- oxygen space cabin that Apollo I became a fiery death trap The spark of yetunknown origin which leapt into the space cabin as the three Astronauts lay strap ped on their couches immediately consumed the cabins oxygen and ignited every burnable thing in the spacecraft The alloxygen atmosphere was chosen to save weight and space The alternative was a twogas sys tem such as oxygen and nitrogen which the Russians use in their spacecraft But this takes extra weight a vital factor when American rockets were less power ful than Russias boosters and requires more complex equipment In a twogas environment the spark which consumed life in Apollo I would have flickered out harmlessly Its origin would have been pinpointed and corrected Such an environment also re quires a double cabin for space walks one wherein the astro naut can close a trap door behind him to free his system of nitrogen before venturing into open space Otherwise he could become sub ject to the bends which some- times afflict underwater divers In retrospect it is evident that while American scientists knew what they were doing they took a calculated risk and lost It now be expected US scientific and public opinion will be brought to bear to ensure such mistakes are not repeated This means the growth of American space capacity will be retarded because important changes cannot be made in craft design without slowing up the whole program The Soviets meanwhile are moving ahead slowly apparently avoiding every possible gamble Chaffee were brave men who w go down In history because the deaths were the first of the Age The goal set by President Ke of putting a man on A moon in this decade thus claim its first victims six years tate With the American space virtually at a standstill continues to hold a clear year lead at a time when thei are only three years left in t decade of the 1960s I tic i By Elizabeth Keeping pace with modern Is no new virtue the great- grandfathers of the Tow have done their share a and more ago In ahead Newmarket was connected wit Toronto through the first engine coach later replaced b Metropolitan Electric Rail ran up through Main Street the Lake Banking were started some years a and telephone was brought to tow just eight years after its in Calls could be mad from the switchboard office a Main and during hours not on Sundays The Robert Simpson was actually founded on Main an Timothy years back whe Robert Simpson came here a man from Scotland and ran a dry goods business He left for Toronto in to open a ne store on the corner of Queen an V DAVID Editor and Publisher GIL SHEPHERD News Editor the Newmarket Era Express Com- ago because my neighbors said Limited Subscription for two years for one year in ad vance Single copies are cents each Member of Canadian Weekly News- papers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Ottawa that one of them was wearing a funnylooking hat Ive told my neighbors to call the police if they see these two on my property again whilelm away and Ill do the same if I ever first Santa Claus had its start here at the Can factory now Dixon Pencil Canes had built a little for Santa to ride down to in procession Many businesses in 1880 the Main Street centre was marked by around stories four of which were in the trade liiiuor Probably the oldest si ill existing enterprise and in the family for 130 years is Roadhousc now and Rose People were always civic mind ed the lot of Alexander School on Prospect is public school- ground since Ml years the apart ments on corner Raglan and Mil lard in the were once the old Grammar School a sort of high school The towns Fire Brigade was formed in vand three generations of Gibsons have given it their combined service of over years to date The Christian Baptist Church was formed in the corner stone of the church building on Main Streets laid in by the Earl of the West church in town- Army in Newmar ket were started six months after their first members arrived oyer from England Important men originated two of the Sir grandfather and Sir William grandson in his time the position of Gen eral of Canada The latter laid the cornerstone to Stuart Scott School assisted lung Ten years ago dedicated group compiled la book for Centennial The notes from its pages which are filled with the most interest ing histories and old pictures of and people of oyer years ago op to this time and many and are I1U I I uXfe5S6tf