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I Some remarks on "Out of the Mists T le following are a few excerpts received through letters and a newsletter regarding- the recently publish publish 3d Out of the Mist history boot. They are as follows : fr.on the newsletter of the Kingston Branch of the Ontario Ontario G enealogical Society : 0 it of the Mists, a history of Clarke Township in the County County of Durham by Helen Schmid and Sid Rutherford, ORONO Nursery School Call 987-4012 urn ping Ouï peptic Tanks Bert Tompkins Phone 786-2552 - THE SECRET IN STARTING A BAKERY, IS IN RAISING THE DOUGH i " Orono Towing ' GENERAL REPAIRS Phone 983 5249 Orono f WHITE'S FENCING INSTALLTIONS ALLTYPE$>OF FENCING RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRIAL POOL ENCLOSURES FREE ESTIMATES Y 576-5606 BYAMS PLUMBING - HEATING Sales and Service 24 HOUR BURNERSERVOCE GULF FINANCING Low Interest Rates Phone: Tyrone 263-2650 it 338 pages, published in 1976, and printed by the Orono Weekly Times, Orono, $13.50 post, free. There isn't any address on the front page to tell you where to send for the book ! Molly Enstall lent me her copy, so her address at 414. Elmwood St., Kingston, K7M 2Z3, may have to be your source of information. This folksy account of the history of Orono grew like topsÿ! It started off as a school project and it ended as a ten year study by Mother. If your ancestors came from Clarke Township, then this is the book for you. There is an index of 1200 names ; the most original index must be the where-did-they-go-to index. It is à list by counties, Canadian Provinces and United States locations to show who moved" where and when, e.g., Robert Knott and seven children left Orono in 1890 and moved to Victoria, British Columbia. Robert Knott was a mason and builder; his wife Elizabeth Elizabeth Jane While died in Orono, 1887; Anson Fleming Borland left Orono in 1877 and settled in Portage la Prairie. This" book is a gold mine of names, and.the lists are quite early, e.g., "Let us take a look at the 1825 Clarke Census of 55 families and a total of 332 persons - the families from Yorkshire, from Cornwall, from Devonshire, from Scot- , land and from Ireland". MAIL COMMENTS: Mrs. Lasch, Ohio: "Where did you get the data WOW.' GOOD NEWS- 1 MV CREDIT NO LONGER GOOD AT JENKINS DEPARTMENT STORE. WATSON'S Marine and Gycle Orono Phone 983-5343 ' ■ . » Bob Yeomans Plumbing and Heating 24 Hour Service 1 New Installations Alterations - Repairs Specializingjn Hot Water Heating Forced Air Heating Septic Tank Work fl.R.l, Orono 983-5624 . • William C. Hall, B - Con >m. Chartered Accountant Phone Newcastle 987-4240 % ALL DAY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY for the chapter on Emigration in your book? That is a very interesting and helpful feature feature of the book". Mr. Moise, Toronto: "Many thanks for the time and effort you have spent in compiling the information". Mrs. Willcox, Bridgenorth: "Very favourable comments comments when I took it to our historical commiteee meeting". meeting". Mrs. Reid, Manotick: "I'm fascinated with the early letters of the pioneers, and am glad you retained their unique brand of spelling and punctuation. If they could have only known, as they laboured away at their compositions compositions that, one <|ay, they'd be published and treasured". Mrs. Elliott, California : "I have not been disappointed. disappointed. I congratulate you. and Mr. Rutherford for a great job, lovingly done. With its excellent indexes, it is a book that I will want to keep close at hand for ready reference. My father was born in Orono, and Orono is a word that I heard many times over the years, but I knew little about it, Now, from your book, I have a clear concept of that place. I am very grateful to you for writing the book". Orono Weeklv Times, OTTAWA and SMALL BUSINESS Fire survey being carried out Town Council agreed to allow engineers conducting a survey of Newcastle's fire protection capabilites access to the town staff for information, information, but not without several indications of mistrust by at least two councillors. David Horn, an engineer with, Public Fire Protection Survey Service, said his firm was hired by the Insurance Bureau of Canada to conduct fire prevention surveys to supply the basic grading needed by various insurance companies to establish rates in. each municipality. Although some members of council, such as Coun. Kirk Entwisle and Mayor Garnet Rickard argued that it would be a disservice to the people of Newcastle not to allow Mr. Horn's people access to town GM talks very slow Bill Harding, chief UAW negotiator with General Motors Motors had stated that negotiations negotiations for a new master level agreement are progressing very slowly. He said the cause for the pace being set in negotiations with Ford which negotiations are to be the pace setter this year. He also said the Canadian Branch of the UAW is awaiting for General Motors in the U.S. to complete its offer. Local issues are expected to fall in line quite quickly once. the master level agreement is reached. It has been claimed that one of the major Union demands is a 30 years service and retirement clause. staff, Coun. Ken Lyall simply said, "I don't know if we can trust these people working for an insurance company." Mr. Horn said his group could proceed without the co-operation of council, but the risks of gathering erroneous erroneous second-hand information could be a costly mistake for townspeople paying insurance. insurance. The results of the survey Let's educate the teachers By KENNETH McDONALD Canada is the Western , world's biggest spender on education. Sweden is next, the United States 9th, West Germany 20'th (all expressed in percentages of Gross National Product). • • » Publicity given to the "functional illiteracy", in spelling, reading and writing English, of high school graduates graduates entering Canadian universities universities has led to some soul- searching in high schools. But what of the business illiteracy of teachers? o • • . A lot of good work is done in our schools. Young Canadians are well equipped mentally and physically to learn what they are being taught. But they are not would not be made public or ■ being taught how to earn a accessible to council, but the living. recommendations for improved improved fire coverage in the area would. Coun. Lyall's motion that the request be sent to committee for further debate remained unsupported and a subsequent motion passed by council gave the survey team access to town staff. But the survey has been delayed because the town watér tank is empty while engineers investigate possible possible structural faults and Mr. Horn said it was too late in the year to accurately gauge water tables in the town. • f • Don't blame the teachers. Most of them have gone from school to teachers' school to teaching school. They are the products as well as the producers producers of a closed circuit. Blame the educational bureaucrats bureaucrats and administrators in universities and provincial i ministries. But look in the mirror, too/ •' • • • Education is far too important important ,to be left to the teachers. • Let them teach academic subjects. But let Wednesday,, October 27th, 1976--,5 the rest of us be sure that teachers are given opportunities opportunities to learn and to pass on to their students -- how the outside world works. • • e • Education's purpose is to serve ; the community, indi- ■ vidually and collectively. T|ie Canadian community has to earn its living through industry and exchange. It's vital that young Canadians be taught how to play their part., • • s With this in mind, the Canadian Federation of Independent Independent Business has authorized authorized an initial budget of $50.000 for an educational program designed to help students understand small business and the workings of the socio-economic system; of free competitive <eriter- 'prise. e • • The first move will be an eight-page insert in the November November issue of Today's Generation, Generation, geared to a reader- ship of 450,000 students in high schools across Canada. • • • The Federation is concerned concerned that too much of education's education's very substantial revenues revenues is being diverted to education where the emphasis emphasis is on training for administrative administrative jobs in public and private bureaucracies. • • e Its aim is to change this emphasis to one which focuses on the building of skills preparing young people for self-employment. • e e Then the education system, system, instead of mobilizing recruits for big institutions, will begin 'to nourish the, smaller enterprises which, sustain local communities! Rent increases average 11 pc Rents on the average in the Region of Durham handled through ' the Oshawa office have been awarded increases of eleven percent. This is below the provincial average of 12.5 per cent. It has been pointed out that, this is only an average figure of those requests for higher , than the eight percent ceiling. Rent increases of eight percent or less do not have to go before the Rent Review Board. * • Since increases of less than eight percent are not recorded recorded it is felt that the overall average increase is much less than the 11 percent in the Region of Durham.