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the tribune stouffville ont thursday march 2 1950 the small town school unlike city schools almost 100 pc students pass at stouff ville higb1 far better than a rigid disciplinary system we like it better too say all eight teachers in many cases stu- u llttjt dents call their instructors by their largest teen tabloid canadian high news in its february 10th issue gave stouffville a big boost first name in a small town every body call everybody else by his first name regardless of age or in picture and story with plenty of illustraions on our high school s v doings the stanley theatre and sh shiners meeting place for male tne sel roon and tnt hom students also mlntionink that the t frl wei1 hioh oirk mp t thptavfiir i equipped in fact the new bruns- high girls meet at the maj fair wiek department of education used high news tells this story in it as a molel for the de3i of its the printed word all you city ovvn senool snops slickers who think that a high bul enough of lhe building what school students life in a small about the students themselves town is dull quiet and uninspiring- lel take oile of tnem and follow except for squares had better j wm around forawhile think again j p barry always drops into a recently c11n set out to dlscov- restaurant on the way home from er what the life of an average small school to get a hamburger the town teenager is like we chose best hamburgers he says come the town of stouffville ont for f the pool hall a combination our investigation and it was an snack bar and billiard parlor paul eyeopening experience i hastens to explain that none of some city students think that the fellows ever play pool there the teaching in a country district no one is allowed in who is under cant be as good as that in the big is years of age cities that the equipment will be mr barrys son lives just on the limited and that the students must edge of town the inconvenient lie anxious to live in the city in- end he says because its the end stead things are just the opposite which is the farthest from the high stouffville high schools princi- school he stumbles out of bed pal mr l c murphy teaches up- in the neighborhood of 530 am per school physics to exactly seven gets dressed and feeds the cattle students two of these seven came from larger toronto schools espe cially because of the smaller class es and more individual instruction both quality and quantity of appar atus easily matches if not surpass es equipment available in city schools a school inspector boards his daughter in stouffville so she can go to the high school there his reason is the higher standard of education ont of 19g students in upper school a few years ago ex actly 100 per cent passed their final exams last year only 5 out of a total enrolment of 197 failed the finals i and the students themselves say they like the free and easy friend then the pig trough needs clean ing and the cows must be milked by breakfast time at 7 am hes famished then back outside again with vegetables to take to the city to help his father load the truck at s30 paul staggers off to school however not every stouffville high student has these chores to do in fact about 80 per cent of them dont have any to do other than the usual helping with the dishes or shovelling the snow the most frequently heard part ing expression among hightimers is see you at shines after school is out at 330 the boys ga ther at shines place the local hot stove league emporium to discuss weighty problems in hockey high ly relations with their teachers school affairs girls and to clown around in general needless to say shines is for men only the girls go to the towns best restaurant about a block away and hold their henfest well give you three guesses what they talk about the usual routine after school dismisses consists of an hour or so at shines then leave for home about 5 pm have supper meet the gang to play hockey at the arena or go back to shines for another session every friday- night senior b hockey is play ed in the new arena but a fellow is considered to be lacking ment ally if he takes a girl to such an affair both the boys and girls feel its more fun to go stag variety in their dates isnt quite as great for stouffvilleites as for city teens but they manage to en joy themselves very weii they take in the odd show at the towns only theatre go skating at the uena on wednesday nights per haps a hockey game on friday nights and a skating party at the irena then a dance at the veter ans hall on saturday nights but the most amazing fact to us was square dancing is not very popu lar for small town high school stouffville high creates a very big impression would you like to pass in all your subjects and have a lot of fun too a small town high school like the one at stouffville is just the place to do it i telephone lines heavily coated with sleet buckled to the ground at st catharines ont storm wrought havoc with communition systems schools depending on electricity for stokers and oil burners were without power for several hours during the day faulty apples at hamilton ont february 8th alec landman 244 york street hamilton was fined 50 and costs second offence for selling apples by the pack of which was overfac- ed for size and colour this action was taken under the provisions of the farm products grades and sales act of the ontario depart ment of agriculture canadas southernmost lake eries middle island point is hokticiltlkal council at ottawa by h u harper representing the ontario crop improvement asso at a recent meeting of the hor ticultural council among the many items on the agenda the council unanimously recommended price support for agricultural products a m shaw chairman of the price support board and dr h h han- nam president of the canadian federation of agriculture debated at length on the application of price support dr hannam con tended the support price should be high enough to keep agriculture the basic industry representative of 60 of the industry of canada on the same level as the returns received by labour for services per formed and not simply a stop loss price as adovated by mr shaw other resolutions brought to the council were in regard to provin cial marketing boards to handle our own produce and an invitation by british columbia producers and wholesalers to have a representa tive group sent out there from the five eastern provinces especially to study first hand their marketing legislation now in operation since 1927 with many of the problems ironed out also that the nutritional experts at various experimental stations try and determine the reason for potatoes turning dark when cooked and that a programme be launched to increase consumption of pota toes by emphasizing the place of potatoes in a healthful diet civil marriages may be allowed in ontario attempts are being made to grow cotton commercially in southern alberta i the ontario government is w- sidering introducing legislation to permit civil marrages in ontario by magistrates and judges at present marriages may legal ly be performed only by ordained ministers and heads of religious groups such as the salvation army the government has not yet reatb ed a decision civil marriages have been a vocated by some churches wbtaee doctrine forbids marriage of mx uiin divorced persons minor changes to the marriage act are now being introduced iws- fore the legislature spokesmen for the anglican and catholic churches indicated thaset would be no opposition to etwfe legislation if it should be intro duced 8b canada took one look applauded and agreed that the is jrs7 and mnest at zowest cost even sixfooters find comfort here i new twotone fisher interiors extraroomy extraluxurloul most beautiful car weve seen i new styiestar bodies by fisher in sparkling new color harmonist tops for driving a ndriding easel centrepoint steering with unitized kneeaction ride what roominess and what value biggest of all lowpriced cars longest heaviest car in its field 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