WHITBY F REE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1987, PAGE 5 This is the story of Lucas Letterpress and bis visit to the dentist, and how the observations he made there are on the way to making Lucas a very rich man. It started last week, shortly after Lucas made an emergency visit to Dr. Two Thirty. Lucas is, you will recail, editor of The Fiat Tail, Beaver's only newspaper. Lucas had suffered fromn an impacted wisdomd tooth. The result: pain, the kind we cannot describe in a family publication. Returning to the office Lucas meets an old friend. "Wlhat's new?" "Damn tooth," says Lucas. Impacted, with cerebral-spinal complications. Neyer had pain quite..." The details are not germane to the story. Lucas- continues through the afternoon on fortitude, over-work, and curiosity. He flnds not one person Who had ever sufl'ered less than he. He would have thought no more about it, had not Greasebaîl Capling called the very next afternoon to say bis new car had arrived. Lucas hurries over to jump behind the wheel of bis brand new Domestic Imported Boring Exotic Sedan, GD-3000 series. Two blocks from the garage, Lucas stops to flMI the tank. Good old Lester Oul tops up the tank and leans in the window. "Whatdaya pay fer "er/" Lucas tells him. "Pshaw! Capling Greaseballed ya. Shoulda come to me. My brother-in-law coulda gotya the same car fer one, maybe one-and a haîf thousand less." Over the next few hours Lucas found that everyone in Tombstone could have bought the same car for much less money. Poor old Lucas found that better deals could be obtained through brothers-in-law, although cousins follow a close second. Lucas' research continues. "How's the new car?" someone would ask. "Running fine, but a pi on gas. I guess it just takes a little while to run it in..." "You should ask me! The last new car I got, the I WITH OUR FEET UP by Bill Swan Impacted and insured mileage in the first thousand was so bad..." Nothing could compare. Everyone he met got worse break-in mileage than he could ever muster. He changed bis answer. "How's the new car?" "Terrific! And the mileage! I can't believe what Power you get out of these four cylinder jobs. And the gas mileage!" "You think that's good? My car ran across to the Rockies and down the west coast of United States last summer - pulling a trailer, mmnd you - all on one tank Of gas."1 "You don't say!" "Wanta believe it. Best car Ive ever had. I'm still driving on that same tank." Yesterday, someone stops him on the street. "How'es the new car?" "Fine!" Lucas replies. "But you should see how they soak me for insurance." "You think that's badi Let me tell you..." Everyone in town, it seems, paid more for insurance He tries a different approach. "And the insurance. Leêt me tell you about the deal I got. Collision, upset, $5 deductible, $1-million liability, $1O-million double indemnity if I get stopped for speeding, and ail for only..." "Yeah," said the friend, "sounds good. But did I ever tell you the deal my agent was able to wangle for me? I get full coverage you've just outlined, plus hie throws in a telephone answering machine as a signing incentive..." Well, the results are bistory, and Lucas 18 well on his way to becoming a very rich man. His secret? Well, it's not the newspaper business, although he still keeps bis hand in. H-is financial, genlus lies in accepting people at their word. "Shoulda come to, me. My brother-in-law coulda gotya..." Lucas now orders five. "Best car rve ever had. I'm still driving on that same tank..." Lucas orders five like it. Through the brother-in-law, of course. "..."did I ever tell you the deal my agent was abe to, wangle for me? I get.. ." Lucas now owns an insurance agency, through which hie reselîs brother-in-law bargains. Parts of his new-found science still have no business application. But the dental pain hie has begun to harness. Why Lucas has organized a meeting of the Dental Mechanics of Tombstone for next week. Lucas will provide cheap rate malpractice insurance; in return, the dentists will exchawnge their best pain stories. The results will be turned into a syndicated column. Lucas won't reveal the signing bonus hie received for sybndication, but the book advance runs in six figures. But chances are, my brother-in-law coulda got him almost double that. Oh, well. Maybe next time. Sehool board debates 'whole language' teaching LtMe Entertain You! IVe'd lîke 10 introduce you ta a great littie performer . . .the P2OIXJ. It is a VI IF/UlI IF TV and FM antenna designed and built using space .1ge tech nology and it ivill tap dance a %wold of televisiors entc«tainment right int your home. Thc SP12(XX) is a litIle dynamo. lt performs compara ly 10 most conven- tional antennaS nmany times ils size. 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Order your S1'2(MXX) today. Send $165. plus $10. for çhipping and handling and 7% sales tas l'y cheque. motney Order, VISA or Mvastercard, miade payable ta Station Earth, RR4 Fergus, Ontario NIMI 2W5. Immediate delivery. Il'S . If * oss are i,,sreetdi i a aîst)rilf atilettia çs*yslejsticIssi's,%afleusa. cabl, nsl'r and ampl'ifirr. lise,, lise Afisi-Siale cosld lsIve icivieffir ys's. Cali <or <isila aa ivr'I l'c lalppsi to telvi «ail al'ut il. Dealer inquiries invited. By ROXANNE REVELER It was showtime at the last meeting of Durham Board of Education trustees as a team of two teachers and two language consultants used comedy skits to get across the message of "whole language" teaching. Playing irate parents, sulky teachers, frustrated school administrators and all-knowing ministry officiaIs, the team expressed "whole language" as another application Of child-centered learning, whereby the cbild learns by doing, rather than listening to a teacher recite. Writing is the key to the approach and students are encouranged to spend much of their time writing creatively. It is through their creative endeavors that the teachers establishes lessons in grammar, spelling and punctuation as the occasions Boarding' ho use denied FROM PAGE 1 meeting. The Willis application had been modified to a two-room addition instead of the original proposaI for three guest rooms for lodgers. The eisting two-story structure was to be for single family residential use. Council will consider the recommendation next Monday night. present themselves. This type of education is being implemented throughout Ontario and is widely used in Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Guidelines from the Ministry of Education stress that teachers encourage and praise students' work in order to instili a joy of writing and creativity. The teachers are encouraged to correct work through examples and demonstrations rather than relying on red markers. But this new approach has caused many parents to become suspicious and critical. They feel the new teaching method is unstructured and question the absence of spelling books and red correction marks on their children's work papers. And school board members are equally as cautious. Several trustees questioned if there was sufficient research showing that children learn more language skills under the new system. Primary-junior consultant Joyce Fisher answered "yes". She said research had shown that doing a weekly spelling dictation, as was formerly the custom, was not the best method of teaching. She said that a variety of teaching methods proved far better. "Students will spell correctly a given word on the weekly dictation but rnisspell the same word a few minutes later in personal writing," says a board brochure circutated to parents in Durham earlier this school year. It concluded that often a child would not interpret the word on the list and the saine used in personal writing as being one and the samne. Penny Maring, a Or. 8 teacher in Whitby, said she had tracked the progress of her class under the new systemn and was convinced it made a difference. Paper plant will locate here industry that will employ 150 people when it opens will locate west of Thickson Rd. S., south of the CNR tracks. A site plan application was approved Monday night by Whitby's administrative committee. Barbara Schuelter, a representative of the FROM PAGE i beds," said WallaceJ rWe tried the low key approach and some feel we should be doing this quietly and not ruffling any feathers," he added, explaining why the board, is now going public with its "oiin:We will have a chronic nursing home facility if we don't get the beds," said Wallace, adding that if they are not approved, the "battle" will continue. Wallace said that in today's dollars, citizens *of Whitby have donated $6 million to the hospital. "We believe that continuous support from the community can be expected but only if there is a reasonable expectation that the RR 4. FERGUS. ONT NiM 2W5 PHONE (519) THE-DISH suggested if more students' work went home marked and corrected, the board would not have received as many complaint- calls. But Maring countered that teachers often wrote their corrections on a cover sheet which was kept ini the classroom. This, she said, was why work could go home appearing to be unmarked. N eed $ 300,000 to reaeh goal United Way campaign workers to raise $300,000 to meet their 1987 oh- jective. Campaign direct or Sandy Cun- ningham says an appeal is now being made to community residen- ts to make donations directly to the campaign office at 52 Simcoe St. S.. Oshawa or caîl 4:36-7377. About $2.3 million has been raised. 88.5 per cent of this year'*s goal. "It's been a real success story in Whitby donations in the campaign for the Oshawa -Whi tby- Newcastle United Way. Lasco and ITT Cannon this year both doubled their donations of last year while real estate companies from ail three municipalities within the campaign area have contributed more than double their totals of 1986.. Organizers will announce the final total Nov. 30. to be fol lowed by a victory celebration at Elusions. attended the meeting. The industry will consist of a warehouse and manufacturing facilities for paper reprocessing and is expected to eventually employ as many as 200 people. Access to the site will be by private d1riveway off Thickson and opposite Tricont Ave. Bed battie is underway in tbis hospital," said Wallace. H1e expects the new floor needed for the 32 chronic care lieds allocated by the minitry to the hospital will cost $6.5 million. The ministry will fund $4.3 million while the board wil have to go te the community and asik for the remaining $2.2 million. Wallace left both audienceson a positive note, saying that Furlong bas assured the board they will have a meeting with Elinor Caplan. He said a Nov. 20 meeting bas been arranged between the board and doctors and a further meeting will lie held te update residents on the bioard-.; progress. L