Oshawa Times (1958-), 13 Aug 1965, p. 3

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By ROSEMARY SPIERS sighed 17 - year - old Lenora Miller. 'The Parry Island Indian girl up the comforts of home. helping children. Cape Croker reserves who took part in an integrated "-YWCA they ran a morning camp for children. They lived together in the re-/ FREE HAIRDOS serve schoolhouse, making shift on the floor at night in their sleeping bags. from Parry Island and work camp for Indian and white girls. first week in leadership train- ing at Parry Sound on Georgian Bay, then moved séven miles to the Parry Island reserve where "Tt was uncomfortable but it ners atmosphere at the camp. The 13 teen-agers spent theirithe community programs branch of the Ontario depart- Indian council. The reserve sup- the Indian girls--free hairdos at Indian And White Girls Learn Leadership Skill At YWCA Camp |r" zomornon Until late afternoon, The work camp was the re-|persons will still be feeling the TORONTO (CP)--'I haven't sult of more than # year's plan-/emotional impact of recent lu- slept in a bed for a month,"| ing by the Y executive and|nar influences, but they will members of the Parry Island|lift then, and you should find But she wasn't complaining./band council. "It can pe a big mistake to had found good reason to give|go barging in assuming you well-tested procedures so as to know best how to help people," |eliminate the possibility of er- Lenora had spent four weeks|Miss Graham says. '"'We worked|'or. learning leadership skills andjfor many months run day camps for|Parry Island band to make sure we were not doing somethin, The result was eager partici- pation in the project by the band council and an equal-part- Financial support came from ment of education, from several schools and clubs and from the plied the girls' food and a cook. Galt brought some firsts for two city beauty parlors and a chance to play miniature golf. with thelpoR THE BIRTHDAY 4 She was one of six Indian|that would just irritate them." eg geen agregar i ae THE STARS SAY By ESTRELLITA some more congeniality in all areas. In business matters, follow If tomorrow is your birthday, well to temper monetary am- bitions with conservatism. Even though some good financial breaks are highlighted in your, chart -- notably between mid- September and tmid-November (with October outstanding), you would not be justified in ex- panding along these lines--es- pecially through speculative ventures. This will be particu- larly. important to remember during the first two weeks in September and the last two weeks of December. Next good periods on the fis- PT rn ae el ae ANN. LANDERS Dear Ann Landers: Our daughter, who will soon be 11, reads your column every day. I have no objections, in fact 1 think it is good for her because you have backed me up many times. My husband doesn't a with me. He says Enid will dis- cover soon enough that life can this again after he heard Enid husband said kids are exposed to so much that is undesirable and so little that is good that they are bound to become con- fused. He insists childhood 'should be just plain fun, free of anxieties and worries. My husband is well-educated (which I am not)' and I must Ann's Column Makes Good Reading For All wha teens do understand it, all the|pefore. g fotior, My eiben ta: Sesed-salacct ete" Ceneanee sound moral principles, and cor-|shakes. rect information--and this can't Dear Ann Landers: a Severallmately 1,000 Americans months ago you wrote a wonder-|the line that divides, the ful column on parents who fight|drinker and the alcoholics. .1 be sordid and terribly cruel. Helin front of their children. Now Ijnice to know "" ldoesn't think she should find out|wish you'd say something about -pesaanieeta throug your column. parents who get drunk in front Last night we talked about|of their children. I - a pip, fd who ver ake a hammer and telephone with a girl friend. Mylevery bottle of aga = this caeaie. Stan erited eng quite a lot of money so nobody y : in the family works. Anyone' -- 3 an nom who thinks a life of leisure is) ;¢ a great way to live should come to our house and they'd learn) discussing your column on thelto By dinner time my mother and dad are both smashed. All| ' THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, August 13,1965 ]] with for a long time I'll never| touch liquor as ai MADE THE 8 HOUSEHOLD HINT | Coiorfui cotton fabrics make marvelous window shades, Stif- Dear M.T.S.: Your decision|fen with a new spray-on is a wise one. You'll never have|'2ck to shade roller and to worry about whether or not] {¢ hem with cotton fringe. you're in 'shape to drive or SHOP TONIGHT CHERNEY'S SEMI-ANNUAL INVENTORY Recent. fi; tell us at areer agement over this The learning was not all one-\cal front: early December, next admit he is seldom wrong.|they do is fight. My brother and [ ae February, April and June Best peel oi Bates, and your|sister and I eat in the kitchen Ria learned a lot} "The Indian girls taught us|cycles for job advancement and Y) ee with the help because we can't "aiagel ie bn rm how to ave porcupine poe and|recognition: Late September, Dear Mrs:: Your husband|stand the name-calling and the The girls spent afternoons and|make designs with them on early December, next January,|™ay. be well-educated but he/plate-throwing. was worth it," says Marjorie Smith of Toronto, the camp'sjsided, however. x has a poor memory .Nobody's| Liquor has robbed my mother "THIGH-HIGH' INVASION High knit stockings are worn by two girls in a New York discotheque club last night to subdue the reveal- ing aspects of the British fad of "'thich - high" skirts. At left is a wide wale, olive green corduroy skirt worn with matching turtleneck sweater and stockings in a brown diamond pattern. At right is a light wool camel- colored A-line skirt with matching turtleneck sweater and stockings in cranberyy and red checks, (AP Wirephoto) Calgary Woman Invades Male Construction Field CALGARY (CP)--Jean Mur- doch, partner in a Calgary con- struction firm, never had any| real trouble dealing with men. "You don't have to boss them around too much. You can be nice and get the same reaction. It's always worked for me." A soft-spoken, dark - haired woman, Miss Murdoch has no engineering degree or special training in the construction bus- ness, She learned by experi- ence. Raised on a farm near Cross- field, Alta., 22 miles north of Calgary, she gained "a pretty ood working knowledge of the 'undamentals of buildings." Later, after attending high school, she course in Calgary and during! the war years worked in a bank. In 1945, a friend helped her gain a position as purchasing agent for Bennett and White Construction Co. took a business|carpenters and Just after the war, she ex- plains, the professions "were wide open." Today a woman might need more formal train- ing to crack the construction business. | NO SILENT PARTNER | In 1953, she joined Edward Walden in partnership in Walden Construction Lid, a general construction firm deal- ing mainly in school, office building and bank work. She is no silent partner. She estimates the removal of dirt for excavation; the amount of concrete required for a founda- tion; the amount of brick or masonry ded. She h 'Hostess For |wheelchair. evenings learning to run meet- ings and planning projects for the winter months on the re- serve. | WORKED AT CAMP "We made it a work camp be- cause we thought the girls could learn to know one another best if they were kept busy on some worthwhile project," says Glenna Graham of Toronto, the Y's national program director. The fourth and final week was spent in Galt where the teen-agers helped in a YWCA camp for children 10 and 11. Giving the girls experience in both ways of life was one of the most 'important aspects of the experiment, Miss Graham says. "We wanted to show there are needs to be served in both com- munities and that there are pirch-bark jewel boxes," said|March and May Marilyn Fair of Hamilton.| Personal interests will be "Then they showed us how to/livelier than material pursuits-- grind the edges with sweetlespecially for the balance of grass." 1965, Miss Graham says part of the! Between now and Sept. 15, the reason for the camp was tolcelestial spotlight will shine on prove teen-agers can do thisiromance and social activities, childhood is "'just plain fun, free of anxieties and worries"--not even your husband's. I believe my column is fit reading for anyone who is old enough to read, If some of the material is beyond a youngster, it will have no meaning. If pre- kind of job. Now that it has|with opportunities for making proved its point, it will not belnew friends indicated--friends repeated. She is hopeful both groups of girls will go to other camps as leaders next year. "We've shown the kind of ap- proach we think should be taken in helping Indians and we've set up a model which other groups can use in planning their own camps. "Even if no one chooses to follow our example, we've ac- complished one thing--two little groups of girls have learned mutual understanding and re- who will interest you socially, sentimentally or business-wise. A similarly good cycle will Next good periods for | ro- mance: May and June, of 1966. Don't count too much on chances for travel during the balance of 1965, but next Jan- uary, May and July will be highly auspicious. A child born on this day will of her looks and her health. It has robbed my father of his am- bition and his dignity. It has robbed them both of the respect of their children. ' done one thing that is good. It packages as usual in foil or film, has helped me make a decision|shove into a stocking and knot that some teen-agers struggle'the ends. But it has WIFE PRESERVER Old nylons make great pro- tective freezer wrap. Wrap occur between Nov. 15 and) Jan. 1. | problems and advantages to both ways of life." be a born leader and will prob- spect." ably be a greater success in HONOLULU (AP)--The wife of Hawaii's governor is a frag- ile, gentle woman who runs a 24-room mansion, is hostess to a continuous stream of import- ant visitors, and fields the obli- gations that are hers as the state's first lady--all from a Stricken. by polio 30 years ago and unable to walk since then, Beatrice Burns has raised three children, campaigned side by side with her husband, and now presides with self-assur- ance over historic Washington Place, home of Hawaii's gov- ernors in downtown Honolulu. She's so popular with Island- ers that she was recently elected Hawaii's "most admired estimates from _ electricians, plasterers to help her firm make a bid on a job. The granddaughter of George) Murdoch, the first mayor of Calgary, she says she is still learning her trade and loves jher work. CHILD GUIDANCE Preparation Is Must For First Day By GARRY C. MYERS, PhD Entering the first grade is a big adventure for any child and the more so if he has not at- tended kindergarten. Most chil- dren eagerly look forward to this new experience. They have watched older children go to school and thought of this as a mark of growing up. A few children, however, have misgivings and anxiety about their first. day in the grades. They may have been teased by older children who} have enjoyed feelings of supe- riority by filling them with all sorts of fears of the teacher, and of school bullies, mostly fabricated. A few parents, when unable to get obedience in their child, have told him he "will have to mind when he goes to school," suggesting he will have a stern and severe teacher. If your child, looking forward AtSchool | filling your child with fears, about school, you might through a few other older children find ways to counter the ill effect. BE COMPANIONABLE As your child will be intro- duced to reading and other learning skills you might, in the remaining weeks, do much in his preparation. Go on reading to him every day. If he asks you to say a certain word on the page, gladly do so. Answer all his questions kindly. Cultivate companionable coh- versation with your child. Call his atgention to words on signs on the street and in stories and } " in a newspaper poll. Mrs. Burns was stricken with polio four years after her mar- riage. She was pregnant and lost the child. At first she was unable to move either her arms or legs. Later, she got back partial use of her arms. Mrs. Burns has been able to lead a normal life, she says, be- cause of her family. '"They treat me as a human being rather than as a handicapped person. There is never any chance of they kid me out of it." Mrs. Burns was born in a mining town in Oregon, and spent her youth in more than a dozen cities in the western United States, from Los An- geles to Nevada. Her parents were school teachers and farm- ers, ARMY NURSE Coming to Hawaii in 1930 as an army- nurse, she met her husband-to-be, John, then a stu- dent at the University of Ha- waii, at Schofield Barracks. Despite raised her young children, John Jr..and Mary Beth, who were infants at the time she was labels on food packages. En-| courage him to draw or paint! |pictures he likes to create, and| jto make things for fun out of! paper, cardboard and clay. Do your best to help him have fun with other children near his age. Attract them to your home jwhere you can study him and to the first grade, reveals any|help him to be a good playmate Hawaii's Governor|":, 7 Is Fragile Woman In Wheelchair | nies s,u* ssn, 00 her handicap, she| any one of the professions than in the business) dawns on me that I'm in a wheelchair." It is at Washington Place, the trips, but more frequently as "the schedule-keeper and the telephone answerer." = =--_--si119- year-old mansion where _ For Mrs. Burns, disability|Queen Liliuokalani lived after isn't necessarily a handicap. (the Hawaiian monarchy was 'You can't always compen-joverthrown, that Mrs. Burns sate," she says. "I do whatever|keeps busiest in her role as the I can reach. You can sweep a/wife of Hawaii's governor. floor moving backwards, trail-| Twice a week, she takes ing the broom behind you." school children or other groups on guided tours of the mansion. gel OF FIVE People who voted for Mrs, ut she no longer has to/Burns as Hawaii's 'most ad- sweep floors. She has a staff of|mired woman' cited her cour- five, who take care of household| age and spirit, her participation chores. in community activities, and There is still the garden, how-|helping her husband while ever. "I slither around in the/forced to remain in a wheel- garden daily, and if you don'tichair. What do you need to make your home completely sltity when they are aromnd.| Warm & comfortable this winter ? | A NEW FURNACE? Let Lander-Stark install a new, economicel Lennox or Anthes oil furnace in your home for your everlasting comfort. Terms to suit your budget. stricken. The Burns' youngest son, James, 27, was born after she had the polio attack. ; "T did all my own cooking and sewing,' she says. "l was the}! main dishwasher, I was not too) good at cleaning the house but} Beth took care of that." Mrs, Burns played a major role in her husband's long po- QUALITY FUEL OIL? You're sure of quality with Lander-Stork fuel oil. 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