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4 NORSHORE SENTINEL Thursday, April 27, 1961 RECREATIONAL DIRECTOR NEEDED FOR NIPIGON A town has two faces. Its outward face is shown to the tourist or passer-by as he arrives, looks briefly and then travels on. It is a face of clean or dirty streets, neat buildings or shacks and, most important, a general look and feeling of a town moving ahead... or a town asleep. The second face is the face of familiarity, the side the town known to the citizens who live there. It is more than just a face; it is a character made up of many tiny facets that, together, make up a complete picture of either good or bad. Nipigon has a good outward face, There are still junkyards on the main highway into town and too many tar-paper shacks but a definite cleanup move is formulating in the chamber of commerce and town council for this summer. The work of the active chamber and sincere council are complemented by the businessman's own efforts to see Nipigon go ahead. It all makes up a picture of motion and improvement and a good general outward appearance. However, this exuberance over attracting new business, new sub-divisions and improving the outward side of the town has made too many people forget the other ‘face' of their town, in many ways the most important face. Plainly and simply, Nipigon has a serious lack of recreational facilities for both young and old. The lack is so great that it is nothing short than a miracle that there have been so few cases of juvenile crime in this town, Nipigon does not need an elaborate building such as the recreational centres of Red Rock and Terrace Bay. It's greatest need is organization; organization brought by a paid recreational director for the town. A recreational director’s program includes every age group and can be carried on in school auditoriums and in nature’s lakes just as easily as in a modern building full of equipment and facilities. There can be swim classes for everyone; art and craft classes for adults, senior citizen’s clubs, well-organized teen clubs and baseball , soccer, football, hockey teams for the gaffers and teenagers. The program is unlimited. The recreational committee has been pushing for a paid recreational director for the past few years but has gained little support from council. Recreational committee estimates included the hiring of a director again this year but council felt it did not have the money. The estimated cost of a director and a full-scale recreational program would run around four mills, roughly $8,000.-This is no small figure but could not part of the money for the initial setup by deriving from service clubs, business and industrial leaders of the town or better yet, from an over-all canvass of the citizens? It is not even too far out of line to think that a floor could be purchased for the arena and roller-skating, huge dances and regular. shows could become a part of Nipigon entertainment. With good planning, the money spent on the recreation program might well be recovered through the arena. Nipigon needs a recreational director and a recreational program just as much as it needs a street paved or a new set of street lights. Council does not have the money but possibly the public, if given the leadership by the recreational commission, might have enough interest to bring this about themselves. THE LATE BLOOMERS When educationists talk about late bloomers, they aren't referring to flowers unless, perhaps, it’s in a horticulture course. What they are talking about is the student who is average or below average in high school but suddenly blossoms and does well in university. They are the opposites of early bloomers who get good marks in high school but don’t do so well in college. And there are also dark horses ... students who don’t show much’ in the early years of university but come on with a sprint to finish near the top. The definitions were provided by a panel at a Toronto meeting of the Ontario Educational Association What is possibly more important is that the educationists admitted it's difficult to spot an early bloomer or a late bloomer with any certainty. This should be a double-edged warning to parents who themselves seem to fall into two categories. We've probably all heard some parents describe their child as stupid and indicate they have given up all hope the youngster will ever complete his education. And many teachers have encountered parents who refuse to face up to the fact that their child’s intelligence isn't high enough to permit him to complete a university course successfully. On the one hand, the danger is that the parents are abandoning hope for a child who may be destined to become a late bloomer. On the other, they may be expecting too much of a student who just hasn’t the ability to cope with higher education. Either way, it can mean loss of interest or frustration in the child, The boy or girl who senses that his parents think he’s stupid may give up the idea of pursuing an education before he has been given a chance to show his true .colors, Those whose parents practically force them to continue in an academic course when they haven’t the capability are being denied the chance to find their niches in a field where they can succeed such as in vocational or commercial courses. There is no simple answer to the problem, particularly since it's all wrapped up in the emotional ties between parent and child. But perhaps if we at least try to recognize a problem when it exists and to get the best possible advice and heed it, we can do something to help our children find their way to a fruitful and satisfying role in society. NORSHORE SENTINEL The Norshore Sentinel is printed and published every Wednesday in Nipigon. The Sentinel Office is located on 3rd St., in Nipigon, box 279, phone 360. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Charles D. McOuat, editor and publisher. Donald F. McOuat, advertising manager. THE WEEK AT OTTAWA SOCIAL'CREDIT CLAIMS STATISM’ TREND SERIOUS TO INDIVIDUAL’S FREEDOM Specially Written for Norshore Sentinel by ALEX MORIN Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA, April (CP) - A political breeze from the West â€" one almost voiceless in these parts since 1958 â€" stirred anew in the capital last week. Its source was premier E.C. Manning of Alberta, here to offer an alternate product to what he called the “bargain basement politics’’ marketed in the Commons by old and new parties alike. The veteran of 18 years as Social Credit premier of his province told supporters that in the three years since the party last was represented on the federal scene there had been a. growing trend toward statism. This statism â€" the shouldering of more and more responsibility by the government â€" was dwarfing the individual. RAPS OTHER PARTIES The Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals were outbidding one another with the people’s money and the CCF-New Party Socialists were proposing to go even farther toward making the state supreme at the cost of individual freedom, responsibility and initiative. Where Social Credit differs is in the fact it would get to the root causes of the country’s problems, he said. It was based on philosophic- premises that kept the individual as the most important unit in society, guaranteed his security and made spending power equivalent to resources and goods produced. At the same time, however, Mr. Manning advanced the basic tenet that a Social Credit government would fulfil its democratic function and legislate the people's wishes. In this context he said that democracy is right so long as it enacts what is desired by the people â€" even if the resulting legislation is wrong in the view of those governing. REJECTS LEADERSHIP While in Ottawa, Mr. Manning reiterated that he will not be available for the party’s national leadership. A national convention to choose a successor to Solon Low will be held here July 5â€"7. In Parliament itself the bulk of legislation to be dealt with this session was beginning to cause anxiety. Prime Minister Diefenbaker gave notice that a motion would be introduced to extend sitting hours. In spite of the fact that the session banked 25 working days by starting Nov. 17, it seemed quite possible that the end of June would not see business cleared up. If adding time to the present 25 1/2 hours a week isn't enough, Mr. Diefenbaker indicated the House may adjourn for six summer weeks starting July 1 and return to clean up the remainder of its business afterwards. LAST MINUTE RUSH Extending the Commons sitting hours is usually done progressively near the end of a session so that at times in recent years virtual round-the-clock sittings have been needed to clear the last items. One of the problems that has taken up a good deal of time so far has been unemployment. After several months of witnessing the situation go from bad to worse, the trend turned slightly. Figures released for March showed a drop of 14,000 unemployed to 705,000. The number was 11.1 per cent of the labor force compared with 11.3 in February and 9.8 in March last year. Despite the decline, the March jobless figure was still a record for the month over the last 15 years. It was 68,000 higher than in March; 1958, the previous post-war hugh for the month. It was 96.000 higher than in March of last year, QUEBEC JOBLESS RISE Quebec was the only province where unemployment rose between February and March. It remained unchanged in the Atlantic provinces and the prairies and declined in Ontario and on the Pacific coast. Another report from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics showed that last year's wheat crop â€" the first good harvest in four years -- has swelled Canada’s wheat stockpile by 64,200,000 bushels. Wheat stocks on March 31 were an estimated 749,500,000 bushels compared with 685,300,000 a year earlier. The increase followed three annual declines from the peak of 904,400,000 bushels for the same date in 1957 â€" three years in which wheat producers harvested below-average crops. Last year, however, Canadian wheat production rose by more than 18 per-cent to 489,600,000 bushels and wheat exports so far haven’t taken up the additional output. NEED SALES BOOST Hopes of reversing the uptrend in wheat stocks hinge on the size of this year’s crop and on how well Canada does in boosting sales. In recent months Canada has made three big sales to Communist countries: 28,000,000 bushels to China, 11,900,000 bushels to Czechoslovakia and 7,400,000 bushels to Russia. It is also reported that another sale of 28,000,000 bushels is being negotiated with China, The week also held good news for dairymen. Agriculture Minister Hamilton informed the Commons that the government price support levels for butter, cheese and some whole milk will remain unchanged in the new dairy year starting May 1. The minister did not mention studies which are understood to be in progress to determine whether butter prices might be lowered to spur consumption and reduce stocks which totalled 105,600, 000 pounds April 1. Stocks a year earlier were 76,700,000 pounds.