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More High School Students Given Driving Instruction By DUNC McWHIRTER Canadian Press Steff Writer Teen - agers, long considered naturals at parking, are finding increased opportunity to learn to drive. Hundreds of Canadian schools in six provinces offer class- rooms and sometimes teachers to give extra-curricular, after- hours driving courses. However, at only one school in the country can students ac- tually get credits for taking this kind of instruction. The Saint John, N.B., Voca- tional School started driver training as a regular subject 10 years ago as part of a motor mechanics course. About 700 students have taken the training and more than 100 now are en- rolled. The Canadian Press, in a cross - Canada survey, found there is considerable opposition among provincial government ministers and education author- ities, as well as coolness among the public, toward proposals that driver training be included in high school curricula. REDUCES ACCIDENTS Most of the opposition is based on the belief that Cana- dian. schools already have a tough enuugh job covering ex- isting academic subjects with- out throwing in "frills." Traffic safety authorities,|nearly seven per cent of all B.C.|by the provincial governmentjnecessary for the teaching Of|the second year of a chemistry \for each graduate driver, Stu- vital academic courses." 34-|dents pay an entrance fee of $5.| Little demand for teen - age Tom Ireland, program direc- driving lessons has come from) \tor with the Saskatchewan High- parents, he added, however, say extra - curricular driving courses are popular and enrolments are climbing. They ean produce statistics showing road accidents are far fewer among graduates of these courses than among those who get their lessons from family or friends. RACER JACK TURNER (RIGHT) AT WINNIPEG CLINIC drivers. The Vancouver course, hours spread over six weeks, is divided among classroom in- struction, practice at a device with simulated car controls, ob- servation of others driving and actual driving. Total cost is nearly $35, of which the student way Safety Council, said acci- dents involving drivers of 16 to 19 have been reduced by more than 30 per cent. He added that most of the STARTED IN 1949 In Ontario the department of transport has been operating a} high school driver training pro-} gram for 13 years. The courses, | British Columbia, Saskatche- pays $27. The rest is made up big insurance companies in the wan, Ontario, New Brunswick, hy the safety council and the province give rate reductions of Nova Scotia and, to a limited BC. Automobile Association. {10 to 20 per cent to graduates extent, Manitoba, have pone B.C. Attorney-General Robert of the high school program. in which high school students , 11. ' The government also in some centres have the oppor- Bonner has told the legislature g' tunity to take courses sponsored by government departments, service clubs or motoriig organ- of education under school aid scheme, has ducted in about 60 funds should not be used for,school for the last two summers 3.990 students are enrolled t driver training. jat Moose Jaw. year. i "My own personal view is TANIS RUN PROGRAM Since izations. ? ; : KIWANIS ? Driver training programs for that if you are going to invest 'The only courses for Manitoba launched 1. $3,000 in a car, you can invest teen-agers are conducted priv- ergy ton gue reg ma $35 in driving lessons," said Mr. ately, by service clubs or simi- instruction in Ontario. ° Bonner. lar organizations. -- No program of driver training. The Kiwanis Club, in co-oper i See e Kiwanis Club, -oper- Se oon gee eg ee exists in Alberta schools. How-'ation with the Manitoba Motor poh ag ry t a. hes at st ever, Highways Minister {eague, for the last three years Sohn's. Nfld Pei tas but dis. Gordon Taylor March 12 an- has held an after-hours course rattan d it b e the one in-Nounced that 40 teachers. will tor students in Norwood - St. po ioreag 2 oe handle the '@ke a two-week driver training Boniface schools in the Winni- Pid or upelienats jcourse this summer, the first peg area. f ster toward setting up a high This course, recognized by the COURSE SUBSIDIZED waeoay pingeen: [American Automobile Associa-/890 ' | ELP: ltion, is offered at a se Sri Comal depart, GOVERNMENT a of 'split between the student ment of education has an extra-, Saskatchewan has a strongly the MML. Each year abou the program in Kitchener, not taken it. about) 50,000 teen-agers have received) assisted by grants for classroom) instruction from the department} its night) are con-| sich ; schools the government believes public sponsored a driving instructors \throughout the province. About ° his| | was) | Carl Laybourn, director of}kan seiner which was designed) safety education in the depart-\by a Seattle naval architect. ment of transport, said persons) taking the course have about 50) with Ottawa's view that the B.C. per cent fewer accidents andjfisheries industry requires nearly 90 per cent fewer driving|Jarger boats to compete against violations than those who have|Japanese and Soviet fleets in! Mr. Laybourn said there is aj d deal of opposition to thejerman since 1935," he said in fee of $20,/Program "due mainly to a lack/an interview. "I know what size and of information." The course, en- t 90 tirely extra-curricular, consists By TREFIAK OTTAWA (CP) -- Statistics suggest that if a girl wants to meet a boy she should go west. Canada's biggest male surplus is there. Dawna Little would find that hard to believe. She has been surrounded by boys since com- ing east to Ottawa two years ago from Three Hills, Alta. She says she had no idea that the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology, the school she came here to attend, had had only male students since its es- tablishment three years before. The revelation "came as a bit ofa s Al "T almost climbed back on the train when I found I'd be al- most the only girl student," said Dawna. "I heard about the In- stitute from my aunt, who lives in Ottawa, but she didn't tell me I'd probably be the only girl! in the school." GOT USED TO IT When she arrived, the boys--} 475 of them--were everywhere. The only woman in sight was the school secretary. "She told me to hang my coat with hers, adding that the other girl who would be studying here hadn't arrived yet." The other girl was Carol Bailey of Montreal, who says) she knew the school was all-| male, but '"'my parents told me) I'd get used to it, and I did." A third girl, Joan Harrington of Ottawa, enrolled later. Dawna and Carol now are in jcourse at the institute--a sister | Owner Rejects Federal View VICTORIA (CP) Frank Smith says he will pit his knowl- edge of the economics of British Columbia's coastal fisheries against that of federal experts y day. To support his claim he has put more than $50,000 of his own money into one of the big- gest and best-equipped draggers of the province's fishing fleets. The 57 - foot vessel is the owner's modification of an Alas-! Mr. Smith says he disagrees the Pacific. 3 "T"ve been a commercial fish- boat is most economical yet this one wasn't eligible for the fed- Girl Pupils Surrounded By 'Gentlemanly' Males school of Toronto's Ryerson In- stitute of Technology. Both hope to do research work after they graduate next spring, Dawna wants to work in the western oil industry. Carol, who already has a summer job 'vith a Montreal paper company, thinks she might like to stay in Quebec. y Joan, along with three other Ottawa girls who came to the institute at the beginning of 'is school year, is enrolled in the business administration course, PLAY ACTIVE PART Though the boys outnumber them 79 to 1, the six girls are making their presence felt. Joan is secretary of the Stu- dent Council and Karen Gar land, one of the first-year stu- dents, is president of the Rod and Gun Club. The girls also have partici- some of them are curlers. All of the girls praised the male students. Some of the comments: "They're courteous; very considerate'. ... don't carry our books, but they open doors for us"... . "As far as being gentlemen is con- cerned, they're very good." Only one thing bothers the girls, "'There's that dead silence that prevails when we pass a group of them during a story- telling session." When the girls want to hold a heart-to-heart discussion they repair to their "only area of seclusion--the washroom." Competition Open To String Players MONTREAL (CP)--The sec- ond national music competition of Les Jeunesses Musicales of Canada, open to top young Ca- nadian string players, will be} held at Mount Orford, Que., June 27 to July 8. The competition, including general recitals and perform- the jury, will offer both cash prizes and the opportunity to perform at the Montreal Chalet with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra July 31, Sir Ernest MacMillan, na- tional president of the JMC, will) be president of the jury. Bushmen Able To Stand Heat ances of two works selected by|!9 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturdey, April 14, 1962 7 pated in Motor Club rallies and 7% BOYS CLUSTER AROUND JOAN HARRINGTON REPORT FROM PARLIAMENT By MICHAEL STARR, MP Minister of Labor The minister of finance asked the House of Commons for in- terim supply for a period of two months, to cover expenses of the public service until such time as the estimates should be ap- proved by Parliament for the fiscal year ending March 31, 63. This request was readily) agreed to by all parties in th) order. j This gives authority for the minister of finance to pay in advance of the estimates for) the current year 1962-63 of the! jvarious departments which have) not been passed by the House) of Commons as yet. | mates of any department when debated in this one-hour period than in the past. Vote Interim Supply For 2-Month Period residence. shipping them to their places of The method of dealing with questions submitted by private members to the ministry has also been expedited in that many of the answers are filed with the clerk on the Orders of the Day, instead of being read out in detail. The various ministers to whom these questions are di- rected have been more expedi- the result has been that, in order to keep questions on the Order Paper, the members have been kept busy filling up the Order Paper with questions as rapidly as the government has answered the previous ones. Election anticipation is in evi- Perhaps by the time this col- umn appears the matter will have been clarified. When an election is called a cabinet minister has a great deal of responsibility extending beyond the boundaries of his own riding. He gets many re- quests to tour the country and speak on behalf of other candi- dates of his party at nominas House and was passed in short|°US in answering them, andition meetings and general elec- |tion meetings. I recall my own jexperience in 1958 when I had jto take part in this type of elec- tioneering from coast to coast. | 'The same situation will apply jduring this coming election and, jeven though I would like te spend all of my time in my own : ji . |dence on Parliament Hill andijriding inthe election campaign The granting of this authorityimany of the members who are|my responsibility as a cabinet does not prejudice the rights)a jong way from home are busy|minister will not permit me to and privileges of members to|packing up materials that they|do this to the extent I would criticize any item in the esti-jneed in their Constituencies andilike. eral subsidy because it wasn't large enough." The boat can take 90,000 pounds of iced fish. There isn't a fish plant on the West Coast curricular, after-hours program | >a nized system, with a larger enrol. of about 50 hours of classroom of driver training for high) : instruction and behind-the-wheel percentage of its high school) peter Dygala of the Manitoba page mag neta students taking driving courses highways Seoustmens motor vée- experience, and is becoming in- hicles branch said he would like year. The program also is con-\'han any other province. a Se SUFFIELD, Alta. (CP )-- There's something about an Af- rican bushman that makes him better able to stand the cold it comes up for consideration) in committee of supply. | The minister of finance gave) the usual undertaking that such CREDIT UNIONS ducted at Victoria and several) The program, now in its third to see the MML program added OFFER SUMMER PLAN other centres. Jim Plaskett, manager of the Vancouver Traffic and Safety Council, said a provincial sur- vey in 1960 showed less than three per cent of drivers trained at high school were involved in accidents, compared with lyear, 73 high schools. Nearly 16 per leent of the 17,000 high school students in Saskatchewan are posed to a curricular program. branch was formed in the Que- enrolled this year, almost twice'He said it would be impossible hec department of transporta- as many as in 1961. ! School divisions are is conducted on an extra-to the provincial high school leurricular, non-credit basis at eyrricula. B. Scott Bateman, deputy, minister of education, is op- to "introduce such a course Air Force Compiles Great Safety Record The fatal accident rate of the|in which the airframe is not is very worth By DAVE McINTOSH OTTAWA (CP) -- In the last eight years the Royal Canadian Air Force has lowered its acci dent rate by 64 per cent and its fatal accident rate by 89 per cent. It has achieved this remark- able record by plugging away at flight safety, by constantly dinning into the ears of air and ground crews the precious need of minimum risk in all opera- tions. Air Marshal Hugh Campbell, chief of air staff, has made himself personally responsible for flight safety in his 53,000- man organization. Group Capt. A. B. Searle, di- rector of flight safety, is di- rectly responsible to Air Mar- shal Campbell. In each com- mand -- air defence, transport and the like--the flight safety officer is directly responsible to the command chief. At each base the flight safety officer is directly responsible to the com- manding officer. Group Capt. Searle said in an interview the number of flying hours has not changed appre- ciably in the last eight years. But higher speed and more- complex planes have come into service and a major reduction in the accident rate has still been attained. 85 KILLED On security grounds, the air force doesn't make public total number of flying hours annually. or the actual number of acci- dents, Even the accident rate has never been made public. A compilation by The Cana- dian Press, however, shows that 85 airmen have been killed in the air defence of Canada since}, the CF-100 jet interceptor went into service in 1952. The CF-100 will be replaced by the CF-101B Voodoo jet by this summer. This figure does not include fatal accidents in other RCAF commands such as the air divi- sion in Europe or training com- mand (transport command has never had a fata! accident). Nor does it include the 13 civilians killed May 15, 1956, when a CF- 100 dived from 33,000 feet into the rest home of the Roman Catholic order of the Grey Nuns of the Cross seven miles east of Ottawa. CF-100s as they go out of serv-| ice is 1-1lth of what it was a) decade ago, Group Capt. Searle) said. CRASH IN QUEBEC CF-100s in air defence com- mand have made approxi- mately 1,200,000 practice inter- ceptions with one fatal accident. Two jets collided and the four crew members were killed Dec. 7, 1960, over northern Quebec. "There's no room today for the happy-go-lucky flyer--in the air," said Group Capt. Searle. "In the first place, we select good men and we train them well and we supply them with) good equipment. We have con- stant supervision over all fac- tors dealing with flight safety." For instance, somebody is re- sponsible for seeing that aprons and runways are swept clean. A stone sucked into a jet engine can cause an accident. Ground crews now have an average of 14 years' experience. The RCAF air division has won the NATO gunnery trophy in Eu- rope every year, Group Capt. Searle said, not only because the pilots can shoot better but because the ground crews have never permitted a single unserv- iceable plane during the com- petitions. EVERY ACCIDENT CHECKED He said that in 1961 aircrew) were responsible for 45 per cent of accidents, material (design or structure) for 71 per cent of incidents and personnel for 77 per cent of ground accidents. To the RCAF, an accident! jmeans damage to the airframe.| |An "incident" is an occurrence) damaged, such as a tire blowout) or oxygen leak. And ground ac-; cidents usually concern a colli- sion between a ground vehicle! and plane during handling. Each 'accident in the RCAF,| no matter how minor, is inves-|student graduating from driving|three main objectives call for of|courses conducted after school/completion of a survey so that tigated. The directorate flight safety investigates all ma-| jor accidents and has a group of specialists to do this. These, experts can call on commercial airlines, the transport depart- ment, RAF and U.S. Air Force school students as an extra-cur-|and a field day Aug. 4 featuring for any information they might ricular course The Nova Scotia|Cape Breton square dance com- need. Group Capt. Searle said that posal now is under detailed| The village would be situated only in three or four per cent of cases is the cause not dis- covered. Huge Clouds Other courses, such as in London, Ont., are offered during the summer holidays. A highway safety education tion and communications in paid $30 without infringing on the time 1961. This branch now is study-| ing the possibility of setting up) a driver training program in the high schools of the province. Students at the Saint John,| N.B., Vocational School take six! weeks of driving theory and get} six hours of behind-the-wheel! instruction. Students receiving) certificates get a 10-per-cent re-| duction in car insurance rates.| "We are conviced the course! while," said school director W. B. Main. | Other New Brunswick schools! have extra-curricular lessons. | High schools at Truro and |Kentville, N.S., get $10 from the| culture. sb | provincial government for every) hours. Halifax school commissioners} March 12 agreed in principle} with a proposal to introduce driver training to senior high| Highway Safety Council pro- study. TOURIST COMFORT Touring buses in D k that can handle more than a load that size, he said. The dragger is built to with- stand rough seas on the west coast of Vancouver Island where bottom-fishing is carried on year - round. To haul the heavy net at depths up to 130 fathoms it is powered by a 240- horsepower diesel which drives a 54-inch propeller. Highland Village Cape Breton Plan IONA, N.S. (CP)--The Iona- Grand Narrows trade board has outlined a five - year program designed to establish a highland village in central Cape Breton. Purpose of the village would be to preserve highland Scottish The long range program's a countour map can be drawn up to assist in laying out the village, an active campaign to gather vintage furniture for vil- lage buildings or a museum, petition. on 50 acres of land overlooking Barra Strait which separates Iona and Grand Narrows. The which would are equipped with refrigerators in which passengers can store their lunches and drinks. exhibit authentic pioneer Scot- tish relics, would occupy the than the white man. Exactly what it is scientists are not sure but they have found that it's more than sim- ply a matter of environment. Dr. J. Hildes, director of the medical research unit at the University of Manitoba, made experiments with the bushmen in the Kalahari Desert in South West Africa. He told about them at a meet- ing of the western regional group sponsored by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the National Cancer Insti- tute. The experiments were carried out under auspices of the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Hildes chose the bushman because he wears nothing but a loin cloth and an occasional skin cape and sleeps outside in all seasons despite a nighttime temperature that often drops to freezing. The bushmen, a nomadic peo- ple, eat fruit, roots and nuts as well as game which accounts for 25 per cent of their diet. Bushmen and white members of the research team ate identi- cal meals and then slept out in pairs, each rolled in a blan-; ket. Recordings were taken of internal and skin temperatures, foot temperatures and shiver- ing. rights and privileges will be re- spected and will not be curtail- ed or restricted in any way as a result of the passing of this interim supply for two months. The Disclosure Bill, known as Bill C-38, has been given three readings by the House of Com- mons and has been referred to the Senate for their approval. This is the Bill that I mentioned in my earlier column requiring corporations and trade unions to make reports to the govern- ment . There has been a change in the rules of the House for this session of Parliament which has proved to be beneficial to all) concerned. Private members in) the discussion of their reso- lutions and public bills used to) take many days and hours. This| year these are discussed each| and every day between the hours of five and six o'clock. Consequently many more bills and notices of motion. submitted by private members have been| | MAIL - ORDER GARDENING! GUELPH, Ont. (CP) -- The! Ontario Agricultural College is| offering an 11-month course in gardening by mail through its Horticultural Correspond- SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES Credit Unions are corporations of people, rather thon the usual corporation of dollars. People are human, humon beings are subject to the pressures of society, both mental and physi- cal. To do a good job, some- times good judgement is over- shadowed by emotional feelings ond we do not point a true picture or image of the Credit Union we ore running. Lest we forget, let's take @ look ot our Charter ond see whet image we should be portraying. First--to foster economic democracy through the Credit Union, Second--to bring the ideal of economic freedom to our Credit Union members to the end thet the use of money be based upon the beneficial needs of members and not upon greed. Third--to bring those higher conceptions of a more perfect economic life which will be truly of the people -- by the people and for the people. Fourth--to promote Thrift by receiving the Savings of its members in payment of Shares, ond to pay them a reasonable return on their money. (Currently a dividend of 442% is being paid on Share Capital). Fifth--to make Loans to members at a low rate of interest. (Never more than 1% per month on the unpaid balence). Oshawa Central Study Group Credit Union is proud of the service it has been giving its members for the past 22 years, anyone may join no matter where they work or live in this Why not start a Savings Plan for your future secruity? Sovings as well as Loans are covered by Life Insurance in most cases, and at no extra cost to the member. ENQUIRE AT 27 Burk St., or PHONE 723-4945 ence Course office here. The result was to confirm that under identical circum- stances the bushman's response centre of the village. to cold is different from the; white man's, | Of Hydrogen Discovered LONDON (Reuters) -- Huge clouds of luminous hydrogen have been discovered in gigan- tic stellar systems of the milky- way type by a group of Soviet astrophycists at the Crimean Observatory, the Soviet infor- mation service reports. 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Complaints of dogs running at large and the large dogs seen require rigid enforcement of the provisions of the by-laws and the Dog Control Officer has been given instructions accordingly. Dated at Oshawa this 28th day of March, 1962. ALBERT V. WA -- DOGS NOT PERMITTED TO RUN AT LARGE ALL DOGS IN THE CITY MUST BE LICENSED Notice is hereby given to all dog owners that City by-laws provide that dogs shall be prohibited from running at large in the City of Oshawa, unless restrained by a leash, from April Ist to September 30th, 1962. By-law 2365, as amended, requires that the 1962 licences must be purchased by February Ist. Dogs not carrying 1962 licences are being considered as ded dogs not claimed within 48 hours Avoid having your dog picked up and possibly destroyed by purchasing your licence witnout delay if you have not already done so. hb H Ad Extra Specials for Early-in-the-Week Shoppers Monday - Tuesday SPECIALS SAVE 4c! LYNN VALLEY--TENDER PEAS 15-02. 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