mum of on RCAF bonspiel . at the RCAF Stn. Summer- “"cm~1ing Club between club fibers are shown above (L-R) . officer John Doucet, 2nd . F/0 Don Hopkins, skip, ‘ ,C’w_ H. Swetman, mate, and

3,515 are invading the western ._ of P.E.I., according to re- from various districts. ,. gftlle mammals have been several miles from water, ,, along through ‘the tryside. flmough the main herd. esti- at 500, is located in the . 91 River near Enmore

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llBERAL'Committee Meetigg hwhall Kensington Thursday ,,uning at 830, Full attendance : requested.

CARD PARTY Clinton Hall Fri- - iiy,"March 21, in aid of 4-H calf hb. Everyone welcome.

WANTED secretary manager éluifour Branch Farmer’s Insti- ~ trltapply Walter Hammill or-s- ‘liélt, Albany R.R. No. 2.

CRAPAUD RINK .Wednesday it Provincial play-offs Tryon lltteis‘vs. Abbie Sisters. If Tryon ' or ties cup will be present- llame.-tixne 8 p.m.

SINGTON RINK tonight i-inter-scholstic hockey, V, ' total goals to count. r« High School vs. Ken- ‘gli School, game time

inlilmnsmu Lions Club will V’ lrtsent their minstrel show in 0’- * Hall, Friday, March 21st 1!l§.,l5‘p.m. Proceeds in aid of J Wltlllily Hospital. Adm. 75 and tells.

,,~T'-COLVIN Optometrist Sum- Jltlislde. Temporary office, room Wmallman Bui1d~lng- only my life and books were saved from

tefire. Please call at the above.

llflcevto settle accounts, and get: hllreplacements and repairs.

QHARGED wrrn THEFT .- 7“? Youths from Summerside Wine from Kensington appear- “1_Magitrate's Court, Sum- Eiilde yesterday, ntéharged with of liquor a , cigarettes

'9 3 home in Slemon Park. pleading guilty they were _l1ded one week for sentence. Wtrate R. S. Hinton, Q. C., imh:d?d-Q The theft occurred . time Saturday night. ,

ill CIVIC AUDITOR-IUM — A fashion show under the meet of the OKTO Club of We County Hospital will be .. thou the evening of March 24 mane Civic Auditorium. More Mtweflty models comprising Mgiboys and young women will Y: the latest fashions in‘ .,__§_¥itAhis annual event.

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LAC Gibb Gib , foursome ywere s(I))I1l"eS1eell‘al’gf1 $19 °°V?t.ed Oljands T1‘0Dhy after fixcltlng tie breaking game‘ 333m“ 3 rink skipped by F/L Ted Martin. The contest which included teams selected from the

seals have been seen, and in

some cases killed, near Mt, Pleasant, Foxley = River and Portage. ~

At F°X1ey River. the seismo- graph crew, surveying for 1m- perial Oil in that area, captured a_200 pounder alive, after pushing him off the main road into a nearby brook. The animal refuses to leave the area and off red no resistance when the me lifted it into their truck and brought it in to Summerside. They later re-. leased him in Summerside Har- bour.

Several of_ the mammals have een killeclin the Portage area, one of which arrived byfollow-‘ ing the railroad track.

_The ‘herd near Enmore, was first sighted a week ago in the Perceval River and for "several days many of them wandered a mile or more from the water, ap- Darently enjoying their trek through the fields. A few have been killed by local residents but last night it was reported that

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ing this, we understand that some Maine horses will be racing at Rockingham Park. REPORTER ILL David ‘fPlggie” Friedman, who- has been a ‘harness horse devotee ever since the writer has been conected with the sport in 1912, and whose reports of raceways in the South during the winter months’ training were always ac- curate and interesting, has been prevented from sending them to harness horse publications be- cause of illness. Ernie McTague, who knew ‘.‘Piggie” quite well when our "stable was racing at Toronto and Mt. Clemens, Michigan, years ago, will be interested to: learn ‘about him. The Florida weather, which was cold that it destroyed a large very bad some time ago, and so portion of theorange crop, chang- ed early in March and a beautiful afternoon with temperatures in the 80’s afforded the trainers in Orlando an opportunity‘ to stage a matinee of eight races. The event took place at the Ben White raceway. _ Billy Haughton was top driver three wins. His three-year-old, Exact Time, won in 2.12 2-5, and ‘won in 2112-5. His other, win was a five-year-old, Spears Hanover, with the’ four-year-"old trotiter, Chief Tom Scott, time 2.18 2-5. The fastest mile was stepped 'by Eric’s Boy, also the fastest so far this season, who paced in 2.09 1-5. He had been on the trot the previous year and took a re- cord of 2.05 an a half-miletrack and won $24,397. Eric’s Boy is owned by Bowman Brown, Har- risburg, Pa., publisher of “The Harness Horse.” 1957 HORSE

Leading Way,,owned by Marius Oulette, D’Israeli, Quebec, has been voted -Horse of The Year for 1957 by authorities of the Quebec

"firlsts, seven seconds, and eight thirds in 28 starts last season, with earnings of $5,305.

rtories were in “invitation" races,

at Quebec Raceway.

3 1 - being times in 2.32 3-5, with the

";$[L* last eighth in 17 ,2-5. The above

3 are all pacers.

; Ebht‘ garkman Some of Joe’s two-year-old trot- ters have cut from five of fifteen

day. AGED HORSES

Minister Spealéséi On O;’Leoiry H.S.

The Minister of Education said in the Legislature yesterday he was sorry the Department was unable to grant a grade XII high school for 0’Leary.

The re on he said was because the district did not have the re- quired 15 students to warrant the establishing of the higher grade. O’Leary now has up to Grade XI. Hon. Mr. Clark felt the big difficulty in O’Leary was that the people of the community were not sufficiently behind the effort at least to the extent that was evident in other municipali- ties. He said this was noted in the number of dropouts in stud- ents of the grade ten level. ‘ ‘‘You can never expect to have .a grade XII if you do not have a sufficient number in grade X and XI to draw from”, he con- cluded.

He suggested therefore that if the P901316 of O’Leary wanted a grade XII added to their present school that they show la greater interest through their cooperat- ion in keeping more children be- yond the grade ten level.

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regular club membership, start- ed Frld-fly evening. and was sche-

duled for completion on Sunday eV°n111g. the strong Hopkins entry however ‘came from behind to force the tie breaking game Monday evening.

eal Herd In Perceval River;Some Come Ashore ,

due to holes in the ice, caused by the _heat from the congregating seals, it was not easy to get near them and. apparently no plans for a maior seal hunt are im- minent.

This is the same area where the older residents recall that walruses or sea cows, as they were called, used to come ashore in large numbers only to be slaughtered.

The Perceval River is on the south_ side of the Province and empties into Egmont Bay.

Earlier when some 40,000 seals were sighted off the shores of this Province they were off the north shore.

Drillers Reach 3,122 Feet At Oil Well Site,

The oil drilling operations at St. Raphael, conducted by the

1 Imperial Oil Company are pro-

gressing very satisfactorily, it was learned last night. By 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon the driltl had reached a depth of 3,122 fee .

trainers for the Roweland stable, worked theaged horses in from 2.20 to 2.25. The handsome trot- ter, Golden Riddell, closed his 2.20 mile with a quarter in 31 seconds, and the two~year-old Riddellworthy was -dropped to 2.45. '- Earl Avery trained a pair of two-year-old trotters in the Clear- view stable in 2.27 over the mile track. These were: Candlelight and Devil Diver. His fastest move with a two-year-old pacer was a 2.27 mile over a half-mile track with West Indies. Otlher two-year-olds ‘were trained in 2.30. His fast-class horses, that will start in the early races at Roosevelt, miles around 2.20.

In our writeup of the horses owned by Stanley Mayhew, kora, we overlooked. several good ones-Mt. Carrol, 2.11; Pericles,

~ Jester, 2.09; Famous Boy, 2.12;

2.05 ‘1-4-. These are being prepar- ed by Clarkie Smith for this sea- son’s racing.

Hal Senator, a young stallion Hal Dale, 2.01, is credited with the first three-year-old 2.10 per- forma.n,ce of the year. At Bay Meadows, California, on March 5, he won in 2.09 2-5; his third dam is Margeret Spangler, p, 2.02 1-4, a great race mare of years ago and a winner of one of the $25,000 stakes then featured at several tracks.

FRENCH BRED

At Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France, race track a new trotting stallion record was made by the French -bred Jariolain, when he won in 2.01 4-5, lowering the former re- cord for European-bred trotters

are being worked V‘

2.19 4-5; Tribune, 2.09 3-5; Johnny, and a two-year-old by Jlo-llity,

_ regulations

Accdent Result

Mr. William Stordy, proprietor of Crystal Dairy in Summerside, returned to his home on East Street on Saturday after having been_a patient in Prince County Hospital , for the past three months.

During the period he spent in hospital Mr. Stordy underwent Surgery which amputated his right leg above the knee.

His entry to hospital, and the amputation. operation, resulted from inguries he suffered when Struck by {I car at Central Bede- que on December 17 while he was making regular milk deliveries in that area. ,

Leg Brokenln ‘ Freak Accident ‘

Linus Gamble, Southwest Lot 16 is a patient in Prince County Hospital after sustaining a brok- en leg Monday morning in a freak accident at Miscouche flats. ,

Mr. Gamble was standing on the highway near his parked half- ton truck when he slipped on the

forward, striking the running board of the vehicle and fractur- ing the leg above the left ankle.

Minister Of

(Contiued from page 2) schools in various universities outside our province and we as- sist our teachers financially to take these courses.” .

“Last summer in Prince of !/‘ales College. 95 teachers were enrolled in the professional train- ing classes, while an additional 33 took academic classes. A fur- ther group of 55 teachers attend- ed classes outside the province. This made a total of 183 or 22 per cent of all our teachers. STANDARD IMPROVING

“We expect ‘larger numbers to attend this year. If you will examine the trend for the past few years you will find this is already showing good results to- ward higher qualifications. Last year alone the number of first class teachens increased by 52 while second class teachers de- clined by 34. '

“‘Not only have we therefore upgraded the qualifications of our teachers, but we have also increased by 90 the number of teachers employed in our schools. in the past six years to a total of 829 this year.

“This has of course provided far more effective teaching and fewer overcrowded classrooms. At the same time, there has been little increase in the numbers of those who teach without full‘ qualifications. Actually the num- bers of permits issued each year remain fairly constant at around 100. It is gratifying therefore to

,, know that we are constantly in-

creasing the number of fully qualified teachers in our schools.” An important step aimed to- ward improved teaching stand- ardswals taken at the beginning of the current school year when were passed by order in Council on July 11th,- 1957 which had the effect of up-

grading the licenses of teachers.

To summarize briefly the new re- gulations are: - V 1. Discontinue entirely the is- suing of 3rd Class licences.

2. Outline the requirements for all licences. Divide the first class license into A and B making First

icy pacement. His left leg kicked »

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Raceway, Quebec City. During his campaigns there, he won eight

Four of his milesgwere better than 2.06, and five of his vic-

where he headed the best pacers

The Joe O'Brien stable is show- ing much better form now, and quite a number have been let down from five to ten seconds since our last report. The two- year-old Turbo Jet was in 2.35 2-5, Rebel Hal in 2.34, Milty Way in 2.33 3-5, Meadow Al in 2.34, King Meadow in 2.34, Explorer in 2.39 3-5, Canny Pace in 2.35, and the filly Ella Pace stepped the fastest mile for a’ two-year-old,

seconds off their miles since we last reported. Laddie Frost has been in 2.35, Play Me in 2.40, Gay Flora in 2.38, Cotton Queen in 2.39. No information has been released regarding the training of his aged trotters and pacers, but we presume that they will be racing at the Western Harness Racing Association program that opened at Santa Anita last Fri-

Wayne Groves, reporting from Pineliurst, North Carolina, writes that Douglas and Eric Smith,

that was held by Gelinotte, 2.03. It was also the fastest mile per- formed by any trorbter, including -the American-bred imports, the record for these being held by Mighty Fine, when he won in 2.02 3-5.

For the first time the distance was exactly one mile, and the field went away behind the start- ing gate. This is the first season that the startinggate is being us- ed in Europe, and we understand that it will be in vogue, not only in France, but in Italy and other continental tracks. '

Strangely enough, although har- ness racipg is one of the most popular sports in four European- countries, it is practically non- existent in Great Britain. Years ago, efforts were made to popu- larize it in Great Britain, but it didn’t catch the fancy of the public. —

To show the extent that the large tracks in the United States are interested in providing all- weather tracks, we notice that the management of Chicago’s Sportsman’~s Park has spentd $60.- 000 in providing a crushed lime- stone base, which is topped with a special type of earth, and they have also rebanked all the turns on the five-eights of a mile oval.

Sackville Downs’ program for the season has been issued, and they expect to feature 70 nights of racing. They wfll open on May 19 and race through until Nov- ember 11. They expect to race three time per week, commenc- ing early in July. ‘ ' '

Class A a higher class of license to be issued only to those who fully completed Grade XII and one year, professional training. Adda superior First Class for those with Superior First Class ments for a First Class A plus one year» of university training.

3. Provide special remuneration for thos who qualified for the new higher classes of license. INCREASES EXPLAINED

For the present year teachers who qualified for Class A receiv- ed $100 over the statutory mini- mum and those who qualified for Superior‘ First Class receiv- ed $200 additional.

It is ‘now proposed to enlarge upon this plan for next yeai-and offer an extra $100 over and above that offered this year for those with Superior First Class standing which will give $300 over the amount provided by statute. This will, in effect, make a spread of $200 for a fully qual- ified first classteachecr over the salary of a second class teacher and $200 additional for a Superior tlcense over.the first Class.

That is to say a $200 spread for each full and completed year of higher academic training. We think this will give greater en- couragement to teachers to take additional training and will soon result in more highly qualified teachers in our schools. ADMITTANCE STANDARD

“We propose another step in upgrading the standards of our teachers. This is to make Grade - 12 the standard of admittance to

the Normal School. We shall of- fer all normal training at the uni- versity level just as soon as this can be carried out at Prince of Wales College. , , “This will, in effect, practical‘y put all our future teachers on a First Class standing. I think this is the step which has been long overdue. I think it can now be carried out because of the larger numbers of Grade 12 students in our schools and the fact that tea- chers salaries have been sub- stantially increased and are being still further increased.

LOOSE TALK

“This bring us to the point where we should discuss teachers’ salaries. There has been so much loose talk about teachers’ salar- ies, not only in this House but in the Press and elsewhere, that I thought members of this As- sembly were entitled to all the facts.

“I therefore had our staff pre- pare alist of salaries and class of licenses held by every teacher ‘in the province for your infor- mation. You will now be able to judge for yourselves the ade- quacy or inadequacy of the salaries being paid.

“You will note a top salary_ of $5,300 being paid ’at Summerside and a number of very substantial salaries being paid in Charlotte- town and vicinity. Parkdale and Spring Park and other schools of the former School Division No. 1 are paying especially good supplements to teachers. There are certain other districts which could do a lot better.

NOT STOPPING HERE “Although I think this list shows _there are teaching oppor- tunities in this province at good salaries, we are not stopping at this level. We are prepared, next year, to give our superior first class teachers the $100 increase already mentioned, but in addi- tion we are also remembering those who have experience.

“At present salary increments of $50 are given to teachers at the beginning of the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th and 15th year of teach- ing service, five increments total- ling $250. I feel that 15 years is too long to keep a teacher wait- mg for a maximum salary bonus based on experience, in view of the fact that many of our young

people leave the profession after

two or three years of service.

. “I believe that the increments would be of greater value in, hold- ing young teachers in the profes- sion if they came much sooner. We therefore propose to have all increments on an accelerated basis as well as adding two ad- ditional ones. We will introduce legislation to have seven incre- ments totalling $350 coming at the beginning of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 10th years of teaching service.

NOT FOR BEGINNERS

“This means that all licensed teachers who are not beginners will have salary increases next year. Older teachers will receive at least $100 increase. Younger teachers may receive consider- ably more by reason that the increments are faster. For ex- ample the increase in a teacher’s salary from the government next year to the holder of a First Class Superior license with 10 years service will work out as follows :

Additional salary increase for Superior First $100; Two new increments $100; Faster incre- ments $100. , _ “This together with the salary increase at the beginning of the present school year makes a total of $500 more rfor this teacher than the sala.ry payable when I reported to this House last year. “I believe the time has come when we should question some of; the talk about low teacher salaries. Let us talk about op- portunities in teaching in this province and we may do some- thing more constructive than scaring our young people away from an opportunity to serve in the teaching profession. REVIEWS, TREND

"W-hile speaking on teacher salaries, perhaps I should go back a bit to show the trend. The

trouble with some of our people

is they talk in 1958 about the teacher salary figures of 1910 when the average salary of our‘ teachers in this province was $225 a year. By 1929 they averaged in that boom year $552.

“The Tories promised in 1932 they wouldn't cut the teachers salaries, but by 1941‘ they had actually declined to an average of $524. By 1947 they had in- creased to $872 and by 1955 to $1,614 according to figures sup- plied by the Canadian Teachers Federation. This is a gain of B3% in eight years. During the same interval provincial per income increased from $457 to $710 or only 55%.