- The Vagabond Independent Players are busy rehearsing —for_their. upcoming _presenta- _ tion of Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater at the Confederation Centre Theatre and the behind Fee Stru ARE REHEARSING primary coat »f paint Christine Weatherbiem’ stage manager_and-Frank-Wood, pro- duction manager finalize pre- production plans. | Driving Cas | Is Adjourn There was a light docket in Court yesterday afternoon. Ma- gistrate James B.- Johnston, QC, presided. A uj A n ri id n gason |Everett Mok charged with driving- while his drivers licence jwas suspended had his case ad- Be jjourned by consent to May 4 at isa § |. .30 p.m. He was represented by _.\John Holmes. - | Norman. Lloyd MacKay, Har- ington, charged, with failing to |Stop at a stop sign had his case iadiourned to April 20 “at 9.30 Percy Groom charged with be- ing-the owner of premises did unlawfully permit drunkeness to take place therein had his.case dismissed. He is a resident of Parkdale. ‘Two Mishaps Are Reported The Charlottetown Detachi- ment of the RCMP and the city police department each report- ed one accident last night collision-in Cornwall on the , | Trans Canada Highway at ap- es | | proximately 2:45-vesterday. | The drivers of the vehicles = | were Charles Hyde of Cornwall | and’ Henry Clark, Water Street, | Summerside, There were no other details the scenes men are busy keep- while ing pace ‘with construction of the ‘Scenery and° costumes. ~Last night Glen Wood, LEFT; member of the stage crew is giving one of the props @& cture Ap proved At Teachers’ Convention The annua! convention of the P.E.I. Teachers’ Federation ap- | ‘| proved. a new fee structure that qill raise membership fees in ‘ the federation, in the final ses- * gion of the three-day convention + at Birchwood High School_audi- *.torium yesterday morning. The ‘ vote was overwhelmingly in fa- : vour of the new fees, with 828 votes for and 64 against, the votes in favor representing 92 cent of the 900 votes cast. ) Bient t ballots were spoiled. A brief controversy broke out during the question period when * several persons objected that * many teachers had not been in- , formed before the convention + that thefee raises would be pro- * posed and voted on at the meet =) ing, and that no details were gi ~=-wen-to:the-teachers-on ‘what.-spe- * elfically, “spent on. Francis Blanchard, seident of the P.E.LT-F., _Money was. being Vv ice-pre- | a ‘ Fgave the detailed estimates «spending for the coming year-| Treasurer, Mrs. Winifred Ste- | self, he pointed out, are prepar- |president’s pin to Charles Camp- lation of lessons, supervision of bell by president J. Weeks Mur- lpupils at work, and teaching |phy concluded the convention. concentration, organization, re-| The auditorium in which many spect and responsibility. “and lof the convention's sessions were last but not least is the vital in- |held was brightened by a giant will in turn, create in the minds | the city elementary schools un-., of pupils a zeal for greater ach- der the direction of Mrs. Mac- ievement.’ Kay and Mrs. Lapsley, art teach- | The presentation of the past ers for the city. - Island News Page ae Soo re =Y outhConference' | ‘Is Concluded ~ “tig to administer the program. The larger towns felt the more | truck collision on Dorchester Pe tents tt beeen rch | order and that 90 per cent of the i gredient of enthusiasm, which /display of children’s art from all | 2 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Sat:, April 16, 1966. | *yenson offered to. read the audit- | ed account of expenditures for the last year, if anyone request- _ed it. No one did. None of the teachers expressed objected to raising fees as such, but rather "\eomplained that some had not | been given advance notice of the | ‘ fee changes. « Malcolm - MacKenzie, _ deputy | -minister .and chief director of | -education for the province, pre- “faced his address on “‘The Art | “of Teaching” with a note that | P.E.1., for the year 1965-1966 | budgeted 17.5 per cent of its to- “tal provincial spending for edu- | :eation, which is the lowest ‘per- | centage in all of the provinces, and far below the national aver- -age of 28.3. per cent. Alberta al- ‘Jots 35 per cent of its budget to education, the highest percent- age in Canada and just double that of P.E.I. - OPENS SPEECH Mr. MacKenzie opened speech with a quote from Art of Teaching’, the book from which he borrowed the ti- | tle of his address: ‘The real job for which teachers are trained | and paid is to help the young to learn. It should not be neces- gary to make them learn.” He told his audience that: teaching | 4s an-art,—and that ‘‘there are | born teachers, but none that eannot achieve greater compe- tence by intelligent application | to a campaign or programme of | ren self-improvement .. too many teachers the tech- nique of teaching {s to tell the pupils what they need to know | for the next test of examination | and to leave their minds flabby | for }ack of real exercise. In- struction, in this narrow’ sense, is not-enough. It does: not -exer- his cise the mind nor properly train | the hand and eve” A teacher. said Mr. Mac- Kenzie, needs .three prime re- quisites: knowledge of his sub- fect, a sense of servic, and skill in classroom management. ‘Yet it is not enough to transmit your knowledge,’’ he continued, ‘‘Pu- pils should be learning through skilfii] questioning, to think for themselves and to express their own ideas effectively." Some aspects. of a_ teacher's work on which he should con- Yesterday afternoon saw the. |efid of the fifth provincial Allied |Youth Conference on_ teenage problems at the Basilica Re- creation Centre in Charlotte- | The conference was officially opened: by Hon. L.G.. Dewar, IMD, Minister of Education, on Thursday morning. | The first of many informative addresses of the conference was heard on the opening morning. \It was delivered by the provin- icial probation officer, Vincent | McIntyre. youth executive; presided at the | morning session. Inthe afternoon an address | lwas delivered by Rev. William | ‘Hane, Breadalbane. The person | ipresiding at this session was \John Sullivan, member of the | \International Allied ~ Youth “Ca- binet. In the evening Vanée To- | Jerry Buell, provincial allied | address on the hazards of ice: ling by Dr. Burton Howatt, assis- tant-deputy minister of health. After lunch yesterday David M. ‘Boswell addressed the: dele- lgates. Presiding was Julia Knox. Helen MacDonald, Alcohol Stu- group. A Youth Panel was the final formal activity of the confer- ence. The moderator was M.-F. Hagan, guidance councellor, Pro- vincial Vocational Institute. -The-delegates had their ‘sup- per at the centre before the final \dismissal for this year. dies and Allied Youth Field] ~ |-of-the-incident- “The city police | reported 1 a care é h driven by Evelyn Hale, 5: Bel- assistance would be made avail- | mont St. collided with a one- ~able7 by..the—provincial—govern-| half ton_truck driven by Donald. ment, and 10 per cent by the I6- | Jay of East Royalty. cal laxger communities. |. The damage to the car was Man} problems in the admin-_ estimated_at-$90 but-no estimate listration of social assistance | of damage to the truck~ was were discussed and a full scope | available. However, damage was. lof the new regulations under The | reported to have been only | Canada Assistance Act were ex: | slight. \plored. No_injuries in ei Regulations will be laid ace were oan. — accident ~~fhe RCMP reported a two-car ~< by the provincial government in jcooperation with the separate municipalities to ensure maxti- mum availability and coopera-|. NAIROBI, Kenya tion in this program. Uganda Parliament Friday ap- | Representatives of the various |proved a new constitution and | communities will report back to |Premier Milton Obote was | their, town councils for concur-|sworn in as the. country’s new | rence of recommendations and |president, Radio Kampala re- decisions of the meeting. ported. 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McNeill, min- jister of Welfare and Labour, an- ‘phe |ner, director of athletics at the ‘nounced yesterday that he met with the city of Charlottetown | | University of Moncton, was guest speaker at a dinner at the /and represen:atives of the towns \Centre. Chairman was David of Prince Edward Island and Simmons, provincial allied ithat the subject of the conversa- ‘youth president. It was: at this tion was social assistance pay- time that plaques were present- jments to the towns of the pro- ed for the best allied youth posts lin the province. Recreation dur- | jing the day consisted of a sing- | jsong and informal dance. Yesterday’s program consist- | ied of a question period with, questions being submitted be- |forehand to a panel chaired by | lpavid Boswell, provincial direc- | ‘tor of Alcohol Studies and Physi- | cal Education. | .Keith Ellinwood, author, lec-- turer, youth worker: and council- ‘lor for alcoholics. Presiding was ‘ Pat Donahoe. 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