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L,o2'iiT""""""""""""""" .Ill'aJ Opinions are split on fate ""'"""s'"""i, of “9-year-old schoolhouse A stamp m, administration and office services. Local municipalities paid the 40 percent balance. Sundry revenue and federal family allowances reduced provin- cial and municipal costs in some areas. o n t a r l o ' s contribution was $637,122 while Kitchener's share was $124,680. Waterloo County, at $70,136, was the next largest con- tributor. ' “News: Waterloo, $22,997; Galt, $21,421; family allowances, $10,961; offi- cial guardian reports, $13,530; parents, $790; sundry income, $2,077; and contributions from other "iteJ's aid societies, $25,179. He cited the example of Upper Canada Village, saying Doon is "realty the place for it (the school). if it's to be a centre for local history." Elvin Nicholls, 26 Roosevelt 'Ave., felt the school would be bet- ter off in Doon, if staying In the park meant its destruction. His attitude was typical of many Tho believed the building" preservation was more important than where it should be kept. Community services board dir.. ector Ken Pflug says rotting tim. Nelson Amy and William Hen- demon are Waterloo representa- tives on the society's limember board of directors. Mrs. Walter Schiel, also of Wat. erloo, has resigned from the board after 16 years service, moat of it " secretary. Her replace- ment has not yet been appointed. "There's always some soul searching when it comes to a mu- Deum,” he pointed out "but if Waterloo County is going to have a pioneer village then everything of that nature should be in one place. It will add to its attrac- Librarian James Brown was also among those who felt the greater good would be served by sacrificing the school to the Doon museum. The history of Canada just loses out if everything isn't kept in one place. "The school is lost in the park . . . Exposed constantly, it's just nothing. It would leave a bet- ter impression if it were present. ed in pioneer village, where everything (historical) is more or less together." FROM PAGE I And among sampling, of other viewpoints were Mrs. H. N. Ray- mood, " Leaside Place, who felt the 14%yearold structure would serve a better purpose in the pioneer village. ey to repair it. Theres money foe everything else." Othe Families are threatened hue was derived as He also proposed that a cairn be erected on the site for the old bell from the former, loo-year- old, Central school. Existing information on the school indicates it was the most noted in the county between 1820 and 1840. All such centres were operated on a voluntary basis up to 1842. Overcrowding resulted in I new, four-room school being built at that time and the log school house was moved to Greenbush, where it remained until 1893. The cairn was approved by the board and is found today on Mac- Gregor school property. Shortly-after these discussions, the Ontario Pioneer Community Foundation asked for the school house for its Doon museum. The park board discussed the request at length but finally agreed to postpone its decision until after Centennial Year. After its installation in the park, it remained out of the news until 1956. ‘That year, Ald. Har- old Wagner, who was then a pub- lic school trustee, proposed the school board take over the build- ing and move it back to its ori- ginal site at King and Central Streets. The log structure was built in 1820 on the south side of Central Street, across from the present site of MacGregor senior public school. It was the community's first school and fulfilled this func- tion until 1842. This, he felt, would provide a visible contrast in old and new school architecture. Education was provided in pri- vate homes, meeting houses, or any shelter that was convenient and available. Any schools erected were the result of private subscription. They were opened during the win- ter only. Teachers were often ex- soldiers or unemployed trades- men. About 1892, Bowman, a mem- ber of the Waterloo Park board, became interested in its preser- vation as a relic of the communi- ty's history. He started a cam- paign to have it moved to Water. loo Park and saw his dream real- ized a year later. It was used as a dwelling for about so years previously. An ex- slave named Carrol from the deep south and his descendants occupied it. The fact that the school re. mains at all may be credited to the inteiest of Isaac F. Bowman, who saved it from possible de, struction in the late 1890s. At that time, it was located in Greenbush, the area directly across from the K-W Hospital. Some repairs were carried out when the building was moved to the park‘and minor repairs were conducted last year. bers in the building are making it easier for squirrels to burrow iatandoutandromeholeshave resulted in the structure becauu ot this. . It was non-stop The crew, John Alcock, a na- tive of Manchester, England, born in 1892, and Arthur Whitten Brown, born in Glasgow, Scot- land, in 1886, persevered thro. ugh near calamilous weather con- A Historic Sites and Monu- ments Board of Canada bronze plaque in Newfoundland records that the flyers: ". . . took off nearby on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in a Vickers Vimy airplane at 12:58 pm. Newfoundland time. Sixteen hours and 12 minutes later they landed at Ciifden, Ireland, a dis- tance of 1,800 miles." Fifteen million of the new is. sue will be printed try the Bri- tish American Bank Note Ce, Ottawa; customary first-day cover service will be provided by the Postmaster, Ottawa 2, Ont. A white denominative "IS" ap- pears in the upper right corner; white also is used for “1919" over the extreme left of two brown engraved lines "First Non. stop Transatlantic Flight" and “Le Premier Vol Transatlantique Sans Escale” which appear at the base of the design. l "Canada," also in brown en- graved letters, facing inward on the stamp, is inserted vertically in a. narrow white panel to the extreme left. The-picture of the plane is superimposed on a photogravure map of the blue Atlantic, a green rendition of Canada's east coast and the European coast- line. The tail is near the St. John’s liftoff area and the nose near the landing point in Ireland. The first stamp created by Robert W. Bradford of Ottawa, will have as it's principal de. sign element a steel engraved brown illustration of the historic Vickers Vimy which 50 years ago became the first craft piloted by man to complete a non-stop aerial crossing of the ocean. A "went denomination, suit- able for transatlantic air mail. ha been chow: 'tor the new it sue which will have a large hori- zontal format With dump-ions of 40 nun by 24 mm. A may commemorating the first non-stop transatlantic flight, scheduled tor Helene June 18, will mall the epic crouin; by Alcock and Brown who tookarfe in a twimgind Victor: Vin, on June 14, 1919 from what foe an you: has been Canadian soil. Newfoundland, scene of the takeoff, became Canada‘s 10th province in loan. Stamp to honor first ocean flight . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION I RATES I25 Union St. E. Comnlete Rent-Alls WE RENT MOST EVERYTHING " Columbia, Waterloo 743-6726 ALL KINDS OF INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PAINTING (Wood Staining and Painting New and Old Homes) " Your: Exporionoo in k-W Area Free Estimates - Reasonable Rates GIL’S PAINTING SERVICE (all us at 744-274] White hot metal from a split exhaust pipe was another of many hazards overcome. Rain and sleet changed to snow whereupon Brown clambered from his open cockpit to edge along the fuselage wielding a knife to chop the gathering ice. Passing the coast of Ireland at tp.2S a.m., a decision was made to set down in what ap- peared to be a grassy meadow; the meadow prvoed to be an Irish bog in County Galway where the plane came to rest, tailup and nose buried in the wet earth. Alcock and Brown, both later knighted by King George V, re ceived T a newspaper prize of 10,000 pounds and sundry other awards from the hands of Wins- ton Churchill, then secretary of state for war and air. , Alcock died in an air accident on Dec. 18 of 'the 'same year; Uninjured, Alcock and Brown had completed their crossing at an average speed of about 112 m.p.h. A comparatively short time had elapsed when dense fog necessitated navigation by dead reckoning. 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