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Last year nearby Medicine Hat (pop. 21,000) adopted the plan. Of ten students who got "laggard policy letters," five left school, but the rest began working so hard hat they earned a special commendation. Last month Sault Sainte Marie, Ont. announced that it, too, would follow the plan, and last week down in North Attleboro, Mass, letters went out to parents spelling out a new policy by which "intellectual loafers and bench warmers" are being dropped. At a time of rising costs and the growing teacher shortage, the plan has its appeal. Says Calgary's Superintendent Warren...
...rodman on a survey team to auditor of accounts before becoming president in 1950. His probable successor: Vice President and General Counsel William John Quinn, 46, a former FBI man who went to Milwaukee in 1954 after climbing to vice president and general counsel of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. One of Quinn's principal jobs will be to cut costs on the Milwaukee, get the line in shape to appear favorably in merger negotiations with its chief rival, the North Western Railway...
IRON-ORE shortage is forcing U.S. Steel Corp. to keep 50 of its Great Lakes ore carriers sailing to Jan. 1, and Army Corps of Engineers will hold Sault Ste. Marie locks open until then, instead of normal Dec. 15 closedown. But ore movement will drop to about 77 million tons from last year's 87 million tons. Reason: strikes by steelworkers and lake seamen...
...Ironing Boards. Like Caltech. DuBridge also emerged out of an unlikely background. Born in Terre Haute. Ind., the son of a Y.M.C.A. physical-education instructor, he grew up in a succession of cities from Mount Vernon. Iowa to San Jose, Calif, to Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Though Lee fished in Lake Superior and watched the ships pass through the locks, he was better known as that studious young fellow in knickers who was so often with a book. At one time, he tried to be a reporter ("but I was too scared to go up and ask the right people...
...terrible-tempered Chairman Sewell L. Avery has had plenty of practice severing high-level employees from his payroll, including 32 vice presidents since 1931 (TIME, May 6, 1940 et seq.). Last week it was Sewell A very that was axed-as president of Cadillac-Soo Lumber Co., of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Cadillac-Soo Lumber was formed in 1923 out of three small companies, one owned by Avery and his brother. In 1946 Avery became president of the closely held corporation (with annual sales of about...