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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1980-12-04, Page 5Citizens News. December 4 1910 60 Years ago Frank McCutcheon, of London, was a visitor at the home of Mrs. S. Renie, over the weekend. . Miss Anna McDonald, and Miss Marguerite Douglas spent the weekend at the home of Mr. R.N. Douglas, of Blake. Mr. and Mrs. I. Hudson, of Seaforth and Mrs. S. Merner, of Hensall, were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Melick. Mrs. F.B. Meyer was at London, last Thursday. 50 Years ago Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hartman, of the Bronson Line, Stanley, and Mr. and Mrs. Kuno Hartman, of the Goshen Line, south of. Zurich, spent a pleasant weekend with friends at Detroit and Windsor, havi availed themselves passing through the new vehicle tunnel, which was just opened some time ago. Orville Twitchell, Alex McIntyre and James Kilpatrick, of Hensall returned after a hunting trip to Bog Lake. Ada Ireland, of Burlington and Allen Soldan, of Hensall, received several injuries in an accident at Seebach's Hill early Tuesday evening last, when two cars side-swiped. 35 Years ago Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton and family, of 'Merton, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thiel. Miss Florence Haberer, of London', spent • the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Haberer. Ted Steinbach, William Decker and son Carl, and Mr. Merner spent one day at Walkerton Fair last week. Nicholas Deichert, of Detroit, is visiting for a few days at the home of his sister. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yungblut, and his brother Jacob Deichert. Mrs. Sam Faust and son Harold of ,Mitchell, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Faust, of Galt, were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. W. Hoffman, and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy O'Brien. Miss Vera Decker, of Exeter, gave a very in- teresting message on her missionary work in the Western, Provinces, on Sunday evening in the Evangelical Church, Dash- wood. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Walper were married in Zion Lutheran Church, Dash- wood, on Saturday evening at twilight. Largely attended funeral services were held Wed- nesday morning, November 23, for the late Harry Zim- mer, of Dashwood. Mr. and Mrs. William Haugh, Mrs. Courtney Burmeister and Mrs. William Elsie, of Grand Bend attended the funeral of the late Sylvanus Geiger, in Kitchener last week. Miss Mary Fischer, of Kitchener, was a weekend visitor with her relatives here. Miss Fischer will, for the next few weeks, be at St. Thomas where the firm she is with are opening up a new branch. 0 8 20 Years ago f Voters in the village of Zurich will go to the polls on Monday, December 5, to elect a four -man council for the year 1961, following a spirited nominations meeting Friday night. Hay township reeve V.L. Becker and his entire council were returned to office for the year 1961, at a quiet nominations meeting in the Township Hall last Friday afternoon. At Grand Bend, James H. Dalton has again been nominated for the position of Reeve, and is being opposed by William Sturdevant, who has been councillor for some years. Hensall ratepayers re- elected by acclamation, John Henderson as reeve, and councillors Lorne Hay, Mrs. Minnie Noakes, John Lavender and John Baker. A three-way race for the reeve's seat has swung into action in Stephen Township. Former Reeve Glenn Webb, is being opposed by Edward Gill and Wellington Heist. 25 Years ago Three sons of Mrs. Emma Schilbe and the late Henry Schilbe, each had an infant son baptized at the Sunday morning service in St. Peter's Lutheran church, Zurich, by the pastor, Rev. 0. Winter. All parents being members of the Zurich Congregation, namely, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schilbe, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schilbe, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schilbe, a son; all living in this vicinity. THE OLD AND THE NEW — One of the features of the lobby area of the Hay Municipal Telephone's System's business of- fice and work centre is a display of phones, both old and new. Trying out the units at the building's open house Friday were Clarence Gascho and system manager Bill Wagner. Staff photo Continued from front page Compared to other works projects most of the work done by the PUC is invisible but he noted $30,000 has been spent in the past two years on theupgrading of hydro and water services. Bob Fisher told council one of his major projects for the upcoming term would be a closer scrutiny of the arena situation. He hoped the arena deficit could be reduced or at the least, kept in line with the annual in- flation rate. He expressed surprise at the lack of cop -operation within the village and - Zurich anniversary between Zurich and the surrounding municipalities. Fisher said he would also like to see the electorate become more involved in the governing of the community. New council member Dan Turkheim said he was a little disappointed in the election turnout, considering the size of the community. The youngest elected of- ficial in the village's history said has much learn but that he was looking forward to his term on council. Following a break for lunch council returned to action and made several appointments to various committees. Named to the recreation,parks and community board as village appointees were Alma Westlake, Bob Merner and Al Scott. The last two names replace George Haggitt who resigned and Ken Fenwich. Isabel Gascho was ap- pointed for another three year term to the committee of adjustment. Their terms of the other two committee members Doctor Garnet Leitch and Vic Dinnin do not come due until 1982 and 1983 respectively but Dinnin did indicate he would step down if there was another person. AT CONVENTION — Regional Delegates attending last week's Ontario Federation of Agriculture convention in Toronto from South Huron are (right to left), Paul Klopp, Andy Wiekowski, Andy Durand, and Bob Pavkeje of the South Huron Junior Farmers. willing to sit on the com- mittee. Council also discussed the future of the pork barbeque and whether it would be held in conjunction with the municipality's anniversary celebrations next July. Second choice Continued from front page including cancer -linked PCBs. Dr. Parrott told reporters he wants to burn PCBs at the site once technology is perfected. Davidson said he has no idea where in the county the plant would be located if Huron was chosen as the site. He said the environ- ment minister has hinted the site is located somewhere between Goderich and Kin- cardine. Davidson said he would like to learn if there ever was a list of possible sites or whether the ministry chose the South Cayuga site because they already own the land. He said he wonders if Huron was ever on the list. Dr. Lynch said he is also concerned because the Ministry of Environment is considering dropping the chlorination of human waste. He said he would sup- port an inquiry. UK bean exports dropped dramatically The export market for Ontario white beans has changed drastically during the past year. Manager Charles Broadwell told producers at Friday's annual meeting of the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board in Hensall exports to the United Kingdom have dropped substantially. Ontario exports about 80 percent of the entire white bean crop and last year 38 percent of that market was for the U.K. Broadwell continued, "The UK now has contracts with the United States and their high interest and in- flation rates has forced them to go more to buying hand to mouth". More than half the export beans this year are going to communist countries with 36 percent to Bulgaria and 26 percent to Cuba. On these exports Board chairman Gordon Hill said, "Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are traditional growers and distributors of white beans to Iron Curtain countries. Their production has dropped, so they are buying from other producing countries and bartering them off for other goods." Last year Bulgaria bought 31 percent of the Ontario export beans, but, this year's purchase by Cuba is the first by that country. Another export sale, although smaller than some of the others is interesting. Ontario white beans are going to Iraq. Broadwell said that country has tripled its order since indicating in- terest for the first time last summer. Broadwell commented, "They are now up to eight percent and they may buy even more as the war with Iran continues. So far 755,172 hun- dredweight bags of beans of a total crop estimated at 1.5 million bags .has been sold. Ontario beans are now selling for $34 on the domestic market and export sales are bringing $33. Broadwell said sales opened early this fall with 200,000 bags being offered at. $30431 and then jumped to $33-134 and have stayed there. The board lost one ex- pected sale to New Zealand. Broadwell added, "We lost that one to Michigan, but, picked up another sale in Ireland the next day. We have to take our sales as they come." Gordon Hill added, "We want to service as many markets as we can. A fan- tastic volume of canned beans as a no -name brand has gone into Sweden. Former board director Phil Durand of Zurich agreed with the sales to the communist countries saying, "We should not be concerned about selling to these countries if we believe in free enterprise." John Hazlitt who was the chairman for the meeting said more beans were sold at the Royal Winter Fair than at the CNE. He added, "They went bananas over beans." Zurich and District Chamber of Commerce