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ZURICH £ll czen . NEWS
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZZURICH, ONT.,
for the Village of Zurich, Hay Townshippand
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1960
WEEKLIES FACE PROBLEMS
IN CITY DELIVERIES
THIS NEWSPAPER, like so many other weeklies, is exper-
iencing difficulty in obtaining reasonable postal delivery in the
large urban centres. Not a week goes by without a subscriber
in Toronto, or Montreal, or some other centre, writing to tell us
his paper was delayed several days, and in some cases not re-
ceived at all. the Zurich
Copies of The Citizens News are despatched by
Post Office every Wednesday, and those that are destinedfor r area
points reach their destination either the same day
or daY.
But if a subscriber lives in Toronto,he becomes a victim of
the big holdup. Copies that should reach him Thursday or Friday,
at the latest, generally take several additional days.
The Glengarry News suggests the difficulty arises because
postal employees no longer concern themselves with providing a
service for items people want.
The News quotes a veteran postal employee, and referring
to delivery of the Glengarry weekly, says:
"They would have it on Saturday at the latest if the Post
Office worked on the same principal this veteran postal worker
knew as common practice even a decade ago. His post was in a
city terminal and the unwritten rule was that all mail that was
wanted must be given priority.
"That included first-class letters and parcels, of course,
but
it also took in daily and weekly newspapers which postal
em-
ployees then recognized as 'wanted' because they were being
paid for.
"It did not include the flood of direct mail advertising which
has grown to such proportions as to seriously impede
m ed al the
f flow
of mail which the public is expecting.;
mail, including newspapers, is placing the entire postal service in
a bad light. People know when their paper should arrive; they
could not care less if most of this direct-mail matter never reach-
ed them or their wastepaper baskets.
"Mr. Postmaster General, simply lay down the law that the
mail must go through with dispatch: the mail that is wanted,
that is.
"Stress that, Mr. Hamilton, in the running of your depart-
ment. Put more emphasis on fast delivery of the mail that is
wanted." — (Adapted from The Huron Expositor).
DO IT N9WI"
'IT WAS NOT so long sago that spring and summer were
considered to be the only times for building. Today, however,
most types of outside construction are continued during the cold
weather, and when it comes to inside work—such as alterations,
renovations, redecoration, repair and maintenance — there are
many positive advantages to doing it in the winter.
Wise Canadians take advantage of wintertime opportunities
in this field the same way as they look for the best buys in other
fields at other seasons. There are many reasons for this. Con-
sider, for instance, the following points, as recently pointed out
by Hon. Michael Starr, minister of labour.
Skilled tradesmen are available now to do the job you want
done. They may not be available for the smaller renovation or
repair jobs in the busy months next summer. When tradesmen
are not too rushed they can do better work and this means
economy. Deliveries and service .on materials are better when
.supply houses are not so busy, and some firms offer discounts
in the winter.
If you build a home or place of business in the winter, you
will occupy it earlier than if you wait until spring to get started.
This means a financial saving in rent, earlier payments on the
mortgage, etc. Besides construction projects there are all sorts
of other jobs which need not be put off until spring such as dry
cleaning, and the maintenance and repair hf equipment such
as your power mower, outboard motor or automobile.
The creation of employment for workers in the winter months
results in a saving in welfare and unemployment insurance costs
to the community, which in the end is a saving to you. More
winter employment means more pay cheques—and a more pros-
perous community. (Goderich Signal -Star)
PRECIOUS GIFT
ZURICH CITIZENSWS
NE
..OF..
YEARS GONE
. BY ..
40 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO
. January, 1945
January, 1920
Mr. William Calfas, stage driv-
er, has installed a telephone in
his house, and this will add great-
ly to the public's convenience.
Dr, R. B. Catt, veterinary sir
geon, has opened an office in
Dashwood, and will be r eady ho
start practice there this week
Miss Maida Routledge left kris
Tuesday morning. for Torobto•,
where she has taken a position
in a wholesale millinery depart-
ment. ment.
E. F. Kropp was elected as pres-
ident of the Zurich Agriculltural
Society, at the annual meeting
last Tuesday evening. A. F. Hess.
was again appointed as secretary -
treasurer.
W. G. Hess, jeweller, has instal-
led an up to date hydro electric
Barker outfit for hollow grinding
skates.
Roy W. Faust, son of the late
Adam Faust, who lived in this vil-
lage for a number of years, was
married on January 1, to Miss
Ladle Dunham, Stratford. Mr.
Faust is well-known in Zurich.',
having worked for C. Hartleib for
a number of years.
A new industry, a creamery,
has located in Dashwood, and will
be in operation very soon. The
man in charge is an old hand at
the business.
The public school in Dashwood
has been closed due to an out-
break of scarlet fever.
• Misses Delores and Florence
ittelholtz, Landon, are holiday -
ilia at the home of their parents,
Mr':i and Mrs. Ted Mitteiholtz.
e. Josiah Geiger met with a paitn-
*ccident on Monday afternoon
tll ri his mitt got caught in one
t Me machines at the Kalbfleisch
as., and cut the two middle fin-
on his right hand.
least Thursday evening about
night there was an unpleasant
experience in store for the late
1'iome corners. when no less than
nine autos were all sewed up in
'the' snow drifts just outside of
the village limits. Billie Thiel ven-
tured out with his team of horses
and hauled the cans through one
by one.
George Deichert and Edwin
Gascho made a business trip to
Toronto the first part of last
week, and while there they took
in a hockey game.
Private Charles Thiel, who has
been at the eastern coast for
some time, has been transferred
to London, where he is on
the
mechanical staff of transports.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eckel and
family have vacated the house
owned by Earl Weido, being lo-
cated near the Evangelical church
and have moved to their farm on
the Goshen line, about five miles
north of Zurich.
Christian Gasoho, of the Bron-
son Line, has purchased the home
owned by Harold Swartzentrhber,
and will move there in April.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1960
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
Went to see a Tarzan movie
with the kids the other night. I
looked forward to the evening. I
hadn't seen Tartan in action for
nigh onto 30 years.
* * ,
Well, sir, it was like going back
to see an old sweetheart after 30
years, and finding the slim, pretty
wench turned into a gross, gap-
toothed old bat in a soiled blouse.
* * *
I don't mind telling you, I came
out of that theatre shocked, be-
wildered and disillusioned. No ex-
perience in recent years has so ex-
plicitly confirmed my creeping
suspicion that the world is going
to the hogs.
25 YEARS AGO
movie the other night was a baby -
faced pretty -boy wearing a tailor-
ed leopard -skin, and he had OIL
on his carefully -curled hair,
***
My Tainan swung through the
jungle, from tree to tree, in great,
swooping arcs that had your
heart in your throat with envy.
This jerk the other night made
only one swing on a vine, a little
hop of about fourteen feet.
*
Now, I was not so naive as to
think I'd be seeing the same Tar-
tan as the one of my childhood,
or that the story would not be jaz-
zed up a bit for the hard -eyed
little hooligans who haunt the
movie houses of to -day. But this
Tartan was no more like the one
I watched in my salad days than
Marilyn Monroe is like Mickey
Rooney.
January, 1935
A very happy event took place
at the home of Mr. axed Mrs.
William Rader, on Tuesday even-
ing, when a miscellaneous shower
was held hi hex -lour of Miss Verlyn
Thiel, bride -elect, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Thiel.
Harold Kkopp, Detroit, was' a
weekend visitor with his Pe,
,Mr. ',and' Mrs. Oscar Klopp. "
Mrs. Amelia Fuss, who spent
several weeks with her daughter,
Mrs. J. J. Swartz, in Detrpit,
has returned home, and reports
having had a most enjoyable time
in the city.
THE GIFT of good health is among the most precious of all
human possessions yet, strangely, few things are more taken for
granted.
Like the • water in the 'tap that isn't missed until the well
runs dry, the blessing of good•health.is in most cases only really
appreciated .when ' it'has been lost. .
Canadians; • as' North Americans, •are perhaps particularly
prome to complacency. Our average 'life' expectancy is among
the world's highe'st,._,and the old -diseases no longer take the .
toll they once did. For us, it might .appear, health is no great
problem.
And yet . ; despite the advances of recent years, there are
still at least .a dozen countries with a Powerinfant mortality rate
than ours. No bless than 95 percent of the papulation is estimated
to suffer frgri .complaints originating in the mouth, and not
more than aa,. peacent of all Canadians receive dental treat-
ment in any dile year.
In industry,.' more than 153,,900 years of work -time are lost
every year die •:te- illnesses of one kind • or another, a great
many of which are directly attributable to either neglect or
carelessness. :rind ' :accidents, on the highway, in the home and
from drowning:and fire; olairn an ever -rising number of victims
Living dangerously, it seems, is fast becoming a national
pastime . , . ,,
Faced with such evidence in itself but a small part of the
whole—we have' good reason to. revise our ideas on the subject
of health. None •cif these conditions is inevitable; all—and many
more—can be either remedied es - largely prevented.
As in most things, such action is most effective at the local
level. The formation of health committees from among interested
Members of the Many, professional, cultural, religious, fraternal
and recreational organizations which are to be found in every
community can he a major first step toward making the coffin-
munity health-concious.
The health standards of every community can he improved
in a. hundred -and -one different ways if only enough people care
enough and exert themselves enough , , .
January 31—February 6 is National Health Week, the 16th
such week to be sponsored by the Health League finCanada,
ad )
What better time for action
Leonard Sararas and Tony Mas-
se, of the Bluewater highway,
motored to London last Friday,
where they took in the hockey
game between Syracuse and Lon-
don.
Among the new Phiico radios
that have recently been placed'by
Harry G, Hess was a fine new mo-
del to William Haugh, on the 1 th
concession who is a councillor' in
the township of Hay.
Local officials say that th re
are fewer transients on the road
this year, than there have been
in the past few years.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fritz, bridal
couple, who have returned hone
from a two month's honeymoon
in Florida and Cuba, report hav-
ing seen a great deal. on their
trip to the south.
*
My Tarzan was a friend of most
of the animals in the jungle. But
he didn't hesitate to stab an or-
nery lion to death,. or crack the
neck of an owly gorilla. This
beach athlete the other night
couldn't kill anything but people,
and he shot at them with arrows,
from behind a tree, if you can be-
lieve it, I blushed for him.
* * *
My Tarzan was a simple, proud
man. He couldn't even speak Eng-
lish. When he was with the girl,
she'd try to teach him. The words
would be flashed on the screen.
She'd say: "Me Jane. You Tar-
zan." and he'd repeat: "Me Jane.
You Tarzan." And she'd giggle
prettily and say: "No. Me Jane.
You Tartan." And he'd finally get
it.
* * *
Tarzan was an influence of al-
most overwhelming dimensions,
when I was a kid. We read all the
Tarzan books. Every Saturday
afternoon at the matinee, we saw
two reels of a Tarzan serial that
left us limp with excitment and
fear, as our hero struggled in the
coils •of an anaconda, or went
tumbling over a mile -high cliff
as the episode ended. But we did-
n't Worry all week until next Sat-
urtday. We knew he'd beat the
rap.
* * *
I dreamed about him. I suffered
10 YEARS AGO- innu¢nerable contusions and sp-
rains trying to swing through a
January, 1950
Mr. and Mrs. William Reichert maple tree the way he swung
ir through the trees of the jungle.
have recently moved from the
en into In the privacy of The Sandpit, I
farm home near practised calling the apes as he
the home they purchased from did. Before going to sleep at
Mrs. J. W. Horner. night, I fought my way silently
but indomitably, through hordes
of black warriors, with nothing
but my knife and a last-minute
assist from Tenths- the Elephant.
Mr. Lashley, of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture Fairs and
Community Buildings was the gu-
est speaker at the meeting of the
Zurich Lions Club on Monday
* * *
But he really wasn't interested
in girls, and at that time, neither
were we kids. We'd scuffle and
grab each others hats and horse
around until the "love" part was
over, and our hero was back in
action, churning across the river
with the crocodiles snapping at his
heels, and us sitting on the edge
of our seats, teeth and fists clen-
ched, pulling up our heels in sym-
pathy.
night.
The Memorial Dedication of the
A.' C. "Babe" Siebert Memorial
Arena wi11 be held this Friday
night, when suchnotables as Jack
Adams, George Hainsworth, "To-
ry" Gregg and Bob McCully will
be present.
The new Exeter High School is
receiving the finishing touches as
the students prepare to move into
it on Friday. Premier Leslie Frost
will officially open the new school
nest Wednesday.
Mrs. Remi Denomme,,, Drysdale,
has returned home from Canard
River where she spent a week
with her daughter, Mrs. V. La-
franvboise.
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Westlake,
'Miss Margaret Deichert, and Fred
Haberer, Jr., are spending a few
days at the home of the latter's
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kaufman,
in. Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Swartzen-
truber and family, New Hamburg,
spent a few days over the week-
end with friends and relatives in
this community, and also looked
after their auction sale of their
household effects.
Federation Fieldman Gives His Views
On "Communications" of Meeting
(By J. CARL HEMINGWAY)
of the population that is required
for the production of food the
higher the standard of Iiving -of
those people. This also applies to
the standard of living of those in
agriculture.
This does not mean I feel that
farmers are making a proper in-
come, far from it, but keeping
the family farm small and a large
percentage of population on the
farm is not the answer. If • it did
then we should force a large per-
centage of the urban population to
return to the 50 -acre farm.
I have no desire to give up the
present farm home witha bath
for the farm home with a path of
former years.
Again q' feel that Co -Operatives
have an important role to play.
By dealing with a Co -Op I can in-
crease nay field of income. If 1
oan produce a product for $90 and
sell it for $100 I have $10 for my
income, If however I can sell that
article, through my Co -Op, I can
expect, at least a patronage divid-
end of two percent, thus I can. add
$2 to my income but I have in-
creased my income by 20 percent.
'llhis to a small farmer may not
be any huge amount but it is all
to the good. To the family faun
that is large enough to provide
full employment this increase
could easily mean the difference
between a survival income and one
that was quite satisfactory,
e # *
My Tarzan was a Mature man,
with craggy features, wearing a
shaggy animal's skin, his straight
black hair falling almost to his
shoulders.- The Tarzan in this
At the Marketing and Co -Op-
erative Conference held December
28 to 31 at the OAC, Guelph,
there was one period spent on
Communications". That is, the
transfer of information. Prof.
Dent, who conducted the lecture,
showed very clearly that quantity
and accuracy of informationdim-
inished amazingly in proportion to
number of people passing it on. ;
In recent articles in local pap-
ers reporting on the conference's
conclusions with, regard to the fu-
ture of the family farm and the
part to be played by Co -Operativ-
es do not agree with my _inipres-
sion of those conclusions.
The conclusions arrived 'at as
far as I sari concerned were as fol-
lows:
First, the family faun will con-
tinue indefinitely and will prosper
in direct proportion to the ability
and initiative of the faanily;
Secondly, the size of the family
farm will continue to increase at
a somewhat lower rate than in the
past 20 years.
This to me is creating no great
hardship. I am more inclined to
agree with another farmer attend-
ing the course when he stated that
he coudn't shed any tears for his
brother who was forced to leave
the faun and is now earning $900
per month in the city. •
Further it hae been amply prov-
en that the smaller the percentage
* *
This locker -room bum the other
night was simple enough, but he
wasn't proud. He had about as
much dignity as Elvis. Instead of
striding 'through the jungle as
though he owned it, he skulked
around like a juvenile delinquent
looking for an old man to beat up.
t s
But what got me was the plot.
In the old Tarzan films, animals
were killed, but only hi self-
defence, or for food. In this epic
we saw the other night, there
were no less than five horrible
deaths, all people. One got an ar-
(continued on Page Three)
Business and Professional Directory
AUCTIONEERS DENTISTS
ALVIN WALPER
PROVINCIAL
LICENSED . AUCTIONEER
For your sale, large or small,
courteous and efficient service
at all times.
"Service that Satisfies"
Phone 119 Dashwood
INSURANCE
For Safety
EVERY FARMER NEEDS
Liability Insurance
For Information About All
Insurances Call
BERT KLOPP
Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich
Representing
CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE
ASSOCIATION
HURON and ERIE
DEBENTURES
CANADA TRUST
CERTIFICATES
5'/% — 1 to 5 years
J. W. HABERER
Authorized Representative
Phone 161 -- Zurich
LEGAL
W. G. Cochrane, B.A.
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC
Mensal! Office Open Wednesday
and Friday Afternoons
EXETER PHONE 14
'BELL & LAUGHTON
BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS &
NOTARIES PVBLHI
ELMER D. BELL, Q.C.
C. V. LAUGHTON, L.L.B.
Zurich Office Tuesday
Afternoon
ric8TEV, Phone 4
DR. H. H. COWEN
DENTAL SURGEON
L.D.S., D.D.S.
Main Street Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoon
Phone Exeter 86
DR. 1 W. CORBETT
L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL SURGEON
814 Main Street South
Phone 27S — Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
DOCTORS
Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN
Physician and Surgeon
OFFICE HOURS:
2 p.m. -5 p.m. Monday -Saturday
Except Wednesday
7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Friday
Evenings
ZURICI:O Phone 51
G. A. WEBB, D.C.*
*Doctor of Chiropractic
438 MAIN STREET, EXETER
X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities
Open Each Weekday Except
Wednesday
Tues. and Thurs. Evenings; 7-9
For Appointment -- Phone 606
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
WESTLAKE
Funeral Hone
AMBULANCE and PORTABLE
OXYGEN SERVICE
Phone 89J or 89W
ZERTCH
HOFFMAN'S
Funeral & Ambulance
Service
OXYGEN EQUIPPED
Ambulances located at Dashwood
Phone 70w
Grand Bend—Phone 20w
Attendants Holders of St, John's
Ambulance Certificates
OPTOMETRY
J. E. L:ONfSTA,FF
OPTOMETRIST
SEAFORTH: Daily except Monday
Phone 791 9 a.m. to 5.89 p.m.
Wednesday: 9 a.m.
to 12 noon.
CLINTON: Monday Only
Phone HU 2-7010
Thursday evening' by appointalaent