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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1960
STELCO MEETS CHALLENGE OF
CANADIAN GROWTH
FIFTY -YEARS AGO businessmen representing five Canadian
firms joined forces to form the Steel Company of Canada, Limit-
ed. ' The story of the growth of this company is around us where -
ever we go in this country of ours.
Anoyne who can remember life in 1910 knows first hand the
changes that have been made in our everyday living. So closely
has steel been tied to those changes that sometimes we do not
realize, that without steel, manufacturing would be insignificant,
communication slow, and transportation at a horsepace. We word
still be working and living the way Canadians did fifty yee years
swhatg ,
If we look around our homes and try
to it
would be like without those things made of steel or with steel,
we can see .at a glance how much we depend on the metal our
industry produces.
The increasing use of steel has made the progress of the past
fifty years possible. The growth of the steel industry in Canada
has permitted Canadians to share in this progress to an extent,
not equalled by anyone else outside North America.
The Steel Company of Canada, Limited, is the largest pro-
ducer of basic steel in Canada, and the fifty-year mark in the
Company's history finds it in the middle of another large ex-
pansion programme. These expansion programmes will make it
possible for Stelco to continue to produce quality steel sufficient
to meet therof progressands of a are behindrStelco. country.
A greater chal-
lenge Fifty
years
lenge lies in the years ahead.
ONE FOR THE BIRDS
WANT AN entertaining and inexpensive hobby? Feed the
birds!
This year, with much of their natural feed encrusted with
sleet and ice, our feathered friends are much more dependent
upon man's generosity.
There are numerous types of food which are greatly relished
by your winter callers. These include sunflower seeds, grain,
cracked corn, scraps from the table, suet, and several others.
You may place a feed board, preferably in a spot sheltered from
winds and close to trees. This should be raised above the ground
or snow, at least five feet, as a safety measure against maraud-
ing cats.
Nothing is more thoroughly enjoyed than the carcass of a
fowl, especially one in which dressing has been left. The birds
will pick the bones clean. They relish meat from all kinds of
bones.
We have at least 13 different species of birds visiting our
feeding station regularly. These include black-Gappedchickadees,
white breasted nuthatches, hairy and downy woodpeckers,. blue -
jays, English sparrows, starlings, evening grosbeaks, juncos and
a lone female cardinal.
A pair of cardinals—uncommon visitors in this area—carne
last year. The male disappeared in a few days, but the female
reamined until spring. This year a female is again with us.. We
often wonder if it is the same bird.
Of all the visitors, the ever -active chickadees are most inter-
esting to watch. The bluejays are the most shrewd. They will
carry food away and cache it in preparation for a "rainy day."
Oddly enough, when the weather is the coldest and stormiest,
that `is when you will have the most birds. — Dundalk Herald.
40 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY, 1920
Rev. Morris Ehnes, New York
city, is spending the week herein
Zurich.
Last Friday Miss Anne Warm,
of the village, had the misfortune
while engaged in hanging up some
wash in the kitchen to fall off a
chair and fracture both arms.
A large number of hockey en-
thusiasts attended the Seaforth-
London game last Thursday even-
ing in Seaforth, which was w'on by
the local team 10-2. Clayton and
Clarence Hoffman figured quite
prominently in the scoring of the
Seafortll line-up.
Messrs. Yungblut andDeichert
shipped a carload of cattle last
Friday,
:Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Meidinger,
of Congress, Saskatchewan, have
returned to Zurich' and intend
snaking their home in this vicinity.
"SPORTS AND THE LAW,"
(An Editorial In The Toronto Globe and Mail)
IN ASSESSING a New Hamburg Junior "C" club hockey
player $123.50 court costs for assault, Magistrate A. D. Barron,
of Kitchener, laid down the principle that police can arrest any
player they see committing an assault which might cause injury.
Such a jurisdiction was surely never seriously questioned before
the bar; but Magistrate Barron has done well to state it so
specifically.
It is a pity and a reproach that such cases of player mis-
behaviour should have to come to the courts. The discipline of
sporting events is the responsibility of owners, managers, referees
arid league officials. If they live up to that responsibility, they
will make it clear that violence will cost players their jobs, pay,
even their careers.
Unhappily they are not doing so. The case in point hap-
pened in a Junior League; but the Junior Leagues have plenty of
precedent from the Seniors—from the National Hockey League
itself, where outbreaks of violence are chronic. Yet an NHL
player who publicly criticized such brutality in hockey was fined
$500, while players who committed the offences either went scot
free or got off with minor penalties.
It is up to hockey to clean house. If it can not, or will not,
do so, if it either carelessly or deliberately degenerates from a
sport into a brawl, then the police have to take on the job.
And let there be no quibbing about their right or jurisdiction
to do so. It is part of the police function to maintain law and
order; and hockey is no more above oa. outside the saw for being •
played in a closed and tumbled rink.
MADE ANY NEW FRIENDS LATELY?
(Stratford Beacon -Herald)
PEOPLE WHO CLING to the adage, "bird of a feather,"
are missing half the fun of life. We tend to confine our leisure
moments to people pretty much like ourselves in age, income,
occupation and education. Often it is shyness, rather than snob-
bery, that keeps people apart. But there is a definite tendency
today .to remain within our own circle of friends.
Pressures of corporation life have much to do with the in-
creasing narrowness of our social lives, reports Vance Packard,
in the February issue of Reader's Digest. A man who works
for a large company often finds that he and his wife are limited
• to "the right people" in developing friendships.
Mass-produced suburban communities are another factor.
Builders find look-alike, cost -alike houses easier to sell. Result:
neighbours are alike, too.
Such restrictions rob us of the fun and the insights to be
gained from knowing people who are "different," Packard be-
lieves. But he claims there are remedies.
One way to get out of your social rut is by revising' your
guest list. If we always stick "to our own kind" we lessen
our chances of gaining new insight from people who have a
different perspective.
.Another Packard suggestion is to change worlds once a
year. This need not mean expensive travelling. You can do
this by taking a vacation in an out-of-the-way place where you'll
be among people altogether different from yourself.
Join projects that crit across status lines. Looal politics,
fund-raising or volunteer work are not only rewarding activities
in themselves, but can help broaden your personal horizons by
putting you in Contact with a wide and interesting variety of
people whom you might not Otherwise nieet.
While standing on a hand sleigh
which was being pulled by his lit-
tle son, Alex Mousseau, of the
Bronson Line, slipped off and frac-
tured both hones of his leg.
Miss Hilton, who has been fare-
lady of the Hall -Dent factory here,
has severed her connections with
that company and moved to Lon-
don.
The reeve of Hay Township, John
Laporte, was authorized to sign a
contract appointing Milton Deitz
as an operator and a linesman of
the Zurich central of the Hay
Municipal Telephone System.
..OF..
YEARS GONE
. BY •.
15 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY, 1945
Tuesdayevening marked the
first Carnival sponsored by the
Zurich Lions Club, which has re-
cently become organized and is
going strongly in civic activities.
The judges for the occasion were
Father Lucier, Rev. Heckendorn,
and Victor Dinnin.
The Huron County Police Assoc-
iation, which numbers 12, and
their wives partook of a delicious
chicken dinner banquet at the Do-
minion Hotel, Zurich, last Thurs-
day evening.
The many friends of Mrs. Zee-
land Willert are pleased to learn
that she is improving very favour-
ably after her injury received at
the local skating rink on Monday
evening.
William Decker was re-elected
as president of the Zurich Agri-
cultural Society at the annual
meeting last Wednesday . .after-
noon.
Private Ervin Rader, of Camp
Borden, spent the weekend at his
home in Dashwood.
Rev. and Mrs. Albert Datars,
Kitchener, are visiting at the home
of the former's mother, Mrs. Ed.
Datars, Sr., and other relatives in
the village.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Klopp and
Mrs. Earl Yungblut were recent
visitors with relatives in Detroit.
25 YEARS AGO
.'Y-, FEBRUARY 10, 1960
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) 13, T. Smiley)
Read in one of the gossip col-
umns the other day that Cary
Grant, the movie actor, made a
special trip by jet 6,000 miles to
Hong Kong, to see his tailor. The
item went on: "Cary thinks this
particular Oriental surxmaker is
the best in the world, and is
anybody going to argue with
Cary?"
Not me, Madame, Considering
that item calmly, I could only
come .to the conclusion that Cary
and I have a lot different things
on our minds. And I don't say
that in envy. I have a perfectly
good suit. As liar as I'm concern-
ed,
oncer -ed, it's just as good as the day I
got it, four years ago.
FEBRUARY, 1935
The choir of the Evangelical
Church spent a social evening at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garret
Jacobe, on the Parr Line, last
Monday evening.
The members of the Continua-
tion Room of the Zurich School
held their annual skating ' party
last Monday evening.
John Mero, of the West, has
been visiting relatives and friends
around -Blake and Kippen. It is
some thirty-six.years ago' sitzie he
left these parts.
Charles Bartlett, of the Bank
of Montreal, Zurich, attended the
funeral of his three-year-old nep-
hew at St. Marys on Tuesday.
Len Prang, Will McAdams, Ivan
Willert and Dennis Denomme, mo-
tored to Toronto last week where
they attended a hockey match.
They also attended a game in
Guelph, where Harold Stade play-
ed as goal -tender.
In an interesting game of hock-
ey played in Hensall last Saturday,
the home team was defeated by a
team from Dashwood, 6-5. Russell
Baynham was the referee.
A kitchen shower was held in
Hensall at the hone of Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Stephan, in honour of
their niece, Mrs. Leonard Wagner,
Zurich, a recent bride.
10 YEARS AGO
she wouldn't be seen with me at a
ragpickers' rally, let alone 'a con-
vention of urbane, well-groomed
newspaper editors.
*
This was unfair and she knew
it. I have that good gray suit.
I have a genuine Harris' tweed
jacket, made in Montreal, that I
got at • the same time, the year
we went to that convention down
east, about '56. And a good stout
pair of black shoes, resoled a
couple of time, but taking a nice
shine, that I bought for the same
trip.
* * *
Every year about this time
there's a newspaper convention,
and every year it takes me about
three weeks to talk my wife into
going. She can't go because she
hasn't anything to wear. "So buy
yourself a dress," I say. Turns
out she has a dress, but she
doesn't have a fur coat. That
brings that conversation to an
abrupt halt.
*
* *
Then she tries to make me feel
like a heel with the old reverse
psychology. "I can't possibly ask
mother to keep the children again.
And you know how worn out we
are after a convention. I haven't
a stitch to wear except that old
black thing. My ironing is three
weeks behind. I simply can't go,
in fact I don't even want to go.
Why don't you go alone? You'd
enjoy getting away from us all
for a couple of days."
FEBRUARY, 1950
Campbell C. MacEachern, man-
ager of the local Bank of Montreal
is spending a few weeks in. Tor-
onto, where he is taking special
courses in his line of work;
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob !ipfei,
Dashwood, have moved to Zurioh
last Tuesday, after being residents
in Dashwood for some time.
Miss Norma Sturgeon, Bayfield,
has taken a position at the Snack
Shoppe, in Zurich.
The Zurich hockey team is keep-
ing right on with their winning
ways. On Friday they defeated
their old rivals, Dashwood, by a
3-0 score, and on Monday they de-
feated Crediton 12-0.
Miss Ida Brill has left for Kit-
chener to spend some time with
relatives in that city.
Miss Mae Smith has returned to
her duties in Deep River, after
spending some time at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester
L. Smith.
The new A. C. "Babe" Siebert
Memorial Arena is creating almost
unbelievable enthusiasm, as at the
local hockey games there are vast
crowds in attendance.
Miss Bernadette Laporte, of
Brescia Hall, London, spent Sun-
day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Noel Laporte, on the Bluewater
highway.
Hog Board 'Raised. Price Last Week
Egg Market Not So Fortunate •
(By J. Carl Hemingway)
marketing method that can in-
crease the price if supply•is a lit-
tle short.
This ;is' all the; more surprising
when we realize that the short run
the week of January 23 was due
to 'reduced deliveries in all prov-
inces eeept Ontario. Actually the
run in Ohtario was up over 5,000
on the deliveries a year ago and
practically the same as the prev-
ious week.
Let's tum to eggs. With whole-
sale prices for A large being quot-
ed in the Globe and Mail at 30c
local egg -grading stations are quot-
ing 22-23c. On top of this, prem-
iums for one reason or another
are giving the producer another
two or three cents. Thus the pro-
ducer price on the great majority
of eggs . is 24c to 26c. Thus the
egg.grading station is operating
on froth f6ur to six cents. From
what I' have been told previously
an egg -grading station just can't
operate on this margin. I know
what the producers are getting
but apparently I don't know what
eggs are selling for wholesale,
What's wrong with our market re-
ports?
Also I see that, according to
the Poultry Producers Market Re-
port put out by the Canada Dep-
artment of Agriculture, for the
week ending January 29 the whole-
sale price of A large brown is 40c
to 44e in Buffalo, yet only 8 eas-
es of eggs were exported to the
United States for the week. This
looks like a handy market for some
of our Ontario eggs. Why aren't
we using it?
By the • time this appears in the
press , some farmers will already
haye learned the answer but many
will be wondering why hogs start-
ed off at $21.50. February 1; rose
to $25.00, Tuesday, February 2 and
then dropped to $22.00 Wednesday,
February 3.
Perhaps some figures would
help. The week ending January 9,
hog marketings for Canada .were
261,600; week ending January 16,
156,760; week ending January 23,
127,0$9. I haven't received: the
figures for the week ending Janu-
ary 30, but since the Ontario Hog
Producers had received an increase
of 8,100 hogs by Wednesday, 'eb-
ruary 3, over the. previous week
we can assume that the mai.ket
ings of the week of January 30
were also light.
Under these nircum*tances your
marketing board was, able to raise
the price to $25 at the first of the.
week on Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is all the more interesting when
we learn the% hogs said at Winni-
peg for $19.25 on Tuesday and
$19.75 on Wednesday.
Farmers who shipped hogs too
late on Wednesday to receive the
$25 may feel that they are unfor-
tunate but they should also realize
that they are lucky to be ;receiving
a spread of $2.25 over Winnipeg
especially when it is possible to
ship carcasses from Winnipeg to
Toronto at this time of the year
without the added expense of re-
frigeration, Those who did receive
the $25 should consider themselves
very lucky in that they have a
*My topcoat is a bit shabby, but
after all, it was second hand when
I bought it three years ago from
an aid .air force sidekick who'd
gone a bit 'alcoholic. The two top
buttonholes are sloppy as a sow's'
ear, but the bottom one stays but-
toned. And the lining is like new,
It's detachable, and I never seem
to get it zipped in for the cold
weather.
*
*
All in all, I'm not ashamed to
be seen in any company, and I
haven't been turned away from
any place since the time the wait-
er in the pub asked me if I was
18 and I said sure, I'm 19, and
he said well get the hell out of
here, sonny, you gotta be 21.
This I get at lunch hour, for
example. I am supposed to reply:
"Naw, come on, sweetie. Your
mother won't mind having the
kids. It does us good to get away.
That black dress looks terrific.
Don't worry ,about your ironing.
You know I W91:t1(?ii't 2;:-.,1;1.1#11.94,t.
you." What I say is: "OR," When
I get home at six, she has a
dress rapped apart, her mother
lined up, ,and is desperately iron-
ing clothes for the whole family
for the weekend.
* * :R
This year, she tiled a new gim-
mick. Instead of that timeworn
antic about having nothing to.
wear, she assured me, wii;h some
coldness, that I was so shabby
* *
What started the Old Girl on
this jump, I do believe, was my
long underwear and its recent un-
fortunate betrayal. This winter,
I've given up my youthful vanity,
with great relief, and gone back
to that delight of my childhood,
long underwear. No more shiver-
ing in shorts for me. No more
creaking hips, treacherous kidneys
and paralyzed kneecaps. !
*
Only trouble is that I have just
the one suit, which I got for
Christmas. So, when it's in the
wash, I have to wear pyjama bot-
toms, or risk a cold. Couple of
week ego, we w9r0 kit the open-
ing of the Legislature, end at-
tended the Lieutenant -Governor's
reception .afterwards. There was a
big line-up to shake hands with
the host and his wife, and the
Premier and his wife.
* * *
The Premier was really friendly.
"So glad you could come", he
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