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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1960-03-02, Page 2PAGE TWO. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1960 ZURICH 4Gt'L2z1'Z . NEWS V S PUBLISHED• EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT., for the Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern Part of Stanley Township, in Huron County. HERB TURKHEIM MURRAY COLQUHOUN Editor and Publisher Plant Manager • Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION' Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS. ASSOCIATION Subscription, Rates; $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. Ly�l l r • OF . . YEARS. GONE 'WEDNESDAY, :MAIiCIif 2,. 1960 What' Will They Gain? ABOUT HALF the employees of General Coach . Works in Hensall are out on strike. What do they hope to gain by their actions? We doubt very much if the strikers will be recognized by the management of the plant. Actually, from what we can .establish, workers at General Coach have been treated quite fairly during .the past years. We doubt if any group of men could ask for better employer-employee relations than there is and has been at General. . The fact that about half the employees are still working makes it difficult for a union to become effective. The' plant will probably • operate until present supplies are exhausted, and then shut down temporarily until the strikers decide to return to work, Such a situation is not good for a community, and since a number of men from this district are involved we are deeply concerned about the outcome. ,Unions may be alright in their place, but we don't think this ,particular factory is the right Place for such an organization, especially since only half the employees are ready to belong to the group. While rumors have circulated that there is a possibility of the plant closing down permanently if the union sticks, we hope this will never happen. We need General Coach Works in this district, with or without a union. Merriment at the Mercury WEEKLY NEWSPAPER EDITORS don't like cancelled sub- scriptions any more than anyone else, but the editor of the:Elk- horn, Manitoba, Mercury got a chuckle .and a first-class. editorial out of a farmer who stormed in the other day to cancel his subscription. "I'm on a buyers' strike," the farmer said, and then proceeded to tell the editor what he thought about the government and the fact that his flax was under the snow, and that five cents a •week for his local paper was too much. "By the time he had finished his : tale of woe," wrote 'the .editor, "we had the press working again. He walked firmly out of the office, stepped into his new car, and drove away." Maybe there is no moral to the story. It would be unabashed immodesty for an editor to -suggest that the moral might read: You can fool some of the people some of the time, yo'u can fool Ottawa most of the time; but you can never fool your weekly editor any — he knows you too well! `No -Shaving" Signs 15 YEARS, AGO, March 1945 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Braun and daughter, . Forest, were . Sun- day visitors with Miss Jane La- mont, . Ray ,Schilbe„ been convalescing at the home of his parents after his recent.. totisil operation,:. Lias rett,trned to com- mence his dutieS' at` Stratford,. Private Ernest Gemming, of the Clinton Radio School, . render- ed two appropriate messages in song at the morning .service in the Evangelical Church. A parish mission was . conduct- ed in St. Boniface RC, Church last week, conducted' by Father Joseph O'Donnell, .Woodstock. Rev. Solomon .Baechler has re- turned to . his home on the ,Bron- son Line after being in St. Jos- eph's Hospital, London,., where he underwent_an operation. The many friends of Mrs. Lee- land :Willertare, pleased...to :'see her helping to serve the "custom- ers' at the -;bake shop ..with her usual pleasant ,appearance after her injury- received at the skat- ing rink. Calvin Thiel, who .has return- ed home from overseas, visited relatives in the village .over the past weekend. Mrs. Peterson, Dashwood, is nursing at the home of Mr: and Mrs. John Gellman. (St. Thomas Times -Journal) THE "DO;IT-YOURSELF" plan, to which so many today are applying themselves is not new — in one line of personal end- eavor, at least. We have particular reference to the daily or every -so -often chore of getting shaved. Time was when those men who were unhandy with a straight -edged razor, those who could take the time or had a dime or fifteen cents to spare, visited a barber shop regularly. So regularly indeed that they had their own shaving mugs (bearing their names' in gold letters) and their own brushes and soap. Then came the safety razor. Men found they could shave themselves at home without loss of time and cash outlay. The business of getting shaved in the barber shops dwindled. The arrival of the electric razor added a finishing touch. The individual gilt -lettered shaving mugs gradually disap- peared and today, if there are any left they are kept solely as curiosity pieces. In their place in many barber shops, hangs a small sign or placard bearing two significant words: "No shaving," a warning to the fellow whose face needs scraping that he must "do-it-yourself." The barbers say they have been driven to this line of action. So few men came in for a shave that it didn't pay the barber to keep a supply of towels, soap and razors on hand for this purpose. In one month, a barber in a two -chair shop said he had only a single customer desiring a shave. But hair -cutting, hair trimming and fixing one's locks this way or that way is just something the male of the human species hasn't yet leaned to do himself; probably never will. 'So the barber is still a busy man' with .his scissors; his clippers, his comb, along with his hair tonic, shampoo lotion and whatever else 'is needed to keep the heads of the young, the middle-aged and the chaps who want to look as youthful as they'' feel, in tip-top condition, The Old Cracker Barrel (Sherbrooke Telegram) Ify a Royal. Commisssion which investigated price spreads had its way, women would go back to killing their own chickens, making their own soap, and doing without a gond many of the fancy services available to theist today. At least that is the lin- pression which this government commission gave to the people in its report, after two years of studying the situation. The commission was headed by Dr. Stewart, who is now the head man of the Board. of Broadcast Governors. There is no doubt that. food prices would be lower if these services were reduced. But how many women would like to kill, pluck and clean their own fowl? How many women would accept ginger snaps dished out of the old-fashioned cracker barrel? How many of us would be willing to go ak to the old iaarsh soaps? And how are you fixed for salt pork?BouSe+ 'Dr. Stewart is a Scotsrna i, But he' is obviotis'!y hot a keeper! 10 YEARS AGO +• B%1 40 YEARS AGO. March 1920 Miss Margaret Stelck, nurse, was called, tp the: home of Mr, and Mrs. William Walper,, near Seaforth, on Sunday, owing to the illness of ,one of their child- ren. . Next, Sunday will be the be- ginning of an Evangelistic cam- paign in the Evangelical Church, with Miss R. Morton, Toronto, as the special guest, Mrs. John Geiger died at the Hubbard Memorial Hospital, Bad Axe, Michigan; on Saturday, Feb- ruary 14, She was the former Maggie Mutter, and was born in Hay Township, where she spent her girl -hood days. W. H. Pfile, of the '14th. con- cession, Hay, has leased the de- partment in the Hartleib block, formerly occupied by S. E. Faust and' R. F. Stade, and will open a general shoe business there in the near future. Alex Meidinger has purchased the •fine 150 acre farm in Hay Township from the estate of his father, the late Stephen Meid- inger. Dr, P. J. O'Dwyer, of the city of London, .and late of France, has purchased the dwelling. prop- erty and practice of Dr. B. Camp= bell, who has practised medicine here for some 20 years. Dr. O'- Dwyer comes highly recommen- ded as a capable doctor. SUGAR &SPICE (By •M' (BILL) B.. T. SMILEY) Living in a tourist area, we hear each summer an oft-repeatedques- tion that causes untold inner mirth City people ': lolling around in our paradise, say; Certainly is a lovely place in summer. But what in the world do you do in this little town all winter?" * * * We just. chuckle bitterly and, give a vague reply. But nothing would pleasure me more than to have one of those birds follow me around for ten days, about this time of year. Before his time was up, he'd be on his knees, begging permission to return to the safe, quiet, dull life of the city. * * March, 1950 Harry G. Hess, accompanied by members of the village trus- tee board, are at Toronto attend- ing the annual hydro conven- tion, Mr. ad Mrs. Jack Copeland, who have been in -'residence at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Herb Mousseau, have -moved into the newly -erected home ' of Ivan Kalbfleisch, on Louisa Street. The ever high -flying. Zurich Flyers hockey team is well off to a good start in their playoffs, having eliminated the Dublin team, and also being well up on the Dashwood team. Harold ' Klapp, Grand Bend, proprietor 'of the Brenner Hotel, has returned :home from a trip to Florida. Milfred Merner, Addison 'Tie- rnan and Mervyn. Tiernan, all of Dashwood, .spent . a few, days in Toronto this. week ,on ;business. Varna . Library Board . held their first •meeting of the year, on Friday night, when Fred•. Wat- son was elected as the president. Mrs, Victor Dinnin . is - at pre- sent in. St. Joseph's Hospital, London, where she underwent an operation. 25 YEARS AGO To avoid tears and recrimina- tions, Daddy sprang for the wo- rks. Took the kids, the old wom- an, and small friend of small daughter, • to the Saturday mat- inee and out for a real dinner in a real hotel, * * * Xeara .ago, I swore; :I'd never again go to a matinee with the kids: Last Saturday I reiterated my oath and wrote it in blood on my daughter's forehead, wh- ere it's safe until swimming st- arts. I'd rather dive into a snake pit than enter a movie emporium on Saturday afternoon in a small town. In these times, they'd ne- ver throw Daniel into a liens' den. They'd send hien to the Saturday matinee,. Emerged unscathed physically but scarred within, from that ex- cursion. Home and got the kids to bed just in time to welcome uninvited guests looking for a place to happen'. to, Unless we turn out all the lights in the frontof the house, lock the doors and refuse to answer the phone, it .is a common Saturday night cross to bear. * * Must admit I am fooled each year, myself. As winter approach- es, I almost welcome it. When the first snow falls, and the darkness comes early, I look forward with some eagerness to those long win- ter evenings; reading, writing, listening to records; good con- versation with good •friends by a cosy fireplace; pleasant, unhur- ried days at the office, when business is slow and the pres- sure is off. March 1935 Garnet Walper, Windsor, is sp- ending a few days at his home here in Zurich. A new industry is locating here in Zurich, in the former implement shop part of the Do- minion Hotel, where a .butter maker is starting a butter fac- tory to serve the farmers of the. district. Henry Steinback, road super- intendent of Hay Township, at- tended • the road convention in Toronto last .week. Death came n . Thuraday, Feb, bruary 28,, to Casper Walper, a valued and highly esteemed res- ident of Zurich, who was in his 75th year. • William Reichert, of the Hills green district, is out and around again after, being confined to his room for several weeks, • What a mirage! By this time of year, I have realized again that the small townis a veritable wasp's nest all winter. Life is a gay.„ -mad whirl of bingos, hockey games, banquets, meetings, social evenings, plays and concerts. * * * • What I want to know is, what do people in the city do all win- ter? I know. I know. They have cocktail bars and nightclubs and concerts and recitals and art ex- hibits and theatres. These things soak up a few thousands of the. restless, the bored, the frustrat- ed, the lonley, and the honest culture lovers, * * * But what are all the other hundreds of thousands of people doing? I have a lurking suspic- ion. I think about 90 percent of these dashing city dwellieiS, spend five or six nights a week gawking at their idiot box or yawning over the paper before toddling off to bed at 11. The lucky bums. * * *. The box social, .sponsored by the. ladies of .the Lutheran. Ch- urch in Dashwoodlast Wednes- day night, was very well attend- ed. . . Mr. and .Mrs.. Milton Hey and daughter, Detroit, were Sunday Visitors with the former's par- ents in Zurich. Federation Fieldnien Given Details Of Bean Grower's. Marketing Board At a meeting of O.F,A;; field men in Toronto, on February 25, Mr. McMurchy, President of the White Bean Growers' Association and Marketing Board gave a com- prehensive report of, the operat- ions of this corninodity' group. Their; plan of operation really originated with the government during the war. At this time, in order to increase theproduct- ion of beans the Government paid a 50c subsidy per bushel. In 1943 the Producers set up their marketing plan and deducted a fee for the• operationof their organizationplus a further levy for the purpose: of exporting any surplus that might arise. At present the total deduction is 85c per hundred with 8c used to finance the organization and 77c available to ,subsidize exports. In years before 1951 dealers in beans often stopped buying aro- und the new year. This put pre- ssure on the Grower to rush his beans out and often resulted in in abnormally low prices, * Totter• to church Sunday morn- ing, under verbal lash of No. 1 son, who is ;Ater boy. Mom still working the 'flu angle so: have Dad's special grilled cheese sand- wiches for lunch. Wife rests dur- ing afternoon. I hear kids' his- tory, geography, memory work and reading as exams in pro- gress. Begin to prepare dinner, interferes with plan to marinate chops in beer. Have beer. Eat dinner. Rush to confirmation cl- ass, thence to band concert wh- ere son, smallest guy in town band, tootles clarinet. * * * Monday is work all day, drive 40 miles to see special, movie, bed at 1 a.m. Tuesday is work all day, spend evening at night school open house, home at 11, think about writing column, have coffee, read paper, think about writing column, read novel 'til 1 aan., lurch to bed, cursing be- cause column not written. Wife sleeping since 10, owly when wakened by yell I give as I ease bad knee into bed. * * *' Wednesday .is :work all day, back to work at night, home at 10.30, write column until 2.30 a.m. Thursday is work all day, entertain ` friend leaving for ,Fl- • (Continued on page 3) , You • just can't. get away with that in a small town. The pace is. killing. Take last week, an av- erage one. It started on Satur- day, Daughter had a birthday and wife had the 'flu, or said she had, so a birthday party was out, ling the lower quality of crop: Thishas at times resulted in a loss on this part of the Board's operation, but the gains to the grower from having an every day. market and having no surplus carried over from year to year has far out -weighed the loss. A local dealer has called for an investigation into the oper- ations of the Board, but the growers can be assuredthat the books of their organization are audited by Chartered Account- ants, and subject to regular gov- ernment inspection, andneed have no concern . for such an in- vestigation. Perhaps they in turn should request a similar in- vestigation into the operations of the dealers. Two . things that the Board would like to see ds sale of beans by government grade . standards, and proof of financial stability of alldealers before licensing. To overcome this difficulty the board set up a :company which is operated by the board and wh- ich would ;guarantee; to purchase beans at the minimum price ev- ery day of the year. While this has been of real benefit to the Grower it has. pl- aced the Board in the position that the trade has been able to attract a larger percentage of the, best quality` beans anil' leave the Producers seem to be getting an unusual amount of attention front those outside their group. An investigation into the opera- tions of white bean marketing plan on the request ofa dealer, a suggestion . that the Crow's Nest pass rates 'and freight sub- sidy on western, feed grains is bad for Ontario farmers from the head of one of the large mil- ling companies, and finally a def- inite attack on the Hog Produe- ers' organization by a govern - meet appointed civil servant. Should we be flattered by this boas d'with. the'' problem of hand- `at'tentioii' or' alarmed." 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'Doctor of Chiropractic 438 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilitlea Open Each Weekday Expect d Wednesday Tued. an(i Thurs. Evenings, 7d For Appointment -- Phone 606 OPTOMETRY J. E LONGSTAFF • OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH: Daily except Monday Phone 791 9 a,m,,to, 5.30 p.m. Wednesday; " 9 a.m. to 12 noon. CLINTON: Monday Only Phone 14U 24010 Thursday evening Iay appoihtmeni FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Horne AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone $9J 'or 89W ZURICH LEGAL W. G..Cochrane, B.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensel! Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS & 1 OTARJES PUBLIC ELLER. D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, LL.B. Zurich Office Tuesdcy. Afternoon E ilk Phone 4