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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1960
Worthwhile Project
Rated as "not essential", a pillow amplifying system for
bed care was '`.`pared off" the original estimates for the Huron
County Home. It was no doubt one of several things abandoned
in an effort to bring the total cost of the new addition in line
With that approved by the powers that be.
Now, with construction work already under way, it is thought
by some that this system should be in. And if it is to be in, it
will have to be installed right away before the walls are plastered
in. Otherwise installation later will be more costly.
The Lions Club of Clinton has taken it upon themselves to
do an emergency job. They seek to raise $6.000 to have this
work done. They are counting on help from service clubs through-
out the county. On Friday night, a delegation from the Clinton
Club made an appeal before the Goderich Lions Club. The appeal
'vas given favourable consideration and a decision is to be made
later at Goderich Lions Club executive meeting. Possibly it
will result in a Lions county wide project. Whether it is that
or whether the money comes from service clubs of all kinds is
immaterial. The important thing is to raise the money—and raise
it fast. When it is remembered the pleasure that such a system
would bring to the people in the sunset years of their life, is
should be a project to put through without hesitation. The County,
Home residents, while lying in bed, can tune in to church ser-
vices, concerts, etc., and control the volume to suit their own
particular need. It is surely a most worthwhile project and could
only be fully appreciated if one were to find oneself a Huron
County Home resident in need of entertainment to pass away
the lingering hours. (Goderich Signal -Star)
it
40 YEARS AGO
March 1920
T. L. Wurm is at the present
time on the sick list.
Miss Lila Melick left for Clinton
on Monday, where she will attend
business college.
Henry Hoffman of Dashwood, is
visiting relatives in :Kitchener at
present.
George Cook, of Dashwood, was
a visitor in the village on Tues-
day last,
Harry Weber, of Preston, called
on friends in the village over Sun-
day.
A quiet wedding was solemnized
at the Evangelical parsonage on
Tuesday evening, when Miss Maud,
youngest daughter of Mrs. McBride
of the village, was united in mar-
riage , to, Albert H. Schnell, of
Calgary, Alberta.
Julius Thiel, who is employed
in Seaforth, spent Sunday at his
home here.
Dan Koehler, of Kitchener, has
returned to Zurich, and is making
preparations to move his house-
hold effects to that place, having
purchased a place there.
Two motor sleds, owned by two
citizens of Dashwood, are on ex-
hibition frequently, flying up and
down the main streets there
Grand Bend is now an incorpor-
ated village, and will assume the
reigns of government as an urban
municipality.
YEARS GONE
••
15 YEARS AGO'
March 1945
SUGAR & SPICE
(By W. (BILL) B. T. SMILEY)
and none in sight. Undaunted, full
of good cheer, I was whenbout to I saw w and
for the subway,to the cab
old gentleman talking
dispatcher in great distress. In
my kindly Canadianre screaming
en-
quired why they
at each other in. fractured English.
The old chap was in a flap. He
was a stranger in the city, spoke
almost no English, wanted to get
to his hotel three miles away and
couldn't get a taxi.
* * *
I made it known that I'd see hoe
got there, via subway.
gratitude filled his eyes when he
understood. As we emeTged from
es heavy.•
the station, me carryinghisdisgeage•
bag, a taxi pulled up
a passenger. My gentle old coin»
panion snatched his bag from me,,
leaped across a vat puddle, hurl-•
ed himself into the cab and shout-.
ed "Vestbury Hotel" `'• without a,
backward glance. As I trampedt
through the slush to the subway
station, I reflected, somewhat, eom-•
brely, that this was' Brotherhood:
Week:
* * *
•
I thought a good dinner might.
lift my spirits. When I'm on,
leave, I „do it up brown. I sip my-
aperitif
y
aperitif with appreciation. I gl-•
ance at the other diners with dis-•
dein. I order exotic Moods. This.
night, I was having pheasant au,
flambeau or something. A white
gloved waiter brings in your bird,,
which. is blazing merrily, and with.
long skewers and a flourish, trans-
ports it to your plate. Quite im-
presses the poor people eating'
steaks.
* * *
Only this idiot's flourish was a
little too florid, his gloves caught
fire and he dropped my bird on
the floor while he beat his hot
(Continued on page 3)
It„ took a lot of planning, but I
*angled a 36 -hour leave the other
`Weekend. It was the first time in
'aboen off
theut two years rese reserve withoutt Ithe be family
hanging around my nee like an
albatross.
* * *
It was nicely accomplished, if I
do say it. I had to see a man in
the city about a deal. Being an old
and cunning husband, I let on to
the family that I could see my man
e
any weekend. This lulled my
and
sheintstarted planning our wea false sense of ekend
in the city.
* *
Waiting until conditions were
ideal, I struck. She did'nt have her
hair done, one of the kids had a
cold, and our favourite baby-sitter
wasn't available. So I arrived
home from work on Thursday
looking depressed, told her' I'd
just had a phone call from my marl,
that he was leaving on Monday for
a month in the west, that I had to
go down the next day or the deal
was off, and wasn't it a shame.
* * *
She couldn't domuch
but urt ge
me to go. I protested
t
wouldn't be any fun going alone.
"You go on, now", she pressed,
"it's important and anyway would-
n't you like to get away from us
all for a day?" That's like asking
an alcoholic whether ,he'd like a
drink. But I was smart enough
to protest enough to keep her on
the offensive until she got a little
sore at my stubborness.
* *
I finally gave in reluctantly
and after she'd searched my bag to
make sure I hadn't any liquor, I
went off, waving wistfully back-
wards at Draughty Windows. I've
never seen• the old place so pic-
turesque; the garbage cans sil-
houetted on the snow banks, the
icicles forming a pipe -organ effect
over the door, in which stood the
little woman, her brow darkening
as she simutaneously waved and
wandered whether she'd been con-
ned again.
* * *
That's when you really feel your
age — when you leave home and
loved ones on a 36 -hour pass. Nor-
mally, I feel about 54, but that
day I felt every one of my 39
years as I belted gleefully through
a blizzard to catch the train.
* * *
When I arrived at Union Station,
I found it was the weekend the
big snow had hit the city. About
200 people were waiting for cabs,
Rev. Lloyd Kalffleisch, of El-
mira, spent a few days here last
week with his mother and other
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Witmer and
Judy, of Mitchell, visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blake Hor-
ner, and also Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Witmer, over the weekend.
McKinley Hatchery suffered some
loss . through the ice storm which
tools ” place last Wednesday, when
hydro was disturbed for hours.
In the passing of Martin Wurm,
on February 28, Zurich's oldest
resident has passed away. Always
'being of a cheerful. nature, he
will i e greatly missed.
George Deiohert, Zurich, and
Martin Laub, Dashwood, were in
Toronto last week attending the
annual locker convention. ,
R. F. Stade and Mrs. Clara Dec-
ker motored to London on Sunday,
and were accompanied • home by
Mrs. Stade, who has been a pat-
ient in the hospital there.
Hay Township Council accepted
the 'application of James Masse for
road superintendent at a salary of
60 cents per hour.
Mrs. Elmore Thiel visited with
relatives in Stratford,last week.
Timely Remi.nder
Wages can go down as well as up. It's an unpleasant and
disturbing thought for anyone who works for a living, but those
who were old enough — and lucky enough — to have a job during
the "Terrible Thirties" can testify that it's a
Younger members of the labour force, on the other hand,
may find it hard to believe. After all, for more than 20 years
now wages have moved steadily and almost without interruption
in one direction only — upwards.
Unfortunately for us, we cannot be certain that this trend will
continue unabated for another 20 years. The determining factor
in whether wages will rise or fall is not membership of a union,
political party or anything else. It is the continuing ability of a
company — and, for, that matter, a whole industry to find a
market for its products in face of competition from other comp-
anies and industries.
The truth of this was wellrnitureated recently when manufacturing concer0
n
union members employed by a fu
in Massachusetts voted to accept a 10
per had told them iwblages
They did so after the company president
tly
that such a cut was necessary to help the company get costs
down to the point where it could compete with companies in
southern states paying lower wages, failing which the plant might
have to shut down altogeter.
The natural hope must be that this is not the shape of things
to come. But if such incidents are not to become the rule none
of us can afford to overlook the fact that competative pressures are
more intense and exacting than they have been in many, many
years.
This being so, the decision of these 900 unionists in Massa-
chusetts is a timely reminder that the inevitable consequences
of insistence on higher wages regardless of circumstances must
be that wages will eventually fall very much faster and more
sharply than they rose; and that even this will be preferred —
by unionists and non -unionists alike — to the greatereviltrof
unemployment. •
25 YEARS AGO
March 1935
Henry Betchen, of Haysville, is
visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Zirk, on the Bronson line.
Mrs. Elizabeth Weber is spend-
ing a few weeks in .Bayfield, in
care of Mrs. Percy Weston who is
ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wagner
of Guelph, spent the weekend with
the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Wagner.
We are pleased to report that
Leroy O'Brien is able to be out
again after his recent attack of
appendicitis.
Joseph Corriveau has purchased
from his neighbour Philip Den-
omme, the fine farm in Hay
Township.
Sol Zimmerman, John Ehlers,
both of town, and Mr. and Mrs.
Sant Oestreicher, of the Bronson
• Line, attended the funeral of the.
late William May, of Kitchener on
Saturday Mast.
Miss Melvina Schade, of Lond-
on, is spending a few days at her
home on the Bluewater highway
south.
Miss Melinda Steckle, of Stan-
ley Township, is at present in the
Kitchener Hospital with scarlet
fever.
10 YEARS AGO
March, 1950
Little Marion Fleischauer, daug-
hter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Fleischauer, had a most delightful
birthday party on Saturday, when
she entertained 13 of her girl fri-
ends to her eighth birthday. ..:
Lion Victor Dinnin addressed
the Zurich Lions Club on the
subject, "Education Week", at the
meeting on Monday night.
Last Friday night, before an ex-
cited crowd of 950 fans, Zurich
Flyers won the Intermediate "C"
group title from Dashwood by a
score of 8-3. These two teams
put up a great fight in the series,
Zurich winning the first two gam-
es, then Dashwood coming back
and winning the next two.
Robert Mittelholtz is away to
Toronto taking a special course in
plumbing which will last for sev-
eral months.
Alvin Rader, of the Goshen line
south, was at the hospital in Lon-
don for a few days under observat-
ion.
A goodly number from this com-
munity attended the annual Co-
operative banquet in the Hensall
Town Hall last Monday evening.
Hay Council has awarded Will-
iam JJennison the gravel contract
for this year.
When You uy a '..I sed
Car
()Stratford Beacon -Herald)
It is perfectly possible for you to find a good used car
at a fair price. It just takes time. patience and common sense.
The March Reader's Digest advises that, when you are in
the market for a used car, you should shop only with reputable
dealers. The first step is to decide what you want to spend in
all. and pay a little less than what you can afford. A dealer
will not cut his price for a cash sale because on a time payment
deal he gets the cheque in full from the finance company plus
a small commission as well. Most finance plans requiie down
payments of at least one fourth the purchase price. Watch out
for those that take much less; their charges are usually steep.
Don't buy a car or sign anything on your first visit to a used -
car lot. Because automobiles sell for whatever dealers can get
for them, your best bet is to shop three of four dealers. By
haggling with each, you can gain an idea of the fair price for
the car you want. Any price below market means something is
wrong, usually that the dealer knows the car is not worth fixing
up.
Nothing tells less about a car's condition than its speedometer
reading. Many dealers and owners set speedometers back. Mile-
age is less important than people think. What really counts is
the way the car was treated, and this is shown by its condition
regardless of mileage.
The ideal buy is a "cream puff." This is a car that has had
such care that it looks, runs and feels like new. The price will
be $100 or more above market, but it is worth it. Drive the car.
If it is a "cream puff" it will feel tight and right. It will drive
smoothly and be almost rattle -free. If the car meets with your
own approval, have a reliable independant mechanic inspect it.
There is one way to get a good car without searching: Find some-
one you know who has a car you like and who takes really ex-
ceptional care of it. Then go with him when he trades it, so that
you can buy it from the dealer before someone else does.
Federation Fie!dm
Bribew y At H o g
At the annual meeting in Morris
Township of the Federation ,of
Agriculture one gentleman sugges-
ted that bottles of whiskey were
being used by transporters to get
extra loads of hogs out of the
yards to the packing plants.
As I understand the Liquor Con-
trol Act this is illegal use and a
chargeable offence. If this gen-
tleman wishes to lay charges I
would think the Provincial Police
would be required to investigate.
ues i® S
bly Yards
greed to find suitable transpor-
tation. Through their yard man-
agers the Board has tried to give
transporters loads out of the yards
in proportion to the number of
hogs they bring in. There have
been complaints. Some no doubt
are justified some no doubt are
not. In some cases perhaps the
complaints would increase. I feel
sure that the Board will try to
keep a close check on their yard
managers and take action where
necessary. I would remind pro-
ducers that this matter does not
affect the desirable features of
the present Marketing Plan. There
were just as many complaints a-
bout the bad transporting of hogs
25 years ago when there was no
Marketing Plan.
Under the present system, how-
ever, if this matter of transporta-
tion should become seriously det-
rimental to the producer it can
be remedied.
First, the packers could be told
to arrange their own transportat-
ion. I doubt that this would be
desirable as it would likely be
more costly.
Second, contract could be let by
tender for the transportation of
all hogs from each assembly yard.
This might be cheaper.
Finally, the Organization could
purchase trucks and sell on a
delivered basis.
The representative of the Hog
Producers Board who was present
tried to get names, times and
facts but was unable to do so.
In order to prevent complaints
I felt that the board would be wil-
ling to discharge offending yard
managers but while this would
be desirable I am afraid the new
manager would be criticised for
favouring the transporters who
were total. abstainers.
Let us get this matter of trans-
porting hogs straight. The far-
mer is required to get his hogs
to the marketing yards and may
do this in any manner he chooses.
From the time those hogs are de-
livered to the marketing yard un-
til they are sold they are the res-
ponsibility of the Marketing Ag-
ency. They are sold F.O.B. to
the packer who purchases -them
but it is the responsibility of the
packer to provide the transporta-
tion.
Since the packers, particularly
larger ones, are continually buy-
ing hogs from widely separated
yards providing transportation
would be unhandy and expensive.
At the request of the packers,
the Hog Marketing Board has a-
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