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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1960-04-20, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH Cl'I'IZ zs MEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960 ZURICH &uuZn3, NEWS 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 bscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960 THEY SEEM TO FORGET i No doubt many good Canadians were disgusted with the head- lines coming from a daily newspaper in Detroit. The editor of the paper was encouraging Detroiters to stay out of Canada and avoid having to pay the discount on American money. The story went on to say, "We have endured their (Canadian) discounting our currency for a long time, This new trick of knocking two cents off American quarters and four cents off American half - dollars smacks not only of cupidity but also usury. It carries an arrogant implication that our money is second class." We wonder where the editor of this Detroit newspaper was prior to four or five years ago, when the tables were turned the other way? Our American friend must have lost all memory of the many years that Canadians were discounted up to 15 and 20 cents on a dollar in the United States. Most of us will remember when our Canadian Silver was worthless across the border, and many business places would not accept our currency under any condi- tions of discount. Before sounding off as this Detroit editor has done, it would be well to think back before trying to disrupt the friendly relations that exist between Americans and Canadians. We have had many good American citizens tell us they don't mind the discount sys- tem now, because they enjoyed the benefits of the situation being reversed for many years. Personally we don't like the idea of there being any difference whatsoever in the value of Canadian and American money, but ap- parently there seems to be nothing we can do about it. Would it not be a pleasant situation if all the money in both countries was of the same value. and could be spent anywhere in either Canada or United States at par? This day can't come any too soon to suit us, but in the mean- time we hope all our good American friends will not be misguided by stupid stories such as appeared in. the Detroit newspaper. DONT WASTE GRAIN MIX IT! THE FEED IT! SHUR - GAIN WAY BALANCE YOUR GRAIN WITH: SHUR-GAIN CONCENTRATES M. G. DEITZ and SON YOUR BALANCED FEEDING HEADQUARTERS IONE 154 ZURICH CUT COST'S k(c-t eOOPERLVFIVELY 0 0•• • USE THE CO-OP FEED PROGRAM FOR YOUR REQUIREMENTS The rapid growth in volume of Co-op Feed and the extensive use of Co-op Feed Programs are your guarantees of the confidence that the farmers of Ontario have in the Co-op feed business. Each Co-op Feeding program is designed to utilize the facilities of your local Co-op to the best advantage. This means extra savings because your Co-op offers fresh supplies daily; low cost grains because of mini- mum freight; prescription mixing; regular sampling and testing to ensure quality; friendly and person- alized service to ensure the right feed for the job required. Ask how you can cut costs co-operatively. 0 m* s' 4' :• Hensall District Co-operative Inc. Hensall ZURICH - Brucefield 40 YEARS AGO April, 1920 At a meeting of the Zurich Agri- cultural Society on Monday night, the secretary was instructed to render an account to the police village of Zurich for arrears on their agreement between them re- garding the use of the fairgrounds for sports. Hensall council passed a bylaw prohibiting the sale of cigarettes. The Holy bonds of wedlock were united at St. Boniface Church on Tuesday, when Father Stroeder married Miss Pearl Mil- ler, of Dashwood, to Bernard Hart- man, son of Mr. and Mrs, John Hartman, of the Goshen Line. Zurich and vicinity were shocked with regret to learn of the death in Waterloo of Mrs. Charles Hart- leib, formerly of Zurich. W. B. Colles was appointed ma- nager of the Zurich baseball team for 1920, when the annual meeting was held in the Maple Leaf club rooms. P. Bender, who has been conduc- ting a cobbling business in G. Merner's block, moved on Mon- day into W. H. P£ile's shoe store, and will continue as usual in that business. Blake Women's Institute held their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. R. N. Douglas. 25 YEARS AGO April, 1935 By the amount of new cars sold in this village this year one would think that we are in very prosper- ous years, and that the word de- pression is out of our vocabulary. The new creamery in Zurich has on Monday started operations and i5 busy making butter. The equipment throughout is practi- cally all new. A painful accident befell Lee - land Willett last Thursday after- noon, when in some way the back part of his left hand came in con- tact with a joiner planer at the Kalbfleisch mills. The knave bad- ly lacerated the tops of the fingers down to the bone. Miss Edith Klopp and Ear& I'ung- blut spent the past week end. in Detroit visiting with friends in that city. Leonard Wagner is laid. up with a sore eye, which he received while treating some hydro poles with creosote, when some of the liquid splashed in his eye. Earl FUaxbard had the misfor- tune on Tuesday while working at the Kalbfleisch mills to get his hand in contact with a running saw, which took a number elf stitches to close. -OF- YEARS GONE -BY 15 YEARS AGO April, 1945 Mr. and Mrs. George Eickmeier and sons Ivan and Oscar, Brodha- gen, were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eick- meier. Lion Dalton Higgs, St. Thomas, was the guest speaker at the re- gular dinner meeting of the Zur- ich Lions Club, as was Lion Vic- tor Dinnin of the home club, who spoke on the subject, "Lion Edu- cation." Kenneth Routledge, Toronto, is enjoying a vacation at the hone of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Coxon. Janes Broadfoot, of the Parr Line, went fishing at St. Joseph last week, and much to his sur- prise caught a large pike wich was 52 inches long. The citizens of Dashwood last Tuesday evening gave a rousing welcome home to Sigmm. Jack We- ber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Weber, on his arrival home from overseas. M. and Mrs. Kenneth Breakey, who reside in Montreal, are co- ming to Zurich, and will reside in the Hess apartment, where Mr. Breakey will take up radio and electric work. We welcome them back to Zurich. The Ladies Aid of the Lutheran Church in Zurich were guests of the Ladies Aid of the Lutheran Church in Dashwood. 1 0 YEARS AGO SUGAR & SPICE (By 7. (BILL) B. T. SMILEY) Next week has been designated as Austerity •Week. All across the country, people are supposed to practise a week of austerity. Pur- pose of the stunt is to focus at- tention on the poor devils rot- ting in refugee camps in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For them, every week is Austerity Week. April, 1950 The extensive auction sale of the farm stock and implements of Leonard Geromette, north of Zur- ich, was something not to be soon forgotten by the people of this district. Throngs of people gather- ed. and the bidding was keen. The Rev. F. B. Meyer, former pastor of the Evangelical Church, here, died at Rodney on. Satur- day. He had completed 51 years in the ministry. A successful dance was sponsor- , by the Zurich Hockey Club, *ir the proceeds going to the b nefits of the injured players. William Siebert won. the lucky draw, which was made by Jim Hayter, coach of the Dashwood team. T. Harry Hoffman, Dashwood, an outstanding baritone, was the guest soloist at Calvary United Church, London, last Friday ev- ening. Ross Johnston and his another, motored to Rochester, N.Y., on the week end, and were accomp- anied home by the former's sis- ter, Mrs. Ernest Gemming, who will stay in Zurich for the week. e Federation of Agriculture Discusses 20 -Year Term On Leases With Hydro (By J. Carl Hemingway) A word of warning to motorists. If you are planning a trip outside of Ontario you should get a veri- fication card from your Insurance Company showing Liability cciver- age. Many states in. the U.S. and some provinces require this. If you happened to get picked up Friday evening your car could be im- pounded until you could contact your Company Monday morning. Could be most embarrassing. The Properties Department of the Ontario Federation. of Agricul- ture met with Hydro on January 27, and requested a 20 year term lease. Since that time there has! been no action but just last week I was informed that negotiations have been again opened and it seems that hydro eventually will give a better deal. It just takes a long time for them to make up their mind. The Huron County Dairy Co-or- dinating Board met recently and decided to conduct the Dairy Prin- cess contest in conjunction with the Clinton Spring Fair, on June 11. This is about a month earlier than other years and we hope the girls interested will get their en- tries in by June 1. Attractive priz- es are being offered so notify the County Federation office, Box 310, Clinton, for particulars. At the County Federation of Ag- riculture Directors meeting on April 12 the secretary was in- structed to invite a representative of the Ontario Provincial Police to the next meeting to explain the re- gulations controlling the move- ment of farm machinery on the * * * It's a noble idea, and I hope it works. But I fear the only people who will observe it are those who are already concerned enough about World Refugee Year to do something about it. They will give up desserts, or do without coffee for a week. The rest of us will pay no more to Austerity Week than we would to National Dry Cleaning Week. * * * Sad fact is that the great ma- jority of Canadians are not only spoiled but selfish. Most of us know nothing about austerity be- yond the bare meaning of the word. And most of us don't care, as long as nothing comes along to trim any of the fat off our own juicy slice of the good things of this world. * * * Now if a refugee tried to tell me that, I'd get sore. With some indignation, I'd tell him that we're sending money to missions and the Colombo Plan and overseas relief, and we give $2 a year to the Red Cross, and we buy raffle tickets on all sorts of worthy causes, and if he doesn't like it here, why dosn't he go back where he carne from. world. The only refugees of whom we've had any experience are those who flee to Florida each winter, and no pangs of pity are felt for them. * * * After all, we didn't create the refugee problem. We didn't chase. any Poles, or Greeks, or Arabs, or Koreans off their property and into the camps. The Bad Guys did that. Why should Canadians con- tribute toward geeting these peo- ple out of the camps and back into civilization? * * * But coming from me, I can't find any answer. Except to tell myself that at heart we're gene- rous, decent people. And it's just thoughtlessness and its only hu- man nature and it's a short life and we only go through the course once and why shouldn't we enjoy it and how come those bums got into those refugee camps in the first place and why don't those Europeans who are always start- ing wars anyway, look after them. * * * There's nothing mysterious about the reluctance of Canadians to think about the refugees of the roads. Gordon Greig, first vice-presi- dent, in reporting on. the Hog Pro- ducer's delegation meeting with Premier Frost, pointed out that previous farm legislation had ori- ginated with farm organizations and after thorough study and con- sultation with government offi- cials had been passed with the ap- proval of all parties. This new Bill 86 was the brain child of members of the party in power and without discussion with farm organizations was introduc- ed into the House by the Minis- ter of Agriculture as a partisan Bill, and was opposed by the com- bined opposition. Farm marketing legislation now seems to have be- come a political football. A statement of County Federa- tion of Agriculture policy concer- ning Commodity Groups previous- ly drawn up by the resolution Committee was presented and af- ter discussion it was agreed to de- fer final approval until the pro- posed statement could be consid- ered in the light of the present Constitution. Alf. Warner, of the county Hog Producers, thanked the County and Township Federations for the support given in opposing Bill 86 and stated that with such strong opposition the Government would probably hesitate in making use of any of the new powers. Could this be the reason that Mr. Goodfellow failed to appear for the opening of the Listowel Farmers Co -Operative on April 8? * * * The answer is that we shouldn't, unless we believe that old chest- nut about all men being brothers. If we do, its' about time we started throwing our brothers liferings in- stead of lifesavers, peppermint flavour. Canada's contribution to the world refugee problem at present is about four cents per capita. * * * It's shameful to realize that the liquor consumed in this country on any given Saturday night pro- bably costs twice as much as the contribution of the country for a year, to the world refugee prob- lem; that an average Canadian fa- mily eats more meat in. a week than most inmates oi; camps see in a year. * * * It's painful to recall the billions we've spent on defense since World War II. Personally, I think Switzerland could lick us with one hand behind her back. And those billions could have conquer- ed the refugee problem entirely, if we'd had the courage and the Christianity to use them there in the beginning. * * * It's too late for that, but it's not to late to take our fair share of the load, and more. What bet- ter time than Austerity Week? Ten cents from every Canadian, during the week, would not ex- actly wreak havoc with our econo- my or our creature comforts. It's a cup of coffee, a few cigarettes, a glass of beer. But what a fine splash it would make if we threw it into the World Refugee fund. refugee 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 50% — 3, 4 and 5 years 5% — 1 and 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 — Zurich 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 HU 2.7010 Thursday evening by appointment DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeted Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 — 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 ZURICE:I 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, '74 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W ZURICH LEGAL W. G. Cochrane, Q.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensall Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BAREISTEtS. SOLICITORS & NOTAEIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BE, LL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON', L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER Phone 4