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N. 31—FIRST WITH TIIE LOCAL NEWS
ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960
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BLOOD DONORS — The Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic which was held in Zurich last Wed- .
nesday afternoon drew a total of 117 persons. Shown here having blood taken from their
arms are Rev. W. P. Fischer and Keith Westlake. (Citizens News Photo)
Lumberkings Make impressive Showing
in 7-2 Victory Over Mitchell Lincolns
Playing heads -up ball without
three of their regulars, the Zur-
ich Lumberkings, behind the
steady pitching of Ken Patterson,
scored an. easy '7-2 victory over
the Mitchell Lincolns in Mitchell
last Wednesday night.
Danny Trushinski, Doug O'Brien
and Bill Craig were all missing
from the lineup. Arn Meyer filled
in at short, Earl Wagner at sec-
ond, and Bruce Moir moved over
to centre.
Zurich took advantage of three
hits in the first inning to score two
big runs. They added on in the
third, one in the fifth, two more
in the seventh, and registered
their final tally in the eighth.
Mitchell scored once in the se-
cond and once in the seventh.
Manager Don O'Brien was top
man with the willow for the lo-
cals, smashing out three hits in
four times at bat. George Parker,
Arn Meyer, Bruce Moir, and Bob
Welsh each hit safely twice, and
Pete Masse banged out a double.
One of Meyers' drives was a
double, and he also hit two long
fly balls which would have been
a home run in any other park
but Mitchell.
In going the full eight innings,
Patterson showed his best form of
the season, limiting the Lincolns
to eight hits, three of which they
had in the seventh. He struck out
five, and gave up only four bases
on balls.
Good fielding played a big part
Licences Granted
For Dominion Hotel
By Liquor Board
The Ontario Liquor Licence
Board has approved the applica-
tion of the Dominion Hotel, Zur-
ich, for licences, it was announced
last Friday.
The application covers licences
for dining lounge, cocktail lounge,
and men's beverage room. The ap-
plications were first considered by
the, board at a hearing in Kitchen-
er last June.
Other communities which also
have been granted licences are:
Seaforth, Clinton, and Stratford.
The licences become operative
on the completion of the altera-
tions and improvements to the ho-
tel. These are now under way and
are expected to be completed early
in the fall,
in the Zurich victory, as two or
three double plays were executed,
and a number of base runners
were thrown out stealing. Only
two' errors were committed by the
locals, while Mitchell had five mis-
cues.
R R E
Zurich 201 010 21 — 712 2
Mitchell 101 000 10 — 2 8 5
Ken Patterson and Don O'Brien;
Gary Hopf and "Porky" Wallace.
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Kings Wallop
Dashwood 13-5
Pounding out a total of 11 hits,
including two doubles, a triple,
and home. run, the Zurich Lum-
berkings walloped. the Dashwood
Tigers 13-5 last Friday night, in
an abbreviated contest played on
the local diamond.
Failure of league umpires to
make an appearance made it ne-
cessary to recruit two officials
from the crowd to replace them.
The game got under way at about
'7.30 p.m.
Doug O'Brien was the big gun
in the Kings first victory this year
over their arch -rivals. He smashed
out two singles, a triple, and an in-
side the park homer. Usually a left-
handed batter, O'Brien drove out
both his triple and home run
swinging from the right side of
the plate, against southpaw Jerry
Bell, a former Zurich player.
Zurich scored once in the first,
six times in the second when 11
men went to bat, and three in each
the third and fourth innings. Dash-
wood scored three times in the
first, and added single runs in
both the third and fifth.
Bob Welsh pitched the entire
game for the locals, giving up eight
hits, walking none, and striking out
three. Steve Mitro hit a home run
off Welsh in the first inning, over
the left field fence.
Dashwood used three pitchers
in anattempt to stop the heavy
onslaught of hitting by the Lum•-
berkings. Jim Russell started and
was tagged for six hits in the two
innings he worked. Jerry Bell was
touched for five hits before he was
pulled in favour of Mitro, who fi-
nally put out the fire.
Dashwood
Zurich
Jim Russell,
Steve Mitro (4)
Bob Welsh and
R H E
301 01 — 5 8 4
163 8x —13 11 1
Jerry Bell (3),
and Jim. Attrill;
Don O'Brien,
TB Clinic Here
Draws Nearly 1000:
Almost 1,000 persons attended
the Tuberculin Clinic at the Coma
munity Centre, Zurich, on Friday'
afternoon and evening. Another gee
persons were turned away due to
the lack of the necessary serum.
Sponsored by the Huron County
Tuberculosis Association, the Clin-
ic was conducted by nurses from
the Ontario Department of Health.
The Zurich and District Cham-
ber of Commerce looked after
the necessary details in connection
with the clinic, such as calling on
everyone ahead of time, and ar-
ranging to have the clerical work
done at the Community Centre.
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Township Council
Discusses Drains
Meeting in regular session on
Tuesday night, the Hay Township
Council received a written request
from Antionette Bourque and Hec-
tor Forcier regarding the closing
of two streets at St. Joseph. The
matter was turned over to the
township solicitor, James Donnelly
of Goderich, for furher informa-
tion.
In other business the council
authorized their engineer, C. P.
Corbett, of Lucan, to add an extra
charge on the Munn drain, for
disposal of extra earth and work
done.
The clerk was authorized to pay
Robert Rowcliffe 80 per cent of
his contract for the construction of
the Decher municipal drain.
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Annual Picnic Of
County Council
The annual County Council pic-
nic was held at Harbour Park, on
Wednesday, July 27, with an at-
tendance of approximately 200.
Included in the group was May-
or Allan Johnston, of London, who
happened to be vacationing in God-
erich at that time. Also Mr. John
Hanna, M.P.P., was able to join
the picnic for a short time in the
afternoon, accompanied by Mayor
McKinney, of Wingham; also in at-
tendance was Michael Fisher, War-
den of Bruce County, accompanied
by Mrs. Fisher.
A.morIg winners of lucky draws
at the picnic were V. L. Becker,
reeve of Hay Township, and Mrs.
Doreen Webb, wife of reeve Glen
Webb, of Stephen Township.
Thiels Store is
Giving Dinners
A rather unique feature is
being carried out at Thiel's
Superior Store during the next
few weeks. Each week end five
lucky couples will be given
free dinners at the Dominion
Hotel, with the courtesy of
Thiel's Store.
This past week end the fol-
lowing couples were treated to
the dinners: Mr. and Mrs. A.
Ticknor, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Pfaff, Mr. and Mrs. James
Dinsmore, Mr. and Mrs. An-
thony Denomme, and Mr. and
Mrs. Jerome Dietrich.
Anyone entering the store
on either Friday or Saturday
is eligible to win the free din-
ners.
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Zurich Fire Brigade
Has Gone One Year
Without A CaII
For the past several weeks
members of the Zurich Volunteer
Fire Department have had their
fingers crossed in the hopes there
would be no fire calls. On Friday,
July 29, exactly one year has pass-
ed since there has been a fire call,
and it was the hope of the
group they could go this long with-
out any fires.
One year ago, on July 29, 1959,
the brigade answered a call to the
farm of John Groot, where the
barn burned down, and since then
there has not been a single call
for their services. But people do
• not have to become alarmed and.
worry that the engine will not
work if it is called, for at regular
intervals the truck is taken out and
tested to see that everything is in
good working order.
And if another year passes be-
fore the siren screeches, none of
the firemen will be the least bit
disappointed.
Former Athlete
Dies Suddenly
A prominent district athlete of
years gone by, Lee W. Hoffman
died suddenly at his home in Zur-
ich on Wednesday, August 3, in
his 66th year. A son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hoffman,
he was born in Zurich on October
13, 1894.
Mr. Hoffman was an outstanding
athlete in his younger days, ex-
celling at both baseball and hock-
ey. At times in his early years it
was thought he would become a
professional athlete. Very seldom
Over 100 Donate Blood At Red Cross
Clinic Here Last Wednesday Night
A total of 117 persons donated
blood at the Red Cross Blood Cli-
nic in the Community Centre,
Zurich, last Wednesday. Accord-
ing to the Red Cross area supervi-
sor, John Anderson, of London,
this number far exceeded their
expectations.
While close to 150 persons had
signed pledges to be blood donors,
a number of them were on vaca-
tion, some were sick,and some
were turned down.
The Clinic was sponsored by
the Zurich Lions Club, with J. E.
Bannister as chairman.
Assisting the Red Cross staff of
nurses were the following group
of ladies, under the supervision
of Mrs. H. W. Brokenshire; Mrs.
Tom Meyers, Miss Inez Yungblut,
Mrs. Irene Farwell, Mrs. Theresa
Hartman, Mrs. Harold Zehr, Mrs.
Ervin Gingerich, and Mrs. A. M.
Amacher. Cookies and coffee were
served to all the donors after they
had given their blood.
It is interesting to note that in
London alone the Red Cross esti-
mated needing 100 pints of blood
over the holiday week end, prac-
tically the entire amount which
was given in Zurich.
Hay To
Ply, }s Tr
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nship ScliPol re Bo rd
nsiortation For Students
The mill rate for the Hay Town-
ship School Area has been set at
12 mills, down one mill from last
year. This rate was decided on at
the meeting of the School Area
Board on Friday night.
At the meeting, the board met
with a number of ratepayers from
SS l4, in regards to where they
wished to send their children to
school for the coming term. Two
alternatives were offered the sec-
tion: (1) the children could attend
school in Hensall, with the par-
ents paying the tuition fees, and
the board supplying the transpor-
tation; or (2) the children could at-
tend school at SS 7, Hay, in Zur-
ich, where the entire costs would
be paid for by the board. Parents
had until Tuesday night to decide
which choice they would make.
New tenders for transportation
are being called for the children
from this section,
Two contracts for transportation
were let: Elgin Hendrick will re-
ceive $750 for transporting child-
ren from SS 11 to SS 15 and Wil-
liam Watson will receive $1,700 for
did he ever miss a baseball game
or hockey game in Zurich.
Surviving besides his wife, the
former Mary Lamont, are: one
daughter (Marjorie), Mrs. Harvey
Pfaff, St. Marys; one brother,
Clarence, Galt; one sister (Mil-
dred), Mrs. Leroy O'Brien, Zur-
ich. There are also two grandchild-
ren.
The body is resting at the West-
lake funeral home, Zurich, until
Friday noon, when it will be re-
moved to the Evangelical U. B.
Church, where a service will be
held at 2 p.m. Interment will be
made in the Bronson Line Ceme-
tery. Rev. A. M. Amacher will offi-
ciate.
transporting the children from SS
6 to Zurich. Other tenders will be
let shortly.
In other business the board au-
thorized Norman Fleisehauer .to
make repairs to the floor in SS 10
and to install a new ceiling in the
shop room of the school in Zur-
ich. It was also decided to have
the furnace taken from the school
at SS 14 and installed in SS 8, with
Stade and Weido to do the work.
Mrs. Earl Deichert was engaged
to teach in the school at Zurich,
to replace Miss Olive O'Brien who
has retired.
St. Marys Plays,
Here Friday Night.
In Group Pia off
The Huron -Perth League base-
ball playoffs will begin on the lo-
cal front this Friday night, when
the St. Marys Lincolns will be here
for the second game in their best -
of -three series with the Zurich
Lumberkings. The first game was
to have been played in St. Marys
on Wednesday night. If a third
game is needed, it will be played
back here on Monday night.
The winner of this series will
meet the Dashwood Tigers in a
best -of -five series, for the right
to either meet Mitchell or Strat•
ford in the finals.
After a rather dismal showing in
the early stages of the schedule
this season. the Zurich entry has
finally caught fire and won the
last four games in a row. They are
confident they can eliminate both
St. Marys and Dashwood, to reach
the finals.
Game time on Friday night will
be at 6.30 p.m.
DIGGING OUT — Excavation began on Monday morning for the new addition whichis to be
built to the Dominion Hotel in Zurich. The cement work is to be completed by the end of the week.
Lorne R. Becker, Dashwood, was in charge of the excavating, being watched by a number of inter-
ested persons. (Citizens News Photo)