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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1960-08-11, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH ntizzal NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT. HERB TURKHEIM Editor and Publisher Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa MURRAY COLQUHOUN Plant Manager Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates; $2.50 Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960 Buyers Are Not Always To Blume (Adapted from the Nanton (Alberta) News) Today a sale catalogue from a maid order house came in the mail box. Tomorrow a flyer from a chain store in the nearby city will be delivered to the door. The day after that the daily paper will have a big splurge about a seasonal sale in the city. The de- partment stores in the next town are mailing flyers and thin cata- logues to Zurich. All of these and other means similar are constant- ly shouting the fact that here are bargains that can't be matched locally. The fact that qualities are inferior, that it costs money to travel, that mail order buying is troublesome and takes a lot of time and that only advertised goods are cheaper than local goods while the the others, which are often purchased at the same time, are the same price or higher, have all escaped the buyer's attention in his mad desire to save a few pennies. Whose fault is it that the buyer does not buy in the town where he lives? He often comes back from a costly buying spree and brags about a bargain that he got (he doesn't mention the many things he bought at regular price) and the local merchant points out that he had the same product for a similar or lower price. Crestfallen, the bargain hunter says, "I didn't know that. Why didn't you tell me?" And the local merchant comes back with a feeble reply, "You didn't ask me." The primary difference between the small town merchant and the out -of -tori n advertiser is that the local merchant waits to be asked about his bargains whereas the out-of-town merchant is shouting about his bargains so that people won't have to ask. More than 90 per cent of the people in the district subscribe or buy the weekly newspaper. Local merchants can't put out large flyers and catalogues but they can tell the people about their bar- gains and their wares in general through advertising in the best - read medium in the district, the local weekly paper. Don't wait for people to ask you what you have for sale. Do like the other fellow is doing and tell them; except that we suggest you go one better and tell them before the out -of -towner does. Regular advertisers know that it pays to advertise and they know that the better the bargain the more it should be advertised. The only way to cope with the out-of-town advertisers is to beat them at their own game. Eventually the out -of -towner becomes dis- couraged and the local folks gradually get in the habit of shopping at home first before even trying out of town. Don't wait for the customer to ask—tell him through the pages of the local weekly press first. Give him the best deal you can and he'll be back again when you can't offer the exceptional bargain. Whatever we do. we mustn't blame the buyer if we haven't let him know—the other fellow has done so. ntario W SCh To Offer ZURICH CITIZENS NEWSTHURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960 eye 40 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1920 Miss Mildred Hoffman is spend- ing a few weeks visiting with fri- ends in Stratford. On and after September 1, only licenced hotel keepers will be per- mitted to sell the two and a half per cent goods. This is an effort on the part of the government to encourage the hotelkeepers, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Haberer re- turned last week from an extend- ed trip through the Western States, and they reported having a fine trip. The best game of ball this sea- son was played on the local dia- mond on Thursday evening with Clinton and Zurich playing their league game, with the home -town boys winning 5-2. Mr. and Mrs. S. Bauman, of Kit- chener, called on Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bossenberry over the past week end. John A. Manson won First prize in the judging of the standing field crop competition, sponsored by Zurich Agricultural Society. Elmer Krueger was second, and Oscar Kiopp placed third in the event. In Summer the King's Highways and Secondary Highways of Ontario serve a large and increasing volume of seasonal traf- fic as city dwellers commute to the cottage and visitors from ev- ery Canadian Province and American State come to enjoy the re- creational facilities of the Province. Improved highways have made it possible to reach places for- merly remote and inaccessible and have reduced travel time to old -established summer resort areas. What was formerly a day's journey is now reduced to a few hours. As a result. more people are now able to travel longer distances with greater convenience and safety than ever before and are taking the opportunity to get out in the open and enjoy the natural beauties of the Province — a land of 250,000 lakes. Part of the pleasure of vacation travel is the occasional stop by the side of the road for relaxation and refreshment. It is a good safety practice, too, to relieve the strain of a long journey. The Department of Highways maintains some 1,200 picnic sites for this purpose located at convenient, and frequently scenic, points along the King's Highway. Sturdy picnic tables and, in some cases, permanent stone fireplaces are located on well -marked sites safely off the shoulder of the highway. From early Spring to late October these picnic table sites are popular stopping points with only one restriction — no over -night camping is permitted. For campers, Ontario offers a wide variety of camp sites, many of which are listed in a booklet "Camp Sites and Roadside Parks" issued by the Department of Travel and Publicity. This is a handy guide to provincial, municipal and privately -owned camp sites which are located by highway number and described in a tabular form which shows the facilities provided. Provincially -owned parks and camp sites are maintained by the Department of Lands and Forests. There are now some 75 of these provincial parks, each one carefully located to provide good camping or picnic facilities and all are open for use throughout the season on the purchase of one vehicle entrance permit. Provincial parks are shown on the Official Road Map of Ontario issued by the Department of Highways. In most of the provincial parks good camping facilities are pro- vided and only nominal charges are made. In some new parks which are under development no charge is made for overnight camping, In spite of the increase in the number of provincial parks and the expansion of facilities it has been possible to keep up with public demand during peak periods such as occur during holiday week ends. Camp sites are usually available in. the middle of the week and the wise camper should plan to arrive early. 25 YEARS AGO -OF- YEARS GONE BY - 1 5 YEARS AGO ij li SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (BILL) B. T. SMILEY) Most of us who are taking the special summer crash course for fledgling high school teachers are finding it pretty strong meat. It's especially invigorating for refu- gees from other fields, like my- self, whose peak of intellectual ex- ercise in the past decade or so, has been working out a crossword puz- zle, or watching the late, late mo- vie. AUGUST 1945 Miss Romayne Geiger, of Clin- ton, is holidaying at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Gei- ger, on the Bronson Line. Mr. Elgin Schatz, of Toronto, en- joyed the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Schatz, in Dashwood. Mrs. Earl Heywood and Patri- cia have returned to their home after spending a few weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Fleischauer. Mr. and Mrs. George Sutton have returned to their home in Kit- chener after spending a few days at then home of their niece, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Oesch. The rationing of meat in Ca- 'nada will again go into effect on. September 1, according to infor- mation from the Price Board Chairman. The school nursing system auth- orized by the Huron County Coun- cil will go into effect in August, according to plans made by the health and hospital committee of the council. One of the nurses will be Miss Mildred Haberer, of Zur- ich. Mr. Frank Jeffrey has returned to his home on the Bluewater High- way, after spending a month's ho- lidays in Windsor and other points. AUGUST 1935 Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Kalb- fleisch and family, of Elmira, are spending their holidays with mem- bers of their families in Zurich. Dr. H. F. Kiopp, of Kitchener, and Mrs. J. Wagner, of Shake- speare, were recent visitors with Mrs. William Klopp, of town. A large number of people from this area are spending this Wed- nesday afternoon in Grand Bend, where they are attending the big gala day celebration. Many of the villagers attended the funeral of the late J. A. Mey- ers at Blake last Sunday after- noon. Mr. Martin Wurm has recently received word from his son, Nel- son, who is in Saskatchewan, who writes that 'the crops in that dis- trict are excellent this year, the first time in five years. The political plot in the new Huron -Perth riding is already star- ting to boil, with two candidates being named; Mr. Golding for the Liberals, and Mr. McMillan for the Stevens party. In the first game of the home 10 YEARS AGO * * * Thus, we have former insurance salesmen laboring over Latin. We have men who were in the retail business anguished over algebra. We have married women who have learned nothing since they left col- lege, except how to run a lot of push-button kitchen machinery, aghast over the geography of Af- rica. * But every second week, the pres- sure of study is relieved. As a spe- cial treat we are allowed to play a game. At one time it was known as Daniel in the Lion's Den: Later, it turned up as The Spanish In- quisition. Now it is simply called Practice Teaching. happily in bed, clutching the lit- tle note from the doctor which excuses him from practice -teaching this week. * * * * A week of this can shorten your life by ten years. Which is a little hard on us middle-aged types who are already worried about being able to hang on until we get the sup- erannuation, some 30 years hence. A friend of mine on the course suddenly crumpled the other day. We rushed him to the emergency department of the General Hospi- tal. AUGUST 1950 The 15th Annual Thiel Reunion was held. at Jewett'e Grove, in Bayfield, on Civic Holiday, with about 180 relatives registering for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gascho have rettuned home after enjoying a week's vacation at Magnetawan, in northern Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Thiel have recently returned home after a pleasant motor trip to the state of Pennsylvania. Paving work on the Dashwood road, known as No. 83 will begin this week, according to news re- ceived from the Department of Highways. Kalbfleisch Mills enjoyed their annual vacation last week, and the entire staff feels much better for it. The summer month of August is about half gone, and very little real warm weather has visited us this year, with most of the nights be- ing close to frost. Mr. and Mrs. John Albrecht have returned to their home in Zurich after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Voeliancl, in Goderich. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Papineau, of Detroit, are at present enjoying and home playoff series, Zurich their vacation at their summer defeated Mitchell 11-5. home on the Bluewater Highway. Federation tion Fields nn Thinks Fax re k A Class All By The;. sseVeS * * There is a hilarious logic to the practice teaching sessions. If you are going to be teaching Commer- cial in September, your first prac- tice -teaching assignment will be a lesson in Grade 12 French. If you are teaching nothing but English this fall, you are likely to be tossed in front of a class in Grade 11 Ge- ography, which you last studied about the time Mussolini was shouting from a balcony. * * * This element of suspense adds a great deal to the game, giving it a distinct flavour of that old par- lour pastime, Russian Roulette. It has one of two results. Either it imbues the student -teacher with unwarranted self-confidence, or it marks him for life. * * * They gave him about 37 tests of various kinds. They asked him a lot of questions. He kept throwing up and complaining of pain. Fin- ally, they told him rather vaguely that he had a virus, gave him a prescription for some expensive medicine, and told him to go to bed for a few days. * * * I could have saved everybody a lot of time and trouble. I knew what the "virus" was. My friend had to practice teach mathematics the next day. Last time he studied mathematics was a few years after the first World War. Cer maybe the Boer War. Anyway, he's lurking (By J. Carl Hemingway) Recently in the Toronto Globe leather it passes through nine and Mail considerable space was given to a certain British econo- mist, C. Northcote Parkinson, ex- panding what is known as Parkin- son's Law. The law may be sum- med up in the single sentence "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." This was directed particularly to- ward government workers and ci- vil servants. On this basis it fol- lows that the more people there are on the job the sooner it doesn't get done so the government hires more people to help not finish it. Whether this is a true statement or not I leave it with you to decide. I am not adverse to criticism of the Government as some of you may have noticed in previous arti- cles but to give that certain well known individual his due I feel I must say that I think the Govern- ment is not alone in this weakness. The other day I had an accid- ent. I stubbed my toe on the side- walk and ripped the sole of my shoe quite badly. After a speedy retreat to the shoe repair shop and while sitting with one shoe on and one shoe off I listened to the diffi- culties in the shoe business, It seems that this particular shoe re- pair man had purchased a supply of leather about a year ago and just now has purchased another supply. Apparently the price was pain. ful. He went an to explain that from the time I sell a cow hide until I purchase it back as sole sales transactions. Each one pro- vides a profit to the dealer: He told me that he had tried to buy hides locally and sell direct to the tanneries but couldn't sell direct. He could only sell to a dealer thence the hide moved to a large wholesaler and then to the tannery. In purchasing leather he can't purchase from the tannery so the leather follows a similarly extend- ed road back to the consumer. Parkinson's Law could apply quite nicely here. Again in chatting with a couple of merchants in one of our local villages I found that both were be- wailing the fact that they had to keep stores open five and a half days a week plus one evening. They both agreed that much of the time they were twiddling their thumbs waiting for suckers (ex- cuse me, I mean customers). Yet I think both had cottages at the lakeshere. Would Parkinson's Law apply? In contrast the farmer who finds that he hasn't enough. cattle to keep Min busy puts in some pigs. If he finds that since using a bal- er or a harvester there is room to spare in his barn and. there is a fair chance that he can pursuade the wife or kids that cleaning eggs is a good pastime he puts in some hens. Parkinson's Law in reverse. It seems to me that farmers are playing the game by a different set of rules than the rest of the popu- lation. 1 * * * So you get up there in front of the class, lesson notes fluttering hysterically in your hand, sweat running down your spine. A strange, trembling voice tells the class to turn to page eleventy-sev- en. You open your mouth again to begin teaching, and your min.d goes stark, staring blank. * * * The students observe you with the bold interest of sharks about to rend a dying whale. Your fel- low student -teachers watch with aching sympathy. Your critic teach- er eyes you with a fine blend of impatience and disgust. All you need is a chair in one hand and a whip in the other, and you'd feel like an apprentice lion -tamer on his first trip inside the big cage. * * * As you go through the lesson with all the enthusiasm and spon- taneity of a zombie, your inner mind churns: "What am I doing here? I never wanted to be a tea- cher anyway. They talked me into it. Who can possibly stand teen- agers all day? I'll go mad. I want to go home to Mom and the kids. Help!" 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Main Street Exetei Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 86 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 Frida3 Evenings PHONE 51 — ZURICH 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, B.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensall Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS 8c NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q,C. C. V. LAUGHTON, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER Phone 4