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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1960-08-11, Page 3THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960 posawassawaxammmaswor ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Sugar and Spice (Continued from Page Two) Oh, I tell you, it makes your heart bleed, to see some poor de- vil, who used to be the confident president of the Rotary Club back home, standing there, craven, gray, perspiring. It almost makes the tears start when you see some girl, happily married for nine years, who had worked her way up to District President of the Women's Institute in the home town, up there with her knees knocking, mouth twitching. It shouldn't hap- pen to Lumumba. * * * I don't worry about the student teachers who are just out of col- lege. They're almost as cocky as the teenagers themselves. It's the older types, on the come -back trail, sporting the wounds of the years bravely, who wring your heart. You feel like saying: "There, there old boy boy. I promise we'll send you back home, to the good old Alt If SERVICE London and Toronto TO ZURICH DISTRICT boring job you left for the glitter of teaching, on the first train, as soon as you come out of shook," And to the girls: "Never mind, Mum.. I'll bet you're a darn good cook, anyway." Experienced teachers do a lot to cheer you up, though. One fellow was telling me the other day that it's not so bad, once you get start- ed. In the next breath, he casually informed me that three teachers of his acquaintance are now happily cutting out paper dolls, or making like Napoleon, on a permanent ba- sis. * * * One good thing about it. Those of us who make the grade will be steady, dependable teachers. Never again will we think the grass on the other side of the fence is gree- ner or more succulent than the burdock we are chomping. Hog Assembly in Zurich—TUESDAY & THURSDAY Hog Assembly in Hensoll (at Sales Barn)—TUESDAY CEMENT ROA:' GRAVEL, RLL & TOP SOIL AGENTS FOR PARISIAN LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANERS UST PHONE 186 ZURICH HENSALL PHONE 88r7, KIRKTON RUSSELDALE 16•, Z '. ;I DONS CLU AND c 1 ada's rk led Forces TODAY — AND 15 YEARS AGO J. A. MORRIS Editor, Prescott Journal writes from EUROPE AND TIIE UNITED KINGDOM( LONDON, England — This isn't a story about our NATO forces. It's a fill-in until we get over to Canada's Infantry Brigade. And we clo want to tell of the experi- ence of driving through London's rush hour traffic in a Canadian car on 'the wrong side of the street", without a street plan, ev- en. When we started planning our trip to England and the continent, last Winter, we made arrange- ments with our Chevrolet dealer, A. L. McAuley, an ex -RCAF type, to pick up an Envoy "Sherwood" Station Wagon in London. Looking back on our experience, we would advise anyone contemp- lating picking up a car in the Unit- ed Kingdom to complete arrange- ments through their local dealer. There's a personal touch that means so very much when you enter the office over here. We hacl completed the neces- sary forms with Lindsay Connell, another "ex", regarding delivery of the car, insurance, membership in. the Automobile Association — who looked after the International Insurance Certificate (Green), re- servations on the Dover -Calais Ferry, affiliation with the contin- ental auto clubs, and supplied a wealth of information. When we presented our letter of introduction to Vauxhall on Wardour Street off Shaftesbury ROLIC ICKEN AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE, ZURICH GA 'ES6 BINGO, FREE PONY RIDES FOR THE CHILDREN Music By -- Stew and His Collegians LUCKY DRAW ON P RIME V MIT ,rfi`'y'tA` IC "RYER PAGE THREE Avenue, we were greeted ever so politely and escorted to a well- appointed lounge as two other Ca- nadians were ahead of us. The pa- perwork was completed in a few minutes and in a shorter time than it takes to type it we had paid over our money and were in- troduced to the gentleman in a white jacket who had completed preparation, and were given a thorough check-out on the gleam- ing Envoy. We turned on the starter with not a little trepidation, for the five o'clock traffic rush was on. And added to our worries we had not operated a gearshift car in eight years. After a quick instruc- tion on bow to get across London, we decided we'd have to call on our wartime driving habits and get nut into that mad whirl of rushing cars, bicycles, motor bikes and scooters, buses and trucks. The night before we had been taken across London by a Royal Navy driver. When we complimen- ted him on finding his way, he remarked casually that he had hea- ded for the southwest (Southwest 19) and had sorted out the streets after he got there. So we thought we'd do the same. We came clown past the famous Windmill Street and Theatre, tur- ned onto Piccadilly Circus, wond- ering which spoke of the wheel was The Haymarket. We hit it as we went around with the traffic, stalled at a traffic light when we forgot the left foot had to operate the clutch, and made our way to Trafalgar Square, past the Royal Museum, St. Martin's -in -the -Field, Nelson's Column and his patient lions and fluttering pigeons, Ad- miralty Arch to Whitehall. We ev- en found time to point out these historical landmarks to our ten- year -old son. Through the compa- rative quiet of Whitehall we drove past the Horse Guards Parade, Downing Street and the Cenotaph. Big Ben loomed up over Westmin- ster as we went along the Embank- ment. We wanted Wandsworth Bridge over the Thames, but we settled for Chelsea, and from here we had to do it by car. After a couple of miles or so and a couple of stalls at traffic lights we cheered when we saw a sign for "Balham." We were on the way. All we had to do was try and parallel "The Tube" along Tooting Bee, Tooting Broad- way, Collier' Wood, South Wimble- don, and the next would be Mor- den, the end of the Northern Line, and just around the corner from our "adopted home" at 86 Sand - bourne Avenue. But, we weren't out of the woods yet. As traffic pressed us, almost in sight of the familiar station, we took the wrong side of the "Y" and were on our way to Mitcham before we got our hearing. We wheeled about and tailed a "94" doubledecker bus back to the station. All in all, we decided we'd had enough excitement for one day and a cup of English tea was more than welcome. At that we were home ahead of our womenfolk, who had decided they wanted to do some more shopping — they never voic- ed concern over our driving capa- bilities — but they spent a good hour looking for the right bus to get them out to Morden. O'Brien's Plumbing Heating and Tinsmithing Phone 156 --- Zurich BLAKE (Mrs. Amos Gingericb, • correspondent) Miss Laureen Oesch spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Lloyd Guenther, of Dashwood. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Houston, of Goderich, visited with their daugh- ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Oesch and David Carl, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Danavon and son, Bob, of London, are vacation- ing with the former's mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Hey. Rev. and Mrs. Albert Martin and sons were Sunday guests with the former's parents, Mr. and, Mrs. Menno Martin and family. Sunday guests with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gingerich were Mrs. Edith Walker, of Rochester, N.Y., Mrs. Waters, and daughter, Heather, and friend Clark Reid, of London. Miss Norma Jean Gingerieh spent a few days holidays with her cousin, Robert Steckle. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gingerich and daughters, and Mr. and Mrs. William Steckle and son, were Sunday guests with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ging- erich. Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Klahsen and family, of Zurich, were Sunday guests with Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gingerich and family. Rain Interferes With Kalbfleisch Reunion The 10th annual Kalbfleisch reunion, which was to be held at Cedarbrook Camp, on the farm of Mr. Ivan Kalbfleisch on Sunday afternoon, was moved to the Com- munity Centre, Zurich, because of rain. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Kalbfleisch of Zurich, were honoured as the oldest couple attending, and the ten -month-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Richard Sehilbe, of Detroit, was the youngest child present. 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