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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1960-11-02, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH eitizend. NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT,. IIERB TURKHEIM -- Editor and Publisher Authorized as Second CIass Mail, Past Office Department, Ottawa Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 In United States and Foreign; single copies. 5 cents. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1960 Here She Comes! This year has proven one of the most unusual, as far as weather is concerned, that most of us have ever experienced. A slow wet spring; an arid summer and fall; bright, sunny weather until the middle of October—and then, without warning , , snow. Generally speaking we would all be satisfied to do without the snow until at least the middle of November, but as is usually tine ease where the weather is concerned, there is nothing we can do about it. That's not quite true, either, for we can pack it all up and go south with the birds , , , as some of our friends do. On the other hand. are we only kidding ourselves about our dislike for the winter, Have you ever noticed the extra pep we Canadian pick up when the first flakes begin to fall. You know how the youngsters squeal with delight the first morning they find snow on the ground, Perhaps all of us have a little of that spirit left. We have thoroughly accustomed ourselves to the changing seasons and there is the possibility that we would ge thoroughly bored if we had perpetual summer. There's another factor, too. Summer is sweeter to the average Canadian, simply because he knows it won't last long. He feels he must enjoy it to the full because it will soon be over. Perhaps all this reasoning is sheer talk and nothing more .. . but we might as well give ourselves a Iegitimate reason for dig- ging out the galoshes and signing the first cheque for the oil man.—(Wingham Advance -Times) 0 Tele T Jprace Main street stores in small communities, says the Uxbridge Times -Journal. are finding it harder than ever these clays to coin - note with their big city counterparts. As a result, hundreds of purchasing dollars are being lost to the small communities where the taxpayer's money should stay in order to retain a healthy economy. There may be several reasons for this trend but one of them was ably voiced by a Toronto realtor at a recent sales meet- ing. H. Keith tweed real estate men to take a look at their main street—the old buildings and vacant lots—then urge the owners to repaint, remodel or build. "Se nefein e must be done about the decaying Main Street," he enid. Ire seeeested owners should be warned to paint and re- model new 'nor the future will see them lose their value entirely. Business will move away from the old-fashioned Main Street to the new. modern shopping centre." It was a good point and one which carries more than a grain of truth. But painting and remodelling is not enough. Every type of facility must be provided, from provisions for every Iegal commodity. to an over-alI plan for the future. Unless this is done smaller communities and smaller businesses may find they are left behind in the march of progress. It is well worth considering before it is too late. Remember The Sabbath! A Newspaper story relating to the Harmsworth motorboat trophy race noted that one of the conditions in the award was that there be no contest on a Sunday. The trophy was originally awarded by the then Sir Alfred Harmsworth, who became Lord Northcliffe. and is an interesting throwback to the days when Sunday was the Sabbath. Today Sunday apparently is the day when any secular activ- ity is approved by the majority of the public. It is a day for washing of cars. although most people are on a five-day week and have Saturdays for such chores of they wish. In Fergus, a Scottish community in Ontario, it was a sin sixty years ago. if not now, for anyone to ride a bicycle on the Sabbath. Reading was permitted, but frivolous things, such as a Victorian novel. were frowned upon. Recently a front -seat passenger with a big -city taxidriver was informed that the driver preferred to work on Sundays and have another day off because on Sunday there was "nothing to do." When the passenger suggested mildly that there were church services, some of them interesting, a look of astonishment spread over the drivers face and if he had not been expert in his work, he probably would have run the car over the curb. The blue Sunday of a couple of generations ago was undoubt- edly too severe, hut the secularism of today is to be deplored also. There ought to be a middle ground where people who wish a quiet Sunday can have it without listening to the power mowers in the suburbs or having their eyes offended by a display of the family wash in the city or country,—(The Printed Word). • Aitzrrr�a • COMPARE OUR NIXES Before You Buy! For Race And Quality ON FIRESTONE - .ATLAS - GMER,Ak C r T &I c Tractor Tires Save 4 ., rveljhe, ob le Special - Quaker State Oil By the Case ST. SOON SERVICE STAT i' HEC FORCIT;R — PROPRIETOR 40 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 1920 Mr. John B. Meyer, formerly of Hay Township, and who conduc- ted a mercantile business at Wat- erloo for the past few years, has moved to Rochester, N,Y„ where he will reside in the future. The candidates of the Evangel- ical Sunday School sent to the Boys' Parliament at Exeter on Friday and Saturday were: Lennis O'Brien, Whitney Brokenshire, Mil- ton Hey and Rennie Weber, The boys reported an excellent time and will give detailed reports on Sunday in the Sabbath School. The prize contest awarded by Mr. C. Fritz, of the village, for the two largest potatoes by one grow- er, closed on Saturday evening and was won by Mrs, Chris Ging- crich, of the Bronson Line, Stan- ley. The pair weighed five pounds nine ounces. Mr. W. H. Pfile made a business trip to London on Tuesday. Mr. Einer Ruby, of Kitchener, is a visitor at his home here. The first snow of the season fell last Friday and reminded one to check his supply of coal and wood. 25 YEARS AGO OCTOBER 1924 Mrs, r. Eilber is at present vis- itin9; friends and relatives in the Seafnrth area. Rev. and Mrs. S. P.. Ilnechtel and Miss Elizabeth Rennie, of Kitchener, motored up Sendav afternoon and spent the night with relatives here. On Monday they attended the funeral of the late Mr. Ilenrich, at Dashwood, Dr. H. F. Klopp, of Kitchener, Mr. Leonard Klopp, of Waterloo, Mr. Lambert KIopp, of New Jer- sey, and Miss Helen Wagner, of Shakespeare, were visiting their mother, Mrs. Klapp, and other re- latives on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dai- "Sr., are spending the ween, ;siting with their son, Rey, and Mrs. Al- bert Deters, at Desboro. Lloyd O'Brien and Ferd and Jacob Haberer, were on a hunting trip to Crossweli, Michigan, last week. . d _OE_ YEARS GONE BY 15 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 1945 Miss Delores Klopp, of London, visited with relatives here over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Siebert, of De- troit, visited at the hone of the former's mother, Mrs. W. L. Sei- bert. Mr, and Mrs. Lewis Thiel, of Tupperville, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs, George Thiel. A large number of villagers at- tended the 50th anniversary held in the Calvary Evangelical Church, Dashwood, on Sunday, The guest speaker was Rev. Jacob Ehlers, of Ilanover, Rev, C. B. Heekendorn, Mr. Ralph Krueger, and sisters, Nola and Ruth, Miss Marjorie Hoffman and Billie O'Brien attended the Youth Fellowship Convention at Stratford, last weekend, Roswell O'Brien, brother to Wil- liam O'Brien, made his last run as CPR conductor after completing 37 years service. He was congrat- ulated by R. C. Wheeler, Saska- toon Division superintendent. Mr. O'Brien has been a resident ' of Sutherland, Saskatchewan, for the past 22 years. 10 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 1950 Mr. and Mrs, George Richardson have moved their effects from Ailsa Crain into the vacant farm house of Mr. Roy McBride, on the Goshen line nal-th. Mr. Richard- son is the new manager of ih Zur- ich branch of the Mensal] District ('o -Op. On Wednesday evening, October 25. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Deiehert of the Blind Line, celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. ilerbert Keller, Dashwood It was also Mrs. Kellers' 30th birthday, and little Tony's first birthday. A number of other re- latives whose birthdays were close to that date also celebrated with them. A sumptuous dinner was enjoyed by all, and many congrat- ulations and gest wishes were ex- changed. Miss Kathleen Hess took first prize at the nurse's Hallowe'en party in London, for the best fan- cy costume in the competition. 010 111 Producer Motes Small tte dance At Meech"Assumes Farmers Satisfied BY J. CARL HEIIINGWAY Huron County Cream Producers Producers secretary -manager, com- plimented Huron County in the fine job done by this year's dairy princess, Miss Doreen Howatt. held their annual meeting in the Agricultural Board Rooms, Tues- day evening, October 25, with Simon Hallahan, the chairman, presiding. In his remarks, Mr. Hallahan noted the small attendance and said that this could be taken as an indication that Cream Produc- ers are reasonably satisfied with the activities of their organization. However. he pointed out that it is also dangerous when members fail to come out and indicate their support. There is continual pres- sure being exerted to allow but- ter substitutes to, imitate the col- our of butter. In order to pre- vent this, strong support on the part of producers is needed. Mr. Hotson, of St. Marys, zone director, told us that it was ex- pected that we would have a four months supply of butter in stor- age at the end of October but due to dry pastures production had dropped off and sales were being made out of storage earlier this year and will reduce stocks con- siderably, He also pointed out that though population is increasing, consump- tion of butter is decreasing and this raised the question 'Are our children being educated away from the use of butter," This is particularly interesting in the light of a statement made by a recent visitor to Russia when he stated that in Russia batter sub- stitutes are not considered health- ful, particularly for children, and are therefore used only to a limi- ted degree in baking. We were also told that for ev- ery $100 worth of butter sold only ten cents is spent on advertising, while for butter sustitutes, for $100 of sales, $2.00 is spent on I' promotion of the product, Bob Morrison, Ontario Cream With regard to advertising, On- tario Cream producers paid their full quota to the Dairy Farmers of Canada for this purpose, but sug- gested that perhaps we should be doing still more. He expressed appreciation to Creamery operators for their ef- forts in manufacturing a top qual- ity product. Producers need to re- member that top quality cream is needed for this to continue. Mr. Morrison went on to explain that there is a real need for great- er co-operation among milk pro- ducers and a direction program with some form of price blending is needed to increase returns to the dairy farmer on more equit- able level. The following county directors were elected: Horace Deibridge„ chairman; 11 a e Houston, vice- chairman; and directors, Doug. Fraser, Lorne hasty, Simon Hall- ahan, James Williamson, Ken Bak- er. 0 FOR DEPENDABLE HEAT Ali Winter Long Cadl LORNE E. HAY Locker Service—R,oe Feeds Phone 10 (Collect) Hensall THURSDAY, NOVEM3ER Z 1960 SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (BILL) B. T. SMILEY) If you can't give the oid lady a mink coat this year, next bes thing to ginger her up is a nigh on the town. All you have to do is sell a cattle beast, or get a hot steak in a poker game, so you can stand the tariff. The rest is easy. You send off a cheque for theatre tickets. The amount would have put a down payment on a small home, in the not -so -distant past. Naturally, your wife hasn't a stitch to wear. It will do you no good to rum- ble: "What's the matter with that black dress?" It turns out that the black dress is not only two years old, but it's the wrong shape, the wrong length, and even the wrong shade of black. New dress and a fresh hairdo raise the ante to the point where you have to start eying a second cattle beast. Then you make plans for dis- posing of the children for the night. Plans, They're practical- ly blueprints by the time you're finished, and it would take Napo- leon himself to read thele. And you steam off to the city, leaving the electric stove on „low," the light in the cellar on, and the old girl's new gloves on top of the refrigerator, to a restaurant. Gobble our din t ner, Dash to the theatre. And t gallop down the aisle just as the Iights are going down for the third time. Halfway through the first act, I have to battle a massive desire to fall sound asleep. Our last jaunt was no excep- tion. But it's worth the effort, the money, and the nervous strain to get out of the rut once in a while and live in the style in which you'd be living all the time if your grandfather had had some sense, and had homesteaded a sec- tion in the middle of the Leduc oil fields, instead of settling forthat stony patch in Upper Canada. We had tickets for the new musical, Camelot,which was having its trial flight in that new beer hall in Toronto, built by that brew- er with the Irish name. You know, that place is harder to get a seat in than the Senate. The stolid burghers of Tronna are delighted with their new culture centre, which many of them fought so hard to keep out of the city, be- cause of its unholy connection. The O'Keefe Centre alone is worth a trip. I'll bet they could charge three dollars a seat just to go in and look around, and sit for an hour or so, if they served refreshments It's huge, it's op- ulent, and its splendid facilities are bound to attract superior en- tertainment to Toronto. As for Camelot. don't regret it too much if you missed it. I en- joyed it thoroughly. But only 1)e - cause I am delighted by anything presented on a stage, front Sun- day School Christmas concert to the variety show, all local talent, on the last night of the fall fair. The new musical by the pro- ducers of the fabulous My Fair Lady is big and it's beautiful. But gorgeous Costumes and striking sets can't make up for uninspired music and a muddy story which begins as a sprightly comedy and peters into a pallid triangle trag- edy redolent of the soap opera. I predict the Broadway critics will (continued on page 3) •'e made one of our infrequent cl:'shes into the bright lights re- cently, and, as usual, emerged like a couple of slightly singed moths, dazzled, delighted, and determin- ed to do it again at the first oppor- tunity, which will probably be probably about 1962. Every time we arrange for a big night in the city. we plan to dawdle, live graciously, sip wine with our dinner by candlelight, and arrive at the theatre calm. gomposed. and with that poise and hauteur typical of the seasoned theatre -goer. It never turns out that way. We don't dawdle, we hurtle. We barrel down the highway as though we were. in the Grand Prix de Monaco. 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