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Zurich Citizens News, 1961-01-05, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH Citizens NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH ONTARIO HERB TURKHEIl1I — Editor and Publisher FRANK McEWAN -- Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY ' ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS \ r ` NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 5 cents THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1961 e dude The Grade ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1961 demanawszaludiamainutow We have just completed our first year as publisher of the Zurich Citizens News, and believe us, it has been a hectic one, filled with many trials and tirbulations. However, we are now happy to report that the printing plant here is in good operating condition, and we have overcome the obstacles which faced us during the past year. As you will remember, up until last winter, the Citizens News had been printed in the plant of the Clinton News -Record. Upon assuming ownership of the paper, we commenced to bring the for- mer Herald plant back into operating condition, so we could see our wish that the paper would be printed in Zurich become a reality. But it has been an uphill battle all the way, and many the night we worked right through without any sleep. This is no longer necessary since we now have our plant operating the way we want it. Our first move last winter after buying the paper was to obtain a more modern typesetting machine, which we were able to do with the co-operation of the Linotype company. After having this machine installed in perfect working condition, we began to realize that we needed a more modern printing press, along with a host of other small items which are necessary to produce a newspaper such as we have. The installation of the printing press proved to be our biggest obstacle. First of all we couldn't get the big machine into the building, so we had to tear the back wall out. Next we had to enlarge the building to accomodate the huge piece of machinery, which weighs over 10 tons. Included in the operation was the installation of a new cement floor in part of the building. Finally, we discovered we needed a special type of hydro power to operate the new press, and so a three-phase service had to be installed, and our building re -wired. Many times in those first few months we wondered if it was worth all the effort. We can truthfully say that we know a whole lot more about printing, equipment now than we did one year ago, as we were quite green about the mechanical end of a newspaper when we took the place over. However, by spring things began to look as if the place could be put in satisfactory operating condition, and now when we think back of what we went through, we feel it was well worth the anx- iety we suffered. All through this conversion project, we were only late with our paper on a few occasions. And all this while the Citizens News continued to grow. Along with your publisher, there are now three full-time employees at the plant. Last October, our official paid circulation was 1,050 copies per week, with a press run of around the 1,125 mark. Over this Christmas, we sold 22 gift subscriptions alone, which has helped to increase our paid circula- tion to the 1,100 mark, which we believe is an all-time high for a Zurich weekly newspaper. Your newspaper has also grown to the point where we feel it it is necessary to add extra pages, or increase the size, but we still have a few mechanical problems to be ironed out before this can be accomplished. Included in the program for enlarging would be the necessity of purchasing a new folding machine, to handle a larger paper. So, slow but sure, we feel we are at last making the grade, and hope the people in the community are as pleased as we are to have their hometown paper printed at hone. Our Year End Th nks To Y u 40 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1921 Mr. Lloyd Kalbfleisch, who is attending the Waterloo seminary is spending his holidays here. Mr. and Mrs. William O'Brien returned on Saturday evening from a pleasant weeks visit with rela- tives in Detroit. Mrs. George Brock, and daugh- ter Olive, visited relatives in the village last week. Hay council will hold it's first meeting of 1921 on Monday, Jan- uary 10. Mr. Zinn, of Montana, is visiting at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. M. Kaercher. Mr. Leonard Hudson, of Sea - forth, spent the last week with his friend Whitney Brokenshire. Jacob Ort, of Detroit, is at pres- ent visiting his sister, Mrs. M. Mel- ick. Mr. C. Greb, a former resident of Zurich, has been elected as mayor of Kitchener. Miss Lila Melick returned to Clinton to finish her course at business college. 0 As we conclude another year in history, we feel it is time for us to look back over the old year, which has just come to a close. It has been an exceptionally shown by numerous organizations and. thanks to the co-operation shown by numerous organizations and individuals. We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the assistance given to us in so many ways over the past year, without which your community newspaper could not have served as well as it has, This assistance has come from many sourses. First there are the press secretaries of various organizations who spend consider- able time in gathering and writing news articles concerning the activities of their organizations in order that the general public might be aware of what these organizations are doing for the be- efit of the community. Then, there are those friends who tell us about news items which we would have missed had it not been for their timely reminders. The Citizens News is not staffed to cover nil the happenings in town and tips on off -the -beat happenings are very much appreciated. There are the loyal rural news correspon- dents who, week in and week out, send in their news budgets. And also the thoughtful rural residents who help snake the task of these rural correspondents easier by phoning in news items to them. Throughout a year we receive many letters from people living in distant points of Canada and the United States, who once lived in this area. Without exception, these former residents write of their deepest appreciation for the news items in the Citizens News of happenings in the area where they lived as youngsters, before moving away. There are advertisers, also, who aid materially in permitting the home town paper to keep putting out a bigger and better news- paper. A newspaper can only be as good as the advertising support it receives from its community. This is truer today than ever before, since the operating costs of a newspaper, even a small weekly newspaper, have grown to an extent which, we are quite confident, is not at all, fully realized by the average reader. We are thankful, too, for the support of those for whom we do job print- ing, which further subsidizes the operating cost of the newspaper. A community newspaper today, as in the past, is a community undertaking and the more people of the community who share in it, the more successful it can be in serving the community. Now we say "THANK YOU" for the fine support given to us in so many ways. May our present plans for a bigger and better newspaper, 'before 1961 is completed, be fullfilied — with your continued, loyal support. 25 YEARS AGO -OF - YEARS GONE -BY 15 YEARS AGO SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (BILL) B. T, SMILEY) Well, here we go again into an- ther twelve months of that fascin- ating, irritating horrible, beautiful tragic and joyous process known as living. I've seen,forty of these boxes of tricks and treats opened, and I hope I see forty more. And the same to you. JANUARY 1946 The men and women who have served their country during the past six years were honoured at a Welcome Horne Banquet, held in Zurich December 27. Speakers at the occasion were William Haugh, reeve of Hay township, the clergy- men of the various churches in Zurich; Oscar Klopp and Albert Kalbfleisch who was also chairman for the occasion. Harold Stade, on behalf of the service men and women, thanked the ratepayers for the recognition shown the armed services. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stade "spent Christmas at the hone of the lat- ter's parents, at Ettrick. Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Mack, brid- al couple, were New Year's visit- ors at the former's parents, at Crediton. Mr. and Mrs. Elam Shantz and family, of New Hamburg, have moved their effects to the farm in Hay Township, owned by Sam Ropp. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hope and daughter Faith, of Streetsville, vis- ited at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Myers. JANUARY 1936 Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Prang and Mrs. C. Decker, spent a few days in Detroit, over the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Klopp spent the holidays in Detroit with their children. As a result of the nominations on Monday, in Zurich, the former Police Village Trustees, Henry Eickineier, R. F. Stade and 0. F. Klopp have qualified and will con- stitute the 1936 board. Hay town- ship council will be the same as last year, E. Walper, W. Haugh, M. Turnbull, and G. Armstrong. Alfred Melick who has been elec- ted reeve by acclamation for the last three years is being opposed • by David Ducharme. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wuerth, and Mr. and Mrs. L. Cook, of KitchetA- er, were News Years visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bren- ner. • Mr. and Mrs. Theo Wagner, of Guelph, returned home after spen- ding the holiday at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Wagner. Miss Geraldine Surerus has re- turned to Kitchener after spending the holiday with her mother, Mrs. 0. Surerus. 0 10 YEARS AGO I don't remember much about my 1 irst New 'Year's in 1921. It was spent in a small village in Quebec. I was staying with my parents at the time, as I was six months old. The Great War had been over for more than two years. The post-war boom was still on, and my Dad had bought his first car, a Chev with side -curtains. He treated that car, and every one after it, like a particularly intractable horse, which would respond only i f you yelled hard enough and swore at it with enough feeling. Ten years later we stepped into 1931 with the sentiments of a man about to jump into a barrel of br- oken glass in his bare feet. The Great Depression had begun. Bus- iness was terrible. The mortgage prowled, like a great beast, always there, slavering, when my D a d looked over his shoulder. My par- ents held long, late -at -night con- versations, and to the small . boy lying half -awake, uneasy, they had sinister undertones. The hunger of the beast would not be denied, and in the end, the mortgage swallowed every- thing for which my Dad had work- ed so hard for more than twenty years. What a prospect that must have been! ' Fifty years old, five children to feed and clothe, home and business lost, and thousands of younger men scrambling around for every job in sight. to her friends. Somehow, we stagg- ered through the depression, kept off the relief rolls, and never miss- ed a meal. Remember the New Year's o f 1941? That wasn't exactly an occ- asion of great rejoicing, either. The Germans had overrun Europe. England and the Commonwealth fought on, back to the wall. My parents had three sons, ripe and ready to be pulled down by the clogs of war. Three times, they were to receive one of those dread- ed telegrams. The first read: "Critically injur- ed." But eldest brother fought a hard fight, had a tremendous co- nstitution, and pulled through with the loss of one eye. The second read: "Missing in action." But a cannon shell missed youngest br- ther's head by an inch, and after two days' drifting in a rubber din- ghy off the coast of France, he was picked up by Air -Sea Rescue. The third read: "Missing in action." But middle brother had climbed safely out of a crash-landing in Holland, and a few months later the word trickled through that he was alive and a prisoner. JANUARY 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oxland, of Toronto, have returned to the city after visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Haberer. An impressive Candle Light ser- vice was held Sunday evening at St. Peter's Lutheran church. The ceremony was in charge of Rev. E. W. Heimrich. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Datars, of Kitchener, spent Christmas at the home of 'their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Datars, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hendrick. Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Gingerich have returned to their studies at the A.M. College, at Harrisonburg, Virginnia, after holidaying at their home for Christmas and New Years. Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd Kalfleisch, of Elmira, were holiday visitors with friends in Zurich. Pastor Kalbfleisch has accepted a call to Desbore. He has served at Elmira for 25 years. Stanley township council was re-elected by acclamation. The council consists of Elmer Webster, reeve; with Alvin McBride, Harvey Taylor, Harvey Coleman and Carl Houston on the council. Fars.. ers Receie C Told L X bwwr Gains nfliktinln,+vice t Fer's Expense BY J. CARL HEMINGWAY On. December 29 the Federation of Agriculture in the County met with the local members of yarl- iament. As the press attended the meeting I expect that you will be able to read about this meeting elsewhere, so I will make no com- ment. However, a s a result of t h e meeting the difficult situation fa- cing farmers today seems even more serious. What can be done about the decided drop in the farmers com- parative net income over the past years? On one hand we are advis- ed to enlarge our enterprise to a more efficient economic unit. This almost certainly will force some farmers to find employment in some other industry where there is already a serious unemploy- ment problem. This will be good for neither the farmer or the ec- onomic condition of the country. On the other hand we are told that we must restrict production in order to increase returns. It will also mean less labour requir- ed with the resultant increase in the number of people without jobs. And if we are to succeed in getting higher prices for our produce will it automatically mean that we will have increased net returns? This has been tried by labour onions yet statistics show that the labour unions have been able to increase their wages in relation to the retail price of the product which they produced by less than one percent. Gains made by lab- our through the Unions has been at the expense o f 'un -organized labour. Since farmers constitute a very large part of this un -organized la- ,: * * But the Great Depression had failed to reckon with my mother. She was a bonny fighter, with a tough and cheerful spirit. In the next decade she took on the Great Depression and licked i't single- handed. My Dad worked at anyth- ing he could get. My mother sold home baking, took in boarders, and in the afternoons, trudged the streets, selling a line of cosmetics bour there are very few people for thein to take advantage of should they follow in the steps of organ- ized labour. . If w e consider the prices o f many farm products we soon re- alize that the price is :much higher than at many times when farmers were relatively prosperous. But when we repair some of our mach- inery we see that we need a much larger income. On several occasions in the past few months mechanics have indic- ated that they expect three dollars per hour for their labour. And in many cases this over and above the commission en the parts they use while doing the job. Any farmer, who is even slightly mechanically inclined, can make better hourly returns repairing his own machinery than he can farming, yet this in part does contribute to unemployment and thereby reduces his market. To further aggravate the farm- er's predicament we see television programs showing the life of the rick-shaw men in Calcutta. Can we then cut production? Perhaps farmers would do well to follow the example of a group of employees who have purchased the plant that was shut down. Fa- rmers could enter the process- ing field and thereby sell at whole- sale or even retail prices. I. When In Zurich GET YOUR HAIR CUT AT EARL OESCH BARBER SHOP Open Thursday and Saturday Nights :r. What did the New Year's o f 1951 bring? Nothing spectacular f o r yours, truly. T h e Cold War was on, but the important things in life were a wife, a small son, and what turned out to be a small daughter well on the way. There was also a mortgage, -.of mountain- ous proportions to `gnaw at. We gnawed for the next decade, and chewed it down to a hummock, losing a few teeth in the process. Suddenly it's 1961. Both my par- ents have died slowly and pain- fully, in the last ten years. But the process goes on, always chan- ging, always exciting. There's a new job, in new surroundings. There is a boy whose voice is changing to that of a man, and whose feet are the same size as his father's. There is a girl with auburn hair and a cheeky face who topped the honor roll in her Grade 5. 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