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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1961-02-02, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1911 ZURICH eilizEns NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TURKHEIr -- Editor and Publisher FRANK McEWAN -- Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member; CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION 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, FEBRUARY, 2, 1961 A Slow Process Work on the Zurich Community Park has been almost at a standstill for the past year or so, and people are beginning to won- der if the day will ever come when the project will be completed. And we are beginning to wonder, too! A little over a year ago the question was raised, and at that time the delay seemed to be on account of the incorporation of the village. Previously the Park was in the name of Hay Township, and it was felt that it should beturned over to the village after incorpora- tion, Since then, however, the deed has been turned over to the village of Zurich, and there still seems to be no action. We under- stood some time ago that a Parks Board was to be appointed by the council, but as far as we know this has not been done. The way the situation stands now, there is a Park (or what is supposedly to be a Park), owned by the village, with not even so much as a board of management to Iook after it. No wonder there has been little or no action at all! Some time ago the Zurich Lions Club decided to take it upon themselves as a project to equip a children's playground in one section of the Park. Naturally this has not been accomplished, there should be no blame attached to the Lions Club, when there seems to be no group willing to take in the responsibility of manag- ing the grounds. Surely after two or three years of idleness, some- one can bet the ball rolling, so when spring comes around the cor- ner we might see action on the project. The only thing we ever heard about the Park is in the way of criticism levelled at a local car dealer, who has a few cars parked on the grounds. As far as we are concerned, this criticism is un- called for. Until such time as the land resembles a Park, there is certainly no harm in someone parking a few cars on the property. o Newspaper usi ess sda'}ting? An aroma of fascination surrounds a newspaper, making many persons say they'd like to own one. It is fascination which clings to everyone except newspaper people. They have no illusions. Now to own a newspaper, here is what you'll have to do in one normal day: Explain to Mrs. Strong why Aunt Weak's 85th birthday party was not on the front page. Explain to an advertiser why it is impossible to get hint on page three. Explain to an exsuhscriber why you had to cut off his unpaid subscription. Explain deadlines 500 times a day and why you have to have them. Soothe a lady who called her party in too late. Explain why some weeks you've got news running out your ears and other weeks the paper reads like a report on Amalgam- ated Steel. Apologize to an advertiser for an error in his ad and smile sweetly when he tells you what an idiot you are, Decipher scribbling that comes in written on check pads, paper napkins,a corner of junior's arithmetic paper or on the back of a letter from Cousin Frank. Pet a balky Linotype that is as nervous as a dish of jello and puts you further behind when you're already behind. Cope with a folder that is antisocial and wallowing in its own importance that can, at this final minute, keep you from getting u paper circulated and starts acting like a little boy who wants to go to the bathroom. Explain to a customer arriving late with copy that if you get his stuff in, you'll have to leave somebody else out and then explain to the one you left out. The last run made, you'll feel a sense of relief—for about five minutes. Then you start explaining why you did this or didn't do that and it starts all over again. (CWNA Bulletin), 40 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 1921 Amos and Simon Geiger, of Michigan, are visiting with their father Ab. Geiger. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fisher, of Detroit, visited with relatives and friends here for a few weeks. Mr. Jacob Oesch, of the Goshen Line, was taken to hospital in Lon- don, suffering from appendicitis. He was accompanied by Doctor MacKinnon. Mrs. F. Turner, of Stanley, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. Weido, for the past few days. Mr, and Mrs Garnet Murray, who have recently returned from the west, visited with friends here. Mr, H. G. Hess, of the Northern Electric Company, London, was a weekend visitor at his home here. Mrs. W. G. Wagner and son Leon- ard, are spending the week with relatives in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Mich Schwantz, of Goderich, were in the village on Tuesday. 25 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 1936 Roy Weber, of Hensall, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Weber. Mr. and Mrs. William Decker and Mrs. Ferd Haberer, were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Fred Geiser, of Crediton. The highway between Zurich and Hensall, which has been blocked since last Saturday, has been bro- ken open by a snowplow and is suitable for traffic again. H. K. Eilber, of Crediton, was in town on Monday and officiated at the annual Fire Insurance meeting, Mr. Stephen Peachy, of near Dashwod, was in Kitchener last week. A very impressive memorial ser- vice was held in the Evangelical church last Sunday morning in honor of the late King George the fifth. IVIiss Lillian Rader, who has been confined with a bad cold, is back at her duties at the telephone switchboard. Mrs. Bertha Bali, of Hensall, is at present visiting with her sister, Mrs. R. N. Douglas, of Blake. - OF YEARS GONE - BY 15 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 1946 Mrs. Ed Datars Sr., has returned home after spending some time at Kitchener. Miss Helen O'Brien and friend, of London, were visitors with the former's parent's, Mr. and Mrs Lloyd O'Brien. Miss Mae Smith, of London, spent the weekend with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Smith. Mrs. Oscar Koehler and son Har- old, of Toronto, were weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Erb and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Koeh- ler. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dinnin, of Guelph, Mr, and Mrs. William Din- nin and Wilma, of Hensall, were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Dinnin, of town. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Breakey spent Sunday in Clinton with the latter's brother Benson, who has just returned from overseas. Mrs. George Thiel, Sr., and grandson, Keith, have just return- ed after spending a weekend with relatives in Detroit. Mr, and Mrs. Janes Parkins and family, of Brucefield, spent Sun- day with Mr. and Mrs. Herb Mous- seau. 0 10 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coupland have moved to their new home at Fen - Ion Falls, where he is employed by the Bank of Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bedard have moved into the home vacated by the Coupland family. Mrs. Ed. Datars Jr., who is a pa- tient in Victoria hospital, London is getting along well. Mrs, Elizabeth Webber is visit - ng with relatives and friends at Toronto and Detroit. Miss Georgina Corriveau, has re turned to London, after visiting her parents on the Bluewater high- way. Mrs. Garnet Wildfong, of Dash- wood, who had her hip fractured recently, has returned from hospi- tal. • Don O'Brien sparked the Zurich Lions Midgets to an 8-5 victory ov- er Brussels Monday night when he tallied six goals for the home team, Pilore Details Of Leadership Trai Forum Gives y Federation Eieldman (By J. Carl Hemingway) Now to complete the report on the Leadership Forum that was partially reported last week. On Saturday morning the session was again led by Huron County graduates of the Ontario Leader. ship Forum. Mrs. Stanley ride and Mrs. Gor- don Greig, both of Howick town- ship, led a discussion on effective speaking. The group was then div- ided into five parts and each per- son had a chance to practice what was learned. This was followed by criticism and questions. Mrs. Alex McGregor, of Tucker. smith township, outlined the need for publicity and public relations to make organization activity effec- tive. She used diagrams and illus- trations to get the points across. Mrs. Frank Yeo, of Goderich town ship, closed the course with -% PA 12 }<>5 BOA P. D. APPOINTMENTS Z 1 I CH,. COMMUNITY j''',l�j�� I`"" f"1 f' K r IT SURE 15 A SLOW JOU PNEY» a study of reporting news to the press. This is an effective means of getting information out to the public but we need to consider the views of the editor, If our reports are to get to press they must be of definite interest, they must be brief, and they must be accurate. Here again all were given a chance to try their hand at 'newspaper reporting" with the good and bad points noted. In the Co-op commentary, there is a quotation from an address giv- en by Pandic eNhru, of India "Our modern structure of society ... is competitive ... if that competition is based entirely on the acquisitive instinct of the individual it brings trouble .. , the business of an acq- uisitive society is quite out of date since, in theory at least, we have passed out of an age of scarcity I Into an age of abundance ... unless we develope that completely dif- ferent mentality, the co-operative mentality, we come to grief,. and we come to conflict." Ernest Page goes on to comment, "The dilemma of the capitalist countries arises from the fact that, as 11lr. Nehru points out, the "acq- uisitiv e society" is not appropriate in any age of plenty. Why compete viciously for a larger and larger portion of the world's goods, when there can be enough for everyone and where no one needs mare than enough?" There is no need to be a million- aire in Canada in order to be sure of enough. So why accumulate year after year? In one of our barns we have hay that is four or five years old. This I must admit is poor management on my part and I will have to take steps to get rid of it, The same applies to the accumu- lation of butter that is so much in the news, Had we continued at the rate of production and consumption of 1958 and 1957 we would have been short of butter. The government increased the price in order to in- crease production. Now they will have to take steps to dispose of surplus. !C!fliNlli1111101111111gIIlilllUlil1111IIll�i(A!IlIlIIIpIIUlIllif11111(ilillilllillUlllillllAlllllltlfg1111gt11101111111111lIllllIIIllmimunlPiNIItIIIINIIlu110111IN111iINl�llllllllillflllltlli"� �1ii11um ���: '��`� ua11u1uuulullauuall If there is one thing above all others that I loathe, despise, detest and abhor, it is a household bud- get. I know this is wrong. Iknow it is a weakness, I know my bank manager will wince when he reads this, But I can't help it. I would rather end in a prison for paupers than have anything to do with a budget, There is a reason for my strong feelings toward these harmless household hoaxes. Periodically, my wife insists that we draw up a budget. It happens about twice a year, and around our house it al- ways produces strained relations, mounting tension, and a roaring fight, in that order. During the year, I have a rough idea of where we stand financially. And I keep it deliberately as rough as possible. It doesn't take the mind of a magnate to figure out that five from four doesn't produce a plus sign. All right, so I'm an escapist. I bury my head in the sand. And if there isn't any sand around, a breaker will do. * *. I know the mortgage wasn't paid last year, the taxes are overdue, we've had five bills in a row from the dentist, and I've missed the discount on the hydro bill, which has been in my hip pocket for three weeks. But these things don't really bother me too much. It's when my wife gets on one of her financial -genius kicks that life becomes pretty ghastly around our place. She invariably does it when she's in one of those owly moods in which she won't even take 'yes" for an answer. She had one of those attacks this week. They often come in mid- winter, when my resistance is low anyway. She sits down firmly and produces lots of paper and a pen- cil. Then she compiles fantastic lists of stuff, everything from tires to toilet paper, from oil to oranges, puts a price on everything, and ad- SUGA and SPICE By Bill Smiley - 19111111111111114 I111i ds it all up. This takes about two hours dur- ing which we discover the follow- ing: that I don't know how much life insurance I have; that I don't know how much the taxes are; that I can't remember whether or not I've paid the interest on the mort- gage, and such -like. Perhaps that's why I dread these sessions so much. With a few strokes of the pencil, T am trans- figured. Instead of the firm, kind- ly mentor of the family, the only one with both feet on the ground, the rock on which the cruel waves of life are shattered, the bringer - home of bacon, the captain of our little ship, I am revealed as a sort of village idiot, an inept burden on the slim shoulders of my spouse, a clay -footed idol, a juggler with shaky hands, and an utter econo- mic flop. e N, uc Don't ask ine how all this comes about in the mere drafting of a budget. It's uncanny My wife sits there scowl deepening as the evi- dence mounts, I squirm lower in my chair, while trying to look keen, interested and dedicated to balan- cing the thing. Every time she thinks of a new item for the 'ex- pendiures" column, she lights up like a pinball machine. When she comes to the refreshment and to- bacco departments, her eyes glitter like those of a snake about to har- poon a hypnotized rabbit, After this week's ordeal she announced triumphantly that we were going in the red at the rate of $50 a month. That seemed to make her feel better. It made me feel a lot better, too. From the way she'd been acting, I figured they were about ready to send me off to a place for retarded children, N * :* Then she went into the next part of the ritual, which never varies. Where were we going to cut down? (continued on page 3) Business aid rofessionil !rectory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCLaL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For 'your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood INSURANCE Fir Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability insurance For Information About All Insurances --Call ERT KL l r P Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DERE TU S CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 57� - 5 years c — 3 and 4 years 412^!0 — 1 and 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies J. W. HARERER Authorized Representative Phone '161 — Zurich �� OPTOMETRY J. E. LON S IpAF OPTOMETRIST SEAFOFr rH: Daily except Monday Phone 791 9 a.m. to 5.30 pan. Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 12 noon, CLINTON: Monday Only Phone HU 27010 Thursday evening by aiipoi#tttnent G. B. Clancy, O.D. OPTOMETRIST JA 4-7251 — Goderich DENTISTS DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exetei Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DOCTORS Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.m. -5 p.m. Monday-Saturdas Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Friday Evenings PHONE 51 --- ZURICH O. 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 mid PORTABLIL• 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 411, NOTARIES PUBLIC tLMEI•t I>, 131u., Csi.C. C. V. LAUGWrON, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon Phone 4 ae r Kkr