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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1961
Shocking Event
Terrible things can happen at National Employment Services
offices across the land.
Those who doubt it obviously cannot have heard about the
awful experience which befell a constituent of the Hon. George
Nowlan, Minister of National Revenue.
Mr. Nowlan, addressing his colleagues in the House of Commons,
reported as follows on a letter he had lately received:
"This person felt he knew me so well he started 'Dear George.'
He said he started working last spring, worked all summer and last
fall. Then he said 'last week I went to the unemployment insurance
office and asked for my unemployment benefits. What do you sup-
pose they did to me, George? They offered me a job.' He said,
`George, why did they play this dirty trick on me? You have to
do something about it.' This is one factor in the unemployment
situation."
Clearly, the country is in a bad way when such "dirty tricks"
can be played on unsuspecting citizens. . , ,—(Industy)
Press Protest AID ut Passes
(Nanton (Alberta) News)
A weekly newspaper published in a nearby town has reminded
the public that the issue of complimentary passes to the press for
events about to take place, is a courtesy to be expected.
The reminder had the effect of hurting some people and making
other indignant. Actually neither of these reactions was justified;
but the reactions justified the writing of the reminder. They show-
ed that the people concerned in the particular event that led to the
writing of the reminder, realized their breach of etiquette. It is
possible that they may not have known that it is customary to issue
such passes to the press or they may simply have forgotten to do
so. Either way, having it pointed out to them in print that a com-
mon courtesy had been omitted very naturally wounded and affron-
ted people—especially such socially hospitable people as those who
live in this area.
The issue of free passes to the press implies that the organ-
izers of coming events wish them to be reported in the publication
receiving them. .A local newspaper with a small staff may not
always be able to use the passes. The courtesy, however, is appre-
ciated and will ensure that the event receives sympathetic treat-
ment when a report reaches the editor from another source.
H4i; It That Driver!
40 YEARS AGO
.................
-OF-
YEARS GONE
-BY-
Bluewater highway, is holding an
auction sale and then will move
to Grand Bend,
The Zurich village trustees, Mil-
fred Schilbe, Orville Whitmer, and
Dennis Bedard, are attending the
annual Hydro Convention in Tor-
onto this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Druar, who
have been living near the jog on
the Zurich road, have moved to
their new home at Brucefield.
MARCH, 1921
Mr. John Thirsk, of Blake, is
holding an auction sale of farm
stock, threshing machinery, etc.,
next Wednesday afternoon.
At the regular meeting of the
council of the Township of Hay, the
clerk was instructed to apply for
insurance for the telephone employ-
ess under the Workmen's Compen-
sation Act.
Andrew F. Hess was appointed as
treasurer of the Township of Hay,
at a salary of $165 per year, with
$110 being for the Township work,
and $55 for the telephone work.
The local milliner, Miss E. M.
Routledge, has again opened up her
parlous in Zurich, and has an up-
to-dae stock of hats and bonnets.
(London Free Press)
The farmer whose fences so often were flattened by the van-
ishing motorist may get some relief as an amendment to the High-
way Act will insist that every driver must remain at the scene of
the mishap or advise authorities. No longer will it be necesssary
for the Crown to prove intent of the driver to run away.
In addition the farmer should be able to get payment for the
damage fence from the unsatisfied judgment fund. But what
owner wants to take court action for an amount of $10 or $20.
Settlement could be arranged generally if the erring driver would
only stop, admit his complicity and agree to make restitution. Most
farmers would not be too tough in their charges.
Convener Traps Correspondents
(Brockville Recorder and Times)
Newspapers, our own included, make their share of mistakes
—spelling, grammatical and otherwise. Many are caught before
the paper goes to press but others slip through editing, typeset-
ting and proof-reading, only to be noticed, `finally, in their full
glory when it is too late to make corrections.
Newspapers are only too pleased to have some of these errors
called to their attention—such as to ascertain whether a person re-
ferred to in print is a "Mr." or a "Mrs.." The Recorder and Times
deletes the term "Mr." from in front of a name purposely, so as to
avoid confusion if an "s" should creep in my mistake.
Recently we were informed by a well-wisher that the . word
"convener"' had been misspelled in this paper. She claimed it
should be spelled with an "or"—but admitted that she hadn't act-
ually checked the dictionary. We did check the dictionary—three
of them, in fact—and can safely assure this reader and the many
other contributors who insist on spelling convener with an "o", that
the correct spelling is "er".
The word convener is perhaps the most frequently misspelled
word in copy submitted to this office. At least 90 percent of the
population seemss to insist that it be spelled with an "o". We
correct to to "e"—and some readers probably think the paper has
made another error.
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25 YEARS AGO
MARCH, 1936
Mr. Herb Mousseau made a bus-
iness trip to London and Windsor
over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Witmer
have moved into the dwelling quar-
ters of the Willert bakery in Zur-
ich.
Mr. Hartman Elsie, of Dashwood,
who has spent the winter season in
Florida, has returned to his home.
At the recent meeting of the pol-
ice village of Zurich trustees, Mr.
William Thiel, who has been a
county constable, was appointed
as town constable at a salary of $25
per year.
William O'Brien was elected
president of the Zurich Athletic
Society at the annual meeting last
Friday evening. William Siebert
is secretary, and Kenneth Routled-
ge is treasurer.
George Beatty, the worthy treas-
urer of Stanley Township for the
past 26 years, has resigned, after
being a faithful servant for that
time.
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10 YEARS AGO
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Couple of weeks ago I suggested
with the delicasy of a percheron,
that it might be a good idea if I
got some fan mail. Just a token -
about a million letters.
MARCH, 1951
On Thursday evening, the chim-
ney on the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Fleischaurer, caught ifre.
Fortunately, no damage was done.
The local firm of F. C. Kalb-
fleisch attended the funeral of the
late Norman Miller, the county
clerk, in Goderich, on Tuesday.
Auction sales are the order of
the day, and the local auctioneer,
Alvin Walper, has at least six or
seven sales scheduled for the next
few weeks.
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15 YEARS AGO
We were going to show that Pi-
erre Berton, with his real avrefaf
30 letters a day,
n
mail was. We were going to fill a
truck with letters, drive to the city,
dump the entire million in his
office, and sneer, "There! Howdaya
like them apples, Buster?
Well, all I can say is that I'm
going to look pretty silly, push-
ing a wheelbarrow full of letters
down that highway.
Come to think of it though, we
didn't do too badly. Berton writes
a column a day, and gets 30 letters
I write a column a week, and I
got 151 letters. Putting it roughly,
I get five times as much fan mail
as Pierre Berton. Say, this is sound-
ing better all the time, Who does
that guy think he is, anyway?
As I write, the letters are still
coming at the rate of about 10 a
day. We topped 25 three days in
a row. I've never had such interest-
ing mail in my life. Main reason
is because it's all about me.
Mighty flattering it was when
the first letters were from news-
paper people, who read the col-
umn before it gets into the papers.
One of the first to arrive was from
Art Reyhal of Atikikan, a lino -
type operator who writes better
than most editors. Four pages, liv-
ely and sardonic as only a lino op-
erator can be.
Oddly enough, two of the earl-
iest arrivals were from readers of
the most faraway paper on the list,
the Whitehorse (Yukon) Star. Fred
Heck sent pleasant note and Rusty
Erlam kept it to a brief "I'm wit-
cha boy."
Then they began rolling in from
all directions—the west coast, the
Maritimes, the prairie provinces,
Ontario and Quebec, and a dozen
or two different places in the
States.
Zurich hockey teams had a great
night in the Seaforth Arena on
Monday night, as the Midgets beat
Monkton 7-6 in the first game, and
the Intermediates downed Lucan
Irish '7-6 in the second game of
the evening. Both teams are in the
play-offs.
MARCH, 1945
Another interesting change in
the life of Zurich's businesses took
place on March 1, when Harold
Stade has purchased from his fa-
ther, R. F. Stade, his shore in the
Stade and Weido hardware firm..
Mr. Peter Baker„ a well-known
and life-long resident of this area,
had the misfortune to fall on Mon-
day and fracture his leg, Mr. Ba-
ker is 90 years of age.
Mr. William Jennison, who has
recently sold his farm on the
DASHWO
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ICT
It's pretty exciting to know that
Ted and Ruby Midgley are reading
your column in their trailer in
Chula Vista, California, just about
the same time Molly Blackburn of
Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia,
is picking up her local weekly to
have a look at Sugar and Spice.
Mrs. Liles Gillet, a Swissborn
lady who loves Canada, scans it in
Warwick, Quebec, before sending
it to her son in England, and Mad-
eline Vander Zanden, right across
the continent in Forest Grove, Or-
egon, flips through the Red Deer
Advocate to get at the column.
It's thrilling to know that you
pack enough punch to make haras-
sed housewives kick the kids out
of the way, sit down among the
breakfast dishes, and pen a not of
encourageemnt to 'keep it coming."
It's delightful to get mash notes
from dear old ladies in their eight-
ies. One of them, obviously writ-
ten with a great difficulty, end-
ed, " . . and I ;:an tell you, it's no
fun being 89," and make me deep-
ly ashamed of the beefing I do
about little aches and pains.
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Rader and
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Salmon atten-
ded the 52nd Ontario Hydro con-
vention at the Royal York Hotel,
Toronto, last week. The ladies
were privileged to see "The Nut-
crackers", as performed by the
National Ballet of Canada, at the
Royal Alexander Theatre.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Taylor and
Marlene, and Mrs. Garnet Weiberg
and Larry spent Friday with Mr.
L. H. Rader.
Miss Marian Rader and Mr. Lloyd
Howe, of London. spent the week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Ra-
der and family.
Celebrates Birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Stelck, of
Bradford, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Williams, of Toronto, spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Stelck. They celebrated Mr. Stei-
ck's 82nd birthday on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hey, of Cred-
iton, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Stelck, on Monday.
Federation Fieldman W i Kcnss
Militt Marketing in ''- eeks Ahead
(By J. Carl Hemingway)
Just a moment while I refer
back to a suggestion made at the
Wheat Producers annual meeting to
the effect that no eastern farm or-
ganization had made any objection
to government about the removal
of the requirement for western feed
mills to purchase all grains through
the Canadian grain board.
I would like to state that the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
reported to the members meeting
of June 3, 1960, that official pro-
test against this action was pre-
sented to the Federal Government
from the OFA. While it was un-
successful in preventing govern-
ment from introducing this action
it no doubt had some part in hav-
ing it restricted to a one year trial
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Whether this move will increase
the production of livestock in the
west to any great extent, remains to
be seen. Apparently there was a
certain amount of grain finding
its way to feed lots through mach-
inery dealers and I would suppose
most farmers who were wanting to
feed livestock were already doing
so.
What will definitely develope
will be strong competition between
farmers to sell grain. Whichever
farmer will sell his grain cheapest
will be the one who will sell. This
means that his total income for the
year may be up a little but un-
doubtedly the average income from
grain will be down. This is a hard-
ship that most western farmers can
111 afford.
While the problem of hog mar-
keting has been to the forefront
for the past several years it appears
that the problem of milk marketing
will now supply the basis for con-
troversy. One of the recommenda-
tions of the milk marketing com-
mittee which caught my eye was
the "freeezing" of present milk
ciuotas for fluid milk. By so doing
the committee pointed out that as
fluid sales increased beyond the
total supply of quota milk, grade
"A" milk from the manufacturing
trade would be diverted to the
fluid market at fluid price. The
gain on this price would then be
returned equally to the producers
of manufacturing milk.
This no doubt in a period of
years could result in a considerable
increase in returns to these produc-
ers but it will not come quickly. It
is also apparent that the "freezing"
of fluid milk quotas will not re-
duce transportation costs.
I am not too well versed on the
problems of milk marketing and
perhaps my comments are not cor-
rect, however, if they stimulate
the producers to seek full informa-
tion, they will serve their purpose.
* * *
One gal was born the same day
I was and likes the birthday col-
umns. Betty Hall of Tillsonburg
trained as a nurse with my kid sis-
ter, who taught her to smoke. Mar-
garet Farnell of Edmonton says
her husband was in Six Group,
Bomber Command, and enjoys the
air force reminiscences.
Roger Hartzel of Neepawa, Man.,
along with about 50 others, won-
ders how the Old Battleaxe likes
being called The Old Battleaxe.
As a matter of fact, she rather en-
joys it. She's a pretty sharp -look-
ing doll, and it makes her glow a
bit when she meets strangers and
they exclaim, "Surely YOU'RE not
the OLD BAATLEAXE!" in amaze-
ment.
There's a good chance that she's
going to have to be at her best to
hold me, though. Now that I'm
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