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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1961-03-08, Page 2ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ZURICH 2itiwanl NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TURKHEIM -- 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, 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. 0 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. 0 10 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1961 '�!���lllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillellllllllllltl1111111'illl!IIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImmnill!Iquplltill!VIII,IIIIIiIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP i• 1 lulllllll UGAR an SPICE IIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIiIIQIIIIil By Bill Smiley VIIIII!Iiillllllllilllllif 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. 0 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 1ST 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 ZURICH ,- C b.- D Es O''+'.: h55ccaAT1QN iMEET3 HERE D,'AILY r NOW IN 1 90 WE. HAD ---- CCJM'i1'i'Y 19QWL.INO GR., ,E,Na o CIO PaoVIDED IN WINTER, Y E. 5 FOR BUT WHAT '.►' C OUT I N 5U MEP.., "WHY NOT." vA oN period. 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 (continued on page 3) Business and Professional Directory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER G. B. Clancy, O.D. PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood INSURANCE M^� For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About Ail Insurances—Call E KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANC> ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE E ' eCTUBES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 5°'o — 5 years 4:1i.c10 -- 3 and 4 years 4U' — 1 and 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, • Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies �?$ J. �u' YP , HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 -- Zurich OPTOMETRIST JA 4-7251 — Goderieb DENTISTS DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DOCTORS Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.ia . 5 p.m. Moday-Saturday Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Fridae Evenings PHONE 51 — ZURICH OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH: Daily except Monday Phone 791 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday: 9 a.m to 12 noon. CLINTON: Monday Only Phone HU 2-7010 Thursday evening by appointment G. A. WEBB, D.C.* *Doctor of Chiropractic 433 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilitieii Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. Evenings, 7-9 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WEST LAKE Humeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SlaV=CI. Phone 89J or 89W ZURICH LEGAL W. G. Cochrane, Q.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensall Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, Q.C. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon Phone 4 Di I Irl.