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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1961-03-23, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH eitizvz4. NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TURKHEIM -- Editor and Publisher FRANK MCEWAN — Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Mend, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: Member; CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION 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 23, 1961 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Wise Move The council of the Township of Hay are certainly to be com- mended for their wise move in purchasing the post office building in Zurich for their municipal offices. We are quite sure that all ratepayers in the Township are pleased with the decision of the council. There is no doubt the move will result in a savings of thous- and of dollars to the ratepayers in the area, especially at a time when labour and materials are at such a high price. While there may be some advantages to a new building, we are sure the big savings will more than offset this, With some minor changes, the building they purchased will be as modern as any municipal offices anywhere. We wonder if maybe the village council is making a mistake in planning a new building for tehir offices? By the time the project is completed, close to $15,000 will be involved, and this represents a large amount of money for a small village on one small item. There is probably not another village the size of Zurich any- where that has such a luxurious municipal building as is being planned here. Perhaps another building such as the post office could be purchased, at a substantial savings to the ratepayers of Zurich. The idea deserves some consideration on the part of the council. Bill Opens or To r ss, Public (London Free Press) Ontario Government legislation has been accepted making municipal meetings, with few exceptions, open to the press and the public. What objection there was to the measure came from opposition members who complained that the regulations did not go far enough. This ruling is one of moment to the press that has been attemp- ting to place public business and the spending of their money fairly before the taxpayers. Previously the Municipal Act could be so interpreted that councils could close their sessions and conduct municipal business without the public getting many important de- tails. Going beyond the government measure two Liberal members propesed that councils be forced to pass a resolution of closure at each meeting from which they wanted the press barred. The pro- posal bears some merit and might draw freedom of public and press rights more often to their attention. However the government members regarded the new bill as ample safeguard to protect the public. The new measure should be given a fair trial. Councilors must understand from the action taken in the Legislature they are not doing the most for their constituents by operating in closed .sessions, hiding some of their actions. Admittedly meetings dealings with personnel and purchase of property for the city of necessity must be discussed privately. Otherwise council business should be public business, open to citi- zens and the press as their representative. CIC Threat To Weeklies •(St. Marys Journal -Argus) The Canadian Statesman of Bowmanville suggests that if the O'Leary Commission is seeking sources of more advertising dollars for Canadian publications, there is more than $38,000,000 right close at hand. This is the gross commercial revenue gobbled up in one year by an agency of the very Government which put Mr. O'Leary to work at finding relief for publishers! Television is a new and glamorous form of advertising, tempting to the manufacturers, and made even more tempting be- cause the States makes it available cheaply. Because the CBC is supported by the public treasury, it can look upon advertising as so much gravy. If an advertiser refuses to pay the full costs of a program, CBC can and often does give him a special deal. This was revealed under questioning at a Parliamentary Inquiry. To make the situation more alarming, the CBC seems now to be intent on becoming more commercial than ever. Mr, Ouimet, the new president, points with pride to increased commercial in- come, whereas the former president, Mr. Dunton, took the attitude that CBC was not intrested in being too commercially competitive. This new attitude is a serious threat to publishers, including the weekly newspapers which are in position to offer cut rates. Surely the treasury -backed CBC which now spends $90 millions annually, ought to be limited in the number of advertising dollars it is allowed to grab by these bargain rate devices.. SAND 7, C°NC ERT,, v -"A, 0,3 40 YEARS AGO MARCH, 1921 Mr. P. Koehler, who recently sold dwelling place on the Goshen north to Mr. Jacob Kipfer, is holding an auction sale on Saturday. C, Preeter was elected as presi- dent of the Zurich .Athletic Assoc. iation at the annual meeting of the group on Monday evening. The finances of the Association are in a very sound financial situation. Considering the poor road condi- tions, there was a large amount of hogs shipped from Hensall last week. Farmers are expecting to see lower prices, so they want to clear out as many as possible before this happens. A meeting was held in Varna on Monday night, to organize the tem- perance forces for the coming vote on April 18. Mr. and Mrs. Weir Acheson, who have disposed of the Commercial Hotel in Hensall, have moved away from the village. E. Wurm and W. S. Rudy, of Zur- ich, were in Parkhill investigating the chances of starting a butcher shop there, but due to the lack of ice, they gave up the idea. 25 YEARS AGO MARCH., 1936 The sale of Louis Wurm's fine 75 -acre farm just south of Zurich, to Ferdinand Haberer, has been an- nounced. The farm was sold to- gether with all livestock and imple- ments. The Zurich branch of the Wom- en's Institute have made arrange- ments to improve the stage at the Town Hall, and when completed it will be a much needed convenience. Clayton Smith, of the Beavertown district, has started operations in his sugar bush. It is expetced there will be a good run of sap. Mrs. A. C. Meidinger, who has spent some time in Hanover, has returned to Hensall where she is making her home, One of the worst blizzards of the year raged over the weekend, and many of the roads were block- ed again. Worst condition ,war; the highway from Exeter north. Assessors W. H. Edighoffer is again making his rounds, and be- fore we know it tax time will be here. OF - YEARS GONE BY . 15 YEARS AGO MARCH, 1945 John Foster, well-known resident of the Zurich area for many years, will on Sunday celebrate his 96th birthday. At the regular dinner meeting of the Zurich Lions Club on Mon- day night, Professor Herb Kalb- fleisch, of London, was the guest speaker, and concluded his address by touching on the necessity of Zurich restoring it's library service. Mrs. Allan Schwatzentruber on Tuesday picked a fully bloomed pansy in her flower garden. Mr. Ward Fritz has taken over the garage operated by Howard Klopp for the past few years. Wil- liam McAdams will remain with Fritz as a mechanic. Construction of a now $50,000 building to house a motion picture theatre is being planned in Grand Bend. The building will be owned and operated by A. Bossenberry. R. H. Middleton was named as president of the Hensall Chamber' of Commerce, when the group held their annual meeting last week. Mr. Morris Weber, who has been a patient in Westminster Hospital, has returned to his home in Zurich 0 10 YEARS AGO MARCH, 1951 William Jowett, owner of Jow- ett's Grove and Pavilion in Bayfield for the pst 61 years, died in the Clinton Hospital, after a long ill- ness. Mr. Reg W. Illsley, of town, left on Monday for a trip to England He will travel on the steamship Queen Elizabeth. Jack Elson, of Lucan, was fined $10 and costs for common assault against Carl Decker. The incident occurred during a hockey game when Elson jumped over the abords and attacked the Zurich player. The Warden's committee of Hur- on County council has appointed County Treasurer Erskine as acting county clerk, and John Berry as ac- ting deputy clerk -treasurer. These moves were brought about by the death of clerk Norman Miller. A powerful Lucan Irish hockey team have eliminated Zurich from the playoff race, winning two gam- es to none. Unfortunately, Zurich suffered several, injuries which greatly hampered the efforts. Federation Fieldman Explains increase Necessary To Operate Organization (By J. Carl Hemingway) The Huron County Federation of being made on the Federation have been increasing to the point where finances will not permit further services. The meeting felt that the participation in the TV and radio programs provides a valuable ser- vice. Certainly many farmers have benefited through improved com- pensation from hydro, pipeline and highway easements as a result of the efforts of your organization. Many, too, have found the credit available through your township council for tile drainage quite help- ful. Currently, the Federation is making a study of taxation in or der that a more equitable method may be achieved for rural property owners. Agriculture held their regular mon- thly meeting March 14, with presi- dent Warren Zurbrigg presiding. The president and secretary were appointed to represent the Federa- tion at the Safety Council for the County. On the recommendation of the Federation Insurance Committee, Bob McMillan, Hullett Township, was added to the committee. Bill Duncan, of Gociericb, Co - Operator's Insurance supervisor, re- ported that there are now some- thing over 4,300 policies in force in the County. A little over 1,000 new policies were approved during the past year. The success of this co-operative certainly proves that farmers arc capable of providing adequate protection at a reason- able cost in the insurance field, by working together. There is no reason to believe that they would be any less successful in any other project they set their minds to. For some years now the demands "COMMUNITY 0)J: IT.." In order that these projects may be carried on along with many more it was recommended that ei- ther the township units increase their payment to the county so that it would equal half mill, or ap- proach their township councils with a request that the levy be increased to the half mill. This would in- crease the Federation levy by 50 cents on a $5,0000 assessment. The meeting was turned over briefly to Bob McGregor, zone dir- ector of the Ontario beef producers association for the purpose of elec- tin,n, seven additional voting dele- gates from the township beef pro- ducers directors to attend the zone meeting. Mrs. Warren Zurbrigg reported on the .Ontario rural leadership forum which she attended at Nia- gara Falls. She pointed out that for the past five years there has been an average attendance of 60. This means that some 300 trained rural leaders are now active in Ontario: As the years go by these people and those to follow will make a real contribution to their com- munities. Bob McKinley of Zurich, and James Dunbar, of Wroxeter, were chosen as voting delegates to the Ontario Poultry Producers annual, With Bob Broadfoot and George Unn derwood as alternates. The meet- ing appointed the resolutions com- mittees as a committee to bring recommendations for revision pro- cedure in conducting future com- modity group elections of county committee men. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961 !���"""!!IIII4IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIII!!!!IIIIIIIIIIII71IllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllIII!Iq�P!IltllllP!IIIIIIII!I!IIUIIIIIIIUmnt1l!tIP!IIII@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIII� SUGAR and SPICE si!niummus By Do you know what we're getting to be a nation of? We're getting to be a nation of child -worshippers. And personally, I'ni becoming a bit nauseated by the whole perverted business. When the ancient Hebrews be- gan feeling their oats they built themselves a golden calf, and you know what happened then. We're in the process of building ourselv- es a golden kid, and we'll deserve everything that's coming to us, when the Lord grows tired of our silliness. * * * I keep reading things that make my hair stand on end with sheer horror at the idolatry were com- mitting. Just the other day, I read in the paper some remarks by a professor of psychology at the Un- iversity of Montreal. He claimed that a disturbed child becomes de- linquent because he is convinced he is meant to be. The professor said: "For instance, a child is sent on an errand with the admonition to bring back the change. There's an insinuation there that the worst is expected of him. Slowly he builds up this image of himself, and accepts him- self as the black sheep of the fam- ily." From there, apparently, it is only a hop, step and a switch -blade knife to a criminal gang. Now isn't that the domnedest poppycock you've ever heard? Of course a child is warned to bring back the change! It's the first thing you do when you give him a dollar, and you tell him at least three times more, before you let him out the door. I'd rather have a kid come home with the chance, and feel like a black sheep, than come home with six comic books and new proof that the old man is an easy mark. It used to be that when a child was a mean little beast that nobody, including his parents, had any use for, everybody steered clear of him, and he grew up to be a business tycoon, or a great artist, or a bril- liant politician, or just a plain, ord- Bill Smil:,�' had any use for. Nowadays, when you encounter some vicious little brute you can scarcely keep your hands off, you are quickly told that there's really nothing wrong with him, except that he's emotionally disturbed. He's never forgiven Mom for slap- ping him on the bottom to make him go in the potty. Or he hates his Dad because the latter has re- jected him—wouldn't join him in a game of kick -the -cat. With the aid of the Reader's Di- gest and Liberty, we now have more amateur psychologists in Canada than we have unproductive gold mines. And they're all agreed that it isn't the fault of The -Children - Poor -Things, it's the parents who are to blame. It never seems to occur to these modern swamis that there might be anything wrong with the kids, Not a chance. Children now occupy the position of mingled respect and awe once reserved for such dignitaries as the Royal Fam- ily and the Devil. And the kids revel in it, of cour- se. There's nothing a modern kid enjoys more than having an old man who drinks, or an old lady who runs around a bit. It qualifies him at once for the Broken Homes Club, and gives him an Open Ses- ame to any kind of conduct he feels like pursuing. No longer is he 1 a z y, bad-mannered, surly, greedy or ill-tempered. He's Dis- turbed. * * * All I can say is, look around you„ chaps. There are certainly some children who have a rough deal and are upset about things. But it has always been my contention that kids are tougher than a sixty -cent steak. And if they're not, look at all the rich emotional experience they're piling up. No, it's the parents I want you to look at, They are the really emotionally disturbed people of our time. The women who should be enjoying the marital delights of young middle -age, gaunt and hag- gard as they scramble for new sac - (continued on page Business and Professional Directory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. 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KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.m. -5 p.m. Monday -Saturday Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Frida,s, Evenings PHONE 51 — ZURICH G. 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, i-9 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WES1 'LAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLJ 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 & NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, Q C. Zurich Office Tuesdcry Afternoon ernoon Phone