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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1961-05-04, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZEIN$ NEMS THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1961 ZURICH eltizew. NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher FRANK McEWAN --- Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Maul, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: ONTARIO WEb K SLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 5 cents THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1961 Open For Business Standardization, Conformity, constriction, congestion, all these things would likely result if an idea advanced by an Ontario news- paper were to be brought into effect by legislation. It has to do with store hours, a perennial problem for merchants everywhere and a source of annoyance to consumers. The suggestion is that there be standard hours for all communities. The trouble is that not even one province is the same all over. A store in a small village usually stays open for longer hours than stores in big cities, and even in cities there are difference between night-time traffic through a railway station and daytime traffic in a residential area. It may be that in a residential area stores do not need to stay open mornings. The variation is infinite. One thing that advocates of standarization of hours forget is that it costs money to keep a store open, especially a big store with a large staff. And it stands to reason that, if there isn't sufficient consumer demand for evening shopping hours, the store owners will speedly close.—The Printed Word. Help hi Making Your Farm Safe Safety on the farm has been receiving a lot of attention lately - And so it should. Few things are more important than keeping oneself alive, whole and fit to carry on the job of farming. Farm safety week may be over for this year but paying attention to safety is just as important in the next fifty-one weeks. During the past year a Farm Accident Survey has been conduc- ted through Ontario. The analysis of farm accidents has been re- leased by the Department of Agriculture. The analysis provides serious reading for all farmers. Space limitations prevent us from publishing the full 8 -page break -down of figures, In detail they show the number of accidents, the number of injuries — fatal, per- manent and temporary, and the cost of the accidents in days off work, medical bills and property damage. If possible get the full report from your local farm accident reporter. The survey bears out that farming in Ontario is a hazardous occupation: Farmers can ill -afford the six million dollars which ac- cidents cost them in the past year. Farmers can ill -afford the 5,868 temporary, the 336 permanent ,or the 293 fatal injuries that went along with the accidents. A great many of these accidents could have been prevented. The chief causes of accidents were: Ioss of balance, slippery surfaces, misjudgment, frightened or vicious animal, poor driving, worn parts on equipment, excessive speeding, fixing or moving a running machine, litter around barns, etc., poor visibility. These are causes which we can all do something about. For the good of your family make sure you take as many preventive measures as possible on and around your farm. The places where most of the accidents occurred were "In and around barns and stables," with Highways, Fields, and Home coming close behind. Be careful on the highways. Here most of the fatalities occur. Poor driving habits were the chitf cause. This provincial survey was a tremendous undertaking. Was it worth every cent spent on it by the government and the thous- ands of man-hours given freely by community minded citizens? It will be worth these costs only if every farmer becomes more ---sg-at minded and teachess himself, through the report, to cut down accidents oil-iii-6..nwn,,farm. • DON'T YOU ViISH YOU WERE HERE? Start planning now! Mail the coupon for free literature. Look forward to your most refreshing summer ever—in Ontario! P °num1 TRAVEL L "fir M5ayPafllanfn; inlado Ttarel,ITERArunE 17„ry1814a, romnto, Onfago, AUONES � PL�4E Pklfrr -,�-L Have the time ofyour life in IPARIO ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF TRAVEL AND PUBLICITY Hon, Brvan L. Gat ,ar-!, Mrnister 40 YEARS AGO MAY, 1921 Mr. Frank Uttley, who had been engaged as a painter for some time with the F. M. Hess Company, has severed his connection with that firm and is now with Carlin Bro- thers, of Seaforth• Mr. John Foster is drilling a well for Mr. George Thiel, of the vil- liage. A minor accident last week considerably delayed operations, when a drill became detached from the lifting rods, but Mr. Foster soon overcame the obstacle. Mr. Garfield Witmer, who had severey sprained his knee some time ago, is able to get around again, and is improving slowly. Gasoline is now 22 cents a gal- lon in Detroit, 42 cents in Windsor, 43 cents in Hensall, and only 39 cents in Zurich. Mr. Alfred Meidinger, who had spent the past winter in Sarnia, has returned to his home at St, Joseph. citizens of that community. foundation for building a large storeroom at the rear of their gen- eral store. Last Monday morning over 35 cases of whiskey arrived in Hensall by express, billed to some of the ctizens of that community. 0 25 YEARS AGO MAY, 1936. Mr. and Mrs. W Appleton, who have been living in the Westerly portion of Mrs. C. Ayotte's house, on Monday moved their household effects to Lucan, from whence ;they came last fall. Every citizen in Zurich is being urged to get behind the baseball team, and help restore the town to it's rightful place in the baseball world. Now that the winter season is again over for another year, the places of business will be open *- Tuesday evenings as well as Sat- urday evenings. Hugh MacKinnon, who has at- tended Queen's University at King- ston, has returned home for the summer vacation season. He has accepted a summer position with the Department of Highways en- gineering staff. A splendid concert was given in Tieman's Hall, Dashwood, last Mon- day night, under the auspices of the Dashwood Memorial Band. Alfred Wuerth, of Crediton, has purchased the grocery business of S. Battersby in Hensall, and inten- ds taking possession in the very near future. Mrs.,Olive Gabel has purchased Ile 50 -acre farm on the Babylon, Line, east of Zurich, and gets im- mediate possession. -OF- YEARS GONE _ BY 15 YEARS AGO MAY, 1946 St. Peter's Lutheran Church are having a big year in church prop- erty expansion, as considerable ad- ditional building space will be made. Excavating for the new addition has already begun. At a special school meeting call- ed at SS No. 7, Zurich, the newly proposed Township School Area movement was voted out by a large majority. A commttee was appoin- ted to investigate the possibility of establishing a high school in Zur- ich. Miss Mae Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Smith, left on Tuesday for Petrolia, where she will establish a laboratory in the fine hopital at that place. She will also take charge of the x-ray work there. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kalbfleisch, Mrs. Keith Westlake and Ross Johnston, motored to Toronto last Thursday, where they attended the big Liberal convention, Orville Witmer has made some improvements to his dairy by re- modelling the front of the building, which adds greatly to it's appear- ance. Rev. E. Heimrich, and George Deichert attended a special meet- ing in Ellice Township on Tuesday night, relating to church matters of importance. A new addition to the rear of Hess Electric business has been erected. 0 10 YEARS AGO MAY, 1951 Between 600 to 700 people pack- ed the Zurich Community Centre last Friday evening to see the big Lions Club Minstrel Show. The Lions were assisted by a group of young people in the communty. Almost 60 members of SS No. 4, Hay, gathered in the little red school house to honour Mrs. De Weerd and her family, who are leaving shorty for their new home at Hamilton. Campers of the Ducharme sum- mer resorts are already coming into their cottages for the coming seas- on. Another new cottage is being buit on the grounds. Valentine Becker has purchased the property in Dashwood of the late Felix Wild. A $35,000 aluminum trailer fac- tory, to employ 12 men, will be built in Hensall by the Clipper Coach Manufacturing Company of Ilderton. The building will be 55' x 200', and construction is ex- pected to start shortly. Present aluminum and steel supplies will hold production down for the time being. • Wallace Wein has purchased the Reuben Goetz farm, just south of the village of Dashwood. Mr. and Mrs. Goetz will live in Dashwood. Federation Fieldman Urges Support For Huron County Vocational School (By J. Carl Hemingway) At the first meeting of the Board of Directors of Allied Meat Enter- prises Co -Operative which was held in Toronto, April 17, Charles Mc- Innes was elected president; Clay- ton Frey, first vice-president, and Mr. Mel Becker, second vice-presi- dent. The executive consists of the three presidents and Leonard Laventure, Harold Baker and Wil- liam Henderson. At the folk -school annual meet- ing on April 18, it was made appar- ent to us that there is a great need for adult education. We are too prone to think of our education coming to an end when we leave school to be able to solve our pres- ent day problems. Experience gained through folk -school can broaden our outlook so that we can recognize our difficulties and help up overcome our predjudices. The introduction of the folk -school on "wheels" Iast year gave the participants a wonderful opportun- ity to see conditions and meet peo- ple over a wide area. Arthur Piggott, director of the Canadian association of adult edu- cation, pointed out the need for specialized training for our young people and also for many of our older labour force, The introduc- tion of machinery has not reduced the need for labour nearly so much as it has changed the type of labour needed. While the need for labour to produce food has been greatly re- duced, the need of labour to man- ufacture and service the tools of production creased. In industry, office work was done by many clerks and secretaries. Now it has progressed through the typwriter and adding machine to the electronic computer. It requir- es skilled labour to manufacture these machines and trained tech- nicians to service them. Job op- portunities are quite plentiful in these fields. This I suppose leads directly to the need for a source of technical training in our own country. We as farmers can easily recognize the folly of producing only cattle or hogs or sheep. We need a proper balance of all three. In the past we have been directing our ener- gies to producing only academic scholars but now we find oursel- ves faced with unemployment on one hand and a serious shortage of skilled technicians on the other. The farm organizations and Women's Institutes in the county have been successful in bringing this to the attention of our high school boards and they along with the Ontario Department of Educa- tion are giving active consideration to the ways and means by which this can be brought about. Let us give them all the support we can in their endeavour. Mr. Piggott assured us that this type of school is practical as has been proven in Western Canada. Also at least two areas in Ontario have applied for the financial assistance offer- ed by the Federal and Provincial Governments, has been vastly in- a�"'��IIIIII01f111lIIlAl111RlllllllulllIIIIINIINIIIIIItINIIIIUIIIIIIUIIIIIIIINIIIUIIIIIIIIIHilllllllullllllllllllUIIIIIIDNIIIIIINImmuuluulullN;IIII1111�mIIIIlUI11UIIIII1,lUIIIIIHIIIIhI�^' Ilillllllllllllilllllilllltll! I'in not much for blood lines, when it comes to people, But ev- ery so often, when I'm wondering what is wrong with, or right with, my kids, I begin thinking of all the characteristics they've inherited, and of what will become of them, with all those queer ancestors lur- king in the background. One of my old -maid aunts a good soul in many ways, had a firm conviction that there was some- thing special about the Smileys. As a result, she got in touch with one of those firms that specialize in family trees. She proved to her own satisfaction, and for a stagger- ing fee, that we were descended from Sir William Pitt the Younger, among others. This is about as impressive as saying you are directly descended from Adam and Eve. I'd have been much more interested had she managed to prove that Henry Ford was my uncle by a previous mar- riage, or that, Gina Lollobrigidia was a kissing cousin. :r. My personal guess is that my kids are the descendants of a long line of Irish peasants, who Iived on potatoes, never washed, went ar- ound in their bare feet, and never did anything more illustrious than steal a few cattle, slaughter the odd Englishman, However, I wish to go on record as stating that I'm mighty happy about the one and only living grandfather my kids have. There's a man anybody would be proud to claim as an ancestor. Fictional grandfathers, are gruff old characters, big men with a thatch of white hair and twinkling blue eyes. They're as shrewd as all get out, In their youth they have been buffalo hunters, or sail- ors, or soldiers. They emit corny philosophy every time they open their mouths. Pm afraid my father-in-law does- n't fit that frame. He's not gruff, but gentle. He's not big, but weighs about 118, soaking wet. He has about as much hair as I'll have at his age. He has brown eyes, and they don't twinkle. He's not at all shrewd, thank heav- UG AR and SPICE By Bill Smiley 1111111111111191111 en. He's never shot a buffalo or anything else,( not even a man. And he has no homespun philiso- phyy, praise be. There's nothing flamboyant or colorful about my kids' grand- father. He's led a peaceful life. He's worked hard. He doesn't cuss, drink or royster. He's mild of manner and speech. He could pass for a Sunday School superinten- dent which he has been. Nothing exciting has ever happened to Granddad. s: s: Unless, of course, you consider it exciting to lose your arm in a threshing machine, as he did about 30 years ago, But there's nothing interesting in the story of a man who raised a family and ran a farm, with one arm. Heck, you can read much more thrilling stuff than that every day, in the papers—all about fellows who have been out of work for simply weeks and will, any day new, cease to draw unemployment insurance. No, nothing exciting like that ever happened to Grandad. Oh, a little after he lost his arm, while the remains were in bandages, he was thrown out of a cutter and broke the thumb on his good hand. But he passed a pretty uneventful winter, running the farm with four fingers. a: a: And a couple of years later, while." But it wasn't very excit- on storm windows, he fell and smashed the bones in his ampu- tated arm, or what was left of it. He said it "was pretty sore for a while." But it wasn't very evcit- ing. He drove a rural mail route, his stump, though uncomfortable. One day he was watering a rather jumpy horse. His hook was thrusts through a link in a long , chain attached to the horse's lead -rope. Something startled the animal. My mother-in-law l000ked out the kitchen window and saw the beast go by at full gallop, with her bus - (continued on page 3) Business and Professional Directory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All Insurances .Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES — 5 years 43✓� % --- 3 and 4 years 41/2% --- 1 and 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 --- Zurich OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST 48EAPOItTH: Daily except Monday Phone 791 9 a,rn. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday: 9 a,rn to 12 noon, CL;ANTON: Monday Only Phone HU 24010 Thursday evening by appointment G. B. Clancy, 0.D. OPTOMETRIST JA 4-7251 --- Goderich 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.m. -5 p.m. Monday-Saturdaj Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Friday 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 T'hurs. Evenings, ;-s For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE 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 BAt%RISTE)R,S, SOLICITORS NO'k`ARMS PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, Q C, Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER Phone 4