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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-01-09, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1964 testi eastmenit MY MAY A Well Deserved Tribute A fitting tribute was paid last Friday night to II. W. Brokenshire, the clerk -treas- urer of Ilay Township, at the home of reeve John Corbett. Mr. Corbett enter- tained council, in recognition of 20 years' service to the township by Mr. Broken - shire. During the past 20 years, the clerk - treasurer has been a devoted servant to the ratepayers and officials of Hay, and it was with this in mind that the reeve de- cided to honour him on the occasion. We doubt if anyone in the municipality can• say that Mr. Brokenshire has not done a tremendous 'job during these years. He is always ready and willing to lend a help- ing hand to anyone in need of advice or assistance, many times even beyond the call of his duty, "Always cheerful and always willing," is the best way to describe this servant. His occupation has become increasingly more difficult in the past few years, with more work being thrown on the shoulders of the clerk each year. And still this man never complains, he just keeps plugging away with his work in the hope that some- day the burden may become lighter. As well as capably serving Hay Town- ship for 20 years as their clerk -treasurer, Mr, Brokenshire has also acted in the ea- pacity of secretary -treasurer for the Hay Township School Area, since its origin. ,This job is also time-consuming, but you never hear any complaints from the genial Whitney, Besides his double -duty performance with Hay Township, Mr. Brokenshire also finds time to be quite active in his church, and never refuses to lend a hand when asked to do so. He is also an ardent sports fan, even though his call of duty leaves him little time for recreation. Many weeks will see the clerk attending as many as four or five evening meetings, as well as his regular daytime duty. IIay Township is indeed fortunate to have a servant such.as H. W, Brokenshire, and we are certainly happy, along with all ratepayers in the municipality, to see him honoured in this way on the ,completion of his 20th year in office, We hope he may have many more pleasant years ahead in this same capacity. Our Year-end Thanks As we conclude another year in his- tory, we feel it is time for us to look back over the old year which has just come to a close. It has been an exceptionally pleas- ant one, thanks to the co-operation shown by numerous organizations and individuals. We would like to express our sincere ap- predation for the assistance given us in so many ways over the past year, without which your newspaper could not have served as well as it has. This assistance has come from many sources. First, there are the press secre- taries of various organizations who spend considerable time in gathering and writing articles concerning the activities of their groups, in order that the public might be aware of what they are doing for the bene- fit of the community. Then, there are those friends who tell us about news items which we would have missed had it not been for their timely reminder. Unfortunately, we are not staffed to cover all the happenings around us, and tips on off -the -beat happen- ings are very much appreciated. Also there are the loyal rural news correspondents who, week -in and week -out, send in their news budgets, and also the thoughtful rural residents who help make the task of these correspondents easier, by phoning in news items to then. Throughout a year we receive many letters from people living in distant points of Canada and the United States, who once lived in this area. Without exception these former residents write of their apprecia- tion for the news items in their hometown paper; of happenings in the area where they lived as youngsters, before moving away. There are the advertisers, too, who aid materially in permitting the hometown pub- lisher to keep printing a bigger and better newspaper. A newspaper can only be as good as the advertising support it receives from its community. This is truer today than ever before, since the operating costs of a newspaper, even a small weekly, have grown to an extent which we are quite confident is not at all fully realized by the average reader. We are thankfull, too, for the support of those for whom we do job printing, which further subsidizes the operating cost of the newspaper plant. During the next year we are planning an expansion pro- gram which will assist us in rendering better service than ever in this department. Your continued support with this type of work will be greatly appreciated, es we strive to keep pace with modern trends. A community newspaper today, as in the past, is a community undertaking and the more people who share in it, the more successful it can be in serving the public. Now, as we say "THANK YOU" for the fine support given to us in so many ways, we hope with your continued loyalty we may bring you a bigger and better news- paper before 1964 has been completed. Resolutions Looking back over the past violent year and facing into the uncertain future, a grown man could be forgiven if he thought longingly of a simpler time in his life, a time when he said everything by resolving on New Year's Day to be a better boy, a time when black was black and white was white. With the passing of the years and with experience of the world and its ways, that sense of certainty about right and wrong becomes for most people blurred. Expediency replaces idealism, A course of action that is apparently right is not fol- lowed because, even in the opinion of men of good will, it won't work. The second- best picture is chosen to hang over the mantel because it goes better with the draperies than does the masterpiece. "Let's be realistic", says bargainers all the way from international affairs to village; politics. The murder of a president on a Dallas street will cause thousands of people to enter upon the New Year in a mood of resolution, and because of that tragic mo- ment many have spent hours in unaccus- tomed thought; searching analysis has be- come a commonplace. But this generation will not live long enough to discover whether it passed through a sort of emo- tional binge or whether it really did lift up its eyes, even if only briefly. Much has been written of the dead young President. As a student of history, he would have recognized what was truth and what was the natural hyperbole of a sorrowing nation. But because of the na- ture •of his death, it is his fate always to be larger than life, to be spoken of always in absolutes. Someone has said of him that as a man in public life "he never trimmed his sails". Whether that was true is of little consequence; it has been said, and he will be thought of by many as the ideal- ist who would not compromise. His successor is being described as a man with a shrewd understanding of the possible. If life seems difficult and complex, by the same token history is complicated and hard to understand. And since its reader never reaches the last page of the book, he never discovers who accomplishes most for mankind: the idealist or the bargainer. It is not easy to make New Year's reso- lutions in today's world. Man has created his own problems and, much as he might wish to, he cannot return to a time when decisions were simple. But there are de- cisions, and men must do their hest to make the right ones in their imperfect human way.—(The Printed Word.) ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERB TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash, Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates; $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; Bingle copies 7 cents W !l • BUT IT WAS BETTER THAN NO YEAR AT ALL... Letters Dear Editor: Now at the end of the year I would like on behalf of all the residents at Huronview to' thank, through your paper, all those people living in your area who helped in any way to bring comfort and sunshine into their lives during the past year. Thanks to all those groups who visit ed Huronview at Christmas and during the year for the many ways they assisted in bringing the outside world into the Home. We are very grateful to those individuals who sent cards and gifts that all might have a merry Christmas. Many tha4a for all the flow- ers sent to the Home during 1963. These bring beauty and cheer to the residents. The wish of each and every- one of us is that the year 1964 may be a happy .and prosperous one for each one of you. Yours very truly, Harvey C. Johnston, Superintendent. Road Men Meet A meeting of the Huron County Road Superintendents' Association was held recently at Carlow. . Gordon Muir, of Sifto Salt Ltd., Goderich, was present and spoke on the production, marketing and use of salt, after which he answered several questions from the members present. Tentative plans were made to hold the next meeting in April, 1964, in Goderich, as guests of the Dominion Road Machinery Co. Ltd. The annual meeting will be held at this time, fol- lowed by a tour of the plant. A tour of the salft mines at Goderich in June, 1964, was also considered and Melvin Good was appointed to make necessary arrangements for both occasions. Other business consisted of minutes of previous meeting, treasurer's report, and general discussion of various items of interest to the members. Meeting was conducted by the president, William G. Mundell, of Bluevale, J_IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL IIiIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley By jove, there's nothing like a spot of real, old-fashioned Canadian winter, what? Well, is there? What's that you say? You'll. take the Bomb? Oh, come, my dear fella, that's no attitude, We've had a delightful taste of it here. Thirty-six inches, a solid yard of the deep and crisp and even during the past week, and I must say, I rejoice in it. It's just a dashed shame that it can't be spread around a bit more. Here we are revelling in it and some of those poor devils in.4he unfortunate bottom end of the country haven't had more than an inch of it. Makes some feel rather selfish. There's something about win- ter that gets me, right here (you'll have to use your imagin- ation). Once the decadence of the holiday season is behind us, we hardy, rugged, virile Cana. dians can get down to some real living. Right? That's why we're so much cheerier and healthier and better -looking than those soft, southern races. Right? Oh, winter has its little an- noyances, just as summer does. As I shovelled out my driveway for the fifth time in five days, a still, small voice within me enquired, "Why didn't that thick-headed Irish grandfather of yours emigrate to Australia?" iTut that is counteracted by VIIIIIIIIIIIII111111 IIIA the fun of winter driving. There's a dash to it, a good fel- lowship about it, that makes it more of a game than a chore. For example, the other day I started for work as usual. It was snowing. True hill was slip- pery, so I decided to go the long way around. An hour and 20 minutes later I arrived •at work. But it was worth it. Pushing and being pushed, I had met some of the friendliest • people you could find, I had seen two rdandy ac- cidents. And though I had been forced to abandon my car half a mile further from work than where I'd started, I had the pleasure of mushing up the long hill with two charming ladies breaking trail for me. That's more than Sir Edmund Hilary had when he climbed Mount Everest. There are lots of other joyous experiences in our wholesome Canadian winter, but I think it's our whiter sports that make me feel more alive than anything else. You should hear me hum- ming with pure pleasure as I rub wax on young Kim's tobog- gan before sending her off for a jolly afternoon on the hill. And 1 fairly quiver with d- citetnent when young Hugh and I head out for the ski slopes. It's such a colorful, lively sport! The gaily -clad skiers with their bright -hued sweaters and spark- ling leg casts, The scarlet of blood against snow. The cheery moans of those with freshly - torn cartilages. But the real thrill is careen- ing down the big hill, as grace- ful as a gull, as light as a dart in a windstorm. I could watch him all afternoon, but it's sort of lonely, sitting there in the car, and besides, I have to get home and shovel out the front walk. We don't use it ourselves, but the postman complained this week. Said it was coming over the tops of his rubber boots, Another great sport beckons at the curling rink. So it's on with the sweater and tam, grab the broom, and off to the club. It gets pretty hot, sitting around there playing cribbage, and all that stuff, with a big • wool sweater on, but it's the atmos- phere that counts. There are so many other won- derful winter sports that it's difficult to take them all in. There's this great new golf series, Saturday afternoon an television. That takes up a lot of time. And ,Saturday night, there's the day of them all — the hockey game. No, no, not the one down at the rink. The one that oil company sponsors. Nobody but a real, red-blood- ed Canadian would have the zest for li,vving that all these zest for living that all these you glad you aren't rich, and don't have to go down south every winter and bum around swimming in that tepid water and loaf around getting fat on all that fried southern chicken, not to mention getting all dried out and leathery -looking from too much sun? We should have an exchange program with some of those soft, lazy, southern races, A month or two in Canada at this time of year would make real men of those birds. We could send some of our old people down on the exchange, to places like Jamaica and Mexico, for example. But it wouldn't work. You see, the people who organized it, chaps like me, would have to volunteer to go along with our old folk, to arrange things for them, and we'd miss all the joyous excitement of this winter wonderland. There'd be no volunteers. I, for one, couldn't stand to miss more than three or four months of it. How about you? 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