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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-01-23, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, JANUARY 2.6, 1964 ed4134 CO.M0f, - The Editor You See The following is an excerpt from an article by Bruce West in the Toronto Globe and Mail regarding the retirement of Dr. Hugh Templin after 40 years as editor and publisher of the News -Record in Fergus. ,`Many of us who work on big city dailies sometimes talk or •dream about acquiring a small weekly paper of our own. In most cases, that's all this particular am- bition ever amounts to. In the case of Hugh Templin, however, he did something about it. After being employed for a while by a big city daily, he went back to Fergus to help his father run the News -Record, and just stayed on. In so doing, he, like many other editors of weekly papers, became part of the fabric of his community. A good weekly editor seldom is allowed to merely sit at his desk and view his town from his own particular kind of ivory tower. Weekly journalism is much too personal to allow any luxury of this kind. The small town editor has to become a part of the community in fair weather or foul. As likely as not, the weekly editor also has to become very much a part of his newspaper as well as of his town. In many cases he is obliged to be the circulation manager, the composing room foreman and the advertising manager, as well as the editor. In so doing, he gets a lot of satis- faction and is often subjected to a certain amount of frustration. "With a weekly paper it's different," a small town editor once told me. "The editor of a big city daily can haul off and attack a member of his community with a fair amount of assurance that he may never meet the subject of his wrath personally. "But when you're the editor of a small town weekly, the chances are that you'll encounter on your doorstep tomorrow morn- ing the councilman or mayor you attack today. You'll encounter him not only to- morrow, but most any day of the week." For such reasons, I'd like to add my surroundings, it is sometimes more dificult to be utterly fearless and objective than it is in the impersonal environment of a great city. For such reasons, I'like to add my tribute this morning to those which have already been received by Dr. Templin. He and most of his fellow weekly editors do great credit to what I think is a worth- while profession. The publishers of this newspaper would like to join with all those who have ex- pressed congratulations to Dr. Templin on his retirement. The .accolades he has re- ceived have been well deserved. One W'ho Obeys the Law A Toronto druggist has started his own one-man campaign against smoking by chil- dren. Like most druggists, he sells tobacco, but unlike most druggists, he has posted a big sign over his tobacco counter, to say: "NO CIGARETTES WILL BE SOLD TO TEEN-AGERS WITHOUT PROOF OF AGE." The law in Ontario says that it is a crime to sell cigarettes to anyone under the age of 16, but very little is done to catch any of the criminals who break the law. We can not recall that we have ever read or heard of anyone being charged or prose- cuted for selling cigarettes to a 15 -year-old, although we have a strong suspicion that some people must do it. One way or an- other, 15 -year-olds get cigarettes, and we doubt if they get them all as gifts. Frank Bergson, whose pharmacy is in the Sheppard Ave. neighborhood of Toron- to, is a non-smoker himself, but he has no qualms of conscience, he says, about mak- ing a dollar from the sale of cigarettes to adults. "I don't have too much confidence in the public's collective ability to stop smok- ing," he is quoted as saying, He does have qualms, however, about making money for himself by assisting teen-agers to get started on the cigarette habit. The sign in his store will have the effect, obviously, of reducing the volume of legal sales to 16 -year-olds and 17-year- olds, as well as cutting out illegal sales to 15 -year-olds and 14year-olds. The teen- agers who would have to produce a birth certificate to buy at the Bergson store will be inclined to go somewhere else for their :cigarettes. It is not likely that one retail store in Toronto can accomplish much with : a one - store campaign dike the Bergson effort. We can imagine, though, that in a small com- munity a policy like the Bergson policy might have some good effect. If there were only three places in a village where cigarettes could be bought, and if two of the three posted signs like the sign in the Bergson store, the third re- tailer would be quite conspicuous as, "That fellow who gets kids hooked on the cigar- ette habit so he can make a buck."— (Stratford Beacon -Herald) Buy Now, Pay Later Squeeze Spending money today is all but forced on people by high pressure advertising, the ease with which goods may be purchased on the installment plan and their own de- sire to attain the standard of living which is considered so essential nowadays. All of this is extremely hard on the individual. It is not everyone who can resist the sales appeal, the temptation to buy now and pay later, or grasp the fact that the standard of living they aspire to is beyond their means. Young people earning wages have little thought beyond the goods—transistor ra- dios, cars, clothes, etc.—that they can ob- tain for the money. Young couples both earning feel their pockets jingling and make down payments happily. Not unfrequently their story takes a sad turn when they find themselves with children and the earnings of the father no longer sufficient to sup- portthem--AND, at the same time, con - tines to make payments en the goods. On the one hand, this buying by the people on .a large scale is looked upon as the keynote for a prosperous Canada. On the other, there are many individuals being crushed by it. But there is also a feeling that "the people" should save and invest in their own country. Between the buying and the taxation, this is not easy. Some protection for consumers of goods might help the situation. The com- panies that sell them on the installment plan could be required to allow a period of say, a few clays, during which the pur- chaser makes a decision as to whether to keep the goods or not. In this way, a weak housewife prevailed upon by salesmanship to buy, would have the chance to return the purchase after consultation with her husband. A little more thought before getting into debt might enable more people to build up a better future for themselves. Perhaps more of them would enjoy greater prosperity and more of them would be able to invest their savings in Canada, instead of the economy being bolstered by big busi- ness.—(Nanton "Alta." News.) III!Illllllllll.!illlllillll mo Ili!llllllllllliilllllllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIWIWiWIUI!1 ►Bono HIUlIII!!IIUII!111!NMl!1!IIIA!IIINIoHINIIIIN totoNN1yI1 n SUGAR and SPICE IIIllllllllllll1 1111 By Bill Smiley mom Well, I guess, I'm going to have to quit. That last report on cigarette smoking, the big brutual one from the U.S., has finally broken my nerve, The report says definitely that .the death rate among smokers, is ten times as high from lung cancer, 60 per cent higher from coronary disease, and six times higher from pul- monary emphysema. I had no objection to passing away from a perfectly normal, respectable disease of the 20th century, like lung cancer or a coronary, but that pulmonary emphysema has me scared. It sounds nasty. I .started smoking when I was about nine, in the old sandpit in my home town. A group of us urchins used to gather there and puff a dry weed known as "monkey tobacco", rolled in toilet paper. By the time we were twelve we were well into "makings": tobacco and papers pinched from somebody's old man. My dad didn't smoke, so I was always bumming, and soon became persona non grata, as we used to say in the gang. Then I made a glorious dis- covery. My father had :a!shoe store. In those days, the shoe manufacturer put long rounded strips' of a bamboo-Iike dried reed in ladies' shoes, to help them keep their shape. This stuff, when ignited, burned steadily, could be d r a w n through, and produced volumes of a blue, searing smoke that peeled the skin off your tongue like .acid. ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERB TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZTIRICH, 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; single copies 7 cents I was a _social success until my old nian discovered that all the toes in his ladies' shoes were beginning to ,point to heaven. In high school 1 worried about my wind, for track and rugby, and smoked . only a pipe. At college, I didn't smoke at all. Couldn't afford if. In the Air Force, 1 had, the odd cigarette, but had no problem with smok- ing. In prison camp, I took the monkey on my back, and he's been using the spurs and lash ever since. Why? Food was scarce, but cigarettes, thanks to the Red Cross and relatives at home, were fairly plentiful. My fellow -inmates told me smoking cut the appetite. I tried it. It did. Since then I have been a hap- py deck -a -day man. The smok- ing scares have come and gone, and I went right on blowing rings, But no more. Not with that pulmonary emphysema around In a way, I'm glad it's all over. No more hacking and horking in the morning. No more of that wild belly -wrench- ing hist for a drag on the job, at the movies, or in church. No more of that frantic scrabbling through all the suit, jacket, pants, pyjamas, and overcoat pockets, looking for a butt, on a Sunday morning. And they tell me you can be quite comfortable in one of these straight -jackets, after you get used to it! Holy Smokes! I've gone through half a pack while writ- ing this column. Say, what is pulmonary emphysema, any- way? 0 Kippen News tary, Mrs. T. Reid; treasurer, Mrs. E, McLean. Following the installation of officers, the new president, Mrs. B. Faber, took over the meeting. Mrs. H. Finkbeiner took the topic, then Mrs, Keith Lovell and Mrs. H. Finkbeiner sang a duet, with Mrs. Ross Broadfoot accompanying on the piano. Re- ports were heard on the work accomplished last year, and plans made for a pot -luck din- ner and quilting to take place in the church hall on February 4. Mrs.' T. Reid and Mrs. G. Moffatt will look after the serving of dinner to the ladies. Programme and lunch were in charge of Unit 1. Sam Cudmore Sam Cudmore, a highly re- spected •citizen in his 93rd year, passed away Tuesday, January 14, in Kitchener -Waterloo Hos- pital, where he has been a pa- tient for 'almost two years. He lived in and near Seaforth most of his life and was a resident of Kippen a few years before liv- ing with his children. Mrs. Cudmore predeceased him seven years ago. He leaves to mourn his passing a daughter (Mildred) Mrs. Lorne Pinkney of Toronto; two sons, Charlie of Preston, Stewart of London; a sister, Mrs. Louise Horton, of Oshawa; a brother, Lorne Cud - more, .of Richmond, B.C., nieces and nephews, 10 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. U.C.W. Meeting The U.C.W. of St. Andrew's United Church, Kippen, held their first meeting in the church hall on. Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m., with 20 members present. Mrs. Harold Jones chaired the meeting; with Mrs. Edison Mc- Lean taking the worship. Rev. H. Plant called the new execu- tive forward to be installed. They are as follows: honorary president, Mrs. H. Jones; presi- dent, Mrs. B. Faber; first vice- president, Mrs. E. Kyle; second vice - president, Mrs. Lloyd Lovell; recording secretary, Mrs. R. Consitt; corresponding secre- E IPE OF THE MONTH By`he Ontario Tender Fruit Institute "Bur Canada Choice Canned Fruit"`, SAUSAGE PEACHERINO Serves 5 Easy & Economical 1 Ib. sausage meat 11/2 tablespoons minced onion 2 cups soft bread crumbs JZ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning dash of pepper 1 egg, beaten 10 canned Canadian freestone peach halves, drained whole cloves V2 cup peach syrup C.0 m bin e sausage, onion, bread crumbs, egg and sea- sonings. Form into ten balls. Bake in shallow pan in mod- erate oven (350 degrees F.) 25 minutes. Remove from oven. Drain off fat. Drain peach halves and stud with 4-6 cloves. Place a sausage ball on top of each peach half. Add syrup and return to oven for 20 minutes, bast- ing with syrup. LAMF-A-DAY vrcr ©1050, IthilAFebtures Syndiate, Tne., wortct rtg1 is received. "You forgot 0 kiss me goodbye this morning," bert Thomson, Wilfred Mellis, Orville Workman, Go rd on Styles, Lorne Cudmore, Bever- ley Cudmore. Interment in Baird's Cemetery, Brucefield. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Schneider and family, of Stratford, visited Mrs. R. Thomson Friday eve- ning, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Doig, of Grand Rapids, Mich., visited Saturday with Miss Janet Doig at "Huronview", Clinton, later calling on Mr. and Mrs. N. Long. Joint Birthday Party On the evening of January 15, Mr, and Mrs, Lewis Gingerich, of Blake, accompanied by the latter's grandmother, 11'Irs. Mary Garber, motored to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Riley to attend a birthday party. The occasion being the birthday of Mrs. Nancy Riley and Mrs. Mary Garber, who were celebrating their 87th and 67th birthdays. The evening was spent in sing- ing and visiting. After the pres- entation a delicious lunch was served by the hostess. 0 Funeral service was conduct- ed at the Bonthron funeral home, Hensall, on Thursday, January 16. Rev. J. Stewart, of Seaforth, was in charge of the service. Pallbearers were Ro- 4 HENSALL Mr. and Mrs. Sint Roobol at- tended the funeral of the late Mrs. J. Fransen at Thamesville, on Saturday, and spent the weekend with Mrs. Roobol's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gelderland, at Ridgetown. Mr. Gelderland returned the latter part of last week from spending a month's vacation in his homeland, Hol- land. Attention Farmers CONCRETE SILOS 1964 will be a big year in construction. Farmers inter- ested in building a Silo or any size from a 13 -foot up to 14 foot in diameter, should contact us immediately. The average farmer has 3 to 4 silos on his farm — how about you? Do you need another silo? CALL WES HUGILL, ZURICH PHONE 204 Business and Professional Directory ACCOUNTANTS ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT GODERICH P.O. Box 478 Dial 524-9521 AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small courteous and efficient service at all times. 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