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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-04-16, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 ecidivaai eammeed So They Say . A small Negro boy stood before a booth in a Fall Fair in Northern Ontario, his finger in his mouth, eyes downcast, afraid to say what was on his mind. He stood there a long time, because the two women on duty at the booth were busy talking to a large group of visitors who were watching a colony of honey bees in a hive in front of the booth. Some of them were intent also on watching half a dozen white mice that scurried about in a roomy, well kept cage. Finally, one of the women, cheery in a bright yellow smock, turned to the lad. "Do you want to come •a little closer?" she asked, "and look at the bees?" Slowly, he moved forward, drew nearer the bees and the mice, gazed at them in- tently, then looked at the woman, tears in his eyes. "They're nice," he said, softly. "I wish I had some. Do you know where I could get some?" "You mean the bees or the mice?" "Both," he said, almost breaking into a smile, the tears still visible on ,his eye- lashes. "Well, you never know," smiled the volunteer, "you might be able to get some —do you have room for them at home?" He hesitated. Was he now going to be forced to say what lay so heavily on his mind? He was distressed, afraid. Nobody had talked at home. He'd been asked to say nothing. His Dad hadn't any money, and he was afraid they'd need it if people got to know. "Well ..." he began, sud- denly slapping the back of his hand across his eyes, "I was just wondering ..." "Would you be able to look after them —do you have any brothers and sisters? Would they like them, too?" The volunteer sensed the lad was deeply troubled. She was trying to get at the source. Then he looked directly at her, the warmth of her voice, her direct honest ap- proach, the atmosphere of normalcy about her, breaking down his thin line of defense. "Yes, I've got seven brothers and sisters," he said, "but it ain't that — it's — it's be - AIM AW. IN cause my mom has cancer —so they say. She's real sick. I thought the bees — or even the mice might make her smile again. She never smiles any more." The two trained Women's Service mem- bers of the Canadian Cancer Society took the boy inside the booth and asked him a few gentle questions: this was a case that must be handled with the greatest of care, but the child's sudden need to confide gave them the information they wished. The next day a Women's Service vol- unteer visited the wooden shack on the hill, to find three young children playing on the floor, a teenage neighbour at work in the small kitchen, and the mother prone on the couch. The father had gone to work in a small neighbouring box factory, the rest of the children were at school. A doctor was called, and within two clays the dark-haired, dark skinned mother, so afraid to leave her children, so worried about meeting expense, feeling so guilty about being a burden to her young hus- band, was persuaded to have an operation for abdominal cancer at the nearest hos- pital Never had she been cared for like this. People waited on her. She was in much less pain now, and there were drugs to help when the pain started again. She re- ceived little notes from friends. When she was discharged, a Cancer Society volunteer driver drove her to Toronto for treatment at the Princess Margaret Hospital. She stayed at the Lodge for a nominal sum, much of it contributed by neighbours and fellow employees at the box factory. When she came home at last, the Cancer Society supplied her with free dressings, free pain - relieving drugs, on the prescription of her doctor, with visits •and small gifts for her and the children, that made the last months of her life more bearable. "So they say ..." is never left hang- ing in mid-air by volunteers of the Cancer Society. So often there is a tragic story behind the words—one which the Society is able to make less desperate. Bury Five of Them There is an old saying that a Iawyer sends his mistakes to jail, a doctor buries his but an editor prints his errors for everybody to see. Not everybody likes what an editor has to say and this story illustrates the reaction of somebody who felt that way about them in general. An editor died, poor as usual. A friend spent a day al- most fruitlessly, trying to collect a funeral. fund. At dusk, he pleaded with a stranger: "Just a dollar—to bury an editor." The stranger replied, "Bury an editor?" Sure, here's $5—bury five of them."—(Nanton News) Testing Can't Make a Bull any Better . gut It Can Tell How Good He is • • Reliable sire information is a tradition with Ontario's breeding co-operatives. All of the available information on each bull is obtained and published so that the breeder can safely base the future of his herd on the bull of his choice. W.C. .A. Dairy Bulls are daughter proven in hundreds of On- tario herds under all types of feeding and management conditions. W.C.B.A. Beef Bulls many of which are performance tested, are being progeny tested under the On- tario Quality Meat Sire program. Sire with genetic superiority proven by up to 100, 500, even 1,000 offspring are available at low cost through the services of \Vaterloo Cattle Breeding Association Branch offices throughout Western Ontario — listed in your local telephone directory ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERB TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher PUBLISI n'D 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 hates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents Last Sunday was one of those days, Filthy outside, with mud and rain and wind. Dismal in- side with everybody bored and crabby. I mooched around the house gloomily, wishing the g o 1 f course was dry, or the trout season open. Then I started thinking about what Sunday really meant, was ashamed of myself, and cheered up consid- erably. As some wit remarked: to our ancestors, it was the Holy Sabbath; to our great-grand- fathers, The Lord's Day; to our fathers, Sunday. We call it The Week End. The Sabbath is not of Chris- tian origin. It was originally a Jewish holy day, on the last day of the week. Like most of the laws of the ancient He- brews, observance of the Sab- bath was a combination of re- ligion and common sense. Man needs a day of rest in every seven. He demands punctua- tion marks in the life sentence he is serving. However, there's a vast dif- ference between the Sabbath of the ancient Hebrew and the Sunday of modern man. fin. . The former lived a pastoral life. When the Sabbath came along, all he had to do was lie around and count his sheep. He didn't have to roll, groaning, out of bed after a late Saturday night, scramble around trying to get his family off to church, wash the car or catch fish or play golf, drive 80 miles to visit some relatives of his wife, and tear home to watch the hockey game. If it were not for Sunday, the Saturday nigh,t, bath would be- come obsolete.' If it were not SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley for Sunday, many men would go through life without shining their shoes. If it were not for Sunday, many women would never get a new hat Sunday is a great comfort to those intent on getting to heav- en. They don sober garb and pious mien on Sunday morning. On Monday, they go back to the normal pastimes of trying to scramble to political, social and financial eminence over the crushed and bleeding bodies and souls of their fellow Chris- tians, secure in the knowledge that if there is a rush for seats on the judgment day, they will have some pull with the man- agement. Sunday means church. Church too, is a good thing. First of all, it provides employment for ministers, and employment, or lack of it, is pretty emportant these days. Secondly, it pro- vides the only place in modern society where people who like to sing, but sound like hyenas, can vent their frustration with- out someone telling them to shut up. After church, what? There's nothing particularly Christian about gorging oneself with food and sitting in a stupor looking at television. What about a nice Christian game of golf, with no swearing when one slices? What about a walk in the woods, worship- ping the wonderful world of nature that was created for one? And if one happened to look down and see a fishing rod in one's hand, one shouldn't worry too much about it. Remember the old adage: Evangelists may rave and shout, But only God can make a trout. EARS AGO API1L,1924 Mr. Sam Ropp, of the Goshen Line north, is confined to his ,home with a severe attack of lumbago. Mr. W. H. Pfile, who has op- erated a shoe business in Zur- ich for a number of years, has closed his store and moved the stock to Hensall where he in- tends to operate in the future. Mr. Robert Lamont, of the western provinces, brought a carload of horses to the district, and they were sold by public auction at Zurich. Mr. Herb Mousseau, of the Zurich garage, is offing the mo- torists a bargain. For $10 he will supply and service the bat- tery in their auto for one year. Blueprints have been received for the erection of a new build- ing for the Molson's Bank, to replace the one which was de- stroyed in Zurich by fire. The businessmen of Hensall have agreed to observe a half holiday every Thursday after- noon, for the summer months. Members of the firm of Libby and Libby have been in Hen- sall for some days looking for land which they might be able to rent for cucumber acreage. They have stated that if enough land is available they will con- sider moving their pickle plant to Hensall. Earl Guenther, of Dashwood, has purchased a new Ford truck for his transport business. '"YEARS AGO APRIL, 1938 William Decker and George Thiel won first And second prize for the best general pur- pose team at the annual Hensall Spring Fair. -oF- YEARS GONE -BY- A pretty wedding was sol- enized at the Lutheran parson- age in Zurich when Margaret A. Haberer was united in holy wedlock to Keith R. Westlake. The founder of the Zurich Herald, Edmund Zeller, passed away in Windsor on Wednes- day in his 73 year. He had started the paper in 1900, and had also been instrumental in starting the first electrical sys- tem in Zurich. The water rates for the vil- lage of Zurich have been raised to $14 per year for each .house- hold. The water service has also been extended to the pub- lic school, where it should serve as a great convenience. Mr. Ward Fritz has purchased a service station at Crediton, and it will be operated by Mr. Zimmer, of Dashwood. .evv+.wrevwIs, 15 YEARS AGO APRIL, 1949 Dr. Norma Cook, of Orillia, spent a few days at the home of her parents in Hensall, ow- ing to the illness of her father. Mr. Clement Bedard, who has been engaged most of the win- ter at the Ford plant in Wind- sor, has returned to the Blue - water highway and will assist Mr. Andrew Rau in the opera- tion of his farm. Some very good catches of smelt are being reported along the lake, and every night lights can be seen for miles along the beach. J. Elgin McKinley, of Zurich, has been chosen for the stand- ard bearer of the Huron Pro- gressive Conservative party in the forthcoming election. While travelling along the Babylon Line on Saturday night Mr. and Mrs, Albert Hess noticed a herd of six fine deer in a field, eating the new wheat crop which has just started to grow nicely. Mr, Ivan Yungblut has work- men busy erecting his new home in the village of Zurich, just north of the new home re- cently built by Roy Lamont. 10 YEARS AGO APRIL, 1954 Tow Rowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Rowe, of Bolton, formerly of Zurich, has joined the staff of radio station CFCO at Chatham. It would be a good thing if notice was given that all dogs must be tied up after April 15, so they could not run at large in people's gardens and lawns. 4 Seven young people were con- firmed on Sunday at Zion Lu- theran Church, in Dashwood, by Rev. L. Hignell. Miss Pat Bong, public health nurse for Huron County, was the guest speaker at the April meeting of the Dashwood Women's Institute. Jack Yungblut, of Zurich, took top honours in the boy's solo class at the annual South Huron music festival. Richard Klopp placed second. Henry Clausius has purchased the dwelling property in Zur- ich just north of the Zurich Dairy, from the Jeffrey estate. A very successful auction sale was held Iast Saturday at the farm of Mr. Alfred Ropp, when the proceeds amounted to over $12,000. BEAN MARKET AVAILABLE GROW BEANS! BEAN CONTRACTS : SEED AND FERTILIZER SUPPLIED CROP ACCEPTED AT HARVEST QUALITY SEED ONTARIO REGISTERED — SANILAC SEAWAY SAGINAW MICHELITE '62 MICHIGAN CERTIFIED — SANILAC All Seed Grown from Foundation Stock SEED TREATED WITH DIAZINON AND CAPTAN for Control of Seed Corn Maggots, Seed Maggots, Root Maggots, Seed Rots and other Fungus Diseases. This treatment recommended for use on "Resistant" Seed maggots. 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