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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-11-05, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, G9&4 &zmme A Mighty Fine Choice for Hay Hay Township Council showed keen perception and an eye to the future when it proposed a Township Picnic Grounds on Lake Huron just south of St. Joseph as the Centennial Project for Ilay Township. The members on that council deserve the ac- claim of every voter in Hay and the praise of persons in the surrounding area. Lakefront property is at a premium now as never before. All too often, pub- 'ically owned lands along the lakes are transferred from the hands of the people to the five grubby fingers labelled pros- perity, progress, private enterprize, politics and prospecting. These perspiring paws are stripping Ontario citizens of their right- ful heritage, the largest chain of inland fresh water lakes known to man. Slowly, but ever so surely, more and more signs narked "Private", "Do Not En- ter" and "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted" are posted at the entrances of what used to be public access roads. Citizens of lake- side communities are being herded onto crowded resort beaches and into packed Provincial Parks. The late evening swim after threshing or the impromtpu picnic on Sunday afternoon are fast becoming im- possibilities. Activities that once were spur -of -the moment fun are now reduced to planned excursions. Stephen Township lost the last remain- ing choice lakefront property, under its jur- isdiction to the finger of Progress. The Lake Huron Water Pipeline intake system now occupies the piece of land that could have been a pleasure haven to residents of that township. In other municipalities along the lake, cottages, businesses and government schemes are dominating areas no longer available to the local public, Tourist facilities and summer homes bring cash to our locality, Business affords jobs for our unemployed. Progress gives a larger measure of convenience to our people. But Hay Township Council exercised the right to preserve for everyone a small portion of lakefront property that will give years and years of undeniable joy to the people it was elected to serve. This too is important. This too is needful. Reeve Corbett and his councillors took the step that other municipalities did not and cannot. In this, we should be proud and grateful. There Is More Than One Way to Skin a Cat The highly competitive business of sell- ing is a real art. In the more recent years, the public has been bled dry by unscrup- ulous sharpies interested in a fast buck. These smooth -talking, fast -departing sales- men have used every trick in the book to rnanouevre the homeowner into buying a product he doesn't need, won't use and can't afford. The private citizen has erected around himself a wall built of expensive experi- ences and unsatisfactory incidents. He has been burned somany times that he is re- luctant to be exposed to the hot -shot con - man ever again. Is it any wonder he views every attempt to "sell" as a gimmick or a come-on? Now, the product -pushers have found a plan that is working perfectly. Give the kids a few cents for peddling the stuff and sit back and watch it move. No one can resist a child salesman. That is the theory. Children are selling everything from garden seeds to jewellery these days while the pockets of many an armchair bandit are being filled to the brim. While it is true that the Curtis Plan ascribed to by our local high school does not fall into just this category, it is true that the students are called upon 'to sell magazines and papers in return for gifts and a bit of money used for school projects. They are allowed to play on the sympathy of parents and friends while many hours of valuable study and leisure time are lost forever. At this time of year, the most aggressive student is not the one who at- tains the highest marks but the one who sells the most subscriptions. It is true that the plan is on the up - and -up, and no one need fear that his money will be lost in the vast chasm of misdirected funds. But it is also true that a job is being done very successfully by these adolescent salesmen. The company must be well pleased with the results. It must be a financially sound proposition for them. Other high schools in the district do not participate in the scheme. There has to be a reason. Something's Wrong Somewhere In the days of the quill pen and the Pony Express, people did not expect and did not get fast mail service. Surely in this day of automation and jet speed, we can hope for speedier delivery than our ances- tors enjoyed. Recent changes in the postal processes designed to speed up the mail service, seem to have had the opposite effect. The greatest slow -down appears to be with mail designated for neighbouring communities. The Huron Expositor, published in Sea - forth, carried a front-page story last week that told of papers mailed Wednesday af- ternoon to adjacent Egmondville not de- livered to subscribers there until Saturday morning. A merry mail bag trip from Sea - forth to Stratford and back again was the story behind the delay. It has only hap- pened once. Ours is an even sadder tale. The Cit- izen's News, mailed out from Zurich on Wednesday evening, arrive in Bayfield and Varna anytime from Friday to the fol- lowing Monday morning. This happens every week. Subscribers there used to get their papers in Thursday's snail under the obsolete "slower" scheme. Complaints are heard from every corn- er of the district concerning the poorest mail delivery plan in many decades. Since the changes went into effect early in Oc- tober people have been patient. They rea- lized that the new system would need, time to 'work out the bugs". It has now been a month. Conditions have not improved nor does it seem that they will. News that an even "falster service" is in the offing presents visions of increased problems and •delays. Postal authorities should take the time to survey the entire system again with an eye to the day-to-day delivery between neighbouring communities. Small busi- nesses often are wholly dependant on a good mail service. It could be that the correction of some insignificant error in administration would remedy a ridiculous situation. Secret Pre -Hallowe'en Prank in Dashwood? Parents in Dashwood should he made aware of an incident that took place on the village streets last Wednesday night. A truck driver, proceeding through the quiet little town on a routine run, narrowly escaped possible serious injury when part of a turnip came hurtling through the windshield of • the cab. Some malicious marksman deliberately threw that turnip for the thrill of becoming a "big wheel" with the crowd. Whoever it was did not worry about the outcome. It did not matter that a truck could have been wrecked, a man could have been killed, an innocent party could have been hurt. Ali that mat- tered was the excitement of the moment. The assailant was not caught. As you would expect, the streets were deserted when the driver looked around. All cow- ards run and hide and come forth when the danger is past to smirk and boast to the others of their kind. It is hoped that this secret has been shared with mom and dad and not buried deep among the twisted thoughts of some youngster. It is necessary that this mis- demeanor be brought to the surface and bared for careful inspection. It would be unfortunate indeed if the guilty party was not discovered and severely chastised for the action. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH MRS. SHIRLEY KELLER, Editor HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher J. E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash Member: Member: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United State& arnd and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. Fro n My Window By Shirley Keller October has been one of those months when everything that could happen did happen. I heaved a great sigh of relief when November finally arrived and so far, the spell that hung over aur house for October has been broken by the new month. It all began early in October when the sump pump gay.e up the ghost. The massive puddle that formed on the basement floor was a 'headache for me but a delight for the children. It was just a nice depth for wading and that's what they did . shoes and all. I did man- age to quell their enthusiasm to don their bathing suits and dive off the steps. The basement floor had hardly dried up when the furn- ace quit. Naturally, it happened on one of the coldest nights we have had this fall. We learned that the warmth from an electric oven does little more than make the controls a toasty brown and serves as an excel- lent night light in a darkened room. October was the month we had the first snow fall of the season. As usual, the overshoe situation in our house was at a low ebb. I issued warnings to walk around the puddles and to stay on the gravel and the cement, but what child can re- sist the urge to tramp through even the tiniest dribble of water. It seems to ripple in all sorts •of interesting shape. These wet, bootless days were just the right ones for investigating the mysteries of the long grass about the neighborhood and ex- amining the progress of work f at the house under construction just down the street. New school shoes soon took on that "before" appearance you see in the shoe shine ads, and cleaning and drying muddy, dripping footwear is not exactly ecstacy. So, we made an excursion to buy winter boots. .As soon as the waterproofing had been completed, the weather turned sunny and warm. Have you ever tried to pursuade kids that they do not need to wear the shiny new boots just yet? As a result, two pair of shabby over- shoe, scuffed and unappealing, sit in the closet. The excite- ment of those boots has been lost forever and there will be an extended delay before they will be worn again ... come rain, snow or hail. Towards the end of the month, a rolicking game of hide - and -go -seek accidentally pulled the plug on the family food freezer. It went unnoticed un- til the thawing process was con. plete. Have you ever enjoyed a late night meat -roasting party? It is great sport. You put meat in the oven and on the four top elements. You place steak in the wings ready to go on and you dress ham- burg in tomato sauce for a cas- serole. And the flavor of beef that has been soaked in cherry juice is something you must taste to believe. Company for dinner brought this comment from thy son. "r hope you people like rasp- berry -flavored meat loaf?" One thought brings peace to my tortured soul. October could have been worse, I think. 50 Years Ago NOVEMBER, 1914 It is reported there is to be a wedding in the village shortly but we cannot vouch for the truth of that report. The meeting of the Women's Institute held at the residence of Mrs. Preeter was well at- tended. Dr. S. H. McDonald, dentist, will be at the Dominion Hotel, Zurich, on • Monday, November 16. If in need of any work in his line, give him a call. Lloyd O'Brien has taken a position in the printing office in Zurich and will learn the art of printing. 40 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER, 1924 There is every chance of a gasoline tax being imposed by the Ontario government next year, the receipts to be used on the roads, As long as the tax is placed only on roads using gasoline machinery, there is no fairer method of taxation. As it is today, the man who runs his auto 1,000 miles a year pays as much as the man who runs 10,000 miles. "Babe" Siebert, of Kitchener Senior OHA hockey team Last year and now of Niagara Falls, was offered a bonus . of $70 to sign with Cecil Hartz' Montreal team for two years at a salary of $2,000 per winter season. Messrs R. F. Stade and T. Mittleholtz were met by a pair of runaway horses as the men were coming into Zurich from the east, One of the horses struck the side of the truck and was cut so badly it had to be shot. The Women's Institute is to hear a talk on horticulture, All lovers of the same should not fail to attend thismeeting. 25 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER, 1939 Now playing at Leavitt's Theatre, "Out West with the Hardies", with Mickey Rooney. James A. Paterson, Hensall clerk, will attend a course pro- vided by the University of West- ern Ontario for municipal of- ficers. Twelve hundred people were fed at the recent annual fowl supper at the Lutheran Church and there was plenty left over for another 200, The little anti seemingly .anti -OF- YEARS GONE - BY - quated fire engine of Zurich again measured up to all its re- quirements when it was recent- ly called to the farm of Mr. Clifford Talbot, Drysdale. The fire was in a straw stack near the barn. Rev. Earl J. Treusch, who was recently ordained into the min- istry of the Lutheran Churcch, was installed as pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Mil- verton, by the Rev. E. Turk- heim, Zurich. Jack Taylor had his hand in- jured when it caught in the gear of a polisher he was oper- ating at Cook Bros. mills re- cently. 15 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER, 1949 Your help is needed at the local arena. A hammer is all you need to bring. Another canvass of the area will be started soon to raise funds for the building. Rev. John T. Maloney, 45, rec- tor of St. Mary's Roman Cath- olic Church, London, died sud- denly Sunday night of a heart attack. The $5,800 cottage won by Jack Drysdale, Hensall, at the CNE in Toronto, has arrived and the men of the firm which donated the cottage have erect- ed the building on the bowling green. Mr. Drysdale donated the cottage to the Hensall Chamber of Commerce as a community hall. Jerome Durand, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Durand, Zur- ich, was married in Holy Cross Church, London, to Grace Rob- bins. The couple will live in London. 10 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER, 1954 Huron County Judge T. M. Costello, 71, Goderich, died en - route to hospital following a car -truck crash near Bothwell. The number of tourists for the season was down consider- ably from previous years, ac- cording to statistics. Dr. James Gordon Dunlap, Ex• exter, passed away at his home this week. The new addition to the Coun- ty Home, Clinton, was officially opened by the Hon. William A, Goodfellow. Remembrance Day will be a holiday in Hay Township. Liquor "firewater" inevitably enters the blood stream, and eventually gets to the brain. AIM tl01110 UUI1801 l I got a few fan letters. About half of them are from dear, sweet, intelligent people who tell me they read the column faithfully, and like it. • About a quarter of them are from mutton -headed, wrong - minded, opinionated people who read the column faithfully and disagure with my politics, lan- guage and philosophy. The other quarter is made up of frantic chairmen of the pro- gram committees for various service clubs, wanting to know if I'll speak to their group on July 14, The answer to the last one is always no. I spoke to a service club once, and swore I'd never do it again. I have never had such an ignorant audience. After spending a week pre- paring a speech, and driving 50 miles on a winter night, after a hard day's work, 1 was asked anxiously by the president if 1 could "keep it down to 10 min- utes or so." About half the members were half -oiled and two or three went to sleep while I was being intro- duced. This is about standard. The president and secretary kept looking at their watches. Before the ritual "thank you" eight or ten members had slunk out. The president apologized, "they hafta go curling". The minute the vote of thanks (in which the mover called me Mr. Wiley, • the famous column- ist) ended, the club came to life with tigerish intensity, and I sat there listening for three- quarters of an hour to them quibbling about whether they should spend 50 bucks on a do- nation to boys' hockey, which would get them a picture and a half column in the local paper, of 25 bucks on a donation to a scholarship fund, which would get them a paragraph. Guess which won. However, as you have long since guessed, this experience has nothing to do with what I'm going to talk about. What I started out to say was that we had a switch this week. My SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley wife got a fan letter. It was a lovely letter—warm,, kind, friendly, intelligent, and utterly mistaken. In part, it reads, "I'm sure you must be a very patient woman and a very happy one, as I think I can tell from your husband's column he is a hap- py and contented man, and this is mainly all a wife needs to be happy herself. Perhaps?" Bless you, dear lady, for that "perhaps". There's stili hope for the reading public. My wife is about as patient as Henry the Eighth, about as happy as Hamlet. She's a good kid, basically, but it's been a long time since she was on base, Or even knew what inning it was. At least once a week, she's se depressed she says, "1 just feel like jumpink off the dock." I reply, "So who's stopping you?" She, o 1 d Patience, bellows, "You'd just love that, wouldn't you? You'd go right out and get married to some young flibbertigibbet w h o couldn't keep you in line." And so on. She thinks she's smarter, fi- nancially, than the president of the Bank of Canada. But she never has any change for the milk bottles. She claims she's so neurotic she can't sleep a wink, ever. I take her to a movie, she falls, asleep in eight minutes, and it takes the combined efforts of me, the ticket taker, and the manager, to get her out of the theatre whenit closes. Last week she wanted to go to Africa and teach all the kids in the Congo how to play the piano with the proper finger movements. Next week she'll be bawling hell out of me be- cause I haven't been bawling hell out of the kids about some- thing or other. Happy? No. Patient? It is to laugh. Interesting? Si. At- tractive? Si. Nutty? Naturally. And perhaps that, dear lady fan, is why her husband is, as you put it, "a happy and con- tented man." Oy! Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY J. E. 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