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Mr. and Mrs. James Hackett,
Douglas and Linda, of Galt,
were week -end visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Steinbach.
Mrs. Vic Dinnin, Mrs. Lerina
Rose, Mrs. Henry Schilbe and
Mrs. A. Finkbeiner attended the
funeral on Monday of Mrs. Lil-
lian Kuntz, in Windsor.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Stein-
bach, of London, visited with
Mr. Henry Howald on Sunday.
Mr. and M• rs. Ross Johnston
returned home Thursday from
Rochester, New York, where
they spent some time visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. E. Gemming,
RECEIV• ES AWARD
Harold Thiel, Zurich, was one
of 25 Guenther -Tuckey drivers
who received a safe driving pin
recently.
The award marks two years
of accident -free driving to the
credit of Mr. Thiel.
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GOSH• EN UCW
The February meeting of the
Goshen UCW met at the home
of Mrs. Arnold Keys. Mrs.
Floyd Armstrong opened the
meeting and the Scripture read-
ing was by Mrs. Jim Keys. Mrs.
Roy McBride read a prayer
hymn.
Mrs. Anson McKinley gave
the study book topic, 'A Chang-
ing Brazil".
Mrs. Bob Peck presided for
the business and read a letter
from the Children's .Aid Society
at Goderich.
March 17 was the date set for
the smorgasbord supper. An
invitation was received from the
Varna ladies to join them on
March 5 for .the Day of Prayer.
The meeting, closed with
prayer.
TRANSFERRED
J. E. Bannister, who has been
manager of the Zurich Bank of
Montreal for the past nine
years, has received word he will
be transferred to a new branch
at Little Current on Manitoulin
Island.
Little Current is a town of
about 1600 persons with a trad-
ing area of 10,000 population.
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Warden and Wife
Are Honoured
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No 8 -FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS
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ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1965
A crowd of well wishers
gathered in Dashwood's Com-
munity Centre last Friday eve-
ning to honor Huron County's
new warden, Glenn Webb.
Stephen Township deputy -
reeve James Hayter introduced
former wardens present for the
occasion, among .them 1964 war-
den Ralph Jewell and the last
warden from Stephen, Jack Mor-
risey.
Clifford Dunbar, reeve of
Grey Township and Webb's op-
ponent in the January race for
the wardenship, offered his con-
gratulations , to Huron's "first
family".
Speaking on behalf of Stephen
Township, councillor Ed Hen-
drick praised Mrs. Webb, the
former Doreen McClinchey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Orville
McClinchey, RR 1, Varna. He
said she would make her hus-
band's year as warden "much
easier" because she could be
depended upon to "take care
of things at home".
Grand Bend reeve, Stewart
Webb, the father of the Huron
warden, spoke briefly. He
quipped that he had always
known son Glenn would go
places. "From the time he was
a year bid," he said, "Glenn did
all the talking at our house."
Present from Zurich were
Reeve and Mrs. Milton Desch
and from Hay Township Reeve
and Mrs. John T. Corbett.
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PRESENTED HIGHEST AWARD - Lois
Simmons, Hensall Guide, received her Gold
Cord last Friday night ata Guide mother and
daughter banquet. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Simmons, Hensall. Picture
shows Mrs. Jim Hyde, former captain of the
Hensall Guide Company, pinning the coveted
cord on Miss Simmons as Mrs. Ton Lavender,
district Guide commissioner, watches.
Hensall and Zurich Guides Hold Joint
Mother and Daughter Banquet
Lois Simmons was presented
with her Gold Cord, the highest
award in Guiding, at a mother
and daughter banquet of the
Hensall-Zurich district, catered
to by Unit 1 of the Hensall Un-
ited Church Women last Friday
night. Mrs. James Hyde, form-
er chaplain of the Hensall Guide
Company, made the presenta-
tion.
Featured in the program was
a candle -lighting ceremony
which recognized the friendship,
fun, knowledge and service
which are the make-up of the
Gold Cord.
Hensall Guides and Brownies
presented a fashion show, com-
mentated by Pam Sangster, dis-
playing Guide uniforms of form-
er years and of other countries
of the world association.
Zurich Guides and Hensall
Brownies each sang a group of
their campfire and pow wow
songs, and Mrs. John Goddard
favored with musical numbers
on the piano.
Suitable decorations, arranged
by Lieutenant Mrs. Robert Cald-
well and Tawny Owls Mrs. Barry
Jackson and Mrs. Rodger Ven-
ner, included dolls dressed by
the Zurich Guides in uniforms
of other countries.
Mrs. William Smith, badge
secretary, presented Lois with
her Gold Cord pin on behalf of
the local association, and Mary
Mock gave her a Guide ring
from the company.
Guide Carolyn Cook toasted
the Gold •Cord Guide and
Brownie Dorothy Skea gave a
toast to the mothers, replied to
amusingly and inspiringly by
Mrs. Doug Cook.
Brown Owl Mrs. Robert Cook,
Captain Mrs. Robert Baker, and
Mrs. T. Lavender were in charge
of arrangements.
Free Enterprise Man Gets Seat;
Hog Producers Decide 'No Vote'
Huron County Hog Producers
will not have to go to the polls
to elect 19 of 20 men who previ.
ously announced their intention
to stand for election as board
comm itteemen.
The election, set for March 2,
was called off this week when
R. J. Semple, Bayfield, withdrew
from the race. The Farm Pro-
ducts Marketing Board accepted
his resignation and subsequent-
ly acclaimed the 19 remaining
candidates elected.
In a press release from the
office of D. H. Miles Huron
County agricultural representa-
tive, no reason was given for
the reversal.
The move once more allows
free enterprise supporter Mel-
vin Greb, RR 2, Dashwood, to
take a seat on the board. Greb
had been accused of forcing
the election when he indicated
at the nomination meeting in
Clinton his willingness to stand
for election.
Last year, after Greb was
nominated for a seat, one of the
19 hog marketing board sup-
porters stepped aside to save an
election, thus giving Greb a
seat on the Huron board.
This year, Huron hogmen de-
cided to go to the polls in an
effort to oust Greb since the
new term of office was set up
for three years.
Greb, a firey fighter who is
concerned about the welfare of
the "little man" and is himself
a small farmer, said Monday
night he c•oulcl not understand
why the election had been
halted.
He said he had been promised
good deal of support at the
polls by other farmers who op-
erated small farms, and was
"ready for the election".
"It would have made the hog
producers look pretty silly if
I had won in an election," he
quipped.
,Committeemen elected to rep-
resent Huron County for the
next three years are:
Martin Baan, RR 3, Walton;
Albert G. Bacon, Belgrave; Ken-
neth W. Baker, RR 1, Seaforth;
George Campbell, RR 1, Sea -
forth; Malcolm Davidson, RR 1,
Brucefield; Gordon Elliott, RR
5, Seaforth; Carl S. Govier, RR
1, Auburn; Melvin Greb, RR 2,
Dashwood; Elmer Hardign, RR
1, Gorrie; Elmer Ireland, RR 5,
Wingham; John S. Kernighan,
121 Newgate St., ,Goderich;
Robert McAllister, RR 2, Ati-
burn; James McGregor, RR 2,
Kippen; George Moncrief, RR 3,
Goderich; Raymond Neill, RR 1,
Wroxeter; Hugh Rundle, BR 1,
Centralia; Lloyd Stewart, RR 1,
Clinton; Alfred H. Warner, RR
1, Bayfield; Lionel Wilder, RR
1, Bayfield.
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Sunday marked the beginning
of the annual Boy Scout Week
in Canada. Troops in Dashwood
and Hensall attended church
services with their scout mas-
ters to begin the week in a
proper prospective.
Scouting started about the
turn of the century. It trains
boys to serve their country and
to be honorable citizens. Their
training takes them into the
outdoors and makes fine men
of the young lads.
Surplus Rear Sed
To Taxpayers
t Beginning in September, 1965,
the public school in Zurich will
have a kindergarten class. The
space for the class has been in-
cluded in the existing plans for
the new addition at the school.
Chairman Ian McAllister
termed the motion for kinder-
garten as a "formality".
He said the move towards
kindergarten was begun after
parents in the district indicated
their desire for kindergarten
facilities.
Kindergarten classes are al-
ready included at the Hensall
school and with the Zurich kin-
dergarten will serve all children
of kindergarten age in the en-
tire township.
The new class at Zurich will
require the services of another
teacher and the staff committee
of the board, chaired by Garnet
Leitch, will make recommenda-
tions to the board this spring.
There has been no decision
on whether or not the class will
be operated with morning and
afternoon shifts and some trans-
portation problems for out-of-
town children remain to be
solved.
Inspector J. G. Burrows has
outlined three alternate pro-
posals which could be employed
by the board to transport town-
ship kindergarten pupils to and
from school.
The children could be trans -
In keeping with a motion on
the former Hay Township School
Area books from 1964 and in
order to bring surplus from
both Hensall and Zurich schools
to more even amount, the Pub-
lic School Board erf the Town-
ship School Area of Hay voted
last Wednesday evening to re-
turn $13,195. 41 to Hay Town-
ship school supporters.
An audit of the 1964 accounts
showed Hensall's surplus at
$334.59 while the Hay Town-
ship surplus was $18,195.41.
The motion on the township
school board books from 1964
stipulated that any surplus over
$5000 be turned back to Hay
ratepayers.
Cheques will be sent to Zur-
ich, Hay and Stephen councils
in proportion to the school as-
sessments of each municipality.
How the money it rebated to
the school supporters in each of
the three municipalities will be
determined by the individual
councils.
Seven Girls Seek
'At Home' Honour
ported one way by the board
with the parents providing
transportation one way, the
board could provide transporta-
tion both ways free of charge or
parents could be required to
pay transportation costs for
their children to and from
school,
He said since kindergarten is
not recognized as a required
part of elementary school edu-
cation, the responsibility could
remain with the parents where
transportation is concerned.
More Travel Troubles
The board denied a request
by Milton McAdams for a four-
year renewal of his present con-
tract calling for the transporta-
tion of about 50 Hay Township
students to Zurich.
McAdams had indicated to
the board his desire to pur-
chase a new bus when the 52 -
passenger bus presently owned
by him needed extensive re -
Seven young ladies who are
students at South Huron Dis-
trict High School are breath-
lessly awaiting Friday evening
when one of them will be
crowned queen at the annual
"at home".
Candidates are: Susan Doerr,
special commercial, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Doerr, Exe-
ter; Sharon Lightfoot, 13B,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross
Lightfoot, Centralia; Caroline
Simmons, 13A, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Simmons, Exeter:
Janet Skinner, 12D, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Skinner,
RR 3, Exeter; Marilyn Johns,
12C, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Allan • Johns, RR 3. Exeter;
Kathy Buxton, 12B, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Buxton, RR
1, Centralia, and Helen Cole,
, 12A, daughter of Harry Cole,
pairs. He felt he needed a con-
tract of some duration to make
the deal.
The board members noted
the McAdams contract was
signed until June and should be
fulfilled.
"We won't know what we
need until June," said Robert
Rowcliffe.
The board also saw the bills
from repairs made to the town-
ship -owned bus which broke
down about two weeks ago.
They noted some decision would
have to be reached this spring
regarding transportation.
The township bus is two and
a half years old andhas trav-
elled 22,000 miles. Secretary -
treasurer Robert Westlake was
instructed to determine the
costs of operating the bus dur-
ing that time. From that report,
the board will determine wheth-
er it is less costly to own buses
or hire them.
Businessmen in Grand Bend Oppose
New Parallel Parking Regulations
Several Grand Bend mer-
chants with businesses fronting
onto main street appeared be-
fore council to oppose recently
enforced parallel parking.
Horace Begley, Roy Robinson
and Ken Young said customer
parking is seriously affected by
the new regulations and com-
pained that only about half the
number of cars can now be
parked in the same area.
Councillor Orville Wassmann,
owner of a main street hotel,
said some alternative parking
would have to be provided but
cautioned that only a minimum
of accessible land was available.
Reeve Stewart Webb assured
the merchants extra parking
space at the beach would be
ready for the summer season.
He said some pressure was be-
ing exerted in the village to
have Kitchener Street opened
to traffic to provide additional
off-street parking for shoppers.
Roy Robinson asked why the
parallel parking by-law had
never been enforced since it
was passed in 1951. He said he
had purchased property in
Grand Bend without knowing
such a by-law existed.
Council had no real explana-
tion for the non -implementation
of the by-law. Reeve Webb said
if enough business people "put
on the pressure", it could pos-
sibly be amended but added if
this were done, council would
have to "forget cheat t' • con-
necting link agreement" on
main street.
Robinson wondered if council
felt the loss of so much poten-
tial business "was worth it".
He was told that under the
agreement, the department of
highways would assume the
costs of reconstructing the road,
estimated to be about $60,000.
Begley expressed concern
that main street rebuilding
would begin prior to summer,
further hampering bee -le -es. He
said a good many tax dollars.
came off main street and sug-
gested council consider the
small businessman.
Reeve Webb told that unless
completion could be promised
before May 1 reconstruction
on main, street would ng7 tom-•
mence until after Labor bay.
The merchants questioned if
angle parking could be enjoyed
for at least this summer if con-
struction did not begin until
September.
"There is a possibility." said
the reeve.
Congratulations In Order
Local Guides offered their congratulations to Lois
Simmons (centre) who received the highest award in Guid-
ing (the Gold Cord) at a banquet in llensall. Flanking the
happy Miss .Simmons are (left to right) Carmen Currie and
Carolyn Cook, both of llensall; Carol Gascho and i.inda
Stade, both of Zurich.