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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-04-08, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1965 ofottai ectopisteat air The Cart Before the Horse! We can't help but wonder at the ad- visability of the village council in Zurich going ahead with plans for a new fire hall, which in all probability will cost the rate- payers close to $30,000. This is a big ex- penditure, especially when you consider the fact there is no fire protection in the village anyway, even if there is a new building to house the truck. Let's take a look at the village, and consider the fire hazards that exist due to lack of .hydrants and suitable water mains. In the north end of Zurich you :have a fine funeral home, a vault factory, and a church. There is no way of fighting a fire in this area without hydrants. Next, let's look at the Catholic Church, and the up-to-date school that sits next to it. The same story here, no fire hy- drants. We have the Evangelical Church, again without fire hydrants for protection, In the south end of the village we have the Lutheran Church, where there is ne fire hydrant. Now, a new building is to be erected on the present location of the public school. Surely a project such as this should be protected by fire hydrants. As well, the biggest portion of the downtown business area is left unprotected. There are at present only a couple of fire hydrants throughout the village, and only about one of them has any pressure available to speak of. Does it not seem a bit foolish to erect a new building to house a fire truck, when there is no further protection available? We realize there is a definite need for some better accommodation for a fire truck than now exists, but we wonder if spend- ing a couple of thousands dollars on the present building would not be satisfactory enough, for now. We would sooner see the village spend about $30,000 on . the start of a long-range program to replace the present under -size water mains, as well as installing hydrants at vital locations. This could not be done all in one year, but takes some careful planning over a period of ten or more years. The need is serious. Supposing a new fire hall were built at a huge cost to the ratepayers, and a serious fire broke out at one of the loca- tions mentioned above. Would we not feel rather foolish to have a building burn down due to lack of available water supply? There is no shortage of water in Zur- ich, just an acute shortage of pressure, due to mains that are not meant to carry such a great load. We think it is high time council give this dangerous situation some careful consideration, and maybe forego their plans for an expensive new fire hall until adequate protection is available. We would sooner pay a few dollars more each year in taxes, knowing that the money would be giving us suitable fire protection, than having to pay for a new building which in reality is no benefit to us at all, until the proper outlets are pro- vided. At the same time we wonder if spend- ing this amount of money without approval of the ratepayers is a wise decision. In most municipalities, the people paying the shot are asked to approve such a project before it begins. In order to obtain the feeling of rate- payers on this important matter, we are invitings citizens, as well as urging them, to write a letter to this newspaper ex- plaining their views on the serious sit- uation. Lopsided School Terms! Good Friday comes a week from to- morrow. The vagaries of the calendar are such that the Easter holidays for the schools start 20 days later this year than they did last year. In 1964 we had an un- seasonably cold Easter Sunday on March 29. This year we will, we hope, have seen the end of winter before Easter Sunday comes along on April 18. Good Friday and Easter Sunday have deep religious meaning, strengthened by the continuing traditions of nearly 20 cen- turies. One would not lightly suggest that the method for determining the date of the Christian Easter should be changed merely for the convenience of holidayers, or for the better display of new Easter clothing. The Easter holidays have another meaning, apart from their religious signifi- cance and their place in the calendar of church observances. Easter holidays are for school children. We do not see why the custom taking a break between school terms should necessarily be connected with the date of Good Friday. It may be desir- able that children should have a week off between the winter term and the spring term. It may be desirable to continue with the Ontario custom of filling Easter Week with conventions of school teachers, who have that week free from classes. We do not see that the normal school break be- tween winter terns and spring term nec- essarily has to be a 10 -day period begin- ning on Good Friday. Last year, as it happened, the dates for Easter provided a reasonable division of the school year into terms. .After Christmas school holidays, the winter term ran for 12 weeks, until the 10 -day Easter break began on Good Friday, March 27. After the Easter break of 1964, the spring term ran for 12 weeks to the end of June. This year it works out quite differ- ently, and not nearly as well for school purposes. By the time the schools of On- tario close for the Easter holidays this year the winter term will have run for 15 weeks; when school starts again after the Easter holidays, the 1965 spring term will be a short and crowded nine weeks, which will have to include final review and ex- aminations. We do not see why the school system has to tie its spring holidays to the date of Easter. One day, Good Friday itself, should be a school holiday in this province, whatever the date. If a break of 'a week is needed between winter and spring term, as it probably is, why could it not be the week beginning the first Monday in April, regardless of Easter?—(Stratford Beacon - Herald) Slight Increase For County Taxes Seen in 1965 Goderich — The county tax levy for 1965 will be 15.5 mills, of which 8.'75 is for roads and 6.75 for general purposes, an increase in each of three-quar- ters of a mill. The respective totals to be raised are $447,503 and $580,096, or $1,027,599, compared with $913,629 in 1964. Including government grants other revenue, the budget calls for receipts of $2,46',551. The county ended the year with a surplus of $40,026, but the budget now provides for drawing on surplus account to the extent of $80,000. Clerk -treasurer J. G. Berry reported that the finance and executive committee r e co m - mended a working capital re- serve, to offset the need to bor- row money from the beginning of each year. The department of municipal affairs now per- mits a by-law to be passed eastablishing such a reserve. Mr. Berry has budgeted for an estimated surplus of $10,663. In the connection with the long-awaited county history, he said that he and Prof. James Scott are to meet in Toronto April 21 with the publishers and to present the completed manuscript. At the Wednesday afternoon's session, council heard Ed Wheeler, field secretary of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and Roy Meeham, assistant field secretary. They were introduced by Inspector James Kinkead. "Your work is appreciated in this county," Warden Webb told them, "and this council will help you in any way it can." 0 Advertising has brought us many things. Finer cars, bet- ter homes, silly fads and won- derful inventions that have made life easier — and longer, The newspaper is your con- tact with Main Street, your neighbour, the world. PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITiED, ZURICH 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 States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. SUGAR. AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Watching the world lately, I find it hard to believe that man- kind has progressed very far since the day Cain clobbered Abel and began a fad that has never lost its popularity —mur- dering one's brother. Whether it's Alabama, Ham- burg or Havana, Quito or Que- bec, the pattern is the same: clubs swinging, women scream- ing, skulls cracking, blood spurting. Hammering one's fellow citi- zen with a billy-lub is one of the leading outdoor sports of this generation. It's difficult to believe that all the hatred and viciousness among men is based on color, or religion. The Pakistanians and Indians loathe each other. They're the same color, differ - rent religions. The Viet Nams and the Viet Congs murder each other with mutual relish. Same color, same religion. In South Africa, whites kick blacks around. In North Africa, blacks kick whites around. In both cases, religion is imma- terial. In South America, the rich kick the poor around, and they all go to the same church. In North America, wives kick their husbands around. Same color; same religion; different sex. If it isn't racial or religious or sexual, what then is the basis for all the pounding of other people? Is it simply fear that if you don't smash the other fellow's skull first, he will kick you in the groin? Or is it something more sim- ple and primitive, just a sav- age joy in the letting of blood, in pain and cruelty? It's hard to know. An anthro- pologist will say one thing, a psychologist another. And a good bartender could probably come as close to the truth as either. It is my experience that the tensions of race, creed and color are completely artificial. It is only when they are fanned by ignorance, fear or malice that they burst into flame. Ignored, they dissolve and vanish. The other day, I was supervis- ing an examination. For some- thing to do, I looked down a couple of rows of students and checked off their national ori- gins. They were Swiss, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Nor - w e g i a n s, Anglo-Saxon. There were Jews and Roman Catholics and Protestants of all denomin- ations. They didn't even look as they should have. A red-headed Ger. man and a redheaded Jew. A couple of swarthy, black -haired Mediterranean ty p e s called Smith and Jones. Huron County Hog Producers Hold Succesful Sale of 4-11 Club Gilts A total of $5,302,50 was paid One local youth, Gordon Beir, ling, RR 2, Zurich, finished 12th in the class of 41, and realized a price of $140 on his prospect. It was his first year as a mem- ber of the 4-H Swine Club. for 41 lots at the second an- nual Huron County Hog Pro- ducers 4-H bred gilt sale on Saturday, March 27, at the Clin- ton fair grounds barn, Two Lacombes averaged $123,75; five Landrace averaged $127.50 and 34 Yorkshires averaged $129:50. Bred gilts were consigned by 34 Junior 441 Swine Club mem- bers and seven Senior 4-11 Swine Club members. And I happen to know there is no hatred, no tension over race or religion or pigmenta- tion, in this group. There is only the normal clash of personali- ties, based entirely on individ- ual likes and dislikes. In 1943 I trained at a R.A.F. station in England. On my course were pilots from half a dozen European countries, from Canada and U.S., from Africa and Australia, from Trinidad and India, and from all over the British Isles. Color ranged from silver - blond Norwegian, through cof- fee -hued Maori Indian from New Zealand to coal -black West Indian. Religion ran the gamut from agnostic to fervent R.C., from Baptist to Moslem. We were like brothers. On my 21st birthday, having sprained an ankle badly in a rugger game, I couldn't walk to my own birthday party. I was carried to the pub on the shoulders of a magnificent tur- baned Sikh from India, a Polish count, an Australian dairy farm- er, and the scion of a fine old Belgian family. It was my fin- est hour, when my brothers de- posited me gently at the bar. And it helped convince me that race, religion and color have very little to do with man's inhumanity . . . or hu- manity . . . to man. BUIL I. i G C`NTtiaAC 8O O CUSTOM CARPENTRY YOU NAME IT . . . . . . WE'LL DO IT! No job is too large or too small for us. DICK BEDARD DIAL 236-4679 — ZURICH Cali Us for Free Estimates nimaom® Family Medical Protection IS ESSENTIAL TODAY Huron Co-operative Medical Services Offers Complete Dependable Coverage TWO PLANS TO CHOOSE FROM 1. The Comprehensive Plan INCLUDES SURGICAL AND IN HOSPITAL BENE- FITS AS WELL AS HOME AND OFFICE CALLS 2. The Basic Pian INCLUDES SURGICAL, IN HOSPITAL AND MAJOR MEDICAL BENEFITS • No Medical Examination • No Enrolment Fee — No Age Limit MAXIMUM PROTECTION AT MINIMUM COST DISCUSS THE HURON CO-OP MEDICAL PLAN WITH Huron Co-op Medical Services CLINTON — ONTARIO OR Your Local Director or CIA Agent BERTRAM KLOPP ZURICH Director and CIA 11,2,3,4,b The top selling gilt was a Yorkshire, Stonetown MacLady 133V, consigned by Donald Johnston, RR 6, Goderich. She was purchased by Dave Stevens, Stonetown Farms, St. Marys, for $210. This was one of 18 Yorkshires purchased from Mr. Stevens by the Huron Hog Producers last spring for 4-11 Swine Club work. Only recently, Mr. Stevens re- ceived an ROP score of 106 on the dam of this sow. A Landace gilt, consigned by Howie Wright, RR 1. Wroxeter, was sold for $150 to Leo Arts, RR 5, Seaforth. Norman Mc- CIinchey, RR 2, Auburn, paid the top price of $127.50 for a Lacomber gilt, consigned by Jim Harding, Gerrie. Thirty-three of the sows con- signed were sold to Huron County hog producers, while eight were purchased by buyers from the adjoining counties of Grey, Bruce and Perth. .After deducting the original cost of the gilts, selling fees and transfer fees, $3,180.35 was returned to the 41 4-11 mem- bers. As well, the majority of these young people still have one bred gilt an the home farm. 4-H Swine Club This year's 4-11 Swine Chili program will get under way en Thursday, April 15, at 8:30 p.m. in the board room, Ontario De- partment of Agriculture, Clin- ton, liurton, All young people between the ages of 12 (as of January 1, 1965) and 20, who are interested in joining, should get in touch with their township hog pro- ducer director. This year members are to purchase a pair of purebred gilts of their breed choke. These pigs should be born be- tween March 1 and ,May, 1965. They will keep records of met (Continued on Page 6) 101111111111., BAKE SALE Zurich Girl Guides ane Ma jorettes are holding a Bake Sale Sat., April 10 2.4 p.m. Town Hall Proceeds to Bunny Bundle and Artificial ice- ".i hPtJJ•bOb JVFM C'.0 i, E MONTH ender Frt jt institute nice. Canned Fruit" MINTED PEACH LAMBIES SPRINGLIKE ACCENT TO SPRING LAMB PATTIES 1 lb. ground lamb 4 strips of bacon 1 teaspoon salt 14 cup milk clash of thyme or marjoram 4 or more peach halves mint jelly Mix ground lamb with salt, thyme or marjoram and milk. Shape into 4 oval patties Score with handle of ;•molter spoon. Drain a can oa Can- ada Choice canned peach halves. Arrange peach halves: (hollows up) around lamb pat- ties on broiler pan. Place 5. inches from heat and broil 11. minutes. Turn patties. Brea for 5 minutes longer. Fill centres of peach halves witk mint jelly. Top each pattis. with bacon slice. Broil for another few minutes umF1ii bacon is done. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH — Phone 791 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 12 noon CLINTON — Dial 482-7010 Monday and Wednesday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9 - 12 A.M. — 1:30 - 6 P.M. 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