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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-04-15, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL, 15, 1961 edao4ial ea4 11111111, No Chalk on Sunday Sabbatarians took their principles seri- ously. Almost anyone's Scottish grandfather would have walked to church rather than use a Sunday streetcar, which became a1- lowable only seventy or seventy-five years ago. In Fergus, which was as strict a com- munity as could be found this side of Aberdeen, a couple of young men who wanted to ride their bikes the 12 miles to Guelph on a Sunday rose before dawn and trundled the vehicles out the back lanes until they got safely in the country. They did not return until after dark. In Toronto, which was also quite strict in these matters, there were people who thought that perhaps the Humber River should not be allowed to run on Sundays. It is not so long ago that the group playing bridge on a Sunday evening would be care- ful to draw the blinds, just as if they were running a floating crap game with a rake- off for the house. lay Retail stores never did any business on Sunday, not through the front door at least. And Mr. Timothy Eaton, a great Methodist, not only shut up his shop but did not per- mit a view of the show windows. A great deal has changed and the Lord's Day Alliance is worried. There are milk shops, so called, .open 24 .hours a day and groceries in great variety can be had for the usual prices of such items. Toronto the Good is still far away from what used to be called the continental Sunday, which meant that everything was open and noisy after the faithful people had worshipped. It hasn't yet reached that stage in most Ca- nadian cities. In one respect, at least, the Metro- politan Toronto police observe the Sab- bath. Motor vehicles parked on streets marked "No Parking" escape getting no - parking tickets because the police do not chalk cars on Sunday.—(The Printed Word) Under the Ice Every once in a while a convict con- fesses to a crime just because he wants the notoriety. It seems that the same phil- osophy is in the mind of a Winnipeg man who is resenting the fact that Canada's severe climate is not, in a pretentious U.S. house organ, given credit for Canada's major share in the development of sports on ice, at least on this continent, This house organ, put out by the Amer- ican Iron and Steel Institute, which in- eIudes a number of Canadian members, recently had an article on skating and ice hockey. It seems that in the United States children as young as five take to hockey and it is said that 1964 was the greatest year ever. In the course of it all, there is no mention of Canada and Canada is the chief exporter of hockey players—profes- sional that is—and without Canada's hockey players development of hockey in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Boston and a number of other cities in the minor leagues might be a sorry affair. Artificial ice rinks also •are discussed as if they were new. Public and private rinks in some of the largest cities go back more than 40 years. Old Dr. Douglas, who started practis- ing medicine in 1867, used to say that he did not like the Canadian climate but he thought the Canadian climate was good for the people of Canada. He never went south for his health. —(The Printed Word) Explorers of the Ocean of Space It seems only a short time ago that we marvelled at the great accomplishments of launching small animals, such as mice, monkeys, dogs, etc. into space and bringing them safely back to earth. Since then, greater achievements have been evidenced. Man has been hurled through space at speeds of nearly five miles a second and has safely returned to earth. And now, these intrepid men who defy death in search of futher secrets of space travel have again made further discoveries. We are, of course, referring to the two Russians and the two Americans who made separate trips around the globe a few short weeks ago. The results, to us, were astounding. They proved two things. First- Iy, that it is possible for an astronaut to control his space capsule manually, and secondly, that man can leave his space ship while in orbit and return to it safely. When pondering over these great fetes, and more especially the latter two, we can't help but ask ourselves "what's next?", and "how soon the moon?" If someone was to have told us a dec- ade ago that man would step out of his space orbiting ship in 1965, and safely re- turn to it, we would undoubtedly have con- sidered him fair prey for a psychiatrist. —(Grenfell Sun) SU.CAR. AND SPICE by.9i11 Smiley A chap from a paint company phoned the other day and asked me to write an article on house - painting. At first I was a little nonplused, as I had never paint- ed a house in my life. Then 1 remembered the ham. One time the hog farmers asked me to write an article about pigs, I agreed. My wife snorted, "What do you know about pigs?" Local Employment Office to Help School Graduates Youthful high school gradu- ates will this year have addi- tional assistance when they go out in search of a career in June. In an effort to assist both employers and graduates in Huron County, special arrange- ments have been completed by the National Employment Serv- ice with secondary schools at Clinton, Exeter and Goderich to register the graduating students who will be entering the labor market this spring. Later this month, a personal history of each student will he recorded with the NES. This registration is expected to en- sure the right persons for each of the jobs available. At the request of employers, the National Employment office at Goderich is prepared to refer for interviews, male and fe- male graduates selected and pre-screened to in e e t their needs. It is important that employ- ers in this district list their future vacancies with the NES office now, in order to avail themselves of the best candi- dates possible. It is the aim of the National Employment Service to make the best possible use of quali- fied young adults in Huron County and provide assistance to employers in filling their employment needs. 0 yew oaa iv►ap By Department Of Highways Distribution of the 1965 edi- tion of •the official road map, published by the Department of Highways, Ontario, has begun. Highways Minister Charles S. MacNaughton commented that one of the improvements in the new, completely revised map is the introduction of a special color background for each coun- ty and district. New airport symbols are in- cluded in the legend for the first time to denote where scheduled flights originate. The outline of built-up subur- ban areas around many cities and towns is also shown. For the first time an enlarged map of the town of Fort Frances is included as a prelude to the ex- pected opening in mid -summer of Highway 11 extension be- tween Fort Frances and Ati- kokan. Other features of the map in- cludes mileage tables •over the most direct routes; distinctive boundaries of provincial parks and the designation by special symbols of tourist reception centres, St. John Ambulance first aid posts and hospitals: The highway department's own cartographic section de signed the map, as it has done for many years. The cover is a colored aerial photograph taken by the department's chief photographer, which shows the first completed portion of the proposed widening to. 12 lanes of the Macdonald -Cartier Free- way (Toronto by-pass) one mile easterly from the .Avenue Road interchange. The new map may be ob- tained free of charge from any of the 18 district or five re- gional offices of the Depart- ment of Highways, Ontario, the head office of the department (Downsview P.O.), or the de- partment of tourism and infor- mation, parliament buildings, Toronto. The map will also be available at any of the service centres and tourist reception centres of the department of tourism and information. Copies of the separate map of the northern and northwest- ern parts of Ontario are also available from the same ad- dresses. Renew Your Subscription Now p ow racy 0/4, News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, 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: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States rind and Foreign; single copies ' cents. as_ chalk,_ moaning_ piteously. She had tocall the fire depart- ment to get me down. I lowered my sights and de- cided that, for that year, it would be enough to paint the window frames on the ground floor. "Exactly," I retorted. I sat down and wrote an account of the life and times of a hog that for sheer ignorance of the sub- ject has never been surpassed. But the hog farmers liked it. And that Christmas I received a 12 -pound ham from a pack- ing company, as a gift. While I was chatting with this paint man on the phone, my mind began to race along these lines. "If a little feature on hogs, produced a beautiful ham, sure- ly a few hundred words on house painting would be good for a house. Or at least some paint. And I have to paint the trim on my house this spring. So..." While it is a fact that there isn't likely a man in North America who has spent more time not painting houses than I, it is not quite true that I have never painted a house. At the same time, it is not quite true that I have painted a house. Let me explain. One summer, in a period of acute mental depression, I spent my entire vacation trying, to paint the trim on the ancient, sagging heap of first and second mort- gages we'd just bought. It was during the first nause- ating bloom of the do-it-your- self sickness. The whole coun- try was full of sweating, curs- ing, frustrated men struggling to assemble everything from golf carts to 50 -foot yachts from their "handy home kits". the proper equipment for house painting. Two basic items are a house and some paint. A third thing that makes the job bear- able is a wife who likes paint- ing. Oh, yes, .one more thing. Yon. should have a swimming pool. Drain the water and fill the pool with turpentine. You'll need it, every drop. Happy house painting. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY First, I had to scrape, where it was blistered and cracked and peeled. Did you ever try to scrape flint? In hell? It was the hottest summer in 30 years. I'd scrape for hall an hour, clear a patch four inches by four, then climb down, drip- ping, and go in and fetch a cold beer. As I emerged, instantan- eously three or four neighbors would emerge from hiding be- hind their hedges and join me, tongues hanging out, To cut a long story short, I got two and a half windows done that year. It cost me about $200 for dried -out brush- es, spilled paint, runied cloth- ing, and all that beer. The next summer, I sensibly hired a couple of painters. They did a bang-up job and didn't even charge extra for all that paint they put on the brick- work, the window panes, the lawn, the vines, and the chil- dren. But the whole business gave me a lasting interest in house - painting, and I formed a few maxims I'm happy to pass along to the novice, First of all, you must have I was •hooked too. I decided to paint the house myself. Achieve personal satisfaction; bask in my wife's praise; save all that money. There didn't seem to be much to it. "A few gallons of paint and you won't know the old place. Probably double its value." I rented a ladder, bought b r u s h e s, paint, and turps, as we old house -painters call it. The house trim was about 60 feet off the ground. I climbed up to have a look at the old paint. Half an hour later, my wife came out to call the kids and found me there, clinging with both arms and both legs to the top of the ladder, white Easter Seals Aid Work For Crippled Children Children withphysical dis- abilities ar e being discovered by the Ontario Society for Crip- pled Children almost every day of the year. Case finding is a vitally important Easter Seal function and is carried on in the remote areas as well as in heavily populated towns and cities through periodic surveys. Crippled children's surveys are conducted on a "county" basis by a special survey com- mittee composed of representa- tives from the local medical society, Easter Seal service clubs and the district nurses of the Ontario Society for Crip- pled Children. Survey notices are sent to all physicians, clergymen, teachers, official health agencies and community groups to publicize the services available to all physically infirm children under 19 years of •age. 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