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Zurich Citizens News, 1965-06-03, Page 7THURI AY, NAY 27, 1966 Canadian social worker Doris Clark invites you to writ* her about your problem. Sheanswers letters of general, interest•in this column but can't undertake personal replies. DEAR DORIS — I'm much in love with my girl, but I'm afraid she is very mixed up. She cancels nearly every date, but the thing is when we are together she,tells me she missed me vermuch. She is 24 and Iam28. Just before Christmas we broke up, and she :had a nerv- ous breakdown which sent her to the hospital. After :a month we got back together, but she acts like she doesn't know what she wants. She hasn't yet •told me she loved me. When I tell her to go out with someone else, she starts crying. Also Confused DEAR ALSO — My guess is your girl fears marriage, in spite of her fondness for you, She is probably still convales- ing, mentally, from her break- down. Some encouragement now, and a heap of patience from you, can work the miracle she needs. Be the rock she can cling to and I'm wagering she'll bless you with her love the rest of your life And hers! "• t fir' DEAR DORIS — I am 16, My father passed away last year. I blame myself for his death be- eause he and I were always fighting, which was not good because he had a heart condi- tion Two days before his death we had .a bad fight, and he said he would leave as soon as possible, and now I miss him very much. When we weren't fighting, he was very good to me. I go to bed crying every night. I can't talk to my moth- er, because she blames me, too, and the guidance teacher at school is not very nice and I don't have many friends. Please, Doris, I am desperate for someone to talk to. Crying For Help DEAR CRYING — Dry your tears. Your father's death was NOT YOUR FAULT. Your mother is unfairly taking out her own grief on you. If the situation was reversed; if you were gone and your fa- ther still her, he'd be missing you. And he'd be the first one to tell you now to cheer up, if he could. Someone to talk to is, indeed, your greatest need. A trained social worker or girls' counsel- lor would be best. Perhaps your guidance teacher or min- ister or YWCA drector could paint you in the right direction. DEAR DORIS — 1 .have just recently been made a widow. I'm middle-aged and of limited means. Please advise me how long it is expected of me to go in mourning. Does it mean en- tirely black? I plan on visiting some relatives in six weeks. I'm at a loss to know what to wear or what clothes to take. Bereaved DEAR BEREAVED — Wheth- er we wear black at all is a good deal more up to the indi- vidual than it used to be; which is a. great relief to most of us. I was greatly concerned when some years ago, one of my best f r i •e'n d s lost her wonderful mother. Imagine my surprise when, on .a summer's day about two weeks after the funeral, she dropped in wearing a pret- ty light pink dress. She adored her mother and missed her greatly. Her friends did, too. But Margie made us all free to enjoy her mother's memory, and to enjoy Margie. I blessed her for her cheerful soul. BOB'S Barber Shop MAIN STREET ZURICH "Professional Hair Carr"' Agent for Dry Cleaning DUWARD McADAMS RADIO — TELGVISiON • Sales and Service i DAY AND NIGHT CALLS Dial Zurich Days 236-4094 Nights — 236.4186 "Always ready to serve yoU" insounewammennumnimonunslinnum Do what you feel best to do. If you go by me, you'll have a few light colors in your ward- robe, whether or net you give place to one or two somber blacks, or a black and white. Confidential to Terrified In spite of what you say hap- pened and didn't happen, I am in no position to foretell the results. Go at once to your doctor and he will help, what- ever the situation is. He will not tell anyone, not even your parents, unless you ask him to. 0 Battle Tossers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3) bility to patrol all highways and byways in the hope of catching persons guilty of this infraction. InOctober of last year the Perth Centre Women's Institute sponsored a resolution at the Guelph area convention which asked for a ban on the use of the non -returnable glass soft drink containers. The support for the resolution indicated that there was considerable concern for the problem. It is the opinion of many that the control asked for in this resolution is not broad enough to do the job. Glass containers, many of them non -returnable, are used for a number of sale- able products, and, unfortun- ately, many of them do not go through the proper disposal channels. Again, is it wise to ask for a ban on ane container, which may be the worst offender, if such a ban constitutes discrimi- nation against one class of bot- tlers? The non -returnable glass container has enabled small bottlers to compete with large bottling companies using re- turnable glass containers and cans. The alternative to bottles, at this time, is cards, which .are quite unsightly although not as destructive as bottles. The de- velopment of low cost disposa- ble containers or plastic or other material might lessen the problem. At a members' meeting of the Ontario Federation of Agri- culture March 10, a resolution was introduced and passed ask- ing that the use of all non -re- turnable glass containers be prohibited. Is legislation of this nature the answer? Is it possible to promote stricter enforcement of the present laws regarding the Tittering of highways? Can new, low-cost disposable con- tainers, to replace glass, be perfected? Can we educate members of our society to re- frain from the practice of litter- ing roadsides with bottles? We don' have the answers. The facts are that it's costing farm- ers and municipalities untold thousands of dollars yearly and it's going to take a good deal of study and thought before workable solution can be found. HI THERE, COME ABOARD! —Linda Douma (Miss Canada 1965), Daniele Dorice, singer -dancer; Gordie Tapp; Barbara and Joan Lounsbury, batonitwirling .sisters; (top) George Armstrong, captain, Toronto Maple Leafs; and Simone Dina, folk singer, are part of the 19 -number CBC concert party entertaining Canadian and other United Nations Emer- gency Forces •stationed in the United Arb Republic. Re- corded highlights :of these stage shows will be broadcast on CBC radio's UNEF. Showcase, June 6; June 3rd and 10th edition of What's on Tapp will also be recorded there. Have Fun Outdoors! ow, You Can Buy a BARBECUE Complete with motor and all attachments, for as low as $19.95 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley I'll be 45 this week. It's one of those rather decisive birth- days, like 13, and 21 and 30. Only 10 years before I'll be middle-aged, A goodtime to sum up. One thing that strikes me is the amount of junk a fellow can collect in such a brief span. I carne into the world without a stitchor a nickel. And in •only four and a half decades, I have about 400 nickels, a house with two mortgages, a car with 12 payments to go, two teenagers to put through university, and a wife currently talking up the glories of an automatic dish- washers. Not to mention a houseful of furniture that's all due to be re- placed, a basement full of emp- ty beer bottles, a toolshed full of rusty tools and broken bi- cycles, and an attic full of black squirrels. But I have no complaints about life. I was the runt of the litter in our family, and I've grown into a magnificent physi- cal specimen, towering five foot eight on hot days, and tipping the scales at a strapping 138 in niy winter •overcoat. And what a beating that meagre machine has taken in 45 years! I've been sea -sick .and air -sick and love-sick. I've rolled over in a car, crashland- ed in an aircraft, and smashed into a steel bridge at top speed on my bike. I've ben beaten into unconsciousness by a gang of Germans, and hit with every- thing from a telephone to a plate of roast beef by my wife. Yet there's hardly a scratch on me. Outwardly. I've broken fingers and toes and nose (three times). I've had hemorhoids and hang- overs. I've had my scalp laid open by a hockey stick and a horseshoe. I've had measles and mumps and TB and the trots. scarlet fever and bursitis and pink eye and dysentry. And yet, amazingly, the old carcass presses on. Sight and hearing are sound as a bell BUILDING CONTRACTOR • CUSTOM CARPENTRY • YOU NAME IT . . . , . WE'LL DO IT No lob is too large or too small for us. DICK BEDARD DIAL 236-4679 — ZURICH Call Us for Free Estimates though smell ng is gene com- pletely. Appetite is unimpair- ed, and the guts can handle any thing but broken glass. Hair and teeth are thinning and have changed color, but are still original models. Endurance isn't what it used to be. I couldn't run 200 yards at top speed if the devil him- self were after me, with a red- hot pitchfork. But he rarely chases us Sunday school teach- ers, so why worry? I can still swim a few hun- dred yards and tramp a trout stream •or golf course half a dozen miles a day. I can still sit up all night and argue about politics or women or religion. I can still get excited about and idea or a song or a poem or a play. I can still thrill to the sight of a beautiful broad, or a big fish, or a full moon, or a bluebird, or a bonfire. I enjoy toafing and hard work, chess and dry martinis, thunderstorms and trees, good movies and little children, old friends and new clothes, though not necessarily in those com- binations. Not bad for an old chap, eh? Please don't think I'm bragging. What I'm doing is singing a paean of thanksgiving for my own good luck, and a note of STRLITE DRIVE -1N THEATRE /"' ,r consolation for you birds who are creeping up on 45. A lot of people burble, "If I could only live it over, knowing what I do now." Not me. I wouldn't trade my child- hood, romantic, shy, imagina- tive, for any I've seen since. The thrill of sports as a teen- ager; falling in love half a doz- en times; first job, on a steam- boat; university and ideas and new friends; air force and kicks as a fighter pilot; prison camp and hunger and good talk; mar- riage and kids; weekly news- paper editor; high school teach- er. And be hanged if a fellow didn't offer me an interesting new job just last week. Nossir. I've had a good run. And I'm going to keep right on running. When I'm 85, I want to be known in the nursing home as, "That old devil, Smiley, who pinches your bot- PAGE SEVEN tom every time you walk past his wheel -chair". 0 Nearly 200 Canadians drown- ed last year because they lost their balance and fell into the water, This is Red Cross Water Safety Week in Canada. Be water wise at the water's edge! 0 This is Red Cross Water Safe- ty Week in Canada. Now is the time to clear cottage water- fronts of broken glass, tin cans, stumps, weeds and other dang- erous debris. 0 This is Red Cross Water Safe- ty Week in Canada. Boat own- ers tan get a free copy of the booklet "Safety Afloat" by writing to the marine regula- tions branch, department of transport, Ottawa. JUNE 4 and 5 (Double Feature) "World of Henry Orient" Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss "Gunfight At Dodge City" James Braun, Jean Willes TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY First Show at Dusk Children Under 12 in Cars Free PLEASE NOTE: All Double Features will be shown only once, each night. 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