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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-06-10, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1965 ▪ MNO ',I'''e Are Not Magicians That may not be an earth -shaking statement You probably didn't think we were anyway. But we get that feeling sometimes when something happens. such as an im- portant anniversary for someone or some organization: or an interesting or humor- ous little incident occurs in a section of the community: car when someone — particu- larly one of our young people — achieves something of note either here or abroad; or when someone catches a big fish or grows a big tomato ... and weeks later, we learn about it. Trouble is when we do learn about it we are greeted with the phrase: "Oh ... V1 thought you'd know all about it." That's where we think people some- times think we are magicians. It is no help to us, and little comfort to you, if you stop one of us on the street and say "I thought you might have had something in the paper about our installa- tion last month", or "How come you didn't have a picture of that big fish Joe Doakes got a couple of weeks ago?" or "Pretty thee about Bill Jones' kid ... guess you don't like him or you'd have had a story about his promotion in the paper." We probably would have had it .. . had we been told at the time. It is our job to report these things; whether we like somebody or not is a human frailty we like to keep as deeply submerged as possible. While this newspaper is made up of in- dividuals. it strives to operate in a non- ndividual manner. We may disagree with you or anyone on one subject, but if we find common ground to co-operate on an- other, believe us, we are ready to •do so. We do have regular news sources; council meetings. police reports, civic or- ganization meetings, fire and accident re- ports, and so on. Harassed by the fact there are only 24 hours in a day our job is made much easier by a regular liaison with such news sources which keep things coming on a routine basis. But as for the untoward incidents, the out-of-the-way happenings whether they be humorous, serious or just plain interest- ing, we are crippled. Even with a hundred reporters on the staff, we wouldn't know where to look. Over the past few years we have no- ticed -- and appreciated — an increasing awareness of this fact among our readers. More and more people drop in to tell us of something newsworthy, or to ask us to help, or phone when it's a "hot" and time- ly item. This growing interest in your paper is encouraging. For it IS your paper, This perhaps could be classed as a trite saying, a cliche. Nevertheless it sums up the situation. No newspaper staff, no matter how large or how eager or how dedicated it was, could possibly cover ALL the happenings in a community such as this. That's where you come in. This is a community newspaper. It only reflects what is happening in the area. Not everything you tell us can earn its way into print, the cost of white space being what it is these days. But we would appreciate the opportunity of ad- judication. Every reader is a part of this paper. What you know may be of interest to others; what others know may be of interest to you. We have a large number of faithful watchdogs around town, and we are etern- ally grateful to them for recognizing that we are only human, and we need a lot of help. And also for recognizing that, in helping us do our job completely and fully, they are helping themselves by helping their own community. We are not magicians. Because of that we need all the assistance we can get. We'll be happy to hear from you at any time. We may not always be able to agree that what you have is real news, but let's give it a whirl anyway ° I—(Acton Free Press) Cans will Rust Away We see hopeful predicitions by spokes- men for the brewing industry in Ontario that beer in cans may soon represent about 10 per cent of the total volume of sales through the authorized brewers' ware- houses in Ontario. Beer sales in this -prov- ince have been running at the rate of about 800,000,000 bottles a year; we are faced, therefore, with the prospect of about 80,- 000,000 empty beer cans being discarded in the course of a year. Bottles at refundable, for a refund of approximately two cents each. That's why you see enterprising small boys harvesting the ditches along the highways on a sum- mer Monday. The cans are not refund- able: if the predictions of sales volume are at all close, we may expect empty beer cans to be getting thrown out at the rate of about 220,000 a day. It will be interesting to see, after the first year's experience, what the reports will show about the percentage of can sales to bottle sales. If cans should take over much more than 10 per cent of the volume of business, it would cast some doubt on the assumption that beer is the poor man's luxury. One would have to have some affluence to regularly spend an extra 52 cents just to get the same bev- erage in a different and more convenient container. The convenience bought for the extra 52 cents appears to consist of two factors: lighter weight far carrying, and the lack of need far a bottle opener. The cans are opened by means of a rip-off tab. To state the difference in cost as 52 cents is to assume that customer does re- turn the bottles. In Stratford a dozen bottles cost $2,25 plus six cents tax, with 25 cents to be refunded far bottle return. The same quantity of beer in cans cost $2.50 plus eight cents tax, and no returns. Most farmers in this area, we have no doubt, will be included to hope that can sales boom, and bottle sales languish. The end result of a beer -drinking spree, all too often, is that empty beer bottles are hurled into a roadside ditch, or a farmer's field. Those that hit the ditch are liable to be picked up by snowplows or snow - blowers, and moved on across the fence into the fields. The increasing number of accidents caused by broken glass in road- side fields has become a cause for worry by farmers and farm organizations. Broken glass in farm land can kill grazing animals. It can cut tires on farm tractors. It can be picked up by hay balers and fed to livestock in the barn. It can be drawn into moving machinery, and cause expen- sive damage. Broken glass never rusts. If some- thing is to be hurled by the slobbering apes who park on country roads for beer - guzzling, better they should hurl cans. A can will be squashed flat under a wheel, and in time it will rust away and vanish. It's no benefit to farm land and it's less harmful, .and less lastingly harmful, than glass.—(Stratford Beacon -Herald) Huron TB Group Elect Officers For New Term The Huron County Tuber- culosis Association raised $12, 397 last year, the second highest total in the history of the group's annual drive for funds. Members of the association, at the annual meeting, elected George A. Watt, of Blyth, as president. He suceeds Donald I. Stewart, of Seaforth. Dr. Neville Lefeoe, associate professor of medicine at the Universary of Western Ontario was guest speaker. He told association members that smoking is the major cause of many pulmonary ailments such as bronchitis. Dr. Lefeoe said research is persistence backed by money. He said research takes a good deal of community resources. Other officers elected: vice - SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley There is something deeply disturbing about the attitude toward life of the modern North American woman. Men haven't really changed much, basically, since Julius Caesar and his boys crossed the Rubicon. They still like to make war and make love; they still drink more than is good for them; they still like play- ing games better than improv- ing their property; they still have some romance and illusion in their souls; they still loathe facing up to family problem in little "talks" with their mates. Take a modern politician, drape him in a toga, and he'd be right at home in the senate of ancient Rome. Take a mod- ern general, hang a suit of armor and a helmet on him, stick him on a horse and you wouldn't know him from a Cru- sader of the middle ages. But take a modern woman out of her modern kitchen, away from her wall-to-wall broadloom and dump her in a thatched -roof cottage with out- side facilities and no deter- gents, and what would you have? A screaming meemie; that's what you'd have. Even if Mr. and Mrs. Will Shake- speare live in ,the thatched cot- tage next door. This comment is written more in. sorrow than in anger. I don't put all the blame on the creatures themselves. I think their greedy materialism, re- lentless reality, and total lack of appreciation of the finer things in life like their hus- bands— are a result of the stresses of the age. Too much warmed-over psychology. Too much hard -sell advertising. They all want to look like Paris models. But they don't do enough physical work and they eat too much. So they get fat. There's a stress right there. They all want their children to be handsome and brilliant. So they spend thousands of dol - Ears straightening the kids' eyes and teeth and pushing them at president, E. E. Walker, Wing - ham; executive secretary, Mrs. Beryl Davidson, Stratford; di- rector, Elgin McKinley, Zurich; medical advisory chairman, Dr. R. M. Aldis, Goderich; Christ- mas seal treasure, E. C. Bos- well, Seaforth; honorary treas- urer, H. C. Lawson, Clinton; Ontario Tuberculosis Associa- tion representative, E. E. Walk- er, Wingham; case finding chairman R. B. Patterson, Hen - sail; health education chairman, man Miss Louise Robertson, Goderich; rehabilitation and so- school and nagging them about musk lessons and comparing them unfavorably with kids who are handsome and .brilliant. Their own kids, naturally, re- spond by getting fat and pimp- uary, 1966. ly, needing braces and glasses, Another 38,000 will reach Over 75,000 In Ontario Will Get Pension At 69 Over 75,000 residents of On- tario will soon be eligible to re- ceive the old age security pen- sion at age 69. And 37,000 of these will reach age 69 during 1965 and should apply immedi- ately in order that cheques may be received commencing Jan - growing neurotic, and failing their exams. Another stress. They all want their husbands to be a combination of Richard Burton, J. P. Morgan, and Cas- par Milquetoast. That's a little rough to come by these days, so they take it out on the poor Adam they got out of the grab- bag. Frustration and guilt.. Two more stresses, cial service chairman, William Elston, BR 4 Wingham; seal sale chairman, and secretary M r s. D. C. Cornish, Seaforth. Donald I. Stewart, Seaforth is past president. Executive council members: John Pryde, Exeter; E. B. Men- zies, Clinton; Grant Sperling, Blyth; S. Skinner, Centralia; John Merrill, RR 2 Clinton Mrs. Douglas Andrews, Clinton; Robert Caldwell, Hensall; Fred Sloman, Clinton; Mrs. Ephraim Parrish, Brussels; J. E. Mc- Kinley, Zurich; E. R. Knight, Brussels; Miss Eileen O'Brien, Goderich. Zuricl' &NA N•ws PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS L1M1'11ED, ZUTRICH 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 hates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 In United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents, Of the $12,397 raised, $5,000 was given to research. They crave security. More and more of it. So they push their men harder and harder to build up a bigger and bigger estate, and more and more in- surance, in order that they can join the hordes of lonely wid- ows in Florida sitting around telling each other what a grand chap poor Herman was before he worked himself to death 30 years ago. They all want to be loved and cherished. And they spend all their time complaining about their lie alt h, their children, their husbands, and all the things other women have that they don't. Who's going to love and cherish a walkie-talkie with a built-in whine? They all want to be beauti- ful._ And they all go around with lips pressed tight, mouth turned down, and a big scowl. When was the last time you heard your wife singing, Jack? There's only one solution, of course, for the girls, and it would not be a popular one. The answer is back to the scrub - board and the sewing machine, the vegetable garden and the preserving kettle. I would not have you think these few observations are of- fered in an unkindly spirit. They are merely the result of over hearing a conversation to- day between my Old Battleaxe and her sidekick across the street. For half an hour, they vied with each other in relating, with chapter and verse, what 'useless articles Bill and John (incidentally, two of the sweet- est guys in town) turned out to be. 0 Huron County Crop Report age 69 during 1966 and should apply six months ahead 'of the 69th birthday so that cheques can be received commencing the month following the 69th birth- day. This has been made possible as a result of a recent change in the Old Age Security Act. Beginning January 1, 1966, the eligible age will be reduced t') 69. There will be a similar lowering of the age require- ment by one year in January of each succeeding year until 1970 when the pensionable age will be 65 years. Persons receiving old ago assistance or a blind or dis- abled persons allowance do not need to send in an application form. The provincial depart- ment of public welfare will ap- ply on their behalf, Application forms may be ob- tained at any (post office or from the office of the regional director of old age security and when completed, should be sent to the Regional Director of Old Age Security, 25 St, Clair Ave. East, Toronto 7, Ontario. Business and Professional Directory Growth is good on all craps. The planting of white beans has started. The gentle warm rain should be :helpful to all crops. Spraying of corn and spring 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. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235.2433 Exeter LEGAL Bell & Laughton BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS & NOTARY PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, Q.C. 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