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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1965
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',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
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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.
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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
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