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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-08-19, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 196$ l C00% Sporting idea For Within recent years the news columns of this newspaper have carried the stories of a number of fatal .accidents in which he cense of death was that a farm tractor tipped over. In one case, a few years ago, a farmer was working alone in a back field, out of sight of the house, when the tractor tipped over a ditch bank. He was pinned under the tractor, with his head below water, and the immediate cause of death from drowning. In another ease, gasoline spilled from the tank of the overturned tractor, to a hot motor block, and the immediate cause of death was burning. It is certainly not true that the coming of the motor age has produced accidents where there were none before. The old files of this newspaper are full of stories cif men being seriously injured when kick- ed by a horse in its stall;; people being killed when they were thrown from the wagon seats behind runaway horses; chil- dren being injured when they wandered en the roadway in front of 'horse-drawn vehicles. We would guess that there were et least as many traffic accidents per mil- lion miles of travel 50 years ago, as there are now. There has been a serious increase, however, in accidents of the kind that hap- pen in farm fields. A horse-drawn culti- vator could work along the side of a fairly steep slope without much risk to the driv- er; in an earlier period, teams of oxen Tractors could work across a slope too steep even for horses. The modern tractor has a high centre of gravity. and it lacks the eight sharp hooves of a team. which could dig and scratch for footing. The tractor has other built-in charac- teristics which make it more dangerous for the farm operator than horses used to be. A front-end loader picking up a heavy weight, or a deep -tillage implement hooked behind, can make a radical change in a tractor's centre of balance, Anyone who has seen the front wheels tome up off the ground and wave in the air when a sub- soil panbreaker hits a stone, can under- stand how suddenly a tractor can become lethal. One safety idea which we see sug- gested is so simple that we wonder why it was not in common use long ago, Sports - car drivers sometimes use the protection of a roll -bar for competition driving, It is nothing more than a strong. curved bar which goes over the driver's head. and is firmly anchored to each side of the car body. What's wrong with a roll -bar on a tractor to prevent the driver being pinned pinned •or crushed if the tractor tips. We have seen statistics to indicate that when a tractor tips •over, the chance that the driver will be killed is one in four. Against those odds, the cost of a roll -bar should be a good bet. --(Stratford Beacon -Herald) Why Penalize Property improvement? ent? We suppose it would be beyond our wildest dreams to have a policy such as we have suggested here adopted, but we have heard from a number of newcomers to Canada about the policy that is used back in their own country with regards to property taxes, and the improvements made to property. Here we often hear citizens complain regarding the fact that if substantial im- provements are made to their house or other property, it will only cause them to have to pay more taxes. Does it not make better sense then to let things stay as they are as far as possible? Our European friends Iaugh at this system of taxation. In Germany, they say, dor instance, there is no penalty paid by those who improve their property In this fashion. As a matter of fact, they say, those who neglect their property or allow it to run down are usually penalized. Have we perhaps gotten things twisted around the wrong way a bit here in Can- ada? We feel. that many good ideas have came •out of Britain and Europe in the past and still do today, but we think too that Canadians particularly are very slow to adopt new ideas. The governments seem to want to wait until every last Tom, Dick and Harry is in favor of the move be- fore they will take any action on it. Surely Democracy does not work as slowly as we make it work all of the time. (The Hanover Post) What is the Best Size? The latest big news in the field of edu- cation in the New Hamburg district is the proposed 18 -room addition to Waterloo - Oxford District High School. Reports indicate that with the addi- tion, the total capacity of the school will be about 1,300. This is a large increase from the 269 pupils enrolled when the school opened in 1955. These fantastic increases in school population are hard for the average indi- vidual to comprehend. They are also dif- ficult for him to accept, as far as costs are concerned. While the need for accommodation is apparent, since the present capacity of the school is reaching the saturation paint — there are a few question that might be asked further and more complex expansion. It is possible that a school reaching the 1,300 to 1,500 population ceases to give the personal attention to the individual pupil that a smaller school has the time and facilities to give? Could the needs of the school population not be served as adequately or better by another school in the area.—(New Hamburg Independent) t; Get Over, Little Sister! A common sight on the roads nowa- days — be it in town, in the city, in the country, or for that matter on the high- ways is the young fellow behind the wheel who has his gal friend practically sitting on his lap as she snuggles him while they merrily drive along. Snuggling so close that is, that you wouldn't think he had room to breath, let alone drive. This isn't a-emetic—it's dangerous. Let's face it, this "snuggling business" isn't something new in automobiles. Quite the contrary. It was prevalent almost from the day the horseless wonder became a family car, and Junior was given permiss- ion to take his gal for a ride. But we must remember that in this day and age the cars weremuch slower and traffic laws of this province does not necessarily mean too many pasengers in the front seat. It is also overcrowding when a young female crowds .a young male driver so he does not have freedom of movement, At the risk of being called an old- fashioned prude, we suggest that rather than snuggle, snap on your seat belt. (Grenfell Sun) iron County Crop Report Some root rot has been ob- served in early planted white beans. This has shown up as interveinal yellowing of leaves in certain areas of the bean normal healthy, vigorous with normal healthy, vigorous plants with well-developed nod- ulated root systems, the dis- eased plants have smaller roots with a brownish rot showing up in the central portion of the main root. Mildew also developed on beans in some fields with abun- dant foliage during the damp weather, Recent sunshine and drying winds have curtailed this plant disease. Generally. all erops are grow- ing very well in Huron. The winter wheat harvest is prac- tically all completed. Yields in excess of 50 bushels per acre have been common. Pas- tures are producing well for this time of the year. Harvest- ing of aftermath hay crops and spring grains is in full swing. • PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERBTURKHEIM, 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 and and Foreign; single copies 7 Cents. pill!lUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIBIIIIIaIIIIIIBIIIIIIIIIIllIIoiliIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIgIIIINoorin �nlllllllllll uluuiuuliuuuiuuii Living in a tourist town must be quite different from living in a town of corresponding size that has no link with the tour- ist industry. I grew up in a small town that was just beginning to find its potential as a tourist town. Quite a few cars in town were evident in July and August. Everybody thought the tourist business was a good thing and something should be done about it. A few people with large houses and small incomes, including my mother, put up "Tourist Accommodation" signs and were not only flabbergasted but delighted to rent huge, im- maculate bedrooms for as much as $2 a night. But on the whole, the tourist business was tust a little extra gravy, and the town drowsed through the summer, the mer- chants leaning in their cool doorways, waiting. for 6 o'clock to come, so they could close up and hustle off to the bats park after gulping their supper. What a difference from the slam- bam - thank - you-ma'm at- mosphere of the modern tourist town! Today the tourist business is not only a ,little extra gravy, it is the cream in the coffee, the icing on the cake, the cheese with the apple pie and any other garnishing you care to nauseate yourself by imagining. It is the difference between survival of the fittest and get- ting along nicely, thank you, in the business world. For the grocers. the hard. wares, the drug stores, the tourist season is a mixture of exhilaration a n d exhaustion. The harmonious tune of the cash register is offset by the discordant scream of aching feet. Aside from its economic in- jection, the tourist business has a very steoeg impact on the life of a small town. When the first visitors begin to arrive, in May and June, they are as welcome as the first flowers. They add color, excitement, a touch of the outside world, with their different accents and dif- ferent clothes. They are warmly welcomed and not just for their financial contribution. Most of them are very nice, friendly people, and it's a pleasure to greet the re- peaters each year. on their first trip to the cottage. We have a little yarn about the winter we've spent, and like as not, they'll urge: "Now you be sure and come up to the cot- lege and see us this summer. We'll have a cold one together." They start to come in a trickle that quickly becomes a stream. then an avalanche. The pate quickens in the small town as everyone turns to in an effort to cope with them. By mid-July, the whole town is throbbing with this heady addi- tion to its life -stream. You can't find a place to park, shop- ping takes three times as long, and you can scarcely cross the street because of the constant stream of cars crawling •through. About this time, the tourist town has almost last Its iden- tity and individuality. Mer- chants and resort operators are tike fishermen who find them- selves in the middle off a vast school of fish, like farmers in- tent on reaping the harvest be- rearee SMOOTHEST • EASIEST RUNNING STRAW CHOPPER MADE TODAY! It's Purr.r-r.rfectfy smooth ... but a tiger for work. Easy running cuts power de, mend to an absolute minimum. Finest chop—makes plowing easier, filth, fer- tility better. Free.Swinging Hammers are individually replaceable in balanced pairs. Today's Quality Chopper. Setter all ways because it's precision made, SFE YOUR DEALER OR WRITE FOR LITERATURE PISTRI,UTED tn. H. L. TURN -ER (Ontario) LTD. Blenheim, Ontario imommo.wwwwwommolow4 SUGA and SPICE By Bill Smiley imaj I Mk fore the first touch of frost kilts it. As .August nears its end, and the golden days fall rapidly away, there is a little sadness in the air, as the tourist season nears its end, and the new and old friends among the campers are seen heading out of town with the sun -blackened chil- dren and their piled high ears. But when Labor Day arrives, and the avalanche .slows to a trickle, the town becomes a town again, not just a shopping centre. The citizens slow down, stretch their backs, and look around at each other. Within a week, they have forgotten the scramble and the rush and the foolish business of making money, and, full or renewedin- terest in their town and them- selves, get down to something series, like planning .a hunting trip, or having a party. 0— Award Contracts For Pipeline The lastmajor contracts for the Lake Huron -to -London wat- er pipeline have been awarded, the Ontario Water Resources Commission confirmed Mon - clay. Pigott Construction Co. Ltd., of Toronto, has been given a $5,485.589 contract for the con- struction of a water treatment plant for the system at Grand Bend, on the Lake Huron shore- line. The company has also been awarded a $1,889,798 con- tract to construct a low -lift pumping station there. The total cost of contracts awarded to date for the OWRC's Lake Huron Water Supply Sys- tem is approximately $16,- 700.000. The pipeline is being con• structed to supply water to the city of London, which is about 30 miles from Grand Bend. The OWRC will bear the cost of bringing the filtered water as far as Arva, a municipality north of London, and the city will distribute the water from a 12 million gallon reservoir now under construction by the Commission at Arva. The target date for comple- tion of the system is December, 1966, when 22 million gallons of water per day will be pump- ed into the Arva reservoir. As demand grows, this will be in- creased toward 67 million gal- lons per day, the pipeline's ca. pacity, Water will be supplied at cost to London, and any other mu- nicipality along the route which decides to take advantage cad the supply, amlIlloaouamaaotamiIoaoamaimm For the Best in TV Seryiee, CALL McADAMS RADIO AND TELEVISION Dial 2364094 or 4186 ZURICH tiammommemoommemirosirammak Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY AUCTIONEERS J. E. 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