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Zurich Citizens News, 1965-08-26, Page 21 PACE TWO eddia4fiall ee4I Second Look At the Orchard Some days ago we made some corn- .tnent on the case of the Priddle orchard in North York. The story at that time was that the municipal authorities in the Township of North York, which is part of Municipal Toronto, had decided to expropriate land to build a garbage incinerator. They had decided, more particularly, •that the only piece of land that was suitable for this purpose was a 57 -acre property owned by a physician, Dr. W. W. Priddle, who hes for the past 25 years made a major hobby of developing fruit trees. His orchard property in North York is a show -place which produces pears, apricots, grapes, apples and berries, Over the years Dr, Priddle has done a great deal of the plant- ing, grafting and budding himself. He appeared before the North York Board of Control to enter a quiet protest against the destruction by bulldozer of his fruit trees and berry bushes. At the time of his protest, North York. authorities palietly regretted that it was necessary to expropriate his land and des- troy his orchard. No other property would serve the incinerator purpose. he was given to understand. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSPAY, AUGUST 26, 1947 Since Tuesday of this week, the "'Let- ters -to -the -Editor" columns of the three Toronto newspapers have contained many protests against the destruction of the orchard. A great variety of people were moved to sit down and write to the editor in public support of Dr. Priddle. The news now is that in North York, the municipal authorities are taking sec- ond thoughts. They hired a helicopter. Members of the works committee and the Board of Control, to a total of 12, took helicopter flights over the orchard, three at a time for four flights, and solemnly inspected the site from a fresh viewpoint. They then held a meeting, after which it was announced that the decision to ex- propriate would be postponed. Reeve James Service, who had previously ex- pressed the belief that the Priddle Iand was the only possible place for the new garbage incinerator, announced after the helicopter inspection that, "We will exert every effort to see that Dr. Priddle's farm continues as a farm". We suspect that as well as looking down from a helicopter, these gentlemen had also been looking at the newspapers. —(Stratford Beacon -Herald) She Who Presides Is Mr. One of the little problems that arises from time to time in any organization that includes members of both sexes, is the problem of what to say when addressing a presiding officer who happens to be a woman. Many people will hesitate or stumble over the choice of saying, "Mr. •Chairman. I move that . . ." or "Madam hairwoman . . ." Sometimes there is an attempt to split the difference, so to speak, by saying "Madam Chairman . . ." though we have yet to hear anyone attempt the phrase. "Mr. Chairwoman . . ." Modern usage seems to be tending toward the assumption that a chairman is a chairman, whether he or she wears trousers or a skirt. There is some con- firmation for this usage from a source of :legal opinions, the High Court of the Unit- ed Kingdom. Her Majesty has just appointed Mrs. Elizabeth Lane to Britain's High Court. As Mrs. Lane she was a distinguished lawyer, and she has had some experience c•n the bench as Britain's first woman di- vorce court commissioner, a job that rates as an acting judgeship, In her new. and loftier, position, as a justice of the High Court, she must be addressed with the proper respect by bar- risters appearing before her. The ques- tion has arisen. Is she now. "My Lord", or is she to be addressed in court as "My Lady"? The Lord Chancellor himself has ruled on the point, and the decision is that when a lady puts on judicial wig and gown, and ascends the dais, she becomes "My Lord". Furthermore, when she is to be mentioned in any official context, Mrs. Lane is to be referred to as, "Mr. Justice Lane". "There simply isn't any precedent for calling a woman anything different. We've taken what seems to be the least absurd decision." That's the word from the Lord Chancellor's office. Until some one can quote a better authority, this seems to settle it. If. Mrs. Douglas Seath happens to he presiding at a meeting of Stratford Board of Education, of which she is a member, then for as long as she is in the chairman's seat, she is "Mr. Chairman". — (Stratford Beacon -Her- ald) 24111IIITIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIII TIIG;i"IdiCili111111;1111111 1111111111111111111111111111911911I1I1111I11111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIII;1111111111111111111;11111111111111111111191"_-= 1114)11)11); IIh1;1111111111ilillilP1111 There have been fantastic charges in our way of living in the last two or three decades. Schools are bigger and bright- er. if not better. The teenagers have taken over popular music and public attention. Television tirelessly hurls verbal and visu- al garbage in our unresisting faces. Murder and rape walk city streets, even in daytime. Not to mention racial strife, the welfare state. frozen foods, in- stant everying. and Japanese motor scooters. It's a long. long way from that simple, cut -and - dried, black and white society in which most of today's middle-agers caught in a world revolutioin, were brought up. If our parents and prandpar- ents could be brought back from their eternal rest for a quick look at our world they would probably go straight into deep shock . They might be able to cope with most of the 'items above, but there is one thing that would send them riight around the bend — the SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley d11111111111111111111114: change in our observance of Sunday. When I was a kid. Sunday, aside from its religious aspects, was a day of rest. literally. There was nothing else to do. For the average family, it was church in the morning, home for a big noon dinner, flake out for a nap for the adults, gloomy poking around house or back- yard for the kids, supper, and early to bed. No swimming, no fishing, not even a game of catch. Peace and quiet, how- ever resented by the young. Only variation in this was the descent of a horde of dull relatives. Everyone then sat around in Sunday best, in par- Ior or on porch, and gassed in- terminably about, Cousin El - wood's bad back or Aunt Ar- lene's asthma. I grew up thinking that Sun- day was just a day on which you couldn't do anything worth- while. My attitude toward the Sabbath was that the sooner it was over, the better. But even then, thought was too young to notice, the rot had set in. Some of the wilder ele- ments in the community began smashing the Calvinistic gloom. Here and there: a family would not only go for a drive on Sun- day, but smuggle swimming suits and a picnic lunch along. Before you knew it, the odd family was secretly listening to Jack Benny on the radio, after supper. The virus spread like wild- fire. By the time I achieved manhood, the grand old tradi- tional Sunday was crumbling rapidly. The more reckless among the young fellows began hanging around the Chinese restaurant or going for walks with girls. Some of the pure anarchists among them started playing tennis and fishing and all sorts of unspeakable things. From there, of course, it was only a step to wearing sports clothes and smoking and hav- ing a beer on Sunday. Drug stores and restaurants began staying open, to cope with this new wave of wantonness. Sun- day sports got one toe in the door, then kicked it wide open. Sunday movies moved in. The beaches set up midway rides. The transistor radio was invent- ed, along with the drive-in. And you know, too, what's happened to the peace and quiet of our childhood Sunday. Sports car bellow, lawn mowers snarl. Traffic whines on high- ways, children whine at beach- es. Transistors blare Beatles - meat. Power boats drum and throb. The air is sweet with the pock of golf balls ricochet- ing off trees, and water-skiers rich • e/NA N PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMI:11;D, Z1:7RICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher J. E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Pest 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 Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada•, $4.00 in "United States send and Foreign; single copies 7 tents. Television Views by William Whiting Last week in Miles City, Mon- tana, a community TV antenna company announced they could bring to subscribers four sta. tions for $6,00 per month, plus $19.00 for installation. This situation exists in many U.S. areas. Every so often we hear peo- ple complain about the choice of TV .programs in this area. Let's take .a look at our situa- tion here. Depending on where you live (this column appears in several newspapers) the average viewer can pick up channel 3 Barrie, channel 6 Toronto, channel 8 Wingham or channel 10 Lon- don. These are CBC outlets and depending on where you live, you can probably receive at least two. CTV stations are channel 9 Toronto and channel 13 Kitchener. An independent network free station is channel 11 Hamilton. You also have access to ABC', CBS and NBC outlets from Buffalo, Detroit or Cleveland, again depending on your location. Channel 12 Erie covers a large area and there's also channel 35 in Erie if your set is equipped. We watched this channel last week while visiting London. U.S. viewers are happy if they can see their three networks. In this area we have the three American networks, two Cana- dian networks and an indepen- dent station. What a choice from which to select programs. Speaking of programs, fall schedules are just about ready to go. CBC's best night is Tuesday with Red Skelton, Front Page Challenge and Dick Van Dyke. Other CBC shows include Flashback, Hank, Ed Sullivan, Bonanza, Don Messer, The Fugitive, Okay Crackerby, Bob Hope Theatre, Seaway, I Dream of Jeannie, Tommy Hunter Show, Friday Night Movies, The Beverly Hillbillies and Saturday Night Hockey. • CTV and I.T.O. stations have the following: Walt Disney, Amos Burke -Secret Agent, Dean Martin, Bewitched, Big Valley, Gomer Pyle, Long Hot Summer, Wednesday Night Hockey, Camp Runamuck, Court Martial, Smother's Brothers, Patty Duke, F Troop, Jackie Gleason, I Spy and several others. ricocheting off the heads of swimmers. Beer cans clang on asphalt. Couples wrangle on gin and tonic. Even the birds have to shout louder to hear each .other. And all that, Dads, is why your old man went back from a rest to work on Monday, while you go back to work for a .rest. ST. JOSEPH and DRYSDALE Correspondent) AL. FRED DUCHARME Visitors at the :home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon. Bedard the past week were from London, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ryder and family and while here they also called on other relatives. Also at the Bedard home from Court - right, a brother, Charles, with his son and their family. From Windsor visitors over the week -end at the hone of Mr. and Mrs. Avila Ducharme were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Masse and family and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams. They re- turned to their Windsor home on Sunday last. At the home of yours truly and Mrs. Ducharme were their son Blaise, from Windsor, for a day, and also Father Deitrich, of Ottawa, for a short visit on Saturday last. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mernovedge from Detroit spent the past week -end at the Jeffrey home in St. Joseph visiting with the latter's mother. At the home of Mrs. Jose- phine Ducharme and son were from Courtright, Mr. Charles Bedard, a nephew .of the form- er, in company with friends in his home town of Courtright. Also at the Ducharme home were visitors to Mrs. Adeline Denomme, where she is in resi- dence, her son Gerard and his wife, also Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jeffrey, all of Goderich. Heading Home Already when approaching Labor Day many of the camp- ers along the lake have left or are packing up their duds to leave and closing their cottages, for probably another year. Interest Trip On Wednesday last Mr. Ger- ard Geoffroi, of St. Joseph, motored to Ottawa on a busi- ness trip. In his company were Mrs. Bob Mernovidge, of De- troit; Mrs. Dominic Jeffrey, of St. Joseph, and Mrs. Pete Jef- RECEPTION AND DANCE FOR MR. & MRS. KARL REGIER in the Zurich Arena SAT., AUG. 28 Music by DESJARDINE ORCHESTRA Everyone Welcome �arvI€w GoIf Course (?-i Mile South of Si. Joseph) Green Fees Opening to May 31 — Sept. 15 to Closing and Weekdays, June 1 to Sept. 14 $1.25 W.EEK-ENDS and HOLIDAYS from June 1 to September 14 $2.00 Membership Fees Men, Full Season $25.00 Ladies, Full Season $20.00 Students, Full Season $12.00 Half Season, To and After August 1 Less 40% TOWNSHIP OF HAY Tender ;;or. Gas Tractor and Front-end Loader The Township of Hay is calling for tenders for the supply of an industrial gas tractor with a minimum of 34 horse- power on drawbar, with hydraulic control front-end loader. Rear tires to be loaded with calcium chloride. Tender specification forms may be obtained from the Clerk of the Township of Hay immediately. Sealed Tenders to be in the hands of the Road Superin- tendent or Clerk by Tuesday, September 7, 1965, at 6 p.ns. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. KARL HABERER, H. W. BROKENSHIRE, Road Supt,, Clerk -Treasurer, Zurich, R.R. 1 Township of Hay, 3i,5.1r Zurich, Ont.' Frey, of this highway, The ladies in company reported a very en- joyable voyage of sight-seeing, visiting many interesting places along the way, Mr. Geoffroi, who had spent much time in the past in Ot- tawa in his electronic work, was able to give the lady trio the necessary information to make their trip interesting. The trip will be one for them EXETER FLY -IN. At Sexsmith Airport 11 Miles Northeast of Exeter SUN., AUG 29 11:00-2:00 Sky Divers and Aircraft Display .Iri1111111111111•111sr to remember and to talk al;,tut„ for it is of such that petiole learn the ways and mode. of those living in different erne munities.. TENDERS FOR CONSTRUCTION OA General Purpose Room ADDITION TO St. Boniface School ZURICH ONTARIO Revised drawing and specifica- tions are available at the ai hi tects' office for construction of general purpose room addition to the St. Boniface School, Zeu:r ich, Ontario. The previous tender call for July 16th, 1965, has been cats- celled and the tender rincu• ments have been revised. The deposit for set of tender documents is $25.00._ Tenders will close on September 7th, 1965, at 4:00 p.m., E,D,S.T,• The lowest or any tender not. necessarily accepted. Blackwell, Hargarty & Buist Architects 310 Princess Avenue London, Ontario 1 6 NOTICE THE OFFICE OF THE Hay Mutual Fire insurance Co. WILL BE CLOSED FOR VACATION, FROM Sat., August 28 to Tues., Sept. 7 Any insurance information or requirements during this time may be obtained from Either Clarence Parke, 262-2324, Hensel), or William Haugh, phone 49w, Dashwood INN ,I,ONONIN3,3.41.4. NOTICE Debentures are being offered for sale to the ;Wok by BELL, GOUINLOCK CO. AT 6% INTEREST The project for which the principal is to be used is for the conversion of the Dashwood Exchange of the Hay Municipal Telephone System to Dial. Prospective buyers, please contact either H. W. 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