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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-10-14, Page 1No. 41—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS 9414„ ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY OCTOBER 14, 1965 7 CENTS PER COPY NDP CANDIDATE—J. Carl Hemingway of Brussels, last Thursday night was nomi- nated to represent the NDP in Huron County, at the forthcoming federal election. He was the unsuccessfhl candidate for the party in the second last federal election. On the right is Herb Klopp, RR 3, Zurich, who acted as chairman of the nomination meet- ing, and on the left is Drew Blackwell, of Zurich, who was appointed as campaign manager for Mr, Hemingway. Ecumenkal Thanksgiving Service HSI At Mary Ellen Memorial hai;el An ecumenical service in which clergy and laity of five faiths participated was held at the Mary Ellen Chapel at Grand Bend on Thanksgiving Day. About 75 residents of Grand Bend and area attended the service which was the first an- niversary of the dedication of the chapel a year ago. Rev. J. C. Thompson, of Lon- don, secretary of the Western Ontario district of the Cana- dian Bible Society, was speaker. He 'was introduced by , Dr. Judith Brigham, of Grand Bend and Louisville, Ky., a member of the planning committee. Mr. Thompson said that the source of Christian unity is in the Scriptures and that the need of our time is for a com- mon Bible. This unity through the Scripture, he said, should have happened 1000 years ago, but we may be thankful it is happening today, Inspired by the new ecumenical spirit, Ro- man Catholic and Protestant faiths are now working together to compile a new scripture based on Greek and Hebrew texts which will be "acceptable to all the churches". He also brought with him a beautifully bound copy of the first British translation of Roman Catholic and Protestant texts, completed late last year. Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. A. Feeney, rector of St. Peter's Cathedral Basilica in London, led the prayer for Christian unity. Msgr. Feeney said that heart as well as mind must be in our Christian teaching and that Pope Bayfield Couple Given Surprise Paul had come to the United Nations with one word, "Peace", the word which was spoken the night Jesus Christ was born. "Five years ago," he said, "a meeting of this type was not possible; it was possible, I guess, just not probable." Assisting in the service were Rev. E. J. Wattam, of the Church of God, Grand Bend, who gave the Invocation; Rev. John Graham, of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church, Grand Bend, who led the litany of thanks; Rev. G. E. Morrow, of the Grand Bend United Church, who read from the Old Testament; Rev. N. J. McLeod, of Thedford and Grand Bend Anglican churches, who read from the New Testament, and Rev. A, M. Grant, of Lon- don, retired United Church minister, formerly of Grand Bend, who pronounced the benediction. Co-ordinator of the service Huron TB Group Hear Reports The regular meeting of the Huron County Tuberculosis As- sociation was held in the Town Hall, Seaforth, Tuesday eve- ning of last week, in charge of president G. A. Watt. Miss Louise Robertson, edu- cation chairman, reported that the secretary had attended 16 fairs with educational mater- ials. From this venture re- quests had been received for other educational materials from a number of teachers and nursing students in Huron and Perth. Requests for speakers on tuberculosis have also been received. The Huron County Chapter of the Registered Nurs- es of Ontario will have Dr. J. B. Robinson, medical director of Beck Memorial Sanatorium, as their speaker, on "Tuber- culosis" as an October dinner meeting. The rehabilitation chairman William Elston, said financial assistance had been given to an ex -patient of the sanatorium. E. E. Walker gave the case finding report, stating that all employees of the new Maitland Manor Nursing Home, Goder- ich, had been X-rayed. Things are in readiness for the Christmas Seal Sale, which begins in November, with Ma- dame Vanier as honorary pa- tron, according to Mrs. D. C. Cornish, chairman of the Seal Sale committee. 0 BAYFIELD — Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on Saturday, October 2. Their Ellen three children, George, and Donald entertained them at dinner in the Dominion Hotel, Zurich. After dinner the party visit- ed an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dunn, where Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay discovered a sur- prise party had been planned for them. Twenty couples, friends and relatives presented Jeanne and John with a cor- sage and boutonniere and the evening was spent playing pro- gressive euchre. A humorous address was read by Mrs. Lloyd Makins, and Mrs. Ted Dunn and Mrs. Rugel Jenkins presented the cele- brants with a pair of matching table lamps and a magazine rack. The hostess served a delicious lunch, assisted by Mrs, Ted Dunn, Mrs, Arnold Makins, Mrs. Russell Grainger, Mrs. Rugel Jenkins and Miss Ellen Lindsay. A cake decorated for the occasion was presented to Mr. and Mrs, Lindsay before being cut and served. was James H. Dalton, Roman Catholic layman and former reeve of Grand Bend, also a member of the planning com- mittee. A duet, "Thank Thee Lord", was sung by Mrs. Clarke Kennedy and her daughter, Miss Jean Kennedy. The chapel was beautifully decorated with autumn leaves and a cornucopia of harvest fruits and vegetables by Mrs. Kenneth MacGregor and Mrs. Rufus Turnbull. Ushers were Ken Young, Kenneth MacGreg- or, Clarke. Kennedy and Antony Laporte. The printing of pro- grams was done by courtesy of Kenneth M. Freebairn. Ampli- fiers were provided by Ray Lamme, and a tape recording of the service was made by Melvin Peariso. Lorne Luther and Donald Brenner were in charge of parking. Mrs. G. E. Morrow was hostess at the tea to which Mr. Eisenbach invited those who participated. Other members of the plan- ning committee were Ken Young (Anglican), Kenneth MacGregor •(Church of God), Mrs. Clarke Kennedy (United Church), and Peter Eisenbach, curator of the Museum. Stanley Couple Married 40 Years Mr. and Mrs, Russell Erratt, Varna, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on Sun- day, October 10, The couple were guests of honour when their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, Varna, opened their home to members of the family to cele- brate the occasion. A smorgas- bord turkey dinner was enjoyed by the 33 members present. Mr. and Mrs. Erratt were married •on October 10, 1925, at the Varna United Church manse and have resided on the Babylon Line, Stanley Town- ship since that time. Mrs. Erratt, the former Pearl Steph- enson, was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Steph- enson and Mr. Erratt was the son of the late Mr, and Mrs. Henry Erratt. Their attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Perce John- ston. ohnston. Mr. and Mrs. Erratt have one daughter, Helen, Mrs. William Taylor, Varna, and five grand- children, Joyce, Lynn, Donna, Cathy and Mark Taylor. Mrs. Erratt's two sisters, Mrs. Lee McConnell and Mrs. Perce Johnston, both of Varna; her brother Elmore Stephenson, of Egmondville, along with Mr. Erratt's two sisters, Mrs. George Anderson, Seaforth,. and Mrs. George Stephenson, Varna, and all their families were present to join in wishing the couple a happy anniversary. The bridal couple of 40 years ago were recipients of lovely cards and gifts for which they deeply expressed their appre- ciation. Mr, and Mrs. Toro Meyers and Mr. and Mrs. James Treve- thic spent Thanksgiving week- end at Port Colborne. Mrs. Meyers is remaining there for a week's vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Manson and family, of Toronto, and Mrs. L. D. Manson, of London, were holiday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Newell Geiger. NDP Pick Carl Hemingway As Candidate in Federal Election 3. Carl Hemingway, 55 -year- • old Brussels area farmer, was named Thursday night as New Democratic Party candidate for the federal riding of Huron, His name was the only one presented to the nominating convention in the auditorium of the Central' Huron Secondary School. About 75 persons at- tended. 0 ATTEND TRAINING SCHOOL Senior training school course, "Vegetable with a Flair", was held at Hensall Legion Hall last Thursday and Friday. Leaders whe.: naught the course were Miss Mary Mc- Grath, home economist, food aid nutrition section, Ontario Department of Agriculture, and Miss Dianne Liddiard, home economist for Huron. Two selected members from each Institute branch in South Huron took the course and they will in turn teach classes in their district. Taking the course were: Hur- ondal W. I., Mrs. Harry Dougall; E l i m v i l l e, Mrs. Wellington Brock; Seaforth, Mrs. Earl Pap- ple, Mrs. Gordon MacKenzie; Zurich, Mrs. Len Prang, Mrs. Jim Parkins; Clinton, Mrs. Charles Nelson, Mrs. Mary Ross. The Reader's Write - - - October 11 1965 The Editor, Zurich Citizens News, Zurich, Ontario. Dear Sir: I am quite concerned by your editorial "We're All Behind You" of October 7, endorsing Mr. Robert McKinley, the PC candidate, as your choice in this federal election. You have a perfect right to endorse whomever you wish; I can't object to your making a choice. But I am seriously dis- turbed by the reasons you gave for urging "everyone in this area" to vote for Mr. McKinley. Canada is entering a period of scientific and social revolu- tion whether she likes it or not. There are nine times as many large scale computers in Cana- da today as there were five years ago. If that rate of com- puter installation continues there will be almost no jobs deft for office and factory workers in 15 years, unless some real government planning directs the growth of astomation and uses it for rapid national ex- pansion. What will it mean to live in a world in which ma- chines not only do things better than men, but think better as well? How will farmers react when large food processing companies establish huge auto- mated hog and chicken factor- ies (they can't really be called farms) like those already in operation in Ohio? Like it or not, we are going to have to face these questions. I suggest that we tan either face them as individuals, or as a nation. The picture of the individual man struggling to get a computer to work for hint, Mrs. Hemingway is a former secretary-fieldman for the Hur- on County Federation of Agri- culture. He was the unsuccess- ful NDP candidate for Huron in the 1962 election. Mr. Hemingway will run against Maitland Edgar, of Clin- ton, Liberal candidate, and R. E. "Bob" McKinley, of Zurich, Conservative. The seat was held in the last parliament by Conservative L. E. Cardiff, who resigned recently. The eandidate's nomination was moved by Rev. John C. Boyne, a Presbyterian minister from Exeter; the nomination was seconded by Warren Zinn, of Ashfield To w n s h i p. The meeting was chaired by Her- bert Klopp, RR 3, Zurich. Donald C. MacDonald, leader of the provincial New Demo- cratic Party, guest speaker at the convention said the Bladen report proposes less than half as much assistance from the federal government to build universities as it did to build technical schools. "It is not enough," said Mr. MacDonald. The report on financing high- er education in Canada docu- ments in unanswerable terms the gross inadequacies of fed- eral government assistance to higher education in Canada, he said. Governments that have been in power in Canada have not been sympathetic to the farmer, he said. Although he did not name instead of in place of him, may be poetic, but it is hardly prac- tical. We must face the scien- tific revolution together, as a nation, and we must have crea- tive leadership to do so. I have chosen only the most important example, automation, the one that will affect us all. But we will need the same creative leadership to obtain full employment, to gain domes- tic control of our economy, to maintain and strengthen con- federation, to up -date educa- tion, to reform parliament, to obtain proper social security, and to become an effective voice for peace in world affairs. You said Mr. McKinley had your support "not because of political affiliations, but because he is a local man and comes from a highly -respected family of .our community". I submit, Mr. Editor, that the day is past when we can allow ourselves the luxury of voting for a can- didate because he is a "local man". The strict party discip- line maintained by the old-line parties in their parliamentary game -playing assures us that .a Liberal or Tory MP, unless he is a man of entirely remarkable qualities, will be no more than a back-bench number in his party's voting block. So the criterion, rather than the location of the eandidate's home, must be the way his par- ty's entire voting block will be used. A vote for Mr. McKinley is a vote for Mr. Diefenbaker. A vote for Mr. Edgar is a vote for Mr. Pearson. A vote for Mr. Hemingway is a vote for Mr. Douglas. Rather than pick- ing your candidate on the basis (Continued on page 4) Legion Auxiliary Plan Activities the Farmers Allied Meat En- terprise, he referred to "the certain farm organization made up of 13,000 members, many of whom put all their savings into it. "When it got into financial difficulties, the only assistance it received was a royal commis- sion to dig out the dirt." Timmins area farmers whose crops were completely rained out this year had to "scream" before being noticed, he said. He suggested a program be established to declare such re- gions disaster areas. In accepting the nomination as NDP candidate, Mr. Heming- way said he considered it a real responsibility and a real privilege to represent the party in a country where "we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, but not freedom of government". He told the small gathering that the NDP will in- troduce a proper program of medicare, if they are elected to office. Mr. Hemingway also said there are too many old people in the country today suffering from inadequate pension s. "There will be 2,500,000 Cana- dians left out the new Canada Pension Plan," he added. Referring to the unemploy- ment picture in Canada, the candidate told the group that the town of Clinton could have had a new arena and commun- President Mrs. Roy Smale chaired the October meeting of the Legion Ladies' Auxiliary held Tuesday evening in the Legion Hall, when plans were outlined for a wedding in Oc- tober and the entertaining of veterans in Westminster Hos- pital to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Auxiliary, on October 7. Members motored to London and entertained the veterans with a period of bingo with prizes awarded, and presented gifts to two adopted veterans, and served lunch. Mrs. Harold Thiel won the guessing contest and Mrs. E. R. Davis the attendance draw. Members will canvass for the CNIB in October. ity centre built without costing them one cent, under an NDP government. "It might have taken five years to do it, but we could have sent all the un- employed in Huron to work on the project eachwinter until it would be completed," he pro- posed. Drew Blackwell, of Zurich, was appointed as the campaign chairman for the NDP candi- date, and he referred to Cana- dian government as a style of politics that has nothing to do with the people. A son of Rev. and Mrs. A. Blackwell, he is a student at Harvard University, and told of his experience in Forest City, Arkansas, while he was assist- ing in the registration of Negro voters. "There has been no demo- cracy in Canada for the past 30 years," he said, "and now the NDP will show Huron that they are a `people's' party. We need canvassers to knock on every door in this riding—we need housewives to make phone calls—we need help!", he con- cluded. Several times throughout the meeting newspapers in Huron took a ribbing from hecklers in the crowd, with cries of "let's see the reporters write what is being said here tonight," and "the reporters in Huron County are afraid to print the facts about the NDP." Zurich Council investig ting Source Of Help to Finance Sewage System The council of the village of Zurich is still investigating the possibility of a sewage system, with government help which has been promised under new provincial legislation. At their regular meeting last week, council instructed the clerk - treasurer to contact the Ontario Water Resources Commission with a request for an applica- tion form for sewage disposal system financing through the commission. Some weeks ago the council r e c e iv ed a recommendation from the OWRC that the village needs a sewage system to pre- vent contamination of waters in the area. Shortly after the recommendation, new legisla- tion was announced by Premier Crop Report Heavy rains continue to hold up the harvesting of white beans and silo filling. Grain corn and bean mois- ture has not lowered during the past week because of low air temperature and cloudy weather. Winter wheat is showing up Roberts, granting financial aid to municipalities requiring it. In other business at the light session of council, it was agreed that Zurich would revert to standard time at 12 p.m. on October 30. Date for court of revision on the 1966 assess- ment role has been set for Oc- tober 27. Accounts totalling $1043.34 were approved for payment, 0 About People You Know ... Zurich W.I. The members of the Zurich Women's Institute are invited by the Kippen East W.I. to a social evening in Hensall Com.- munity Centre, on October 20, at 8:30 p.m. There will be a show of din- nerware as well as table settings display; also a film on the mak- ing of china and figurines. The area convention will be held at Victoria Inn, Stratford, on November 2 and 3. A short course in leathercraft will be held in Zurich on No- vember 17, 18 and 19, in the well. Most cattle are still on Town Hall. More details in pasture. later issue, PRIVATE AIRFIELD — Bob Forrester, of Zurich, has opened his own privateair- field on his farm, a mile and a quarter north of Zurich. Bob is shown here with his own aircraft, which he just recently purchased, prior to a take -off from his new field,