Zurich Citizens News, 1966-02-03, Page 7J
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3v 1966 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
PAGE SEVEN
Huron. County 4-H Club Leaders Pick
Executive For Coming Season's Work
John Clark, of RR 5, God-
erich, was elected president of
the Huron County 4-11 Club
Leader's Association at it's ann-
ual meeting in Clinton last
week, He succeeds Ken Baker,
of 1111 2, Dashwood.
Other officers are: vice-pres-
idents, Maurice Love, of RR 3,
Exeter, and Robert Fothering-
ham, of RR 3, Seaforth; secret-
ary -treasurer, Maurice Hallah-
an, of RR 1, Belgrave. Direc-
tors are Andrew Gaunt, of RR
2, Lucknow; Barry Glenwalden
of Lucknow; Allan Haugh, of
RR 1, Brucefield; Donald Lobb,
of RR 2, Clinton; Mr. Fother-
ingham; and Ross Eedy, of
Dungannon.
More than 50 club leaders
were guests at the dinner given
by the Ontario Department of
Agriculture.
Guests included Huron Cou-
nty Warden Ken Stewart, reeve
of McKillop Township, and a
former 441 club leader him-
self; and Reeve Ernest Talbot,
of Stanley Township, chairman
of the agricultural committee
of Huron County council.
Don Pullen, assistant agric-
ultural representative, who dir-
ects the 4 -II club program in
Huron, announced Gordon Yeo,
of RR 3, Clinton and Margaret
Stewart, of RR 1, Clinton, were
winners in the gate sign con-
test.
was guest speaker, Ile is farm
management specialist with the
Ontario agriculture department
for nine counties in southwest-
ern Ontario.
The leaders set December 2
for the annual 4-H achieve-
ment night.
Other business conducted in-
cluded plans to continue with.
441 club demo'nsitrations; to
again sponsor a 4-H gate sign
competition; to conduct a 441
bus trip to the University of
Guelph; and to give more' ad-
vanced work on an organized
basis to the senior 4-H club
members.
Mr. Pullen reported the or-
ganizational meetings for the
1966 clubs will start during
the Easter holidays.
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BLAKE NEWS
Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Erb,
Philip, Marjorie and Carol
spent the week -end at Kit-
chener.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Oesch
and son David spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Allen
and family at Goderich.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bender
and son Dean spent Sunday and
Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Cur-
tis Gingerich and family.
Robert and Dianne Steckle
spent Sunday afternoon with
Richard IIeare, of London, Norma and Elaine Gingerich.
Annual Meeting
OF THE
ZURICH % GRICULTURAL SOCIETY
WILL BE HELD IN THE
TOWNSHIP HALL, ZURICH
ON
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1966
8 P.M.
V. L. BECKER,
Presidient
WILLIAM BAECHLER,
Secretary -Treasurer
From My Window
By Shirley Keller
Years ago I discovered that
weekends should be avoided. 1
recognize the need for rest
days and a few hours of quiet
meditation in communion with
the Almighty but I question
the wisdom of modern man
who is naive enough to believe
he can pack two days to the
brim with activity, leave room
for relaxation and worship and
emerge Monday morning with-
out spot or blemish.
Convinced though I may be
of the utter folly of attempting
to live your life entirely on
the weekends, there are times
when I am dragged kicking
and screaming into the horrib-
le rush of Saturday and Sunday
that man has inflicted on him-
self. The immediate past two
weekends were prime examples
and though my body has sur-
vived, my mental outlook has
1
been dangerously shortened.
On both occasions the troub-
le began with a pleasure drive
to London --the first time to
visit a sister-in-law, the second
to do some shopping.
I suppose it is unfair of me
to associate disaster with Lon-
don for it certainly wasn't
the fault of the city fathers
on our initial trip that one
tiny nephew w a s plastered
with itchy chicken pox that
kept him and the whole house
awake; that the arrival of the
s t o r k necessitated bedspace
(already at an absolute minim-
um) to be stretched thinner
to accomodate two temporar-
ily motherless little girls; that
deep snow prevented our re-
treat to the warmth and friend-
liness of our own home.
Nor was it their fault the
following weekend that our fa -
A RED -EYED TEACHER
Ever been on shift work'
Most nurses have Many indus-
trial workers have. Farmers,
executives, merchants, of f i c e
workers — and until recently,
teachers—have not had that de-
lightful experience.
First time I ran into it wis
on my first job, when I wan 17
back in the middle ages,
sometimes known as the Dirty
Thirties. I have been a stal-
wart champion of the working
man ever since.
It was on a steamboat on the
Great Lakes. Seven days a
week. For a dollar a day.
I worked the graveyard shift.
Except that in those days it was
a shift and a half, from mid-
night to noon. And it seemed
to be rolling a little every mid-
night. Just enough to make
you queasy.
Sick at heart, sick at stomach,
we groggily made our way to
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'MY IINH'
loo. mugs roma
the galley, about 11:30 p.m. for
"breakfast".
The night cook was a jolly
Oriental gentleman called Sing.
He couldn't sing. And he
couldn't cook, either. But his
heart was in the right place.
He knew we needed sustenance
for the 12 hours ahead.
Chuckling merrily, he'd pile
our plates with greasy eggs,
greasy ham, greasy fried pota-
toes. Sometimes, for a change,
there'd be greasy sausages and
bread fried in grease.
Even a 17 -year-old stomach,
the human organ that most
closely resembles a cement -
mixer, couldn't take it. We
used to push the greasy gob
around the plate. and settle for
some greasy coffee.
But the clincher, the thing
that really made our stomachs
heave, that made us rush from
the gallery to our jobs of clean-
ing out lavatories, was the
dessert.
Triumphantly, Sing w o u 1 d
sing out, "You like nice Boston
Cleam Pie? I got". Now, as
you probably know Boston
Cream Pie is a rich, nauseous
concoction of custard topped
with cream. Almost 30 years
later, I still gag when I see it
on a menu.
As you may have gathered,
I didn't like shift work then.
And it hasn't improved much
during the intervening years.
This year, at our school, we're
on a double shift. A combina-
tion of post-war baby boom and
bureaucratic red tape have pro-
duced a situation in which the
populations of two entire
schools, some 2,000 students,
are sharing a building intended
for half that number.
The school board had two al-
ternatives. They could have
each student hold another stu-
dent on his or her knee all day,
or they could run two shifts.
They favored the former, be -
lighting and books. But some
cause it would save on teachers,
parents were pretty annoyed at
the idea of their 88 -pound
daughters holding a 200 -pound
football player in their laps all
day. So the school board fear-
lessly compromised, and voted
for the shift system.
And that's why your faithful
reporter lurches out of bed at
6:15, wildly groping for the
alarm clock, has a coffee break,
if there is one, at 9 a.m., and
eats lunch about 10:30 in the
morning.
In thear3, it's wonderful.
Teachers have all afternoon to
sleep, golf, curl or hunt, and
the evening to prepare lessons.
Good for the students, too.
They have their homework all
done by dinner time, and can
watch TV or wash their hair,
or go to the poolroom. All we
have to do is get to bed a
couple of hours earlier than in
the good old days.
In practice, it's horrible.
Wives persecute husbands in
the afternoon with shopping,
scrubbing, repairing, nagging.
If you sleep in the afternoon,
you lie stark, staring insom-
niacal, at night. If you work
or play, you fall in the
middel of cliiuner, bakasleeped potato
half chewed.
Nobody goes to bed any ear-
lier than they ever did. And
what we wind up with is a pe-
dantry of red -eyed teachers,
frayed at the edges, facing a
gaggle of yawning teenagers,
some of whom were up at 5
a.m. to catchthe school bus,
every morning at '7:45.
roily car was caught in a radar
trap; that our children expect-
ed our hamburg income to fin-
ance their fillet mignon tastes;
that the footwear was all the
wrong style and the nightgown
all the wrong colour or that
aur homecoming was made un-
forgettable by the arrival of
eight unexpected supper guests.
As if this was not sufficient
punishment, last Sunday's bli-
zzard brought increased prob-
lems to our by now abnormal
house ---- a total of 22 persons
were fed at our table and bed-
ded down on our counterpane.
Railroad terminals and bus
depots had nothing on our ho-
usehold as snowbound travell-
ers streamed through our door-
way, stood in line outside our
batIls'oom, rinsed diapers in
our laundry and contacted wa-
iting girl friends and anxious
families on our telephone.
Even before our "no vacan-
cy" sign was hoisted at dusk,
we had turned away one ner-
vous newspaper man and two
cold, shelter - seeking friends
of the family.
About six a.m Monday mor-
ning whilst the radio issued
weather warnings and advised
of poor visibility and blocked
roads, a stiff and weary group
of adults and children scram-
bled over the snowdrifts and
formed a caravan of cars to
begin an uncertain journey in-
to the snowy, blowy dawn ----
hut not until they had consum-
ed gallons of coffee and stacks
of toast.
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Two old sayings came to
mind as I crawled back into
bed in an exhausted state of
shock --- "variety is the spice
of life" and "where there is
a will, there is a way,"
Actually, I have no regret;
and bear no malice. Lessons
have been learned and friend-
ships earned. And maybe next
weekend will be less rigor-
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