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Zurich Citizens News, 1967-08-24, Page 1earg MVP' No. 34—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967 PRECARIOUS POSITION — A truck carrying grain through Zurich recently ran into a considerable amount of trouble when two of the tires blew out on the back wheel. A hole had to be dug in the ground to get the wheels off, and after the tires were replaced the truck slid into the hole, creating quite a problem. To add to the misery the load of wheat started to shift to the low side, threatening to tip the truck. Stand- ing by inspecting the problem is local mechanic Art Miller, while he was waiting for a vehicle to two the truck out of the ditch. CENTENNIAL HAT—A feature attraction at the Centennial Supper recently held at the Zurich Arena, sponsored by St. Boniface CWL, was the centennial hat being modelled by Mrs. Vincent Doyle, RR 1, Dashwood. A newcomer to the com- munity, Mrs. Doyle looked quite charming in her costume of 100 years ago. Hay Township Council, Lets Contract For Grid je; Reach Fire Agree est At a special meeting of the council of the Township of Hay last week, a contract was award- ed to C. A. McDowell Ltd., for the construction of the McEwen bridge, on concessions 2 and 3. Price of the McDowell tender was $15,144.65, and .the contract is subject to the approval of the department of highways. Six tenders were received fqr the project. Prev.iousIy the council had been •considering a •dam at the location, with the Ausable River Conservation Authority paying most of the costs, but due to considerable opposition from ratepayers in the area they abandoned this idea. In other business at the spe- cial meeting the council agreed to pay the Dashwood fire de- partment the sum of $500 year- ly for stand-by protection, pro- viding they do not have to pro- tect the area previously covered by the Zurich fire department, If the Dashwoocl brigade is to cover the entire area, the rate Hay will pay them is $600 per year. The brigade will also re- ceived $75 for the first hour they are at a fire, and $35 for each ,additional hour, The biggest part of the time at the special meeting was taken up with drainage prob- lems, as the council passed three petitions for such work to be done. One petition was received from James McAllister and Ross Richardson on con- cession 7; another was from Lloyd Campbell and William Northcott, an concession 3, and the final request was from Jinn Rowcliffe, on concession 1, for cleaning t h e Cann -Mitchell drain through his farm. In each case the council approved the petition and issued instructions for engineer C. P. Corbett to bring in •a report as soon as possible. Court of revision was held on two other drains, the Datars- Logan drain and the Wildfong drainage works; and in both eases there were no appeals re- ceived. Tenders are to be re- ceived on both drains by Sep- tember 1. Council approved the quota- tion from L. L Turnball & Son, Grand Bend, for the cleaning of a portion of the Masse drain, running through the property of Louis Farwell. Price of the Job is $100. Bean Fesivad Delicious home -baked pork and beans with all the trim- mings will be the feature of the second annual Bean Fes- tival in Zurich this Saturday (August 26). Activities are scheduled to get under way at noon, and continue on through- out the rest of the day. Just as the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival operates around the idea of the Mennonite peo- ple in that area, officials are building the Zurich Bean Fes- tival around the old-fashioned French and German cooking. Zurich is in the centre of one of the Iargest bean growing areas in Ontario. Thousands of people will b fed throughout .the day, wit visitors coming from man cities in the United States a well as such larger centres a Toronto, Hamilton, London Kitchener and Stratford in O tario. The beans will be cooking i large old-fashioned iron kettles right in view of the crowd Visitors will be able to eat thei meals at picnic tables spree throughout the main busines areas of the village. Most o the activity during the day wil centre around the downtow area, but there will be horse shoe tournaments taking plac at the Zurich Park. One of the features of th afternoon will be the present of the St. Marys Trumpet Band well-known throughout the United States and Canada as a championship group. Also per- forming for the visitors will be the newest sensation in the area, the Zurich Centennial Band, along with the Zurich Lions Marjorettes. A continu- ous program of entertainment has been planned throughout the day. Tours of some of the largest bean farms in the area are be- ing arranged, so visitors from the larger centres may see how beans are grown and processed. If any fields are ready for harvesting, this operation will be viewed as well. Along with the serving of home-made pork and bean s, there will be street markets set up, offering for sale such items as home-made pies, home- made summer sausage, home- made bread, .home-made cheese, honey, fresh fruit and all types of vegetables. Several ladies' groups and church organizations will have bazaars and food stands in the streets, and to add to all this there will be pony rides for the children. Other activities in - elude checker and solo cocorn.petitions in the Township Hall, e y s s n- n r d s f n e e e c T Radio Broadcast In connection with the second annual Bean Festival in Zurich this Saturday, CFPL radio sta- tion will be present from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tobroadcast alive from the village, Bill Brady, well-known radio personality, will be master of ceremonies for the -broadcast. Anyone wishing to watch the radio station broadcast will have theopportunity to see the mobile unit in operation. The unit will be parked in front of the Hay Municipal Telephone System business office, on Mill Street. For those unable to be out on the streets at that time, they will be able to tune in at 980 on their dial. Purpose of the live broadcast from the village is to assist the bean festival committee in giv- ing the event as much publicity as possible. 0 Appear on T V This Friday afternoon at 2 p.m., two members of the Zur- ich Bean Festival committee will be appearing on CKCO-TV, channel 13, to explain details of the annual event to the Kitchener television station au- dience. Gerald Gingerich and Herb Turkheim will be repre- senting the committee. The program on which the two men will appear is the Elaine Cole show, which is pre- sented on channel 13 every afternoon at 2 p.m, Last Sunday afternoon at 5:30 p.m., Stewart Deitz repre- sented the Bean Festival coin- mittee an the Dave Curzon farm show, channel 8, Wingham. Most area television stations, radio stations and newspapers are giving wide publicity to the annual event. A arowd of over 5,000 people is expected to be present on Saturday. 7 CENTS PER COPY Zurich To Provide Rest Home With Fire Protection Service The village of Zurich, at the request of the board of man- agement of Blue Water Rest Home, have agreed to give free fire protection to the Horne, which is locatedwest of the village in Hay Township. At the present time the village has no fire protection agreement with Hay Township, and under those conditions the rest home was not protected. Members of the village coun- cil agreed that the rest home was an unusual situation, and felt that since residents of Zur- ich had donated the largest amount of money to the pro- ject, they should protect their interests, At the same time it was pointed out hat the Horne is a charitable organization and no municipality receives any tax moneys from it. Previously the board of the Home had contacted Hay Town- ship council asking for some type of fire protection, and in turn they were advised that the Dash we o d fire department would provide the service. The board, however, felt this would not be ample protection es far as the insurance company was concerned and so asked Zurich to provide the service. At the last regular meeting of council, building permits were approved for Louis Den- omme, a new home; Ivan IVIei- dinger, an addition, and Ken- neth Gingerich, renovations. Correspondence w a s read from the department of agricul- ture, advising the village there would be a grant of $2,192.00 forthcoming, for work complet- ed an the Zurich park. A report was presented to the village from engineer H. M. Four Students at South Huron School Awarded Ontario Scholarships Two Zurich girls, Christina Mills, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A, C. Blackwell, and Shar- on BaechIer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Baechler, were among four students from South Huron District High School who ended up with over 80% in their grade 13 results, and are therefore declared On. tario scholars. It's not just an honor they win. The award it worth $400 to each of the students. The excellent results follow closely the record set last year at the school when five students ended up with an over 80% average on seven credits. Winning Ontario scholarships were • Gwen Hay, 85.14%; Ron Youngash, 83.43%; Christina Mills, 82.57%, a n d Sharon Baechler, 80.71%. All four have been active in a variety of activities during their school Iife at SHDHS, and Principal J. L. Wooden noted they all deserved the award, "They all worked very hard." he stated. Gwen Hay, who topped the class, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hay, Hensall. This was her first year at SHDHS, having studied at Central Hur- on at Clinton prior to corning to Exeter. Ron Youngash is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Roland Youngash, formerly of CIF Centrailia, :l•Ir• Youngash has retired from the air force and presently resides in Vancouver. Ron has been one of the out- standing athletes at SHDHS since corning to the school and has been on winning football, curling and track teams. Christina Mills was vice-presi- dent of the student council and `a major drive" behind the student newspaper "Two-PIy" hat made an appearance near he end of the terns, She's probably best known or her singing as a member of he popular Washington Squares he folk -singing group which las entertained audiences hroughout this area and as far way as Halifax. The Zurich girl composes any of the songs the group ings. Sharon, too, was quite active nd Mr. Wooden described her s "always one of the most leasant students in the schonl," he participated in many infra - ural sporting activities, Of the 60 potential diploma inners, a total of 49 managed e feat. The principal said he was (Continued on page 4) t t f t t m s a p S m w th 1 Gibson, outlining the various streets and boundaries in the municipality, In some cases the report shows streets where they do not now exist. The decision to bring in the engi- neer was reached when council received a request from the board of St. Boniface to have a road built just east of the cemetery. According to the of- ficial plan there is an existing street allowance at the location, and clerk Mrs. Bide Wagner was instructed to notify the cemetery board of their find- ings. In other business eo'rncil agreed to instruct the Exeter detachment of the OPP to en- force parking regulations in the village. New regulations were brought in for parking last year in the village, and to date they have not been enforced too strictly. The public would be well advised to heed the regu- lations more carefully is the future to avoid possible viola- tion tickets. Hensall Ratepayers Earn Tax Bonus Due to Lower Folic School Rates An unexpected gift was pre- sented to ratepayers in the vil- lage of Hensall last week, with the announcement that the tax rate for 1967 had been lowered by the council, for most of the taxpayers. Residential property owners whose tax dollars goes to sup port of the Hay Township School area will be taxed two mills less than they were a year ago, due to a large drop in the pub - He school rate. The Hay school board was able to set its mill rate at 12.6 for residential purposes, a de- crease of 6.4 mills, due to in- creased grants from the pro- vincial government. This more than offsets the increase of 4.3 mills in the South Huron High School rate, and a Huron Coun- ty increase of 1.3 hills, Making up the difference in the rates are small decreases in several of the local utility services and the removal of the one -mills library rate because of the take -aver of library serv- ices by the county. The total residential rate for public school supporters will be 75 milts while commercial tax- payers will be assessed 80 mills, a decrease of five mills. The story for separate school sup- porters is a little different as the school rate is up three mills. making a total mill rate of 82,4 for residential and 87.4 for commercial. Council, at their regular meeting, accepted the tender of C. AI1IcDowell Ltd, to lay ap- proximately 400 feet of side- walk en Wellington and Keng streets at a cost of $2,80 per foot. A by-law was passed whereby all ratepayers will be responsible for the maintenance of private drains and take care of any damages incurred by digging or by heavy equipment. A report was given by road foreman Ernie Davis that the paving of York Crescent and the excavating and filling of the parking lot behind the :enwn hall had been completed Building permits were : •.: ted to Keith Buchanan, for eererela renovations, and to theimper- ial Bank of Commerce fee :.e7,,- lvatioins to their property. The bank plans to open a bray=•yin in Hensall in the near future. 0 Abouf People You Know .. . Mr. and Mrs. Leo efeeiden::,-r. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Desi r = ne and Mr. and Mrs. Lesslee l e.e:er spent an enjoyable week -end at Niagara Falls and other roints of interest. Mr, and Mrs. Morley W:tuner and Mr. and Mrs. William, Mc- Kenzie, of Detroit, were -u^ent visitors with Mr. and M'.' Ted Steinbach. Peter Regier spent a week at Expo 67 recently. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Neil, Dearborn, Michigan, and Bennis Calfas, Kitchener, were week- end visitors with Mrs. ?earl Melick, CENTENNIAL WAITRESSES— TWO Of the attractive waitresses at the St. .l ontl'aee CWL. tennial Supper are shown here with their costumes of 100 years ago. Left is Mrs. Harold Dietrich and on the right is Theresa Hartman.