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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1967-11-16, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1967 €di.I eamment. It Has To One of the dilemmas facing weekly newspapers publishers is that of placing his product in the hands of his subscribers. Among other things, this means meeting a deadline estab- lished at the local post office, which is only reasonable — but often diffi- cult. We do not have any quarrel with postal authorities and staff locally. These people are co-operative and more often than not, make conces- sions to improve our position. However, there is a certain degree of insensitivity at higher levels and this does create problems. Successive postmasters general and officials of that department all through the years have been want- ing to charge more for the carriage of second class mail — including newspapers. Originally, it was considered desir- able to get newspapers into the hands of as many Canadians as possible — as quickly as possible. This has played a very important part in mak- ing Canada the great democracy it is, and there was a theory that the good Canadian citizen should know what his governments were doing. This means the good and bad in Ot- tawa, in provincial capitals, county councils and at the municipal level. Go By Mali It is still as important today. Post office officials, however, seem to be inclined to weigh the matter in another way. They appear to urge that newspapers should pay rates that would make it commer- cially profitable for the post office to carry these mails. There is a good argument against a strict accounting and a strict re- turn of costs with a little profit on the side. Consider the public good played by the weekly newspaper in the face of increasing competition from other media. For example, the Canadian people, wisely or not, sub- sidize radio and television to an amazing amount. Remember the ra- dio license problems, as another example. Now, radio and TV are approach- ing the one hundred and fifty million dollar mark and, according to some sources, it is probable that the two hundred million dollar mark, in ad- dition to CBC revenue from advertis- ing, is not far away. A relatively low deficit on the sec- ond class mailing rate seems rather insignificant in comparison with the spendthrift ways of the CBC, which is, after all, paid for by the taxpayer. — Collingwood (Ont.) Enterprise Bulletin. Expo 67 At last the big show is over for Centennial Year. What the critics said couldn't be done has been done exceptionally well and the world knows Canada is on the map. It was a tremendous show — $100,000,000 worth and 50,000,000 people saw it. Now what will happen to the big in- vestment ? In a couple of weeks we should know whether this World Universe and International Exhibition will be continued for sometime during 1968. If mayor Jean Drapeau of Montreal has his way, and he usually does, then those who missed Expo this year may have a chance to see an Expo 68. Of course everyone has his own opinion about a show of this nature, and in some respects we might say that all exhibitions are more or less the same except for size and content emphasis. But Expo 67's 1,000 acre site, covered with huge buildings filled with millions of dollars worth of every conceivable thing man could think of was no doubt some different. This writer was at first impressed with three things: Space, variety and ignorance. Later he discovered clean- liness, patriotism and communication. In a space age one is appalled at the amount of space directly over each individual. With every one of the world's 3,500,000,000 different from the other, there couldn't help but be variety. There is no doubt a great deal of ignorance on the part of all of us regarding other people, other countries and the source of man's origin. It was surprising how clean the grounds of so large an exposition could be kept, which was a credit to all who attended. People patrioti- cally attended their own pavilions and gave large support to even the smallest. We were amazed at the possibility of communicating ideas by new methods of photography in the motioh picture field and even to the plain old black and white photos. If Expo can be continued into 1968 it will be well worth while for many reasons.—(Nanton (Alta.) News). Only Two of Each The staff members of a weekly newspaper are not unique in their physical components. Each one comes equipped with one pair of eyes and one pair of ears. And like everybody else, has no special powers to see and hear all. This would seem to be contrary to public belief. jn. the process of gathering news 'items, livery effort is given to cover- ing the activities of the village as S2 3rougYlly as possible through the co' -operation of various organizations, etc. But it is an impossibility to be on top of everything. This is where you, the reading public, come in. Many times we hear readers say: "I didn't see anything about this in the paper". Here is where you can help to make your paper the best source of local news. If an interest- ing item comes to your attention, telephone it in to your weekly. If you know of an event about to take place, let us know about it. In a town the size of this, there is much to be reported of local interest. The weekly newspaper provides a service to the community not to be found elsewhere. This is your newspaper. Help us to make it the best possible by keep- ing us informed. — (New Hamburg Independent). Shootin' Hail Out of 'Em Here is great news for farmers! Have you ever wished, as you watched those threatening white clouds advance on your grain fields, that you would like to do something about it? Well, the Russians are! They sim- ply shot the hail out of them! That's right, shoot the hail out of them. Weather people for years have tried "seeding" the storm clouds with silver iodide to produce rain droplets. Now, the Russians have ringed one of their hail belts with anti-aircraft guns that shoot the iodides into ap- proaching clouds of a suspicious na- ture, forming rain before hailstones have a chance to form. The protected area showed a loss of 3.1% compared to 19% loss in neighboring unpro- tected areas. Of course, the Americans are now going to go one better. They are going to use rockets, and feel that eight rocket stations could protect the state of Kansas. Future farmers will call up their weatherman when they want a shower and order up a rocket. And, if it doesn't work ?—well, you can always put the weatherman on the next rocket.— (Grenfell (Sask.) Sun). Zurich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class AKail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for 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 yearin advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. AN HOUR WITH HARRY -- The O'Keefe Centre presents Belafonte in an hour-long color special, to be seen on CBC television Thursday, November 23. The great entertainer sings songs of many lands and also presents South Africa's dazzling Miriam Makeba and folksinger Esther Marrow, with the Belafonte Singers. From My Window Most of the ladies who read this column are acquainted with the problem of fitting a size 16 frame into a size 14 girdle. To say the very least, it is tight going. Recently though, I was faced with a new kind of re- ducing dilemma which has left me even more breathless than the struggle I have to get into my stretch slacks. To put the whole thing very simply, I have finished moving furnishing and family of five from a four bedroom multi - closeted home to a two bed- room, c ramped- cupboarded house. Soon after my husband and I 'had decided to sell our spaci- ous home, we began an auster- ity program which looked like Mitch Sharp's budget in re- verse. We found we had too much everything — including children. Initial step was to rid our- selves of an overload of furni- ture collected at auction sales and second-hand stores through 13 years of marriage. Since all was of about the same vintage, there was the heart-rending de- cision of which beloved pieces would go. Once that had been agreed by mutual consent, our next problem was to find some- one who would haul the stuff away without too much cost to us. We found we had to part with the desk with only one drawer pull and no top; the bed which defied the law of gravity and sent all occupants tumbling into the centre; the dresser with the mirror which gave no re- flection; the chair with the 1 int iiiittistittromilliiiiiiiSur By Shirley Keller popped springs and the sagging seat; the drop-leaf table with the leaf that wouldn't drop. While these items were of no earthly value to anyone, they were had to let go. To me they were something like husbands — plenty of flaws but after years of faithful service you haven't the heart to trade. After outing our possessions back to what I considered to be an absolute rock bottom, on moving day I found I was still overstocked. What to do? Some of the excess was stored, some was given away to the garbage man, more was awarded to hap- less family who probably gave it to their garbage man. Monday morning after a Sat- urday moving date the children went to school looking like refugees from a rummage sale. Though I had carefully packed their clothes into packing cases and labelled each carton clear- ly, the wrinkles gained in the move could not hang out in a closet stuffed to overflowing with clothes for three kids, a set of luggage, six boxes of "precious things" collected by two miserly pre -teenagers, a pile of magazines, several crazy hats, ten pairs 'of shoes includ- ing the worn-out sneakers from last spring which just might come in handy if a small -footed shoeless friend should come to stay. A week later as we sat hud- duled over the final unpacked pasteboard box my husband confided he still had not located his long johns. 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