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Zurich Citizens News, 1967-12-20, Page 1No, 51—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1967 7 CENTS PER COPY SANTA'S HELPERS — When Santa is too busy, the post office takes over. Every Christmas, postal workers are swamped with stacks and stacks of Christmas mail. Last week was the busiest week of the season and (left to right) Norman Gascho, Menno Oesch, Mrs. Alice Thiel and Bill McAdams, rural mail carriers, had their hands full to over- flowing- to make certain the right letters and proper parcels got in their baskets for earliest possible de- livery on their routes. NOW LISTEN CLOSELY SANTA —Kerry and Kris Bedard, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bedard, RR 2, Zur- ich, look mighty happy upon Santa's knees during last Saturday's special Christmas party for the kids. In fact, though we aren't too certain what the • boys had to say to the Christmas elf, Santa looks particularly pleased with Kerry and Kris who must have been very good boys throughout the year. There was a long line of youngsters waiting to leave their lists with the popular gent from the North Pole. No Newspaper During Holidays Failing in line with all other weekly publications in this area of Ontario, there will be no edition of the Zur- ich Citizens News between Christmas and New Years. Subscribers will receive two issues this week — this regular newspaper and a spe- cial Christmas edition coming out Friday to carry the best wishes of area businessmen to their customers, as well as some original Christmas fea- tures, Watch far if. Board Grants. Bonus Plus Raise To SHDHS Administrator Burton At the regular Decerdber meeting of South Huron Dis- trict High School board, busi- ness ussmess ,administrator W. Burton was :granted a bonus of $350 for the year 1967 and his sal- ary was increased to $7,500 an- nually, commencing January 1, 1968. During the same meeting, board members agreed to in- crease Mr. Singn's annual sal- ary to $7,900 with effect from September 1, 1.967. Business administrator Bur- ton was requested to ileire a clerk to fill the position be- coming vacant at the end of December and to retain a fourth part-time cleaning woman ef- fective January 1, 1988. Purchases authorized by the board includedtwo rolls of floor matting, $720; a vacuum cleaner for maintenance in the library area, $300; an 'electric floor maintenance ma c 11 i ti e, (Continued on page 8) Local Parish Appointment Rev. A. J. Durand has been appointed administrator 'of St. Boniface Parish in Zurich due to the illness of parish priest Rev. A. N. Page. The announce- ment was made recently by the Most Rev. G. Emmett Carter, Roman Catholic bishop: of Lon- don. Father Durand was born in Stratford. sand took his primary and secondary education in that city. He was ordained from St. Peter's Seminary in 1936 by Most Rev. John T. Kid. Following post -graduate stud- ies at the University of West- ern Ontario and Laval Univers- ity where he received a Doctor- ate in Philosophy, Father Dur- and returned to the staff of St. Peter's Seminary. He is bilin- gual and is considered an ex- pert in liturgy. He was named vice -rector of St. Peter's Seminary in 1962, but left the seminary in June to become protonotary of Synod II of the diocese, a post he will continue to hold. -- 0 Lions Entertain Senior Citizens Members of the Zurich Lions Club held their annual Christ- mas meeting at the Dominion Hotel, on Monday night, end after the gathering the group went to Blue Water Rest Home where they entertained the resi- dents with an hour's singing. The sing -song at the Rest Home was led by Delbert Geig- er with Mrs. Beatrice Hess accompanying at the piano. �L word of thanks to the members of the club for their entertain- ment was given by a former member of the Lions Club, Chester L. Smith, now a resi- dent at the Horne. Two members of theclub, Morris Webb and Russell Grainger were delegated to at- tend a meeting at Exeter in January, in the interests of or- ganizing a school for retarded children. A guest at the meeting was Jim Hayter, of Dashwood, the reeve of Stephen Township. He was introduced by Joe Hoff- man, newly -elected reeve of Hay Township. In business at the meeting the group decided to hold their first dinner meeting of the new year in the Dashwood Hotel, on January 8, since the dining room in the Dominion Hotel, Zurich, will be closed for the month. The second meeting in January will be held in Bay- field. President Morris Webb pre- sented a gift to the club's pian- ist, Mrs. Beatrice Hess, in recog- nition of the services she ren- ders for the organization. Lucky draws were wan by Delbert Geiger and Robert N. 1V.(clt`inley. ay ��.OUf d Members of Hay Township council are working hard to complete the year's business ahead of the calendar. Already this month two meetings have handled a multitude of smaller matters and another meeting is scheduled for the latter part of the month, At the December 15 meeting, Alex Alexander, county asses- sor, and George Armstrong, local assessor, were present to assist council with matters per- taining to the assessment roll. Two Hay Township ratepay- ers, Richard Ayotte, who wanted his school assessment changed from public school to separate school board, and George G. Grieve who requested a change from separate to public school support, were informed that these appeals must be handlers at the court of revision, accord- ing to new regulations in the Act. The last date for making D. L. Geiger To Get Medal Hay Township council has ap- pointed Delbert Laird Geiger, deputy reeve and chairman of the Centennial committee, to be the recipient of a Canada medal. These medals, issued by the office of Secretary of State Judy LaiVIarsh, are reserved for Canadians who in the opinion of various local officials merit valuable service rendered to special recognition because of the country. 0 STCS Target For Thieves About $1,200 worth of equip- ment was stolen from Stephen Central School recently. Included in the loot were typewriters, adding machines and a tape recorder. Entry was gained by smash- ing a window in the nurses' room, located on the east side of the building. Damage to the school was estimated at another $500. Three doors and two windows were smashed by the thieves. OPP Constable Ed Wilcox is investigating. Earlier this fall, thieves made off with about $1,000 worth of tape recorders and projection equipment from the Huron Cen- tennial School at Brucefield. p Loose appeals to that body was Octo- ber 14, 1967. Trailer owners in Hay who reside in the mobile dwellings will find it necessary to pay trailer licence fees. A case in point is ratepayer H. J. -Beese, who learned that the building assessment on his property will be removed and he will be re- quired to pay tax on land assess- ment only plus a trailer licence, Wes Rader, who had asked council to lower the assessment on the buildings on a farm he owns, was informed that when the buildings are removed, he will be assessed for land only. However, council could not re- nds duce assessment on the present situation. .C. P. Corbett, P.Eng., Lu r n, was at the meeting which also dealt at some length with drains in the township. Parker„ and Parker, contractors from `Hen- eall, on the Tinncy-W iidtong drain are to receive $1000 for work to date, and Cook Brew. will be paid $5000 for their efforts on the Eacrett Elder- Eacrett Taylor drain. Gordon Munn and William B. Rowcliffe have requested that the Eacrett drain be clean- ed and council instructed Mr. Corbett to bring in his report as soon as possible. SO (REFRESHING — These two lads diiin't have time to bother with the photographer who snapped this picture. Thomas and Peter McBride. sons of Mr. and Mrs. John McBride, RR 1, Zurich, were too busy enjoying their bottles of chocolate, milk, donated by Hurondale Dairy for the annual Santa Claus party. The community centre in Zur- ich was a popular spot last Saturday as many chil- dren attended the program and talked with jolty old Santa. AN AVALANCHE OF MAIL — Traditionally, the second week before Christmas is the time when postal workers have the most headaches with the Christmas mail. This year was no exception. As Canadians got those last-minute cards and parcels in the mail, postmaster Bill Siebert (left), Mrs. Clarence Farwell and Mrs. Albert Clausius, his assistants, were kept busy with incoming and outgoing mails. However, most citizens will congratulate the Zurich post office staff for the efficient manner in which the Christmas rush was handled.