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Zurich Citizens News, 1968-06-06, Page 2PAGE TWO eciacp1 eamstemi ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS WIN A Valued Citizen Passes The community was saddened last Thursday by the death of H. W. Brokenshire, the clerk -treasurer of Hay Township. His passing was sudden and our heartfelt sympathy is extended to his wife and to his son and daughter-in-law. It is difficult to find proper words for a eulogy. Perhaps the highest form of praise we can attribute to Mr. Brokenshire came in a telephone call last Friday morning from the clerk -treasurer of the village of Grand Bend, Murray A. DesJardins. Mr. DesJardins spoke about his old friend in the kindest possible man- ner. He recalled that Mr. Broken - shire had assisted him to fill in his first debenture forms and to make application for his first municipal drain. "I had the highest respect for his opinion and advice " said Mr. Des- Jardins. We think this about sums up how most persons regarded H. W. Broken - shire. As a clerk -treasurer he was thorough, dependable and completely trustworthy. As a citizen he was loyal and energetic. As a husband and father, he was devoted and thoughtful. As a friend he was kind and true. As a man he was friendly and considerate. Truly H. W. Brokenshire was a fine man and a credit to his time. He will be missed. A Promise Is a Promise -- But At the time of writing the weather is murky and wet, not at all like the Canadian springtime we have come to expect. We were intrigued by the question: "Well, what are you going to do about the weather?" And we were just as impressed by the answer. "It may be wise to do as they did in the old days—just let it rain." After some thoughtful deliberation one man remarked, "I believe the po- litical party which promises to im- prove the weather will get elected." Now we ask you. Can election promise -making ever go that far? What Price Success? It is election time and politicians are constructing platforms with all kinds of planks — housing, national unity, tunnels, unemployment. One plank that could be raised would be one labelled "working men rewarded for effort" or "do employ- ers really want good employees?" Our position is that Canada's work force should have renewed incentive to produce. The old idea was "the harder you work the higher you climb". Indus- try begets advancement, they used to say—but thoughts like those are as antique now as coal oil lamps, All concerns in the working man to do a better job than the fellow working next to him have been wiped away by a mysterious kind of ailment which pursuades men and women to take the easy way out. Jobs today depend on the amount of formal education you have, the union you have joined, the number of people "with pull' you know—and, sad to say in this democratic country called Canada, your religion, your race, your age, and in some cases, your politics. When experience is stacked against education, the man with plenty of on-the-job training and lots of go power is most often disregarded for someone else with a certificate to show and a talent for bluffing. The proven ability to handle the job is no longer uppermost in the minds of those who do the hiring—for devo- tion to duty is not the important thing these days. What is important? It is essential that a man knows his place. He must know which backs to scratch and precisely when. He must watch all the time lest someone steps in front of him. And he must be versatile. He must be ready to switch allegiances and to go against his own principles, if necessary. He must stoop to grub- by tactics his grandfather would have thought despicable in a man. He must not care too much for his job. Rather he should care about himself. Synical ? Perhaps. But ask the man who works for the large com- panies who gets the promotions. Ask the joes who work on government projects who has the respect of his superiors. And ask the ordinary la- borer what chance he has to advance by the honest sweat of his brow. Still Batting 1000 Mr. Drapeau, Canada's salesman of the year last year, mayor of Mont- real and father, mother and midwife to Expo 67, apparently has no end to his bag of ideas. Reluctant to see the greatest fair of all time die after one season, he came up with a solution to keep most r,f the fair on a permanent basis, and e.,. -en stranger to have it make back some of the money it lost last year. Nov,- he has come up with a method of raising a great sum of money to assist with the project — a lottery. In his words, the ticket money is not a chance on a lottery, it's a chance Subscribe -- D Once upon a time a nickel -nurser sent his kids to borrow the neigh- bor's paper, and the kid. upset a hive of bees, and soon was covered with bumps. His father ran to help hint and caught his chin on a clothesline, and sprained his back and fell and broke an $85 watch. The clothes pole fell over the car and smashed the wind- shield, and mother, rushing out to see what occasioned all the excite- ment, upset a gallon churn of cream into a basket of kittens, drowning them all, The electric iron burned through for the purchaser to become an hon- orary tax -payer of Montreal — with the outside chance he may get rich doing it. While there can be much said against lotteries, there is also some- thing to be said against the taxpayer of Montreal footing the bill for the enjoyment this country and the world got out of Expo, and apparent- ly will continue to get out of the per- manent fair. It will be interesting to see if the lottery idea works. All we can say is that it is another Drapeau idea and to our knowledge he hasn't been wrong on one yet.—(Grenfell Sun) . on't Borrow the ironing board whilst she was out of the kitchen, setting fire to the house, and the firemen broke all the windows and chopped a hole in the roof. The baby ate a jar of pickles and got cholera mortus and the doc- tor's bill was $15. The daughter ran away with the hired man during the excitement, the dog bit a neighbor's kid and the calves ate the tail off four night- shirts on the clothesline. Moral — Subscribe to your home- town paper. Don't borrow it ! ! 1— (Grenfell Sun, 1926) Zurich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LEVERED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM„ Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly New#papers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives 'Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents From My Window Election fever has hit the small towns with as much force as ever now that the country is about halfway through a cam- paign to select a prime minister and his government. Every- where you go it is the same thing—Liberals versus Conserv- atives with the odd radical NDP thrown in to add fuel to the flame. I'm a small town girl and I've been around for a few elections. Unlike the big city where hard- ly anyone knows how his neigh- bor votes (or cares much for that matter) in a small town everyone knows (or thinks he knows) where the other fellow will mark his "X" on June 25. And the darndest things hap- pen at election time in a small town. Take kids for instance. Chil- dren have a way of picking up their parents' politics. If dad's a Grit, so is his boy. If the Brown family has been Tory down through the ages, little Bertha Brown seems to know instinctively that those NDP brats down the block will not make proper playmates until early on in July. My son came home the other day with a campaign song about love and hate — one for the Tories and the other for the Grits. Already they've had an election in the classroom—just so the kids know who to loathe, I suspect. Going to get the ,groceries is like sitting in the press gallery in the House of Commons. All the Conservative ladies are clus- tered around the check-out counter. They cast a knowing scowl at the Liberal group hud- dled over the ice cream freezer. Scattered about the store are the dissenters—the undecided, the uncommitted voters. The two main party affiliates converge on the outsiders with sugar dripping from their tongues. "How's the baby?" they inquire as the unsuspect- ing shopper is herded toward the check-out desk. "Your hus- band is doing well for himself these days, isn't he?" purr the freezer gang. Most small towns have a Lib- eral garage and a Conservative garage, and the difference in the amount of gasoline pumped at each service station is a depend- able gauge to go by when esti- mating how the vote will go in town. Though church is not consid- ered the ideal place to cam- paign, staunch supporters for all parties become faithful at- tenders and :the handshakes af- ter the service have more than the usual fellowship intended. On the parking lot, bumper stickers are quite in evidence as the silent campaign strikes the eye of each parishioner. Neighborhood friendships suf- fer during an election campaign in a small town. If Conserva- tive leaves happen to drift over onto a Liberal lawn there is considerably more fuss about the situation now than at other times. At work there are strained relations between employees who usually get along quite well. I'm thinking now about the office staff which is too busy arguing political policy- making with one another to be useful to the customers. And most heartless of all is an election -time death in the community. Though there is mourning of a sort for the de- parted, there is also secret re lief in the Tory camp if the one who crossed into the Great Be- yond was a hard. Grit. In fact, if someone were to Presentation and Dance FOR MR. & MRS. WILLIAM HOLMES (nee Jean Becker) (bridal couple) ON Friday, June 7 Zurich Arena Musk by KEN DUCHARME and the Bluewater Playboys Everyone Welcome! gamemormeripmemommienimeiremmus By Shirley Keller rope off segments of the town to separate the individual party members there could not be clearer view of the political position of most townsfolk, Everybody in a small town takes a stand—and feelings run high for the duration of the cam- paign. Strangely enough though, most small town people would be disappointed if election fev er didn't befall their commun- ity once in a while. It's kind of like a good cry for a woman —it lets citizens blow off steam that builds up when persons of varied cultures and beliefs live closely together. And after the election is over, things return to normal. Bitter- ness recedes into the back- ground and the small town be- comes once again the best place in the wide world to live and raise children. ! 0 Hensall Institute Entertain At Huronview Home Twenty-four members of Hen- sall Women's Institute enter- tained patients at Huronview on Wednesday evening, at a birth- day party. President Mrs. Clar- ence Reid, ii a few well chosen words, opened up the evening's entertainment and introduced Mrs. Robert Elgie, who took over for the program which in- cluded square' dance selections by Mrs. Elgie, Mrs. T. Sherritt, Mrs. W. Carlile, Mrs. John Cor- bett, Mrs. Pearl Koehler, Mrs. Gladys Coleman, Mrs. E. Wil- lert, Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, with accompanist Mrs. Ross Broad - foot. Bagpipe selections were given by Tommy Travers, a reading by Mrs. E. Riley, saxaphone solos by R. A. Orr, and Miss Greta Lammie at the piano. Community singing was led -by Mrs. Carl Payne. Twenty-four patients were presented with attractive birth- day gifts. Lunch was served including a birthday cake. Pro- gram convenors were Mrs. Elgie and Miss Laramie; gifts, Mrs. E. Willert and Mrs. Gladys Cole- man; lunch, Mrs. Fred Beer and Mrs. Beverly Beaton. BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN CLINTON THURSDAY and FRIDAY JUNE 6-7 — DOUBLE FEATURE — "DEADLIER THAN THE MALE" Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer Showing at 9:15 p.nl. In Color — PLUS "The Reluctant Astronaut" Showing at 11:00 p.m. Don Knotts, Joan Freeman and Arthur O'Connell Color Cartoon SAT. — MON. — TUES. JUNE 8-10-11 "THE DIRTY DOZEN" (Adult Entertainment) Showing at 9:15 and 11:00 p.m. LEE MARVIN, ROBERT RYAN Jinn Brown and John Cassavetes Color Cartoon WED. -- THURS. -- FRI. JUNE 12-T3.14 — DOUBLE FEATURE — "CLAM BAKE" Showing at 9:15 p.m. Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares In Color — AND 'Hour of the Gun' Showing at 11:00 p.m. James Garner, Jason Roberts and Robert Ryan Color Cartoon THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1968 General Contracting NOW WE ARE EQUIPPED TO SERVE YOU IN PLUMBING • HEATING • ELECTRICAL WORK • We will build your HOME IM COTTAGE BARN One contract will take care of your complete project Backhoe Service Now Available ! Aluminum Doors and Windows STANDARD STOCK SIZE DOORS Only $38 Completely Installed Richard Bedard DIAL 236-4679 ZURICH roift 100th Annual Hensall Twilight STOCK 5110 Heavy Horses • Light Horses • Ponies Western Horse Show • Implement Show TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1968 5:30 P.M. FEATURING .. • Prize Hereford Feeding Calves To be judged and auctioned • Baby Show (No entry fee, prizes for all contestants) • Zurich Centennial Band • Zurich Lions Majorettes • Monster Midway • Special 100th Birthday Parade Prizes (Parade must be prepared to move off at 6 p.m. sharp) Official Opening at '7:30 p.m. M. L. "TORY" GREGG, Master of Ceremonies Auction Sale of Calves AT 9:30 P.M. I Adults: 75c; Students: 50c; 'Cars: 25c; Children: Free CKNX MOBILE UNIT IN ATTENDANCE Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527-1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Issac Street 482-7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9 -12 A.M. — 1:30 - 6. P.M. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235-2433 Exeter ACCOUNTANTS Roy N. Bentley PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT GODERICH P.O. 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