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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-06-26, Page 1Tr] No. 25—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1969 e�...�--�•"'� MAN +was �,h�`t•; .� Principal of St. Boniface School Will Leave Zurich For Western Mission Sister Eileen Marie, the pop- ular and well -liked principal of St. Boniface School, will be leaving Zurich at the end of the school term for a new chall- enge in Haney, B. C., about 30 miles from Vancouver. At Haney she will be principal of a six -room school, which has a number of Indian children enrolled. It is the farthest western mission of the Catholic Church. Sister Eileen Marie has been frrncipal of the school in Zurich for the past six years. She has also served as Superior of Sacred Heart Convent for the same ' dmount of time, and it was under her guidance that the Con- , vent in Zurich was opened. Under her supervision the school grew steadily, and the addition which was opened a little over a year ago was a sincere desire of hers to supply better facilities in Zurich. She was extremely well -liked by all her pupils, as well as the parishioners at St. Boniface, and the general public in the community. Serving as a principal for the Women's Institute Hear Guides Tell About Malaysia Miss Nancy Rae McKinnon, Misses Melissa and Michelle Gelinas, entertained Zurich Women's Institute members at their June meeting. Each duide spoke on Malaysia. They isplayed the map and colored scenery post cards and wore national dress of the country. The three Guides will receive their Gold Cords this summer. Lunch was served by the Guides and their leader, Mrs. Carol Deitz. During the business meeting, a gift was presented for Joan Finkbeiner. She had earned her County Honors in 4-H club. The Institute will sponsor the fall project for 4-H girls which is needlecraft. Members favoured to have a variety booth at the August Bean Festival. Two lovely quilts will be for sale at the booth. Prizes will be awarded to the studners 14 years and under at the Zurich Fall Fair, for the best animal constructed from vegetables and/or fruit. past 14 years, Sister Eileen Marie taught for another two years prior to that. She has been at St. Martin's School in London, Holy Angel, St. Thomas, and St. Peter's in Riverside. She also taught for awhile in Inger- soll. A native of Windsor, Sister Eileen Marie is a graduate of London Teacher's College. She attends summer school each year at the University of Western Ontario in London. The Sisters at the Sacred Heart Convent in Zurich are members of the Sisters of St. Joseph Order. Replacing Sister Eileen Marie at St. Boniface School in Zurich will be Sister St. Viator, who is presently principal of a school in Windsor. The rest of the staff at St . Boniface will remain the same as it is now for the corning school term. 10 CENTS PER COPY • farmers Turn Down Plans For G. F.0. Fanners across Ontario on Tue- sday solidly rejected the plans for a General Farni Organization, to unite rural people into one group. Even in Huron County, where campaign officials felt confident they would come up with an overwhelming victory, only 50ercent of the farmers favouredpa GFO. The proposal that required a 60 percent affirmative vote for its establishment received its heaviest setback by voters in Southwestern Ontario counties where the strength of the Ontario Huron Liberals Hear House Leader at Annual Meeting Held in Seafort'h Huron Liberals crowded the Seaforth Legion Hall Thursday evening to Year Icon. Donald S. Macdonald, president of the Queens Privy Council and govern- ment leader in the Commons. The meeting was preceded by a reception and dinner attended by 180 members from across the riding. IvMr. Macdonald discussed act- ivities of the government in the year which had elapsed since the election. The keynote of the governments plain and its ierformance in the past year had leen preiparation in tern:: modifying the structure and pro- cedures of governments and preparation in studying the underlying policies that those structure have to deal with. Among the changes that have taken place, have been in the Cabinet manner of carrying on business, in the organization of , governmental departments and in the procedures and facilities of the House of Commons. "Most painful of all"he said, "has been in the government's budget through which expendit- ures planned by departments in the past have had to be reduced or redirected in order to give freedom of action for the future:'" Mr. Macdonald went on to• explain that what this means is that a number of heavy expend- iture programs of longstanding, such as the MunicipaWinter Works program, were cut out because it was felt that the same funds could be used more effect- ively in other ways. Also high- cost capital programs such as the Queen Elizabeth telescope in British Columbia, or the Princt Edward Island Causeway, had to be cut out simply because the government did not feel it had the capital at this time to go on with such programs. The government's purpose in trimming those expenditures has been two -fold. Firstly, to try and cut down the level of govern• anent expenditures generally so as to act as a check on inflation and secondly, to give the govern, ment more financial elbow room to engage in the future in some of the new programs such as the program for regional develop- ment which it felt would be more effective in getting at the root causes of Canadian problems Pointing out that another area of particular concern to the government were the problems of the agricultural community. Mr. Macdonald said that some people who live in the city are inclined to think of agriculture as being a static activity, as an area in which there is very little change. But the fact of the matter is that there has been an enormous amount of change in Canadian agriculture since the War. Changes in markets, changes in methods of operation and changes in the circumstances of agricultural population have all been dramatic. Canadian farmers are faced with the paradox that they have, almost the exclusion of any other part of the community, been effect- ive in improving the efficiency and productivity of their methods while at the same time seeing a serious drop in their real income, and this at a time when there (please turn to page 5) Farmers Union showed up clearly, The OFU represented the major opposition force to the GFO and for them the results of the pleb- isite was a major triumph. Kent County led the way in opp osition with 4, 746 voting against, compared to only 880 in favour. This represented only 15.6 per cent affirmative vote. While there was no official voters list, estimates were that 175,000 farm people, in- cluding owners, wives, tenants, shareholders and children over 21 actively engaged in a farm operation, were eligible to vote. It appeared early in the even- ing that less than half or, about (continued on page 9) 0 Varna Man Heads Masonic- Lodge For Coming Term Installation of officers was held at the regular meeting of Huron Masonic Lodge 224, Hensall, on Monday night. Ken Parke, R. R. 1, Varna, was installed as Worshipful Master of the Lodge, replacing Robert E. McKinley, who held the office during the past year. Mr. McKinley is Itnrnediate Past Worshipful. Master. Other officials of the Lodge are: Senior Warden, Rodger Venner; Junior Warden, Anson McKinley; Chaplain, John Cori- sitt; Treasurer, Glenn Bell; Secretary; Earl Campbell; Senior Deacon, Al Scholl; Jun- ior Deacon, Lack Bell; Director of Ceremonies, Emerson Kyle; Senior Steward, Jim Doig; Jun- ior Steward, Jack Lavender, Tyler, Barry Jackson; Inner Guard, Doug Cooper. The 1969-70 season will mark the centennial anniversary of the Hensall Lodge, and special arrangements are being made tc observe the event in the spring of 1970. The Lodge has been assured of a visit from the Gran( Master of Ontario, to mark the occasion. • STUDENT COUNCIL -- Pupils at the Zurich Public School this week elected their Student Council for the coming term. Back row left to right are Debbie O'Brien, Joanne Miller, Cheryl -Gingerieh, Brad Oke, Steven Hab- erer. Front row left to right are Karen McAllister, Jack Forrester, Henry DeMooy, Wayne Schilbe and Donna Riddell. (Citizens News Photo)