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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-10-30, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1969 1 �Ostttra�� A Million More Voters GO, The majority of Canadians during recent years have seemed to favor lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years. Thus the Trudeau government's announcement of proposed legislation to accomplish this will be welcome news to a majority of Canadians of all ages and in par- ticular it should please the young people who will be able to vote three years sooner. We do not expect them to be ecstatic about it, but they cannot help but become more interested and in- volved in their country when they know they are going to have a chance to say how it should be run. They are going to have a vote three years sooner than any other Canadians have ever had federally and the natural result will be increased interest and par- ticipation on the part of the new generation, the Cana- dians of tomorrow. Although Trudeau made very few election prom- ises, participatory democracy was high on his list of priorities. The adding of approximately a million young Ca- nadians to the voters' lists is certainly a valid step in the direction of increased participation. It is a step which the Ontario Government has also been considering and one on which they should take action very soon.—(Stratford Beacon Herald). Attractive Communities the Answer Farm people have good reason to be interested and involved in the nation-wide push to move industry and jobs into the country so that young people can con- tinue to live there rather than migrate to the metro- politan areas which have become more and more crowded and harder and harder to govern decently. Too often we adopt a defensive stand and start worrying that growth in the community will mean higher taxes and more competition for farm labor. The truth is it may cost even more to live in a community of shrinking population and declining tax base. Local governmental and community services cost almost as much in a shrinking as in a growing society. The fewer remaining people find themselves taxed heavier to keep these services going. Spreading the jobs and the popluation is the most sensible national program we have launched in a long time. It may be the solution to the problems of the big cities as well as the rural areas. As we work at the job of spreading economic growth, some facts have been coming to the fore, both in the surveys that are being taken and the experience that is being recorded. A variety of jobs is all-important in rebuilding a rural community. Now that farming has become more specialized and mechanized, agriculture alone cannot be expected to provide the employment base. There must be jobs or young families must migrate elsewhere. And without young families the community is doomed to go downhill. Good schools are next in importance, again because they are necessary to hold young families. When in- dustries contemplate a move to a rural area, they look first to such things as quality of schools and the level of pay for teachers. Health care facilities also come near the top of the list. Other community factors are, of course, important like churches, recreational facilities, highways and many others. You may be wondering by now why we haven't mentioned low taxes. The reason is that taxes come a way down the list among the characteristics consid- ered by firms shopping for new locations. Low taxes are nice providing they have not been achieved by robbing the community of the things that. make for what is called livability. A company must have an adequate supply of labor, including young labor. They must have a com- munity attractive enough to please their administrative personnel needed to launch and manage the factory, la- boratory, or whatever the enterprise may be. Low taxes do not necessarily mean happy families, good schools, and a heads -up community.—(Leamington Post and News). ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 0.0 M Member: Oil ek,.Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association'Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ,y�,`,s Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 In United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents Never enough time ever getting anywhere in the profession). Don't worry, I can stand sys- tems, I wasn't in the air force for four years without learning how to beat them. You don't defy them, you just chew away from within, like a termite, until they collapse. Thanksgiving I looked for- ward to a chance to get caught up on everything, get out in the open and relax, see the colors of fall, and forget about the system (after all, just a lot of honest men trying to do a good job. No women, strangely enough). So my daughter came home from first month of university: Bewildered, full of hang-ups about courses, and desperately lonely. For the past two years, my most frequent comment to her was, "Now, you be in at a reasonable hour." This 'time, we couldn't get her out of the house. On the Saturday, I drove her downtown and said, "Get out of the car and go and see somebody." She was home in an hour. And now it's the ruddy leaves no pun intended. I have ten maples, three elms, one butternut and two vasty oaks. The maples come down like a shower of dandruff. Elms and butternut trickle down with malicious perversity. And the blasted oaks wait until every- thing else is raked and the snow is falling, before they condescend to contribute their confetti. Oh well, life is the only one we have. But I can tell you one thing. There'll be no more $54.00 phone bills for one month of wife -and -daughter talks about nothing. Well, Thanksgiving has come and went, and here we are heading into dismal November, and I'm farther behind with everything than I was last June. On the second day of July, 1 began cleaning up the base- ment. And I can prove it. There's still a sordid little heap of dust, detergent and other basement garbage sitting there, proof positive that I got one corner swept out. It's in a direct line with the washer, so that you have to walk around it every time. This creates some interesting comments. My major project of the summer was to have been put- ting a new top on a little back porch, under which we put our garbage cans. There's an ingen- ious lid that opens, made of two-by-fours. One hinge was going and a couple of the tim- bers were loose. With winter coming on, both hinges are broken right off, and when you want to put something in the garbage cans, you don't lift the lid. You lift eight two-by-fours, singly, pile them up, put the junk in, then replace them. It takes only about five minutes. And every time you go through the opera- tion, it's raining. Another plan was to rent a chain saw and cut up all the huge oak limbs piled along the fence, for use in the fireplace. They're still there. Speaking of fences, there was to be a new one this year. But I couldn't get at the old one because of all those oak limbs piled against it. Pretty frustrating. Then there was the hedge. I was going to tear it out and plant a new one. The old one was getting rotten in spots. It's still there, I was going to play a lot of golf and get fit. I even asked my wife into playing, and paid her fees. I played about eight times, and got fit all right. I now fit size 33 pants instead of 31. But my wife had a great season. She shot her first game last week: Five holes, at $16 a hole. And the club is closed now. With such an active, stren- uous summer behind me, it was good to get back to the orderly job of teaching, where you have to do things, whether you feel like it o rnot. And ever since, I've been as owly as a wolf with a toothache, be- cause we have a new system. There's nothing wrong with the new system except that, like every other new system, it's lousy, compared to the old one, which was also lousy. As I prophesied a year ago, costs have escalated :n direct pro- portion to the increase in red tape and inefficiency. It's something like the Book of Kings. Paperwork begat more Paperwork, Rules begat Regulations at an alarming rate, and Committees begat Committees like so many rab- bits. (There goes my chance of feeallaWNERIM diahlopa STUDIO Specializing in ... • Weddings • Childrens Single or Group Portraits and Passports 524-8787 118 St. David Goderich Area Resident Now 102 Years Mrs. Helen Dalrymple, a re- sident of Huronview, mother of nine, with 160 descendants, will observe her 102nd birthday, Sat- urday, November 1, A slaughter of pioneer parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Fairbairn of Thames Road, near Exeter. She and her 12 brothers and sisters were educated at S. S.1, Tuckersmith Township. Her first husband, Edward WJlters was killed in a threshing acciden7 but she continued to operate the 100 acre farni and raise her nine children. Seventeen years later she married Robert Dalrymple, an old neighbour who died in 1936. She was hospitalized after fracturing her hip and later be- came aresident of Huronview where she still resides. Three sons and a daughter pre- deceased her. Obituary MRS, ELIZABETH PRICE Mrs. Elizabeth Price, formerly Elizabeth Christine Reichert, passed away in Clinton Public hospital in her 84th year. Her first husband, Arna H. Stelck, predeceased her in 1922. Surviving are four daughters, (Mae) Mrs. William Davidson, Zurich; (Viola) Mrs. Arthur Golding, London; (Flossie) Mrs, Aaron Jantzi, Dublin; (Dorothy) Mrs. James Adams, Port Credit. To the second marriage of the late Andrew Price, there survive, one son, Glen, R, R. 2, Clinton. There is one sister, Mary Reichert, Zurich; ten grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren. r'uneral service was held from the Beattie Funeral Home, Clin- ton, on Monday. Rev. A.J. Mowatt officiated. Interment was in Bayfield cemetery. Pallbearers were Laurence Reichert, Clarence Reichert, Karl Reichert, Harold Reichert, Earl Love, William McLachlan. Flower bearers were Fergus Jantzi Harold Jantzi, David Golding, William Golding. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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