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Christmas is Day
For Families To
Get Together
Christmas is essentially a home
day. Children troop home from
school wildly excited about the
day of all days.
Young people from college or
business have been looking for-
ward to this for weeks, Those
from a distance strive to make
home at all costs. If they fail
they phone and if they cannot
get through on the phone they
wire. The one thought which
more than any other gripped
the boys and girls long distances
away , is home.
Home At Christmas- -giving
and receiving gifts, enjoyin.
a Christmas dinner, just sitting
around relaxed chatting about
this and that, playing with the
children trying to make their
mechanical toys work.
It is a wonderful day, for most
people, and it is spent in the
home. It may be a little cottage,
perhaps a larger house or even
a more pretentious building, but
it is not the building that makes
the home. It is the spirit of
those who live inside its walls,
the parents, brothers, sisters,
who are bound together in a
common concern for each other.
It is hard for us who live in
the twentieth century to think
of a time when the home did not
hold the affections and the inter-
est of the family that it does
today. But it is the family, as
we know it, that makes a Christ-
ian institution. Before the Christ-
ian era, children were all but
ignored. They had to be fed
and clothed, of course, but
that was about all. Women too
were but the slaves of men.
They had a very inferior place
in the family.
Christianity changed all that.
Jesus set a child in the midst
of a crowd and gave him the
position of prominence. Women
too were given new status in the
society that He established. The
home is a Christian institution.
Whatever good there is in it
stemmed from the teaching of
the founder of our faith.
It is a good thing once in a
while to remind ourselves of
that, especially at Christmas
when all the family will be to -
ether. We quite often forget
the debt we owe our religion.
Christmas festival. More people
are thinkingabout this aspect
of it than fr many years.
"Make Christmas Christian" is
a good motto for this year and
every year.
A world in turmoil needs a
Christmas when in quiet relax-
ation innocent joys, the intimate
association of the home, hap-
piness may be found.
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Three Board Members Give Swan Song
At Final' Meeting Last Wednesday Night
Three members of the Huron
County Board of Education
said their farewells Wednesday
evening in Clinton to the other
members of the board with whom
they have worked for the past two
years.
First speaker was Dan Murphy,
Goderich, who admitted he was
reluctant to quit."
"On every board there should be
a certain turnover, " said Murphy,
who will be replaced next year
by John Morrissey, Crediton. "Tilt
longer you're on a board such as
this, the more risk you're running
as becoming rather stale. We
have new members coming on
and I think that's the way a board
grows and matures."
Murphy warned of the dangers
of conformity when a board at-
tempts to provide equal opport-
unity for all students in the county
He said he hoped schools would
not lose their individuality in the
future.
Murphy tosses out another ques-
tion for thought.
"I've been wondering lately, "
mused Murphy, "will the day
come when you have high school
students with some maturity,
perhaps Grade 13 students, sitting
on this board?"
Gordon Moir, Wingham, praise
the administrative staff of the
Huron County Board, of Education
He said he had had 13 years on
school boards and it was "now
time for someone else to step up.
He promised not to criticise the
board members for a period of twc
years - until he had "lost touch;'
with them and their problems.
Chairman John Lavis left some
thoughts with the board members.
He suggested an ad hoc commit-
tee of the board to work with
principals and perhaps ministers
concerning the religious educatior
question, particularly if the prob-
lem should come to prominence
in the county; urged that compl-
aint forms to be signed by par-
ents be handled by the director
of education personally with no
one else involved and therefore,
no one else knowing who made
the complaint and the nature of
it; stressed the need for board
members to think in terms of a
county board of education and to
get over their little red school -
itis; warned members not to
have so many policies that they
become "rubber stamps"; asked
members to treat each new pol-
icy as "an area of deep concern
0, come all ye faithful
Let every heart rejoice in the spiritual
blessings and inspiration
of the season. And may great joy
be yours at this most happy, holy time.
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until it is passed"; suggested that
transportation routes be studied
thoroughly in an endeavor to cut
Zurich Midget
Lose Twice
(by Doug Turkheim)
During the past week of play
the Zurich Midgets were not
able to come up with a victory.
CLINTON 9 - ZURICH 5
Saturday night the Zurich
Midgets travelled to Clinton and
were downed 9-5.
Zurich took a 1-0 lead in the
first period with a goal from
John Mommersteeg. Clinton
then went ahead 4-1 before Rick
Grenier scored for Zurich to end
the first period at 4-2.
The second period saw Clinton
take a 5-2 lead before Zurich
came back with two goals by
Danny Schilbe and John Mommer-
steeg, to make the score 5-4.
Before the period ended Clinton
scored again to take a 6-4 lead.
In the final period the Zurich
crew fell apart in the last half,
as they allowed their opponents
to score three goals in a matter
of a few minutes. Gerald Weido
scored for Zurich to make it a
9-5 hockey game,
GODERICH 2 - ZURICH 0
On Sunday afternoon the Zurich
Midgets played on of their best
games but came out on the short
end of a 2-0 score as they were
downed by Goderich.
The first period saw a good
game of hockey with each team
playing well, but unable to
come up with a goal.
Midway through the second
period Goderich scored a goal
on a shot from the blue line.
Zurich did everything but put
the puck in the net in an effort
to tie the game.
In the final period Goderich
tpok a 2- 0 lead when they scored
on a scramble in front of the
Zurich net.
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THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
T'was the night before Christmas,
And under the tree,
I found three small gifts,
Labeled for me.
I picked up the one,
And gave it a shake,
For only one reason,
To see if it'd break,
I picked up another,
And heard a tick -tock,
I knew from just this,
It must be a clock.
I looked at another,
And from its round shape,
I thought to myself,
It's a recording tape,
I went back to the first one,
It looked kind of corny,
But I'd know what it was,
By Christmas morning.
by
Steven Haberer
One winter day in 1924 a vis-
itor to King's Canyon National
Park, California, looked down
and saw a little girl who had
appeared suddenly as if "from
nowhere."
She looked up at the tall 267
ft. of Sequoia covered with a
cloak of snow and exclaimed,
"What a wonderful Christmas
tree it would be!"
What, indeed, thought the
man, looking again at the tow-
ering giant which he recognized
as the famous General Grant
tree. So, before Christmas 1925
the inspiration the child had
given him stirred Charles Lee
to recruit over a hundred of his
acquaintances to attend a spec-
ial Christmas service conducted
at the foot of the sequoia.
down duplication of runs and to
increase efficiency.
In closing, Lavis told the board
members that judging by election
results, the board must have sat-
isfied the electorate," He stated
that not one member had been
defeated during an election and
members who were not returning
had reached a decision to decline
nomination.
It was vice-chairman Robert
CHRISTMAS EDITION, 1970
Elliott who moved a vote of
thanks to the three men who,
Elliott remarked, represented
over 40 years of experience,
"You leave hard Shoes to fill, "
Elliott told them.
Elliott also stated that Urue to
form, chairman John Lavis had
left the board at least six months
of work and consequently only a
year and a half to make their
own plays.
In the
Spirit of
6V-trux,
With best wishes for
a happy, holy holi-
day, we send greet-
ings and gratitude
to you. May the
blessings of Christ-
mas ever be yours.
GRAND BEND CLEANERS
Thelma and Jack Waldron and Staff
hristmao
(6reettnga
Here's wishing you a merry
old-fashioned Christmas. And to you,
warm thanks for your confidence and trust!
It has been a pleasure to serve you.
V. L. BECKER & SONS
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- Phone 237-3242 -- Dashwood