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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-09-02, Page 1NO. 35 FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ake*,,j# ZURICH ONTARIO, TI-IURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1971 1971 BEAN QUEEN - Miss Glenda Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Fisher, Exeter, was chosen as "Miss Bean Queen for 1971" on Saturday night, at the sixth annual Bean Festival in Zurich. A total of 10 girls entered the Friday night comp- etition when three of them were picked to compete in the Saturday night finals for the title. She will represent Zurich Bean Festival in the Miss Western Ontario Contest at Lucknow. Exeter girl is Queen A lovely 19 -year-old Exeter girl, Miss Glenda Fisher, was chosen on Saturday night as the 1971 Bean Queen, in conjunction with the sixth annual event held in Zurich. She was one of three contestants chosen Friday night from 10 girls to compete in the final round. The other two fin- alists were Miss Nancy Rae Mc- Kinnon, Zurich, and Miss Nancy Shantz, R. R. 3, Zurich, This year the picking of a queen, varied somewhat from other years, when a preliminary contest took place on Friday night at the Bean Festival dance. At this contest the top three were picked, and they entered the final competition on Saturday as a climax to the day -long activities. Other girls who were entered in the contest were Janet Webb, as Miss Dorac; Paula Day, as Miss Laporte Meat Market; Reta Pennings as Miss Dominion Hotel; Cathy Simmons as Miss Graham Arthur; Wendy Hay, as Miss Howl ing Lanes; Susan Erb as Miss Arrow Petroleums; and Marilyn Regier, as Miss Hi -Fashion. The Queen was entered in the contest at Miss Shirriff's Chips, while Nancy Rae McKinnon was Miss Zurich Wood Products and Nancy Shantz was Miss Helen's Salan, Last year's Queen, Miss Dianne Zehr, was on hand to crown Miss Fisher as Queen, while the Michigan Bean Queen, Miss Beverley Clingenpeel, of Gratiot County, presented her with a bouquet and banner. All the girls were presented with gifts of money, and this was performed by Jerry Rader, a committee member. Judges for the Friday evening contest were three owners of the Huron School of Fashion in Exeter, Walter and Anna Rom- aniuk and Mrs. Ellen Knight, while on Saturday night the judges were Mrs. Marion Larmer, of Parkhill, George Brunton and Wayne Mcltyre, both of London. For Miss Fisher, winning the title in Zurich gives her the opportunity to compete in the Miss Western Ontario contest at Lucknow later this month. She has also been invited to attend the Michigan Bean Festival, in Fairgrove, on Labor Day. 0 HIRE PSYCHOLOGIST A Brantford psychologist has been hired by the Huron County Board of education to head a new special education program for emotionally and mentally dist- urbed children in the county school system. William E. Carter, 49, form- erly the Brant County board of education psychologist, will direct a staff of nine therapists, councillors and consultants in the program which begins Sept- ember 7. 10'¢ PER COPY 20,000 strong attend Festival It may hard to believe but a crowd of well over 20, 000 person; visited Zurich last Saturday to take in the sixth annual Bean Festival, Some people estimated the crowd over the entire day to reach as high as 30, 000, but there definitely was well over 20, 000 came and left from early morning until late at night, Visitors started arriving in the village earlier in the morning than ever, and by noon, eating tables were all filled and booths reported doing a landslide busin- ess. Most of the booths selling pies ran out of stock by four and five o'clock, Over 9, 000 persons bought the complete meal of home -baked beans with all the trimmings, and several thousand more purch- ased a small bucket of beans only. By five o'clock the food committee ran out of ham, and before they were through they had to send to Hensall, Dashwood and Grand Bend for more suppl- ies of meat. When it was all over, there was only about a tub of beans left, as well. The committee cooked up a ton of beans, along with this, there was 1000 pounds of cold ham served, and whatever extra amount of cold meats they could locate in the area. Almost 400 loaves ofbread were devour- ed and a large quantity of cole slaw. Three serving outlets were set up on Victoria Street, Mill Street and Goshen Street, to take care of the large crowds. Continuous entertainment was provided throughout the day by several groups, "Katie and I, " the "Little German Band" and the "Zurich Centennial Band." A horseshoe tournament east of the arena attracted a large crowd of spectators and compet- itors, as well, and the Lambton Youth Theatre gave their pres- entation, "Che, " at the Comm- unity Park. There was also harn- ess pony races at the old fair- grounds. One of the feature attractions Church service for campers at Festival About 50 members and fam- ilies from the National Campers' Association, Stratford Chapter, along with friends from the com- munity, attended the outdoor worship service, held at the ball park on Sunday morning, following the Bean Festival week- end. The service was arranged by ere Roman Catholic and Protest- ant clergy of the village. The service was led by the Rev. Cyril Gingerich of the Mennonite Church and Rev. John Huether of the United Church delivered the sermon. Mrs. Irvin Martin accompanied the singing. Following the service, memb- ers of the camping group provid- ed refreshments for the particip- ants and worshippers. As well as the Stratford group, campers from as far as Ottawa, Guelph, Kitchener and London were present. again this year was "Green Acre$" which operated for the first time last year. Visitors were taken to the site by bus, and then transported around the farm on tractor -drawn wagons. At the farm they saw many of the stars of the popular television show being portrayed by local residents of the community. They also had the privilege of visiting Sam Drucker's store, and to chat with Oliver and Lisa, Haney, Mr. Ziffle and Arnold and Mr.Kimble, On numerous occasions they could also see Oliver and Lisa climb the pole to answer the telephone, just the way they do on the actual television program. Festival officials estimated that close to 2000 persons visited the Green Acres faun, which is owned by Kenneth Gascho. A new attraction this year was the bean -eating contest between officials from the village of Zurich and the Dashwood police village trustees. Representing Zurich was reeve Gordon Hess, councillor George Haggitt and Glen Thiel, president of the Chamber of Commerce, while the Dashwood eaters were Cliff Salmon, Ervin Rader and Harold Schroeder. Doug Armstrong, general chairman of the Bean Festival committee, was captain of the Zurich trio, while Ron Merrier supervised the Dashwood team. By the time the fun and frolic was all over the two judges, Hon. C , S . MacNaughton and Robert E. McKinley, MP, had to declare the contest a draw. Both judges decided there were too many irregularities to name a winner. A special visitor to the festival again this year, along with both Huron County's government rep- resentatives, was the Hon. William A. Stewart, Minister (continued on page 20) Teachers reach agreement A two-year agreement was rat- ified in Clinton last Wednesday night by secondary school teach- ers employed by Huron County Board of Education. The vote was 175 in favor and six opposed to the contract, which covers 269 teachers at five schools. Starting salaries in the four categories of teachers are un- changed. Following are the new 1971- 1972 salari as for teachers with one and 12 years' experience with the old contract figures in brackets: gategory 1, $1, 500 ($7, 400), $12, 100 ($11, 400); category 2, $7, 800 ($7, 700), $12, 700 ($12, 000); category 3, $8, 700 ($8, 600), $14, 500 ($13, 700); category 4, $9, 200 ($9,100), $15, 500 ($14, 700). The board has offered a new salary schedule to principals and vice -principals. Principals of schools with more than 500 students will receive frorn $19, 500 to $22, 000. Principals of schools with less than 500 students will receive $19, 000 to $21, 500. Salaries for vice -principals will range from $17, 500 to $19, 000. Annual increments for princip- als and vice -principals will be $500. There was no previous salary schedule for principals but two were receiving $19, 750 and the three others $20, 750. Warren Brown, executive (continued on page 20) STARS OF THE SHOW - This group of people portrayed the characters of the television stars at Green Acres last Saturday during the sixth annual Bean Festival in Zurich. Standing left to right are Gordon Hess as Oliver; Harold Erb as Sam Drucker; Donna Schilbe as Lisa; Glen Thiel as Mr. Kimble; Elam Shantz as Mr. Haney; seated, Henry Adkins, as Mr. Ziffle. Arnold was not in the mood to have his photograph taken at the time.