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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-11-18, Page 4PACE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1971 Fire all of them! The latest round of postal strikes throughout Canada should leave the government with only one choice - fire all the union members in the department who are not satisfied with their work- ing conditions. The public have put up with this nonsense on the part of union postal workers for long enough, and should not have to be subjected to it any longer. With economic conditions in Canada the way they are at present, business cannot stand any more of these foolish postal strikes, such as have been taking place over the past couple of years and again this week. While the weekly newspaper business is only a small segment of the people being hurt by these strikes, it does serve as an example. This week, because of postal strikes in some of the main cities the mails did not operate in our rural areas as well. Imagine try- ing to publish a weekly, with most nearly all of your material due to arrive by mail on Tuesday, and then finding there is no service from any of the neighbouring communities on that day. And this is just what happened this week. There was apparently no mail from either Hensall or Dashwood moving, and all because a few meatheads in some big cities are not satisfied with their working conditions. Surely there must be enough unemployed people in Canada today to replace the dissatisfied union employees in the postal department, Surely there must be someone in Ottawa who is man enough to stand up to this class of people and tell them to get to work or get out on the street. Surely the Canadian people don't. have to put up with another round of wildcat walkouts. As a last resort, if the government can't handle the touchy post office situation any longer, they should consider getting out of the business and turning it over to some corporation, who could deal with their employees in a firm and final mariner. For once and all, let's get this messy post office situation cleaned up in Canada, before it's disastrous results can show effect on the gen- eral public. Needed: a voice f r small t The big city newspapers and city politicians are heard reg- ularly these days screaming their lungs out that their problems are being overlooked by senior governments. It seems a little incongruous to hear the mayor of Toronto, the fastest growing city on the continent, where they put sky scrapers up faster than we do fence posts, cctinuously crying hard times. Granted, there are problems in the city as anyone who has lived in one knows. The very problem of rapid growth causes problems of transportation and soaring land costs. But if the mayor of Toronto really wants to know what hard times are, he should trade places with a small-town counterpart for a while, And if he thinks his crys for help fall on deaf ears, he should be in a small town where the cry doesn't get any furth- er than the council chamber door. The fact is, the problems of the big city are well publicized in the bid daily newspapers and radio and television. The prem- ier of Ontario reads the Glob and Mail every day but it's dollars to donuts he's never even seen a small-town weekly. And he probably doesn't care either. He is out to please the voters, and the million or two voters in Toronto are a lot more import- ant to him than the few hundred in'a small town. So, not only do small town problems not get to go unsolved they don't even get heard. Somewhere, sonehow, the small towns of Canada must soon find a champion. The back -bone of this country has always been the small town and, as more and more people become disen- chanted with city life, they will become even more important to the country's future. A voice for the small town is greatly needed if towns are to play this important role. (Blyth Standard) The term "honeymoon" comes from an early German custom of drinking mead, a beverage made with honey, for 30 days after the wedding.. You don't have to be a newly- wed to enjoy honey, however. The Ontario Department of Ag- riculture and Food's newly revis- ed pamphlet, "Ontario Honey, " contains recipes_developed esp- ecially for honey. They range from "Instant A , M. " breakfasts to "Bee -Sweet" desserts. Baked goods made with honey stay moist and fresh longer than those made with sugar. Ice creams and candies stay smooth- er and creamier. However, honey cannot be substituted for sugar on an equal basis, as many changes!wiil take place./ ZURIC Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 X18 M Member: +�Psf+. Canadian Weakly. Newspapers Association it aria Weekly Newspapers Association 11111re6~ tdrateeiptiior Rates: to per year in advance in Canada; Urdi4•ed States anal Foreign; single copies 10 cents. MEN AND WEATHER MAKE MISTAKES At time of writing, there is a wind howling out of the north and a wrack of clouds tearing across the sky. But you won't hear a word of complaint from me. In the first place, the wind ha blown the remainder of my annu al 20, 000 cubic feet of leaves right off my front lawn and onto my neighbours! And in the second, this has been the most glorious autumn I can remember. The foliage was eneffably beautiful, and lasted longer than usual. We wer swimming right into October. On November 1st, we entertaine friends on the back lawn, after a two-mile walk through the hushed expectancy of a beech forest, over stone halls that look• ed as though they had been built by the same chaps who knocked together the pyramids, and ac- ross rolling pastures that remind- ed, bitter -sweetly, of the' Eng- lish downs. Let dread winter do its dang- dest.. The Lord, or whoever runs the weather department, has given me a fall I will never for- get. Mind you, take that with a grain of salt. Man is a fallible creature, and within a week I'll be cursing the snow, getting my snow tires on too late, trying to pry the garden hose out of the ice, and wondering why I didn't get my storm windows on during that glorious autumn 1 was raving about. Man is fallible, but some of us become more fallible than others I am content to be in the latter category. If there's anything that raises my hackles, it is the person who is infallible, or thinks he is. Or she, in the case of my wife. For example, did you read about the way that Jackie ex - Kennedy has that poor Greek, Aristotle Onasis, tied up finan- cially. He made himself a billionaire, but despite his first name and the wisdom it implies, his marriage contract with her makes him look like a real hick who has come in contact with a very shrewd horsetrader. She is guaranteed $10, 000 a year for clothes. I forgot the other items, but they're in the same vein. d Ph tography Children • Port' its W ;:dings • COLOR or BLACK & WHITE HADDEN'S STUDIO GODEI' C elle St, David St. 524-87817 tamiliza Even my wife was appalled. She couldn't spend it, she said. I merely raised one eyebrow. But wouldn't you agree that Aristotle is fallible? The political experts are just about as fallible as they come. Premier Davis would have a real battle on his hands in Ont- ario. Joey Smallwood would have some opposition, but no real problem in Newfie. The upset of the long -entrenched Alberta government was imposs- ible. Davis won walking in Ont- ario; Joey got licked (I think) in Newfie, and the long entren- ched boys in Alberta were turfed out. The cops are fallible. Hund- reds of them stood around with red faces when some silly young punk burst through their serried ranks and put a half -Nelson on Premier Kosygin. The mightly LIS, is fallible. For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the States got a real jolt in the ego on the admission of China vote. Its fall- ibility was showing even more blatantly when it persisted, in the face of world opinion, in the great nuclear test off Alaska. But this is the way of the world. If man were infallible, he would have no need for a god, the earth would be crawling with automations, and life would be very dull. If weather forecasters were in- fallible, for instance, there'd be no spice in life. We'd be able to batten down for a storm, instead of having the roof blown off when they predicted light winds. We'd be able to wear heavy jackets, instead of shiver- ing like a dog vomiting razor blades, when they forecast hot weather, and the temperature was 34. No fun. No variety. I've come a long way from my opening words about the beautiful autumn we've had. But there's method in my madness. Man is fallible. Maybe I just think we've had a beautiful fall. I could quite easily wake up tomorrow morning, discover that it was the middle of September, and that we'd just had a 4 -foot fall of snow, and that the whole thing had been a dream. I hope not, but I'm not disoounting the possibility. 0 Police report On November 7, Constable Bob Whiteford investigated a single car collision on Conces- sion two in Usborne Township, in which a car driven by Glen Kenney, Crediton, received $200 damage when it left the road. A passenger in the car, Randolph Quesnel, Crediton, was treated for shock at the South Huron Hospital. On November 8, a car driven by Michael Finley, Pointe Claire, Quebec, went out of control on the Crediton Road. The car received $1, 000 dam- age. Three passengers, all from Quebec, received minor injur- ies. Constable Ed Wilcox inv- estigated. On November 10, a car driven by Thomas Gower, Wingham collided with a tree on Highway No. four south of Exeter. Con- stable Ed Wilcox estimated the damage at $500. Gower was treated at South Huron Hospital for lacerations. During the one-week period, the Exeter detachment of the OPP issued 16 warnings under the Highway Traffic Act, while they laid 20 charges under the same act. Business F fnJ Profession I Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Langstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL. CENTRE 527-1240 Tuesday, Taursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Issac Street 482.701 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9.12 A,M, — 1;30-6 P.M. 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