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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1972-12-14, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1972 50 Years Ago Mrs. C.F. Hey, who had been here for several weeks dur- ing the illness and death of her mother, the late Mrs. Michael Laercher, left for her home at Bad Axe, Michigan, on Mon- day morning. Mr. Peter Deichert Jr. of Hay Township is attending the big UFO Convention at Toronto as a delegate of the club in his district. Mr. Ed Haberer of Hay Town- ship mended the Bee Keepers Convention at Toronto last week Mr. Peter Kropf wishes to advise auto owners that he is doint auto repairing in Mr. L. Prang's implement shop, Zurich for the winter months, and will have in stock all most -called - for parts of auto repairs. Mr. J. Gallman Sr., last week sold to Mr, Dennis Bedard, an eight month old hog weigh- ing 460 pounds. Mr. Gallman purchased this pig in the spring when six weeks old, from Mr. C.O. Smith, Sauble Line, and it sure made a wonderful growth, 40 Years Ago Warden Louis H. Rader is attending the December meet- ing of Huron County Council which opened this Tuesday. Miss Freda Kalbfleisch, who has been a teacher on the Zurich Public School Staff for a goodly number of years has tendered her resignation, 'the same taking effect at the end of the year. O'Brien and Son, local prod- uce dealers are advising us that prospects are looking very much like very cheap fowl for Christ- mas, as the present prices quot- ed for dressed geese and ducks at present are only 8 cents, and prospects do not look bright for a raise in price the next two weeks. Turkeys, which usually commend a good price are now quoted at 13 cents a pound dres- sed. Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Brown and family of Hensall have mov- ed into town last week and are occupying the premises recently vacated by N. Siemon, Mr. Brown is doing some cobbling of shoes. Miss Ethel Hess is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Rev. L. Kalb- fleisch, of Elmira. 25 Years Ago The local Owl's Club had a grand time -for the weekend at the cottage owned by Mr. Earl Weido on the Schade lake front. The Mutual Life of Canada has released its Honours List recognizing Mr. A.J. Masse, of Zurich for outstanding service to his community in the Club Year, recently closed. He has again qualified as a member of the Leaders'.Century Club. - OF - YEARS GONE - BY- Mr. and Mrs, E. M. Dagg and family were visitors in town on Sunday, also visiting at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Menno Steckle, Bronson Line. Mr. Dagg was a former manager of the local Bank of Montreal in Zurich, A reception was held in the Parish Hall on Saturday evening last in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ducharrne of the 15th con- cession who on that day had joined hands into Holy Wedlock, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hop - croft received word from their son Fred, saying he is leaving Halifax for England the begin- ning of the year. 15 Years Ago The Huron County Hog Prod- ucers are opening an assembly yard at Clinton, same to be ready by January 14th. Mr. William J. Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs, Albert G. Hess, Zurich, has been successful in passing his final examinations at the Canadian School of Emb- alming, University of Toronto. A former apprentice with the K.R. Westlake Funeral Home, Zurich, and is now with the F.J. Rawell Funeral Home in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jeffrey and son Edward, of near Blake, have returned from a trip to Windsor and Detroit, with the . former's son and daughter there, also a brother and sister. Born in Clinton Public Hospit- al on December 6, 1957 to Mr. and Mrs. Mozart Gelinas, a son, a brother for Meliza, Michelle, (twins) Mozart Jr., and Mark. Mr. Douglas Theander, of London has taken a position at the Bank of Montreal, in Zurich. 10 Years Ago Squadron Leader, R.R. Waters, of Zurich, who is stat- ioned at RCAF -Station, Clinton, was the guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Zurich Lions Club last Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs, Urban Pfile, who have sold their farm on the 14th concession of Hay, and will soon be moving to Zurich, were taken by surprise Saturday evening when thirty neighbours gathered at their.home to bid them farewell. A highly -respected, promin- ent young man of the Zurich district, Ronald George Thiel passed away in South Huron Hospital, Exeter, on Saturday, December 8, in his 22nd year. Chester L. Smith, on Novem- ber 25, celebrated his 75th birthday at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Cunningham at Willowdale. Ernie Talbot, of Kippen, was elected reeve of Stanley Town- ship on Monday. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 01° w te Member: liDffill Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association " Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 1011110"4" AV Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; WO in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. MAN'S INHUMANITY GOES ON AND ON AND .. . There's a typical Canadian tragedy in the making right now, and it may be too late to avert it, unless there is a hue and cry that will rattle the halls of parliament. I use the word "typical" be- cause it has happened again and again in this country, and we have lived to regret it. Prompted by political or pec- uniary motives, Canada has gone a long way toward destroy- ing its very self and the things that make it most dear to the average Canadian. I am referring to pollution and the disturbance of the bal- ance of nature. In the name of progress we have fouled our own nest, time and again, until outsiders would thing we enjoyed living in our own mess. Item. Lake Erie, with some friendly help from our old bud- dies, the Yanks, has been turn- ed into a vast cesspool, which is almost unreclaimable, Item. Paper mills and other industries have been pouring their poisons into Lake Superior for years. Item. If you took a drink of water out of Hamilton bay, you'd probably be rusting within twenty-four hours, Item, Huge industries contin- ue to belch into the air over our big cities, until you'd think there was a continual fall of black snow. Item. Two of our magnific- ent rivers, the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, are running, open sewers. That's a very brief sampling. And now that idiot B ourassa, prime minister of Quebec, in an attempt to save face after mishandling everything from the FLQ kidnappings to the un- employment situation, has launched the James Bay Project. Maybe you don't know much about it, and it's all so far away that it's like a flood in China. But that's what we thought about all the other signs of progress, is it not? "Oh, they'll never pollute the Great Lakes. They're too big, So dump the garbage boys, and flush out the tanks." "What? Pollute the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence? Imposs- ible. Too much running water. Why should we build a sewage disposal plant? Let 'er run into the river. " "Don't be stupid. Squawk about the big plants polluting and there'won't be no jobs for nobody." We've said it all, and heard it all. But what heritage are we leaving behind for our child- ren, and theirs? A great big pile Mail early for sure delivery The postmaster at Zurich reminds all local residents of the final Christmas mail dead- lines. All cards should be mailed by the 13th December for out - of town destinations within Can- ada and the U.S.A. and by the 17th of December for local del- ivery. To these destinations, the rates for cards are 6 cents un- sealed, 8 cents sealed. of you know what. Letting Bourassa and his boys play around with the James Bay project is like letting a couple of bright science students play around with a nuclear bomb. Here's the picture. The Quebec government plans a hydro project in the James Bay area, one of the last great wilderness areas in eastern North America. It is a mam- moth scheme. Some estimates place the cost at $10 billion. Yep, Billion. Where is that kind of money going to come from? Plan is to tinker with up to ten dams and seven rivers which run into James Bay. The damage to the area affected, 170, 000 square miles, larger than the whole United Kingdom, is incalculable. The sub -soil, known to be unstable, has taken hundreds of years to build up on the solid rock. The tremendous weight of water in the artificial lakes --some of then 70 miles long -- could cause earthquakes, land- slides, who knows what? The lakes themselves are big enough to affect the climate of the whole area. Worse, the change in freshwater flow into James Bay could delay the spring breakup in the Bay, and make winter longer. This could affect the temperature of the water flowing out of Hudson Bay, which joins the Labrador current going south, and this in turn could make the whole east- ern seaboard colder, Project this a little further and it could affect the entire - fishing industry on the Atlantic shores, And worst of all is the call- ous disregard of the native peoples of the area. They are Cree Indians, who eke a meagre living from the fisn, geese and moose of this bleak area. These people have never been conqu- ered, never sold their land, and never ceded it by treaty. 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