HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1972-12-21, Page 11THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1972 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
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Federation wins telephony fight
(by Keith Roulston)
The telephone committee
organized by the Huron Feder-
ation of Agriculture has receiv-
ed word from John D. Cunning-
ham, assistant to the vice-
president of Western Area of
Bell Canada that Bell, South
Bruce Rural Telephone Ltd.,
Maitland Teleservices and
Wingham Telephone have rea-
ched a tentative service agree-
ment on extended area service
for the fall of 1975.
The announcement was made
Thursday night at the regular
meeting of the Huron Federation
of Agriculture.
The agreement would give
toll-free service between
Wingham-Teeswater: Wingham-
Gorrie; Wingham-Blyth, Brus-
sels and Auburn.
Total estimated cost of the
project is $350, 000. Of this
amount, South Bruce will pay
$35, 000; Wingham Telephone,
$46, 000; Maitland, $45, 000
and Bell Canada, $225, 000.
The telephone companies
will canvass their customers in
late 1973 to determine if the
majority of their customers
desire expanded toll-free serv-
ice.
The Federation of Agriculture
became involved in the fight
for larger toll areas in the sum-
mer of 1971 when a committee
was set up and petitions distrib-
uted. Response was heavy and
the committee began negotiat-
ions with the telephone comp-
anies.
Their request was that each
telephone customer be able to
call customers in all adjoining
telephone exchanges. Earlier
this year the telephone comp-
anies had given a virtual no to
the requests and negotiations
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were only started again when
the Federation requetted the aid
of Murray Gaunt, MPP for Huron -
Bruce. Jack Stafford, a member
of the telephone committee said
most of the progress was made
in a meeting held with all
telephone company represent-
atives at Belgrave recently.
Mason Bailey, president of
the Federation said he realized
that far less was being offered
than had been asked for. He
said people in the Blyth -Auburn
area would be especially un-
happy because they wanted
service to Clinton more than
Wingham. It was half a loaf,
A big man whose favorite friends are little people, The Friendly
Giant gets ready to play another tune for all the kids tuned in
to this CBC -TV children's show. Friendly Giant played by Bob
Homme is seen Monday to Friday at 10:30 a.m. on the CBC -TV
national network.
Time again
fo Wish all
Nappy
JOANN DUCHARME ZURICH
GREETINGS
o our friends and
neighbors, all best
wishes for holiday
ZU `' ICH WH LESAL E
SHIRRIFF' S POTATO CHIPS
Hubert and Marge Schilbe
Why Pick
Chim.ney?
Why does Santa come down
the chimney?
Of all the traditions con-
nected with Santa, his un-
conventional mode of entry
might seem the most puz-
zling. Surely the magical gift
giver, who has the power to
drive reindeer through the
skies and who can cover the
earth in a single night, could
find an easier way to enter
a house.
Like most of the lore of
Christmas, Santa's choice of
the chimney has several ex-
planations. For instance, leg-
end has it that the original
Santa, St. Nicholas, present-
ed three maidens with gifts
of gold for a dowry. Modest-
ly concealing his generosity,
he tossed the gold down a
chimney, in secret.
Another theory claims that
Santa copied a goddess, who
was the first to deliver gifts
via a chimney. According to
this legend, when the Vikings
of Norway celebrated the
Yuletide or winter solstice in
their great halls, a festive
feature of the occasion was
the appearance of the god-
dess Hertha in the fireplace.
As her name indicates,
Hertha was goddess of hearth
and home, and most appro-
priately arrived by way of
the chimney, to deliver her
Yuletide gifts of good luck
and good cheer.
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Jack Dalton, adventurer,
outfitter and builder of the
famed Dalton Trail in south-
west Yukon, named Champagne.
Yukon, after he transported a
case of French Champagne up
the Dalton Trail to the Yukon
he said, but it was better than
nothing. He said the fight prov-
ed that the Federation must learr
not to take no for an answer.
If it had done this, he said, the
toll-free areas would not have
been enlarged at all. The larg-
er area will cost the average
telephone subscriber about 10
cents per month.
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Christmas renews in
the hearts of mankind the joy
' i and wonder of the shepherds
`° as they watched by night'..
the all-pervading love of the Saviour.
FERGU ' ' ' , `. I MS
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