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Set dates for
achievement day
The Home Economics Branch
of the Ontario Ministry of Agr-
iculture and Food is again hold-
ing 4-H Homemaking Club
Achievement Days in Huron
County.
The 1, 100 girls who are part-
icipating in the current project
"A World of Food in Canada"
have been studying food custom:
of people from other countries
who have made Canada their
home. English Trifle, Hungar-
ian Goulash, Danish Smorre-
brod (open sandwiches) and
French Onion Soup are among
a few of the national dishes
included.
Miss Jane Pengilley, Horne
Economist for Huron County,
will be conducting the followint
Achievement Days in this area:
Howick Central School,
Nov. 3, 1973; Seaforth High
School, November 24, Clinton
Area Achievement Day,
Central Huron Secondary
School, December 15; Zurich
Area Achievement Day, Zurich
Community Hall, January 5,
Exeter Area Achievement Day,
Exeter High School, January 12;
Crediton Area Achievement
Day, Stephen Central School,
January 19.
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1973
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RV SHIRLEY J. KEI.LEF
(by Shirley J. Keller)
During recent weeks there
has been a growing controversy
in my area about school buses
and school bus drivers. For a
good many years now, school
buses have been a bone of cont-
ention for me, for when my
children were younger and we
lived in a rural community
they rode to and from school
each day on one of the big
yellow monsters of the highway.
Now that niy children no long
er depend on school buses to
get them back and forth to
school, school buses still pres-
ent a problem to me for they
are on the highway many times
when I want to travel... and
they present a real safety hazard
not only for the children who
are riding in them, but for the
drivers who must share the road
with them.
Let me first off say that
school buses appear to be a nec-
essary evil in these modern days
in which we live. Consolidated
schools mean children have
much longer distances to travel
to classes and they have no
alternative but to ride to and
from in some motorized convey-
ence or another.
OF HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS, ANTIQUES
AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 1:00 P2 1.
Main Street, Zurich
West of the main intersection, between Hess Jewellery and
Laporte Meat Market.
HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS: McClary 4 burner electric stove,
less than one year old; Beatty combination automatic wash-
er and spin dryer; chrome kitchen table and four chairs;
kitchen sideboard; dining room table, two leaves and six
chairs, buffet and china cabinet; New Scale Williams piano
and bench; Admiral B & W TV; White treadle sewing mach-
ine; chesterfield with thatching chair; upholstered occasion-
al chair; two section sofa; leather covered recliner; coffee
table; assorted end tables, bedside tables; magazine racks;
pole lamp, tri -light lamp, table lamps, dresser lamps;
combination magazine table and lamp; TV tables; metal
folding table; numerous wooden chairs; iron bed; single bed;
wooden bedroom suite; cedar chest, chest of drawers;
dresser with mirror; wall pictures; card table; desk; numer-
ous china cups and saucers; candy plates; cake plate;
coffee mug set with server; complete set of stainless steel
ware; two sets of dishes; miscellaneous dishes, cutlery and
cooking ware; electric toaster; electric tea kettle; step
stool; Hoover portable vacuum cleaner; electric clocks;
Cuckoo clock; clothes hamper; bathroom scales; bathroom
space saver; etc.
ANTIQUES: Ornate solid brass bed; iron and brass bed;
secretary desk; what -not; hall tree; rocking chair; desk
table; washstand; flower stand with marble top; chest of
drawers with porcelain pulls; corner table; Tiffany lamp;
six piece toilet set; dresser with mirror; approx. 100 small
collector pitchers; pair of collector tea pots with picture of
Zurich main street; assorted crystal and glass pieces; book
ends; shell basket; coal oil lamp.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: Picnic table; hand tools; lawn
chairs; veranda rocking chairs; bird cage, etc,
FOR MR. LEROY O'BRIEN
In case of inclement weather, the sale will be held
under cover.
Not responsible for accidents on day of sale
D. & J. Riddell Auction Service
AUCTIONEERS
Doug Riddell
237-3576
Jack Riddell
237-3431
But it must soon be recogniz-
ed that school buses stopping
and starting on heavily -traveller
provincial highways are not
only a nuisance but the makings
of many accidents --major and
minor- -which leave motorists
disgruntled and disgusted every
school day from about 7:30 to
9 a. m. and 3:30 to 5 p.m.
There is a common assumpt-
ion among rural people that
because their children must
travel to school by bus, it just
naturally follows that they must
be picked up at their homes.
That's why school buses seem to
stop at every gateway no spatter
how close those laneways are ---
and why some buses are even
expected to make dangerous
turn-arounds on busy roads just
to give at -the -gate service to
some able bodies student who
could easily have walked the
quarter -mile to a safer stopping
point.
School boards all over the
province have endeavoured to
provide this tremendous at -the -
gate service for every child --
and many school board members
have taken severe tongue lash-
ings from irate parents who want
to know why their children
must walk 200 feet while the
neighbour's kids are picked up
right at the gateway. The argu-
ment most normally expressed
by these taxpayers is that it is
simply not safe for their child-
ren to walk on a busy highway
it a busy hour.
In towns and cities all over
this province, however, child-
ren from kindergarten through
Grade 13 brave the elements and
the traffic to walk to and from
school. Many of them walk a
mile or more. Many of them
must cross dangerous roads and
intersections. Some must
trudge along heavily travelled
streets without the benefit of
sidewalks. Theirs is a daily
problem... and they learn to
In an address to about 75
members of District 6
Association for Municipal Elec-
trical Utilities, First Vice -
President I.L. Bradley Utilities
Manager for Waterloo stated
"The public doesn't give a
damn about hydro problems
until the lights go out. Then it's
too late."
The address was part of the
fall convention of the A.M.E.U.
which was held last Friday at
the Maitland Country Club.
This is the first time Goderich
has hosted the event for nine
years.
R. "Gus" Boussey, manager
of the Clinton P.U.C. resided as
President of District 6
District 6 extends north to
Walkerton, east to Guelph and
south to Zurich.
DASF4WOOD
Phone 237-3381 or 237-3422
cope because there is simply no
other way to get to school.
There should be some real
consideration given by school
boards across the province to
the possibility of limiting the
number of stops any school bus
makes on a busy highway. Sec-
ondary roads may be treated in
a different manner, but on main
thoroughfares, some special
legislation must be enacted to
protect the motorist as well as
the school children.
Perhaps there could be specif-
ied stops along the route - no
more than one every mile --
with signs clearly indicating to
the motorists that this is a pick
up and drop off area for school
children. Maybe these school
bus stops could have a bench
for waiting and a portable
shelter for winter months. May-
be footpaths could be construct-
ed at the side of the roadways
to accommodate not only ped-
estrian traffic but bicycles -as
well.
Or maybe the best answer is
to build sideroads along main
highways for school bus travel
in the morning arid evening
hours during the school year...
and slow moving vehicle traff-
ic as well as bicycles in the off
hours and during the summer
months.
All I'm saying is that school
buses are here to stay and there
must be some provision made
in the future to ensure that as
roads become more jammed
with traffic, the school buses
will create less and less probl-
ems.
That would be costly, you
moan. Of course it would be.
Who ever said that safety came
cheap? For that matter, who
ever said that we should put a
price limit on that which would
make highway travel pleasant
and almost hazard -free?
OF REAL ESTATE, ANTIQUES AND
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS
SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 3 at 12:30 p.m.
at the
Dashwood Community Center
REAL ESTATE: Well maintained brick house on large
double lot with separate small barn at rear of property.
House contains 3 bedrooms and separate walk-in closet
upstairs, large living room, den, family size kitchen, pant-
ry and bedroom downstairs, full basement below.
Property to be sold at 3 p.m. subject to a modest reserve
bid.
HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS: Galaxie gas -electric refrigerator,
Findlay 4 burner gas stove, 3 burner coal oil stove, 4 burner
coil oil stove, battery radio, chrome kitchen table, 8 wood-
en chairs, Coleman space heater, Quaker space heater,
Raymond sewing machine, Royal A sewing machine, Hoover
floor polisher, sofa bed, quilting frame and curtain stretch-
ers, clothes rack, pots, pans, dishes and cutlery. Hinze
upright piano.
ANTIQUES; Pine dry sink in excellent condition, flat to
the wall cupboard with carved pulls, carved dining room
table with six leaves and six chairs, Berlin pump organ, 5
piece parlor suite, very old and in like new condition,
Jenny Lynn bed, dresser with mirror and wash -stand, wooden
beds with matching dressers and wash -stands, large dresser
with cherry fronts and porcelain pulls, wooden rocking chairs,
press back chairs, dough box, blanket chest, fern stands,
clock shelf, hanging lamp with tear drops and smoker bell,
numerous cut glass pieces, assorted milk glass pieces hand
blown rose vase, various carnival glass items, hand blown
cruet, blue water glass, gold trimmed table set including
creamer, sugar spooner and two dishes, hobnail fruit bowl,
syrup cruet, rose serving bowl, alphabet dish, German serv-
ing bowl, Bavarian mustard dish, German sandwich plate,
pair of snatched serving dishes, Pearl of Savoy water pitcher,
pair salt cellars, matched cream pitchers, goblet, fruit
nappies, Bavarian creamer and bowls, Hen on the nest, set
of semi porcelain English dinner ware, numerous souvenir
plates, Wedgewood plates, sterling pickle fork, mustache
cup, vaseline vase, hand blown flowered vase (similar to
Mary Gregory), German shaving mug, five piece commode
set, five coal oil lamps, one Beaver sealer, 2 copper tea
kettles, iron kettle, copper boiler, coffee grinder, Waterbury
8 day pendulum clock, iron fry pans, flat irons, cream cans,
numerous old wall pictures and frames, assorted crocks,
blankets, comforters, scatter rugs etc.
This is an excellent offering of very unique antiques.
Lunch available at the Dashwood Community Center.
PADDLE BIDDING
F or the estate of the late Miss Susan Willett
Not responsible for accidents on the day of sale
D .1 RIDDEL.L.
AUCTIONEERS AND SALES MANAGERS
"Doug"
237-3576
"Jack"
237-3431