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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-10-23, Page 17nnounce change of ow ership for Citizens `°e > s Herb Turkheim, publisher of the Zurich Citizens .News announces that effective this Thursday, the newspaper will be sold to three area news- papermen. The new owners are Bill Batten, Ross Haugh and Ted Rowcliffe, who are leaving their positions with the Exeter Times -Advocate. All three have many years' experience in the newspaper business and• are well known to most readers of the Citizens News. Bill Batten is a graduate of South Huron District High School and the Ryerson Institute of Technology and has held positions as editor of the Grand Bend Holiday, Clinton News -Record and The Exeter Times -Advocate. He has been associated with newspaper work for the past 25 years, having started his career as a printer's devil while attending high school. He was active in sports at high school and played on teams with several Zurich area students with whom he has maintained a friend- ship through the years. Ross Haugh will be no stranger to readers of this' newspaper. As a sports and general reporter for the past 10 years, he has covered. many events in the district. The Crediton resident played his first hardball on a Zurich team and has been on the local diamond many times as an umpire. He is HERB TURKHEIM Remains on Staff a native of the Dashwood area. The third member of the new publishing team, Ted Rowcliffe, resides in the Hen- sall area and has been employ- ed in newspaper work for the past 15 years.For six years he was managing editor of the Kincardine News, responsible for the entire operation of that newspaper, which is pres- ently owned by Signal Star Publishing of Goderich, the firms which prints this newspaper each week, He has also worked on weeklies in Wingham and Dundas. Mr. " Turkheim noted he was extremely pleased to turn ownership of the newspaper over to the three experienc- ed men. "I' m sure they will serve area readers and advert- isers well." he commented. He has agreed to remain with the newspaper and will serve as editor, as well as being in charge of the prod- uction facilities.. The three staff members, Betty 0' Brien Kay Webb and Donna 0' - Brien have also agreed to remain on staff in their present capacities. The local staff will also be expanded as the new owners plan to inaugurate a new newspaper in Exeter which will provide coverage through- out South Huron on North Middlesex. An office will be opened. in Exeter, but the majority of the production will be handled in Zurich. The Zurich Citizens News was founded in January of 1958 by Herb Turkheim and other local residents who saw the need for a newspaper in the community after the Zur- ich Herald had been purchas- ed by The Exeter Times - Advocate and the Zurich area news wa's incorporated into the pages of the Exeter paper. The Citizens News quickly gained the support of the area and through the years has been honored on many occ- asions in the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association better newspapers competition. The newspaper was first printed in Clinton until local Festival reports successful endeavour Glen Weido, R.R.1, Zur- ich, was elected chairman of the Zurich Bean Festival Corporation at the annual meeting of the organization last Wednesday night. Vice- chairmen are Gordon Smith and John Eckel. Secretary for the coming year is Betty Kirk, while Bob Redick will. again serve as treasurer of the group. Chair- man of the concessions will be Orien Schwartzentruber. The annual meeting was held in the form of a pork barbecue, with the meat being donated by a member of the organization, Jack Hamilton. About 40 to 50 attended. Despite the inclement weather on the day of the event this summer, the treas- urer's report showed slightly over $2,000 profit for the Bean Festival organization. As well, dozens of other org- anizations showed profits on their concessions ranging from $200 to $800 each. Total receipts for this year's festival amounted to approx- imately $11,210, while the operating expenses were about $9,000. Retiring chairman Glen Thiel reported to the meeting that the Bean Festival Corp- oration now has about $1500 invested in their building, which will be retained for a permanent kitchen and store - age area. He thanked all those who donated many hours of labour in the renovations of the building, as well as paying tribute to all the people who co-operated in making the 1975 Bean Fest- ival such a success, despite the adverse weather cond- itions. Among items discussed at the meeeting was the possibility of serving food in the Zurich Arena next• year as well as on the streets, and the idea of operating the festival on Friday night as well as all day Saturday. No definite decision was reached on any of the prop- osals. The next meeting of the organization will be held on December 11. facilities could be put into operation and in March, 1969 the newspaper switched to the offset method of printing. Commenting on his early days in the newspaper bus- iness, Mr. Turkheim explain- ed he entered the business with practically no exper- ience or idea of how a news- paper was produced. "Many things we learned through trial and error, along with the advice so unselfishly given by other area newspap- BILL BATTEN er personnel," he explained. While it was hard work, it was made all the easier through the generous support given by the area to the vent- ure, he continued. While producing the news- paper, Mr. Turkheim has been active in community affairs as well and the Citizens News has always attempted to en- courage local activities that were in the interest of the district it serves. The present publisher has ROSS HAUGH served as president of the Zur- ich Chamber of Commerce, the Zurich Lions Club, and the Zurich Agricultural Society. He spent seven years as a village councillor and two years as a member of the South Huron High School Board. For the past three years, Mr. Turkheim has been a member of the Huron County Board of Education and is presently vice-chairman of the board. TED ROWCLIFFE Maurooh &9z4 G� NO 43 FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS OCTOBER 30, 1975 20( PER COPY Tea ers discussd jsbehaviour (by Wilma Oke) "M 1.ibeflaYs.'.`•w -"tis a sympt- om, not a cause" Dr. Anth- ony Miller, Chief Psycholog- ist at the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital told a group of teachers attending a work- shop on discipline during the professional development day held by the Huron -Perth County Rman Catholic Sep- arate School Board at St. Patrick's School in Dublin. He said children do not behave badly because they have an evil spirit in them but because they are anx- ious and insecure. As they become more anxious and in- secure they become more undiscliplined, he continued. Dr. Miller said one cause for misbehaviour might be the social system within a class. He said in the social system it is unnatural for a large group to get together but it is natural for a small group of six or seven to get you feel good about teach- togetrler: i4 state -a Solite ins 3-c14.ildren, then have 35, teachers try to break up a natural group in a classroom -- those four at the back of the room. He said a good teach- er recognizes a natural group- ing and puts it to use advant- ageously. Dr. Miller spoke of the teacher being the source of insecurity and anxiety by giving an assignment that is too difficult. He outlined how teacher's personal problems can be the cause when stress will send out signals through the classroom. He advised the teacher t be honest and expl- ain to the pupils: "I've had a bad morning," and the children will be able to cope with the teacher's behaviour. One of the causes of stress for a teacher is not having the tactical knowledge to deal with a problem such as too large a size of class, "If you may not havE"l a tactical_ background to cope with 35. Dr. Miller suggested many ways of quieting a fidgety child before behaviour gets out of hand including the foll- owing techniques of standing near a pupil, ask the pupil if help is needed, hold a gripe session with class to let children express their dist- urbance and both teacher and pupils will feel bet- ter. • Dr. Miller said punishment can cause adverse consequ- ences unless child knows there is a caring relationship and there has been a wrong- doing. Punishment will be more effective if the child knows there is a conseq- uence of wrong -doing. He cautioned against trad- itional arbitrary forms of (continued on page 8) FIGHT STUBBORN FIRE - Members of the Zurich Fire Brigade along with a group of vol- unteers worked for several hours last Thursday afternoon to fight a grass and brush fire which spread into the bush on the farm of Wayne Keller, in Stanley Township. A few times the fire seemed to be getting out of control but the alertness of the group finally won out.