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Zurich Citizens News, 1958-03-05, Page 12PAGE TWELVE BUILDING OUR COMMUNI T Ilensall Disiriel Co op ZURICH. Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1968: One of the oldest landmarks in � The Zurich branch, besides do - Zurich accommodates the Hensall ing custom grinding for local far - District Co -Operative branch here. mers does all the manufacturing In 194$ .the Co-op bought the •mill• of feeds for Zurich and Hensall. They also supply fertilizer and farm' supplies to the district. Oth- er products available from the Co-op are gas, oil, coal and seeds. Hogs' are shipped, to the new as- sembly yards in Clinton on Tues - they now operate, from Williams Brothers, who had operated it for 72 years. They had made "Daisy Girl" flour in this builidng as long as they operated it, but this pro- duct has since been discontinued. At one time the mill had supplied hydro power for the village of Zurich. The Hensall District Co -Op, whioh was organized in 1939, has branches at Hensall, Zurich and Brueefieid. Manager of the Zur- ich branch is Bertram Klopp; at Hensall, Garnet Mousseau; while Bruceffield has Ray McNall in charge President of the Co -Op is Robert MacGregor, vice president, Donald Hendrich and is secretary Bertram Klopp.year r profits for the three branches was $25,000, which is turned back to the farmers who are shareholders of the organization. Zurich branch has three em- ployees, Hensall eight and Bruce - field two. The association opera- tes three standard trucks, one semi -trailer job for shipping hogs and cattle and they also have one gas truck. day and to Stratford or Kitchen- er yards on Thursday. On Sat- urday they ship cattle to Union Stock yards in Toronto. John In- gram is in charge of cattle ship- ments. The first branch of the Hensall District Co-operatives started in Hensall in 1939, and was originally a fertilizer mixing station. Preceeding Bert Klapp as man- agers of the Zurich branch were Don Charlton, George Richa 'dson and Grant Case. The present manager has been very active in all community affairs having own- ed a farm outside town previously to taking over as manager. Along with his son, Herbert, they have been famous for raising a thor- oughbred herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle. Mr. Klopp is also a mem- ber of the Zurich Fall Fair Board. j REF ,irk IGE ST, 'i ASHING MACHINES F EEZERS ATO`' S Zurich Flyers In Playoffs Against Ilderton 'Cats Lucknow Beats Local ,Midgets 8-7 Hardfought Game Lucknow Midgets edged Zurich Lions Midgets 8-7 in overtime, in the second .game of their best -of - three series in the semi-finals of the WOAA Midget "D" series. The game, which was postponed Monday to Wednesday, Satur- day, finally had to be played on ,artificial ice in Wingham. Playing well below their usual form, the local kids had trouble staving off a determined Lucknow crew. First period goals by Cor- riveau and Willert left Zurich in a 2-1 lead at the end of this frame. Henderson scored the loan Luck - now counter. Early in the second period Hend- erson scored his second goal of the night, tieing the game for Lucknow. Several minutes later Wayne Willert scored his first goal of the night to again give Zurich the lead 3-2. However, only a few minutes later Ashton tied the score for Lucknow. With less than period, in ute remaining in the Wil- lert scared his second goal of the night, to end the period 4-3 for Zurich. Ashton scored his second goal of the game for Lucknow early in the third period, again tieing the score. Shortly after this goal, Bob Johnston scored for Zurich on a beautiful play with Gerard Overholt assisting. Andrew scor- ed for Lucknow several minutes later to tie the score for the fifth time during the game. Then Ash- ton scored his third goal of the night to give Lucknow the lead for the first time in the game 1 4 Zurich Flyers and Ilderton Wild-• cats opened their best of five, WOAA Intermediate C Homebrew playoffs in Luoan arena on Tues- day night. The second game in the series will be played in Zurich on Thursday night. During the regular schedule Zurich held a 4-0 lead over the Wildcats. They are hopeful of being able to continue their win- ning ways over Ilderton, and be- ing able to advance into WOAA finals, in their category. The largest crowd of the sea- son is expected to turn out for this playoff game on Thursday night. The power of this Ilderton team is not to be taken too light- ly, as just recently they upset the high -flying Exeter Mohawks. You can be sure of a real'battle when these two old rivals clash in this. playoff series. --o Gerald Gingerich, Ervin Martin and Douglas Armstrong were in Toronto last week attending a Frigidaire School. Gingerich's. now have the latest in testing and repairing equipment for Frig- idaire products. Little NHL Is Handicapped By Mild Weather Due to the mild weather the little NHL was forced out of act- ion this week, and in its place coaches Gordon Block and Jack Bannister took two teams of Squirts to Strathroy to play ex- hibition games. The first game was won by Zu- rich 5-0. Barry Block and Obert Bannister sparked the Zurich at- tack with four points each, Barry getting one goal and three assists, -o Colts Wallop Flyers In Last Scheduled Game 6-5. Bryan Geoffrey came through with the tieing goal with only two minute remaining in the regulation time, to force an overtime period. Two quick goals by Ashton, his fourth and fifth of the night, gave Lucknow an 8-6 edge in the over- time session. With only a couple of minutes left Corriveau scored for Zurich. and despite continued pressure on the Lucknow net, the locals just couldn't get the extra goal they needed. Six penalties were called throughout the game. LUCKNOW : Collinson, Collyer, Stanley, Andrew, Henderson, Ash- ton, M. Hunter, B. Hunter, Dalton, Houston, Kirkland, Wasney, Short. ZURICH: Amacher, Weida, Will- ert, Johnston, Overholt, Geoffrey, Masse, Denomme, Corriveau, B. Wagner, Thiel, Deichert, Bedard, E. Wagner. SEE US for all your PLUMBING — HEATING and HARDWARE STADE and WEIDO "We Sell Coal" Phone 92 ZURICH esszasisseatummossonammantwannwasom CASH ingo on FRIDAY, MAR. 7 8.30 p.m. LEGION HALL Grand Bend 12 Games for 50c SPECIAL and JACKPOT PRIZES 8b Y Playing their final game of the regular hockey schedule last Thur- sday night in Clinton, the local Flyers were walloped 11-3 by the Colts. Scoring whenever they seemed. to want to, Clinton took an early 3-0 lead in the first period, added six more in the second and then. finished off the third with two more. Ken Parker scored the first Zurich goal midway in the second period, and Don O'Brien tallied the final two goals for the Flyers in the third period, at the 10 and 14 minute marks. Only three penalties were called in the cleanly played contest, all' to Zurich. The Flyers were playing with- out the services of two regular rearguards, Bill Yungblut and Bob McKinley were both missing, and this weakened the team very - much defensively. and Robert scoring two goals and two assists. Dave Turner and Richard Stade each scored once to round out the Zurich attack - In the second game the Zurich Squirts were edged by Strathroy 2-1. Kase Van Doalen scored the lone Zurich goal, with the assist going to Bryan Decker. On Thursday night the local' Pee-wees will travel to Hensall to take on the highly rated Hen- sail Peewees. This game will com- mence at 7 p.m. COME AND HEAR. AND di Cochrane Your Liberal Candidate in kEuron urray. SncIir President, West Middlesex Young Liberal Association Town Hall, Hensall Thursday Evening, March 13 et 8 o'clock Everyone Welcome! Sponsors: Huron's Young Liberal Association Published by Huron Liberal Association