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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-07-30, Page 2ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1958 PAGE TWO ZURICH C .gefra NEWS 'oo, f o the Police Published every Wednesday Morning at Zurich, O tar r part Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and of Stanley Township, in Huron County, Printed by Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa A. L. COLQUHOUN HERB. M, TURKHEIM Publisher Business Manager Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $350 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. Subscriptions payable to Business Manager, Zurich Citizens News, Box 149, Zurich, Ontario, or to district correspondents. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1958 Your Opinion is Important MAYBE WE SHOULD REPEAT again what we have often told our readers that we welcome "Letters to the Editor" in our columns. We haven't published many of them lately because we didn't receive any for publication. We wish there was more expressions from readers of their opinions on matters of public interest. Each week we make our own thoughs known to the public. Maybe you agree with them and maybe you don't. We believe others should have the same right to comment on mat- ters of public interest. Letters to the Editor must be signed. You may use a pen name for publication and we will withhold your real name. We think it best that writers should have courage to stand back of expressed opinions. Whether we agree with the opinions expressed has no bearing on inclusion in our columns. The Citi- zens News welcomes your letters at any time. Be brief and be courteous are the words of caution we would advance on any matter of general interest. Why Not Another High. School RECENTLY we have heard reports that South Huron High School in Exeter is overcrowded, and plans are underway to build another addition. The same story comes out of Clinton, the school is overcrowded. Why then, we would like to know, couldn't there be another central high school built in Zurich to serve the area of Hay Township and the south part of Stanley Township. We know of some students who get on the bus and ride 20 or 25 miles before they reach school. No where in Western Ont- ario, we believe, is there a case . of two high schools drawing children from such a distance as there is in Exeter and Clinton. From what we can find out, Hay Township has the largest number of students attending high school of any township around. Add to this the amount of students from the south part of Stan- ley, and you will find a large enough enrollment to warrant portionanother ofr Stephen school. Townshiptop whichthis wouldthere beis a closertoconsiderable than Exeter or Parkhill. For a long time the larger towns have been trying to draw everything to them, and sort of leave the smaller villages in a backward situation. We feel it is time the powers to be give a little consideration to the smaller towns, and give them a chance to get ahead. After all, we are just as proud of our smaller towns as the people are of their larger ones, and feel we deserve a break once in a while too. At one time we had two years of high school here in Zurich, only to have it taken away and given to Exeter. Give us these two years back and add three more to it and we will be quite satisfied. We hope those in charge will give this idea their most careful consideration, and realize that there are more than one or two towns in this section of the county who want to get ahead. Newspapers Keep You Informed Awarded Winning Editorial By W. E. Doole, Editor, Brampton (Ont.) Conservator PERHAPS one of the most taken -for -granted and least ap- preciated Rights in the democratic way of life is our Right to be Informed. Like sunlight and fresh air, freedom of speech and freedom of the press tend to become so much a part of our daily life that we give them little thought. And yet, like sun- light and fresh air, these freedoms are indispensable to healthy growth and well-being. Their removal would stifle our existence. The seeds of corruption and totalitarianism wither and die under the bright glare of unbridled and unprejudiced publicity. Communism and Fascism grew strong in those countries where a free press was strangled. In Canada and in the United States the spotlight of free speech and free press shrivelled on the vine the ridiculous efforts of the Nazi bunds, the Communist cells, and the Ku Klux Klan. The highway -contracts and Pete - wawa scandals were eradicated when exposed to the light of public information. Freedom fighters all down through the ages have struggled and died for the Right of the Public to be Informed. But the fight goes on today. Less spectacular perhaps and maybe less obvious are the insidious inroads of today's efforts to ham -string the channels of communication. Whenever you hear of a newspaper being barred from a legitimate public meeting, whenever you hear of another bureau- cratic restriction on publication, your Right to be Informecl is at stake. So it is in jeopardy when a newspaper surrenders concientious editing and news -gathering to build acceptance of propaganda "handouts." Your newspaper has the challenging responsibility of keep- ing you informed on all matters affecting your economic, cultural, political and spiritual welfare: to bring you facts without fear, favour or prejudice. A conscientious newspaper when it fights to uphold Freedom of the Press is not pursuing a selfish objective. It is not merely seeking greater license for irresponsible axe -grinding and mone- tary gain. It is in truth battling for your right to be Kept Informed. "WHO'S 'BILL SMILEY?" INTRODUCING BILL SMILEY OF OUR "SUGAR AND SPICE" COLUMN "Who is this fellow, Bill Smil- ey?" is a question the Citizens News is sometimes asked by its readers. You will notice his by-line in a column appearing each week in the Citizens News under the head- ing "Sugar and Spice". The Citi- zens News has heard many favor- able comments about the column from its readers. But let the following article ap- pearing in a current issue of "The Canadian Weekly Editor" tell you all about Bill Smiley. It reads as follows: A fresh and irreverent humour, a dash of wry philosophy, and un- inhibited comment on the absurd- ity of many of our social customs are the ingredients that have made "Sugar and Spice" Canada's most widely -read weekly newspaper col- umn. Written by Bill Smiley, 37, edit- or of the Wiarton (Ont.) Echo, it is now carried in 45 Canadian weeklies, from Cecil Day's Liver - SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) Great strides have been made' in the twentieth century toward the conquering of disease. One after another, typhoid, •sana1'ipox, diptheria and Whooping cough have been knocked on the head. Polio is ,pretty well licked. And the medical boffins are hot on the trail of cancer. * ** That's why it's so discouraging to realize that while today's med- icine -men have ;had .their noses glued to a test-tube, a little virus that at first seemed harmless, has sneaked around behind them, spread with the, stealth of sp!illled maple syrup, and is now resulting in an epidemic of appalling pro- portions. * * Worse still, there is no drug that will kill it, for :it is not a physical •ailment, but a mental aberration. Already this highly contagious mania has hit so many people that it's not likely any- thing will stop its ravages of the race except the radio -active .faia- out that will stop everything one of these days. Its symptoms are unmistakeable, its victims easily discerned. When under an attack, they will : - sud- denly leave work in the middle of the afternoon; miss the funerals of chose relatives; skip meals, though they love their victuals; desert their loved ones at all sorts of odd hours; inexplicably recover from pain or illness .that would have them moaning in bed, in the winter. Oh, yes, this disease as most prevalent in summer, as polio was. PROCLAMATION VILLAGE OF ZURICH We hereby proclaim Monday, August 4, 1958, as CIVIC HOLIDAY In the Village of Zurich. and respectfully request the Citizens and Businessmen to observe the same. —TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF ZURICH LLOYD O'BRIEN, Chairman HAROLD THIEL LEROY THIEL Old ladies who should he home knitting garments for ,gran!dehil-d- ren sweat happily around the course, hacking divots as big as dishpans. Attractive young wo- men, who should be sitting around at a !beach .or bar, just looking beautiful, potter languidly about in long, tanned legs .and short, tight shorts. Thereby wrecking the concentration of old codgers, who are distracted into slicing $1.50 balls Into the ,rough, after spend- ing $300 in !lessons to get rid of that slice. a: a+ * Oh, I know. The whole thing is ridiculous. "What could be sill- ier," I used to say, before the virus entered my veins, "than walking around bitting a little ball with a stick?" I still think it's crazy, a mere obsession. And the day I break 100, I'm going to throw away my clubs and start living again. Which will. ,probably be about the same day I'm elected president of the Women's Insti- tute. a: :r•* The wretched victims in the lat- ter stages of the disease may be easily distinguished from the lucky people who have not been af- fected. They may be found, in vast numbers, wandering over hill and dale in all sorts of weather, with sticks in their hands, smash- ing at the ground, and occasion- ally striking viciously a harmless blab .of white which. they pursue relentlessly and blasphemously. :R * * This mental illness to which I refer, of course, is that ancient and honourable state of mind -- it's nit a game, and don't ever think it is —• calged golf. Don't snort, gentle reader. Per- haps you have thus far escaped •the anaconda coils of this serpent - like sport, but you're not safe un- less you're over 90, bed ridden, and the relatives are sitting a- round wishing you'd burry up and die so they could get out and bit a few. ne * 0 Just the other day, I was sitt- ing on a bench at the 7th tee. An elderly man came up, playing with tveo others. He let thein go on without him, and collapsed be- side me. "Played whuff sax holes "Had a wh.uff. heart attack two weeks ago, wihuff. Gotta take it today", he wheezed triumphantly. easy. Played whuff three holes yesterday. I'Ii. make whuff nine tomorrow." pool (N.S.) Advance to Les Barb- er's Chilliwack (B.C.) Progress. Bill gives much of the credit for the column's initial success to George Cadogan of the Durham (Ont.) Chronicle, who was the first to begin using it. "George is really the fairy god -father behind this Cinderella story." Bill says, "He's boosted it to others and nag- ged andencouraged me to im- prove it." No special effort has been made to sell the column. One publisher after another has picked it up af- ter reading it in exchange papers. At the last Ontario convention, three publishers came up to Bill and told him they wanted to use the column. None of them had been approached previously. Begun as a series of paragraphs of intensely personal comment, the column has evolved into a brief, pungent essay on anything from Mother's Day to mediocre meals. It has a distinctly small-town flav- or. Perhaps for that reason, it is especially popular with former residents of smaller centres who are now involved hi the scramble of the city. Nothing Sacred Nothing is sacred in Sugar and Spice. The home, marriage, moth- erhood, and even the weekly news- paper are the subjects of candid and sometimes hilarious examina- tion. Perhaps the greatest charm of the column is that its humor is sympathetic, never malicious. Smiley's wife, a very attractive young woman, is becoming accus- tomed to strangers rushing up to her at weeklies' conventions and exclaiming: "How can you put up with it ?" In his column, he refers to her as The Old Battleaxe. There is a similar lack of sentimentality when he speaks of his youngsters as "little monsters". Biggest reaction he ever had to a column was after an account of his first deer -hunting trip, last fall. A Toronto executive, spotted it in his hometown weekly, and wrote for six extra copies to send to friends. A week later he wrote for 12 more. Several other re- quests for copies of the same col - (Continued on Page Five) Golf used to be a game for rich people and a few professionals. It was associated with country clubs, snobbery and social climbing. But something has happened in the last decade, :and we rabble have stormed the barricades and infil- tra.ted the fairways. Go out to a course any day and you'll see a butcher and a baker, a printer and a preacher, a hairdresser and a hotel -keeper, hurling themselves with unanimous vigour and inac- curacy -in the !general direction of the bouncy little fiend of a bal. Business and Professional t' irectory AUCTIONEERS INSURANCE - ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service atall times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood LEGAL BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS & NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER Phone 4 DOCTORS G. A. WEBB, D.C." *Doctor of Chiropractic 488 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. Evenings, 7-9 For Appointmet -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WF,STLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W ZURICH HOFFMAN'S Funeral & Ambulance Service OXYGEN EQUIPPED Ambulances located at Dashwood Phone 70w Grand Bend—Phone 20w Attendants Holders of St. John's Ambulance Certificates For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All Insurances—Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Ontario Automobile Association For Particulars See Your Authorized Representative Ted Mittelholtz Phone 198 — Zurich DENTISTS DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DR. J. W. CORBETTT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 — Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 1 or 2 YEARS — 33A % 3, 4 and 5YEARS —4% J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 -- Zurich