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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-08-06, Page 2PAGE FOUR ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1958 ZURICH C, NEWS Published every Wednesday Morning at Zurich, Ontario, for the Police Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern part 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. TURI IEIM Publisher Business Manager Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. Subscriptions payable ZucBusiness 11geZurich Citizens correspondent Box 149, rih,Ontario, ortodistrict WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1958 WISE MOVE THE DECISION of the Hay Township Council to hire an engineer to survey the roads along the lakefront at St. Joseph is a very wise move on their part. With the survey completed, the argument of who owns what along the lakefront at this spot will be settled for once and all. Over the past years some strange claims have been reg- istered in this particular area.. One man claims to own the beach, and all land around it. This will be a good chance to prove who owns the roads, and how much of them they own. When the survey is completed, and necessary work is done on widening the road and making suitable parking accommoda- tions, the spot will be a welcome addition to residents of Hay Township. DO WE NEE A TOWN CONSTABLE? YES, WE THINK the Village of Zurich needs its own police force. With the ever increasing amount of "crazy" drivers we have in this community, it is time there is someone here to enforce the law. Recent break-ins and thefts in the village are still more reason why we need police protection. We don't for one minute think that a local policeman could prevent burglaries, but he would be on hand to investigate such happenings as soon as they happen. Then there is the case of public gatherings, such as baseball games, hockey games, dances, etc. What should happen if trouble would break out at any of these events? What kind of protection do we offer officials at any such gatherings? If we had our own policeman he would be on hand at all times to prevent any disturbances. From the cost angle, it would be only a case of a few dollars a year for each taxpayer, and we don't think there are any residents of Zurich who would complain about this. After all, money is thrown away in a community like ours in less important ways than this, and after having one traffic fatality in town we feelno one should complain about spending a few dollars each year to prevent another. How about investigating the situation, town fathers! SAFETY BEFORE TRAGEDY 1 T HAS BEEN brought to our attention that a certain danger exists for people with small children --- and in fact to the adults themselves, right in the back yards of Zurich homes. Years ago town water was supplied for residents of town. Since the change -over was begun, one after another, house - owners have stopped using old wells. In some cases they were simply boarded over, or supplied with cement lids. It is quite possible every home built prior to 1910, has an old well in the back yard. That's quite a few years ago. Many of those well fitted with plank covers, are now a death trap for those who use the back yard. Why not check your back yard now? Walk around it carefully, perhaps with a wooden stake, or broom handle, and test the ground for sound. If you're over an old well, there is apt to be a hollow sound, when you strike the earth. If you find evidence of an old well, investigate. Make sure the top of it is safe — for your children, and those of your neighbours. Safety measures now will protect the happiness of your family and others in the future. BIG SUBSIDY TO CITIES (Elmira Signet) ONE REASON farm people deserve a fair income is the fact that each year they furnish cities with thousands of full grown, educated young people. More than half of the young men and women born and brought up on the farm, leave it before they are 25 years of age. Farm families and farm communities rear, feed, clothe, and educate these young people throughout their un- productive years. Then, after they complete their education, they head for the city. The democratic up -bringing given a farm boy is one of the biggest, most important and least publicized of all sub- sidies the farmer gives to the urbanites. When the farmers complain about the prices they get for their products, the city people should, perhaps, take the above fact into con- sideration. 10 l houghfful Tips On Human Relations SPEAK TO PEOPLE. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile. Call people by name. The sweetest music to anyone's ear is the sound of his own name. Be friendly and helpful. If you would have friends be friendly. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do were a gen- uine pleasure. Be genuinely interested in people. You can like everybody if you try. Be generous with praise --cautious with criticism. Be considerate with the feelings of others. It will be appreciated. Be thoughtful of the opinions of others. There are three sides to a controversy — yours -- the other fellow's — and the right one. Be alert to give help. What counts most in life is what we do for others, --Anonymous. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) A vast change has come over sum+me:r Wing in the Canadian smaill town in the past twenty or thirty years. And I'm not at all snare that it's been a change for the better. * * * This .great thought came to me .tonight. We've had a week of real, did -fashioned, hat summer weather, and as. I sat here in the quiet, coon kitchen with nothing but the thundering of the moths against the screen door to distract me, I got treminiecing about sum- mer in the '20's, when I was a ekinny, little freckileefaced kid. * For some strange reason, in those days kids didn't come run- ning do to their mothers eight times. a day, whining: "What'll we do, Mom? Gee, there's no fun outside. How about baking us noir a swim;? Can we have a nicicrle for a popsickle?" N: Quite the contrary. Mothers in those days practically had to call the 'police to locate their young- sters so .they could drag them in and feed thein three times a day. For children in those tunes, there sinsply were not enough hours in the ,day, and night always fell far too early. * For a boy, in those days, there were •about 480 fascinating,things to do on a fine summer day. There were no organized swim- minglessons, no: organized soft- ball leagues, no, :organized any- thing. Everything was beautifully ddsonganized. You snatched a bread -and -jam sandwich, in the cool, bright of the morning, and took off like a :scared rabbit. 4. Maybe you went up to the fair - ,grounds ,and splayed 'hardball (soft- ball was a girls game in those days) all morning. There'd be about twelve kids on each side, .and every pitch., every cliose play, was •arrgued violently, with a lot of pushing in the chest and fierce Judy 30, 1958 Dear Editor: Our dear editor is again asking for letters to the editor for this paper. I have noticed that he was: wondering about our community park which was supposed to be developed this summer :for the enjoyment of our children. Well, I must say this, that every time there is a proposed project comes up the citizens are all enthusiastic about the whole dead. That is to say when it first comes up. Now my children have been going to the dances all win- ter every Friday night, and we did not mind therm going because the money was :going for a good cause in the ,park. The small children wi11 enjoy themselves in a park in which they can go and spend a day now and then, and perhaps have a young •girl• or boy who would he glad to volunteer their time and service to look after them. Now I don't want to go and get ahead of myself, we don'texpect a city park, but just one where our children can go and spend a few hours each day in contentment. Do we know foe sure where all this centennial money is going? Will it take all of it to iiix up this park? I feel that it is time that Mr. President of the inions Club or Mr, 'Chairman of the Centenial Fund :should report in public what the Intentions +are in regards to this park. The summer is half over .now and if you don't ans- wer this letter it may hurt any future projects you may put on for the sake of public facilities. It also would be a good idea if the Lions Club would report to the public on how much money was taken in at the dances all. 1+asrt winter. It would give us parents an idea ori how Ear their money was going 'toward this park. "An Interested Citizen" repartee like: "Oh, Yeah? Sez Who?„ Maybe you took a swing around by the sand pit, crawled unto the carefully :concealed cave and lay around with the gang, smoking monkey :tob:acco in toilet paper, and plotting a horrible fate for the gang in the 'next street over. -1: U :N Maybe you. just sat on top of a wail], in the sun, chewing licor- ice and seeing who could spit the farthest. Maybe you':d "sneak up" on somebody, •cratwdting though tomato plants and corn stalks un- til you lay there, knife between your teeth, watching every move of .a woman hagang out her clothes, in happy ignorance of the fact that only the guns poking :from the loopholes in the house were saving her from a scalping at the hands of the ruthless Nava- jos. * s: :N Maybe you lay on a wooden bridge and !fishe;d, the hours peel- ing off like petals as you watch- ed the dank water below and the stir as the tail of a trout moved, the rest of him unseen behind a log. Or maybe you swam in the river until youe lips: were blue and your eyes ail bloodshot, then lay baking in the sun, mindless, fall- owing the ponderous dance of the great, white, cumulous clouds, :N * Maybe you had a "feed". Pint, you'd search for empty beer hot - ties, sea them, and invest :the pro- fits in wieners. Then you'd send the best snatcher of the gang to swipe a bunch of bananas. off the outside stand at the ifirruit store. Then you'd all ego horrie and steal (you never asked for it, you stole it), any food you could get away with, and maybe a handlful. of Dad's: 'pipe tobacco. Then you'd all. :retire: to the cool, vaulted diept hs of the old distillery cellar and have an orgy that would make eine of Nero's feasts, look like a Sun- day School picnic. 4. * 4 After supper, a swift gulping of conn 'on the cob and cold apple sauce, new delights 'beckoned. You could climb into the tree house and kick little 'girls in the face when they tried rto climlb up. There was. Riun-Sheep-Run and Hedllghtt in the gathering clunk. There was creeping up, with suppressed gig- gles, on your big sister and her beau as 'they sat in suspicious sil- ence ;an the porch. :N 4' +I: It was with: the sharpest of pairs and the most bitter of sorrow that you heard your mother's whistle or' piercing "Y000H000" taking the knell of parting day. Every anto- ther had a afferent call for her brood, and we knew our own from two blocks away. And every fa- ther had the same treatment for kids who failed to !respond — a hearty 'cl'ip on the chops. We carne home, not joyfully, but promptly. '4 4: 4. The automobile and television heave changed all that. Kids are all over the country now, on sum- mer evenings. They're driven somewhere to play ball, with a kit of other "organized" boys. Or they've wheedled their folks into taking them to the drive-in theat- re. Or they're sleeping in strange beds at somebody's cottage, while their parents sit around drinking girl coBinses. * * :r Or the poor little souls are crouched, with, senseless stare, in front of a TV •set, watching a re- play of one .of ]last winter's pro- grammes, while in the soft, warm ,outdoors, tie, :birds and the trees and the nioon mourn the days when the, piping voices of children at play provided a counterpoint to the melody of a velvet sunixner evening. 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