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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-09-10, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICII Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1958 ZURICH eati>ieots 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, PostOffice Department,Ottawa Publisherer awa A. L. COT,Q Business Manager Itubscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 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, SEPTEMBER 10, 1958 WHAT IS THE HOLD-UP? "HOW COME. the Zurich ball club has not played any more games in the past two weeks since they eliminated Mitchell?", is the big question we are being asked every day. We wish we knew the answer. Last year when the Huron -Perth Baseball League was one day late in having a winner, the Mitchell team (who won the series) was disqualified from further competition in the Ontario Baseball Association. This year the teams hurry their playoff along so they can have a winner on time and what happens? The O.B.A. makes them sit around for three weeks before they will give them a team to play against. Apparently when Zurich and Mitchell were finished, another team, from Waterdown, were also waiting to advance into O.B.A. competition. Instead of letting these two teams play, the organization said that Caledonia and Walsingham must finish a series first and then the winner play Waterdown. The winner of this is eventually to play Zurich, and then the winner of that series is to play Orono, a team near Peterboro. Such craziness'. Now Caledonia and Waterdown are having a prolonged Series which will mean Zurich shall be lucky to play ballextt week. Then, if they are fortunate enough to win, they be playing for another two or three weeks. We can't for the life of us see why Zurich and Waterdown could not have played first, and the winner would have been ready the same time as Caledonia was. However, we understand an official of the O.B.A. lives in Waterdown, and he did not want his team to play Zurich in the first round. If this is the case, it is high time amateur sports organizations, such as the Ontario Baseball Association, have a housecleaning and appoint men who will not put their own personal interests ahead of the good of sport. Why dis- qualify a team one year for being a day late, and the next year make a team wait three weeks for a winner to play off with. Something is wrong with the governing body some place, and it is time they had a shake-up. WATCH FOR THIS ONE (Taken from the Grenfell (Sask.) Sun) WATCHING TELEVISION the other night in the cool of the river air, we were amazed at the gullibility of viewers who accept, without a word of protest, repeat performances—films— and commercials they have seen over and over again. And we came up with this idea. The holiday question has been a bad one this year, and it has looked like we'd be beaten. But not now. All we need is a bit of liberal (small "1" please) thinking, the dare to be a non -conformist for a change. The brilliant idea (it was bright, then), was that when the press run was completed on a week's issue, we should change the date lines, add a line at the top of the front page, "A Repeat of Last Week's Issue Requested by Thousands of Our Readers." We could label the whole issue and put it into the mail bags ready for distribution the following Thursday. Then the whole staff could take off for a week's holiday without a care in the world. Well, if the multi-million dollar television industry can do it, ?shy can't we? (Prescott Journal) DANGEROUS CARELESSNESS (Taken from the Grenfell (Sask.) Sun) WALKING ALONG Weyburn's main street the other after- noon we chanced to see a young woman walking along with a three or four-year-old girl in tow. The youngster was armed with an empty or near -empty pop bottle with which she had been fortifying herself against heat and boredom, The mother, becoming impatient with the slow pace caused by the refreshment -on -the -move, attempted to speed things up with a sharp word or two, and the little girl, as children in- evitably will, retaliated by stumbling and breaking the bottle to bits on the concrete sidewalk. With an exasperated "I told you so," the mother picked up the child, examined her for non-existent cuts, then went her way, leaving the broken glass in the middle of the sidewalk, waiting for the next youngster to come along, not looking where he or she was going, failing, and incurring painful and perhaps lasting injury. But to pick up the broken glass and carry it to the nearest rubbish can was unthinkable! Perhaps the best way to avoid situations of this kind is to make children drink their pop before leaving the restaurant, rather than letting them take bottles out, break them, or leave them lying on the ground for others to break. Also; street -cleaning departments are there for the purpose of removing the dirt and bits of rubbish that are blown or inadvertently dropped into our streets—not to pick up after us the things we might have disposed of ourselves. —Weyburn Review. SUGAR and SPICE (By W., (Bill) B, T. Smiley) Well, I know everybody has been sitting around, biting their nails and wanting to go, to the bathrooan in the suspense of wait- ing to hear about our holiday, so. I won't keep you on tender hooks any longer. * * * There's nothing more enjoyalble than the absorbing account of somebody else's holiday trip. It produces a delightful lassitude of the lirnlbs, heaviness of the eyes and wooliness of the mind that are most relaxing. Really thaught- ful travellerss 11 have coloured slides of the trip, and you can drop right off as soon as the lights are turned out, depending an your wife to sit there and dhurp things like: "What a lovely view! You lucky people!" :and stuff like that. • * * I've been trying to tela people about our trip ever since we got back. "Have a nice holiday?" they ask interestedly. "Wela, yes," I begin rather shyly, "went for a little trip with the . ." and they (bellow `ain't it awful, travelling with kids? Y' wooden get me °ffona nother trip" and tell me for 20 minutes about some dumb excursion they were on a month ago. • * Well, I hate to admit it, but we did have a nice holiday. And tra- veilling with kids is not so bad, after all. It's probably no worse than spending a couple of days in a -'bag furl of baboons. * * * First, we went to the Ex. And it would take nothing less than a regiment of horses to make me go through it again. I went for the bundle on the midway, a kid clutching each hand. Kim, Hugh and I went an the most violent aides they had, as fast as we could, while the Old ,Lady stood around, bleating and wringing her hands. Each time we'd climb off some wild ride, sick, white and shaken, she'd plead: "Let's go and see the food exhibit". *: * *: But the kids are too smart to he trapped :like that. They knew if they let me stop long enough for my head to stop spinning., I'd have enough sense to have enough nerve to call a halt. And I was just as determined that as long as my stomach and money held out, they'd never learn what a craven •coward I was behind that cold, sweating face and sickly grin. • :,: : They won. But so did I. After a ride an the Wild Mouse, which put more pure, cold fear through my innards. than anything since the day a fellow put a 40 mm. shell through my wing, night be- side the cockpit, I threw in the white towel. a: * * "Don't you think we should let Mone have some fun?" I quavered. They tinily ,agreed, disgustedly, to take her on the only ride she'd venture on. S:a the four of us sat, the .kids snorting with amuse- ment, their mother gasping and holding the sides, while we went around and around, an the slowest, mildest, most babyish, most old - womanish ride in the mi•d'way. Which was fine with me. • * As this was The Children's Trip, we then took :off for Niagara Falls, Like all kids, they were deeply Impressed by the magnificent sp- ectacle, gazing at it with awe for at least forty seconds before starting to Gook around for a hot - deg stand. Then Hugh spotted the Maid ,of the Mist, and we had to go on the boat ride in the ,gorge. We got delightfully soaked in the spray, and the rapturous grins of the klids were worth the whole trip. * * * Then we wanted to eat, It took half an hour to find a "nice" place to suit my wife. We all sat down, the waitress brought our water and the menus. We took a look at them, then at each other, grabbed •a kid each and headed, in as dignified a retreat as posdilble, for the door. 'There was nothing under $3 on the sheet. n * If you'd ever seen Kim messing around in a $3 dinner, the while complaining vehemently because she's not aillowe;d french fries and an ice scream cone, her fav- ourite meal, you wouldn't have blamed us. We wound up at a hole -en -the -wall, eating another in the never-ending stream of hot dogs from one hand and beating off the flies with the other, Which suited the kids down to the ground. * That night we stayed at a swanky hotel. I gave the bellboy his diene with that touch. of cos- mopolitan elan that only a weekly editor can. achieve. Kim had nev- er seen as bellboy before, and lat- er, when we were wondering where the swimming pool was located, she piped: "Why didn't you ask the !butler?" • * * Next day, a flying visit to the Stratford Festival. The play last- ed over three hours, and by the end of Act 2, the kids were wigg{1- ing like worms. Hugh and I were deeply mortified, and tried to act as though we didn't know them, when Kim and her mother got into an audible argument about whe- ther the farmer should put her shoes, on, just before intermission, while dozens of cultured spinsters turned around and hissed at them like snakes, • * And then the long journey home, swearing we wouldn't eat another hot dog or hamburger for a month, the youngsters groggy with ex- haustion, the inside of the car re- sembling the town dump. And the deep satisfaction of tucking them in their own beds, then coming down to the dear, familiar kitchen for a midnight cup of tea. And admitting to each other some- what reluctantly that The Trip, after all, had been a roaring suc- cess. Lots of people have great aims in life, but never pull the trigger. 0 It's an I for an I when two egotists get together. Treasurer's Sale _,f LANDS FOR TAXES Corporation of the County of Huron TO WIT: By virtue of a warrant issued by the Warden of the County of Hu. ron under his hand and the seal of the said corporation bearing date of 12th day of August 1958, sale of lands in arrears of taxes in the County of Huron will be held at my office at the hour of 2.00 p.m. in the Court House on the 9th day of December 1958 unless the taxes and costs are sooner paid. Notice is hereby given that the list of lands for sale for arrears of taxes was published in the On- tario Gazette on the 5th day of September 1958, and that copies of the said list may be had at my office. . The adjourned sale, if necessary, will be held at the above office on the 16th day of December, 1958. 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