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ZURICH Citizens NEWS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1958
Published every Wednesday Monning 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. TURKHEIM
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Zurich, Ontario, or to district correspondents.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1958
WELCOME OUR DOCTOR
For the past few years we have been without the services
of a medical doctor here in Zurich. Now, thanks to the efforts
of the Chamber of Commerce, we have been fortunate in having
Dr. A. W. Klahsen take up residence here and open a practice.
The doctor comes to us highly recommended by leading specialists
in the City of London.
Next Wednesday night a public reception is to be held for the
doctor and his wife in the Community Centre. The idea of the
affair is for everyone to meet their new doctor, and enjoy the
social fellowship. Let's give Dr. Klahsen a rousing welcome by
filling the hall for this occasion.
Now that we again have the services of a medical doctor
in Zurich we hope the people will see fit to patronize him ac-
cordingly. Every community needs a doctor of their own, and
only if we give him our patronage will we be able to keep his
services.
DO WE NEED SECRET MEETINGS?
Last Wednesday night, halfway through a meeting of the
Hay Township Council, the reeve asked the press to be excluded
from the balance of the meeting. We cannot agree with the reeve
on this point.
The Township Council is a group of men, elected by the
people, to transact the business of the taxpayers in the Town-
ship. We feel these taxpayers have every right to know what is
going on at these meetings, and it is only through the press
that they can get an account of them. If we are barred from
meetings of the council we are losing our objective, "The Right
to Inform."
In this particular case we cannot blame members of the
council for the action taken by the reeve. They were not con-
sulted on the idea, nor were they given a chance to voice their
opinions on the exclusion.
As a matter of fact, we feel it would be a good idea if
many of the ratepayers in the Township attended some of these
meetings, as the privilege is all theirs. It would give them a
much broader view on the amount of business that is transacted
by the men whom they elect to represent them. All council
meeings should be open to the public, and we hope the reeve
does not decide to hold any more secret meetings.
WHAT'S HAPPENED ALL THAT FIRE?
(Wiarton Echo)
It is rather alarming to note the election by acclamation
of Conservative candidates in the Ontario ridings of Lanark and
Hastings East. The Liberal Party in Ontario has fallen into a
sad state when it cannot muster enough interest to oppose by-
elections.
Where is all that fire, all that wonderful enthusiasm, that
greeted the election of a new Liberal leader, John Wintermeyer ?
At that time Liberals. having dispensed with the "old guard",
were going to ginger up the party, reorganize at the grass
roots level and sweep back into power, if not in the first elec-
tion, then assuredly in the next.
Apparently the young rebels are not proving any more lively
or efficient than the so-called "old guard". Their leader, Mr.
Wintermeyer, has made a strenuous effort, but he has not, by a
long shot, given Premier Frost any cause for alarm. Since Mr.
Wintermeyer took over the leadership, the Liberals have lost
four by-elections, and defaulted in two.
Admitting that Lanark and Hastings East are practically
sure things for the Tories, the Liberals are not going to win
adherents or win office by throwing in the white towel before
the first punch has been thrown.
You Are Invited To Attend
A Public Reception
for
DR. and MRS. A. W. KLAHSEN
in the
Community Centre, Zurich
Wednesday, October 8 at 8 p.m.
Entertainment and Lunch will be Provided
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill)
Every so often, my wife gets a
bee in her belfry about moving
to the city rbo live. It's merely a
passing whim but she has .a whim
dike Mexander the• Great, so while
it lasts, I humour her.
She gets this notion that living
in a small town means getting into
a rut. Sane old round: kids back
to school, with the resulting chaos;
fall fair; annual drama presenta-
tion; rat mace and banquets, meet-
ings, foe* suppers; Christmas
moaning; long winter months fill-
ed with wilting thorough snow;
piano practising and head colds;
spring, and the nightmare of the
Music Festival; sunnmer and the
hordes of visitors; September, the
kids are back to school and away
we go again.
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In my opinion, this is more like
a emery -ego -round than a rut, and
I enjoy merryego rounds. I never
can figure out whey she likes the
city, anyway, unless it's because
she met me there and she wants
to return to the scene of the
crime.
* * *
In the city, of course, people
don't leve, in is rut like us. They
Ave in an falparten.en!t. They are
alt gay, witty, rich and goodlook-
ing. They don't have any child-
ren. They al work at fascinating,
•cre.ati e jobs. They never have
beans on toast .at the kitchen table,
but eat ern quaint little places
where the headwaiter is a char-
acter and gar] is is used instead
olf sailt. .After dinner, they go to
The Theatre. Or they go to some
body's flat, sit around on the
floor and talk about Lite, Art and
Sex.
*
The Old Girl is a bit vague
about where all the money is going
to come from, for this bohemian
life, but I don't squelch her. "You-
're eight kiddo," I encourage.
"Why should we be waisting our
lives en comparative obscenity like
this, .when we should be scintillat-
ing in the saians of Tronna?"
,k :k
*
We agree that I could get a job
teaching adhool, maybe. All that
money. All those hollidays. Go
to E'u'rope every • s'un noes..Then.
I explain that to :be. a teacher, rd
have to go to teachers college for
a year. She and the leads could
stay here until I graduate, of
course, and she cou'l'd probably get
enough piano pupils to support me
in Toronto for a year.
,k * *:
She doesn't exactly dig this.
"Why couldn't we sell the house,
and your share of the business,
and with all that money, we could
buy a house in the city and live
for a year without any income?"
she enquires.
• * * 9:
Then I get down to brass facts.
I shone her, with figures, that if
we gild the house and paid off the
montgage, we'd harve enough left
to pay for getting :our furniture
to Toronto:. If we sod my equity
he the business, we'd have. enough
to tip the transtport driver and his
assistant.
* *
But I still don't try to discour-
age her. "Of course," I persue,
"I wouldn't get home for lunch,
+in the city. Nor would the kids.
But we'd soon get used to that.
You hate getting lunch anyw'aiy`t.
Just think, you'd have a whole day
all to yourself, every day." This
snakes her. If she had to go a
whole day without runnlin,g our
lives for us, she'd wind up needing
shock treatment.
'd, N, *
"I guess," I go on relentlessly,
you and the bids would have to
give up the piano, There wouldn't
be room for one in; the iittle alp -
extra -tent we'd have. for the first
few years." At this, her eyes be-
gin to roll .anomic our kitchen,
where these .diisiauselions always
talke place, and which is about the
size of a city apartment itself. .
* * =R
"And," I continue mercilessly,
"you wouldn't be able . to use the
car, ae I'd need it to get to my
srho& But there's no problem
there, with all those buses and
streetcars. You'd soon get used
'to cllirmlb'ing an end 'off.a bus with
two bag bags of • grocra:es. They
don't deliver in the aifiy, do they?"
She begins to look ti bit thourght-
fnui here.
"I .think I'd like It fine," X salt
the wownld. • "1 • guess` a;. ,tadpole in
a •swatmp tits just as, balmy as a frog
.df • . x'espeetralblie thi s, fin a
B. T. Smiley)
puddle. And It would be great
for the kids.. That Toronto traffic
would carte/1411y smarten them up.
They're too casual about life."
.Alboet this time, she decides to
wash her hair. Next day, at Lunen,
I tell the hide we're going to move
to the city. Before they can even
groan with; dismay, she snaps::
„Dont be such a dam' smart -a ec".
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Profanity" I quote, "is the at-
tempt Of a lazy and feeble mind to
express forcefully". In the
ensuing fracas, all thoughts off
moving to the silty are shelved for
another year, at feast.
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COUNTY OF HURON
APPLICATIONS
For
Deputy Clerk -Treasurer of the County
of Huron
SEALED APPLICATIONS for the position of Deputy
Clerk -Treasurer will be received by the undersigned until
5 o'clock p.m., Tuesday, October 14th, 1958.
Please state age, marital status, experience, education,
salary expected. Also state references.
Please mark clearly on envelopes—"Applications."
JOHN G. BERRY,
Clerk -Treasurer,
County of Huron,
Goderich, Ontario.
38-9-b
Business a ui Professional Director y
AUCTIONEERS INSURANCE
ALVIN WALPER
PROVINCIAL
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
For your sale, large or small,
courteous' and efficient service
at all times.
"Service that Satisfies"
Phone 119 Dosiawood.
LEGAL
W. G. Cochrane, B.A.
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC
Hensall Office Open Wednesday
and Saturday Afternoons
EXETER PHONE 14
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
438 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
WESTLAKE
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
HURON and ERIE
DEBENTURES
CANADA TRUST
CERTIFICATES
1 or 2 YEARS --- 3%04
3, 4 and 5 YEARS — 4%
J. W. I-IABER.ER
Authorized Representative
Phone 161 -- Zurich
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DENTISTS
DR. H. H. COWEN
DENTAL SURGEON
L.D,S., D.D.S.
Main Street Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoon
Phone Exeter 36
DR. 3. W. CORBETT'
L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL .SURGEON
814 Main Street South
Phone 273 Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
PIANO -TUNING
and
REPA.IOR1NG
A11, Denomme
R.R. 2, Zurish, ph. 95r12