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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-10-29, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, OC•rOBER29., 1958 ZURICH eddrots 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. TURKHEIM Publisher Business Manager Subscription Rates: $2.50 per 5 egreinaad.vaies, 5e, in cents. S bac$ $3.50in United States and Foreign; ons payable to Business Manager, Zurich Citizens News, Box 149, Zurich, Ontario, or to district correspondents. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958 ELECTION TIME COMING WITH NOMINATIONS just a month away, it is time to start thinking of suitable candidates for the local offices. No doubt we have, both in the village and the township, very cap- able men representing us. However, we don't feel these men should go back into office year after year without having to run an election. Winning an office by acclamation is just like win- ning a ball game through forefeiture, and no one enjoys a thing like that. It is quite possible that we could follow the example of some municipalities, and have men elected to office for a two year period, instead of every year. Then every office should have candidates nominated for it, and elections held. We are not trying to find fault with our present public servants, but we do feel there is no one so important that his place can't be taken by someone else. There must be lots of capable men in this district who would be well qualified to govern the affairs of the people, and they should be brought forward and given their chance. If an election is held and the present officials are re-elected we know the people are satisfied with the way they have been conducting the business of the tax -payer. If, on the other hand, there are changes made, we hope they will be in the interest of the general public. Whatever your opinion is, why not show up at the nomination meetings and have a hand in deciding who your representatives for the coming year will be ? PLAN NOW FOR NEXT YEAR FALL FAIR time is now past, and next year's fair is still long way off, but now is the time to make a resolution. How about resolving to make at least one entry in next year's fall fair ? Now is the time to plan it. There must be dozens of ladies who were knitting, sewing, and embroidering experts at one time or another. How about planning a piece of work for next year? How about starting the kids off on some handiwork project— something they will be proud to show. How about getting after Dad to work on a piece of woodwork? How about practicing now on that prize recipe for chocolate cake you've had tucked away for years? You can't help but notice it is the same group of talented busy enthusiasts who make up the larger part of the exhibitors year after year. Without them there wouldn't be a fall fair. So come on you..lazy ones, stop hiding your light under a bushel and provide some competition for our veteran entrants.. FOR LADIES ONLY — ANSWER TO A LETTER MANY TIMES in the past few months we have been asked, "What has happened to the "Needlepoint" column and the "Recipe Box." This week we have a letter to the editor on this subject, asking if there is any chance in having these columns back again. As you no doubt remember the writer of the Needlepoint has gone back to teaching school again this year, and finds her spare time at a minimum. We do think though that if we have enough requests for the continuance of the Needlepoint, Mrs. Siebert may be coaxed into coming back to our aid. Let's hear from you readers, and perhaps we can talk her into the job again, with help from all of you. Writing any kind of column is quite a chore, and it requires a considerable amount of help from interested readers to produce the material necessary. We are sure that if enough volunteers come to the rescue, Mrs. Siebert will consider writing a column again for your reading enjoyment. Help is also needed to re -organize the "Recipe Box." If you lady readers would like to see thiscornerappear again, all you have to do is come through with the recipes. There must be doz- ens of favourite dises you have, so why not jot the recipes down, and mail them to, Recipe Box, Zurich Citizens News, Box 39, Zurich. There is a limit to the amount of recipes one person pos- sesses, and so, if everyone who is interested would send along a few of their favourites, we would have no trouble at all to keep this column available to you every week. "Help is needed," if you want these columns to continue. The Huron County Council will meet in the Counci' Chambers, Court House, Goderich, on Wednesday, November 12, 1958 at 10:00 a.m. All deputations, communications and accounts must be in the hands of the Clerk before noon, November 8th, 1958, JOHN G. BERRY, Clerk, County of Huron. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) If people paid any heed to the warnings, dire predictions, and ap- palling statistics with which they are assailed on every hand, the entire race would be made up of drivelling cowards, cringing under their respective beds. * * Reach for a coffin nail with your morning paper and coffee, and a headline jumps at you; SMOKING AND LUNG CANCER LINKED, TESTS PROVE. Turn on your car radio as you drive to work, and a news announcer tells you, triumphantly, that weekend fatalities hit 72, bettering last year's record by 8. * * * Just look as though you feel like a beer, and somebody will start reeling off figures on alcohol- ism. Dream of going hunting, and you have to read columns of ' safe- ty rules," obviously drawn up for a group of maniacs with murder on their minds. * * * Start putting away something for your old age, and some cheer- fuI vulture will inform you with ill -concealed satisfaction that the human race will be obliterated by the H -Bomb within ten years. Put in an honest, hard day's work, and some magazine article con- fronts you with the news that, you're heading for a coronary. * * * Besides these fairly deadly fore- casts, we are subjected to a contin- ual barrage of minor threats and insults, mostly of a personal nat- ure. The advertisements leave nothing sacred. They shout that we have body odour, loose, scaly dandruff, unpleasant sheath, slip- ping dentures, treacherous kidneys, acid stomachs, and are badly in need of a new truss for that old hernia. They imply that if we don't rush right over to our friend- ly neighbourhood drugstore and do something about it, life is scarce- ly worth living. Fortunately, there is a wonder- ful cluelessness, a deliberate ob- tuseness, in human nature, that makes us go blithely on our way, recking naught of the Cassandras in our midst. And a good thing, too, or life would be indeed not only frightening but frightful. There is something gallant and dashing about the two•packs-a- day man who reads the lung can- cer story, pales, then lights a fag and blows out the smoke with the devil-may-care smile, the quiz- zically lifted eyebrow, of the con- emned spy facing the firing squad. * * * There is something heroic in the man who hears the weekend fat- ality figures while driving to work, and merely sets his jaw, tramps on the gas pedal and bulls through the traffic, with all the skill, en- thusiasm and disregard for danger of a Ben Hur at the reins of a chariot. k * You can't help admiring the cool unconcern of the heavy drinker as he glances over the article on alcoholics, while getting through his fourth rye and water. "Trouble is a lotta these people are weak, and they get too fonda the stuff Treasurer's Scale of LANDS FOR TAXES Corporation of the County of Huron and they can't hannel it," he muses as he reaches for the quart and knocks the lamp off the end table in the process. There should be a medal for the fellow who goes hunting, knowing full well that the stilly woods ar- ound him are filled with trigger- happy types who will pot him if he doesn't get them first. Perhaps we could give him a D.N.M, (Dis- tinguished Nervous Medal). * * * It is difficult to withhold ap- plause at the spectacle of the steely -nerved type who ignores the imminence of sudden and univer- sal disintegration by H -Bomb, while he figures out angles to diddle the government out of death duties on his estate. * * * And surely one cannot refrain from cheering on the man with the bum ticker, who, retired after thirty years in a sedentary job, immediately starts working like a navvy building, tearing down, fet- ching and carrying, shovelling snow and cutting grass and gen- erally showing a fine scorn for living to a good old age. * * * It must be exasperating to scien- tists, traffic authorities, temper- ance people, tax collectors and doc- tors, but there's something un- beatable in human nature. It's a sort of massive, charming stupid- ity andrrecklessness that has made people ignore all warnings, and still keep rolling through all sorts of misadventures and disasters, ever since the day Eve was warned not to fool around with that apple. 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. Treasurer's Office this 13th day of August, 1958. (Signed) J. G. BERRY, Treasurer 38-50-b Letter to the Editor WHAT ABOUT LADIES The 'Ediltor, Zurich Citizens News. Dear Sir: May I congratulate you on your wonderful weelely paper. It can - tains so irnany newsy items that we, in e small cuanmnunitty such as ithibs, alike and appreciate. However, being a homemaker, I am sure than I speak for manly More in the ditstnfi'ct when I say how very much I miss "Needle- point" by Mrs. Siebert and "Gran- ny Turlcheim's Recipe Box". The "Needlepoint" is education- al. Maury rtlh;lrrngs have been dis= cussed here that we as homenink- ers have very often taken for granted and dit is indeed an- rterentaavg to get to have souxrte'e of many things. Then too, the homey chart-4ch'art, the. nefljp ui hints, and the delightful poem's., humorous, yet so very lrnue-toalife. I for one miss lit very much. Also the recipe, corner. We are always happy' to try something new and (different, and especially "Granny's" as we all know her to he a wonderful cook. Please Sir, father has has sports page, ,couldn't mom have her owrr page tOo? Yaws truly, Rural Homemaker. -o The Newfoundland drag, famous swimmer and life-saver, likethy de - wends ,from sheep dogs brought out by Basque fishermen mare than 400 years ago; sib is probable that the sheep dogs were latter crossed with English spaniels.. Business and t r ofessionai Directory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood 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 INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insuranc e 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 — 33/4% 3, 4 and 5 YEARS — 4% J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 -- 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. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814, Main Street South Phone 273 — Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons PIANO -TUNING and REPAIRING Alf. Denomme R.R. 2, Zurkh, ph. 95012