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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-11-19, Page 1No. 45 ZURFCH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1958 12 Pages Chamber ,of Commerce Opposes Plans .1r f Council For .Offices In Town Hall At their regular meeting last Thursday night in the Dominion Hotel, the Zurich and District Ch- amber of Commerce decided to send a brief to the Hay Township council requesting that they do not turn the present Town Hall into municipal offices. At the pre- sent time the council is studying plans for the renovation of the building, which the Chamber feels is too valuable a spot to use for offices. The brief goes on to urge the township council to erect a new building to be used for township and village offices alike. They would like to see the building lo- cated centrally in Zurich, as they 'ANNUAL BAZAAR at the Parish Hall of St. Peter's R.C. Church at St. Joseph, was held last Saturday night, The event was termed very successful by the Rev. Fath- er I. J. Poisson, the parish priest, who is shown here admiring two little girls of his congregation, with their fancy hats which they won. On the left is Rose Mary Ducharme, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ducharme, while on the right is Joanne Rau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rau, all of the Drysdale district. (Citizens News Photo) Retired School Principal Speaks To Lions On Retarded Children George Jefferson, a retired pub- lic school principal from Clinton, was the guest speaker at the reg- ular meeting of the Zurich Lions Club at the Dominion Hotel on Monday night, He spoke on the subject, "Mentally Retarded Child- ren":. In opening his address Mr. Jef- ferson told of conditions when he started teaching school 49 years ago as compared to the present system of teaching. When he star- ted at his first school in East Wawanosh his salary was $425. They only received their pay once a year, between Christmas and New Year's. He had 75 pupils in his school at that time, and had ten different grades to teach. '•'ible Society To Meet November 23 This year the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible So • ciety will be held in the Blake A. Mennonite Church. The date set for the meeting is Sunday night, November 23, at 7.30 p.m. Guest speaker for the occasion will be Rev. J. C. Thompson, Lon- don, who is the district secretary of the Society. After the meeting a number of interesting pictures will be shown. A special invitation is extended to everyone in the district to at. tend this special evening. Referring to the number of children to -day who are mentally retarded, Mr. Jefferson went on to say that three out of every hundred are affected. "If a family has no children who are not nor- mal in some way or another they are lucky", he added, "as so many things can happen to children at birth." The speaker told of the many things that are being done for this type of children to -day, and how new hospitals such as the one that is to be built at Gode- rich are a great help towards help- ing these children along. Mr. Jefferson explained how many 'firms are giving jobs to children that have been retarded in some way or another, and in that way were helping these child- ren to adapt themselves to the present way of living. He added that the most important thing to- day is to find suitable work for these types of children when they are older, and urged anyone who had any jobs to offer them to do s0, The speaker had taught at and been principal of the Clinton. Pub- lic School for 29 years before re- tiring two years ago. Besides his mother, who was a teacher, Mr. Jefferson has four brothers and two sisters, who all chose teaching as a profession. Mrs. Jefferson, his wife, is on the staff of the Clinton Public School. He was introduced by Lion Don O'Brien, and thanked by Lion LORNE AMACHER, son of Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Amacher, Zurich, last week was awarded a scholarship for the boy from Huron County who attained the highest standing in uni- versity work. Lorne, a grad- uate of South Huron District High School, is a third year student in medicine at Univer- sity of Western Ontario. (Citizens News Photo) Jerry Ronnie, who also presented him with a gift in remembrance of his visit to Zurich. Lion Mil- fred Schilbe was acting president for the meeting. In other business Lion Don Oke was appointed as the Lions Club representative on the Community Centre Board. NORMA GEIGER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Geig- er, Zurich, was among the top winners in the White Bean competitions at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto last week. She won third prize. Earlier Norma had won third prize for her beans at the Huron County 4-H White Bean comeptition. She is a student at South Huron Dis- trict High School. Norma and her father stage a compe- tition between them .each year, but the daughter always wins out. (Citizens News Photo) understand there is a suitable lot available. A committee of Rev. O. Winter, Herb Turkheim and Len Erb was appointed to investigate the possi- bilty of starting a kindergarten school in Zurich. The committee plans on visiting the proper auth- orities to see what steps would be necessary to start such a school. Natural gas came up for discus- sion at the meeting, and it was de- cided to contact officials of var- ious gas companies and see what the possibilities of bringing gas to Zurich are. Several members felt that since there is a gas well close to town we should be able to have the utility brought in from there. The Chamber of Commerce is going to try and encourage a dent- ist to locate in Zurich. It was the feeling of the organization that the services of a dentist are badly needed in the district. Four new members, Len Mern- er, Len Erb, Wilmer Adkins and Carl Decker were welcomed into the organization by president Mil- ton Oesch. The date for the annual ladies night of the Chamber was set for Thursday, December 11. The loc- ation has not been set as yet, 0 Prizes Announced. For Best Decorated. Home and Business A prize of $20 will be given to the best decorated business place in Zurich this Christmas. Another prize of the same amount will be given for the best decorated home. In both cases it will be the front of the,place that will be judged. The contest will be sponsored jointly by the village of Zurich and the Zurich and District Chamber of Commerce. Anyone is eligible to enter, and the judging will be done the week before Christmas, in order that folks will be able to know before the holiday who the winners are. The decoration committee of the Chamber of Commerce, with Ernie Laidlaw as chairman will be in charge of the contests. Anyone wishing more information can con- tact Mr. Laidlaw. More Work On 'Roads Necessary Engineer Tells County Council County engineer J. M. Britnell told Huron County Council last week that increased road programs must be continued if the county wanted to keep up with the in- creased vehicular traffic. He said the county objective should be at least $1,000,000 a year, requiring a tax rate of eight mills to raise the county portion. It has been estimated that the motorists drive a total of 64,157,- 680 miles each year on Huron County roads. The largest road and bridge program ever undertaken in Huron is nearing completion andthe only work remaining is completion of a small bridge near Hensall, the en- gineer said. The Hensall bridge, first of its kind constructed in Western Ont- ario, is made of pre -cast reinforced concrete deck sections, fabricated by the Schell Industries Ltd., of Woodstock, and placed on abut- ments. Completed this year on county roads was 12 miles of grading, six miles of paving, two miles of hot mix, seven miles of surface treat- ment, five bridges and five cul- verts. Total expenditure for this year, including the development road, is in excess of $900,000, an increase of 40 percent over previous years. 0 Huron County Crop Report (By D. H. Miles, Agricultural Representative for Boron County) "Recent rains have been a help in filling wells and cisterns and will help the fall plowing. Most of the outside work has been comple- ted with the exception of fall plowing. Odd jobs are now 'being completed. Some cattle have been put into the stable for winter.