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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-12-03, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY", DECEMBER 3, 1958 ZURICH Comes 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. TURKH.EIM 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 to Business Manager, Zurich Citizens News, Box 149, Zurich, Ontario, or to district correspondents. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1958 SHOP AT HOME!! CHRISTMAS is fast approaching, and, as in other years attractive folders are reaching us from outside firms and towns offering big values and many gimmicks to attract people to their places of business. It may be a temptation for some people to fall for these, "Come To Our House" attractions, but don't let yourself be misled. If someone is giving away hundreds of dollars you are only helping to pay for it by buying from them. Your local merchants in Zurich are always ready and willing to serve you. We have heard many wise shoppers say, "You can get anything you want right here in Zurich." If it is not in stock the merchant will procure it for you, and you have the added satisfaction of knowing he will be here to stand behind any article he sells. The big thing to keep in mind is that your local merchant is also a local taxpayer. He supports your local churches and schools. When donations are needed for any cause it is your local merchant who is called upon to •give. Remember that in turn for all this your local merchant must depend on your bus- iness to keep operating. Without your supporting him we would have no newspaper, no community centre, no Santa Claus parade, and no sporting activities of any kind. It is he who helps to finance all these things. So when you plan your Christmas shopping visit your local stores first. Compare prices, if you like, and you will find that local prices are as reasonable as in any other town around us. And remember, most of our local stores are having lucky draws at Christmas. We also have plenty of free parking space, and will probably have free skating on Saturday afternoons in an- other week or so too! LEAVE CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS DO YOU leave Christ out of Christmas? It's very easy to do so. ' Every time you write Xmas you are leaving Christ out.- Do ut.Do you remember what "X" stood for in high school math- ematics? That's right, "X" means an unknown factor or quantity. Is Christ that? No, he is, or should be, the most positive factor in our lives. The next time you are tempted to write Xmas or say Exmas, don't do it. Brevity has its value in many phases of life, but here it is a kind of sacrilege. Remember Christmas only comes once a year, and when it does let's take time to spell the word out. IS IT ENOUGH? (Grenfell Sun) WITH THE weekend's more than generous ration of snow the ordinary guy in the street has enough to last him all winter —after all, shovelling the light fluffy stuff can prove to be mighty hard work especially for the fellow who spends most of his hours sitting on his derriere in office, car or before the television set. The kids are crazy about the stuff, of course but even they appreciate it when it isn't too deep—wet, cold snow down inside shoes and overshoes throw a damper on sledding fun. Farmers don't have to worry too much about spending a shut-in winter due to too abundant snows, thanks to snow plows but they've always got to wait for the plow to go through and darned if some of the roads blow in as fast as they are opened. With reserve moisture ata low level, some agricultural experts say "Let her come. Just what the soil needs." Others say, "It doesn't help reserve soil moisture much." But to those folks who are not blind to the apparently can't - be -helped unloveliness of many parts of a town or city once summer and fall have departed each winter's first snowfall is a thing of beauty, a miraculous mantle that gives an exquisite purity to what could be extremely depressing surroundings. Every subsequent snowfall is a new freshening up of the season's white dress, to be delighted in and enjoyed, every particle. TENDERS— For Caretaker of S.S. Na. 5, Stanley Duties to commence on January 1, 1959. Low- est or any application not necessarily accepted. Tenders to be in the hands of the secretary by December, 6,, 1958. JOHN ROBINSON, Secretary, SS No. 5 Stanley, R.R. 1, Zurich. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T, Smiley) Something sinister is developing in the kitchens across this fair lands of ours. There is confusion in the cuisine. Culinary dry rot has made its appearance in the cookhouse. a: m: The signs are everywhere. Gar- bage cans, which once sat in solid dignity, heavy with tea -leaves, pot- ato peelings, egg shells and grape- fruit skins, now teeter giddily in the slightest breeze, their cargo composed of frozen food wrappers, waxed orange juice containers, empty tins and vacant ready -mix boxes. • * Children, who once came in from piping "what's for supper, Mom?" now sit before a lighted box in a darkened room, shoving unknown, untested food into their slack little mouths. Brawny labourers, home after a hard day on the job, looking for- ward to a heaping hot plate of viands, quail as they are confront- ed with another triumph of the canning kings, the frozen food fanatics. * * 8' There is a close similarity be- tween the development of new cars and new stoves. As gadget after gadget, frill after frill is added to the new models, their owners be- come worse and worse drivers. As stoves sprout more and more but- tons, louder and louder bells and buzzers, women grow less and less able to cook a decent meal. As a matter of fact, the very word "cook" is growing into dis- repute. Women no longer admit shyly that they are "a pretty good cook." They brag instead that they can "turn out" or "whip up" a pretty good meal. The very phrases tell a lot about modern "cooking." The women turn out the contents of a box, whip up the muck in it, and think they've bak- ed a cake. .' .° Even at that, it's an ordeal. Only time we see a cake around our house is when Some organization is having a bake sale, and the Old Girl gets hooked for making one. By the time she gets through mak- ing one lousy cake, we're lucky if we get a can of soup, or some fro- zen fish and chips, for dinner. Mother is not only exhausted, but every dish in the kitchen is dirty. I remember what my mother baked every Saturday: eight loaves of bread, including a couple to give away, three or four dozen buns; a couple of pans of cinamon rolls, about four pies and two cakes, chocolate and light. Mum was too busy baking to cook on Saturday, so we'd have to be satisfied with something light, like maybe a big dish of home-made pea soup, with home-made bread, followed by fresh buns and preserves. * *: * It almost makes me cry when I think of the future my kids face, unless there is a reversal of the trend in modern cooking. The other night, I was helping Hugh study his science. The book described how fruits are preserved and put. in jars. "That's a kind of crazy thing to do with fruit," he says. "Why don't they just buy it in cans at the store, like we do?" A: * :h My heart smote me when I real- ized that the boy had no knowledge of the great pleasure of going down to the cellar, looking along the serried rows of preserves, and picking out a quart of delectable raspberries, delicious yellow pea- ches, or pale golden pears. * :1, To my delight, however, degen- erated as their tastes are, the kids retain an instinct for honest food. When they're served the latest in canned Italian ravioli or Polish Rubber Stamps and Marking Devices of every description Also Stamp Pads Sold by Zurich Citizens Mews cabbage rolls, the last word m frozen chop suey or pre -prepared chile, they merely muck it about on their plates. But give them an honest home -cooked meal, however simple, something like sausages, potatoes and mashed turnips, and they gollop it up and want more. I shudder to think that cooking in the home is on the way to be- coming a lost art. But unless the girls stop cooking from the recipes on the outside of those packaged food boxes, and start cooking with some integrity and imagination the day is coming. And when it arrives, I'm going to sprinkle a little powdered arsenic in with the prepared pie fill, and eliminate a hopeless future for my little brood. I don't know what brought all this up, But I want it clearly un- derstood that the fact that my wife has been deeply involved in a drama group for some weeks, during which the kids and I have subsisted on crackers -and -soup, beans -on -toast, raggedy ends of bologna, bought cookies and bits of stale cheese, has nothing to do with it. Hunting, Fishing Licences & Bicycles We Have Sporting Goods — Whatever the Sport SPORTSMEN'S HEADQUARTERS ROLLIE'S SPORTS and CYCLE GRAND BEND T E ERS For Hardwood Trees and Tops, coat S.S. N * . 5, Stanley, MUST BE CLEARED AWAY. Apply to JOHN ROBINSON, Secretary, S5 No. 5, Stanley R.R. 1, Zurich, Business and Professional Pyiree ory 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 Hensel) Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS & NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGRTO•N, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXE'rN'R Phone 4 DOCTORS Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.m. -5 p.m. Monday -Saturday Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Friday Evenings ZURICH Phone 51 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 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 27$ -- Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For information About AU Insurances—Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 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 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W ZLTRICH 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 PIANO -TUNING and REPAIRING Alf, Denomme R.R. 2, Zurich, ph. 95112 ll