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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-12-10, Page 2'PAGE TWO ZURICH eitroti NEWS Published every Wednesday Morning at Zurich, Ontario, for the Police Village ofofZur Stanley Hay Township, nsh pshin Huron and County. St�yhern part Printed by Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario authorized as Second Class Mail, Post lOffice DepERB. M.artment, Ottawa t awa IM A. L. COLQUHOUNsher Business Manager Publisher 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 10, 1958^„-, CONSTANCY OF DEATHS, CLIMATE "MY, BUT THERE have been a lot of people die at Goderich during the past year," an out-of-town resident who watches the • local scene remarked to us the other day. He is of an age when obituaries are of particular interest to him. He thought there were more deaths during the past year than for quite some years past. But he is wrong. According to a local app oximately 120 sident, who keeps deathsain Goderichual details and obituaries, there are app' little its immediate area each year. This figure varies verybe more from year to year, according to his statistics. There may deaths during one month or more than for a corresponding period of the previous year but averaged over a year's time the total annual take of the Grim Reaper is 120 for Goderich and Over the years one hears comments about "an unusually cold district. winter" or "an awfully hot summer." Yet, there are statistics also to prove that the average temperature over aI ear's tim 1 e varies little from year to year. For many years, Limited has kept a log of the temperature for each day at Gode- rich—spring, summer, autumn and winter. And, strange to say, the mean or average temperature over a period or a year is fairly constant. This, of course, means that in a year's time the amount of fuel consumed in any one home shouldn't vary very much from year to year. "Death and taxes are always with us," it has been said. To this should be added the weather, also. While the number of deaths annually in any one municipality remains about the same, provided the population is reasonably constant and the annual mean temperature in any one municipality remains about the sam, this thate taxes is are under witht so differentrThis anagementbt , the thanare deaths, and clineate. (Goderich Signal -Star) ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1958 1' SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) Jangled nerves, Jangled nerves, Jangled all the way, Through the muddled madness Preceding Christmas Day. * *: "Are you tense, nervous? Do little things make you irritable?" You're dang right they do. I'm sorry, but I can't confront the next couple of weeks with any- thing short of horror. Christmas cards, concerts, carols and cranberries. Christmas pag- eants, puddings and parties. Christ- mas trees, toys and tinsel. Christ mas stories and. Christmas shop- ping. Christmas gifts and Christ- mas geese. Why can't they leave a chap alone? a• I'm becoming not only exhaust- ed but disgusted, trying to keep up with the rapidly -accelerating pace of December in this decade. One of these fine, commercial, Dec- ember days I'm going to retire from Christmas, permanently. I'm going to sit right down on my hunkers, preferably in the middle of a Christmas concert or a Christ- mas display window, and suggest that we put the Christmas back in Christmas. WINTER SAFE DRIVING THE REDUCTION of traffic accidents during the unusually hazardous Christmas season is an objective that deserves the staunch support of every responsible and right thinking citizen in this great Province. of peace on Traditionally a period of joy and happiness, co allmen of overshadowed by thetragedy ofdeath and the holidays have become meeincreasingly injury on our streets and highways. December has earned the unenviable reputation of being the worst month of the year for motor vehicle mishaps. The records for December 1957 show that the total number of accidents occurring in that month was 12 per cent greater than the monthly average for the whole year. This year for the first time the Ontario Department of Transport has initiated an extensive program of public safety education designed to improve this appalling situation. Its aim is to sustain and support the efforts of the many individuals and agencies, both public and private, who are striving diligently to advance the cause of traffic safety in their communities. We cannot commend too highly the excellent work being done in this important field by police departments, local safety councils, church groups, service clubs, fraternal associations, women's groups and many other organizations. Their safety promotion activities are making a valuable contribution to the protection of our fellow ciizens against the h ards of traffic. PREMIER LESLIE M. FROST. THERE'S ONE AT EVERY MEETING The Explode -at -the -Door -Man He sits quietly through the meeting as if everything were to his liking. Ask him to voice his views to the meeting and his knees would fold. But later at the door he boils over. You hear him say, as he rounds up a few discontented members, "And another thing I didn't like . . . The Confused Listener He tries to be helpful but can't follow the proceedings. He rises to say there's a motion before the house; and has to be told it was rejected half -an -hour ago. He has a habit of sitting in the last row and complaining he can't hear. Throughout he carries an outraged attitude of "why don't people tell me these things ?" The Professional Seconder He never thinks up an idea, and is so overwhelmed when someone else does, that he comes in with a loud "seconded". Any nonsensical scheme any one can think up gets his nod. He then settles back to enjoy the confusion, or dozes until time for him to chime in with another second. The Hair-splitter Not an intentional obstructionist, he's determined to see fair play which he defines as "knowing exactly what we're letting our- selves in for". Every word has to be tested — he's even likely to challenge the chairman's opening "Good evening." By 10 p.m. you are just about agreed on the agenda for the evening when he begs the chairman's indulgence. He has a previous engage- ment and "had no idea the meeting would drag on so long". The Willing Voter He talkes little part in business but votes in a loud voice. He is always eager to swell the vote of the prevailing side. A dangerous yes man. The Stay -at -Home Meetings bore him. He has his own way of wasting time. Besides he doesn't want to feel responsible for anything that hap- pens. The blood is not on his hands if he didn't go to the meeting. The "We -Always -Do -It -This -Way" Member He is a traditionalist, forever looking over his shoulder. The old way is the only way.. If a change of any kind is suggested, or a new idea brought forth, he fears it's the beginning of the road to ruin. *< * *< Santa Claus Day has gradually been moved forward until the old fraud is sticking his beery -looking beezer over the horizon just about the time we've stopped being ill from gorging on turkey at Thanks- giving. the fact that "the kids are spoiled and this year we're going to cut down on their presents." Then rush out at the last minute and buy them a whole lot of junk they neither want, need, nor deserve. * ;•, When Christmas day arrives, I will observe it in traditional fash- ion. I will be sacred or merry, as the occasion demands. But, until then, I have other things on my mind, so don't expect me to get involved in the annual gay, mad, pre -Christmas whirl. It's going to require every spare minute I have, and every spare ounce of strength and willpower, to finish getting my storm windows on. Christmas cards are now hitting the postal department about the last week in November "to avoid the rush." I got one on December 1st this year, from a cousin I never had much use for anyway. I promptly went out to the drug- store and got them to rummage a- round for an Easter card, which I despatched to her, without com- ment, on December Srd. * *: Merchants have been threaten- ing, with increasingly ominous messages, that I'd be sorry in Dec- ember if I didn't shop in Novem- ber. Magazine people have been offering me Christmas gift sub- scription deals that only an idiot boy could refuse. * * * Types have been around trying to sell. me turkeys. Kids have pro- positioned me about buying Christ- mas trees. The Old Battleaxe has been crowding me for an automat- ic dryer, with hourly weather re- ports on the hardships out around the clothes -line. The children have flatly refused to trade in their skates for good used skates a couple of sizes larger, implying that if I'm too tight to produce, Santa Claus will fix them up. As far as I'm concerned, they can all go and take a roll in the holly, a jump in the mistletoe. Oh, I'll go and watch the kids in their Christmas pageant. I'll send off a hundred Christmas cards I can't afford to a hundred people I couldn't care less about. :u *: * I'll order a Christmas turkey, though I'm well aware that I could win one, at the pre -Christmas raffle, for a mere investment of eighteen or twenty dollars. Yes, and I'll even book a Christmas tree, if I can run across that fel- low again that I met in the pub last year. He dumped something about the size of a Douglas fir on my verandah, and it took me half a day to cut it down enough so I could get it througn the door, but we had the best tree in town. :a But I have no intention what- ever of doing my gift buying until the day before Christmas, my nor- mal time. Nor do I plan to enter nto long involved discussions about OPTICAL SERVICE Newest Styles of Frames --0-- Lenses Duplicated ----0— Prescriptions Filled Accurately __0_ SAVING PRICES A. G. HESS Jeweller and Optician ZURICH 47-tfb PROCLAMATION BOXING DAY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1958 To Be Observed as a Civic Holiday We hereby declare Boxing Day, Friday, Decem- ber 26, 1958, as a Civic Holiday in Zurich, and re- quest all citizens to observe the day as such. 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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.A.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 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 ....................... DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 — Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 1 or 2 YEARS — 33A% 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 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 - - - - PIANO -TUNING REPAIRING Alfa Denomnie R.R. 2, Zurich, ph. 9502, `0