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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-12-23, Page 1No. 50 ZURICH, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1958 MEET SANTA. Santo Claus made his official visit to Zurich on Saturday afternoon, and made close to 500 children happy. These two sets of twins were quite willing to pose with Santa for this photo. On his knee are Melissa and Machelle, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Mozart Gefinas, Zurich, and standing are Carol ond Cathy, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Grenier, Zurich. (Citizens News Photo) Local Students Take Active Part In oenceeut At South Hurro High' The annual variety program and commencement exercises of the South Huron District High School were held in the school auditorium this past Thursday and Friday nights. The event was cal- led "Hi -Time Revue". The Thursday night program was; opened with a word of wel- come from the chairman of the school board, H. Larry Snider. Presentation of intermediate certificates on the completion of grades nine and ten were made to .the following local students: Evelyn Charrette, Anthony Dur- and, Donna Fisher, Norma Geiger, Catherine .. Rader, Mary Regier, Eunice Thiel, Ronald Thiel and Wayne Willert. The following district students were presented their secondary school graduation diplomas on the completion of four years second- ary school: Richard Charette, Mary Geiger, Wanda Lawrence, Donna Oesch, Beverley Robson, Marjorie Sararas, Douglas Thiel, Ruth Weide, Marion Yungblut and Sara Jane Bannister. Marion Turkheim was present- ed the Board of Education Award for Grade 11 French and Latin. The Special Commercial and Ac- counting Award was won by Mar- jorie Sararas. A number of local students, Ruth Weido, Marion Turkheim, El- eanor Prang, Allan Prang and Ro- bert Westlake played in theschool orchestra, which favoured the cr- owd with several numbers. Dances, Glee Club numbers, tumbling and quartette singing rounded out the program. E. L. Mickle acted as chairman for the second night of "Hi -Time Revue", on Friday night. Two local students, Ronald Klopp and Kenneth Weido, were presented with honour graduation diplomas on their completion of fifth form. Commercial diplomas corning to local students were presented to Mary Bedard, Pat Bell, and Marj- orie Sararas. Dick Charrette re- ceived the Lions Club award for highest aggregate marks in Grade 12. Academic shields were award- ed as follows: grade ten, David Noakes, Sharen Smillie, Steve Benning, Norma Geiger, Ross Rowe; grade 11, Jane Horton, Bill Marshall, Marion Turkheim, Mar- ilyn Hamilton; grade 12, Dick Charrette, Bill Etherington, Paul Wilson, Allison Clark. The program on Friday night was identical to the Thursday night performance. Pearson Motors Is Best Decorated Business; Hess Home Wins First First prize for the best decor- ated home in Zurich was won by Gordon Hess, and for the best de- corated business place by Pearson Motors Limited .The contest was sponsored jointly by the village of Zurich and the Zurich and District Chamber of Commerce, in an ef- fort to try and interest more people in decorating their places at. Christmas time. Results of the venture were gratifying to 'the sponsors, as a large number of bones and business places were very well decorated. In the best decorated home con- test, second place went to Jack J3anniister, and third to Whitney Brokenshire. Rader and Mittel- holtz came second in the best de- corated business establishment, and Gerald Gingerich third. The judging of the contest took place on Friday night, and was carried out by two local clergymen, Rev. A. M. Amacher and Rev. O. Win- ter. Considered in the judging was the amount of effort put into the decorating, and the originality of the designs used. It was neces- sary to make several trips past some of the places before the jud- ges could come to a final decision. Plans are to snake this an annual event. Early Paper Next Week Next week the New Year's issue of the Zurich Citizens will again be one day early. We will appreciate receiving any news items and corres- pondence as early ,as possible this week. Saturday night will be the deadline for accepting New Year's greetings for this issue, Our correspondence are re- quested to have their news in by Saturday night, if at all possible. 0 Santa Claus Pays rl fficial Visit To Zurich, 500 Attend Santa Claus made his official visit to Zurich on Saturday after- noon and was greeted by close to 500 children. The event took place at the Community Centre, and was sponsored by the Zurich Lions Club, under Earl YungbIut's boys and girls committee. Delbert Geiger president of the Lions Club, acted as M.C. for the program which preceded Santa's arrival. Several films were shown the children by Don O'Brien, and Mrs. Beatrice Mess led in singsong at the piano. At the conclusion of the enter- wtainment Santa arrived and pre- sented all the dhildren with ' jacks of candy. He''was welcomed iiito the building by the children sing- ing, "Here Comes Santa Claus". At the request of Santa himself all the children joined in the sing- ing of "Jingle Bells". 0 Having Guests Over Holidays? Tell Us About It! Are you having guests for Christmas, or are you going travelling yourself for the holi- day Either way, your friends would like to se a personal item about your holiday in the paper, Call us at the office— Zurich 133, and we'll write up a little item for you. No charge of course. If you live in the country you may wish to phone your Our correspondents are re - handier, tell us here, and we'll put it in the column you pre- fer. 12 Pages Pupils Of Zurich School Presents Program; Large Crowd Attends Close to 500 people attended the School Concert presented by the pupils of the Zurich Public School in the Community Centre last Wednesday night. All the delight- ful numbers given were very much enjoyed by the crowd. The program opened with the entire school singing three chor- uses, "You're very welcome every- one", It's beginning to look like Christmas", and "Merry Christmas and Hapy New Year". Rooms four and five then sang three Christmas carols, followed by three songs from Grade one, of room one. Grades two and three of room two presented four numbers. Gra- des three and four of room three produced a drill, "Guess Who", and "Just Before Christmas". Three rhythm dances were given by grade seven, followed by two drills, "Red Riding Hood", and "Helping Santa". Room four presented a Flag Drill, and "Christmas Windows". Richard Stade favoured the gath. eying with a solo. A highlight of the program was a play, "Ten Per Cent Tommy", acted by the entire grade eight of the school. The part of Tommy was very capably handled by Bill Dinnin, who brought rounds of ap- plause from the crowd for his fine acting. Chairlady for the concert was the principal of the school, Mrs, G. Lavender, and Mrs. Beatrice Hess was the pianist. Proceeds from the affair are to be used for a students project. Bad Weather Is '- lamed ,or Two District Traffic Accidents Last Week Adverse weather conditions were blamed for two district traffic ac- cidents during the latter part of last week. On Thursday afternoon a car Dogs And Cats ,Are Vaccinated Against Rabies A rabies clinic was held in the Town Hall, Zurich, on Wed- nesday afternoon, at which time there were 106 dogs and 36 cats vaccinated for rabies. The job was done by Doctors W. B. Cox - on, Zurich and J. M. Mitchell, London. They were assisted by conservation officer Charles Hor- ton, of the Stratford area. Looking after the clerical work were Albert J. Kalbfleisch, Zu- rich; Hay Township Reeve V. L. Becker, and councillor William Davidson. One district farmer, Elmer Rest- emayer, brought 12 cats to the clinic to be vaccinated. He had them in bags. A Iarge number of the dogs were brought to the clinic by children. On Wednesday morning the clinic took place at the Fire Hall in Dashwood, at which time 106 dogs and 24 cats were vaccinated against the disease. The clinics were sponsored by the Canada Department of Agri- culture, Health of Animals Div- ision. owned by Neil Gingerich and dri- ven by Mrs. Lennis Gingerich was in collision with a truck owned and driven by Mahlon Sauder. The accident occured on the Babylon Line, east of Zurich. Apparently the Gingerich car was coming north on the road and had to swing out 'to pass a car which was parked on. the side of -the: road. Arihie- driver-stvvtiiing'out'" ioy rads caused the car to go into a spin,' and it swerved into the path of an on -coming pick-up truck which Sauder was driving, As a result the Sauder truck cra- shed into the back end of the Gin- gerich car. which had turned com- pletely around on the road. No one was injured in the crash, but considerable damage was done to both vehicles. OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons, of the Exeter detachment' investigated. The other accident took place on Highway 4, north of Kippen, on Friday morning, and involved a bread truck driven by Lee Reg- ier, Zurich, and a car driven by John Morrissey, warden of Huron County. According to police the truck was proceeding north on the high- way, and was about to make a left hand turn into a laanea when the car crashed into the side of it, Very Iittle damage was done to the bread truck, owned by Tasty. Nu Bakery, Zurich, but about $300 is the estimated damage to the car. OPP Constable Hank Reid, of the Exeter detachment investi- gated. TEN PER CENT TOMMY, a comedy play, was presented by this group of Grade Eight pupils of Zurich Public School at the school concert last Wednesday night. Front row, left to right, are: Gail Siebert, Sandra 'Parkins, Bill Dinnin, who acted the` part of Tommy; Glenda Soper, and Elizabeth Johnston. Back row, left to right; `Gregory Wit- lert, Sharon Hugill, Leonard Hoffman, Siebern Van Doalen, Carol Fischer, LarryrDenorn- me, Mary Ellen Thiel, and Peter Von Daalen. The director of the play was Mrs. G. Lavender, principal of the talo . (Citizens N ,Photo)