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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-02-18, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH atitiefra 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 year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents, Subscriptions payakrleto Zurich,�Onta o, oManager, r to district correspondents. 149, ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1959 THE ZURICH LIONS CLUB WHILE IT IS NOT the policy of this newspaper to enter into discussion on letters appearing in the paper, we feel there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the value of a service club, such as the Lions Club in Zurich is. Not as a member of the Zurich Lions, but as a newspaper, we are going to try and clarify the situation for once and all. As the name implies, a service club is to provide service to the community in which it operates. Its membership is made up of men from all walks of life, business men, professional men, working men and farmers. The sponsoring of weekly dances in Zurich is to provide an entertainment service for the young people of the commun- ity. As should be readily understood, many of the members of the club are older men who don't care for dancing, or probably never did. The dances are, therefore, not put on for the enter- tainment of the club, but instead are staged for the enjoyment of the young people in the community. By sponsoring the dances, the members are going out of their way to provide this service, and the Lions who are present at the dances to conduct them are men who are giving freely of their time to supervise this entertainment for the youth of today. There is definitely no personal gain for members of the club in sponsoring the dances. Besides devoting valuable time to the sponsoring of such events, members of the Lions Club are also busy supervising minor sports in the community, helping any charitable organiza- tions with canvasses, as well as keeping an eye out for anyone in need. The cost of belonging to such an organization is high, and if anyone does not believe this they are invited to join and find out for themselves. The question has already been asked, "What happens to the money the Lions Club makes when they sponsor dances, etc." We know that every cent taken in by a service club can be accounted for, and anyone is invited to check the club's records at any time. In fact we understand that it is the intentions of the Zurich Lions Club to publish an annual statement every year from now on, stating how much money was raised; how and where it was spent. We hope people do not get the idea that money raised by a Lions Club is the club's money. The club only acts as a work -horse to raise the funds, and then spends it where they feel it will do the most good for everyone in the community. Looking over the past years we find where the Lions Club, through frolics, etc., raised about $11,000, which was put towards the building of the Community Centre. Each year worthwhile donations are made to organizations such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, and others. A large number of children through- out the community have been equipped with eye glasses, from funds raised by the Club. Some years ago, a television set was supplied for an elderly Zurich couple. Last summer the Lions Club donated $500 toawrds the development of the new Com- munity Park in Zurich, and this summer they plan on spending more money on this same project. A sum of $50 was sent to the Springhill Disaster Fund. At any time anyone knows of children needing medical attention, whose parents are not fort- unate enough to be able to supply it, the Lions Club will be happy to assist. Again we wish to bring out the point that the money used for all these purposes does not belong to the members of the Lions Club; but through hard work was raised by the members; and is just put in safe -keeping in the hands of the Club until a need for it is found. Many hours of hard work are donated by members of a service club in order to raise funds necessary for all these projects. Another point we have heard mentioned is that the Lions pay for their dinner meetings from funds raised in various projects. This is as foolish a statement as has ever been made. Each member pays out of his own pocket what it costs him to belong to the club, and on top of it, when any type of canvass is made the members are always ready to donate. We know that the people who have had misleading ideas of the Zurich Lions Club are in the very small minority, but to them we would like to suggest that they think the whole matter over and not be too quick to criticise something they don't know too much about. REMEMBER... 1+ the label on your paper reads FEBRUARY, 1959 YOUR SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRES THE END OF THIS MONTH RENEW NOW... and be sure not to miss a single copy "Always First With The Local News" ZURICH eilizzrzl NEWS PHONE 133 ZURICH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1959 SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) ,During last week's dreadful storm here, my wife and I got talking, as people will, about what we'd do if the storm lasted a month. It was hard to imagine, at the time. We sat huddled in the livingroom, listening to the pagan howling of the wind, watching the drapes flutter fitfully in the br- eeze coming in around the wind- ows. First thing we thought of was food. As it happened, we were poorly stocked that night. There wasn't a potato in the house, for example. I'd bought two bags from a farmer, but they were still sit- ting up in the office. There was almost no meat: a hunk of bol- ogna, a little bacon, and a can of bully beef, which I always keep around to remind me that no mat- ter how poor a meal the cook con- trives, it's better than the bully beef lumps and compo tea of pre- dawn breakfasts in Normandy. Even our canned goods were low, as nobody had done any hea- vy shopping for a week. A couple of tins of the eternal soup, one of fruit, one of salmon. What about all those preserves in the cellar, you say? Cut the kidding, Mac. The only thing that's been preserved in our cellar since we moved in here is the look of the place: a cross between the cata- combs of Rome and the sewers of Paris. We took stock further: half a loaf of bread and half a pound of butter; some Krunchy-Wunch- ies or similar junk in a box, en- ough for one breakfast; a stale end of cheese and a box of soda crackers; a little jam and peanut butter; small quantities of salt, tea, coffee, rnilk and sugar; en- ough spices, savouries, garlic and seasonings to tasty up the food for a large convention, but not much bulk in it, Even I, a former inmate of Stal- ag Luft I, and an old starver, was beginning to blanch at the thought of making this paltry hoard last a month. Getting a little tense, even though we were only'imagin- ing, I leaped up, headed for the kitchen, and began foraging. Well sir, you'd never believe the stuff the average woman has tuck- ed away, that she never gets ar- ound to using. In one cupboard shelf I found not one, but four family -size boxes of various types of pre-cooked cereal. About every six months, my wife decides we all need a hearty breakfast, and she buys a whacking great box of vitamin -packed, easy -to -make porridge. We have it twice, nobody has time to eat it, and she puts it away. There was enough oat- meal on that shelf to make us all breakfast for a month. That settled one meal a day. I kept on exploring. Next discov- ery was a big bag of pancake mix. We have pancakes about every Shrove Tuesday. There was en- ough muck in that bag to make at least a hundred flapjacks. And in a dark corner of the closet under the stairs, I located our gallon of maple syrup, gathering mould. Every year we buy a gallon of syrup, eat a pint, and let the rest spoil. That was treasure indeed, but there was more to come; a five - pound bag of beans, stored away for the semi-annual pot of baked beans and used between -times by the kids, to play bingo. Enough for six or eight meals. No mol- asses to cook them in, but located a can of malt left over from our last homebrew venture, which would do as well. And six three- year-old jars of chili sauce, with only an inch of blue -mold, to gin- ger up the beans. We kept right at it and unear- thed not only a box of pie crust mix, but six large cans of pump- kin, bought a year ago on sale, to make pies, and resting since behind my tackle box in the util- ity room, Also one large box of spaghetti with all the trimmings, enough for three meals. Also a huge bowl of bread crusts, saved to make turkey dressing, but suf- ficient now to fashion a couple of mighty bread puddings. The vegetable bin, an old hat- box kept on the cellar stairs, yie- lded a real prize: a bag ofonions, one slightly withered cabbage, and a large turnip. Thickened with a little rice, of which a full pack- age turned up, there was enough soup -stew for four days. But something was missing. No meat. Neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring. Aha! Red her- ring? Quick as a light I made a dart for the shed. Sure enough, there it was, frozen solid. That beautiful five -pound lake trout a slightly inebriated first-footer had deposited with a flourish on our kitchen table. New Year's Eve. Surfeited with turkey and ham, we'd put it in the deep freeze, the back shed, Returning in triumph, the trout clutched to my bosom, I stumbled over a fat black spaniel pup. Little did he realize, as he scurried away yelping, that I was coolly estim- ating what he would look like skinned, trussed and stuffed with bread crumbs. Never fear, chaps. If the Big Snow does come, and you're cut Gordon A. Bisset A highly esteemed member of a well-known Goderich family, Gord- on A. Bisset died suddenly last Monday evening at his home at Saltford Heights in his 81st year, The funeral service was held at Knox Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. Thursday, with the minister, Rev. R. G. MacMillan, officiating. The pallbearers were Dr. H. R. Hall, Frank Clark, Frank McAr- thur, George MacEwan, Gordon Walter and Lorne Hyde. Inter- ment was made in Colborne Town- ship cemetery. Mr. Bisset had long enjoyed good health and was not particu- larly ill prior to the time of his death. He was walking to the barn to look over the cattle for the night, his customary procedure, when he became suddenly ill and passed away quickly. He had at- tended church twice on Sunday, the day before his death. His wife, the former Freida Hess, Zurich, predeceased him in 1957. Surviving are two sons, Fred H., and Peter (Sandy), at home, and a daughter, Mrs. John (Mary) Miller, Creemore, Ontario, as well as three grandchildren. off, come to the Smileys. We've food to burn. And while some of it should have been burned a year ago, we'll be glad to have you, and there'll be plenty for all. 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