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Zurich Citizens News, 1959-03-18, Page 2PAGE TWC ZURICH Citizens NEWS ZURICH edifem4 NEWS Published every Wednesday Morningh t Zurich, Ontario, fon r the Police Village of Zurich, Hay t of Stanley Township, in Huron County. Printed by Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office HERB. TURKHDepartment, Ottawa Publisherr A. L. COLQUHOUNBusiness Manager Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. Subscriptions payable Zurich, ntar o, toor district correspondeZurich Citizens nts. Box 149, t . WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1959 YOUR NUMBER TO DRIVE STARTING NEXT year, every Ontario person who drives a car, and that means most of us, will be given a number. That will be his number until death, old age or disinclination separates him from the wheel of a car. To wit: citizens will be known by their number until their number is up, as far as the licensing branch of the department of transport is concerned. The power of the car on our civilization is thus given its ultimate recognition: no other force in the long history of Western democracy—not even the army—has been able to reduce indiivduals to anonymous numbers. Perhaps the next stage is for every child to be given, at birth, a telephone number. The actual change to be made is this: Every driver will be given the same driving license number every year, and the issue will be on his birthday, not at the beginning of a calendar year when new vehicle licenses are issued. The process will start with licenses to new drivers in 1960. During the three years all drivers will be taken into the master plan, which, needless to say will be dominated by a crafty machine. The purpose is not merely to spread out the work load for license issuers (people will still queue for car license plates). The main function is to facilitate accurate and speedy indentifi- cation of drivers. A closer check and a tighter scrutiny will be possible in renewing licenses, because renewal notices will be sent out (on the driver's birthday) ; drivers will not be making mass or casual application on their own hook. The modification of the system does not guarantee that careless, reckless or inconipetent drivers will be refused licenses, but is should make this more possible. TAXPAYER GETS A BREAK NOW THAT the time is approaching when citizens through- out the land will be scratching their heads and cursing the De- partment of National Revenue as they complete their 1958 income tax returns, it may be worth while to note that one class of taxpayer does get a small advantage from Ottawa. The basic personal exemption for every taxpayer is $1,000. If he is married and supporting his wife, he gets another $1,000 exemption, making a total of $2,000. However, if his wife has an income of $1,250 or more, the Department of National Revenue does not recognize the marriage. He and his wife must make separate returns and each gets only the basic exemption of $1,000. The family exemption is still $2,000, which seems fair enough, if anything in the Income Tax Act may be called fair. However, a taxpayer in the latter class gets a small break when he and his wife reach the age of 65. Then the personal exemption rises to $1,500 and both husband and wife can claim it, receiving a total family exemption of $3,000. The taxpayer whose marriage is recognized by the department, and whose wife does not have to make a return, gets an exemption of only $2,500. —(The Printed Word). HURON MLA Cm S. MacNaughton Asks Government To Consider Standardization of DST Mr. Speaker: Before the orders of the day I should like to comment and seek some information on a matter which I am convinced is of great concern to a very considerable number of people in Ontario, part- icularly in the rural sections of the Province. I refer to the confusing and al- together haphazard method of re- gulating the available hours of daylight that has plagued the good people of this Province for many years and appears likely to do so again in the course of the next few weeks. In support of this observation, Mr. Speaker, permit me to say to you and the Hon. Members of the House that I have received some 20 odd resolutions urging the Provincial Government to do something to rectify this situation. Further, I know that the Hon. Member for Huron -Bruce has re- ceived similar resolutions and I can only assume that the same can be said by most if not all Members from rural ridings. These resolution§ are represent- ative of a broad cross-section of the people in that they have been presented by all Women's Instit- utes in my riding and I believe throughout the Province as well as the Council of the County of Huron and many municipal coun- cils. Now while I believe .rural folks largely would prefer standard time on a year-round basis, nevertheless SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) After about ten years in the business, a weekly newspaper ed- itor becomes . something of an authority on "banquets." * * *• Now a banquet, when I used to read about them as a kid, was a sumptuous affair. The word con- jured up visions of Roman volupt- uaries reclining on couches, drink- ing Falernian wine and gorging themselves on all manner of good- ies borne in by half -naked Nubian slaves. * * Twenty-five years later, I'm pre- pared to admit that a banquet consists of: a shot of tomato juice in a paper cup; a plate heaped with mashed potatoes and gravy, cold turkey and lukewarm, lumpy turnips or canned peasancarrots; a piece of pie which can range from delectable to gawdoffal, depending on who made it; a slug of warmish tea or coffee poured from a large porcelain pot by a perspiring and rather cross lady member of the catering organization. * * * But not only the viands are changed. It's the atmosphere. At the banquet of my boyish imagin- ation, the participants began about 9 p.m. They ate and drink in leisurely fashion, exchanging quips, epigrams, verses. Their digestion was aided by the muted strumming of lutes. About midnight, glassy - eyed, they would clap for the dancing girls and acrobats. Later, still belching richly, they would totter off, aided by their servants, for their sedan chairs, home and bed. * ' 4: * Nowadays the banquet starts sharp at 6.30. So everybody mills around hungrily until ten to seven, while the good ladies in the kit- chen mutter imprecations and try to keep things hot. There is a vast shuffling, of chairs as everybody is seated. The vice-president runs madly about trying to squeeze two extra chairs in at the head table because somebody goofed. I am confident they appreciate that people in urban areas would be deprived of much of the day- light hours they depend on during the summer for well deserved re- creation. I do believe, however, that this Government should consider every possible means of providing for uniform change dates on a pro- vince -wide basis. The haphazard manner in which this matter is now handled results not only in pure confusion but in scores of instances extreme incon- venience and in fact hardship. There are periods of several weeks, both spring and fall, where prob- ably half the municipalities in some counties are on daylight sav- ing time while others are on st- andard time. In areas where dis- trict high schools operate it is not uncommon for the older children in a family to be attending school in town which is on standard time while the younger children attend public school in a municipality which is still on daylight time or vice versa. The extreme inconvenience of such a situation will, I am sure, be obvious to all Hon Members and may I assure you, Mr. Speak- er, there are many other incon- veniences with which all of us are quite familiar, Mr. Speaker, the foregoing pr- ompts me to ask the following qu- estions: (1) Have municipalities the auth- ority to set or change time * * Then there's a sharp "ping", as the chairman hits his waterglass and mutters something. There is another vast shuffling as every- one lurches to his feet. There is a jumbled clinking of glasses for the Queen, followed by Grace. That Grace has been following the Queen for years and don't bet she won't be along on the Royal Tour this summer. a,*8: Then there is the painful struggle back into the narrow space, the chairs standing as close as the Grenadier Guards shoulder to shoulder. The ladies rush in with plates. They are halted in their tracks by the chairman, who announces he would like to intro- duce the head table. The table is unimpressed, but those seated at it bob up with various expressions and stand there with their arms hanging down. * * When this embarrassing ritual is ended, the ladies, not to be denied again, hurl themselves upon the head able. The chairman's wife, who hates lumpy turnips, carries on a sparkling conversation with The Guest Speaker, on her left, agreeing that yes it's been quite a winter and yes there's nothing to beat real home -cooked food at a banquet. * * * The chairman, desperately try- ing to remember the brilliant "chairman's remarks" he wrote out that afternoon, gulps with un - tasting palate, interrupted at every second bite by the wife of The Guest Speaker, who knows that she is supposed to be charm- ing to the locals, but is wishing she was home watching TV and wondering why the hell she drove 60 miles from the city with that megalomaniac husband of her who can't refuse an invitation to speak. * * * Meanwhile, down in the rest of the hall, it is not exactly hilar- ious. At first, there is a little scattered conversation. Then hte pangs begin to strike. Morosely watching the head table guests wading into the turkey, everyone gets into the celery and olives and eats his bun. * * * Just about the time the head table•hogs are served their coffee and are lighting up, the common types at the end of the last table get their plates. They eat like fury, but are just starting their pie when the chairman pings his glass. From then on, they have to sneak bites and chew unobtrus- ively, their heads twisted toward the head table. * a, While The Guest Speaker is in- troduced, the catering ladies tip- toe about, gathering dishes up WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1959 Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: I am enclosing a money order for the Zurich Citizens News for another year. I find the paper very interesting, and especially look forward to the "Recipe Box". Yours truly, —MRS. ABNER WEBER RR 1, Wallenstein, Ont. March 10, 1959. The Citizens News, Zurich, Ontario. Dear Sir: Enclosed find my cheque for $2.50 in payment of the renewal of my subscription to The Citizens News for another year. We look forward to the arrival of the "News" every week and find many items of interest in its columns. Best wishes for your continued success in the coming years. Very truly yours, NESBITT M. WOODS. Sunnylea Ave E., Toronto 18, Ontario, March 16, 1959. with the silence of a crew of auto wreckers. Then they go out in the kitchen and enjoy their own din- ner, amid a phenomenal rattling of crockery and subdued peals of laughter that have The Guest Speaker gritting his teeth. * * * Oh, I'm not down on banquets. Don't think that for a minute. I love them. But I think I was born about 2,000 years too late. I'll bet I've been at 300 banquets in the last ten years, and I haven't had a goblet of Falernian wine, been waited on by a Nubian slave, or seen a single dancing girt, at one of them. standards? (2) Has the Legislature or the Government any authority or jurisdiction in the matter? (3) In any event has the Govern- ment considered a course of action in response to the countless resolutions which have been submitted to many Hon. Members and in turn submitted to the Hon. Pro- vincial Secretary? May I, Mr. Speaker, express the opinion that this is a matter that warrants careful consideration and appropriate action on the part of whichever government or agency or department of government which possesses the authority to deal with this thoroughly unsatis- factory situation. Business and Professional Directory 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 273 — Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons 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 488 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. Evenings, 7-9 For Appointmet -- Phone 606 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 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 INSURANCE 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 HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 5% for 3, 4, and 5 Years 4%% for 1 and 2 Years J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 — Zurich LEGAL W. G. Cochrane, B.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensall Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS a NOTARIES PUBLIC ' ELME`R, D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, LL.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER Phone 4 •