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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-03-25, Page 1No. 12 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1959 DIRECTORS of the Hay Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company are facing many problems with the Targe number of fires recently which are covered by their group, it was revealed at their regular monthly meeting this past Saturday. Shown at the meeting are, seated, left to right: Fred J. Haberer, Sr., past president of the Company; Reg. Black, secretary -manager; Ezra Webb, president; Harvey Taylor, vice- president. Back row, left to right are: Reuben Goetz, former agent; Reinhold Miller, Max Turnbull, Albert Keyes, Ed Hendrick, Otto Willett; Jack Scotchmer, and William Haugh, agent. The other agent, Clarence Park, was absent when this photo was taken. (Citizens News Photo) School Area aoard Visits Zurich School To Check On Conditions .As part of their regular monthly meeting the members of the Hay Township School Aread Board vis- ited the Zurich School Iast Wed- nesday, to investigate a number of minor complaints about condi- tions in the building. It was reported that Room Two had to put up with a great real of noise, arising from the Manual Training Room below it, and the Home Economic Room above it. The members of the board decided they would investigate what could be clone about remedying the sit- uation. The washing machine in the Home Economic Room was in need of repairs, and this work was or- dered to be done. Another matter investigated by the Board was the condition of the floor on the second landing in the school. After checking this mat- ter the trustees decided the floor should be repaired, While at the school the mem- Change Bingos To Saturday Night Next Two Weeks Weekly cash bingo was not held in the Community Centre last Friday night, due to the Midget hockey game played in Hensall. As a result •the -jack- pot increased another $5., and. this week will be worth $65, in 56 calls. The number of calls is getting to the point where there could be a winner any time. For the next two weeks the bingos will be held on Saturday evening instead of Friday. This Friday night is Good Friday, and the next week the Com- munity Centre is, booked for an- other attraction. bers of the board examined the crash doors at the fire escape, with an eye to perhaps purchas- ing two more of them. In other business in their regular meeting the board ordered a $5 membership fee to be paid to the South Huron Rural Trustees as- sociation. An agreement between the School Board and Lawrence Wein, the music instructor, was also signed. The agreement is for a one year period of time. Chair- man of the Board, Ray Fisher, was in charge of the meeting. ATTEND FIRE IN SURANCE CONVENTION IN TORONTO Reginald Black, William Haugh and Harvey Taylor attended the Fire Insurance Convention in To- ronto last week, representing the Hay Township Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Deciding Game In Luc n Thursday The battle of the season will take place in the Lucan Arena on Thursday night at 8 p.m., when the Zurich Lions Midgets and the Lucan Sham- rock Midgets will meet in the fifth game of their best of five series in the OMHA semi-fin- als. Each team has won two games, Zurich taking the first two, and Lucan coming back strong to take the next two. The winner of the series will meet either Keene or South River in the finals for the All - Ontario championship, Local followers, who are quite confident Zurich will come out on top in the final game, are predicting to see at least 350 fans from this district make the trip to Luc - an on Thursday night, to ch- eer their favourites on. Lions Members See Films On African Jungle; Plan Windsor Convention At their regular dinner meeting in the Dominion Hotel on Manday night, members of the club were privileged to see films on the Af- rican Jungle, shown and explained by Mr. and Mrs. W. Matthews, Grand Bend. The Matthews' spent considerable time in the jungle several years ago. They were in- troduced to the club by Lion Vic- tor Dinnin, and thanked by Lion Gordon Hess. Plans for the oncoming Lions Convention, which will be held in Windsor in May, were discussed. Arrangements for the picking of delegates was left up to Lion Le- roy O'Brien, and his convention committee. A cash donation was sent •to the Rainy River Lions Club, to as- sist them in having a heart oper- ation performed on a girl in their town. The cost of the operation, which will be performed in the Mayo Clinic, will be in the neigh- bourhood of $3,000, much of which will be donated by various Lions Clubs in Ontario. Members of the Club decided to sell by public auction a television aerial and rotator which belongs to them. Lion president Delbert Geiger was in charge of the meet- ing, Lion Earl Yungblut acted as Tail Twister in the absence of Claire Geiger, and Lion Gordon Hess acted as song leader for Or- ville 'Witmer. $2.50 Per Year -12 Pages Local Student Wins Top Honours At District Public Speaking Contest David Ducharme, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Ducharme, Zu- rich, a student at South Huron High School, took top honours Donations Climb In Local Easter Seal Campaign Close to $400 has already been sent in as donations for the Easter Seals Campaign this year. The figure stands about the same as the amount last year at this time. The total donated for this worthy cause last year was around the $500 mark. Chairman of the campaign in Zurich is Jack Bannister, manager of the Bank of Mon- treal, while the treasurer is George Deichert. Either of these two men will be happy. to accept your donations, if you would rather give it to them than send it through the mail. at a district public speaking con- test held in Listowel. He earned the right to participate in the finals for all of Ontario, which will be held in the Sheraton Room of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto on Wednesday, April 1. Speaking on "The Promise of Electricity" David was winner in the section for prepared address- es. The contests are jointly spon- sored by the Ontario Trustees and Ratepayers Association and the Hydro Electric Power Commis- sion of Ontario. At the contest in Toronto the speakers will talk on the benefits and applications of electricity. The nine provincial winners will be ch- osen on a points system for their material, style, language, and de- livery. Ontario Hydro, which has supplied more than 500,000 kits of background and reference mater- ial, will also donate cups, shields and cash prizes: in the elementary contest, $75, for first place; $50 for second place and $25 for third; secondary prepared contest, $100, $75 and $50; and secondary im- promtpu contest, $50, $25 and $15. Addition To County Home Approved, Hay Reeve Chairman of Committee Plans for a 177 -bed addition to the Huron County Home, near Cl- inton, were given tentative appro- val Monday by Huron County Council at a special one -day ses- sion. Council authorized the ar- chitects, L. G. Bridgman and R. O. McTavish, London, to proceed with detailed plans and specifica- tions, so that a call for tenders acn be made this summer. Esti- mated cost of the addition is $1,- 209,212.44. The estimated cost has been re- duced by $171,032.56, from the figure of $1,380,245 that was the estimated cost of building accor- ding to the first set of plans, pre- sented to council at its January, session. At that time council de- ferred decision on whether to call for tenders, and asked for review of the plans to see if an adequate building could be obtained at less cost. The proposed addition to the Home is to be built to the north and east of the addition that was "Over 75 Birthday Club" Following many requests to have a Birthday Club in this paper, we have decided to re- serve a spot on the front page each week to list all the birth- days of folks over 75. Of course there will be no charge to have a birthday listed in this section, They will come under the head- ing, "OVER 75 BIRTHDAY CLUB." All we ask of you, the read- ers, is to call and advise us of anyone 75 or over, who is hav- ing, or has had, a birthday re- cently. If there was a little get-together on the occasion, you might let us know that also. Most people who reach the age of 75 or more are quite proud of their age, and will be happy to see it listed in their local paper. Remember though, we ::eea your co-operation, we cannot guess when people are having a birth- day. The service is free. built five years ago. The general plan calls for the original build- ing, now considered obsolete, to be torn down after the second addition has been completed. On the recommendation of the County Home committee, of wh- ich Valentine Becker, reeve of Hay township, is chairman, Coun- (Continued on Page Twelve) 0 Township Council May License Trailers and Parks With Hay Township assessor George Armstrong, and County assessor Alex Alexander present, the Hay Township council, in spec- ial session last Friday night, dis- cussed the matter of licencing trailer camps and individual trail- ers situated in the Township. Mr. Alexander explained the regula- tions in connection with such tax- ation, as is carried out in a num- ber of other townships in the county. It is the feeling of mem- bers of the council that too many people are living in Hay Township tax free, using the schools and oth- er facilities without helping to pay for it. Further work is to be done in this regards in the near future, At the meeting council heard the third reading of the by-law setting the road budget at $40,000 for the year. $9,000 is to be spent on construction and $31,000 on maintenance. 0 Banking Hours Banking hours over the Iong holiday weekend may be slightly confusing to many people. According to James Wild, of the local branch of the Bank of Montreal, their bank will be dos- ed all day, Friday, March 27. On Saturday they will remain open from 9 a,m. to 11 a.m. and then again on Easter Monday, March 30, the bank will be closed all day.