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ZURICH Citizens NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1959
ZURICH edifeivi 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. TURKHEIM
Publisher Business 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 to Business Manager, Zurich Citizens News, Box 149,
Zurich, Ontario, or to district correspondents.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1959
CITIZENS NEWS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED
ON MARCH 23, 1959, the Zurich Citizens
News officially became a member of the Can-
adian Weekly Newspapers Association.
CWNA is made up of 525 bona fide weekly
newspapers published in Canada. One of the
requirements for membership is a paid up subscription list,
accuracy of which must be sworn to. Probably membership
for the Citizens News was hastened by recommendations made
by both the Goderich Signal -Star and the Wingham Advance -
Times publishers.
In January the Citizens News became a member of Ontario
Weekly Newspapers Association, which is made up of weeklies
in Ontario only.
Membership in these two weekly newspaper associations, is
of distinct advantage, both from a business point of view and
from a good fellowship aspect. Publishers of the weekly news-
papers in Canada form a friendly association across the breadth
of the nation, so that each one may feel that he has a friend
in any city, town or village in which a newspaper is published.
The Citizens News is proud to announce acceptance of its
membership in both of these organizations, and will continue to
strive to make your paper one which will measure up well
with its fellows, serving the people of Zurich and district, and
of Canada.
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
ONE COULD just as well object to working or studying
with someone who has freckles on his face, as to someone who
is some other color than white. The logic is simply missing that
negroes are different because their color is different. They may
be different because they have been discriminated against econ-
omically or in the educational field or several other ways.
People learn to eat differently because of geographical
and climatic factors or because of economic status, not be-
cause of their color: They learn to wear different clothes;
they speak different languages; they learn to behave different-
ly. They can unlearn all of those things and learn brand new
habits of eating, ways of worship, manner and speech. This
Iearning or unlearning is not a matter of color but of interest
and brains.
A man's color, height, baldness, blood count, shape of his
ears, size of his feet are not things that are learned. He can
learn to be a decent person, a good parent, a fine friend and
a valuable member of society.
To discriminate against a man because of his hooked nose,
his color, his coarse hair, slant eyes, or high cheek bones, is
less sensible than to discriminate against him because he wears
size twelve in shoes. —Nanton News.
WEEK -END SPECIALS
Crown or Bee Hive Corn Syrup 5 Ib. Tin 69c
Wagstaffe Raspberry Jam 24 oz. Jar 43c
Fab—Large Size at 33c
"Lucky Dollar" Coffee at i lb. 59c
Royal Instant Pudding 3 for 29c
Gaschois "Lucky Dollar" Food Market
STENOGRAPHER -BOOKKEEPER
APPLICATIONS in writing will be accepted by the
undersigned until SATURDAY, APRIL 18,
1959.
STATE age, education, qualifications and references;
5 -day week; good working conditions; starting
salary, $1,600.00 per annum; interviews can
be arranged.
FOR further details, contact:
JOHN G. BERRY, Sec.-Treas.
Huron County Home Committee,
Court House, Goderich, Ontario.
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SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
Saturday the 21st of March
was the first day of spring. Would
anyone care to join me in em-
itting a short, sardonic bark of
laughter? Just try not to let
it get away from you and turn
into a peal of maniacal mirth.
Spring is birds and bunnies,
Easter and daffodils, baby -carria-
ges on bare sidewalks, little girls
skipping, little boys getting wet
to the tail, the smell of mud, the
kicking off of overshoes, the feel
of warm wind and sun.
It is not the growling of an
overworked second-hand stoker in
its lair below -stairs. It is not the
howling of a blizzard about the
house. It is not the scowling of
a housewife just about at the
end of her tether. Nor is it four
feet of snow and ice piled up
against your front door since
New Year's.
Something went haywire this
year. At least it did in this part
of the country. We've had more
than 12 feet of snow and four
months of solid winter without
a break. Even the old pioneers
have ceased their clap -trap about
the big winter of ought -twelve
or whatever, and admit ruefully
that this one "sure has been a
corker."
Everyone is shabby, disgruntled
and completely brassed off. Eld-
erly folk are holding their brea-
ths, fearful they won't make it,
this time, until the sun warms
their bones again. Even the kids
are surfeited with skating and
horsing around in snowbanks, and
are getting owlier every day.
* *
As for the average househol-
der, he's a wan shadow of his
normal self. He walks with a
perpetual snow -shovel stoop. A
perpetual cough racks his enfe-
ebled frame. He has nothing to
show for the winter but the loss
of his health and good nature.
Ahead lie the Scylla and Chary-
bdis of a monstrous fuel bill and
a poisonous income tax return.
* * ',
The only thing that kept some
of us going through March was
watching the cowards, who spent
the winter in Florida, arriving
home. All tanned and rested, and
busting to tell us what a grand
winter they had, they got back
to find roofs caved in, windows
broken by icicles, water -pipes
bur9t and a raging blizzard in
progress. We peasants who had
held the fort could scarce for-
bear to smile.
*
Canadians should have a dif-
ferent calender from other people.
One with 13 months on it. That
would give us a chance to stay
even with the rest of the world.
It would take that extra month
to earn enough to pay for our
fuel bill. If we cut all the months
down to 28 days like February,
we'd have enough left over to
make that extra month. It would
also make November, January and
March three days shorter each,
which would put new heart into
us.
But we'd still have one day
left. over, out of the 365, I would
designate it, under the new calen-
dar system, as a national holiday,
about the end of January. It would
be known as All 'Flu's Day. It
would be a day for all Canadians
to take that full day in bed which
they are suposed to do when they
catch the 'flu, and never have time
to,
,, * *
However, don't sell a winter like
this one short. It is not a com-
plete loss. For one thing, it is a
great moulder of rugged Canad-
ianism. It makes us tough, re-
sourceful and mean, like New En-
glanders,
Anybody who hasn't had a heart
attack has got tougher than a
sixty -cent steak, wielding that
snow shovel. Resourceful? I
didn't know I had it in me, some
of the things I've done, Like my
broken cellar window. Lots of
soft, easy -living people would have
put a new glass in smartly. Not
me. Not this winter. I've got the
opening blocked up as neat as you
please with an empty beer case,
held in place by one of those mas-
sive boulders left in my cellar by
the excavators.
* * A:
Mean? I can sit there at the
kitchen window and watch my mo-
ther-in-law struggle over a four -
foot snow bank, wade through a
foot of loose snow, and nearly
murder herself on the icy steps,
trying to get to the house, with-
out stirring a finger or feeling a
qualm.
* * 8,
Well, one of us has to give, and
I hope winter cracks before I do.
The kids eye me warily these days.
The dog cowers when I approach.
But I didn't know how mean I was
getting until I went out to chop
some ice off the steps the other
day. Went to come in and found
my wife had locked the door. She
wouldn't open it until I threw the
axe into a snowdrift.
Girl Guide News
(By Ruth Clausius)
Last week the Zurich Girl Guid-
es collected pop bottles, empty
baskets, and hangers around the
village. The funds realized from
this project will be used to send
the Guides to Camp Keewayden
this summer,
The members of the Guides wish
to greatly thank all the people
who so generously donated these
articles to them.
APPLICATIONS WANTED
Applications will be accepted for the position
of SECRETARY -TREASURER of the
Zurich Agricultural Society.
Please state salary expected,
All applications must be left at the office
of the ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
no later than 6 p.m. on
SATURDAY, MARCH 28,
Business and Professional Directory
DENTISTS AUCTIONEERS
DR. H. H. COWEN
DENTAL SURGEON
L.D.S., D.D.S.
Main Street Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoon
Phone Exeter 36
DR. J. W. CORBErr
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
438 MIN STREET, EXETER
X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities
Open Eaeh 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
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 INSURANCI
ASSOCIATION
HURON and ERIE
DEBENTURES
CANADA TRUST
CERTIFICATES
5% for 3, 4, and 5 Years
43/% for 1 and 2 Years
J. W. HABERER
Authorized Representative
Phone 161 --- Zurich
LEGAL
W. G. Cochrane, B.A.
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC
Hensen Office Open Wednesday
and Friday Afternoons
EXETER PHONE 14
BELL & LAUGHTON
BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS
NOTARIES PUBLIC
ELIMIER D. BELL, Q.C.
C. V. LAUGHTON, L.L.B.
Zurich Office Tuesday
Afternoon
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