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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-03-25, Page 2PAGE TWO 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. 12, 13, 14, 15-b 00 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 EXETER. ?hone 4