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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-06-24, Page 2]PAGE TWO ZURICH eitizend. NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT., for the Police Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern Part of Stanley Township, x inRB Huron CountyIM . . A. L. CO Business Manager PRINTED BY CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, CLINTON, ONT. -Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION 'Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1959 GIVE A MAN CREDIT!! THIS PAST SATURDAY night a local citizen played the role of a policeman, and did an exceptionally fine job of it. After seeing a hit and run driver smash into a parked vehicle the citizen took after him and following a ten mile chase he caught up to and captured the wanted party. Later he brought him back to the scene of the accident. An act such as this is certainly worthy of praise. It is something that very few other citizens would take upon them- selves to do. Perhaps if they would it might stop a lot of the foolishness being carried on in our village today. Seemingly the village trustees do not see fit to hire a local policeman, and the Provincial Police cannot be expected to patrol our streets -every evening. Some of the streets in Zurich have lately become race tracks for the entertainment of some of our teen-agers and young adults. Residents of the community have lately been wit- nessing the outlaw driving habits practiced by some of our young people. Racing down streets, squealing tires, back -firing cars and in general making our streets unsafe for children is not typical teenage behaviour. These reckless displays are not indications of the capability of the drivers, nor do they merit the trust we have placed in them. We believe our young people have character and common sense, but at times fail to make use of it. Loss of life or serious injury to drivers of these cars, or to innocent by-standers, is inevitable if action is not taken to prevent reckless driving in our town. The only course open to citizens who wish to put a stop to these dangerous practices is to lay charges. They will not only be doing the town a good turn but will also be doing a favour to the reckless youngsters themselves. Recently in a neighbouring town a citizen laida charge of reckless driving against a motorist, and the driver was fined in court. The magistrate praised the citizen for taking the action he did. Would that more people had the moral courage and energy to do as these two citizens have done. We appeal to drivers of all ages to take more care, to be more courteous, to SLOW DOWN AND LIVE... Can you all. ford to take a chance and lose a life. TALKING POINT WE'VE COME ACROSS a good set of answers for the tour- ist from south of the border who is not very happy about paying the discount on American money in Canada. Comparing the expense of shopping in Ontario with that of shop- ping in Florida and in some other states, the Florida shopper pays a tax of three percent on nearly every purchase of meals and merchandise. In addition there are several municipal and local taxes of one or two percent or a total of four or five per- cent. In Georgia taxes on some goods run up to ten percent. Tolls on some bridges are 50 cents per car. On the Sunshine Parkway in Florida the toll is one cent per mile. The Tampa Skyway charges 75 cents per car. The only such charge in Canada is 15 cents per car in the Burlington Skyway Bridge. Visitors to Florida estimate their daily contributions in State and municipal taxes run at least $2 for meals and other pur- chases. If a U.S. vacationer spends $50 a day in Ontario the discount on his money is only $1.50. ZURICH Citizens NEWS SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) I've always been a loyal citizen of the Crown, but if I could afford it, I'd take the next few weeks off and head for Hudson 'Bay, or any other place inaccessible to newspapers and television. The other day, the Toronto Globe and Mail announced with pride that no less than 62 report- ers, photographers and correspond- ents would make up its "Royal Tour team". Isn't that sickening? Add to that mob a proportionate number from the other big dailies, a vast gaggle of radio and televis- ion people, and another couple of hundred from the smaller dailies and the U.S. press, and you can see what we're in for. • * *Who would want to be the Queen, and be pursued across a continent by a horde of harassed, hot and hungry reporters, a rabble of rude and rambunctious photo- graphers? Only a Queen, in a dem- ocratic age, could be subjected to such an appalling ordeal, * * :k On the other hand, who wants to read all that gush and garbage the scrambling press will produce? Are you interested, Mac, in per- suing breathless columns about the warm, human way the Queen scratched her nose at a state din- ner? Are you fascinated, Elmer, by a 1,200 -word description of the Royal Yacht? Do you thrill, Bus- ter, at the 84th fuzzy photo of Her Majesty inspecting a .guard of honour? * * * Not me. And not Joe Dope, down the street. I'll tell you who is responsible for all this balder- dash. It's the women. Don't ask me why, but from the time their Queen sets foot on Canadian soil, the women of Canada will be in an irrepressible state of titillation, curiosity and near -hysteria. * They will read miles of senti- mental slosh written by sob sis- ters of both sexes. They will ex- claim with delight at hundreds of photos of Her Majesty, good, bad and undifferent. They will allow hundreds of thousands of dinners to spoil, as they sit in the living - room, gawping at the aighted box in the corner. their statements buried in the story. Here's how they read. The women: 1. "I'd be thrilled!" 2. "Queen means something." 3. "She should meet the people." 4. "Should see the country." 5. "Very nice to see them." And the men: 1. "I'm not interested." 2. "Should stay over there." 3. "Too much publicity." 4. "In favour of visit." • * * Forty-four thousand times they will ask their husbands if they don't think the Duke is cute, and be oblivious to the answering grunt. On eighty thousand occas- ions they will note with sympathy and not a little satisfaction that the Queen, poor dear, looks tired, * * There was a tell-tale survey the other night, in one of the Toronto papers. The completely mislead- ing headline stated: "Most Want To See The Queen". Beneath it were the photos of ten people, five men, five women. And beneath these were capsule comments from WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1959 5. "Just a waste of money." u * da Digest that one, kids.. All five women think it's simply grand. Four out of five men couldn't care less. And the other was probably scared of his wife. So that is :why we have four or five hundred news, radio and television people falling all over each other for the next fortnight. News editors are accessories be- fore the fact. They know perfect- ly well that the only things wo- men read in their papers are the crime stories, the classifieds, and the clothing ads. But every time there's a Royal Tour, they think (Continued on page 11) 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. 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