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Zurich Citizens News, 1959-10-07, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH eitizeni. N EWS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT., Tor the Police Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern Part of Stanley Township, in Huron County. A. L. COLQUHOUN HERB, TURKHEIM Publisher Business Manager PRINTED BY CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, CLINTON, ONT. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ee Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2,50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1959 HOW DO THEY KNOW? WE AREN'T MUCH for the idea of criticizing reports which appear in the local daily papers, but one appeared in such a paper this past week and we feel it is needing a certain amount of criticism. The report was a story of the turning back of Highway No. 84 lo the County of Huron, and was written in such a manner that it is a direct insult to local people. In the story it says: "The department then spent $800,000 on paving and widening the little used highway, which goes no- where except to the lakeside crossroads of St. Joseph." We def- initely feel this is an insult to all the people of this district. Certainly the residents of the surrounding area do not consider themselves to be living "nowhere". After all, the highway is a connecting link between two progressive villages, Hensall and Zurich. and leads on to one of the busiest highways in Ontario at St. Joseph. As for the road being "little used", we would suggest the writer of the story spend some time on this highway throughout the summer, and see the amount of traffic which passes through the village of Zurich alone. This past Monday morning, travelling from Zurich to Hensall. we niet 43 vehicles in the six mile stretch, and then they have nerve enough to say the road is "little used". And as for the official of the county, who apparently told this daily newspaper "the road will be in better shape as a county road than it ever was as a provincial highway", we feel his state- ment is quite thoughtless. How in the world could a county road crew improve a road that has been put in perfect condition by the Ontario Department of Highways. This does not make sense, especially since the County now has more miles of road than they are capable of looking after. Daily papers, looking for a big scoop at the expense of small villages should definitely be more accurate in the information they gather to make up such a story. This sort of reporting does not do their public rela- tions in villages such as Zurich and Hensall one bit of good. For their information. as well as for the sake of the county official, we might say that Hensall will fight against the turn- ing back of this highway to the County as strongly as Zurich will, and if the meeting held by officials of both centres last week is any indication, there will be a real fight staged before we lose our provincial highway. SHOULD BE CHANGED UNDER both Liberal and Conservative Governments it has become' the fashion of Parliament in recent years to sit late into the hot weeks of summer, to rise, and not to meet again until January. This sort of parliamentary calendar has certain disad- vantages. MPs grow weary towards the end of the session, with the result that estimates totalling hundreds of millions of dollars of the taxpayers' money. are passed with nothing but the most cursory scrutiny. A further drawback is that the budget speech, coming late in March or early April, leaves business and industry in the dark about tax and other policies until after the most dif- ficult period of seasonal winter unemployment is past. A January budget might do much to stimulate business activity at that season of the year when a fresh impetus to the economy is most needed. Were Parliament to meet in October, with appropriate recesses at Christmas and Easter, its work would be more effective and the country would benefit from a revised legislative calendar. Cramming the nation's business into the first seven months of the year makes little sense. Nor would it be wise to move further in the direction of curbing parliamentary debate. A parliament that met ea early October and ended its work before July 1 would be good for Canada from every point of view. (LETTER REVIEW) Series Ne iri`ilYi+s I THE NEW GILLETTE RAZOR—with 9 settings complete with 6 blades Only $1.95 FAMILY PACK COMBS— Reg. 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Private Elmer Datars, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Datars, 14th concession, returned home from overseas a few days age. Private Frank Uttley returned home last week from overseas on the steamer, Royal George. Pri- vate Uttley enlisted in the 135th battalion and was serving for over two years. Mr. and Mrs. Sol Zimmerman have moved into the house occup- ied by the latter's mother, Mrs. F. Schrader. Mr. John Fuss and family have moved into the house vacated by the Zinnmzermans. Thursday, October 2, was a big day in Dashwood and community, that being the day of their first school fair. * 25 YEARS AGO October 1934 Harold Stade, who is employed in Guelph, visited his home here over the past weekend. Mrs. Nelson Masse, of the 14th concession, who has had an opera- tion for appendicitis at St. Jo- seph's Hospital London, has re- turned home and is feeling as well as can be expected. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wurm and Mr, Nesbitt Woods, Toronto, were weekend visitors with friends in Zurich. Mr, and Mrs. Gilbert Ducharme, Detroit, spent a few days with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Corriveau, the Town Line. Chester Geiser, Dashwood, is spending a week's vacation with friends in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Schatz, Toronto, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Schatz, Dashwood. Miss Thelma Fischer, Strathroy, spent the weekend with her par- ents in Dashwood. Miss Margaret Robinson, Stan- ley Township, is spending a week or two with friends at Flint, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Brown, Forest, were weekend visitors with relatives here. October 1944 Miss Pearl Gillman and Alice Beaver, who operated the "Old Forge" at Bayfield for the past summer, have returned home and report a good season. The entire community is griev- ed to learn over the weekend that Mrs. Barbara Surerus has receiv- ed word that her youngest son, Private Clare Donald, was killed in action in France on Sept. 17. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Pfile, Grand Bend, and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Pfile, Dashwood, visited with friends in Kitchener on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Edighoffer and Grant have left for Brantford for the winter months where the latter will be attending college. Privates Dennis Denomme and Lloyd Klopp, of the Armed Ser- vices, enjoyed the weekend with their relatives here. William Davidson, well-known merchant of Hillsgreen, is confin- ed to his home suffering from a fractured shoulder and several broken ribs, the result of a re- cent accident when he was riding on a load of wood. Caroline Volland, an aged and highly respected citizen of the Zurich district, passed away on Monday in her 92nd year, after a lingering illness. Ivan L. Kalbfleisch was in Sar- nia on Friday, a guest of the Polymer Corporation, at the cele- bration which marked the first year of production of synthetic rubber in Canada. * 10 YEA '; S AGO October 1949 Digging and excavation has be- gun for the new "Babe" Siebert Memorial Arena which is to be built this fall, On Tuesday even- ing an army of men took to the shovel and made the dirt fly ixi great fashiclr, George Swan, Brucefield, spent a few days at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Schilbe. Mr. and Mrs. William Witmer and Mary Lou spent the weekend in Chatham, Windsor and Detroit. Herbert K. Eilber, Crediton, and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. O'Doud and Douglas, London, were weekend visitors in Zurich at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fritz. Mrs. Minke has returned home after an extended stay with friends near Chesley. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gruen, Sebewaing, Mich., were weekend visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Gascho, in Zurich. Mrs. Henry Brown and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wuerth attended the auction sale of their aunt's ef- fects, the late Mrs. George Brown, which was held in Tavistock on Saturday. Federation Freidman Comments On Ability of Marketing Boards (By J. Carl Hemingway) The following appeared in the Alberta Wheat Pool Budget. "The US Department of Agriculture says that last year Americans spent $57,7 billion for home grown food. The farmer received $20.8 billion or only 36 percent of the total while marketing costs ac- counted for $36.9 billion or 64 percent of the food bill. Marketing costs were divided as follows, labour $17.5 billion (47 percent) ; profits $2.1 billion (6 percent; transportation $4 billion (11 percent); and other costs and noncorporate profits $13.3 billion (36 percent), A similar breakdown would no doubt apply to Canada." Is the great controversy and publicity being presently given to support prices and deficiency payments simply a series of "red herrings" being drawn adeptly ac- liNIN SAM l tr, fit, for dust 25' down at 0 • .a me eaMrKowe eat onds sea nmeowe aePOawe etiiaauVetInn etNetraaft f1!1®s MY EIMfff' to 211ll1/ON cR 17IANf YOU CAN BUY YOUR BONDS for crash or by instalments at your neighbourhood B of M branch BANK OF MONTREAL r 8444444 9 r.4.e dame 40. , viieat. • • w Down payment of 5% $2.50 for a $50 Bond, $5 for a $100 Bond, etc. Balance in 11 monthly payments. a'.aujk'j ross the trail to the real source of the farmers difficulty? It seems unreasonable to think that the producer should only av- erage a little over one-third of the consumer price. Farmers have shown their ability to do a good job of marketing the raw pro- duct as proven by the White Bean Board, the Tobacco Board, the Cheese Marketing Board, and cer- tainly not least by the Hog Pro- ducers Board. In fertilizer production and in the manufacture of feeds they have proven that they can reduce the cost of processing and turn out a top quality product. Why not further advancement in the field of processing of their own produce? It would seen that there is a definite opportunity that is receiving serious study is the processing of meats. If the farmers controlled their own processing plants on a co- operative basis the $2.1 billion (6 percent) profit could go to the farmer in patronage dividends. This 6 percent profit may seem to be a small item but if a far- mer produces an article for 94 cents and it sells for $1.00 his' in- come is six cents per unit. If he also had the six cents profit his income (net) would be doubled. It would also seem that a good portion of the $13.3 billion might be non -corporate profit t h a t through a Co -Op would find its way back to the producer, We need to remember at all times that after the "break even point" any gain is totally added to net income, therefore while the actual saving in operating costs might be quite small as compares ed to the gross income of a fir- mer it could make a vast differ- ence in his net income. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1959 SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) Once a week, whether I need it or not, I take a bath. And once a year, without fail I sit down and count my blessings. Every Thanksgiving, I make a point of it I suggest you try this excellent custom, which induces an unaccus- tomed humility in the most hard- ened of us. Each year, when I do it, I feel all pure and holy for an hour or two. * * The daily scramble can become such an accumulation of small ir- ritations, minute frictions and pet- ty miseries that life seems to be nothing but a great big pain in the arm. But just sit back and tick off all the good things you have, and you'll feel like that rarest of creatures, a happy, well -adjusted millionaire, * • * One thing for which I'm deeply thankful is reasonably good heal- th. There are teeth missing, I can't smell, and some of the old joints are giving me hell, but on the whole, I'm a doctor's despair. In ten years, I've spent three days in bed and $3 on doctors, and that was to get my corns pared. Of course, the rest of my family have cost me about $2,000. in doctors' bills during that decade, but that's neither here nor there. It certainly isn't here, anyway. a: * a: I'm thankful for my three squares a day. I tried living on four squares a day one time, for a couple of weeks. The squares were slices of bread, one-quarter inch thick, That experience has left me to this day with a perver- se urge to secrete bits of cheese, crusts of bread and hunks of meat about my person, so I'll never go hungry. • * Another thing I'm grateful for is the spring -filled mattress and the wool blankets and the Old Girl beside me, glowing away like a box stove. About 15 years ago, spent six weeks, at this time of year, sleeping its box -cars, barns and ditches, my sleeping partner a skinny Canadian corporal (male) who exuded about as much heat as a garter snake. • * >;: I'm happy to have a few close friends. Most of us have many acquaintances, few true friends. I have several friends to whom I could go for anything, in time of need. They'd give me the shirt off their backs, their last crust of bread, their wives, anything, Ex- cept money, of course, * * It's wonderful to have happy, healthy, children who only require new shoes every three months. I'm afraid I subscribe to the pag- an view that in our children lies our immortality. And in that thought I find deep satisfaction. It means that my kids will prob- ably have to take as much lip from theirs as I do from them, while I lie happily mouldering in Bayview Cemetery. * * '1' I am deeply thankful to have a gentle, tolerant, patient, under- standing wife, I'd be even more thankful if she used some of those qualities when dealing with me, but at least it's,nice to know she has them. • * I'm thankful to have a job 1 like. Where else, except in the weekly editor's chair, can a man who is completely unfitted for anything useful, find himself not only making a living, but able to sound off like a preacher? * >k * I'm thankful, every Thanksgiv- ing, that Fm a Canadian. Three months from now, as I plod through the slush, I'll be cursing the country with the best of them, but in the fall, there's no other place so close to what paradise should be like. * * a: Finally, I'm humbly thankful that I'm alive. Millions are not. Life is a superb gift, made even more delicious by the fact that we must surrender it• It is full of madness and magic, of melancho- ly and merriment, of a thousand good things, each a delight to treasure,«+ * So you're alive, aren't thankful. you? Be NETE'S FLOWERS Phone 130 --- Zurich Flowers beautifully arranged for Weddings, Funerals, Etc. At Prices Everyone can afford "Flowers Wired Anywhere" Business and rofessionaI Directory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all tines. "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 INSURAN-CE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES We% — 1 to 5 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 i=riday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS & NOTARIES PUBLIC ELME. D. BELL, Q.C. C. V, LAUGHTON, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon" Varnitt. Phone 4 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 pan. 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 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. Evenings, 7-9 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W �,. ZURICH ti HOFFMAN'S Funeral & Ambulance Service OXYGEN EQUIPPED Ambulances located at Dashwood Phone 7Ow Grand Bend—Phone 20w Attendants Holders of St. John's Ambulance Certificates OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETR IST SEAFO14TH: Daily except Monday Phone 701 9 a.m. to 5,30 p.m. Wednesday: 9 a.ray. to i2 noon. Thursday evening bya intment CLINTON: onday Only Phone HU 2.7010 +l,