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Zurich Citizens News, 1961-01-19, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH 7ilz nt NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TIJRKIIEIM --- Editor and Publisher FRANK McEWAN --- Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY �' '; ;t, ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS,,. ,, NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in 'United States and Foreign; single copies 5 cents THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961 'shone Awareness In the mail this week is a promotion piece urging the pur- chase of Canada's national magazine,. Maclean's. We feel sure that all who receive it, will take the time to open the envelope and steam off the two cents in stamps which was enclosed. However, we are concerned that many folk may then file the balance of the communication in the waste -basket. Even those who plan to subscribe to the magazine may have missed a small item on the enclosure. z This statement by Blair Fraser, concerning the magazine, is of interest now while the Royal Commission on Publications is valiantly striving to investigate the situation with regard to fair practices for Canadian publications. He says, "Maclean's is designed primarily for Canadian readers meaning Canadians who like to read, who read for pleasure. It is directed at intelligent men and women in a relaxed mood, and its object is to enlighten, amuse and inform—not to instruct, per- suade or indoctrinate. "Maclean's has no `policy' in the propaganda sense, and no desire to have one. "What it does have is a group of staff writers and a circle of contributing journalists, photographers and artists who know how to tell the story of what is happening in and to Canada, and interpret to Canadians what's going on in the rest of the world. We don't think our country is either perfect or all-important, but we think there is such a thing as a Canadian character, a Canadian national awareness 'that needs to be fed. We do what we can to feed it." And that, in a nutshell, is what makes Maclean's a national magazine. If you do not already read Maclean's; if you subscribe only to magazines printed and published outside of Canada, then our suggestion is that you spend the necessary small amount of money to obtain this well-written, well-prepared Canadian publica- tion, and read it faithfully. It will be a pleasure which grows with each issue. — (Clinton News -Record). ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ANNUAL MEETING ZURICT AGRKKULTU AL SOCIETY JA A 27, 1961 8:00 P.M. OWNS1-IP HALL, ZURICH Everyone Is Urged To Attend V. L. BECKER, President MRS. MARGE SCHILBE Secretary -Treasurer Heinz Baby Food LIBBYS 15 OZ. Fruit Cocktail BROWN BEAR 4 LB. PAIL Creamed Honey Carnation Milk, large HEINZ FANCY 48 OZ. TINS Tomato Juice HORSEY 48 OZ. TIN Grapefruit Juice LIBBYS 15 OZ. TINS Dar< rown Beans REGULAR OR CHUBBY Kleenex CHAMPION 2c OFF Dog Food LUCKY DOLLAR 8 OZ. JAR Instant Coffee Rose Margarine JOHNSON'S QUARTS Hard Gloss Wax 10 for 99c 4 for 99c 99c 7 for 99c 3 for 99c 3 for 99c 6 for 99c 6 for 99c 14 for 99c 99c 4 lbs. 99c 99c LUCKY DOLLAR FOOD MARKET CLARENCE GASCHO — ZURICH 40 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1921 Miss Margaret Lamont of Lon- don, spent the weekend at her home here. Joseph Hagen, of Stanley, who has spent the last few weeks at Detroit, has returned to his home. Charles F. Hey, of Bad Axe, Michigan, is visiting here with friends and relatives. Two local merchants, T. L. Wurm and J. Gascho and Son are holding merchandise sales. Some excep- tionally good bargains are being offered and the public should take advantage of this sale before the supply is gone. Mrs. Alex Sparks, of Seaforth, was the guest of Mrs. T. . Wurm last week. The Zurich Athletic Society are holding a carnival tonight at the rink. Special arrangements have been made to make this an unus- ual event. Handsome prizes will be awarded. If the weather is favour- able, a large crowd is anticipated. The annual report of Hay Town- ship Farmers Mutual Fire . Insur- ance Company disclosed that the Company had paid 27 claims during the past year, this repreesnted a total of $46,075.00. 0 25 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1936 Mr. Edgar Snell, of Sedgewick, Alberta, is spending a few days with his uncle and aunt, Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Wagner, and other re- latives and friends. • Hay council met on Monday to organize for 1936. Council was entertained to dinner by reeve Al- fred Melick. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Rader, of near Dashwood, called on friends in town last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Smith and Mrs. C. Eilber called on friends at Clinton last Sunday evening. Miss Cecilia Ducharme, of St. Joseph,. who has been visiting at. the hone of her parents, Iti.: and Mrs. William Dutcharme, has retur- ned to St. Josephs Hospital, Lon- don to resume her duties. Miss Lucieill Jeffery, of Beaver - town, who has been working at St. Peter's Seminary, at London, for the past few years, is spending the winter at the home of, her parents, Mr. and llirs. Remie Jeffery. Miss Margaret Douglas, of Blake, spent part of the school holidays with friends in London and Hyde Park. ...OF - YEARS GONE m BY - 1 YEARS AGO JANUARY '1946 Miss Cecila Ilartman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kuno Hartman, was taken to hospital in London where an operation was performed for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schrag gave the Babylon Line farm forum a warm welcome when they met at the Schrag home last Monday night. William Haugh represented Hay Township at County Council, in Goderich last week. Miss Doreen Schilbe has taken a position as saleslady in the Var- iety store, operated by Mrs. Ed. Gascho. Mrs. Peter Koehler has sold the westerly portion of her property, located on the corner of Victoria and Louise streets, to Earl Thiel. Mr. Laird Thiel is spending a few days at London this week. ' Mr. Noah Sararas, of Kitchener, is visiting friends here at preesnt. He stayed with his sister, Mrs. Con- rad Siemon. Butter is selling for 38 cents per pound onthelocal market. Mrs. Walter Eckle and twin ba- bies have returned to her home on the Goshen North. 0 10 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1951 Mr. Gordon Block has returned home after being a patient at Clinton hospital. Mr. and Mrs. `Adolph Kalbfleisch have moved into their new home located at the southern end of the village. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Desjardine were recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilhelm, who have moved to their new home in Stratford. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Steinback and two children, of London, spent Sun- day with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steinback. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell McEach- ern have returned home after vis- iting at Detroit and other places of interest for a week. Miss Katherine Kalbfleisch is or- ganizing a class in baton twirling. Miss Nola Krueger spent a pleas- ant weekend with friends in Sarnia. Lorne Gingerich, Miss Dorothy Gingerich, Miss Dorothy Erb, and Steven Gingerich have left for Flor- ida, where they intend to spend a few weeks. Mr. Jack Coupland. the efficient teller at the Bank of Montreal in Zurich, has received notice of his transfer to the Bank of Montreal branch at Fenelon Falls, in the Haliburton County district. E: er4 Nnr`guild Receive Interim Payment Under Pk ev sed }R y Hog Producers BY J. CARL HEMINGWAY At a recent meeting the statem- ent was made that the Hog Prod- ucers had claimed that they would stabilize the price over a three- month period. If we think of a stab- ilized price as one that remains the same we immediately see that a bidding method as is now in oper- ation could not do this. However I feel quite sure that the word was equalize, not stabilize, and this could be done by the Hog Producers Marketing Board if the producers approved it. This could be done by the board paying you simply $25 per hundred for your hogs as an interum payment when you sell your hogs and then at the end of the three months dividing up whatever the hogs brought over that amount by the pounds of dre- ssed weight and making a final payment to each producer on this basis. Another misuse of words seems to be "patronage dividends." Th- ere are those who take exception to the fact that Co-ops are not re- quired to pay tax on this money. The reason given is that these are profits. Since this money is retur- ned to the patron it is not a profit to the Co-op, but is really a price adjustment refund. In other words it simply means that if the patrons do enough bus- iness with their Co-op, the hand- ling cost per unit is less and the Co-op has acquired more money over the year than it needed to operate and this over -charge is being returned. This is a common practice in many corporations and this money returned to dealers or customers is not taxable. The principle is right but the interp- retation of the words is wrong. In these times of stress and co- nflict over marketing issues it is important that we use our words carefully. Perhaps on occasion it is just wiser to keen silent. It seems to me that a great deal of time is spent on the discusion of minor details while the main issues are overlooked. At a recent meeting the guest speaker made the statement that according to re- sults of a long study by an inter- national group of economists it was the depressed condition of far- ming that caused the depresion of the thirties. Why then is govern- ment following a policy of increas- ed tariffs which only can increase our agricultural surpluses and fur- ther depress the farming industry? ,White bean and wheat producers have been relatively succesful in disposing of their surpluses. Poul- try producers are endeavouring to do the same and it is hoped that FAME will also be succesful to this end. If government can't assist, at least they could stop throwing rocks. ST. PETER'S C. W. L. The regular monthly meeting of the CWL of S.t Peter's parish, was held in the parish hall, with 29 members present, Mrs. Tony Den- omme, vice-president, opened the meeting with prayer, in the 'ab- sence of Mrs. Charles Rau, presi- dent. A letter of thanks from the Sis- ters of Service was read. The con- venors were Mrs. Degroot, Mrs. Vermont, Mrs. Orts and Mrs. Lorn- mersteig. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 ;1961 SUGAR and (By W. (BILL) B. T. SMILEY) Ah, wasn't that a lovely cold snap we had there? Didn't it just make you feel good to be alive? Weren't you glad you were a full-blooded Canadian, part of the hard inner core of our country, and not one of those imitations who live away down in places like southern On- tario and Vancouver, who scarcely know what an honest two feet of snow looks like, but who keep pre- tending they're real Canadians? Why I was in Toronto last week- end, and I felt .like a hard bitten centurion from the provinces, vis- iting Rome in the middle of Nero's reign. Y o u know something? They didn't have one lousy little inch of slush, let alone any snow. You'd hardly know it was winter, except for a wind blowing up the concrete canyons that would cut the eyeballs out of you. It isn't that I envy these people. Not at all. After all, every country has its decadent centres, where live those of its people who have lost that tough inner fibre, and who have become soft and luxury - loving. England has them. They throng the south coast in July, when there are some days so hot you have to take off your tweed jacket. Some of them have become so degenerate they'll put on bath- ing attire and run right into the English Channel, right up to their knees. ', * . Even the Eskimos have this trouble. Some of their people have lost the old values, the true way of life and hang about on the south- ern friges of Eskimo -land, work- ing for money, of all things, and eating stuff out of cans, just like the rest of us. They don't seem to realize they have lost their old integrity and dignity—the stuff that make Uncle Oog-Loog sit beside a hole in the ice for five days, waiting to spear a nonexistent seal. Some of these modern Eskimos have slipped so far from their great heritage that were it not for some of our Can- adian writers, like Farley Mowat, they'd probably think they were having a good time being warm and eating sliced bread and jam in- stead of blubber. No, we can't help this weak strain in our sturdy national breed. Every nation has a flaw. Even Canada must tolerate these sybari- tes who move indolently about in the balmy climes of our country's deep south, where the tempera- tures is often away up in the 20s. Not to mention the traitors, rene- gades and people with enough mon- ey, who slip away to Florida and California, the minute winter calls its first chill challenge. . It isn't the fact that we have these parasites that gets me. It's their atttitude. They're all wrap- ped up in themselves, and aren't even remotely interested in what the weather was like this morning when you left the north country, what a rough trip you had down through the blizzard, and the fact that you'll probably never make it home tonight. "Yes, must have been bad," they comment indiffer- ently, then start talking about tel- evision. It's fortunate that in the real heart of the county right in the interior, there are plenty of us left: the old breed that meets the good, old Canadian winter face to face, looks it square in the eye and talk about it fearlessly and incessantly. None of this lolling about in heated subway trains for us. We get out and start our own cars. And,' by George, there's nothing that will test a man's ingenuity, mechanical skill, and vocabulary, like starting the old girl after the mercury has dived below zero ov- ernight. There's nothing like that plummet of despair when she oust sort of groans a couple of times and goes dead. Nor is there any- thing like that wild surge of ooy when you try her one last time, and she coughs into strangulated life. There's none of this mincing around in toe rubbers, for us. The only time anybody in the great in- terior wears toe rubbers is to the New Year's Eve dance, and we all lose them that night. Rest of the time, we wear big rubber boots, to the knee, trousers tucked into them in a rather dashing fashion. (continued on page 3) ishhess and Profession AUCTIONEERS 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—Coll BERT KL ' PP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES — 5 years 4%% — 3 and 4 years 41/2% — 1 and 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies J. W. HA8ERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 — Zurich OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH: Daily except Monday Phone 791 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday: 9 a.m to 12 noon. CLINTON: Monday Only Phone HU 2-7010 Thursday evening by appointnieni Directory G. B. Clancy, 0.D. OPTOMETRIST JA 4-7251 — Goderich DENTISTS DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 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 PHONE 51 — ZURICH 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, 7-3 For Appointment -- Phone 606 FUNERAL DIRECTORS WESTLAKE Funeral Home AMBULANCE and PORTABLE OXYGEN SERVICE Phone 89J or 89W ZURICH LEGAL W. G. Cochrane, B.A. BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensall Office Open Wednesday and Friday Afternoons EXETER PHONE 14 BELL & LAUGHTON BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS 4It NOTARIES PUBLIC ELMER D. BELL, Q.C. C. V. LAUGHTON, L.L.B. Zurich Office Tuesday Afternoon EXETER, Phone 4