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Zurich Citizens News, 1961-01-26, Page 2ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS PAGE TWO ZURICH (....GbizEra NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TURIKIIEIM — Editor and Publisher FRANK McEWAN — Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION 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 THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961 Is It Fair To The Regular Tax -payer Just the other day a member of the Ontario Provincial Police force asked us why there is no transient traders licencing by-law in the village of Zurich, since every other town around has such a law. Sorry to say, we could not give him an answer, unless maybe it is due to laxness on the part of the council, One thing is sure, we have tried hard enough, and often enough, to convince them that there should be such a by-law in existence. Recently door to door peddlers have become more prevalent than ever in history. And a good many of then are frauds, as was pointed out in an article in last week's paper. Why should we not have protection from this kind of nuisance, as other communities around us have? If a person wishes to start a business in a community, he must pay a business tax. Why then, should strangers be allowed to pedal their products from door to door without paying any tax or licence fee whatsoever? We dare say that if a licencing by-law was in ef- fect, 90 percent of the canvassers that are making the rounds now would no longer make an appearance in Zurich. As the police officer explained to us, if there was such a by-law, they could come into town and check up on these people making the rounds. If they had no licence, a stiff fine would be levied against them. Just last week in Goderich, a magistrate fined a salesman for selling overshoes from a mobile van without a haw- ker's and peddler's licence, contrary to the law of the town of God- erich. How about it, councillors, why not give your most careful con- sideration to this matter before someone in the village really gets took: By-laws are being drafted and passed for every little thing that conies along, so why not protect something so important as your ratepayer's safety from hawkers and peddlars. A Worthwhile hile Inipaign 40 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1921 Nesbitt Woods, teacher of SS No. 3, Hay has recently had his salary increased to $1,000 per year. This is a credit to Mr. Woods, and the section. Are other sections following this example? D. Smith returned home last week after visiting for , several weeks at New Hamburg. E. F. Klopp, reeve of Hay town- ship, attended the first sitting of Huron County Council, at Goder- ich, this week. Zurich Agricultural Society elec- ted as president, E. F. Klopp; vice- presidents, J. Decker and H. Neeb; directors, J. P. Rau, A. Reichert, H. Steinback( W. Decker, W. S. John- ston, J. A. Smith, H. C. Zaphe, 0. Klopp and S. Hoffman. Miss Hazel Finkbeiner, of Strat- ford, was a guest of her cousin, Miss Mildred Hoffman, for the past week. Miss Olive O'Brein, Miss. Mabel Preeter and Miss Muriel Preeter were visiting in London last Sat- urday. Citizens and business establishments throughout the province are being urged to undertake any needed repair and renovation work this winter, rather than prolong these jobs until Spring. It has been pointed out that individuals and business concerns would benefit by getting necessary work done sooner by skilled workmen, and. at the same time keep some fellow citizen employed. Almost everyone can play a part in this worthwhile campaign. The householder could hare those attics and basements converted into bedrooms, plumbing, heating units electrical wiring and out- lets installed. Perhaps the office or possibly the home is due for some interior decorating. Mr. Motorist can help by having that necessary overhaul job, tune-up, etc. done now. By doing this, he will be helping to^keep garage employees in full-time employment. Friend Farmer can do his part by having farm equipment (tractors, combines) overhauled at local garages, now. By having his machinery put into top-notch running condition now, he too will benefit . . . he will be saving precious time when Spring arrives. So, you see, by having necessary work done NOW while tradesmen are available, you will be helping to beat winter unemployment. When everybody works—everybody benefits. Help combat this common enemy—winter unemployment. DO IT NOW! Safer Buses Drivers of school buses have tremendous a responsibility. Daily during the school year they hold the lives of thousands of children in their hands. To make certain that transportation of these boys and girls is carried out with the highest degree of safety, regulations governing the operation of school buses are to be strengthened. According to Hon. H. L. Rowntree, Ontario Minister of Trans- port, one of the first steps under the new program will be the re- examination of all school bus drivers to determine their fitness. New and stricter tests for those applying for licences will be in- troduced. Drivers are to be made fully aware of the need for caution and safety in driving school buses, both on heavily travelled city streets and lightly travelled rural roads. New regulations will mean they will have safe vehicles. And if the safety rules are fully observed then those in charge of the operation of school buses are 'nesting their responsobility and cutting down on the risk of a disaster.— .(Windsor Star). -OE.. YEARS GONE 15 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1946 Laird Thiel has returned home from London, where he got his dis- charge from the army. The Datars and Haberer famil- ies attended the funeral of their relative, Mr. I. Dedels, at Kitchen- er last Friday. Fred Watson has been appoin- ted clerk of Stanley township. He succeeds Charles Pilgrim, who has held that position for many years. Pte. Charles Hay, of London, is visiting at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. William Hay. Miss Doreen Ducharme and Mr. C. Russell, of London, were week- end visitors at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dav- id Ducharme. Miss Blanche Grenier has return- ed to her duties at Detroit, after visiting for a few days with her parents. last week. 25 YEA0RS AGO THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961 SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (BILL) B. T. SMILEY) in getting me back into top physical trim. They bought me a curling broom for Christmas, and it's a beauty. One of those real two - dollar brooms that the regular cur- lers use, It's the handiest thing you ever saw for sweeping off your goloshes before you come into the house. Much easier to handle than one of those big, awkward, kitchen brooms. Recently I decided that some- thing must be done to ward off old age and complete disability. I real- ized I must have some recreation. Night after night, I sat in my little hole in the wall, up to my knees in un -marked essay s, half -finish- ed lesson plans, unread examina- tion papers, and all the other para- phernalia teaching, a paper -happy profession, if ever there was one. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rader, of Dashwood, were visitors with the former's sister, Mrs. Clara Decker, one day last week. 0 JANUARY 1936 Albert Kalbfleisch, accompanied by his sisters, Mrs. W. Brokenshire and Mrs. Ferd Haberer, motored to London on Sunday, to visit their brother, Professor H. Kalbfleisch, who is • ill. The funeral of our late Monar- ch, King George V, will be held next Tuesday. Mrs. Clara Waiper and son, of Windsor, attended the funeral of Mrs. Walper's father, Julius Block, here this week. Leland Willert, the new baker, is making extensive improvements in the living quarters above the bake- shop. Delbert Geiger has taken a pos- ition with Bean's Bakery, at Hen - sell. Mr. and Mrs. Alex McConnell, of Varna, were visitors at the home of William Lamont, last week. Louis and Leonard Prang spent Sunday in Detroit, 10 YEARS AGO Slumped over my card table, eyes running redly in the cigarette smoke, thick as eggnog, I could see nothing ahead but stenographer's spread permanent curvature of the spine, cancer of the lungs, and to- tal blindness. "For this," I thought bitterly, "I left the even tenour of my news- paper work, where the only things that threatened were hyper -tension, boozer's nose, my trick knee, my bad back, a heart condition, cancer of the lungs, and the odd punch in the face from an irate subscriber." *: * * It was time to act. And when I make a decision, there's no hes- itancy in carrying it out. It was only four or six weeks after I threatened to do something, that I joined the curling club. I've never been sorry for a minute. My whole system is toned up. My outlook is fresh and different. I feel like a new man. And my wife has certainly sur- prised me. She always seemed a little cool about my going fishing, or golfing, or deer hunting, or play- ing poker, or to turkey raffles or any of the athletic events of that nature in which I used to partici- pate. But she's keen as mustard on my curling. She's even suggested a couple of times that I get on one of the curling teams and curl. JANUARY 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ducharme, of the Bluewater highway, are spend- ing a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Kuno Hartman. Leroy Thiel injured one of his fingers in a power saw in his base- ment last week. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Weber, of Waterloo, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Martin, of Hawksville and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Weber, of Connestoga, visited at the home of their sis- ter, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Gingerich. Mrs. Laird Jacobi is supplying as a public school teacher in the ab- sence of Mrs. Garnet Wildfong, who was injured when she slipped on some ice. Mrs. Joseph Ducharme a n d daughter, of near Dashwood, visit - ted at the home of her mother, Mrs, McClmont, at Kippen. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kraft, Ken- neth and Gordon, of Dashwood, left last Tuesday for Florida, where they expect to spend some time. Federation o �ef er tion Heldman Fea Leadership Training Course k Beneficial' Everme 4;: * $, It's not that I've done any curling yet. Oh, no. After all, I'm new at the game, and I'm just sort of studying it up. I'm not one of these impetuous chaps who hurl themselves into a thing and then make a mess of it. I mean, I would- n't want to just go right out there and CURL, as though I knew all about it. *In fact, the other day, she bought about eighteen skeins of that big, heavy wool, and she's going to knit me a curling sweater. I told her it would be finished just in time to wear when I became a `skip", and she seemed as pleased as Punch. She's going to knit in curling stones and Scotchmen and brooms and all sorts of things. Like a moose, and polar bear, and a pair of cros- sed golf clubs, in case I want to wear it golfing. And a fisherman pulling out a big trout, in case I want to wear it fishing on those nippy days, BY J. CARL HEMINGWAY Last Thursday morning some 201 their organizations accomplish the n and six ro ram leaders obeectives desired, delegates program _ assembled at the Hotel Sunset in Goderich for the first residential Leadership Training Forum to be held in Huron County. This was a new venture on the part of Huron County Federation of Agriculture and it was with some trepidation that they took on the responsibility involved. How- ever as of Friday evening, with a Saturday forenoon session to follow it is quite apparent that those at- tending are getting real value for their particular sponsoring organi- zation. The delegates are experienced in the art of leadership to a high de- gree but they are now learning how to pass on to others the skills of leadership that they have aquired. We hope that the sponsoring org- anizations will make use of these new found capabilities to assist When Will Pedlars eed A Licence In Zurich? The first session was led by Mr. Bob Secord, Community Program Branch of the Department of Ed- ucation on the subject, "Principles of Leadership." His first point was the fact that Leaders are made, not born. This will be good news to many who suddenly find that they have been asked to take a position of responsibility which may fill them with a feeling of in- adequacy. They can fill this posi- tion if they are willing to learn. In the afetrnoon, Charles Thom- as and Miss Jean Smith, both of Grey Township and both graduates of the Ontario Leadership Training Forum, conducted the discussion on "Making our Meetings Effec- tive." To do this it was pointed out that there must be a real pur- pose in holding the meeting. It is then the job of the good leader to see to it that the discussion sticks to the problem of accomplishing this purpose. The evening recreation and the session of the following morning was led by Miss Eleanor Syaracuse, also of the Community Programs Branch. In program planning, Miss Syaracuse led the group to realize that all ideas for ways and means of achieving the agreed purpose must he discovered. Then by a process of elimination the best method is adopted. In the absence of Dr. High, Dr. Mann, of the Extension Education Department of the OAC, outlined the principles of Co-operation be- tween form organizations. He pointed out that this is only pos- sible when they have the same pur- pose, for example, the better -of those engaged in Agriculture. However, there is real danger of competition developing should this basic purpose be superaceded by the purpose of achieving glory for the particular organization. In discussion which followed it was pointed out that this competi- tion could be promoted by a third party to weaken the unity of ag- ricultural organizations. X hope to report on the final ses- sion in next weeks news item. Why, I could go out there and make a complete fool of myself, if I didn't go into the game thorough- ly. So I've been reading articles on the sport, and looking at some of chatting quite a bit obout "the roar - those beer ads describing it, and in' game" with some of the boys, and I must admit I'm getting the hang of it nicely. * : * The kids encouraged my enthus- iasm, and did all they could to aid m AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service a t all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood :k 4: 4: Half the fun of a good, out doors game like curling, of course, is get- ting the terms right. There's no use taking up a sport unless you know what you're talking about. Why, sitting around with the fel- lows, and talking about "ends" and "rinks" and "spiels" and "spares" and the "draw game" as opposed to the "knockout game," has done me a world of good. I can feel my muscles tuning up, my lungs de- veloping, and my back straighten- ing. And it's done wonders for my co-ordination and judgment. I was actually beginning to feel that I had lost that close liaison between hand and brain that I'd had for years. But the other night, over at the curling club, I pulled off a couple of shots that had them all (continued on page 3) r©fessional INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All Insurances- Cali BERT KLOPP Phone 930 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 5% — 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. We HAIAEERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 — Zurich OPTOMETRY �j J. 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 HU27010 Thursday evening by appointment !rectory G. B. Clancy, O.D. 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