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Zurich Citizens News, 1961-04-27, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH £c'czsnd. NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO HERB TURKHEIM --- Editor and Publisher FRANK McEWAN — Plant Manager Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: N 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 THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1961 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS The Work Maniacs! It hardly seems possible that any human beings could cause the damage to Cedarbrook Park, which took place last week. Per- sons in their right minds just wouldn't do such stupid tricks as were done there. Probably many people who have not visited the park won't realize what this spot means to the community. Over the past yers, Mr. Ivan Kalbfleisch, the proprietor, has spent a considerable amount of money and put a lot of effort into equipping this park, for the benefit of the community. We know for a fact that Mr. Kalbfleisch has not done this work for his own personal pleasure, but for the good of the general public. Almost every organization and church group in the area have used the facilities of his park for a picnic or gathering at some time or another. And there has been no rental fee for the use of the grounds• When we went to see the damage on Sunday, we had a couple of visitors with us from the city, and they couldn't imagine it was possible that a man would equip a park so well for the use of the public. Actually, the guilty persons should be pitied more than scorned at, for having such a low rate of mentality. There are hospitals in existence to treat maniacs who pull off stunts of this kind. The sad part of the whole thing is that we are convinced the hoodlums are residents of this immediate district. Strangers could not possibly have found their way around in the park the way this gang did. And there must have beent a gang of them, because one or two could not have possibly caused this much damage. If only the guilty persons can be tracked down (and we are quite confident they will be) they should be given the stiffest penally possible under the circumstance. The fact that the action must have been the aftermath of a wild drinking party, according to evidence left behind at the park, should make the charges all the more serious. In the meantime, we would like to suggest that a gang of men be organized some night soon, and stage a work bee at the park. We imagine Mr. Kalbfleisch would appreciate some help at cleaning up the mess, and what better way can we show our appreciation for the fine accommodation he has made available than to help him put the grounds back in it's original condition. Willing hands will make the job much lighter. What Can We Do? 40 YEARS AGO APRIL, 1921 Miss Jemima Johnston moved her household effects on Saturday into the house she recently pur- chased frons Mrs. Otterbein. Several new cars have been pur- chased in the Area recently, among the are W. G. Hess and Charles Fritz, with touring models. Dr. MacKinnin with a coupe, and Wil- liam O'Brein and Ed. Beaver both with a good second hand model. The bricks in the hard water well of Mr. George Thiel caved in the other day, and certainly made a mess of things. Mr. S. E. Faust motored to God- erich last week where he purchas- ed a fine grocery business, and also a dwelling residence, where he will move in the next few weeks. A new garage business has op- ened up in the rear of Druar's Im- plement shop, and will be operated by R. Ohlert, who is a qualified mechanic. The village council has passed a by-law prohibiting the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks, also the coasting of wagons and roller ska- ting. -4F- -- OF Y -BY - 15 YEARS AGO :ARS GONE BY APRIL, 1946 A meeting of all ratepayers is being held on Tuesday night, to discuss the forming of a township school area, The plaintive complaint of adolescent offspring that there's nothing to do is said to plague parents everywhere. Perhaps this depends on the parents but certainly the lack of planned activity is often given as an excuse for teen-agers in trouble. One parent in Denver, Colorado, apparently tired of the same old chorus, has summed up his feelings in an "Open Letter to a Teenager." The Crime Commission of Houston, Texas, considered it worth re- printing in pamphlet form: "Always we hear the plaintive cry of the teenager: What can we do? What can we do? "The answer is go home! Wash the windows. Paint the wood- work. Rake the leaves. Mow the lawn, sweep the walk. Wash the car. Learn to cook. Scrub some floors. "Help the Church. Visit the sick. Assist the poor. Study your lessons. And then when you are through, and not too tired, read a book. Your parents do not owe you entertainment. Your city does not owe recreational facilities. The world does not owe you a living, You owe the world something, You owe it your time and energy and your talents so that no one will be at war or in poverty, or sick or lonely again. "In plain simple words: Grow we. cuit being a cry-baby; get out of your dream world; develop a backbone, not a wishbone, and start acting like a man or a lady. "I'm a parent. I'm tired of nursing, protecting, helping, ap- pealing, begging, excusing, tolerating, denying myself needed com- forts for your every whim and fancy, justbecause your selfish ego instead of common sense dominates your personality and thinking and requests." As a footnote to the above might be appended the advice of the late Will Rogers, that if any parent wants a child to follow along a particular line, the parent should skirmish on ahead. — The Morden Times. 25 YEARS AGO The Zurich fire brigade were called to the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adkins on Monday morning, when fire started near the straw stack close to the barn. Prompt action on the part of the firemen son had the flames extinguished. Dr. W. B. Coxon is the proud owner of a new Dodge car, which he will use in his veterinarian prac- tice. raytice. This is the second new car to come to Zurich within a week. Mr. Oscar Greb, who is a patient in Victoria Hospital, London, is progressing very favourably, and will be coming home in a few days. Russell Tiernan, of Dashwood, is spending this week in London, where he is receiving his dischar- ge from the Canadian Army. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thiel have closed their Variety Store tempor- arily, while they are making alter- ations for the addition of a rest- aurant. THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1961 '!t!'Iillllllllll!IIIIIIIm!!!IIIIII!IIIIIIIuiu!IUNII!II!I!!I!II!!II!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIpllllllllllllllllllllltlllIII!IIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIimaulmiumlllmmuuo!!IIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIIII1111111111U gJG A anc .C. y --v 1 B C By Biil 5milcy. .011111111111M1111113111111111111111111111111111111 Things are tough all over. Un- employment is creating nightmar- es in Canada. The Laos situation is confused, The blacks are rising in -Angola. And there's hell to pay in Cuba. do know something? I don't give yaudiddle. APRIL, 1936 The local sportsmen are enjoying the sport of sucker fishing, and some very good catches are being reported. ,During the past few weeks an ef- fort has been made to form a Lions Club in Exeter, and the pro- vincial organizer from Ottawa has made several visits to the town to help with the plans - Fred Thiel has taken on the ag- ency in Zurich for the new Terra - plane cars, which are selling for only $906. Miss Rose Leibold, of the Baby- lon Line, was united in marriage on Saturday to Garfield Broderick, and the couple will live on the groom's farm, near Hensall. While persons about the Goder- ich square watched, expecting to catch a thief red-handed, the tell athletic figure of a man was seen to raise the window of an office at the court house and crawl with- in. The breakin proved a false alarm as far as the witnesses were concerned, for it happened that the man was Judge T. M. Costello, who had locked himself out of his of- fice. 10 YEARS AGO Normally, these circumstances would be of the utmost concern to me. But at the moment, I couldn't care less. Let them all go to it. I'm too busy getting ready for Opening Day. APRIL, 1951 Lloyd O'Brien and Hubert Schil- be spent a few days at London last week where they attended a course on plumbing, and installing and servicing oil burners. Miss Marjorie Klopp, a graduate of Western University, has accep- ted a position as a high school tea- cher at For Erie. Bill Siebert was elected as presi- dent of the Zurich Baseball Club, at the annual meeting of the group last Friday night. Its former years the ball team had been sponsored by the ions Club, but this year the team will be on their Own. The new public school in Exe- ter was officially opened last Wed- nesday with a special ceremony to mark the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Weber have moved their household effects to Exeter, where the former has accepted a position. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Regier, who have lived in London for the past six months, have moved to their farm on the Bronsbin Line south. Mr. Ross Gaseho has just receiv- ed his discharge from the Royal Canadian Navy, having served his full five-year term. To the non -fisherman, this may seem puerile and irresponsible. But Drake had his game of bowls before going out to clobber the Ar- mada. And I'm going to enjoy one more Opening Day, even if I emerge from the bush at the end of it to find that Canada has de- clared war on Castro. What is Opening Day? What does it signify? Well, on the sur- face, it is merely a day on which about a hundred thousand Cana- dians pour into the wilds at day- break, seeking the lives of a few thousand trout• In the process, they alienate their wives, catch more colds than trout, and strag- gle home exhausted but happy. fisherman, the significance, the symbolism, the grace and passion that the bullfight holds for the aficionado. Here, there's no use going on like this. I'll try to reconstruct the ritual of Opening Day for you, and perhaps you will see for your- self. *: : However there's a great deal more to it than that, underneath. It's a response to an atavistic im- pulse as compelling as that which makes a wolf howl at the moon. During the winter, this urge slumbers under the tranquilizers of overheated homes, television, and big meals, The trout fisherman looks and acts like any honest cit- izen. He is no more fiery than the trout itself, buried in mud at the bottom of a stream sleeping the winter away. * n. First of all, it must be approach- ed with the proper feeling. You don't just pull on some old cloth- es and barge into the bush with a fishing pole• Nothing of the sort. No more than you'd think of rush- ing up to the first attractive wo- man you saw and embracing her rudely. What you do is start droving into the country aboutthe weeks before Opening Day. Every time you see running water you stop. You drag your wife out of the car and eagerly exhort her to "just look at that water!" Federation Fieldman Discusses Trends In Both Milk and Poultry Industry (By J. Carl Hemingway) A very popular song of recent competition completely in many years "Que Sera, Sera! (Whatever will be, Will be!) I wonder if this is the course that agriculture is following? We hear a great deal about trends in our society, social, moral and economic. Let us consider economic trends only. I wonder where they start? In the fluid milk trade, I remem- ber when there were two or three dairies serving even small villages. These were usually individual far- mer owned operations: There were certain minimum standards of heal- th and cleanliness that he had to maintain. Somehow pressure was brought to bear on government to have these standards raised until the point was reached that all fluid milk trust be pasturized. The cost of purchasing and oper- ating this equipment eliminated smaller centres and reduced it in all cases. Perhaps this trend, for various reasons, has reached the ultimate in the broiler industry and progress is being made in the same direc- tion . in the poultry industry. However I think a more accurate comparison could be made in the meat trade. There seems to be some sort of insidious promotion a present to the effect that a ser- ious percentage of meat on the market is not what it should be• And of course it is implied that be- cause of supposedly poorer facil- ities this low quality meat is com- ing from the small processors. However unfair this implication may be it has resulted in a steady increase in facility requirements to the point that people who would know are forecasting the -disappear- ance of half our present livestock processors. To bear this out, I heard only yesterday that one sizeable plant is presently closed and is unlikely to make the necessary expenditures required and that two others are more or less in the process of am- algamation. What is to be the reaction of livestock producers in the light of these events, Will farmers acc- ept the "lullaby philosophy"—wh- atever will be, will be! Or will farmers turn to a more challenging philosophy as indicated by anoth- er writer of the verse "I ant the master of my fate, I am the cap- tain of my soul!?" Farmers can be the masters of their livestock production, they can be captains of their business enterprise if they will accept the challenge that is being presented to them by Farmer's Allied Meat Enterprises Co-operative. It will require sacrifice, but not for long, as has been proven by Quebec Co-op Packers and Nova Scotia Co-op Packers. It will require det- ermination and action for just as long as you want your Co-op to be a success. It is not enough to put spare money in Fame shares, fame must become a part of your farm operation to serve your needs. But when the raw winds of lookAp blow, and the ice breaks up, out. The rainbow swarms up the streams to spawn. The lovely speckled darts. The voracious brown prowls. And within the fisherman, something savage and primitive stirs and calls. By op- ening Day, it has swelled to a lust that will be appeased by nothing but the blood of a six-inch trout. Opening Day has, for the trout All she can see, poor soul, is a muddy little stream. But you know perfectly well that that hole below the bridge is boiling with speckled. And you will be bet any amount that there is at least one huge rainbow, or maybe a pair, lurking behind that big log which you are sure would be there if only the water were clear. That's the way you work up to it, gradually. You just go out into the country and spot all the places where the trout are as thick as flies. This saves a lot of time on Opening Day. And of course, you keep it to yourself. You don't want a whole crowd of those fel- lows from the city jammed around you while you're catching your limit. The night before Opening Day, for the fisherman, is like the night before her first big dance, for a maiden. The .air is electric with excitement. And while you're get- ting your gear together some of the chaps drop in, just to see if you're all set. And no, they can't stay a min- ute, because we have to get up at (continued on page 3) Business and Professional Directory 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—Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93r1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCI ASSOCIATION HURON and ERE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES — 5 years 41,1 e/r — 3 and 4 years 47/z% — 1 ani 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies J. W. HABERER Authorized Representative Phone 161 -- Zurich OPTOMETRY G. B. Clancy, O.D. OPTOMETRIST JA 4-7251 — Goderich DENTISTS DR. H. H. 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