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Zurich Citizens News, 1961-07-27, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH Citizens NEWS ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961 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: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: ONTARIO WEE LY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 5 cents and THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961 Rural Ontario To Lose Seats Population of Huron — county assessor's figures for this year—is 48,683. The popu- lation of Ontario, divided by the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly, yields an electorial quotient of 62,928. The prov- incial riding of Huron, taking the assess- ment figures for the 14 municipalities therein, is 31,689. ti does not include all the municipalities of the county, for Wing - ham, Brussels, Blyth and the townships of Ashfield, Colborne, Grey, East and West Wawanosh, Morris and Turnberry are in Huron -Bruce. The Dominion constituency of Huron similarly lacks certain county municipal- ities, Wingham and the townships of Howick and Turnberry are surrendered to Wellington -Huron, while Hibbert is taken in from Perth. All Huron municipalities participated in the Canadian Temperance Act vote of 1959. The last census count gave the federal riding of Huron 46,426 population, The electoral quotient for the Dominion is 71,850. In other words, both Huron ridings are well below the mathematical average, though more populous than many con- stituencies. Huron -Bruce was one of the seven smallest constituencies in respect of population, cited by CCF leader Donald MacDonald as having together no more voters than the single riding of York-Sear- horough. He proposed revision in the Yorks and North Waterloo. Probably there will be redistribution on the basis of the 1961 census. There is a proposal that in Ontario this be done by an "independent" commission, and not members of the Legislature. Even a royal commission would comprise government nominees. In 1955, the number of Ontario seats was increased to 98, and if that be con- sidered a large enough House, then the larger urban centres will get more mem- bers. (The Toronto Telegram quaintly comments that these areas "produce most of the problems the Legislature has to deal with." More rural ridings will dis- appear or become part of new groupings. Given its own municipalities, Huron as a county constituency, should be able to sur- vive and, whatever the political implicat- ions may be, its people doubtless would be more content to vote as a county. After all, Huron from 1872 to 1911 comprised three federal ridings, each elected a member of Parliament. Up to 1923, Huron North, Huron South and Huron Centre sent mem- ber to the Legislature. Since then the rise of urban population, especially in Toronto and York, has been impressive, while, as noted a few weeks ago, rural population has so declined that Huron County has few- er people now than in 1871.—(Goderich Sig- nal -Star). That Thing Called Profit "People do not understand profits." Such is the declaratioon of a leading indus- trialist who bemoans the fact that the at- tack on profits is heavy and continuous. With this we agree but would point out that the attacks gain support from people who are denied profits by the action of commercial corporations who are ruthless in denying the small business men, includ- ing the farmers their share of the profits. Recently we listened in as two manu- facturers of electrical appliances were dis- cussing existing retail practises and expres- sing alarm over the introduction of the dis- count house. These men had terms, not endearing terms for some retailers. Their venom was especially directed at one Toron- to operator referred to as The Slasher. We believe in the profit motive. We believe in profits providing the opportunity to gain the profits is one of equal opportun- ity for all. But when the slashers in the retail trade deny profit to others engaged in developing and moving the raw product to the market the ranks of the discontented grow even though basic philosophies may differ. We believe that a ground swell of dis- content will develope that will inevitably lead to government action not to prevent people making profits but to ensure that they have a fair chance but to ensure that ftable enterprise. Some of the practices that are allowed to develop — loss leaders, specials, payola, discounts, condition claim, and many other offences in the distribution of fruits and vegetables and we; suspect, of other products, will eventually --lead to re- gulation for the very simple reason that industry cannot police itself The best deterent against some other .form of society than the free enterprise state is a willingness to let the small busi- ness man, including the farmer, draw prof- itable breath. There are corporations in North America that can't seem to absorb the lessions. They alone will be respon- sible when those who cry against profits and those who are denied profits join forces and raise enough dust to get some other form of enterprise. The state always intervenes after the tornado has passed Perhaps those farm organizations so concerned with the profits some concerns are taking would be better employed in seeing that the farmers of Canada are assured their fair share of the consumer's dollar and that profits, for ev- erybody, are sustained.—(The Grower). S ome folks like Fred are careless! A dvice they will ignore. F red was warned to fix his ladder; E very day, if cracked some morel T he day the ladder broke was sure no joker Y ou should have heard the yell when Freddie fell! F ram top to bottom, down he went, 1 n almost nothing flat! R esult ... four cuts, ten scratches, ' S ix bruises, one squashed hat! ,T he next time, Fred may be alert and make repairs so he won't get hind Every year, over 2,000 Ontario farm people -\,are hurt in falls! Rentethber to be careful, won't you? Canadian Farm Safety Week' July 23 to 29 IA Co" operators Insurance, Association) 48 Attend Hensall Rlord Donor Clinic (By our Hensall correspondent) At the Red Cross BIood Clin- ic sponsored by the Hensall Leg- ion Ladies Auxiliary last Wed- nesday, 44 pints' of blood were given. 48 volunteered, with four rejects. Mrs. John Anderson, of Lon- don, Red Cross representative was in charge of arrangements. Miss J. K. Kent headed a corp of six nurses. Miss G-. Scott, of London, was technician. Auxiliary president Mrs. Gor- don Munn assisted at the blood clinic, with six members of the auxiliary, namely, Mrs. William Smale , Mrs. William Brown, Mrs. W. J. Cameron, Mrs. Mary Taylor, Mrs. John Skea and Mrs. E. R. Davis. WINS FELLOWSHIP (By our Hensall correspondent) Mr, and Mrs. Ross Love, Hen- sall, received word last week that their son, Robert, who is attending Stanford University, California, had been awarded a fellowship, valued at $800. Ro- bert is studying his Ph.D. de- gree, and has been at Stanford since the beginning of the year. Ise formerly received his B.A,Sc degree at Toronto University,. and his MBA degree at Western University, London. 4 40 YEARS AGO JULY, 1921 Mr. John F. Moritz left on Monday for Cavalier, North Da- kota, where he will help to gar- ner the summer harvest. Miss Dorothy Truemner, nur- se, left on Monday for Toronto, where she will resume her dut- ies in a hospital in that city. Over a period of two weeks, five babies were born to a wo- man in Budapest, Hungary. She was 41 years of age and the mother of ten children at the time. The mother and babies all left the hospital alive and healthy. Among those who left on the Harvester excursion to the west, on Wednesday morning, were Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mousseau, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Meidinger, Mrs. J. H. Schnell, Mrs. Folton, Miss Mary Kipper, Dan Gascho, Ed Schnell, Menno Oesch and George Deichert. The Zurich Turf Club are holding matinee races this Fri- day evening at 6 o'clock, Any- one may enter their horses, and there will be no entry fee char- ged to the grounds, just a silver collection. Mr. Nesbitt Woods has retur- ned from the Ontario Agricul- tural College at Guelph, where he has taken a course. The tax rate levied for the purpose of operating the village of Zurich was fixed at six mills. 0 25 YEARS AGO JULY, 1936 The wheat crop in this area is all cut, and the farmers are all busy hauling in and thresh- ing their crop, which is very good this year. On Monday evening a large number of friends and relatives gathered at the home of Mrs. Lydia Pifle, to honour Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Geiger, newlyweds. Mr. Carl Schnell spent the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McBride. Mrs. Ed- gar Schnell, Jean and Joyce, re- turned to Oshawa' with him. Mr. Herb Mousseau has work- men busy moving his residential house next to his garage back from the road and letting it down on a concrete foundation. This will give Mr. Mousseau considerable room around the front of his garage. Earl Yungblut, of town, at the ball game in Seaforth on Monday night, had the misfor- tune to badly fracture his leg around the ankle. While run- ning to second base he somehow fell and twisted his leg, causing the fracture. The fine barn on the farm of W. L. Forrest in Stanley Town- ship is pretty well finished, and certainly is a well-built build- ing. It will be used for a good number of years to come. The Dashwood Creamery was completely destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning, with the loss being set at $5,000. Cause • of the fire was unknown. YEARS GONE -BY 15 YEARS AGO JULY, 1946 Mr, Clarence Geoffrey met with a painful accident when he was catching a ball, which landed on his right eye. After medical treatment he is getting along quite well. W. L. "Nick" Whyte, one of the leading figures in agricul- tural circles in Huron County for some time, has been awar- ded the MBE in the King's Do- minion Day honours list. Mrs. David Meyers, and son, Robin, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, arrived at Lon- don on Tuesday, where they were met at the station by the former's husband. For the pre- sent Mr. and Mrs. Meyers will be in residence at the home of his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Thom- as Meyers. Fire believed to have been caused by spontaneous combus- tion, completely destroyed the frame barn on the farm of George Stephenson , on t h e Parr Line. Also lost in the blaze was the season's crop of Hay and grain. Of 187 wells tested in the vil- lage of Hensall, 18 tested class A, while 69 percent were class- ed as D. Mr. George Volland and John Truemner, of Detroit, are holi- daying with relatives in this vic- inity, 0 10 YEARS AGO JULY, 1951 Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Stade, ac- companied by Mr. and Mrs, Herb Kraft, of Detroit, are en- joying a motor trop to the west- ern states, as far as North Da- kota, where Mrs. Stade has a brother living. Mr. and Mrs. George Duch- arme met with a painful accid- ent last week when they were coming home from a business trip to Dublin. A car came out on the highway and hit the Du- charme vehicle with consider- able force. Their year old baby was the most seriously injured, and was taken to Seaforth Hos- pital. M. and Mrs. Ted Laporte, of Windsor, are holidaying at their summer home on the Bluewater highway. Thompson's new grain mill at Hensall, valued at $150,000, commenced operations with a lineup of trucks to be unloaded. This new mill replaces the one razed in a disastrous fire last December. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Break- ey have moved into their new home which they have just com- pleted during the past few mon- ths. Mr. and Mrs. George Hess, of Hensall, last week celebrated their 25th wedding annivers- ary. A 30 -year-old Tay Township farmer, Howard Adkins, was severely injured last week when the tractor he was driving burst into flames 30 -i -b PROCLAMATION VILLAGE OF ZURICH CIVIC l Hereby Proclaim HOLIDAY MONDAY, AUGUST 7 A, CIVIC HOLIDAY FOR THE VILLAGE OF ZURICH — and — Call Upon All Citizens To Observe It As Such W. Lloyd O'Brien, Reeve. I'm living a kind of crazy mixed-up life these days. 0n the surface, it's sensible enough I go to lectures and study hard all week. On weekends, I g0 home for a couple of restful, re- freshing days with my family. Theoretically, that's the pic- ture. I slog around all week in the city heat. I labor long and late over my books. I'm lonely and frustrated. Then, on Fri- day afternoon limp, exhausted and red -eyed, I head for the cool north country, where I lie in a long chair, sip a long, cool drink, and recoup my strength for another harrowing week. But it isn't like that at all. It's just the opposite. Down here, I live with the peaceful precision of a monk. I saun- ter in the shady streets in the evening, and listen to the muted squeal of tires. I read all night if I want to. I eat when I'm hungry. I smoke 80 fags a day if I damwell feel like it. Despite the fact that they're building a subway a hundred yards away, I can step out into the quadrangle df the college, of an evening, and enter a wor- ld of merieval traquility. I can have a shower at any hour with- out a child hammering on the bathroom door, in agony, the minute I get wet. I can step out of my trousers and kick them into a corner if I want to. I can smoke in bed if I wish. I can sit around stark, staring naked, as I am at the moment. I can drop across the hall in half an hour and enjoy a rye and tap -water aperitif with an - o t h e r gray -thatched refugee from domesticity and exchange with him lies about how much money we gave up to go into teaching. No, it isn't this end of the stick that's turning me into a gaunt and haggard creature who is one massive twitch. It's that weekend shift that makes me so shaky I can't eat soup with- out sprinkling it all over my shirt. Business and Pr AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL First, when I get home, I have to run the gantlet of a brief, penetrating interrogation by the Old Battleaxe. Somehow she has got it into her head that I'm having a wild fling down here in the city. Ever since we were married she has been con- vinced that the moment I es- cape her vigilance I begin to drink furiously, dash from one night club to another, and ac- quire mistresses right and left. How I'm supposed to accom- plish these bacchanalian orgies on the $2.80 I have for spending money after paying my room and board, she doesn't explain. But she still thinks of me as the gay, dashing dog she first met, 15 years ago, and refuses to see the gray old wolf, most of his fangs gone, who sits across the kitchen table, assuring her, with some indignation, that such a thing never entered his mind. X: g: K, After she has checked on my morals, the duet begins. Her soprano carries the melody: the kids are driving her crazy, the car is full of rattles, the lawn is burned to a crisp, and there are hordes of visitors about to descend. My croaky baritone plays the accompani- ment; the course is impossibly hard, I'm working like a dog, the city is an inferno, and I'm sick of restaurant meals. This ancient' chant, as famil- iar and fascinating as ever, car- ries on far into the night, over countless spots of tea, coffee or anything else that's handy and we totter off to bed, awash, about 3 a.m. I have scarcely closed my eyes when one of the kids is shaking me vigorously and ask- ing, "What time are we going swimming, Dad?" It is 8 a.m. Somewhere or other, they have picked up the notion that my entire week end is to be devo- ted to togetherness. And some- how or other, that's about the way in turns out. (continued on page 3) ofessional Directory OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" PHONE 119 DASHWOOD DENTISTS DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 INSURANCE For Safety EVERY FARMER NEEDS Liability Insurance For Information About All. Insurance --- Call BERT KLOPP Phone 93 r 1 or 220 Zurich Representing CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HURON and ERIE DEBENTURES CANADA TRUST CERTIFICATES 5%--3,4,and 5years % — 1 and 2 years GENERAL INSURANCES Fire, Automobile, Premises Liability, Casualty, Sickness and Accident, etc. An Independent Agent representing Canadian Companies J W. 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