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Zurich Citizens News, 1964-03-12, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1964 eciticodal Comme4 Christmas Tree on Wheels Some people will remember when a car was thought to be fully equipped with lights if it had three: two headlamps and a red light at left rear. Now it is not unusual to see an ordin ary passenger car on the road with 13 lights. The manufacturers send some stan- dard models out of the factory with 11, consisting of four headlamps, two parking lamps, four red lights at the rear and a light for the rear licence plate. The gad- get -buyer has only to add a pair of fog - lamps and he's up to 13. It would not be stretching the truth too much to say that a car with 13 lights festooning it actually has 19 lights, because behind the lenses are four more separate filaments for turn -sig. nal lights, and another two for brake -signal lights. The trend is to make the standard pas- senger car look even more like a Christmas tree laid flat and equipped with wheels. We see some cars now sporting an extra light mounted centrally on the front, which goes on whenever the ignition is switched on, and stays on until the motor is switched off again. The purpose of this light, we are told, is to indicate whether a car is coming or going. On foggy days or in a snowstorm, or in high-speed driving on a highway like 401, it is indeed difficult sometimes to know whether another car is facing towards you or away from you, and the single cen- tral light in front is said to be a safety feature which instantly tells drivers of other cars whether they are facing or fol- lowing, and also gives them a clue to whether the lighted car is moving or parked. We note in passing that the sellers of new gadgets can always find some plausible. reason for buying the gadget and to note additionally that a confirmed gadget -buyer doesn't need much in the way of reasons to buy. However, if extra lights are to be add- ed to the array, we can suggest a more useful piece of information to be conveyed by light signals on an automobile. It would be useful to know, under many sets of cir- cumstances whether the car facing you is going to stop. Thousands of collisions are averted every day, in Ontario traffic, by the operation of the brake light at the rear ends of vehicles; when the red lights flash on the car in front of you, your own re- flexes operate to move your foot from ac- celerator to brake pedal. If brake signals would tell you whether the car corning to •an intersection from the opposite direction or from a side street, was going to stop, it would also help. In city traffic, the question that flicks through your mind is often in the form: "Is that censored idiot going to try to beat the yellow, or isn't he?" We're not necessarily arguing for more and more lights on cars but if there are to be more lights, brake -signal lights at the front end would do something to pro- mote safety.—(Stratford Beacon -Herald) Farmers' Contracts MALTING BARLEY We will have Betzes seed, which has proven far superior to Montealm or Parkland. SEED OAT CONTRACTS Once again we will have the three popular varieties, Rodney, Garry and Russell seed oats. We can take your crop from the combine if you wish. BEAN CONTRACTS We will be contracting white beans again this year. We will have all varieties and they will be of the highest quality. We will supply seed and fertilizer for all of these contracts. ,111111111111111111111111111111 ton 1111111 tt111111111111111111t1111111111111t11tt 1111111t11t 111t1111t llllllllllll 11t11111t 111 tl11111111111111111f11 t1111t Iltl11lt11111111111111tlltllllt111111ntenna. 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The Fair is designed as the glitter- ing crown jewel) to a galaxy of Canadian baubles which would glisten around the world. But the Fair's planners are already counting on running at least $50 million in the hole. One of the reasons that our Centennial plans are so slow in getting off the ground is that the general commissioner, Mr. Fisher, is laboring in the unen- viable position of being a Con- servative appointeee now an- swerable to a Liberal Govern- ment. While Mr. Fisher—uni- versally admired and respected as "Mr. Canada" for his earnest life-long consciousness — is a natural choice for the job, the hard realities of political life have not made his task any easier. What can the average Cana- dian community do to make a lasting and meaningful contri- bution to Centennial '67? Every Canadian city and town should now launch a two- pronged drive aimed at climax- ing this country's century of Confederation. ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERB TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash. Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents One aspect of the drive would be to plan, finance and erect permanent structures of com- munity value, such as new town halls incorporating libraries and auditoriums, new parks, or new recreational centres. The other aspect of this great national crusade should be to remake the face of every com- munity through general civic improvement and beautification campaigns. Such campaigns would require both municipal and private participation, by as many householders and busi- nessmen as possible in each community. A variety of plans should be considered. One of the most appealing of civic redevelop- ment plans— and most econom- ical— would involve closing several blocks of a main busi- ness street to motor traffic and turning it into a pedestrian shopping mall, with provision for ample off-street parking nearby. A practical and low-cost plan for general beautification of the business community is the "Norwich Plan", so named after the city in England which first developed it. The Norwich Plan is being promoted in this country by the Community plan- ning Association of Canada and has already been put into effect in Oakville, Ont., and other centres. This plan provides for a co- ordinated face-liftng of down- town business premises, with the average cost per merchant usually not running over a few hundred dollars. It's time now to put pressure on local council to see that at least one major building project, plus a general civic improvement plan, is un- dertaken immediately for Cen- tennial '6'7. i1 J1lWWUII111111 1dWWIU1111111 1111,) %1 SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley There are some people in life whom I just naturally admire. Among these are generous, beautiful women who are mod- est, old men who don't give a dang, and little kids who are shy. Another species I always felt I should admire was the Early Riser. "Surely," I thought. "there is something clean and fine and wholesome in a man who gets up early, winter or summer, and faces life with a decent taste in his mouth, and a good appetite." For years, accustomed to waking with sheer horror, shrinking from the moment of truth, and finally swinging my had leg to the floor with both hands, groaning as I lurched to the bathroom, I felt inferior in the presence of the Early Riser. Now, when it's too Iate to do much about it, except publicly admit that I have always secret- ly hated the Ear ly Riser, I learn that he's a big phony, that it's all a matter of metabolism, that my own species, the Late Starter, is just as normal, wholesome and decent. If not more so, bless us. Some people, they tell me, are at their lowest ebb in the morning. They can scarcely climb out of the sack, and don't get warmed up until noon. By midnight, there's no holding them, and at 3 a.m. they are just getting into their stride. These are the Late Starters. Us. In the opposite metabolic mess are those who can't sleep in the a.m. They bustle about, gargling, rattling pots( and generally be- ing sickening. They've done a full clay's work by noon. By 6 Hensall Kinsmen Lose President To London Club The regular dinner meeting of the Hensall Kinsmen Club was held Thursday at the Kosy Cor- ner Restaurant. The group learned with regret that their president, Ross Jinks, is trans- fering to the East London Club. Ross has been a good Kinsman and a great president, and he will be missed by the Hensall Kinsmen Club. President Ross Jinks turned the gavel to vice-president John Baker, Murray Baker was wel- comed into the club as a new member. Plans were further discussed in preparation for the Kinsmen Shamrock Ball, to be held at the Hensall Community arena on March 13. A few tickets are still available for the event and may be obtained from any Kins- man. So he gaily and vivaciously feels his way to the bathroom, and when he finds it, converses brilliantly with the Thing which faces him in the mirror: Thus: "Uggghhh!" p.m. they're getting a bit gray around the gills. After dinner, they drowse over the paper, yawn until the tears spurt from their eyes in rivulets, and totter off to bed at 10, full of hot milk and virtue. No marriage is quite as gro- tesque as one between an Early Riser and a Late Starter. Sad part of it is that it doesn't show up until- it's too late, because when people are courting, they're keen. Thus, before the ceremony, the Early Riser, desperate to win his girl, will fight off sleep until well past midnight, even though his eyes get starry, his grin a bit fixed. And his girl, who normally shuns the sun until it is over the yardarm, drags herself out of the pad, with a supreme effort, to meet E.R. for lunch. But when they've had a couple of years of that holy old wedlock, it's a horse of a dif- ferent hue. He wouldn't trade the arms of Morpheus for those of Eliza- beth Taylor. She snarls that he's getting old, wails, "You don't love me any more!", when he starts to fade right after the dishes are done. It's just as had when the roles are reversed. After using every- thing but dynamite to get him out of the pit and off to work, she resorts to, "Come on, Prince Charming. Let's see a little of that gay vivacity we saw at 2 a.m., when you were dancing with all the women at the party. Let's hear a little of that bril- liant conversation you were promoting at three, when every- body with any manners had gone home, so our hosts could go to bed." Music Results Of Local Teacher Are Announced Pupils of Idella Gabel, ARCT, who tried music exams with the Royal Conservatory are: Grande 9, piano: honours, Judy Finkbeiner; pass: Fay Schlenker. Grade 8, piano: honours, Janet Miller, Mary Ann Hayter, Shirley Flaxbard. Grade 7, piano: honours, Glen Ratz, Grade 6, piano: pass, Mar- garet Salmon. Grade 4, harmony: pass, Mar- garet Hotson. Grade 3, harmony: honours, Janet Miller, Mary Ann Hayter, Fay Schlenker, Judy Finkbeiner. Grade 2, theory: pass, Linda Rader. Those trying Western Con- servatory are: Grade 8, piano: first class honours, Connie Dietrich. Grade 6, piano: honours, Mary Mae Schwartzentruber. Grade 3, piano: honours, Marilyn Gascho. 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