Zurich Citizens News, 1964-08-27, Page 1R
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No, 34—FIRST WETH THE LOCAL NEWS
ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964
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REBUILD LOG HOUSE — This fine log building,
which was formerly located on the farm now owned by Don
Regier, on the Goshen Line, south of Zurich, has found a
new location south of Goderich. Sonie time ago the building
was purchased from Mr. Regier, by Tommy Lee, public
relations manager for Royal Trust Company. Mr. Lee had
J. C. Hindmarsh, of Goderich, dismantle the building piece
by piece and move it to the new location, where it was re-
constructed in its original form. This photo shows how the
building looks in its new location, just as it was prior to
moving. The Regier farm was formerly owned by the late
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rader, who used the building very little,
except as a storage shed and workshop. It is believed the
last people to have lived in the, log house were a Mr. and
Mrs. Faust, who later moved to Zurich. The log building
is now being used as a summer camp for the Lees.
NEW POLICE HEADQUARTERS for Huron County
are now in full operation. Built just a few miles south
of Goderich, the new offices serve the entire county, as well
as being the home of the Goderich detachment of the On-
tario Provincial Police. Contractors on the project were the
Zurich Hardware and Builders' Supply. Residents of this
area have been advised that if at any time they cannot con-
tact the local OPP office at Exeter, they can call the
Goderich headquarters, who in turn can contact the Exeter
detachment by radio. The building is located east of the
new Ontario Hospital, on the same property.
Pinball Machines
And Bingo Are
Rided At Bend
The OPP anti -gambling squad
and the OPP detachment at
Grand Bend carried out swift
raids last Thursday night at a
number of business establish-
ments in the village.
The bingo game operated as
part of the Knapp Amusements,
was closed, equipment and mer-
chandise prizes were seized.
This was done as the result of
a formal complaint lodged with
the crown attorney's office in
Sarnia.
The bingo game has operated
in the Bend for a number of
years. It was in operation six
days .a week, and on Sunday
some of the equipment has been
in use for playing the similar
game of "I Got It". According
to the Act governing the play-
ing of bingo, only occasional
games are permitted.
Also fifteen 5 -ball flipper pin-
ball machines were seized, some
from Knapp Amusements oper-
ated by George Knapp; others
from M & M Amusements
which is operated by Milt Whit-
ing and from the Wondergrove
Roller Rink, operated by Ed
Olbert.
The establishments in which
the pinball machines were
Hay Council Holds Special Meting
To Deal Numerous Drains
A couple of special meetings
of the council of the Township
of Hay were held last week, to
dealwith various drainage
works.
Since no appeals on assess-
ment were lodged for the east
branch of the Black Creek
Drainage works, by-law number
3 was given third reading and
passed. Contract to construct
the drain was awarded to
Charles Dietrich, for the sum of
$5495.
There were no appeals against
the .assessment of the Geiger
Drainage works, and by-law 13
was given third reading and
passed. Contract for the closed
portion of this drain was award-
ed to Roth Farm Drainage, for
the sum of $745. The contract
for the open portion of this
drain was awarded to L. H.
Turnbull, for the sum of $475.
In other business at the spe-
cial meeting, the council author-
ized Clerk H. W. Brokenshire
to return the deposit •cheque
of Roth Farm Drainage, which
had been placed for the Munn-
Mousseau drain and the Munn -
seized were not closed. Not all
maohines from any of the estab-
lishments were seized.
_Ten constables from the two
forces took part in the raid.
Elder drain. The clerk was also
instructed to write to the police
village trustees of Dashwood,
asking them if they could lo-
cate a reliable man to clean out
the catch basins on the Dash-
wood -Hay Municipal Drainage
works.
Council also agreed to call
tenders for the construction of
a cement floor in the DHO cul-
vert over the Black Creek Drain
on Highway 84.
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Crediton Voters
Approve Lights
New floodlights for Crediton's
ball park were selected as a
centennial project by 164 of
235 eligible voters on Monday.
This represented 87.8 per cent
of the ' eligible voters, said
Stephen Township Clerk Ross
Haugh, who acted as returning
officers.
Only 15 voters were in favor
of a new library, to cost an
estimated $4,000. Four voted
against both projects, and one
ballott was spoiled.
The floodlights, Mr. Haugh
said, will cost about $3,300. The
provincial and federal govern-
ments, Stephen Township coun-
cil and Crediton trustee board
will share the cost,
Ontario Hydro
Pons Opening of
New Area Offices
The new administrative office
for Ontario Hydro's western re-
gion will be officially opened
by W. Ross Strike, chairman of
Ontario Hydro on Thursday,
September 10. Located on the
west side of Wellington Road,
in south London, the new office
has been occupied by the re-
gional staff since mid-May of
this year.
Municipal utility commission-
ers, civic officials, electrical in-
dustry representatives and com-
mercial neighbours in south
London are being invited to in-
spect the all -electric off ice
which makes dual use of energy
for both lighting and heating.
The building, constructed by
Ellis Don Limited, was built at
a cost of $850,000 and serves as
an administrative office for
Hydro's western region which
covers that portion of southern
Ontario west of an arc which
takes in Port Burwell, Wood-
stock and Goderich.
Western region's new head-
quarters is truly an all electri-
cal building from time clock
controlled Iighting to automa-
tic lawn sprinklers and sun sen-
sitive floodlights.
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0oI Transportation Tenders Let
At a special meeting last Fri -
clay night, the Ilay Township
School Area board awarded bus
transportation contracts for the
coming school term. All bus
routes will be slightly increased
this year, due to the inclusion
of USS 9, Hay and Stanley into
the area for the term.
The tender of William Wat-
son was accepted to transport
children from former section 6,
Huron County
Crop Report
Harvest has still been pro-
gressing rather slowly this past
week. The frequent showers
and poor drying days kept harv-
est at a near standstill. Con-
sequently, there is still a con-
siderable amount of grain in
the field.
Quality of the grain still to
be harvested is somewhat re-
duced from what it would have
been, but it will still make fair-
ly good feed, if we get favour-
able weather from now on.
Lack of warm weather and
too much rain is causing both
corn and beans to mature very
slowly. Warm weather for both
these crops is needed very bad
ly, for not too many more weeks
of frost -free weather can be ex-
pected.
Beans are not likely to be as
good a crop as was anticipated
several weeks ago, but corn
still could be a bumper crop if
favourable weather comes in the
next couple of weeks.
to the school located in Zurich.
Mr. Watson will transport all
the children from concessions
8, 9, 10 and 11, Hay, along with
some from highway 83. Amount
of Mr. Watson's contract is
$3500 for the term.
Milton McAdams was award-
ed the contract to transport the
children from section 4, 12. and
USS 9, to the school located in
Zurich. Amount of his contract
is $4000.
The bus route for the west
section of the school area was
not settled at the meeting, and
a committee was appointed to
look into the tender that had
been received.
In other business at the
special meeting the boar d
agreed to increase the salary of
music supervisor L. Wein by
$200 for the coming year. He
will receive $1570 for the term.
Mr. Wein had pointed out to the
board that he will be teaching
Plan Fly–!n At
Sexsmith Airpornt
On Sunday, August 30, from
11 a.m. to 2 p.nl. a Fly -In will
be held at Sexsmith Airport,
11/2 miles northwest of Exeter
on the farm of Leonard Greb,
Hay Township.
The east -west runway was ex-
tended this spring to 2,300 feet
by removing an old orchard.
Sky divers and aircraft dis-
play will be a feature of the
Fly -In.
an extra four hours each week.
Final reading of the by-law
dealing with the expropriation
of land within the village of
Zurich, to enlarge the present
school site, was approved. The
board's solicitor, Elmer D. Bell,
QC, will now proceed with the
legal end of the expropriation.
The board authorized the sec-
retary, H. W. Brokenshire, to
write to the Zurich Separate
School board, thanking them for
their most generous offer of
the use of a classroom until
more accommodation was avail-
able. Extra accommodation,
however, has been made avail-
able by renovating the former
manual training room in the
Zurich school.
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Thieves Polite ,•
Nothing Token At
Henson Break–in
Thieves who "dropped in" un-
expectedly at the Hess Jewelry
store in Hensall last week ap-
parently scared themselves and
fled empty handed.
George Hess, owner of the
store, said he thinks their ex-
perience frightened the thieves
enough to make them think
only of leaving quickly.
The thieves fell through a
roof trap door a distance of
10 feet to the store floor, Mr,
Hess said. They landed atop
a coal scuttle amid a shower
of plaster and then fled out a
front door of the store.
Twenty-five years ago this past Tuesday. on
August 25, 1939, the entire community was shocked
at the tragic drowning of Charles Albert "Babe"
Siebert, a professional hockey player with the Mont-
real Canadiens at the time. Siebert, who was noted
to be -a good swimmer, was at the beach near St.
Joseph with his two daughters, Judie and Joan,.,
when he met his untimely death, .
An inner tube the girls were playing with was
carried out by the breeze, beyond their depth, and
Babe came to the rescue in an attempt to recover
it. Unfortunately, he was stricken by cramps and
drowned almost immediately. A couple of days
passed before the body was found. despite strenuous
efforts on the part of a large group of searchers.
Just a few weeks ago, the entire community was
just as proud, as they were sad then, to hear the
news that Babe Siebert had been voted to the
Hockey Hall of Fame. His wife, a resident of Kit-
chener, was elated at the news of her late hu.sband's
honor. A brother, William, the postmaster at Zur-
ich, was just as happy to hear of the wonderful
news. One of the two daughters lives in Kitchener,
the other in California.
At the time of his unfortunate death, Babe had
just been appointed as coach of the Montreal Ca-
nadiens, and was to have begun his new duties in
the fall. He was only 35 years old at the time.
Babe was born in Plattsville, in 1904. The
Siebert family moved to Dashwood in 1910, and
then a few years later to Zurich, where he received
most of his early ed-
ucation and his start
in sports. While yet a
young lad he played
an important role in
excellent ball teams at
Zurich. and soon began
to excel at hockey.
son perform. None of the fans
ever came home disappointed,
for Babe Siebert was one of the
finest in the game, and gave it
his best at all times.
Indeed, it was a fitting tribute
to a wonderful athlete when
Babe was voted to hockey's Hall
of Fame, just 25 years after his
untimely death. Under the reg-
ulations, the selection commit-
tee was at first empowered to
choose only players who played
up to 1939, and Babe was the
only one approved among sev-
eral nominations.
After leaving Zuuich, he went
to Seaforth, where he played
for a while before going to Kit-
chener to join the junior team.
in that city. He also played
senior in Niagara Falls` for a
while before turning profes-
sional, with the Montreal Ma-
roons in. 1925. After a stint
with the New York Rangers and
Boston Bruins, Babe returned
to Montreal where he starred
with the Canadiens. Through-
out his professional career, he
played both left wing and dc -
fence, and was noted for hav-
ing one of the hardest shots in
the NHL.
In 14 seasons, Babe scored
140 goals and picked up 159
assists, for a total of 296 scor-
ing points, Three times he was
named to the NHL all-star team,
and .also won the Hart trophy
for being the most valuable
player in the league in 1937.
Many a time while 13abe play-
ed pro hockey there would be
several carloads of fans from
this area travel to Detroit or
Toronto to watch their favorite