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Zurich Citizens News, 1965-12-16, Page 1No, 50—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS 9/1,44:. ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1965 7 CENTS PER COPY SPEAKS TO CLINTON GROUP — The Kinsmen Club of Clinton had municipal, service club, press and air force people as guests at their annual civic and press dinner. Shown here are, front, left to right, Robert McKinley, Huron MP, guest speaker, and Andy Peterson, Kin president; standing, F/L Jerry Smith, mayor of Adastral Park, RCAF Station; Reeve Duff Thompson, president of Clinton Lions, and Bill Fleming, of the Kinsmen Club.—(News-Record Photo) Ne s o Dashwood W.I. Mrs. V. L. Becker, home eco- nomic convenor, was in charge of the Christmas meeting of Dashwood. W.I. "Happy recol- lections of Christmas as a child" was the roll call. A number of community ladies were guests. Mrs. J. M. Tieman dis- cussed the motto, "Christmas Story". Mrs. A. V. Tiernan had a dis- play and demonstration of Christmas decorations and gift wrap. Mrs. J. M. Tiernan and Mrs. Leonard Schenk sang a duet. Everyone joined in carol singing. Mrs. Glen Webb, vice-presi- dent, dealt with the business. Donations were given to the blind, War Memorial Hospital, Children's Aid and the local men's club for the children's Christmas treats. Mrs. Leonard Schenk gave the report on the area convention at Stratford in the absence of Mrs. Irvin Rader, delegate. The 4-H club leaders reported on the work of the girls and announced that Achievement Day will be in Ex- eter, January 15. An exchange of Christmas gifts and Christmas lunch brought the meeting to a close. Christmas Meeting The annual and Christmas meeting of Zion Lutheran Ladies' Aid was held Wednes- day, December 8. Reports were heard from all secretaries and treasurers. The collection was for the Lutheran Hour. The ladies donated the altar for Peace Lutheran Church in Exeter. A Christmas gift Christmas Issue For Next Week Next week's edition of this newspaper will be the annual Christmas issue, which contains greetings from the various business people throughout this area. As it will be impossible for us to contact everyone re- garding a greeting advertise- ment, anyone may give us a call and we will arrange an ad- vertisement for you. In past years it has been our custom not to publish a news- paper between Christmas and New Years, but since both holi- days fall at the end of the week we have decided to have an is- sue on December 30. This edi- tion will give any merchants an opportunity to advise year-end sales as well as providing for year-end `thank you' advertise- ments. So, there will be two more editions of this newspaper be- fore the year ends, both on the regular publishing dates. Next issue will be in the mails on Thursday, December 23, and the last one on Thursday, De- cember 30. The early co-oper- ation of all correspondents and advertisers will be greatly ap- preciated. sh was approved for Arthur Rader, seminary student. The officers are as follows: president, Mrs. Leonard Schenk; vice-president, Mrs. Harry Hay- ter; secretary, Mrs. Marie Reste- mayer; treasurer, Mrs. Janes Hayter; flower and treat sec- retary, Mrs. Albert Miller; card secretary, Mrs. Rudolph Miller; pianist, Mrs. Albert Rader; as- sistant, Mrs. Marie Restemayer; auditors, Mrs. Reinhold Miller and Mrs. V. L. Becker. A short program followed, with group one having Mary Ann Hayter sing selections; group three, Christmas carols, including a German carol; group four, a reading by Mrs. Clifford Salmon; group two, with Mrs. Milford Merner, con- venor, was in charge of devo- tions and lunch. During the lunch hour Rev. and Mrs. William Gatz were presented a Christmas gift. Edward Keller Edward Keller, 63, passed away at his late residence, Hay Township, on Saturday. He had been in poor health for many months. He was a farmer. Surviving are his wife, the former Frieda Deichert; three daughters, Ruth (Mrs. Melvin Greb), Stephen Township; Glor- ia (Mrs. Max Learn), Soist, West Germany; Marlene (Mrs. Roland Gibson), Komoka! eight sons, Kenneth, Dashwood; El- gin, Earl, Keith, all of London; Karl, Hay Township; Murray, Roger, George all at home; two sisters, Loretta, D a s h w o o d; Erma, London; six brothers, Adolph, Elmore, of Dashwood; Ar n o 1 d, Stephen Township; Reinherd, Exeter; Herb, Hay Township; Harold, Toronto; also a number of grandchildren. The body rested at the T. Harry Hoffman funeral home until Tuesday noon, -then at Zion Lutheran Church where Rev. William Getz was in charge of the service, with burial at the Lutheran cemetery. Branch A.A.L. Meeting The branch meeting for the Aid Association for Lutherans was held in the church base- ment Tuefsday; December 7. Both the national and local officers were voted for; pres- ident. Gordon Kraft; vice-pres- ident, Charles Tiernan; secret- ary-,treasurer, .Albert Milder. Gordon Kraft showe1r1 slide on his trip to Europe and lunch was served. Santa in Zurich Santa Claus will pay his of- ficial visit to Zurich this Sat- urday afternoon and will visit the Community Centre at 2 p.m. There will be free movies, entertainment,and treats for all the children present. The annual visit of Santa to Zurich is sponsored by the Lions Club. Dashwood Men's Club Earlier this fall the follow- ing officers were elected: presi- dent, Ron Merner; vice-presi- dents, Jack Geiser, Charles Tiernan, Hubert Miller; secre- tary -treasurer, Harry Hayter; auditors, Mervyn Tiernan and Milford Merner; finance com- mittee, Jake Schroeder and Al- bert Rader; education commit- tee, Dr. Gulens, William Haugh; attendance a n membership committee, Alvin Walper, Ervin Devine, Charles Martene and Elmer Rader;, press reporter, Glen Webb. Father C. A. Doyle, Zurich, addressed the men on the Blue Water Rest Home. The chil- dren's Christmas party will be December 18. The men voted to pay for the new stove at the community centre, donate to both churches for the use of the dishes at the fowl supper, and the Exeter Legion for the use of the bingo equipment. They are sponsoring a skating rink for the children of the community. 0 Dashwood Girl Is Grand Bend Queen Hensall Kinsmen Sell peanuts Hensall Kinsmen held their dinner meeting o Thursday night in the Kosy orner, and had as their guests Doug Mar- cell, who is on the !staff of the Bank of Montreal. Christmas trees,,an annual project of the elub,are on sale and can be seen at the lot on King Street adjacent to Crest Hardware. It was disclosed that the re- cent peanut drive was very successful and the response to the drive by the citizens was gratifying. Packages left over can be purchased from any Kinsmen member and also at Hensall Motor Sales, Reid's Texaco, Hyde's Implement Shop and Charlie's Auto Sales. Presi- dent Jim Hyde chaired the meeting. 0 Miss Sharon Morenz, Dash- wood, on Saturday was crowned Winter Sports Club Queen at the big parade and celebration held at Grand Bend. This is the second time this fall Miss Morenz has been crowned a beauty queen. Earlier she won the title Miss Auto Show, at Exeter. Sharon was one of eight con- testants in the affair, and rep- resented the Village Inn. Sec- ond place winner was Miss Kathy Rowe, of Exeter, while Joanne Desjardine, of Grand Bend, placed third. Judges for the event were Robert McKinley, Huron MP, of Zurich; Lorne Henderson, Lamb - ton MLA, of Sarnia, and Mrs. Griff Thomas, of Grand Bend, The crown was presented to the winner by reeve Stewart Webb, of Grand. Bend. A sil- ver platter • and cash was also presented, and all the contest- ants received a free member- ship in the Grand Bend Winter Sports Club. The monster parade in the afternoon was led by the Cen- tralia RCAF Band, the Thed- ford Silver Band, and the Exe- ter Legion Pipe Band. Six horses, driven by members of the Dixie Trial Rider s, also took part in the proeession, which featured Santa Claus and the Zurich Lions Majorettes. Floats winning prizes in the parade were The Village Inn, Grand Bend Lions Club, and Walker Ski Hills. Following the parade, close to 500 children were given treats at the Legion Hall. A dance in the evening wound up the day's festivities. Henson Dinettes Cake Draw Held Mrs. Ron Wareing was host- ess for the regular meeting of the Hensall Kinette Club on Wednesday evening, when mem- bers were informed that their annual Christmas cake draw was very successful, with pro- ceeds very gratifying. Thank you notes were read from sick and shut-ins who had been presented with boxes of cookies, another annual project of the club. The December 22 meeting has been cancelled owing to the Christmas rush. Next meeting will be held at the hone of the past president, Mrs. John Baker, January 12. Mrs. Harold Caldwell was the winner of the raffle. President Mrs. William Fuss chaired the meeting. 0 — Bob McKinley Is Guest Speaker at Clinton Kinsmen Zurich Council Okays Addition For South Huron High School The council of the village of Zurich, at their regular monthly meeting last Wednesday night, approved the issuing of deben- tures towards the addition at South Huron District High School. The request for the approval of the debenture issue has been hanging fire with most municipalities for the past cou- ple of months, and only in the last two weeks have a couple of them given their okay on the matter. The amount to be raised by the area on deben- ture issue is approximately $600,000. In other business at their meeting last week, the council approved an insurance cover- age of $24,000 on their new fire hall. Clerk - treasurer Mrs. Elda Wagner was authorized to pay village shares to various groups as follows: County of Huron, $8675.64; Township of Hay, $546.56; village of Hensall, R o b e r t McKinley, Zurich, newly elected member of par- liament for Huron, was guest speaker at the Kinsmen Club of Clinton press and civic din- ner meeting in Hotel Clinton dining room last Tuesday eve- ning. The MP pledged his support if district officials were going to protest to the board of trans- port commissioners over the CNR's proposed recommenda- tion to stop passenger service on the Goderich-Stratford line. He suggested that local munici- pal officials take their own sur- vey and see where passengers come from and whether they would be willing to drive to a train. He inquired about a delega- tion to Ottawa about the RCAF stations in his riding. In congratulating the Clinton Kinsmen on their activities, Mr. McKinley revealed that he was a 13 -year perfect attendance member of Zurich Lions Club. Santa Claus 'Visits He sail Children $1149.82; Hay School Area, Accounts totalling $4176.64 $4533.55; Zurich Separate were approved for payment, at School, $1564.96. the meeting. Santa Claus arrived in Hen- sall last Saturday afternoon in the pouring rain on the fire truck, and was greeted by hun- dreds of children from Hensall and district. This was the largest crowd ever to attend the annual Christmas party, sponsored by the Hensall busi- nessmen. Five hundred and fifty bags of candy and potato chips and 418 bottles of chocolate milk, the latter donated by Ron Mock of H u r on dal e Dairy, were handed out. For the first time in history they ran out of can- dy and chips, having prepared for about 480—more had to be ordered. The town hall was jammed for the showing of several car- toon films with Bill Fuss in charge of the projector. Treats were handed out by chief of police E. R. Davis, reeve Norm- an H. Jones and clerk Earl Campbell, assisted by several members of the senior citizens club. 0 Special Service A large congregation attend- ed the Sunday school white gift service at the United Church. This is a special serv- ice of the Christmas season sponsored by the students of the church school, with the church beautifully decorated in Christmas motif. John Goddard directed the service and Miss Lois Simmons read Scripture passages. Caro- lyn Cook presented the story. Doug and Tim Mock rendered a duet, and a trio, composed of Linda Mock, Nancy Kyle and Joyce Flynn, sang. The junior choir led in the Christmas music singing two selections. The junior choir of the Sunday school filed by the altar and presented white gifts for the world's needy and hungry. Ushers were Gary Kyle, Michael Davis, Paul Drys- dale and Michael Hoy. Canvassers on Blue water Rest Home Campaign Report Favourable Success Campaign workers for Blue Water Rest Home building fund are reporting enthusiastic sup- port for the project, Already at least 13 individual gifts have been for $1,.000 or more, and there are still more to come in this category, Gifts of $500 and more are still more num- erous. Many workers report that the average gift from persons of modest means is well over $100. The village of Zurich, under the chairmanship of Leroy Thiel leads in the speed of their campaign. Already 75 per cent of all calls in the vil- lage are complete. In the St. Joseph area, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Maur - Hay Township Council Completes Heavy Year on Drainage Proble s At the regular meeting of the Hay Township council last week, a total of seven tile drain- age loans were approved. This year has marked the busiest in the history of council for tile drainage loans and municipal drainage works. Council received a written request from Gordon Troyer and George Troyer, for a clean- out and repair on the Deters drain. The request was accept- ed and the clerk was instructed to appoint C. P. Corbett to pre- sent a report on the drain to the council as soon as possible. A refund of $2.00 is to be made to Mrs. Alice Denomme, who was assessed and taxed for a dog in error. Len Erb is to be refunded $3.00 on his 1964 taxes, when he was charged in error for a tile drain inspec- tor's fee. The levy was to have been made against Ian McAllister. Another refund. Schedule Recout On Stephen Vote ice Durand, at least 65 per cent of all calls have been complet- ed. Stanley Township, with Menno Steckle as chairman, is f third with a good 50 per cents heard from. General chairman 3. Elgin McKinley points out that all gifts can be made on the instal— ment plan. He emphasizes the', fact that many people prefer to spread their giving over a two to five year period, allowing, them to be more generous. Plans are now under way for a cane^ss in the town of Exeter, and this will probably take place right after the first of the year. Most other areas will also be left over until the new year, when canvassers will have more time to devote, A recount of the vote on bev- erage rooms in Stephen Town- ship—defeated by a small mar- gin December 6—will be held Saturday in Goderich. The township's two hotels, the Dufferin Hotel, Centralia, and the Dashwood Hotel, asked for the recount. Sixty per cent of the voters must be in favor of a question in a liquor vote for approval of it. Beverage rooms drew 59.37 per cent with 612 voters for and 419 against. 0 Banks Announce Holiday Hours Bank branches in Canada will observe the following special hours of service, according to R. H. J. McKinnon, manager of the Zurich branch of the Bank of Montreal. On Thursday, December 23, and Thursday, December 30, the hours of extended service applicable to Fridays will be given. Banks will close at 3 p.m. on Friday, December 24, and Fri- day, December 31, and will re- main closed on Monday, De- cember 27, and on Monday, January 3. was approved for J. Hovius, of $2.00 on dog tax His assess- ment is to be changed from two dogs to one female. In other business at the meet- ing, council set a rate of $8.50 per hour for snow -plowing this winter, if the service of their plow is required anywhere. 0 Arnold Circle See Colo:. red Slides The Christmas meeting of the Presbyterian Arnold Circle was held in the church auditor- ium Monday evening and guests present reminisced with Mrs. Jack McEwen and her colored. slides of her many trips. President Mrs. Gordon Schwalm chaired the meeting and the theme of the worship period was "Peace", with Mrs. Mildred Bell and Mrs. Lloyd Mousseau. A singing quartet, Mrs. Homer Campbell, Mrs. John Baker, Mrs. Al Hoggarth and Mrs. Bob Bell, entertained with Christmas songs. Mrs. Earl Campbell installed the officers for 1966. New cradle roll helper is Mrs. Rol- and Vanstone. Mrs. McEwen and Mrs. Mal- colm Dougall, who helped with the showing of the slides, were thanked by Mrs. John Baker. Life membership certificates were presented to Mrs. Trevor Wilson and Mrs. Lloyd Mous- seau by Mrs. Stewart Bell. Decorations in the church for the Christmas season will be done by Mrs. Don Mousseau;, Mrs. Bob Bell and Mrs. Harold Bonthron. Citizens News Subscription Is Ideal Gift Item Are you looking for a last- minute gift suggestion? A sub- scription to this newspaper is a gift that people will appre- ciate all -year round. If you wish to send someone far-off a subscription we will look after all the details for you, including the mailing of an appropriate gift announce- ment card. Just drop into our office and tell us where you want the subscription to go. .1:[A1 RIFD 40 YEARS AGO — Mr. and Mrs. Stewart. Wehb were honoured last week when members of their family treated them to a dinner at the Dominion Hotel, Zurich, or the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary. Prior to moving to Grand Bend some years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Wells) '.ived 'n S' .phen Township. Mr. Webb has re- tired this year after serving some time as reeve of Grand Bend couple have three sons, Glenn, warden of Huron County; Morris, RR 2, Zurich, and Ray, Stephen.