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Zurich Citizens News, 1966-03-24, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1964 e&ii .. .. Vanishing Half Dollars When was the last time you got a 50 - cent piece in change A reader who has made a habit for years of saving his 50 -cent pieces, tells us that his rate of acquisition is now so slow that if he depends on it for his Christmas shopping at the end of 1966, Santa Claus is going to get very scanty support in his household. So far in the year 1966, he says, he has been given a half dollar in his change, in a routine retail transaction, exactly once. The only possible explanation, it would seem, for this scarcity •of 50 -cent pieces in the ordinary flow of coins through the channels of trade, is that a great many people are saving then. They must be disappearing into the piggy banks just about as fast as the Royal Canadian Mint can produce them. A similar phenomenon has been ob- served in the United States in the past year, but in that country there are two specific reasons for the hoarding of coins. There has been a great fad in the United States for the saving of Kennedy half dol- lars. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was November 22, 1963; the first Kennedy half dollars were issued in March, 1964. Since then the United States Mint has produced about 400,000,000 Ken- nedy half •dollars, which have vanished out of circulation. The second reason for the disappear- ance of the half dollar in the United States is that a firm decision :has been made by the Johnson administration to economize on silver, by reducing the silver content of coins. New 50 -cent pieces are soon to be issued in the United States, which are to contain only 40 per cent silver. Since that announcement was made, the standard American half dollars, with the head of Benjamin Franklin on them, have been vanishing almost as completely as the Ken nedy half dollars. Canadian who go across the border as tourists are now most unlikely to find any 50 -cent pieees when they sort their left- over American small change, on return to Canada. Neither of these two reasons for hoard- ing 50 -cent pieces should have the same influence on Canadian hoarding of Cana- dian half dollars. The Canadian coins con- tain 80 per cent of silver, and so far as we know are to continue to be minted with 80 per cent silver content. A sentimental regard for the late President Kennedy, who was greatly admired in Canada, might provide some incentive to Canadian hoard- ers, but could not explain the hoarding, which is obviously taking place, of 50 -cent pieces with the head of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. If a few people boarded, in •the hope that the coins might become rare, and 'have scarcity value as collectors' items, they would probably win. When every- body is hoarding them, it is hard to see how they can ever develop any scarcity value.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. Make the Parents Pay In the Ontario Legislature private members' bills usually get a very short shrift. One rarely comes to a vote and in the last 10 years not one has been passed. One has now been introduced that the Legislature night do well to consider carefully, because it suggests ways of deal- ing with a problem that is far too preva- lent in this country. That problem is van- dalism. George H. Peck, the Conservative mem- ber from Scarboro-Centre, has introduced a bill that would require parents to pay some of the damage, up to a limit of $100, when any of their children commit vanda- lism against public property. This would be in addition to any other penalties pro- vided by the law. The other penalties are seldom in- voked because the culprits are usually young people and there are always advo- cates to plead that youth should be given another chance. Meantime, the public con- tinues to pay and pay for wilful, senseless destruction. We, at Port Arthur, have had some depressing examples of this. Trees in pub- lic parks have been cut down and uprooted; toilets and other expensive equipment have been smashed. Only a short while ago vandals broke into Oliver Road Public School and did an appalling amount of damage, apparently "just for kicks". In a statement accompanying his bill, Mr. Peck points out that damage amount- ing to hundreds of thousands of dollars is done each year by young vandals. He continues: "Many psychologists and law enforcement officers point out that youngsters dealing in vindictive van- dalism would seldom damage their parents' property, simply because parents would not stand for it". He contended parents would exercise similar control if they felt they might be liable for a share of the damage to other property. Not Prepared for Life Work On-the-job training is as old probably as the first time one fur -clad caveman gave some form of recompense to another one to help perform a two-man job and told him how to do it. It is certainly as old as the first time a bride informed her mother she would learn to cook after she got married. But there is always a new twist for every old story. A department store vice- president in the United. States has been. given a citation by a merchants' associa- tion for a form of pre-employment training designed to upgrade a group of 16 young girls. They did not lack the normal amount of schooling but they could not pass muster in other ways. After a month of sales training and counselling, including some instruction in old-fashioned deportment, every one of them had surpassed the mini- mum requirements and were kept on the staff. If Mr. Pearson's Company of Young Canadians ever gets to the point of looking for projects, it might investigate the need for pre-employment training of young peo- ple who have had few opportunities to acquire the qualities needed in jobs that are not to be measured by school marks. The executive who was willing to ex- periment found that many young people are turned down by personnel departments not beeause of lack of ability but because they cannot pass standard employment tests.—The Printed Word. Cover the Phone Most everyone's done it—put a hand over the mouth of the telephone receiver and said something the person on the other end of the line wasn't supposed to hear. The disturbing question for today is, did he (or she) actually hear? It's possible. Spurred on by a man who said a tele- phone company employee had warned him against this practice, we carried out brief research on the subject. The results: Three out of five insults (jokingly) spoken with the telephone receiver covered in the usual way were distinctly heard by people on the other end of the line. When care was taken not just to cover but actual• ly squeeze the mouthpiece with the hand, the voice did not carry clearly on the phone. But when the words were spoken near the • ear-piece—as is sometimes done by people covering a mounthpiece — the words carried audibly over the line. The listening end of the instrument picked up the sound as well as the talking end. There's an important lesson here, especially for people with small hands of large spaces between their fingers: be sure the mouthpiece is really sealed, speak softly and keep the earpiece out of range. The safest thing to do of course, is refrain from saying things that might proye embarrassing if heard by the wrong person. But it's probably easier to change telephoning techniques than human nature. —Ottawa Journal. r►moraimationommonnommanniimunimmoninannol has been scorned. I submit there is nothing to match the anger of a man who is aware of his own stupidity and either cannot or will not .do anything about it. In a blind fit of rage, men are seeking revenge in the form of witty falsehoods, comic dis- tortions and •humourous half- truths. Ironically, while men are laughing themselves silly over stories they themselves have 'invented as a sort of soothing balm, women are chalking up safe driving rec- ords that may never be broken. Women drivers are far from crazy. That is just a ground- less rumour being spread by deflated male ego. Women drivers are merely suffering from a bad case of the jitters brought on by sharing the road with so many men addicted to careless driving and bent an self-destruction. 0 r From My Window 13y Shirley Keller WHY WQMEN DRIVERS ARE CALLED CRAZY I'm growing a little weary of the increasing' number of jokes and cartoons depicting the ladies as a bunch of hysterical nuts when seated behind the wheel of the family car. I think it is about time the rec- ord was set straight and the world was told why women drivers are considered crazy. To begin, it is only men who accuse women of being incap- able of handling a car. I sup- pose the basic reason for this unjustified attack on female driving habits is man's abiding fear of inadequacy. It's a matter of record now that women are mentally super- ior to men. For centuries, women were content to remain in the background — unselfish- ly transmitting intelligent rea- soning to their men, leading them gently to new heights, salving men's problems without them realizing it. For this service, a woman expected love and adoration. What did she get? A hot kitchen, a brood of screaming kids, a seven-day week and an order to like it or lump it. Women had no other choice than to come out into the open. For self-preservation a 1 o n e, women began to enter the world which up until this time they had shunned to prevent einbar- rassment to their masters. To- day, althaingh active in all fields of business, women are still reluctant to use all their mental resources. To compete with man at his level is enough. To consistently beat him at his own games would inflict wounds too deep to heal. But when it comes to driving, instinct stops a woman of her generous desires to be nothing more than the male equal. Try as she will, she cannot risk her life and the lives of her pas- sengers by performing death - defying stunts like those her husband tries on the highways. She will not throw caution to the wind. Her intellectual su- periority tells her it is folly to travel at speeds that tempt the Father in Heaven to call her home before her time. She is clever enough to avoid acci- dents that cripple and kill. She is patient enough to wait her turn in traffic without leaning heavily on the horn. She is courteous enough not to hog the road. She is self-confident enough to forego the attention - getting antics her boy friend seems to need to prove his im- portance. She is tolerant enough to allow for strange behaviour of other drivers. She is educated enough to read and heed traf- fic signs. She is a good driver —statistics prove it—and her male counterpart is purely and simply jealous. The song writer has said there is nothing to compare with the wrath of a woman who Television Views by William Whiting Who said the people want to be informed? Who said tele- vision should be educational? Who cares whether the Gemini missions are successful? Goshen 4-H Gals Begin Season Of Home -making Z rich 074, News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mali, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription. Rates: $3OOrinadafceepsanaa $4.00 in United States andgd year i We had a prime example of that the other evening in the United States when all three American networks cancelled, and in some cases, interrupted regularly -scheduled programs for news of the emergency Gemini splashdown. NBC had over 3,000 telephone calls of protest for cancelling "The Virginian" and "The Bob Hope Show". CBS had protests when they pulled off the pro- gram "Lost in Space". ABC had more than 1,000 calls pro- testing three interruptions of "The Batman". Maybe it's time the network bosses took a look at their news operations for the purpose of analyzing what the people real- ly want. Radio should do the same. I have always felt that news every 30 minutes, and even every hour, is not appre- ciated by listeners unless it's really new and earth -shattering. The sex -scandal in Ottawa was juicy while it lasted and people were interested, but only for about 48 hours. News- papers are still trying to keep it alive, but it's a dead issue now. The people don't really care anymore. The attitude is •simply this: Don't disturb my routine—I want to see my reg- ular programs every day and to hell with world situations and problems. And God help any govem ment or any government -ap- pointed commission who tries to take away entertainment and insert news information or edu- cational programs on television., -- 0 Weightlifting and Shoplifting •In a shoplifting case a woman has been fined for walking out of a store with eight dollars worth of unpaid -for groceries in her purse. The story doesn't say whether this was possible because of the size of the hand- bag or because of the price of the groceries. The first meeting of the sen- ior Goshen 4-H Club was held Thursday, March 10. Leaders for this club are Mrs. E. Con- sitt, Mrs. D. Robinson and Mrs. R. McKinley. Nine members -were present. In this project, "Accent on Accessories", each member is required to make a hat and scarf, while senior members will also make a handbag. It is also hoped that by this club members will learn new ideas on how to complete and coni- pliment costumes with well• chosen accessories. Nancy Consitt was chosen as president. 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