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Zurich Citizens News, 1970-07-30, Page 4R=AGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 13850,0 itte Member 4 Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association 31 Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Post' SuOecription Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; I W0 fn United States -and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. ONE OF THE MANY FINE TEAMS AT THE ZURICH HORSE SHOW Hay Township Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Company NOW SERVING YOU WITH ALL MAJOR COVERAGES ON FARM, URBAN and COTTAGES 1 COMPLETE PROTECTION POLICY Protection Available 11, dir,,Ic\-\11L 4 ,' 'ee'ilirT WINDSTORM LIABILITY THEFT Machinery Floater ALSO AVAILABLE : HOMEOWNERS PACKAGE POLICY Livestock Floater .. For complete details, contact: JOHN R. CONSITT, ZURICH — 236-4332 ED HENDRICK, CREDITON — 234-6250 JACK SCOTCHMER, BAYFIELD — 565-5270 THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN By Bill Smiley This is going to be one of the most difficult columns I've ever written. Don't worry, there hasn't been a death in the family or anything like that, although I did offer my wife a divorce on Sunday morning and it was a solid deal for five minutes. No, this is purely physical. When you play with fire, you're likely to get burnt. I did and I was. Trouble is, it's the two typing fingers on my right hand. Each has a blister the size of a dime, and a quarter -inch deep, right on the tip. So I'm trying to type this with my knuckles, and it's heavy weather. Not that I'm merely a one - handed typist. I use my left hand with incredible dexterity, forefinger , for hitting keys, thumb for hitting the space -bar. Well, soon after burning the right-hand fingers, 1 tripped over a rock, shoved out my left hand to save myself, and sprained my thumb. It looks like a puff -adder with a toothache and feels similar. However, when I think of my neighbor, my troubles, while painful, are trivial. On the eve of his summer holidays, he racked up some discs in his neck. He is in hospital, in great pain, and in a huge neck -collar. My wife has a pain too, and it's also in her neck, She's sick of running a motel, of changing beds for transient visitors, of doing great loads of laundry. Kim will arrive home with big green garbage bags so stuffed with laundry that they look like pregnant whales. Hugh does the same. And they invariably bring friends. The whole mob has the same characteristic. They tromp around in their bare feet. They go to the beach, track in about a pound of sand per foot. You almost need a shovel and a sand -pail when you're changing the sheets. I tell my wife she's crazy, that they probably never get to sleep on clean sheets except at home. One can infer that from the state of the laundry. But she's of the old school, which believes that even 'bums should have clean sheets. My advice to her has all the effect of writing on water with chalk. The idea is that Kim will do the laundry. But she's working at a job where she must be up at 5 a.m. to be at work by 7. So when she's home for a day, she sleeps until about 3 p.m. And Momma, knowing she's a sucker, does the laundry, muttering steadily. There is a point at which you think you can see your kids looking after themselves. They're going to be out of your hair, independent. No more handouts. No more paying of FOCUS: One Moment of Time Our camera records a child's First Smile . . . makes an official report on the bride's radiance . . Commemorates a trio posed for Dad's birthday surprise. Moments like these can never be recaptured unless they aro per- fectly preserved by HADDEN'S STUDIO. Your family's pictorial history shou1d be in qualified hands. Contact Hadden's Studio GODERICH 118. St. David St. 5244787 rinnatetirttraummt bills. No more looking after their documents and the countless forms to be filled out, But that point recedes steadily into the distance as you plod steadily toward it. I was warned about this by a friend, some years ago. He had three grown sons, all doing well, all married, all with children. I congratulated him on his fine family and the fact that they were on their own. He laughed bitterly. "They're on their own," he snorted, "when they've all bor- rowed enough from you for a down payment on a house, at two per cent interest. And even then, unless they're in Zanzibar, they're home every second weekend, expecting to be wined and dined and baby-sat." And he was dead right. The only solution I can see is for parents of grown-up "children" to sell the family home, with its three or four bedrooms, and move into a one bedroom apartment, preferably in some place as handy to get at as Aklavik. I don't blame the kids much. Our two are both working in the hot, stinky city, at fairly menial jobs, and living in pretty squalid rooms, because that's all they can afford. We live in a lovely summer area, with beaches, clean air, a big, shady lot, and a built-in cook — their mom. They still think of it as home. Clean sheets, real meat in- stead of rice and macaroni, showers galore, a doting mother to pick up after them, and a real mark of a father, who is always good for a small "loan". What more could they want? And I must admit, against my will, that we're pretty glad to see the red -head with the big brown eyes, or the young man with the trim beard, and hear, "Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad." THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1970 Music Results of Local t'eac'her Pupils of Mrs. Dorothy Stade have received their music results from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. Grade II Theory, John Blackwell, First Class Honors; Grade VIII piano, Elaine Westlake, Pass; Grade VI piano, Mrs, Phyllis Deichert, Honors. 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