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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1971
This makes it interesting!
Being editor of a weekly newspaper is a rewarding experience
and one which we would not wish to abandon, even if on most
occasions, it involves longer hours and a variety of problems
not common to many other occupations.
Perhaps what makes it so, the Greenfield (Ind.) Reporter
reminds us, is the fact we never lack for interesting observations
and questions, typical of which, the Reporter suggests, are the
following:
"Please put it on the front page. "
"Use the story just as I have written it. The club wants it that
way for the scrap book."
"You're invited to our annual dinner tonight (this was the
third invitation that week and we wanted a night home). There
will be plenty free to eat and drink. Oh yes, please bring your
camera. "
"How come it wasn't in the paper? It was - Well, I didn't
see it. Will you please go through the back copies and tear it i
our for me. "
"I just stopped by to talk a few minutes, but if you're busy."
"We voted to make you our club publicity chairman. "
"I know you have a deadline, but couldn't you just squeeze
this little item in?"
"My husband has never been in trouble before so I don't
think his name should appear in the paper."
"I know it's on a Sunday, but it's our annual reunion and
someone ought to cover it."
"My uncle's brother is a big advertiser of yours, and I was
wondering if..... "
"I'll try to get my ad in to you before the deadline next
time."
"If there wasn't room for the picture, why couldn't they
run it on another page?" (The Huron Expositor)
TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
"Popular at school"
Eric is a handome lad of French and Irish descent,
with dark eyes, brown hair, and dark skin. A husky,
healthy boy, he enjoys vigorous outdoor activities, espe-
cially swimming and baseball.
At 10 years, Eric has many friends and is popular with
his schoolmates. Perhaps because he is a quiet lad, not
'very assertive, he prefers to play with children younger
than himself. Even with them he is not bossy, playing a
friendly big -brother role.
Eric. is a pleasant boy to have around, because he is
co-operative and creates no discipline problems either in
school or in his foster home. He is not a great scholar,
but he tries hard.
Eric's amiable disposition will make him a happy ad-
dition to a warm relaxed family. Ile needs a home where
he will receive a great deal of affection, where the father
will share his interest in sports and where there is no
pressure for academic achievement.
To inquire about adopting Eric, please write to To-
day's Child, Department of Social and Family Services,
.Parliament Building,s Toronto 182. For general adop-
tion information, ask your Children's Aid Society.
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WORLD, REJOICE!
by Bill Smiley
Going back to school could be a
traumatic experience, but it
isn't. It's sad to see the summer
go, and all those things you were
going to do . not done. But
there's a certain excitement as
we step into September, surely
the finest month of the year in
this country.
It is certainly not a sad
occasion for mothers of young
children. Most of them heave a
sigh of relief, right down to their
sandals, at the thought of school
opening. Children are wonderful
creatures. But, like booze, they
should be taken in small doses.
In summer, they are constant-
ly wanting to eat, do something
dangerous, or fight with their
brothers and sisters. A young
mother's nerves are tough, but
can be stretched only so far.
Even more grateful for our
educational system are the par-
ents of all those teenagers who
didn't have a job this summer.
Most of them, even those who
complain bitterly about high
education taxes, could kiss the
minister of education on both
cheeks. For, despite all the
wonderful things to do in
summer, there is nothing more
bored than a teenager of either
sex, just hanging around home.
I can't blame them much. I
get bored silty myself, just
hanging around home. And ado-
lescence makes it even more
frustrating, because the body is
full of beans, not meant for
sitting in a lawnchair, reading a
book.
But the pattern goes some-
thing like.this. Sleep till noon or
later. Get up after the lunch
dishes are done and make a
shambles of the kitchen prepar-
ing a messy hamburger. Leave
the mess for Mom. Demand why
there isn't a clean shirt. •Slouch
to the streets or the park, or
hitchhike to the beach. Sit
around and rap with a gang of
other bored teenagers.
If dinner is at six, be sure to
get home at either five or seven
and demand to be fed immedi-
ately. Then spend an hour in the
bathroom, fancying up, and drift
off to stay out half the night,
muttering vaguely that you
don't know where you're going
or when you'll be home. This, of
course, after "borrowing," in
plaintive tones, a little some-
thing from the old man.
With exceptions, this is how
it goes. It's demoralizing for all
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parties. And it's one reason even
teenagers are glad to get back to
school and their parents are not
glad, but ecstatic.
Then there's the business of
clothes for school. Little kids are
sent off clean and shining, in
fairly conventional apparel. Big
kids battle every inch of the
way. Big boys aren't so bad,
though even they are showing
peacock tendencies. It's the big
girls who cause the trouble.
After a summer in shorts and
jeans, sweatshirt and bare feet,
they are exceeding loath to don
dresses and skirts and shoes. So
they do the next best thing —
battle their mothers over every
item of attire, and demand
something exotic: a buckskin
jacket, a prayer shawl, a micro
or maxi skirt, a see-through
blouse.
However, once they're back
at school, the kids enjoy it. For
a while. They discuss their
summer romances and immedi-
ately begin new ones. They brag
about the wild times they had.
They positively swagger if
they've hitchhiked to Van-
couver. They swiftly assess new
teachers and try to drive them
up the wall. They groan with
exaggerated dismay when. they
find out that Old So -and -So will
be teaching them again this year,
And how do the teachers
feel? Most of them are Glad. -tai
get back to work. They'r6 broke,
or they're sick of muddling
around with their families, or
they want to see what kind of
rotten time -table they have this
year, or they just plain love
teaching.
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Billy: How do you remove
varnish?
Andrew: Take out the "r" and
make it vanish!
Huran.Perth TB
plan tests
The Huron -Perth Tuberculosis
and Respiratory Disease Associat-
ion plans to do Lung Function
Tests at the Stratford Fair. This
was announced by Mrs. Edith
Fisher, Mitchell, Education
Chairman of.the organization
at a recent meeting in Seaforth.
Routine reports were given by
Mrs. Fisher, Rev. Garbutt Smith,
Stratford, Mrs. David Schenk,
Seaforth, Tom Leiper, Londes-
bore and Mr. Lloyd Dodgson,
Stratford. President Ivan Forsyth
Kippen, presided.
Mr. Smith said industries in the
area were being approached
systemically regarding lung
function testing of employees and
that four surveys already hacl
been completed. Mrs. Fisher re-
ported that the two bursary recip-
ients would be addressing memb-
ers in the near future and that
Mrs. Schenck and Mrs, Eolith
Brothers, Stratford, who attended
the International Union Against
TB meeting in Russia, would
show slides and give a travelogue
to members. Mrs. Schenck has
eight engagements to speak to
area groups but Mrs. Brothers
unfortunately, is hospitalized
and unable to participate for the
time being.
Mrs. Schenck said that Dr.
Norman Epstein, Director of
Allergies, St. Joseph's Hospital,
Toronto, will address a public
meeting on Friday, September
24, in Stratford. She added that
inhalation therapy compressor
pumps are still in great demand
and that drugs had been provided
these and other respiratory dis-
ease sufferers. If parents consent,
children with asthma in the
counties of Huron and Perth are
to be researched at the University
of Guelph. Which has received a
grant from the Ontario Tubercul-
osis and Respiratory Disease
Association for the project.
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