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Zurich Citizens News, 1974-01-10, Page 4PAGE 4 The nglers ! The burning question is: Should women wear earrings in a church choir? One opinion: "If every girl searches her heart for her reason for wearing earrings, she will know that a little vanity does not belong to Christianity." Another opinion: "Oh come, come, come! How many girls wear lipstick? There are very few shiny noses in the choir loft. AU is vanity ! " A male voice interjects; "A dangling earring might brighten considerably an otherwise dull hour." Out in the material world earrings have a place, maybe even in church, but we won't argue the point. Definitely, at a festive ball, an afternoon tea, the opera, the summer cottage, or on the street, earrings can be worn, but never, never in a business office, especially where answering the telephone is part of the job. A girl who worked in an office in Ontario wore earrings that dangled in sparkling, jewel- like pendants. This girl, in answering the telephone many times during the day, unscrewed the dangler at her left ear while the telephone rang insistently. When it was answered finally, the dangler was attached again...again and again, all day long! The odd time when the telephone was not ringing, the right earring was caressed by the right hand. Earrings may have a place along with the other vanities in church, but they could bankrupt a business near the office tele- phone! (One Small Drop of Ink) What you see on trains This week a CPR official remarked: "It may not be long when passenger service will cease, and we'll just carry express!" All over Ontario the cessation of rail service has disturbed communities wishing to retain railway identity. In these late years, stories in the press have told of delegations waiting upon government and railway officials, endeavoring to stem the demise of railroad operations in towns and villages, whereas the respective communities were at fault for nonsupport. Busin- ess cannot operate without revenue. True, part of the glamor is gone with the departed steam engine, now a museum piece, but dieselization has not only lowered cost. Speed and efficiency are the result. More business will be further incentive to continue modernization develop- ment. Another thing, en passant: We were heartsick on Tuesday afternoon, reclining in a coach car on the Montreal -Toronto run. On the floor beneath, across from us and down the aisle, was a heterogeneous mess of strewn magazines, papers, and what -pots, pockmarked here and there with cigarette butts, stained with lipstick. A failing business falters in prestige and is subjected to indig- nities. We would suggest that there should be a mandatory stiffening of "house" regulations for passengers --no smoking in open coaches, no feet on chairs (your mother would crown you at • home), and no litterbugging. (One Small Drop of Ink) Open mediation (by Wilma Oke) Mediation talks between the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board and their teachers are schedul- ed to re -open in two weeks after a day -long session at the board administrative office in Seaforth Thursday. Jack Lane, business administ- rator, said the two groups would meet for negotiations again on January 16, at 5 p.m. Thursday's meeting was the second since the teacher dispute over salaries went to Toronto mediator, Hal D. Howells on December 12. The first meet- ing, which was held on Dec- ember 19. went from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. t ne next morning , Thursday's meeting lasted about eight hours. Neither Gary Birmingham, communications officer for the teachers, nor board officials, would comment on the progress made, except to say it was slow ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS••LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 1�pts el Member: 40% Canadian WeeklyNewspapers Association 111. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association +� Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States arid Foreign; single copies 15¢ ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS TIItJRSl)AY, JANUARY 10, 1f.!74 TV . That takes up a lot ot time. And Saturday night, there's the day of them all --- the hockey game, No, no not the one down at the rink. The one that oil company sponsors. Aren't you glad you're not rich , and don't have to go down south every winter and burn around swimming in that tepid water and loaf around getting fat on all that fried 1 southern chicken, not to ment- ion getting all dried out and leathery -looking from too much sun? We should have an exchange program with some of those soft, lazy, southern races. A month or two in Canada at this time of year would make real men of those birds. We could send some of our old people down on the exchange, to places like Jam- aica and Mexico, for example. But it wouldn't work. You see, the people who organized it, chaps like me, would have to volunteer to go along with our old folk, to arrange things for them, and we'd miss all the joyous excitement of this winter wonderland. There'd be no vol- unteers. I, for one, couldn't stand to miss more than three or four months of it. How about you? 13y jove, there's nothing like a spot of real, old-fashioned Canadian winter, what? Well, is there? What's that you say? You'll take the Bomb? Oh, come, me dear fella, that's no attitude. We've had a delightful taste of it here. Thirty-six inches, a solid yard of the deep and crisp and even during the past week, and I must say, I rejoice in it. It's just a dashed shame that it can't be spread around abit more. 1-lere we are revelling in it and some of those poor devils in the unfortunate bottom end of the country haven't had more than an inch of it. Makes some feel rather selfish. There's something about winter that gets me, right here (you'll have to use your imag- ination). Once the decadence of the holiday season is behind us, we hardy, rugged, virile Canadians can get down to some real living. Right? That's why we're so much cheerier and healthier and better -looking than those soft, southern races, Right? Oh, winter has its little annoyances, just as summer does. As I shovelled out my driveway for the fifth time in five days, a still, small voice within me enquired. "Why didn't that thick-headed Irish grandfather of yours emigrate to Australia?" But that is counteracted by the fun of winter driving. There: a dash to it, a good fellowship about it, that makes it more of a game than a chore, For ex- ample, the other day I started for work as usual. It was snow- ing. The hill was slippery, so I decided to go the long way a- round, An hour and 20 minutes later I arrived at work. But it was worth it. Pushing and being pushed, I had met some of the friendliest people you could find. I had seen two dandy accidents. And though I had been forced to abandon my car half a mile further from work that where I'd started, I had the pleasure of musing up the long hill with two charming ladies breaking trail for me. That's more than Sir Edmund Hilary had when he climbed Mount Everest. There are lots of other joyous experiences in our wholesome Canadian winter, but I think it's our winter sports that make me feel more alive than any- thing else. You should hear me humming with pure pleasure as I rub wax on young Kim's tobaggan before sending her off for a jolly afternoon on the hill. And I fairly quiver with exc- itement when Hugh and I head out for the ski slopes. It's such a colorful, lively sport! The gaily -clad skiers with their bright -hued sweaters and spark- ling leg casts. The scarlet of blood against snow. The cheery moans of those with freshly - torn cartilages. But the real thrill is careen- ing down the big boll, as grace- ful as a gull, as light as a dart Advertisement in Krokodil, Moscow, satirical weekly: "Wanted,. Typist to copy secret documents. Must be unable to read." in a windstorm. I could watch him all afternoon, but it's sort of lonely, sitting here in the car, and besides, I have to get home and shovel out the front walk. We don't use it ourselves, but the postman complained this week. Said it was coming over the tops of his rubber boots. Another great sport beckons at the curling rink. 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