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Around A NM or tegetl uto house-in. us still see thing over that they term the stupidly of the powers that rd) - v - in turning off the hydro last“ Sunday " 1:30 pm. just the time they started to cook din.» tr, enter being to church. ( " insist that the joker res- msi‘ble must surely be a“ helor, or if not, then must:' only eat two meals a day. 1 Car owners complained that h many cases, they could not) “Wain gasoline for their care. All gasoline pumps are new muted by electricity. Off hsnd we don't know the n responsible for _"t,iie) tilt down of hydro at such en inconvenient time of day, his we imagine he now real- hel he pulled a prize boner. Housewives never did care for others interfering with their heels and the big meal of the week is usually on Sunday. A M of them intimated they would have liked to feed the Wt-cooked food to tho person who turned off the electric- ttr. One even hoped he would not be able to digest the bone‘ In the roast. Those who feel they poseess the sublime power to tamper with hydro during meal hours would be wise to revise their thinking. If they do anticipate having to shut down, they better do so in the small hours of the morning and even then v1. - "nun...” -- give proper warning of their Intention» NEITHER TB! in on warn]; of others OR WELFARE of others WI! considered when permission was granted the PUC to stop their bus a few feet from King St., on Erb. . _ ---.e- L-.- nuns u... w. --- Private cars have never been l allowed to park here even when the buses were not using It. It was just too close to the main street and fl! too dan- gerous. Now a vehicles taking up " least three times as much space as a prlvato car, h allowed to park here & plug traffic during all the busy periods of the dag. It Just doesn't make sense. _ - -N AL-O “UCDIAD ulna..- -e-e'" Considering the {net that' this vehicles is creating a hazard, we are inclined to wonder who would have to put the cost if there is an Incident. because of the bus. Its darn near time that Iese consideration was given such forms of transportation and Its darn near time that rest consideration was given such forms of transportation and more thought given the wel- fare of the private car owner. Its the Joe operating his own vehicle that pays for tho roads to be built and their mainten- ance afterwards. A little thought on such matters will make the paying less painful. continued disregard could end M, with Joe doing more walk- " and less paying. J.H.S. ANOTHER STEP m Wa- hrloo's progress . . . the Can-, adian Bank of Commerce, in tts present site since 1915, has completely renovated the en- tire interior of its building. The impression now created II one of considerable more space, more cheerful furnish» lugs and much more natural lighting. The rigidly of the old bank has completely dis- armoured Its g':wr have enou' "win" a Irr‘vv in Hm ‘(fan I W1 tn l'~h‘ A mate th, denorrlt of tht beautifvvl bright of modern barks "' appreciated. Orly TICKETS FOR THE Water- too Lions Club annual Cnrnivnl . 'T new on uh. hlve been for - time. Proceeds of the Cuminl will go towards build- If! "LB. _-;_’H‘: a pleasure tr rm": money in your to Fake . deposi' l ygrv~:pzpprmln. wr k" -1. The bani: riot would enmura" " {"01u0n1 visits b. 1.11.3. ronsldcrcd thn n-t your! an" .1 to put 8n!" hunk martin.” , match to R" ’~n of the bn'.- bright interior nks can be fully 10,000 Volunteers Needed fat X-Ruy Survey Thu touch in new on for About. 10,000 voluneun in Waterloo county to - pl“ scro- the man "may dined u about B-rs, of "on child our IE "at over " key ”and have bun lined up hr the survey to he would this run by the Waterloo County Health Astsoeintion _ Chest X-ny survey commlhe in eo-operation with the “d of health. t However the ween-,0! ttl survey depends on the‘volnn- tear contacts men and women' who will all on the 100,000 odd ndulu personally. 1‘- "We hope to get . hm part of this force rdruited before the start of ti. holi- dgys" said treneral china-n V. M. Bach-nan. However if the recruiting Sufficiently Signed Petition Held by Council At the Monday night meet- ing of the W.terioo council a sufficiently signed petition submitted by property owners submitted by property owners of Roger street, was witheld titer Mr. A. F. Harland resi- dent of the street voiced sturdy opposition to the pus- ing of the petition. The petition sufneiently signed by 90 per cent of the residents, m for a road hue and class 2 pavement Includ- ing "phtstt curbs on Roger from Moon avenue to Wm:- loo SM It. A. P. Hound spokea-‘ nun for the party opposing the petition aid he m not again- " the petition but Iglinst it ,vntil 'a greut error' made some war: .30 was corrected. Mr. Holland told council that one {dc of ai" aireet was higher 'ov " much a two feet in some places. ing s diving pool for the child- ' ren of this community. We know there are too muny demands on you to buy l ickets, but this is one of the few eases where your dollars in a lot of good. There are probably few service organ- 1 rations in the Twin City that , have actually performed the ' amount of public service which an be credited to the Lions l ~lub. The good work of this 1 dub is profusely evident in 1 Waterloo park. If you are cagy _ "tt spending that hard earned , dollar. take a walk to the park and see what they have " ready accomplished. Then you'll know your contribution will be well spent. 13.5. KITCHENER SERVICE STATION operators a r e =creaming to have the night and Sunday bylaw removed.! “any claim their business is‘ down as much as 50%. l The same story is being: told Hy many operators in Water-i I Em, although they haven't I") F yet approsched council with) n attempt to rescind the by- , W. Its only a matter of time -, lhough. _ Kitchener council is not too "appy about the situation as " wme of the operators evident- , ' do not know even their own . 1nd for any lenzm of time. , _ veral of them have sierrd “itions for both the early sing and the unrestricted . urs. m said he did not think the In about time someone cull- »! the mac. Much of the time 10! and on minor items eouldl 'be cut to n minimum. Hem- wt: will Bil be Keener if they know the meeting iln’t going to In! half the night. Result um In morn, not lost work SOMETHING WE HAVE -'tT harpinr on for yours, wt" eounril hours, mny now ‘vcnme ' rtorty. Seems that 'trtv council members object J sitting until 1 mm. g.H.S will be eorroutod in Bom- ber so an org-ninth: In ready for tho m _ to be (aka: October " Th lur- voy is planned with tho (“that of n full cover-u of the unit ”gut-tin; - Dr. B. J. Banking Idle.) "rerirttertdertt of “port Bunntorlun and ettatrmnts of the eommittee's medial panel, emphulsu that pulmonary tuberculosis in will a dine-10‘ which taher I never. toll of the nun Ind womn power of the union. , The County l. divided into three districts for the purpou of the survey with Raymond Snyder, R.R. 2, Waterloo. vice-gluirmn for the rural section: of the county; George A. Edwards. Gilt viee-ehnir- mu tor Galt, Preston Ind Hespelet; Wtltiam Kaufman u viee-ehairman for Kitchener and Waterloo. pdtitlonm were aware of the problem when they asked for signatures. They should "in- vestigate before they invest" he said. If council passes the petition Mr. Holland said he will appeal to the Ontulo Municipnl bond. "80 per cent of your trouble is caused by the citizen who does not know the facts," Mr. Hollnnd stated, "and if . mis- take is made, they turn around 3nd him. counci! or the un- ducting a-ta-h" _ 1 A delegation Inn-ring in) support of the petition were told by the assistant city en- gineer D'Arey Button that the cost for the lny-ing of the road ‘base would cost pronerty own- ers 74 cents per lineal foot a your. placed over a 10 year period. WILL OFFICIALLY OPEN PARK BOOTH The new Waterloo Park Booth will be officially opened Sunday, June 12. Mr. Robert Totxke. present eoneessioneer of the booth and his staff are shown in, the pie- tare Sam}. busily making Int minute preparations for the opening. _ - . . . by“ Board members felt that " was not fair to either the con- .trmctor or the bond to con- ‘struct the booth without spec- ‘ificntion. A difference of in- terpreting the plans could ens- _ ily make the job more confus- 1 ing. The booth which was built by Clare Esbauzh of Waterloo, was orginally felt to be too ex- pensive by the Waterloo Park Board. Mr. Esbaugh agreed to build the booth from plans without specifications for $6.- 750. Waterloo iiiiiiaii Million Della! ‘Progressive / Mam Swami Tune In My “Islam lTrend Kept For the second time In Wa- walled {l,726,§7§. . tmfi‘in.“‘:2‘12m‘hfmT23539§“§§?§122Z211L2§ 3“,;‘1‘12L8y lo cal Bunk Por tho second time In W:- terloo history the value of“ building permits for n itese1il month is past the $1,000,000 mark. ' Mainly responsble for thi) $1,069,870 construction total during May m the biggest house building boom in non than six years. During the put month George Cronkrite, building in- spector issued 86 home permits the same number " were giv- en oat in December, 1948. . Record building month and} the only other month in which construction exceeded $1,000,. 000 was September, 1953. In that period when the val!” of building permits totnlled 31.- 483.975, the Dominion Life Assurance Compsny of Can- ada begun work on in new $i.'200,000, building. " _-c-a GirGiurrdi, land {or all: homes in Deeper, 'e. ' file ' 8%" 'r,eGGis" "'iepressentee It value of $894,000, nearly “(MINOR master than the Prank Voisin. Waterloo COW- tractor, received permits fot 54 new homes. Fifty-one of these will be built in the Lin- coln Heights, Margaret nvenU' district. At the end of May, 1954 t" sscond largest building Ye:" the city has ever had, permit' extravagant lad not needed "tum.-." to, on n booth such as this which is used only for a short period of time each yen. He felt that by elimination the stainless steel counters an? costly plywood. the cost eould be lowered considerably, am’ still meet requirements of thr Health Board. The booth had to be opened by June, or the investment would be practically lost for 1955. When band members found that some items could be Pliminated thev urged a meet- ing between Mr. Totzke and Mr. Esbaugh to discuss unea- ssrtinl items. The two men met. The re- w“. a $1.000 decrease brinz- G,- the total cost down to $5,- 750. and a new Park Booth. Both city toum-il and other civic officink hone this new location will eliminate the din!" of accidents caused by children running mross the road between the pool and the walled $1,726,615. Industrial building addition sud repair amounted to more than 890,000. Total residential building Il- terattrtrss and rennin was $924,200. commertinl includ- in; . service station planned at King and Young Streets, _ $54,775; indultrill 890,895. mu Panel From 1864 Discovered An old lamp-per found nmong the effects of Henry Krrss, 64 Menon Street; Wa- terloo was printed on only one side. The other bears a two- ' wallpaper design. The newspaper is the March -, 1864 edition of the Ope- ' Ans, La Courier. Since it is 'nted half in French. it is ' a le Courier do: Opolouul. Even though the Lonelin- or was printed close to the l of the American civil war, columns pay only moderate Lention to the struggle that huge: the southern way of 'ausian- state bonds for sale. "he unlucky buyers would have found them valueless a "car later. The war not an end to Net "a slavery. The extent of the “tom is shown by the paper's “veal references to slaves. Three advertisements offer Heeroes for sale. A _ - -2 'IK‘KII’CD Iv. .wp-'-_ Description of one group of Vance: offered for sale: "prudent Mulatto man about 65 venrs: Joe Nezrnmnn nzed 65 yegrs: Joe New! about. 46, Etienne black boy about " Name woman aged "aitment notice. Samuel Me- 'utcheon captnin of the stat: ‘ard advertised for a force 5 100 men, each to supply ", own horse and equipment. ", asked volunteers to “come ‘rward promptly to defend "ur homes and your rights “I do not wait until you no :slied out in the Militia." Another story advertises with her five children Viz. Mario 9, Flore T, Ben 6, Chat- lotto 3 and Azem: 15 months old." "to. Under small hetsdintt it +ows the desnerlte situation the south was in. It announced thut in future all persons li- tble for military service must come theirsebres nnd not to send n substitute. "In the pre- sent circumstances of the country" the nid of all who can bur arms is needed. There is however one re- __ . -. iii (Sambo) and Liza. ubout 30 for sale. ' would Considerable progress by Waterloo in the past few years In: been matched In many cues by the various business- es ioeated here. In keeping with "he pro- gressive tread, the Local branch of The Canadian Bank of Commerce, has now finish- ed modernizing the interior of their building established in its present site since 1916. Original Bank of Commerce was on the opposite side of. ‘King Street erected October 8th 1889 under the manager- ship of Mr. H. Gruett. it boasted many familiar names among its depositors. Such names as Solomon Musselman. a farmer from Conestogo, David Bean, Pub- lisher, David Devitt. Em and William Bauman. Cyan, Joel and Solomon EM. Jacob Erb. George The”. Thomas Bil- - - - - “he“. ‘1‘V‘I‘ ~v--»- - . hard. Chril Hnehn, Michael Moser, Conrad Stroh, In sum? of the banks earliest deposi- Mrs lion: with mnnv Shantz. Erhs, Snider: and Webers. Old letters clearlv indicatr ‘he lack of tyrewriters whir" did not tutpedtr until the earl" ”100’s. Most of the writzm‘ was done in longhnnd and would be classed as perfeet nenmnnship. Copies of indie idual letters on onion skin were kept in bound hooks. Shown in deposit books were the oeeapntiort, address, a- “vnunf. date and signature of each depositor, some of which could not write. Mr. R. G. Frye, present Mr. R. G. Frye, present manager of the bank has had many vars of experience, most of which were Western Canada, Manitoba and Sask- atchewan. Western Ontario (Fort Frances, RIiny River, Fort William). qrratford Fedival Likely to be Institution The annual Shakespeare-n Festival in this south western Ontario city of 19,000 In: grown into on enterprise em- nloyinz 200 venous during the senson staff of six, This yen three productions "The Merchant of Venice", “Julius Chan!" and “Oedupus Rex" will be presented in the 1,950-snt tent thentre near the Avon River from June 27 to August 27. "The public now is begin- nine to feel it's likely to be an institution. In back of their minds the public now regards it n an annual do." holding to the future Dr. Guthrie add the festival’l board of governor: is makintr plum: for I semi-vermin“! shad-Ire incorporating malt of the successful failures of the present physical llyout but "with quite some detailed moditieatiomc" "I do think when the time comes to erect I permanent structure the thin: to do would be to throw the design open to world wide condition." he said. The festival likewise has be- come Me business. There was Ill ntundnnce of 68.600. " per cent of clpuity. Ind I be! offiee you of $206,000 the lint yea. List your the “an m lonrthened Ind avidly tum-ad Io that It- tondnneo nicked 125.155. " per um of capacity. with a In! oHtee In. of ””300. and I permanent 'ttttt sumo» muons mm ii/iii; usmom Sou "I!” unto M' ion -trrrs hsvo m I " per out to " - eegtt the, In allow ah- the. the - effecting "muon- on nigh and Sunday orerutun went into eHeet In wooh m. Thin wee chimed by their solicitor Roy Younpon lent night when he liked city conn- cil to consider repeal. A total of " have signed A petition go abolish the restrictions. he aid. After baring lengthy um- menu by Mr. Younglon and by D. J. Fletcher, “patenting! those who favor "(elation of “he bylaw, council referred the nutter to the lerilhtion committee for further consid- eration. Mr. Youngson said he had gasoline sale statistic: trom 10 nations which have had I severe drop in business since the bylaw went into ef- tfeet. At one ales were down war one half. "If you want to pay off vour station you hive got to get out and work" he said. . He “Entombed on the in- dividual enterprise Ingle, and the Net that proprietors in so many businesses can wdrk " kn: as thev like without re- =trictions. He said unduly of the operators need extrghours to pay their indahhfdness of Extent of Tuberculosis Defined “Tuberculosis Hits r " times ea my peak 41.! vear in Canada as polio," laid George Eeoft of Galt, chair- men of the speakers panel for 'ae Waterloo County Health \esocintion Chest X~Ray Sur- "0y Committee. He was add- -scintt n meeting Tuesday “wht of about fifty Waterloo and Kitchener workers at the "rst organizational meeting of he local speakers committee. The group met in one of the Mutual Life committee rooms. Mr. Ettoff stressed that pub- '.ie complacency about TB must "a shattered and pointed out that it is the major cause of loath between 16 and M. 'G-ray," he said, "is the only way to spot the disuse in its early stages, when a cure can be made with eertainity." He explnined the orgnniu-l tion which has been set up to grunge the 100,000 chest X-rays which will be taken in Waterloo County this (Ill, Ind told the assembled workers that their job was to assist in creating a favourable public opinion that". the survey Ind VICIOUS DOGS HAMPER POSTMEN illi DELIVERlES to To not postmen dogs ere friendly but not Ill dogs. Some] are rep ed to be so vicious letter to riers ere afraid of them eve if they ere tied up. However, the old dispute ehout vicious dogs end ii) meilmen he: I simple answer in both Kitchener and Water- loo. " there's I vicious dog ‘eround the mail doesn't get \delivered. The owner of the home is Asked to come to the poet office for his mail or tie up the dog. I Recently Fred Giee. 1trer..-l loo letter carrier supervisor. encountered an accident which forced him to May " home under doctor's care. It heppened this my. Fred we. covering his beat when l cheined dog "rushed out with Inch violence" it frightened Mr. Gies. Although the dog in cheined out of reach. Mr. Glee did not take I chance. The dotr's barking ceased him to turn suddenly. and he wrench- ed his knee. Ris knee n- so badly “vol- Itnt postmaster Carton Dotrert “at 1 car to pick him up Mr. Gia- ll sun off work. tum suddenly. um ne mncn- 'M-tet ,. ___ . ed his knee. ji; and Mr: Eugene ham-m. Ris knee “I so bully [wol- me. 29 Mair" Street: Row"- Itnt postmaster Carton Dotrert 1 end WWW“ W Zettel. B'rilerg- um a car to pick him up “LU" Ind Rowr'nd " l, L. Gio- II still off work. umemer'. Mn at 1mi- F ml Comir (Casey) Sagan. ttit-tthe Inc Anna Mn rs Mt. chm and. new eottflrted to (Continued on Pm a) 318i? i8£ue of the io.ooo Moon-hum autumn. Eon-“.07.! _ In sending the mutter to the Ieeishttion committee for fur- ther study seven] gunmen, exnresssd the view that more information should he lined In: Ion the petition aignntnres “so number of pumps operated by {each nation represented their 12Mxtions and other inform:- It was said that Indium permitting the operators to get ble'I regulating hour! in! been introduced primal}! to give protection to operator! so they could have “economi- eal1y sound businen hourt." tun. trMthei+ Arr, n. In: htteodee" Q‘IQ gathering by A. M. Wntertoo, spa-km It the county lad. It. Snider culled thr, propel! man X-r" . "rent challengo' to the community” od - pressed the hope that mn- ono " and over will particl- pate no that the county’s one viable TB record can to main- _ hind. Alex Hammer, out." ‘chnirmun for Kitchener. dlo _ nddressed the snoop. Ho tarm- led TB " killer that elliml ”.500 lives a year in Can-1h.” and urged support for the FCounly's concerted drive to reduce its incidence lac-“y. Harold Wagner, Wlurloo makers chairman. presided Karl Wald, publicity chub- mm for Waterloo, an n to- sumo of the publicity organ- ization which he: been set up. and outlined the mum which will he used to “quaint the pubiic with the aims of the survey. Harold Wigner. speakers chnirmln. over the meeting. nit illtTllltt MEN UKRAINE!) Freeport Snnntorium, - wienen and old bones with him on his route to ward off pou- ible Ital-ks from dog! on his route. " wieners don't work " brings I pclicemnn'l billy ttttet play. Because dom' hive “Ind- lowed" on his beat the bill! has gone into "temporary pq- tirenient." They were