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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 23 May 1957, p. 1

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m A” iii"'id,asisiiyts,exa,,,iat, Seemes the Kingsdale pack are doing just exactly that as a fund raisintreffort towards, $heir camping trip. The man..' Ire is dehydrated and a 3 lb. “3 supposedly js tsufficient hr 300 square feet of garden. Inch bag is worth 98e, Idea for this novel fund timing campaign came from one of the scout fathers, who hidcntly can obtain the. stuff 0t a price the scouts can make a little profit on. ". THE HUNT” WORD, Inn at: around. One day after our paper hit the street last week We had a phone call to- reding an article in Free ir in which we deplored the but and relative scarcity of animal manure u garden fer- titiser ' fit of the 1irt9rintrsda1e Scout puck. He asked how many bags of cattle manure he could de- Iver at our hquse. Mr. Heijne said. that many of the scout and cub"packs tore adopting methods this you, other than the regular SINCE THE ERUPTtON by Maror Whitney regarding the quality of effort being put in- to patching roads by the Wa- terioo Works department, there seems to have been Done attention' paid to the mere! holes that had been petehed without much ew. idence of making them my The can In: from 'reiieus, “shunt scout Out of the 1st9rintrsdale we: drives that have become an iceepted practise. Reason behind the change is that the - is not worth the effort Oxpended in organizing and conducting the drive. With the price pf newsprint going up “most monthly, its hard to un- derstand why the used paper values should suddenly dive in the other direction. 'Now some of them cm be driven over without throwing occupants through the roof of their car. Formerly they look- od alright but felt far from it. J.H.S. ftrat bag of the fertilizer, bom- plete with yellow ribbon. Rave I notion that Mr. Heijne edd- ed the ribbon just to keep in the mood of the thing. Per. tnizer tied with ribbons . . . whet next. .. holidty saw murky local res- ldenu staying right gt homo. Few cottages are equiped with oil hating and the raw, damp weather left much to be desired it there was no heat. On thing about the low temperatures and over shun- hnce of min . . every home - now hm . good looking Inn. Thus more than can be nil when the weather is sun- " llld dry. EXTENDED PARKING PERIOD now given by Itittth. oner parking meters is finding favour with car owners, but much could be done to im. prove parking conditions tn this city. _ One of the worst "peets is the nmount of spice "mowed trucks and buses, with three puts of the parking being not aside for them, plus the Net hey can move right in In an- tied meter lurking "ppoeflv for the use of the private, fsn' met. ' 1 Hon we've kicked Am: WEATHER OVER the put (Continued a P... " J.H.S J.H.S. Nels ORIGINAL. STADIUM FUND EXHAUSTED Key To Waterloo Goes To Switzerland City Considers Licenses CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY cendtdirh" ot"iuiiier" way -with I big bing May 15. he ob- jective is £15,000. It is thought that the City of Waterloo will ttiottl,'e spend about $35,000 as its share in connection with deve- lopment ot land and provision of facilities for the new Sea- cram, ,Stadium_ _ -. .. -.. -. .. The committee has received approximately $3,500 to date from Waterloo Industries and individuak. The Cnnndien Legion in giving their fullest support to the citizens com- The key weighs one and I half pounds It carried this in- scription: "Prom Waterloo, Ont., Canada, to Luann, Switzerland." T “11258325311 accounts to date are not in, D'Arcy Button felt that the original $10,000 authorized by Council some time ago for the project has now been spent. _ One hundred letters were sent to Waterloo Industries The nine number will be sent to Wuterloo Merchunu this week The Maror of more“. Switzerland vim be presented with an engraved has: key from the City of Waterloo, sometime this week. It will be presented to him by F. Clay B. Rall, president- elect of the K-W Rotary Club. In. Bull is unending a Rotary International e o n v e ntlon in Lacuna. Also, Mr. Hall will present the Swiss city with 20 Water- loo centennhl aonvernior nick- el: nnd. several centennm badges n rsarrodwil1 nature. He explained that the origin- al estimate by his department for the city work on the stad- ium grounds was $38,200. Of this amount the Waterloo PUC has taken over work amount- ine to $8,000. C This leaves $30,000 which is split up " follows: $13,- 000 m for preparation of the field, $10,000 for the develop- ment of Sunview street to the stadium and $7,000 for de- velopment of parking facil- ities. ' The city engineer stated that since the time of this esti- mate, work that was not antic- ipated and umountingM $4,- 800 hash-d to be taken on by It was made in Waterloo by Canadian Met-Craft Industrial, Ltd., 866 King St. North. Aux Welkor is president of the firm. Mr, Hall left for Hint- land on “may. Mr. Dutton’s recbmmenda- tion that. an additional $10,- 000 be allocated to continue work at the stadium site with) out' ihterruption was approved by the committee. It was Ald. Donald Snider’s idea for the key presentation. Mayor Whitney spproved the suggestion. Vol. 101 " '38 veeSl'l, The Campaign to raise mud. Arr the ngetlog Mernor1yl Ttaries TAX COILECTIONS IN WATERLOO REACH 65.7% The committee" 'stiil bare three sites in question. They are one in front of the Tour. loo Library, the Memorial Park behind the City Ball on Erb St, and the Rorieultum1 Park at William St. This you the total tax bills sent out amounted to $1,708,- 980 mince In charge of the am- paign_ As yet I site be 'tgtt been selected for the cenotaph. It is the committees thought that citizens should be given I chance to voice their opinion " to what site they think Would be most "tprimate. The cenotaph manure. " feet in height. The min mm is four feet two inches by three feet, eight inches. The bue of the bottom step is 10 feet by nine feet nix inch“. It in hoped it will be our plated in time for the Novem- ber 11th Services. D. C. Schnefer, Water!” tax collector, has unnounced that tax collections to date Imount to $1,120,297 or 66.7 per cent of the you”; levy. Mr. \Schaefer pointed out that n penalty of on. per cent is chased on the first a, of default of payment and " ad- dition! one per cent In In!“ a ttse that (by)! not no.“ Mr. Dutton, in his progress report on the stadium project, said levelling of the field is " per cent completed; moving and repairing the bleachers is 90 per cent finished installa- tion of 600 feet of eight-inch sanitary sewer is 95 per cent done and placement of .850 feet of 15 to 24-inch storm sewer is 60 per cent complet: the city. This consists of $3.800'for extensive storm and sanitary sewer: and $1,000 for exca- vation for the stadium build- mg Moving of the light stand- ards from the 61d baseball field is three-quarters finish- A member of. the eo-orditt- sting committee, Ald. Donald Snider, promised n top-notch football field. by mid-August. therldo Ontario, Thursday, May 28, 1951 COUNCIL REFERS MOTION TO TRAFFIO COMMITTEE PARKING LOTS TO BE OPENED JUNE 11th. 0 George St. Repairs April Report . Will cost $9,000 The Waterloo Fire Depart- . ment owned a total of " City engineer, D'Arcy Dub. cells during the month of ton told Waterloo Council's April. according to the regular bond of work: committee that report Issued by the fire do. the cost involved to repair pertment. There were , fire. George street would be up- in Paetoriea ttnd businesses. 5 proximately $1,200 to the city. to Apartments and other dwell- He recommended the ings, and 6 of n miscellaneous street'e old asphalt pevement nature. The oetlmted value of be stripped and the street be the property Involved in the“ reeapped in its entirety. fine totalled $749,200, end The complete coat would be the eetuell property loee approximately $9,000. tyt this amounted to only $8,000. Tamil-y through to Setup dar will 'be designated u Parking Week in Waterloo and all merchants and business plum hevlng space "nil-Me for the general public or their own customeu will be liked to co-operue by doing A clean- I]. u Jets on than lounnnd up“ i. h m He recommended the street'a old intuit pevement be stripped end the street be reeapped in its entirety. Waterloo'. new free parking Iota are to be ofnetattr canned on Tuesday, June ll, ouncll decided on Tuesday nan. The work on these lots is almost complete, and the signs pointing to their location will soon be erected. . A delegation of Waterloo truckers heard Alderman Ron Buddell officially present a motion to Council requesting the Police Commission to pass a by-law making trucking licenses obligatory in this City. These licenses would apply to truckers and trucking companies picking up loads in Waterloo, and they would be approved or rejected. at the discretion of tho Police Commission. A suitable license fee would be, charged. _-.--------'------------.---- Apparently this is the a second time that this motion Commemorative has been presented the In. p o. motion, presented to council . Cairn To Litt year ago,' was referred to tho 0 Police commission and then Council Members nothing more was ’heard alsout A C . . it'..Several members of Coun- e otrn.em,.tyPvt? Cairn eil remembered the previous to be erected in Waterloo Park motion but, none could ro- during the.yhyttnmial fir, member what happened to it. City engineer, D'Arcy Dub. ton told Waterloo Comteit's board of works committee that the cost involved to repair George street would be Mr" proximately $1,200 to the city. The complete cost would be Approximately $9,000. Of this amount 87,800 Would be charged to the ntepoym on thot street - Meyor Whitney, who until recently, resided on George street, aid the thoroughfare he: never been properly re- paired. - Members decided to study the {um along. with othor vol-ll project. bedded within the cairn. This menu tint the names um u known to any members of fu- ture generations with the strength or ambition to dig the box not of the etone and - A aisgtrestion was made that this plaque should also in- elude the names of the differ- ent Centennial Committees, but this was rejected in View of the lnrge number of people. participating in various phases of the work of organizing the Centennial. It was felt that it would be possible to include the name: of the different committees on the scroll to be Included in the The Commemorative Cairn to be erected in Waterloo Park during the Centennial Cele- brations will have a plaque bearing the City Crest and the names 6f the City Council of 1867 and 1957, as well as the General Chairman in charge of the Centennial arrangements. The signs indicating the lob will be worded to let the pub- lie know that the" any I and “than: chum. Hayor Whitney unnouncol that he is sending I potion“ letter to than people, and to expect; that ueror111 att co- operate in this venture. - Fire, Department The total length of time spent by the department in fltrhtintt there fires was " hours end " minutes, pnd the department tanned e total of 85.2 "es to the alarms. A total of 10 hours 1nd " minute. wu upon. by the do- pu-tment in panning out - tor hole! throng-hut the em, public the not that they an invited to use them. 7 Alderman Buddell's, motion was referred_to the Tram: and Transportation Commith- ee, and the-Trucking Delerz’a- tion was invited to attend that committee meeting in order that they might present their case. The Police Commission would theri meet to decide " it. A; reported in Int week% Chronicle, the Waterloo Twai- discriminated against by the “canning Authorities in Kitch- onor, and they feel that tho, should be given some protoc- tlon in their own city. Members of Council wet. “most unanimous in the” opinion that the motion had merit, and were in agreement that it should not be allowed to follow the same course " the previous one. ..

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