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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 18 Jun 1959, p. 1

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my: VI A b.', *'itb.' It's a good thing for the city ; that everyone doesn't feel as do some of these ,Begina tl Street residents. If people c everywhere refused to be in- l convenienced so that services could be installed, we would 1 still be working by candlelight 1 chopping wood for our stoves , _ and drawing water from wells. 1 We think council boobed in _ a big way this time and after the progressive attitude they have had for most of their term, it’s hard to find even a half intelligent answer for it. 1.3.8. I ’ -. F IRON“: " " m II. the first member of council to use the new rate allowed for alder- men or mayor to attend con- ventions, was Aid. Vern Bau- man. M a you ARI" going Giihettiubutwethiphitwt, stupid on the part of council to order installation ot the nu line under the sidewalk stop- ped on Regina St., just be. cause some of the residents objected to it. It was Alderman Bauman - who queried the advance of expense money to Mayor Paik- in only a couple of weeks :30, 1.11.8. WE OFTEN WONDER why it is that Kitchener always runs short of water every time there . is a hot spell, yet Waterloo seldom does. objected to it. ""“mw - -'Tre""-" - more an m feet .. - s',ttt'.' 'ter, iligtt,,tlg'd welt had been torn up 5 t th dd all: there anyhow-LL I 'ltu'tl't'd'lh, " te,2ggllM'lL/'llilTieh7t 21,"fflr'lt'ito_re. the work was to he done. Why construct the Ttio feet of side- a‘: tt'uggt','y,2aeth, te walk already removed at a cost litzr? . 1,fd"g,' gm' D' . ity oer Atcy Dutton mittrgtc'Utul'itrot, has: told ommcil that the committee city engineer D'Arcy Dutton ngreed to the removal of the claims it couldn't have lasted sidewalk at their new!“ on more than . year at the out- June 8. He added that m the aide. Yet if the work by the _-----------------' Gas company had been allowed - "Mm __BI, .aomtqItqll"B_. AA to proceed, a new sidewalk! would have been laid and the' city would have had to bear only half the cost. Now the full $1,500 for n new walk will come out of the pockets of Waterloo taxpayers. w Size is not the answer, for there is no shortage of water (Continued on Page 6) s: COUNCIL Alltllilllliillttis IO RESIDENTS Itlli00lliSlll' WATlliilltll,00 POLICE .GET IHIRD CAR W. G. Scheifele. fretted to Council Monday am that there has been a great up- swing" in residential construe tion during May. . " - llast month was a $14,000 addi- tion to a funeral home, and ‘36300 repair shop. Ltd. Consideration of purch- He said construction of 2il, homes - one of them a trip- lex - was begun during the past month. He said this ex- ceeded the residential build- ing total of the previous month and corresponding SI days last year. Residential construction vai, ue was $227,500. Construction alto, “3qu lot mutilation of the main. the' Union Gas Co. usually rip up every third block and tunnel under the two In between. After a look " up street ty use of . police radio for the vehicle was deferred. _ . In March the commission discussed the possibility of purchasing smaller cruisers or a motorcyole. - . It was felt by Judge Charl- ton that the smaller car would not only save on mileage but 1 allow a better trade-in when l it has to be exchanged. The commission has to save money in the only two places open to it - salaries and materials. i It was felt by Mayor Paikin that it might be better to pur~ To this Ila an ’ trick replied 'that when a produCt was purchased from the Unit. ed States, there was no discus- sion. But, he said, when an art- icle is brought from an Eng- lish manufacturer, there is talk of "buying Canadian." He said the small car pur- chased is the only one in F which an average policeman l can wear a hat in while driw , ing. Waterloo, Small boy at dinner table to parents: 'Wee chewed . mouth- full of carrots ten times. Now what do I do with them?" CHRONICLE QUIPS 1riii,iLijlit-tt,i, any“ Paikin . Ta, ', it mi t tter to pur- se 1 1'itt'tte'Metri'i whieh um; a: an T trick eluded, lied "hat when n product - ' -.....|.....a 0mm "no Unit- been e orrtneio, Thin-ads; June 18, a flood of protests ya receiv- ed by th? engineepqg dterf meat and many of the alder- man from the residents who said that they were against the lam-opened work and that It m. tho! would appeal "They'i1 wait a long time now," _aryswered Alderman Ami. Hughes. OFFENSIVE ODOR TRACED TO POND Ontario Water Resources! Commission chairman, A. M. Snider says the untreated and partially treated sewage from Waterloo is not the cause of the offensive odor from Bridge- port mil_l _p_ond. e Mr. Snider reportedly, atl, a meeting this week from which the - we; a." eluded. Hon-mil BrMdetroet representatives the stench had been called by a prior trtatr. nnncy ot tigjond- -iiii, -6wrtc- chairman, pro- ducing figures to back his con- tention, tsaid _ thet, tttPeet iGiiiGriilid V -titat etnuenti, stagnancy, from Waterloo's $068,000 tte-l smell. I new side- "ara'." asked With Malice {Toward None by George Gerhardt Ton-Aston: 0! Waterloo Council Alderman Anna Hughes mentioned to the other mem- bers of council that beamed of Works Committee frequent- lly take tours of the city and that any member, of gonad! Talking on the tree - ing policy, Alderman Jun. Bauer suggested that - think for themselve. Mayor condnry sewage treat!!!“ plant, now under construction. was not responsible for the con- dition. - - --- -- Reeve Donald Madmen-son. and Councillors Ros: Weber. Isaiah Spaetul and David Wir. mer attended the conferenco dmsey.itstrUq W. Itltee "A Snider that the amount of water used for power try Wat. erioo Suppliers' Cooperative reduced the level of the pond and caused the 9993361; I? h: 'saia:'ciuoéd the 2 “You no. a? No. 24

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