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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 22 Oct 1959, p. 1

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« erman Frank Doerner. As aldâ€" erman, he topped the polis last year and had a good reaâ€" son for feeling he could exâ€" pect voters support if he went after the chair at the head of the table. Frank has 5 yéars as alderâ€" » man for Waterloo. However, his contention is that he just hasn‘t the time to do a good job as mayor and that the logiâ€" cal candidate is hard working alderman Jim Bauer. "Being mayor of Waterloo especially this year will be a * ftime consuming job and in fairness to the voters, my busiâ€" ness & â€"my family, I don‘t feel I have that kind of time to ofâ€" eppose Jim in his efforts to beâ€" Crca Wilil mMaAyor Paikin reâ€" signing, what would happen to the big Waterloo Shopping Centre project if both men closest to it were not im a posiâ€" tion to guide its beginning. FLASH! FLASH! FLASHI as we go to press, alderman Jim Bauer has signified his intenâ€" tion of rumrning for mayor of Waterloo. This will be good news inâ€" fer," he said. the right kind of attract out of town shoppers and even many Waterloo residents have J.H.S. ONE OF THOSE seriously conâ€" sidering the idea of running for mayor this year was Aldâ€" Kitchener. Once the new shopâ€" ping centre becomes a reality, this city we feel will have the edge over Kitchener, even if there still will be a difference in the number of retail outlets available. ° Under Mayor Paikin‘s guidâ€" ance, this city has reached the threshold of another era, a transition from a small comâ€" plalc)ent city to that of a large ambitious ecmmunity. Up to this year, the downâ€" town area of Waterloo has been the stumbling block. There just hasn‘t been enough stores of hands. Let‘s not overlook our lady alderman either, Mrs. Hughes, while of the female 2peci‘es, h}s done a good job good mayor and progress has !ol'l.owed his every effort. However, with men like dynamic Jim Bauer, Frank Doerner, Pete Stewart etc., left to fight the battles of the city, we feel progress is in good some apprehension on the part of Waterlovites as to the proâ€" gress of the new shopping cenâ€" tre. Some of this may be justiâ€" fied, for Paikin has been a DECISION TO resign at the end of this term has brought guently been no great success gNMd“dm tchener merchants we have talked to is to be respected. the others are hard to handle. the first day saying they far too much advertising and work for the results they ob tained. This like the Waterioo camâ€" paign is run by a very few merchants, usually those who ENCR m ing Dav: dontly beckh ns on spending their wages in J.H.8 J.H.S. PAIKIN‘S blunt in Receiving honourable menâ€" tion were: Mr. Norman A. Shannon, 30 Arundel Ave., Ottawa, is the successful winner of the $200. Scholarship Award offered by the Provincial Chapter of Onâ€" tario LO.D.E. for the best short story with his entry "Spectaâ€" nounce the result of this comâ€" petition today, Thursday, Octâ€" ober 22nd, at the Semiâ€"Annual Meeting being held in Kitchâ€" Mrs. H. B. MacMahon, Lonâ€" don, Provincial Education See retary and Mrs. W. L. McFaul, every council committee beâ€" fore being elected two years ago. He topped a field of four in seeking the mayor‘s chair. "I have endeavored during my term of office to provide leadership and give personal attention to present and posâ€" sible future problems, in orâ€" der to enhance and add lustre to the name £ our city. "I have enjoyed the office. I will always value the friendâ€" ships made and the courtesies continuously shown me and on many occasions to Mrs. Paikin. "I feel that I cannot in all fairness to my employer and my fellow citizens seeck anâ€" other term of office," said Mayor Paikin. L Mayor Paikin was an alderâ€" man five years and served on Dean Wright said, "We feel confident we can provide job opportunitiés for full enrolâ€" ment. Industry is demanding seek reelection. The twentyâ€"two Waterloo stuâ€" dents lost their jobs because of shutâ€"down at Avro but all were immediately replaced. earning period. Seven professional engineâ€" ers act as liaison between inâ€" dustry and students and in stuâ€" dent counselling. This system is largely responsible for keepâ€" ing enrolment growing in Waterloo, said Dean Wright. The shutâ€"down of the Avro aircraft plant at Malton may be responsible for some of the 10 per cent decline in enrolâ€" ment in engineering courses at other Universities. Students following this coâ€" operative course spent three months in the class room, then three months gaining practical experience in industry, then cooperative scheme is unique in Canadian universities and allows students a six month D. T. Wright of the engineerâ€" ing faculty of the University of Waterloo, that 180 students have enrolled for the cooperaâ€" "directly contrary" to the sitâ€" vation at other Cangdian Uniâ€" versities. Waterloo University Enrolment Increase Mayor Paikin Not To Seek Reâ€"Election Our city‘s first twoâ€"yearâ€"term rt Story Competition Award auer For Mayor.. a Canadian citizen, resident in Ontario. This committee was This is the twelfth consecuâ€" tive year this Chapter has given a Scholarship Award for the best short story written by The Provincial Chapter is indebted to Professor Wilfrid Eggleston, M.BE., Director of the School of Journalism, Carâ€" leton College, Ottawa, Ontario, who judged the stories. Mrs. Myrtle Reynolds Adams, London, Ontario. mond Hill, Ontario. _ Mr. H. R W Two King Street industries were purchased by the council under his leadership to make way for a downtown shopping centre, approved construction of a $660,000 secondary sewage plant and backed the city‘s efâ€" forts to annex 1,8600 acres of Waterloo Township land. Durâ€" ing the past two years he headâ€" ed council through much of the Twin City amaligamation talk. A 12 year future capital finâ€" ancing plan was one of Mayor Paikin‘s achievements during his twoâ€"year term. cessor the same friendly and coâ€"operative atmosphere â€" alâ€" ways apparent at meetings I attended." assures them of 'gem.im ployment with ‘the same after graduation. 4 ® "The coâ€"operation, the effort and sincerity of all members of council and the City Hall staff were unfailingly helpful. _ "I certainly wish for my sucâ€" Also another factor causing fluctuation in the enrolment of students taking the engineerâ€" ing courses is the sometimes over emphasized number of enâ€" gincers entering the field. "Such reports can scare peopleâ€" away," â€" said Dean Wright. . However the Waterloo Uniâ€" versity helps students find emâ€" ployment during the coâ€"operaâ€" born Street, within the next two years but this will not add to capacity. At the present time there are no definite plans for expansion. "A further possible reason for the decrease in enrolment at other centres, said Dean Wright, is a growing realizaâ€" tion of the need for students in pure science." sity‘s new are accepted for January course." _ â€" _ _ An _ engineering _ building will be added to the univerâ€" ing course, with aâ€" capacity of 180 students for the course. We are a little embarrassed by demands for students in April," he added. "We are not gpenting at capacity in the Mayor Paikin is a graduate programme, which often , Ontario. will do as well to carry on to the end of another successful 2200) M90709,â€" "FORe n EFPCBTON, seen the Fall Council meeting come to its completion in a Kinettes in handling the subâ€" stantial detail synonymous with a Council session of this size. ettes were joint hosts. Coâ€"chairmen for the planning were Dquglas Loucks and Ray Mather and they were given full support of fellow Kin and Club officials from the 73 clubs represented in the disâ€" trict were unanimous in their approval of the setting and the arreugements for the big event at which Preston Kin and Kinâ€" ettes were joint hosts Some 600 Kinsmen and Kinâ€" ettes, represenpntative of all Southern â€" Ontario, combined by their attendance and proâ€" gram participation to make the 1950 Fall Council session held at Preston during the past weekâ€"end, the largest and most successful District 1 has exâ€" perienced in some 20 years. He is a past director of the Waterloo Lions Club, and the Kâ€"W Little Theatre. Also a past chairman of the Twin City Brotherhood Week, and also an executive member of the Ontario Federation â€" of Mayors and Reeves. Kin Fall Council Biggest, Best, With Preston Hosis 1i004, and is now plant superâ€" visor of‘ .!oseph E. Seagram and ants, including postal workers was turned down recently. Ronald Johnson of Saint John, N.B. president of the Federal Association of Letter Carriers, has urged the Canadâ€" ian. Mailmen not to buy© Canâ€" ada Savings Bonds. The federal government‘s rejection of a wage increase merited this acâ€" lion. Mailmen Urged Not To Buy Savings Bonds back and has accomplished what we have been told by a tackled the "impossible" task of moving the big factories operated by Waterloo Manuâ€" facturing and Snider Furniture as though such a task were part of his everyday aldermanâ€" ic duties. Once started on his project he has never looked Broy stitine him un the caos e o ce i on man ask. Waterloo voters for their confidence so he may go ahead on the greatest campaign startâ€" ed in Waterloo by â€"any alderâ€" man, the new Downtown Shopâ€" This particular project has reached a state of realization due greatly to the untiring efâ€" "We At the two day association McMaster University, Hamâ€" rise for civil servâ€" Papk > held at Hotel Kress, with Mrs. Roy Crane of Preston convenor for the Kinette nragram fam event. Kin business sessions and inâ€" stallation of the new district executive were features of the Sunday program. An estimated 250 Kinettes ettended ihe Sunday breakfast 70 clubs represented accomâ€" modation from Kitchener to Galt was taxed to capacity for participating Kin and Kinettes, A ball at Leisure Lodge on Saturday night was a social highlight of the two day Registration was conducted at the Kress Hotel on Saturâ€" g!y gft_ernoon and with some year", Governor Paul Hills deâ€" clared at the closing Goverâ€" nor‘s banquet on Sunday afterâ€" noon at Leisure Lodge. Simulâ€" tanequsly he added his consraâ€" tulations to those of others to the Preston club for their sponsorship and success of the event. summer. The Federal Association of Letter Carriers and the Cana dian Postal Employees Union are working together. On display was a new shirtâ€" ing material, manufactured by a Kitchener firm. If â€" this material proves satisfactory it will replace the two differentâ€" type shirts vorn in winter and mon of Ottawa national secret aryâ€"treasurer, said that the Asâ€" sociation was working with the Civil Servants Commission to change the attitude of the Government. Jointhhcommmees are to be established in each district across Canada to bring greatâ€" er pressure against Ottawa. district convention, which opem» ed at the Walper Hotel Satum day, it was unanimously decid ed to send a telegram protest ing the government‘s decision» Mr. Johnson said that Goverâ€" nment _ representatives â€" have proved "beyond a shadow of a fioubt" by turning down wage boost requests that they are a "bunch of chiselers." At a dinner meeting â€" at Stones of Rockway, A. H. Gam cularly become mori for the msiuuuu,' w'fi'? mufuu“& his absence from his business and family. Yet there is a: job to be done in Waterioo with Harold Paikin retiring as Mayor, Jim must feel.that a personal contact is needed with the huge work programme he has been instrumental in startâ€" ing. Several Waterloo aldermen have expressed the opinion that Jim Bauer is the only logical candidate for the job of mayor this term, particularly in view of the effort to be made. To this date, none of them have indicated that they will opâ€" pose him in his bid to become mayor of Waterloo. (Continued on Jim does not want to partk § $5..s)4;inh ts \ t3 1/f 0k 3 â€" wik‘ s vubg. "it4" 2 «28

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