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Raise $75,000 y of the County of Waterloo to day announced the formation of a Committee to raise $75,â€" 000 for the construction of a new Headquarters Building in Kitchener. A three week Campaign to & Taise these funds will be conâ€" ducted throughout the County . l;;goinninx on _ January 18, Committee members incluâ€" de: Norman _C. Schneider, Chairman; Fred Grespan, Burâ€" ton Hill, of Galt, C. J. Rempel Children‘s Aid To Directors, and ~the following Committee Chairmen â€" Ira Good, Industrial; Mr. Lochead, Special Names; Arthur C. Boeâ€" ge‘, Retailers; Rev. Walter McCleary, Elmira, â€" Church Groups; Theodore Dietrich, St. Agatha, Rural organizations; Mrs. L D. Cowan, Galt, Woâ€" men‘s Groups; Russell A. Echâ€" lin, Canadian Legion Branches, and R. W. Whitton, Publicity. The Children‘s Aid Society, in its day to day operations, is supported by funds granted by the County of Waterloo and the _ Municipal â€" Governments operating in the County of Waterloo. Present Headquarâ€" Scott Street, Kitchener. There is also a Branch Office on Main â€"Street in Galt. o As the crow flies, the disâ€" tance from St. Catharines, Ont., to Hamilton looks on a railâ€" road map as though two wing flaps and a glide would cover the miles. I was glad I wasn‘t a crow for I enjoyed this tail end of my weekend journey by train across the frait belt of the Niagara Peninsula. My stopover in the port city had been deliberately planned for the return trip. the return trip. Hamilton, breathing down the neck of Toronto in its plans for supremacy as a seaway port, has â€" always fascinated me. Suffering as it does from narrow streets and bad planâ€" niag in its early days, the glow of the steel company‘s furnâ€" aces on low lying clouds at night belies the midâ€"Victorian atmosphere of its market place and many oldâ€"fashioned brownâ€" of industry, caught up in the dramatic expansion of post war days. It is a city where business tycoons can gaze from theit modern office windows and catch a glimpse of a "mountain". I have memories of that mountainr. There is an institution in Canada that has survived war and depression and annually, like a magnet, gathers a popâ€" ulace â€"together from â€" many miles around. It is the Santa Claus parade of a famous deâ€" partment store. When No. 1 son was a toddler and too young to be confused by more than one St. Nick, we lived in London, Ont. His father, who had never outgrown his boyish enthusiasm for the holiday season, thdought his firstâ€"born should be @xposed to all things Christmasy, from tinsel to the one buildings. Thts vcity is a thriving metâ€" buildings *~â€"8ECOND SECTION * + 18 2 M _ 2 BYy DOROTHY BARKER is at 58 Telephone Company places its new dial office in*service. In less than two minutes the A telephone system as mod ern as any in the world will come into operation in Breslau ber please" will be replaced with a "dial tone". The chanâ€" geover culminates many monâ€" ths of planning and construcâ€" According to C. F. Holland, Bell manager for the region, the conversion will bring Breslau within an ever growâ€" ing network of dial exchanges in Bell Telephone‘s Ontario Quebec territory. The Bell‘s construction â€" program, _ this tion and be replaced by the fully automatic dial equip ment located in the Bell‘s new exchange building. The old manual switchboard which has been serving Bresâ€" lau telephone customers for In conjunction with the changeover, all telephone numâ€" bers will change. On Sunday the telephone numbers will consist of the exchange name MIidway 8 and four other figâ€" ures. Dial â€"Phones For Breslau (Continued on Page 19 THURSDAY, technicians will disconnect all quire about 30 seconds. be standing ready in the new dial building prepared to reâ€" from the dial switching equipâ€" ment as soon as they receive the signal that the old cxchanâ€" ge is "dead". As soon as the blocking tools are removed, the dial sysâ€" tem will be in operation. As the first callers dial, the dial switches will begin to click, connecting Breslau‘s telephone Also planned for Breslau telephone users in the Spring o_f 1960 is free calling to Kitâ€" The Bell manager said recentâ€" ly that plans now call for the elimination of toll charges on calls between Breslau and Kitâ€" chener _ telephones, probably in April. chener. Mayor I $100,000 Plant . Meyer Industrial Distributors ILtd., situated at 113 Weber St. North, was officially openâ€" ed by Mayor Paikin. About 70 city officials, together with reâ€" presentatives of firms Meyer‘s serves, and other dignitaries were present at the brief cereâ€" monhy in the new red brick building. Mayor® Paikin offered the firm â€" congratulations on its progress and said it typified the advancement shown . by many young Waterloo busiâ€" nesses. More than 1,000 industries in central and southwestern Ontario are supplied with a complete line of industrial equipment by the Meyer firm. The products range in size A new plant, the $100,000 PAGE and cost from an $8,000â€" steead milling machine to a 15â€"cent from coast to coast. In 1951 the firm began with three employees in a building at Moore and Roger Streets, Waterioo. Operations occupied 1,200 square feet. Today there are 21 employees working in 13,000 square feet of new building. They have five sales men on theé road. _ There are three Meyer bro thers operating the firm; Der ger; Howard C. Meyer, sales warehouse manager. Roy Jefferson is secretary treasurer. *HB#