The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

_ It is alsa to be noted that Mayor Paleczny urges a new progrg&m to attract industry. It is not too long ago that they turned down a recommendation to establish ‘a post for an industrial commissioner so that this job ‘of attracting industry would be placed in the hands , of one person working full time, instead of the present ; method of having three or four persons involved on a | partâ€"time basis. ‘ His Worship also states that a tax increase is inâ€" evitable, however it is unlikely that anyone in the comâ€" munity had any thoughts (or hopes) of hearing that taxes would be lower. A spelling error in the copy of _the report given us made it appear that contributing â€"causes included higher salaries and "wagers". Perhaps ‘council have been betting the wrong way on how many projects they could put into effect without having a delegation opposing it. â€" It was rather disturbing to hear one of our city \department heads state that in the overal} planning for large numbers of people, the individual means very little. Disturbing, but admittedly true. It is indeed a rare occurrence that progress can be held up because of one individual. Each plan put into effcet does affect My car, which was parked three â€" blocks from â€" Seagram‘s smoke stack for three nights, now has plobs of black soot on its roof, hood and trunk. Worse than this soot is the Industrial _ do â€" nothing _ attitude about it. Onwalking into Seaâ€" gram‘s office to voice my comâ€" plaint. I was greeted by a pretty secretary, who informed _ me that nothin® could be done and «onsoled me with the Industrial philosophy. Dear Sir: In the past few months there has been a growing awareness ef Industrial pollution of our waâ€" ter and air resources. The problem of pollution is of great concern to our‘ growing andustrial society. This is maniâ€" fested in various ways, one of these being air pollution caused by unfiltered smoke stacks. This is brought to the attention of everyone in Waterloo who is ‘downwind‘ from Seagrams. Letter To The Editor a large number of persons and planning must be for the overall good of the majority. It must be realized that to plan for the individual would be so costly that the financial burden would be even more overwhelmâ€" ing than it presently is We must, each of us, realize that individually we must be willing to accept some® inconvenience for the betterment of the community as a whole. ‘ Mayor Paleezny, in his report to council, termed 1966 a year of protests and it must be agreed there were many. Monday n»ight at committee meeting (first of 1967) a protest group was again present. Such groups should not be considered a nuisance by members of council for it is this method that assures the citizenry of more personal contact with those representing them, and enables councilmen to hear firstâ€"hand, problems that evolve in such a fastâ€"growing centre. Even though it seems that the public are opposing each and every move made by council, this procedure, does enable them, quite often, to right a wrong while things are still in the planning stage, rather than after. a plan has been put into effect. This is the less costly. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Authorized as Z2nd class mail by the Post Office Department Oitawa and for pnyment of postage in cash" Cfpe Uiilertoow CAhrconicla Published by BAULK PUBLISHERS LTD. â€" PRESTON LEWIS GAMBLING â€" Editor ROBERT GRAY â€" Sales Manager Waterloo County‘s Oldest English Newspaper Office at Waterloo Square 744â€"6364 Serving the City of Waterloo Since 1855 The Waterloo Chronicle, Wed., Jan. 11, 1967 Mayor‘s Lew‘s Views Just where did the name Lakeâ€" shore Village originate, as your area is called? There is no lake within miles of this area and never has been as long as 1 can remember, and that goes back a lot longer than 50 years. 1 can remember when that area was nothing but open space. 1 left this fair city in 1929 and have reâ€" (Continued on Page 6) Just a note to all the Mr. BIGS in the so called Lakeshore Vilâ€" lage Area. * â€" It is unfortunate that individâ€" vails, in their role in big Indusiry, to a large extent lose their abilâ€" ity &0 communicate on an indivâ€" idud1 and human level. Sincerely, Bryan Whitfield. Mr. Editor, Waterloo Chronicleâ€" She explained that Dominion Rubber did the same things to her and that she had wisely learned to live with the problem. She said that I should learn to accept pollution as being a small price to pay. ‘"You don‘t want Seagrams to go out of business, do you?" 744â€"6365 Editorial Comment Concerning the industrial land, hbe noted that it served all three requisites for attracting industry, namely . . . availability of serâ€" viced land, railway sidings and access to highways. There were, he said, considerable developâ€" ment in our basin last year, four new _ industrial buildings under construction â€" and â€" an â€" additional four slated for this spring: The development of oneâ€"acre sites for small industries was so encourâ€" aging that there are now plans to open a large section between the expressway and highway 85 for oneâ€"half to threeâ€"acre lots. Planning: + The establishment of a fullyâ€" «taffed planning department with a â€" qualified _ planning _ director (Brian Turnbull) was a "signifiâ€" cant‘"‘ addition. Their main proâ€" ject (1966) was the drafting of an official plan for the orderly Among the accomplishments of ‘66, Mayor Paleczny listed: 1. the opening of the new public lib rary im June . . . 2. the opening of the Parkview cemetery and chapel . . . 3. the opening of the new fire hall on Weber St. . . . 4. the annexation of 350 acres of land for industrial purposes . . . 5. the establishment of a fullyâ€" staffed planning dept. . . . 6. the addition of 200 more parking spaces to cityâ€"owned lots . . . 7. significant improvements in our crossâ€"town bus services. Year of Protests: His Worship also noted that 1966 had been a year of protests. While, he said, the housewives were protesting the high price of food, Waterloo residents were quite â€" vocal in â€" their protests against practically every proâ€" posed new apartment building and commercial development as well as truck traffic, fluoridation, traffic islands, zone changes, arâ€" terial roads and a dance hall. Industry: 2. Industrial develc;pment and promotion: An effort must . be made to improve the residential, commercial, â€" industrial _ assessâ€" ment ratio â€" a new program to attract industry should be conâ€" sidered. 3. Expressway costs: The preâ€" sent system of giving the departâ€" ment of highways a "blank cheque" and asking them to build an expressway is "not satisfacâ€" tory." Our final costs must be pegged at this time. 4. Capital budget: The requests facing us at the present time add up to a "very unrealistc‘ budâ€" get. Some of the programs will have to be postponed. 5. Waterloo area local governâ€" ment review: The answer to some of our problems may lie in the results of this study. It is to be hoped that the affected municiâ€" palities will coâ€"operate with the study and ‘"not" attempt to solve them before it is completed. This study will certainly have a signiâ€" ficant effect on the whole Waterâ€" loo metropolitan area. Noting that 1967 promises even more activity than did ‘66, Mayor Paleczny reported that the Cenâ€" tennial Park will be completed in the spring and expressed the hope that many cultural and other forms of entertainment will be scheduled for this area and that all citizens may enjoy this facility. The Moses Springer Park swimming pool can be considered as an additional centennial proâ€" ject that will add greatly to our existing recreation facilities. *66 Accomplishments: 1. A tax increase is inevitable: Contributing to the increase will be higher wages and salaries â€" higher costs of contracts and materials â€" school costs (especâ€" ially secondary â€" expressway debenture costs and the 42â€" hour week for firemen. . ‘67 will bring man,\: broblems he said, and listed them: A Year Of Accomplishment Mayor Arthur Paleczny, during the first council meeting in the new year, told members of counâ€" cil that 1966 had been a year of accomplishment. and that 1967 will be a year of many problems. 1966 â€" A Year Of Accomplishments The section of King from Erb, was at that time the main business section and was comâ€" prised of Altman Jewelery, Marâ€" tin‘s book _ store, Shondelmeyer shoe store, a milinery shop, Henâ€" ry Mayer‘s harness$ shop, the Conâ€" rad Hardware stére, Leitch and Liphardt _ (hardware s tore), Shinn‘s Undertaking and Furnâ€" iture _ store, Jacob Roos shoe store, Sanderson Bake Shop. This brings us to the location of the old post office. On the next street there was a tenement house, then _ Kraft‘s grocery store and butcher shop Across the road was the then Methodist church, the Fred Keil cigar store, John B. Snyder (ofâ€" fice furniture), the woollen mills, and Waterloo Manufacturing (all but the church were located along what is now the Waterloo Square parking lot; the A & P â€" Metropolitan store â€" Adams ‘Furniture _ and _ Ivy Cleaners, in front of the mill was a large water trough, from there to Erb St. was open space which the city could â€" have purchased from Mr. Snider for, it is reportâ€" ed, just one dollar, but conucil refused because they did not wish to lose the assessment; Next was a creek along side which ran the railway tracks. The Wm. Snyder Flour Mill took up all the space now occupied by Mr. Shinn has a very sharp memory and recalls almost â€" all business and retail outlets of that time, and they are, or were: (King St. only): On the west side from John St. .. . first was the Randoiph propâ€" erty where the Mutual Life As surance Co. now stands, then the Baumgartner grocery slore, a shoddy mill, the Canada Furnâ€" iture CO., Kuniz Brewery (now Carling) and right near the corâ€" ner was a small building that housed the Buckborrough Co. (insurance), â€" Later Offices of Kuniz Brewery; From Missourri the Shinn famâ€" ily moved to New Hamburg in 1886 when Fred was but one year old, from there they lived for a while in Toronto, then Amhurst, Nova Scotia and back to New Hamburg. Fred recalls that in _ 1895, Waterloo was but a village of perhaps 3,000 persons. At that time they were in the process of changing their horse drawn trolâ€" leys with the then ultraâ€"modern electric type. Along the main street, which was practically all dirt (mud in the wet seasons) Waterloo boastâ€" ed a fine section of cement sideâ€" walk that ran all the way from Erb St. to the railway tracks (east side only.) The remainder had a few sections of wooden sidewalk plus a few sections that were of tar. The latter had a rather bad tendency to get pretty soft and sticky during the warm summer montha Mr. Shinn arrived in Waterloo at age 10 back in 1895. Though he was born in St. Louis, Missourâ€" ril he is every inch a Canadian. Buwilding permits issued exâ€" ceeded all previous years. While housing starts across Canada deâ€" clined by 21% last year, in Watâ€" development of our city . . . other projects were a public school study, a traffic study and two _ secondary _ district â€" plans. (Revamping the zoning bylaws giving special attention to multiâ€" ple housing will be one of their first °67 projects). General: A "first" in the history of Waterloo was the fact that all salary contracts for the coming year (1967) were settled in ‘66. Waterloo Over The Years We now enter a very busy seeâ€" tion of our main street. Starting with the Peppler blacksmith shop we come to a variety shop along side of the creek, over the bridge was a highly popular ice cream parlour, which featured homeâ€" made ice cream, next was the Roesch bake shop. Moyer‘s photo, Jake Doerson‘s tobacco and sportâ€" ing goods store, Hausenphlug‘s grocery, Zick shoe store, Roos Pharmacy, Weichel hardware, E. Roos jeweler, Jake Uffelman‘s general store, the Seagram liquor store, Simon Snyder Drug Store, Bricker and Dubel general store and _ the _ Zimmerman _ House (hotel). Next was Ritzer Tailor and Gents Furnishings, John D. Fisher (butcher), Heller Jeweler, The Misses Gordon ie cream and con, fectionery (where the theatre now stands), A. K. Roesch grocâ€" ery, Waterloo Mutual Fire build (Continue l on Page 9) Where the service station is now, was once the Alexander House (Hotel) which included Pfeffer‘s barber shop and Meyer‘s grocery store. A tenement house was next (some of it still in use), then the Raymo real estate, the Kaufman residence and blackâ€" smith shop, the Duering butcher shop and the City hotel. At the corner of John and King was the Orpheus Hall where a German Singing Society practised and gave concerts. From John V. George was mostly homes. At the corner (now St. Louis Credit Union) was the home of Conrad Hoffman (painter) and at the rear was a small paint shop. Then, three homes still standing. at the corner of King and William was a Chinese laundry now the home of Dr. Geiger. (owned by two bmthewvey’s bake shop, and then a. where hand powered washing machines were manufactured. What is now the Kent Hotel was at that time called Huehter‘s hotel and brewâ€" ery, followed by a few homes. Where the Canadian Tire is now located was in 1895 Heuh‘s blackâ€" smith shop and where Orval Dorscht sports shop is was then the "Last Chance" hotel. East Side: An agreement to provide lowâ€" rental housing and accommodaâ€" tions for senior citizens was also approved. Services â€" were â€" installed and major housing developments comâ€" menced m Beechwood, Lakeshore, and Lincoln Villages. erloo _ residential permits in creased by 7% with a £xl value increase to $26,009,355 from the previous high of $4,082,435. We now have 869 registered unused â€" single residential hbuildâ€" ing lots which is about a two to three year supply. With FRED SHINN with Fred Shinn