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L465 #m teo RESESNS Globeâ€"trotting librarian settles here _ By PHILOMENA IUTH!RPOII') Waterloo taxpayers will have to stump up a few extra dollars this year to meet their share of the $33,806,000 budget set last week by the county board of education. For the average homeowner with a $6,000 assessment, it will mean a rise of $55.48. > Public school supporters face increased $55 pinch March 27. About 50 young actors took part in a childâ€" ren‘s play, The Royal Astrologers, which opened a threeâ€" day run at the University of Waterloo‘s Theatre of the THE WEEK IN RETROSPECT March 28. Thousands thronged the Kâ€"W University MWomen‘s Club used book sale, which began today at First Church‘s Hilliard Hall. March 29. Ten university presidents and Eduzation Minister William Davis were among 400 persons at a banquet to honor retired University of Waterloo presiâ€" dent, Dr. J. G. Hagey. April 1. Separate school teachers withdrew requests for fmmediate implementation of several demands, in view ef the county separate school board‘s poor financial gituation. â€" March 30. Police discovered four breakins to industries on Marsiand Drive involving thefts of about $60. Thieves ktook tools from Groff Plumbing and Heating Ltd., to grack the safe at Kitchener Spring Co. Ltd. Other buildâ€" ings involved were Columbia Custom Cabinets and Orâ€" nmamental Mouldings Ltd. April 2. Waterloo Metal Stampings Ltd., 68 William St. E., and Manitou Drive, was purchased by Keystone Conâ€" solidated Industries, Inc., Peoria, IIl. A 35,000 squareâ€" foot addition will be added to the Manitou Drive plant kmmediately. Glum as the picture may be MRS. SWARAN PHATAK Chronicle .: for city dwellers, it is stt way~ â€"publieâ€"and 167.9 percent increaseé ghead of the burden the budget for secondary schools. . imposes on rural taxpayers, par. By comparison, Waterioo‘s éleâ€" ticularly those in New Hamburg mentary school budget will in and Wilmot Township who will crease from 20.6230 mills to 24.â€" be the hardest hit. The budget 1637. Secondary school costs will means increases of several hun~ go from 13.1771 mills to 18.8828. dred dollars for many of them. That, according to City Treasâ€" School taxes in New Hamburg, urer Don Schaefer, represents a for instance, jumped an average combined increase of 9.2464 101 percent. There will be a 44.8â€" mills. percent increase in costs for Public and high school educâ€" Waterloo public Hbrary‘s third wmmm is week. She is a petite, sariâ€"clad, brownâ€" eyed girl from New Delhi, India, with a smile all but guaranteed to charm the birds out of <the bushes and definitely guaranteed to make any tardy customer pay his overdue fines with a good grace. Mrs. Swaran Phatak set out to become a doctor but changed her mind and went after a master‘s degree in psychology instead. But the evening classes she needed interfered with the job she had inâ€"a library, so she changed courâ€" ses again and qualified as a lib rarian. . While she was working her way around the world, she dropâ€" ped into the Twin Cities for a weekend a few years ago and left it 18 months later. Now she‘s back to stay. For Mrs. Phatak and her husâ€" County board of education ofâ€" ficials, Jack F. Tummon, busâ€" iness administrator and secretâ€" aryâ€"treasurer, and Gary Schlue. ter, administrator of finance, said salaries and debt payments were the main factors in the 20 percent or $5,750,000 increase in the 1969 budget. Government grants are exâ€" pected to foot 35.66 percent of the total $33,806,000 budget. This leaves ©<the municipalities â€" to schoulder the remaining 64.34 percent. such as book charging ~methods, Many English libraries still charge books by hand, where North America librartes have long sifice adopted mechanical methâ€" ods of issuing books. Public and high school educâ€" ation cost Waterloo â€" taxpayers $2,454,084 last year. In 1969, this will increase to $3,343,378. The municipality is obliged by law to raise this money for the county ‘school board. The new tax forms will show each taxâ€" payer what he‘s paying for educâ€" ation. The amount required for municipal purposes will be shown â€" separately from _ the amount being raised for the school board. For many of them, particularâ€" ly the rural ones, this is a far greater share than they have had to handle previously. In 1968, grants received by the individual boards now amailgaâ€" mated into one county unit, rang. ed from 29.8 percent to 69.1 perâ€" cent. This means that an average 48 percent of education in the county was financed by the provâ€" incial government. Under the new provisions, this is decreased to 35.66 percent. Waterloo was among the munâ€" icipalities in receipt of less than 30 percent government grants {Continued on Page 2) band coming from India to .« . . because we knew this grea and had so many friends here." DPr. Sharad Phatek is a scentist ;'fl..dnh"n:;hlfid?:.. 6 the Wen of es wittrdiine -&fi&muuw States, Canada or the West Inâ€" dies, in all of which places she their characteristics are the same. She found English library methâ€" ods ‘azhead of India‘s and Ameriâ€" canh and Canadian methods ahead That, according to City Treasâ€" urer Don Schaefer, represents a combined increase of 9.2464 mills. WATERLOO, ONTARIO TEN CENTS ho baih, 3*&”. -hln:‘: an from Punjab University, While sourgs int stirtnd work in a New course sheé work in a New Dethi library, established as & UNESCO pilot project. Two English consultants had been sent there to get it on its two years after she compléeted her library training at London‘s Northwestern Polytechnic Instiâ€" tute. _ _ _ ; C In January, 1950, wanderlust took hold of ‘her‘ again and she was off to the West Indies for six months, wheré she worked in a Trinidad library, There she deâ€" The 6%â€"acre shopping centre, comprising nearly .100,000 square feet will include a large food store, 24 specialty stores and bouâ€" tiques, a bank and trust company and office space. The property is owned by Maâ€" jor Holdings and Development Limited. Completion date for the project is February, 1970. For 75 minutes, she answered a nonâ€"stop barrage of questions. How do people make livings in Construction has started on Westmount Place shopping centre on Westmount Road, directly opâ€" posite Westmount Towers. The cost of the project will be apâ€" proximately $2,400,000. Miss Julber has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whitton, 200 Vermont St. E., for the last three weeks under a program of Exâ€" periment in International Living of Canada. She visited Empire school this week to speak to the pupils, who are studying South America. Shopping centre gets underway Mrs. Karin Bergin‘s Grade 6 pupils at Empire public school are probably better versed in Uruguayan affairs this week than most adults in the community. They had a classroom visit this week from a real live Uruguayan diminutive Lillian Juiber from Montevideo. They fire those queries Lillian Julber fields questions from her Grade 6 audience. cided to return to India where abe worked in the World Agri cultural Fair‘s lbrary. She was working there one day when she met the man who is now her husband. After the fair closed she worked for two years in the British Council Library. Then, she decided to take a look at North America and came to Rochester,N:Y., as an exchange librarian. Two years later she beâ€" gan to think it was a pity to live so near Canada without taking a closer look at it and set off for an interview in Toronto. A Rochester friend arranged a weekend visit with Dorothy Shoeâ€" maker, Kitchener‘s librarian, and that was the end of the Toronte trip. Miss Julber got the third deâ€" gree on economics, politics, reliâ€" gion and the extent of poverty and modernity in her country. Among information the young (Continued on Page 2) The kids didn‘t take anything at face value. Just to be sure she knew what she was talking about, they had her count to 10 in Spanâ€" ish and sing her national anthem â€"twice. It takes four years training after high school to qualify as a teacher in the lower grades. If you want to teach Grades 5 and 6, or special education, it takes anoâ€" ther two years. Her American visa expired and her Canadian visa didn‘t artive on time, so Mrs. Phalak headed for England and later for lodia. Six months later she was back on Spanish is the language of the country and its alphabet has 27 letters compared to our 26. The children learned that eduâ€" cation is free from kindergarten right through to university. Casâ€" inos are provided as a tourist atâ€" traction and the profits channeled to education. (Could this be the answer to the current school board problems?) State schools operate in two shifts, so that children either go from 8 a.m. to 12 noon or 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. This was greeted with some Ohs! and a smattering of knee thumping. Uruguay? Is your national anthem O Canada? Do you have hippies and Mennonites? (They have both). "Have you much taxes?" querâ€" ied one budding financier from the back row. "Compared to yours they‘re not so high but our people are always complaining," she replied. (Continued on Page 2)