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h @p He said he has no definite plans for the future but would like to stay in industrial development. "It‘s the business I know best." Two other alternatives are to go into the agricultural industry or into business for himseif. He has been connected with sales, engineering and management in Western Canada‘s industrial and Agricultural products fields. He has also been a marketing consultant for the Province of Manitoba and manager of a A native of Winnipeg, Mico came here from Port Colbogne, where he held a similar posizi:n for three years. He was Waterâ€" loo‘s first industrial commission Industrial Commissioner Wilâ€" liam P. Mico, 2905 Dale Cres., has resigned from the post he has held here since Dec. 1967. The resignation is effective May 31. Mico said he was leaving for reasons that are beyond his conâ€" trol. He said he cannot do the job expected of him, under the situaâ€" tion as it exists. There was also the usual comâ€" plement of book collectors out for first editionsâ€"and successful In their quest, too. . Book sale is mobbed by bargain hunters ~ Aimost 15,000 books changed hands here at the weekend to gross an allâ€"time high of $1,883 for the Kâ€"W University Women‘s Club‘s main fund raising effort for educational projects in the Twin Cities. Thousands of people crammed First United Church‘s Hilliard Hall for the fifth annual used book sale on Friday and Saturâ€" day. Among them were many Toronto people who dropped in to browse on their way to the Elmira syrup festival. Two young stamp buffs not only found the boks they were after but a postcard with a perâ€" fect George V stamp. One boy lost his wallet in the melee and had it returned by a Even threeâ€"yearâ€"old Carolyn Dessler got her heart‘s desire. Industry head resigning Mico said the length of time he has been here is "not really enough to have done the job. It takes three to five years to prove significant results." 10,000â€"acre banana irrigation proâ€" ject in the British Honduras. Much of the sale‘s success may be credited to the effort expendâ€" ed by the club, some members of which are already starting work on next year‘s venture. One grandfather and grandâ€" daughter did the rounds together. He waited politely while she made her selections: Then she accorded him the same respect. More than 1,000 individual purâ€" chases went to make up the grand total, which exceeded last year‘s figure by $500. in. arms, infants riding piggyâ€" back and youngsters peeking out of baby carriages. Sale organizers noted that the sale is becoming more and more a family affair. There were babes University of Waterloo student. The youngster was so relieved that he couldn‘t get the words of gratitude out and publicity chairman Carolyn Hachnel had to do the needful for him. WILLIAM P. MICO _ _ From â€" headquarters first at Beirut, Lebanon and then at Jeruâ€" salem, Israel, the. students will visit Tyre and Sidon, thriving citâ€" ies in 1,000 BC;: Thebes, the glitâ€" tering capital of ancient Egypt on the upper Nile River:; Qumran, where the Dead Sca scrolls were discovered in ancient caves: and Hazor, the great Canaanite strongâ€" hold destroyed by Joshua and rebuilt by Solomon, Sites to be visited read like a chronicle from the Oid Testament and Egyptjan mythology. Accompanying them will be Dr. Robert Fisher,] associate proâ€" fessor of Near Eastern studies at WLU, who has worked in the area and is familiar with the eultural histories of the ancient sites. The seminar is not a tour but & learning experience with disâ€" cussions led by Fisher. It will carry fullâ€"credit toward a degree at the university. Included in the monthâ€"Jlong arâ€" cheological field seminar will be visits to Greece, Rome and Lonâ€" don. In each place, the students will inspect archeological work in progress or visit worldâ€"famous museums on the spot. Twentyâ€"five students from Waâ€" terloo Lutheran University will travel through time this summer as they visit ancient cities dug from the past in Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. Settings for the play will be designed by Esther Scott, a proâ€" fessional stage designer who has worked on Broadway and Toronâ€" to theatres. She now operates the Scott Studio in Kitchener, where she designs and supplies set matâ€" erials and lighting for theatre &roups as far away as Montreal. Director BDon Carter, who has acted in and directed several loâ€" liams. Instead, they will see the Broadway version, which strikes & more optimistic note, and which the author rewrote at the request of director Elia® Kazan. A third version, with an even more | optimistic ending, â€" was featured in the film of the same name, which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. the pure tragedy tradition of Wil~ The Kâ€"W Little Theatre‘s final production of the season goes on stage a week from tonight at the University of Waterioo‘s Theatre of the ‘Arts. It is Tennessee Wil liams‘ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They will visit the ancient city Kâ€"W Little Theatre The season exits with ‘Cat‘ WLU students head for Near East The organizer of the event was Clarke Mecredy, assistant to the viceâ€"president of operations. The guest list included prominent peoâ€" ple in the field of government and education, Many were friends of long standing from the local Hagey retired after 12 years in the presidency, having founded the university in 1956. From a small engineering class which me* in a preâ€"fab building on a tennis court, the university has grown into the third largest in Ontario, with a campus covering almost 1,000 acres. , About 400 guests attended a reâ€" ception and dinner last Saturâ€" day night to honor retired Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo president, Dr. J. G. Hagey. "We think it is the best kind of learningâ€"where students actâ€" ually experience what they have of Ai, where Waterloo Lutheran students were engaged last sumâ€" mer in an archeological expediâ€" tion organized by Dr. Norman Wagner, chairman of Near Eastâ€" ern studies. Fisher said this year‘s field seminar will be a learning exâ€" perience that cannot be duplicatâ€" ed in the lecture hall. Bob Reid, who plays Dr. Braugh, is also new to the little theatre stage but not to Twin City audiences, who will have seen him in productions by the local musical society. Gooper is played by wellâ€" known local actor Leo Burns. Rutherford, playing Big Daddy and Janice Wilson as Mae. Miss Wilson was director of The Blue Belt operetta which played to packed houses in Riverside junâ€" ior public school in Elmira last stage debut in the leading role of Brick. Wellâ€"known local acâ€" :;umsmmu Alice Dennison, who has spent most of her energies on back stage work in recent productions â€" she designed the set for The Odd Couple â€" is cast as Big cal plays, is currently putting his 400 attend Hagey dinner Weterles Chronicle, Thureday, Aprilt %, 19697 &# ber, director, department of coâ€" ordination and placement, repreâ€" senting the university staff and John Bergsma, president of the Federation of Students, representâ€" ing the students. A portrait of Dr. Hagey by the prominent painter, Cleeve Horne, was unveiled at the dinner, tee of presidents, Universities of Ontario; Dr. T. L. Batke, profesâ€" sor of chemical engineering, reâ€" presenting the faculty; A. S. Barâ€" Sharing the head table with the guest of honor were Ira G. Needâ€" les, chancelior of the university; Dr. Howard Petch, acting presiâ€" dent; William G. Davis, minister of university affairs, representing the government; Dr. A. Davidson Dunton, chairman of the commitâ€" area as well as out of town. Students are paying their share . of expenses, about â€" $1,000 each. This includes air fare and ground accommodation and â€" transport. There are still several vacancies, which students from other univerâ€" sities have been invited to fill, The seminar leaves from Toronâ€" to on May 29 and returns June been reading about. They have been preparing diligently for this trip." Advance bookings suggest atâ€" tendance at the April 10â€"12 presâ€" entation here may exceed the group‘s lastâ€" performance, The Odd Couple, which set an all The play being presented by the local group was first perâ€" formed in the Morosco Theatre in New York in March 1955. Lead roles were by Barbara Bel Gedâ€" des and Ben Gazzara Burl Ives was Big Daddy in both the Broadâ€" way and film productions. and Tim Trower. The play deals with Williamg‘ favorite topic â€" the decadent south. It is the best known work of the author, who gained notâ€" _ oriety in the 50s for his earthy dialogue in plays like Cat on a several character roles in recent plays, is cast as Rev. Tooker. | . Five graduates of John Gasâ€" kell‘s children‘s acting course fill the "no necked monsters" roles. named Desire.