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dow, This probably r e s u l t e d when someone raised the height of the lower noor. Thore were mirrors all around one room when Litwiller moved in. This was a bar-room. at one This has also happened to sev- eral windows in the house, In one place. one has to get down on the floor to. look out one win- When firemen were called in recently to quell a blaze in the upper storey, their efforts show- ed a door which had beemboard- ad um and papered over. But. if there was nothing com Crete ghost-wise, there was plen~ " of evidence of the variety of uses to which the old house was put down the years. One night, Litwiller found the mobiles and beaded curtain down.. stairs moving although there ".asn't any draught in the room that he could-discover and, oc- casionally, he thought he heard Ion footsteps moving around-- but then he had two cats in resim dence at the time and it might just have been that duo that were flitting around. . A little,'old ladylold him the “house was haunted but didn't divulge just what form the spook took. She did remark that the building had had a lot of tenants down the years and suggested this was because no one wanted to live there too long. Afterwards some of his friends -wanted to hold a seance there but they never managed to get around to it. One night a group of them vob. ed to explore the attic led by a girl carrying an electric lamp. Just as she crawled inside. the bulb shattered and that was the end of her investigation. A man in the party equipped himself with another light, went up and found everything in order. The little, old lady left without identifying herself and Litwiller never heart) of her again. She said it remained vacant for several years during the Second World War, after which it was used to house refugees and after that tenants started occupying it once more. tenancy of the building expires this month, was warned about the possibility shortly after he opened up his troutique--The Plumtree Too, there. So, we started working back Inmagh the years to see what former residents had to say. If there are any beasties, “sues, ghoulies or goblins that Mit-in at " Albert St., we failed b find anyone who had met any of the species going bump in the light. ', An item in a daily paper last week caught our eye, and led us to believe some people believed the house was haunted. Dy PHILOMENA RUTHERFORD HONOR GUARD-A "who: .m - week, when their Quid. "Mon-m, Am with wum Von “kind: of Barrio. The Was the little old lady a spook? Litwiller. _ whqse two-year MH - “and Hannah} Wakrloo We‘ve": library. The group, trrhleh was mhrthip the. then. Neither he nor 1tisiiiiiiiy" are} heard or saw anything spooky in all that time. WEAVERS’ CRAFT--Chttdrws II liams (rlgM) and Marilyn Manon Bill Schmidt, caretaker for Waterloo Mutual Insurance Co., has cared for the building and grounds for " years and lived in the house for almost two years. fine form," saidvthe interiorwaec- orator with a chuckle. "The only interesting thing that happened while we were there," he told us, "was that a gentle- man who 'must have been 80 years old came in one day, walk- ed over to one end of the room and said, ‘I was born in this cor- W. H. Miller of Miller Inter, iors Ltd., lived in the house for three years and neither he, nor his family, saw, heard or felt anything eerie in that time. Nei- ther had they heard of the sup posed hauntings. point. The mirrors also concealed two sealed windows, as he discov, ered when some of them were re- moved. 'ur, he was a ghost, he was in P. The newlyweds wm‘uu’i; iiaiiaii"i. "and a guard of In”: a. St. ”chars Church last Vodakol. 9t 'Mrthwood It. OICW and... vows “In“- “A" nu- P,, .-.... _ - 'r-f!uurtex's librarian Mrs. Mauro." Wil- ”on admin Olhlbin which the Loft an displaying in the public formal In. Ocular, doubhd m Well we didn't get much 'fa story but he had his laugh for the day, Ghosts, it seems," fast aren't his bag. ' Since this was historian Fred Shinn’s father. we felt sure we'd have the inside story in no time, so we caught the oldtimer in between bowling games. It was Miss Schmidt who also checked old town directories for us to locate former occupants. Among them, we found an un- dertaker, J. K. Shinn. had his home there in 1912-19”. _ Grace Schmidt, reference lib- rarian at Kitchener public library, recalled that a house on Albert Street once housed two families --<me called Engel (Angel) and the other Devil. This presumably was the house nearer Erb Street, which has since been demolished. He was also among the many we spoke to, who remembered when a restaurant was operated there. “We all slept well and there were no problems," he said. A former newspaper feature writer, he served as producer. as- sociate producer, script writer. coeditor and director for more than 20 motion pictures. includ- ---_.vV v- -.._ u-Iuvxlnlt! Ill 1301-00. He was associate director of the commission and the Lutheran Laymen's Movement from 1946 until 1969, He is a graduate of Wagner College. Staten Island. N.Y.. and did graduate work at Columbia University. He has re ceived honorary degrees from Wagner College and Gettysburg College. Prior to coming to Waterloo, he was director of the commis. sion on stewardship of the LCA, and has served the church in a variety of posts for more than 25 years. At WLU, he was the chief exe- cutive officer for public relations. fund raising and alumni affairs. He also served as acting pre.si- dent of the university in 1967-68. He said that the new office will not serve to influence legislation but will inform the church when efforts might be made to assist through its various boards and commissions. Prior to coming to Wain-don To date, various agencies of the Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod are participating in the commission. Endress will resign as a member of the executive council of the Lutheran Church in America because ot his staff elec- tion. "This new agency is "tnother step in the church's ministry‘in which individual and social needs are met as an expression of .Chris- tign responsibility for love and justice." said Endress. The agency, to be known as the Lutheran Resources Commission. Washington, will provide a chan- nel for the Lutheran churches of North America to inform their members of relevant legislation. “This pew agency is another Dr. Henry Endless, vice-presi- dent of Waterloo Lutheran Uni- versity since 1983, resigns June so to become the first executive director of a new church agency in Washington, D.C. At Lake Conestoga. subscriber facilities will be located on the north side of the dam where the public beach and launching area Work on these new facilities should be finished by mid-June at Lake Belwood and possibly earlier at Lake Conestoga Kao said the subscriber moor- ing area at Lake Belwood will be on the west side of the Shand dam, opposite the public beach and launching area. 7 815 which gave them unlimited launchings for the season. But mooring of boats at public areas has not been allowed. "Many boat owners want to moor their boats at the lake in- stead of towing them back and forth each weekend," said Kao. The authority will build new docks at each lake and set aside parking areas for season ticket holders. "mu Ken. the authority's dir- ector of operations, said the ex- tended facilities are being provid- ed in row to many requests. Up to now, boaters using the two man-made Pres have had to pay I boat launching fee each time they put their boats in the water or buy a season's ticket for 815 which gave them unlimited the lake: for the new, use dock facilities to be provided and park their cars in reserved parkinl New facilities [or boaters will be provided by the Grand River Centennial! Authority this sum- mer at Lake Belwood and Lake Conestoga. "Milled at 2 GRCA lakes Mooring facilities being MW.M.I-ynm ' reserved parking owners will boats at NEW LO'VK - Mrs. Halon Schott, thet city's first bylnw enforcement officer, was out- fitted with a smart, new, Moe. summer unilorm this nook. ing the film Martiniithdr, foe which he was associate producer. Since 1965. he has been a member of the Canadian Broadcasting Cor, poration‘s national religious " visory council. Dr. and Mrs. Endress. the for.. mer Clare Marie LeBlanc, have two children, Lt. Lee H, Endreu of the US. Navy. and Lori, a fourth year student at WLU. The police were "otified of " other occurrences. including five mugs of break, enter and theft. Seventeen other accidents in- volving $9,685 property damage and eight injuries were also in- vestigated. OPP investigate seventh fatality The local provincial police de. tachment investigated its seventh fatal accident this week, which accounted for the ninth death in their patrol area this year. be able to launch their cliff; the public launching areas. Boat operators visiting the lakes on a gasual basis will still Boat owners will have to pro- vide their own mooring in the area set aside for this purpose. Use of docks to be provided will be confined to taking on poms- .ers or letting them off. The $25 season's fee will also give subscribers unlimited en- trance to all authority parks. ‘ Kao said the new system will not result in the' elimination at transient boat launching facilities atthe two lakes. was previously lac-ted. Luger new public facilities were opened this year on the opposite side (I the dam.