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~ Things go bump in the night in industrial sector Parents win boundary bout and get choice of schools The problem was created when @@ministrative staff decided childâ€" en from the Ellis Crescent area would fill three empty classrooms &n St. Agnes school, while simulâ€" €aneously opening up St. Louis faâ€" gilities for three opportunity clasâ€" #es. St. Louis was regarded as the gnost suitable for this aspect of education because of its proximity %o the trolley line. Four families indicated they Rished their children to attend . Agnes school and listed as geir primary reasons the fact that was closer to their homes and was safer to travel since they would not have to cross Weber A _ don‘tâ€"takeâ€"noâ€"forâ€"anâ€"answer ilosophy paid off for 16 Waterâ€" residents Monday night when y asked the Waterloo County €eparate school board to reconâ€" #ider an earlier ruling on school Roundaries. The decision was made followâ€" @ng petitions and counter petitions and presentations to board meetâ€" dngs by a parent who wished her children to attend St. Agnes and the St. Louis parish priest who gaw a threat to his parish if the mew boundary was set. ‘ Clemmer Industries Ltd. plant IUt 446 Albert St. is located in a t:vy industrial zone, as many of residents in the surrounding @esidential areas can testify. _ But the plant has one up on the residents of neighboring comâ€" apunities: It was there first. In fact, when the plant first Nocated on the site in 1958 or ‘59, achs, the company‘s chief enâ€" gineer and viceâ€"president. What‘s But as the city grew, residential Rreas were developed around the Clemmer plant and other indusâ€" Residents moving in learned mothing of the hazards of adjoimâ€" Aug. 12. Thirtyâ€"two Waterloo teenagers, who have spent the last month touring Europe and Asia with the Ship‘s School Association, #eturned home. the city limits. Aug. 8. The Waterloo Bridge Sports of the Interâ€"City Fastball League defeated Kitchener Kieswetters of the Ontario Ladies‘ Senior League 6â€"3 in an exhibition game at Centennial Park. Proceeds went to St. Monica House. The teams exchanged pitchers and catchers Lor the game. It was decided at a July board meeting to change existing boundâ€" ary lines between the two schools, Hetting the new limits along the ¢gentre of Weber Street from Kitâ€" Chener‘s city limits to Bridgeport Aug. 11. Council learned that current provincial legislation preâ€" wents it from controlling the Four Wells recreation area on King Street North. City Clerk D. F. Preston said the area might be gonsidered a natural area. As a result 43 families may each decide whether to send their Children to St. Louis or St. Agnes #chool. Aug. 9. Staff at Moses Springer pool report that youths are hopâ€" ping the sixâ€"foot fence for midnight swims. Four of five alleged drug traffickers arrested by Kitchener RCMP last night and early this morning were taken into custody in Waterâ€" loo. Three were arrested in Hammarskjold House, a student coâ€" Operative residence near the University of Waterloo and the fourth &At a driveâ€"in restaurant in the city. Aug. 7. Two boys, aged 11 and 12, were apprehended following & weekend breakâ€"in at Deluxe Upholstering Ltd., Canbar Street. About $40 worth of items were recovered. Inspector Kenneth Schneider said no charges were planned against the youngsters. Aug. 10. A scvenâ€"yearâ€"old girl was indecently assaulted in the Worthfield Drive area of the city by a man who drove up to where she and a girl friend were playing in a creek. This is the third. such occurrence in the city in the last few weeks. The girl was not physically harmed. * _ WEEK IN RETROSPECT property was outside A member of the delegation said she felt "this jostling. of these children was too much." She said "it seems very improper‘ to have children attend one school and another church and said it would mean a spiritual loss for many of them. She said it would be impossible Parents also informed trustees that another school change would mean a fourth school for some children. ing an industrial sone until they were awakened by loud hammerâ€" ing one summer‘s night. By then, Meantime, expressway traffic will likely increase the flow on Erb Street and Bridgeport Road, but this will be oneâ€"way and might or might not be more danâ€" gerous. About two years ago some of the Blythwood Road residents apâ€" peared before council, petitioning from the Clemmer plant during the night. Various suggestions for deadenâ€" ing the noise were made by both sides. Plant officials spent sevâ€" eral hundred dollars introducing some of them. The advent of the Conestoga Parkway is expected to lessen Weber Street traffic for a time, but it is also felt that this will likely return to its present rate after two years. He agreed that the administraâ€" tive staff‘s "basic thinking" on the subject was unchanged but pointâ€" ed out that even Waterloo‘s enâ€" gineering staff was unable to preâ€" dict traffic patterns for the area involved. One method consisted of subâ€" stituting fibreâ€"glass hammers for metal sledge hammers throughout the plant. This helped a little but did not solve the problem comâ€" pletely, ; Superintendent John Sweeney told trustees Monday night that additional information had since become . available which might justify a modification of the earlâ€" ier decision. There were 39 opposed to the move but the board felt obliged to go against the majority wish in light of the information amasâ€" sed by its superintendents. (Continued on Page 2) The extended facilities mark the first addition to the 1951 hosâ€" pital building. They were reduited to offtsét grave overcrowdinig. The need, in fact, was so great, that .hospital staff is easing into saclh p@w sectionâ€":of the addition as‘fadt as the builders finish work One thing, however, became eviâ€" dent as complaints poured in: The problem was strictly seasonal The plant operated year around but residents were disturbed only in summertime. It was apparent that open doors at the plant and epen windows in neighboring homes conspired to cause all the trouble. The company established a polâ€" icy which called for closed doors when the night shift was operatâ€" ing, except for movement of equipment in or out. This is generally adhered to, according to Halwachs. On the other hand, he points out that "if The cost for creating the adâ€" dition, equipping it and renovating the older section is $16,038,000. One third of this will be raised locally, with contributions being assessed against Waterloo County, Kitchener and Waterloo. That‘s what the hospital‘s new addition is costing. When comâ€" pleted next May, it will increase the building‘s total bed capacity to 735. Work was started on the proâ€" ject in May 1967 and as things now stand it looks likely it will be completed by the target dateâ€" May 1970. Officials at the Kâ€"W Hospital may not know how to play the stock exchange as advantageously as Dr. Morton Shulman: They‘re not telling. But they do know how to spend $16,000,000 in a hurry. it‘s extremely hot in a metal building you cannot fire someone for leaving a door open." ©® Meantime, there are other soluâ€" When an Ontario doctor wrote a book on How to Make a Million a few years ago, it became an overnight bestseller for its conâ€" troversial author. Hospital aims for $16,000,000 value Chronicle :©** Additions and renovations to the Kâ€"W Hospital are estimated to exceed $16,000,000. tions, he admits, but all of them outm.O-ohhgt'm all around the plant. would not only ‘deaded the sound but would beautify the area. Air conditioning of the plant is another solution but this is un economical. > Plant officials have suggested the city contribute to some of these solutions but no financial assistance has been offered. Short of closing down, there is not much else management can do, according to Halwachs, "and we don‘t intend to stop operaâ€" He said the company would welâ€" come any practical suggestion there. According to Jim Spencer, building coâ€"ordinator, about 88 percent of the addition is comâ€" pleted. The psychiatric unit and launâ€" CGERALD COX Giant washers whisk their 1,200â€" pound laundry lo a d to "whiter than whitc," in no time at all and the spunâ€"dry articles look like (Continued on Page 2) This is now done in the now section of the hospital. For many years, the Kâ€"W Hosâ€" pital has been the laundry centre for hospitals in Galt, Gucioh, Freeport and the Mennonite Home in Preston. from homeowners or city officials. At the present time, the comâ€" pany is notifying all residents in that area of the problems inâ€" volved and indicating its readiâ€" ness to discuss any possible solw tions. A Longwood Drive resident sugâ€" gested last week in a letter to owner Arnoid Clemmer that the night shift cease qperation in the interest of neighborly goodwill. She complained that the noise had forced area residents to reâ€" sort to ear plugs, sleeping pills and even moving away. Staff members have got well away from the days when basket weaving or leather work was the sum total of stimulation, manual or mentaly ill patient. Now they can run the gamut from oil painting to pottery. Halwachs, however, says a modâ€" ern business cannot afford to keep its plant idle at night. Two new departments have established in this area of hospital medicineâ€"departments of pysâ€" chology and social medicine. Occupational therapy is also keeping time with developmenis in patient care and the accomâ€" modation. Now there is a special area set aside for these patients. It has 60 beds as well as a large outpatient facility. There are about 100 employees on staff, of whom about 10 work (Continued on Page 2) Before construction started, psy; chiatric patients had to be acâ€" commodated in medical beds. dry are two of the main areas in the new section that are in use. WATERLOO, ONTARIO TEN CENTS