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‘9CI- . Included are $256,750 for busi- Bess administration; $5,158,500 In: instruction; $71,500 for edw cational services; $834,000 for plant operation and maintenance; tliege for transportation; $1,- 19004 for debenture payments 'nd other capital works; and $177,000 in bank payments from previous boards. Ot the $600,000 in new money, 6pproximately half will go for new expenditures which had been chopped from the budget previ- ously adopted. The balance will be applied to the deficit. - _ The money will help reduce ' $700,000 deficit in a budget bet earlier this year, as welt as Increase some educational ser- The budget adopted Monday light calls toe expenditures od “3,162,354. Separate school board trustees wanted a revised budget Monday might, incorporating an addition.. al $600,000 in provincial grants. _ The money will help reduce ' $700,000 deficit in a budget $600, 000 windfall CITY HALL T6PPLEB-Th. landscaping In "no “aground mom-Ins noon and undisturbod whilo o M yards away demolition mlpmont nus tho lost poo-Nun of tho old city boll. A big crowd Wad "I. last hour of the bulldtng, which woo mud to main any for on omee building. Trustees approve revised budget Gbmniale x Early in this, the board's first year, the trustees were faced with a deficit of about $700,000 be, cause of major cutbacks in pro- vincial grants. However, pressure Under plant operatioh Iand maintenance, general repairs have bgen increased to $62,000 from Other immasea include $15,000 to raise the transportation bud. get to $150,000. This will allow for field trips. More money will also be spent on instruction. The budget for instructional supplies has been increased to 8400,000 from $358,- 900, and for salaries and wages to $4,650,000 from $4,821,522. Among the increases for edu- cational services, psychological services and benefits have been boosted to $48,000 from $43,300. Of the new expenditures, more than '200,000 will be added to the board's capital works pro- gram, including land purchases, a heating system repair bill and architects' fees. However, since the $800,000 ad. ditional grant is actually a sub. sidy to the municipalities, the amount actually to be raised by taxes in the 12 municipalities in about $1,611,000. quired to pay their share of this deficit. as decided by arbitrators. With the new grant, the board's revenue will be $7,914,854. Most of this income will be in provin- cial grants of $5,374,852 and mu- nicipal taxes of $2,486,457. The board will still end the year with a deficit of about $250.- 000. This is a holdover from the " separate school boards which were combined in the county board. Br law, the board cannot me any of the new grant to re- The $000,000 which 'tb'e"b"bo§rd has received is a result of this revision. from the many county school boards, which found themselves in similar positions, forced the province to revise its subsidies. The municipalities will be re- TEN CENTS VIM-pm. ONTARIO ‘11...” - on» yotncm”.... . n... Aug. n. One of the city's biggest'industries, Abe: Industries of Canada Ltd.. announced plans to close down its Weber Street North plant. Ao.. 26. Ontario Liberal leader Robert Nixon told the 11th annual convention of the United Senior Citizens of Ontario Ine., meeting at Waterloo Lutheran University. that the government should rent motel accommodation during the winter months to house older people waiting for placement in homes for the aged or subsi- dined housing. _ Council also unmoved construction of 36 Ontario Housing Corp. gmtt-gettred-to-ioeome homes on Amos Avenue. of a Bloomingdale-Ire: farm iinted by the Grand River consi,rvC Hon Authority. Nothing was stolen when thieves gained entry to Electronic Craftsmen, " Sehatefer St. Nur Gurak, a student at the University of Waterloo and a former Paris Cup prayer in Turkey, won the Tennis Club‘s men's champion. Jeffrey Shirk. lo, of 202 Dawson St., suffered a broken arm when he fell from the high diving board at the Lions swimming pool in Waterloo Park. Aug. M. The Waterloo Musical Society Band placed second in the challenge section of the Canadian National Exhibition's band com- petitions in Toronto. . Aug. M. Six Waterloo youngsters raised $15 for the Sunbeam Home at a carnival they organized this afternoon. About 50 neighbor- hood children took part in the event which was planned by David Dietrich/Larry Weber, Jane and Robert Oswald, Shane Witt and Darryl Knarr, all of the Rodney Street-Ellis Crescent area. Aug. " M. W. (Speck) Turner, secretary-manager of the chamber of commerce was one of a Twin City delegation that flew to Halifax today to make a bid for the 1973 Canada Games. The three-man team had gone down on a fact-finding mission. It consisted of the Waterloo Cham- ber of Commerce secretary-mana- ger, Archie Gillies manager of Kitchener’s chamber and William Butler a former Kitchener may- or. Kitchener Auditorium mana- “Lamina accompanied the others for part of the trip." Turner pointed out this week that the Twin City men didn't go to hid. Bids for the games will tie called sometime in October and will have to be submitted within 90 days of that date. At least four other communi- "ties have declared an interest WEEK IN RETROSPECT 300 out of work in Abex shutdown If the Twin Cities are to host the Canada Games in summer 1973 it will require an all out ef, fort by all Waterloo County resi, dents, according to M. W. (Speck) Turner, who returned from Hare fax this week with a Twin City delegation. week anon-cad the permanent chain. of m aubaidiary plant, Aha: Industries at Canada Lat, no Weber St. N. No specific date has been set " the final closing. However, plant manger Julien Hradecky told employees that operation: at the Waterloo location would be phased out as quickly as possible. In a prepared statement, Hrad, ocky said "Continuing deerea+ ing volume of business has cre- ated an excess of manufactur- ing capacity and the consolida- tion of such manufacturing capa- city has made it economically impractical to continue the We- terloo opreation." Community effort vital if K-W to host games Tho plant, which employ. than! ”I perm. most of them men, b pm of the biggest in Waterloo. Last year, its municipal taxes amounted to about $47,000 or he" I mill cl all taxes collected in the city. Ita payroll in estimated h the region of 81,500,000. A094”. Council agreegl to pay $14,000 towards the 3200.000 price “PM 9mg street had orient Mo families inwvm. ei; ther by having teenagers drive officials, referees and umpires or by allowing tourists to have a bed in their homes . . . There were 3,000 volunteers. The county generally would have to be involved if the Twin (Continued on Page 2) Formerly known In [either Engineering Ltd. and located in Kitchener, Abe: pun-hosed thin operation in IN]. tkattsequemtir, in um, the operation was moved to newer and larger quarter: in WateHoo. Some of the local delegates re- ported later that a community effort was needed to get the games and that "everyone in Kit. chener and Waterloo must get bo. hind it." This week we asked the Waters loo chamber manager to put this in more concrete terms and he described how it was accomplish ed in Halifax and Dartmouth. Both communities were totallg involved according to Turner. At its peak, the Weber Street plant employed about soo men and 40 women. It manufactured aircraft underearriage hydraulic equipment. The company statement said: "All employee; will be individ- ually interviewed and advised of their benefits and privileges and will receive a cash allowance . . . " in hosting the games. They are London, Hamilton, Burnaby, BC. and Red Deer, Alta. There are six other Abex Corp. divisions in Canada-at Brant.. ford, Lindsay, Hawkesbury and Niagara Falls, all in Ontario, Set- kirk, Man., and Jolliet and Mon. treal in Quebec. Other than Mon. treal, Waterloo was the only one involved in the manufacture of aerospace equipment. OOOOIOOOQGI‘.mmo- . ..