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VI Cl At If, as now seems inevitable, qhe customs and excise office at 70 King St. N., is moved to Kitchener, the vacant space left might provide Waterloo Post ot. fice with some needed elbow room. But he applied for permission Bo use the space when the trans- fer was first announced a year The post office and customs tort share the same building at he corner of King and Laurel Streets. The former requires addition- il space. Overcrowding of the existing facilities resulted in a Jan. 13. An attempted break-in at Weichel Hardware, 22 King St. B., was discovered early today by Waterloo police. Someone smashed . window near the lock of I rear door. Postmaster Charles Foster said this week that he has not yet re- ceived any official statement that the offices formerly occupied by the customs officials would be bade available to the post office. Jan. c. Janet Fleischmann of 14 Moore Ave. S., was released from KW Hospital after treatment when she was struck by a car while crossing King Street. Jon. 9. Mrs. Lothar Rakebrandt of 45 Laure? St. W., was reported In satisfactory condition in K-W Hospital, where she was admitted knowing a two-car crash " the King and Laurel Street intersection. Jan. to. Damage was reported at $800 in a fire at the home of ft': McCallum, 23 High St. An overhead stove was blamed for the lam. _ Jon. tq. Waterloo Siskins doihed the'leagueJeading Owen Sound Greys 7-2 at the arena here. Jan. te. The opening of Cedarhrae school was cited " one of the factors in council‘s decision to grant another week's extension to the trial bus service in Lakeshore Village. It will continue till WEEK IN RETROSPECT Customs moving out _ j _ WATERLOO, ONTARIO ‘ A . . THUMY, JAN. ts, t9N---tN Waterloo Siskins downed the Collingwood Blues 21 in Collins- John Hemmerly (seated) and Dave Reid: will be transferred to Kitchener. Post office may benefit The minister, however, felt a $34,200-a-year saving would re suit from closing the local of- fice and amalgamating the oper- ation with the Kitchener customs and excise port. A phasing-out process was set in motion two months ago and Jan. 31 was set for closing down the Waterloo office. ‘ Subsequently a brief was sub. mitted to Revenue Minister Jean Pierre Cote. Closure of the customs port was first announced early in 1969. Opposition from the cham. ber of commerce secured a de. lay, so that a survey of the situ- ation might be completed. transfer of the outgoing parcel post operation to the Ardelt plant in Kitchener's industrial basin Nov. 15. Some of the men who worked About 100 pupils from the Vil- lage which is the fastest-growing subdivision in Wat loo and the neighboring Pat-hale develop- ment currently attend separate schools in other parts of the city. The subdivision's first school opened this week. Located on Ce- darbrae Avenue, it will serve public school pupils in the area. And public school officials feel it will be inadequate for the area‘s needs by September, l9'71. "If we get the green light, we'll have it in 1970." said Building Committee Chairman Gerry Olin- ski, referring to a department of education crackdown on school costs. Separate school board trustees agreed this week to have Arehi- tects Horton and Ball design I building for the subdivision. Lakeshore Village in Waterloo could have a second school before the end of the year. Volume of business was re- ported at about $100,000 a month here before the phaseout. This included import duties, sales and (Continued on Page 2) Itemaining on to close down the operation are John Hemmer.. ly, superintendent, Dave Reist and Don Way. After Feb. 1, they will be absorbed into the Kitch- eneroperation which has offices on Duke Street and a bonded warehouse on Henry Sturm Boulevard. Traffic at the Water. loo-Wellington airport has cre- ated a big increase in that of- fice's business. Excise men, currently work- ing in Carling and Seagram's plants will remain on the job. out of the local port have already been trapsferred to Kitchener, where some of the work former. ly handled here is being sent. lakeshore RC school is approved “W School trustees return an? Paleczny for 2nd term Cost was kept down in that in- stance by using tiled corridors, having no movable partitions and using single glazed window and inexpensive carpeting. One of the schools visited by I board delegation cost $12.60 per square foot. Questioned about the cost of the building, Olinski said, "We're striving for the $16 per square foot mark. We're striking for I happy medium between $18.50, which is our top figure, and $13." Trustees heard a variety of pre- sentation: from engineering and architectural firms outlining new building concepts and visited schools in Brantford and Whitby before coming to their final de. cision on the proposed eight- classroom school. The building will also have a kindergarten area, library and general purpose In some areas the highlight meant introduction of kinder- garten classes, where none pre- viously existed. In others, it was provision of special education Commenting on the work of Waterloo Trustee Mac Zettel in promoting a trustee brief seek- ing extension of government support for Catholic high school education, the chairman said 'St. Mary's and St. Jerome's cannot carry on any longer under exist- ing eireumstanees." Paleczny declined to select any highlights from the board's year in operation, saying "They were all highlights last year." Michael Paleczny of Waterloo and Carl Schell of Kitchener were unanimously returned as chairman and vice-chairman, re.. spectively, at the inaugural meet- ing of Waterloo County separate whool board this week. “I believe the board and staff 4 have done a wonderful ioti,"" Paleczny told trustees. He ex- pressed special gratitude to the board's three standing commit- tees, teaching and administra.. tive staffs and all who assisted in the transition to a county board system. move will affect about 2,000 foreign students. REP: ' , ‘ "kt/riff':,': r5ia8it".:, i'." My? ',f,:,'g'A'iug""i't'ili W' i'ityr./f'Rr9'i, m. 'st, 2; 'ys'"', if??? US$31 , _,et.: tit L3,; 'i; 3 ' V ’"fiéf‘k'? fer; ' c ar e'iAf,'erirc"i'fjja W: Walter-Fedy and Associates Ltd. will be engaged " mechani- cal engineers. Yush, Wenzel and Sehl Ltd. will be the electrical engineers on the project. “a Similar care taken throughout would ensure good value over the long haul. "We feel we can make consid- erable savings irrmany ways," he pointed out. One simple ex- ample related to door sizes. If standard seven-foot doors were used, " immediate-even if small savings was in sight. It has been customary to use custom-built Th-foot sizes. "We know now that savings can be effected," continued Olin- ski. "There are some things we might have to accept but by sit. ting down with the architects and engineers we feet we can make cuts without affecting the func- tional design of the building." programs or psychological set» vices, classes for perceptually handicapped or music programs. “Financially, we appear to have made out very well," he remarked. "We have stayed with. in our budget and there's $300, (Continued on Page 1) MICHAEL PALECZNY _':.':, f g , b':" le. or: _ it Fr uid . ' , 2 c' . ‘ fa-ad i ',", 3‘. , g: 'at.. ., 1‘2 ,