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_".,". a-ri-ai-ij-sa-tmr. . ~Waterloo County separate school trustees pulled off _ something in the nature of a coup last week, when they succeeded in having a contractor agree to build a nine.. - classroom school in Waterloo at a coat of $12.57 a square foot. The board is confident that as a result of this it can keep costs for constructing and equipping the build- ing below the $330,000 grant which the department of V education allows for this type of building. ’ “I feel it's an unfair burden on Waterloo's senior citi- Bene," Ald. Herb Epp commented this week, when he proposed council ask Kitchener Public Utilities Commis sion to apply the same conditions for purchasing half- fare tickets to Waterloo as it does to Kitchener. "Otherwise, it's just costing the old folk 1; bus ticket to eome and buy tickets," Aid. Charles Voelker noted. According to PUC terms, Waterloo persons qualifying for the half-fare rate must purchase their tickets from city hall. Kitchener'a old folk may purchase theirs from the bus drivers. Some of these chats are unavoidable. Others can very easily be done without and schools with all the latest built-in frills are among them. While agreeing with those who point to the additional effort involved for the PUC, we cannot agree with them tha_t_this_is sufficient reason to do nothing about it. Many of them seem to feel some credit accrues to them if monumental schools are erected during their terms of office and seem to give little thought to the ability of taxpayers to carry the load. The average taxpayer lives a little bit below the stand- ard he would like to maintain, has a home (if indeed he owns one) a little more humble than he would like to have and drives a car a year or two older than the moderhia heart is set on. He does this because it’s the only way he tcan meet his bills. Too many school boards forget what his life is like when they opt for the best in everything and send him the bill, via his provincial and local taxes. The local Catholic board has proven itself mindful of the trust its supporters placed in it. It might be interests. ing to find, out_oyer the next few weeks if any of our Waterloo contributes n healthy share to Kitchener PUC’s transport revenue. Good service and courteous consideration of needs should not be too much to expect in return No" doubt, school boards across Ontario will note the success of the local separate school board. One hopes, however, they will alstmake a serious effort to imitate it. While every one will agree that education is one of life's priorities, sincere, thinking people everywhere are beginning to question the returns from the enormous sums now being spent. great silent majority (and locally we seem to hive that) bother to tell them Bo. Wh q od q 9 at price go semce. The board admits its bargain was not without the element of luck that is often characteristic of successful business deals. A slowdown in local building set the stage for a very competitive market which certainly worked to the board's benefit. But it was a break their efforts richly deserved. Armed with this information, and there was reams of it, the board selected what seemed the most practical, economical design and construction method. Then they advertised for tenders making it quite clear they wanted value for every cent. Contractors and sub-contractors took note. It involved some honest, down-to-earth homework on the part of trustees, who'invited proposals and informa- tion from out-of-town firms on new' types of school build- ing methods. After that local firms had their say. - ed "a price breakthrough." Normally school costs run as high as 20 percent above provincial grants. The average square foot cost for schools built locally in recent years is about $19. The separate school board last week suc- cessfully demonstrated that such prices can be chopped by one-third. _ How was this done? The formula it seems had nothing mystic about it. It is the same one used by businessmen, big and small. who want to keep their heads above water. Local Catholic trustees justifiably proud of their ac- complishments, which ope_pf, their_admjnistratprs term- This, in effect means, that Catholic taxpayers in Waterloo County will not have to stump up anything for t? school from local taxes, something which has ne8er h ppened before for public or separate school supporters anywhere in the province. tnCA-teut-'otr,trstm-taas. -rreeth.e-ro-trtte-J.usttei_ udth'ukb ttmr-ea-tteb- saoorboinl coup, ’ Meantime, such few proposals for naming another proposed amalgamated municipality ls have been made, seemed all cen- tred around existing names or combinations. This week, however, a Water- too alderman in a waggish mo- ment came up with a novel sug- gestion. It was prompted by some mtistics on the amount of I Certain brew that went down Some interesting suggestions have been put forward for nam- ing the proposed urban Galt-Hes.. peter-Preston complex, if and when it comes about. Like I said, tongue-iniheek bit gets irresistible sometimes. It would be too much to ask of me not to comment on the fact that the World Christian Endeavor Convention is planned for Water- loo this year not after I learned that it was last held in Belfast, Ireland, two years ago. And just think how hard those Irish Chris. tians are endeavoring ever since! Like last week, when I twit- ted YMCA officials about not reminding me earlier that I gave a wrong address to their Family YMCA building on Lincoln Road. But every now and then the temptation gets too much, and just life they told me it would, it gets me into trouble. We", wouldn't you know! The gremlins that haunt newspaper offices went to work and YM be- came YW. Serves me right that you-know-who had the last laugh. A couple of city editors along the way did their best to keep this columnist on the straight and narfow, pointing out that tontrtte-inatheek writing all to? often brings its own rewards--'-. seams of boiling water right up to your ears. Some people "are born with a silver spoon in their months: Other poor mortals, like, yours fully, with tongine in etieeCLand sooner or later one or other af- flietion catches up with you, when ymfre least expecting it! So, in spite of the dirty trick our Canadian weather played on us last week, it seems spring is going to roll around this year, too. For awhile there, we didn't believe it ever would. Incidental- ly, this is the seventh successive month in which we’ve had snow. It a iobin comes can spring be- far behind? Surely not--espees ially if it’s not one but tic nob- ins, all in one week. In. Marina Barnstijn of " Lrngwood Drive was the first person to give, us the glad news op a mug-Ry day last week. Not long afterward, Mrs. Helen Smil- éy of The Chronicle staff, arriw ed with the new: that she, too,- had seen a robin.’ Milena Wort; BITS AND PIECES ' White declining to comment of- ficially, several councillors indi- cated it is unlikely that council will bow to a request from Kit- chener-Waterloo Women’s ChrU- tian Temperance Union that trev- erage rooms, which now close at midnight. close at 10 pan. 30 YEARS AGO - April s. Neighbors and close friends for nearly 30 years, Noah Martin, Mt, and Joseph Grosx, 82, died suddenly within two minutes of each other this week. Town Clerk, N. A. Zick reports 43 births, 21 deaths and sik mar- riages during January, February and March. Mr. and Mrs. David B. Mussel. man of Lockwood, Sash, who spent the winter months as guests of Mrs. Musselman's sister, Anna R. Bean, have returned home. 40 YEARS AGO April 3. D. H. Alger, manager of Seagram's Ltd., is spending a three-week vacation in the West Indies. Of course it's not likely to happen. The man next to us on the assembly lim., or the girl in the office next door, or the man who lives around the corn; er from us always donates when a clinic is held, so the stock is always maintained. Unless, of course, they too, should say, why bother? And then comes the day there. due of the two public blood donor clinics, which the local branch sponsors, will be held a blood transfusion--and it there's none in the Mood bank, we’die. Ws as simple and stark as that. Today, or next week we could be the ones balancing between life and death through need of But all these things exist, and ignoring them won't send them away. We give little thought to death or sickness when we and all we love are healthy, any more than a well-fed man thinks of starv- ing humanity or a wealthy one dwells on poverty. hatches by the score last Octo- ber. "What about Formosa?” said he. Sorry, alderman, that’s ab ready taken. _ If the Canadian Red Cross So. ciety were to abandon all its other projects and concern itself solely with blood clinic opera- tions, it would more than ful- fil its reason for existing. FILES or YESTERYEAR need it and there's node The city engineer predicts that the availability of mortgage money will govern the growth od residential subdivisions this year. Only 45 homes were started or completed last year although 1,000, Iota were available. April T. Council agreed to have I curb on moonlighting written into this yeap's contract with the works department. Council, this week, decided to employ five students during the summer. Two will be supervised by the city engineer and three will work under the assessment commissioner. was the Josebh E. Seagrail: diL tinery which had to close down for the day. ' 10 YEARS AGO Airit F. A hue-inch rainfall pro. cipitated a flash flood this week, when Laurel Creek overflowed its banks. Thousands of dollars damage it reported. Hardest hit It seems to be glad tidings for Waterloo every day lately. Hot on the heels of Provincial Tree- surer Charles MneNaturhton't $213,710bonus comes words that an additionalMJSO just might be possible. Initial hdications were that church affiliated colleges were exempt fmn the $2S-per-student grant payable to the city in'lieu of municipal taxes. Now, it seem local MPP Edward Good has Ed- ucation Minister Davis' thinking about extending this to students leges. at Waterloo Lutheran Universi 9, St. 4erome's and Renison " sity students turned up for a three-day clinic on campus. Could not the.rest of the commuw follow suit? -.. They're not making the zipped in an effort to win any achieve- ment award. They're just attemp- ting something unmxnantic and mutirte-like (saving lives, maybe even yours. If you feel you haw anything, to live for, you might want to help them do it. Mirumaeeftxtan10a.m.to- “dam-I. toSPagcTherewat- be another until September. Organizers are anxious to have some new donors augment the "atutdrs from local industries and insurance firms who have been the-backbone of the Ioeat clinics for years. at Knox Presbyterian Church on Last month 1,000 local unim Att YEARS AGO