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This is the time of the year when we start to get ne- gative thoughts of winter. We get those thoughts every time we slip on the icy street, or we scrape the morning frost off the car windows, or we hear the furnace click on again. _ To any outsider, including the department of municipal affairs people in Toronto, the amalgamation of Waterloo and Kitchener would seem to be an efficient, logical step. It is highly likely the province still foresees such an amalgamation under a one-tier regional set-up. The purpose of the public hearings was to determine just how far the province could go in modernizing the system. If there had been no opposing briefs from the various municipalities, no public outcry, it might well have gone all the way. A similar outcry in Hespeler is not being heard because there are not as ma.ny voices-- and votes-involved. _ W's then we start adding up all the costs of living in this hard-winter country. And we put down: higher-priced homes, with their full basements and their insulation and their furnaces and double windows; higher-priced cars, with their heaters and snow tires and heavy-duty batteries and their rusting panels and exhaust systems, and their higher number of collisions and resulting higher insu- rance; and higher clothing bills, with two or three complete wardrobes, including footwear, in various weights; and higher medical bills; and fuel bills and higher electrical bills. and votes-involved. l What has really happene here is a delaying action. It may take a generation for the next big change to come but, as we said above, it's not apt to take 100 years. When Dr. Stewart Fyfe completed his study of the Wat- erloo region, he offered some alternative proposals. The one which Mr. Bales has recommended is based larg- ely on Plan B, a two-tier system. Dr. Fyfe's first rec- ommendation, Plan A, was for a one-tier system, which would have eliminated all municipal governments below the Waterloo County region level. The provincial government ,has long recognized that the old county system was inefficient, and it probably con- siders the one-tier system the ultimate answer. The pro- vincial government is interested in efficiency-not sen- timent. But it is also interested in votes, and when the people of this city indicated they wished to stay unattach- ed to Kitchener, the provincial government headed. Of course, spring is officially here, and soon it will be truly with us. And when we see a few more signs, our thoughts will become more positive, and we'll not consider living any other place. way My .1 _. vamwmnoua..n..mmm "qto'sderteetat8raterhtr-r-r (it. his”. man _ _ Atiio-RartFitgrt,edtterr q I MPHONRA‘I'E th t Incanada:ttrter-iinUttttedtttat- A Ce,' s 1 I ItndPoreittrtemrrtttteecm-rtm Al ' MemtterotthecanadiartWeektrNewir-riusoeintut - _ L . As Mr. Bales pointed out in presenting the regional re- port last week, the new plan is subject to change. It, too, will become obsolete as circumstances change, and it certainly isn't likely to last 100 years. The old county system, which lasted over 100 years, has been obsolete for some time. It was based on the early settling of the region and such practical aspects as how far officials could travel in one day to conduct the county business. Under the proposed system, Waterloo’s city admin- istration will betrart of the second tier of a two-tier form of government. Since the first tier will be the Waterloo County region, following to all intents and purposes the dimensions of the existing county, there will be a strong resemblance to the original county system So the people of Waterloo have been listened to. Over- whelmingly they had voted against amalgamation with Kitchener: in a plebiscite which, although it may have had no official standing, had the strength to be heard at Queen's Park. This is the recommendation of the report of the new minister of municipal affairs, Dalton Bales, and there is no_dou)rt this recommendation will be put into effect. The City of Waterloo is to remain just that-an individ. ual municipality, separate from but more closely related to its neighbor city, Kitchener, under a regional govern- ment. _ But,inthemeantime,ifse-smtemoeeNrida Late winter Reform ' 1" an» "4 , , 'lte. ,5“. It seems most unusual in the enlightened age of the 70t for a commercial organization to free- ly admit that they are guilty of creating noise pollution to the ex- tent that would compel residents to move from the local area. I find it difficult to understand the statement made by Mr. Meyers "that there have not Been too many complaints about the fimrin the last five years." In actual fact, complaints about the excessive noise made by the factory between 11 p.m. and 7 am. have been continuous for the past five years, especially, of course, during the summer months when the factory doors must be left ,open day and night because of the heat in the building. I fail to see the significance of the statement made by Mr. D. Scott concerning the re-alignment of Bearinger Road. From my fw- perience the noise level for the tenants in this location will in any case, be intolerable. The statement made by Mr. W. T. Shrives of the OMB indicating that people planning to live in the proposed apartments should de- cide whether they wanted to live that close to an industry, over- looks the fact that the people would be unaware of the noise problem until after they had mo- ved in and signed a lease. It seems most unusual that a satisfactory compromise cannot be reached. It appears to me that a solution to eliminate 99 percent of the problem is for Clemmers to cease their opera- tions between mailman; 11 on. all T an m to he a mall ceased-n to at its: I would like to emphasize that since the City of Waterloo allow- ed residential building to take place around the Clemmer fac- tory, the noise problem has caused real suffering to many hundreds of residents. All concerned par- ties have met to discuss the problem and petitions have been presented to the city by the local residents, all to no avail. Clemmer Industries' request to Major Holdings to either cancel their plans for erection of the apartment building at Albert Street and Bearinger Road or to install air conditoning in each apartment would indicate they have no intention of finding a solution to the basic problem As a resident of the Parkdale community in Waterloo, and having read the article Walkup Apartments Cleared by OMB in the March 10 issue of the Kitetteeter-Waterloo Record, I would like to make the following LETTERS to the EDITOR 1333»? M15 nan; Isl wig Surely, if we were brilliant enough to invent the automobile and the atom bomb we are bril- liant enough to produce methods of maintaining clean streets. pure air and water. It is not so much the question of who is going to take the first step, be it I, the municipal. provincial or federal government. It is rather a question of how to cope with the pollution problem when we have let okomt minds and WWW. When young and old adults drive along our main streets in the early morning hours throw- ing empty beer bottles and cans against city store fronts and sidewalks for the sadistic joy of watching broken glass fly, is this the result of overpopula- tion? When we defiantly dump our ash trays on a parking lot are we to blame overpopulation for this idiotic contribution to pollution? When we walk our beloved pets down the street in winter to use our neighbor's lawn for a toilet and in early spring when the snow has left we find our lawns and city sidewalks cov- ered with the result, do we dare blame this on over-population? When our industrial smoke stacks permeate our once fresh air with 57 varieties of toxic gases, is this, too, to be blamed onoverpopulation? for our own failings. Is the popu- lation problem rather not something that begins, within each and every one of us? The air we breathe is full of poison as a result of our personal mad- ness for ownership of an auto- mobile, completely disregard- ing by what means these vehicles function? Years ago, did we as individuals stop to consider the consequences of using gas as a means of motivating the auto? No, we considered only the pres- tige attached to the vehicle for selfish convenience and luxury, at the cost of our life and breath. The polluted mind blames over- population for pollution. It is the same polluted mind that has pol- luted the minds of the masses. professors, students and authors. It seems that for every hypoth- esis there must be sacrificed an innocent scapegoat. We, weak-niinded human be- ings, are naturally inclined to it would result in the alleviation When we allow our minds to be of suffering for so many people polluted by moral decay in the livinginthis area. form of filthy movies, corrupt Sooneror later theprotr1em will literature and art we can hardly beresolvedsowhynotnow. blame over-population. Look and A. F. WOODCOCK read some colleee weeklies and A (iris/s, '. c' T, “In 'tlui/grit/lugs',", '" over, and on behalf of the Cana- dian Heart Fund, Ontario divi- sion, please accept our sincerest appreciation for your cooperation and assistance during our finan- cial campaign in February. Heart disease is everyones problem-and again our thanks for helping us bring to the atten- tion of the public that-reset" should be everyorte's respomtittll- The polluted mind has to blame someone or something for its condition. If he were ho t with himself he Would his himself. This honesty with oneself would be the only way to wage a holy war against pollution. Such a war would no doubt receive the blessing of the whole of creation. The battle is within ourselves and the only one we have to fight is ourselves. It sounds bioai, doesn't it? . ity. It would be preferable that the newspapers print the informa- tion from all parties in the same issue so that Canadian electors can make comparisons which would enable each person to vote intelligently. Political parties could save campaign money plus wear-and- tear on those who run for public office. If you approve of this meth educating Canadian voters, pie, request a publicized policy f the political representatives your district. Within approximately two yeaas, Canadians will be involved in another election. Whther the election be federal or provincial, [believe that a com- plete policy from each political party should be publicized in our newspapers. Also a summary by economists within these political groups should state whit these policies hope to accomplish. Pollution is the result of poi- luted man. overpopulation is the result of a natural physical function inherent in every man. the language aha descriptions areenoughtoturnthegutofthe toughest marine. Heart month in Canada is now ESTHER M. RICHARDS Cum “an Irtrrtd,fhttahtt NORMA SANGOI CARL REKTOR. ".ii1ryA4lhit1iiB' my“ SS. 21h , pie, y f Ives