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Incidentally, the Chinese are playing it pretty safe with a table tennis tournament: They‘re the best players in the world. Even the old layman‘s term, pingâ€"pong, sounds rather oriental, doesn‘t it? Resumption of relations between Canada and China came as a direct result of the need for a market for Canadian wheat and other products. But no matter what prompted the move, it would seem that acknowledgeâ€" ment of the largest nation in the world, by population, was not only reasonable and logical but inevitable. It would seem funny if, after all these years, Chineseâ€" American relations were reâ€"established, not through something as basic as the demand and supply for wheat, but through a table tennis tournament. The Americans are just fresh from the world championâ€" ships in Japan. Also in China is a Canadian team. Canaâ€" da recently reâ€"established diplomatic relations with the mainland Chinese after a long deep freeze. The delegation, however, consists neither of diplomats nor traders but of table tennis players and sports writers along to cover their tour. The first delegation from the world‘s richest nation to the most populous â€" from the United States to Chinaâ€" since 1949 is being warmly welcomed this week. The aldermen will fight their way through the budget, each with his own ideas on which item should get priority. It will be the toughest day in their term of office. So the aldermen will be deciding such things as whether to pave or just patch a pockâ€"marked street; whether to buy a pickup truck or put it off for another year; whether to buy two or three lawnmowers; whether or not to repaint the lunch booth in Waterloo park; whether to give a lacâ€" rosse club a $700 grant.or a $100 grant ; whether to boost their own salaries 40 percent or not. So in the final analysis it becomes a matter of priorities. On the one side are the taxpayers, hoping for â€" at the least â€" only a small increase in taxes. On the other side are the many groups looking for financial support from the city, plus the many works which, for all practical purposes, should be done as soon as possible, according to the city staff. Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario Address corâ€" respondence to Waterioo Square Waterioo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. Philomena Rutherford, editor SBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association So when the aldermen wade into the budget on Saturâ€" day intent on avoiding a major increase in taxes, they acâ€" tually have little ground in which to work. Items which can be trimmed at this point are generally restricted to works projects and grants. Priorities will be the key word when Waterloo aldermen sit down Saturday morning for an allâ€"day session on the 1971 budget. There are other costs over which the aldermen have little controlâ€"salaries, once negotiated, for policemen, firemen and other city employees, sanitation, welfare, and capital and interest 6n projects already undertaken, such as hospitals. Of this total, a large portion is fixed expenditure. For exâ€" ample, the city has been handed a budget of $3,939,454 for education, an increase of nearly 10 percent over 1970. The council is charged with raising what the school boards reâ€" quire. It may rankle, but there is really no alternative. The aldermen will be considering a preliminary budget of $10,596,246, an increase of $1,277,412 over last year‘s budâ€" get of $9,318,836. 4 Waterioo Chronicle, Thursday, April 15, 1971 "I understand you know a French word that brings an automatic 10â€"minute misconduct!®‘ _ _ _ Ping pong politics Budget priorities ESTABLISHED 1854 THE HOME TEAM Fire Chief John Staller has MYEARS AGO Lingwood the goâ€"ahead to prepare checked in with the information April 13 improvement drawings as part of for Chronicle readers that no open Earl Putnam, founder and presâ€" _ a downtown facelifting program. We‘re not criticizing the event‘s sponsors. Their intentions were the best. But what we saw was a lesson in greed being graphically handed down from one generation to the next. And it was not a happy sight. The children under five years old had an area of their own, and most were accompanied by a parent. We were surprised to see parents pushing their children to the front and even encouraging them to get in under the rope barâ€" rier. When the signal was given, hunâ€" dreds of eager little children, dragging or dragged by their parâ€" ents, moved under the rope and swept across the lawn picking up Easter eggs with all the charm of a swarm of locusts on a field of grain. Many a tear was shed in the process. The idea of hunting for eggs on Easter is charming. In the Kitâ€" chener event, however, there was very little element of a hunt. The eggs were scattered on the park lawns by the hundreds, and eager young "hunters‘‘ lined up behind a rope barrier for as long as an hour or more. An Easter tradition of some years‘ standing in North America is the Easter egg hunt. We saw our first in Victoria Park on Sunâ€" day. A Chronicle staff member spent some time up in Bruce County over the Easter weekend and was intrigued with the local pride and safety consciousness of the Kincardine folk. ‘"‘This is heaven," read a sign at the entrance to the town. ‘"Don‘t drive like hell." ‘‘You think you have a probâ€" lem?" the florist exclaimed. ‘"‘Don‘t you realize that someâ€" where in the local cemetery there‘s a floral arrangement that reads: ‘Lots of luck under the new administration‘!"‘ â€" Instead of the blooms expected a funeral wreath turned up and the angry politician phoned the florist to demand an explanation. A weekly paper out in British Columbia reports that the MPP in that area ordered flowers to be sent to the ceremonies markâ€" ing the incorporation of the new municipality of Tahsis in that proâ€" vince. Anyone planning floral arrangeâ€" ments to welcome regional govâ€" ernment reform in this area, whenever that may come, better take note of the kind of thing that can sometimes go wrong on such occasions. Philomena Rutherford‘s Bits and Pieces | on To ctaey| * a Ads Holy Saviour Anglican church into the mall to make room for choir leader Leonard Grigg pree continued construction of the sented chorister badges for proâ€" Plaza. ficiency and good attendance to * * * young choir members Jeffrey Seven stores, two banks, an inâ€" Cowie, William Smith, George surance office and a gas company Kadwell, James and Edward office on the west side of King Crane. Street have given architect John 20 YEA RS AGO Lingwood the goâ€"ahead to prepare Gounod‘s Gallia motet was preâ€" sented by the choir of First United Church, Sunday night. It was diâ€" rected by Anna R. Bean, organist and choir leader. Lena Gordon was soprano soloist. Waterloo‘s new parking bylaw sets a twoâ€"hour limit for King Street, prohibits allâ€"night parking and embodies restrictions on streets leading off King Street. The Kâ€"W YMCA is canvassing Twin City residents this week in an effort to raise $20,000. 30 years ago April 11 Because of the depression Mayâ€" or William Uffelman said he was strongly opposed to permitting Sims Midway to operate in Waâ€" terloo during the Musical Society‘s annual carnival in May. The public school board appointâ€" ed Charles J. MacGregor principal of the new Elizabeth Ziegler school to be officially opened in September. Mr. MacGregor will be succeeded as principal at Alexâ€" andra school by Neil A. MacEachâ€" ern of Central school. 40 YEARS AGO April 16 Anyhow, as the chief points out, this permission can no longer be granted. and wants to get rid of the branches can also leave these with the regular garbage â€" proâ€" vided they are bundled in batches about three feet in length and 1% feet in diameter. There is a He suggests instead that leaves be put in a container for collection on garbage day. Anyone who has got a treeâ€"trimming head start spring cleaning binges are phonâ€" ing the fire department requestâ€" ing permission to burn accumulaâ€" tions of leaves, twigs or general litter. burning of any kind is permitted by provincial pollution control Apparently many residents on Files of Yesteryear 24 Although Waterloo Square is far from finished one business, Jessop and Whaley Cleaners, will move its Fast Service Plant, 79 King St., into the mall to make room for continued construction of the plaza. Local youngsters who threw firecrackers on a Blair truck Satâ€" urday night started a small fire but there was no serious damage. The incident occurred on Norman Street where the trucker was deâ€" livering goods and is one of severâ€" al involving firecrackers which occurred in the city in recent The Voltaâ€"Insulator Co. Ltd., a newlyâ€"formed Waterloo industry, expects to be in production by July 1. The plant, which is expectâ€" ed to employ 100 workers, will be located on the Roger (David) Street extension near the E.R. Nafziger and Son millwork plant. _ 10 YEARS AGO April 13 Fire damage was not heavy over the weekend although firemen were called out 10 times. Some of the calls were to grass fires. ident of the Canada Health and Accident Assurance Corp., Waterâ€" loo, has founded a similar organiâ€" zation in Kingston, Jamaica. they‘ve got some things which absolutely must be burned, the place to call for clearance is not the fire department but the a:’ pollution control centre on Webe Street. or have to, handle. x The fire chief also notes that a centre which the board of works operated last year for larger junk items will be opening up again in the next few weeks. Resiâ€" dents will be notified and many then take their larger items of spring cleaning residue there for disposal. Another alternative for those with quantities of leaves on their hands is to rake them onto the streets prior to the street sweeper or leaf baler making the rounds. limit to what the garbage men can, ~TELEOPAM SWOrATE feels