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Tlhtanrido Wain!!! C e' Published every Thursday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St . N . Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Wat- erloo Ont Telephone 7446364 The columnist said one of the city council's primary objectives should be taking options on available indus- trial land. 30 years ago Some 70 officials and ex- officials of Waterloo ga- This is a perfect opportunity for the public to decide on a vital matter. We should take it. Four men charged with the theft of cattle from the Kitchener stockyards were remanded in court. Water- loo Township police laid the charges. An opinion column in the Waterloo Chronicle sug- gested profiteering proper- ty-owners were driving po- tential industries away from the city with high land prices. Waterloo Collegiate was evacuated after principal A.l. Hunsberger received a telephoned bomb scare. After a five-hour search of 30 classrooms. special rooms and offices, it was de- cided the whole thing was justahoax. Clifford Toole of Waterloo was the highlight of the second annual Waterloo Collegiate sounds of music program. He played the third movement of Bee- thoven's Waldstein Sonata. " years ago And the public should also become actively in- volved in the decision-making process which will follow the study. They can do this by constantly informing their elected representatives, both municipal and provincial, of their opinions on what an improved transit system should include. And Waterloo residents should also make their op- inions known to their representatives on the K-W public transit study committee since this is the body which will recommend a final decision to the two city councils. The city representatives are alderman Herb Epp, treasurer Don Schaefer and clerk Durward Preston. Provincial MPP Ed Good should hear the public's opinions because the recent policy of subsidization of public transit will give Queen's Park a weighty voice in the final decision. University of Waterloo registrar AP. Gordon pre- dicted the institution's en- rollment would be just over 5.000 by 1970. Present en- rollment is 1,172. Members of the public, both users and non-users of the transit system, should become actively in- volved in the study by feeding as much informa- tion as possible to the Barnard team. They should be ready to attend public meetings, which will probably be scheduled as the study progresses. 10 years ago Presently the consultants are taking steps to learn public opinion. They have conducted an on- bus survey and are inviting the public to answer a survey at their mobile information trailer. They are also planning surveys at major industries and shopping and business centers, as well as special surveys at the two universities. The consultants, Peter Barnard and Associates, are attempting to determine various routing con- cepts and then make the best recommendations for action to implement the concept to be chosen by the K-W public transit study committee. There is presently a public transit study being carried out in the Waterloo-Kitchener area lin- cluding Bridgeport) to determine how the present transit system can be improved. 4 Waterloo Chronicle, Thursday, Deextmtter 16, 1971 Files of Yesteryear Public transit SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8. m United States and Foreign countries one year $10 ESTABLISHED 1854 Extensive work on Water- loo's sewer plant is now practically complete and gives Waterloo a system capable of taking care of the town‘s requirements until it reaches a popula- tion of30.000. The board health report listed 20 cases of chicken pox for two local schools during the past month. 40 years ago Daylight saving was voted down by the Waterloo coun- cil on Monday night. Mayor Uffelman told council that the local board of trade had endorsed a similar resolu- tion, The oldest ex-Waterloo official was John Kaufman. 88. of Baden, a former mayor. Treasurer ME, Braendle presented a statement to the Waterloo public school board which showed that a fair surplus may be expec- ted for 1941. The statement showed a surplus of $7,342 to the end of November. thered at a banquet and social get-together at the Hotel Baden. Mayor W.D. Brill was chairman. Those in attendance included members of council and the various boards and com- missions. and Waterloo's former mayors and civic officials. It marked the first time Waterloo official- dom had met in such a gathering. Cash extraction painful for public Dea r edi tor A ctors perform to full house On behalf of the Lake- shore Village Players, I would like to express our sincere appreciation for the wonderful coverage you gave to our children 's play, 'The princess with a prob- lem'. We played to full houses at each performance and believe that this was due in large measure to the sup- port we received from the local news media. As a result, a great many more people are now aware of the existence of a little theatre group in their com- munity. Thank you. In the Toronto Star (De- cember It, a survey by den- tists in London. Ontario, was published stating that senior citizens were neg- lecting their dental health The city works department widened the bridge across Laurel Creek at the Waterloo arena by building a board- walk on the floodgate superstructure. lt built to make the bridge more safe for pedestrian use. Jim McGill (left), 37 Melbourne Crescent. and David Glebe. 268 Lourdes Street. tested the new walk Sunday. Dear editor: We are Skylarks of Re- Organized Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints. We were the first to visit a Senior Citizen's Home. We have adopted seven grand- mothers at Winston Hall. We play games and we like it very much and they enjoy it too. They enjoy it because hardly any people go because they have no family. They enjoy hear- ing us sing. We invited most grand- mothers to our mother and daughter banquet. We are also inviting them to our Christmas party. You should come and see them. They like you to love them. Skylarks adopt grandmothers Dear editor: This is quite understand Peggy Mertens publicity director. The Skylark Girls Christmas shopping was no problem. Nobody had any money. Of course. the agonizing decisions were there. even them For adults: should it be something prac- tical - a new sweater or long underwear: or should it be something magic and en- chanting T a game or a book? No question of both. Christmas, when we were all young, was something. There was looking forward to school holidays, associa- ted with sleighs and tobog- gans and skating and co ating in soaking wet, rosy as a cherub, hungry as a hyena. There was the anticipa- tion of decorating, hanging stockings, rustling paper, and a vast. magnificent tur- key dinner. a once-a-year treat. For kids. with maybe 85 hard-earned pennies to Never fails. Had barely written a column extolling the grand, mild weather we'd been having, when the wind came out of the north with a bone in his teeth, and the snow flew, and the car and I both start- ed coughing. And almost before I'd be- gun rueing the writing of such a jinx column, my wife yelped something like, "Holy Old Whackers! It's almost Christmas." And sure enough, it almost is. As a result, I catch my- self nostalgically looking back to the village dentist able when one considers the high fees which are now prevalent. It is true that there is new. modern equipment and so much of it. How- ever, does this factor war- rant a 500 percent increase in fees in 20 years? . Then there was the sym- bolic significance. though we didn't even know the meaning of either word then. There was the church concert, usually held in the Sunday school hall. There were games and carols and choirs. There were the tele- grams from Santa Claus, read aloud periodically, and with mounting excitement. to say that he was getting closer and closer, from the North Pole, though Donder had come up lame. Then the entry of himself, the wild clamour. and the dispensing of those string bags with candy and an apple in each And the Christmas pag- eant in the church, the na- tivity scene. invariably broken up try a tiny angel piping. “Hi. Mommy Looka And you did all your shopping on the day before Christmas. There was never a frantic thought that the stores might be sold out of bubble-pipes or long under- wear. spend, there was no prob- lem. A bubble-pipe for brother (10tt and supply his own soap); a colouring book for your sister(15c and find her own crayons); a beauti- ful cup and saucer for your mother at 35c: and a purple and yellow tie for your dad, at 25e. If the family were bigger, you cut your cloth. One wonders whether the dental association should justify its members fees to the public or whether our with the dingy waiting mom and the pot-belly stove-that noble dedicated soul who performed a tooth extrac- tion with sterile instruments at a cost more in line with the income of the general public. Bill Smiley The Christmas turkey i now just a dirty great bin: that has to be stuffed and then stuffed into us, and then cleared up after. A tur- key today is not a grue- some, fascinating thing hanging head down in the woodshed. by its claw-like feet. It's just something you buy and stick in the freezer, anytime during the year, in case you have unexpected weekend guests, Shopping has changed im- measurably. The panic button is pushed about the end of October and we are warned. shouted at, and scomed by the various media until we have a tre- mendous guilt feeling if we're not Christmas shop- ping by mid-November, Nowadays we anticipate Christmas, all right. But what we look forward to is a hectic, expensive scram- ble, with precious little of the mystery and delight re- maining. I still look forward to Christmas, but there's a difference. It's about the difference with which a prisoner would look for- ward to (a) getting out of jail, or (b) going to the elec- tric chair. l Either way, there is the additional pain of cash ex- traction, in one case to the individual patient-in the other, to the premium-pay- ing public. ' me. Um a angel," while Mommy blushed deeply be- tween embarrassment and pride. Ontario medical scheme should include dental ca re. Norma Sangoi Waterloo