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. 'r'risera,1, Ls,,,,, mm” In", it.” Company officials suggested lack of a site Twin City police reported through parliament, I will I Id th li ti f . a sharp increase in bicycle pay less taxes this year, p an cou mean e. app ma P.n or a zoning thefts during 1941, Almost about enough less to buy an change would be rejected which would halt development on another land parcel includ- Mhdarik, - ed in the application. If the company was so 0 tlhremiege concerned, why wasn't a site plan worked ESTABLISHED 1854 out months ago. as Ald. Henry suggested. Published every Thursday by Fairway Press. a division of (The OMB hearing began in April ) " Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd. 30Queen St., N., Kitchener . l . Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Wat- The best that can be said is that Major erloo0nt.TelephoneNti Holdings intentions are cloudy at this time. Edam runaway.“ The air should be cleared and the questions f/lE5:?.t.l!.'.'.l.1e1Yir?ft answered before council makes any de- lnCanada Pr"ryeartin UnitedStates . . . . and Foreigncountries:oneyear810 CiSion Monday night on the request. "_------------, a, - As he pointed out, the land is marked me- dium density on the provincially-approved city plan. A fresh look won't change that (unless Major Holdings has other ideas. ) Ald. Henry asked three significant ques- tions in committee and. we feel, received either unsatisfactory answers or no answers at all. Why did the company wait until a week before the hearing to make the request? Why was there no site plan? What does a "fresh look" mean? Company representatives suggested that they wanted to take a "fresh look" at the property and work out a site plan with resi- dents on Coleridge who are objecting to the medium-density zoning application on the property adjacent to theirs. Ald. Bob Henry objected to the request and, we believe, rightly so. Major Holdings' reasons for the request seem muddled and the timing of the request is poor. The company requested that council delete part of an application for Arne change which the city is making to the Ontario municipal board on the company's behalf. The com- mittee agreed to the request and it will be considered by council Monday night. The hearing is Tuesday morning. It was now-you-see-it, now-you-dont when Major Holdings and Developments Ltd. came to city development committee Monday night. Hopefully the driver education program in the schools will make a significant difference in local driver attitudes. And perhaps more fre- quent licence suspensions would do the trick. The problem is mainly the ignorance and self- ishness of local drivers. Sections of the park- way (mainly the highway 8 approach to Kitche- ner) have been open long enough for local dri- vers to accustom themselves to the problems of expressway driving. Twin City drivers have been singled out num- erous times for these and other offenses. It's not through lack of surveillance that accidents are caused. The OPP found it necessary to lay 1,460 charges on the expressway during 1971. But these don't affect people who stop on exit and approach ramps or people who cut across lanes to make exits or people who pass on the right. There are extenuating circumstances but they fail to account for such a high accident rate. Admittedly, the parkway is relatively new and winter driving is more hazardous and the 401 is probably serviced better in winter than the parkway. There were only 14 accidents during Decem- ber on the stretch of the 401 patrolled by the Kitchener OPP. her. And 42 (more than 25 percent) were on the Conestoga Parkway. The detachment investi- gated 226 accidents on the parkway during 1971. The monthly wrap-up by the Kitchener detach- ment of the Ontario provincial police shows that they investigated 159 accidents during Decem- It's been rumored for many years that Water- loo and Kitchener drivers are worse than their counterparts in other southem Ontario cities, but now it seems the Iocals.are out to prove it's Selfish drivers Poor timing The Waterloo Red Cross society received cash dona- tions of $449 for a blanket campaign. The Waterloo contribution supplies some 280 blankets. One hundred and fifty have been shipped while money to purchase another 130 more has been forwarded to Red Cross headquarters. All of western Ontario was experiencing similar temperatures. The temperature in Wa- terloo reached nine below zero and weather experts thought the mercury would drop even further. The schoool will replace the century-old Central School. 30 years ago Waterloo's new $450.000 school will be named Me Gregor School in honor of Cd. MacGregor, veteran Waterloo principal. The average weekly wage in the Twin Cities is listed as $49.04. Samia is high with $68.53; Windsor, $57.92: Brantford. $53.03; Galt- Preston, $48.26. According to the dominion bureau of statistics, the K-W average weekly wage is not as high as some other centers in western Ontario. Classes began as usual at Waterloo Lutheran Univers- ity January 8 despite a bomb scare. No bomb was found. 20 years ago This type of building would be practical and suit- able for a city the size of Waterloo, according to the mayor. . The city hall, police and Waterloo libra . ‘all be housed under one roof in the square at t: corner of Erb and Albert Streets. Mayor James Bauer said serious planning on civic square will begin in 1969 and actual construction will start in 1970. 10 years ago The population, taxes. and your fuel bill will in- crease. This statement is not based on fact but on pure intuition. Especially the part about taxes. Ac- cording to some of the rosy statements in the new tax reform bill hustled through parliament, I will pay less taxes this year, about enough less to buy an Most parts of Canada will have lots of snow. I hope nobody will give me an ar- gument on that one. Right now, outside my window, it looks like plucking day at the chicken factory. Having unburdened my- self of those sour senti- ments, I now propose to leap into some punditry (pundineering'?) concern- ing 1972. Read carefully, now, so that you'll have a clear picture of what we shall face this year. What is a pundit? It is a person who knows a little more about practically nothing than we non-pundits. We have political pun- dits, economic pundits, sports pundits. Most of them spend most of their verbiage disagreeing with other pundits in the same field. This is the time when pundits across the land speculate in type about what the coming year will bring forth. If there is one thing we don't need more of in this country, it is pun- dits. I (I,,;;) 'tsta tRY Files of Yesteryear 220 were stolen last year compared with 175 in 1940. 40 years ago Town engineer C. Necker was treated to a cold-water dip in Silver Lake. Mr. Nec- ker was inspecting the flood Thousands of kids will ex- periment with drugs and some of them will end up tragic figures. shattered human beings. But thou- sands of others will ignore the chance of becoming vegetables, and will lead happy, healthy, useful lives, Thousands who are now merely a gleam in some- body's eye will be born. And good luck to them when they enter a mighty complex world. Thousands will die, and let's just hope you and I are not among them. I don't want to go un- til I get my mortgage paid off. Isn't that the supreme purpose of living? The churches will con- tinue to be one-third filled a n d scrambling lo r enough money to stay alive. But there will be a con- tinuing search for some sort of spiritual experi- ence by our youth. There will be a federal election, and whoever wins, there will 'tre promises galore, new brooms being waved in all directions. and the country, accord- ing to the pundits. will still be going straight to the dogs. The wage-price spiral will continue. though perhaps not as rapidly. The reason? We're all greedy as pigs at a trough. And the biggest pigs -. the strongest un- ions and the most firmly entrenched capitalists - will get more out of the trough than the runts, the ordinary Joes. But they can't fool an old tax-payer like me. I know with sickening clarity that if one level of government hands me a few bucks, some other level will be digging three times as much out of my back poc- ket. overcoat from the Salva- tion Army. gates when he missed his footing on an icy surface and fell into the lake. He managed to pull himself out. A campaign to raise $15,000 by public sut?serip- Bill Smiley Your children will change: preferably for the better, but don't count on it The year will fly by. Make it a good one by thinking positively. Does this all sound sort of familiar to you? It should. Does it all sound rather depressing? It shouldnt You‘ll have your downs, but you'll have your ups, too, those glor- ious and fleeting times when you wouldn't be any- one else or anywhere else. to face with that brutal edict: you can't get a job with no experience, and you can't get experience until you get a job. But thou- sands of others will break their backs to get into col- lege, where they will learn all about Life and find the mate of their choice. Thousands of bright young people will emerge from college, spilling over with knowledge, and come face There will be wars that have no victories, and peace conferences that go on in- terminably proceeding from nowhere to notvhere. The United Nations will again announce that it is going broke, but nobody will ante up enough to pay the bills. There will be thousands of broken homes and mar- riages turned to dust. But there will be thousands of dreamy-eyed brides and proud young grooms, posi- tive that nothing could ev- er happen to their love. which is something special. med to the rafters with students who shouldn't be there and don't want to be there, but for whom there is nothing else to do. Unemployment will con- tinue to be a fairly desper- ate situation. And the schools will again be jam- loving and learning, sad and happy. tion for relief work was ap- proved by Waterloo town council. It is proposed that a committee be formed to head the campaign. There will be representatives from all churches. [ taiii Jiiiiiie - -