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The Ontario Association for the Menâ€" tally Retarded introduced a new concept » into conferences when they held theirs last week at the University of Waterloo. "All twin city banks and merchants will be invited to participate in the disâ€" tribution program, issuing the coin with change to customers Mr. Ryan said the Oktoberfest dollar would be traded not sold. He said, "As currency the $1 dollar tokens are simply exchanged for paper dollars and circuâ€" lated throughout the community between July and October. C€oin will help cultural events Kâ€"W Oktoberfest will be issuing an Oktoberfest coin as an official souvenir of the event as well as to provide an additional source of revenue for cultural events. Fred Ryan. coâ€"ordinator of Oktoberfest received council‘s support Monday night for the project. Members of council repeatedly exâ€" plained to the residents attending the committee of the whole meeting that a building permit could not be denied to the developer of the apartments. The residents had submitted a 240 name petition to council last week askâ€" ing them to withold the building permit until the traffic problem could be solved. Mrs. Muriel Clarke, commented after the US meeting that this was the first time retardates had been asked by the association for their opinion on matters pertaining to themselves. She said if nothing else had been accomplished, the delegates had been given the chance to express their ideas and have been told such expressions are welcomed. The registration and participation were restricted for the meeting. Observâ€" ers, including members of the press were not allowed in on the discussion groups with the reason for this according to Mrs. Clarke being to assure naturalness and spontaneity of the retarded delegates. Petition goes unsupported Home owners in the Glenridgeâ€"Univerâ€" sity Avenue area accused council Monday night of taking a "too legalistic‘‘ point of view in regards to the proposed 11 storey apartment building for that area. The conference called the special deleâ€" gate group as ‘*US". The US delegates shared facilities with the OAMR and accompanied the other delegates on tours of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo, attended the regional luncheon, a cockâ€" tail party, the annual banquet, as well as participate in the discussions. Mrs. Clarke said the retardates were asked such questions as what they are now doing and what would they like to do, what is it like to be labelled retarded and was attending these conferences a good idea in their opinion. ‘"‘The delegates took awhile before they got talking." Mrs. Clarke said, ‘"‘There are many thoughts they keep to themselves and they are afraid to be critiâ€" cal or express their want for change." The one idea Mrs. Clarke said they tried to get through to the delegates was that if they did want something changed, they should get together as a group and For the first time in Ontario mentally retarded were invited as delegates to atâ€" ‘ the conference and were given an rtunity to discuss their problems. The delegates were adult representaâ€" tives from designated workshops, comâ€" munity residences and institutions in the Waterloo area. Conference includes retardates Waterloo Chronicle 118TH YEAR NO 20 Mr. James Brown,. chief librarian at the Waterloo Public Library was recently acclaimed as president of the Ontario Library Association to become effective July 1. 1973. Mr. Brown. viceâ€"president of the asâ€" sociation for this year said the theme of the conference held in Toronto was ‘"‘The library â€" for librarians or the public? Brown becomes assoc. president Waterloo‘s chief planner Don Scott said ‘"‘We‘ve been talking about height restrictions for buildings a lot, but we haven‘t prepared any reports as yet. It is a very complex problem. There has been some good work on the subject in Toronto we‘ve been looking at but we haven‘t prepared a final report.‘"‘ Five or six residents kept throwing questions at council asking if the building was proved to be unsafe, an added trafâ€" fic hazard for the people living there, would they restrict it. Similar requests met the same response from council. Ald. Henry told the people ‘‘We can‘t do a thing about it. As long as the building meets all planning and engineering deâ€" partment regulations a building permit cannot be held back." Mrs. Clarke expressed hope that the US experiment would be a part of next year‘s conference also, but she added fiâ€" nances was a detriment. The retarded delegates attendance at this conference had been greatly aided by funds from the Ministry of Education. In her speech at the annual banquet Satâ€" urday night, Mrs. Margot Scott, presiâ€" dent of the association said, the problems They also asked the height of the buildâ€" ing be restricted. Council committee Monâ€" day night voted not to support the petiâ€" tion but expressed its interest in having something done about building height restrictions in Waterloo. ‘"‘There are more sociologists and psyâ€" chologists now than before and more trained people concerned with mental reâ€" tardation. This is also the era of social change. There is a difference in relation to retarded people than there was 10 years ago. Now they are finally getting around to asking the people themselves what they want.‘"‘ During the discussions, Mrs. Clarke said one girl menioned she was afraid of criticizing where she lived because she was afraid her salary would be cut off. Fears such â€"as these, although many times without any real reason for existâ€" ing, keep the retardates quiet about things they see and may want. ‘‘*Some of the people are afraid we will get annoyed if they criticize," Mrs. Clarke added. When asked why there was the sudden change by the association to move from institutionalization towards more inteâ€" gration, Mrs. Clarke was hesitant and said she chouldn‘t really pin it down. "It would probably be a combination of many things, including the development of more sophisticated social services. The association has been talking about this sort of thing for years, but it is just now coming together. ask for it. She said there was emphasis put on doing it together since many are too afraid to do such things by themselves. Mrs. Clarke felt the conference gave the delegates an opportunity to talk to â€"other people who live in the same kind of setâ€" tings. She said, "It taught them that there are other people who like the same things as they do and most of all they are not alone with their problem."‘ WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1973 Although Lynn did not win a trip she says she will be in Germany this summer on a trip she will be paying for herself. but sponsored by TCA. It will be the same type of trip as Doris has won where the student will spend two weeks staying with a German family and the rest of the time Lynn Pychel, of 104 Elgin Crescent is a grade 13 student at WCI and placed 18 in the regular category for students who had no previous knowledge of German beâ€" fore taking it in school. Lynn won a set of German books including dictionaries and an encyclopedia. German students win trip, books in contest Doris Gubler, of 38 Cardill Crescent, a Grade 11 student placed fourth in the special category which was for students who had a German background. Doris won an all expense paid trip to Germany for four weeks sponsored by the West German Government through the Ottaâ€" wa Embassy. A trip to Germany and a set of German books were the prizes won by two Waterâ€" loo Collegiate students at the Ontario High School German contest held last weekend in Peterborough. Doris Gubler (left) and Lynne Pychel look over the books Lynn won for her efforts in the Ontario High School German contest. Doris won a four week trip to Germany as a result of the weekend contest. facing the association were ‘"not unsurâ€" mountable if we listen with understanding. In other words, we put ourselves in the other person‘s shoes when he is attemptâ€" ing to communicate with us. See it and understand it from his point of view. Onâ€" ly by achieving mutual communications can we work toward solving the problem and planning effectively fur the future. "A start has been made through the US conference. It is not enough to mereâ€" ly have the ‘"Rights of the Retarded‘ WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA The two Waterloo students went to Peterborough on Friday although the testing did not start until Saturday mornâ€" ing. Friday night was a chance for the students to meet at a planned social eveâ€" ning of dancing. Doris commented winning trips ran in the family this year. Her sister Edith, a grade nine student at WCI will be on tour in Western Canada this summer with the Canadian â€" National â€" Youth Orchestra. Edith will be spending two weeks pracâ€" ticing with the orchestra in Vancouver before embarking on a concert tour throughout the west. Organizers of the contest said it was a good example of coâ€"operation between secondary and university teachers of German and the wider community. Miss Wiebe, German teacher at WCI worked with both Lynn and Doris in preâ€" paring for the test. The test consisted of an oral examinâ€" ation in a language lab and a written exam, with the results being announced at an award banquet Saturday evening. touring. ston Seagull soar to new heights, accept new challenges, teach others so that we will be able to provide equal rights for our retarded people in this province of opâ€" portunity so they, like us, can say they have a place to stand and a place to framed and hanging on the wall in the ofâ€" fice, workshop or preâ€"school classroom, we must practice them everyday .‘ In concluding her speech Mrs. Scott PRICE 10 CENTS 1 3, 700 copies delivered by carrier to every household in WATERLOO