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tAmroe'ooChrootcuoloca-tort2mtttooeootta-oosq-eso-o- E'uorvoetem"eotraocotrosta.theuaogtaoottussmaraottarmctrrq..o-mo caedahoolorhomtt-oe-t-tttqr-Dtgarta Idol'udovmclomo 2ndlool-Idyoumm The Roads Needs Study, a report made for the city by a consulting firm at the request of the provincial government, examines Waterloo roads, estimating the work needed to be done on city streets over the next ten years. Alderman Turnbull was concerned that this report would be used to determine the city's priorities in road projects. Last Monday's council meeting covered two issues of interest to downtown residents, the Roads Needs Study, and Planning Report 1/77 concerning the Central District Secondary Plan. A waiting period, like the pause for reflection between the purchase of a marriage licence and the wedding, would help to eliminate many im- pulsive uses of guns. Those who oppose gun control regulations as an infringement of personal rights ought to con- sider that sudden death by a bullet is the ulti- mate infringement of personal rights. If stiffer controls will impede even one such killing, they should be encouraged. After some discussion over the intent of the report. council agreed that it would not affect their present policy of examining each road on an individual basis. The report makes gloomy reading when one thinks of the number of tax dollars required in the next decade to service Waterloo's existing streets. How long can tax- payers foot the bill for our heavy commitment to the private auto? Lee Harvey Oswald might never have shot John F. Kennedy if he had to risk a confronta- tion by buying a rifle across the counter instead of ordering it by mail, according to Mrs. Mc- Millan. She adds that Oswald, like the other assas- sins she studies, was constantly torn within about whether or not to carry out the deed. They were not single-minded fanatics obsessed with assassination. They were not dedicated and angry activists. Rather. they were quiet people who could not express their anger directly. Nor need these guns always be used on others. A mental patient in Whitby, Ontario. recently blew off his own head with a gun he had pur- chased moments before. Last weeks' Record reported that the Re- gion has already been forced to take another But with guns" easily avaikible, they%und a way. Last year of US. Pres into the pe H Pop 4 - Wawloo Chmnide, Wednesday, January 26. 1977 Ilmvntewn perspective Tougher gun controls Submitted by the United Church of Canada Weary “My by Fur-a, PM. ade-wmwmwm. )5 Fairway Rd, s, Kaleb-er. art m coere-desrce to Waterloo Mrtre Watcrioo Square. Valerian, OIL, may” my.“ _ HEN 915M] Editor Mary Slupan subscriptions no a year In Candi " a year in United States and Foray Ihqgttgieq Pubhshev “um H1) ottt tstsithl established 154 James M Bound I don 't want another cup of tea. Um drowning in it already. I don't want any sardines on toast, or cheese bits in theoven. or nice tasty soup. My pills make me dizzy. TWmakes me want to throw up. This has got to be the swine flu. Am I real- ly dying or will I just be paralyzed for life. Does God really exist? If He does, why is He dumping this on me? Well, all that is bad enough. But during this session. the worst happened. I ran out of reading material. By the end of Day Two I had whipped through three library books, two Then by lunch-time, I'm so bored with bed that I stagger up and dress, dying or not. And she starts again. I should have some lunch to keep my strength up. Have you taken your antio-biotic pills, dear? Maybe you should watch TV for a while to keep your spirits up. Would you like another cup of tea? I'm not saying my wife isn't a delightful conversationalist or a charming companion. She is. But when you have the 'flu you want neither delight nor charm. You just want to be left alone like an old dog, to live or die as the Lord decides. She won't leave nie alone. She brings me a big breakfast to bed when all I really want is a sharp harikari knife. After once spending a year in bed, in a sanatorium, I hate eating in bed. Trying to balance a tray on the knees. Spilling coffee on the sheets, with the inevitable blast from the laundress. Dripping gooey egg down the front of your pyjamas. Had the ‘flu this week and took a couple of days off work. That made 10 days in the last 15 years on the job. And I re- discovered the reason I will. time and again, totter off to work when I'm practically on my hands and knees with some ailment. . It's because I neahy go out of my skull with boredom when Um home sick. look at their regional roads budget due to its immense size. Waterloo will probably follow their lead. Council also followed their planner's recom- mendation that they approve the Central Res- idential District Plan as submitted by the con- sultants, with a few changes. The zoning is to be amended within the most stable fringe areas of the central district. In other words, those houses in the outer limits will change from GR zoning to RRl the safe, non-controversial areas. Even to tackle these will require a great deal of paper work, as the Clerk's Department will have to notify everyone within 400 feet of the change. It is going to take a long time. culminating in an OMB hearing for final approval. Only then will the "conversion" areas be tackled. We "activists" in the WDRA who mainly live in the conversion areas will have a long wait before we can hope to protect the stability that both the Urban Rehewal Report and the Smith-MacNaughton report found to admire MfthihMNlitgrtlllmtNtitiMtliiMtt.Alttit0tttrtti Mum it0rtENmthiWteETtMeReqthllieDMtt1t0tl nouAR 1etitiHtt5ibtaEA5E'As PEANUIS! (_"'."]],,',,.,) v,,,p/" oesf,i'i5t,S) 'l CL" i Cl" M " 4‘ t 3% 1.1 q 'lf ' cc-d x 'jiii, i' Fi. .1 (l (C) 'iiiii'il) ‘ If Ill? 'il, I il') . ‘ '))1s:) i- y f; _ l 'ss? N, ' 'lllg, submitted for the WDRA by Rosemary Rowe (Contmupd on pnqe 5) Immediately I made this resolve. I felt a lot better, and next morning was back at work It was then that I made my one and only resolution for I977 And all subsequent years I will never again. should I be forced to peruse nothing more exciting than the small print on toothpaste tubes, read another woman's magazine from a supermarket By the time I'd finished making out the chart, I realized, _ not for the first time. that I was an utter failure. and that it was going to take a lot more than a chart to change things. Then I became a teacher, which any damlool could become in those days. They were pulling bodies in off the streets be- cause of the baby boom hitting the high schools. I became head of the English Depaitment purely because nobody else was qualified. not on merit. experience or dedication. In the second period, from 15 to 30, again I could think of only one success: I leamed to fly an airplane. But this wasn't such a great success since, because of it, I spent a stretch in a German prison camp. I became a syndicated coluinnist by chance. All that gets me is a deadline hanging about my neck like a big old alba- tross. In the third period, from 30 on, I couldn't think of a single success. I became a newspaper editor through sheer acci- dent. All that got me was 10 years laboring as a galley slave to pay off the mortgage on the paper. It seems that all you have to do is make a chart, divided into three periods, each representing a third of your life. beginning at the age of five. Then you list three successes for each period and opposite each, list why it was a success for you. Out of sheer ennui, I started a chart. In the first period, from five to 15, I could think of only one success. I won one fight with a belligerent urchin named George Cornell. with whom I tangled frequently. It was a success for me because it was the only one I ever did win. But I pressed on. After wading through three saccharine endorsements from people whose whole life she had changed, I went on to this: “You too can follow in the footsteps of Lee, Mark and Doris. You cah define and attain your own suc- cess. After settling my stomach with a hot toddy, and finding nothing else around that I hadn't read twice. I picked up the magazine again, in sheer desperation. The other feature arti- cle plunged me once again into abysmal gloom. It was called, "Chart Your Way to Success." . When I read about the author that she is a professor of educational psychology. I should have stopped right there. I know how mtrcMhose birds know about real life. They live in a dream world of stuff like "positive reinforcement" and "negative feedback. YV . One of the feature articles told me I must love myself first. if I were going to amount to anything. I plowed through it with growing disgust, considering that at the moment I despised myself, modem medicine, my wife, and almost anything else I could think of. ' When I got to a list of things I must stop doing if I were to love myself, and read, "Not having orgasms," I threw up all over the livingroom rug. daily papers twice a day, and half-a-dozen weeklies. a couple of news magazines, and the directions on the cereal box, in English and French. The inevitable occurred. I was forced to read one of those women's magazines that my wife buys occasionally at the supermarket when she sees an interesting recipe. It plunged me into an even deeper. almost suicidal, depression. Charting life