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â€" Page 6 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Werinesday, December 27; 1978 > _ Paul Abrecht, director of the Worldâ€"Council of Churches® subâ€"unit on church and society, has done just that. Writing in the Ecumenical Review, he comments that at our present state of technology, committing ourselves to nuclear energy devolopment means "foreclosing the options for future genâ€" erations." â€" The question of nuclear energy for civilian use continues to be batted around by opposing sides. EaCh side has its own compelling arguments, until the unskilled spectator gets dizzy and gives up trying to follow the progress of the game. " But once in a while. someone manages to distill for an inâ€" stant the swirling controversy and we can see with telling clarity, what‘s going on. â€" o If "foreclosing‘* makes you think of mortgages, it‘s a good analogy. You wouldn‘t buy a house now, live in it for your lifeâ€"time. and commit your grandson to pay for it after the house has become useless and broken down. You couldn‘t know if he would be )vflling to pay for it. or able to pay for it. wetertoodursailcle t\ 2| _ "published every Wedtceday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterico Record Lid., owner * . Je 1 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. _ | ~___ address correspondence to Waterieo office: 92 King St. South, Waterloo, Ont., telepghone $06â€"2830 mmmhw-.mmauow.muua‘.‘x“- Waterioo Square. Parking on King Street or in Waterioo Square. Open to Enday 9:00 a.m. i9 6:00 p.m. _ . . Until we can be sure that we can dispose of nuclear wastes safely forever and ever, increasing our dependence on nuclear energy sources will be. as Abrecht says, ‘"foreâ€" closing the opttions for future generations. ‘United Church But that‘s what we‘re doing with nuclear energy. We build the plants now. We use the energy from them now. But we commit our grandchildren. and their grandchildren, to take care of our nuglear wastes. without knowing whether they would be willing or able to do so. Foreclosing our options _ By Geoff Hoile I was busy working the other night at my partâ€"time job at the Brass Triangle Bowling Alley and Poolroom when a stra:Le thing happened to me. One of the big bowling balls got stuck on my thumb. Terrified that this new appendage would add a heavyâ€"handed element to my writing style, I started thrashing around wrestling with the thing, and in the process I must have rubbed its surface pretty hard. In the true tradition of Aladdin and his dirty old lamp, hot steam started pouring out of the two remaining finger holes in the bowling ball. Suddenly a cute little McDonalds waitress jumped out of the billowing mist, took my order for a Big Mac, a vanilla shake and a side order of french fries before telling me I could have three wishes. Just then the boss told me to put the ball back on the rack. "I wish I could," I told him, and the ball flew up onto the rack. ‘‘That‘s great stuff, but I wish I didn‘t have to work in a place where you get fingers stuck in bowling balls." ‘*You just blew your third wish," she said. ‘All you get is a few glimpses of the year 1979 and you can use the bowling ball for a crystall ball."‘ And with that she went charging off to join a Big Mac attack on Floraâ€" dale. I picked up the ball â€" making sure I kept my fingers clear of the holes â€" and this is what I saw: The City of Waterloo will get several more convicâ€" tions under its noise byâ€"law when the municipal budâ€" get comes out in April. ‘‘Hey, I wish you‘d give me a little warning when these things are going to happen,"‘ I told her. Cambridge will threaten to secede from the Region. Regional council will offer to trade them Breslau for Preston;. and when that doesn‘t work, they will offer to make French immersion the official second lanâ€" guage of the Region. Cambridge will refuse and Kitchener will then secede on its own, leaving Camâ€" bridge nothing to secede from. S Gas prices will go above $5 a gallon and Milo Shantz *‘*You betcha,"" said the waitress, and the boss fired According to Hoile subscriptions: $10 a year in Canada. $12 a year in United States and Foreign Countries. 3 Publisher: Paut Winkier £ditor: Terry James will start mass producing Mennonite Buggies on an assembly line in St. Jacobs. _ Woolwich Twp. council will pass a resolution resâ€" tricting snow from falling on Elmira sidewalks, thus precluding the need for a delicately worded snowâ€" clearing policy. The sheiks of Conestogo, Bridgeport and Breslau will sell the spring runoff to the City of Waterloo at exorbitant prices for use in lawn waterâ€" ing. Now that Howard Ziegler has been selected to reâ€" present Woolwich Twp. on regional council, Elmira Independent editor Bob Verdun will leave his position there to cover the regional beat as a stringer for the Record. The Henchmen clubhouse property on Bearinger Rd. will be purchased by a businessman in a threeâ€" piece suit who will put up a 35â€"footâ€"high triplex on the site and operate a gay body rub parlor. The City of Waterloo Community Services Departâ€" ment will stand firm on its policy of not heating the Waterloo Park swimming pool to honor the winter pass I received in recognition of the litter liners I sent them. Biomy;thms will replace disco as the new dance craze of 1979. With the weather so rotten in Rochester at this time of year, Ald. Charlie Voelker will amend his original resolution to show planners and politicians new housâ€" ing concepts by suggesting Malibu Beach, California as a possible substitute. Waterloo council will ratify an engineering report recommendation to electrify the Marsland Centre flagpole on Nov. 11 to clearly demonstrate that disreâ€" spect and even theft of the flag is a shocking affair. Newsday and the Record will engage in a bidding war for Chronicle employees, and three of them will succumb to the pressure â€" newspaper carriers in Laâ€" keshore, Lincoln Hts. and Westmount. Overland Realty and ‘Soaringbuck Developments Inc. will coâ€"ordinate their resources and convert the townships of Wellesley and Woolwich into single famiâ€" ly building lots. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, appalled at the alarming rate at which farm land is disappearing from the landscape, will legislg:e a conâ€" By Geoff Hoile version of all public parks into municipal vegetable gardens. The City of Waterioo will react by rescinding its parks byâ€"law, making it no longer necessary for dog owners to stoop and scoop. Exâ€"Waterloo Alderman Brian Turnbull will be very successful in reâ€"establishing the barter system as a viable alternative to money, and in the progess wili drive the Canadian dollar down to the price of a ham sandwich. + Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll will surpass her previous record and appear at two public functions in two different places at the same time. Regional Chairman James Gray will urge someone to table a resolution changing the format for electing his successor in 1980 so he won‘t have to cast the deâ€" ciding vote in case of a tie. The motion will contain an alternative provision, should he be running for reâ€" election, permitting him to break the tie using the twoâ€"headed coin of his choice. S Oil price negotiations between Prime Minister Truâ€" deau and Premier Lougheed of Albertaâ€"will break down early in the siring. Wilmot Mayor Railph Shantz will negotiate use of the empty Transâ€"Canada Oil Piâ€" peline for shipping water from the Edmonton connecâ€" tion to flood Sarnia and the western half of Southern Ontario. Through his swift action, the Wilmot water table will be assured and proponents of the Erie pipeâ€" line will be upstaged by the magnitude of the manâ€" ceuvre. Negotiations will commence immediately thereafter to pipe oil in the winter and water in the summer months. The Grey Panthers (an organized union of senior ciâ€" tizens) will replace the henchmen as the local terror group in Waterloo by demanding pedestrian crossâ€" walks at every street intersection. The matter will go before the courts and be tried by a 95â€"yearâ€"old judge who will adjourn the case for a reasonable period of 30 years to allow both sides to gather more information. The image in the bowling ball started getting very hazy at this point I could just barely make out the last message. I noticed some of the people in the place were starting to stare at me, so I put the ball back on the rack and went home to prepare for the new year. wishing everyone I met on the way a HAPPY NEW YEAR!