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l For instance, in Basingstoke, England, David Low‘s â€" tap dance had a crowd of amateur dance enthusiasts _‘ cheering wildly, but the teenager‘s impromptu disâ€" play didn‘t exactly impress the two policemen who joined the show. He was dancing on the roof of their police car‘ â€" 7 Low was led off by the two constables to face who k knows what fate. Ican only hope that he was given a The major project in 1980 will be the establishment of an Economic Development Committee to give full time guidance to this important aspect of community development. The Committee will be a mixture of apâ€" (Continued from page 4) s meets at least four times a year to bring forth Regionâ€" , al concerns such as the Waterlooâ€"Wellington airport, the Grand River watershed, issues concerning‘the Waterloo County Separate and public School Boards and the Waterloo Police Commission. These areas do» not cover the day to day operation of the Chamber, the _ meetings involved or the expertise lent to the many organizations and individuals of our community. R.J. Middiemass, Manager. Some of these activities require additional comâ€" ment. The insurance plan, which includes life insuranâ€" ce and extended medical and dental programs makes available to members, at group rates, the kind of emâ€" ployee benefits usually only enjoyed by larger firms, and is a valued privilege of membership. Opportunities are made available to members to upâ€" grade their skills through seminars. Other programs are designed to help the younger generation get a feel for the "real world". ;‘â€"-â€"/ I will not |3::k about the election. I will not write a word about election. I will put the election right out of my mind. I am not about to let an election spoil my new year. There. How do you feel about another election? Proâ€" bably much as I do. Another sixty million dollars out of our pockets to pay for the damn thing, and when it‘s all over, we‘ll have another bunch of liars, or the same ones, back in the House. It makes one puke. Silly sods. Our glorious leaders. The arrogance of those in, and the lust for power of those out, is no new thing in our Canadian political history, but nowhere has it been better focussed upon than in the past few weeks. 7 7 Clark‘s Tories, whose favorite epithet for the past decade has been "arrogance‘"‘, walked into the House of Commons, after six months of nonâ€"government, stinking of the stuff. As though a divine light had suddenly fallen upon the party, they immediately broke most of their election promises, and superciliously informed the nation, and parliament, that it was going to have to bite the bulâ€" let: more inflation, more unemployment, more taxes. A little power is a dangerous thing. _ Like a toothless lion, the Liberals, leaderiess, in disarray, and informed only last May that nobody wanted them to govern the country, or at least that a great many didn‘t, cuffed the new boys with its All this talk of doomsday may send a chill through you and I, but it doesn‘t seem to affect all those "craâ€" zies‘ out there. In fact, it just may be drawing them out of the woodwork for Wwhat they may think is their last chance to fire off one more volley of lunacy at society. When India exploded its first nuclear device in 1974 the clock was moved from 12 minutes to nine minutes to midnight. The clock was at two minutes to midâ€" night in 1953 when the hydrogen bomb was developed in both the United States and Russia and it was moved to seven minutes to midnight before the cold War thaw in 1960. The present global political upheavals coupled with increasing energy and terrorism problems have prompted the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to move its symbolic doomsday clock two minutes closer to midnight, a time which represents nuclear war; . The step signifies that the world isâ€"moving closer to nuclear war and it‘s the first time the clock has been adjusted in six years. . The scientifit magazine began publishing its doomsâ€" day clock in 1947, and had moved the minute hand closer to. midnight eight times before the present acâ€" Stewart Sutherliand So you think you know Waterloo~ Like looters in a riot, the people who sell gas and Ccigarettes, and everything else that would raise taxes, joyfully hoisted their rates before the budget had passed, adding the tax and a little more, to make it come out in round figures, a favorite game for years. ‘Anything that interests you is what we are interestâ€" ed in, so don‘t hesitate to let us know the things you would like to see coyered or questions you may have about the City.of Waterloo. The title of this column is Like jackals, the NDP, with nothing to lose, ran yelping in to tear off some choice bits of meat from under the nose of the toothless‘lion. & So, exhausted politicians will stagger back into the harness of the campaign trail, mouthing the same old cliches, trying to stir something in the dull, sullen pond of the Canadian voter, who has never been more disillusioned. The real picture of the Chamber is one of comâ€" munity service â€" all this and nonâ€"profit too! K.1. Tyers, j President. From now on watch this space for the information you need when deciding where to take visitors or what to do for the entire family or how to fill a lazy Sunday afternoon. You may think you know Waterloo but we‘re out to show you parts of the area you never knew about and to remind you about things you have forgotten. : * clawless, but powerful, paws Like so many hyenas, the stock markets of the country, rejoicing in a swing to the right, sang hosanâ€" nahs while stock prices soared. And went to the wailâ€" ing wall when they collapsed, after the soâ€"called "goâ€" vernment® fell. If you feel like me, you‘ll be muttering, "A curse on all their houses." The media, which feeds on disaster as cancer feeds on cells, will have a field day. Every vindictive bone, and he had a lot of them, in John Diefenbaker‘s buried body must be chuckling, as he watches Joe Clark make an ass of himself. â€" > Even the dust of Mackenzie King must be stirring a bit as he overviews his beloved Liberal party putting sticks between the spokes of the government‘s And you and I, Jack, when the smoke has cleared, will pick up the tab, as usual. : pointed City representatives and Chamber members supported by staff from both groups. The Economic Waterioo survey is the basis for this new venture. We are told by provincial experts that the work done last summer by our students has provided Waterloo with the best information base of any city in Ontario. This is a very exciting venture for us and you will be hearâ€" ing more about this committee when the various apâ€" pointments are finalized. This kind of sour grapes thinking could lead McCartâ€" ney, who now leads his own group Wings, and others who are financially healthy to turn their backs on siâ€" milar projects, and who could really blame them? _ Far be it from me to suggest that England has corâ€" nered the market in lunacy, so let me put the matter in perspective. 1 In that year, rats bit 229 people in the city, while 892 people were bitten by â€" are you ready for this â€" people! John Marr, assistant health commissioner in New York, wrote in Public Health Reports that "human bites are a serious medical and surgical problem" (and, I would suspect, a practice lacking much susâ€" tenance). â€" Anyone waiting for that allâ€"time media event, the manâ€"bitesâ€"dog story, is in for a major letdown. Despiâ€" Also from England, I heard that former Beatle Paul McCartney was snubbed by counciimen in his home town of Liverpool after he donated $11,000 to a finanâ€" cially ailing theatre. ~ : The.counciimen voted not to thank McCartney Tor his gift to the Royal Court Theatre. * **Lots of people help the city. I don‘t see why Paul McCartney should be singled out for special praise," according to Labor councilman Rod Stoddart. ‘"The BeatJgsâ€"could have given a million and not missed it. They made their millions and we have not seen them since." . A biting report k: recently released containing some shocking statistics for 1977 in New York City. suspended sentence and placed on six months probaâ€" tion at the local dance studio. Bill Smiley Only 300 flies were bagged in the twoâ€"day affair which saw local champion John Turner singlehandedâ€" ly fell 79 of the little buggers, just three more than his _closest rival. $ 8 # * I ’n meant as a challenge to us as well as you. For openers did you know â€" ... that the Village of Waterloo was incorporated in * 18759 ... that the first mayor of the Village was Moses Springer? (1876â€"1877) * ... that the Waterioo Chronicle was established in 1856? ... that in 1861 there were two weekly newspapers? ... that the Waterioo Board of Trade was established in 18907 ... that in 1935 the population of Waterloo was 8,310? ... that Waterloo was known as the Hartford of Canâ€" ada because of its six insurance companies? ... that in 1930 there were 36 manufacturers? (there are 169 in 1979) ... that in 1930 Waterloo boasted a 5¢ streetcar serâ€" vice? (the cheapest in Carfada) Next week watch for Winterama, and in the future such events as the Kiwanis Musical Festival, Unâ€" iroyal World Junior Curling Championships and the local fall fairs. Your questions and comments are invited. Please direct them to the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. Hf nothing else, the election fits the season. January sales are up for grabs, along with cheap power, poliâ€" tical. Oil prices rocket, while our "leaders‘" tell us that we have lots, or there‘s going to be a shortage, whichâ€" ever fits the matter of getting votes. Let‘s rip those gloomy hands off the doomsday clock, expel the present members of the UN from their tower in New York, install all the people I‘ve mentioned above in their place and sit back to enjoy the waves of peace that would envelope the world. Our new ‘‘*representatives‘‘ in the world forum would be so busy tap dancing, snubbing, biting and swatting flies that they wouldn‘t have any time for the serious business of war‘ And worst of all. We‘re going to be subjected to a winter of lies, hot air, cold comfort, and a complete stagnation of our country. Pierre Trudeau, picking up the torch that everybody else dropped when it burned their fingers, is probably thinking, "I wonder what that bloody Margaret is going to say to screw up this one." There were six unspecified injuries incurred during the competition. I can only hope that it was a lack of agility on the part of contestants and not some new super breed of the common housefly that inflicted the pain on those six poor ‘"athletes‘‘. _ In the championship, contestants armed with fly swatters face each other across an openâ€"air table and swat until their faces turn blue. Ed Broadbrow, the people‘s hero, who was thoroughly rejected by both farmers and industrial workers in the last goâ€"around, is probably and deâ€" sperately searching for a formula that will get some votes from the middle class. comes to biting, there‘s no room ‘for amateurs. My global hunt for crazies finally led me to Eagleâ€" hawk, Australia, site of the annual world fly swatting championships. â€" , | _ , , Apparently cool winds limited competition in the world fly swatting championships which attracted more than 200 entrants but few flies. * 7# Rene Levesque is probably smoking eight packs a day, furious because his tame pussyâ€"cat, Joe Clark, has upset all hjs referendum plans by turning into a Robert Stanfield must be weeping into a pair of longjohns, and shaking his head, slowly and sadly, as he contemplates the asininity of the party he once led with grace and dignity. * te the competition, in 1977 man‘s best friend managed to bite 22,076 New Yorkers. The final score in the 1977 biting competition was Dogs over Man by 22,076 to 0. The human spirit may be inexhaustable, but when it Mike Pearson, wherever he rests, will be chortling and relating the whole thing to a baseball game he once played, in which the biggest bat on the team struck out, with the count three and two: wheels, a tactic at which he was a master.