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The Kâ€"W Record article of 13 June (‘‘Council orders jailirazed, site used for < ~~=Jpapkiflg lot ) states that the â€" .*, * Waterloo Regional Heritage ~~ Foundation and others had not expected the staff report to be published until August because council had decided on 31 January to delay a deâ€" cision up to half a year to consider alternative uses for the site. Twinning proposal needs thought Her Worship Mayor Marâ€" jorie Carroll was one of the 13 members Of regional council who voted to demoâ€" lish the Kitchener jail, our neighbour‘s oldest governâ€" ment building. In doing this she has ignored proposals to use the 128â€"yearâ€"old landâ€" mark for a restaurant or ofâ€" fices for social service agenâ€" cies. There‘s got to be more to twinning cities than just sharing one business with two branch plants. l published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd., owner * 25 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. . address correspondence to Waterioo office: 92 King St. South, Waterioo, Ont., telephone 886â€"2830 wm-mm-wmuwdhoumw ww_;“..mflm*‘dhm”” to Friday 9:00 a.m. to §:00 p.m City council is faced with a ticklish situation when a delegation from Centerville, Ohio comes to town July 7 to see what the chances are of twinning this city with theirs. â€" Particularly in the postâ€"Taylorâ€"Iranâ€"escapade era of a seemingly new dawn in Americanâ€" Canadian relations, the last thing either side wants to do is thwart the goodwill of one another. We certainly hope the Americans enjoy their visit here and receive the cordial welcome our good neighbours to the south, for the most part, deserve. ts 3k . Council and/or the Mayor should have thought this one through more carefully before welcomâ€" ing the Centerville delegation and made fairly certain they want to go through with the plan. But we wonder what council will decide when, so far, it seems the only good reason we have for twinning the cities is that they both have the same multiâ€"national corporation established in their domain. It would be awfully embarrassing to have to refuse their request to be twinned, if that‘s what they still want after they get here. ______â€" _ Is this the same mayor who spoke briefly but eloquently about our <local heritage as she unveiled the historic marker at Dr. and Mrs. P.A. Voelker‘s home not so very long ago? Page 6 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, June 25, 1980 On the other hand, if council decided that it might be a good match after all, let‘s hope the two cities can find more in common than what there appears on the surface. We‘ll see. Convenientlyi for Kitchener Alderman Villeâ€" maire and other antiâ€"conserâ€" vationists the report was published the very week of the council decision. The same Record article of 13 June says that the site will only be considered for a regional headquarters. Thus Mayor‘s stand questioned Letters to the editor Editor: _ Phil Jalsevac .ham: $14 a year in Canada $16 a year in United ; and Foreign Countries there seems to be no concreâ€" te proposal at present to have anything but what I feel will be an unattractive parking lot. Even the Record editorial of 10 June ("Jail is not worth saving"") stated that a permanent parking lot in place of the jail would be worse. ‘‘If the region‘s wishes are to be granted, we need firm assurances that surâ€" face parking in the area will disappear when a regional headquarters is built." According to the same editorial, *‘"The‘ region should be given all the opâ€" tions it needs. The logical place for a permanent headâ€" quarters is Mackenzie King Square. Such a building could include more than ample parking underground, where it belongs, to serve the region staff." Kitchener Alderwoman Stoner, who was unable to attend the council meeting, is of the opinion that there is not adequate space on the jail site for a proper regionâ€" al facility. Were all the various facâ€" tors adequately considered before arriving at the deciâ€" sion to raze a building which can never be replaced? Unless Mayor Carroll proâ€" vides some _ concrete Publisher: Paul Winkler established 1854 answers as to why she voted against the other two Waâ€" terloo representatives for the jail‘s demolition, I will conclude that her words about heritage conservation have no substance. If you were near downâ€" town Waterloo around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday June 18, you probably noticed a strong noise that sounded rather like someone applyâ€" ing a rusty iron bar to a series of cracked pipes. In fact, the noise was the first demonstration of what a glockenspiel might sound like if applied to the park in front of Labatt‘s brewery. This demonstration conâ€" sisted of a tape recording of the Kitchener glockenspiel carefully adjusted to meaâ€" sure 96 decibels at 20 feet from the loudspeaker at maximum (i.e., at the louâ€" dest clang). 96 decibels is quite loud. It is a very unnecessary addiâ€" tion to the traffic and indusâ€" trial noise that is already present at that location. _ The glockenspiel noise is also a very harsh and piercâ€" Glockenspiel? No thank you Ron Welker Dietz Ave. Waterloo ing sound that carries a conâ€" siderable distance; in fact, it carries into the surroundâ€" ing â€" residential neighâ€" bourhoods and would be a most unwelcome intrusion into these neighbourhoods. It would also be a most unâ€" welcome intrusion into the surrounding offices not to mention the area churches and other places where peace and quiet is much more seemly. The architecture of the proposed tower is Bavarian. There is no tradition of Baâ€" varian architecture in Waâ€" terloo. The glockenspiel tower would be completely out of place. If the tower would be built, the Oktoberfest Comâ€" mittee would want it to be visible. This could mean the cutting of trees within the park. _ _A glockenspiel tower in Waterloo would serve no useful purpose. . 3 The money that it would cost would probably be sufâ€" ficient to restore the founâ€" tain in the park, which would provide the soft, pleaâ€" sant sound of falling water as an enhancement to the A restored downtown, and a retained residential area, would provide a better longâ€" term tourist attraction than a noisy set of bells chasing a nursery rhyme around the For several days in May, 1978, 30 scientists, military men and government adâ€" visers from 10 nations met in closed sessions in Toronto to consider the danger of nuâ€" clear war by the year 2000. A glockenspiel in downâ€" town Waterloo is neither needed nor wanted. outside of the tower. If you have recently read about the malfunctioning of the U.S. missile system, you should realize that millions of innocent people could have died within a few minâ€" utes because some jerk pushed the wrong button. You may be interested to know the one bomb dropped on Hiroshima called "Little Boy*‘ had the power of 13 thousand tons of TNT. The United States alone has sufficient nuclear warâ€" heads to destroy every man, woman and child on earth 12 times over. Besides the warheads, they have developed a new death spray (germ) weapon and a more awesome weaâ€" pon called "weather warâ€" fare." Only evil to be destroyed Bob Rowell Downtown Residents Association Waterloo The literal earth was not destroyed at the time of the Flood, only the wicked off the face of it. The same will happen again. 17 % Even a "close confidant"‘ of Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev revealed a conâ€" cern over the near future by reporting ‘‘opinion in the Soâ€" viet Union is that there is a need for urgent measures, otherwise _ war _ might come." They say their conclusions are based on the Bible. To these religious perâ€" sons, they would do well to read Psaim 104:5, Psalm 119:90 and Ececl. 1:4. And from a different quarter comes a surprising number of religious persons who likewise believe war is near. This weapon, we are told, can cause floods, droughts, earthquakes, tornadoes and even hurricanes. When you consider that one hurricane packs the power of 1 billion tons of TNT, it can be enormously destructive. > Some people may think that they are safe by having such an arsenal. Such is not the case, because the weaâ€" pon shoots both ways. W.D. Pope Westmount Rd. N.