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The local office has unâ€" dertaken the community project to mark Bell Canaâ€" Trainable mentally reâ€" tarded students with the Waterloo County board of education will have the opâ€" portunity to improve their telephone skills next fall thanks to a timely donation from the Waterloo Region office of Bell Canada. The kits, which consist of a power unit and two phone sets in a carrying case, have been constructed by Bell Canada employees who have donated more than 350 hours on a completely volunteer basis to construct the speâ€" cialized teaching aids. _ Bell provides special kits Bell Canada will donate 13 telephone kits to the schools for classroom use. Weller, chief ‘researcher with WPIRG, said his group did little ‘"primary reâ€" search‘‘ for the acid rain A 96â€"page book *‘Acid Rain: The Silent Crisis‘‘ and accompanying slide show outline the damaging effects of acid rain, its sources, the decisions which have alâ€" lowed it to persist and the political choices people will have to make in order to solve this "silent crisis." Since then, they‘ve tackâ€" led everything from DDT and mercury poisoning to nuclear energy and fluoriâ€" dated water, and tried to exâ€" plain the ‘"unemotional" aspects of these issues. The group most recently came into the public eye with its presentation last week on acid rain. § That‘s when a visit by U.S. consumer activist Ralph Nader to the Univerâ€" sity of Waterloo sparked the students‘ interest in launchâ€" ing WPIRG. That, according to Phil Weller, is the main stumâ€" bling block society must overcome in its search for a healthy environment, ing on the problem since Weller and his organizaâ€" tion, the Waterloo Public Inâ€" terest Research Group (WPIRG) have been workâ€" By Stewart Sutherland **We have a systém that allows private profit to come in the way of the pubâ€" f By Marg Kasstan We are fast here in Hamilton,"" reported a Hamilâ€" ton police spokesman. On Saturday night, Hamilton police caught a man, believed to be the Saturday Night Arsonist ‘"coming out the door‘"‘ of a Hamilton apartment building in which he had just set a fire. *A neighbor saw smoke and a bit of fire"" and called police to the 36th Street apartment building. Arrested was Laurence Crosby, 24, of 65 Janefield Ave. in Guelph. A special investigative unit comâ€" prised of members of the Waterioo Regional Police and the Guelph City Police has been investigating the series of fires for 18 months. , _Damage caused by the Aug. 9 fire was light, police said. Crosby is currently charged with 24 counts of misâ€" chief endangering life, 12 charges of arson and 20 charges of setting fires to substances likely to cause _ On Monday, Crosby appeared in Gueiph provincial court for a show cause hearing. _ Suspected arsonist arrested in Hamilton Group works for Similar kits have been available to the schools in the past on a loan basis. The donation of the 13 new kits means that classes now have opportunity to utilize and practice with the equipâ€" ment at any time. da‘s Centennial. Bell Canada will supply an instruction booklet for the teacher with each kit. Each will contain information on how to connect the phone sets, ring each phone and create the dial tone. Each power unit features a built in speaker that will allow all students to hear the phones when they are in use. Further ideas for the use of the sets will also be includâ€" John Fraser, former Onâ€" tario environment minister, once called acid rain ‘""the most serious environmental problem Canada has ever faced." Acid rain occurs when inâ€" **We‘re hoping it will genâ€" erate interest in the acid rain issue. The solution to the problem requires some major changes of attitudes and it won‘t happen over night," he said. The book is available at UW‘s bookstore and soon will be on the shelves at seâ€" veral retail outlets in Waâ€" terloo. **Floyd Laughren, MPP for the Nickle Belt riding, obtained a number of docuâ€" ments relating to sulphur dioxide control at the Sudâ€" bury smelter which were unavailable and not widely known about by the public," Weller said. "They were inâ€" ternal documents that were leaked to him and we were able to make use of them." book. Instead, they concenâ€" trated on gathering and colâ€" lating research information from other sources and packaged it in a form easily understood by the layman. ‘‘*We wanted to publish the information in a language people could understand and present it in a format they would like to read ... we don‘t want to alienate anâ€" yone," Weller said. But some of the informaâ€" tion on acid rain was not readily available to the pubâ€" lic. f WPIRG consists of a sevenâ€"member student board of directors, which sets policy and directs the efforts of one partâ€"time and two fullâ€"time employees. They can be contacted at the University of Waterloo by calling 885â€"1211, extension *‘*We‘ll supply any inforâ€" mation we have and if we don‘t have it, we‘ll go out and get it," Weller said. **We‘ve gained a certain exâ€" pertise in finding informaâ€" tion over the past five years." WPIRG‘s information files are open to the public and according to Weller members of the antiâ€" fluoride group, the Waterloo Safe Water Society, have already. dropped in to make use of its information. **Fluoridated water is soâ€" mething we‘ve kept on top of in terms of developing our files. It‘s a concern and something that is highly speâ€" cialized, but there is an acute lack of information available on the subject," Weller said. His group plans to gather information relating to ocâ€" cupational health and safety in the uranium, rubber and forest industries and, someâ€" thing of more local interest, fluoridated drinking water. Weller outlined WPIRG‘s interest in other social and environmental issues. The public suffers when pollution abatement deciâ€" sions are made by industry, Weller said, claiming their attitude is ‘‘we can do it, but it‘s not economical for us." Weller blames governâ€" ment and industry for many problems because they allow ‘"private profit to come in the way of the‘ubâ€" lic interest."‘ **Five years ago it was mercury poisoning and beâ€" fore that PDT, but all these issues are connected,‘‘ he said. ‘"We‘re trying to draw the links between them and look at them in the context that they‘re arising from siâ€" milar situations." Acid rain is the current ‘‘fashionable" > environmenâ€" tal problem, according to Weller, but it isn‘t the only one the WPIRG has tackled. Weller claims that more than 140 lakes in Ontario have become too acidic to support most life forms beâ€" cause of the phenomena. dustrial pollutants from smokestacks combine in the atmosphere and fall to earth polluting soil and water. After a silent period of a couple of months, the Saâ€" turday Night Arsonist warned police that he would be setting fires once again. This time, the police forces stepped up their search for the arsonist and released to the public, a Dec. 4 tape recording of the arsonist‘s voice which was aired on radio and television stations. At a press conference Monday, Police Chief Harold Basse said at one point in recent weeks, about 18 poâ€" lice officers had been working full time and overtime on the case. ; In total, the arsonist sent about 30 communications â€" letters, telephone calls, tape recording messages â€" to police and news agencies in southern Ontario, indicatâ€" ing the many fires he had set and warning of more fires he planned to set. Since then, the arsenist had taunted and eluded the police in Waterioo Region, Gueiph and members of the Ontario Fire Marshall‘s Office. The Saturday Night Arsonist is believed responsible for a string of apartmepnt fires which started in Deâ€" cember, 1978, in Guelph. About 26 of the charges laid involve fires set in Waâ€" terloo Region. # "It‘s an interesting sugâ€" gestion,‘"* Carroll said, ‘‘but the whole thing becomes very complicated. There‘d be no way of running that sort of test before a referenâ€" dum (if it‘s called)."‘ The mayor said ‘"if there is a problem, we should be doing some testing .... some serious, scientific testing with a _ wellâ€"controlled group."" She said the group would have to be répresenâ€" tative of a crossâ€"section of the population and tests should take into account all aspects of environmental (Continued from page 1) Phil Weller, a researcher with the Waterioo Public interest Group, hopes the book, "Acid Rain: The Silent Crisis," will stir up interest in Canada‘s latest environmental problem. Weller claims acid rain has already "killed" 140 lakes in Ontario. Mayor upset by issue ‘public interest‘ Dr. Rose published a reâ€" port with John Marier for the National Research Council in 1978 that claimed the public may be consumâ€" ing too much fluoride from the ~environment, whether from foods and drinks, toothpastes, fertilizer sprays, air emissions from industrial smokestacks or drinking water. He told the Chronicle takâ€" She estimated such a surâ€" vey would require from six months up to a year to be done properly. fluoride, not just that found in drinking water. Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, August 13, 1980 â€" Page 3 When asked if Crosby had confessed or admitted to any of the offences since his arrest, Basse replied "I couldn‘t tell you that. We‘re still investigating." However, after questioning by Hamiilton police, Crosby was also charged by the Guelph City Police and Waterloo Regional Police. Following his arrest by Hamilton police and quesâ€" tioning Crosby was charged by Guelph City Police and Waterloo Regional Police. > *"‘The untiring efforts of officers from both forces played a major part in this arrest"" _ The police chief refused to say what evidence has been picked up but revealed that the arrest was based on ‘"a combination of everything." In a press release, it was noted "police of both cenâ€" tres had high praise for the excellent coâ€"operation exâ€" tended by citizens in both cities in connection with this investigation as well as the media in both cities. When asked if Crosby, the suspected Saturday Night Arsonist, had been brought in for questioning or interâ€" viewed during the lengthy investigation prior to his arrest, Basse replied "no, I don‘t believe so." Rose said in the article that if fluoride consumption continues as it has over the past decade ‘‘it‘s time we started looking at it and looked at the easiest ways to cut back, and, of course, one of those is to take it out of the water." ‘If I was a city health ofâ€" ficer,"‘ he said, ‘‘"and this question came up, I would fight very hard to have a survey made." ing blood samples to meaâ€" sure fluoride levels would be a good way of determining whether the city should conâ€" tinue to fluoridate its water.