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By Victor Stanton Last week‘s fire at 34 Laurel St., which destroyed seven businesses, also wiped out an irreplaceable collection of antique locks. The locks, which numbered in the hundregs, were the property of George Uhrig of G & A Lock Service Ltd. and had been on display in the company showroom on the top floor of the Laurel Street building. Uhrig said it was impossible to place a value on the collection, which included centuryâ€"old locks from Europe and South America, "a lot of them one of a kind." ‘"To me it was worth a mint; to other people it wouldn‘t mean that much." One of the locks much admired by customers was a 140â€"yearâ€"old gate lock made in the shape of a violin. The lock was made in Spain in the early 1800s and transported, with a complete house, to Florida. The lock, and a matching one, were uged on gates on either side of the house. The matching lock is in a museum in New York. Another of Ubrig‘s prized locks came from the Mâ€"Gâ€"M studios in Hollywood, where it had been used on covered wagons in early western movâ€" ies. . PAGE 4 â€" WaATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1982 OPEN Tues . Wed . Thurs . 10â€"4 30 Fr & Set 10â€"5 Other times by anpointment LAUREL STREET W H. FURNITURE SERVICEâ€"A_ Fire destroyed G & A‘s antique lock collection Let us custom design the latest idea in wall systems for you! More than just another ordinary wall system|! it‘s an experience in totai living . . . combining luxury with flexibility and function. Designed to meet your most demandâ€" ing requirements. We provide a solution for every room! Wail systems available in any size and in any imaginabile (and unimaginable) combinations! Setect your system from a wide variety of the finest matched veneers: Rosewood, American Wainut, Teak, M&ghogany, Black Oak, Cherry, Dark Oak, Medium and Light Oak. White or Ivory lacquer. The possibilities are unlimited . . . 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Late last week, G &¢ Lock Service was still sending out its service trucks and maintaining a semblance of business as usual from a smal} building in back of its gutted offices. ~ Besides the lock company, businesses housed in the building included Luxury Uphelstering Co., Anco Manufacturing (Co., Advanced Energy Systems, Kâ€"W Drafting Ltd., CON/EX and Wiggly Worm Co. /m _ On Friday, firemen were called back to the burnedâ€"out building to quell a small blaze that flared up again amidst the rubble. ‘"‘There was a nice display of these antique locks and they were there simply for other people to see and enjoy. Mr. Uhrig was an accumulator for the sheer joy of it. He wasn‘t in it because it had economic value." Fire Chief John Staller told the Chronicle that an investigation by the fire marshall‘s office had concluded that the original fire was due to "undetermined accidental cause." The chief said there would be no further investigation. Council in brief_ Free parking costs plenty, CDC told {Continued from page 3) it was too long and could possibly draw shoppers away from uptown Waterloo. Parking may be provided free for visitors to uptown Waterloo, but, as the Civic Development Committee (CDC) had.clearly spelled out for them yesterday, this is a service which the city pays for dearly. Mayor Marjorie Carroll maintained that the cost per space of surface parking was considerâ€" ably less than the cost of a parking garage. estimated to be approximately $7,500 per space. According to Ald. Richard Biggs, one of Waterloo‘s representaâ€" A report prepared by the city‘s engineering department at the request of Aiderman Doreen Thomas, which outlined the cost to the city for the construction of the Herbert Street parking lot, stated that since the city began acquiring land in the Herbert Street area in 1957, total cost to the city for this lot approaches $300,000. _ Waterioo, Thomas said, ‘"is spending hundred of thousands of dollars on surface parking, yet we still have a parking problem." The cost analysis of the Herbert Street lot will be sent on to council as information. Thomas said that when she asked for the report she ‘"wanted to make the point that we are not providing parking for nothing ... it is extremely expensive."‘ Although the report only analyzes the cost of the one lot, Thomas said, "this gives us a pretty good idea of the money we‘ve got tied up in surface parking. These figures, she said, ‘"negates the argument ... of those who say we can‘t possibly afford a parking garage."‘ Thomas‘ arguments in favor of a parking structure got little support from other members of the committee. * The recent Flowers of Hope Week included an open house at the University Avenue Developmental Centre for children with physical and mental handicaps. Above, 12â€"yearâ€"old Steven Craven shares a moment with teacher Charlotte Kembail during the open house. A host of activities were held throughout the Twin Cities during the week to help raise funds for the ongoing work of the Kâ€"W Habilitation Services for the Retarded, an organization which administers a variety of local programs and centres, such as the Waterloo Developmental Centre. (Photo by Melodee Martinuk}. A LOOK OF HOPE tives on the transit advisory committee who recently travelled the route courtesy of Kitchener Transit, ‘"there is some considâ€" erable thinking that has to be done about City dump hours extended "As far as we are concerned there is no money for this route in ‘82," Carroll commentâ€" ed recently in an interâ€" view with the Chronâ€" icle. Current hours of operation will be in effect until the beginâ€" ning of July. Under the new hours the dump will be open Monday to Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the summer, 6: 30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the winter, Saturdays, statutory holidays, Good Friday and Thanksgiving. The landfill site will be closed Sunday, Christâ€" mas Day and New Year‘s Day. The Region of Waterâ€" loo has proposed that the hours of operation for the Waterloo landâ€" fill site be changed effective July 1. In drawing up the city‘s ‘82 budget in March the city dropped funding for the proâ€" posed route. "‘I‘m not sure it is worth the cost," Biggs concluded. "It is pretty obvious that the city of Kitch ener has got their thinking clear on their part of the route," he said, ‘‘but it goes through the wilderness this route."