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t3SI The community services board, too, is to be commended in commemorating Moses Springer in its recreation centre on Lexington Road. Mr. Springer, who among other things was Waterloo's first mayor, in many ways exemplified the fortitude and foresight which gave this community its character. , Other than that and a few streets which in recent times were given the names of municipal officials, Waterloo might be without a past for all the attention given to this aspect of the city when names are being selected. Waterloo has 11 public elementary or senior schools, six of which bear the names of the streets or the areas where they are located. One is named for a former prime minister of England, another for Canada's centennial year and three for people who worked for a better education for Waterloo students. The public utilities commission is one group that seems to have got off on the right track long ago, opting for naming its stations for Eby Rush and Howard Scheifele, men who were or are involved with its work over many years. Surely our civic leaders can do better for us than that, particularly at this time when people are clamoring for an identity and a few traditions to color their mundane days. If the relatively small groups which decide the names by which community properties shall be known run short on ideas they can always ask for suggestions. After all no group or individual has the monopoly on ideas, and right now it seems they could have used some along the way. But it's never too late for a new beginning, or a follow-up to that begun by the separate school board. Elizabeth Ziegler devoted her life to teaching and is commemorated by the school on Moore Avenue South which bears her name. Charles MacGregor was a well- known school principal at the former Central (now Mac Gregor) school. Harold Wagner is happily still with us but now serves the city as an alderman after 26 years service on the former Waterloo school board and provincial and federal representation on school trustee organizations, which earned him his name on the Bridgeport Road school. Let us have more local flavor and involvement in this res- pect and bring our history to life around us. Naming a separate school for a layman is a distinct de- par'ture for the separate school system, most of whose schools bear the names of saints. The local one is the first in Waterloo County where tradition has been broken. Pre- cedents were created elsewhere when Catholic boards honored bishops, priests and occasionally a laymen in this manner. The public school system has been more flexible but not particularly imaginative in its christenings, locally at least. Wouldn't it be niée if such a trend were to continue, not just with schools but with other public buildings and properties, too? ' An overflow attendance at the opening ceremonies sug- gest the move toward honoring local people in this way meets with hearty approval from the people who use and pay for such buildings. Waterloo’s newest school, Sir Edgar Bauerstserairatss school on Glen Forrest Boulevard; bears the name of a man and a family who have been prominent in this com- munity's affairs for generations. _ mum-1...... " iaa‘m' Gcriaiia, "iii"ia-. M»...- u. .WN S Km than: WWhimh-vp I” til Tom was. "C'mon out of that snowbank before SUBSCRIPTIONRATB hm:mm8;hmsuu udl'miammumm MemtterottttecidiitgN--raamei- Let history live ESTABLISHED 1064 _ you freeze, Bert!" 59. Fire prevention officers re- minded us that the consequences of such actions can be pretty serious. An extract from the cri- minal code notes that "Every- one who commits mischief in relation to provide property is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for five years." And that could be a long stretch of one's young life cooling one's heels for the sake of the doubt- grams have done an excellent job but this week we couldn't help wondering if one Bruce County School wasn't being a little over- zealous. On Sunday afternoon we noticed in downtown Kitchener a car from Walkerton District secon- dary school‘s driver training pro- gram with a driver and three pas- sengers aboard. An ill-mile trip on a sunny Sun- day may be pleasant outing but one wonders if this is necessary to pass the course! One assumes vehicles for this purpose are not in use for anything else. At the time this is being writ- ten police and firemen were still investigating a small fire which damaged wood panelling in the lower mall at Waterloo Square and seemed to have been set deli- berately - possibly be Juveniles. Personally, we promise to punch in the nose, on the spot, anyone who dares attribute us with that designation in a year or two... And that’s as much a threat as a promise! This week the Twin Cities are celebrating, if such is the right term, a Week of Concern for the community’s elderly in an effort to highlight the needs of these people and attract volunteers to their service. One simple, straightforward service we feel is owing to older folk is to treat them with dignity and we might start this right a- way by abandoning for all time that terrible collective tirm, 'senior citizens. Let's hope who- ever dreamt it up winces every time it is applied to him or her when senior citizenship status is achieved. Spring may not exactly be tttttttin' out all over yet but con- vertibles with their tops down certainly are. And that's probably sign enough that in spite of the bleak and murky landscape there is a spring and summer some- where there in the offing. There were times in the last few months when it's been hard to believe such wasthecase. High school driver training pro- m "trEtrrSIpelittiietktltr)ittitwtittltgtttytrtoittat Philomena Rutherford 's Bits and Pieces " YEARS AGO Met 14 Carl Norris, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Norris, 31 Memo St., A radio was stolen from the car of Del Kropf while the vehicle was parked in the Mutual Life garage. The thieves left the loud speaker. CF. Thiele. conductor of the Waterloo Musical Society, said the date of this year's band fes» tival will be June M. Band instru- mental and dancing contests will be held during the day and a par- ade and tattoo that night. You're an old-timer if you re- member when: The village square was a place not a person; The bureau was a piece of fur- niture: I W.D. Thompson, agent of the Grand River Railway at Water- loo for six years, has been trans- Terred to Brantford. Folks sat down at the supper table and counted their blessings instead of calories; Dr. J.H. Engel, property com- mittee chairman, told the school board that extensive repairs, es- timated at 38,000, are required at Central School. He said with these improvements the school should serve the public for another 20or80years. Madame Deluge knitting be- neath the guillotine. The follow- ing, which we swiped from the local Knights of Columbus new letter should set a few of us won- dering about our own age cate- gories. the lack of dignity with which] we refer to our elderly. and which for some unknown reason always 40YrllARtrAGo March]! ful thrill of getting a little smoke going. There were no deductions from Files of Yesteryear Seems an imposter troll up- staged a leprechaun in the win- dow and you know as well as we do that the little wee folk are not ones to take that kind of insult lying down. A total of 817,500 or about seven percent of the $2St,000 objective of this year's federated Char- ities campaign has been collect- Mayor Bauer received a round of applause at Saturday's budget session when he turned down a 3500 salary increase. The may- or's present salary is $1,500. ranged his St. Patrick's Day display this week after receiv- ing some threats written in super- natural green. WY Negotiations to settle a wage dispute between the Civic Work- ers Union and Waterloo Council ended in a stalemate Monday night, with a difference of only We wouhtn't exactly say that Ben Flannery. sporty proprietor of Tim's Sport Shop in Waterloo Square, believes in leprechaun: but yumor has it that he re-ar- ”YEARS AGO March“ Mayor Vernon Bauman opposed a move to increase his salary from $1,000 to 1,200 during esti- mates session: this week. Aid. H.E. Rata felt the mayor was entitled to an increase because of the estimated four hours daily he spends on city adminis- tration. A shoe maker stuck to his last and a wife stuck to her first; It cost more to run your car than park it; People who wore blue jeans worked. your pay until you arrived home; And old-fashioned girl didn't know what an "otd-faghimted"