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10 years ago O.W. â€" (Mike) _ Weichel. Waterloo North MP, anâ€" nounced that a postal subâ€" station will be opened in Erna Quaiser‘s grocery store, 16 Union Street East. It will be the second one in the city. The other is on Dearborn Street. Building of a school at this location will depend upon development in this outlying district byond Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo proper© ty. A 6.6 acre school site on Amos Avenue, off Erb Street,. was purchased by the Waterloo public school board from H.J. Voegel for $12.880. The Waterloo arena comâ€" mission is asking Waterloo council to issue the necesâ€" sary debentures for instalâ€" lation of a sprinkler system at the arena. 20 years ago A salary increase of $400 a year for each member of the Waterloo police force will be recommended to Waterloo council by the police commission. Police association repreâ€" sentatives also requested three weeks holiday with pay after 10 years service and witness fees for appearâ€" ing in court while offâ€"duty. ~City council approved the sale of the old horse trough. for many years a landmark and the butt of many jokes. Ed Schmidt purchased the relic for $10 and said he Published every Thursday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St .. N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Watâ€" erloo Ont. Telephone 7446364 The great holiday is at hand‘ and as we all know., it‘s a time for celebration. However, as we also all know, this celeâ€" bration is often coupled with the drinking of toasts or friendly cocktails. The problem is that there are some who tend to overâ€"indulge in this form of fellowship at this time of year. and then attempt to drive automobiles. Therefore, in the interest of giving the best possible community and area news coverage. the Chronicle is requesting that all those who will be drinking and driving fill in the following form and send to our offices. We may not need OBITUARY FORM Name of deceased address in full ...... past addresses ..... employer ..... ... . SurvIvors ......... it, but who knows? Your cooperation is apâ€" preciated. which organizations ......._. time of death .......... (we place where death occurred (we will fill this in also) ... service will be held ........ officiated by ............. internment at ............. when .... (we will fill in) . (Plus maiden names ) predeceased by Di i. when? . ....22.0.. m Of course,. should you not wish to fill in and return this form. there is the alternative of takâ€" ing a taxi â€" which we hope you will. Files of Yesteryear Waterloo Chronicle, Thursday, December 23, 1971 Waterloo Chronicle ESTABLISHED 1854 In Canada: one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Please note SUBSCRIPTION RATES would use it as an ornament Poor â€" attendance _ may force the junior A Waterloo Hurricanes to drop out of the league. Bill Timmis, chairman of the arena comâ€" mission‘s hockey commitâ€" tee. said the lack of fan support was a big disapâ€" pointment. 30 years ago The four _ rubberâ€"union locals in the area forwarded a communication to Ottaâ€" wa protesting a threatened layâ€"off of workers in the rubber industry here. and the unions express concern over the government‘s anâ€" nouncement of restrictions on manufacture of rubber products. An ad in the Chronicle urges consumers to buy tricycles, joyeycles. ice skates and roller skates beâ€" fore their manufacture and sale is prohibited in early 1942 under an order banâ€" ning the production and sale of metal goods. 40 years ago Addresses by mayor Ufâ€" felman and members of the Waterloo town council reâ€" viewing the work for the year featured the final meeting. Tribute was paid to the work of the mayor by fiâ€" nance chairman Dotzert. In view of the fact that he devoted perhaps twice as much time to the work due to the special relief work in hand, mayor Uffelman was voted an additional honorâ€" arium of $100. (we will fill this in) from the New Hamburg Independent member of age by Frieda Kaye Some emotional problems of women over 40 may be more physical than psychoâ€" logical and better treated with medication than with talk, according to Dr. Dorothea Kerr, a psychiaâ€" trist at the Payne Whitney psychiatric â€" clinic, who‘s over 40 herself . Dr. Kerr says she became interested in the relationâ€" ship between a hormonal deficiency and emotional symptoms at menopause when she took hormones as medication herself. "I then began to evaluate women patients in my age group and found much to my surprise that some of their emotional symptoms such as headaches, insomâ€" nia and mood depressions had been relieved by the hormones their gynecoloâ€" gists had prescribed."" Traditional _ psychiatry. Dr. Kerr points out, once held that emotional sympâ€" toms could be treated only by psychotherapy, but since tranquilizers and antiâ€" deâ€" pressants came into general «use, ‘‘we psychiatrists have become body doctors as well as mind doctors again." Dr. Kerr, who holds an MD degree, now prescribes estrogen therapy for her psychiatric women patients whenever indicated. ‘""Their improvement."" she reports, ‘has certainly been as good as I had observed with tranâ€" quilizers and\ antiâ€"depresâ€" sants." The Body is Dynamic The woman over 40. the psychiatrist believes,. is a ‘‘*complex _ physical _ and emotional being and must be treated as such." She explains that at menopause., a woman‘s reproductive cycle ends: the ovaries wind down and so too, does their production of estrogenâ€"the female hormone. This creâ€" ates a deficiency setup, she says. somewhat like a vitaâ€" min deficieney. ‘‘Therefore. the way I treat menopausal psychiaâ€" tric patients depends on the needs of their bodies as well as their minds, because the body as well as the mind is a dynamic. . flexible. shifting. moving thing.~ Many women in their late 40‘s and 50‘s. Dr. Kerr notes, are particularly sensitive to the decrease in their estroâ€" gen levels. ‘"At that time. almost all of them have some _ nervousness. some Emotional problems not always mental Sun SNDCAITC l J / <3 feeling of inner tension, that we call anxiety." Unâ€" less their symptoms are severe, however, the majorâ€" ity don‘t go to see their docâ€" tors. ‘"They say: I can‘t expect to feel.as well as I once did. I just have to grin and bear it. Looking forward to Christâ€" mas has become something less than unadulterated joy. The thriceâ€"blasted cards, the seven â€" times â€" blasted tree with its inevitable crooked stump, the everâ€"increasing cost of gifts: these and othâ€" er aspects of the festive season have turned the fesâ€" tive part of it, at least, into an exercise of hectic futilâ€" ity. I think many will agree when I say that there‘s a huge sight of relief on Christmas night when the last of the wrappings have been put away. the last of the dishes washed. and we can sit back,. look at the lights, and listen to music. It‘s a lot easier on the nerves to look back on Christmases of the past. They were probâ€" ably just as frantic. but in retrospect they have a sort of rosy glow about them. There‘s one that still causes me a pang of remorse and shame. My mother was making the usual huge turkâ€" key dinner. with all it enâ€" tails. We were to eat about four. Around two p.m. my kid brother and I sneaked. yes. sneaked off to the matâ€" inee. About the same time. my older brother and sister went for a walk with a friend. None of us got home until about 5:30,. and there was Mom stuck with the ruins of a magnificent dinâ€" ner. on which she had toiled for hours. She didn‘t say anyâ€" thing. but I. for one. felt like a rat I was about ten. and it was the first time 1 every realizâ€" ed how thoughtless and selâ€" fish kids can be. Which reâ€" minds me that my own two thoughtless. _ selfish brats will be home this Christmas Hugh‘s a vegetarian and will Some women still don‘t realize the menopause is a ‘‘*normal and natural"" stage of life, Dr. Kerr asserts. ‘"They retain the oldâ€"faâ€" shioned notion that women are supposed to suffer."" The psychiatrist admits she had have his little bag of whole brown rice. Kim‘s on some kind of a diet. By some strange coincidence, the vegetarian becomes a carniâ€" vore and the diet goes out the window, when they‘re home. It‘s tempting to think of making them a nice nut salad, and cooking a small duck for their parents only. Another Christmas T‘ll never forget was that of 1944. deep in the heart of Pomerania, behind barbed wire. We didn‘t have to worâ€" ry about buying gifts. sendâ€" ing cards or making longâ€" distance calls to relativâ€" es. Maybe that‘s why it was so much fun. Not even a tree to wrestle with. We exchanged gifts. I gave a pair of gldoves to one of the artists, and he gave me a caricature of myâ€" self. Someone else gave a pack of smokes and received a razor blade that had been used only one week. Oldâ€"Fashioned Notions And there was the Christâ€" mas dinner. We had saved every scrap we could from the last of the Red Cross parcels. We had two tins of salmon with delicious creamed sauce made from powdered milk. There were potatoes au gratin (we‘d hung onto a hunk of cheese. ) And there was that fantastic cake ... crumbled Graham crackers and mashed turnâ€" ips held together by a bit of marg. with two melted chocolate bars stirred in. It was cooked on top of the stove. and weighed about 18 pounds. one pound per man With dinner went kriegie brew. We‘d saved enough prunes and sugar to make a potent potion (just add watâ€" er and let it ferment for a couple of weeks) After scoffing the lot. we Bill Smiley some fears of this herselfâ€" not because of old wives‘ talesâ€"but because of the troublesome experience her own mother had. *"Yet this kind of suffering is unnecesâ€" sary when you realize how easily menopausal sympâ€" toms can be treated." Other Christmases swarm into memory. T‘ll not forget the one when my wife was having the family, for the first time. She fussed all day and had everything just so. She was going to show her mother and aunts that she was no ‘slouch of a housewife. Her eyes were darting everywhere, making sure that everything was in order. The atmosphere was about the same as that at Cape Kennedy when they‘re going to fire at the moon. lay around on our bunks. with the firelight flickering from the battered stove. Did we talk about home and loved ones? We did not. We just lay there and groaned, like 18 pythons who had simultaneously _ swallowed 18 goats. Most of us were sick half the night. but it was worth it. It was the only time for months that we hadn‘t been hungry. and the only time for months that we wouldn‘t be. Finally, _ the _ supre moment. She ushered eryone to the table and rathâ€" er grandly ordered me to take the turkey out of the oven. I did. but the dam‘ pan was red hot and I dropâ€" ped the whole works, gravy. grease. dressing and turkey. on the shining kitchen floor. I‘ll spare you the details. but I‘ve never come closer to sudden death. even during the war. In parting. I have three wishes for my doyal readâ€" ers: that your Christmas tree doesn‘t fall over just after you‘ve finished decorâ€" ating: that you don‘ t drop the turkevy. and that you have the best and happiest Christmas you‘ve ever had. with people you love