The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

P By Howard Elliott â€" & Chronicie staff writer Many employees of Waterloo Square will be walking a few blocks after parking their cars every morning, if Waterloo Alderman Blake Hull has his way. Last week Ald. Hull got Council to agree to a measure that might see the Square parking lot closed every morning until 125th Year No. 51 ' Stewart Sutheriand Chronicle staff writer The Region of Waterioo will install a computerized traffic control system next Waterloo Chronicle Hull urges employee parking ban Region OK‘s traffic computer _ Chronicle staff writer More than 160 Waterioo senior citizens attended a Christmas party at the Adult Recreation Centre last Friday during one of their Friday afternooner sesâ€" s10ns Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll and Herb Epp. MPP. attended the party and spoke to the group beâ€" fore being entertained by a local singing group the Sweet Adelines and bell ringer David Barrie from Cambridge. Ont Barrie. 46. has been playing the bells for 23 years "I guess it all began at Central Presbyterian Church (Cambridge) where I played the chimes." Barme said Chimes consist of 10 bells played with handles on keyboard "It‘s not like a piano keyboard but played by push ing down on the handles."" he said Dave Barrie of Cambridge, rings in the holiday season for seniors during one of their weekly "‘Friday Afternooner‘‘ sessions at the Adult Recreation Centre in Waterioo. Barrie plays three difâ€" ferent types of bells with unique hammers â€" fourâ€"inch roofing spikes. Merry Christmas Musician rings in holiday season ....from our staff year in conjunction with the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC:. according to MTC Minister James Snow around 9 a.m. or 9:30 a.m. Hull feels that such a measure would discourage employees from parking in the lot and taking up customer spaces. The parking battle in downtownâ€"Waterloo is hardly new business. It has gone on for years now, but Hull and other alâ€" dermen such as John Shortreed are upset because the probâ€" lem is getting no better. Wednesday, December 19, 1979 Snow and Robert Welch, Energy â€" Minister,.. have agreed to participate with the Region to install the sysâ€" tem in an effort to "reduce energy consumption while providing smoother traffic flow _ ‘but fuel savings of more than two million litres per year could be realized." acâ€" cording to Snow The system is expected to improve traffic flow by as much as 10 to 20 per cent MTC will fund the cost of demonstration on a 50â€"50 basis As an alternative. He began playing his present set of bells as a means of writing music and learning new songs for the chimes Barrie‘s bells consist of three groupings "One group is called ship‘s bells; one group is just plain ordinary bells and the third group we actually had on sheep at one time,"‘ Barrie said Barme finds he is in demand at this time of year to play carols for church and senior‘s groups in the Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Waterloo area. The demand is heavy for seâ€" veral weeks and then tapers off sharply after Christâ€" He is happy to pack up his bells and cart them off to perform whenever he gets a call He says he‘s glad his present set of bells doesn‘t have a cumbersome handleâ€"like keyboard to carry around with him So how does he play his belis? He calls the hammers he uses "fourâ€"inch roofing spikes" and that‘s exâ€" actly what they are‘ MTC and the Ministry of Enâ€" ergy are willing to subsidize up to 75 per cent of the cost of the project as a special energy conservation demonâ€" stration ‘~providing the municipality undertakes a special transportation enâ€" ergy management program as part of the demo," Snow said Funding would be on a onceâ€"only basis and the 75 per cent subsidy could be shared on a 50â€"50 basis beâ€" tween provincial and feâ€" deral governments under (Continued on page 3) i% .; 36 ; ; 3 s« Sittons . o en n en enc "o u0o Cof, M ag . Hratt ADAD 2oo 3».0, The scheme _ would involve coâ€"operation ‘between the City and Waterloo Square eroeneimnnnn en armammatemmmmntrmmzemmint management. One method s .M w of closing the lot would be to i ""2% purchase and erect stanâ€" f * dards and chains â€" such as ] the ones used at Westmount Place â€" to block off the larâ€" * gest part of the lot. ? It "*seems incredible‘‘ to Hull that employees at the Square come out at the end of the twoâ€"hour parking limit to clean chalk off tires or move their vehicles. The latest scheme to prevent employees from parking in customer spaces is presently in the hands of the City‘s adâ€" ministration committee for study. Hull hopes it will come before Council for final approval early in 1980. Presumably the cost of such standards would be split between mall manageâ€" ment and the City. *‘*To me, it seems to be a very unfortunate thing ... they must have an immature attitude,"‘ Hull said in an interview yesterday. © Another method would require close supervision by City bylaw officers to enâ€" sure that no cars were parked illegally. Hull feels mall manageâ€" ment won‘t mind coâ€"operatâ€" ing with the City over the parking issue ""since it‘s to the advantage of Waterioo Square"" to keep employees out of the lot. â€" He can‘t understand why employees insist on parking their cars in the lot, since they have to come out every two hours and spaces are for Comment ......................... 67 BUSIMGSS . . . . . ... .llll.ss ns ansusorees 8 Sports . ...................... ... 14â€"20 Community Calendar ................ 23 Classified ... .................... 21â€"22 Waterioo, Ontario Due to the holidays next week, the Chroniâ€" cle‘s office hours and deadlines will be alâ€" tered. Rather than publish a paper on Dec. 26, Boxing Day. the Chronicle will publish on Dec. 27. However, due to the holidays, all classified and display advertising must be submitted by noon this Friday, Dec. 21. All editorial submissions must be made by 5 p.m. that day as well. The Chronicle will close at noon on Dec. 24 and will be closed Christmas and Boxing Day. We will be open for business on Dec. 27. Deadline for our Jan. 2 issue will be noon on Monday, Dec. 31 and the office will be closed Jan. 1, New Year‘s Day. Have a safe and happy holiday. WHAT JOE SAID... Pg. 3 Our holiday office hours Insid BLAKE HULL... Waterloo alderman rent in the downtown area for what Hull terms ‘"reaâ€" sonable prices ‘. ‘Parking spaces in the King St. area cost $120 per year, and spots further away from the main street such as the Peppler St. area cost $72. 15 Cents