Waterloo Region Record from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada • 3

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'J A' tMbLI 7 y'Z k' 7 4 T' DkH 'v MZ iwPSffjox' isik WwlMHBkWaKnH Gt MWssWWVWW mk Iff 'BBHHqB MW 'Js Ms City blocks theatres with $600 a day fee By DON McCURDY pj' Record Staff Writer By imposing a prohibitive $600 a day operating fee Kit chener council Monday blocked the opening of six video tape theatres in the former building About 120 people applauded the move following a 2 hour discussion which featured eight delegations and a 20 min ute caucus meeting Council decided to rescind a Sep tember motion allowing the theatres to operate for the $75 annual fee charged regular theatres The move was prompted by fears that the owners a Toron to group headed by Marvin' Miller would show sex films in the basement theatres at King and Water Streets Council made the decision after Miller agreed to submit a list of films three months in advance for council approval Miller and his lawyer Peter Mandell who also represented the owner York Hanover Developments of To ronto refused to comment following the decision Mandell said he would discuss the decision with his clients before making the next move Mayor Morley Rosenberg said after the meeting that council "had to be courageous and take a stand Council made the right deci sion and that decision re flects the opinion of the com Lawyer Peter Mandell and theatre operator Marvin Miller listen to comments Record Photo by Brian Clark i 7' "tP '4' 'fofSpw Wf" "f7 $Zr WZ ZWG: "'W ''W DsMM 4 1 ML ZW pz 4g MM WWWWWWWWtM 'z 4' sA'! 'fe' wXtajy'T MM) MWWM Wz 7 MM AMWWWWWMDWWk 7 W' IE fllkh SIHKlw I He said council wait and if the group takes legal action and have nothing more to do with Mill During the one hour grilling by council Miller admitted he operates a film distributing company that handles sex films approved by the Ontario Board of Censors and is the manager of Cinema 2000 a Yonge Street theatre that shows erotic films But Miller who promised that he would not show any sex films in Kitchener submitted lists of what he said were quality films that he would show at the 100 seat theatres scheduled to open in three weeks He used Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and CloseEncounters of the Third Kind as examples He said he Waterloo taxes up average of $5369 School taxes have pushed up the total tax bill on the average Waterloo house by $5369 an increase of 89 per cent over last year igures released to council Monday showed the average tax bill on a house assessed at $5500 will be $65563 com pared to $60194 last year Of that total the city tax share is $17147 up $450 from last year The regional government share is $12782 an increase of $1697 The school board share based on its budget set last week goes to $35634 up $3222 from 1977 The residential mill rates are 1192 in the former city area and 18879 in the merged area of the city The mill rate is the number of dollars paid on each thousand dollars vjorth of as sessment City of Kitchener employees Kim Nihls (front) and rank De rancesco have quite a job ahead of them this spring as they clean up after litterbugs They were kept busy Monday gathering debris along Natchez Road near Grand River collegiate During the winter the two work on snow removal crews Record Photo by Sue Mockie $150 A YEAR MORE Hydro By PHIL LeSAUVAGE Record Staff Writer Watt a difference a year makes And the way Harold Geisel figures it those watts are costing him a lot more under the restructured hydro sys tem or starters he says be paying about $150 more this year for electricity from Wa terloo North Hydro than he would if he was still undej Ontario Hydro rates As of Jan 1 he and other Ontario Hydro rural custom ers in Woolwich and Wellesley townships became customers of Waterloo North Hydro as restructuring created three new utilities in the Region to replace 13 utilities plus Ontario Hydro customers That $150 is bad enough but Geisel says by being placed in the general service category he is paying about $500 more restructuring hits farmer for hydro than a rural domes tic rate customer who is using the same amount of electricity and who operating a farm Using his ebruary con sumption figures of 10600 kilowatt hours for his hog operation on five acres of land west of Winterbourne he fig ured it would cost him $28922 under the current Ontario Hydro rural rates Or $28803 under the Ontario Hydro rural domestic rate going to fight over he said about the difference between the two rates But under Waterloo North Hydro rates a different story Under the domestic rate the 10600 kilowatt hours would cost $25860 The lower rates were one objective of restruc turing and obviously worked out But in the general service rate category bill was $30285 a difference of $4425 On an estimated annual bill of $3000 he figures it will cost him about $500 more to be in the higher rate category talking $500 then got a reason to contest says Geisel a former Woolwich township councillor and mayorality can didate in the last election A lot of that power is going into the electrically heated home he built last year plus hydro for the hired house He estimates about 55 to 60 per cent of his hydro consump tion is for the two houses and it is all charged at the general service rate because it is all on one meter And another sore point When he built the house he See Page 4' HAROLD GEISEL fermer councillor I I 4 I Hr I A Defining farm is key to rates a farm? The average person may have a good idea but trying to put a definition bn paper is another matter especially when it comes to hydro rates Waterloo North Hydro has been grappling with a defini tion of a farm in order to determine who gets the farm rate and who gets the cheaper domestic rate used to think I knew what a farm said Gerry Knorr manager of distribution and engineering In most cases fairly easy to decide what is a farm operation and what is being used solely as a residence The difference can be mean ingful financially At 1000 kilowatt hours a month the charge under dck mestlc rates is $2820 while under the general service rate which Includes farms It is $3195 The average consump tion for a house is between 1000 and 1500 kilowatt hours a month The problem is that when there Is onlyione meter for both the farm and the house all electricity is charged at the higher rate The simple solution in most cases is to have a second meter installed at the edit to separate the two and get the domestic rate for the house The savings usually will more than cover the cost of Installation in a short period of time But what if the person want two meters claims he have a farm and the whole thing should be on the cheaper domestic rate? Last month the Waterloo North board agree on a definition that stated: discretion be used to classify farm customers where the agriculture production is not on a scale to produce a subsistence The problem was with defin ing what means So it was sent back to the drawing board for clarifica tion Ontario Hydro defines 1 farm as having more than three acres and an occupant who makes more than 75 per cent of his livelihood from the farm Hydro officials reported no problem with this defini tion Knorr says most applica tions to change rate categories are fairly simple to judge If the property is being used strictly as a residence it will be changed The application forms ask the applicant to list what the bam is used for how many electrical devices are in it and the percentage of income derived from farming The applications are coming in now mainly because the rate different under Ontario Hydro was fairly small bigger under the new restructured hydro rates In the urban areas where a person has a small shop or store in part of his house and his living quarters in the other part the same rate difference applies and two meters are again the solution to getting cheaper rales for living quarters The two meter solution is one that John Hall of RR 1 West Montrose is going to opt for He lives on a 102 acre farm but rents most of the land to a farmer The bam used by the farmer is electrically heated and has electric machines in it He argue that it is a farm operation but his house is on the same meter so he is being charged the general service rate He figures that by putting the house on a separate meter save about $200 a year on his annual $1000 hydro bill But the cost of installation is estimated at $300 so it will take years to pay it off and realize some savings But for those borderline cases the board Is still looking for a tighter definition Neither of the other two restructured boards Cam bridge North Dumfries and Kitchener Wilot are ex periencing the same problem officials said has spent $325000 renovating the building Miller said there is fragmented for sex movies here because of regu lar showings by drive in thea tres and by the Majestic Theatre in Waterloo He also Proposed law to control mind groups is under fire said that Cinema 2000 making any because the public is losing interest in sex films But Miller was up against a groundswell of public pressure prompted by fears that the theatres would be the start of decay in the downtown area One woman said that Miller the straw that broke the back and hard on you because we stand it Many of the delegations promised to continue the pro test against theatres already showing sex fjlms Each spokesman approaching coun cil made it clear that city residents tolerate ap proval of the theatre operation unless council was certain that the films would be for general consumption Aid Mary Pappert said that of the 19 movies shown at Twin City theatres last week were restricted four were adult entertainment and only one was for general She said that council the time or authority to through movies and be a censor By RANK ETHERINGTON Record Staff Writer A proposed provincial law which would in part control mind development groups was condemned Monday as an which would endanger all self help agencies Criticisms of the act came thick and fast at a public meeting called by the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) About 100 people many of them members of Psi Mind Development Institute and the Church of Scientology attend ed the meeting at the Kitchen er library Almost all opinions ex pressed were against the pro posed act One of the few voices speak ing out in favor of the legisla tion was that of a 19 year old Kitchener woman who is among seven documented cases of people who suffered mental breakdowns after tak ing Psi courses Her voice was lost among those of critics who included a Toronto medical doctor and several psychologists and counsellors OPA officials who formed a panel at the meeting were told they had every right to police their profession but had no right to define restrict or prohibit psychology or to im pose interpreta tions on other disciplines Austrian psychologist Dr Brian Hazell from the Univer sity of counselling department said the act would do nothing to outlaw mind de velopment groups because the groups would change names and continue as usual Instead he said the act would become a restrictive to discourage self help and com munity psychological ser vices He added that the act would serve to protect psychologists but would do little to protect the consumer or patient Dr Barry rancis of Kitch ener OPA president empha sized that the main purposes of the act were to protect con sumers from charlatans and make those claiming to be qualified psychologists ac countable to a disciplinary body rancis and Dr Xavier Plaus of St Catharines chair man of the legislation committee said that anyone hang out a today and offer the public psychiatric help as long as he use the word They said the government is aware of numerous cases where consumers were misled and harmed by unqualified quacks offering psychological help The OPA found that these consumers had little recourse in the courts or through provincial consumer services The OPA act written to maintain high standards among psychologists would prohibit the practice of psy chology by unqualified people It defines psychological prac tices including marriage fam ily or vocational counselling psychotherapy behavior mod ification and biofeedback tech niques See Page 4 chairman of the building fund said at a press conference today Renaud said current physical education facilities at St are Inade quate" He said that 1400 students are enrolled In the school which was designed to accommodate about 900 St school has taken some of the overflow from St but lts facilities are strained to the limit St has about 1000 students Plans call for renovating a shower and with the general canvass of the Catholic community slated for the fall Construction at St probably will be completed in the spring of 1979 Renaud said He said the million trust fund will help moderate any future increases in operating the two schools from the $1 million held in trust hopefully will provide sufficient income to enable the high schools to maintain student entrance fees and parish assessments at or near current Annual tuition fees at present are $310 a student Each parish is also assessed a portion of the operating expenses: about $12 million last year Provincial aid for Catholic schools stops at Grade 10 While most Ontario high schools are predict ing declining enrolments for at least the next decade the Catholic high school board expects its enrolment to continue climbing for the next few years rom 1971 to 1976 enrolment at St Mary increased by 37 per cent and at St Jerpme's by 17 per cent Valerie Heise who present ed a petition signed by 151 Bell Canada telephone operators said many of the women were afraid of encountering people attracted to the theatres our way "to catch a bus or walking to our parked She said the women work split shifts at Water Street office we arp definitely against Archdeacon Cyril Lads of St Anglican church who spoke on behalf of city churches and downtown busi nessmen suggested that coun cil pressure the province to iislhtAn ronenrahin L1WS and tO restrict sex films to theatres in to be used by both schools Bill Renaud general a designated area De troit has John Reimer a board of education trustee said mon sense demands that we say no to anything contrary to the wishes of the He said that schools in with porno graphy because obscenity is corrupting teen agers Rupert Anderson represent nn 1A ncaiohhnrhsind AhkdcIa said censorship change room and several other areas at St board is next to Jerome's as well as repairing its auditorium Ca massing of industry will start this summer Page 4 SEEK $2 MILLION RC high schools start drive The Catholic high school board today announced a $2 milIion fund raising campaign to aid St and St high schools About $1 million of the fund will be used to pay for renovations and additions to the two high schools and the remaining $1 million will be placed in a trust fund with the interest used to defray operating costs Expansion plans for St school call for nine new classrooms and a gymnasium.