Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 18

B2 EDMONTON JOURNAL. Saturday. February 6. 1982 Nick Lees Hello? Hi. I Is that Nick Danger? Right.

I This is Cindy. AFFAIR I in irt-1 SHARE VOUR FANTASIES WITH CINOV AND HER I just got your message this very minute. I'm so glad vou called. How FRIENOS I can I help you? Well, uh, I'm a little embarrassed. Don't be shy.

You know you can A4 877-8967 M.C.OR VISA ONLY snare your secrets witn me. I I've never told anyone about this before. That's the best kind of fantasy. Something so delicious, sensuous, outrageous I I'm a little ashamed. But it really makes my pulse race.

I Ooohl That's wonderful! Tell me more It's illegal. like it already Really? But vou don't even know NEW YORK CITY. N.Y. her! A hi Now we're getting somewhere. It's something you'd like to do with a woman in your life, is it? Uh.

well. yes. She excites you, does she? Terribly. Would you start by kissing her? She'd probably appreciate it. Would you take your clothes off? Would" I take iny clothes off? Of course I wouldn't take my clothes off! Don't get upset! Most people want KKK left blot on Alberta history Well, what I have in mind is going to be difficult.

Nothing is ever too difficult, you naughty little boy. Well, my mum has rheumatism and arthritis. Jeezus! She can't walk far and there's only a hiking trail around Lake Louise and up to the Tea House. The Tea House! Sounds wild honey. Oh it is.

They have great homemade scones and strawberry jam. Scones and strawberry jam? You little devil! What would you like to do with scones and strawberry jam? Eat them of course. What else would you do with scones and jam? Personally, I like my jam I want to drive up the mountains in my truck to let my mum see the view. It's so beautiful. She'd cry.

Are you some kinda kook? Paying for New York calls so you can tell me about eating scones and jam in the mountains with your mum! That's only my first fantasy Buddy, you're weird! Hey, just a minute! Don't go to take their clothes ojj. My mother hasn't seen me naked since was live. Your mother! Oh no! Your the thirst trtl' f111 i rrty Arhsr It si A st tUiitrw a i i ll I What's wrong with that? VZ Nothing, sweety, nothing. It's your fnntn cr I-: She's a fantastic person. fm sure vht ic )L'st wUrit Aid isn By LINDA GOYETTE The knights of the invisible empire kidnapped the blacksmith at midnight and drove him at high speed to a lonely field.

"They kicked and beat me," the victim recalled. "I was hit over the head with that fork-handle three or four times. "They took off most of my clothes and then poured hot tar on my legs and abdomen. Then they stuck feathers on the tar. My body was severely scalded The ghastly scene is usually identified with the Alabama backwoods or the muddy plains of Georgia.

But its terror was closer to home. The blacksmith's story was printed in the Edmonton Journal May 26, 1930. A frightened Fred Doberstein quoted his attackers: "The man said, 'We are the Ku Klux Klan. We want you to leave Blackfalds on the first southbound train and never show your face in Lacombe again. If you do, we will kill The Klan's local activities in the 1920s and 1930s are the dirty underpinnings of Alberta history.

Some might say they are better forgotten. Not Paul Banfield. The University of Alberta history student has been digging into the Klan's story for the past year. He presented an interim research report to the Historical Society of Alberta this week. "I suppose I took an interest in the subject because most people still have this notion that the Klan couldn't have existed in Alberta," said the 30-year-old researcher.

"The story seems to arouse such skepticism." It shouldn't. The Klan claimed 40,000 members in Saskatchewan in the 1920s; unconfirmed estimates for Alberta climbed as high as 5,000. "Some people were frightened Alberta was no longer going to be the preserve of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant," explained Mr. Banfield. "They thought they would be overrun by central Europeans and the purity of British stock would be lost.

The KKK saw themselves as the moral police." In 1927, a Calgary newspaper said Klan organizers from B.C. had raised $10,000 in southern Alberta communities by selling $10 memberships. By 1930, the KKK had an office in Edmonton and three local chapters. For three weeks, the local imperial wizard spoke every night to crowded audiences at Memorial Hall. He denounced the city as the "Rome of the West." The same year, KKK organizers sent letters to all federal election candidates in Alberta asking for their position on "the principle of racial I 1 uni tu uu nun yuur motner: Construction men donate generously integrity." Satisfied with at least one politician, they erected a flaming cross on the hill above Riverdale flats to celebrate the victory of Edmonton East candidate Ambrose Bury.

Mr. Bury, a former Edmonton mayor and future provincial court judge, was often described in House of Commons debates as a KKK supporter. But Mr. Banfield says the accusation vas never supported. Edmonton residents saw another "fiery cross of right" burning in the racetrack enclosure of the Exhibition Grounds in 1932.

Three flaming crosses were sighted in Edson, another in Vermilion and several in Drumheller. Roman Catholics were always the major KKK targets in Alberta. The notorious J.J. Maloney self-described Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Alberta, in the Imperial Palace of the Imperial City of Edmonton owned a local anti-Catholic newspaper, The Liberator. Among its tarnished gems of journalism was an item in the May, 1932, edition: "We would like to know if the assistant postmaster of Edmonton, Mr.

Tessier, still has the crucifix on his desk. And we would like to know if any Protestant with backbone objects, as that desk is owned by the taxpayers of Edmonton." Not all of Mr. Maloney's competitors could stomach the invective. A notable foe was C.B. Halpin, editor of the Lacombe Western Globe.

In editorial after editorial, Mr. Halpin dismissed Liberator stories as "the ravings of an apparently deranged brain such scandalous and lying statements." His regular criticism brought trouble. In 1930, he was warned his home and office would burn to the ground if the editorials continued. "You will be glad to leave Lacombe when the KKK is through with you," threatened an anonymous assailant. Mr.

Halpin promptly wrote his most scathing editorial and his property was never touched. Mr. Banfield says he knows of no Albertans who were shot, stabbed or lynched like KKK victims in the United States. The KKK is alive but not well By CHRIS ZDEB "I A flower collection for the family of a three-year-old girl killed in a house fire netted an overwhelming 1,300 from caring construction workers who work with the girl's 'grandfather. Z- A surprised construction supervisor with Bechtel Canada Ltd.

said he had expected only $35 or $40 would be collected, "enough to buy a bouquet of flowers." "But $1,300. that's a tremendous outpouring," said the supervisor, who expected more money would be 'collected Monday. "Everybody on the site, from the top dog to the bottom dug in." he The supervisor, who asked not to be identified, explained that construction workers are "generally kind of rough." "The tenderness they expressed for their fellow worker some of whom don't even know the man was very touching." The money was raised in two hours Friday afternoon after laborer Phillip Collins, one of 1,000 people working on the Alberta Nitrogen Complex in Redwater, received word that his granddaughter. Carmen Cardinal, died in a fire Thursday afternoon. The girl was one of eight people in a house on the Kikino Metis settlement, 40 km south of Lac La Biche.

RCMP believe she was trapped by flames in the bedroom. No other injuries were reported. A fire investigator was sifting through the remains of the building Friday to determine a cause for the fire. being refused jobs by Orientals, East Indians, Jews and black business people." In 1980, Alberta Klan leader Tearlach Mac a' Phearsoin estimated there were 350 Klan members in the province. "We are a small-c conservative, fraternity-sorority concerned with social issues," he said.

"We support small business but are opposed to communism, fascism, nazism and abortion." Two Asian families in Red Deer found cross-shaped burns in their lawns in the summer of 1980. RCMP later concluded the incidents were not connected with the Klan. Although not much is heard of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada in the 1980s, it still exists. In Whitehorse, Klan activities took a nosedive in December after Yukon organizer Kerry Anderson was convicted on a charge of possession of stolen property. He was sentenced to six months in the Whitehorse Correctional Centre and two years probation with a requirement that he undergo a psychiatric assessment.

Mr. Anderson, 18, claimed to have recruited about 35 Klan members in the Whitehorse area. He told The Journal he joined the white supremacy organization because he "got fed up Broken rules end inunigrants' dreams Journal Oassified Keeps Edmonton Moving! 41" t7 I I her five brothers and sisters fed. "I don't know where I will go, or what I will do. There is no work." David Piatt, 31, a truck driver from Britain, is another would-be immigrant who ran afoul of immigration regulations.

Unlike Miss Blackstock, Mr. Piatt feels the mistakes aren't his. He said an individual with the Canadian immigration office in Birmingham, England, told him he could get a work permit here. But he found out otherwise when he walked into the Edmonton office and told officials he had a job in Hinton and needed a permit. "He was in for quite a shock when the truth came out," said Mr.

Palmer. Mr. Piatt didn't know the regulations, but it's unclear if that's because he was misinformed in the Birmingham office. "He talked to someone in the lobby there, but I can't imagine an immigration officer ever giving that (incorrect) information," Mr. Palmer said.

Mr. Piatt, who spent his life savings to bring his wife and two small children to Alberta, has lost his appeal against deportation. The family, now flat broke, will be sent back to England within days. "There's no work there, that's why I left. If I'm sent back to England, I'll have to go to welfare.

My children will be taken off me and put in care, and that breaks my heart. My wife will have to live at the YWCA and I'll be sent to stay at the YMCA." Blackstock Piatt By MARK HUME The dream is over for Paulette Blackstock. The 24-year-old Jamaican looks at the floor and in a soft voice talks about suicide. "There's no hope. No solution.

If I didn't believe in God, maybe I'd have done it already." After spending two years in Canada, with hopes of becoming a citizen. Miss Blackstock is facing imminent deportation. She is not the only one caught by vigilant immigration officials in Edmonton. A truck driver from Britain and his family are also facing deportation. Miss Blackstock ran into trouble because she violated immigration laws by overstaying as a visitor.

Her last appeal was denied in a court hearing this week. "No one could stop it now, not even the minister's office." an immigration officer said about the process that will force Miss Blackstock to leave the country, possibly within days. "If I'd wanted to hide, I could have," said Miss Blackstock. "I could have gone underground. There are lots of illegal immigrants here." She pulls out a thick file of letters supporting her bid to become a landed immigrant.

Praise comes from the Charles Camsell Hospital, the Volunteer Action Centre and the YWCA, all places where she does volunteer work. "It's very hard to get so involved in a community and then just get kicked out," she said. There's a letter from an 1 1-year-old girl who was tutored in math by Miss Blackstock. A prospective employer writes to say he'll guarantee her a job. There is even a 20-name petition from the Single Parents Club of Edmonton, an organization she -became involved with through a friend.

But the letters haven't helped Paulette Blackstock. She broke the rules. The young woman came to Canada in 1979 as a "visitor, fell in love with the country and stayed on. hoping to convince the government to let her become a Canadian. BRINGING DRIVERS RIDERS TOGETHER Rides Carpool Ads are offered as a public service FREE for the duration of an interruption of Edmonton's Transit service.

Whether you need a ride or are offering a ride call Journal Classified: 428-1234 8 am to 9:45 pm Monday to Friday 9 am to 4 45 pm Saturday for publication in the next edition of the Journal. immigrants must return home and apply there. Exceptions are only for humanitarian reasons. Miss Blackstock said she broke the rules because "I just didn't know." Immigration enforcement supervisor Garrett Palmer says ignorance of the law is no excuse. "People should make sure that they have the proper information.

They should talk to the immigration people directly, and find out what the laws are." Mr. Palmer's office frequently deals with people who haven't bothered to familiarize themselves with Canada's strict immigration laws. Once she's back in Jamaica, Miss Blackstock can reapply, but "I don't think my chances of coming back are good." It could take a year for immigration officials to process a reapplication under ordinary conditions, and matters are complicated in deportation cases. Anyone who reapplies after being deported has to be cleared by the immigration minister after a full review. Mr.

Palmer said it's impossible to assess her chances of getting back into the country. In her impoverished homeland. Miss Blackstock said, work is scarce. Her father is struggling to keep Be a daily Journal Subscriber Can 425-1274 for home delivery Edmonton Journal That's not how things are done. Regulations state visitors wb want to become landed.