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AROUND THE TOWN WORLD ThmIeMld i OF WOMEN Beth RAUGUST TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1968 PAGE 22 if 1,000 Fed Daily I -jr. fn ii nit 1 mmma mm Herald Staff Writer 1 BanH School Chef Runs Busy Kitchen i fL 1 4 BILL LYON IS PRESIDENT of an honest clothing manufacturing company: he frankly admits it doesn't pretend to set any high-style trends. It simply designs the 'this-is-for-me' type of dress that most housewives and working girls want. "We offer women the practical fashions of right now, not the fashions of six months from today," he said recently while on a Western Canadian tour of his branches. His firm, North American Fashion Frocks, which is based in Montreal, doesn't sell to shops or retail outlets.

Fashion counsellors across the country give home parties at which the clothes are shown. The company used to sell items on an individual basis but the new set-up enables a group of women to see the garments offered. Some of them may model the dresses for their friends at the party. The fashion counsellors always have a cross-section of lines. QN 'tx 1 1' jjp )11, "I FEEL THIS TYPE of system has been successful because Canada has a different kind of woman today," he said.

"It all started with Centennial year when Canadians began to take a serious pride in their country. With this trend, women are becoming more aggressive and are tired of just being housewives. "They are more willing now to get up and model clothes for their friends," he added. "And many of our counsellors are housewives or girls with 9 to 5 jobs who find showing the lines a further outlet during the evenings." Mr. Lyon gave a more broad example of the Canadian's feelings of pride and aggression.

He recently asked a group of his manufacturing friends how they would feel if there was free trade between Canada and the United States. "They said they would welcome the move whereas a few years ago we would have run to Ottawa screaming for protection," he said. By SUE HUDSPETH Herald Staff Writer BANFF Preparing meals for a "family" of 1.000 hungry teens and adults isn't a task for beginners. Signe Gunderson came to Canada for a visit from her native Norway more than 10 years ago and stayed in Banff 'sis'1 2 1 SIGNE GUNDERSON chief cook STRIP-TEASE CANCELLED Women's News Service GOLDTHORPE, England -When women complained because the private Golden Nugget Club featured strip-tease performances on Sunday, the men had to think of something to take their place. What they hit upon was flower shows.

The first show of roses, dahlias and carnations attracted 57 entries and played to a full house. "The bar didn't sell as many drinks, but we are getting 100 floral entries next Sunday," reported club secretary Ken Tate. "When there are no more flowers this winter, we'll feature vegetable shows." When the vegetables go, the women have agreed to sanction billiards tournaments. to become the School of Fine Arts head chef. Miss Gunderson feeds more than 1,000 students and staff members every day during the summer session.

Her grocery list sounds as though, she's supplying an army: "Six thousand eggs; 240 pounds of bacon; 40 gallons of milk and 20 of cream each day," Miss Gunderson recites. Holding down a responsibility like head chef takes a first-rate staff and Miss Gunderson says she has "one of the finest." Her 24-member summer staff and 14 to 15 winter helpers have been with Miss Gunderson for between four and five years. NEW FACILITIES This summer new ovens and an automatic dishwasher have been added to the kitchen facilities. "The kitchen renovation still isn't complete but we're noticing the difference already. The dish machine washes and dries the plates and cutlery automatically," Miss Gunderson explains.

Besides supervising her staff, the chef is responsible for making up the dining room menus. Over the years Miss Gunderson has learned the best ways to feed her hungry hoard "I buy my meat twice a week so that it will stay fresh. Milk we get every day. "The staff comes to work in two shifts. One from early in the morning until after lunch and another shift from noon until early evening.

This seems to work best," Miss Gunderson says. Many of Miss Gunderson's assistants are specialized helpers. Students at the Banff School of Fine Arts work hard during the day and enjoy the salad and pastry girls' rewards. Miss Gunderson says with a smile she's planning to go back to Norway "some day soon," but she's been home for two visits and always came back. There's something about Banff that drew her there on her first visit to Canada.

Whatever it is, the staff and students hope she'll stay. CALGARIAN VIOLA THOMAS PREPARES FOR INTERNATIONAL HORSE RACE top female rider hopes to add to already-impressive list of laurels City Rider Bound For Derby lavs? js" race and' was carried off the Millarville race track with a broken collar bone. She returned an hour later to win the fifth race, before agreeing to hospital treatment. Unable to ride, she turned her hand to training horses, and promptly won a $12,000 futurity in Colorado with a Quarter Horse she broke and trained. When officials invited her to represent Canada in the Pittsburgh race, they emphasized that the "spectacle" was to be considered more important than winning, and "the competitors would be expected to ride their mounts in a lady-like manner." "That's all very well," observes Miss Thomas, who learned race riding on the rough, tough Alberta 'bush' circuit, where the only way you can get disqualified is to machine-gun your opponents and at least one judge, but they might be in for a surprise or two if the race is close.

I'm out to win for Canada." When the race is over, it will be back to Calgary for the fall meeting here, then to Riverside, Calif, for first-year veterinary medicine studies at Loma Linda College. That means giving up singing with the band she founded here a few years ago. What about romance? A quick grin, a shake of her shoulder-length hair, and: "'o time. yet. Too many things to do.

Gotta win that race gotta get my degree One thing's certain. When she finally does get married, it will he to a horseman. As she says, who else would understand11" By PAT McMAHON Herald Staff Writer A Calgary girl, whose accomplishments on horseback outside the show ring rival those of any rider in the country, has been named to represent Canada in the International Powder Puff Derby, to be run Aug. 21 at Pittsburgh, Pa. Viola Thomas, of 3135 40th St.

S.W., will compete against the best women jockeys from England, Ireland, Mexico and the U.S. in the race, to be run in conjunction with Pennsylvania's Allegheny State Fair. The girls will ride evenly-matched race horses shipped in from nearby Ohio race tracks, and the start will be from a mechanical starting gate of the type used at local race meeting. That should prove no drawback to Miss Thomas, who for several years has made her living exercising valuable Thoroughbreds on Prairie and California race tracks. So proficient is she at breaking from the gate that top trainers regularly hire her to teach hish-priced, unraced two-year-olds how to start properly.

A three-time Canadian Barrel racing champion, the 29-year-old brunette is a shapely, attractive contradiction to the misconception that girl rodeo competitors are, by de "AS CANADA GROWS up she is being strangled by her 20,000,000 people. We should welcome the huge U.S. consumer market." Mr. Lyon mixes fashion with politics. He is also vice-president of the Liberal Association of Mount Royal, Prime Minister Trudeau's home constituency.

Trudeau is a person of our times," said Mr. Lyon. "I believe if he hadn't been elected prime minister we would probably have had the same youth riots as the U.S. and other countries." He fels Mr. Trudeau has "prevented many of the potential riots because of his clothes, fast car and modern out-I00K Young people have someone they can identify with.

They respect the man." Mr. Lyon thinks the prime minister's choice of clothes is "great. They reflect the mood of Canada today." Mr. Lyon's firm specializes in bonded fabrics, and the Harris-spun Donegal tweed is in this season. The company stresses the simple, classic straight lines and lets color and material emphasize the styling.

He said the firm is now using many of the fabrics traditionally used for men's clothing. Here And There Mr. and Mrs. Bill Eremko, 517 9th Ave, N.E., will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary Wednesday with an open house. The couple were married Aug.

7, 1943, in Calgary They have one daughter, JoAnn. Women's Auxiliary of Bragg Creek Community Association is holding a tea and bake sale at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Dingman's Bragg Creek residence. Grace Presbyterian Church vacation school is being held this year from Aug. 12 to 16 and from Aug.

19 to 23, 9 to 11:30 a.m. Children from 4 through 11 years are welcome. The children will enjoy study, worship, crafts and recreation. Parents are invited to attend a short worship service at 9 a m. Aug.

12 and the closing exercises at 10 a.m. Aug. 23. Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Sigsworth of Trail, B.C., weie the recent guests of Mrs. Dorothy Thackray, 2109 Richmond Rd. S.W.

Mrs. J. F. Taylor and infant son, James, of Kitimat, B.C., are guests of Mrs. Taylor's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Foote, 2123 Kilkenny Rd. S.W.

While in the city Mrs. Taylor attended the wedding Saturday of her brother, Dennis, to Carol Sinton. Other out-of-town guests at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs Kurt Hartviksen of Saskatoon and Betty Ostenrude of Camrose. Former residents of Red Deer and district attended a reunion picnic at Bowness Park, pavilion west 1, at 2 p.m.

Saturday. Attitude Helps Wife Win Cancer Battle TORONTO (OP) There was a night in March when Marj MacGillivray, a 47-year-old suburban housewife, thought she wouldn't see the morning. "I thought Frank, my husband, was going to have to eat breakfast alone," she said. "I had given it all buck because it wasn't frisky enough for her." While in her early teens, Miss Thomas was virtually unbeatable in competitive trail rides, and before she was 10, she could out-ride most male jockeys on the Class district fair race circuit, to which female riders are restricted. In her youth, knowledgable show horse oeoole thought she showed Olympic-type potential as a show ring and jumping rider, but the trot, walk ar.d canter routine was too dull for her.

So she gave it up to became a "hazer" in the dangerous steer decorating event at the Calgary 'Stampede. A "hazer" rides alongside the charging steer, directing it toward the competitor, who leaps from his horse and tries to slip a ribbon over its horn. Later she was hired by a county sheriff's department in California to break stallions which were proving too rough for hard-bitten California wranglers. These aren't the sort of activities calculated to bring low insurance rates, even for the most rugged of cowboys let alone a petite 110-pound girl. And Miss Thomas has the scars to show that along with a room full of trophies, ribbons and prize saddles, her career has brought her more than her share of disaster.

She has suffered a broken neck, broken ribs, broken collar bone, two broken wrists, broken fingers, and sprains and bruises too numerous to t'CC'l 1 Whenever horsemen speak (if com arte, the conversation invariably turns to the time in H)fi2 when she wen', down in a serious in the third "TV Mother Of 3 Heads Ottawa School Board finition, Amazons. What she lacks in muscles, she makes up in talent, and trainers on the Prairie circuit are unanimous in their praise for her ability. One of her clients, R. A. "Red" MacKenzie, an outstanding trainer and a former jockey himself, says, "It's remarkable, the way she gets along with a hotse.

Any time she gets on an animal, it just seems to respond. I've always had great success with any horse she galloped for me in the mornings. Theyall seem to win more than their share of races." Miss Thomas, comes by her love of horses naturally. Her was a staff-sergeant (farrier) with the Strathcona's Horse regiment, and during her early childhood, her southwest Calgary home bordered the city limits. "One day, before she was three." her mother recalls, "I looked out the window and almost tainted.

Somehow Vio a had slipped a rope around the neck of a huge black workhorse and led it home. She barelv came up to its knee, and if it had stepped the wrong way "By the time she was four, we'd bought her a nice, quiet, old Shetland Pony. But she used to tickle it to make it don Daily Express in 1950, but a short time later got a job in the women's magazine field i ir the Amalsomated Press. "I started out being a junior running a lot of errands and making a lot of tea. I graduated to writing subheads and doing features.

For a while I film critic and then assistant to the beauty editor." in the meantime, she met her future husband. Cliff, now national secretary for the New Democratic party. "In September. 1051, Cliff came to Canada and I joined him the followin? spring in Toronto where we married Mav 'The ship was two days late so we had to gt special dispensation for the marriage from the lieutenant-governor of Ontario. There is a waiting period but because of the delay I arrived only a few hours hefore we were to be married." After their marriage.

Mr. Scotton went to a job in Ottawa and she became editor of the Transit Commission's magazine until and having her first child in 1954. taueht myself shorthand and typing and I became House of Commons secretary to a couple of MPs. Two years later. I became secreta-y to the Yugoslavian ambassador" She became interested in the school board's work some vears later wnen (reottrev was four.

She would like to see more public school kindergartens for children of that age. "It's no use saying women should not go out to work but should stay home and take care of their children," she says bluntly. "Mothers are going out to work and children need care It's as simple as that." 1 1 had and I just couldn't fight any longer." But something happened and "all of a sudden my bones seemed to knit together and I knew I was going to be here tomorrow," she recalled. For those who are sure they are going to be around tomorrow, this may not have much significance, but Mrs. MacGillivray has been fighting cancerand winning.

After three major operations for cancer of the chest, Mrs. MacGillivray thought she was losing the fight. Recently her physician. Dr. Ross A.

Dobson. described her progress as "very' favorable." He said more people with cancer could benefit from Mrs. MacGillivray's attitude and should take advantage of every opportunity to enjoy life. Hfr determination has kept her busy helping her husband build a small plane in the basement of their home. Flying has always been one of Mrs MacGillivray's loves and this is the second two-seater plane she and her husband have built.

The first one was put together in an apartment. "We hope to have it finished in time for this year." she said as she climbed under the basement steps to show off the Now at EATON'S Beauty Salon Mr. Dan young stylist, wh; hes Cmed tne srat c-f cur P.c:m C.z: 266-C234 cn ear' appointment with tAr Den, expert in aH phases cf CCr temporary rZr styling EATON'S EEAUTY SALON THIRD FLOOR 4 By SUSAN BECKER OTTAWA (CP) A petite redhead who knows fir. hand about problems faced by the working wife-mother is chairman of the Ottawa public school board with its 53 schools and more than 26,500 pupils. Eileen Scotton mother of Anne.

Lindsay, 12. and Geoffrey, ft was elected to the 12 membe- hoard in De cember. l4. A year later she became chairman of its management committee, a position she held until becoming' board chairman last year. A lively, energetic woman, Mrs Scotton grew up in Ene-land where was evacuated from her London home to a grammar school in Stamford, Lincolnshire, during the Sc-ond World War She stayed in that "city of 103 pubs and 6 churches" for four years.

A few year after 'he war. 18-year-old Eileen started a cour" in Enrli-h 'iterature and modern lanetiaees at the I'niversi'v of Lon Ion's Birk-beck College. "Mv paten's not particularly well off so I arranged courses mnst'y in the evening and worked for a newspaper." She was hired by The Lon- Movie Ban Lifted KUWAIT (AP) The Arab ban on. films of Italian actress Sophia Loren and 15 French and Greek performers has 1 been lifted. The Arab boycott office said the films could be shown now if they contain no "anti-Arab propaganda PASSPORTS 6 for 1.50 LANE'S STUDIO On 8th Av.

Kitty Corner from th Bay 1 TWBEDSHiR AN ACADEMIC SCHOOL for GIRLS Grades One to Twelve V-'-'1 Th'1? i i Sz' cesses assure ind vidual instruction by well a jZ 1 ed teae'e-s a1 ae" an giver to students Depart-e-: ltrz.zr Gr-ps 9 oncj 12. Conroct Mrs. MeWilliom, Headmistress, for further' information at 243-3773 children cf Mr. and Mrs Lawrpnce Oxlev Nurses Mortel, Jacob and Parn! the triplets born to Mr and Mrs Paul LeBianc Now, instead of looking offer just cne child per famiiv, the nurses in the hospital nu'ser, are doing everything in triplicate f-ednes Photo! SIX IN A ROW. Members of the nursing staff at Mount Sinai in Toronto d'splav the two sets of triplets born at the hospital recently.

Locking a little dazed ct the unusual "heppenmg'' while they hold their charges for the photographer are, rom left, nurses Laurence, O'Reilly zrd Fe-g-son, holding the th'ce.