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illllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllMlllllllllllllllllilllllliniHIIIUIHiUlllllilillUiliHIUUIIfililllUillltlllllllllllllllHIlltl Pierre Berton Speaks Out Reaction To Crisis "Scarred Maple Leaf" I I IN SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1970 PAGE 51 By SUZANNE ZWARUN Ihera'd Statf Writer The eternal shame of Canada's embrace of the War Measures Act will scar the Maple Leaf Forever, Pierre Berton said Friday. The writer and broadcaster, in Calgary to speak to the Canadian Club, lashed out at the War Measures Act at a news conference following his attendance-breaking appearance at a combined meeting Ann LANDERS Canadiands Full Of Salty Characters II' if ii 0 If 1 i cf the Man's and Women's Canadian Clubs. Tearing up the bill of rights is the kind of 'catclysmic event" that will "scar the nation" in future, Mr. Berton said. The country has plenty of laws to combat the FLQ crisis without resorting "to the same kind of repressive measures" Canada used "to our eternal shame" to move West Coast Japanese during the Second World War.

OVER-REACTED History, Mr. Berton said, will decide "we over-reacted with the best possible reasons but we over-reacted." He, himself, was surprised there was so little concern over the employment of the War Measures Act, either from politicians or the public. Prime Minister Trudeau, he guessed, would have been the 'first to yell his head off" had he been in opposition. Berton said he "can't stomach" the kind of things that have been going on in Quebec during the past few weeks. Under the War Measures Act, people have been held incom-municato have been charged with doing things that weren't illegal hen they did them and yet the kidnappers haven't been found, a murder wasn't prevented and a hostage is still missing.

Berton was also concerned, at Friday's conference, about U.S. infiltration of Canadian communications. "If Canada can stop a uranium sale, why can't they stop the more important matter of the future education of our childern," he asked, referring to the Ryerson Press sale to a U.S. publishing firm. The Ryerson Press, was sold this week by the United Church of Canada.

It was "infamous" of the United Church to sell to "the highest bidder," Mr. Berton said. "The United Church turned around and acted like it was Imperial Oil, for God's sake. Its present holdings and profits are enormous and it to quote the bible "sold out for a mess of pottage." Canada can and has to have its own communications system to tie the country together "or we'll not have a country," he warned. pion Donalda Cochrane of Fort St.

John, B.C. The awards were presented at CGRA's annual banquet Friday night. RODEO QUEENS. Canadian Girls Rodeo Association best all-round cowgirl winners are junior champion Elya Walgen-bach, left, of Stettler and senior cham DEAR ANN: If you want to say "I told you so," go ahead because you did. I wrote to you a year ago to tell you how wrong you were about teen-age marriages.

Bruce and I were proving it could work. We had been married all of three months. Six weeks after I wrote, Bruce stayed out all night. We got into a row over that. From then on things turned really crummy.

We fought about money, his drinking, my sleeping late in the morning, his mother, my mother, the meals I fixed, the dog, everything imaginable. Even the sex we thought was so great got boring. I quit high school to get married and Bruce gave up a chance to go to college. When our marriage began to go sour we blamed each other. I suggested counselling but Bruce said it would be a waste of time because he was sick of me and my childish ways.

I was sick of him, too, so I filed for divorce two weeks ago. I'm back in school now and feeling plenty out of place. A divorcee isn't about to be chosen cheerleader or home-coming queen. I just wanted to let you know I'm sorry I said all those nasty things in my letter last year. Please accept my apologies and print this one.

MISS KNEW IT ALL DEAR MISS: No apologies needed. You've done me a favor. Your letter is my reply to the girl who wrote the following letter: Those Faraway Places DEAR ANN: I'm 17 and would have been a senior if I had gone back to school, but I didn't. I got engaged instead. Lennie and I have been going steady for two years.

He gave me a ring for my birthday in August. We plan to get married around Christmas. As the time gets closer I become more and more unsure. Every night for weeks I've been waking up in a cold sweat. I've been having terrible nightmares that I am drowning, or trapped in a fire, or lost in a forest.

It must mean something but I don't know what. All my life I've wanted to travel to exciting and faraway countries. I'm good at Spanish and could have a ball in Mexico or Venezuela or Spain or Puerto Rico. If I get married I may never see all these great places. Is this selfish? Is it childish to want to have some adventure and see the world? Am I a dreamer? What if I break the engagement and Lennie marries someone else? Please help me sort out my thoughts.

My mother died three years ago and you have been like a second mother to me. Thanks, Ann. S.O.S. IN FORT LAUDERDALE DEAR S.O.S.: I read you loud and clear. My response is: over and out.

Do you read me? If not, re-read the first letter in this column. Your answer is there. And then came Smith Marcus, by name. A crusty, bristly, reprehensible surveyor, obsessed with the idea of putting the transconti-n a 1 railroad where HE thought it should go. Smith, at 60, took a 1.000 mile canoe trip across the Canadian Shield.

Lugging a barrel of Scotch whisky across 200 portages. Now that's the kind of Canadian history Pierre Berton likes. Not the "plaster saints" of school textbooks. Not mind-dulling facts. Not a bunch of names sandpapered smooth of all imperfections.

And Friday Pierre set out to infect others with his enthusiasm. He gave Calgarians a lively, humorous look at the "bold and almost reckless planning" that went into building the railway across Canada. And the "interesting" Canadians that took part in the venture. Canadian history in the last 100 years is "the most dramatic and fascinating" in the world, Berton told combined meeting of the Men's and Women's Canadian Clubs. Berton's appearance netted the Canadian clubs an all-time record audience (former prime minister John Diefen-baker and former Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton were the previous top draw.) Ticket sales were cut off at noon Thursday.

And about 800 people turned out for the noon luncheon with sojne guests arriving as early as 10:30 a.m. Friday to ensure themselves a good seat. The audience heard the names of Canadian history familiar and unfamiliar. Maj. A.

B. Rogers, Sir John A. Macdonald, Michael Haney, James Ross, Tom Wilson, Donald Smith. More important, they heard the "interesting" stories about them. Like the fact Sir John A.

was too drunk to speak when the Pacific Scandal broke. And about the expectoration talents of Maj. Rogers who found the Rogers Pass but framed, instead of cashing, his cheque for the job. And the champagne baths of the 1832 Winnipeg boom. And Michael Haney, who stole entire railway cars full of ties to finish his section of the railway first.

Berton a writer, broadcaster and television personality says he finds fascinating the "quirks of hos-tory." The quirk that Calgary should become a city when it was intended to give Battle-ford that honor. The quirk that Calgary was supposed to be be on the east side of the Elbow River but got picked up "lock, stock and tent" and moved across in a day. Berton has been discovering the quirks and fascinating characters of Canadian history in his research of the past several years for a two book chronicling the history of the railway. The first was published recently, the second is due next year. Prince's Island Lagoon Will Be Open To Skaters He said that a new lighting system is being installed for the Bowness Lagoon skating rink.

Vietnam Aid Sent A $4,870 shipment left Vancouver this week with aid for Vietnamese children. The Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians Group is sending 11 crates of bedding, vitamins, surgical and school supplies, knitting wool, clothing fabric and medical bsoks. During the past three years, the CAVC Children's Committee has contributed $28,000 alone towards artificial limbs for amputees under fifteen years of age. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iimmiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiii Is alcoholism a disease? How can the alcoholic be treated? Is thera a cure? Read the booklet. Alcoholism Hope And Help, by Ann Landers.

Enclose 35 cents in coin with your request and a long, stamped, telf-addressed envelope to Ann Landers, co The Herald. superintendent declared Friday. He said his department is now preparing plans to service the lagoon, including snow clearing, on the same basis as it does the Bowness Lagoon. The latter opened up last year and proved a popular success. "There's going to be skating on the lagoon this winter," said Mr.

Boothman, adding there will be no duplication of the red tape which prevented Calgarians from officially using this recreational amenity last year. Then the provincial water resources division objected to skating, claiming potential ice jams in the Bow River could cause flooding problems in the lagoon area. The city argued otherwise but the battle of words continued until campaign melted away with the ice in the spring. Mr. Boothman said if flooding does seem probable this winter, the proper precautionary steps will be taken to alert skaters of the potential danger.

This winter, Mr. Boothman said the lagoon will replace the public skating rink which was established on the YWCA site in the urban renewal district last winter. He said the lagoon will be for day-time skaters only as no lighting is being provided for evening skating. Also there will be no change rooms, meaning skaters will have to don their blades in the comfort of their cars, or out on a snowbank. i There'll be skating on the Prince's Island lagoon this winter, come the provincial government or high water, Harry Boothman, city parks Shop Talk Conti inues To Grow Shop Talk, the popular consumer column written by The Herald's Mary Biner, will appear daily except Wednesday in the Family Living pages, starting Monday.

The increase to five columns a week from three is in answer to increasing demand for more information on good and bad buys. 'SnGlL'lHQSILES MiLLARVILLE MOTORS 253-9174 Watch For CAT SHACK Opening Days In Mondays Herald V3 This Little Miss Needs A Bit Of Caring Dan LaRocque (Herald Family Living Editor) She's a little girl, just half-past-nine, and she has to walk with the aid of canes. Cerebral Palsy does that to a child. It also makes her co ordination unreliable and her comfort occasional. But it doesn't stop her from laughing a lot, and doing well in school so long as she's able to go.

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PURINGER is assuming the practice at the former location. Telephone: 272-0344 For if the Cerebral Palsy Association can't find this Indian child a foster home immediately, she'll have to return to her reserve home, and school will be out permanently. The woman who called to tell me about this child didn't tell me the little girl's name, and I didn't ask. After all, hasn't every little girl the right to go to school if she wants to? Even with cerebral palsy? I did learn this pretty, vivacious little lady likes to go home every few weekends. And that she goes home for the long holidays.

And that while she misses her family desperately sometimes, she's wise and understands that she can't go to school there. And she so wants to go to school. She Needs Help She's just a mite, and sometimes she needs help with buttons and zippers and all the other things that little girls sometimes have trouble with. But she's eager, and she'll help around the house just as much as she can. She's affectionate and appreciative.

And without a foster home. The Cerebral Palsy Association here provides her transportation to and from school, so that won't pose a problem for anyone who might like to be her school-year parents. There's a stipend for her care, if money's important. And really, she doesn't need much more care than any other little girl at half-past-nine. Time has almost run out this child's chances for an education; social workers at the Cerebral Palsy Clinic are hoping someone calls offering to take her in almost immediately.

A phone call to one any one of the social workers at 289-1311, can give this child the opportunity she so desperately needs and wants. Having to leave school and friends can be tough to understand, for a little girl who's only half-past-nine. RAYMOND SALONS answer to the new fashion freedom! nl So She Did HAMBURG, West Germany (WNS) Inge Lotz, 47, felt humilitated when she saw her husband parading in a Male Liberation demonstration with a sign reading "Strike Now!" "So I struck him," she explained to police who were busy trying to revive the poor fellow, knocked out by the upibrella that he had bought his mate on their wedding anniversary. Offer made possible by these Inglis Trail 259-401 1 ZS. i- To save $10.00 on an INGLIS GAS DRYER Young and free! With a dramatic poise and grace.

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