The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 24

I 24 Friday, September 2, 1977 Ottawa Journal People in the news 1 Catherine gets the orange spot Canada's own Catherine McKlnnon is pushing the Florida orange juice queen, singer Anita Bryant, out of her Cana-. dian commercial spot. Butt the advertising agency handling the Florida Citrus Association account assures us noth- ing is amiss. Bryant's re-placemen by the popular singer has nothing to do with her highly-publicized stand against gay rights in the United States, says ad agency spokesman Roy Madden of Gordon Hill advertising. He said Thursday the Canadian-born McKinnon start appearing in commercials next month.

The reason: because of a ruling by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission calling for 75 per cent Canadian content in all commercials shown in this country. "We decided oh this a year ago we had to because of the CRTC ruling," "Madden with everything HENRY FORD old habits die hard Henry Ford II suffered a heart attack almost two years ago and sound advice given by his doctor at the time: "Cut out smoking." Well, the chairman I of the Ford Motor Co. will be 60 on Sunday and he's still puffing away. He was pictured, left, during a news conference this week. Like the saying, you can't teach an old dog new tricks i The first question posed to Nixon in his A X.

A if' fmiiiwi in ii iii mi CATHERINE comes in that's happened recently, the timing just looks bad." Bryant's reputation has somewhat ebbed in some quarters, because of her successful campaign to repeal an1 ordinance interview with David Frost this year was monotonous: "Why didn't you burn those damn tapes?" The disgraced former U. S. president spent 27 minutes answering, but it was cut from the four 90-minute programs shown in May and saved for an encore program that will be televised starting Sunday. In the fifth Nixon will also give his theory on the gap in a crucial gate tape. The program is a polliick spread of leftovers, ranging from the tapes to John and Martha "The Mouth" Mitchell (remember to the opening of relationships with China and to' Nixon's dealings with the press.

And the wife of one of the other president's. men has jumped to the support of her husband. Joanne llaldeman her husband is II. R. (Bob) llaldeman has denied reports that his forthcoming book contains a story about Nixon, silting nude in the Oval office at the White House.

"He's telling all, but that nudity story is a complete fabrication," she said. The author isn't commenting. He's serving time for lying to the Watergate grand jury. AP Photo Ethel Waters dies Singer-actress Ethel Waters, 80, whose career encompassed the Broadway stage, Hollywood films and the world of gospel music, has died after a long illness. She had suffered high blood pressure, diabetes and a weak heart.

A friend, Cy Jackson, said Waters died at the home of a friend, Thursday. Waters broke into acting in the 1924 Broadway musical Plantation Review, the show in which she introduced the iazz classic Dinah. She made an art form of singing the blues, and with a deep, smoky-voiced intonation made famous such blues-iazz hits as Am I Blue and Stormy Weather. Though she made severdl fortunes, the singer spent the last years of her life in near poverty. Other deaths REGINA Bevan Kenneth James Lawson, 71, world pioneer in water safety and best known for his contribution to Red Cross and Royal Lifesaving Society Instructions, Wednesday.

NEW YORK Charles Men, 81, influential editorial page writer of the New York Times who co-authored with Walter Lippmann The United States in World Affairs, Wednesday." SAN DIEGO Howard Taylor, 67,. former managing editor of the San Diego Union and a man noted as an innovator of newspaper makeup, Wednesday. ANITA BRYANT goes out concerning homosexuals in Dade County, Fla. She led the movement and immediately became a controversial figure and the target -of numerous demonstrations by7 homo- r- sexuals in the United States. Ex-Hollywood movie, queen Grace Kelly, now Princess Grace of Monaco, leaves Sunday for a visit to Philadelphia, the American home of her familyA palace spokesman had no'TfHails ofa whether her highness would be accompanied by her husband.

Prince Ranter or children. Now here's a bit of sober information. A British doctor sayV elderly folk would probably be better off taking a few shots of whisky before going to bed, rather than pills. Dr. William Maclen-nan, a geriatric specialist at Southampton University, says hitting the bottle would likely have a more-benficial effect than barbiturates, which causes -confusion among our senior citizens.

yhile Shatner rallies over grapes Canadian actor William Shatner says' he lias accept-, ed an invitation to be marshal of the 1977 Niagara Grape and Wine Festival Grand Parade this month. The Star Trek television series star will be in St. Catharines, Ont. for several days during the Sept. 16-25 'festival, which attracts more than visitors.

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