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He was up early to drive with water from curb to curb. Several ple, was littered with branches from the around Taber, checking the damage. vehicles were stalled in the streets. At poplars along the lot's western edge. The storm was mostly costly to farm­ ers in the area. Damaged crops — some with lOOpei'-cent damage — can be seen up to 30 kilometres out of Taber, in com­ munities such as Vauxhall, Chin, and Crop damage Fincastle: Today, hail was still in piles 10 centi­ metres deep in some yards, but not visi­ ble two or three houses away. The wind picked up a fifth-wheel 100per cwt camper unit, owned by Tony and Diane: Zilinski, and put it down in the garden next door. Two fences were flattenedby 19i the $20,000 unit, which the Zilinskis have had for three years. _ in some areas The storm destroyed a large maplenJefi By RIC SWIHART his farm guage recorded. tree that provided shade for Morrirfgjj of The Herald "It is pretty bad," said Perl. "It looks Thompson's patio. >t\» Rural and urban residents in the like all the corn is gone in our area, "Bert (Thompson's wife) says not tdQgg Municipal District of Taber are mop­ and all the row crops have had it." worry, but you do," said Thompson. 9^ ping up after gale-force winds, heavy He said sugar beet crops were flat­ " I had noticed some shoots on the tree rain and pea-sized hail wrecked a path tened, but he expects many of the plants I'd have to cut. I guess I won't have to of destruction along Highway 3 Wednes­ to recover. Yields will be hard hit as bother with them any more." day evening. plants will have to develop new leaves Damage to Thompson's Ford dealer­ Farmers and provincial agriculture to allow root development to proceed. ship, Superior Motors, was limited to officials contacted by The Herald today Carole Rex, district agriculturist for water that drained in a west door, and a said damage ranges to 100 per cent on the Municipal District of Taber, said broken sign. A fluorescent ballast was a wide variety of crops. the damage extended at least 25 kilo­ hanging from the sign by its connecting •At least three centre pivot irrigation metres on a southwest-northeast wires by the time the storm ended. sprinkler systems collapsed, and one direction. Next door to Thompson's home, Rick farmer said, "There are wheel move Damage in the centre of the storm Ilczynski said he expected to spend the systems all over the country." was 100 per cent, ranging down to 30 whole day cleaning his yard. Damage The heart of the storm started about per cent on either side. included two large poplars that were three kilometres southwest of Taber, She said the most damage was north knocked over, wiping out a new section proceeding east-northeast on an eight- of Fincastle. of hedge. to 10-kilometre wide path to a point east "Sandy Hills Stock Farm really got it Tom Saunders was at a ball game of Purple Springs. bad," said Rex. when the storm hit. By the time he got Keith McCullock, who farms two kilo­ She said crops with 30 to 50 per cent home, he had trouble finding his drive­ metres south of Fincastle, said he was damage "will come back, although they way, and the wind was rocking his on the south edge of the storm, yet feels will be late." truck. damage to barley fields will be 80 to 85 Potato and sugar beet crops will also Herald photos by DAVE OBEE He said the storm "came in real SNOW FIGHTS IN JULY... One some of the hail that fell on Taber per cent. recover, she said. fast", and could be seen beforehand as coming to some Bodily (sorry) harm at "It was one of the worst storms we A torrential downpour was reported a dark cloud with a lighter one beneath minute, Melvin Bodily, 8, and his Wednesday evening. The next the hands of his brother. The two have ever had," said McCullock. "The at Pincher Station, forcing cars to vir­ it. The clouds were almost at ground six-year-old brother Kenneth were minute, thanks to the photographer's boys, from Twin Falls, Idaho, an hail wasn't that big, but the wind with it tually stop as windshield wipers level in some areas. posing for a photographer, showing evil sense of humor, Kenneth was visiting relatives in Taber. was terrific." couldn't clear water from windows andj He said the damage appeared worse puddles formed on the pavement. ' further north into the eye of the storm. Jim Hahn of Lethbridge, caught on Peter Hooge, whose son farms north the highway, said he ftipn't seen such a of Purple Springs, said, "You name it heavy rain. and it came down." Mike Cooper, who farms north of the He said the heavy winds caused as Oldman River near Pincher Creek, said much damage as the hail, with reports it seemed like about 30 centimetres oi of 80 per cent loss in most cereal water flowed through his farmyard. t crops. Al Toly of Claresholm, district agri It demolished car windows and culturist for the Municipal District ol 'uprooted trees in Taber and created Willow Creek, said there was only s havoc in many farm yards between light rain in the town, and no hail dam Taber and Purple Springs. age had been reported to 10 a.m. Hooge said any hay crops which had not been cut were stripped of all leaves, Kerry Colborne of Bow Island; dis leaving stalks standing. "The first cut­ trict agriculturist for the northern pan ting of hay that was standing at the time of the County of Forty Mile, said there of the storm was pretty well lost." were heavy winds, but little rain and n< Tony Perl, who farms three kilome­ hail. tres east of Taber, said any hay in wind­ Tiny Hankinson of Lethbridge, man rows can be salvaged, although it was ager of Eimpress Foods Ltd., the earl} beaten into the ground, making pick-up assessment is that there will not b. operations more difficult. extensive damage to the vegetable * • m d d — otuu oaies leu UJ un. ...'._ „-jps ma urtu__ee»_3> <*_.« cans in Leth up much of the 6.5 centimetres of rain bridge and Taber. d m &

JOE CLARK JOHN CROSBIE BRIAN MULRONEY Final look at candidates m The Tory leader­ ship race is winding & down, with the party's delegates gathering in Ottawa today to start selec­ tion of their new d leader. The Herald today presents an 2. llth-hour look at the eight candidates in MICHAEL WILSON the race. Please see pages C8,9. P. POCKLINGTON * !<_____ d n* d A COUNTRY ROAD just west of evening. Crop insurance Taber is littered with debris from trees representatives are still assessing the . *lf r* after a high winds, hail and rain swept damage from the storm, which cut a through the area Wednesday wide swath through the region. w D amage could hit _K 4 DAVID CROMBIE NEIL FRASER JOHN GAMBLE $400,000 - d without crops 4 TABER — Over $100,000 damage out following the storm repairing the caused by Wednesday's thunderstorm, system. He said crews are out today which dumped about 35 millimetres of cleaning up. rain and hail on the Taber area, have David Irving of TransAlta Utilities in been reported to insurance companies Lethbridge said the company suffered today. widespread damage from. the High winds are reported to have des­ storm.which caused a number of power troyed irrigation equipment, knocked outages in the area. He said crews from down several business signs, toppled Lethbridge and Vauxhall have been trees, destroyed gardens and ripped called in to assist Taber crews with res­ shingles off houses, while large toring services. Some customers have amounts of rain caused flooding and the been without power for 12 hours, but 3. town's sewer system to back up. > Irving said all services should be res­ Mike Saunders of Saunders Insurance tored today. in Taber said his office has received A Paramount Life Insurance Com­ damage reports totalling about pany spokesman said one farmer has $100,000, with more reports still coming reported 100 per cent damage to grain in. He said the total cost of damage to crops. the area will probably rise over the Police Chief W.J. Wright said no $400,000 mark, excluding crop dam­ injuries or vehicle accidents were age. reported, but saids several large busi­ He said the damage reports are ness signs had been blown over by the m "pretty widespread", with the major­ wind. ity of residents reporting wind and rain "These signs were perhaps the most damage. hazardous," Wright said. "The large m A spokesman for Robinson Insurance ones just catch the wind." Agencies of Taber said damage reports A spokesman for Kenyan Field « have been coming in steadily all morn­ Weather Office said no exact figures of ing, but an estimation of the damages rain or wind were available this morn­ was not available this morning. ing, but said pea-size hailstones were Town Manager John Madison said the reported to have swept through Taber. sewer system could not handle the large Winds reached an estimated 100 km per amount of rain which caused the sys­ hour, with a rainfall of 30 to 40 milli­ m tem to back up. Emergency crews were metres. s m Singing tribute to Burns d 3eorge Brown, veteran Lethbridge celebrate the "immortal memor baritone and broadcaster, honors Saturday in First United Church m Bobbie Burns in song at a program Lethbridge. Df music, dancing and verse to Herald photoJ>yJOE_GA m m m ^

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randy hill, sun MAYOR RALPH KLEIN and family celebrate his overwhelming victory in the mayoral contest. , June _0, 1983 The life of Brian By TERRY COLLINS Ottawa Bureau TTAWA — In the heady days of this past week, new Tory leader Martin Brian Mulroney has been dubbed O"Canada's savior" and even "a Hollywood dream come true." Editorialists have hailed him as the man who can arrange the longed-for marriage of right and left, French and English, East and West, and transform the Tories into a truly national party. Many Canadians probably also delighted all week in such headlines as: "Mulroney worst possible choice for public ser­ vice—unionist," and stories about wor­ ried bureaucrats rushing to buy his timely paperback, Where I Stand, the profits from which will go to charity. He looks like a film star, sounds like a hypnotist and exudes amazing self-assur­ ance for a party leader whose experience in the House of Commons consists of watching from the visitors' gallery. False bravado? He's certainly got a lot of people fooled if it is. Mulroney's rags-to-riches story has been reprinted at length since his victory as the media rushed to cre­ ate Canada's hottest new celebrity. Mulroney himself says: "Suffice it to say, I am the third of six children of an electrician and his wife from Baie Comeau, on Quebec's North Shore, and my wife Mila and I have three children." "Brian's my best friend," says Mila, daughter of a Yugoslavian-born psychiatrist. She met dashing 33-year-old bachelor Brian when she was 19 by the pool at the Mount Royal Tennis club. Their whirlwind romance and marriage ended her engi­ neering studies. But at 29, she has her hands full mothering three children and cheerleading the new Tory chieftain. e's popular with those he works with, he quit drinking Scotch (and devoted himself to Per- Hrier) when he set his sights on a second run for the leadership, and he's said to have a weakness for kids. Some of his strongest political alliances were deve­ loped during his undergraduate days at St. Francis Xavier University and later at Laval University law school. University friends and fellow political activists such as Pat MacAdam, Michael Meighen and Michel Cogger all played major roles in Mulroney's victory . last weekend. -drew gragg, The Ottawa Citizen After graduation, Mulroney's planned political MULRONEY with his wife Mila and their three kids, Benedict, 7, Caroline, 9, and Mark, 4. career was cut short by the death of his father, Ben, despite the bitter battle just past, there would be no The Grits are skeptical, having wrestled with the in 1964. Mulroney decided to pursue law, becoming a purge of Clark supporters. same idealism and deciding to keep sensitive partner with the Montreal law firm of Ogilvy, Ren­ He has deferred policy questions to established detailed information out of the public domain for ault. party spokesmen and declined to accept the resigna­ competitive reasons. His first major break came in 1974 with his tions offered by several of Clark's key loyalists. They also feel some of the tough talk about letting appointment as a commissioner on Quebec's high- Changes will be made, of course, but Mulroney has Crown corporations sink in a sea of red ink may profile Cliche Commission. That won him widespread been sensitive enough to give the old guard sufficient mellow if and when the Tories get their hands on all fame in Quebec for his tough questioning of wit­ time to sober up from a massive political hangover the information available to the government. nesses. to the realization they've been beaten. His performance, together with an impressive and There are some striking similarities between lengthy track record as a backroom Tory organizer, He also knows that he needs to win many of those Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau — and they reportedly gave him sufficient credibility to be the frontrunning people as allies if his party is to defeat a powerful like each oth£r. candidate at the Tory leadership convention of 1976. Liberal army, quietly standing at ease and preparing One report this week had it that after the 1976 Tory for the upcoming general election battle. leadership race, Trudeau tried to convert Mulroney Badly bruised by his upset loss to Joe Clark that to Liberalism during a private dinner at 24 Sussex year, Mulroney left the national political scene for a ulroney's most urgent task is to win the Nova job with Iron Ore of Canada in 1977. Drive. Scotia seat vacated voluntarily by Tory MP Now the two men have met for the first time as politi­ As executive vice-president, and later as president, Elmer MacKay. cal foes in the House of Commons. Mulroney overcame crippling labor problems and If he wins, he'll automatically replace Erik Nielsen Trudeau rose to heap his brand of praise on the continued to demonstrate a knack for making things as opposition leader and inherit a salary of $105,600 man who would be king and Mulroney's cool facade happen. (the same wage enjoyed by Speaker Jeanne Sauve seemed to wilt just a little. ompany profits tripled to $124 million between and all Liberal cabinet ministers). "I hope," Trudeau said with the trace of a smile, 1977 and 1981 under his presidency and a phi­ He'll also win the right to live rent-free in Stor­ "that his party will soon find occasion to permit him losophy that "no one works for you anymore. naway, the government-owned Rockliffe mansion to contest a seat so we can enjoy his presence also He either works with you or he does not work at residence of the opposition leader, presently occu­ as a member of the House of Commons." all." pied by Clark. As he says in his book, "in 1981, we signed 14 During the leadership race, Mulroney spelled out he remark sounded pleasant enough on the sur­ collective agreements covering all our employees at some refreshing ideas on government administra­ face. But it also served to skewer the Tories a cost well within acceptable financial parameters. tion. for choosing an unelected politician and "These difficult tasks were achieved with an abso­ For example: "My starting point on the issue of seemed to be a sly indication that the Grits can't lute minimum of acrimony and in an atmosphere government spending is freedom of information. wait for a crack at him. which would not have been conceivable three years "We cannot even begin to come to grips with this Mulroney lifted a microphone away from his ear earlier." problem unless and until the books of government and appeared to repeat the words in order to have an : Even when the Iron Ore Co. ruined the Quebec are opened up so that we all can see what is being appropriate facial comeback. There wasn't one. town of Schefferville by closing its mine there, done with the cash." Whatever Trudeau intended, he summarized Mulroney managed to walk away with the praise and He also pledged to "ensure that there is public Mulroney's situation today. appreciation of his displaced workers for getting accountability of all Crown corporations to Parlia­ The Tory leader has a lot left to prove to his them a generous compensation package. ment. caucus, to the Liberals and to the nation. It has been interesting to watch Mulroney apply "They must be made directly responsible to our However anyone able to wrestle the Tory leader­ that successful business style to the delicate task of elected representatives for the handling of our ship — and probably the prime ministership — away taking over his new political responsibilities. money. And they must be subject to the same penal­ from his tenacious and bulldog-determined rival Joe Mulroney has spent much of his time in private ties and consequences as the rest of us, if they fail to Clark, has to be credited with an impressive begin­ ~**etinj<_5_ cautiously: reassuring the status auo that produce with efficiency and^__noniy."_ ning. „---..<

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A right Royal treat for all you moms d d d Queen c e- a- e- for a c- m> day

First, she was a radiant teenager. Then a fairy princess, the beautiful & young woman who would be Queen. But to 10-month-old Crown Prince William, she's just mommy. That fact alone brings Princess Diana down to earth. & When she's kiss- ing away his tears, changing Thrills his nappies, or anxiously watch­ with ing him take his first, tentative steps, there's very Wills little difference • Prince Charles between the Prin­ (top) gives Wills a €_ cess of Wales and helping hand to stand loving moms the as Diana lovingly world over. looks on. • Proud poppa m And there's no tickles his toddler doubt Diana is a ••:•;..'«: doting mother. during a break in the couple's recent Aus­ Unlike those who tralian visit. m came before her, • As every moth­ she's one Royal er knows, children €, who stands her need room to grow. ground — just So Wills crawls away about everywhere from mom and dad on she goes, Wills a little private ex- goes with her. e. Certainly, her riches and glamor set her apart from many. But for anyone _. who's responded to the tearful cry, "mommy", she's just one of the girls. You're all royalty — and on this €- Mother's Day, you're all Queens for a Day. Just like Princess Diana. d SEE CAROL STEIN, PAGE 32.

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Siie's dancing up a storm TORONTO - Teri-Jo Ully is Dancing is nothing new for Teri- on a year's sabattical leave from dancing up a storm. Jo who started when she was Studio-One, dancing profession­ The 21-year-old Lethbridge per­ three. ally with the Brian Foley Com­ former is a member of the Edmon­ "Mom was a professional pany. ton-based troupe Synergy, part of dancer in England and the family Principal teachers Joanne Flan- the entertainment package at the operated Lakeview School of igan of Toronto and Kim Docherty Alberta Pavilion at the Canadian Dance in Lethbridge for years," of New York have been contracted National Exhibition. says the University of Alberta stu­ for the new season with Studio One This is Synergy's first year at dent who is entering her last year to broaden the spectrum of dance the Ex and dancers Judy Cham­ of business and commerce. in the city. bers, Teresa Proskurniak, Bill "Five years ago my sister Kim "I have been practising a couple Robertson, Dalyce Robertson and took over the operation and ren­ of times a day for two to three Teri-Jo never fail to get a large amed the school Studio One." hours at a time and the school is crowd to watch their highly ener­ When Teri-Jo is not travelling, very good so I am not only learn­ getic show. dancing professionally or attend­ ing but enjoying myself," she "We took six weeks to put the ing school, she pitches in with says. show together and another three some instructional work at Studio "I teach dance at the Edmonton weeks of rehearsing prior to mak­ One. Step by Step School of Dance when ing the trip," says Teri-Jo, her big, "My other sister Lori (Ully- I am there and I have an aerobics brown eyes glistening. "It is quite Chell) operates the Silhouette class at the Riverbend Racquet- rewarding to have good crowds Academy of Modelling back home ball Club," says Teri-Jo. stop and watch us because it and hopefully^ a few years down makes you feel like all the work the road . . .'" says the 5-foot-5 More travel is possible for her was worth it." and Synergy as the group works on dancer hesitant to finish the sen­ a Middle East tour for 1984 and a The troupe does four free shows tence. trip to Alaska this Christmas. daily for three weeks, with such "Well let's just say we are hope­ numbers as Courtyard Shag from ful to do something pretty big "The travel is definitely one of The Best Little Whorehouse in along the lines of a performing the main fringe benefits of this Texas and Far From Over from arts school." profession. I am enjoying this trip the movie Staying Alive getting While in Toronto, Teri-Jo is visit­ very much and am also looking the audience tapping their feet. ing and dancing with Kim who is forward to the others."

TERI-JO ULLY, bottom left, appears with Synergy^ Wilf Carter: t 50 years a balladeer^ From Canadian Press new cuts, but mostly the ing his career, plus a his­ _ . There are few country album is a retrospective tory of his life. singers who can rightly of his long, distinguished be called legends, but As a singer, Carter has career, and the songs only an adequate voice, Wilf Carter is definitely present a good cross-sec­ £* one. This year the 78- although as his producer, tion of Carter's music Jack Feeney, says in the year-old cowboy balla- over the last five dec­ deer is celebrating his liner notes: "Wilf's voice ades. is still strong and steady 50th anniversary as a Highlights include The recording artist. and a shade lower, which Capture of Albert John­ serves to enhance the RCA, the company he son, You Are My Sun­ signed with in 1933, has quality of his perfor­ shine, The Old Rugged mance." marked the occasion by Cross, When It's Spring­ releasing a two-record While that's true, the time in the Rockies, I real magic to Carter's set containing 24 songs want to Be a Cowgirl's that span his career. singing is his glowing, Sweetheart, There's a warm personality that Entitled 50 Golden Bluebird on Your Win­ Years, the album opens comes through every dow Sill, My Old Cana­ note. He thoroughly with the title track, a new dian Home, The Fate of Carter composition enjoys each song, most of e_ Old Strawberry Roan which were written and recorded with some of and When it's Apple Blos­ Toronto's best studio performed' in the tradi­ som Time in Annapolis tional style before coun­ musicians, none of whom Valley. was born when the sec­ try and folk music went ond cut, My Swiss Moon­ Some songs were their separate ways. •__ light Lullaby, was recorded with Carter It's not likely you'll recorded in 1933. solo; other feature hear much of this album g^ There are a few other backup musicians. on "Canadian" country Inside the attractive radio, because it won't fit ^^ fold-out album jacket, the American sound of *** there are photos illustrat­ today's stations.

PIERRE AND MAGGIE! *_- Shocked at the reports that Pierre Trudeau and wife Margaret are finally going to be splitsville? Maggie, as you've heard, is quoted in an Ottawa newspaper as saying "I'd like things settled" with a divorce. _____ Pity. They were a perfect pair. She's a rag, a bone and a hank of hair. He's a brag, a groan and a tank of COWBOY RECORDING ARTIST air! He's a has-been, and she's a been-had. The Page secretly knows they're still madly in love — she with . . . legend in traditional mode CP „serP_t. herself and he with himself!

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Maggie files for divorce —worth — _* TORONTO (CP) - Margaret Tru­ deau has filed for a no-fault divorce repeating from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, six years after the couple separated fol­ lowing months of sensational headlines • • I heard from my cat's £_. dealing with her jet-setting exploits. lawyer . . . My cat wants The petition, filed Wednesday in Toronto, asks for a divorce on the $12,000 a week for grounds of long-term separation, said Tender Vittles.99 Mrs. Trudeau's lawyer, Michael Levine of Goodman and Goodman, a Toronto Johnny Carson, law firm. quip on Tonight Show In Ontario, a divorce may be granted Related story on C6. after a three-year separation. The prime minister, a devout Roman Catholic, is not expected to contest the divorce, which could take up to a year to go through, Levine said in an interview Wednesday night. "He has his rights, but I don't antici­ pate that he will contest it," the lawyer said. ) The prime minister will not appear in court, Levine said. "Only the petitioner is required to be in court." Mrs. Trudeau, 35, who has dated Fried Kemper, a wealthy Ottawa real estate man, for several months, is not planning to remarry, the lawyer said. '' > - Neither Trudeau nor his estranged MARGARET TRUDEAU wife planned to comment oh the divorce The petition apparently has not yet petition. been served on the prime minister, ^'It's a strictly personal matter," scheduled to leave for Japan today on Qs Levine said. the second leg of his peace mission. Qs Qg

Qs THE REAL ELVIS Setting record straight By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Priscilla Presley, Elvis' former wife, is writing a book to set the record straight once and for all about the rock idol whose life and times have been distorted by quick-buck biographers. Priscilla, unlike the beauty Elvis married in others, is not motivated by Germany during his stint in profit. the Army. Financially independent Today she wears her for life thanks to the terms streaked hair loose, framing of Elvis' will, she has grown a naturally beautiful face. increasingly distraught by She is poised, shrewd and fictionalized accounts of the self-protective after a couple legendary singer. of decades of exposure to She has read 16 books on hustlers unsuccessfully bent his life and finds them mis­ on exploiting the Presley leading — filled with errors, name. prejudice and fiction. She is careful to keep her "Writing this book is not residence a secret and has something I want to do," managed to keep daughter Priscilla said the other day. ELVIS PRESLEY Lisa Marie, 1, away from "And it hasn't been easy. hurt by biographies cameras. "I feel compelled to write it because In addition to 'working slowly to advance there has been so much misunderstanding, an actng career', Priscilla is kept busy as damage and injustice that somehow has to executor of the Presley estate. be corrected. So I've taken the "It took me five years to open up Grace- responsibility. land to the public," Priscilla says. "I've always said I would never write "People tend to forget it was my home, such a book, but after reading other books I too, for twelve years. I run the operation can't allow Elvis to go down in history there. It's been a wonderful project and based on those books as acceptable refer­ pays for itself. It has taken a lot of my ence-material. time." * "Silence on my part "would amount to an She has also devoted much of her time to endorsement. That would be the easy way Lisa, about whom she is determinedly pro­ out for me. tective. Priscilla wants Lisa to lead as nor­ "The truth is, I was there and knew all mal a life as possible considering the the reasons for what Elvis did and how he circumstances. felt. He was badly hurt by the books pub­ Priscilla is equally determined to prove lished about him when he was alive. herself in Dallas. "Writing this book is very difficult be­ "It's the most demanding acting I've cause I am essentially a very private per­ done," she says. "Joining the cast, which son. The book will be published next year." has been together for six years, is like join­ She divorced Elvis 10 years ago. The sing­ ing a family. I was afraid I might be re­ er died at age 42, six years ago, of a drug sented as the new girl on the block, which is related heart seizure. what I lived with as the daughter of an Since that time Priscilla has kept a low Air Force officer when I was a kid. profile while attempting to establish her­ "But the cast has made me feel at home. self in show business — no easy feat. They've been supportive and friendly, espe­ She was co-host for the short-lived Those cially Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy and Mor­ Amazing Animals TV series. She appeared gan Brittany. I already knew Larry Hag- with Michael Landon in the TV movie, Love man and that helped.'' is Forever, and in a guest role in The Fall Guy. Her visibility will be greater this year now that Priscilla has joined the cast of It ain't easy Dallas in the role of Genna Wade, a divor­ cee with a 12-year-old daughter and former PRISCILLA PRESLEY says she has flame of Bobby Ewing, further complicat­ dreaded writing the story of his life ing the romantic peccadillos of scandal­ with Elvis, but feels she must to count­ ous oil millionaires. In the public eye, Priscilla is remem­ er 'prejudice and error'. bered best as the lacquer-haired teenage

Divorce in the wind so Maggie can wed FRIED KEMPER MAGGIE TRUDEAU OTTAWA (CP) — The Citizen says ment. She said she wants to end the agreement and future divorce - would Prime Minister Trudeau and his marriage and hopes to wed Fried be published, it said. estranged wife, Margaret, are close to a Kemper, a wealthy real estate man she "I should have learned my lesson," permanent separation which she hopes has been dating for several months, the she is quoted as saying. "This is none of could lead to a divorce and allow her to newspaper says. your business. . . It's very unjust, very remarry. A spokesman from the prime minis­ typical." Margaret said Monday that negotia­ ter's office said simply: "we have no She said there was nothing to report tions with her husband on a separation comment." until an agreement to end the marriage agreement are close to being resolved, Margaret refused to come to the door was reached, the newspaper said. the newspaper says. later to speak to reporters about the Reports that she hopes to end the mar­ She said that once agreement is story. riage could jeopardize the negotiations, reached, divorce would be a very sim­ The Citizen said Margaret called Margaret said. ple step, the Ottawa newspaper says. back following the interview Monday The. Citizen reported during the inter­ Margaret has lived apart from the and asked the newspaper not to use the view that Margaret said the negotia­ prime minister for more than six years story. It was made clear to her that the tions took so long because she had "pro­ under a temporary separation agree­ subject of the interview - her separation crastinated." .___. -ai IUO-1 ¥,'

RALPHS FAMILY TREE! Wanna know something about Ralph Klein's Dad? Here's a little-known tidbit about Phil Klein, thanks to Stampede Rasslin' poo- bahStuHart! "Phil was quite a guy," Stu tells The Page. "He used to referee fights for me, and he was one of the best. And he was &* BIG!" How big was he? "His hands were huge. I'll always re­ %* member those hands! He was about twice the size of Ralph. And he was in great shape!" Gasp! Twice Ralph's size! Call Ri­ pley's Believe It Or Not! &*

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__i Herald photo by JANET ROGER Colleen Hunter readies (from left) John, Samantha and Russell for Halloween while boyfriend Cai Connors looks on Want-ad boyfriend wins Colleen's heart By KATHY GANNON An appearance on Canada AM Of The Herald generated some interest from a The boy down the street won Col­ Canadian millionaire who promised leen Hunter's heart. to land his helicopter in her back But competition was heavy. yard when he returned from a trip to Hunter, who was trying to raise the United States. The helicopter :hree children, found herself cut off never arrived, but Hunter said "I welfare, unable to find a decent-pay­ thought it was kinda cute." ing job and without a husband. She At the other end of the financial decided to go in search of the lat­ scale, Hunter met a young man who ter. was unemployed and undergoing A personal advertisement in The physiotherapy for injuries received Herald earlier this year caught the in an industrial accident. The two imagination of the national news struck up an immediate friendship media and Hunter's search soon but "I couldn't marry him" because became Canada-wide news. For he could not support her or the chil­ about two months a steady stream dren. of men filed through her life ranging Although she has found a boy­ from men with millions of dollars to friend, the two have remained men with nothing but a little money friends.'* to send flowers faithfully once a "I keep in touch with a couple of month. them," she says. Twenty-six-year-old Hunter says The exposure opened Hunter's she hasn't yet made the trek down eyes. She said she was amazed at the the aisle but is happily looking to the number of men who were raising future with a boyfriend who was a their children alone. childhood friend. The two lost touch "There are more women out there with each other and when Hunter leaving their children with men." and her search made front page Few were raising infants and news, her childhood friend employed Hunter speculated women who have with Lethbridge Cablenet asked her endured the "hardest" years of late to appear on a fund-raising telethon. night and early morning feedings, One thing led to another and soon a crying and changing diapers have romance blossomed. decided against motherhood." -toronto sun Admitting she "had no idea what "I had all these men phoning need­ BRIAN AND MILA Mulroney both campaigned for Brian's first seat in the House. would happen" when she decided to ing housekeepers," she said. run the advertisement, Hunter said One of the prospects was a father "if I had it my way I would have my of six or seven children, but Hunter, whole life consisting of those few raising three of her own decided a months." household of nine or 10 children was The flood of phone calls, letters too hectic. The children were 11 and and proposals reinforced Hunter's under. faith in the majority. She wasn't Although the majority of corre­ anticipating problems and with the spondence was from prospective exception of one phone call she husbands, Hunter said there were a didn't encounter any. few offering support. Both men and The lone problem call came from women were calling, congratulating an elderly man who wanted to meet her for her courage. There were no her children at the outset. Hunter negative comments. . . "not a one." refused. She said her children were Her notoriety, although it is sub­ not introduced to any prospective dued, continues to follow her as the husbands until she had the chance to occasional person stops her and asks get to know them. "aren't you the woman in the news­ "I had to take precautions," she paper?" said. Hunter began receiving her wel­ The relationship ended with that fare payments again and is now phone call. looking at attending business school. "Our personalities clashed right She has already completed an away," she said. "I met so many upgrading course as well as a one- hundreds of people and none were year drafting course at the college. rude, except the one. I had several "It was super," Hunter said of her a* propositions, but that is only to be adventure. " I would do it all over expected." again." !•_ Kenny Rogers is cashing in his Hollywood chips By COLIN DANGAARD Kenny's mother, a dainty white-haired Millions of dollars a month, fabulous lady, is sitting by the window a few mansions, private jets, ranches, limou­ seats away. She lives in Crocket, sines, furs, jewelry, a beautiful woman, Texas. a velvet voice, a newborn son — and a (Later, the old lady will say she is past of patched jeans. "mighty glad that boy is goin' back to These are the ingredients at play in the farm", and that she "could never the rise and fall of supersinger Kenny understand what he saw in Hollywood Rogers, The Gambler who sang "Know anyway.") When To Fold 'em, Know When To Hold "I regret nothing," says Rogers. "I 'em". enjoyed everything I bought — and now Today Kenny Rogers, at 45 one of I'm going to enjoy selling it. I'm just the highest paid entertainers in the going to put the money in the bank — world, is cashing in his Hollywood chips and go fishing. and heading back to the farm in Geor­ "I realized that in order to maintain gia. the pace I have set, of always re-invest­ But, they'll not be roughing it. ing, I must work non-stop. The spread is called Beaver Dam "I have made a value judgment in Farms and it comes with an 8,000- may life, and I am happy with it. I square-foot Grecian style house. There have made up my mind." is a wraparound Italian marble porch, a The move by Rogers rocked the 60-foot living room, reflective glass entertainment industry, triggering French doors, fountains, multi-level rumors that he was going broke, a vic­ swimming pools (and that IS plural). tim of over-spending that made head­ "It's just not worth it any more," lines. says the man who, in records alone, Kenny kind of grins at that, his eyes has earned up to $6 million a month. twinkling. "I hope it's not true," he "Things have gotten too compli­ says. "I should check it out, I guess. I cated." don't know who starts these stories. Up for sale are three Hollywood man­ Seems a man can't change his mind sions, two office blocks and a studio. anymore without being suspect! On the schedule is a fishing .-ip to "I think my reasons are pretty log­ Alaska, time to romp on tt-. iawn with ical, and I am happy with them." two-year-old Christopb __ Cody Rogers (Kenny's mother will also say that KENNY ROGERS: headin' back to the farm and nights alor.c with beautiful he was "always a gambler, takin' Marianne making the dinner, and chances; a dreamer, mat boy, but he "One day he came home'n told us tion would never end if but suddenly, in Kenny there doing the dessert, just as never gave us trouble ...") he knew more than all them profes­ 1976, the group split. they did back in the struggling days. The train chugs up a grade, and the sors, and he was quittin'. There was "It was snatched out from under "We need to re-discover the pure hap­ smell of fresh-cut timber fills the cabin; nothin' we could do. About broke my me," Rogers recalls. "It made me real­ piness we once knew," he says, adding: Kenny's nose turns on it, and he heart, it did...") ize how tentative success really is. You "And that's something all the money ir. launches into stories about his grand­ Kenny had made a move on his own just can't have it under control. the world cannot buy." father, who owned a mill just like that, and it left a profound impact. Forever "You can plan though. You can make Rogers is talking here on an old way out in the Texas wilderness. after he would try to prove to his par­ options." steam train chugging through the hills The move by Rogers closes a chap­ ents that he was right. The plan Rogers made was to work of Northern California, where he is ter in a classic story of Hollywood He left the high school do-wop band solo, to give it all he had, and soon the making "The Gambler, Part II", for empire building, executed with incredi­ and played bass and sang with a reg­ options were generated by the phenom­ CBS. ble speed, unbridled ambition, passion ular jazz group, further disappointing enal increase in revenue. Marianne is up in another carriage and a gambling instinct that makes this his mom by growing a beard and letting Hit singles like "Lucille" were fol­ with Christopher Cody. Lucille, man truly a high roller. his hair down to his shoulders. lowed by a solid line of platinum — One of eight children to a worker in He was a most unlikely candidate for "Everytime Two Fools Collide", "Day­ a Houston shipyard, Rogers didn't know success as a singer. Wanda Stovall, who time Friends", "The Gambler", jeans came without holes until he went sang with him in high school, in the "Kenny", "Coward of the County" ... to school — and then he was shattered to Quadratones, says she "never thought . Now the revenue was in millions a find that poverty made him different. he would make it — just wasn't classy month, with the empire so large it He dreamed his way through classes, enough." needed 100 people to run it. (At one got down to work in high school and Others describe him as a "prankster" point this year, he had 172 on staff.) became the first in his family tree to and a "dreamer"; a kid who used his In Beverly Hills, he paid $14.5 mil­ actually graduate. Two months into col­ charm to launch the love songs he so lion for the fabulous Dino Le Lauren- lege, he quit, this time shattering his favored. tiis mansion, the largest sale ever in parents. Almost immediately out of high the U.S. for a private home. Across (As his mom will say: "Kenny's school Kenny Rogers achieved a life­ town he picked up a couple of office daddy and I worked so hard to get that long ambition to earn more money in buildings. Nearby he bought another boy into college. I worked nights at St. one week than his father — $100. mansion for $9.1 million. For a Maiibu Joseph's hospital, and dad worked dur­ "That," he says now, "was the first beach pad, he paid $3.9 million. In ing the day in the yards. Wasn't easy, time I felt successful." Athens, Georgia, he purchased a 1,100- with eight. Within four years he was singing folk acre farm for $14 million. "I always wanted Kenny to become a songs with the New Christy Minstrels, commercial artist, because he always going soon to the pop group, The First Meanwhile, he purchased a luxury could draw, that boy. But he saw him­ Edition. jetliner for $2.5 million and came home self as a singer! Started plucking away In short order, the group had its own with $1.1 million in furs and jewelry for on an old guitar when he was but eight* . television show, and hits like "Ruby, Marianne. 'You Are My Sunshine', that was ^is Don't Take Your Love to Town". Hollywood had found a new King of Kenny's mother, Lucille favorite song. Rogers was convinced the First Edi­ cash. Police hunt

&mmSr for murderer III JSk By LESLIE MORRIS and PAULINE COMEAU TORONTO (Special) — Metro Police are calling the stabbing death of a former Calgary woman a mystery The nude body of Susan Tice moved into the most­ ing really loud but I couldn't Tice was found late yester­ ly Italian neighborhood couldn't hear what they day morning in the second- about a month ago and kept were saying." floor bedroom of her Grace to herself, her new neigh­ Police canvassed resi­ Ave. home by a relative. bors said. dents in the area asking if And the news shocked her "She was a very pleasant, they had seen any strangers former neighbors on a quiet person," said a neigh­ or prowlers in the neighbor­ wealthy suburban street in bor who didn't wish to be hood during the past week or Calgary who remembered identified. two. the 39-year-old victim as a A woman who lives a few After scouring backyards "super woman." doors away said she heard and laneways in the quiet Tice, her husband Fred, a man and woman arguing neighborhood, one police­ and their two youngest chil­ Sunday or Monday man carried a blood-stained dren Jason and Christian afternoon. bathing suit from one had just moved to Toronto in ''I heard a woman backyard. mid-July after Fred's em­ screaming," said the neigh­ Tice's two-tone blue ployer, Wood Gundy Ltd., bor who moved into her Grand Prix, bearing an Al­ transferred him. house last week. "She was berta licence plate, was exa­ Susan had a degree in so­ really mad. They were yell­ mined briefly by detectives. cial work and did counsel­ ling out of her home in Cal­ gary, neighbors said. ______The couple's eldest son, xtt0Sii Ben, is working in the moun­ Sun price hike •^•1 tains for the summer and Director of Circulation Derrick McWilliams has an­ Jonathon was living in the nounced an increase in the home delivery cost of the Mon­ family's Elbow Dr. S.W. day to Friday Calgary Sun. home until it could be sold. Effective Monday, the price of the home-delivered daily Hours after Tice's body paper will go to 23 cents per-copy.-This will make the week­ was found, police set up a ly home delivery charge $1.65. mobile unit and had 15 offi­ Sunday home delivery remains at 50 cents. cers seaching the west To­ McWilliams said the increase was necessary to cover ronto neighborhood looking rising production costs and to give Sun carrier boys and for clues. -..:. • girls a well-deserved raise. i • Police confirmed they're "We'll be giving 40% of the extra revenue to our car­ treating the death as a rier force," he said. POLICE REMOVE the body of a former Calgary woman founb slain in a Toronto home. homocide.

Postmistress faces charges COALHURST - A charge of theft over $200 has been laid against the post­ mistress following an RCMP investiga­ tion into the misappropriation of about $19,000. RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Hubber said today Geraldine McLaren, 36, of Coal­ hurst will appear in Lethi idge Provin­ cial Court at 10:30 a.m Oct. 17 to face the charge, laid following an investiga­ tion at the post office by the commer­ cial crime division during the "past several days" .*""K*1„ The inve-... if on was launched fol­ lowing a request from Canada Post offi­ cials. Herald phc Mayor Richard McLaren (left) congratulates David Veres Abandonment shocks Coaldale By RIC SWIHART Molly Mitchell, child welfare supervisor for Social adoption process, that if more information was avail­ of The Herald Services, said today the department generally tries,to able, it might have ended differently. COALDALE — Disbelief reigns in this farming com­ keep such children with the mother. She say& adop­ Many fellow students of the mother were stunned by munity as residents try to shake off personal feelings tion by another family is a major step. the news. about a child abandoned in a residential garbage can Before there is an outside adoption, the parents go to No student felt the mother should be prosecuted. Monday afternoon. family court, Mitchell said. A judge hears parents and "She must have been going through tremendous The baby boy, admitted to Coaldale Community social workers and decides if the baby is to become a pressure," was the consensus. Hospital, was later transferred to Lethbridge temporary ward of social services. While none of the students would permit their names Regional Hospital, where a spokesman said today its Mitchell said if the baby becomes a ward, the to be used, all offered opinions. condition is "stable and under observation." He's not mother will never lose visiting rights. She said every "If it was me, I would have kept the baby," said in newborn intensive care. effort is made to try and keep the family together. one student. Shepherd said there are 15,000 cases of child abuse, Another said abortion seems the only thing to do neglect and exploitation in Alberta every year. But, he in such a case. "What should a person do?" Related stories on Page A2. adds, abandonment is rare, especially in Southern Another said abandoning a child after going through Alberta. the entire pregnancy "was a dumb way to end it." The teenage mother, a Kate Andrews High School A boy said he felt the mother should have put the student, was admitted to Coaldale hospital Tuesday Most persons contacted in Coaldale by The Herald baby up for adoption, "not just throw it away. That is morning. Her condition is good, a hospital official said could only shake their heads and worry about "big- just like killing it." today. city" problems coming so close to home. A girl, who claimed she was once a good friend of The baby was found by the girl's father. "Wierd, dumb, pretty bad, pathetic" were some of the mother, said the mother was called to the high Coaldale Police Chief John Armstrong said the baby the adjectives used to describe feelings that were dif­ school office during science class. had been in the garbage can, naked and wrapped in a ficult to put into words. "She really looked scared, and I wondered if some­ brown paper bag for at least 15 hours. Ed Engwer, owner of the Coaldale Red Rooster thing was up." Coaldale police will not reveal the name of the store, said the situation points up the need for She said the mother had tried to hide the fact that mother, pending investigation which could lead to improved abortion laws. she was pregnant, carrying school books in front of child abandonment charges. "It would be better than having some kid beaten all her all the time. . An Alberta Social Services official said today it the time, some kid who isn't wanted all his life," said Another said she thought the mother looked thinner has taken charge of the baby. Engwer. "It really has struck close to home, and it Tuesday, but didn't think about the possibility of the It will be placed in a foster home when released makes you wonder about things." birth. from hospital. . He said there are "a couple" of kids who come Several students said the abandonment reinforces Spokesman for the department's regional office in to his store frequently,' 'and you know they are getting the need for good child-parent relationships that allow Coaldale, Doug Shepherd, says an investigation is beat up at home all the time. It isn't good for a kid to two-way communication that may prevent future complete. Social workers have talked to mother, par­ live in that kind of home. occurrences. ents, grandparents, police and hospital officials, he "There are all kinds of people who want kids, but Others said it might make young adults think twice said. there are also all kinds of people who don't want about pre-marital sex. . Shepherd says the matter may go before family them." "But maybe not, either," said another student. court if police lay charges. Engwer said it also makes one wonder about the "You know how it goes." •

Janni BODY FOUND IN '81 Big bites Dad charged of Bacon given SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UPI) — Maybe it's his name. Or maybe it's the way he freezes when he sees three in tot's death them snarl. Whatever it is, By RAYMOND SMITH dogs enjoy biting Frank Staff Writer Bacon. A two-year investigation into the death of a Calgary baby Getting an occasional dog years has resulted in the father being charged with manslaugh- bite wouldn't be so bad, the ter. Springfield resident said. A 31-year-old Leth­ But during his 35 years as a bridge woman who Donald James Head, 23, is scheduled to appear in Revel­ stoke, B.C., provincial court today. mailman, he racked up pleaded guilty to two. His two-month-old daughter, Eva Marie Head, was found more than 30 bites, snaps counts of manslaughter, buried in a shallow grave in Waterton Lakes National Park and chews, he said. was sentenced Thursday Oct. 27, 1981. "They told me the record in Court of Queen s An autopsy showed the child had died of pneumonia. was something like 23," Bench to three years in Head was jailed for one year for improper burial. Bacon said. jail- „ Proceedings against his wife Uldra were stayed. A greyhound once chased Susan Rose Bernice She was living in Calgary at the time and now resides in him into a swimming pool,, Janni received three- Lethbridge. another dog snapped his fin­ year concurrent terms Revelstoke RCMP Const. Bruce Morrison said the new gers through a mail slot and for setting a fire Dec. 13, —— charge resulted from an "an one toothless mutt once even 1982 in which Reimer ongoing investigation which gummed his leg black and Scholten, eight, and his included new medical blue. four-year-old brother evidence." Benjamin died. He refused to say what the Two charges of break- new evidence was, but in and one count of arson added the baby was not ex­ were dropped. humed. The fire destroyed the Lethbridge RCMP S.Sgt. Scholten home at 12015th Brian Thorstad said Head was arrested in Lethbridge St.N. . ., Thursday and transported to Dirk Scholten, his wife Revelstoke Friday. and four other children managed to escape the He appeared for a bail fire unharmed. hearing Monday and is still The fire had been con­ in custody because he sidered accidental until couldn't raise the $2,500 bail Janni turned herself into cash, said defence lawyer Lethbridge City Police Robert Lundberg. last February. Lundberg said the case The tragedy sparked would probably be transfer­ an outpouring of commu­ red to Vernon, B.C., because nity generosity as a trust most of the witnesses are fund was established to from Alberta and there's an replace the uninsured airport in Vernon for easy house. .__=. transportation. 4 The Calgary Sun, Thursday, September 29,1983 Baby kept secret Slain couple's truck found KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) - A Because metal fragments were The search for clues took police mass-murder investigation that found in some of the charred as far east as Quebec. took police on a clue-hunting trip remains, police believe that some But on Tuesday, Kamloops halfway across Canada and back of the members of the two families RCMP announced they had found moved close to where it began had been shot before the car was the 1981 Ford camper truck they Family Tuesday when RCMP discovered a set ablaze. had been seeking for so long. camper truck in a remote wooded In a brief statement, Insp. Vic area of the B.C. interior. After police had scoured the area near Clearwater in Wells Edwards said the vehicle had been The truck had belonged to Grey Provincial Park where the located in a remote area near George and Edith Bentley of Port remains of the six were found, Clearwater, about 100 kilometres Coquitlam, both in their 60s, who north of Kamloops. disappeared in August, 1982 while they launched a Canada-wide in shock manhunt for two men who were He said investigators were at the vacationing with their daughter, Jackie Johnson, her husband and seen in the area at the time and scene but declined to release fur­ By LESLIE MORRIS and RON STEWART two daughters of Kelowna. believed to have been driving a ther information. Staff Writers camper truck similar to the Bent- The search for the Bentleys and leys. Ross Gorman, who had COALDALE, Alta. — The man who found a naked new­ the four members of the Johnson employed Jackie Johnson's hus­ born baby boy in his garbage can told yesterday how he was family ended in mid-September In May, RCMP travelled across band, Bob, for 25 years, said he shocked to later discover it was his grandson. last year when the charred the country in a replica of the had mixed feelings when police "We didn't even know our daughter was pregnant. She remains of the six people were camper, hoping to jog the memory called late Tuesday afternoon to didn't tell us — of course we would have helped her," he told found in the burned-out shell of the of anyone who might have seen the tell him they had found the the Sun, as he fought back the tears. Johnson vehicle. camper. The grandfather of the baby, abandoned by its "terrified suspects. and confused" schoolgirl mother shortly after birth, was speaking for the first time of the heartache. Meanwhile, this small community of 5,000 people, 13 km. northeast of Lethbridge, has reacted with compassion and offers of support and help. Coaldale police originally said the baby, now a temporary ward of Alberta social services, was born Monday morning and abandoned 16 hours before being discovered wrapped in a paper bag on top of kitty litter at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday. But the grandfather said he visited his daughter, 17, in hospital yesterday and learned the baby was actually born Disbelief follows Tuesday and abandoned 4_ hours before he found him. He said his daughter was "confused, terrified and in shock" when she first spoke to police. The baby is "doing fine" at Lethbridge Regional Hospi­ tal. Police say a Crown prosecutor in Lethbridge will de­ CLEARWATER, B.C. (CP) - In this set Shearing had a dark droopy mus­ cide today if the mother, who was last night in stable condi­ pleasant town amid hills, forests and tache and his curly hair was cropped tion at Coaldale Community Hospital, will face charges. farms, friends and acquaintances talk short. The baby's grandparents told the Sun it was "too early for in disbelief of the quiet local man Like about three-quarters of the 450 us yet to decide what we hope to do about the child." accused of killing a family of six. students who attend the only high Social services spokesman Doug Shepherd said the baby And police, aside from noting their school in a 110-kilometre area, Shear­ will go to a foster home. investigation continues, say merely ing was bused to school and had little Case workers will then discuss with police, doctors and that "the disclosure of matters at this chance to get involved in school activi­ the family whether the child should stay in the home, go for time which may have evidentiary ties, Madland said. adoption or return to his mother and grandparents, he said. value later would not only be improper Shearing grew up in an isolated, two- The grandfather told the Sun: "I went out to unload my but may influence Mr. (David William) storey farm house surrounded by spec­ truck Tuesday morning and heard crying coming from the Shearing's entitlement to a fair trial." tacular wilderness scenery — pine garbage bin. Shearing, 24, is charged with six trees, waterfalls, rapids and moun­ "I lifted the lid and was shocked to find a baby. I had no counts of second-degree murder in the tains in the B.C. interior. idea it whose baby it was so I called the police. August, 1982, siayings of Bob Johnson, Madland said Shearing had a simple "It was several hours later before I learned it was my 44; his wife, Jackie, 41; their children, upbringing and his parents, William daughter's child. I was even more stunned," he said. Janet, 13, and Karen, 11; and Jackie's and Rose, had to work hard to make a Students and teachers at the girl's school were sympa­ parents, George Bentley, 66, and his living off their smaU farm near Clear­ thetic £o "the hell she must have gone through" and pro­ wife, Edith, 59. water, 350 kilometres northeast of Van­ mised to rally round and support her. He was arrested Saturday at Dawson couver and 123 kilometres north of And social services spokesman Doug Shepherd said his Creek, B.C., and is to appear in provin­ Kamloops on the Yellowhead High­ office had calls from people wanting to take in the baby. cial court in Kamloops on Friday. way. High school guidance counsellor Ed Ryan said the teen­ Ken Madland, Clearwater Secondary Shearing's 66-year-old mother lives ager was "very shy and introverted ... a sweet little girl." School counsellor, said Shearing was a in a senior citizen's apartment building Ryan said: "It was not a callous, premeditated act — poor shy, introverted and self-conscious stu­ in Clearwater. His father died March kid — it just reached the point where she was bewildered dent. But he did well at school with C- 19,1982. and frightened and didn't know what to do." plus averages even in difficult aca­ The family's farm is 20 kilometres He said he's surprised the girl confided in no one. demic subjects and could easily have from the school near the boundary of The girl had problems at school, but "was really trying gone on to post-secondary education. Wells Gray Provincial Park where the to improve her academic record," he said. In the class of '77 graduation picture Johnsons and Bentleys are believed to A grade 12 student, who said the girl often confided hanging in the school, Shearing has have been killed. things to her, told the Sun: "She didn't tell me, but I knew shoulder-length dark hair, a prominent The charred remains of their bodies she was pregnant." nose and a wispy mustache. and the car and camper that they trav­ She said the girl was "normally shy and withdrawn," but When he appeared in court earlier elled in were also found within a few CP Lasorphoto when she came to school Tuesday morning she "seemed in this week in Kamloops, the tall, heavy- kilometres of the farm. * DAVID SHEARING very high spirits." JURY MEMBERS WEEP AS GUILTY VERDICT HANDED DOWN Jill Venker's murderer jailed for life By SUSAN ALLEN Special to the Sun CRANBROOK, B.C. — Convicted killer John Francis Dixon, 28 will spend a minimum of 25 years behind bars for the first degree murder of Calgary woman Jill Venker. Several members of the six-man, six-woman jury wept as th< guilty verdict was handed in at noon yesterday after six noun of deliberation and 14 days of evidence. B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Venker by Alberta and B.C. RCMP anc Trainor then imposed the automatic sen­ civilians. tence of life imprisonment with no parole Dixon had been arrested in Salmon Am for at least 25 years. Aug. 20, two days after Venker, a rent In contrast to the tears of some of the a-car clerk, disappeared on her way todeliv jurors, Dixon showed no emotion as he lis­ er a vehicle to a customer in Lake Louise. tened to the verdict and sentence. Her abandoned car was found on the His lawyer Brian Coleman said later he Trans-Canada Hwy. 17 km west of Banff, expected to file an appeal, but added the by Venker's co-worker Catherine Jones. decision was "up to Dixon," a resident of Golden. Venker's purse lay on the road near her The jury accepted evidence that Dixon vehicle, its contents spewed over the road murdered Venker, 25, with a single shot surface. through the back from a high-calibre gun. Dixon's fingerprint was identified on a Pathologist Dr. William Currie of Pentic­ beer bottle fragment found near the purse ton had told the jury Venker was severely — the Crown argued Dixon used the miss­ beaten before being killed, but said there ing part of the same bottle as a weapon to was no evidence she'd been sexually theaten and abduct Venker. assaulted. Dixon testified he had never even seen Venker's body was found Aug. 24,1982, in Venker. dense bush just west of Golden, where And he said he feared the RCMP were RCMP say they were led by Dixon. going to kill him when they took him to the The discovery ended a massive search for area where her body was discovered.

By STEPHEN LEQUIRE But Ruby Venker, Jill's former moth­ Staff Writer er-in-law, said: "When you take a life Jill Venker's emotionally drained fa­ you shouldn't be allowed to live. I hope ther says he's satisfied with the sentence he never gets paroled." his daughter's killer received. Shelly says the trial brought back But Venker's former mother-in-law tragic memories of Jill's death for him says she wishes convicted murderer and his family and he's "glad it's John Dixon could be hanged for his over." crime. Speaking from his Calgary home, Venker, a widow, said she is also re­ Venker's father Rudy Shelly said — "at lieved the trial is finished. one point I wanted the death penalty. Her son Randy Venker was divorced But now I think what he got was a good from Jill in 1978, a year after they were ruth waluk sentence." married. POLICEMEN LEAD away John Dixon, right, to begin serving life prison term.

Secret ballot should decide WHITEHORSE (CP) - Rank and file members of the governing Yukon Progressive Conservative party have told government leader Chris Pearson they want the right to review his leadership by secret ballot at the party's next annual convention. Members at the party's fall convention Nov. 26 voted to enshrine in their constitution a provision whereby delegates to the party's annual meeting in April will vote by secret ballot on whether a leadership convention should be held. „ w A RIDE IN A PARK More than 200 years ago For­ tress Louisbourg stood majesti­ cally overlooking the sea lanes of the cold North Atlantic. ,BI1I For 45 years, it was the lar­ gest and most important French fortress in all of North •yMi America, home to 5,000 fish­ ermen, merchants, soldiers and their families. Today, Fortress Louisbourg stands again, reconstructed by Parks Canada as our'country's tc )1 | foremost national historic park, 35 km southeast of Syd­ ney, Nova Scotia. Visitors to Louisbourg are encouraged to explore the ruins of the town and fortress, which enclose an area of approxi­ mately 30 hectares. One-fifth of the original town FORTRESS LOUISBOURG in Louisbourg, N.S. and its fortifications has been rebuilt as it was before the Dauphin demi-bastion, the meal prepared according to the siege of 1745. King's bastion and barracks, menus of the period. Costumed Reconstructed buildings guardhouses, and more than 30 guides interpret the historic include the fortress gates and homes, storehouses, inns and park as it was in the summer of cabarets. 1744. Several buildings contain Fortress of Louisbourg In Saint John, N.B., a 170- exhibits that illustrate facets of National Historic Park is fully year-old military tower over­ life in the 18th-century for­ operational from June 1 to Sept. looks the harbor and offers out­ tress. 10 and daily tours are available standing views of the city and You can buy bread baked as by request in May and Octo­ the Bay of Fundy. it was 200 years ago, or enjoy a ber. Carleton Martello Tower was built by the British during the War of 1812 to guard Saint John DAVID WILLIAM SHEARING ..leaves court in Kamloops against an American attack. Except for a rooftop addition during the Second World War, <„_ the exterior of the nine-metre i» » stone tower looks much as it did Johnson-Bentley 170 years ago. Today, Carleton Martello Tower National Historic Park contains displays and exhibits suspect remanded of the early 1800s and tells the story of the importance of mar­ KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) - A 24-year- "As far as the Crown is concerned, he tello towers in military II. old man charged with six counts of sec­ is fit to stand trial," he said. defence. ond-degree murder was remanded until In court, Bruneau asked Judge Bill Cadets in period costume of Dec. 1 when he appeared in provincial Blair for the six-day remand to allow the 104th Regiment of Foot court here Friday. time to get more information to greet visitors to this historic A date for the preliminary hearing Kaatz. site. will be set at that time, said Crown But Bruneau said later even the Carleton Martello Tower His­ counsel Rob Bruneau and Frederick Crown counsel's office hasn't received toric Park, in West Saint John, Kaatz, the lawyer for David William enough information to determine how is open from mid-May to mid- Shearing. long a preliminary hearing would October. Shearing is charged in connection take. CARLETON MARTELLO TOWER in Saint John, N.B. with the August, 1982 murders of Bob The RCMP are expected to provide more information next week. In the summer, of 1875, the treaties with Canada, the post ance at the height of its impor­ Johnson, 44; his wife, Jackie, 41; their North West Mounted Police, was dismantled and aban­ children, Janet, 13, and Karen, 11; and Bruneau said the charges are second- tance in 1875. degree murder rather than first-degree under the command of Superin­ doned. Guides in period costume Jackie's parents, George Bentley, 66, tendent James M. Walsh, built conduct tours of the fort and a and Edith, 59. murder because there isn't enough evi­ a Police Fort in the Cypress i More than a half a century The Johnson family from Kelowna, dence to show the murders were pre­ restored trading post. meditated. Hills, 171 km southwest of Swift later, in 1942, the RCMP estab­ B.C., and the Bentleys from Port Current, Sask. lished a horse ranch on the site The old Fort Walsh townsite, Coquitlam, B.C., met in Wells Gray "As we understand the circum­ stances, there isn't enough to prove The fort was built to suppress of Fort Walsh and ranch build­ two cemeteries, and the mag­ Provincial Park, approximately 135 the whisky trade and to estab­ ings were constructed in the nificent natural setting are kilometres north of here, for a weekend beyond a reasonable doubt that there was forethought," Bruneau said. lish contact with the Indians of style of the original fort. added attractions for visitors. camping trip. When Bob didn't return the area. Today, Fort Walsh is a Fort Walsh National Historic from holidays on time, his employer But, he said the charges can be changed if circumstances warrant it. In 1883, when most of the national historic park, restored Park is open to the public from reported him missing. Plains Indians had accepted by Parks Canada to its appear­ May 1 to Thanksgiving. The charred remains of the bodies Security in and around the Kamloops were found in September, 1982 in the courthouse was tight for Shearing's burned shell of Johnson's car. But Bent- appearance. RCMP drove Shearing to ley's camper wasn't discovered until a court in an unmarked police car, rather month ago. than the prisoner's van. Spectators were searched before entering the In an interview Friday afternoon, courtoom and sheriff deputies, uni­ Bruneau said it would have been a formed and plainclothes RCMP, were waste of everyone's time to have had a scattered among the more than 40 peo­ 30-day remand and a psychiatric evalu­ ple crowded into the 30-seat court­ ation of Shearing. room. He said Kaatz agreed. Kaatz refused Dressed in a brown blazer, shirt tie to comment on the case. and sports pants, Shearing was sur­ A physician — not a psychiatrist — rounded by police in the prisoners' examined Shearing this week and dock. He appeared nervous and kept his Bruneau said no indication of mental head bowed during the brief appear­ illness was found. ance. s uyy,. "9$* Liz battling drugs 'dr RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (UPI) - Actress •A J*,.. V 'i Elizabeth Taylor has been a patient at a chemi­ cal dependency recovery hospital for more than a week, a spokesman for the hospital said last night. Taylor, 51, admitted herself to the Betty Ford Centre at Eisenhower Medical Centre Dec. 5, a hospital spokesman said. The spokesman read Taylor's statement saying that "much of her trouble stems from prescription drugs administered over a period ELIZABETH TAYLOR of years to combat her various medical ... in hospital problems."

Surprise, surprise!f Pearl Borgal (left), president of the Lethbridge Rogers'eight-year tenure, he opened the Heritage Seniors Club, surprises Doug Rogers, 32-unit Legion Place and recently opened the past president of the Lethbridge Legion Branch 37-unit Legion Arms for senior citizens. Alice #4 Housing Society, at the Legion Arms Roberts, the secretary-treasurer of the Wednesday. Rogers was a recent recipient of Lethbridge heritage Seniors Club and Mary a service medal, the highest award given by the Haaland, president of the Westminster Seniors Royal Canadian Legion. During Club, also attended the celebration. _r_ photo

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The Kennedy family gathers today at president's grave in Arlington More Kennedy coverage on A6, A8 and A9 KENNEDY REMEMBERED You've had too much when 'Tis rapidly becoming the season to be jolly, but lets hope you don't get too jolly. Drinking, of course, is serious business - deadly seri­ ous if you mix it with driving. We don't want to put a damper on your holiday cheer but here's a few tips to JACK determine if you've had a little too much. You've had too much to drink when: TENNANT • You notice your tie sticking out of your fly. • You tell everyone you have to go home, and the • You suggest everyone stand and sing the National party's at your place. Budget. • You ask for another ice cube and put it in your • You pick up a roll, and butter your watch. pocket. • Someone uses your tongue for a coaster. • You yawn at the biggest bore in the room, and • You start kissing portraits on the wall. realize you're in front of a mirror. • You see your underwear hanging from the chan­ • You're sitting at the dinner table and ask the delier. hostess to pass a bedpan. • You have to hold onto the floor to keep from slid­ • You take out your handkerchief and blow your ing off. ear. • You strike a match and light your nose. • You tell your best joke to the rubber plant. • You take off your shoes and wade in the potatoe • You realize you're the only one under the coffee salad. table. • You hear someone say "Call a priest." • You hear a duck quacking, and it's you. • You complain about the small bathroom after emerging from the coat closet. • You refill your glass from the fish bowl. You've had too much when 'Tis rapidly becoming the season to be jolly, but lets hope you don't get too jolly. Drinking, of course, is serious business - deadly seri­ ous if you mix it with driving. We don't want to put a JACK damper on your holiday cheer but here's a few tips to determine if you've had a little too much. You've had too much to drink when: TENNANT • You notice your tie sticking out of your fly. • You tell everyone you have to go home, and the • You suggest everyone stand and sing the National party's at your place. Budget. • You ask for another ice cube and put it in your • You pick up a roll, and butter your watch. pocket. • Someone uses your tongue for a coaster. • You yawn at the biggest bore in the room, and • You start kissing portraits on the wall. realize you're in front of a mirror. • You see your underwear hanging from the chan­ • You're sitting at the dinner table and ask the delier. hostess to pass a bedpan. • You have to hold onto the floor to keep from slid­ • You take out your handkerchief and blow your ing off. ear. • You strike a match and light your nose. • You tell your best joke to the rubber plant. • You take off your shoes and wade in the potatoe • You realize you're the only one under the coffee salad. table. _ . • You hear someone say "Call a»priest." • You hear a duck quacking, and it's you. • You complain about the small bathroom after emerging from the coat closet. • You refill your glass from the fish bowl. .

Ambassador's life was changed By JENNIFER WORLEY Of The Herald IRON SPRINGS — Fondly known as the Dutch Ambassador around here, Bernard Nieboer finds humor in the reference. "I wasn't the Dutch Ambassador," he said recently in an interview at his home. "Just because I was so involved and I was the only one, they gave me the nickname." Nieboer was hired as fieldman for the Dutch immigration — sponsored by the Christian Reformed Church — in 1947 and was responsible for helping settle approxi­ mately 5,000 Dutch immigrants in the area. "It all goes back to the Second World War when Holland was dominated by the Nazis, when over 60,000 applied in a short time to leave the country and come to Canada." The Dutch Ambassador in Ottawa, Dr. Tuinman, was looking for contacts to help settle the Dutch throughout Canada. Nei- . boer, born in Germany, raised in Holland and farming in Canada since 1926, reluc- ' tantly accepted the job. As fieldman, his job was to find sponsors with year-round employment for immigrat­ ing families. Things didn't go as planned, however, since beet work — the main source of employment for the Dutch — was seasonal and during the winter the fieldman was faced with having to find additional work for families. Working with Rev. Hoekstra, minister of the Christian Reformed Church at Noble­ ford, by February 1948 Nieboer had placed 155 families, most of them averaging 12 members, at sugar beet farms in the Leth- bridge-Taber area. Smaller families were placed on mixed farms in Brooks and future placements grew to cover all of Southern Alberta. In addition to placements, the job also involved after-care for families. Nieboer recalls how many were homesick and disap­ pointed with housing and wages, wishing Bernard Nieboer honored by Picture Butte they had never come at all. "... but thank goodness there were many Brooks, High River, Vauxhall, Calgary and mileage unchanged — in 1951, never to who fit in right away." Bellevue. increase again. Only a "handful" of disillusioned immi­ grants went back to Holland, only to return For Nieboer, involvement in placing Nieboer says he suffered a loss when to Canada once they realized they were bet­ Dutch families in Southern Alberta has farming became profitable because he was ter off here. given him a "wealth of experience." on the road so often for immigration work. There were many adjustments to make. Pointing to his kitchen table, he indicates When he notes the benefits of being Language was a definite barrier and immi­ where much of the immigration paper work involved in the Dutch immigration, how­ grants were unaccustomed to the distances was completed during that 14-year period. ever, the drawbacks seem small. they had to travel after taking for granted home deliveries by the butcher and the "I had to learn to type and everything "Looking back this work has been blessed baker in Holland. else," he says. "Between Rev. Hoekstra and in such a tremendous way," he says. "We "Here they had to go to town, they had no I we did this work by ourselves. can just count our blessings with the asset the Dutch have been to Southern Alberta." transportation and no driver's licence." "If that same work was started today, I'm "They wanted to apply their Dutch ways sure there would be an office with many sec­ Nieboer says from beet workers, the here, thinking it was better but later on they retaries." Dutch have gone on to become successful found out that was different." dairy farmers, hog farmers, contractors, i Dutch of Roman Catholic faith immedia­ The hours were long and the pay meagre. painters and bricklayers to mention a few On one occasion he recalls escorting a train- professions. , - tely felt at home when arriving in Canada load of immigrants from Eastern Canada to while the Protestants found their Christian Lethbridge and returning to the East the Of some 5,000 immigrants which came to Reformed and Reformed Churches barely same day for another group. Southern Alberta through Nieboer's and had a home here, with only six in the prov­ Rev. Hockstra's efforts, Nieboer guesses ince at the time. But the Proestants insisted The largest group he ever escorted was 276 about two-thirds have left Alberta for other on their church life and as a result, the Nob­ people on one train from. Halifax to Leth­ points in Canada. leford Church increased in membership and bridge. The largest family he ever placed i a new church was built in Iron Springs. had 21 members. Nieboer was honored for his work early last month by the Picture Butte and District Today there are 35 or more Christian When hired in 1947 Nieboer received a sal­ Chamber of Commerce when he received a Reformed and Reformed Churches in ary of $12 a day and 7 cents per mile trav­ plaque, pin and letter of commendation for Alberta including Taber, Medicine Hat, elled. His wage increased to $14 per day — his efforts.

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4__ ACCOUNTS SUPPLEMENTED-With a donation from the WiST Butte Chamber of Commerce, the area Crime Stoppers account in­ creased $116.60. Cpl. Al Carlisle of the Picture Butte detachment ac­ cepts the cheque from Roelof Scholten, secretary-treasurer of the chamber. The funds were raised through the community Christmas card. Other donations to Crime Stoppers have been made by Town of Picture Butte and Picture Butte Agriculture Society.

Picture Butte wants to attract industry By JENNIFER WORLEY programs of his department including Of The Herald the Alberta locations program and the PICTURE BUTTE — Town council is community economic development pro­ taking a keen interest in attracting new gram. industry to the community. Under the Alberta locations program Following a presentation by Ron the department prepares community Wegner of Tourism and Small Business profiles, arranges for first hand looks at Monday, Mayor Morgan Heninger Alberta locations and provides finan­ asked where the town might begin to cial assistance for hosting potential attract new industry. business people or travelling to meet Heninger noted Municipal Affairs with them. Minister Julian Koziak indicated at the Under the community development Alberta Urban Municipalities Associa­ program, the department helps com­ tion convention late last year that there munities determine and achieve local are no paper staples manufactured in goals and objectives. The department Canada. will conduct a community economic "These are the things we would like to development workshop in Taber Feb. look at," Heninger said. "We're asking 16. you where we would start." The department is also working on an Wegner warned of a long road ahead. opportunity advertising program which People with expertise would be will identify business opportunities — required — easier to find with investors both retail and commercial — in com­ — and the location and the materials munities such as Picture Butte. needed should be studied. He suggested Herald photo his department could take the idea to Heninger noted the town has potential TERRY LYON RINK - from left, Jamie Bourassa, Gordon Jones, Dan Lyon, Terry Lyon people in its economic development for future business development, section. It may start with a feasibil­ adding it needs the help of Tourism and ity study to determine whether such an Small Business to do it. industry would be economical in Can­ "We have survived and we will sur­ Lyon rink a 'tad lucky' ada. vive in the future but we need help from Wegner outlined to council the main people like you," he said. with last rock victory Chamber honors citizens

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MYRTLE BODIE Pipe dream helps line work A unique tunnelling process, which avoids the interruption caused by trench excavation, is being used near the Uni­ versity of Lethbridge to complete a major sanitary sewer trunk line. The $103,000 tunnel contract, to Denca Construction Specialties, Inc. of Edmon­ ton, will finish installation of a trunk line relieving a sanitary sewer pressure in West Lethbridge and provides for new areas of development, says Tony Klauwers, city sewer and water superin­ tendent. Klauwers says the line, running from McGill Boulevard to Columbia Drive then east under the river across to the sewage treatment plant in the river val­ ley, was completed last year except for a 118-metre section. To install that part of the line north of the university campus using conven­ tional trench excavation would have meant cutting across a complicated util­ ity right-of-way,th e campus access road and the institution's large cement sign. Natalie Olson, So the city decided to avoid the exten­ Campaign Co-ordinator sive disruption and tunnel under the and Regional Manager. entire area, says Klauwers. In the process, the Denca crew works from a pit about eight metres deep at the north end of the pipe section and puts the cement pipeline through to a lower depth of about 10.6 metres, he says. At the entrance pit, the one-metre wide pipe is rammed by a jacking sys­ Herald photo by JANET ROGER tem. A worker enters the pipe in a cart and digs out an area of dirt, so the pipe JEFF BLAIR IS TOWED INTO PIPE BY CO-WORKER DARCY BESLER can be advanced further by the jack. explains Klauwers. Three carts of dirt "|t's a slow, steady process." "He's in there with an electrical type are removed and the worker is relieved Klauwers says the tunnelling work is of a device like a jackhammer," by another employee. expected to be done within two weeks.

Sweethearts take over CJOC Pat Bland takes her turn behind husbands a break. Vincie Fallwell the mike normally manned by her reported sports for husband Steve, husband, Terry, for his open-line Caroline Hild hosted the Wally Hild show at CJOC today. Old regulars Morning Show, and Barb at the station had a chance for a day Camphaug was to be the afternoon off while their sweethearts took disc jockey instead of husband Ken over the mikes to mark Valentine's Cameron. Although only the Day. Several wives in the station women's voices were heard on the acted as sportscasters and disc air, husbands ran the shows from jockeys today to give their behind the scenes. Her_ photo CI 1__>_JTT Y_f% *TClA_f2_f_i Prisoner hailed as 'hero' Saved his guard's life By JOHN COLEBOURN said Archambault also tried to pull an uncon­ Staff Writer scious person from the wreckage, but failed A prisoner who survived the plane crash because "he just couldn't get the person out of which killed Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley the wreck as it was mangled too badly." and five others saved the life of his RCMP The man died soon after. guard. Betzner described Archambault as "an out- Paul Archambault came to the rescue after doorsy person . . . who had a lot to do with his guard, Grande Prairie Const. Scott Des- this officer living. He did a lot around the acci­ champs, was thrown from the plane and dent scene." buried head-first in snow, unable to move. Betts said Archambault tended to the in­ Archambault spent five minutes frantically jured and gathered material and fuel from digging the Mountie free, said Dr. Ken Betts, the wreckage to start a fire. an Armed Forces medical officer who was "He got a fire going and got wood all night rushed to the scene when the plane was disco­ and kept everyone form going asleep to make vered yesterday morning. sure they didn't die from hypothermia." "The RCMP officer said 'He saved my The four huddled around the fire through­ life," said Betts. out the night to keep warm in -2C tempera­ "There's no doubt he was instrumental in tures. There was about three feet of snow on saving his life. The officer couldn't move, all the ground. he could do was yell." Betts said pilot Eric Vogel credited Archam­ Archambault, 27 — who Betts called a bault with "keeping us awake and keeping the "hero" — was being transported to Grande fire going." Prairie from Kamloops, B.C., after a warrant The doctors attending the four survivors was issued for his arrest when he failed to ap­ said they have no life-threatening injuries. pear in court on a mischief charge. Archambault had only minor injuries and Deschamps is in good condition in an Ed­ The prisoner also won praise for helping to monton hospital. keep the other survivors — provincial Housing Grande Prairie RCMP Corp. Lyl Pleasants Minister Larry Shaben and pilot Eric Vogel — said as soon as Archambault is healthy enough alive during the long, cold night. to travel he will be taken to Grande Prairie to Major Bob Betzner, rescue co-ordinator, appear in court.

By DARYL-LYNN CARLSON held an emotional press conference with inde­ and TONY SALOWAY pendent MLA Ray Speaker and provincial Staff Writers NDP president Don Aitken only hours after Alberta's stunned political community news of Notley's death in a plane crash was reacted yesterday with deep emotion — and released. tears — to the tragic death of provincial NDP Martin left for a moment when he broke leader Grant Notley. down and sobbed halfway through his speech. "I've lost my best friend, but Albertans have Premier Peter Lougheed expressed his sym­ lost a great Albertan today," he said. pathy to Notley's wife Sandra and his three "There are no words to describe how we children during a brief statement from the feel, but as Grant Notley himself would say, legislature. life goes on." Legislative proceedings may be delayed Federal NDP Leader Ed Broadbent said until Thursday to allow members to recover Notley's death "leaves a large vacuum in the from the shock of Notley's death. hearts of his family, all Albertans and all Lougheed lauded Notley's 13 years of per­ members of the NDP." sonal sacrifice and public service to Alberta Liberal leader Nick Taylor told the Albertans. Sun he was stunned by the loss of Notley, "a "Grant Notley will be missed by all of us wonderful individual and close friend. who care about the future of pur province," "He had a great sense of humor and the said Lougheed, his voice quaking with kind of dedication where he served the pub­ emotion. lic with almost a missionary zeal." "This is a sad and tragic event in the his­ tory of our province." Additional coverage: P. 12 -upc Ray Martin, Alberta's only other NDP MLA, Editorial: P. 10 MLA RAY MARTIN fights back tears following news of Grant Notley's death. Man of compassion will be missed Grant Notley was one of those people you wanted to get He faced a nearly impossible task of opposing the multi­ to know better. tude of government MLAs, yet he relished the challenge. Unfortunately, many of us^ft it until too late. Mere men would have shied away from such odds, but He was leader of the provincial New Democratic Party. Grant Notley took the bit in his teeth and made many How many times have we heard: "If only he wasn't the JACK telling political points. NDP, we could vote for him." He was an honest politician and he kept the govern­ Socialism frightens many Albertans. But Grant Notley ment honest. never did. His politics were his choice and he respected He was a refreshing politician in that he didn't criticize others for their choices. TENNANT for criticism's sake. He was constructive in his comments. I was not a close friend of Grant Notley but I've spoken Two independents had also been elected and they also If the government did something that deserved praise, to him on the phone on numerous occasions, been the benefi­ saw the opportunity to be declared the official Opposi­ Grant Notley praised — more often than not, of course, ciary of wee notes several times, talked to him nose-to-nose tion. with a couple of additional suggestions to improve the gov­ on a few occasions and gained new respect for the man after I wrote a column about the situation and suggested the ernment's stand even more. every, encounter. NDP both morally and politically were the rightful offi­ If only Grant Notley had been almost anything but NDP, cial Opposition and that just because two NDP members he likely could have been premier. And I doubt if it would Notley was one of those rare politicians who had quiet would have a title, it didn't mean the socialist hoards were have changed him a bit. confidence in his political beliefs. He didn't shout them just around the corner waiting to take over the province. He championed the commonfolk and he didn't do that from the rooftops. He never tried to convince with bom­ because it was the official NDP line. He did it because he bast or sound. Grant Notley phoned and introduced himself as half the socialist hoard. was Grant Notley. He convinced by quiet but logical persuasion. He said he appreciated the column but didn't make a I'll miss the occasional wee note and the phone calls, Following the last provincial election, the two-member big thing about it. He didn't try to curry favor with jour­ but not nearly as much as this province will miss Grant NDP was having a little trouble being declared the offi­ nalists. Notley. cial Opposition. Alberta will be poorer without Grant Notley. I wish I'd got to know him better. y yyyyyyyyyy: .;•;:;:y::y,yy;..--:.;:,,.:-;: y,.\ FLIGHT TO TRAGEDY Notley dies in crash By JOHN COLEBOURN The other survivors were the Staff Writer plane's pilot Eric Vogel, Grand Provincial NDP leader Grant Prairie RCMP Const. Scott Des- Notley has been killed in a tragic champs and his prisoner Paul Ar­ plane crash that claimed five chambault. other lives in northen Alberta. RCMP Sgt. Marv Hopkins says Notley was on his way home to a Chinook helicopter had to winch Fairview, Alta., Friday night the bodies aboard while hovering when the 10-seat Piper Navajo in the air because it was unable to Chieftain he was travelling in land in the dense bush. plunged through dense fog and He says the plane was smashed slammed into a remote, snow-co­ "all to hell" and the bodies were vered and heavily-wooded hillside in the fuselage. The wings were 40 km southeast of High Prairie ripped off and everything was and 364 km northwest of Edmon­ scattered over about a 300 metre ton. area. The plane's wheels were Also killed were Christopher down and it was actually lined up Vince, of High Prairie; Gordon with High Prairie airport. Peever, also of High Prairie and Shaben was allowed home after finance director of the Alberta Vo­ treatment at Slave Lake Hospital cational Centre in Grouard, Alta.; yesterday. The other survivors Terry Swanson of Brooks, 177 km were taken to Edmonton's Alexan­ southeast of Calgary; and Elaine dra Hospital where they were list­ Noskeye, of the Whitefish Indian ed in good condition. Reserve, 105 km northeast of High Rescue co-ordinatorg estimate Prairie. the the aircraft, en route from Ed­ The name of the sixth victim, a monton to Peace River, crashed female from Fairview, was with- around 8 p.m. Friday. eld pending notification of kin. The plane was located at 8:30 Only four people aboard the Ed­ a.m. yesterday and rescuers and monton-based Wapiti Aviation medical staff were at the scene 30 Ltd. aircraft — including provin­ minutes later. cial Housing Minister Larry Sha- Doctors at the scene say it ap­ ben — survived the crash. pears five of the victims, includ­ They huddled around a fire in a ing Notley, died instantly when metre of snow with temperatures the plane crashed and the sixth dipping to -2 and the dead laying victim died about a half hour after in the nearby wreckage. the crash.

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Medical personnel aid survivor of the tragic crash upon arrival at Edmonton airport. Leader's passing leaves a void I hadn't known Grant Notley long or well. So the impress­ might have been — about whether Notley would ever have ion he made on me was all the more remarkable. become premier. Slight of stature, a politician fighting in the wilderness for TONY I'm sure he'd like to have been. But then again, he seemed many years, he nevertheless commanded attention. to be one of those who finds the journey as much fun as Whether you agreed with his politics or not, you had the SALOWAY arriving at the destination. feeling he was fighting a good fight and no ill would come of Given Grant's politics, I don't know if he would've been his efforts. the right premier for the times and the people. But, in pu/ely They were wholesome efforts in a profession which also At the legislature personal terms, he would have distinguished the office. breeds cynics and those bent on self-promotion. The man whose crown he sought — Peter Lougheed — The very loneliness of his fight for so many years, as the Notley. The rest of the four-man. Opposition have been bit yesterday paid tribute to the contribution Notley made while NDP's lone standard-bearer, gave him a personal credibili­ still an Opposition MLA. ty that eludes the average government member. players at best. I also felt he was one of those rare people who really be­ Certainly Ray Martin, the lone surviving, NDP MLA rea­ His input, said Lougheed, in many cases resulted in a lieve in a 'better tomorrow' for mankind — not just for the lises this. Martin, choking on his words yesterday, said his "modified consensus reflecting his personal ideas and con­ haves, but for the have-nots as well. leader was "irreplaceable." cepts." He was ever the optimist for his cause — a quality he Ironically, he recalled Notley's words after a close shave I'm writing this from the legislature where flags are at certainly needed in his chosen role — but which he must in a car accident last summer. Notley was serene. "I've half-mast. Only a day ago, I sat in the press gallery here have wished was more infectious among Albertan#asla lived a full life," he said. watching Grant's buoyant performance during question pe­ whole. As always, the main burden falls on those who survive. riod. One thing about Grant — he never left you in any doubt as Martin recognised this, too: "As Grant would say, life goes He hammered away incisively — but with humor and to where he stood. Albertans, even those who pay scant at­ on," he told reporters, doggedly. without rancor — at the kind of things that concerned him: tention to the political scene, must be conscious of the loss I can understand Grant Notley saying that. That's how he unemployment and government compensation for a man his death entails. must have felt after each election, as political progress who'd been wrongfully jailed. This is a province where the voters have left the task of seemed so slow. This week, when the legislature resumes, I'm sure all eyes playing watchdog to their government to one man — Grant Of course, at times like this there's speculation about what will be on that empty seat. Fire may have started in attic says owner

A fire which destroyed a farm home one mile north of Lethbridge Fri­ day is believed to have started in the attic, the owner said today. No one was injured in the fire which resulted in __-4 $275,000 in damage to the Bob Olshaski home. "It's pure conjecture, but we have a hunch that the thing must have started in the attic," said Olshaski, who is tempo­ rarily living in the El Rancho Motor Hotel. "It Herald photo wasn't a gas fire. It prob­ Foundation and little else remain from blaze ably was going hard before we spotted it." Firefighters arrived to the house when the fire insured. find the fire in an broke out. Olshaski said the family __a_ Although both Coaldale plans to live at the El and Lethbridge fire advanced state upon Olshaski said the fire arrival. Their efforts was first spotted by a Rancho until arrange­ departments responded to ments can be made to rent the call about 1:10 p.m., were hindered by the daughter-in-law and niece extreme cold which made from the family dairy, another house. The family firefighters were unable intends to rebuild on the to quell the blaze. extracting water from a about 365 to 450 metres nearby pond nearly from the house previous site. "By the time the fire­ impossible. ' By the time the family Olshaski added he is fighters arrived, it was Olshaski lived in the arrived the house was considering installing an already largely gone," already full of smoke. advanced sprinkler sys­ said a spokesman for the home with wife Dorothy and sons Greg, Ken and Nothing was salvaged, tem for the attic when the Lethbridge Fire Depart­ although the house was house is rebuilt. y-i ment today. Douglas. No one was in

NAMES A SHOCKER Prince €>fl Harry! •Ml LONDON (UPI) — Prince Charles and Princess Diana will name their second son Prince Henry — but he'll be I—I just plain Harry at home. Some spectators outside the hospital were not so wild about the name Harry — even though it is steeped in Royal history. "'It's a commoner's name," said one woman as Prin­ cess Diana and the blue-eyed child went home just 22 hours after the birth. The 6-lb., 14-oz. baby will be christened Henry Charles Albert David. The name Henry was the choice of the parents, a Buck­ ingham Palace spokesman said. "They both like it and they'll call him Harry." London bookies had chosen "George" as odds-on favor­ ite for the new prince's name. The baby's name was announced less than 24 hours after the third in line to the throne was born. The an­ nouncement took the country by surprise, as it is usually several days before Royal babies are named. Britain's newest prince made his first public appear­ ance swaddled in a white blanket in the arms of the £ = beaming Princess of Wales on the steps of St. Mary's hospital — where his brother Prince William was also born. Princess Diana, 23, looked slim and radiant in a bright scarlet dress with a red silk necktie. With Prince Charles looking on, she smiled shyly for photographers and a €-3 cheering crowd of several hundred before being driven off to Kensington Palace, the couple's official London home. Less than an hour after arriving at the palace, Prince Charles dashed off in his convertible sports car to a polo game. The jubilant father scored three goals in the game. 4—3 There was no sign of two-year-old Prince William. But he visited the hospital earlier in the morning with Prince Charles for a first peep at his baby brother. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS of Wales leave St. Mary's hospital in London yesterday with day-old Prince Henry. **• The • • y who I would be king

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W Court fines ping-pong queen By PETER LOWREY comical — I'm not imitating sex on Staff Writer stage." California stripper Mitzi Dupree, Even though she makes $3,500 a the self-styled Queen of Ping Pong, week for her act, she thought the was convicted yesterday of staging $2,000 fine was stiff. two obscene performances — one in "It doesn't matter what I make — Calgary and one in Lethbridge. it's the principle. I think a $50 fine Dupree, whose real name is Mi- would have been sufficient." chele Pradia, appeared shocked Dupree was charged with giving when the jury handed down the ver­ an obscene performance at the York dicts after three-hours of delibera­ Hotel in Lethbridge last Feb. 10 and tion. at Calgary's Beacon Hotel March 12. "The country isn't going to put She was acquitted of a similar up with this type of behaviour," said charge in Kamloops, B.C., in 1982. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Wil­ Defence lawyer Webster MacDon­ liam Brennan as he fined her ald Sr. argued the only person who $2,000. objected to Dupree's show was a Dupree was convicted for acts "feminist" from Lethbridge who which included propelling ping-pong "like Queen Victoria, wasn't balls 60 ft. and playing a penny amused". whistle using a particular part of The ping-pong act was "more ath­ her anatomy. letic than erotic," MacDonald said. Outside court, Dupree said she'll But Crown prosecutor Bruce Dun­ appeal the decision. can said: "It's time to draw the "I don't think the decision was lyie — to put on the brakes." fair at all — it's like I murdered Duncan told the jury it had to de­ somebody," said the pretty, slight­ cide whether, "this is a cancer -photo, pat humphreys ly-built woman. growing in the community or some­ She described her act as a "very thing I can just ignore because it's MITZI DUPREE has to wonder. Her athletic show is obscene in Alberta - but not in B.C. sensational show," but added: "It's behind closed doors."

Thicke marriage comes to an end LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Alan Thicke, host of the syn­ Johnny Carson's Tonight Show off the air but faltered in dicated talk show Thicke Of The Night, will divorce the ratings, blames the breakup on the pressures of a his wife, soap opera star Gloria Loring, after 13 years of two-career marriage and the long absences their respec­ marriage. tive programs require. Thicke, whose late-night show was supposed to knock Loring stars in the soap opera Days Of Our Lives.

Grant's birthday celebration quiet BEVERLY HILLS, Grant's 17-year-old Burns is in love Calif. (AP) - Film leg­ daughter from a previous ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. spotlights gets him out of party and one-man show — end Cary Grant cele­ marriage, Jennifer, (UPI) — George Burns, who bed every morning. as long as all the guests, in­ brated his 80th birthday would not be joining the celebrated his 88th birthday "I love it now just as much cluding reporters, were fe­ quietly at home with his couple because she is Friday with 1,200 adoring fe­ as I did when I was seven," male. About 1,200 women se­ wife Wednesday, but his attending classes at Stan­ male fans, his daily quota of said Burns. "It's hard to fall lected in a special drawing many friends around the ford University, where 18 cigars and five or six in love with staying in bed at the casino were given world didn't forget the she is a freshman, Bar­ martinis, attributes his lon­ all day." tickets to the event. occasion. bara said. gevity to being in love with Burns celebrated his When asked why only 1,200 "It's quiet only in that Grant recently show business. birthday at Bally's for the women had been invited, we are at home alone," described his birthday as Burns told reporters at second straight year. Burns replied, "I'm not as said Grant's wife, Bar­ "a nice happening and CARY GRANT Bally's Park Place Casino- He was told he could invite young as I used to be. As a bara. "People are being I'm glad I've got there. Hotel that his love of the anyone he wanted to the matter of fact I'm not as very dear and calling and But I'm trying to keep it Grant, who grew up as young as anybody used to sending around things." as low-key as possible." Archibald Alex Leach in be." She said Grant had Although it's been 18 Bristol, England, and Burns says he started received dozens of calls years since Grant last started in show business smoking his trademark and gift deliveries. made a film, he remains as a stilt walker, now sits cigars at 14 and has smoked "He's had three dozen to many the ultimate in on the corporate boards of them ever since, usually helium-filled balloons big-screen charm, an such well-known entities putting away 15 to 18 a day. from three different peo­ image earned in dozens of as MGM-UA, Faberge "My doctor kept telling ple," she said, adding that adventure and comedy and Hollywood Park race­ me I should quit smoking," another well-wisher sent films including North by track. Burns said, "but he's_ead." a small bunch of balloons Northwest, To Catch a Grant's last film was held by a styrofoam man Thief, Notorious, Cha­ Walk, Don't Run in 1966. studded with hard candy. rade, His Girl Friday, He said he stopped mak­ Barbara declined to Bringing Up Baby, The ing movies to be close to name any of the callers or Philadelphia Story and his daughter when she gift-givers, saying only The Awful Truth. was growing up. that "many of his friends 'are famous." Plans for the evening included dinner at home. "I shall be making a birthday cake," Barbara said. She declined to describe it, saying she wanted it to be a sur­ prise. r VIEWS ON PUBLIC NUDITY . __» Spotlight on strippers

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By LINDA SLOBODIAN Staff Writer The allure of females taking it all off has captivated the fascina­ tion of onlopkers — the vast majority being men — for centuries. And since the prudish Victorian age, nu­ "The general public still looks at me, the dity in public has roused the wrath of so­ stripper, with that tainted attitude, but I cially conscious traditionalists. don't think there's anything disgusting in Pope John Paul II piously declared in my show." And she's defiant. 1981 that nakedness and indignity are one "Just because I'm a woman doesn't and the same. mean I have to cover my body because "Feeling for the dignity of the human some guy can't control himself. I don't body prevents people from wishing them­ think a guy is going to run out and rape selves or others to be turned through anon­ some woman because he saw a stripper. If ymous nakedness into mere-objects." he's sick, he's going to do it anyway." While nobody disputes the beauty of the Models who pose in the nude adamantly female form, religious leaders, feminists, detach themselves from strippers. They in­ politicians and protective parents rally sist that they pose in front of the cool, im­ against public displays of nudity. personal camera merely to capture an ex­ They argue such exhibitions pollute mo­ pression of beauty. rality and degrade women. . HI But argue as they may — women keep on •"'' • •,;:: :,y taking it off! Prim and proper To the bitter end, stripper Mitzi Dupree described her $3,500-a-week act as "comi­ cal" and not obscene — but a six-man, six- Photographer Mark Laurie "specializes si_i_!__Sft||^^|^^^^p- woman jury in Calgary was not amused. in nudity." He says women quickly get over their nervousness after shedding their •• clothes at his Inner Spirit Photography stu­ ''iiiy__u_y_I _:'git'Jr_ i Act ruled obscene dio, where the "female image is regarded with the highest respect." Its verdict was that Dupree's act was 1 Judy, 21, self-described as a "prim and indeed obscene. On June 26 she was found proper" woman, "wanted to give her fiance guilty on two counts of performing an inde­ a special Valentine's Day gift. She decided cent, immoral, and obscene theatrical act. on nude photos. And on top of her conviction and a $2,000 Says Judy: "The body is a personal fine for her ping-pong ball propelling act, thing. It should be shown in a tasteful way. Immigration Canada propelled Dupree out It was a special gift from me to him. When of the country. girls take their clothes off on a table in a Most strippers — or as they insistently bar for a bunch of drunken slobs — that's label themselves, entertainers, artists — exploitation." claim that dancing and disrobing for $500 to And look where disrobing got Miss $1,500 a week is a reasonably dignified act. America despite claims by Penthouse pub­ But the artistes' dignity is questioned by lisher Bob Guccione that in modern times many — it certainly isn't dignity that immorality and nudity cannot possibly be drives male-dominated audiences to hot- equated. blooded howling and hooting. But Albert Marks Jr., executive director Stripper Venus de Light perches her of the Miss America beauty contest, claims frame in a huge champagne glass or per­ Vanessa Williams — who indulged in ques­ forms remarkable choreographed steps tionable behavior in the buff before a cam­ while fire-eating — all in the raw, of course. era — was stripped of her crown because She says: "The body is a natural, God- she violated "traditional American given thing, like a tree or a sunset. virtues." The price paid for the Williams photos, "Men watch me because they're curious which sold five million copies of the maga­ or they want to be entertained." zine, was never revealed. MITZI DUPREE (above) said her ping-pong ball act was athletic comedy. Venus de Light But after four years in the business of The dethroned beauty queen herself shedding her clothes, the 21-year-old strip­ admits her 1982 porn-photos were a (inset) says men are "curious." pat humphreys photo per admits old-fashioned morals prevail. "mistake." TOP COUNTRY ALBUM AND SINGLE f Anne double winner NASHVILLE (UPI) — Canadian singer Anne Murray Former Las Vegas card dealer Lee Greenwood won finally won a top award and also turned out to be the only Male Vocalist of the Year for the second time in a row double winner last night as country music handed out its and newcomer Reba McEntire broke down in tears when Oscars on national television. she won Female Vocalist for the first time. Murray's A Little Good News was voted best album The Judds, a mother and daughter team who describe and best single of the year by the 7,500 voting members of themselves as "two red-headed country girls," claimed the Country Music Association. the Horizon Award for rising stars in the industry. "It's only taken me 14 years to get it in my fat little Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias were voted Vocal Duo hands," she said, clutching her first bullet-shaped crystal and Chet Atkins won the best instrumentalist for the se­ trophy. "It feels pretty good." venth time. "I would have been more than happy and satisfied with Nearly every category of the 18th annual CMA show at just one, but this is wonderful," she said after winning the Grand Ole Opry House pit country traditionalists her second award during the 90 minute show where the against modern pop-style adult contemporary crooners. industry doled out its honors to styles ranging from hill­ Nowhere was the conflict more evident than in the billy-country to slick crossover productions. Male Vocalist of the Year category. Merle Haggard, The top nominee, Alabama, shut out of its first three Ricky Skaggs, and George Strait held the traditional ban­ award nominations, won the Entertainer of the Year ner while Greenwood and Gary Morris waved pop flags. Award for an unprecedented third straight time to be­ Despite the upbeat tone of the show, there were serious came country music's all-time top award winners. consequences for the music President Ronald Reagan The three country cousins and long-haired drummer calls "uniquely American." — dominating the charts for the last three years — have Country left the hills during the "Urban Cowboy" craze won nine CMA awards, more than anyone else. and ventured into the cities in the late 1970s. As sales Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owens and drummer moved past the $500 million mark, country's sound was Mark Herndon had also been nominated for top album, homogenized to make its appeal even broader. vocal group and instrumental group. The twang was gone, but "metropolitan country" alien­ The Statler Brothers claimed Vocal Group of the Year ated hardcore fans and helped launch the careers of for the tenth time, the Instrumental Group Award went to back-to-the-basics singers like Skaggs and Morris. the Ricky Skaggs' Band for the second time in a row and Voting by the CMA's members will provide strong ANNF Ml IRRAY cretc A I ittlp finnrl NPW_ in Nashville thp shno Winrl Reneath Mv Winffs was 1984's best clues as to countrv's new direction.» 3 s8

STAMPEDE HONORS WILF CARTER He's a country legend

JOHN COULBOURN If the legend of country music were to ever don a single face, then surely it would choose the smile-wrin­ kled and sun-baked visage of Wilf Carter, who shares Stampede Parade Marshall honors today with Olympic speed-skating great, Gaetan Boucher. For, even while modern fans of the genre rush to see Tommy Hunter, Hank Williams Jr. and Waylon and Willie and the boys, the least ardent in their midst will stop to doff a respectful hat to the man who has been living country music for most of his 80 years. And for Carter, who rode in his first parade as "just another cowboy" back in 1924, today marks more than a diamond anniversary with our Stampede. "I started out riding behind the sweepers," he chuckles in the booming voice that rings with the resonance of his music, "and I finally got by 'em and I've been movin' up ever since. "I'm very proud the Stampede has put me up front," he says reflectively, recalling his reaction when Stampede officials told him they were proud to have him as a marshall — "You're proud!," he told them. "What do you think I am?" Doing Calgary proud Don Jacques, general manager of the Stampede, thinks Carter is doing Calgary proud. "Other people may sing about the real Old West," Jacques says. "But Wilf has lived it. He's typical of the West we're trying to keep alive." And as Carter leads the 1984 parade through the streets of modern Calgary, it's a safe bet his agile mind will be filled with memories of past Stampedes Where his name didn't command today's respect. He recalls playing in the streets in leaner days, with his hat in front of him — before he made his mark as Montana Slim on radio programs out of New York. Pass­ ing Calgarians, he says, would throw change "and when the dollar bill hit, I left." And he remembers all night cowboy songfests in the Palliser Hotel, following which "I backed in 'cause I didn't want them to know who was comin'." To chat with Carter is to have a parade of cowboy greats pass through your conversation — not as heroes but as contemporaries. Herman Linder, Ivan Daines, Jackie Cooper, Tommy Dorchester, Clem Gardner, Dick Cos- grave — Carter talked with them and rodeoed with them and calls them all his friends. According to Carter, it was cowboy-great Pete Knight who turned him from a rodeo rider into a WILF CARTER, as seen by artist Harley Brown, appears in 7-Up Centennial Country, co-sponsored by the Sun. preeminent country sing­ er. "He (Knight) said, Though Carter was born in the Maritimes, climbed to Stephen's Avenue Mall (Scotia Stage: noon to 1:30 p.m.), 'You'll never make it in fame in New York, toured for years across the breadth of following which he will be inducted into the Walkway of the racket we're in.' We Canada and now "follows the geese" to Florida every the Stars. shook hands behind the winter, there's little doubt that home is where his heart is And while he's flattered with the honor, Carter, an in­ chutes one day, and he — a highrise apartment downtown. ductee into several Halls of Fame and recipient of many promised he would quit "I love Calgary," he says. "I love the people." awards, remains philosophic. too." Carter's voice be­ He recalls his June 24 concert at the Jubilee, where he comes soft when he re­ shared the stage with Slim Whitman, playing to a sold-out "I could have gone nowhere without people," he says, calls the brief time be­ crowd. "You could've sat there for hours just chatting and as long as people keep buying his records and coming fore the Alberta cowboy with them," he says with wonder. to bis shows, he'll stay in the saddle. met death in a rodeo ac- * Though parades leave little time for chatting, Carter "I'll be around 'til the last dog is hung," he says. cident in California. "Six will have a chance to mingle with the Calgarians of which "What's a guy going to say but 'Thanks!' when you get feet of earth make us all he is so fond on Tuesday, where he will be the fea­ the chance?" one style," he says sadly. tured guest for the 7-Up Centennial Country show on the And today, Calgary's saying "Thanks, Wilf." DOLLY DOES THINGS HER WAY - OR NOT AT ALL Rhinestone cowgirl

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HOLLYWOOD — No doubt about it - Mother Na­ ture gifted Dolly Parton with the classic hourglass figure. Then, just to be certain the world appreciated the perfection of her creation, she resolutely put all the news at the top of the hour. But if one is naive enough to assume that it is simply Parton's mammoth "front porch" (as my mother so delicately terms such) which comprises the news of her life, you're in for a surprise. For under that celebrated bosom beats the heart of an old-fashioned lady, fired by the wit and wisdom her mind has gathered through a lifetime of effort and stored under her riot of white-blonde curls. Dressed in champagne shades of satin and lace, Parton is all smiles. The complexion is flawless, the eyes sparkle and the trademark mane of hair frolics around her face with exuberant abandon. The country singer, who has just completed the shooting of Rhine­ •Dim stone with Sylvester Stallone, is as effervescent as a spring breeze in Tennessee and just as refreshing. What you see, she informs one and all in rich south­ ern tones, is just exactly what you get. Though she acknowledges the rampant speculation about her pri­ vate personna (her husband spurns public attention and she revels in it), life just wouldn't be worth living "if I can't be myself and have my own sense of humor and be as honest and open as I am. "Somebody said to me once: 'What do you like most about your marriage?' " she says with a cavalier shrug of her shoulders. "I said: 'The fact that my husband lets me date!' "What am I going to do?" she continues with an innocent arching of her sculpted eyebrows. "He loves his life. I love mine. We're not sleeping with other people — if he is I don't want to know about it. But I'm always joking about it — kidding about it 'cause it eases the tension for me. ill JJ>B# "What I do in my private life really is nobody's busi­ ness. I think I'm very honest and fair and open and I think that's why I have fans. I think what they like about me is that I'll say things that they can take something and make it out (to be something else). But the gossip doesn't bother her. "Maybe they was bored. Maybe they didn't have nothing else to do so at least I can give them good conversation for that day. "If I was having sex with somebody," Parton says with a smile, "you'd have to walk in and find me doing it. Otherwise, it's just something you could say that I do or you could say that I don't." The look becomes mischievious. "Me — I ain't really saying — for sure," she says, fighting laughter . "But I'm human. Like I say, Fm married, but I ain't dead! frit -- . "I don't think I'm looked down on and I don't think • •• I'm a dummy," she continues. "I have to live my life and I have to be responsible for myself. I know I'm 4r holding it on the road pretty good. I'm strong and con­ .i. .' fident in who I am, so I'm real secure." And as for her dumb-blonde typecasting, she's un­ ,_ concerned. "They think I look dumb — and I do, but it's just a game," she says, with quiet sincerity. "I think they like the fact that I look one way and I am another. I think that's part of what makes me work. I'm the most artificial looking person I know — but I think I'm probably one of the realest people I know." Suddenly, she's laughing again — an innocent re­ freshing sound of childhood from this voluptuous woman. "I'm a hick living right in the middle of Beverly Hills," she chuckles, "and I do things my own way." Coming Sunday: The making of Rhinestone DOLLY PARTON: 'What I do in my private life really is nobody's business.'

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•»l^itflf'a-B *_-_M__Ii£ffigi__psp>_ 3 Thousands wish Mandrell well NASHVILLE (UPI) - Barbara Mandrell has received what may be the world's largest get well card — a 12-by-25 ft. billboard signed by 36,000 visitors to the Kansas State Fair.

*S*f * J* Mandrell was injured along with her two children Sept. 11 when a car slammed into her silver Jaguar. The other driv­ er, Mark White, 19, was killed. Mandrell suffered a broken leg and concussion and is re­ covering in a Nashville hospital. KFDI radio of Wichita came up with the card idea and even Kansas Gov. John Carlin signed it. Mandrell, listed in good condition, will undergo further surgery this week to have a pin placed in her thigh bone. BARBARA MANDRELL "She is getting along as well as can be expected," says her ... recovering nicely father, Irby Mandrell.