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CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 10, 1981

Trades prison savings
for visit with mother

STONY MOUNTAIN,
MAN. (CP) — An inmate of
Stony Mountain Penitentiary
traded 11/2 years of prison
savings for a 48-hour visit
with his mother, and he says
it was worth every cent,

Raynald Griffith-Cochrane,

40, is entering his 12th year
of a life sentence for non-
capital murder. He is the first
inmate to use the new family
visit trailer at the institution,
about 10 kilometres north of
Winnipeg.

“This has done so much for

Every once in awhile | get a craving to see a mature
woman delivering the six o’clock news,

iknow {'m talking cra:

, but sometimes @ think if |

see another silken-halred nymph with capped teeth
and wet lips wrapped around the failing economy, Ill

scream. .

At times when | like to have died from sitting there
figuring out how many ways there are to tle a scarf, I'd
turn on Walter Cronkite and try to imagine him with
hair parted in the middle and rolled into a bun at the
nape of his neck. :

‘One of the things people liked about Walter was that
he not only delivered the news with wisdom and ex-
perience... he gave you the impression he was goig to
do something about It.

An older woman could do that.

Experience could be an asset to a mature woman
newscaster, Take the other night. | saw a young on-
chorperson.. .. no more than 12 years old... shoved
microphone into the face of a 23-year-old woman who
had just given birth to five children, had four others at
home, a husband ovt of work and she asked, “How do
you feel?”

A woman over 30 would hove known the answer
before she asked the question,

The print media, somehow,.do not indulge them-
selves in that kind of discrimination. We have scores of
mature woman writers who wear glasses, suffer from

alaness, sweat, frown, have poor postue, small eyes,
Buy boring coats,,and don‘t care: diddly about the
weather.

1 used to know a lot of women who were involved i
boradcasting 10 or 12 years ago. One of them had hips.
When the School for the Terminally Serious began to
turn out women graduates, they were reassigned to

small booths in radio stations ond eventually phased’

out. Most of them are underground now, leading beige
lives and watching their old tapes. |

Granted television personalities should look attrac-
tive, but a word to the eye-liner and lip gloss set — in-
side everybody is a mature woman fighting to get out.

I'll never forget the fate Totie Fields who appeared
one day on the Mike Douglas show. When a sex sym
bol joined them the audience nearly went crazy. Totie
walked out into the audience and shouted, “What are
you applauding HER for? Every one'of you in the
audience looks just likeme.” _ .

strengthening, heck, I should
say renewing our relation-
ship,” Griffith-Cochrane said.
“It's simple ‘sharing that
matters... things like doing
dishes together and talking.”

Part of his savings of $800
went to gas expenses for
mother Zelle Cochrane's
1,800-kilometre drive from
Salmon Arm, to the peni-
tentiary. The rest went to-
ward hotel bills, food for the
trailer anda little extra so his
pensioner mother “won't eat
noodles until the next cheque

_ comes.”

For Griffith-Cochrane, the
luxuries of the visit were
small but fully appreciated,
After years of “slimy show-
ers" he took a three-hour
bath. After thousands of
flourescent-illuminated
nights he hung a blanket over
the bedroom window to cap-
ture every drop of darkness.

And, after sleeping in a
five-square-metre cell for
more than a decade, he re-
lished the sense of space in
the trailer's master bedroom,

He also cherished endless
conversation with his mother
on hundreds of topics.

CHANGES T00 BIG

He said major changes in

his life — such as newly
embraced Christianity —
were too big to deal with in
letters or four-hour tempor-
ary absence visits,
, Griffith-Cochrane said it is
quite a letdown returning to
his cell, which he describes as
“the same size as three clos-
ets in this trailer.”

-“It's a terrible shock," he
said. “One of the worst
problems is coming back
filled with a million words
you want to spill-but have no
one to talk te, Other inmates
don’t want to talk because it
hirts to think of their own
families.

However, the visits are
something to look forward to
and are an incentive to good
behavior, he said.

Only 12 of the 450 inmates
in the penitentiary are eli-
gible to use the trailer.

mae

Recalling my Moosonee

.~ THERE ARE three ways

of getting to Moosonce. You
can fly, which is expensive,
You.can walk, which is
lengthy, or you can take the
train, which is ‘something
else, I took the train because
I was a bit broke after a
major decorating job,
becatise my gout was acting
up and I couldn’t have made
it walking in two years, and”
because 1 wanted the '
experience.

It was an experience I will
never forget. Or repeat.
When = think: that my
daughter made the game trip
two years ago, with two
small boys, my heart bleeds
for her. It's almost twenty-
four hours from Toronto,
and she refused to get
sleeping berths, against my .
advice, ‘

But she’s a very adaptable,
strong-hearted and generally
clear-headed young woman,
and has made-not only a go
of it, but a success of coping
with. a frontier town, if
there's such a thing left in
Canada. .

At Cochrane, you change
from a fast transCanada
train to the self-styled Polar
Bear Express, somewhat of a
‘misnomer, as it has nothing .
todo, even peripherally, with
polar bears, and is the exact
opposite of an express, It

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stops whenever it feels like it,
backs up for a white, sits for
awhile, then jogs off again.
Sitting in
surrounded by fat, middle.
aged
chuckled and gossiped in
Cree, I felt much like a
Russian, aristocrat who had
banished to Siberia for
supposedly plotting against‘
the Czar, The train rolled on
hour after hour through the
taiga, skinny evergreens too
useless even for pulpwood,
burnt-out patches every so But
often,

a coach

Indian - ladies who

three taxis,

want?

snow out both

restaurant,

Well,

What more could a man
maybe
poolroom.. Or a massage
parlor..Or a movie house. .
these are -sybaritic
southern frills. No violent

~ Bill Smiley

police station, churches, The
Bay store, with a monopoly
on most food and clothing, a
meat market, two hafdware
stores, one garage, a Mac's
Milk sort of place, a Chinese
magnificent
schools,’ a’ really splendid,
small art gallery featuring the
works of Indian artists, and

windows, and no sign of
human: life, All we needed
was a samovar at the end of
the coach, and the Siberian
image would have been
complete.

But a warm welcome, with
some hugs and kisses from
grandboys dispelled the first
impressions. 9” :

‘There seems . little real
reason for Moosonce to ¢x-
ist, except that it is the end of
steel. Yet it's a thriving little
town, with all che requisites:
liquor store, ~post office,

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movie could take the place of

a dash across the mighty -

Moose River just before
break-up, with the water fly-

ing as though you were a ship ©

ina stiff gale,
It's' an odd community,
geographically. It looks as

though God or somebody”

had flown over the place,
dumped out a few handsful
of buildings, and let them
fall where they might. I can
find my way, around in most
major cities, but I was con-
stantly getting lost. in
Moosonee.

Something else that made

“me wonder was what people

did for a living. There is no
industry, yet. everybody
seems to have money.
Nobody looks even vaguely
hungcy. Perhaps it’s a matter
of taking’ in each other's
washing. :

But I have a suspicion that

if all the government money,”

railway, © liquor . ‘store,
schools, police, welfare, old
age pensions, baby bonuses
and so ‘on. were suddenly
withdrawn, the place would
collapse, and be remembered.
as a sort of: rough-hewn
Camelot. ‘
There is,. of course, the
tourist industry, but that’s
pretty negligible except for a

pretty sizable investment,
and has used It with some
common sense... The town
used to be an army base, and
many ofthe buildings have
been put to use as schools,
housing,, administrative of-
fices. Better than’ leaving
them to rot.

For.example, the houses

on the base are now rented:to,

teachers and other officials.
The barracks are ‘used to:
house the Indian kids from,
Moose Factory, across the
river, in spring and fall,
when it's unsafe to cross the
‘river. The recreation building
is used for school-rooms, It
still has a bowling alley.
Thereis a curling rink, where
kids also learn to skate. At
the school there is a fine
cafeteria, with food that
would make the habituces of

visit

cur school cafeteria drool.

But this is beginning to
sound like a travelogue, not
my Intention. 1 had a grand
visit with. my only daughter,
without the constant inter
ruptions of her mother.

I played chess with my
grandson, 7, and barely
escaped with my hide, Twice
he forced me to stalemate, in-
stead of checkmate, 2
humiliating experience. And

cL ‘played without mercy,
‘regardless of are.

We had music, and read
joctry, played
dominoes, and ate like kings.
1 ripped off three graceful
Moosonce geese, hand-
crafted by the natives. And I
came home with a better sun-
burn than confreres who's
gone south for their holiday.
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