MONTREAL (CP) — Carole de Vault is a ealbniee in Quebec, appearing on radio talk shows, writing newspaper articles and promoting her new book about her four years as a police informer within the terrorist Front de Liberation du Quebec. But she says life-as an informer wasn't all excitement and glamor, For example, during a foiled attempt to steal dynamite along with her terrorist pals in early 1971, her police “controller,” Montreal Police Capt. Julien Giguere, had a patrol car watch the scone of the action. De Vault was forced to hide for nearly an hour, lying face down in the snow beside a railroad track. In her book The Informer: Confessions of an Ex-Ter- rorist, she asks: “Why had Julien thought it necessary to keep me freezing for an hour on the railway track? The life of a police informer is not always a bed of roses.” ATTRACTS PUBLICITY De Vault, now 37, attracted wisespread publicity across Canada in 1979 when she told her story on the witness:stand, at Quebec's Keable inquiry, which was investigating tactics used by various Quebec police forces in the early 19708 to disrupt the FLQ. The inquiry conclutied that incidants such as the theft of dynamite by the RCMP and bombings and extortion by. Levett You have got to feel sorry for that company, for whom — some days — just nothing seems to jel The firm in question produces that kiddie caramel corn confection called Cracker Jacks and, lately, it has been one blasted thing after another. ~ . First of all, there was the kid who didn’t get a prize in the box as advertised — then there was the kid who did. In the first case, the kid complained to the father who thought it might be a good lesson in civics if they sued the company. They did and the kid was awarded a new box with a prize intact. And now we come to the second case. In this encounter, an eight-year-old girl opened and box and — if we are to believe the reports — bugled “WOW — look at this!” Then she proudly handed her prize to her grand- mother. “Her eyes got great big,” granny is quoted. It does not state, but chances are that the grand- parental optics did a little distension of their own for there, in the quivering palm, lay a pamphlet — Erotic Sexual Positions from Around the World. “I don’t think she even realized what it was,” grandma mused, adding: “She thought it was an exercise book.” (Well, wasn't it?) : This tiny pamphlet, illustrated, purports to:be the FIRST of a SERIES of “erotic best-sellers.” The company has, it says, traced the pranksters involved and have headed off similar publications planted in place of the plastic cars, tin whistles or. whatever, + CAUSES PROBLEM Well, you see the quandary this drops the company - into, can’t you? Some day, being only human, they're going to miss with another box and yet another moppet will hale them into court. “No prize,” she will wailand the company will swiftly kick in with a plastic doo-dad. Will this satisfy the mite? Not on your nellie. “What wants a dumb old whistle?” she will gulp, “Nelissa got one of those books — where is-my book?” On the other hand, since this appears to be the first of a series, will there be sophisticated, jaded, little eight-year-olds (or, for that matter, their grandmas) writing in: “We already have this edition. Please exchange it for Volume II.” The company involved is moving swiftly to right the situation, and not a moment too soon. Already our appointed watchdogs are censoring our books, TV and movies. Unless this scurrilous situation is stamped out | immediately, we'll have the politicians in. Can't you see see the name on the door now: “Provincial Department of Kiddie Caramel Corn — Censorship Division.” Sticky business, all round. 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The campaign of developing police-controlle “assets”. loyalties... everything boca she didn’t know what she’ ‘was doing when sho testified about “Looking back on it today, I feel the Keable commission took me in, confused nie in'my convictions, shook me in‘my within the FLQ was so vast in score that one. senior been for me.” anti-terrorist. officer stunned observers at the Keable inquiry with the mtatetnents “By 1972, the FLQ was us.” [UNIQUES- 7 The Keable pei said de Vault helped draft at least 10 FLQ commuhiques, at least soma of which were printed on , FLQ@ letterhead psper possibly pravided by police: It also said she was involved in helping plea with prior knowledge of police, such incidents as tho firebombing of a’ niless,”“she writes. | Brink's Canada Ltd. garage witha Molotov cocktail made in her bathroom, a church bingo robbery and the attempted -extortion of $200,000. from/an ‘airline that was told'a bomb: touch ‘me on my private parts”. 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As a consequence, Dennis Shay (Castlegar Hotel), Bill Plotnikoff (where Bob's Pay,’n-Takit is now), Ralph ‘West (West's) and Nick (Oswald's Motors) got together. ‘town maintained of course, by ‘the initiators. ” Binge Nick had had 10 years in the taxi Dusinesg in > Blairmore (hé had: not’ only. driven‘ and. serviced: his . vehicles, but had rigged up the first lighted sign for a taxi roof, an invention' which’ unfortunately.“he hadn't patented) and since ‘there: was. no “Cast A contract made with the Canadian Pacific Railway “ : ‘on Sept. 8, 1947, reads i in part: “The contractor (Oswald’ _Tailway company fransportati : for 8.8. Minto, togethi - with the baggage of said paadengers.” - changed,:Nick was expected to change his schedule to + accommicdate it, In return he was to receive $1.50 for the trip to carry one to four passengers. Qn any day on which there were no Passengers fora achecoled trip he was to +, Feceive 60-cents. _-) Besides the taxi service, Nick also ran an emergency ambulance service and. Mrs. Oswald. recalls: some . hair-raising trips to the. Trail: Hospital (the Castlegar ‘Hospital was not built until 1958). : :On-one ‘oceasion an‘expectarit mother had started early labor and Nick made that over the old, t road in 20 minutes. He- preferred a delivery-at the hos-" © \pital to one at the side of the highway and pmade it just in Zivuuacadaacmeruccmegtreaenc ena nen ens ne 5 users ‘time. Nick operated the: dovpatown garal > until 1962) and then relocated to where Cestlegar.Tire is now, but in both © locations his premises served — like the old.country sare: E — as the town meeting -place. _*He would be on the job until all hours of the night,." Charlie King, “and — Dr. Goresky, Dr. Smythe, Constable Paine, Father Barnes, I — and many others would stop by Foawenty: to get work done to attempt our airs: imply to get him to lay off working for.a helluva’ a fine fellow — ‘would give you the shirt off, his back.” During the war years thé, town boasted a well organized Civil Defence program which incorporated the Castlegar Volunteer Fire, Brigade, emergency . first aid disaster unfts: and) an ai Police force, ‘which ‘Mrs. Oswald remembers the , 806, rifle and bayonet which Nick was issued, and his loing guard duty ‘property above the present dam. Nick told her that he bad no ‘ion for the rifle at the time but it didn't matter ise no one knew but me.” “When ‘the dam was builtthe beautiful ‘house and’ its myriad shrubs were moved down to the Robson townsite. ~.. There was an interesting ete leading. up to the > installation of those first siree! ) Mrs: Oswald says. Before they. were installed, a Me Tobnston ‘from Trail came to Castlegar one summer and set up a. (hotdog stand beside Oswald's Motors. He illuminated «with power’ ftomi the garage’ and all summer people would come in from as far as Trail and cat t Higt-dogs under the lights, “It became quitea happy place for people to gather,” she recalls, “but the lease-holder. raised a fuss over a second business being on the premises, so he had to shut it down.” Nonetheless, that night illumination had set a spark and it was shortly after that the “ud streets came to the town: Besides the taxi run and the garage; "Nick also got into selling farm’ equipment and home appliances and thereaiter these always formed a prominent place in local fairs and IODE . By 1945, Nick had driven taxi for 76,000 miles over some.of.the worst roads and:in some of the worst conditions in Canada (“three times around the world,” he said).— all without a single accident. On May 9, 1945 there was to be a VE day celebration parade in Trail to - . mark the end.of the war in Mrs; Oswald, who was expecting their second child any moment, insisted (over her husband's strong objections) on going to see it. She did, and then a few hours later, gave birth to Theresa the operation ” om‘a’ umber of people. One. ‘isa story; of-the ; horse |.trade: to find a suitable home for the eseih he-rented 4 barn. and bought feed: for them, an. operation: which : rapidly ate up’ ey ttle profit what he might have made on the’ original trad: On another occasion he took in'‘two bear.cubs whose , mother had been killed by a hitter. “Blackie” and” “Brownie” were kept in the back yard and fed by. hand bottle with milk from Tipping’s Dairy at 10 cents quart. ‘The young ‘bears grew rapidly.and soon had no.’ difficulty in climbing over the 10-foot fence to play: with the neighbor: children — and particularly to ride:.o! “the Hopland’s teeter-totter. When, however, they. roamed-a bit further and cleaned off some shelves at” -West’s' and attended ‘Sunday service at St.- David's —! ‘Anglican Church — as ‘well as a few other shenanigans, Nick had to banish them to ‘the farm. ‘The kids, also, made use of the “free air” to fill their bike tires and sometimes to play with-the hoses — with Joss of pressure, to the accompaniment of Nick's highly colorful and blasphemous ‘cussings. But, as’ Teresa observed, it all evened out in'the end — they filled their tires with air as-kids.and their tanks with gas as adults. Some ‘of them — including Peter Kazakoff, Ron Gemmill and Ken Harmston — may: have éven come into the garage as apprentices. - Nick”. gold. -the ‘business in 1965, went into semi-retirement, and died eight years later on Sept. 10, 1974, Nonetheless, while he lived he continued to work part-time.and to take an active interest in his hobbies of photography and auto restoration, as well as in the work © of the Castlegar: Sentinal. Masonic Ledee 1 No. 146, of which he. was-a charter mel Nick is: by ‘his wife Milda,. 5 son Jack of Nelson, Mrs,’ Lorn Kilinchuk ° of Castlegar and five grandchildren.. ~ Perhaps the most significant aspect of this brief, pioneer biography is an item: which appeared recently in the Castlegar News under “Remember When? 35 Years . fj Ago”..It reads: “N. Oswald donated $500 tie. a of annual salary at that time after four increments on the high school salary ’ -seale) to the Castlegar and District Hospital Construction Fund. This brings the total subscription to $1,100 to date and the canvassers are just getting under way.” That brief newspaper excerpt tells more about Nick Oswald, pioneer ‘and, good citizen; than many a long ‘eulogy. ‘Milda - Oswald; describes: her ‘late husband as “a simple man who“ expected little and never bought anything for himself." There -are‘a considerable number of people, also, in this community who, when Nick found that they. were in straitened never saw a bil for services rendered.» : “Theresa adds, “Up to the day of his cath he took an interest ‘anything that.was being ‘built in the town. He ‘stayed up all night to monitér ‘the building of the new water towes and built ‘a‘special attachment for it himself, and checked constantly on the Sonstruction when they were building the new ‘bridge.’ To Nick Oswald'— the big man with the rough exterior,.and soft heart, ‘pioneer citizon — we owe, probably, more than we realize, stn sei First tractor sale in 1958. Nick shows off hi second wrecker in in 1958.