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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 5, 1979

The Inside Story: Bringing ‘Maggie ' to the West Kootenay

eatin Harry Woods delivers "Maggie" to News/Mrror publisher Burt Campbell

From Front Page tacle of grown men and women representing newspaper chains, syndicates, publishers and distributors holding each other's hands, exchanging hys- terieal phone calls, telexing warnings, filing affidavits and imposing ¢with their fingers and toes crossed) what is virtually their own Official Secrets Act on a 256-page property (or excerpts thereof} that, for them — as well as for the author, by her own admis- sion — came down to one familiar word: money.”

If anything, Maclean's un- derstated the case.

Even in the News/Mirror situation there were elements of hysteria that were almost comic. There were telephone calls at_6 a.m, (and even one case when the™News/Mirror. publisher tracked down Opti- mum's vice-president at his home telephone number late

one night to clear up a point.

There was the exchange of lengthy telegrams detailing legal agreements including an undertaking by the

Nelson-Castlegar- Trail

Royal Hudson Arrives

The Royal Hudson and five

pril 6 and onto the siding at irchbank Pienie Grounds in

The last large steam en-

ine licenced to run under her own power on Canadian rail- “roads, this magnificent creation

The Hudson tows a larger, heavier train and may not be able to negotiate the sharp

less scenic attractions that abound in B.C, The remainder will be service, dining and

dation cars for - the

curve over Avenue in Annable. Birchbank may be out of the way, but it also has 130-pound rail!

Some of the exhibit cars will be familiar from last. summer although the inside displays have been changed. Two cars will emphasize Koote- nay steam transportation and industrial history. Another has been “taken over" by the Vi Maritime Museum.

47. Built for and still capable of speeds up to $0 miles an hour, track permitting, the Hudson can need help on steep Koote- nay grades, For this reason, a diesel unit from B.C. Rail will be placed in the middle of the 12-car train as a helper engine when needed.

Why Birehbank? Last sum- mer all four of Tadanac yard's diesel units and consolidation 3716 had to strain mightily to nudge the museum train up the four-and-one-half per cent grade onto the Warfield spur.

HIGHLIGHTS

From Front Page tically obsessed with a “beauti- ful, god-like man” named Yves

: Lewis, whom she met while on

- the vacation with her family in

Tahiti where she also met

, Pierre Trudeau for the first time.

e In 1969, when she was given a trip to Morrocco by her

arents as a university gradua- tion gift, Margaret lived for eight months in communes, ‘ smoked dope, dropped LSD and “threw away my conventional notions of sexual morality.”

e Among her other Mor- roccan adventures, Margaret narrowly escaped the clutches of the “drug king of Tangiers” who offered to set her up in a villa as his mistress, and later, unknowingly, nearly became a heroin courier.

e Her much-publicized nervous breakdown after the 1974 election was “phony.”

@ After her 1974 infidelity Margaret sought refuge in smoking up to four joints of marijuana — which she had used in Pierre’s presence be- fore their marriage — and the prime minister, on arriving

: home from the office, “would come up not to kiss me, but to vsniff me.”

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crew. The Royal Hudson is own- ed by the Province of British Columbia but as an ex-Canadian Pacific Railroad engine, she operates internationally on a federal licence obtained for her by the CPR on behalf of the province. A small point per- haps, but legally the Hudson could not make her goodwill tours without the co-operation of her former owner-operators.

It has been said that the sailing ship and the steam locomotive were the two most animate objects ever created by man. Gaze’ on the Hudson and you will agree.

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News/Mirror to be responsible for revenue losses to Optimum in’ the event that premature release of the excerpts was traceable to the News/Mirror, A registered letter was even sent the News/Mirror’s central printing plant asking

for tight security and warning,

of the legal and financial consequences were it not ob- seved.

+ In fact, as this is written, our production personnel are working behind doors closed to anyone except staff members whle Guedes works behind a closed door under similar secur-

ity. .

But if negotiations for the Beyond Reason serialization were agonizing for the News/ Mirror staff ("Have we got Maggie yet?" was the constant query put to Guedes), the actual receipt of the material once the agreement telegrams had been exchanged led to a chase reminiscent of Around the World in 80 Days.

Optimum agreed to send

the manuscript by Air Canada guaranteed freight- — but failed to do a0,

‘The result was fear that it wouldn't arrive in time for the. first issue of the “new” Mirror.

Campbell spent two hours on the telephone talking with PWA and Air Canada freight’ representatives in Vancouver

‘and Montreal. The result was,

that Air Canada traced down

election, the timing is perfect.”

Now, I'm looking forward to reading “Maggie,” as we very affectionately call the

serialization around the News/ ~

Mirror, But somehow J think that no matter how revealing

. the excerpts may‘or may not

be,. the staff of the News/ Mirror will always believe the biger story was how we got Maggie.

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At this end, local resident Harry Woods.was retained to fly to Vancouver, meet a PWA freight representative at Air Canada's offices near midnight, present his letter of authoriza- tion ‘allowing release of the parcel to.him, and ‘then travel... to Castlegar: in time to allow editing'and typesetting to be carried out.

In an affidavit filed with the Supreme Court of Ontario in the Padington Press vs Henry Champ case, the London Daily Express disclosed it had invested 100,000 pounds ster- Jing (apx. $242,000 Canadian) in its “Trudeau serialization pro- gram" while the Toronto Sun reportedly paid $25,000.

Campbell declined to dis- close the cost of the excerpts to him, admitting only that his newspapers had engaged in “chequebook journalism.”

At the time the News/ Mirror acquired the serializa- tion rights, says Guedes, only one.other B.C, newspaper, the Vancouver Sun, had also pur- chased the excerpts.

“With the Pacific Press labor dispute still on, the News and Mirror may be the only newspapers in this province to publish them,” Guedes noted.

“Even under normal. cir- . cumstances the timing of the release of the Trudeau memoirs would have been excellent,” he added. “But with the expansion of the ‘new’ Mirror into Trail, Nelson and Rossland, and the prime minister's

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e She found Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards “curled up on the floor in a fetus position, moaning" during her stay at a Toronto hotel with the rock group in 1977.

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effective (contraception) rate of | up to 99.89 percent.” Halfthose *

tested had used the substance — called’ gossypo) — more than two years and some for as long:

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Like; most people. in. this ‘country ‘with any > intel- \ligence, 1 welcome the advent of spring, which in’ Canada consists. mainly ‘of mud, slush, cold rain and colder winds, <

Mis the end of that suicidal’ season in which we © get more and. more depressed, irritable, and: bone-weary of living in a

Yes, 1 welcome spring, but there's one aspect of it that 1 very nearly loathe, That's

when the first yellow. sun begins to filter through those murky. -storm. windows, which we daren't take off un- til mid-May,

1 isn’t the sun that bothers me. It's the Old Baitleaxe, She throws away her survival

land where the ‘national sound symbols are the: wet sniffle and the barking cough, the national sight symbols are. the filled-in driveway and the rusting fender.” :

It’s a trying time.” For, years, I’ve advocated a mid- February holiday to save.the national’ psych from. self- destruction, I’ve suggested calling it National Love Day, the third Monday in Feb.: a day to love your neighbour, your neighbour's wife, yourself, and life, not necessarily in that order.’

But I've ‘been blocked, year after year, by politi- cians, who fear the oppo- nents might score a victory if ,

“it. were named Sir John A,

MacDonald: Day or’ Sir

Wilfred Laurier Day; and by the’ industrialists and business. community, , who-, blanch with terror’ at. the - thought of’ paying « their ~ employees for one more non-

- productive day. in the year. Hell, a third’ of their em- _ployees’ days are’ non- productive’: anyway. ‘-They may as well. throw in’ a bonus,

from her eyes, and she starts driving me out of my skull.

drapes!’? I look. They look fine to me, Same old ones we had in January. Green- and gold, .turned’ toa sort of grold with cigarette smoke and hot air from the ancient furnace, but: perfectly. ser- viceable drapes.

“Look at that rug. Filthy! Look at the chesterfield. The Boys have ruined it: jam, bananas, yoghurt! Look -at that woodwork. It was off- white in the fall, and now it's off-black! The wall paper is disgusting!"

Well, 1 look up from my Paper with every. demand, and everything looks just the same to meas it did a month ago. Comfortable. Warm. Lived-in. I venture such an opinion. It is met with a tor- _Y tent of abuse, self-pity, and

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“You don’t care, do you? You'd live in a: pig-pen, wouldn't you?. Other men

Details on these, and other job opportunities aré available

1 ats Trail Canada Employment

Centre at 835 Spokarie Street:

er phone 368-5566. ‘e oe. Service station in Trail has

: an opening for a certified Auto

3 ber 258)

Mechanic. Must have service “oe station experience and should have

* lace decent,’ di A Bar Walter/waitress: is ‘Have you a ah in ine wanted ‘for full-time work in’. New Denver. Salary is $3.60 an: hour, S A Senior Survey Instra- ‘ ment Person. with BCIT. back- 4 pashit “ground and previous experi- uneasily and answer, ‘Yes. ence is required. Salary is $8 to or, _sometimes,. “No.” 1

$10 an hour depending on never know what to say, but experience. . it’s always the wrong thing. .

Frankly, | don’t care. And ‘yes, | would live in a pig-pen,

this.“"wreck" room that'used

tobe our living-room?” Faced with a barrage of

rhetorical. questions, I shift

AnE:

.;. Employer. willing to pay up to.

$10 per hour. (Order number 198)

Pe . Castlegar sawmill needs a Lumber. Grader with a “A” or ork . steady

;{ hour, (Order number 309) » ee

Engineering firm in Castle- gar requires services of an Elettrical

of work: required. (Order num-

er ‘Newly opened eran 1% in Castlegar has. need for an : experienced Chef to prepare ‘full course. meals. Salary is negotiable. (Order number 211) PR ee a Nelson. Canada Employ: ‘ment Centre, Street, 352-3155. . *

Short Order Cooke are’

{& required in the Balfour area.

Saery varies. :

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k i ‘Swim Coach ith recent

: bronze ‘cross certificate is need- ed/for. part-time work.

eclpaniss 2 “warited to teach the following?

2 graphy: graphies;- sculpture; ..” + }matural’ and chemical dying, .

‘spinning; weaving; Chinese, Mexican, Japanese and natural * = floods. cooking; general wood- S working; cabinet making; small a otor repairs; basic drafting; “plumbing for the homeowner; masonry for the homeowner; metrics for the public; Italian, French. and Spanish conversa- tion. . * *

Hy Cars hosts/hostesses are

needed for full-time work in the”

° Nelson area: oo : Walkcrafeaitconsea ar6 re- quirsd:for full and. part-time 2 work, Mature preferred.

ns are want-~.

Haase abe i ed to perform housecleaning ; duties on a weekly basis.

as “Walk, jog, run, skate, ski, swim, paddle, pedal... Son tlet life catch you with your head down.

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if nothing else were avail- ~able. And no, other men don’t help their wives keep the place decent. Not decent men. And yes, I have eyes in my head, two-of them, one. y2fpt to be black: See cole. yumn I'm

is needed in Nelson. Salary is $6 to $8 an hour, es © 6 A. Licensed Occupational Sua i raubed in Nelson. ° Arale Bef

‘Bill Smiley, look at those”

help. their. wives “keep the-

kit, the cataracts are peeled ..’

> head? Aren't you ashamed of: |

‘Sunshine- Spring Brings Reaction

“same. ‘And if visitors don't Uke it, they can go-and visit someone else, with a real rec’ *

pierre ts

“the money gamble away on! lotteries.

T remind her gently that if she hadn't spent a cool thou- sand on gold chains last sum- mer in Switzerland, we'd. be in clover. And so it goes,

After a week or two of this, we have arrived at an impasse. The sun keeps shin- ing, something important, like the children, crops up,

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room, It is confusing, is, it not?

However, | am an amen- able chap. 1 don't-kick a dog, just because he bays at the moon. I don’t kick a woman,

and we sail happily into a new year, ,with: the wreck toom in tact: warm,’ com- fortable, lived-in.’ Doesn't cost a nickel. And you know something? Nobody cares.

just because she begins rav- ing when the March sun

filters into the dugout where we've spent the winter.

I. merely, blink. benignly, - start » talking »supportively, Yes, we should have new drapes. How much? Yes, we -- should have a new’ chester- field suite. How much?-Yes, ° it's time we: got rid of “that

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we bought second-hand for $100 20 years ago. How much for a new one? Cer- tainly, the rugs need cleaning and. the” whole “house ' re- decorating. How much?

It always comes. out to somewhere around $8,000. 1 remind that we have to bor- tow from the bank to pay the income tax. That we have two cars which we could sell in a package deal, to an ex- - perienced mechanic, for $400. That if we don’t have some brickwork done, the whole house will fall down, and we'll be sitting there, in full view, on our new chester- field.

1) suggest that she save

t money from, teaching. her piano pupils, pay back the ‘$1,000 she’has spent on long- distance phone calls ‘to her relatives,

She counters, with arrows about the booze bill, the cigarettes account, and all

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