.C, with the Queen and Prince Philip in 1971

By NICOLE STRICKLAND It isn't always, simple to be a living legend, or to live with

a living legend.

For W.A.C. Bennett, 73, last Thursday, leg-

endary political ‘accomplishments are coming to an end. . His active political career is over, after more than 32 years fh public life, 20 of them as B.C,’s premier.

’ The aftermath will not be easy. To a man such as Bennett, politics is an all-consuming passion — breathed, drunk, eaten, and lived every waking moment of evéry day.

. There ‘have been mistakes; there have been failings. There has been the fall from

public favor, the turning. away of supporters, There have been the famous salemens ... “plugged int “socialist are fH lovely day, isn’t it?”

The square white teeth and square jaw have been cari- catured countless times. The sayings noted. The budget au-

dited:

Now, W. A. C. Bennett be- comes history. It is a role, one cannot help but feel, that he will adopt uneasily and with remorse.

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It is March, 1973, and the legislative assembly is sitting in. Victoria. William Andrew Cecil Bennett, former premier of the province and now lead- er of the Opposition, has cut short a world cruise to catch the tail end of the session.

Kay Mylrea, secretary to Bennett for the past 18 years, notes the change in her em- ployer and friend since the

. Coelits a

premiership changed hands.,

“Tt really, hit-him in the mid-

ships. when he lost.‘Really,-it ~-

would anyone. It was like being rejected...you know?”

Bennett enters the room and

Kay Mylrea rises. “Mr. Pre- ‘

mier .. .” she begins, He's always one to know an issue “Still, March, 1973. The cries . of “Mr. Premier’? come not only from Kay Mylrea, and faithful supporters Dan Camp- ball (municipal affairs minis- ter during the

the Socred regime) and Grace M (Socred wainister without portfolio). They come also from the angry farmers protesting David Barrelt’s agricultural land

On this “cool day in mid- March the farmers sit on the steps of the legislative build- ings. They stand on the lawns. ‘They are asking for Céce Ben- nett. Some are asking for the return of the Social Credit

party.

+ But Cece Bennett is too busy to spend more than a short time with them today. There is the scheduled CBC radio program, and the rally in Nanaimo, and there are the letters of protest to be count- ed.

Cece Bennett knows an issue when he sees one.

He is late for his Nanaimo rally, where he will repeat word for word the same “phrases he used earlier in the day on the CBC. “Some friends of mine said ‘Bennett, take a little holiday’ . then the telegrams . ing me to come back . threw them overboard . begging me to come back . ie and so I did.”

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Dan Campbell drives the car on the way to Nanaimo, Bennett beside him up front, while Grace McCarthy dozes in the back seat.

Grace McCarthy will be re- ©

ferred to at this rally as the Beautiful Grace McCarthy. And even in sleep, wearing her false eyelashes and or- ange wool maxi-skirt and matching orange woo! shawl and orange hair and orange lipstick, she is a striking woman, far more attractive than her photographs reveal. She is a woman who is an asset to any man because of her good looks and charm. Introduced at the rally as “our lovable Gracie McCarthy who slaves as a private citi- zen in the offices of Her Maj- esty's Loyal Opposition’ she will be an asse! to W.A.C.

Yesterday’s premier... faces today

Bennett on his speaking en- gagements,

He has promised her “a very important post three years from now in the next Social Credit government.” She will accompany him on all his speaking tours in the ‘months to come.

At the wheel, Dan Campbell pushes Bennett's 1967 Ram- bler as hard as he dares up the Malahat Highway. He is forced to make up for time

Jost_ when the Beautiful Grace’

McCarthy obliged an elderly couple by using their Brownie camera to snap their picture with the former premier out- side the legislative buildings.

Always, there is time for public relations, for a hand- shake, for a smile. Indeed, Grace McCarthy is an asset.

Late now, Bennett ‘examines his car manual while Dan Campbell frantically eats up the miles to Nanaimo.

“Drive at moderate speeds until, the engine has warmed up...” Bennett reads,

“At what speed would you like me to drive, Mr. Pre- mier?" comes the reply, said

with total sincerity and an ab- .

sence of sarcasm. Dan Camp- bell, too, has been promised “a very important post.”

*” Bennett’s talk, as always, is

political. “If there’s enough demand all over the province then there will be another election. I think that instead of being 40 percent NDP there would be less than 25 percent. We'd be back to the hard core...”

Suddenly: ‘Are the head- lights on, Daniel? Is it filled up with gas? How's the oi]?”

It_is difficult'drawing Ben- nett away from. the sweet memories of the farmers’ demonstration and onto talk about the private Bennett. One finds it is either that the private and the public Bennett are one or that the private Bennett is a person so inac- cessible-that-the public, politi- cal Bennett at times cannot even search out the private man.

On rising prices: “It's: not that prices have gone up, you know, it’s that the value of money has gone down

Province headline, Aug. 2nd, 1958

W.AC. is 73, a legenc

goes marching on

Reprinted from the Vancouver Province of September 8 (The byelection referred to was won on Saturday by Mr. Bennett's son, Bill}

... and that’s what we tried to stop... wild infla- tion... and that's why we were forced out of offi- ce... 65... that was our magic figure .. .”

Like the dormouse at the Mad Hatter’s tea, Grace McCarthy lifts her head and

begins “When we were in power...’

And the car burtles through the darkening afternoon.

Bennett confides that he en- joys poetry. He admits to hav- ing been raised Presbyterian (“It still bothers me if I cut my nails or shine my shoes on Sunday"). He talks briefly about ‘'a few good books I read on my holiday,” the best in his opinion being the one entitled World Economic Phi- losophies.

We pause for tea along the ‘Malahat, On leaving the res- taurant, Bennett is stopped ks the cashier, who bashful stammers: “I wish you nee still in power, Mr. Bennett.” .

Trees flash by, but Bennett is absorbed in the 5 o'clock radio news. He cannot hear enough about the farmers’ demonstration. Through thick radio static, he listens careful- ly to his pretaped radio pro-

gram. On the radio he is say- |

ing ‘that -he feels in better health now than he did 20 years -ago when he became

premier. In the car he is smil- [i

ing.

He concludes ‘his radio in- terview by. saying ‘And you just tell all those people that are listening out there sey can sign up as a member of the Social Credit for four years and send their $5 to me at the legislative buildings.”

“That was good,” says Grace McCarthy.

“That was noisy” says Ben- nett.

Dan Campbell is smoking, saying little, concentrating on his driving. It is now that W. A. C. Bennett drops, the bombshell that in later days will be headlined on Page One: “I will never be premier again. Our party needs a younger man,

“I was solely responsible

for the last defeat. I solely 2

recommended that we fight inflation and that got the teachers’ groups and every- body riled up.

“I_ was trying to protect the people from the power of ad- vertising and that cost us, but if I had to do it again, yes, I would — because you have to

stand on principle or fall.

down. I am a poor politician because I did not try to please all the people.all the time.”

Grace McCarthy looks out the window at the flashing trees. No one in the car speaks. The smell of Nanaimo pulp hangs in the air.

The evening’s rally has been wildly successful. Savor- ing -cries of “You're still our premier!” Bennett is hoarse

Bennett resigns today;

Barrett gets nest egg

«+ and Bept, 16th, 1972

A private audience with Pope Paul in 1965

versation shyly at first, fin- gering her wedding band. “I've never had this ring off in 48 years .. ." she ventures.

“That's pretty good - for brass!” her husband retoris, Dan Campbell guifaws.

May Bennett, he says “bakes bread, makes the best jelly roll In the world...” She Is obviously his favorite person.

“I think I have my grand- mother's wedding certificate .

: ventures May Bennett ‘again,

“She's never resented my time away,” Bennett says.

“I have a beautiful bracelet that Haile Selassie (emperor of Ethiopia) gave me with my name on it..." she says with

courage. “I'll get

“May keeps everything.

. And we've been given so

Former premier W.A.C. Bennett and wife, May, during his ‘Thursday birthday perty

and excited on the journey ” back to Victoria.

One woman: in the crowd had said “We're praying for you, Mr. Bennett; all Chris- tians are praying for you.” Bennett has been visibly

touched.

Close to midnight,.the Beau- tiful Grace McCarthy has been deposited at her Victoria quarters at the Empress Hotel, and Dan Campbell drives the former premier to his waiting wife May.

His wife awaits’ with Ovaltine

“When I get home,” Ben- nett croaks hoarsely, “my wife will have a cup of hot Ovaltine for me. Then I'll be asleep before my head even touches the pillow.” His mood is euphoric, so smoothly has the evening gone.

At a stop sign in the down- town Victoria traffic, Bennett nods and waves to two long- haired youths in the car be- side His. They recognize him and attempt to communicate. Bennett rolls down his window in an effort to listen better.

“T support Bill 42!" shouts the driver, and laughing, the occupants of the car speed

‘gallons. of .

“They don’t really support Bill 42... they're just kid- ding...” quavers Bennett, the joy of the evening dissip- ating. “Hippies!” he mutters, adding quickly “I.. .. I don’t mean that.”

It is clear that he has been personally hurt,

ke kok * It is late July, and the wide expanse of shaded lawn at the Bennett . home in Kelowna shows no.trace of the annual garden party held two days earlier.

Bennett sits erect at the table in the enclosed sunporch off the dining room. Dan Campbell sits at his side. Grace McCarthy has, made her appearance at the tea party and returned to Vancou- ver,

Bennett offers “five to 20 minutes” for an interview that instead spans two and “one-half hours. He is no long- era man in a hurry.

As Bennett talks, Dan Campbell listens, sitting at the foot of the gura with open admiration.

Bennett is still high on the success of the garden party,

with its ‘'8,000-10,000 guests” -

(the press has reported 5,000), and its “22,000 sandwiches that. just ‘vanished tike — zoom and thousands of cakes that went away, and 6,000 ice creams... and hundreds of 1 don't know how-.many gallons but tens and tens of gallons of temona- de... we're the. . . that

© was the largest annual

Enjoying birthday fete — from left, Mr. -and Mrs. Bennett: sister-in-law, Mrs.

Russell Bennett with her husband. Stan ding, the W.A.C.s° daughtar Anita Tozer -

party .... non-alcoholic ... . in the world .. . as a straight picnic... they just come...

: on a person's lawns .. . and

we appreciate it greatly . because that’s . . . our love . for people,”* * "Bennett's speech is frag-

: mented, his thoughts tossed

nes the “exciting memories of the He

shine and the passage of time

since the adjournment of the legislative assembly, his preoccupation with the “so- cialist hordes’ has lessened somewhat, and Cece Bennett is less on guard and more the soft-spoken hardware mer- chant than the arm-waving politician,

A horse meanders through the. seven acres of lawns around the house, and Bennett reflects on his very good life.

“Wealth isn't based on what you possess. It’s what you be- lieve. A person ‘must take time to think . . . to meditate. Unless you take hours every- day to meditate, you won't live a good life. And you can’t carry on a public career un- less you take’ time to, medi- tate.

“You have to be an awful egotist to think you arrived in public life or did well in busi- ness on your own. You do it by luck and by the help of many, many, many other peo- ple.

“We have lots of feiends .. . in Kelowmwa, Salt Spring Island, Victoria, Edmonton

. My whole life has: been service to people. That's what it's all about.”* .

The telephone rings con- stantly and distantly. Mes- Sages are noted and Bennett remains uninterrupted. May Bennett takes her place quiet- ly at the table.

Of Mrs. Bennett, the former premier .says: ‘When we married, , we understood ‘each other very well in that I never bothered in: the operation of

, the home and Mrs. Bennett

never interfered in-my busi- ness life nor my political life. But focally, she got.me 90 per cent of the votes,

“My wife and I have never had a fight. Most people have fights over money; but our un- was, that Mrs.

that his biggest weakness is that he is :an. emotional per- ‘son. His flowing tears and ;,blocked speech have in the “past been common at speak- i eneneccents His tears ‘flowed freely on the day he sannounced his intention to

- step down from the seat: in

‘Okanagan South.

Here in Kelowna, under the moderating influence of May ‘Bennett and perhaps under

the jointly moderating influ- “ences ofthe Okanagan sun-

Bennett could spend:anything she wanted, anytime, and if we both got spending money too fast and went: bankrupt “then we'd go bankrupt togeth- + er...” Smiles_all around, and a maid. serves coffee in fine china cups.

*. “But I knew very well the kind of gir) 1. married . Scottish background with Presbyterian conscience. It's been wonderful... all our 46 years. of. marriage .

Mrs. Rennelt enters the con-

“woman ‘pulling

many hundreds of fine gifts from all the people of British Columbia and of the countries we've visited . .. uh, Daniel, what about .. .? The former premier is again engrossed in politics.

Their suitcase of memorabilia

May Bennett opens a large suitcase bulging with tiny vel- vet boxes, plastic boxes, felt- wrapped

treasures, tissue- _ wrapped . trinkets. She is as

excited and happy as any

their wrappings and display- ing them. Each pair of flinks, each charm for her bracelet, each pin and each pair of earrings contains a Memory.

After afew moments, the memories catch Bennett too, and he. is equally engrossed by the contents of the suit- case,

“Now this silver cigarette

box is from the Queen... and there’s a silver ‘compact she gave me, too. And

gold nuggets, why they're from - and this diamond ving, it’s from . . .”

Nothing has been worn or

" displayed from this collection.

May Bennett says that when she and her husband main- tained the seaside apartment in Victoria and travelled fre- quently, she worried about theft. She cached her gifts “in the bottom of my wool basket, behind the books on the book- shelf, under newspapers. I hid them like a squirrel, but then Thad the darndest time find- ing them all again.”

But the larger treasures are on display in the Bennett basement, in the private mu- seum the Bennetts are build- ing for the Bennett family: In the museum rests the ‘old chair that. Bennett took with him when he lost the leader- ship. There is a wall of care

-toons lampooning the acts and .

the sayings over the years.

There is a whole wall of |

bound, catalogued newspaper clippings.

There are the publicly worn hats and gloves. There are the scale models of the Pacific Great Eastern Railways and the B.C. Ferries. There are the pictures of Bennett with the Pope, and Lyndon John- son, and the Queen and

: Prince Philip.

‘The room has a firepace for winter comfort and an air, conditioner for summer com- fort. The windows outside the basement are barred.

Upstairs, Bennett is saying

giftsfrom '

“I'm a bashful man, really. A bashful man. When you're premier, you've got to beve very careful who your friends are. . ‘You can’t let pressure groups get too close. You've got to re- strict yourself then — and that habit stays with you later.” |

Bennett talks about his ad- diction to television. He men- tions that his favorite actress is Olivia de Havilland. He says that’ in all his years in power It was important to his wife that he.be home for din- ner, and says that he mostly made it.

The conversation drifts from today's hardware stores to yesterday's premiership to Bennett’s personal life. When he speaks of the leadership, his speech is measpred.

“I loved the jeering and the catcalls best. There were no tears “then. I loved that. Memories mean a lot.”

He says that the evenings are generally passed with friends, and that he and his wife always stay up until after the late news. Dan Campbell says-that he stays up “later than that — if he's playing gin rummy.”

Bennett smiles roguishly, as if a well-kept secret had been let out of the bag afterall these years. Asked what the stakes are, the tart reply comes “nickels!” through a broad grin.

David Barrett is dismissed as “a birdjof passage:

Derril Warren is’“a spoil- er.”

“The outcome of the bid by

-Bennett’s son Bill to replace

his father as South Okanagan MLA is known.today.

Back on that easygoing day in July, Bennett was praising his son as “most ac- tive in politics for-all these 20 years that I’ve been premier. Very active in my campaign. Very active’ at every provin- cial election and a student of politics not only in B.C. but national as well and world politics and different types of economic and political sys- tems.

“He's 41—just the age when I came in... (and Bennett beams) as an MLA.”

One wonders If Bennett, the living legend, likens himself to the legend of the Phoenix. According to Greek mytholo- gy, the Phoenix lives “a cer- tain number of years at the close of which it makes a nest of aloes, sings a melodious dirge, flaps its wings to set fire. to the pile, burns itself to ashes, and comes forth ‘with new life.”

The Phoenix most definitely is not a bird.of passage.

Question: Do birthdays begin to bother you, Mr. Ben- nett?

Answer: “No. I love them. I feel younger today than be- fore I became premier. Now in the first six months after I became premier, I had noth- ing but headaches, but I haven't had a headache since

“And there's hope! hope! hope! that there'll be many more birthdays.”

Question: Will you ever re- tire?

Answer: ‘Retirement’ is a mirage. Why should I retire? ‘What's a man supposed to do

. twiddle his thumbs? Of course I won't retire.” *

May Bennett: “Yes, I worry about his health. He pushes himself very :hard. Probably too hard, but then he’s a won- derful man.”

= ql and win o few prizes are the

“1 believe in predestination. 1 was predes- ~tined todo what | did, what 1am doin now, and what | will do: What will.I do

Not what I’m doing now.” °::

—William Andrew Cecil Bennett, March, 1978

“He will never retire; his mind is too active.’ —Annie Elizabeth May Bennett, July, 1973

' EARLY BIRD DRAW for the 1973 Canada Summer Games Lottery was Castlegar News advertising manager Walter Marken, RN right, being presented a $100 cheque from Castleger Rotary )’ president Don Wickett. The 1973 Canada Summer Games Lottery j tickets must be sold through service clubs with Rotary here filling (that requirement. Mr. Wickett sald money realized from these

: H) sales will be. given the Kinnaird A Swim.

Quadra Manufacturing, an industry which, its president claims, couldn't have gotten started without a government grant and the support of this community, has celebrated its first anniversary,

During that first year of

manufacturing chain saws, pro- duction has increased to 2,500 a week and the number of employees has been increased from 34. to 62,

Marketing has been dev- eloped and Quadra manu- factured chain saws are now sold in 21 countries. About 80 per cent of Quadra's products are exported,

Until recently, all chain saws were sold in Canada or for off-shore export, but chain saws

are now also sold in the U.S., a -

country which represents half

the world chain saw market. “Because of the national. economic instability, we didn't want to become dent on one market, so

Club.—Castlegar News Photo

Fourth Annual Klondike Night Offers Family Outing

All systems are now “go” to buy a 14 mini bus

we built up a market and then went into the United States. “If that market were to close, we would still have a viable operation,” Quadra pre- sident Jim Hutchinson said. Quadra marketing = man- ager C. R. Davison said with the world's changing market,

for the fourth annual Klondike for Regional Recreation Com-

mission No. 1,

Klondike Dough will be the official currency for the evening and there will be several banks at various spots in the curling rink and arena hall for handling transactions,

Food concessions will be in operation and Kiwanians and their wives and friends will be

; until the early hours of Sunday dressed in Klondike garb. The | morning. There will be games public is also encouraged to

tan opportunity. to meet your friends and neighbors, and a # chance to make some money

A full program is slated

attractions being offered. starting at 5:30 p.m, and lasting

of chance, bingo, concessions, wear Klondike clothes if they ‘special games for the kiddies — wish. and a Gold Rush Fellowship Room in the Castlegar Arena ‘Hall, ' There will also be two (Ydances: a teenage dance from 10 p.m. to midnight on the floor - He the curling rink and an adult dance starting at 9 p.m. in the i ' Gold Rush Fellowship Room. it Burt Campbell, Klondike | Night committee chairman, H said proceeds from the event

Harry L. Purdy Named Chairman Can-Cel Executive

Director Harry L. Purdy

the executive committee of i will go towards paying off the Canadian Cellulose, the govern- + loan the Kiwanis Club obtained ment controlled firm ‘which - assumed operations of Colum-

-_PHOTOCOPYING bia Cellulose.

Other members of the committee are Can-Cel presi- Important Papers - Clippings

Gordon, Ira D. Wallach: and Donald N. Watson. Director Charles C. Locke Reasonable Rates was named to head the audit committee. _ The board has not named a

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‘dent ‘and -directors Alan'S. ~

must “follow the current” in establishing mar- kets,

“Things are always hap- pening in the market and our reaction has always been to that market," Mr, Davison said,

Mr, Hutchinson said this area's “Community spirit” was evident not-only when Quadra was forming, but continues, and the level of penetration of chain saw sales in a 60 to 60 mile radius of the plant is higher than anywhere else.

But this community has received a high return for its support,

Of Quadra's 52 employees, 15 are new to this area and have brought their families with them and have bought homes. Some of the remainder probably would have had to leave the area in search of work, i

“But we are not just making work for lots of bodies,” Mr. Hutchinson said. “We are creating challenging work. The jobs that were created here are good jobs and they pay an above-average wage.”

Mr. Hutchinson said people : from this area, ; dustrial! ‘oriented and: make? excelfent: employees.

The Canadian government which gave Quadra the DREE grant which helped the com.

Break-In Investigated A break-in at Zibin's Store

in Robson, which was reported Tuesday morning of last. week,

_ is still under investigation.

Entry was made by break- ing a window on the east side of. the store,

Reported missing are 15 cartons of cigarettes, six dozen eggs and 25 chocolate bars.

An RCMP spokesman said

inter-.

First Anniversary Celebrated

Quadra Manufactured Chain Saws Find Ready Market

pany get started, ‘has Also received a high return on its

‘Investment,

Income tax on tho em- ployecs’ $600,000 a year payroll and sales tax generated by the sales of chain saws surpassed the amount of the grant in the first year of production. This will continue to grow in years to come,

Quadra has also made a $2.5 million a yeur improve: ment to Canada’s balance of trade.

“Rather than importing $1.6 million a year, we are now exporting $1 million a year. And this, we would expect, will grow from year to year,” Mr. Hutchinson said.

Just what is ahead for Quadra? A vigorous engincer- ing program is now underway to produce a now, larger, more powerlul chain saw. It is hoped production will be increased from 2,500 to 3,000 a month.

Mr. Hutchinson believes Ubal with the paving of the Trail Municipal Airport at Columbia Gardens and the establishment of an industrial park, that area is sure to grow,

He said that even though there may be only a dozen people using the Trail airport, these will be people with companies behind them. They will be the presidents and vice-presidents of prospective industries,

"Once companies sce that it works for one, they will deelde’ that it is practical to locate horo,” Mr, Hutchinson sald,

He said Cominco was very helpful when Quadra was starting up, and they may also help other prospective indus- tries,

“When we first came herg, we found that many communi- ties wanted industry, but unlike Trail, they were not really interested in doing the work,

“Trailites ,helped in not only selling the program and helping raise funds, but also the loan of offices to work out of,” Mr. Hutchinson said. i

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PINEAPPLE 3 Sc _ FISH & CHIPS 79¢ 5S

DRESSING 69 5..$1

SALAD BOWL. 32 07. .

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MARGARINE DOG FOOD

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