B i 2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 19, 1979

{Your Turh Uy

One of the important functions of any newspaper is to provide readers witha means of indicating their stand on important issues of the dgy. That's what Your Turn-ts all about — a chance for you not only to take a stand on on issue but to find out how many other people feel the same way. 4 .

- Should Grass Smoking Be Decriminalized?

Candidates from all parties in the federal election race aré squirming over the question of easing penalties for those found guilty of possessing: small quantities of marijuana for purposes other than traf- ficking. While.someé factions say it should remain a criminal: offence, others say. it should be criminalized and stilltothers say it should be legalized,’ What do you say? Should those found guilty of possessing small . quantities of marijuana for their own use still -! be prosecuted for a criminal offence? :

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- APRIL 5 RESULTS: In the vote on the need for so-called *

“right-to-work” legislation, 84 per cent of the votes cast were opposed and 16 per cent were in favor. A Trail reader who opposed such. legislation was the only one to enclose additional remarks - with his ballot. “Right-to-work legislation would, I believe, lower the quality of work performed on construction sites,” he wrote. “Also lower safety conditions on sites as no union spokesman would be able to point them out, Also the trend to hire less skilled workers non-union workers could possibly cause more accidents;

more mistakes in workmanship caused by unskilled help would - [I

bring up costs.” ef The deadline for this week's ballots is 5 p.m. Wed- nesday, April 25. For last week's ballots on the need for a i the deadline is 5 p.m. Wed-

jan on ure nesday, April 18.

Tax _Deductio:

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Students, their parents or other fi di

versities, colleges, and other

claiming the education ‘deduc- tion for 1978 will have to include a fully pleted Edu-

training or adult education courses in Canada, Full-time

cation Deduction Certificate when filing their tax returns to qualify for the $60-a-month de- duction.

The certificate, which con-

“firms the student's fulltime re i

out.

offering job re”

ificate Required q |

side of Canada ina course of at”

least 18 weeks’ duration and leading to a degree also quall- fies, In addition, a person who lives in Canada and commutes to the United States to attend a

in pr y courses at a qualifying édu- cational institution, must be completed by both the student and the institution concerned. If another person who supports the students wishes to claim the deduction, permission to transfer the claim to the

* supporting individual must be

indicated by the student’on the certificate,

. The education deduction allows a student to claim $60 for each month of full-time atten- dance, in a designated educa- tional institution, including the months in 1978 when the schoo! term started and finished,

Desf,

or college there would also qualify for the deduction, Megat wcef th

To meet. the full-time at. tendance requirement, a stu- dent must attend courses of at least three weeks’ consecutive duration with a minimum of 10 hours of direct.instruction each week. Only courses at a post- secondary. level are eligible. Students who received a train-

ing allowance, free board and ae

lodging or other payments cannot claim the education de- duction. f

Students may obtain a copy of the Education Deduc- i at their edu.”

in- stitutions ‘include _certain_uni-

‘Selkirk

tion Ce cational institution.

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“Ladies in Retirement” at Spokane. Civic Theatre, Tuesday, April 17

Christina) Lake Golf and Country Club ladies’ opening.’ Lunch‘ and 2-Ball’ Foursome. > ¢ :Wednesday, April18.

-"The © Shop: Around ‘the Corner”, Trail Film Club, 8 p.m. at Eagles Hall. Monthly meet- {ng of Selkirk Weavers’ Guild, }) Monday, April 19 - May 3 i. Exhibit of oils and batik by Alf Crossley, and pottery -by Gaskin,

Friday, April20. UNICEF Children's Con- cert at.7 p.m. in Grand Forks Secondary ‘School auditorium. Rummage Sale at St. John's United \Church basement «in Grand Forks at 9:30 a.m. B.C, Arts Councils Convention in Vancouver concludes Sunday.

Saturday, April 21 Boundary, Naturalists and West Kootenay.” Naturalists meet at Provincial Park, Chris- tina Lake at 10:30 a.m, Leader - Ron Walker. : Guides and Brownies tea and bake sale from 24 p.m. in Grand Forks Legion Hall,

Sunday, April 22 Renownéd Canadian artist, Tony Only, presents a show of prints at the. National Exhibi- tion Centre in Castlegar - until May. 12, _ . Tuesday, April 24 Robert Silverman, . Trail Jr. High at 8 pm. -

Wednesday, April 25

Bake sale, tea and rafile at

2 p.m. at Greenwood Legion

Hall, sponsored by Sr. Citizens -

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ML live in Nélson, but have another. home-near Mrs. Teves,” writas Frances Riesterer. "And i

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“stake what ‘laughingly: became :known between us as my “free- ‘parents.

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The Margaret Trudeau Story

Copyright © 1979 Margaret Trudeau. From the book eulitled “Beyond Reasoa”, Published fn ' canes PD, Paddington Press Ltd. and by Les Editions Optimum’ Limitee as “A Coeur

> When, in the fate spring ‘of 1977, | was packing to leave Pierre, | found a sheet of paper tucked at the back of one of my drawers.

- # "Lam so lonely,” it read. "I should be:happy, | am married to a man who loves me and | have a wonderful baby. But'l am terribly unhappy.” The date was November 1972, Justin was nine months old.

For much of that time | lived with Pierre | was deeply unhappy. There was. so much that was: good: the bables, the all-too-rare moments that

":Pierre and had totally alone, the trips abroad and the holidays, but there ‘was a lot that was rotten, The honeymoon was over much too soon.

As Pierre settled down to married life and no, longer felt he had to court me, so he returned to

: ‘spend more and more’time at his work, leaving me slone.

I waited and waited all day for him to come home, devoting he last hours to putting on my

akeup ‘and- my.” prettiest.” lothes so as to’ look. beautiful for him’ RR te tat . When he appeared he took ff his best clothes and climbed

‘into old, baggy slacks, When.1

when you have so. many

tions?” ro ierre ‘encouraged ‘me’.to:

lom trips.” These were usually. : isits to Vancouver to see my Ss ST,

Tae ae

LEAVING BOSTON AIRPORT with Micha, our angel. We were

there to see my parents and help them understand why | was leaving Pierre. ©) Canada Wide Feature Service Ltd.

Sometimes I went further even, once, to Rome. Pierre

him terribly and’.when I got home we were close and loving.:

which became my third eye, an . solution, to subjugate every- There were of course hap-

excuse to leave the house and thing to reason and will, was

7 Chronicle ofa

” A PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENT on her way to class is snapped

- with her husbarid, «.) Alfred Eisenstadt

struck the enormous gong that *shung alongside the: entrance. - The door swung back, There stood a middle-aged: woman with frizzy, red hair, 3 “I'm ,:looking for Yves “i Lewis,” 1. said. She “looked blank. I tried again. “How long have you lived here?” “Four years.” “Has someone called ‘Yves *

_ Lewis left a forwarding ad-

dress?"

“No.” >

Tears of frustration start- ed trickling down my face. I had had no idea I cared so much.

I walked the streets for the rest of the day, trying to pul my life:together.

Icaught a plane to Athens, Greece had a shrine of sorts for

me: I went to seé the village where Yves had been at school, Then I moved on to Creté. There was nothing sinful about my trip: I simply. needed to be on my. own, *

Alter. two weeks 1 caught a plane. back to Paris, - called Pierre, and told him 1 was coming home. “Fine,” he said, “why don't we go to the Cele- brity Pro Tennis Tournament in New York?"

, That proved my undoing, I arrived home in that curiously high and edgy state that comes from, being: too much alone:

‘anxious to make it all up with ’ Pierre, yet resisting every

effort. on his’ part.’ The ‘night before the tennis tournament I fell in love. hws

samy.lowest:eb

py patches, The chronicle of our

crumbling love affair would be “false without them. I made a : few intimate friends. Queen ‘Alia of Jordan was the closest : of these. . I met her and King Hussein “when they came to Ottawa for

an official visit after the 1974 ‘election. We took to each other sat once. Alia was magnificent to + look at: a mass of striking blond “chair, green eyes, an irresistible ssmile.

“feeling somehow betrayed: by the election campaign: despite onr victory. Within hours she had taken me in hand, forced _ me to laugh about our lives, poked fun at my fears. Our. friendship was ce- mented in the marvelous pre- sent of cameras she gave me,

1 hadn't fo

go walking, the means of being , Wrong and that: mine, to live

She arrived when I was att 7 exhausted and ~.

not merely.a participant, but a fly on the wall at official functions,

Apart ‘from my close friendship with Alia, I also had some increasingly ‘good times pursuing interests of my own.

In March’ 1976, I’ went to.

California to attend a con- ference at which Krishnamurti, a deeply spiritual man, was speaking. (He had been Yves Lewis’ guru — and Lewis was

with.)

I spent five days there, as “Margaret Sinclair,” listening to him talk about the evils of authority. 5

“All thought leads ‘to sor-

row,” he constantly reminded us. I came “away more con- vinced than ever that Pierre's

‘

joked at. another

man in four-years. lf was sudden.

“Ht was fantastic.

. He was a high-

powered American; a charming’

Southerner.. 1

someone possessed.

became like.

the young Frenchman I. had’ met! in Tahitt and taller ii aver: Pier Hae: i: 2 fishing. I was "desperate. I

-from moment to moment, right. Not long after Pierre‘and I were married, the strains of the life had begun to show. I became nervous, jittery,’ un- predictable. Even my. children could not always distract me from feelings of acute tension. My actual “breakdown”, when it.came, was almost-a relief, Alter the 1974 election, I took off for one of my more adventurous “freedom. trips":

this. time’ without. consulting

whi’ Had taken Jus

phoned him from the airport: “T'm off to Paris. I want to practice my. French.” - Characteristically, he said at once: “Yes, by all means, off you go.”

I spent several happy days"

in Paris taking photographs, walking. around the parks, eating in student cafes, But I couldn't go on fooling myself. I hadn't come to Paris just to-recuperate. I had to

havea fantasy in my life: Tean’t -

long survive without one: And ‘my fantasy was Yves. I had come to .Paris clutching a, screwed up corner of paper on* which I had written his last known address: rue de Blane Manteau 35, ~ ‘

One sunny morning, I made my way there and, trembling with — anticipation,

wHy BUY SEVERAL TYPES OF

Crumbli

Thadn't looked at another

,man in four. years, It. was

sudden,’ It was fantastic. He was'a high-powered American} a charming Southerner. I be- came like someone possessed, 3 We danced all evening, I cried all night. a 4

“When. we “got back Ottawa next day I raced up the stairs to our private refrigera- tor and finished off the half bottle of vodka I found there. Pierre, who caught me at it, was appalled.

“Have you been unfaithful to me in Paris?" he kept asking. “Have you? Have you?"

“ We passed a nightmare weekend :at Harrington Lake, our country -retreal, Pierre never left: me.alone. “I know

& you've been unfaithful. I know:

it. Otherwise why be like this?”

Late Saturday night, ex- hausted, frantic, ‘I seized a kitchen knife and rushed out into the snow. I started tearing

. off-my clothes to find a bare ~

spot to plunge the blade in, *.*0,K.," [sereamed. "O.K. I've fallen in love.” The con- fession shocked us both into silence. : “You're sick," was all he said. . ‘ If1 wasn't sick then, I soon

CASILLGAR NEWS, Hhursduy. April 14, 1929

g Love Affair

Ga

GS We passed a nightmare |

weekend at Harrington Lake, our country retreat,

wer eeeeeaseborercesveerye,

Pierre never left

me alone. ‘I know you've been unfaithful. | know it, Otherwise why be like this?"

everybody is watching me," I said.

“Everybody is ‘watching you, That's not paranoia, That's reality.” ¥

T feel hostile. I have ilh.sions of grandeur, 1 think I'm somebody.”

' “You are somebody.”

I had come down here to get away from Pierre and think about my marriage in peace. I

found myself constantly watch-”

ed by nurses and fed pills that made my tongue swell and my mind sag.

Though not my lover, my American friend called me every day. I sometimes felt that only he and Alia-could under- sand what I was going through.

T Eegan to take a tentative hok on myself. I weaned myself off the tranquilizers. K 3

I kept sand by questioning the nurses about their ow} lives, and brewing up little pots of what the doctor took to tea but were in fact sw potions of marijuana.

words electrified me. “What: ever are you doing here?” hb asked ‘ contemptuously. “You should be home with your children.” z That settled it. I prepared © to leave. I consented to make an appearance before the jour nalists who had been thronging More on Page C2.

became’ it: lonely and very .mad.. When the

children ran to kiss me, I:

shrank back. Pierre kept urging me to seek psychiatric help. Finally, my own will worn so thin that I was happy to take anyone's advice, I checked into

-the Montreal Genera! Hospital.

The doctor explained the treatment he had in mind. “I want to Bore you,” he said. “I

. Mt to make you sleep.” - “L. feel: paranoid. 1 feel

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