MONTREAL (CP) —
Conservative -leader Joe
_Clark stopped traffic at
times Thursday as he
mainstreeted in Verdun, a
working-class municipal

west of downtown Montreal.
Some housewives did beat

MARGARET'S BACK

sha

BYELECTIONEERING

a retreat from their
balconies as Clark, can-
didate Plerrette Lucas and a
latoon of reporters came
ard them.
There was the man who
wouldn’t shake hands, and

‘the kid on the motorcycle

IN NEW YORK CITY

NEW YORK (CP) —

Margaret Trudeau popped
up in Man-

hattan Wednesday evening
and attended a benefit
performance of the
American Ballet Theatre
with Princess Yasim Khan,

with whom she has stayed —

on previous visits to New
York.

' . The two attended a post:

performanes party held to

mor Russian ballet star

-Mikhail Baryshnikov, who

‘ staged the American

Ballet’s presentation of The

.. Nuteracker at.the Metro-
‘politan Opera. .:- -°

_News photos showed Mrs.

_ Trudeau being introduced to

Jackie Onassis, one of the
many personalities of the

social and entertainment

world who attended the
performance.

There was no indication
how long Mrs. Trudeau
planned to stay in New
York.

Mrs. Trudeau, who has
said she wants to become a
professional photographer,
arranged a news-photo
assignment with People
magazine during a fourday
visit here in March. At that
time, she stayed with

--Princess Yasmin at her
exclusive Central Park West

apartment,

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blitz polls on behalf of the

who thought Joe was
president of the New
ocratic Party.

‘And 18-year-old John
Simon, prompted by a TV
cameramen, tried to hand
Clark an NDP placard.
Clark refused as the’ cam-
eraman filmed the scene.

These travails aside,
Clark generally received a
warm welcome as he stoked
up the campaign for next

esday’s byelection vote.

“}’ve seen you on TV,”
housewives and taxi drivers
said as Mrs. Lucas in-
troduced them to Clark. One
taxi driver added in French:
“Where's you wife?”

Maureen McTeer cam-
paigned here last week and
made a good impression.

A reporter alled
passersby to find out
whether a Verdun
newspaper was correct in
saying no one in the city
would recognize Clark.
Seven out of 10 passersby
identified him correctly.

- & seore of Conservative .

members of Parliament
arrived in the evening to

nventional

attractive Lucas, a 37-year-
old career woman trying to
break the 15-year Liberal
hold on Verdun.

Conservative MPs, trying
out their French, have been
knocking on doors all week,
Sixty-five per cent of Ver-
dun upters speak French as
their first language.

Many Verdun residents

are bilingual and Jack Ellis:

(PC— Hastings) was
smiling Thursday about the
reception his limited French
got in door-to-door work.

At the Lucas headquar-
ters, Dale Johnston, wite of
British Columbia MP
Howard Johnston, helped
fill out poll cards for the
evening blitz amidst a hail
of French and English
conversation.

“Tm the ‘Godfather’,”
veteran Conservative
anizer Maurice Dupras

said introducing himself to
Los eles Times reporter
Kenneth Rich, who Is here to
do a series on Quebec's new
government. oo,

Dupras said candidate
Lucas was unknown a
month ago when she won the

kes hands in Verdun

nomination, upsetting Eddy
Vigneau, who hasrun for the
Conservatives in Verdun in
the last two general elec-
tions. Now, he said, people
recognize her in the street.

Federally Verdun has
been Liberal since 1962 but it
went Parti Quebecois in last
Novemher’s _ provincial

election, electing a Liberal |

and a PQ member in its two
provincial ridings. In a
single riding, the PQ would
have won.

Liberal candidate
Raymond Savard, a city.
councillor, hopes to hold on
to the 10,000-vote lead the

party had in the 1974 general .

election. Bryce Mackasey,
now a member of the
Quebec National Assembly,
wor that one with 17,633
votes against 7,-922 for
Vigneau, the Conservative,
and 2,232 for the New
Democrat.

‘Meanwhile, the NDP has a
high-profile candidate in
Phil Edn
the campaign against
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. Garbage normally collected on
Monday will be picked up on Tuesday,

May 24, 1977.

The garbage disposal ground will
be closed on Monday, May 23, 1977.-

NOTICE

| In observance of Victoria Day, Monday, |
May 23, 1977, the following change in refuse
pickup is introduced: |

THE HERALD, Friday, May 20, 1977, PAGE A7

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