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“ EDITORIAL

With the provincial
election out of the way, and
after a brief rest, interest is
returning to the federal
election.
Youremember that we are
having a federal election
don't you? It was the one the
Prime Minister of Canada
ealled before. . British
Columbia's: Premier Bill
Bennett threw things into the
baie, ‘
ck of an. impending
} ai race ‘was: spirited
before the provincial don-
nybrook took place. So much
energy was expe on
that, however, questions are
being~asked ‘about :whether
enough people in thie
province watit' to continue
with the current federal
chalienge. :
The native peoples of this
province are -still quite
concerned about the
re Faentation they get
;, but they then have ©
federal
government in a more direct
way than the reat of us. They

seem to favor the New
Democratic Pary.

The federal Progressive
Conservatives may,
hawaver, , find themselves
with an unenforceable
agresment with the Social
Credit Party In the province,
In exchange for not sup-
porting provincial Con-
servatives, or co the story
goes, the federal Tories were
to get Socred support and
financing here, If that is
true, the Torlea could find a
distinct lack of interest by
the Socreds, now seeing how
strong Pierre Trudeau is

across and noting

that another provincial

election is a long way awey.
bother.

If the federal Tories can
draw on that Socred money
and ma er, and with a
lot of Liberal votes going
NDP, especially here in the
const where there was a
strong NDP = showing
provinelally, the Liberals
could be out of luck in the

ea!

with Greg

~ QUID RIDES?

Middleton

comes the first spring you
mer job instead of epending
mer jo’ tead of 5;
the hot months in and out of
the nearest lake or river.
Some youngsters have
parents who arrange gainful
employment for them but for
me, as for many, that first
spring I looked for work was
a series of wer oe job
application after ap
pati. I Jaining
eday I was com
to a fellow who had picked
me up hitchhiking, I told him
it was impossible to find a
' fob if you'd never had ex-
perience. He said he'd give
me that, T was to taken
aback I almost forgot to find
out where I was to go ta
work. °
That first summer of
tting in eight hours a day
r someone else, I was the
janitor in a nightclub, gave
me my experience and a
promise of a summer job the
next year. The en-
tertainment business,
though, is an uncertaln thing
and the fellow had gone
Broke before next: spring
arrived, 1 thought it was
pretty inconsiderage of him
to go bankrupt after only
losing about a $100,000, alnce
1 got hardly any of it at all.
That put me back out on
the job market, I didn't
really have ao worry though, -
because I had the gaurantee
of a really great summer
job, that of a garbage
collector, but {t didn't start

““TAtil afew weeks after I was

out of school and, wun-

fortunately, a few weeks

after my girlfriend started
work,

The young lady was well
endowed, at least with the
protestant work ethic, and

e idea that she would be
working and I would have a
days tolleaboutonthebeach .
with the girls who had bikinis
but didn't have jobs caused
her, and ultimately me, a
great deal of anguish.

I had to look for a job. The

* obvious place to go was the
patie vection of the local

newspaper.
found the ad, ‘Chicken
catcher wanted, no ex-
PvellT theca [ ‘igh be

’ t [might be a
little overqualified, having
had some experience
altho not in same
field, but I though I would

orply,

ow to be completely
what [wan applyiigior ta
whatl was a or,
now 4 chokermien didn't
acutally choke anyone. [

alone walked around in
swamps. It never occured to
me that a chicken catcher
would...well, it just never
occurred to me.

’ I phoned the number and
asked what a chicken cat-
cher was. The voice on the
telephone asked if I had my
own car, ] said yes and asked
what a chicken catcher was,
The voice asked if I would
work night. I said yes and
asked what a chicken cat-
cher was, I was asked if I
could start that night at
midnight, I aaid yes and the
volce gave me an address.

Now I should have been a
little susplclous when I gat
out to that address and was
told to climb into a pickup
truck which smelled a little
strange.

Three of us were driven
out into the country and
introduced to about 6,000
sleeping chickens and
pointed in the direction of a
large truck with a lot of
small cages on it.

You catch chickens in the

middle of the night because
the chickens can't see you, or
at least can barely aee you,
by the one bulb left on in the
barn.
Chickens are not par-
ticularly loyal or politically
active sorts. You can grab a
handful of a chickens friends
and he'll go back to sleep
after watching them go. We
hauled them off by the legs,
alx in one hand, five in the
other. If we worked hard, we
got the opportunity to work a
few more hours and shovel
out the barn.

Some of the chickens
expired before the rest and
were entombed under the
crust of sawdust and chicken
manure on the floor.

When shovelling out the
barn a choking cry of
“dead chicken” meant a
five-minute break sitting
around on the grass
stalking those chickens
which had previously
escaped, if you got out of the
bull quickly enough. If

ve
retching. As a six-week-old
dead chicken isn't something
to linger over. .

But inspite of the many
acratches I got from the
chickens that didn't want to
fe nothing hurt as deeply as
te ane t alter a

long for my
love, ahe wouldn't even let
me In the door In the mior-
ning, She sald I didn't smell
very nice,

Tory

“Tt must

be spring.”

By DIANE WAYDA

TORONTO (CP) — With
the whirlwind courtship
almost at an end, 800,000
eligible voters in
Metropolitan Toronto
make a choice

woolng by Pierre Trudeau,
Joe Clark and Ed Broadbent,
the latest polls show the
Liberals and Progressive
Conservatives running neck
and neck in Metro with the
New Democrats in third

trated'the pursuit of votes-{n
southern Ontario — par-
Hcularly in Metro where
many of the 23 seats are wide

open,
With the Liberals strong

and the Conservatives weak -

in Quebec and the reverse
true in the West, Ontario's 95
ridings are the key to a
majority government in
Otter tult, particularly in
¢ res r

Toronto, may provide the
turn of the key to the prime
minister's residence.

Trudeau's campaign has
taken him through Metro six
times, cresting in mid-May
with a rally at Maple Leaf
Gardens that drew an
eatimated 16,000 with 3,000 In
the streets.

Clark kept six datea In
Metro, speaking to the
Empire Club, pumping
hands on the streets and
bolatering the campaigns of
y contenders, ;
Broadbent's come and
gone nine times, with his
search for votes taking him .
on an old-fashioned streetcar
stump May 12 through six
ridings to culminate a four-
day Metro drive.

Plans for the last leg of the
campaign remain flexible
for the leaders, altho
spokesmen for all three
parties sald the crucial areaa

Those Toronto voters: |

would provide the focus.

A CBC-commissloned poll
released Monday shows that
Liberals have caught the
Tories in Metro— each party
holding 41.5 per cent of the
decided vote and the NDP
with.16 per cent.

Less than a month ago, an-
other CBC poll showed the
Conservatives had a 1.8-per-
cent lead with 40.2 per cent.
However, the poll was taken
before the leaders’ telavised
debate Sunday and that
debate left Metro Liberals
and New Democrats saying

ce, a .. the geales were tipped in
_+ The.leaders have concaii-:.

their favor. 4
“: Redistribution: has in-:
creased Metro ri to 23
from 21 since 1974 when the
Liberals won 17 and the PCs
and New Democrats two
each.

But things changed last
October following five Metro
byelectionn that saw the
Liberals lose four seats to
the Conservatives with the
other retained by the NDP.

The New Democrats
remain the intangibles,
capable of making the
outcome close if
score heavily here, Also un-
readable are the loyalties of
Metro voters, known for
changing alleglances bet-
ween elections. .
“Senator Royce Frith,
Liberal Ontario campaign
chairman, says the picture
In Metro has improved for
the Grits because Clark
hasn't caught on with voters,:

Trudeau's showing in the
debate gave Metro Liberals
a boost, he sald.

Six weeks ago he ex-
pressed fears that at least
two cabinet ministers —
John Roberts, secretary
state, and Martin 0’Connell,
labor minister — were in
trouble in their Metro
ridin

Now he’s redicting at
least 50 Ontario seata and a
majority Liberal govern-

of ballots on le

ment with Roberts,
O'Connell and Energy
Minister Alastair Gillespie in
its ranks,

Other Liberals said early
in the campaign . that
Gillespie's seat was in
danger. he

Roberts saya
having a tough fight in his St.
Paul's riding until the debate
Upped the scales. It still is a
tough fight, says Walter

Was

Gray, on the PC's Ontario

campaign committee,

He said the Tories will..

bump off not Roberts,
Geant ane Gilles je, but
.,also., Defence, Minister

Barney. .Danson, and . ony

Abbott, natlonal revenue
minister, In their ridings on
the outskirts of Metro.

Gray says the debate had

noeffect in metro. Before the -

debate was held he sald it
would have considerable
effect on undecided voters.

Mary Ellen McQuay,
assistant secretary to the
NDP, i¢ ma no
predictions although she
gays the Metro picture locke
increasingly better for the

they can Party.

Broadbent was given
strong points on leadership
by Toronto Star when the
newspaper, the couniry's
largest, endorsed his party.
. Metro NDP organizer

Penny Dickens says the:

debate made people trust
Broadbent more: The Tory
campalgn is stalling and
When i comes own to
eaderal eknow
can ra Ped Browdbent
expecially after that
debate."*

Frith
voters usually cast their
ership rather
than party and Trudeau has
scored well on leadership
polls.

He also says that hostility
toward Trudeau has

diminished
tober: ‘It’s going much

since last Oc-.

says undecided .

better and’ that’s based
‘mostly on ' ent pin the
aring from our people: ;
prime minister has started
tocomeon.” |...

He points to: the, Gardens

rally aa an example, "saying
the twohour concert
that preceded Trudeau's
appearance wasn't the
reason for the over-flow

crowd. ;
“The le have got to
want to be there. They were

there to see the prime
minister,”

he .

CONSUMER >
COMMENT

Ever been watching the late movie on, T.V and
had the picture suddenly shrink to a pinpoint of
light and then vanish all together with a faint

pop?

_ Your first reaction was probably to wonder If
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman ever
made It out of Casablanca. Your next was likely
“how much.will it cost to fix?“

‘Most of us have had the experlence of seeing
one of our relied-on gadgets develop ailments

an Ce credits Clark. with» that require professional attention, whether It's

Etunaing the tide towsirds the ,

Gray calls the Tory's
mortgage it payment
and ee ore tax deduc-
bility program “the sexiest
thing we've got going next to
the antiTrudeau feeling.”

“It's still there. National.
unity is not and will not be an
issue in Toronto, The major
issues are inflation and
unemployment.”

He says the PCs will be
disappointed if they don't
take 15 Metro seats and that
the party's Ontario goal is 50
seats.

Voters, he says, are con-
centrating more on Clark's
message than on his physical
demeanor.

“He himself is io
the Job with this being his
first national campaign.
Maureen McTeer drew
enthusiastic audiences in
Metro. We seem to have a
winning combination ...
(and) we haven't been or-
ganizing extravaganzas like
the. Maple Leaf Gardens.”

Ms. McQuay credits
Broadbent's campaign
performance and the way

8 atuck to the issues as
reasons for Increased NDP
support in Metro,

“And the Toronto Star .

didn’t hurt,” he saya of the
newspaper's endorsement of
‘the party.

By GERARD MecNEIL
OTTAWA (CP) — Joe
Clark’s plan to have a
cabinet minister
praking is corp lag.
comparal
to Richard Nixon's
contention that as preal-
dent he was above the law
of the United States, says
New Democrat Leader
Ed Broadbent,
Broadbent, after
listening to Clark’s ex:
lanatlon during the
leaders’ debate Sunday,
speculated that Clark
seemed to be saying a
Conservative government
would introduce new laws
to enable the RCMP
’ Security Service to
tect national security
emergency situations.
The Security Service
would tell a cabinet
minister what had to be
dona. The cabinet minis-

acion that went beyond

ter would authorize any .

CLA

the law, then report to a
Com non reed with

a
interpretation — but it
remains

secrecy
reapoasible to the
Partiament that created

Both Clark and Prime
Minister Trudeau have
indicated they would
make It legal for police to
open first-class mail,
something the police have
been doing anyway for
yeare and for a variety of
reasons.

A royal commission
recommended In 1960 that
the RCMP Security
Service be given the
power to open mall in
national security cases.
The fact that the RCMP
didn't have this power,
the commission said,
invited foreign agents to
ute the mails,

)

It sounds so familiar

Now the RCMP says it
needs the power to

mail not only in security

but in drug cases because
heroln is being mailed
into Canada.

drug squad, they were.
told one advantage of
mallopening would be to

vent em-
rrassment that arises
when police follow
suspect mail to its
destination, then found in
uent raid that the
't contain drugs

ty
Service also told the royal
commission It engages in.
intelligence probes -
breaking into homes and

le, personality of in-
ayiduels ed aren't
necessarily suspected of

criminal on subversive
behavior.

In fact, the Security
Service said, breaking
be the only a heme may

ie only way to prove
that person's Tanocance.

Doing this kind of thing
- without a warrant is
illegal, but police said
they couldn't get war
ranta because they
couldn't hope to convince
a judge they had
suspect thetr target had
aus)

committed erime.

t poise that pe pl
at one people
aren't going to be upset
opening a few envelopes,
a few eny .
Broadbent haa tad
operate

police should
within the like

law
everyone else,

~

a T.V. set with a blown picture tube, .a -blender

‘that Won't blend, or a washer that gives up In-the
‘middle of a load.

Sometimes it’s not an appilance that has us
leaping for the yellow pages, but a disaster Iike
ruptured waterpipes In the basement, or a wall
outlet that erupts In a shower of flreworks when
a lamp Is plugged In.

Getting a professional! In to deal with these
problems can be expensive, but you can take
some steps to keep the cost within bounds.

Even the most basic knowledge of appliances,
and the plumbing or electrical systems to which
they are connected, can reduce the number of
service calls required. Reading the service
manuals or operating Instructions that normally
come with an appliance can help even more.

Before you ae# for assistance, look for obvious
problems yourself, It's not only embarrassing to.
have the repairman discover the T.V. set Isn‘t
plugged in. It's expensive as well,

If you decide you do need help, get out the
warranty on the product and see If it covers
repairs.

For plumbing and wiring problems, check’
your home insurance policy, or the bullder’s
warranty, if one exists,

There are no set rates which repairmen,
plumbers, electricians ete, must charge. Their.
fees can and likely will, vary cansiderably, so get
at least three written estimates before you hire
anyone.

The estimates should include a breakdown of
costs for parts and labour, a date by which the
work will be completed, and an agreement that if
the cost Is golng to exceed the estimate, your
approval must be obtained. The length of time:
for which work Is guaranteed should also be
specifled. -

Remember that an estimate Is just that - an
estimate, not a guarantee that the final cost will
hot be higher. The valve of an estimate lies in’
the fact that owner and repairman have agree

ion an approximate charge that is acceptable to
tham both. The key word here Is “ap.
proximate”,

Once you've got the estimates, check the
repairman’s name with the Better Business.
Bureau or your local consumer group before you
go ahead.

How long will all this take? Anywhere from
one fo several days. Obviously, you won't have -
that much time lf the water level Is rising & foot a
minute In the basement, but fortunately these
kinds of emergencies are few and far between,

In most cases, getting the bes? Job possible for
your money Is usually worth the inconvenience
of being without the appilance for a short time.
(You can always phone a friend to find aut how
Humphrey and Ingrid resolved thair problems.)