PAGE 4, THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, fuly 7, 1977 MONTREAL’S FAMO US MAYOR: _ The colorful Camillien Houde MONTREAL (CP) ~— In . 19399, Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal made national headlines when he danced all evening with the late Queen Mary during a *. Canadian visit by the Royal Family. It- was said the Queen . never stopped smiling and appeared to be having a wonderful time. A year later, when she asked aboul the mayor’s health, she was told he had ‘been arrested on the steps of city hail and sent to an For Up To 126 - 682-1831 1765 Davie The City For The Price Of 125 Air Conditioned Suite & Rooms With View Color TV, Telephone, Tub & Shower, Ele- vators, Coffee Shop, Dining Room, Nightly Entertainment, Banquet & Meeting Rooms TOLL FREE -Reservations— 192-800-261-3330 — Canadian Owned & Operated MGR.TEDPRYSTAY English Bay at Stanley Park Bus Stop at Our Door. and Take You Anywhere in internment camp in Petawawa, advocating civil disobedience . during war- time. The incident is one of the highlights of an hour-lon National Film’ Boar production entitled His Worship, Mr. Montreal: The’ Life and Times of Camillien Houde, to be sten on the CBC television network July 10. Houde, a colorful 350- pounder, is described in the a Kitchenettes Available FREE PARKING A Bus Ticket Ont. ,nfor S . corruption | film as “very ugly” by a former lieutenant, and was characterized .by his opponents as a drunk anda traitor. To supporters he was a master politician and amartyr. .- Born in 1889 in a poor working-class district of Montreal, Houde first became mayor in 1928 during the Prohibition era in ‘the United States. Under his mayorality, . Montreal quickly gained a reputation in the U.S. as a wide-open city where the liquor flowed freely, CMAGE ENDURED The image of Montreal as a place where gambling and prostitution flourished endured until the 1950s when an investigation into to the firing of 33 policemen and the eventual’ resignation of Houde, | ° One of the men who led the crusade to clean up the city was a young lawyer named Jean Drapeau, who succeeded Houde as mayor after he resigned in 1954. With the exception of one three-year term, Drapeau has remained in office since. Houde’s political career began in the provincial arena in 1923, when he was elected a Progressive Conservative member of the Quebec national assembly after working as a banker, a biscuit maker and a coal merchant, He quickly rose to the party’s leadership, but could not break the Liberal stranglehold on provincial politics, suffering defeat in the election of 1931. -PRIDAY He resigned the Conservative leadership in. 1932, partly in response to complaints that he was a heavy drinker. The film relates one incident in which Houde appeared in public wearing nothing but his underwear, his chain of office and holding a glass of eTOPPED DRINKING In the same year, he lost his bid for re-election as mayor, but was swept back into office in 1934 after swearing off drinking. The film says Houde never took another drink in his life. Houde was elected to the mayoralty five times during his career, receiving his fifth mandate shortly after returning from four years of internment for advising Quebecers not to sign up for service in the Second World ar. ; . He received a -hero’s welcome when he returned from the internment camp in 1944 at the age of 55 and for the next 10 years, his leadership was uncontested, Houde had an affinity for the poor which he acquired at the age of eight when his father’s death ferced him to work as a butcher boy. to support his mother. His nine brothers and sisters all died befere they were two years 0 ; Houde died in 1953, a penniless and disappointed man. . More than 100,000 Montrealers came to his funeral and many shed tears for the man described by a former Montreal policeman as “our most wonderful mayor." Two languages are necessary WINNIPEG (CP) — It is nosurprise that parents who send their children to Sacre Coeur see the value of learning a second language fluently. But other reasons for their enthusiasm for the only ele- mentary school in Winnipe that offers an all-Frenc program.are not so obviaus. Sonya Wright; whose three daughiers have attended the school, says learning French is important for a number of reasons. - ‘It opens up a whole new 2 3&6 4 9 SEATTLE TODAY * 9:00 GOOD NDRNING B.C. SESAME STREET — ERIENDLY GIANT 9:30 | KAREEN'S Yoon} NON ANI 10:00 JEAN CANNEM © ELECTRIC co, "SHOOT FOR THE STARS "MR. DRESSUP 10:30 |] DEFINITION ART CART NAME THAT TUNE SESAME STREET, 11:00 7 FInsT IMPRESSIONS ART 51% CHICO AND THE MAN - 11:30 HOT HANDS SCIENCE SPECIAL HOLLYWOOD SQUARES “BOB MCLEAN SHOW ~ 42:00 NOON NEWS MULLIGAN STEW DAYS OF OUR LIVES : 12:30 ADAM 11 “) WORKING TOGETHER. |” SOURNAL INTER. WILD KINGDOM - 4300 MOVIE MATINEE INSIDEOUT = DOCTORS ° DEATH VALLEY DAYS 1:30 MUSIC PLACE | ANOTHER WORLD IMAGES OF CANADA 2:00 ZEBRA WINGS EDGE OF NIGHT 2:30 ALLAN HAMEL “REACHING OUT THE 3 O'CLOCK MOVIE TAKE 3) 3:00 ‘WHAT'S: ‘THE GOOD. 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Gail Hitesman sends her oungest daughter Jill to indergarten at Sacre Coeur becase she's a girl. “I often’ feel the job market is weighted in.favor of men, and later on if she had the potential for a good job, the second language would help her." French is Julie Gillies’s native language, but she is married to an English- Canadian. She says the school helps her childen learn the language and traditions of her family. TAKEN OVER BY CITY Sacre Coeur was originally a Roman Catholic school in a working-class, largely francophone neighborhood of the inner city. After. experiencing financial difficulties in the early 1970s; the school was ‘taken over by the Winnipeg school division at the request of parents and became the first total- immersion school in the province’s public school system. “ Children from all parts of the city now attend Sacre Coeur, some of them relying on car pools to help ease transportation pre lems. Sister Leone Dumesnil, the school. principal, says , the immersion technique— involving French-language _ instruction in all subjects except English—has proven _itse “Through an immersion rogram, you. are able to unction. in a‘ second language—not only to converse but to work and-te play,”’ she says, The students are tested annually in English and results to date show that instruction’ in’ French doesn't affect the levels of achievement, which have compared favorably with those of children: in’ other Winnipeg schools.