Page 6, The Herald, Twa, May: is, i500, Salinger’ Ss world — is a private one — By SCOTT WINTE TORONTO (CP) — When J.D. Salinger wrote The Satcher in the: Rye, the tedication was a simple one — to his mother. But thousands of . youths felt the book, which tells the story of a troubled teenager . trying to. cope in a phoney . world, was dedicated to them; ‘thal it was a personal message; a ray of light in the , never-ending tunnel of - adnescence. _ The affection most felt for | . the novel, published in 1951, - eventually subsided when : they reached the > unemotlonal world = of . adulthood. However, . Michael Clarkson, a reporter : with the Niagara Falls: Review, didn’t forget the : book or its hero, Holden , Caulfield. In fact, the book, the hero and the author heeame an obsession for Clarkson — 80 much s0 that two years ago " he embarked on a search not - unlike Holden’s. The journey carried him . 70 kilometres from ‘his ; home in Niagara Falls, Ont., to Cornish, N.H. He expected to do what other admirers, reporters and writers had . not been able to for 25 yeara — talk ( the reclusive ; Salinger. . Jn 1953, the author gave an _ interview to a 16-year-old _girt for her sehool newspaper, the last time he . talked publicly about his : works, Clarkson, 31, first became a ware of the book when he : Was 16 and attending a ‘ private boys' school, ‘but we - weren't allowed to read it - because it was a Christian . school.” About four -years Inter, " after deciding he wanted to ; bea writer, Clarkson finally - read the book and was . surprised by Salinger’s _ style. TWhen I first saw his” " works I didn't know wlio he was. I was hoping that he'd - be dead heeause his writing, : the style of it, seemed to be : somewhat like. mine. I thought if I'd ever got - something published, he'd «figure. it .was. plag * The" fascination. ae AOF “ ~Salinger «and this works ‘ continued to grow and with it i the idea of paying the author @ personal visit. One day in a : Sune, 1 1978, when he felt depressed ‘and “wes in a . Humphrey Bogart state of mind, ‘n Clarkson asked for and received a week's holl- - day Hoonent day he was off ., ‘ to find Salinger. Even theugh he knew Sali- ‘ nger had made it clear to the . world, that he wanted to be | : alone, ot at least let alone, : Clarkson says he did not feel guilty infringing .on his : private world. “I thought that he thought ; the same way | did and vice . versa, I figured, from : reading his works, that we « were on the same level, I. ; thought he'd get something © - out of if as well.” The preparation Clarkson +. made for the trip was a cryp-- ‘ tical note that he passed to : Salinger through the local newsiand where the author, : stopped pericdically, The c message, which took : Clarkson two months to : write, read: “A man is in Cornish. " Amateur, perhaps, but: © sentimentally | connected. * The saddest — a tragic figure without a background. : .Needinga future as much a6 i your past, Let me.’ After getting confirmation © that Salinger had received the note, he waited at the driveway of the, author's fortreas-like home, which is + yeachable only through a - narrow road, a cement ¢ funnel and three guard dogs. ! After three hours, Clarkson + said, Salinger appeared in his car. His initial reaction : was one of shock, i “I expected to see somebody who maybe was a + leader type; «a prime + minister, a guy with charisms. But he seemed more like someone's uncle.” Salinger was not as willing to share his thoughls as Clarkson thought he would + be. His replies to Clarkson's = philosophical questions were terse, “I've gone through thig so many times,’’ said’ ~ Salinger. “There's: no gracious way - to tell you (o leave. I'm te + . H ty “s+ 7? eo oF yo.e becoming embittered.” He told Clarkson he had no answers, that he was a fiction writer, not a philosopher. He offered some advice to Clarkson the writer, but little to Clarkson the person “I simply wasn’ there as & | write said Clarkeon. "t | st there as a person cenit no enmebody to talk was one of pity. . : Salinger replied, sro” Spain with, who fll the same 05 1 “But-he rejected that": Upon his return to Niagara Falls, friends and clas were amazed to [ind ‘out, ‘he had talked fa ie siihors Some suggested - he write a story about: the ‘rendezvous. Clarkeon'says a story was never considered because he felt it: would be : exploiting Salinger. But avér the next year, he: changed his Salinger should have: ‘tela his fans the reasons why fie - went into hibernation, Clarkson thoiight,.so--he travelied back to Cornish & second time "to give hilm’a - chance of some kind of ex: planation. " + Thia time he didn't: ‘atop at the driveway, but sculed the cliff-and peered ‘Into ' his living room. Clarkson says” Salingér' did. not. react. angrily to. the second’ tn- trusion. ‘In fact, his reaction : . “Oh, not: ‘you. agal said, Clarkson: tried plain why he was: the “TD went through motions and asked him. the: estions but it. was obvious t he wasn't golt : his fans the time | “Don't you want your fe Ings?’ asked : “No “that's oy wron where writers get. in trouble.” But despite. Salinger’ unwillingness to: ‘fal ts Clarkson was still able” to write an article based an his visits. His reasons for'selling it to the New York Times syndication service were twofold. The first was a need to be published, he said, but the second, and more important, was.to share his experience with other Salinger fans. . Clarkson says the $1,500 he was paid for the article was not the only benefit. He feels more realistic, confident and selfrellant than he did befarp meeting Salinger. i “T think ‘now 1 can write with ae whether ils t fiction,” he Le 1b neva visit | Misiiager egal? redtiz . “Yeah, I probably will," ” he said. “pn I don’t- have any detinite Bans.” ’ By KEVIN DUNN: MADRID Cheater) - viotsly ‘banned - Spa, bingohas soared to the gant the countey'* . ung. stakes during Despite - high infato rising unemployment | a other economic worrles, Spaniards spent more than $2.5 billion on the game last year — almost double the. figure for 1978.. - ' Like moat other games of. chance, bingo was Figorouly auppress during dictatorship of Gen. Fras elsco isc Franco who. died. in The attitude of lis austere” Roman Catholic regime was dummed up by one govem- ment minister who enid gambling was “like your soul to the devil," But as - rane governments dismantled his regime and guided Spats toward democracy, the ban on gamb! wan relaxed. 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French and sees no future in Quebec for those who can’t. “ + "Vemuelty the French lan ‘shearing ‘is good Sport ir AUCKLBNA KLANDAN. det gy * iSts: : SI rhigols fomajer ane nett ‘traiessorwibgte competitive sport. in New Zealand, a country with - ‘more than 20 sheep to every person. contests > everything, Indeed, one of ‘the ngers is for shearers to "go too fast and.damage the sheep, Time counts toward the ' pesuit but judges examine each sheep after ithas been type shorn and. award’ points according to the = ually: of - the shearing. - Shearing contests held in many parts of ‘the country _ culminate .in the annual ” Golden Shears event in the - gmail town of Masterton, in the North Island. For a week Masterton be- ’ gomes a major sports venue, with all accommodation ‘taken and reports of preek: results going out ross‘ the country, “Gun" shearers, the top performers, win prestige comparable to that accorded theve highs Alsat ara -BC0! are members. of woolshed ngs which move about the country shearing . under “ eontract. A skilled shearer who-can deal with several hundred sheep a.day, makes - Sheep-shearing have been revolutionized since a New Zealander, ” Bowen's method depends rily on long, smooth, movements of the shears, but also on letting the sheep's own weight do much af the work. His system has in much of the _ been pilopied in nr demonstration tours abroad. Contests held during the - week of Golden Shears contests at Masterton in- clude shearing by electric machines as well as by the old old traditional blade method. But the electric shears are oe Champions can shear a sheep in little more than a minute with no cuts to he sheep's skin or missed out, yore of the finalists this holds a world Yecord of 740 ibe shorn in a day, Godfrey Bowen, developed a the Herat Tussday, Moy 13, , 1980, ‘Page 1. Es 7] Angloptionemakes | good in Quebec " " Whyte #aye, J plat : gun Wh here ie 80: per. cent French-speaking aid get by. I even make 5 oench Wiptahelleved in the newaltp from the start. pit _ ‘five years in the alr force -and a science degree from Montreal's Sir George Williams University — since transformed into Concordia © University — he worked as a_ eyman for Dominion Bridge and eventually moved to the Chubb Safe Co. “| knew the manufac- turing end of the security equipment business and had contacts with the English-speaking in- stitutions," he recalls. . Meanwhile, Monette had formed his own sales agency to sell security equipment to banks, companies and: calsses: populaires in. the- market. ‘think allke? “Not at Te says Monette in the Securitech president's: office. . “Not a damn bit of it,” says Whyte, the vice- president just next door. - “The English have a very - different. mentality, you. know,". Monette says. “Alec is conservative — in politics ‘and otherwise. Very close with his pennies, too.” ° Whyte admits to a fond- ness for getting things in writing. iy says it’s the English -wa - “And hen we write a latier we want an answer,” he says. “But not ‘the Frenclt, The French hate - letters. Jean does 90 per cent of his business on the phone: oe in personal contacts. . "He'll come back from a “with one of our 7 French customers and say: ‘T just sold 50 safes.’ “Great,” says Whyte. “Let's seo the order ~“te's coming.” ‘What does that mean? I'm not making a thing until \. Ewe an order. That's the way we do‘it.”” - "Well it's not the way we ‘de it"-says:.the «man, who YErnitte, acknowledges. “Damn: the , full speed ahead — that's Jean’s way. But the orderg always camé in eventually.” Differences also show up in the two men’s personal les ene. ‘drives a big: Con- tinental with a phone in it,” Whyte. “Loves flasti. . Soappy dresser too. He wears those black, Mafia- suits, I always ask whose funeral he’s .at- “Alec's idea of a big lunch isa soup and sandwich at the Board of Trade," counters — Monette. “And his lunchtime: ‘conversation is always: serious: How come there are go many bank robberies In. Montreal, topics like that.” - Monette swears that until a few years ago he couldn’t t his pattner to order a” tile of wine. ‘And never a c. Never." “Ets still difficult to order asecand bottle of wine when he's around. And you should see him adjusting his glasses whe he’s ex the Monette says Sécuritech would be smaller today if he's always listened to Alec. “But maybe it wouldn't be as acund if irve'd always listened to me. “] don't see many anglo- phones like Alec around. He took a chance when he came with us. All we had wat guts - and contacts For all. the good-natured kidding at the office, -there are limits to the partnership — the kind af its that illustrate the persistence of the two solit my tee has never been in y home,” says Monette. “we don't ‘mix the two famuilies. ... We just don't live the same way. I live more French.” What does that mean? “On weekends I stay at home. Our life is around the , Alec Is typical Lachine. whole life is the golf and country club, His friends are, all white-collar workers. Mine are more varied. “Anyway, when you mix ure with business, you ead up working all the time,” Whyte sees the social gap as | ‘“fust a matter of Iifesty a” an we can laugh at our partnership oad have have nm down 20 times over silly little disagreements. But next we'd look at each ber fod laugh Ilke hell. eesti we can't do that we'll be in real trouble.”