BLOCKBUSTER STYLE of 31 year-old Richmond printer Bob Smythe demonstrates the charm and grace of the cannonball, as performed by a dainty 323-pounder - one of 29 international competitors ranging in weight from a minimum of 250 pounds to a whopping 425. pounds ‘who competed in the third annual World Belly-Flop and one of the madness, EP ade Cannonball-Diy BILLY BELLY — FLOPS Asked before the competition if he would participate, Carter replied: ‘no sir, 1 can't even swim," but while Carter sat at poolside, the crowd began chanting "We want Billy.” Carter suddenly got out of his chair, strode to one Carter makes a big splash | RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) — Billy Carter made a big splash at the third annual world bellyflop and cannonball diving championships Saturday even though he wasn't a contestant and had said he couldn’t swim, . Carter, brother of the United States president, was judges for the session of midsummer Asa band played The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and the 1,000 spectators cheered, Carter emerged from the pool, one hand over his heart and the other clutching a bottle of beer. Winner of the contest was Jake Decker, 28, of - Vancouver, who weighed in at 325 pounds and listed his occupation as an unemployed bootlegger. He took the championship away from Butts Giraud of Vancouver, who was second. Giraud had won the championship the first two years the event was held. A total of 25 divers, ranging in weight from the minimumallowed 250 pounds to a 425-pound superheavyweight, competed. — see gz Championships at the Vancouver Airport Inn pool Saturday. America’s fun-loving “first Brother” Billy Carter of Plains, Georgia, served on the four-member panel of judges, and made quite a splash, . bot@e of heer in hand, the U.S. president’s brother joined ; the contestants in the drink. _ f ‘Workers: at ' at the Aluminum . before end of the pool, and jumped in, fully clothed. TRUDEAU LURED TORY Horner says PM promised important cabinet position EDMONTON (CP) — Jack Horner says he was promised an cabinet post by the Liberals he left the Progressive Conservative party last April. In an interview with the Edmonton radio station CJCA broadcast Sunday, Horner, now a minister without portfolio in the Trudeau cabinet, recalled the events leading up to his decision to become a Liberal. He said on March 10, important: James Coutts, Trudeau's principal secretary, “caught up with me at home and said he had wanted ‘to talk to me, that the prime minister had a message on how I could particularly ~ help Canada.” “I met with him in Ottawa a few days later, They were rather quick in dropping the whole bombshell on me. - “They said: ‘We want you to join us, We guarantee you a cabinet post, We guarantee an important Left - right split hurting Levesque MONTREAL (CP) ~— Premier Rene Levesque appears to be having more and more trouble bridging the ideological gap between _ conservative and leftleaning members of his cabinet, Opposition House Leader JeanNeel Lavoie said Saturday. Lavoie said in an interview: on CJAD radio that the inability of Levesque to make his will stick in cabinet can be seen in “excessive’’ legislation such as Bill 101, Quebec's controversial charter, “Everybody knows you have many wings within this party,” the Liberal leader said. “Vou have conservatives—by | con- servative mean (Education Minister) Jacques-Yvan Morin—and ou have others more to the eft” such as Immigration Minister Jacques Couture and Social Affairs Minister Denis Lazure. “Rene Levesque is in the middle of the road” language portfolio by summer.’ ] was very surprised and my immediate reaction was to turn it down, But I thought 1 owed it to my country to consider it.” . oo. Horner said he told Con- servative Leader Joe Clark about the meeting but, ‘‘He at first didn't take me seriously.” “On March 22, Joe and I . met, it was an unsatisfactory meeting. When J left I didn't have a good feeling about it,” Horner said after the meeting with Clark, he went — to seee John Diefenbaker and the. former Conservative prime minister “didn't advise me not to do it.” : Horner said he talked Clark again on April 3 and “told him I was going to meet with Trudeau before making up my mind.” Clark tried to dissuade Horner from meeting with Trudeau but Horner told ‘Clark that he didn’t want to turn down Trudeau’s offer without talking to Trudeau. Horner said he had “a very good meeting with the prime minister” and “I ‘came away quite impressed with his concern for a fuller representation of all the people of Canada at his cabinet table.” : “Joe phoned me the next day, quite angry, and told me he was going to strip me temporarily of my role as transportation critic in the Opposition party. Then he issued a press release sehich I heard about imme ly afterward which ver mentioned the Mord temporarily. And that an- noyed me ... “TI went into caucu# the nextday, the 5th or the 6th of April, and told them the whole story. I said it was becoming clear to me that I was nol wanted in the Conservative party." Horner said on the morning he announced that he was switching parties “Joe Clark phoned an ‘wanted me to come into caucus and giance to him. “Tl was very annoyed with Joe and I told him so, and told him he could do what he liked with his caucus.” pledge alle- Horner said he had considered the alternative of staying with the party to remove Joe Clark at the next leadership eonvention—but decided against it. “ would have been per- secuted across the couniry as the terrible Jack Horner who can’t get along with anybody,” - RAILWEST CLOSING — Squamish a ghost town “They have been lying us off in dribs and drabs for months, You’d never know who was going to be next to get the axe.” SQUAMISH, B.C. (CP) — British Columbia Railway’s railcar plant here said Friday the government’s decision to close Railwest will turn Squamish into a welfare town. “EF was lured up here by the government who promised me a good steady job,” said employee Raghbir Rurewal. ‘Now I'm stuck with a house I can’t sell without losing $12,000 and a wife and two | kids who don’t want to move again. “What are we going to do here?’’ assked Purewal. “The only industry in Squamish is going to be welfare,”’ He and other workers said in interviews that government promises of secure jobs had prompted them to move their families _ and homes to this town on Howe Sound 50 miles north of Vancouver. They said the termination of their Railwest jobs will force them to either uproot their families and leavish or commute to jobs in Vancouverif they can find them. . The alternative welfare, they said, is welfare. Purewal said he quit work Co, of Canada smelter in Kitimat, B.C., sold his house at a loss of $2,000, and headed south, lured by the promise of a steady job at west, ‘“‘The government encouraged us to invest in Squamish," he said, “When we went to the bank for a mortgage, the company pave us a pa guaran- ing we would have: per- manent employment. “Today I’m just a transient. And I'm going ta lose $12,000 on my house, if I can sell it.," The Railwest closure was announced Thursday by B.C. Railway Fraine, who said the company had decided to shut the plant in order not to “extend the periad of uncer- tainty over the plant's future, which would merely prolong ithe agony for the em oyees involved.” Fraine said he hoped the Railwest employees, down to 40 from the original 260, ‘would be able to find employment elsewhere. though the government has proposed a study to investigate conversion of Railwest to a_ steel fabricating plant, the em- ployees say they can’t afford to wait. “We're not going to hang on for a slim hope like that,”' said Michael ‘Denton, an assembler at Railwest and thelast union representative still on ‘oll. ; a and his wile, the job prospects look bleak. “We've supposed todo? Just hope, I guess.” - Rodeo clown all broken up MORRIS, Man. (CP) — Kelly LaCoste says working as a rodeo clown isn’ always a barrel of laughs. “Yeah, I.got a few broken ribs and things like that,” “said LaCoste, ‘‘Nothing ~ ‘serious, though.” ° _ LaCoste, 29, a native of Louisiana, spends 10 months . a year on the rodeo circuit, mostly in Canada, He wears a striped shirt and oversized denim overalls and has a big smile painted on his face when he enters the arena at the Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition. ‘ ‘A key part of a rodeo clown's job is distracting 2,000-pound Brahma bulls that have just chrown their riders. “You gotla be a cowboy before you can be a ¢lu@n,” said LaCoste, who hag been involved in rodeo work ever since he graduated from university, “TI started out as a steer wrestler and later began clowning college rodeos. “The way I see it, my job is to outmanoeuvre the bull. After a cowboy is thrown off the bull, I take it one. way while the y .scrambles away from the animal, You Teally got to be in shape to take one of them mad bulls on.” LaCoste is one of about 100 rodeo clowns working on the ear-round rodeo circuit hat stretches from the Rocky Mountain foothills to the Houston Astrodome, He would like to spend about seven more years in. the arena, facing bulls with ho more protection than a broom, a balloon, a barrel and that brightlypainted smile. a “T'm in my prime now and I don’t want to do it till I'm too old,” said LaCoste, a business administration graduate from the University of Tennessee. TD its nota e ; 1 : its agoodd - ; During statement periods in which a TD customer’s minimum head JN. ° No-charg chequing big Denton says he might try mining again. . “atleast they're straight with you and give you a two- ear contrat," he said. 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