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

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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

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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 “rusty Fords” that resulted in compensation payments to buyers.

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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: |

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