The Westmount examiner, 31 mars 1977, jeudi 31 mars 1977

[" LAG WES He Examiner, Making net just your house but all of Westmount your home Voi.XLIX, No.13 Westmount, P.Q., H3Z 2W6, Thursday, March 31, 1977 At Prince Albert, York: Tenants face eviction but lot fate unknown.Long-standing tenants of houses owned by E.G.M.Cape & Company Ltd.have been given thirty-day eviction notices, The Examiner learned this week, and there is heavy speculation among residents of the Prince Albert avenue-York street area that the four buildings at the rear of the block-long lut owned by Cape may be demolished to make way for a major construction project.Twenty-one area residents held a meeting Tuesday night and determined that they would actively oppose any changes in the lower-Prince Albert area, and would work first to try to stop the eviction of the tenants, second to oppose any demolition of the property and third to fight a zoning change which would allow commercial development at the northeast corner of York and Prince Albert.There had been reports that all of the land owned by Cape had been sold\u2014or at least optioned\u2014 to Marathon Realty Co.Ltd.the real estate arm of Canadian Pacific Railway, but this was strongly denied yesterday by a spokesman for E.G.M.Cape, who said the rumor had no basis in fact.J.M.Squier, secretary- Continued on page 39 Choosy thief Thieves seem to have been picky in their choice of a blue 10- 8 bicycle worth $90 which they stole from outside a house on Greene avenue south of Dorchester boulevard sometime before 9:30 pm Sunday.The bike had been locked and chained with another one, and although the lock and chain were broken off both, the second bike was left behind.The houses at York street and Prince Albert avenue owned by E.G.M.Cape and Company Ltd.Parked car hit Thieves plucked a tuner worth $1,080 and a $1,000 raccoon fur coat off the back and front seats, respectively, of a car parked on the second parking level at Alexis Nihon Plaza sometime between 4:30 and 5:30 pm last Wednesday.The owner of the car insisted the doors had been locked, but police found no in- Car pinched A 1968 Pontiac Parisienne, arked\u2014overtime\u2014on Park lace at 8 pm last Thursday, was stolen by 9:15 am Friday.The owner told police the vehicle was worth $1,000, but apparently failed to mention whether or not the auto had been locked.For The Weather You Want Consuit: ERIC NEAL @ and McGregor e Travel , Company e-ù ® | A Greene Avenue 931-3843 off down\u2019 give sunny weekend.McGregor Sells Service L Service Sells McGregor, # Robins and crows arrive this week.Starlings and blackbirds next week.Trees are budding, so sugaring-off comes to an end.APRIL 1 TO9 For the Palm Sunday week we always have pleasant sugaring- conditions Lawrence valley and Laurentians, with only a little powder snow because we are north of the main depression systems passing through the midwest states.Mainly sunny everywhere, alfhough cold with windswept snow to end fhe The cold snap will extend into Texas, Florida and the Carolinas, to us another cold, mostly in the St.the SERV NT G1A 1A5 Lovisiana, BIBL DE LEGIS QUE HOTEL DU GOVERNME QUEBEC PQ for $2,080 dications of forced entry to the vehicle.Entry was gained through the left front door.Police advise drivers repeatedly to ensure that all valuables are kept out of view\u2014preferably locked in trunks\u2014when cars are left in public view.Owner claims: 20\u20ac UY { Ville Marie headquarters to move here Headquarters of Ville Marie Social Service Centre, umbrella agency dealin speaking, non-Jewish po are to be in Westmount.with the non-French- ation of the Montreal area, .'~ An authoritative source confirmed yesterday that lans are afoot for Ville Marie offices to be relocated rom their present high-rise building at 855 St.Catherine street east, in downtown Montreal, to the present Famil Service Association uarters, the property of Ville Marie, at 4515 St.Catherine street west, between Melville avenue and Park Place.Only one tender received Westmount has received no offers to purchase the Campbell Gardens on Edgehill road and only one offer to buy the house at 103 Blenheim place, it was learned Monday.A Mrs.Harold Taylor Fell submitted a bid to take the 103 Blenheim Place property off the city\u2019s hands for a total of $27,350.28, City Clerk Ronald B.Seaman announced at city hall when tenders were opened.Initial examination of the submission indicated all was in order, but it will be up to city council to approve the offer this coming Monday night, after it has been fully verified.Westmount had issued a requirement that no bids would Continued on page 17 The plan appears to write finis for the foreseeable future to hopes of Prospect-Belvedere Homes to expand into the facility from the adjoining Belvedere residence for senior citizens and close down Prospect House at the foot of Clandeboye avenue\u2014which last fall had looked like a clear possibility for later this year.Ville Marie is in the throes of reshaping its plans in the light of government-imposed budget restrictions, which have included delay in plans for establishing a network of local community service centres (CLSCs), including one slated for West- mount and eastern Notre Dame de Grace.Main points of delivery of social services are likely to be Ville Marie's area service centres, to which present field staffs are to be dispersed.Other plan dropped One such area centre probably will be the present children\u2019s Service Centre building in Weredale Park.It was intimated yesterday that the intention to utilize a former Roman Catholic educational building at the Continued on page 43 New conversion law won't help house that caused it FOR SALE: Nice Westmount mansion and coach house, Sunny- side avenue, excellent condition, oak panelling and lovely moldings inside, gorgeous view, seven bathrooms, 25,000 square Jeet of floor space.Just right for those with discriminating taste and a pocketbook which can afford $14,000 for taxes and $6,500 Jor heating fuel every year.Maurice Beriro could place such an ad.And he probably will.Mr.Beriro, the owner of the popularly-known Jules Timmins mansion at 14 Sunnyside avenue, is in a fix from which even the city\u2019s recently approved conversion by-law cannot extricate him, he claims, even though his threat to demolish the landmark was the catalyst for the law.He purchased the house two years ago for a reported $225,000, moved into it with his wife and two young children and watched the taxes go up 30 percent almost overnight.He did have a deal for supply of heating oil but it will end next winter when his bill will jump some $1,500.What with all the rest, he will be paying more than 10 percent of his original investment every year just to live a comfortable existence.Solution won't work Last year at this time Mr.Beriro, an investment counsellor by trade and a native of Spain, asked the city for permission to demolish the single-family residence.After considerable discussion and debate, city council turned down the request and began work on the conversion by-law, which would in theory allow him to change the building into three condominium units.By ANDY DODGE city for its efforts and understanding of the situation with which they were confronted, the solution came up with simply will not work, he says.The amount of money which would have to be spent to build kitchens, provide separate heating units and garages, and divide the house either laterally or vertically without ruining the interior wood and plaster would be far too high to create even a break-even return on investment.\u201cNobody is willing tc pay $150,000 for a home attac to someone else's,\u201d he ved.\u201cConversion is just irrational.\u201d Not only does he feel stymied in converting the house for three families to use, he would have all sorts of problems selling the coach house-\u2014connected to the main house by a gateway with a passage through it\u2014in- dependently.The coach house - -INSUFANCE iRGrEuSES, l'epairs and - - - While Mx *Beniro praised the - + 7 v.v.r Continued en page 31 2 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, March 31, CICR CUT Official 1977 BY-LAW 833 City of Westmount Public notice is hereby given to all who may be concerned that By-law 833 entitled \u2018\u2019BY-LAW TO FURTHER AMEND BYLAW 655 TO REGULATE RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES,\u201d was adopted by the Municipal Council of the City of Westmount at a general sitting held at the City Hall on the 7th March, 1977.Notice concerning said By-law was published on the 10th March 1977, as required by law, and as the required number of signatures to put the By-law to a vote were not received, the By-law was deemed to have been approved by the property.owners.Details relating to said By-law are fully set out in By-law 833 which is open for inspection by all persons interested at the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Westmount.Given at Westmount, P.Q., this 24th day of March, 1977.R.B.Seaman City Clerk GARBAGE COLLECTION Householders are notified that there will be no garbage collection on Good Friday, April 8, 1977, nor on Easter Monday, April 11, 1977.In order to provide service, garbage will be collected as follows:- Regular Collection Day Thursday, April 7 Friday, April8 Monday, April 11 Tuesday, April 12 Will Be Collected Wednesday, April 6 Thursday, April 7 Tuesday, April 12 Wednesday, April 13 E.A.McCavour, Eng.City Engineer SPRING FLOWER SHOW The 45th annual spring flower show will open at the Conservatory in Westmount Park at 5 p.m.on Wednesday, April 6.The picturesque setting will depict a country garden with a running stream and an old-fashioned windmill.On display will be more than 17,000 tulips, daffodils and narcissi; Easter lilies, roses and other flowers; 100 assorted shrubs and a variety of background plants.The show will remain open for approximately three or four weeks, subject to the condition of the plants.Visiting hours are from 10 am to 10 pm, Monday through Saturday, and from 10 am to 6 pm on Sundays.BEWARE OF THE DOG CATCHER! Dog owners are reminded that the licenses for their pets expire on April 30.The annual fee is $10, payable at City Hall, and the application for a license must be accompanied by a certificate, signed by a veterinary surgeon, that the dog has been inoculated against rabies within the last two years .Dogs must be on a leash at all times in any public place except that dogs, accompanied by their keeper, may run in certain designated areas in City parks between 7 pm and 9 am .If any part of private property or any part of a park, other than the designated area, is soiled by the faeces of a dog, the owner is required to remove such faeces .Westmount employs a dog catcher and he is impounding dogs where infractions of the municipal by-law occur.BICYCLE LICENSES Bicycle licenses, which are issued at City Hall, also expire on April 30.The annual fee is $2.SPECIAL GARBAGE COLLECTIONS Spring is synonymous with clean-up time and the disposal of an accumulation of trash.Residents are reminded that the City provides a special collection service whereby such refuse is picked up on request.This service can be arranged by calling the Inspection Services Division at 935-8531, local 203, no later than 11:30 am on Monday for pick-up on Wednesday.DANCE RECITAL The annual dance recital, presented by the dance classes of the Recreation Department, will be held on Friday, May 6, in Victoria Hall at 7:30 pm.This year's show, entitled Curtain Going Up, will feature more than 100 boys and girls in routines of tap dancing.baliet, modern jazz, gymnastics.body movement and baton twirling.RECREATION NOTES Registration begins on Monday, April 4, for the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 soccer and softball programs.Those interested are asked to register at the Recreation Office in the Artificial Ice Rink .Tennis instruction for beginners, boys and girls from 10 to 16 years of age, will be available from 10 am to noon on the junior courts, starting July 5, and on subsequent Tuesdays and Thursdays through August 25.For ladies who are residents of West.mount and who are in the beginner category, group lessons will of registration.Next Scheduled City Council Meeting Monday, April 4, 8 p.m., City Hall be given on Mondays from 10 am to 1 pm on the adult courts, starting July 4.In the event of inclement weather, tennis classes will be held in the Artificial Ice Rink.Boys and girls and ladies who are interested are asked to register at the Recreation Office in the rink by Thursday, June 23.Registration starts on Monday, June 27, at Westmount Park and Prince Albert Park for the summer playground program.Boys and girls from six to 16 years of age are eligible and the theme will be Hobbies We Enjoy.Activities include arts, crafts, trips, swimming and sports .For all programs, Recreation Department permits must be presented at the time CITY HALL 4333 Sherbrooke Street West WESTMOUNT, P.Q.H3Z 1E2 Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Fire (Business Calis) 19 Stanton St.Police (Business Calls) 21 Stanton St.934-0711 Municipal Court, 21 Stanton St.Saturdays, Sundays and holidays Victoria Hall, 4626 Sherbrooke St.Municipal Yard, 14 Bethune St.ht Department, Glen Rd.Lig 935-8531 935-9696 935-3528 935-2066 935-8037 935.8218 (Lady QD rire?935-2456 Police - 934-0711 On MUC valuation: REJOINS CLUB HERE: President of The Westmount Rotary Club in 1964-65, William M.Reay, vice-rector and treasurer of Concordia University, was welcomed back into membership of the local service club last Wednesday noon at Victoria Hall after several years with the Montreal club.The meeting last week was devoted to testing of members\u2019 knowledge of the Rotary movement.BERGEVIN REPORT SUMMARY Municipal Affairs Minister Guy Tardif on Mar.17 tabled in the National Assembly a report, commissioned by his predecessor, Dr.Victor Goldbloom, of a study group on the Montreal Urban Community valuation roll.The report was prepared by Maurice Bergevin, chairman; Roland Bigras and Keith Leonard, professional evaluators, and submitted to Dr.Goldbloom May 21, 1976.A summary of the main conclusions prepared by the Conference of Montreal Suburban Mayors has been translated by the Town of Mount Royal, which has instituted a Jormal court challenge of the roll.That translation follows: A malaise has developed between the administration and the members of the syndicate, resulting in reduced efficiency of service going back to 1974.We have concluded there are insufficient evaluators at the present time to prepare a quality roll in the actual conjuncture and according to proceedings used to establish evaluations shown on the roll.The procedure of appointing evaluators has the very serious disadvantage of not ensuring the best candidate is selected as an evaluator.We believe it to be essential that positions as evaluators be open only to professional evaluators.Many department heads deplore the lack of accessibility to the City of Montreal's computer, with the result that many jobs which could be rapidly handled by the computer must be done manually by the various divisions.The various division heads advised us that an evaluator inspects a property on the roll only in cases where a doubt exists and that, generally, very few visits to properties have been made.We believe it is impossible to have manual codification of sales without visiting the properties, particularly if it is borne in mind that codified sales constitute the base on which the factors regarding increased valuations are determined.Our study also revealed that in practice the system is quite different and the omission of a generalized utilization of a \u201cdummy\u201d roll is one of the reasons why the uniformity of evaluations is very unsatisfactory.The experts consulted are equally of the opinion that evaluations done by computer would considerably reduce the costs of the evaluation.We are convinced that the quality of valuations, with a better control and with much greater uniformity, would be achieved if the methods of work forming the base of each division were rethought.We believe that with greater control of the data at Continued on page 38 eo REMOVAL e CHECK GAS e STEAM CLEANING 5580 Pare RR: 2223 Ym RENTALS AIR CONDITIONER SPRING CLEANING Don\u201c delay, be prepared for the heat waves! + x fav +, Cali today and enjoy a cool summer \u2014 ALL WORK GUARANTEED TOWN HEATING & AIR-CONDITIONING LTD.SALES : e CLEAN FILTER ! e CHECK ELECTRICAL e RE-INSTALLATION Tel: 735-6151 = is WATCH REPAIRS Certified Wotchmohers Family Owned Since 1899 OHMAN\u2019S 9 VETERANS TAXI ASS'N.where were il lal The following calls were answered by the Westmount Fire Brigade during the past week.March 22 Nil; March 23 9:57 pm: 643 Grosvenor, pot of grease; 11:35 pm: 3033 Sherbrooke, apt.ve ambulance transport to \u2019 March 24 2:50 am: 220 Olivier, apt.101, ambulance transport to MGH; March 25 2:15 am: 4000 de Maisonneuve, apt.2808, alarm sounding; 6:58 am: 53 Clandeboye, ambulance transport; 2:20 pm: 1 Westmount Square, second parking level, alarm sounding; 6:53 pm: 200 Kensington, apt.314, burst water pipe: 8:55 pm: 201 Metcalfe, apt.101, strange odor; 9:12 pm: opposite 4100 Tupper, electrical wiring trouble in car; March 26 11:29 am: 4000 de Maisonneuve, internal alarm sounding; 11:33 am: 621 Murray Hill, assisted invalid in wheelchair; 7:25 pm: 4000 de Maisonneuve, third parking level, car leaking gas; \u201d March 27 5:50 pm: 537 Victoria, delayed ignition of furnace; March 28 6:55 pm: 4000 de Maisonneuve, apts.908 and 2116, internal alarms sounding (two separate calls); 8:48 pm: 732 Upper Roslyn, burnt ballast; y 9:25 pm: 321 Claremont, heart attack; March 29 1:25 am: Clarke and Sherbrooke, they going?) Thursday, March 31, 1977 Summer dog laws: Winter for Rover ends at midnight tonight Summer \u2018\u2018dog days\u2019\u2019 will arrive in Westmount tomorrow, and citizens should be warned that this will severely limit the areas of parks where dogs will be allowed to run freely between 7 pm and 9 am.Only in the designated \u2018\u2018dog run areas,\u201d where signs will be ted, will citizens be allowed to et Rover off his leash for a friendly romp with friends.These will include all of Summit Park and the back side of West- Phone call gave time for getaway Citizens who decided to appoint themselves detectives rather than phoning police immediately may have caused hardship to a Clarke avenue family, whose house was broken into at about 2:15 pm Sunday.The residents noticed two young people acting in a suspicious manner in the area of the house and tried to find out what was happening by calling up the homeowners.When there was no answer, they decided to phone police, but by the time officers arrived the suspects had left.Police were able to determine that the front door of the house had indeed been broken through, but were not immediately able to find out what\u2014 if anything\u2014had been stolen.Police remind citizens that they should report at once any suspicious activi oing on in the neighbourhood, Sat the police are hired specifically to in- yestigate and prevent crime from happening.Time lost playing sleuth or contemplating dc- tion can\u2014as perhaps happened in this case\u2014mean difference between a crime committed and a criminal captured.G mit AND LEG AND INDUSTRY ol c.! Gg RUTHERFORDS RUTHERFORD @OMPANY LIMITED 280 Levis Street mount Mountain leading down to Côte des Neiges road, the lower slope of King George Park below the children\u2019s play areas, the grassy portion of Westmount Park stretching northeast from the park ranger station, and a portion of the Westmount Athletic Grounds below West- mount High School which will be fenced in.Several small strips of grass are also designated, including land between Prospect street and the CPR tracks, the centre island of Weredale Park, the triangle at the intersection of NDG, Claremont and Westmount avenues, the island down the centre of Surrey Gardens, and the land at the northeast corner of Lansdowne avenue and St.Catherine street, west of the city\u2019s artificial ice rink and swimming pool.Dog licenses for the coming year are due on April 30, must be attached by May 31, and require a certificate of rabies vaccination no more than two years old along with a licensing fee of $10.Forms and copies of the recently-amended dog by-law should be available soon at the Seven nabbed Seven shoplifters were caught in Alexis Nihon Plaza during the past week with a total of $178.29 worth of stolen goods on their persons.Biggest recovery occurred last Tuesday when someone walking off with $59.88 worth of merchandise was tapped on the shoulder.The smallest amount collected was $4.99 worth of goods on Monday.*, FOR SALE Roval Trust THE SIGN THAT SELLS John Aird Jane Allan Catherine Barton Nora Bernier Joann Colby Margaret Evans Eleanor Fairhead Barbara Ferguson Brien Foster Susan Goldberg Sally Hollows Mary Hashimoto Eva Klein Valerie Kyle Josephine Lantier Royal Trin st 4145 Sherbrooke St.W.JEWELLERS 3 WE.3.4046 1216 Greene Ave.TRE TSO LE wo eva À CITY \u20ac OUN1 license department at city hall.Citizens should be remin that the most recent amendment to the dog by-law allows dogs to be off their leashes in the designated areas from 7 pm through the evening, rather than 9 pm as the regulations permitted last summer.At all other times dogs must be on a leash no more than six feet long.Only seeing-eye dogs are exempt from these provisions.Even while off the leash during the evening or early in the morning, dogs must be accompanied by their owners.+ lrevri No.doin BS Sa Aah Nay The following building its were issued at city half during the past week : March 25 784 Upper Lansdowne: for Mrs.S.Groves by Bill Stubbs, alterations, $2,300; 1265-67-69-71 Greene: for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce by C.C.Construction Enrg., repairs, $54,000.Does anyone want a big, big toy?: How would you like to own your own, full-sized, bright red § = Westmount Fire Brigade pumper truck, 1954 model, with a § © made-over motor and still in working condition?Included in } & the deal are the hoses that can be mounted on it, or used to | & water your lawn.= Westmount recently i in the publication of the blished a \u2018\u2018for sale\u2019 advertisement ration des Officiers Municipaux @Æ § Agréées du Québec\u2014the municipal senior civil service | @ organization\u2014and plans to reprint it locally.Though it might | & still be worth its weight for a smaller municipality in the | & province, they feel, some generous father might want to get his } § child a big, big toy.No base price for the pum cons 8 ads, so all offers will be per-with-hoses is included in the § ered.Those interested should à contact Director of Public Safety E.C.Harper.933-9184 Ruth Mary Lewis 932-6257 487-4791 Claudette Limoges 481-5907 481-9157 Margaret Cadman 484-2548 481-8687 Joan McCallum 935-8154 935-8625 Brian McGuigan 487-6278 932-6329 Joan McGuigan 489-7150 481-5403 Jean Murray 935-7320 488-8423 Elizabeth Paul 481-9915 488-7980 Nicole Powell 935-4387 487-5095 Dorothy Raich 931-7190 931-6571 Georgette Strous 487-2907 483-1511 Shirley Taylor 737-6704 481-3530 Louise Vocisano 935-5761 737-6911 Aubrey Wassyng 937-6674 932-0567 Buying or Selling for residential real estate MONTREAL'S LARGEST REALTOR TO BETTER SERVE YOU Saturday morning 9 a.m.to 12 noon Drop in and visit us.our expert staff: Contact with confidence, in confidence.James R.Quinlan, F.R.l., Manager 932-1112 JY du IH D xaminer Making net just your house but all of Westmount your home ENYA dell 1e] CIRCUL ATOP.Published Every Thursday by J.W.Sancton & Sons Ltd.4630 St.Catherine Street West, Westmount, P.Q.H3Z 2W6 Editorial, Accounting, Circulation, Display Advertising Departments 932-3157 Classified Advertising, 8.30 a.m.to 5 p.m.Weekdays (To 8.00 p.m.Mondays and Tuesdays) 931-7511 The Examiner aims to be an independent, clean newspaper for the home, devoted to public service.Mail subscriptions $7.50 per year; $4.00 haif year; 2 years $14.00; 3 years, $20.00.Twenty cents a copy.Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Quebec Community Newspaper Association.Second class mail registration number 1760 4 - Thursday, March 31, 1977 We Say The PQ's priorities THE Parti Québécois is in trouble.It is straying already, widely, from its recent mandate.Which was, in the first instance, to give Quebec good government like that expected by the people of any Canadian province.The most pressing need it saw and promised to tackle, in its victorious campaign for office prior to Nov.15, was to restore confidence in the economy of this key region of the country.Instead, it has broken its trust.In direct, deliberate actions such as arbitrarily boosting the minimum wage, scrapping wage and price controls, encouraging public employees to seek more, squeezing already-strapped municipalities in their essential role of providing basic public services.But still worse, striking at the economy indirectly but with potentially far more devastating effect by pre-emptive actions on two other fronts - perhaps inherent long-term goals of the disparate groups comprising the Péquiste amaigam.but hardly priorities for good government in the face of business downturns, continuing inflation and record unemployment in the province.* ® * THOSE two fronts are: (1) Assumption and pursuit of every posture and policy which presupposes separation of Quebec from the rest of Canada, without benefit of the promised plebiscite by which the people of the province were first to give their assent to such an end; and (2) Placing foremost on its legislative list, for which it has fine-tuned the National Assembly\u2014and for which Westmounter Fernand Lalonde.the Liberal opposition's critic of some experience in this matter, promises a first class fight\u2014its much worked-over language \u2018\u2018charter.'\u2019 significantly labelled Bill 1.Instead of something perhaps to come\u2014after proving themselves with that promised \u2018good government\u2019 and after the citizens decide for a separate state with their ballots\u2014the PQ, its ministers, its backbenchers and its raok-and-file have betrayed a near- preoccupation with their shibboleth of independence.A dreamworld aura of ill-defined \u2018sovereignty\u2019 surrounds every stance and pronouncement at home and, worse, abroad.Premier Lévesque's tre WAAL WN NAC Set Tse New York speech had the net effect of raising long-term lending rates to Quebec for badly needed development capital and undoubtedly created wait- and-see hesitance on private investment in the province, just when that is what is needed most for the creation of employment.And his ministers, attending international conclaves as members of Canadian delegations, have behaved embarrassingly by pretending to be something else.While their rationale may be understood at home, they sow abroad something less than understanding of both Canada and Quebec as a land in which durable confidence is to be placed.* * * THE language thing, too, creates gross \u201d uncertainty for the kind of Quebec and its climate, both social and economic.to be expected by non-Francophones both already here and who may come in the future, and who for a long time to come will contribute importantly to our prosperity.The Parti Québécois appears, in its public stance at least, almost totally to discount the goodwill and understanding directed toward the practice and preservation of the French language.For weeks preoccupation has been with the new language law.The conjecture has been almost to the exclusion of all else and to the confusion of everyone, including the cabinet itself.What eventually comes forth may or may not be an improvement, for Francophone or non-Francophone, over the Liberals\u2019 Bill 22.But the PQ seems determined to repeat the inexplicable stupidities of their predecessors by rushing and by attempting to plaster over the cracks by compromise between widely divergent views of what is desirable and practicable in a Quebec language policy.Instead of being consulted, all interested parties\u2014and those whose mother tongue is French are no more interested than all the rest\u2014are to be confronted this week or sometime with the unilateral PQ version of this most complex issue.Does the party hierarchy seek merely its own way; or does it want the goodwill, understanding and co-operation of the entire population and of all those who would live in and work for a better Quebec?$ * * THE assumptions of these other priorities by the Péquistes, considering their ERE yo orn philosophical base, are understandable.But they are not honest, considering the electoral downplay of the separation thrust and the emphasis on good Quebec government as the party's primary purpose.Acting as if separation has been accomplished or was even a near eventuality and placing substitution of Bill 22 above all else in the urgent business for the National Assembly hardly show promise of forthright commitment to the province's urgent issues.Indeed, bread-and-butter problems are only neglected and worsened.The government must be called back to its primary tasks.Split Woburn Abbey into flats?CITY officials need express no surprise that their well-meant but, we suggest, insufficiently considered \u2018\u2018conversion by-law\u2019\u2019 has received so much attention beyond Westmount\u2019s borders.The dailies and broadcast media, including The Globe and Mail and CBC national television, have reported on the social phenomenon which has led the country\u2019s unique residential municipality of the well-to-do to legislate for the splitting of its larger mansions into multiple dwellings.Elsewhere, as here, the move is seen as signalling the end of an era, preceded by the passing of the plush private railway car, the posh ocean liner and many other manifestations of great, unbridled.untaxed and unashamed wealth.Not for Westmount the plight of impoverished British peers who, to carry on, long have provided paid tours and even for paying guests to keep some of England's great houses intact.On the other hand.not for the United Kingdom the Westmount \u2018\u2018solution\u2019\u2019 of permitting, even if feasible, the Duke of Bedford to divide up Woburn Abbey into flats.We remain unconvinced, along with a goodly number of other Westmounters, that the city\u2019s By-law 833 was the wisest of enactments.Its blanket provisions covering some 37 large local houses seemed unnecessary.And now it turns out that what is permitted by the new by-law apparently fails to do anything very useful in the eyes of the owner of the former Tim- mins spread, the only proprietor believed to have placed his case before the city.The maximum permitted three dwellings inside that old landmark each would still be huge by modern housing standards.The city did not, in our view, do nearly enough public consultation on this issue\u2014its publicizing effort in rezonings of much lesser import has been far more impressive.Even though names of persons seeking a referendum on the measure fell far short of the required 480, the 78 in fact registered should be sufficient to indicate to council that a rescinding, and more thought, is in order.pret ~.~ roms 2 vee Vos Le ay Thirty-five Years Ago April 2, 1942 \u2018As the date for the vote on the plebiscite approaches, there is evidence that the overwhelming \u2018yes\u2019 vote that all patriotic Canadians want, might not be forthcoming.There are organizations assembling in many large centres to actively campaign for a \u2018no\u2019 vote.If the are successful, the result will be a blac eye that this nation will not recover from for a generation or more.A \u2018no\u2019 answer will be interpreted in the U.S.A.as voting us out of the war, of telling our other Allies we are not whole-heartedly with them, of showing sympathy to the stand of the Pétains, Francos and DeValeras.We mustn't let it happen.We can\u2019t let it happen.\u201d Twenty-five Years Ago March 28, 1952 \u201cAll attendance at Jack Horn\u2019s Continental Café went by the board Saturday afternoon when Betty Speirs presented her models in a spectacular fashion show.Betty Speirs and Peter Miller have always rated high in showmanship, but on this occasion they excelled.The perfectly trained models showed poise and charm as they exhibited the various gowns, hats, bathing suits and furs.Betty Speirs acted as commentator and Mr.Miller was seen in two exhibition dance numbers.\" Fifteen Years Ago March 30, 1962 \u201cNow that summer is drawing close, many eyes in Westmount must be turning to the public amenities of this city.Amon these people will be raised the ol thoughts of the long-awaited swimming l.Come along, city councillors, don\u2019t et\u2019s miss what is likely to be a glorious summer without a pool in our fair city.When is construction going to start?\u201d Five Years Ago March 30, 1972 \u2018\u201cWestmount\u2019s real estate picture has taken a turn for the better and West- mount, along with Montreal, can look forward to a rosy future.That's the opinion of the executives of Westmount Realties who report that the residential sector of the company last February enjoyed its most successful month in the history of the company.President D.B.Baily says he believes one of the prime reasons for the change is the dropping off of bombing and other radical political activities in the past months.\u2018People are extremely cautious when investing in real estate,\u2019 he said.\u2018They don\u2019t invest when the political situation is unstable because you just can\u2019t pick up the land and move if youve made a mistake.\u2019 ., Hon.C.M.Drury SAYS 00.PM on unity Prime Minister Trudeau strongly reiterated the message of national unity to Quebeckers while visiting the Montreal area March 10 and 11.He warned French- speaking, English-speaking and New Canadian audiences of the dangers and contradictions of Quebec separatism at meetings in Verdun and at a citizenship ceremony in Montreal.To the apparent surprise of some observers in the press, Mr.Trudeau scored a number of points at an open question session with students at College Lionel- Groulx in Ste.Thérèse.a school whose students are known for their strong pro- separatist sentiments.At one point, the students cheered the PM after he reaffirmed his faith in Canadian federalism.Mr.Trudeau said that as a Quebecker he was not willing to let Canada go, and would fight anyone who would try to destroy the country.According to reports in Le Devoir, the crowds and excitement surrounding Mr.Trudeau's visit to the college were unprecedented.In his talk in Verdun, the prime minister said tha: a basic flaw of the separatist ideology is that it does not provide for the fundamental respect of the minorities in this country.He added that Canada\u2019s historical answer to diversity has been tolerance.\u2018It is for this reason that we believe in Canada\u2014respect for the human person.That is why we are fighting.\u2019 Mr.Trudeau said.What do they want?The PM discussed a wide range of questions pertaining to the future of Canada in a special interview with a panel of reporters of La Presse, Canada\u2019s largest French-language newspaper.During the interviews he said, \u2018Quebec intellectuals don't know what they want.They want both independence and the advantages of remaining within Canada.\" Mr.Trudeau told La Presse that as far as he is concerned the notions of independence and association put forth by the present government of Quebec are mutually exclusive.Trying to combine them would be like trying to square a circle.While he is not willing to discuss independence, he is nonetheless ready to discuss a revised constitutional arrangement within confederation.In his Verdun talk the Prime Minister asked.\u201cIf it is permissible to divide Canada, a country that has existed for more than 100 years, on the principle of language or ethnic origin, why can\u2019t the same principle be applied to Quebec?\u2019 Mr.Trudeau also warned that minorities in an independent Quebec would not enjoy the rights that Quebec itself has within confederation.Minorities would not have their own civil codes, their own education system, and there would not be any distribution of power to ridings where there is an English majority as there is under the federal system.More than just money The prime minister also pointed out that federalism is much more than a matter of dollars and cents.Asked by students in Ste.Thérèse about \u2018profitable federalism\u2019 for Quebec, Mr.Trudeau said that if it were merely a matter of money, the twu richest provinces, Alberta and Ontario\u2014who put more in than they get out\u2014should have left Canada a long time ago.He said that for him Canada encompassed spiritual values and not just equalization payments.At the citizenship ceremony, where some two thousand people were present, the prime minister said that it takes both emotion and reason to hold a country together\u2014\u2018\u2018this is what makes a nation\u2019\u2019\u2014and that separatism will be overcome if there is desire and work to keep the country unified.You Say Social service form resisted by PSBGM Sir: In the light of recent information in The Westmount Examiner, I thought it would interest your readers to hear about a motion passed by the Central Parents\u2019 Committee of the PSBGM and subsequently supported and passed by the board in March of this year.The parents feel that the central registry form for the Ville Marie Social Service Centre places the names of people requiring social services together with privileged information about these people, and thus constitutes an invasion of privacy.They go on to say that Bill 65 requires that people using services must declare present name, name at birth, address, sex, civil status, mother\u2019s maiden name and surname and given name of spouse and only that! The motion resolves that any social worker in the schools of the PSBGM fill out only those details required in Bill 65 on the central registry form of the Ville Marie Social Service Centre for any student of the board's schools.Having recognized that planning does depend on information, the motion concludes that any privileged information that is required for future planning should be given anonymously on a separate form compiled for that purpose.It may add to the paperwork, but this suggestion, if properly enforced, could solve the invasion of privacy question.Joan Rothman 10 Bellevue avenue WESTMOUNT H3Y 1G5 They Say Another point of view from SOS Montreal published by Save Montreal The City of Westmount continues its tradition of favouring Upper Westmount and shafting Lower Westmount.Last fall, the city refused to have public meetings to discuss the merits of changing the six- storey zoning on Greene avenue to allow a fourth tower of Westmount uare.Instead they co-operated with Mondev in a series of small promotional meetings to convince the selected guests that the zoning should be changed.The city lobbied for the developer and even used taxpayers money to send a newsletter to all citizens, promoting only the developer's point of view.They acted in a similarly secretive and biased way in relation to the zoning changes and negotiations with developers of two office buildings on St.Catherine street.Also, the mayor apparently did not even discuss with his own council the fact that the city was forcing the Reader's Digest to demolish the Gingerbread House to create an open space (i.e.parking lot).\u2019 Even the preparation of the city's report The Westmount Examiner.Thursday, March 31, 1977 - § our M.N.A.says Lu George Springate Language bill The Parti Québécois is quickly finding that with the mantle of office comes pressure and protest from within the party ranks.Twice now they have promised that a white paper on language would be presented.Both times it has been delayed due to internal bickering, indecision and the question of \u2018just how far should we go?\u201d Premier Lévesque has said on numerous occasions that it was to be presented before Easter.He has now scrapped those plans.His new target date is before the end of April.This late date does two things.As the government insists that this language bill be enacted prior to the ending of this session in June, every day the bill is not presented means one day less of full discussion concerning the bill.Secondly, as the premier has emphatically stated, the new language policy will be in effect for the upcoming September school year.Police come to aid of artist in distress Sirs: Through your newspaper 1 would like to say a very sincere \u2018\u2018thank you\u201d to the Westmount police, and in particular to the two kind policemen who came to my rescue last Tuesday evening, and to whom I am most grateful.Returning from my painting class, as | was running across Sherbrooke street on a green light my paintbox suddenly flew open and all the contents spilled out in the middle of the road.I quickly ran to the sidewalk and put down my empty box, and hesitated for a moment whether it was safe for me to run back into the road\u2014when suddenly a police car ap peared with flasher on, blocked the traffic, and the two policemen got out and helped me to pick up my brushes, paints and miscellaneous items.Thank you very much.E.Crosby 4444 Sherbrooke street west WESTMOUNT H3Z 1E4 Bibliophile ired by parking meters Sir: I would like to protest the recent installation of parking meters at the lot serving the Westmount Library.It is not the presence of the machines that I object to.but the design.If one needs to spend several hours researching in the library, he now can be assured that he will be forced to run outside every so often to put more coins into the \u2018\u2018dreaded\u201d\u2019 money-eaters\u2014an unnecessary interruption in one\u2019s train of thought! I believe that the limit for parking in this lot should have been restricted to two hours, thereby discouraging drivers from leaving their cars to take the bus downtown.Had this been enforced, the meters, aside from providing revenue, would have been unnecessary.Matthew J.Elder 588 Lansdowne avenue on cultural properties took place in total secrecy, despite the fact that the mayor had publicly tated that he thought a public meeting was a good idea and he did not see why one could not be held.But comes a minor zoning change in Upper Westmount, allowing some large mansions to be subdivided, and the city does not hesitate to hold a public meeting.The delay places added pressure on school administrators in their attempt to prepare for the new academic vear.Having experienced Bill 22, I know what the next three months hold in store The discussions will be long, tough and emotion-filled.And at times, the discussions will be unpleasant.But ! am ready 1 will be there.Roslyn School Project Twenty months ago, work Degan on the research into the history of Roslyn School and the community it serves.Researchers Ann Elbourne, Molly Fripp and Maryla Waters, along with former principal Bill Hay.have conducted interviews and gathered documents, memorabilia and photographs dating back to 1908, the year of the opening of Roslyn School.The project was started with the in tention of answering questions related to the past.It has stimulated great interest in the entire community, involving all generations.The committee will mount an exhibition .a trip down memory lane .to be held at Roslyn School May 12, 13, 14, 1977.They will set up a permanent record which will be kept in the Roslyn media centre as resource material for future research and study.Also, an illustrated book will be on sale to the public in September 1977.The project deserves Westmount's support.WESTMOUNT WANDERINGS Sincere thanks to all of you who commented favorably on the Quest article.Gave a speech in Toronto Monday to the Canadian Marketing Association.Was host to 60 students in Quebec City on Tuesday as they visited the Quebec National Assembly.Am particularly pleased at the reception 1 have been receiving in Montreal high schools of late.Addressed three high school general assemblies last week.1 truly appreciate invitations from students.It shows their great interest in the future of Canada.Looking forward to my April 13 meeting with t Air Force Association wing situated at Metcalfe and Sherbrooke.WP a a a a NN 24° ) 0.; ur men ure Tine About repairs They knock on doors ) They find upstairs.JOHN WATSON ) (Quebec) limited W.Hartley Barber, President PLUMBING & HEATING | CONTRACTORS ) DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE a a a a a a a a ai i ii i a a } Service & Quotations on request { 368 VICTORIA AVE. 6 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday.March 31, 1977 Is this post-election, post-Olympics Quebec?Westmount construction belies political and economic crises Is this really post-election, post-Olympics Quebec?Is this really Westmount, the so-called English bastion of Quebec?Is this really a province with an unusually high unemployment rate, the worst it\u2019s been in years?Readers of recent Examiners must be startled at these facts.Construction of Place Toulon,.a major, office complex on St.Catherine street east of Gladstone avenue, started very quickly after the Parti Québécois victory.Construction of Westmount One.another major office complex, started just west of Gladstone on St Catherine this week.Last week's Examiner showed plans of another office building scheduled to start being built on Sherbrooke street between Greene and Elm avenues in May.The previous week confirmed activity is shill planned for the southwest corner of Sherbrooke and Lansdowne avenue, and the week before the paper announced plans for a senior citizens\u2019 residence on the southeast corner of the same intersection.Work has been continued and steady on the new 1100 Atwater avenue office building, on the refurbishing of the old Victoria Garage at 370-82 Victoria avenue.and on the third storey to the Reader's Digest Annex.175 Metcalfe avenue.All should be ready by mid-summer.And by the end of the summer the open- pit construction on St.Catherine street, where the Metro tunnel is being built, should be finished.Two projects stalled At other sites where construction has not started\u2014mainly, the northeast corner of Greene and St.Catherine, where a A report by ANDY DODGE Sketches by HARRY MAYEROVITCH fourth tower for Westmount Square is planned.and on St.Catherine at the foot of Kensington avenue.site of the old Quinlan apartments, developers give political causes for delays.Confidence in Quebec, emanating from Westmount.But then why.you ask.last week's headline, \u201cReal estate market here sags badly\u201d Are citizens running from a developing city\u201d Or are developers rae 3eraY 4 foolishly throwing money in.where more astute individuals are taking theirs away?Even the most eminent realtors and financial experts in Westmount find the questions hard to answer directly.The fact is, trends today in Westmount are affected as much by the general economic situation, contracts and commitments which were under way before the Nov.15 election as by the presence of a Parti To get your Examiner every week, call 932-3157 or use this handy coupon: The Westmount Examiner, 4630 St.Catherine St.W., H3Z 2W6 WESTMOUNT, P.Q., Please start The Examiner immediately to: Name No.and Street City, Province, Postal Code for 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years For out of Canada, add $2.50 per year Please check term desired and send this coupon with your payment.$7.50 0 $14.00 GC $20.00 C \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 em \u2014CLIPHERE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 meee] Québécois government today.The housing market had reached a peak early last year and prices were generally off by about 10 percent before the election.Prices have dropped another 10 percent since then, realtors say.largely a result of the election itself.The housing market has reacted to several factors.Prices reached a \u201csaturation point\u201d early last vear, and the downward effect has been a normal trend.des&ite the fact that prices in the Montreal area are still lower than in other major cities in Canada.Certainly in West- mount many people involved with the Olympics in one way or another have moved out of town, perhaps after a year or more here organizing the two-week extravaganza.Taxes have increased substantially, a factor which has had a greater effect on homeowners\u2014many of whom were living a borderline existence \u2014than on commercial enterprises or developers.Short-term effect The political situation is having a short- term effect right now, realtors say, as the inevitable requests for transfers out of the province are granted and as those who are easily mobile move elsewhere.Thus the market may \u2018\u2018bottom out\u2019 in short order\u2014so far as political uncertainty goes\u2014and then resume a regular trend affected by the various other economic factors.Developers, meanwhile, are reacting to a variety of other influences.Shortage of office space is obvious, and even the most cynical observers who suggest that head offices are preparing to leave Mont- real\u2014there is far less indication this is happening than the pessimists would like to believe\u2014would admit that some kind of offices, even regional operations, will have to be located in Montreal\u2014or West- mount.Apartments, too, are in very high demand and have been for quite some time, exacerbated by those who wish to remain solvent in anticipation of the much-dreaded referendum on independence and by those who can no longer afford private-property taxes.The anticipated senior citizens\u2019 residence, the apartment building at Lansdowne and Sherbrooke and the eventual fourth tower on Westmount Square will have no problem finding renters, and the commercial undertakings probably will be able to bring in handsome rents.The Westmount Square tower, by the way, is one construction for which very little activity has been seen since last November's hard-fought zoning referendum.\u201cMuch thought\u2019 is being given to the design of the 20-storey apartment building, but plans must be refined and re-worked considerably before excavation and construction begin.Though the start may be as much as two years away.there is no connection between the delay and the political situation, according to officials of Mondev International, Inc.the site owners.It does not make things easy.\u201d one official told The Examiner recently.\u2018\u2018but it doesn't affect our decisions.\u201d Pre-PQ debacle The same might be said for the office building planned further west on St.Catherine street, at the site of the Quinlan apartments and former Westmount Youth Clinic, Nos.4410-24, which now lie stagnant and crumbling.While demolition crews waited, the provincial department of cultural affairs spent nearly five months deciding, as it turned out, that only the two columned doorways to the apartment building were culturally significant.Though the developers, Les Immeubles 4410 Ltée, have plans and have presented them to both the city and province for approval, there seems to be a certain amount of buck-passing between the two levels of government in terms of who is responsible for granting a building permit, and very little movement toward collaboration.This might have somethin to do with the changeover of provinei governments, but not with political uncertainty itself.All of this activity and reassurance does little to convince the homeowner who is told the asking price for his house is $20,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 higher than it should be.The realty market, specially in a microcosm such as Westmount, is \u201ca very, very delicate thing,\u201d as one realtor put it, and reacts almost instantly to numerous pressures.The government's language legislation, scheduled to be presented last week but delayed indefinitely, may have a serious effect on the housing market; this article may change minds in one way or another, and countless other factors can be expected to move prices higher or lower.Construction and development is a much longer-term commitment and thus does not fluctuate so quickly or drastically, however.Montreal's \u2018\u2018downtown\u2019 has been moving in Westmount's direction.and it would take more than a seemingly temporary political climate or economic situation to change that movement.* \u201cThe world hasn't ended,\u201d a realty executive suggested.Hopefully, it won't. = New street to be built this year A street connecti Tupper street and Dorchester evard at the west end of the Royal Bank of Canada\u2019s property, where the 1100 Atwater avenue building is now being built, will probably be constructed by the city this year, once the construction equipment for the building and parkade is finished.So claim officials at city hall, clarifying a story in last week's Examiner that the project was being delayed due to budgetary restraints.The project was Working here A lieutenant from a police station outside Westmount discovered and arrested a driver at Atwater avenue and Tupper street who had been wanted to pay some $28 for outstanding traffic tickets.agreed by both Westmount and the Royal Bank, and it was understood that it would be built as soon as possible following completion of construction.Bank officials have told The Examiner they expect: lo be finished by mid-July.which would mean the city would have ample time this year to build the road.The road would be slightly east of a line running directly south from Gladstone avenue, meaning there still would not be a direct connector between Dorchester and St.Catherine street between Greene and Atwater avenues.Because construction of the Westmount One building, fronting on St.Catherine between Gladstone and Greene, has only just started and the building is not expected to be completed before next spring, widening of Children TEL.487-4680 \" JheUilloge 4870 Sherbrooke St.W.\u2019s Wear A multitude of v incr ols multi Earnie multiples from ARTORIUM 350 Victoria Ave.Tel.488-9559 the ery fine handmode handicr [I Il .LAS MARIPOSAS -_ imports Clothing, textiles & og 346A Victoria Ave.Tel.484-8873 | afts from Guatemala.aor Marie: pale Designer co-ordinates for bedroom, bathroom and kitchen hnens and accessories European duvets.Personal service 4918 Sherbrooke St.W.Tel.486-7720 LU JAN Framing tarmaton PA A ET © JS 353 Ave Prince Abert, & Westmount, O Tel(514) 48 4.9030.Caves, Quaus Frame Systems MAGN CF MOULDING © 1 flower & green decorations reg'd 4888 Sherbrooke St.W.Tel.481-9388 Elizabeth MacDermot M Personally select exico \u201cUnlimited 4909A Sherbrooke St.Wed handcrafts.artlendersgallery | sales rentals graphics paintings sculpture 318 Victoria Ave.Tel.484-4691 1 | Anthony B.Gordon Antiques 361 Victoria Ave.Mon.\u2014 Sat.9\u20145 Tel.489-8729 Open Darty untd 3:00 p 366 Victoria Ave I Bead Emporium of Montreal Inc.All types of beads tor jewellery and macrame m Monday to Friday Tel 486 6425 (VICTORIA AND SHERBRO The Westmount Examiner.Thursday, March 31, 1977 Had warrants the land extending west from Tupper street and im tot ements city parking lot south of a report of a minor accident at one of des Neiges roads\u2014just outside Warrants issued against him.The ROTARY CLUB & Auction WESTMOUNT's only service club for nearly half a century has, with the combination of money and the efforts of its members, initiated and assisted countless good causes in our immediate community and beyond.The broad goal of \u2018Service Above Self\u2019\u2019 is unchanging, but the means have been altered by the times.Older residents will remember fondly the great Rotary Fair, an outpouring of fun for all ages and of Westmount generosity.More recently has been the annual Rotary Raffle from which, alas, results have been diminishing.The yearly appeal to the community for 1977 is to be a return to fun and involvement for Westmount residents: a giant \u2018\u2018garage\u2019\u2019 sale and auction, to be held in the ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK Friday evening, May éth and All day Saturday, May 7th Members of the Rotary Club of Westmount are looking to two kinds of support from the community: Donation of articles and attendance at the sale.Now is the time to be thinking about your possible donations\u2014spring is upon us with cleaning and clean-out time, when you may be thinking of replacing numerous items in your household.Or you may be moving, perhaps from large house to smaller apartment, and there will be perfectly good items to be disposed of.What better cause than to Rotary! Here is a handly checklist.Please scan it, now; check off any item you may be willing to donate and mail it or phone the Rotary office to let us know.935-3344 (weekday mornings only) Rotarians manning station wagons or trucks will call at your home to pick up your articles.Furniture of all kinds Televisions [J Sporting goods 0 in good condition Record Players MO Sailboats D Tables 0 Tape Recorders {J Canoes (3 End Tables {1 Air Conditioners 0 Camping Equipment (J Coffee Tables gg Cameras O Sport Clothing a Chesterfields 0 Power Mowers O Books a Chairs 0 Power Tools OO Records 0 Dining Sets 0 Motors (3 Wooden doors 3 Bedroom Sets 0 .ectrical Fixtures Kitchen Sets oO Other welcome items: Ornaments J Lamps 0 Bicycles 0 Slassware 0 verware Pr operating order Toys © Good China u Snowshoes (J Garden Furniture Cl Mixers Lu Skates J Pictures mM Blenders Li Guns {3 Mirrors {3 Radios cz Binoculars (J Surplus Linen [1 HANK YOU Police from Westmount taking the city limits\u2014discovered that the drivers involved had the lane cannot be expected until the corner of Trafalgar and Cote $35 worth of outstanding next year. 8 - The Westmount Examiner, November 15, 1976: The concert hall at Victoria Hall was filled to capacity, not with political devotees, nor with ballot- counters and scrutineers, but with the normal, business-as-usual, every-Monday-and-Thursday bingo players.As the evening wore on and the election returns started to show trends, one Liberal Party organizer decided to inform the gamblers of the fate of their province.**The Parti Québécois is winning the election\u201d he announced, sticking his head through the door into the smoke-filled room.Several of the players told him to be quiet so they could hear the calling of the numbers.One man stood up and cheered.Another man stood up at the same time.\u201cBingo!\u2019\u2019 he shouted.All eyes turned back to the cards and a new game started.Bingo is an addiction.Even an earthquake would have difficulty turning the heads of the players, and certainly the election returns last Nov.15 were little to worry the devotees, as this story in The Examiner (Nov.18) showed.The game is an addiction like any other, one which can, at its extreme, ruin livelihoods and marriages just as alcohol does.But here in Westmount, which has been dry throughout most of its 102-year history and now tolerates liquor at restaurants only under the most stringent of controls and requirements, bingo at Victoria Hall has become almost a way of life.Few of the players realize that Thursday, March 31, 1977 they are contributing to charity by playing bingo, and probably just as few care.They are playing for entertainment, but always in the hope of winning big.Sometimes the hoped-for extra cash is used to pay off debts\u2014though they always have cash for bingo.Every Monday and Thursday night some 225 to 250 people flock to Victoria Hall from all parts of Montreal (very few from West- mount itself), put down between $3 and $13 apiece for cards, and while away the night looking for numbers and letters, hoping for the best but expecting the worst.*\u2018What cheaper way can you go out for an evening's entertainment\u201d one Bingo official argued.\u2018\u2018Would it be better if they went to Blue Bonnets?\" Board a reminder The addicts are reminded of the fact that their addiction is being used for charitable purposes only by the large board which keeps track of the numbers called.The words \u2018\u2018Maple Leaf dodge, B'nai B'rith\u2019 stare them\u2019in the face each Monday night, and on Thursday nights it's \u2018Balfour Lodge.B'nai B'rith.\u201d The organizations\u2014Jewish fraternal groups in the same tradition as the Shriners, Knights of Pythias or a myriad others\u2014make about $10,000 a year each from bingo, money which goes to support entertainment for children in hospitals, long-distance telephone calls for patients of veterans\u2019 hospitals at Christ- Twice a week in Victoria Hall Bingo night in Westmount By ANDY DODGE mastime, the Hospital of Hope on Sherbrooke street east, Cam B\u2019nai B'rith and the B'nai B'rit Youth Organization, or food baskets for needy families and other equally worthy programs.Bingo has been going on for six years now, at least as far as the Maple Leaf Lodge is concerned, and has become their primary source of income, though they do Averting_'death from boredom\u2019: Most don't play for money, they come for diversion \u2018Bee eight.Bay huit.\u201d Hands full of tiny plastic disks emerge above the table and move gracefully over cards of numbers, stopping momentarily to drop a disk but then moving on.The pattern of waves made by the rows of hands, all working together, looks like an assembly- line weaving operation.In a matter of seconds the hands stop their graceful moves.Most dip into small cans to grab more disks: some reach for cans of soft drinks waiting beside the cards.\u201cOh seventy-two.Oh soixante- douze.\u201d The patterns form again and again as each letter-number combination is announced.At times it goes on interminably.Not a word is passed between the 250 people in the room, who sit staring at their cards, wondering, perhaps.if N-33 will be called next.\u2018\u2018Bingo!'\u2019\u201d yells someone, sooner or later.within seconds of the calling of a number.Everyone else sighs and quickly scrapes off the plastic disks\u2014 against the recommendation of the caller\u2014while an official reads out the numbers and letters which have formed a row or other pattern to cause the victory.And so it goes, for 2'; hours every Monday and Thursday > \"eas night at Victoria Hall.Not much of a social gathering, you might say, but still a highly popular \u201csport\u201d for those who have caught the bug.\u201cI've been playing bingo for 15 years and I've never won,\u201d says one attractive, mid-thirties woman.\u2018I come to hear all of them say \u2018Bingo!\u2019 \u2019\u2019 she adds, waving her arms across the room.\u2018It's an escape.\u201d \u201cI do it for entertainment, not for the money,\u201d says another.Does once a week suffice?\u2018Oh no, I'd be dead from boredom by now.Form of entertainment Bingo is accepted by the organizers as a form of entertainment, not so much a gambling spree, and they say that it is far less dangerous than anything one could find in Las Vegas.After all, they point out, spending $10 in an evening (with the chance of getting more back) is far from the $100 or $1,000 losses one hears about at the horse track or the roulette wheel.Still, most of those who come to Victoria Hall on Monday night are also there on Thursday night, and seek out bingo games at other locations around Montreal on other evenings.Interestingly.women outnumber men at Victoria Hall's > MY AWE S BES WTC FATE Y BRT TE Ge SSMS A CWA w Ee ww bingo by about 10 to one, meaning it is no place for husband-hunting or boyfriend- hunting, but still the young, attractive, on-the-hunt girls come with the rest and put down their dollars for a night's entertainment.Older ones are more hardened to this form of \u201cnight out on the town,\u201d and for them it has become a way of life.Bingo is also used as an excuse to get away from home, from the kids, or whatever.One woman admitted that she came to West- mount from St.Laurent on the premise of playing bingo\u2014and did play-but then went to see a boyfriend afterwards.She has since divorced her husband, but still sees her boyfriend.Another was asked whether she was married, and responded in the affirmative.Happily?Again affirmative.What an her husband think of her playing bingo?\u2018My first one or my second?\" The Westmount operation, which is run on a far smaller scale than bingo games at large churches around town, competes not only against churches and other groups but against television, which for many of the bingo-players is their only other form of entertainment.This Monday night, for example.turnout was very small because Continued on next page \" {RUNNING THE SHOW: The stage of the Victoria Hall concert: $ hall is transformed every Monday and Thursday evening into a ASS \u201cbingo command post, complete with floating, numbered Ping- ; \u201c+ Pong balls, announcers and big board on which called numbers: \u2018are posted.hold other raffles and fund- raising events during the year, and the 250-odd lodge members pay out-of-pocket for such things as bowling nights, annual dinners and other lodge activities.The members involved in operating the bingo are volunteers, and though they come every week theirs is a purely charitable effort.Few responded enthusiastically when asked whether they might otherwise be playing bingo themselves.While the officials act as volunteers, they do offer pay to six or seven young boys who parade the bingo hall selling soft drinks and chips, operating the \u201cbig board\u2019 which reports the numbers drawn, and verifying winning cards.The whole operation is careful, smooth and relaxed\u2014it seems nothing is left out except perhaps the summer air conditioning.Automatic hands If the operation is smooth, so are the players, They buy up to 16 and even 20 cards at a time, bring their own markers in hand- crocheted bags, run their hands smoothly over the numbers as the callers announce each pick, dropping markers on proper numbers without even hesitating, as the hand continues the search.It would seem the hands are almost electronically coded\u2014the number is called, transferred from ear to hand and the proper markers dropped.If anybody is at all skeptical about the operation, there is ample opportunity for them to check.All of the numbers\u2014from B-1 to O-75\u2014are written on colored Ping-Pong balls, one color for *\u2018B.\" one for \u2018\u2018I\u2019\u201d and so on, and displayed for public view at the beginning of the evening, about 7 pm.At 7:30 the balls are put into a large basket to which an air vent is attached; the vent keeps the balls constantly moving at random and suspended in air.The caller\u2014a B'nai B'rith volunteer\u2014receives the balls one-at-a-time from a suction tube, the number and letter written on it, and places * = EEE SE RR TNE the ball on a track, where it stays until the end of the game.As the players scan their own cards, the number is exhibited on the large board.Operators of the game found that many players were arriving well before the announced 8 pm start of the main game, so th instituted a \u2018\u201c\u2018mini-bingo\u2019\u2019 whic runs for a half-hour before the announced start of the bingo.Prizes for the pre-event are $10 per game, with paper cards costing 50 cents for the first four (and an added bonus of two for the next week), then 50 cents for each additional sheet of two cards.At the same time that the players buy their \u2018\u2018mini-bingo\u2019\u2019 cards, they pay $3 for a set of four regular cards, plus 50 cents apiece for sets of two additional cards (printed on cardboard to tell the difference); from these they can hope to get $50 back if they win a game.Prizes are split The inevitable factor of chance means that often several people will win at once, at which time the prize\u2014$50 or $10\u2014is divided between them.Maple Leaf Lodge promises that in the case of odd divisions\u2014for example, if three people win at the same time\u2014the prize will be rounded upwards to the nearest whole dollar, so that in the case of $50 won by three people, $17 would be given to each, meaning the lodge would give out $51.Not only that, minimum prizes are given when a large number of winners claim at one time.For example, eight winners come forward at the same time in the mini-bingo, and the Lodge agreed that each could be awarded $2.Thus the total prize came to $16 instead of $10.All of this generosity.added to fixed payments to the Quebec Lottery Commission, rent to Victoria Hall.a healthy (about $3,500 a year) amusement tax to the city and various other expenses, means that at times the Continued on next page Centinued from previous page B'nai B'rith can even lose money in a night, as they often did this winter when cold weather kept some of the less-addicted players at home.More generosity is evidenced in the \u2018jackpot games\u2019 which are interspersed among the 17 regular contests of the evening.The first offers a $15 prize for a regular win, after which the players keep their markers and try to form a \u2018\u2018T,\u201d for which they receive $35.The game continues further, and the first person to fill all the numbers on his card wins $100.A second jackpot is held later and the prizes are raised to $50, $100 and $350 respectively.Two weeks ago the same person won all three prizes and walked off with $500.Even the regular games provide some variety, as players try to \u2018\u2018square the O by surrounding the centre (free) square with markers, to form a T or a cross, for example.All the lists of winners\u2014including names, addresses, and amounts won\u2014must be reported to the Quebec Lottery Commission so they can verify the information and ensure that all prizes have been given out.Odds are one in four While Westmount\u2019s bingo is a small-scale operation compared to some churches around town, the smaller number of participants means each has a greater chance to win\u2014officials figure the odds of winning at some time in the evening at one in four\u2014or at least less opportunity to lose one\u2019s shirt.Most participants come as regularly as clockwork, and over time both they and the operators have become one big family, though social conversation is at a minimum while the calls are being made, and the players seemingly flee from the hall once the evening is over, refusing to dally with small talk.accept it\u2014but don\u2019t like it\u2014when Victoria Hall cancels an evening's bingo to allow another organization use of the building, or if an important Jewish holiday keeps the organizers home.e operation is as clean as bingo can possible be, to the credit of Maple Leaf and Balfour lodges of B'nai B'rith, but they cannot claim responsibility for the fate of their ers.It seems hardly a te, in a way, that gambling is used to raise money in the name of B'nai B'rith, whose motto is \u201cBenevolenvce, brotherly love and harmony.\" Still, bingo has come into vogue for charitable fund-raising organizations, and so long as people are willing to gamble, it is perhaps better to do it for charity than for private enterprise.Is the world better for charity, or worse for gambling?Diversion.- Continued from previous page of the Academy Awards presentations on TV.When bingo first started at Victoria Hall six years ago, it was planned that the evening's entertainment would begin at 8 pm.Because so many people arrived early, the organizers decided to offer a \u2018\u2018mini-bingo\u201d game starting at 7:30, with smaller costs for cards and smaller prizes.Though they have not veered from that format, they find now that people are arriving at 6:30 and even 6 pm, to get a good table, to get their choice of cards or whatever.They might bring their dinners to eat while waiting, bring a newspaper to read or chat with their friends (few come alone).Superstition, as in most games of chance, also is in great evidence at bingo games.Nearly everyone has something \u2018\u2018lucky\u201d with him\u2014a charm, a piece of clothing, small toy or whatever.Some insist on having cards with a 74 in the bottom right-hand square, or even with combinations of numbers in a certain part of the card.The B'nai B'rith organizers always try to oblige.Others might insist that the callers act in certain ways.Though the specially designed basket for the numbered balls guarantees a completely random selection process, players will ask that the balls be mixed by hand before a game, to change bad luck.At times even the most experienced players will ask that the caller slow down.So long as they are fair in their 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Shirts Beautifully Laundered in Polyethylene Bags Drapes Cleaned Free Mildew-Odor-Perspiration-Moth Proofing on Everything We Clean\u2014No Extra Charge \u2018Cleaners for Your Better Clothes\u2019\u2019 Western Valet Service Ruby Antecol, Proprietor 4460 St.Catherine Street West at Metcalfe Avenue 933-2000 933-5434 10 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, March 31, AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE 1977 ANGLICAN UNITED UNITED WESTMOUNT PARK CHURCH (United) Lansdowne Ave.and Maisonneuve Blvd.Rev.J.E.Nix, B.A., B.D., S.T.M Organist: Mr.David Hall, B.Mus.APRIL 3 11:00 am \u201cTHE GOOD OF DYING\" Part ll Church School Crib Corner Social Hour following Worship ST.STEPHEN'\u2019S DORCHESTER and ATWATER The Rev'd.R.G.Guinness APRIL 3 10:30 am Morni 19 Prayer WELCOME TO ALL BAPTIST WESTMOUNT BAPTIST CHURCH Sherbrooke Street West at Rosiyn Avenue Nearest Downtown Baptist Church Interim Minister: Rev.Roy C.Cook, B.A., B.D., D.D.Director of Music: Deirdre Morreli, B.Mus.APRIL 3 9:45 am Church Sunday School for all ages 11:00 am THE HEIGHT OF HIS LOVE Communion Service 7:30 pm JUDAS THE TRAGIC MIDWEEK SERVICE: Wednesday, 8:00 pm VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST Westmount 390 Lansdowne Avenue at Sherbrooke Street Lesson Sermon Subject this Sunday: UNREALITY Golden Text: Psalms 19:9, 10: The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold.H a.m.Church 11 a.m.Sunday School Wednesday, 8:00 p.m., Testimony Meeting PUBLIC READING ROOM in the Church Edifice: Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 to 7:45 p.m.ALL ARE WELCOME UNITED ST.ANOREW'S Church + 101 COLE SL.ANTOINE RO.APRIL 3 11:00 am PALM SUNDAY - HOLY COMMUNION Church School Crib Corner Coffee Time at Noon Midweek Service Wednesday at 7:30 pm REV.E.A.KIRKER, M.A.B.D., D.D.Rev.Harve:, White, B.D., Th.M.Gordon White, L.Mus., B.Mus.All Are Welcome w ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ADVENT Corner of Wood and de Maisonneuve, Westmount The Rev\u2018d.Eric Dungan, M.A.PALM SUNDAY 8:00 am The Holy Eucharist 10:30 am The Sung Eucharist {Church School and Nursery) HOLY EUCHARIST DURING THE WEEK HOLY WEEK MONDAY, 5:45 pm Holy Eucharist TUESDAY, 7:00 am Holy Eucharist WEDNESDAY, 9:30 am Holy Eucharist 7:30 pm Office of Tenebrae MAUNDY THURSDAY, 8:00 pm Eucharist of the Institution and stripping of the Altars 9:00 pm All Night Vigil begins GOOD FRIDAY, 9:30 am Devotions \u2019 Noon, The Three Hours Vigil Organist and Director of Choir: Rafael de Castro, B.A.DOMINION DOUGLAS UNITED CHURCH Westmount Boulevard and Lansdowne avenue Rev.Phyllis Smyth, 8.A., 8.D., Ph.D.Rev.John T.P.Nichols, M.A., B.D.APRIL 3 PALM SUNDAY 10:45 am Music Before Service Chimes: Great Hymn Tunes from our Hymn Book (28) Tunes for Holy Week 11:00 am MORNING WORSHIP Guest Preacher: Dr.Cicely Saunders Medical Director St.Christopher's Hospice London, England Organist & Choir Director: Ted McLearon, ARCCO ANGLICAN ST.MATTHIAS Cote St.Antoine Road Archdeacon J.N.Doidge The Rev'd.G.L.Campbell PALM SUNDAY a 8:00 am Holy Eucharist 9:30 am Matting Sermon: Rev.G.L.Campbell 11:00 am CHORAL EUCHARIST AND PROCESSION 11:00 am Church School and Nursery HOLY WEEK Monday and Tuesday 8:00 pm Holy Eucharist Wednesay 10:00 am Holy Eucharist and Bible Study Maundy Thursday 8:00 pm Solemnity of the Lord's Supper Good Friday 11:00 am Words and Music of the Passion Holy Saturday 10:00 pm The Easter Vigil Stephen A.Crisp, ARCO Organist and Choirmaster PRESBYTERIAN STANLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Webster Hall 4695 de Maisonneuve Blvd.W Rev.Scarth Macdonnell Sunday Service 9:30 am VISITORS WELCOME SYNAGOGUE CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM 450 Kensington Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat Assistant Rabbi Herbert Mand! Cantor Emeritus Nathan Mendelson Cantor Joseph Gross Assistant Cantor Herman Muller SABBATH AND PASSOVER FESTIVAL SERVICES Sabbath Eve, 6:15 pm in the Chapel Sabbath Day, 8:15 am in the Main Synagogue Congregational Kiddush-Brunch, 9:00 am Sabbath Twilight, 6:25 om in the Main Synagogue (First Night of Pass- over-First Seder) Sunday, First Day of Passover: Morning Services, 8:30 am; Evening Services, 6:35 pm Monday, Second Day of Passover: Morning Services, 8:30 am; Evening Services, 6:25 pm Tuesday to Friday, April 5-8 (Chol Hamoed Pesach): Morning Services, 7:15 am; Evening Services, 6:30 pm.Robert Kennedy Rathbone died in Barbados Robert Kennedy Rathbone who lived with his wife Pauline at 4998 de Maisonneuve boulevard, died suddenly March 13 while on holiday in Barbados.Mrs.Rath- bone is well known in the community for her work in local drama circles, including her own Rathbone Theatre.Mrs.Rathbone survives her husband, as do daughters Susan (Mrs.Sebastian Rathbone) and Vicki, stepson Nicholas Rath- Communion to start Holy Week The beginning of Holy Week will be marked at St.Andrew's Church this Palm Sunday with a celebration of Holy Communion at 11:00 am.The choir and elders will process during the service and new members will be received into the congregation.Rev.E.A.Kirker will be assisted by Rev.E.C.Armstrong.After the service and a reception in honor of the new members, the Church School will host a luncheon with the theme \u2018Palm Sunday in Jerusalem.\u2019 Parents, grandparents and friends will be invited to view displays of work done by the pupils and teachers during recent months.Midweek services, sponsored by the three local United Church congregations, have moved to St.Andrew\u2019s for the month of April.The church\u2019s Worship Committee has decided to model these on the style of the Sunday services for the benefit of people absent on weekends.The sermon will also be repeated at this chapel service each Wednesday at 7:30 pm.Members of St.Andrew's, including Martin Collier, Harry Wilkins, Revs.Harvey White and E.A.Kirker will participate in the Good Friday service, which takes place this year in West- mount Park Church on April 8 at 11:00 am.Suffering is topic of guest Dr.Cicely Saunders, medical director of St.Christopher's Hospice in London, England, will be the guest preacher at the 11 am service at Dominion-Douglas Church this Sunday.Trained first as a nurse and then a social worker, Dr.Saunders\u2019 Christian convictions and medical expertise led her eventually to work with the terminally ill and she is now an internationally acknowledged leader in the field of care of the dying.Dr.Saunders\u2019 subject Sunday morning will be \u201cWhy should it happen to me?\u201d, a reflection of suffering which concludes Dominion- Douglas\u2019 Lenten series.T.N.T.is continuing its series on \u2018Life, death and life after death,\u201d at a meeting on Monday, Apr.4 at 7:30 pm at the home of John Ronald.A member of the Hindu faith will lead the discussion on reincarnation.Special plans for Holy Week at Dominion-Douglas are developing to include a seder communion on Maundy Thursday and a prayer vigil over Easter weekend, culminating in a communion breakfast on Easter Sunday.bone Hopkinson and sister Rosemary.Mr.Rathbone was the son of Mr.and Mrs.Mark Rathbone of Liverpool, England, He attended Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he excelled in rugger and cricket.He was one of the outstanding members of the Liverpool Golf Club.During the Second World War he served in the Royal Tank Corps following which he returned to his firm of Tilney & Partners, stockbrokers, where he became the senior partner.On taking an early retirement, he moved to Canada and married Pauline Rathbone Hopkinson, a third cousin, and took up residence in Westmount.His wife was the founder of Rathbone Theatre and her husband took a keen interest in her work there.At the time of his death they were taking a much needed holiday in Barbados following the success of the play \u2018\u2018Not Now Darling\u201d which Mrs.Rathbone directed and which is being staged at Place des Arts in May.Mr.Rathbone is truly mourned by the many friends he made since his arrival in this country.There will be a memorial service on Saturday, April 2, at 2:30 pm at Mount Royal United Church, 1800 Graham boulevard, Town of Mount Royal.7 Park children to participate Children will be participating in the last part of Westmount Park Church's Palm Sunda service this week.They will make a procession singing \u201cHosanna, loud Hosanna,\u201d and will then share one or two of the songs they have learned in their Sunday school.The following Friday is Good Friday and a tri-church service will be held at Westmount Park Church.The service will begin with music at 10:45 am, and will include a lot of music throughout from groups and soloists.Its central feature, however, will be the depiction of the character and situation of seven personages from the gospel narrative by seven persons from the three United churches.These depictions will relate the original experiences in terms of modern knowledge and experience.Last Supper at St.Leo's A representation of the Last Supper with Mass will be held Maundy Thursday, April 7, at 8 pm at St.Leo's Church.Appearing in the pageant will be Father Louis Telmosse as Jesus, Guy Carmel as narrator, Albert Montambault as Pierre and Raymond Brais as Jean.The parish choir will also participate. The Westmount Examiner - 1} Thursday, March 31, 1977 On panel Westmount Mayor Donald C.MacCallum is a member of a panel on urban planning and public transportation this afternoon at the annual general meeting of the Conference of Montreal Suburban Mayors at the Hotel Meridien.Complexe Desjardins.The FTD Stop in and we'll send your Easter greetings with this loving gift of fresh spring blossoms in an embroidered, woven basket.Or.* send a an Easter Lily in the ol same basket, or 24 one of our other Es lovely spring YOUR EXTRA TOUCH FLOMST selections.Gerold 6006 Sherbrooke W.Tel: 487-1300 (just west of Belgrave) Please Note: our new address after May 1st will be 5508 Sherbrooke St.W.Stop in and we'll send your Easter greetings with this loving gift of fresh spring blossoms in an embroidered, woven basket.Or,\u2019send an Easter Lily in the a same basket, or 4% one of our other | lovely spring selections.Chargex Master Charge American Express House o Flowers 1112 SHERBROOKE ST.W.(AT PEEL STREET) 842-4444 MAKE IT A GOOD EASTER Send the FTD Easter Basket \u201d Bouquet.Fresh spring flowers, the sweetest and prettiest, an embroidered woven basket \u2014 that's the charm of FTD's old-fashioned Easter Basket ™ Bouquet.Perfect to send ÆA your favourite people.And so easy, ig %, the FTD way; your Florist can send FTD gifts almost anywhere by wire.It's flower-sending season, please order early.(Most FTD Florists accept major credit cards.) 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FTD Lily Plant in a lovely woven Cover Up.™ © 1977 Florists\u2019 Transworld Delivery 3127 SHERBROOKE WEST 487-7330 Branch: Rosemere - 622-0280 Limited AMERICAN EXPRESS CHARGEX MASTER CHARGE 12 The Beyond Westmount Examiner, Thursday, March 31, A random sampler of things to see or do Westmount's in the bigger city surrounding us Borders By RICK KERRIGAN English and French are not the only languages and cultures in Quebec although they dominate the news headlines.If you want to dabble in one of the diverse cultures that have settled in the Montreal area, or if your roots (can't seem to avoid that word these days) are in one of the cultures, you'll probably be interested in the Multi-Ethnic Handicraft Exhibition this Friday and on the weekend.Booths will be set up to display the handicrafts and there will be 7 AIST Fine Italian TRE ROOK CANADIAN BOOKS McLelland p.m.Refreshments.Passover & French Cuisine Table D'Hote Menu *Banquet Facilities sFully Licensed Moaday-Friday 11:30 a.m.-Midnight Saturday and Sunday 4:00 p.m.-Midnight all major credit cards accepted 489-6804 6450 Somerled (just east of Cavendish) DOUBLE 1235A Greene Avenue Tel: 932-5093 Giant 3 for 2 PAPERBACK | SALE 1 Bonus Paperback for every 2 you buy.Fiction, History, Native Peoples, Poetry, Current Affairs, Children\u2019s Books, etc.Don\u2019t forget to come and meet Betty Sanders Garner, author of Canada\u2018s Monsters today at 4 shows in the evenings and afternoons which will include films, gymnastics, orchestras, folk dancing and ballets.The whole event is being presented by the Multicultural Committee of Greater Montreal and 16 organizations are -taking part.Fourteen of these groups are ethnic.It's all happening at the Bois-de-Boulogne community centre, 10025 l\u2019Acadie boulevard, so drop by for a visit with your Romanian granny, Croatian cousin or Polish mama.You can *Businessmen\u2019s Lunch Puma 097 ES & Stewart GLEN IRVINE CAL DAGNEAU ANDY LAMARCHE Pa # Special Sales Consultant Truck Manager Compact & Used Car Manager ne _ 37 yrs General Motors experience 21 yrs.Fleet experience 25 Yrs Master Sal Harold's Got er Seaman The Car For You! 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than 30 seconds left in the game.Most of the action during the second and third periods has been around the Chateauguay net, but their goaler has been coming up with big saves and the game seems destined to end in a frustrating tie.Westmount has the home ice advantage but the Chateauguay cheering section is larger and noisier than the hand- Jul of Westmounters who have shown up at the arena on this bright, spring, Saturday morning last weekend.Suddenly, a Westmount forward has the puck at centre ice.It\u2019s the little guy who's been breaking in on goal all game.He ducks neatly around the opposing defencemen, leaving no one between him and the goalie.One can feel the tension charge the air as the potential of the situation is realized by fans and players alike.He races in on goal and flips the puck into the net on the goalie's stick side.Westmount coach John Garland is left presiding over an empty bench as the players leap over the boards to congratulate their teammate.That scene was in Westmount, but it could have been almost anywhere in this country last weekend, from the Montreal Forum to the smallest outdoor rink In an isolated mining town.Hockey, like and because of the long, cold winter, is part of Canadian life.While weightier issues certainly abound, hockey is still important to Canadians and Westmounters.Many are concerned about how the sport is evolving and how the players that make the sport what it is are spawned.Like almost every Canadian community, Westmount is part of the sport's spawning ground.But what exactly is the West- mount hockey program and what does it try to achieve?Is it doing what it should to bring the sport and the citizens together in a way that will enrich both?John Garland is the recreation supervisor of the City of West- mount.He has been with the recreation department for 24 years and has seen a lot of boys go through the hockey program, grow up and sign their sons into the program.*\u201cThat sort of shakes you,\u201d he says.He recalls meeting fathers at the rink and asking them if they didn't play for the pee wee Reds in 1955.They suggest that Mr.Garland not show their scoring records to their sons.Mr.Garland has had a not inconsiderable influence in shaping the city\u2019s minor hockey league program and he believes strongly in the city's policy of participation for all.Except for the pee wee all-star team that he coaches and the other all-star teams in different categories, the policy of the program is one of equal ice time.\u201cThis can be a little tense,\u2019 he says, particularly when a team is fighting for a playoff spot and you're down to the last period, and the coaches, naturally they want to win, but you cannot put the key players on at the e se of the other fellows missing a shift or two.We just will not allow it.He's part of the team and he's going to stay part of the team.\u201d If he sees a situation where some kids are being played more than others he reminds the coach not to forget the other players *.because it's a damn embarrassing situation.It's embarrassing to the boy and to a member of his family that might be there.It's not win at all costs.It\u2019s win.but everybody enjoying themselves and participating.The program is designed for terested in playing hockey.It's not a high pressure league.Coaches don\u2019t put any pressure on any of the boys.\" Made easier Mr.Garland has been a West- mounter all his life and credits this with making his job easier, specially when he had to line up coaches and others to help in the program.There are 24 volunteer referees in the program; volunteer because their nominal pay is *\u2018hardly enough to pay for us fare and skate sharpening.\u201d Eleven young people (at least 14 years old) work as timek rs and though Mr.Garland and his right hand man Bob Aiken kee an eye on them, they are left mostly on their own.Mr.Garland says it's a \u2018\u2018tremendous experience\u2019 for the boys to go up into the timekeeper's box and run a game.The 51 coaches in the program are strictly volunteers with many of the older coaches being boys who have grown up in West- mount, moved away and have come back to help in the program.They coach the younger players on Saturday mornings, those under 10 in the novice and atom leagues.The older boys in the pee wee, bantam and midget leagues are coached mostly by students who have time off in the afternoon for the job.Many of the coaches are players over 16 in the more competitive senior league, while some of the real veterans remember coaching in the snowbanks around outdoor rinks before the arena was built.The walls of Mr.Garland\u2019s office in the arena are dominated by two large photographs.One is those residents who are in- a picture of Bobby Orr with both Or AE - PAGE eC EEE GE TE Em\" eww.E\u2014\u2014 1977 -\u2014-.\".-.F.DOORMAN: Westmount recreation supervisor John Garland NC Hockey in Westmount It's not who wins or loses but who gets in the game By RICK KERRIGAN directs traffic at the bench in his role as coach of the Westmount pee wee all star team.feet off the ground and in a horizontal position.The picture was given to him by a boy in the hockey program.The other is a photograph of Jean Béliveau, of whom Mr.Garland is an admirer.Below the picture of Bobby Orr is a black d with the standings of the teams chalked in.The office is the size of a very large walk-in closet and, like an old shoe, looks well worked in.The tie and jacket on his short muscular-looking frame appear to be in deference to his duties at city hall and contact with the pa lic.But he straightens the tie fore being photographed.He speaks about the development of the boys\u2019 skills and maintains that most of the development must be done by, wwe.the boy on his own although there are skating programs through which they can become proficient enough to play in the program.When the open-to-all outdoor rinks open he notices a big improvement in the younger boys, many of whom go out every other night and on weekends to skate.Coaches have to be knowledgeable to come into the program but they can only impart so much, and the special skating programs are necessary so that a coach won't be saddled with a boy who can't manoeuvre around the rink.\u201cIf a boy will come out on his own at least four times a week,\" he claims, \u201cI guarantee he will be able to play in the league by e laced up properly, and they will point this out to the boy.Coach 25 years One of the coaches who worked in the snowbanks before the indoor rink is Gilmour Beasant.He has been coaching the eight- and nine-year-olds for 25 years and his enthusiasm doesn\u2019t seem to have faded.These young kids are in what are now called the novice and atom leagues but what used to be termite and mosquito.To watch one of their games is to realize the appropriateness of their former names because the kids move around the ice like a swarm of insects.: They are drawn to the puck like moths to a flame and when the puck occasionally squirts out from the pack, the whole mass of forwards and defencemen scurries after it accompanied by much spontaneous falling down.At any given time it seems that at least one player's skate blades have lost contact with the ice.Amazingly, in this mélange of flailing limbs, helmeted and caged heads and oversized sweaters, one can see the rudimentary beginnings of hockey players, just as one may see the moves of a lion stalking prey in the kitten chasing a piece of string.\u201cT can never yell at a child,\u201d says Coach Beasant in his 12th floor Westmount Square office.\u201cI just tell him to try harder even if he is skating on his ankles and doing his best.\u201d Mr.Beasant lived on Selby street until his marriage in 1963 when he moved to N.D.G., but he has always come back to coach the boys.He wants them to have fun both playing the game and during his ractices which, he says, are the east strict of all the coaches\u2019.He doesn't feel he is developing NHLers, but hopes he is contributing to their development as men.\u201cIf you want someone tou you can forget about me,\u201d he says, adding that there is nothing wrong with competition.\u201cI'm a fierce competitor myself nobody likes to lose.\u201d He says he has sometimes had to ask an overenthusiastic parent to leave the dressing room, but says their behavior is understandable because \u201cit's their own flesh and blood, and they all wish success to their own.\u201d But Mr.Beasant doesn't think kids should sacrifice their education to play hockey.He believes they have an obligation to themselves to get their education and that they will find plenty of competition at school and in school sports.\u2018\u2018My first obligation to them is for them to enjoy the game.\u201d Desire vital He has observed that if a boy has the ability and the desire to become a pro hockey player, he will do it regardless of the hockey program he is in.He notes that the Montreal area, with all its minor hockey programs which are more case of ARE 0h RG Oring 0 + IRPued on page 21 (Q Bulls and Rangers winners as hockey season finishes The Bulls didn't clinch a playoff spot until the end of the pee wee key season, but the team coached by Michel Panet- Raymond and Kevin Cripps, won the final series in two straight games over the first place Seals.Goaltender Michael Perrier played consistently well throughout the year for the Bulls, culminating in a shutout in the 5- 0 championship victory.Benoit Lalonde scored twice in that game.Other members of the Bulls are Jean Maitre, Robert Aguayo, Chris Donald, Geordie Smith, Ian Boech, Ewan French, Reed Ballon, Simon Kwasniak and Andrew Mouland.Mark Hazan directed a team effort in the Rangers\u2019 win over the Hawks in the bantam finals.The two teams were evenly matched going into the title series, after finishing one point apart during the regular schedule.Mark scored the winner in the first game for the Rangers, and displayed excellent passing in setting up two Paul Rouleau £oals in the second 3-2 win.The Rangers\u2019 roster also includes Anthony Wolfe, Mario Perkins, Robbie Reaper, Bryan Chadwick, Jim Minty, Michael Azaria, Jeff Sinclair, Kevin Cripps.Andrew Osterland, goaler Peter Johnston and coach Rick Chapman.This will be the last weekend for residents to enjoy the indoor skating rink with the ice coming off on Sunday and with skating on the way out.softball and soccer can't be far behind.Registration for young West- DATSUN 8210 Special 3175 laclodes of standerd oquipment PLUS roe AM rage Transport, PDI, provincial sales tax & license extra.Ask about GCA 5 year/50.000 mile warranty.DOWNTOWN DATSUN (MIL) LTD.2107 St.Catherine St.W.(1 Meck cast of the Foram) 932-7136 By NICK KASIRER mounters for these spring sports begins on Monday.Softball categories Softball for boys nine years of age and over is divided into two categories.Atom, for boys under 11 as of Jan.1, 1977, will play its games on Tuesday and Friday 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Westluc zone in the ke St.Louis area.They don't wish to support it financially or any other way.\u201cInstead of saying to these kids who are good, and there are many good players, we offer you a program of 18 games and they offer you a program of 40 to 50 games and an hour and a half practice a week\u2014and it's a rugged practice\u2014you're good, go over there and have double if ou're interested.If you're not, by all means stay here; it's not a compulsory thing.Instead they actively discourage it.\u201d .Work too easy Mr.Capelovitch thinks the coaching in the Westmount program is \u201cwell intended but dreadful,\u201d so the kids don't work hard enough to improve their skills.He feels that this will catch up to them when the younger kids get to high school and college and discover they are not good enough for the school teams.He says, too, that if the better players are given the right opportunities, they can cash In their ability for a hockey scholarship in an American university.He believes that stratifying the program to separate the different calibre layers would be beneficial to all cause it would prevent the better players from dominating play.There are Westmount boys playing on AA teams now and there have been in the past.Mr.Garland says that some boys have found that they couldn't cope with the travel and schedule demands and some parents won't allow it because it cuts too deeply into schoolwork.Boys of superior ability in the Westmount program can play in an age category above them if \u201cit's a one-man show when he is on the ice\u201d in his own category but Mr.Garland claims there has \u2018\u2018never been any restriction on Westmount boys not being allowed to play on an A or AA travelling team.He has the option to play for that team.I'll bend over backwards to encourage a boy if he has the ability and can spare the time.I'll do whatever I can.I'll drive him out there if 1 have to.I've done it before\u2014anything to encourage the boy to play if he has the ability and can spare the time.\u201d He is adamant, however, that Westmount won't become actively involved with the AA league.\u2018\u2018We couldn't possibly ice a team to meet the schedule,\u201d he says, \u2018\u2018and if you have teams in that category they need at least one practice a week and they have to have one home game a week.This means that you would cut very deeply into the schedule we have now.\u201d He says the prime hours that now accommodate 600 boys would be used to accommodate 15 boys on an AA team.He doesn't like the implications of that.*\u2018We don\u2019t want our youngsters getting up at six in the morning to play their hockey like they do in other communities.This rink was built for the enjoyment of the residents of West- mount and as far as I'm concerned, it's going to stay that way.Our concern is with the majority of Westmount residents who want to play hockey.\" Mr.Capelovitch feels the city Continued on page 40 MARGOLESE THE TAILOR ON 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BUS MARKS ANNIVERSARY: A 1977 Ford club bus was presented recently to the Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre from its volunteer department to mark the N.D.G.-based centre\u2019s 40th anniversary.Handing the keys to the centre\u2019s executive director Miss Maryka Muller is Westmounter Mrs.Kay Threlfall, director of the volunteers who raised the money for the bus over the past two years through a series of bazaars, raffles and other activities.Watching the presentation are Mrs.Helen Gault, a member of the centre's board and driver Gaston Brunet.Whenit comes to kids and spring, we've got ou Children\u2019s Fashions right from Europe.PetitBateau Jean Le Bourget Absorba Clayeux Coudé Mail Charlottes Web A Child-sized World.The Old Post Office Greene & Maisonneuve Westmount CP © 94 © I © SW RAD ¥ BD OW WE APS D © SEN TRIPE 22 2007 27707 MS CN CTUS 6 CNA On exhibit An exhibition of oil paintings by Ruth Crabtree, 58 Forden crescent, will be held at the Westmount Public Library from April 4to 19.The Westmount Examiner, Thursday.March 31, Miners in Yukon during the heyday of the gold rush paid for their drinks with gold dust.As much as one ounce of gold per drink was charged the thirsty 1977 27 miner.Based on today's price for gold, an ounce of booze would cost well over one hundred dollars.Champagne, on the other hand, was worth a mere $60 a quart.UPSTAIRS Royal Victoria Hospitals.WE'RE MOVING to 1448A Mountain from DOWNSTAIRS at 1209 de Maisonneuve The Nearly New Shop Alt proceeds go to the Auxiliaries of the Montreal Children\u2019s & Free Pickup 849-7245 May 2 \u201c Central Park Lodge is not a nursing home Most senior adults need caring attention in varying degrees \u2014 some would perhaps require hospital or nursing-home services, where continuous skilled professional care is available.However, a large element among our seniors do not require these special services.Their needs tend more to the attention of family, friends and neighbours who are often not available during intermittent, short-termilinesses, when special diets and medications can be worrisome.Central Park Lodge provides this attention under the direction of professionals, headed by the family physician of the guest's own choice.Care and attention is provided at all times in fine surroundings, in community with people who share similar interests, and in an atmosphere that provides the opportunity for as much activity as one wishes, giving a new aspect on retirement years \u2014 an aspect of positive, healthful living.Come, \u2018live \u201d with us.Call Mrs.Claire Martin at 465-1401 for details.Better still, come for tea some day and bring a friend with you.1.33 ARGYLE AVENUE, ST- LAMBER AY TI55.4 REINO TL PT SE BOLE PE ISS IPP IAL ru.09 8 PPO LOPES OANARINI8.4.9.0.0 0.080 28 The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, March 31, 1977 PLANNING TO DECORATE YOUR FAMILY ROOM Make an appointment with our decorators Drapes, Carpets, Lamps Accessories Available Recovering & Refinishing Custom Built Furniture 336-5877 VALLEE INTERIORS inc 1100 St.Amour, Ville St.Laurent YVON VALLEE, F.I.D.; I.D.C.Member of the Interior Decorator Societ of Quebec interior Designer of Canada Slide essay about skiing William K.Webber, 1st vice- president of the Montreal Camera Club and ardent photographer and skier, will present a slide essay titled \u2018Ski Country\u201d at the next meeting of the color division of the club.The meeting is scheduled for Monday.April 4, at 7:45 pm in the auditorium of the Atwater Library.Mr.Webber's spectacular slides show skiing in the French Alps and in Colorado.Also at the meeting, to be color chairman of the club, slides entered by members in the club's color competition will be shown and comments made by one of the judges.Garden topic A panel discussion on outdoor gardening will be held this evening at 8 pm at a meeting of the Montreal West Horticultural Society at the Montreal West \u2014( Coats of Arms TREASURED ITEMS FOR FATHER'S DAY \u2014 MOTHER'S DAY \u2014 WEDDINGS \u2014 ORADUATION \u2014 ETC.ORDER NOW UNIQUE GIFTS, 500.000 names.32 countries, American, British, French-Canadian.French.German, Italien, Scandinavian, Scottish, Spanish, etc.Artistically hand-crafted on mahogany wall-plaques.from miniature to over the fireplace models.parchments.door knockers, besutiful well hangings tor your home or office.$20.00 & up.NAND ENORAVED SIONET ROS WITH COATS-OF-ARMS IN GOLD, SUVER OR OEMSTONES JEWELLERY - \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ROOTS! 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