wr TH ELECTION speculation now w reaching the betting
stage, the Ottawa’ Baloneyites are busy handing out our

/ Nearly a billion for Quebcc, $60
‘million for the downtrodden.”
French language in Saskatchewan,
~ $62 million for multicult, and; -,
$500,000 for the Vancouver sym-
phony orchestra, etc, But all the .,
“tea in China won "t Fescuc them.
‘Right here’ on 1 the North ‘Shore,
/. disillusion i is the order of the day.
Helen Stevenson has quit. as presi-
dent of the Capilano- Howe Sound

Progressive Conservative’ ‘Women’ s.
7 of Central Canada and the Tories,

Association, doing So at, the first
meeting since the Hew ‘cofistituency.

owas set up.

ti
we wanted from our MP (Mary

a ‘dough to myriad outstretched hands.

Mrs.Stevenson resigned? *‘No, she
sent her apologics — as usual.'’
1 don’t know what funds the:

. Tories will be able to pour into this
’ area in an attempt to save Collins

and Cook.. But moncy in itself

" [never saved an army. What is

needed is morale. And the Tory

troops are demoralized.

© oe :
Does’ B.C. ‘really exist in the c cyes

or is it just'a distant colony that

a gets. a royal v visit ‘from Brian m every

18 months or so?”

“BC. is grossly unrepresented ¢ on:
important national °

Collins) so I feel I could only back ©?
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her. 75 per cent, s not: ‘100 per cen

Ba than “yous: We've been trying
oH her that things are pappe

né of the 13 com ssioners ¢ fe)

‘the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecomniunications Corymission
ds’ aan .

_ostinets.,

23- “strong Canada Pension Com-

: mission, and so on down a long -

list.
But we are fairly well repre-
sented on the Commonwealth War

‘Graves Commission, the Canadian

Eskimo Arts Council, and a few

“other bodies of that sort.

ene

A former employer of mine,
Don Cromic, writes that he takes
‘ta smidgeon of umbrage’™* at my
“picturesque ramblings on the
dreadful effects on old George of
mixing wine and vodka.’* Pure in-

‘vention, ..he calls it.

: A-couple of weeks ago ae

described how poor old George
had to be taken off my island by”:

helicopter in a comatose state after

taking'a smail dose of. the above- ””.
. named pick- me-ups:

2 Beware of wine and vodka, said
1. displaying my, humanitarian i in-

‘Wrote. Cromie: “Wine and ;
‘vodka mix like vodka and sin, -

lightening the five o'clock gloom”

of* whatulihave 10 bring charm 10:

_ this damp coast evening?"

“Did you know that a goodly.

‘s shot.of Russian vodka transfarms |
B.C. plonk into clixir, dissolving

the plonk’s jagged edges and ;
eradicating that incredible B.C.x- °°

: ‘barnyard. aftertaste? Pure

“This expert says he. has: saved

millions of francs through this. -

lovely process over the years, a

the minor cost of being drunk. oc-

casionally, and itis safer, than

ing blown apart.by martinis."
:Thank you, Don, You have

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