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24 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Therdey, November 4, 1968 The Campaign Gimmicks: Individual As Candidates By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP) -- Gimmicks|ter Brigitte Bardot Campaign gimmicks tend to individual as the micks, or innovations as parties prefer to describe them, _ permission to wa- prisoners' rink in 42-de- gree weather. The other Lucien also used a hose to go over the prison walls. COVER EVERYTHING A survey of campaign = ells irony, humor and even sabotage. Harold Wilson, New Demo- cratic candidate ir Russell, paid $35 for a large balloon, painted his name on it, filled it with helium, and moored ea feet above an east-end prop- Some one cut the moor- ing che and the balloon floated With scandal in government a issue, some Liberals a Canadian voter, Color him fed up." Credit hopeful Jack Lubzinski|/ REVERSED FIELD delights children in Burnaby- 'Last time we went in for Richmond with plastic bottles|simmicks in a big way," said Liberal information officer Paul filled, with candy pills and thelr areau in Montreal. "This t--your prescrip-|time we decided against it al- tion for curing Canada's ills." together and advised candidates Social Credit, which issued a|#¢cordingly. comic book in 1963 featuring) In Algoma East, Prime Min- leader Robert enews, this|ister Pearson's riding, there time is distributing a plastic|were free gg after one Lib- record feat Mr. Thompson, |eral rally. Mr. Pearson wasn't In Labelle, servative Ge-|there. rard Vermette has solved the} Some western Liberals give problem of voter apathy by|smali envelopes of instant cof- showing a Brigitte Bardotifee. One of them, Mrs. Mar it}movie at his western Quebec|garet Konantz in Winnipeg South, hands out coffee kits in- Heward Grafftey, Conserva-|scribed with her name because tive in Brome - Missisquoi, is}she doesn't have time to stop showing a film based on a day|for coffee with those inviting rallies. in his life on Parliament Hill.|her in during door-to-door cam-|q, He had a Montreal film com-|paigning. ULAR YAO RRR cardboard apples on Halloween with the NDP message: "'Sid- (Nov. & Green is ripe for election lov. 8. In Montreal St. Antoine-West- mount on joween, the Con- servative candidate had his nephew, Taylor Hutchison, carry from door to door a plac- ard saying "yote for my uncle Alex Hutchison." Montreal, Toronto and Van- couver appear to be the gim- mick-filled centres. The Mari- times, where rum has always been ry appears serene and so do the Prairies. Whipper Billy Watson, the Conservatives' wrestler candi- date, started his campaign in re) York East by lifting supporters} over his head. - Liberal opponent Steve Otto hands out vials of "first class" perfume--he had 3,000 to 4,000 ----to teen-age girls. He also cov- ers about 20 bus stops a morn- Sling, han out tickets. That traditional Quebec gim- mick, packing a ballot with namesakes, cropped up in Mont- real Hochelaga on nomination Lindsay: NEW YORK (AP)--John V. Lindsay, 43, Tuesday wonlt the big town's city hall and emerged on the plateau of na- tional Republican politics. It had been said that even if he ran a close race in this me- tropolis of 8,000,000 where Dem- ocrats outnumber Republicans have to be considered '"'presi- dential timber." His chief opponent, Democrat Abraham D. Beame, charged Lindsay was really running for the Republican nomination for president and would not serve his four-year term, "If elected I'll serve the. full four years and hope to do a good enough job for the voters to re-elect me," Lindsay s: He pledged that his primary interest is to 'make New York iy. Gerard Pelletier the printer|city the city of tomorrow, a Of The 8 Million by seven to two, he would still) aid, |mor and never hesitates to use Mayor = erste a attends a boarding school Connecticut, Lindsay, like the Conserva. tive party candidate, William F. ong Jr., went to Yale and, He campaigned at a pace Buckley, a hat would have tired an ath-|~ lete. But John Viiet Lindsay is an athlete, six-foot-three congress- man is an expert horseman and swimmer and a tennis and ski enthusiast. He also sails, bowls, tides a bike and is an ardent -- football and soccer' 'an. "I thrieve on exercise," he said after one gurelling 18-hour day of campaigning. During 150 days of campaign- ing Lindsay wore out four pairs of shoes in walking an esti- oi He joined the navy during the Second World War, won five battle stars in the Mediterra- nean and South Pacific areas, and returned to Yale for his law degree. Ten years later, in 1958, he made his first bid for the silk stocking congressional seat in tion. Then he won again and again. bec mayor, the congressman SMOKING PROBLEMS CALL SMOKER'S DIAL 728-2221 24 - HOUR SERVICE mated 473 miles. The car he used to drive him around the/§ city registered 11,122 miles. Lindsay has a sense of hu- unprintable language in a give- and - take with reporters and campaign aides. CLEANING In Your Home .. . or Our Plant Bee le PHONE 725-9961 OSHAWA: 94 peer STREET LLE: He is a lawyer, but says his practice is nil. He has a small apartment on West 58th Street, near Fifth Avenue, where he lives with his wife, Mary, 39, who {is also his partner in poll- tics. They own a small house in Washington, D.C., where three The CLIFF MILLS MOTORS Lid. a a el Acts ee better, safer place to ver'?! Last year Lindsay refused to endorse the Republican presi- dential nominee, Barry Gold- water, In his campaign for mayor, Lindsay told state and national Republican leaders he didn't want their help. are handing out red piastic laundry bags while some Con- ,,|servatives issue blue plastic garbage bags. The nuances are up io the voter to sort out as he fills a bag with his whitewash or cam- paign literature In British Columbia, Social entered the race as an inde- pendent after Gerard Pelletier the- editor and Liberal candi- date. The printer withdrew eventually. In the spirit of it all, the Rhi- noceros party, a spoof on poll- tics, is making big plans for the next federal election. pany produce it at his own ex-| Tiheral Jack 'Austin, in Van- pense. couver-Kingsway, issues aspir- Liberal gimmicks on a na-|ins "for those who find minority tional scale are mild compared] government a headache." with 1963, when the truth squad,| The New Democrats also headed by Judy LaMarsh, fol-|claim a straight-forward cam- lowed the Diefenbaker trail for|paign. three days before dispersing un-|. But kids in Winnipeg South caped from Bordeaux Jail after der heavy fire. found themselves getting green Smad Standlli we wey hadd! They're Choosing Now From Our Fine Selection ae cubsuinea oF OSHAWA LEANING CONTRACTORS EANERS: esake, no relation, es- "Smart Santes" ere coming inte the Mills lot NOW . . . end picking their choice of "reedy- for-winter" driving "Goodwill" cers. 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