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JO'S JOURNAL BY JO ALDWINCKLE Women's Editar of The Times & eee eee eee ee ee On Tuesday night I dined with the most viewed and interviewed woman of the past two weeks, Isabel Le- bourdais, whose book 'The Trial of Stephen Truscott' has captured the attention of the whole country. Commenting ' over coffee on the publicity bomb she has exploded, she * quipped: "Well, at least I pushed Gerda off the front age'. ees Mrs. Lebourdais is a quick-thinking, quick-talking * woman, sincere and dédicatéd, and she believes implicitly + in the innocence of Stephen Truscott who was sentenced to life imprisonment séven years ago, when he was 14 years of age, for the murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper. A free-lance writer, Mrs. Lebourdais was moved, about six years ago, to write a magazine article about the Trus- - cott boy, primarily because she has a son of the same age and felt that the suspect should have been tried in a juvenile court. She started her investigations, expecting to find Stephen Truscott a mentally disturbed youth. On the con- trary, she found him to be a normal boy who has never deviated from the original account of his movements that he gave the police the night he was arraigned and ques- tioned for 11 hours. Anyway the magazine article was never published. Mrs. Lebourdais waited for three months for word from 'the publisher's lawyer, by which time she had enough material for a series of three articles, so she sought an- other publisher, but without success. : Too Hot To Handle Seven different lawyers were in disagreement. Some * labelled her writing libellous, others were afraid of con- » tempt of court action, but her own lawyer had become * interested and encouraged her to dig deeper and expand her articles into a full-length book. She had already read the transcript of the trial, but * read it again, 25 times. She has studied legal and medical text-books to verify her information and has written her book three times. Her research and writing has taken six years, and she said to me "I know that what I have written is accurate". Finally an English publishing house accepted her manuscript. "For this," she said, 'I shall he eternally grateful, because I don't think it would ever have been published in Canada. "I have travelled all over the province to talk to people who have now moved from the locality of the crime and » I haye tracked down rumors and rumors of rumors and * IT have uncovered numerous loop-holes and laxities in the trial." Mrs. Lebourdais described for me the jurors, farmers, laborers and small storekeepers. The technical language | by members of her commit- tee who are assisting her in producing the forthcoming Young Artists' Recital. They are, left to right, Josephine President of the Oshawa and district Registered Music Teachers' Associa- tion, Elsie Drygala ARCT, is seen, _centre, surrounded | | |glance it's difficult to imagine| (cmon 114 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, March 26, 1966 Women Take Politics Seriously | In Forthcoming British Election By MELVYN PELT TORONTO (CP) -- At | of "selling and clerical jobs" she was 21 and went to business Beryl Fox slogging through the school at night. first} | she moved to Edmonton when| Parrott ATCM, president- elect Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Council; Judith Davison, B. Mus. sec- retary; Music Teachers To Present Young Artists In Recital Lucille Lyzanchuk Under the auspices of the On- |tario Registered Music Teach- ers' Association, Artists' Recitai is jsented in |Kingsway © day evening. The "young artists" | students yy G RCT. Also on the ec? be a choral group The ORMTA presents several| |purpose. recitals eac he year, SOCIAL NOTICES | Young to be pre- the auditorium of ollege next Wednes- are senior|glamorous occasion. in. piano voice and! |ballet in music grades ranging} rade 9 to the degree of program | and proceeds from the evening' Her Deep Anger Might Right Wrong TORONTO (CP) -- Never, it has been said, underestimate the power of a woman--espe- cially if she's angry. Isabel LeBourdais got angry when she read | of a 14-year-old Ban hat. wuy Deities Mie Go an euule in criminal court. Despite the gravity of the charge~murder --and the nature of the crime, she felt the cuse should have been heard in the privacy of juvenile court. Moreover she is «¢onvinced that the boy, convicted and sentenced to death, not only is innocent but that he got an un- fair trial. The boy is Steven Murray Truscott. Now 21, he is a pris- oner, for life, in Collins Bay penitentiary in Kingston, Ont. His sentence of death by hang- ing was commuted after the On- tario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada re- jected his appeal. The crime was a rape-murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper June 9, 1959, on the outskirts of Clinton, 45 miles northwest of London, the site of an RCAF station. She was the daughter of Flying Officer Leslie Harper. Steven was the son of Warrant Officer Dan Truscott. Mrs. LeBourdais, of Toronto, obtained a transcript of the jtrial evidence -- 2,500 foolscap pages--found discrepancies and interviewed nearly everyone connected with the case and nightly mulled over legal vol- umes and histories of murder trials. WROTE ANGRY BOOK Then she wrote a book con- demning what went on at Stev- en's trial, Her anger crept into the book and five Canadian pub- jlishers refused to handle it. So alshe "toned it down a bit" as |she puts it and it came out last! A special scholarship fund is| week. | The Trial of Steven Truscott melng "pines: ty the ORMTA| shot "usdiaiiy to the top of Sithe Canadian best-seller list. In entertainment will be put to this|Parliament and in the press! Tickets may be ob- ARCT, treasurer, and Ruth Skinner ARCT, vice-presi- dent. --Oshawa Times Photo the McLaughlin Public Library and a recital for prize-winners| in the examinations. A senior recital of this kind has not been produced for some Years and the executive has prepared the |groundwork carefully for lice has the case under review. a new trial for Steven. 'What | good would that do?"' she asked ANN LANDERS. Alcoholic Crutch Replace Man's Courage Dear Ann Landers: Has it ever occurred to you that your advice may be getting a little moth-eaten? You ought to re-examine your antiquated approach to alcohol and tone down your insistent lectures on the "evils" of drink- ing. Recent developments are making you look pretty stupid, Ann, Just a few weeks ago I read that a Harvard professor who is an authority on alcoholism believes that children should be taught to drink liquor at an early age. He claims that if children grow up to accept liq- uor as just another ordinary beverage and not a devil in a bottle, they will attach no spe- cial significance to liquor and their chances for developing an unhealthy craving for it will be greatly reduced. I agree with the professor that the reason there are so many alcoholics around is because liquor was forbidden to them and they never learned how to handle it properly. I hope you will be big enough to print this letter and your answer. If you can think of one. --The New Look At Life Dear New Look: I am well aware of the professor's theory | and I do have an opinion which has been reinforced by a distin- guished Washington, D.C., psy- chiatrist--also Harvard trained. I think your professor's theory is as sappy as a maple tree in| April. The professor recommended | that children be taught to drink| questions are being asked and| usually in tained from any music teacher. |the federal department of just- Mrs. LeBourdais doesn't want | alcohol at an early age. Accord- | ing to him a little sherry in the Can't water for elementary school: kids would be just dandy for | openers. Now can't you just see a young mother sending her little tyke off to school, happy in the knowledge that her youngster is going to iearn a great many things--including how to hold his liquor? I do not buy the professor's basic assumption that every- body is going to drink so they should learn how early -- real early. If this theory is correct, why not teach kindergarten kids to smoke cigarets and use nar- cotics--sparingly, of course. _ Your professor sets forth an- other premise which I believe is false--that liquor attracts and finally traps people because it is forbidden. Excessive drinking is rarely traceable to the forbidden fruit doctrine. A craving for alcohol is caused by a personality de- ficiency--a defect in the ego structure. People who drink too much usually blame outside pressures. The truth is they reach for the bottled anesthetic because they lack the inner resources to tol- erate the pain. I believe we should teach our youngsters the joy of achieving the rewards that come from meeting a challenge with cour- age and confidence. ALL LEARN SAFETY. Women and children are among the 100,000 hunters trained in safe handling of guns by the Ontario government. | O'KEEFE CENTRE + of the doctors and lawyers was over their heads, she said. FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE |'People can't remember things TWO WEEKS -- MARCH 28 - APRIL 9 mud of Viet' Nam or being| | a | | : " They didn't realize that the lawyers' arguments were not evidence and the doctors' contradictions escaped them. y "Tt have written from the point of view of the defence,"' she said, "and public response has emboldened me to feel * that I have a just cause. Surely if the cross-examination of - of a witness causes him to reverse himself, his evidence * should be further questioned. This was not done and the judge's summing up was not completely accurate." "But how," I asked her, "under our judicial system : of trial by jury and the law of innocent until proven * guilty, could justice miscarry?". ' "Nothing produces such a storm of emotional outrage * as a sex crime," Mrs. Lebourdais replied. "The public de- mands the capture of the offender immediately. As soon as a suspect is named, mothers sigh with relief and in the strange state of animosity that exists between the * townsfolk of Clinton and the RCAF Station »personnel, Stephen was privately condemned before he was tried. ' "We can't. give him back what we have taken from * him," she said, "but I am hoping that my book will bring + about a royal commission with the widest possible scope * of enquiry, that I am convinced would find Stephen. Trus- + cott not guilty." : Persecution, -- In Comedy? Being an admirer of Eric House, the actor, I betook + myself to Toronto last weekend to see the play 'Poor Bitos" in which he is starring. It is a complicated play for discerning theatre-goers and no casual entertainment. To begin with the construction is overlapping in that all the characters are playing dual roles. Centered around a seemingly innocent dinner party, the guests pose as char- acters from the French Revolution in order to humiliate the guest of dis-honor, Bitos, an unliked deputy prosecutor : who is to play Robespierre in the charade. ® The theme, apparently, is that the more times change the more people remain the same. Eric House acquits himself well as Robespierre whose strength was his weak- ness, who, humbly born, suffered the insults of his less intelligent superiors. A challenge to any director, John O'Shaughnessy de- veloped the theme and the characters with moments of high tension and pathos, but lacked the Gallic grace. The characters are all French, mostly of high society, and their greeting should have been a kiss on both cheeks; one example of the missing French mannerisms and style. Claude Bede as Mirabeau looked the part and caught the style and Joseph Shaw, the host, had complete control. over his guests at the macabre party. A memorable* vignette was the scene between the two jailers, Adrian Pecknold and Gino Marrocco, whose callous conversation about the innumerable beheadings and gushing blood con- veyed the thought that in any age man can hecome inured "¥6 the conditions in which he finds himself, no matter how grisly. So Much Is Going On How can people say there is nothing to do in Oshawa? They obviously don't look very far. So much is going on that I can't keep up with it. Every week there are ban- quets and concérts, meetings and speakers, hockey, skat- ing and hobby clubs. Last Saturday I attended a banquet in the Polish Hall célebrating the 15th anniversary of the Ladies' group of the Polish National Union. Along with the excellent fare there was a warmth of hospitality and I met Polish guésts from Burlington, Grimsby and Kitchener who love to come to Oshawa. Then on Sunday afternoon, the Canadian | Ukrainian Women's Association showéd a unique film, 'Treasures of the Ukraine' with John Fisher "Mr. Canada" giving the narration. After a tea interval, Dr. E. Wachna showed a film. he had taken on 'his visit to the Ukraine that was most énjoyable Have you ever wondered what it is like to go fo a really formal dinnér-party? The Honorable Michael Starr ¢ MP and Mrs. Starr were recéntly invited to dine with the Governor "General and Madam Vanier. As hosts they are both gracious and charming, Mrs. < Starr told me, and put everyone at ease. ' "A lady-ingraiting receives the guests and introduces one to another, Then Their Excellencies enter the room. They move around greeting each guest. The lady makes a » eurtsey and the gentleman a slight bow. The host and begga lead in to dinner. Arrangements of flowers from residence greenhouses decorate the rooms and the table The menu is usually five courses, soup, fish, entre, main course and dessert with a wine for each course. : "The ladies retire to the drawing room for coffee, fol- - lowing Madam Vanier. There is no smoking until after dinner." The Starrs were also invited to a dinner given by the Honorable Paul Martin, minister for externa! affairs. This was held at the Ottawa Country Club for 148 guests, mostly ambassadors, heads of missions and their wives. Since it was St. Patrick's Day the tables were adorned with green- and white carnations and shamrocks. Mrs. Starr's table companions were the Austrian Ambas- sador and theHigh Commissioner from London. Each proved an entertaining companion. Table conversation is a refined art that comes with application and experience. It. cannot be practised alone Undoubtedly the lady contributed her share eo The Mills of locked up in-an Alabama jail. She's five-foot-214, of slight) build, blonde and attractive. | It's in conversation that she re- veals herself as a tough-minded |34-year-old woman completely devoted to her work the CBC, leading documentary ducers--a "TV journalist" finds satisfaction in the "abso- lute 'reality' of telling a story| with film taken where the ac- film pro- who tion is. Her one - hour documentary, the Gods: Viet Nam, shown on the CBC work in December, was one of the winners of the 18th annual George Polk Memorial Awards "for outstanding journalistic achievements during 1965." She awvill receive the award for the best television documentary in New York March 29 Beryl Fox comes to television journalism by a circuitous route. Born in Winnipeg, Miss Fox spent part of her childhood in Flin Flon, Man; When she was nine, she returned with her family to. Winnipeg where her father had a grocery store "T was a dropout,' she replies when asked about her 'school jing. She quit high school at 15) |--a year before graduation tiring of | a _Succession After | } | | ELEGANCE Little girls learn quite, quite young to love pretty clothes and to preen, Moth- ers, of course, want their chicks to be "petite belles" but sans all the care and time that pretty dresses and delicatetrimmings usually entail. To eliminate time-consuming -- fuss, fab- ric and trimming manufac- turers are constantly striv- ing to produce such attrac- tive carefree materials as shown on our little beauty here.. Deceptively fragile- looking, the blue. cotton blend leno weave fabric is extremely practical and dur- able. Machine-washable and dryable, it requires just the slightest -ironing touch-up The beautiful smocking and delicate trim on collars and cuffs add to the daintiness of this little fashion. Another nice featur the price is right. Sizes 3 to 6X --By Tracy Adrian A free-lance under contract to} she is one of Canada's) {sports department, TV net-| {ja half-hour 1 ardiff fil grade myself." So she applied to various uni- versities. At 25, she enrolled in the University of Toronto which offered her a' bursary After completing university-- {she majored in history--Miss Fox worked as a therapist with emotionally disturbed children at Thistletown, Ont. But "al- though 1 worked hard, I was not very good at it.' She then took a job as a |seript assistant with the CBC's later being transferred to the public affairs department. "Looking back on it, I think I was booted out of sports." she says, adding that she thinks the only reason she wasn't fired al- together was that '"'the CBC is like mother earth--all protect- ive." In public affairs, she event-| ually came into contact with producer Douglas Leit erman who gave her a chance as a script editor and then as a pro- ducer. She is currently assigned to the This: Hour Has Seven Days program where Leiterman is one of her boses. She was a co - producer with Leiterman of the film One More Rivera documentary on the | civil rights battle in the south -| ern United States. She had herself deliberately arrested and, with a hidden camera, took shots of Negroes in the Birmingham jail The film won the first annual Wilderness Award as the best film produced for the CBC in 1963. In 1964 she joined the CBC as a free-lance film director and was assigned to This Hour She produced for the program documentary Sum- mer in pavcher sini which won S Varieouver and festivais- and the Canadian Film Award as the best information film for 1964. Last September she was sent to Viet Nam. Two weeks of survey work in jthe war - ravaged country and 19 days of actual filming pro- | duced the award - winning doc- umentary which she describes las "anti-war" and "pro-human- | ity.' The film, she says, has no po-| | litical overtones. "I tried to bye the American soldiers and Vietnamese peasanis trapped by war She says when she first began to produce films there were "'murmurings" because of her sex. "'But these grow fainter after each award," she says with a smile. Although her past is "like a | Vague landscape,' Beryl re- members being interested in | news reporting and photography [as a young girl | 5% | Discount | If You | Bring This | Ad. FOR ALL YOUR Bridal Shoes i esc DANGEY Ss' sSwerewn OSHAWA "Then I really wanted to up-| FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE Her rapid climb soon began.) Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bax-| ter, Oshawa, wish to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Joan, to John Andrew Maurice Irwin, Oshawa, son of the late Mr, and Mrs.- Schofield V. Irwin. The ceremony is to take place on Saturday, April 23, 1966 at 4.00 p.m. in t. George's Memo- rial Church, Anglican, Oshawa. 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