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Editor Stephen auer 10 the examlner Friday Aprll 1979 teinmn GovernorGeneral awards resented Pledges prize money OTTAWA CP GowGen Edward Schreyer presented the 1979 GovernorGenerals liter ary Awards to six recipients Wednesday and one of them said he would give part of the $5000 prize to an organization working for the defence of the political prisoners of Quebec Gilbert Langevin winner of the French poetry award read onepage statement at the ceremony in Government House which otherwise was drably formal Langevin accepted the spe ciallybound copy of his book of poems Mon Refuge est un Vol can and said that while he had been described in secret docu ment as subversive but not dangerous artist he thanked the GovernorGeneral with all the respect which owe to those of right He stood chatting amiably with Schreyer for sev eral minutes after the cere mony Before the awards were pre sented Timothy Porteous dep uty director of the Canada Council said Schreyer should not be personally held respon sible for the selection of prize winners The awards are ad ministered by the council who choose the judges Other winners who received their speciallyltbound books and cheques for $5000 each spoke only few words of apprecia tion privately to the Governor General and Mrs Sehreyer They are Roger Caron for Go Boy in English nonfiction Alice Munro for Who Do You Think You Are in English fic tion and Patrick Lane for Poems New and Selected in English poetry The other win ners for literature in French were FrancoisMarc Gagnon for PaulEmile Borduas in nonfiction and Jacques Poulin for Les Grandes Marcos in fiction Poulin was absent from the ceremony The warmest applause of the crowd of several hundred at tending the prizegiving in the Government House Tent Room was for Caron who wrote an autobiographical account of 23 years he served in prison for bank robbery and jail break He was also the most emo tionally affected by receiving the award holding the bound book close to his chest as he smiled broadly and bowed to the applauding crowd Langevin said he would give part of his prize money to help liberate PierrePaul Geoffroy who he said has been eligible for parole since 1976 That he is still in jail is for many an iii justice he said Face to face Jason McCorriston examines wood sculpture by Rocky Stepulaltls one of the Barrie Art Club members whose work is featured in the clubs 30th an nual exhibition at the Barrie Public Library The exhibition runs to the end of April Examiner Photo Barrie man named to library board Douglas Hamilton of Barrie has been appointed to the board of the Georgian Bay Regional Library System as the Barrie Public Library representative for 1979 Hamilton who has background in industrial pro duction control managment and in teaching is sales representative with Douglas Lincoln Mercury in Barrie and is member of the Knights of Columbus Hamilton has been member of the board of the Barrie Public Library for approx imately 10 years He was chair man of that board in 1974 In addition to serving on the ninemember regional board Hamilton will represent the of Oro Township Key was first appointed to the board in 1977 and served on the property committee in 1978 He joined the board of the County of Sim oe Library in 1974 and served as chairman in 1976 This year for the first time the public library boards of In iisfil and Essa Townships have appointed representatives to the regional library board Alice Givens of liinisfil and George Williams of Essa were intrtxluced to the regional board at its 1979 inaugural meeting Mar 28 The Georgian Bay Regional Library System is support orgaiiiratioii serving all public libraries in Siiiicoc Dullerin Grey and Bruce ounties liliii Georgian Bay Region on the service inter library loans Ontario Provincial Library performing arts events Council provincial group government information talk which serves as an advisory body to the minister of culture andotber regional library major home investments It is important that they no and recreation system services are made are maintenanced re Uta The new vicepresident of the available to the public through ml autumn regional library board for 1979 is Wallace Key former remc ing books for the handicapped its member libraries Riel production gets ENEVA av ADMITTANCE ED as ll nutc A65 00 NOMINATED FOR ACADEMY AWARDS am man ORilliA THEATRES I6WEST ST 3266331 BEST PICTURE BEST ACTRESS JILL CLAYBURGH SHOWS AT 79 lOPM FACT Rugs broadloom and upholstered furniture are Rug Mobiles regular cleaning will help upholstery and rugs retain their value and appearance Mail CINEMAS MARTIN RllIROSIi AND ASSIiYIZV production 7269944 NORMA RAI SALLY FIIILD RON LEIBIVIANBIIAU BRIDGLS IAI HINGLIL BARBARA BAXLEY screenplay by IRVING RAVIZICH and HARRIILI FRANK IR director of photography JOHN ALONZO ASC Produced by TAMARA ASSEYEV and ALEX ROSIi ATTflS 915 music DAVID SHIRE directed by MARTIN RITT II GOES LIKE GOES lyrics by NORMAN GIMBEL music by DAVID SHIRE COLOR BY DcLUXb MH in FACT It isnt traffic that wears out rug The snow suns sail that works its way down to the 11 at tte ile can be as hard and help from United States ounm it By JAMES NELSON The anadianlress Authorities have had to go again to the United States to retrieve and in this case help to recreate bit of distinctive Canadian history In the blockbuster production Riel to be seen on the English and French CBTV between April 15 and 17 the Gatling gun will be seen in operation in depictment of the weapons debut in battle Invented by Richard Jordan Gatling in the US the forerunr ner of the machinegun was first demonstrated successfully in 1862 and was offered to the Union Army in the American Civil War but it wasnt acv cepted as ordinance until 1866 after the war It was first used in combat during the Riel rebellion Battle of Batochc And to film the scene the CBC could not obtain Gatling gun in Canada The NOSE IS lllllll Comedian Jimmy Durante had his nose insured for 5140000 CHINESE ones 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