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‘OPENING - SOON,

" SEESAW. SAGA AT ‘SANSUM ae ae

By Ed Gould

nit was~ almost: ‘exactly 100
years between the first and
“second .battles on. Maxwell
- Mountain.
‘came when John Maxwell and .

The “first battle

his .fellow ranchers .. finally

discouraged desperado. John ~~
. McCauley. from rustling their

cattle; the second battle in-
volved the making this spring
of a movie: The Blast,
McCauley, a gunslinger who
had been run out of San Fran-

- cisco.and points north andhad _
been «quietly getting fat on
Salt Spring cattle for five «

years, finally got his come-

» Uppance,

7 Maxwell anda handful of
Vigilantes spotted him cros-

sing Sansum Narrows with 50 -

“renegade Indians ’ from: Van- -
The ranchers -
whooped down onto the beach’

couver Island.

and the Indians, thinking Mc-

Cauley had led them into.an
“cut his throat and.
- threw his. body into, the salt :

ambush,

chuck. ;

In ‘The Blast, . an American
draft dodger on the run-be-
cause of a bum rap, is. shot

by” Canadian “police” trom
_. diving helicopters, .

 fadeout he falls from Maxwell

; fatal attraction for American

_ matic: first incident -- as re-.

oe $1. 2s an nour.
In the...
viewpoint. into Sansum. Nate epic; the rest of it was shot
rows.. =

Those Narrows must have a. - couver,

What was necessary was for
a lot of men to thrash around
in the bush and over the cliffs.

. Some were to chase the draft
dodger;
confuse the audience, -

The weather was perfect.
Just right for Canadian police
to shoot draft dodgers off Max~
well Mountain. (Not since the
RCMP saved Marilyn Monroe
from drowning in Jasper had

Canadians been so involved tn
U.S, affairs.)

Naturally most ofthe cast,

crew.and script writers were

dropouts. ;
A scenario based on Eric
Roberts’ account of that dra-

corded .in Salt Spring Saga —
-- is itching to be written.

A different kind of itch is
likely to be aroused by The
Blast. It'sa ‘‘cheapie’’ movie, .
according to the makers,
Meridian Films of Toronto,

‘and will no doubt run some-
where between: the main fea-
ture, the popcorn, . and the
dash for the washrooms,

Nevertheless, when.a real
live production crew comes to
a. tiny Gulf Island. complet?:
with men in purple suits run-
‘ning around. yelling ‘‘extras’’
into 2. loud haller,. there’s .
got to be a story in it,

The extras were recruited —
locally ‘and from Vancouver -
Island, every single one hop-
ing to be a-star ... for”

you can. stop wondering why

swe're primitive. .
> - -Tronically,

flower . children and hippies
recruited «for extras. were
young fellows. dodging the
draft! . -

But, I digress:. Meanwhile,

_. The mountain shootout was -
to. te the finaly scene in’ the =

\ in’a.barn somewhere in Van-_ :

the others were to”

either English or American so.
the. folks out there still think :

some. of the’

~ back on the mountain, the pro-

nother "Baddie” Bites ¢ Maxwell Dust

duction “staff was having a
tough time getting the iocals

‘to. display enough enthusiasm ~

in their. forest forays.
' Not enough action. Let’s
really move it in there!”’ the

loudhailer blared.

The director, a perfection-
ist Englishman who had ac-,.

. tually had something to do with
_ the. filming of The Bridge On

the River Quay, was dis-
traught. He'berated cast and
crew, 7 : :

The lowlfest assistant felt

“the full force of his displea~

sure -and. low-toned: .dis=
cussions continued inio the
night at headquarters in

Harbour House Hotel. .
Two assistants, delicate
males, who had been accus-
tomed only to taking a litle
brandy after dinner, decided
to brave the rigors of aCana-
dian beerparlor: and it was

here that they discovered the

solution to their dilemma,
They flounced into the pub,
their pants tight enough to
cause problems with their vo-
cal. equipment, frilly. shirts

edging up to meet their kiss ;

curls, .

All activity at the shuffle-
board stopped as they gingerly
lowered themselves, pinkies
extended, into ringside chairs,
_ The bartender, a sort of

, delicate eyebrow and briefed’

_ apathetic extras.

"sponded,

- not known.

‘end of his nose. ;

Nevertheless, a beer sale
». was: a beer. sale...And his ine
‘born Island curiosity got the

he. “asked |.
better of him so ‘late Mrs.

in his gravelly voice: “*What.
in the hell is you guys probe,

lem anyway?” .
The first assistant ‘raised a

Brod on the problem of the:

“After all, we could be in;
the Park Plaza and, if they,
don’t get moving, we might be:
stuck on this godforsaken ise:
land for a whole. month!”

The thought of them on Salt’
Spring for a whole month might;
have aided old. Brod’s train:
of thought toc, :

«You wanna move them guys. .
around the mountain fast, that:

it???
“Right!”

reel

the . duet

“Well , .. all you gotta.
“do is: tell them ‘secretly that:
‘you've stashed . a buncha beer:
all around that “mountain and
-then you. watch. them bums,
‘hustle.”

Whether. the movie compan}

followed that advice or not is.
However, it ist

fact that the next day. there
was activity on Maxwell Moun:

tain the likes of which had no’.

been seen. since John Me:

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Broderick Crawford in

Sidney
Briefs —

“Visiting Mr. and Mrs. R.S.M, ©
Forbes, 8535" Bourne’ Terrancty,
recently, and in Victoria {ova
tend - funeral. services « ‘for. tae
D.T. Forbes, were —
G. Bruce Forbes, ‘North Van-*
couver;. Mr: and Mrs, John De
Forbes, Trail; sister of the late :

ter, W.F, Foster and Mr, and

Mrs, .Donald..B. Macdonald, all |

of Vancouver. 2
eae

Mrs. Doralice Kealy, 877 |
Verdier Ave., Brentwood, has .
been visited by her son, Georg | :
and his wife from’ Saskatoon. *

x * **

On the occasion of their golden :
| wedding the famiiy of Mr. and =
Mrs, Melville Jack will honour: :
their parents at a quiet family
dinner, at the’ Princess Mary.”
restaurant. Wednesday evening...

The couple: attended the same
school in Glasgow until 1910, and-
the groom was indentured _toa.:
seafaring career..in .January.:
They were married in-§
Glasgow on a Wednesday, August
13,1919, and arrived in Victoria.
in-1925, residing there briefly
and at Gordon Head an4 “brent 4
wood before acqu.. ing their press :
ent home at 1498 Tapping Road,
Patricia Bay in 1946.:

Attending the dinner will be Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas. M.Jack, Mr. .
and Mrs, Ernest J. Jack and Miss. |
Evelyn G, Jack, on a rush visit’.

Cauley. was given his last

“ spades, approached the table shave.

looking as though he’d’ just
found Tiny Tim in his soup, ~
As he circled around, dodg-

— - = — Vegetables

from UBC, Vancouver. °°

ing a windmill of limp wrists,
and looking for a dry spot to

OPEN FRIDAYNIGHTS TILL NINE.

land some beer, overheard
the following conversation:
FIRST ASSISTANT: ‘'Lis-
ten, darling, we've simply got
to. get those people. moving.’
I mean... they just aren’t.”’

SECOND ASS. {E knev
‘sweetie, but ‘how, how
.They’re just -sO-....8

le thargie.’ ,
“Broderick”? ‘continued -
circle, unable to believe b
eyes. He could have swo
one of the men was weari
false eyelashes. Either t!
or a brace of centipedes h
crawled out and died on t

(
REJECT!
Sidney Town Council d>
Monday night it doesn’t war:
nich. School Board dumpin | |
_age from Deep Cove and = .
- wood elementary schools °.
system for the time being:
The school board in=
‘council that until such’ t!
sewer lines were availabl:
schools it had been deci’. :
pump out the septic tank °
‘schools four or five times.
The dispersal fields
- schools. septic tanks are
quate, because of soil con:
Two tenders had beenr -
for the pumping operat:
based on using the Sidne:
to empty the tanker tru:
the other the Esquimalt.
Council felt the scho,
should use the Esquimak bee
‘ for the first year at least’* be-
eause Sidney did not have a
receiving receptacle onits sewer
system for the tankers, Nor was
there a suitable location for the
construction of one. Council felt
that it should be in a remote loc-
ation, away from residences, and
it would require water supply for
the washing down of the hoppere
type’ receptacle.
Alderman Stanley Dear felt the
problem of disposal of sewage
from the school tanks was a North
Saanich municipal re sponsibility.
Mayor Arthur Freeman dis-
agreed, saving it was the school
district's problem, But Ald, Dear
pointed out that it was a munici-
pality's responsibility to provide
services.
‘Let North Saanich build are-
ceiving receptacle,’ Ald. Dear
said, after it was pointed out that
a Sidney sewer system manhole
was available in the munici-
pality.

The school board letter was
placed inthe sewage disposal file.

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