Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday june 28, 1969 dating no game reporter finds by Bakry Zivick los Angeles special tons As Alben Black Bart fondled his Salvador Dali Mustache in the men s room at the dunes hotel in Las vegas he glanced at my reflection in the Mirror and confided a know i been a Chaperon on maybe 100, 150 of these dating game things and let me Tell a some thing they never but never work out. It s like any other Blind Date Only worse. Everybody s so w o r r i e d about they gotta have a Chaperon around Well let me Tell a they should Only know. Most of these couples they hit it off like maybe Georgie Jessel and Nasser. 1 could throw pm together in the bridal suite and lock the door behind me and i could come Back the next Day they d be playing his musings became a background drone As i be Gan to look Back upon the events that had brought me to Las vegas for what the dating game emcee had billed As an i was on stage now along with my two fellow bachelors All of us perched on stools and look ing Cool and Dapper. Both of my rivals were professional actors but one was introduced As a student and the other As a businessman. Bachelor no. Asked the girl on the other Side of the screen if All of your friends had told you i was a wild girl but you took me out and i just wanted to swing on the swings what would you do would lie i replied. I would lie to my and then the enchanting joyous Jacqueline announced her Choice i pick Bachelor no. 2, because two is my Lucky my wants details Ottawa up when Ken Neth Robinson Lakeshore was sent to Ottawa in last year s general election he said he wanted to know exactly what was going on. Unfortunately for those who prepare answers for ministers to deliver or. Robinson with four different University de Grees has an unusually wide Range of interests. The 39-year old lawyer social worker seeks information o n inflammable fabrics with the same Dedica Tion he attaches to reforestation plans. At the moment he has 60 de tailed questions on the com Mons order paper. At one Point earlier this year he had 107 questions on the order paper most of them requiring detailed replies. It s the Best Way to find out he says. You can inquire personally in Var ious departments but the information is usually sketchy. By asking questions on order papers you get More detail. But i am still getting Only 10 to 15 per cent of the information i that s bad news for the department employees who gather the information. Ill keep ask ing questions until i get the says the enthusiastic my. The elected representative simply has to know what s going so far or. Robinson has Learned among other things How much Revenue the govern ment gets from museums How much Money has gone into housing for the aged the num Ber of Federal ships in ferry service the value of property on Indian reserves the output of each atomic Energy Plant and the amount of flying pay earned by desk borne pilots. He has posed dozens of questions on fee details of various information and Public relations programs in each government to department along with lists of All publications issued. I want to know the Cost of getting to the people with info he says. Parliament s most persistent information Hunter says he is seeking answers for a variety of reasons. We All have to do some searching to see How we can Cut costs at every he says. It seems to be getting to the Point Here where you did t need elected representatives to run was simply a Case of civil service decisions being put to ministers. We have to get Back Morel and More to what we were elected to accept decisions thrust upon us by the civil scr i ice. We can t have a Case of the Tail wagging Hie j we have to find out Why car Tain things happen Why certain Money is spent. It s not Good enough to have Post audits we need pre audits. I while i Don t want the government to go broke answering my questions i want to know what s going and then on Cue we pressed our lips together in what the Public undoubtedly took As a prelude to a journey across the world for a glamorous adventure in travel and seduction. But i had no such fanciful illusions. 1 took emcee Jim Lange Only half seriously when he began to reel off extravagant descriptions of our prize trip to Las vegas. I anticipated nothing More than Champagne chateau Briand and sex. I arrived at . Inter National the following wednesday in High spirits As visions of Mumm s cordon Rouge danced in my head. Then Black Bart Shook my hand and presented me with a letter. It began something like this dear dating game Winner thank you again for having been a guest on our show the dating game. We sincerely Hope that you both have a most wonderful time on your Date. You May be served two drinks. Have company then Black Bart a round Bald bearded Bon vivant of 34, announced that joyous Jacqueline and i were going to have company and he introduced us to a Blond norwegian girl and her escort another Lucky dating game Winner. Britt is a fashion Model about 30. Her Date was an optician from Philadelphia. As we boarded our plane Britt gazed up to the heavens and said i m going to be on the cover of Mademoiselle this to which the Philadelphia wonder replied Mademoiselle i would t put you on the cover of Field and joyous Jacqueline at least was Down to Earth. She was Able to talk about other things than herself. Her children and her sex husband for instance. I spent most of my time on the flight trying to figure j out How old she was. Her j makeup was so thick i could t Tell. No one could deny How j Ever that she. A Blond fashion Model represented i by the same Agency As Britt was basically a pretty woman. And although i i admittedly was banding about some Randy thoughts in my mind i was behaving like a perfect gentleman and was keeping my hands j folded innocuously in my Lap. Then suddenly she said of by the Way i have a Boyfriend and we re kind of serious so. Getting worse things weren t going any better for the Philadelphia wonder. After our plane landed at Mccarran Airport i Las vegas and our dates went off to the ladies room together Black Bart said to the Philadelphia wonder i Don t mean to make a feel bad of anything but your Date is trying to ditch the pm said. Why do you say Black Bart re plied there s something fishy about like like for a one evening stay she brought along an overnight then Britt and the Phila d e 1 p h i a wonder were whisked off to the Sands hotel while the rest of us went to the dunes. Black Bart posed joyous Jacqueline and me around the lobby and Pool for publicity shots. At dinner time he escorted us into uie very posh Sultan s table restaurant one of these places that tops the menu off with so As joyous Jacqueline and i Eye balled the menu ecstasy lighting up our photogenic faces Black Bart shot an other half Roll of film. Then he said Okay kids let s go we re not really eating girl gone meanwhile Back at the Sands the Philadelphia wonder and Britt were watching Bob Newhart. Then old pm made a fatal error he went to the men s room. When he returned Britt was gone. While the Philadelphia wonder scratched his head in helpless bewilderment Britt was merrily wending her Way Down s. Las vegas blvd. Toward the Sahara hotel and the waiting arms of her True love. But she had failed to reckon with Black Bart and the Sands Security police. From out of nowhere they arrived to escort Britt Back to the Sands. While All this was going on joyous Jacqueline Black Bart and i were watching t h e Ultra nude Milan improves airports Milan Italy about s24 million will be spent in modern izing Milan s two International airports Mal Pensa for inter Continental traffic and linage for european flights. About sis.5 million will go to enlarge Mal Pensa s facilities to handle the bigger jets that will soon to in use. Casino de Paris revue at the dunes. Black Bart was in seventh heaven. You should have heard him when the female acrobats came on. And when a voluptuous Oriental gymnast flexed her thighs on a bicycle seat Black Bart said to joyous Jacqueline not to me she must be great in and i did t mind so much when he kept swinging his camera into my Date s rear end but when i came Back from the bathroom and found him with his around her i thought it was a Little bit too much. Place closed the next item on our Agenda at least that s what eight million viewers were told was dancing at the top of the strip. By some strange coincidence the top of the strip turned out to be closed on wednesdays. So the dating game in its infinite largesse took us out for Coffee. Britt and the Philadelphia wonder topped in shortly thereafter and joined us in a round of cold stares. Conversation was strained to say the least especially since neither Britt nor old pm enjoyed being escorted from hotel to hotel by Security police. Black Bart told Britt it was better than a Leash. And the Philadelphia wonder gave the girls hell for appearing on the dating game when they had boyfriends but the girls thought it was perfectly All right after All they needed the exposure for their modelling careers. Britt headed for the ladies room and Black Bart regaled the rest of us with stories about other tragic evenings like ours. He told us that As a two year old he witnessed the Hindenburg explosion in Lakehurst n. J., in 1937. And i bet your name has been linked to disaster Ever the Philadelphia wonder said. After 20 minutes Down the Boulevard of broken dreams Black Bart realized that we were one Winner Short and he set up a dragnet to apprehend Britt. She was finally spotted in a phone Booth. Black Bart said he was getting sick and tired of playing cops and robbers so he had a Little talk with the Bell Captain. And thus it was that the dating game sealed off in the dunes hotel. With Britt safely contained Black Bart excused himself to play his private dating game and the four of us Young lovers went our own separate ways for the duration of the evening. For three hours i kept losing at the Blackjack table the Philadelphia wonder kept losing at the Roulette table Britt pined for her love in a Corner and joyous Jacque line won Jackpot after Jack pot. There was t enough room for All her loot in the pockets of the ranch Mink she was wearing. The Only Good thing that came of the entire evening was that my Date fell asleep on the return trip and i did f have to talk to her. You were right a. Better i should have lost. Vintage train will run the Vintage locomotive society inc. Was Given Permis Sion thursday by metro Council to operate an 87-year-old steam locomotive during the summer months on a three mile Long Spur track 39 Miles Southeast of Winnipeg. John Lepage the locomotive society s president said the society expects to begin running the locomotive on sundays for Public rides beginning about mid july. Or. Lepage said he Hopes the locomotive built in 1882, will be operated As a tourist attraction on a permanent basis. It would be the oldest steam locomotive still operating on the North american continent he said. The locomotive with three antique coaches would t inter Fere with metro s sunday excursion train to Indian Bay on the Ontario Manitoba Boundary according to metro officials. The locomotive originally owned by Winnipeg Hydro was brought into Winnipeg from Point Dubois in 1966 by Winnipeg City Council who wanted to operate it As a tourist attraction during Canada s Cen Tennial. It was turned Over to j the locomotive society a non a profit group when City Council i decided against having the City operate the train. Or. Lepage said a fare schedule and timetable have yet to be set. 01 it i ii Orri any Bug should Bug us All by Arthur Hoppe once upon a time in the country called wonderful and a grave National debate arose Over the practice of bugging telephones. Everyone agreed that Pri vate citizens had no right to Bug other private citizens telephones. Bugging was declared an invasion of Pri Vacy an infringement of individual Freedom sneaky snooping and a felony. But the King of wonder Fulani said he certainly ought to have the right to buy anybody s Telephone he wanted in order to save wonderful and from a Fulis. We must preserve the cherished heritages of wonderful ism such As the right to privacy and individual Freedom by bugging he said or else we shall succumb under the Iron Heel of Well nobody wanted to succumb under the Iron Heel of awful ism. So they let the King go ahead. And he ordered his agents to Bug the gangsters the student militants civil rights leaders and a football player s bar. 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