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Issue date: Monday, September 22, 1975
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Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - September 22, 1975, Winona, Minnesota Monday's Geneva alternative possible Catherine Hearst SLA, bombings related? In the wake of the capture of Patricia Hearst, federal investigators are checking for possible links between the Symbionese Liberation Army and terrorist bombings around San Francisco in the last 20 months. Miss Hearst's parents visited their im- prisoned daughter for the second time on Sunday, and Catherine Hearst reported that "she was a little spaced out at first but she's coming around" Page 14 Ready for action, The Wisconsin Assembly is supposed to have sorted out its thoughts on voter registration reform by the time legislators return Tuesday for what could be a very busy week. On the senate's calendar is a women's rights bills, already approved by the assembly, which would enable men to be eligible for the minimum wage guarantees now afforded women and modify statutory language to eliminate language distinguishing 14 Most prized possession A state congressman and his wife cherish a love letter from their teen-age boy as "the most prized possession" they have. Jon Lynn Bergland wrote it but never sent it it was found among his belongings last month after he was killed in an auto accident near the family farm at Roseau, Minn. He's the son of Rep. and Mrs. Helen Bergland who have six other children................Page 2 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. today the Sinai accord is only a first step toward a Mideast settlement and that he has made it clear he is prepared to promote an agreement between Syria and Israel. Declaring "opportunities must be seized or they will Kissinger told the U.N. General Assembly in a speech that the United States is ready to explore alternatives to a Geneva peace conference in order to push ahead on an Arab-Israeli accord. President Ford's statement that he will not accept stalemate and stagnation in the Middle East "was true before the Sinai agreement was signed. It remains true Kissinger said. His remarks were seen as conciliatory toward the Soviet Union and militant Arabs and their supporters who want the United States to press Israel for with- drawals on the fronts with Syria and Jordan now that Israel has pulled back in Sinai in the agreement this month with Egypt. Over the coming weeks he said he will consult "with all concerned" regarding the reopening of the Geneva conference. Although he said the United States would not attempt to "exclude any he did not make it clear whether the United States would back Israel in trying to ex- clude the Palestine Liberation Organization, which has unanimous Arab support as the sole representative of the Palestinians on the west bank of the Jordan River. Kissinger completed a round of nuclear arms talks Sunday night with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, planning to meet again in Europe after the Kremlin reaches a decision on key unresolved issues. "We clarified each other's said Kissinger, summing up Gromyko's talk with President Ford last Thursday and three meetings totaling 11% hours between the secretary of state and the Soviet foreign minister in Washington and New York. The two men agreed ata dinner at the Soviet mission Sunday night that another round, probably in Geneva, is necessary before Kissinger can fly to Moscow to prepare for Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev's visit to the United States. U.S. officials said Kissinger and Gromyko had made steady progrew. They acknowledged, however, that the planned 10-year arms limitation treaty might not be completed before the end of the year. This would postpone Brezhnev's visit to Washington, originally planned for last July, until 1976. The meetings with Gromyko "were said Kissinger, "and we both will now have to study the many considerations that were put before us by each side, and we will remain in close touch with each other." He said there are "two or three major problems" standing in the way of a new treaty. Although he was not specific, these are known to be verification, the U.S. cruise missile and the Soviet Backfire bomber. Rep. and Mrs. Robert Bergland A sort of birthday present Brent McClanahan celebrated his birthday rushing for 61 yards and catching six passes for 73 more yards and a touchdown in the Minnesota Vikings' 27-17 National Football League victory over San Francisco Sunday in Bloomington.........................Page 9 Hear tape arguments A special federal court today heard three hours of arguments on Richad M. Nixon s attempt to reclaim ownership of millions of documents and the White House tapes accumulated during his presidency. There was no indication when the three judges will wmona Daily News 120th year ol publication Winona, Minn. September 22 Richard Nixon The inside index: Television..........4 Building............5 6-7 Dslily record.........8 Sports..........9-11 Markets............12 Comics...........14 Warmer It should be sunny and a bit warmer through Friday, The weatherman says. Highs should be .In the 60s Tuesday, possibly pushing into the 70s later in the week weather details, page8. Will Rogers says... "Along about Sunday and Monday, the newspapers have to always leave one column on the front page for prom.nen men to p ejct Drosoeritv in Maybe it was a big dinner, and Mr. 111 Fix hverytning was the guest Maybe he got rich selling motto cards or machine guns. But the Associated Press carries his prediction that the i -ill) INOV. lotiii trend is upward! _ Ford asks private funds for energy MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) President Ford has decided to push tor a major federal program to encourage heavy private investment in domestic energy resources, officials say. Sources who relayed this word said Ford might decide to make public at least the broad outlines of his plan in a San Fran- cisco address today to a convention of the AFL-CIO building trades department. The President was said to have been stiil working on his AFL-CIO talk late Sunday after flying here from Anaheim, where he addressed the National Association of Life Underwriters. Sources said the President's blueprint for encouraging energy investments was sharply scaled down from one that had originally been considered by some key members of Ford's Domestic Council. The council effort to come up with a proposal was directed by proteges of Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller. Nevertheless, it was understood the President's proposal envisions a multibillion-dollar effort, with a large part of it focused -on nuclear energy and upgrading of the nation's electric utilities. The President and Mrs. Ford head back to Washington tonight after a four-day trip to Oklahoma and California that combined a heavy schedule of public appearances with two opportunities to golf on the Monterey peninsula. During a meeting Saturday night with editors of the Los Angeles Times, Ford indicated he will decide within a month whether to recommend a oneyear ex- tension of -antirecession tax cuts due to expire Dec. 31. Hurricane Elolse aiming at Florida MIAMI (AP) Tropical Storm Eloise, which killed 42 people as a hurricane last week, became a hurricane again totfav. aiming its 85 mile-per-hour winds and driving rain at the Florida-Alabama Gulf Coast. The hurricane was expected'to hit the area of Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla., late today, said Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Hurricane warnings were issued from Grand Island, La., to Apaiachicola, Fla. All smiles President Gerald Ford flashes a broad smile as he was introduced Sunday night to the National Association of Life Underwriters meeting in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photofax) Oil price drop is expected WASHINGTON (AP) The price of a gallon of imported fuel oil will drop 1.5 cents as the result of the Ford ad- ministration's decision to remove the 60- cents-a-barrel import fee on refined petroleum products, officials say. Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb announced the move Sunday and said President Ford will decide soon whether or not to remove a fee on crude oilimports. Dropping the 60-cent fee came as a response to the abrupt lapse in price controls on most domestically produced oil, which could result in higher prices and spur inflation. Removal of the fee on refined imports, first imposed in April 1973, fulfilled a pledge made by Ford to act if domestic controls ended. The antiinflationary move was made retroactive to Sept. 1 when domestic controls lapsed. In the absence of price controls, refiners and importers are not legally bound to pass on the saving to consumers, but Zarb said he believed they would pass the benefits along because of current market resistance to higher prices. Fighting explodes in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Street fighting exploded again in Beirut's eastern suburbs today despite efforts of high-level Syrian mediators to make a weekend cease-fire effective. Moslem leftists and rightwing Christians fought with machine guns, mortars and grenades. Snipers fired at passersby from rooftops despite a government pledge to hunt them down. Sunday had been a day of comparative calm following agreement on a cease-fire Saturday night. Officials toured the ravaged commercial area around Mar- tyr's Square and residents ventured out of their homes for the first time in a week. Security forces entered the worst combat zones and picked up dozens of bodies, raising the death toll to nearly 40Q since the year's fifth round of communal warfare erupted in Tripoli Sept. 3 and spreadtoBeirutonSept. 14. Lebanese and Syrian firemen finally brought under control fires in the com- mercial quarter started Friday and Saturday by bazooka and mortar fire and rocket grenades. The Syrians brought about 50 firetrucks from Damascus, 60 miles away. The downtown area, the Wall Street of the Middle East, was pockmarked with gutted, smouldering buildings. The offices of Pan American World Airways were shattered.'Windows of the First National City Bank of New York had been riddled Karen's fate argued in court MORR1STOWN, N.J (AP) A judge hears arguments today on the request of Joseph T. Quinlan that his adopted daughter be allowed to die. She has been in a coma for five months and doctors say there is no hope for recovery. Quinlan filed the suit Sept. 12, seeking court approval to disconnect a hospital's respirator from Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, which would result in her death "within minutes because Doctors say the coma was probably caused by an overdose of alcohol and drugs and there is no chance of recovery. "I was the last to hold out because both my wife and my other daughter were critically ill in the past, and the Lord always answered my prayers Quinlan has said. "But after a lot of prayers I became convinced this is what God's will was, that Karen was being called by Him." Miss Quinlan's heart and lungs have been dependent on a respirator at St. Clare's Hospital in nearby Denville since April 15. According to the suit, doctors say Karen has irreparable brain damageand no hope of recovery. At issue is Miss Quinlan's present condition whether the lack of stable brain waves justifies declaring her legally dead. Sussex County Prosecutor George T. Daggett said Miss Quinlan's condition was probably caused by the "inadvertent ingestion and the interaction of a tranquilizer and alcohol." He said the taking of the two substances was "innocent" and ruled out "criminal conduct" in the incident. A few hours before she slipped into the coma, Miss Quinlan and some friends with whom she shared a bungalow were drinking together when she suddenly became ill, Daggett said. KAREN ANN QUINLAN Authorities sa.d four persons, me udtng two security men, were killed in clashes between residents of the Naameh and Haret-Naamch districts on the Beirut- was heard through Sunday in other parts of the city. On patrol Police patrol downtown'Bel rut, Lebanon Sunday as Syrian mediators were trying to hold together a shaky cease-fire after months of fighting between religious and political factions. (AP Photofax) The 60-cent fee covered refined fuel oil, gasoline and jet fuel. The expected 1.5-cent reduction in prices will primarily affect the New England and Middle Atlantic states where most refined imports are used. U.S. consumption during midwinter of last year ran to about 2.4 million barrels a day of imported refined products, the great bulk of it for fuel oil. Refined imports' made up about 14 per cent of the national total of refined petroleum products consumed last year. Rebel chief holding out for supplies PARIS (AP) -The chief of a rebel tribe in the north-central African nation of Chad is reported holding out for supplies instead of cash to ransom French archeologist Francoise Claustre, captured with two other Europeans 17 months ago in a raid oa a desert village. Marc Combes, who escaped the rebej camp in a stolen Landrover some time ago, said in a French television interview Sunday he believes rebel chief Hissen Habre will carry out his threat to shoot Mrs. Claustre on Tuesday if the French government does not meet his terms. Combes said Habre, a graduate of law and political science studies in "not of the same tribe" as his Toubou tribe lieutenants and could not afford to lose face with them by modifying his demands! Reports from French newsman Jean- Pierre Farkas, who flew to the rebels'' desert camp in a light plane, indicated that Habre had rejected France's offer of million ransom and was insisting on an earlier offer of million worth nonmilitary supplies and in cash; A French plane dropped the new offer to the rebels Friday, apparently because tfe government of Chad objected to any equipment being supplied them. The plane also dropped a radio set so the rebels could communicate with French planes flying over the area. Official sources said the Chad govern- ment delivered a note to the French am- bassador i.i N'djamena Sunday protesting that French efforts to ransom Mrs. Claustre were a violation of Chad's sovereignty. 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From vanished villages to grand plans, Hayes draws a picture of our past and bundles it up in his eye-catching books.
IT STARTED with postage stamps — those tiny icons of geography, history and politics from all over the globe. Derek Hayes, a young lad in England, collected them. "I could tell you the capitals of the world," Hayes remembers. "I liked knowing where things were."
Well, yes. The young stamp collector became a geography major at the University of Hull. He emigrated to Canada. He got a job working as a city planner in Vancouver, B.C., then launched a gardening-products business, which led to a gardening-books business.
A nicely sedate business for a bookish guy. Then, one summer in the mid-1970s, Hayes and his wife were rummaging through bric-a-brac in an English shop, looking for some wall art. "We found this old map of North America that showed Russian territory," he remembers. "I had no idea that Alaska had been Russian territory! We bought the map."
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Most of us, happy that the map matched the couch, would have stopped there. But in Hayes, it triggered something. "I started trying to date maps — trying to figure out why this was here and that was there," he recalls. He started to collect maps and images of maps. Everywhere. Shops. Sales. Archives. eBay. "It's amazing, what you can buy on eBay," Hayes says with a faraway look in his eye.
On business trips to England he would linger an extra couple of days, hanging with the clerks at Britain's Naval Archives. There you could, at your leisure, look through Capt. George Vancouver's original surveys of the Northwest Coast. "It was very homey," Hayes muses. "Halfway through the morning, the tea lady would come through."
He was a little shocked at the Brits' casual attitude toward very old stuff. He found a 6-by-6-foot map of Captain Cook's 1765 survey of the coast of Newfoundland, produced by Cook himself. When Hayes started unrolling it, it started to crumble in his hands. "They weren't going to stop me," Hayes says, "but I wasn't going to watch history disintegrate in my hands."
Hayes had been captured by the multiple passions of the collector: the need to find, the need to preserve, the need to unearth the next treasure. Luckily for his fans, he had one more urge: the need to share. In the late 1990s he began to wonder if he could merge his map collection with his passion for history and his expertise in book publishing. "I thought, this stuff is interesting. Maybe someone else would be interested."
In 1999, Hayes self-published his first book, "Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest," in Canada. He brought it over the border and showed it to the people at Seattle's Sasquatch Books.
Sasquatch publisher Gary Luke remembers when Hayes brought it in:
"It was a totally beautiful book. We had never seen a book like that before."
Hayes, says Luke, was "one of these completely original authors who was completely passionate about a topic and was so deep into it, the result was unique."
Published in this country as the "Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest," it sold 31,000 copies on both sides of the border (it's still in print). Hayes followed it with a book about Canadian explorer Alexander Mackenzie, then historical atlases of the North Pacific Ocean, Canada and the Arctic, among others. In 2006, Hayes' book "Historical Atlas of the United States" was published by the prestigious University of California Press, which has remained his U.S. publisher ever since.
NOW HAYES has come back full circle to the Northwest with his 15th book, "Historical Atlas of Washington and Oregon" (University of California Press, $39.95).
David Wrobel, Merrick Chair in Western American History at the University of Oklahoma, served on a peer-review committee for Hayes' UC Press books. Wrobel says Hayes' books are a "visual delight," smartly organized and well-written.
But beyond that, they embody an "expansive vision" of the historical-atlas genre, Wrobel wrote in an email: "A historical atlas should be more than a mere collection of maps that illustrate the cartographic representation of a place over time . . . All of the traditional cartographic images that one would expect within the pages of a historical atlas appear in his works, but they do so along with a wonderfully rich array of other sources including satellite maps, promotional posters, photographs (both contemporary and concurrent), and paintings."
To leaf through a Hayes atlas is a bit like a solitary ramble through a museum (the Victoria and Albert in London comes to mind) with no guard to check you as you rummage through the cupboards. A treasure here, a surprise there, a little shock at what people in the past were thinking. A map drawn by William Clark himself. Vanished villages (Champoeg, Ore.). King County evacuation routes, in the event a nuclear bomb was dropped on Seattle.
Hayes' new book starts with the first maps of our area, among the last in the world that Europeans explored. These fanciful creations, with made-up coastlines and half-unicorn sea creatures, were designed by mapmakers who were "trying to sell maps. They didn't want to have a blank space," Hayes says. A sea monster or two filled the gaps nicely.
There are maps hand-drawn by explorers and sketches of early Northwest settlements by English spies, from the era when the governance of the Northwest was still up for grabs. Inevitably, there are few maps produced by Native Americans. "This is not to say that aboriginal people did not make maps; indeed they did, and sometimes these maps were given to, and used by, explorers in the construction of their own maps," Hayes wrote in his first book. "But the predominantly oral tradition of the native peoples means that few native maps survive today."
There are maps of bad times. A hand-drawn map of Seattle's Hooverville, a Depression-era homeless camp; a World War II plan for the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. There are maps of grand schemes and doomed dreams — Frederick Law Olmsted's never-implemented city plan for Tacoma; a map plotting four different routes for cross-Puget Sound floating bridges. Adding color and spice to the mix are pamphlets, postcards and posters that capture the zeitgeist of decades gone by.
Hayes especially admires "bird's-eye maps," created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to promote cities all over America. First, a framework of streets would be prepared, then artists "walked the streets, sketching trees, buildings and other features as though seen from an elevation of 600 to 900 metres (2,000 to 3,000 feet)," Hayes wrote in his first book. "No mean task with no means of actually looking at the scene from above!"
HAYES' ATLASES bring to mind the inevitable question: In the record of our digital era, what will the future have to look back on? This connoisseur worries about the future of atlases, books and bookstores. In an age of Google Maps and GPS, what will become of maps as works of art?
To be sure, that same digital technology has aided his gathering of material for future books. Hayes mostly collects images of maps, not the maps themselves, which remain in museums and private collections. Digital photography and printing have streamlined his life's work. He estimates that he has 12,000 images in his archive.
Hayes is president of the Historical Map Society of British Columbia, and he recently helped a museum in the B.C. interior that was "de-accessioning" (getting rid of) the maps that didn't pertain to its location. "I managed to find homes for most of those," he says.
It's a race against time.
Hayes knows that maps, however beautiful and informative, are the most ephemeral of objects. "The material you do have to work with," he says, "is a very, very small fraction of what has survived."
Mary Ann Gwinn is The Seattle Times book editor.


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Shubha Mudgal has nothing against Bollywood, but the veteran singer with deep roots in Hindustani classical says if everyone keeps running after creating masala songs for the industry, it may prove to be a threat to other genres of music specific to Indian culture.
"Today we see Bollywood music being played in every household, mostly because they are easily accessible. I have nothing against Bollywood music as I really enjoy it. But in the process we are losing out on the other genres. It would be very tragic if we lost them, as a lot of it will never come back," Mudgal told IANS in an interview.
The 53-year-old is trying to do her bit in popularising and preserving the wide variety of musical styles and genres through her festival "Baajaa Gaajaa" for the past three years.
She is now gearing up for the fourth edition, to be held in Pune Feb 10-12.
The festival will see as many as 100 artists from all genres of music like rock, blues, jazz, Hindustani vocal and instrumental music, Carnatic vocal and instrumental music, as well as folk music from different parts of the country, performing on stage.
"There's a huge variety in Indian music, whether old or adapted ones that highlight the diversity. We see a majority of Bollywood music played, but that doesn't represent the entire Indian music. There is so much to be shared. The whole idea behind the festival is to promote and propagate Indian music," she said.
The magical voice behind chartbusters like "Ali mora angana", "Ab ke saawan" and "Mann ke manjeere" is Mudgal's. But her presence in Bollywood has remained limited so far because she doesn't consider herself competent enough to keep up with contemporary songs.
"I've sung for Bollywood occasionally. But whatever I sing, it has to be something that I do justice to. I don't see myself singing the kind of songs that are being composed nowadays," she said.
"If I try something like this, I would fall flat on my face. I don't fit into the current crop," she said.
Mudgal has done playback in films like "Laaga Chunari Mein Daag", "Lajja" and "1920".
A lover of music genres such as khayal, thumri and dadra, Mudgal explored Indian pop music in the 1990s. Her albums "Ali More Angana", "Ab ke Sawan", "Pyaar Ke Geet" and "Mann Ki Manjeere" went on to become hugely popular.
While pop albums have seen a downfall in the Indian music industry lately, Mudgal said: "I don't agree that pop albums have lost their charm. Just like we have parallel cinema along with commercial cinema, there is alternative music industry that is producing, executing material of all kinds and has a vibrant collection of music.
"There are many people who are coming up with albums with their original songs and compositions," she added.
Honoured in 2000 with the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honours, the singer says the music industry is poised for growth thanks to technology.
"Technology has powered the way artists distribute online. Although technology has provided a larger distribution channel, the independent avenues of publishing and distributing the product have marginalised and become more expensive," she added.
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I wonder what would happen if sometime during the spring, a thoroughbred horse owner concluded that his prized 3-year-old colt really identified as a filly.
Could he petition to let his horse run in the Kentucky Oaks or the Black-Eyed-Susans Stakes? Or if he wanted to still run in the Triple Crown races, would he get a 5-pound weight allowance?
Absurd? Of course, it is.
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no, personally I didn't published this nice picture :-) somewhere else. But I know my old Sri Lanka photos from 1976 were now discussed on LankaNewspapers community -> see here and here.
BTW, now I'm awaiting your nice pictures on Panoramio :-)
Best wishes from Germany and a happy new year 2008, Andreas
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Hi Andreas,
They are in fact pictures that bring wonderful memories. Thank you for publishing them Andreas.
I clicked on is this you but cannot access to that site. In this country hi5 is blocked. I am from Sri Lanka but right now I do not have pictures to publish. I hope to publish when I take them myself. Right now I am outside the country so it is not possible.
Thanks for your reply. Have a nice day and happy new year.
Hello Ruwaiz,
thanks for your kind comment and your good wishes. It seems that the person on the hi5 website isn't you - the buddy there is an approx. 16 years old boy.
Take care, Andreas
P.S.: It would be great if you could take some photos from my old photos locations to see the changes over the decades.
please publish these in flickr its better than this, it has a good collection too. The clock tower is still there but the view of the harbor is not that clear because they have built a huge wall!!!!!!!! and these type of cars could not be seen in the roads other than in a antique car exhibition
Hello Lak,
I don't know if Flickr is better than Panoramio. I guess Panoramio has a small benefit, because the pictures could be seen in Google Earth if the position is mapped. But Flickr is also a very good site.
You're right, this roundabout traffic and the clock tower is still there and yes, the type of cars changed - that's just the way it is :-))
Best wishes, Andreas
Photo taken in Colombo 11, Colombo, Sri Lanka


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CAIRO – Egypt said Tuesday that its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemaic-era temple dating back more than 2,000 years, that may have been dedicated to the ancient cat goddess, Bastet.
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Take that, dog people! I don't see any of your favorite animals hailed as a deity. This, therefore, should put an end to the eternal debate over which is better, dogs or cats. Clearly, cats have reigned supreme for at least 2,000 years and continue to prove their superiority. Just this week, a suburban Chicago cat saved the life of its family by awakening them during a house fire.
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Tony Stewart will return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus taken after he struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race.
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The Columbus native has not raced since his car hit Kevin Ward Jr. at an Aug. 9 sprint-car event in upstate New York. Stewart pulled out of the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen (New York) International the next morning, then skipped races at Michigan and Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway.
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Stewart's only comment since the crash was a statement the day after the crash in which he said "there aren't words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr."
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Daniel Mays, who stars in this week's 'Shifty' says that Mike Leigh made him the actor he is today. The director cast him, not long out of Rada, in 'All or Nothing' in 2001. Since then, Mays has appeared in 'Atonement', 'The Bank Job' and Leigh's 'Vera Drake' as well as on TV and stage. In his latest film, 'Shifty' – made in 18 days for less than £100,000 – he plays Chris, back in his hometown for a party and trailing after his drug-dealer mate Shifty (Riz Ahmed). Mays's favourite scene features the usually classy Francesca Annis playing a crack-addict nan with a collection of stuffed cats. Mays is not long back from doing 'Tintin' with Spielberg. Not that he's allowed to talk about it, or Leigh's famously intense rehearsals for that matter
'I thought it was a sensational script. I come from Essex, Buckhurst Hill, where Jade Goody was buried. My hometown will forever be known for that. I used to have a sovereign ring on, those flares and hooded top. So I've got an affiliation with that area. Eran's from Harlow, which is not far. There are so many films, you know, like "Kidulthood", that are all about inner London. This is suburbia, and I think that Eran got that small-town mentality. And before it was a film about drugs it was a film about friendship, two men in love [laughing]. Know what I mean?'
You must have been the most experienced person on set.
'This is Eran's first film. Riz was pretty inexperienced, although he had made "Britz". Actually, I don't know why he was worried. But I felt a responsibility because I've been in the game longer. It's sounds like I'm being the daddy!'
Eran Creevy based the character of the drug dealer Shifty on a childhood friend. Did he talk much about that?
'Yeah, there is actually a real Shifty. think he's in jail now.'
I heard that Creevy showed him the script and he thought it was a bit soft.
'Yeah. I think he had artistic licence.'
There's quite a lot of humour in there too, what with crack nan and her cats.
'They were meant to be real cats. But they didn't have the budget so they used stuffed ones. It worked out in our favour. That's one of my favourite scenes. Again that helps the film, that it retains its humour. If it got heavy it would become too kitchen sink. All that social realism stuff. Which is fine.'
And which you've done a fair share of.
'Yeah, I've done lots of that.'
It's another film with you using the F-word every second sentence.
'Oh man. God. When I did "All or Nothing" someone counted the fucks in it. My mate did. And I'm only in seven scenes and it went into the 50s. I remember the cast-and-crew screening I took my mum and dad along to. My mum was sitting next to me and as soon as I came out I went "fucking hell", and she just buried her head in her jumper. But she liked it. I owe so much to Mike Leigh. He's made me the actor I am without question.'
The improvisations on 'Vera Drake' are well documented: the family not finding out that Vera is an abortionist until the police come knocking. How hard is it to stay in character?
'You've got to have that discipline not to break it. The thing is when you're in character you don't come out of it until you are instructed. And you're never allowed to talk to the other actors about your character. You only know what your character knows. I cannot describe how it felt when Phil Davis, who was playing my dad, came back and said: "You should sit down, she's been helping young girls." I was in fucking bits, absolute bits. There are loads of amazing methods, exercises that Mike uses, that I could talk all night about. But I'm sure he wouldn't want me to tell anyone about it.'
'Atonement' and 'The Bank Job' were well received in the US and Hollywood loves a Brit. Are you tempted by that?
'Well I've just done "Tintin" with Spielberg, which was great, but I can't really say anything about it. So that was awesome. AWESOME [laughing]. Listen to me. I got an American agent. I don't know what to think about that. I'm sort of in limbo with it all really. You go over and there are all these fantastic English actors in shows. You never know what's going to happen but I think you have to be careful. Because I've got to look at the work that I've done: the films or "Red Riding", or the dramas like "White Girl" or "Consent" that I've done for Channel 4. I'm proud of them.
'We should be proud of what we can achieve in Britain. It's some of the best stuff in the world.'
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Joe Kelly, 64, a Wenatchee fish biologist, found himself banned from Canada because of 40-year-old anti-war arrests — he was one of the Seattle Seven charged with conspiracy in 1970 to damage the Seattle Federal Courthouse.
WENATCHEE — Banned from Canada.
Not quite what you'd expect from a 64-year-old fish biologist based here with the Bureau of Land Management.
But if he happens to be Joe Kelly — indicted anti-war activist better known in 1970 as one of the Seattle Seven — high-tech databases have caught up with his past.
One evening this summer, Kelly says, he was told to turn around at the border, after nearly four decades of being waved through into Canada.
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Nothing personal, but the Canadian government doesn't mess around about turning away people who've been convicted of a crime, even really old crimes.
The Canadian Consulate in Seattle says it doesn't comment on specific cases. It says that if an offense committed outside of Canada would be considered a criminal offense in Canada, then that person is likely inadmissible.
Since 9/11, both the U.S. and Canada have used ever-expanding criminal databases that they share with each other. For Americans crossing into Canada, the databases have snared not only Joe Kelly, but plenty of guys (and it's mostly guys) who got themselves a DUI in their younger days and now are turned back at the border in front of their wives and kids.
In 2008, the Canadians turned back more than 18,000 travelers out of 66 million trying to cross their border by land.
In Kelly's case, it didn't matter that these days, his demonstrations have more to do with PowerPoint than politics.
"What possible harm could I do to Canada?" he asks. "This is my 40-year-old anti-war record. What does it have to do with national security today?"
Ah, those heady Vietnam protest days.
The Seattle Seven had been charged with conspiracy to damage the Federal Courthouse in Seattle in a demonstration, that, ironically, was protesting the trial of the Chicago Seven (protesters accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention).
The Seattle Seven case ended in a mistrial, with the original conspiracy charges never reinstated. After courtroom incidents that news reports said included "screaming, kicking and brawling," Kelly and the others were found in contempt of court.
Kelly ended up serving five months at an Olympic Peninsula prison honor camp.
Earlier in 1970, he had pleaded no contest to misdemeanors stemming from mob action, disorderly conduct and resisting-arrest charges at the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial the previous September. He was sentenced to 90 days work release at the Cook County Jail.
Setting off alarms
The Seattle Seven group also included Jeff Dowd, now better known as the inspiration for "The Dude" in the cult movie "The Big Lebowski."
Dowd lives in Santa Monica, Calif., and is a regular at "Big Lebowski" festivals. He hasn't been previously stopped when traveling to Canada.
Dowd says about setting off alarms at the Canadian border, "If Joe Kelly pops up, my guess is I'd pop up."
He says that sometimes he does go to Canada on film business, maybe to help shoot a movie or representing a movie.
If he's stopped at the border, says Dowd, the people on his team or with whom he's doing business pay a price.
Before his next trip to Canada, Dowd says, "I think I'll call the Canadian Embassy. I've got resources."
Someone like Kelly, he says, doesn't have that kind of movie-industry connection.
Distinct turn
Since those protest days, Kelly's life made a distinct turn to middle class.
He worked in construction, was a lab assistant and stacked lumber at a mill. He eventually put his Cornell University degree in wildlife management to use, and in 1992 was hired by the BLM. He told the agency about his anti-war past, he says, and there were no problems.
Kelly got married in 1976, and he and his wife, Karen, have two grown daughters.
These days, Kelly fits in fine with his Eastern Washington neighbors. He and his wife live on 40 acres, own three horses and a hunting dog.
The dog helps when Kelly hunts with bow and arrow for deer and moose. He uses a shotgun to hunt pheasants. The family home is decorated with mounted heads of his hunting trophies.
"That surprises people. They can't conceive of a liberal redneck with a bow and arrow in his hands," he says. "I grew up in the country and started hunting with my dad when I was a kid. People don't recognize that the conservation movement in this country was started by hunters like Teddy Roosevelt."
For 35 years, Kelly says, he has driven to Canada with his family for camping and the usual tourism stuff, and, after joining the BLM, annually to meet with Canadian fisheries representatives.
But on July 1, Kelly and another biologist were working on a fish project maintaining a windmill that pumps oxygen into a lake.
The job was near Oroville in Northeastern Washington. The biologists decided to drive seven miles north to have dinner at the British Columbia town of Osoyoos.
Kelly showed his Washington state enhanced driver's license, which carries a radio chip that shows his ID and U.S. citizenship, and can take the place of a passport when crossing by land or sea into Canada.
"The immigration officer scans my license and I see that he starts taking notes on a little yellow piece of paper," Kelly remembers.
He says he was told to go inside the office.
"After half an hour, another immigration officer comes, very pleasant, and he has this printout of my prior arrest record. He won't show it to me," says Kelly.
"Then he says that under Rule A36(1)(b), any foreign national with an arrest record can be kept out of Canada."
If Kelly ever does want to visit Canada, he's going to have get "criminal rehabilitation" for his anti-war arrests in the U.S.
That means accounting for his life since age 18, including "a state certificate (or a letter from a police authority) for each state in which you have lived for six consecutive months or longer … "
Kelly's giving it a shot. He filled out the paperwork to get the file the FBI has on him, presuming that was what the Canadian border officer was looking at.
"It's difficult remembering an address where I lived my sophomore year in college," says Kelly. "I've been calling a lot of old friends. Luckily, they remember better than me."
Kelly says he knows there are those who wouldn't find much sympathy for his plight.
"I'm not whining about this, but demanding my rights to travel," he says. "Who else is our government sharing this information with? What about traveling to countries other than Canada?"
Kelly says he's never tried to hide his past. "I'm not ashamed of it. We were right to have opposed the war."
Well, there is one incident, way back on April Fool's Day of 1969 that he's a little ashamed of. And it has nothing to do with the war.
He was 24, and arrested for indecent exposure and vagrancy in Brownsville, Texas, by the Gulf of Mexico. He served two days in jail and paid a $100 fine.
"We were coming back from an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) convention in Austin, and we decided to go skinny dippin' in the ocean on a remote beach," says Kelly. "Somebody must have seen us and called the cops.
"That one I'm maybe a little embarrassed about."
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This arrangement is published in my book, "For All Ages," which is a collection of familiar childhood songs arranged in a variety of styles. I've always enjoyed playing new and different arrangements of familiar songs, and I know that children (and adults) often find it easier and more motivating to learn a new piece on the piano when it's a tune they're familiar with and like. That was one of the reasons I wanted to do the collection of children's songs – everybody knows the melodies already, but the arrangements make them new and unique. A music teacher acquaintance of mine, after hearing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Estrellita," commented that it would make a great teaching piece for students to learn about major and minor keys, and also to introduce them to music of different cultures.


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The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has been operating a secret parole docket and expediting the release of some inmates — including inmates ineligible for early release because they have not fulfilled mandatory sentencing guidelines, Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said Wednesday.
The list of inmates placed on the secret docket by parole board members includes murderers and child molesters, as well as inmates convicted of lesser crimes, records reveal.
Prater said he believes the Pardon and Parole Board's actions violate Oklahoma's Open Meeting Act, and he is considering filing charges against board members.
The parole board issued a prepared response Wednesday, saying "all board meetings are conducted according to the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act in an open, public forum" with required notices posted.
"While the board believes it has both statutory and Constitutional authority to bring offenders up for early consideration, to ensure the board process remains open and transparent, the chairperson will place a moratorium on the early consideration process," the board stated. "In addition, the agency will request an attorney general's opinion regarding the 85 percent law and the authority to place offenders on a docket for early consideration."
The 85 percent law requires inmates convicted of certain offenses to serve 85 percent of their sentences before being considered for release.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Wednesday he has been informed of Prater's allegations.
"These allegations are of great concern because 85 percent crimes are some of the most heinous crimes committed against Oklahomans," Pruitt said. "The Legislature established a clear requirement so that victims and their families can be assured that an offender will serve no less than 85 percent of their sentence.
"Any practice, policy or action taken by any board or commission to mitigate or change the time served is wrong and inconsistent with statute," he said. "I will do everything in my power as attorney general to ensure that victims have confidence in our legal system and that justice is carried out to the fullest extent."
Prater called for action to return some inmates into state custody.
"The effect of the board's illegal actions requires the executive branch to take immediate steps to remediate the damage caused by the board," Prater wrote in a letter this morning to Terry Jenks, executive director of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board. "Immediate steps should be taken to reverse the decisions made subsequent to the board's invalid actions. Obviously, this will include taking inmates who have been released back into custody."
Prater released a list of 50 inmates who he said have been given illegal preferential parole treatment by the board since 2010.
Some, but not all, of those inmates have been released, Prater said.
At least five of the inmates granted early release consideration were sentenced under Oklahoma laws that require them to serve 85 percent of their sentences before being considered for early parole and they had not yet met that requirement, Prater said.
"It appears many other inmates 'passed' by the board to an early parole docket were prohibited from early parole consideration because of other statutory restrictions," he said.
"After careful consideration of all the facts and circumstances in this matter, I have determined that the violations of the Open Meeting Act are willful, conscious and purposeful violations of the law," Prater wrote. "Additionally, I find the Board's actions to be deliberate disregard of Oklahoma's Open Meeting Act. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board's violations in this matter are egregious, aggravated and a clear attempt to operate in secrecy, outside of public scrutiny."
Alex Weintz, Gov. Mary Fallin's communications director, issued a statement Wednesday saying the governor is reviewing Prater's letter and shares his belief that the pardon and parole process should be as open as possible.
The parole board's moratorium was declared at the governor's request, Weintz said.
"To ensure the board is meeting a high standard of transparency and openness, the governor has asked the board to review its practice of posting meeting notifications and to increase the level of information it makes available to the public prior to those meetings," Weintz said.
The Oklahoma governor currently reviews all parole recommendations in the state. To date, Fallin has approved parole for 51 percent of the inmates who have been recommended for parole by the parole board, Weintz said.
Prater's list
The list of inmates Prater alleges were given improper preferential parole consideration includes some who were serving life sentences and at least one who was serving a sentence of life without parole. Among the noteworthy individuals on the list were:
• Ben W. Jones Jr., 58, who served a 57-year sentence out of Oklahoma County for a 1974 first-degree murder conviction and was serving additional time for escape from a penal institution when paroled.
• Jonathan W. Davis, 52, who is serving a life sentence out of Beckham County for first-degree murder. He remains incarcerated.
• Daniel G. Liles, 52, who was sentenced to life in prison for a 1982 south Oklahoma City stabbing death and five more years for damaging the state penitentiary in McAlester during a 1985 prison riot. He was paroled and released in March 2011.
• Pedro Huerta, 43, who was serving time out of Oklahoma and Cleveland counties for lewd acts with a child and lewd molestation. He remains incarcerated.
• Rocky McKinley, 51, who is serving time out of Grady County for lewd or indecent proposals or acts to a child and showing obscene material to a child. He remains incarcerated.
• Jack Logsdon, 66, who is serving a 23-year sentence out of Logan County for swindling Wichita State University baseball coach Gene Stephenson and several prominent Guthrie residents out of more than $900,000 through a series of fraudulent cattle, land and business investments. He remains incarcerated.
Also on the list was Patricia Spottedcrow, whose case prompted cries for sentencing reform after it was publicized that she had received a 12-year sentence for selling $31 of marijuana to a police informant. Fallin agreed to her early release in July, with the stipulation that she complete 120 days at a community-level correctional facility.
Prater said he first became aware that something was amiss on July 19 when he received a call from the family of a man who was killed by Maelene Chambers, of Edmond, in a 2006 drunken-driving accident in northwest Oklahoma City.
Chambers was convicted of first-degree manslaughter on March 4, 2008, and sentenced to 25 years in prison, with the final 15 years suspended.
Prater said the family member of the drunken driving victim had received an automated call from the state's victim information system stating that Chambers was up for parole, but Prater said he knew that shouldn't be happening because Chambers was sentenced under the law that requires her to serve at least 85 percent of her sentence.
Secret docket?
An inquiry revealed that parole board members had been operating a secret parole docket, called a "pre-docket investigation," Prater said. Board members could ask that an inmate be placed on that docket and the inmate would be considered for early release if three board members voted for it, he said.
"Inmates are placed on these dockets notwithstanding statutory prohibitions on their parole consideration due to mandatory minimum sentences," Prater stated.
He said attorneys in his office were unaware of the dockets and were not informed when inmates convicted out of Oklahoma County were placed on those dockets to be considered for early release.
Further investigation revealed that parole board member Richard Dugger had made the request that Chambers be given early parole consideration, Prater said.
Prater said when he called Dugger, Dugger told him "the board had the power to consider anyone they want."
He said Dugger went on to say that Leamon Freeman, a retired Oklahoma County judge, had contacted him and requested that Chambers be considered for early release. Freeman and Dugger were described as law school classmates and friends.
Revelation of the secret parole docket could destroy public confidence in the Pardon and Parole Board at a critical time. Oklahomans are scheduled to vote Nov. 6 on a proposal to remove the governor from the parole process for nonviolent offenders.
Steele's criticism
House Speaker Kris Steele, R-Shawnee, issued a news release Wednesday criticizing the parole board for its hidden actions.
"Our criminal justice system has zero tolerance for even the appearance of playing fast and loose with sentencing laws," Steele said. "For this board especially, anything less than following the absolute letter of the law in the most transparent manner possible is entirely unacceptable. I applaud District Attorney Prater's efforts."
Steele said Prater informed him of the issue last month. Steele said he contacted Dugger to ask that Chambers be removed from the parole docket, because she was ineligible, but was "brushed off by the board."
"I made a reasonable request to Mr. Dugger to simply follow the law, but he declined and said he'd do as he pleased," Steele said.
"The effectiveness of this board requires conscientious actions by board members who are committed to following the letter of the law and acting in the best interest of public safety. Avoiding problems like this is one of the reasons the Legislature has put stricter qualifications on the next round of Pardon and Parole Board members. It is critical that the public has full confidence in the important work done by this board. My hope is that these actions are immediately ceased and remedied so the board can begin a new day."
The five-member Pardon and Parole Board is an independent, constitutional panel. Board members are appointed, three by the governor, one by the chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and one by the presiding judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The board is responsible for making clemency recommendations to the governor concerning convicted adult felons.


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Trolley-dolly soap stretches the bounds of credulity
This is a very odd series. Even the BBC seem to be wondering what on earth they're supposed to be doing with it, since after the Wednesday night airing of these first two episodes Pan Am is moving to Saturday evening, with a Thursday repeat.
Effectively it's a giant posthumous commercial for the glory years of America's most famous airline, rendered as a mixture of tacky corporate promo film and feather-brained soap with patently fake sets. It's 1963, and we zero in on a group of wonderfully glamorous Pan Am hostesses in their figure-hugging blue uniforms as they prepare to fly out of New York on the inaugural flight of the Pan Am Clipper Majestic. I guess it must have been Idlewild airport, since (as all plane-spotting pedants will know) it only became JFK on 24 December, 1963 (Pan Am Boeing 707, pictured below).
When we saw the stewardesses being weighed and checked to make sure they were wearing girdles, you could have been forgiven for thinking they'd invented that bit, but not so. Come Fly With Me, the documentary about the history of Pan Am shown last weekend on BBC Two, confirmed that this blatant size-and-shape-ism was part of the airline's culture. Scenes of Pan Am aircraft rescuing Cubans from Havana after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were also based in historical fact, and the show's developing subplot about the airline allowing itself to be used as a tool of American foreign policy was by no means without factual foundation.
But such politically charged issues have been turned into mere fluffy backdrops for Pan Am's interweaving yarns of romance and family dramas. We meet the Cameron sisters, feisty Kate (Kelli Garner) and pin-up sibling Laura (Margot Robbie), who has made the other girls seethe with jealousy by getting her photograph on the cover of Life magazine, over the headline "Welcome to the Jet Age". The sisters are at daggers drawn with their controlling mom back home in Connecticut, because Laura ran away on her wedding day to sign up with Pan Am, and Kate wholeheartedly encouraged her.
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