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TORONTO â€"â€" Several days ago. the giants of Canadian literary criticism squeezed themselves into a mid- nineteenth century salon on a Toronto sidestreet to meet Charles P. Stacey, the hottest historian in Canadian history. The occasion was the launching of Col. Stacey‘s latest book, A Very Double Life: The Private RICHMOND HILLâ€" Public tours of York Central HOSpital Saturday will be a highlight of Hospital Week in southern York region. T6 begin, the week, Mayé to 14, the hospital will offer tours of the building from 1 to 3:30~p.m.__ _ A Costly Business â€" But Still Your Best Value is the theme selected for Canada‘s Hospital Day May 12. and as a preview York Central is having open house Saturday, Parents are asked, however. not to take children under five. Slides and diSplays of various hospital equipment can be seen in the lecture hall. r fiealth care is expensive. points out York Cen- tral’s executive director James Hepburn. and it is a Hospital Open house includes public tour Historian tells of flesh-an dâ€"b/ood PM On sale May 5th to 8th 0 While Quantities Last 0 We reserve the right to limit Quantities World of Mackenzie King, published by Macmillan of Canada. The scene was sur- prisingly subdued as critics from Toronto dailies and national magazines questioned the puckish 69-year-old professor who has made history in his own field by revealing the bizarre and somewhat pathetic private life of an (until now) eminent if rather To earlier accusations of “smearing” and “blackening” the image of Canada‘s longest serving prime minister, Stacey replied his goal was “to set out the real man." boring scion of Canadian respectability. “I wasn‘t trying to damage him. I wasn‘t trying to improve him. Essentially, I was doing a concern of both the people in the community and the hospitals. The ever pressing demand for hospital services, the medical advancement in technology and complex methods of treating various diseases and conditions and the cost of inflation are the backdrop for the theme. A Costly Business. The other part of the theme. But Still Your Best Value, refers to restoration of the best possible level of health to those who are ill so they may be productive members of the community. » During open house hours. there will be free parking in the north and east lots at the hospital. [st 0 We reserve the righi to limit Quantities » m'é2.u”%'.afla?§§'g" 5m” K mart Price ASSORTED CASUAL STYLE HANDBAGS K mart Price Bag 3 buy lhal‘ll swung you through Sprung and Into Summer m style and value' 6 styles all With removable shoulder straps While or Tan wulh contrasnng mm Wupe clean vmyl maternal lhr( Sur 6 SI shc 7 PIECE WOODEN SALAD SETS Set includes toss bowl, 4 in- dividual bowls and serving tork and spoon. Square and job of reporting.“ he said. Those “reports” have rocked the country. z scalloped styles Their contents are drawn exclusively from King’s diary which spans his famous lifetime from undergraduate to death- bed. Instead of pandering to the unimaginative narrowness of fellow historians who have long guarded their readers 114s? K mart Price 3 PIECE METAL CANISTEB SETS 3 piece metal canister 59! With snug fitting chrqme_l|ds to keep'wnténls (resher, longer! Gold, Avocado or While. from anything that might suggest humanity in their national leaders, Stacey extracted 256 pages worth of King‘s sexual appetites. his subculture haunts, his dotty dependency on the occult. and his pathetic lack of self-confidence. Stacey stumbled across his best-seller four years ago in the course of researching material for a study of Canadian military policy in the Second World War. The diary had been sitting for some time. possibly four years, open to all interested eyes in the Public Archives in Ottawa. (It is significant that King’s official biographer, Dr. Blair Neatby, has not seen fit to use the spice from the diary in his arid com- pilation of facts about King.) He didn't find too many references to military policy in the diary, “but “I went back to 1919 and 1921 when Mr. King was Liberal party leader and Prime Minister.” said Stacey. 44s:1 K mart Price . mart Price K mart Price lots about King relations with women Intrigued. Stacey went further back to King's undergraduate days in the 1890‘s and his life in the Toronto “un- derworld . . . and sub- culture." The setting for the book-launching couldn‘t have been more ap- propriate. The press teetered on 100-year old chairs in the salon of “From then on . I was hooked," twinkled Stacey, “Technically speaking. of course.“ Mackenzie House. home of Mackenzie King‘s famous grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie. It is just possible that King had visited the house many years earlier during his nocturnal haunts in the Toronto underworld. MISSES’ ‘7 FULL LENGTH DUSTERS 50% Polyester. 50% Cot- ton dusters have 3'4 length sleeves and button lront. Self lie tunnel belt While wnh floral design. Small, Medium. Large. RICHMOND HILL â€" Floyd Perkins will be the program feature at Rich- mond Hill Senior Citizens Club 35 meeting at 2:30 pm. Wednesday of next Slide program for seniors An unnamed Toronto benefactor, interested in retrieving the Bond Street historical site from the clutches of bosomy prostitutes who inhabited it in the mid-19305, drove the then Prime Minister Mackenzie King past the building, pausing to point out the merits of its historic value. Stacey's credentials are impeccable, with a distinguished 45-year career as historian, professor and author of six earlier military works, one of which won the Governor General’s Award in 1948. “Look,” exclaimed an excited King, waving toward the second-storey windows at beckoning beauties, “They know About his brave departure into the “other” side of a public week at the club rooms 10149 Yonge Street. Perkins will show pictures of Hawaii, Tahiti. New Zealand and Australia. figure's life. Stacey said simply: “Taste has changed. Twenty years ago I can‘t imagine myself having written a book like this. “What goes on in Ottawa isn‘t all politics. I think I‘ve been able to THE LIBERAL, Wednesday, May 5. 1976 â€" C-9 Get 4% on your regular savings. Pay no service charge on cheques if minimum balance of $|,000 is main- tained (and even if this balance is not maintained) you‘get l2 free cheques per quarter and pay only 10 cents for each cheque over the 12. Compare this with your average "savings account” paying only 3% and costing you a service charge of 20 cents for every cheque. Special Savings (non chequing) accounts pay 8% per annum calculated on minimum monthly balance. WCTORIA and GREY Funds deposited prior to May 15th and left on deposit earn full interest for all of May. Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation V1 L11 Ulllfl and TRUST COMPANY Earn more on your savings A Public Meeting will be held in the Walter Scott Public School on Monday, May 10th, 1976 at 8:00 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to hear com- ments from and answer questions of the public. RICHVALE LIONS MAJORETTE CORPS AT LIONS HALL FAMILY RATES, 3 - OR MORE Small deposit required with registration THERE WILL BE ANOTHER REGISTRATION IN LATE AUGUST. 10355 Yonge St., Richmond Hill laira’ Ruby, Manager 884-1 107 |¢ofl¢uctn PUBLIC MEETING WARD 3 Early Registration FOR 1976-77 31 Spruce St., Richvale DATE SATURDAY MAY 8th Hours: AGES 4 YRS < UP Time 10:00 am. - 12:00 noon ’VOfie Serving Ontario since 7889 TUE5., WED., THURS. 9.3010 430 FRIDAY 9.30 lo 6.30 SATURDAY 9 to 12 NOON . Understatement is one of Stacey's obvious literary talents. “I believe this book makes a contribution â€" even if modest â€" to Canadian history." demonstrate that," he said, and added firmly: TOWN OF RICHMOND HILL H. David Schiller, Mayor