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TACKLE TORIES 127th Year No. 10 Wednesday, March 11, 1981 Waterloo, Ontario 15 Cents By Philip Jalsevac The Kâ€"W Status of Women Group is complaining that Conservaâ€" tive candidates are skirting social issues in the provincial elecâ€" tion campaign, but is using campaign workers for Waterloo North NDP candidate Bob Needham to get their message across to the press. Alida Burrett and Mayling Stubbs are chairwoman and viceâ€" chairwoman respectiveâ€" ly of the status of NDP workers wear two hats Three members of the political science deâ€" partment at Wilfrid Laurier University will discu§s election issues Mar. 16 on Grand River Cablecast channel 4. He added that all three participants are acâ€" tive in teaching and in research in the field of politics, both provincially and in the larger national and international fields. . The program will be aired on March 16 at 9 p.m. It will be a live phoneâ€"in program to give viewers an opportunity to get their quesâ€" tions answered. Moderator for the program will be Laurier‘s director of special events, Richard K. Taylor. who said the program will provide viewers with a look at the issues from a nonâ€" party point of view. ‘‘The public will be inundated with lots of rhetoric from the politicians in the daysâ€"leadâ€" ing up to March 19,"" Taylor said. ‘‘We thought there would be benefit in discussing the issues from a different perspective." Participants are Professors John Redekop. Rod Preece and Barry Kay Professors to address the issues THIS WEEK INSIDE A Kraus ’ gives her The pair visited the Chronicle newsroom women group. They also both work in the Needâ€" ham campaign. SEE PAGE â€" 12 Burrett demanded the release be returned but was denied and then said that identifying her and Stubbs as campaign workers in the article would be "totally unfair and would misrepresent our (women‘s) group. yesterday to deliver a news release on behalf of the women‘s orâ€" ganization, without idenâ€" tifying themselves as campaign workers for the NDP candidate. ‘"‘They (the women) had the same experience with federal Progresâ€" sive, Conservative canâ€" didates in 1978," the reâ€" lease says. When the Chronicle confirmed that the spoâ€" kesmen for the women‘s group were also NDJ campaign workers and told them this informaâ€" tion would probably be used in the article about their complaints. the women objected. The release says the group ‘‘wants to know why they are having difâ€" ficulty getting represenâ€" tation from the party in power‘‘ at a threeâ€"ridâ€" ing. all candidates‘ meeting set for this Monday. for students SEE PAGE â€" 3 looking out ‘1 (Continued on page 3) To facilitate the blind voter, a small notch has been cut into the top edge at the upper rightâ€"hand corner of the ballot which will enable a blind A series of notches on ballots to be used in the Mar. 19 Ontario provincial election will make it easier for qualified voters who are blind to cast their ballots without special assistance. A white circle to the :’I‘ghl of the candidate‘s name and along the edge of the ballot. is reserved for the voter to mark his or her choice Ballots used in Ontario elections are printed in bl:ck with each candidate‘s name appearing in white. It was a big day for Conrad Allendort (centre) when he celebrated his 99th birthday Feb. 27 and had Liberal MPP Herb Epp present a plaque from premier Bill Davis to mark the occasion. Mr. Allendort is pictured with his wife, Lucinda, whom he married on Christmas Day, 1922. She will be 92 on June 28. About 45 friends and neighbours joined to celebrate the birthday of the lifeâ€"long Waterioo resident and member of St. John‘s Lutheran Church at the church. Mr. Allendort is a former employee of McBrines where he worked until his retirement (more or less) at age 73. Blind have own ballots â€" _A BIG DA Y voter to properly align the ballot face up with the circles on the right. With candidates‘ names printed aiphabetically and numbered. the blind voter may have a friend or poll official read all the names in order as they appear on the ballot Those blind voters who require other assistance may apply to the Deputy Returning Officer in the polling place. The De&l:ly Returning Officer. in accordance with the Ontario Election Act, may also assist the voter to mark the ballot A notch has also been cut beside each white circle down the right side of all ballots.