-J _______________________________________________ I I CIRCLE TAXI 128 BROCK ST. N. WHITBYI ONT. 24 HRS. -REE PRE ss Vol. 4, No. 21- Cafi Norm Caflk shares a smile arena election night. wth his wife while onlookers- Free Press Photo cowd the stage at the Ajax. Alaux Arenac. Packed W'ith Caif 1k Troups Even as you approached the Arena in Ajax Monday night one could sens e the victory in the offing by the music and the laughter cmn- manating out 10 the parking lot. Once inside the auditor- ium-like room ope could'on- ly -be amazed at the number of people jammed mbt too small a space. Beer was lw ing freely at a pay-bar and a youthful -band was whipp- ing the audience into a celc- bration mood. -Around, the outer fringes of the room small -portable TV sets* had been placed for those who were interest- cd in the actual statisties of the election. Nowhere to be seen was Norm Cafik. Finally, at about 10:30 p.m. a man on the stage grabbed the microphone and said, "ladies and gentlemen, the man you ve ail been wait- ing for has finally arrived!" The man to whom h-e was referring hardly needed an introduction but almost did need protection from the surging crowd which at times elmost enveloped him from view and the flash of news camneras. After numerous attempts Cafik finally made it onto the stage and, after looking around the audience he glan- ced at the giant tally board behind him and said, "I have the, vague -impression that we'ive won the election." mius conjecture ai this point (l 1 p.mn.) was quite correct beýause thé Liberals seemed to be winning more and -more seats with every new report on returns. Cafik explained his nervousness, "l've been nervous about this election because of the 4 vote margin last election and 1 had hoped to double that margin this ycar." The crowd needed no explanatioru. that Cafik had more than doubled thé margin of votes between' himself and his nearest *rival. In summing up his victory which he feit was assured, Cafik searched for the right thing to say and finally ad- mitted, "I just don't know, wha t the hell to, say! " SAfter -a moment's pause for composure Cafik started off what almost sounded like a speech after 'receiving an Emmy as he thanked the countless unsung heroes who made his élection possible. and then, in turn, thanked the people out in 'the field', many of whorn he had flot even met, and those dloser to him including his camnpaign manager. As the evening wore on and more reports came in Cafik glanced at the board revealing even more seats won by the Liberals aund he said t0 his audience, ^"you're going to have the' kind of government that we've al hoped to have." The crowd cheered as thcy instinctively 10 CENTS WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 Oth,- 1974 Knew he mneant an overwhel- rningly Liberal governncnt. There wvas litile talk thro- ugh the crowd of the tèw issues that were kicked about before the election. Few people i-ctn îionied rising in- flation nor wvas there mnuch talk abouit wage and p)rice controls to combat it. The television monitors were wat- ched alnîost regularly by some and oee was hecard to remnark, as lie assessed the national re turnis. ,u N.D.P. ýare tiinishied!"' Over in Osh- a'a lio)\ever, Ed Broadbent woLild proliallv have hiad nîtich te sav abou itii at staterneuit. \Vhile the band blared neisily ai one end of the huge rooem. veilI wshers ,and canpaign supporters thiron- (,Cd arounld Nerm ('afik at the other end of' thc rooem as lie stood on the large stage in front of' two hauîid-pinîied portraits of hirnself. Irish jigs followed acid rock and both blended with a capacity crowd, jostled and hot but seemin gly uncarî*ng in their anxiety to wish Cafik congratulations and -to liead for another roomn to dcvour two long tables of' food sup-, plied for îlîem. Opinions flowed freely th rough the crowd as to what was happening to the Progre- ssive Conservatives, the N.D. P. and, - would we finally have a majority government - as the crowd cheered with new reports of returns one person was conspicîous by hier absence and lier defeat and that was Joyce Bower- man, the Progressive Conserv- ative candidate who camp- aigned al the way from main streets toGo-Railwaystations. But, in every election somebody wins and some- body loses. -In Ajax arena on election nighît th'e winners Ed Broadbent smiles jov- ai the U.A.W. Hall. Partly his wife Lucille. ially as he is piped into his hiddcn behind the bagpipes, -Fc rs ht victory party Monday nighît on Mr. Broadbent's riglît, rePrs ht certainly made their presence known and there was victory for the Liberals, locally and nationally. Ed Leci The rest election nu a surprisc ally we're were before Ed J3rm Dem, ocralic in Oshawa-ý re-elec ted plurality e thousand him from Liberal Mar Mr. Brc. whopping 2 came next Progressive Martin Weý 463, Comrr with I 26,ai Dennis Dev, The loti turnout of ed 71.2%1 Mr. Bi whelîning v by the ne leader Dav in his hon South in1 lost by son Broadbent Wins ider Lewis Loses Liberal Ursula Appolloni.' ýults of the federal Mr. Lewis had dcfeated hesr ationally came as husband in the last election to ma-ny. but loe- in 1972. the saine as wc In Ontario riding Liberal C'. incumbent Norrn Cafik was adbenit, the New re-elected -with 20,109 votes cParty incumbent winning 185 of the 238 poils. Whitby riding, was Progress ive Conservative Joy- with his largest ce Bowerman amassed 1 5, ever - over ten 551 votes and New Demo- votes separating cratie Party candidate Bill his nearest rival, Lishman trailed with 6,725 ,rgaret Shaw. winning only one poil. 'adbent amassed a Na tionally the picture 25,112 votes, Shaw changed dramatically as the with 14,839, then Liberals swept the country Cosraie winning at least 140 of the atheraîl with i11, 264 seats surpassing the 133 nunist Russell Rak necessary for a majority gov- rdMarxist-Leninist erniment. No sittîng Liberals veau with 62. were defeated in Eastern ai Oshawa-Whitby Canada, and the only Liberal 51,602 represent. cabinet minister to suffer of the clectorate. defeat was Environmcnît Min- roadbcnt's over- ister Jack Davis in British victory was marred Columbia who lost 10 a Tory. ýws of the N.D.P. At time of writing the vid Lewis' defeat figures shaped Up this way: ne riding of York Liberais 140;P.C.'s 96; N.D.P. T'oronto where he 15; Socreds 12; and one ne, 2,000 votes to independant. ,Broad.be.nt CleaUp TO ADVERTISE IN'VOUR WHITBY NEWSPAPER CAL L 668,-6111