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The Time Is Now The Choice Is Jelinek Landslide Support For A PC Riding The largest nomination convention in the history of Halton gave Otto a first ballot victory in his bid to represent the Progressive Conservatives in the next general election Despite a driving rain an estimated 2 500 Tones parked as far as ten blocks away to attend the meeting They crowded the main gymnasium of Blakelock High School the two level cafeteria a smaller gymnasium and three classrooms Otto Jelinek defeated Arthur Floss and Lett to win the nomination after a vigorous fight for votes Election officers handed out 2119 ballots for the election end 2106 ballots were cast Three weeks before the nomination meeting membership in the Halton P C Association had grown from less than members to more than 3500 and association executives began looking for a bigger hall to hold the meeting We found that there wasn t a big enough building in the riding to hold all the Tones President Dorothy Chamberlain told the packed high school The fight for the Conservative nomination was more ike an election campaign Two of the candidates Otto and Tris Lett had downtown Oakville store front offices with squads of volunteers phoning members Each candidate had signs and other paraphernalia at the nomination meeting and buttons hats and shirts were worn to support favorite candidates Despite stiff competition candidates and their workers have remained good friends dedicated to electing a Progressive Conservative member for Halton Key members of the Lett and Ross organizations have already joined the Otto Jelinek election campaign and both unsuccessful candidates have offered their personal help in winning the riding Otto s fighting speech to the nomination convention drew rounds of applause and standing ovations even in the side rooms served by circuit television Here are some excerpts from that speech We have one common goal defeat Trudeau and bring Conser government to Ottawa What The Others Say A RADICAL Says Bill Walker A QUOTE FROM HIS NOMINATION SPEECH OF APRIL Otto hos boon called a radical My dictionary do linos a radical as one favouring basic changes in the social or economic structure IF wishing to change social and economic structure thai has boon forced on Canada by tho Liberals makos Otto radical then ho is happy to plead guilty to charge However Oito dons not wish as much for a change as ho does a roturn to tho social and economic structure that originally made country one of tho most en viable and most desirable places in the world in which to live NOT INTIMIDATED The Right Hon John Former Prim Minister Canada Otto has continued to amaze me with his depth of understanding of the ma I or issues lacing tho people of Canada today Even while in his first months as a of Parliament ho was not intimidated by tho moro and spoke out on many issues often catching the government by surprise PLEASANT SURPRISE Hon Robert Stanfteld Former of tha Progressive Conservative Party Otto has bean one of the most pleasant surprises lor our party and has boon en active in House of Commons WON ADMIRATION Under the mismanagement of Pierre Trudeau the fabric of our country has been ripped and shredded We suffer from galloping inflation a shrinking dollar sagging productivity over 1 000 000 unemployed a gigantic national debt indexed pensions The economy is the number one issue for all Canadians with the possi ble exception of the Prime Minister and unless his socialistic philosophies are reversed at once our country will go on crashing down the trail to self destruction We can no longer allow govern to punish success Let s free enterprise Creightofi Publisher Toronto Sun In year time that Otto Jelinek has represented people of High Park Humber Valley ho has won the admiration of friend and foe alike both in tho riding and In Wo men like Otto in Ottawa is fortunate to have a can dido to like Otto Jelinek INFLATION HAS BEEN CAUSED BY iMPANT GOVERN MENT SPENDING in TEN YEARS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPEND LEAPED FROM BILLION A YEAR TO BILLION A YEAR