28 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday. August 17, 1981 MAY CAUSE SCREAMING Calgary black man joins Ku Klux Klan CALGARY (CP) - Louis Proctor. a 40-year-old black construction worker, says he is joining the Alberta chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. overturning a century-old tradition of the notorious North American racist group. Proctor, a life-long Calgary resident, said in an interview Thursday he was unofficially sworn into the Klan July 31 by its Alberta leader. Tearlach Mac a’ Phearsoin, who says the Klan in Alberta has a sharply different philosophy and is no longer “just a bunch of hooded bigots.” Mac a’ Phearsoin confirmed the swearing-in and said an official ceremony before the Alberta Klan’s 330 members is set for September. Proctor is the first black man to join any Klan chapter on the continent. said Mac a’ Phearsoin. who expects the move to cause “real screaming” among some American Klan leaders. "The younger members in the States are for it. It’s the older ones that are going to be angry." For his part, Proctor said: “I think it will be a great honor to join." He has already assumed the role of a kleagle. or Klan organizer, with the task of getting others to join. "I’m supposed to bring in any member but I’m concentrating on black members.” he said. Mac a’ Phearsoin, who owns the Canadian copyrights to all traditional Klan symbols and names, said his Alberta chapter is already known as probably the most liberal in North America. Since its official incorporation in 1972 — and its re-incorporation last year after the organization died out in the mid-1970s - it has allowed blacks and others to join, but until now none has. Inter-racial marriages, however, are not encouraged because they destroy the “distinctiveness" of each race. The Alberta chapter's main objective is racial purity, which Mac a' Phearsoin has always carefully separated from racial superiority. Dividing lines between the races are needed, he once said, “as long as they’re not carried to an extreme when you have people advocating superiority.... Negroes are not inferior ... neither are whites.” most people need something they can look at and say this is mine.’ ” A stated objective of the Alberta Klan is “to attempt to preserve, by legal means, chiefly through public educational propaganda and mutual fraternity, the traditions and ideals of the ... races.” Both men see the swearing-in ceremony as a symbolic gesture, a new beginning for the white and black races in North America. “We can prove that black and white can live together in peace and harmony — joining forces to wipe out racial hatred," said Proctor. He admits there is bound to be serious opposition from both sides - blacks who see him as a traitor, and racist w hites w ho naturally object to his joining. “I’m worried but. no. I’m not really scared,” he said. 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The change was made also to divert sport fishing pressure from chinook salmon preparing to enter the Columbia River for migration upstream past Bonneville Dam. BOTULISM OUTBREAK More than 4,000 ducks claimed by Canadian Press Orange air boats, propelled by large motor-driven fans, skitter across shallow water as drivers search for submerged bundles of feathers in Oak Hammock Marsh. Suddenly, one boat swerves to a halt. Operator Bill Basiuk, a Ducks Unlimited worker based in nearby Stonewall. Man.. sticks his hand over the side and plucks the corpse of a green-winged teal from the weeds. The tiny duck, its head the size of a quarter, had been dead for days, a victim of an outbreak of botulism which has killed more than 4.000 waterfowl in less than a week. Meanwhile, workers at Saskatchewan’s Eyebrow Lake. 160 kilometres south of Saskatoon, were acting out a similar scene. About 1,800 dead and dying ducks have been found there in the last two w eeks. 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