TORONTO (OP) — Beatle John Lennon likes Canadian winters, and has become an avid snowmobile fan.

Lennon and his wife, Yoko. have been staying at the farm of rock singer Ronnie Hawkins in nearby Mississauga where snow is about a foot deep.

Lennon and his host spent part of Friday snowmobiling, and Hawkins challenging the Beatle to a midnight race.

Lennon and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan were to tape a television show here today to be shown in the United States on CBS Christmas Day.

A great fan of Mr. McLuhan, Lennon said he is looking forward to meeting him.

Lennon also will appear hve on the CBC show Weekend tonight following the Hockey Night in Canada telecast.

LONDON (Reuters) — Beatle John Lennon has been nominated Clown of The Year by the mass-circulation Daily Mirror.

Donald Zee, the paper’s most popular columnist, said: “It is not what goes on in the mind, rather what comes out of the mouth, that sets Mr. Lennon apart from his fellow human beings.

“And out of that particular mouth this year has emerged the most sustained twaddle and tosh since Zsa Zsa Gabor gave way to Cassius Clay.

“Displaying about as much subtlety as an unscheduled roof collapse, I„ennon has expressed himself on God, Christ, love, peace, marriage, royalty, bag-ism, bed-ism—even the inoffensive little acorn.”

The Mirror says: “Mr. Lennon’s cry is ‘Peace.’

“How about giving us some, chum?”

Beatle John Lennon has been nominated Clown of The Year by the mass-circulation Daily Mirror.

Donald Zee, the paper’s most popular columnist, said: “It is not what goes on in the mind, rather what comes out of the mouth that sets Mr. Lennon apart from his fellow human beings.

“And out of that particular mouth this year has emerged the most sustained twaddle and tosh since Zsa Zsa Gabor gave way to Cassius Clay.”

TORONTO (CP) — John Len. non and his wife Yoko Ono, planning a peace festival at Mosport Park, northeast of here, in July, plan to ask his fellow Beatles and “everyone who’s a^vone” to entertain.

Lennon and Ono arrived here Tuesday night for a week.long stay, and held a news confer, ence Wednesday.

Lennon said he feels about peace the way he felt about the Beatles’ a few years ago. “We’re not going to give up because some other people failed.”

“John and Yoko refuse to become the leader of the youth movement for peace. We’re just saying this is our flag, it’s a white flag, is anybody else in the game?” he said.

He said advertising is the key to a successful peace campaign — “sell, sell, sell.”

In the July peace festival, per formers and promoters will be paid—“otherwise it would be just another charity thing.” Lennon envisages a peace fund and perhaps a travelling peace festival.

“We can take it to the Rus. sians . . . round the world and try and communicate with all people.”

He hopes Beatles George Har. rison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney will come to Mos. port, a park 30 miles from Toronto noted for Grand Prlx car racing.

“. . . . If I can Elvis Presley, I’l try.”

He and Yoko have arranged to distribute Christmas posters reading “War Is Over! If you want it. Merry Christmas from John and Yoko,’* in 11 world cities.

They like Canada because:

“. . . .We like your not fight, ing, you’ve pulled out of NATO and all the things you do seem like good things. . . .”

Asked If he would like to meet Prime Minister Trudeau, Len. non said:

**We don’t want to hustle him, you know’, and pressure him. If it’s possible to talk we’d enjoy it.”

The Lennons are staying at the nearby Mississauga farm ol rock singer Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins.

TORONTO (CP) — Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono arrived at Toronto International Airport from London Tuesday for a one-week visit to launch a Christmas crusade for peace.

Much to the dismay of some

1,000 placard-waving fans whe had gathered to greet the pop singer, Lennon left quietly through a back door and was whisked away to a secret hideout.

In a statement he said:

“It’s great to be back in Canada again and we expect to stay for a week.”

He said he would hold a news conference today.

Lennon and his wife travelled under the pseudonym of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, but made little effort to hide their identity during the flight.

The Beatle told reporters he was sending the bill for his latest world peace gesture—the printing of thousands of Christmas posters reading “War Is Over, If You Want It”—to United States President Richard Nixon.

These posters now are put up in 11 cities around the world, he said.

“They cost less than the life of one man and I am sending the bill for printing to President Richard Nixon.”

Lennon, who twice visited Canada earlier this year, said in London last Sunday he decided to return to Canada because it was the best place to “talk to the press about peace.”

LONDON (AP) — Beatle John Lennon said here he plans to put up signs and billboards around the world with Christmas greetings and pleas for peace.

The pop musician said billboards would be erected in 11 cities saying: “War is Over. If You Want It. Happy Christmas from John and Yoko.”

Yoko is Lennon’s Japanese wife, who sings in Lennon’s Plastic Ono band and has appeared in the Beatle’s peace campaigns in a bed—in Toronto Montreal and Holland and inside a sack in London.

Lennon said the Christmas anti-war message would be displayed in London, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Tokyo.

TORONTO (CP) — Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, are expected to arrive here this week to launch a Christmas crusade for peace.

John Brower, 23, one of a Toronto group that is organizing the visit, said Sunday he visited the Lennons last week at their home near London and the couple had decided Canada was the best place to “talk to the press about peace.”

He said Lennon was impressed during his two earlier visits to Canada this year by “the sensible political attitudes that prevail here.”

Brower said Prime Minister Trudeau “has given us a tremendous international image with thinking people, young and old.”

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Purveyor of peace John Lennon has a special attachment to Montreal, it seems. Last May he and wife Yoke Ono spent five days in a bed at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel dramatizing their quest for worldwide peace.

Now, in what appears to be total assault. Lennon is planning a universal campaign: on Monday, strange things will be happening in major cities around the world — and Montreal is included.

Exactly what will happen is still not clear. It is reported that it will involve a “visual” display for peace, but that’s all. With Lennon’s longstanding capacity to grab headlines, however, we’re all sure to know about it come Monday

So, John Lennon of the Beatles has returned his OBE insignia to Her Majesty the Queen as a protest against the support Great Britain gives to the United States in its war in Vietnam.

It shows that the great majority of the population of Britain was right. It objected strenuously when the four youngsters were awarded this distinction for caterwauling better and louder than all the other similar groups, thereby contributing substantially to the exchequer of the country by paying taxes on the millions a gullible public poured into their laps.

The order was discredited soon after its creation through being broadcast on the recommendations of political pundits as a reward for their friends and associates.

It was given various interpretations, the OBE being translated as the “Order Bestowed on Everybody” and other more plebian and ribald descriptions.

Many people who were awarded this famous Order of the British Empire accepted it half-heartedly out of respect to the Queen who merely proved to be the instrument and the victim of the politicians in this caper.

They resented being lumped in with many people who were granted this order without really valid reasons.

Many have wondered if some officials with a sense of humor, or worse, deliberately imposed their choice of recipients: The Beatles.

It certainly looks like it.

LONDON (AP) – Beatle John Lennon won’t be portraying Jesus in St. Paul’s Cathedral after all because Lennon’s personality might shove Christ into the background, a record company announced Thursday. The long-haired Beatle had been considered for the lead in a pop musical called Jesus Christ in the cathedral next spring. But the writers of the show and the recording company said they are convinced a relative unknown should be the star. Lennon was barely involved in the issue. But he was quoted as saying he would be interested in the part as long as his wife. Yoko Ono, could take the role of Mary Magdalene.