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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA; SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1968 2 Settions (A & B)

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three other pilots are always on call a
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— Pisa by Cheryl Colderineni

Fire pilots always
| ready for action

“It's very important that follow-up action is
made,” Perchie adds.

The air tankers are often mistakenly called
water bombers.

Horton explains that in Ontario, water bombers

- Historical film
hits roadbloc

By RON NORMAN 4

Plane for $5.2 million feature film
the Douk

Koteheff left the project earlier this

year after he “decided that he just

didn’t want to dea! with the bureav-
of gov

Dispossessed,
able to start until

STARK
“y. ground toa halt”

Stark wrote. “Both private financing,
from parties in B.C. and federal j
monies are being held in abeyance
until a decision is reached by B.C.
Film.”

. lis:
Stark's letter apparently worked,
because B.C. Film spokesman Maria
Falcone told the Castlegar News
Stark's application would be dis-
month. cussed Friday.
Stark wrote « letter to Premier Falcone, senior projects manager,
Bill"Vander Zalm earlier this week pointed out that Stark’s application is_rj
asking him to Intervene. not for funds for film production, but
“An application-has been in the only for development.
But Stark, a native of Rossland
said the $10,000 is “of the utmost
importance” because he has already
up production in various ways,” sold his house and sunk $50,000 into $500,000.

USCC criticizes movie

By CasNowa Staff Forks that the Doukhobor com:
A $5.2-million motion picture munity initially welcomed the
about the history of the Douk film project when it was an-
hebors has come under fire from
tion representing
5,000 to 7,000 Orthodox Douk-
hobors.
The Union of Spiritual Com sevvltied series fs «

“fictional arbitrarily tak

ing place‘in 1981." Popoff ssid

the story borrows heavily from

the Sons of Freedom history.

The Freedomites are a splinter
, group and have used fire as a
: means of “ Vy

Popoff accused Stark of
changing the script to make it “a
saleable commodity.”

Stark has said that some
events have been fictionalized to
make the story more dramatic.
As .well, he said the original
script spanned too great a time