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But some remote commun ities would be left without any no-charge American pro- grams if the proposal goes through as is. The report, presented to the task force last month, also revives the proposal for a second CBC channel, an idea that was turned down in the past by the CRTC as being too costly and lacking adequate audience on cable. Con: ng of mainly drama, arts and entertain- ment, with some regional programming, the proposed CBC-2 would also be avail- able on basic cable, normally channels 2-13. In addition, the CBC is CBC plan would shoot down J.R. and U.S. TV proposing that it joim with private money to create a so-called superstation that would beam a combination of CBC and other Canadian made programs to the United States. The superstation would send its signal to a satellite and back déwn to U.S. cable markets, bringing Canadian shows and com mercials in free of charge to American cable viewers. A location suggested for the superstation is the cur. rent CBC outlet in Windsor, Ont., right across the river from Detroit, Mich. The second network and the superstation form part of what the network calls a “multi-channel” strategy that also includes support for a children’s channel, greater participation in The Sports Network and the creation of a separate news channel. The report also recom. mends: The showing of 10 hours of prime time Canadian drama every week on the CBC TV network. ‘e Continued financial sup- port for the federal agency Telefilm Canada, which over- sees a fund supporting in- dent TV i Burns celebrates 90th LOS ANGELES (AP) — He strides through the polished glass doors of the Hillerest Country Club like a man in a hurry. Only the slight slump in the shoulders gives any indication that George Burns is 90 years old. The comedian has been coming to lunch at Hillerest, the centre of the Los Angeles-Hollywood Jewish power strueture and site of the famous Comedians’ Round Table, for 52 years. His routine is ritualistic: a Spartan meal followed by two hours of bridge in the card room. “Pll have a cup of soup, piping hot — reach down to the bottom of the kettle,” he tells the waiter. “Also a bagel, sliced three times and toasted.” His daily Bloody Mary is @#teady on the table. He delivers a few one-liners about his 90th birthday, Jan. 20. He'll celebrate by doing what he likes best: putting on a show. No one, not even Liberace, is more gaga about show business than George Burns. ‘The show is George Burns’ 90th Birthday ... A Very Special Special, appearing on CBS-TV on Jan. 17. Joining him will be such pals as Ann-Margret, Walter Matthau, Billy Crystal, John Forsythe and Diahann Carroll, plus cameo appearances by Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra. At lunch, Burns reminisced about his joyous career, sometimes with surprising seriousness. There were frequent mentions of the late Gracie Allen, his partner and wife for 38 years. CREDITS GRACIE “The reason I'm doing well is the fact I had Gracie,” he said. “A lot of Gracie rubbed off on me. \ “Gracie didn’t tell the joke to the audienve. She explained the joke to me, like I was stupid, not her. “Gracie thought she was very smart on the stage,” he continued. “The whole world thought that she was dumb, but not Gracie. She was not a comedian; she was an actress playing the part of that girl. When I met Gracie, she was a dramatic, Irish actress. She had great natural timing.” Part of the Burns legend is that he was # failure before teaming with Gracie Allen. “True,” he said. “I was a flop in show business, but I enjoyed what I was doing. | thought I was a very successful flop. “I never thought I wasn't doing well, I felt sorry for the audiences when they didn't get what I was doing. I loved everything about vaudeville — the packing, the getting on trains, the boarding houses. I even enjoyed being cancelled.” For 35 years George Burns and Gracie Allen were ® hit in vaudeville, radio, movies and television. In that time, they adopted two children. Sandra, 51, teaches school in San Diego. Ronnie, 50, who appeared on his parents’ TV show in the 1950s, sells boats in the Los Angeles area. In 1958, Gracie, who had never shared her husband's love of entertaining, announced she was retiring “When Gracie left the act, I had to go into show business. I was retired when I worked with Gracie. All I said was, ‘How's your brother?Then she quit and I had to go out alone .. . “When Gracie died (in 1964), what could I do?¥ou're sad, you ery. You ean only ery so long. Then all of a sudden I got an idea. We used to sleep in twin beds. I started sleeping in Gracie’s bed, and that helped # lot Who was the greatest comedian? Burns answered immediately Charlie Chaplin. He had this to say about age: “When I was 78 and started with Irving (Fein, who had been Jack Benny's manager), he said, ‘Don't tell your age.’“I don't believe that. Jack Benny said he was 39 and stingy while he was 80 and generous — that was his thing. “] always believed in being my age and saying things that-fit_ my mouth. I lie, but I tell the truth.” Finally; he spoke of dying: “I'm booked into the Palladium for two weeks when I'm 100. I couldn't afford to die. I'd lose a fortune.” pr e A five-year plan for HAPPY ADS Use HAPPY ADS to extend bir end you can also use 0 photo i you wish. For details, call Disploy Advertising ot 365° 5210 or drop in at the Castlegar News office ot 197 Columbia Avenve. for CBC to give the network protection from sud- den budget cuts initiated by Parliament. MICHAEL HEARD is 50 On Monday! Ha! Ha! Ha! 4 WESTAR & COMINCO P.M. Reservations for Private Parties — 365-3294 Located | mile south of weigh scales in Ootischenio LICENCED DINING ROOM . Daily VOUCHERS ACCEPTED. Display of Drawings “About Faces FROM JANUARY 10 TO FEBRUARY 6 " In the Cedar Room, Homestead Soup & Sandwich Shoppe STUDENTS LOCAL ACTOR TO RETURN IN POLITICAL PLAY “1 vowed I'd never do shoe string theatre again,” said Meredith Bain Woodward. But the Kootenay actor who now works in Hollywood movies and Vancouver and Calgary theatre productions is preparing to tour the small towns of B.C. again in a hard hitting Headlines Theatre production about the Bennett government. Headlines is the same company that brought Under The Gun, A Disarming Review to the Kootenays several years ago. Bain Woodward starts rehearsals Jan. 13 in Vancouver for The Enemy Within by playwright David Diamond. She plays Bill Bennett's cleaning woman, Claire, who adores the premier, believes in his philosophy of “restraint” and “downsizing,” but then loses her own job. Actor C. Holt Davidson stars as Bennett, as a welfare worker, and an unemployed small businessman selling Expo souvenirs. The play begins a tour of 29 one-night stands throughout B.C. Jan. 30, and ends with a Lower Mainland stint running March 8-22. The show appears Feb. 27 in Nelson, Feb. 28 at the Stanley Humphries Secondary School in Castlegar, March 1 at Winlaw Hall, March 2 in Trail and March 4 in Grand Forks. Bain Woodward, a founder of Theatre Energy, most recently appeared in Visiting Hours at the Performing Arts Centre in Calgary, worked with Colleen Dewhurst in the feature film The Boy Who Could Fly, and along with her daughter Amber, appears in the ABC-TV Sunday Night Movie, The Story of Linn Yann on Feb. 2 But Bain Woodward said she jumped at the chance to return to grass roots theatre. “[m doing The Enemy Within because of the gc onenenat MEREDITH BAIN WOODWARD . . Standing up to government By MARK LISAC aren (CP) — Directorships and other a intments are making retirement a former Alberta premier Peter bye Baad a Lougheed was officially replaced last Nov. 1 after 14 years as head of the government. He still had a few days left in office when it was announced he would join the Calgary law firm of Bennett Jones as a senior partner starting March 1. On Nov. 4, Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford announced he was hiring his old friend as an adviser on offshore oi] development for $40,000 a year plus expenses. About 10 days later the London-based merchant bank of Morgan Grenfell said Lougheed would join its international advisory council. He was also made honorary chairman of the organizing committee for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, a post which might involve advisory work. The University of Alberta took him on as a part-time lecturer in polities. By December, the directorships started arriving. Lougheed takes spots on the boards of Genstar Corp. of Vancouver, Atco Ltd. of Calgary and Lusear Ltd. of Edmonton. RETAINS LOUGHEED Lusear, a privately-owned company with interests in coal, oil and gas, also said it was retaining Lougheed as a consultant All the appointments involve organizations which either had close personal ties with Lougheed or demonstrated conspicuously strong support for Alberta's Progressive Conservative party while Lougheed was its leader. Lougheed’s grandfather, Sir James Lougheed, and Conservative prime minister R.B. Bennett were among the partners in a predecessor law firm founded in Calgary in 1983. Bennett Jones has more than 100 lawyers in Calgary and Edmonton, including Jack Major, the chief financial officer for the Alberta Conservative party. Peckford was for many years an ally of Lougheed in constitutional battles with the federal government. Morgan Grenfell is one of two institutions the Alberta government selected as investment advisers for the $14-billion Heritage Savings Trust Fund. The Olympic committee includes old Lougheed associates and Lougheed was directly involved in the Lougheed keeps busy 1960s in earlier efforts to bring an Olympics to Calgary, his home town. ‘The appointment to the University of Alberta is a post held by two of Lougheed’s former cabinet ministers, Allan Warrack and Merv Leitch. PETER LOUGHEED .. many appointments d elections, giving $10,000. Atco chairman Ron Southern was one of the businessmen Lougheed consulted regularly while in office. In 1982, Atco donated $4,000 to the Conservative campaign and Canadian Utilities, a subsidiary, gave $20,000, a figure matched by other companies but not exceeded. Luscar Ltd. was also among the top 10 contributors to Lougheed’s 1982 campaign, donating $15,000 to the party. The firm was the subject of controversy two years ago when documents leaked to the New Democrats showed the government rejected a Crown prosecutor's dation that Luscar be p d for i the Lovett River in 1982 and 1983 with a coal-mining operation in west-central Alberta. At the time, Luscar was 25-per-cent owned by Alberta Energy Co., which was 44-per-cent owned by the provincial government. politics,” she said. “My craft is theatre and I want to use it to help stand up to the Bennett government. L “This production is the worst of shoe string theatre | — three of us travelling in a one-ton truck and the wages © are completely lousy. But the political situation in B.C. is terrifying and political theatre can help people to organize against it.” : putt Z| pilititiiiit Liiititit PUA pililiil THE C.P. PUB OPEN 12 NOON - 2 A.M. 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Sunday Meeting — 11 a.m. (Nursery & Children’s Church provided) Home Bible Study & Prayer Meeting — Wed., 7:30 p.m. Located 2'4 miles from on Hwy. 3 owards Grand Forks — (Old Restovrent) PASTORS: Stuart Laurie — 365-3278 Jim Lawrence — 365-2902 ' Artists featured British Columbia's best known showcase for young artists officially opens Jan. 27 at West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre in Castle gar. BCYA ‘85, the fourth bi ennial B.C. Young Artists Exhibition, features 79 works selected from over 3,000 sub- missions by artists aged two 18 throughout the province. Paintings, drawings, pho- tographs, two dimensional collage and other art media are included. The work has received high praise for its diversity, vigor and insight from co- chairmen of the 10-member provincial selection commit tee of art educators, Douglas Morton and Gregor. “To make a selection on the basis of excellence that hap pened also to be thoroughly representative (of both urban and rural communities) was a source of satisfaction and a reflection of the many fine art programs currently oper ating across B.C.,” they said BCYA ‘85 coordinated by Emily Carr College of Art and Design Outreach Pro. grams, will remain on ex hibition in Castlegar through Feb. 17, after which it will continue its 24 month tour to 23 communities. Ronald Mac: It will return to Vancouver in June/July 1986 for ex hibition during Expo 86. This Week in DEXTER’S PUB MON. THRU SAT — Postal talks continue OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post is confident of nego tiating a new contract with the 22,000-member Letter Carriers Union of Canada, despite the fact the union has applied for conciliation. John Caines, a spokesman for the $8-billion agency, said that most secondary issues have been settled and “we are very hopeful” those re: maining will be resolved without a strike. The union, which has been at the bargaining table since September and without a contract since Dec. 31, asked Ottawa on Jan. 2 to appoint a conciliation officer to assist with the talks. No strike vote has been taken by the union and no Job openings Details of these and other job ties ore available at c strike can oceur legally until all stages of conciliation set out in the Canada Labor Code have been exhausted — a process that can take weeks or even months. Besides wages, usually the final issue to be negotiated, the two sides are-at odds over the growing trend to- ward group boxes and away from door-to-door mail de- livery Most group boxes are sup- plied by private contractors, who handle about 30 per cent of all mail deliveries in Can- The union wants to slow the trend toward group box es but is also seeking the right to supply group boxes that already exist within areas where letter carriers also provide door-to-door de livery. WANTS A CUT Canada Post says universal door-to-door delivery has be. come too expensive and Can adians can no longer expect to receive it automatically. The carriers, who make up the second largest postal € union, were the first union to is necessary. (586M A taxi service has openings tor full and port-time drivers. Ap plicants must have o Class 4 or better licence and be prepared to dress in @ business like fashion while at work. (4T) A small engine mechanic tor part-time work is required by 0 Castlegar firm. (61) A local dentist requires o Cer- tifled Dental As: up to $10.00 per h Bridge Eight pairs of duplicate bridge players competed Jan. 6 at the Joy Ramsden Bridge Club. Average score was 42 with the following winners: 1. Ian Glover and Wayne Weaver 49; 2. Agnes Chariton and Phyllis Matteucci 47'%; 3. Myrna Baulne and Hugh Auld. Daily Flight Service to * Cranbrook © Penticton elowna 365-7701 settle in the wholesale round of postal bargaining launched Tax course planned It's that taxing time of year again and if you dread wading through the complex- ities of the tax form take note. Help is on the way. The People’s Law School is presenting a three-hour course called A Tour Through the Personal Tax Form at Selkirk College on Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 7-10 p.m. Kathleen Parker will be the guest speaker. in 1984 after the lifting of federal public sector wage controls. They signed a 15-month contract guaranteeing all members job security and giving them a 2.9-per-cent salary raise to a base rate of $12.98 an hour. It was the first settlement in what turned out to be a strike-free round of bargain- ing for the agency, an in- dependent Crown corpora. tion set up in 1981 to replace the debt-ridden former post office department. Only one component within the eight bargaining units in- volved in that round of talks has yet to settle. A dispute involving 4,000 clerical and administrative workers now is in conciliation. Run to mark anniversary By BARBARA LITTLE Jan. 13 was the day 20 years ago that charter stu. dents of Selkirk College made the historical “trek” from the original “bunkhouse campus” at Celgar mill. To help mark the 20th anniversary of the college, faculty spearheaded by head librarian John Mansbridge are challenging students to run the trek route. The run is 11 kilometres, and the emphasis is on fun. transport the runners to the start at Celgar and bring back jackets. Mansbridge has the idea of asking Celgar officials to al low him to dig up a small tree which he will run with and replant at the Selkirk cam- pus. There had been some dis- cussion of a re-enactment of the trek but Craig Andrews, rededication chairman, said this year's celebrations of the 20th anniversary are going to “Talk about overstuffed!" But not over priced! Come sample our selection of delicious subs made daily! + Murchies Teas & Coffees oo oy COUNTRY HARVEST An added note of interest is be “forward looking.” He that the original trekkers emphasized that the original never actually walked the spirit and intent of the col- whole distance, but in fact lege is “still trekking on- took cars to the ferry par- ward,” as indicated in the aded with the flag through continuing growth and ex- Castlegar to the plaza and tension of satellite campuses. then piled into cars again and drove the rest of the way. : ‘ BAR This year they are going to aed make history and “go the [Join we Future odey "i! " ” Borter ker wit distance.” Interested runners [P0'\Sio's ‘leading trode ex are asked to meet in the [chonge. Many oreos available. ‘ Contact John Madsen, C.. lounge at Selkirk College at parking lot by the faculty [[203"" ougheed Hi a Burneby, 8.C. VEC 324. Br. 298] 11:30 a.m. Monday. Cars will |'824 ASSOCIATION RAFFLE. C.D.A. at the presentation. i WINNER ANNOUNCED CHRIS SANDRIN, 15, of Castlegar was the recent lucky winner of a 1986 Honda Civic as 2nd prize in the CANADIAN DIABETES Mr. Werner Mrosek of Kootenay Honda Trail and on behalf of Honda Canada presents the keys to Mr. Tony Sandrin, Chris’ father. Mr, Jake Hahn represented the Trail branch of the Film impresses. Rotarians ih flit’ zie ¢ club's first meeting of 1986, Room to Live is « quietly dramatic, intensely, personal but completely bloodless argument for the universal use of seat belts as required by law. The film has been used by the area RCMP for some months and has been screen- ed for the benefit of the en- tire Celgar plant p some schools and for about 135 citizens and their families who have been charged but opted for viewing of the film in lieu of a $25 fine. 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