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Western PC caucus

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fellow MPs Brian White of
Manitoba, who will serve as
Western caucus vice-chair
man, and Jack Scowen of
Saskatchewan who will serve
as caucus secretary

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About then they said I would need a haircut.

It looks too ‘80s they said. I thought that was odd. I
wear my hair very short. “Just a trim,” they told me.
They trimmed for 15 minutes,

I wear my hair shorter now.

It happened to all of us, the young guys worse than
the older. No one was very happy about it. “Ah, it will
grow back,” said the ladies. Easy for you to say, |
thought. Yours is up in a bun.

Then the waiting started. When you are an extra
there is a lot of waiting.”

“How long was your hair?” I asked one guy. We were
dressed alike. .

“Longer than this,” he said. “I look like Arnold
Schwarzenegger in Commando.” He did too. I never did
find out his name.

“Charleton Heston onee wore these pants,” 4
middle-aged man told me. “In a movie once, years ago,”
He smiled. I had imagined Heston to be taller.

“Any ape hair in those?” I wanted to ask.

No one brought us any coffee. There were four kids
there, two boys and two girls, all about six or seven years
old. One of them, Brock, looked exactly what_I imagined a
50s bully to look like. Even thé name sort of fit. They
gave him a brush cut too. I had'an urge to feel his head.

Finally the women were taken by bus to the location
of the shot, just up from Chahko Mika mall. The men
were taken much later. I have no idea why. It was after
nine.
The set was a feed and seed Joading warehouse. Old
trucks were parked as though ready to be loaded. We
were taken to a holding area where it was warm. No one
was dressed very warmly, especially me. From the
windows we could see the production crew blotting out
the white parking lines with dirt.

A fake street lamp was standing on the corner and
the stop sign had been changed to a big yellow one. Old
cars were parked up and down the street which had been
blocked off to all traffic, including pedestrian. The camera
was set up on a short section of rail for smooth
movement. Light reflecting screens were up. Last minute
touches were being done to the trucks. On the corner was
a table with coffee and donuts.

We had waited long enough.

It was mutiny, sort of. We crossed the street and
helped ourselves. Nancy Black, casting coordinator, came
running out after us.

‘Then the waiting started. When
you are an extra there isa
lot of waiting.’

“They are trying to set up a shot here so you have to
go back inside.”

“Coffee lady.” It was written in my eyes. In red.

“We'll bring coffee up to you in a minute.” She was
true to her word but we were already starting to find
places to lie on the floor.

My shoes were feeling a little too tight. In wardrobe
she wanted everything to be perfect. I had grown im-
patient. The clothes fit me like I had bought them myself.
The shirt matched the pants. She had insisted the jacket
be left open. The haircut was enough.

“Please don't wear that watch” she said as I was
leaving. It's a Swatch

“And not the earring either.” Fair enough, but now
with all these other extras in the room it was becoming
increasing apparent that I would just be a grey blur on
the camera.

The first assistant director, Lee Knippelberg, sud
denly arrived. He explained the scene to us. Two women
had just gone for a night on the town and were hopping a
train back in. They had just jumped off the boxcar and
ended up where we would all be, a loading dock street
scene. We all nodded.

He wanted four men first. He walked amongst us.

“You and you,” he said, “and you and . . .” he paused
and looked at me. “And you” he said pointing at the
Arnold Schwarzenegger look-alike.

The rest of us waited. We watched from the window
as he spoke to them, describing things with his hands.

“I guess he's supposed to be a farmer,” I said to one
women, pointing to the street.

“Who's that?” she said. “The guy with Charleton
Heston’s pants?”

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Knippelberg came back. “I need four more,” he
said. “You and you and you and . . .” he stopped at me
again. “And you,” he said and pointed at the mechanic.

I was one of the last to be taken. It was obvious from
where the camera was that I was going to be less than a
blur on the big screen. In fact, I would be a spot. I was
choked. My head was freezing.

“Follow me,” Knippelberg said. He led me across the
street

“What do I want here?” he said

He wasn't asking me

“Alright, this way.”
behind a building

“Right here.”

You have got to be joking, I thought. I got up early
on my day off and scored my second haircut in less than a
month to stand behind a building?

He led me up the street and

“You'll start here” he said. “See that blue car over
there? When it starts to move I want you to walk across
there.”

sidewalk.” We started to walk.
easy-going kind of guys with your

because your
stairs and through the door.” He stopped
me. “Great. Get to your position.”

I did. My position behind the building. I quickly grew
lonely and I was a little embarassed about standing in an
alley alone. I went and talked with the mechanic and Art.
The three of us waited. An old truck with “Fingerbone
Logging” written on the side, kept stalling. Cars stood on
the street waiting.

‘It was obvious that | was going
to be less than a blur on
the big screen.’

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“Okay everyone, stand by! Get to your first
position!” I went behind the building. Brock and his movie
mom were across the street. They were blocks from the
camera. Brock will ruin his eyesight looking for himself in
this film, I thought. The guy in the suit and fedora was

the street with his movie wife. According to the
ange ot the camera, those two would never see film
her.

“Stand by!”

I was ready. I did fear I might forget how to walk
though. When I think about something that comes
natural, I'm doomed.

All the cars were running.

“Action!”

I didn't move.

“Back ground action!”

‘That was our cue. The car took off and so did I, hands
in my pockets, and down the side walk. I gave my movie
buddies a wave, crossed the lot, up the stairs and inside
the building.

“Cut!”

And we did it again, and again with long waits to re-
establish each shot.

“Background action!”

Off I would go again, down the street, inside the
building.

“Cut!

Back to first position.”

I never found out where second and third positions
were.
“T've got to go to the bathroom,” the mechanic said
when I walked past. A late model buick drove through
the background once, an old man wandered through.

“Cut! Back to first position!”

The two little girls who were supposed to skip down
the street holding mom's hands were barely skipping
now. We had started at nine. It was 12 when it was finally
over.

We were diiven back to DTUC in the school bus.
Oddly, it all seemed to have ended so quickly and it was
just starting to sink in. I was beginning to feel a bit of the
excitement now and it was too late.

I asked Arnold why he was an extra.

“['m waiting for my UIC check to come in,” he said.

That was not what I wanted to here. I was a movie
fan finally in a movie. I wanted to talk movies now, but no
one else did.

I asked Charleton Heston why he was in it.

“Ah, one of my kids is in it next week,” he said. “It
wouldn't look very good if I said I couldn't be bothered.”

Okay, he had a point, but didn't anyone just want to
be in a movie. Didn't anybody like movies?

“How about you?” Art asked me. Finally, a movie
fan, I thought.

“What do you do when you're not in the movies?” he
asked.

“T'm a reporter,” I said

“Yeah?” he said. “Who do you think will win the
election?”

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COPENHAGEN (Reuter) — A Danish woman has
started a national row over abortion by demanding
that her pregnancy be terminated on the grounds that
her child is the wrong sex.

A health official said the woman demanded an
abortion after a new type of test on the placenta
showed the baby is a girl and not a boy.

No protection

OTTAWA (CP) — The Federal Court of Appeal
has struck down an adjudicator’s ruling that public
servants must be protected from second-hand smoke.

The court ruling sets aside the adjudicator's order
that the government confine smoke by providing
separately ventilated areas for smokers.

The adjudicator had argued that other people's
smoke is a dangerous substance which violates
workers’ rights.

Dictator namesakes

TORONTO (CP) — A federal committee sche-
duled to meet in Ottawa on Friday has been asked to
rename a British Columbia mountain and a Northern
Ontario township named for wartime Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin.

“We don't have a Hitler peaks and we shouldn't
have a Mount Stalin,” Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor of
geography at the University of Toronto, said.

In the late 1940s, two sites in Canada were named
to honor Stalin — Mount Stalin, in the B.C. Interior,
and Stalin Township, of which more than three-quar-
ters lies in Killarney Provincial Park just south of
Sudbury, Ont.

Tax reform game

EDMONTON (CP) — The federal government has
started a shell game on tax reform, NDP Leader Ed
Broadbent said Saturday.

He said he expects Finance Minister Michael
Wilson will talk about tax reform every six weeks or
so, but will delay decisions for about two years until
the next federal election.

That's too late, Broadbent told about 150 people
at the NDP’s federal council meeting.

Human lab-rats

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. federal agencies in
jected people with plutonium, radium and uranium as
part of a 30-year series of radiation experiments, a
House of Representatives subcommittee said

The experiments took place all over the United
States and began in the mid-1940s. They did not end
until the 1970s, said a report by the House Energy and
Commerce subcommittee on energy conservation and
power

Mother saves children

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A mother pitched her
three young children from the second floor of a
burning house, then leaped to the ground with her
one-year-old son in her arms, in a blaze early Saturday
that killed eight people including five children

“I really can't believe I threw them out,” said
Abigail Patton, 24, who was in good condition at
Hennepin County Medical Centre with a broken wrist
and dislocated hip.

“I was kind of pitching them out so they would hit
the grass and leaves” instead of the sidewalk directly
below the window

Reagan accepts deal

MOSCOW (Reuter) — The Soviet Union said
Saturday that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had
accepted inReykjavik that all nuclear weaponry
should be scrapped by 1996 under a disarmament
package proposed by Kremlin leader Mikhail Gor
bachev

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bess
mertnykh told a news conference the summit agree
ment had included not only ballistic missiles but also
long-range bombers, submarine-based weapons and
long-range cruise missiles, as well as smaller
weaponry

Radiation threatens

PICTON, Ont. (CP) — Their traditional way of life
threatened by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster last
April, about 100 Scandinavian Lapp families want to
immigrate to Canada’s North to herd reindeer.

Three Laplanders told a group of Picton, Ont.,
residents about the effects of radiation from the Soviet
nuclear disaster on their homeland in Norway and
Sweden.

They said they have considered the possibility of
re-establishing reindeer herds in the North

Texts violate rights

GREENEVILLE, Tena. (Reuter)
amentalist Christian families who removed their
children from Tennessee public schools because they
believe the textbooks violate their beliefs won a major
lawsuit against the system.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Hull ruled the
insistence by the local school system to use the Holt.
Rinehart and Winston textbook series violated the
seven families’ rights under the U.S. Constitution.

Hull ruled that students who do not want to read
from the Holt series may leave the classroom during
reading sessions and learn reading from their families
at home.

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Moore disappointed with loss

By RON NORMAN

Editer

Social Credit candidate Audrey Moore came within 700
votes of knocking off 14-year New Democrat incumbent
Chris D'Arcy in Wednesday's provincial election in
Rossland-Trail.

But in the end it was Moore's failure to win in her own
backyard that proved her downfall. The popular Castlegar
mayor polled 1,344 votes in Castlegar compared to D’Arcy's
1,641. A swing of 400 votes would have given her the
election.

“I'm disappointed with Castlegar.” Moore said Satur-
day, several days after the frenzy of the election night had
subsided. She added that she is also “surprised” and
“amazed” she didn't win the city.

On election night, on the backstairs of the Riverbelle
Restaurant in Trail, where she and her supporters had
gathered for what they expected would be a victory cele-
bration, Moore told reporters she didn't know why Castlegar
went to D'Arcy.

“People make their own choices,” she said.

She suggested perhaps there was something in the
results that suggested Castlegar voters want her to continue
to be their mayor, rather than the riding’s MLA.

“We'll survive. Onward to another battle,” she said
philosophically

Asked for the reason why she lost, Moore said she didn't
know.
“I have no idea, my friends, why we lost. I think we had
a tremendous campaign.”

She was quick to congratulate D'Arey, but just as quick
to add: “I hope he would work his butt off.”

Moore made reference to Rossiand-Trail again voting
for an opposition MLA when she suggested, “It would have
been a lot easier if we had the key to all those doors in
Victoria.”

In her final speech to supporters from the balcony of the

Moore a dged she was disappointed to
lose, but said she gave it a good shot.

“We scared the pants off Mr. D'Arcy and maybe he's in
his shorts tonight, and maybe he's learned to run and maybe
he’s learned to move.”

Moore thanked her campaign workers and supporters
for their efforts and said she would go back to being the
“aggressive” mayor of Castlegar.

Just prior to the speech, Moore admitted she had
expected to win, telling her supporters that she had to
hastily re-write her final speech in the wake of the results.

The mood at the election night headquarters was festive
from the start, despite the final result.

The atmosphere was a direct contrast to the 1983
election when Socreds waited for the word on Walt Siemens’
campaign.

Campaign chairman Eric O'Dell d the dif

ELECTION TOAST. . . Social Credit candidate Audrey
Moore, husband Bill (left) and ric

phoned in and posted on the tally board showing Moore
ahead.

In fact, the supporters were so glued to the local results
that when CBC TV declared Vander Zalm the winner at 8:30
p.m. only Phil Brooks noticed.

The seesaw battle between Moore and D'Arcy con-
tinued on the tally board as a crowd of 50 or so watch while
another 100 partied in the background.

ROSSLAND- TRAIL

ference: “Our early results last time told us a disturbing
tale; this time we're running a horserace.”

O'Dell added, “It's a good atmosphere. It's the kind of
atmosphere I anticipated. The results are as close as I
anticipated too.”

The election night revelry was slow to get going, but
picked up quickly especially when the first poll was tele

D'ARCY

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the room where the results were posted.

After 10 polls, D'Arcy was leading 760-607 over
Moore. Then it was 1685-1594. And when the D‘Arcy's
lead began to widen there were more cheers, bringing
more encouragement to the watchful eyes of the NDP’
supporters.

The crowd began cheering when D'Arcy was leading
2,680-2,298. At one point D'Arcy was leading by 812
votes, but that lead dropped to 734, down to 658 and
finally back up to a 671-vote lead.

D'Arcy said later it wasn't until the total vote count
got close to 7,000 votes and there were very few polls left
to come in — apart from the absentee polls — that he felt
he had the election.

“The vote counts were extremely close,” D'Arcy
said. “Win a poll, lose one poll, win one poll. I never made
any assumptions about winning.”

But he said that having a relatively narrow victory
means “I have a major responsibility of representing all
the voters of the riding, especially if it's going to be more
dominated by Social Credit than the last one (election).”
D'Arcy also noted that he had to work harder in this:
election campaign. One reason was that there were more
undecided voters.

“It's good for an incumbent because you have to:
directly and personally contact a whole lot of voters.”
D'Arcy said this election was similar to his first
campaign in 1972 when he defeated Socred cabinet
minister Don Brothers. And in terms of results, the level
of support, D'Arcy said.

“It was clearly the closest (election),” he said
“We knew we had a fight early in the campaign.” he
said. “We felt we were probably behind but not by much.
I thought if the campaign went well and I conducted
myself well and worked hard there was a possibility of
winning

But D'Arcy also said that despite beginning his fifth
term as MLA he isn't growing tired of the job.

“I love it,” he said. “I love people and I like issues and
I like working on behalf of this riding. It's a beautiful
riding. The geography and the people are beautiful here

Asked if he was disappointed at the thought of being
jan opposition MLA once again, D'Arcy said: “You always
hope that you're going to be on the government side
But it was pretty clear from the poll results that an NDP
victory was highly unlikely.”

O'Dell toast campaign workers and supporters on
election night. Costtews Photo by fon Norman

By 9 p.m. most of the polls had reported in, except for
Castlegar and O'Dell shouted: “It's tighter than hell, but we
have it.”

By 9:10 D'Arcy has taken a 450-vote lead. By 9:15 only a
handful of supporters still bother to watch the final results,
posted on the tally board.

The rest have headed for the bar to celebrate a larger
victory.

POLL-BY-POLL

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Result change unlikely

By MIKE KALESNIKO
Staff Writer

Ballots filled out by people under
Section 80 voting procedures could
conceivably reverse the Rossland-Trail
election results, “but that's highly un
likely,” said returning officer Barbara
McKay

“In theory, Section 80 voters can
have an affect on the overall election
outcome,” said McKay. “But here I
don’t think so.”

Section 80 votes are those cast by
voters who were unregistered on
voting day, but become eligible after
signing a declaration

The votes are then tallied Nov. 4,
about two weeks after the provincial

election.

The returning office estimates that
Rossland-Trail might have between 600
and 800 Section 80 votes.

Since Moore trails D'Arcy by only
641 votes, the addition of the Section 80
ballots could, in theory, change the
election results.

In Nelson-Creston, Social Credit
candidate Howard Dirks leads NDP
candidate Corky Evans by only 41
votes. An official winner cannot be
called there until Section 80 votes and
absentee votes are counted.

Returning officers from across B.C.
say seven other ridings, most of which
are led by Social Credit candidates, are
also too close to call until Section 80

votes are taken into account.

McKay explained that many Section
80 voters may turn out to be ineligible
to vote. She said rules such as the
length of time an individual has lived in
an area could cancel the ballot.

McKay added that the number of
spoiled ballots and the possibility of
unregistered voters voting twice must
also be considered.

“If all the ballots are 100 per cent
perfect, and all the votes went 100 per
cent to one candidate, then I suppose it
could change the result,” she said

“Anything is possible but you know
as well as I do that it (affecting
Rossland-Trail election results) is high
ly unlikely.”

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