CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 20, 1977 Hey, Presto, Your Friends are Amazed "By Phil Hanson Vancouver Sun “And for my next modest sick, ladies and gentlemen, I ‘will attempt, ahem, to produce live rabbit from this empty “See the empty box in my and? See the empty cylinder in my hand? I will now place the ylinder in the box and pull ut—hey presto!—a rabbit. “Thank you, thank you. ‘our applause is deserved. For y next trick . Magic is in. Dating back, it is believed, as far as prehistoric imes, the secrets of per- forming magic tricks was once ught only by word-of-mouth nd then written down in ysterious books. But now the art of ap- ‘pearing to do the impossible has been made available to the - imasses by media ranging from hildren’s comics to sophisti- tated and often expensive kits ‘of tricks. Now, before friends at parties and dinners, Joe Subur- ban can amuse and confuse and, with practice, do it with pro- fessional aplomb. If the trend continues long enough, magic might even threaten home. movies as a prime after-di la entertainment (hold the cheer- ing, please). Turn ordinary milk into a bouquet of flowers? Just say the word. Make a handkerchief vanish? Quicker than you can say abracadabra. According to Wendy Ry- dell and George Gilbert (he of Mr. Magico television com- mercial fame), authors of a plush $22.95 book modestly titled The Great Book of Magic, Including 150 Mystifying Tricks you can Perform, the magic biz is entering a whole new era, of which home conjuring is an integral part. In addition to the hordes of amateur magicians, this is the age of the television conjurer and the night club magician. The century-long golden \. — So you want to be a magician? Here’s a simple trick that can be perfected in two. tries. Great for e in begging for a raise. Fold a dollar bill in the shape of an 5, each segment of equal width. At the top edges of the folded bill place a paper clip over the two segments on the right hand side and another paper clip over the two.segments on the left hand side. Each clip should be about a Here’s the easiest trick of ail half-inch from the ends of the bill. .! Take the clipped bill in your two hands and pull sharply. The paper clips jump into the air, interloch- ed. The force pulls them together so tightly that one of the clips is hooked between the opsn-ended double wire of the other. Magic, eh? That’s one of,the 150 mystifying tricks in the Great: Book of Magic. others are more complicated, but you have to start some place. when you’re \ Don’t worry, the age of big magic shows on stage, they say, died in Novem- ber, 1965, with Harry Black- stone, the man who entertained thousands of troops with his clever shows. Perhaps it's just as well. As great as Blackstone, Robert- Houdin, Harry Kellar, Houdini, Alexander Herrmann and their colleagues were, could they match the incredible electronic illusions that zillions of kids COMMUNITY Bulletin Board ALL CANDIDATES MEETING All Candidates Meeting for munieipal election. candidates. Wed., Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the new Community Centre. Sponsored by the Castlegar NDP. SENIOR CITIZENS MEETING The Castlegar and District Senior Citizens’ Association will meet in the Centre today (THurs., Jan. 20) at 2 p.m. Music by Kae Andreashuk. LIBRARY BOARD ELECTION Library board meeting and election Mon., Jan. 24. HELP WITH IRONING Need a hand with your ironing? We'd be ala to help out—and our rates are negotiable. Call 365-3811 or drop in at the Adult Achievement Centre, 211 Maple St., Castlegar. We're open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m, weekdays. NDP MEETINGS Sat., Jan. 22, Canadian Legion Hall: 11 a.m, to noon, Castlegar NDP Club; 12 noon to 1. p.m. Rossland-Trail NDP general meeting; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Norm Levi and Bob -Williams speaking on “The Corporate Structure and Its Social Consequences.” Open to the public. Everyone welcome. 5 p.m., social. STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART Your Castlegar Heart Unit needs YOU. Maybe YOU would be willing to “Walk for Heart” during February Heart Month! If you could pledge an hour of your time to canvass on Heart Sunday, Feb, 20, please (surely adults wouldn't fall for that stuff) take for granted on television shows such as The ea ionic Waman,2 ~Six-- Million “Dollar, Man; Wonder, Woman ‘or Space:1999? Supposing they could? Who would want to bother to leave the comfort of his living room to go to a theatre to see more or less what he could see on the electrical tube? Which is why some magi- cians have gone into night clubs _ and others have embraced tele- ‘vision. Last month, ‘for “example, Doug Henning, an up- and-coming Canadian magician, was seen in the latest of his hour-long television specials. Henning, a. devotee of Houdini, was appropriately de- scribed in the Great Magic Book as “a young, mous- tachioed and long haired flower child who... did away with the image of a magician as a staid, older man.” He came to public at- tention in the Broadway musical, The . Magic Show, which he has since left, and continued to rely on song, dance and merriment in his lelevision specials, ‘In his most recent show, Henning madé an elephant linked and unlinked call Mrs, Margaret Pryce, at 365-8058. Or call Mrs. Wendy ‘Ferguson. Davie at 965-3274 or Mrs. Jackie NeNabb at 365-6695. Be a Life-Saver! ARE YOU WONDERING Are you wondering what is the purpose of life? Is the Bible true? Does the new testament church exist today? Attend the services held in the Nordic Hall on Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 3 p.m. Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations are listed here through the courtesy of Canadian Cellulose’s Interior Pulp. and submit notices directly to the Gperations. Please si Lumber Castlegar News by if p.m. Mondays, — A Public Service of Interior Pulp and Interior Lumber Operations. Canadian Cellulose Ist & 3rd Tuesdays 7:20 P.M. Proper Dress Fri. liens Must bale Weekend Signed In Royal Canadian Legion — BRANCH No. 170 Invites you to Participate in these Functions: CABARET Friday & Saturdey Pa Dancing Meg Ojon. teh Ome Pom, Saturday MISFITS & Sat. after 7 p.m. apparently solid rings at will, escaped froma blazing cage and did his own version of one of the great Houdini illusions, Meta- morphosis, during which he escapes from a locked trunk in _seconds and... but wait, in the trunk is his assistant, bound and encased in a sack precisely as Henning had been a few moments earlier. Wow. Boy. If -this is the kind of stuff you can do in your own home, let's get started, do T hear you say? You'd also like to do the grizzly decapitation stunt of olden days? Saw a woman in half (why don’t they saw men?) or even three bits? Well, the sad thing is that they don't tell you how to do these neat things in the Great Book of Magic, which suggests that they might, in a later edition, do away with the word Greal. The Okay Book of Magic. ‘They just hint around at how to do one or two of the great feats, “A trick sack and a trunk with a secret panel accounted Robson WI Makes Plans _.For Raffle Plans for a spring raffle’ were discussed with all mem-, bers of the Robson Women's Institute agreeing to make an article towards this project, when nine members met last week at the home of Mrs. Harvie Wenzel. Two new committee con- venors were chosen—Mrs. Anna Kitchin for agriculture and Mrs. J. Lioyd for: United Nations. A luncheon served by the hostess was enjoyed by all, following the adjournment of the meeting. New members are always ; welcome by the Women’s Insti- tute. The Feb. 9th meeting is to be held at the home of Mrs. J. Lloyd. ARIS——\ Calendar Jan. 15 to Feb. 15—-"Legends—Alfred Laliberte”, for most of the mystery,” they reveal about Metamorphosis. “Skillful ion of the Exhibition on Visual — And Performing Aris: + An exhibition of visual and performing arts of the West Kootenay will be held at Notre Damo University, April 2 and 3, The event, to be co-hosted by the Kootenay Columbia Arts Council, the Slocan Valley and , District Arts Councll and the , Langham Cultural Society, of Kaslo, has been tentatively .ap- proved for a $1,200 grant from the B,C. Cullural Fund, The grant is earmarked for .ex- penses and honorarlums for }' participants, The West Kootenay is known for a large number: of resident artists and artisans, and in the three districts of | Nelson, Slocan Valley and Kool- enay Lake there is estimated to be more than a thousand painters, musicians, actors, art educators and students, writers, dancers and other artists, Recent listings by the Circle Craft Co-operative and Koolenay Crafts identify more than three hundred producing craftspeople in the area alone. The idea for an exhibition came up when the sponsoring organizations discussed the need for a well organized event which would acl as a yearly showease for the area's artistic achievement, | said organizer Jack Anderson, “For this, cooperation with the many individual artists and art organizations will be sought.” Students and teachers from the Community Education Arts Program and the Koot- enay School of Art are offering their support and partleipation, Four dance teachers in the Nelson ‘area are working to- gether to produce classical and classic Kellar rope-tie escape, based on months of practice, accounted for the rest.” : Yeah, guys. But how is it done? Dyes this mean that we ordinary folk will have to stick with ‘pulling rabbits out of cylinders? Afraid so. Those trusted with the secrets of the great tricks aren't about to pass them on, - Not Mr. Magico, if he knows, or Ms. Rydell even though she is “a prolific writer with a mar- vellous ability: to treat any, sub- ject in'a th vf The theatre department of NDU and the Slocan’s Theatre Energy Ensemble will perform, and .many well-known area artists have agreed to give demonstrations and lectures in their mediums. The exhibition will have three main components, said Mr. Anderson. “We will have an arts and crafts exhibit with awards for high quality work in selected ‘categories. ‘such - os painting, . sculpture,: fabrics, and-so.on, tive manner.’ fter 1 euietveating a selection of the magic tricks the authors offer in the back half of the book, we are happy to report that they do work. Maybe not the first time, maybe not even the second time. But sooner or later they come right, Famous “American magi- cian Howard Thurston broke in his act before the tough crowds in saloons of the early Ameri- can West where the varmint could've been plugged full of lead had the audience not ap- preciated his clever card tricks. The worst your after- dinner guests can do is throw pie in your face. a French- Canadian cultural collection, and “History of ", a set of which trace watercolor in its earliest stages to present day. Hours al the Exhibition Centre are 1 to 4 p.m, weekdays. Exhibition Centre phone 365-2411. et ee Jan, 24—Graduate show by Shelley Zuback at the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson. Zuback's paintings on view during regular schoo] hours 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. . _. @ Jan. 26—Poetry reading by B. P. Nicol in Canadian Writers’ Series at 4:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge at Selkirk College. Jan. 25—Ilustrated talk on the “Pureell Wilder- - ness Area”, 7:30 p.m. in Rm K10 at Selkirk College. Environment and Man series. : 8 8 Jan, 31—Castlegar and District Community Arts Council meeting to be held in the Kinnaird Library at 7:30 p.m. Interested persons please attend. oe ce Have you seen the paintings by John Kalmakov in the Kinnaird Library? They're well worth seeing! * 8 8 FEb. 2—Canadian Writers’: Series Poetry Reading by Ruby Wiebe at 1 p.m. in the faculty lounge at Selkirk College. * * . Meetings, workshops, and any events related to the arls are welcomed in this calendar. BINGO Every Thursday 7 pm. CRIBBAGE Every Sat. 7 p.m. Darts: Mon.-Thurs. Items for this bi-monthly feature should be telephoned to Mrs. D, Miller-Tait of the Castlegar and District Community: Arts Council at 365-7 Sponsored by Castlegar Savings Credit Union The second section will consist of performances by in- dividuals and groups in music, dance and theatre and the third will involve workshops by qualified instructors in archi- tecture, theatre, dance, crafts, - heritage, literature, art, music 4 and other topics.” Anyone interested in: dis- playing,’ demonstrating, lec- turing or helping at the Koot- enay Exhibition is asked: to (7-10 mountain) CBC | contact Mr. Anderson at, 952-3324 or drop by the Com- munlly Education Office, 314 Anderson St., Nelson. What's going on at SELKIRK COLLEGE Until FRIDAY, January 21 Si ‘fi ‘e Kootenay School of Art - A photography, entitled “Ukrainian Churches of Alberta”. KSA (Nelson campus). Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m, to 4 p.m. MONDAY, January 24 to FRIDAY, February.4.,/ e Kootenay School of Art - A graduation, show of paintings by Shelley Zuback, KSA (Nelson campus). Open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. .,, TUESDAY, January 25 e Tuesday Night at the Movies— Forum: Nuclear Energy featuring “Binstein's Theory of Relativity”, “Building of the Bomb", and “Lovejoy’s Nuclear Wai K10 (Castlegar campus) 8 p.m. wee \V/ WEDNESDAY, January 26 e A public reading by Canadian writer B. P. Nichol—a member: of the. quartet of sou * For More Information: Contact SELKIRK Silage My: 365-7292 (Local 283) OPEN 1 P.M. SHOW 1:30 _ AJAN KADAR FILM “LIES FATHER ©) TOLD. ME? >: :=sisi:coms in Landers: This is for people who own guns. { Waist week) my sister-in-law (she was only 14) was killed when. tnd boy jn the next'apartment was playing with a gun. The bullet “plérced (our walls anda closet before it hit her. No one else was al some .and she bled to death. 3) ‘The boy next door thought the bullet had lodged in, the wall. & He never bothered to check, Only when he learned of the girl's death: did-he realize-he had killed her. mt lo ask everyone who owns a gun to please make sure { there are no bullets in the chamber before you fool around with it. If the gun does go off, check and find oul where the bullet ended uP. Tf this had been done, a lovely 14-year-old girl might be alive lay. —E.G. In Buffalo Dear E.G.: Better yet, let’s get some sensible gun laws passed. We dont need 46 million handguns in the possession of Lord knows who, o * * Dear Ann Landers: My husband and I have been married thee years. I am 26, Greg Is 30. After six weeks of marriage,.Greg's ex-wife decided she didn't want to be bothered with their four small children, so we obtained legal custody. She's been running all over the country “having fun.” Every month or so she drops in to stir up a little trouble. We didn't ask for a change in the support payment setup at the final hearing because we feared she might change her mind and ask. for the kids, (Greg agreed to give her $30 a week when she had custody.) Now she’s a go-go dancer and makes more money than I do. Is there a chance that we might get her to come across with ‘sdme's stipport money for the kids? We realize the courts are partial g tothe natural mother but it burns me up that I work full-time and a my husband works 70 and 80 hours a week and this tramp doesn't ave to give her children one dime. Call me 7 eee +. —Slow Burn ‘Dear Burn: If I read you right, Greg is paying Miss Swivel Hips {2 $90 a week for “child support” and the kids aren't even living with aher This‘is ray. See.a Huser and put an end to the rip-off, a Ces ts Dear, Ann: Here's “the stunts My husband and I have a on the ground floor. Our Hy children en rine have always occupied the second floor. {They have their own bedrooms and there are two baths up there. fee Now. that.the older daughter has left for college, my mother } says we aré playing with fire by allowing the boy and git! to sleep fup there alone. She insists we move into our daughter's room and vacate only. when she retyrns home for. vacations and holidays. + This ‘means sacrificing our own comfort and privacy bul we « would certainly do it if we thought there was a chance that those ktwo might get into “mischief”. {behaved - Poem on Months January is the cold, With lots of rain and ‘snow, February's near spring, A fow birds sing. March is warm, The bees all start to awarm, April is blooming flowers, Longer grow the hours, May is riding bikes, Without running over spikes. ~ June is out of school, Who failed is the fool, July is the coming of the sun, Lots of summer fun. August is time for holidays, We can't decide, there are many ways. ; CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 20, 1977 September here we go again, Then and now, how and when. October is time for leaves to fall, The vegetables we gather’ all, November is dark and dreary days, The sun has gone a long, long ways. - December is the snow all starting, This is the lime of the’ season's: parting. —by Michelle Arishenkoff ) OF BEEF MATURE GRAIN FED BEEF CANADA GRADE ... POT ROAST Bill Smiley ‘In defense of doctors THERE WAS agrand foofa- wraw in Ontario © recently when the Toronto Giobe and Mail, which rather: grandly calls itself “Canada’s Nation- al Newspaper,’ and is nothing, of the sort, perpetrated a piece of journalism that was irresponsible, to say the least, and yellow, to say the truth. i Our son atid daughter are and we. Thave dever seen anything to indicate “a problem”. My husband is ‘hypertensive and a worrier. My mother's insistence has upset him ‘and I'm annoyed with her for harping on the subject. : My own opinion is that Mother's imagination is running wild. We will abide by your decision. 4, —Like It Grounded ‘Dear G.: "Mother should MHOB, Very young brothers and sisters toften.explore and “experiment” but teenagers are well beyond that stage unless they are kooks—and your two sound 0.K. to me. Poe Komi: 's Ladies Wear. . —] JANUARY. ‘CLEARANCE. SALE Continues! Dresses, Evening Wear, Coats, Y Pant Selttt Woot Pai Pants All 50 % OFF ‘Prices Slashed an Most Stock in the Store! ‘KARNIE’S Ladies Wear 33 Maple 365-7961 1030 RADIO Tops on Your. Dial CneTLEGAn ‘Radio CKQR is conversational, informational, and sensa- ;\tional 24 hours a day, featuring Country and Western, and Ki Middle of the Road music throughout the day, with a 1¥-hour is fe rock program in the evening, followed by all your favorite easy ; Hatening bits throughout the entire night. We're always glad to- ; have you on our dial,'so be sure to listen to Radio CKQR in the ' Crossroads of the Kootenays at 1230 0n your dial! Ee is MONDAY.TO FRIDAY SCHEDULE oN Uprising with Fred Jack to 9 a.m. including News, Sports, Weather, Manpower Report Birthday Show ~-News, Sports, Art Linkletter, Recreation Report, Hy rs) “we vee Words of Life, Earl Nightingale Bis “ot the Morning to 10:30 with Bu Sports, Community Calendar ‘Trader Phone Al's Almanac to 12:15 p.m. News, Weather, Sis Stocker:Report ie : Entertainment News. - Major News, Major Sports, Westher, Recreation Report, Stock Report, The Way I See It — Bob. He: sket! th ‘Afternoon with Black Jack to 4 p.m. includes: News ‘Trager Phone, Weather, Sports Community Calendar Rod “Olson Show ‘to 5 30g p.m. Sports, Weather, Strange Fate and :Art Linkletter News Headlines Fishing Report:(Friday only), | _Earl Nightingale “Major News Major Sports, Weather Dinner Date People's Gospel World Tomorrow ~ Back ‘to’the Bible’: * Music’ Rap ‘to 9:30 pa. (hieeed p.m. only —Top 20 Hits) : News, Weather, Sports Music to 12 Midnight , News, Weather, Sports’: iNew: ‘News, Shouldn't It is a list of more than 800 Ontario doctors who “had © billed | the’ provincial health plan for more than $100,000 in the past year. What's wrong with that? these | money- grubbing medics be exposed? Wasn't the Globe doing a. + public service? Answer: no. The Globe was doing what it professes to despise insome of. our racier newspapers: acting in collusion with some. * pretty dubibus" politicians’ to’ »titilate the public with’ half- truths and’embarrass what to me is still a noble and honor- able progession, The action was worthy of some of the, muckier British tabloids, What surprised me was the reaction of the public. Setting aside the doctors and their well-heeled - medical associa~ tion, which was naturally out- raged, most of the letters to * the editor attacked the news- paper for its action. Whatever demurrers ad- vanced by its defendants after the event, the fact was that the news was’ slanted, . through omission. The doctors named were presented, through innu- endo, as money-gougers, with one hand ona scalpel and the other. in the. government’s (read taxpayer's) hip pocket. Publication of the names and addresses of those doc- tors who had billed the health plan for more than a hundred grand was almost a blanket indictment of them. What‘ the: newspaper. did not stress was that the figures were for. gross, not net. in- come, and in many,. many cases, the net:income was a long, lorig’ way below the published figures. { don’t hold any. brief for doctors. In general, they give: mea pain in the arm. There is a certain pomposity, some- times. arrogance, "that . is donned along with the letters M.D. after the name. This is “not helped any by the attitude . of somany of their patients — that the doctor always knows best, that. the doctor is a special sort-of human being, ‘that the patient should prac- tically. tug his forelock: when: addressing his doctor., It’s @ fairly short step from there to the point where quite a‘few members of the pro- fession begin to feel that they: ° are little tin’ gods.’ This. irks | me. Fve met too many little“: tin gods with clay feet to be impressed by the title “‘Doc- tor.” There’s something archaic, but very attractive about that title. Bachelors of Art don’t go around calling themselves Bachelor Jim Smith. Masters of Art don’t insist that you address them as Master. Same with engineers. But when a- goy gets a chance to put Doctor before his name, whether his degree is in phifosophy, theology or : chiropractery, there is no way you are going to stop him from using it. My personal biases about doctors aside, I have nothing but contempt for those who suggested, ever so subtley, that the profession is out: to gouge the. public ruthlessly. Sure, doctors make a lot of . *béatloctor'for three times the F average salary in the medical profession. Sure, there area few rotten - apples in the barrel, to whom the Hippocratic oath is merely alicence to get rich, Couldn't the same be said about any other barrel, whether it con- tains union members, mer- chants, politicans,” or preachers? And as. for big business, the doctors are al- most saintly when it comes to a comparison of ethics. Let's look at the facts. A doctor works like a dog to get through medical school. He doesn’t really begin to make any money until he is nearing 30, a time when most men are ‘well settled in their fields. By the time he has estab- lished a practice, hei is usually well in debt. If hi FRESH PORK PICNICS ==. CHICKEN ROOSTERS ~..... | BURNS WIENERS PORK STEA GOVERN. INSPECTED SAUSAGES HOME MADE | PURE BEEF OR DINNER . 10 BACON EMPIRE... 1 “ $1.19 OCEAN PERCH 69° LIGHT TUNA FLAKES GOLD SEAL 6 OZ. EANS . IN TOMATO SAUCE. HEINZ 24" 19¢ PASTRY LARD -SWIFTS ». BEANS with PORK HEINZ ...... De TC: “FROM THE. 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