TCH FOR OUR GRAND We will be located in the * Congratulations on your First Half Century! peeeseeesesesssess) GC ame eane 1 GRAND OPENING SOON! Fireside Place. crc PUB FAMILY RESTAURANT NIGHTLY SPECIAL PRIME RIB — $9. Ga OPEN DAILY TIL 9 PMA. pen Feidey Calendar Continuiny Centre in Cast ts Artistic during December the National Exhibition «has on display “Jopan's Modern Prin. impressions by leading Japanese prin Original creative work which includes wood lithographs mezzotints, aquatints, copper et chings ond silk screen The N.E.C. will be closed Dec. 24 to Dec. 27 The Castlegar Arts Council's Presentation Series will be featuring and selling the paintings of Dave Adams of Costlegor Come down to the cedar room at the Homestead Soup and Sondwich Shoppe to enjoy Dove's fine work over cottee during December The Kinnaird Library has on display paintings by the students of John Kalmakov of Stoniey Humphries High School Carol Lodes-Gaskin ond Phyllis Margolin clay ond Pointing show at Frame Art, Nelson Dec. Junior High at 7 Dec. 13 The 1 Trail Rotary Caro! Festival ot the Trail The Notional Tap Donce Company will present The Tin Soldier” at the Mt. Sentinel School at 7:30 Winlaw artist Ann Swanson Gross poses with one of paintings now shown at Winlaw art gallery Costtews Phat by Katty Gerrard saya actor Leo McKern, who plays the title rolé, is “very doubtful about doing any more, after every series. He doean't want to get typecast.” So far, McKern has always returned to do the next Rumpole story, but next year Mortimer may be the defector. He's currently involved in another project, a 12-hour TV series called Paradise Postponed. “It's about life in England from 1948 to now, set in a village,” he says. “It's really about why we set off after the last war thinking we were going to be different, better, fairer, and ended up with the same old rubbish as before. It doesn't have all the reasons but at least states the problem.” Now that the TV script is finished, Mortimer plans to turn Paradise Postponed into a novel. While novels are often adapted for TV, Mortimer reverses that path with the Rumpole episodes. Mortimer writes the TV scripts first, then shapes the short stories for paperback publication. In England, 12 of these stories eventually become a hardcover book. In the S., the result is a six-story Penguin paperback. “I always have two plots in them, the court case and HUMANITARIAN AWARD Ball’s modesty is real BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. (AP) — Lucille Ball, unquestionably the most popular comedienne in entertain- ment history, still reacts with wide-eyed “Who, me?” wonder when honors are heaped upon her. She did so recently when she received Variety Clubs’ humanitarian award on a CBS television special attended by the biggest stars in the industry, including Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Burt Reynolds and Sammy Davis. They praised her to the skies. But the zany, wide-mouthed redhead seemed vaguely unbelieving, as if they had somehow honored the wrong person. It’s no act, Lucille Ball's modesty is not phoney. Rather than accept credit for the success of I Love Lucy, she invariably claims it should be given to the writers, technicians, co-stars and espeically to her former husband, Desi Arnaz. Still, it was her timing, wails and pratfalls that made the show one of the most popular in television history “There comes a time in your life when you get a lot of plaques,” she said one afternoon in the house she shares with her second husband and partner, Gary Morton. “It's very flattering, and I'll go along with it, especially if it benefits children.” Proceeds from the CBS special established a Lucille Ball Diabetes Research Library at a children’s hospital in Denver, Colo. MORE REFLECTIVE She has reached an age — 73 when she is more reflective about today's world, and much of it disturbs her: “I see so much poverty and unfairness in the rural areas and the cities, elderly people being turned out of their homes, farmers losing their farms. It's like the Okie days of Grapes of Wrath all over again.” Perhaps, she mused, she should made a film like the current rural dramas Country, Places in the Heart and The River. But then she changed her mine: “I want to entertain, to make people forget their problems.” And she's done exactly that in more than 75 movies and on television from 1961-74 in I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. The 500 comedies are still seen in 80 countries. Ball was born in Celeron, N.Y., the daughter of an elec. trician, who died when she was a child, and a concert pianist Young Lucy, a brunette, was dazzled by the stage, but her ambitions were discouraged by an acting school. So she turned to modelling under the name Diane Belmont. Her ads for Chesterfield cigarettes caught the attention of Hollywood, where she went in 1933. As a blonde, she appeared with the Marx Brothers, Fred Astaire and Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. In 1940, she tresses a fiery red, Bal] met Arnaz, a rumba star. They married within six months. Ball once headed a television empire that included three studios and numerous series. She and Morton maintain a production office at 20th Century-Fox, and their company produced the successful feature, All the Right Moves, starring Tom Cruise “I had two things to do with it: I recommended that they shoot in Johnstown, Pa., and I wished them good luck,” she said. She continues looking for a vehicle for herself and figures she would make it for a pay-TV company, not the networks. Her life seems like a happy climb from one success to another. Yet even at the height of I Love Lucy, her life was misery. “Living through the last five years of the show as a Pagliacci took the edge off any enjoyment I might have had,” she said. “Desi's drinking and carousing were a terrible embarrassment — bad for a woman's self-esteem. The talk about town was ‘poor Lucy.’ Because I couldn't face people, I bec&me a recluse for more than 5'/ years. “I never demonstrated my unhappiness at the studio, and actually, working together was a blessing. Desi had everything so well organized that it was easy to do the work. “Our commitments kept us together, and I always had the hope that things would change. But they didn't.” When she made the break, their children, Lucie and Desi Jr., both of whom became actors, were five and six. “There was no animosity,” Ball said. “Desi was overly generous in every day. We even had the same lawyer. We remain friendly to this day. I've always said that Desi is one of the greatest showmen and one of the best businessmen the entertainment world has ever seen.” Beverly Hills Cop top grossing movie HOLLYWOOD (AP) Night of the Comet was Beverly Hills Cop set a blis- relatively steady, stepping tering pace for the Christmas down one rung on a $1-million movie season as it took in $15 gross, but Supergirl reeled $15.2 million on its debut from box office kryptonite as weekend, more than the a gross of $931,838 dropped combined total of two other her from third to seventh new releases, 2010 and City place. Heat Here are the top seven A Paramount action com- grossing movies over the edy starring Eddie Murphy, weekend, with distributor, Beverly Hills Cop got a jump weekend gross, total gross on the weekend with a Wed- and number of weeks in re nesday opening that boosted lease. its total gross to $19.1 mil Beverly Hilis Cop, Par lion. amount, $15.2 million, $19.1 2010, sequel to 2001; A_ million, first week. Space Odyssey, grossed a 2010, MGM-UA, $7.4 mil strong $7.4 million despite lion, first week the performance of the box City Heat, Warner Bros., office leader, and City Heat $6.3 million, first week. opened with $6.3 million. The Terminator Orion, Even in third place, City $1.4 million, $31.3 million, six Heat, starring Clint East- weeks. wood and Burt Reynolds, was Missing in Action, Cannon, well ahead of the previous $1.3 million, $20.1 million, week's contenders. four weeks. The Terminator fell two Night of the Comet, At notches to fourth place with a lantic, $1 million, $13.1 mil gross of $1.4 million, and lion, three weeks. Missing in Action plummeted Supergirl, Tri-Star, from the top spot to fifth on $931,838, $12.1 million, three $1.3 million weeks. le’s story,” Mortimer says. “I find if you have an hour's TV it enriches it greatly to have two plots.” After Rumpole becomes the defending lawyer in a criminal case, he usually has to figure out what happened, by deduction, without| much help from his client. Mortimer bases this on Sherlock Holmes cases. Mortimer lives in the house he grew up in. His late father, lawyer Clifford Mortimer, appeared in his auto- biography, Clinging to the Wreckage. In his A Voyage Round My Father, first a stage play shown on PBS last January, Laurence Olivier played the elder Mortimer. Mortimer says he always knew he was a writer, but his father told him to become a lawyer to have something to fall back on. During the Second World War, at 18, Mortimer worked for a film unit which made documentary and propaganda films. “I was fourth assistant director,” he recalls. “I had to say ‘Quiet please’ at the beginning of each shot. “They took absolutely no notice of me. I shouted at them and they all went on strike. They decided I would be less harm in the script department. Laurie Lee, the poet, was bored and quit and I became the quite young script- writer of this film unit.” His novel about all that, Charade, was published when he was 22, before Mortimer took the lawyer's examination. Asa lawyer Mortimer started handling divorce cases in civil court. “Then in the 1960s I became a Queen's Counsel and took to crime.” For 10 years he handled obscenity cases. “I found it was easy to defend them provided you never watched the films. You could just make a speech about free speech. If you actually saw them, it was rather an embarrassment.” Cable 10 TV by the B.C. Safety CABLE 10 TV Council concerns rail. Thursday, Dec. 13 way crossing safety 6:00—Sign-on and program and includes a simula. information. tion of a train-bus 6:03—Aikido Seminar — crash. This martial art sem. 9:00— People’s Commission inar by Yukio Kawar — This commission aha Shihan, sixth de entertained presenta. gree black belt took tions from Kootenay place in Trail on Nov groups and individu 17 als in Nelson in Octo 7:00—The Foundations for ber on the theme “al World Peace — Trail ternatives to govern resident Liz Edwards ment policies. The talks to Bill Brewer, presenations this a Baha'i travel tea evening are from: the cher, about the Baha'i Kootenay Columbia faith’s teachings on Child Care Society, obtaining world Russ McArthur, and peace the Nelson Water. 7:30—Rossland Carol Festi. shed Committee. Part val — This annual 2 will be presented Christmas event took place Dec. 5 and fea. tures a number of school and Trail-Ross land area choirs. 8:40—Life Saver — This program sponsored Hotel Presen out of control OTTAWA (CP) —, Auditor General Ken Dye told “Joe Average taxpayer” Tuesday what he's been hearing from the Conservatives for months: The federal government's finances are in sorry shape and the deficit may soon be out of control. The auditor general, who examines and reports on the government's financial accounts once a year, said taxpayers" dollars are still being mismanaged and misspent but the situation is improving. And while he unearthed some horror stories, such as / the Defence Department jet fighter antenna that was originally to cost $9 but ended up at more than $2,000, he had some good words to say on improvements the government has made in the financial accountability of Crown corporations. Dye’s report, which usually provides the opposition parties with fooder for embarrassing questions, had a muted reception in the House of Commons. The Liberals, now in Opposition, were in power during the period the report covers and were reticent about raising questions that would ultimately reflect on their own fiscal management. The New Democrats were preoccupied with recently announced changes to the Foreign Investment Review Agency. Prime Minister Mulroney, who has been battling with the auditor general over access to cabinet documents, chose Tuesday to reverse his stand and tell Dye he could have all the information he wants about Petro-Canada’s controver. sia] 1981 takeover of Petrofina Canada Ine. Dye has tried repeatedly in the last 18 months to see the documents so he could evaluate whether taxpayers got good value for their money in the $1.6-billion takeover of Petro fina by the Crown corporation TES ACCESS First the Liberals and then the Conservatives denied him this access and he devoted a large section of his annual report to the issue. Dye welcomed Mulroney's change of heart and said if he and the government reach a permanent solution that allows him to do his job without interference he will drop a Federal Court action he began last summer. Meanwhile, he had other financial bones to pick. Dye said in his report that accounting practices used by the federal government resulted in overstated assets, unre- corded liabilities and underestimated tax concessions. Taken together, they gave a financial picture so fuzzy not even the government had a clear idea of its revenues, expenditures or the deficit. These shoddy accounting practices, combined with the government's previous denial of access to information, led Dye to say he couldn't ascertain the seriousness of the financial situation. His report covers the fiscal year ended March 381, 1984 But he had a stern warning for anyone who thought accounting issues were not important. “My recommendations affect Joe Average taxpayer,” Dye said at a news conference following the tabling of his report in the Commons. “This isn’t just airy fairy hypothetical stuff. This affects every taxpayer in the country in his pocketbook. These are important items for every taxpayer to understand.” Finance Minister Michael Wilson said later Tuesday he shares Dye'’s concerns and would consider his current recommendations as well as those made in earlier reports Wilson pointed out that the new Conservative government has already adopted one of those recommen dations by adding some previously unrecorded liabilities to its financial statement Still room for OTTAWA (CP) — Cases of financial bungling revealed Tuesday by Auditor General Ken Dye pale in comparison to some past horror stories but they still show plenty of room for improved money management by the federal government There's the 300-car park ing lot owned by the federal government beside B.C Place in downtown Vancou ver that’s valued at $17 mil lion. It earns only $12,000 a year as a parking lot but the property costs the govern ment $1.78 million a year. Then there's the $9 an tenna for Canada’s new fighter planes which now cost more than $2,000 each or the $2 bolt that now costs $140. Via Rail, almost a regular in Dye's reports, holds $74 million in excess funds from the Transport Department It also got two trains from the Industry Department for $1 but has no funds to make them operational Meanwhile, the Canadian Dairy Commission is still illegally collecting levies from dairy farmers to help dispose of surplus dairy pro ducts overseas. The Canada Saltfish Corp made unauthorized advance payments to some saltfish producers in Newfoundland and Quebec, which it now has to recover, and is also mar keting frozen fish which isn't part of the mandate of the Crown corporation. Sheraton-Spokane’s “Holiday Shopping Package” Even 1984-85 COUNCIL . . . Castlegar city council for the 1984-85 year includes (from left) Aldermen Len Em- bree, Marilyn Mathieson, Bob Pakula, Bob MacBain, Albert Calderbank and Carl Henne. Seated is Mayor Audrey Moore Cenbtows Prete Hilda are back! HILLTOP CAFE tS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Join us for breoktast, lunch and dinner GOOD HOME COOKING Open 7 a.m. -9 p.m. Daily Located 2 miles West of Castlegar on Pavisen Highw: SSeS will be CLOSED Christmas Day OPEN BOXING DAY Book New Year's Party Now! 932 Columbia 365-7414 LUNCH IN se Nord RESTAURANT Open Monday teeta Atari a. - -2 ee SALAD BAR rt Mery BAEAKPAST cmd mae shoring at ve a.m. LUNCHEON SPECIAL — $3.50 a.m. -2 p.m. the new pe Dilitittigit 1,150 jobs to be cut TORONTO (CP) CBC plans to chop 1,150 of its 12,000 staff positions starting next April — some through attrition and early retirement, but about 750 through layoffs and is temporarily i new funds for Canadian programs. —_ Those two measures, announced Tuesday, are part of a $75-million budget cut at the Crown-owned television and radio network, the largest such reduction it has ever absorbed and there are worries nothing less than Canadian culture is at stake as a result. Many employees were to be told today their jobs are “redundant” and will be eliminated. The move cuts across all lines — from engineers and costume designers to accountants and secretaries. In some cases, senior workers covered by collective agreements can change jobs and bump junior staff from the network. It will take months before the dust settles and it is known who is staying and who has to leave Of, the 1,150 positions eliminated, 667 are in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal and another 164 in Winnipeg and Vancouver. Stations won't close and their operating hours won't be curtailed. But CBC president Pierre Juneau, who called the cuts a “painful task,” said the long-range effects on programming could be significant Almost every service CBC provides is affected, including native programming, the Commons channel, Radio-Canada International and the French and English TV and radio networks. PROJECTS CUT “There is no doubt that certain individual program projects will not be undertaken and that the production value of many programs will be affected,” Juneau told an Ottawa news conference Tuesday “Program budgets will be tightened and the emphasis improvement The Canada Deposit Insur- ing unauthorized educational ance Corp. is owed $1 billion service in Saskatchewan by eight financial institutions without Parliament's ap which have gone out of busi proval ness and expects its losses to A new Coast Guard ice exceed $650 million. breaker, delivered in 1982 at LACKS TENANTS a cost of $62 million, had a The Environment Depart. Canadian-built propulsion ment has paid more than $8.7 system even though it re million for a 22-bectare parcel quired more maintenance of land in British Columbia than comparable foreign pro leased in 1974 but still un- ducts. As well the ship was occupied built without any studies de The Indian Affairs De- signed to reduce the man partment still hasn't institu. power needed to operate it ted appropriate controls over safely contributions to Indian bands The Public Works Depart now worth more than $500 ment has not increased dry million annually. Such con- docks fees in Esquimalt, B.C trols have been sought since since 1971 and Lauzon, Que 1967, since 1965 and those installa Indian Affairs spent $2.6 tions now lose $8.6 million million in 1983-84 on provid annually will be on increased productivity in all production departments.” In the only hint he gave on how programming might be hurt, Juneau said English TV may not carry more than one or two 20-part series, enrich a shorter series or consider a new series. There will be more commercials on some shows. Certain areas appear relatively safe from damage, including dinner-hour regional TV, key daily local radio and weekly regional radio and TV. Information programming seems safe, too, although it will be pinched by an overtime cut. Denis Harvey, CBC vice-president in charge of the English TV network, said it will be six to nine months before the full impact of the staff cut can be assessed. Clearly, however, the network won't be able to increase Canadian production or much, reduce the seven hours per week of foreign programming in prime viewing hours Liberal and New Democrat MPs were angry, NDP House Leader Ian Deans said Canadian culture could be at risk, while Liberal communications critic Marcel Prud'homme said CBC has been placed in a “straitjacket” by reductions. Cultural gropus were studying the cuts, while union reaction depended on how severely its rank and file is being hit “It confirms all the fears we had,” said Pierre Carriewre, president of the union rept ig technicia: at Radio-Canada, the French CBC network. “We're relieved,” said Paul Kidd, incoming president of the Canadian Wire Service Guild, which doesn't stand to lose any members under the measures. ! GOING TO SPOKANE? THE TRADE WiND$ MOTEL makes this re offer at Par Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 trail b.c. Gratis cosy weockred in cur, coveres. heated pool and get a double room at our single rate! Cross the border any ray ¢ Saturday or Sunday this winter valet parking (out of the cold!) and Come to the heart of downtown Spokane: The Ridpath Hotel. Call (509) 838-6122. Or contact your travel agent *single rates start at $40. Kidp 2 7/) zz Hfote/ ~N EW: STYLE COMMUNITY Bulletin Board “PEACE ON EARTH” CHIRISTMAS PARTY Sunday, December 16, 4:30 p.m. Community Complex Potluck Dinner at 5:30. Santa's coming. Tickets of UAC Food Store, Carls. $2. unemployed, $3. employed Children tree 299 AMBER OF MINES CHRISTMAS PARTY December's 215 Hall Street Nelson. 2 6.30 pm. Mem bers and escorts cordially invited 299 PUBLIC SPEAKING COURSE Stu McNish - Voncouver. February 15 17. Register by December 15. Lindo Hart 365-5011. Castlegar Arts Coun al 299 CHRISTMAS PROGRAM December 16 14 Columbia Avenue Everyone welcome 399 ROBSON COMMUNITY MEMORIAL CHURCH Sunday, December 16, 10 a.m. United Church Service. 7 p.m. Annual Family Christmas Carol Service. Cottee and Goodies. Everyone Welcome 100 CHRISTMAS BALAAR, TEA & BAKE SALE Saturday. December 15,2 Tea Admission, $1. Donations welcome. 365-6329 ST. DAVID'S THRIFT SHOP Will be closed for the holidays, from Tuesday. December 18 until Tuesday, Jonuory 8. 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