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OTTAWA (CP) — One of the
most visible and persistent anti-GST
battles has been carried on in the
quiet confines. of the country’s
bookstores.

Publishers, booksellers and the
magazine industry have mounted a
strenuous fight against the seven per
cent tax scheduled to come into ef-
fect Jan. |.

Together they launched a petition
campaign, distributing anti-GST
postcards to bookstores and asking
to send them to Prime

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Minister Brian Mulroney,
Their vehemence is easy to under-

stand. Books and magazines are
exempt from current federal and
Provincial sales taxes.

And books occupy a special place
for many consumers.

“That's a tax on education,"
Violet Walsh, a visitor from San An-
tonio, Tex., said in an Ottawa
bookstore Thursday. “‘Books are a
learning experience."

Liberal senators took up the fight
last week, using the first of their
alloted eight amendments to propose
exempting books from GST. The
motion was defeated.

GST will be added to the retail

price of all Canadian and imported
books and magazines, said Ingrid
van Rotterdam, ‘head of the
Canadian Booksellers Association.

“Absolutely,”” van Rotterdam said
when asked whether the tax will
mean a drop in book sales.

Consumers will pay the full seven
per cent because ‘there has been no
indication on the part of anyone . .
the author, the printer, the publisher
or the bookseller, that they’re going
to eat that tax."’

Hardcover fiction will likely be
most affected, because the GST will
give readers greater incentive to wait
for the paperback.

By The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER (CP) — Rock
performer Colin James of Van-
couver dominated the West
Coast Music Awards this week,
capturing five categories.

James, who will perform in
Castlegar on Nov. 22 at the
Community Complex, won for
artist, album (Sudden Stop), song
(Just Came Back), songwriter,
and guitarist of the year. He
shared the songwriter award with
Daryl Burgess

Sue Medley, back from two
tours opening for Bob Dylan,

James dominates
West Coast awards

was recognized as top female
vocalist and captured the award
for best debut recording.

Pavl Janz was named male
vocalist and recognized as
Producer of the year for his
album Renegade Romantic.

In country music, Patricia
Conroy won top female vocalist,
Rocky Swanson was top male
vocalist and Alibi was named
country group of the year.

The Hugh Fraser Quintet won
in the jazz-new age _ category
while Shy Thunder were the top
heavy metal artists.

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get even

provinces follow

Quebec’s lead and meld their tax
systems with the GST.

Quebec’s harmonization of its
provincial sales tax with the GST
means books now sold tax-free will
have 15 per cent added to the price.

David Perry of the Canadian Tax

battle GST

Foundation says many Western
European governments that in-
troduced GST-type taxes in the 1960s
and '70s allowed books to be exem-
pt, or at least taxed at a preferential
rate,

But as the consumption-tax system
spread to other countries, books ten-
ded to be fully taxed. For example,
New Zealand taxed books when it in-
troduced its value-added tax in 1986,

Samuel Slutsky, a tax lawyer,
questions whether Ottawa will collect
the tax on all foreign magazines.

The government has told non-
resident magazine publishers to
register with Revenue Canada if they
want to continue sending their goods
into the country. ‘‘The response has
not been encouraging,’’ Slutsky said
from Toronto.

Large magazines such as Time and
Newsweek will comply because the
Canadian market is sufficiently im-
portant to them, he said, but
smaller, specialized magazines may
not bother with the administrative
hassle.

Director shrugs
off acclamations

NEW YORK (Reuter) — He's
done sex. He’s done sex with violen-
ce and he’s done a film that turned
millions of people away from sex, at
least the extra-marital kind.

Now British director Adrian Lyne
has done a straight-out thriller that
has critics comparing him to Alfred
Hitchcock, although he says the
comparison is for the birds.

Lyne, director of the mega-hit
Fatal Attraction, which ended the
sexual revolution for many people, at
least as far as extra-marital affairs
are concerned, insists he does not
follow-astyle or a system when
making films.

He also doe: not consider himself
a director of thrillers.

“I’ve tried to avoid a pattern. I
didn’t want to be pigeonholed,”’ said
Lyne, who was in New York to
Promote his latest film, Jacob’s Lad-
der, which opens Friday

“L honestly do films on an
emotional level. If I’m involved in a
screenplay and | don’t put it down,
then I'll do it.”’

The range of genres in his last
three films attests to this.

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1-seeing in

Flashdance (1983) was a rowdy
dance drama with rags-to-riches
echoes of Rocky. It turned into the
surprise sleeper of the year and
established Lyne as a dance film
director, another monicker he
shrugged off.

The Flashdance success enabled
him to do 9% Weeks (1986), an ob-
sessive journey into sado-masochistic
sexual deviance that fared well with
critics, but not the box office.

Then came the psycho-thriller
Fatal Attraction (1987), which so
captivated the American public that
Time magazine did a cover story on
it. It also garnered Lyne an Academy
Award nomination as best director.

With Jacob’s Ladder, Lyne con-
tinues in the thriller vein, but only,
he says, because the script by Bruce
Joel Rubin was ‘‘an absolute page-
turner.”

Tim Robbins plays Jacob Singer, a
Vietnam War veteran who thinks he
is going mad with nightmares and
hallucinations.

Discovering that other members of
his Vietnam field unit years later are
suffering the same symptoms, Jacob
uncovers secret chemical testing of
Vietnmam soldiers by the gover-
nment.

Lyne, who has filled the_film—with
haunting images similar to paintings
by Francis Bacon, said it is hard to
do a thriller without echoeing Hitch-
cock.

“I’ve always liked Hitchcock's
maxim that suspense in general is
more interesting than surprise,’’ he
said. ‘‘But I’m mostly interested in
just keeping the audience off-kilter,
keeping them off-balance."’

New generation
of TV developing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Federal Communications Com-
mission, under the gun to keep the
United States in the race with Japan
and Europe to develop ‘the next

ion of ision,
an ambitious but realistic test
schedule Wednesday to select a U.S.
high-definition TV standard by mid-
1993

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with HDTV’s crystal-clear pictures
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cable, satellite and the major com-
mercial networks.

Backers of HDTV say it could
revitalize a lagging U.S. electronics
industry and — through military,
educational and medical spinoffs —
be the linchpin for B.C. economic
growth in the next century.

Testing will begin April 8, 1991,,
and will run for about two months
for each proposal. Viewer-testing of
the proposals will follow in Canada.

To prevent making millions of TVs
obsolete, the commission says the
winning HDTV sytem must use a
“*simulcast”’ technique in which a TV
station will broadcast two signals —
one o1 regularly assigned channel
in today’s format, the other in high-
definition on a separate channel.

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KSCU converts system

By CasNews Staff

Kootenay Savings Credit Union
has converted to a computer system
called the Prologic Banking Solution:

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sytem on the weekend of Oct. 20-21
and is now handled exclusively on a
network of IBM-compatible micro
computers, KSCU says in a news
release.

“The conversion was the best I’ve
ever participated in,” said Brian
Hemsworth, Kootenay’s manager of
information systems. ‘Everything
went as smoothly as possible.”’

Doug Stanley, Kootenays’s chief
executive officer, said the system was
selected because of its unique ability
to enhance customer service.

“With the Prologic system,
Kootenay Savings is equipped with
the technology we require for future
banking innovations,” Stanley said.
“*It will also help us to conserve time
and overhead expenditures which in
turn will allow us to maintain our
grass-roots, no-frills, personalized J
approach to banking for many years DOUG STANLEY
tocome.’’ . «technology for future

union officials say

Prologic system has the abili
support “‘relationship banking,
the provision of a ‘‘personal
banker”’ relationship between clients
and the institution.

¢ new system allows usets to
record, track and approve loans
electronically and an_ integrated
cross-selling feature allows tellers to
identify and meet customer needs,
Kootenay Savings says.

An executive information system
allows planners and executives to
closely monitor key areas of financial
performance with ease and another
system models the future based on
current trends and key assumptions,
the credit union says.

The Prologic system also speeds
key accounting processes, Kootenay
Savings says.

Kootenays Savings’ nine branches
are connected to the host computer
in Trail through local and wide-area
network software. The installation of
the in-house host computer saves
Koot ial long-di

communications costs and the use of
distribution network computing

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From Wire Service

Agreement reached

VICTORIA — Final agreement has been reached on a $30-million
conversion program for pulp and paper mills along the Vancouver
Island natural gas pipeline route, the Energy Ministry said.

The program will provide grants to the mills to convert existing
oil-burning equipment to dual firing with natural gas.

Seven Island mills are eligible.

They are: MacMillan Bloedel’s mills at Port Alberni, Harmac and
Powell River; Fletcher Challenge’s mills at Elk Falls and Crofton;
Western Pulp Ltd. Partnership’s mill at Woodfibre and Howe Sound
Pulp and Paper’s mill at Port Mellon.

Amalgamation approved

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Shareholders of Time Air Corp. have
passed a i ing the ion of Time Air with a
wholly owned subsidiary of PWA Corp.

The amalgamation, approved at a special meeting and due to go
into effect Jan. 1, will entitle Time Air shareholders to $11.50 per
Time Air common share, payable in common shares of PWA Corp.

PWA Corp., the Calgary-based parent company of Canadian
Airlines International, announced plans in August to take over Time
Air, a regional airline based in Lethbridge, for about $28 million.
PWA already owns 46 per cent of Time Air, which has regularly
scheduled flights to and from Castlegar.

UtiliCorp
shares up
for grabs

UtiliCorp United is offering
through underwriters four million
shares of common stock at $18 7/8
US per share.

lanaging underwriters for the
domestic offering of 3.2 million
shares are Smith Barney, Harris
Upham and Co., Donaldson
Upham and Co., Donaldson, Lufkin
and Jenrette and Lehman Brothers,
UtiliCorp said in a news release.
Those three firms and County Nat-
West Ltd. are co-managing an
outside the U.S. and Canada.

UtiliCorp is the parent company
of West Kootenay Power.

Net proceeds of the transaction
will be used to reduce short-term
debt incurred primarily as a result of
capital and acquisition-related ex-
penditures, UtiliCorp said.

UtiliCorp common stock is listed
“én the New York, Toronto and
Pacific stock exchanges. ~

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