CASTLEAIRD PLAZA
‘IN CASTLEGAR Will Be
Open This Sunday, Dec. 16

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12 Noon
until
5 p.m.
This Sunday
~ ONLY

NOT ALL STORES WILL BE OPEN

oy 's Kobbler has SUPER SAVINGS
on BOOTS for the whole Family.

SLIPPERS

For The Whole Gang

20”.

BY Packard and Reg. Price

Foamtreap

FOR DAD
LEATHER BOOTS

HEWITSON
Zip & Lace ‘
Reg. 55.95 & 56.95.....

$355

SUEDE BOOTS

- cozy, pile lining, and .

FOR MOM

in black or brown with

practical styling. :
By CLARKS. Reg. 38.95.....

$935

FOR THE YOUNGSTERS

‘MOON Boots “> 1 099
BY PAJAR. Reg. $17.98....... :

C. Bring’ § Wobbler Lid. -

365-6911

Fine Fomlly.s Shoes ey
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( CHRISTMAS PARTY SET
Contains
1 Table Cover
16 Luncheon Napkins
18 Cocktail Napkins
All in Gay Xmas Design

F ULLER > -
TOOL SETS
Screwdriver

$549 ||
gas? $1 Q99

7-piece

GIFT SET

Soap & Cologne

$999

PRICES IN EFFECT SUNDAY, DEC. 16 ONLY

Carl’s Western Drug Mart.

Castleaird Plaza, Castlegar

Noma
25-Light Outdoor Set

$10°°
. Econoel 25-Light Outdoor Set

$779

SUNDAY ONLY SPECIALS FROM GIS.

15% on

ALL
STEREOS

and

ALL

Duracell

After Sales Service Guaranteed by Gov't Certified Tech

26°" SOLID-STATE
CONTEMPORARY COLOR TV

Hitachi makes it better looking
iit ita Conlemparary.
styling and a Walnut finish.
Lighted channel indicators so SUNDAY
you're never in'the dark while ONLY
tuning, Electro APS and AFC.

And the Hitachi 100% solid-

state chassis adds all.the latest ie a |
in advanced circuitry... - 4 9 0 0-;
Reg. 899.00

365-5351 365-3611

All Christmas Wrap
Men's & Ladies’

2-pc. Ski Suits
Children’s. Sizes 4-6

1-pe. Snowsuits
Girls. Sizes 8-14

© Winter Jackets
Ladies’ — Limited Supply

Boys’ GWG. Sizes 7-18

Robinson Store — Castleaird Plaza ONLY
PRICES EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, DEC. 16
FROM 12 NOON UNTIL 5 P.M. ONLY

PANTSUITS & DRESSES...

to Plaza, wi ay

SAVE *40°

Fischer Flair Skis ........4.++++++$195,00

Solomon 222 Bindings......
Mounting .........-

$ 10.00
"Reg. $289.95

sate*249.95 ;

SAVE $40.00

SAVE *607°
ON GOLF FACKEGES
.$ 84,95

Reg. $440.70

SAVE *40°

Men's & Ladies’
Dynafit Control Star
SKI BOOTS. .......-..00+-

Reg. $169.95:

sate £129.95

SAVE $40.00

SALES 80.00

SAVE $60.70 .

‘Semple, a fine cut of a man w!
‘welt over six feet gad who was himself a

intemal le peri eh known

STARTER

GOLF

Packages

FOOTWEAR

Downhill Ski Packeiges 15% OFF

Castleaird Plaza

Men's & Ladies’
Wayne Wong

SKI SUITS &
SKI JACKETS

3 OFF

~ CLEARANCE \y
tee Ze OFF.

CROSS-
‘COUNTRY

Ski Package......

15% on

MOUNTAIN SPORTS HUT

Passion: pure and Semple

ose Aimee Semple McPherson

” vai so often the world ‘Teads a good

scandal.’ Perhaps the Watergate

the granddaddy of them all. It

Ancident comes

ng Wi inthe resignation

f a president. of the U.S, Still and all,

there pave: been some dandies down

thro the ye ars. If you remember Babe

Ruth, Jack Dempsey, ‘the Charleston and

bathtub jn, ou may very well

remember ‘subject of one of the most

titilla! scandals of all time — Aimee
Semple er heracn.

th Kennedy was born in,

Ingersoll, Ont.-on Oct. 9,

ime little. Aimee could

introduced her

ligious milieu which, in one form

or another, she was to spend the balance

of her life.

Actui ually Aimee at i years of age dida
bit m re chan attend religious mee: setings,
She f fel) hard for Bible thump!

yi Bore

ce
2

hed heathen to the li sit, Unfortuna:

before they could it the way,

le caught a fever in Hong Kong and

908 Aimee gave birth to Semple's

i aula ‘Together with any

she returned to New York where

her parents. resided. Not one to let grass

grow under her feet Aimee tied the knot

with grocery clerk, Harold McPherson.

‘This new alliance only jelled long enough
to usher a son, Rolf, the worl
Harold and Aimee were then divorced,
ee was not a beautiful woman.

ww, that is not to say that she was not

saractive and sexy. Photos taken of:

her while she was in her 20's reveal.a

callie quality, Yesicely packaged in ina trim,

Aimee had that

as charisma.

‘Together with her mother and two chil-

dren, Aimee travelled across the US.

Square Gospe
Probab!

bution to thie religion

alization that the

: 1a thie
word, combined with relievin:

suckers of their hard earned

on the top of the temple could be seen for

To give you an idea of the success of
Aimee’s temple, it cost one and a half
million doliars to bulid in 1823, The.

tenet,
were i Bra
*. That's when tke the toof caved in.’
‘Aimee fell in love with Kenneth G.

ris to Europe and the Holy

land, where she was a resounding auc.
cess. Ken was-absent from the ing ou
there were those

tinely accompanied Aimee on her quest to
save lost so:

On May 18, 1926 Aimee went for a swim
near Los Angeles with her private secre-
tary Emma a echeetter Wl , her. secre

rie Apr ait
totally d ‘sep eared. By nightla 1 the
isappearance § ie wend e

ws bat ity Heving
had it drowned thousa 8 took part in x

sei her rts
Coincidental with Aimee's enone

i Bray, and send money. They td
iter Aimee Memorial Fund was a

huge success. Sums taken oe are unknown

in total, but must nave been substantial.
e meeting al alone ne 000,

Owns all these lucrative shenanigans
were going on, Almee's mother recelved
@ ransom note demanding a $500,000 for
her daughter’s safe return, The note was
algned “The Avengers’. Police kept the
roposed meeting with the kidnappers,
Bate no one show

ua Prieta. She told quite a story. She
fed n kidnapy by Rose, Steve, and
Jake and held Prisoner in a little shack
somewhere in the desert She had.
escaped and walked t: ugh the
score! desert all day antl she reached

Agua

he abduction, i
beginning Ryan smelled
had shown up clean and

‘ refreshed in the Mexican town after

walking an entire day through the desert.
in 120 de; temperature. Much was
made ofthe fact that Almee wasn't even

pers

Ken Ormiston was subpoenaed to
appear befor the Grand Jury, but by now
he was living in Norfolk, Va., and had no
intention crossing the: country to
appear in. court. He cli know
noth g of the disa pearance:

uly 20 the Grand Jury found that

there was not sufficient evidence to prove
idnap |, You can
"3 em arrassment

was revealed by
en Ormiston had
parmel,

ee Was down but not outs An appeal
Ken Ormiston to tell alll bi

to
an affidavit ere he confessed to

having been shacked up with a lady, but
MG swore the lady was ze Aisa “3.2, not our

Ae he helght of the scanda: asi :
‘attorney. sin a te scandal complaint

against Ormiston, Mrs. Kennedy, am

‘of ccurse, Aimee. They were. © arged
with conspiracy to obstruct justice and
ae false evidence before the Grand

relating to some juicy ‘tidbit eaeceretng
Ormiston and Aimee’s torrid love affair.
Each Sunday Aimee reviewed the trial on
her own radio program, ridiculing her
tormentors and procleiming her inno-
cence, All three defendants, were held
over for trial.

Right in the middle of proceedings Dis-
trict Attorney Keyes, tn a scparate
action, was charged with conspiracy
to defraud. The action against him was
delayed until the McPherson affaty was
finalized.

The final blow ‘to Alinee’s reputation
came when her love letters tu Ormistun

up to a hot criminal trial where

Aimee, her mother, and Ormiston stood a
chance of going te prison for up te 14
years, all cl grarges against the three were
drop} n Aimee hoerd the news,
he peda af .

ad purpor-
fed Sealy bought it! District “Atlornes Keyes

Once the fuss settled down, Aimee werit
back to the preaching business, but times
were changing. She quickly discovered
that no one could take her seriously as.
ape preacher again. She faded into ‘obscu.

Ken Ormiston returned to Los Angeles,
where he became the respected chief
engineer of a local radio station. He died
in 1937 at the age of 41. District Attorney
Keyes later spent almost two years in San

uentin, Prison for fraud. He had a stroke ©

led three years after his release in

Aimee never achteved prominence

pgaln. In 1944, in her 54th year, she died

r hectic life and international scanda
nothiee! more than a dim memory.

AIMEE poses with a friend
beginnings, in Ingersoll, Cnt.

outside the farmhouse, where she had her humble

to be replayed.

“West, recently rose in the

* Johnny in two shows, one at

MID-WEEK

MID-WEEK MIRROR
CASTLEGAR NEWS, Decembor 12,.1979

e
} Is'the Place for a
" Complete Line
‘1 of Upholstery

q
Cay fire + 7th Ave., 8. 385-3055

A Canadian institution

Tommy Hunter Show

tn an era in which television variety shows come
and go rather quickly, ‘The Tommy Hunter Show’ has:
1. Tuning in to the
program ie an hour of good, easy-to-listen-to
country music with one of the country’s most popular
performers.

Hunter’s long-runnin
Country Award for Top

CBC-TV show won the Big
anadian Country Television -

-Show, and Tommy has been honored by the Broadcast

Executive Society for ‘distinguishing himself by the
quality of excellence in.the field of music." Tommy has
also been selected as the Academy of Country Music
Entertainment's tirst Honorary Chairman of Country
Music Week. Internationa! recognition has also come
in the form of a special citation for his contributions

, to country and western music from the Country Music

Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn.

: Through the years the program has become a
showcase lor Canadian county talent. Tommy Hunter
is the kind of man who fully commits himself to.
anything he does, and he strongly believes in Canadian
performers. “I'll not present new young Canadian
talent as second rate.’ Tommy feels that the show
gets better every year, concluding, ‘We all work
extremely hard, but it's enloyable because I'm doing
the kind of music I love and fee! at home with." —

Dieppe raid
documentary

For the benefit of those
veterans who missed the
original screening of the CBC
documentary on the Dieppe
raid, please note that this will
be rerun on: Dec. 16, from 2
to 5 p.m.

This is in compliance
with a unanimous request
from the House of Commons.
Bob Brisco, MP for Kootenay

House, under. special pro-
cedural provisions, to im-
press upon the members that
many (of Canada's veterans
had been at Legion functions
during the original screening.

He subsequently receiv-

the House, 4 rai

western music

dohnn: : Paycheck’s
‘cocaine yrrain’ "is ati climb-
ing the charts. Also, catch his
won of ‘Proud Mai

mys ‘new album on Epic
i éntitled Everybody Got a
Family—Meet Mine.

Johnny Paycheck

Johnny recently filmed an
‘Austin City Limits’ to be
shown later this year. 19,000
people recently caught

the Choctaw Fair in Philadel-

hia, Miss., and one_at the

Bisissippi” State Fair in
ckson.

Bon Schlitz, who chalked
up another award when he
won the CMA Song of_ the

T1-

bler,' has recently been tour-
ing with Robert Palmer, Dr.
Hook and J.. of Cale.

jank Witlarn’s Original
Drifting Cowboys are firming
up their spring European
tour. This past year, they
performed on Germany's first
country music special. rosy
will be > playing in March 1981
at the Smithsonian Institute
in Washington and in July
with the New Orleans Pop
Symphony Orchestra.

Danny Davis and Willle
Nelson are tearing up_for
Danny's new RCA album, Ths
album will include music from
the Big Band Era. Songs such
nlude eNiehtilie: will be

clude

Mountain," ‘Bi ig Wo
ae Oak ‘ices pa hey tittle

@ Golden Hits of Dorsey
Gureie is avaliable on eight
track, cassette or album for

95 postpaid from a
jox

Y»
eats. A photo anda blogra-
phical Career story are also
included. Rumor has it that
some of Dorsette’s old hits
will be repackaged and re-

Castlegar

feast your eyes on thasa

CHRISTMAS SPECIALS

Buya
Houbigant
product of

‘MUSK |
CHANTILLY

AND RECEIVE A BOTTLE OF

BUBBLE MILK BATH
AT.NO EXTRA CHARGE

BUY SOMEONE SPECIAL
GIFT OF

“ESSENCE... |
RARE”

and receive a ae) onal

GIFT PARFUM
AT NO EXTRA.CHARGE

Purchase any Monsieur
Houbigant

COLOGNE OR
EL ER SHAVE

AND RECEIVE.A
GIFT SOAP

ROPE

Clairol Kindness

3-WAY HAIR
SETTER

Regular $30.95
Christmas Sole Price

SUPER CURLY TOP
Regular $39.95
Christmas Sole Price

$9498

FAUSICAL ORNAMENTS,
CHINA ORNAMENTS

The perfect stocking
stuffer gift

$Q95

irae

HEAD TO HEAD
FOOTBALL

Features include, offence:
pass, block. run, kick, and de-
_ fence; intercept, blitz, tackle.

$4999

GREAT
GIFT
IDEAS
IN OUR

TOYLAND<

(Downstairs)

Fisher Price
“Talk-To-Me”’

RECORD BOOK

Regular $39.95:

Christmas Sale Price

$319

ROAD RACE SET

Comes complete with CSA approved

power pack,
Christmas
Sale
Price

EN, “DINO”

The Green
Dinosaur

2 PLUSH
= TOY

ee Reed Regular $12.95
i ay %
"YF Christmas $399

Price

REE

Fisher Price

MUSIC BOX
MOBILE

Regular $24.95
“10° Oval

Christmas Sale Price

3 I 9°29

$2999

released as a new product.

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at RUG

NITED. PHARMACIES

Corner of Pine & Columbia

CLOSED THIS SUNDAY Carl's Drug Open 12 noon - I p.m. & 6107 p.m.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HOURS Dec. 19, 20, & 21

— Open 9a.m. -9 p.m.

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