Charlie Brown and the “Peanuts” t) ‘bellies detiag eS i Paranscu ner wines For Fier You Tie, Charlie Brows, jot Volcanic Generating Electricity AUS. g New Energy Source. By DANIEL Q.. HANEY Press ) Still wide-eyed and wildly ignorant after 43 years of pre- posterous catastrophe, Li'l Ab- ner is being retired by. the outrageous wit who created him. This handsome hick dimwit said .goodbye to the funny papers, Nov, 13. He takes with him, among others, the gentle Shmoos, boldly bosomy Daisy Mae and pipe-smoking Mammy Yokum. They're citizens of the comic strip hamlet of Dogpatch. And they peopled the imagina- tion of Al Capp, a man who tickled and infuriated millions with the: social comment he wove into the adventures of hillbilly hayseeds. But now Capp is crippled 50 to 100 ‘yatory says it has completed the first step a using voleanically heated rock ' beneath the earth’s surface to j generate electricity. New city: from steam in the 1990's. Community TV. COMMUNITY. AC ACCESS CH-10 ‘i boratory says it has drilled two two-mile ‘deep wells about 250 feet apart _ into the nearby Jemez moun- 4ains, and made cracks im the phot granite between them by pumping down water under high pressure. Water pumped, down one well and up the other was heated to 265 degrees over a 20—hour period, a spokesman said. The next step, .he said, was to see if the heating process could be maintained for a long period. “The laboratory plans to dig deeper wells into hotter granite i eventually . to see for Tonight 6:00—Button Soup—A_ Child- ren’s.story with narra- tion by Kent Robbie. 6:15—Trail, Art: Club's Fall Exhibition — Opening / ceremonies. 6:30—Arthritis: Coping and caring. 7:15—Castlegar ‘and District All Candida‘ 05: Men's Fellowship—Trail banquet. Guest. seeker ~ Gary: pum Bulletin Board TEA & BAZAAR Thee Anglican Chureh Women of St. David’s Church are sponsoring their annual :Pre-Christmas . ‘Tea and Bazaar on Sat., Nov. 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Legion Hall. OXFAM HANDICRAFTS : Are you looking for an unusual Christmas gift or For further i Christmas cards? The Monday Night Group have more handicrafts from Oxfam Trading and would love to show them to any interested groups or individuals. All proceeds go to support an agricultural station in Boyd at 365-5454. SENIOR CITIZENS MEETING The Castlegar and District Senior Citizens will meet in the Centre today (Thurs., Nov. 17) at 2 p.m. Mr. and Mrs, G.. Hughes will be showing slides and sharing comments on their recent trip to Africa. CB. cLuB GENERAL MEETIN The Stlocan -Valley:C.B. Club will be S olding a - General Meeting on Sat., Nov. 26 in Winlaw at iwtile Please call Sue - and ’s' at 3 Lene ee St. will be a Door Prize. ‘Bi TEA AND SALE The Lutheran Women’s Missionary _ be holding their annual Tea and Sale on Sat., Nov, 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Maple BAKE SALE. The 1st Kinnaird Scouting Organization will be | holding a Bake Sale on Sat., Nov. 19 at the Safeway - . store in the Plaza beginning at 10 a.m, SOVIET FOLK ARTISTS TOURING The U.S.C.C. and the A.GR.D. are sponsoring @ + show of Touring Soviet Folk Artists from the Bolshoi Theatre in the Gym at Stanley Humphries Secondary School tonight (Thurs., Nov. 17) at 7:30 p.m.-Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children and students. . MINTO CHAPTER #79 ANNUAL. BAZAAR Minto Chapter 479, Order of Eastern Star, will’ hold their Annual Bazaar in the Senior Citizens’ Centre, 1st Ave. N., on Sat., Nov. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. ~ Sewing, baking, and novelties will be sold and there OTTLE DRIVE ‘The Robson Beavers, Cubs and Scouts are having League will. .aBottle Drive on Sat., Nov. 19 commencing at 10 a.m. Any bottles, cans, or old batteries will be much & peperesiatel: Operations. Please sim notices di Castlegar News aes 5 p.m. Mondays. © interior ‘Lumber Ope tor Pulp and ALONS Canadian Cellulose of electri- and at age 68, % ‘cannot go on. “I could see my: stuff didn’t have the joy it used to have,” he said. At the end of a long sent- ence, -Capp's. bullfrog voice fades into a rusty whisper, and the’ face that used to look like: Lil: Abner’s:‘crumples with painful coughs. ~ 21 wasnt having fun with it anymore. It was .becoming a: chore. I-grew more and more tired of drawing the strip, and the atrip began to show it. So finally I said, ‘What the hell’ and quit.” ti Abner, his ‘life-long labor, was'no longer quite so fresh or so funny. In recent years, the strip was dropped by many newspapers that had caried it since the Depression. “- “But at its peak in the 1950s, Li'l Abner was a roaring, “foot-stomping success. Readers of 900 newspapers around the world followed the daily mishaps of Li'l Abner a) he wandered innocently among | ‘the’forces of greed and evil, duped and abused by politicians and tycoons, Long. before the philoso- phizing of “Peanuts” and the editorializing of “Doonesbury”, yers, ee ameiite policemen, gangsters, salesmen and doc- tors, He made fun of marriage, fads, politics, love and even comic strips. In‘ the 1940s and “50s, liberals considered Capp to be one of their own. He poked fun at. stuffed shirts; he snickered TOR CENTURIES THEY WERE HUNTED FH BOUNTY. FUN AND FOOD... NOW IT'S THEIR TURN! Now WARNING: Paronts—could fright ‘some childre C. Direct CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November vy, CASTLEGAR ENTERTAINMENT {fl See us for ae CASTLEGAR is ( V9 Columbia’ Avenue ; Dear, Ann Landers: T Al Copp’s Broinchid Scratched Off the Map * Chaenrters teasing stage i LST Ahser, Manny and Papy Vehum and Dalay Mae aren in a rerent 141 Abeer papel. at upstanding citizens who had never turned wn in ‘the comics before. ‘Politicians and greedy ‘bus: inessmen regularly buffooned their way across the page. . “There was, for instance, Sen. Jack S, Phogbound, the pom- pous, baby-kissing right-winger - who. embodied ..the _ Cappian “ view of Southern politics: “In his prime, he was one of the two or three greatest ‘cartoonists this, country ever : produced,” says David Manning White, a Virginia - Common- wealth University professor whois one of the few scholars of the funnies, “What. made him unique was his ability to. develop characters that were modern fairy tales. : “He had an intuitive grasp of many of the things that are troubling “America, and he ‘made us laugh at them.” As: the times changed, so did Capp. With the growth of welfare and the antiwar move- ment, Capp shifted to new targets. To the horror of liberals, he was suddenly at- tacking them. Instead ‘of characters like Henry Cabbage Cod, who might have born a silence, But the liberals didn't, ‘They rose from one end of thé ‘country to the ‘other ‘and denounced me.” But in the strip’s heyday in the 1950s, Li'l] Abner was not only read, it was discussed, by highbrows who ordinarily. de- nied’ any knowledge. of the existence of. the comics: page. Li'l Abner in those days. was literature. Capp’s talent was compared. with William Ho- garth and Jonathan Swift. “For myself, I never did anything as well as I hoped,”. Capp. says. “Maybe no° artist _ does, John Steinbeck ‘ once “wrote that. the Nobel Prize should go to Li'l Abner. He was, T-am sure, shocked and dis- Li'l Abner Creator Bids Idiev to Dogpatch appointed when they gave it to” him instead." Capp’s sense of humor filled\the daily strip. ‘There were, for instance, the names. Capp had the, Dickensian knack arac~ » Henry Cabot. Lodge, Capa tales became populated by such zanies ‘as - Joanie. Phoarie,.a + Joan Baez-like folk singer who ate caviar and crooned about poverty and protest, Capp seems to revel in the uproar, “A humorist has one duty. —to be funny,” he says. “Some: are funny about kids, some about dogs, some about moth- ers. I chose fraud. Whatever was fraudulent, I attacked. “When conservatives were fraudulent, I. attacked them. ‘The liberals: loved me. The consevatives maintained an icy West Coast Writer writer and BC. native Gladys Hindmarch will visit this area and give’ readings of her stories. Sponsored by the Canadian Writers Series of Selkirk Col- lege, she will appear at Sel- kirk's Castlegar campus and the Jam Factory in Nelson, Born and raised in Lady- smith on Vancouver Island, ‘she now resides in Nanaimo., In 1959, she won the Mademoiselle © guest-editor contest. In the early '60's she was associated with the Tish group and was part of the upsurge in STARTS AT 73:00pm HIN ENTIG WARES LAT NING Some violent scenes: Director A TROPICAL Gd PARADISE, UNTOUCHED BY MAN... THE ISLAND oF DR. MOREAU vara LANCASTER ICHAEL Y YORK: e in "what he: called’ him: Tobacco Rhoda, ‘Barney Barn- smell, Reactionary -J, Repug- nant, :Sir {Cecil Cesspool and ‘Appassionata Von Climax. ‘Then there was the draw-, ing itself. Capp joyfully exag- gerated his people. They were painfully thin’ stringbeans or dumpy turnips. Capp celebrated the gro- tesque.: Buck teeth protruded between big noses and jutting chins, His people patiently bore rumpled hair, sagging’ bellies and hunched backs, However, there was one - eye-popping exception to Capp's . repulsive - characters. The women. He made them staggeringly curvacious, sin- fully seductive. But“perhaps Capp's most greatures were the «popular +. Shmgos, “luyibl Jil: critters” a writing ‘that: took-place‘on 1 the. " west coast at that time. Some'of her writings are: Open Letter, Sketches, Boat Stories and the Peter Stories. Her writing reflects here west coast background and the variety of activities she has engaged in there: writer; teach- er; feminist; mother; wife; and commercial cook. Mousetrap's First Shutdown In 25. Years A power’ cut recently + followed by a standby gener: ator failure forced the’abandon- ment of the 10,366th perfor.’ mance of Agatha Christie's The. - Mousetrap in London's West End. It was the first tims in 25 years a London performance of. ° the. world’s ‘longest’ running play, had to.be curtailed. The: packeéd-house audience got its’ money back. Ironically, The Mousetrap. involves’ a blackout, : during which the murder in the play” takes place. The’ power cuts: have been caused by ‘a slow- down launched by ‘rebel elec- :' tricity workers ne better | contract terms.. -. ‘. that joyfully: rolled. over. and * died when anyone -wanted to eat them. They were eventually ban- ished from the strip, however, because all that love and goodness turned out to be dangerous to mankind. Capp replaced them with Kigmies, little fellows who adored a boot in the pants. All of this was fashioned . into ridiculous adventures in which Lil Abner was taken advantage ‘of ‘by swarms of hilariously recognizable vil- lains. : Capp wrote all - his - life about mythical hill folk, but he ‘did it from'the perspective of a city boy. He was born,: Dog- patch: poor; with: the. :name Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven,.Conn.,.in 1909.-.. When he was nine, he fell from an ice truck and.was run over by a streetcar. His left leg had to be amputated. Outfitted . with .a wooden leg, he attended a rapid succes- sion of art. schools in Boston. . After be was thrown . out of «each for nonpayment of tuition, he went to New York, where he landed his first fulltime art job with ‘The: Associated Press. ‘There, he drew a one-panel cartoon ‘called. “Colonel | Gil- feather”. But the work did not. gowell, and he lasted in, the, Job: : only six months. civic THEATRE. > Nelson = One Show Only- 8 peri: -Sunday through Thursday Two Shows - Tand9p.m. af Friday and Saturday “Nov. 17-19. ROLLERCOASTER George Segal*. |. - Timothy Bottom Richard Widmark (Mature). - te: 7 HOW! *O TRAME! A FIG Don Knotts |: Sena Z ISLANDS in The STREAM , George C. Scott. KIRK” Y. Maree BUY oo Fl E sweating—B.C. Director fat BILL MALY. SED RUIWICT ALTMAN OE ‘he nicest movie you'll ever see} about murder and blackmail.” : ENE ROCHE, HUNEET RENTON ANING: Occasional violence, some - ‘David' Hemmings (Mature) Nov. 23- Dramal ... original novel ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Burt Lancaster. “ Michael York (Mature) Then he became an assis- “tant to Ham Fisher, creator ‘of Joe’ Palooka”. Soon . he got. ideas for his.own strip, and in 1934, Li'l. Abner, appeared. .. + into the big money, and.at ‘the height of his career he earned more than $500,000'a year. He - York to keep up with such ida iol ieden ick ai ll cue ad rey ; spin-offs aa Shmoo clocks and, Deadline: Daisy Mae blouses. In the late 1960s, Capp: - 5 p.m. Mondays’ went on the college speaking ee ke circuit, : Rebel Booster Club Music by: Sundance t { ' ‘ ' ‘ i : wae. SELKIRK WY Canadian Writers Series presents _ GLADYS HINDMARCH - _ Reading Her Stories Friday - Nov. 18: 8PM. Room M-14 Selkirk College, Castlegar — FREE ADMISSION: —' °°" _ By. the, 1940s, Capp was 3 ‘Nov... 18—Canadian Writers ° Series .preseiits-<\' . Gladys Hindmarch in Room M14 at Selkirk College ate 8 p.m. Nov. 22 to Dec. 15—Peter Ochs—wood ‘eile and Don Portelance—oil paintings from the Burnaby Art Galery: on n Sieey at the Langham: . Music Teachers ‘Association. Nov. 26--Seikirk Weavers Guild aniwial Sh Sale of Weaving and. Fibrearts at the. Comm Complex starting at 11 am: ; ‘- Nov. ‘28—Arts Garten: eae m : in. the Kinnaird Library at 80, p.m., Nov. 30—Drawing Coop tot inthe craftroom of the Community Complex from 7 to 10 p.m. Purpose of the group ‘is to co-operatively. contribute toprojects :\ \ and operation of sketch club. Bring‘ ‘Materials ‘for $ drawing and come along if you | are interested. ¥ ‘ Dee. i 2, 3—The Geile Christa Faire in the : Nelson Civic Centre. * s Dec. 9, 10—the 8rd Annual Blueberry eras Graft Pair i in the Kinnaird Hall, eee 1 “Dee. 5to 11_Dosce ‘McDonnell paintings o on view at the National pexnibition, Centre i in Castlegar... wan Cousei emb. froin Cane Ward or at ‘both Librari Items for this bi-monthly feature should be to Mrs. D. Miller-Tait of the Castle; Conant Arts Council at ear opened Cap Enterprises in New . BARET erect Tati S gers need a visible tape ) they can see, how they stack up. I have been out of my teens for two years but I composed this | questionnaire in the hope it will be ' 1 I wish I had seen one like it six or seven years ago. Dear.Teen::If you can answer yes to six of these questions; * . “Youlare a “pretty good” teenager. Eight yes responses puts you in > the “very good” category. Ten or more yeses means you are an “all star, to} eap, beautiful person,” ; tn, find room for this in your column. It is something.” your young readers need to see. (P.8. Some of youre older rezdera would do well {o check th out and see how 7 they up.) Looking For A Better Tomorrow Dear Looking: Your: questionnaire Is excellent. Here it is with my warm thanks, ; + (l) Have you ever been given too much change and told the sales person or cashier ‘that he made an error? REI IIIA ITAA IN 0 avis" toward the final ines’ of the on heck recently, wg dohuny, Faye a Sanceay Thomas, .. San }) Juan, Porta’ Plata, ,etc.: was *: ‘sold out. However, Paycheck lost money: ‘My wite s ent ‘as8..much as. |. made!" * Paycheck recently ‘filmed Nashville on the Road,’ je’ Jones and Tammy Wynette will'-have a new jpreatesty Hits", November...’ Willie Nelson Tater recgrding artist . Willle Nelson broke nis foot and could’ not perform for Congress this week. Willle ‘makes a guest performance on -Mary Kay Place's _ album. The LP: +-)(2) If a person tells you thing that is to be held ‘in the strictest of confidence can you be trusted not to breathe a word to. » anyone? Bhai +, (9)' Have you ever listened to an older person talk on and on i and pretended you were interested even though you were bored | silly? (4) Have yoit éver: -been criticized for something and thanked the pe of making excuses or tried to defend yourself? fj Have ou ever done-a good deed and not told a single soul ut it? gid AT (6) Have’ you ever gone out of your way tomake ashy Pereon : feel, comfortable in a Broup? ‘ (7) Have’ 'you ever refused to take credit for ‘sotnething you j didn’t do ahid'asked that the credit be given instead to the Person who really deserved: it?. (8) Have 5 you ever spoken out in a group and said something wood about soni¢one when everyone else was tenting him (or her) Ff APATE? ec meee (9) Do you 1 have at least one very good fried of the opposite } sex, someone you would go the itd mile:for, but have no sexual. - ; interest, in? (10) “Have yon ever Y caleseed by word or note your * appreciation to a teacher who went out of this (or her) way to,help > you? os . * vais { (11) Have you ever ded not t this be embarrassing to someone?. : * (12) Have'you ever thanked your es for trying todo ‘their best and told tem you love them? s . . * Dear Ann: Did it ever occur to that mother-in-law who gets called ! “Hey You" to say to the “lunkhead” (her name for him)—"Please : eall me Helen... or Mom.” ao T have been married for five years and I'm still calling my in-laws “Mr.'and Mrs.” It's plenty embarrassing at a family fd together or in the presence of friends. ‘I hope the woman who wrote that letter sees this one and gives f it some thought. I wish my motlier-in-law would take the —Still An Outsider In Wisconsin pt Stil: Button up your overcoat, friend, If after. five years it’s still “Mr. and Mrs.”, the temperature is pretty chilly in Wisconsin. I think you inlaws Must want it that way—and it's too bad. Evérybody ‘loses.* : s [re ed Dear Ann Landers: anes tgen th high school and yrant 2 ‘diploma, but I have a chance,to 2.84 So.th road with,a, 8 dance; ca,group Sand hate to pass it up. Is there prey T cant’ do Both? —Twinkle Toes Dear Twinkle: Yes. Dance over to the principal's office and he will tell yeu how. It ean-be done and you certainly should do it; ————Karniie's: Ladies weer) a aoe - For Her At Christmes . | ROBES — We have a fine selection Ii “chenille or terry cloth, wrap style, with shawl, notched collar, and! * self-tie belt. f s; We also have popular. prints, and. -. velour with button or zipper front, In multl-stelpe or.plain shades. $ Sizes SMI : Be Sure, this Christmas. Gives a ‘ ay Certificate’? from Karn! ws \ KARNIE'S. ladies | Wear 33 Maple | that would. ‘Sanday, Nov. 19° Music b Midnight Flyers Muse iamondaa) ‘Refreshments: Available: “Light Lunch Served j Morenerette Feet Renewal imieston ~~. © cover will make Mary Kay, who's been nominated for an Emmy,’ the Betty Grabte: of ing eovenes Johnny Duncan ‘recently filmed : "Good Ole. Nashville Music.’ While .recording his new single, ‘Come a Little Bit Closer,’ the Spanish/ Mexican flavor. of fhe: song engl Humperdinck's prompted producer: Billy ‘After the Lovin' album went Sherrill to inctude’ a drunk _ platinuni. Mexican. on’ the Recent for performance. The Mexican's, Ford, Seven Up, Noxema, talents are most audible Burger King, Sears, Pabst : and American Express have been ‘recorde Columbia eet at ide & * InNashville. Marijohn Wilkin is highly successful in many facets of - _ the music industry— songwriter of note, member of the’ Nashville Songwriters Association's Hall of Fame, Gospel: Music.’ Association ‘Dove Awardee; music publisher .heading up album in POT ROAST CANADA we CASTLEGAR NEWS, 5, Thursday, ‘November 17,' EF OF Bl GRAIN FED BEEF GRADE .. on PORK CHOPS <=... | FRESH KILLED FOWL =: ee CHUCK STEAK exec. FRYING CHICKEN WINGS HOME MADE 59° BOLOGNA GAINERS SUPERIOR BY THE PIECE . BEEF SAUSAGE: 10. 7. ry] PINK SALMON - ‘GOLD SEAL 7% OZ, UN veces cece eeceenenee FLAKE LIGHT: TUNA" GOLD SEAL 602. TIN’. seen veaseccees 79 nan Music. with offices in Nashville, backup singer.and teacher. Marljohn is now : -embarking’on a brand. new ‘Johnny Dil career -Matlionn Wilkin © on Tou: soleelintaloeiaatatebtniioiesiisicmielenisoisinnitnits e = BY JOEY SASSO “CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Everybody knows about ‘the mitlions Johnny Carson earns as the host of ‘The Tonight Show,’ and followers of the show also know about the mega-bucks ‘he earns when he takes time off from the. tube todo a stint in Vegas. But now the ‘figures are. out. +: about Johnny's cut from the lingyof wenis clathingthab sbears. tis name. Seems’ he gets a bit more’ than the five percent The Road: to a ‘The Road to. win ives you ever doubted the power of TV. consider this: Hal Linden used to be a journeyman: song-and-dance guy. on Broadway. Then, along came ‘Barney Miller." Now, instead of half-a-thou a week, Hal “commands $25,000 for.a one nighter (albi holiday eve) at the Concord in the Catskills and half-a-million for a role in an upcoming major movie . . . Loretta Swit, who plays Hot Lips on *M*A*S*H,' is becoming a pest on:the set. She's a health food freak and constantly bugs the cast .and crew about eating junk foods. She brings cartons of yogurt to the studio and demands her co-workers eat the. Stuff whether they tike it or not. . EYE ON TV: Stars of the NBC-TV comedy hit ‘Saturday 2° Night’ are turning ¢ to films. John Belushi makes his debut in Jack Nichol: son's ‘Goin': South’ and: former Saturday ~ Nighter Chevy Chase will play opposite Goldie Hawn in ‘Fowl Play,’ a detective: comedy . . Angie Dickinson is anxious ‘to get out of her ‘Police Woman’ series as soon as.her contract'is up, which is'aftér this season: want.to squeeze the lemon until the last drop is ou declares:. *‘The only thing that: would’ make. me return after my five years are up is if the series were moved toa different time period and. suddenly hit ‘the top 10 and ©’ remained. there. im. 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