The best car rental deal in town Is . Budget rentacar Nn iii iis Licensee Owned in Canada by Cana "365-3300 Singer Katherine Johnson Appears Sunday with KCO CBS Starts Ahead Of Rival Networks CBS hit the high point of its current television season in the week ending New Year's Day by finishing ahead of both ABC and NBC in the networks’ weekly battle for the primetime viewer, figures released by the A. C. Nielsen rating company show.” It was the first week since the season began in September that CBS ranked No. 1, and. only the “secénd time in 17 weeks that ABC wasn't first.- ‘The top-rated CBS shows was 60 Minutes, with a rating of 28.2. NBC's Saturday Night Movie, Come Back Little RUBBER STAMPS CASTLEGAR NEWS)f Phone 365-7266 191 Columbia Ave. Sheba, was ranked last, No. 58, for the week, The week's ratings did not include CBS National Football “League playoff telecasts Dec. 26 and New Year's Day, which extended into prime time. The top 10 programs for the week: Laverne and Shirley, a 33.6 rating and Happy Days, 31.8, both ABC; 60 Minutes, 28.2, ‘CBS; Three's Company, 25.1, ABC; Alice, 24.1, and One Day: at a Time, 22.9, both CBS; Barney Miller, 22.5, ABC; Bar- naby Jones, 22.1 CBS; ABC Sunday Night Movie, Serpico, and The Caro! Burnett Show, CBS, both 21.8. The next 10 shows: CBS Friday Night Movie, Zorro, and Hawaii Five-O, also CBS; Charlie's Angels, ABC; M-A-S-H, CBS; What's Hap- pening, ABC; NBC Monday Night Movie, Christmas Mir- acle in Caulfield, U.S.A., and CBS Wednesday Night Movie, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, tie; Soap, ABC, and Lou Grant, CBS, tie; and Welcome Back, Kotter, ABC, and Quincy, M. NBC, tie. — COMMUNITY » RNABC DINNER AND BUSINESS MEETING The regular meeting of/the Castlegar Chapter RNABC will be held on Tues?, Jan, 17. This will be a dinner mecting at 6:30 p.m. at the Columbia Steak’ House, followed by a business-meeting at 8 p.m. at the home of K. Pinckney at 303 Ridgewood Dr., S. Castlegar. Please phone Mrs. Pinckney on Mon., Jan. 16, if you plan to attend the dinner session. Rivers Hall. BOTTLE DRIVE | The 1st Kinnaird Scouting Organization will be holding a bottle drive on Sat., Jan. 14, at 9 a.m. Please leave your bottles and cans on your front porch for - pickup. We thank you for your support. - PYTHIAN SISTERS MEETING The Pythian Sisters (Kootenay Temple #37) will be holding their semi-monthly meeting tonight ‘(Thurs., Jan. 12), at 7:30 p.m. sharp, in the Twin CLAY CASTLE OPEN SATURDAYS The Kootenay Society for the Handicapped. is pleased to announce that the Clay Castle (211 Maple St.) will be open on Sat. from 9 a.m. to6 p.m. Weekday hours have also been extended to 5:30 p. through Thursday and to 9 p.m. Friday. COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM. : The West Kootenay Health Unit is sponsoring a~ health education program at Selkirk College each Tuesday (until Feb. 14), at 12:45 p.m. in Room K10. + Topics presented at each one-hour session will include .. Monday -nutrition, fitness and weight control, venereal disease, birth contro}, stress and drug and alcohol abuse. The public is invited to attend. Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations are listed here through the courtesy of Canadian Cellulose's Interior Pulp and Lumber Operations. Please submit notices directly to the, Castlegar News by 5 p.m. Mondays. A talented soprano from New York, Katherine Johnson, will be featured as a- special guest artist performing with the Kootenay Chamber Orches- tra this Sunday evening at the Selkirk College main lounge. Johnson brings with her an impressive list of achieve- ments, She was awarded two first places in Wales. at the Llangollen International Eis- teddfod and two first places in Middlesborough, Eng., at the Teeside International Bistedd- fod. She was also a finalist at competitions held in Holland eee Dust: i Her previous perfor- mances include recitals. at Cha- teau Lake Louise, solo recitals in Alberta, Manitoba, and New York, and guest performances ae Da Caiera Players, Cal- Assn., and the Lethbridge Symphony. She also has performed for CBC and WNYC, New York, Johnson has recieved a great deal of training in music and voice to prepare her for a career in singing.. She has studied piano for 10 years and has received two degrees in music; her BA. from the University of Calgary in 1974 and her M.A, from the Man- hattan School of Music in 1977. Her education includes training, coaching, and master's classes with over 20 instructors in the U.S. and Canada. Pair Named Most Popular Stars of '77 Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand have been named the world’s two most popular (that is, money- making) stars of 1977, The choices were the re- sults of a survey, conducted for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, based mainly on box office returns, CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 12, 1978 Lea Gets a Warm Reception Edad ih {ors of of Upnotten tery. "FURNITURE a, AUTOMOTIVE Upholstery — Local Patrons of the Arts’ Enthusiastic By RYON GUEDES Editor “A lot of the time the audience tests your reaction to them,” Lea Donaldson, wearing asimple white dress, said in her hotel room. “If you've got a/ negative group it's really hard to dance, and snide comments and things like that always throw you off.” But for Lea, 24, who scored a cultural coup in the Marlane Hotel beverage room last week as the first professional exotic dancer to appear in Castlegar, the response from local patrons _.of the arts has been enthu: Exotic dancer Lea Donaldson, resting between shows To 58th Place Burnett Ratings Sink When The Carol. Burnett Show went on'CBS 11 years ago, its competition was I Spy and The Big Valley, two shows that long ago lapsed into syndication, Burnett is still there with her mop, scrub pail, company of zanies and bottomless bag of tricks. No comedy-variety se- ries has lasted as long, nor earned as much acclaim. Trouble developed this season—rating trouble, which is the worst kind. The Burnett “Show sank to a perilous 58th among all network shows in 1977-78 season ratings through November. Obviously some- thing had to be done. The CBS program minds shifted the show from Saturday night to Sunday, where it joins + the comedy bloc including All in the Family, and Alice. In her sumptuous suite at CBS Tele- vision City, Carol Burnett seemed little disturbed by the turn of events, “Look, it's their. (CBS's) store," she observed. “They could just as easily have cancelled us as move us to another night. I'm pleased with the way the network has treated us. I have no gripes. “Am I disappointed in this season's ratings? Disappoint- ment implies high expectations, and that I didn't have. When I heard about Love Boat, I said ‘This will be a hit.’ “I've heard that before the season started they ran tests on Love Boat against detective shows and other kinds of programs, and Love Boat al- ways scored first. “It's the same with La- verne and Shirley and Happy Days: Grab the young audi- ences and you get the ratings. ° Kootenay Chamber Orchestra wih SOPRAI KATHERINE. SOHNSON SUNDAY, SAN. 15,. oP.M SELKIRKC COLLEGE MAIN LOUNGE Admission: $3.00 Adults $2.00 Seniors & Children Sponsored by CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT peille COUNCIL: You can't fight it. We have Es young atidience, too. But ob- viously not as much as Love Boat.” ‘The Burnett show operates on a five-day schedule, and that's the main reason for the dropout of Dick Van Dyke. “For those of us who live here, the schedule is idea,” she explained. “Although we work * five days, it’s not a 9 to 5 day, so we have plenty of time off. “But for someone who lives out of town, like Dick, he is stuck here, The situation be- -eame acute for him when his family moved from Coronado back to Arizona. That meant Dick finished the show Friday night, caught the plane to Arizona Saturday morning then had to fly back here Sunday night.” The show will continue with regulars Vicki Lawrence and Tim Conway, with guest stars added. Steve Lawrence has been signed for three or four appearances. Also lined up: Helen Reddy, Ken Berry, George Carlin, Steve Martin. Burnett said she would like to continue with the show “as long as it remains as much fun as it has, and as long as the quality of the material keeps’ up. I wouldn't be devastated if the show ended, because there are other things I want to do. + “But I won't fight it when the time comes to go. Through- out my career I've found when decisions are forced on me, they're always right.” RHRKAKEARARKKKKEA i Entertainment Pages “astie.” Although she has received only three snide remarks in her three months’ experience re- moving | io clothing to g Fecord lane audience as very good." She referred specifically to an elderly customer who regularly helped her on and off the stage during her evening shows, ““He asked me to take him with me to Japan,” she said, referring to her booking at the Tokyo Playboy Club later this month. “It’s really nice to have somebody like that.” Represented on a casual basis by Dew Productions, the agency which will be booking - other. dancers into the hotel, Lea said she usually works in elubs and cabarets between Calgary and Medicine Hat. “It’s kept me close to home,” she said. “It was the first time they -had a dancer here, so they wanted me to come and open ‘it up.” It was in Calgary, where she previously worked as a secretary, that Lea started dancing. A friend who owned a club, but was unable one _ eveningto find any dancers, 4 asked a favor. 4 “I ‘said ‘no way’, “but T° ended up doing it anyway," she said. “I was really horrible in the first show, I was so scared, but everybody liked it and it made the second show easier. Despite a lack of any formal background in dancing, Lea said she developed and polished ker own acts, “Basically you get your ideas from the other girls who dance. You look at the dancers you enjoy watching and try to pick out the things you like about their acts.” Like other dancers, Lea carries cassettes of the musical accompaniment for her. 20- minute act from booking. to booking. Most dancers “spend nine-tenths of their free time making recordings and the other tenth making costumes” —the largest single expense of the profession. She said she usually makes her own cos- tumes but will have several professionally made for her Tokyo engagement. “Most of the girls can't sew and have someone else make their costumes. If you. get someone to make a costume for Community TV COMMUNITY ACCESS CH- 10 Schedule for Tonight 6:00—The Planning of a City: Rossland High School presentation. 7:30—Castlegar City Couneil: Jan. 10 meeting, 9:30—Fire Prevention: -A look at ways of preventing fire in the home. 10:30—La Galliade: Interviews ‘with musicians after a fereane music concert. THEATRE Nelson .- One Show Only-8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday Two Shows -7 and9 p.m. Friday and Saturday you, you usually have to pay $200 just for them to talk to ou." f The’ dancer said the audi. i Held Over ence's reception of her act can Through Saturday vary drastically from place to STAR: WARS. Place. : Jan: 16-17) “Some girls get hassled at ONE ON ONE every show they do,” said Lea, Robbie Benson who wound up her booking here Annette O'Toole Saturday, “But you won't be if (Mature) . you can get up on stage and enjoy what you're doing. And according to Marlane co-owner Gordon Chrusch, the audience also enjoyed what Lea was doing. dan..14 Matinee GENTLE GIANT (General) Jan. 18-24 OH GOD HE he could do his number Red ‘Hotel Witt huuk-w r dancers into the beverage room * ona regular weekly basis, he Mats . . why should It aes 80 hard to belleve he's back again. (General) Joint Installation of Officers : Royal Canadian Legion Branch 170 Saturday, Jonvary 14 7:30 p.m. Legion Hall © Branch 170 and Ladies Auxiliary Oiligare will be installed. —— civic. Canadian Writer Series present tf Sharon Pollock Selkirk College, Castlegar Campus Friday, Janvary'13 12: 30 p.m, — Room, K-11 tenit ad | A prolific Writer, ‘tor ‘theatre, radio and television, : Sharon's _ plays have been Staged in. Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Stratford, Ontarlo. She will discuss her work and read some. speeches from her play ‘‘WALSH.”* ; Admission is Free ;THU; | FRUIS. A great new COMEDY SWITCHE. ; "WALT DISNEY _ _ PRODUGTIONS® Technicolor: Receaey ‘BUENA VISTA DISTRIBUTION CO” nC S™ stow TIMES: Evens’? U'§ pam. SELKARK A COLLEGE BUNODAY MATINEE AT 2D RM! =e ees Warming: Occastonal eax a 6c. Dir... = BRANCH No. 170 Invites YOU to Participate in These Functions MEETINGS Ast & 3rd Tuesdays CAI da} oan & Satur aa on zoeanee LANDERS | Dear Ann Landers: My husband and have been married 61 years. We had a good marriage—not without problems, but it was solid : and there were more good times than bad, i. Two months ago John {not his real name) auffered a massive heart attack. For several days he hovered between life and death, { The priest was called to give the last rites, That same night, John Haald he had something he wanted to tell me, He then confessed an 1 affair he had had in France during World War I. He was 23 years 1 old at the time and we had been merried only 16 months, ‘Ang he saw the girl only twice, hearing about it broke my heart, i John made a miraculous recovery and is now gardening as I ; write this letter. Whenever I look at him I think of his : unfaithfulness and it mades me sad, Please tell people not to make | death-bed confessions. They might get well. + —Know Too Much ' Dear Much: Such confessions (even made in good health) may be } therapeutic for the confeasor but they seldom help the one who has to listen. My advice for people.who want to clear thelr consciences { is tell it to a clergyman. *. Dear Ann Landers: A man on erie ‘TV just finished telling a story about a‘little old lady whose husband passed away. She would give anything to have bis old hat back-on‘the sewing + machine where he used to lay it. She had always gotten after him for not putting it where it belonged, He ‘could have’ put his hat’ on the hook, shut his dresser drawers, closed his closet doors, put away ‘his shaving cream, placed the wet towels on the rack to dry, emptied an ashtray after himself, picked up the newspapers and magazines instead of leaving them on the floor. He didn't have toleave ‘ls coffee cups and orange pects all over the house. ext It's he same old tune I've been hearing for more years han I bectuss a now they are gone and “I miss him terribly" { Women die, too, yet I've never seen anything written by a ‘man who was sorry he didn't treat his wife a little better when she was alive. I'm signing this —Fullofit Desr Full: Here's the letter you've been wanting to see—but never thought existed. I'm running it ior the second time, Dear Ann Landers: Many years ago you Published a letter from a woman whose husband couldn't say “I love you”. I was one Sof those husbands and that letter changed my.life. I'm glad it did Because my wife passed away two weeks ago and I know her last years were happy, thanks to you. Please run the letter again. Here it is. I saved it—R.S. Dear R.S.: Thank you for letting me know I helped make your wife's last years happier. Here Is the letter you asked for: | Dear Ann Landers: I don’t know why I am writing to you. I ykeep telling myself it’s because I want to help the next guy. Maybe . Ican save him from making the same mistakes I made. But deep down I know it's got to be guilt, For 28 years ] was married to ‘a wonderful woman, She was 20 _ years my junior and I was sure she would outlive me. But I was mistaken and now she is gone. All through our married life she ‘complained because I never could say “I love you". T kept telling her she shouldn't need to hear it, that I treated ‘her fine and gave her everything she wanted and that should be iproot enough. But my answer never seemed to satisfy her. She asked me at least 100 times to try to put it into words. “A ‘woman needs to hear it,” she kept saying, but I was stubborn, or insensitive maybe, and I couldn't bring myself to express my feelings for her. If I knew then what I know now, I would say “Tlove you” a dozen times‘a day. Why don’t people appreciate what they have while they still have it? Why must life's lessons always be Tearned through suffering and bitterness? CT IT’S SOUND. COUNTRY ; by Doug Davis Country Music magazine’ dim: Glaser ‘nearly. had f held its yest santa “Bullet: “sing his way" out of a traffic Awards for: New’ Talent ticket recently In Murray, Ky. recent with Joe El winning Jim, who was perform ng at ‘Now Male Runner-Up’ along Murray State University, was with d James Talley. The Bullet stopped by the campus Award winners'were decided police for driving the wrong through ‘secret ballots by way on a one-way street. more than 50 of the top coun- After a short discussion, the music Journalists. Joe and policeman let Jim go ‘with ne band have been’ in only a warning. The title of Nashville recording a second Jim's latest single is ‘Don't album, the follow-up to his Let My Love Stand In Your debut album. Way.’ James Talley Jim Glaser ; Country comediah Je Merle Haggard has taken Clower. as in’ Morgan ly time off from his busy road: La., recently for a fund-: schedule to get his: ‘sea raising performance for.the legs"' in shape. Merte recent: - East St. Mary Chapter of 'y purchased a houseboat Duck: Unlimited. Local mer- and has had it out to sea working some of the kit number FF donations for, an of it. He. plans to redecorate auction, while MCA artist the boat and use it as Clower provided the enter- means to get away from it all. talnment for. the. “evening, Merle's current album is en- tecelving a. standing ovation titled 'My Farewell to Elvis. after his performance, The _ ‘I Like to Be with You’ is ‘the --FOOD VALUES WITH YOUR BUDGET IN MIND! 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BOTTLE .. to the show's executive pro- ducer, Lester of Vanadore Productions, “technical problems and the fact that they were unable to clear the telephone lines for the show caused the delay.. Venadore says that the show FROM THE IN-STORE BAKESHOP HOT BREAD WHITE OR BROWN ......... 75159 APPLE TURNOVERS 6 for 89° Jerry Clower begin January 1978. S latatatatatatat latatatataatal RREKKKEERAEREKKKEEKE Please print this letter for all the men who have wonderful : . wives and can't bring themselves to Baye “I love you."—Empty ° Confidential to What Besa a Woman Need?: Sophie Tucker said it best. Till she's 16 a woman needs good parents. From 18 to 80 she needs good looks. From 30 to 60 she needs a good personality. From 50 on she needs good investments. ‘oe New Shipment of i JEANS for QUEENS Wide-legged, In pre- - washed 100% cotton denim with elastic waist at back, fly front, side pockets. ° sizes 38-44, 522 Sonvary Sale Continues iS m KARNIE’S Ladies | Wear 33: ‘Mapie Karnie’s Ladies Wear—| BY JOEY sisso CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Separation seems 50 be what’ ‘Ss keeping Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach together. strange though it may seem. After 11 years of marriage the famous couple announced last September they would begin a trial separation. ‘We're taking it day by day," says Angie, “trying not to destroy what we have, and hoping to do what's right."" ‘Police Woman,’ the TV show that established Angie Dickinson as a star, may have been the cause for the split-up. Just as the series got started, the marriage began to fall apart and Angie was Spending more and more time away from home. When she's working, Angie is a perfectionist. She never artives late or leaves early and always demands of herself what she considers a first-call performance: Another possible. cause of the breakup is that Burt, who won an Oscar for his song ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” can't cope with Angie’s fame. But both these theories are denied by Angie and Burt. although they do not admit their careers have driven them in different © directions . . . Soap onera viewers pour out secret long- ings and make hilarious suggestions in letters to stars and producers. Here are a few we thought you would like sito read about: "Dear ‘Days of Our Lives:' Could you tell “mé' what happened last week? | was on my honeymoon and my husband wouldn't let'me watch any TV!" ... ’"Dear ‘General Hospital:' Everytime my wife watches your.:program -she. gets depressed. Can't Jan: 14—Selkirk College features Sharon Polluck é “in the Canadian Writers Series, at the College.. Jan: ig! Kosteny Ghiabe: Orchestra Concert featuring guest soloist Katherine Johnaon, New York soprano, accompanied by the resident String Quartet and Wendy Panatonni, pianist. This is. the first of three Orchestra Concerts to be held in Castlegar, at 8 pam. in the main lounge at Selkirk College. Concert schedule for first series in Trail, Jan. 18; Nakusp, Jan. 14; New Denver, afternoon of Jan. 15; Grand Forks, Jan. 21; Nelson, Jan. 22; and Kaslo, th i night: crying about what's going to happen in the next ‘episode. You're ruining my marriage! If my wife happens “to