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CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 7, 1980

/Erma ~“
Bombeck

It was more than idle curiosity that kept me reading
about the suit against Eastman Kodak in New Jersey by the
blish h i

of P

It seems Kodak refused to return 239 out of 1,500 slides
taken of a mode) for Penthouse on the grounds they were
obscene. i

Task you, big shot film developers, where was your sense
of morality when my husband sent you a picture of me taken
in the backyard last summer... on my back... ina floral
two-piece bathing suit... from the feet up? I looked like the
Chicago Stadium. ‘

You want to talk about disgusting?

How about that photo taken of me in 1953, in Florida ona
deep sea fishing boat with a wet towel over my face, unable to
move from the deck chair I lashed myself into?

You want offensive? We gave you offensive when you
developed and RETURNED the picture of me in a miniskirt
leaning over to change the garden hose, my lips forming a
definite obscenity at the cameraman.

Where were your censors when I brought the baby home
from the hospital wearing a civilian pleated skirt that
wouldn't zip and hair that looked like a condemned nest?

You're listening to a woman who has gone through life
praying for just one lousy overexposure/underexposure/

double exposure/lost print. How could a picture of me at a .

Halloween party, dressed as Dolly Parton, taken in a dark
hallway from an Instamatic that someone just dropped in the
punch bowl, come out as clear as an Ansel Adams photo?

People are always wondering why there is anyone
married in this world anymore. I'll tell you why. No one wants
to risk who gets custody of the negatives.

I'm glad this little problem finally came to a head. I don’t
know what it took to get a picture withheld, but I say those of
us who live with amateur photographers have some rights
too. I'm not asking a lot. All I'm suggesting is that maybe you
set up a good-taste board who will look through the prints
you've developed and pull from circulation not only

centerfolds, but people who are pictured in an unattractive

way.

ANYTHING
of your bathing suit.

People in curlers... people eating a ham sandwich with
fat unravelling from the lips .
.-. candids taken while you are taking sand out

- « telephoto lens shots of

As for the amusing picture of the kid asking my husband
at the beach to borrow his spare tire (and he's wearing it) ...

now that's art!

B.C. Ombudsman
has Zenith number

B.C. Ombudsman, Dr.
Karl Friedmann has an-
nounced two new develop-
ments of interest to those
approaching his offices.

A Zenith telephone ser-
vice is now available to B.C.
residents outside the Van-
couver and Victoria areas. By
asking the Operator for Zen-
ity 2221, people who pre-
viously incurred long dis-
tance charges in calling the

For the record

Office of the Ombudsman
may now contact the office at
no charge to themselves.
Dr. Friedmann also an-
nounced that the Vancouver
Office of the Ambudsman has
completed its move to 202 -
1275 West 6 Ave. The Van-
couver office can be con-
tacted by telephoning 736-
8721 or by writing to: Office
of the Ombudsman, Room
202, 1275 West 6 Ave.
Vancouver, B.C. V6H 111.

Famous last words

Some went with bangs,
some with whimpers, but all
of the famous and near
famous people cited in a book
just published had i

the last rites on his death bed
in 1798. “I have lived as a
philosopher and am dying a
Christian," he said.

to say in their dying mo-
ments,

The book, Exits by Scott
Slater and Alec Solomita,
records the last words of
people as diverse as Marie
Antoinette who, as she ran
up the steps of her.scaffold,
she tripped and stepped on
her executioner's toe. “I beg
your pardon,” she said. “I
didn’t mean it.”

Others who were ex-
ecuted used the moment

Early A Vice-
President Aaron Burr, the
man who killed Alexander
Hamilton in a duel, was less
repentant. When asked when
he was dying if he was ready
to accept salvation, Burr re-
plied: “On that subject I am
coy.” i
Humor is a frequent fea-
ture of last words. When
Sydney Smith, an Anglican
clergyman and writer noted
for his sense of humor, was
dying in 1845 his nurse

‘ked that he |

more d . French-
man Jacques Danton told his
executioner: “Display my
head to the crowd — it’ is
worth it, it will be some time
before they see its like
again.”

Madame du Barry went
to the scaffold a bit less
elegantly. “You are going to
hurt me,” she screamed,
“please don't hurt me, just
one more moment, I beg
you.”

Those cited in the book
“who spent religious lives
often spoke of redemption in
their last moments, as did
some whose lives were some-
what less religious.

Giacomo Casanova,
whose name has come down
through history as a sy-
nonym for seducer, received

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His last joke was: “Then
bring me all the blotting
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The authors of Exits,
which is published by E.P.
Dutton, say they planned the
book as an entertainment but
that it disclosed “one gen-
uinely depressing truth” that
has to do with 20th century
technology and the change
from the time “when humans
rather than machines were
monitoring vital signs.”

“Death has changed lo-
cale — from the home to the
hospital,” they write in their
-introduction. “And the result’
has been the emergence of a
death-denying syndrome in
our culture.”

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH’ COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1980

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- area land e:

a propriated for B.C. Hydro’s proposed’ Murphy
Creek dam should be a top priority if the
project is approved, according to Frans Braal. .

* .Braal, an independent
property appraiser who was
among three experts con-
ducting a Selkirk College-

Hydro can do” to help allevi-
ate hardships faced by area

y for the H PP

their land is properly evalu-
ated and repaid by Hydro, he
d th of

compensation review board,”
Braal said. -

e
the review body in securing
d st yeni of

Consisting of local peo-
ple, too — not only by Hydro

property. owners displaced _
by construction of the 400-
hydroelectric d

Pp ‘kshop on land
expropriation Saturday, this
week told the Castlegar
News establishment of such a
body by the Crown corpor-
ation would be “the least B.C.

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on the Columbia River.
Discussing in an ‘inte
view, the procedures’ pro;
erty owners should follow in
order to ensure the value of

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DAY-LONG MYSTERY Thursday had the
idents at 1450 ch to

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find the gnswer to the sudden appearance of
a gaping hole which continued to grow as the
day wore on. Carol Montgomery told the
Castlegar News she had contacted the
regional district’of Central Kootenay as well
as the city but neither had any record of
anything that had been built underground. In
earlier days a trailer had been brought onto
the f ion and the mystery hole lieved
to be the old septic tank for the temporary
trailer home. 4

é —News/Mirror Foto by Lois Hughes

ploy and maybe hired

residents, “

t peo-
' ple who might ‘not. be.in a

position to fight back.”.
. “The: -most “important.

‘thing this region shoild insist

hi
on it» that’ compensation
should be checked by a

m: V
— so that there is local input
and local experience in order
to give the people not only a
fair, but also a generous
compensation.”

A similar approach was
used in expropriation of

No repairs
until creek
level drops

Blueberry Creek
residents’ water
system: will not
resume’ normal
operation: “for ‘two
weeks at the very
minimum”, Bill Cook
told the Castlegar

| News Thursday.

The Blueberry Creek Ir-
rigation District chairman

eyed for

A provision in
the Municipal Act for
selective taxation is
the proposed tool for
financing develop-
ment of new parking
facilities for down-
town Castlegar.

City staff report co-
pies of a circular out-

. lining the proposed project
and the extra tax which
~ would be levied on the area
the completed facilities
would serve have been dis-
tributed to b in the

of downtown core commer-
cial property owners agree to
the extra taxation the new
facilities will remedy parking
troubles suffered by that
section of the city “for at
« least three years.”
Council originally con-
sidered a scheme that park-
ing facilities be financed from

downtown core.

The businesses’ res-
ponses to the circulars have
yet to be tabulated in ac-
cordance with the “initiative
plan” provision in Section 589
of the: Act, to determine
whether there is, sufficient
support for the project, city
administrator Bill Krug told
the Castlegar News.

af Explaining the scheme
Ald. Albert Calderbank, city
council's planning committee

- chairman, said if the majority.

cost charges
but so far the province “has
not approved anything like
that,” he said.

“It’s been going the
rounds so long that finally we

+ gave up the idea and changed

to something we knew we
could do,” the planning chair-
man pointed out. “It's taken
us a heck. of a long time to
find an adequate method of
dealing with this.”

“The businessmen in
town, as far as I can gather,
are receptive to this idea and

‘2 Settions (A & B)

parking funds

they want it implemented as
soon as possible,” Calderbank
said, “But the city has to be
very sure, there is total
backing of it.”

In addition, the planning
chairman said, the scheme
would have to be compatible
‘with Castlegar’s community
plan, now undergoing’ up-
dating by the firm William
Graham Consultants. As a
result the scheme is being
investigated in co-operation
with the consultant as well as
with downtown businessmen,
he said.

Under Section 589 of the
Act work may be undertaken
asa local improvement under
the initiative plan after coun-
ceil serves notice of the proj-
ect to owners of the parcels
liable to be charged and

More on page AS.

_-Maintenance workers
‘stage sawmill walkout

Maintenance workers were back on the job at the CanCe! sawmill
Thursday afternoon following a morning walkout in a working con-
: ditions-related dispute with management.

About 55 workers, mem-

~ bers, of International Wood-
workers of America Local
5; made the decision not
port-for work during the

spokesinen all.day. Wednes-
day in an attempt to resoive
the problems cited.

. Morning after learning little

.: TWA plant committee
‘. chairman Ian Rae confirmed
Friday reports that the job
property on the Arrow Lake action started in a Tuesday
in the 1960s for construction meeting at which complaints
of the Hugh Keenleyside against were
Dam “but in later expropri- discussed and the plant com-
ation procedures it has not mittee met with management
been applied.” He said he saw ‘
such a committee, also prop-
by J.W. Wilson,
advisory role.
who was in charge of re-
settlement planning for the
Keenleyside Dam project and
MoreonpageA7 «

Ceremonies at
the Doukhobor
Millage and. Castle-
gar’s new industrial
park are on the

Bill Bennett's Friday
tour of the Rossland-
Trail riding.

é Arriving at Castlegar
“until we know what the full airport at 1:30 p.m., Bennett
extent of the damage is.” . will be met by Castlegar's
A variety of sources Mayor Audrey re, and
provided the gravel clogging Rossland-Trail So¢lal Credit
the screening boxes, Cook president Phil Brooks.
id. The party will then drive
“We've had some of the to the Doukhobor Cultural
natural creek banks that Centre where the premier
have sloughed and there was will cut a ribbon to open
some washing out of a high- officially the new audio-visual
centre at the Doukhobor

-itinerary for Premier-

way shoulder,” he said.
“It looked like a fairly
big washout at just about the

said the approxi 216
households normally. served
by the system will continue
to take their supply from a
two-inch pipe about 150 feet
downstream from the exist-
ing intake until it is possible
to clear. the screening which
were tanks clogged with

a gravel during heavy rainfall

early last week.
“The major repairs can't

_ be done until the creek level

drops,” he said. “So until the
level drops we really don't
even know what the damage

In addition to the collec-
‘tion of gravel in the screen-
ing boxes, he said, “we think
we have a separation of our
-main line from the tank — in
other words, we'ré not even
actually connected up to our
intake right now.”

He declined to estimate
the cost of repairing the
Blueberry Creek system

first hig! culvert because

of the changing course of a

major tributary which comes
More on page A7

vid

Village.

Just over a year ago
Bennett presented a cheque
for $120,000 to the Koot

progress had been made in
discussion of the problem by
the 8 a.m. deadline they set
for resolution of the issues.

The plant committee
chairman also agreed the
problems were mostly re-
lated to working conditions
and that the dust level in the
planer mill and alleged mis-

BILL BENNETT
«+. here Friday

planned at the

management by the company
for the past two years are
among the sources of com-
plaints...

Rae delined to comment
on whether further- meetings.
are. planned, with the com-
pany for discussion. of the
problems cited by mainten-
ance workers.

CanCel labor relations
manager Al Blessin said Fri-
day that-a Labor Relations
Board officer assigned to the
dispute is expected to con-
vene the first meeting to dis-
cuss the union’s complaints
Monday.

Two openings on premier’s
itinerary for Castlegar visit

visit the industrial park at
the south end of Castlegar
where he will operate a D8
Cat in a ground breaking
ceremony to open. officially
the park. :

Bennett will then travel
to Trail where he will meet
with Mayor Chuck Lakes and
members of city council to
discuss the planned develop-
ment of Trail’s proposed Es-
plainade. Proponents of the
Esplanade-Arts Centre proj-
ect are expected to make-a
presentation.

Later the Premier will
be the special guest at a
dinner at the Colander in
Trail, billed as An Eveing
With Premier Bennett,
where he is expected to talk
about the future of British
Columbia under his govern-
ment.

Tickets for the evening

Doukhobor Historical Society
to finance this last part of the

Ly

village.
Next the Premier will

are le from any mem-
ber of the Rogsland-Trail
Socred executive.

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