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A vance tickets $9.00 at Johnny s Grocery. Castlegar Pha Mallard’s, Mountain Ski & Sports Hut and Centra door $9.00 £8 6.00 p.m. Reg CASTLEGAR HOSPITAL AUXILIARY Fall rummage sale, October 24.5 00 pm 900 p 12:00 p.m. Former Koorenoy Builders Store Columbia Avenue, North Costlegor For pick up please phone 365-3676 365 8302 3552. All donations appreciated 365 2737. 365 8 CASTLEGAR CITIZEN ADVOCACY Is sponsoring o drama workshop on Friday. C O p.m and Saturday October 18 9 Spm atk workshop is increasing selt image, using dror more information call Dee Aber 4 GIANT GARAGE AND BAKE SALE October 18 Castlegar Junior Rebels 10 am SELKIRK MANOR ting a table for Novembe d gorage sale. coll 365 3034 Boldtaced wo Crafts catalogue given The Kootenay Broadcast System has donated a cata logue to the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre. The centre said in a pre- pared news release the cata- logue will accompany “A Show of Hands” when it travels across Canada in 1987. The catalogue presents “Dramatic photographs of each eraft in the exhibit” as well as introducing Cana dians to the West Kootenay region “and the rich artistic rees that are found " the release said. The exhibit will travel to the Maritimes, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and throughout British Columbia. “The financial resources to produce a catalogue that was in keeping with the quality of the exhibit would not have been available without the generous assistance from the Kootenay Broadcasting System,” the NEC said in the release. The exhibit continues at the centre until Oct. 31 and begins its tour of the Mari times in January Singer controls future By Canadian Press Country pop singer Dan Seals is determined to con trol his own future this time around as he fights back after losing huge profits made in the late 1970s as half the duo of England Dao and John Ford Coley The money evaporated be cause of bad management and poor investments and Seals, 38, is determined that lightning won't strike twice. “It was a disaster,” Seals said in an interview in Winnipeg “Have you ever stood before a bankruptcy court judge while he decided what you would lose of everything you owned?” JUSTINE’S RESTAURANT On the Second Level at 402 Baker St., Nelson Otters the finest in dining in on elegant atmosphere at af tordable prices. As recom mended in the ‘Where to eat in Canada Guide Please Call 352-7709 Lunch — Mon.-Set. 11-3 p.m Dinner Nightly from 5 p.m. SUNDAY IS JAZZ NIGHT! Carmela's $31 Abe: Banas Ei) 7 KOOTENAY CATALOGUE a 4 . The “Show of Hands” catalogue will be accom panying the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre's display as it moves across Canada complete with photographs of the crafts and the West Kootenay Tegion IIIness inspiration for Edwards movie By BOB THOMAS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Edwards's new film, That's Life, had its origins when the ailing filmmaker was watching a nature film on television. “It was a documentary about whales,” he recalled. “A girl was reaching out of a boat to pet one of those huge beasts, and its back was en. crusted with barnacles. “I thought to myself, there's no way that whale will ever be able to get rid of those barnacles. But could I get rid of mine?” While filming Mickey and Maud three years ago, Ed wards was felled with a virus that developed into chronic mononucleosis. Aside from draining his remarkable energies, the disease caused a morbidity that sent him back to psychoanalysis. From his sessions with Dr. Milton Wexler came the ideas for That's Life. In fact, Wexler shares screen credit for the script In his Century City offices, Edwards talked about the unique project as he basked in the generally rave re views. Spaghetti House and Calabria Pizza Enjoy the true Italian Spaghetti Dinner All the Spaghetti You C Private dining rooms at no, Eat — $6.95 tra charge 368-9399 “I've never had such a re sponse to any picture,” said the director of Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, the Pink Panther movies and 10. “It's not only response; it's people who tell one how much meant to them. “I realized that the only way to remove my barnacles was to take chances,” said Edwards. “I had made my movies in the usual time honored way, but now I wanted to do something unique, something that would take me back to my beginnings in this business.” He and Wexler prepared a 14-page script with no dia logue as opposed to the average 125-page screenplay, and Wexler wrote extensive sketches describing each of the characters What would have hap pened if Edwards had taken such a project to a major studio? “They would have said I wasn’t well yet,” he admit ted the critical also from me one-on the picture PAYS THE BILLS Edwards wanted to make the movie his way. He put up his own money and that of his wife, Julie Andrews, and employed his own family members as well as those of costar Jack Lemmon. The film was shot mostly in the Edwards’ Malibu home with a non-union crew It was the latter proposal that caused a ruckus. The Teamsters and a film craft union sent pickets and made — —_ WZ? Bring This Ad ~% F 20° Thanksgiving Dinner r OFF Sy, CAFE AND ine RESTAURANT dsides in the trade press. “I must say that it was dis turbing to find pickets out side my gate, and even on the beach in front of my house,” Edwards said. “But look, I provided employment for those unions over the years and I had been their friend. 1 am not anti-union, far from it. “But it was my money. I was entitled to have my shot.” That's Life was filmed under actors, writers and di rectors guild contracts, with everyone paid minimum sal aries. The final bill: $1.5 million. Edwards estimates the cost would have been $15 million under normal cir cumstances. Lemmon, Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia and the other actors provided their own dialogue, but Ed wards did the rewriting and kept a tight rein so the plot remained focused The actors never seem to be floundering, as happens with films of improvisational directors such as Robert Alt man and Martin Scorsese. Edwards made a deal with Columbia Pictures to release That's Life, and he’s assured of a hefty profit. The film is already profitable with a videocassette sale “Newcomers will always do films this way, but I hope that established filmmakers will also try it, just as a matter of exercise of their talents,” he said. “It's a way for them to go back to their roots “Just go to the actors, make the proposal and take a chance. “It turns you on.” — Monte Carlo Restaurant Thanksgiving Dinner yo Sunday and Monday Richie album topping sales once again PHOENIX, Ariz. — Lionel Richie's favorite word. It's also the title of his new world tour and the best way to describe his meteoric music career and massive record sales. The singer-songwriter has passed Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Cole Porter for the most consecutive years of having a No. 1 song on the charts and is tied with Irving Berling at nine. A record-setting 10th year appears certain with Dancing on the Ceiling, the title track of his new top-selling LP. But to the soft-spoken native of Tuskegee. Ala.. success always is something of a surprise. “I can never get used to the idea of an album or & song going all the way to the top. That's still like Christmas to me. I go out and celebrate,” Richie said in a recent interview before starting his 60-city American tour, which began in Phoenix. Fifteen years with the Commodores produced 10 LPs and two No. 1 hits — Three Times a Lady in 1978 and Still in 1979 — plus such smash singles as Easy and Sail On. Richie also wrote the No. 1 single Lady for Kenny Rogers in 1980 and topped the charts with Endless Love in a duet with Diana Ross the following year PRODUCES HITS As a solo artist, he’s had five straight No. 1 songs starting with Truly in 1982 and followed in annual succession by All Night Long (All Night), Hello, We Are the World and Say You, Say Me. Say You, Say Me also was on the White Knights movie soundtrack and earned the 37 year-old musician an Academy Award and a Golden Globe this year in the Best Song category. He won six American Music Awards in 1985, two Grammys in each of the past two years and has been named ASCAP Writer of the Year the last three years in a row. Dancing on the Ceiling was due out last December. yet didn’t surface until mid-summer. Rumors circulated that Richie had writer's block. “| wish it was something that simple,” he said. “I started the album right up through the We Are the World project. That was like an album by itself. But you cannot get involved with a program like that and walk away unaffected. “I had written another album and I was all ready to put it out and was quite proud of it until my consciousness was raised by what was happening in the world. So I stopped the album and said, ‘I don't want to do those songs.’ I felt I needed to express what I felt the world was bexing itself into.” The end result was the new album, which features such upbeat ballads as Love Will Conquer All and the reggae-inspired Se La. ‘ October 12, 1986 Castlegar Spenser given new direction NEW YORK (AP) — A new girl, a new home and a new chance at life in a new time slot. But the first thing you notice about Spenser: For Hire this season is a dif ference in the theme music. “We changed it from a minor key to a major,” said the show's new executive producer, Juanita Bartlett. Spenser, who quotes great books, lifts weights and is happiest whipping up a gour met dinner for the woman he loves, is the classiest private eye on television. But the show, based on the books by Robert B. Parker, struggled on Tuesday nights in its first season and is getting a second chance at 10 p.m Saturdays on ABC. with Susan to leap into be This season, Spenser with somebody new, or con (Robert Urich) has left his mit yourself to somebod converted fire house, and his new,” Bartlett said girlfriend Susan Silverman “Whether or not it d: (Barbara Stock) has left Bos- velops into a romance, » ton for San Francisco. Now really want to take the enti living in a third-floor walk- season to get these people | up, Spenser got acquainted know each other.” last week with assistant dis. Difficult relationships ha trict. attorney Rita Fiori paid off handsomely for ot h« (Carolyn McCormick), who shows. Cheers on NBC is will be around all season. its seventh season of burnin One thing which won't pagsion and cold showers {: change is Hawk, the men- Sam and Diane, and a simul: acing muscle-for-hire played romantic tease animat« by Avery Brooks. It is Hawk, ABC's Moonlighting. Bot with his blood-eurdling grin are top 10 shows and telegraphic speech, who Bartlett, formerly a pr lifts Spenser out of the ord- ducer of The Rockford F ile inary run of detects dramas. Susan was a problen Bartlett said, because it was difficult to find reasons for her to appear in Spenser's cases. “I suppose she didn’t hav: to go. That was something that was discussed at great length,” Bartlett said SENT PACKING In the Parker books, Susan is packed off to San Fran cisco. The author suggested Rita, who appears in the previous novel Valedictior as the New TV interest “This is not an instant ro mance with somebody els because that would do a dix service to his relationsh has some experience wit} MAPLE skittish couples. She wa LEAF executive producer for (BS TRAVEL Searecrow and Mrs. King for a season and a half CARIBBEAN In With Wardeir jemaica *8 19 retooling Spenser Bartlett said the producer were more conscious of tai oring its appeal to wome ‘Cominco’s new owners aggresive Editor's note: The ing article is from the Oct. 11 edition of Financial Post. By JOHN SCHREINER VANCOUVER — By investing a mere $102.5 million, ‘Teck Corp.'s Keevil family gets effective control not only of Cominco Ltd., a company four times Teck’s size, but also stands to become arbiter of the world’s zine markets into the next century. This move, which stunned Cominco’ head office last week, leapfrogs the aggressive Keevils and their company to the front bench among major Canadian mining companies. The deal Teck, along with its partners from West Germany and Australia, taking the largest chunk (31 per cent) of the 58 per cent Cominco control block sold — after 80 years — by Canadian Pacific Ltd., Montreal. The Keevils also move up Corporate Canada's escalator ‘as a business family to reckon with, having been largely overlooked so far by the Establishment. If status is measured by blue-chip directorships, Teck's chief executive, Norman B. Keevil Jr., 48, has only one (Southam Inc.) while his father, Teck Chairman Norman Bell Keevil, 71, has none. (Norman Anderson, Cominco's chief executive, is on the boards of Toronto Dominion Bank and Gulf Canada Ltd.) Canadian Pacific approached Teck (assets $489 million) in April to buy its 53 per cent of Cominco (assets $2 billion), having been turned cown by at least one of the mining majors in Eastern Canada. “Our first reaction was to say no, basically on the grounds that it was too big a bite to take on,” Keevil Jr. told The Post. “It would have cost close to $500 million to buy the whole block.” Elegant strategy What changed his mind was an elegant and affordable strategy conceived by David Thompson, Teck's canny brief financial officer. The idea: bring into the deal the West German and Australian companies and their executives who were already Teck shareholders and directors and who, in earlier strategies devised by Thompson, had helped Teck emerge from its own debt crisis five years ago. The partners — Metallgeselischaft AG of West Germany and MIM Holdings Ltd. of Australia — put up the other $102.5 million. The total deal calls for the Teck group to pay $14 a share for 20 million Cominco shares (31 per this way: Teck has been in a hurry to develop its mineral properties while Cominco has tended to bankroll some of its “fabulous deposits” and develop them gradually. “The Valley Copper deposit sat around for years and years,” he says. “Now, the style of Cominco will be accelerated.” “Teck has the energy and enthusiasm of youth,” notes a Placer Development Co. executive. Keevil Jr. tries deflecting the of a youthful Cominco by noting that mine at Kimberley, B.C. Teck’s greatest growth — for a time it opened a new mine every second year — began after the Keevils moved from Toronto to what some regard as the corporate backwater of Vancouver in 1972. For once, their timing was off: They signed the lease for their attractive waterfront- view offices just before B.C. elected a New Democratic government antagonistic to mining. The next priority, once Cominco morale has been dealt with, is to underline which Cominco projects go ahead under the new owners. This is what Keevil Jr. wants: e The $171-million modernization of the lead smelter at Trail, B.C., for which Cominco has negotiated $134 million equity investment by federal and provincial governments, proceeds. Continuing development of Cominco's Valley Copper deposit in B.C. This joint venture with Lornex Mining Corp. (in which Teck has a 22 per cent interest) will see Cominco ore processed by the Lornex mill. This project is counted on to generate significant new profits for Cominco, beginning this year. Chance te compete The economies of scale of this joint venture already offer the ability to compete effectively with Chilean copper mines. A Teck-Cominco combination should improve on this. Teck’s 50 per cent-controlled Highmont copper mine, which opened in 1981 just as metal prices began to collapse, has been mothballed since October, 1984. Keevil Jr. believes Cominco's Valley orebody could be expanded and the cent), the $280-million purchase price of $205 million cash and a $75-million four-year promissory note. The other 14.2 million Cominco shares that Canadian Pacific held are being sold to the public at $13.50 a share. With the deal closing in mid-October, Keevil Jr. has already begun to tackle Teck's priorities with Cominco. The first is allaying the immediate and deep appre- hension that swept through Cominco's 100-person Van couver headquarters and affected a number of its other 9,000 employees. “Most of these guys have never had another job.” one Cominco insider says. “There goes their life.” “It's business as usual,” Keevil Jr. snaps. “They've had a good track record in new mine development. probably second only to Teck in the country. We don't want anybody over there to feel that we're going to come in and dramatically close down things. We're not.” But a clash of cultures is widely expected, both within Cominco and by observers. James Bartlett, a mining analyst with Odlum Brown Ltd., Vancouver, says: “I think Cominco needs more direction than it had, and I think it’s going to get it.” —_ : Another analyst defines the difference between the Save 40% on our entire collection of Until October 31 Legendary & Contemporary White Formal China SIMPLICITY COLLECTION 5 Pce. Place Setting. Reg. $54.00 20-Pce. Setting. Reg. $216.00 45.Pce Setting. Reg. $550 SALE $32.40 SALE $129.60 SALE $330.00 Spectrum Heritage LEGENDARY Chelsea Morn’ Knightsbridge” Cote Basque" New Destiny* Doral Maroon Sweet Lesion: Ellington” Tarkington” 5-Pce. Setting. Reg. $62.00 20-Piece Setting. Reg. $248 45-Piece Setting. Reg. $640 *New For 1986 “Off Suggested Retail Prices Save 30% on On Our Entire Collection of Noritake White Formal China, Lead Crystal & Flatware. 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Financing the US $250-million Red Dog mine has been one of the unresolved challenges facing Cominco, given its current heavy debt load of about $600 million. Keevil Jr., who assigns top financial priority to chopping that debt even faster than Cominco was doing it. believes Teck might find some fresh financing sources. Teck’s Thompson has used the company's Metalls connection to access both German banks and the Kuwaiti government. The latter's investment arm, which has an interest in Metall, was persuaded to pay $50 million for 30 per cent of Highmont three years ago when Teck needed cash for reducing its own debt. Metall earlier put up $50 million for a 20 per cent interest. Leck for clues Cominco insiders likely will review Teck’s 1961 debt-slashing strategy for clues to what the Keevils and Thompson might trigger at Cominco. In 1980, Teck’s long-term debt peaked at $178 million. Even though the company had added about $100 million to its equity base the year before by selling an interest to Metall, high interest rates and the impending recession demanded a better balance sheet. During an 18-month period to mid-1982, Teck raised another $221 million by selling totally noncore assets (such as an Alberta oil company) and pieces but not control — of other assets considered fundamental to Teck. “Once you cut costs as best as you can — Cominco ‘management has certainly been attentive to cutting costs — the next thing you do is look at divesting assets and/or taking in partners,” Keevil Jr. says. “We did both.” For example, the $300-million Bullmoose caal project in northeastern B.C. cost Teck only $135 million after it sold 39 per cent of the mine to Lornex and 10 per cent to a Japanese trading company. Weekly stocks VANCOUVER (CP) — Prices were mixed in active “trading Friday on’ the Van couver Stock Exchange. Vol. ume at the close was 14, 674,001 shares. Of the issues traded, 302 a total VSE index of 1445.87, down .35 from Thursday's close, but up 10.72 from last Friday's close of 1435.15. El Dorado Systems was the most active trader among equities, down .02 at .48 on 116,000 shares, Windarra Minerals gained .04 at .74 on 109,900, Medallion Books dropped .25 at $2.15 on 101,425 and Mono Gold Mines was up .10 at .65 on 63,500. Contact Venture remained at 14 and Skyline Exploration rose .02 at $1.52. Leading development equities trading was Expense Management, unchanged at $3.10 on 1,479,500 shares, hnol d Job openings Details of these and other job opportunities are available at Treil Caneda Employment Cen- General duty nurses to work on @ casual basis are urgently required in Trail and Rosstand tre. (2334) Trail Conede Employment Centre 835 Spokane Street Phone: 368-5566 an area employer. (278T) Licenced hei © . required in Troi An experienced applience . repairer 1s needed in Trail. 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