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MODEL GRATEFUL Laura Sherman is a redheaded fashion model who thinks her sparse freckles and striking hair color give her an advantage in an industry dominated by blondes and brunettes, “I feellike my look is special,” said Sherman, 21. “When I was young, I wanted-to be like everyone else, but now | really appreciate my hair and coloring.” ep Soar Sherman tried squeezing lemon juice on her hair to’ it, and slopped freckle remover cream all over + —_ 4 >. ana nytt Tad ets more teaches then, and if was lucky they into » tan in the summer, kind ‘of hard ‘when you're a Kid, because you get called all those names,” she said..“I was a real curly carrot top, and I didn't escape any of the teasing. “Now I love it. And I especially love fall, because my hair matches al] the great fall clothes.” Jo Penney, who runs the agency Sherman works for, said redheaded models are rare and her clients are happy to get the extraordinary look. “Redheads are hard to aoe Penney said. “There are a few -y blondes, bu’ are one of a kind. I'm always grateful when I pa @ good one.” The chances of being born with red hair are 100 per cent if both your parents are redheads, but if only one parent is red, it gets tricky. For a redhead to be produced, both parents must have a gene for red hair. One parent may have a recessive gene, which could be idle for several generations before it ventures to create a redheaded offspring. If someone in your family had red hair, there's a chance you carry a recessive gene. If your mate has a recessive gene, too, you could have a redheaded child, even though neither of you has red hair. The Redheads Handbok (Plume, $8.75) is one of several books published recently about redheads. It's a lighthearted look at the history of redheads and a closer look at famous and noto-so-famous redheads. Filled with silly anecdotes and bits of lore — such as a legend among Irish peasants that a redhead was born when a pig hid under the bed — the book also contains some practial skin care tips for the aBbeiaktiaky prox what weald opuseilty Us cogiched over that weekend (Sept. 14 in Toronto),” said Sherry Brydson, president of a Toronto restaurant. “Every restaurateur that I've spoken to said business was substantially down. I don't recall anyone reporting that they did exceptionally well.” During the weekend, hotels and motels were about 50-per-cent occupied, taxi business was down 25 per cent and York University and Woodbine Race Track each lost about $70,000 when their specially prepared parking lots were not fully used for the Papal mass. Only about half of the anticipated one million people attended the mass Sept. 15 at Downsview airport. 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They are the housewives, frustrated English graduates and burned-out journalists who churn out what are known as “Harlequin roman. ces,” after the Toronto pub- lishing house that dominates the billion-dollar industry One of the highlights of their annual convention was an exclusive screening of Amer- ican Dreamer, # fi0vie about one of their own, who wins a trip to Paris, gets knocked on the head and turns into one of her glamorous characters. Another hit at the four-day convention, attended by both romance writers and their loyal readers, is the annual “Win a date with a prince” contest.This year’s prize was a date with a count and a maharajah And on Sunday, the con vention sponsored the larg est book-autographing ses. ean |___FREE CHURCH _ Fellowship Worship Bible Study Family Bible Hours 9:45.a.m Sunday Worship Service 11. a.m., Legion Hall Bible Study & Prayer Tues. 7:30 p.m ot 1201 - Ist Street Pastor: Tom Mulder Phone: 365-2281 N 1401 Columbie Ave Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m Robson Church 2nd and 4th Sundays - 10a.m Rev. Charles Balfour 2271 SEVENTH-DAY 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 365-2649 H OF CANADA 2224-6th Ave 1% Blocks South of Community Complex 9:40 a,m. — Singing Rev. Ted Bristow sion ever, with 125 pulp fiction writers on hand to pass on tips to the thousands of would-be Danielle Steels, Rosemary Rogerses and Kathleen E. Woodiweisses on hand. LEADS FIELD Harlequin, owned by the Toronto Star, is the undis. puted leader in the industry, after its recent acquisition of the rival Silhouette lines from Simon and Shuster. Harlequin's sales alone last year were worth more than $500 million, and with Sil houette’s now account for about 85 per cent of the mar ket. Both publish about 25 books each month in their four or five categories, which range from the steamy sen suous Desire line through the exotic Temptations to Sil houette’s new Inspiration series, which its editors des. cribe as “Christian” romance stories, “sweet romance with passionate love but without graphic sex.” Romantic fiction continues to exist primarily as a way to relax and escape, says Har lequin writer Elda Minger But romance novel readers which include career women, academics and men as well as the stereotypical soap-opera addicted housewife — are more discerning than they are given credit for, she says. Many have become fed up with the classic, historical love story The women who read her books aren't out of touch with rality and don’t necessarily long for six-foot two “hunks” with blazing eyes and a high. power job. What they are es caping to is a world where a woman is not in competition with TV sports, a career and beer-drinking buddies for the attentions of her man, she says. “But people don't want to read travelogues, and they want writing that isn’t clin ched and hackneyed,” she says. Daring looks in for summer MILAN (AP) — The color is bright, the rear view tight. Necklines plunge while hem. lines soar. After a season of drab androgynous lines, the Ital ian ready-to-wear designers who showed collections in Milan this week are propos. ing a slinky silhouette, with cheery shades and lively prints, for next year's warm er months. The designers call their new woman “la donna sexy” the sexy lady — and she is just that, feminine and en. ticing but never ee DIREC DIRECTORY} ST. “ST. PETER LUTHERAN 713 - 4th Street Worship Service 9 a.m Sunday School 10:15 a.m Pastor Terry Detoe Office 365-3664 Residence 365-7622 Listen to the Lutheran Hour — Sunday, 9.a.m on Radio CKQR APOSTOLIC CHURCH ——OF PENTECOST _ Below Castleaird Plaza Phone: 365-6317 Pastor: Victor Stobbe Phone 365-2374 SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 Evening Fellowship 6:30 Wednesday: Bible Study and Prayer 7:00 p.m Thu: Youth Meeting 6:30 HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 _ CHURCH OF GOD _ ——_—_—_—_—__—_—_— 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45.0.m Morning Worship 2605 i Coleone Ave Set Phone Sas ante Sunday School 9:45 o.m Morning Worship 11 a.m Fomily q 365-8337 or 365-7814 Fellowship 6:30 p.m CALVARY BAPTIST 809 Merry Creek Rood Past Fireside Motel Pastor: R.H. Duckworth This is quite a trick given all the short-shorts, mini. skirts and decolettage that paraded down the runway during the five-day collec tions which ended recently in Milan. Ellin Saltzman, fashion dir ector of Saks Fifth Avenue, noted that many buyers were ordering lengths longer than those presented on the run way Most designers played with the new look in various degrees of daring, but Gior gio Armani zeroed in on it full force. “I felt the time had come to see legs again,” said the de signer. The Armani “femme fat ale” will wear skirts a good three inches above the knee by day, and tiny jogging shorts sparkling with sequins by night BIG LOOK Another big look for next summer is fanny wrapping, with fabric draped tightly around the buttocks and tied at the waist or the hips in knots, bows or sashes. The master at tying things together was Gianni Versace, who wrapped everything from turbaned heads to-em pire waists to obi sashed backs, and showed the tigh test silhouette on the Milan runway this week PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE 767-11th Ave., Castlegar Pastor Rev. Ken Smith Assistent Rev Phone 365-5212 Sunday Morning Services 01 8:15.0.m. and 11-00 Christion Education Evening Service Saturday Night Moss 7 p.m. Sunday Masses of 8a.m. and 10 a.m. ST. MARIA GORETTI Genelle — 12 Noon D, Give the United Way. Compliments Castlegar News Disc players sell slowly By STEVE MERTL CALGARY (CP) — There's a revolution happening in home audio, but the leaders are worried that not enough people are joining the cause. Digital audio, sooer or later, will change the way everyone hears recorded music, from classical to hard rock. But audio electronics manufacturers are having a hard time getting consumers to buy compact dise players, the machines that plug into home stereos to play the special digital records. Although digital audio provides demonstrably better sound, potential buyers are balking at the price both of disc players — currently between $500 and $1,500 — and the discs themselves, which range from $15 to $35 for a single album. John Phillips, a Toronto audio writer, said figures gleaned at a recent consumer electronics fair show fewer than 11,000 players have been sold in Canada since the format was introduced in 1982. Sales in the United States have not caught fire either, with 35,000 players sold in 1983 and 200,000 expected sales by the end of this year. Prices have dropped since 1962 and are expected to come down further. But the mass market remains elusive. Art Sinclair, a marketing official with Panasonic Canada Ltd. of Toronto, said the company estimates between 30,000 and 40,000 dis¢ players of all brands could be sold next year. He said the industry believes $400 is the price threshold that will push disc players beyond the stereo buff market. Some dealers have begun discounting older machines aie" Sinelair said the $400 barrier could be broken by this Christmas. Digital audio marries computer technology and lasers. An industry-wide standardized system was jointly devel oped by Sony of Japan and Philips Electronics of the Netherlands. It starts at the recording studio, when the music, With so much going for it, why hasn't digital taken off? Besides price, the discs themselves are hard to get. There are only about 1,000 titles available in Canada compared with 50,000 conventional reeord albums in release. Many stores still do not carry them. Those that do usually have less than 100 titles in stock. They leave a catalogue with the display so customers can order records. It's also buyer beware when choosing a dise. Although reproduction is digital, not all records, especially older albums reissued as compact discs, were recorded digitally. The system can improve the quality of a good analog recording, but it will faithfully reproduce all the flaws in a poorly produced album. Record companies are creating labelling systems so buyers will know the difference. The majority of discs so fa offer the best showcase of digital re classical because they bilities. However, more stage, many banks, including four.gf the five major char > beer are setting upa banking service to a to the wealthy Tasker Kelsey, a vice-pres ident im Calgary with the Toronto Dominion Bank, said the concept is designed for people with deposits gener ally exceeding $150,000 Customers do their busi mess in private offices by appointment, over a desk rather than at a counter, the furniture is more posh than what is found in most banks and the client-teller ratio is about half the average in a norma! bank. That's something else; tell ers aren't called tellers; they are customer service officers. ‘They handle all aspects of a banking operation, except for such things as safety deposit boxes. Jim Walker, sales and market development mana ger for personal banking with the Royal-Bank, said such services would be aimed at only one or two per cent of the population. He agreed the concept may sound elitist but was set up simply. to meet an existing demand. Walker said in a telephone interview from Montreal the pop albums will be released ly on and compact discs. . All dises are currently imported from Europe or Japan. A U.S. plant, scheduled to begin producing 300,000 discs a month last summer, is still being debugged. Sinclair said plans call for a Canadian plant to be built, possibly in the Maritimes or near Ottawa, sometime next ear He said Panasonic believes 1986 will be the year of the compact disc. banking y has spec ial operations for small busi nessmen and farmers, for ex ample, so keying on the affluent was natural. The needs of the wealthy are different from most citi zens, he said. For example, they might want advice on exotic tax shelters. 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Because no needle ever touches the disc, the record will never wear out from playing. The laser reads through dust, fingerprints and all but the worst scratches. So the snaps, and pops that inevitably clutter conventional albums don't show up on compact discs even if carelessly treated. If marks do obscure the laser, the dise player has a computerized error-correction capability which, in effect, guesses at the missing information and reproduces it. It takes some fairly serious damage to make the player skip or get stuck. Except for a rearguard of analog diehards, audio buffs have taken enthusiastically to digital audio. Some critics say digitally-recorded music sounds harsh and strident, but Phillips said the problem lies mostly with reeording engineers used to tailoring sound for reproduction off vinyl records. Digital's ability to record and reproduce music exactly as it was played makes things such as microphone placement and mixing-board settings‘ much more ciritical, he said. 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