CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 16, 1980 ‘Showbiz by Joey Sasso CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: There’s: good news for Americans who can't get enough of hating bad guy JR. Ewing of TV's nighttime soap opera ‘Dallas.’ Both CBS and NBC will feature villainous clones of the amoral oll baron on two new shows. Sheriff Titus Semplé of NBC's ‘Flamingo Road,’ premiering in January «and Guy Mid- dleton of CBS's ‘The Secrets of Midland Heights’ are so nasty that they make J.R. look like an all-around nice guy. It's no surprise that these ‘new cruel characters were - created by the folks at Lorimar Productions, the same prime-time producers of the wildly popular ‘Dallas’ and ‘Knots Landing.’ ‘Flamingo Road’ story editor Jeff Freilich feels that “viewers will be able to live out even more fantasies” with the show. “It’s a very steamy story about aristocratic Southern people who carry on like they came from the wrong side of the tracks,” he told me. “(t's not really like ‘Dallas,’ but has a, similar feeling.” CONSUMER NEWS WIRE: Television, whose new season was virtually kayoed by the impact of the actors strike, has bounced back with incredible-vigor. NBC, in fact, made a virtue of the crippling dispute by slamming in with a flurry of block-busters while ABC and CBS were still picking themselves up from the floor, NBC's first heavyweight blow came with ‘Shogun.’ This adventure saga of ancient Japan, made at a cost of $21 million, cap-° tured the imagination of America. As millions across the country quit bars and stores to catch episode three, federal arbiters gave the first hint of peace in the two month old strike. NBC, keen to consolidate their success, ‘SUZANNE SOMERS . JOYCE DeWITT were already plugging their next blockbuster, a rerun of *Centennial.’ A jubilant NBC, executive told me, “It's been ‘a long time since there have been so many smiling faces ‘around here." NBC is, likewise, buoyed by the fact that many of its new series were unaffected by the strike. Suzanne Somers-and Joyce DeWitt are upset at ‘the news that John Ritter is quitting ‘Three's Company’ tafter this season. He has been promised a series of his ‘own next year... Erik Estrada was offering, more than ‘just his autograph on Hollywood's picket lines. For girls who'd buy tickets for the Screen Actors’ Guild fund-raiser ihe was cheekily suggesting they could spend the weekend with him. 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Find Business Directory Advertising | Pays ~ PHONE. 365-5210. By D CURRIE’ OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Pierre’ Trudeau, whose memory for names is almost as bad as his } Fepu- 2au's praise of reporter a 115¢P tation for demeaning the media, stunned his weekly. press conference by heaping praise on a reporter. He couldn't remember the guy's" name, and he ‘got the name. of the said a-kind word about a backwards, but, still, most agreed it was, perhaps the firet time Trudeau had ever reporter The occasion was -Tru- deau's speech at “an evening ith the people of Saskat- chewan" in Regina Oct. 29," and most media accounts played up his reference to Western “hysteria” over the constitution issue. Flying home next morn- ning, Trudeau was mighty pleased with the account-he read in The Leader-Post — - he called it the Poat-Leader. - Ottawa decision favors Reagan — By Any FAIRBAIRN CALGARY (CF) After two weeks of oil industry, reaction to the federal bud- get, it is clear that one of the main beneficiaries of . Ot- tawa's controversial actions will be .Ronald Reagan's. energy program, shes Efforts by the president- elect to increase U.S. oil Joudrie said new petroleum , taxes will hit Canadian-own- ‘ed firms hardest, - The Canadiat-ownied sec: tor of the. oil. industry has been growing faster than foreign-owned cc Of spent on Western Canadian oll exploration, $1 goes di- rectly to central Canadian industry to buy goods and nearly all of. "the other. ‘$1 winds up ih central: Canada p- ‘erating here — a trend that: was increasing. the percen- tage of Canadian ownership before the budget. But the « larger size of the foreign makes it easier production will be boosted by. skilled and equipment that would otherwise have been active in. Canada. The 825-company Inde- pendent Petroleum Associa-" tion of Canada, for then to survive periods of lower revenue. ~ EXPLORATION DROPS “At the Canadian Asso- ciation of Oilwell Drilling mainly’ Canadian-owned ' oil: firms, has, warned that ex- ploration activity | in Canada will be slashed i. Despite ; piri . pro- -nouricements: thatthe new Tederal. energy policy and: budget are designed to in- crease Canadian ownership of the petroleum’ industry,. 8 Earl are almost bh! Canadian- owned firms, officials esti- mate that the federal-pro- vincial conflict of 1980 and the federal budget will mean a 40-per-cent decline in ex- ploration activity next year. for his stress analysers, “but anything can be abused,” he admitted. Civil libertarians in the United States have cri- ticized the availability of the machines, Elin's watch, which. is plugged into a pocket-size tape recorder and flashes red_ when a voice shows signs of stress, i8 for quick, sur- reptious * “security “ screén--, : Countess ; ing.” Retailers hope for a brisk Christmas TORONTO (CP) — Ma- jor Canadian retailers, an- xiously ing the year's piggy-banks this year and _rétailers have slashed the i that biggest spending binge, say they are optimistic that the Christmas rush will be more. profitable than it was last year. This year hasn't been an especially productive one for retailers, but sales volumes it made Christmas so tough on them in 1979. The biggest change from last year is the absence of the panicked sale-pricing that started as early as Septem.” ber last year. Retailers learned a lot from’ that win and Di are expected to pull up sales averages and profits. . Consumers seem more * ‘willing to break open the when high inven- tories at high interest rates pushed them into dropping prices. “It’s a far mére orderly. scene,” says Leonard Kubas, president of Retail Market- ing Associates consultants, “Last year, all we saw was: sale, sale, sale.” Retailers don't want to the burdened again with in- ventories gathering dust in. their stock rooms at: high interest rates, he said. — - NOT PANICKING “They're running much leaner and they're not pan- icking.” Many industry observ-‘ ers also say demand is on the increase and attribute that to several facets of the recent federal and Provincial bud- gets, Ottawa's decision not to © remove indexing of personal income: tax — which would have’ cut into disposable in- come — and’ Ontario's re- moval of the retail sales tax from selected commodities. - will definitely. help, many _ say. But retailers are still ea for snow. Although’ drivers and non-skiers curse Province seeks swap VICTORIA (CP) — Provincial government re negotiating with’ Victoria- based Pacifje Logging Co. to swap _ timber-rich land for already-logged land - suitable for recreational use, Lands Minister Jim Chabot says. ‘The swap would involve’ Pacific Logging, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway, getting clear title to more than 2,000 hectares of prime . timberland in parcels throughout the central and logging + northern Interior. would “long way down the road yet «++ many, many months.” Neither Forests Minis- ter Tom Waterland nor offi- “cials of Pacific Logging were ilable f The get 4,000 “hectares of water- front land already logged by Pacifie Logging. ., _ Chabot said negotiations are only in the preliminary stages, adding a deal is a ” later, and the U.S. is still calling the It's rather amusing at times to realize what happenings are classed as crises, b : waist, Here we are, more than a year morning I felt a panicky sensation’ as something went — zip — around my wife, Angelika; was laughing so hard, for However, Don Murray, general of Mara- government, denied reports the Pacific Logging deal was a factor in reaching agree- ment on B.C, Place. = The B.C. Place deal in- volves a $60 million cash and land swap that will allow the to build a 60,000- thon Realty, the real estate arm of Canadian Pacific, who negotiated the recent B.C. “Place land swap with the seat stadium near the down- town core of Vancouver and ultimately a 200-plus acre development. No one at the office knew why my- But it's, not a Pleasant feeling to the stuff, merchandisers know it puts shoppers in the Christmas modd. With the year-end ‘ac. counting for more than $0 per cent of average retail sales, executives start to worry when Christmas volumes aren’t rolling early. A large percentage of sals last year were made up in the last 10 shopping days, after mild weather stalled Yuletide thoughts until the last minute.. . _ “It was a bit of a finger- nail biter, but it came through in the end,” one fi- nancial analyst said. ALREADY SHOPPING _ But shoppers are al- ready crowding stores this year. “We've been busy, very busy,” said Sue Smith, ot Birks jewellers. buyers see as inflation hed- - Jewelry stores turn more than 40 per cent of their volume in the last three months of the year, much of it in December, says Mel Fruitnian, research director of the Research Council of Canada. Fred Metter,, vice-presi- dent of merchandising - for People’s Jewellers Ltd., said store traffic and other indi- cators suggest Christmas is “going to be great.” Department stores say consumers seem to be in- ‘terested in everything from toys to cameras to clothes. The trend to more home- centred activities.and formal entertaining is prodding sales of home entertainment equipment, china and house- é wares, said Greg Purchase, “People. are ahaping early, And people certainly have money.” Christmas is even more crucial to jewellers than most retailers and more so -this year as gold and silver mer- chandisers cash in on what senior vit of T. Eaton Ltd. He said Eaton's’ is ex- pecting an over-all sales in- crease of 10 per cent this year, adding that there is a fabulous market for elec- tronic toys. CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 16, 1980 “It had an incredibly good summary of my speech by some unknown journalist . « «I wish I could remember, name.” His name is Dale Eisler and his front-page atory.em- phasized ‘Trudeau's thesis that Canada doesn’t deserve to survive as a nation if it tears itself apart rather than share the wealth and support constitutional change. “The magic of it,” Tru- deau told his stunned listen- ers, “was that one bright guy had seized the essence of what I was saying and put aside the useless.” ‘ . By the luck of the draw, or maybe prime miniterial decree, Sacha Trudeau is off. on a 10-day jaunt to the Middle East, Bonn and Paris. The second son of the prime minister was third in line for a glamor trip with a ganlae son Justin, 8, drew the plum last June with a trip to the Venice summit and then Rome, London, Stockholm arid Oslo, Then Michel, 6, went on a high ad adventure to the high with the. PM in sep- tember. But who looks after the Trudeau siblings in a foreign land while the prime minister ‘ attends to duties, such as closed meetings, state din- ners and the like? The prime minister's of- -fice isn't too sure, but a staffer suggested that. var- fous members of. Trudeau's staff pitch in. Mainly the duty of baby- sitting, entertaining and gen- erally keeping an eye on the kids. falls to the RCMP security men who normally are on duty at the Trudeau ° home but travel with the prime minister. In Ottawa, they:escort the-children to school, piano lessons, outings and even trick-or-treat, rounds on Hall ‘tn looked as ‘coas ‘he pretty well looked after him- self, turning out day after day in the same clothes. /., But the Trudeau boys. * have never beeri style-set- “ ters. Instead, they have the kid-next-door look, often ap- pearing in public in inelegant school-day clothes,’ well-worn boots and. sometimes mis- * matched mittens. The Conservative par- ty’s weekly publication Cau- cus Newsline notes with dis- dain that Jack Horner, dubbed “the sheriff who . joined the rustlers” when he * broke Tory ranks and be- came a has. been . appointed a director of Can-, adian National Railways. Horner, the’ Alberta rancher defeated, in the last general election, “is an ex- pert on derailing,” Newsline comments. _ The big Railway Com- mittee Room, where’ the Conservative party holds its caucus meetings, is sporting thick new: sound-proof doors _ — to keep the noise out and + the secrets in. - The new padding’ was installed after ‘some Tories complained that eavesdrop- pers could listen in on their “deliberations and they were sometimes disturbed by tour- _ ists noisily gathered at the souvenir booth across the main hall from the room. ° The shuffle in the last general election left all three major parties with pretty lean representation in some parts of the country, For in- stance, the NDP had to go to Red Murphy, member for a north Manitoba riding, as spokesman on Atlantic af- fairs after losing their two NDP’ members from that area. Their-only other mem- bers closer to the Atlantic are Ed Broadbent of Oshawa and Bob Rae of Toronto, res- with On the Venice trip, one reporter remarked that Jus- 40 years ROME (AP) — Police freed an Italian countess held captive for 40 years in a room of her ancestral home, but authorities are still puzzled over why her alleged captors — the woman's two brothers and: a sister-in-law — kept her locked away. s “The people in the vil- lage say she went to bed with - her father and they locked her up to punish her,” Antonio Pavone, a ‘police Officer in the northern Italian “town of Piacenza said in a telephone interview Friday. “We don't know if that is a true story. Other people say the family wanted her. money. We don't know if that’s true either, or even if she had a lot of money.” Acting: on a tip from neighbors, police broke into the family’s home on a farm near Piacenza last week and freed the 65-year-old count- ess, Giovanni Portapuglia. She had not been allowed to leave her room or use a toilet" and was living amid her own > exerement, police said. “It's worse. than medi- “eval Pavone. said. “They the, way men's trousers are built — with a crotch — thus preventing what could have made a decisive difference oe the worse, especially aince f had to THEY don't know what a crisis really i is walking, unabashed. Always the’ gen- tleman,.I jumped out of my car, grabbed up her skirt and chased up the sidewalk after her. Meanwhile, she bring in hestege-taking incident in Tehran a crisis. There's an ongoing crisis in the: fighting between Iran and Iraq. : Joe Clark sees Western alienation ‘a crisis in Canada. Pierre Trudeau sees a crisis in ~ patriating the British North America Act. Unfortunately, the politicians don't really know what a crisis is. They should ask me. : Webster's says one definition of a “Editors c are people, too DON Hae VEY — sort of” (Linus) crisis is “an unstable time or crucial .. time or state of affairs whose outcome wilt make. a decisive difference for better, or worse.” I ‘encountered a crisis this pas' weak, While vane to work one alppy You guessed ‘it, Stanfields ‘aren't what they us used to be. The elastic in the waist band of my underwear shorts had finally given up the ghost. keep one’s composure while hiding the personal truth and trying to act as though all was well, The only thing that decided the outcome of this crisis was ly to Stanley to the wolf whis- School and photograph a Grade 12 class © of females who were making clocks in their industrial arts class. SLittle did they know of my state of affairs. Now that the crisis has passed, I figured I-should bare all and explain, especially to'the folks here at the Castlegar News, why my wife was laughing uncontrollably and I looked a bit nervous. . That incident, however, probably wasn't as-traumatic as the one that befell a shapely lass. walking up Avenue Road in Toronto a few years ago as I sat in my car waiting for a traffic ight to turn green. Just as she got alongside my car her wrap-around skirt fell off, She kept her cool and continued -rollers.. Foreman Peter Harvey (no tles, horns and cheers as I burned up’ the sidewalk in hot pursuit. I didn’t quite know what to say to her so casually merely said, “Mam, Ts issue. — the party jeadership and as finance .critic. . captive at home " didn’t even do things like this in the Middle Ages.” pol reated Luigi Portapugila,’ 56, his wife Maria, 52 and his brother Alfredo, 48,. and . charged them ‘with unlawful reatraint and ill-treatment of their sister. ,Police-said the countess was suffering from malnu- trition when che was found: Her fingernails were so long they curled around her, fin- gers, “At the hospital where she is staying now, they say . she is okay, at least physi- . cally,” Pavone said. ey say she's talking well. At first police thought’ the countess was retarded, but Pavone said they now: believe she is of above aver- age intelligence and gradu-- ated from a private boarding school. Pavone said the two brothers, both with'titles of nobility, and sister-in-law are - being given’ psychiatric ex- * aminations to see if they are. fit to stand trial. Their father has been dead for 20 years. back shop almost sweated blood trying to loosen a nut so that they could fix . the offending part. No dice. We had to" a repairman from Portland,’ . Ore.,. late Wednesday. That night — after the back shop people had pro- duced and collated that six four-page Peter et al dismantled the - press and hauled the broken down jig out to the hit think you dropped “Thank you,” she replied, wrap- ping the thing back on before strolling’ on as though nothing had happened. Now, that’s the way to handle a crisis, _ In a more serious vein, we had a crisis or two at the Castlegar News this week. We alluded to one of them on shop at the pulp mill. It took 35 tons:-of pressure to loosen the nut that our fellows had been trying to loosen with a big pipe wrench. Then it was “just” a matter of | re-assembling the press. While our production staff was Gying (ofthe press before, we had to Page Al last We i cause press problem”. What happened was that a thing- amajig seized up on one of the press; relation) and a number of others in the ‘a edition off, our Can- get adian Press news service machine went kablooey — problems on the CNCP circuit between Castlegar and Nelson. All we received during a critical hour or so was “%7?-°WEtaoin shrdlu.”