CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 4, 1980 = MEDIA MONITOR 2 a oe New York—Britt Ekland person- Ifias the typical Swedish stereotype. Blonde, beautiful, sexually liberated and emotionally tough as nails. If one ‘were to describe the 37- year-old actress’ life it could be summed up in only one word —‘tumultuous.’ Britt's soon to be published ‘kiss and tell’ book True Britt chronictes her rip-roaring adventures with rock and movie stars, plus all the naughty stuff that she deemed fit to print. Of course, this hasn't done much for - Britt's reputation in Hollywood. Outside of a few TV series guest appearances and some forgettable low-budget movies, Ekland hasn't worked hard since she teamed up with close friend (and fellow Swedish actress) Maud Adams and Roger Moore in 007's ‘The Man With the Golden Gun.’ New start But come May 13, Ekland and Adams will team up again in the CBS tele-thriller ‘The Hostage Tower.’ From her palatial home in Bel Air, Britt spoke fondly of her tatest movi I get to play a baddy (sic), which is nice for a change. | play the criminal’s right hand woman and mistress, and | walk around with an invisible whip threatening my rival Maud Adams with my eyes. I'm glad 1 got the chance to do this kind of role because usually blonde and Detecting a tinge of resentment and sarcasm in her voice, | asked Britt if she regretted having her memoirs come out Just as ‘The Hostage Tower’ was being lensed. ‘I have no regrets at all. | haven't put nothing to do with today. But if you think | objected to the publicity—! didn't! | thought it was nice to be on the cover of People magazine,” Ekland said proudly in her seductive Scandinavian volce. When pressed about what sort of ‘roles’ she thought she could play, Britt quipped aarrdonically: “Well, you aren't to see me in the classics! | thought | would have been perfect for a role in ‘Scruples.’ Basically 1 love TV in general. There’s this wonderful immediate thing you have with the audience. Right now | am in discussion with three different networks for several projects. But | certainly wouldn't do a ‘Charlie's Angels’ type of show. That sort of thing isn't very con- ducive to my brain. I'd like to do a * most of my _ fantasies. alse be making a movie called ‘Dark Eyes,’ a psychic- iheiller, which | think will also pel jun." Telling It ways, but justified them as part of living out a fantasy. “I've lived out » | made a record that didn’t do that well, but out fantasies, but you can’t act out ° dreams, and its miffs me to see that after 28 films | am still considered a ‘starlet,’ Britt said, sounding quite perplexed. No one knows for sure what the future holds for Britt Ekland, and ‘ don't think Britt knows elther, but New book lists Gritty Britt takes refuge toll-free There's a new book out that proudly proclaims that you can save the cost of pur- chasing it ($5.50) the very first time you use it. It's a claim that’s hard to dispute. Titled “Toll-free Can- ada,” the book has been edited by David P. Yanor of Vancouver and is being published by Zenith Press Ltd. of South Burnaby. What it contains is a list of close to 2,000 toll-free telephone numbers. across Canada and in the U.S. The companies and or- ganizations that can ‘be reached toll-free’range from the practical to the unlikely. For example, there's a Zenith number for the Ro- deos Entry Office in Fort savings What to book a room ina hotel in St. John's, New- foundland? The directory gives five "800" numbers which puts the hotels as close as a local telephone call. There are some catches, of course, Not all Zenith numbers can be reached from B.C., nor will some com- panies or agencies accept collect calls made cross-coun- try. But this is a small in- convenience compared with the number of telephone lines you can reach with the dir- . ectory. ‘ Cover price of the dir- ectory is $4.60, but at present it can only be ordered by mail at a price of $5.60 to cover handling and postage. The postal address ‘of Zenith is Box 80668, Sth. Burnaby, V5H 3X9. uetative ‘Library, ~MID- erataeant Bldgs., 501 Bel lev = Wiatorias Bs Cc. yOV'.1X4.. Published at “The Crossroads of th at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” For Convenient HOME DELIVERY of the Castlegar News 365-7266 VOL. 33, NO. 19 35 Cents “ CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MAY 7, 1980. 5 Sections (A,B,C,O&E) " Lower ROCK seit tax for Castlegar By RYON GUEDES + NEWS/MIRROR EDITOR New legislation outlined last. week by B.C.'s municipal affairs Castlegar taxpayers’ ini would light planning costs; - Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy said Satur- day. D’Arcy told the Castlegar News that in a discussion with Bill Vander Zalm he.learned a yet-to-be-tabled government: bill calls for a shift of part of municipalities’ share of taxes for regional districts’ ru ral planning functions lities as well as electoral areas, would be paid for mainly by the rural taxpayers benefi iting from them, the Rossland-Trail MLA said. “They would pay a chunk of thet on their own, completely based on the assessment and property ownership within that area,” D'Arcy explained. “There would be some sharing from the rest of the district and the rest ‘of the municipalities but it should be modified a little bit.” Reduction likely fis burden — D’Arcy Village or Blueberry Creek." The minister indicated the extent of the tax reduction for municipalities and the increase for rural areas is still unknown “because it simply hasn't been decided,” the Rossland-Trail in electoral areas, although “that doesn't mean the old system is completely fair.” “There's some argument for this, of course, in that the CanCel mill is entirely within the city limits of Castlegar, yet clearly the mill relies on trees and employees located outside of the municipality it's in,” D'Arcy said. “But Vander Zalm quite correctly has said ‘we want to put it on more of a pay-as-you go basis." * The minister mai that i sharing regional planning costs will be required to , continue MLA said. News of the reported shift in regional planning costs drew approval from Castlegar’s Mayor Audrey Moore and reservations from Martin ‘Vanderpol, who serves as the representative for rural Area J as well as planning committee chairman on the RDCK board of directors. Levy inequitable The mayor, whose city council has since 1976 unsuccess- fully sought RDCK board approval for a reductién in Collins, Colorado. in ‘The Hostage Tower’ blue-eyed wornen get to play sexy young things,"” Ekland claimed. contributing to the function, D'Arcy said. “ae : No opting out —_i. “At least at this point, Mr. Vander Zalm stoutly denies there is going to be any provision for opting out of the regional planning function, ‘ merely a shift in emphasis in the way they send the bills out,” he said. “But there's no question it's going to be a‘ better shake if you live within the municipality, whether it’s Castl Nelson, Nakusp or Creston. And you're going to be paying a heavier chunk of the planning bill if you live in Raspberry to unorganized communities. Unlike the present system requiring Castlegar to pay a * heavy share of taxes for. strictly rural planning service in Central Kootenay while‘ footing the bill for its own in-house planning department, the. new scheme set down in. the legislation will according to Vander Zalm impose a “pay as you go” arrangement on electoral areas, he said. Under the legislation outlined by the municipal affairs minister the services offered under regional planning functions, previously financed with an equal levy imposed on Cancer victim awarded benefits * Payment of Castlegar's regional Panning levy, said the reduction of the cost to‘ a ited remedy to an: “inequitable” formula. “Tye been saying for. years it’s an injustice that the to pick up the cost of local government for | the rural areas,” Moore said. “If the rural areas want local government either the province or the local areas should pay for it but the I shouldn't dize it, and if they are moving in that direction I am more than somewhat happy.” Castlegar’s share of the RDCK planning levy represents 20 per cent of the total tax requisition, she said, but the city receives no service in return. “If they want precise settlement, fair enough, but if they want it they must pay. for it,” the mayor continued. “It’s been very easy up until now for rural areas or for small villages to say ‘we want this and we want that’ knowing full well the major tax component is going to tax their citizens for it. It’s the easiest thing in the world to ask for service if you don't have to pay.” : More on page A7 Consultants start she'll never be dull. “So clearly, I would say, the municipal amount charged by Central Kootenay to Castlegar, Nelson or Nakusp.or any. other municipality for planning which takes place in the rural parts of the regional district is likely to be reduced as a result of the changes,” he continued. ‘ “And the amount the rural areas Pay. for planning is likely. to be increased.” The ‘Rossland-Trail MLA agreed that because of their close relationships with outlying rural communities munici- palities have some responsibility to share the cost of planning half-hour sit-com maybe. In June I'll AUTO VIEW ‘80 “Your Convenient Transportation Shopping Guide ' 1977 CAMARO Irreplaceable, 4-spe PONTIAC BUICK GMC LTD. 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Inexcallent CONIHON .scssseeseseneess W. PLAZA TOYOTA old. Waneta Rd,, Trail Phone 364-2588 ‘wages lost through cancer-related a sences from work and : @ restored sick leave bank; : °A tifetime disability: pension representing 36. per §f -centof his wages; a @ ALS pension’ amounting: to bet- ween‘ -$50,000~—arr $100,000 for his dependents as well as an occupation retraining allowance for his wife if he dies “prematurely from can cer. Those are the benefits granted a Castlegar school district employee Jan. 15 ina provincial Workers’ Compen- sation Board award the Can- adian Union of Public Em- ployees has described as “a major breakthrough for all workers in B.C. and through- out Canada.” "The award was part of the WCB's repartedly-unpre- cedented acceptance as a compensable disease of the occupationally-caused bL.d- der cancer cited in a claim by Elio de Paoli. According to a CUPE report the board laid 80 per cent of the blame on working conditions during de Paoli's 20 years as an electrician for the Crow's Nest Pass Coal + Company and 20 per cent on conditions in his present em- ployment by School District ‘No. 9 for the loss of his bladder and urinary disfunc- . tion. Ruling both jobs were “causeative of the condition” the WCB ordered the em- ployers to pay their shares of the compensation based on. the percentages. After beginning work . for the coal company in 1944 de Paoli performed “a wide . The Sugteae Court ‘hearing on Selkirk College non-teaching employees’ charges" of undue bias by pro- - vincial government- appointed arbitrator * Hugh Wilkinson has been postponed in- . definitely. Spokesmen for Selkirk management and Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1341 this week con- firmed that although it was slated to proceed Thursday the case against Wilkinson, chairman ‘of the troubled joint union-management: job classification committee set up under the July, 1979 _ award by arbitrator Noel - Hall, was adjourned without being assigned a new date. But ‘management and the union offered contradic- tory reports on which party sought the adjournment. range of dirty and jobs” including cleaning ac- cumulated coal and coke dust, “now recognized as cancer-causing agents,” out of motors, generators and : More on page A7 Acting: Walter Uegama said the college sought a one-day adjourn- ment because its legal coun- sel was not yet available, but “to an un- of Canada - unity.t0 visi WALTER UEGAMA «+ «still bound’ the request of CUPE. Local 1341 president Marilyn Strong said tht ad- joirnment was granted at the request of Selkirk coun- sel, The management and CUPE spokesmen also voiced differing views this week on the motives behind the col- lege board's . decision last month to cease its operation on behalf of the provincial of Nel- the set future date" was made at son’s David Thompson Uni- The Canadian Cellulose board of directors this. week recommended the company’s public shareholders accept the B.C.’ Resources Investment Cor- poration’s $15-per- share offer. CanCel board endorsing BCRIC $15-per-share offer Ina circular mailed to shareholders, directors state they consider the offer from BCRIC — trying to increase its ownership of CaaCel from 81 to 100 per cent — from a financial point of view to be “fair and reasonable” to share- holders. Included in an infor- mation package sent to “Lynch, CanCel’s shareholders is a copy of the opinion of Merrill invest- ment dealer and financial adviser, which also sup- pore the $15-per-cent of- fer. The purchase of all the public CanCel shares would cost BCRIC an esti- mated $36 million. versity Centre. People. Although on April 25° § Education| Minister Brian * Smith named the University of Victoria as the likely new manager of: Nelson's David Thompson University Cen- tre, Uegama said, the uni- - versity “to my knowledge has not made a formal: res- ponse to that yet." He explained the college -board’s move to end its in- volvement with DTUC was made because the board was not prepared to manage a degree-granting institution. “For one thing the Col- leges and Provincial Insti- tutes Act limits program- ming to the first two years for community... teolleges,” Uegama said. - “Related to that, we're not in the business of degree programming as a commun- ity college. The cost char- acteristics of degree pro- gramming are generally such that community colleges of- ten find it advisable ‘not to get involved.” Labor relations prob- lems with CUPE did not in- fluence the college board's decision to withdraw from management of DTUC, the acting princigal said. “The labor relations sit- MARILYN STRONG The creed |r in Costiegar mid-April { Shown here:: "father cletre: Welcome: appear to be tied in with strategy for dealing with the union. Eliminating the in- stitution from the college system would reduce the. diversity of the job cate- gories and the wage dispar- ities the job classification committee was created under Hall's arbitration award to adjust, she said. “Certainly it appears as though their, intention is to keep the employees as dis- - organized and unhappy as | ‘they can," she said. “And it appears as though every time there’s a labor relations problem you can trace it back to a specific management “=: decision to either assume, assimilate or disband a group from the unit “The period under which we're bound by arbitration only goes until the end of December and new contract talks start at that time. So our expectation was that we would be continuing with the job classification committee work through that period.” - But Strong said the board's. efforts to withdraw from operation of DTUC uation as far as I understand it stays essentially the same in terms of Selkirk’s res- ponsibility under the arbi- tration,” he explained. “We're still bound by the ar- bitration “and there’s no change in that at all.” He said the college .ad- ministration is prepared to- “keep on moving” on’ job classification “and, we still have never shown any desire otherwise.” “What we've understood in terms of the timing of any change in management is that it’s probably going to be around the fall, prior to stu- dent. entry,” Uegama con- tinued. of 1 it's involved in.” Strong cite®the Nov. 1, 1978 ruling five days into the West Kootenay schools dis- pute in favor of the college's argument that DTUC em- ployees previously repre- sented by the Associaion of University and College Em- ployees should be repre- sented by CUPE 1341 as another example of manage- studies on impact of Mur B.C. Hydro- ae consultants have star- ‘ted study here of the ‘projected ‘environ- “mental impact of the :proposed,-Murphy- : Creek hydroelectric ‘dam, Mayor’ Audrey “Moore told . the Castlegar News’ this week. Moore said two consult- ing firms involved i in differ- ment’s attempts to “keep changing the scenario.” “Calling for a union jur- isdiction question in the middle of bargaining with one group, having the jur- phy dam ent aspects of. the study on the effect construction of the - Crown corporation's prop- osed .400-megawatt dam would have on the Columbia River have contacted the sity ; ” ‘The mayor identified the firms as L and L’ Environ- ment Services Ltd., * con- ducting Hydro's aquatic re- sources impact study, and International “Environment Consultants Ltd., conducting a water quality study. She said L and L met with the city last week and International made contact Tuesday seeking information related to their planned studies, Despite attempts Tues- day to contact Jill Davidson, the Crown corporation's com- munity relations officer, for additional information on the by the LRB and throwing a ‘group of employees into a More on page A7 i she could not be _ Feached arf did not respond by press time to a message left for her. Preparation made for 4-lane traffic Those missing sec- tions of curb and parking space on the Columbia Avenue 300 block are part of preparations for con- struction of a four- lane street down- town, Castlegar's assistant works superintendent said Monday. Igor Zahynacz said pieces of pavement along the entire east side and half the west side of the block-have been removed to accommo- date the widening of Col- umbia betwen Pine Street and Maple Street to four lanes as well as installation of a “middle left-turn lane at Pine coming from the south and a left-turn lane at Maple coming from the north.” Zahynacz said the four- land route, which will no longer provide for curbside parking and is scheduled for’ completion within about two weeks, “should facilitate the movement of traffic.” You're Getting WEEKEND WEATHERCAST + SUPPLEMENTS Woolco “Mother's Day” SuperValu Marshall Wells “Bloomin' Good Values” Eatons “Home Fashion Sale” (Not all supplements are included in all papers.) AnnLanders . . . Page D4 Consumer Comment BillSmiley . . Page C5 Classified Ads, Real Estate and Automotive . Pages E1-E2-E5S Entertainment Page C2 Erma Bombeck SUNNY ‘Thursday clouding up on Friday with a few showers. 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