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In past years, most Amer ican producers did their post Tour p Thomas is li city singing tour this month to benefit victims of child abuse. I guess host celebrities, people in my business, kind of lock on to one thing that Singer BJ planning an a Season’sGreetings Welcome Canadians! Offering 10% On Canadian Currency When you stay with us for our low room rates #5 miles north of city center near K-Mart & Northtown Shopping Center Modern Air Conditioned Units Direct Dial Phones ¢Tubs and Showers Color TV (Cable) Kitchenettes touches their hearts,” Thom as said. “This is something my wife and | have devoted our time to over the Their Broken Toys tour is named for a song by Thom years.” as’s wife, Gloria, in collab oration with two Nashville songwriters, J.D. Martin and production work, such as editing and music scoring, in the United States. Clackson said excluding CBC and CTV productions, a total of 25 projects were shot in B.C. this year: eight fea ture films, 12 TV movies and five TV series. The movies included Malone, starring Burt Reynolds, and Roxanne. starring Steve Martin In addition to movie and TV work, Clackson said TV commercials shot in B.C generated $4 million in the province. lanned for victims [ B.J. THOMAS Gary Harrison. The song was recorded by Thomas this year on the album Throwin Rocks at the Moon By ROD CURRIE Canadian Press For the Canadian men who were at Vimy Ridge that chilly Easter Monday in 1917, and lived to tell about it, the thing they remembered most was the terrible noise as shells and bullets formed a canopy of red-hot steel just above their heads. It is said that British prime minister David Lloyd George. far from the French battlefield in his 10 Downing Street office, could hear the faint booming of the First World War's greatest bombardment “All agreed that for anyone not present that dawn at Vimy, it was not possible to comprehend the intensity of the experience,” writes author Pierre Berton is his new book, Vimy. Berton, 66 wasn’t there, but in this book he has sought to tell “not just what happened but also what it was like.” He has largely succeeded — and it was like hell “IT have tried to look at the Vimy experience from the point of view of the men in the mud as well as from that of the senior planners,” he writes. AGONY AND DEATH As for the men in the mud, their point of view encompassed rats and lice, the agony of gas attacks, soldiers blinded and mangled crying out for help that didn’t come, and the surreal spectacle of a man moving forward a step or two after his head was blown off. The story of how the Canadians succeeded, at great cost, has been told in many earlier books on Vimy. But Berton, with the acknowledged help of research assistant Barbar Sears, has dug not only into the traditional sources in archives, records and earlier histories but also into the personal recollections of survivors, soldiers journals and letters sent home. From his mountain of material he has crafted the anguished tale of an incredible victory accompanied by intolerable suffering, heroism, fear and even touches of humor. Berton’s book is occupied mainly with the months of on-site preparations, training, manoeuvres and lightning quick, often tragic, raids to soften the German hold on the strategic ridge. The battle itself lasted only a matter of Berton depicts clash hours before the Canadians claimed the ridge, although mopping up and smaller, costly military actions continued for days. MEN JOIN UP But his story starts even earlier, back in Canada where naive young men flowed from the forests, the mines, the fishing boats and the farms and factories eager to join up. As always, Berton is adept at etching vivid pictures of Canada at that time and the emotions and realities that motivated these young men. Some, from poor families, signed up simply so there would be one less mouth to feed at home; some because they thought the war would be brief and offered a free, adventurous trip to Europe; and others, of British stock and intensely loyal, wanted to serve the King and old country It is Berton’s theory that the Canadians succeeded at Vimy where the British and French had failed in two years of fighting — mainly because they were raw civilians with flexible minds unfettered by military rules, from a young country without a military tradition but with an intense sense of brotherhood TOLL 10,000 Aftef five months of preparations, within a few hundred metres of the ridge honeycombed with German tunnels and dugouts and bristling with guns, the Canadians went over the top at 5:30 a.m. By noon most of the ridge was in their hands, at a cost of 10,000 Canadian dead and wounded The French, who had lost 150,000 men trying to take the ridge, didn’t believe it could be done. The British were skeptical. The Germans scoffed. “You might get to the top of Vimy Ridge but I'll tell you this,” said a German officer, “you'll be able to take all the Canadians back in a rowboat that get there.” Whether the tragic losses at Vimy were worth the prize is still debated. but Berton notes that at the time the war had been dragging on for more than 2‘ years with hopes raised and dashed in battle after battle. “Vimy was a limited victory, to be sure,” he writes. Vimy, by Pierre Berton. Published by McClelland and Stewart; 336 pages; $24.95. Cable 10 TV Courtesy H itality i) CONTINENTAL MOTEL Phone N. 7005 Division (S09) 467-6444 Spokane, Wash. 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Desi Arnaz stood on the side of the set and listened while a young scriptwriter rattled off ideas for the latest show “I would tell him, as fast as I could talk, about the show that we were working on,” recalled writer Madelyn Pugh Davis. “He would listen and say, ‘I think it's a little weak in the second act,’ and he was right With a gambler's adventurism, a survivor's instinct, and sharp sense of opportunity, the Cuban-born bandleader set a format for the still-wandering medium of television in the early 1950s that continues three decades later Arnaz died early Tuesday of lung cancer at age 69, in the arms of his daughter, Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, at his Del Mar home He's not just a dad, he’s Desi and he’s Ricky, and I know he means a lot to the world,” said Luckinbill. “Profes sionally, I think I'd like for him to be remembered as the man who turned television around He was the father of my children and we were always friends, always very friendly and close. wife and co-star, comedian Lucille Ball time, through the years.” I Love Lucy starred Arnaz as bandleader Ricky Ricardo, Ball as his wife Lucy, and William Frawley and Vivian Vance as neighbor-landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz said Arnaz’s former We've talked all the Arnaz left not only a legacy of reruns of I Love Lucy but the spiritual inspiration for such comedies as The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Cosby Show His Cuban accent and fractured English were constant sources of laughter on I Love Lucy. His Latin temper often flared at Lucy's antics and he would fire off a burst of nonstop Spanish. Occasionally complete with conga drums, Ba_ba-loo. he would perform a song. such as his trademark 3 NIGHTS ONLY Thurs., Fri. & Sat., Dec. 4,5&6 DON BRYAN and Friends ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF CANADA'S FINEST ENTERTAINERS DON BRYAN hos been entertaining audiences of all ages tor more than 25 years and during this time, he has found himself in almost every kind of pertorman ce situtation. Whether in a club, at a Private party, on television, on board o cruise ship or from the grandstand stage of a fair or rodeo, Don is able to switch with ease from childrens’ shows to adult audiences, either mixed or stag. OPEN 6 DAYS AWK 12NOON 2AM 1800-18th Street Castlegar * 365-7365 “The buffoon he played on television was the antithesis of the man,” said Ricard Crenna, who starred in Our Miss Brooks, a Desilu production. “He was really an artistic and creative person.” “I think it was his scheme that created the Lucy show, his work, his ideas,” said TV pioneer Milton Berle. “He did not receive enough credit for the expertise he brought to the business.” Arnaz, who was married to Ball for 20 years before their divorce in 1960, became one of television's most successful producers I Love Lucy, which ran from 1951 to 1961, was filmed, rather than broadcast live. The show was the first to use three cameras instead of one, and the first to be filmed in front of an audience. It's all standard practice now, but in 1951, it was revolutionary And before Lucy Ricardo got a job in a candy factory with a fast-moving conveyor belt, or cooked up a new way to sneak into Ricky's nightclub act, Arnaz approved the story line The show was produced at Arnaz and Ball's Desilu Studios, and from that series, they devloped Desilu into a major TV production company that in its prime produced more than 19 shows, including The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour, The Untouchables, December Bride, Willy, Our Miss Brooks and Make Room for Daddy Sponsor Phillip Morris initially balked at the episode cost of I Love Lucy, which was four times that of a live half-hour. Arnaz took a pay cut of $1,000 an episode with the proviso that rights returned to Desilu In 1958, Desilu sold 190 episodes to CBS for $6 million Arnaz sold his Desilu interest to Ball in1963. He made a producing comeback in 1967 with The Moths in-Law Arnaz was born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III on March 2, 1917, in Santiago, politician landowner. Cuba, as the son of a His family emigrated to Miami after the 1933 Cuban revolution wiped out his family’s fortune. At age 16 he enrolled in St. Patrick's high school, where his best friend was the son of Al Capone. sang in a Miami band He eventually came to Hollywood in the film version of the stage play Too Many Girls, in which Ball starred. They had two children, Luckinbill and son Desi Arnaz Jr Arnaz married~BMith Hirsch in 1963 on his birthday. She died in 1985. At age 17, Arnaz COMMUNITY Bulletin Board CHRISTMAS TEA Job s Daughters Christmas Tea and Boke Sole. Soturday December 6. | . 3 p.m. Senior Citizens Holl Tickets $1.00 7 HUMAN RIGHTS PRAYER SERVICE Ecumenical prayer service Commemorating Human Rights Sunday, December 7. 2 p.m. Grace Presbyterian 2605 Columbia Avenve Castlegar Everyone 2 7 NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY Dance to the “Occassions” at the Robson Hall, Midnight Butter, Party Favors. Mix and Colfee Members $25.00 couple. Non-members $30.00 couple For tickets call Blythe 365-2580: Grahom. 365-5002. Roberta 365-5860 Sponsored by Robson Recreation Society 8% THE CASTLEGAR AQUANAUTS Are having an all paper cash Bingo at the Castlegar Arena Complex on Saturday. Dec 6 There wil $1,000 jockpot £.B. 6 p.m.. regulor 7 p.m $10.00 and ore available ot the Wool Wagon Food Mart and Macleods. Admission at door $1 Coming events of Castlegar ond D. orgonizations may be listed here The first 10 words $3 50 ond odditional words ore 15€ each Boldtaced wor ds (which must be used for headings) count as two There 1s no extra charge tor a second in third consecutive insertion 1s seventy five pe is halt price tor one, tw ‘ea Deodines ore 5 pm Thursdays tor Sunday s poper ond 5 pm Mondays tor Wednesdays poper Notices should be brought! to the Castlegar News ot 197 Columbia Ave ld) ra THE FIRST DONORS . . . Some of those involved in the Castlegar Library's fund raising drive are shown here in front of crowded stacks in the Castlegar Branch: Diane Piket, Lynda Woods, John Walton ) Florence and Gordon’ Laycock, Jessie Donnan (in front). Within the first day, funds totalled $2,450.00 including Gordon Laycock’s single donation of $1,000.00. AIDS a CIA product? By ROB BULL Canadian Press MONTREAL — With startling revelations about American officials selling arms to Iran and illegally funding rebels in Nicaragua with the proceeds, this isn't the best-of times for U.S. spokesmen abroad Herbert Romerstein would like to put to rest the story that the virus causing AIDS originated in a top-secret United States Army-CIA biological warfare experiment gone badly wrong. Romerstein is the co-ordinator of the United States Information Agency's activities to counter Soviet active measures. He says the AIDS story first surfaced last year when a Soviet weekly quoted an Indian newspaper as saying the United States developed the AIDS virus as a secret weapon. The newspaper carried no such item, Romerstein says, but the story got wide play around the world. It is, he says, a good example of Soviet disinformation Rolmerstein defines disinformation as the deliberate use of forgeries and false information to influence policies and elicit a specified response. One of his duties is to analyse Soviet disinformation and help prepare the American government's response to it “The Soviets have been doing it for years,” Romerstein said in an interview during a Canadian tour. “Sometimes it is a carefully-crafted mixture of truth and falsehoods. “Sometimes it's incredibly bad.” The United States has also disinformation. In March, Aviation Week said the United States was lying about as many as 20 different aircraft and weapons programs as part of a disinformation plan co-ordinated by the CIA to deceive the Soviet Union been accused of State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb resigned over reports that his government planted false information in the media last August about an impending second U.S. bombing raid against Libya. Romerstein said the United States Information Agency is careful to present an accurate and complete picture. Romerstein feels it's one thing not to tell the whole truth about specific military matters where lives are at stake. The Allies, he said, rightly deceived the Germans about where D-Day would occur. USES LIES “But, what I'm concerned with is political falsehood. The Soviets use forgeries and lies to distort the free exchange of ideas around the world.” A case in point the CIA-AIDS story In October 1985, Romerstein says, the Literaturenya Gazeta, a Moscow weekly, quoted the New Delhi Patriot as saying the United States developed the AIDs virus as a secret weapon. “Soviet media often like to attribute stories to foreign newspapers in an effort to increase their credibility.” he said. “We are convinced false stories are deliberately planted abroad simply so that they can be rebroadcast from Moscow “But in this case, the Patriot did not carry the original story — which nevertheless got wide play around the world before it died down.” The phoney AIDS story, like the disease itself, kept spreading Somebody slipped to the Washington Post a forged memo allegedly written by Romerstein outlining how to make the Soviet Union look bad over the Chernoby! nuclear disaster “Not that they needed any help,” he added dryly Cure for sex headache LOS ANGELES (AP) — Americans who get head aches during sex often are reluctant to discuss the symptoms with their doctor, but a researcher says the condition can be treated tence or prolonged absence of sexual drive. He published his findings in the November issue of Ar chives of Neurology Diamond told the newsp aper that physicians often Dr. Donald Johns, a Boston mistake the headaches as a neurologist, said the head- possible sign of stroke, but aches could be caused by that the problem can be muscle contraction in the solved in most cases by pres. neck and upper body during cribing pain relievers and intercourse, contraction of muscle relaxants blood vessels, or tears in the tissue lining of the spinal cord that allows spinal fluid to escape. The embarrassing nature of the headaches makes pa tients reluctant to seek medi. cal attention, sometimes causing the condition to become worse, he said. “I think it’s important that if a person comes in and mentions it to the family physician or an internist, or if it's a woman, to her gyne cologist, that it not just be sloughed off,” Diamond said The headache, which The number of reluctant patients makes it difficult to determine how common the disorder may be, but another specialist, Dr. Seymour Di amond of Chicago, estimated the number of Americans af. fected at up to 250,000. Johns told the Los Angeles Times that the condition can be treated, and that those who ignore the symptoms eventually could suffer impo- A representative of Castlegar on December 10, 1986 to Business’ Management needs. Why not call us today at 426-7241 (collect) to arrange an discuss your appointment? comes on with the force of a severe migraine, occurs dur- ing sex, usually at or slightly after orgasm. 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"s harbor, far from his phalanx of satellite dishes and computers, far from his company that monitors 200 TV channels and 2,500 databases and serves up slices of the information ‘explosion for corporate consumption, he reminds you at first glance of the guy at the party no one remembers inviting But much-invited Frank Ogden is. Companies, professional groups and governments around the world pay him handsomely — r plus last year to tell them what to expect in the decades ahead and how to get ready. Chit-chatty as he is personally, Ogden isn't much into happy-talk profession- ally. THE NEW ORE The long and the short of it is that he doesn't think any of us — individuals or institutions in Canada — have been doing a very good job preparing for the future. Ogden thinks we're relying too much on our natural resources to keep the economy going. In the future, he says, “information will be the new ore.” Many believe we'll eventually make the switch, but DECEMBER LATE HOUR SHOPPING THURSDAY. DECEMBER W—9-9 CHRISTMAS SEASON SHOPPING HOURS Now in effect until Christmas: Mon. - Fri., 9:30.a.m. - 9 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Ogden's not sure we'll squeak by without “I don’t see anything simple, anything smooth,” he says. “Canadians have been too fat for too long. We'll be seeing a lot of industries and institutions.” Some examples: the bustling office tower and the crowded school. Ogden says it won't be long before they're abandoned. Businesses will be smaller and deal with information. And we'll be educated electronically, at home or in community centres. A school teacher or secretary? 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