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“Herelet the press the

C (6) ™ M EN T Thursday Morning, February 15, 1979

What, Obscurity Again?

The more things change, the old saying
the more they remain the sam
hard to beile rh
psed since a rela'
members of the focal busli
engineered the rebirth of the the:

amail core of
community

made some mistakes in the past year and
tour months. The $2,000 deficit the chamber
Incurred In the ‘operation of tourist
Information booth last summer, for

ample: resulted froma lek of experience In

and District Chamber of Commerce. Their
uphill battle to galn both the goodwill of
old-guard members of the dormant organ!-
zation and the Interest of newcomers seems
#8 recent as last week's ulllity bills.

+ Because of this recent rebirth of the
chamber, naws of Its fallure to attract
quorum of 30 member
general.mesting |

govern-

9 procedur

iso Unfortunate , the Impact of
several of the present exdcutive's major
projects—Including the proposed medicat-
dental plan for chamber members and thelr
employeas and the proposed agreement
with the B.C. economic development minis-
try which would prov! funds for a

re
ro

ing.
gontent with the present chi
as to be Indifferent or they were walling tolet
the organization slide back Into

officers, even tose rere from the

after a shaky Infancy.

a
help avel! tara mlayakes and provide the

Granted, the present has

Only Skin Deep

ow!

“OTTAWA (CP) — Canadian news
media pay more attention to how pollticians
look than what they have to say, federal

_ Opposition Leader Joe Clark sald today.

necessary to
pursue thowe't pleted

But the tragedy resulting from another
collapse of the organization, now called the
Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, would not
be confined to a total waste of the lime,

community to make Its views and concerns
known to all tevets of Sovernmient and to
jes

atva Ing news

tho ecor and sociat

the
leader was dressed In a three- -plece
charcoal-grey sult accented by a mauve
hecktio and. and

Castlegar area.
Should a quorum fall to appear at the

wore mid-calf sxecutive-length hose and
brown brogues .

's annual meeting tonight, the
business community will have demonstrated
it does not deserve this opportunity.

Monkeying Around

(An editorial in the Victoria Dally Colonist.)

Two researchers at ine University of Miami
School of
to the kind of Se ie ordinarily hear
every day.

All the sounds were kept within levels
considered safe by government standards.
But bad things happened to the poor little
critters after they were forced to listen
regularly, like us, to the drone of aero-
planes, the occasional ringing of an alarm
clock, the buzzing of an electric shaver and

the typical clatter from a cafeteria. Within -

three weeks blood pressure of the monkeys
had climbed by more than 40 per cent. A

similar jump in a normal person would
produce an: extreme case of hypertension.

The question Is how nolse affects our..

health Is obviously a significant subject for
research. But who knows what a monkey
makes out of the clang of an alarm-clock?
Perhaps it sounds like the end of everything.

Measuring the effect of strange, possli-
bly terrifying,..nolses on animals appears
somewhat pointless. For thls experiment to
have balance, the same researchers should
stake out a couple of people in Monkey
country for three weeks and measure how
their blood pressure responds to those
jungle nolses in the night.

Castlegar News headlines from one year ago.
A Marathon Realty official is to determine whether a road on CP Rail land oan be leased or rented
al

keview Street

by the city for use as a second access to the

petitioner.
*

Castlegar's expected $25,323 saving in welfare costs yearly will not result in a reduction of
services, says Human Resources Minister Bill Vander Zalm.
* - &

Castlegar's exemption from policing costs has'been extended for another year.

‘Hefner a Playboy? Only on Paper—

By MIKE ROYKO
(From a column in the
Chicago Sun-Times.)

.A REPRESENTATIVE
of the Playboy company called
mea few weeks ago to offer me
an opportunity to review Hugh
Hefner on the occasion of his
magazine's 26th anniversary,

I didn’t, hesitate. “No,” I
said, :
“Why not?” asked the
Playboy representative,

“To be honest, he's dull and
Thate to interview dull people.”

Apparently I'm one of the
few reporters in America to say
no, since I'm now reading

‘Hefner interviews being print.

ed everywhere,

AND WHAT IM READ-
ing confirms my judgment, He
is dull. He's as dull as he was 10
years ago and 20 years ago,

He's also still something of
a fraud.

Most of the interviews
consist of two themes, which’
are Hefner's favorites: (1) how
he started the “sexual revolu-
tion” and (2) the thousands of
young women-he has gone to
bed with.

___ Apparently many people.
now believe, as Hefner does,
that he was responsible for the
change in America's sexual
attitudes,

Hefner has been saying
that for so many years that he
probably believes it himself,

His pitch has been that
until he came along with his
magazine, American males
were sexually inhibited, fearful,
puritanical.

BUT HIS MAGAZINE
changed all that. And because
of him, they shed their inhibi-
tions, fears and puritanism and
began leaping into bed when-
ever it seemed like the thing to
do,

Let me demolish his pom-
pous claim.

First of all, American
males always liked the idea of
hopping into bed with females.
-Centuries before Hefner's Ad-
am’s apple first jiggled excited-
ly, sex was a much-sought-after
activity to men.

The big problem was wo-
men. Regardless of what kind
of interesting suggestions a
young man made, a young

woman usually responded, +.

“First we get married.”

: THAT IS WHAT INHIB-
ited men, And what inhibited
the women was the prospect of
having an offspring with. no-
body around for it to call daddy.

It's true that this attitude
has changed during Hefner's
time, But it wasn't his magazine
and his incomprehensible philo-
sophical babbling that changed
it.

. It was something now
known as “The Pill.” Once the

| threat of pregnancy was re-

moved, so were inhibitions, and
so were the lady's garments.
BUT ALL THESE
years, Hefner has been taking
credit for something that was
brought about by some scien-
tist whose name most of us
don't even know. I'll bet Hefner
has never even sent him a free
subscription to his magazine,
Hefner's other conceit is
that he is one of the world’s

—/ The Bierman Bite

‘TWILL, IT WILL...
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Pepsi_and Pinball Don't Make: an Aristotle Onassis

“Well, we are trying to be more adventurous, but we keep having

woman, which was often, she
.was invariably one of the
world’s most beautiful and.
famuus actresses,

Asa playboy, Hefner is not
even a distant relative of Aly,
Khan. Hefner is akin to the
lecherous middle-level corpor-
ate executive who stalks the
secretarial pool.

Or take Aristotle Onassis,
who ran an empire froma yacht
and owned his own island, As
homely as he was, Onassis once
had as his mistress the fiery
Maria Callas, the world’s most
renowned opera star. And later
he topped himself by winning |
the haughty Jackie, the world’s ,
most famous woman.

BUT TRY .TO NAME
even one of Hefner's thousands
of easy triumphs. Well, he can
probably name one: Barbi Ben-
ton, a mediocre country-
western singer with a nose job.
The rest are Barbi Benton
clones.

. And there is more to being ‘

to put on our glasses to read the manual... .”

a true playboy than female

great playboys,'In most of the
current interviews, he talks
about the thousands of young
vomen-he-hes-frolicked

The interviewers report that he
keeps a few dozen of them
around his California mansion,
on call for when his 52-year- “old
glands revive.

I don't question Hefner's
claims as to quantity. I merely
sneer at it.

THE FACT IS, ANY REA-
sonably ‘healthy: multimillion
aire could, if he chose, do what

200 million people, it would not

be that difficult to find a few |

hundred ora few thousand
nubile ninnies who are {im-
pressed by wealth, baubles and

- afamous name.

But that’- doesn't - make

Hefner a genuine playboy. Not”

by the high standards set by
the-truly great playboys who

gave the. word its meaning.
Hefner hse done, In a-nation of

A.truly great playboy did
not lust after California junior
college dropouts, or promote
Bunnies from waiting on tables
to bounding on the water bed.

TAKE ALY KHAN. NOW
there was a playboy. Polo
ponies, Sports car races. And
when he was seen with a

There is style. The’
great.ones had dash and flair,
whether they were playing’,
international polo, recklessly |
speeding through grand prix
races, roaming the .world in
yachts, or coolly betting a
million francs in Monte Carlo.

Hefner's style is to jiggle
pinball machines in his rec
room, drink a case of Pepsi a

day, and play backgammon

with those. of his companiont
enough to under-;

Cut the Crocodile Tears: Gun |
Laws May Save Some Lives

+(An editorial in the Kam-
loops News.)

CANADA'S NEW GUN
control. law went-into effect
accompanied by ‘the crocodile
tears of firearms’ owners and
sellers who contend it won't
work,

The law requires anyone
buying a new gun, or otherwise
coming into its possession, to
obtain a Firearms Acquisition

* Certificate from the RCMP.

According to a local seller
of guns, the law won't stop
anybody ‘who’ really “wants a

~'gun from getting: one illegally.

He's probably right. The law
should have gone much further
in cracking down -on gun
possession so that fewer people
would qualify.

BUT THE LAW DOES
provide some tightening up of
ownership and it’s a big im-
provement. While it may be
true that any gun nut wanting a
weapon will get one somehow,
the law might save a few lives,

Let’s forget the “gun's
don't kill people, people kill
people" crap. Guns .are de-

“sighed for one“ purposé: to’kill.

Most murders are not premedi-

tated; they take place after a
quarrel. If a potential killer

comes at you with a knife or a”

wrench or a typewriter, you
hve a chance. If he has-been
uble Lo oblain a gun and he pulls
it on you, hope you have your
will, made out.

THERE ARE TOO MANY
horror stories from south of the
border where your everyday

~ citizens are shooting it out over

parking places andthe like. We.
don't want Canada to get that
way, and we say thanks for the
new gun law, as’ incomplete’ as
it may be,

stand the game.

FOR YEARS, HE NEVER
came out of his Chicago man.-,|
sién, just as he now stays close’)
to his California estate. People
wondered why. It gave him an
aura éf mystery.

But there was no mystery:
If he came out, he'd encounter
people. And that would lead to
conversations, And if that.
happened, people would begin
dozing off in his presence. How-
long can anyone stay awake

listening to a guy giggle about-}-
backgammon, Pepsi and his}

water bed? You can get wittier
conversation in any Chicago:
tavern.

ANYWAY, HAPPY. AN- f

niversary, Hef. And since it’s a
big occasion for you, why not do

something really dashing? Put }-
Live tt up: Pp

aside your Pepsi.
\' Have ‘a’prune'juice..~ '*

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Eadltor, Castlegar News::

|. I write as-a resident of
Robson, lamenting ‘that. the
trees no longer grace the road-

outs

+ ‘ Agiow Release
+ Mary - VanArsdale, com-
poser and gospel recording
artist with New Life Records,
will be the guest speaker for
the Women's Aglow luncheon
Jneeting at the Hi Arrow Arms
Motor Hotel on'Feb. 21, -
‘Mrs. VanArsdale traveled
with the Lamplighters for eight
years in the’ northwestern
United States, and sang with
Merrill, Wamach, She is now
giving individual concerts and
has an album called. “The
Difference is the Lord.” She has
ritten several songs including
"My Children I Love You So”,
“I Know There is Someone" and
“The Crucifixion",
++ Mrs. VanArsdale lives in
Spokane with her husband

+ Sam, and four teenage children,

She and her husband toured the
Kootenay circuit last year for
FGBMFI: and many people
were blessed ‘by her singing.
Last month she ministered to

Aglow chapters in the: Seattle

side along the first mile of
Broadwater Road.-It,is painful
for those of us who loved the
shaded, sheltered roadway to
sée a mile of it now denuded
and scarred. The. obvious ques-
tion that springs to mind is:
how much farther tp the road
will this destruction of Nature's
benevolence be perpetrated?

Already, the Department
of Highways has approached
several property-owners along
the foreshore from one to two
miles, upstream of the ferry.

Try this on for an offer:

“$1,000 for one-half ‘acre of

scenic water frontage . with

lovely old birch trees and ‘a;

gentle, sandy. beach. Quite a

bargain, you'd doubtless agree, .

dear Readers. That is the
paltry sum offered by the
highways department as com-

pensation’ for the probable -

destruction of a neighbor's back
yard, Why? So a road can be
wider and straighter.

Isit the unalterable fate of

every beautiful‘corner of this .

‘once-beautiful British Colurnbia
of-ours to be bulldozed: under
the banner of progress?

Mr. D'Arcy tells us — and
Mr. Vanderpo! confirms — the,
fact that this is a Winter Works
projéct designed to make pos-

Counsellor’s
Corner -

In accordance with-a new

, School board policy, report

cards from SHSS will no longer
be mailed; This past Monday,
the reports for the first semes-
ter were given to students to
take home. Any student who
failed a course and has not yet
seen a counsellor should do so
immediately.

A student's progress at ©

SHSS is reported to parents at
a minimum of at least three
times during each semester.
This progress may be shown in
the form of a letter grade
and/or a written comment from
a teacher.

: The first progress ‘report.
will be an interim report issued
about the fifth week of the
semester, probably on March
14. This will be followed by a
parent’s night: on March 19.
This is an excellent time for
parents to talk with teachers or
administrators about* things
regarding the secondard school.

The interim reports are
used to communicate current
information to parents during
the school term. Interim re-
ports are not intended to be
negative comments — actually,
it is hoped that most of these
reports will indicate very satis-
factory progress: The first
interim is sent to all parents on
a routine basis for each student
in every subject that he/she i is
taking.

. The second report will be
the report card.to be given at
the halfway point in the semes-
ter, expected to be on April 19.

« The third report might be
another interim to be issued at
the three-quarters mark of the
semester, about May 16. This
interim is not sent to all parents

automatically — it is sent when .

a student's achievement has
shown’ a drastic decline from
the previous reporting period,

or also sent when a student has
shown a marked improvement
in school progress.

In most instances, the
third report will be the final
report card to be given to

students at the end of the .

school term in June.

Parents aré encouraged to
contact the school at any time
theré is concern about a son's/
daughter's progress. There is
usually very little to be gained
by delaying a talk with some-
one at the school.

‘If parents wish to talk with
a teacher, .a coynsellor, the

principal: or,.withall-of them, .
‘telephone the school and‘make *
an.appointment.“Any“concerns **

that a parent has are probably
similar to the feelings of -the

| teacher.

January
Ferry
Trafti¢c

Truck, ‘trailer and semi-
trailer traffic on the Castlegar
Ferry during January showed
an increase over the same

period last year, with 12,762
trucks recorded last month, as

“compared to 11,516 in 1978 and
an increase of 72 trailers and |

semi-trailers over the same
period last year.

Other statistics quoted by
the ministry of highways and
public works in Rossland were
as follows, with last year's
totals indicated in brackets:

Number of round -trips
3,314 (3,613), number of auto-
mobiles. and - drivers 23,646
(23,016), passengers not drivers
29,457 (29,027), motor buses 88
(105), livestock 0 (7) and no
motorcycle traffic in January of
"78 and °79.

“by ann smalley

sible the logging of timber
stands near Deer Park. More
bulldozing, then, is obviously th
the offing,

There are several families,

ourselves included, living on ,

riverfront lots. We have been
unable to find out whether the

Department of Highways has .

plans for approaching us and
“making deals".
We live here because we

+ treasure this place. We love the

river, our trees, our gardens,
our gentle climate, and the soul-
soothing scenic beauty of our
home.: “Compensation” is a
small word for whatever dollar-

value is considered appropriate _

bait to induce us to trade.
Darlene McDowell
Robson, B.C.

The dictionary defines a
consultant as “a person refer-
red to for expert or professional
advice.”

When you enter a: store
and ask a knowledgable staff
member for advice, you are, in
essence, using that person asa

consultant,'and that is his job!,”

However, except in the case
where a free estimate is part of
a service for a given product
such as carpets,. paint jobs, or
drapes, it is often advisable to
secure the services of a con-
sultant,

Efficiency experts will tell
you how to cut your costs in
your business procedures and a
good decorator will tell you how
to cut: your costs in finishing
your. home,

Mistakes cost money; but
-doing the whole. house in, beige
to avoid any mis-matched items
doesn't conslilute expressing

Submissions Invited

For Writing

The Burnaby Writers’ So-
ciety invites submissions to its
annual
open to all’ residents of British
Columbia.

The category this year is
Short Stories, to a maximum
length of 3,500 words. The
entry fee is $2 for each manu-

writing competition,

Competition

script submitted; and the dead-
line is April 30,
Cash prizes are $50, $30
and $20:’To obtain complete
-rules, send a stamped, self.
addressed envelope to:
Burnaby Writers’ Society
Competition
6450 Gilpin St. :
Burnaby, B.C. V5G 233

{interior Ties yy,

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By LIN KRAUSE
Interiors Beautiful -

your personality either! Re-
taining someone lo assist you in
your decorating needs means
that you have someone who is
knowledgable in products,

A good decorator will help
you in suggesting what colors,
textures and arrangements will
give the illusion of space or
coziness, They will’ help in

eee News, Thursday, February 16, 1979

eG Lot

imagine; you can only judge
that decorator on’ having
pleased the client, not on the
actual choices, since they would
not be your own,

In actual fact, a good

, decorator treats each client as
an individual and trieg to give
that home a unique look which
is as different as people are; no
one ever likes exactly what
another person likes. Individual
preferences are taken into con-

and appt
costs,
A decorating consultant
will ask you a lol of questions lo
size up your ‘needs and. your

lifestyle before giving advice. A’

certain amount of a decorator's
laste will be evident in what
they recommend. Even if red
isn't their. favorite color, for
example, but they know you
like it and it will be right for the
room, they will incorporate it
into your decor where suitable.
Decorators are also aware of,
trends ,in furnishings.- They
know what styles are current,
but they ‘also know the ones
that are traditional and always
agree with the times,
They see many homes and

are directly influenced by what.

former customers have found
satisfactory.-

A decorator will help you
make choices, plan priorities
and help you decide which
furnishings should be replaced
and which can definitely be ‘re-
upholstered or refinished.

fitting your needs to
the way you entertain and

suggest alternate uses for,

existing space and furniture,

A floor plan showing your
existing furniture, as well as
possible replacements, is a
must when planning a new
home or re-arranging a large
area.

If you give your decorator
assignments, for which you can
limit the amount of time spent,
you are saving yourself the cost
of time spent running around,
shopping and looking through

shundreds of samples when the

decorator knows approximately
what you want and can narrow

sit down to two or three choices.

You can judge a good decorator
by whether previous clients are
happy or not with the services
and suggestions they received;
but never judge a decorator on
what you have seen for some-

¢one else, Why?
Because if a client insists -

ona chartreuse bedroom which
is the ghastliest color you can

and advice given on
that basis,

Count the cost of a deco-
rator in helping you zero in on
what is ultimately best for you
and your necds.

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Overall, we’re connecting more people with more places i in
the West, than all the other airlines combined.
In short, the Great West Connection is just what the name says.

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The Great West Connection

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