Quebec — high-stakes ing linked with crime andwhat looks like a calculated battle for control of the industry in Ontario. : After a four-month investigation, The Windsor Star reported that some major figures in the Quebec exotic dancing business are establishing bases in this southwestern Ontario auto-making city and across the province. At least one of them has longtime associations with organized crime figures in Quebec, where the mob has long held a quasi ly on th business, often pressing runaway teenaged girls into service, The Star says. And some Ontario club owners appear to be under pressure to use Quebec-based booking agencies that supply sought-after French-Canadian dancers. NAMES KEY PLAYER The Star says Montrealer Peter Barth, a kingpin of the exotic dance industry in Quebec and Ontario and an associate of organized crime figures, is a key player in Studio Four, a Windsor club that has introduced nude dancing and is pulling in patrons, especially from nearby Detroit. Barth, known in Windsor as Peter Belmont, one of several aliases, guaranteed one-fourth of the $100,000 mort. gage on Studio Four, purchased in August by a numbered company. He is advertised as vice-president of the club. Although Ontario has strict laws against granting liquor licences to applicants with criminal backgrounds, the club received prompt approval! from the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario for a licence transfer. The club's operation now is being investigated by the liquor board which was unaware of Barth's involvement when the licence was issued. The Star's investi; ion showed that Barth, 44, was convicted nine times for contributing to the delinquency of minors in the 1970s when he booked nude dancing girls through a company called Provincial Agency. Sgt.-Det. Richard Decarufel of the Montreal Urban Community police said Barth was the target of a five-year investigation into the recruitment of underage girls, usually runaways, as nude dancers in Quebec. 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Real estate documents show the Studio Four deal School has been in for a couple of months now and a lot has happened in Stanley Humphries. Student Parliament, the force behind the scenes at SHSS, and Mr. Closkey, the teacher behind the force behind the scenes, have been busy with a wide variety of plans and activities. second costume to top the first. Still, the sock hop at lunch had kids dancing in the gym. Prizes were awarded to Karen Wilson for her clown costume, and Steve Merry for his version of a Grim Reaper. Each received a certificate for a free record. The next dance is planned for Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Athletic Council, it will be a, video dance, something different for the school. The eouneil is anticipating record attendance. Stanley Humphries has introduced a new policy dealing with absenteeism. The new plan limits the number of absences of a Grade 12 student to 15 days. If students miss more, they will not be allowed to attend the This year’s student parliament is headed by Sh Crosfield as our Prime Minister. Shannon is assisted by Ken Romaey, the Deputy Prime Minister. Other members of the executive include Tanya Rogers who is the Minister of Athletics, and Connie Suzut, Treasurer. However, there will be an appeal committee, consisting of a teacher of the student's choice, and two students from the Student Parliament. This will enable the students to defend their reasons for being absent. in Windsor closed Aug. 7 and the next day a kload of furniture arrived. The club opened for business three weeks later. Blair said a routine police check on Vasilaros in his home town of Oshawa, Ont., showed no reason to deny a liquor licence for Studio Four and that the problems in Peter. borough weren't sufficient grounds to stop the licence transfer from the club's previous owners. The application no mention of Barth's financial involvement, Blair added. “They're being pretty thoroughly looked over now,” Blair said this week, noting that a board investigator is examining Studio Four's owner and operation. ’ SUPPLIES GIRLS A Toronto agent in the Ontario nude dancing industry, who asked not to be named, told The Star he estimates Barth's United Agency supplies up to 800 girls weekly in the Ontario-Quebec market. In Ontario, Barth's agency has or is supplying dancers for clubs in Windsor, Sarnia, London, Kitchener, Niagara Pl ADVOCATE . . . Dr. Jim Garrison explains views on peace, nuclear arms and the western view of Russia during recent talk at Selkirk College. ‘PEACE: CAUGHT Falls, Hamilton, Brampton and Mississauga. ADRA helps out Ethiopia Three thousand tons of food along with clothing, tents and blankets valued at $1.2 million have been ship- ped to Ethiopia from the Adventist Development’ R& lief Agency with headquar® ters in Washington, D.C Eight months ago this or ganization began relief work in Africa, according to a press release. Now, as the needs escalate with 1,266 people dying each hour, ADRA is increasing the ship- ping and distributing of emergency supplies. ADRA, which is a rélief organization of the Sevéiith. day Adventist Church feeds on an on-going daily basis 300,000 people per day in areas where famine and dis aster are prevalent. Ads change language VANCOUVER (CP) — Ad vertisers are changing the English language with mis- spellings, sentence frag ments and fractured syntax designed to grab your atten- tion. “The serge is on” says an ad for Sergio Valente jeans. Elizabeth Arden’s perfume is called Millenium and Dim has a brassiere called Silkin Bird. 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ERODES LANGUAGE Wyckham said constant use of bad grammar, mis- spellings and the creation of new words in advertisements erodes the English language. He is particularly con- cerned that non-standard Eglish has a bad influence on young children and foreign- ers learning the language. According to Wyckham, a survey of elementary school teachers in the Vancouver area found that 80 per cent of children repeat advertising slogans in their speech and written compositions they write. Hugh Hooper, director of the English-as-a-second lan guage program at Killarney Secondary School in Van. couver, said in many cases advertising slogans are help- ful. “I had one fellow singing the McDonalds’ jingle. I didn't even know he could speak a word of English. Be. cause the ads themselves are repetitious and simple and they are heard over and over again, it sticks with the kids. Sometimes the ads give them the basic concepts of Eng. lish,” said Hooper. ‘ISN'T A PROBLEM” “As long as someone is there to teach them the cor- rect form, I don't see it as being too much of a prob- lem,” he said. Lorraine Fraser, who teaches grades 4, 5 and 6 at Bayview Elementary School in Vancouver, said children don't seem to have a problem distinguishing between the right and wrong spelling of words. BETWEEN TWO GREAT TERRORS gasoline. By RON NORMAN Editer Peace advocate Dr. Jim Garrison says the nuclear arms race is like being up to the armpits in a room full of On one side of the room is one group whose leader is holding 20 matches. On the other side is another group whose leader is brandishing 80 matches. Each is threatening to light their matches while MR. AND MRS. NICK BAYOEFF .. . married 45 years Anniversary celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Nick Bayoff of Thrums recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. Immediate family members presented them with an Italian-made tea wagon and took the couple out for dinner. Nick and Helen Bayoff were married Oct. 21, 1939, and resided mostly in Thrums. Mr. Bayoff was employed mostly in the forest industry, retiring as a millwright in 1976, while Mrs. Bayoff a former Saskatchewan resident before marriage — attended to their farm obligations. The Bayoffs have two children, Leonard Bayoff and family of Thrums, and Mrs. Paul (Marlene) Makortoff and family of Langley trying to convince their supporters that they need still more matches. “Someone has to drain the room of gasoline,” Garri son told a capacity crowd of more than 100 at a Nov. 7 talk in Selkirk College. Garrison was in Castlegar as part of a cross-Canada tour which began Oct. 3 in Newfoundland and ends in B.C. “People are caught between two great terrors,” he said: “nuclear war and annihilation, and Soviet domin. ation they are so afraid of the Soviets that they don’t let go of nuclear weapons.” Garrison said the situation has created a “psychic paralysis” which grows “increasingly insecure” as the arms race increases and the Soviets are pictured as growing evil force. Garrison said thé “world view” of Westérn nations feeds the paralysis. That world view consists of: @ that a power exists (communism) which is out to destroy all that the Western world holds true and honest. e@ that the Western nations need to defend them selves to contain communism. © to give the defence system credibility, the nations have amassed a nuclear arsenal. e the problem with a large nuclear arsenal is that it has become so big it has spurred arms talks to control it I would like to challenge this world view,” said Garrison. He said the NATO countries would have residents believe that nuclear weapons are needed because of the Russians. Instead, Garrison contends it is the other way around. “Einstein was right ... if you have absolute weapons, then psychologically you require an absolute enemy.” He says “negative clusters” of facts fuel the image of an absolute enemy and help defend the arms race. That's why supporters of the arms race on both sides only point to negative side of the Soviet Union or the negative side of Canada, Garrison said. The image is so black and the enemy is painted to be — Costtews Photo so dangerous that the two sides would rather kill every- thing before giving in, he said. “The only people who would rather be dead than red are people who have never met a Russian or who don't know the Soviet Union,” said Garrison. He says the key to halting the arms race is better communication between the people of the Western countries and the Soviet Union. “What we've got to do is activate human contact with the Soviet Union,” says Garrison. He suggested peace groups switch their focus from publicizing the devastating effects of nuclear war to pressuring their leaders for an end to the arms race. He called for peace supporters to take a more active role in dem y, to have the governm serve rather than lead voters. Garrison said it must reach the point where “the people” demand an end to nuclear arms so strongly that the government “has to get out of the way.” “Someone has to start creating trust,” he said. That takes the realization that the U.S. and Soviet Union represent different value systems, but underneath have “a common humanity.” “It's a race between education and catastrophe.” Garrison also said he is both pessimistic and optimistic about the nuclear issue. He is pessimistic when he sees that after 40 years of arms negotiations, the arms keep building up. But he said he is optimistic that the peace movement will help “shape public debate on how you come to terms with ... a paradox” — the paradox that the West has nuclear weapons it can't use. “The only thing we're doing with our nuclear weapons is piling up force,” he said ‘Asked what kind of public pressue there is on the Soviet Union to halt stockpiling of nuclear arms, Garrison said the Soviet government has already agreed to a nuclear freeze. “They have a much more realistic policy on war and peace,” he said. The Soviet government and its people are more closely aligned on the issue of peace than the U.S government and its people, he contended. Garrison said there are things Canada can do as a country. He pointed to Romania as an example. Romania “is a good socialist country” yet doesn’t allow Soviet troops on Romanian soil, he said. participate in Warsaw Pact military manoeuvres, Garrison said, and doesn't have a conventional standing army. “Canada, living right next door to the promised land should be able to think of something equally creative,” he said He warned that Cana close co-operation with the U.S. on military matters will not prevent Canada from being “expended” before the U.S. in the event of a war “That should give you pause,” Garrison said YOUR SATISFACTION tS OUR MAIN CONCERN. 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU * Castleaird Plaza * Downtown Castleaird Plaza Store Open for Your Shopping Convenience Until 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays. 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