A job well done

The resp by Castleg:
residents over the last few weeks.
to the Legion Hamper Fund and the
Ethiopian Relief Fund has been
staggering.

Residents have contributed
thousands of dollars to the starving
men, women and children in
Ethiopia and the money continues
to flow in.

At the same time, Castlegar
residents have donated more than
$13,000 in money and food, and
gifts to the Legion Hamper Fund.

The overwhelming response to
both campaigns is particularly
heartening in light of the difficult

cir many face
in this area.

Perhaps more than anything, the
response to the two so totally dif-
ferent fundraising campaigns is a
reflection of the true. spirit: of
Christmas.

Amidst the preparations for
Christmas celebrations, it is

satistying to know that C 9

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residents did not forget those in
need. Residents should pat them-
selves on the back for a job well
done.

Merry Christmas, everyone, and
peace.

Friendly Giant gone

The decision by CBC to raise the
drawbridge on “The Friendly
Giant" is hard to understand. Ap-
parently, the decision was made
strictly because of economics. Yet,

ch Jessie run his car off a wharf in-
to the ocean, or Relic chase Nick in
his boat?

how much could the 15: e
program cost?

The Giant has been using the
same castle, furniture and little
chairs for 26 years.

Surely, Rusty the rooster and
Jerome the giraffe don't command
hefty sclaries.

Did CBC not take into account
the program's ratings? What are
the Friendly Giant's ratings,
anyway? Is he watched by millions
of youngsters across the country?

And if cuts in TV programming
do have to be made, surely the
CBC could find other areas — such
as the Beachcombers. After all,
how many times can viewers wat.

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The Castlegar News reserves the
right to edit letters for brevity, clarity,
legality and grammar.

Fred
Merriman

The Christmas spirit affects us all

cert,” which typically ends in the
ovation class.

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and glare at small children fingering
the merchandise.

Snow removal crews thread their
way among askew automobiles and
listen to complaints with a long

on the saintly.

A few interesting observations
for those who becry the economic
future of stately Nelson: The shops
were full of customers, many of
them from affluent and favored
Castlegar, crossroads of the Koot-
enays.

A wise wag some days past said it
best: “It matters not where you
make your money, Mac. It's where
you spend it that counts.”

It was most encouraging to vee
the bookstores so busy. Is it possible
that people have finally come to re
alize that a world of adventure,
thought, knowledge and experience
stand hidden between the covers of
books.

In that vein may we all throw our
support behind the idea that the old
Fields Store could become a re
gional library snd firmly establish
Nelson as the cultural city of the
Kootenays.

A negative to dampen an other.
wise good report: Some misguided
folk were observed cutting trees
along the public highway. Methinks
this is illegal behavior. Were I a
tree, it would be the unkindest cut
of all

Meanwhile back in good old
Castlegar gasoline is a lot cheaper.
Snow clearing is good. Parking is
plentiful — and free. Chureh groups
sing Christmas carols in the cold,
cold streets.

Annual Christmas feasts prevail
at several of the fine restaurants

festivity. Whoever you are or wher.
ever, God bless you in your poverty,
because it is our poverty

It is our lack of understanding. Do
you get the message of Christmas?

Letters to the Editor

Sunday shopping costs

Editor, News:

In our near post-Christian society
any discussion of Sunday shopping
seems like gaining a liberty from old
Puritanical or Victorian English im-
position. However, there are consider-
able numbers who feel uneasy about
the loss of Sunday. Some of them are
in the churches, and many more are a
part of society that fears the further
erosion of its values.

The Sabbath of the Old Testament
was a memorial of creation. Six days
God labored in creation and rested
from it on the seventh day. It set apart
God's people — the Israelites — along
with cireumeision, from all their neigh-
bors.

Many nations observed a seven-day
week, as the common names remind us,
but there was no real Sabbath rest for
any but the chogen people of God.
Many other nations also observed cir-
cumcision, but the Israelites were set
apart by a rigid observance of both.

Jesus observed the Sabbath but He
did so with the reminder that*the Sab-
bath was made for man, not man for
the Sabbath. He healed on the Sabbath,
for one thing, and anticipated in His
ministry the change into a new order.
That was the most serious charge
against Him, that He changed the cus.
toms, and His life was demanded for
that.

The early church worshipped early
in the morning on Sunday, the Lord's
Day and later at night so as not to
interfere with anyone's work day. Only
with the passage of time, when Chris-
tianity became a dominant force, was.
day of rest imposed upon Sunday.

It was a convenience for worship and

Hurray
for Westar

was an undoubted good for man and

beast of burden, but it had no such

regulation in the New Testament. The

church will survive apart from

whatever is done to or with Sunday.
not

majority is a considerable benefit. For
not a few it facilitates worship. For a

and maintenance will have to be passed
on to the customers. is only a
benefit to the few who extend their
hours when the many are closed.

It is like thievery: the thief benefits
in an honest society; when all are
thieves there is no benefit. The advan-
tage is at onge gone when all are forced
to stay open; the added expense
remains.

There is a problem for small busi-

his time been consumed but his costs
inerease. This is a sorry loss for him in
family time, recreation and profit.

A common day of rest for the

be found, tells us that five days open
along with a couple of nights, would be
plenty of shopping time for anyone.
Seven days open with however many
nights besides, is a needless imposition
upon business establishments. It will
prove to be a great loss to Castlegar in
family time and added costs for every-
one.
It is a sort of discrimination against
the corner store and the church down
the street. It is also a sort of robbery
from the family. It will be a folly
against the individuals themselves who
favor open shopping.

When one takes out his scissors to

The church will survive. The New
Testament never asks for a common
day of rest. It is one of those general
goods, and society stands to lose a
valuable thing.

BH. Duckworth
Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church

Investment capital
the golden calf?

Editer, News:

Canadians are heavily bombarded
with a seemingly virtuous notion that
investment capital is the golden calf of
our times. Investment capital is
supposed to have the magic power to
solve all our economic ills.

Its advocates claim that the golden
calf will provide jobs for all jobless,
plus all the other amenities. But what
are the actual facts, as we see them
today?

Firstly, we have an army of 15
million unemployed. We have re
straints, cutbacks and layoffs which
affect people in the working class.

Did this occur because we didn't
have enough investment capital —
domestic or foreign? How do we know
that this is not a conspiracy to pressure
the working class to lower its standard
of living?

A 1980 issue of the Financial Post,
listed 500 of Canada’s largest com
panies. More than 50 per cent of them
were heavily owned by Americans or
other foreigners who have their head
quarters outside of Canada where
profits made in Canada are trans
ferred.

Why, then, has investment capital
from all these domestic and foreign
owned companies, failed to provide
jobs for Canadians, like it was sup
posed to? Doesn't it look like invest-
ment capital is an economic occupa-
tional force that holds Canadians under
siege to surrender their rights to a
decent living while downgrading their
standard of living to levels in Third
World countries where this has already
been achieved? Are we pushed in the

people’s needs do not interest invest-
ment capital. Investment capital's
interest lies in natural resources, raw
materials and cheap labor of any
country it happens to occupy — all of
which is coverted into profits.

In our part of the world we have
another important pardox that harms
and bamboozles the common working
people. We are told by our govern-
ments and their friends in the military
industrial complex that we should
tighten our belts, perhaps eat less,

spend more money on defence against
the socalled Russian evil empire,
which is allegedly threatening to in
vade our country to disrupt our way of
life.

No one has yet explained why the
USSR, after experiencing a tremen-
dous loss of life and destruction in the
last war, would want to invade Canada,
or the U.S. for that matter.

We do know, however, that by di

The
abiding by village policy, refused to
answer a fire call outside the village
boundaries in the Sherbiko subdivision

were not in the office at the time. The
man then took one of the village's fire
extinguishers and put the fire out him-
self.

. 28 «

B.C. Telephone Co., Canada's second
largest telephone system, passed the
600,000 mark in number of phones in its
territory in November and expects to
hit 1,000,000 within the next 15 years.

. 8 ©

Hundreds of district children last
night received gifts from Santa Claus
at the AOTS- Christmas
party on Pine St. between Columbia
and Ist.

The SHSS band was in ‘attendance at
the party as well as a choir. Community

was led by John Dalziel. Pine
St. at.1st and at Columbia w:
traffie as hundreds of chi
their parents gathered to mest Santa
Claus and receive bags of candy and
nuts.
. 6 .

The Robson Community hall was
filled Thursday and Friday evening
when the pupils of the Robson and
Brilliant schools presented their annual
Christmas concert.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 23, 1969

Casthegar News

Ron Lauriente helped set up the play
which gave the Flyers of the Mite
hockey division a 3-0 win over the Red
Wing Jrs. Thursday night.

Lauriente scored goal number three
as well as assisting Aaron Stoushnow
on his marker. Perry Samoyloff also
was credited with an unassisted goal.

. .

Appreciation of services and the
assistance given in the two openings of
new additions of the Castlegar and
District Hospital was expressed to
members of the Ladies Auxiliary to the
Castlegar and District Hospital at a
recent dinner hosted by Bill Horvath,
chairman of the hospital board of man.
agement, and Ken Talarico, hospital
administrator.

. 8 .

The executive for the Kinnaird
Women's Institute was named at its
annual meeting held recently at the
home of Mrs. Mike Bondaroff.

Those named to office were presi-
dent Mrs. M. Shelfontiuk, vice-presi-
dent Mrs. Jim Wisted, secretary Mrs.
J.W. Brownlie, treasurer Mrs. Hugh
Goetting and director Mrs.
Phipps.

. .
school principal Jim Cor
bett will guide the Castlegar Kiwanis
Club's program of drug abuse educ-

And under a plan unveiled by the
School District No. 9 board Monday,
two classes will be held at Castlegar
Primary and three at Kinnaird Hall
when school is resumed Jan. 7.

. «

An estimated $19,300 in renovations

ie

‘LONDON (AP) — More than a decade ago, young art
student David Lynch spent $200 to make a one-minute film
and it almost kept him out of 3 b

“I thought this would be the last film I'd ever do. It.was)
just too expensive,” said Lynch, who directed the $40-million
Dune. It opened earlier this month to negative reviews.
Critics called it a disaster.

The Montana-born Lynch appeared before the film's
opening earlier this month at London's National Film
Theatre to discuss a career marked by a notable increase in
budgets from the experimental films of his art-student days
and the cult favorite Eraserhead, to the critically acclaimed
The Elephant Man and Dune.

But the soft-spoken Lynch seemed unperturbed by the
escalating costs of his projects.

“Dune really did take that much time and that much
money to do,” said Lynch, who has spent 3'/: years adapting
Frank Herbert's 1965 science-fiction classic for the screen.

Set in the year 10,991 on four different planets, Dune is
reported to have required 70 sets and 20,000 extras to tell its
epic tale of savior Paul Atreides’s defeat of the evil
Harkonnens.

Max von Syndow, Linda Hunt, Sting and newcomer
Kyle MacLachlan head the cast along with the giant,
man-eating sandworms designed by E.T. creator Carlo
Rambaldi at a cost of $2 million.

“Every part of Dune was complicated and expensive
because there were so many people involved doing so many
things,” Lynch said.

“Materia! dictates cost. If I fell in love with something
else that cost this much, I would do it.”

Some reports peg the films costs at $60 million, but the
producers give the cost at $40 million.

Lynch, known for the offbeat, often disturbing tone of
his earlier films, insists that a big budget hasn't blunted his
idiosyneratic style.

“Dune was my interpretation,” he said, adding that he
had turned down an offer to direct Return of the Jedi for
producer George Lucas because he didn't think he'd have
any leeway.

“He had already designed three-quarters of it,” Lynch
said.

“You have this horror all at once, because so many
possibilities are gone,” admitted Lynch about taking on a
project as well-known as the book Dune, which has sold
more that 10 million copies in 13 languages

He said he found the film “a real challenge
I thought the cinema could do.

“On the surface, Dune is an adventure story, but it has
so many other elements,” said Lynch. There's its “mystical
side with its dream visions” — outer space travel, a floating
evil baron and those hungry 500-metre worms.

“We did not want to do a hardware movie,” echoed
producer Raffaella De Laurentiis, daughter of Dino De
Laurentiis, the Italian producer of Hurricane, Conan and
King Kong.

“We wanted a movie that would take you places,” she
said, addirig that Dune will be to the 80s what 2001: A Space
Odyssey was to the "70s.

Early critical response to Dune in London has been
mixed as a whole, but flattering to Lynch. North American
crities have largely panned it

“A lot of people said the biggest gamble was not the $40
million, but David Lynch. That's what I'm most proud of,”
said De Laurentiis.

Videos judged

something

WHAT A SHOW Sixteen students in Grades 5 and 6
at Pass Creek Elementary School put on a performan-
ce of Ebenezer and Friends to a near capacity house
Dec. 19. From lett to right, back row: Leanna
Semenoff, Brooke Irving, Tracy Plotnikoff, Patricia

Legebokotf, Cecilia Tarasoft, Yuri Hadikin, Shauna
Zaytsotf, Lorne Harshenin, Jennifer Lebedotf, Anna
Thommes, Venie Vokin, Tanyo Farko, Daniel Foder.
Left to right, kneeling: Harold Plotnikoff, Carolyn
Chernott, Arron Voykin

Film lampoons Europe

ST. MARGARET'S, ENGLAND (AP) — Stonehenge is
in ruins, and the Griswalds are to blame.

Or so goes the plot of National Lampoon's European
Vacation, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo in a
$17-million film follow-up to the 1983 comedy hit, National
Lampoon's Vacation.

In the sequel scheduled for release next summer, the
inept Griswald family wreaks havoc with a mock-up of the
Bronze Age monument Stonehenge — one of England's top
tourist attractions, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the
Piazza Navona in Rome.

“There's a part of me that is very amused by physical,
destructive humor, especially when it's not nasty-destruc
tive,” said direetor Amy Heckerling during a break in the
last week of filming at West London's Twickenham Studios.

The Griswalds dentally knock over h she
said. They accidentally kill a dog in France.

“That stuff makes me laugh,” she said. “I don't know if
it’s particularly male or female, or if it's just strangeness on
my part, but it just got to me when I was reading the script,”
said Heckerling

“When you see the early silent movies and all the
horrible, stupid, accidental things that happen, they always
crack me up,” she said. “That's more what this kind of movie
is about.”

Producer Matty Simmonhs sees the film's humor rooted
in human truths.

STARTS MAGAZINE

“The best things we do and the best humor that
happens is that which is based on reality,” said Simmons,
who started the popular National Lampoon humor magazine
in 1970 and has parlayed its success into radio, television and
films.

National Lampoon's Anima! House, the first film to use
the magazine's name in its title, has grossed over $200
million, and has been followed by National Lampoon's Class
Reunion and now the two Vacation films.

“I think the reason Animal House and Vacation were so
successful is that people related to them,” said Simmons.
“They said, ‘I did that,’ or ‘I knew that guy when I was in
college, or ‘I went on that trip cross-country.’

“I think the same thing will happen here,” he said. “The
millions of Americans and people from all over the world
who have travelled will see the many things that they have
done, only of course we take it that extra couple of miles to

In the film, the Griswalds go on a TV game show and
win a two-week European tour that takes them to Germany,
Italy, France and England. It also is a journey through each
nation's idiosyncrasies.

Simmons said the British are lampooned for their
excessive niceness, the French for their arrogance and the
Griswalds for their general misfortune

CALLS THEM TYPICAL
The Griswalds are very typically American,” Simmons
said, “Except that instead of having three to four problems
arise during a two-week trip to Europe, they have many
problems.”

Despite Simmons’ belief that the Griswald family had
more possible “vacations” yet to be filmed, both stars were
unsure whether they would participate in further sequels.

“National Lampoon may well go (on another Vacation),”
Chase said. “Whether I go is another question.

“I think when the Griswalds take their next vacation,
they aren't going to tell anybody about it,” added D'Angelo.

Ono nota
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WASHINGTON (AP)
Music videos featuring Don
na Summers and the late
John Lennon were rated
among the least violent by a
television watchdog group
that contends the multimedia
clips are making youngsters
anti-social and less sensitive
to violence.

A report by the National
Coalition on Television Vio
lence listed Michael Jackson
and the Jacksons and the
group ABC as the most
violent

“The Jacksons continue to
use a large amount of vio
lence in their entertain.
ment,” Thomas Radetki,

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chairman of the group, said in
a telephone interview from
his office in Champaign, Ill

Radecki, instructor in the
psychiatry department at the
University of Illinois School
of Medicine, said he had seen
young patients “with severe
problems of anger and anti
social behavior who are deep-
ly immersed into a sub
culture of violent rock mu
sic

Other groups the study
cites for violence included the
Rolling Stones, Billy Idol,
Kiss, Devo, the Kinks, Joan
Jet, Duran Duran, Iron Mai.
den and Cindy Lauper.

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where it becomes hopefully hilarious.”

Manilow wants
to evict Welch

NEW YORK (AP) Sin.
ger Barry Manilow has gone
to court to try to evict
Racquel Welch from his
$2-million coop apartment
and to try to keep from being
evicted himself.

Manilow said in court
papers he sublet his 14th
floor Central Park West
apartment to Welch and her
husband, Andre Weinfeld,
for $5,500 a month in Sep-
tember 1982 for one year

with the approval of the co-op
board. When that lease ex
pired, the Weinfields rem
ained in the apartment, Man
ilow said.

Court papers indicate Man
ilow's business managers ac
cepted the Weinfeld’s rent
for October. Manilow then
asked them to leave in
November — but the co-op
board has filed papers con
tending Manilow had bre
ached his agreement

NEW YORK (AP) Yoko
Ono says in an interview
published last week she was
protected by her image as a
“dragon lady” who mani
pulated her late husband,
former Beatle John Lennon

“T try to look at it this way:
being known as the dragon
lady was a kind of pro
tection,” Ono said in the
January issue of McCall's
magazine. “Because, if they'd
thought I was vulnerable or
sensitive, some people might
have been encouraged to do
me in.

The avant-garde artist con
ceded that before the murder
of her husband, who had
taken full responsibility for

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