nara oi 5 ype ot = Casi eis June 17, 1987 Odeon closing four theatres VANCOUVER (CP) — A balcony seat facing a wide movie screen will become a little harder to find in this city this week when four mid-size movie houses close their doors. Analysts say the trend to- ward smaller theatres is con tinuing in mast Canadian cities as the major movie chains seek ways to compete with home video and cope with the declining drawing power of Hollywood releases. But larger cities are wit nessing a resurgence of big. ger, lavishly appointed movie houses which take advantage of wide screens and hi-fi sound to lure back movie fans with the promise of a special experience. Toronto-based Cineplex Odeon, the second-largest theatre chain in North Amer- ica, is closing down four the. atres in Vancouver on Thursday, the day before it opens a new seven-screen 2,500-seat facility on Gran ville Mall, the city’s down. town theatre row. The closures have some movie buffs mourning the loss and worried that it spells an end to showings of less popular foreign and specialty fare. “The Varsity is one of the few theatres that I can go to without knowing what film is on, one of the few theatres that show non-Rambo films,” said big-screen buff Marla Holmes, 25. “This theatre has person. ality. They show alternative films here and the question is, will they show those films downtown?” Cineplex spokesman Leslie Hadyn said in an interview from Toronto the chain is not commenting on the closures or on a report that Famous Players Theatres, Canada’s other major theatre chain plans to pick up the leases on three of the four theatres. OFFERS REASON Gillian Howard, publie re- lations spokesman for Famous Players, also de- clined comment, but agreed large theatres are rapidly becoming a relic of the past. “It's becoming more diffi- cult to consistently fill. those theatres with 1,400 people,” she said. The largest of the chain's 160 theatres — Win- nipeg’s Metropolitan — can seat 1,465 people but it is up for sale. Famous Players currently is building several new the- atres across Canada, she said, but they will be much smaller. At the same time, many moviegoers balk at going to theatres with screens so small that they feel they might as well watch the fea- ture on video at home. “It’s not the same experi- ence as going ‘out to the Howard said. “It's one of the reasons Famous Players has never done that. We don't have any 75-seat theatre houses.” Famous Players is also fo- ~ @using on improving sound quality, adopting such inno vations as THX, a multi- channel sound system de- veloped by the film producer George Lucas, who directed Star Wars. One financial analyst with a major Toronto-based secur- ities firm says the trend to- wards smaller theatres in Canada continues unabated. At the same time, larger North American. metropoli- tan areas are witnessing a counter-trend, a move away from smaller theatres, the analyst said. Cineplex, for instance, is opening a new 6,000-seat, 18-screen theatre complex in Universal City, Calif, re- ported by the Guiness Book of Records to be the largest single theatre facility in the world. The largest theatre there will have over 700 seats. Average income jumps OTTAWA (CP) — Average after-tax incomes were up slightly in 1985, but many Canadians still hadn't recov ered from the recession that struck during the early part of the decade, a Statistics Canada report said For families, the average after-tax income rose to $31,826 in 1985 from $31,287 in 1984. That was the first increase in five years. But it left the average family below the comparable 1980 income level of $33,120. For individuals living on their own or with non-rela tives, the average after-tax income rose to $14,182 from $13,907. The peak income was $14,695 in 1981 Although people wound up with a bit more money after AIDS hits insurance industry HALIFAX (CP) AIDS. related deaths could mean an extra $1 billion in claims for the Canadian insurance in dustry by the year 2000, says the new president of the Canadian Institute of Actu aries. Dick Crawford said insur ance companies are already beginning to feel the impact of AIDS — acquired immune deficiency syndrome — on their business He said companies have had “a very beginning num ber” of death claims related to AIDS, a fatal disease that destroys the body's immune system As the disease spreads, he said an “addi tional $1 billion in claims by the end of this century” is possible. paying the taxman in 1985, their federal and provincial income taxes also rose, Stat. istics Canada said. The average tax bill for families was $6,233 in 1985, up from $5,913 in 1984. The average tax bill for individu als rose to $2,547 from $2,434 All the figures are in 1985 dollars. That's a device that eliminates the effects of inflation and allows more meaningful year-to-year com. parisons. LITTLE CHANGE The Statistics Canada report showed relatively lit tle change in taxes between 1971 and 1985. But there was a gradual increase in gov ernment transfer payments such as benefits from public pension plans, family allow ances, welfare, unemploy ment insurance and worker's compensation The average transfer pay ment to families was $4,020 in 1985, and the average transfer to individuals $2,957. However, people with low incomes got the lion's share of transfer payments. Families with incomes un der $20,000 in 1985 got be- tween 31 per cent and 71 per cent of those incomes from government sources. Single individuals with incomes un der $12,000 got transfer pay ments ranging from 40 per cent to 68 per cent of total ineome. Despite the growing im portance of transfer pay ments, the distribution of in. come has changed relatively little since the early 1970s. 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The jockpot er The Lotto West-The Pick yrinning numbers drown Fridey 36 and 43. # in Lotto BC The winning mombers tor $100,000 @ach drawn in British Te 998766, -431601-ond he $500,000 winning number in Futday’s Provincial lottery aici Martin's movie Two Nelson area fire chiefs helped train the actors who play firemen in the Steven Martin's new movie Roxanne +1 A Castlegar News NDAY CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1987 Vol. 40, No. 49 60 Cents 2 Sections (A & B) TOP AWARD . . . Geoff Ball receives the Stanley Humphries Award from assistant principal Don SHSS CLASS OF '87 SAYS ‘FAREWELL’ By RON NORMAN itor With a wild whoop @# joy, 160 Stanley Humphries secondary school graduates flung their programs and white carnations into the air Saturday after being presented to the more than 900 people at the school's commencement exercisgs. Valedictory address and awards, A2 The 2'2 hour ceremony marked the end of 12 years of public schooling. Family, friends and relatives crowded into the Community Complex arena to see the event More than 50 scholarships and bursaries totalling some ;$14,000 were awarded during the afternoon ceremony. Geoff Ball captured the Stanley Humphries Award King Saturday afternoon at the Stanley Humphries secondary school graduation exercises. CosNews Photo by Ron Norman the highest academic standing, and the K.T. and R.E. McGauley Memorial Scholarship for the graduating student with the top marks. Eric Ommundsen was awarded the Leaders Award, while Dan O'Connell won the Aggregate Award. Each graduate was presented to the audience individually and given a certificate. In a bit of a departure from past practice, there was no guest speaker this year. Instead, there were a number of shorter speeches. Principal Gordon Shead told the students they are going to experience “very interesting times in British Columbia” over the next six or seven years. Shead said he would not offer advice to the graduates and their parents. “I would rather make a few points and end with a few requests.” He suggested that a “very successful” education system is based on what he calls a “partnership in education.” The partnership involves four “key groups”, Shead said e Students — whose role over the years has been to question what they see, to strive, to achieve, to participate, and most of all to grow; e Teachers — whose role is to challenge students, vo develop students and to seek resources for students; e Parents whose role is to provide support for for the student combining academic the school and citizenship. Denis Peregrym picked up two major awards, the Governor General's Bronze Medal for the student with qualities, service to teachers; both school and students, to participate in the school life, and to communicate with the school, school system and continued on page A2 MP says reform ‘fair' By CasNews Staff While he admits there are a few negative aspects to the package, Koot enay West MP Bob Brisco thinks Fi nance Minister Michael Wilson's white paper on tax reform is a “fair and balanced system.” Speaking to the Castlegar News Friday from his Ottawa office, one day after Wilson introduced the tax reform paper in the House of Commons, Brisco said he is pleased with the package, despite the fact that a sales tax will be levied on a wide range of products from children’s toys to kitty litters, and a second tax will be applied to long distance telephone calls. Brisco said people in the West Koot enay should be especially happy with the tax reform paper because a wide range of tax exemptions and deduct ions are being replaced with tax credits next year, leading to the elimination of income tax for 850,000 lower-income Canadians and cuts for 1.2 million of the 1.4 million h holds in which at “It's good for the West Kootenay. We know 850,000 more Canadians will not pay federal tax. We're talking about the low-income people and there are a lot of low-income people in the West Kootenay,” said Brisco. “We know eight out of 10 households will pay less tax and senior citizens will pay less tax.” Brisco added that he is pleased to see that the average tax rate for mining least one person is over 65. will remain low. That is an continued on page A3 CASTLEGAR HOSPITAL @) Pro-life group's bid turned back By RON NORMAN Editor A bid by a newly-formed Castlegar pro-life group to place a candidate on the Castlegar and District Hospital board was rebuffed this week. Herman Kemperman was nominated , from the floor at Wednesday's annual hospital board meeting. Kemperman challenged incumbents Nick Oglow and Inga Lamont for one of the two vacant, three-year terms on the board. A hospital board spokesman said it was the first time a pro-life candidate has run for a position on the board. * About 50 hospital society members turned out for the meeting, which also saw the Castlegar Right to Life group present a formal brief requesting that the hospital establish written guidelines for its abortion committee. “The board should also obtain and make available to the public (while still preserving anonymity) statistics as to the number of abortion requests, the number granted, under which guide- lines the requests were approved, the women's age, marital status, residency and whether it was a repeat abortion,” said Right to Life spokesman June Lepsoe. Lepsoe expressed concern about the number of abortions performed at Castlegar Hospital for women living outside the area. “Recently, the media reported that out of 45 abortions done at this hospital last year, 32 came from the Nelson and Trail areas,” Lepsoe said. “Since both Trail and Nelson do abortions it is clear that these 82 women either knew or suspected their abortion requests would not be accepted under abortion guidelines existing at those hospitals.” She also suggested that the “high number” of abortions compared to live births at Castlegar Hospital “leads us to ask if any abortion requests are turned down. Does our hospital have Rail line off By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer A fair portion of the tracks CP Rail plans to spray with a pesticide is now off limits to any chemical spraying, ac- cording to a representative of the Slo- can Valley residents opposed to pesticide spraying. Wayne Peppard told the Castlegar News Friday that an official of the En- vironment Ministry who toured CP Rail tracks in the West Kootenay earlier in the week told him “a good part of the tracks will not be available to spraying.” CP Rail has been granted a permit to spray the herbicide Spike 80W along its tracks for about 50 kilometres from South Slocan to Slocan City and for about 80 kilometres from Nelson west through Castlegar to Coykendal. Environment Ministry official Stu Craig, based in Penticton, toured the portion of track CP Rail proposes to spray Wednesday to determine if the railway company's pesticide permit should Be amended. Peppard said he was pleased with Craig's concern. “I commend those people .. . I respect Stuart Craig. He's got a job to do and he's doing it the best he can,” said Peppard. Peppard toured the tracks along with Craig and CP Rail officials. According to Peppard, about 1,000 people turned out at various areas along the rail line to make clear to Craig their opposition to the pesticide spraying. “We did a head count that amounted to about 1,000 people. In Castlegar the only reception we got was at the tracks near the Brilliant Cultural Centre,” said Peppard. He added that the tour took in 41 stops covering about 100 kilometres. Peppard said at first CP Rail officials were uncomfortable with him being part of the tour. “They (CP Rail) were a little hesitant about me being there . ... The CP Cominco and union reject intervention By SURJ RATTAN and MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writers The provincial government would be making a big mistake if it intervened in the Cominco strike and imposed back- to-work legislation, according to both the unions and the company. The strike between Cominco and the United Steelworkers of America, which is entering into its sixth week, may be used as a testing ground for the Social Credit government's new Bill 19, once the legislation is passed into law. If that happens, the provincial government would be making a bad situation even worse say union and management spokesmen. Jim Saare, president of Local 9705 ig Office and hi 1 em plajess and one of the five locals on strike, called threatened back-to-work legislation “a terrible mistake.” “The only people capable of solving this dispute are the two parties involv Cominco and the unions There's no way that anyone on the outside of this dispute has the sen sitivity for negotiatinga contract,” Saare told the Castlegar News. “Forcing us back to work will create a horrible situation. We don't need third-party intervention,” said Saare. Speaking from Vancouver, Cominco general manager of human relations Duncan Wilkins told the Castlegar News that forcing Caminco employees back to work under the regulations of the contentious Bill 19 “would not be a good idea.” “I'd rather resolve that between ourselves and the union,” said Wilkins. “I don’t think it would be timely to apply that aspect of Bill 19.” If Bill 19, the Industrial Relations Reform Act, is passed, Victoria will have the right to end the strike im mediately “in public interest.” That means industrial relations commission er Ed Peck and the cabinet could either stop the strike completely, demand a cooling off period for 48 days or impose a settlement. Saare maintains the provincial gov ernment should just stay out of the labor dispute “Neither Cominco or this union have ever thought highly of third-party intervention,” said Saare. He also brushed aside suggestions that Trail is the wrong place for Premier Bill Vander Zalm to test out Bill 19 since B.C. Federation of Labor president Ken Georgetti hails from the community. “I don't think where Ken Georgetti comes from enters into it. Bill 19 won't work,” he said. Saare added that no one knows yet if the provincial government will use Bill continued on poge A2 abortion on demand?” Lepsoe said the hospital board has a responsibility to interpret the federal law for doctors, “It is incumbent upon this hospital board to set up specific abortion policy guidelines to ensure the abortion committee complies with the spirit and letter of the law.” Earlier in the meeting, Dr. John Walton, who gave the medical staff annual report in the absence of Dr. David Bullock, was quizzed for about 10 minutes on the abortion issue. Walton said a “handful” of requests for abortions — about four or five — were turned down last year. However, he noted that not all requests come to the abortion committee. A doctor first determines if the request is valid and a second doctor is consulted, Walton said. “This hospital has a policy to interpret the abortion policy as the law is written”, he added. imits people got upset at how long it (tour) would take,” said Peppard. But he added that CP officials took notice of the opposition by local residents on the tour. “By the time we got to Winlaw, they (CP Rail) saw people were extremely concerned. They (residents) were all out there ... it was just something else,” said Peppard. He added that the majority of the concerns expressed by residents who lined the tracks focussed on the fact that pesticide testing is not yet complete in the United States; that Agriculture Canada is already using pesticides; and that there are problems with the Environment Ministry's ap- peal process. He added that during the tour he learned CP Rail “was really concerned about violence. “I assured them that the people in the Slocan Valley who we are involved with, are not associated with these kinds of actions,” said Peppard. But he said people are “firm and united” against pesticide spraying in the West Kootenay. “Emotions ran high (during the track tour) and people were saying they were concerned, and ‘If you spray we will put our bodies across the tracks and if you spray across our bodies the tracks will not be a very safe place,’ ” said Peppard. He said it is not a “threat,” and that people are willing to lie across the railway tracks in order to stop the spraying. SQUEEZES NBC to plug his new movie Rox- anne, shot in the city of Nelson. Martin said the movie had been filmed at “Nelson in Vancouver, British Columbia.” The outdbor stenes were shot in Neléon, while some interiors were filmed in. Vancouver, about 420) kilometres west. Nelson masquerades as Nelson, Wash., in the film, in which Martin| stars as a small-town fire depart- ment chief who fails in love with an bt played by Daryl Han-