ENTERTAINMENT ETE. HALLOWEEN DANCE Sat., Oct. 31 Robson Hall 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Cosby not worried NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Cosby, star of the most successful television comedy ever, can afford to be magnanimous about the new competition this season. $4/Couple; $3/Single Nnchodes Midnight Chibi & Bee Lunch ‘Music by CKOR Music Moching HES FOR: Bast Costume, ent Couple RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS TRAVEL PHOENIX One Week $699 cx Dept. Calgary Sct. (Rd. Trip Air with Accom. & Chicken Cordon Bleu © STEAKS * SEAFOOD * POULTRY © CAESAR SALAD Cheles of tated, Patere Vegetables ond Hot Blocuite + Specialties + SUNDAY FEATURE Prime Rib/Vorkshire Pudding Pm. 109" Me. 365-6616 For more information call VIVIAN Open Tues. -Fri., 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Set. Wa.m. <1 pm. New Winter Hours: Mon.-Sat., 8 a.m.-8 p.m. SUNDAY 12 NOON TO 8 P.M. 365-8155 1004 Columbia Ave., Castlega LICENCED DINING ROOM OPEN 4 P.M. DAILY WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED — AIR CONDITIONED — vations for Private Parties — 365-3294 Located one mile south of Weigh Scales in Ootischenia. .”" he said. “It's always been my feeling that we could do ourselves in before a program up against us would do us in.” CBS is putting Tour of Duty, a Vietnam series, up against Cosby this season. That's fine with Cosby. “Out of that may come sqgge wonderful writing and wonderful stories,” he said. “It has to be about human beings. You can’t just blow up villages every week. Give it a chance.” The Cosby Show starts its fourth season Thursday, aleo on CTV, after ranking No. 1 in thge Nielsen ratings its first. three years on the air. The show made Cosby TV's most popular dad, so it seemed natural for him to write a book Fatherhood, an immediate best seller. He has made a movie, Leonard, Part 6. “I hope it’s a comedy,” he says. Now he's written Time Flies, a short, funny, rumination on the horrors of turning 50. DESCRIBES APPEAL “Sharing” is the word he uses to describe the appeal of the book. “That's what I do on the stage is I share the moments with the people,” he said. By writing it down, he added, “I can get on the airplane with the people now. -“They can pass me from person to person. You can put it down, leave it for a while, then come back to it.” Sharing is also how he explains the incredible success of The Cosby Show. “It's not hipper than anything,” he said. “The tension is no greater. “It's the sharing that the people enjoy, the idea of, ‘How did you get into my home? Of course, they like some of the people. But that's what I think is key. And television is a wonderful place to put some people that you're comfortable with.” The show has made Cosby more than comfortable financially. Forbes magazine recently named him the highest-paid entertainer in America, with a projected income this year of $87 million. MAKES MILLIONS NBC became the No. 1 network on the strength of the show and is expected to make $156 million more this year than it did the year before The Cosby Show premiered in 1984. Cosby gives the credit to NBC entertainment president Brandon Tartikoff. NBC was the only network interested in the series, he said. “So when it hit. I mean, I owed Brandon Tartikoff as much. And when I work for somebody, and they're paying me, then I mean to try and make money for them.” Cosby says he still intends to quit The Cosby Show after five seasons. BILL COSBY . . . to leave after five seasons “We're cooking,” he said. “We're working harder than ever before, not because we feel we're in trouble, but because we want to. “And I know that sounds like sales pitch, and it is. But it's also very, very true. We're very, very proud of our audience tuning in.” This year, Lisa Bonet, who plays daughter Denise, has left to star in the spinoff A Different World. Cosby denies he insisted the new show be put in the prime slot after Cosby on Thursday. Family Ties moved to Sunday. “That was not my insistence,” Cosby said Brandon is the programmer. We can ask.” This brings to mind Tartikoff's comedy cameo in Night Court last Season. He was told he had a phone call from a Mr. Cosby. After a beat, Tartikoff looked stricken. “The sand wiches!” he shouted, racing from the room. “Tell him I'll be right there!” “I mean, Comic Leno still gripes BINGO Sponsored by Robson Otters Payout NO ADVANCE TICKETS Tickets at the Door $9.00. Arena Complex EARLY BIRDS 6 P.M. © REGULAR GAMES 7:00 P.M. Upstairs in Trail’s Towne Square Lic. No.s 58525, 58084, 62175, 59394 Thanksgiving Weekend Fri., Sat., Sun. & Mon. “Something for Everyone” PLUS Thanksgiving $1 00 Food Hampers $] 00 Good Neighbor Dobbers $] 00 Lucky Cash Dobber Picks $] 00 Lucky Cash Booklets and A Trip for Two to Reno or $400 Cash WILL BE GIVEN AWAY THIS WEEKEND! Play all regular gomes for as little as $5.00 and you quality for all above prizes and our regular Jock Pots or you may play 28 games for: $22.00 Value for $20.00 $33.00 value for $24.00 $44.00 value for $28.00 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 364-0933 MONTREAL (CP) — He's been touted as heir-apparent to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. Time maga- zine has proclaimed him “king of the stand-up circuit.” But comic Jay Leno is still griping. He gripes about the little things, about the foibles of life in America. Ask him and he'll tell you about the elaborate security systems installed im most corner groceries — “$20,000- worth of camera equipment to protect $20 worth of Twinkies!” Or the hiring practices of a certain burger chain: “They are hiring senior citizens in keeping with their policy of cradle-to-the-grave minimum wage.” “Seriously, though,” adds the 87-year-old comedian in a telephone interview from his Hollywood home before an appearance here this week, “it's nice to know that when you're 80 you can make the same money as a 16-year- old.” STAR RISING Such simple, straight shooting observations have catapulted the former Rolls OMMUNITY Bulletin Board ROBSON RIVER OTTERS CASI Soturday, October 17 at Gastlegar Arena Complex. 60% payouts. No advance tickets. E.B. 6:00 p.m. Regulor 7:00 p.m. Admission $9.00. 2/81 BOTTLE DRIVE. Robson Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, turdey, October 17, 9:00 o.m. - noon. 2/81 4, FALL TEA AND bicome Sponsored by Home Supa Guild, Saturday, October 17, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Castlegor Legion Hall. Welcome Everyone, Gents Too! i! 2/8) gre wer any ICT DEVELO AAEAT PRO 1s hosting a coffee meet fe jrmmoaues Parents Helping Parents, o support net rents of special needs children. The meeting mn ‘be held on Friday, October 16, of 9:30 a.m. at Castlegar United Church, 2224 - 6th Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. For more information, please call Mary Davis at 365-2609 2/81 CASTLEGAR COUGAR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Now taking registrations for 1967-1988. The following oc tivities are being offered: Boxing, Weightlifting, Aero: bics, Marshall Arts, ary For more information phone 365-5871 2/80 GARAGE SAL Proceeds to benetit Kootenay-Columbio Boy Scouts Saturday, October 17, 10.a.m. - 4 p.m. at Scout Hall on 3rd Street (just one block past Kinsmen Park) 3/80 RUMMAGE SALE Castlegar and District Hospital Auxiliary Fall Rummage Sale to be held in the ki Kinnaird Hall on Friday, October 16, 00 p.m. and Saturday, October 17, Mth noon. For rummage pick-up 365-2737, 365-5552, 365-8302. 6/77 There is no extra charge for a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seventy -tive percent ond the fourth consecutive insertion is half-price. Minimum charge is $3.75 (whether od is for one, two or three times). Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sundoy's poper ond 5 p.m. Mondays tor Wednesday's paper Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News ot 197 Columbio Ave. IMMUNITY Bulictin Board Royce auto mechanic from Andover, Mass., to comedy stardom. “And I'm just grateful that there's so much to observe in the '80s,” adds Leno. “Lots of fodder — and mudder (sic), too — for material.” He seems delighted that he was recently installed as permanent Monday guest host on Carson's Tonight Show. “It's great, because now, if I come up with a joke during the day, I can use it im- mediately that evening,” says Leno. His weekly gig on Carson's show still allows him one- nighters on the stand-up cir- cuit, or on his buddy David Letterman's Late Night TV show. DOES SPECIAL He's also preparing for his first prime-time special for NBC and has just finished filming Collision Course, in x od which he stars as a Detroit cop. “People might not realize it, but I have done a couple of films before — Silver Bears and American Hot Wax (both made in 1978). I have a hard time realizing that I was in those films myself.” Leno started out hosting variety shows ir. the cafeteria when he was enrolled at a Boston college, moved to New York and then to Los Angeles in 1976. Within a year he had appeared on Carson's show. A decade later, despite his numerous projects, there re- mains considerable specu lation that he is being groomed to take over perm. anently from Carson, al. though Leno says he doesn’t think Carson is leaving yet. “Take one look at me,” he cries, “Then you'll realize it’s hard to believe I've ever been groomed.” reg QUEBEC DEBATES KEROUAC QUEBEC (CP) — Was Jack Kerouac, the King of the Beats and author of the 1967 classic On The Road, an exiled French-Canadian whose roots nourished his great success? Or was he an American original, as free and imaginative as only the open road could make him? Those were some of the questions debated here over a four-day period by some 200 Quebec nationalists, Franco-Americans, road survivors, scholars and Kerouac contemporaries like poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The purpose of their gathering was to add “a new dimension to the man,” said Eric Waddell, the Laval University professor who organized the event. The well-known facts of Kerouac’s life: He was born in 1922 in Lowell, Mass., one of the New England textile mill towns that was flooded with French Canadians fleeing the poverty of rural Quebec. EAKS FRENCH The lesser-known facts: His parents had left Quebec three years earlier and Kerouac spoke only French until he turned seven. He spoke French with his mother, who called him Ti-Jean, until his death from drink in 1969. “All my knowledge comes from my French Can- adian-ness and nowhere else,” Kerouac said in the Na- tional Film Board's Le Grand Jack, which premiered the conference's first night. Yet he was as American as football, which got him a sports scholarship to Columbia University in New York in 1940. And he was dubbed the king of the beatniks, whose poetry marked the literary: flowering of post-war America. Kerouac's literary and personal explorations of drugs, free love, Buddhism and the open road in the '50s made him the spiritual father of the Woodstock generation that followed. To Ginsberg, Kerouac could only have come from peasant stock. If he hadn't been French-Canadian, he would have been “an Indian, an old black man, an Irishman.” “His childhood dramas, family archetypes, earliest mouthing of language, were related to that primordial Canuck, joual, peasant, provincial, primeval mind and culture,” Ginsberg said in an interview. LEAVE NEST A recurring question at the conference was what happens to Quebecers who leave the nest? Kerouac wrote of the “horrible homelessness” French Canadians who live in America. But organizer Lise Bissonnette, former editor of Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper and a leading Quebec nationalist thinker, confessed at the end of the conference: “I have seen that it is possible perhaps to be from Quebec and to be part of North America.” Although Kerouac turned increasingly to his French Canadian roots and Catholicism — and away from his earlier Buddhism — as he moved into middle age, Ginsberg described him as a drowning man grasping for shore. “Kerouac got caught. He couldn't escape the Catholic God and finally saw himself as crucified with alcohol as mortification of the flesh.” Carolyn Cassady, Kerouac’s onetime mistress and wife of his best friend Neal, on whom the hero of On The Road was based, said in an interview she was aware of the author's French-Canadian roots, but doesn't remember him being nostalgic about Quebec. On the conference's attempt to explain the Kerouac mystique, she said, “All these people in all these con- ferences sitting around and arguing about what he said and what he meant . . . it's just hysterical. of all YG DARREL) iD PON RDI bar ABR Boozing bears feed on corn wildlife Creek Timber Co., a BN sub- sidiary. “It's actually fermented to the point now it’s putting out quite an aroma and drawing “We looked at one bear that was blotto. I'd never quite seen one fall off a corn pile and into a ditch like he did. WOMEN’S INSTITUTE . . . the Robson Women's | A workshop sponsored by titute last week included demonstrations of Russian cooking. Those who atten- ded first watched the cooking lessons and then tasted the final product. “It was a large black bear, and there was a grizzly up- slope waiting for us to get out of there.” ~ Hackford plans football film BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Taylor Hackford, the Os- will star Dennis Quaid, Jes sica Lange and Timothy Hut- Ys MS \ose's W\esteurant Open All Thanksgiving Weekend 2.99 ones SIT.95) ROAST CHICKEN ... oo eee eo $7.95) Cottee or Tea. R ne ‘TRY OUR CREAM PIES AND OUR GIANT CINMAMON BUNS. 500 ft. in on the Slocan Valley Highway at the Junction of Highway 3A & 6 OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK 359-7855 This Week in DEXTER’S PUB WED. THRU SAT. Oct. 14 - Oct. 17 Flipside SANDMAN INN Castlegar 1944 Columbia Ave. «9 car-winning director of An Officer and a Gentleman, says his next film will be about “the greatest football player of his generation and the marriage to his college sweetheart.” “It spans 25 years,” Hack- ford said Friday. “I think it is a lovely story, a very positive story.” Everybody's All-American ton. Warner Bros. has bud- geted more than $22 million for the film, based on a novel by Frank Deford and sche- duled for a Christmas 1988 release. Hackford said he plans to film football scenes in Baton Rouge in November and that full-scale shooting will take place in January, February and March. 14-YEAR LOW Homi OTTAWA (CP) — The number of homicides in Can- ada dropped to 569 last year, 4 19-per-cent decline from the previous year and the lowest total since 1973, says the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. The final figures, compiled from police reports, differ alt; only slightly from prelim- cides separate offence under the Criminal Code. RATE DOWN The total number of homi- cides for the year was 14 per cent below the annual aver- following abolition of the death pen- y- A study released earlier inary. ‘atatiatics released. in_ ‘April which showed a homi- cide total of 561 for 1986. The earlier report was im- mediately seized upon by op- ponents of capital punish- ment who used it to argue against a return of the death penalty abolished by Parlia- ment in 1976. The Commons voted in June to reject res- toration of capital punish- ment. The final figures for 1986 show 261 first-degree mur- ders, defined by the Criminal Code as planned and delib- erate killing. That repre- sented a drop from 338 in 1985 for the offence most often cited by advocates of capital punishment. There were also 261 sec- ond-degree murders in 1986 and 44 manslaughters. There were three infanticides, a on decline times more likely to die of traffic or other'accidents, or of suicide, than of homicide. As usual, there were wide regional variations ‘in the rates of homicide last year, with the highest rate re- corded in the northern ter- ritories and western prov- inces and the lowest in the cides per 100,000 population among the provinces at 4.4 per 100,000 followed by Bri- tish Columbia at 3.1, The Newfoundland where the rate was 0.7. The statistics centre, a division of Statistics Canada, in the hy and 13.1 in the Yukon. Mani- toba‘had the highest rate NATUROPATHY FOR THE LAYPERSON A cairns Masigned so beroduee you! te: nolwrerene is, manipulation, herbal mediciiw®, clinical allergies; Introduction to neuro-linguistic Fee: $20 includes tunch LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE foe further information or to preregister contoct Denise CASTLEGAR CAMPUS—— Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C: VIN 3J1 ene 366-7292 CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION WittVOQUCeS a Host: Kiwanis Licence No. 61656 NO FRILLS SPECIAL 520 Icy Cote Progrem Per Game Extra $urpri$e — 6:30 p.m. Good Neighbor LUCKY DABBER Ni Draw of $50, 20, $10, $5, $2. HAPPY HOUR BINGO To Start at 5 p.m. PREMIUM SAVINGS BILL ACCOUNE PLEASE CONTACT EITHER BRANCH FOR COMPLETE DETAILS: CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION 601-18th area Castlegar, B.C Siscom? Pork 365-7232 a: 226-7212 OPEN SATURDAY “SEMI” BRAND NEW FURNITURE Rus 2067 Hwy Throms Sunday, Oct. l p.m. Shar LOAD OF rate had been reported as 2.75 per 100,000 for 1986, the lowest rate since 1971. SOFTBALL Castlegar Girls Softball Annual General _ Meeting Wed., Oct. 14 7:30 p.m. Community Complex ivi Hit z EF ath bist He Lt i WATCH FOR SOMETHING BIG Hairlines i E 8. » our entire collection of ortlake- Ivory and White Formal China, Lead Crystal & Flatware Off suggested retail prices. Sale Ends Oct. 31, 1987 Place Your Christmas Order Early For Sale Prices on All Patterns 365-7265 Carl’s Drugs OPEN THIS SUNDAY AND fh enilfes i Castleaird Plaza eee ANOTHER “Semi” Load of BRAND NEW FURNITURE —Portial List Includes — * All Wood Bedroom Suites: * Contemprary Sofas & Love Seats * Hide-o-beds 2 Beautitul Diningroom quites, c/w Buttet ‘ond Hu’ Oak Dining Tresel Tables irs World Globe, 6 Grand Father Clock Bross Giftware, © Assortment of Wicker For those wishing certification. Date: Tuesday ond Thursday, November 3 (10 Sessions) MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION CERTIFICATE Certified stations or for those wishing re- Fes: $150 (Includes Texts) ‘and Thursday. Titenasy Rosin O10 Castor Fee: $50.00. UPGRADING AND FUEL INJECTION ‘Oct, 20, Nov..19: 7 -9 pum Campus. DO YOU WANT TO BE AN AUTOMOTIVE APPRENTICE? HAI =< or — Year 1 Automotive Apprenticeship or — Minimum | yeor related work experience Selkirk College Netson Campus his the program for you. We presently have openings tor the Co-operative For turther information on any ot Nelson |. 352-6601. Extension 204. ad the above courses contoct Admissions, Setkirk College, ——~+——_NELSON CAMPUS. (“4 2001 Silver King Road, Nelson, B.C. VIL 1C8 Phone 362-660) Tues., Oct. 13 New Trend Current Progressive Music ‘See Club for Derails. Here's chance to get up on rage, show eayaenplie pall 651-10th $¢., Costloger 365-7282 , Socially Topical Lyrics ahd Strong Pop/Rock Melodies. E 2GREAT ALBUMS... n Bow! rab Green & Just leleased . Featuring the Hit pesne co of Mind” Also Appearing THE WATER WALK TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE Hi ARROW MONDAY. $4 EACH Doors Open at 8:30 p.m. EVERY MONDAY NIGHT FOR 10 WEEKS GRAND PRIZE *1000 CASH © Airtare for 2 to Hawaii © Recor- ding Time * and Much More! | Great to Watch! pel dol stuff, sing to pre- hit songs from