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By ED BLANCHE

LONDON (AP) — John
Lennon is gone and now
there's just Paul, George and
Ringo. Lennon was shot dead
in New York Dec. 9a3 he was
relaunching his musical ca-
reer after five years as a
recluse,

But what have the other
three been doing since the
Beatles split up in 1989?

Paul McCartney is the
only one who has stuck with
the music, leading Wings, the
band he formed six years
ago, and earning a reputed
$50.6 million a year.

George Harrison, 937,
lives near London in a palace
built by an eccentric English
milionaire in 1889, bankroll-
ing friends’ movie ventures
and tending his 33-acre es-
tate. si

Ringo Starr lives in tax
exile in Monte Carlo and
jet-sets between there and
his other homes in Amster-
dam and Los Angeles, mak-
ing movies and playing black-
jack.

It's 11 years since the
Beatles broke up and ended
an era in popular music.
There was bitterness and
acrimony, legal hassles and
backbiting. Now the surviv-
ing Beatles have finally found
their own identities after
years of searching.

STILL PUBLIC FIGURE

Only McCartney re-
mains a public figure, churn-
ing out a string of hit albums
and singles with Wings and
on his own, touring, getting
into scrapes with the law
over his dope-smoking habit.

Harrison and Starr are
more shadowy and retiring
as they slip comfortably into
well-heeled middle age.

Paul, 38, is ranked with
Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin
as one of the world's most
successful songwriters.

Last year he signed a

‘unique deal with the U.S,
CBS label and EMI in Britain
that guarantees him $23 mil-
lion for three albums. Now
he's extending his -Midas
touch into music publishing
and an art collection.

His current project is
one of his most ambitious, a
feature-length animated mu-
sical based on one of Britain's
best-loved cartoon charac-
ters, Rupert the bear.

“We're trying to make a
film as good as Disney and
introduce Rupert to America
as a new character,” he said
in a recent interview with
The Associated’ Press.
“That's quite a challenge be-
cause I don’t think anyone’s
done it since Disney.”

STAY IN COTTAGE

McCartney has a large
Victorian mansion and a cor-
porate headquarters in Lon-
don. But he and his American
wife Linda spend most of

CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 24, 1980
Lennon is gone

r three Beatles

THE BEATLES, front row, left to right, George Harrison
and John Lennon. Back row, left to right, Paul McCar-

tney and Ringo Starr.

their time with their four
children in a two-bed:

onetime world motorcycle

farmhand's cottage in rural
Surrey.
They originally bought it

as a weekend retreat. “But,

after a few weeks we realized
we were enjoying life in the
country more than in the city
0 we just moved down,” Me-
Cartney said.

Asked why, with his
vast fortune, he continues to
go touring and making rec-
ords, Paul replied: “It’s all I
ever wanted to do. It’s my
job."

Harrison, “the silent
Beatle," and McCartney of-
ten meet, but the nearest
they got to a Beatles reunion
was a couple of years ago
when they jammed together
with Ringo at a wedding
party for their close friend
Erie Clapton.

Clapton had just married
George's first wife, onetime
model Patti Boyd.

The split plunged Har-
rison into a deep depression.
“I went on a boozing bender,”
he said recently. “Then I met
Olivia arfd°that:brought me
out of it.” « ‘aie Sikes

LIVES IN COUNTRY

Harrison married Mex-
ican-born Olivia Arias, a one-
time employee of his Los
Angeles record company, in
September, 1978. She bore
him the son, Dhani, he had
always longed for and now
he's opted for the peaceful
life of a country squire at his
Friar Park estate in Oxford-
shire.

He produced some rec-
ords for other bands, but
made little impact and grad-
ually became disenchanted
with the rock music business,

He moved into films and
motor racing, a lifelong pas-
sion. Two of his closest
friends are Niki Lauda and

p ry eh Barry
Sheene. _,,,.,
George, put up $5.2 mil-
lion to bankroll the contro-
versial Monty Python movie
Life of, Byjan when his
Python pai, Eric Idle,
couldn't find,a backer.

His interest in the Hare
Krishna segt has waned late-
ly, but he jhas a private
temple on estate where
he regularly,,meditates.”

Friends,,say .that after
years of trayma, depression
and poor health, Harrison
now is “happier than he’s
ever been,"

PLANS TO MARRY

Ringo, 40, says he's
given up music for acting.

He's just finished Caveman,
filmedfn Mexico, and plans to
marry'his co-star, American
a¥tress Barbara Bach, in the
spring,

His first marriage to
hilah heart Maur-

Records ideal for little ones

By ANDREA GORDON
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Children, asa rule, don’t
get bored with things they
enjoy. Thats why children's
record albums make such
ideal gifts for the little ones,
whose attention level is main-
tained by the very fact that
they can participate ,in the

een Cox ended in divorce in
1975.

+ Ringo, dogged by illness
since he was a toddler, last
year collapsed from a near-
fatal stomach ailment, a
long-term after-effect of per-
itonitis he suffered when he
was ‘six.. Doctors in Monte
Carlo removed a chunk of his

intestine. “because I'd have -

died if they hadn't...) 4

Last September, he and
Bach escaped with only mi-
nor ‘injuries after Ringo
crashed his Mercedes‘ timou- :
‘gine-in London,

albums after the Beatles split
and still earns around $2.3
million|a year from . Beatle
record sales. But he no longer
has a record contract outside
the United States, *
The only connection he
has with rock these days is a

As added bonuses, rec-
ords aren't as prone to des-
truction as other toys; most
kiddie records today have
both entertainment and edu-
cational'value, and they ably
serve to keep little minds
occupied while the turkey is
in’ the oven.

“| The following are among
the-current crop of fine Can-
adian juvenile recordings.

You'll find them hoppin,
'n’ bopping and ing ‘n’

ment. Produced pri for
children, adults may find
themselves straying within
earshot of the delectable
sounds,

Jim and Rosalie .must
have a considerable under-
di to be

di Dance
and Let's Do the Numbers
Rhumba,

Produced by Walden,
Lois Birkenshaw and Howard
J. Baer, the album offers a
wide range of songs — some
4 ded to teach and some

ofy

able to come up with such
lyrics as “I am just so tired of
waiting ‘all alone, Mommy,
please get off the phone” or
“Listen to'me when I talk to
you, Please look me in the
eye, Whatever I say is im-
portant, too, Though I'm just
a little guy."

In Listen To Me, their
first albumpJim Duch

just for fun.

Walden is accompanied
by the beautiful soprano
voice of Arlene Meadows in
several tunes and sings to
everything from electric gul-
tars and piano to fh

Snail, Prof. Periwinkle, Sid
the Squid and Conrad Crep-
idula — are taken from the
nationally syndicated tele-
vision series The Adventures
of Snelgrove Snail.

This collection of de-
lightful songs is strung to-
gether with humorous: dia-
logue and, like the TV series,
a continuous story.

Reid has mastered the
art of the nonsense verse
while at the same time pro-

The Snailsville Gastro-
pod Jamboree, produced by
the D.W. Reid Film Corp.,

and Rosalie Moscoe have put
together a collection of songs
that, most important, chil-
dren can relate to. It's a
product that combines enter-

i and ed ina

clapping to Singing 'n’ Swing.
ing, “the newest’ lection

‘from Sharofi, Lois‘ani] Bram.

The musical varity ranges
from a bluesy jazz on The Cat
Came Back’ and an almost
new-wavish Ticka Tacka Tel-
ephone to a babbling, irres-
istable Aba Daba Honey-
moon, Also included are such
children’s standards as The
Muffin Man and The Ants Go

record pi iP
called Able Label. An earlier
effort, Ringo Records, which
he set up in 1975, folded be-
cause “when I ran it I signed
up all my friends.

“Then we had other
people who signed up all
their friends and it died. You
can't run a business that
way.” a

He describes his life now
as semiretirement, much of
it spent sunbathing, gamb-
ling in Monte Carlo and being
a playboy.

Said Ringo: “I'm taking
life easy, the way I want it.
I'm going to live until I'm 87.

Sharon Hampson, Lois
Lilienstein and Bram Mor-
rison made their record de-
but in 1978 with the Juno
award-winning One Ele-
phant Deux Elephants
{which has since gained plat-
inum status), followed by
1979's Smorgasbord. Today
the trio, backed by Bill Usher
and the Mammoth Band, are
in the forefront of children's
music both here and abroad.

Singing 'n’ Swinging will
show you why.

The record and song-
book package is a great
source of family entertain-

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ENTERTAINMENT

By YARDENA ARAR

HOLLYWOOD (AP) —
“My manager calls me a
legend without a hit,” says
Peter Allen, smiling mis-
chievously.

“But he doesn't want me
to have a hit," Allen con-
tinues, obviously relishing an
old joke. “He's afraid I'd be a
one-shot artist.”

Well, manager Dee An-
thony may be losing a hitless
legend. His client's new al-
bum, Bi-coastal, is looking
more like a commerical suc-
cess than his previous re-
leases.

an energetic backup band. He
shakes maracas and various
parts of his wiry 36-year-old
body and tells off-color jokes
in his precise Australian ac-
cent.

He hasn't had the tele-
vision and radio exposure
needed to transcend cult-
figure status, and that's at
least partly because his var-
ied repertoire defies easy
classification — and because
the broadcast media have
been -wary of his sophisti-
cated, forthrightly homosex-
ual wit.

That wasn't always the
case. Asa in Aus-

And as a i
Allen already has fired a
number of on-target salvos —
from the sentimental I Hon-
estly Love You and I'd
Rather Leave While I'm in
Love to the carnival — like I
Go to Rio. His songs have
been sung by the likes of Rita
Coolidge and Olivia Newton-
John.

Anyone who's ever seen
him perform in concerts or in
his one-man Broadway show,
Up in One, will tell you that
Allen is an honest-to-good-
ness entertainer.

He sings with either his
own piano accompaniment or

tralia, Allen and a partner,
Chris Bell, formed an act
known as Chris and Peter
Allen. While appearing in
Hong Kong in the early
1960s, they met the late Judy
Garland, who asked them to
appear with her in London.

~ Legend without chit :

Through Garland, he
started hanging out with
everyone who was anyone in
show business — and ended
up marrying her daughter,
Liza Minelli. The “brother”
act appeared regularly in Las
Vegas.

ACT BROKE UP

Both the marriage and
the act collapsed at the same
time. In the early 1970s,
Allen began writing songs
and singing in such hip ven-
ues as Reno Sweeny’s in New
York's Greenwich Village. At
first the crowd was predom-
inantly gay, but straights
soon joined in.

As the songs sung by
others became hits, things
began coming around. Bi-
coastal is starting to get
airplay —a for

such a way that kids can both

laugh at and respect them-

“yeselves.

Accompanied by a song-
book and pictures, Listen To
Me is ready-made for sing-
alongs.

dim and Rosalie tell it
like it is, purely from a kid's
point of view, reflecting on
such adult questions as
“What do you want to be
when you grow up?”

The sensitivity of the
tunes and strong lyric con-
tent make this record a
musical treat.

As a teacher, David E.
Walden believes a good les-
son can be neither boring nor
confusing. He is, in fact,
author of Music Theory for
the Bored and Confused.

Such bright originality
and Walden's love for teach-
ing are represented abun-
dantly on a new kiddie al-
bum, The Goat With the
Bright Red Socks,

Youngsters will love
learning their numbers, col-
ors, days of the week and
parts of the body in such
musical lessons as The Left-

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ination.”

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 24, 1980

kes six

7 toes

¢

AS

years ago look like small potatoes

OTTAWA (CP) — Six
years ago, consumer prices
hit a 22-year high of 10.4 per
cent annually, the bank rate
jumped to a record 8.25 per
cent and spokesmen for -op-
position parties warned of a
‘national emergency.

. imilar cries of an econ-
omic crisis highlighted the
‘Commons marathon debate
}last week as consumer prices
jsoared to 11.2 per cent an-

nually and the bank rate
leaped to a new record of
17.86 per cent.

Is the country really ina
new economic crisis?

By any of the standard
measures, it is in bad shape:

— The cost of living, as
measured by Statistics Can-
ada’s 1971 basket of goods
and services, is rising faster

than at the peak of the’

1974-75 price spiral.

ee
| Here's a tip

TORONTO (CP) —

briskly the last two months
while

‘They're

ialty stores carry-

' stuffers, but precious metals,
stamps and numismatic coins
are popular gift items this
Christmas.

“We've been very busy
this year,” says Elizabeth
Macdonald, ret

ing everything from bullion
and jewelry to stamps have
also been busy.

Gold and silver prices
have dropped during 1980
but can still command hefty

for precious metals at Guar-
dian t. “Gold is still the
most, item but silver
is selling well too.”

* Canadain Imperial Bank
of Commerce reports gold
wafers; Have been moving

04

The prices are
tied to international bullion
markets and can fluctuate
many times a day, whether
they’re bought from a bank,
trust company or dealer.
Gold has been trading at
more than $700 an ounce in

— Unemployment at 7.3
per cent, though not at rec-
ord levels, is highcompared
to five years ago;when the
rate was then 6.9,per cent,

— Federal expenditures
exceed revenuésby a record
$14.2 billion, «019i

— The current account, a
measure ..of..'the country’s
indebtedness {to the world,
has mushroomed to about $5
billion,

for las

Canadian funds, down from
more than $1,000 at its high
point this year. Silver. has
been changing hands in the
$20-an-ounce range — a far
ery from last January when it
hit about $60.
NEEDN'T BUY MUCH.

You don't always have to
buy a full ounce of either
metal, although some sellers
have minimums of one ounce
of gold or 10 ounces of silver
for orders that have to be
shipped from main branches.
The minimum may be higher’

— Individual and busi-
ness bankruptcies are up
more than 16 per cent.

However, the gloomy
picture masks the fact that
some groups and regions are
not suffering from the: econ-
omic malaise,

For example, an investor
who purchased Dome Mines
for $123.50 a share in 1979
could have sold the,same
stock for $186 a share in less

than a year, amid avgeneral
stock market boom, .°: +;

The economies of Alber-
ta and British Columbia are
growing quickly in contrast
to the recession in Central
Canada. é

And while a consumer's
1971 dollar is worth only 45
cents today, most wage earn-
ers‘— until recently — ‘have
kept pace with: inflation dur-
ing the 1970s. Ma bath

William Mackness, chief
for it

scale business failures, high

‘or
dealers Pitfield, Mackay,
Ross Ltd. of Toronto, says
there is not crisis.

“We certainly have our
full share of problems —
inflation is at high levels —
but the economy is able to
adapt."

He argues that for a real
crisis, there must be large-

t-minute shoppers

if you ask for a certificate
instead of the physical metal
on the orders,

Gold comes in wafers as
smail as five grams — a little
under one-sixth of an ounce
— running in the $120 range.
You could buy a 400-ounce
bar of gold but that would set
you back about $300,000.

Insivler, 10-gram wafers
were selling for just under
$10 last week. Some dealers
carry wafers as small as 60 or
100 grains, at a rate of 400
grains to the troy ounce.

Kids not overlooked at Christmas

MONTREAL (CP) —
‘Tis ‘the season for toy-
makers to be jolly, because
the last three months of the
‘year are when they make 70
per cent of their sales, esti-
mated to top $500 million this
year in Canada,

“People may forego that
extended trip to the Baha-
mas, but they will always buy
toys for their children at
Christmas,” says Boyd
Browne, president of the
Toronto-based Canadian Toy

pany in Canada, sells $53
maillion worth of toys a year.
What makes it distinctive,
besides its sales volume, is
the fact that it is Canadian-
owned.

“Most toys are designed
in the United States,” said
Peter McCann, vice-presi-
dent of marketing and sales
at Mattel Canada Inc. of

Toronto. “The Canadian mar-~

ket just isn't big enough.”
SECURITY TIGHT
, Zhe Mattel headquar-

'Manufactuférs “Association, “ “‘ters ¥i

+: Andlystiway.this Chiist?
mas looks cheerier than last
year's, when retail sales
wilted in the mild weather. A
cool December, promoting a
Christmas mood, can heat up
consumer spending.

“Every retailer prays for
snow,” said Keith Elliot,
director of consumer affairs
at Woolco department stores.
“It's life and death for us,
because it can change our
season around.”

‘ Irwin Toy Ltd. of Tor-
onto, the largest toy com-

3 biiflding. in.Los Angeles
is ¥iniged by security guards,
and only people with special
clearance can enter the de-
sign section, where 300 men
and women design, mould
and paint the latest cre-
ations, Research for a new
toy can take up to five years.

Of the hundreds of ideas
produced each year, only
seven per cent will be pat-
ented and readied for pro-
duction. Of every 10 new
products on the market, only
three will survive more than
one year.

“The toy business is like

+ the fashion business,” said

Brian Clarke, president of
Coleco (Canada) Ltd. of Mon-
treal, a subsidiary of Coleco
Industries Inc. of Hartford,
Conn,

“It consists of fads and
trends that change quickly.
Just as skirt hems go up and
down and lapels get nar-
rower, the toy buisness is
constantly shifting. The trick
is to keep ahead of the
game.”

Coleco has built a strong

- position in.electronie games,

Grand Toys Ltd. of Mon-
treal has built sales to $20
million a year, mostly by as-
sembling and packaging im-
ported toys. About one-third
of toys sold in Canada are
imports, mainly from the
Orient.

COMPETITION VICIOUS

While competition seems
vicious at the manufacturing
level, “it's a real dogfight” at
the retail level, said Elliot of
Woolco. Retailers send spies
to snoop around competitors’

stores and jot down prices,
which can fluctuate each day.

At the Simpsons de-
partment store in downtown
Montreal, sticker prices on
some toys have been crossed
out with red,pen and new,
lower prices printed in.

Electronic games have
been all the rage, but even in
that field there have been
some duds. For instance,
some ‘Eaton and Bay stores
have marked down Coleco's
Zodiac electronic horoscope
game, introduced last year,
to $9.99" from $40." S

“We had to sell it below
cost just to get it out of the
store,” said Harold.Celtorius,
Eaton's eastern division toy
manager.

Retailers are counting
on this Christmas season to
help them recover from slow
sales growth and sagging
profits earlier in the year.
Total retail sales grew 8.3
per cent to $67 billion in the
first 10 months of 1980,
compared to a 13.3-per-cent
rise in 1979. 2 :

_ Fines for bad drivers

“VANCOUVER (CP) —
Proposed changes in the B.C.
Motor Vehicle Act that would
mean more fines as well as
demerits for bad drivers
were generally welcomed by
- police and safety: officials.

Higher fines, court pro-
cedures, police powers and
tougher handling of chronic
offenders are all indicated if
cabinet endorses the new
Motor Vehicle Act released
in draft form Monday by At-
torney-General Allan Wil-
liams and Transport Minister
Alex Fraser.

“There is too much car-
nage on the road and it seems
people will only pay attention
if they are hit in the pocket-
book,” said Leonard King-
man, president of the B.C.
Safety Council.

: “It will be a welcome
improvement,” said -Inspec-
tor Philip Meeres of the Van-
couver traffic investigation
squad,

But Meeres denied a
suggestion by Fraser that
police have eased up on en-
forcement because they be-
lieve the demerit point sys-
tem alone doesn't deter dri-
vers from committing of-
fences,

“A fine system is more
effective,” siad Insp. Bob
Rivers, RCMP traffic co-
ordinator for B.C. “Points in
many cases mean nothing.”

DIDN'T BACK OFF

Rivers, agreed the point
system “frustrates people in
the field; nevertheless I have
no knowledge of anyone
backing off enforcement.”

Bev Penhall, spokesman
for the Insurance Corp. of
B.C., said the corporation
agrees with the study rec-
ommendations. There were
two ICBC members in the
study group.
While penalty points are

ded to be retai

there is a recommendation
that they no longer be linked
to insurance premiums. This
would mean a loss of an esti-
mated $17 million in ICBC
revenue, but Penhall said
that “buying insurance

shouldn't be related to break-
ing the law; we will have to
find the money elsewhere.”

accident claims,
estimated at 480,000 for this
year, are up 62,000 or 15 per
cent from last year.

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An atided buyer’ incen-
tive'is there's no sales tax on
bullion ‘wafers or bars,’
Théte are also invest-
ment coins ‘for gift sug-
‘gestions. These are minted
specifically for investment
and sold according to the
value of the precious metal
they contain.

Canada is a new entry
into this international market
with its Maple Leaf gold coin.
The face value of the coin is
$60 but it's priced at the
values of the one ounce of
gold it contains.

PRICES RANGE WIDELY

Numismatic coins are
collectors’ items and can
range in price from a few
dollars to thousands, depend-
ing on the quality of the coin,
its availability or rarity.

The Royal Canadian
Mint produces a number of
specially minted coins, in-

en

cluding a gold piece with a
face value of $100 and a $1
coin containing half an ounce
of silver.

Stamps have long been a
favorite of éollectors but
they've also become favorites
of investors. Nyeryone from
prestigious ‘artl'auctiongers,
such as Sothef
net, to such si

“Our sales Hie up 45 per
cent this year,*"said John
Sident of Can-

the value of''their . dollar.
When they turn their invest-
ments into currency later on,
they want their money to
have kept pace with infla-
tion.”

and _indus-
tries in serious trouble.

Although the federal
government has come to the
aid of large multinationals
such as Chrysler Canada Ltd.
and Massey-Ferguson Ltd., a
large line of firms is not yet
on the doorstep, -

Mike McCracken, presi-
dent of Informetrica Ltd., a
consulting firm, says another
good benchmark for judging
a crisis is whether govern-
ments — or the private sec-
tor — know what to do abou
economic problems, .

Finance Minister Allan
MacEachen admits none of
the economic theories seem
to work and blames the U.S.
for the latest round of high
interest rates, oi

The Conference Board of
Canada says businesses ‘are
delaying projects ' because
they are pessimistic about
the future rate of inflation.

Workers, who have
failed to keep up with con-
sumer price increases for the
last’ three years, are also
uncertain and many are bar-
gaining for higher settle-
ments.

Small-car owners may
face higher premiums

OTTAWA (CP) — The
Canadian insurance industry
is studying the costs of
collision repairs for cars and
the end result may be higher
insurance costs for owners of
small cars, says an industry
spokesman,

In the crunch a little car
usually crumples more easily
than a large one, Ted Belton
said in an interview. Belton is
spokesman for the Ottawa-
based Insurers Adyisory Or-
ganization, the body under-
taking the two-year study.

The industry plans to
develop a new system of auto
insurance that takes account
of accident-prone cars and
those which cost most to
repair. It will also assess
accident-prone drivers.

a

Wrap uD feelings with acall.

Now, only the driver's
record and list price of the
auto are considered in setting
rates. The system is already,
well established in the
United States.

Belton said he also ex-
pects automakers will be-
come more conscious of the
insurance factor when they
build cars, to the extent of
citing the good-risk cars in
their advertising.

In the United States,
subcompacts have the worst
insurance ratings as deter-
mined by the U.S. Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety,
Belton said. In its ratings of
the 1977-78 model year only
one subcompact, the AMC
Pacer, had a good record for
insurance claims,

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