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It told about the day her mother “socked it to” the Harper Valley PTA (Parent Teacher Association) and its sanctimonious members. The song, which sold 10 million copies, told off Bobby Taylor, a lecher; his wife, who drank a lot; Shirley Thompson, who had gin on her breath; Mr. Baker, whose secretary had to leave town; and the widow Jones, who forgot to pull down her shades. It became the basis for a movie and TV series, each OFFICE AID Basic Fire Suppr 4:40 p.m. Tratfie Control Flogging — April 16, Sot., 9.a.m.-2 p.m. $30. $100 Series Fire Suppression Training April 25-29. Mon. /Fri 8:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m. on Course C Recertification April 12, Tues. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Kootenay Fit Workshop April 29-April 30, Fri. & Sat. 8-5 p.m $35 for 1 day or $65 for both days sion Training — April 9, Sat., 8:30 a.m TO REGISTER OR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL: Castlegar Campus 365-7292 ext. 261 Selkirk, College a CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT PROJECT SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Tuesday, April 5 7:30 p.m. Community Complex — Election of Officers — Review of Castlegar & District Aquatic & Fitness Centre Project tuella Has Changed Location For Income Tax or Accounting PHONE 365-6658 24 HOUR CALL He Call 365-7855 HOURS: Open 7 Deys/W. FULLY LICENCED starring Barbara Eden. “People have told me they remember what they were doing the first time they heard it,” Riley, 42, said in an interview. “I lived five years off that song. And it gave me a public identity as a story teller.” NO CLASSIC Despite the success of the record, she doesn't rate it a standard. “I don’t think its a classic. It was a phenomenon for that time. It said its thing. But no one is doing it now. You don't go somewhere and hear it like you would I Can't Stop Loving You.” Of course, she still per- forms it, occasionally four es per show with her five-piece band. She con- tinues to tour and even did a follow up, Return to Harper Valley, two years ago. However, her recording career tailed off a few years after Harper Valley PTA, and she blames bad manage ment that restricted the kind of songs she recorded. She has also undergone a religious awakening which is recounted in her 1983 auto- biography, From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top. Before her big hit, she was working as a secretary for a music publisher and was trying to break into the entertainment field when she was chosen to record the song. She hesitated at first, thinking perhaps a better song would come along. “I was talked into it,” she said. “But I'm sure I never would have gotten another break like that.” GREWMAN ACRES Castlegar, B.C. RIDING STABLES — Open 9.00 o.m. il dusk daily. Enjoy scenic trails along the Columbia River HORSE DRAWN HAYRIDES, BOARDING FACILITIES formation. Phone 3653986 Wayne or Sandy by oppointment Phone tor more in. LOCATION — | mile south of weigh scale in Ootischenia next to D-D Dining Lounge — follow the signs Castlegar Rotary Club Presents 23-Piece Jazz Band Concert Tues. April 5 — 7:30 p.m. Stanley Humphries Secondary School ALL PROCEEDS GO TO POLIO PLUS Adults $6.00 * Students & Seniors $4.00 Tickets Available at Pharmasave, Carl's Drugs or Mallard's ENTERTAINMENT By FELICITY MUNN Press QUEBEC — He's as laconic and laid back as his TV namesake, but nowhere near as dim-witted. In fact, Woody Harrelson, who plays the deliciously dense Woody on the hit TV series Cheers, wants to write, act in and produce his own films. It's probably a tribute to his talent as an actor, but it comes as a faint surprise to hear his discussing creative control with a straight face and big words. + “I'd like to do what Woody Allen does,” says Har. relson, 26, adding hastily: “I don't pretend to think that I could ever do anything as well as Woody Allen, but I'd like to have that kind of control. Harrelson was in Quebec City for a celebrity ski event, and to finish a film script he and a friend have been writing. NO COMPROMISE “To me, the most important thing is quality,” Harrelson said as he sprawled comfortably in his hotel room. “And there aren't a lot of really good scripts. “I would rather do my own material and know it's good and know that there's no compromise, because I don't believe in compromise.” What's his ‘film script about? “It has to do with our relationship with this guy named Frank, he was a 33-year-old black man whom I worked construction with in the summer of 1983. “We learned a lot about each other, about each other's race. It was really fascinating, kind of the end of innocence . . . .” NO MONEY WOES It's Cheers, of course, that has allowed Harrelson to think about doing his own films. “The fortunate thing about having done Cheers is that I don't hurt for money,” he says in something of an understatement. “I know a lot of great actors who have to do shlock work. I don’t have to do that. I could sit on my duff the rest of my life.” Harrelson is part-owner of a successful new company whose main product is a six-foot circular beach towel,” so Harrelson not dumb that when the sun moves your towel doesn't have to.” Harrelson began acting in high school in Ohio and had the bug in a serious way by the time he got through college in Indiana: HEAR APPLAUSE “In my sophomore year in college, I had a tiny part in a play. remember I came out on stage and gave this look to the woman playing the lead character and then walked short walk on and then right back off engendered this ovation from the audience, and I'm telling you,” he says, shaking his head in wonder, that goofy-sweet Woody smile on his face, “I was so hooked.” After college he moved to New York, waited on tables, appeared briefly in the Goldie Hawn film Wildcats an the Broadway production of Biloxi Blues. Then, 18 months after moving to the Big Apple, he auditioned for the role of Woody Boyd. ALREADY NAMED “When I auditioned, the character's name was already Woody,” he recalls, “I don’t know that I believe in predestination but I do think it was too much of a coin- cidence.” What is it that’s so appealing about the character? “I think there's something really animated about Woody; he's very enthusiastic.” Harrelson has the same enthusiasm; when he tells stories, he leans forward eagerly, gesturing, his eyes bright. But while he says there are similarities between him and Woody Boyd, “I definitely feel I'm doing a character when I'm playing the part.” Some 60 \million people in North America watch Cheers every week — it appears on NBC ahd CTV — and Harrelson is recognized everywhere he goes. Of his appearances at the celebrity events in Quebec City, Harrelson says i “Riding down a ski hill on a raft with Fawn Hall and Mary Wilson, I was thinking, ‘Here I am, just a kid in a wonderland.’ It's pretty much the way my life has been, just this one fascinating dream, one sequence after another.” CHARLES LAUGHTON A difficult actor By ROD CURRIE Canadian Press From the start, the problem for Charles Laughton was that he didn’t have the face of an actor. He described it as “just a pudding” or, worse, like an elephant's behind. Author-actor Simon Callow, Laughton's latest bio- grapher, says it was “the face of someone who simply shouldn't be an actor at all.” It was the face of neither a character actor — quirky or rugged — nor, patently, of a handsome leading actor. “No plucking of eyebrows, no altering of hairline, no straightening of teeth would transform this indeterminately expressive mug,” Callow writes in his book Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor. Only inner conviction coyld do this, and this ugly, magnetic genius of stage and screen had lots of that, particularly in cruelly painful roles that aroused his an CHARTING YOUR COURSE BY THE DREAM IN YOUR HEART, A VIDEO SEMINAR With Pastor & Teacher Robert Filton a step-by-step plan to bring your life onto the course that leads to a God-led destination! LEARN HOW TO * Determine your destiny according to God's perfect plan. Make things happen for your ultimate success. Ask what you want rather than take what you get. Take authority over your circumstances. Glve power to your future. WED. APR.6 WED. APR.13 YOU CAN PREDICT YOUR FUTURE DECIDE! DECREE! DECLARE! TIME: 6:30- 8pm All! Nights LIVING WATERS FAITH FELLOWSHIP 4.KM._ W of Castlegor on Hwy 3 ALL VIDEO SEMINARS SHOWN ON GIANT SCREEN} COMMUNITY Bulletin Board BINGO Monday. April 11, Robson hall 7:00. Hard cords $1.00 each. Everyone welcome Soon sored by the Robson Recreation Society 3/2: 2nd ANNUAL CLUB ACTIVITY DAY Saturday, April 16, Robson Hall Community Clubs will have displays of their activities Admission tree. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by the 7 Robson Recreation Society FREE DANCE! April 22, Potluck supper 6:00 p.m., dan ce 8:00 p.m. Volunteer agencies. Call 365-2104 for tickets For volunteers “WE'LL MEET AGAIN® Back by popular demand, Players production of the Royal Canadian Legion's show We'll Meet Again.” Friday, Secondory School at 6:00 Castlegar Legion, Carl's Drugs. Kel Print or Bob 365-7702 days or 365-6895 evenings SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION Castlegar hosts Regional Meeting April 5 ot 1:00 p.m Regular business meeting, April 7 at 2:00 p.m 2/26 VOLUNTEER TRAINING Castlegor Community Services Communication, problem solving and crisis intervention skills. Call 365-2104 to register. 6/26 April 18 June 27, BRASS JAZZ BAND Concert Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. Stanley Humphries 23-piece German group — only 3 concerts in Canada. 3/25 SPRING RUMMAGE SALE Castlegar & District Nospital Auxiliary, spring rummage sale to be held in the Kinnaird Hall, Friday, April 15, 1988 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday, April 16, 1988, 10. 2:00 p.m. For rummage pickup phone: Ootischenia 365. 6475, Blueberry 365-6587, Castlegar 365-5552, 365-5571 365-2734 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.75 and additional words are 20€ each. Boldtaced wor ds (which must be used for headings) count as two words There is no extra charge for @ second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seventy-five percent and the fourth consecutive. insertion is half-price charge is $3.75 (whether ad is for one. times). Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays tor Sundays poper 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesda © should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia AML Earlybird, 6:30. Regular 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m 6/27 the Rossland Light Opera April 15 in Kinnaird Junior p.m. Tickets $5.00 from 4/27 00 a.m. to 6/25 Minimum two or three Notices UNIT Bulictin Board SUCCESS QUICK The son of an acquisitive, upwardly mobile couple who ran a swanky hotel in Scarborough, a resort city in northern England, Laughton came late to the field of acting but was an almost instant success. He rose from gifted amateur to London’t West End, Broadway and Hollywood and eventually the lucrative public-readings circuit. Even in his first modest roles, critics recognized that he was doing something new, bringing to his work great originality of voice and body. But, Callow says, he was a deeply troubled man, often dirty and slovenly in his personal habits, shamed by his homosexuality and ill at ease in a bulky, unattractive body. He was a “difficult” actor, Callow says, in the sense that he was not easy to work with but also in the sense that some books and paintings are said to be difficult — not at first sight what they appear to be. MARRIED ELSE One of the most amazing aspects of Laughton’s life was his 30-year marriage to Elsa Lancaster, who was his opposite in almost every way. He was plodding, uncertain and moody while the flamboyant Elsa, 25 at the time they started living together, had a reputation for outrageous cabaret acts, had posed nude for “artistic” photographers and was a onetime snake dancer. The big crisis of their married life came early, when Ko apo e End SHOPPE “TS ‘Simply Good Food"’ DAILY BREAKFAST SPECIAL 1102-30651. 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Callow's book often seems to tell the reader more than he really needs to know about Laughton's career, digging deeply into comments, interviews and reviews and analysing each of his roles in 50 films and 40 mayor stage performances. SUFFER FOR ART Still, the book is a vivid portrait of a man who was a mighty Lear, a comic genius in such old films as If I Had a Million, a gluttonous monarch in Henry VIII, a terrifying Cap. Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty and a tortured Quasimodo in the classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was as the Quasimodo character, for which Laughton insisted on having a heavy hunchback with his face twisted into mangled features, that he suffered most. Makeup man Pere Westmore was “10 kinds of a swine,” says Callow, and happy to contribute to the actor's pain and suffering. Aside from the weight and discomfort of the lump, made of aluminum and foam and covered with rubber, Laughton had to cope with a California heat wave that brought average temperatures of 38 C. “And there was no relief when, bruised and weak with exhaustion, he stumbled home, Callow writes. “It was so hot that sleep was impossible, and he always had to get up at four o'clock in the morning to start the makeup again.” Laughton was magnificent in the role, but Callow perhaps overstates it when he writes: “It is absurb to speak of Laughton's Quasimodo as a great performance, as if that were some quantifiable assessment. It is acting at its greatest; it is Laughton at his greatest; it is a cornerstone of this century's dramatic achievement; it is a yardstick for all acting.” Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor, by Simon Callow. Published by General; 318 pages; $28.95. TV unfair competition CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Families should avoid measuring themselves top,” against their TV counter- parts, who generally are beautiful people in dazzling situations far removed from reality, actress Meredith Baxter-Birney says. “You'll never come out on said Baxter-Birney, who plays Elyse Keaton on NBC's Family Ties. The lifestyles portrayed on televison are so “outside the realm of the average person that inevitably unconscious comparisons are made,” she told Wilson College students. “Maybe kids would like their own families better if they weren't comparing them to the ones on TV,” she said. JOIN US FOR * BREAKFAST © LUNCH DINNER WEFKEND SMORG wi Cohoe Insurance. For 962-5157 of 365-6553. Sponsored by the Rossland-Trail Social Credit Party Strong dollar costs forest firms millions VANCOUVER (CP) — The Canadian forest industry will lose hundreds of millions of dollars if the Canadian boca remains strong this year, says a study by @ d forestry “Based on total forest products sales in 1987 of $8.9 billion US, if the Canadian dollar averages 80 cents US in 1988, this would result in a sales revenue loss of $742 million Canadian to the industry,” WidmanManagement Ltd. said in a news release. Council president Mike Apsey says, however, that the industry has already made informal pleas to Ottawa. “There's no question that the changing value of the dollar is having a serious impact on the results in the form of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “I think the only action we can take is the action we have been taking — that is pointing out to government the — and the effect on the industry.” y said the rising dollar which have no impact on employ in the industry, which The loss occurs when Canadian paid in U.S. dollars, convert to the now more expensive Canadian funds, it said. Domestic forest products also lose some competitive edge because they become more expensive in foreign markets. The Widman study bases its loss figure on an average 75-cent Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar in 1987. The Canadian dollar closed at 80.88 cents US on Wednesday, its highest level in more than four years. Company chairman Charles Widman said the industry is not doing enough to persuade the federal government to abandon its policy of allowing the Canadian dollar to rise. “The industry can scream a lot louder,” Widman said in an interview. “I think a lot more pressure has got to be put on the government to stop this nonsense.” Widman added that the fallout from the dollar’s rise will hit lumber companies most severely. Strong demand in the pulp and paper sector, meanwhile, “can probably increase prices to offset, to some extent, this loss of sales revenue.” MAKES CASE The head of the B.C. Council of Forest Industries says a continuing strong dollar will mean a rapid loss of jobs when the cyclical forest industry experiences an inevitable downturn. is enjoying another me year. The eight major forest B.C., for earned record profits, ‘$1. 1 billion last year. ‘While he knows of no mills laying off workers because of the rising dollar, Apsey said the industry is a cyclical one. “When the market starts to fall, however, that's when we'll know the full effect of the government's increased costs and the change in the value of the dollar. “It will mean we will be out of the market, much, much faster than we would have been with a different dollar,” he said. “And then we'll see a very pronounced effect on employment.” Valerie Lambert, of MacMillan Bloedel's corporate finance department, said the Vancouver-based forest company converts about $1 billion a year to Canadian from American funds. “We calculate that a one-cent increase in the Canadian dollar means about $6 million (drop in revenue),” she said. Widman said the study suggests that if the Canadian dollar rises to 85 cents US, the national industry's loss could escalate to $1.4 billion US. The B.C. industry, which produces about 60 per cent of Canadian lumber and 29 per cent of its pulp and paper, loses about $150 million Cdn for every one-cent increase in the Canadian dollar, he said. Controlling your own RSSP By TONY VAN ALPHEN Canadian Press Holding a mortgage in a registered retirement savings plan is one of several options available to consumers with self-directed RRSPs. A self-directed plan allows the individual — rather than a financial institution — to decide how to invest money set aside for retirement. This provides personal control over retirement funds and flexibility. But a self-directed RRSP is not for everyone, experts advise. And some of the options — including having your own mortgage in the plan — are not necessarily good ideas. You should have at least $20,000 in the plan — if there's less, administrative fees could negate any gains — and be prepared to spend a lot of time researching your options, experts say. And look for sound investment advice. “If you're going to the trouble of getting a self-admin istered RRSP you better be dealing with someone who can give you good advice as to what you put in it,” says Brian Costello, a financial commentator and author of several books including Your Money and How to Keep It. A self-directed RRSP can be arranged through a variety of financial institutions, including banks and investment dealers. But it must be registered with a trust company. savings deposits, mutual fund shares, shares of publicly traded Canadian companies, warrants, options — and, yes, even mortgages. PAY YOURSELF? In that case, you make your mortgage payments to yourself. The idea looks attractive. The main advantage is that you can make use of the money accumulated in the RRSP without collapsing the plan and paying tax. Here's an example: Suppose you have $50,000 in your RRSP, earning nine per cent interest. If you borrow the same amount for a mortgage, you might pay 12 per cent. That means your loan is costing three percentage points more or about $1,500 in the first year. If you use RRSP money to pay off the mortgage — which now goes into a self-directed RRSP — you will be paying the 12-per-cent interest to yourself, saving that $1,500. But there's a big disadvantage. Fees can eat up most or all of your gains. You have to pay expenses to set up the mortgage and annual fees to administer it. And there's a broker's fee to maintain the RRSP. For most people, there's also the additional expense of mortgage insurance. It’s usually paid to either the federal The trust company charges an annual ration fee — typically about $100. Some firms, however, have no charges in the first year or offer lower costs for seniors. SAME RULES Self-directed plans basically follow the same rules as regular RRSPs. For the 1987 and '88 taxation years, people not covered by company pension plans can contribute a maximum of $7,500 or 20 per cent of earned income, whichever is less. People with company pensions plans have a limit of $3,500 minus any contributions to the plan. No income tax is payable on money put into an RRSP, or on the interest earned, until funds are withdrawn. In a self-directed RRSP, the number of transactions should be kept to a minimum to hold down administrative fees, says Tom Delaney, a Toronto-based retirement planner and author of the annual Delaney Report on RRSPs. It’s also a good idea to transfer funds from an existing RRSP to a self-directed plan rather than starting from scratch with your first contribution, adds Delaney. Experts say the older the investor, the less risky the investment strategy should be in a self-directed plan. Items that can be put into a plan include guaranteed investment certificates, term deposits, treasury bills, The S.S. MOYIE Needs Your: Help! vu The historic Kootenay Lake sternwheeler $.5. 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VOG Too deductible receipts HISTORICAL SOCIETY KOOTENAY LAKE Registered Charity Tex No. 07 13412-62.26 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. or to the private insurer, the Mortgage Insurance Co. of Canada. MARGINAL BENEFIT On top of that, there are appraisal and legal fees. A hypothetical case outlined in the Delaney Report shows that the costs to take out a $50,000 mortgage inside an RRSP would be $1,800, not including the annual adminis tration fee. “After all the costs and alternatives are taken into account, the biggest benefit of this scheme would appear to be psychological,” writes Delaney. “I submit that the numbers would make the procedure questionable at best.” Costello says that for the average individual, the yield on a mortgage inside an RRSP will be only slightly higher than what a term deposit or guaranteed investment certifi- cate pays. “If you're going to go for something other than a GIC or term dep6sit, you might as well go into a mutual fund,” says Costello. “Why have a mortgage in an RRSP when you have the potential of combining good and bad in a well-managed mutual fund?” Zimmerman says pulp group ideal VANCOUVER (CP) — Canada ~ should establish and Paper Association permanent or for consultations between gov- ernment and industry, says the chairman of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Such groups could be pat terned on the sectoral ad visory groups on interna tional trade that were set up to provide industry advice to the federal government dur ing the free-trade negotia tions, ~Adam Zimmerman said. “Had there been a recog- nized protocol between in- dustry and government (dur. ing the 1986 lumber negotia tions with the U.S.), no one would have had to act pre cipitiously and produce what was the worst of all possible results for the lumber in. dustry.” Zimmerman, who is also vice-chairman of Noranda Inc. of Toronto, made the comments during a speech at a luncheon sponsored by Touche Ross Management Consultants and the Western Business School Club of B.C. He used the Canadian Pulp Metals he en- ‘Virtually all of the pulp and paper industry belongs to the CPPA, it has a perm- anent staff and maintains a large data tg “This has h tion having @n position on all matters affect ing the industry.” He said the “greatest dis- appointment in my business All Sizes Ba pary Available. Dievosi B... LS CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION For All Your Financial & insurance Needs CASTLEGAR SLOCAN PARK (1-18th $1. 365-7232 Hwy. a Sieste Pork Insurance 365-3368 7212 \sawranaa | 226-7216 career” was the ag Dec. 30, 1986, which led to Canada imposing a 15-per- cent tax on lumber exported to the United States. In return, the U.S. lumber industry dropped a petition for a countervailing duty on Canadian lumber, but re- tained some control over any changes Canada might want to make to the agreement. Zimmerman said the “pol- ities of protectionism” was a major factor on the American side of the dispute, and the U.S. adversaries “frightened a new B.C. premier and a new international trade min ister” into agreeing to a pen- alty on Canadian lumber. market still volatile TORONTO (CP) — Nickel prices on the London Metals Exchange fell sharply on Tuesday from Monday's rec ord highs, but Canadian producers still stand to gain a windfall from the best metals market in a decade. Many mining companies are recovering from the de- vastating 1982 recession and the firms and the northern communities in which they operate are expecting 1988 to be the long-awaited payday. The world’s two largest nickel producers — Ineo Ltd. and Falconbridge — are raking in enormous profits as nickel prices soar. The timing couldn't be better for their workers as union contracts at both companies expire this summer. Dave Campbell, president of Inco’s Steelworkers local in Sudbury, said the company could earn as much as $1 billion US this year, and the employees deserve some of it. “We're amazed,” said Campbell. “Everybody ex- pected nickel to go up, but not by this much — we don’t call it a base metal anymore, we call it a precious metal.” The Law Firm of WYLLIE & OKROS No. 2-385 Baker Street, Nelson, B.C. Ph. 354-4844 No. 203:1215-3rd Street, Castlegar, Ph. 365-8451 IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT LAURA LINDLEY ROFF is now associated with them in the practice of law. Her preferred areas of practice include: real estate conveyancing, mortgages, wills & estates. COMMISSION SALES Toke advantage of the many potential tax deductions available to commission salespeople. At H&R Block, we know which expenses are deductible. And we'll find you the biggest refund you're entitled to. We want to save you as much money'as possible this year. Ask about our guarantee. 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