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ENTERTAINMENT

Spider expert defends bug

WASHINOTON (AP) — The new
summertime movie thriller,
Arachnophobia, is bugging Michael
Robinson, a spider expert who ac-
cuses Hollywood of spinning a web of
deceit about his favorite creepy-
crawly.

“It’s a pity to give spiders a bad

says Robinson, director of
the National Zoo and former director
of the American Arachnological
Society, “It’s very sad that we should

be so irrational about themi and see |

movies that reinforce all those an-
cient, primitive fears about spiders.””

Robinson, an English-born
biologist, spent 20 years studying
spiders in Panama, Papua New
Guinea and more than a dozen other
tropical countries. He was outraged
when he saw a newspaper adver-
tisement for the Steven Spielberg-
Frank Marshall movie about a mon-
strous vampire spider that terrorizes a
California family.

“*Bight legs, two fangs and an at-
titude,"’ the ad reads.

It’s ‘Jaws with legs,"" warns one
film critic.

Arachnophobia means
spiders.

One well-known arachnophobic is
Toronto Blue Jay outfielder Glenallen
Hill, who recently cut and scraped his
legs and arms during a violent night-
mare about spiders.

Surprisingly, Hill said he intends to
see the movie, which has a huge
Venezuelan spider hitchhiking in a
coffin to-a small town in California.
Besides breeding an army of deadly
offspring, it leaps to sink its fangs in-
to human victims, paralysing them in
seconds with a lethal neurotoxin and
sucking their bodies dry.

fear of

a reporter to issue a protest.

“This bloody movie is making
horrific allegations about spiders, and
they are so important to the ecology
of the world and so incredibly

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they need some good press,”’ he said.
Robinson hailed spiders as nature's
Pest exterminator, ridding the Earth
of billions and billions of houseflies,

New duo

The newly formed duo of Louise
Warthe and Zoey Lewis will be per-
forming in the Castlegar Art Coun-
cil’s Concert in the Park series at
noon Thursday. Entitled Lifeline,
their concert will be a ‘‘mixed bag”’ of
songs from folk to blues, an arts
council news release says.

After 10 years of classical training,
Warthe shifted her focus from a

melodic line to lyrics. Performing in

“Ordinary spiders are pertectly arsiloss
hy says spider expert Michael Robi:
sts being reinforced by the new movie Arachnop!

jouse,

fears” of the beast;

roaches, mosquitoes and other insects
every year.

Without spiders, he said, human
beings would be overwhelmed by
winged creatures that would destroy
crops and threaten to leave the planet
virtually uninhabitable.

“Ordinary spiders are perfectly
harmless and they are marvelous
friends to have around the house,”’
Robinson said.

If they give you a severe case of the
shudders, he said, simply cover them
with a water glass, slide a sheet of
Paper underneath and carry them
safely outside the house. Don’t stomp
on them or flush them down the
toilet, he pleaded.

Not only are spiders great for gob-
bling pests, Robinson said, but they

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are wonderful objects of scientific
study.

“The sex life of spiders is ab-
solutely bizarre,”’ he said.

A lot of the details can’t be
published in a family newspaper, but
Robinson speaks in awed tones of the
antenna-like things on a male spider’s
forehead that suck up sperm deposits
like old-fashioned fountain pens.

In his elaborate courtship ritual, he
said, the mail spins a silk ‘‘mating
thread’’ and serenades his female
friend by strumming it like a guitar.
And during their nuptial embrace, he
said, ‘‘every hair stands on end — it’s
quite exciting to see.””

Of the thousands of spider species
in the world, Robinson said, only
three are poisonous to humans — the

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black widow, the brown recluse and
the dreaded Australian funnel web
spider, which is ‘‘very aggressive’
and those repeated bites will kill a
person within a few hours.

The tarantulas used in filming
Arachnophobia actually are pretty
innocuous, Robinson said. Their
main weapon is not their venom,
which is no more dangerous than a
bee sting, but their ability to launch
clouds of barbed hairs that produce
an irritating skin rash.

The American Association of
Poison Control Centres says it has
reports of only two human fatalities
from spider bites in the United States
in a recent three-year period. Both in-
volved elderly people with medical
complications, a spokesman said.

in park for concert

folk clubs and coffee houses in
various cities, she did not limit her
repertoire to songs with a message.
With her foray into musical theatre,
as both actor and vocal coach, her
credits include A Chorusline, the King
and I, and Nelson’s centennial show,
I’ve Always Wanted to Ride a Street-
car. Her most recent professional suc-
cess was as the Witch in Theatre
Energy’s Malefica in June, which also

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displayed her songwriting talents, the
arts council said.

Castlegar audiences will recall War-
the as the opening act (both as a
soloist and with her three children)
for the Louise Rose concert in
November 1987. More recently, she
has been singing in Nelson and the
Slocan Valley.

A native of the Slocan Valley,
Lewis is currently studying music at

McGill University. While in Montreal
she appeared in Marie-Lynn Ham-
mond’s folk musical Beautiful Deeds
and in Nelson’s Chatauqua earlier
this month. This up-and-coming
young performer is an accomplished
musician in many areas including
piano and flute as well as a singer,
songwriter and composer, the arts
council said. Thursday’s concert will
be the final instalment

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July 25, 26, 27, 29, 1990

6 p.m. (Wed) 9 a.m. (Fri) 6 p.m.
(Sun) Castlegar Chamber Luncheon
— The guest speaker for the chamber
luncheon was Preston Manning,
national party leader for the Reform
Party of Canada. This program was
Produced by Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce.

7 p.m. (Wed) 10 a.m. (Fri) 7 p.m.
(Sun) West Kootenay Today — Host
Eleanor Elstone takes a look at this
week’s Shaw Cable lineup and future
events.

7:30 p.m. (Wed) 10:30 a.m. (Fri)
7:30 p.m. (Sun) Street Smart — This
is a repeat of the live program telecast
July 16. In the last half of the
Program two members of the Nelson
highway patrol and two driving in-
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30 p.m. (Wed) 11:30 a.m. (Fri)
8:30 p.m. (Sun) Concerts in the Park
— The B.C. Oldtime Fiddlers from
Castlegar put on a noon concert at
Kinsmen Park in Castlegar. This con-
cert is part of a series that is being
held every Thursday. Produced by E.
Elstone.

9:30 p.m. (Wed) 12:30 p.m. (Fri)
9:30 p.m. (Sun) Trail City Council —
Gayel-to-gavel coverage of the July 23
meeting. Produced by Shaw Cable.

11 p.m. (Wed) 2 p.m. (Fri) 11 p.m.
(Sun) — Sign Off.

Note: This schedule is repeated on
Friday at 9 a.m. and again on Sunday
at6 p.m.

Thursday, July 26, 1990

6:30 p.m. — Don’t Judge a Book
By Its Cover

6:45 p.m. —
Arctic

7:15 p.m. — Do Women Win with
Homebase Businesses?

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By CasNews Staff

If one day is any indication, United
Buy and Sell Furniture store is a
welcome addition in Castlegar.

The recently constructed and
stocked furniture store in the city’s
industrial park on Columbia —

south of town gave curious
preview Monday prior to the and
opening Thursday.

The result was an unqualified suc-
cess as the store did a bang up
business, said manager Toby
Reichert.

**We had seven, eight people in the
store all day. I'd say we probably had
couple hundred in here over the
course of the day,’’ Reichert said
Tuesday.

“I don’t know if I should have
done that (opened early) but there
were some people who came out to see
it so we opened the doors. I guess I’m
glad I did, we had lots of sales.
Without advertising that’s not bad.’’

Not bad, but kind of distracting
with Reichert and his staff trying to
get the store ready for the—grand
opening.

“(It) was so busy, it was out of
hand. We still had a lot to do around
here and we couldn’t do anything,’’
he said.

A franchise store under the direc-
tion of the Creston operation, the
Castlegar outlet brought in three
Creston employees to run the show
and train new workers. Two of them
will return to Creston in four months
to beTeplaced by Castlegar people,
Reichert said.

One Castlegar resident has already
been hired and two more are expected
to be hired right away, he said.

And if business continues the way. it
did Monday, there’s no telling how
many more people the company
might need, Reichert said.

The store, one of 30 United Buy
and Sell outlets in B.C., is one of the
chain’s largest, with an 11,000-
square-foot showroom and 15,000
square feet all together, Reichert said.

He added that other furniture

Betty Middleton (left) of Raspberry talks prices to United Buy and Sell Furniture Warehouse
manager Toby Reichert as the Castlegar store opened for business Monday. The grand
CasNews photo

opening is set for tomorrow.

stores in the area dealing in medium
cost furniture will likely feel the pinch
now.

“*T think we'll give them a little bit
of competition. 1 don’t think we'll
hurt anybody too bad. We're a
medium (priced) line of furniture.
The furniture here’s not all solid oak.
Its not something you're going to pay
$3,000 for,’’ he said.

“*We sell furniture and mattresses,
and they are all guaranteed to be the
lowest prices.””

VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C.
Tel announced today it has ‘ap-
plied to the Canadian Radio-
television and Telecom-
munications Commission to
reduce the price of trans-Canada
calls by 15 per cent.

The company said if the ap-
plication is approved, it would be
the sixth time long distance rates
have been reduced in three years.
The cost of calling east of Alberta
would be cut by more than 50 per
cent since 1987.

In addition to rate cuts for

Rate cut requested

trans-Canada calls, B.C. Tel said
it is seeking an avetage rate reduc-
tion of four per cent in calls to
Alberta and a drop of six per cent
in the cost of calls fo the continen-
tal United States.

Calls to Hawaii would fall 27
per cent and calls to Alaska
would drop 26 per cent under the
new rate proposals.

For business customers, B.C.
Tel said it is asking for approval
of a new discount service that
would save high-volume users up
to 30 per cent on long-distance
charges.

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Alcan aluminum smelter will get a
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tative deal worked out Tuesday, less
than 12 hours after they went on
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About 500 management staff were
behind the picket lines, keeping the
smelter running along with Alcan’s
Kemano power plant.

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