/ ” New Insertia! , cop changes and ° | 4 an : un Bier Be tesla a i NG y aay ; : : : / Bé6 CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 23,1980. _cancellations ‘for, ;the Castlogar Nows: Business| Directory will be. ( Showbiz by Joey suises /, Nows Business| Directory, wt REPORT: America has a new sweetheart—Yoko { sty : y ‘ : § e of each month only. Se Nada, She Kept 125 million people spellbound as Lady — } ; : és n y issuc ocd ‘ : uegistarive Livtarys, iy Aan Content evaae Parlianant Dligs.+. 501 Bellevitze s wMictoria, Bo Ce No _ WEATHERCAST. | Mariko in ‘Shogun,’ But fat Pi beauty there's really just an all-American girl. She worships her co-star Richard Chamberlain who played her ‘barbarian’ lover, Blackthorne, she admires most. Fonda, loves American movies and stars and says her favorite in the NBC spectacle, though it's Paul Newman She idolizes political activist actress Jane ‘American TV show is ‘Soap.’ As for the American people... she loves them most. After a two-week promotional tour of the States, she said: ‘The American people have been truly wonder- ful to me. I feel greatly honored. | di press my appreciation.” lon’t know how to properly ex- . .. Richard Chamberlain is back in the ‘American limelight after his smash-hit role as Blackthorne. The alamerican boy, who had women swooning when he played Dr. Kildare in the early 60's, all but dropped’ out of sight when he decided to leave that TV series. For the next decade he worked exclusively in England, perfecting his craft and starring in everything from ‘Hamlet’ to ‘The Three Musketeers.’ Then it was time to try to conquer America again. Yet his role as John. lackthorne almost slipped through his fingers. He read the Bet and told his agent if anyone filmed it, he wanted the part. “W's no secret that James Clavell, ‘the author, wanted Sean Connery or Albert Finney for the part,” says Chamberlain, 45. “But NBC felt an English accent among all that Japanese dialogue would be more than an American audience would put up with.” * CONSUMER NEWS WIRE: Most TV soap operas rehearse entire eaodks several times a day, preliminary to a taping session usually late in the afternoon. ‘Another World’ and ‘Texas,’ uses the Paul Rauch, producer of NBC-TV's cinematic approach: In- - dividual scenes are rehearsed, then taped, and the episode is ‘assembled and edited the next day. “We used to have everyone here from 5 a.m. to 6 in the evening,” Rauch said. “I found the By BURGESS MEREDITH . . . collaborates with son level of spontaneity and energy had flagged by the end of the day.”...'Mr. Griffin and Me’ an original comedy starring Burgess Meredith will be telecast nationally during the first week in January. Burgess Meredith, who plays the legendary Griffin, sings several songs, one of which he wrote with his son, Jonathan, the music director of the.special. Co-starring in Mr, Griffin and Me’ are Rosemary Murphy and Charles ‘Honi Coles. one of the great vaudeville tap dancers, who makes his dramatic debut with this program. This Liberty Mutual Special, the fifth in the series, marks the first time it has preSented a com- edy with music. TV CLOSEUP: The stars and crew of TV's ‘Knots Landing,’ last season's astounding success story, are fed up. They’ re sick andy tired of playing second fiddle to their super rich cousins on ‘Dallas,’ the popular show that spawned them: J.R. and Com- pany rule the roost at CBS and at Lorimar Productions, who han- dle both shows. The ‘Knots Landing’ crowd is determined todo something about it. Mike Alexander, the CBS publicity man for ‘Knots Landing,’ says the rivalry with ‘Dallas’ is a lively issue with both cast and crew. “They talk about it quite a bit, but it's tough when you're +me. ‘Knots not a Number One smash, like ‘Dallas,’ he told Landing’ regularly crashed into the Top 20 last season, but it’s still the weak sister in the Lorimar stable. The rough and tumble Ewing clan still gets top priority, and that galls the Knots cro ‘down-to-earth, . “Our characters are much more ordinary and “says Don Murray , one of the show's stars. “We've got one of the best casts on television.” .. . Ann Sward is the Tovely actress who has just replaced Veleka Gray in the role of Lyla Montgomery on ‘As The World Turns.’ Ann, a busy lady, is quite an animal lover who, in her spare time, raises money for ‘Wildlife Way Station,’ a place where once abused ex- otic animals are treated and rehabilited. She also trains and * breeds her own Arabian horses. Makes pledge Bitten by baton bug o VANCOUVER (CP) — Antony D'Angelo has been bitten by the baton bug again. During last year’s Van- - couver Symphony Radiothon the local shoe: manufacturer A local dentist .offered $100 worth of work to extract more donations. The orchestra, which has a subscription list of more than 41,000, lost $77,000 on last season's operations and Len Folkman, 8.Com., C.A. Dunwoody & Co. Chartered Accountants 410 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 Resident Partner Per rrs ss Services | : Complete Septic Tank Service Sand Gravel Topsoil Excavating Post Holes Landscaping Backhoe Backfilling Snow See us for... APPLIANCE REPAIRS and PLUMBING & HEATING Brand Name Appliances * SPEED QUEEN * MAYTAG * GENERAL ELECTAIC CASTLEGAR - 1008 Columbia Avenue Phone 365-3388 365-2546. UROR ORYWALL CONTRACTING LTD. © Residential ° Commercial _ © Drywall Coll 365-3783 CASTLE. TIRE (1977) Ltd. 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BOUGHT DIVORCE An anonymous but ob- viously unhappy spouse pledged $350 to collect the legal work for one of two‘un- - contested divorces offered as premiums. $362,000. Ticket sales pro- vide about 47 per cent of its income and the rest comes from corporate sponsorship, donations, and government grants. . Last year's radiothon raised $128,000 and the suc- cessful format brought ob- servers from Calgary and Seattle orchestras who are planning similar events next year. DANIELS CONSTRUCTION Concrete Contractors Specializing in footings, foun- dations, retaining walls and rein- forcing. . COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL Ph. 693-2408 F or 693-2415 Vv and politicians went on the air with QM’s Maurice Foisy to push the hundreds ‘of premiums offered, ranging in price from $5 to $2,500. Co-host was Henry Fo- gel, manager of the New York Philharmonic, who ori- ginated the radiothon con- cept for U.S. orchestras 12 years ago." 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PASS BY COFFIN Former governor- general Roland Michener and . his. wife, Progressive Con- servative House Leader Wal- ter Baker, who represented Opposition Leader Joe Clark, more than 20 cabinet min- isters‘and the Commons and * Senate Speakers.also passed , |. by the plain oak coffin in the room Leger occupied as an aide to former prime minister Birchland “still alive First City Investments . for the diplomat who died here Saturday. Some made the sign ‘of the ‘cross before walking from the-small room where Leger’s body was lying in state. ; Each was invited to sign a guest book. Although most simply signed their names, one person wrote: “Canada has “lost one. of its noblest men.” tie : A state funeral is to be held. Thursday afternoon in Oltayra's: Notre Dame Basil- “"“*Gov-Gér.- Bd Sdliréy. and his wife; Prime Minister —gig-ennisn "Te Trudeau and Bora Laskin,. chief justice of the Supreme ' Did mouse. pull switch? A mouse may have taken one bite -too many and plunged the Castlegar dis- trict into darkness last Sat- urday night. CanCel pulp mill man- ager Wilf Sweeney said the “carbonized” remains of a mouse were found near a cir- cuit breaker that had tripped and blacked out: the area for as long as 80 minutes. : However, he said, the mouse theory is merely spec- ulation. He said the main circuit breaker feeding the Celgar sawmill failed and repairmen- “had a difficult. time finding the fault because the breaker appeared to be all right. Discovery of the mouse's remains and nest in the locked breaker room pro- vided the clue that allowed service to be restored in Castlegar at 8 p.m. and at the mills 40 minutes later. The sawmill wasn't oper- - ‘ating that night and there was no damage at the pulp mill. Earthquake rocks Colombia BOGOT (AP). — A strong earthquake shook the Colombia-Venezuela_ border * area today and initial reports from the area indicated there was heavy damage. The earthquake was the strongest felt in 30 years in the Colombian border town of Cucuta, said a Cucuta firemen in an. -interview “broadcast by radio station Caracol. Cucuta is in northern Colombia, 400 kilometres north northeast: of Bogota and five kilometres west of the border. _. The earthquake - oc- curred at 9:40 a.m. PST, said Colombia's Geophysical, In- stitute of the Andes, located * in the Colombian capital, There was no immediate. report from the institute on a Richter Scale reading of the earthquake. is still working on plans for Birchland Square shopping centre, says Mayor Audrey ‘Moore. . Moore assured city coun- cil last night that rumors the project is off are false. “First City have no in- tention of cancelling. They're still working on it.” ‘A ‘bylaw that would ‘allow the municipality to re- . zone four acres in the 1600 block of Columbia Avenue for construction of the shopping centre was second reading Oct. 14. ‘ ‘Third and final reading awaits it of a study Mackenzie King in the 4 SHOPKEEPERS are sprucing up their. s ting Christmas shoppers such as Irene and Alex Page A2 Council sets aside licence application Alderman Len Embree last night warned Castlegar eity council against licensing a realty-related business he called “a seam,” : Anthony Rilkoff, repre- sented by his father, Tim- othy, a shareholder in the - proposed business, made ap- plication to operate in.Castle- gar a business which Rilkoff described as “do-it-yourself kits (for selling property), also taking options on prop- erty.” Council members unani- mously agreed in open ses- - sion to hold the application in abeyance until they learn the outcome of court ‘action against: similar businesses in Vancouver, including - nine actions naming ILS. B* Council earller denied EDMONTON: (CP) — Alberta politicians have crit- icized . the: federal” govern- ment following published.re- ports that it had threatened fo pull Canada out .of the - Commonwealth ‘unless. its of possible traffic tie-ups' in. the “area. of: the GN - foot enclosed mall. Request for the study was made,Oct. 9 at a public hearing in city hall. Reward | out for -— e ty Dief's dog TORONTO (CP) — The late John Diefenbak- er’s pampered pooch, Mc- Andy, has béen stolen from his Newmarket home north of‘Toronto and hu- mane society officials fear he will be used as bait in dogfights. ~ The eight-year-old cairn terrier received spec- ial treatment from the’ former prime minister and often dined on steaks and custard cream pie. When Diefenbaker died in Aug- ust, 1979, at least -500 people wanted to ‘adopt McAndy, who.has been living. with Diefenbaker's daughter, Carolyn Weir. Vancouver gets Transpo “VANCOUVER (CP) — Canada's’ bid. to hold the Transpo 8&6 ‘transportation fair at Vancouver was en- dorsed today at a meeting in Paris of the 36-country Bur- “eau of International Exbi- bitions. 3 Provincial Secretary . Evan’ Wolfe, who - repre- sented the B.C. government, said in a telephone interview the bureau was impressed with the Vancouver: presen- tation and expressed no in- terest in doubts about the fair among some city poli- ticians. it plan. is pted. ' a ve “denied rep i * edition of-Tuesday’s Edmon-. ton Journal that Canada has: been pressuring British MPs and cabinet ministers to ac- cept Prime. Minister. Tru- deau's proposal. The spokesmen ‘also de- anied that Canadas plans any economic sanctions against Britain if the package is not Premier Peter Houg- heed called the: reports dis- turbing and incredible. He said the Alberta gov- ernment: now is more de- termined than ever to put its case before the British Par- liament. > The Journal” report quotes British parliamentary sources 48 saying Ottawa has : | Ottawa takes knocks : He added that there is a” against doing anything but rubber-stamping ‘the consti- tutional reforms and: patri- ation now being discussed. by a federal i tary cbm- mittee. Bite s), Pwo, Westmins! mittée*thairmen’ directly volved ‘in the Canadian. con: made. They said they have also been’ told by federal officials that they should not “Nothing about this man (Triideau) would :- surprise me,” said Pembina MP Peter hear "pro about Trudeau's constitution’ al program. DENIES PRESSURE Spokesmen for External Affairs Minister Mark Mac- Guigan and. Trudeau have denied the government is- applying ‘any pressure. But Lougheed said if the report is true, it seems to substantiate fears that Tru- deau really wants to destroy Canada. ist Elzinga. gly, his dictatorial beliefs are coming to the surface.” It wouldn't discount anything-2s far as this par- ticular government is con- cerned,” said Edmonton North MP Steve ‘Paproski. “Trudeau has always been so underhanded.””_* Crowfoot MP Arnold- Malone said it was a “shock- ing statement to be made by - third day today, routing hun- a Canadian government.” “These people are all | aware of changes, used to the odd hiccup in politics,” said Paul Manning, a provincially- appointed Transpo planned who also attended the meet- ing. t Mike;Harcourt, Vancou- .” ver’s newly-elected mayor, has objected to the fair, saying the money would be better spent on development of a rapid transit system, housing and other priorities. - Rilkoff’s first application that - he be allowed to operate a business called Real Estate Investment at 619 Columbia * Ave. | This \ application in- cluded the name of ILS, some of whose businesses ‘in B.C. ‘are before the.courts in * Vancouver. The Better Busi- ness Bureau has. advised against ‘dealing with ILS. Rilkoff made this second application to. operate ‘the same type of business at the. same location with‘a firm to be called’ Céntral, Columbia: Investment Ltd." - : - Timothy’ ‘ Rilkoff,;, who identified himself as ‘a build- Rilkoff said the business would provide kits including signs to be used by persons selling their own’ property and would also take options, In taking. options, the com- t a price. on ing that notices, of public, - hearings and bylaws by made , more understandable. It was noted most businessmen are’. aware information is readily | available from the planning pany real eatate toa seller and any amount realized in excess of that price is the company's profit. : “I won't be doing ‘any- thing for nothing,” said: Ri- off. : The Rilkoffs declined the invitation to remain for the remainder of the open ses- sion so they could hear the decision on their appl P in city hall, Em- bree said “people within 200: feet, or those property own: ers who are in the immediat# area; receive written notice from council.” i ,@ Council passed a bylaw closing to traffic that part ‘of Wood Street that intersects with. Columbia. -. < eAn update of ‘the bylaw’. lating: council and left after a 16-minute presentation. - i i Embree made: the mo- tion, seconded by Charlie Cohoe, that the application be held in abeyance until the council has received further information on the. court cases in Vancouver. “It's a scam in my mind,” said- Embree. i + “I don’t see anythin; ethical inthe proposal that’s being made. Widows, single parents, those people least able to defend themselves, are victims.” | 1a In other. business; e@ Mayor Audrey: Moore reported she met with an Urban Transit. Authority: director and Area J director, Martin Vanderpol yesterday and learned UTA expects to ing for Koot Boundary, said “ILS, in a radio commercial on CKQR,” : had named his son; ‘Anthony, as their agent. ° * But, He said, “we are not produce a y ‘report of their study March, 1981. .».@ A ‘report: of election results was. given. Exibree - said he was concerried that 11 draft about ..-Per.cent of the, ballota were. and the conduct of them was taken to first reading. e Year-end reports of council committees were pre- sented, . e Council directed the city clerk to write a letter to the prime minister advising him council concurs with a » petition the City of Kelowna sent him. The. petition op- poses the federal . govern- ment’s proposal to start tax- - ing resources directly on the grounds the British North America Act grants the prov- inces - exclusive rights to direct taxation. Also the petition notes B.C. provin- cial government shares ‘rev- enue from the mineral re- source tax and the British Columbia Petroleum Corpor- ation with municipalities, giv- ing them a significant portion - _of their budget. “ Cohoe said the Kelowna ig concerned that if fled (21 spoiled out of 1,894 ballots cast), City, Clerk " Ron Skillings is to prepare a ming. , a solicitor’ in Castlegar. He has looked \into‘the matter and he'says there's nothing illegal about it.” ot Fires beset Cali SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. (AP) — Fires fanned by swirling “devil winds” of 88 kilometres an hour raced unchecked across suburban Southern California for a dreds more people in a region that has seen 20,000.hectares and about: 800 homes and « : buildings go.up in flames, report, recommending ‘pro- cedural improvements, e Council received for information a letter from the Chamber of Commerce ask- Acting Gov. Mike Curb declared a state of emer- gency as damages in three San Bernardino County fires, the worst of nine fires in five . countries, rose past $44 mil- lion. i Thousands of - people have abandoned their homes since the blazes erupted Monday and about 400 were d called the Panorama fire just north of this scarred city of . 112,000 residents, one of sev- eral still burning out of con- trol, jumped Interatate 15E .and swooped into the com- munity of Devore. With four people already known dead in _ the fires that broke out Mon- day, authorities warned resi- dents of 500 more homes to flee, As three structures burned in Devore, firefight- ers stood watch in the drive- ways of nearby houses, try- ing to protect them, said Bill Johnson of the: U.S. Forest’ Service. : . One firefighter at De- vore suffered d-deg: ported injured. Almost 2,000 firefighters were battling the fires and 90 Fire chief's ‘job goes ‘to Kamloops City council has made an offer in writing to a Kam- loops fireman to become ‘Castlegar’s first full-time fire chief. A motion to offer the job to. Lieut. Dan Fitger was made last night at city coun- cil. by Ald. Len ‘Embree, i of the i _ burns, he added. ALDERMEN GERALD RUST and Heather Hallett receive their council desk tan from Mayor Audrey Moore Tuesday night as mementoes ‘of their service to the com- who has spent 24 years in municipal politics; and Hallett, munity on city council. Rus did ne Sok fe election The Panorama fire was* the worst of the nine blazes * that burned in five countries . : "The weather service had forecast that the Santa Ann | winds, . the ‘so-called “devil / winds” that come down from the mountains,- would abate today, offering a ray of hope to thousands of exhausted firefighters trying to head off the outbreak of fires .that apparently have destroyed more homes than any other in Southern California in-a d le. But the winds had not died down this. morning, and the Panorama _ fire « -sthreatenihg the town of Crestline to the north in the San Bernardino Mountains, about 112 kilometres east of Los Angeles. ELS, Fitger's acceptance. services committee. Gity administrator Bill Krug said after the meeting that the offer had already been made orally to Fitger and “indications are he will accept” and start work Jan. Attempts by the Castle- gar News to reach Fitger today were fruitless. Embree said 13 appli- cations were received for the job held part-time for the last 26 years by Rene Archam- bault, who earlier announced plans to retire at the end of the year after 32 years with the department. The list was shortened to five and Em- bree said the committee was unanimous in its choice of Fitger, who has considerable experience working with vol- unteer firemen. . Details of the offer have not been disclosed pending ’- “would affect the. amount ‘of “money -the provincial gov- ernment receives and uses for. resource taxation. In the long range we (Castlegar) could stand to lose som thing.” : fornia. National Guards were being sent today to help at the Lakeland fire near Lake Elsinore in Riverside County. Almost $00 buildings -in this city of 112,000 either were in ruins or irreparably damaged as the Panorama fire raged. Within city limits alone, damage to 267 biild- ings'— mostly homes worth $80,000 to $100,000 — was estimated at $26 million. Of those, 180 were levelled and the rest were charred hulks. HOMES DESTROYED “Most homes seem to have been either totally des- troyed or not touched,” said Marsha Brown, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. 7 About 25 small homes and cabins also were des- troyed in the suburbs and foothills, and a watershed valued at $4 million went up _ in spoke. Not since September, 1970, when the. Newhall- Malibu fire destroyed 408 homes and left 10 dead, has there been so destructive a fire in Southern California. The National Weather Service predicted. lighter winds for today, and Tuesday night winds were dropping from a 100-km-h high. “The big thing is,.if the winds die down we can get | some air tankers in the air,” said John Belluardo, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman, at the command post for the Panarama fire. “We can be more successful at getting a handleton it.” There was no word on. when any of the major blazes might be controlled. Few ‘of the thousands evacuated reported to emer- gency shelters. Officials said it appeared most had taken refuge with friends or rel- atives as the fires raged. FIRE STILL RAGING The Panorama fire. blazed through almost 41,450 hectares by late Tuesday.