y c4 CASTLEGAR | NEWS, May 23, 1982 Entertainment accounts down . MONTREAL (GP) — Dur- ing six months of lunches with favored clients at a downtown restaurant, one Montreal investment dealer’ managed to consume $8,000 worth of rare French wines priced as high as hee a bottle. “[ had a very nice wih cellar and he ruined it,” the maitre d' lamented — but to- day, most restaurateurs would welcome such cus- tomers. With hard times, expense account connoisseurs are be- coming rare, even at such temples of the three-martine lunch as Montreal's Beaver Club, where the top brass of Air Canada, the Royal Bank and Alcan go to hatch new deals or thank customers for past ones. t ny Attention: One day last week, ‘he Beaver Club's two-martini carts were freshly provisio- ned and 140 kilograms of fresh Atlantic salmon had just arrived by plane. But when the luncheon speriod ended in mid-after- noon, maitre d’ Charles Ploem had counted only 160 diners. In better days thers would have been more like 200, Since business entertain- ing accounts for a hefty share of the $9 billion Canadians spend in: restaurants each year, the impact of reduced expense accounts is ‘keenly felt in expensive establish- ments. By one estimate, Cana- dians spend $1 billion a year on expense account dining. mate that 90 per cent of their midday business comes from businessmen on expense ac- counts. “Their bills are a lot higher — they're not paying for it,”’.says Steve Morse, owner of ‘the Old Montreal: eatery Au Cepage. + Restaurant Hugo, the gas- tronomic showcase of | the Hyatt Regency Hotel, is serving an average 25 lunch- es a day, down from 46 at this time last year. . However, the loss ‘of cus- tomers at Hugo is partially offset by the increase in business at the hotel’s La Verriere, where a bar lunch goes for around. $10. other moderately-priced — restaur- ants are experiencing a sim- ‘ilar boom. S “Some businessmen are esti- 632 - 18TH STREET, CASTLEGAR, B.C. Telephone 365-5145 Castlegar News, Box 3007 Castlegar, BeCe Mr. Burt Campbell > Publisher Dear Burt: May 17, 1982 Just to let you know that I was delighted with the response we received to the Inflation Fighter Coupons’ promotion recently organized by the Castlegar News. — Par more coupons, were returned to us than I would have estimated would have occurred. and racks full of clothing in our shop during the two-week period attest to that! the baskets As well, my thanks to Lorraine Irwin of your staff. She did a good job of the layout, and’ was most helpful with advice. x would also like to thank my valued customers, both'old and new, for participating in this promotion. We look forward to providing them with a similar opportunity in the future. We would most definitely take part in a similar undertaking again. . Yours very truly, YL A — Michael Heard, Manager whether lavish lunches and other forms of, entertainment ai are,even n, PIO ductive, once threatened to end ‘tax deductions for business en- | tertainment,’ but “backed off “under a storm of protest. Yet many executives’ see enter: tainmen that has ‘little todo with business, The Trudeau government ty ‘A senior executive at one “as a blatant perk. ~ Porno experience TORONTO (CP).— Tho’. woman on the bus: deeply engrossed in 4 paperback novel with a title such as Second Chance For Love or Love's Promised Land is ac- tually indulging in a prorto- big goods pany: egtimates that’ no‘more than’ ‘8 quarter of business lunches are truly. Productive. “ graphic a special- iat’ in'eroticism: said. *Dr..Robert J; Stoller, pro-.” . fessor of Vp deed at’ Uni- Heating pad warning TORONTO (CP) — Owners of Solaray heating pads made before 1976 are being warned by the Canadian Standards Association to ‘stop using them immediately because of. eight reports of fires, two of them fatal, that may have in- volved the pads, S The CSA also warns own- ers of 30,000 Eagle lamphol- ders to stop using those products and return them to the manufacturer for free re- placement, ‘About: two million Solaray . pads were manufactured be- tween 1954 and 1975 but it isn't known how. many are still in use, said CSA spokes- man Bob White. + a) ctv ore en “We've had reports ‘of two fatalities but “it's not docu- mented that. they involved this heating pad,” he said. The association's: stud; material used. in the pads . tim, before 1976 could break down’ hes : ty’ ia such 5 (as) under. Heavy. luge_and cause a hazard e “sai : to laugh’ at “showed that. the insulating a aad prin vorsity of, California in Los Angeles; told the’. recent annual meeting of the Amer- ican Psychiatric Association. that such best-selling novels are “typically masochistic”. with the hero the dominating - figure and the heroine acting lout ‘a role of dependency. ’, “It's a sure way to make a buck off women who as little girls were frustrated, with their relationships with their - fathers,” Stroller said. He said .such: romantic novels .are ‘women’s porno- graphy” — better known in the publishing field as hod. ice busters,” Pornography is a "ipnck- aged daydream” for men, and whether it'fs a. picture of. a; nude woman or other. ex- amples of eroticism, the basic script "is a power play which is humilitating and vengeful.” / Stoller said pornography is not simply ‘an expressed ve- hiele of erotic pleasure.“ Leta, lust /with biology | manifesting itself; a promise » of instant restoration of day- dreams which avoid en- counters with the real world.” He predicted that as ..women gain a more equal ‘footing in society “they will Me be just as perverse as men” When. ‘his audi hi when it comes to but;;there js extreme , Bweet Savage Love “Into Passion.” S He called. it’ “gontt aa nography.” MEN MORE HOSTILE _ Stoller said men view Ror- nography in:a vengeful and ‘hostile manner while women aré more romantic about it. men : “are more worried and tied to their masculinity and:tend to take a macho direction.” Stoller said people who get their kicks: from advertise- ments, pictures or films on “things such. as bondage or transvestism often have had hostile and unhappy. child- hood. experiences where a powerful adult has ingrained in him that looking at nudity, is dirty. rPulpit & Pew by Ministers In the West Kootenay - Malachi. the; cat often comes around our church, and through some. sort of ESP.-we have conversations which I sometimes report to the children, Malachi met me recently after an especially heavy rainfall, with the’ words, “I: hate this weather! It's changed everything!" I-knew . cats don't like getting” wet, but thought Malachi. was being. overly dramatic, and said so. Turns out that what Mal- ‘achi meant by, “It's changed everything” is that his hu-, mans won't let him come .up- stairs when the weather is 0 bad. They make him stay in the basement.. - : -(Malachi, unlike many cats, used to be an outdoor cat, and still spends a lot of time in the great outdoors, getting his paws dirty and wet.) Curious, I asked Malachi what he missed most when he couldn't be upstairs. Malachi was quick to an- swer, “The smell of: food - cooking, the nice deep carpet to lie on, and the TV.” Then, realizing how this must sound, he: looked me in the eye and said, “You think Tm getting soft, don’t you?” I tried, to answer diplo- matically, ‘not wanting. to hurt.Malachi’s feelings. (As you know, cats are proud animals, and are. easily of ‘fended.) i But Malachi wanted to ae! fend himself, so he attacked. “You humans can have what- ever you want. All the food you want, everything nice. But we pets are supposed to be happy with mhatever. you give us.” >) Wanting to change the subject, I corrected Malachi's notion that humans can have whatever they want by tell- ing him that one billion hu- mans don't have enough food for basic nutrition, that thost humans live in small shacks or single rooms or no houses at all. Malachi seemed very interested, and I thought I. had succeeded.in changing the subject. But then, with that clever” look I've come to. recognize, Malachi said, “From what you've told me, that means all you humans in Castlegar are soft and spoiled.” I didn’t know what to say to that, but didn’t have to say anything because Malachi went on, “All you soft hu- mans ought to be made. to live in the basement. every . time it rains. That’ would make you think.” { Still trying to change the” subject, T told Malachf about _ the ‘economic’ recession, and how maybe things wouldn't be so soft anymore because people couldn't _ afford:- so many, nice things.*I ‘said if - things kept on, many humans would be living not much dif- ferent than if they were-in the basement, as Malachi had recommended. But this time Malachi wasn't. listening. He /was thinking. . When “I'd. finally finished, he said, “You know, living in the basement isn't so bad. The air down there is fresher,. more like outdoors, and you can look out. the window and see the grass and trees, There. are’ more insects to play with in’ the basement. I miss the food smells, and the carpet, and ; the TV, but I really don’t need them. Somehow, the’: basement is less artificial, | more real, than the ‘soft life! upstairs.” This time I was hardly listening. I was thinking about ‘how maybe if hard’ times came to us, it wouldn't | have to be that bad. In fact, it might be better for us; more real than the soft life. Liké Malachi, when’ he thought about it, realized be- ing confined to the basement, wasn't really all that bad. * Car shot up VANCOUVER : (CP). Brign Oberquell doesn't think “he should suffer because he had the bad luck to park his car outside a building where a’ hostage-taking incident took place last January. But four months later, he’s still without the car that was raked by police gunfire in the incident. ~ ’) City hall's director of legal services, John .Mulberry, > says Oberquoll is being un- ‘reagoiiable in'the matter and \has been offered more money than the city is legally ob- liged to give him, ‘Oberquell’s problems be: ‘gan Jan.:18, when. the. 1973 uring: ‘Agassiz . .prison Gregory:Paul Moore, : Moore “had” been’ holding a 14-year-old: girl hostage in the. building. Because of various delays and the: fact that it has taken 10 weeks to get a new dash- board, the car has been out of service for four months. . “During that time, “Ober- quell, a’ 22-year-old stock- -keeper for a computer com- pany, .has, rented ‘cars and taken taxis when it has been ‘impractical for him to travel by bus. By April 13, his expenses had added. up to $405.72. He ‘asked the, city for” that amount, saying that there wonld a eomtartier, expenses his car’ wes still bel ing: repaired. Sa He was issued a ches for that amount; but was advised. “that: the city, would not be paying him any more.