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NEW YORK (AP). — Ruth Pointe, who had to get up each day at 6 a.m. to go to work as a key punch operator, was hating every minute of her life when her sisters called and asked her to make an album with them.

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prove it. One of my hus! used to tell me, ‘You sing like a white girl.’

“We didn’t come out wailing and gospel screaming,” she said. “We were singing all these proper songs, right on the beat. They thought we were trying to imitate white groups.”

Anita, Bonnie and June en- tered the music business in 1971.

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“They sent us to New Or- leans and gave us four songs we were going to record the next day,” Anita said. “They said, ‘You're going to love these songs. They sound just like the Honey Cones.’ We in-

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“The problems started real early and I wasn't aware of them,” Parton said in an interview. “All I know is that they changed directors after a short time, and the new one. Don Zimmerman, was darjied

“I hope Rhinestone will be a good movie. I think it will be, because there was sure some magic between Sly and me. I loved him to death. I learned a lot from him about making movies, and he Jearned a lot from me about music.”

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“I got this place all week- end, room service and every- thing,” she said happily. “I'm gonna have some friends in for a party. Might as well take advantage of the place.”

SEEMS LARGER

She is five feet tall, but the burst of dyed blond hair and the famed bust make her seem larger. She jokes about both, but don’t ever believe she’s not serious about Dolly Parton. She knows she has created a property that is worth its weight in platinum,

Hollywood Foreign Press Association earlier for the same role, shé told her audience: “If I hadn't won, I would have cramped. I sure deserve it.”

MacLaine, always an original, revelled in her triumpth and let everyone know it. “I have wondered for 26 years what this would feel like,” she told her audience. “Thank you for terminating this supsense.”

Asked why the film, which dwells on the tempestuous, bitter-sweet relationship between a mother and daughter, was such a box office success — it hds taken in more than $* million — she replied: “Because everybody has a mother.”

MacLaine was first nominated for best actress in 1956 for Some Came Running. She was nominated again for The Apartment in 1960, for Irma la Douce in 1968 and for The Turning Point in 1977. She never won.

SAVORS SUCCESS

She was also das the p of a tary for The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, which she made during a visit to China. Again, she did not win.

Last night she savored her success. She thanked Jack Nicholson, who won his second Oscar for playing a hard-drinking ex-astronaut who has an affair with MacLaine in the film. “And to have him in bed with such middle-aged joy,” murmured MacLaine, who will turn 50 on April 24.

There have been reports MacLaine and Debra Winger, her daughter in the film, had clashed during the making of Terms. But MacLaine would say only they had “complicated roles and we had our difficulties playing them.”

The actress, sister of producer-actor Warren Beatty, is not even certain she really likes awards. “The emotional balance tips into a sort of competitive exploitation rather than youare all in it together, part of the same industry and loving it,” she said in an interview.

MacLaine began dancing at the age of two. She went from high school in Richmond, Va., to Broadway, in the chorus line of Pajama Game.

When Hollywood discovered her soon afterward, she meditated with Indian gurus, publicly expressed her strong liberal political views and campaigned for Planned Parent- hood. Later she opposed the Vietnam War.

She has written three best-selling autobiographical books: Don’t Fall Off the Mountain, You Can't Get There from Here and, her latest, Out on a Limb.

In Out on a Limb, she discusses her belief in reincarna- tion, spiritual revelations and out-of-body experiences. She has speculated that, in earlier times, she was a man on the lost continent of Atlantis.

She also told in her book of a relationship she had with a

og she is ever protective. _ ,man she identified only as a British politician named Gerry. * Parton, born near Seyler: sAsked to finally identify Gerry. she looks off smiling and

ville, Tenn., broke into”édun- try music singing duets with Porter Wagoner. In the 1970s, she went off on her own, finding enormous success singing songs that were a blend of country and pop music. She and Kenny Rogers recently won a Grammy for their hit Islands in the Stream. ,

After becoming a superstar of country music, she was wary about entering films. She declined dozens of scripts before she starred with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in 9 to 5.

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FRANKFURT, WEST. GERMANY (AP) — Pros- pects for German rock bands were so bleak a few years ago that they had to sing in English just to sell a few records in their own country.

Suddenly, the turntables have turned.

Decades after most of the world began to rock, German artists are finally starting to roll as Teutonic tunes wend their way to the top of the revered American and British pop charts.

That's a coup for a culture whose music traditionally conjures images of shrill Valkyries, apple-cheeked bands and the smokey invitations of Marlene Dietrich rasping from the Victrola.

Not even the leader of the pack can explain why Germans have penetrated an international market that shunned them for years.

“Everyone keeps asking me that! I have no idea,” protests the 24-year-old hitmaker from Hagen who calls herself Nena. “That question is so boring.”

Nena’s anti-war 99 Luftballons is the most successful of the German exports. The single, with an English version, 99 Red Balloons on the flip side, soared to the No. 1 spot on record charts in the United States and Britain.

Peter Schilling’s Voellig Losgeloest, a takeoff on David Bowie's Major Tom, has also triumphed abroad. It enjoyed 22 weeks on the Billboard chart, where it peaked at No. 14.

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‘The Regional District of Central Kootenay's proposed bylaw for Area J will offer better protection for property owners, about 20 residents were told Monday at an infor- mation meeting at Robson Hall.

‘The meeting, held with Area J director Martin

7 vand regional district planning staff, was the first ©

of meetings to be held in Area J.

A similar meeting will be held tonight at Blueberry Creek School and another April 17 in Ootischenia Hall.

The proposed bylaw No. 422, if passed will replace the old bylaw 97, which was formulated some 12 years ago.

Under the new bylaw, the minimum for al! residential and some rural lots will increase. The area included covers all of Robson, Blueberry and Lower Raspberry, which is in Zone R2A-1.

The proposal is to have 2,000 square metre (one-half acre) lots instead of 697 square metre (7,500 square feet) lots.

Regional district planner Don Harasym, who presented the proposal along with plans administrator Gordon Isher wood, said the reason for the larger lot size is to accom modate for sewage disposal.

Harasym said in an interview that all lots in Robson operate on septic fields and there is some concern about absorption capacities after more intensive development.

The regional district is enlarging the lot size to avoid the necessity of an expensive sewage system, is estimated at $6 million for Robson alone. The same reasoning has been applied in Raspberry and Blueberry Creek.

In the Ootischenia area a temporary zoning has been proposed until an agricultural study is completed by the provincial government.

Harasym said there are areas with community water systems where lot sizes can be decreased. However, he said the regional district is trying to avoid the expense of a sewage system.

The new bylaw stipulates that property in Zone R21-A is to be serviced by a community water system. Harasym said: thi a requirement of the irrigation districts.

The new bylaw will allow for home occupations which previously was not permitted under the old bylaw. The two occupations allowed are automotive mechanical repairs and automotive body repairs. For these occupations, the lot size must be 8,000 square metres instead of 2,000.

Harasym said it was concluded that what is needed is a bigger lot size to minimize noise and other problems.

The reason for this stipulation, he said, is to overcome some problems that the district wasn't able to deal with in the past. The old bylaw doesn’t allow for home occupations.

“In these times we have to try and help people out,” Harasym added.

The proposed bylaw, permit uses for lots very similar to the old bylaw.

Permitted uses in Zone R2A-1 are: single family or two family residential; extensive agriculture; nurseries and greenhouses; sale of produce grown on the premises;

schools, churches, cemeteries and‘ community halls; ~parks -

and playgrounds; public utility buildings and structures.

Special setbacks are 35 metres to any perimeter lot line for manure piles, drinking or feeding troughs or animal buildings.

Home occupations — such as electrical repairs, élec- tronic repairs, king, ive and hanical repairs, or automotive body repairs — should be 25 metres from any lot line.

In bylaw 422 there is also a change in allowance for farm animals. Under the old bylaw, animal allowances were for 1% animals per acre.

In the new bylaw, allowances in residential areas and Fairview (rural) are for up to two animal units per hectare.

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. . . Continuing throughout the month of April at the Notional Exhibition Centre in Castlegar is the annual Community Art Exhibit sponsored by the NEC and the Community Arts Council. Film Nights with a focus on comedy will be held on W 8 April 11, 18,.25 at 7;30 p.m. The Centre is open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Coming up next month at the NEC is the B.C. Young Artists Exhibition featuring artistic offerings by the children of the province.

April 6 - 14... Kootenay Boundary 5th annual Juried Art Exhbition on view in Grand Forks. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. daily and Friday until 8 p.m.

April 11 - 14... DTUC’s Theatre Deportment presents The Taming of the Shrew” in the Nelson Civic Theatre at 8 p.m. each evening. April 14, 15, 16... “The Messiah” by Handel will be per. formed by the Nelson Choral Society and the DTUC Or- chestra in the Selkirk College lounge Saturday the 14th at 8 p.m. and the Nelson Civic Theatre on the 15th and 6th at 7:30ip.m.

April 17 « . . annual general meeting of the Castlegar Figure Skating Club will be held in the Crafts Room at the ‘Community Complex at 7:30 p.m.

April 23... . general meeting of the Castlegar & District Community Arts Council to be held in the Kinnaird Library at 7:30 p.m

April 30... Conadion author Gertrude Story will read her work at 7:30 p.m. in the Castlegar Library os part of National Book Week celebrations

Looking Aheod . . . 12... Sheep to Shaw! weaving competition at the Chahko-Mika Mall in Nelson.

May 17, 18, 19. . . B.C. Festival of the Arts to be held in Penticton.

May 17. . . “Getting Off Easy’ musical concert at SHSS at 8p.m.

MAY 28... Annual general meeting of the Costlegor Corpmunity Arts Council

The Kobtenay Art Club continues to meet in the Sr Citizens Centre each Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. and new members are always welcome. The club is planning on art exhibit tor June at the Centre.

Items for this bi-monthly feature should be telephoned to Mrs. D. Miller-Tait of the Castlegar and District Community Arts Council at 365-7850.

ROBSON MEETING ... . About 20 at ao Mon- day meeting at the Robson Hall were told area size for most residential lots will increase wu @ proposed

For example, one goat, beef cow or horse is equal to one unit, said Isherwood. A dairy cow-is 1.3 units and heifers are 1.3, but a chicken would be .015 units,

The new bylaw does not allow for pigs in these two areas, but in other rural areas there is a four-hectare area minimum lot area for pigs.

Contained in the new bylaw is a stipulations for height where a main structure cannot be over 10 metres, and no ac- cessory building can measure over six metres. There are various exceptions to the rule.

Also under the new bylaw, only one-third of the resi- dential lots ean be occupied by buildings. Accessory build- ings can equal 50 per cent of the residential, 20 per cent for home occupations.

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new bylaw. The reason for the larger lot size is to ac- commodate sewage disposal.

During the question period, one person asked what the purpose would be of holding meetings in Ootischenia. He was told no changes would be made until the government has completed its studies, however, many residents would want to know what plans are.

Because the land is part of the Agricultural Land Re- serve, it remains unchanged at present. However, the regional district is proposing to put in two-hectare Tot sizes — if it is removed from the ALR. If not, there will be no changes.

Robson resident Bill Kelley asked whether anything existing before the new bylaw would still be legal.

Vanderpol said it would be legal, but if it were illegal

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