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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1971. ~

NOTED URAGUEYAN PIANIST, Leonidas
Lipovetsky, will give a concert this Saturday at
8:15 p.m. in the auditorium of Skeena Junior
Secondary School in Terrace. Lipovetsky, who

the student

has been playing piano since the age of four, was

Artur Rubenstein,

of an associate to master pianist

Of Books and the Joys of Reading Therein
by Staniey Orris

The start of the new year is the time when everyone should
very seriously consider keeping a personal diary. Don’t think
J am being facetious when | make this suggestion. I’m deadly
serious, It is true that most diary keepers of the moment are
school girls in the flush of their first love affair, or the Tecug-
nition for.the first time that they are a personality in their
own right, A hundred years ago a great many people kept

. diaries in which they would write each day (usually hefore
they retired for the night) what experiences they had during
the day, their thoughts about almost everything that impinged
upon their daily lives, the weather, finances, their successes
and failures.

Today the keeping of a diary seems tu have fallen off very
considerably, although there are still many who assiduously
write the record of their days -- and nights - down on paper.
I do not think any of these diaryists du su for the sake of
posterity, or for future publication in the feeling that. the
world should have the opportunity to know the great and
noble thoughts of the writer, No, a diary is kept mostly for
the satisfaction of the writer who may retura to it in the years
to come to remember afresh the events and happenings, the
thoughts and feelings he or she had in years gone by,

It takes determination and sincerity 1u keep a diary suc-
cessfully. I have a friend who I know has kept a diary, ora
day journal, as he likes to refer to it, faithfully and fully for
the past twenty-five years. He is a medical doctor, a G.P. His
days are very full ones, hospital attendance, house calls, office
appointments, and the odd off hours are spent in many com-
munity activities and the participation in various cultural
events, The doctor is also something of an insomniac and in
the small hours of almost any morning you might see a light
burning in the doctor’s bedroom window. If you could peer
through:the Wwindow,you would see. the dog sitting. up in, bed
writing-in his diary. es ne

No one has ever seen or read a word of the doctar's diary,
not even his wife, for it is a very, very privileged narrative.
But | venture to say that a hundred years from now, if these
journals were to be made accessible to the public, they would
be found to be an almost infinitely detailed history of the
life of the doctor's community for all the years he has prac-
tised there. ,

] .

Tam not much of a diary keeper myself. Oh, I have started

them for a dozen or so years but always fell by the wayside

somewhere between the middle of January and the beginning
of June. But this year I swear I'll see it through,

if you decide to keep a diary, you do not need to buy an
expensive book with a lock on it or gold edges. The best and
most handy thing to use is a school exercise book with a black
flexible cover. Try and get a sewn one rather than a wire
stitched one, Decide when you are going to write in it, morn-
ing or evening, whichever is the more convenient, But do it
every day!

|

Well, now, what have | been treading this week? I felt like
doing a little light reading, so 1 picked up PASSENGER TO
FRANKFURT by Agatha Christie, filled the old briar with
some of ‘the favourite mixture, sat back in my favourite wing
chair with my feet ona stool and an adequate light over my
shoulder and settled down for a couple of hours of real enjoy-
ment. I was not disappointed, although the enjoyment was of
a little different type than | had expected,

This is Agatha’s 80ch novel as il is her 80th birthday and let
me tell you she can still tell a story. This one is not a Hercule
Poirot ofa Miss Marple detective story but is # spy thriller
with a good dose of what has led to the revult of the youth of
taday. Miss Christie Proposes the theory that the youth uf
today have been deliberately subverted by avery well organ.
ized and powerfully backed group whose aim is ia caistral not
only the thinking of its victims but the warld’s scientific,
financial, politica! bases,

This is a real thriller, You probably won't put it down til)
you finish it. This can be done in one sitting of about Uiee or
four hours, I recommend it for almost anyone,

PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT by Agatha Christie, Pubtish-
ed by Wm. Collins Sons Canada Ltd.. Don Mills, Ontaria,
$4.95, 6

There ate so many good buoks being published these days
which are classified as children’s buoks but yet are just as
interesting to adults, Unfortunately the fact that they are clas-
sified as children’s books oft-times prevents adults from cam-
ing in contact with them in bookshops. Here are two books
which I recommend unreservedly to all children from. the
“being-read-to age’* up and to.all adults who yet have a bit of
love of whimsy and can enjoy a chuckle, and have also a
feeling for animals. a

THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK by Lewis Carroll, and
wonderfully illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, The story is in

four-line verse fo:m that isa parody of a heroic ballad and the |

characters in the story, both human and animal, are most
unusual, Helen Oxenbury in her illustrations, which are both
coloured and black and white, captures completely the mood
of Carroll’s story, I can just see Lewis beaming and chuckling
 over.the.production of this book if he were: alive to do. so,
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated
by Helen Oxenbury, Published by William Heinemann, Don
Mills, Ontario..$4.95; Sa
ea Be . .490- eg rae o :
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if you have any questions on books or reading, or wish

further information on anything discussed in ‘this column, ®
write Stanley Orris, at The House, of: The “Seven: Gables, f

Grand Forks, B.C.

> Noted
pianist
to appear
in Terrace

A noted pianist from Uruguay
will perform at the Skeena
Junior Secondary School or
Saturday.

He is Leonidas Lipovetsky, ai
nalive af Montevideo, Uruguay
who began his musical career at
age four,

The concert will be held at
8:15 p.m. January 9 in the
Skeena auditorium. Admission
for adults is $3 and for students
$1.50. Season's tickets are valid
for the performance.

Lipovetsky toured Canada in
1968, appearing in Winnipeg as
a soloist with the Winnipeg
Symphony and in Ottawa at the
National Gallery of Canada,

The pianist was a student af
Wilhelm Kolischer, a colleague
of Artur Rubenstein.

From Terrace

Camera buffs
may enter
photo contest

Terrace and area camera
fans who like taking color
photography can win cash
., prizes.as they record Centennial
V71 “Hetivities it’ ~ British
Columbia. .

More than $3,000 in cash
prizes is being offered by the
British Columbia Centennial ‘71
Committee, says Laurie
Wallace, general chairman of
the commiltee.

“The contest is open to any
individual, resident or visitor,"
Wallace said, “All photographs
must be taken in B.C., and
during the centennial year.”

RESTRICTION

- Only restriction on entrants
he said, is that they must nat be
connected with the B.C. tourism
department or the provincial
centennial committee,

Film dealers and processors
throughout the province are co-
operating with the provincial
centennial committee, and are
being supplied with combined
entry forms and mailing en-
velopes, with full details of rules
and prizes.

The contest opened January
1, and ends September 30,

COLOR ONLY

Color-only photos will be
judged in three classes:

Scenic, Centennial event,
Photo-story. of from four to 12
photographs, captioned, and
with a text of not over 600
wards,

Prizes will be awarded by a
panel of three judges selected
by the centennial committee.*

Certificates of merit will be
awarded prize winners in each
class, and to processors and
film suppliers of the prize-
winning prints in each class,

Cash prizes will be paid in
Centennial ‘71 dollars.

For Classes 1 and 2: 1st prize,
$500; 2nd prize, $250; 3rd prize,
$100 and 15 prizes at $10,

In Class 3: Ist prize, $750; 2nd
prize, $500 and 3rd prize, $250.

Work speeds
along road

“Work on a portion of the Fort
-Simpson-F ort Liard Road in the
Northwest Territuries has
ceased to permit speeded-up
construction of the Dempster
Highway to Fort McPherson
and a connecting link to Arctic
Red River and Inuvik in the

N.W.T.

.|- Jean. Chretien, ,-Minister, of
Indian Afiairs and Northern
Development said that because
of: the increaisng pace of ac-
‘tivity in the Mackenzie Delta

was impefative road access
from the south be completed a8
soon ag possible, at least aa far
a8 Inuvik and, optimistically, as

far aB Tuktoyaktuk,
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