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- Paget The Herald, Tuesday, February 28, 1984

“Good _snowfalls

VAN COUVER {CP) — Good snowfalls and clear weather

in the past few-weeks have British Columbia ski operators |

thinking they may be able to rideout the bumps and survive
another year,

A unusually cold December and \ warm. spells in January

.” had pushed business on the hills down by as much as 39 per
cent, And although there is stillless snow than last year, ski
areas expect to be helped by a later Easter.

Traditionally, skiers keep | their interest up until after the
holiday.

At Grouse Mountain, in North Vancouver, manager Rick
Temple called: January ‘a disaster’’ but said recent
snowfalls have put the area “back in the groave.”’ However,
Temple said the financially-troubled resort does not expect
to meet its projected revenues for the season.

Temple said business was off about 30 per cent in

January.

Grouse now hag a base of about 160 em of snow, down

from 195 cm at this time last year. But Temple says the
weather is better with-less rain and cloud,

Temple said Grouse now is selling about 4,000 tickets a
~ day during the week when the weather is good, a huge
improvement over some days In January when no tickets
were sold, ,

At Hemlock Valley in the Fraser Valley, business was
also down about 30 per cent-in January. Al Karaki, sales
-and marketing manager, says business is alill five to 15 per
cent behind projections. Skier traffic is down a bit, as is the
amount of snow — 136 cm versus about 190 cm at- this time
last year,

Karaki said the area now is “trying to meet last year, nal
to beat it.”

Ski areas also have had to try harder to separate
recession-hardened consumers from their money this year
and Karaki said that at Hemlock, this has taken the form of
holding prices close to last year’s levels.

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At Whistler end Blackcomb mountains, ‘about 120
kilometres north of Vancouver, ‘discount offers were, made
on lift ticketsta try to ‘increase skier traffic through the

bare patches,

Peter Adler, Whistler vice-president of operailons, said
the discounts did bring in more skiers but he would rather
see lower or maintained ticket prices. .

“Discounting is new to the ski. Andustry ‘and: Tm nol
convinced it is the way to go,” sald Adler."But it is certain. ,
that recreational sportsmen are turning their’ dolar over

TORONTO (CP) — A
United: Church of Canadas
report on human sexuality,

calls for an end = to;
discrimination = against!
homosexuals. .

The i8-page document,
summarized in this month’s
issue of United Church
Observer magazine, does
not go as far a8 a con-
troversial

permitted to be: ordained.

The 1980 report, In God’s
Image . - Male and
Female, said there was no
reason why “mature, self-
accepting homosexuals”
should not become

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- Snakes in ads. frighten elderly

DETROIT (AP). | A
Detroit radio station pulled
a television ad off the. air
Monday after - complaints
that .its cast of slithéring
rattlesnakes and a hissing
‘cobra had frightened some

. ‘elderly women.
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Alder said Whistler. expects the ‘se: ;
‘average in terms‘of. revenues, He jbdid'a January’ warm =~

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‘spef.thal.kept.snow off the lower sections of the’ mountain.
and a cold Christmis, which: usually brings in-about one-":

third of. the year’s revenues, droppéd business about! 10 per’.

cent below projections. Arid he said the area doesn " expel

‘to. make. it up before’ the end of the, Season, :
Ticket sale, at Whistler: have. veraged between 13 00

"church's division of ‘mission’

“for submission to its general °.

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‘released. Wednesday.

* The: Observer " -aays the"
position: .-an “
hamesexuality drew - the.
most debate at a meeting in.”

“Nad. wha feared the report
- might be. saying. that. ‘We
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reptiles, calmly yematking

that, WHYT-FM ' had, a

soothing effect on’ the -

coiling creatures,

But the commercial has

not soothed Mattie Horton,
72, who said‘she has been
unable. to watch television
because of i

If she looks at the com-

mercial again, ‘she said,

“My heart would quit. The

fear goes all over me.”
WHYT-FM and the W. B.

James Turner said ina

telephone interview from -

Washington, D.C.;. Monday
that the agency’ 3 admission .
is contained in’ documents
filed in a U.S, District Court
in -J ashington last year.

Turner said the document .

went unreported at the
time

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Doner and Co. ‘advertising
agency “and cancelled. the’
-spot-in response: to com.’

” plaints published Monday in: ©

the ' Detroit Free Press.
’ Officials . ‘said the com-
mercial was aimed at a
.younger - audience, who
responded favorably to the
anakes. . :

~ "We're sensitive to how

people feel, " said. Steve. _-

‘LaGattuta, “creative
director for Boner. "Tt was
meant to be-humorous and
_ tongue i in cheek. But if there
are people who don’t take it
that way, we have tobe
sensitive,"
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“Qur intent, was never to
offend people,” said
Maureen . Hathaway,

: arid ai,i008 week: ‘about thes same a last year. ‘The e highway 4)
‘to “Whistler, which, has -been ‘closed ‘several: times due to

"creek slides, has ‘been closed only, once this. year. ng
“AL: ‘Blackcomb, Hugh Smythe, president: of. Blackcomb ie

Enterprises Ltd., said the

‘projections after 4 dip that reached/11 per cent in January, ff
Smythe said the hill had its biggest day recently, with 6,000
“Hit tickets sold. - .

.. He said the area has been selling about 3 ono tickets a day ;
7 on n weekends and. 1, 000 a day: uring, the: week, :

-- United. Church condones. homosexuality _

traditional . view . of
, Marriage, saying there are ,
“Many. couples: .“‘in - com-

"mitted rélationships. other

than marriage to whom the’

church. is “called. to
minister. me
; an: excerpt, ’ ‘the’

document's secilon. ‘on it-.
. timacy, published in ‘The
Observer, states: °°.

“The - church’ has *
réadily accepted : morviage
as the norm, and 60 has not.

etait manager of WHYT-
. "We've had ‘a lot, of

peed calls and good come,

ments.”
But Berniece Washington,
a volunteer visitiiig. nurse

with Greater Bethel Baplist
Church, said ‘ about.

elderly patients ©. have

_ complained to her about the .

commercial,

“One day I took ‘one’ little
old lady's blood pressure’
and it: was. fine,’’ she ssid.

After the commerctal came
on, “I took it again arid I

couldn't believe how high it -

wad, She said she was afraid

_ of the snakes,”

But LaGattuta . said “he
cannot imagine how people .
would be frightened by a
television commerical.

--.” Observer sald the dveuiien ;

~ violence’

skiing. ‘here - is batk- to’ its :

-yalued single people: for
: themselves, or ‘given’. thein
the place’: ‘that. is: ‘rightfully
theirs, nor allowed them ‘the
‘opportunity. for: sexual
fulfillment, Re det ob

cluded. ministers: and, i
‘people across Canada;'Th

‘is not intended asa:
statement, . nor..-a. nple
rewrite, of the tae tee

“Ts all make-tel
 Gattuta said, “T would
people, .- obviously being
aware of that, woul Ho be
frighteried, . ©,
“The thing that ctiocka me

is that there’s so _miueh
~and ‘gore on
television, ° its ‘hard: to
believe - a commercial
_ showing sme snakes. ‘could
be more frightening.”::":
‘Dr. Kenneth Adams, cchie!
-psychologist at Henry. Ford
Hospital in Detroit, said the
commercial. could: ‘provoke
symptoms of “extréme

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heartbeat, sweating - and
clammy skin.

Fear of snakes is “one of
the most common fears that

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“Turner did not say why -

‘the CIA filed the document

‘in court, nor what case it-
“was related to. He also did

not say if the document
‘contained an admission of '
' specific: CIA funding to the

However, he says one of

. the documents contains a

-1960 letter from the late Dr.
‘-D. Ewen Eameron, then-
* director of the Allan, saying

he had applied for U.S. Air
Force funds and expected to -

‘have an: answer | soon.

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for.the Western Exposition
Association in. Red Deer,
Alta.; are being phased out
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_ believe the best gopher i isa
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Crests depicting the two
gophers have been ripped
off the packets of the board
of directors’ snappy blue
blazers and banished from
the official letteriiead.

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raising campaign because’
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president Jack Donald.

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porcelain. “features cand
limpid green eyes have
graced’ magazine. covers
and movie screens for’ two
decades, says she doesn't
‘feel any less beautiful. show
_that she's 40. *
“Forty is not 50 old. Jiny
more — not what it used to
be 15 or 20 years ago,"

“Deneuve says in the March

issue of Harper's Bazaer,
“One is an old woman the
moment she Is no longer
desirable.”

The glamorous lady- Bays
there. are days “when |
don't feel beautiful, when I
don't look like the person
I'm supposed to be.

“It's unfair, When it's
expected that you're to look
a certain way, you justhave

“to work a little harder.”

Yaz interviewed the Prez

_on Monday, .

Carl Yastrzemski, former
Boston-. Red“ Sox | star,
presented "U.S. President
Ronald. Reagan with a

. commemorative baseball
; ring Monday. :

Yasirzemski, who ‘now .
works a8 a sportscaster’ for
a Boston radio station, also
conducted a brief interview
with the president-in the
Oval Office. Yastrzemskl,
44, retired last Oct, t after
23 years ‘in baseball...

And you thought things
were tough for criminals in
Tran.

Fusing a criminal's wrists

permanently,
although it sounds horrible,
might be a better- solution

. than jail, SAYS & University
of: Manitoba philosophy
‘professor. ;

: “Piilting criminais behind.

~ bars is immoral, inhuman

and financially - unfair to
sociely ag a whole, ‘says
Michael Feld, who teaches
philosophy of law.

Breaking and fusing their
wrists; knees or ankles —
even amputating an arm or
a leg — would protect
sociely against subsequent
danger from offeriders and
would be less expensive
than jailing them. c

Feld sald a eritiinology
lecture he hae developed,
litled. Let's. Torture
Criminals, began: as. an
exercise In satire. |