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Lions upset Sask, p. 7
Di Giovanni talks p. 9 . |

Comics, p. 10

Manpower's student placement branch, Mayor Dave
Maroney signs the proclamation declaring the week of
June 20-25 ‘hire a student” week in Terrace. “I hope
that the business community gets behind this project

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By ANDREW PETTER
Herald staff writer

There is a dearth of wit in the land. oo

‘Where are those zingy neliners that ‘used to
leave the great and mighty speechless? ==

Oh sure, there are occasional ‘jibes -here’and
there. But most of today’s ‘ad libs’ are written on
cuecards or memorized anhour ahead of time. —

So, in the hopes of spurring a revival of true off-.
the-cue humor, I have decided to lay before you
some prime examples of wit the way it used to be.
‘One of the wittiest men.of the 20th century was
undoubtedly Sir Winston Churchill.

Churchill was once at a banquet also attended by
an arch rival, Lady Astor, ‘ _

As the meal progressed, the Lady got especially

ed at some remark Churchill had made.

“Mr, Churchill,” she declared in a loud voice, “‘if
Iwas your wife I would poison your drink.” °

The unflappable Churchill looked the Lady
straight in the eye and replied: ‘Madam, if I was
your husband I'd drink it.” © .

‘Groucho Marx is well known for his acid wit.

Marx was once invited’ to a restricted country .
club for lunch but was told that he was not allowed
in the pool. ‘

“My daughter is only half Jewish,’’ Groucho shot
back, ‘can she go in up toher knees?” ~

Flanked by Jean Holloway and Lucy Trigo.of Canada . and supports it," Maroney said.
people something to do - it will keep them out of
mischief.” Similar proclamations are being signed
across Canada.

PULSE mr:
cotnee ene omnis cna flames

Adversity, death and'sex have produced more

than there fair share of witty remarks. ©

A err no acaet ae

“Give our young

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..events to note ;

in Kitimat, Terrace

' Theatre workshop
A workshop on the techinical aspects of theatre will be

held this wee end in the REM Lee Thea ire, Saturday and
¥,10a.m.to4p.m. The re; ation fee is ten d

for the whole weekend. ‘The Teadk Norman Young
one of B.C.’s top notch theatre people. You can still register
by showing up Saturday 10 a.m. with your ten dollar fee. ,

er will be Norman Young,

Garage sale

The Kitimat. Branch of the Society for Prevention of

Cruelty to Animals will hold a garage sale at 54 Bayer
Street, Saturday, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, Anyone
wishing to contribute articles for sale can call 632-3826.

_ Legion meets

Branch 250, Royal Canadian Legion (Kitimat) will be
holding an “honors and awards night" during their regular

monthly meeting, the final one belore the summer recess.
Pegmecting will be held June 21 at 8:30 p.m. at the Kitimat
on moe

Picture foan

If your're interested in beefing up your art collection for
the summer, there will be 12 new paintings added to the
Terrace library’s collection in the final Picture Loan before

Critic-writer Dorothy Parker was sitting at the September. The loan starts at 8 o'clock Juné 21 in the

famous Algonquin Round Table in New York when
it was announced that President Calvin ‘Coolidge
had died. Te,

“How can you tell?” she asked.

Parker once referred to a guést at one of her

parties as “a woman“ who speaks eighteen

languages and can’t say ‘no’ in any of them.”

Despite their famous rivalry on radio, Jack
Benny and Fred Alleii are supposéd to have been
the best of friends - but that did‘not stop them
exchanging jibes. : ;

One lunchtime when they were both in New York,
Jack said to Fred as he joined the table, “Are we
going to ‘have a battle of wits today?"

“It’s against my principles to fight an unarmed
man,” Fred responded.

Not to be outdone, Jack retorted, ‘You wouldn't
talk that way to me if I had my writers with me.”

My grandfather was quite a witty man in his day.

Once, while sitting in a train, he was approached
by a zealous evangelist.

“Have you found Jesus Christ?”’ the man asked.
hi responded my grandfather, ‘have you lost

Speaking of religion, a very religious ancestor of

mine was the victim of a verbal knifing at the hands
of one of his workers. ; -
‘ My ancestor, who owned a factory in England
insisted on posting a large sign in the labourers
lunehrom which read: ‘The wages of sin are
death.”” an

One day, he walked into the room and found,
written underneath: ‘“‘And the wages of Petter’
aren’t much better,”

children,

{ MARRIAGE PLANS FOR CHARLES?

CONSIDERED FAVORITE

The British news media during the last few months
have made the princess a favorite to marry Charles.

A stumbling block to a marriage between Charles
and Princess Marie-Astrid is that she is a Roman
Catholic and Parliament would have to amend an act
that ensures a Protestant succession.

But The Daily Express says this problem would be
overcome by a novel constitutional arrangement. .

“Any-sons of the marriage will be brought up
according to the Church of England, while daughters

‘ will be raised in the Catholic:falth,” the newspaper

library’s arts room.

Piano concert’

Terrace Talent Educators will present Suzuki piano and
violin students’ final concert, June 18, 7:30 p.m. at the
R.E.M. Lee Theatre. Admission: $2.00 adults, $.50

MAYOR SAYS:

— Builder may
sue Terrace

Council reversal

irks Di Giovanni

Developer Mario Di Giovanni, owner of Madig
Construction, may be considering taking legal action

against the district of Terrace, mayor Dave Maroney —

said Thursday.

The legal action would
follow a decision by council,

Tuesday, not to approve a |

land use contract which

would have allowed the.

developer to convert a so-
called ‘potato warehouse”’

*" ‘on Graham Street into a

plant for modular homes.

The mayor said that he

had talked to Di Giovanni
since the meeting and ‘‘he
(the developer) is undecided
what he is golng to do.”
_ “Tsaid (to him): ‘there is
arumor that you are going
to take legal action’...” the
‘mayor told the Herald.

“He sald, ‘yes, there is a
rumor.’...”” ,

But when contacted by the
Herald, Di Giovanni denied
sing the possibility. of,
the mayor.

‘LT am not contemplating
it,” he said, “I don’t know
where you got that idea.”

When pressed further,
however, he admitted that
he would be making a
decision on his future plans
“ina couple of weeks.”

After Tuesday’s council
meeting, the mayor had said
that he was planning to
bring up the matter of the
land use contract again ‘‘in
short order’’, possibly at 9
special meeting of council.

But after talking with Di-
Giovanni, Maroney now
says that he plans to wait
and see what the developer

will do.

“I'm holding off to see if
he’s going to sue,” Maroney
said.

If a law suit does take
place, it would probably

. centre around whether or

not Di Giovanni received a

“commitment” from the
had approved it,” Buchanan

district in 1973 to rezone his

“land to “light industrial”

from “rural”, .
In an’ interview with th
Herald last week, Di
Giovanni claimed that he
did get such a

“eommitment” from then-.

district administrator, Jack
Hardy and his assistant
Wayne Buchanan (the
current administrator).

Here’s an excerpt from
that interview:

Herald - So your
understanding was that the
district's intention was to

sibility. of,-

Complete
transcript

For a complete
transcript of Di Giovanni's
explanation of how and why
he purchased the land, see
page 9.

rezone it to light industrial?
Di Giovanni - That’s right,
that was their intention.
Now this intention, this
thing was admitted - Wayne
Buchanan admitted this in
front of me-and in front of
Jack Talstra at a (recent)
private meeting.
- Herald - That didn’t come
out last night (at the council
meeting or Cd os .
‘Di Giovannt - No, but
want that to be printed.
Wayne Buchanan said in
front of me and in front of
Jack Talstra that if Mario
Di Giovanni would take the
city of Terrace to court, he
said, ‘‘I would have to tell
the judge that I personally
and the. former
administrator Jack Hardy
did...we did tell Mario Di
Giovanni that this land was
reserved for light
industrial...

When told about the
developer’s comments last
week, Buchanan admitted
that the possibility of usin
the land for light industri
use had been discussed in
1973, “but it was certainly
not a commitment that it
was going to be done.”

“No municipal officer
could give him that kind of
undertaking until council

e Herald.

_. Alderman Jack Talstra
confirmed that at the
meeting referred to by Di
Giovanni, ‘'Wayne
)buchanan) did confirm that:
there had been .a previous
conversation with Jacki
Hardy.”

But Talstra said that he

believed that any comments :

that Buchanan made about
‘telling the judge” were
just a figure of speech and
did not indicate that there
had been a legally binding

LONDON (Reuter) — The Daily Express newspaper
reports that Prince Charles is to marry Princess
Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg, but the report was
denied by Buckingham Palace.

' The Dally Express says in a front-page report that
an engagement between Charles and the princess
would be announced from the palace next Monday,

The Daily express says the story “‘official.”

ut, a palace spokesman sald: “It is certai
official from us certainly not

He added: “I know of no plans for any
announcement on Monday or at any other time,”

The spokesman also denied there has ever been any
substantial contact between Charles and the princess.

The Queen's press secretary, Ronald Allison, said
he was authorized by Charles to state: ‘There is no
truth at all in the report that there is to be an an-

‘ pouncement of an engagement of the Prince of Wales

Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg.”

There was no immediate comment in Luxembourg.

princess has been romantically linked with Charles,

It is not the first time the attractive 23-year-old —

pats.

The palace spokesman said Charles is due to
address a meeting of the Royal Commonwealth
Society in London on Monday.

Princess Anne and her husband, Capt, Mark
Phillips, are visiting the United States.

The Queen and Prince Philip will be visiting several
cities in central England.

Such a busy royal schedule is considered by
observers as an indication that any announcement of a
royal engagement early next week is unlikely.

commitment,

{ BUY-AT-HOME PLAN |
UNVEILED BY WOLFE

VICTORIA (CP) — Finance Minister Evan Wolfe
Thursday announced a revision of the provincial
government’s purchasing procedures, designed to give
more business to British Columbia suppliers.

Wolfe said in a news release that the government is re-
emphasizing its present policy that B.C. manufacturers
be given first consideration in all public purchases.

Under the revised pelicy, the price preference given to
B.C, manufacturers, on a sliding scale to reflect the
actual value added within the province, has been doubled
to a maximum level of 10 per cent.

Wolfesaid that when B.C. supplierscan not provide the
goods or services required, a price preference will be
given to Canadian manufacturers up to a maximum level
of five per cent.

The new purchasing policy will apply to all
government ministries, Crown Corporations and
contractors to whom public purchasing authority has
been delegated.

The minister said school boards, hospitals,
universities, cities, municipalities and regional districts

© Canadian suppliers.

in B.C, also will be encouraged to buy from B.C. and

/

_ CONSULTANTS

$25,000-a-day _

VICTORIA (CP) — The
New Democratic Party
charged Thursday that the
British Columbia
government is illegally
spending more than $25,000
a day for up to “70
consultants on computer
services,

The charge came in an
‘urgent motion to set aside
the normal business of the
legislature to debate the
alleged unauthorized
spending on development of

e proposed B.C, Systems
Corp., a Crown corporation

intended to take over the
government’s computing
services. .

A bill to establish the
corporation was introduced
last April 4 but has not yet
been debated.

Norm Levi (NDP—VYan-
couver-Burrard) said in his
motion that the government
is breaching the Audit Act
by paying consultants up to
$600 each a day without
legislative authority to
make the expenditures.

“The daily cost exceeds
$25,-000 for the hiring of as
many as 70 computer
consultants each receiving a

r diem salary r g

tween $350 and $425 plus
full office and living ex-
‘penses,’’ Levi told the
legislature.

‘Cause none

“In addition,” Levi said,
“also without budgetary or
statutory authority, as
many as a dozen senior
executives costing the
public urse hundreds of
ousands of dollars have
been hired.

“All of which is in
violation of both section 18 of
the Audit Act and
parliamentary tradition be-

the foregoing
have received specific
approval of this house:”

Geaker Ed Smith ruled
the motion out of order on
several grounds, including «
the fact that it was
argumentative and the facts
contgined in the motion
could be disputed.

During the daily question
period, before Levi

troduced his motion, NDP
members pressed the Social
Credit government for
detailed information on
their allegations but
Finance Minister Evan
Wolfe took all questions as
notice, meaning he would
possibly answer at a later

Wolfe later told reporters

there were a total of 27

consultants receivin

sa pinto si
y plus expenses o

$50 for those from outside

Vietoria.

COLA increases
stay with union

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Negotiators for 122 forest
companies have agreed to
continue paying a 12 cent-
an-hour cost-ofliving-
adjustment (COLA) to
23,000 International Wood-
workers of America (IWA)
members until a new
contract is agreed upon.

The agreement between
the IWA and Forest
Industrial Relations (FIR)
expired Tuesday. Bases
rates, including COLA,
range from $7.01 to $10.24 an
hour for sawyers.

FIR COULD HAVE CUT
THE COLA payment when
the contract expired, Jack
Munro, regional IWA
president, said Wednesday.

The union has set
tabulation of a strike vote
for June 24 in the coast

region. Negotiations began ’

two months ago.

“I don’t know if the
employers are waiting for
the results of our strike
vote,” said Munro, “but we
have to get down to some

ba aining etty quickly.”
The u ae has presented
FIR with 34. proposals,

including an Increase of $1
an hour across the board.

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