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WILLARD A STAR

"Ratty" movie a success

HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Who
_ Would have guessed that the big
hit of the summer movie season
would turn out to bea film about
a boy and his collection of rats?
Possibly nobody except the
two men responéible for bring-
ing Willard to the screen:
Charles Pratt, president of Bing
Crosby Productions, and Mort
Briskin, who produced the Pics
ture.

“We thought from the begin-
ning that it was going to do
well,” says Briskin, —

“What we made was a
damned good, entertalning, ex-
citing picture—without a mes-
sage,’ adds Pratt.

Willard, which was filmed for
$1 million, already has drawn
$15 million at box offices, The
two film-makers expect foreign
reaction to be even better,

Radar scope by day

and monk

CAN THO, South Vietnam
(AP) ~— On duty Bruce Gag-
nell means a 20th-century
radar scope. Off duty he tray-
els a couple of miles and back
2,000 years to live as a Buddh-
ist monk.

For the army, Specialist
Bagnell is an aircraft ap-
proach controller at Can Tho
airstrip. He gives radio in-
structions to warplane he sees
as yellow-green blips.

On his own time he is a stu-
dent of Buddhism, an English
teacher and self-styled “‘one-
man Voice of America” to the
monks of Pitucosereansey pa-
goda. Kneeling on a straw
mat before five Buddhas on
an altar covered in yellow
plastic, he bows and chants in
ancient Pali:

"TI will try to adhere to
these laws... nottolie...
not to Steal... not to kill.

“Like many servicemen,
Bagnell, 23, has killed nothing
but time since coming here
from Syracuse, N.Y., seven
months ago.

That was partly why he
Started visiting the pagoda.
The trips to bars that help sol-

by night

diers pass off- “duty, hours “got
tobe a drag.”

“Now I feel I really have a

purpose,” Bagnell said, “I’ve
never felt a sense of commun-
ity like this. You can’t sepa-
ratewhat’sr eli giousand
what’s philosophical. It’s an
entire way of life,’*

Conflicts between army and
Buddhist tradition keep Bag-
nell from actually being a
menk at this time.

__ But the childhood Baptist
does what he can.

For two menths he has
shaved his head and eyebrows
every new and full moon. He

’ drinks no alcohol.

Shunning the mess hall, he
eats either at the pagoda or in
his barracks room, where he
burns incense and prepares
hisown brown and yellow rice
with sardines, and limes, pi-
neapples and condensed milk
with honey.

*“T used to be a heavy grass
smoker,’ he said “but I’ve
stopped. Idon’t miss it,”

Except for his wife Sherry,
whom he married two weeks
before coming to Vietnam,
Bagnell says he doesn't miss
much of his old life.

NEW PLAYHOUSE
SEASON VARIED

The Vancouver Playhouse
Theatre has announced its 1971-
72 season plays, and in the
words of Artistic Director,
age. what ta **No one ei
dge at -the, season. wi

bring. He only’ Sean, Idan
make is that it won't be dull”.

The professional theatre goup
will be presenting a different
play each month from October
through to April, a total of seven
productions.

“The Chemmy Circle’, a
zany, free-wheeling farce opens
the season, followed by ‘‘The
Sorrows of Frederick the
Great” in a Canadian premiere
performance.

Vancouverite
Simons’

t

Beverley
‘'Crabdance’’

Gold rush
boom stories

SEATTLE (AP) — The hair
is getting thinner but the
Stories are bigger than ever aS
pioneers gather for the Inter-
national Sourdough Reunion
to swap stories about life in
the gold rush boom towns of
Alaska and the Yuken at the
turn of the century.

Charles Fyfe, 68, remem-
bers the time he put a box
with a million dollars in”
money ‘and securities on a

wooden sidewalk that. was |

floating through downtown
Dawson in the Yukon to keep
it out of the flood waters, He
later took the money and

-. bank records home to dry in
his kitchen.

Now a resident of Fort
Langley, B.C., Fyfe managed |.
branches of the: Canadian -
Bank of Commerce in Daw-
son, Whitehorse and British

- Columbia elttes.. .

Paxton Whitehead

described as a “brilliant,
sensitive, and haunting look into
the daily life of a woman” will
follow a special Christmas-
season production of ‘Treasure
Island”.

Ancther Canadian premiere
will be seen in February. Titled
“Relatively Speaking’, it is a
British comedy by Alan Ayck-
bourn. —

The March presentation has
yet lo be announced, and the
season will round off with
“Hadrian VI’’, a “theatrical
tour de force thal took
Broadway and the World’s
Capitels by slorm’’.

In describing the Season, Mr.
Whitehead said, ‘We have two
_ plays to amuse, surely not too
many in these times; one
Canadian play to compel and
fascinate, and two works of
literature of greal theatricality
and vitality; all to entertain.
Exciting and worthwhile I
believe them to be; that, plus
laughter, is our 1971-72 season.”

“The standard, the level that
- I. want to. keep at the Shaw
Festival isthe quality level I'll
be aiming for in Vancouver. It
promises to be a busy year,”
added the new Artistic Director
of the Playhouse.

today ~~

up yet.

| bob and anne:
| buy their first home

. No family yet. But maybe. Someday. How big a house to ‘buy
for tomorrow? How much is a realistic dawn payment? » §.
| «Bob's salary is modest. But his ambitions are high. Anne works
‘loo, How much | can they afford to pay. each month? :

Gan they get'a first mortgage? And how big should It be? What
if they need a second. mortgage? a .

“Atyour local eradit, union-we have the answers. lor all: those:
. ‘questions and-some’ that. Bob and Anne haven't even thought’

“Not only wilt we tinswet their quastions;we' ‘i: ‘arténge ‘a first or
i ‘second mortgage for thiam atoneof the best interest rates in town.

At you need: a mortgage drop.in to your iacal. real union, ‘You :
won rt ‘tregret it. We" lénd a helping. hand. ui : ;

Bing Crosby Preductions—
the singer is no longer with it,
having sold out to Cos Broad-
casting three years ago—
heretofore specialized in
television series like Ben Casey
and Hogan's Heroes, Pratt and
Briskin decided the company
should venture into the field of
feature films.

PASSED BY OTHERS

They came across a stim
novel Ratmanos Notebooks by
Stephen Gilbert, which had
been passed up by all the major
studios.

“We both loved it,” Briskin
says. “We immediately began
negotiations to buy it.

“We did so in the face of a
basie industry no-no. Tradlition-
ally, rats were never shown on
the screen, for fear that women
in the audience would be fright-
ened,”

The producers
trainer Moe DiSesso to produce
a breed of rat “actors,”

“Our rats had to be trained
from birth,’ explains Pratt.
“by being played with as

_babies, they had no fear of
humans and would respond to a
few commands.”

The star rat wasBen, whohad
it easier than his human
counterparts. He appeared only
in closeups; 14 “backup” rats of
the same size and coloring per-
formed his stunts.

The human actors took well to
the rats. Bruce Davidson, who
played Willard, walked around
the set with two on his shoulder.
Ernest Borgnine allowed 200 to
crawl over his body,

How to keep 500 rats under
control on a movie set? Since
they cannot climb a slick sur-
face, they were penned in by a
214-foot-high circle of tin sheet-
ing. A head count was made
after every scene.

BCP Productions and its re-
leasing firm, Cinerama, faced
the problem of how to sell a
movie about rats. One-day test
engagements were held in
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pa.
One city featured ads with rats
pictured, one without. Both did
excellent business, but Wilkes-
Barre, where the rats had been
pictured, did Letter.

“At our first preview in San
Diego,” Briskin recalls, “we
discovered that women didn’t
object to the rats. There were no
walkouts.

assigned |

TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

Yoders, Chupps and Mualets -

MILFORD, Ind. (AP) — The’
one-room country school house
is only three years old. More
than half its 35 pupils are
named Miller, and there are
only four other surnames, Mill-
ers, Yoders, Chupps, Hochste-
Ulers and Mullets—they come to
school in horse-drawn buggies,

in a pony cart, on bicycles, and

some run across the fields.

These are the Amish, the
plain people who shun electric-
ity, automobiles and other luxu-
ties of 20th century North
America. And now, in increas-
ing numbers, they are shunning
the public schools they attended
for decades.

Maple Grove school is a way
fo put prayer back into the
classroom, fo abstain from the
public school gym classes that
meant mass showers and brief
uniforms, toavoid the television

OR EL RO a OL a

4606 Lazolle

elielietalalalalalalelslabaleleleleleleisleiole

sets ysed-in classrooms, and to
help mainitain the Amish way of

life.
SIGN A. TRUCE

Thecreation of Amish schools
accelerated in 1967 when the In-
diana Amish Executive Com-
mittee and the Indiana public

_instruction department signed

an agreement which was, in ef-
fect, a truce.

In the previous two ‘decades,
Atmish schools occasionally had
come under fire from the state,
which charged they failed to
provide adequale education.

The agreement between the °

Amish and the slate included
provisions for curriculum, con-
struction, administration, at-
tendance of the schoois.

A schoal must meet state

’ standards—which include em-

ploying teachers with college
degrees and using state-ap-

Winchester Shot Shells
ALL SIZES

$3.97...

Gordon & Anderson Ltd: *

proved texts—to qualify for ae-
creditation, which pupils usually

need to enter colleges and pub- -—

lie schools need to receive state
funds, . - .

But the Amish aren't inter.
ested in going to college, and
parochial schools in Indiana
cannot receive stale aid: at
present, anyway.

~ Neither of the’ school’s two
young teachers has a college ed-
ucation, but one of them, at 21,
has completed his fifth year: “of
teaching.

LaMar Hochstetler, like most
Amish, attended “school less
than nine years, leaving at 16,

the earliest legal age in Indi--

ana. But, unlike most Amish, he
took a high-school-equivalency
examination—and passed, ai-
though he did not prepare for
the test—because he thought he
might want to teach.

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_ BECAUSE HE THOUGHT.

the year,

vorans

Al7 YEAR
OLD BOY IS DEAD

HE COULD FLY.

SOME TRIP!

In Emergency at Vancouver.
- General Hospital, scenes like this are
repeated many times throughout |

- Doctors and nurses can tell you
about them. So can kids lucky enough
» to survive. Kids who thought they -
could fly or'were invisible to traffic.
: Kids who. discovered more than they

«bargained for when. they took a trip”
on LSD, turhed violent on “speed”,

~ or went ‘into a.coma from j an
overdose of heroin.

... Every’ year, kids die crave.
physically or mentally crippled: heealige.
they don’t know what drugs can do...
to them or won ’t listen when they’ re
told. If you're 4 parent, you owe it to
your children to.be informed. If; you’ Te”
“a teenager, you owe it to: yourself,
Life's too ' precious: to. waste:

on drags.

For: ‘More information, mail this cotupons a

si sed eed peberateweteveceteieses

Gor etnment of British Columbia -""
“Council. on :Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobaccd.

- Parliament: Buildings, « -

Pletiae send afree cop.

Victoria, British, Columbia - _

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER uk 1921

Tax Sale
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a Hailat Terrace, B.C., there will be ofered for sateby-Public FE
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im any of the faxes are delinquent, :
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7 regular business hours, prior tothe time of the Tax Sale.

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