Page to, The Herald, Monday, January 21,1984 British aps rm pINBinGH (cP) ~ vy 8 pales: in northern Britain have killed’ at least seven people; stranded thousands of '. ' travellers and recked ships. at-sea. with towering waves. Snow. continued, ‘to fall. ; via ‘oday. _A woman died of a heart attack as she was being evacuated from a ‘Stranded tain in Scotland.. “In the Scottish ‘Highlands even. ‘the: snowplows - ‘got, stuck and rescuers struggled to reach cars stalled on highways Sunday. Up to 48 ‘centimetres of anow fell and drifts.were up to. two metres high! _At least two ‘peaple were- missing in Scotland — two climbers on the ‘Cairngorm mountains near Aviemore. four experienced members of a climbing club at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, lost their way Friday night, and only one of them survived their battle with the storm. -: They camped overnight, then irled to retreat down the mountain Saturday to a ski road as they struggled’ against a 160- kilometre-an-hour gale. — « Stottish police found the body of an &-. year-old man who went for a walk from his home at Insch, Aberdeenshire, on Salur-. day. Lo ; _ James Hunter, 44,’an Electricity Board repairman who was fixing a line Sunday night in Scotland was killed when the power pole snapped-and fell. _ TRAINS STUCK. . .. Passengers in trains halted by snow were given. soup; chocolate bars, hat drinks and blankets from ‘emergency kits carried by trains in the: , Seattisih ‘Highlands. caiace Play, reveals | horrors. OTTAWA (CP) — The Natichat Arts Centre Theatre Company is bringing down its next-to-final curtain. with a. finely polished production of a new English: play: about the days in Germany leading to one of humanity’s darkest horrors, the establish- . ment of Auschwitz. - It is not a story to be laughed at, but the. subtle performances by Neil Munro, Carole Galloway, Brian Tree, Ron Halder and - Susan Cox under the direction of John Weod ° bring out the wit in Good, by C. P. Taylor. The play was first preduced by the Royal . Shakespeare Company three months before - Taylor’s death in 1981. Munro in the lead plays Johnny Halder, a ; neurotic Frankfurt professor of literature ° and humanities — a specialist in Goethe — who is enlisted by the Nazi ss to justify «asia and oversee the procedures by which the medically unfit (and in the case - of Jews, the politically wait) are quietly exterminated. . But this horror doesn’t really come to the slage. Halder has musical hallucinations that punctuate his work and his life at home with ‘a day-dreaming wife, played by Munro’s own wife, Gallaway, and a university student, played by Meg Labelle, with whom he falls in love and runs off to a forest lodge. . t CHOIR REFORMED , - Music also punctuates the play, from: choruses of Wagner and Broadway musicals to a highlight scene in which the Jewish Men's ‘Choir of Frankfurt sings Bach’s Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. How come a Jewish choir sings. this great © Protestant Christian chorus? They're Reformed, says their leader. The play runs to Feb, i1 in the tiny workshop theatre of the arts centre’s '. _, EDMONTON (CP) —- Bill Matheson * won't dress up like Carmen Miranda t to do. the weather, Nevertheless, he's Edmonton’ ‘Ss most . ebullient weatherman, treating viewers of | television station CITY to his own brand of zany reportage, , When the grey-haired Matheson does thd weather, low-pressure systems come: ‘ibatiering ‘in” from the Pacific. Cloud formations “skedaddle” off the map, and ‘that dread- of all meteorological phenomena, the Siberian high, is — dum, da, da, dum — moving in.” When he’s in top form, Matheson does the weather with almost Elizabethan flourish. He loves the stage and is a regular. among amateir players at ~ the’ conimunity ; Walterdale Theatre. - Onradio, Matheson holds court on a daily talk-show, nattering with callers ‘about everything from the mating habits of eattle ta city politics. Bul he’s not all show. A federal govern- rilent forecaster before he went into television, Matheson has qualifications rare among TV weathermen. “He's probably one of the few in Canada who has.a meteorological background, so he knows of what he speaks,” says CITV news director Peter Tadman. ‘Combined with his broadcasting experience and-his - love of acting, he’s a tremendous per. former,”’ Performing is what many TV weather-. . rien are all about, particularly ‘in major U:S. cities where they can take home hefly ” paycheques, Matheson was a TV weatherman in New York City 10 years ago for WABC, the ABC - affiliate. He dida’t make the large salaries - Afmerican forecasters get today, bul-he did - earn three times what he was pald ata. Lethbridge, Alta., station.. 'MSome guy from New York was passing through southern Alberta and saw me doing the weather,” Matheson recalls. “One day. he phoned arid asked for a tape. Igola two- yéar contract.” ” ; ‘Aights were stopped a8 ‘the! aAlorin swept _ ACTOS thie island. : as Buses’. ware. halted -" Jeeland's capital, and marly motorists had . ‘Scotland's eastern: coast,. two’ helicopter’, _ Fescued 29 men ‘from an oil rig that parted "’ In another Incident in central scotland, 7 with its moorings and went aground; . had,up to 20cm ‘of snow, als It'a the last production there by the centre's : Halder’s' ‘real’ ‘blizzards six years ago. tora, north of G sgow bo to leave their stranded cars.as snowdriftd blocked major roads. No deaths were reported | in Iceland. | ‘In Peterhead Bay, 1 north of “Aberdeen on “In the North Sea off England’ s northeas! coast, ‘three. fishermen . were. winched aboard a helicopter after their fishing boat, 7 foundered amid 10-metre-high * waves. About 2,000 people had to.stay overnight ~ ji at a ski centre .in Glenshee,. north of Edinburgh, with roads blocked by hundreds of cars and more. than two Mozen buses. - ' At Teast four trains were’ ‘trapped by ‘snowdrifts in the Highlands, where police said about 500people had to’ be rescued overnight. Thousands ‘Of homies were left without,. electricity : as ‘blizzards. downed power lines and. prevented. engineers frori repaiting them. | “In England, -the worst-hit ; area. ‘WAS the northwestern county of Cumbria, which -Eight cm of snow fell in ‘parta ‘ ‘o eritr England:and lighter snow. fell ~ leaving ehyays: ‘allppet 7 atelier, a converted warehouse in oitawa’ 8 . Lower ‘Town, where the. seating — less than 200 — —can hardly justify the actors’ wages. English theatre department” befor ‘it. dissolves this’ spring, ;” Wood. announced: ‘his - ‘resignation last year, and his final season has been limping along on budget cuts. No successor has” been announced, nor ‘any ; ‘plans for: this : a summer. or next season. ‘Taylor's play gets its title, Good, from the. belief-of these Nazi supporters that they are all essentially good people, working for the. . good of Germany. Halder joins the party’ to” vassert his loyalty and to preserve his job, -even though it ultimately causés a Schism with his oldest and dearest friend, a Jewish: . psychiatrist, Maurice, played with a greal deal of bluster by Roland. Hewsgill. : AVOIDS CONFUSION The script, which makes bountiful use of _ those four-letter words for ‘copulation’ and . excrement, is, a, series,,.of: ~eplaodes. ‘in’. life - interspersed ”' with Halder’s thoughts and his musical dreams, It could be confusing but for Munro's ability to separate reality from day'dream. - Susan .Cox, known. best’ ag. a musical’ * review _entertainer, ‘delivers-a finely. - crafted performance as Halder's blind, senile and crippled mother.’ ‘And Cox's. husband, Tree, appears in a crazy, dream: like - representation of Charile ‘Chaplin aping Hitler. . Until “Halder rrives at ‘Auschwitz to. oversee the paper work and’ discovers .the - music of the band lined up for his reception” isreal, all of Hitler's extreme plans can be excused, he thinks, “The whole thing is a- national nervous breakdown.” But then, is At? . a Weatherman is zany, Matheson ran afoul of a union for. refusing to become a: 'U.5.. cltizen and. returned to Canada: in 1976." _ The TV .weather scene’ in Canada is somewhat:saner than in the United States. Willard Scott, weatherman on NBC's Today : Show,-once billed hiniself as Scotty Wotty Do Dah Day and did the weather dressed as’ a ground hog on Groundhog Day. He has al0 dressed up like Latin’ singing alar.Carmen Miranda and.wore,a dress on. Mother’s Day; pulling the forecast from Hs. : “cleavage. moe ae “Good Ged, 0, I couldn’ { do that," says | . Matheson.’ Crew missing. * JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The operator: and a crew member from a sunken trawler ‘ were missing in the Gulf of Alaska today,” but three other .crew members were rescued about 70 nautical miles from where searchers expected to find them, ‘The survivors, two ina motorized in- _ flatable lifeboat and one in a survival sult, | were tracked down: Sunday: about 150 .: nautical miles southwest of Slika-with. the": help of an. emergency sigeal from the . _ trawler, the Mary Lou, U.S.. Coast Guard. Petty Officer Dan“ Dewell. said a C-130 airplane waa being ; - dispatched today to continue the search for ° * owner-tperator Tom Hanson of Seattle and . oe meniber Fred Blanchard of Portland, The Maty Lou messaged the coast guard early Sunday that it was capsizing but gave -no position, and searcheré calculated. the ~ site -based on it' course and. speed, spokesman Kathleen Boutman said. _. “We were going to search 20 tlles south"? hi 5 from where the survivors were. found, she |. said. ; However, oneof the search planes picked .. up Signals from an Emergency Position Andicating Radio Beacon , and a helicopter os was diverted: tothe north, ‘Baalinas sald... ‘ins ‘Reykjavik: : controversy © Lon B" . Friendly fe ' Viadistay. Tretiak. “vom sia with ove - -— and a : little e help | from your. feral government — might come star goaltender Sports Minister Jacques Olivier aays Ottawa is: willing 10. 3 League’ “unjform. TORONTO (CP) — aré ‘being’ told to‘: treat. laxpayers more politely and top. shuffling’. then’: ‘froin: one department. to another; ‘the Toronto ‘Globe and Mail’ ‘While. Lo gays, newly- hired seasonal L staffarebeing given a quota of 150 telephone calls a day. : ‘An undated memo .‘ob-- - tained by The Globe and Mail tells new staif hired by “the department that while - on the telephone, you will be _ required to produce 20 calls _ per hour,-150 calls per day. . The. average | call - should. take three minutes, ” A source at” the depart- ment's. Toronto ‘office, told the newspaper- the; memo applies to new. slaff hired _for the busy ‘tax’ season in the forms where orders for forms are ‘taken over'the phone. - ‘The memo- would have. ‘been distributed during the ‘past few. weeks’ while a ‘has~— been | ‘paging ovet the existence of : ‘quotas. in. the . tax. depart Le _ ment, the source said. . ‘Document - “thetorical - - TORONTO: (CP) — The Canadian Charter of Rights “is nothing- more. than a. “placebo” anda‘‘thetorical” _ ' document”* which may only raise . “people’s- -hopes in y order to dash them, says an Oagoode Hall "Law School - professor. oe ‘ - fn'a stinging attack, Allan * Hutchinson told a student “>: symposium at a University Of 7;"Toronto. ;. conference * during the weekend’ that the ‘, charter: hae. not! ‘had an “impact.on the. quality of life for. most Canadians, “We remain ‘in the same ‘wortd and. ‘when ~ judges make ‘choices . we may improve on the margin here _ they. will basically uphold ‘ the status quo,” he said. "lf we do want to change ithe quality of life in Canada, - we shave to take the “freedoms and’ tights em- ' bodied in this charter much more. seriously than. simply «passing © the document "through Parliament,” ‘Speaking’ at a panel “discussion on reasonable “limitations of charter wighla, _ itehingon said was ‘a’ danger in : “Ba _ 638-1166 For infomation on running your ad in the busi nes directory call 635- 6357 chi people that they ts: ona piece of tial position... (which) ‘ultimately can only raise “hopes”. fi order. " dash them.” .*' and the periphery t there, but: department, righ ’ péiper’ when -in. fact they ao - haven't changed their ac- told The Globe and Mail that i$0 calls a day can jbe- fieldéd, “but you don'Lhave “Tf: people | ask formation number, and then just basically hang. up.” - The source also said the workers who ‘answer the ‘phones: at the® public in- ia a any ; . questions, you"have to’ cut . them off: You just fell them ‘to call the public —in- Tax “complaints high Another. Revenue ‘Canada . “Revenue Cariada employees employee who-has worked ” in the forms. department... form ation number alio have a quota: on calls. ' Another’ source told the _hewspaper that Jin’ othe. information ‘department * ‘the © average ', time specified for calls is lime to, be polite... If you're going ‘to- meet your quota ° ‘you: do it by sacrificing . courtesy.” ” : four minutes. Revenue: Canada” ” last week telling them: that the increasing criticism of, the department is evidence ofa decline in service:and that (a “key solution “4e--a - change: in ‘the “attitudes. each of. is adopt when ap- . proaching and being’ ap- . proached by. members. of the public, mo . em: ° ployees received abrochure © 7: ‘help Montréal Canadiens put Tretiak ina National Hockey we ©The Canadiens are @ business. ‘like any “other,” olivier . . “ sald in an interview. “If we.are willing lo help Bombardier ‘sell subway cars to New York , .; there’s no reason why we ma shouldn’t help the Canadiens obtain Tretiak.” oo Tretiak,‘a mainstay of the Soviet national team for more | than a decade, was drafted by the Canadiens in the peventh, _ “round of the NHL's entry draft, last dune. . Actress Lucille Ball; the late TV-radlo nbws pérgonality = _ Edward R. Murrow and producer Norman Lear are among - " seven television pioneers . inducted: inte the new TV . : Academy Hall’ of Fame. ° - _ A black-tie: ‘audience af 1,400 attended the ceremonies “ , i ’ Saturday’ at the Santa Monica, Calif., Civic. Auditorlum. -° Also honored were the late writer Paddy Chayefsky, . comedian Milton Berte, CBS founder William Paley and the late RCA Corp. | founder David Sarnofl. ~ Loe Ail the living honorees attended: Thesfew inductees were . - picked by television’ industry leaders from alist made up by the acaderity board. of governors. . ‘ “You night say, Donald Fairborn was just. érumming up ~ business, “The ‘71-year-old fire extinguisher salesman fiom ‘Bath; ae ' Ont, near: Kingston, was sentenced to nine months in jail after being. convicted of trying to burn down his homez:) Court, was told gasoline had been sprayed through the ; house: with a fire extinguisher before the fire broke out in. November. 1982." _ cream, "A jury. ‘has‘o ‘ordered McDonald's to pay $52 million to’ as eh Chicago. ice -eream:-maker who. claimed the worldwide A hainburger chain reneged: onan oral agreement to sell its _, Damage to the house was between $15,000 and 920; 000 but: "Fairborn filed a replacement. claim of $70,000 with his in-- _ surahce company, court was tdld, He had increased the” insurance coverage by $10,000 the day before the fire. Tt ‘also doesn't pay to fool around with triple ripple ice ‘Triple: ‘Ripple ice cream cone, ©: ; : Tom Cummings, president of Central Ice Cream ©o.: ~ elaimed. McDonald's founder, the late Ray Kroc, made a “handshake” agreement with him ‘In: the” early 190s to. - _ market: the three-flavor cone, Cummings contended McDonald's broke the agreement . itv 1973.afler he had invested heavily in facilities to meet production increases. The Central Ice" Cream Co. went , . bankrupt j jn. 1980: McDonald's sald. it dropped ‘the cone because it was * SOBBY: ‘atid. 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