~ Inflation: Solution?
ae ignore. it! |

golng for. it to have lasted thig-tong.’”
‘That description could apply to antinfinite

former president of the Baconian Club of London,

“Claims to be Canada’s oldest literary society,
~ Named in honor of famed English lawyer and
-selentist Bir Francls Bacon, the group has a
membership of about 40

at . to match wits and good-humored insults with one
: another... on ez eens '
Along with its

burning the notes of the incoming president’s toast
to Bacon before he can read them, i°. |
“Another of its moves has broad appeal:— years
its #20 membership fee has not increaded'since.
‘Rabbit's $4,000
‘plane ride. |
Honeybun, where are you?

Libya, doesn’t seem to care about the whereabouts
of the family’s pet rabbit Honeybun, who was
abandoned ‘in the back garden of the , British
Embassy in Libya on April 27 when the Miles family
flew home after. the shooting of a British
policewoman outside the Libyan diplomatic mission

‘'Therahas been so much fuss about the. . thing [

London newspaper.

$3,913 to fly the rabbit home to London and it’s
coughing up $2,184 for Honeybun's 26-week

quarantine stay. : _
The newspaper said the rabbit will eventually go

England” because they feared it would end up in a
Libyan cooking pot. -e

not a rabbit.” |
_. ° Yiddish song
| for Waxman

Television actor Al Waxman and his wife Sara

couple, judging from the tribute they received this
week at a $500-a-plate dinner in Toronto. |

More than 1,100. expensively attired questa
gathered at the event held by the Canadian Zedek
Hospital Foundation to honor the Waxmans for their

eyed on actresses Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, who

’ co-star with ‘Al Waxitian in the CBS top
difference, Cagney and Lacey, - .
ii} y
added: ‘'No really, we're here because we love Al.
He's the most patient, funny, talented, wonderful

Also at the head table were Toronto lawyer Eddie
Greenspan, Canada Council chairman Maureen
Forrester, who sang the’ fational anthem, and

who offered a bilingual tribute to the Waxmans — in
Yiddish and English, se

Not just for sharks
and hustlers

A Poa! used to be the sport of hustlers only in it for a
CK, , . Se

Tt may atill be that way for some pool sharks, but
Bruce Christopher of Belleville, Ont., is hoping to
change the public's image of pool and he’s being
helped by Minnesota Fats.

up a Big Money Shootout against Fats last week in
Toronto, spending $25,000 to promote it, Rather than
sell tlekets — Christopher says he could have made
$200 a head if he wanted to — he made the event an
invitation-only affair, part of his plan to “liquidate
the bad Image which has hurt the sport.”

Undaunted, Christopher plans to stage a rematch
Oct. 22, Fats, born Rudolph Wanderone Jr. 71 years
ago, has promised to be there,

B) “It’s a strimye group, but it must have soriéthing
kd + :

nite
of organizations but, in this case, Bill Corfield, a |

Ont., was referring to the 10d-year-old: club that |.

Professors, doctora, |
_ businessmen and judges who meet 19 times a year.

| fiery intellectual debate, the ||
Baconian Club has-another interesting tradition: .

ago the club passed a motion to ignore inflation and

Julla Miles, the wife of Britain’s ambassador to

wish’ I had eaten it before we left,” Miles -told a
‘The London weekly tabloid Mail on Sunday spent .

to a family “chosen from thousands of readers who
wrote and telephoned to bring Honeybun back to .

‘What an absolute waste of money,” Miles sald, :
“The money ahould be given to a children’s charity, «

, Waxman, 4 Toronto food writer, are one popular “'}

long history of charity work. . ; wv
Munching on a kosher meal that featured squab
as the main course, the guests also féasteil their-:

ahow with's’ 1a
for a free meal,” quipped Daly, who ©

man, ‘@ true professional and a joy to work with.” :

comedy team Johnny Wiyne and Frank Shuster,

Christopher, a former Pentecostal minister, set:

But. the plan went awry when Fats became.ill. |

_ All that attention certainly is exhausting.

Two tiny kittens sleep off the effects of:
Saturday's 4-H petting zoo, held across from’
Omineca Building Supplies. Other petting zoo

. attractions appears to be keeping a close eye

on things.

_ Rotten

writing .

wins: a prize

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP),
’ — Itlacked the simplicity, .
the starkness if you will, of.

. that. classic opener, ‘It
was a dark and ‘stormy
night’. . .” But Steve
Garman’s writing "was
judged so bad, it was good.
‘Here is Garman in full
ery: : :
“The, ‘lovely woman-
. child Kaa was mercilessly
chained to the.cruel post of
the warrior-chief Beastx,
- With his barbarian tribe
now stacking: wood at her
nubile feet, when - the
: Sttong clear voice of the
, Bgetic and): heroic’. Hand-
’ SOMES Fa. ‘
« Bie, eriay that choke, ang
“ you'll feel my steel through
your last meal.’”

A self-described | “un-
distinguished panel of
judges”. —_— officially.
proclaimed Garman, city
manager of Pensacola,
Sla., as the world's worst
writer Tuesday in the 1994

_ Bulwer-Lytton bad-writing
fiction contest. —

The judges were-mainty
veteran § composition
teachers who “‘haveread a
lot of rotten prose,” said
English professor Scott
Rice, organizer of the

. contest started three years
‘ago at. San Jose State
University, ‘Most of it is

written in all sincerity by .

the students."

Garman was among
some 5,000 entrants in this
year’s competition for the
opening sentence to the
worst imaginable novel,
and he will be awarded a

* personal computer and
‘ward processor to practise
his prose.

The first contest in 1962

“was held at the university

as a8 way for Rice's

lick yo rd in ‘Was a ark»
bhi, and ately ght th
- in torrents except: at ot-

students to produce good
writing by leaming to”
recognize the bad.
Since then, it has grown
internationally, with rotten .

“writing mailed to the

campus from 25 countries,
including Kenya,’ New
Zealand, France, West

. Germany,- China and
throughout the United
States.

. Bulwer-Lytton, a 10th-
century author, famed for
writing, The Last Days of
Pompeii, inspired the -
contest with the opening
line to his book, - Paul -
Clifford. i, 7

casional intervals, when-It '
was checked by a violent
gust of wind. ..,”’ the book
begins, _ :

KASSON, Minn. (AP) —
Here is the heroic suitor
riding proudly on his steed,
his armor shining, glass

slipper for his lady love in

hand — even if, to the mob
of spectators he attracts, it
looks like a guy in a
gladiator sult carrying a
plastic shoe. OO

But love is pleasantly
blind, and Jim Brandili's
intended kindly overlooked
the rented costume and the
borrowed ‘old’. mare that
stood in for a white
charger as he rode up to
the Y Motel to ask her hand
in marriage,

“We knew we were
getting married, but I
never expected him to go
that far,” Robbin Dokken
said Saturday, after
Brandli ventured onto a
horse for the first time to
make his proposal.

. TERRACE "What . puch
luminaries as Paul Horn, Cella
Franca, Leon, Bibb and Tom Kerr
havein common? They will all ap-
pear at the B.C. Festival of the Arts,
in Penticton, May 15 to 19, with more
than 1,706 artists, musicians, actors,
dancers and singers. “sai.j2 00. =

From this area, the Tertace Little.
Theatre will present the play A
Letter from the -General at the

f@tival
' Work of the following artisie has’:

also been selected to be shown:-Rod
Taylor, Vi Timmerman, Dan Hillert, .
Joan Humphrey, Wend! Methol,
Marty Walker, of Terrace; from
Prince Rupert, Albertina. Steinbock;
Kitimat, Rose-Marie Cheer... .

The local musical: feétival group.

going to the Penticton festival in-
cudes Bruce Hallsor in the category
intermediate speech arts, Audrey
Feber in intermediate plano, David
Hislop in intermediate voice, David |

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ding

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‘ity junior: piano and Theresa
Pires ‘in the senior instrumental
category. ‘

. Finalists from over 70 regional
playdowns are selected to represent
their communities in Penticton.

. They will compete with the best in
“their. idisciplines, taking part in

workshops and master classes.

"During the week-long event there

. Will be: 24 plays, an exhibit of 400

paintings, sculptures and photos, 50
music, dance and vocal per-
formances, a crafts falr featuring
pottery, batik and stained glass, pus
live entertainment, 'a fibre-arts
fashion show, and three plays by B.C.
student playwrighta; -  -

In the weeks leading up to festival,
workshops have been arranged
through Okanagan College. The
irrepressible Gumboot ‘Lollipop is
offering -clowning and mime
workshops. Martial arts and break-

to Penticton

dance. impressario Constantine —
Darling is conducting workshops and
will design a special production to be
presented as part. of-ihe opening
ceremonies. An event available to
participants and public alike, Is the
percussionist: Dido, an offshoot, of -
which: will be a massed percussion:

performance especially arranged : ..

and developed for the Festival.

The Emily Carr Printmobile will’.
be there, so that novices and veterans
alike can become involved in the

intricacies of print production, Celia

Franca will appear at a showing of
the NFB film Gala, and at a public
reception afterwards. Leon Bibb'and
Paul Horn will lecture and perform
during. the Festival and at the
opening ceremonies. _ \
Tom Kerr will offer private and
public critiques as adjudicator at the
Theatre B.C. annual drama festival
Penticton is revelling in its role as
1994's host city of the arts and the
work is proceeding on stream.

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Disabled find computers —

give a linkto the world

WINNIPEG (CP)
George Rochon hasn’t had
the use of his arms or legs
for more than two years,
but he can read the paper
by himself, write a ietter

.Or research’ any of the
" . ‘subjects that-intereat him,

- He can also switch on
appliances in his apart-
ment,

.., Instead of being isolated’

and depending on others to
help him with everyday
activitles, Rochon is taking
advantage of the computer

_. age to do things for him-
self,

“T was altting ‘around
wondering how the hell I

- could bring the world into

my apartment,” he said of
the period after,.an ac-
cident disabled him, ‘And
mentioned
computers,” an

Three years ago he had

_never touched & computer.

Now he's. the co-
ordinator of the Ability
Communications Network,
an experiment he hopes
will develop into a major
program for the disabled
in their homes.

and a federal government
grant, Rochon now has
seven Winnipeg area in-
dividuals and institutions
hooked into his network.
_~He’s aleo- planning to
make the computer hard-

arm-load of information
services, available to the

other tasks, the computer
presents the book for him

college.
Most computers are

disabled across thé on the monitor screen. designed to be accessed
country. He’s also upgrading his through typewriter-style

Rochon appears headed mathematics skills so he keyboards, but fine hand
in the right directionin his. can enter. a computer movement for imafiy
quest to help the disabled. programming course at disabled is an: im-
Occupational therapy Red River Community possibility. However this
officials andthose involved College in Winnipeg. can be overcome, | say
in ene engineering Before ae ii el biomedical engineers.
agree, 32: computers Kehoe. . wo ave —
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vancement for the. carry out the physical task nessed to the machine
severely disabled. of transforming his Art Quanbury, on
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“Potentially, . if they into the computer, because Rehabilitation Centre for
have the training, the he does not have the use of

disabled can live their
lives through the’ com-
puter,” said’ Margaret
Hahn, head of occupational
therapy at the Health
Sciences —s-_ Centre
rehabilitation hospital in
Winnipeg, —

Kevin ' Kehoe,
quadriplegic for the last 13
of his 21 years, 1s one of the
people on Rochon’s net-
work.

He lives in a virtually
self-contained room at the
Health Sciences Centre.

Before he obtained his |

tem, and

his arma or legs. |

He doesn’t have to go to
school — often a tiring
effort for disabled people
— because the computer is
wired into the community.

IC, a repert by two

Children, says slight head
movement, tongue
movement, even eye
movement can be chan-
nelled through a number of
‘devices tailored to in-
dividual capabilities.

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Canadians quotas questioned

OTTAWA (CP) — The chairman of
he Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission
ook great pains Tuesday to support
xisting Canadian content quotas for
elevision.

But Andre Buresu reaffirmed the
sommission's intent to review the
whole issue with broadcasters and
roducers to see If a public hearing is
lecessary to revise the quotas,
articularly in the face of increased
holces for viewers and more
competition for their time.

there 1s an indication Canadians “are
not satisfied with the programming
they now have” and that the com-
mission wants to ensure they are.
Last week, Bureau said in an in-
terview that the -commission . ‘is
‘willing to;reconsider everything”
‘involyed in the way the commission
regulates how Canadian content is
produced and presented, including a
-reduction In the quotas if an ap-
proach to high-quality programming
is considered best by those involved.
He told the communications and

full public airing of the issues in-
volved will take place before any

changes.
Meantime, he said, existing

Canadian content quotas will apply .

and there will be no backing off by-

the commission on the Issues,

- Communications Minister Francis
Fox last week said he would not
support a reduction of Canadian
content quotas for television, which
now range up to 60 per cent. The
Canadian Conference of the Arts also

Bureau told a Commons committee

culture committee Tuesday that a -

Gap narrowing —
in auto prices —

TORONTO (CPY ~—-Tte . dicate conswimers ar now, :

sap . between ~) prices
Canadians pay for’ “hew
North American cars and

What -they - pay for
Japanese imports is
varrowilng substantially as

Japan's .auto industry

ontinues to move its cars.

i mores for

: any 6.25 per ‘cent
vaying only North
Ameritas car.’

At least part of the
reason is that more cars
that once were imported

are now being bullt in
North America, including |

quotas.

opposes any eroding of content

following is required:

Q: What do I need to safely tow my utility trailer?
* At, According to the Motor Vehicle Act the

Police
Beat

the Renault Alliance and

1) The trailer musi be equipped with a safety
chain or cable that is of equal strength to the hitch,

ip the price seale,

Last year, the average
ales price of a North
imerican car in Canada
vas 18.1 per cent higher
han the average price of a
lapanese car, figures from
tatistics Canada show.

larly 1984 statistics in- American car transaction.
. De eeneeh Cerca Mee

Encore, the Volkawegen
Rabbit and the Honda

Inclusion of these
modestly priced cars in
North American totals
tends to depress the size of
the average North

2). Trailer must be equipped with licence and in- -

. trailer weight is inexcess of 1400 kilos or more than

surance ‘ ;
3) Trailer must be equipped with brakes if the

50 per cent of the weight of the towing vehicle
4) Mirrors required on towing vehicle °
5) Trailer must be equipped with both tail lights

and brakelights.

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