Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 33

Wednesday-NLghter, April 15, 1981 7 Tuna warning. Coal opponents upset at Quinsam Federal fisheries and oceans CAMPBELL RIVER meetings must be held before a new mining development can be 5 Minute Service On Most Cars has registered a complaint with the B.C. Energy Minister Bob McClelland over what it 1H nir i-c The Woman Who inspection branch officials are urging members of the public to check their food stocks for cans of tuna labelled "Four-Star brand flaked light tuna ox. product of Malaysia." Cans coded "FIL" on the lid should be returned to the store where they were bought as contents may cause allergic reactions. Environmentalists Campbell River are crying foul in their bid to block ovelopment of the Quinsam coal project west of the north Island municipality.

The Save Our Salmon task force, a coalition of fishing and tourist industry representatives, Yet Quinsam coal representatives have consistently failed to show at public meetings they had promised to attend in Campbell River in recent months says the group. maintains is the Quinsam Coal Company's failure to play by the rules. In a letter sent to McCelland this week, SOS notes that under the B.C.. coal guidelines, public Really Shot J. R.

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Despres (pronounced day-pray) suddenly decided to go home to Louisiana. "The reason," she says, "is that everything suddenly looked exciting in America. Woodstock was happening. And there I was in Paris, writing ads for Johnson's Wax." BONANZA STATIC fist tmtmnmtm LECTftOl CM 225 SkMm; CratoN mM WO; CARPET CLEANING Cat D7Ci4 Ripper; Cat MD IXCAVATINO DITCHING BHUSH-CUTTINO 758-1613 753-7571 BONANZA KURBO'S AUTO BODY DAN'S FUSP HOUSE LTD. Sell and Install 6SWIK91H8P00LS WATER PUKPS ftSPAS 753-2952 S.

ISLAND HWY. (NEXT TO ABC PRECAST) wmm A PAINTING A COLLISION ICBCWORK 753-6223 t. ISURD RIRIIMO IHCiJD 1575. "I got tired of things. My friends in Paris were getting successful, and I was Just sitting." She was also doing a play, "The Inheritor of the Earth," which she directed as well It was produced in New Orleans inl975.

"And," she notes, "it was done here at the L-A. Feminist Theater in 1977. "It's a two-person play about an aggressive husband and a woman who is victimizing herself in a relationship. It's about the deterioration of a marriage." In New Orleans, "I had met a screenwriter from the South. He had written some 'Bonanzas' and a movie, and we came out here to Los Angeles." They wrote two screenplays that didnt sell "He went back to New Orleans, and I wrote another screenplay." That didn sell either.

"But I was not going to quit" Her turning point here came when she met the story editor of ABC-TVs "Family" series, Carol McKeand. "She gave me a chance to pitch a story to her. She didnt like any of my stories but said to come back if I had other ideas. I was back the next week." Persistence paid off, and Despres made the breakthrough, writing for such shows as "Family," "The Waltons," "Love Boat" and "Dallas." She also was prominent in helping to organize the Fair Housing for Children Coalition. "We moved out here when my son was 10 and had trouble finding an apartment in Santa Monica that would take kids.

Or some places were being turned into adult buildings." JShe now- has a house in Malibu. She says the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode brought hei one fan letter "from a riwa uus tusiani setting, Despres set off for New Orleans (six years) and then Hollywood (in 1975). And here, this TV season, her unlikely odyssey had a rather amazing climax. She wrote the most-watched series episode in the history of TV, the "Who Shot J.R.?" merit of "Dallas," which drew 85 million viewers. Despres makes no pretenses about the segment, which she says was simply "good entertainment And I like to have fun when I go to the movies or watchTV." The fact is, her own story is more interesting, than all the hullabaloo that surrounded the episode that brought her fame.

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"It was one of the great moments of sexism," she recalls. "I asked him how to get into directing. I said I'd start at the bottom, anywhere, doing anything. "He said, 'You're crazy. Cowboys will never take direction from a She made a decision: "1 gave up.

I realized I was hitting my head against the wall. LESSONS CONSIST OF 8 ONLY 45-MINUTE SESSIONS REGISTRATION COMMENCES APRIL 13th First set begins the week of April 27th Second set begins the week of June 1st TENNIS LESSON FEES I got married. I wrote Each week you are invited to read through the advertisements on this feature. If you see the word "BONANZA in any of the advertisements, simply cut all the ads and send them to The Daily Free Press, co B.B.Q. Bonanza Editor, 223 Commercial Street.

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But she is, she makes clear, proud of her profession. She also, however, has a healthy skepticism about the realities here, noting the old line about "the starlet who was so dumb she slept with a writer." Youth 13 -17 years $7.50 Family (max. of 5) $17,00 HAREWOOD CENTENNIAL COURSE Monday Wednesday 10:45 a.m. Beginners Adult 7:15 p.m. Beginners TeenAdult SATURDAY Only Lessons 3:00 p.m.

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Dick Winkelman and Aid. Jim Moffatt said all the aldermen on city council had their own views on bow the ward system should operate, but their mandate from the public was clear. Aid. Owen Kennedy said the voters had asked for an eight ward system and city council now should start work on the new boundaries for those eight new wards, and then they should get on with it, and "give the people what they have asked us to do." Mayor Frank Ney asked for a seconder for Aid. Flett's motion, but there wasn't one.

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Les Mottishaw and Aid. Jim Moffatt persuaded Aid. Flett to let the WEAL system be discussed by council in committee. Aid. Flett made a new motion accordingly, which was then seconded by Aid.

Mot--tishaw, and passed by council. Aid. Flett had initially submitted that the voters of Nanaimo had twice voted on their preferred system of electing aldermen, and had twice rejected the "at large" system in favor of a ward system each time. But they had never had a chance to vote for the WEAL system, he said. It therefore seemed logical, "before carving up the city into eight new wards, with the resulting expense and confusion" that the voters be given the option of the WEAL system.

This system would enable each of the existing six wards to elect one alderman each, with the other two aldermen being elected "at over the whole city, as the mayor is now. Aid. Flett asked that council put the city to another ballot at the first available opportunity to determine if the WEAL system DALE SONS ROOFING LTD. TAR and GRAVEL ROOF SPECIALISTS FREE ESTIMATES 3C0-2333 SPECIALISTS ri rrnirii wnBi bonanza enriFKiMeiAmes ILL REPAIRS MUARTEEI 753-9128 327 TIRMINAL AVI. TENNIS CLUB The Nanaimo Parks and Recreation Department would like to assist in initiating a Tennis Club that would operate at the Bowen Park Courts.

All those interested in being involved should attend a general organizational meet ing. at the Bqwen Park Complex on Tuesday, April 14th at 7:30 p.m. We will discuss club format, fees, playing times, etc' TENNIS UNDER THE LIGHTS BOWEN PARK COURTS Register for 1) Monday Wednesday or 2) Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1 (Some spaces still available) Reserve a court for you and your friends for night play. Maximum ten persons per court' and particpants supervise their own courts. It is suggested that groups of ten people with similar playing abilities sign up for a court.

Program commences at 7:30 p.m. in April and will change according to reason re darkness. All sessions are three hours, -r mK3 SET: APRIL 1 it to IMT 31 FEE: S3.C3 PER PERSON FOR 2 (MOTHS Register now at Bowen Park Complex For Information Call 753-7788 MAMAIH0 BONANZA DAN'S HANDYMAN SERVICES QUEEtlS Indian show The Quanatsustal Media -Society has produced a series of television programs to be aired on Channel 10, Cable West in Nanaimo this month. The first aired last week. The remaining four are to be shown at the same time on each following Tuesday, including tonight at 7:30.

These programs, titled The Achievers, are a series of Interviews of local Nanaimo Indian community leaders. All. of the camera operators were local Indian students. Aim of the programs is to inform the general public of community work done by local Indians in many levels of society. HOTEL ROUES OF $idwalk Carpentry Fencing I ivc mTrQTiiBiMrirr Aim nanlinnArl "jM COMMERCIAL Fr stlmat PH: 753-3329 K3TEL.