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for' foe- L- i k-'ot: lit 1 Hairy deal The Planets Another time Journal SECTION Saturday, August 19, 1978 Snipped, but not clipped at the Bus Depot by the basement barber. Page B5. Exploration has barely begun, and already the solar system has taught man much. PageB9. They thought they could change the world.

A decade later, where are they? PageB4. 7 riA f-j vi w-'ir 1 EDITOR: MARC HORTON- ity 1 tiSL 7 Dreamland Theatre's winter warmth may end soon By BRIAN BURTON The Dreamland Theatre may not be around to provide a warm haven for downtown transients this winter. Vincent Wong has been trying for about two months to preserve the Dreamland as the cheapest theatre in town, serving a market to which he says no one else caters. "I intend to keep it open as long as I can," says the China Town Credit Union employee who leases the building from the city as a family business. The city bought the faded, 40-year-old pink and blue building in 1974, when a convention centre was planned for the area.

"I personally can't visualize something like the Dreamland sitting next to the convention centre." Mr. Wong says: "I know it will happen one day. I was aware of the situation when I went into it." There would be no great personal or family loss, he says, if the Dreamland closed for good. "The loss is to the public. The people who can only af-' ford low-cost entertainment will miss it." But he's negotiating for a new location in the area and says he hopes to know something definite within two weeks.

For $1 his "low-income, transient" patrons can stay there from 1 p.m. opening to 11:30 p.m. closing to doze or get warm or watch the movies, which he says are "second run western." But for those who come in after 1 o'clock, just to see the daily double feature, it'D cost SI. 73 rather than the SI all-day rate. Some of his customers are winos but he says they're no trouble.

"Usually we just wake them up after the show." Asked if the Dreamland is in imminent danger of meeting with a wrecking ball, Mr. Scotnicki says, "I would say it is." With those plans revived people at the city real estate branch say, "it's on a month-to-month lease for a very good reason." The structure, at 9697 Ja.sper sits on land that could become an open vista to offset the centre to the east on the north bank of the North Saskatchewan River. And the place has other problems. "It's touch and go as far as its conformance to minimum standards and the building code," says city real estate and housing manager Dick Scotnicki. There's also the problem of making ends meet.

"So far it's just barely paying for itself," Mr. Wong says. lummy mvr "WWHWIFW Two-year contract signed Brewery prod ucmg af ter 1 1 -week lull all beer, incl iing the domestic, could be taken off next week. Groups will also be able to sell imported beer on permits now because those restrictions have also been dropped, he said. Mr.

Forgione said the sale of imported beer has been slow this week, probably because of the cool eather, and additional stock-expected next week along with the domestic beer should meet demands. Beer drinkers in Calgary will be able to pick up Cariing O'Keefe beer right from the source today, as the company's beer store at the plant will be open for purchases. K-Days dollar may be worth a cool $1,000 By BARB LIVINGSTONE Pucker your hps, put on your drinking duds and dust off your beer mugs because part of the drought is over. Carting O'Keefe brewery resumed production today after an 1 1 -week lull. Labatt's lovers will still have to abstain or switch but those with a taste for Black Label, Old Vienna or Carls-berg beer will be able to pick up their six-packs as early as Monday.

Striking brewery workers at the Cariing O'Keefe plant in Calgary signed a new two-year contract Friday ending a strike that has seriously curtailed the sale of domestic beer in the province. However, workers at the Labatt's brewery in Edmonton are still manning picket lines with no end to their dispute in sight. Bill Flookes, president of the Breweries Union Local 287, said the settlement includes a increase over the length of the contract plus a cost-of-living increase which will amount to about 21 cents an hour over the two years. The agreement is governed anti-inflation guidelines until Dec. 31 of this year meaning the workers will receive a 40-cent increase until that time, and then the SI.

09 over the following 15 months. The settlement expires Mar. 31. 1980. Mr.

Flookes said the union is not releasing the vote figures, just saying it was "enough" to get people back to work. Asked whether he was pleased with the new contract, the union president said: "The members were happy enough to accept it and to go back to work for it" Mr. Flookes said he doesn't think his group's agreement will have any affect on the dispute at the Labatt's brewery in Edmonton. "The workers there have a different situation and 1 don't think our position will affect them. It could put more pressure on the company as it will be losing its market to both Molson's and Carting O'Keefe." Molson's, Uncle Ben's in Red Deer and Sick's Leth-bridge breweries have continued production throughout the strikes at the two major plants, and the market has been supplemented by imported products.

Bill general sales manager for Alberta, said production will resume today as some workers return to the plant Beer will be shipped out of Alberta Brewer's Agents warehouses starting Monday and beer over 90 days old will be returned to the Calgary plant. The Calgary O'Keefe and Labatt's beer has not been moved from the arehouses since the strike began. Mr. Tborne said he expects full production to resume in two or three days meaning 30,000 dozen bottles per day. Joe Forgione, general manager of the Alberta Liquor Control Board, said restrictions on the sale of imported beer were lifted Thursday and he anticipates rationing on If you didn't spend your last Klondike dollar, don't stash it away with the rest of the festive souvenirs it may be worth $1,000 to you.

On Sept. 7 the Klondike Days Association will announce what markings to look for on lucky K-Day coins. Five specially-minted coins were made this year, each worth $1,000 to the holder provided it's turned in to the association before the Sept. 21 deadline. A large part of this year's "very, very' successful program" is the new-looking Klondike dollar, said Bernice Gordeyko.

Edmonton Klondike Days Association marketing manager. "We've started a five-year series tribute to Edmonton's great pioneers, specifically, those men of the gold rust years," she said. Each Klondike coin in the next four years will commemorate pictorially the historical people of Edmonton, said Ms Gordeyko. Etched in this year's new gold-colored (brass) coin is the McDougall Secord store, located on Jasper Avenue and 101st Street in 1885. John A.

McDougall and Richard Secord set up the first fur trading and general store outlet in Edmonton. The Klondike Days Assoication is hoping to make close to $100,000 this year, about $14,000 more than last year. But, said Ms. Gordeyko, it all depends on how many Klondike dollars are returned 1 A tired Glynis Johns looks for her luggage at airport Cool arrival for actress Frank Hutton out even the price of a room, noticed some men standing on Jasper Avenue and, feeling somewhat less lonely in their company, sat down on the sidewalk beside them to sleep. At dawn there were men on both sides of him and a gent appraoched to offer him a sizable price for his place.

Mike had no ay of knowing, of course, that he'd innocently joined the lineup awaiting the opening of the sak of lots in the Hudson's Bay Reserve. So. accepting the man's offer, he rushed to telegraph a couple of buddies back in New York about the town he'd discovered where "peopk win even pay you for your spot on the sidewalk." And then, fortified with an armload of copies of The Bulletin, he marched back down the line of men selling his wares. And so goes the story of the initial financing of Mike the News-Vendor, with a sidewalk stall at 101st Street and Jasper, and eventually the present shop. ReaDy, the stories about Mike and his generous contributions to the life and times of Edmonton are kgion but the one that tickles me is the speeding ticket be didn't have to pay.

At one time Mike was a 'distributor for The Joixnal and always tried to get HIS paper to the street-corner newsboy in Straihcona before the opposition Strihcon nndeakT hit the streets. That's how be came to be exceeding the speed limit on the High Level Bridge with his horse and democrat On the day of his court appearance, however, he arrived 10 minutes late and sat through the entire prceedings without hearing his name called. After court adjourned he learned that his name HAD been cafled at the top of the list. Apparently somebody had mistaken his name for their own and paid his fine. You might say that Mike was lucky he came to Edmonton.

But Edmonton was even luckier. He organized and sponsored an annual Christmas dinner for veterans: outfitted the Edmonton Newsboys Band and sponsored their international tours and worked vigorously on every good cause in the city for a lot of years. Gee. I really hope they kave Mike's swinging kg alone. FOR WHAT ITS WORTH I can't imagine by they've hidden that Speakers' Corner that opens Sunday afternoon behind the Centennial Libarary.

It should have been established right in front of city haJL or in Churchill Square Park, where there's lots of room for spectators. Perhaps they don't realize the beneficial effects it could have on civic politics. If the crow ds ere large enough our city councillors ould be bound to join the orators and talk themselves hoarse BEFORE the Tuesday council meetings. Mind you, the idea is patterned after Pari in London. We can call ours Hide Park.

The star of a brilliant 42-year stage and screen career finally made it to Edmonton Friday. It was the first visit here for award-winning. South ca-bora British actress Glynis Johns who made her stage debut at the age of 12 in London. But Miss Johns win be here for a long time. She is to open the 1978-79 Citadel Theatre season Oct 4 by appearing in Harold and Maude, by Colin Higgins.

Later in the season, Miss Johns will also star in the North American premiere of Cause Cekbre, by Terence Rattigan, in which she appeared in London's West End last summer, winning a British Variety Club award as best stage actress. Miss Johns said she was "very tired from the long flight" to Edmonton from Bermuda and would not consent to an interview. "I came on my own to get some peace," she said, excusing bersdf. She arrived alone with seven pieces of luggage and was met only by Gtadd general manager Wayne Fipke and by a Journal reporter-photograpber Miss Johns said one bij reason she came to Edmonton was to work again with Peter Coe, the Citadel's new artistic director. "He's Lie family" she said, explaining she has worked with him five times.

Outside the airport in the coot, rainy night Miss Johns sailed bravery and fharlrd the one person who welcomed her to Edmonton. So Mike's wiH be Mike's. The new owners of Mike's Newsstand don't plan to change the place. I hope they leave that sign alone. When I came to Edmonton in 1946 that sign over the sidewalk in front of 'Mike's was the first reassuring thing I saw.

Any community with an animated neon sign, I decided, COULDN'T be as backward as Edmonton appeared to be. I first noticed that guy reading the Toronto Star Weekly and swinging his leg while walking from the MacdonaJd Hotel where the family was temporarily lodged to the Bank of Toronto at 100 A Street and Jasper, where my father was the new manager. Later in the day, of course, my faith in Edmonton got a real boost by the sight of those little toe-tapping porkers on the sign in front of Henry W'encfs Fig Whistle Cafe at 1 05th and Jasper. Since then they've made that I3-storey box-Lie addition to the 'Mac and chan ged its name to Hotel MacdonaM: the. Bank of Toronto has become part of the T-D Bank and sold that particular property to Canada Permanent; and the Pig WTu'stle is gone forever sign and all.

Even the Toronto Star Weekly" he's reading is gone forever but it's still reassuring to see him swinging that kg of his. There was a worrisome time a few years ago, after a fire in the offices above Mike's, hen he was 'powerless to move his leg. But thankfully, when the power came back on, his leg went back into motion. The funny-thing is that the guy on the sign reminds me so much of the stories I've heard about John Michaels himself always in motion I've often heard the story and it's wild enough to be true of what prompted Mike to settle in Edmonton. Seems he armed here at night with.