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22 The VANCOUVER SUN: Fit, Feb. 2, 1973 9V Fi rst I ive TV broadcasting i ite in via due North sdtell mm mm MSP By JEFF CARRUTHEXS Special to The Sun OTTAWA The first lhe television in the North will start between Feb. 5 and 12 in 11 communities, courtesy of Canada's new communication satelile, Anik. The CBC has just assigned a special contract with Teles- at Canada to provide television service to these and a few additional northern com i for the interim television service One senior CBC official here said he believed the CBC got a "good deal" but that revealing it at this time" would be unfair to other Telesat customers." To find out, he said, one will have to wait until the CBC appears before the Commons public account committee. Meanwhile, with little fanfare, another portion of Bell Canada telephone service via satellite to the eastern Arctic began officially at one minute past midnight Thursday for two communities.

Pangnirtung and Igloolik are the first to be served by Bell Canada's thin-route service, which features limited telephone links with the south and other satellite-service Arctic communities and which replaces the often unreliable radio-telephone service in the North! Frobisher Bay and Goose Bay will receive national network service from Halifax on an Atlantic time schedule. In both cases, service will start between Feb. 5 and 12 as technical arrangements in each ground station are completed. satellite television for, Churchill, and a num- ber of other unnamed northern communities will start be-' tween Feb. 12 and 19, Cahoon said.

The live, color, national network television via Anik will replace the existing "frontier package" service, which fea-, tures video tapes flown weekly into the North of programs already 'broadcast in the; southern networks. 4 The Anik service will be the first live television for even if at first it only involves programs originating in the south. CBC and Telsat officials fused to reveal the price tag munities starting in February, ahead of the April 1 start-up mentioned in the S9-million-per-year long-term contract signed last December. Roy Cahoon, CBC vice-president for engineering, said Thursday in Montreal that Bob HouldswortU Photo FOULED BEACH FOLLOWING SPILL a time of 'destruction and powerlessness national network programming originating in. Vancouver will be relayed by Anik on a Pacific time schedule to the following com muni- ties: Whitehorse and Watson Lake in the Yukon; Fort Nelson and Cassiar in British Columbia; Inuvik, Yellow-knife, Pine Poinnt and Fort, Smith in the Northwest Territories; and Uranium City in' Saskatchewan.

Profit kills aid to Smile Show Discover 1 1 Special to The Sun VICTORIA Jerry Gos-ley's Smile Show, as much part of Victoria as the Empress Hotel with its tea and crumpets, is in financial trouble. But his appeal to the city for help hasn't been successful so far. Gosley didn't ask for a grant; all be wanted was a reduced rent for the McPherson Playhouse. But city council's financial committee decided Thursday not to consider his request until he turns his group Into a non-profit organization. Last year the Smile Show Jamaican Cruisowoar Set the style for your holiday in the sun.

Exciting Jamaican Im ports, Cool, Tropical. Palazzo Set Patio Gowns Shorti Pant Sets Halteri Bikini Oashikil 229 Cerrell St. Gastown M5-S932 was staged for the first time at the McPherson. In previous years Gosley used a school auditorium. In, anticipation of a loss, Gosley asked for and was granted a special rate last year according to which the city received 40 per cent of the gross take.

Even at that, Gosley said in his letter, the rent came to more than $12,000, compared with $3,000 in previous years. He said there wasn't enough left over to pay an adequate wage to performers. Gosley said he has never asked for any grants, but he added that the show was now. facing "possible extinction." He also said he has never sought publicity for the many benefit shows the group has given over the years, but in the light of present circumstances that may have been wrong. He listed the institutions and organizations for which the Smile Show has been staged every year at no cost.

They include hospitals, the Red Cross and the Wilkinson Road Jail. The committee rejected his request on the grounds that rent reductions can only be granted to non-profit organizations. ALERT BAY According to Hhe Etunne-za Indians of the Peace. River country, there was a time long ago when giant animals Stalked the earth. Everything was the reverse of what it is now.

Animals were the hunters. And men were their food. For men, it was a time of destruction and powerlessness. Then something happened great beasts were sent beneath tfie cround. Men became the hunters.

And for a time they ruled the earth. But when the white man began drilling for oil, he loosed the spirit of the giant beasts on the surface of the earth again, unwittingly setting himself tip for another time of destruction and powerlessness. At night during the fishing season the waters of Blackfish Sound and Johnstone Strait are lit up like a city. Come dawn, hundreds of gillnetters pull into tiny bays and inlets, just as the trawlers and seiners up anchor and head out to take their place. Favorite spots are the waters on the northeast side of Hanson Island and slightly to the north around the Pearse Islands.

Across the strait is the mouth of the Nimpkish River, famous for its salmon runs. The whole area is considered one of the richest salmon areas on the whole of the West Coast. The centre of most of the activity is peanut-shaped Cormorant Island. In the waterfront town of Alert Bay, the beer flows nightly in the Harbour Inn and the Nimpkish Inn. Hundreds of fishing boats lay in the shelter of a huge stone break FEATURE OF THE WEEK From the home of "Victorian Originals'' JOHN BANNER died Sunday TV series actor dies HOLLYWOOD (UP I) John Banner, the portly Ser-' geant Schultz of the Hogan's Heroes television series, has died in his native Vienna, Austria, and was to be buried there today, it was reported here Thursday.

Banner died shortly before midnight last Sunday, his 63rd birthday, in Soviet Hospital. He entered the hospital Saturday after he suffered an abdominal hemorrhage. Banner and his wife Christine recently bought a home in France and they were in ntiirir jL OAK TABLE Solid British Oak octagonal drum table: 53" diameter to accommodate eight settings; hand carved apron with lour rent drawers; exceptionally line quality gargoyle feet; four twist baluster supports. Circa It was a time, indeed, of destruction and powerlessness. Some terrible spirit had been released.

Oil-smeared gulls called plaintively from the water. For 4,000 years the Kwakiutl people have been living in the-area around Knight Inlet and on Cormorant Island itself. When they weren't fishing, they were out digging clams or collecting oysters or catching crabs. It had never crossed their minds that a day might come when the rich waters around them might be rendered incapable of providing food. 1 Now, for the first time, the thought presented Norm Sumner puts it this way: "One of the skippers was in Blackfish Sound yesterday and was telling me that he has seen oil slicks in all the tide-rips right from the end of this island to around Stubbs Island and right through to White Beach and through Baronet Pass and into Parson Bay.

"Now the reason we're so concerned about Parson Bay is that it's a natural feeding place for all'the spring salmon and other types of fish and it's one of the few places where seine boats can go in and get spring salmon practically at any time, intermingled with the herring. So this is one of the reasons we're so concerned. "Now right across from Alert Bay is the Nimpkish River and the Nimpkish River has a very early run of sockeye salmon and chum salmon, and the sock-eye fingerlings are just about ready to come out in the next short while. Their transition from the fresh water into salt is done gradually. And anything on the beaches or all over the seagrass or the kelp that's around the river is going to have an adverse effect on them.

"And then there's the crabs. It's a big area for crabs and up until now they have been free of pollution because of no population and we don't know what this is going to do to them. "As for the clams, they're all around White Beach and Village Pass and if this stuff gets into those places it's all small islands well, this is one of the main livelihoods of native fishermen around here in winter. It's winter employment for them. There's clam buyers come up here and buy them off 'em.

"What we're afraid of, of course, is that all this is going to be messed up now." After 4,000 years, the rich land of the Kwakiutl can no longer be counted upon to support human life. All because of a single oil And the question that was in everybody's mind was: Is there going to be another spill? And another? And another? Is there going to be any end? "We're hoping," said one fisherman, "that maybe this'll wake somebody up and something'll get done now to cut out this kind of thing." But what is there to do? Jim Bolen of the Sierra Club of B.C. was on the island to inspect the damage. "The problem is," he said, "that vessels the size of the Irish Stardust have no damned business in these waters. These are tricky waters full of shoals and reefs and even the people who know the area inside out can run into trouble.

"The problem with oil is that the damage it causes increases exponentially. If twice as much oil is spilled, it causes four times the amount of damage, not just twice as much. "Right now, we're trying to move too much of it at once. The Alaska pipeline, for instance, is 48 inches in diameter. That's just too big.

Something like 31,000 barrels of oil can spill from it before the leak is even detected. "Maybe the way to deal with oil being spilled in these waters is to limit the size of vessels. If we didn't allow vessels over a certain size into the Inside Passage, then there would never be a really large, destructive spill. The smaller ones can be contained. And even if they aren't contained, at least the damage they cause will be limited." The bitter irony of last week's spill lies in the fact that the Kwakiutls of Alert Bay have managed to survive the white invasion perhaps as well as any native people in North America.

For their religion and culture was outlawed, but they retained their sense of identity. On the hill overlooking Cormorant Island, a magnificent longhouse stands, its front adorned with art. Lying in the field beside the longhouse is the world's longest totem pole so long that no way has been found yet to set it up. Perhaps it was the isolation of being on an island. Whatever the reason, they have held themselves together well.

The lonely northern coast is a graveyard of totems and abandoned villages. Most Indian communities scattered along its length are scenic concentration camps with the native people forced one way or another on to welfare, deprived of their ancient means of making a living. Yet the Kwakiutls have stayed economically and culturally independent. The key to this survival was the richness of the land, coupled with their own ancient habit of "fighting with property." Now Unless something is done, something like the setting of a limit of the size of vessels plying the inside waters of the coast, it is only a question of time before the land and the sea can no longer provide, and the era of destruction and powerlessness returns for good. isau.

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FBiit 7973 SEED AND NURSERY BOOK water. In the cemetery, tall Kwatkiutl totem poles look down the length of Johnstone Strait. And there's nothing to be seen but brilliant blue water, with clumps of bull kelp, league after league of pine trees marching down to the rocks by the sea, the mountains of Vancouver Island, and the sky. A huge open land. So beautiful it's enough to make you shiver.

Last weekend, Cormorant Island was like a castle under siege. Great blooms of black smoke leapt from the beaches as crews threw gasoline on piles of oil-soaked driftwood. The smell was 180 rjiM. MA illtiitiatmnl 'nh 1U Im Jl RECENT WORKS MICHAEL KUPKAl 40 BLOOD ALLEY SQUARE, CASTOWN, VANCOUVER, B.C. DRAWINCS PHONE: 685-8921 JyK FEB.

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Local 254. The secondary schools of Burnaby, New Westminster and Coquitlam will present their annual One Act Play Drama Festival at the Simon Fraser University Theatre Feb. 20 through Feb. 24. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY 7 ajn. Orchestral Concert: Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Hoist's The Planets. 11, Music at the 2o1h Century: Debussy's The Martyrdom of St. Sabastian (symphonic fragments): Hinderaith's Nob-lissima Visione iSuite from the Baliet St. Francis Willan's Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts.

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A. Verner J. W. Beatty SATURDAY 4 a.m. New Records: Freelance interviewer and reviewer Kati Vita reviews Wagner's The Ring ot the Niebelungen.

10:93, Here's Harris with Music: Works by Schubert, Britten. Debussy, Dvorak, Vaug-han Williams, J. S. Bach, Gershwin, and Rachmaninov. SUNDAY 13 amn.

BBC Concert: Part 1: Violinist Szymon Goldberg and pianist Radu Lupu play works by Mozart. Hindemith, and Beethoven. Part 2: Francis Chagrin conducts the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra in works by Chagrin and Schubert. 11:03 rm That Midnight Jan: Vancouver's. Bob Smith looks at various aspects of Jazz.

MONDAY ajn. Madia Rerltal: Pianist Antonin Kuhalck plays works by Mozart, Vorlsek, and Morawetz. 5. Natmaal Arts Centre Orchestra: Works by Handel. Beethoven.

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lea tert: Humour, with Jacques and Marcel Gieuere. 10:30 A Cappella: Paul Cadrin conducts Les Jongleurs ce la gamme. FRIDAY 5:30 pjn. Initoien: Aline Smolensky looks at Vancouver. 10:30.

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SATURDAY 11 Opera 4a Metropolitan: Verdi's Macbeth, with Martina Arroyo, Sherrtll Milnes. Franco Tagliavini, and Ruggero Raimondi. 5:01 Tnr is Chant: Louise Forestler and Les Karrik sing Legende lndienne: Capi-t a 1 capitaine: California; Pourquoi chanter; Le President. SUNDAY 8:08 BJn. Orrhevtres Canad- Irns: Hans Schmidt Isserstedt conducts the National Arts Centre Orchestra in works bv Haydn.

Mozart, Frantaix, and Telemann. 3:03 p.m. Temps Libre: Sports and music. MONDAY 10 ten Vert: Hannonl- cist Claude Garden. 10:50 p.m.

Onevnra Nat1nal Kadi- Pianist Ho plays Samuel Barber's Und and 3rd movements of Piano Concerto, opus 38 and Ciarnetist Stanley Fisher plavs Debussy's The First Rhapsody. Plus: :3 p.m. aiianvtr mpnn Bowhenni's Overture opus 43 and Haydn's Symphony No. 95. Hans Bauer conducts.

8. Mnsirscvpe: Part 1: The CBC Talent Festival, with soprano Mary Lou Failis and baritone Gary Belyea. Part 2: The Camerata Tri plays works by Mendelssohn, Bottenberg, and Bioth. New work by Doug Sandland and Craig Dauncey.