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8 EVENING POST Monday, May 15, 1918 PDSTOPINION Michelle miracle NEVER could a smile have been more welcome than that bestowed on her younger sister by Michelle Booth in Battle Hospital yesterday. It was only a tiny smile but it marked another victory in her long battle for recovery after her ordeal of eight weeks ago. Then Michelle was found as near dead as it is possible to get without having actually died. There was a merest thread of hope for her recovery. But, we all pray, she seems to have made it or, at least, gone well on the way to it.

It is a miracle, the reward for her own inner courage and will, the devotion of her family and, not least, the skill and care of the medical teams at the hospitals in London and Reading. As we were SOME time ago the Church of England authorities changed the wording of the Lord's Prayer. Lead us not into temptation became Do not bring us to the time of trial." It was well-meant. The idea was to make the meaning clearer for those not used to the old form of words to bring the language up-to-date. In fact, the new form has proved confusing, to older worshippers and younger alike.

Now the Church has had the good sense to bow to opinion and leave the old. familiar words as they were We have our temptations back Blow for freedom WELL done, the miners! Members of their union's Silvermouth Branch, Rotherham, have decided to take no action against a member who stood as a National Front candidate at local council elections. This is the real spirit of democracy at work. A member of any union should be free to hold his own opinions. The only condition imposed by these miners is that he must not use his union as a platform for his individual political beliefs.

That should be the rule in all unions HOW TO ENTER: In the large picture of a soccer match below, the ball has been obliterated Use your skill and judgement to decide horn all the information contziined in the picture the spot where you think the centre of the ball is likely to be Indicate the spot by marking a cross in ink or ballpointpen on the picture All entries will be scrutim teed and the jackpot will be paid to the entrant, the exact centre of whose cross marks the exact centre of the ball before it was obliterated. If the jackpot is not won. (700 will be added to the next jackpot and the first prize of 100 will be given to the competitor whose attempt is nearest the centre of the ball And 10 2 prizes will be paid to runners-up. Crosses must be clearly marked. and must not overlap The maximum number of attempts on this coupon is 400, though more than one coupon may be entered, all of which can be sent, together with the entry fee in one stamped sealed envelope.

Only postal orders or cheques will be accepted, made payable to Thames Valley ere and crossed "and Co" with your name and address on the back 00 NOT send coins or notes. No responsibility is accepted for entries delayed in the post, lost, received late or insufficiently stamped. Proof of posting cannot be accepted as proof of delivery Persons under 18 years of age are not eligible to enter, nor are employees of the Thomson Organisation and their immediate families No communication can be entered into on matters arising out of this competition Entries are only accepted on the understanding that there is no intent to create a legal relationship The competition is run jointly with the Evening Mail, Slough STAR WARS, the world's biggest box office success, has already made over £lOO million and £1 million of that belongs to a man who only five years ago was working as a carpenter rds Chewbacca, the hundred-year-old Wookiee, co-pilots the Millenium Falcon, a Corellian pirate starship. better it I'd thought more about it at the time from accepting a contract to make a Star Wars sequel. Later.

however, he changed his mind. and will be playing Solo once again when Star Wars II goes before the cameras next year. Since Star Wars. Harrison has come down to earth and made three war films. one a sequel to The Guns of Navarone in which he plays an American commando colonel.

and another. costarring Henry "The Fonz" Winkler It gives Mary and the kids more security and it allows me to pick the jobs I really want, although at the moment I don't really have a firm plan about what I want to do Remote home "I'm not particularly ambitious as far as material possessions are concerned. The biggest difference Star Wars has made is that I can now employ people to work on the house 1 haven't got the time to do it myself." Harrison. his wife and their sons. Benjamin and Willard.

aged 11 and nine, still live in the remote house in Hollywood Hills which he bought when he was making a living as a carpenter. "I made far more money at that than I had ever done in show business." he remembers. "I did very well because there's a great shortage of skilled carpenters in Hollywood and I was in great demand. "I gave up acting completely for three years there just wasn't time for both jobs." Harrison had been acting "In this 1 play a Vietnam veteran unable to cope with civilian life." Harrison explains "You could hardly find anything more different from Solo in Star Wars. And that's how I wanted it He has the reputation of being a complicated introverted character who keeps out of the limelight.

"I don't think I'm difficult to live with." he replies. "I'm just a working actor and I wouldn't like to think that I would be mobbed in CROSS THE BALL 111,2011 £lOO must be won PLUS 10 £2 prizes No so so MI MN Eli ME MI WM MN IM NM MI MI OM in MI 1 MN MI Mk OM Cross the Ball Competition, 50 Station Hill, Reading POST I IN is mi MB MI O. MI 1 11 On OM MI lin NO NIP im so no me um we me me mi we in um mi-J Help from IT is a great pity that certain sections of the media are another 'anti-Inlan Revenue stampede, this time by suggesting intensive inquiries and investigations into the private lives of small traders. The suggestion is that Inland Revenue inspectors have a special list of questions which they are using, like an inquisitor, to determine fraudulent claims by small businessmen while leaving medium and large companies and corporations to hide behind highly-paid accountants. Take my case: Recently, as a freelance writer, I had a non-profitmaking year and during same period a small deep freeze firm in which I was the major investor went bust.

I invited myself to an interview with my tax inspector (Reading District 5) which I attended alone without accountant or adviser neither which I could afford anyway. The inspector produced a long list of questions and worked through them systematically. Some related to my other forms of income and some to my personal expenditure, but none exceeded his rights or duty as an Inspector of Inland Revenue. The outcome of the interview is interesting because, with his assistance, allowance against previous tax paid was allowed and I came away better off by serveral hundred pounds. The moral of this letter is quite simple job of the Inland Revenue is to collect some of the money to pay the nation's household bills.

It is staffed by people just like you and me, professional people, biu by and large human beings. If you can afford an accountant use him as a linkman with your tax inspector otherwise keep in close contact with your local Inland Revenue office yourself. This letter has dealt with a small businessman but may I give advice to people who look upon themselves as just being an employee. Your local Tax Office is there to help you too, and will guide and assist you to ensure that you receive the fullest tax allowance available. But only if you ask! HUGH BLAKE PORTLQCS Rufus Chambers, Market iGCe: Wokingham.

VP) Postbag Youngsters unemployed I ENTIRELY agree with the comment of Mrs Gray in her letter (Evening Post 10.5.78). I am concerned for the thousands of youngsters who will be leaving school this year and who will be unable to find the particular work they are looking for. It is inevitable that most of them will end up on the "dole queue." It appears to many of us in the older age group that the Government are prepared to let the older ones work, while the younger ones (who are unable to find work paying sufficient remumeration) receive a fairly high rateof State benefit, rather than for them to bring down the retirement age to 80 years and pay the lower rate of state pension to the elder of the population. Hampden Drive, KidWigton. G.

BARNES problems THE lip service paid by those who decry the million unemployed should be backed by some real cooperation. There is only one way to ensure that there is a place in the workshop for the school-leaver and others. Abolish overtime by counting seven working days as ordinary time and share these with the unemployed. It is astounding to find that more overtime than ever is being worked. For example, in January 1978 14.70 million hours overtime was worked.

In February. 1978, 15.141- million hours overtime was worked. The number of industrial workers concerned in large scale overtime, January was 1,748,000 or 33.6 per cent. In February the number of Silver plated Harrison Ford has come a long way since he dropped out of college and flipped a coin to decide whether to go to New York or Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. It actually came down in favour of New York." he admits But I said to myself 'l'm not going there'.

and tossed the coin again This time it was Hollywood. Even in my wildest dreams I never thought I'd end up rescuing a princess from a horde of silverplated robots for a paycheck of a couple of million dollars "But still," he added with a grin. sure beats being a carpenter!" ters coneerne, 1,823.000 or 35 per cent of the industrial workforce. It is said that the employers prefer to pay for overtime rather than engage more workers The reason given is the insurance deduction from the employer. In short the employer would pay any amount of than increase the number of employees.

It is difficult to credit this there must be another reason. Can it be that the "Employment Protection Act" is working adversely against an increase in the number employed, because in the event of a recession the employer would be unable to dispense with this excess labour? If this is the case the Government should clarify the situation so that there is more sharing in the work in order to avert what will eventually become a disaster. It is no use waiting for something to happen, action is needed now. NORA TOOHEY Coley Avenue. Reading.

fight THERE is now a good chance that the threatened St John's Church in Wallington Street will after all be saved (like the old Town Hall) thanks to the hard work and intense pressure extended by the Civic Society and Eldon Square Residents' Association, and people like Mrs Ward of Prince's Street, who independently started to protest against the demolition of the church and spire. In fact, a member of our Civic Society described the demolition of the church as a "crime" (I quote: "It is a crime indeed to knock down that beautiful and if I may add my voice to it, it is a crime that would not go unnoticed in the annals of Reading's history. It is the achievement of past generations of Reading's people and the heritage of the present. Someone else used the word "vandalism." I hope that our efforts to save this historic building will prove successful. K.

CIRANDV London Road, Reading Just two woras A that are worth lIIPPr Asi iiiiie 1,,,., a naillion 0 0 JOANNE WILLS, in Hollywood, talks to HARRISON FORD 4 FIVE YEARS ago he was since leaving college and a carpenter, spending for six years worked in Hot his days building lywood for a major TV net- kitchen units in film work "I hated it. he admits houses. Today, he now 1 stars' sits back and watches a Hated Is team of carpenters and builders build a new "They made me turn up luxury wing on to his every day for work in a 6 ilf. tr Beverly Hills home 3 jacket and have my picture For, at 36 Chicago-born taken with a lot of starlets I Harrison Ford. the man decided I'd rather be a car- who declared he was penter finished with films, has George Lucas, who stands almost over night become a to make at least £l2 million 4 millionaire.

from his creation. had The two most lucrative worked with Harrison in the words in show-business hit film American Graffiti Star Wars are wholly and asked him to audition i responsible for the drama- for the part of Hans Solo tic change in Ford's for- after testing hundreds of 1 i tunes. other actors for the role. ,1. He plays the pirate space- struggled for six 1 'k A man Hans Solo, helping a years to make Star Wars." ,0 princess and a farmboy to says Harrison Ford "He 1 overthrow the brutal Galac- took his ideas to studio after is ii il tic Empire.

in the £6 million studio before one movie which has already tantly agreed to make it on overtaken Jaws to become condition that he halved the number th uL cacetessstof one box office starting budget. derfully re, made. Star Wars The There pre- are 2 1 ID, the profit estimates a it i in ta are that po te rous. but it's so won- more than £lOO million nearly 400 special effects which must be sweet music and 2.000 snips of cleverly- in Harrison Ford's ears. processed sound.

Producer-director George "Hans Solo is rather like Lucas gave him one per cent me in some ways have 8 Gary Kurtz, producer of of the profits which means the same energy and inten- Star Wars. there's getting on for £1 sity but now I'm trying million in the Ford bank hard to brainwash myself the streets every time I went account. against the Star Wars image nut I've made some which is so powerful and so Certainly I wouldn't go i money, but I don't consider strong." out of my way to say: 'l'm the I myself a star." he told me guy in Star Wars' unless any- 'l'm a perfectionist and War films one asked me I always think that everything Fear of being typecast at 'l'd he a fool if I didn't Ido could have been done irst prevented Harrison admit that the money's nice ft olunc Mart and tha Itiric NO I POSTAGE! I can be posted OF CHARGE HIM, I Station Hill Ottlce Read I i op in 1 7 noun on I or up to In In 30am on Wednesdays I at the Everung Post' off.c• 94 Thr, Broadway. i I or at the tot ig lowing newsagents Townsend. 107 Orford Road 'Wading Canning I I of Lid llanwlyr 61.1 7.lehurst I Maynard 1 Kong Read.

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