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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-12-13, Page 43GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20; 1$730---PAO$ 3 Mut Gold neigh It .i m 0 wil Com, The Canadian Television • to "The Greatest Story rTo1d" has been purchased Global Television-Network, ofA A, Bruner, president I announced last week. four-hour epic was of - ed by United Artists as a le network sale, and in - es :he prerogative to pre - Ise or simulcast the film, as 'world television premiere. The Global purchase of this - jor theatricalfeature is ious saleu o sub- ent to its prev NBC Network for exposure the United States. Global TV will be. offering a ture film in prime time lily every night. The station, inch will be aired on Channel in this area, will present its jor newscast at 6 p.m. in trast to most networks daily ep-up of .news at 11 p.m. The new .English-language twork has purchased more n 500 major motion pic- res, a commitment of over $6 'Ilion, claimed ,by, Mr. Bruner one of the biggest feature m purchases in Canadian • levision history. To date the movie line-up in - odes North American levision premieres of 38 films. e highlights include "The oyfriend", "Goodbye Mr. ips" "Blow Up", ',"War and ace", "Sunset Boulevard", To Catch, A . Thief'', "Ben ur", "Streetcar Named Desire", "Ice Station Zebra", "Secret of Santa Vittoria" and 'Fest-Side Story". .Unique to Canadian envision will be a, Canadian azure film shown once a reek. "Global's support- of the Canadian film industry is an going process," stated Mr. Bruner. "We're here to eim'ulate Canadian eatlwity." The network :.has also pur- ased Canadian television rights to 36 features, 30 of which were originally produced in French in Quebec, for a first- time exposure on an English network. Global has undertaken the cost ofdubbing the Quebec films into English,.- an under:- taking ndertaking which has stimulated the dubbing industry which should place Montreal on a par and in a competitive position with other world dubbing cen- tres in New York, London, Paris and 'Rome.- The English versions of the dubbed films will be available to the Quebec producers for sale in the English-speaking in- ternational 'markets. The features are being dubbed to theatrical standards to ensure extended potential earnings and thus benefit the industry: Aside from those currently being dubbed, 25 more films are scheduled for dubbing three Montreal studios during the next twelve months. Global assures theatrical lead time on the films prior to showing them on the network. About 500 -- actors, actresses, directors, film editors, tran: slators, 'writers, script assistants and technical person- nel -- are involved 'in ' the project. The Quebec films, all of which have been rpade in 'the past five years, include the of- f;ial . Canadian entry at the 1973 Canrnes'film festival "The Death of a Lumberjack", direc- ted by Gilles Carle and "Dream Life," directed by Mirielle Dan- sereau, 'which won the Best Film from a New Director award at the 1973 San Fran- civco film festival. Denis Heroux' film "Enuff Is Enuff (J'ai Voyage)" generated more than $1,750,000 at the box office in Quebec alone and enjoyed an extended run throughout France. Other outstanding films yet to be seen on an English net- work include "Red; The—Ap- prentice", directed by Larry Kent; "The Merry World of Leopold Z"; "The Rebels"; "Hang On To Daddy's Ears"; "Ixe 13" and Gilles Carle's yet to -be; -released "Celestial Bodies". Genevieve Bujold's JACK' JOi[JINOS fROM QUEEN'S PARK first feature film, "Rape Of a Sweet Young Girl", will be aired by Global in late April. Aside from Canadian feature films already-. purchased, Global is in -volved in current productions such 'as "The Ap- prenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz". The network has the Canadian Television Rights to the film directed by Ted Kot- cheff and starring Richard Dreyfuss (American Graffiti) and Micheline Lanctot (La Vrai Nature de Bernadette) scripted by Mordecai Richler based on his best-selling novel of the same name. A Canadian feature film, yet to be announced, will be part of ,Global's launch when the net- work goes on air on January 6th, 1974. Jack Riddell, Huron MPP Yardley You're the Fire Cologne YARDLEY KHADINE The Legislature this week was the scene of a number of very raucous debates between Opposition and Government' members. The uproar .started when Education Minister, Tom Wells, introduced emergency legislation for compulsory ar- bitration to forestall the threat of a January teachers' strike. Mr. Wells admitted that un- certainty over the future law to govern teacher trustee negotiation was one of the con- tributing factors in the 17 disputes _where. ,strikes are threatened.. Bill . 274 as originally in° troduced would nullify letters of resignation submitted November 30th by 7800 teachers in contract disputes with the 17 Provincial school boards. e; May the spirit of Christmas be an ever-present joy to you. Wishing everyone a lovely Christmas and a very good Hew Year. Elsa Haydon Mr. Wells later promised amendments to the legislation so that inst nd of totally revoking resignations that teachers in 16 areas have already submittbd it would now say that it cannot become effec- tive until August 31st, next year. These changes filed to block the 'criticts,,m of the teachers and the opposition to the Bill: On first reading of the Bill the NDP opposed the Bill with the ,Literals joining with the Government. It is a -normal and accepted procedure for all par- ties to agree to the first reading of 'a bill. It _ is only,,, after first reading that Members have an opportunity to read and study the Bill in order to understand fully its'implications. The second reading of a Bill is'a debate on the principle and at this stage the Opposition joined forces in the hope Of con- vincing the Government to withdraw the Bill because of the -many unworkable and distasteful features" of • the proposed legislation. Opposition members stated ,that the Bill would do more to destroy good faith bargaining between teachers and school boards .than any other piece of legislation ever introduced to deal with this subject. The Government refused to withdraw. its amendments to the Planning 'Act despite Op- position members' objection to it. The objection centred around . the haste with which the Bill was being pushed through.. and the nature and scope of some of the far reaching changes. The Bill in- troduced last week will in part allow Municipalities to validate property titles clouded by a land ,division practise known as checker hoarding. It also delegates 38 Provincial powers to regional govern- ments. As.)`the Planning Act was being debated, Jirn Bullbrook and Robert Nixon sitting on -the front benches of the Liberals We have a large selection of TURKEYS GEESE DUCKS CHICKENS BABY BEEF LIVER MAPLE LEAF BACON .started discussing how the Act had been amended before Third Reading. They could not find where the Bill had been printed on the Order Paper and recalling that there was something in the Legislature rides that said a Bill had to be printed before it could be given Third Reading, Mr. Bullbrook stood and gave that as a point 'of order.. Speaker Allan Reuter agreed and said discussion had to ad- journ until a printed copy of the Bill was available. Bert Lawrence, Provincial Secretary of Resource Development, challenged the ruling ignoring the fact that Reuter is a Con- servative MPP and chairs the Legislature debates by appoint- ment of the. Premier. Four members, • including the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Natural Resources stood in the House in support of Bert Lawrence's challenge. So the Bell rang to call in the members for the vote. It would - appear that someone had a•nice firm chat with Lawrence as the Menabers gathered and when the rollcall was held all 87 - MPP's ,present, including Lawrence voted to uphold Mr. Speaker. The Select Committee on the utilization of Education facilities recommended in its second interim report that the Ontario Government should, move toward year round use of schools to increase flexibility and availability . of education. rather than to save money. The 28 page report also✓ concludes that no single scheme for year round 'Use should be imposed throughout the Province and any changes ?should he ap- proved by the local community affected. The Committee repeated recommendations that it made in June, suggesting that school ,operating costs should he calculated for the whole calen- dar year, including the cost of ree use of schools by com- munity groups. It also recom- mended, that Ministry of Education grants be calculated on the basis of these total costs. Their report concluded by saying that there is no'one plan for reorganization or rescheduling the academic year on a Province wide standar- dized basis, hut the Province should work towards a year round educational system. Energy Minister Darcy McKeough indicated to the Legislature that Ontario is likely to favor a move to daylight savink time this winter although the energy . saving from .such a move would probably be negligible. He said however, there were obvious economic implications in terms of industrial time tabling, television, radio, transportation schedules, stock exchanges and so 'on. He felt these factors favored Ontario's aligning it- self with the United States in time terms. Gordon Carton, Minister of Transportation and Com- munications announced that 106 THE SQUARE 524-8551 AROUND Labour Minister Fern Guidon give Chairman Michael., Starr° and other Board Members the power to redesign the Board's,., structure from within by_ im- ptementingmore than ont}•huti- dred recommendations of a Task Force report in Septem- ber. Among the changes praised by Opposition Members are the powers given the Board to assess what an injured work- man will receive, not on the basis of his disability assessed as a percentage by a doctor, but on the basis of 'his lost ear- nings. Following complaints by workmen present that lawyers often,. charged high rates to represent injured workmen at appeal hearings Mr. Guidon agreed ',to consider a request that the Act forbid payment to lawyers- who take the cases. There was mime opposition to the powers proposed for' the Chairman of the Board which included establishing job , lassifi-cations and salary ranges and appointing, and promoting of all employees. Mr. Guindon' was criticized for making it a one man show. The Committee debates resulted in the approval of an amendment, requiring the Board to submit changes in its. regulations to a joint consultative committee ( for comment before they come into effect. The longest debate was over whether there should be participation by the general public in the proposed joint consultative committee. It was suggested that the general tpublic would not know the act well enough to contribute but Mr. Guindon salt he commit- tee should not he .,o narrow as to exclude interested parties such as University experts and former politicians. What the committee is and what it does will be known only if and when the Board decided to set it up. Labour Minister Fern Guin= don told the Legislature that the Government would be glad to collect severance pay4or the 396 employees of Hall Lamp Company of Canada Limited if it could, using the expression, you can't get blood out of a stone. Mr. Guindon said the Government has to find out how. solvent the Company is and "show- much money is available. He said the problem is compounded because a num- ber of United States Companies are involved. Health Minister Richard Pot - tel' has promised to bring in legislation to cover all health disciplines in Ontario, in- cluding the Chiropractic profession. The Health Disciplines Act will be in- troduced early in the Spring session of the Legislature. Dr. Potter told the House that some chiropractors were guilty of abuses in their claims on the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. Dr. Potter has had drawn to his attention by OHIP officials some of the conditions which some of the Chiropractors had been treating people,' `l*ot that which is simply unace ptable. Dr. Potter said thatsome the Ontario Government has Chiropractors who manipulate decided to halt construction of __the spine were claiming to treat he Bfantford Express. thereby such conditions as because of the Public outcry multiple sclerosis, and data showing the ex- mononucleosis, conorary con. pressway was not needed. In- ditions and gallbladder disease. stead a two lane arterial road, He said his proposed Health adequate to meet' the needs of Disciplines Act will spell out. Brantford will be built, within what rule each practice should the same corridor. piny in the health field. A committee of the Legislature slowly moved through, amended and finally e 7 approved changes to the Work- men's Compensation Board Act. The changes introduced by , Bath Foam 3° Soap Cachet PERFUME The Gift As Individual As She is Tweed COLOGNE & BATH ITEMS from '350 PRINCE MATCHABELLI NN hid Solas or Helmet! I'f'rItope' Musk Oil The Primitive Naturals The Original Cologne FOR HIM Thi*. (:hrklaraa% (,i%e Ilirtt BR LU T AFTER' SHAVE from *425 fiJQt.EtR FILLED CHOCOIATES $25o