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Canadian brewers
upset with taxes

By BRENDAN NAGLE
Staff Writer
The Brewers Association of Canada is

hopping mad

at the federal and provincial governments over high
beer taxes. The association is also foaming over the
price Canadian brewers have to pay for barley from the

Canadian Wheat Board.

Howard Collins, director of communications for the

association,

stopped in Castlegar this week on an

information whistle-stop trip and said it’s time the
governments stopped hitting the beer drinker with taxes

to raise revenue.

“The main reason beer is higher priced in Canada

is because of the taxation system,’’
Castlegar News. “In Canada ni

ionally,

he told the

federal and

provincial taxation on beer totals 52 per cent of what

you pay for your beer."”

He also said the federal and provincial taxes on

beer in B.C. are among the

highest in the free world’’

at 56 per cent. ‘‘That means 56 cents on every dollar

you spend on beer goes to governments,"’

he said.

The association has begun an advertising campaign
putting pamphlets in beer cases and advertisements

in newspapers — to convince beer

the time

has come for governments to stop raising taxes on

Canadian brew

“What we're trying to do is raise the awareness to
ensure the beer consumer knows just how much he is

« Paying in taxes,”’ he said

“We also hope to encourage

consumers to let their political representatives know

how they feel about these taxes."’

Collins was quick to point out the association is not

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trying to get the governments to roll back taxes on
Canadian brew but instead lay off further tax increases.

“I don’t think it’s realistic to think the govern-
ment will ever roll back taxes,"’ he said. ‘‘We expect
to pay our fair share of taxes, we always have.’’

Collins said beer taxes in B.C. have increased 141
per cent since 1980 and on average nationally, beer
taxes have climbed to $5.62 per dozen bottles from
$2.12 10 years ago.

It’s getting harder for Canadian breweries to
compete with their U.S. counterparts, Collins said.

“Comparable beer taxation in the United States is
1S per cent,"’ he said, adding the U.S. brewers are not
subjected to Purchasing barley from a government-run

**monopoly.”’

“Canadian brewers have to buy from the Canadian
Wheat Board,"’ he said. ‘‘They’re the government
monopoly the Canadian brewing companies have to
buy from. The additional cost has been 20 to 100 per
cent above the world price. U.S. purchasers can buy
their barley at world prices."’

But Collins said the focal point of the association's
information drive at the moment is to inform the
consumers of the taxes on Canadian brew.

“If people are aware of what the tax rate is, it
makes it more difficult for the governments to turn to
beer for additional revenue,” he said. ‘‘I don’t think it’s
fair for them to turn to the beer drinker to raise more
revenue. The governments have to realize the pockets of
beer drinkers are not bottomless.’

The Brewers Association of Canada is privately-
owned and funded by 15 breweries across the country
and represents the Canadian brewing industry

Pulp alternative found

MONTREAL (CP)

In five fields in the Rio

Grande valley of south Texas grows an exotic plant that

reaches high toward the searing sun

It's called kenaf, and it has the potential to shake up

the multibillion-dollar newsprint market,

which pro-

vides more than 400,000 direct and indirect jobs in the

Canadian pulp and paper industry

Kenaf, a member of the hibiscus family, grows to
the height of a two-storey house and has been described
as looking like cotton with a hormone problem.

The plant,

long used to make rope in Asia and

Africa, needs a long growing season; it will grow just

about anywhere cotton will.

For more than 25 years it has been researched as a
fast-growing alternative to wood pulp for newsprint.

Now a group called Kenaf International has joined
Canadian Pacific Forest Produets of Toronto to lay the
groundwork for a kenaf newsprint mill in Texas.

“The United States publishers have

always been

concerned that we're so dependent on newsprint from

Canada and other parts of the world,”
officer of the Bakersfield

Stanners, chief executive

says Jerry

Californian, the largest investor in Kenaf International.
“We can grow kenaf in the southern part of the
United States and we don't have to wait 20 or 30 years

for it to mature,”
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Stanners said by telephone from his
“It matures in five months.”
NEWSPAPERS

The mill would produce 231,000 tonnes of news
print a year, enough to supply seven newspapers the

size of the Montreal Gazette.

“It's equal to what is produced up in Canada in

terms of quality

Stanners.

. and it performs equal to or better
than our southern pine in the United States,”

said

“It’s much brighter than any of those sheets, and

with all the color that newspapers are
whiter the sheet the better.”

At the current price of $650 US a tonne,

using — the

the Texas

mill's annual output would be worth $150 million
Canadian Pacific and Kenaf International have a
supply of kenaf seed and are ready to contract with

Texas farmers to plant the 172 square kilometres
needed to supply the proposed mill.

Standing in the way of construction are engin
eering studies, financing and environmental permits.

Doug Wilson, kenaf project manager at Canadian
Pacific, said the plant's potential has competitors
watching

“The supply of fibre for making newsprint is finite
on the North American continent and there is, a
continuing growth of demand for it,” Wilson said.

Both Wilson and Stanners said kenaf is aimed at
meeting growing American demand, not threatening
Canadian paper exports.

“Unless it is dramatically less expensive to produce
newsprint from kenaf it’s not going to replace the mills
that are already producing good-quality newsprint from
wood fibre,” said Wilson.

A spokesman for Abitibi-Price, the world’s largest
newspring producer, said the company looked at kenaf
but decided to pursue other opportunities such as
joint-ventures newsprint mills in Alabama and
Venezuela.

“Obviously, we're going to keep a very close eye on
it,” said John Gustavson. “We decided to let someone
else go to the market and see if it’s viable.”

Gustavson said kenaf has “significant minuses” —
heavy waste in the milling process and a short sheft lift
after the plant has been harvested.

“We're not losing any sleep over it,” says Keith
Newman, a researcher for the 60,000-member Canadian
Paperworkers Union.

He said it will take many years for kenaf to grab a
sizable share of the North American newsprint market.

“We are more concerned that the Canadian
government and industry do more to reforest land to
ensure a good supply of wood for paper in the future,”
Newman added.

He said there have been problems with dirt from
kenaf getting into the milling process and marring the
newsprint. He also pointed out that unlike trees, there
is always a risk of crop failure with kenaf.

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ion, is Ng a regional review of the

Fp sen Land Commission (ALC) and invites input from
individuals and interest groups in the form of written submissions.

As outlined in the ee William Vander Zalm' 's press release of

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, there will be a

province-wide review of phe ALC by region "to determine whether its
are appropriate, given that land use requirements and needs
differ throughout the Province.”

In the Kootenay Development Region, the responsibility for reviewing
the ALC has been given to the Agriculture Task Force. They will be
assessing the criteria used by the ALC to evaluate land-use issues and

P
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Of the issues traded, 221 advan-
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Big Ben back and on time

OTTAWA (CP) — Big Ben Johnson is back — and
ticking right on time.

The world 100-metre sprint champion breezed to
victory Saturday in the national championships with an
unofficial clocking of 9.90 seconds in his specialty.

The time will be noted as wind-aided, however, as
the breeze was 3.7 metres a second, well over the limit
of 2.0 for any recognizable run.

Johnson, 26, of Toronto, holder of the world record
of 9.83 seconds, had been sidelined for nearly three
months with a leg muscle injury before running Friday
in the heats in a slow 10.38.

Johnson ran a 10.20 semifinal Saturday and one
hour later took the final in only his third full outdoor
race of the season.

The wind reading at Terry Fox Stadium, where it
had been gusting lightly in the hot and humid

itions of late for Johnson's run
after dipping minutes before during the women's 100
final.

Arch-rival Carl Lewis, the United States champion,
ran @ wind-aided 9.78 at the American championships
last month in Indianapolis.

The muscular Johnson burst out the Plocks in the
final with his usual explosiveness and maintained his
powerful stride for the entire distance. In two earlier
races, he had eased up considerably after 50 metres.

SET FOR ZURICH .
Johnson said before the final that he needs to gain
racing sharpness after the layoff and will run at least
four times in Europe this month, with Zurich,
Switzerland, on his agends.
The injury to Johnson first occurred Feb. 5 in West

Red-hot Expos
down Cardinals

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tom Foley hit a
two-run triple, and Otis Nixon added
a two-run double as the Montreal
Expos continued their National
League hex over the St. Louis Car-
dinals with a S-4 triumph Saturday.

The Expos are 10-2 against the
Cards this season and have won 11 of
their last 13 games. They also have
won 14 of their last 16 on the road.

Rookie Brian Holman, 2-3, allowed
five hits over five innings for the vic-
tory. Andy McGaffigan pitched out of
a bases-loaded jam in the seventh,
and Tim Burke pitched the final 1 2-3

of a jam of his own making.

With one out in the Cards ninth,
Vince Coleman and Ozzie Smith si
gled consecutively off Burke. Smith’s
single sent Coleman to third, and
Smith stole second. Coleman scored
on a groundout by Willie McGee as
Smith went to third, Tom Brunan
walked and Burke finally got out of it

hit a soft liner that eluded right
fielder Brunansky for a triple and two
more runs.

Holman set down the first seven
Cards batters until Tom Pagnozzi
doubled to centre with one out in the
third. Pinch-hitter Tim Jones singled
Pagnozzi to third, and Coleman drove
in a run with a fielder's choice

when Terry P out.

Danny Cox, 3-8, was the loser. The
Expos got three runs off Cox in the
first inning. Nixon led off with a
single, Dave Martinez singled him to
third, and Tim Raines drove in the

The RBI was only Cole-
man’s fifth since May 25.

Montreal scored twice off reliever
Larry McWilliams in the fourth to
pad their lead to S-1. With one out,
Mike Fitzgerald and Rex Hudiler sin-

Germany in a 60-metre indoor event and he didn't race
again until May 13 in Tokyo, where he pulled up lame in
the outdoor 100 with further problems to the hamstring
muscle high in his left leg.

Johnson also indicated he doesn't expect to meet
Lewis until the Olympic Games in Seoul next month.
Following that race Sept. 23, Johnson and Lewis may
meet in a stakes race in Tokyo which could be worth
$500,000 to the winner.

Angella Issajenko of Toronto ran her best time of
the year, 11.01 seconds, in taking the women’s 100 once
again

Charmaine Crooks of Toronto became a three-time
winner of the women’s 400 metres with a time of 51.33
seconds. She qualified for the Olympics last year with a
13th-place finish at the world championships.

Canada’s best 400 runner, Jillian Richardson of
Calgary, bypassed the event to work on her speed in the
200 spring

The men's 400 title went to Carl Folkes of the
University of Toronto in 46.47 seconds, well over the
Canadian Olympic Association qualifying standard for
Seoul of 45.53.

Renee Belanger of Longueuil, Que., took the
women's 800 in 2:02.94, but missed the COA standard
of 2:00.88.

In the men’s 800, Simon Hoogewerf of Vancouver
defended his title with an easy win in 1:46.99. He met
the COA standard 10 days ago with a run of 1:45.54 in
Victoria.

Glenroy Gilbert of Ottawa qualified for the
Olympics by winning the men’s long jump in 8.10
metres, beating the COA standard of 8.0.

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Kootenays win gold

By CasNews Staff

The ladies’ golf team representing
the Kootenay zone captured the gold
medal at last weekend’s B.C. Sum-
mer Games in in Oak Bay. The team
included two Castlegar members,
Sue Forrest and coach Marie Mak-
aroff.

Cranbrook and
Invermere.

Meanwhile,

Other team members include Lynn
Copeland of Trail, Sue Moisey, Kelli
May and Cherry Mclvor of Nelson,
Gladys Wortman and Janis Spurr of

Clay 40.5.

beginning with
(1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11,

first run with a sacrifice fly.
After Graig Nettles walked, Foley

Hanson also won the bronze medal
for individual low gross score.
in ladies golf play
Tuesday at the Castlegar Golf
Course, Lesley Johanson was one of
three winners with a score of 38.
Mary Martin had a 39.5 and Helen

Scores were counted only on holes

gled. McWilliams fielded Holman’s
sacrifice bunt but dropped the ball
for an error, loading the bases.

Nixon, who is hitting .372 against
the Cards this year and just .179

inst the rest of the league, then
hit his two-run double to right field.

The Cards got their lead to 5-1.
With one out, Mike Fitzgerald and
Rex Hudler singled. McWilliams
fielded Holman’s sacrifice bunt but
dropped the ball for an error, loading
the bases.

Nixon, who is hitting .372 against
the Cards this year and just .179
against the rest of the league, then
hit his two-run double to right field.

The Cards got their second run in
the fourth on Pagnozzi's bases-load-
ed sacrifice fly.

Sherry Hanson of

the letters ONES
16, 17, 18).

Oilers don't
dare trade
Great One

Is Wayne Gretzky going to Los Angeles so he
can stay close to his new wife while she plies her
trade on the big screen in Tinsel Town? Not bloody
likely.

Recent rumors — which are the norm for
Gretzky and the Oilers following each NHL season —
say the Los Angeles Kings have offered the Oilers
$15 million along with snipers, Jimmy Carson and
Luc Robataille for the Great One's services.

Steve Knowles — a professional mouthpiece
speaking from the Oiler head office — says the
rumors are just that . . . rumors.

“Every year we have a rumor,"’ he laments over
the “There's no sub’ to it at all."”

Knowles says the Gretzky trade rumors are not
new to the Oiler organization at all. Last year it was
reported the New York Rangers were trying to land
the Great One.

“The first I heard of this one was Wednesday
when ‘a paper from Los Angeles called," he says.

“There's nothing to it."”

No doubt the L.A. press corps heard a reliable
source say he overheard someone else talking about
how his brother-in-law discovered the Oilers were
interested in dealing Gretzky to L.A. to keep his wife
happy:

Once that plum was tabled, it was a free-for-all
as writers and gossip hunters went to work to give
the rumors some substance.

by the
L.A. press — focussed on Gretzky's new wife, Janet

Sporting

Views

By Brendan Nagle

Shows you just how Californians view marriage .
. after a couple of weeks the differences are already
insurmountable.

Oiler fans need not fear though. The L.A. Kings
head office in Inglewood is just as adamant about the
trade not happening as the Oilers are.

David Courtenay — L.A.'s answer to Steve
Knowles — says there is nothing to the latest rumor
surrounding the Great One.

“(Kings general manager) Rogie Vachon has
gone on record saying he has had no conversation
with any general manager on a trade of that
magnitude,"’ he says. ‘‘It was all rumor.”

Courtenay said he believes the rumor was
generated from a fashion/entertainment piece in a
L.A newspaper which suggested how nice it would
be if Janet's new hubby could live with her year
round in Tinsel Town. It travelled quickly from there
to D where C says the
was then spun into the current hot item.

“It was all rumor published in a Montreal
newspaper,”’ he says.

The deal doesn't make much sense for Los
Angeles anyway. They'd be parting with $15 million
and the two guys | Gretzky could team up with most

For E the would be
public outrage at the deal and a significant loss of
supporters, although the team’ would probably still
be a contender with the two L.A. scoring aces.

At it stands, Gretzky spends his time in

Jones. The blonde bomb: is trying to
eke out an existence in the not so real confines of
Hollywood. So we've got a Canadian hockey star with
every reason to stay in Edmonton all of a sudden
wanting to jump ship to keep his wife happy. I don’t
figure it's gotten to that point yet . . . they've only
been married a few weeks.

The rumor festered but by Monday it will be
nothing more than a bad joke being tossed around
local watering holes.

during the hockey season and visits his
wife whenever he gets a chance. In the off-season
the couple spends their time in Janet's world.

If the Oilers ever were looking to deal the Great
One, they'd wait until he was inthe last year of his
contract which expires in 1992. The club could
dangle him tantalizingly at clubs hoping to cash in on
his experience and gate appeal.

And they'd proably still get the farm for him .
wife or no wife.

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POWERHOUSE HIT .

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KC bombs Blue Jays

TORONTO (CP) — Mark Gubicza
allowed three hits over eight innings,
striking out a season-high 10, and
four teammates hit solo homers as
the Kansas City Royals routed the
Toronto Blue Jays 11-1 in an Ameri-
can League baseball game Saturday

Kurt Stillwell, Jamie Quirk, Danny
Tartabull and George Brett each
homered for the Royals. Brett's was
the 250th of his career.

Gubicza, 14-6, allowed only Fred
McGriff's 27th homer of the season
in the second inning before giving
way to Steve Farr, who pitched a
hitless ninth.

Quirk led off the third against
Dave Stieb, 11-8, with his fourth
homer. One out later, Stillwell hit his
10th homer. Tartabull hit his 17th
homer in the fourth inning

The Royals sealed the outcome
with five runs in the fifth. Stillwell
walked, stole second, and came home
when Kevin Seitzer singled, chasing
Stieb.

Brett then hit reliever Fran
Wills's first pitch for a single, and
after a sacrifice, Wills intentionally
walked Frank White to load the
bases. Pat Tabler drew a walk on five
pitches to force in a run, and Brett
came in on a wild pitch, scoring the
1,200th run of his career. Quirk hit a
single to drive in two more:

Tabler is S-for-6 with 13 runs
batted in for bases-loaded situations

this year. In his career, he’s 34-for
61, with 81 RBIs.

In the eighth, Willie Wilson hit a
run-scoring triple-and scored on a
grounder, and with two out Brett hit
his 19th homer.

Meanwhie, Mat Nokes hit a
two-run homer that backed the
seven-hit pitching of Doyle Alexan-
der, and the Detroit Tigers beat
Boston for the fourth straight time
Saturday, 4-2, matching “the Red
Sox's longest losing streak of the
season.

The victory increased the Tigers’
first-place lea over Boston to four
games in baseball's American
League East. The Red Sox entered

Summer

By CasNews Staff

Hockey players hoping to get an
early start at the Community Com-
plex ice arena will have to wait a
little longer to lace up the blades —
the ice melted.

Complex maintenance workers
started flooding the arena with water
Sunday and the ice had formed
earlier this week before the brine
pump broke down, causing the ice to
melt.

“‘We suffered some minor mech-
anical problems,"’ recreation director
Pat Metge told the Castlegar News

the five-game showdown series rid-
ing the crest of a 19-1 streak under
manager Joe Morgan, who took over
after the all-star break. Boston now is
19-5 under Morgan

Alexander, 11-6, who struck out
six and didn't walk a batter, is un-
beaten in his last seven outing at
Tiger Stadium, going 5-0 over that
stretch. He is 7-2 in his 11 starts at
home this season and 12-2 in 17 life-
time starts here as a Tiger

Wes Gardner, making his eighth
start since being forced to the
Boston rotation by an injury to Jeff
Sellers, allowed four runs on nine
hits in 6 2-3 innings. Gardner walked
five and struck out six

ice melts

“The brine pump went out for about
four hours before we could fix it.""

Metge said the pump helps freeze
the surface at the arena, adding that
four hours of down-time is all it took
for the ice to melt. He said the cost to
repair the pump was “minor” but
crews will be scrambling to have the
ice in by Aug. 15 for the start of the
Kootenay College Hockey School
program

He said crews will be flooding the
surface with water again on Tuesday
and putting down the lines on the
surface Thursday