Witness meeting in Trail ‘The Trail congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses _ will host witnesses from the East and West Kootenays at two special meetings in the Com- ineo Gym March 8 at 10 a.m. On The Street. . . QUESTION: Are you planning to visit Expo 86 this summer? Why? Why not? Pharmasave Join us for our price fighter specials! Kurri gets 50th goal of the season give us home-ice advantage for every series in the playoffs,” Gretzky said. “It means a whole lot when you consider we haven't lost a playoff game at home in two ABC Detergent VANCOUVER (CP) — On an occasion when Jar Kurri should have been celebrating his 50th goal of the season, the humble right winger talked more about the $999 Brian Vecchic Yes. I want to see how it looks. Doug Morisseau We were but we changed our minds. Cominco (the layoffs) has down there. some passes. something to do with it but a lot has to do with what we see on the news, the evictions. A lot of people are being shafted. It’s wrong to support something I don't believe in Grewal Yes. I just want to see what's Corinna Pereverzoff Probably not. I'll be working this summer. I'm not interested in it. Steve Raven Yes. My sister-in-law gave me No. I think there's too much objection to it. With the province the way it is now, there's too much money being spent (on Expo). $999 6..*2°° Flex Balsam & Protein Medicated Shampoo them locally. Flex Balsam & Protein “The - Medicated organization of Jeho- Mousse vah's Wi is y : vio Saleisigve ters’ {1 Peter 5:9) and the members of the world head- quarters ‘family’ take great interest in helping their fellow witnesses with the news release announcing the visit. Corky Evans, candidate for the Nelson-Creston NDP nomination, says that the new federal budget spells bad news for the forest industry in B.C. “Michael Wilson clearly has bought the Socred line that the forest industry is all washed up,” said Evans. “The federal move to shift tax incentives from resource industries to service indus- tries‘ makes Mayor Gerald Rotering’s attempts to bring mill investment to Nelson much more difficult,” he added in a prepared release. Evans said removal of tax incentives for capital invest- ment means an industry al- ready hard hit by falling prices and out-dated equip- Blencoe proposes Expo housing law VICTORIA (CP) NDP housing critic Robin Blencoe is proposing a law to give municipalities power to deal with housing dislocations of poor people caused by Expo related pressure on accom modation space. “I am sorry it is necessary, but the Bennett government created this problem through a lack of foresight,” Blencoe said in an interview Tuesday, outlining a private member's bill he plans to introduce “The government must ac cept its responsibility and prevent further hardship to those who can least afford to be put on the street.” Blencoe's bill reflects the recommendations of Vancou- ver city council, whose call for immediate legislation to control evictions has been rejected by Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Ritchie. Blencoe said rent increases should be limited to five per when again next Monday. DANGEROUS GOODS SEMINAR There willbe a Dangerous Goods Seminar held at the Hi Arrow Arms, Castlegar Sunday, March 9 For all T s 213 Members Please phone Kelowna Teamsters Office 765-3195 To Pre-Register the legislature sits cent and evictions should be allowed only for just cause. ment will find it difficult to upgrade older mills or build new ones. “The industry faces a diffi- cult transition time,” said Evans. “The changeover to efficient mills and diversified secondary manufacturing is imperative if the industry is to survive. 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Edmonton has allowed just seven goals while winning its last four games, a facet of the game which pleases superstars like Kurri, Gretzky and Coffey. “We're capable of playing that style of hockey when we want,” said Coffey, who has 38 goals from his defence position. “We've always been capable of tightening up in our zone when the time comes. “I guess we don't play that way all season — we'd rather go with the skating game most of the time — because it would be difficult to play a grinding style like Montreal, Boston and Buffalo does for all 80 games. It's a lot more fun this way.” FORGE SOLID LEAD Craig MacTavish and Mark Napier also scored for the Oilers who took a 3-1 lead into the final period which they totally dominated. Edmonton now has 96 points, 10 more than Philadelphia Flyers in the overall standings. Garth Butcher and rookie Craig Coxe scored for the outelassed Canucks who have lost nine of their last 12 games but still cling to the fourth and last playoff spot in the Smythe Division. Gretzky's four assists give him 132, just three short of the single-season record he established a year ago. “We want to finish first overall because that would 365-7813 “I think we're playing with more discipline lately. In the playoffs you have to be fast, be defensive and be physical. We can be all three.” Edmonton coach Glen Sather was pleased with the steady netminding of Andy Moog and the increased awareness of his defence in all three zones. PLAY TIGHTER “We seem to be a lot more concerned lately about protecting the goaltender,” said Sather. “We seem to have the ability at the end of the season to tighten up and play better defensively.” The Oilers also got the best of the Canucks during a brief braw! in the final period which started when hulking Oiler forward Dave Semenko decked Vancouver's Mare Crawford from behind, a carryover from a second-period bodyeheck Crawford put on Semenko. Six players were ejected by referee Bob Myers and the Canucks had a five-minute power play when Semenko got the extra fighting major. Kurri, Coffey and Gretzky all had good scoring chances while killing the penalty, however, as the Oilers showed their superiority by attacking while shorthanded. “We had two good periods, then seemed to let up in the third,” said Butcher. “The goal would have felt a lot sweeter in a victory.” Canuck coach Tom Watt said he was tempted to send his players over the boards when Vancouver captain Stan Smyl was being manhandled by Semenko during the brawl. “But, you can't do that because people get suspended, including the coach,” said the angry Watt. “I just didn't like the way the officials let Semenko carry on like that.” It was Edmonton's fifth victory in six games this season against the Canucks. The other ended in a tie. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Baumann-equals record By DAVID GERSOVITZ MONTREAL (CP) — Alex Baumann had a weird start, goofed on a turn, faded in the final 10 metres and still equalled one of his two world records Tuesday night as the winter national swimming championships wound up. Baumann, 21, matched the record of two minutes, 1.42 seconds in the 200-metre in- dividual medley he set win- ning one of his two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. It was a less-than-perfect swim, which makes the time all the more amazing. Baumann got away with what appeared to be a false start as he leaned forward on the block anticipating the starting gun. Instead of help. ing him, the early start threw the 21-year-old politicl sci. ence student from Sudbury, Ont., off his race. “I was looking for a false start. I caught (anticipated) the start and I wasn't ready to swim at that time. “I just wanted to get into the water to loosen up a bit.” Baumann was expecting to be caught. When the gun didn't go off a second time signalling a false start, he threw his butterfly into over- drive. He covered the first of four laps in 27.07 — almost three quarters of a second faster than his record pace at the Olympics — but that set him off kilter for the backstroke, the second of strokes. Then he made a bad turn from the backstroke into the breaststroke, an error his coach, Jeno Tihanyi, felt cost Baumann as much as 3-10ths of a second — and a world record. Jon Kelly of Victoria ac- tually led for the first two laps, but then Baumann took command in the breast stroke, his best stroke. Baumann, a hint of dis- appointment in his voice, said he might have done better overall had he taken his but- terfly out slightly slower — 27.46 would have been fine, he said. The decision to go for the record was only made in the morning when Baumann told Tihanyi he felt strong. TOOK PLANNING When he set the record in 1984, it was the product of months of preparation, in- cluding the analysis of all his major rivals by Tihanyi Almost lost in Baumann’s wake Tuesday was another record by Andrea Nugent, 17, of the University of Cal gary Swim Club. She set a Commonwealth record in the women's 50-metre freestyle sprint with a 26.16 clocking, erasing the five-year-old mark of 26.25 held by the retired Carol Klimpel of Tor- onto. “I'm a drop-dead sprinter, that’s my event,” she said proudly. “You go all out.” In the other finals, Cal- gary’s Tom Ponting, 21, added the men’s 200-metre butterfly title in 2:00.58 to go with his earlier win in the 100-metre butterfly. Toronto's Blair Hicken, 21, captured the men's version of the 50-metre sprint in 23.69 to atone for a disappointing fourth-place showing in Mon. day’s 100-metre freestyle. The women's 200-metre butterfly went to Donna Mc- Ginnis, 17, in 2:12.81 for her third gold medal of the com. petition. Debbie Wurzbur- ger, 16, of London, Ont., missed her Canadian record in the women's 800-metre freestyle. Alberta rink leads KITCHENER, ONT. (CP) — Al Harnden can take some consolation in his rink’s 7-5 loss to Russ Howard of Ontario at the Canadian men's curling championship Tuesday night It was the annual grudge match between Harnden's Northern Ontario champs from Sault Ste. Marie and the southern Ontario title-holders from Penetanguishene with the loser paying for the party back at the hotel. “It's a poolside party and all their rooms front onto the pool, so I told Al if he won we'd be partying outside his room all night,” Howard was able to joke following a 10th end steal that ensured the win, Ontario's fifth at the Labatt Brier. The victory kept Ontario, with a 5-1 mark, second in the 12-rink, round-robin championship behind 5-0 Ed Lukowich of Alberta. Lukowich and his Calgary foursome saddled a fading New Brunswick team, skipped by Wade Blanchard, with a 10-5 loss. The setback was the Maritime team's second straight after entering the day tied with Alberta for the lead. The results of Tuesday night's eighth draw left a surprise Newfoundland rink third at 42 followed by Northern Ontario and New Brunswick, 3-2; Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 3-3; B.C., Quebec and Territories, 2-4; Nova Scotia, 1-4; and Prince Edward Island, 1-5. MANITOBA WINS In other late games, Mike Riley of Manitoba downed Nova Scotia champion Bill Campbell of Halifax 7-5 with a last-end steal; Grant Somers of Summerside, PEI, romped 8-3 over Klaus Schoenne of the Territories and Lyle Muyres of St. Gregor, Sask., needed two extra ends to edge Quebec's Gordon Hess from Montreal, 6-5. In the seventh round, Alberta stole its last three points in an 8-3 win over Manitoba, Ontario needed an extra end to beat Nova Scotia, 6-5, Northern Ontario trimmed the Territories 9-4, Quebec handled Barry McPhee of Kamloops 82, and Fred Durant’s unheralded Newfoundland champs from St. John’s handed New Brunswick its first loss, 9-2. In the morning, Newfoundland downed PEI 7-4 and Saskatchewan beat B.C. 5-4. The eighth-round win for Alberta equalled one of the Brier’s oldest records — 19 straight victories by a province in round-robin play. The Albertans met Nova Scotia in one of two morning games today in their bid to establish a new standard. Lukowich started the streak by winning his last three games in the preliminary round at the 1984 Victoria Brier. Pat Ryan went 11-0 in last year's round-robin. WINNING STREAK Three Winnipeg rinks established the 19-game streak, Jim Welsh with five by Jim Kennedy to open the 1939 championship. Howard admitted that Ontario has been fortunate to win most of its games. He said even a 92 blowout of B.C. on Sunday night was a cliffhanger until the eighth end when a key miss by McPhee allowed them to steal five points. “But other than that score, we've been winning by only one or two points,” he said Blanchard, who was disappointed with his team's performance Tuesday after showing so much promise the first two days, said he's not about to cash in their playoff chances despite the double setback. “It's a long 11-game series, so a couple of losses isn't going to hurt us all that badly,” he said. “If we can bounce back with a couple of wins tomorrow, we'll be right back in it at 52." He called this morning's match with Northern Ontario, “probably our biggest match up to now.” / IN CONTROL . . . Cranbrook player skates away with games were played in the Kootenay final. Cranbrook puck with Castlegar Pee Wee Rep close behind during provincials weekend action at the Community Complex. Two took both games to advance to the Jets end speculation by demoting coach WINNIPEG (CP) — Bar- The betting money had But Ferguson hinted he ry Long’s National Hockey League coachifig tareér ground to-a halt Tuesday when general manager John Ferguson ended months of speculation by taking control of the bench for the final 14 games of the season. Angry fans, confused play. ers and eager reporters have lived the last few weeks in anticipation of the announce- ment. Either Long or Ferguson had to be held accountable for Winnipeg’s dismal 19-41-6 record and the likelihood the team would miss the playoffs. Winnipeg, which has lost eight of its last nine games including a 61 thrashing Monday by the struggling Toronto Maple Leafs, is at home tonight to playoff-hun. gry New York Rangers said Long, 35, would pay the price. Ferguson, who is also the Jets’ vice-president, might already be looking for his own replacement as coach asthe NHL playoffs loom on horizon. signed a five-year contract at the the end of last season and would have been costly to re- place. Fiesty centre Laurie Bos. chman bluntly told reporters after a Winnipeg Arena practice Long’s domotion was the team's fault. “The players have to take a lot of responsibility,” Bosch. man said. “He (Long) got the most out of us last year, but for whatever reason this year we just haven't put it to gether. Ferguson told reporters e Long would stay with the Jets as his assistant and as sistant coaches Rich Bowness and Bill Sutherland also would retain their jobs. “We'll decide as time goes by. But right now we have an objective to make the play- offs and that is our major concern,” Ferguson said. Bowness and Jets’ captain Dale Hawerchuk also said the players must take the blame for the decision to remove Long. “Everyone's at fault when you have a season like we're having.” Bowness said. “It's the old cliche about moving the coach instead of 20 play- rs. “It hurts a lot to see a friend get fired. But after 11 years in pro hockey, I've learned that it's the coaches that go,” Bowness said. Ladies hold bonspiel The Castlegar Ladies Cur ling Club is hosting their an nual Barbee bonspiel this weekend in the Castlegar Curling rink. This year 32 rinks (a full slate) will be competing in this popular event. Teams are entered from Cranbrook, Trail, Nelson, Riondel, Cres. ton, Grand Forks and Ross. land, as well as from the homeclub Castlegar. Play will start on Friday at 5 p.m. with four draws scheduled for that day and competition continues on Sat urday and Sunday, with the finals scheduled for 6 p.m. on Bill's Sunday The play will be for tro phies as well as for prizes in four events. The A event winners will take home a prize donated by Labatt’'s Breweries as well as the An. derson Insurance Ltd. trophy. In the B event the play will be for the Super Valu trophy, the C event winners will receive a new trophy donated by Palm Dairies, and the competition in the D event will be for the Tudor Sports trophy. Prizes will be given out to the top four winners in each event. As usual, on Saturday wins over Gander By CasNews Staff Bill's Heavy Duty edged Gander Creek 6-5 in Castle gar Gentlemen's Hockey League action Monday night In other games, Loomis. AM Ford tied Bill's 3-3 on Sunday while Kalesnikoff beat Mountain Sports 13-2 and Gander Creek won 10-3 over Dairy Queen. On Saturday, Loomis beat Dairy Queen 10-2 and Friday Dairy Queen nipped Gander Creek 7-6. Loomis leads the league with 33 wins, nine losses and three ties for 69 points. Bill's is second with 21 wins, 17 losses and six ties for 48 points. Kalesnikoff is third with 46 points, while Gander Creek has 40 points for fourth spot. Dairy Queen is fifth with 31 points and Mountain Sports is last with 28 points. For complete statistics, see Mid-Week Wrap-Up, page B2. night the ladies will enjoy a supper prepared by the men's curling club, followed by entertainment provided by the curlers, while later on there will be dancing. Regular league play is now in its final month and the standings at the end of Feb- ruary are as follows: Tuesday afternoon (play for K. An- dreashuk trophy): the Cheri Lyons rink is leading with 19 points and the Sophie Janicki rink is in second place with 18 points. Tuesday evening (Niconag trophy): the Ann Stasila rink is in first place with 25 points, followed by the Vi Krest rink with 22 points, closely followed by Marie Prokop and her four some with 20 points. The Thursday evening league is playing for the Dixie Lee trophy and the leader here is the Michelle Feeney rink with 24 points, with the Ruth Trickey rink in second place with 22 points. The ladies curling club congratulates Dale Hockley of Castlegar and his rink members Jerry Webb of Creston, Jim Molitwenik of Castlegar and Jerry Dehmke of Fernie. This rink recently captured the B.C. Police Curling Association title. The rink will defend its Canadian Police Championship title in Halifax, Nova Scotia starting March 23. _- Costtews Photo by Phi! Celderbonk Wees played good two-way hockey but in a five-minute span Cranbrook scored four goals to move out into an in- surmountable lead. David Josephson led Castlegar’s scoring with a hat Rileof and Frank Strobel netted singles. Jeff Barr, Roger Carlson and Danny Stelek assisted on the plays. In the second game, the Pee Wees were unable to mount any kind of attack against a tenacious fore checking Cranbrook team. Another quick flurry of goals, as in the first game, put Cranbrook out in front, put ting the game out of reach. Rilcof, assisted by Aaron Pongracz, accounted for Castlegar’s first goal. Lonnie Schmidt, unassisted, com pleted the Reps’ scoring Barry Grunerud and Jamie Muller backed the team in net. The Pee Wees have en- joyed a very eventful year under the direction of coach Mal Stelck and assistant coach Aaron Stoushnow. Chiefs make changes SPOKANE, WASH. (CP) — Mare Pezzin has been re- lieved of his duties as general manager of Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League, the major junior team an- nounced Tuesday. Majority owner Vic Fitz- gerald said Pezzin would re tain his head coaching posi- tion for the balance of the season Fitzgerald also fired Ernie Gare, who had been assis- tant coach and director of player personnel. The owner also met Mon. day with Bob Strumm of Re- gina, former coach and gen- eral manager of the WHL Pats, leading to speculation that Strumm will join the Chiefs next season.