SS CastléSs News July 31, 1985 BUSINESS , grasshoppers, — there's grain production from development. the 2981-82 recession. their money. is back in full force. ‘FOR 1986 Slow growth predicted By KEN SMITH CP Economics Writer If-it weren't for the’ drought and those pesky no. ~tellilng Saskatchewan's economy might have bloomed this year.” The latest projections of provincial growth issued by thé Ottawa-based Conference Board of Canada said the Prairie province should have one of the best expansion records of any part of the country this year. 2 The optimistic outlook was based on a recovery of last year's drought-damped output, plus a strong growth in the manufacturing ‘industry = much of it based on the province's heavy-oil retail trade as Albertans have reg how. quickly- The board predicted’ that Alberta's economy would surge ahead, too, based on increased oil and gas production, improved agricultural output and better There'll still be some national expansion in wealth after.accounting for inflation, but it won't be the type that has businessmen driving home in their Mercedes while they flick cigar-ash out the winddw. aS sa pae They'll be lucky, suggests the conference. board, to get close to 2.5 per cent overall. How come next year's gloomy projection? It's ‘not so ‘much that the outlook is so bad, suggests one economist, as that the experts are trying to read trends based on what they see as history. MOVES IN CYCLES It can easily be shown, for example, that a country's economy moves in cycles — classically, up for a couple of years, ‘then down for a year or so. During 1981-82, Canada suffered through 18 months of its toughest recession seen:since the 1930s. - It since has been in the recovery mode, ‘and it's after Even British Columbia, said the board, will gain economically with a stronger manufacturing sector, more construction and housing and consumers ready to spend Hey! It all sounds-great, doesn’t it? DROUGHT RETURNS But the ink wasn't dry on the board's report before Statistics Canada put out a forecast that farm income, if crop yields are normal, will drop by 15.3 per cent from last year. And crop yields are expected to be below normal in Saskatchewan and Alberta, where the drought When you get to the Saskatchewan border, even the a eaten ak Board's It_expects all provinces east of that boundary to see a decline in the growth of real domestic output this year. ees And ‘the projection for next year is worse. If the board’s outlook proves accurate, real growth in income in all provinces will drop in 1986. hing toward a three-year growth ,— with the prospect of a fourth year in 1986, even if at a slower rate. That would make it one of the longer recovery periods since the end of the Second World War. The longevity is a factor in making.some economists predict a slowdown next year, just because it should be anticipated. It ain't necessarily so, however. There are a lot of ifs involved. If, for example, Canada should succeed in’ making real inroads towatd freer trade with the United States, and_so get access to a potential market of 250 million people, economic prospects could brighten sharply. If world talks aimed at easing trade barriers should ‘succeed, a lot of Canadians manufacturers would be yelling bingo. If Canadian firms get left behind in the scramble for high-technology developments,. it could be a_ potential disaster and any slowdown could become a lot worse. But if the U.S. economy flags, all bets will go out the window. * counter Protecting your card ) : The Canadian Press Credit cards can now be used to buy everything from raffle tickets to groceries in some provinces. But as their __acceptance-grows,-so-has-the problem.of-credit-card-fraud. Figures compiled by the Canadian Bankers’ Association indicate that all credit card distributors — including banks and trust companies — wrote off $16.8 million in 1984 due to credit card fraud on Visa and Mastercard accounts alone. While the amount is low compared with the total sales on the two cards ($16.9 billion), it is-still high enough to prompt the Canadian banking industry to take action to fight the crime. The bankers association is sponsoring advertisements advising cardholders of 10 ways to protect against illegal use of their cards. In addition, the Royal Bank and others are introducing difficult-to-duplicate card designs and in-store video display terminals to stop the use of counterfeit, lost or stolen cards. Vendors with terminals can instantly verify whéther a card presented to them was reported as stolen or lost. PROTECTS HOLDER Consumer law protects a card holder from paying more than $50 if a lost or’stolen card is used fraudulently. But the inconveniences of reporting the theft of a card, the hassles of living without it and the possiblity of having to testify against the offender all provide strong incentives to protect your card. _ Forecasting gauge rises in U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's main forecasting gauge of future economic activity rose sharp- ly last month, perhaps sig- nalling a turnaround from the weak growth: of the past year. The ment reported today its Index of Leading Indicators shot up one per cent in June, the biggest increase since January. | The index, watched for signals it can give about changes in the course of the economy, has been decidedly weak for the past year. Since last June, it has reg- istered six monthly declines, Commerce — Depart- month, a $13.4-billion imbal- ance. , While the country's deter- iorating trade performance is not expected to improve any time soon, many economists are looking for a rebound in activity in the second half of the year, fuelled by declining interest rates and increased consumer spending. _ ‘The Reagan administration Monday released a revised forecast calling for growth to spurt to an annual rate of five per cent from June through December — five times the pace of the first half of the year. While most private fore- _casters labelled this predic- ing the weak growth that has plagued the country for the past year. The overall economy. grew at a near-recession pace of just one per cent in the first half of this year as U.S. manufacturers lost. sales to foreign competition: The government reported Tuesday that the country suffered its second highest~ trade deficit in history last tion highly many are calling for at least a modest rebound in coming months. POEM IS LONGEST The Mahabharata, the longest poem in world liter- ature, was composed in India 2,000 years ago. Its 90,000 couplets mix theology, hints on statecraft and a tale of dynastic struggle. Tear r almost 4 bushels. Chances are, you won't be trading again for a good, long, time. Come in for a free Don't trade for just any onlinary riding ntower. 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Seaver scattered eight hits in nine innings, including solo homers by Wade Boggs and - Marty Barrett. He struck out three and walked one. In other American League games, it was: Baltimore 4, Toronto 3;-Detroit 11, Kan- “sas City 7; Milwaukee 6, Texas 3; Minnesota 12, Se- “ attle 4; Oakland 5, California 4. New York and Cleveland split a doubleheader with the Yankees winning the opener 8-5 while the Indians took the nightcap. 3-2. - Third baseman Tim Hulett _. started the Chicago 10th with a single and took second when centre fielder Steve Lyons bobbled the ball for an error. 2 Julio Cruz ran for Hulett, took third as Ozzie Guillen beat out a bunt and. scored the tie-breaking run on Luis Salazar's single. Little sin- gled to score Guillen and, af- ter Harold Baines was hit by a pitch, Greg Walker drove in ~ Salazar with a sacrifice fly. Boston starter Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd, 11-9, had held the White Sox hitless for 5 1-3 innings before Hulett’s single to start the 10th. = ORIOLES 4 BLUE JAYS 3 Lee Lacy’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly with one out in the 10th snapped the Blue Jays’ club record nine-game winning streak. The’ Orioles loaded the bases against Gary Lavelle, 3-6, on a one-out single by . McGee leads Cards to victory By The Associated Press St. Louis speedster Willie McGee is gaining ground in his chase of the. National ‘League batting title. Playing in the friendly confinés~ of Wrigley. Field, McGee rapped out five hits in six at-bats Tuesday, includ- ing a homer and a double while teammate Jack Clark drove in four. runs with a three-run homer and a sacri- fice fly to lead. the first- place Cardinals to an 11-3 romp over Chicago Cubs. “I feel good playing, but most of all I feel good_win- ning,” McGee said after ano- Wrigley Field. “It’s a hitter’s ballpark. “But we all did the job. Everybody contributed. There are no secrets about hitting. Everybody goes out and does it, and that’s why the team is winning.” In other. NL games, it was: New York 2, Montreal Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 0; Cincinnati 4, Houston 1; San Diego 5, Atlanta 4; Los An- geles 4, San Francisco 2. The Cardinals. made it eight victories in their last nine, games and are 7-0 this season against the Cubs. ther big day at ‘Wrigley to™~ Kurt Keshire, 8-6, was the raise his league-leading -bat- ting average to .345. “It's the ballpark,” McGee said about his success in winner.and has a 4-0 career mark against the Cubs, with three of the triumphs coming this season. - Annie Rayner.of. Robson in Floyd Rayford and walks to for three runs on five hits but Al Pardo and Alan Wiggins, still managed. to record his the 10th and 11th walks of 21st save of the season. the game issued by Toronto BREWERS 6 RANGERS 3 pitchers. Robin Yount hit three dou- Dennis Lamp reliéved Lav-_ bles, Ted-Simmons homered—} elle and Lacy hit a fly ball to while Ben Oglivie and Charlie right that scored pinch-run- Moore had two-run hits to ner John Shelby. lead Milwaukee. : The Orioles tied it 3-3 in . Bob McClure, who relieved the bottom of'the ninth on Moose Haas at the start of Eddie Murray’s one-out sac- the sixth, improved his rec- rifice fly after Bill Caudill ord to 3-1 by pitching four walked two batters and Jim scoreless innings, allowing Acker walked another. __ two_hits. TIGERS 11 ROYALS 7 YANKEES Kirk Gibson went 4-for-4 INDIANS 35 and Detroit snapped, the Ramon Romero held New Royals’. seven-game- winning-York-to- four _hits"in_7_2-3 streak 11-7 behind the shaky innings for his first major- pitching of Jack Morris and league victory and pinch hit- Willie Hernandez. ter Chris Bando, batting .095, Morris, 12:6, allowed four hit a bases-loaded single in runs and nine hits in six inn- the seventh inning to: help ings, including solo homers tothe Indians toa 3-2 win in the Frank White and Steve Bal- nightcap and a split of their boni. Hernandez was tagged doubleheader. Horsehoes at Kinnaird Park | The West Kootenay Horse- shoe Pitchers Association held its fifth annual tourna- ment on the weekend at Canoe was thir Merle Howe of Princeton won the men’s C division title, Bob Hildebrandt of Kinnaird Park. Sparwood was second while In the Ladies A division, Jim Feeney of Castlegar was Doreen Hesse of Canoe, B.C. , third. came first, Bea Huschek of’ In the D class, Frank Hus- Osoyoos was second while chek of Osoyoos was first, Myrt Howe of Princeton was. second was Wayne Brigge- third. man of Castlegar, Ron Miller The Ladies B class saw of Robson was third. Terry Jack of Castlegar first place, Mabel Kinakin.of won the Men's E title, Bob Thrums was second and Win. Lesy of Castlegar took sec- Hoover of Osoyoos was third. ond while’ Stan Langille of In the Ladies C class, Anna Genelle was third. Regnier of Trail was first, Jim Feeney and Michelle second was Jean Bonin of Roberts won the A doubles Robson, Betts Rayner of title, Walter and Mabel Kin- Robson was third. akin were second, Merle and The Men's A division saw Myrt Howe were third. - Walter Kinakin of Thrums in _In the B doubles, Ron and first place, Al Venturini. of Cliff Miller were first, Bob Montrose wiS-second while’ Lesy and. Elmer (surname Garry Rayner of Robson was unknown) were second, . Al third. Venturini and Joan Rayner The Men's B division saw were third. Venturini take first place, Horst Hesse won first in Roy Hoover of Osoyoos was the ‘raffle, Ken Miscavitch second while Horst Hesse of won second. Otters second-in meet By CORALEA SCHUEPFER The Castlegar Aquanauts held onto their team trophy with a total of 749 points as they hosted a regional meet at the Bob Brandson pool this past weekend. Twenty-eight Robson River Otters placed second with 332 points followed by Trail-Warfield Stingrays with 265, Nelson Neptunes 233, Colville Valley Swim Club 189, Kimberley Seahor- ses 77, Beaver Valley Dol- phins 72 and Creston Swim Club 34. Helping their team tally points were the following ag- gregate winners. Div. One boys. made a clean sweep with Teddy Hunter claiming gold, Mike Byers silver and Silas Bagur bronze. ‘Older brother Mike Hunter won . silver for Div. Two while Div. Three Ariel McDowell -won gold.with teammate Kim By- ers close behind taking silver. Div. Five Jason Schuepfer and Trevor Seville captured silver and bronze respectively. Div. Six Rishia . McDowell brought home the bronze and Jeff Schuepfer claimed gold as did Div. Seven Ken Kinakin. Trim- ming the seconds off their events Mike Hunter set a new pool record in’ 50 breast- stroke and Jeff Schuepfer set freestyle. ; Out of the 12 relays Rob- son participated in, 11 teams “breast and 6th in 100 IM. 50 free and 50 fly, third in 50 Jason Ready fifth in 100 breast, seventh. in 100 free, Div. Three — Ariel Mc- 11th in 50 free and 12th in 50 2 TAKE THAT... . Fight broke out in a semifinal game of Castlegar Commercial Fastball League Sunday when High Arrow catcher Bruce Jeffrey: 's took exception to’ being body checked by Labatts’ Don Savinkoff who was running home. Savinkoff,was called out and Jef- Trappers defeat Beavers By The Associated Press Pat Keedy broke a 1-1 tie by driving in a run in the sixth inning. and sealed the victory with a three-run homer in the seventh as Ed- monton Trappers beat. Port- land Beavers 8-5 in Pacific Coast League baseball. “In other games Tuesday, Tacoma edged Vancouver 2-1, Phoenix dumped Tucson 6-2, Hawaii swept a double- header against Albuquerque 3-1,and 4-1, and Las Vegas beat Calgary 8-3. Tonight’s schedule has Tacoma at Vancouver, Port- land at Edmonton, Phoenix at Tucson, Hawaii at Al- buquerque and Calgary at Las Vegas. In Edmonton, | Sanfisco Melendez gave the Beavers a 1-0, second-inning lead, driv- ing in a run on a single to right field. Edmonton's Wally Joyner tied the game 1-1 in the third inning with a solo finished in the top three Dowell first in 50 back, 60 fly fly. Curtis Ready second in home run to right field. placings with the Div. One and 100 IM and second in 50 100 breast, third in 50 free, The Trappers have won 11 boys Teddy Hunter, Mike breast. Kim Byers first in 100. fifth-in 50 fly-and seventh in of their last 14 home games. Byers, Silas Bagur and Kim Verigin setting pool records. free, second in 100 IM and 200 IM. third in 50 fly and 50 breast." Div. Seven — Ken Kinakin In Vancouver, right-hand- “er Tim Lambert tossed a in both their free and medley ‘Sarah Bagur sixth in- 100 first in 200 IM, second in 100° three-hitter as the Tigers de- relays. The Div. Seven boys Jeff Schuepfer, Curtis —~Ready, Ken Kinakin and John Pres- free, seventh in 50 free and back and 100 breast and 9th in 50 fly. fourth in 50 free. John Pres- Div. Four — Sarah Byers cott fifth in 50 fly. fourth in 100 free and 100 A turnaround Sunday af- feated the Canadians. Lambert, 8-8, walked five and struck out four in going the distance for the second cott also set new pool records back, sixth in 50 free and ternoon gave theswimmersa time this season. All three in both their free and medley seventh in 100 breast. Justin chance to cheer for the hits were singles. ‘relays. Pulling together as a team, swimmers brought in per- sonal bests. In Div. One Silas McLeod third in 50 and 100 parents’as the Roson team of free, fifth in 100 breast and Sandy and Pat Donohue, seventh in 100 back. Doug Burlingame and Brian Div. Five — Alana Miller Hunter captured first place ‘Thad Reece, hitting safely in his 13th straight game. doubled home the winning run in the third inning, Bagur was first in 50 fly, fourth in’50 free, sixth — 50 and the team of Marshall driving in Ricky. Peters, who third in 50 free, sixth, 50 fly, seventh —-100 breast and Johnson, Doug Pinkerton, had singled, for his ninth breast and seventh — 60 eighth in 100 free. Tammy Don McDowell and Jerry game-winning RBI of the back. Seamus Donohue was Yanagisawa fifth in 100 free Schuepfef followed with a season. fourth in 50 breast, eighth, 50 free, 10th — 50 fly and 14th — 50 back. Teddy Hunter was first in 50 breast and 50 and 50 fly, sixth in 200 IM, close second in.the adult re- seventh in 100 back. Lana lays. ~~ Leyerington in her first meet | Capping the two day meet ever placed 11th in 100 back, was the adrenalin-raising In Tucson, Mike Woodard went 2-for-5 for two RBIs, in- cluding the game-winner, as Phoenix downed the Toros. free and second in 50 back 12th in 100 breast and 13th in ~ mile relay swim. Congratula- — Hawaii's Denny Gonzales and 50 fly. Mike Byers took first in 50 back: second in 50 breast and 50 free and fourth 50 free. tions to Alana Miller, Rob Chris Kinakin was third in- McGregor, Rishia McDowell, 100 free, fourth — 50 fly, fifth John Prescott, Jennifer doubled in a tie-breaking run in the seventh inning to lead the Islanders to a 4-1 win in 50 fly. Sean Pinkerton in — 200 IM and sixth in 100 Stroes, Curtis Ready, Ariel over Albuquerque in the his first meet ever placed back. Trevor Seville “took McDowell, Jeff Schuepfer; nightcap of a double-header. 14th in 50 back and 18th in 50 second in 100 breast, 50 free Chris and Ken Kinakin for The Islanders took the first free. Ryan Yanagisawa was and 200 IM and fourth in 60 their peak performances to game 3-1 as Mike Diaz drove sixth in 50 back, 11th — 50 fly. Jason Schuepfer was first win the first-ever mile swim in two runs with a pair of. fly,eighth — 50 breast and 13th — 50 free: Kim Verigin was fifth in 50 free, ninth in 50 back ‘and 7th in 50 fly. Div. Two — Mike Hunter first in 50 breast and 50 free, IM.and third in in 200 IM and third in 100 for the River Otters with a free, 100 back and 50 fly. time of 18:48 minutes. Castle Div. Six — Rishia Mc- gar Aquanauts placed second Dowell second in 100 free, 50 with a time of 19:18 minutes. fly and 60 free and fourth in _ For their efforts in practice 100 back; Rob McGregor and the swim'meet, ‘Swim- fourth in 100 free, sixth in 50 mers of the Week’ are juniors Hew pool records-in-100-free,—seeond in-100 100 back and 100 Individual 50 fly. Bea-Sallis sixth in 50 -free, seventh in 100 back and Darcy Burlingame and Teddy Medley. Rob McGregor also _ turned in good performances free, seventh in 50 back 9th in 100 IM.and 13th — 50 back. \11th-in 50 fly; Jeff Schuepfer Hunter and seniors Rishia first in 100 free, 100 back and McDowell and Jeff Schuep- with improvement. in his Darcy Burlingame second in 200 IM and third in 50 fly; fer. doubles. ‘And in Las Vegas, Ray Hayward struck out six bat- ters in his fourth complete game of the season to lead the Stars to their victory over Calgary.. The Stars backed Hay- ward's pitching with a 15-hit attack, including seven dou- bles.” ; on ae tt fi sy freys was. called Viitaite: Pub won 1 he tournament. Below are individual award winners (from left), Ed Plotnikoff (Labatts) playoff top batter, Terry Jaranoff (Checkers) league top batter! and George Plotnikoft (Hi Arrow) league top pitcher. vas —__—Costiews Photos by Dovg Horvey Broncos in provincials “ Castlegar Sentinel All- Stars, bolstered by three Nelson players, will be com- peting in the B.C. provincial baseball championships _in Kamloops beginning Thurs- day. : ‘The team won the berth by defeating the top Okanagan: team from Penticton 10-8 and 14-8 in a best of three series recently. In the first game, Kevin Lee quickly chased Pentic- ton’s starter from the mound with a three run homer with Jeff Barr and Lonny Schmidt ‘on base. In the third inning Mark Sherstobitoff started a ‘four- run rally with a towering blast over the centre field fence. Other run scorers were Ken Verigan, Robert Koorbatoff and Calvin Kooz- netsoff. i, Penticton rallied briefly to go ahead 8-7. However, the lead was short lived when Castlegar scored three runs by Ken Verigan, Shandy Mowrey and Kevan Rilcof to go ahead for keeps 10-8. Shandy Mowrey than mowed down the final three Pentic- ton batters on 14 pitches to ensure the win. The winning pitcher was Mark Sherstobi- toff. : In the second game, Castle- gar opened the scoring on runs by Mark Sherstobitoff, Billy Stralaeff and Shandy Mowrey in the top half of the second inning. Penticton closed the gap in their half of that’ inning making the score 3-2. Then in the fourth, Castle- gar ona seven-run explosion took the lead and. never look- ed back. Runs by Shandy Mowrey, Clint Dolgopol and Dustin Johnson ‘closed the score to 6-5, after Penticton took a 6-3 lead. ns Then Mark Sherstobitoff, ith a grand slam homer enabled Castlegar to take the lead and never looked back. ‘The runner on, base, making the score 9-6. were Calvin Kooznetsoff, Jeff Barr and Colin Fitchett. In the fifth inning Mowrey Johnson and Kooznetsoff- upped the score to 13-7. Then in the sixth, Mowrey, ina line -drive screamer knocked the ball over right field fence scoring Castlegar's final run making the final score 14-8. Mowrey again in relief ended any hope of Penticton making a comeback when he “once again retired the side on three strike outs in the bot- tom of the seventh to end the game. Mark , Sherstobitoff was once again the winning pitcher. Castlegar plays their first game in the provincials Thursday__in. Kamloops against the top rated team from Maple Ridge. Assault charge stayed VICTORIA (CP) — An as- sault charge. against a Na- tional Hockey League player from Victoria was stayed Tuesday in provincial court. Crown counsel Clint Kittle _ entered a stay of proceedings against Torrie Robertsen, 23,” a left winger with Hartford Whalers. ; Robertson -was charged with assaulting Leonard Car- son last Sept..6 at the Uni- versity of Victroria student union building. Regional Crown counsel Richard Achtem said he de- cided not to proceed with the charge after speaking with Carson.