SKELLY NERVES MAJOR ISSUE IN ELECTION By STEVE MERTL Canadian Press VANCOUVER — A week into the British Columbia election campaign the spotlight remained remorselessly on New Democratic Party Leader Bob Skelly’s nervous performance. It has become a major issue in the Oct. 22 election. And if the NDP had any hopes of shifting attention to the policy questions they want to address, Premier Bill Vander Zalm dashed them Tuesday night with his first direct attack on Skelly Skelly froze again Tuesday while announcing a youth employment and training program on his swing through Vancouver Island. As it did during his initial response to the election call last Wednesday, Skelly’s voice quavered, his hands shook and he was forced to stop. “Sorry again,” he said, then cleared his throat and continued. b Vander Zalm went into the strongly New Democratic riding of Vancouver Centre and told a Social Credit nomination meeting the warm reception he'd received in Skelly's hometown of Port Alberni showed the Socreds were doing the right things. Once again he turned aside Skelly’s demand for a television debate but this time he was cocky and patronizing. “[ appreciate Mr. Skelly may be looking for whatever it is he can grasp onto, since obviously, too, he hasn't been that successful in making the one-on-one,” Vander Zalm told about 100 supporters. “I saw on the television that when he travelled by ferry he stayed in his stateroom most of the time and only came out to shake hands with a few people.” Later, Vander Zalm told reporters he hoped Skelly’s performance was just a bit of nervousness and that he would get over it. “| don't wish him anything undue,” he said. “I don’t wish him any harm.” Then he cracked: “I'm a little bit surprised that they (the NDP) aren't asking me to start all over again, but we're not ready to do that either. But they've got a few weeks left and if they can get it together, they can put forth a good show.” Asked to characterize the NDP campaign in a word. Vander Zalm responded without hesitation: “Lousy.” As he did last week, Skelly recovered his poise later in the day, speaking without notes before a supportive, applauding crowd of party faithful in Duncan, in Van couver 'sland logging country Clearly more relaxed, Skelly hit on familiar themes distrust of Socred promises, the NDP’s commitment to ‘a new island highway — and even picked up on a baby's ery in the audience to reinforce a point. He didn't blame the infant for crying, he said, but after Oct. 22 British Columbia would be a better place to grow up in. Skelly's wife, Alex, said her husband had cut down on coffee in an attempt to control his anxiety attacks. The New Democrats have stuck relentlessly to their blueprint of regular policy announcements, such as Tuesday's youth program and a promise of a Royal Commission into the Workers’ Compensation Board. But Skelly's performance has overshadowed their issue oriented campaign. “The issue of the campaign has so far been Skelly.” said Terrance Morley, a University of Victoria political scientist OOPS . . . Sid Crockett supporters were out in force Monday night during the Rossland-Trail Social Credit nomination meeting. The supporters, many wearing the trademark plastic yellow hard hats, included a ELECTION ‘86 pair carrying a huge banner reading: “Sid's Fan Club. Only problem wa, the banner was upside down. CosNews Photo Skelly gives tough speech By PAUL LOONG Canadian Press DUNCAN, B.C. — A erying baby and a cheering crowd coaxed New Democratic Leader Bob Skelly out of his nervous spells Tuesday evening to deliver the most hard-hitting speech yet in his week-old campaign. It was a recovery that boosted the spirts of the opposition leader, whose long day of campaigning in friendly NDP territory on V. Island was over dbya brief but widely publici Pp of his ner before reporters and. television cameras earlier in the afternoon. His voice quavered as he read from a prepared text, and he had to stop to regain his composure. “Sorry . . . again,” he apologized, referring to a similar attack of nerves last Wednesday while making his response to the Oct. 22 election call. “I just didn’t like the setting this afternoon,” Skelly explained later. “It was totally uncomfortable, totally crowded.” In sharp contrast, his speech at the evening coffee and. doughnut gathering of about 150 supporters in a church hall in this logging and sawmilling community was witty and incisive Before an enthusiastic audience that frequently ap plauded and cheered, the normally reticent Skelly was in rare speaking form while delivering his now-familiar themes as the election campaign approached its second week An infant cried while Skelly talked about an NDP plan to help 62,000 young British Columbians facing a future of to your As the owner/manager of an independent business, the complex demands of day-to day business banking can be quite time consuming. 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He mocked the Social Credit government's flip-flop position on the Vancouver Island pipeline — promised for decades as the path to cheaper energy costs, but never built. Jack Davis, recently named energy minister by Premier Bill Vander Zalm, rejected the pipeline as uneconomical when he first took office several weeks before the election was called, Skelly said. “Then Vander Zalm took him aside and gave him the whip, and suddenly it’s economical again. Social Credit economics is an amazing thing/” Skelly here for breakfast By CasNews Staff New Democrat party leader Bob Skelly will tour the Rossland-Trail riding Thursday and Friday Skelly plans to address a rally Thursday night in Trail at the junior high auditorium. He will be in Castlegar Friday for a breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Fireside Inn. In other news, New Demo- erat candidate Chris D'Arcy has established his Castlegar campaign headquarters in the old Whitewater Motors building on Columbia Avenue. + JOHN DEERE 350 * CAT WORK Fast & Efficient Service Hourly or Contract 365-3467 OR MOBILE H498826 j Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 Aluminum Sheets FALL SPECIAL 50° EACH Minimum 4 Sheets Castlégar News 197 Columbia Avenue poet @ BCTEL Important Message to all Castlegar in the '365'"' Telephone Exchange As a result of new digital electronic switching all residents MUST NOW DIAL ALL 7 DIGITS when placing local calls Effective Sunday, Sept. 28, 1986 ww Residents BC TEL MasterPlan FALL SCHOOL . guides young Frances Esposito, freelance pro, skater in figure skat Tuesday during Castlegar Figure Skating Club's fall techniques starts Oct. 16. xe wae aq — Contews Photo VOLLEYBALL CLASSIC L.V. Rogers wins title By CastNews Staff L.V. Rogers High School's senior girls volleyball team defeated Mt. Sentinel Junior-Senior high school in the final game of the seventh annual Kootenay Volleyball Classic Saturday to win the event. L.V. Rogers beat the host team 15-3, 15-13. The winning team best Stanley Humphries school of Castlegar~ 15-5, 15-11 in the semifinal. Mt. Sentinel beat Golden 15-4, 15-9 in its semifinal game. After round robin play, Mt. Sentinel was first, L.V. Rogers second, Stanley Humphries third and Golden was fourth. Stanely Humphries got off to a slow start on the opening day of the tourna ment Friday, losing two matches, but winning the final six for third place. Coach Stosch Uchida said he was “very pleased” with the way the team progressed to the tournament, how ever he noted that the team had a much better team at the end of the tourna ment then at the beginning Stanely Humphries’ only losses were to Mt. Sentinel and L.V. Rogers Uchida noted the excellent play of Grade 12 student Lynette Swanson who was selected from Stanley Humph. ries to the most outstanding player list In other local selections, Tammy Jay and Stephanie Hahn of L.V. Rogers were co-selected from the Nelson team, and Shelly Bowolin of Mt. Sentinel was also selected. In provineial senior girls volleyball rankings, Mt. Sentinel is first in single A rankings while L.V. Rogers in No. four in double A rankings. Mt. Sentinel will be hosting another volleyball tournament this weekend. This one is for junior boys and girls teams. Stanely Humphries’ junior girls team will be participating in the event along with teams from Revelstoke, Coquit. lam, Kimberley and Kelowna. Games begin at 4 p.m. Friday and the final is slated for 6 p.m.Saturday. De Wit wins fight By JOHN KOROBANIK Canadian Press EDMONTON — A relaxed Willie de Wit showed more punching variety, a stronger defence and improved inside fighting in pounding out a unanimous 10-round decision over Andrew Stokes in a bloody, non-title heavyweight boxing match Tuesday night. “My in-fighting has improved a lot since June,” de Wit, the Canadian champion from Grande Prairie, Alta., said after running his record to 13-0-1 “Defensively I wasn't getting hit with hardly anything.” In a nutshell, that summed up what was probably de Wit's best bout since turning professional after winning a silver medal in the 1964 Olympics. De Wit constantly found himself fighting from close quarters and he did 80 effectively. Although Stokes landed some solid, quick combinations at the breaks, de Wit did more damage with his punishing body attack. Stokes, a former Golden Gloves winner from Anderson, Ind., hadn't fought in 18 months and it showed. His ring movement and timing wasn't sharp and that was all the advantage de Wit needed The aggressor throughout, de Wit easily slipped the majority of Stoke's punches, including his vaunted right hand. STOKES OFF BALANCE Using a combination of quick counter punching, superior inside power and some surprising right-hand leads, de Wit constantly kept Stokes off balance As well, de Wit landed numerous hard lefts, showing no ill effects of the forearm injury that forced this fight to be postponed from last month in Grande Prairie. “He was probably my toughest competition so far but I think I handled him easily.” said de Wit, who weighed 208 pounds, 12 pounds lighter than Stokes and his lightest fighting weight ever as a professional In every round de Wit rocked Stokes with solid lefts and rights. In the second a straight left jab bloodied Stokes's nose and by the fourth round both fighters were covered in blood But neither let up in the bout that saw Stokes change his style several times in an effort to escape de Wit's attack De Wit punished Stokes in every round but it wasn’t until the 10th that he finally knocked him down. Right hand leads to the ribs twice sent Stokes to the canvas. Stokes landed solid blows himself, including a series of rights and lefts in the seventh round that chased de Wit to the ropes De Wit played down the moment, saying Stokes “threw a bunch of shots some and kind of shoved me off balance a little bit but it was no trouble.” In one of the undercard bouts, Young Dempsey of Vancouver, the No. 2-ranked heavyweight contender, scored a unanimous but unimpressive victory over Rubin Williams of San Jose, Calif. The other undercard bouts saw three di score de cisions light-middleweight Kelly Perlette and welterweight Stan Cun ningham in their professional debuts and undefeated lightweight Harpal Talhan E Sebra gets shutout against N.Y. Mets By The Associated Press The last time Montreal Expos rookie Bob Sebra pitched against the New York Mets, he lost a shutout on a two-run homer in the ninth inning. He didn't want the same thing to happen again Tuesday night. “I was afraid that if 1 did lose the shutout, I might lose the game, too,” Sebra said. This time, he hung on to pitch a two-hit, 1-0 beauty over the National League East champions. It was the second victory within a month over the Mets for Sebra, who beat them 9-1 on Sept. 8. In other NL action, it was: Atlanta 8, Cincinnati 7; Philadelphia 9, Chicago 2; St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 3; San Diego 11, Los Angeles 8 and San Francisco 6, Houston 5. STRIKES OUT FOUR In only three innings did Sebra allow the league's top-hitting team to send more than three batters to the plate. The rookie right-hander struck out “four, walked two and gave up only a second-inning double to Gary Carter and an infield single to Len Dykstra in the sixth. When he beat the Mets last time out, Sebra had a shutout going until Darryl Strawberry homered in the ninth. Montreal managed only seven hits, six of them against starter Ron Darling, 14-6. They got just enough out of Mitch Webster's league-leading 12th triple in the first inning. Webster scored the only run when Tim Raines, who went O-for-3 and saw his league-leading batting average drop two percentage points to .385, grounded out to short Braves 8 Reds 7 Bob Horner drove in three runs with a double and a homer to lead Atlanta over Cincinnati. Winner Rick Mahler, 14-17, gave up seven hits in 7 23 innings before needing relief help from Gene Garber, who posted his 24th save Bill Gullickson, 14-12, was the loser Phillies 9 Cubs 2 Von Hayes homered twice, doubled and drove in five runs and Bruce Ruffin, 9-4, scattered eight hits as Philadelphia defeated Chicago. Hayes's blasts came off loser Drew Hall, 1-2, and increased his runs-scored total to 106. Cardinals 5 Pirates 3 Andy Van Slyke drove in three runs with a homer and a two-run single in a B-for-3 night to help St. Louis beat Pittsburgh. Winner Danny Cox evened his records at 12-12. Rebels open season Friday By CasNews Staff Castlegar Rebels closed out its Kootenay International Junior Hockey League exhibition season Sunday after- noon with a loss after two earlier victories. The Rebels were defeated 94 by Spokane Braves in Spokane Saturday night in Castlegar, the Rebels beat Spokane 9-3. The team's first win was Sept. 20 when they handed Trail a 14-4 loss. The Rebels open the regular season Friday night in Beaver Valley against the Nite Hawks. Their first home game is Saturday night against Rossland Warri In Sunday’s loss to Spokane, the Rebels opened the scoring with two — one at 5:13 and the other at 7:46. Kevin Biln scored the first goal, assisted by Colin Carew, and Dean Sjodin notched the second marker, helped by Carew and Bryan Wilson. The Braves responded at 10:23 and got another goal 14 seconds later to tie the game. Another goal at 15:21 gave the Braves a 3-2 lead after 20 minutes. game at 1:52 of the third period when Sjodin scored his second goal of the game to knot the contest at 44. Jackson and Randy Salekin picked up assists. The Braves took over the rest of the period scoring five goals to put the Rebels far behind. Saturday's game was the reverse of Sunday's encounter. The Rebles dom- inated the first period, scoring two goals. The first goal, at 11:26 was scored by Jackson on a penalty shot. added the second The Braves got their first goal at 2:58 of the second frame. The Rebels scored two goals of their own to lead 41 after 40 minutes. Terhune got the first marker at 7:09, assisted by Koor- batoff and Viens, while Viens scored at 11:01, assisted by Taylor Harding and Terhune. In the third the Braves scored a goal at 3:48 and Jackson replied for the Rebels less than minute later, with help from Sjodin and Dave Zarikoff. The Braves with their final goal at 10:08 with their third and-final goal of the game. But the Rebels went on to score four. was over. his second and third goals of the game — one of them unassisted. Sjodin scored unassisted at 16:35 and Koorbatoff had the final marker of the penalties while the Braves added up 36 minutes. Leafs even record By NEIL STEVENS ‘The Canadian Press Take off the lab coat, John Brophy. Trash the test tubes and liquidate the litmus. The experiment is over. Toronto's Hound Line of centre Russ Courtnall, left winger Wendel Clark wi Clark for the tying goal with 11:38 left as the line collected seven points in the Maple Leafs’ 4-8 comeback preseason win Tuesday night over the Washing- ton Capitals. Peter Ihnacak had the other goal for the Leafs, who fought back from a 3-0 deficit to even their National Hockey League exhibition record at two wins, two losses and a tie. Craig Laughlin, Yvon Corriveau and Mike Gartner scored for Washington, 241. In other exhibition games, Buffalo beat New Jersey 7-6 in overtime, Quebec hammered Pittsburgh 6-1, Edmonton defeated Detroit 3-1 and Calgary beat the New York Rangers 43. The Capitals were designated the home team, but the crowd of 6,510 that jammed the 6,200-seat Memorial Aud- itorium was unabashedly pro-Toronto. Courtnall and Leeman played midget hockey together with Notre Dame College Hounds. Clark followed in their skatemarks at the Wilcox, Sask., school, so it was little wonder they were tabbed the Hound Line when Thnacak played well, at first, but the line's dynamite soon began to misfire. On Sunday, Brophy reinserted Lee- man for the third period of a game against the Detroit Red Wings and he left the Hounds together to face the Capitals. “I didn’t know what to think,” Courtnall said of Leeman's temporary banishment. “But I did know that once he put us back together we'd have a good game and we'd be staying together.” The three are close on and off the ice and Courtnall says that’s one of the reasons they play so well together. Sabres 7 Devels 6 (OT) At East Rutherford, N.J., a short Jackson helps Angels to 8-4 win By The Associated Press Giving Reggie Jackson a chance to hit in the autumn of the baseball season is like giving hockey star Wayne Gretzky an empty net. Chances are, something productive will happen. Kansas City walked California first baseman Wally Joyner intentionally to get to Jackson in the sixth inning of the American League baseball game Wed nesday night and the veteran hitter cracked a two-run single to cap a five-run rally that carried the playoff- bound Angels to an 8-4 vietory over the Royals. “He's swinging the bat real well right now,” said Joyner, who drove in three runs. “He has always done it throughout his career at this time of year.” 3 In other AL games Tuesday, it was: New York 5 Toronto 2; Baltimore 6 Boston 3 in 10 innings; Minnesota 5 Detroit 0; Texas 9 Oakland 5; Minne sota 10 Cleveland 9 in 10 innings; and Chicago swept a doubleheader from Seattle by a 5-4 count in each game. Chuck Finley, 3-1, picked up the win for the visiting Angels with 5 23 innings of scoreless relief. NARRON SPARKLES Jerry Narron had three hits, in cluding a triple, for the Angels Scott Bankhead, 8-9, came in to start the sixth in relief of Bret Saberhagen with a 4-2 lead, but allowed four runs on two hits in one-third of sn inning. California sent 10 batters to the plate in the sixth. Mark Ryal and Rob Wilfong singled and Narron walked to Joad the bases. Dick Schofield flied out, but Bankhead walked Gary Pettis to force in a run. Steve Shields relieved and walked Devon White to tie the game 4-4 Jack Howell hit a sacrifice fly to give the Angels the lead and, after a wild pitch, Joyner was intentionally walked to load the bases. Jackson then singled up the middle, scoring Pettis and White for a 7-4 lead. Yankees 5 Blue Jays 2 At New York, Rickey Henderson's ninth leadoff homer of the season and 28th of the year ignited a four-run first inning against Dave Stieb, 7-12. and reliever Dave Righetti earned his 43rd save as New York defeated Toronto. scott Nielsen, 3-4, allowed nine hits in 6 2-8 innings. Righetti is two shy of the major league save record of 45 shared by Dan Quisenberry and Bruce Sutter. Jesse Barfield of the Blue Jays homered in the fourth for his league leading 37th of the season. Orioles 6 Red Sox 3 At Boston, Cal Ripken's double drove in the tie-breaking run in a three-run 10th inning. Rich Bordi, 6-4 got the victory, and Don Aase earned his 34th save. Boston's Wade Boggs went 4-for4 with two doubles and two singles to raise his major league-leading batting averge to .358 from .353. Brewers 5 Tigers 0 Tim Leary pitched a four;hit shutout and Rick Cerone and Paul Molitor each had two hits and scored a run as Mil waukee defeated the visiting Tigers for their sixth victory in seven games. handed goal by Paul Cyr with 18 seconds remaining in overtime lifted Cyr seored on a 40-foot slap beating goaltender Craig Billington picked up a goal and an assist, while rookie forward Ken Quinney added two assists. The Nordiques lost the services of captain and scoring star Peter Stastny for a week to 10 days when he sprained his right knee in the first period. Ollers 3 Red Wings 1 In Dallas, Paul Coffey scored on a screen shot from the blue line midway through the second period to lead the Oilers past Detroit in the first NHL exhibition contest played in Texas. Wayne Gretzky, who helped draw a sellout crowd of 16,656 to Reunion Arena, earned an assist on Coffey's goal, but failed to score despite re- peated chances against Red Wing goal- tenders. Flames 4 Rangers 2 At Calgary, defenceman Al MacInnis scored once and added two assists to lift the Flames past the Rangers. Nick Fotiu, Colin Paterson and Lanny McDonald also scored for the Flames. Mike Ridley and Tom Laidlaw scored for New York. SUA SMAITH farm club Smith sent to minors By CasNews Staff Detroit Red Wings this week as signed Castlegar’s Jim Smith to their Adirondack farm club in the American Hockey League Smith, a defenceman, signed this summer with the Red Wings as a free agent following his graduation from the University of Denver