as Castlegar News August 29, 1990 New cars may be cheaper TORONTO (CP) — There's a $782 price cut in st jor consumers who wait until afi the Jan. 1 in troduction of the goods and services tax to buy a sporty four-door Pontiac Grand Prix. The current manufacturer's stiggested retail price for the base 1991 Grand Prix is $20,146, says Amin Datoo, sales manager at Rumble Pon- tiac Buick, a General Motors dealer- ship in Toronto. But after Jan. 1, when the 13.5 per cent federal sales tax is to be replaced by the seven per cent GST, the price for the same Grand Prix falls 3.9 per cent to $19,364, Datoo says. While consumers will pay more for a wide range of goods and services under the GST, new cars are expected to be cheaper In hearings before the Commons consumer and corporate affairs committee last spring, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler said replacing the current federal tax with the GST would trim suggested retail prices by an average four per cent, or $800 excluding any price increases that could crop up. But Datoo and other industry of- ficials say that in the final months of 1990, consumers should be able to find incentives such as cash rebates that equal the expected GST savings. The industry is afraid c off car arrives. slowdown,"’ Datoo said. “As ter of fact, purchases until the GST “I'm very concerned about a mat 1 can already see it hap- pening. The showroom has been very quiet recently..’’ Still, he says he’s confident General Motors will soon announce incentives aimed at getting customers to buy now. “*We anticipate there’s going to be all kinds of ingenious marketing cam- paigns to persyade people not to defer car purchases,’’ says Ken Graydon, executive vice-president of the will drive the industry into a worse slump than it’s already in by putting _ of A Dealer Associations of Canada. Once 1991 arrives, the Big Three Two days left to avoid GST OTTAWA (CP) — Time is running out for Consumers to beat the goods and services tax. ‘The federal government plans to start charging its seven per cent tax on Saturday when consumers pay for items or services that will be delivered next year, even though the tax doesn’t take effect until Jan. | and still isn’t law. That means if they pay for a car, stereo, refrigerator, snowblower or virtually any item after Sept. 1 and won't actually receive it until 1991, the federal government will add seven per cent to the bill. Conversely, buyers who put down their money before Saturday for ser. vices and goods they'll use in the future, even after the start of the GST, escape the new tax. That can apply to anything from funerals to tennis memberships to global cruises. The government isn’t forcing those who buy after Sept. 1 to pay the tax or ordering businesses to collect it right away, since GST legi: isn’t law little cheaper under the GST, since the seven per cent tax is to replace the existing 11 per cent federal telecom: ications tax. yet. But Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek reminded businesses earlier this month that once the tax is law, they'll owe GST for sales made after Sept. 1 and delivered in 1991 * The Senate is holding its final public hearings on the tax this week in Ottawa. Already passed by the elected House of C the. GST But while the GST is still before the Senate, Revenue Canada has decided cable companies should keep charging the 11 per cent tax on bills sent out af- ter Sept. 1 for 1991 service. If the tax becomes law, cable com- panies can then revise their bills for 1991 service and provide a credit to legislation must be approved by the Senate and receive royal assent before becoming law Charging the GST after Sept. | also applies to services such as tickets for Some electricityand natural gas say they will encourage their dealers to give consumers the full benefit of GST savings. With new car and truck sales off 8.5 per cent January through June, dealers aren't likely to pass up a chan- ce to lure customers with the promise of lower prices. “The market is so tough — and will be until well into next year — that any discounting a dealer can do, he'll do,"’ said Graydon, a spokesman for 3,100 domestic and import car dealers While new cars should be cheaper because of the GST, the price of some used cars will head in the opposite direction. Starting in 1991, dealers must apply the GST to used cars, now unaffected by the current federal tax. equal bills during the yea. The will only be charged on util tually consumed in 1991, which may ALVA. TURE. Fully Automatic Sprinkler Systems Residential And Commercial FREE ESTIMATES Serving Castlegar for 15 Years Guaranteed Parts and Labour for 1-Year ; Fall installation Savings. . Now Open For Business BRIAN’S REPAIR SERVICE 613-13 St., Castlegar Phone 365-7233 . (BY N.A.P.A. AUTO PARTS) Open 8 to 5 Daily. 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This year, Mats Wilander was the defending champion and Edberg was the No. | seed, coming off his second Wimbledon title in three years. Today, only four Swedes are left in the men’s draw. Wilander and: Ed- berg are not among them. Ivan Lendl, seeking a record ninth consecutive trip to the final and his fourth title, played his second match in two days today when he faced West German's Michael Stich. Th other key matches today, fifth- seeded Gabriela Sabatini played Isabelle Demongeot and Martina Navratilova, the No. 2 seed going for her second consecutive Grand Slam title, faced Britian’s Clare Wood. In night matches, Monica Seles, the French Open women’s champion, plays Ros Fairbank-Nideffer and Jim Courier, seeded 14th in the men's singles, takes on South African Gary Muller. Edberg on Tuesday became the first top seed to lose in the opening round of the U.S. Open in 19 years, falling to Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2. “*He was very relaxed out there and had nothing ot lose,"’ Edberg said of Volkov. Edberg, on the other hand, had a lot to Ipse, but not the world’s No. 1 ranking. Despite the first-round defeat, the right-hander will continue in the No. 1 spot even if No. 2 Boris Becker or Lendl, the No.3 player, wins the U.S. Open. “This is something | need to sit down and think about," said Edberg, who was the only seeded player to lose thus far in the tournament. “I just have to think it over and try to not let it happen again.”” Wilander, who rose to No. 1 in the world after winning the U.S. Open in 1988, has fallen to $9th. Unseeded this year, he was ousted by eighth- seeded Brad Gilbert Monday. Tuesday's winners included Lendl, No. 4 Andre Agassi, No. 7 Emilio Sanchez, No. 10 Andre Chesnokov, No. 11 Michael Chang and No. 13.Jay Berger. Andrew Sznajder of Toronto was eliminted by No. .9 seed Aaron Krickstein, 6-1, 4-6, 6-7, (2-7), 6-1, 6 1 Open John McEnroe, a four-time U.S. Open champion who is unseeded this year, won his first-round match, edging Spain's Javier Sanchez 7-6 (10- 8), 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 Besides the 13th’ seeded Capriati, other victorious women’s seeds were Navratilova, No. 4 Zina Garrison, Sabatini, No. 6 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, No. 9 Manuela Maleeva- Fragnier, No. 12 Jana Novotna, No. 14 Natalia Zvereva and No. 15 Judith Wiesner. Patrician Hy of Richmond Hill, Ont., advanced with a 6-3, 6-3 sweep of Italian Laura Golarsa. lead to billing for some customers after the tax takes effect. People buying newspaper and magazine subscriptions won't have to pay the tax until next year, even if they pay now for delivery in 1991 and 1992. 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Blue Jays self- -destructing TORONTO (CP) — Dave Parker feels he understands the character of the Toronto Blue Jays. Oakland's designated hitter last year, he formed a two-man intimid- tion team with Rickey Henderson in the American League playoffs, usiry his bat and mouth to help reduce the Jays to bitter also-rans. “If you analyze their personnel, they're a better club than this,”” Parker said Tuesday, after belting two homers in a 6-2 win by the Milwaukee Brewers. “They have to have pride in what they do. When I was with Oakland, we respected each team we faced, but didn’t fear them. Toronto has to move up to that level to win. They have to want to do everything to win.” Looking like they’d rather be on a golf course than in the playoffs come October, the Jays took their eighth loss in nine games and fell six games behind the Red Sox. The SkyDome crowd, exhibiting unusual surliness, jeered outfielder Junior Felix in the ninth inning: na the implied object of George comments about the team’s disrespec. tful youth, had struck out in his three previous times to the plate. “It’s a team effort,"’ protested Kelly Gruber, who has two hits in his last 32 at-bats. ‘‘You can’t blame one person. You can't blame just the offence."” Felix said the booing didn’t bother him, and couldn't understand why he was identified by several reporters as the player who doesn’t listen to the coaches or seek advice from veterans. “If George needs respect, then he has to have respect for other players too,” Felix said. ‘‘But if you don’t respect nobody, you don’t get respect. “LT have always respected him. If he says something about baseball, 1 listen. that.”” While Toronto’s pitching has solidified, the offence bumped its string of plate appearances without a homer to 426. With the power on stall, Dave Stieb (16-5) had little I don’t know why he said chance for a win after giving up four runs on seven hits in seven innings Jamie Navarro (5-5) held Toronto to eight hits and reduced his ERA to 4.99. Navarro was dispatched twice to Class AAA Denver this season, and is 3-3 in 16 appearances since his return Expos creeping up but remain long way from top By TERRY SCOTT MONTREAL (Cp) — Roger Craig has watched Montreal Expos right- hander Mark Gardner have three superb outings against his San Fran- cisco Giants this season, and hes convinced of at least one thing. “If I had Gardner and (Houston Astros pitcher) Mark Portugal pit- ching for me, we'd win the pennant,” said the Giants manager. ‘‘Both of them have pitched outstanding baseball agaihst us." Gardner was only around for six innings Tuesday night, but it was long enough to pitch a three-hitter and match his career-strikeout high of 11 in helping the Expos to a $-2 National League victory, which moved them within seven games of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the East Division leader. Perhaps the Giants were the pick- me-up that Gardner required. Until he faced them last week, allowing only one run in a 6 3-2 inning no- decision, Gardner had been pum- melled for 15 earned runs in his previous 19 innings. But including his start Tuesday night, Gardner has now worked 21 2-3 innings against the Giants in 1990 and allowed only two earned runs. “There was a period after July when my arm was a little sore and I wasn't up to snuff,’’ said Gardner of his month-long, pre-Giants slump. “Sometimes your mind wanders thinking about your arm, and I guess I worried too much about it.” He had no such worries Tuesday night, dazzling the Giants with his curve ball and mixing in the oc- casional fastball. “You have to show them you'll throw the fastball and hit either side of the plate with it,’ said Gardner. “*But I think getting ahead early with the breaking ball was the key."” Being staked to an early 5-0 wasn't detrimental, either The Expos scored twice in the second and added three more in the - ch MIKE GARDNER . ». likes Giants fourth against Scott Garrelts, the Giants starter, who said following the game he felt a pinching sensation in his shoulder while warming up. He will visit the Expos’ medical personnel today to determine the extent of the injury. Trail tops in slo-pitch By CasNews Staff You know it’s ugly when the losing team doesn’t want the score in the newspaper. “Just say there was a 13-run dif- ferenc said Castlegar Slo-pitch Association secretary Mary-Ann Ady, referring to the championship game of the annual year-end tourney held last weekend at Kinnaird Park On the top end of those 13 runs in Sunday's final was Target ‘Auto Body of Trawhich took home the $500 in first-place money, a trophy and sweatshirts. On the bottom end was The Unknowns, a Castlegar team whose players would prefer to remain anonymous after getting bombed in the final Still, The Unknowns did get $300 for second place, their own trophy and more sweatshirts. Ady’s team, Williams Moving and Storage of Castlegar, came in third and took home $150. The 13-team tourney had three teams from Spokane, two from Trail, one from Nelson and the rest from Castlegar. Splash and Dash of Coeur d’Alene won the consolation round. Despite rain that forced the can- cellation of the volleyball games and running competition on ~ Saturday, Ady said all the teams remained in high spirits — especially those from south of the border. “The people from Spokane were wonderful. They say they come back every year for this tournament because they love the rain on Satur. day and Sunday,’’ Ady said. The tournament was the last of the season in Castlegar slo-pitch. Oliver team lives up to reputation By CasNews Staff Both teams had reputations coming into Castlegar, but only one lived up’ to the advance billing. That one was Oliver FC which beat Selkirk College 6-2 Sunday at Kiwanis field to go undefeated on the way to the $1,200 first prize in the Castlegar Westars first annual invitational soc- cer tournament The Oliver squad was led by half. back Zeke Pascada who led the tour. ney in scoring with 15 goals in four games. “Zeke was a one man slaughter house for Oliver,’’ said Ivo Amaral Amaral, who usually plays for the Westars, joined the Penticton Rippers who ran into injuries and didn’t have enough players for the tournament Billed as a semi-pro team and con- sidered a favorite in the six-team tournament, the Rippers lost four straight to finish tied for last with a team of tree planters who formed an ad-hoc squad for the tourney. The host Westars beat the tree plan- ters and Rossland but lost to Nelson Heritage Inn and Oliver to finish fourth in the $2,100 tourney which began with games on Saturday Heritage Inn, the Westars’ rival in the West Kootenay Soccer League, finished third. Dale Fitch of the Westars was named the tourney’s best defenceman while most sportsmanlike player went to a person Castlegar hockey fans might remember — Rick Edwards, an Oliver native who played goal for the Junior B Castlegar Rebels last year Lions can blame it on the OTTAWA (CP) — Expect the Ot- tawa Rough Riders to pray for a storm of biblical proportions the next time they play a CFL game After three quarters of driving rain, lightning and thunder, the Riders led the British Columbia Lions 41-13 Tuesday When things cleared up, Ottawa barely eked out a 41-34 win, as the Lions fell one pass short of tying the game “It put a little scare in me because we've figured out how to lose before," Riders wide receiver Stephen Jones said after watching the Lions’ late efforts to rob Ottawa of its second win of the season “Today we put together three quar- ters, but we're still waiting for a game when we can put together four quar- ters."" The Riders built their lead on three touchdown passes by quarterback Damon Allien — two to Jones and one to Stacey Dawsey. Allen completed 19 out of 33 at tempted passes for 288 yards. Ottawa defensive end Gregg Stumon got the first touchdown of his CFL career after intercepting a pass by Lions quarterback Doug Flutie And Riders kicker Dean Dorsey hit field goals of $1, 44, 36 and 27 yards rain and added a 75-yard single on a kickoff. Players and officials raced for cover as rain flooded the field and lightning lit up the sky around Lan- sdowne Park Head referee George Black said play could continue in rain, but ‘‘the big concern was the lightning flashing around the stadium.”” The game resumed after 20 minutes when the weather cleared What was left of the crowd of 22,450 watched the Riders barely hold off a Lions rally after quarterback Joe Paopao replaced Flutie, who com- pleted just 12 of 26 attempted passes for 182 yards and was intercepted twice. Paopao threw three straight touch- downs — 46 yards to wide receiver Larry Willlis, 31 yards to running back Lorenzo Graham and 11 yards to slotback Emanuel Tolbert. Paopoa, who completed 20 of 33 attempted passes for 313 yards, was 44 yards away from scoring on the last play of the game, but threw a wild pass incomplete into the Riders’ end zone. Both teams remain at the bottom of their divisions, the Riders at 2-6 are last in the Bast and the Lions, at 2-5-4 are last in the West,