82 Castlégar News August 10, 1986

SPORTS

Study s

MONTREAL (CP) — The executive director of the
Canadian A A has da
report that francophones are the victims of discrimination in
the National Hockey draft.

Hal Lewis said in an interview from Ottawa that NHL
teams focus on # young athlete's basic hockey skills.

As for whether the player speaks English or French, he
said: “I don't think they could care less.

“How many Swedes or. Czech players are there in the
NHL?”

A statistical study by three University of Ottawa
economists — Gilles Grenier, Mare Lavoie and Serge

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ays

up a quarter of

Canada's population but they account for only 12 per cent of
skaters in the NHL.
study looked at individual statistics from the

“French-Canadicn superstars have little trouble making

KAMLOOPS

TOUTED
FOR TROUT

By DEBBIE GRETSINGER
Canadian Press
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Those who think a ‘52 Buick
belongs on a highway and a halfback on a football field are
overlooking the hottest part of a Kamloops summer —
fly:

fishing.

It’s close to a religion here in British Columbia's arid
southern Interior, an area blessed with a generous share
of warm, sunny days and hundreds of lakes and rivers
renowned for their trout.

And while the names of artificial flies (such as moose
luck, Tom Thumb and witch doctor, along with Buick and
halfback) may seem unrelated to the insects they're tied
to resemble, much of the trout are unquestionably
connected to the area. They've been knowns as Kamloops
trout for nearly 100 years.

Loeal history credits the name to American biologist
David Star Jordan, who d a slight in

“I am told that pound for pound, the Kamloops trout

Heritage Fund, a sport fishery conservation group. “I am
also told, in many of the lakes, they are more solid and

tasty and meaty.”

REAP REWARDS
‘The exhilaration of taking on the fighting spirit of
the world famous Kamloops trout is the focus of the
for the area's only major Expo 86 project, Fish
Fest. Until Labor Day, for a nominal fee, anglers can reap
the financial rewards of landing one of two tagged
each of 11 area lakes — $860 for the Expo fish, $198.60 for

the Kami fish.

during their brief visit here in May.

“All the days you spend fishing are not taken from
your alloted time, but tacked on the other end,” a tanned
and relaxed McPherson says, leaning forward to stress

the point.

MePherson has lived in Kamloops for all his 67 years,
and has been tossing a line for most of them just about

anywhere fish will bite.

He says it's the total experience, the oneness with

the number of rows of scales in a big silver trout taken
from Kamloops Lake in 1892. In 1981, however, Canadian
biologist Charles Mottley established them as rainbow
trout whose special characteristics are due to the region's

another, some anglers swear to the special qualities of a
Kamloops trout.

The provincial
compounded the problem with major cuts in conservation
and hatcheries

programs.

that counts. Fishing is by no means a

fish in

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No. 1 DRAFT PICK

Murphy may

be savior -

CALGARY (CP) — One is

summer.
Murphy, 18, was drafted

much pressure on one guy,”
he said in an interview. “I'm
just going to go there and
work hard and that’s all they
expect from me.

“I just want to make the
team.” '

It’s apparent the Red Wing
brass believes Murphy will
step right into the lineup.
They traded two regular
centres, including Kelly
Kisio, to create a spot for the
6-foot-1, 185-pounder from
North Vancouver.

“They really haven't said
anything to me, but that's
good news on my part that
they did trade a centreman,”
Murphy said. “They told me
they were banking on me to
play” this year.

If he isn't good enough this
season, Murphy will return
to the national junior team

- for the world junior cham-

the
there's any pressure on me.
is

pionship at Christmas. He
spent the last week at the
team's preliminary training
camp in Calgary, getting in
shape for the Red Wings
camp and cheerfully handling
interview requests each day.

Also at the camp, and
drawing rave notices from
scouts and national team
officials, was Turgeon, a
scoring sensation from
Rouyn, Que.

The brother of Sylvain
Turgeon of the NHL's Hart-
ford Whalers, Pierre has his
immediate future carefully
mapped out. He will return
this fall to the Granby Bisons

. of the Quebec junior league,

Murphy comes along
successful year at Michigan
State University, and talk of
a savior is starting up again
Doesn't it make you just a

A public service of
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learn some more

join the national junior team
in December and get set for
the next NHL draft.

Although his face is still
boyish, Turgeon is already
six-foot-one, 198 pounds, big-
ger than many professionals.
Scouts say he is still growing
and make comparisons to
players like Jean Beliveau
when discussing his po
tential.

Asked what advice he
could offer to Turgeon, Mur-
phy said: “Ge out and play his
game. He's going to have ups
and downs throughout the
year, but he should just re-
member that he’s been rated
that high because he's really
talented. Just keep working
and things will work out.”

it into the NHL,” Grenier said. “But when it comes to the
so-called average playéy, the role player or the defensiv:
player, the job most in goes to an English-Canadian.

“Scouts will only

the sure bets, when it

involves a French-Canadian. If the scout or the drafting
team has doubts about a player's potential, they almost
English-Canadian

invariably choose an
Canadian.”

over a

The conclusion came as no surprise to the Quebec
Bernard

Nordiques, said public relations director

Brisset.

He said 19 of the 21 teams — Quebec and the Montreal
Canadiens excluded — in the league will take an English-

Dozen

teams

enter tourney

Participants in the Grand
Forks Credit Union Inter-
national Labor Day Baseball
Tournament have been con-
firmed with the 1986 line-up
comprised of 12 teams eager
to cash in on the $16,000
jackpot.

The 25 game treasure hunt
in “Canada’s Largest Invita-

time will be the Three Hills
49ers from Alberta's major
senior baseball league, as
well as the N.B.1. Blues, the
only university baseball pro-
gram in Canada today.

The Toronto Blue Jays of
the American League are one
of the major sponsors behind
the National Baseball In-
stitute, which is headquarter-

- ed in Vancouver.

son Park Aug. 27 and will
conclude Sept. 1.

Returning from 1985 will
be Steve Hert’s defending
tournament champions, Spo-
kane Bulldogs; Gord Sturko's
popular Surrey Sports,
Western International
League champions; Seattle
Swannies Studs, two-time
tournament champs; Lewis-
ton Truckers; Bob Foster's
hard hitting Eugene
Wooley’s; and Gord Lowrey's
youthful and talent rich,
Richmond Bella Casa.

Also rostering this year's
line-up are three teams with

wious tournament exper-
ience and including Burnaby
TOS,

national Senior Baseball
League title holders, Trail
Orioles.

Meanwhile, in Grand Forks
to debut their respective
baseball talents for the first

Also, the host entry this
year will be reshaped, will be
furnished with new uniforms
and will be piloted by one of
the most colorful and popular
personalities in the tourna-
ment’s 12-year history.

Chuck Petrullo, who has
tasted tournament champion-
ships on two previous oc-
cassions with Seattle, will be
the host team's field boss this
year and will be responsible
in recruiting a competitive
unit for Grand Forks.

The 12 participants will
be separated into three divi-
sions with round-robin com-
petition within each division
determining which seven
teams will advance into the
“money round.”

The final seven will then
begin the chase for the top
prize of $6,000 with “sudden
death” the rule in the pres-
sure packed and exciting
money round.

“Bears double
Trail Cardinals

Nelson A and W Bears
doubled the Trail Cardinals
42 in exhibition baseball
action at Trail Wednesday.

The senior Babe Ruth
Bears snapped a 2-2 tie in the
top of the sixth inning by
seoring two runs.

Robbie Johnson brought
home the winning run, scor
ing Cyril Kinakin, and then
scored himself on a single by
Jef DeRosa.

64 wins and 13 losses this

year.

In the first game of a
doubleheader Friday, the
Bears dropped a 10-0 deci-
sion.

Tennis
clinic
here

There will be a junior

and Thursday.

Clinic includes intense skill
development and practice
tion and stroke analysis,
game strategy and court
positioning as well as a mini-
tournament.

Participants will also be
exposed to use of a ball
machine for stroke practice.

However, the local squad
turned in a better perform-
ance in the nightcap, losing
97. DeRosa took the loss
on the mound, scattering
eight hits.

Rod Gritchen and Chris
Findlay led the Bears eight-
hit attack, each knocking in a

The Bears dropped the
final game Saturday by an
114 count. Adrian Streliaff
and Findlay each had a
double and single for the
Bears.

NHL anti-French

francophone.’
Basic playing skills such as skating and shooting aren't
the only factors. There is also the question of how well «
young athlete can adjust to his
“It’s always easier for a francophone player from
Quebec to adapt in Chicago than for an anglophone from
said.

Brodeur signs

VANCOUVER (CP) — Richard Brodeur will start
his 16th professional season next month with a new
contract, the Vancouver Canucks of the National
Hockey League announced.

Brodeur, 33, joined the Canucks six years ago and
has more victories, 103, than any other goaltender
in the 17-year history of the team.

Senna takes pole

BUDAPEST (AP) — Ayrton Senna of Brazil won
the pole position for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix,
the first Formula One auto race held in a Soviet-bloe
country.

It was the seventh time this year Senna posted
the best practice time. In final practice for the 11th
event in the world drivers the
Lotus-Renault driver was fastest in one minute 29.45
seconds on the 4.036-kilometre Hungaroring circuit.

Soviet leads

MONTECATINI, Italy (AP) — Jan Erik Daniels-
son of Sweden won the shooting event in the fourth

standings.
scored 199 our of 200 targets and
collected 1,110 points, Olympic champion Daniele
Masala and Blair Driggs of the United States
place with 197 and 1,066 points.

Record fish caught

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A world record
Kraemer of the

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It took Kraemer 80 minutes to haul in the
4.5-metre-long fish.
The previ record, ing a 433
fish, was set in 1979, according to statistics kept by the
International Game Fish Association.

Unser Jr. champ

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Al Unser Jr.
outran Bill Elliott on Saturday to win the International
Race of Champions event at Watkins Glen and the
championship of the 10th IROC car racing series.

Unser, at 24 the youngest driver ever to appear in
the series featuring 12 of the world’s best drivers in
identically prepared IROC Z-28 Chevrolet Camaros,
held off a strong challenge from Elliott on the final lap
around the 2.4-mile road circuit.

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Warming effect
changing planet

By PETER GORBIE
Press

Canadian

TORONTO — Picture Canada, 50 years from now:

e Ontario skiers, with little now to schuss on, have hung
up their boots and skis.

Grain crops flourish in Northern Ontario and even in
parts of the Northwest Territories.

© Low-lying cities such as Saint John, N.B., and
Richmond, B.C., suffer periodic flooding.

 Home-heating costs have dropped by 20 per cent in
the Northwest Territories and Yukon and 45 per cent in
southern Canada, but air costs are climbi:

warmer and sea levels will rise as parts of the polar ice caps
melt.

Those changes will, in turn, affect almost all life in the
fragile, complex environment, where one event can set off an
endless chain with consequences that, as yet, can only be
guessed at.

Some plant and animal species might be wiped out;
others could flourish. And those effects could lead to still
others.

Carbon dioxide is produced when wood, coal, oil, gas
and other fossil fuels are burned or when vast forests are

The warmer weather is allowing new bugs and
diseases to invade Canada.

This is the most recent list of effects that scientists at
several Canadian universities predict will happen if humans
keep pumping huge quantities of carbon dioxide, methane,
fluorocarbons and other gases into the atmosphere.

HOLDS IN HEAT

It's called the greenhouse effect, named after the
glass-roofed buildings that let in heat from the sun but
prevent most of it from escaping back outside. The
“greenhouse gases” work the same way on a global scale.

Scientists expect that sometime between 2030 and 2050
the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be twice
what it was at the start of the industrial revolution. Their
research and are focused on that point.

If they are right, Canada may be better off then most
other countries and see a mixed bag of beneficial and
harmful effects, says Henry Hengeveld of Environment
Canada’s Canadian Climate Centre.

But only two things are certain about the greenhouse
effect. First, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
now is 26-per-cent higher than in 1900. Second, if it continues

i precise results are completely unpredictable.

Average temperatures are rising, a pollution haze
blankets the Arctic and there is less ozone — the element
that shields us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays — in
the a ‘

Scientists agree openly on the very general results that
can be expected. They expect Earth's climate will get

Pollution

Universite Laval in Quebec
City said a study of wind-
surfers who competed on a
polluted bay in 1984 showed a
sharply higher rate of disease
among those exposed to the
water.

This casts doubt on the as-
sumption of some public
health officials that windsur-
fing can be permitted on wa-
ters considered unsafe for
swimming.

“Water pollution exposes
windsurfers and swimmers
to similar health hazards,”
the scientists contend in an
article edition of the Ameri-
can Journal of Public Health.

“Recreational .windsurfers
are at even higher risk as
they fall more often than
professionals.

“The same water quality
criteria should therefore be
applied to all recreational
activities in which there is
intentional, probable or ac-
cidental direct contact with

cleared for and left to decay. Methane comes
from animal are from rial
sources.

CONCERN NOT NEW

Scientists have been studying the effects of this
growing pollution and issuing warnings of potential disaster
for almost 100 years.

The most recent warning came in June in a report to a
U.S. Senate sub-committee. It said Earth's climate would
start warming up more quickly than previously expected.

But that is only one of several widely differing

based on pr

There is general agreement that the greenhouse effect
will have its most dramatic consequences in the polar
regions, where average temperatures could go up as much
as 10 degrees Celsius.

It also will make the tropics much drier, with p lly

Burning of fossil fuel and other )

average air temperature an of
1 degree Celsius [1.8° Fahrenheit] in

devastating results for impoverished, developing countries.

“They have such trouble dealing with today’s situation
that any change, even if it's ultimately beneficial, would be
hard for them to cope with,” Hengeveld said.

CAN'T PREPARE

Barely supported by their marginal land even now, they
will be affected first by any change, he said. “But, because of
their poverty they can't prepare for change, and that leads
to chaos.”

Hengeveld said there are just three ways to predict the
impact of the greenhouse effect.

Scientists can look at what has happened during the
past 100 years and extend the effects into the future; they
can study periods thousands of years ago when Earth's
climate was warmer than now; and they can make complex

currents and other features into billions of numbers.

The models must try to take into account how
thousands of features interact with each other and how

No computer yet built has the capacity to include all the
information needed for diction. That means

models that now exist are alike and each churns out a
different picture of Earth's future.

Canada will be next to have its own computer model. A
team of five researchers with Environment Canada has been
at work on it for more than six years and it now contains

To add to the uncertainty,

computer models that attempt to analyse all the
isties of the i and calculate the

SAILING ALONG . . . Breeze whisks local windsurfer along Lower Arrow Lake. A
warning has been issued to windsurfers in areas with water not as clean not to surt

water,” they concluded.
The article was co-written
by three physicians at the
Universite Laval, Eric De-
wailly, Claude Poirier and
Francois Meyer.
Y

Their research was based
on health effects on compe
titers in the Windsurfer
Western Hemisphere Cham-
pionship, held in August 1984
in the St. Lawrence River's
Baie de Beauport.

on polluted waters.

The bay is contaminated
by Quebec's sewage. The re-

championship site. Both
groups ate the same meals,
5 ibility of

the fecal
coliform count at high tide,
when most of the races oc-
curred, was about five times
the acceptable level.

The study compared 79
windsurfers who competed in
events during all nine days of
the competition with 41 em
ployees who worked at the

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Reflections
& recollections

the
food-linked digestive prob-
lems.

On the final day of the
championship, the research
ers said, 45 of the 79 com
petitors reported they had
experienced symptoms of
some ailment associated with
polluted water, while only

istics are not so
include a lot of interpretation. As a result none of the five

UNIQUE PROGRAM

Ghost cars help nab
crooked mechanics

TORONTO (CP) — Two women wheel into a garage and
ask for the advertised $9 wheel-alignment special for their
three-year-old sedan.

But the visit is no bargain. The hanic checks their

says Mitchell. “When we let them do the work, two put our
own transmission back in and charged us for a new one.”
C resulted, ineludii some against the

car and tells the distraught women that they'll have to spend
ion before

America giants Aamco and Cottman. The companies
claimed they did not specialize in repairs but in quick

about $300 to fix the steering and the
wheels can be aligned.

‘That's when investigators with the Ontario Ministry of
Cc and C ial i move in, the
mechanic with unfair business practices for counselling un-
needed repairs.
Like scores before him, the mechanic in this case — who
was fined $500 — was caught by Ontario's Ghost Car

The program, set up to test the honesty of the
pr "8 40,000 ies, has op d full-time since
1984. It’s the only program of its kind in Canada, says John
Booth, the blunt ex-cop who leads the Ghost Car team.

TEST MECHANICS

Investigators take mechanically sound cars into garages
around Ontario and ask for maintenance. Booth, a 27-year
veteran of the Toronto police force, says the team has
contracts with a number of people to pose as customers,
including a young single mother, a middle-aged professional
woman, a male university student and similar people in
various centres.

‘Unneeded brake jobs and the
alignment fiddle are two
of the most .

of worn But were
never advised of that, says Mitchell, and “that’s where the

In the years that followed, the ghost car technique was
used on a case-by-case basis to help investigate complaints.
But in October 1984, the ministry got $150,000 a year and
the ghost cars hit the road full time.

About 10 per cent of the more than 10,000 service
garages in Ontario overbill or do unnecessary repairs,
estimates Mitchell, noting that complaints about car-related
ripoffs are second only to home repairs.

“Five years ago, that (10 per cent) would have been
higher but there's a lot of competition out there and the
garages want to hold on to customers.”

LAY CHARG!

The investigators, who are sworn in as special
constables of the Ontario Provincial Police, can lay charges
either under the provincial Business Practices Act or the

The provincial charge, which carries a maximum fine of
$2,000 for an individual and $25,000 for a company, is used
when the mechanics overcharge or recommend work that
does not need to be done. The criminal charge. carrying 4
maximum 10 years in prison, is laid when they actually do
unnecessary work.

Unneeded brake jobs and the alignment fiddle are two
of the most common scams, says Mitchell, « former

The women drivers “just come on as Mrs. Average,” he
says, “not a car expert and not dumb, just Mrs. Average.
‘They don’t get involved in discussions or try to trick people.”

eight of the 41 P
reported problems.

That means the windsur
fers faced a risk 2.9 times
higher of developing prob-
lems such as skin infection or
digestive ailments, the re
searchers said. For gastroin-
testinal disorders — nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea or abdom.
inal pain — the risk was 5.5
times higher

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are more wary. “I feel the know
ledge that the program exists is a deterrent,” Booth says.
“We've seen it. We've had mechanics comment on it without
knowing who we are.

“One corporation we charged had gone to great lengths
in their literature to tell all company stores how to spot a
ghost car. It wasn't very accurate.”

SELDOM RIGGED

The firm's mechanics were told that the program's cars
might have hoses removed or cable lines loosened. But Booth
says investigators don't usually rig a defect since it is too
easily spotted.

The program was born in 1978 as a “one-shot thing,”
says Booth's superior, David Mitchell, the Consumer
Ministry's head of investigations.

“We were having tremendous problems with trans-

- shops,” Mitchell recalls. “We weren't at all
satisfied with their marketing practices — they weren't
being explicit whether they were doing repairs or hi

Pp police officer and investigator with the Ontario
Securities Commission.

“They tell you they can't align the wheels properly
unless they do a $200 or $300 front-end job. You as a
consumer just don't know whether they're telling the truth.”

INCLUDE IMPORTS

The ghost riders cover the whole range of garages —
from the big new-car dealers to back-alley grease monkeys
Some foreign cars were recently added to the fleet because
imported cars now make up 30 per cent of all cars on the
road.

‘The investigators must proceed carefully to have a well
documented, clear-cut case. A ministry mechanic thoroughly
checks each car — part by part — so he knows exactly what
condition it's in before and after a sting. To avoid
entrapment, the drivers don't ask for specific repairs they
know are not needed but allow the mechanic to hang himself.

Still, cases often come down to judgment calls — with
the accused claiming he was merely performing preventive
maintenance. Says Booth: “The standard defence is, ‘If I was
going to err, I was going to err on the side of safety. ”

“A mechanic can make a legitimate mistake and I want
to give him the every benefit of doubt. I don’t want border.
line calls.”

Mitchell says there is some pressure from municipalities

else.”

After rigging minor problems with transmissions on the
ghost cars, visited 48 shops, most either
franchises of American chains or owned by the chains.
“Out of 48 shops, 41 or 42 pitched us into major repairs,”

for a wider program to

we've done as a unit.”

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