SIGN OF THE TIMES . . . Japanese exchange students from the Aoyama Technival College in Tokyo take a break from their hec- tic schedule to have their photo taken. The students are con- tinuing their program in the area this month. eV Oe x " ‘ed child 13 — Quality licenc: itd core, pe ~ Nursery School, oges Band 4 — Special Needs Services —~ Out-ol-School Core, ages 5-1! WARM AND FRIENDLY CARE Focused lear lonquoge, arts, music, nce skills, community involvement, Hreeh ait ploy, ECE qualiied stall. Sole, attractive vetting SINGER SERGER CLASSES By Beatrice Ferguson Thursday — | to3 p.m. SEE: Overlocking, Rolled Hemming, Blind Hemming, Sew in Elastic. Etc, On the Singer Ultralock. No purchase necessary. Carter's Sewing Centre Towne Square Mall, Trail To Register Phone 365-3810, Cas! Attention: All Members British Columbia Government Employees Union IMPORTANT Photo by the Picture Place Environmenta VANCOUVER (CP) — Environ mentalists in British Columbia want to see all resource industries in the province come to a standstill, says the chief forester for MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Unless business leaders give the province's forest industry the “loud est and the most public blessing,” environmentalists will succeed in re moving huge tracts of forest land from cutting, Ken Williams said in a speech Tuesday. “They have a very simple agenda,” Williams told more than 200 Van couver Rotary Club members. “They stand foursquare behind the absolute curtailment of any whatsoever.” southwestern B.C. resource use In an interview after his speech, Williams said he subscribes to a domino theory that as each new chunk of forest is removed from logging, another will teeter and fall. “If they were to get the Stein, if they were to get the Carmanah, if they were to get the west side of Vancouver Island,” he said, “they'd be looking for something else.” Proposed logging by B.C. Forest Products Ltd. in the Stein Valley in is opposed by Indians and environmentalists. Mac Millan Bloedel has timber harvesting lists don't quit rights in the Carmanah Creek Valley on southern Vancouver Island, where face.” some of the tallest spruce trees in North America are found. But Paul George, a founding direc tor of the Western Canada Wilder. ness Committee, said Williams was distorting the aims of environmental true to suggest the environmental lobby stands behind the curtailment of logging in British Columbia, George said. “We've never said anything like that. I don’t know how they (indus. try) can say that with a straight GENERAL MEETING Thursday, August 4 Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: Capitol Theatre 421 Victoria St., Nelson Negotiation Report by Master Bargaining Committee Representative Many environmental groups want forest companies to better utilize existing resources, such as by not leaving as much timber to rot on the ground, George said. One committee campaign is to save 7,000 hectares of land in the Car- manah Creek valley. MacMillan Bloedel has proposed setting aside 90 hectares which contain the towering spruce. The forest company recently failed to win a court injunction stopping the wilderness group from building t: ‘Is on the provincial Crown land in the Carmanah Creek area. 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On the right side of the page is an item that is taxed at a rate of 52% Despite the fact that over ten million Canadians drink beer, and think of it as something less than a luxury, beer and beer drinkers find themselves in the 52% tax bracket. In fact, 52% is the national average. Since the recent provincial tax hike here in British Columbia, we're actually paying more than 56%, which is one of the highest rates anywhere in the free world. Now, we wouldn’t want taxes on all these other items to be raised. But something seems out of balance here, and we wanted you to know the facts. So next time anyone suggests raising taxes on beer, you can ask yourself what's fair. Hard to swallow, isn't it? IF YOU THINK THE TAX ON BEER IS UNFAIR, LET US KNOW. Weld like to hear your opinion. If you believe 52% tax on beer is already too high, and you'd like to see something done about keeping it from climbing higher please fill in this form and send it to us. 0 Yes, I think the tax on beer is too high Yes, I'd like more information about beer and taxation. NAME ADDRESS CITY _ __PROVINCE _ POSTAL CODE ” mnaens Mail this form to: The Brewers of Canada, P.O. Box 82518, Burnaby, British Columbia V5C 9Z9 ¢, LD) Kootenay Savings Kootenay athletes do well at Games The Kalesnikoff Lumber girl's softball team took the gold medal at the B.C. Summer Games in Victoria over the weekend. There were numerous other medal winners from the West Kootenay Zone — Zone 1 — at the Games. Jodi Young of Castlegar took the gold medal in the girl's 100-metre butterfly event. Allan Boucher of Nelson took the gold in the junior men's criterium cycling race. Terry Hollands of Trail took the gold in the veteran men's criterium cycling event. Rossland's Jacquie Player won a gold for her performance in the rec reational advanced synchronized swimming competition with Erin Anderson of South Slocan taking the silver. Ian Bekker of Nelson won the gold in the 50-metre freestyle swim and also took top honors in the 100-metre butterfly as well. Alex Hartman of Castlegar took the gold in the 100 breast and bronze in the 100-metre butterfly. Bekker con. tinued his winning form by taking the gold in the 50-metre butterfly event and the silver in the 100-metre freestyle. Charles Woolls of Fruitvale won the gold in the 50-metre breaststroke event for men aged 60 to 69 and also took the silver in the 200-metre free. style. Corey Hildahl, also of Fruit vale, took the silver in the javelin throw - Trail’s Laura Zinio won a silver in water ski jumping and a bronze in the trick event for girls aged 14 to 17. Blythe Elliott of Castlegar won the silver medal in women's Class B horseshoe pitching and Michelle Feeney took the bronze in the woman's Class A event. Doug Hagen of Castlegar took the silver in the smallbore shooting com- petition for quadriplegies. John and Donna Bishop of Salmo took the silver in the mixed open recreational canoeing event and Nelson's Al Eimer won the bronze in the parachuting event. North Shore Jays oust Orioles The Trail Orioles made it all the way to the finals of the B.C. Senior Men's baseball championships over the weekend with the home field advantage before losing 9-8'to the North Shore Blue Jays from North Vancouver. ~ North Shore got the winning run when Ed Dagg drew a bases-loaded walk The Orioles were undefeated going BASEMENT BATTLE MEDAL oe S gar Aq swim team members picked up medals at the B.C. Summer Games over the weekend. (Back row from left) Alex Hartman, Justin Phillips and Neil Jones. (Front row trom left) Jennifer Gibson, Jodi Young and Wendy Gouk. Lions recruit Bernie Ruoff Kurtz had earlier CFL experience with the Lions, the Montreal Alouettes and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He will be the Lions’ kicker against Winnipeg, Donovan said, while the screening of the for kicking game By GRANT KERR Canadian Press VANCOUVER (CP) — The kicking crisis with the B.C. -Lions reached the critical point Tuesday when the Canadian Football iferwe team recruited veteran Bernie Ruoff for a tryout Ruoff, 36, was scheduled to arrive this morning for contract talks with general manager Joe Galat. The West German native is No. 3 on the CFL all-time scoring list with 1,742 points after tours of duty with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. “It's not a shoe-in situation,” B.C. coach Larry Donovan said about the pending arrival of Ruoff. “He has to come in and compete for a job.” Ruoff apparently was the place-kicker of the year in the Arena Football League with the New England franchise. The brief AFL season ended last weekend. He was released last year by Hamilton after 11 games and 115 points. “We don't care about what the guy's name is,” Donovan said. “We care about what his game is. Let's find out. “We've got {o start punting and kicking like the good teams do.” The kicking game of the Lions, once so reliable when Lui Passaglia booted the ball with unfailing accuracy, has become a critical flaw in the team makeup. It has been so erratic that the Lions are auditioning several new booters before their fourth regular-season game. The Lions are not satisfied with the kicking of rookie Tony Martino and veteran Roy Kurtz following 12 seasons with the dependable Passaglia as B.C.’s punter and place-kicker. “It's a real problem right now,” Donovan said. “We need to improve our kicking and the play of our special teams.” Despite the inconsistency, B.C. takes a 2-1 record into Saturday's game at Winnipeg against the Blue Bombers. : Passaglia left the Lions during the off-season following a lengthy salary squabble and signed as a free-agent with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He is No. 2 on the CFL's all-time scoring list with 1,938 points — Dave Cutler leads at 2,237 — and set two league records for place-kicking in 1987. Added to the B.C. practice roster this week were kickers Tony Brown of Victoria, Eric Hansen of Brunaby and Paul Sedun of Edmonton. ‘3 in practice. Martino, 22, a rookie from Kent State, is sidelined with a bruised foot after having three punts blocked in two games. The West Vancouver native was B.C.'s first-round draft choice this year. “The kicking game is getting a lot of attention with everyone who talks to us,” said Donovan. “I guess we've improved by the fact we got two field goals last week. “We've had calls from all over the continent from kickers who think they can do a better job, We worked Derek Noble out last week in Toronto and we're looking at some more.” Kurtz, 26, hit on two of five field goal attempts last week in a 26-21 loss to the Toronto Argonauts, with one blocked. Martino earlier missed two three-point attempts. Neither has punted well. Martino has averaged 38.4 yards a kick.and Kurtz 35.6. LIKES LEG “Our punting isn't up to snuff but we think Martino has a dynamite leg,” Donovan said. “There's no reason why he can't eventually be successful. I was nervous about him before he was injured. Now we'll just have to wait until he's healthy.” Brown played at San Jose State and had several NFL tryouts. He's a punter and place-kicker. Hansen is just a punter who has attended some kicking camps, while Sedun is a tight end who had a tryout with the Edmonton Eskimos. Sedun performs both kicking functions. The Lions have made several roster changes for the Winnipeg game. Removed from the active list were slotback Jan Carinci (broken thumb), defensive tackle Gino Mingo (leg injury) and linebacker Mark Smith (released to return to junior). Added were slotback Joe Germain, defensive tackle Mack Moore and linebacker John Smith. Germain, 22, is from Simon Fraser University and was released after training camp. He was drafted in 1987 by Hamilton, but failed to make the Tiger-Cats in training camp. Moore, 29, an import, rejoins the Lions after spending three years in the NFL with the Miami .Dolphins and the San Diego Chargers. He missed the first three league games with a injury. Smith, 24, joined the Lions lasf week after his release from the Calgary Stampeders. He is a University of Calgary product who Donovan hopes will improve the special teams kick coverages. Offensive tackle Leo Blanchard, who missed the Toronto game with a lower back problem, likely will return to the starting lineup against Winnipeg after Pieter Vanden Bos manned the position for one game. Trappers beat Canadians EDMONTON (CP) — Mike Brown's three-run homer highlighted the Edmonton Trappers’ romp over the Vancouver Canadians ii-7 in Pacific Coast League baseball action Tuesday night. His homer came in the fourth inning when the Trappers had five runs during the lopsided game. Brown's bat was hot throughout the game. He went three-for-four in runs scored. ing error. seventh. the game with two doubles and two The two other runs in Edmonton's big inning came on third basemen Marlin MePhail’s bases-loaded, field- Morman closed out Dante Bichette also collected three Despite struggling RBI's for the Trappers, with « Lugo (7-3) earned the victory, allow one-run groundout in the fourth inning and a two-run homer in the Pete Venturini led the Canadians’ offense, going three-for-three with RBis.* three With an 11-5 Trappers’ lead, Russ Vancouver's scoring, belting a two-run homer in the eighth inning. \ early, Urbano ing 10 hits in eight innins pitched. Greg Hibbard (9-9) suffered the loss. into the championship round Sunday after winning the first three games of the tourney = The seven-team tournament in- cluded teams from Trail, North Shore, Dawson Creek, Victoria, Prince George, Port Alberni and the Okanagan. The Blue Jays advance to the Can- adian championships which begin Aug. 19 in Kamloops. Phillies beat Cards By The Canadian Press David Palmer was cruising. But he didn't feel safe. “The Cardinals still can erupt at any time; I don't 10. care what they've been doing lately, they're still dangerous,” Palmer said after pitching no-hit ball for five innings and finishing with a one-hitger Tuesday night as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0. and moved out of last place in the National League East Division. Atlanta Braves 1; Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Cincinnati Reds 0; and Houston Astros 13, San Francisco Giants St. Louis, which has lost six of its last seven, has not been last this late in the season since Aug. 2, 1978. The Cardinals are scoreless in 21 innings. St. Louis, the defending NL champions, has lost 34 of their last 47. Philadelphia, on the other hand, escaped last place for the first time since April 30. “I don’t know about having my best stuff. I was throwing strikes and they were hitting ground balls right at people. I threw really all fastballs, moving in and out. I think (with) a couple, I caught them looking back inside.” METS 3 CUBS 1 Barry Lyons hit a two-run triple and Darryl Strawberry hit his league-leading 29th home run, the third consecutive game in which he homered, as New York beat Chicago. Palmer, 6-8, struck out six and walked three in his third shutout, his first since a five-inning perfect game against St. Louis on April 21, 1984, when he was with the Montreal Expos. Palmer, 10-4 lifetime against the Cardinals, did not allow a hit until rookie Tim Jones grounded a single to right to open the sixth. Palmer consecutive batters after walking Ozzie Smith with one out in the first. It was Palmer's first complete game since he beat Los Angeles on June 29, 1986. ‘HARD TO TELL’ DODGERS 2 REDS 0 Tim Leary pitched a six-hitter for his league-lead- ing fifth shutout. Leary, 11-7, has allowed four runs in had retired 14 his last 43 innings, winning four of five starts and lowering his earned-run average to 2.24. He struck out three and walked two. PADRES 4 BRAVES 1 Eric Show pitched a six-hitter and John Kruk and Stan Jefferson hit solo home runs as the Braves lost their eighth straight. Show, 8-10, increased his career record against Atlanta to 13-3 with his sixth complete game of the season. “He was making a lot of good pitches,” Phillies pitching coach Claude Osteen said. “Of course, when you're going against a team that isn't hitting, it's hard to tell.” In other NL games Tuesday night, it was: Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Montreal Expos 2 in 10 innings; New York Mets 3, Chicago Cubs 1; San Diego Padres 4, ASTROS 13 GIANTS 10 Buddy Bell hit a three-run homer after Terry Puhl's run-scoring single broke an eighth-inning tie as Houston ended the Giants’ six-game winning streak. Bill Doran had four hits, including his first career grand slam, as Houston tied the Giants for second place in the West Division, 4% games behind Los Angeles. Pirates defeat Expos in extra innings PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pitts burgh Pirates didn’t get home until 4 a.m. Tuesday from their four-game showdown against first-place New York, and Glenn Wilson said they were suffering from both jet lag and Mets lag. “That was a tough series,” he said. “We were tired. We were drained.” But after losing three well-pitched games in New York they easily could have won, the Pirates managed to stay four games behind the Mets by winning a game they easily could have lost. Barry Bonds singled in the tying run and Jose Lind followed with a game-winning single as the Pirates rallied for two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning Tuesday night for a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Expos, who stranded 14 runners. Montreal, losing for just the second time in nine games, wasted Rex Hudler's first major-league home run — a tie-breaking solo shot in the top of the 10th off reliever Jim Gott — and some excellent pitching by Bryn Smith and Joe Hesketh. The Expos, who have lost five in a row to the Pirates, took a 2-1 lead in the top of the 10th on Hudler's first home run in 141 major league at-bats. Hudler had only 15 homers in 10 minor league seasons prior to this year. “Maybe it took that to wake us up,” Wilson said. “We were tired from the trip to New York and had some jet lag, but after that hap- pened, we got some adrenaline going Maybe that homer gave us the lift we needed.” GOOD FEELING Gott, 5-8, who got the win despite allowing Hudler’s homer, said he had a good feeling when he walked off the mound in| the 10th. “I came over here about this time last season and this is the same feeling we developed then . . . that even in the last inning we could come back and win,” Gott said. “We came out with the attitude, ‘Let's get off our tails and go do it.’ ” Neal Heaton, 3-7, the Expos’ third pitcher, got pinch-hitter Orestes Destrade to fly out, but pinch-hitter Denny Gonzalez, batting .179, sin gled up the middle. Wilson then dou bled to right, his first extra-base hit since being traded to the Pirates by Seattle on July 21. Ronds fought off an 0-2 pitch to single sharply to centre, scoring Gonzalez with the tying run. Lind greeted reliever Andy McGaffigan with a line drive over the head of right fielder Dave Martinez, his third single in as many at-bats. The victory kept the Pirates four games behind the Mets, who beat the Chicago Cubs 3-1. Montreal fell 8% games behind the Mets despite losing for just the second time in 12 road games. The Expos scored in the seventh when Hudler tripled and came home on pinch-hitter Graig Nettles’ grounder, then loaded the bases with one out. But reliever Barry Jones struck out Hubie Brooks and got Tim Wallach to fly out The Expos also had the bases full with two outs in the ninth against Jeff Robinson, but Tim Foley ground ed out Pirates starter Mike Dunne pit- ched six shutout innings, but was lifted after throwing 112 pitches in the humid, 90-degree weather. Smith allowed only one run in six innings and Hesketh followed with two shut- out relief innings for the Expos.