er as_ Castlegar News _Morch 15, 1989 Johnson knew about steroids: Issajenko 4 There's no way,” she “eealled thinking. ““How could Ben test positive for a drug we'd never taken?" Francis testified Johnson had, not used stanozolol for about a year betore sted the test did not make a profit on the drugs he sold and gave them She described the despair, she felt when told Johnson had lost his Olym pic medal and a world record after testing positive for the steroid Seoul. The coach su; stanozolol was sabotaged. LORONTO (CP) tried to let thg people who made him Robert Armstrong, disputed any sugge the sprinter was a”naive youngster who blindly obeyed his hanglers, Issajenko, 30, called Francis “the best coach in the world’ and insisted Astaphan. ‘was not a drug dealer” because he took care of his athletes and Ben Johnson Angeles Olympigs where he won a bronze medal in the 100-metre dash. Fran in eight days of testimony, ‘1 would not have given him-drugs said Johnson had used stetoids for without him knowing what (they _ eight years and knew he was taking the his close friend and teammate said in’ were,"* muscle-building drugs. earful testimony ata federal inquiry days ‘of testimony in response. to The coach, who began training Issajenko said Johnson Johnson as _a scrawny 15-year-old, the world’s fastest humanrtake the rap for Canada’s greatest sports seandal, she said as she concluded two questions from gormmission counsel shifted suspicion to his coach ctor with a statement last fall ihe did not "knowingly" take ban ned steroids before being pped of a gold. medal ai the Seoul Olympics He knew that he, had taken Canada Post Corporation We are growing — in partnership with the community More rural Canadians are enjoying increased access to postal products and services through retail postal outlets in their communities. This.is happening in partnership with hundreds of local businesses right across the country, in a variety of ways. snabolics (steroids), that he had been taking them tor years he knew hai tid Issajenko, who testified that she gave Johnson injections of banned drugs Fighting back tears, she said John ns statement led her to’ “the con vat B,J. Johnson) was going blame" on coach Charlie ind Dr. Jamie Astaphan someone has been very good hen someone has done you yand has been responsible y ul then you ple like called to alle ¢ herself after she most emotional at the inquiry ordered Johnson failed a drt Here are some examples of how we are expanding in Scoullast September *_ Canada’s 1opfemale-sprinter, whe- nfessed to using, banned emicals since 1979, returned to the box to detail years of giving L track meets, he 1984 Tk In Whistler, British Columbia. Two new retail postal outlets, operated by local businesses, have opened this year. The new outlets complement the services offered at the Whistler corporate post office. They are the first step to improved service in this rapidly- developing community UN urged to give protection to Rushdie UNITED NATIONS (AP-CP) Writers from eset Simian Re i , ai In Rose Bay, Nova Scotia. We have another link in Canada Post Corporation's ae growing network of postal outlets. This time in a community where for two years, retail service was not provided through a corporate outlet. Retail postal service is now provided in partnership-with-a-local-business. ‘The response from the customers has been fantastic. It’s working out well.’ — Harry McKeever, Operator, Retail Outlet, McKeever’s General Store order Ruhollah Khon blaspheming Islar Brt-+t-eppe sini Piphb—unbbels thi id cham mediated “I feel that the postal outlet here is a great step in the right direction to service the people in the area.’ — Sam Emmons, President, Rose Bay area Board of Trade In Ste-Félicité-de-VIslet, Québec. A retail postal outlet is now offering postal services and products in a community where no post office existed before. “In addition to the services provided by a retail postal outlet established in a local business, we now have the benefit of our own postal code.’ — Jean-Paul Pellerin, Mayor, Municipality of Ste-Félicité-de-I'Islet Foreign Secretary heisn't worri In Lewvan, Saskatchewan. A retail postal outlet is now open to serve customers. The outlet provides customers with access to postal products and services. These services have not been available locally for four years ‘ ‘The retail postal outlet in the pan convenience store is a good arrangement — they support each other and it provides all the necessary postal services.’ — Larry Davis, Councillor, Rural Municipality of Wellington, Saskatchewan More business for the merchants in your community and longer hours of service for you Local businesses are benefiting from increased customer traffic. It means a better and stronger business base for the community. We are building local partnerships with the com- munity and business, to provide Canadians with reliable, accessible and affordable postal, service. ictegation ~ i Ar and Bri snned to meet with T Colombian, U.S and presentative The meetings with all other membe powerful UN bod far, only Malaysia Muslim country, has d Canada Post is in rural Canada to Stay. That’s a promise. ng, the authors said. B Algeria and Senegal Muslims, were expected to decline tern diplomat Muslin Id not po members, the cour ibly agree ona statement action strong enough to~satist any western countric CANADA POST CORPORATION Our commitment: better service for you. The council already has declined to ke up the Rushdie case because the oa ail Trorch 15, 1989 gy NOW AVAILABLE PROFESSIONAL TAX PREPARATION SERVICE DOWN BUT NOT OUT.. Hi Arrow's John Obetkoff. . Kelly Keraiff stretch to try to deflect a shot from KERAIFF SCORES THREE Shell downs Hi Arrow By CasNewsSiaff Hi Arrow scored first but Shell came from behind to win the third game of the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League's six-game round-robin playoffs 5-3 Tuesday at the Com munity Complex John Obetkoff put Hi Arrow on the scoreboard with 2:58 left in the first ——period with the only goal of the period Shell came on strong in the second period with a tying goal at 15:11 by Kelly Keraiff. At 10:35 Randy Carlson put Shell one up and Sten Mattel put Shell up by two with 6:13 remaining in the second period. The period ended 3 1 Canucks Yzerman, VANCOUVER (CP) Forget about Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky for a moment. It seems Steve ¥zerman is the most valuable: player in the National Hockey League this season in the eyes of at least one rival coach “He's a complete player because he can do it all,” coach Bob McCammon of the Vancouver Canucks said Tuesday night following a 2-2 overtime tie against Yzerman and the Detroit Red Wings. *Sple’s got his team in first place with all the adver sities. “He's the MVP of the league in my opinion. He doesn’t seem to play many bad shifts. Yzerman scored his 61st goal of the. season and assisted on the other Detroit goal by Adam Oates in the tough matchup of grinding teams The Canucks pulled out the tie season in the games between the teams Sandlak scored with a tipped shot on a power play in the third period, the-only time Vancouver scored-in-nine ss miliabio ain the third this when Jim Yzerman, 23, has already Set Detroit team records for goals, assists (79) and points (140) in a season. But he’s still only third in the scoringrace, far behirid scoring leader Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins (181 points) and Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings (152) HART CANDIDATE Detroit coach Jacques Demers said- Yzerman is the Keraill scored-sixmimures tryin third to give Shell a comfortable three ‘goal lead before Obetkoff answered for Hi Arrow with his second of the game with 12:44 left in the period keraiff then got his hat trick with 4:48 remaining in the game. Steve Simonen responded with Hi Affow's last goal of the game 17 seconds later Clancey to boost Astros with split-finger pitch KISSIMMEE, Fla. (CP) — None of Jim Clancy's new teammates is com paring the former Toronto Blue Jay to the departed Nolan Ryan. In fact, the Houston Astros are taking pains to dismiss those inevitable questions. But they are impressed In 10 innings compiled over three appearances, Clancy has allowed nine hits and one earned run for a fancy 0.90 earned-run average this spring. He has fanned 13 batters and walked one “We just want Jim Clancy to pitch like Jim Clancy can do,” said Terry Puhl of Melville, Sask., veteran with the Astros. an 11-year Clancy, Houston clubhouse Tuesday following sitting on a stool in the a scrimmage between the pitchers in camp, revealed he’s about to unleash two_ weapons on an_ unsuspecting National League The first is his batting stroke, which he never had to employ in the American League. The way it's going so far, it'll be as explosive as wet gun powder, 0-for-3 with two strikeouts NOT READY ‘I’m not ready for the hard sliders,"” Clancy said with a big, easy grin, ‘(Danny) Jackson threw me one the other day — I struck out onit.”” The more relevant weapon is a split finger fastball, which is mastered by his new teammate, Mike Scott. Clancy began working on the deceptive pitch last season, but he left it in the bullpen I'm getting a drop on the split finger, or else it’s sinking away,"* he says. *‘I really don’t know which way it’s going, but as long as it goes over the plate The big right-hander, Blue Jay an original spent 12 seasons in Toronto before signing a three-year contract as a free agent with the Astros this winter “Houston gave me a three-year con: tract and Toronto said go ahead, if you can get one,’ Clancy said Kehoe changes home base VANCOUVER (CP) — The trouble with nostalgia is that you can’t always take everything with you At least that’s what Stu Kehoe discovered when he tried to collect eight years of baseball memorabilia in his move to the concrete jungle of B.C Place Stadium from tiny Nat Bailey Stadium Kehoe, 46, is the riew executive vice president of the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Fodweall League. He cleaned out his desk last weekend from the friendly little ball yard where he had been vice-president and general manager of the Vancouver Canadians of the Pacific Coast League He crammed autographed baseballs, pictures, plaques and per sonal achievements Canada’s baseball man of the year and minor league executive of the year van, then paused to reflect on life in the minors. “Pll miss the old ball yard, but you've got to move ahead,’* Kehoe said. “The Lions have to appeal to new fans and dust off the old fans “Football is not dead in Vancouver, it’s just a little dormant. We must promote our product and make a few changesat the stadium."" Kehoe, once equipment manager of the Lions, will sling his brand of ** instead of jock into his promotional ‘‘carny straps in his new tour of duty with the CFL team. Where he once crammed 6,500 fans into a minor league baseball “stadium, he'll be expected to pack more than 40,000 fans a game into the domed stadium at B.C. Place REACHED FINAL The Lions had a 10-8 record in league play in 1988 and won two playoff games on the road before tosing im the Grey Cup by one point to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They were winners on the field, but losers 32,000 fans a game and the team lost an estimated $2.8 million on the balance ect It’s obvious that straight: games aren’t working in football,” Kehoe said. “When you've got a good foot- ball team and people aren’t coming, you've got to get into the promotion business. "The game has to be a show. If you don’t win, it’s important the fans go away feeling they've been entertained We're going to make football in B.C. a happening, an event.”” Before he does that, Kehoe has one more duty to perform for the Canadians. He leaves Thursday for Florida _as_ part of the Vancouver delegation that will make a pitch to play host to the 1990 or 1991 winter meetings of major league baseball executives. Gross leads Expos over former team WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Montreal's Kevin Gross pitched five scoreless innings in_ his’ first_ game against his former teammates as the Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 in an exhibition game Tuesday Gross, 1-0, gave up two hits, struck out two and walked one as Montreal raised its record to 4-6. The Phillies fell to 1-10. Gross was traded by Philadelphia during the winter for pitchers Floyd Youmans, Jeff Parrott and Jeff Tabaka Second baseman Damaso Garcia singled in a run in the third inning to give the Expos a 1-0 lead. The Expos scored three in the fifth off Philadelphia's second pitcher, Steve Ontiveros. Andres Galarraga hit a two-run triple off the right field wall and later scored on Hubie Brooks’ single up the middle Philadelphia starter Mike Maddux, 0-1, pitched four innings and gave up ‘one run on three hits The Phillies’ only run came in the u hen-Di out. Harris pitched three innings and was credited witha save Montreal catcher Marty Pevey went Most NEW YORK (AP) — The most ex pensive lineup in baseball this season costs $19,494,874 and doesn’t even in: clude Jose Canseco, Kirby Puckett or Wade Boggs. The best lineup in baseball, using the 1988-Associated Press_major_league all-star team, goes for about $7.5 million less In fact, Orel Hershiser Sf the Los Angeles Dodgers is the only AP all-star to make the allmoney team. His 1989 salary, including a prorated share of his signing bonus, is $2,766,667 US, the highest in baseball this season On the all-money team, Hershiser would throw to Gary Carter of the New York Mets ($2,160,714). The in- field would feature Eddie Murray of the delicate UN-mediated he swherr product. The Lions averaged about ~ bihoff Daulton scored on Von Hayes’ ground the Dodgervat trstt$2:244,462), dua Samual of the Philadelphia Phillies at third best player in the league, but should be considered for MVP honors and the Hart Trophy for what he does for his team Yzerman piayed about 34 -minutes against the Canucks and was one of the key penalty killers as Detroithad 47 minutes in penalties compared with 25 for Vancouver “I get a lot of ice time begause our line is supposed said tHe fatigued Yzerman. ‘*Our line played pretty well tonight, even after Gerard (Gallant) got hurt “We're happy with the game. Our penalty killing has been pretty solid all year.”” Gallant, second in team scoring with 36 goals and 85 poirits, left early in the third period complaining of dizzy spells after being cross-checked The Red Wings have a 10-point jlead over. the second-place St. Louis Blues in_the Norris. Division standings thanks to some solid netminding by Glen Hanlon against the Canucks, the team with which he broke into the NHL IZ years ago SIMILARSTYLES “We were kind of excited to play this game,” said Hanlon **These are two teams which kind of mirror each other.”* to scor Hanlon had played only one period in two weeks because of a back injury. He was sensational in stopping 36 shots, most of them during Vancouver power plays “Hanlon was marvellous in the first period,"’ said Demers proved team and could hurt somebody in the playoffs. The Canucks were trying to set a team record of nine straight wins at home, but needed Sandlak's 17th it could have been 3-0 **Vancouver's an im: hold off tie Wings JIM SANDLAK . tips in a third-period kpower play shot goal of the season to salvage the tie. The other Canuck marker ‘came from Mel Bridgman, his.second in seven games since returning from Switzerland With good defence and some great goaltending you.can beat anyone.on a given.night,"* said Bridgman, a former Wing. ‘*We've got the kind of team that can win the close games most nights Vancouver defénceman Harold Snepsts, who like Bridgman played for Detroit last season, thinks most of the games during the final two weekds of league play will close-checking affairs. Everyone’s preparing for the playoffs, Snepsts. ‘*We just have to get our power play rea Canuck notes: Vancouver increased it§ lead to 13 points over the last-place Winnipeg Jets in the Smythe Division standings ... The Canucks are 7-4-3 against Detroit is 3-7-4 against Smythe clubs The Wings continue their road trip tonight against the Edmonton Oilers against Edmonton Norris teams Vancouver plays at home Thursday Bruins bash Penguins BRUINS8 PENGUINS 2 The Pittsburgh Penguins have been waiting six years to get in the Stanley Cup playoffs. They'll have to wait at least two more days to join the fray The Penguins missed a chance to clinch a Patrick * Division playoff berth by losing 8-2 to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday Division rivals, the New York Rangers’ and the Washington-Capitals both found themselves officially in the NHL playoffs when the New Jersy Devils lost 5-1 to the Calgary Flames. The Capitals needed no help, beating the Winnipeg Jets 6-3. The Rangers were idle. FLAMESS DEVILS 1 At East Rutherford, N.J., Hakan Loob=scored-a power-play goal and set up another as Calgary rode special teams to victory over New Jersey Goalie Mike Ver non stopped 25 shots, including a penalty shot by Kirk Muller with 5:41 left, for his 31st victory of the season CAPITALS6 JETS 3 At Landover, Md., Michal Pivonka and Mike Ridley each had a goal and two assists in Washington's four-goal first period. Washington's Geoff Courtnall scored two goals for a career-high 37. The Capitals, winners of three straight, moved ahead of the idle Rangers, 80-78, atop the Patrick Division WHALERS8 ISLANDERS 2 At Hartford, Conr the opéning five minutes and Paul MacDermid a . John Anderson. score Turgeon added two goals apiece as the Whalers New York Islanders KINGS 4 NORDIQUES0 At Quebec, Bernie Nicholls scored two th goals ‘and goaltender Kelly Krudey recorded his first blanked the No diques. The Kings took sole possession the Smythe Division from the idle Edmonton Oilers LEAPSS NORTHSTARS3 At Bloomington, Minn., Gary Leem: midway through the third period with his 27th goal shutout of the season as Los Angeles nd place i d Wendel Clark scored twice to kad Tor ver Minnesota BLUES3 BLACKHAWKS 2 Louis, Gino Cavallin p as the Blues beat’ Chicago. St. Lo’ points ahead of Minnesota in the Norris and five the fourth-place Blackhawks scored expensive not the best second ($1.45 million), Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles at shortstop _value ($2,466,667) and George Brett of the Kansas City Royals at third ($1,803,979) Samual played second base last season but Philadelphia is planning to move him tothe outfield this year. If he Weren't counted, Steve Sax of the New York Yankees would take over at $1;266,667 The most expensive outfield in baseball would have Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox ($2,325,385), Andy Van Slyke of the Pittsburgh Pirates ($2.15 million) and Andre Dawson ef the Chicago Cubs ($2.1 mittiony Salaries were obtained by the. AP from several player and management sources: For Murray, Brett and Rict, income deferred without ‘interest is Diego Padres, who discounted to reflect current-day AVERAGE .275 The most expensive lineup has an ($1.725 million) average batting average of homers and 79 runs batted in, not in cluding the pitcher less, the AP-all-stars average .309 with 19 homers and 89 RBIs Catching Hershiser on the all-stars would be Benito Santiago of the San at $310,000 once again is the least-highly paid player on the AP all-stars. He two all-stars not yet eligible for salary arbitration. Boston outtielder Mike Greenwell is the other At first is Will Clark of the San Francisco Giants ($T.125 million), at second is Ryne Sandberg of the Cubs ($890,000), at shortstop is Alan Tigers ($1 mitlion) and at third is Bostor Trammell of the Detroi > Boggs In the outfield are Puckett of the Minnesota Twins ($2 million) 5 with 20 seco of the Oakland Athletics (si 6 million) and Greenwell of the Red Sox . ($500,000) For $ The all-star team is actually less ex pensive than it was last year, when the payroll of the 1987 all-stars was $12,101,823. This year the all-stars payroll is $11,916,667, a4.5-per-cent also only one of decrease and an average of $1.32 million a player The payroll of the all-meoney team increased $.6 pér cent from ki $18,469,222 and the-players carn average of $2.17 million