as CastlégarNews v0.12, 1988

Kemper doesn't miss spotlight

WASHINGTON (CP) — Margaret
Kemper, ex-wife of former prime
minister Pierre Trudeau, says she
doesn't miss much about her years in
the international spotlight, first as
Trudeau's wife then as a jet-setter.

“I miss being exposed to the
leading thinkers of the world,’ Kem-
per says in the most recent issue of
Vanity Fair. ‘And | always think of
New York as the best place for a
romance

“But you have to know when to
exit . . . I'd rather be planting my
garden than doing that level of party-
ing and living on the edge of a
dream. I couldn't keep the pace of
it.

Kemper, whose separation from
Trudeau and jet-set lifestyle in New
York and London made her an inter.
national celebrity, said she’s happy
raising a family in Ottawa with her
second husband, real estate develop:
er Fried Kemper

They have one child-and another is
due next year. She has three children
from her marriage to Trudeau.

“We lead a life that's very rich,”
Kemper told writer. Sondra Gotlieb,
wife of Canada’s ambassador to the
United States, Allan Gotlieb

“We're busy and contented and
very involved with one another. He's
the right sort of man for me, whereas
Pierre was obviously the wrong sort
of man. Pierre is such a thinking
man. He likes to be alone. And Fried
is very gregarious and down-to-
earth.”’

DIFFICULT ROLE

Kemper says she found it hard to
perform the duties as the wife of a
head of government

“You are not allowed to be real
when you are the prime minister's
wife, not even to yourself,"’ she says
“There is always somebody you have
to be putting on a show for — cov-

Steel mill workers
will have to bend

By JUDY LINDSAY

In The Vancouver Sun
To save about 400 jobs at Western Canada Steel's Mitchell Island
plant in Richmond, someone is going to have to bend, and that
someone will be the workers, not the tough-minded new owner of

WCS.

Roger Phillips, the president of IPSCO Inc.,
buy WCS from Cominco, is like the godfather with an offer the
workers can't refuse: He'll re-open the plant and save their jobs if
they give up some cushy contract provisions they fought hard to

obtain.

Not a compassionate offer, perhaps, but the only sensible one
The Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied

which has agreed to

, has until the

Workers, which rep wcs’

ploy
end of September to come to grips with this new reality. Phillips
expects to complete the deal with Cominco then, and only then will he
listen to any proposal from CAIMAW for re-opening Mitchell Island.

How did CAIMAW get itself in this pickle? It had a lot of help
from WCS, whose management bought used equipment that turned

out to be very expensive and

engaged in warfare with the workers and agreed to contract terms
that amounted to a noose around WCS’ neck. CAIMAW aggravated
the problems by maintaining a stubborn grip on those contract terms
which were out of step with the rest of the industry.

When WCS announced it would close the plant permanently
Sept. 9, it became attractive to would-be buyers.

IPSCO, a Regina-based producer of steel primarily for the
oilpatch, wanted to diversify and WCS had the means — plants in
Calgary and Hawaii, as well as a recycling plant in Richmond. There
were also 70 hectares of industrial land on Mitchell Island.

Phillips is absolutely clear-eyed about what it will take to get
Mitchell Island producing steel again. The workers, he says, ‘“‘have to
be prepared to work the way any other efficient steelworker in the

world works.""

What he's talking about is pretty simple: The union contract calls
for spelling, which means after an hour and a half of work, the
employee gets a half-hour break. Vital when steel making was hellish
work, spelling has disappeared from an industry cooled by tech
change. If your job calls for you to monitor a TV, in an air-conditioned
room, you don’t need relief from the work every 1.5 hours, yet they

got it at WCS

The contract also calls for five crews should the company imple-
ment 24-hour, seven days-a-week production; the industry standard is

four crews.

Put together, these featherbedding terms mean one hour’s work
would cost the employer 1.66 hours. You won't find these conditions
at Cominco’s smelter operations in Trail, nor at IPSCO’s Prairie
plants: There is no spell time, shifts are 12 hours long, the work goes
on seven days a week. In both cases the plants are unionized by the

United Steelworkers

CAIMAW has been the union at a number of plants in B.C. that
have shut their doors, so it has a reputation as a plant closer. Of
course, managers are quick to blame unions for their troubles,
overlooking the role played by their own flawed decisions and
changing worldwide economic conditions

Stanley Humpries Secondary

STUDENTS

* For students new to the
school this year, and students
who, due to failures, may
require program changes:

Counsellors will be available to meet
with you on Friday, Sept. 2, 1988

9a.m. to3 p.m.

Bring report cards with you to this

session.

the pany with debt,

ering up and hiding your feelings. 1
do not know of any wife in @ public
position who has not suffered.’’

Kemper also dismisses a drug raid
last spring in which the RCMP seized
@ package containing a small amount
of marijuana at her Ottawa home.
The charges were stayed, but Kem-
per insists ‘‘the charge would have
been dropped because I was inno-
cent."”

She assumes the package was sent
by someone who wanted to see her
suffer. She said she no longer
smokes marijuana since she's been

married to Fried because he dis’
approves.

The Vanity Pair article is believed
to be Gotlieb’s first story for a major
U.S. publication since the infamous
incident in 1986 when she slapped
the Canadian Embassy's social sec-
retary at a black-tie dinner for Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney, Mulroney
was in Washington for a summit
meeting with President Ronald Rea-
gan,

The incident tarnished the Got-
liebs’ reputation as leading members
of Washington's Embassy Row.

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ewis dedicating Games to dad |

By BERT ROSENTHAL

Carl Lewis will be dedicating the Olympic Games to

his late father.

Bill Lewis died May 5, 1987, after an 18-month bout

with cancer. He was 60.

He was the backbone of a family that included his
Cleve and Carl, and

wife, Evelyn, sons Mackie,
daughter, Carol.

All were athletes.

Carl is the most famous, becoming the world’s top
sprinter and long jumper and winning four gold medals
in the 1984 Olympics. Carol has achieved world-class
Status in the women’s long jump and make the U.S.
Olympic team for the third straight time, just like Carl.

Bill Lewis was the strenghth of this family, which
lived a major part of its life in Willingboro, N.J., where
he and Evelyn were track and field coaches at different

Ontario
team to
beat

KELOWNA (CP) — The first pitch
hasn't yet been thrown, but already
Ontario pitchers are striking fear into
their opponents at the 1988 Canadian
Senior Softball Championship.

The 12-team national champion-
ship tournament begins Monday.

Ontario champion Owen Sound
Canadian Tire boasts two of Can-
ada’s top hurlers and one, lefthander
Brad Underwood, is widely consider-
ed to be the best thrower in the
country right now.

“Underwood is as good as any
pitcher I've ever seen,” said Larry
Besse, coach of defending champion
Saskatoon Rempel Brothers. ‘‘I think
they'll be one of the best represent-
atives from Ontario in a long time be-
cause of their pitching staff.""

Joining Underwood on the Ontario
mound is national team hurler Glen
Moreland.

Owen Sound served notice it will
be the team to beat at the nationals
by posting an impressive third-place
finish at the recent International
Softball Congress championships in
Decatur, Ill. Underwood received
outstanding reviews for his perfor-
mance in that tournament.

Rempel Brothers, B.C. champion
Victoria Pay Less and Alberta champ-
ion Calgary Otto Mobiles are also
regarded highly.

“I think it’s one of the toughest
fields I've seen at the nationals,”
said Besse, whose staff rivals On-
tario’s.

The Saskatoon mound corps is led
by Jeff Boyce, twice named top pit-
cher at Kelowna’s annual senior A
tournament, and 1987 national team
pitcher Rob Scheller.

“| think our staff is as good as any
in the country,’’ said Besse. ‘‘We
feel if we can hold our opponents
down to two or three runs, we can
outscore them."*

Several other teams also boast
pitchers who could single-handedly
carry their teams a long way.

. Saints
to visit
Truro

By CasNews Staff

A Selkirk College soccer team will
be travelling to Nova Scotia this fall
for an exchange match with the Nova
Scotia Agricultural College.

The Selkirk Saints men’s team will
leave Oct. 3 for Truro, N.S. where
the students will be billoted with
their eastern counterparts.

During their one-week visit, the
students will tour local industry,
agricultural and cultural sites.

The Nova Scotia students will then
get a week of Kootenay hospitality
starting Oct. 17.

Funding for the trip has been
approved by the Association of Can-
adian Community Colleges. The tour
will be the highlight of the men’s
soccer season. Tryouts for the team
begin the first week of classes (Sept
6-9).

Brendan Nagle
on holidays.

schools.

“My father was a tremendous inspiration to all of

us,"’ Carl said. “‘He had a very strong personality. He

stood for what was right. We miss him in many ways.”

If not for Bill Lewis, Carl might not be trying to win

four gold medals for the second consecutive time in the

Olympics.

‘TALKED OF RETIRING’
“I talked about retiring after 1984,"

id Carl,

winner of the 100-metre and 200-metre dashes and the

long jump, and the anchor of the winning men’s
400-metre relay in Los Angeles.

“‘He inspired me to continue running. I was only 23
then. ‘Gosh, what am I going to do?’ I said-then.

‘We talked about trying to be the tae! ee other
four years. He helped me. We talked about dedication
and intensity to track."’

When Bill died last year, Carl took the 100-metre

gold medal from the '84 Games, placed it in one of his
father’s hands in the casket at the funeral home, and
wrapped the ribbon around his hands

“The medal will always be with Bill,"’ Evelyn Lewis

said

Now, ironically, the greatest challenge to Lewis's
bid for another four Olympic golds probably will be in

the 100.

Canadian Ben Johnson set the world record of 9.83
seconds in winning the 100 metres at the 1987 world
championships and beat Lewis for the fifth consecutive

time.
LONG STRING

That loss was Lewis's first in 10 events at the
Olympic or world-championship level. Otherwise, he
has won nine gold — four at Los Angeles, three at the
1983 world championships and two at the 1987 world

championships.

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar and Robson swim-
mers turned in some solid per-
fe incial B.C.

ANNUAL SWIMATHON .. . Castlegar Aquanaut
comes up for air during annual swimathon
Saturday at Bob Brandson pool. Funds raised

Swimmers do well

seventh spot. The team included
Trevor Haviland, Ryan Biller,
Chris Cook and Jason Burns.

at the pi
Summer Swimming Association
provincial championships last
weekend in Victoria.

The Castlegar Aquanauts’
Div. 6 girls’ medley relay team

‘ured second-place. The team
influded Aimie Chernoff, Jodi
Young, Jennifer Small and
Wende Gouk. The same four-
some also placed eighth in the
freestyle relay.

Meanwhile, Chernoff took
fifth in the butterfly and James
Welychko took fourth in the
breaststroke.

Tom Carew finished third in
the backstroke and seventh in
the 100-metre freestyle.

As well, the Div. 1 boys’ free-
style relay team, captured

, Mike Byers of the
Robson River Otters clocked his
personal best time of 41:08 in
the S0-metre breaststroke to take
fifth place. Teammate Kim Veri-
gin swam a personal best time of
1.09:46 to take fourth place in
the 100-metre freestyle.

In the consolation finals Devon
Goolief was fourth in the Div. 2
S0-metre breaststroke, while
Byers was fourth in the Div. 3
100-metre freestyle and Verigin
was fourth in the Div. 3 S0-metre
freestyle.

In Div. 5 Tim Austin turned in
an eighth place finish in the
S0-metre freestyle, w in Div
7 Curtis Ready was seventh in
the 50-metre freestyle. Trevor
Seville, racing in the same divi-
sion, was fourth in the SO-metre

from this year's swimathon will go to the new
indoor aquatic centre.

CosNews Photo by Ron Norman

freestyle and third in the 100.
metre breaststroke.

For the Aquanauts, swimmers
who placed in the ‘consolation
finals included: Haviland, Mario
Fehrenberg, Gouk, Young,
Small, Alex Hartman and Chris
Chernoff.

Other swimmers
peted at the provincial finals
included: from the Aquanauts —
Melanie Gibson, Craig Hawkins,
Shelley Stansbury and Meghan
Van Vliet; and from the Otters
— Kristy Verigin, and Treena
Goolief.

The Aquanauts concluded
their season Saturday with a
swimathon. Money raised from
the event will be used to help
fund the proposed indoor aquatic
centre.

The Otters close out their
season today with a wind-up at
the Robson Hall.

who com-

Ciccarelli seeks trade

TORONTO (CP) — Minnesota for-
ward Dino Ciccarelli wants to be
traded unless the North Stars agree
to his demand for a new contract
worth more than $400,000 US per
year, his agent said.

Ciccarelli and his agent, Ron Sal-
cer, rejected an offer received from
the NHL team Friday, the Toronto
Star reported Saturday.

Salcer said that if a new contract
isn't signed by the Sept. 9 opening of
training camp, Cicarelli would ‘‘with-
hold his services. He won't report to

camp."’

The agent did not say what salary
the North Stars offered. He said he
had demanded ‘‘a lot more’ than
$400,000, however

Ciccarelli, 28, is one of the lowly
Minnesota's top players. He scored
41 goals last season and has 300
goals in his eight seasons with the
North Stars.

Salcer said Ciccarelli’s contract for
last season called for $225,000, but
that he only collected $180,000 be-
cause of a 10-game suspension, with-

out pay, for slashing Toronto’s Luke
Richardson.

Ciccarelli was found guilty of
assault on Richardson in a Toronto
court this week and spent a day in
jail and was fined $1,000 in an un-

Precedented conviction for violence |

during a hockey game.

Jack Ferreit Minnesota's new
general manager, had no comment
on Ciccarelli rejecting the club's
latest offer.

Minnesota finished last overall in
the 21-team league last season.

It’s a record unchallenged by any modern track and
field performer. Also remarkable is his string of 55
consecutive victories in the long jump.
which he has not been beaten since 1981

an event in

Lewis has also made several record albums, acted

in movies and done television sports commentary and
commercials. He is a collector of silver, fine china and

crystal, enjoys expensive clothes and fancy cars, and

his father.

helps out in the family-run travel agency in Houston.
He probably would be more deeply involved in
those projects — and out of track and field — if not for

‘*He wanted me to regain my eminence in sprint-

was still the best.

good.””

ing,”” Lewis said.

“He felt I was the best sprinter. Ben
had a great season last year, but he (Bill Lewis) felt I

“If I do now what he wanted, it makes me feel

McGriff

sparks
debate

TORONTO (CP) — Fred McGriff
sparked speculation about a race for
the American League home-run
crown with a splurge just after the
all-star break.

Now, as the six-foot-three, 220-
pound Toronto Blue Jays slugger
threatens another streak, the talk’s
really heating up.

The 24-year-old from Tampa, Fla.,
playing first base regularly for the
first time this season, clubbed his
30th home run of the year this week.

With 16 since the all-star break,
the easygoing McGriff trails Jose
Canseco of the Oakland Athletics by
four. In third place is the injured
Gary Gaetti of Minnesota, with 26.

“I’ve got a chance, with a month
to go,"’ says McGriff, who leads the
AL in slugging percentage at .593.

It's the first time this season he
has admitted thinking about the
home-run derby.

His chief goal was consistency, but
his homers have come in bunches.
He delivered 13 in 22 games after the
all-star game, then just one in 14
games until smashing a 452-foot shot
Tuesday and adding the 30th Wed:
nesday J

‘DOING THE JOB’

“I don’t want to be known as a
streaky player,"’ he said. ‘‘The thing
I'd be proudest of is consistency,
doing the job day in and day out.""

He is consistent at playing crib-
bage after the game. Ask about a
home run and he replies, barely
looking up from the cards: ‘‘It was a
fastball . . . 15-2, 15-4 up and
away... arun of three for seven
that’s what I was looking for."

It drives the radio reporters crazy,
but contributes to the unpressured
personality that should keep McGriff
in the home-run race, says teammate
Jesse Barfield

“He doesn’t get bogged down in
thinking baseball all the time,’’ says
Barfield, who led the AL with 40
homers in 1986.

“If I were g betting man, I'd bet
on Fred.”"~

Going head-to-head with Canseco,
the early favorite for MVP honors.
might faze some players. But nothing
seems to get to the quiet, shy
McGriff

He started the season under a load
of pressure when Toronto traded
away the team leader, Willie Up.
shaw, who had held the first-base job
for six years.

‘BIG YEAR’

“This is a big year for me."’ Mc-
Griff admitted recently. ‘‘Not so
much to show the people I could
play, but to show the Blue Jays they
were right for giving me the
chance."”

McGriff leads the Blue Jays with
71 RBIs. At .288, his average is
behind only Kelly Gruber among the
regulars. The key to his success is a
hard, level swing, as opposed to the
upward cut of many sluggers or
would-be sluggers

“If 1 get it in the air
says

It’s destined for the bleachers.

“All that power and those eyes
too,’’ says Cito Gaston, the hitting
instructor. ‘‘It’s usually the singles
hitters with that kind of eye.”

With 104 strikeouts against 20
homers in 295 at-bats while plat-
ooning last season, McGriff was in
danger of becoming known as Fred
McWhiff. This season, he has cut
down on the strikeout ratio, 123 in
410 at-bats, with 63 walks.

McGriff, who hits from the left
side, is also learning to hit the
breaking ball from left-handed pitch
ers

"* McGriff

Angels’ big inning
sinks lowly Yanks

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Terry
Clark ptiched a seven-hitter for his
first major-league shutout and Cali
fornia Angels got a club-record seven
consecutive hits during a nine-run
second inning Saturday, beating the
slumping New York Yankees 12-0

California, which rallied from a
six-run deficit to beat New York 7-6
in 12 innings Friday night, had 17
hits off four pitchers. Devon White
and Jack Howell had three hits each.

New York, 6-12 since Aug. 9, has
allowed 10 or more hits in 13 of its
last 18 games and 171 runs in 25
games this month, a 6.84 average

Clark, 6-2, struck out five and
walked three in his second complete
game. Charles Hudson, 6-5, allowed
10 hits and nine runs in 1 1-3
innings

OAKLAND 5S BALTIMORE 1
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Todd
Burns and Greg Cadaret combined
on a seven-hitter and Luis Polonia hit
a pair of run-scoring singles Sat-
urday, leading the Oakland Athletics
past the Baltimore Orioles 5-1

Burns, 6-1, is 4-0 with a 1.17

earned-run average over seven starts
in the Oakland Coliseum. He allowed
five hits in 5 1-3 innings before
Cadaret finished for his third save
Oswald Peraza, 5-7, gave up nine
hits and all five runs in four innings
Cal Ripken’s 22nd home run gai
Baltimore the lead in the fifth befor
Oakland went ahead in the second

CUBS 5 BRAVES 0

ATLANTA (AP) — Jeff Pico ptich
ed a four-hitter for his second shut
out and drove in the game's first run
Saturday as the Chicago Cubs bea‘
the Atlanta Braves 5-0

Pico, 5-6, struck out three and
walked none in his third complete
game, allowing one runner past
second and retiring the last 13
batters in order. He pitched a shut
out in his major-league debut, beat
ing Cincinnati May 31 with a four
hitter,

Ryne Sandberg hit a
homer in the ninth inning, his 14th
off Bruce Sutter. Tom Glavine, 5-15
had given up four hits in six innings
walked two and struck out none.

Atlanta has lost four of its last five

two-run