as Castlegar News Morcn20, 1900 BUSINESS RETAIL SALES LEVELLED OFF IN JANUARY OTTAWA (CP) — There were signs in January that nsumers may not be prepared to dig much deeper into January retail sales were flat, ending generally steady growth witnessed throughout last year, Statistics Canada said. Adjusted to compensate for the usual seasonal downturn in sales in January and the number of trading days in the month, preliminary estimates indicate sales totalled $13.5 billion, unchanged from December. Experts doubted that the figures are evidence of a long-feared drop in consumer spending over the October stock market crash but suggested there may be slower spending growth this year. Mel Fruitman, vice-president of the Retail Council of Canada, remained optimistic, saying sales last month were still 9.6 per cent higher than in January 1987. After four-per-cent inflation is taken into account that would mean a real increase of 5.6 per cent. “That's indicating continuing strength,” Fruitman said. Sales displayed some softening in February, he added. Much of the year-over-year growth in retail sales was due to thé large auto sector. Sales of new and used autos in Jandary were 21 pér cent higher than a year earlier. The next largest retail group, food stores, showed year-over-year growth of only 4.7 per cent. Dqpartment store sales were down by five per cent from a year earlier George Saba, chief economist with Montreal Trust, said he doubted last year’s growth in retail sales will be repeated this year. But the October stock market crash didn't have the dramatic impact some expected, he said. There were fears that the market crash would knock the confidence out of consumers who account for about two-thirds of all spending in the economy. A sharp drop in spending would in turn weaken the economy and shake the confidence of business. However, the business cycle, a process by which the economy moves between booms and recessions, is now long in the tooth, he said. The economy now is in its sixth year of uninterrupted growth, “That's important,” Saba said. “For the Canadian consumer to maintain the same pace in 1988 as he did in 1987 would require continued increases in employ- ment growth, continued income increases, continued high levels of consumer confidence and even a further dip in savings. You wonder whether we've reached the limits in a lot of these areas. I suspect so.” Hudson's Bay loses $78.5m TORONTO (CP) — Despite a profit of $33 million in the the company. Hudson's Bay has interests in merchandising, real estate and natural resources, In real estate, its Mark- Operating profit from better results in merchandis- merchandising operations ing, Hudson's Bay Co. lost improved to $168.6 see million peg de Pri- up almost $20 million from marily because a large the vious writedown of U.S. land for ny Tella. Bc gh ae the company report- climbed to $91 million from . $61.6 million while The loss — before extra- from Shapeete tote ordinary items — in the year $17.7 million, up from $6.4 ending Jan. 31 compares with million a year ago. ; Retail sales increased on! same 1986 fiscal period, said 1,2 per cent but the mend included 53 weeks borough Properties subsid- some nesses iary lost $148.7 million, down Tethare Stores, Pes ans! from an operating profit of Bay Wholesale and Roxy in $108.6 million the previous cutting debt levels and in- year. A pre-tax writedown of terest costs to $198.7 million, $196.6 million in U.S. land 4 drop of $66.6 million from last assets was the main reason for the plunge, the Toronto- based Business students fifth Selkirk College's Business Administration students placed high in a three-day computerized strategic manage: ment simulation March 3-5 in Richmond. Teams from 15 B.C. colleges competed in this first-year business exercise which was sponsored by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training and a large number of corporate sponsors. Headquartered at Richmond's Executive Inn, the business simulation exercise required teams to take over a failing commuter airline. Though consisting of only three planes, the potential for success afforded by deregulation of the airline industry was good. Selkirk College was represented by: Darlene Martin, who acted as president and chief executive officer of New Horizon Airlines, Ralph Torkel who assumed the role of vice-president of finance, Shelly Fryer who acted as vice-president of operations and human resources, and Rob Voykin who served as vice-president of marketing. All are currently in their second year of the Business Administra tion program The team was coached by George Mclvor, head of the college's Business Administration program. Mclvor was pleased with the performance put in by his students. “They walked into the competition well prepared and presented th s in a most pr i manner. “Their achievement brings a lot of credit to the college and to our business program. We stack up well against my school.” The New Horizon team spent about 10 days preparing for the competition, with Martin and Torkel preparing computer programs to run cash flow, utilization rates, and passenger load factors, for the lap-top computer loaned to the team for the competition by Kootenay Informatics. Corporate graphics for New Horizons Air were prepared by Fryer. “We worked Sundays, and all during the quarter break Crazy Dave, Our Sales getting ready for this competition,” said Martin. To begin with, each team was required to submit a corporate mission and goals statement which was judged for its market appeal and adherance to company philosophy. In actual competition the pace was fast and furious for all three days, as teams had to input decisions and analyse results on a minium of 27 policy variables in each of the quarters. Game administrators further complicated quarterly performance by introducing incidents such as labor strikes or crash landings which required countering strategies. “I thought the pressure factor was a realistic element,” said Martin. “It really got your adrenalin pumping.” She was referring to the speed with which teams were required to analyse performance and submit decisions for each of the 12 quarters. Judges required decisions in anywhere from one-half to two hours for each quarter. Teams were further frustrated by an unscheduled three-hour delay in the middle of the contest when the game's data history disk was inadvertently crashed by administrators and had to be laboriously reconstructed. By Saturday at 1:30 p.m., after 11 of the 12 scheduled quarters had been completed, the judges called a halt to proceedings, to allow time to interview the top six teams prior to the awards dinner. The Selkirk team finished fifth overall in terms of total profits generated, while coming in first in the category of strategic planning and accuracy. This category relates to the fulfilment of the corporate mission and goals submitted at the start of the simulation. The top four teams were awarded computers, while Selkirk College's team brought home a new version of the Bedord Accounting software. “Our team made every effort to adhere to realistic constraints of the marketplace and economic conditions of the company,” said Martin. Pp said in a statement. Profit from the sale of income properties tumbled to $7.4 million from $67.3 mil- lion. FALCON PAINTING & DECORATING vIn 2s! ‘AR NEWS 70 DRAWER 3007. CASIUEGAB.8C. vO ane CASTLEG, Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoff ADVERTISING SALES Get Your Message Across Fast! CALL... Classified Ads March 20,1986 81 Ask about our RRSP planner. ®@ Meet ‘Maya’, » top Buropean fushion designer! © Learn professional designer secrets! ATTEND ONE FO! 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Use Our Automated Tellers. oo — Trail o Fruitvale o Castlegar © Salmo ¢ South Slocan o Nakusp o New Denver o Waneta Plaza o Kaslo Lambrick takes it all By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The Lambrick Park Lions outplayed the KLO Cougars from Kelowna last night at the Stanley Humphries secondary school gym to win the B.C. girls’ single A basketball champion ship. The Lions beat the Cougars 70-61 to win the title. The game was tied at 34 at the half and the Lions held a slim three-point lead after three quarters before really opening up in the final quarter. “The kids played really well, they played a control game,” said elated Lambrick coach Rocky Vitale right after the fi buzzer. “It's great, it’s unbelievable.” The Lions lost their only other game against KLO this season by 10 points in February at the Victoria City Police tournament. The Kelowna team was larger and played a fast-breaking style usually associated with smaller teams like Lambrick but the Lions’ control game gave them the edge in the end. Sixteen-fear-old Lambrick guard Andrea Loukes was the tournament's most valuable player. The Kelowna team was favored going into last night's contest but coach Vitale remained confident his team could overcome the tall Kelowna side. “I don’t think very many people gave us a chance,” Vitale said. “But I think our kids felt we could do it and we did.” Lambrick Park took first place and KLO placed second. Lord Byng from Vancouver placed third, Notre Dame of Vancouver fourth, Prince George Coll ege fifth, David Thompson of Inver mere sixth, St. Ann's of Kamloops seventh, SHSS eighth, Aldergrove ninth, Brentwood College of Vancouver Island 10th, Agassiz 11th, Smithers 12th, Summerland 13th, Nechako Val ley from Vanderhoof 14th, Port Hardy 15th and Grand Forks 16th. First team allstars are David Thompson's Andrea Schnider, Lam brick’s Jennifer Scotten, Prince Geor. ge’s Heidi Maida, St. Ann’s Lorraine Denis and Prince George's Julie Sale. WITH TWO WINS Rockettes place Sth in province By BRENDAN NAGLE The Stanley Humphries secondary school Rockettes finished in eighth place out of 16 teams in the B.C. single A girls basketball championship this week. The Castlegar squad finished with two wins and two losses dropping their final game to Invermere 46-43 last night. “We'd like to have won that game today (Saturday) for sixth place,” Rockette coach Jack Closkey said last night. “We didn't play too badly”. The Rockettes opened the tour- nament Wednesday with a 59-58 loss to the St. Ann's squad from Kamloops. €loskey said the loss in the opener didn’t make things any more difficult on his team “The kids played hard in every game,” he said. “I don't think it (the loss in the first game) affected the players because they knew they played hard and they were quite proud of their effort.” The Rockettes rebounded from the opening loss to St. \Ann’s with a convincing 54-43 victory over the Vanderhoff Viqueens on Thursday. On Friday the Rockettes were involved in a close match with Brentwood College of Vancouver Is- land. Brentwood was up 11 points on the Rockettes at the half but the SHSS team rallied in the final two quarters to eke out the 54-52 victory. “We dug ourselves an incredible hole and came back,” Closkey said of the Brentwood game. “It was a nice win.” Closkey said the tournament was a success all around and said he was satisfied with eighth place, even though the team could have finished sixth. Had the Rockettes finished in sixth place, it would have been their best finish in provincial tournament play since 1963. “We had lots of opportunities and worked hard but we couldn't con sistently hit the basket,” he said. “We had sixth within our grasp and we should have taken it.” SAY WHAT? . . . Stanley Humphries coach Jack Closkey barks out instruc- tions to his players during provincial championships this week CosNews photo by Brendon Nagle Closkey said the whole team played well and said Pam Braun, Jenny Rezansoff and Arla Goolieff were the most consistent players. think the kids are quite happy with their performance, I am.” He also praised the community and school volunteers who helped make the looking forward to next season. “That's it for the year,” he said. “We're going to make that provincial tournament again. Next year we go to School sports intense I realized this week just how long it's been since I was in high school. It hit me during the B.C. girls’ single A basketball championship held at Stanley Humphries second ary school this week and confirmed the fact that I'm getting old. I had completely forgotten about the intensity associated with high school basketball competition and was unaware of the importance of these tournaments to host cities and competing teams. My editor had to threaten me with physical violence to convince me to go to the gym and get some coverage. “Small spuds,” I thought. So I grudgingly trundled down to the SHSS gym to watch the game between SHSS and Brentwood Col lege from Victoria and it all came back to me in a flood. I wasn’t even out of the car when I could hear the crowd in the gym going insane over the action on the floor. I entered the building and the din was deafening. The bleachers were packed with fans chanting, yelling and cheering. The guy bashing the garbage can lids together was having a heck of a good time along with all the other spectators. It was almost as much fun to watch SHSS teacher Doug Hickey react to a play as it was to watch the game itself. The game was a real barn-burner, too. The girls from SHSS and Brentwood College were playing so hard the game was decided in the Sporting Views By Brendan Nagle final half-minute. It was so close you hated to see either team come up on the short end of the score board. SHSS won by two points. But there are no losers in this tournament. Everyone who takes part can be sure of having a good time even if they don't win. Not even having their buses grounded could dampen the teams’ enthus- iasm. Yes, the motor vehicle branch threw what might have been a huge wrench into the works of the tournament had the organizers not done such a fine job in setting the whole thing up. Picture a team with a game to go to and no bus... nota pretty sight. But the quick-thinking of the tournament organizers and the co- operation of the teams with “legal” buses kept the tourney on the road. The Castlegar school board can give itself a pat on the back as well, for springing the other’buses needed to keep the teams moving. And please don't ask me why the M.V. inspector and the Ministry of Highways find it safer for girls to travel in buses without seatbelts. I'm sure they have their reasons — probably the same kind of reasons Selkirk College will give for not That's right, the college has one of the strongest high school girls’ basketball teams in the West Kootenay in its own back yard and continues to ignore the fact by not forming a team. Graduating players like Pam Braun and Kim Lees say they would both like to play basketball after high school but “Selkirk doesn't have a team.” They were a little too nice about it so I talked to coach Jack Closkey who was more to the point. “It's a crime,” Closkey says bluntly. “A total crime.” While it may not do any good to call in the police on this one, I believe the college should take a look at initiating a women’s basket: ball team. Not only to accommodate the local girls who want to study and compete in the area but because the Selkirk team could be the class of the province. So, having rediscovered the in tensity of the competition and importance of high school basketball to the area, I find myself digging way back to the days when I was a youngster. The last time I was in high school, the KLO Cougars edged the Alder. grove Totems 42-40 in Revelstoke to take the B.C. single A girls’ having a women's team. “A super team effort,” he said. “I tournament a success and said he’s Victoria.” Habs blank Chicago MONTREAL (CP) — Brian Skrudland and Gilles Thibaudeau fired first-period goals and goaltender Patrick Roy handled 18 shots in earning his third shutout as the Montreal Canadiens stretched their unbeaten string to 13 games with a 3-0 NHL victory over the Chicago Black Hawks on Saturday night. ‘The Canadiens, whose only blemish in the 13 games is a tie against the Minnesota North Stars, have yielded only four goals in their last five games, with two of them ending in shutouts by Roy. Montreal has recorded shutouts in its last three home games. The Blackhawks continued their futility at the Forum where they have not won since Oct. 9, 1982, a drought that has brought seven losses and one tie. In their two visits this season, Chicago failed to score a goal, losing 3-0 here last November. CALGARY 5 QUEBEC 4 QUEBEC (CP) — Hakan Loob scored at 2:43 of overtime to give the Calgary Flames a 5-4 victory over the Quebec Nordiques. Mike Bullard won a draw deep in the Quebec end and got the puck back to Loob at the top of the circle. Loob skated one step toward the net and fired a high wrist on the short side past Mario Brunetta. Joe Mullen sent the game into overtime for Calgary with his 85th goal of the season at 9:54 of the third period, only 27 seconds after Jeff Brown put Quebec ahead with a goal from the right faceoff circle Bullard, who tied the game at 3-3 only 40 seconds into the third period, missed a chance to put his team ahead a few minutes later when he took a penalty shot the Flames were awarded after Quebec's Gaetan Duchesne covered the puck with his glove in the Nordiques goal crease. RANGERS 4 LEAFS 3 TORONTO (CP) — Michel Petit’s shot bounced into the Toronto net off the arm of Maple leafs defenceman Al Iafrate for the winning goal in a 4-3 New York Rangers’ triumph. lafrate's miscue was the second in the game by the free-wheeling defenceman that led to a Rangers’ goal. In the first period, he lost the puck at the Toronto blueline, giving Brian Mullen the opportunity he needed to score on goalie Ken Wregget. Walt Poddubny, who capitalized on another Leaf giveaway in the first period, and Marcel Dionne also scored for the Rangers. PENGUINS 7 FLYERS 0 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Zarley Zalapski scored his first The streak is Philadelphia's longest since the Flyers lost five from Dec. 26, 1970 to Jan. 3, 1971. The team record is six, set in 1970. Guenette, playing his 13th game in the NHL, picked up Pittsburgh's second shutout of the season. The Penguins other shutout was also against the Flyers, 5-0. Zalapski assisted on both of Pittsburgh's first period goals. Randy Cunneyworth took advantage of Brad Marsh's giveaway ona power play at 6:07 and Mario Lemieux scored his 59th at 10:33. Zalapski scored at 4:00 of the second period, converting Lemieux's pass on a 2-on-1 breakaway. BUFFALO 4 BOSTON 3 BOSTON (AP) — Ray Sheppard scored two goals and Mike Hartman broke a second-period tie with his first goal of the NHL season Saturday as the Buffalo Sabres edged the Boston Bruins 4-3. The victory, Buffalo's eighth in 11 games, moved the Sabres within seven points of the slumping Bruins in the race for second place in the Adams Division. Boston has won just once in its last eight games. John Tucker also scored for the Sabres. Ray Bourque, Bob Sweeney and Rick Middleton replied for Boston. Sheppard's 34th goal of the season, on a power play, gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead at 9:14 of the first period. Middleton tied it for Boston with a short-handed goal at 11:18. HARTFORD 5 ST. LOUIS 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ron Francis had a goal and an assist to lead the Hartford Whalers to a 5-3 NHL victory over the St. Louis Blues Saturday night. Veteran Blues centre Bernie Federko reached an NHL milestone with his 1,000 career point, when he assisted Mark Hunter on a third-period goal. Federko became the 21st player in league history to reach that mark. The win moved the Whalers (30-35-7) to within one point of the fourth-place Quebec Nordiques in the Adams Division, as the two teams battle for a playoff berth. Quebec, which lost 5-4 in overtime Saturday night to the Calgary Flames, has 68 points; Hartford has 66. LOS ANGELES 7 DETROIT 4 INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Dave Taylor scored two goals and Luc Robitaille added a goal and three assists to give the Los Angeles Kings a 7-4 NHL victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night. Taylor scored the game's first goal and added a power play goal in the second period. The Kings held a 3-1 lead after one period on goals by Taylor, Robitaille and rookie NHL goal and had three assists and Steve stopped 38 shots for his first NHL shutout as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat Philadelphia 7-0 Saturday night, handing the Flyers their fifth straight loss. Ken ther. Taylor scored just 23 seconds into the game and Robitaille followed with his 44th of the season with 8:44 left in the period for a 2-0 lead.