SS as___CastléganNews Moy 1s. 126 On The Street... QUESTION: Do you think the proposed waterslide park in Ootischenia is a good idea? Ron Lavigne Very good. We need something to At draw people in the area. more attractions like that Castlegar but all over. Bill Thorne I agree with the waterslide part but I don’t agree with everything else they're putting with it H. Creighton my age, We need young people, I not just in Bernice Jmaiff I think so. I think the kids would really enjoy it and it would save going to Kelowna and back. I say no. For the say yes. Yes, tourists, people to do June Archambault Yes, because there are few swim ming pools in the area and not much recreation for young people because it will bring in jobs and be something for B.C. mil OTTAWA (CP) — Milk in British Columbia, Alberta and Ottawa will be checked daily for radioactive fallout from the Soviet nuclear ac- cident, federal Health Min- ister Jack Epp said Tuesday. The decision follows a dis. covery of high radiation lev els in rainfall over Edmonton and Vancouver. However, while they are high, the lev els found so far are about 10,000 times below the measure at which the federal Health Department would warn people to stay inside. Inspectors will also be keeping a close watch over vegetables grown in the Vancouver area, Epp told reporters. “There is no need for panic,” he said. “There is a need for vigilance.” None of the results pose any health risk. he said, and are well within health stan dards. The government is. still warning people not to drink rainwater How to Subscribe to the Castlegar 3007 Cestleger, 8.C. VIN 3H4 Yes, I'm interested in get ting the Costlegor News os follows Corner Pleose detorls contect Nome (Please Print Or better still, phone 365-7266 Weekly testing of milk be gan last week. Results so far show no radiation Epp warned that no one should drink tincture of io- dine in the mistaken belief it will protect them against ra dioactive Iodine-131 released during the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant north of Kiev late last month IS POISONOUS Tincture of iodine is pois. onous. There is no need for anyone even those at highest” risk to radiation poisoning — to take iodine tablets, Epp said. The pills help prevent the thyroid gland from absorbing iodine 131 For a 24-hour period end ing May 11, rain in the Van couver area showed concen tration of Iodine-131 of 340 beequerels per litre, 34 times higher than the federal stan. dard for radiation in drinking water of 10 becquerels per litre. In Edmonton for a four-day period ending May 11, con centrations of lodine-131 were 290 becquerels per lit re Rain sampled in Edmonton k tested daily and Vancouver on previous oceasions had showed no contamination By comparisoq, the con centration of Iddine-131 in rain that would cause the Health Department to warn people to stay inside would be 15 million becquerels per litre, said Ernest neau, director of the radia tion protection branch Letour RESTAURANTS/HOTELS/RESORTS » USING 2 FOR 1 OR DISCOUNT COUPONS??? e AVOID THE INTERCHANGE SCRIP REVERSES THE DISCOUNT & PAYS YOU FIRST! INTERESTED in the marketing breakthrough of the Call INTERCHANGE TRAVEL CORP. at 293-1824 or write to 4463 Lougheed Hwy., Burnaby, B.C. VSC 322 RECEIVER!!! ? _ Welcome to the CRESTON VALLEY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL Friday, May 16 to Monday, May 19 SPONSORED BY The Columbia Brewing Company ‘'A Tradition in the Kootenays for Over 100 Years’’ Brewed Right. In the Kootenays. lodine warning issued RED DEER, ALTA. 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The fourth year pro out of Washington has made it clear since coming to Vancouver he wants to play, not ride the bench and watch Roy Dewalt contract. get the accolades and the fat But Dewalt has a multi-year contract, and Cowan will likely be the backup for at least the next four years. Lions’ head coach Don Matthews told the team’s kickoff luncheon Tuesday he will consider trading Cowan if a comparable backup for Dewalt can be found at training camp “We are not going to give Tim Cowan away, to even consider a trade it would have to be for “For u he said someone who can make us a better football team and that's a pretty tough job National coach gets a tall team OTTAWA (CP) — Head coach Wayne Hussey wanted some height on his national women’s basketball team, and he got it in no uncertain terms. At noon Tuesday he trim med the last 32 hopefuls down to 17 team members for the coming season, including five rookies. And the best thing about the newcomers, aside from their considerable talent, is that all but one are well over six feet tall Merileynn Lange of Toron. member of the team at six feet, 5'% inches, just an inch taller than Sue Forsythe of Sarnia, Ont. Kathy MacCormack of Halifax stands six feet, one inch and Janet Fowler of Victoria is six feet, two inches. The shortie among the newcomers is _five-foot-10 Mary Ann Kowal of Sudbury, Ont., whose outside shooting to is the tallest more than makes up for her lack of height Commenting on what he considers the most compe titive camp he’s been in volved with, Hussey said: “The biggest difference was that all the athletes came to camp in top condition. “Last year the team need ed some bigger players and I'm happy with the additional height we now have with two of the rookies, Lange and Forsythe. These two big kids will help the inside game.” Both will spend most of their floor time -under the basket playing the low post MacCormack and Fowler also can play off the back board but they, like Kowal, will be expected to use their height to make the longer range shots. Their biggest problems may simply be getting on the floor at all since Hussey is taking the 12 veteran players through a series of tourna. ments in preparation for the world championships in Mos: cow Aug. 8-17 Those events include the Baltic Cup at Gdansk, Po land, May 27-31 and a four game tournament involving the United States, Korea and West Germany at Hamilton. St. Catharines and Toronto July 11-15. Back for their eighth sea son on the national squad are captain Debbie Huband of Vancouver and Bev Smith of Salmon Arm. Andrea Blackwell of Len noxville, Que., becomes a seven-year veteran and Anna Pendergast of Kensington, P.E.I. enters her fourth year. Misty Thomas of Windsor, Ont. is back with the team after missing a year to let aknee injury heal. The other returning play. ers are Lori Clarke of Ab- botsford, Beth Cochran of Hamiota, Man., Sandy Es peseth of Maple Ridge, Carol Hamilton of Sudbury, Karla Kareh of Calgary, Pat Mel ville of Timmins, Ont., and Lynn Polson of St. Cathar. ines. < re undecided Matthews said Cowan is in no hurry to leave Vancouver despite his desire not to be a second-stringer for another year. “He told me if he has to be the backup then he will be the best damn backup in the CFL.” "Matthews said he knew the club had a good chance to re-sign Dewalt this year because of the problems black quarterbacks have in the National Football League He said Dewalt is the Lion's starting quarterback and he expects him to have an even better year than 1985 when Dewalt led the CFL in passing with 4,237 yards, 27 touchdowns and only 12 interceptions. The six-year British Columbian veteran is closing in on several team passing records held by Joe Kapp. a member of the CFL Hall of Fame. Should Cowan decide to stay, he will be in the option year of his CFL contract and might decide to become a free agent in 1987 in the hopes of becoming a starter elsewhere There will be four quarterbacks among the 75 players in camp: Dewalt, Cowan, Karlton Watson Bernard Hawk. Matthews said the and newcomer mphasis: during the two-week camp will be on getting the veterans in shape in a hurry because of the short exhibition season HIGHER LEVEL “We will be coaching to the level of the vets, not the rookies because the loss of two pre-season games means they have to be ready quicker Matthews said just because the team won the 1985 Grey Cup, it doesn't mean there won't be changes in the sta K iineup He is considering adding another import to the starting lineup and that could lead to an interesting battle at slotback between non-import Jan Carinci, obtained from Toronto in a trade for Nick Hebler, and Ron Robinson Another interesting matchup is between Nelson Martin and Andre Jones at safety ‘It’s going to be difficult to break into our lineup as a rookie,” Matthews says. improve the team because I'm going to be in B.( But we are always looking to for years and I don't plan on growing old with all the players Matthews said wide receiver Merv Fernandez. the league's outstanding player in 1985, is fit and ready even though he still has some calcium deposits in his thigh following last season's injury that kept him ou of the Western final and the Grey Cup. The only serious injury appears to be with offensive linemen Dennis Guevin, whose left knee has not responded to treatment following reconstructive surgery He said Guevin can't pass the physical for camp. raining Junior team coaches named OTTAWA (CP) Bert Templeton of North Bay Trappers, Pat Burns of Hull Olympiques and Tom Web ster of Windsor Spitfires have been named coaches of the national junior hockey team. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association confirm ed the appointments Tues day, while Burns was leading his Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champions through the Memorial Cup playoffs in Portland, Ore., in only his second year at the helm For Templeton it will be the second time around. In 1976 he coached Hamilton Fincups of the Ontario Hoc key Association to the Mem orial Cup championship and the next year took them toa silver medal finish at the world junior championships. He also coached Niagara Falls Flyers of the OHA as well as Nova Scotia Voyage urs of the American Hockey League The first order of business leading up to the late Decem ber championships will be a training camp for 44 selected players at Calgary 25-Aug. 1 July Down to the wire for Calgary Flames By JOHN KOROBANIK CALGARY (CP) — The thing about hockey, says Bob Johnson, the philosophical coach of Calgary Flames of the NHL, is “just when you think you've got it figured out, it’s back to the drawing board.” Johnson and the Flames were back there Tuesday, trying to figure out what happened in Game 6 when St Louis Blues scored four straight goals for a 65 over time win that forced tonight's seventh and deciding game of the Campbell Conference final One thing he does know about game 6, Johnson said, is that the Flames didn’t let the pressure get to them. “You can't say the guys choked or the guys let down,” he said. “We didn’t sit back. Perhaps in the last five Castlegar golfers qualify By CasNews Staff Two Trail residents quali fied for the Zone team which will represent the Kootenays at the B.C. Men's Amateur Golf championships while two Castlegar and two Trail golfers qualified for the Zone 1 B.C. Summer Games team on the weekend. Tournament playdowns were held Saturday at Castlegar Golf Club and Sun day at Birchbank Golf Course Scott Johnston of Trail, was the low gross winner of the 36-hole tournament with a score of 152, while Al Defoe of Trail was second with 152 Johnston and Defoe will make up half the entry to the B.C. Men’s Amateur cham pionships July 15-18 in Cran brook Ron Wilson of Trail was the top qualifier for the B.C Summer Games Zone 1 (Kootenay) team. Nick Sher stobitoff of Castlegar was the second qualifier, followed by Doug Bolechowsky of Castle gar and Bill Heichert of Trail who was fourth The four alternates are: Harry Chernoff, Tom Ste vens, Bill Carlson and Roger Carlson, all of Castlegar Meanwhile, in other tour nament results, Derek Sim ister of Trail was third low gross with 157 and Bill Per ehudoff of Castlegar fourth low gross with 158 Low net winner was Bob Johnston of Trail with 142 father of low gross winner Scott Johnston was Gretzky wou PORTLAND, ORE. (AP) Edmonton Oilers centre Wayne Gretzky, who has been involved with several other NHL players in anti drug television commercials. says he and most of the play ers in the league would wel come mandatory drug test I think it should be brought in (although) I can’t speak for every guy in the e. My vote would be yes,” Gretzky said Tuesday “Most of the guys in the NHL feel the same way.” The six-time NHL valuable player made his comments at a news confer ence while in Portland for the Memorial Cup, major junior hockey's championship. Gret zky is the majority owner of most minutes some of the younger guys lost their poise. “But I'll tell you, there's a lot of character and a lot of chemistry in that room. We have some young kids, who'll be playing their 17th playoff game . . . Some guys don't play 17 in their career. “This is experience you can't teach and you can't coach.” The Flames, apparently recovered from the shock of Monday's St. Louis come back, insist the Campbell Conference championship jis still theirs to decide. “We still control our own destiny,” said goaltender Mike Vernon, picked by the Calgary media as one of the goats of Game 6. “The thing now is that we have to push ourselves to the limit.” “We felt we could control of our own destiny take and we didn't,” added vet eran Doug Ri a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams in Mon treal. “That's all you want in this business, to control your own destiny.” To do that, however, the Flames will need sharp turn abouts from Mernon and their defencemen. Vernon, the rookie goal tender who has played all but one playoff game as the Flames’ bid for their first appearance in the Stanley Cup final, accepted his share of the blame for Monday's third-period collapse. “There were a few mis takes made by a few people, including myself, but good goaltenders bounce back from things like this,” he id. The Flames often referred back to the seven-game ser taking three or four games in Edmonton, ineluding Game 7. “It's 60 minutes for all the marbles again,” said John- son. By their own admission, the Flames have lacked the knockout punch. “We've been in a good situation throughout the series and we just blew it ourselves,” said Vernon. “We have a tendency to be lack adasical, not as intense as we should be. “But we do know that we have to answer the bell now No one else can do it for us. The winner of tonight's game will meet Montreal Canadiens in the best-of. seven final beginning Friday. The opener will be in Calgary if the Flames win tonight or in Montreal if St. Louis wins. By The Canadian Press When the final chapter is written on this year's NHL playoffs, St. Louis Blues will be asa Blues’ character built from misfortune taurant owner in 1974. Two years ago, defence man Lee Norwood was at tacked by a street gang in team which fought its way to the Stanley Cup semi finals largely by force of character. The Blues’ refusal to ac cept defeat was eloquent testimony to their charac ter — not only as hockey players but as human be ings, and to how inner strength is often built from the rubble of personal tragedy Several members of the Blues have been dogged by misfortune. Take happy-go-lucky de fenceman Charlie Bourge ois. His father, Hurele, a Moncton policeman, was slain along with another officer when they deliver ed a $16,000 ransom to a gang which had kidnapped the son of a wealthy res and beaten so badly he was ina coma for two days. Coach Jacques Demers lost his mother when he was 16, and his father when he was 17, and had to raise three younger brothers and sisters him. self Assistant coach Barclay Plager is suffering from two inoperable brain tu mors. Eighteen months ago, he was months to live Blues goaltending coach Jacques Plante died this season of stomach cancer in Switzerland. One of his students, Rick Wamsley lost an infant son while a given six member of the Canadiens three years ago St. Louis winger Mark Reeds lost his mother, to whom he was close, to can- cer two years ago. Seventeen months ago, forward Doug Wickenhei ser was hit by a car. His knee was crushed so badly doctors who performed the initial surgery said he might never walk again. He returned to the line- up during the season and is skating as if the injury never occurred. Hockey people say the Blues are comprised of players who have been given “second chances,” as 15 of the 23 players were obtained through trades or signed as free agents. For many Blues, their true “second chance” ar. rived earlier in life. In Bourgeois's case, after his father was slain, “it defin itely made me tougher.” ‘When he was killed, I put all my mind on trying to make it in hockey,” he said Brooks withdraws WINNIPEG (CP) — Herb Brooks, former coach of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, has withdrawn as a candidate to take a similar position with the Winnipeg Jets, general manager John Ferguson an nounced today Brooks, 48, withdrew due to personal commitments. Ferguson said In making the announce Ferguson said “I will continue to seek out the best candidate for the job among ment the Hull Olympiques who are competing in the Memorial Cup. 1 would with said welcome (drug open arms,” If the NHL us to do urinalysis testing) Gretzky wanted tests, I would be more than happy to do it twice a day.” Last Illus trated quoted sources who week. Sports claimed the two-time Stanley Cup winners have several players who have used illegal drugs Gretzky said he hasn't read the story and wouldn't com ment on it He said he will confer with Oilers coach GM Glen Sather when the centre Edmonton next week Gretzjy did say he heard “all negative returns to has com the many qualified coaches, whether it be in North Amer ica or Europe Published Brooks was offered the job by Ferguson this month, but he asked for time reports said earlier to consult with his family be fore giving the club a de cision Brooks first rose to prom inence in the hockey when he led the States toan upset gold medal in the 1980 Olympic Games in world United ments about the SI story and believes the article will affect the image of the Oilers Drugs are obviously an image that sports and hockey does not professional want to be associated with Gretzky said. “We can keep it right out (of hockey), but obviously some people make mistakes hope we Gretzky said he was raised by his parents in Brantford Ont., to stand up for what he believes. “I think as individuals we all have a responsibility to the game to do the best we can to keep the image of the game as positive and clean as possible,” he said. “But also have to realize there's 410 players in the’ game (in the NHL) and you cant ac you ld vot Lake Placid, N.Y The Jets have been with out a coach since Ferguson took over behind the bench after firing coach Barry Long late in the season Winnipeg wound up the season with a disappointing 2647-7 record for 59 points and third place in the Smythe Division. The Jets eliminated in three straight games by the Calgary Flames in the first round of the play offs i ' e ‘yes count for the other 409 You have to stand up and do what you believe in. You were try and lead the kids in the right direction. I'm fortunate my parents led me in the right direction and they were totally and. strictly against drugs I have the same beliefs. I don’t think it belongs in any walk of life and shouldn't be around at all He spoke at the Canadian Junior Hockey League's annual awards ban Tuesday night spending two weeks resting in Phoenix, Ariz The defending champion Oilers were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs by Major quet after Calgary Flames in the second round