as ___ Castlegar Ne Imports will continue January 22, 1986 BUSINESS WINNIPEG (CP) — Despite improved harvests, China will continue to import wheat from Canada, a visiting Chinese agricultural official says. Yang Zhan said that the Chinese may buy smaller quantities from Canada but imports will continue for the forseeable future. A long term agreement between China and Canada for guaranteed wheat purchases was not renewed this year, causing industry officials to worry about the prospects for future business with customer. Canada's second largest grain But Yang, a procurement officer for more than 100 state farms in China's northeastern grain belt, gave assurances that there is a continued need for Canadian wheat “Almost all the flour used in the big cities comes from Canada,” Yang said through an interpreter. “In China, land is very limited. It is almost impossible to use the limited amount of land we have to grow more wheat.” China's total grain harvest this year looks like it will be a bit smaller than the 407 million tonnes in 1984, the fourth consecutive year of improved harvests. In 1980, the harvest was 320 million tonnes. Total wheat productidn in China in 1985 was projected at 87 million tonnes, down slightly from 1984. And last year, Canada’s wheat exports to China were estimated at 2.8 million tonnes, down from 3.4 million the previous year. Yang said Chinese agriculture officials hope to use western and other te branch into erope like barley, corn and oilseeds. “China needs technology and equipment in order to improve the of grain prod ‘and the pi of that grain,” Yang said. Heilongjiang province, a major producer contributing 60 per cent of Chian's soybean exports, is buying Canadian barley, corn, grass and oilseeds this year for development purposes. Heilongjiang also contains Youyi state farm, China's largest employing 42,000 people. Yi said some small parcels of land currently seeded for grain may be transferred to corn production->——— “We need to grow more corn to improve our livestock industry,” Yang said. Despite its modernization drive, China still faces problems transporting foodstuffs around the country, he said. Large quantities of grain are still moved to processing plants in ox carts. Yang was in Winnipeg for talks with officials of Simon-Day Ltd., which has won a $1.3 million contract to help a Chinese company build two-seed cleaning plants in Heilongjiang. The deal is being financed by the World Food Bank. Simon-Day is bidding on a second contract for an additional 28 seed cleaning plants in China, expected to be worth about $15 million. Computer slump continues NEW YORK (AP) — Al though computer makers from Apple to IBM have reported strong profit gains for the last quarter of 1985, many observers are hesitant to predict that the industry is pulling out of its long slump. PHARMASAVE SPECIALS Perfume free hypo-allergenic cosmetics .. because every woman’s skin is delicate. MARCELLE’ CASH CARD TODAY! ror 24-nour reer seRvice at Castlegar and Trail 5 Over 200 ATM’ gs OreiNenea Canucks nearly give away vict« The problems that plagued the computer business last year — including a sluggish economy and fierce price cutting are likely to continue to some degree through 1986, said company executives and analysts. The sharp pickup in earn- MOISTURE CREAM SOmt MOISTURE $549 VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver Canucks found “The game dragged on a bit with all the penalties,” themselves in unfamiliar territory Tuesday night and almost Suicauay tans air Vesa aoc tata eteae % games. The Canucks raced to a 5-0 lead after two periods, with top sniper Tony Tanti firing three goals, for a 5-8 decision over New Jersey filled affair. barely held on @ penalty- Rosenberg a ‘useful member’ OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Commercial Bank ultimately suffered because of its association with Leo nard but the “He was — when he ap péared on the board and we observed him — a useful board member. Leonard Toronto financier was useful during the six months he was on the board in 1982, says a former director of the failed as an expert in real .” said John DesBrisay of Rosenberg, who in 1983 was stripped of his i g got into difficul ties later, after he left the board.” Those “difficulties” related commission his bank never recovered from the damage done to its reputation by the appointment of a liquidator for the Northland on Monday cleared the way for him to with g and Eaton. But DesBrisay, a longtime board member, said Monday it was the recession, not the to the trust pa sean dal in Ontario which became public in January 1983. Al though the Canadian Com mercial Bank had no direct in a number of trust, loan and other companies during a controversy over a real es tate flip. Rosenberg and six others were charged Monday with fraud involving numerous property transactions in On tario. DesBrisay told the Estey commission Tuesday that Rosenberg was not “a house hold name” when he served as a director for the Edmon ton-based bank in 1982. with R 4 at that time, its chairman, Howard Eaton, had a number of business connections. Eaton resigned within the month because of the bad publicity, but the damage had been done to the small bank's reputation. Major de positors, such as the Ontario government, withdrew their funds and the bank had to rely on standby lines of credit with other banks to survive. Former president Gerald MecLaughlan has told the Economy grew in October OTTAWA (CP) — The economy, at least until in terest rates began to rise in October, was showing signs of continuing to expand ata healthy rate, S Can The indicators include sales of furniture, appliances and cars, the level of res idential construction, stock market activity and various ada figures show. The index of leading ec onomie indicators — a basket of economic measurements used to forecast the direction of the economy over the next few months — posted its fifth consecutive monthly increase in October. “The October increase . . suggests the maintenance of Led by a rise in demand for cars and housing, the in crease in the index was also bolstered by heightened manufacturing activity ivity im each of the indicators averaging 100 in 1971, was 163.88 in October. of uring activity. However, the latest fig ures do not take into account the negative impact on the economy of the steady in crease in interest rates since mid-October. In fact, the prime rate, which is the rate offered to top corporate clients and is the benchmark rate for loans te consumers and other bus inesses, has risen by a full percentage point in the last two weeks to 11 per cent. Economie growth is est imated to have increased by about four per cent in 1935, but even prior to the recent rise in interest rates was expected to slow less than three per cent this year, in large part because of the anticipated slowdown in the U.S. economy. H&R BLOCK TAX REFUND BUYING SERVICE expertly prepared tax return free-of-charge plus 85% of the rst and 95% of the rest, usually. within one day. 1444 Columbie Ave., Castlegar 365-6151 9 to 6 Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sot. Eaton-R. 'g connection, that killed the bank. The institution was closed by the government last Sept 1 after a failed $255-million bailout in March. Mr. Justice Willard Estey of the Su preme Court of Canada has been asked by the federal government to study the clo sure and that of the North land Bank, based in Calgary, less than a month later. Estey has concentrated on the CCB since he began hearings last October. The Kodak has new cameras TORONTO (CP) — After an absence of 16 years, East man Kodak Co. has jumped back into the 35-millimetre camera market now domin ated by Japanese competi. tors such as Canon, Minolta and Ricoh. Kodak said Tuesday it is introducing a new Kodak VR 35 camera in three models, the K6, K10 and K12. They are single-lens reflex camer- begin his i of that bank after he has fin. ished with the CCB. DesBrisay appeared at the hearings with Paul Paine, former chairman of the bank, and James Hillman, a former director. Commission counsel John Sopinka led off his cross examination of the three Tuesday by saying it was his understanding that “the buck stops with the board” as far as the well-being of the bank was concerned. He asked the directors whether the board ever challenged the infor mation given them by man agement. DesBrisay said they often questioned management's as sertions and asked for fur. ther details. TABLES DOCUMENTS Documents he has tabled with the commission show he was concerned about the small bank's spectacular growth in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He told the commission he was worried about substan: dard lending practices, com munications within the bank and its ability to attract top professionals to monitor the expanding loan portfolio. FOTO Shoppes ings for the last three months of 1985, while welcome was mostly the result of stringent reductions in costs and com- parison with a poor last quarter of 1984, several of them agreed. “We're looking for '86 to be kind of a mirror of '85, rather a lethargic year without major growth, unless the economy really starts to roar,” said Thomas Crotty, president of Gartner See urities Corp. International Business Machines Corp., the dom- inating company in the in- dustry, was equally sombre in a prediction for 1986 that it made along with its an- nouncement of a 23.4-per cent rise in fourth-quarter nings. ‘There is an absence of convincing evidence the North American economy is showing sustained improve- ment, and we are approach ing 1986 with caution,” John Akers, IBM's president and chief executive, said in a statement. 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He coowed the iret two quale ob die paeine ey wns ant rare oceurrance 29th with the teams at even most of the night. “When the referee allowed us to, we didn't play too badly.” said Devil conc! Doug Carpenter. “But when you've 0 et ney ee ee “Maybe the guy calling the game had a burr up his butt, but we've only got ourselves to blame. When you get the momentum taken away from you, it's hard to gain back. The players are responsible for a lot of the frustration, but the guy calling the game brings on some of it too.” KILLED PENALTIES While the Canucks scored only twice on 13 manpower “We played pretty smart for two two periods,” Grodin said, “but it's not good enough to sit back im the third becsuse most nights you need a 60-minute effort to get the job done.” Canuck coach Tom Watt said his team got most of Brent Peterson and Thomas Gradin, plus defenceman Doug Lidster. it 3 i WHERE'S THE PUCK? .. . Spokane players block puck from Castlegar Atoms (not shown) in first of two games played day at the C Complex. ROCKER INVITATIONAL Lord Byng Stanley Humphries Secondary School hosted the Rocker Invitational basketball tournament on the weekend. Lord Byng Grey Ghosts won the tournament in Henry incing fashion, from Calgary 77-58 in the championship game They sikihadian ‘ahd of Gan Seen tow the Bbupeeo Rebels from Taber, Alberta overwhelm Cranbrook's Mt. Baker Trojans 86-45 to earn fourth place and the consolation trophy. A total of eight senior boys teams participated in two days of competitive basketball. The host Rockers placed fifth in the Invitational with a 1-2 win-loss record. The win came during Friday's games with Stanley Humphries defeating Springvalley Secondary from Kelowna 88-57. Leading 20-15 after one quarter the Rockers blew the game open in the next 10 minutes, outscoring the Spartans 24-9 to take a 44-24 lead to the locker room at halftime. Shooting 50 per cent from the field and pressing Greg Larson and Rob Trickey scored 20 points each, followed by Clinton Johnson, Gord Babeeff, and Scott Bole with eight points each. Kerry Uchida and Duane Donald each contributed six points. Their Friday win advanced Stanley Humphries to the championship side of the draw and a Saturday afternoon game against Henry Wisewood. The closeness of the game reflected the similarity between the two teams’ personnel and style of play. The Rockers ended the first half up by two points, 35-33. The lead changed hands five times in the second half, the last time being an eight-point spurt by the Warriors to earn a 69-65 victory. first quarter the team cut the Bomber’s lead to five by the half, and three points at three-quarter time. 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Goals were scored by Stoochnoff and DaCosta with assists from Voykin, Har- shenin, Strileaff and Rilcof. The third period was a constant fight for the puck. again with a slapshot goal by CostewsPhoto by Phu! the game in a 33 tie. Potvin ties Orr's record By The Canadian Press Denis Potvin knew it was just a matter of time until he matched Bobby Orr as the most prolific goal-scoring de- fenceman in National Hockey League history. “It's a feeling of great satisfaction to tie Orr,” the 13-year veteran said Tuesday night after scoring career goal 270 in the New York Islanders’ 7-3 victory over Philadelphia. “But I wasn't surprised by it. “I knew I was due to get it sometime.” Potvin tied the record when he took a pass from Bryan Trottier and beat Fly. ers goaltender Bob Froese from the slot at 15:48 of the second period for his 12th goal of the season. Mike Bossy, who had two goals and three assists, had fed Trottier, who had a goal and four assists. “I started sliding in toward the net,” Potvin said. “Trots usually to Bossy on plans like that, but since I was sliding in I knew I had a chance to score.” Potvin, 32, broke Orr's record of career points by a defenceman — 915 — earlier this season. Orr played 12 seasons with Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks. In other games Tuesday, it was: Washington Capitals 7, Minnesota North Stars 5; Vancouver Canucks 5, New Jersey Devils 3; and Los An- geles Kings 6, St. Louis Blues 3. "In Uniondale, the Islanders of the season, and 200th car- eer point, just 44 seconds into the game. The Islanders made it 2-0 on a power-play at 5:01 when Sutter bagged his 13th goal of the season and 100th of his career. John Tonelli also scored for the Islanders, while Rich Sutter, Brad McCrimmon and Don Nachbaur countered Bob Gould, Bengt Gustafsson Craig Laughlin, Kevin Hat- cher and Alan Haworth also scored for the Caps. Tom McCarthy had two goals and Scott Bjugstad, Brian Law- ton and Brian Bellows scored one each for the North Stars. KINGS 6 BLUES 3 In Inglewood, Calif., a red hot Marcel Dionne scored two goals and had two assists and defenceman Mark Hardy scored twice to lead Los Angeles. Dionne, the third. leading all-time NHL scorer, has scored two goals three times in his last five games and has eight goals and seven assists in his last six games. Also scoring for Los Angeles were Dave Taylor and Morris Lukowieh. Bernie Federko scored two goals and de- fenceman Rob Ramage scored once for St. Louis. Denisoff ties game In Sunday's game, Mal- lards/Checkers defeated Castlegar Playboys 6-4, while Friday night Castlegar Knights edged the Playboys iod. Kelly Keraiff replied for Hi Arrow to tie the game. But with just 44 seconds left im the frame, Tony Nazaroff put the Playboys back in way until early in the third Blazers ° win 8-6 FERNIE (CP) — A four. goal outburst in the second period lifted Elk Valley Bla- zers to an 86 home-ice vic: tory Tuesday night over Cranbrook Royals in the Western International Hoe key League. The win leaves the third. place Blazers seven points ahead of the fourth-place Royals. The Blazers got goals from Blair Peebles, Stu Tanton, Reb Semchuk, Dan Morgan, Todd Jackson, Scott Jackson, Ken Federko and John Witzke. period when Bruno Tassone tied the game with a goal for the hotel team. Hi Arrow then went up by a goal with a little less than four minutes left in the game when Rick Shukin beat Playboy goalie Dan Wallace. But that lead was short- lived as Denisoff scored to knot the game at three goals. Getting the assists for the Playboys were Bruce Pol- lock, Clay Martini, Bill Naz- aroff, Perry Samoyloff, Hal- isheff and Randy Renz. Hi Arrow’s assists came from Bruno Tassone with two, Jim Nazaroff, Terry Jacobson and Yuri Jmaiff with singles. In Sunday's game, both teams scored two goals in the first period. Terry borer and Ken Ross scored Checkers/Mallards, whe Bill Nazaroff and Tony Naz- aroff got the goals for the Playboys. The two teams also scored two one each in the second Halisheff got both goals for the Playboys. The Playboys’ scoring end. ed at the second period but Mallards went on to get two more goals in the third frame. Sean O'Farrell scored the winning goal 16:36 into the period and also potted the insurance goal with 11 seconds left to play. Don Savinkoff, Terry San- der and Al Akselson had three assists apiece Checkers/Mallards, while Frank Costa and Dale Don- aldson had one each. Samoy- loff and Tony Nazaroff had two assists for the Playboys, while Halisheff and Randy Renz had one apiece. In Friday's action, the Playboys skated to a 3-1 lead after the first period on two goals by Bill Nazaroff and one by Samoyloff. John Horcoff scored for the Knights. In the second period the managed hold off the — from Rockettes third in B.C. standings Stanley Humphries Senior Rockettes basketball team has reached the mid-term of its season on a very high note. The Rockettes have a total record of 15 wins and two losses, they lead the West Kootenay A league with a perfect 5-0 win-loss record, and the January provincial rankings place the Rockettes third in B.C. The team is playing solid team basketball with ‘ all players contributing as their three tournament results would indicate, says coach Jack Closkey. So far this year they have finished second in Revelstoke, first in their own Blue and Gold tournament, and third in Osoyoos. In these tournaments Leigh Halisheff has one all. star and one MVP award, Karen Popoff has two all stars, Rochelle Mornandini and Kim Tarasoff have one all-star award each. Team statistics show that with 18.7 points per game. the Defensively there have been many outstanding per- formers with Kerry Findlay particularly effective against the big girls and Karen Lor- imer against guards, says Closkey. The next major test for the Rockettes will be the Cage Bow! tournament in Trail this weekend. In this tournament the girls will have an oppor. tunity to avenge one of their two losses when they play Revelstoke on Saturday morning. “However, every game from now on will be vital as the season moves closer to playoffs and the opportunity to represent the West Koot- enays at the provincial cham- pions in March,” Closkey Halisheff leads team scoring added.