AB. castiecar NEWS, December 3, 1980

Federal bank bus

VANCOUVER — The
Federal Business Develop-
ment Bank authorized 1,144
loans totalling $55,142,000 to
businesses in British Colum:
bia in the six months ended
September 30, 1980. In the
same period a year ago, the
bank approved 2,209 loans
totalling $114,644,000,

FBDB B.C. and Yukon

region vice-president H.W.
Baker said that high interest
rates and the generally poor
state of the economy had
contributed to slowing down
the demand for financing.
Also, because of money mar-
ket conditions, he said in a
press release, FBDB intereat
rates were the highest in the
bank's history during the

first half of the year.

“Last year the level of
FBDB lending activity was
unusually high,” Baker said,
“and though we will probably
not get back to that level
during the second half of this .
year, I do expect a more
usual second half in terms of
lending activities.”

iness down

troduced a floating interest
rate acheme which reacts
more quickly to market con-
ditions,

“The new floating rate,
in addition to our traditional
rates fixed for the term of the
loan, provide businesses
which are-unable to obtain

inf financt, Ise-

FBDB has recently in-

HBC wants Zeller's

By THE CANADIAN
PRESS

Hudson’s Bay Co. of
Winnipeg, Canada's largest
chain of department stores,
has made a proposal to merge
with Zeller’s Ltd. of Mon-

treal.

The Bay owns 67 per
cent or about 7.5 million
Zeller's shares, and the prop-
osed merger would bring its
control to 100 per cent.

Before the merger can

BCRIC owns
20 pc. of Mac Blo

VANCOUVER (CP) —-

B.C. Resources Investment
Corp. now owns 20 per cent
of the Canadian forest giant
MacMillan Bloedel, BCRIC
president Bruce Howe said
Tuesday.

Howe, former MB presi-

Announce
Crestbrook
dividend

CRANBROOK — Share-
holders of Crestbrook Forest
Industries Ltd. will receive
their first common share
dividend since the East Koot-
enay-based integrated forest
products company was
formed more than 18 years
ago.

The board of directors
announced at their Nov. 27
meeting that  Crestbrook
would pay the corporation's
initial divident of $1 per
common share to sharehol-
ders of record as of Dec. 12,
1980. The dividend will be-
come payable on Jan. 15.

The dividend is the first
to be paid to common share-.
holders since CFI was offici-
ally formed as the result of a
joint-venture agreement in
May, 1967, between Crest-
brook Timber Ltd., of Cran-
brook, and the Mitsubishi
Corp. and Honshu Paper Co.
Ltd., of Tokyo.

Honor promise

OTTAWA (CP) — The
government intends to honor
its commitment that owners
of unincorporated small busi-
nesses can deduct for 1980
income tax purposes any sal-
aries paid to spouses, Rev-
enue Minister Bill Rompkey
said.

Problems have cropped
up in getting the necessary
legislation through Parlia-
ment because of the heavy
workload now facing MPs,
Rompkey admitted in the
Commons.

But Rompkey insisted
everything is being done to
ensure that the policy will be
in effect for 1980 income tax
returns.

. Bonds sell

OTTAWA (CP) — The
recent Canada Savings Bond
campaign resulted in net
sales of about $1.4 billion,
Bank of Canada figures show.

Official figures have not
been released by the finance
department, but the estimate
is drawn from a study of
figures for October and Nov-
ember in the Bank of Can-
ada's weekly statements,

dent and chief operating of-
ficer, said in a news release
that since Nov. 17, BCRIC
has purchased 788,790 MB
shares for $50.6 million.

It currently owns
4,254,590 MB shares, having
purchased earlier this year
the 19.4-per-cent equity in
MacMillan Bloedel owned by
Canadian Pacific Investment
Ltd.

MB is one of the coun-
try's largest integrated for--
est firms with sales and other
income of $2.2 billion last
year. It has 24,000 employees
in pulp, paper, lumber and
plywood plants.

BCRIC now owns 100
per cent of Canadian Cellu-
lose Co. Ltd., Kootenay For-
est Products Ltd. and Plat-
eau Mills Ltd., 66 per cent of
Kaiser Resources Ltd., 20
per cent of MB and 10 per
cent of Westcoast Transmis-
sion Co, Ltd., in addition to
ita oil and gas assets and
operations.

Mortgage

rates soar

TORONTO (CP) — In-
terest rates on residential
mortgages have been raised
by as much as three-quarters
of a percentage point by the
Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce and Royal Trust.

The Commerce's new
rate for five-year mortgages
is 15.25 per cent, up from 15;
for three-year terms it is 15
per cent, up from 14.76; for
one-year terms, 14.5 per
cent, a jump from 13.75.

The bank also announced
today its base rate for loans
in United States funds has
been raised three-quarters of
a point to 19 per cent.

Royal Trust’s new mort-
gage rates, with previous
rates in brackets, are as fol-
lows: five and four years,
16.5 per cent (15); three
years, 16.25 per cent (14.75);
two years, 15.25 per cent
(14.75); one year, 14.5 per
cent (13.75).

NOON | __
DOLLAR

MONTREAL” (CP)
U.S. dollar in terms of Can-
adian funds in noontime
trading today was unchanged
from Tuesday's close at.
$1.1989. Pound sterling was
up 1 7-60 at $2.8001,

In New York, the Cana-
dian dollar was unchanged at
$0.8376 and pound sterling
was up 19-20 at $2.3453.

proceed, it must be approved
by a majority of the minority -
shareholders who hold the
balance of Zeller's stock.

Zeller's directors will
hold a meeting as soon as
possible to consider the prop-
osal and make a recommen-
dation to its shareholders.

If most of the minority
shareholders approve the
merger, all shareholders will
have to hand over their stock
to Hudson’s Bay. In exchange
for their Zeller’s stock, they
will be offered a choice of
either $16.50 a share or con-
vertible preferred shares of
Hudson's Bay.

The Bay has not yet said
how many preferred shares
will be offered for each Zel-
ler's share.

A.R. Huband, vice-presi-
dent of Hudson's Bay, said
the merger will have no ef-
fect on the operations of Zel-
ler's. The stores will be run
under the same name and
management.

(Editor's note: Zeller's is
a possible anchor store in the
proposed Birchland Square
shopping mall in Castlegar.) *

Big China
.wheat deal

OTTAWA (CP) - Can-

e
where with a’ choice of
financing .methods more
closely tailored to thelr in-
dividual needs," Baker said.

At Sept. 80, FBDB had
more than $583,652,000 out-
standing in loans, ‘invest-
ments and guarantées to
10,171 customers in B.C.

In addition to providing
financial assistance to small
and medium-sized busi-
nesses, FBDB offers counsel-

U.S. bank jack rates

NEW YORK (AP). —
Major U.S. banks raised their
prime lending rates to 18.6
per cent Tuesday, adding
momentum to an interest-
rate trend that many econ-
omists believe may soon
plunge the country into an-
other recession,

Led by Chase Manhattan
Bank, the third largest in the
U.S., major banks from coast

Chamber
brief to

VANCOUVER (CP) —
‘a busi

to coast boosted thelr prime
rates from the 17.75 per cent
level set only last Wednes-

day. Many smaller, regional:

banks followed suit.

At 18.6 per cent, the
prime rate stands at. its
highest point since early
May,when it was beginning
to fall from an early-April
peak of 20 per cent. Some
economists believe the prime

presents
cabinet

money going to come from to
ti al

could again break the 20-per-
cent mark by year's end.
MONTREAL (CP)
The Royal Bank of Canada
said. Tuesday its profit rose
21 per cent in the fiscal year
ended Oct. 91, reaching.

* $827.4 million, or $8.92 a

share, compared to $270.7
million, or $7.40 a share, in
the previous year.

Assets of Canada’s big-
gest chartered bank also
grew 21 per cent standing at
$62.8 billion on Oct. 81.

OTTAWA (CP) — Hous-
ing starts in October dropped
7.8 per cent to 163,100 units
seasonally adjusted at annual

rates over a year ago, Stat-
istics Canada sald Tuesday.

Sharp drops occurred in
attached housing, down 22.8
per cent to 1,071, units, and
apartments, down 17.6 per
cent to 4,812 units in October
over the same month a year
before.

* VANCOUVER (CP) —
Canada Development Corp. |
reports net income of $126.8
million or $8.47 a share for
the nine-month period ended
Sept. 30, compared with
$77.7 million or $2.11 a share *
for the same period in 1979.

B.C. are con-
cerned about future financing

ling, training and infc
services, ‘During the six-
month period ended Septem-
ber 80:

CASE (Counselling As-
sistance to Small Enter-
prises) received 2,725 en-
quiries and completed 2,461
assisgnments;

FBDB conducted 159
management training semin-
ars for owners and managers
of small business, chiefly in
smaller centres,

High
targets

MOSCOW (AP) — The
Soviet Union has published a
draft of its new five-year
economic play for 1981-85
including unusually high tar-
gets for grain production, but
flexible energy targets and
moderate industrial growth.

The draft will be dis-
tributed across the Soviet
Union for discussion and then

of the p
the provincial
told Tuesday.
. Leaders of the B.C.
Chamber of Commerce pre-
sented their annual brief to
cabinet during a one-hour
meeting at Robson Square.
Said chamber president
Ronald Wood: “Our major:
concern is the economic pros-
perity of B.C. Where is the

cabinet was

ur ex:
pansion in view of: the
Present taxation policies of
the federal government?

“We are concerned who
is going to pay because there
is only so much money to go
around,”

The B.C. chamber rep- °

resents 85 separate cham-
bers around the province
with total membership of
20,000 businessmen.

Stocks.
Noon

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Prices were mixed today in
‘heavy trading on the Van-
couver Stock Exchange. Vol-
ume to 11 a.m, was 7,509,413
shares. |

Of the issues traded, 230
advanced, 286 fell back and
189 were steady.

B.C. Resources Invest-
ment Corp. led the indus-
trials, gaining .02 to $6 1/8 on
45,615 shares, TDIVenture
was up .25 to $1 on 9,000,
Proflex was steady at .82 on
7,000 and Canadian Javelin

ada has d Tr
ments to sell China 1.4 mil-
lion tonnes of low-grade
wheat, worth about $370 mil-
lion, Senator Hazen Argue
announced Tuesday.

The sale brings Chinese
purchases for the year to 2.8
million tonnes — the mini-
mum level for 1980 under a
three-year agreement that
began in 1979.

Argue, minister respon-
sible for the Canadian wheat
board, said the purchase of
No. 3 Canada Western Red
Spring wheat, traditionally
the most difficult to sell,
assures Canadian farmers
they still hold a perferred
position in the Chinese mar-
ket, despite a major agree-
ment. China recently signed
with the United States.

Last year China bought
only two million tonnes of"
wheat — 800,000 tonnes be-
low the minimum.

The three-year agree-
ment calls for China to buy
between 2.8 million and 3.5
million tonnes each year.
China will buy between six
and nine million tonnes an-
nually under a four-year deal
with the United States.

Tuesday's announce-
ment followed a sale to
Russia last week of an extra
2.1 million tonnes of topgrade
wheat worth an estimated
$500 million.

_ Argue said he expects
the country’s total exports of
all grains this year to rival
last year’s record of more
than 21 million tonnes.

But he declined to make
any announcement of im-
mediate higher payments to
farmers for their grain. Ar-
gue said he wouldn't push
farmers into a higher tax
bracket with increased pay-
ments this year.

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. By HAL BOCK
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

All the’ wise guys are
still sneering at Roberto
Duran's sudden and myster-
ious walkout in the middle of
his World Boxing Council
welterweight championship
fight against Sugar Ray
Leonard last week.

The fashionable thing to
do after the Superdome sur-
render was to hint that some
sinister,’ shady, behind-the-
scenes. manoeuvring: had
caused the abrupt ending.

“* Such things have, on oc-

easion, happened before in
the wonderful world of box-
ing.

Not this time, though.
The feeling here is that
-Duran, cramps or not, just
tired of the chase and decided
he'd simply had enough.

Did he really cramp up?
Who knows? But you would
think people would learn
after the J.R. Richard epi-
sode last summer that ath- -
letes are not machines, that
they do occasionally break
down, And just because it
doesn’t show on the surface,
that does not mean some-
thing isn’t wrong.

When Duran quit with
16 seconds left in the eighth
round against Leonard, he
was unmarked. No cuts, no
blood. Therefore, the wise
guys assume, there was no
problem.

MORE THAN TIRED

Well Richard's only out-
ward symptom was. a.tired.:
arm. You can't see blocked

-arteries. So, of course, the

wise guys told us he had no
problem either. Only a stroke
building within his powerful
frame. i

Americans’ lust for ab-
solute winners and losers, In
one of the preliminary fights
last Tuesday. night, cruiser-
weight Pablo Ramos was
flattened by Jerry Celestine,
Knocked out cold.

But for Duran to walk
away still in command of his
senses, that, said the wise
-guys, was a fraud.

Duran’s image may have
contributed to the criticism.
Here was macho man, Mr.
Hands of Stone, quitting,
surrendering, walking away

* from it. How dare he!

Well, Duran'’s walkout
may have been the most
macho move of all. He had
been frustrated all night long
by Leonard's clever boxing
tactics. He had been taunted
a round earlier by Leonard.

He must have realized
somewhere along the way
that this was a different
Leonard he was fighting, a
smarter Leonard who would
not stand and slug as he had
five months before in Mon-
treal. So when the frustra-
tion became too much, Duran
simply threw up his hands.

AWARE OF CRITICISM
He had to know the
criticism his decision would
create. But perhaps in his

+ heart, it was the more manly

thing to do rather than stage
a foot race for seven more
rounds trying to corral a
quicker, faster man, a man

. who had learned the lesson of

Montreal.

The embarrassment
could have kept building for
Duran under those circum-
stances. Rather than let that
happen, he turned his back
and walked away. He would
not be made a fool. That
would be a reflection on his
manhood. He would simply
fold his tents, his pride still
intact.

It had to be the hardest
decision he ever made.

The moaners and groan-
ers who whined about the
finish said fans had paid
plenty of money for this
fight, both in person and at
the closed circuit outlets, and
they suggested that Duran's .
fast exit had cheated them.

Baloney.

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Nadig flashes to victory

VAL
FRANCE (CP) Marie
Theres Nadig of Switzerland,
World Cup downhill ski
champion, has taken up
where she left off last winter,
winning the first women's
downhill of the season today.

Nadig, who won six of.
.seven downhills last season,

mastered a slow course'in.1> ~

minute, 93.10 seconds.
Kathy Kreiner of Tim-
mins, Ont., finished second
with a time of 1:34:07.
Kreiner placed first and third
in training runs Tuesday.
West German Irene
Epple was third in 1:34.77.

D'ISERE, °

Today's performance
was Kreiner's best ever in 10
years of skiing World Cup
downhill and came in her first
race as an independent.

‘Tm a lot. more tech-
nically confident than I was
last year,” Kreiner said. “I've
been training mainly slalom,
working on my turns. .

slalom turns dre easier
cause they are longer and not
nearly as sharp. It's helped
me with the downhill.”
Laurie Graham of In-
glewood, Ont., placed a dis-
appointing 27th with a time
of 1:36.96, Last year at Val

“In” my ~ opinion” giant”
be-

d'lsere she finished third and
Kreiner was 11th.

CANADIANS FALL

* The only other Canadian

to complete the course was

Shanne Leavitt of Calgary

who finished 40th with a time

of 1:38.16. Diane Lehodey of

Calgary and Gerry Sorenson

~.of. Kimberley fell and were
disqualified.

“I think it’s fantastic
that we have a Canadian in
the top three,” Graham said.
“And she is skiing so well
after going off on her own. I.-
really admire her.”

Although officially listed

: Royals tie Smokies
for 1st place in WIHL

By THE CANADIAN
PRESS

Cranbrook Royals
moved: into a first-place tie
with Trail during the week-
end, downing the Smoke
Eaters 8&4 in a Western
International Hockéy League
game Friday night in Trail,

In WIHL play Saturday, *

Elk Valley Blazers shaded

_the Smoke Eaters 6-4 in

Fernie.

Wes George and Gene
Daun each scored three times
for Elk Valley, Mike Foye,
Dave Elliot, Don Deschene
and Mickey Gillgress replied
for the Smoke Eaters, who
trailed 2-1 and 4-3 by periods.

Mary Earp stopped 38
shots at the Elk Valley goal,
while Dale Rideout made 33
saves for Trail. .

On Friday, Bernie Luk-
owich scored two goals and
Ray Martynuik made 39
saves to pace Cranbrook to
the win.

File suit
against Duran

NEW ORLEANS (AP)
— A $80-million class action
lawsuit was filed Monday
against Robérto Duran of
Panama, former world wel-
terweight boxing champion,
and the promoters of his con-
troversial last fight. Un-
happy fight fan L.

Dale McMullen, Ron
Huston, Bob Murdoch, Terry
Kirkham and Rod Guimot
added singles for the Royals,
who led $-1 after the first
period and 6-1 after the
second.

Derek Haas, Russ La-

as a Canadian team member
for World: Cup registration
purposes, the 23-year-old
Kreiner does not receive any
furids for training from the
Canadian Ski Association and
does not train with the Can-
adian team.

Kreiner has hired Ste-
wart Green of Vancouver as

her coach and has made her~ ‘

own financial‘ arrangements

with ski suppliers to follow

the World Cup circuit.
FIRST INDEPENDENT

It is the first time in
World Cup history that a
skier has ever competed as
an independent.

“T've always worked bet-
ter. when I have gone off on
my own,” Kreiner said of her
decision to ski as an in-
dependent. “That's one of the
rasons that there was a con-
flict in the team situation.

“A team must be to-
gether and they wanted me

to be a leader. I just operate
better alone.”

The first women's World
Cup giant slalom of the sea-
son will be held Thursday.
Kreiner has concentrated
heavily on giant slalom train-
ing and has had only two
days of downhill training this
fall.

“Men's downhill’ tratizi ing’

of the same driving snow that
made women's times several
seconds slower that they had
been in training earlier in the
week.

If the men get in two
timed practice runs Thurs-
day, their first World Cup

Islanders hottest
team in league

By THE CANADIAN
. PRESS
New York

Islanders
know what it's like tobe ona and Perry

period broke up a 2-2 tle.
Klassen's goal was his second
of the game, Wayne Babych
Turnbull also

rocky road. After struggling scored. Robbie Ftorek and
through the early weeks of Jacques Richard scored for
the season, the defending Quebec. f wy

Stanley Cup champions are
the hottest team in the Na;

tional Hockey League.

Just ask Colorado Rock-

KINGS 5 WHALERS 2
Charlie Simmer contin-
ued his goal-scoring feats
with a game-winning effort —

ies why the Islanders now his 26th —on the power-play,
have the best record in the giving Los Angeles its sixth
NHL following their game in win in seven games and with
Uniondale, N.Y., on Tuesday 35 points kept them within a

night,

After winning only four

point of the third-place Blues,
But coach Bob Berry

of their first 18 games this credits the Kings defence
year, the Islanders are 18-0-2 with the team's over-all im- °

in their last 16 contests, in-

provement that has them

cluding a 5-1 victory over the atop the Norris Division, nine

jes.
The Islanders’ 39 points
lead the NHL's over-all

standings.

Bob Bourne scored two

points in front of second-
place Montreal Canadiens.
Simmer's linemates, cen-
tre Marcel Dionne — he
shares the points lead with 47

goals to pace the New York with Simmer — and Dave
attack, sandwiched around. Taylor also scored for Los

goals by Stefan Persson,

Angeles along with Mike

Anders Kallur and Mike Murphy and Dan Bonar. Pat-
Bossy, whose 27th goal of the Boutette and Blaine Stough-
season was the 200th of his ton scored for Hartford.

3'/-year career.
In other games,

Red Wings, 5-3.

St.
Louis Blues and Los Angeles nearly two decades in the
Kings kept pace. The Blues
manhandled Quebec Nordi-
ques and the Kings defeated game-deciding goals.
Hartford Whalers, both by
§-2 scores, while Boston Bru-
ins beat the hapless Detroit the third period broke a 8-3

BRUINS 5-RED WINGS 3
At the age of 40 and with

league, Jean Ratelle is still
finding new ways to score

Ratelle’s fluke goal dur-
ing a power play at 11:26 of

tie and propelled Boston past

“The 200th was a big Detroit. That extended the

thrill for me,” said Bossy. “I Red Wings’ winless streak on

was thinking about it, trying

the road this season to 15

to get uptight and stay games,

loose.”
BLUES 5 NORDIQUES 2

“You score maybe two or
three goals like that in a

St. Louis. goalie Mike career and tonight was one of

- Liut figures if his team-mates
don’t play the game aggres-

them for me,” Ratelle said.
“I went in to forecheck

sively it’s up to him to get and the puck came out right

hings started. When th

in front of the net. I just pit

carry the play, then-he's: got-~~it in:?--
was cancelled:today because to hold the other team. The

The goal came less than

Blues were at their aggres- two minutes after Dale Mc- -

sive best.

Court tied the score on a De-

The Blues were doing a troit power play.

lot of running and Liut

turned back 87 of $9 shots as
St. Louis extended its un-
beaten string to six games.

Goals by Jack Browns-

Stan Jonathan scored
twice for the Bruins, Dick
Redmond and Bobby Lalonde
adding the others. The other
Detroit scores were by de-

downhill of the season will go childe and Ralph Kalssen 41. fencemen Reed Larson and

as scheduled Friday.

The men had an untimed
training run Tuesday ‘and
Austrian timers on. the
course had Dave Irwin of
Thunder Bay, Ont., as the
fastest skier.

freniere, Glen nd
Al Hillier replied for the
Smoke Eaters.

WIHL Play resumes -Fri-
day, when Kimberley Dyna-
miters visit Nelson Maple
Leafs and Elk Valley plays
host to Trail.

Muscular disorder

may kill

OMAHA, NEB, (AP) —
Healthy athletes who die on
the playing field and patients
who ‘succumb, unexpectedly
in surgery may be victims of
an inherited muscular dis-
order, a researcher at the
University of Nebraska Med-
ical Centre says. .

. The disorder, malignant
hyperthermia, may be res-
ponsible for many deaths
previously attributed. to

. heart attacks and strokes,

said Dr. Daniel Wingard.

Malignant hyperthermia
is a genetic syndrome set off
without warning by excep-
tional stress, he said.

Wingard, an authority
on the syndrome, said it
wasn't as rare as once
thought and believes it
claimed at least 15,000 lives
in the U.S, last year, half
during surgery.

Manzella Jr. of San Diego,
Calif., filed the suit in U.S,
District Court, naming
Duran, Don King Produc-
tions and Facility’ Enter-
prises Inc. Manzella said
tickets to Duran's Nov. 26
fight against Sugar Ray Leo-
nard sold at exorbitant prices:
and Duran breached a duty
to the public by quitting in
the eighth round.

y
is thought to be a disorder in
which a victim's. muscles “fire
or tense simultaneously”
causing body temperature to
rise rapidly. Wingard said he
believes at least one person
in 3,600 carries the type of
gene that makes him sus-
ceptible to the syndrome.

COMBATS MALADY

He cited a Fremont,

Neb., family in which 82, lis

athletes

deaths were attributed to the
syndrome.

“We're talking about the
deaths of young, healthy
‘people, not old, sick people,”
he said. “Not much (research)
was done on it until the last
several years because it was
thought to be so rare.”

Researchers have dis-
covered malignant hyper-
thermia is the primary cause
of deaths while a patient is
under anesthesia and may
account for many surgical
and post-operative deaths,
Wingard said.

Warrington hurt

EDMONTON (CP) —
Retired Edmonton Eskimo

running back Don Warring- .

ton is in the intensive care
unit of an Edmonton hospital
after suffering severe head
injuries in a traffic accident
Tuesday.

Warrington retired from
the” Canadian Football
League team just before its
victorious appearance in the
Grey Cup game against Ham-
ilton Tiger Cats after spend-
ing this year on the injury

it.

For current snow con-
ditions at popular ski areas
phone: i . £
Red Mountain: 362-5500
(Hope to open Dec. 6)

Whitewater: 352-7669
{Open weekends)

Big White: 762-3032
(Not open yet)

Morning Mountain:

Plan to go skiing?

362-9969 (Open weekends)
Salmo: 357-2323 (Not
open yet) * :
Phoenix: No telephone
listing (Hope to open Dec.
6 to 10)

Chewelah:

924-5252 (Open)

resorts: 112-
800-661-6548 (toll-free)

112-509-

Cougars blank Hawks

By THE CANADIAN
PRESS

Goalkeeper Grant Fuhr
made 22 stops in leading
Victoria Cougars to an 8-0
win over Portland Winter
Hawks in'a Western Hockey
League game before 3,856
fans Tuesday. “ee

In other WHL play,
Brandon Wheat Kings, led by
Tom McMurchy, edged visit-
ing Medicine Hat Tigers 3-2
‘rand =Calgary. Wranglers
doubled New Westminster
Bruins 8-4, i

In Victoria, the shutout
was the third of the season
for Fuhr, who went into the
game with a 2.94 goals-
against average, and estab-
lished a Cougar record for
shutouts in a season.

Daryl Coldwell scored
twice to pace the Cougars,
who held period leads of 1-0
and 50 in overtaking the
Winter Hawks in the battle

* for Western Division honors.

The teams are tied for
firat place and the Cougars
have three games in hand.

Mark Morrison, Barry
Ped Torrie

rained 49 shots on Darrell
May in the Portland net.
In Brandon, McMurchy

‘scored twice and set up an-

other by centre Dave Char-
tier.

Mike Lay and Mike
Winther, who were traded to
Medicine Hat in a deal in
which McMurchy went to
Brandon, scored for the Ti-
gers.

Brandon goaltender Ron
Popplestone kicked out 40
shots while Medicine Hat's
Kelly Hrudy blocked 37.

In Calgary, Clint Fehr
scored two goals to lead the
Wranglers while Ken Grant,
Steve Mounkes, Dan Bour-
bonnais, Bruno Basectto, Bill
Vince and Brian Tutt com-
pleted scoring:

“John Strait with two,
Rick Amann and John Neeld
replied for the Bruins, who
trailed 4-2 and 6-3 by periods.
Calgary outshot New West-
minster- 51-31 while taking
nine of 19 minor penalties,
Each team also had a major.

In WHL play tonight,
New W visits

Rich Chernomaz, Terry Sy-
doryk and Rob Jacobson also
scored for the Cougars, who

Lethbridge Broncos and Re-
gina Pats play the Flyers at
Spokane.

seconds apart in the third

Willie Huber.

Hart exemplifies

By BARRY WILNER

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

. Quebec Nordiques have
been having problems this
year and Gerry Hart exem-
plified the dilemma of the
National Hockey League
team.

Hart was a quality de-
fenceman with New York Is-
landers for seven seasons.
When the NHL absorbed
four World Hockey Associ-
ation teams prior to the
1979-80 season, each NHL
club helped stock the new-
comers.

The Islanders lost Hart.

“I was hurt a little that I
couldn't hang on another

_ year and reach the goal we
had cciiectively worked for,
winning the Stanley Cup.”

But he made the best of
his situation. *

“I looked at it as a
chance to improve in busi-
ness by making a move to

another team. I took French
lessons and tried to become
part of the community.”

He played well for a
team that finished 19th in a
21-team league, but he was
disappointed in the results.

UNHAPPY IN QUEBEC

“I didn’t want another
year like last year, so I de-
cided to assess things in
training camp. The team
brought in more talent — the
Stastnys, Moose Dupont —
and made a coaching change
(from Jacques Demers to
Maurice Filion). I didn’t want
to comment until I had ex-
perienced the situation my-
self.

“After training camp, I
held private meetings with
management and expressed a
desire to leave, at their con-
venience. I didn’t make any
big demands and said I would
play and contribute as long as

Nordique’s dilemma

T could. I left it at that, on
amiable terms, I thought.

“The first six games, I
played a regular shift. Then
they made the token coach-
ing change; Filion felt his
total position was threatened
so he backed out of coaching,
which was strategically
smart.

. "They apparently felt
they had to make an example
of somebody . . . they told me
to go home, I was no longer a
part of the team, but they
would pay me.

NHL
STANDINGS

By The Canadian Press
NHL :

Wales rence
Norris Division

Los Ang,
Montreal

Detroit
8ulfalo
Minn,
Boston
Toronto
Quebec
Campbell Conference
Patrick Division
Philo, W7 5 4106 63
Islanders 17 5 5 119 66
Wash. 869 88 75
10 95 89 95
615 4 85311
Smythe Division
St.Louis 16 6 4 108 89
Voncver 13 75 103 84
Chicago 912 5 105 116
Colorado 911 4 %
Edmonton 6 125 %
Winn'peg 1167 7419
Tuesday Results
NY Islanders 5, Colorado 1
Los Angeles 5, Hartford 2
Boston S, Detroit3
St. Louis 5, Quebec 2
Tonight's Game
NY Rongers ai Winni
Minnesota at Washington.
Montreal ot Buffalo
Hartford at Vancouver

Calgary
Rangers