as__Castlégar News July 13, 1988 BUSINESS Breakthrough shelved LANGDON, ALTA. (CP) “Get out of here!” Richard Schmidt yelled to a reporter who wanted to see the machinery his father had said would havé a dramatic impact on the energy industry. ‘ “There are two.groups of people I won't talk to ministers and journalists!" he shouted. Behind him, lying on its side next toa trailer and an old car, sat the invention. Six months ago Eugene Schmidt, a reclusive Calgary businessman, said his company had-successfully tested new machinery capable of converting natural gas to diesel and other liquid fuels. The statement 3 ying the a included a quote attributed to former federal energy minister Jean Chretien that “the technology will have one of the greatest economic impacts for Canadian and. worldwide energy production.” Chretien was described as a principal in Northern Reactor Synfuels, a private company owned by the elder Schmidt, but he later downplayed his role in the firm. Sy “will be commenci d tion of a commercial plant that will produce 15 million gallons (about 65 million litres) of transportation fuels annually,” the statement said. The news sparked a flurry of activity on the Alberta Stock Exchange in the price of shares in Northern Reactor DMB Resources Ltd., a_ public company owned by Schmidt DROPS SHARPLY The shares, worth five cents when issued, rose to $2 on the day of the announcement before sliding to a recent close of 20 cents. Today, the machinery that sparked the action lies baking in the sun in a junk-filled field at a ranch 16 kitometres-southeast of Calgary Schmidt and Chretien refused requests for inter views to explain why the equipment is left exposed to the elements. In shooing away a reporter and a photographer, Richard Schmidt said the equipment's fate is a company secret. Dennis Malley, a maintenance engineer who helped conduct a test of the technology one week before the e construc Synfuels announcement was made, said only a trickle of unknown product emerged. The test was done at a former fertilizer plant near Medicine Hat, Alta. ‘ Malley said the equipment didn’t appear capable of producing large amounts of liquid fuels. Chretien was on hand for a few hours on the last day of the two-day test afid apparently depended on Schmidt for reports detailing the results, Malley said, Eugene Schmidt was there for the entire test. The situation was clouded further last May when three suits were filed against companies controlled by Luge Calgary engineer Iron Simek alleged in a statement of claim that. he and another engineer, Greg Dajezer, had developed and still had an interest in the technology being tested by Synfuels. Simek and Dajezer said their invention’ was designed té extract sulphur from sulphur-laded natural gas and had been improperly converted to change gas into liquids. When asked about the test results, Robert Morrison, a director of Northern Reactor DMB, said Synfuels produced what it considered a reasonable product at the other end but “the mechanics of it were horrendous.” He said Schmidt was going back to the drawing board to work on new technology Chretien, in an interview soon after the announce ment, took exception to being described as a principal of Synfuels He said he was a minority shareholder of Synfuels but was essentially acting as a lawyer for Schmidt. Chretien also distanced himself from the statement, saying he didn't see the document before it was made public Meanwhile, Revenue Canada is seeking the return of $17.8 million in taxes and penalties from a reserach company which Schmidt said in an earlier interview had been involved in inventing the liquid-fuels technology. 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The process eliminates the picky, time-consuming chore of laying out pages by hand because everything can be done on the computer screen Jobs that once took days now can be finished and within hours. “Lots of people have a computer phobia anyway,” says Sherle Raitt of Core Design Studio. “This is a good way of getting over it, because there's so many things you can do.” “We're doing brochures now that we would never have done before,” says Jenny McLay of the Chamber of Commerce. McLay and Gus Boersma, chamber general manager, took a desktop publishing course at Okanagan Coll ege and the chamber now produces all its own documents to a camera ready stage — the point just before a printing shop begins running off copies. “Tt gives a much more professional look to almost everything we do,” says McLay A typical desktop publishing sys tem would include a personal com puter with word-processing and graphics software, a graphics and text laser scanner and a laserprinter. Another booster of desktop pub lishing, Ernie Sykes of Wonderworks Laserprinting, says one of its pri mary advantages is flexibility “Changes in a price list can be made easily,” Sykes says. “People like how fast it is. I had a restaurateur come in fer a new menu at 11 a.m. one day and by 4 p.m. I had 200 of them typeset, proofread, printed and ready to pick up.” Raitt agrees. “It’s typesetting, graphics board Weldwood offers plant to staff VANCOUVER (CP) Weldwood of Canada Ltd. will close its plywood plant in nearby New Westminster or sultant to examine the idea and report back in about six weeks. 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(Front row from left) Coach John Fairbairn, James Welychko, coach Tom Carew By GRANT KERR The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — Matt Dunigan arrived for work Tuesday night armed with a new contract and promptly proved his worth to a fresh employer. The crew-cut quarterback with the boyish grin went about his business with workmanlike efficien cy, running and passing the rebuilt B.C. Lions to a surprising 36-3 shellacking of the sluggish Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League regular season curtain-raiser. “This lateral football of coach (Larry) Donovan keeps the defence off balance,” he said about the rollout attack. “It may have looked easy on the scoreboard, but there was a lot of hard work done out there.” Dunigan, who last week turned 28 and became a tather for the first time, seems to have found his niche in the CFL with the Lions. After five years in Edmonton, he demanded a trade and was granted his wish by going to the Lions, who were desperately seeking a veteran quarterback to rebuild around. Dunigan signed a new three-year agreement before the game — he was in the option year of his contract — and rewarded the Lions by completing 16 of 31 passes for 322 yards, despite not hitting on a pass in the first 15 minutes. COACH CAUTIOUS “He wasn't warmed up in the first quarter, then a great athlete took over,” said Donovan, almost cautiously. “I'm happy, of course, but let’s not forget we play them three more times this year.” Dunigan threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to slotback Scott Lecky in the second quarter and B.C. bombs Winnipeg scampered four yards for a major in the third. The Lions survived several early turnovers, including two blocked punts, and scored touchdowns twice in the second quarter and added two more in the fourth. Dunigan's favorite receiver was wideout Dave Williams, who grabbed seven passes for 187 yards in his CFL debut Rookie running back Anthony Cherry scored two B.C. touchdowns on sprints of seven and one yards. The other TD came late in the game on a fumble recovery and rookie defensive back Anthony Drawhorn scored on a 25-yard lateral pass from Keith Gooch. Dunigan handily outplayed Winnipeg pivot Roy Dewalt, a longtime rival, who played eight years for the Lions before signing with the Bombers as a free agent during the off-season. Dewalt completed 22 of 48 passed for 281 yards — 10 to wide receiver James Murphy for 150 yards — but was intercepted twice and could not penetrate the end zone. “I made a lot of mistakes and can rectify that,” Dewalt said. “We just didn’t execute.” He threw a first quarter interception at the B.C. two-yard line that was picked off by linebacker Jeff Braswell of the Lions. B.C. had 21 first downs and 424 net yards, while the Bombers had 15 first downs and 285 net yards, ineluding just 28 rushing. Rookie kicker Tony Martino completed the B.C. scoring with six points, although he missed an 18-yard field goal attempt. Trevor Kennerd kicked a field goal to account for Winnipeg's scoring. ALL-STAR GAME SHORT American League wins CINCINNATI (AP) — The only real consolation was that baseball's 59th all-star game was short. It was boring for nearly all of its two hours 26 minutes. And its hero was a player, Terry Steinbach, who was the worst hitter on either team, so bad and so little-known that his name was misspelled Steinbech on his special all-star bat. The National League did supply some comic relief when Bob Knepper almost fell off the mound in the fourth inning and when Cincinnati Reds rookie Chris Sabo ran off the field thinking he scored on a foul ball in the seventh. But it was only funny because the rest of the game was so foul. In a season that may signal a changing of the guard among baseball's top players, the American League won 2-1 Tuesday night on Steinbach's homer — with his misspelled bat — in his first all-star at-bat leading off the third inning and his sacrifice fly in the fourth. Steinbach, the Oakland Athletics catcher, was one of 30 first-time all-stars in the game, the most since the first all-star contest in 1933 when they were all new. The victory was only the third for the American League in the last 17 all-star games, and, in each, Whitey Herzog of the St. Louis Cardinals has been the losing National League manager. STOLE BASE The National League scored its only run — a typical Vince Coleman-style run — in its half of the fourth. The Cards’ Coleman is the only major leaguer to steal 100 bases im each of his first three seasons — a real havoe-wrecker on the basepaths. off the fourth, he walked, stole seeond, went to third when Steinbach’s throw went into centre field, and scored on a wild pitch by Mark Gubicza of the Kansas City Royals. Thus, even Steinbach's performance was not Botainted, although hits later in the inning by Andre Oddly, in 1986 in Cleveland, Steinbach hit a home runinh | major-league at-bat. He now is the eighth Sota player to hit a homer in his first all-star at-bat, the most recent being Lee Mazzilli in 1979. Steinbach's homer came on an 0-1 pitch from Dwight Gooden, also the loser in his 1986 all-star start “The guys were teasing me,” Steinbach said of the banter in the dugout after his homer cleared the right-field wall of Darryl Strawberry's glove. “They're already saying I'm an answer to a trivia question.” Part of that trivia question will be: What was Steinbach's batting average when he hit the homer? Answer: .217, easily the worst on eigther all-star team. He hit .286 with 18 homers and 60 RBIs in his first full major league season in 1987, so, like a lot of actors who win Osears for bad movies, he was elected for last year's performance. DEFENCE EMPHASIZED After the fourth ‘inning, the game became, as AL. manager Tom Kelly of the Minnesota Twins said, one of pitching and defence. Don Mattingly, the New York Yankees’ fancy first baseman, made a diving stop of a smash by Andy Van Slyke that saved a run in the seventh, and swift second baseman Harold Reynolds of the Seattle Mariners randown a soft liner to right by Ryne Sandberg with one out in the eighth. “Pitching and defence won the game tonight.” said Kelly, who has been accused of being 4 boring manager himself. “We got some outstanding plays from Harold Reynolds and Don Mattingly that saved a run. Se pitching and defence won it for us.“ Frank Viola, Kelly's World Series MVP left-hander, pitched the first two innings, six in a row, and Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Gox retired the side in order in the third. Gubieza gave up the fourth-inning run, but retired the last eight men he faced over two innings. Then came Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays, Jeff Russell of the Texas Rangers, Doug Jones of the Cleveland Indians, Dan ; Tinally, Dennis Eckersley of Oakland, who — Brewers and, finally, leads the majors with 26 saves. They allowed just (wo more hits, for a total of five, and no more runs. 4. eg tess te from left) Jason Burns, Trever Haviland and Teddy Hunter. Mallard’s takes title Mallard’s T-Pros won the second annual POVSA (Pend Oreille Valley Softball Association) slo-pitch tour- nament on the weekend in Newport, Wash. Mallard’s opened the tourney with an 14-0 shutout over Froelich Con- struction and a 15-3 win over the Mudflaps both from Newport. Later Saturday the squad suffered its only loss of the tourney which ended with a 7-5 seore in favor of Lite Pub of Spokane. The loss to Lite on Saturday seemed to wake up the team as they pounded Bob's Transmission of Spokane 13-1 in the quarter-final and then battered Pizza Hut of Couer D’Alene 13-2 in the semi- The final game had Mallard's face the Lite Pub once again. After the first inning the score was 5-1 for Lite but the squad didn't give up and came up with an 11-8 victory. Coach Brian Mullen said the victory was a result of complete team effort with everyone giving a little bit extra. Barry Akselson pitehed every game for Mallards. Sherri Chernen- koff was awarded the female MVP trophy for her outstanding play. Two weeks ago the T-Pros trav- elled to Post Falls, Idaho to play in the fourth annual Henry Weinhart Tournament. ‘The squad came up with a second place finish after losing the final game in extra innings by a score of 9-8. Suntree Inn of Post Falls won the tournament. Cal Séokro of the T-Pros was awarded the male MVP award for his’ performance in the tourney. Mallard’s T-Pros will be competing in this year's Senior A Provincial Championships which will be hosted in Trail from Aug. 5 to 7. In preparation for this competition the team will travel to Post Falls and to Nakusp for more tournament competition in the next few weeks. Hockley rink victorious Castlegar’s Dale Hockley led his curling squad to victory in the Nelson Mid-Summer Bonspie! at the Nelson Curling Club last week. The Hockley side-skipped by Hoc. kley with lead West Hockley, second Gordon Shead and third Jim Molit wenik — went undefeated in seven games and took out Nelson's John Merkley 5-4 in the final round. “We were up 5-3 going into the last end of the final.and Merkley had the hammer,” Hockley told the Castlegar News yesterday. “He hit our stone right back onto his second shooter, therefore he got only one point.” Hockley said his team started off slow but got progressively better as the week went on. “Tt waan't too bad,” be said. “We smoothed off some rough edges from of the week. The final was a close matchup and Hockley said it was a great game. duly 13, 1988 @ ¢ f Kootenay Savir Aqua nauts take second. Despite~-the blazing sun and sun-burnt skin, spirits were high as the Castlegar Aquanauts placed sec ond in the Trail-Warfield swim meet this past weekend. Team standings were Nelson with 1097 points, Aqua nauts 1026, Trail 854, Colville 402, Robson 382, Kimberley 230, Beaver Valley 174, Creston 23, Grand Forks 12 and Greenwood 8. New records were set by: Div. 1, Chris Chernoff in the 50 Back and 100 Free; Div. 4, Mike Hunter in 50 Free, 100 breast and 100 free; div. 5, Aimie Chernoff in 200 IM, 100 Back and 100 free; div. 5, Wendy Gouk in 50 free and 100 breast; div, 1, boys free and medley relays; div. 6, girls medley relay. Under the coaching of John Fair. bairn and Tom Carew, many of the swimmers improved their *times considerably Gold aggregates went to novice, Lisa Accardo; div. 1 boys, Trevor Haviland; div. 3 boys, Teddy Hunter; div. 5 girls, Wendy Gouk; div. 6 girls, Jodi Young; silver aggregates went to div. 5 boys, Mario Fehrenberg; div. 5 girls, Aimie Chernoff; div. 6 girls, Jennifer Small; bronze went to div. 1 boys, Jason Burns; div. 2 boys, Adam Rodgers; div. 4 boys, Mike Hunter; div. 5 boys, Justin Phillips; div. 7 boys, James Welychko. This weekend the Aquanauts will be trav. elling to Colville, Washington to at tend another meet River Otters swimming well The Trail-Warfield Stingrays held their annual two-day swim meet over the weekend attracting over 300 swimmers throughout the Kootenay region. The Robson River Otters were represented by 18 swimmers, showing good efforts by all Aggregate winners Were: div. 5 Tim Austin, bringing in the most points for the club. He received a gold. In Div. 2 Devon Goolieff and in div. 7 Trevor Seville both took a silver. In div. 3 Mike Byers broke a pool record in the 50 free and re ceived a bronze. In div. 6 Jason Schuepher also received a bronze. Div. 3 swimmer, Kim Verigin set a new pool record in the 100 free taking off five seconds. Div. 5 com- petitor Scott Sutherland - showed some impressive swims and received honorable mention. Other swimmers placing in the finals were novice Clayton Bonin, div. 1 Kristy Verigin, div. 3 Tree: Goolieff and Jane Holden, div. 5 Kim Byers and Lee Holden and div. 7 Curtis Ready. Mid-season point offers new start CINCINNATI (AP) — After the best players finish their all-star fun, it’s time for the best teams to take over. “We feel like this all-star break is well needed for the club right now,” said David Cone, pitcher for the New York Mets. “Maybe it will cool down a couple of clubs and give us a chance to recharge our batteries and get going again.” The Mets have seen their lead in the National League East cut in hal’ by Pittsburgh. The Pirates have won five in a row and closed within 31 games while New York has lost its last three. Pittsburgh starts the second half with 11 games at Three Rivers Stadium while the Mets play seven straight on the road. If recent history holds, only half of the teams leading at the all-star break will finish in first place. Last season, World Series oppon. ents Minnesota and St. Louis each led at the halfway mark. But Cin cinnati was in first place in the NL West, three games ahead of eventual division winner San Francisco, while the New York Yankees held a five-game lead over Detroit This year, Will Clark is hoping the Giants can rally again. San Francisco won its final five before the break and pulled within 2% games of Los Angeles; which lost its last three. SAYS TIMING BAD “It's definitely a little disap pointing that the break comes right now with us playing so good,” Clark said. “Anytime you're playing good. you want to play everyday.” The Dodgers start a 16-game road trip Thursday, the longest journey in the majors this season. The trip ends with four games in San Francisco. Los Angeles’ 23-13 road record is the best in baseball “We've got a good team, better than last year,” said Orel Hershiser, the Dodgers’ only all-star this season. On Friday, Hershiser, at 13-4, will pitch in Chicago against Greg Mad dux, leading the majors ai 1-53. The rejuvenated Cubs are only seven games behind the Mets. Mon treal, whose seven-game winning streak is currently the longest, is 71/2 back while the disappointing Car dinals have lost six in a row and have fallen 14% out Thoughts of a Subway Series have dimmed with the Yankees’ pitching The Yankees get a chance to cut their three-game deficit when they play seven straight at home while the Tigers begin with 10 games on the West Coast Oakland, another team predicted to be among the best, seemed ready to run away in the AL West early in the season. But Minnesota, which fell 11" games behind, closed quickly before a four-game losing streak dropped the Twins 5" back at the break < “This season is a marathon and we won the marathon last year,” said Gary Gaetti, one of five all stars from the Twins Minnesota won the World Series despite a 29-52 road record. This season, the Twins are 22-18 away from the Metrodome. Pee Wee girls place sixth in tourney At the Provincial Pee Wee Inter mediate Girls’ Softball Champion ships held in Rutland July 8-10, the defending champion Karnies Ladies Wear team from Castlegar finished sixth out of 16 teams. Castlegar defeated North Delta 13-7 in their first game, scoring nine funs in the last inning to pull out the victory. The second game matched Castlegar against eventual tournament winner Nanaimo. The girls lost by a narrow 86 seore. In the third game, Castlegar beat Merritt 10-7 and completed. the modified round robin portion “easy T8-5 win over Maple Ridge. highlighted by a grand slam home run by Venie Voykin. Tabulation of scores and run spreads placed Castlegar fourth of six teams to enter the double knockout championship round. Next, Castlegar played Surrey/ White Rock and lost 10-9 after two extra innings. Facing elimination, Castlegar took on the hogy team from Rutland and was edged score of 11-10 In the final game, Nanaimo beat Rutland to claim the provincial crown Castlegar's pitching chores were handled by Tamara Rezansoff and Dingwall _over—the—three—— @ays of competition. The Pee Wee team had only three holdovers from last yeag,— Sherri Finch, Venie Voykin and Suzanne Dingwall.