AB
Runaways
unaware
of danger
_ CALGARY (CP) — Young
runaways such as a 15-year-
old British Columbia youth
found beaten to death in a
northeast Calgary residence
aren't, always aware of the
extreme dangers they face
while on their own, police

say.

“They're extremely vul-
nerable when they leave
home because they haven't
given it much thought, they
are not very mature and they
are easily led astray,” city
police Supt. Phil Crosby-
Jones said.’ . .

Police said Patrick Camilli,
a runaway from Fernie, was
murdered Tuesday night and
a 16-year-old friend from
Calgary was sexually as-
saulted after a man. offered
them shelter.

Terry Lee May, 26, has
been charged with first-de-
gree murder and sexual as-
sault in the case and re-
manded to March 16 for psy-
chiatric assessment.

Crosby-Jones said Camilli
had been visiting the Calgary
youth and the two decided to
“take off.”

He said the teenagers met
a man inside a games arcade
and paideeided to go home with

"fe bviously persuaded
them and‘ did whatever he
had to do to convince them he
would be pretty good to
them.

Ceoaby-Jones said many
runaway teenagers “have not
matured to the point where
they can distinguish between
the genuine and those who
have an ulterior motive.”

_"(They) are susceptible to
anyone who offers them
shelter and affection. They're
easily conned and become the
victims of crime such as
sexual assaults and in this
case murder.”

Crobsy-Jones, recalled an-
other incident last month in.
which a 14-year-old runaway
girl-from a small town came
into Calgary, “went bar hop-
ping and soon was picked up
by three fellows who offered
shelter in their hotel room.”
All-three men sexually as-
saulted the’ girl.

‘He said Calgary police are
attempting: to keep better
track of runaways who fre-
quent arcades with increased
downtown foot patrols,
‘s"We're trying to keep a
better handle on them
through our youth involve-
ment unit to try and identify
runaways and to persuade
them to go home.”

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Inflation slowed last month _

. OTTAWA (CP) — The an-
nual rate of inflation slowed
to 8.3 per. cent in January —
and for the first time in more
than four years the consumer
price index actually dropped
from one month to another.”

The annual rate, showing
the cost of living up 8.3.per
cent in January, 1983, com-
pared with January, 1982,
was a full percentage point
lower than the D

When prices are compared
month to month, there was a
dip of 0.3 per cent in January
from Di the first

that creates jobs and Sti
ulates

hopes to introduce ‘in the

“It's encouraging tosee the
i i id

monthly decline since Sep-
tember, 1978. Most of it was
due to cuts in prices of cloth-

ing, fuel oil, gasoline, air’

fares and package holidays.

Geoff Scott, Progressive
Conservative consumer af-
ins critic, said lower prices
but,

December figure of 9.3 per
cent. It was the lowest level
since the summer of 1979.

they result from weakness in
the economy and underline
need for a federal ‘budget,

it ating trent
in the rate of inflation,” said
Scott.

“But the feason it’s downis -

because of ‘a terribly weak
economy. When you've got
1.65 ‘million or more unem-
ployed, people are simply not
spending on. consumer
goods.” .
PROMISES § MADE

Finance Minister Mare La-

londe has said the budget he

_ Borrowing for jobs
labeled ‘ridiculous’

VICTORIA (CP) — British
Columbia's Social Credit gov--
ernment will end the year
less than $500 million in the
hole — in net terms, Premier
Bill Bennett said Friday.

Bennett, whose govern-
ment is borrowing $900 mil-
lion to pay for government

services and to finance job-.

creation programs, labelled
as ridiculous a proposal by
the opposition to borrow $500
million for a five-point pro-
gram to create 25,000 jobs.

Nothing left

for shareholders

VANCOUVER (CP) —
B.C.’s forest industry must
be relentless during 1983 in
its efforts ‘to ‘shift money
away from its workers and
back to its shareholders, BC
Timber Ltd. ‘president John
Montgomery said this week.

“This recession has been so
severe, and our firm com-

wealth back in the hands of
our shareholders,” added
Montgomery, forest compan-
ies must make tough trade-
offs.

These groups involved in
the forest industry — em-
ployees, communities, gov-
ernments and environment-
alists — “haven't necessarily

to: gov-

ernments and “capital pro-

grams have been. so large,

that-there has been nothing

left for shareholders,” he told

. a joint luncheon of the North

American Society for Cor-

porate Planning and the

Institute of Management
Consultants in B.C.

“We continue to exist
today because our sharehold-
ers and our banks have stuck
with us. They haven't been
particularly happy with the
way the situation developed,
and in reality they haven't
had much choice. But they've
stuck with us, and God bless
‘em for it.”

In order to “put a more
reasonable share of the

let the lower their.
level of expectation of what
we can do for them,” he
added.

on J agen, contracts covering

: The B.C. premier said his

‘government will use up what

he described as surpluses to
reduce the deficit.

“The debt will be less
(than) the surpluses that we
will apply against that,” he
said in a television interview.

“We will use them all up and .

that’s about $600 million to
$700 million.”

The government's third
quarterly financial report,
released Monday, showed the
government expécts to end
the year with a deficit of
$1.125 billion — up. signifi-
cantly from the $1.027 billion
predicted just three months

ago in the second quarterly _
report. |

Finance Minister Hugh
Curtis originally had bud-
geted for a $358-million def-
icit which he would have cov-
ered with rainy-day funds set
aside for this purpose.

Revenue is now forecast at
$6.5 billion and expenditure
at $7.66 billion. ~

Bennett did not explain
‘where his surpluses will
come from but the quarterly
report showed there is $729.7
million in special purpose
funds and accounts.

However, last year it was

explained that except for the
$858° million already bud-
geted to cover the deficit,
most of the remainder was in
assets such as land and
mortgages under the various
mortgage-assistance plans.

DEFICIT $400 MILLION

It is understood that in net
terms, when assets and lia-
bilities are compared, the
final deficit will be about $400
million.

_ Bennett, who accused the
NDP of not offering any con-
crete programs to. help the
province to economic recov-
ery, lashed at former finance
minister Dave Stupich (NDP-

Nanaimo), saying his five-

point job-creating program is
“just one of those stupid,
political promises to try and
buy votes.”

“That's how the country
got into trouble.”

The premier said‘ the NDP
is the worst enemy of the
children in the country be-
cause “when people. talk
about debt, they're really
spending the credit of the
young people of this country
which means that they'll be
the ones to pay it off.”

before. April .1
could be aimed at bolstering

the private sector and stim--

ulating consumer demand,
And he has predi

clothing ‘sales. Fuel’ oil and
gasoline . prices fell as the
federal government reduced
the petroleum: compensation

charge, a consumer tax used §
d further. to

refiners who

declines in the rate of in-
flation this year. :

The . rate “of. inflation
reached levels about 12.5 per
cent in mid-1981'and hovered
around an average of about
11.5 per cent for the first six

months .of 1982. But it ‘has |

declined steadily each month
since last July.

Statistics Canada’s consu-
mer price index is based on a
fixed shopping list of hun-
dreds of. consumer items,
ranging from ‘bread to dis-

- posable diapers...

The index shows the pur-
chasing Power of the 1981
consumer dollar was 87.6
cents in January, compared
with 87.4 cents a month edr-
lier and 94.9 cents a year
earlier.

The largest monthly drop
in prices in January was at-
tributed to post-Christmas

import more expansive: for-
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Declines in those and a a fow
other .items, plus a virtual -
standstill in food prices, off-
set increases in other areas.
postal rates were up across
the country.
charges rose in Quebec and
Saskatchewan. Local bus and
subway fares rose in.several
cities,

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‘of the top seven ‘places in the women's slalom competition
Saturday, including a gold. medal for Catherine Lussier,’ to
dominate the early alpine events at tho: Canada Games,’
Lussier, 16, of Montreal, ‘trailed Nancy, Gee of Niagara
Falls, Ont.; after the first ‘heat’ ‘by one-10th of a second but

edged Gee’ by four-10ths o:

second in the second heat to
i _ win Quobec's first gold at: Mont Bleu in nearby La Baie;

Lussier's combined time was one minute, 40. BT, seconds

Gee led the-pack after

: while Gee, 14, finished ‘at 1: 140.82;

the. ‘morning’ heat” but had

problems near the top.of the: course in: the afteroon which

_ -Broved’ the difference.
Irene Hansen of Pénticlon; was awarded the bronze>
‘with a combined time of 1:49.64.

Other Quebec finishers were Renata \  Behieb vot

yoo
‘Quobec skies took three

Montreal, ‘fourth y

pate

st aad Diane Rast of

seventh with a:time of: 1:46.47, Tho Quebec team

picked up a ‘total’ of '21 points baséd‘on their finishes.

Jean McAllister; of Ottawa won'the Games’ first: gold

i ve-kilometre cross-country ski race,

ahead of Quebec teammate Josee Auclair of Sherbrooke and
Mary Stockdale of. Saskatoon.

», The other, gold. medal went to Yves Bilodeau of Quebec *

City in the men’s 10-kilomotre cross country. David Lumb of'

| Ottawa was second followed by ‘Alain Masson of Laval, aie.
~ CONCERNS COACH. °

‘Quebec alpine .coach . Atine Michaud said she. was

worried after the morning run but they settled down during’,

the. break.

“We talked about the: course during the break and’
decided the race was ours if, me wanted i said Michaud.

‘Quebec's Audet Ieabelle was firat out of the gates in the
afternoon but she did not finish'the race. She was followed

1:10:91

v1 by Hansen and By 8 Kendra Kobelka, who had a time of

‘Lussier followed her, and received a acid’ applaiias

from a small crowd who had gathered at the bottom of the
hill for the final when she finished, But Lussier did not hang
around: to watch the clock as ‘Gee-raced down the hill. .

- Lussfer sald the competition was close but she was

‘worried about Gee.

..., “was scared a little bit to be. beaten by her but I'said I
was going to do my best,” Lussier said, me slalom is her
speciality. “The course was good and f

Lussier and Gee. will compete again “Tucaday in the
giant slalom and Lussier expects another tough battle,
.“Thope I do well but giant slalom is her speciality and

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mine is slalom so it is going to be close again,” Lussier said. _—
Gee said her small size was also a factor in the race.

“It was a bit bumpy at the top and there is a lot of flata
and I am light and not so great on the flats and the girl that .
won is bigger and she has a better advantage,” sald Gee.
“But coming second is not too bad.

“It is part of the game and I am seein to put ona good :

fight to win the next time.”

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before the men return to the hill Monday for the giant
slalom. The women's giant slalom is scheduled for Tuesday
before the parallel slalom concludes the alpine skiing event

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stop to night game.

For details on Friday game see story.

S Lasr NIGH

FLYERS 8 RANGERS 5

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Brian Propp scored a goal-
and three assists, to lead!
Philadelphia Flyers to an 8-5
victory over New York Ran-
gers in the National Hockey
League

*’ Paul Reinhart replied for the

Flames with seven seconds
remaining in the first period.
Walt Poddubny scored the

only goal of the second period

to send the Leafs to the final
period with what seemed a

41

The win was the Flyers’
fourth against the Rangers
this season, and their 21st in
their past 25 games (21-2-2)..

Mark Taylor scored the
game winner on a short-
handed goal at 17:34 of the
first period with Paul Holm-
gren ‘in the penalty box.
Propp took a pass from Miro-
slav Dvorak and fed Taylor,
who beat Ranger goalie Glen
Hanlon on the glove side to
make it 2-1.

The victory extended Fly-
ers rookie goaltender. Bob
Froese’s unbeaten string to,
12 games (11-0-1) since he
was brought up Jan. 7 from
the American Hockey

* League.

Philadelphia opened the
scoring at 11:51 of the first
period when Paul Evans
tipped Ilkka Sinisalo's drive
past Hanlon.

New York tied it 1-1 at
14:46 on Mike Rogers’ 23rd
goal of the season, before
Taylor’ scored his short-
handed goal.

LEAFS 5 FLAMES 3

TORONTO (CP) — Tor-
onto Maple Leafs scored the
first three goals then escaped
with a 5-3 victory after
Calgary Flames awoke from
a deep offensive sleep Satur-
day night to leave the
outcome of the National
Hockey League game to its
final minute. ~

An empty-net goal by
Toronto captain Rick Vaive
with 47 seconds remaining
left the Flames’ comeback
short.

Billy Harris, John Ander-
son and Bill Derlago all
scored for the Leafs before

But the Leafs went into a ©

defensive shell and Calgary
began to carry. play.
Calgary's Doug Risebrough,
with a power-play goal at
13:05, and Jim Peplinski, at
14:64, made it 4-3 and set up
a hectic finish.

HAWKS 4 WHALERS 2
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)

+— Steve Larmer's . second

goal of the ‘night lifted

Chicago Black Hawks to a 4-2

National’ Hockey - League
victory Saturday night over
Hartford Whalers.

Larmers goal, his 32nd of
the season, came with 18
seconds remaining in .the
second period as he took a
pass from Denis Savard and
beat a sprawling Hartford
goalie Greg Millen.

Larmer’s first goal came at
13:20 of the opening period
when Millen was trapped
behind his net and the Black
Hawks right winger was able
to fire into an open net. It
was Chicago's first shot on
goal in the game.

ISLANDERS 5 HABS 0

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CP)
— Bob Bourne paced New
York with two goals Satur-
day us they posted a 5-0
victory over. Montreal.

For Islanders goaltender
Roland Melanson, who faced
30 shots, it was his first
shutout in 83 regular-season
NHL games. The last time
the Canadiens were blanked
was nearly two years ago on
March 29; 1981, against
Quebec.

Bob Bossy, Bob Nystrom
and Brent Sutter also scored

for the Islanders. But the
defending Stanley Cup
champions needed only
flashes of the disciplined
style which has produced
three Cups in a row to beat
the Canadiens.

BOSTON 6 MINNESOTA 2

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.
(AP) — Boston's Keith
Crowder scored twice as the
Bruins snapped a two-game
losing slump with a 62
victory over Minnesota
North Stars in a National
Hockey League game Satur-
day night.

The victory also ended a
two-game losing slump: for
Boston goalie Pete Peeters,
who had his unbeaten streak
ended at 31 games by Buffalo
Sabres last’ Wednesday.
Peeters came back in style,
holding onto a shutout until
late. in the contest.

OILERS 10 PENGUINS 7

PITTSBURGH (AP) —
Wayne Gretzky scored two
goals Saturday night,
including his 50th of the
season in the third period, to
lead Edmonton to a 10-7
victory over Pittsburgh.

Gretzky broke a 7-7 tie
with 5:19 left to play in the
game as he hit the 50-goal
mark for the fourth-conse¢u-
tive season, Ken Linseman
scored three goals for
Edmonton and Glenn Ander-
son added a pair as the Oilers
handed the Penguins their
20th loss in the last 22 games.

Just over a minute after
Gretzky's .second goal,
Anderson added his second of
the game to:seal the win.

Edmonton led 2-0 in the
first period before Pitts-
burgh came back with four-
straight goals against goalie
Grant Furh, who was
removed at the end of the
period.

Anders Hakansson, Dave
Hanna, Mike Bullard and

Paul Gardner all scored for
Pittsburgh in less than seven
minutes.

The Oilers came back and
took a 5-4 lead in the second
period on goals by Gretzky,
Linseman and Kevin Lowe.
Gardner got a power-play
goal late in the period to tie
the game 6-5.

In the final period, Linse-
man scored. for Edmonton
before Andre St. Laurent

—CosNewsPhoto by Ron Norman
Fernando
signs a

record

contract

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Los Angeles Dodger pitching
sensation Fernando Valen-
zuela was signed to a record
$1 million, one-year pact Sat-
urday with the stroke of an
arbitrator's pen.

Valenzuela played last
year without a contract fol-
lowing a bitter wrangle with
Dodger

tied it again for Pit
Tom Roulston put the Oilers
ahead 7-6 before Hakansson
got his second of the game for
the Penguins.

NORDIQUES 4BLUES 4

ST. LOLUIS (AP) — Peter
Stastny scored his second
goal of the game with 36
seconds remaining to pull

- Quebec into a 4-4 tie with St.

Louis Blues in a game
Saturday. -

With Quebec goalie Clint
Malarchuk pulled in favor of
a_.sixth attacker, Alain Cote
dug the puck from behind the
net and passed to Anton
Stanstny, who relayed a pass
to his brother for the 20-foot
shot over St. Louis goalie
“Mike Liut’s right shoulder.

Tim. Bothwell and Perry
Turnbull scored less’ than
three minutes apart early in
the third period, rallying the
Blues to a 4-3 lead, their first
in the game.

‘The Nordiques bolted to a’
2-0 advantage on first period
goals by Peter Stastny, his
35th of the season and Wilf
Paiment.

After Mike Zuke
backhanded a rebound
behind a sprawled Malarchuk
six minutes into the second
period, Quebec's Dale Hunter

The 22-year-old: left-hand-

er, who in 1981 became the
first National League rookie
of the year to win the presti-
gious Cy Young Award the
same season, was signed af-
ter two days’ binding arbi-
tration held by arbitrator
Tom Roberts, said Valen-
zuela’s agent, Tony DeMarco.

“We're elated,” DeMarco
said after he was informed
that Roberts had decided in
Valenzuela’s favor for the
one-year contract.

; DeMarco said Valenzuela
would join his teammates in
Florida after he

By ROY GRANT
The Beaver Valley Nite-

” hawks scored five powerplay

goals enroute toa 6-4 win
over the Rebels in game one
of their West Division semi-
final series. The Hawks
scored three goals in a span
of one minute and 44 seconds
late in the first period and
into the middle frame during
a five-minute major penalty
to Castlegar’s Scott Jones.

Castlegar complained
about the call but I just think
that our guys came out: to
-play. For the first period and
‘a half we probably played ‘as
good as we ‘have all year,”
commented Nitehawk
manager Darrell Dickson,

The Rebels took two
penalties in the first three
minutes.of the game, giving
:Beaver Valley «a two-man
advantage.

tt Nakway: the. Hawks.

leading ‘scorer during the
regular season, capitalized at
the 3:08 mark, flipping a
rebound past Rebel netmin-

| der Steve Voykin. Scott.

Wagner took the original
shot from the point.

Kevin Kirby, who scored
twice in'the game, evened
the score at 1-1 after taking a
pass from Barry Streliev and
putting a great move on
Hawk netminder Rob Trus-
dale. .

The Nitehawks stormed
right back, scoring 42
seconds later at 13:53 to go
ahead for good. Voykin made

a great save off Rod Horcoff
who was parked in the slot
but the puck somehow
carried across the line.
Horcoff was credited with
the goal on assists from
Sheldon Collins and Dave
Rugg.

Game-one came to an early
end as Jones was assessed
the major penalty at 18:06 of

the first period and the

Beaver Valley powerplay
went to work.

“I'm not going to complain
about the refereeing as we've
been told not to, but geez.
Jones is out for a week with a
concussion and Naz (Terry
Nazaroff) took a butt-end.
Let's call. it both ways,”
remarked Rebel co-coach Ron
Rebellato.

Rugg put Beaver Valley
ahead 3-1 with a blast from

the left faceoff circle at 19:06 "
and Horcoff put them. up ‘by h go:

three before the first period
ended.

The Hawks were at full
value for the 4-1 lead as they
outshot the Rebels 18-5 in the
opening session.

Lou Parent, voted the
game's first star, extended
the home ‘team’s lead to 5-1
with another Hawk power-
play goal, this one 40 seconds
into the second period.
Again the goal came on a
rebound with Voykin down

and out after a great save.

and no defence even close to
the net.
Castlegar captain Perry

Horning and Hawk rookie Ed
Cristofoli traded goals before
the end of the second period.

The third period would
have been all Castlegar had it
not been for the steady goal-
tending of the Hawks Trus-
dale. 2

“We were alll over them in’
the third period. Had we
played that way from the

-start it would have been a

different story,”
Rebellato. a
He added, . “We're. not ©
going to penic with one loss. ©
That's why they make it
seven games. They looked
tired in the third’ period.
We've got to bump them
early. We've got the good
conditioning and it will tell.”

Kirby and Dave. Terhune
gave the Rebels some respect
oals nine séconds apart

explained.

inthe ‘14th minute of the
third period -but it was a
classic example of toclittle-
too-late.

Streliev's assist on Kirby’s |
second goal gave the big
Rebel centre three for the

me. is ee

Beaver Valley defenceman
Dale Holz was awarded
second-star honors while the
diminutive Voykin was voted
third.

The third and- fourth
games of the series will be
played next Friday and Sat-
urday in Beaver Valley and
Castlegar respectively.

Kirby, who currently plays
with Kelowna Buckaroos of
the B.C. Junior Hockey
League, was recently fea-
tured on the front cover on
a player profile of the
Buckaroo’s program. . The
following is a player profile
on the goaltender, written
by Mike Condon.

One player. does not
make a team but the arri-
val of Randy Kirby in Kel-
owna certainly had a posi-

Buckaroos.
When Kirby left Revel-

his visit to Mexico to clear up
a few “family things” such as
getting a visa.

Dodger officials were not
immediately available for
comment Saturday.

Both sides had ‘submitted
signed blank contracts, and
Roberts filled in the amount.
The Dodgers had offered
Valenzuela $750,000, while
the young screwball special-
ist had asked for $1 million.

The $1 million settlement
eclipses the $700,000 award-
ed to Chicago Cubs pitcher
Bruce Sutter in 1980, which
had been the largest-ever ar-
bitration rah:

He t-11,

P a
breakaway to extend the
Nordiques lead to 3-1.

The Blues, who held a
33-16 shots-on-goal advant»
age through two periods and
outshot the Nordiques 43-24
in the game,

§-foot
200-pound native | of Etchohu-
quaila, Sonora, Mexico,
struck out 199 batters in 1982
and had four shutdouts in 18
complete games while com-
piling a 19-13 record and a

tet oto

stoke in the
Bucks were 12-12-2, play-
ing .600 hockey in a season
they were expected to do
much better.

Since Kirby’s arrival the
team has won 13 of its 16
games and gone from third
to joint first place while
the fourth year goaltender
has compiled a goals
againet-average of 3.5.

Born in Castlégar, Kirby
played all his minor hockey
in his home town before
moving up to junior and
the Kamloops Rockets in
1978.

He stayed in Kamloops
until the franchise moved
to Revelstoke in December
of 1979 and then headed
south to join the Penticton
Knights.

Half a season with “the
Knights and Mare Pezzin

proved enough for Kirby
_.

Kirby ahit with Kelowna)

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RANDY KIRBY
.-. playing well

and he headed to Revel-
stoke for the following
-season where he back:
stopped the Rockets to a
third "place finish, much
lower than they threaten-
ed for most of the season.

A year with the rebuild-
ing Rockets was enough
for Kirby and with a new
coach but not much talent
the Rockets didn't offer
Kirby much in the way of a
final season in junior hoc-
key..

“I wanted to play for a
contender in my fina! year
and Fred Bower (who had
played with Kirby for two
years before coming back
to Kelowna) told me that
Wayne Naka was on the

‘skills.. Wheile I was there

lookout for a goaltender,”
he says.

“There was some talk of -
a trade but that didn't |
work out but I eventually
got my release from Rev-
elstoke.”

Naka is the eighth coach
that Kirby has worked
under in the BCJHL and
Kirby rates him right up
there with the. best.

“I think Harvey Roy, my
coach in Kamloops, was the
best I worked ‘under. He
was a good motivator,
strict, disciplinarian and
had excellent coaching

we had a goalie who'd had
Glen Hanlon as back up at
one time and I really
learned a lot from him,” he

wtikoek he gives the
impression that he works
continually on upgrading
his goaltending skills, Kir-
by said that he has at-
tended just one summer
hockey camp.

“Usually T ‘play golf the
whole summer.”

Looking for a scholar-
ship after this season Kir-
by has this advice for any
goaltenders on the way up. ©
“Stand up and play your
angles, concentrate on the
basics.”

Concentrating on the .
basics this season could
help Kirby become a win-
ner after trying for so
long.

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