Castlégar News May 22, 1985 VANCOUVER (CP) — Robert Evans Skelly, the 42-year-old leader of British Columbia's New Democratic Party, says people might call him dull but he’s not the only politician worthy of that label. The 13-year veteran of provincial politics replaced the mercurial, outspoken Dave Barrett last year and, compared to Barrett, Skelly does seem a tad grey. “It's difficult to be called dull,” Skelly said. “But, then I look across Canada at the other dull premiers and Opposition leaders and I don't feel so badly.” And, heading into his ‘party's convention this weekend after a year as leader, nobody disputes the fact that Skelly is a very serious, concerned and considerate rson. If he hadn't chosen to be a school teacher and then a politician, Skelly probably would have made a fine bureaucrat. His research is meticulous. He avidly studies political theory and philosophy. He works with the determination of a man out to right social wrongs. And he loves discussing policy. His speaking style is more like former Tory leader Joe Clark's than Barrett's. His mannerisms are wooden. His voice is strained. But there is never any question that he believes what he says. And Skelly believes he could be premier after the next election expected as early as the spring of 1986. He predicts his party can take 38 seats in a legislature expanded by redistribution to 69 seats from 57. Skelly has cooled the tense, combative mood that pervades the legislature. He has succeeded in getting meetings between the government and Opposition on the legislative agenda. His co-operative spirit has also led him to change the title from Opposition critic to “debate leader.” But Jim Matkin, president of the Business Council of Believes what he says | B.C. and former principal secretary to Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett, says Skelly has had little impagt. “I don’t think he's been strong in the legislature and I don't think he has rallied support for his points of view.” Skelly is a compromiser. His election as leader was a compromise. He came from third place on the strength of an exceptional organization to topple the labor-backed candidate and beat the front-running, civil rights activist on the final ballot. As leader, he wants to continue to draw people together rather than continuing the confrontational tactics of both major parties. “In 1972, when we (the NDP) went into government, we decided in our minds that we were anti-business and we went in with a lot of ideological baggage. We have become a lot more pragmatic now.” Skelly says he wants to show people that the NDP is capable of managing the province in an orderly and stable way. “I think that image is appropriate for New Democrats because co-operation has always been the middle name of our party.” Although he meant it figuratively, the word was in the name of the party that gave birth to the NDP — The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Liberal leader Art Lee says Skelly is moderating the party's image of strident socialism. But he said, “Whether in substance he is changing anything, I doubt it.” Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer described Skelly as “considerate of the views of others, charmingly shy, and unshakably sincere. “It says something about the state of affairs in our beloved province that reasonable people wonder whether this kind of behavior makes Mr. Skelly unsuitable to govern.” Flying beats driving VANCOUVER (CP) — Bruno Leunen says that fora nickel a kilometre, you can Leunen’s method, which anyone with a travel agent's book of airline schedules and even first class if these class. es are not full when he flies. “I get a lot of excellent first mns, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. fly around the world — twice around, in fact — often get- ting first class treatment from major airlines for an economy fare. Leunen, 28, is on his way home to Brussels after being airborne for much of the past seven months with what he says is the longest airline ticket ever issued. His 11-metre ticket cost him $4,500 (U.S.) last Sep- tember at the Scandinavian Airlines System office in Brussels, and has taken him through 109 airports in 52 countries, a distance of 85,900 kilometres. “That's a lot cheaper than driving your own car,” says Leunen, a travel consultant who is writing a book on how to get around the world by air. a lot of patience can employ, is to purchase a return ticket from as far away as possible from where you are and then add unlimited stopovers. In Leunen's case, that was a return ticket from Brussels to Auckland, New Zealand. An economy fare return tic- ket would have cost about $2,800, Leunen said. He add- ed 107 stopovers and boosted the price to $4,500. AVOIDED CHARTERS He had to avoid charters and other specials to get his stopover privileges, but he couldn't have worked out charter fares to all the places he wanted to get to anyway. Leunen says he also gets pampered by the airlines be- cause he’s paying the full price. Often, his tickets are upgraded to business class or Refugees begin trek home NAIROBI (REUTER) — Thousands of Ethiopians who fled to Sydan to escape fam ine have begun the 160-kil ometre trek home, but there may be nothing to eat when they get there, the United Nations said Tuesday. A statement by the office of the UN High Commis. sioner for Refugees said up to 35,000 refugees have started back to their home province of Tigray. “The outlook for many of the returnees is not good and refugee leaders are reserved about their ability to provide enough food for dependents once back in Ethopia,” the statement said. “Those who are sick and those with young children are urged by health workers to reconsider their decision, but to little effect.” One week ago Ethiopian relief authorities weleomed reports about 27,000 people had left Sudanese border camps to walk back to their villages in time to plant for the long rainy season, which starts in July. The government's Relief and Rehabilitation Commis- sion said it would set up camps to receive the retur. nees near the border and ap- pealed for seeds and tools to help the Tigrayans grow crops to break dependency on food aid. class meals,” he says. Leunen’s first flight was an SAS 90-minute hop from Brussels to Copenhagen last Sept. 29. His next was his longest. What was supposed to be a nine-hour flight on Pakistan International Airline to Isla- mabad took 35 hours after the aircraft returned to Cop- enhagen with engine trouble. He went from Pakistan to India, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the south sea islands of Guam, Saipan, the Solo- In Australia, he swapped travel stories with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Balogh, who, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had pur- chased what was previously the longest-ever airline tic- ket, a 10-metre job, in 1957. From New Zealand, he flew to South America, hit ting all the major countries and some of the minor ones. He flew to Mexico, then California and then Van- couver. Today he headed to Denver. Ancots Sp enter Catt Punta Se. 187 Answer to , May 19 Cryptoquip: BOTTLE MAKER ON "HIS BIG MISTAKE | IN FANCY nad FACTORY: “WELL, | BLEW THAT! HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Mon. - Sat., ks 5:30 China Cr Drive a Little to Save a Lot or 4 NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! _ MAY 31, 1985 DEADLINE FOR is the farmer applications for the 1984 PARTIAL INTEREST | REIMBURSEMENT | PROGRAM To be eligible, postmark your application on or before May 31, 1985 to: Agriculture Credit Branch B.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Victoria, B.C. V8W 227 Province of British Columbia Ministry of Agricutture and Food Marxist at still e xists LONDON (AP) — A Mar- xist threat still exists on * Grenada, but the improving security situation should al- low all U.S. troops to leave the Caribbean island by the end of 1985, Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize saitl Tuesday. The United States, saying it feared Soviet and Cuban domination over the island, led an invasion of Grenada in October 1983 following the assassination of Marxist prime minister Maurice Bis- hop by a radical group. Blazie, in London to seek more aid for the former British colony, told a news conference Cuba “remains a threat, but not the only one.” He did not elaborate. Blaize said he hoped that at a June 10-15 summit meeting in Grenada of the Organ- ization of Eastern Caribbean States, a memorandum of understanding setting up a regional security force would be enshrined in a treaty. Asked what role the United States would play once the treaty is in place, Blaize said: “The United States’ role, as we see it, is to ensure that the rescue that they per- formed will not go to waste — they have invested so much in material, lives and other things. Asked whether there was a date for the departure of American troops from the island, Blaize said: “People who put dates usually put themselves into straight jackets, and I don't do that . . . The Americans have agreed that they will stay’and help us until we have been able to put to- gether our own security for- ces... You can see we are reaching the stage that be- fore long we will be in a posi- tion to look after our own af- fairs.” A GREAT SENSE OF STYLE Genco de Nuit Faberge offers you something every woman Oppreciates — a net and case with lighted mirror. It is your chase of Essence de Nuit. See specially marked packages for details. It’s a great way to introduce yourself to Faberge’s most daring and seductive new scent Do you need to lose a few extra pounds? A GREAT SENSE OF STYLE Faberge offers you spring's hottest — anexclusively designed jumpsuit in whi h pink Try Fibre Trim 250s Natural Source Fibre from groin and citrus fruits h, one size tits all. 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Here are some suggestions: restore kindergarten bussing restore all lunch hour supervision restore learning assistance to previous levels restore library time in elementary schools restore funding for extracurricular activities restore district librarian services restore and expand computer coordinator services restore teacher aides and child care workers to previous levels restore French coordinator services ASK ANY TEACHER OR PARENT FOR MORE SUGGESTIONS To Mrs. Kay Johnson, The only trustee who defended educational services to children; the thanks of all members of the Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association. To the Parents, Of Castlegar students. Remember this for the next Trustee Elections in November. OEE é oa Si BALL ONE . . . Thrums batter watches as pitch sails high during Castlegar Men's Fastball League game final Tuesday night. since then. expected,” Gretzky said. short. scoring Edmonton's only goal came late in the third period — rier outskated them at both ends of the rink in the opener of the best-of-seven National Hockey League final. It was Philadelphia's fourth victory over Edmonton this season. The Flyers haven't lost to Edmonton since November, 1982, posting an 8-0-1 won-lost-tied mark The loss to the younger, smaller, defence-niinded Edmonton coach Glen Sather had said before the game his players should be considered the underdogs. Superstar centre Wayne Gretzky failed to get a single shot on goal while Ron Sutter, assigned to check him, scored the winning goal, set up another goal and was by far the best Flyer on the ice. “He played a lot more offensive game than I Penalties made a difference early in the game. Philadelphia's first goal — and the only one during the first 45 minutes of play — came with Edmonton two men Oilers defenceman Charlie Huddy was sent off for hooking Flyers’ scoring star Tim Kerr, just 14 seconds Flyers crush Oilers 4-1 in opening game than Edmonton expected and crushed the Oilers 4-1 in the first game of the Stanley Cup with a knee sprain received in Game 1 of the Wales Conference fina! against Quebec Nordiques. Posse apn De we Pragr gn Sesh sw corner boards, but Flyers captain Dave ie | [ z i : “It was an innocent : i ? I enough play,” defenceman Kevin Lowe. “But that's the way things were said Oilers the fourth goal in the empty net. blank Tuesday against Sand hotel team 6-0. Inn. Thrums d the —CosNewsPhoto by Doug Horvey ANNUAL MEETING CAHA makes changes VANCOUVER (we Brian Wakelin of St. John's, Nfid., has ascended from « voluateer.pee wee hockey coach to chairman of the board of the country’s amateur governing body in a span of 18 hectic years. The regional manager for ploy and I calling for residential schools like Notre Dame of Wilcox, Sask., to have inter-branch transfers on their midget rosters, thus averting the possibility of court action by the private high school. FUNDS NEEDED tion Canada in labor market services now wants to be part of a Canadian gold medal-winning team at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. Wakelin became chairman of the Canadian A The ion agreed to provide a portion of its national fund-raising drive next winter — the sale of Planters Nuts — to finance research into the cause and prevention of spinal injuries. Hockey Association's executive council Tuesday when incumbent Roland Mercier of Quebee City withdrew his nomination for a fourth term. “I want to see the Canadian flag hoisted in Calgary,” said Wakelin. “I want to see our Program of a national drug awareness poster m ‘sponsored by the RCMP and headed by officer Michel Pelletier of Montreal, with the message to be posted in all minor hockey arenas across the country. “With other sports like baseball, basketball and football with the di p! camps ly players across the country. “I really want to see Canada back at the top in world hockey. I think we're getting there because of the players improving through the program of excellence.” The plenary session of the association's annual general meeting heartily endorsed Wakelin's appointment, re-elect- ed Ed O'Doherty of Arvida, Que., as chairman of junior council hockey and named Art O'Brien of Nelson as senior council chairman. CHALLENGER BEATEN O'Doherty, honored Sunday as the CAHA executive of the year, beat back a challenge by Bill Colbourne of Burnaby while O'Brien upset incumbent Doug McKenzie of Edmonton. Delegates also approved stricter enforcement of existing rules to curb unnecessary stickwork and, in a dramatic move, agreed to increase by one year the age limits in all minor hockey divisions. Juvenile was increased to 19 years from 18, midget to 17 front 16, bantam to 15 from 14, pee wee to 18 from 12, atom to 11 from 10 and novice to nine from eight. “T'm pleased with the stickwork paper because it will tell the referees exactly what they're got to call,” Wakelin said. “There's no grey areas now and, when we get the sticks back down the ice, we'll get better hockey.” The stickwork report by a referees’ committee calls for penalties on: any contact with a high stick, accidental or not; any slashing action, regardless of degree, to the body; any chopping action (cross-checking) with the shaft of the stick held between the hands; and when the blade of the stick is hooked into the body of an opponent. In raising the age limits in all minor divisions, Wakelin said the association is helping players outside of major communities to remain at home during critical years of secondary school education. RURAL HELP “I think the rule is good for young children in rural Canada,” he said. “The good players are still going to go on to junior anyway. “What we're also doing is giving the player who hasn't fully developed by 15 or 16 anothér shot at it by playing hockey for another year at that (midget) age level.” The age legislation will allow 17-year-olds to remain at home and play midget hockey while completing their high school education, said association president Murray Costello of Ottawa. The change shouldn't have a detrimental affect on junior hockey, said Ed Chynoweth of Calgary, president of the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, because the top players will still move up to junior when given the opportunity. Tier Two junior hockey may actually benefit from raising the ages because borderline players will be given another year to develop their skills, said coach and general manager Rick Kozuback of Penticton Knights of the B.C. Junior Hockey League. In other developments, the association adopted a report ig the best ing drug » we have to assume that it may be a problem in hockey,” said Costello. “We must never think that we're immune from these social problems.” The 1986 Centennial Cup tournament for the Tier Two championship was awarded to the Dartmouth, N.S., suburb of Cole Harbour, which won out oveer Penticton and Pem-’ broke, Ont. The iation confirmed that Hamil Ont., will host the 1986 world junior championship and that the Quebec Esso Cup for under-17s, featuring five Canadian regional teams and five from Europe, will be held in the Montreal area during the Christmas holiday. Free programs could be WASHINGTON (AP) — Curtailment of beer and wine commercials could force local and regional sports program- ming off free television in the U.S., warns the head of the National Association of Broadcasters. The U.S. Congress has been asked to ban such ad- vertisements or force broad- casters to give equal time warnings on the health and safety of ex- curtailed these broadcasts is “pre dominately middle-age males,” as if to emphasize that beer and wine adver. tisements are not aimed at getting young people to drink more. But subcommittee chair. man Timothy Wirth, (D- Colo), pointed out that the armed forces spend: 88 per cent of their advertising re cruitment dollars on sports cessive drinking. It is gen- erally agreed that most brewers and vintners would cancel commercials rather than open the door to counter ads. Dudley Taft, president of ‘aft Broadcasting Co., says beer and wine commercials brought $877-. million to broadcasters in 1984. And Edward Fritts, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, says the bulk of that money finances live casts. “Coverage would diminish, perhaps move to pay-per- view or altoge- ther,” Fritts testified Tues- day before the House sub committee on telecommuni- cations, consumer protection and finance. He «sid the audience for Pp —'- to reach young males. In a telephone interview, Rick Gentile, director of col- lege sports press information for CBS, said, “They're both right.” He said ratings for college football show large numbers of viewers for the two key categories, males aged 18-49 and males 25-54. “If you're selling the Army, you're selling at the bottom end of that scale,” he said. “If you're selling beer, you have both ends.” Fritts said that if the large brewers and wine-makers dropped TV advertising, there were no new adver tisers waiting in the wings to fill the void, “certainly not at the revenue levels necessary to support this expensive programming.” Pirates edge Astros 3-2 By The Canadian Press The revolving door leading to the pitching mound at Three Rivers Stadium had hardly stopped swinging with the return of Rick Reu- schel when John Candelaria started to plan his exit. The veteran Reuschel, just recalled from the minors, and Candelaria combined for a five hitter as Pittsburgh Pir- ates edged’ Houston Astros 32 in a National League baseball game Tuesday night. Reuschel celebrated his return to the majors by checking Houston on one run and three hits in 72-3 innings in his first major-league start since Aug. 10. “T'm just glad to be here,” said Reuschel, who has bat- tled through four years of shoulder p “It's a unless he received adequate pleasure to go out there and be able to throw without pain, to do the things that I can do.” Candelaria, who surrend- ered a run in the ninth before notching his sixth save, was of a different mind. “It's time to move on,” he said in re- questing he be traded. Reuschel retired 15 of the first 16 Houston batters but fell four outs short of what would have been only his second complete game since 1981. Candelaria relieved him with two out in the eighth. Told of yet another request by Candelaria to be traded, Pirates manager Chuck Tan- ner said he would not get rid Reuschel, 36, a right-hand- er who has spent 12 years in the major leagues, was 6-2 with a league-best 2.50 earn- ed-run average with Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League before joining the Pirates. He struck out two and walked two. In other games Tuesday, it was Cincinnati Reds 5 Chi- cago Cubs 2, Montreal Expos 6 Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Philadelphia. Phillies 6 San Francisco Giants 5, and St. Louis Cardinals 6 Atlanta Braves 3. San Diego's game in New York was rained out, the first National League rainout of the season and second such of the pitcher in the major N.Y. Yankees triumph 11-1 over Mariners By The Canadian Press The electricity failed in the Seattle Kingdome but that didn’t stop Ron Guidry from sizzling Tuesday night. The New York pitcher tossed three-hit ball for eight innings and struck out six to lead the Yankees to an 11-1 vietory over Seattle Mar. iners in an American League baseball game delayed for 23 minutes when a bank of lights in left field went dead. Guidry, 4-3, had retired the first nine Seattle batters. Howe appointed to staff ARLINGTON, TEX. (AP) — Bobby Valentine, new manager of Texas Rangers, says that former infielder Art Howe has been ap pointed to the team’s coach- ing staff. Howe, 33, will join the Rangers as batting instructor Wednesday, replacing Merv Rettermund, who will not be retained by the American League baseball team. Howe spent 10 seasons with Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals, primarily as a third baseman. Howe was with the Cardinals in 1984, batting 216 with two homers and 12 RBIs in 89 games. The only run the Mariners scored came in the fourth when the power problem de- veloped. After the delay, the Yankee southpaw walked Jack Perconte and yielded a single to Phil Bradley. “It took me two batters to get back into my rhythm,” Guidry said. Perconte scored a groundout by Dave Hender. son, but Guidry retired the next three batters, striking out two. Don Cooper pitehed the ninth and allowed one hit, completing a combined four- hitter Rickey Henderson drove in four runs with a homer, double and single and Dave Winfield also contributed three hits to New York's 14-hit attack. In other games, it was Toronto Blue Jays 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland In- dians 6 Milwaukee Brewers 4, Boston Red Sox 9 Min- nesota Twins 1, Kansas City Royals 5 Texas Rangers 0, California Angels 2 Detroit Tigers 1 in 11 innings, and Oakland A's 3 Baltimore Ori- oles 2 in 10 innings. BLUE JAYS 4 WHITE SOX 3 Jeff Burroughs singled in the winning run in the ninth inning as Toronto edged Chi- cago.George Bell opened the ninth with a double to right centre, advanced to third on Jesse Barfield’s long fly to centre and came home when Burroughs lined a single just over the glove of third base- man Luis Salazar. INDIANS 6 BREWERS 4 Brook Jacoby hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning as Cleveland recorded its third straight win. Jacoby lined his third home run of the season over the left-centre fence to give the Indians a 5-4 lead. ROYALS 5 RANGERS 0 George Brett hit a pair of two-run homers to support Bud Black's three-hit piteh- ing as Kansas City blanked Texas. Black, 4-3, recorded the second shutout and sec- ond three-hitter of his major league career. He struck out four and walked three. RED SOX 9 TWINS 1 Dwight Evans and Tony Armas snapped long batting slumps with home runs and Marty Barrett drove in three runs as Boston collected 16 hits en route to an easy vie tory. ANGELS 2 TIGERS 1 Ruppert Jones came back to haunt his former team- mates as he doubled home Juan Beniquez in the 11th inning to lift California past Detroit. Beniquez opened the inning with a single and went to second on a sacrifice by Brian Downing. Jones, who played for Detroit last season before signing with the An- gels as a free agent, then pulled the game-winning hit down the first-base line. whose double extended his hitting streak to 13 games, is having one of his best season in years. He is hitting at a 345 clip with seven homers and 30 runs batted in. PHILLIES 6 GIANTS 5 Glenn Wilson drove in two runs as Philadelphia took advantage of San Francisco's 0-4, im the fifth. The game was delayed by rain for an hour and six minutes after the first inning. soar egg -—cbadgaree first aie solo shot, helped St. Louis withstand Bob Horner's two homers en route to victory over Atlanta. Horner had a solo homer to start the sec ond inning and a tworun blast in the sixth. His two home runs marked the 19th time in his career he has ac- complished the feat. Field ready this fall By CasNews Staff soccer field at the Community Complex will not be used this summer, says city engineer George Res haur. Reshaur said the field will be ready for use in the fall. “The - .. is coming along really super... We're quite happy.” added Ald. Carl Henne, chairman of the parks and recreation com mittee. The field was graded and reseeded to try to bring it into proper playing shape following drainage problems last year.