. as Castlegar News 99120, 00 PREMIER'S VISIT . . . Premier Bill Vander Zalm at- tends a tea at the Castlegar and District Hospital while on a tour of the area Friday. CasNews Photo by Brendan Nogle Vander Zalm says religious faith eases problems By The Canadian Press TRAIL — Welfare recipients and women with unwanted pregnancies will find it easier to cope and will be much happier if they turn “for free” to Jesus Christ, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said this weekend The premier told a mayor's prayer breakfast on Saturday that the government can never provide everything people ask for. “But if we can somehow help them to get to know Jesus Christ, if we can help them, to get involved in religion, in worshipping . . . they'll be much happier and their problems will be resolved much easier,” the premier told members of the Christian Businessmen's Association of Trail. In an interview following the breakfast, which concluded a 1'/ day visit to the Kootenay region, Vander Zalm said that after meeting over many months with many individuals and groups he has decided that those who believe in God do not suffer as much as unbelievers. Asked if that meant single mothers on welfare would find it easier if they sought help by believing in Christ, Vander Zalm said, “I think we'd all find it easier.” “Certainly those that suffer, say from the pressure of an unwanted pregnancy, will find it much, much easier to cope with the situation if they have a faith in Jesus Christ.” The premier's comments were met with anger from John Cashore, a United Church minister and New Demo. crat legislative member for Maillardville-Coquitlam. “He is mixing his personal, narrow view with his responsibility as the premier,” said Cashore, adding that Christians who respect other faiths would also be offended. Mike Harcourt, leader of the B.C. New Democrats, said the remarks are particularly offensive coming after last week's welfare cuts for some single parents, who will lose the designation of “unemployable” and $50 a month when their child is 15 weeks old. Until now, single parents were deemed unable to work until a child was six months old or if they had two or more children under 12. Harcourt said belief in Jesus Christ is not going to put bread on tables, help hungry children or provide day care for women who want to go out and work. 15 Students will reach European Economic Community. To enter this competi- tion simply write a short editorial on the topic "A Key Issue for Dunlop funeral Joseph McDonald Dun- lop of Kelowna passed away April 17 at the age of 76. 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We had a killing that enabled them to subdue the Calgary Flames 8-1 in the first game of the Smythe Division best-of-seven final. few breakdowns, but when we did, Grant (Fuhr) was there ... and we got the big goal when we needed it.” TIED GAME “Defensive hockey isn't ing we're to, but we have to play Calgary this way,” said Craig MacTavish, who worked tirelessly killing off nine Calgary power plays. In a reversal of past seasons, it was the Oilers who played strong defence and the Flames who had the better offence. “I don’t know if we've had a bigger win in our history,” said Wayne Gretzky, who scored on a break- away about three minutes after linemate Jari Kurri got the game-winning goal in the 13th minute of the final iod. “IU's a big confidence builder. After all, they were first overall . . . they deserve to be the favorites. “When we played (after finishing first) we were Ed limited Calgary to one power-play goal — by Brad McCrimmon in the first period — on three attempts. His goal tied the game at 1-1 after Mark Messier's controversial power-play goal. The puck went off Messier's leg on a shot by Esa Tikkanen. Referee Denis Morel waved the goal off, then let it stand after consultation with his linemen, The big goal — Kurri's 71st career playoff goal — came after Tikkanen intercepted a Calgary pass near centre ice and slipped the puck to his linemate. There were only 41 penalty minutes called and the only major was high-sticking to Edmonton's Normand Lacombe for cutting Colin Patterson. 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We didn't work as hard as we should have.” Every game has a turning point and both teams pointed to Calgary's inability to score on the five-minute power play, created by Lacombe's penalty, with the score 1-1. “The major penalty was the turning point,” Mac- Tavish said. “We went out believing if we could kill it we had a good chance. After we did kill it, momentum was on our side.” HURT FLAMES Tikkanen, sitting quietly in a corner and speaking softly through a mouth badly swollen after being hit by a stick, said not scoring on the power play hurt the Flames two ways. They didn't capitalize, but they also tired out their key players. “The power play is a big point in the whole series,” he said. “On their power plays, and also killing them, they game one | use the same six, seven guys so that tires them. It kills them.” Stanley Cup championship, told a series of television cameras, “when you don't score a goal five-on-five you As veteran Lanny McDonald, trying for his first have to take a long, hard look at your whole game.” “Everyone has to take a long, hard look at them. selves . . . we can’t wait for the power play to win games for us. The game was there to be won... but we didn’t do the job we had to do.” The anemic power play, added Calgary coach Terry Crisp, can't be blamed for the loss. “I'm not going to point the finger at the power play,” he said. “For the simple fact a lot of the guys are getting used to thinking the power play should be the one to do it all the time. “Five on five the guys have got to start to compete. We have to start scoring goals five on five. We can't keep sitting around, sitting around, saying ‘Wait until the power play goes out, It'll do the job for us.” In three previous playoff series between the teams, the club winning the first game has gone on to win the series. The second game will be played here Thursday. FIELD Y under-1 month, at Stanley Humphries secondary school. The team is BEGINS . . . The West Kootenay girls’ gearing up for a tournament in Burnaby later this 8 field hockey team was Practicing yesterday CosNews Photo by Brendon Nogie Kamloops takes Spokane in Division championship KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The Kamloops Blazers beat the Spokane Chiefs 5-3 Tuesday night to win their best-of-nine Western Hockey League Western Division ch: “This is the first time we will be the underdog (in the league finals) in a long, long time,” said Kamloops coach Ken Hitchcock. “That should take a lot ip series 52. It was the fourth time in the last five years Kamloops has won the division playoffs. The Blazers lost last year to the Portland Winter Hawks, who were defeated by the Medicine Hat Tigers ‘for the league champion- ship. this weekend in Medicine Hat. of pi off us.” Hitchcock also praised the goal tending in the Western series. “We knew (Spokane goalie Troy) Gamble would be good and he was,” he said. “He only gave up one bad goal in the whole series, He was unbelievable, but Dean Cook was the key to our ending the series as early as we did.” Gamble made 39 saves Tuesday night, including 16 in the second Period. Cook stopped 26. Spokane led 2-1 at the end of the first period, but Kamloops led 3-2 by the end of the second. Curt Lehner scored the winning goal at 3:56 of the third period. Travis Green brought Spokane to within one goal with 2:30 left in the game, but Cook was unbeatable after that. Darcy Norton scored an empty-net goal for Kamloops with just eight seconds left in the game. Mark Recchi, Greg Hawgood and ‘Glenn Mulvenna scored the other Kamloops goals. Gregg Delcourt scored twice for DEEP FREEZE Jays defeat Royals By TOM MALONEY Canadian Press TORONTO — Neither cold, nor slump, nor Bret Saber. hagen could keep Jesse Barfield from mailing a grand slam by express delivery over the right-field fence. “This was the coldest game I've ever played in,” Bar. field said. The Blue Jays turned the arctic deep-freeze at Exhibi tion Stadium into a powerful, if uncomfortable weapon to defeat the Kansas City Royals 12-3 in American League baseball action Tuesday night. Jim Clancy, 1-2, tied a club record with 12 strikeouts, going seven inning and giving up all three Royal runs on six hits. Barfield's second grand slam of his career capped a seven-run third inning and came courtesy of a high fastball on the first pitch from Saberhagen, 1-2. For Barfield, the homer signified a payoff for the extra time he’s been putting in the batting cage. “The pitch was in a little bit and I hit it with an inside-out swing,” said Barfield, who led the AL with 40 homers in 1986 but had been mired in a i-for-19 slump so far this season. “That's the stroke I've been looking for.” The crowd of 21,231 huddled under blankets on the icicle-blue seats as the game started with the thermometer at 1C. A frozen wind from the north blowing at 25 kilometres an hour worsened the situation. It snowed during batting practice and right through the national anthems. The base umpires wore white scarves like balaclavas and enough underpadding beneath their black jackets to look like misplaced home-plate umps. “Tonight, it was ridiculous to play,” the Royals’ Danny Tartabull said. “It was by no means baseball weather. “It shouldn't have been played.” Clancy knew he would have an advantage on the hitters, so long as he could get a grip on the ball. Royals manager John Wathan figured the cold might work in Saberhagen's favor, too. “As a hitter you think the pitcher has an advantage ona cold night,” Wathan said. “It's awfully tough to swing the bat on a cold night, especially when the pitches are in.” A leadoff single and two walks loaded the bases in the third, with Kansas City leading 2-0. George Bell, who hit three homers off Saberhagen on opening day, singled in one run and a second scored when Tartabull's throw from right skipped to thé backstop for an error. Ernie Whitt walked to re-load the bases, Fred McGriff hit.an RBI single and Barfield closed the books on the inning with his shot, that carried with the stiff wind. “I felt I was going to pitch a no-hitter,” Saberhagen said. “But then I couldn't find the strike zone. “T'd love to find an excuse but there wasn't any.” Whitt hit a two-run homer in the seventh off Steve Farr. George Brett, a career-long, unsolveable mystery for Clancy, figured in all the Royals runs. He si gled and scored in the first on Tartabull’s double, then hit a sacrifice fly in the third and a RBI single in the sixth. NOTES — Clancy's 12 strikeouts put his name beside that of Pete Vukovich in the record book. Vukovich struck out 12 Baltimore Orioles on June 26, 1977... . Whitt has thrown out two of 15 base stealers.... Moseby has reached base in nine straight ... . Silvestre Campusano, a late-inning replacement, blooped a double . . . . Barfield has three game-winning RBIs in the club's last four wins... . Clancy has pitched at least 200 innings in six of the last seven years. Pitcher Jimmy Key's sore elbow was diagnosed as a flexor muscle strain; he is on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 15. Expos crush Chicago CHICAGO (AP) — Montreal third baseman Tim Wallach, not sure he had really been in a slump, was reluctant to claim that he had broken out of one. Wallach hit a home run and a pair of singles Tuesday to lead pitcher Dennis Martinez and the Expos to a 9-1 National League baseball victory over the Chicago Cubs in a game that was close until the eighth when Montreal seored seven runs. Wallach's leadoff homer in the second inning, a line shot over the left field wall onto Waveland Ave., and a run-scoring single by Tim Raines in the third was all the support Martinez needed. With the help of three walks and a pair of errors in the eighth, the Expos locked up the decision. “I didn't feel I was swinging that badly,” said Wallach, who raised his average to .204 from .159 with his three hits. “T'd been hitting a lot of balls at a lot of people. “Usually, you go into a slump when you hit the ball well and you don't get hits and then you start swinging the bat poorly. I hadn't reached the point of swinging poorly.” Usually, there is concern when your cleanup batter, who hit .298 with 26 home runs and 123 runs batted in Previous season, gets off to a poor start. But Montreal manager Buck Rod- gers didn’t appear worried. SWINGS BAT “He hasn't swung the bat that bad,” Rodgers said. “He just hasn't had the base hits. “He started out good. Didn't hit well in the New York series but did in the Philadelphia series. He hit the ball well at least twice a game but the balls were caught.” Even with little help from Wal. lach, the Expos swept the Philadelphia series and made it four straight with the victory over the Cubs behind the six-hit ptiching of Martinez, 2-2. Martinez's control was so sharp that he didn’t walk a batter, struck out five and retired the last 11 batters after Chicago had scored a run in the sixth. With one out in the sixth, the Cubs scored a run on singles by Dave Mar tinez, Ryne Sandburg and Andre Dawson. Martinez got Leon Durham to ground out as the runners advanced to second and third and then got Rafael Canadians Palmeiro to fly to left. Not another Cub batter reached base. Earlier in the game, Durham had tripled to lead off the second but was left stranded and Sandburg doubled to open the fourth but couldn't advance. The only other hit off Martinez was a single by Vance Law in the fifth as Law stretched his hitting streak to 11 games but he was erased in a double play. Loser Jamie Moyer, 1-1, allowed five hits in the six innings he pitched but had to be lifted for a pinch hitter in the bottom of the sixth with the Cubs trailing 2-0. lose close decision to Tucson VANCOUVER (CP) — Craig Smajstrla's seventh-inning base hit drove home two runs and gave the Tucson Toros a 54 win over the Vancouver Canadians in a Pacific Coast League baseball game Tuesday night. Smajstria's game-winning RBI atoned for two errors he committed, one that allowed Vancouver to open the scoring in the bottom of the first inning. Canadians Mike Woodard drew a leadoff walk, advanced on a fielder's choice and scored when Smaijstria booted Daryl Sconiers’ infield ground ball. The Toros tied the game in the second inning after Canadians starting pitcher Adam Peterson, 2-1, gave up three straight hits — a leadoff double to Cameron Drew and back-to-back singles to Ken Caminiti and Joe Mik- ulik. Vancouver regained the lead in the second inning after Santiago Garcia singled, stole second, was sacrificed to third and scored on Jeff Schaeffer's infield out. Tuscon tied the game in the third inning when Smajstria was hit by a pitch and scored on Ken Weaver's double. The Toros took their first lead on the game in the fourth inning. With two out, Craig Biggio walked, stole second and scored on Kar! Allair's base hit. The Canadians scored once in the seventh on back-to-back hits by Wod- dard and James Randall. They cut the lead to one in the eighth inning when Garcia doubled and scored on Ron Kar- kovice's single. Jose Cano, 2-0, worked six innings, allowing three hits to earn the win.