as Castlegar News July 4, 1990

Job hunt tough for students

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar students are having a dif-
ficult time finding summer jobs in
their home town because few
Castlegar businesses register with he
student employment office in Trail,
student placement officér Rajesh
Gandha said.

Only about 10 per cent of the job
opportunities for students in the area
come from Castlegar, Gandha said
Tuesday, calling the figure “pretty
low.""

Gandha said he is not certain why
so few jobs come from Castlegar but
suggested another method of hiring
rather than going through the em-
ployment office may be used.

Many students in Castlegar are
seeking jobs through the employment
centre even though jobs in-the Trail

Few Castlegar openings
registered, CEC says

and Rossland area aS amount for
Castlegar students to take because of
the distance between the cities, he
said.

Gandha said he counsels all studen-
ts that register with the centre to use
their own initiative in seeking jobs
since that is how most people find
work. He said he has emphasized that
Point with Castlegar students.

But I think a lot of those students

(in Castlegar) are getting very:

discouraged,’’ he said.
More than 400 students have

registered with the student centre so
far this summer and about 200 have
found work, Gandha said.

About one third of those jobs have
been part-time, odd jobs while a
number of the full-time jobs have
been through the Challenge 90
Program which subsidizes student
wages for employers, he said.

Gandha said he fills more than 90
per cent of the jobs that are given to

available unless the job has special

Debt up but experts
say debt binge will end

OTTAWA (CP) — Canadians went
into hock by another $6 billion in the
first quarter of this year but banks
and investment firms say the debt
binge is coming to an end.

Total debt, including consumer
loans from financial institutions,
credit cards and mortgages, rose to
$340.7 billion in the first quarter of
this year, up from $334.8 billion in the
final three months of 1989, Statistics
Canada reported in late June.

The higher amount of debt is
primarily due to two factors, say
financial experts.

* Mortgage loans made up about
70 per cent of the first-quarter in-
crease in borrowing, said Ross Peters,
a senior economist with the Royal
Bank of Canada. This is a surprisingly
strong level given the recent drop in
the home sales market.

Home sales plunged almost 19 per
cent in February compared to the
same month a year earlier. In March,
transactions were down 22 cent
onan annual comparison basis.

© Unpaid balances on Visa and
MasterCard credit cards jumped by

16.4 per cent to $10.17 billion in the
first three months of this year com-
pared to the same period a year
earlier, the Canadian Bankers

Cominco

VANCOUVER (CP) — Cominco
will begin taking gold from its Snip
mine in the Iskut River area of north-
western British Columbia next
January, the company announced.

The operation, located about 15
kilometres from the Alaska boun-
dary, will be 60-per-cent owned by
Cominco and 40-per-cent owned by
Prime Resources Group Inc.

Annual gold production is expected
to be more than 93,000 troy ounces,
Cominco said in a news release.

Estimates of mineral reserves in the
Iskut River-Eskay Creek area indicate
about four million ounces of gold and
95 million ounces of silver, for a total
value of about $2 billion.

Cominco said capital costs of the
Snip project will total $65 million.

A_workforce of 45 is preparing
building sites for major construction
projects this-summer, the company
said. The mine will employ 150 people

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The Toronto-Dominion Bank and
the Bank of Nova Scotia said recently
more Canadians are missing payment
deadlines on credit cards. The T-D
said it has seen an increase of 10 per
cent over the last eight to nine months
in missed payments.

The risg in debt closely parallels the
increase in the amount of disposable
income — the amount of money after
taxes that Canadians have to spend,
the federal agency said.

Disposable income went up by
about $7 billion over that period to
$457.7 billion.

However, the proportion of debt to
disposable income went up during the
first quarter of the year. As a percen-
tage of income, debt rose to 74.4 per
cent from the 73.3 per cent recorded
in the last quarter of 1989.

But the Royal Bank of Canada
thinks this has likely stabilized and
may improve in coming months.

would think that by the end of
the year, there should be some
lowering in the ratio of debt to in-
come although it may not drop
dramatically,’’ Peters said. .

And an economist with the invest-
ment firm Burns Fry says consumer
spending, after inflation is taken into

account, will jump by over two per
cent this year — only half the growth
recorded in 1989,

“We also think the personal
savings rate will come down
somewhat from current levels as con-
sumers begin to draw down their
savings in order to pay back debt,”
Patti Croft says.

“It’s one of the reasons we expect
to see the ratio of debt to income
stabilize and possibly decline. We
don’t see it getting a great deal wor-
se.’”

Higher income taxes also continue
to eat into disposable income and
Canadians’ ability to save.

“Higher income tax payments
reduced the year-over-year growth in
personal disposable income to 7.4 per
cent in the first quarter, down sharply
from recent experience and the lowest
(increase) in two years,”’ independent
economist Frank Clayton says.

And he says consumers continued
to spend what income they had left
over from taxes rather than replenish
their savings.

Meanwhile, falling retail sales and
softening of the housing market —
both in home building and purchases
of existing houses — means demand
for consumer credit will decline .

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when it is completed.
Cominco said operating supplies
for the project will be moved by
hovercraft from Wrangell, Alaska,
until road access is completed down
the Iskut Valley.
The B.C. government is helping to

pay for construction of a $20-million,
72-kilometre toll road from the
Cassiar Highway. Energy Minister
Jack Davis has said the government
will contribute about $15 million with
the balance picked up by mining
companies in the area.

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unusually low wages.
The centre receives about 25 jobs

per week but could use 30 or more per
week, he said, noting 34 jobs came in
during Hire-a-Student Week in June.

Gandha said he wants to place as
many students as possible during the A Ns
eighth annual casual job iti with garage in
July 9-18. The competition is run
across the country but in the West
Kootenay the Trail and Nelson
student employment centres keep
things interesting by competing with
each other.

Last year, the Trail centre placed 75
students and Gandha said he hopes to
meet or beat that number this year.

The student employment office is
located on the second floor of the
Canada Employment Centre in Trail
and Gandha can be reached through
the CEC main number.

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ROME (AP) —

Tegulation and overtime ended 1-1.
In the shootout,

won in 1978).

England and West Germany play the other semifinal

Foggie was
biggest star
for Lions

WINNIPEG (CP) — Flashes of
brilliance and the tarnish of
mediocrity greeted the B.C. Lions’
two new big guns from south of the
border as quarterback Doug Flutie
and defensive lineman Mark
Gastineau made their CFL debuts
Tuesday night.

That the Lions defeated the W:
nipege Blue Bombers 36-20 in the
Preseason contest was a tribute to
neither of the former NFL marquee
players. But Flutie served notice that
CFL defensive co-ordinators had
been take note, while Gastineau
Proved that CFL fans may have a new
man they can love to hate.

“I love the pace of the game,”’ said
Flutie, who practiced only twice with
the Lions before making his game ap-
Pearance at the start of the second
half Tuesday.

“IT felt’ real
away."’

Flutie was the beneficiary of 23
second-quarter points engineered by
Quarterback Rick Foggie. Flutie
managed a one-yard touchdown dive
but missed on three other oppor-
tunities inside the Winnipeg 35-yard
line — once on an interception and
once by his own goal-line fumble.

Still, he impressed his critics.

“Golly, he’s an exciting player,”’
said Bombers head coach Mike Riley,
who had little good to say about his
own team.

“It’s going to be exciting for the
league to have him. I’m glad he’s in
the other division.”’

A preseason record crowd announ-
ced at 32,111 — padded by 8,000 free
Promotional tickets — turned out for
the game and if they came for the

comfortable right

Gridiron

soil when the players heard the
Turkish national anthem played in
their honor.

It went downhill from there.

The year-old Tacoma Express, a
minor league team, whipped the
Moscow Bears, the Soviet national
champions, 61-0 Monday in an
exhibition game before 1,303 curious
spectators.

The game was billed as ‘‘glasnost
on the gridiron.’”

Bears’ coach John Ralston, a for-
mer Denver Broncos head coach,
didn’t talk strategy or give his players
a fiery pre-game pep talk.

He was too busy explaining how to
suit up in full pads.

“Don't forget, you need your thigh
pads, your knee pads and your elhow
pads,’ he said through an interpreter.
“You don’t want to land on that
Astroturf without your elbow pads.’’

For the past eight weeks, Ralston
has been trying to mold a group of
Soviet rugby players, shot-putters,
javelin throwers and decathletes into
8 professional football team.

He knows after Monday night he
still has a ways to go.

"m disappointed in our fun-
damentals,"’ he said after the game.
“I don’t think we do the fundamen-

jiego Maradona has a few words for toda:
the non-believers — if there are any left.

“After what we have been through, what more but
for us to win the World Cup again?"’ Maradona said after
another remarkable performance by Argentina.

The defending champions, playing by far their best
match of the tournament, won a penalty-kick shootout
over Italy 4-3 Tuesday night. Before nearly 60,000 fans
— many of whom idolize Maradona when he plays for
Napoli but who were strongly for the hosts this time —

Argentina's second
Maradona put in the decisive kick, goalie Sergio
Goycoechea made two stops — and Argentina was in the
final for the third time in the last four World Cups (it also

Turin (TSN, 2 p.m. EDT).
had a dream Argentina and England would play in
the final,” Maradona said. ‘‘But there is a big Germany
in the way, I will be rooting for England.’
Few Argentines could have expected to be rooting for
their countrymen in the final. Remember, this is the team
that lost to Cameroon in the first game, was outplayed for

WORLD CUP '90

nearly 90 minutes in springing an upset on Brazil, and
needed a shootout to beat Yugoslavia. This has not been a
great team.

Except when it absolutely had to be.

“At the beginning of June, people got hurt, we felt
very insecure,"’ coach Carlos Bilardo said. ‘We felt the
team was falling apart.

straight,

“But from the game against the USSR, we have been

recuperating and playing better.’’

Italy wasn’t exactly an easy opponent. Salvatore

‘Maradona delivers decisive boot

But in the championship match, Caniggia, Julio

Olarticoechea, Sergio Batista and Giusti will be suspen-

Schillaci, who scored nearly all the big goals for the hosts,

put the Italians ahead in the 17th minute. Italy went into a
defensive posture in the second half after Argentina had

taken control of play.

But the Italian defence was Penetrated by Claudio
Caniggia. His brilliant back-header as he was jumping
away from the net eluded goalkeeper Walter Zenga, R
breaking Zenga’s record scoreless string of 518 minutes

Argentina kept Pressing until losing defender Ricar-
do Giusti midway through extra time after an off-the-ball
incident that ended with Roberto Baggio lying on the
ground, clutching his jaw. Giusti got a red card.

With 10 men, Argentina held on to force the

shootout.

ded, the first three with a pair of yellow cards apiece.

“It is a very difficult time to be undermanned,’
Bilardo said. ‘*But we believe in ourselves.”

Today’s game at Turin will be monitored by some

pool.

high-priced Americans, they weren't
disappointed.

Gastineau was called for objec-
tionable conduct on his first
Professional down since quitting the
New York Jets in 1988. After that,
Winnipeg offensive tackle Chris
Walby completely shut him down and
earned thunderous applause as the
Winnipeg player-of-the-game for his
efforts.

“‘When someone holds or pushes
you from behind, you've gotta

.”’ explained Gastineau, 33,
¢ Flutie had only two practices
under his belt.

“I was hoping to help’a little bit
more."’

Walby, a gargantuan six-foot-
seven, 300-pounder, said he came to
the game gunning for Gastineau.

“‘Instead of an exhibition game, it’s
like the last game of the season,”’ he
said.

“You've got to turn your game up
a notch.”

Despite the focus on Flutie and
Gastineau, it was Foggie who stole the
show.

Foggie, fighting for the Lions star-
ting quarterback job with Flutie and
highly touted American llegi:
Major Harris, came on in the second
quarter with the Lions trailing 10-0
and scrambled and passed his way to
23 unanswered points in just 15
minutes of play.

He hit Emmanueal Tolbert with a
46-yard TD strike, then ran for a
four-yard touchdown himself.
Veteran kicker Lui Passaglia also ad-
ded the first two of his four field goals
of the night.

glasnost
gruesome game
for Russian team

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — It star-
ted looking bad for the first Soviet
football team to play on American

By CasNews Staff

Hotels and slo-pitch teams were
a winning combination at the
Castlegar Slo-pitch League’s an
nual wind-up tournament in
Castlegar last weekend

Teams sponsored by the Hi
Arrow Arms Hotel and Scotsman
Motor Inn won their respective
divisions “in the tourney which
began Friday and ended with the
championship games Sunday
night.

tals very well.’’

The team is playing four American
exhibition games arranged by the In-
ternational Sports Connection, an
Alabama promotion company.

The Soviets starting quarterback
first touched a football seven months
ago, and he’s the veteran.

Ralston’s biggest player tips the
scales at 113 kilograms.

The American coach said he mainly

In the competitive A_ division,
Hi Arrow beat Valkyr Aquatics
17-12 for the title while Scotsman
did it the hard way with back-to-

Cory Ross of Dexter's Pub Wildcats takes a w'
Slo-pitch League wind-up tournament
Men's Wear won the batting compeiti
took the tourney titles in their respective divisions.

Hotel teams clean up
in slo-pitch wind-up —

back wins over Big O Mix Masters
to win the recreational B division

Bonnett’s Men’s Wear finished
third in the A division while
Kokanee Cruisers came third in
the B.

Castlegar Slo-pitch League
secretary Marianne Ady said it
was hard to tell the competitive
from non-competitive teams in the
tourney.

“The recreational teams were as
competitive if not more com-
petitive than the A division. Six
different games went into extra
innings, they were so close. It was
awesome ball,’’ she said

eT ty

hack at the ball off the tee at the annual Castlegar
played at various parks in the city last weekend. Bonnett's
ion but the Hi Arrow Arms Hotel and Scotsman Motor Inn

CasNews photo by Ed Mills

Twenty-seven: teams were en-
tered in the tourney

In the batting -competition,
Bonnett'’s came out on top in the
women’s event while Mallards Ski
and Sport won the men’s event.

William's Moving took top spot
in the running competition with
Castlegar Realty second and
Mallard’s third

The Castlegar News won most
sportsmanlike team at the tour-
ney

The toYrney wraps up the
season for/many teams in the city
but the sto-pitch league holds the
year-ender for the diehard ball
players Aug. 24 and 25

wanted his players to finish the game
i i ht end
since both backups were detained in

5,000 police. English fans have clashed with-locals and
Police on the island of Sardina and the seaside resort of
ini during the tournament.
clashed with police and Yugoslav fans in Milan.

German supporters

Also, memories of 1985 remain sharp. At the
European Cup of Champions final in Brussels, 39 fans,
most of them Italians and rooters for Juventus of Turin,
died in rioting caused by English fans supporting Liver-

Banjo’'s
takes
tourney

By CasNews Staff

Banjo's Pub is getting the
reputation as a fastball team you
don’t want to ease up on.

Because just when you think the
team is down and out, it can bounce
back to turn what looked like a loss
into another win.

Banjo’s rebounded against a few
teams Sunday as they came from
behind in three of four games to win
the. Salmo Hotel Fastball tournament
in Salmo.

It got so bad that in the final game
Sunday against Trainor Mechanical,
Banjo’s was so used to coming from
behind the team almost breathed a
sigh of relief when it got behind a run
in the first inning.

“The first pitch of the game Mike
Nelson (of Trainor) hit a homer.
That’s what we were waiting for, we

wanted that,’’ said, Banjo’s
player/coach Terry Taranoff.

Lyle Stoushnow hit a two-run shot
in a four-run third inning for Banjo’s
and Guy Bertrand capped the
comeback by cranking a grand slam
in the fourth as Banjo’s went on to
win 10-1 and take the $600 in first-
place prize money.

Banjo’s pitching ace Eli Soukeroff
won four of five starts in the tourney
and picked up a save as he helped
Greg Bergeron mop up in one game.

The final against Trainor, one of
Banjo’s rivals from the Castlegar’s
Men’s Fastball League, was one of
the team’s easier come-from-behind
wins and was a little revenge after
Banjo’s lost its only game of the
seven-team tourney, 3-2 to Trainor on
Saturday.

That loss forced Banjo’s, which
beat Molson Canadians of Kelowna
5-0 in its opening game, to play a
gruelling four straight games begin-
ning Sunday morning.

It started out easy enough with a 4-
0 win over the Valley Royals of Slocan
Valley

But against another league rival —
Labatts — it was the first inning blues
for Banjo’s as Labatts took a 2-0 lead
with Bergeron on the mound.

Bergeron was lifted for Soukeroff,
who shut Labatts out the rest of the
way and allowed Banjo’s to settle
down and mount the comeback which
ended in an 8-2 win.

It was a similar story, only. worse,
in the game against Hi Arrow as Ban:

jo’s got behind by three in the first in-
ning and trailed 5-1 at one point in the
game only to come back and steal it
with a 10-6 victory, which set up the
final with Trainor.

Banjo’s returns to regular league
play Thursday with a game against
Trainor at Kinnaird Park at 6:15 p.m

stim“ Martina rewrites thebooks

The Bears suffered humiliation, but
no major injuries.

The anthem mixup wasn’t the only
glitch. Fans found their Programs
carried no numbers for the Soviet
players and the announcer searched in
vain for starting lineups while waiting

LONDON (AP( — Martina
Navratilova set two Wimbledon
records and looked to the future. Zina
Garrison ended Monica Seles’s win
ning streak by drawing upon the past

No. 4 Gabriela Sabatini in the
semifinals.

Garrison ended Seles's 36-match
winning streak in a 3-6, 6-3, 9-7
thriller and faces a semifinal encoun

for a Soviet interpreter who never got
to the booth.

WIMBELDON

She stayed on the field to relay
Ralston’s play calls and other assign-
ments.

“I had a dream three weeks ago
that I was calling a football game and
that I didn’t know the players or what
was going on,’ said Tim Harrington,
a play-by-play for a

Navratilova won her record 97th
Wimbledon singles match and moved
into her 13th consecutive semifinals
— another record — by defeating
Katerina Maleeva 6-1, 6-1 Tuesday

It was another big step toward
Navratilova’s ultimate goal, a record-
hi

ter with top-seeded Steffi Graf, who
defeated Jana Novotna on Tuesday
Graf recovered from a slow start to
defeat Novotna, the 13th seed, 7-5, 6-
2, while Sabatini outlasted 11th-
seeded Natalia Zvereva 6-2, 2-6, 8-6.
The men’s quarter-finals were

ing ninth W singles
Tacoma radio station. ‘‘The dream title,
came true. What a ni " Ni

. the second seed, plays

Tuesday, with top-seeded
Ivan Lendl dropping the first set 6-4
to Alex Antonitsch and then winning

6-4, 6-3, 6-4. He boomed 15 aces to
only three for Antonitsch and had lit-
tle trouble after the first set

The only time Garrison and Seles
had met was at last year’s French
Open and it left bitter memories for
Garrisgn. She angrily rebuffed Seles’s
on-court offer of a rose before that
match and then went on to lose 6-3, 6-
2

This time, Garrison squandered a
41 lead in the final set before
eliminating the third seed. Deprived
of her serve-and-volley game. for
much of the match by Seles’s passing
shots, Garrison used powerful n-
dstrokes and delicate drop shots to
win.

“‘What goes around comes around,
that’s for sure,” Garrison said after
reaching her second Wimbledon

. She lost to Navratilova in

Garrison, who is more comfortable
on grass than the slow clay of the
French Open, entered the contest
determined to attack Selei. But she
retreated to the baseline early in’ the
first set after getting passed several
times at the net.

“She was hi jing the ball un
believably in the first set,"’. Garrison
said. “‘At that particular time, 1 just
saw no way that | could get back into
the match,