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High vitamin B
fights cancer

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Treatment with high-dose B
vitamins appears to reduce
the incidence of pre-cancer-
ous cells in the lungs of
pack.a-day cigarette smok-
ers, researchers reported.

Charles Butterworth of the
University of Alabama said
the vitamin therapy, once
developed further, may en-
able doctors to prevent pre-
malignant growths from de-
veloping into lung cancer.

“What's significant is that
it may be at a reversible
stage,” he said. “By the time
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perimental findings will need

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EXCHANGE RISING
Stock recor

By MICHAEL BERNARD
Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Stock Exchange,
described in past years by some as a crap shoot or a
“thinking man’s Las Vegas” is taking on a new face.

By the end of the year, the VSE, viewed as the little
exchange” by the rest of Canada, will have broken a number
of records.

At its present rate, it's expected about 3.4 billion shares
will have crossed the trading floor, cracking the 1983 record,
the year of the famed Hemlo gold rush. Tota! value of those
shares will exceed $4.5 billion, surpassing the 1980 record
when oil, gas and gold prices were exceptionally high.

The exchange also expects to raise more than $600
million through private and public financings this year,
about 85 per cent higher than last year.

The most controversial feature of the exchange'’s new
appearance is the entrance of some of the world’s major
financial players — British tycoon Sir James Goldsmith and
Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

Some market watchers say it could turn Vancouver into
a prime international financial centre. But some fear it could
also reinforce the tarnished side of the exchange’s image as
an insider's game.

Exchange president Don Hudson says there are a
number of reasons for the increased activity.

The price of gold, a key factor in the 79-year-old
exchange's performance, has ranged this year between $320
U.S. and $440 U.S. an ounce, levels that makes gold
exploration economically feasible, he said.

CAN'T TAKE CREDIT

And like all other exchanges, Vancouver's activity has
reflected stronger economie growth around the world.

There has been a major increase in the numbers of
American and European firms seeking venture capital in
Vancouver, firms outside of the traditional resource sectors
of mining and petroleum.

s set to fall

Fifteen years ago, 90 per cent of the volume of
Vancouver's trading involved issues in British Columbia and
the Yukon. Today, the numbers and the amounts raised
recently up to $100 million, are dramatically different, says
Peter Brown, president of Canarim Investments, one of the
exchange's largest brokers.

“Today you've got a third of the volume American, 20
per cent European,” he said in an interview. “There is a
growing awareness internationally that this marketplace
can do these types of deals now.

“We're no longer a market that can only facilitate a
$200,000 or $500,000 transaction.”

Brown says part of the reason is that the exchange and
the newly formed B.C. Securities Commission apply the
rules positively to venture capital propositions.

udson indicates there are common misconceptions
about those rules. “My catch phrase is that we have less
stringent regulations for listing but more stringent ones
after a company is listed.”

Companies with a capital base of under $1 million or
that have been in business only a year can list on the
Vancouver exchange where they would be laughed at if they
approached major exchanges such as New York and London.

Once on the board, though, such companies are required
to file disclosures of their activities, including insider
trading.

But smaller companies with riskier business enterprises
or developing products means Vancouver has unique
problems that other exchanges don't have

“We have smaller companies with smaller distributions
of share,” said Hudson. “So if someone wants to set out to
manipulate the market, it's obviously easier when there are
fewer shareholders.

“We also have what I call honest failures the
exploration company that goes and drills and spends all the
money the way they said they would but find out they don't
have the property they thought they did.”

to be rep! d by other
researchers and that the
vitamin treatment is consid-
ered “a poor substitute for
stopping smoking.”

“I hope that these studies
don’t encourage smokers to
think that they don't need to
quit, they can just take a
vitamin,” he said. “My feeling
is that they ought to stop, but
we know that there are some
who won't or can't.”

Butterworth, chairman of
the university's Department
of Nutrition Sciences, sum-
marized the results of a clin-
ical study headed by Carlos
Krundieck. The four-month
study involved testing spu-
tum samples from 88 men
who had a history of smoking
20 to 30 cigarettes a day for
the last 20 years.

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Hometown Belczyk wins

(Canadian Press

MOUNT ALLAN, ALTA.
— Years from now, Felix
Belezyk might be the answer
to a trivia question asking
who was the first skier to win
a race on Calgary's Olympic
mountain. Remember that
name.

Belezyk, 25, whizzed down
Mount Allan's men’s downhill
course in one minute, 50.46
seconds yesterday to win a
Nor-Am race and the first
official event on the 1988
Calgary Winter Olympics
mountain.

The Castlegar resident, a
veteran of Canada’s World
Cup skiing team, started
seventh in the 63-man field
and finished less than 3/10th

of a second ahead of team-
mate Rob Boyd.

Mount Allan had been
under attack since it was
chosen as the Olympic site
four years ago. Critics said it
didn't get enough snow, was
too windy and would not be
challenging enough.

But it has been whipped
into shape and was approved
Friday by the International
Ski Federation subject to
completion of some “cosmetic
changes” before the 1988
Games.

Belezyk said he was sur
prised with hi e after he
had trouble with a) bump in
the flat section near the
bottom

“As we were running the

course (during training runs),
the turns were getting icier
and therefore harder to grip,’
he said. This caused times to
get slower as the race
neared.

“But today they prepared
the course really well and the
turns came around no prob-
lem.”

Belezyk, Boyd of Whistler
and third-place finisher Don
Stevens of Rossland gave
B.C. a sweep of the top three
spots.

Boyd admitted he is still on
a high after shocking the
World Cup cireuit by winning
a downhill race at Val Gar-
dena, Italy, last weekend.
The win came a year ahead of
schedule, he said

Maple Leafs have last

The Canadian Press

The Toronto Maple Leafs
will celebrate Ghristmas in
first place

In their fifth consecutive
overtime game, the Leafs
ended a 13-game National
Hockey League winless rec
ord against Minnesota by
beating the North Stars 4.3
Tuesday night

“It was the biggest game of
the year.” head coach John

Brophy said. “It shows the
character of this club by the
way we came back.”

Trailing 3-1, the
pulled even in the third
period on goals by Russ
Courtnall at 12:36 and Steve
Thomas at 16:40.

Rick Vaive fired the win
ner at 4:40 of overtime.

Ron Wilson put the North
Stars on top in the first
period and Dirk Graham

Leafs

made it 2-0 at 5:56 of the
second. Brad Smith's goal
with 21 seconds left in the
second period proved to be a
turning point

“It put us on our heels in
the third period,” Minnesota
coach Lorne Henning said
“We were very tentative af
ter that.”

The victory moved the
Leafs back into first place in
the Norris Division. In 13

“This year, I was hoping
for a couple of top 10 finishes
and maybe a top three,” said
Boyd. “Now it's almost in my
sights to go for the overall
(World Cup championship).”

Todd Brooker of Paris,
Ont., was fourth, 1' seconds
behind the winner.

Brooker, who is recuper-
ating from a serious knee
injury suffered last year, was
greeted at the bottom by a
public-address announce.
ment that his run was “not
good enough.” He stormed
off the course without speak
ing.

A second men's downhill is
scheduled for today and a
super giant slalom race will
be held tomorrow

laugh

previous games against Min.
nesota since last winning in
February 1985, Toronto had
lost 12 times and tied once.

Elsewhere, it was Win
nipeg Jets 2 Edmonton Oilers
1, Buffalo Sabres 2 Philad.
elphia Flyers 1, Detroit Red
Wings 3 Chicago Blackhawks
1, New York Islanders 4
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 in
overtime, Hartford Whalers
2 Boston Bruins 0.

CANUCKS WIN ONE

VANCOUVER (CP)
power-play goals,

Except for

Kings.
ways to go.”

and Winnipeg.” he said
being in last place.”

the wins have

and Los Angeles,” said
Lidster,
Kings

both of them

the end of a
determined third period comeback left the Vancouver
Canucks in a cherrful mood for the Christmas break from
the demanding National Hockey League schedule
Barry Pederson, the
playing his first year for the last-place Canucks
“We can't lose sight of our objective
Tuesday night after a 64 victory over the Los Angeles
“We can't get away from the fact we've got a long

Pederson reminded teammates that
remain 10 points back of the fourth place Kings in the
Smythe Division standings after they ended a three-game
losing streak with their first vie
half-empty Pacific Coliseum

“Sure, it was a big win, but we need to string a few
victories together if we're to take a run at Los Angeles
There's no getting away from

easily the best player on the ice
“We'll be asking Santa for a few more wins against

A rare home victory, four

losing streak and a

veteran centre

Pederson said

the Canucks

ory in six games at the

The Canucks have won just 10 of 36 games; three of

been against Los
MATCHUPS A KEY

We've got five games left against both Winnipeg

Angeles

Canuck defenceman Doug
against the

Vancouver fashioned the comeback by scoring four
times in the wild third period in a battle of the power
plays. The Canucks scored four power-play goals and the
Kings three with the man advantage

Patrik Sundstrom and Dan Hodgson scored in the
third period. Captain Stan Smyl added an even-strength
goal and Petri Skriko put the insurance marker into an
empty net with 39 seconds to play

Vancouver on roll?

“Hopefully
Christmas,”

scored on power plays

Sundstrom was one of three Vancouver players with
LIdster and Skriko were the others — as
he scored twice to give the smooth-skating centre 15 for
the season. Pederson scored the other Vancouver goal.
ROOKIE HOT

The Kings got goals from Marcel Dionne.
sensations Luc
Jimmy Carson. Robitaille’s three-point effort gave him 44

three points

Lukowich and rookie

points in 38 games
I don't know what's

Vancouver this yea

or they'll be

weary Kings

We didn't get the job done where it’s important
Quinn said. “Vancouver seems to do the little things right

against us all the ume
© ‘ook some bad

holding calls are lousy penalties The game got away from

us because of it.”

The Canucks fired 28 shots at
Darren Eliot, while Los Angeles had 23 shots on Richard

Brodeur of the Canucks

We're over the toughest part of our schedule.”
Canuck coach Tom Watt. “It's
L.A Td hate to think where we'd be if we didn't.”

we can feed off a win
said Smyl, who was given credit by Pederson
for sparking the comeback with an appealing pep talk in
the dressing room between the second and third periods

The Canucks trailed 32 going into the third in a
penalty-filled game which saw

said Dionne.
with Vancouver and we'll have to do something about it
close to us again.”

Los Angeles coach Pat Quinn said the Canucks won
the struggle in front of the nets and along the boards. It
was the third game in four nights on the road for the

penalties

like this after

the first seven goals

Morris
Robitaille and

wrong with us against
“We're struggling

The hooking and

Kings netminder

said
a good thing we can beat

Trussler top finisher

MOUNT ALLAN, ALTA. (CP) — Chris Kent and
Liisa Savijarvi were both disappointed as they left
Calgary's Olympic mountain Tuesday.

Skiing for the last time as a member of Canada’s
national men's team, Kent failed to do as well as he had
hoped in three days of Nor-Am competition at Mount

n.

He managed to finish 11th and 15th in downhill races
on Sunday and Monday, then moved up to seventh place
in a super giant slalom race Tuesday.

Kent, 25, of Calgary admitted he had been dreaming
about one last taste of success to end his career.

“I kind of wanted to get into the medals today, but . .
” he said. “It's time to move on.”

An eight-year member of the national team, Kent
announced his retirement last week after placing 62nd
and 73rd in the first two World Cup downhills this season.

Savijarvi, 22, also did not ski well in this event,
which involved mostly young Canadian and American
skiers hoping to move up from the Nor-Am circuit to the
World Cup level.

But Savijarvi, the world’s third-ranked skier in the
super giant slalom, left for her home in Bracebridge, Ont.,
knowing the future was still bright — if she can just beat
a pesky flu bug that has bothered her for two months.

FEELING FATIGUED

“I'm feeling really fatigued and I just want to get
home,” she said. “That's all I want (for Christmas) — to be
flu-free.”

Savijarvi, among the world’s top women in both the
downhill and super giant slalom, managed just seventh-
and fourth-place results in the two downhills at Mount
Allan, an hour’s drive southwest of Calgary.

Ski program set

The Labatt's Blue Skiing is B.C. Rockies and Northern

Believing program gets un-
derway Jan. 5 on several
slopes in B.C. and Alberta.

The aim of the program is
to get the large majotitg, of
Canadians who live around
some of the best skiing areas
in the world, but have never
tried skiing, to take the sport
up.

This year the program will
be held in the Kootenays,
Vaneouver Island, the Lower
Mainland, the Okanagan,

B.C. as well as several Al-
berta locations.

Registration is done
through local ski shops who
prepare new skiers for their
first day with special pro-
gram materials, tips on what
to wear, information on what
to expect at the ski area and
how to get there.

People wishing further in
formation on the program
can cali Jamie Doran. in
Vernon at 549-1404.

Hansen under the
weather with flu

WAWA, ONT. (CP) —
Rick Hansen's Man in Motion
tour got an early Christmas
break Tuesday when the
wheelchair marathoner end.
ed up in hospital with the flu.

Hansen had been planning
to take just Christmas Day
off from his world tour to
raise money and awareness
for spinal-cord research

But Tuesday morning, he
was wheeled into hospital in
this small northern town 120
kilometres north of Sault Ste.
Marie. He was released about
a half hour later.

Frank Weisbeck, adminis
trator for the Lady Dunn

Hospital, said the marathon-
er, who has already trekked
through 34 countries and
raised more than $4 million in
Canada alone, was suffering
from fever and abdominal
pain.

“He was examined, some
tests were done and he was
given antibiotics and advised
to rest for a few days before
continuing his journey,”
Weisbeck said.

Hansen, who hopes to fin
ish his odyssey in Vancouver
by mid-May, is at the halfway
point in the cross-country leg
of his trip.

Pee Wee Reps
thump Spokane

Chris Postnikoff picked up
a hattrick Sunday for the
Castlegar Pee Wee Reps as
they soundly defeated Spo
kane 13-5 at the Pioneer
Arena in Castlegar

Other Pee Wee goal
scorers were Jason Batche.
lor, Clay Bouthilier and Kev
in Rileof with two apiece

Danny Stelek, Nino Da
Costa, Derek Lalonde and

Derek Razakoff each man.
aged singles.

Assists went to Rilcof with
five, Razakoff with four,
Shane Cutler picked up three
while Stelck, Lalonde, Greg
Pope and Dustin Rileof each
managed two apiece.

DaCosta managed a single

Vaughn Welychks and Joel
Audet spit the time in the
nets.

Nystrom sits out

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)

Devils. NHL president John

A 10-game suspe of
assistant coach Bob Nystrom,
which began Tuesday night
with a National Hockey
League game against the
Pittsburgh Penguins, will not
be appealed by the New York
Islanders, team president Bill
Torrey announced

Nystrom was suspended
for leaving the bench and
confronting a spectator Dec
11 at the Brendan Byrne
Arena in East Ruterhford.
N.J.. where the Islanders
were playing the New Jersey

Ziegler suspe
on Monday and gave the Is
landers 24 hours to decide if
they would appeal

Nystrom

said the
will accept the

Torrey Islanders
suspension
despite not agreeing with its
severity

Nystrom. a player on four
Islander Stanley Cup cham
pionship teams. will be able
to return to his coaching
duties Jan. 15 against the
Washington Capitals at the
Nassau Coliseum

Then she failed to win her specialty, the “super G.”

star Laurle Grekax showed her vacustiity ky SabAind

third in 1:24.19.

Derek Trussier of Rossland, won the men's super
giant slalom with a time of 1:29.76. Calgary's Jim Read
was second at 1:31.33, Tommy Moe of Girdwood, Alaska,

was third at 1:31.79.

The Nor-Am event was the first competition on
Mount Allan, site of World Cup races in March and alpine

events in the 1988 Winter

The mountain had been under attack since it was
chosen four years ago. But it passed every test during the
reese coe ee be nvereres ee ee

some “cosmetic

F pending p!
changes” prior to 1988.

Dawson holds out

TORONTO (CP) — Mon-

(U.S,), three-year deal.
Dawson, interviewed by
the Toronto Globe and Mail

definitely will not return to
Montreal.

“I believe Tim .
very serious.”

Both are threatening to opt
for free agency unless the
Expos beef up previous of-
fers. Raines, the 1986 NL
batting champion, is reported
seeking $2 million a year over
three years while Dawson,
who initially sought $5 mil-
lion over three years, has re-
duced his demands to $3.5 for
two years.

Dawson said he didn’t pre-
tent to speak for his close
friend, but felt the Expos
“made him an offer that he
probably should accept.

“I didn't say anything like
that to him because he’s
touchy and personal and I
wouldn't want anything to

. he was

interfere with our friendship
- I don't think he’s going to

get more from any other

club.”
Raines's agent, Tom Reich,

ing that his client would not
return to Montreal in 1987.

Expo president Claude
Brochu continues to insist,
however, both Raines and
Dawson will return to Mon-
treal next season.

The market for high-priced
free agents has been all but
dormant the last couple of
seasons with no signs of it
being revived. The players’
union alleges a conspiracy
among major league owners
to keep player salaries down.

Bird
named

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The
Sporting News Magazine has
named Boston Celtics for
ward Larry Bird as its 1986
Man of the Year, marking the
first time a basketball player
has received the honor.

In 1986, Bird became only
the second player in National
Basketball Association his
tory to finish the season
ranked in the top 10 in five
statistical categories.

Canadians on way
to play in Calgary

MOSCOW (CP) — Its spir
its high after a second-place
finish in the Izvestia hockey
tournament, the Canadian
Olympic team returns home
to prepare for its next chal
lenge on the road to the 1988
Calgary Olympics

“If you come together as a
team and play within a sys
tem like we're given, a lot of
good things can happen.” said
Team Canada forward Mark
Habscheid. “We proved that
all this tournament

Claude Vilgrain’s goal at
8:52 of the third period and
Sean Burke's outstanding
goaltending lifted Canada to
a 32 victory Sunday
Finland. earning the
alded Canadian players silver
medals to match the coun
try'’s best previous Izvestia
showing

The host Soviet team won
its 16th Izvest the 20
years of the
defeating ¢
pion Czechosh
day Sweden
Finland fourth and Czechos
lovakia fifth

Team Canada beat Finland
and Sw 4 lost to the
Czechos

over
unher

a title in
tournament by
nding cham
akia 10 Sun
finished third

Soviet Union
lovakia
Team Canadas next con
frontation with te Europeans
begins Saturday in the first
Calgary Cup tournament
which runs through Jan. 4
While saying he has 10 or
11 players capable
peting at the same level as
the top Europeans. head
coach Dave King was real
istic enough to admit his

of com

team as a whole is “still not
capable at all of competing at
a consistent level with the
Soviets and the Czechs.”

King’s top players will join
NHL players whose teams
have been eliminated from
Cup play at the
championship in
Vienna next April

Vilgrain intercepted a pass
by a Finnish defender and
skated in to beat goaltender
Hannu Kampurri with a
wrist shot on the stick side to
snap a 2-2 tie

‘On the faceoff, the Finish
defenceman tried to pass it to
the other one (across ice) and
I put myself right between
them,” said Vilgrain, 23, a
native of Charlesbourg, Que
who played college hockey
for Moncton Blue Eagles

Habscheid opened the scor
minutes into the

Stanley

world

ing four
game on a breakaway. Don
McLaren made it 2-0 at 9:25.
converting a pass from Vil
grain with a 25-foot slap shot

Burke, 19. a Windsor na
Live who played junior for the
Toronto Marlboros, was out
standing. especially in the
first two periods, when he
stopped several breakaways

The Finns finally solved
Burke with 22 seconds re
maining in the first period
when Risto Jalo scored. Jar
mo Kuusisto tied it 1:15 into
the second period, beating
Burke with a slap shot

But Burke. who wasn't
aware he'd start the game
until Sunday morning, closed
down the Finnish offence the
rest of the way