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Zeboroft
SunFest
winner

Fest Golf Tournament played
Saturday in the rain and
thunder at the Castlegar Golf
Course.

Zeboroff shot a 60 in the
less than ideal conditions.

Other scores in the men's
division were:

First Flight
First low net — Harry
Chernoff, 67; second low net
— Fred Stoushnow, 67; first
low gross — Alan Akselson,
78; second low gross — Ricky
Rizzotti, 74.

Second Flight
First low net — Jack Cher.
noff, 69; second low net —
Bill McKee, 70; first low
gross — Bill Carlson, 83;
second low gross — Nick
Burak, 85.

Third Flight
First low net — Andy
Patterson, 68; second low net
— Joe Papp, 70; first low
gross — Ernie Carkner, 91

In the Ladies’ division, La
verne Makortoff was the
overall low net winner with a
seore of 73.

low net went to
Judy Wayling with a 75.

of 91 followed by Diony Mc-
Arthur who shot a 96.

In the junior division, low
net winner was 8. Biln with a
73. Low gross winner was
Kevin Biln with a score of 78.

All winners are from the
Castlegar area.

SPORTS

to sink a putt
during the SunFest Open Golf Tournament Saturday at

the Castlegar Golf Course.

Bermuda reverses

boycott de

By GEOFF FRASER
EDINBURGH (CP) — The
Bermuda team was shocked
Saturday as it tried to accept
the decision by the Bermuda
Olympic Association to pull
the eight athletes out of the

“I think that's an excellent
word,” said Bermuda swim
coach Garreth Davies when
asked if the team felt be-
trayed.

“They sent us, they an-
nounced to the media in Ber-
muda in no way would they
pull us,” said Davies. “The
minister said that, the Olym-
pic Association said that.

“We come here. They con-
tact us on the phone. They
send someone to find out
what the athletes thought.
The athletes, without ex-
ception, wished to partici-
pate. Now they just reversed
their decision again.”

The team, representing
Britain's oldest colony, be-
came the 32nd entry to boy
cott the Games, leaving 26
Commonwealth countries
and British territories and
colonies and a total of 1,967
athletes and officials.

Commonwealth countries

are boycotting the Games to
protest British Prime Mini-
ster Margaret Thatcher's re-
fusal to apply sanctions
against South Africa over
that country’s policy of apart
heid.

MARCHED IN PARADE

On Thursday, Bermuda
had been ordered out of the
Games by its Olympic assoc-
iation. But the athletes
talked with Premier John
Swan and obtained a last
minute reversal just in time
to march in the parade of
athletes.

But on Saturday morning,
the Bermuda association
again ordered the team out of
the Games. The athletes had
been scheduled to compete in
Saturday's track events.
Swimmer Victor Ruberry
had already been in an event
Friday.

Bermuda team manager
John Morbey said a full
meeting Friday of the Ber
muda association had con
firmed the order to withdraw
the team and he had “no
alternative but to withdraw.”

Davies said the word of the
association's latest ruling
stunned the athletes. “Every
body sat and just said ab-
solutely nothing.

“We're the only country in

cision

which the government sup-
posedly supports our partici.
pation and the sporting body
does not.”

Bermuda athletes and
team officials were slow to
voice their anger.

“Look at these athletes,”
said team official Disa Pot-
gieter-Manders. “They've
been played like puppets, up
and>down, up and down,
you're going, you're not
going.”

Bike
race
slated

Regional Recreation Com-
mission No. 8 and the Koote-
nay Bicycle Club are spon-
soring the Kootenay Road
Race on Sunday, Aug. 31.
Registration will take place
at 12 noon at the Women's
Institute Hall in Slocan.
Registration fees are $5 for
recreational and $7 for li-
censed cyclists. The race
starts at 1 p.m. Helmets are
mandatory. There will be
$300 cash and merchandise
given in prizes. This race is
sanctioned by the Bicycling
Association of B.C.

Weekend Wrap-Up

LeMond leads cycling

NEVERS, France (AP) —
Greg LeMond of the United
States held on to first place
after the 22nd leg of the Tour
de France cycling race Satur-
day, and was the over-
whelming favorite on the eve
of the event's climax onthe

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that had little effect on the
standings of the tour's
leaders.

Steve Bauer of Fenwick,
Ont., finished 10th, in the
same time as the winner. He
stands 23rd, 56:02 ‘behind
LeMond’s overall time. of
102:43:24.

LeMond.was set to make a
triumphal entry today at the
end of the final leg, 254 km
from Cosne to Paris, be-
coming the first American

— and the first non-Euro-
pean — to win the Tour de
France, the world’s premier
bicycle race being run this
year for the 73rd time.

Cycling star Bernard Hi-
nault of France, LeMond's
teammate for La Vie Claire,
was second in the overall
standings, 3:10 behind.

Hinault finished eighth and
LeMond was 30th Saturday,
both in the same time as
Bontempi.

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LETTER
FROM

———

MUNDAY

Last week at service I likened our friend John
Munday to the Apostle Paul — sick, skinny, celebate and
seared — emphasizing the fact that it is not what we have
that matters but what we do with what we have — with
commitment, humor and courage.

In a world in which the masses, the mobs and the
bureaurocacy seems to be the deciding voice and general
standard of conduct, a distortion of democracy used by
dictatorships, I remain utterly committed to the ultimate
value of the individual person, man or woman, if we are to
have any livable future.

There are times when I am convinced that Aldous
Huxley and his Brave New World and George Orwell and
the gray, impersonal dictatorship of 1984 might be right
and that freedom was dying “not with a shout but a
whimper”,

An excess of “digging in the soul” over these
negatives can produce a very dark spectrum of human
behaviour and expectations, particularly if one spends too
much time taking the media too seriously.

Too little time is spent, I think, in contemplation of
the work of the Pauls, the John Twenty-thirds, the
Albert Einsteins, the Ghandis, the Mother Teresas, the
John and those ds of
dedicated and often quiet human beings who with
incredible effort and a sense of humour keep things in
balance and create a spectrum of light in our threatening
world. To you all, “Salute!” And now back to the second
half of John Munday’s letter.

July 1, Canada Day. 6:19 p.m., Quito time. I've just
finished talking to you both. How absolutely wonderful to
hear you. Thank you for the surprise phone call. It's a

miracle you got through because my phone functions on

mind-boggling to the U.S., ding a visit
to the Grand Canyon, ete., ete., ete. He'll be well toured
and taken care of until classes start at the end of August
at Rio Grande Bible Institute in Texas, but he's terribly
homesick.

He'd have climbed through the phone had it been
possible. My heart went out to him, but could do little
more than encourage him to fly home for the Christmas
vacation. I am beginning to appreciate the agony many
parents must suffer when sending their children off to

for the first time.

But Victor wasn't the only family member sent off
that week. Fernando (19), Hector (18) and Silvana (13)
now living with an older sister, were found guilty of
breaking ground rules. They'd been with me for a total of
twenty years, (two, 10 and eight), and I felt like one
abandoning his own children. But each has family and
each had been forgiven 70 times seven plus seven times
before. These are heart-shattering traumas which, added
to my chronic housewife's syndrome, mid-life crisis and
burn-out, have not lent to a speedy recovery from
ephysema and stroke.

‘,..and like Job, | still trust that
when he has tried me | shall
come forth as gold.’

But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and like Job,
I still trust that when he has tried me I shall come forth
as gold.

Our original guest diningroom will become an
extension to the chapel and should double our present
seating capacity to 200 or more. Sunday School almost
fills the present chapel, the Sunday afternoon preaching
and worship service fills it to overflowing, and the
Wednesday night prayer and Bible study averaging
between 60 and 70 will soon need the anticipated space,
available, we hope before September.

Last week I was asked to visit the home of a couple
whose small business — they are owners of a
neighbourhood grocery store — was floundering as a
possible result of witchcraft crudely handled by some
malevolent stranger. Small piles of dirt from the town
cemetery, a yellow candle, a rope of human hair and
sundry curse-casting objects caused the owners concern.
Strange noises throughout the rooms at night left them
even more nervous. They had some superficial knowledge
of the Bible and through a Christian neighbor friend had

‘It seems we are the constant
recipients of non-stop bounty’.

an average of four times a month. Do try again one day.
Before too long I still hope to visit you and anyone that’s

left of the days of yore.

Earlier this week I received a phone call from the
Canadian Embassy advising me that the Ambassador had
decided against holding the usual July ceremony at his
residence in honor of Canada’s Birthday.

He would be advising all Friends of Canada through

the press that this y

's celebration would be the

construction of a new dining room for the Diospaj Nan
Christian Center on the Line of the Equator. This will be
the second time the Canada Day Reception has been
called off in our favor. The previous time notes were sent
to other embassies and businesses asking them to convert
the traditional floral offerings to hard cash to be sent to
us.

It seems we are the constant recipients of non-stop
bounty. From the British Ambassador's wife came the
biggest basket of assorted cut flowers I've ever seen in
honor of the Queen's birthday, and last week a truck
pulled in to deliver 20 brand new mattresses. A member
of the Commonwealth Club noticed we had a need in this
area and that was it! We're being replenished with new
sheets and pillowcases from the Nordic Women, and on
July 13, a group of thirty North American young people
from Teen Missions, will be arriving to build us, at their
expense, a complex of chicken houses.

We should soon be provided with our own meat and
eggs. The team will be working for six weeks when they'll
be joined by two similar teams from Peru for a final week
of “debriefing” prior to flying home.

Pt da serious desire to become genuine Christians.
They were receptive as I gave a resume of the
Gospel and God's plan for our salvation. Before I left,
Nelson and his wife opened their hearts and their home to
him who had waited so many years for their invitation to
enter. They are now making Diospaj Nan their church
home.

Dave and Sharon Okum and their four small children
are in the final stages of obtaining their visas and should
soon be on their way. Their apartment is almost ready,
and will serve as a shelter at least until better
arrangements can be made.

Marsha, an outstanding Christian girl and blind from
birth, and subsequently rejected by her family, is quietly
settling in to the routine of life here and proving to be a
genuine help to polio-victim Rosa as well as to the blind
boys that now number 14.

Beth, a relatively new Christian and former member
of the Children of God sect right here in Ecuador, has four
small children and a desire to help with the smaller ones
here and help put order to our disorganized clothes
situation.

Wilson, still bringing up his two young sons in the
absence of his wife who abandoned them all, serves as
our all-night watchman and usually has incidents of
attempted break-ins to report — most mornings at least.

Jorge works a long schedule as my driver, buyer of
groceries and everything else and general messenger,
and has been an effective co-worker where teaching and
preaching are concerned

Eduardo, Jorge's son-in-law, helps in the library and
with the beehives in which he is an expert. We should
have our next crop of honey in July from almost a dozen
hives.

Antonia keeps us all well fed. Nelson, her young
husband is the Chief Technician, Antonio and a helper
oversee the 5‘ acres of grounds and Antonio's wife
G

we're a new
bathroom complex in order to cope with this invasion of
youthful summer missioniares.

Last Sunday night I received a welcome phone call
from Victor, all the way from Indianapolis. He's with
relatives of HCJB missionary friends (with whom he flew
to the States three weeks ago) and has been given a

dalupe, mothers our pig colony. The school summer
vacation has started for some. and I'm bracing myself.

I close all this with a sincere apology for my failure as
a correspondent. Thank you and God richly bless you for
your help in praying, sharing and encouraging. That's
how it's been possible to look back on a whole decade of
God's faithfulness.

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Planters contract diseases

VANCOUVER (CP) standards for camps imposed

before it spreads any further. is caused by a parasite,

WINNING POSTERS . . . Winners were recently selec-
ted in Bob Brandson swimming pool's poster contest
recognizing Royal Lifesaving Society of Canada Week.
Winners were: Five and u , No Salvador, first,

Angela Binnie, second; 6-8, Stephan Lich, first, Ryan
Lundquist, second; 9-11 Jeremy Finney, first, Rhonda

12 and up, Loraeine Paztsy,

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Russell Lundquist, second.

first,

ALCOHOL, SUICIDE

Indian lives shortened

‘The 1978 suicide rates were more than four times the
Canadian average. The rate was 3.8 times the national
average among men and 5.5 times among women.

By ADAM CORELLI

TORONTO (CP) — Indian lives are shortened by alcohol
and suicide at rates up to four times the Canadian average
but the toll has declined because of federal programs,
government studies claim.

While alcohol erodes the lifespan of many Indian adults,
native youngsters are at least six times more likely to
commit suicide than other Canadian children, the studies
say.

However, the figures show a considerable improvement
from the late 1970s and community programs are the reason,
says the author of the studies, Nevil Layne, a researcher at
Health and Welfare Canada.

‘Two studies on Indian mortality — one examining the

related to alcohol, and the other examining
were obtained under the Access to Information Act.

The findings surface at a time when the programs
credited with the imp may be d by
government cuts.

‘The studies compare figures on “potential years of life
lost” because of alcohol and suicide for the years 1978 and
1983.

For example, using 75 as..the..approximate natural
lifespan of the average Canadian, a boy who commits suicide
at 15 represents 60 years of lost life.

TOTAL DECLINED

Registered Indians lost a startling total more than
40,000 years of life due to alcohol and suicide in 1978. That
declined to about 27,000 years by 1963. There are about
360,000 status and 72,000 non-treaty Indians in Canada.

Layne said in an interview the downward trend may

Tree planters in British Col
umbia say cost-cutting by
contractors has led to un-
sanitary camp conditions that
are creating serious health
problems.

Both planters and health
officials say there has been a
sharp increase in reported
intestinal disorders ranging
from salmonella to giardiasis,
or “beaver fever.”

Actual numbers are diffi
cult to produce because of the
nomadic nature of tree plan-
ters, but health officials in-
volved feel there are many
more cases than have actu
ally come to their attention.

“Our motto now is plant
while you puke,” sai
Betts, an East Kootenay tree
planting contractor who had
42 of his 50 workers stricken

on all contractors.

Provincial health officials
have no argument with that.

“I thought I was back in
the last century,” said Dave
Coombes, public health in
spector with the East Koote-
nay health unit in Cranbrook.
Coombes has inspected two
tree planting operations in
his area.

Terry Moran, a Health
ministry public affairs
spokesman, said compalints
have come in from all over
the province, but the hard-
est-hit areas are in the East
Kootenay health unit, which
covers most of southeastern
B.C., and in the Northern
Interior health unit, centre in
Prince George.

Glen Timbers, chief health

common in the intestines of
beavers, that is transmitted
to humans when they drink
water where beavers have
been present. It requires
medical treatment with
drugs.

“It ranges from just a few
to 100 per cent of the people
in a camp,” Timbers said
“We've inspected several and
found generally unsanitary

“In years past, when typhoid
and diphtheria were around,
that’s what we'd have seen.
They were very crude, prim-
itive camps lacking totally in
safe water supply, sanitary
toilet facilities and proper
food storage.”

Officials from the provin
cial Health and Forest minis-
tries have been working
together to develop such
standards and are hoping
they can solve the problem

in the }
Interior health unit, said
there have always been prob-
lems at tree-planting camps,
but this is the first year he’s
seen it on such a large scale.

causes
rhea),”

or beaver fever,

lack of safe drink
ing water, lack of refriger
ation for foods, tents with
dirt floors, and significant fly
infestations.”

Timbers said numbers
don’t tell the whole story.

“We're only hearing about
the diseases that have been
forwarded to us through
emergency or family physi
cians,” Timbers said. “We're
only getting a small per
centage of the actual
ii -

have slowed since 1983 but it has not reversed.
The potential years lost because of alcohol declined from
about 4.8 times the Canadian average to four times between

1978 ands 1983.

Most men
would remarry

CHICAGO (AP) — A news-
paper survey asked married
men, “If you had it to do
again, would you marry your
current wife?” and found
overwhelmingly the answer
was yes.

The Chicago Sun-Times
found 77.1 per cent of first
time married men would re-
marry their spouses, com-
pared with findings in a re-
cent women’s magazine poll
that said only 50 per cent of
the women surveyed would
make another trip down the
aisle with the same man.

The only other question
asked in the newspaper poll
was: “Why (would you marry
her again) or why not?”

2,301 men who re-
sponded to the printed quer
ies, an overwhelming ma
jority — 1,788 — said they
would remarry their wives,
the newspaper said.

Their reasons ranged from
the gushing — “the most
understanding, trusting,
loving. supportive woman
T've ever met” — to the terse
“Why not?” — to the prag-
matic “Without her, I'd be a
bum.”

The newpaper said it re-
ceived hundreds of letters
echoing the sentiment of the
man who said: “She is my
better half.”

“She is my partner, my
mistress, my best friend.”

“She lights up my life.”

It said about five per cent
of the letters were in the
“Why not?” vein — men who
said they'd marry their wives
again “because no one else
would put up with me” or
because “Who else would do

my laundry?”

The men’s reponses were
much more affirmative than
those of women polled by
Woman's Day magazine
Only half the women who
wrote to the magazine said
they would marry their cur.
rent husbands if they had it
to do over again.

“On the whole, men exper
ience fulfilment more easily
than women do.

“Women are filled with all
these romantic yearnings,
and romance is finite, limited,
difficult to sustain,” David
Roadhouse, a Chicago
psychotherapist, said in sug-
gesting a reason for the
disparity

The newspaper survey
found men in their first
marriages appeared not quite
as content as men who had
been married more than
once. Of the first-timers, 77.1
per cent said they would
marry the same woman,
while 81.5 per cent of those in
subsequent marriages said
they would.

The Woman's Day poll
found 63 per cent of women
in subsequent marriages said
they would marry the same
man — significantly higher
than the 50 per cent of
first-time wives.

The length of the marriage
also appeared to have some
effect on the husband's con.
tentment

Seventy-four per cent of
the men married fewer than
10 years said they were
happy with their wives, but
the figure declined to 70 per
cent for men in the second
decade of marriage.

for women, show

paticularly at the community level, would hurt.”
“We're in a transition stage. If we continue the efforts,

assessment that program cuts would hurt. But she said that
more programs are needed even now and that more support

already

for prog

lished must be p'

‘She said a crisis intervention centre that was started
with a three-year grant at the Six Nations reserve near
Brantford, Ont., will have to close shortly because Health
and Welfare Canada has said there is no money to extend the

grant.

“They have been providing a needful service .

- Health

and Welfare may talk a lot about the problems but they
haven't done much else,” she said.

Strategy to deal

with elk

A comprehensive strategy
for dealing with the conflicts
between elk and ranching in
the East Kootenay area was
announced this week by the
Ministries of Environment
and Agriculture and Food

The number of problem elk

will be determined and
where necessary reduced. In
addition, ranch management
guidelines to minimize wild
life damage to fences, crops
and stored feed will be
established, and, if required.
assistance measures for in
dividual ranches will be de
veloped.
“This strategy will focus on
clearly identifying specific
problem areas and taking
action that is consistent with
sound conservation and
ranching practices,” said En
vironment Minister Austin
Pelton in making the an
nouncement jointly with
Agriculture and Food Mini
ster Tom Waterland.

“The measures recognize
the importance of the East
Kootenay elk population as
one of our province's most
valuable wildlife resources,”
Pelton said

“I am very pleased that an
approach has been developed
that is acceptable to all
interested groups,” Water
land said. “Ranchers are as
concerned about maintaining
environmental quality as

problem

they are about reducing their
losses.”

Key elements of the strat.
egy include:

@ reducing non-migratory
elk to acceptable numbers;

© clarifying the responsi.
bilities of ranchers for pro-
tecting their property from
wildlife damage;

establishing an objective
and reliable method for as.
sessing damage;

e@ designing an assistance
program suited to specific
circumstances;

e reviewing management
objectives for wildlife.

The strategy takes into
account the recommenda.
tions of a recent compre.
hensive report on the subject
prepared for the Ministry of
Environment (G.K. Bowden,
Wildlife Damage on Private
Agricultural Land in the East
Kootenay, December 1985)
and follows extensive con
sultation between the minis
tries of Environment and
Agriculture and Food and
local and provincial wildlife
and agricultural organiza
ions.

The latter include the East
Kootenay Problem Wildlife
Committee, the Kootenay
Livestock Association, the
B.C. Wildlife Federation and
the B.C. Federation of Natur
alists.