CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 20, 1983 =—— | ON THE STREET QUESTION: Do you think the cruise missile should be teste Walter Chernoff No. Further develop- » ments may cause destruc- tion. Cheryl Gray ~ I don't agree. with it, L| don't agree .with nuclear arms at all. Albert Cancela Not really. I don't be- lieve in it. I don't think it's right to test it in Canada. Keep Canada clean. Rob MacKinnon Treally don't feel nuclear s weapons are a deterrant. I feel they definitely pro- voke war. Nettie Nazaroff. Tam’ against it. I don't «~~ think we need the testing . or the missile. Mark Scantland I think they should test it in Canada and deploy it anywhere in Europe. If we don't have adequate do- fense ..’. we will become part of communist rule. i MOUNTAINVIEW AGENCIES gee LTD. 365-2111 ~) Telescope coming in August. | You might think that, con- sidering. *the weather that | we've been having of late; the last thing you would expect to hear would be the an- Cee of an astronomy pro; Well that is just what has ‘been announced, For. the’ seventh year in'a row Van- couver’s MacMillan Planetar. provincial parks of B.C, Community. Astronomy is ture of over 50cm, the two. telescopes that the Star, Truck transports: ‘will’ be made available to campers and residents visiting or nae near the provincial rethe mobile ‘observatory will be at Kokanee Creek Provincial Park Aug. 4 and'6 and at Champion Lakes Pro- vincial Park Aug. 6. As well as the telescopes, the astronomers of the Com- munity Astronomy program § will offer slide shows and will answer questions. following the slide presentations. The - telescopes will be set up for | viewing the sky only if the’ weather is co-operative after’ the slide shows. Visitors to the provincial parks are encouraged to take part in the Community -As- tronomy program, and resi- dents of communities near the provincial parks are -in- vited, too. There is no admission charge for Community Astronomy or to the parks. Community Astronomy is funded: through grants pro- vided by: Placer Develop- ment Ltd., the National Mu- seums of .Canada and’ the MacMillan Charitable Trust. The program is administered by the Gordon Southam ‘Ob- servatory, a branch of the MacMillan Planetarium. 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Merger gains little support * By JIM MORRIS: EDMONTON (cP) — The way Jack Gotta sees it, the Canadian Football League has to expand into:the United States to survive. “T'd like to see our league expand and if we can't expand in our own country, then’ why not, if there are American cities that would play our rules,”. said Gotta, coach. and general manager of; the: Calgary Stampeders. “The football markets are down south,” he said with machine-gun delivery. “Football is the game down there.” However, other CFL spokesman disagreed with Gotta, who called during a telephone interview Tuesday for CFL expansion into the U.S. Gotta denied re he favors's merger with the fledgling United States Football League, a merger that does have the support of Joe Galat, coach and general manager of the Montreal Concorde. EYES TV CONTRACT. " However, Galat said in Montreal that he was ‘$2-million television contract with ABC as something no ‘ team could ignore. “From a business standpoint you would have to look at anything that offers that amount of revenue,” he said. “As a coach I think any merger would be a nightmare.” Gotta said a merger with the USFL doesn't interest him. “I never used the word merger,” he said. “If that’s the only way to get a 10th franchise in our league, let’s go south,” Several spokesman from other CFL teams criticized Gotta for making expansion suggestions without first bringing it up with the league. “To me the important matter is that people make statements without ciseussiog it at the league level,” said Dick Rendek, “We've always supported the Canadian identity of our-league,” he said. “To make those kinds of Don Holtby, general manager of Ottawa Rough Riders, saiod the league must exhaust its potential in Canada before venturing into the U.S. “I've never thought about it really ee econ oxpand into.” He also vetoed any merger Patios “We've got z great game as far as I'm concerned and my fear would be, if we merged, they would try and change our game.” ’ Edmonton Eskimo coach Pete Kettela, who has been involved in U.S. football at the professional and collegiate level, said Canadian football wouldn't sell south of the border. “If you want the American dollars, you've got to play the American game,” said the former assistant coach with Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Football is almost a religion in some areas of the U.S. without really analysing the thing is, in my mind, a little bit ridiculous.” and any di from the game would be con- sidered blasphemy, he said. : said CFL C Jake or the league's board of governors would have to make a statement on U.S. expansion before the idea would have any credibility. But John F. Bassett, chairman of the USFL expansion committee says a merger of the Canadian Football League with the fledging United States Football League is a bad idea because.it presumes the two leagues are equal. “I don’t think the concept of a merger is good at all,” said Bassett, owner of Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL. “We're not equal at all. “We have more teams, more television income, more properties income and our paid attendance is probably greater than theirs will be. “TI look at the attendances in the CFL and not many people are showing up in places like Hamilton, Winnipeg and Montreal,” he said. “The other night in Toronto, there were only 40,000 people there. “There should have been 50,000 people there. We used Fomily room with fireplace on main floor. Quiet area. Bue,