A8& * CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 2, 1981 EES NEW SHSS PRIME MINISTER was sworn in. Thanday following the awards ceremonies. Shown is 1980-81 President Jack Normandeau swearing in 1981-82 President Linda DaCosta. She was elected recently by the student body, along with Deputy Prime Minister Robert Popoff, Social Repr Leanne Athletic Council President Andrea Belezyk and Secretary Nadine Strelieff. —CosNewsFote by Cheryl Wishlow ‘The Mare’ geis life term DUESSELDORF, WEST GFPMANY (REUTER) — Hermine Ryan, a 61-year-old woman extradited from the United States to face charges in what turned out to be West Germany's longest war crimes trial, was sentenced today to life in prison. Judge Guenter Bogen gave the life term to Ryan and sentenced seven other de- fendants to terms ranging from 12 years to three years. A ninth defendant was ac- quitted. “The nine, all former SS guards who went on trial in November 1975, had been accused of murder or com- plicty in the murder of some of the 260,000 prisoners es- timated to have died in Maidanek concentration Cancer project OES priority Ida McManus, Worthy Grand Matron and Barry Peters, Worthy Grand Pa- tron of the Grand Chapter of British Columbia and the Yu- kon Order of the Eastern Star, ended their official visits to 11 chapters in the Kootenays in Nelson on Tues- day evening of last week. At each chapter meeting were many visiting members from surrounding chapters. In one of his addresses, the W.G.P. remarked of the wonderful job being done by the chapters towards the grand chapter project of can- cer. From April 1, 1980 to March 81, 1981 the chapters throughout B.C. donated over $85,000 to cancer re- search and cancer dressings. There are 85 chapters in this grand jurisdiction; each one holds a Cancer Tea in April of each year and the entire proceeds are sent to the cancer project. A further $10,682 was raised during the year through the sales of cancelled stamps. This sum was also added to the cancer project. Many thanks are ex- tended by all chapters and to all those who save the stamps for them. Mrs. McManus requested that in lieu of gifts and flowers, the chapter give her a monetary gift for her special project which is two- fold. Firstly, she hopes to as- out B.C. for ministers, sev- eral times throughout the year. These two-day semin- ars are designed to help ministers to understand and help patients who are faced with cancer and their families to face this problem. All the chapters gener- ously assisted the W.G.M. and gave a cheque towards her project. The W.G.M. and W.G.P. extended their thanks to all chapters for their ions and for the sist with the hing of a chapel in the new wing of the Maxwell Evans Cancer Cen- ‘tre in Vancouver. This chap- el, for the use of patients and their families, will be known as the Shane Memorial Chap- el, after the late Grace Shane P.G.M. who had started the cancer dressing stations. Sec- ondly, she would like to sup- port Rev. Colin Johnstone, who holds seminars through- welcome they received from all the chapters in the Koot- enays. At the refreshment hour in Nelson, the W.G.M. cut and served a decorated cake made for her and iced with her color and “iowers. There were nine mempers of Minto Chapter, Castlegar who at- tended. camp during the Second World War. Ryan, nicknamed The Mare by former Maidanek prisoners for the brutal kicks she gave with her boots, was charged with the murder of “at least 1,181 prisoners” and compel in the murder of 705 m SENTENCE DENOUNCED As the sentences were passed, Bogen's voice shook slightly and his judgment was received with cries of “Scandal” and “This is a mockery of the victims.” The women leapt from their chairs and spread out a red banner decrying the crimes of the Nazis. Another woman defen- dant, Hildegard Laechert, 61, received the second-longest prison term of 12 years. She was known as Bloody Brig- itta by the prisoners. The former deputy camp commandant, Hermann Hackmann, 67, received a sentence cf 10 years. The prosecution had asked for life sentences for five of the ac- cused, including Hackmann. Apart from the life term for Ryan and the acquittal of Heinrich Groffmann, the sen- tences were all lower than the prosecution had demanded. The defence had asked for acquittal of all nine defen- dants. The judge gave eight years to Emil Laurich, 60, an SS corporal known as The Ange} of Death, and six years to Fritz Petrick, a 68-year-old former SS sergeant, was sentenced to four years and Arnold Strippel, 79, a former lieutenant, 3% years. Thomas Ellwanger, 63, re- ceived a three-year term. Bogen said it was unfor- tunate the trial had lasted so long. It ran for five years and seven months — almost as long as the Second World War. About 300 demonstrators, most of them Jews, stormed the courtroom two years ago when four of the original 16 defendants were acquitted for lack of positive identi- fication, Since the trial began in November, 1975, one woman defendant has died, another defendant has been judged medically unfit and one case has been heard separately. The court has heart evi- dence from, about 300 wit- nesses, including former Maidanek prisoners who told of mass murder by shooting or in the camp's gas cham- bers. Defence lawyers said the accused have not been identified beyond doubt as the guards who committed the alleged crimes. No bars for these sailors HALIFAX (CP) — The sailors of the HMNS De Ruyter, flag ship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion's standing force Atlantic, came ashore not to relax ina waterfront bar but to paint a church. The church, known as the Little Dutch Chureh, is the oldest Lutheran Church in North America built by German Haligonians. The church has been proclaimed an historic site. The De Ruyter’s crew, in port for a three-week visit, said Halifax and Canada has been good to them and they want to repay some of the favors. Reg 3 Bike Baskets Reg. S —Willy-Water- Bug ___NEW-TEN-0-SIX LI The cleanser for dry skin PSs LIGHT NEET LOTION 170 ml. Reg. $3.15 srecia ® 2 29 Rose or Lemon $2.99 7.00. Sale . Frisbees Reg. $4 4.95, Salo 2.95: Sale FROM TOYLAND ” Fun Fountan == Reg. $29.95. 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REALTY (1981) LTD. 625 Columbia, Castlegar, B.C. — 365-2111 ‘MALCOLM SCOTT Owner/Mgr. 365-2451 CHARMING COTTAGE — On 7th Avenue in the north end of 4 Castlegar, lot size 35 x 100 (opprox.). 2°BRs, fireplace. downtown, owner will look at offers. FIVE BEDROOMS — main floor, 2 BRs ir fonaliy 6 room, lot size 100 x 120 approx. in ROBSON fret New distin older home! some: ints! u m acres loca 8 eee eT cal cr tails. SUCH A NICE HOME — On fifth Avenue, North end Castlegar. Beautiful lot, treed for privacy, home finished up and down, 3-BRs main floor, mother-in-law sulte in basement, finished family room. TISHCENIA — Trailer with additions on 007 78 x 680 ft. lot (opprox.) Finished, ask Boe {opprox.) ng ROBSON — Looking for 0 3-BR home with a nicely fenced lot den with fruit trees? Covered in patlo, filly basement? PARK LANE — 4 lots in new & exclusive subdivision, all underground services, quiet residential area in South end of city. AVENUE — C lot next fo new Medical Professional Building. 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AVENUE — 3-BR home, full Bosement with extra Vat almost new car- peting in living room and BR, gas h carport. $69,900. foncon’: Number 1 Top Sellers CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 2, 1981 invest in Your Community With TERM DEPOSITS Paying Interest of up to (Rate subject tochange) + 179 Kootenay Savings Credit Union 1016-4th St., Castlegar “Ph, 365-3375 _ Queen’ s plate worth a lot TOPONTO (CP) — Sixteen horses, including three owned by Jan-Louis Leves- que of Montreal, were .en- tered today for the 122nd running of the Queen's Plate at Woodbine racetrack on Saturday. The race, at a distance of 1% miles, will be worth a record $184,025, with a record $119,615 going to the winning owner. The previous reco purse was '$1685900. a #1980 and. Driving "Home finished Aquanauts win Twenty-five Aquanauts spent the past weékend at Golden to compete with five other regional swim clubs in the second meet of the sea- son, Cc . 16 of first. to carn a record $119,654 for Hal Yerza of Edmonton, . The Queen Mother will be in attendnace for the event : this: year, North America's ‘oldest continuoulsy run stakes race. The entry of Frost King and Mr. Achiever is rated the early choice ‘at even odds. Frost King and Mr. chiever is rated the early choice at ever , odds. Front King, co-owned by breeder Ted Smith and trainer Bill Marko of Toron- (gold), boys 18 and 14 — David Zurek (bronze), girls 15 and 16 — Alexis Waish (gold), boys 15 and 16 — Gordon Cooper (gold) and Bjorn Gustavsson (silver). Watch for the competition Alexis and Gordon the 85 5 aggregates as follows: giris 8 and under — Alison Loweay. (gold), boys 8 ‘and under — Alex Hartman (sil- ver), girls 9 and 10 —'Monica in.the fly! Pilar Alvarez placed first the -‘turtle.race’ (6 years and under) and Castlegar placed first and second in the parents race. Keep it. up folks! gold), and Ted ‘Loweay (bronze), girls 11 and 12'— Sherri Harmston (gold), and Erica "3 Berger {bronze),.boys 11 and 12 —-Jeff Schuepfer (gold), Colin ‘Carew (silver) and Kelly Hurd (bronze), girls 13 and 14°— Doreen Innes y MAUREEN GRA’ Castlegar Tennis Club members dominated Trail's Murry and Wallinger Dou- bles tournament last week- end. Out of a field of 21 teams, the four Castlegar teams that entered placed in the top eight. Gordon Gray and Laurie Lyons of Castlegar were de- feated in the semi-finals by do aheir ities starts and fared the Aquanauts made 18 pool ‘records: Jason Schuepfer {50M free, 50M back and 50M fly), Sherri Harmston (50M beck), Jeff Schuepfer (50M fly and 100M free), Sherri Harmston (50M times - to, has won four of five races this year for earnings of $87,012. Mr. Achiever, also’ owned by Smith has one vic- tory for his career. Represengitn Levesque in the race for. Canadian-bred thre-year-olds will be Le Grand Seigneur, Le Prom- eneur and Le Botaniste. The larges field ever in the Plate was in 1933 and 22 hourses went to post. That race was ‘won by. King O'Connor.- The field for the race Sat- urday, in order of post pos- itions and owners: 1, Al Sarab, Banham You- sif, Kleinburg, Ont, 2, Yours Spirit, John McColl; Hamil- ton 4. Regal Stafford, Thor and John Craig Eaton, Tor- onto 5. Wayover, Jim and Achiever 8. Regal Kapers, Saul Wagman, Toronto 9. Le Grand Seigneur 10. Regi- ment, Barbara Rausch,. 16 aggregates back), Jeff Schuepfer (50M fly and 100M ), Doreen Innes (50M fly and 100M back), Ken Kinakin (100M breast), Gordon. Cooper (100M free), (200M I.M.) the boys 13 - 14 medley relay and the girls 15 - 16 200M medley relay. Congratulations go also to Ki and Greg Roberts, Tom Car- . ew, Xen Kinakin, Rick Row- land, and Thomas Gustav- sson for placing in the finals (top six) and relays. With this Castlegar cap- turéd first place with 581 points, more than doubling home team Golden in second place. Nelson placed third, Trail fourth, Henbertey, 5th, and Colville 6th, It was a great swimmeet ending with our coach, Neil, making a big splash, even though he put up a good fight! Considering the 125-plus Aquanauts have the smallest pool in the region (B.C.?) where their potential cannot be met due to the narrow lanes and bumping into one another at Here, youngsters enjoy the pool which was 23° Celsius. practice, they have proven it there are swimmers here in Castlegar and area. The ‘Masters Swimming’ for ex-swimmers and parents (17 years and over) started this week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 8:30 - 9:30 at the pool. Regis- tration is $4, so come on out and better your strokes and health! , 6-3. Debeoll and Wishloff went on ‘win the finals title by de- pace Bob Ames of Nelson and Mark Sullivan of Spo- kane 7-5, 6-1. Ames and Sul- livan had defeated Chris and Pat Vianich of Trail 6-4, 6-3 in the other round of semi- finals. In the women's division, Maureen Gray and Shirley Baseball strike anniversary today NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball strike celebrated iis number of Type A players (all of whom. would require pes and shy Haleatel negotiations have resumed, both sides agreed there was NUMBER eee naCrED A The number of Type A players int the draft would be 6-4, 6-0 by Brenda Hollett and Saralee Murphy of Fruitvale. Sandra Elasoff and Pat.West of Castlegar won over Hollett and Murphy 6-8, 6-2 to cap- ture the women’s finals title. Elasoff and West defeated Susan Vlanich and Margo St. Jean of Trail 6-1, 68 in another round of semi-finals. The Castlegar Tennis Club will be holding its seniors, juniors and vets open singles deadline pats is Friday. he p.m. To enter contact Ron Friesen at. 865-8216, Jack Yolland 365-2508 or Gordon Gray 365-3822. Kimberley will be holding its Summer Fest Tourna- ment July 18 and 19. Contact Laurie McLellan at 365-8451 during business hours to enter or for more informa- tion. Watch thie column for dates and results of future tournaments. and swimmers) ROBSON ‘POOL opened for the season-on Monday.: The pool is open 7:30. 30 p.m. and 6 —CosNewsFoto by Chery! Wishlow. Hard playing one short It’s bad enough playing te second-best team in. the -North American Soccer -League. But when you have to play a man sKort for better minutes left in the first £7) The Whitecaps to turn a 1-0 defensive strug-. gle into a 6-1 rout for their 14th triumph. The victory allowed Van- couver to stay 16 points ahead of Seattle Sounders in first place in the Northwest Division and the Whitecaps have two games in hand over the Sounders. In other games yesterday, it. was Seattle Sounders 5 California Surf 2, Washing- Advances to men’s final LONDON (AP) — John McEnroe of. the United States defeated Rod Frawley of Australia 7-6, 6-4, 7-5 today to advance to the men’s singles final of the Wimble- don tennis Borg has defeated Connors in two Wimbledon finals and has not lost to the left-hander since the 1978 U.S.. OPen final. They have met in’ nine since no cause for Ten more games were can- celled today, pushing the total to 261 since the strike began June 12, And from the tone .of both sides’ obser- vations Wednesday, when talks resumed for the first time this week, the toll will go considerably higher. “Am I optimistic?” man- agement representative Ray Grebey asked following the three-hour session. “No.” “If Mr. Grebey said'there was no progress, I find noth- ing to disagree with there,” said Marvin Miller, executive director of the striking Major League Players Association. Management used yester- day's session to alter certain aspects of their last proposal on compensating teams who lose ranking free agents in the free-entry draft —the only issue in the strike. The major revision in- volved the formula used for determining the number of Type B or second-level free agents who would require * professional player compen- sation. Type B free agents are identified as those falling between the top 25 and 40 per cent statistically of all available re-entry draft play- ers. Type A players fall in the top 25 per cent. Under the revised plan, a limit of eight Type B players would require compensation d from 12 from last week's 14) to pro- duce the number of Type B's requiring compensation. “They revised their ior- mula ever so slightly,” Miller said. “The gap is so wide it defies my vocabulary to des- cribe it.” The two sides agreed to return to the bargaining ta- ble today. Miller appeared at nego- tiations for the first time since the strike began but said his return to the bar- gaining table held no special significance. “The players felt I ought to be back,” he said. “I felt the point had been made. He was accompanied by 10 players, including Dave Win- field, who signed baseball's richest free-agent contract last winter, an estimated $1.5 million annually. Philadelphia’s Bob Boone, who was at the negotiations, said many of the 650 striking major leaguers are angry that the union has shown a willingness to accept any compensation at all beyond the amateur draft choice which management has had since the re-entry draft be- gan in 1976. “The longer we go, - the stronger I see the players becoming,” he: said. “It will be harder to make a settlement. First of all, we're losing salaries and taking a beating fi Till be in the form of a player and that number could be reduced based on the damned if we'll take a beat- ing on compensation, too.” McEnroe, the tourna- ment's No. seed, was warned and penalized after angry clashes with the um- pire during his match with Frawley. He will play the winner of the other semi-final — top- seeded Bjorn Borg of Sweden or N. 8 seed Jimmy Connors — in the final. The McEnroe-Frawley match lasted three hours and one minute and by the time it ended- McEnroe could thank his powerful left-handed serve for getting him out of trouble on = numerous oc- casions. Frawley, seeded 112 in the world, served like a demon and volleyed superbly to keep the New Yorker at bay. It was far from vintage Mc- Enroe and once again his bad temper on the court let him down. then, Connors salvaging only four sets. The statistics leave Con- We'll be going out there trying to kill each other,” he said. “That is what the public wants to see. Yesterday, Pam Shriver of the’ U.S. was outplayed by compatriot Chris Evert Lloyd in the women’s singles semifinals and then explained why she wants her conquetor to win the tournament. “I think it: meens a lot. to Chris to win this time,” said Shriver, who was beaten 6-8, 61. “She's 26, and it would be a great way for her to finish before fading out of tennis. Then maybe she could start a family, which I know she wants to do. I'm rooting for Toya, who has played in seven Wimbledon singles fi- nals and won only two of them, faces Hana Mandlikova of Czechosiovakia in Friday's final. Mandlikova, 19, won a bit- terly contested baseline slug- fest with Martina Navratil- ova of the U.S., to post a 7-5, 446, 6-1 victory in the other semifinal. Mandlikova, the reigning French and Australian cham- pion, served, brilliantly outlast the 24-year-old Nav- ratilova, winnor here in 1878 and '79. “The final is all in Hana's hands,” said Shriver, 18. “If she plays a good match, she will win because she has an advantage on grass. But if she plays only a fair match, and Chris plays it as smart as I know she will, then Chris will win it.” “ Lloyd refused to comment on the final match. “I don’t want to look ahead,” she said. “It has hurt me too much in the past.” Lloyd has a 5-2 won-lost advantage over Mandlikova, but Hana has won two of their last three matches. Kamloops getting club EDMONTON (CP) — National Hockey League Ed- monton Oilers say the team will sponsor a Western Hoc- key League club in Kam- ‘loops, in the coming season, if the WHL governors approve. The WHL’'s board of gov- ernors was to officially con- sider the proposal today in a conference call because sev- eral clubs want an immediate decision so they can start working on the season's schedule. “It looks like we're going to Kamloops... although it has to be vcied on,” Oilers gen- eral manager Glen Sather said last night. “The town was very keen and interested in getting a team ... They were a little “more aggressive than Lloyd- minster.” Lloydminster, straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, had been considered as a site for the former New Westminster, Bruins fran- chise, bought by Oilers own- er Peter Pocklington about a month ago. Kamloops had a WHI fran- chise four years ago but it was moved to Seattle. ton Diplomats.3 San Diego Sockers 2 in a shootout and Minnesota Kicks 2 Tulsa Roughnecks 0. In an_ exhibition game, New. York Cosmos shut. out the Greek national team 2-0 on sais by Roberto Cabanas and Giorgio ae Bi Tueeny night Edmon- :.. Portland Bombers nipped Dallas Tor- goals for Seattle, which ral- lied twice to defeat Calif- ornia. Ossama Khalil and Charlie Greene gave the Surf leads of 1-0 and 2-1. But Bond tied the game both times and then scored the winner at 55:51. Seattle ran its record to 12-10 in the Northwest Division. California drop; to 8-12 in the Western Divi- sion. Diplomate 3 Sockers 2 Washington beat San Di- ego in a shootout in a game marking the return of Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff to the NASL this year. Cryuff played the final 10 minutes of the games and wasn't a factor in the outcome as he still récovers from a groin injury. Malcolm Waldron, Ross Jen- kins and Peter Baralic scored in the shootout. to give the Diplomats their 10th victory in 19 games. The loss dropped San Diego to 10-10. Ricks Z Rouganecks 6 Ron Futcher scored a to: short-handed goal late in the game and rookie ; : Randy Phillipe recorded his second straight shutout. | Fut-: cher's eighth goal of the sea- son came at 81:48 from elose 3 Bsc ian Rei vand=: Calgary his first win in three starts as interim coach when Edmon- ton Portland. But it with a little more than’ four minutes left in regulation time to gain the victory. Kai Haaskivi . gave _ the Drillers a 1-0-lead at 17:15. Portland tied the game whon Canadian forward Dale Mit- chell took a pass and scored on a high shot at 47:88, ‘The win upped edmonton's record to 7-12, last in the Northwest Division. Port- - land dropped to 10-9 and fell to fourth place. Boomers piace at 10-10 with 86 points, two points ahead of Portland by Seteating hapless Dallas,.. which lost its consecutive dropped to 2-18. The win was Calgary's ninth in its last 11 games. Jorgen Kristenson and Heil- met Kremers scored for the Boomers. record) 17th Aiea. ‘and edged P took a goal by Peter Nogly / Canada,takes gold. medal at _ : champs Cc (dp) — a ac ae With silver with 186. 98 and Japan won the. bronze with 183.20, Castlegar Fire Dept. captures eight trophies Castlegar Fire Depart- ment. was the best winner of the firemen’s com- petitions at the Canada Day Celebrations in Salmo. | Between the three teams, the -fire department won eight trophies, including first and third in‘the hose laying competition snd first in the . tug o° war with water. =f in the’ hose laying contest. Castlegar ladies team took second’ in the hose laying. About six West Kootenay municipalities were répre- + sented at the competition. . PARADISE, WASH. (AP) — Eleven disabled climbers, seven of them blind, sang and joked as they and their guides inched up 4,892-metre Mount Rainier in a con- quest they hope will show the handicapped can sur- mount any obstacle. The party, led by Jim Whittaker — the renowned mountaineer who was the first American to scale Mount Everest — reached Camp Muir at 3,048 metres last night. The camp served as the base for re- scuers searching for the 11 climbers buried under tons of ice and snow that fell from a glacier on the mountain June 21. The 20-member party began its assault on the summit shortly before noon yesterday. amid near- perfect climbing condi- tions. Xa In addition to the seven ' Handicapped cli blind two are deaf, one has epilepsy. another is a Vietnam vet- and Leaders of the expedi- - tion, nicknamed Project Pelion after the Greek mountain said to be the giants’ stepping stone to heaven, said the group may try to reach the sum- mit by Friday and return Saturday. CLIMB HAS GOALS Phil Barton, leader of Project Pelion and presi- dent of the Pennsylvania- based Institute of Outdoor Awareness, said the goal of the climb is not only to reach the summit, but to destroy the image many people have’ about the limitations’ of the handi- capped. 4 The expedition is one of the projects being rec- ognized nationally by the White House to mark the wait to reach the summit. I want to go now. I feel so great and ready to climb. Apparently all of us feel that way, too.” “Let's go for it!” shouted Sheila_ Holzworth, a 19- year-old blind woman from Des Moines, lows. During a break for candy and water, biind. climber . Raymond Keith, 41, of Ar- lington, Va., left one of his ski poles behind. When re- minded of it, he quipped, “Out of sight, out of mind.” All members of Project Pelion have learned sign Ignguage, so they can com- munieate with the two deaf atid:mute members of the team.