ae Castlégar News March 6, 1988 BUSINESS PROFITS CUT Four airlines merge TORONTO (CP) — Integrating four airlines into one was more expensive than Canadian Airlines International Ltd. planned, with the associated costs wiping out a strong fourth quarter and slashing year-end results. : The extraordinary charges of $29.5* million from one-time spending on the airline's launch and reorganization were about $15 milion higher than Canadian Airlines expected, the company said. Because of the expenses, operating profit of $2.2 million for the fourth quarter was reduced to a net loss of $21.4 million. For the corresponding period a year earlier, the combined operation had operating profit of $18.1 million and a net profit of $16.2 million. For the year, an operating profit of $50.8 million was whittled down to net profit of $21.2 million. Most of the unexpected expenses were for severance payments to about 700 employees whose jobs were eliminated when Pacific Western Airlines of Calgary merged with Canadian Pacific Air Lines of Vancouver, Nordair Inc. of Montreal and Eastern Provincial Airways of Halifax. Meanwhile, PWA Corp. said net income after extra. ordinary charges for the year ended Dec. 31, 1987, was $28.4 million, compared with $37.1 million for the same period in 1986. Net income per common share after dividends on pre ferred shares was $1.22 compared with $2.43. The company recorded an extraordinary charge of $29.5 million after taxes, which reflected a decision to write off all non-recurring integration costs of Canadian Airlines Inter. national. An extraordinary charge of $2 million related to staff reduction programs was recorded in 1986 Operating revenues for 1987 totalled $1.87 billion compared with $361.8 million in 1986. Operating expenses were $1.70 billion compared with $336.5 million. The increase in revenues and expenses reflected the inclusion of the results of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Ltd., acquired by PWA on Feb. 1, 1987. Operating income increased to $164.2 million or 8.8 per cent of operating revenues from $25.3 million or seven per cent of operating revenues. Rhys Eyton, president and chief executive officer of PWA, said a number of initiatives were undertaken during the year to posjtion the corporation for future growth and Mill slated for Vanderhoof VANCOUVER (CP) — A world-class pulp and paper mill is being considered in the Vanderhoof area of central British Columbia, a spokes. man for Alean Aluminum Ltd. said. He said a study concluded the mill could become a world leader making high-quality, low-cost newsprint The study, by Woodbridge Reed and Associates, said that was profitability. “We are encouraged with the. strong financial results achieved during this transition year,” he said, PWA is a Canadian holding company with investments primarily in the airline industry. Elsewhere, Canadian Airlines Internationa! and Crown. owned Air Canada said they are raising d i BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 New insertions, copy News Business March 29 for the month end be April. cancellotions eccopted up to 5 ' Accounting air fares between 1.5 and 2.5 ber cent, effective today, of Wardair said it will likely match the fare increases - but pledged to keep its domestic fares 15- to 17-per-cent lower than its two chief competitors. Air Canada spokesman Denis Couture said rising labor and fuel costs, cost-of-living expenses and fleet replacement were among the factors that caused the fare hike. “The increase is not that significant,” Couture said in a telephone interview. “The last increase took place last November, when domestic fares rose 2.7 per cent across the board.” The new 1.5-per-cent increase affects flights in the well-travelled and highly competitive Montreal-Ottawa-Tor onto triangle. The 2.5-per-cent fare hike affects all other domestic flights, including those of commuter airlines in which Air Canada and Canadian have a stake. A one-way, unrestricted economy fare between Montreal and Toronto increase to $150, not including tax, from $148 on Air Canada and Canadian. A one-way fare between Montreal and Vancouver rises to $549, not including tax, from $535. Weekly Stocks TORONTO (CP) — Surg. gold index shot up 4.1 per Alean is approaching forest possible because products companies for par. ticipation in the mill, Alean regional vice-president Bill Rich said in a news release. Alcan can commit inexpen sive, long-term power through its Kemano hydro- electric project. ing gold stocks led the Tor. onto Stock Exchange to within striking distance of its post-crash high Friday, while the New York market was pulled lower by rising in terest rates. Gold bullion-prices in in ternational markets jumped $10 Friday to $437 US — the first rally since taking a nosedive last week. But gold mining companies have seen their share prices climbing all week, as the price stabilized earlier in the week around $430 US. The average Canadian mine has operating costs of about $225 Cdn an ounce. Analysts say most companies can make healthy profits at current prices. The TSE’s 32-company cent Friday for a weekly gain of 9.52 per cent, or 554.37 points. The TSE 300 composite index — in which golds make up 11 per cent — rose 20.29 points Friday to 3,251.45, picking up a healthy 83.59 points since last Friday. The composite closed at 3,269 on Jan. 7 — the highest level since the October crash. The composite was at 3,598,58 on Oct. 16 the Friday before Black Monday — and dove to its low-point of 2,837.79 by Oct. 28. Volume in Toronto on Fri. day was a healthy 24,746,051 shares worth $273,359,899 as advancing issues outnumbers decliners 511 to 282 with 361 unchanged. BANKRUPTCY DISPOSAL SALE Kennedy Carpets Ltd 2245-6th Ave., Castlegar Sale Beginning Thursday, March 3 9:00 a.m. Sharp Continuing daily including Sunday, March 6 Until all stock and equipment is liquidated ° Bring Your Own Measurements ¢ All Sales Final ¢ No Delivery © Cash Only % EVERYTHING MUST GO! Sale Conducted by Paul Moroso Trustee of the Estate of Kennedy Carpets Ltd. 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After Karen Percy and Laurie Graham finished 1-2 on Friday in a race postponed by weather, it seemed only a matter of time before the Canadians ended Switzer land's perfect 6-for-6 mark in downhills this season. Besides, three of the top Swiss skiers were sidelined with knee injuries suffered in falls on Friday. But when the results were in, Switzerland had kept its hitting streak alive as veteran Brigitte Oertli triumphed. Percy and Graham missed gates and did not finish, and Canadian teammate Kerrin Lee could do no better than sixth place. “We\had dominated all week,” said Graham. “This is frustrating. We just haven't had any luck at all.” The Canadians didn't have the luck of the draw either. With several inches of new snow on the track since Friday's aborted race, a late start number on Saturday would have been preferable, allowing the early racers to sweep the course clear of loose snow DREW NO. 1 Percy, however, drew start No. 1. Lee went fourth and Graham fifth. “It was a disadvantage to run so early,” Graham said. The Canadians didn’t have time to give advice to each other on their walkie-talkies. The snow on the course was harder and slicker than on Friday, which made for faster speeds but greater risk. Percy didn't make it to the bottom to relay her experience. She went out about 30 seconds into her run. “I just came in there with a little too much speed,” said Percy, a double bronze medallist at the Olympics. “I d in the turn and took more air than I wanted ROTA RUSH. . . Ex-Vancouver Canuck Darcy Rota was in Trail Thursday along with Guy Lafleur and a host of other NHL stars from the past to take on a local team of Trail players at the Cominco Arena. 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Anybody who has skied Granite Mountain will have probably al- ready skied the course on a casual weekend visit without even know ing it. The course is, and always will be there, just without the gates, nets and fencing. People ski the area all the time and some will have completed the ¢ourse — before it was set up — without any problems or feeling of accomplishment at all. But then tell them they've just skied the course the women will will be skiing at the Huskey World Downhill and they'll change their tune. Instead of completing a run, they'll boast of surviving an official downhill course. So what's the difference? I did a little fact findings on my own earlier on in the week when I took the opportunity to go to Red Mountain for a nice day's skiing on Granite peak. Even though I'd skied the same area before the course was laid out, I thought I'd include a little spin down the course as it has been designated by the race officials and laid out by the volunteers. The gates hadn't been set, but the course was well into final prepa rations with course “weasels” scrambling to pyt up crowd control fencing and moving snow around the hill. I got to the top of the course — in the Buffalo Ridge area on Granite — Plenty of snow for By BRENDAN NAGLE wi That loud “sigh” heard Thursday morning was one of relief coming from Husky World Downhill course organiz- ers following Wednesday night's 15- centimetre snowfall on Red Mountain. “Things are looking! real good,” said course construction ‘chief Max Spearn on Friday. “It (the snowfall) made a big difference.” Spearn said there was never a doubt course workers would be able to Sporting Views By Brendan Nagle and squeezed into the tiny start shack. Having never skied an “official” downhill course before I was curious to find out what dif- ferences there were . . . if there were any at all. As I peered out of the start shack down the run I was surprised and a little perplexed. The opening pitch — called Papoose Pitch — appeared steeper than Buffalo Ridge usually is. I'm not sure if the angle was increased for the event or not, but looking down on it from the start it just plain looked more intimidating. What the racer sees from the start shack is a very steep, veneer-smooth pitch geared for speed. Television will never be able to provide the home viewer with true visual representation of the steepness of this downhill start. It provides the unwary skier with enough adrenalin to change his tune — immediately. I started down the course, already more intimadated than I'd ever felt skiing this part of the hill before, skiing wide, tentative turns all the way down Papoose Pitch to Airplane Corner. The corner is a hard left-hand bend which has a large net on the outside to keep the skiers out of the trees in case of a bad fall. Realizing I was skiing at about one-fifth the speed of the average downhiller, I knew I wouldn't be running into the net but it just being there presented an eerie feeling about the finality of course. One wrong move and you're into the nets at 120 kmh; another difference realized. The course continued on to Coaches’ Corner — another hard left with netting around the outside — which then goes into the S-turn after the first Catwalk. The second Catwalk leads into Boutry’s Curve which is a technical right-hander with 275 metres of netting. The blind entry to the curve should provide some interesting approach es on race day. Following Boutry's is Indian Flats. Why they call them flats is questionable given the number and severity of some of the rolling bumps that are in that section of the course. There should also be some coarse washboard down there by the time the race starts. After Indian Flats comes a right hander across on to the bottom of Main Run with a left before the final tuck It took me considerably more time to ski this run that it will take the world’s best women skiers and it provided me with a tiny window on what the competitors face when skiing the course. So how does the run differ from skiing it on any other day when it's not set up as the downhill course? It's not as intimidating. In the context of a downhill competition, the course “gets far more respect from the recreational skier. The fact is the recreational skier will never careen down that hill at 120 kmh, but instead will be satisifed with the thought of fin- ishing the course that — after the competition — will again be his weekend domain. to. The snow was slicker than it had been, and I just missed the gate “I didn't know it would be as slick as it was. Maybe with a later number they could have radioed it to me. My good day was yesterday, not today, that's all.” Graham's problem came a few hundred metres down the course. “There are three turns on Aztec,” she said. “I hit the first turn really well. But the snow was hard and it's so steep there you accelerate. I couldn't stay ahead of myself. I was late in the second turn and too direct in the third, and I couldn't make it.” FELLIN PAIN Lee finished but collapsed in pain after unbuckling her boots. Doctors examined her right knee at Aspen Valley Hospital, but the injury was not believed serious. “She had either a pinched cartilage or a spasm in the quad muscle,” said women's head coach Currie Chapman. “She's not really sure where she did it, and neither are we “She felt a shooting pain up her leg when she unbuckled her boots after crossing the finish line. It appears to be a minor injury.” The Canadians will have two more breakthrough opportunities this season, the first coming next week at Rossland, B.C. “It's always great to ski in Canada,” Graham said. “But that won’t change our approach.” The last downhill victory by the Canadian women came in December 1986, by Graham in Val d'lsere, France. “It's going to be our turn one of these days,” Graham said. “It's got to be. We're both (Graham and Percy) skiing well.” Ex-Rebel nets scholarship By CasNews Staff Ex-Castlegar Rebel Dane Jackson is headed for North Dakota this fall on a four-year hockey scholarship. Jackson, who is currently playing for the BCJHL Vernon Lakers, was in Grand Forks, North Dakota, last month at the invitation of the Univer sity of North Dakota hockey coaches. ‘Tm really excited about it,” Jackson said from Yernon. “They've won the NCAA hockey championships four times in the last 10 years.” Jackson also looked at universities in Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota but finally decided on the North Dakota school. “They've got really nice facilities and a nice campus,” he said. “But it does get a little cold.” He leaves for the U.S. at the beginning of September but will return to Castlegar sometime in April to finish off his high school studies at Stanley Humphries. Jackson played two seasons for the Castlegar Rebels before joining the Lakers at the beginning of this season. DANE JACKSON . . off to Dakota Prepare the course but the snowfall made it a little easier and provided just enough top cover to fill in all the thin areas. The opening pitch was one area of concern where course volunteers were busy boot-packing the snow — packing down snow by foot to make the course hard and fast. Spearn said the other main area of concern was the drop right before Boutry's corner. It was getting a little bald but Spearn said there's no course problem now with the latest snowfall “It's a pretty stable snowpack,” he said. “We're working on major course safety over the next two to three days.” More than 7,600 metres of crowd control fencing has gone up along with 573 metres of ‘safety netting for the skiers. Spearn said there are about 25 to 30 volunteers on the hill each day and is hoping for 125 to 150 on the hill when the event begins. Training runs start Wednesday. Jets demolish TORONTO (CP) — Paul MacLean scored three goals and Dale Hawerchuk added two goals and four assists to fuel the Winnipeg Jets to a 10-1 NHL victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night MacLean, who had scored two goals against the Leafs earlier this season, scored his 30th, 31st and 32nd of the season. On Thursday night, he recorded the game-winner and had an assist in the Jets’ 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks. Hawerchuk's six points tied a Jets team record held by two other players and himself. Hawrchuk also scored six points against the Leafs — three goals and three assists — in a game on Dee. 14, 1983. Andrew McBain, Steve Rooney, Doug Smail, Laurie Boschman and Mark Kumpel scored the other Winnipeg goals. PENGUINS 8 ISLANDERS 3 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Randy Cunneyworth and Rob Brown scored nine seconds apart to start a five-goal third period Saturday as the Penguins routed the Islanders 8-3. . Cunneyworth scored his 30th goal of the season on a power play at 1:42 to break a 3-3 tie. From the bottom of the right circle, he one-timed Paul Coffey’s pass from the left point past Islanders goaltender Billy Smith. Coffey had four assists in the game. Pittsburgh won the ensuing faceoff and Brown's second goal of the game and 16th of the season followed precise passes from Bob Errey and Mario Lemieux. Errey tipped Randy Hillier’s shot from the point for his first goal at 10:41 and Dan Frawley jammed the puck past Smith at 11:39 to give the Penguins their second consecutive vietory following a season-high six-game losing streak DEVILS 7 BRUINS 6 BOSTON (AP) — Andy Brickley scored his second goal of the game 47 seconds into overtime to give the New Jersey Devils a come-from-behind 7-6 win over the Boston Bruins Saturday. Bob Joyce, playing in his first NHL game for Boston, scored twice on his former Canadian Olympic teammate, goalie Sean Burke ~ Defenceman Jack O'Callahan also scored twice for the Devils, including the game-tying goal with 1:53 left to play. New Jersey's Doug Brown opened scoring at 7:15 of the first period but Boston's Glen Wesley tied the game 53 seconds later. Boston went up 3-1 on goals 26 seconds apart by Joyce and Cam Neeley before Brickley scored on a power play with just 28 seconds left in the period. WHALERS 3 RANGERS 1 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Carey Wilson assisted on the tying goal and scored the game-winner with 10:11 left in the third period as the Whalers defeated the Rangers 3-1 in action Saturday night Wilson set up defenceman Ulf Samuelsson’s seventh goal of the season at 7:30 of the final period, tying the score 1-1. Wilson then scored the game-winner by tucking in a Leafs rebound after New York goaltender Bob Froese had stopped Dave Babych’s shot from the right point. Paul MacDermid added an empty-net goal with one second remaining for the final margin. Hartford goaltender Mike Liut stopped 20 shots — including three from point-blank range late in the game. BLUES 4 WINGS 4 ST. LOUIS (APO) — Bernie Federko scored on a wrap-around at 3:42 of the third period, climaxing a two-goal rally which gave the St. Louis Blues a 4-4 NHL tie with the Detroit Red Wings Saturday night St. Louis, winless in its last four games, remained 11 points behind first-place Detrit in Norris Division standings with 13 regular-season games remaining. Federko had two assists to go with his 15th goal of the year, and Doug Gilmour had two goals and an assist for the Blues. St. Louis scored its first three goals on power plays, climbing back to gain the tie after Detroit scored three straight times in the second period Brent Ashton, sent in alone on goaltender Greg Millen by Tim Higgins, gave the Red Wings a 2-2 tie 41 seconds into the second period HAWKS 4STARS 2 BLOOMINGTON, *om (AP) — Brian Noonan's unassisted goal with 4:44 left in the game Saturday broke a 2-2 tie, leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-2 NHL vietory over the Minnesota North Stars Noonan picked up a loose puck in the right circle, stepped to the outside and flipped it past Minnesota goaltender Jan Casey. The victory gives the Blackhawks a 3-1-2 mark in their last six games. Minnesota falls to 1-13-1 in its last 15. Minnesota outshot the Blackhawks 11-2 while getting two power-play goals by Dino Ciuccarelli in the game's first 10 minutes. elli scored 2:42 into the game, tippi9ng a slap shot n Bellows past Chicago goalie Bob Mason. He added his 35th of the season 9:20 into the period, batting a rebound past Mason for a 2-0 lead. FLAMES 7 OILERS 4 CALGARY (CP) — Mike Bullard scored twice for Calgary to lead the Flames in a hard-fought 7-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers. With the win, the Flames captured the season-long series against the Smythe Division rivals with a record of four wins, three losses and one tie. When the dust in the Saddiedome finally settled after a brawl late in the game, referee Bob Myers had assessed a total of 206 minutes in penalties to the two teams. Six were game misconducts and three were 10-minute misconducts, Craig Simpson scored twice for the Oilers who trail the Flames in the Smythe Division by three points with 82. John Tonelli, Lanny McDonald, Joe Nikeuwendyk, Gary Suter and Brad MeCrimmon scored for the Flames. Charlie Huddy, Glenn Anderson also tallied for the Oilers.