CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 21, 1983

B.C. newsprint mills i in price war

VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia newsprint pro-
ducers, shaken by a year of shrinking markets and plant
shutdowns, now are in a price war with Scandinavian
producers.

Bert Martin, general manager of B.C. Forest Products
newsprint sales, said that Swedish and Norwegian
companies won more than six per cent of the U.S. West
Coast market in the past year by undercutting North
American producers.

“These days when you are running at the level we are
(below 75 per cent capacity), you take away 6.6 per cent of
our best market and it hurts,” Martin

U.S. producers dropped their West Coast newsprint
price to $445 (U.S.) a tonne a ihe. beginning of July to meet

BO. p

Following the Canadian price cut, the Norwegians
dropped their price another $25. tonne, said Martin.
Sweden is still asking $445.

“The Norwegians have definitely taken a more aggre-
ssive stand,” said Martin. “The Swedes seem to be playing a
more gentlemanly game.”

Most major producers on the American East Coast have
been selling newsprint for $500 a tonne since July 1, said
forest industry analyst Ross Hay-Roe.

MOVED INTO MARKET

Brian Cooper, vice-president of newsprint sales for
Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd., said Scandinavian‘companies
moved into the U.S. market to sell an oversupply of
newsprint at the same time that an additional 600,000 tonnes

prices about a month ago.

of capacity came on stream in B.C.
“We are slugging it out for every tonne of sales we can

because there is such an overeat | a western North
Americal because of the orpenniga ta

He said recent ie
of between eight and 16 per cent lowed those countries to
cut newsprint prices. Martin said the producers also have
saved money on shipping rates by arranging for ships that
take pulp from the West Coast to Scandinavia to bring back
newsprint.

‘It’s conceivable that this will put pressure on us,” said
Cooper. “If eastern producers get pushed out of Europe they
will be looking elsewhere, and that will include our markets
on the Pacific Rim.”

“You may think they can't ship from St. John, New
Brunswick, and compete, but ‘they can if they are des-
perate.”

On the other hand, Martin said the quota adjustment

could actually help, by expanding the European market for.

Scandinavia. As a result of a new treaty, Sweden, Finland’.

and Norway will receive duty-free access to the EEC market
starting Jan. 1.

Both men are optimistic their ‘newsprint sales in the:
U.S. will improve without further price Decreases s by

Canadian producers.

Martin said newsprint buyers rtaay turn away, from:
Scandinavians as suppliers because they lack a long-term.

‘commitment to sell in this market.

Said Cooper: “Our price decrease is having the effect we
wanted it to have, lessening the effect of our off-shore

competition.

“We are going to let that set for a while. We are hoping
the Scandinavians will fold their tent, and we will be able to
get our prices back to a normal level in the Jong term.”

Kootenay elk
centrally heated

VANCOUVER (CP) — The central heating system
for a herd of East Kootenay elk has become a natural
laboratory for University of British Columbia geologists
studying coal gassification.

The elks’ furnace, which provides a nice warm patch
of ground in a cold: East Kootenay winter, is an
underground coal seam fire in the upper Elk River
Valley.

A visit to the site in southeastern B.C. this week by
geologists Bill Mathews and Mark Bustin will likely be
the last examination of the inferno for some time to come.

But if the geologists find their data a bit lacking, they
don’t need to panic. The fire has been barrelling along at a
18.6-metre-a-year clip since 1936.

And Mathews estimates it has about 60 more years
to go until it hits a creek large enough to put it out.

“If it gets past that creek who knows how long it

could go,” Mathews said.

The study is aimed at determining the feasibility of
a scheme to draw off coal gas — described as a poor sub-
stitute for natural gas — from deliberately set coal seam
fires.

. KEEPS ELK WARM

Otherwise, the fire is merely a scientific curio sity—
and an absolute boon to the elk during the Kootenay
winters.

“We were up there one winter and found signs that a
herd of elk were using the area,” Mathews said.

The fire, which produces a patch of warm rocks on
the ground about 88 metres square, is burning the coal
along the top of the seam about 20 metres below ‘ground
level.

“We dug one hole about 25 centimetres deep and got
temperature readings of 800 degrees centigrade even at
that shallow depth,” Mathews said. It was, he added, “hot
enough to fry the soles of your feet.”

Fires in coal seams are not unusual, but they rarely
last long. Generally, they cannot get enough exygen to
survive.

According to a 1946 report by a provincial mines
inspector, the elk fire began 10 years earlier in a short
mine shaft dug by prospectors. A forest fire in the area is

believed to have entered the shaft through a vent pole i

and ignited supporting - -timbers. The timbers in
ignited the coal. ©

Two unsuccessful attempts have been made to put
the fire out.

FOAMY WATER... Y have fun one

I STATS CANADA SAYS:
. Incomes squeezed.

"OTTAWA (CP) — Incomes.

spending unless there are
pe ieunigt increases in wages
he said. And

inclal _wage-restraint pro-
grams appear to be part of the
problem and not part of the
solution, as touted by Finance
Minister Marc Lalonde.
Little or no growth in wages
and salaries and

that doesn't appear to ae in
the cards.

Figures released by the
federal agency show labor
income as whole grew by only
three per cent between April,
1982, and April, 1983, while
during the samé period infla-
tion increased at twice that
rate, rising by 6.6 per cent.

HAVE LESS

That means had

te unemployment are

“It’s all. adding CAE Caras said

even less money to spend last
April than they did in the
depths of the recession last
year.

In part, that is due to the
fact that increases in earnings
have slowed to a virtual

Cross.
are not rising to Mae cae econ-
omic. growth in other areas
and that would definitely hurt
the durability of the recov-
ery,”’ he added.

There already are signs
that

by fed-
eral and provincial wage re-
straint pressures and pro-

grams.
And Lalonde has recently
stepped up Ottawa's restraint

April and May, but! in Jone

éd to an 18-year high in the
second quarter of the year
from a record low during the

Tourist
Alert

VANCOUVER (CP) —

slowed in the second « ‘quarter,
compared with the first quar-
ter of this year and the final
quarter of last year, Cross
said:

Economists agree that grea-
ter consumer spending’ is
“essential td a strong recovery.
They say spending accounts
for two-thirds of the country’s
gross national product — the
value of the country’s goods
and services.

There is no reason to expect:
a strong boost in consumer

The slice was part of
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PHOTOS.
FOUND

LONDON (AP) — Can-
adian scholars have uncover-
ed a cache of some 40,000
turn-of-the-century Canadian
photographs and publications
stored in recesses of a British
Library storage warehouse, a
library spokesman said Sat-

. The collection of photo-
graphs, maps, sheet music
and books dating from 1895
to 1924 unveiled Friday is the
most complete record
material published in Canada
during the period, said the
Times.

Comparable collections in
Canada have been lost or
destroyed by fire over the
years, it said.

The uncatalogued collec-
tion was rediscovered during
s seminar to familiarize Can-

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resources, said a spokesman
for the British Library’s map
department.

“It was never lost — we've
always known it was there,”
she said. “Interest has just
perked up because Canada
has had trouble with its
similar collections.”

The British Museum ori-
ginally acquired the material
under a copyright deposit,
system by which two copies
of Canadian publications
were deposited in Canada
and a third in Britain, the
newspaper said.

“We intend making micro-
film copies to send to Cana-
dian scholars and ‘are examin-
ing and cataloguing all
items,” a library spokesman

said.

The collection also includes
15,000 pieces of sheet music,
and 10,000 books, directories
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recovery.

Meanwhile, Cross said
there also have been only
weak increases in employ-
ment.

“Up to now, I think we've
had’ an! increase in ‘non-agrti-
cultural employment of about
1.5 per cent. That compares
with, for example, 5.2 per.
cent at a similar point in the
recovery in '75.""

There were some increases
in employment in March,

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Reuben Berry

cleans

REGINA (CP) — Only a
few hours after replacing Joe
Faragalli as head coach of
Saskatchewan Roughriders,
Reuben Berry started house-
cleaning Saturday, putting
starting quarterback Joe
Adams on waivers and re-
leasing two other players.

Offensive lineman Don
Swafford and running back.
Jim Manz here released, the

Meanwhile, defensive line-
man Mike Samples will hang
up his cleats to become
defensive line coach.

Earlier Saturday, general
manager Jobn Herrara ann-
ounced Faragalli'and defen-

sive co-ordinator’ Mike

of receiver coach ‘Monte
Charles.

The Roughriders have .a
dismal record, winning only
one of. six. regular-season

es.
Fara; in his first year
with the Roughriders in 1981,

house’

led the hapless team to a 9-7
record, coming up just short
of a playoff berth.

Last

Faragalli said at the. begin-
ning of this season he was
counting on his defence to
return some of the “Rider
pride” which had faded last
season.

“Defence is the key for us
this year,” he said at training
camp in Saskatoon. “With.
our kicking game, if we can
hold ‘the opposition defense-
ively, we can be a factor in
every ball game.” x

However, after six
the Roughrider defence
proved itself the most porcus
in the league. It allowed 220
points, 126 more than the
Lions, who boast the sting-
jest defence.

Berry, who was an ass-
istant coach with the Lions
for five years, has had ex-
perience coaching at the high
school and college level in the
United States.

[ Hockey

The Commu-
nity Complex will be the
site of intense hockey acti-
Shee this week as Kootenay

Hockey: College's main day

~The oldtimer’s: eat
took place this week and
‘was attended by a number.

‘fvof gentlemen and oldtimer

from Castlegar and
Grand Forks. In the opin-
ion of several of the
instructors, it was 8 real
positive experience
+ because the participants
were very enthusiastic and
| showed a real willingness
to try new things.
to

begins this week

ainp ‘and junior camp get ‘

college |

- MAL STELCK
... day-camp full
ation of the coaches’ camp
due to insufficient enrol-
ment. Only three coaches
had

Hockey College Directory,
Mal Stelck, the day camp is
filled and “things are pro-
ceeding exactly as
planned”. :

Registration and orien-
tation take place tonight
and the camp begins Mon-
day morning and runs
throughout the week.

The junior camp also has
.8 good enrolment and gets
underway 9:80 p.m. Mon-
day night.

Although most of the
participants are local,
there will be a number of
players attending from
various other sites such as
Prince George, Surrey,
Sparwood and Grand
Forks.

The only real disappoint-
ment, according to camp

‘TuoOa sPoaTs
1010-4th $1.

NELSON

“uum Phone 365-5210 22,

( personnel, was the cancell-

d for the
two-evening instructional

gram at a very reasonable
coat.
Says Stelck, a “The
Kootenay Hockey College
is primarily con-
cerned with a
high quality of hockey in-
struction to participants.
Too many hockey schools

is for the participants are
the winners and that’s as it
should be,” he says.
Anyone wanting to drop
in on the action can do so
from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
daily, or drop in Saturday
between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
to see the divisional games. 7,

Tennis

classic

to be held here

The first annual Kootenay
Junior Tennis Classic will be
held in Castlegar Aug. 27 and
28 at the Community Com-
plex courts..The tournament

hopes to attract the top

junior players in the area
‘along with players from
‘throughout the Interior of
British Columbia.

The tournament events are
boys and girls singles in age
categories 18 end under, 16
_and under, 14 and under, 12
‘and under; boys and girls
doubles for age classifications
18 and under along with 14

singles events.

Players wishing to play in
the Junior Classic must pre-
register by 10 p.m. Wed-
nesday, Aug. 24. This can be
done by picking up an entry
form at the Castlegar club
courst or by phone through
tournament director, Barry
DePaoli (866-2869). Entry

fees are $4 per singles event,

and $6 per doubles team.
Players are permitted to play
a maximum of three events.

The tournament gets
underway at 8 a.m. The
semi-finals and finals will be
played on Sunday Aug. 28,
beginning at 9 a.m. Spec-
tators are both weleome and
encouraged to watch the top
junior tennis players in the
area compete.

Kootenay.
Savings

Credit Union
1016 - 4th Street, a¢ross from the Post Office.

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Rebels gearing
uP for camp

manager
Ron Rebelato said this week
players will now have to pay
$10 registration fee in order
to cover insurance and camp
administration costs which
have been paid for by the
club in the past.

“Things are getting 50 ex-.

Y CAMP .. . Oldtimer ¢

ts in shape for upcoming hockey season during

HOCKE'
workout at Kootenay Hockey ia for oldtimers at the arena complex this week.
The young boys camp pein: Monday.

—Photo by Mol Steck

players,
siren local priority on the

Canada. finishes fou rth

!@ARACAS (CP) —

fused Canadian ‘Gaceball

‘Not.only did the ‘decision
eliminate Canada from the
medals’ here, it also ended
any hope of the team compe-
ting at the Los

today Olympics next year where

when the medal-round com-
petition gets under way at
the ninth Pan-American

Games.
Canada cefeatod the Dom-
inican

baseball will be the de-
monstration sport. Only the
three medallists will be invit-
ed to compete in Los An-

geles.
said he . would

is fevever win over te

‘meet with Baseball Canada
Caf Pielak to

Ser mela ra tareeeay te
for second place in its pool

ever, during the two-hour
rain delay of Saturday's
game, he said he was told
only runs scored in the games
involving the tied teams

ishes fourth behind the
unbeated United States and
the other two clubs with 42

decide if any further action,

“tt we had known at the
change in rules, the approach
to the game would have been
different since we would
have known that we needed
to score 14 runs,” a Canadian
team official said.

A member of the organ-
izing committee responsible
for baseball contended the

ed.
Canada, which lost, 10-1 to

. Nicaragua and 10-6 to the

U.8., before defeating Puerto
Rico 12-11 and Brazil 10-0,
was in the stronger of the

two pools. The only powerful
team in the other pool was

iba.
DISQUALIFIED
Anne Ottenbrite of Whit-
by, Ont., disqualified from
the 200-metre breaststroke
earliér in the week because of
an illegal kick, set a Pan-
American Games record in
the 100-metre breaststroke
preliminary Saturday to lead
the way into the finals.
Ottenbrite was timed in
one minute, 11.87 seconds to
erase American Tami Pau-
mier’s 1979 mark of 1:12.20
from the record book.
Kathy Bald of Gttawa, wno
won the 200° e on
Thursday after Ottenbrite
was disqualitied, was No. 2
among the qualifiers in
1:12.85. ‘Americans Kim
Rhodenbaugh and Tracy
Caulkins were the third and
fourth-fastest qualifiers.
Americans, who have won
12 of 14 gold medals in the
previous days of
swimming, were the N. 1
finishers in three of the other
four preliminaries held Sat-

urday. All the finals were beth

scheduled for late in the

afternoon seapt the

le, set

In the men's 400 freestyle
heats, Matt Cetlinski of the

Peter Szmidt of Edmonton in
3:69.78,

Michele MacPherson of
Toronto was the top qualifier
in the women’s 100 butterfly
in 1:02.96, just .01 ahead of
Laurie Lehner of the U.S.
MacPherson was disqualified
becuase .of an illegal had
touch, but a Canadian protest
waa upheld and sho was rein-
stated for the final. Patty
King of the U.S. was second
in 1:08.09.

The top qualifier 2 ste
men's 200
Doug Soltis of the US. in in ©
2:28.02. Second was Marco
Veilleux of Vancouver in
2:24.88.

In the 800 freestyle, Tiff-

any Cohen of the U.S. pre- *#arlo

fared for today’s final with a
time of 8:52.75, fastest
among the qualifiers. Mary-
Linzmeier of ‘the U.S.
was second in 9:01.82.

Orioles defeat Royals 6-1

BALTIMORE (AP) —
G

Orioles defeated Kansas City
Royals 6-1 Saturday.
Following a seven-game
losing streak, the Orioles
have won seven of eight, a
spurt that has enabled them
to regain the lead in the
American League East.
Boddicker, 10-6, won for
the sixth time in eight deci-
sions, and Martinez took over
with none out in the eighth to
earn his 18th save with two
innings of one-hit relief.
Roenicke slammed his 15th
homer in the second
off Lary Gura, 10-16, and
added an RBI single in the
fourth. Ken Singleton hit his
16th homer of the season in
the Orioles’ three-run eighth.
Dan Ford opened the

fourth with a single. He was
picked off by Gura but reach-
ed second with a stolen base
when first baseman Willie
Aikens never made a throw

gle

The Orioles added a run in
the seventh on a double by
Rich Dauer and a single by
John Shelby. After Single-
ton's eighth-inning homer,
Todd Cruz singled, stole
second and scored on Dauer’s
double. Rick Dempsey singi-
ed, stole second and scored
on Dauer’s double.
Dempsey singled home
Dauver.
RED S80X 5 BLUE JAYS 2

BOSTON (AP) — Jim Rice
hit a grand slam homer in the
third inning, and veteran
Dennis Eckersley earned his
first Fenway Park victory in
two months as Boston Red
Sox snapped a six-game

Rick |

losing streak with a 62
victory over Toronto Blue
Jays. Eckersley, 7-9,
seattered eight hits in 8 1-8
innings, including Ernie
Whitt's line-drive homer off
the right-field foul pole. Bob
Stanley finished up for his
28rd save. Toronto starter
Dave Stieb, 18-11, allowed
eight hits in 7 1-8 innings.
The Blue Jays, who had

‘won three straight and seven

or eight, fell 2 '% games
behind first-place Baltimore
in the American League

Gerald Perry's two-run pinch
single capped a four-run
seventh inning that rallied
the first-place Atlanta
Braves to a 9-2 National
League victory over Chicago
Cubs.

With the Braves trailing
2-1, Terry Harper opened the

seventh with a single and
was forced by Dale Murphy.
Bob Watson doubled, and

Murphy scored the typing cham

run on a single by Rafael

RON REBELATO
...campfee

The Rebels are hoping for
the return of some of last
eee Payers. F Players from
include goaltender

Beeavi Voykin, Lyle Stoush-
now, Dean McKinnon, Scott

Jones, Sean Armstrong,
Kevin Kirby, Dave Perehud-
off, Dave Terhune, Randy
Morris, John Obetkoff, Fred
Posdnikoff and Jack Kani-

gan.
The Rebels will also take
a look at a few juvenile
hockey players “who didn't
quite make last
year", said Rebelato.
He beaded that the Rebels
are accepting
camp applications cash te
the opening day of camp. Any
player 15 to 20-years-old, in-
terested in trying out for the

calling

during office hours or Rebels
president Jim Corbett at
865-5189. Players can also
simply show up at the arena
complex between 7:30 p.m.
and 68 p.m. on the opening day
of camp.

Kemp worried
= about relationship

NEW YORK (AP) —
Slumping Steve Kemp is
worried about his relation-
ship with manager Billy
Martin.

“There's no communication
between us,” the New York
Yankees outfielder said Sat-
urday. “We don't have to be
buddy-buddy or anything like
that, but I'd like to talk to

you're going through —
inow that It's been tough.”
In his first year with thé
Yankees, after signing a
five-year contract worth a
reported $5.45 million as a
free agent on Dec.8, Kemp
has struggled with a bone
chip in his right shoulder. It
is the result of a three-way
collision in the outfield on the
first Saturday of the season.
Refusing surgery or rest,

Kemp, played in pain.
‘I would never do that

again,” he said.

Conforming his swing to

the pain, which lasted for
three months, he is batting
252. He has gone from a
starter, to a left-handed
platoon, to the bench.

In Friday night's 16-hit,
116 vietory over California
Angels, Kemp opened the

righthander

tedium. -

“It’s a start,” he said. “I'm
excited about the last’ month
and a half, I think 'm ready
now. I think I'll show people
what I can do now.”

On the suggestion of
player-batting coach Lou
Piniella, Kemp has adjusted
his hitting stroke, lowering
his hands at the start of his

swing.

“I think it’s going to help a
Jot. I've got my hands below
the waist now. It’s enabling
me to be a lot quicker and to
go into the pitch without
pulling off the ball.”

1980 Olympics
Runner doped

HELSINKI (Reuter)—The
Iitalehit newspaper says
Finnish distance runner
was blood
doped when he won two
medals at the 1980 Moscow

have been blood doped by the
same medical team for the
first world track and field

which finish-
ed here last Sunday if he had

Ramirez off loser Steve wished.

Trout, 9-11.

Randy Johnson singled off
reliever Warren Brusstar to
scote Watson with the lead
un end, after Prure Eepec tee

“walked, Perry greeted relie-

ver Craig Lefferts with his
two-run single.

Perry, brought up earlier
in the week as a replacement
for injured Chris Chambliss,
hit his first major-league
home run and drove in three
runs Friday in Atlanta's 6-3
triumph over the Cubs.

The Braves wrapped it up
with four more in the eighth
with Ramirez singling in one
run, Benedict driving in two
more with a single and
another scoring on Brett
Butler's sacrifice fly.

Iitalehti said Maanika, who

say why he waited until now
to make the revelation. He
did not identify the medical
team.

His coach for the Olympics,
Elovaara, confirmed

reporters
ba the only athlete involv-

Blood doping involves re-
moving a pint of the Athlete's
blood, removing the plasma
and white corpuscles so that
only the red are left, and
storing them for about three
weeks,

The red corpuscles are
then returned to the athlete
_to increase the amount of
oxygen his blood circulates
through the body.

‘that an athlete's performance
can be improved by up to
eight per cent with blood
doping, sometimes the diff-
erence between an Olympic

Viren, who won the 5,000 and
10,000 metres in Munich and
again in Montreal four years
later, had been blood doped,
sccusations that Viren has
consistently denied.

The International Olympic
Committee and the Interna-
tional Amateur Athletics
Federation have not banned
blood doping because it has
been impossible to detect.

Pekka Peltokallio, who has
been associated medically
with Finnish athletic teams
for a number of years, told
reporters Friday the process
should be prohibited.

“It is wrong, it is doping
and should be prohibited,” he