since the early ave of jaze,, sealped from radio, television, live gongerts or o tapes — have survived. Local dealers aren't quick to admit to their existence, though. One record store clerk’ at first ‘denied he had any bootlegs on the premises. Ona not to divulge the lovation of the store, the clerk admitted that acquiring bootlegs is a rather clandes- tine activity. “It's like drugs. You know people by their first names, you don't have any phone numbers and you don't ask any questions.” John Langley is an ex-ROMP officer who wants to know the name of the store where the clerk works. The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) gives Langley and Associates $250,000 a year to make the lives of bootleggers miserable. Langley said his work this year has resulted in about 60 charges, against bootleg retailers and five against manu- facturer-distributers, “I could tell you of 14 to 16 | in V; that te diate Mevawant | aay. taut « putholagiet ot ‘Magee Wastes: Samant wee San “A lot be hcnewen? never pe e ppoergica diagnosis becsuse the (old) test was he said. “Therefore, doctors =a confront the disease. Now, it ean be confirmed everyw! An estimated three satin ye dae in the United States suffer from urethritis, a venereal disease caused by Chlamydia, an intra-cellular that's neither a virus nor a bacteria, saiti Wil Whittington of the Centre for Disease Control. That's more than three times the number of reported gonorrhea victims, and the ratio could be even higher, Whittington said. “Everyone is talking about gonorrhea and syphilis, but the disease that’s big and a serious problem is Chlamydia — and patients don’t know about it,” Amortegui said. “Now that we have the tools to recognize it . . . we're realizing how common it is.” That doesn't mean there's a cause for alarm, however, sell bootlegs openly,” Langley said in a telephone interview from Toronto. However, charges won't be laid against the outlets right away. Langley said the outlets will only get a letter informing them that they are involved in an illegal activity. PROVE KNOWLEDGE “You have to prove knowledge,” Langley explained. He said he'll return before the end of the year to make another purchase — if the bootlegs are still on the shelves — for the purpose of laying charges. “This way they can't go to court and say they didn't know what they were doing.” Still, bootleggers may not be in a hurry to remove the records. Selling bootleg records carries a fine of $10 per count up to a maximum of $200 in Canada. “It's nothing. It’s a business expense,” Langley said. “I think it should be considered a serious offence.” There are no penalties for possessing bootlegs. At the border you can declare bootlegs, pay the duty and freely bring them into the country. NO CHANGES HERE In spite of changes in U.S. law, which now allows a fine of up to $250,000 for bootlegging, Langley doesn't expect changes here. Langley estimated the bootleg business is responsible for about one quarter of the $30 million annual trade in illegal records in Canada. Langley disputed the frequent claim that bootleggers are devoted music historians who don't make a nickel for their work. “Anybody who tells you that bootleggers aren't making money — they're stroking you.” Sometimes bootlegs are valuable because of their rarity. Others document the evolution of a song, as with the three versions of The Beatles’ I've Got A Feeling on the Black Album. Some bootlegs simply offer combinations of musicians who are not legally permitted to record together because of the rules of their contracts. SLICKER PRODUCTIONS The days when signs advertised bootleg record sections and the bands were identified only by a paper insert or a stamp on the anonymous white jackets are gone though. on domed "hours, and costs $60 to “To tmprove the diagnostie process, a Chicage laboratory developed a cheaper, pe ys! method, using regular illness scar met fen in Abie, An nd parts of euthwanter United States, In addition, 180,000 babies are born each year with the mothers, Whit! said. The symptoms in men and unexplained discharges in both sexes — also have Chlam- DISCHARGES — frequent, painful urination can go ‘88, Spectrop: ‘Amortegui, who was asked to compare the two methods, tested about 350 women between the ages of about 16 and 50 who sought counselling last year at an Allegheny County venereal diséase clinic. He found that the infection struck 15.7 per cent of the patients. He then studied 514 female patients seeking advice from a Pittsburgh birth control clinic. About nine per cent of the women were infected. Amortegui warns that proper and treatment are meaningless if infected victims don't tell their sexual partners about their illness or their partners refuse to seek hel. B a S A temporary crib Standard size, with single drop side. Warm maple finish $15 off a crib mattress 5199 POPULAR SPORT .. . Kootenay Savings jit Union CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Explosion just beginning here The following Is the first of a series of articles on cross-country skiing, a sport which has become popular in the West Kootenays and across the coun- try. By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer It's one of those sunny, picturesque winter days that you see in photographs. A day to be out enjoying the great outdoors, leisurely, away from the crowds, communing with nature. What better way to do it than on cross-country skiis? : Cross-country skiing has had the biggest increase in participation in any sport, according to Cross-Country Canada, an arm of the Canadian Ski Association. A recent Fitness Canada Survey by the federal government estimated that the number of people cross-country skiing in Canada has increased 149 per cent since 1976. The survey estimated in 1981 that approx imately 3.5 million Canadians skied. On the local scene, the Castlegar Nordic Ski Touring Club this year has increased its membership from 40 family memberships to 240, says Nordic club president Jaako Hartman. Traditionally, Castlegar is a downhill skiing area, while non-skiers “have stayed at home,” he added. “But people like to start believing that-it’s no more difficult than walking on the street.” As well, bringing the facility closer by opening up the Castlegar Golf Club to Nordic club members, has helped to popularize the sport, Hartman said. The 20 km drive to the Paulson Ski Trails at Nancy Greene Lake may have prevented some would-be skiers from skiing, along with the worry of “what it’s like in the mountains,” adds the veteran skier. “All of a sudden (with the facilities closer to home) everyone wants to join.” Hartman admits that it’s a fad with the golf course, but the club will probably retain 80 per cent of its mem- bership. Lyle Archambault ef Mountain Ski and Sports Hut notes that cross-country ski sales are increasing about 15 pef' cent every year in this a He also notes that downhill skiing is not losing out to cross-country. “Both are growing — downhill seven to eight per cent per year,” says Archambault. “A lot of people do both, as well as telemarking,” he adds. He adds that sales have grown over the years, as have rentals. Hartman points out that between 20 and 30 per cent of his members are former downhill skiers, who have become “sick of waiting in lineups for lifts to get up the hill.” “But come springtime when the weather is sunny, many don't mind waiting in line and go back-te downhill skiing,” he says. Line-ups for cr try skiing are in this area, unlike Oka park outside Montreal, where Hartman says there were lineups of between 40 and 60 skiers waiting to ski down the hill. Hartman says cross-country skiing caught on in Quebec in the mid-70's. “I was already in Montreal when it suddenly started. It happened over about two years — three at the most.” It began about 1964 and by 1974 “it was the thing to do.” 4 “Every department store had racks of them (skis). But most salesmen had no idea what was wanted. They were selling plastic boots.” And Hartman says cross-country skiing is still popular in Quebee. “It didn't end up as a fad.” In B.C. “the explosion is just beginning here,” . adds. The biggest try event in the provi the 100 Mile House Marathon which attracts a thousand participants. In contrast, the Canadian Ski Marathon, a 100-mile race from north of Montreal to north of Ottawa, draws 4,000 skiers each year. Hartman notes how quickly a beginner is able to learn the sport. So quickly, in fact, that so far only four skiers have turned up to club skiing lessons. Yet he still advises lessons for the novice. Hartman admits injuries in cross-country skiing are not unheard of, though they are rare. “I can't remember anywhere back in Finland (where cross-country skiing is the national sport) where anybody had a cast on (because of a cross-country injury),” he says. All it takes to break a leg in downhill skiing — espec- ially with a younger person — is to bend the wrong way. With cross-country, the bindings are totally loose. “If you want to break a leg it's going to be from the speed at which you are travelling, and wrapping yourself around a tree.” Hartman notes that cross-country skiing can be cross-country skiing at biggest increase in participation of any sport in Peter Johnstone at TuDor Sports says sales this Bootlegging is changimg, particularly in the U.S. where operations have become smaller and packaging slicker in response to tougher laws and tighter enforcement. Another record store owner, who also asked not to be identified, said “I only keep five or six titles in stock at any given time, so I don't have much to lose.” Sophisticated packaging makes bootlegs harder for the average buyer to identify, he added He said he can't make money on the records, which cost him $12 or $14, and keeps them in stock only as a service to his customers. 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NHL ROUNDUP Bruins whip Penguins BOSTON (AP) — Craig MacTavish scored and assisted on another Saturday as Boston Bruins whipped Pittsburgh Penguins 7-3 for their fourth consecutive National Hockey League victory. Rick Middleton, Mike Gillis, Mike O'Connell, Ray Bourque and Lindon Byers also scored for Boston as the Penguins suffered their sixth successive loss. The Bruins, 7-2-1 in their last 10 starts while leading the Adams Division, outshot Pittsburth 40-15. Two Pittsburgh goals came on power plays. ‘Midd put Boston in front midway through the first period with his 28th goal of the season and Gillis made it 2-0 two minutes later with his fourth goal. Pittsburgh pulled into a 2-2 tie early the second period. Tom O'Regan scored his third goal with 30 seconds elapsed in the period and Andy Brickley made it 2-2 with his 10th goal, on a power play, at 6:11. ISLANDERS 4 RANGERS 2 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Mike Bossy scored the 400th goal of his NHL career and set up two other goals to lead New York Islanders to a 4-2 victory over New York Rangers. Bossy, who extended his consecutive game point streak to a career-high 19, converted Butch Goring’s-pass at 12:29 of the third period for his 35th goal of the season to cap the scoring. The right winger, in his seventh ygar, became the 22nd player in NHL history to reach the 400-goal mark. The undermanned Islanders,-playing without injured regulars Bryan Trottier, Brent Sutter, John Tonelli and Anders Kallur, also received solid goaltending from Roland Melanson. The Rangers carried the play for much of the game but only Mike Allison in the first period and Peter Sundstrom in the second, with a shorthanded goal, could solve Melanson. FLYERS 3 QUEBEC 3 QUEBEC (CP) — Brian Propp connected on a low shot to the left-handed side for his 24th goal at 18:01 of the third period enabling Philadelphia Flyers to earn a 3-3 tie against Quebec Nordiques. Thé Nordiques seemed on the verge of winning their sixth straight game overall and 11th in a row at home until Propp broke down the centre and beat goaltender Dan Bouchard with a sizzling wrist shot from the slot. Before the goal, Peter Stastny of the Nordiques had the hero's réle; scoring his 25th goal of the season and setting up his brother Anton to provide Quebec with a 3-1 lead midway through the y The points enabled Stastny to,break his own team record of 18 consecutive games with at least one point. In the record-setting 19-game stretch Stastny has scored 18 goals and added 17 assists. BUFFALO 2 DETROIT 1 DETROIT (AP) — Rookie goaltender Tom Barrasso, less than a year out of a Massachusetts high school, came within 4:45 of his first NHL shutout Saturday night, and Craig Ramsay and Lindy Ri ored one goal each as jo Sabres extended their winning streak to six games a 21 victory over Detroit Red Wings. r stopped 36 shots and outdueled Detroit netminder Greg Stefan before Steve Yzerman spoiled the shutout bid with his 27th goal of the season on a power play late in the third period. Ramsay broke the scoreless tie at 17:14 of the second period, converting Brent Peterson's pass for his third goal of the season. Ruff added a power-play goal at 12:20 of the third period to increase the Sabres’ lead to 2-0. NEW JERSEY 3 MONTREAL 1 “MONTREAL (CP) — Jan Ludvig and Tim Higgins scored third-period goals 14 seconds apart to snap a 1-1 tie and lift New Jersey Devils to a 3-1 victory over Montreal. Ludvig picked up an errant pass by Guy Lafleur and slapped in a shot from the outer rim of the left-wing circle at 18:32 and Higgins slid a shot past Montreal goaltender Richard Sevigny from the right-wing side as the Devils won their 10th game of the season. Yvon Vautour also stored for New Jersey and Devils goaltender Glenn Resch made that stand up until 16:00 of the third period when Mats Naslund finally beat him. Up to that point, Resch had blocked 32 shots. ‘A 4 BLUES 2 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Keith Acton's 13th goal of the season broke a 2-2 deadlock midway through the second pene and helped lift Minnesota to a 4-2 victory over St. Louis. Acton got a piece of the puck and flipped it past Blues goalie Mike Liut just inside the near post. Brian Lawton and Al MacAdam had given the Norris Division-leading North Stars a 2-1 lead after one period. Gord Roberts set up Lawton's seventh goal, intercept- ing a Dolug Wi pass just inside the St. Louis blue” line. scored shorthanded with 22 seconds remaining in the period. He intercepted a Rob Romage pass at the Minnesota blue line and scored on a breakaway. — Greg Terrion’s second penalty-shot this season allowed Toronto Maple Leafs to move into g 22 tie with the Black Hawks. Leaf captain Rick Vaive had the best scoring chance in overtime when he banged a shot off Chicago goalie Murray —* glove and goal post 26 seconds into the extra The'score was 1-1 going into the third period on a first period power-play goal by Chicago's Jeff Larmer and a second-period goal by Toronto’s Gaston Gingras. Bombers want the same WINNIPEG (CP) — Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football league, low on money and high on hopes, say they want nothing less than afforded the National Hockey League's Winnipeg Jets. Bombers’ president George Graham, hearing talk of an imminent deal that would reduce the Jets’ rent at Winnipeg Arena and give the NHL team other concessions that together would result in extra revenue of $1.2 million, said the Bombers deserve the same. “If there are any great benefits bestowed upon the Jets, we would hope to drive the same benefits,” Graham said in an interview Friday. The Jets, owned by eight local investors, have threatened to sell the team unless the city’s Winnipeg Enterprises Corp., which operates the arena, sweetens the pot. WANT CONCESSIONS In a proposal to a government committee composed of representatives from the city and province, the Jets have. asked for reduced rent and at least 50 per cent of profits from beer sales, parking, food concessions and advertising. In return, the Jets — who have projected a $1.3 million loss for this season, about on par with past years — say they would pay the city 50 per cént of season ticket revenues and ‘allow civic and provincial representatives to sit on the club's board of directors. Club president Barry Shenkarow predicted Friday a deal to keep the Jets in Winnipeg under present ownership would be completed by Monday. However, the Bombers, a publicly-owned club, claim they are in a tight financial situation of their own that deserves attention. The club has projected a $400,000 deficit for the 1983 season. “They (Winnipeg Enterprises Corp.) know our feelings,” said Graham. “I'm sure the Enterprises will keep us in mind.” However, he said the Bombers have no plans to push the issue. SHOW PATIENCE “The last thing: the. needs now is another tenant with any kind of request,” he said. “I don’t think we'll win any friends rushing in there and making demands.” The city already has given the Bombers some financial relief. The corporation agreed toa Bomber request to reduce rent at Winnipeg stadium and also waived a $48,000 rental fee for the Nov. 14 Western Division semifinal. Bob Plaxton, the ib for fecack sabd'the eertaration eed Seen very fair to the club in recent Bey rnisber rel. pepe help aed he said, reported Labatt Brewing Co. Ltd. had been contacted by the %, ding city and asked if it would be interested in buying the Jets, should negotiations with the present owners break down. However, former Liberal cabinet minister James Richardson and Randy Moffat, president of Moffat Communications Ltd., confirmed Friday they too had been approached for the same reason. “T can't speak for the rest of my family, but some people have telephoned me,” said Richardson, a former Liberal defence minister under Prime Minister Trudeau. “I've had some casual enquiries, yes, but no formal delegation has ever come down to my office and approached me about purchasing the hockey club. Selkirk Saints split games By CasNews Staff Selkirk Saints women's basketball team split two games Saturday in the first day of a weekend invitational tournament being held at Selkirk F The Saints recorded a 56-64 victory over the Old- timers, a team comprised mostly of Rossland players. In their other game they lost half, but the Breakers over- came the deficit to win 47-39. Shona Emlah led the Breakers’ scoring with 16 points. Castlegar native Ellen Fowler had 10 points and Stania Juriga and former Saint Phoebe Kari had eight points each. In the Saints-Oldtimers game, the Oldtimers led 32-26 at the half, but the Saints pushed the game into overtime to defeat them 56-54. Lisa Koochin was the top Saints scorer with 17 points while Tammy Bell and Chery! McCarger led the Oldtimers with 14 points each. In the final game of the day, the Breakers led 31-22 at the half and went on to defeat while Tammy Bell and Kim — chipped in 10 points “the Coma got 14 pinta at 9 am. At 11 am. the Saints play the Cossacks. Consolation final is at 1 p.m., Saints led 25-20 in the first championship is at 8 p.m.