November 20, 1968 DIRECTORS INSTALLED . . . The Castlegar Chamber of Commerce in- stalled its board of directors this week at the Fireside Inn. (From irae ccmmme caves — Renwick, Juella Andreashuk, Gerry Hoodicoff, Mike O'Connor, Mal Stelk, Patti Richards and Doug Ferguson. Paul Oglow swore them left) Ernie Turta, Jim Craig, Joy Jenner, Jack Parkin, Bryan Loewen, Conttows Photo Fred Parker, and Dale Nielsen. Missing are Dwayne Mills, Laurie Building permits increase By CasNews Staff Building activity in Castlegar con tinues to outpace last year’s con struction. The value of building per- mits issued by the City of Castlegar more than doubled in October, com pared to October 1987 This October, permits totalled nearly $191,000, compared to $91,500 for the same month last year. The increase came in both residential and industrial construction. Permits for three new homes to- talling $83,000 were issued this October compared to a single permit worth $40,000 last October As well, two industrial permits totalling $48,000 were issued in October 1988 compared to one permit worth $800 in October 1987. Residential alterations also con tinue strong with 18 permits issued in October worth $46,675. As well, five commercial permits worth just over $13,000 were issued To the end of October, 290 building permits have been issued worth $6.25 million, compared to 267 per mits totalling $2.47 million in 10 months a year ago. Weekly stocks TORONTO (CP) — Optimism on financial markets that the Conser vatives will win a majority in Monday's federal election lifted share prices on the Toronto stock market Friday to a week-ending gain. 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A runner presses up the final hill before the finish line at the B.C. high school cross country running champiénships yesterday More than 270 high school boys completed the 7K run at Selkirk College. MOre than 200 girls com- pleted the 5K run. CosNewsPhoto by Nick Allon Victoria, Kelowna win provincial team titles *399 2-Piece Quality Chesterfield Sofa Suites Sleepers With matching -At “Smetecks. Swivel Chair. Only By CasNews Staff St. Michael's university school of Victoria won the boys team 7K event at the provineial high sehool cross. country championships held at Sel. kirk College yesterday. Claremont of Victoria placed second and Charles Bloom secondary school of Vernon finished third. None of the boys high school teams from the Kootenays finished in the top 10. In girls 5K team standings, Kel owna secondary placed first. Clare. mont secondary was second and College Heights of Prince George placed third. The top Kootenay girls team was the Prince Charles squad from Creston — which placed sev enth in the province. Tonya Todd of Pitt Meadows sec- ondary was the best individual fin. isher in the girls 5K event. Andrea Bertoia of Okanagan-Mission was second and Karen Hoar of Kelowna third. Sarah Lidstone of L.V. Rogers was the top Kootenay finisher. She placed 20th. The top local runner in the girls individual competition was Laura Lynn Harmston of Kinnaird Junior. She finished 65th. Neal Van Beers of Fulton sec ondary in Vernon won the boys in dividiual 7K run. Chad DePol of Claremont was second and Johann Lindquist of Queen Elizabeth sec ondary in Surrey was third. The top finisher from the Kootenays was John Greaves of Grand Forks. He finished 21st. James Klassen of L.V. Rogers placed 29th and Patrick Shippit of J.L. Crowe was 31st. Daryl Furey was the top local finisher. The Stanley Humphries runner placed 49th. Greeting Cards for Any Occasion All New! 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It’s usually a simple arrangement. The club executive and directors hire a coach, get him the necessary ingredients for a team and let him go to work — the premise being the coach knows what's best for the players and the team and is given the right to see to it. By Brendan Nagle But not in this case. Sure, the Rebels started the season poorly with an anemic five-win, 10-loss record when Weir got the word. Sure, the club was struggling on the ice and was experiencing “internal problems.” That alone may have given management a valid reason to let Weir go. But when the unity of the team is fractured by a dissenting player, it is the coach's decision to deal with that player — not management's. That is his job. That, supposedly, is what g hired him to do. Weir identified a situation that was proving harmful to the unity of the team and dealt with it, quickly. He realized the already frayed nerves of the players were not being helped any by a rookie quitting in mid-game, saying he could get more icetime playing for Beaver Valley. To get an idea as to how the other players reacted to the swift mid-game departure of this player, you had to be in the Rebel dressing room Who coaches team? during the second period intermission of the Beaver Valley game on Nov. 8. The Rebel player who left the game was moping about the dressing room when the team came in for the intermission. One of the veteran Rebel players grabbed the rookie's equipment bag and heaved it out the dressing room while showering the kid with every unprintable word in the book. Definitely a situation a coach has to sort out fast. Weir figured it was in the team’s best interests to let the kid go and play for another team. Management disagreed, kept the kid and cut Weir loose. So what happens to the players now? Do they follow the coach — Ken Swetlishoff is now the man at the mercy of the front office — or do they look for the next decision from the executive? I just hope that Swetlishoff will be able to keep his eyes from looking over his shoulder long enough to concentrate on the important job of coaching the Rebels to the playoffs this season. * . * In other sports, we are again left out of the CFL playoff picture. The B.C. Lions are in Edmonton to take on the Eskimos at Commonwealth Stadium this Sunday. The game is televised but we don't get it Just as we were shafted for a few of the Edmonton-Calgary games in last season's NHL playoffs, we find ourselves missing the Lions’ biggest game of the season to date. The Canadian Football Netowrk, (CFN) is on the Global network and we don't get it. I'm mad because I live in British Columbia and I don't get to see the B.C. Lions play. It doesn't make any sense to me but it sure makes sense to the CFL because it gave the broadcasting rights to the CFN. I think the only way we're going to change this selective marketing ploy is|to write the league and say it is ignoring a significant group of CFL enthusiasts who might just as well switch to NFL viewing because we get more televised American games. If you feel the way I do about this, write a letter to the CFL commissioner's office, or better yet drop a nickel and call. Address your letter to Doug Mitchell, CFL Building, 1200 Bay St. 12th Floor, Toronto, Ont., MSR 2A5 or phone 416-928-1200. Let's let Doug and the CFL really know about how we feel when we can't watch our team play an important game because of short-sighted league marketing s' gies. LATE GOAL November 20,1968 9) ¢ D Kootenay Savings Canucks beat Blues ST. LOUIS (AP) — Petgi Skriko’s goal on a rebound with 6:36 left lifted the Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night, snapping Van. couver's five-game NHL winless skid. Skriko’s 12th goal of the season came after Vancouver defenceman Larry Melnyk fired a shot from the point that bounced off the backboards and out in front of the net. Skriko lifted the rebound over goaltender Vincent Riendeau in a wild scramble in the slot. Skriko is Vancouver's leading scorer with 12 goals and 13 assists for 25 points in 22 games. Brian Bradley had a pair of goals, his sixth and seventh for the season for Vancouver, which was 0-4-1 in its last five. Steve Tuttle and Bernie Federko each contributed a goal and an assist for St. Louis. Tuttle gave the Blues a 1-0 lead when he converted a pass from Herb Raglan 1:22 into the match. The goal was Tuttle's fifth of the season. HABS 5 HAWKS 3 MONTREAL (CP) — Russ Courtnall scored two goals and set up two more as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 5-3 in NHL action Saturday night. The victory was Montreal's third straight, while Chicago saw its unbeaten streak end at four games. Courtnall, skating with feverish intensity all night, set up the winner by Shayne Corson at 12:59 and then made a great pass to provide Brent Gilchrist with an open net on his insurance goal at 15:11. The Blackhawks had tied the game at 5:29 of the third period when Rich Vaive scored with Montreal playing two men short. Chicago had a golden opportunity to go ahead two minutes later, when Montreal's Craig Ludwig drew a five-minute penalty for elbowing Trent Yawney in the face. Yawney had to leave the game on a stretcher. Bobby Smith also scored for Montreal, while Steve Thomas had the other Chicago goals. Darren Pang was brilliant in goal for Chicago, notably in the second period when the Canadiens dominated the play and outshot their visitors 16-6. ISLES 6 PENS 3 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) Pat LaFontaine scored in the first minute and assisted on a key second-period goal by Alan Kerr as the New York Islanders broke a four-game winless streak with a 6-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. In winning the first meeting of the season between the Patrick Division rivals, the Islanders held NHL scoring leader Mario Lemieux without a point until 52 seconds remained. The start of the game was delayed 15 minutes by ceremonies honoring Islanders centre Bryan Trottier Nancy Greene remember skier VANCOUVER (CP) — Nancy Greene-Raine has never met Erik Schinegger but Canada’s Alpine super star of the 1960s remembers when he was a she. Schinegger, the dominant women’s World Cup skier of the era, was ex ceptionally “homely for a woman” Greene-Raine said. But she was personable and well-liked by the other women on the circuit. Schinegger disappeared abruptly from the women’s circuit in 1968 after a sex test determined she had functional male sex organs. Schinegger’s male organs had not descended properly at birth, he was pronounced a girl by the family doctor and brought up as a girl. He's the only skier in the World Cup record book who competed in both men’s and women's events. “She was very homely as a female, very homely, so this revelation ex plained why she had no complexes about her looks,” Greene-Raine said. “T still think of him as a woman I've never met him as a male.” This week in Vienna, Schinegger, now married and father of a teenaged daughter, surrendered the 1966 world championship downhill gold medal to runner-up Marielle Goit schel. Schinegger also arranged to have the Federation internationale de ski (FIS) officially change the result to reflect Goitschel’s victory. “It was a nice thing to do for Marielle,” Greene-Raine said. “It will be a shot im the arm for her.” Goitschel wasn't the only skier who had to take a back seat to Schinegger. Greene-Raine, who won the wom en's Olympic downhill in 1968 after Schinegger had withdrawn from the circuit, recalls finishing second to the for playing 1,000 NHL gamés. Trottier scored an empty-net goal with 17 seconds left FLAMES 5 WHALERSZ ~" HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Calgary forward Joe Mullen had a goal and two assists and Joo Nieuwendyk added two goals as the red-hot Flames overpowered the Hartford Whalers 5-2 in the NHL Saturday night. Defenceman Gary Suter added three assists, while forwards Colin Patterson and Joel Otto also scored for the Flames, who won their fifth straight game and have a league-leading 31 points. Calgary, 14-4-2, is on an 8-1 tear since Oct. 31. Rick Wamsley stopped 16 shots and improved his career record against Hartford to 10-4-2. Ulf Samuels- son and Sylvain Cote scored for the Whalers, who have just one win in their last eight games. NORDS 6 FLYERS 5 QUEBEC (CP) — Michel Goulet scored early in the third period to snap a tie and give the Quebec Nordiques a 6-5 triumph over the Philadelphia Flyers in NHL play Saturday night Walt Poddubny had tied the game minutes earlier with his second goal of the game and 15th of the season. The Flyers began the third period with a 5-4 lead on two goals apiece from Tim Kerr and Pelle Eklund and a single from Scott Mellanby, but Poddubny's power-play goal after 46 seconds and Goulet’s sixth goal of the season, a slap shot from the slot at 3:01, snapped Quebec's winless streak at six CAPS 3 DEVILS 2 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Geoff Courtnall scored on a 15-foot shot with 48 seconds remaining, giving the Washington Capitals a 3-2 NHL vietory Saturday night over the New Jersey Devils. Bengt Gustafsson intercepted a Devils pass at the blue line and fed Courtnall at the bottom of the left-hand circle. Courtnall then sent the puck past goaltender Bob Sauve. Washington's Steve Leach scored his first goal of the season 91 seconds into the game, cutting across the crease and putting the shot behind Sauve. Mike Ridley gave the Capitals a 2-0 lead at 11:28 of the second period on an unassisted power-play goal. OILERS 9 LEAFS 1 EDMONTON (CP) — Glenn Anderson had four goals and the Edmonton Oilers scored three first-period power-play goals en route to a 9-1 NHL whipping of the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night. Anderson ignited the Oilers with his fifth and sixth goals of the season about 90 seconds apart midway through the opening period. His first came on a quick shot from the slot and the second bounced in off a defenceman’s skate. Austrian star “at least five times in World Cup and other races. TIP OVER . . . Sheri Chernenkotf of Stanley Humphries secondary “That's how I earned a reputation school tips the ball over the net during Kootenay senior girls as a giant slalom speci: volleyball championship play. Stanley Humphries placed second in couldn't beat Schinegger in down- the West Kootenay, losing the final match 15-6, 15-12 and 15-4 toL.V. Rogers. GosNewsphoto by Doug Harvey