all = w2_ Casthégjair News _ Febery 12.106 SPORTS Green, Chelios will give Habs boost MONTREAL (CP) - 4 There's help on the way for Montreal Canadiens’ over worked defence, although it's not right around the corner. Riek Green, sidelined since the New Year with a frac tured right thumb, is sched. uled to return next Monday when the Canadiens enter. PERSONALIZED PROTECTION PLAN available now FINANCE YOUR tain Los Angeles Kings, while Chris Chelios should be ready to play again in early March. The return of Chelios, who was reexamined by team physicians Tuesday, is par- ticularly encouraging. After re-injuring his right knee in January, there was some concern that Chelios would miss the rest of the National Hockey League season. With two of their top de- fencemen out of action, the Canadiens have been relying on second-year players Petr Svoboda and Tom Kurvers, journeyman Gaston Gingras and rookie Mike Lalor to fill some of the gaps. 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V6R 4G6 Tu-Daor Sport Castlegar THURSDAY HOCKEY —RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Casstoger ziabere. 10 p.m., Community Complex LEAGUE: Kolesnikolf vs. Mountain Sports Checkers/Mallards vs GEN- 15 p.m. DOWNHILL Ch : Conedion ships, third training run, 10:30 a.m., Red Mountain ski oreo. FRIDA v FIGURE SKATING — WEST KOOTENAY CHAMPIONSHIPS: Events begin 5 p.m.. Comenenity Complex : Export A Cup. 10:30 oom., Red Mountoin Ski Area. HOCKEY —GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Doiry Queen vs. Loomis/AM Ford, 9:30 p.m., Pioneer Areno. SATURDAY HOCKEY—NHL: Philodeiphio Flyers vs. Montreal Canadiens, 5 p.m., channel 9. GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Bill's Heavy Duty vs. Gonder Creek, 8:30 p.m., Pioneer Arena FIGURE SKATING — WEST KOOTENAY CHAMPIONSHIPS: Events begin 8 o.m.. Community Complex GOLF—PGA: hewaiien Open, third round trom Honolulu. 2 p.m., channel 6. SKIING—DOWNHILL: Red Mountoin Cup, 10:30 o.m.. Red Moun. toin Ski Area. VOLLEYBALL TOTEM team host tournament at Setkirk College. i: Selkirk Soints women's begin 8:30 a.m. Tu-Dor Sports Castlegar Resota on Monday to illus trate his concern. CREATES PROBLEMS “It (the strain on Robinson and Ludwig) has been a problem in overtime or late in a game,” sajd Perron. “That's where we have had problems lately.” Ludwig agreed with his coach and said the strain on poe two players has forced — to pick up the Oem if there are a lot of power-plays and pen. alty-killing,” said Ludwig. “I get more tired when we have to kill a lot of penalties. “And Larry plays the full two minutes on the power. play. There have been times when he has had to play on the power-play, kill penalties and play on the regular shift.” But Robinson disagrees, saying the absence of Green and Chelios is not an excuse for anything. “You don't go into a game without a Chelios and a Green and not expect te miss them,” said Robinson. “You don’t start a game wishing they (Green and Chelios) were there. “They'll be back. It is better that they come back and be healthy and be a key in the end.” Viola's pitch favored By The Associated Press Left-hander Frank Viola, the ace of Minnesota Twins’ pitching staff, won his salary arbitration case Tuesday and will earn $674,000 for the 1986 season. His teammate, infielder Gary Gaetti, lost and five oaher major league players avoided arbitration hearings by signing contracts. The split of the two arbi tration cases gave the base. ball players four victories and the owners six in the 10 de. cisions rendered this year. Four more arbitration hearings were held Tuesday, and the decisions will be an nounced this week. The play ers involved were California outfielder Gary Pettis, cat cher Dave Van Gorder and outfielder Eddie Milner of Cincinnati, and Kansas City first baseman Steve Balboni. Toronto outfielder George Bell was to go to arbitration in Chicago today. Those who signed Tuesday, avoiding arbitration, were infielders Juan Samuel of Philadelphia, Bill Doran of Houston, Dave Stapleton of Boston, Bryan Little of the White Sox and pitcher Bill Krueger of Oakland Viola was paid $350,000 in 1985. The Twins had of. fered him $525,000 for this year. Gaetti earned $415,000 last year and had asked fo $675,000. MINOR SPORTS Sure, we're interested! Phone the Castlegar News for details on how to get reports of your organization onto the Sports pages. 365-3517 SKATING STARS... Jennifer Fayant, competitors in the upcoming West Kootenay tigure skating championships take time out trom practice to pose tor ao group picture. Back row (lett to right) are Mina Br Darlene Connatty, Amanda Fa Lauro K yant, Stacy , Leah K Gorkott, Christie Stetoniuk, Andraya Hughes and Avert! Sheppard Front row (lett to right) are Pome Sheppard, Chelseo Van Viet y and Danielle Crockett Alberta leads curling KAMLOOPS (CP) — Al berta’s Randy Ferbey and Nova Secotia’s Don Lowdon were the top teams Tuesday after eight draws at the Canadian mixed curling championship. Ferbey, 6-1, and Lowdon, 52, had the eighth-round bye, and watched Manitoba's Hal Tanasichuk fail to move into a second-place tie with Tanasichuk lost 106 to Ontario's Dave Van Dine, slipping to 42 while Van Dine improved his record to 3-3. British Columbia's Wayne Statton, now 42, stole the final point in an extra end to hand Prince Edward Island's Peter Gallant his sixth con secutive loss, 8-7. Quebec's Jean St. Pierre raised his record to 4-3, counting three in the second end, four in the fifth and three in the seventh in an 11-4 seven-end victory over the Territories rink of Al Delmage, who won his first three games, then lost three straight. Northern Ontario's Alan Harnden was tied 33 with Ontario and the Territories Royals eight up on Trail KIMBERLEY (CP) — Dale McMullins scored two goals ineluding the winner to pro- pel Crimbrook Royals to a 4-2 victor over Kimberley Dy. namitérs in a Western Inter. national Hockey League game Tuesday night Mark Bogaslowski added an empty-net goal with 36 seconds left in the final per iod, after McMullins had made it 3-2 at 18:13. The other goal for the fourth place Royals was by Peter Thrasher. after counting two in the 10th to edge Saskatchewan's Lee Weppler, 2-4, in a 98 de cision. Harnden led 6-0 after four ends before Weppler got back into the game to take an 87 lead coming home. New Brunswick's Grant Odishaw won his second game against four losses — a 7-8 vietory over the New foundland foursome of Glen Goss (2-5). Ferbey counted two in the 10th for a 5-3 win over Statton of Chilliwack in the seventh round. Lowdon of Halifax, who had entered the seventh round tied for the lead at 5-1, lost 5-3 to Goss of St. John's, who entered the day at 04 but won two in a row. Goss stole one in the 10th to end the game against Lowdon. In other seventh-round play, Tanasichuk of Winnipeg counted two in the 10th for a 65 decision over Weppler of Morse, Sask., Jean St. Pierre went to an extra end in a 5-4 win over Gallant, and Harn. den scored five in the second end to win 9-6 over Delmage. In the morning's sixth round, Ferbey needed just six ends to defeat Ontario 92, while Lowdon required an extra end to get past Grant Odishaw of Moncton Bubla set to rejoin Canucks VANCOUVER (CP — Jiri Bubla has returned to his winter home insisting he did not visit his native Czechos lovakia recently to recruit talent for Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. Bubla, sidelined since Dec. 14 by a knee injury, resumed skating last weekend in Van- couver and hopes to rejoin the Canucks during their five-game road trip which began Tuesday against New York Islanders. “I am a hockey player, nothing more,” Bubla said Monday. “I talk to no players in Prague.” It had been speculated that Bubla, 36, in his fifth NHL season, was in Czechoslova kia to recruit players for the Canucks. Bubla said he spoke to a junior player in Italy on behalf of New Westminster Bruins for the major junior Western Hockey League — Rene Vynapho a Czech de- fector, has since joined the WHL team after playing in Italy — took care of income tax problems and checked out the coaching market in Europe. He wants to play another season in the NHL, Bubla said, providing his knee holds up. He is on a termination contract with the Canucks. Bubla and his family wife Evana; sons John and Stephan — currently live in North Vancouver during the NHL season and return to their home near Prague for the summer months. He played 245 games for national teams of Czechos lovakia before joining the Canueks in 1981 with the blessing of the Czechoslo vakia Ice Hockey Federation Mid-Week Wrap-up BUSINESS PROGRAM Group calls for cut OTTAWA (CP) — Portraying jobless Canadians as passive addicts of unemployment cheques, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, called ‘Tuesday for a $4-billion cut in the $11-billion ungmployment insurance Program to jolt them off the dole. “The.current UI system in Canada is unsupportable,” federation spokesman Jim Bennett told @federal commission examining the future of one of the government's most controversial programs. While denying that the federation wants to pull “the safety net” out from under needy Canadians, Bennett argued that sometMing must be done to weed out those who have become “dependent (and) passive, losing both their dignity and opportunities.” Specifically, he said, the federation wants the government to establish a flat 20 weeks of work, within a 52-week period, as the minimum qualifying standard for benefits. The current requirement is 10-14 weeks of work within a 52-week period. The organization also wants benefits banned for those who quit work or are fired for misconduct. Other steps recommended include paying benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks instead of the current 50 weeks and a reduction in benefit rates from 60 per cent of maximum insurable earnings to 50 per cent. ‘The group also says social, training-and other i. we 4 now funded by p be moved to other government accounts, where aro would not have to contribute. Bennett said a survey of 20,000 of the federation's 76,000 members found that 93 per cent would like unemployment insurance “overhauled” in this fashion. “One of the main objectives of UI reform is a decrease in UI costs,” he said, adding that the recommendations would cut $4 billion from the program's cost. Bennett used a quote from a federation member, whose hame was not disclosed, to illustrate the general attitude of his members on the subject. “The problem is people's attitudes,” he said. “They figure the state owes them a living. There must be more development of human resources, pride in work and country, willingness to perform, produce, change, learn.” Bennett reiterated a claim made last year — widely disputed by labor unions — that federation members have 170,000 jobs they cannot fill, largely because people would rather collect unemployment benefits. BASKETBALL a 9 2m 70 m 0 Kolesniholt 6 Bills H.0.5 wn. Sports, 10. Bills HD? 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The cost-cutting effort will result in a five-per-cent bud get reduction in 1986 by doing away with low-priority jobs, Kaska said VAT WINNIPEG (CP) — A plan to implement a new federal sales tax that would affect the price of everything from a haireut to a house is being shelved for the moment but some business spokesmen fear the proposal is far from dead “The government should have driven a stake through the heart of this monster idea once and for all,” Dale Bot ting of the Canadian Fed eration of Independent Busi ness said. The proposed value-added tax (VAT) consists of a per. centage of the value added at each stage of the production and distribution process. For example, a potato chip maker who buys $50 worth of potatoes and turns them into CP Rail upgrading system MONTREAL (CP) — CP Rail will spend more than $500 million to upgrade its rail system this year, the company announced Tues day The company will purchase 50 new freight locomotives. upgrade track and structures and install a computerized traffic control system be tween Winnipeg and Thun der Bay, Ont. About $150 million will be spent on the railway's Rogers Pass tunnelling project, now in its fifth year. As well, 36 Members penalized OTTAWA (CP) — Two senior cabinet ministers fail. ed last year to win an exemption for Canadian arm ed forces members from a controversial new unemploy ment insurance regulation. Correspondence filed Tues day with a federal com mission reviewing the unem. ployment insurance program shows that interventions on behalf of forces members were made by both External Affairs Minister Joe Clark and Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen. The regulation, which took effect Jan. 1, treats pension benefits as income for the purposes of calculating bene fits payable through the un employment insurance prog- ram. Clark, then acting defence minister, wrote to Employ ment Minister Flora Mac. Donald Feb. 18, 1985, to argue that the rule would penalize armed forces mem bers unduly, since’ most re- tire from the military in their 40s or 50s. Nielsen, after he took over as defence minister, made the same point to MacDonald in a June letter “You will also recall that we agreed, during a discus. sion back in March, 1985, that the Department of National Defence would propose changes to address the anomalies created by the new policy,” Nielsen wrote. He said he concluded “the only reasonable and fair ap- proach is to seek exemption for the Canadian Forces” from the new regulation. Clark's letter said the reg: ulation would deprive armed forces members of benefits when they need them most — when they leave the military and look for second careers. It would be unfair to ask forces members to contribute to the program, while at all but closing the door to the possibility of benefiting from it, he maintained. Transcripts of the letters were appended to a brief presented to the commission on behalf of armed forces members. The commission, chaired by Claude Forget, is prepar ing a report on how the un- employment insurance pro- gram can be reformed. still being considered $150 worth of chips would pay a tax on the $100 differ ence. If the VAT was 10 per cent, he would pay $10 Depending on how it's im plemented, the VAT would replace all or part of current federal sales tax and if the provinces were to agree, provincial sales taxes as well A spokesman for Finance Minister Michael Wilson said that the VAT and the release of a discussion paper on it have been ruled out for the federal budget coming out later this month Richard Remillard said the complexity of the proposal requires detailed consulta tion with the provinces be fore it can be considered. BLOW TO BUSINESS Botting said the tax would deliver a body blow to small business and foster rapid growth in Canada’s under. ground economy as cost-bur. dened owners disguise their operations to survive. Others have labelled it un. fair because some commodi ties vary greaty in extent of processing, meaning that the effects of the VAT on a product that requires a lot of processing would be much greater than on an item that requires little. It's also criticized as being highly inflationary because a levy would be extracted at each stage of the production and services chain from raw material extractor to con sumer. Analysts have blamed the VAT in Britain for having caused inflation to jump in that country to 20 per cent from eight per cent in just quired to administer the tax. “Our concern is that the story on VAT isn't over,” said Botting, who noted the levy is a temptation for a government trying to slash a $36-billion deficit. VAT TEMPTING Calling VAT a “juicy mor- sel” for governments, Bot ting said “it's pretty hard to diet sitting next to a bunch of chocolates.” The C.D. Howe Institute has estimated that by 1988 a VAT could raise as much as $5 billion toward reducing the deficit. The independent business federation’s own research in. dicates Ottawa would reap $2'/2 billion in tax revenue for each percentage point of markup in the production process. Eric Owen, manager of taxation policy for the Can adian Manufacturers’ Asso ciation, concedes that the VAT could be a money making machine if abusively used for revenue-raising rea sons alone. However, the association favors tax reform and inter- prets the lack of a discussion paper on VAT as meaning that “tax reform is further away and that manufacturers will continue to suffer under the old rules.” The association contends that the federal manufac- turers’ sales tax, which is 65 years old, is loaded with in- equities and should be shifted to the retail level as an in- tegrated federal-provincial levy on goods and services. David Perry, research associate with the Canadian Tax Foundation, said the proposed VAT would boost export potential because it would not apply to exported goods. 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