cars?” the Naturalists asked
in the release.

Several stretches were dis
aster areas, and several
agencies tried to discover

FIRST TOURNEY

cross-country ci
snowshoeing for

couple of months.

phasis shifts to the

social events, with the pre
Christmas party next a
and the annual

scheduled for late January
with a guest speaker from
Nanaimo.

The club and many of ite
members have written let-
ters to area MPs requesting
they take a second look at the
plan to shut down the Can-
adian Wildlife Service across
the country — and especially
in the centre at Creston.

Rockers seventh

Stanley Humphries Senior
Rockers Basketball team at

two losses meant a seventh
place finish in the eight-team
event.

Friday's draw pitted Stan-
ley Humphries against the
Summerland Rockets. The
Rockets earned a 31-20 lead
after a scrambly first half of

basketball. The Okanagan’

squad. built themselves a
46-26 advantage before the

came to life. Using a
full count press the Rockers
fought back to trail by only
three points midway through
the fourth quarter.

Starters Kerry Uchida and
Andy Lefurgey both fouled
out at this point, the Rocker
attack, faltered, and Sum-
mefiand hung on for a 59-54
vietory.

Steve Merry played well at
both ends of the count, not-
ching 10 points. Mike Rob-
erts contributed eight points
and was second in the re-
bounding statisties. Danny
Godlien led all Rockers with
23 points, most of them a re-
sult of aggressive rebounding

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and some fine individual
moves.

Stanley Humphries’ second
game, against Harry Collinge
High School, followed the
course of the first game. The
Rockers trailed by as many
as 18 points in the first half
before fighting back to within
one point, 44-43.

Once again Stanley Hum
phries employed a full count
press and lots of determin.
ation in staging their come
back.

The final portion of the
game was a seesaw battle
with the team for Hinton,
Alberta emerging as 58-53
winners.

Godlien led the Rocker at
tack with 22 points. Lefurgey
added 12 points and Gordon
Babaeff six points on some
nice individual moves.

Stanley Humphries con
cluded the tournament on a
winning note as they handed
Mt. Baker Trojans of Cran-
brook a 62-54Joss. The Rock-
ers jumped out to a first
quarter lead of 17-8 and

notched points with Uchida
scoring eight, Merry nine,
and Lefurgey 10. Godlien
capped a fine weekend of
basketball with his third
consecutive 20-plus point per-

formance. Godlien was §TOP THE PUCK
named as an honorable men

tion to the all-star team.

Scouting
scapegoat

VANCOUVER (CP) — Jack MacDonald has been a
most convenient scouting scapegoat in recent years
because he’s been on the scene since Vancouver Canucks
entered the National Hockey League.

MacDonald, 75, has worked for all the Canuck
general managers — Bud Poile, Hal Laycoe, Phil
Maloney, Jake Milford and Harry Neale. He has had a say
in all of Vancouver's draft choices.

“It's totally unfair, but it seems that Jack has always
taken the brunt of criticism for this club's drafting,” says
Jack Gordon, who heads the seven-man scouting staff of
the Canucks.

“It's too bad when there's a plight with this team,
everyone starts picking apart our scouting, and maybe

never it.

A pressing defense ap
pears to be the Rockers early
season forte and they used it
for the first three quarters of
the game, said coach Kevin
Morris.

Eight out of 10 Rockers

SWEDEN
VS
CANADA

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ig ly so in some cases. We've had our disappoint
ments but every team has them. I happen to think we've
been drafting all right the last few years.”

Gordon, who joined the Canucks in 1980 as assistant
general manager, said Tuesday that no one person can be
blamed or credited for any draft selection.

“It's not one or two individuals who are responsible
for any draft; everyone on our scouting staff has input
into the draft,” Gordon said. “Harry (Neale) has to rely on
his entire staff but it's always one man Jack Mac
Donald — who is fingered when things aren't going well
with this club.”

NO BLAME

MacDonald, the chief scout who works out of
Toronto, admits he hasn't always been correct on his
draft recommendations. But the team's current status, he
said, can't be blamed on the scouting staff.

Sports
Castlegar

THURSDAY
HOCKEY RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Corling O'Keefe vs. Son
dmon inn, 10 p.m.. Castlegor Community Complex
FRIDAY

HOCKEY RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Williams Moving vs
Castlegar Playboys. 9:30 p.m. Castiegor Community Complex
POOTBALL—NFL: Los Angeles Roms vs. Sen Francisco 49ers, 6
p-m., channel 4
BASKETBALL —HIGH SCHOOL: Stonley Humphries Blue ond Gold

begin 4 pm SHSS Rockettes play Dovid
Thompson (Invermere), 7 p.m. SHSS Rockers play George
Pringle (Westbank). 8:30 p.m

SATURDAY

FOOTBALL —NFL: New Orleans Soints vs. New York Gionts, 9:30
p.m., channel 7; Denver Broncos vs. Seattle Seahawks. | p.m
channels 6 and 13.
HOCKEY —P04L: Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Toronto Maple Leots. 5
pum., channel 9
BASKETBALL —HIGH SCHOOL: Stonley Humphries Blue ond Gold
tournament: gomes begin 9 o.m. SHSS Rockettes ploy Sum
mneriond, 10:30 o.m. SHSS Rockers ploy Prince Chories (Creston),
1:30 p.m. SHSS Rockettes ploy 11 Crowe, 630 p.m. SHSS
Rockers play Summeriond, 8 p.m

tournoment

management's job.”

“I have to think some of the trades made over the
years haven't been good for the team in the long run,” he
said. “Trades aren't scouting decisions -

that's upper

Mild weather
for fishermen

By TERRY JONES

We had a nice mild week
with a little cooler weekend.
Calm water saw 18 boats out
on Dec. 1.

Flash Olson and Albert
Mackareth, both of Kaslo
caught 19-pound rainbows on
“Silver J” plugs.

Barry Neil from Fruitvale
caught a 14-pound rainbow
on a Bill Norman plug.

Walt and Janet Weber
from Calgary caught a 10-
pound rainbow on a Green
Lyman plug and released

Vardens up to 10 pounds are
hitting on downriggers at 60
feet (or six ounces lead on 250
feet of line).

The! expected cold snap
wilt }robably bring those
over 20 pounders to a higher
level Uf activity

Boating embarrassment of
the week was when Lex
Jones and Greg Stenberg
went across Kootenay Lake
to Campbell Creek to get the
motorcycle they “forgot”
there when grouse hunting
season ended.

When loading the motor.
cycle into the boat, the plank
slipped and their boat left
without them. After some
time passing fisherman Irv
Cheyne picked up the cold
castaways and took them out
to their boat. When Irv re
turned to the Marina he
checked in and wrote under
“fish caught” — “one 20 foot
pontoon boat and two 150
pounders!”

Selkirk College Christmas Hours
Gymnasium and Fitness Centre

DEC. 1 - 16 REGULAR HOURS
@.m.-10:30 p.m. Sunday 12:30-8:00 p.m
losed

17-214

for special events
+ 11:00 p.m

- Dairy Quen goaltender and defenseman ti
stop shot by Gander Creek player in Castlegar Gentlemen's Hi

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to League play Sunday
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— CaaMews Photo by Doug Hervey

Carter got bad press

MONTREAL (CP) — Early
in November, Gary Carter,
the catcher who has been a
cornerstone of the, Montreal
Expes’ franchise for a dec-
ade, made a number of calls
to John McHale, the presi-

Juvenil
lose

Castlegar Juveniles re-
turned from Spokane with a
win and a loss this past
weekend. On Saturday they.
downed Spokane 8-4.

Daryl Zibin seored twice
while John Ostoforoff, Cliff
Tomilin (one goal. and one
assist), Richard Paulson,
Sean Coulson, Niki Hyson
(one goal and one assist), and
Wayne Popoff (one goal and
three assists) added the
others.

Sunday's game saw Spo-
kane come out on top with a

Rec news

nn

Santa and Mrs. Claus's
visit to the Community Com.
plex on Saturday was a huge
success. More than 100 chil.
dren enjoyed cookies and
milk with Santa. They all had
an opportunity to talk with
Santa and his wife, and re-
ceived candy canes as treats.
A big thanks goes out to all
who helped make Santa's
visit so special. Thank you to
Susan Stucky, Pat Romaine,
Mrs. Bird, Trudy Murray,
Leasa, Lori and Lana Stucky
and the Downtown
Business Association.

Public

Skating
If you have not yet made it
skating this season why not
stop by the arena and lace up
your skates for a few laps.

dent of the National League
baseball team.

“Gary was building a big
house down in West Palm
Beach and when I saw him at
a baseball school at our
training camp, where he was

es win,
one

3-1 score.

Scoring Castlegar’s only
marker was Wayne Popoff,
assisted by Darwin Ander-
son.

The Juveniles’ next home
game is Sunday, Dec. 16 at
12:30 p.m. in the old arena
against Spokane

a guest instructor, he said he
wanted to talk about interior
decorating,” recalled McHale

Carter to New York Mets for
four players Monday night.

“He called me three times
before we finally set up a
meeting at my office in West
Palm Beach. I thought it was
unusual that he wanted to
see me about decorating
houses, because I don't know
too’ much about that.”

There was much more on
Carter's mind ‘than what
color wallpaper should be
used in the baby’s room. Car-
ter, a seven-time all-star, was
disturbed about the negative
publicity he has received in
the-wake of the Expos’ fifth-
place finish in the East
Division in 1984

Althugh he was voted the
team’s most valuable player
after a season in which he hit
for a .294 average, with 27
home runs and a career-high
106 runs batted in, stories
continued to surface that
Carter was the cause of club-
house dissension and he
should be the centre of a per-

selfish ball player with Mon-
treal last season. Carter's
discussion with McHale came
before the tiff with Rose, but
it may have further fanned
the flames.

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man Catholic chureh re-
nounce the traditional role of
Mary as a mode! of the sub-
missive, subservient woman
they say holds them back
from advancement in society
and in the church.

The Feast of the Immacu-
late Conception celebrated
Saturday (Dec. 8) allows mil-
lions of Catholics around the
world to focus on Mary, a
dominant figure in the church
yet also a sharp point of
controversy. 5

Middle-aged Quebecers

conception, Fabey said, has
no basis in the New Testa-
ment, but, like many other
beliefs surrounding Mary,
gradually grew up in the

Devotion to Mary reached
its high point in the 18th
century. Some extremes in.

can recall sol pr

in honor of the Virgin Mary,
crownings of her statues, and
lively Monday night novenas
to Mary which were more
popular than regular masses.

Passions for and against
Mary were aroused in 1979
when the scathing play Les
fees ont soif hit the stage in
Quebec. Its three characters
— including a talking statue
of the Virgin Mary — blame
the male-dominated Catholic
chureh for the oppression of
women.

“The question of Mary,”
said Renee Fortin, who has a
graduate degree in Marial-
ogy from St. Paul University,
Ottawa, “is a very touchy
subject.”

Immaculate conception
does not refer to the con
ception of Christ but to that
of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Catholics believe Mary was

nd remained —
without sin.

Its celebration is captured
in a short poem by Montreal
man-of-letters Frank Scott,
which quotes a newspaper
announcement:

“Tomorrow being the
Feast of the Immaculate
Conception, there will be no
collection of garbage in the
city.”

REVIVES DEVOTION

Although the church of
ficially has played down the
veneration of Mary since the
Vatican II Councils in the
mid-1960s to counter
abuse, says a theologian
the current Pope is known
for his devotion to Mary and
has helped revive it

In every country he visits,
Pope John Paul seeks out its
national Marian shrine. Dur
ing his Canadian visit last
September he celebrated an
outdoor mass at the re
nowned shrine at Cap-de-la
Madeleine, Que., and knelt
before a plaster statue of
Mary reputed to have opened
its eyes in 1888.

Pope John Paul credits
Mary with saving his life
after the assassination at
tempt in 1981. As he was
taken away in an ambulance
the suffering Pope repeated:
“Mary my mother, Mary my
mother.”

“A number of Catholics
have to get used to the idea

cluded the vow,”
a pledge to defend to the
death the Immaculate Con
ception, when the doctrine
was still being debated in the
chureh. Young women en
tered convents calling them
selves “slaves of Mary.”

8, 1854, by Pope Pius IX. “A
dogma menas you have to
believe it to be a Christian,”
Fahey said.

The Mary question is a
stumbling block to church
unity. In 1950, for example,
the Catholic church declared
the doctrine of the Assump-
tion of Mary — that she was
taken body and soul into
heaven rather than buried —
a belief not shared by Pro-
testants.

“Today the (Catholic)
church wouldn't do that
without consulting other
Christian churches,” Fahey
said.

Canon Tony Capon, prin
cipal at Montreal Diocesan
(Anglican) College, says An
glicans, while warmer to
Mary than more evangelical
Protestants, do not believe
that her conception “was any
different than for any other
human being.”

OTTAWA (CP) -

federal government
mood-altering drugs.

everyday occurrence.

law.

Canada

in five years

handed down

Canadians.

Old men on
pot charges

Two men in their 70s were among
the thousands of people busted for pot last year, the
says

One of the men lived in Ontario and the other in
British Columbia, the report says. Both were convicted of
simple possession of cannabis. One was fined and one sent
to jail for a term of less than a month

The way the statistics are presented makes it
impossible to tell which man got which sentence, and
further information on the cases was not available

Elderly Canadians have been busted for drugs
before, but the report makes it clear it’s hardly an

Occasionally stiff sentences were handed out to the
elderly, indicating actual criminal activity was involved
rather than personal habits that happen to be outside the

The 1983 version of the report was made public
Tuesday by Health Minister Jake Epp and covers a
variety of drug offences under the Narcotic Control Act,
the Food and Drugs Act and the Criminal Code of

Overall, convictions were down to their lowest level
Convictions in
substantially from 39,226 in 1982

More than 85 per cent of the convictions were related
to cannabis, The vast majority of those were for simple
possession, and fines were the most common sentences

The report takes pains to point out that the drop in
convictions for cannabis and other illegal or restricted
drugs doesn't mean drugs are being used less freely by

Rather, it says police are less concerned about simple
possession and are focusing their attention instead on
offences such as schemes to import and distribute drugs.

Cannabis aside, four drugs accounted for most of the

in its latest report on

1983 were 31,444, down

rest of the 1983 convictions: cocaine, LSD, psilocybin and
PCP.

The use of cocaine has become more popular in
recent years, and the 1,460 convictions last year were
well above the 643 convictions reported five years earlier

LSD, a drug that first became widely known in the
1960s, accounted for 1,209 convictions last year. That's
about the same as in 1979, but well below the comparable
figures for 1980, 1981 and 1982.

Psilocybin, popularly known as the “magic mush
room,” was linked to 561 convictions in 1983. The report
says that was largely the result of a 1982 decision by the
Supreme Court of Canada confirming the mushroom's
status as a restricted substance.

LEARNING FROM THE PAST . . . Students from a Selkirk College ar
cheology class with their model of a eight to 12 person tull-scale
model winter house similar to those built by Kootenay Indians in

early times on Zuckerberg Island. From left, John Whitmore, Ann
Klughammer, John McLeod, Egles Bontempo,
Mark Mealing.

ee Peterman and Dr
Cotews Photo by Chery! Calderon

Dioxins can be deadly

By WARRAN CARAGATA

OTTAWA (CP) — Dioxins
are a symbol of the dich
otomy of the age, a sign that
the march to progress may
also be a march to disaster.

They exist at the very
frontage of science, these
chemicals measured in con.
centrations that 20 years ago,
or even 10, would have re-
mained undetectable. The
equivalent of five sugar
cubes of the substance can
pollute all of Lake Ontario.

There are more than 200
related compounds, yet in the
vernacular they are address.
ed by one name: dioxin, a
ame that after the roll call of
Vietnam defoliants and Love
Canal and Times Beach snaps
the public mind to attention

They are the product of the
industrial age, unknown to
science before the 1930s, and
yet are never produced for
their own sake because they
have no use. They exist only

as byproducts in the process
of making other chemicals.
One form, 2,3,7,8-TCDD by
its scientific name, can kill a
guinea pig at 2.1 parts per
billion. It had gained the
reputation as the most toxic
substance known to man
when another experiment
showed hamsters are 2,500
times more resistant
Canadian, European and
U.S. scientists have found
dioxins in the fat tissues of
people who thought they had
no contact with dioxins, in
levels between five and 10
parts per. trillion, the human
equivalent of the sugar cubes
in Lake Ontario.
Arnold Schecter,
York professor of preventive
medicine at the state uni
versity in Binghamton who
has done research showing
dioxin in the fat tissues of
healthy people, says he has
no idea whether the levels he
has found, measured in parts

a New

per trillion,
health risk.

Are people like guinea pigs
who die almost at the sight of
dioxin or are we like ham.
sters? he asked during an in
terview at an international
symposium of dioxin re
searchers in Ottawa last
week

Schecter doesn't know

Ronald Hites is an Amer
ican researcher who has done
work proving dioxins are the
product of the chemical age,
refuting arguments by chem.
ical companies that they have
been around for eons, the
result of things like forest
fires.

Hites and his research
team spent four years on the
work

Public health research dol.
lars could be better spent, he
says, on proven dangers to
human health like cigarette
smoking. But, he adds
“There hot areas in

pose a public

are

science, for political reasons
Tm sure, and dioxins are not
right now.”

Last year, a Canadian gov
ernment scientific panel said
while much remains to be
known, “it is quite clear that
dioxins are very unpleasant
things to have in the envir
onment and the less we have
of them the better.”

In the United States, a
federal court judge approved
a $180-million settlement for
Vietnam veterans involved in
the spraying of the dioxin
containing herbicide 2,4,5-T,
to be paid by seven chemical
companies who produced the
so-called Agent Orange

Dioxins weve back on the
front pages in 1976 when a
chemical plant in Seveso,
Italy, that produced 2,4,5-T
exploded, sending clouds of
dioxin-contaminated chem
icals into the air. Small ani
mals died and Seveso was
evacuated

Then there was Love Canal
in 1978 and more people were
evacuated from their homes
in upstate New York, built on
the site of a dump containing
chemicals laced with dioxin.

And there was Times
Beach, Mo., where the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency bought out the entire
town because of bioxin con
tamination.

But still, nobody knows.
The scientists have their
suspicions but they still don't
know.

Dioxins cause skin diseases
at high concentrations like
those encountered at Seveso,
but no human death has been
directly attributed to dioxin
poisoning.

It's a debate where the
public is left with its fears
and the scientists are left
with their questions, where
the risks may be high, or
then again, may be simply
overblown.

Some of Olson money lost

VANCOUVER (CP)
One-tenth of the money paid
in return for information
about Clifford Olson's mur
ders was lost after being in
vested in a non-profit housing
that failed
documents show

co-operative

Vancouver lawyer Jim
McNeney, who administered
the trust fund set up for the
wife and child of the killer,
invested $10,000 in a housing
co-op that was to be built on
the south shore of False
Creek

But when the Island Park
Building Society failed to

complete the project, the in
vestors lost more than
$180,000, according to the
society's financial state
ments.

The investment came to
light in the civil suit launched
by families of seven of Ol
son's victims to retrieve part
of the controversial cash-for
bodies trust fund

On Friday, B.C. Supreme
Court Ju William Train.
or ordered the return of the
$100,000 the RCMP paid Ol.
son in August of 1981 to re
veal the grave sites of his 11
victims, saying the payoff
went against the principle
that criminals cannot profit
from their crime.

McNeney told the court
that he invested $10,000 of
the money in the Island Park
Building Society, of which he

In a later interview, Mc
Neney said he invested the
money to supply Joan Olson a
place to live. Company finan.
cial records show that money
was invested under McNen
ey’s name. Joan Olson's name
does not appear in any com
pany records

McNeney said he invested
the cash under his own name
to protect the woman's iden
tity. he said he agreed to act
as president of the society
because “I'm a social demo
crat” and he believed in the
niton of non-profit housing

INVESTED IN 1961
The society was formed in
1980, McNeney said he in:
vested the trust fund cash in
November 1981

By early the next year, the
bottom had fallen out of what

Vancouver housing market,
and scores of society mem
bers had dropped out of the
project

The housing co-operative
society was incorporated in
December 1980, with Mc
Neney and Vancouver lawyer
Susan Brandreth-Gibbs as
directors. Society documents
show that McNeney became
president, and long-time
Social Credit party campaign
worker Dale Mearns was
later named a director. All
three are still listed as
society officers in records
filed with the registrar of
companies in Victoria

Mearns, now an importer,
said in an interview she
wasn't aware that McNeney
had invested money from the
Olson trust fund. She said

two months and was unaware
of MeNeney's testimony in
the civil suit.

The Olson trust fund was
created at the end of August
1981 after the bodies-for-cash
deal was made. Olson plead
ed guilty to 11 murders in
mid-January 1962.

An unaudited financial re-
port issued for the society by
the chartered accountant
firm of Nemeth Bolton shows
that a total of $180,750
had been raised from 43 in.
vestors in the project as of
Jan. 31, 1982.

The bulk of the cash was
paid to a company called FL.
Consultants, headed by Van-
couver lawyer Rob Fenton,
who promoted the project.

Fenton said society mem
bers lost their investment in

was president was then a

skyrocketing

she had been out of town for the housing project.

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Back

to right: Remi Deschomps, Hermon Cote.

Little and

evin Brons

Cashews Prove by Jock Charters

OTTAWA (CP) Otto Jelinek, the new man
through the revolving door of the federal ministry of
state for fitness and amateur sport, views his portfolio
from two perspectives

Jelinek looks poised and concerned in his blue suit as
he negotiates with provincial officials. visits national
sport associations or talks informally with their executive
directors.

But outside his spacious, 10th-floor downtown office
the former world figure skating pairs champion is more
than willing to exchange the formal attire for a sweat suit
and a little fun

While Jelinek, 44. Open
badminton championships he went on court in a sweat
suit to play a game. Standing on the sidelines in a stuffy
suit as part of a receiving line isn't his style

Two days later on Parliament Hill he was introduced
to roller skiing, the dryland version of cross-country
skiing. Jelinek glided enthusiastically and smoothly on
the three-wheeled skis.

“It has been quite a while since I've been on ice and
Tve never been on roller skis,” said Jelinek. who was
presented a full set of ski equipment by Cross-Country

opened the Canadian

Jelinek loves sports

Canada. “I need help. If you want help from me as your
minister, you better help me now.”

Jelinek wants people and the provinces involved as
he takes an active role in promoting sport. And his
attitude has excited sports administrators.

“The most impressive thing he has said is he wants
to be the sports minister for some time,” said Hugh
Glynn, president of the National Sport and Recreation
Centre.

The Liberals moved Gerald Regan, Senator Ray
Perrault, Celine Hervieux-Payette, Jacques Olivier and
Jean Lapierre through the office between March 1980 to
September 1984

“(Jelinek) went to visit each association,” Glynn
added. “Here is a guy who believes we exist and have a
purpose for being here.”

In a recent interview, Jelinek said: “Fitness and
sport is in my blood and I understand the basic principles
and problems. I've always had potential solutions in mind.

“Another positive thing for me is that I know many
of the key principals, some for as many as 35 years —
Frank King, chairman of the Calgary Olympic committee,
Hugh Glynn, and Roger Jackson, president of the
Canadian Olympic Association.” °