i ‘2 Castle News _‘ovory2.1007 $ LOSE TO JAZZ: ail ole hy ROCK’ Fite throws tonight than I can re- member,” Fitch said after Houston shot a woeful 22-for- 47 from the foub line Tuesday night and lost to the Utah Jazz 92-88. The Jazz sank 33 of 44 free throws, with Kelly Tripucka making four foul shots and John Stockman adding a pair in the final two minutes. Tripucka finished with 16 points, and was 8-for-9 from the foul line. Bobby Hansen made nine of 10 free throws. Prime offenders for Hous- ton at the foul line were Akeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson. Olajuwon made just eight of 18 free throws and Sampson four of 10. Ola- juwon finished with 32 points and 17 rebounds. In other games, the Los af fashington topped Dallas 118-113 ‘and San An- tonio defeated Detroit 118- had 20 each for Los Angeles. Steve Johnson had 25 for Portland. Téers 108 KNICKS 103 Charles Barkley, named earlier in the day to his first NBA all-star game, scored 25 points and had 23 rebounds for Philadelphia. Julius Er- ving and Roy Hinson added 22 points each. Gerald Wil- kins had 81, Patrick Ewing 25 and Bill Cartwright 20 for New York. BUCKS 119 WARRIORS 115 Ricky Pierce scored 30 points, including two foul shots with three seconds defeated New York 108-108, for Erie Floyd scored 31 points for Golden Facchina second in ski race VERNON (CP) — Nelson's Lawrence Facchina prevent- ed an Alberta sweep of the top four positions in a Can- adian Alpine Series slalom event Thursday at Silver Star ski areas. . Scott Bexton of Calgary won the race with a two-run combined time of one minute, 50.43 seconds. Bexton finish- ed just more than a second ahead of Facchina, the Nel- son Ski Team member who also was second in a slalom race Wednesday. Troy Pancrucker of Cal- gary was third in 1:51.90 and Frederic Jolivet of Edmon- ton, a distant fourth in 1:54.86. Doug Ito of Kelowna was fifth in 1:55.31. Darren Shields, of Nelson finished seventh Thursday after a 10th-place result Wednesday. Bexton said the Alberta racers gained confidénce Thursday after a disappoint- ing effort in the opening race of the series. “We got used to the hill today and it made a big dif- ference, particularly in the second run,” said Bexton. GALAT SAYS “We were very confident.” Brent Nixon of Vernon, who won the opening race, hooked the third gate on his first run Thursday and was disqualified. Patricia’ Davidson of Smithers won the women’s event with a combined time of 1:50.33. Tracy Haight of Fruitvale, who won Wednesday's race, was second in 1:51.60. Camilla Burks of Banff fin- ished 18 one-hundredths of a second behind Haight. Cath- erine Jary of Edmonton was fourth in 1:52.69 and Melanie Vockeroth of Rossland was fifth in 1:54.30. Nelson's Tracey Billett fell and did not finish either sla- lom race. The seven-race series is for members of the national de- velopment team and Western Canada provincial team mem- bers. The series continues today and Saturday with the giant slaloms. It concludes next week.at Lake Louise, Alta., with two downhills and a super giant slalom. Lions interested in Holloway TORONTO (CP) — Joe Galat, general manager of the B.C. Lions, said he's interested in signing former Toronto Argonaut quarter- back Condredge Holloway. Holloway, a 13-year vet- eran in the Canadian Football League, was released by the Argos last week. “We've talked to Con- dredge and I think he could help us,” Galat said Tuesday. “We're in a position where our backups are suspect. “Actually, I think we could have won a few more games last year if we had had an experienced guy like Con- dredge.” CASTLEGAR SENTINAL MINOR BASEBALL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Roy Dewalt is the starting B.C. quarterback with Karl- ton Watson acting as his backup. Galat said Holloway has agreed to undergo a team medical and open contract discussions with the Lions. “I don't think it (money) should be a problem,” said Galat. “It’s similar to J.C. Watts signing with the Argos last season.” Holloway, the fifth-leading passer in CFL history, earn ed about $250,000-a-year in Toronto. The Lions would probably offer him half that much. Thursday, Jan. 29 7:00 p.m. Recreation Complex Arts & Crafts Room Election of new executives, and discussion of new issues. Rolando Blackman also scored 22 for Dallas. HAWKS 114 PACERS 98 SPURS 118 PISTONS 107 Jon Sundvold scored 22 left, points for San Antonio and Isiah Thomas had 23 for De- troit. TEAM HEADS EAST The Spokane Pee Wee A youth hockey team has an- nounced plans to visit the Soviet Union-in August to play a series of exhibition games with teams in the cities of Moscow, Minsk, and Kiev. The Spokane Pee Wee A team is the local all-star team made up of 12 and 13 year olds. The team is part of the local Spokane youth hockey organization, the Spokane Young, Americans, with a total enroliment of approx- imately 200. Ages range from pre-kindergarten to high school with the emphasis being on teaching the neces- sary skills to become a hoc- key player. This project which has been in the making for over a year will see the team not only visit the Soviet Union but also play in Finland and Czechloslovakia. An invita- tion from Finland and Czech- loslovakia has been granted to the Pee Wee A team, but the Soviet Union will not issue a “formal invitation” but has given permission for the team to enter the coun- try. It is also helping to set the game schedules in the different cities within the Soviet Union. Jack Lucas, team manager, states that “our team be- lieves that cultural exchang- es such as this will be one step in possibly helping to create peace between the two super powers, and is in line with Presiden Reagan's emphasis of creating more cultural exchanges between the two countries.” The team has been work- ing very closely with the offices of Congressman Thomas Foley in creating contacts within our govern- ment to help overcome some of the red tape associated with visiting the Soviet Union. SHSS picks up win Stanley Humphries secon- dary school Junior Rockettes defeated Grand Forks 56-18 in a league game in Castlegar on Friday. Carrie Gorkoff picked up 12 points in the game. On Thursday the Rock- ettes slipped by J.L. Crowe of Trail 59-56. The Junior Rockettes are in first place in the junior league with a record of 5-0. Er zits iyi ba if 3 i ourselves and just try to keep building her up,” downhill coach Don Lyons. as strong as ever each time.” “I don't think that’s: the way to approach it. I think we just have to keep her hi and give her, thi Ue gze tek slalom. This is the event for Percy, who competed in 1985 in Bor- mio, Italy. She finished 18th in the downhill. | Fi Seven Oilers land spots on NHLteam TORONTO (CP) — The Edmonton Oilers, led by centre Wayne Gretzky, have placed seven members on the 27-man NHL all-star team that will meet the Soviet Union in the Rendez-Vouz ‘87 series next month. Marcel Aubut, president of the Quebec Nordiques who conceived the Rendez-Vous series, and Alan Eagleson, executive director of the ata news fe NHL Players’ Association, today the of the team that will take on the Soviets in Quebec City on Feb. 1 and 13. Results of fan voting earlier this month determined the starting lineup of goaltender Clint Malarchuck of Quebec, defencemen Paul Coffey of Edmonton and Mark Howe of the Philadelphia Flyers, centre Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins, left winger Michel Goulet of Quebec and right winger Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders. The other two goaltenders on the all-star team will be Grant Fuhr of Edmonton and Ron Hextall of Philadelphia. On defence, Coffey and Howe will be joined by Ray Bourque of the Boston Bruins, Chris Chelios and Rick Green of the Montreal Canadiens, Rod Langway of Washington Capitals, Mike Ramsey of the Buffalo Sabres. British Columbia to send 252 athletes VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia will send 252 amateur athletes to the Canada Winter Games next month hoping the team will hold third place behind the powerful eastern provinces. The 1987 Winter Games, a two-week sports festival held every fourth year since 1967, run Feb. 15-28 in Cape Bre- ton, N.S. “We're not as strong as Ontario and Quebec in the winter sports,” B.C. official Jim Richardson said this week. “To be honest, we don't expect to finish first. “We'd be happy to main- tain our third spot. If we could get second, it would be a bonus.” The Games are for devel- oping athletes who have yet Sandman thumps Mallards By CasNews Staff Sandman Inn thumped Mallards 8-1 in a Castlegar Recreational Hockey League game on Monday. Lyle Stoushnow picked up a hattrick and one assist in the game, while Dan Martin managed one goal and three assists. Kevin Kirby and John Obetkoff each had single goals and assists for Sand- man, while Tony Darosa and Dan Walker added one goal each. In the assists department Bobby Larsh managed two, while singles went to Bill Cheveldave, Robin King and Pat Farkas. The Mallards lone goal came from Dean MacKinnon. On Thursday night Castle- gar Knights face off against Castlegar Playboys. to reach national team status. Young Canadians will com- pete in 17 disciplines at the sixth Winter gathering. The Canada Games are held in the odd years and alternate between winter and summer sports. “Every kid at the Games is knocking on the door of being a carded athlete,” added Richardson, chef de mission JUDO CLINIC ‘HELD By RICK MALCOLM A Judo Clinic was held at the Kinnaird Hall in Castle- gar last week. The workout portion of the divvy up players who weren't to be drafted at age 18 or 19, but playing ly. Joel Otto, Jamie Macoun, Colin Patterson and Neil Sheehy, all signed as college free agents, were important members of the Calgary squad that advanced to the Stanley Cup final last season. BIDDING STARTS “We were maybe a few years ahead of our time,” ‘says Fletcher. “Then more and more people got involved, and the more people you've got involved, the bidding contest starts.” The battle for free-agent talent culminated in the Staszak sweepstakes of 1985. Outbidding 18 other teams, the Detroit Red Wings paid $1.4 million over five years to Staszak, a grinding right .winger from Philadelphia who didn’t play hockey until he was 13. Oates, a smallish centre from Toronto, also hit the jackpot with a $1.1-million, four-year contract front Detroit. Both contracts were one-way deals, meaning Oates and Staszak receive full salary even if they get sent to the minors. clinic was by mem- bers of the B.C. Judo Team. They included Gary Hirose (coaching staff), Chris Schank and Oleg Myasko- Mid-Week Wrap-up vsky. They disp! some of their techniques to the stu- dents. The techniques involved were Newasa (ground tech- Cronbrook wasa To" nique) and Tachi (throwing technique). There was also a Kata and refer- eeing section d by £S33ES° & SATURDA\ Troil $ Cranbrook 41 Nelson 2 Elk Valley 201 Pele John Huntley of Kamloops. He demonstrated his talents in throwing and hold downs in the Kata event. Huntley also enlightened interested participants with regards to refereeing. There was also actual ref- §: ereeing on the mats with full contact competition to see how much the refereeing © students had learned. There were at least 19 black belts in attendance varying from 5th degree to 1st degree About 70 par- Deon Sod ticipants in all showed up. Visiting clubs Spokane, Idaho, V Trail ot Cronbrook Elk Valley at Nelson ¥ Troil ot Elk Valley Nelson at Kimberley Kimberley ot Trail 2. p.m. et Cominco Arene PBESBIISY SeeS .BEe™ Bes CASTLGAR JUNIOR REBELS ‘SCORING STATISTICS o Breer rett i Rod. included; Ande Kamloops, Kelowna, Grand §"% Forks, Invermere, Cran- for B.C. “It’s the first chance many of them will have at a multi- sport event and they'll get some insight into what an Olympics might be like.” brook, Kimberley, Creston and Castlegar. There will also be a tourn- ament coming up May 9. This will be held at Selkirk Col- lege (Castlegar). WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Belczyk named to alpine team Castlegar's Felix Belezyk, Rossland’s Derek Trussler and Fruitvale’s Diana Haight have all been selected to compete in the world alpine ski ionships for both Mike Que. ‘Tommy, ard; Trussler; Grossmann. Combined slalom and the Canadian men’s and women’s teams. The event, which began on Sunday, con- tinues to Feb. 8 at Crans Montana, Switzerland. The following are the team selections made by women's head coach Currie Chapman and the men’s head coach Glenn Wurtele: MEN Downhill: Rob Boyd, Whis- tler; Brian Stemmle, Aurora, ler; Brian Stemmle, Aurora, Ont.; Felix Belezyk, Castle- gar; alternate Rob Bosinger, Banff, Alta. Super giant slalom: Bel- zcyk; Boyd; Derek Trussler, Rossland; Jim Read, Calgary. Slalom: Read, Alain Villi- ard, Ste-Adele, Que.; Greg Grossman, Ancaster, Ont.; Boyd; Bosinger. WOMEN Downhill: Laurie Graham, 5; Inglewood, Ont.; Liisa Sav- ijarvi, Bracebridge, Karen Percy, Banff; Karen Stemmle, Aurora; alternate Kellie Casey, Collingwood, Ont. ‘ Super giant slalom: Gra- javijarvi; Percy; Diama Reymond tourque, Que.; alternates Nacy Gee, Niagara Falls, Ont., and Michelle McKendry, Orange- ts ville, Ont. Giant slalom: Lacasse; Haight; Savijarvi; alternates Gee and Bedard. Combined slalom downhil Gee; Perey. and Philadelphvo ' onders 2 Wakefield, wr =e re Giant slalom: Read; Villi- Ont.; Stone, LA Fruitvale. wom Slalom: Percy; Josee La- doug casse, Ville Brossard, Que.; », Andrea Bedard, Sutton, Qi" ton McKendry; Mo: ereseete APPILIATE PLAYERS, 7 Lorni Kanigan (Midgets) Taylor Harding (Bantam) we WALES COM Patrick suet 8 eoRee ee a ssax'gaas=n Pid BRSSSRSSNSOe SBBSNSSISESS> Leogue all-star Tuesday (indicates voted by 107 Portiand 1 woukee 119 Golden State 115 = *-Clint Molarchuk, Que ramen SicLiiny alorcth. Qve Socramento 118 New Jersey 115 TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL American Leagve Detroit Tigers. trode Ypiichers Randy x-Morio Lomi Hebur| ONeo! ond Chock vt Wayne Gretaky ‘Dale Howerchuk Leogue leds sign tirst_ basemen Ce Nick Esasky ¥ 10 @ one-year contract Mon oe ‘perc Philodeiphie Phillies signed outtielders jedus ond Milt T Tor Editor's note: Over the last three decades, Canadian have changed from a time when Dad brought home the bacon and Mom cooked it. Today's Mom and Dad, assuming a family has both, share the cost of the “bacon” and may take turns cooking it, This is the ay's household: It's changed her child, what to watch on TV, and about her occasional late nights. Some observers think the change in the family is rooted in the turbulant 1960s, a decade marked by the of wisdom, by the rise of first of a series reporting on the rapidly face of the Canadian household. By TIRSH WORRON Dennis Thomas grew up on a quiet, suburban street in the 1960s: the type of neighborhood where three-bedroom bungalows were filled with kids and Mom was in the kitehen when they came home from school. If Dad ever did the dishes, it probably meant mom was sick — or it was Mother's Day. Thomas didn’t fit into this Ozzie and Harriet world: his mother worked full time. His parents were divorced. His mother had remarried. After school, he went to the babysitter's. When he was about 10, he began cooking the family’s evening meal. jomas remembers feeling “different.” Today, he probably wouldn't. In the 1960s, when Thomas, now 37, was growing up, 60 per cent of all Canadian households were composed of a breadwinner father, with a stay-at-home wife who usually had children to care for. Those statistics have come full circle: in 1981, the last year for which Statistics Canada figures are available, almost 60 per cent of all families had two or more wage earners. Many of those two-income families had young children. SHARES DUTIES Jocelyne Lafleur and her husband, Guy Beaulieu, of Montreal are one such couple. Unlike many two-income families, they've worked out a democratic system at home: Lafleur, 31, a director of a day-care centre, is mainly responsible for looking after their daughter Helene, 8. Beaulieu, also 31 and a carpenter, does the bulk of the housework. Other statistics show how much the Canadian household has changed from since the days of television's _ Ozzie and Harriet: ~~ — In 1981, one in 11 Canadians was living alone. Most of them are elderly, or young unmarried adults. Jeanne Campbell, 59, a Halifax secretary, has lived alone in her own home since her father died about six years ago. She likes the freedom “to come and go as I please” and doesn't envy her friends who have lived through troubled marriages or divorces. ‘In 1981 almost 60 per cent of all families had two or more wage earners’ She believes society's attitude towards single people is changing, noting that people once frequently asked for why she never married. “Nobody has aksed me that for at least 10 years.” — In 1981, there were 714,000 single-parent families, nearly 11 per cent of all families. That total was 50 per cent higher than in 1971. PLAYS ROLES Dave Gamache of Calgary is the single parent of two sons, Shaun, 9, and Mark, 7. It has been a tough haul, requiring him to play both parental roles. His biggest concern is the iness he feels in a couple-oriented society. Nearly 80 per cent of single-parent families are headed by women and, for many of them, the main pressure is financial. In 1981, female single parents had average incomes of only $14,000, less than two-thirds what their male counterparts earned. For single mothers under 35, the average income was only $7,600. — In one of 10 marriages, both partners have been married before and, in many of these unions, spouses already have children. This has resulted in the “blended” family. When Garth Campbell married Lenore Thompson two years ago, the Winnipeg couple didn't foresee the difficulties they would face trying to merge their families — his teenaged son and her two teenaged children — into a single unit. Fights often erupted between the children because of jealousy. ADMITS DEFEAT “Sometimes we throw out hands up and say ‘Hell, we don't know,’ "gays Campbell. He says he and his wife have established a strong relationship that they won't let their children destroy. — Another trend experts observe is the increasing number of young adults who are either not leaving the nest or are returning home, a situation sometimes dictated by economics. In 1985, Daragh Hourigan, 25, left her husband and returned to her parents’ home in Campbell River, with a baby daughter. She stayed 16 months and admits “it caused a lot of strain” as she argued with her parents about how to raise by relaxed divorce laws, and by the introduction of the birth control pill — all of which gave people new options. The 1960s was a time when the first of the Baby Boomers were reaching adulthood and many of them took a hard look at their parents’ marriages, says Lillian Messinger, an author and researcher at Toronto's Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Many young people saw these marriages as “superficial or stifling,” and decided “they didn't want the same kind of relationship for themselves,” she said. It wasn't just the young who were affected by the climate of rebellion. Older people, too, were casting a critical eye on their lives, says Messinger. Benj helesii al ime observer of the Canadian family, thinks the impdrtance of the Pill must be emphasized when looking at why our households have changed so radically over a generation. Giving women control over how many children they would have — and when they would have them — has made many subsequent changes in society possible, says hiesi: , a University of Toronto p of social work. NEEDS SERVICE The changes in households have prompted a whole new set of services. Working peole, forced to juggle the demands of home and work, need people to look after their children and sometimes their homes; they need quick meals and doctors, banks and grocery stores with extended hours. A study of consumer needs, entitled Tomorrow's Customers, estimates only 30 per cent of meals today are home-made. By 1990, the study by Clarkson Gordon Woods 'Gordon predicts, more than half of all households will have a microwave over compared with only one in five in 1984. a Then there are the growing number of young single people who have healthy disposable incomes and few financial commitments. They spend heavily on vacations, sports equipment, frozen food, liquor and health clubs. More than half of women aged 15 and over were in the labor force in 1981. As the number of working women has increased, so have tensions about male-female roles in the home. Several studies indicate men still aren't pulling their weight. NOTES PROBLEMS A 1983 study, the Child in the City project, looked at 247 two-income Toronto couples nad found the women who worked full time did 128 minutes of housework daily, compared with 57 minutes for their husbands. Despite the tensions faced by the new makeup of society, Schlesinger says he doesn’t think “most people want to see a return to the day when Mr. Canada brought home the bacon and Mrs. Canada cooked it.” However, Grace Petrasak, head of Real Women of Canada; disagrees. She believes many women would like to stay home and raise their children. But, he says, the government doesn’t want to encourage this, pointing to the tax system which penalized women who stay at home. A working woman can claim up to $2,000 in day-care expenses for children, but a husband can't claim that same deduction if his wife stays at home with the kids. NEXT: Pros and cons of two-income families. EARLIER DEATHS Overweight people at risk CHICAGO (AP) Over. weight people are more likely to die earlier than most stud ies indicate, and the new The third is caused by in- appropriately discounting the effects of conditions such as high blood pressure and than at desirable weights, researchers said. Even the most recent of the well-known Metropolitan American male 40 to 49 years old weighed 187 pounds in a 1979 study by the American Yet the average six-foot version of an insurance-com- pany chart listing desirable weights probably is off the mark, doctors say. “Being even mildly or mod erately overweight may be more harmful than generally believed,” said Dr. JoAnn Manson of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. “Previous studies have tend- ed to underestimate the risk of being overweight.” Manson and her colleagues reported in the Journal of the American Medical Associa. tion that each of 25 major studies on the subject of ex cess weight and premature death has at least one of three major biases. ne bias is caused by a failure to take into account the effects of cigarette smok- ing, which is more prevalent in leaner people and tends to make their overall death rates look higher. Another results from a fail ure to eliminate the effects of disease that causes weight loss before premature death, a factor that, like smoking, tends to make death rates associated with being under- weight look higher. high levels of fats and sugar in the blood, which increase the risk of dying prematurely and can stem from being overweight. MAKES UNRELIABLE Although the biases make the studies unreliable as a guide to ideal weight, the lowest death rates appear to occur at weights at least 10 per cent below the averages for adult Americans, the re searchers said. The death rate at averay weights is at least five per cent to 10 per cent higher Lfe Insurance Co. tables of desirable weights for given heights are probably high, the researchers concluded. Metropolitan in 1983 re- vised its tables of body weights associated with long- est lives in people of given heights after a 1979 study suggested slightly higher heavier people live longer, the researchers said. The 1959 table lists he de- sirable weight of an adult man six feet tall as 151 to 168 pounds, while the 1983 table lists it as 155 to 169 pounds. POSTAL TROUBLE! Who's to blame? For More Information Cancer Society. Stanley Kranczer, senior research associate with Met. ropolitan in New York, ac knowledged that no informa tion about smoking was part of the company’s date on 4.2 million insurance applicants whose life statistics were used to generate the tables. “That has been corrected on our current question naire,” he said, adding, how ever, that no new chart will be issued for several years because it takes a time to compile data. Writing by winking SAPPORO, JAPAN (AFP) her — A Japanese woman who is totally paralysed by a rare disease has completed a 280- page book by winking for more than two years, a doc- tor said. limbs since she con- tracted the muscular disease eight years ago. 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