TORCH LIGHTING ceremony in Trail Friday night
marked a significant plateau in the countdown to this
year's B.C. Winter Games in the Trail area. Shown
above are noted dignitaries who were on hand for the

ceremony. At the

y were, The t

Evan

Wilkinson ends career

EDMONTON (CP) — Af-
ter 15 years in the Canadian
Football League — the last 10
with Edmonton Eskimos —
Tom Wilkinson has cleaned
out his locker at Common:
wealth Stadium.

Wilkinson leaves the CFL
with a career | pass-
completion percentage. He

| will colebrate his $8th birth:

Wolfe, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Gover-
nment Services, Ron Cliff, chairman of Inland Natural
Gas, who supplied the torch and gas it will burn,
Games Chairman Ron Butlin, Trail-Rossland dignitaries

and winter games di

Medals for Soviet

MOSCOW (CP) — Olga
Bicherova, a tiny 15-year-old,
led the Soviet Union to a
sweep of the medals in the
women's all-around event
yesterday at the world gym-

Bicherova, who barely met

Mary Lea Palmer of Toronto.

the age req for the
championship when she
turned 15 on Oct. 26, is the
youngest woman to win the
all-around title in a world

“C ing her injury
(pulled muscles and a variety
of minor ailments), she did ar
well as we could have hoped.”

At the awards ceremeny,

nastics

Competing in her first
world championship, the
Moscow schoolgirl took the
lead on the first of the day's
four exercises and finished
up with a 10 on the vault, the
only perfect mark for women
in the competition.

Team-mates Maria Fila-
tova and Yelena Davydava,
both 20, took the silver and
bronze medals, respectively.

Bicherova compiled 78,400
points, Filatova 78,075 and
Davydova 77,975.

The Soviet Union now has
won both men’s and women's
team championships and both
men's and women’s all-
around individual titles. The
apparatus finals for both men
and women complete the

week-long. championships to- -
day. No Canadian,.men or |
women have qualified for the *

finals.

Nadia Comaneci of Romania
won the 1976 Montreal Olym-
pic all-around event as a
14-year-old. Comaneci -de-
cided not to compete in the
event this year, but was in

the girls drew
boos from the partisan crowd
when they shook hands with
the three Soviet medallists
but kissed the fourth-place
Chinese girl, the American
and each other.

ex-

Moscow as a

SLIPS TO 33RD

Elfi Schlegel of Toronto
was the best Canadian, fin-
dishing 30th with 73,375
points. Bonnie Wittmeier of
Winnipeg, who had been
ahead of Schlegel after the
team event — which counted
for half of the individual
scores, slipped to 33rd place
with 73.225 points.

Anne-Marie Deserres of
Montreal was 36th with
71.975 points.

“Blfi made some errors s but
she had a better meet than
two days ago,” said coach

gy
pressed anger at the Olym-
pics last year when Comaneci
was given what they re-
garded as unfairly low marks
and finished in a tie for
second in the all-around indi-
vidual title that Davydova
won.

“I never had a 10 before,”
Bicherova said. “I'm very
glad to be champion.

“T never thought that I
could reach the pinnacle —
only maybe in my dreams.”

Bicherova, who has been
.training in gymnastics since
she was six,.only advanced
out of junior competition this
year. She placed 23rd in the

all-around at the 1981 Euro-
pean Championships in Mad-
rid.

Ski Report

Saturday Ski Report
Red Mountain
Opening Sat., Dec. 5.
White Water
A trace of new snow.
Cloudy with flurries and
minus eight temperatures.
Two lifts open. Good skiing.
All lodge facilities in oper-
ation.
Panoramo

day Jan. 4, not with thoughts
of another summer of bumps
and bruises, but with a vision
of trout fishing in Wyoming.

He will continue to live in
Edmonton, where he sells
advertising for a local radio
station and works with the
handicapped and underpriv-

ileged.
Wilkinson, at 6-foot-10,
was perhaps one of the most

unlikely quarterbacks in the
history of the league. His
weight varied from as much
as 222 pounds at the start of
his pro career to 170 near the
end of it.

When Wilkinson gradu-
ated from university, Na-
tional Football League teams
showed no interest in him
because of his size.

Leo Cahill of the Toronto
Rifles of the Cc
Continental Football League
was the only one to call and,
at 22, Wilkinson signed as a
free agent.

When the Rifles folded,
Wilkinson went to Toronto
Argonauts. He was with the
Argos for half of the 1967
season, four minutes of 1968
(he injured his shoulder) and
all of 1969 and 1970.

After the 1970 season,
Toronto acquired Greg Bar-
ton and Joe Theismann, so
Wilkinson was traded to
British Columbia Lions. He
played for the Lions in 1971
and 1972 before joining the
Eskimos.

When injuries sidelined

wil

in 1976 and a pre-season
shoulder operation improved
his 1977 season.

In 1978, he reported to
training camp at 175 pounds
— 26 pounds less than the
year before. He completed
.606 of his passes and was
again a Schenley nominee for
player.

Bruce L kin-
son became No. 1 quarter-
back and, in 1978, the Es-
kimos reached the Grey Cup
for the first time in 18 years.
It was to be the first of eight
Edmonton Cup appearances
in nine years.

In'1974, Wilkinson won the
Schenley Award for Most
Outstanding Player.

Edmonton finally won the
Grey Cup in 1975, with Wil-
kinson playing with broken
ribs. He was still recovering

In 1979, Wilkinson played
hali of each game as Warrne
Moon played the other half.
And in 1980, he threw the
final touchdown in a Grey
Cup romp over Hamilton
Tiger-Cats.

This year, Wilkinson's 10
completions of 13 passes in
the second quarter inspired
the Eskimos to a 25-point
showing in the second half of
their 26-23 Cup win over
Ottawa Rough Riders.

To highlight men’s World Cup

By Piero Valsecchi

MILAN, ITALY (AP) —
While Canadians will battle
Austrians and Swiss for
downhill honors, a United
States-Soviet clash — typical
in many sports but unpre-
cedented in Alpine skiing —
is expected to highlight the
1981-82 men's World Cup
over-all competition.

Phil Mahre, 24, of Yakima,
Wash., the first American to
win the over-all World Cup
last year, is given the top
chance to repeat because of
his ability in all three dis-
ciplines of the four-month
series — downhill, special
slalom and giant slalom.

Alexandr Zhirov of the
Soviet Union and Yugoslav-
ian Bojan Krizaj, could be his
most dangerous challengers.

Swedish superstar Inge-
mar Stenmark is expected to
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world championships in
Schladming, Austria. Sten-

White Rock
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wins Seattle

Marathon

SEATTLE (AP) - Thomas
Howard, a 33-year-old bus
driver from White rock, B.C.,
pulled away from the leaders
at the 17-mile mark to

* capture the 12th Seattle

Marathon yesterday.

It was the third time in the
last four years that a British
Columbia resident has won
the men’s division of the
event.

Howard finished in two
hours, 19 minutes and one
second, well over the record
of 2:17.80.

Chuck Bartlett of Spokane,
Wash., who finished in
2:20.51, placed second, while
Jim Walker was third in
2:21.14.

Linda Edgar, a 30-year-old

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“T had the flu last night and
I had about decided not to
run,” Howard said. “I was up
all night running back and
forth between the bedroom
and bathroom.

“For awhile, even that
seemed like a marathon,” he
added.

Speed skating
trials

next month

Speedskating trials for the
B.C. Winter Games in March
in Trail will be held in Kim-
berley Dec. 18 at 9 a.m. The
Marysville Arena in the
Southern part of Kimberley
will be used for the trials.

All aspiring competitors
must quality and must be
members of the British Col-
umbia Speedksating Asocia-
tion.

There are four classes of
Competitors from the age of
18 (as of March 4, 1982) and
there is no upper age limits
for anyone of either sex.

A charge of $3 per person
will be charged to help defray
expenses such as ice rental.

mark keeps out of the high-
speed downhill races, which
costs him valuable points in
the World Cup.

The powerful Austrian
team, hoping for three med-
als in Schladming, is the
early favorite to rule the
men's downhill, the fastest

governing body — rates the
24-year-old Toronto skier the
No. 1 downhiller in the world.

Read, 26, of Calgary
missed much of last year with
injuries but is expected to
regain the world class stan-
dards that made him a
five-time winner on the cir-

and most spectacular discip-
line of Alpine skiing.
CANADIAN THREAT
The team, with such tal-
ents as Olympic champion
Leonard Stock, silve med-
allist Peter Wirnsb for-

cuit.

Last season, Mahre edged
Stenmark by only six points,
exploiting points picked in
the combined, which is based
on results of slalom and

mer world champion Sepp
Walcher and Harti Weir-
ather, the 1981 World Cup
downhill champ, will be con-
fronted by Canadian dare-
devils Ken Read and Steve
Podborski, Valery Tsyganov
of the Soviet Unit and Swiss
aces Peter Muller and Franz
heinzer.

Weirather edged Podbor-
ski for downhill honors in the
final race of the 1980-81 sea-
son, but FIS — the sport's

Looking

By CasNews Staff

The Red Mountain Ski
Club Society this week voted
on a motion to negotiate the
purchase of 40-per-cent share
of the Red Mountain Ski
School.

The motion was Passed at

di hill races at p
venues.

The Swede won the World
Cup three times, 1976-78, and
gold medals in the slalom and
giant slalom in the 1980 Lake
Placid Winter Olympics.

Mahre, Zhirov and Krizaj,
although aiming at a medal in
Schladming, made specific
preparation for a good over-
all showing in the Cup.

While the struggle for the
over-all World Cup victory
was restricted to Mahre,

Zhirov, Stenmark, Krizaj and
a few others, more skiers will
be battling for top places in
each specialty.

Stenmark is still consid-
ered the man to beat in
slalom and giant slalom
races. Phil Mahre should do
well both in slalom and giant
slalom in which he scored
three wins and two seconds
last year.

Poteltial slalom and giant
slalom winners include Zhir-
ov and Vladimire Andreev of
the Soviet Union, Austrians
Christian Orlainsky and
Franz Gruber, Krizaj, Wen-
zel, Mare Girardelli of Lux-
embourg and several young
Scandinavian skiers.

The World Cup marathon
includes races in France,
Italy, Austria and Switzer-
land, West Germany, Yugos-
lavia, Czechoslovakia with
North American stops at
Whistler, B.C., and the
United States. It ends in San
Sicario, Italy, March 28.

at buying school

per cent and Don owns the
remaining 53 per cent.
Rhodes says the purpose
will enable the society to
tter

ary; Steve Ash, treasurer;
and John Kennedy, Renata
Belezyk, Rick Greene, Bob
Abbey and Karen Williams,

and any promotion than it
done and can be done on a
co-operative pele rather

the society's
general meeting by a vote at
69-53.

The cost of the 40-per-cent
share, now owned by Hans
Welk, last year's ski school
director, is at

than fe
markets.

Co-operative programs are
already being set up.

One example will be the
cooperative ski school

$40,000.

But with outstanding loans
an payables still owing the
society, the cost will be
trimmed to between $24,000
and $30,000.

Rhodes says the reason the
society is only negotiating to
purchase the 40-per-cent
share is for economic rea-
sons.

“It is possible to negotiate
in the future for more,” he
says.

The remaining shares are
owned by Ted and Don
Vockeroth. Ted owns seven

Winter

Red the
rental shop, and a local radio
station.

‘Another will be the setting
up of programs with the pub-
lic schools in the area, with
the hope of atracting new
skiers and educating older
ones.

Rhodes says Red Mountain
hopes to do more co-oper-
ative programs in the future.

NEW EXECUTIVE

New executive were also
elected at the meeting. They
are: Bert Port as president;
Ron. Ross,

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Games

playoff dates

The following are dates
and times of some of the
playoffs being held through-
out the Kootenays in prep-
aration for the Winter
Games. More information can
be obtained from the contact
person noted below:

Basektball, Jan. 16-17,
1982, Cominco Gym, Trail,
Terry Coombs, Box 654,
Fruitvale.

Bowling, Dec. 18, 1981,
Juniper Lanes, Cranbrook,
Bob Husband, 231 21st Ave.
South Cranbrook.

Curling (Men), Jan. 8-10,

1982, Kimberley, Ed. Benger,:

320 Srd Street, Nelson.
Curling (Ladies) Dec.

11-18, 1981, Castlegar, Mrs.

M. Van Yzerloo, 806 10th

1981, Beaver Valley Arena,
Fruitvale, Mrs. Dolores
Wood, 708 7th St. S. Cran-
brook.

Gymnastics, Dec. 12, 1981,
Cominco Gym, Trail, Carole
Ross, Box 1288, Rossland.

Skiing (Cross country),
Jan. 17, 1982, Base Red
Mountain, Diane DeLong,
Box 1162, Rossland.

Speed Skating, Dec. 13,
1981, Marysville Arena, Kim-
berley, James Dickens, 2360
DeWolfe Ave., Kimberley.

Table Tennis, Dec. 8, 1981
7 p.m., Trail Jr. Secondary
School, Ken Nickel 557 Ross-
land Ave., Trail. .

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Joe Kobluk

Games profile

Joe Kobluk was born and
educated in Trail. He is
Marketing Manager in the
Administration Office. of the
Kootenay Savings Credit
Union. i

Kobluk has been commun-
ity-involved for many years.
He has been with the Trail
Chamber of Commerce, Com-
munity Arts Council, Trail
International Festival Soci-
ety, Senior Hockey Club and
the Kootenay Music Festival.

He has served on the 1967
and 1971 Centennial Com-
mittees, the 1974 “Trail Day”
at Expo '74 and the 1976
Diamond Jubilee Committee.
Joe was in the broadcasting
field in Trail for 34 years and
served as Director of the B.C.
Association of Broadcasters
and was its President in 1970.
He was algo a Director of the
Canadian Association of
Broadcaster.s

For the B.C. Winter
Games, Trail (1982) Joe Ko-
bluk is Director of Admin-
istration. This directorate
was responsible for acquiring
the office on Eldorado Street

and the School District No.
11 garage for overflow of
equipment and for storage
space, providing the equip-
ment for the office, providing
insurance for that equipment
and hiring the office staff.
They then had to find the
revenues and establish. 4
budget for operating pur-
poses,

The prime source of rev-
enue, of course, is the B.C.
Government with the City of

JOE KOBLU

Trail being another prime
and major provider of grants
for the Society. Other func-
tions of Administration are
registration and accredita-
tion of the athletes and the
officials that will participate
in the Games, the volunteer
pool, and Games concessions,

The provincial government
makes available to the com-
munity a ‘legacy of some
$70,000. The Board of Direc-
tors will ‘study the possib-
ilities for the expenditure of
this money as a lasting mark
in the community. There is
another legacy that Kobluk
feels will remain in the com-
munity and that is the spirit
of cooperation and together-
ness that the community has
not seen for a long, long time.
The fact that the Games will
rquire such a vast number of

volunteers, for example, in- -

dicates that a spirit will de-
velop that hopefully will help
to make our continued exis-
tence in this community
much more pleasant and

f hopefully much more success-

ful.

Player was impaired

BURNABY (CP) — An
RCMP constable testified
Friday that he believes Van-
couver Whitecaps soccer
player David Harvey was
driving while impaired when
he sustained a neck injury in
a car accident this spring.

Harvey, 38, was standing
trial in provincial court in
this Vancouver suburb on
two charges arising from an
April 26 incident, in which
the car he was driving struck
a parked vehicle.

Harvey, the North Ameri-
can Soccer League team's
goalie, is charged with im-
paired driving and driving
with a blood-alcohol reading
over the .08 per cent legal

limit.

Burnaby RCMP -Const.
Steve Glionna told the court
Friday that when he arrived
at the accident scene April
25, he felt Harvey's ability to
operate a vehicle was im-
paired by alcohol.

Glionna said there was

blood running down Harvey's
face and his eyes were “wat-
ery and bloodshot.”

‘When he asked the accused
to walk a straight line heel to
toe, Harvey was “unable to
remain steady on. his feet,”
the policeman testified.

He said Harvey told him he
had taken two or three

~glasses of wine and two

sleeping pills.

Glionna said Harvey's final
brreathalyser reading was
.09.

The trial continues Dec. 14.

DAVE KANIGAN (25), of Castlegar, waits for a rebound ti in front of the
Miami net.in a recent Northern Michigan win over the Redskins in
Marquette. Kanigan is a favorite wit!

the Lakeview Arena fans,

CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 29, 1981
‘ are

noted for his hustle and physical play.
season for one point.

;
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He has one assist on the
“—NMU photo

Sports in brief

WINS TITLE

MOSCOW (CP) — Yuri
Korolev of the Soviet Union
won the men’s all-round title
Friday at the world gymnas-
tics championships in a sen-
sational finish, overtaking
teammate Bogdan Makuts in
the last event. Koji Gushikin
of Japan won the bronze,
surging past Tong Fei of
China with two events to go.

ELEMENTARY ACTION. Pictured are ite a few of the Grand “Forks, Christina Lake, and Blewott

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