January 26, 1 Citation ee LOCAL NEWS CFL moving south, not east ‘Commissioner eyes United States for possible expansion By CHRIS CARIOU EDMONTON (CP) — If the Canadian Football League expands it will be to the United States, not the Atlantic provinces, commissioner Donald Crump said. At the opening of three days of CFL meetings, Crump surprised reporters by suggesting the league should move goal posts to the back of the end zone to make the game more like American football — in case the league expands to the south. “This is a numbers game,” he said. ‘You ain’t going to move nor- th, so you have to move south”’ if expansion is considered at all, Crump said. Asked about expansion to the Atlantic provinces, he all but dismissed the possibility. “It’s a lovely idea to go to the Maritimes. They've got a great foot- Ball program there. There’s just no place to play.”’ The league has long’ wanted to go coast to coast by expanding to the Halifax-Dartmouth area, a hotbed of college football. But there is no suitable stadium in the region. Crump. said the possibility of the CFL. expanding to the United States was not just a passing comment. He noted it has been discussed by team executives before. However, he appeared to back off when reporters pressed him. “T’m not advocating anything,” he said. ‘‘All I’m saying is you have to go where the bucks are.’” “If there's ever the possibility of expanding into the U.S., the field configuration would be more like American football.”’ The Canadian field is 30 yards longer — 10 yards in each end zone and between the goal lines. It is also substantially wider and the goal posts are on the goal line rather than at the back of the end zone, “Moving the goal posts to the back of the end zone has some in- teresting implications,’’ Crump said. It would generate more offence because teams would think twice about attempting field goals. it would also make the one-point con- vert after # touchdown — which is seldom missed because the goal posts are $0 closé to the line of scrimmage — less automatic, As a result, teams might be per- suaded to attempt two-point converts — which are like touchdowns — more often, he added. Moving the goal posts might lead the league to change its rule awarding a single point for a missed field goal or punt that is not returned out of the end zone. Opponents of the single-point rule say it rewards failure, while proponents say it leads to more kick returns, which are among the most exciting plays in Canadian football, On other matters, Crump dam- Pened speculation that he would deliver news of a new TV contract or contracts for the league. The most recent TV agreement expired last November and some teams have said a new deal must be signed soon. Castlegar midgets squeak by Nelson Autobiography recalls life BTW aa don feet Mi donee tao the corner was a grey-haired, bearded man in his late 40s or early 50s, engrossed in a book. It was a Bible. He acknowledged my presence with a wave and a like a giant movie screen. It-was a beautiful part of the U.S.A. and I noticed that the professor was ad- Four goals in the first period Saturday paced the Castlegar Midget Reps to a 7-6 win over hosts Nelson, Nino Da Costa got things going for Castlegar after taking a Jerrod Beck pass. Ryan Jolly cushioned the lead with his pair, set up by Derek Lalonde and Jeff Evdokimoff. And it was Beck who got the last goal before Nelson could retaliate. Castlegar widened the lead in the second on Beck’s second of the game by Derek Kazakoff, and assisted by Beck, Nelson only managed one. Castlegar eased up in the third and Nelson scored four unanswered goals to tie the game 6-6. But Da Costa wasn’t finished yet, scoring his second of the game unassisted to give Castlegar the win, Action resumes for the Castlegar Reps this weekend in Spokane. BANTAM REPS Seven goals in the third period by Trail dispelled any notion the Castlegar Bantam Reps might have had of making a game of things Sunday against the hosts in an 11-2 whipping. Castlegar didn’t get on the scoreboard until late in the second period on Ken Skibinski’s power play goal making it 4-1 Trail. Rick Fauth scored for Castlegar in the third, but seven goals by Trail crushed Castlegar’s hope of winning. HOW MUCH LONGER? = Nine-year-old Jeff Craig looks deep in thought as his father Jim straps the goalie Friendship Tournament last week: period in their own zone. Howev: Ci c pads on prior toa game with Spokane during the end. Crai: the game as the Castlegar Sr. Novice squ came under fire early in played a lot of the first Craig came up big at the by Steve Peden INUTE + Muffler & Broke op in e Eos UFFLER ‘inh & BRAKE 2! Kootencys! The Largest © Seven Bays * Huge hoist for Greyhound Buses, RV's and Trucks PHONE 368-5228 Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m Soturday 8 o.m.-4 p.m “FREE INSTALLATION OF MUFFLERS AND SHOCKS INSTALLED WHILE YOUR WAIT, FOR MOST AUTOS” 2929 Highw: Drive behin: the Mohawk in Glenmerry 1 * Nationwide Lifetime Written Guarantee on Mufflers, Shocks and Brakes > YE Former coach makes news Gourlay rink wins of adventure ‘Not to know what happened before one was born is to remain a child.’ — Cicero: De Oratort I have had two stories written by two Castlegar writers, Peter Minchuk and Lucy Eaton, sitting on my desk for some time. While they both recall an earlier time, they both have a particular relevance to the present. This week's story, an autobiography of Peter Minchuk, pilot, traffic controller and soldier, is called The Prophetic Professor. It has been edited con- siderably to fit the column space but Will probably appear later in more expanded form. THE PROPHETIC PROFESSOR By Peter Minchuk Early in the spring of 1937, during the Great Depression, | met the man of Prophecy in a boxcar and nicknamed him the ‘‘professor.”’ I was a 22-year-old unemployed bush pilot and aerial photographer. I had crashed my plane and was bankrupt, with creditors on my neck. All my worldly Possessions consisted of a 16 mm movie camera and $15 in cash. I was looking for newsreel assignments so I entered the U.S.A. illegally as a ‘‘hobo,’’ riding the freights. Somewhere between Minneapolis and Iowa I had to change trains so I climbed into a boxcar. Sitting in miring the scenery too, It was a free movie — all a hobo could afford. “Where are you heading for?’’ professor. “*Lakehurst, New Jersey,’ I replied. “Got a job there?” “No,"’ I said. ‘1 am trying to establish myself asked the Sausage ts“just more Nazi propaganda! They want to Penetrate and intimidate us with their military Nazi arrogance. They will soon penetrate other European countries like-Austria-and- Czechoslovakia to show the world that not only are they the ‘master race’ but military masters of the skies too! I hope it crashes!”’ “I wish you luck in your newsreel venture,"’ he continued, more quietly. ‘*You'll need it, since you'll have plenty of other Photographers competing with you.”” It was my turn to ask the question. “And where are you going, sir?’’ “My destination is New York, then across the Atlantic to Spain to fight in World War One-and-a- half." Reflections and recollections By John Charters as a freelilfice news photographer. The German air- ship, Hindenburg, is due to land in Lakehurst on May 6th. I want to Photograph her and sell the film to the news media. “*You endure the hardship of the road as a hobo all the way to Lakehurst just to Photograph that fat Nazi penis covered with swastikas? That fat Nazi I was . “‘Why do you call a war World War One-and-a- half?” ““Because,”’ the professor replied, ‘‘there is a Fascist and Nazi rebellion against the legal gover- nment of Spain. If. we don’t go to the aid of that 8pvernment now and defeat Fascism and Nazism in in, we will have World War Two. Millions world- ide will die needlessly."* “I don’t know anything of world politi “Good God, sont. Don’t you newspapers?’’ “Sorry, sir,” I replied. ‘I have been busy all of 1936 repairing my aeroplane. For every 30 minutes of flying there was always 30 days of fixing. I built the aeroplane myself and I couldn’t afford to install Proper brakes. | misjudged the wind when landing in @ cow pasture one day and a tail wind put me through the barbed-wire fence. | broke the prop and went for help. When I got back to the plane, the read Peter Minchuk of Castlegar, as af photographer in Calgary in 1945. cows in the pasture had eaten all the linen fabric ot, it. That took another 60 da: fixing. I finally got a few more flying hours doing aerial photography then I crashed it again. No, sir! 1 couldn’t even afford a newspaper! Now I’m ruined and bankrupt, just a hobo riding the rods to Lakehurst in the hope of making some money.”” please see AUTOBIOGRAPHY page 86 By TERRY SCOTT The Canadian Press Last week there were enough camera crews at the Toronto home of Charlie Francis that his wife acted as traffic controller, ushering one group in while bidding goodbye to another. And by Friday of last week, Francis was conducting “my 37th interview’’ in four days. One would have thought that Francis, rather than his former pupil Ben Johnson, was returning to the track after a two-year absence. But Francis, revered as @ coach before the 1988 Olympics and villified when John- son tested positive for an anabolic steroid in Seoul, is not on the comeback trail. In fact, he is under suspension by Athletics Canada for at least seven years, fingered by the sports body as the culprit in a caper that stunned thw rold. But Francis is in the forefront again, largely because his impressions are sought on Johnson’s comeback bid and because of a promotional tour for his book Speed Trap, which Francis subtitles ‘‘Inside the biggest scandal in Olympic history.’” “The first printing of 10,000 has already been sold,”’ Francis said between sips of a hot drink. War brings perspective LAS VEGAS (AP) — With war raging in the Persian Gulf, Toronto’s promoting (Razor) Ruddock’s upcoming fight with Mike Tyson. The war with Iraq, Ruddock said, puts the March 18 fight between the world’s top two heavyweight contenders into per- Spective. “It’s kind of funny promoting a fight to make money while guys are fighting in the gulf and giving their lives,” Ruddock said. ‘But somebody’s got to do it.’’ And Ruddock said the war Perspective may help him against Tyson. “These guys are putting their lives on the line over there,’’ he said. “I’m going to fight one man. Do you think I’m worried about it?’’ Tyson thinks he should be. Hi Arrow back in form By CasNews Staff Hi Arrow regained its form Thur- sday beating Sandman Inn 8-4 in Castlegar Recreational Hockey League action at the Community Complex. Hi Arrow had struggled after the Christmas break, allowing third- Place Woodland Park Shell and fourth-place Sandman to gain ground in the standings. It looked like Hi Arrow was going to lose another after Cory Day took a Don Soroke pass and put the puck by goalie Barry Grunerud at the even midway in the second after Dave Terhune scored early in the second. And Clay Martini’s last- minute goal put Hi Arrow up 5-2. Adding singles were Tony Rego making it is 3-2 and Gary Sauer giving Hi Arrow a two-goal lead. It didn’t take long for Hi Arrow to get things going in the third when Sauer scored less than a minute into the period. Lyle Stoushnow replied for San- dman at the 4:33 mark of the third. But Sandman would go on to score two goals by Kelly Keraiff making 7- 3 foll 17:42 mark to put S up 2-0. Teammate Jason Hughes has given Sandman 1-0 lead at the 15:19 mark of the first. But Hi Arrow didn’t buckle, scoring five unanswered goals in the second, from five different players. Tom Frauley pulled Hi Arrow by Steve Simonen. Bill Nazaroff’s last-minute goal rounded out the scorin; Action resumes Monday in the CRHL as Hi Arrow goes at it again against Shell. Sandman faces off against Banjo’s Pub on Tuesday. Both games are at the Complex. “Don’t be surprised if you see him get stiffed in one round,”’ said Tyson, who has done just that to his last two opponents. Ruddock and Tyson headlined @ news conference at The Mirage, where they will meet in a scheduled 12-round fight critical to both fighters. But Tyson said little, preferring to spend much of his time with his head on the table and a bored expression on his face. Promoter Don King said Tyson, who is risking a shot at the winner of the April world heavyweight title fight between Evander Holyfield and George Foreman, wanted to fight the best available contender in his third fight since his loss by knockout to James (Buster) Douglas last February. “The theme of this fight is why Mike Tyson wants to fight Rud- dock,’’ King said. ‘Mike Tyson asked for him because he wanted to get the best fighter out there.’” Ruddock, 25-1-1, is a 6-1 un- derdog to Tyson, despite an im- Pressive string of 10 straight knockouts. Some think Rud- dock’s blend of power and movement may be the classic style to hand Tyson his second defeat. “I can’t déscribe it in words the way I feel,”” Ruddock said. “I just know I’m going to win.’’ in ninth By BUD LOWTHER The rink skipped by Jack Gourley won the third draw, The rink was intact except for the addition of Bud Merry in the second’s position — as it faced Otto Walker in the final game on sheet No. 4. Walker was without his regular third Buzz McDonald who was sick. He was replaced by Hank Schellenberg. It was an important game for both rinks to determine the draw champion. The game was close until the ninth end when Walker's final rock fell short for a draw-in and Gourley picked up four points to put the game out of reach. This gave Gourley seven wins and one tie compared to Walker's seven wins and one loss. from Realty loses By CasNews Staff Chad Coupland’s 28 points led Victoria Place to a 59-57 win Wed- nesday over Castlegar Realty in Trail Mens Basketball League action. In other action Smelter Pub beat Kingfisher Bobcat 63-60. Brian Turlock’s 15 points coupled with Lous Cicchetti’s 15, were not enough to give Castlegar the win. The loss was Castlegar’s second of the season. Mark McConnell’s 21 points led Smelter Pub to its win over Kingfisher. Ernie Rella attempted a three- point shot at the buzzer for Kingfisher but stepped out of bounds while making the shot. 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Also, it doesn’t make financial sense to Pay someone to sort materials af- ter they have arrived at the lan- dfill site. For household garbage, the ials is at Each resident can help reduce the amount of gar- bage going to our community landfill by sorting materials at home. To do this efficiently you have to spend a few minutes to set up your basement (or your back room, porch, shed, or some other convenient location) for the storage of recyclable materials. The concept is to have car- dboard boxes (or bags) where you accumulate various recyclable items by category until you have enough to make a trip to a depot where the material will Sorting recyclables makes sense be accepted. For example, have a box for clear glass, one for brown glass, and one for green glass. Have another box for old newspapers, and a separate one for non-glossy flyers. Yet another box should be set aside for tin cans. Once -you’ve got your recep- tacles in place, it’s just a matter of separating the recyclable items from -your other garbage. Every once in a while when you are going past a depot, the recyclables can be dropped off. It’s as easy as that. Since some people don’t have transportation to the local depots, why not help them to help themselves and to help our community by offering to pick up their recyclables for them on a regular basis? Another approach is to get together with your frien- ds and make a trip toa depot. Whichever approach you take, it will help to reduce the rate at which the Ootischenia dump is filling up. . Exchange students entertain crowd By JOHN CHARTERS Some 80 friends, fellow students and parents came to the Stanley Humphries secondary school last Tuesday night to witness an exhibition of peaceful inter- nationalism and left twq hours later, fully justified. Tt was Castlegar's Rotary Youth Castlegar exchange student to Ger- many, and Klaus Rentsch, comes from the Bremen area in that country. They gave, jointly a slide Program, featuring in particular, the Berlin wall. They were followed by Tomoko Takahashi, Ariel McDowell and Darryl Furey, all dressed in Japanese The scene was set at a Program’s evening and they did an outstanding job. Lach Farrell, Castlegar’s exchange Program chairman, was the /genial host and introduced the evening's en- tertainment. The Castlegar Rotary Club, he said, had been taking part in the Rotary International student ex- change program for the past eight years with ever-increasing-community interest. During this time, club members and a number of Castlegar citizens had been host parents to some 28 students from some 13 other countries. At the same time, the club had sponsored 35 Castlegar students, grades 10-12, to 15 countries around the world. This impressive record, he said, could not be matched anywhere in the 43 Rotary Clubs of District 508 (eastern B.C., Washington and Idaho) and was a strong factor in Rotary’s drive to promote inter- mational understanding and world peace. Student Jodi Young acted as mistress of ceremonies and in- troduced the performers in turn, starting with Candace Carter, « dinner table with the two girls playing the part of Japanese host Parents, and Furey as himself on his arrival in Japan, and his many faux pas. They then gave a brief ex- planation of education in Japan (longer school year, larger classes, great respect for teachers), Japanese marriage customs (a marriage broker or go-between for the young people) and a slide show of the very popular and profitable sport of Sumo wrestling. They concluded with a creditable singing of the Japanese national an- them, since group singing is a very important part of Japanese culture. 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