i) BUSINESS FIRST SUNFEST BUTTONS . . . Lawrence Chernoff (left) pins the first Sunfest button sold on Pete Zaytsoff of Pete's TV in Castlegar as son Peter looks on, Pete's TV was the first official merchant to rec tery buttons e Suntest lot- CasNews photo Power Corp. profits up By CasNews Staff and News Services Holding company Power Corp. of Canada reported at the company’s annual meeting that first-quarter earnings were up by 15 per cent Consolidated earnings for the quarter ended March 31, excluding extraordinary items, rose to $49.8 million or 38 cents a share, compared with $43.2 million or 33 cents a share in the 1987 first quarter “It was a good year,” company president Frank Knowles said in an understatement before an overflow crowd of shareholders. In 1987 the company earned $183 million, an increase of 35 per cent over 1986. * Power holds 40 per cent of pulp and paper giant Consolidated-Bathurst Inc.; 69 per cent of Power Financial Corp., which includes Montreal Trust and Great West Life Assurance; and smaller holdings which control the Montreal newspaper La Presse, radio and TV interests and joint ownership of Celgar Pulp Co Power Financial contributed $93.8 million to Power's bottom line, despite writedowns on mortgages held in Texas and Colorado. Real estate prices in those states took a dive for the same reason they did in Calgary, explained a company spokesman: low oil prices. Earnings at Consolidated-Bathurst jumped 60 per cent and Power's share of those were $66.2 million last year. The operations — which include publishing, broadcast- ing and the half-interest in Celgar Pulp — contributed $17.6 million to earnings, more than double from last year. In its annual report, Consolidated-Bathurst noted that production at Celgar Pulp was the highest last year since the mill's start-up in 1961. “Results for the joint venture were above expectations because of good productivity’and much-improved product prices,” the report says. Celgar shipped a total of 193,000 tonnes of pulp in 1987. And Consolidated-Bathurst expects the strong pulp market to continue. “Demand for chemical pulp in 1988 is expected to remain firm with Celgar pulp (mill) operating at capacity during the year.” Big Here's one case where fatter is better! When your hometown Castlegar News changes from the old eight skinny-column for mat to the new six-column format, it'll become a much cleaner, more readable newspaper In fact, we've been experimenting with this for several years now, ever since Canadian daily and weekly newspapers decided to go to the new Canadian Newspaper Unit (CNUs). Our front page and the front sports page have had the six-column format and our News Department has been experimenting with variations of the six-column format on our inside pages for some time. And during the past year we have seriously been considering the use of six-column make-up throughout the paper Research -has established that the new column width offers optimum line length for coming! Starting Wednesday, June 1, we'll have 6 fat columns instead of 8 skinny ones. xeEnU Castlégar News “A good newspaper constantly striving to be better’ Six reading efficiency. The advertiser benefits in greater individual ad exposure and Castlegar News readers benefit with a more attractive, more easily-read product. Besides increasing the width of our columns we'll be reducing our page width (but not depth) slightly. Despite the slightly narrower page, the increased column width — and the considerable saving of white space separating six columns as opposed to eight — will result in no bppreciable loss in space devoted to news and editorial mat- ter We hope you'll like the new look in your hometown Castlegar News. It is just one of the many ways we try to show you that we're con- cerned where you're concerned. Take a close look on June 1. You'll see why we think fatter is better! Seat iedipaincnsxtcaae-aandaedls ee ype tte SAFE AND SECURE FIRST MORTGAGES 16% Guaranteed Return to investors on small First Mortgages on recreational property, Ideal investment for your selt-administered RRSP. Weekly Stocks TORONTO (CP) — Share Wednesday that followed prices in Toronto and New U,8. prime rate increases. York climbed Friday, adjust- The TSE lost 63.82 Wed- ing from a tumble earlier in nesday, the second biggest the week when U.S. prime fall this year, rates rose. Investors now are waiting The Toronto ‘Stock Ex- for the U.S. government's change composite 300 index monthly report on the bal- rose 16.65 points to 3,287.52, ance of trade, which is to be off 2.11 since last Friday. released Tuesday. * —CONTACT — In New York, the Dow “So we go on to the next GORDON MASON, TRI VISTA REALTY Jones average of: 30 in- number, the dreaded trade Box 459, Salmon Arm, B.C. VOE 2T0 dustrials climbed 22.55 to statistic,” said Michael Sher- 59, Sa A j 1,990.55, down 16.91 points man at. Shearson—_Lehman Business: 832-6027 — Residence 832-4195 Need acar loan? We'll make it happen. on the week. Hutton. Analysts said the week's action was part of the halting recovery in stock prices since the October crash. “The market wants to go up,” said Toronto-based an- alyst Horst Mueller of Wood Gundy. “I'm bullish on the market.” Both Mueller and analyst Iain Fraser of Midland Do- herty said the notion that in- vestors are being held back by fears of inflation has been overstated. “All that stuff about in- flation,” said Fraser. “It doesn’t mean much to me. The market went down be- CORRECTION In the Budget Helper Coupon Section of Wednesday, May 11 edition of the Castlegar News, a coupon for Scratches ‘n Tanlines inadvertantly advertised @ Nail Starter and Continuation package at $15.99 — the ad should have read Suntan Starter and Continuation Pkg. $15.99. The Casth pol caused S$ fi $$$ BUDGET HELPER COUPON 1 WITH THIS COUPON cause the (U.S. prime) rates | Suntan Starter & $ | 5 99 | Continuation Pkg. ............. went up. The news is passed. t | ! | It’s happened. 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Oilers starting Wednesday night in Edmonton (9:35 p.m. Kirk Muller pulled the Cinderella Devils to within 3-2 at 3:41 of the third period, scoring on a passout But Boston Poalie Rejean Lemelin, who had made two big saves in the game's opening minutes, came up with several key saves in the next few minutes to keep And Janney, who joined the Bruins after playing with the U.S. Olympic Team, then dashed the Devils’ comeback hopes when he intercepted a pass by defenceman Ken Daneyko deep in the New Jersey end, went in alone and swept the puck past goalie Sean Burke at 12:05 fora 42 lead. . The capacity crowd shook the Boston Garden with its CLINCHES WIN Less than two minutes later, the Bruins wrapped up their 16th trip to the final and a chance for their sixth Stanley Cup when Steve Kasper sent Cam Neely in alone on Burke. Neely, who had been thwarted several times during the series by the rookie goaltender, beat him with a backhander at 13:19. Again the Garden shook with the fans roar of delight. Play was delayed several minutes to clean up debris, including a rubber replica of the Stanley Cup and several shoes and sneakers. Ken Linseman capped the scoring with a short handed goal, a long backhand flip into an empty net with 24 seconds to play The Bruins outshot the Devils 31-19, but Lemelin made the difference in the early going, The 33-year-old Lemelin, driven to the bench early in the third period of a 6-3 loss in Game 6 in New Jersey on Thursday night, frustrated the Devils with three acrobatic saves in the opening minutes, robbing Muller, Pat Verbeek and Tom Kurvers from close-in. Janney and Moe Lemay then scored three minutes apart midway through the first period for a 2-0 lead and Riek Middleton made it 3-0 less than three minutes into the second period. John MacLean gave the Devils some life with a goal ruins burn Devils in final game BOSTON (AP) — Craig Janney's second goal of the game with fewer than eight minutes left ended New Jersey's dream as the Boston Bruins defeated the upstart Devils 6-2 Saturday night to earn their first trip into the late in the second period before Muller brought them to within one early in the final period. The game was officiated by Don Koharski, the object of Devils coach Jim Schoenfeld's wrath after Game 3. Schoenfeld was ultimately suspended for ong game by the NHL for confronting Koharski after Boston's 6-1 victory. After the Devils dominated the opening minutes, the Bruins jumped to a 2-0 lead on their second and third shots on goal three minutes apart midway through the period. Janney opened the scoring with a power-play goal a 8:59 and Lemany scored exactly three minutes later. With New Jersey's Mark Johnson serving a hooking penalty, Janney stationed himself about 15-feet in front of the New Jersey goal and tipped Ray Bourque’s 45-foot feed from the point between Burke's legs for his fifth playoff goal. Prrateaels aeaneant RT rregdiel \ emer’ hart tH + th ean! Clzisei KILL SHOT . . . Shane Bohnet delivers the finishing touch to this rally with an unstoppable overhead smash. Stanley Humphries went on to. beat L.V. winning five. Rogers of Nelson 7-4 in team vociel tennis play. Six of the sets went into tiebreakers with the SHSS players — CasNews Photo by Brenden Nagle podge of NHLery Well, the NHL finals are here and the one team I was hoping would prove me wrong turned out to be the only team to prove me right. Those pesky Edmontoh Oilers have succeeded in making the finals for the second year in a row and the biggest difference is in the way the Oilers got there. I knew my predictions were in trouble when I couldn't even get the final 16 right. How was I supposed to know New Jersey was going to beat Chicago in overtime for the final playoff spot in the Patrick Division? Last season at this time the Oiler forwards didn’t even have to think defensively. Grant Fuhr was the only real defenceman the Oilers had The gun-and-run game was Edmon ton’s style and with a guy like Paul Coffey threading 70-foot-long passes up the rink, the forwards didn’t have to go any further back than centre ice. This season the Oilers’ game plan changed to a more patient style of hockey with the forwards back checking more and the defence doing more of a job to keep Fuhr from getting shell-shocked. ‘Phe passes out of the Edmonton de fensive zone are now about 20 feet long with the forwards getting the puck on their side of centre before lugging it in to the opposition’s end of the rink Quite obviously this style has worked well for the Oilers and their scoring still carries the familiar knockout punch that jt always has. Messier, Gretzky fe Kurri lead the NHL playoff scoring hit parade with 82, 30, and 26 points, re Sporting Views By Brendan Nagle spectively. The point total of those three is seven more than the next four players below them in the playoff scoring race. While the Oilers have changed their style to a more patient, de fensive game, they sure haven't lost their ability to fill the net. *_ 68 « Six Detroit Red Wings are in the dog house with coach Jacques Demers and the front office brass for going out and “consuming al- coholic beverages” until 2 a.m. Wednesday morning before the fifth and deciding game in the Campbell Conférence final. The players, who had an 11 p.m curfew, included Bob Probert, John Chabot, Peter Klima, Darren Veitch, Joey Kocur and Darren Eliot. They were spotted at an Ed. monton night club called Goose Loonies well past the curfew time. Veitch, Klima, Kocur and third. string netminder Eliot knew they were all off Wednesday night's starting roster before they went out and Chabot and Probert got to play Demers was aware of the curfew violations before Wednesday night's game — which Detroit lost 8-4 — but started the guilty players anyway. He said it wouldn't be fair for the other players not to start Probert and Chabot, who.are usually two forces to be recognized on the ice for Detroit. Neither of ‘the two con tributed a single point in Wed nesday night's loss. Detroit general manager Jimmy Devellano and coach Demers are currently deciding on how to deal with the payers. It seems like pie yesterday but it’s already been a week since those funny men in yellow jerseys and white helmets stumbled onto the ice at the Meadowlands in Jersey. At first I thought the game was being pre-empted by an Ice Capades show but no... those three guys were in fact going to officiate an NHL play off game. I was stupified. They were actually going to let those guys ref. I immediately looked for someone to blame. Couldn't blame Schoenfeld or the Devils; they went by the book. Couldn't blame Sinden or the Bruins — although they did have the right to refuse to play in this one-ring circus — they played the good guys and went along with the farce. The NHL officials, well, I can’t be sure. While Schoenfeld was ex tremely upset with Koharski after the Jersey loss in game three, I didn’t get’ the impression that Koharski’s life or any other official's life was in danger. Schoenfeld did get a one-game suspension but Jersey — tired of being the doormat franchise of the NHL — used a legality to secure Schoenfeld’s service behind the bench for game four. While I feel the NHL officials should have officiated that game — because of Schoenfeld’s successful bid to stay the one-game suspension T'm glad they didn't because it pointed out a glaring truth which is the NHL's inability to‘enforce the rules in its own rule book. The blame falls squarely on’ the league's shoulders at the front office. I get the feeling that next year we won't have an NHL rule book. It'll be the revised edition of the law code. White Sox defeat Jays CHICAGO (AP) Light-hitting Fred Manrique hit a ‘tie-breaking three run homer and drove in a fourth run with a bunt single Saturday night, powering the Chicago White Sox to a 7-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Manrique, who came into the contest with one home run this season and seven in 401 major-league at-bats, broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning by hitting the first pitch from John Cerutti, 1-2, into the first row of seats in left fieid. Manrique’s four runs batted in made a winner of Dave LaPoint, 4-2, who yielded nine hits and three runs in seven innings. TWINS 7 TIGERS 0 DETROIT (AP) — Les Straker pitched his first major-league shutout and Mark Davidson hit his second big-league homer Saturday as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Detroit Tigers 7-0 in American League play. Straker, 1-1, who came off the 15-day supplemental disabled list 10 days earlier, allowed four hits. He walked one and struck out one. Straker gave up a leadoff bunt single to Gary Pettis in the first, then didn’t allow another hit until the fifth inning when Chet Lemon had a one-out single. YANKEES 6 ANGELS 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Don Mattingly and Dave Winfield homered Saturday to help Tommy John to his 279th career victory in the New York Yankees’ 6-2 American League baseball win over the California Angels. John, 2-0, walked two, struck out two and gave up 13 hits. Dave Righetti, making his first appearance since May 2, came on to get the final two outs and register his fifth save. California's only runs off the 44-year-old left-hander came on Tony Armas’s run-scoring single in the sixth and Brian Downing’s third homer of the season, an opposite-field drive leading off the seventh. ATLETICS 8 ORIOLES 0 BALTIMORE (AP) — Mark McGwire and Dave Parker hit three-run homers and Bob Welch pitched a five-hitter as the Oakland Athletics snapped a three-game American League losing streak by defeating the Baltimore Orioles 8-0 on Saturday night. Welch, 6-2, who allowed three singies, walked two and struck out two, pitched hitless ball for 4 2-3 innings, retiring 12 in a row over one stretch. All the Baltimore hits were singles. Oakland's 25-10 record in the best in baseball. The Orioles, who again failed to win two games in a row for the first time, are 5-30, worst in the majors. INDIANS 6 BREWERS 4 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joe Carter singled in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 6-4 on Saturday for their fifth straight American League victory. Carter's two-out single in the fifth broke a 2-2 tie and came after a single by Willie Upshaw and a balk on Milwaukee starter Mike Birkbeck, 1-3. The Indians then added three runs in the sixth inning off Brewers reliever Odell Jones, two scoring as shortstop Dale Sveum muffed a bases loaded grounder. The loss was the fifth straight for Milwaukee following a 10-game winning streak. Carter also doubled in a run in the third as Cleveland beat the Brewers for the third straight game and ran its record against AL East teams this season to 10-0. RED SOX 3 MARINERS 0 BOSTON (AP) — Roger Clemens pitched a three-hitter and struck out 10 enroute to his fourth shutout of the season as the Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 3-0 in American League play Saturday. Clemens, 6-1, walked a season-high five and was helped by three double plays as he beat Scott Bankhead, 0-1. It was the sixth time this year Clemens has struck out 10 or more in a game and the 27th time in his career. The five walks were the most allowed by Clemens since last June 6, when he walked seven versus Detroit. Clemens leads the majors with 93 strikeouts in 76 innings. It was his 14th career shutout in 113 starts and his seventh career three-hitter. ASTROS 3 CUBS 1 HOUSTON (AP) — Houston left-hander Bob Knepper continued his surprising start Saturday, becoming the first Astro pitcher to win five games this season with a 3-1 National League baseball victory over the Chicago Cubs. Knepper, 5-0, went 7 1-3 innings and retained his league earn-run average lead with a 0.85. Knepper, who struggled to an 8-17 record last season, snapped a personal string of six straight losses to the Cubs. He gave up eight hits and did not strike out or walk a batter. Dave Smith pitched the ninth to gain his sixth save. Al Nipper, 0-1, was the loser, giving up three runs on three hits, walking three and striking out one in six innings. Chicago took a 1-0 lead in the first when Shawon Dunston singled, moved to third on a Mark Grace single and scored on Andre Dawson's sacrific fly. REDS 5 PIRATES 3 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mario Soto and John Franco combined on a three-hitter Saturday night as the Cincinnati Reds held off the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 in National League action. The Reds got four runs in the first inning against Mike Dunne, 1-2, and Pittsburgh scored three times in the bottom of the first. Eric Davis led off the Reds ninth with his sixth homer for the game’s other run. GIANTS 3 METS 2 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robby Thompson's wind-blown, two-run triple keyed a three-run rally and gave the San Francisco Giants a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets in National League action Saturday. Right-hander Mike Krukow, 2-2, continued his career mastery of the Mets, giving up five hits in 7 2-3 innings in winning a pitching duel with right-hander Ron Darling, 3-3, who yielded three hits in seven innings. Atlee Hammaker finished up for his fourth save. Canucks eye Soviet stars VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver be made available to us. that they are fed up with the rigid life Canucks aren't prepared to pay super- star rates for Soviet hockey stars, says Brian Burke, the National Hockey League club's , director of hockey operations. “We've got our salary structure to consider,” Burke said Friday. “We're not going to offer $1 million to players who've never played in this league before, unless it's for multi, multi years.” A Canuck delegation left for Moseow earlier this week to make contract offers to Soviet national team forwards Igor Larionov and Vladimir Krutev, whose NHL rights are owned by Vancouver. A report in a Toronto newspaper quotes Soviet officials saying the Canucks made million-dollar offers to lure Larionov and Krutov to the NHL. “I do know the figures we were talking about before Pat left,” Burke said. “My guess is if,we offered them $1 million each, it would be over five years.” Burke was not involved in the latest negotiations in Moscow but was present when the Canucks met with Soviet «ports officials during the Olympics in Calgary “I know the figures we discussed in Calgary,” Burke said. “We weren't prepared to make an offer then until we had assurances the players would He dismissed rumors that the club was prepared to pay $1 million for one year, or even two or three. Larionov and Krutov, two thirds of the Soviet national team's famed KLM line, have told Canadian players style and boot-camp discipline needed to play on the national team. However, both are officers in the Soviet army and would have to be granted leave before they could come to North America. Canadian sprinter drops out of race TOKYO (AP) — World sprinting champion Ben Johnson dropped out midway through the 100-metre dash Friday after feeling pain in his left leg during his first outdoor competition this season. The 26-year-old Toronto resident, holder of the world 100-metre record of 9.83 seconds, would not explain why he suddenly stopped running at the Tokyo International Track and Field Meet Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis, said the runner had felt a slight strain in his left leg and stopped running immediately. “Right now he does not feel the pain but we must 24 hours to know the exact reason,” Francis said. “If it's a severe sprain'l think we need three weeks and if it’s slight, we-need six to 10 days to recover.” He said Johnson was sorry to have disappointed the crewd. American Marty Krulee won the event with a time of 10.32, followed by leading Japanese sprinter Hiroki Fuwa in 10.48. The race was Johnson's first since injuring his hamstring in Sindelfingen, West Germany, on Feb. 5. He is slated to meet-rival sprinter Carl Lewis of the United States in Paris on June 27 for the first time since setting the world record at the world championships in Rome last year. Johnson is scheduled to run 12 to 15 races before the Seoul Olympics in September, most of them coming next month and in August. He was to take July off for training. Meanwhile, Graeme Fell of Van- couver won the 3,000-metre steeple- chase event Friday with a time of 8:40.68 in an otherwise Japanese-dom- inated event.