as _Castlégar News October 15, 1986 LECTION ‘86 Party leaders still pushing in final week VANCOSUVER (CP — With a week remaining in the Oct. 22 election campaign, NDP Leader Bob Skelly went into enemy territory Tuesday while Premier Bill Vander Zalm warned his supporters not to rest on the Social Credit party's apparent lead. Skelly impressed a group of about 250 Vancouver businessmen at a Rotary Club luncheon with a forceful plea not to ignore poverty in British Columbia. “(Poverty is) probably not an issue that affects many people in this room but you'd be surprised to know that 540,000 British Columbians today live below the poverty line.” Skelly said. “More than 84,000 of those are children. “And poverty is growing faster in this province than it is in any other province in Canada.” The Rotary’s membership is considered reliably Socred but one senior club official said later he was “impressed by how attentive the audience was. “I heard about the pauses and nervousnes (in past speeches), but there was none of that today,” said the official, but added Skelly likely wouldn't get any votes here. Skelly tied his pitch to the business sector's concern about the provincial government deficit, which he estimated at $51 billion. The welfare budget this year is $872 milion, matching the projected budget deficit of $870 million, he said. Skelly catered to the NDP’s traditional supporters Tuesday by announcing a fair wage policy. PAY UNION WAGES He told the editorial board of the Vancouver Province an NDP government would only allow non-union companies to work on government contracts only if they paid union wages He said the current system of awarding contracts to the lowest-bidder rewards inefficient companies whose bids rely entirely on low wages. The fair wage policy would ensure contracts went to the most efficient firm, he said. Minister to visit riding By CasNews Staff Castlegar and District Tea. Minister of Education chers’ Association. Tony Brummet will be visit ing the Rossland/Trail riding Thursday. Brummet and local Socred candidate Audrey Moore will visit the Castlegar library for an Expo legacy grant cheque presentation. They will also be meeting with school ad. ministrators, teachers and staff at J.L.Crowe secondary school in Trail, according to a prepared news release. Brummet and Moore will host a public reception at the Sandman Inn in Castlegar at 10:15 a.m. The minister will give a short address and will answer questions from the audience. Meanwhile, Moore has Moore told the nursing been meeting with both group she was most pleased teachers and nurses to dis- to meet with them and dis. cuss local concerns. Moore cuss “these very real con- had breakfast Tuesday with cerns, and to get a full representatives from the understanding of the prob- Castlegar school board and lem.” Last week Moore met with a group of registered nurses at Selkirk College in Castle- r. The nurses requested the meeting to discuss two amendments which the Reg- istered Nurses Association of British Columbia is seeking to the act which governs nurses. The amendments deal with mandatory registration of registered nurses, and with registration renewal require ments. The nurses told Moore the amendments are required because of rapidly changing technological ad vances in their profession, (Fac ON PAINTING & DECORATING FOURTH AVENUE | casrseGaR 8 © vIn 2st 2649 365 3563 | Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoft ADVERTISING SALES remem oR, NEWS 3 CASTLEC OFFICE 365-5210 Morrison ec it, Hi findit! ELECTION ‘86 BOB SKELLY . in enemy territory BILL VANDER ZALM . +. warns candidates Meanwhile Vander Zalm, stumping in the Interior, got more than the familiar warm reception in Revelstok One angry Socred dismissed his praise of Expo 86 with complaints about the government's neglect of Revelstoke. Earlier in Armstrong, Vander Zalm warned a luncheon meeting of 150 supporters against complacency in the waning days of the campaign. He said some party members are so confident of victory that they are not working as hard as they should. “If enough people take that attitude, then we could be in trouble,” he said. Addressing a rally of about 400 in Revelstoke Tuesday night, Vander Zalm sidestepped NDP criticism of Socred education policies by saying the B.C. education system was still “pretty darn good,” but could stand improvement He also had to contend with an insistent heckler. Revel stoke businessman George Hannah, who described himself as a Socred supporter, interrupted Vander Zalm’s praise of Expo as an economic boost. “You're not doing nothing for Revelstoke,” said Hannah, to applause from the audience. Vander Zalm and Hannah talked past each other for a few seconds, then the premier told Hannah to hold his questions until the end of his speech. PLEDGES HELP Hannah later complained about the effect of the three-month lockout of civic workers on the town’s urban revitalization plan. Vander Zalm again pledged to try to bring the 13 Okanagan municipalities and the Canadian Union of Public Employees back to the bargaining table. Vander Zalm also suggested a possible change to provincial stumpage policy to get more value out of B.C. wood products. Mills which specialized in finished products instead of turning out basic lumber should get a break on stumpage rates or pay no stumpage at all, he said. Mills which do no specialty work might have to pay more stumpage, he said Liberal Leader Art Lee, sporting a red vest and tie, spent most of Tuesday campaigning in the three Surrey ridings, later knocking on doors in his home riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain. Residents asked a number of times about the difference between the Liberals and the NDP. “Because we are a centre-of-the-road party, we offer social programs, but with more fiscal responsibility,” Lee told one voter. “But we aren't tied to big labor.” Land claims raised VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia Indians feel there is a misunderstanding of what they are seeking through land claims. The problem is being raised in the provincial election campaign. “| just have to say that we don't want to take your houses away,” a young Indian girl told Premier Bill Vander Zalm during a public meeting in Smithers. A number of contentious land-claim issues that have received national and inter- national attention in the last two years include fishing rights along the Skeena River, the double-tracking of the CN Rail line through the mountains and logging on Meares and Lyell islands. At nearly every public meeting on Vander Zalm's northern swing, native people asked about land claims. Chief Saul Terry, presi- dent of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, says most of the province's 80,000 Indi aren't interested in provin- cial polities. “In the past, their involve- ment has not proven very fruitful,” he said. “They're very skeptical and one of the main reasons is that the ruling party (the Social Cred- it) has indicated ovr the past decade that it is not inter. ested in dealing with the matter of Indian land claims.” Only three candidates in the election are Indian. Larry Guno is running for the NDP in Atlin, Gordon Sebastian is seeking election as an In- deventoni Skeena, and Sam Stevehs is on the ballot in Delta as a Liberal. The Social Credit — both as party and government policy — denies the existence of aboriginal title LOTS OF HALLOWEEN MAKE-UP! Phantom Fighters Nail Polish, Multi-Colored Hair & Body Glitter Hair Streak & Tips Hair Color in. . . Orange, Red, Purple, Yellow, Blue & Green! 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That's the simple message from head coach Don Matthews to the veteran players of the slumping British Columbia Lions. “We will play the people who give us the best chance to win in the next fours games and in the playoffs,” Matthews said Tuesday. “Then we'll evaluate our football team at the end of the season. “We'll take a hard look at our players and see if they're good enough to continue to compete in this league.” Matthews does not plan numerous immediate changes to the B.C. lineup despite three straight Canadian Football League losses and a fall to third place from first in the Western Division standings. But it’s clear that Matthews will not stand pat following the 1986 season should the defending Grey Cup champions fail in their defence of the team’s first CFL playoff title in 21 years. “We have to determine in what direction we want to go next year,” Matthews said at his weekly news conference. “We'll play with the players we have and hopefully they'll come through. “We don't think that change.is the answer at this stage of the season. The players that we have give us the best chance to win right now. We're not building, we're trying to win this year.” The Lions, now 9-5 for the season, have scored only one offensive touchdown in losing twice to the Edmonton Eskimos, 32-3 and 32-13, and once to the Montreal Alouettes, 28-15. The offensive line in particular has come under criticism for the frequent sackings of quarterback Roy Dewalt. The Lions have three starters over the age of 30 in the five-man offensive line. Dewalt said the linemen aren't solely to blame, noting that all-star wide receiver Mervyn Fernandez has dropped several passes, including one for a against the Alouettes. “There are no alibis,” Matthews said. “We've told Merv, “We need you. We need the big play.’ ” Fernandez, in the option year of his CFL contract, missed two months with a broken bone in his hand. He has caught 26 passes for 512 yards and two touchdowns this season, compared with 95 catches for 1,727 yards and 15 touchdowns last year when he won the Schenley Award as the CFL's most outstanding player “The defence feels pretty good about it's play, but on offence there is a confidence factor that's missing,” the coach said. “The athletes are putting pressure on themselves and we need some success so that we can learn to relax again.” Matthews may make some changes to the offensive lineup Saturday when the Lions meet the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at B.C. Place Stadium. The club has practised without starting guards Glenn Leonhard and Gerald Roper. Leonhard has a pinched nerve in his neck and Roper was sidelined by illness and a sprained ankle. Backup linemen Jamie Buis, the snapper on punting downs, and Ian Sinclair were at the guard positions with the staring unit. Matthews may replace wide receiver Ned Armour with Jim y after Sandusky had a @ rest for his sore legs. The Lions have not played since the Oct. 5 defeat in Montreal. Running back Anthony Parker, who played his first CFL game against Montreal and gained 49 yards, likely will start again, leaving 1985 all-star Keyvan Jenkins on the reserve list. Premier's cards missing VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm lost cash and credit cards when his wallet disappeared during the weekend. The same day, his road manager's laundry went as- tray Vander Zalm said he may have dropped his wallet somewhere between his Fan tasy Garden World in sub urban Richmond and the Un iversity of B.C., where he went’ to film a new com mercial for the Oct. 22 pro vincial election campaign. He estimates he lost $50 to $120 and some credit cards. ‘I've given up on cash,’ he said. “I never carry that much cash.” Vander Zalm said he has reported the lost credit SOCRED GOVERNMENT TURNS ITS BACK ON KOOTENAY JOBS TELEPHONE WORKERS’ PLEAS FALL ON DEAF EARS For several years now the Telecommunications Workers Union has been battling government agencies, crown corporations, and major corporations to save jobs from centralization or total elimination in the Kootenays. Despite repeated requests for help from Socred MLA’s and Tory MP’s only New Democrats cared enough to speak up for our members and ldcal constituents. wa TWU MEMBERS WIN ARBITRATION OVER B.C. TEL NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT Joyce 365-3091 Connie 365-7601 The Telecommunications Workers Union recently won an arbitration which dealt with jobs in Cranbrook. The arbitrator ruled that B.C. Tel had laid off operators because the company chose to process phone calls in Kelowna instead of in Cranbrook. Decisions like this have created record levels of unemployment, total disruption of families, economic turmoil for entire towns and yet they are political decisions that were made of, for and by big corporations concerned with profits. NEW DEMOCRATS FOUGHT FOR JOBS IN THE KOOTENAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION WAS CALLED The only political party to fight for and maintain jobs in the Kootenays has been the New Democrats. Both Bob Skelly and federal leader Ed Broadbent came to the Kootenays before the election was called to work with us on a strategy to protect jobs. We ask the voters of the Kootenays to consider this when choosing a party that speaks up for working people and will continue to do so even after the election. This ad paid for by the TWU in support of the ‘Keep Jobs In The Kootenays Committee’ ANOTHER SHOT . . . Beaver Valley Nite Hawks goaltender blocks goal as Castlegar Rebels make another shot during KIJHL gome Tuesday. Rebels By CHERYL CALDERBANK ff Writer Rick Viens and Dane Jackson scored four goals each as Castlegar Rebels humiliated Beaver Valley Nite 4awks 19-9 in a Kootenay international Junior Hockey League game Tuesday night at the Castlegar Community Complex The win gives the Rebels five wins in their first six games The Rebels took a commanding 9-1 lead after the first period. The Nite Hawks came alive early in the second frame, scoring 22 minutes into the period and promptly added another marker at 2:08. The Rebels replied with three goals before Beaver Valley scored another goal at 15:45. The Rebels added another goal, to which the Nite Hawks responded with one of their own. The Rebels scored the final goal of the period at 18:59 to lead 14-5 In the third period, the Rebels scored four goals before the Nite Hawks could respond. Beaver Valley then scored four consecutive goals. The Rebels added their last marker in the high-scoring affair for the 19-9 final Besides Viens and Jackson other Rebel goalscorers were: Andrew Zibin with three, Mark Plotnikoff, Walter Sheloff and David Zarikoff with two each, and Trent Thiebert and Lorne Kanigan with one apiece A number of players also chalked up assists. Darcy Martini got five assists, Viens had four, Perry Caputo, Colin Carew and Walter Sheloff had three apiece, David Zarikoff, Plotnikoff and Sjodin had two each, with Randy Salekin and Zibin had one each In games on the weekend, the Rebels defeated Kimberley 7-4 Saturday night in a penalty-filled game in Kimberley. Friday night the Rebels beat Spokane Braves 11-3 at home In pre nine Rebels received penalties in the first period, four in the second frame and four in the final period Coach Bill Johnson said “the officiating was a bit to the desired,” adding that the Rebels were spit on by Kimberley fans “It's a shame to travel that far down and have that sort of a situation,” he said “There were far too many penalties,” Johnson added He said the Rebels were two players short for 11'2 minutes of the second period In explaining the penalties, Johnson noted that many of the KIJHL teams have a lot of midget-age players wearing full face masks whose “stick work is un believable.” He said teams like the Rebels, with players who don’t wear face masks, can put up with the midgets for only so long. Rebels victorious VOLES” 9 § won 19-9 over Beaver Valley. Nite Hawks faced 52 shots on goal, compared to 34 shots against the Rebels . fo! In Saturday's game, two Rebels received minor injuries — Lorne Kanigan was two-handed across the hips by Kimberley’s goaltender and Mark Plotnikoff is out for two weeks with torn rib cartilage But the Rebels also added up penalties in Friday's win over Spokane Braves. The local team had 40 minutes in penalties, compared to 24 minutes for the Braves Johnson said the team “was really working on cutting penalties", but without much success He noted that there are a number of young referees in the league this season. In addition, Johnson said he feels the team is being discriminated against because of its size Johnson explained that the Rebels get into a corner with players who only come up to their chest and are given a penalty because of their intimidating look “We've got some big players four players stand six-feet three inches he said noting that In Saturday's game, the Rebels led period on goals by Kevin Biln, assisted by and by Rick Viens, assisted by Dane Jackson and Darcy Martini The Knights caught up in the second frame. scoring two goals in the first seven minutes of the period The Rebels then responded with (wo of their own before Kimberley scored another goal. The Rebels got another marker at 18:27 to lead 5-4 Kimberley was scoreless in the final frame. but the Rebels scored two insurance goals for a 7 4 fir Rebels goaltender, Steve Voykin. { 2 while the Rebels had 16 shots on Kimberley’s goa In Friday's game, the Rebels scored four goals in the first frame to lead 4-1. Dane Jackson scored twice. while Dave Terhune and Lorne Kanigan also scored. Darcy Martini and Mark Plotnikoff picked up three assists each Kevin Koorbatoff and Andrew Zibin got singles In the second period, Castlegar and Spok two goals each, making it 6-3 for the Rebels Plotnikoff scored both goals, one of them un The Rebels shut out Spokane in the fina they scored five goals for an 113 final Goals came from Martini, Trent Thiebert. Dean Sjodin, Adrian Markin and Jackson. Dave Terhune got two assists, while Jackson, Kanigan, Plotnikoff, Koor batoff and Perry Caputo got singles Johnson said that in Friday players played up to where he wants them to be at time of the season. He said although it was a good game, it was unfortu nate more fans didn’t turn out. The game attracted about 280 people. Red Sox even AL series 3-3 BOSTON (AP) — Outstanding pitch ing, mediocre pitching. Great plays, bizarre plays. Dramatic comebacks, tear-jerking collapses. After six exciting games of emotion packed, roller-coaster baseball, the California Angels and the Boston Red Sox battle it out tonight for the 1986 American League championship. “Everything is on the line, the money, the whole season is out there on one ball game,” California's Reggie Jackson said Tuesday night after Boston slugged its way to a 10-4 victory, evening the series at three games apiece. California, the AL West champion, named veteran left-hander John Can delaria to start in the seventh and deciding game of the playoff to decide the AL representative in the World Series. Boston, the East Division champ. planned to counter with right-hander Roger Clemens, who led the major leagues with 24 victories but has been frustrated in two starts against the Angels. Clemens is reported to be nursing a touch of the flu, but promised to be ready for the biggest challenge of his young career While seeking to end years of N.Y. METS frustration, which include seventh- game losses in the 1946, 1967 and 1975 World Series, the Red Sox are deter mined to repeat the Kansas City Royals’ act last year, when the Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Toronto Blue Jays for the pennant and went on to win the World Series. END HITTING SLUMP Trailing three games to one, Boston made an almost unbelievable comeback in Game 5 Sunday, scoring four runs in the ninth on a pair of two-run homers by Don Baylor and Dave Henderson and then winning 7-6 in the 11th. The Red Sox apparently broke out of a hitting slump late in that game and it carried over on their return home to iriendly Fenway Park, where they had a 51-30 regular season record. With Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd settling down after a shaky start and pitching seven strong innings, the Red Sox mauled Kirk McCaskill and three successors for 16 hits, including four by light-hitting Spike Owen, three by Marty Barrett and two each by Bill Buckner, Dwight Evans and Rich Gedman “We haven't been putting our hits together for a while, but we finally did in the (five-run) third inning.” said Boston manager John McNamara. “Oil Can gave us what we wanted, seven strong innings, and Bob Stanley got in some work by pitching the eighth and ninth. “Now we have Clemens backed up by rested people. We're in pretty good shape pitching-wise.” McNamara said he doesn't think there is “any such thing as momentum” in baseball. California manager Gene Mauch and the Angels agreed. “Both teams have shown they know how to play,” said Mauch, who hopes to go to the World Series for the frist time in 25 years as a manager. “Both teams have shown they know how to win. Now we'll find out which team knows how to win when it matters.” Jackson, who has set AL Champion ship Series career records with 37 hits and 20 runs batted in, said, “We have to go into the game fighting. We got our butts kicked. “Now we've got to go out and get what's ours.” Veteran Bobby Grich, whose two-run throwing error in Boston's decisive third inning of Game 6 opened the floodgates to five runs, said: “The stuft that's happened to me in this series is unbelievable. It has been bizarre “I love baseball one day. I hate it another day. Right now I'm hating it.” Carter snaps slump By HAL BOCK NEW YORK (AP) — Quality counts Quantity is nice, but for the New York Mets, quality is what has brought them to the brink of the World Series. Quality and a little bit of luck, which always helps. This team which led the Nationa! League in hitting during the regular season is batting an anemic .185 against Houston pitching in the play offs. The Mets have come to bat 48 times in the playoffs and scored in only seven innings. In three of those innings, they have scored just one run They have 32 hits, 26 of them singles They have scored 14 runs, less than three per game. In the last 21 innings, they have managed three runs and seven hits. In the first three innings of games they have gone 1for-47 and struck out 19 times Their No. 5 hitter is batting .235, not much, but a ton more than their clean up man who is at .091 And yet today the Mets went into the Houston Astrodome. their personal house of horrors, needing one more vietory to clinch the National League pennant SNAPS SLUMP They reached this pleasant plateau when Gary Carter, the No. 4 man snapped a horrendous 1 for 21 playoff slump with a 12th-inning single that delivered the winning run in Tuesday's pulsating 2-1 victory. A quality hit at a most appropriate moment. No waste here What did Darryl Strawberry, the No. 5 man, think about Carter's chances insthat spot? “T had the feeling he was going to do it,” said Strawberry, whose home run in the fifth inning was the first hit off Nolan Ryan and the only run the Mets had to that point Keith Hernandez, the Mets’ No. 3 hitter, had confidence in Carter, the slump notwithstanding. “Athletes have strong egos,” he said. “Strong men rise to the occasion. Carter rose It was about time,” he said. “There really is justice in this world.” Oh? Carter may think there's justice, but you might have trouble convincing the Astros of that right now. If there really was justice, then Nolan Ryan would have had a 2-1, two-hit victory and the Astros, not New York, would be in front in this series. The run the Astros didn't get in Game 5 in the second inning when Dwight Gooden escaped a jam on a double play that really was nothing more than a forceout Craig Reynolds seemed to beat the relay to first by a half step, but was called_jout by umpire Fred Brock lander. Reynolds and first-base coach Matt Galante, a co@ple of mild-man nered guys. ran at Brocklander screaming to no avail MISSES IT Anytime Reynolds and Matt argue, Ihave to think the ump missed it.” said Houston manager Hal Lanier. “It was a judgment call.” Even viewing replays could3h con vince Brocklander, who called it “a matter old depth perception That's right, the camera's depth and the umpire's perception. Give the man this year's Don Denkinger Award To their credit, the Astros did not moan and groan over Brocklander's call. They went about their business of trying to solve Gooden. And they didn’t once accuse him of scuffing the base ball the Mets, on the other hand accused Houston's Mike Scott of ¢ all sorts of nefarious things tc baseballs. How else could he beaten them twice in this series have even offered in the jargon of the replay evidence indisputabie Chub Feeney, president of the National League, considered the Mets complaints and found Scott innocent of any misdeeds. Pee Wee Reps win 8-5 over Nelson By CasNews Staff Castlegar Pee Wee Reps defeated Nelson 8-5 Saturday in an exhibition game played at the Castlegar Cor munity Complex. The Castlegar team opens its regular season Saturday at the Community Complex. The local team plays Beaver Valley in a game scheduled to begin a 5 pm Meanwhile, in Saturday's game Castlegar led 3.1 after the first period yn two goals scored by Frank Strobel and one’ by Clay Bouthillier. Jase Batchelor and Dan Steick co second period, Nelson scored Castle e goal to 44 Strobel scored F his third marker koff got the assist frame. Castlegar held e goal while scoring fits own for an &5 win red the fifth xoal for his of the game ther goals wred by David Green, Stelek » Dacosta