As Cast légar News

December 17, 1989

BUSINESS

Trad

OTTAWA (CP)
foreign trade in goods — everything
from cars to chemicals — plunged into
a deficit for the first time in 13 years in
October, andthe
blame fell squarely on the high-flying
Canadian dollar

The federal
interest-rate policy has

Canada’s

statistics show,

high.

government's

dollar, damaging Canada’s ability to
compete during the first year of free
*trade with the United States, exporters
said

The currency has risen from 83.86
cents US at the start of 1989 to Thur
sday's close of 86.24 cents US a

nine-year high and 17 cents above the

e deficit recorded

all-time low reached in 1986

It's estimated that every
rise in the dollar costs Canada between
$1 billion and $3 billion a year in lost
annual exports.

And the trade
another signpost on the
recession, economists warned.

**It has totally wiped out most of the
advantages of the free-trade deal,
said Clem Srour, spokesman for the
Canadian Exporters’ Association

If we keep on going on the current
monetary policy we are going to keep
on going further and further into a

one-cent

poor figures are

road to

trade-deficit situation.”
Canada imported $421 million more

in goods than it sold in October, com
pared with a revised surplus of $134
million. in September, Statistics
Canada reported. ‘
DEFICIT TRADITIONAL
Traditionally, Canada’s overall
commerce with the rest of the world is
in deficit, especially in services and in
vestment, However, that has been par
tly offset by surpluses on merchandise
trade
Ca Jian exporters
are smarting
dollar
In Montreal, Mark Drake, president
of Electrovert Ltd., a company that
makes automated soldering equipment

big and small

fiom the soaring

Quick decision wanted
as mill hearings end

PROSPERITY,
hearing

that

Alta

(cP) A
pulp mill

change the

lengthy
development could
face of northern Alberta ended late
Friday with Alberta-Pacific Forest In
dustries pressing for a speedy decision
onits proposat

“The window of opportunity for
* said Gerry Fenner

Alberta- Pacific

closes rapidly
vice-president of
“Time does unfortunately affect cost
and viability

I personally see this
exciting beginning of an industry with

project as an

a tremendous future
The
provincial panel is expected to make its

eight-member —_ federal

recommendations to federal and
provincia environment
February

Alberta-Pacific, owned by Japanese
companies Mitsubishi and Honshu
Paper, is proposing a $1.3-billion pulp
mill on the banks of the Athabasca
River near the farm community of
Prosperity, 200 kilom:
Edmonton

The hearings, which began Oct. 30.
have sat more than 200 hours in 12 nor

ministers in

thern communities and received more
than 400 presentations

Fenner, making a final pitch in the
hearing’s dying
public process has already dela

said the
d the

moments,

company’s plans by almost a y
He said afterward

proceed sometime in 1990.

would have to
The com
have already

$166

pany says the delays
pushed the mill's cost up by

million

might affect the
food chain as far away as the Macken

Basin in the Northwest

bleaching process
zie Valley
Territories
Differing views expressed by com
munity residents Friday were _in
dicative of the split it has caused in the

community
A. prosperous community. will be

said Nick

who farms near the proposed

sacrificed for a pulp mill
Zilinsk
site. “*The benefits of agriculture are
much more important thana pulp mill
Many people in the world are starving
and the last’thing they need is paper to
write on

But Dale Plante of Friends of the
Mill

economic stability and he discounted

countered it would bring

environmental fears.

“If we carry’ this kind of thing to an

extreme, our society would grind to a

halt,” Plante. ‘We would be

afraid to take any kind of risks.’
Earlier, F

pany chairman for a comment he made

said
ner defended the com

about the company. lowering itself by

undergoing the public review

Stuart Lang, president of

Crestbrook

parent
company Forest In
dustries, was quoted in a Cranbrook
newspaper as saying he feels ‘uncom
fortable that we've had to lower our

selves tothe public hearing process.”*

Fenner said he was complaining
about the rhetori¢ at the hearings and
not the process itself

“I believe what he was referring to
was songs like ‘Mitsubishi go home’
and that type of theatrics, and not the

proeess;"' Fenner said

Weekly

stocks

TORONTO (CP) The

moved sideways in the past week while

markets

the economic news continued to wor
sen in Canada and the United States.

The Toronto. ‘Stock
composite 300 index slid 9.13 points
Friday to 3,986.20, for a net gain of
just 3.47 points for the week

However, twice during the week and
for the first time since August, the in
dex closed above the 4,000-level

In New York, the Dow

144.03

Exchange's

Jones in

In New York
hat Gen. Manuel Noriega was moving

news reports Friday

towards ‘ta state of war'’ with the

United States put some downward
pressure on the stock market
marked

problems like

The week was also with

worry over corporate

those at Campeau Corp., which raised
retail
store divisions in the United States

bankruptcy

the possibility. its department

might be forced into

Canada reported its first trade

for the electronics industry, said the
high dollar has cut his profits by $1.5
million this year :

His Canadian-owned company has
300 workers in Canada and 300 at a
plant in Missouri. , And he's
discouraged that the promised benefits
of reduced tariffs under the free-trade
deal have been lost

“Obviously if this comtinued there
would be pressure to move more of our
operations down there," he said

Noranda Forest Inc., the country’s
largest forest-products manufacturer,
estimates the rising dollar has sliced
about $30 million from its bottom line
over the last year

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Bank of Canada’s influential bank
rate remained steady Thursday, falling
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John Crow, the
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The firattwords
the Prosvita community hall located
about 10
proposed site, capped a public out
pouring of support and condemnation

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The
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Gold and oil issues were the best per
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‘Overall, the market has got a lot of
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BUSY NIGHT. . . goalie Rick Edwa

Rebels in the team's 6-5 loss to the Trail S

in the first and second periods.

rds was chosen player of the game for the Castlega

*
was sharp

Friday night.

Giveaways cost
Rebels a'win

ByEDMIL
Staff Writer

The Castlegar Rebels didn’t lose a
hockey game at the Community Com
plex Friday night

The team literally gave it away. Call
it the Christmas spirit

And the Trail Smoke Eaters were
more than happy to take it

The Smokies got four third-period
goals — two shorthanded — for a 6-2
lead and held off a late rally by the
Rebels to win 6-5 in a hard-hitting

diving poke checks oni Trail forwards
inalone.

But the Rebels must have been in the
dressing room wrapping presents bet-
ween periods because the players star-
ted handing out the gifts in the third

Smokie Mike Tavaroli, who joined
the team from the folded Penticton
Knights of the BCJHL last month
and who doesn’t need any help putting
the puck in the net at the best of times
— was often the recipient of the
Rebels’ generosity

“T turned left, I turned right and all
of a sudden the puck was in my feet,””
said Edwards of the Fletcher gaff

Edwards said nobody felt
then Fletcher on the play

“He just came up and said sorry af.
ter the game. But you know that’s a
part of the game, it happens.”

Rebels equipment manager Orlando
Vecchio summed it up best when asked
how Fletcher feels

“How would you feel?” he asked.

Two minutes later a sagging Rebels

worse

NHL SATURDAY

Flames singe Pens

CALGARY (CP) — Calgary's Theoren Fleury scored
two second-period goals Saturday night as the Flames
skated toa 4-3 win over Pittsburgh Penguins.

An Olympic Saddledome crowd of 20,107 saw the
Flames dominate territorially — they outshot Pittsburgh
50-26 — in running their home-ice record to 10-2-4

Penguins goalie Tom Barrasso, playing only his
second game since Oct. 25 — he'd missed 21 with a broken
bone in his hand before returning to the lineup Thursday
night at Minnesota — sparkled. He was particularly
brilliant in the second period when he made 19 of his 46
saves

Calgary goalie Mike Vernon faced only 26 shots.

Other scorers for Calgary were Sergei Makarov and
Joe Nieuwendyk

For Pittsburgh, now 3-2-1 under new general manager
and interim coach Craig Patrick, it was Kevin Stevens, Bob
Errey and Phil Bourque.

NORTH STARS 4 LEAFS3

TORONTO (CP) — Goals by Brian Bellows and
Shane Churla midway through the third period gave Min-
nesota a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs, ending
the North Stars’ eight-game NHL winless skid

Churla scored the winning goal on a rebound at 1:43 to
end Toronto's four-game winning streak and its six-game
winning streak at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Bellows had tied it 3-3 at 10:24, putting a backhander
past goalie Mark LaForest to give Minnesota, 1-7-1 in its
last nine games, its first win of themonth

382

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gord Murphy and Mike
Bullard scored 16 seconds apart as Philadelphia got four
goals in five minutes in the second period to beat the road.
weary Los Angeles Kings 5-2 and move into first place in the
NHL's Patrick Division.

The victory pushed the Flyers past the New York
Rangers and into first place for the first time since Oct. 22,
1988,

The Flyers also held Wayne Gretzky scoreless, ending
his point-scoring streak at 18 games, as the Kings finished a
stretch of five games in seven days.

CAPITALSS WHALERS2

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Steve Leach and Dino
Ciccarelli scored within 2:20 in the second period to lead the
Washington Capitals to a 5-2 victory over Hartford

The Whalers, who own the NHL's best road record at
10-5-0, have lost eight of their last 10 home games and are 6-

2-1 at the Hartford Civic Centre.

Leach intercepted Scott Young’s clearing pass deep at

the top of the slot in the Whalers zone and beat goaltender

Mike Liut to an upper corner of the net at 13:17 tosnapa

1 tie. Ciccarelli got his ninth goal in the last eight games and

16th of the season, beating Liut on a breakaway at 15:37.
ISLANDERS 4 RANGERS 3

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Pat LaFontaine scored
twice, including the go-ahead goal at 2:25 of the third
period, as the New York Islanders overcame a two-goal
deficit to beat the slumping New York Rangers 4-3

The Islanders spotted the Rangers a 2-0 lead in the first
period before rallying behind their all-star center, who
scored his 23rd and 24th goals of the season and then
assisted on Brad Lauer's goal

The loss extended the Rangers winless streak to 0-3-1
and Was the Islanders first win against the Rangers in five
NHL games this season. They lost two and tied twice, in
cluding a 0-0 tie on Dec. 9.

SABRES 3 BRUINS 1

BOSTON (AP) — Phil Housley’s goal halted a Boston
comeback bid midway through the third period as the Buf
falo Sabres skated to a 3-1 victory, handing the Bruins their
fourth straight home loss.

Dave Andreychuk and Rick Vaive also scored for Buf
falo while goalie Clint Malarchuk had 28 saves as the Sabres
avenged a 4-2 loss at Memorial Auditorium. Wednesday
night

Malarchuk, making his first start since a 5-1 loss in
Boston on Nov. 30, had his shutout bid spoiled when Andy
Brickley scored at 8:21 of the third period

BLUES 3 OILERS 3

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis defenceman Paul
Cavallini accidentally put the puck into his own net late in
the third period to give Edmonton a 3-3 tie with the Blues,
extending the Oilers’ unbeaten streak to nine games.

The Blues led 3-2 with 6:55 remaining when Cavallini,
apparently preparing to pass the puck, instead backhanded
it past goaltender Vincent Riendeau. Mark Messier, the
closest Oiler, was credited with his 20th goal

Glenn Anderson and Craig Simpson also scored for
the Smythe Division leaders, who are 7-0-2 during their un-
beaten streak and 9-0-2 against the Blues since Dec. 10,
1985.

HABS 3RED WINGS 1

Montreal’s Mats Naslund scored the game winner at
14:45 of the third period and Chris Chelios added an in-
surance marker 22 seconds later as the Canadiens defeated
the Detroit Red Wings 3-1

Chelios also assisted on Naslund’s goal as the Habs
remain two points behind the Buffalo Sabres for top spot in
the Adams Divison. The Sabres had beaten the Boston
Bruins 3-1 earlier Saturday

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Kootenay International Junior
Hockey League game.

The Smokies, the KIJHL’s hottest
team now with 11 straight wins, in-
cluding two in a row over the West
Division-leading Nelson Maple Leafs,
looked positively ordinary against the
Rebels who are still clinging to fourth
spot in the West with a 9-15 record af-
ter Friday's game.

Smokies’ assistant coach John Stark
said his players may have been ex
periencing a letdown after their 5-2 win
over the Maple Leafs Wednesday

“But I'm not taking anything away
from the Rebels,”” he said outside the
team dressing room after the game-
“They took it to us for two periods
and they showed a lot of character
coming back in the third. We're just
glad to be out of here with a win
tonight."*

The Rebels did outplay the Smokies
for the first two periods and could
easily have been ahead by a half dozen
goals if not for a few goalposts and a
lack of shooting sharpness around the
net. Instead the game was tied at two
heading into the third.

Rebels goalie Rick Edwards was
especially sharp through two periods,
coming out to make two beautiful

Tavaroli, who led the Junior A
league in scoring, had all the Rebels
watching him in the corner and so
calmly passed to his teammate stan-
ding all alone in front who made no
mistake to put the Smokies up by one
at the midway pointofthethird.

The Smokies’ fourth goal was ven
easier as Tavaroli was just handed the
puck by the Rebels defence and went in
to deke Edwards to make it 4-2.

The Rebels were given a big oppor-
tunity to get back in the game when
Derek Masaro of the Smokies picked a
fight with David Vecchio and was
tagged for an extra seven minutes in
penalties _for_his_troubles_(five_for
fighting and two for instigating) while
both players got roughing minors that
cancelled out

But even’ with a seven-minute
powerplay, the Rebels continued to act
as if they were the Salvation Army and
the Smokies were the needy

A hockey players’ worst nightmare
came true for defenceman Jeff Flet-
cher shortly into the powerplay when,
in trying to make a pass through the
goal crease, he banked the puck off
Edwards’ skate and into his own net,
giving Trail a shorthanded goal and a
5-2 margin

defence didn’t think Tavaroli looked
happy enough and so gave him another
present at the blueline and he quickly
notched Trail’s second shorthanded
goal of the third and the eventual game
winner

Vecchio, Dwayne Dergousoff and
Dale Bonderud came back to score
goals on the same powerplay but the
clock just ran out on a Christmas
comeback dream

Rebels co-coaches Don Soroke and
Ed Cooper were visably dejected after
the game. Soroke’s frustration came to
the surface as he loudly slammed the
door of the coaches’ locker room when
the Smokies players broke into song
while| waiting to enter their own
dressing room across the ha}!

The song, which refers! to certain
portions of a player’s anatomy and en
ds with a reference to ‘‘kicking the
Rebels’ .ass’? seemed a bit of false
bravado after a game in which the self-
proclaimed new team of the
league hardly lived up to that billing.

It wasn’t the song that bothered
Soroke so much as losing a game he felt
the Rebels ‘‘played good enough to
win."*

“We just have to learn how to win

continued on B2
s

class

Coaches pleased with

By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

The Stanley Humphries secondary
school junior boys and junior girls
basketball teams are both rounding in
to shape as the coaches had hoped,
with one big difference

The girls are winning and the boys
are losing.

The junior Rockettes are quickly
establishing themselves asa force in the
Kootenays having gone undefeated in
three games against regional
petition

The boys meanwhile sport a one
win, three loss record against
Kootenay teams and have twice been
beaten soundly by 25 points or more.

But both coaches are saying the
same thing: It’s still early and the teams
are improving

Rockettes coach Laurie Boskov gets
to enjoy the victories while her team
comes into its own but it's a different
story for boys coach Doug Hickey

The Rockettes pounded Grand
Forks Tuesday night in Grand Forks
and then travelled to Creston to hand
out the same medicine in a 48-12 win

com:

over the Prince Charles junior girls
team Thursday night

Hickey’s team was on the short end
of the score in both Grand Forks and
Creston getting creamed 97-30 in
Grand Forks and being nipped by 10,
45-35, at Prince Charles.

Still, Hickey says at this point, win
ning isn’t the be-all and end-all for his
team, though it would be a bonus. And
he says winning is something that will
come with experience

Many of his players have never
played organized ball before and that’s
presenting some problems come game
time.

“One of the big things the boys have
not learned to do yet is to play with in

** said Hickey in an interview at
riday

“That’s something that comes with
experience. Realistically, until they
understand what's involved with
playing with intensity they're not going
towin.””

Intensity, says Hickey, means
recovering the loose balls on the floor
or going up three and four times for the
rebounds.

“They're not doing that yet,"’ he
said. But, he added, it’s something
“they will be doing by the end of
January.”

On the positive side, Hickey says
Dan Koosnetsoff and Robert Baulne
are emerging into top-flight junior
players

*They’re really starting to learn how
to play inside and if we're going to be
successful we have to get the ball to
them and they have to put it in the
hole.””

Marcel Dusseault led Rockers
scorers with eight points in the loss to
Creston while Baulne had seven and
Jodi Carew six.

Dusseault was again the offensive
power — what there was of it — in
Grand Forks, canning 11 points in a
game that Hickey said the Grand Forks
team tried to humiliate the Rockers

“Grand Forks dominated us from
ghast to coast and by the end of the
game they were basically trying to
humiliate us by running up the score.

“I have no problem with them
showing us how strong they are, but

continued on B2

Percy finishes 3rd _

PANORAMA (CP) Austria's flahsed
Petra Kronberger won her first-ever
World Cup downhill race Saturday
while Karen Percy of Banff, Alta.,
finished third.

Percy was

Kronberger,

the day’s first skier, it

down the
tificial snow course in 1:36.75

“I never thought
who won
week's training runs.
After the second training run I had

Kerrin Lee-Gartner, 28th with 1:40.50.
LaRoche, of Lac Beauport,
Que., was 32nd in 1:40.88

Nancy Gee of Ottawa was 39th with
a time of 1:41.71, while Calgary's An-
drea Marchand was 47th, finishing the

hardpacked, ar
Lucie
I'd win,” said
this
“I can’t believe

one of

covering the Husky downhill course in
one minute, 37.96 seconds. Her time
bested by West Germany’s
Michaela Gerg, who finished second
wirtratime of t:37:55

Michelle McKendry, 22, of
Orangeville, Ont., also enjoyed a good

was

the best time and after that I thought it
(the course) is not so bad for me.””
“There’s a few places where I made
mistakes,"’ said Percy, 23, who
finished_1Sth_in last week's race in
Steamboat Springs, Colo.
‘It’s the kind of course where you

day, recording her best-ever World

Cup finish, placing eighth in 1:38.50.
Twenty-year-old Kronberger, who

started 19th in the field of 50 racers,

have to nail the top but carry that kind
of speed onto the bottom.””

Kendra Kobelka of Revelstoke, was
27th in 1:40.46, followed by Calgary’s

course in 1:44.58,

Gerg’s second-place finish pads her
lead in the World Cup downhill stan-
dings.

She now had 60 points, placing her
ahead of Switzerland’s Michela Figini,
who finished sixth Saturday in 1:38.16,
and Maria Walliser, who skied with the
flu and placed 18th

The second race in the weekend's
dual event goes today

VAL GARDENA, Italy (AP) — Pirmin Zur
briggen of Switzerland battled rapidly changing weather
conditions and took a corpmanding lead in the World
€ ci standings wtih a victory in Saturday’s downhill

The race was marred by several spectacular spills,
the most serious of which left {talian skier Giorgio Pian
tanida unconscious on the section of the course known
as Camel’s Bumps.

The first people to reach the fallen 22-year-old skier
gave him external cardiac massage befdre he was flown
by helicopter toa hosptial in nearby Bal7ono.

After Piantanida underwent X-rays and a brain
scan, doctors said he sustained only a broken right
collar bone, a slight concussion and bruises. He was ex
pected to remain in the hosptial for several days

BOYD FINISHES 12th

Rob Boyd of Whistler, a two-time winner at Val
Gardena, picked up his first World Cup points of the
season, finishing 12th, 1:41 behind the winner

Felix Belczyk of Castlegar, the top Canadian
trainer leading up to the race, placed 18th with a
clocking of 2:03.82. Michael Carney of Squamish, took
3Sthr piace with-a time of 2:04.80 and-Carey Mullen of
Banff, Alta., was $4th in 2:07.14

Rob Bosinger, also of Banff, failed to finish Satur
day’s race

Warm
downhill,
d'Isere, France.

A sudden drop in temperature early Saturday har
dened the melting artificial snow and made the course
extremely fast and demanding

Zurbriggen’s second victory in five
126 points in the overall standings as he attempts a
record-equalling fourth overall title before retiring
Tngemar-Stenmark of Sweden had four overall cham:
pionships

Zurbriggen, 26, one of the best all-round skiers
ever, has said this will be his last racing season.

Friday's
from Val

winds forced cancellation of

which had been switched here

ys gave him

Belczyk 18th in Italy

Zurbriggen. who had wona super-giant slalom rage
in Sestriere last Tuesday, mastered a perfect run down
the 3,445-metre-long Saslong course, made additionally
difficult by temperature fluctuations.

He was clocked in two minutes 1.88 seconds to edge
Swiss teammate
newcomer Christian Gyhedina (2:02.43) despite starting
among the second seeds at No. 23

Zurbriggen,
victories, said he had to slow down before going into the

Camel's Bumps
was too

bumps correctly

FELIX BELCZYK
... drops to 18th

Franz Heinzer (2:02.42) and Italian

who now has 10 World Cup downhill

fast and I could not get through the

I skied the top perfectly, and I had a

few small mistakes in the bottom.

“I was really afraid a

the start because the cofirse

was super fast anid conditions had dramatically changed
from practice days,"’ he said