B2. CASTLEGAR NEWS, Deceniber 7, 1980 "Keep eyes on Atlanta L BOCK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Give Atlanta Falcons an inch and they'll take a yard — or as many yards as they need to win, The Falcons are this year's Cinderella team with seven straight victories and they are in position to nail down a National Football League playoff berth when they play Philadelphia Eagles today. “But Atlanta will need more than a glass slipper against the Eagles, who are already in the playoffs. Phil- adelphia has football's best record and wants to maintain that ‘distinction. The Pro Picker thinks they will, too. Last week's 7-5 straight up (3-9 with those dread points) left the season's rec- ord at 107-70-1 with winners and losers and 69-109 against the points, The picks: EAGLES 17 FALCONS 13 Atlanta just did make it against hi t last week's disappointment against Cincinnati. Game is listed as even. LIONS 21 CARDINALS 17 Mini-upset. Extra rest and the incentive of a division race gives Detroit the edge here. St. Louis-favored by 2. BEARS 20 PACKERS 13 Chicago still on Cloud Nine after its last second- - overtime win over Detroit on Thanksgiving. vored by 6'/z. BUCS 16 VIKINGS 14 ‘Tampa Bay always plays Minnesota tough and beating Chicago fa- Patrick looks ratherg By ARCHIE McDONALD VANCOUVER SUN Craig Patrick paces be- hind the bench of New York Rangers these nights. with last week and it will be a lot tougher against the Eagles. Philadelphia favored by 6 points. COLTS 27 BENGALS 10 The Colts are still in the ‘AFC chase. The Bengals are not. That makes a big dif- ference. Balti favored the d look of a man the Vikes could seramble the NFC Central race even more. Tampa Bay favored by 2'/2, SAINTS 17 '49ERS 16 That's no misprint. New ‘Orleans almost caught Min- nesota napping last week. San Drancisco Saints’ first victim. San Francisco fa- vored by 7. SEAHAWKS 28 GIANTS 7 If ever a: team needed the Blue Cross Giants across the field, it’s Seattle, which hasn't won at home: all sea- son. That streak ends. Se- attle favored by 7. Patrick, 84, hopes he will not have to endure the slap of fate that befell his grand- father, Lester Patrick. Les- ter, a founding father of the Rangers in 1926, ‘was called r the but ares nae to let it show. He probably won't get any relief until owner Sonny Werblin can ease Herb Brooks out of Switzerland and free Patrick to concen- trate on being director of | by 2. RAMS 27 BILLS 14 Los Angeles is simply too deep and too talented for the Bills, who have spent’this season on a roller-coaster. Game is listed as even, COWBOYS 31 RAIDERS 17 Dallas will be working with nine days rest and Oak land with just six. That's a big edge. Dallas favored by 2. CHIEFS 14 BRONCOS 10 Improving Kansas City bounces back at home after NFL Standings By The Canadien Press Arverican Conference Buffalo $ U Cleveland 4 5 _§ i 10. nt 4 5 6 9 = 3 San Diego Oaklan Denver Kansas Seatile ANOS ROWS ONORa Philo, Dallas St. Louls NY Glonts Wash, ggens=_ SesGuur Detroit Grn. Boy Chicago vod anus avd arvoo 333.225 .769 359 248 .692 259 327 .385 208 391 .000 Atlanta Los Ang. San Fran. New ie 013 Thursday Results Houston 6, fiers oO Atlanta at Paedelpniee Baltimore at Cincinatti Los Angeles at Buffalo Minnesota at Tampa Bay NY Jets ot Cleveland San Diego at Washington Detroit at St, Louis Green Boy at Chicago Dallas at Oakland Denver ct Kansas Ci jew Orleans at San Francisco ny Silents as at Seat + New England then Ski Shop Conn | remembers TORONTO (CP) — Conn Smythe, builder of Maple Leaf Gardens and pee club, has rer for a few games during the 1948-44 season when his coach, Frank Boucher, was i BROWNS SL JETS 13 land's In high gear now on 'New York has been ‘in, low “ger all season long, Cleveta id favored by 91/1." BR ERS 34 ¢ .. REDSKINS 14 It's time for San Diego to tidy. up its act now that the playoffs“4ire just: down ‘the ron. Si ‘ Diego favored by 6. fe DOLPHINS ei ‘NEWENGLAND Ait ¥ut'Monday ght at the’ worl®'possible time’ foF -: thé"in-AWout Patriots, who: - New! Linda ‘and Pat) ‘Lucas; Ivan and Shirley Saliken and Bertha Vincent of the Castle- gar Thinkers shared the $500." first prize by topping. 47 other teams ina’ bowling tournament last weekend in Castlegar. They scored 6,482 _ Points. Kwasnitza, © Marg Wilson,,Debbie and Carol, Samples not taken NEW. ORLEANS (AP) ty — Urine’ samples..were not i taken from Roberto Duran or »bria) sosauit sarodd b i Tl POH Sal pat vie anil some statis: ofobig; acknawledge. : yot'Itriaca violation of the ‘rulésyobutaniot: by the fight- palariegsso erg,'ixaidg Jose Sulaiman, huge atativins; violence, PXK-se WHO G presidedt. S hacadid he did not of) leaguep were: gldibat.even dit basi Louisiana State boxing years.Ba\e rotten ni ebook commission \who: was respon: ~ on fic. Coligestrocor tall fia, B.Coy siblecunder.WBC ‘rules | for Pla¢ew araphitheatze,:..thera:2 making isur@:'the samples father’s funeral and most of New York’s stars were at- tending to the war. So it;.appened that Lester was behind the bench who helped him. and played hockey for him over the years. 4 Smythe, who died Nov. 18 at age 85, left former player and coach Clarence (Hap) Day his shares in C. Cmythe Sand Ltd. and a_ silver tray commemorating Leafs’ hockey championship in the 1947-48 season. Joe Primeau, of the famed Kid Line and a former coach, was left a gold replica of the Stanley Cup. Smythe’s live-in house-, se keeper and.employee of 49-. ad 3 years was the..major bene- ficiary among alist’ of long- time employees granted be- quests from the will filed this week in Surrogate Court. Jessie Watson will re- ceive an annuity providing her with $7,600 a year and three pieces of property in- cluding a home in Toronto he never lived in, an acre of Caledon, Ont., property, and Smythe’s apartment at Palm Beach, Fla. BENEFIT Smythe's nurse, secre- tary, grounds-keeper and driver were among other employees left various amounts. The value of the estate has been set at a nominal $1 until executors come up with a true figure of his assets, which his son Dr. Hugh Smythe has estimated at $2 million to $3 million. A prominent owner of racehorses, Smythe left his breeding and racing stable to the Conn Smythe Foundation and instructed his trustees to carry on the breeding and racing operation for at least six months. : His daughter Miriam Trene Hoult receives $1,000 a month for life. Toronto. Whitehead, the freshly-retired Vancouver ‘ovince sports ‘columnist, shoved the 279-page epistle at me three weeks ago in the press box. at Pacific Coli- seum. + “I thifk you'll like it,” he said. I.quite did. ‘When he set off in his quest of the Patricks, White- head was going to end. with passing reference to the fact Craig had managed the vic- torious U.S. Olympic team. They stopped the presses to after his granddad got the big show on the road. It is more than a sports book. It’s a family saga, tracing ‘the Patricks from Tom and Lucinda, who came to Canada from Ireland in 1848, through their son Joe, through his most famous sons, Lester and Frank, through Lester’s rollicking boys Lynn and Muzz, to Lynn's son Craig, in the an- xious state described above. The yarn moves from Montreal to the logging camps around Nelson to the Lower Mainland, where they founded a brash pro league which survived for 15 years before folding under money pressure from the east. Lester and Frank. fol- lowed the money and ended up in New York and Boston. Lester, the calculating Silver- Fox, and Frank, the brilliant but sometimes troubled dreamer, are supported by a cast of hundreds. ~ The Patricks were mid- wives at’the birth of pro hockey and when they slapped its bottom, the cries they heard are the same ones we hear, toe: Those tire- Bet named, Rangera’ dines: torfof operations 64~years™:in “the Montreal -Star.-de-.:. Vancguver. Agena. on ‘Denman . Street with,seats for 10,500, built hythp Patricks at a cost of $276,000, an astronomical sum when it opened in 1912.. - Before-there was a rene- gade World Hockey Associ- ation, there was the Patricks’ Pacific Coast League of Van- couver Millionaires, Victoria Aristocrats and New West- minster Royals, to be fol- lowed by Seattle Metropoli- tans and Portland Rosebuds. Were the. short-lived Spo- kane Canaries reincarnated as the WHA’s Miami Scream- ing Eagles? Salaries were born in 1907. When Montreal Wan- derers signed three players for the staggering total of $2,000, Montreal Shamrocks president John McLaughlin thundered: “Clubs that pay their players . should be thrown out of the league. They are parasites..We have never paid any of our players and we don’t intend to start now.” eoAfter tai ical ‘, way “Dheyglobe's largest, ipob were collected, his: door sports cashein: “Duran: Ipst the title to Leonard when he quit in the + eighth round of the Nov. 25 - fight, complaining of stomach cramps.’ chairman Emile. Sandnes’ 1,872 earning hint? the $25 second prize. -- BOWLING | “RESULTS | N mi,” Might 7-9 &s. tHT id 681, MHS Dove 3208. O84 rel. Rourke 773, Len Donald 670, Ken Dewalt 697, Marvin Hood 636, dim Bonthron, 630, Ab Dan ‘Monday Night 9-11 Parte LHS Karen Fifchetf 221. THT Six Mopeds Crab LHS Tuesday Coffee Brock 269. LHT Marie Makaroff 739, THS saties 1220. THT Wheaties 600's and 700's: r 687, Eleanor ruta) 1996,game, headlines:.; inanded: “Six Months in Jail for These Criminals.” The villains were the Ottawa Silver Seven. Warrington dies EDMONTON (CP) — Don Warrington, a versatile player whose 10-year Can- adian Football League career with Edmonton Eskimos was hampered by injuries, died Thursday afternoon of injur- ies suffered in an automobile accident. He was 92. Warrington once recog- nized as the player who con- tributed the most to the Eskimos withthe least rec- ognition, suffered massive internal injuries and brain damage Tuesday morning when the car he was driving collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway inter- section a few kilometres east of Edmonton. He was re- turning to his acreage home at, Ardrossan at the time. Warrington, who was single, never regained con- sciousness. Night 7- LHS Phyllis Furness 258, LHT Penl Campbell 68 682. MHS Ken ole HT Ken Olson inithaps 1036. THT ainky 6 Dinke 2947. Other 600's and 700's: Ron Mecli Fe vedoy igh? MA Nig! LHS. faethe? Bonnett ie, LHT Heather Bonnett 673, MHS Matt Rohn 340. MHT Orlando Vecchio 730, THS Rood Hogs 1201. THT Live 5 Other 600 00s: ond n 728, ai Cortes 6 691, Maxine Zavt. off 672, Ed Adshead 670, Marvin Thorgeirson 654, Batty Tarlson 629, Erma Myk Wednesday Mornings iver LHS Lola Sweillkoe 27 Erma Mykyte 736, THS M T's 1088, THT C 3073, Other 600's and 700's: lola’ Swetlikee 712, Elaine LHS V.- Foyno: IAT 454 ’ sera 617, AMS | a MeNse} % MHT E. Henderson oa 670. TI lol et 5 Bolcnger 619, lan fee 07. 601. Mykyte, niche res tts: ie abe LHS Shirley exit Hs mT Erma Mykyte 674. THS Eagles 1096. THT Swallows 3080. THS Rony Rollers 13a, THE Roxy Rollers 3465, Other 600's and 7008: M. Ri or 616; 6 ao f 4, Or ie rofts 604, Mi a idan 601. 4 LHS "Dar ine Edwards end Groaners 1118. THT Groaners Thuradoy Night Mixed | LHS shirley Wye wat Ut Er hyte 657. J Howie Byers zie. Eorl Rourke -Gordor ‘MattRohn ron Pearl Mott 629, Jake Koenlg 627, Dennis Robinson 610, Bon Beck 602, 7-9p.m. ioe oer LHT Emily ~ ie Mais Hot Sha! 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Her headdress of whi silk ‘shawl adorned with hand-paint o The'bride’s flowers were peach roses, wh! carnations:and flowers in autumn colors. Peach-colored Russian ensembles of shee) polyester over satin were worn by matron honor Mrs. Carol Chernenkoff, a cousin of thé bride, and bridesmaid. Miss Nadeen, Pad- morow. Both attendants carried borg & What are the possibil- itiés of a nuclear war occur- ring? How would Vancouver Island and the Lower Main- land. be affected by such a confrontation? What is and canbe done to avold a nuclear war? Union of Spiritual Com- mitnities of Christ represen- tazives, at nekoff of Grand Forks an id J. Verigin Jr. of Burn‘ aby, were among 800 attend- ing{a one-day conference which discussed these and related questions. : First of its kind in Western Canada, the Nov. 22 event was held at the University of Victoria, attracting partici- pants from across the coun- try, as well as from the U.S. ‘An impressive array of specialists, including doctors, lawyers, professors, disarm- ament activists and retired senior military officers, were featured. as ‘speakers and panel members in the day's program which was titled “Thinking the -Unthinkable.” These included Liet.-Gen. Reginald Lane (retired) of . NORAD: Murray. ‘Thompson of Project Plowsharés in Ottawa, and James Stark, executive director of Opera- tion Dismantle in Ottawa {who had appeared on the Webster show, while on his way to the conference). After showing a film on Hiroshima,. Ken Nekano, a survivor of that. 1945 holo- caust, gave a personal ac- count of its horror. A discus- sion of how. Vancouver Island . and the surrounding region would fare in a nuclear attack centred.on.the grim reality that, in fact, very little could be done to escape horrible devastation. The question of which of the two superpowers was ina superior position militarily cropped .up throughout the discussions. It was acknow- ledged, however, ‘that -this was actually quite irrelevant, as each — the’ U:S.° and U.S.S.R — possessed enough nuclear weapons to destroy the‘world several times over. It was pointed out that, after, all, whoever should start a nuclear world war — whet- her ‘it. be party the results would "he the same. The conference concluded on a theme of all people united to win”“Peace by Piece” — pieces of mail that is, An open letter to world leaders was drafted to urge William E,- Kgotestctimt " remember, I remember The house where I was born The little window where the aun Came peeping in at morn”, lood That’ childhood poem eame floating in ona flurry of memories this morning when I looked out the bedroom window on an Antartica of snow, threatening ice-grey skies and a sea-storm wind - which had all of the. trees bowing to one another like a scene from ‘Shogun,’ pbs s : the same. ti “alow cooking) and’ rity off to the one-room Bist a mile-and-a-half ray; along the Barnet highway., If we were lucky, the, freight trucka had broken ry path; if not one ploughed through the best one could. * Winter came early, in that Burrard Inlet valley, and atayed late, and the waterfall coming off the hilljwas a magnificant sculpture of frozen motion and.,strange whispering soundg.,, for months, However, therp was bed-warm flesh:'with ani» icy Samurai sword.’ . that, again —- the school .was warm — heated with a roaring fiery coal-wood furnace (shades ‘of ‘. Sam McGee) and rae were CHILDH Memories of eldhood, 73 Indoned almost 60 years ago! ‘Samé:: snow, same skies, same’fcy wind — but not! thatv¢eeth: d te 2 HOME WITH EXTRAS Almost 25 years later, I its worn by. best man Mr. Rick * Arnie Arishenkoff, a guestbook, was ‘held at the Castlogar mplex, where the groom's Jack Voykin, was master of ighlighting the head table wedding cake, which had been Vera Podovinikoff, an aunt of many ‘others as possible. - Delegates were urged to send similar letters individ- ually in order to flood the leaders’ offices with letters ‘drumming home the theme that “the time to act is now. The question is simple: Should nuclear arsenals con- tinue to oust or, should life to avert nuclear glo! éath;*whether by accident“ hear and or interest. The letter was to be sent to the U.S. president, the Soviet premier, the Can- adian prime minister, and as District children write for life We: demand that’ yor nd hééd dur voice.” The conference was spon- sored by the Victoria branch of the World Federalists of Canada. fe votes } * fleshl pang as one’s feét-hit the’ cold varnished floor: ‘nor‘the thick | frost-forests:ion! .the + frozen wind h came to ‘Castl several years of saletehrece just like home — with:extras. Tiss were: the'years’of the which one had to. eee holes: fooailin with one's breath,: dr::meet:: with the warmth. .of one's hand; not the. frantic gym: « nastics of getting: into‘one's - grave-chill clothes: and «the. : hurrying downstairs to start a fire in the wood-and coal and: ideep- in: winter.'‘The ‘snow got started and just forgot to stop.-The température: went : down ‘below -15'degréés F andi stayed: for’ weeks. - The’ frost-forests covered the’ windows; wind gripped one's firigers in CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 7, 1980 Of winters, ‘other. memories JOHN CHARTERS’ Reflections & Recollections in. Castlegar, then -to the Raspberry school across the river. All, or most of these places, as I recall, had one thing in common — outdoor privies — boys’ and girl's — a sure guarantee in winter at least that there was no ‘loitering in the h . The Charters moved equally often — the old auto court by the ferry (you think that accommodation is tight mow?); the old Robson hotel; to the far end of Robson next to the Johnny Androsoffs’; then to Robson village near the Q Dounia Salekin’ and Sam and Nastya Hor- koff's place; then a rented house in Castlegar next to Pete and Sabina Zanet. How warmly I remember those good neighbors and friends! The best memories ‘are perhaps the “small personal ones, Cominco awards $21,300 for higher education Twenty-six West Koot- enay students have.received Cominco Higher. Education Awards for 1980, according to George Morris,. secretary of the Scholarship and Edu- cation Awards Committee. They qualified by achiev- irg a high school‘average of stove and set the kettle on exquisite, tearful agony (par- at ; least 78 per eat .{everyone’ had chores in these long ago days and as “Number one son I got the ‘goodies'). Everything in this world has its -price and its com- pensations, That crackling feat and yellow dancing light was an earned and exquisite pleasure which warmed both body and soul, and pales into insignificance that dull glow - of electric coils and the chill blue of gas. AND CHORES Down next to the base- ment to shake that’ recal- citrant and inefficient mon- ster furnace into some sem- blance of life, feed it. and carry out the ash to the ash-heap as the wind whips it into a gray, tornado which spreads a soiled and speckled blanket over the rolling white expanse, broken only by the wake of. one ‘3 colored path: i if ticularly on the old railway. bridge, and the river: froze over on the Arrow Lakes above the ferry — a«huge skating rink. Unfortunately, everyone's water pipes froze as well, It was a period of educational musical choirs, The Grade 9 class moved from the Robson church hall to the old Robson hotel, to the Doukhobor meeting hall Region tapes now on market MONTREAL (CP) — An Anglican canon and a retired schoolteacher have started a campaign to crack the cas- sette tape market with a ‘seriew: of ecamenictal services tarting with’ -por- ridge — made from those huge old-fashioned, grainy, rich flakes (set on the stove the night before, for proper letters to North Pole NEW YORK (AP) — qualities prevalent among They were d to the North Pole, Santa’s Village and 1, Snowy Lane, Northern Hempshire, but ‘they all wound up at the same place, Manhattan's General Post Office. And as part of a tradi- tion of almost 50 years, about 2,000 letters to Santa Claus from around the world were put on display Thursday so that the public could “adopt” children this Christmas, Postmaster George Shu- man, who expects his office to handle more than 7,000 letters by the end of the month, said they started to come in during the summer. Shuman said the tradi- tion began when postal clerks dug into their own pockets to buy toys and food for chil- dren who faced the prospect. of an empty Christmas stock- ing, simply because letters to Santa have no prospect of an - answer. Shuman answered a let- ter last year from “a boy from Queens who wanted a blanket ‘so me and mommy can sleep warm’.” He said he sent a toy with a blanket, The letters, alternately touching and humorous but always hopeful, exhibited (Wedding Bells Congratulations are extended to Mr. -and Mrs. Lawrence Andrew Kiever, who were married Dec. 6 in .. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Trail. The-bride, Linda Louise, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald “Penner'and the groom is the son of Mr. and La Robert Kiever, both families of Trail. * . Congratulations to Min and Mrs. David Shayne Douglas, who were married Nov. 14 in Fruitvale. The bride, Roberta Lyla June, is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Val Campbell of Fruitvale and,the groom is the son_of Mr. and Mrs. William Douglas of Vancouver. ve “impati- ence, curiosity and greed. ILLOWING TRENDS And despite their youth, this year’s hot request items, electronic games and roller skates, prove one’s just about never too young to keep up with the latest trends. ikki Hillis of Vestel, N.Y., warned Santa of a larger audience this time around. “You better get a lot of Sleep,” he wrote. “Tell your elves that there are a lot of toys to make this year. We got some new people that live next door to us.” The bengal tiger episode wasn't as messy as the ele- phant caper described here last. Sunday. I first met the tiger at a distance in Vancouver and later very close up in Edmon- ton. - Z Ron Hayter, who re- cently was named to a top- level post with the World Boxing Federation, has been an Edmonton alderman and public relations man for ars, Back in '70 he was doing pr for the annual Edmonton Boat Show. (Do they ‘still have it?) The show. always , played Vancouver immedi- ately before hitting land- locked Edmonton. I was with the Edmon- ton Journal at the time and Ron invited me and a gaggle of other media types to be his guest at the Vancouver. Boat » Show. He hoped, of course, we'd return to our jobs and eagerly pound out puff pieces describing what a_ treat ° A letter from a Brock- ville, Ont. girl who signed Candace as her name was an exception — she didn’t want anything. Well, almost.” “Once on a television show you said you had many’ more reindeer. Will you send me a list of their names and your phone number?” And then there was the tough approach. As Andrew of E. North- port, N.Y., wrote: “So what's the story? I gave my father a letter to mail to you and I haven't heard from you, This time you better answer or I'll do terrible things to you.” prairie-dwellers were in for. . when the show came to town. (People xed ichurehgoére. | ac Roy Williams, a retired English teacher, with help from Rev.. Canon Horace Baugh, has produced a pack- age of 14 half-hour tapes selling for $50. . - ‘The 14 non-denominational services include prayer, poet- ry such as The Donkey, by G. . K. Chesterton, and prose such as A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, blended with music ranging from church organ to the Tijuana Brass. “Nothing is stereotyped,” said Williams. “We're trying to attract people who do not go tochurch for one reason or another.” He said clergymen are skeptical of his project. “Most of the clergymen are very traditional. They still think they live in a world where the church is filled with people.” Williams said the project.is\" a non-profit venture and he doesn't have any illusions about how well it will sell. “Anyway, the kids can al- ways erase it after, and record the Beatles if they don’t like it.” ing suit with this fool tiger on 8 leash. Saw the tiger in its from hundreds of miles around. You'd be amazed at the popularity of pleasure- cage but p the thing from my mind as my eyes fell upon something more svelte, namely Miss i non-?"! JON ERZINGER JEFFREY STEWART The scholarships are iprovided for children of Com- inco employees and retirees. In all, 57 Cominco scholar- ships worth a total of $21,800 have been awarded in the Cominco Higher Education’ Awards program for 1980. In the West Kootenay there were six winners of NADINE GILLIS cs Z BRIAN BELL Castlegar ferry : November stats The Castlegar-Robson Ferry made 8,449 round trips during November, 103 more than last year’s total for the corresponding period. Other statisties are as follows, with last year’s fig- ures indicated in brackets: Love-starved tiger takes assignment a bit out tolunch. | Walking into the reception, I spotted what looked like a beautiful tiger rug on the floor. I squatted down to feel the texture of the fur when to ‘Editors are people, too By DON HARVEY — sort of” (linus) boating on the prairies.) One of the highlights of our visit was an introduction tothe current Miss Playmate of Hugh Hefner fame. She was something else. Her role in the boat show was simply to walk around clad in a leopard-spotted skimpy bath- You-know-who. © -* Now over to Edmonton. In due course the boat show came and Ron set up a reception in a downtown hotel for the press to get re- acquainted with the key- people. T arrived from another my amazement up came a paw the size of a ham and — thwack — belted me on the cheat, hurling me across the room. Loaded cocktail tables went sprawling with their occupants as I continued my backward. flight across the room. Number of Class 1 scholarships (those with a high school average of 86 per cent or better) and 20 winners of Class 2 scholar- ships (high school grade av- ~ erage of between 73 and 86 per cent). The Class 1 winners in- clude Brian William Bell of Salmo (Selkirk College), Michael DeSandoli of Trail (UBC), Carla Armida Mauro of Trail (UBC), Eric Brent Szarmes of Trail (UBC), Catherine Dawn Carter of Genelle (Camrose Lutheran College} and Kenneth James Stevens (deferred to 1981). The Class 2 winners consist of Laurie-Ann Bay of Trail (Selkirk College), ‘Rob- ert Arthur Beynon of Castle- gar (UBC), Alan Anthony Caputo of Trail (University of Alberta), Ilene Adele Davies of Trail (BCIT), Jon Andrew Erzinger of Castlegar (Sel- kirk College), Nadine Marie: “Gillis of Castlegar (Vancou- ver General Hospital); Robyn Lynn Gordon of Rossland. (Selkirk College), Jeffrey. Carver - Jewitt of Trail (Univeristy of Calgary), Sheila Martin Kennedy ‘of Trail (UBC), Juergen Korn of Montrose (Selkirk), James) Kenneth: McEwan’ of ‘Trail: (UBC), Faron George Moller of ‘Trail (UBC); Robin Elizabeth Perkin of Rossland (Fanshawe Col- lege), John Leslie Phillips of Trail (Selkirk), Susan Chris- tine Rella of Trail (UBC), Jeffrey Alan Stewart of Castlegar (University of Al- berta) and Peter Glen Buck- ley of Trail (deferred to 1981). For more than 60 years Cominco has awarded a var- iety of scholarship and fel- lowship programs to assist students in obtaining a high- er education. In that time, Cominco has provided a total of well over $1 million to’ assist students with edu- cation expenses. The Higher Education “Awards program began in * 1966. These awards to sons and daughters of Cominco eublayers and retirees based and drivers — 26,873 (28,922), passengers not dri- vers — 91,928 (83,799), all types of trucks — 14,755 (14,143), trailers and semi- trailers — 106 (452), buses — 169 (114), —-n have amounted to more than $320,000 for 847: students. In addition to these awards, Cominco . scholar- ships are provided for high schools in Kimberley, Trail (43) and livestock — 0 (2). and Rossland, as well as Sel- kirk College and BCIT. on reporter -- Next thing I was lying flat-one my back with the 450-pound toothless tiger gumming. my left shoulder while ‘straddling me and fixing me with its loving eyes, I wasn’t amused but the room exploded with laughter. Flashbulbs exploded in my eyes, but I never did get to see any of the: photos. Eventually, though, after everyone had tired of egging the amorous tiger on, Miss Playmate came to the rescue and jerked it off me. So much for the tiger escapade, The bull yarn goes back further in history to the days I lived as a teenager near Barrie, Ont. A rodeo came to town. Ron Bullis, Bob Syme and I paid our two-bits each and went in for an evening's thrills and spills. First rodeo we'd ever seen except on celluloid in a theatre. Talk about exciting. We really got wound up and imagined ourselves to be cowboys. Then came the event billed as spectator partici- pation. If anyone out there among the spectators could sit a bucking brahma bull for ten seconds, he'd pick up $10 for his The three of us tossed a coin. My luck held. I lost {won?) and got to ride the bull. . The gate opened and out flew the bull with me clutch- ing the belly rope and muttering a combination of ” Hail Marys and Our Fathers. Although it seemed like 8 hundred years, I doubt I was on the bull longer than a split second before I went into orbit. Picking myself up unin- jured but a trifle dirty, I - walked back to my seat feeling ten feet tall as the crowd cheered |\my foolish- ness. That probably was the first clue I had that money doesn't always come easy.