So Seetiogas News Moy «ioe! Shareholders criticize hefty executive benefits VANCOUVER (CP) — A $300,000 annual salary and a generous stock option persuaded former B.C. Hydro chairman Larry bargain-priced chief executive to come here and fill a chair,’ he said. And Bell's salary was less than the going rate for chief executives of similar said. Bell Bell to become the pi and chief executive officer of Westar Group Lid., company chairman Ed Phillips said. At the usually stormy annual meeting, shareholders were told Bell's salary after proxy-holder Telesphore Demers of Victoria criticized Phillips for allowing hefty separation pacts to be paid executives. that Michael McKibbin, former executive vice- president, received termination benefits worth $627,600 when he left last year. Westar confirtiied Former chief executive Jack Smith did not receive termination benefits, Phillips said, but he did receive an undisclosed amount of pension benefits. “It was not our intent to find a Phillips earned $175,000 a year as chairman of B.C. Hydro. The stock options will give Bell added incentive to increase the com- pany’s share values, Phillips said. When formed in 1978 as the B.C. Resources Investment Corp., a private umbrella company for a fumber of former Crown-owned resource companies, its original shares were issued at $6 a share. The share closed recently at 62 cents on the Toronto Stock Exchange. ~ “It’s my job to try to create value,’’ Bell said. ‘‘But it would be very difficult to see the circumstances in which we'd go back to those euphoric days of the original under- writing.” With commitments to lenders and Westar Mining preferred shareholders totalling $82 million due next March, he said an asset sale is likely, But Bell said he is still completing his analysis of the four subsidiaries c- Westar Mining, Westar Timber, Westshore Terminals and Westar Petroleum The oil and gas subsidiary is un- a financial restructuring and then likely would be put for sale, he said. A bid to elect Demers to the 10- member board, to represent minority shareholders, failed but Bell said he'd be receptive to meeting with a committee of minority shareholders several times a year. Westar said it posted a net loss of $6.8 million or four cents a share for the first quarter of 1991 compared with a $400,000 profit for the first quarter of last year. Sales from the forest products and terminal operations fell to $76 million from $89.6 million for the previous first quarter. Waste waits for cabinet VICTORIA (CP) — Eleven mon- ths and about $3 million after the B.C. Hazardous Waste Management Corp. was created, a provincial waste treatment centre is no closer A replacement has still not been found for the Crown corporation’s chief executive officer, who left in February after only a few months on the job. And last week the chairman and vice-chairman of the board — both members of the legislature — were fired. The usual start-up problems have been heightened by the fact there Have been three provincial environ- ment ministers in the last six months. All three had little to say last week about the most recent changes, in which former speaker Walter David- son and Opposition house leader Mark Rose are to be removed. Davidson and Rose were named chairman and vice-chairman respec- tively in a cabinet order last summer that named seven other people as directors. “I don’t want to say anything w til I review what others are saying,”’ said John Reynolds, the former minister who appointed them. Cliff Serwa, the minister who ser- ved for four months after Reynolds quit, said Davidson had direction and control of the firm as chairman ed an important role. in’t get a real handle on (the corporation,’’ he said. ‘‘That was one of the things I was coming to.”” Cominco denies reports of problems News reports in various business publications saying that Cominco Ltd. is considering writing off part of the value of its QSL lead smelter at Trail are not true, a news release from Robert Stone, vice-president of finance, said. The QSL smelter was shut down in March, 1990 and work on modifications was halted until more data could be made available from a similar QSL smelter in Germany which has i i to an assessment of the German plant modifications, will be reviewed by Cominco. If Cominco’s evaluation indicates that the Trail plant can be successfully modified, it could be ready for start-up late this fall, the release said. However, if it ,is determined that theTrail plant cannot operate suc- cessfully using the QSL technology, Cominco wilt complete test work and evaluation of the other available Pp as soon as possible. At that improve performance. Test work at the German smelter by Lurgi, the process supplier, is scheduled to be completed by June. The results of that test work and ome in exclusive High believe price of only $109, 900. 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APPLY FOR YOUR CARD TODAY! *ASK FOR Di iT Ti E COUNTER. SOME Rest RCHONS MAY APPI ad yen faa * 1280 Cedar Ave.., Trail Monday to Thursday 9:30 to 5:30 riaey” ‘ 30 to 9:00 “py RYAN FONTES Eleven-year-old Ryan is using his blinding speed to tear up the fields in Castlegar Minor Soccer this season. With six goals in five games the Twin Rivers elementary school Grade $ student leads the Castlegar Kickers under 12 team in scoring this season. When he’s not on the pitch, Ryan can be found on the courts or on the road as an avid tennis and road hocke: er. HALL OF FAME Jockey Pat Day, winner of more than 5,000 races, and Mesh Tenney, who trained 1955 Kentucky Derby winner Swaps, have been elected to the National Museum of racing’s Hall of Fame. ———__— BASEBALL The perennially hapless Seattle Mariners tied a team record with eight consecutive victories last week and curren- tly sit just a few games out of first place in Major League Baseball’s American League West Division. Ls Who was the last major league baseball player to hit -400 in a season? Answer at the bottom of page B2. Book recounts boxer's sad saga | 20 years in prison for innocent man By BETSY POWELL Canadian Pres Robin (Hurricane) Carter was a top middleweight American boxer Preparing for a title fight when he was railroaded’ into prison’ in 1967 for the killing of three people in a New Jersey bar. After facing the prospect of execution in the electric chair and enduring almost 20 years behind bars, Carter was cleared of the shotgun slayings through the efforts of a close-knit group of Canadians. In ordering his release, the judge concluded the conviction had been tainted by racial bias and the prosec- ution had concealed evidence. Carter is black; the victims were white. One U.S. legal scholar has called it “tone of the most significant cases of American injustice this century.’’ How the Canadians won Carter’s release is documented in the new book Lazarus and the Hurricane. Authors Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton, two of the eight Canadians who spent eight years trying to fr Carter, recount how a black youth named Lesra Martin led them to the jailed boxer. They met Lesra, a stocky 15-year- old denizen of a Brooklyn ghetto, while in New York on business in 1979. The Canadians ‘‘adopted”’ Lesra — the way his parents pronounced his biblical name Lazarus — and took him to Toronto to teach him to read and write. When Lesra delved into African- SATURDAY FEATURE American history, he biography, across Carter's The 16th Round. “From its pages Rubin Carter spoke directly to him," the authors write. Lesra was so enthralled that he read most of the book aloud to his adopted family, who were shocked by the travesty of justice that had sent the boxer to jail. Thus began a crusade to prove Carter's innocence. By hiring a private investigator and researching voluminous records of the case, the Canadians discovered two key witnesses who They also learned that public out- cry during the 1970s resulted in a second trial, but Carter again was convicted. He became a cause celebre; his story: of justice gone wrong was even the subject of a Bob Dylan song. Only one conclusion could be drawn; Carter was in jail for no Other reason than the color of his skin. The. Canadians were deter- mined to right the injustice, But the authors didn’t write Lazarus and the Hurricane ‘for the glory. During a Toronto interview, they refused to dwell on their roles in the saga, preferring to focus on Car- ter’s courage and resilience, “‘Without Rubin as inspiration we wouldn't have had the wherewithal to do the huge local push," says Swinton, a native Montrealer who submitted briefs on the case to U.S. federal courts. The six other Canadians who fought for Carter's release want their identities kept secret The authors also play down their that at all,”* he says of the likelihood that he'd still be # prisoner had the who is 53 and married to a Canadian, live together in a large house north of Toronto. They agree there are similarities between the case of Carter and that of Donald Marshall, the Nova Scotia Micmac who spent 11 years in prison for a murder he didn’t c But it’s the differ most striking, they say. please see PRISON page B2 Another big day in ball By the Associated Press There have been big days in baseball, like last June 29 when Fer- nando Valenzuela and Dave Stewart each pitched no-hitters. 5 There have been historic. days, such as the afternoon in 1985 when Tom Seaver got his 300th career vic- tory and Rod Carew got his 3,000th career hit. Then there was Wednesday, ing, incredible, crazy, wild, whatever. What a day. Rickey Henderson started it early in Oakland, becoming the all-time stolen base leader by stealing No. 939 and breaking Lou Brock’s record. The Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee kept it going, playing into the 19th inning before the Brewers won 10-9. It was the longest American League game since the same teams played 25 innings in 1984. But Nolan Ryan saved the best for last. He wrapped up the night with his record seventh no-hitter in the The Salmo Golf Club is of- fering free lessons for junior golfers who have a member- ship with the club. Decathlon star David Steen will be inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on May 15 along with three other athletes and a women’s basketball team. Figure skater Tracy Wilson, softball pitcher Rosemary Fuller, sprinter Patricia Jones and the 1954 national champion Eilers women’s basketball team will join Steen. Lisa Olson, the Boston Herald Sports writer who said she was sexually harassed by three players on the New England Patriots, is suing the team and the players. Donovan Boucher of Toronto retained his Com- monweaith welterweight box- ing title April 16 with a ninth round knock out over Kirkland Laing of Britain in a bout in Nottingham, Eng- land. Boucher's fe most di ing perf of his 25-year career. “I don’t think what I did will take away from what Rickey did,”’ the ever-humble Ryan said after pitching Texas past Toronto 3-0. ‘He did it in grand style.” Ryan, 44; struck out 16, walked only two and did not permit either rumner to get past first base. The Blue Jays, who began the game as the best-hitting team in the majors at -276, did not hit a single ball hard and the closest they came to anything was a blooper. NOLAN RYAN +++ 8hmply amazing By The Associated Press The career major-league baseball no-hitters thrown by Nolan Ryan: Se record is now 25-3 with seven knockouts. Laing’s record is now 37-19-1. Mike Pavelec, a six-foot- six, 285 pound offensive tackle from the University of Calgary Dinosaurs, was the No. | pick by the Hamilton |. May 1, 1991, Texas, vs. Toronto, 30. National sas City, 3.0, July 15, 1973, California, at Detroit, 6-0. Sept. 28, » 40, June 1, 1975, California, vs. Baltimore, 1-0. June 11, 1990, Texas, at Oakland, 1974, California, vs. League Sept. 26, 1981, Houston, vs. Los Angeles, 5-0. NICE TRY @ warm and sunny Thu: Ki Park. —<. Nine-year-old Shamus Myers and his dad took od: 9 ody te chuck the ball around at Canada's kid team is hopeful Olympic soccer ° bid By GRANT KERR BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — The Canadian Olympic soccer team is looking to teenager Paul Peschisolodio for much-needed scoring punch this month in qualifying games for the 1992 Sum- mer Games in Barcelona. Peshisolodio secured his release from the Kansas City Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer League in the United States so he can play Sunday against Trinidad and Tobago. “He hasn't made the starting 11 yet, but he has a good chance,’’ Canadian coach Tony Waiters said Thursday. ‘He scored last night (in an exhibition game) and that’s en- couraging.’* The baby-faced Peschisolido, 19, scored 24 goals in the MISL after a 21-goal season outdoors last year in the Canadian Soccer League with the Toronto Blizzard The Pickering, Ont., resident said it wasn’t easy to secure his release from Kansas City because the Comets are in the Eastern Division finals against the Cleveland Blast. The series is tied 3-3. “T had commitments with Kansas City, but my heart was really with the Olympic team,”’ said Peschisolido. ‘‘It’s always attractive when you're putting on your coun- try’s jersey.”” Waiters will have a relatively inex- Perienced team because all Olympic players must be under 23 by Aug. 1, 1992, under new guidelines. Peschisolido has some previous in- ternational experience with the Canadian under-16 and under-19 teams. Canada is grouped with Trinidad and Tobago, plus El Salvador, for the thitd round of Olympic qualifying in the CONCACAF zone for North and Central America. Mexico, Honduras and Suriname are in one zone, while the United States, Panama and Haiti are in another. The three zone winners advance to the fourth round im October, along with the best second-place team. Two countries will advance to Bar- celona from CONCACAF. Canada last played in the Olym- pics in 1984 at Los Angeles, reaching the quarter-finals. The Canadians were eliminated by the United States in qualifying for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The five-foot-eight, 155-pound Peschisolido was named MISL’s best newcomer this season and seems to have a knack for scoring goals inside penalty area in outdoor games. “My fitness may be questionable (for outdoors), but I think I'll make the adjustment pretty easily, 1 hope,” he said. “I prefer the outdoor game. One of my strong points is running and it’s tough to do that indoors. Out- doors you have a lot more space, a lot more room to react.”” Waiters believes the Canadian team, which had trouble scoring goals during a recent Asian tour (2-3 record against China, South Korea and Japan), has potential at the striker position Bettors, bookies baffled by WLAF TORONTO (CP) — Canadian college football hasn’t made much of an impression on Las Vegas od- dsmakers. That -was shown when oddsmakers sat down to create betting lines for the just-launched World League of American Football. The new league has 10 teams in five countries, in- cluding the Montreal Machine. me One of the handful of things od- dsmakers had to go on was the coaching staffs of the 10 WLAF teams. They were familiar with most Of the coaches, almost all of whom had NFL, CFL or major U.S. college experience. One coach had them guessing, “We recognized most of the sae until we came to the Mon- team,” said Barry Hodge of Las Vegas ‘Sports Consultants, Nevada's top linemakers. ‘They had this guy from some real rinky-dink ee eo Place. . . . Mount Allison University. “*Where the hell is that? And who is this guy, Jack somebody?” Had Hodge been versed on his Canadian college football, he’d have recognized Jacques Dussault, who coached at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., before joining the Machine. 4 Otherwise, oddsmakers..feel they have a good grasp of the new league. “We figure we know at least as Much as the bettors,"’ Hodge said. “‘We studied as much as we could. We'll _know better after teams have played a couple of games, though.” fers weren't too sharp on opening week, as most of the teams they favored to win were defeated. Among the winners was the Machine, which triumphed 20-5 despite being a six-point underdog. Bettors went the wrong way on Most BaMes 100, so bet shops didn't suffer much. ee trading s LAS VEGAS (AP) — Seven rounds in the ring together did nothing to create a friendship between Mike Tyson and Donovan (Razer) Ruddock. “He's a moron,’’ Ruddock said. “I don’t know why you talk to me like that when you know I’m going to kill you for it,’” said Tyson. The fighters traded insults via satellite Thursday to promote the June 28 rematch of their con- troversial March fight at The Mirage hotel-casino. Ruddock, Tyson hots on TV with sunglasses looking like he’s a hit man?" Ruddock asked of Tyson, who looked menancing in dark glasses and a jumpsuit. Politeness was not the word of the day, particularly on the part of Tyson, who called Ruddock a transvestite and threatened to “‘make you my girlfriend the 28th.”” “There’s something you can’t buy and that’s class,’” Ruddock replied. “‘And you “have none of that.” Tyson won the March 18 bout But while R before a group of writers in New York, Tyson took questions only over the air while sitting with Promotor Dan King and Mirag operator Steve Wynn at a studio in the hotel. Reporters who thought they were going to a Tyson news conference watched instead on television screens in another room. in the ‘hotel, where they were invited to present writ- ten questions. in a sial decision by referee Richard Steele fo stop the bout in the seventh round. Ruddock, who rocked Tyson in the first and sixth rounds but took a beating before the fight was stopped, promised he would add a right hand to the left hook that was his only weapon in the first fight. Tyson is a 4-1 favorite to beat Ruddock in the rematch, down from the 7-1 favorite he was in the first fight.