Castlegar News October 11, 1987

BUSINESS

CANADIANS LIKE LUXURY IMPORT CARS

TORONTO (CP) — Canadians are buying luxury import cars in increasing numbers, but the more modest vehicles sold by Honda Canada Inc. and Toyota Canada Inc., are still the hottest imports, auto industry statistics show.

Sales of Jaguar Canada Inc. for the year up to Sept. 30 jumped to 2,008 from 1,435 in the same period of 1986.

Although Jaguar sales climbed in the nine months, its September sales were down to 175 from 201 last year.

Sales of Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. rose to 3,462, compared with 2,973, while sales at BMW Distributors Eastern Canada Ltd. rose to 3,755 from 3,562.

Nine-month sales at Honda were up to 54,962 from 47,885 a year earlier, while Toyota posted a gain to 62,123 from 42,278.

Hyundai Canada Ine. of Ont., conti on

Volkswagen Canada Inc. of Toronto also lost favor over the nine-month period, with 30,941 “cars” sold, compared with 83,195. However, its September sales jumped to 4,164 from 2,721,

Total nine-month import sales rose to 246,702 from 242,610. For September alone, sales rose to 27,775 from 28,558 a year earlier.

The big success story — in percentage change, is not in absolute numbers — was Suzuki Canada Ine. ‘of Toronto, which sold 459 cars in September, compared with 112 last year.

Suzuki's nine-month sales were 2,445, compared with 781 a year earlier.

Subaru Auto Canada Ltd. also did well in September with 1,302 cars sold, compared with 679 last year.

Improvements were also posted by Nissan Auto mobile Co. (Canada) Ltd., Mazda Canada Inc. and Saab. Lada Cars of Canada Inc. and Skocar both saw their sales drop from last year.

Meanwhile, imported truck retail sales for last month were down to 3,830, compared with 4,982 a year earlier, even though truck sales by domestic manu-

a downward slide, selling only 40,110 cars in the nine months, compared with 57,620 the previous year.

were up strongly both for September and for the model year. Nine-month truck sales fell to 35,596 from 38,014.

CONTRACTS POPULAR

Full-time jobs vanishing

REGINA (CP) — The full-time job is disappearing as more emp! 8 protect t! per saddled with unqualified staff, a cinemas for a national job placement service said.

Instead, there is a rising trend towards contract employment in Western Canada because of laws which have made it tougher to fire or dismiss staff, said Gary Agnew, regional director of the Technical Service Council.

He said overall high unemployment has led to the changes.

“Contracts have become popular because common law has changed. Employers can no longer terminate individuals without documentation showing they weren't doing a good job.”

Agnew was in Regina to attend a closed-door seminar on firing and dismissals.

“In the late 1970s it was common to basically tell an individual they were finished with their job one month's severance or eight weeks notice was adequate,” he said.

“Now, if you're going to fire somebody — because they didn’t do a proper job or perform at an adequate level — you have to have proper documentation. The termination settle- ments now are in terms of three months severance.”

Many employers are falling short on the

Western Canada’s place has changed since 1980, when the economy first felt the effects of dropping oil prices, he said.

Only now is the economy starting to prop itself up again, as shown by a 38-per-cent increase over last year in white-collar job listings with the council.

“The oil prices are coming back, the majors are starting to hire again — mainly because they've had to cut back 80 severely over the last couple of years,” Agnew said.

But he said the tough times of the 1980s have changed both the employer and the employee.

The new breed of employer is “a much leaner group” more selective of the type of people they hire.

He said the employee has also gotten tougher, more career-oriented and security concious. “They can no longer look towards the employer as big brother to take care of them, they have to take care of themselves.”

Agenw represents southern Alberta and Saskatchewan for the council, which is a non-profit, national placement service and personnel counsulting firm run by Canadian industry and financed by almost 1,000 member companies.

About 65 people, representing an equal number of

process which must include written warnings and opportun- ities for the employees to do a better job and correct their mistakes, Agnew said.

Weekly Stocks

TORONTO (CP) — The stock markets took a plunge

ities Inc., said the correction has a bit further to go before

this week, as first the threat and then the reality of higher interest rates sunk in.

The Toronto Stock Ex- change's composite 300 index fell 112.28 points, or 2.88 per cent for the week, including 25.05 points Friday to close at 3,781.22.

The decline for the week knocked $112.28 billion off the value of stocks traded on the exchange.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 158.78 points for the week including $4.43 points Friday to close at 2,482.21.

“Interest rates really spooked the market,” said Don Dillistone, of Richardson Greenshields of Canada Inc.

“It’s been correcting since August and there was noth. ing this week to make us think this correction is over.”

The markets plunged Tuesday after interest rates rose in the United States.

The Dow took its biggest point-loss in history Tuesday falling 91.55 points while Toronto dropped 56.44 points.

Canadian banks pushed their prime rates up half a percentage point to 10.5 per cent Thursday.

Leon Tuey, a technical analyst at Dominion Secur.

a recovery will start.

“I think the bond market is beginning to bottom but the stock market has some pain left,” Tuey “Until the U8.) Federal Reserve shows some signs of backing off you won't see any relief in the market.”

The Reserve has been tightening money supply be- cause of its fears about an uptick in inflation and about the weak U.S. dollar, he said.

Tuey predicts this tight- money policy will start to show results in the next couple of months causing the Federal Reserve to ease off.

Among the TSE sub groups, two interest-rate sensitive groups suffered the most this week.

Transportation lost 6.8 per cent in value while services fell 6.15 per cent.

Other losers included con- sumer products down 6.2 = cent and 4.33 per cent.

Only three subgroups managed to gain this week: pipelines, up 1.06 per cent, paper up .8 per cent and gold up .62 per cent.

Overall Friday 362 issues advanced, 525 declined and 419 were unchanged on a trading volume of 27,304,203 shares,

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POWER-PLAY GOALS

islanders dump Canucks 7-1

VANCOUVER (CP) — Power-play goals by Brent Sutter, Gord Dineen, Mikko Makela and Bob Bassen sparked the persistent New York Islanders to a solid 7-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL Saturday night.

Sutter, the new Islander captain, opened scoring in the second minute of the game, while Dineen and Makela added insurance markers in the third as New York won its second straight to remain unbeaten.

Tomas Jonsson, Ken Morrow and Pat LaFontaine completed the New York scoring as the Islanders checked tenaciously in front of steady netminder Kelly Hrudey.

CAPITALS 6 BLACKHAWKS 4

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Mike Gartner scored three goals and assisted on another, leading the Washington Capitals to a 6-4 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in their National Hockey League home opener on Saturday night.

It was the 12th hat trick of Gartner's NHL career. The nine-year veteran also scored twice in the Capitals’ opening-night loss to Boston.

Gartner opened the scoring at 1:11 of the first period. After Chicago's Rick Vaive tied it on the first of his two goals, Gartner scored again at 5:49.

RANGERS 6 WHALERS 2

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Goalie Bob Froese turned aside a caréer-high 44 shots and forward Gerdie Walker collected a pair of assists to power the New York Rangers past the Hartford Whalers 6-2 in a National Hockey League

REBEL ATTACK. . . Daloi:

Castlegar Rebel captain Dave Terhune breaks in on Cranbrook Colts goalie Mike during power-play situation at the Community

Complex last night. Rebels have managed to sign a new coach. See story below.

—CasNewsPhoto by Doug Horvey

Rebels sign coach

By CasNews Staff

The Castlegar Rebels were handed their first loss of the Kootenay Inter- national Junior Hockey Leagtie season Friday hight in Rossland as “the Warriors doubled the Rebels 8-4.

The game was also the debut for the Rebels new coach, Jerry Hurd, who accepted the post last Monday after Brian Burley quit the job to move to Vancouver Island.

Before Friday's game Hurd said he felt good about being able to coach the Rebels.

“They (Rebels executive) asked me on Sunday if I was interested and I accepted on Monday,” said Hurd.

He added that the Rebels are a young team and have “a long way to

go. Hurd has been involved with hockey in Castlegar for about 10 years. The Warriors got on the score- board first Friday night after Iva Czach scored a lone goal at the 3:21 mark of the first period. Mike Karush put the Warriors up

by two at 9:38 after being set up by Doug Holler and Dallas Massie.

Ruben Parker made it 3-0 for Rossland at the 14:17 mark with Holler and Krause picking lip assists on the play.

Czach notched his second goal of the night at 16:59 with assistance from Jamie Thomas and Kevin Hoey.

Castlegar got its first goal of the game after Dave Terhune and Dave Zarikoff set up Walter Sheloff.

Terhune rounded out the first period scoring at the 18:02 mark after being set up by Sheloff and Sandy Renwick.

There was no scoring in the second period.

Krause made it 5-2 Rossland at 10:21 of the third period. Massie and Holler picked up assists on the play.

Kevin Vankalkerin made it 62 Rossland at the 11:20 mark as he notched an unassisted goal and then Krause picked up a hattrick at 14:18 after being set up by Massie and Holler.

Brad Vigon scored Rossland’s eighth and final goal of the night un- assisted at 15:28.

The Rebels, rounded oyt the scoring with Sheloff getting his second of the night at 15:48 on an assist from Renwick and Terhune.

Zakaroff scored the Rebel’s fourth and final goal at 16:08 after being set up by Renwick and Sheloff. Final score was 8-4 for Rossland.

Ken Chamberlain stood guard between the pipes for the Rebels during the first period, letting in four goals. Tim Horcoff played in the net for the second and third periods-also letting in four goals.

The Rebels had 40 shots on the Rossland net while the Warriors managed 25 on the Castlegar net.

Castlegar went into last night's game against Cranbrook at the Com- munity Complex with 3-1-0 record.

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I can’t help but shake my head in amazement whenever I look across the border into Alberta and see those Edmonton Oilers. Cocky or what?

Those Oilers are really something else-I'm sure they think they're God's gift to the game of hockey, and, well, maybe they are. But they're also the most egotistical bunch of guys I've ever seen. People like Reggie Jackson, Mu- hammad Ali and that strange bird in Seattle, Brian Bosworth, are hum- ble and shy compared to the Ed- monton Oilers.

I'm sure the Oilers are still rubbing their behinds today after they had it kicked — and kicked hard — Friday night in the Col- isseum by the Detroit Red Wings by ascore of 4-1. That was their season homer opener, I might add.

The Oilers had thought they had won the game already by the way they were parading around in front of their fans before the puck was even dropped.

There was a 15-minute ceremony before the game all geared towards how the Oilers had won the Stanley Cup last season. Last season is history.

They lowered the Stanley Cup from the rafters. They raised the

Stanley Cup banner. They sang “We Are The Champions.” And then do you know what they did? They went ‘out onto the ice and got their butts kicked by Detroit. I'm not a big Detroit fan, but I sure do thank Jacques Demers and his boys for that one.

The individual Oilers are also quite interesting to observe.

The head man, Glen Sather, is abrat as cocky as they come. But while Sather is cocky-he's also ex- tremely confident of himself and his team.

I recall hockey commentator Don Cherry relaying a story about the man they call “Slats.”

It was during a playoff series and the Oilers were down by a couple of games. Wayne Gretzky and a couple of the other players walked into Sather’s office and expressed their concerns on how they thought they might end up losing the series.

Sather-who was bent over shining his shoes at the time-straightened up, put his arms around the three players and said: “Boys, we've got nothing to lose.”

The Oilers came back and won

that series.

Then there's Mark Messier. Yikes! This is a guy who has a major mean stréak in him. A friend of mine knows the stickboy with the Oilers. Apparently this poor kid is afraid to go anywhere near Messier.

Rumor has it that if Messier ever géts mad at someone and starts charging at them (steam coming out of his ears and nostrils no doubt) that the best, way to stop him is to throw some meat at him.

Now we come to the big guy him- self — Wayne Gretzky. Such a nice boy. You can’t but help like Gretzky. He always seems 80 nice.

Gretzky's no fool either. Not too long ago he dumped his long time girlfriend for an extremely attrac- tive Californian actress. No brain damage there.

But even though the Oilers are probably having some difficulty sitting down today, I can’t help but look back to Friday and how Detroit did a lot of us a big favor by taking the Oilers down a few notches. ‘Their home opener to boot!

Yes Virginia, there really is « Santa Claus.

game on y night.

The Rangers, 1-0-1, had goals from John Ogrodnick, Willie Huber, James Patrick, Pierre Larouche, Marcel Dionne and Kelly Kisio to support Froese, who frustrated the Whalers after allowing a pair of power-play goals in the first period.

The Whalers, 0-2-0, had goals from Dean Evason and Ray Ferraro. Goaltender Steve Weeks was beaten on several long shots.

MAPLE LEAFS 5 DEVILS 2

TORONTO (CP) — Al lafrate broke a 2-2 deadlock with goals in the third period to propel the Toronto Maple Leafs toa 5-2 home-opener triumph over the New Jersey Devils in NHL action Saturday.

Early in the third period, New Jersey goaltender Alain Chevrier kitked out a*shot by Wendel Clark; but the rebound went to Iafrate on his forehand between the faceoff circles. The Leaf defenceman spun around and put a backhand between ‘Chevrier's legs for his first goal at 4:20.

Chevrier, who faced 20 shots, replaced starting goaltender Bob Sauve, who was knocked out of the game in

the second period with a should injury on a check by Toronto's Russ Courtnall. CANADIENS 6 SABRES 3

MONTREAL (CP) — Stephane Richer scored two goals and Mats Naslund had five assists — one short of tying the team record — as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Buffalo Sabres 6-8 in their National Hockey League home opener at the Forum on Saturday night.

Naslund, who drew assists on both of Richer’s goals, was seeking to equal the mark set by Elmer Lach in 1943.

‘The Canadiens, who have a victory and a tie in their first two games, battered goaltender Tom Borrasso for a 4-2 first-period lead, with Kjell Dahlin, Richer, Bobby Smith and defenceman Chris Chelios handling the scoring.

The Sabres, who have lost eight straight games to Montreal at the Forum, dating back to Oct. 16, 1986, had first-period goals from Phil Housley and Shawn Anderson.

NORDIQUES 6 BRUINS 5

QUEBEC (CP) — Randy Moller scored at 2:56 of overtime to give the Quebec Nordiques a 6-5 victory over the Boston Bruins in NHL play Saturday night.

Moller scored his first goal of the season on a drive from the point that got through a jam in front of the net and past

Markwart scored at 11:59 of the third period.

Peter Stastny had put the Nordiques into a 5-4 lead forty three seconds into the final period before Markwart tied it up for Boston by cutting through the crease and catching goaltender Mario Gosselin going the other way.

Michel. Goulet scored twice for Quebec, while Jeff Jackson and Alan Haworth added one each.

JETS 5 FLAMES 1

CALGARY (CP) — Terry Berezan spoiled Winnipeg goaltender Daniel Berthiaume’s bid for'a shutout with a goal late in the third period in the Jets 5-1 victory over the Calgary Flames Saturday night.

Gilles Hamel, Andrew McBain, Hannu Jarvenpaa, Ray Neufeld and Paul MacLean each-had singles in the Jets’ first regular season game.

FLYERS 5 NORTH STARS 4

lead pl Saturday night over Minnesota, home game as coach.of tise North Stars. Craven's wrist shot from 10 feet slipped between the legs of North Stars goalie Kari Takko 1:20 into the third period.

IN MOTOWN

Tigers beat Twins

DETROIT (AP) — Pat Sheridan hit a two-run homer with one out in the eighth inning, giving Detroit a 7-6 victory over Minnesota on Saturday, and keeping the Tigers out of a playoff predicament from which no team has ever recovered.

The Tigers’ victory cut Minne- sota’s lead in this best-of-seven Ameri- can League playoff to 2-1. The Tigers had lost the first two games in Minne- sota, but returned on Saturday to De- troit, where their home-park record is second only to Minnesota's.

No team ever has recovered from a 3-0 deficit in a post-season best-of- seven series. Now, the Tigers, who once led this game 5-0, will not have to try.

Instead, Detroit will send left- hander Frank Tanana, 15-10, against Minnesota's first-game starter, Frank Viola, 17-10, in Game 4 tonight with a chance to tie the series.

The Tigers started Walt Terrell in Game 3. He was 17-10 overall and 13-2 at Tiger Stadium this year, and Gary Gaetti hit a two-run single off reliever Mike Henneman that put Minnesota ahead 6-6.

Dan Schatzeder and Juan Ber- enguer had combined on 4 1-3 scoreless innings in relief of Minnesota rookie Les Straker before ace reliever Jeff Reardon came on to start the eighth.

Reardon had won Game 1, and Berenguer saved Game 2 as Minne- sota’s bullpen provided nearly impec- cable relief. This time, the Tigers made a loser of Reardon after Larry Hern- don, who drove in two runs with a double in Detroit's five-run third, led off with a single.

One out later, Sheridan, who had six homers in the regular season, launched he first pitch into the right field seats for a game-winning homer.

Gladden, putting runners at first and third. Henneman then got Greg Gagne to ground into a fielder’s choice at the plate, the throw from third baseman Tom Brookens easily beating pinch runner Mark Davidson.

Kirby Puckett fouled out to first baseman Darrell Evans, who had to chase down the ball in foul territory in right field. With Evans’ back to the field, Gladden and Gagne were able to tag up, putting runners at second and third.

Tigers manager Sparky Anderson elected to walk left-handed hitter Kent Hrbek intentionally, bringing up the

right-handed hitting Gaetti against the right-hander Henneman. Gaetti lined a soft single into right field, scoring both runs and giving Minnesota the lead.

Detroit had a 54-27 home record this season, second in the league only to Minnesota's 56-25. But the Twins had a 29-52 road record, worst of any team to ever win a division title or pennant. Terrell had a 17-10 record, 18-2 at home, and was starting against 10-year minor leaguer Les Straker.

‘Tigers scored five runs in the third inning against Straker with the help of a balk and two walks.

Strike talks continue

TYSONS CORNER, Va. (AP) — Talks aimed at ending the NFL players’ strike droned through another unproductive session Saturday with both sides agreeing that major impedi- ments remain, but vowing to continue negotiations.

With the league preparing for its second Sunday of games involving mostly replacement players, the an- tagonists still were blaming each other for the lack of progress.

The club owners cited the union's demand for free agency as the critical stumbling block; the players said the owners had put up new obstacles by their demands for a six-year contract and a revised pension plan.

However, Gene Upshaw and Jack Donlan, the chief negotiators for union and management, continued what has been primarily one-on-one talks in this Washington suburb.

Despite their long hours of talking, there had still been agreement on only eight minor issues in the 38-article

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Minnesota won Game 1, allowed

Gaetti’s two-run single in the seventh,

but then pitched two more scoreless innings for the victory.

The Twins chased Terrell in the

seventh after he had yielded con-

secutive singles to Sal Butera and Dan

bargaining “It's slow,” said Jim Conway, the Management Council's assistant ex- ecutive director and general counsel. READY TO TALK Conway also said management had no plans to walk away from the table this weekend. That dréw an apology from Doug Allen, the assistant execu-

tive director of the NFL Players As- sociation, who had said on Friday he suspected management was ready to break off this round of negotiations, which began Tuesday.

There was no sign of any im- pending agreement on the major issues.

Conway said free agency “remains unequivocally the No. 1 stumbling block,” a statement Allen called “total nonsense.”

Allen, however, declined to be pinned down over whether the union had, in fact, abandoned its demand for outright free agency, repeating that the union stands on its position that it will let nothing stand in the way of a settlement.

According to sources, the union is still proposing the so-called West Coast Plan, which would allow total free agency only after a player has spent 10 years in the league.

Owners object to that because that way it would be a change in the system that would allow the years to be lowered in future contracts.

Allen, on the other hand, said the union remains adamant against man- agement's demand for a change in the pension system that would base the contribution of the owners on the fitability of the pension fund's invest- ments.