News. _ Janvary 12, 1991

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Paranoia setting in on NFL playoffs

By DAVE GOLDBERG The Associated Press George Seifert

eucalyptus trees.

Bill Parcells worries about Chicago writers phoning. Mike Ditka about the Giants plans against the Bears.

Cincinnati’s Sam Wyche whines about injuries to James Brooks and Anthony Munoz. The Raiders’ Art Shell doesn’t believe him.

And the Erie County sheriff's department will use guard dogs to keep the Buffalo fans off Rich Stadium turf and away from the goalposts.

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‘Welcome to playoff paranoia.

“I think we're all paranoid; if I found somebody up there (in a tree), I'd probably be paranoid, too,” Washington coach Joe Gibbs said af- ter denying he had hired the guy Seifert saw in the tree outside the 49ers training complex.

The NFL playoff weekend begins today, when Miami ‘visits Buffalo in the AFC playoffs. The Redskins fare at the 49ers in today’s late af- ternoon game, while Sunday's schedule has Chicago at the Giants and Cincinnati at the Los Angeles Raiders.

All the home teams are favored by at least six points, romathing ol all sight teams say means nothing. And but the Bears-Giants game are repeats of regular-season matchups.

Here’s how the games shape up: Miami (13-4) at Buffalo (13-3)

The key player could be Erie County undersheriff William Payne, in charge of security, He's been assigned to prevent what happened three weeks ago when the Bills beat the Dolphins 24-14 to clinch the AFC East and home-field advantage in the playoffs — fans storming the .field and tearing down the goalposts.

Let Johnson run because he's paid hisduesnow

TORONTO (CP) — The majority of Canadians believe the punishment imposed on sprinter Ben Johnson was “‘just about right’’ following his positive test for steroids at the Seoul Olympics, a poll released Friday suggested.

When asked whethér Johnson was treated ‘‘too harshly, too leniently, or just about right,"” 60 per cent selected the third choice in a poll commissioned by CTV Sports and conducted by the Angus Reid Group.

Twenty-nine per cent said he was treated too harshly, while 10 per cent said his punishment was too lenient.

Johnson was stripped of his 100- metre gold medal and banned from

competing for two years after he tested positive for steroids in 1988 at Seoul.

Johnson returned to competition Friday at the “Hamilton Indoor Games.

Opinion was split as to whether Johnson’s coach, Charlie Francis, should be allowed to coach again.

Even though Francis was banned for life Tuesday by Athletics Canada, 50 per cent believe he should be allowed to coach again and 47 per cent feel he should not.

Last year, the International Amateur Athletics Federation strip- ped Johnson of his 9.83-second world record in the 100-metre dash,

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set in 1987 in Rome, even though Johnson passed a drug test at that meet.

The majority of Canadians — 80 per cent — believe two American athletes who -recently tested positive for steroids and were suspended for two years from compétition, should also be stripped of their medals and records.

Randy Barnes, the world record holder in shot put and an Olympic silver medallist, and Butch Reynolds, the world 400-metre record holder, are ing their

's upset. remember being kind of a little bit by the tackle who play So what upsets Wallace? “He doesn’t even know my name,”’ Wallace says. “Maybe he

Rose not

NEW YORK (CP) — First, Pete Rose was thrown out of baseball. Now he may be blocked from the Hall of Fame.

The Hall took the first step toward barring the forming Cincinnati Reds manager when a special committee recommended that players on the ineligible list not even be on the ballot.

The proposal will be considered by the Hall’s board of directors on Feb. 4. If aproved, the only way Rose could get into the Hall would be. if he is reinstated from the permanent ineligible tist by the baseball com- missioner.

Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, agreed to his lifetime ban on Aug. 23, 1989, following an investigation that he gambled on games involving the Reds while he managed the team. He may appeal for reinstatement at any time.

On Monday, Rose completed a five-month prison sentence which followed his guilty pleas to two in- come-tax charges. He now is serving a thi th term at a Cinci halfway house.

“Pete expected restaurateur Jeff Ruby, a Rose ‘friend. Ruby said Rose “wasn t

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Among other findings:

— 43 per cent of those surveyed said they had lost confidence in the fairness of amateur sport, while 17 per cent are more confident;

— 62 per cent believe Canada’s penalties for steroid users should be the same as those of other countires;

— and 78 per cent believe Canada should participate in the Olympic Games even if they are not sure whether athletes use steroids.

The poll was conducted by telephone from Dec. 17-22 on 1,500 adults. The poll is accurate 95 per cent of the time within 2.5 percen- tage points, the pollsters said.

and wasn’t the vote.

The Rose matter wasn’t onthe agenda for Thursday's meeting, called primarily to consider in the voting procedure of the veterans’ committee.

But former American League president Lee MacPhail raised the issue and AL president Bobby Brown Proposed the resolution, which was adopted by a 7-3 vote. Under the current rules, Rose would become eligible for the. ballot next year.

**No one was trying to take away from Rose as a player,” MacPhail said. ‘‘No one wants to detract from what he did on the field. But the

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mal,”’ he said. He knew it was a eucalyptus tree because he was a botany major in college at Utah 30

years ago. Chicago (12-5) at New York Giants asd.

‘What is it that Parcells doesn’t want those Chicago people to find out?

One is whether he'll start Ottis Anderson, Rodney Hampton or even Lewis Tillman at running back behind Jeff Hostetler, who will con- tinue to run the Giants in the absen- ce of the injured Phil Simms.

“No big deal,” Ditka says. “*They’re all good.’

This is the only non-rematch of the weekend. In fact, while the Gian- ts and Bears are two of the NFL's

oldest franchises and have played some legendary games, they have met only five times since 1969.

“I’ve heard some stuff about all

pened before I was born.”” ‘Cincinnati (10-7) at Los Angeles Raiders (12-4)

‘These guys played a month ago and the Raiders won 24-7, The other noteworthy thing was an otherwise

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named Rod Jones catching Bo Jackson from behind at the one after an 88-yard run.

Boomer Esiason had Py groin pull in that game.

This week it’s James Brooks, whose broken thumb will probably keep him and the left side of the Cincinnati line — Munoz and Bruce Reimers —- out. Munoz has @ torn rotator cuff and Reimers a sprained ankle.

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criteria for election to the Hall of Fame includes things like integrity, character and sportsmanship, and we simply felt that no one who is on baseball’: list

¥, Visa we were on the committee, were unable to attend.

Kit Stier of the Oakland Tribune, president of the baseball writers’ said his

8 meets those qualifications.”

“*I personally just felt that anybody who was on the ineligible list just shouldn’t be a candidate for the Hall of Fame,”’ Brown said.

Hall of Fame president Ed Stack voted against the proposal as did Jack Lang and Phil Pepe of the Baseball Writers Association of America. NL president Bill White and Hall of Famer Whitey Ford,

organization would consider pulling out of the Hall of Fame voting.

“I’m not surprised and I’m not happy,” he said. ‘‘What I propose to do in the next couple of weeks will be to get in touch with all the chap- ter chairman of the association and see what action, if any, anyone wan- ts to take.

“I'm sure that the membership will have some reaction to it.’’

Seniors playing third

By BUD LOWTHER

At the half-way mark of the third draw, the rinks of Otto Walker and Jock Gourley are tied for first place — with four wins each and with no losses.

Walker again has a formidable tink behind him with Buzz Mc- Donald, third, John Streliaff, second and Joe Schiavon, lead. We curled against them the other day and we were destroyed, mostly by the curling of their lead, Schiavon, whose draw weight was deadly.

Gourley’s curlers from up the valley have an advantage over the rest of us, as they curl together every draw; they are also talented players and pleasurable to curl with.

It is nice to see Jack Dunn, Zeke Clements and Ed Flynn back — natural-born athletes all.

Mike Kurnoff, a recent Curl Canada graduate and John Bozek are developing good slide-outs, while George Crosley’s is also good, but not quite as groomed as his golf swing.

Every sheet of ice has its own per- sonality. We had a bad game on

sheet one. Was it the ice? Was it the rocks? or — heaven forbid — was it our bad curling?

I find that I have become a loud hollerer — remember John Daiziel.

Last rocks for Fred Hostetter, Jack Edmonds and Norm Blais. We will remember them and we will miss them.

Palmer back?

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer, mounting a comeback at age 45, threw to batters on Thursday for the first time since he retired in 1984.

Palmer, who hopes to get a tryout with a major league team, pitched batting practice for a university team, the Miami Hurricanes, and was pleased with the results.

“I’ve worked out every day since the 16th day of December, and every time I throw it gets better,”’ he said.

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Dusted-off clippings relieve daily grind

‘Things at their worst will cease or els¢ climb up-

To what they were before. — Macbeth

Tam not @ proponent of New Year's revolutions — at least not for myself — but since my study has become such a papered battlefield’ 1 have for the sake of survival and access, taken up arms against

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sporadic guerrilla war- fare, therefore, I have bled my filing cabinets and my mished with my in-and trays, carried out a mop-up action against my floor and filled two garbage cans and two boxes with casualties.

Still well entrenched, however, are stories to be considered, written by two local writers, two articles to be written for Beautiful B.C. Magazine and the Vancouver Sun, several books to be reviewed and my own Tamar and the Dragon Tree to be completed. Daunting.

Nonetheless, it is an ill wind that blows nobody good and thus in the course of my skirmishings I

a bundle of clippii in a dusty corner of the study.

1 love clippings. They, represent thé shiny nuggets of out-of-the-way interest, humor or the just-plain craziness of humanity which gives relief from the en- dless grey, rock and gravel stream of death, mayhem and disaster of the daily news.

This bundle of goodies came from our friend Jean Cormack of Aberdeen, who clips them regularly for me from the Scottish papers. | propose, therefore, to start the year by ignoring the very real possibility that the world is going mad (the Ministry of Education's departure into Cloud Cuckoo Land of the Year 2000, is*an example) and I will offer a few clipping com- ments as alternatives.

The first of. these is headed ‘‘Why It’s Called Scotland,”’ and reads as follows:

Margaret Scott, always assumed her surname means a native of Scotland.

But how did Scotland get its name in the first place?

Well it’s thanks to an Egyptian princess!

Around the fourth century AD, she married the King of Portugal and as her dowry brought the Stone of Destiny — Jacob’s Pillow from the Bible — which had arrived in Egypt with the Israelites.

The couple had a daughter, Scota, who married the King of Ireland’s son, and took the Stone of Destiny there.

Her descendants took her name and called themselves the Children of Scota.

Then in about 500 AD a group invaded southwest Scotland and settled there, calling their new kingdom the Land of Scotas, or Scots.

They brought the Stone of Destiny with them, believing a king crowned on it "would eventually rule the entire British Isles.

Eventually, through marriage and battle, the whole country became known as Scotland.

The next clipping I Nees somewhat saddening. The } has given authority to connect the aay Isle of Skye to the mainland by a bridge. It will have two spans — one to the tiny islet Eilan Ban and a longer one from Ban to Kyleakin on Skye. It is to be com- pleted in 1994 and I regard it as a black day for the **Misty Isle,’’ one of the loveliest of the Western Isles. The toll will be the same as the five-minute ferry boat ride but the island won't be.

A third clipping not only confirms some of our deepest suspicions but accounts, as well, for the rising spiral of bureaucracy everywhere. It is entitled “Sharp Suits Disguise Dummies’’ and states:

Large i are being ii i infiltrated by ‘‘empty suits” — smooth-talking, often elegantly dressed executives who appear active but in

fact are time-servers doing no useful work.

**You can spot them by the fact that they are fond of calling meetings which take a long time but in which nothing of substance is ever discussed,”’ said a senior Foreign Office official.

““They are bad for an organisation's health,”” said Mr. Walter Kiechel, assistant managing editor of Fortune magazine.

“They never take risks and their indecisiveness makes the company seem sluggish. The best people, tired of looking at their empty-suited boss for direction that never comes, soon go elsewhere.

“They talk constantly of the importance of ‘vision’ and ‘values.’ But don’t ask what their ‘vision’ and ‘values’ are. It’s all empty talk designed to impress.

“Another of their tricks is continually asking underlings for written reports filled with statistical information.

“They don’t need the information and they make no use of it, but the very act of asking for it gives the impression that they are engaged on some important project.’’

They are almost always found in the senior ranks of an organisation.

“The higher you go, the longer it takes people to

find out whether or not you're doing your job,”’ said Mr. Allan Cohen, a management professor. “Empty suits’’ are treacherous. They will betray to advance Yet ding to Dr. Mark Pastin, director of the business ethic centre at Arizona State University; ‘‘They are not naturally hard-spirited or ill-disposed. They are simply not

But despite their success, they are often deeply unhappy.

“‘Imagine,’’ said Mr. Kiechel, ‘*the constant terror of being found out, the weariness of always trying figure out what someone wants without the ability to know it instinctively.

“It doesn’t exactly send one home a proud, confident parent or spouse."”

So there you are.

Reflections and recollections By John Charters

Industrial realtions director Ron Belton (left) and general manager Jim Browne of Celgar of the Castlegor

Pulp Co. present a new electric mitre saw to Sherrel Koreen, president

Castews photo by John Charters

Heritage Society.

Celgar donates saw to heritage society

By JOHN CHARTERS

The Castlegar and District Heritage Society got another assist from Celgar Pulp Co, Tuesday when general manager Jim Browne and in- dustrial relations director Ron Belton arrived at the Castlegar Rail Station with a brand new electric mitre saw. Late last year, the company had

Jean always includes a few clippings on ar- cheological findings. One tells of the discovery of an ancient defensive, dron Age dwelling called a round house or broch. Brochs were made of unmortared stone and date back to 2,500 years ago in Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles.

The second clipping is about a Pictish Warrior stone (the Picts were early inhabitants of Scotland) which was plowed up on Aberdeenshire farm. This Rhnieman stands six feet high, was carved about 1,500 years ago and shows the figure of a man in profile, carrying an axe and wearing a sleeved tunic, pointed shoes and leggings. Judging by the ex- pression on his face he was an irate citizen looking for the GST taxman. He now stands in the Rhynie School in Aberdeen.

Therefore, save yourself from the. worst by collecting clippings.

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Last week I wrote a column on the surprise golden wedding party for Gordie and Alida Hill at the Castlegar Rail Station. In it I acknowledged the presence of three invited guests — sons Tommy, Bob and Andy and the absence of son Johnnie Hill who was unable to attend because of adverse weather conditions.

Unfortunately, I missed three other invited family members whose faxed messages got lost in the ex- citement and shuffle. These are Alida’s sister, Agnes Macro, her brother, Andy Fredrickson, and her niece, Joanne North.

I trust that they will forgive this entirely unin- tended and regrettable oversight.

Joanne (their flower irl) and Agnes collaborated on a little poem: To Aunt Alida and Uncle Gordie on their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.

It begins:

Fifty years ago today I was nearly three

I was part of the wedding — oh my, oh me.

My aunt was marrying my uncle to be

And I was dressed up in fancy finery.

And I looked up at the preacher and said

“Cam we go to the party now?”’

And ends with:

When I grew up, to Vancouver I flew

To a house full of family, grandpa too

For Christmas Eve was a special do,

The presents I bet were a hundred and two.

“Mim, the thin bread, oh wow!”’

Happy anniversary.

I love you both.

And... “Can we go to the party now?"’

A nice gesture on a very special occasion. Again, apologies to all for the miss.

the society with a four- inch belt sander for workers on the station restoration.

‘“*We support the concept of protecting and preserving our

heritage for posterity and we like what the society is doing in this regard,’’ Browne said when asked why Celgar, a strong supporter of the heritage society for many years, had donated the new piece of equipment.

‘Besides, Karl (Koreen), until his retirement recently, was a valued employee of ours and when he said that he needed a little help at the

ion, we participated by extending his retirement party a little,"’ Browne added with a grin.

Koreen said the new saw will help the work crew.

“‘And with this hard-working crew (Employment Plus Program) we now have, it’s going to cut a lot of boards in the next four months,”” he said.

Society president Sherrel Koreen, in accepting the new saw on behalf of the Castlegar and District Heritage Society, said that Celgar ‘*Has always been more than generous”’ and that this valuable ad- dition to the restoration equipment was ‘‘just one more example of that public spirited generosity."’

Red Cross seeks help

The League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and several major international relief organizations have released a joint statement on the crisis in Africa. This attempt to draw world attention to the extreme urgency of preventing serious famine im many areas of Africa comes at a time when the crisis in the Persian Gulf and events in eastern Europe are capturing media and public at- tention.

“A combination of severe drought and civil conflict in several African nations -has_resulted-in about 20 million people facing starvation this winter, unless food aid is provided

more than 700,000 people to flee across the border in Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Cote d’Ivoire and up to a million more have been displaced within the country.

In Afigola an estimated 1.9 million people are facing starvation and in ,Mozambique, _ millions of people continue to suffer as a result of that country’s war. Of a populi nm of 15 million, more than two million are displaced within the country and a million have become refugees in surrounding countries.

“The appeal from the Red Cross and other organizations it to gover- nments, United Nations agencies,

said. ‘‘It’s recognized that the long- term solutions to many of these problems are economic and political — the Red Cross role in the short term, however, is to aid the victims of famine and conflict — to not stand by while millions face star- vation.”

Donations to the Red Cross may be made locally or to the regional of- fice at. 625 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1G9 and should be marked, AFRICAN RELIEF. The Red Cross guarantees that 100 per cent of each donation will be used for African relief and that none of the funds will be used for ad-

The situation to repeat the tragedy of the mid- °80s,"" said Gary Ockenden, regional director for the Red Cross in the Kootenay area.

In Ethiopia, widespread drought in Tigray and Eritrea has had disastrous effects. In Eritrea crops have failed almost completely and there is a critical lack of drinking water, while in neighboring Tigray almost half of the 4.5 million population need food assistance until the next harvest in

“November 1991. In addition, civil war hampers the delivery of aid and planting of crops, the Red Cross says in a news release.

In Sudan, the harvest has failed for two years running and food

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governmental and to the general public,’’ Ockenden

costs of the Canadian Red Cross Society.

United Church to host vigil

The Castlegar United Church in- vites all those in the community who are concerned about the growing crisis in the Persian Gulf to come together for an hour of prayer and reflection at the Castlegar United Church Jan. 13 at 2 p.m.

“*As the deadline of Jan. 15 comes closer, the hope for a peaceful to the crisis seems to be

year’s remaining stocks have been largely used up. The long, drawn-out civil war has further disrupted the planting and distribution of food.

In Liberia, the civil war has caused

fading,’’ says United Church Minister Ted Bristow. ‘“The prayer vigil is intended to be an opportunity for concerned people to come together, to share their fears and ex-

press hopes for a peaceful way out of the conflict."’

Similar gatherings are taking place this weekend in churches and com- munity centres across Canada, reflec- ting Canadians’ growing awareness of the potential for loss of life and environmental destruction that could come from a war in that region of the world. Both Grand Forks and Trail are among the West Kootenay communities which are also organizing opportunities for people to meet and share their concerns.

Coffee and a time to be together will follow Sunday afternoon's vigil.

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By Rev. GLEN BACKUS St. Peter Lutheran Church

We don’t know very much at all about those mysterious strangers

Jerusalem: ‘‘We have come to wor- ship him.’’

The word worship, is derived from “‘worth- ag id

from the east who j to Bethlehem to worship the Savior. Not from Holy Scripture. Man-made tradition has come up with names — even with their ages! A well-known

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Have you made your New Year’s resolution yet?

Why don’t we all make one which will result in the better- ment of our entire community? Let’s strive to reduce our input to the Ootischenia dump by half this year.

Let's.consider the benefits of reducing the amount of material being buried at our community landfill. Obviously, the dump would be available for use for a longer period of time. There

less toxic material leaching into the ground, and less likelihood of toxic substances en- tering our water supplies and get- ting into our food chain.

There would also be a lot more

we'd be able to cut fewer trees, use less fuel oil, consume less power, etc.

Early in 1991, the Recycle Ad- visory Gfoup to the Regional District of Central Kootenay will be mailing a ‘‘Recycle Directory’” to all Castlegar and area residen-

that many of you believe that

tory, please take the time to read it carefully. It will explain how to Prepare certain items for recycling and it will also identify local ,outlets. for recyclable