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January 27, 1985

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Would-be students inquire

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Raising funds for exploratio

By CasNews Staff

Cominco Ltd. says it will raise $15 million for mineral exploration on its Canadian mineral properties this year.

Cominco plans to raise the funding by selling Cominco common shares to CMP 1985 Mineral Partnership and Co. Ltd., a limited partnership which will pay the explora- tion expenses of the pro- gram.

The expenses will “flow through” to the limited part- ners and will be deductible by them in computing their incomes for tax purposes, Cominco said in a prepared release.

Cominco is also planning to sell more common shares this year to provide for flow through of $5 million worth of peientific research credits.

Stitutions from across the province were on hand to

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session was also

held for school counselling personnel.

— Cashews Photo by Rob Popolt

Band made $700,000

TERRACE (CP) — The Kitsumkalum band made $700,000 when it signed a contract with Canadian Na tional Railways and the fed. eral government for the pur- chase of gravel from a quarry on the band’s land in north- western British Columbia.

CN uses the gravel for ballast on tracks.

“It has taken us 3'2 years to negotiate this contract,” said chief councillor Cliff Bol- ton. “When CN wanted to extend the contract in 1981, we decided we wanted a bet- ter price. We had been get- ting three cents a cubic yard since 1964.”

The contact included a $400,000 retroactive . pay. ‘ment based on the price paid for gravel in the province from 1964 to 1981, Bolton said, and CN paid $300,000 for half a million cubic yards of crushed rock that have

been sitting in the pit since 1981. “Negotiations broke down

Banks

in 1981 and CN staan hauling rock from Prince George,” Bolton said.

lower

mortgage rates

TORONTO (CP) — The Bank of Nova Scotia lowered its four- and five-year mort- gage rates by one quarter of @ percentage point Friday.

The new rates, effective immediately, are 12 per cent for four years and 12.5 pere cent for five years.

The new rates are similar to other cuts announced Tuesday to Scotiabank’s one-, two- and three-year rates.

On Thursday, the Perman. ent cut its three- and four- year rates by one quarter of a percentage point.

Meanwhile, Castlegar Sa- vings Credit Union on Jan. 11 lowered its mortgage rate for a one-year mortgage to 10% per cent. The one-year mort- gage rate before Jan. 11 was 11% per cent.

Kootenay Savings Credit Union's first-year mortgage rate for six months open is 11 per cent. It is 11% per cent for one year closed. A spokes- man at the Castlegar branch anticipated that the rates would be lowered in a few days.

to net

VANCOUVER (CP) from a net loss in 1983. Cominco

1983.

from net loss

— Cominco Ltd. had a $63.5-million turnaround in 1984, going to a net profit

reported net earnings of $24.2 million or nine cents a common share compared with a net loss of $39.3 million or 87 cents a share. The share earnings have been. adjusted to reflect a 3-for-1 stock split May 4, 1984.

The 1984 profit includes an e: gain of $5.2 million, primarily from the sale of an interest in an oil eeeery euges im Zoems, the company said Thursday in news release.

"Bales in 1964 were $1. 58 billion, up 15.3 per cent from $1.37 billion the previous year. Cominco’s most profitable business segment last hich

million in 1983. Sales volume was slightly higher than in

‘The mining and integrated metals business segment and an operating profit of $48.8 million, against the prev- fous year’s loss of $5.8 million. The improved results reflected higher profit margins on sales of refined zinc, zine concentrate and gold, which were partly offset by lower profits on copper concentrate and silver.

Cominco said improved consumption of zine and lead is forecast for this year. Sales volumes are expected to be slightly higher than in 1984, and at improved prices.

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Construction down in Castlegar

By CasNews Staff

Construction activity in Castlegar continued to fall off in 1984, according to the latest statistics from the city.

*A total of 389 building per- mits were issued last year — down 60 from the 449 permits issued in 1983.

As well, the value of the permits fell considerably. Ther permits totalled $3.2 million in 1984 compared to

$4.1 million in 1983 — a drop of nearly $870,000.

December 1984 was some- what typical of the year. Construction values totalled $22,350 compared to $63,900 in December 1983.

Most of the construction work involved alterations to local residences. Nine per- mits were issued for that.

No permits for new resi- dential construction were is- sued in December 1984.

Licenses issued

By CasNews Staff

Free enterprise is alive and well in Castlegar, if the latest statistics from the City of Castlegar are any idnic- ation.

A total of 153 business li- censes were issued in

December 1984 compared to 141 licenses issued in De- cember 1983.

The December 1984 license brought the city $16,439 in fees compared to $14,101 in the year before.

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Castlegar's Minor Hockey Weekend

Castlegar and Spokane Senior Novices face off.

Acting Mayor Ald. Albert Calderbank officially opens Minor Hockey Weekend. — CasNews Photos by Phil Colderbonk

NHL ACTION LAST NIGHT

Nilsson leads Flames past listless Canucks

CALGARY (CP) — Calgary's Kent Nilsson scored one goal and added an assist Saturday night as the Flames defeated Vancouver Canucks 6-2 in a National Hockey League game before an Olympic Saddledome crowd of 16,683.

The points moved Nilsson to within one of the Flames’ all-time career scoring leader, the retired Guy Chouinard.

Nilsson now has 528 points, including a club record 215 goals. In 10 seasons with the Flames, both in Atlanta and Calgary, Chouinard had 529 points. He still holds the team record for assists (336).

The victory enabled Calgary to maintain its season domination over the Canucks. The Flames now are 6-0-1 against their Smythe Division rivals.

Calgary is second in the division, 17 points behind Edmonton Oilers, and Vancouver is in the basement.

Other scorers for the Flames, now unbeaten in their last six (4-4-6), were Steve Bozek, Lanny McDonald, Gino Cavallini, Paul Reinhart and Neil Sheehy.

EDMONTON 6 PITTSBURGH 3

EDMONTON (CP) — Wayne Gretzky scored twice and added two assists as Edmonton Oilers downed Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3.

In the first head-to-head confrontation in Edmonton between Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, the sensational rookie for the Penguins, Gretzky won the offensive battle.

But Lemieux had his moments. Numerous times he threaded passes to linemates Warren Young and Babych but they failed to put the puck in the net. And on defence Lemieux stopped Gretzky on six or seven different occassions.

One of those occassions, early in the second period, proved to be the turning point of the game.

Three times Lemieux had foiled Gretzky on the same shift. But Gretzky ultimately won the little battle when he and Kurri broke away two-on-one against Lemieux.

WASHINGTON 5 ISLANDERS 1

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Craig Laughlin set up three goals and goaltender Pat Riggin faced only 20 shots as Washington Capitals embarrassed New York Islanders 5-1.

It was the sixth consecutive victory for Washington, which leads the Patrick Division by five points over Philadelphia Flyers. The Islanders are 1-4-1 in their last six games.

The Capitals controlled the game from the outset, grabbing a 3-0 lead on first-period goals by Timo Blomqvist, Scott Stevens and Dave Christian, while outshooting New York 10-4.

The Capitals were even more dominant in the second period, outshooting the Islanders 14-4 and getting goals from Alan Haworth and Doug Jarvis.

Riggin faced few difficult shots until losing his shutout with 6:29 left in the game when Islanders’ rookie Scott Howson scored.

CHICAGO 5 TORONTO 2

TORONTO (CP) — Doug Wilson, Tom Lysiak and Ken Yaremchuk scored goals 1:53 apart midway through the second period to power Chicago Black Hawks to a 5-2 victory over Toronto Maple Leafs.

Until the Hawks broke the game open, it appeared neither team was interested in a victory, with most shots coming from long range in a dull 30 minutes.

But Wilson, a veteran defenceman, broke a 1-1 tie at 10:45 with his 14th goal of the season, then Lysiak connected at 11:25 and Yaremchuk scored at 12:38 to give the Hawks a 4-1 lead.

Left winger Steve Ludzik scored the opening goal for Chicago in the first period but Dan Daoust tied it 1-1 on a alert play with John Anderson. '

Right winger Steve Larmer completed the scoring for the Hawks in the third period with his 31st goal of the season and Rick Vaive got the other goal for the Leafs, his 20th.

MONTREAL 3 RANGERS 2

MONTREAL (CP) — Mark Hunter poked in Rick Green's rebound during a Montreal power play at 2:52 of the third period to lift the Canadiens to a 3-2 victory over New York Rangers.

Chris Nilan and Pierre Mondou also scored for the Canadiens, who held a 2-0 lead with less than two minutes remaining in the second period

James Patrick and Pierre Larouche both scored in the last 90 seconds of the second period to level the score.

With the victory, the Canadiens increased their lead over Quebec Nordiques atop the Adams Division to five points. Montreal has played one more game.

KINGS 7 BLUES 3

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dave Taylor scored two goals and Marcel Dionne had a goal and two assists as Los Angeles Kings beat the Blues 7-3 for their first win in St. Louis in seven seasons.

Phil Sykes, Brian MacLellan, Bob Miller and Terry Ruskowski also scored for the Kings. Greg Paslawski scored twice and Brian Sutter once for St. Louis.

Taylor's first goal, his 26th of the year, gave the Kings a 42 lead at 12:38 of the second period. Taylor batted a rebound past Blues goalie Rick Wamsley on a Los Angeles power play.

Taylor scored his second goal at 6:22 of the final period, knocking in another rebound

St. Louis took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Paslawski at 4:21 of the first period. The Kings tied it up on a goal by Sykes, and MacLellan gave the Kings a 2-1 lead after one period.

HARTFORD 3 BOSTON 2

BOSTON (AP) — Mark Johnson scored three goals for the third time in his career as Hartford Whalers snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over Boston Bruins.

Outshot 32-14 in the contest, the Whalers defeated the Bruins for the third time in four meetings this season on the goaltending of Greg Millen

Keith Crowder and Mike O'Connor replied for Boston.

Johnson, a former all-American at Wisconsin and a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, scored his 16th goal of the season on a pass from Ron Francis at 4:47 of the first period.

Crowder tied the score 1-1 with his 18th at 13:10, but Johnson put Hartford in front to stay with » power-play goal on a backhander at 16:05.

Austrian wins downhill

GARMISCH PARTEN KIRCHEN, WEST GER- MANY (CP) — Helmut Hoe- flehner of Austria scored his third World Cup downhill victory of the season Satur- day and ended a Canadian string of three straight vic- tories on a long and de manding course.

Hoeflehner also became a solid favorite to win the event at the world Alpine ski championships later this month in Bormio, Italy.

Hoeflehner, 25, was timed in one minute 54.56 seconds. Swiss veteran Peter Mueller was second in 1:54.78 while Austrian Anton Steiner took the third-place bronze in 1:55.23 on a heavily-bandag: ed ankle. He suffered liga- ment damage while playing soccer last week.

Todd Brooker’s bid to

maintain Canada’s domina tion of this World Cup event ended in a tie for eighth place — his second best showing the season. His top placing to date was a third-place in the tough Hahnenkamm race at Kitzbuehel, Austria.

Brooker, 25, of Paris, Ont., had a time of 1:56.04.

Now retired Steve Pod- borski of Toronto had won the event the previous three years.

Brooker has said in the past he’s aiming to peak at the world championships starting Jan. 31.

“I wouldn't be satsified un til I got in the top three again’ he said Saturday.

“But t getting closer and next week should be my big gest week of the whole year.

“That's what I've sort of planned my goals on and

planned my training in the fall and everything else on. So I'm still on schedule, I would say.”

Several skiers with high start numbers broke into the top 15. Swiss Karl Alpiger, who started 43rd, was fourth in 1:55.61, while Franck Pic card of France, who started 52nd, tied with Brooker.

Gary Athans of Kelowna, 10th and 13th fastest in training Friday, was 23rd in 1:56.23; Felix Belezyk of Castlegar seventh in the final training run Friday, placed 41st in 1:58.32; Donald Ste- vens of Rossland, was 47th in 1:58.57 and Chris Mclver of Rossland placed 70th with a time of 2:00.99.

Hoeflehner’s victory lifted him into fourth place overall in World Cup standings with 113 points. Mare Girardelli,

an Austrian who skis for Lux. embourg, leads the Cup standings with 190 points.

Hoeflehner was once known by his teammates as the champion of training — doing well in practice but poorly in races. Before his three victories this season, he had only two World Cup wins, one in 1983 and one last year.

The Kandahar course was 3,820 metres long and had a vertical drop of 920 metres. Of 86 starters, only Paul Boivin of Montreal failed to finish. He broke both skies in a crash near the bottom of the course.

Boivin emerged from the mishap with a sore collarbone but is expected to race in to- day's Super G slalom.

Women's race controversial

AROSA, SWITZER LAND (CP) — Marina Kiehl of West Germany won a con troversial cloud-shrouded, wind-blown women's World Cup super giant slalom ski race Saturday, but the Aus. trian ski federation lodged a protest and said the result should be invalidated.

The Austrians, along with Canada and France, with drew many of their racers when cloud that had earlier been clinging to the edge of the Wiesshorn Mountain en veloped the course. About half the field got off, but few completed the tricky race that Canadian head coach Currie Chapman called a seandal.

“The jury should have can celled the race,” Chapman said. “The conditions were just too unfair and dangerous

“There is a political situ ation here. The referee was the West German coach Wil lie Leseh.”

The Austrians asked that the result be thrown out, saying the poor weather conditions

eration internationale de ski would review the race and decide if it should be rerun. A decision is expected in “the next few weeks,” an Arosa official said.

Laurie Graham of Ingle wood, Ont., finished 10th.

A fifth of the 88 starters dropped out or were dis. qualified, among them Liisa Savijarvi of Bracebridge, Ont., who missed a gate —the fifth on the 2,270-metre-long course flagged by 37 gates — in the fog. The other mem bers of the Canadian squad were withdrawn by Chapman after Graham came down

SHEDS A TEAR

. . missed it by six feet,” Savijarvi said of her gate in fraction. “I bawled my eyes out ... because I was really going well.”

Kiehl completed the course in one minute, 25.07 seconds, a margin of 0.34 seconds over the surprise runner-up, 19- year-old American Eva Twardokens. It was the highest placing of Twardo kens’ brief career.

Michela Figini, Switzer land's Olympic downhill gold medallist and current overall women’s Cup leader, was

third in 1:26.06. Graham's time was 1:27.26.

Fifty-two women braved the elements but only 38 completed their runs.

Graham, while happy with her result, agreed the severe conditions made it unfair.

“It definitely puts you off your concentration because you can't see the next gate.”

Chapman said Canada

didn’t join the protest since to do so would be redundant.

“The Austrians are pro testing and we only need one country to state that we want the.race thrown out because it was unfair,” said Chapman.

The Arosa course had been plagued by bad weather for several days, forcing cancel. lation of a downhill which has yet to be rescheduled.

Area skiers on Pro Tour

By CasNews Staff

Two West Kootenay ski racers are competing in the Pacific Western Pro Tour this year.

Bobby Swann of Nelson is currently in a 13-way tie for 19th place in latest standings. He has 10 points on the sea.

son David Chernoff of Nakusp is tied for 32nd with 14 other skiers with five points. Meanwhile, in Pro Tour skiing last weekend, after a disappointing start to the season at Silver Star, Ed

monton’s Graham Swann skied back to the top at Canada Olympic Park in Cal gary.

Swann defeated Robbie McGrath of Squaw Valley, Calif. over two runs in the finals.

Swann won the first run by 1.159 see. and lost the second by .501 see. giving him a new advantage over two runs of 658 of a second.

McGrath's second place finish was his second of the season and places him in first place overall on the tour