Danny keeps. in practise for tournament, - Snooker tournament planned i in Terrace Meg in’ October 2 dere will be an amateur - snooker tournament taking place in Terrace. There will be both. a ladies: and a mens. tournament and tk registration fee for eithe . is $10, Interested amat' snooker players shou! over 16 years of * | ily pigs months of August and September. Cheques or money. orders are *vrvable to Danny's Place vo. Kalum.: St. Terrace, - B.C, A receipt will be mailed to all entries. 3veryone is welcomed 4. come and watch the tournament and there is atobs will be. accepted only during the - ho cover charge for onlookers. -A special attraction will be available to - snooker enthusiasts, when world ranked John Bare will be demon-- strating trick shooting and giving pointers to the tournmament’s par- ticipants. Winners will receive prizes and gifts so spread the word. Home-grown athlete makes it where he is WINNIPEG (CP) — Exot isan exception to the old bellef that home-grown don't become atarting @ linebackers in the Canadian Football League. Some eyebrows were ralsed in the nine-city CFL when the Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced Ezerins at bs ld sophomore — in the middle to start Mott ihe 1979 campaign. Part of the surprise might have been caused by the fact that Ezerins had never Four games later, the graduate of Whitworth Collega in Spokane, Wash., says it’s stlll a learning Mt gets pretty scary at " pretty times,” says Ezerins, who was bora in Winnipeg, “It's the control poaltion of the defence and I have show a lot of confidence out there, There’s.a lot of ins tinct out there ant while it miight look as If the.e’s a lot of guessing, _ they're educated guesses.” ‘Head .coach Ray Jauch “7 really think he's feng quite well under the circumstances. I know he ‘feels he's not where he really wants to be, but he's im- proving all the time, “Whether he can be our middie linebacker all gsanod, I don’t know. But! do know this, he'll play somewhere.” In gatias pl rookie cau UL} ¢ en didn’t see much of the ball cont hee ea ee on the receivers and the alotback. “] really wasn't ha with my » receiving your,” Exerins says. “I hat didn't have a good feel. for _ theball. Jt was frustrating at times because my con- centration wasn’t there,” Also on hand was former CFL receiver and Whitworth College coach Hugh Camp- The schoo! was offering a program and scholarship so there playing. tight years there playing aa a tight end, with some offensive @ experience to h ae blocking skills, Exzerins, protected ‘om the CFL draft by the wlue Bombers, also emerged from the avhool with a bachelor of arts in business economics. Cadle leads at golf tournament gor tou , (AP) — George Cadle fired a record nine-under-par 62 Thureday to take the first round lead in the $300,000 _ Greater Hartford Open gol. taurnament. Cadle’a score was the best first round in this.event and his threestroke lead over J.C. Snead and Jay Haas was the largest for any leader after 18 holes of play in the -year-history of the event. Dave Barr of Kelowna, B.C., was six strokes off the pace with a 68, Jim Nelford of Burnaby, B.C., shot a 4&9 and Dan Hallderson of Shilo, Man., had a 75, . An early finisher among the 186 entrants in the , tourney, Cadla, $1, ended the . Gay with eight birdies, an eagle and a bogey on the 6,634-yard par-71 Wether- . afield Country Club course. Cadle’a 62 Is better by one shot the tournament record held by five players. . None of them went on to win the event in the year of their low scores, His three-thot lead also. bettera by one stroke the previous largest margin after the first day of Mead and Haas shot six- wnder-par 85 each. At fveunder-par were Fergus, Mark Hayes ee Pat McGowan, Ten Players were tled at four- unc 67s. Defending champion ‘Rod Funseth fired a © for the day, seven ahota behind the leader, Also at 69 was the . tour's second leading money winner, Larry Nelson. weeveral of the better known ple yers on the PGA tour didn’t enter the tour- nament. They included PGA champion David Graham, runner-up Ben Crenshaw and top money winner Tom Watson. Los ANGELES (AP) — Walter - O'Malley, one of baseball's most powerful owners whose 1858 move from Brocklyn with the Dodgers began the westward expansion of pro sports, died Thursday of heart failure. He was 75. O’Malley had been ill for some time and had been In - hospital at the Mayo Ciinic in Rochester, Minn., slnce June 23. He died there early Thursday. O'Malley, whose death fol- lowed that of his wife, Kay, by four weeks, had little to do with the running of the Dodgers for several years, although he had’ built. the club into one of the richest in _ Sports. Survivors include’ O'Malley's son, Peter, president of the Dodgers. “Walter O'Malley was as great an executive talent as I have'seen or think I am apt to see,” said baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn. “While ‘baseball was his ” medium, his skills would have flourished in any walk . of life. He was unfailing in. his support of the com-. missioner’s office and a pow- erful ally for the good of the game, O'Malley, a lawyer, became president of the Dodgers in 1950 and moved ah : Ghelttad pied he elgg oy ah reteaa Ag igs Auten -Callfornia Angels. thé franchise to Los Angeles _from Brooklyn eight years “later, giving the West Coast its first -majot league baseball team. Other sports — basketball and hockey -- later followed. It was a shrewd move. The Dodgers have been one of baseball's richest franchises for years and the tearm drew an alitime record 3.3 million fans in 1978, breaking Its own record, Since 1050, the Dodgers have won 10 National League pennants and four World Series. "fT, like so many others in baseball, will be forever grateful to Walter O'Malley: for giving us the opportunity to pfove we could do a job in the major leagues,” said Buzzie Bavasi, president of Bavasi was the Dodgers’ general manager for 19 years before . leaving the team in 1968 to become president of the new San Diego Padres. “Baseball has lost a great ian and J have lost a great friend,” said National League president Charles Feeney. “Walter O’Malley over a period of a year did more good for professional * baseball than any other one man. He will be screly missed by the sport, alt his friends, and in particular, it Regional Dist Kitimat-s oj, is a personal loss for me.’ * Walter Francis oruiey, nofa one-time New York ty commissioner of public arkets,.was born in New : York City on Oct, 9, 1005, He pstudied engineering and graduated from University ‘of Pennsylvania in 1926 and from Fordham Law School in 1930, From a base as an engineerlawyer, he prospered buying up mor- tgages in the depression. Along with holdings in Brooklyn's building, in- dustry, he algo acquired part ownership of the Brooklyn’ Borough Gas Co., the Long Is}and Railroad and the New xork Subway Advertising That combination — law, . engineering, advertising and comections in local government — prepared O’Malley for his move, transplanting the Dodgers trom a decaying area of New York City to a populous, East- growing market where baseball was eagerly ‘awaited. In 1943, the Dodgers were delinquent to a bank and a morigage company. O'Malley, as lawyer for a trust: company, replaced Wendell Wilkle to become the Dodgers’ attorney. In the next two years, he, Branch Tet of ’ ane By~ law: NoatniL5. Schedule’ nae ‘ Frusccty a ton ; et som B ou | Ff erteLtel » “ ves | ane a [ e oe SUL ee ey ee ad pac asf pac valid i wea Campanella, ” The Herald, Friday, August 10, 1979, Page 7 ~ O'Malley dies at age 75 Rickey and the late Joho L. Smith purchased 75 per cent of the Dodgers stock in two transactions. . O'Malley became president of the Dodgers in 1950, increased his holdings to €7 per cent, and after moving to Los Angeles, took sole control. Elected chairman of the board of the Dodgers in 1951, O'Malley also has been the National League's representative on baseball's executive council since then. In an interview in the . 19808, O'Malley said he had mo regrets about leaving Brooklyn Hall tt ‘Fame catcher Roy who was paralyzed In an automobile aceldent shortly before the Dodgers moved west in 1958, described O'Malley as “a true ploneer who to me was like a father’ when I firat came into the Dodger organization. “He stood by me, and after my injury he still stood by me and helped me through all of my crises,’ sald Campanella. “Losing Mr. O'Malley and Mrs. 0’Malley has really touched me." Other Dodgers — past and . present, expressed similar sentiments. “There was nothing about him (O'Malley) that waa not sort of exceptional,” sald Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. “There were some people who liked him and some people who didn't like him. But I don’t think there was anybody who felt nothing at all.” “Not only was Mr. O'Malley a great man, it was agreat family,” said former Dodger Duke Snyder, now a broadcaster for Montreal Expos. “His wife just passed away recently, and they were great friends to both of us (Snider and wife Bey)." e Lend a hand...’ tociean our land 2 MnEaZ rene wren ttne he | ry fs = . Sj | an on Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine BY-LAW NO, 115 Notice to the taxpayers of the Thornhili, Lakelse Lake, New Remo, Old Remo, Usk, Jackpine Flats, Copperside, Spring Creek, Deep Creek, Dutch Valley, Kleanza, Creek. and Gossan Creek areas. This Is to inform the residents of the area outiined on the over the specified area and the District of Terrace. The present cost sharing arrangement {s on the basis .of population and requires 4 one-third contribution from the Specified Area and two-thirds contributlon from the map, that the Regional District of Kithmat-Stikine intends fo amend the cost sharing by-law, with the District of Terrace, for the Terrace-Arena-Swimming Podl Complex, in order that the net operational costs of the aforemen- : toned facilities be apportioned on the basis of assessment District of Terrace. The new cost sharing arrangement will allow participation on the basis of assessment to a maximum mill rate to be specifled when the contract for service Is entered Into. The contract for service will be renewable every three years.