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Il would be easy, 50 very easy, a5 ‘a sports columnist to write : . toe : : :
about haw Evel Knieval footed yourall, But, in all honesty I can’t. Serving Terrace and area
Robert Craig Knievel has style, he's got class, he’s the Walter . 7

Mitty inal ofus. Look at the press he received with such quotes as
“Tf T don’t makeit I'm only golng somewhere quicker where you're

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tobe there.ta

jus
called The Lords Prayer.”

For those of you who have
been hiding under a . bushel
basket, , Evel Knieval has for
the past several months been

. building up to an attempt at
jumping the Snake River
Canyon on a. jet powered
motorcycle. Sunday he made

all polng anyway.” If! don’t make il, Tl spit on thecanyon wall
"before I hit.’’-“f've got five back-up systems. ‘The fifth is

his attempt. He was Jaunched -~

up a 60 degree inclined ramp
and was, theoritically, supposed

. tofall to the ground on the other
side. Instead ’metal- fatigue’
resulted in.a parachute opening
half way up the ramp and he
floaled gentley down into the
Snake River. —

_ When you add to all that the
fact that the jump was worth
over $6 million dollars’ to
Knieval, it sounds suspicious.

Evel Knievel managed to cap

people with bravado, braggado,

one who comes across as a throwback to

aE

ture‘the imaginations of a lot of
cool, off-the-cuff, bravery. Some

more courageous lime, 4

man seemingly ready to stand tall and take on all comers.

1 think many of us were caught up
wanted to-be, In the 1970's there are

in the thing, because we
few heroes, few dashing,

daring and glamourous people that make our rather quiet lives a

“Jillle more exciting.

1 think many of us wanted to see him jump

that

canyon, See him go off thal ramp at 400 mph, shoot 2,000 feet into:
the ‘air, crash down on the far side, ‘

But...

Hockey Night in Canada

.. metal fatique and 6 million dollars.

"74 and’75, New depths in boredom,

That has to be the consensus after looking at the CBC television
hockey schedule for the coming NHL season. In all there are 26

games scheduled ovér six months (excluding
half of those games feature the medicere Toronto Maple

play-offs). Almost
Leafs (12).

Varicouver Canucks will grace our screens eleven times. ‘The
Montreal Canadians are seen only six-times.

Spell that all b-o-r-ed-o-m.

Vancouver for three-quarters, of

In capital letters.
the hockey season? Some one

foronto and

must have goofed. Montreal only six times? Some one definitely

goofed,
Other NHL

do (hat all by themselves.

tearns will be seen, of course. After all someone has

] to . Even the Canuck: dn’
help put the fans tosleep. Even the Canucks couldn't courses Was

Philadelphia, last year's Stanley cup champions will be seen four

times. Boston and St. Louis

(St (St, Louis?) three times each, The

two New York teams twice each.- And Detroit, California, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Buffalo, Washington and Atlanta once each, Kansas
City, Pittsburgh and Minnesota won't be seen at all (I guess we can

. be thankful for small miracles).
_ Of course, maybe CBC is just

1

trying to give Toronto and Van-

couver a break after the questionable handling they picked up in ,

the new four division realignment o:

f the NHL, Toronto gels to play

‘in the same league (figuratively. speaking) as. the Bruins, the

Sabres and the Seals (no longer G
juis
hand Montreal seems destinéd tér'a first plade-finish arid‘ bye in

with Chicago, Minnedgsta, St.

olden).

Vancouver gels to play
and Kansas City. On the other

the first round of the play-offs, They've got Detroil,.os Angeles,

Pittsburgh and Washington in their camp. The fourth division sees
Philadelphia, the twa New York t

play-offs:-° ° :
Whatever the reason,

eams and Atlanta running for the

Hockey Night in Canada, on any given -

‘night, can now offer you the thrills of Vancouver playing St. Louis,
Los Angeles playing Toronta and the Islanders playing the Canucks ~

. + games thal will probably
’ gwiftness. ne ‘

be launched into obscurity with all

_ Registration for a number of swimming related

On thé Jas{'day of lar front

“two local atito Tgers “wiadé:a

long trip to Williams, Lake to.,

help the stock car club there end : ”

their season. And they did
-okay, one finishing third and the
other second place.

+ at

In a 13 lap super stack event
Gary Heffer finished behind
‘Warren Bergmann of Quesnel

held Monday and Tuesday at the Terrace

Joe Sabatino,
, Lake ‘drivers.

Tier 1 & Il teams claim Cents

Four of last year's Terrace
| Centennials. are
_ exhibition’ games with the-
_ Calgary. Centennials and two of

those four are raledas having a”
.. good chance of surviving the
leam cuts at the end of -this
month. :

The four are Bob Peebles,
Darcy Galvon, Mike Flynn and.
Boyd MeMasters. According to
Centennial Director Al Parfitt,

playing ¢

McMasters proved lo be the
sensation of the Centennials try-
out camps and is all bul assured

a spot on the Calgary roster.
Parfitt also said that Mike Fynn | /
has a good shot at making the

leam,

The other. six players to ad- .
vance are split between Crows”
Nest Pass’ and Merritl, both
junior A clubs. Glen Cochrane,
Gerry Dyck, Doug Forbes and

Nelson Stockwell have made the
jump to Crows Nest Pass. Hal
Papke and Grant Konopki will.
be re-united with coach Fred
Schweitzer in Merril.

‘Two other players may alsa
make the jump. One is Dallas
Ellerby who played part of last
season here. Although he was
net drafted by one of the junior

A clubs, there is still a chance ~

he'll ‘make one of the teams

before the season is over, Bob
Bremmer, who was hampered
by poor health for most of last .
seasen had to go home. , If the

- young man’s health problem

can be diagnased and treated he

tinuing what promised to be a

good career in the sport.
Finally, one other player --

Dennis Gaerhing could be back

in Terrace before the end of the

season. .

School sports draw on again

‘ VANCOUVER--Alrighl now,
here's a chance to win $5,000

School bus
safety

Sludent.return to school in
September. As a motorist, you
should drive with extra caution
whenever a school bus in near.
Most important of all,
remember that traffic in BOTH
directians MUST STOP When a
slopped‘schoo} bus flashes red
lights front and rear, As a
parent youshould remind young
people of the need (o follow the
school bus safely reules, School
bus drivers are well-trained and
they are cunselentlais about
their big responsibility, They
do need the cooperation of ALL
motorists.

Section 142 of: the Motor- |

vehcile Act places the following
requirements one driver of a
vehicle that is approaching 4
stopped schoo! bus if the school
bus indicales’ by a sign or
flashing red lighls that it is

stopped to recelve or discharge .

sehool childred ... 1) The
driver of the- approaching
yehicle must stop, (2) the driver
must remain stopped until the
bus resumes motion, or unlil the
. bus driver. signals it 1s safe to
_ proceed, .
_ Failure to stup for a school
bug:carries.a penalty of three
demerit, paints.
PS. "geste simile
The bathroom seale is that
thing we all stand on and swear
ate

and help provincial high school
sports development at the same
ti

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The third School Sports Draw
sponsored by the . British
Colimbia Federation of. School
Athletic Associations and ap-
proved by ihe Provincial At-
forney General's Department, .
Is now underway,

The First prize in the School
Sports Draw is $5,000. - There
also are an. additional three
prizes of $1,000 each., Tiekets
are $1.00 and will be sold by
students in most B.C. .com-
munities through November

15th, ‘ ,
A minmum of fifty per cent, of '

_ sales proceeds from the draw

goes directly to ‘participating
schools for extra-curricular

. sparis and’ other school ac: |

tivities. The remaining per-
centage less Sports Draw ex-
‘penses, goes to the B.C.
iFederation of School Athletic

. Associations to be used in (rust

to assis high school sports with
developmental programs,
clinies and travel to provincial
championships. ‘ .
Thus, all monies derived fram
the Draw Program stay in the

school system. Last year’s
draw raised just over $118,000

for school alhletics and other.

extra-curricular school ac-
Uvilies, Los ‘ :

Of the monies held in Trust,
$27,000 was assigned to Sports

Arena and the above photo shows just
the crowds that came to

get. invo

teeta

a small part of

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alone almost 700 people registered themselves and
lved. Monday their children for the courses.

_two- Williams . -

‘slands a good chance of con-__

Commissions to subsidize travel

! to Provincial Championships,.

- $14,000 went to the highly
success{ul Youth Development
Camp held this past summer
and smaller sums went to other
Federation services,

Winner of fast ycar's top prize
was lod Lebilschnig of Rich-
mond.

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