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fiJuckes Reluctanto• •ForTour Debateiffi!(MELVILLE 'CP - GordonJuckes, secretary * mlt; lager of (he Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, has expressed a re-jrtance to enter into a long-range debate with playing-coach Odie Lowe of Vernon ( anadians over finances of touring Canadian hockey teams.Such a debate “can serve no useful purpose for Canadian hockey.'' Juckes said at his home here Friday night.Lowe had challenged Juckes to back up a recent statement about touring teams with financial facts. The CAHA official's statement had followed criticism by Lowe of the CAHA for sponsoring European trips when teams were starving at home.Lowe had suggested the CAHA subsidize senior amateur leaguesin financial trouble.He asked why, if European authorities were contracted to provide expenses, Kelowna Packers of the Okanagan league a ere left to raise $20,000 by pubic subscription before they could tour Russia and Sweden in 1958 Juckes Friday night reiterated previous statements that arrangements tor teams touring Europe this season are such that aP travelling expenses, plus all expenses while in the host countries. are provided to the teams.Th« CAHA also provides uniforms, gives an allowance foe excess baggage and another allowance for general expenses and, in most cases, the team is provided with a certain amount of pocket money in the currency of the host country.While on the tour, Juckes said each member of the party wm provided nearly $80 in Swedish currency as spending money and a ''quite adequate amount, considering what it could ba used for/' was provided in Russia.saccnc\T•‘At Mr. Lowe's figure of $20.-000, this means that such other expenses for Kelowna amounted to $1,000 for each of the 20 in the party — quite a sum for a three week period” Juckes said.“I have a high regard for the fine job that community Kelowna' did on this project. They accepted a proposition and fulfilled their obligations, and so did the CAHA ’*Juckes added he would like to remind Lowe the arrangements for the tour “were evidently acceptable to the clubs concerned because the CAHA had no lack of applications.**GS'tlnPPsiaJtIIFvvtcflgwhPihe said.“I have of what were forknowledgeexpensesin 1958.do knowno factualKelowna stheir trip Juckes said “But I what the CAHA Swedish Ice Hockey Federation, the CSSR ice hotkey section paid for and Ivery much doubt Mr Lowe's figure of $20,000 additional expense for a three-week tour” On the Kelowna tour, air transportation was supplied by the association at a cost of $I3”*», expenses of $6 000 including uniforms. insurance, excess baggage charges and other items were paid, he stated Administration expenses of the ’our paid by the CAHA — approximately $3.50Q — were offsetby $3,000 in miscellaneous revenuesSTAGGERING CHAMP —middleweight boxing champ monton staggers under a crus
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Brandon Daily Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Dec 03, 1960
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