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Very cold Weather, Page 2 Sherbrooke Monday, December IS, 1980 25 cents Weekend sports BEAVERS SPLIT GAMES Hull Olympiques were en route to a sweep of their two QMJHL games with the Beavers last night but a third period out burst salvaged a win for Sherbrooke Page 10 COUGARS OUTHUSTLED Champlain Cougars are having troubles in the quest for first place in the CEGEP AA league They lost another game on the weekend Anthony Ross reports on Page 10 JETS CAN'T WIN Winnipeg Jets played their 27th straight game without a victory in NHL last night action New York Islanders were latest club to take advantage of their ineptitude Page I I .I MM——— Inside LENNON Thousands of mourners all over the world turned out yesterday for a 10-minute silent vigil in memory of slain Beetle John Eennon Page 2 LITTLE HOUSE What started out as a simple apple pie turned out to be a combination of light, rings, neutrons, protons and other such things Katharine Snow says she'd sooner be watching Archie Bunker Page 3.MORE ON TV Will'the television replace the altar Keith Dickerson tells the story of a friend who keeps his TV right beside the altar Page 6 BIRTHS, DEATHS.2 BUSINESS.5 CLASSIFIED .8 COMICS.9 EDITORIAL .4 LIVING.6 SPORTS.10-11 It is difficult to convince the young that wisdom comes with age, and that many a true word is spoken through false teeth.Quebecers mourn Lesage loss QUEBEC tCP> Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is among dozens of mourners attending the state funeral today of former premier Jean Lesage, father of Quebec's so-called Quiet Revolution, who died in his sleep Friday Other dignitaries who planned to attend the service at the Quebec City Cathedral include Quebec Liberal Leader Claude Ryan, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and almost all members of the Quebec national assembly.The only notable exceptions are Premier Rene Levesque and two cabinet ministers who are in France meeting government leaders.Vice-Premier Jacques-Yvan Morin is the official representative of the Quebec government In France, Levesque told reporters that by continuing his European tour.rather than returning suddenly, he was acting in the spirit of the tiH year old Lesago It was Lesage who initiated diplomatic exchanges with France during the UHiOs Maurice Cardinal Roy, Roman Catholic Primate of Canada, said tie would officiate at the funeral mass, being telecast by three French language networks in the province Following the mass, the body will bo cremated and the ashes buried at Belmont Cemetery in suburban Ste Foy.PAID LAST RESPECTS During the weekend, thousands of mourners fill'd past the polished oak coffin, surrounded by candles and flowers, to pay their last respects as Lesage’s body lay in state in the national assembly building.On Sunday, a Canadian flag was draped over the coffin at the family’s request Cntil then, there had been only a Quebec fleur de lis flag Lesagew as the Liberal premier from HMKi tu itMiti His govornmont took over from the autocratic era of Maurice Duplessis's Cnion Nationale and brought about sweeping changes to create a modern Quebec He left the province with a modern civil service, its first real education departmont, an important public utility Hydro Quebec and a vastly increased range of social services.Lesage had been suffering from cancer of the larynx and was last released from hospital 10 days boforo his death.He had planned to return to work at his law office tins week His son Rene said he probably died of a heart attack Apart from Rene, Lesage is survived by his widow Corinne and three other children, Jules, Marie and Raymond.“Like him or not, I still say Its wrong to keep using pictures of Trudeau for the bottom of the bird cage.” Polish farm workers ignore unity appeals JEAN LESAGE: 1912-1980 WARSAW (AP) Polish private farmers are threatening to go on strike at the end of the month if the government refuses to register their independent union.Delegates claiming to represent 600,000 of Poland’s 4.5 million private farmers spelled out unanimous demands at a boisterous meeting Sunday that followed weekend appeals for calm and national unity from the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity, the country’s largest independent trade union.The farmers demanded that the Polish Supreme Court register their union as a legal organization in a ruling expected Dec.JO.They also demanded that the 1.1 million workers on state and collective farms be allowed to join their union, that tho government give equal support to private and state farms and that their right to owm property be guaranteed.NEW LAW NEEDED Government sources said the Supreme Court might not be able to approve the registration until a law is enacted declaring farmers to be workers.“1 think enough delegates should appear in front of the court to demonstrate their determination and fight for their right to their own union,” one farmer said Sunday.Polish agricultural workers make up :t5 [H-r cent of the national work force, and the private farmers account for threefourths of the country’s agricul tural production Poland is the only Eastern bloc country where most of the farms are in private hands In Montreal, several hundred members of Montreal’s Polish and Eastern European community, braving sub-zero temperatures, demonstrated in downtown Dominion Square Sunday to express their concern over the possibility of an invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union.Galt: 'So busy killing alligators.' The Galt concept — a big region al school offering a far greater choice of learning opportunities than any of the smaller community consolidated schools which were the hallmarks of Protestant education in Quebec in the fifties — has its enemies.Jill Gyorgy, a supply teacher and Lennoxville freelancer, has followed the history of Galt for several years In a two-part series beginning today, she relates some of her findings By JILL GYORGY LENNOXVILLE — It was an age-old story.An Alexander Galt Regional High School teacher, who had been involved in a disagreement with a student, received a series of increasingly threatening obscene telephone calls.Mat Night, the night before Hallowe’en, there was another call.“We ll becoming in five minutes.” The teacher put on his running shoes, and was grabbing a flashlight as a group of youths smashed his picture window with a rock.Lennoxville police had been alerted but seeing nothing suspicious had simply driven by the house The teacher gave chase but managed only to obtain the licence number of the suspects' car.Ten minutes later the police returned but were unable to trace the car that night.The next morning, the teacher spotted a car with its lights on in a school parking lot.He found it to be the car he had chased.He was able to identify its driver and his friends, who admitted the prank.The teacher will be paid for his window but under Quebec’s new Youth Protection Act, they will not be prosecuted Conciliation is the only "punishment.” Students can harass teachers off the school grounds and avoid disciplinary action.The incident sparked a series of meetings among teachers, administrators and parents, but the problem remains unresolved; as ETRSB Director-General Clarence Kendall says, “You get so busy killing alligators you forget to drain the swamp.’’ “You can't really look towards the future,” reflects Kendall.There’s an air of uncertainty these days within the area’s school boards and institutions.Worried expressions and serious discussions over morning coffee are common.New laws and the ever-declining student population have created an atmosphere in which confidence is not always convincing.The recent Law 57 greatly affects the funds available to the ETRSB.Previously, the amount of money covering the board’s operations was determined by the number of students in each school and their needs.It was taken into account that the special-education Gagnon Centre requires more teachers for a smaller number of students.Now there is what Kendall called “a global budget right across the board”.This means that the province See LOW, Page 3 A -^\ j~.\ Vw Asbestos arguments continue Bv JUDITH KELLOCK-HEW ARD TORONTO — The death of actor Steve McQueen earlier this year from mesethelioma resulting from asbestos exposure during a 1940’s stint in U S.shipyards is raising questions once more among scientists and labor interests about how much asbestos exposure is too much.Dr.David Muir, speaking to a public meeting held by the Ontario government's Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario told his audience that it is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain an accurate picture of former levels of asbestos in workplaces in order to gauge improvement in the post-controls period.Often the only source of information is a longtime employee who can perhaps say that today’s levels are a half or a third or a quarter of previous ones.This evidence is not enough, in Muir’s view, for the construction of mathematical theories.While workplace levels may be lower, he questioned if they were safer.“It is difficult to resist the proposal that any exposure whatsoever is undesirable.” This view forms the basis for Muir’s warning against substituting lengthy, expensive monitoring for what he calls “good housekeeping ’’ The evidence against the carcinogenic properties of asbestos does not allow definition of safe levels or permit scientists to determine whether safety points have already been passed, either in the workplace or in the general environment, said Muir.He denied the evidence was sufficiently overwhelming to justify slamming mine gates at Asbestos or Thetford Mines.Nor would it he said justify the choice of asbestos for insulation in downstreet construction since there were other, less questionable materials.It was evident from the Ontario Research Foundation’s Dr.Eric Chatfield’s presentation that the mere identification of asbestos fibres is a scientific problem and its measurement by a variety of methods including transmission electron microscopes, is costly and prone to operator error.Fibres of below .2 micrometers in diameter are believed to be the most carcinogenic.Detection is difficult since the electron microscope’s has a resolution of .2, rendering smaller fibres invisible.“And when a fibre gets too small,” says Chatfield, ‘ do you still call it a fibre?” Last fall a Bowmanville, Ontario school was stripped of asbestos and reinsulated with other insulating material.Of 170 bulk air samples, 82 See ASBESTOS, Page 2 Galt teachers on the picket lir security, the future is not bright.v Record photo year; 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Deadline: 8:15 a.m.Death notices received after 8 15a m will be published the following day To place a death notice in the paper, call 569 9931.If any other Record number is called, The Record cannot guar antee publication the same day.outcry from the opposition that the Liberals were dragging their feet on legislation granting the public freer access to government information.Stanley Knowles, New Democratic Party House leader, said the freedom of information bill might be more useful than the one on judges’ salaries ( RITICTZES PRIORITIES Knowles also complained marrying an Indian but Indian women lost status by marrying outside their race.One speaker from the floor said the mixed-race offspring of an Indian woman could have status only if they were illegitimate.Gary Gould, president of the New Brunswick Association of Metis and Non-Status Indians, said natives will be assimilated unless they convince Ottawa to entrench native rights before the constitution is brought from Britain.He said a leaked federal document confirms Indian fears that it will be almost impossible to enshrine native rights after the constitution is in Canadian hands.He said the document discussed the probable difficulty in getting provincial support for enshrinement, especially if the provinces have to give up rights to self-governing natives.Dwight Dorey, vice-president of the Metis Council of Nova Scotia, said native rights on many issues should be protected in a special section of the constitution, not in the general human rights section.Both Gould and Dorey wanted all native people, not just status Indians, covered by the constitutional protection.the government was being too generous with judges, especially by granting their widows pension benefits lH*yond the level most other women can expect and by making judges’ pensions noncontributory.Pinard said the freedom of information bill wouldn't come up before Christmas.The government expects to recall the Commons Jan 12 But he promised the bill would be introduced quickly in the new year, provided the N'DP would let it go quickly through second reading — approval in principle — and into detailed study in committee.Given the heavy legislative schedule the government is proposing, "there may well be some difficulties," said Walter Baker, Progressive Con- servative House leader.Negotiations between the parties are likely to continue through this week and MPs invariably get a scare at the last minute that something will happen to delay their break However, meetings between Pinard, Knowles and Baker were described as “amiable" as last week ended.Silence, shooting mark vigil Some had shrieked at the mop-haired Beatles 20 years ago, others were too young to remember.But they gathered by the hundreds of thousands from California to Australia to stand in silent prayer and weep in the arms of strangers for John Lennon, whose music shaped a generation and was silenced in a hail of bullets.In the city parks and on the ocean beaches, his voice in song reached out to his mourners Lennon was slain outside his New York apartment Dec.8.Sunday’s vigils were organized after Yoko Ono, widow of the 4(Fyear-old musician, asked for a 10-minute period of silence at 2 p m.to “pray for John's soul wherever you are.” Many didn't want to be alone with their memories of Lennon and of the most successful rock group of all time, whose innovative music and non-con-formist style represented the passion of the 1960s.At least 100,000 huddled in New York's Central Park, a few blocks from where Lennon lived and died.They sang, cried and prayed and for 10 remarkable minutes the only sounds were the wind, the helicopters overhead and the sound of weeping.Some protested the lack of gun-control legislation.An hour later, the silence of the park was shattered as two teenagers were wounded when a drug-related argument burst into gunfire, police said John Lennon wasn't much for dead heroes "I don’t appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne,” Lennon said in a recent interview in Playboy magazine “It’s all garbage to me.I worship the people who survive.” In Ottawa, about 5,000 mourners huddled in the freezing cold and strong winds in front of Parliament Hill’s Peace Tower Carrying candles and flowers, symbols of Lennon’s messages of universal love and peace, they joined in a 10-minute period of silence and sang Lennon’s famous refrain, Give Peace A Chance.News in brief Inco watching Guatemala hearings PQ obscene, dishonest — Ouellet TORONTO (CP) — A debate on tax changes for multinational firms begins today in the Congress of Guatemala, with Canada's largest mining company one of the most interested observers.Inco Ltd.announced less than three weeks ago it would keep closed its $220-million Exmibal mine in northeastern Guatemala — the largest foreignowned mine in Central America — throughout 1981 Robbers kill customers LOS ANGELES ( AP) — A routine late-night closing at a shopping centre restaurant ended in a bloodbath when two armed robbers herded 11 customers and employees into a meat locker and opened fire, killing three people and wounding six others.“It was somewhat of an execution,” police Sgt.Jim Anderson said Sunday.“All of them were ordered into the back room, put in a meat freezer and shot.” OPEC seeks unity BALI (AP) — The 13-member OPEC oil cartel met in this Indonesian tourist island today in a bid to restore “at least a facade of unity” despite a war between two of its members, Iran and Iraq.The oil producers were also expected to make plans for a new round of price increases.Opening the first major OPEC meeting since the Persian Gulf war erupted Sept.22.President Suharto of Indonesia appealed to Iran and Iraq “to seek the best conceivable solution to their conflict as soon as possible.' School fire costs 55 million RIMOUSKI, Que.(CP) — Firemen from two municipalities took more than 25 hours to extinguish a fire that swept through the Paul-Hubert technical school here during the weekend, causing an estimated $5 million worth of damage.The blaze, which is believed to have started in the automechanics wwkshop of the school — the largest of its kind in eastern Quebec — destroyed four gymnasiums, a library containing 90,000 books, and several departments.College to confirm Reagan WASHINGTON (AP) — Ronald Reagan of California will be elected president of the United States today.George Bush of Texas will be elected vice-president.Today’s the day the electors who were elected on Nov.4 meet in the capitals of the 50 states and in the District of Columbia to cast the votes that actually elect the president.Deaths Saint John, N.B.—Angus MacLeod, 81, union member and labor leader for 55 years, at home, Friday.London—Sir Mark Turner.74.chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp., one of the world's largest mineral mining companies, at home, Saturday.Sable, France—Joel LéTheule, 50, French defence minister, of a heart attack, Sunday.MONTREAL (CP) — The Parti Québécois government is using “obscene and ridiculously dishonest” advertising to oppose patriation of the constitution, federal Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet charged Sunday.Speaking at a Liberal association meeting in the Montreal riding of Papineau, the minister called it unacceptable that “the PQ is using public funds to turn public opinion" against patriation.Weekend death toll 30 A woman and four children killed in a house fire north of Quebec City were among at least 30 people who died accidentally across Canada during the weekend.A survey by The Canadian Press from 6 p.m.Friday until midnight Sunday night local times showed 20 traffic fatalities, five fire deaths, two drownings, two snowmobile deaths and a person killed cutting wood.Voyageur didn't discriminate OTTAWA (CP) — Voyageur Colonial Ltd.has been cleared of charges of age discrimination in the hiring of bus drivers.In dismissing a complaint by the Canadian Human Rights Commission against the inter-city bus line, law professor Richard Abbott, appointed by the commission as a one-man tribunal, said the company had to consider the safety of passengers.Civil servants shouldn't strike—poll OTTAWA ( CP ) — Fifty-one per cent of Canadians would end public servants’ right to strike, a newly-released Gallup poll show's.Forty-one per cent of the 1,046 people surveyed by Gallup last month felt that public servants should retain the right to strike, while eight per cent had no opinion.$2 Rolls winner "tickled pink" SMITHS FALLS, Ont.(CP) — Helen Johnston was tick led pink with the news Sunday that she’s won a bright yellow Rolls Royce valued at $105,OOO.She won it in a raffle sponsored by a charitable group called Help the Aged after she bought a $2 raffle ticket in a shopping mall in this town 60 kilometres south of Ottawa.Québécoise appeals for visit NEW DELHI (AP) — A Quebec woman charged with drugging people and other criminal offences appealed to India's Supreme Court today to allow her to return to Canada to visit her family after 4'2 years in Indian prisons and law courts.“The appeal is purely on humanitarian grounds,” N.M.Ghatate, counsel for 34-year-old Marie Andre Leclerc of Levis, Que., told the court.Hua may resign PEKING (Reuter) — Rumors are proliferating here of the pending resignation of Hua Guofeng as chairman of the Chinese Communist party.Asbestos experts differ Continued from Page One contained no asbestos at all.The rest contained as high as 50 per cent.But to follow the U.S.Environment Protection Agency recommendation of one air sample per 5,000 square feet is expensive, with a single test costed at $40 and up Other difficulties in detection include the fact that asbestos occurs naturally in air although a safe or normal background level has not been established.Since asbestos appears in three main forms, fibre differences may mean more or less carcinogenic properties Visual and chemical means of identifying fibres are equally difficult A picture of a single chrysotile fibres will look as different from another as a picture of Saturn differs from a photograph of the moon.Although a community college diploma student can, after a three-month training period, operate the electron microscope used for counting asbestos fibres in air samples, the remaining 25 per cent will need scientific consultation to measure The University of Western’s Ontario's Dr John Sullivan noted that his asbestos counts in occupational health research had been due in many cases to the cellulose fibres and much removal of asbestos from public buildings had been useless “Even x«-Hr*n ?Vio in tw»** cnn fVvo fibre counts were low,” he told the commission.But Muir said inspection was more useful than measurement and that more research is needed to determine if disease results from high fibre levels or from the type of fibre.Muir claimed that the way asbestos is processed influences its cancer-causing capacity, citing the startlingly different mortality rates among Quebec asbestos mining w orkers and workers in the U.S.insulation industry.He believes the health risk is greater in the mining operations.Muir cast doubt on the two-fibre safety standard now Quebec law.“Most studies were performed on the employed people in the asbestos industry, while many workers died after they had left." He stressed the need for independent studies done by agencies outside management-labor interests.“We measured levels over a period of time We cannot assume that moderate levels in mining may not cause trouble in the fabrication industry.” The difficulty in obtaining reliable data on low level exposures means scientists must say what they do not know and what they do know, said Muir Before Carleton University's Bruce Doern’s outline of regulatory legislation on home ground, Harvard flnc{n«tcct Sî**V**Tl OUVP FOR TOWNSHIPPERS-BY TOWNSHIPPERS We Settle Estates.Provide Financial Administration.Tax Plan Your Income.Arrange Annuities or Tax Sheltered Investments (You can defer income tax on investment income to age 75).YOUR NEEDS ARE OUR CONCERN Professional Advice Call 514-263-4123 W.D.DUKE ASSOCIATES LTD.109 William St., Cowansville.Que.J2K 1K9 PRESIDENT W.D.Duke, B.Comm.C.A.VICE PRESIDENT J.R.Boulé, B.A.a thumbnail history of such regulation in the U.S.with a prediction that little new would emerge in the near future.“Trees are a greater source of environmental pollution than automobiles or factories,’’ he quoted Reagan.The long run looks brighter, according to Kelman when public concern about health risks will correspond to general values Doern warned it was time to stop the hazard-by-hazard search for corrective measures in favor of a global approach to public health and safety.“Areas of safety are still on the fringes of political activity,” he said.“They are not high priority items.This means the media role is intrinsically important and should not politically be underestimated.“I^abor wants minimum standards even if no asbestos threshold has been set In Manitoba, the way they handle the problem is to work without a standard but to lower the levels to the smallest possible exposure." Muir agrees “If I were in the asbestos industry I'd rather have standards at a less rigid level and have them fully observed, rather than a set of standards that aren’t well enforced.” It looks as if Quebec were still distant from writing a statute resembling Sweden's occupational health law: “No worker will suffer any ill effects even if he works with a given substance for 't rs rtryfivr* 1 i fr*8J «v» n 1 ' EAST ANGUS Mrs.Murray Labonté 832-2397 The bridge club met at the home of Mrs.Roy Martyn on Wednesday evening, when cards were played at two tables, and prizes won by Mrs.Murray Labonte, Mrs.Pearle Damon and Mrs.Marjory Rowland.This being the Christmas season, the hostess had a gift for everyone.A delicious lunch was served by the hostess.Mrs.Ian Gregory, St.Lambert, was an overnight guest of her mother, Mrs.Itansome Hayes.Mrs.Thomas Rowland and Miss Margaret Rowland called on Mrs.Ella Burgess on Sunday.They also called on Mr.and Mrs.Larry Gaucher in Rock Forest.Friends of Mr.George Johnston will be sorry to hear he is a patient in Hotel Dieu Hospital.Deaths OAKLEY, Lawrence A.D.— At Dr.Everett Chalmers Hospital on Sunday, December 7, 1980.Lawrence A.D.Oakley of 60 Avondale Court, Fredericton, N.B.Beloved brother of Constance Oakley of same address and John (Jack) Oakley of 13 Crabtree Street, Windsor, Que.Rested at J.A.MacAdam Funeral Home in Fredericton until Tuesday December 9 when service was held at Christ Church Cathedral at 2 p.m.Very Reverend Dean H.R Cooper officiated.SUNOBORG, Norm an — Passed away at St.Vincent de Paul Hospital on Thurs., Dec.11, 1980, Norman Sund-borg, at the age of 71 years, beloved husband of Pauline Hebert.57 St Georges St., Windsor, Que., dear father of Lana, Karen.Joyce, Norma.Linda and Deborah, also survived by 8 grandchildren.Funeral services were held on Sat., Dec.13 at 11 a.m., at the Boisvert Funeral Home, 64 3rd Ave., Windsor, Que , followed by cremation.WEBSTER, Keith — Suddenly at his residence in Bondville on Sunday, Dec.14.1980, Keith Webster, in his 54th year, husband of Brenda Gauthier, beloved father of Marlene and Barbara Webster, both of Knowlton, dear brother of Arland of Cowansville, Clayton of Fingal, Ont.Visitation from the Desourdy W'ilson Funeral Home, Knowlton Funeral services from the Chapel on Wed., Dec.17 at 11 a.m.Rev.David Stanway officiating, then to the vault in Grace Anglican Cemetery in Sutton for spring burial.Card of Thanks FULLER — I wish to thank all my friends and relatives who were so kind during my stay in the B M P.Hospital in Cowansville A special thanks to our neighbours Mr.and Mrs.Lahue and Mr.and Mrs.Kluska and also to Doris Wells for being so kind to my husband in bringing him to the hospital to visit me and also to those who visited me and sent cards, plants and flowers Thanks to the nurses on second floor, also Doctors Beaudoin and lector Thanks again to all.MRS DON FULLER Knowlton E.PROVOST MTS.me.20,15th Ave.North, Sherbrooke 569-1700 - 569-5251 yjfnfjNAuthorized Dealer ^KULK Y of Rockof Ages l «rrr / and Eventide sly Monuments with Perpetual Guarantee FREE DELIVERY IN THE PROVINCEOF QUEBEC For Melbourne and surroundings see Mr.Gordon McKeage Tel.826-3512 For Sawyerville and Cookshirearea, see: Mr.Gordon Smith, Tel.: 889-2829 Deaths KELL, Jessie (nee Hillman) — Peacefully at home on Dec.10,1980, beloved wife of Hartley G.Kell, dear mother of Nita (Mrs.Max Wechselderger), Alexandria, Ont.Katherine (Cassie), Mrs.George Dierckx, Luxembourg, Europe, Brian and his wife Claudette Blackburn, Dollard des Ormeaux, David and his wife Wendy Buckler, Calgary, Alta., loving grandmother of 7 grandchildren, survived also by her twin sister Essie (Mrs.J.W.Gathercole), Belleville, Ont,, her elder sister Bella (Mrs.Donald Ross), Len-noxville, Que.and her older brother Jack Hillman and his wife Rita Jones, Sherbrooke, Que.Rev.Andrew Todd, rector of the Church of the Resurrection, Pointe Claire, Que., conducted a family service in the chapel of D A.Collins Funeral Home.Cremation from the Rideau Memorial Gardens.Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.KIPLING, William — At Royal Victoria Hospital on December 7, 1980, loved husband of Grace Bennett, dear father of Myrna (Mrs.Ross Revelle), William Ronald (Judge), Marjorie (Weenie, Mrs.Gary White), cherished grandfather of Patricia, Debbie, Robert and Scott.Funeral service was held from his residence, Riverfield, Que., on Wed., Dec.10 at 1 p.m.thence to Mt.Royal Crematorium.Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Kelly Funeral Home.Huntingdon, Que.MORGAN, Edytha-Marjnrie — Suddenly at her home in Sherbrooke on Friday, December 12, 1980, Edytha Johnston in her 76th year.Beloved wife of the late Leslie Meredith Morgan.Resting at the Webster-Cass-R L.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapel.300 Queen Blvd.N., Sherbrooke.Funeral service from Church of the Advent on Tuesday.Dec.16 at 2 p.m.Rev.Dean E.Ross officiating.Interment Malvern Cemetery.Visitation Monday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.Donations to Sherbrooke Hospital In Memoriam Fund or Church of the Advent will be gratefully acknowledged.In Memoriam TAYLOR — In loving memory and with gratitude for the life of William Henry Taylor, of Bedford, Quebec.There are those whose lives remind us.Of the sunset's warming glow.They leave a touch of glory.Lingering after when they go.cldss * son ltd IIHifunfPAi DWfooes AYER S CUFF STANSTEAO 819-876 5213 SHERBROOKE 900 Ou**n ftlvd N Webster Cass 819 562 2685 lENNOXVIll! 4 Selvidere St R.L.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapels n 819 5629977 ‘£'3 300 Cht—n ftlvd N 74 Queen St Gordon Smith Funeral Home SAWYiRviui 819 562 2685 / 889 2231 COOK SHIRE t t The Townships #1____ttgl tfecora MON DECEMBER IS, 1980 3 Low enrolment, budget worry teachers Continued from Page One determines the number of teachers, and therefore, money, available by looking at the total number of students the ETRSB serves A ratio of 12.99 students to one teacher is applied, no matter what the situation It is up to the board and teacher's union to decide how to place the teachers This year, the ETHSB, which governs Richmond Regional, the St.Francis elementary schools and Alexander Galt Regional, received funds for 215 teachers The collective agreement reached between the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers and the government called for only 214 teachers.The province declared that the lower figure had to stand.That means there is one less teacher available in an already tight situation.The ETRSB must also make up the difference between what the government has decided these teachers’ salaries should be, and what they have become: upgrading of salaries takes place all the time, but the new budget does not consider this phenomenon These new budgetary rules will require the boards to evaluate their priorities "We will have to pull in our belts and look for money elsewhere," admits Kendall The ETRSB s "inadmissables" category in the annual budget almost doubled from last year to this one Presently, the board is taxing 17 cents on every $100 of property evaluation to make up the surplus However, if there are too many extra expenses in the future, and the tax rate jumps above 25 cents, the public will have to be consulted A referendum will determine whether the taxpayers want to help the board meet its obligations.Inflation and increased operating costs with a dwindling enrolment have the board wondering how the money they receive can best be spent.Will the continued quality of education in English someday depend on the willingness of the taxpayers to support its deficits?No one is prepared to confirm this, but it is certain that taxpayers will someday be called on to lend a helping hand to their school board, In this dollar poor situation the teachers of the Eastern Townships Teachers Association, the local union, are concerned about whether the employment of teachers will remain a top priority Don Jondreville.the union's president for six years now, concedes that "you have to make choices as in any business, and you certainly can’t keep out of touch with enrolment." Jondreville is the sole administrator of the union, which, unlike the Protestant School Board of Montreal, has no staff or offices With the guidance of the union members, he tries to support what is in the social, economic and professional interest of the teachers "It's not a management committee." states Jondreville, "but rather mostly related to services in contractual dealings." The present contract, valid through 1982, has tried to compensate for the smaller enrolments to come which threaten lower budgets and less teaching positions available.Job security is a very important aspect of this contract.Once a teacher Galt's enrolment has dropped ky almost 1,000 students in the last 12 years.Lights, rings, bits and pieces Little House BY KATHARINE SNOW Take one young man with a Cosmos complex, add one not so young mother with an Archie Bunker mentality, place the two together in a small room before the one and only TV set in the house on a Sunday evening at 8 p.m.and what do you get?What else - an hour of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.I suppose I should be flattered to be included in the captive audience of one, bis tatner, nut my neart always sinks to my boots when I get the call to come and watch with them.When this happens, I resolutely close my mind to the capers at Archie’s Place and rivet my concentration on the poetic and engaging Sagan.Last Sunday the program started off unusually well.We were shown pictures of apple pies being baked and removed from huge ovens.This I could understand and while I did not fool myself that things would continue on so happy a level, I did relax a bit, hoping that I just might comprehend something of what was to come.Alas for me.We next watched as one of these deep, golden pastries was being served to Carl Sagan.Could any man resist such a pie, a treasure worth at least a star or two?Who would not savor it in anticipation as the aroma of fruit and cinnamon assailed one’s nostrils?This paragon would not.As soon as the delicacy was placed before him, he jumped to his feet and began without tenderness to slice it into portions, comparing the succulent pieces to the division of an atom.Neutres and protons, not sugarplums, danced through his head.The ambrosial pie disappeared and was replaced by masses of moving, wiggling clumps of things flecked with light and an energy that staggered the imagination.Through the accompanying flow of rhetoric I caught one or two words that I might have heard before in my lifetime.I desperately tried to interpret the meanings of things as spins, electrical charges, collisions, even molecules but my bewildered mind longed only to be back at Archie’s kitchen sharing a cup of Veronica's special coffee.I could sense that my son was unsure of me because he kept leaning forward to smile reassuringly and to gauge .my reaction to the program.I made a special effort to :j::‘ display an apparent avid interest just to distract him from ÿ his other enthralled observer who, having succumbed to g slumber, snored gently, head fallen forward on his chest, g After some twenty minutes of breaking up the atomic ÿ pie things took a definite turn for the worse.Lights and £: rings, bits and pieces flashed and spun about in a scien- g; tific manner that proved to be irresistibly hypnotic I i£ clutched the arms of my chair tightly lest I swoon and fall kv (CCCCtCID has had his contract renewed for a third year of his services within a school board, he has "job security for life", according to Jondreville Even if the enrolment drops continually and the number of teachers must be reduced, tenured teachers will remain on salary Although technically out of work, they will still receive their monthly cheques, a situation which sounds almost too good to be true They will be guaranteed a salary, but not necessarily a teaching position.Teachers might bo used as supply help or in other capacities "There are many other ways their services might be used," says Jondreville.Because the government «ill pay 50 per cent or more of these teacher's salaries, they will not become a burden to the school Imard Teachers in "surplus" would also be offered the option of severance pay to relocate However, even with the security that their salary will be forthcoming.teachers are wary about the possibility of a lay-off Even teachers with 12 years of experience are won dering whether they will someday have to leave their chosen profession."The last ones in will be the first ones out," states Jondreville.The application of this rule could start as soon as next year at Alexander Galt; it has already affected teachers in the Bedford region At Richmond Regional the enrolment has dropped from the all-time high of 900 to 520 anticipated students next vear."When the enrolment drops close to half, then the options drop too teachers must go The budget is cut, and you have to declare a surplus." When a surplus is declared, the un tenured teachers are first affected by the loss of their jobs, but many more are thrown into the uncertainty of the surplus pool The number of teachers in surplus of the government guidelines, say 20, w ould always be multiplied by three when forming the pool, putting 60 teachers into surplus They w ould then be rehired according to their qualifications and experience "The surplus will surely touch tenured teachers at AGHHS by 1982-3," reminds Jondreville The operation ot a surplus pool were recently put to a test Two teachers, among those whose contracts were up for renewal, were not rehired by the ETRSB; two new faces were brought in to take positions for which the union feels the others were qualified This matter has now gone into arbitration to decide whether the board was correct in its actions "If enrolment remains the same," explains Kendall, "then we’re not even required to hire up to the number reached by the collective agreement, although in a surplus, we're obligated to take them back " The board believes that until a surplus of tenured teachers is actually in force, they are going to exercise a bit of flexibility in whom they wish to hire."There are going to be problems,” the board’s director adds, “because vou don't take an electrician to do the work of a librarian " None of this comforts the ranks of nervous teachers.Speculation runs high, and doubt deep.Chances are already apparent in the scheme of things at AGHHS For instance, lower enrolment is causing a reduction in new courses offered The number of department heads for the different disciplines has been reduced; everywhere two jobs are being com bined into one, full time positions become part time "There’s a lot of tension here,” says one teacher."There's the political scene, uncertain economics for in stance, if Butterfield in Rock Island goes, that means 60 to 70 less students a year, and four to five fewer teachers " The ETHSB used to be able to forecast the number of students for coming years with some accuracy.The situation is unstable now Bill 101 is believed to have accelerated the departure of many anglophone families with children.Of course, in the French language educational sector, there is a 5per cent annual decline in enrolment, but that’s just about half of the dip the ETRSB is experiencing.At AGHHS, enrolment has fallen from 2900 12 years ago, to 2140 in 1979-80, 2022 for this year and only 1900 planned for 1981-82.At present there are only some five hundred students in the first two levels When the upper levels graduate, there are going to be many fewer students in the school Townships talk forward into the swirling world of the loquacious lecturer.At five minutes to nine I admitted defeat.It was either join my spouse in dreamland or make an excuse to get up and walk around.1 made the one irrefutable excuse with which no gentleman could argue and staggered from the room.When I returned the TV was blessedly silent.My son looked accusingly at me.“You missed the last part, Mom.” My husband, upright and splendidly alert now said."That's a marvelous program, Son, very interesting.” “Did you enjoy it, Mom?” my offspring questioned.I spluttered and said that I had found it rather complex.The benignly smiling head of the house asked what had puzzled me.I ignored him completely but told my son rather nervously that I wondered how science explained the miraculous star of Bethlehem.Immediately I was informed that there was no miraculous aspect to it at all -its bright light had probably been the result of a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter.I was going to ask why, if no miraculous power were involved, this particular star had stopped and remained stationary over the stable that housed the Christ Child but I knew better.I would only have been the victim of an indulgent, filial smile and another lengthy discourse on mesons, hyperons, alpha particles.Saturn's rings -whatever.ST LEONARD D'ASTON, Que.(CP) - An ad-ministratorfor the University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres will be Parti Québécois candidate in Nicolet riding in a provincial general election expected early next year.Yves Beaumier defeated two other candidates at a nomination meeting Sunday night in this town near Trois Rivieres, half way between Montreal and Quebec City.Quebec Agriculture Minister Jean Garon spoke at the meeting, attended by more than 400 party faithful The riding, on the south shore of the St.Lawrence River, is currently represented by Serge Fontaine of the In ion Nationale.Premier Rene Levesque has not yet announced a date for the election.BROMPTONVILLE A car driven by Richard St-Laurent of Delorme Street in Sherbrooke went out of control on Highway 220 near here Sunday night, injuring foui- people.The car apparently left the highway, went through a snowbank, crossed the ditch and struck the culvert of a private driveway.One passenger is in hospital with serious injuries while the other three suffered minor cuts and bruises.MAGOG — Two recent incidents give police reason to believe that someone has a grudge against Jean-Claude Martin, director of Service Ambulance Magog.Last week, vandals attacked the firm’s service truck, causing over $1000 damage.Saturday, an employee who went to clear the driveway of Martin’s country home in Magog Township found all the house’s windows broken.Since Martin hadn’t visited the house in more than two weeks, no one know's when the vandalism occurred.By the time it was discovered, pipes had frozen and the house had undergone over $3000 damage.Nothing appears to have been stolen.Police are investigating but say they have few leads to work on.SHERBROOKE An airtight stove is said to have caused the blaze which spread up the wall to the attic of Jacques Noel's residence on Island St.Saturday night Sherbrooke firemen reacted quickly, controlling the flames within an hour and limiting damage.CAPITOL Theatre 59 King east B65-OTf SIROIS-GAUTHIER Dispensing Opticians *Complete Lab Service *RX.Filled with Care *Eye Glasses Repaired *Sun Glasses House Calls, for persons unable to come to the office.9A Wellington St.N.—Sherbrooke TEL.: 562-7838 or 562-7095 Brieflet WATERVILLE Candlelight Carol Service, Waterville United Church, Christmas Eve, 11 p.m.All are welcome.1 your marketplace WANTADS La Quotidienne WINNING .NUMBER 5-5-5 kV CARREFOUR de 11S1RI1 Boulevard Portland, SHIBBBOOKI 3B5-OJB6 JLiu 14 YTARS Second feature ‘‘The Passage"