The record, 30 janvier 1984, lundi 30 janvier 1984

lo MV Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .8 Comics .12 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10-11 SNOW ALLAN CHRISTIE.GRADE 5 LHNNOXVIl LE PRIMARY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Monday, January 30, 1984 30 cents 111.WÊÊgmwm WKKBKÊBÊÊÊtM I 11 HI Paradis tells UPA single farm union is an ‘anachronism’ “Okay then.We’ll live together for awhile and if it works out, then we’ll get married.” By Claudia Villemaire MELBOURNE — Pierre Paradis still doesn’t like the UPA.A long-time opponent of the conipul sory-membership farmers' union, Paradis hasn’t softened his stance since he joined the Liberal front bench, as shown in a weekend speech.The "monopoly the Union des Producteurs Agricoles has on agricultural producers and policymakers” is an “anachronism” in a democratic society, according to Paradis, guest speaker at the Québec Farmers Association annual banquet held here Saturday.Over 250 people turned out for the event which featured Paradis at a head table of guests who included Warren Grapes, provincial president of the association.Carefully avoiding hardcore politicking, Paradis compared the advantages of the present UPA monopoly and what could be gained if a more pluralistic approach to organizations was taken.“It may be true that the majority of Québec producers wish to belong to the UPA, but the fact remains this is their only legal choice.” Paradis explained the differences that would arise if producers had the choice between two or more associations as their voice in the marketplace or with the government.“If more than one association or organization could gain legal status, members first of all could choose the group that best suits their needs at the time.They would be able to seriously consider the options their choice of policy offered, elect their officials carefully and be constantly aware of the competition the existence of other organizations would impose on their own.” “Producers could change groups as their needs change and most importantly, the strength of each association would lie in the fact the members chose to join and were not required by law,” he added Paradis also said independent organizations with legal status would car ry enough clout to be heard politically.“The Québec Farmers Association is a shining example of an organization which has gained tremendous ground during the past five years.“You w’ere recently asked for your opinion in regard to changes in the See CONTINUED page 3 Doubting NATO is a ‘serious mistake’ says Trudeau critic DAVOS, Switzerland (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau continues his East-West peace initiatives to Eastern Europe today after a weekend break during which he questioned U.S.and French stance over NATO nuclear strategy.Sinclair Stevens, Progressive Conservative external affairs critic, claims Trudeau has seriously challenged NATO’s credibility by casting doubt on whether Washington would use nuclear weapons if Moscow attacked Europe.“I think it’s the most serious mistake he’s made since he started his peace effort,” Stevens said in a Toronto telephone interview Sunday.“I don’t see why he had to be critical of the NATO alliance.” Trudeau told international business leaders Saturday at the European Management Forum he wasn't sure a U.S.president would risk nuclear war to save western Europe from a Soviet attack by conventional weapons.The option of first-use of nuclear weapons, or flexible response, is the cornerstone of NATO strategy toward the Warsaw Pact’s superiority in conventional forces.“I don’t know the answerof the president, but one can speculate as to whether he would want to start World War III,” Trudeau said during an exchange with U.S.Deputy State Secretary Kenneth Dam and former French premier Raymond Barre.“If there is a credibility gap then Europe is in a very bad shape,” Barre said.“Let me ask you about your credibility Mr.Barre,” Trudeau responded.“Do you think the president of the Language misuse hurts Cdn.rights VANCOUVER (CP) - Although Canadians don’t live in a totalitarian society, the country has entered the age of Orwell in the erosion of language used by politicians, says the head of Canada’s Human Rights Commission.Gordon Fairweather, in a speech Saturday at the University of British Columbia, said George Orwell despised the misuse of language and said that when “the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.” “If the language of our political discourse gives us a standard, we are indeed living in a bad atmosphere,” said Fairweather.“And in Orwell’s terms, our political life is in danger of becoming ‘a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.’” Fairweather, appointed chief commissioner of the Human Rights Commission in 1977, pointed to the recent political upheaval in British Columbia surrounding the government’s wage restraint legislation as an example of the “bad atmosphere” of which Orwell wrote in such books as Nineteen Eighty-Four.He said the real debate on the Social Credit government’s restraint program was being carried out between private conservative research groups and the Solidarity Coalition, an amalgam of groups opposing the restraint package.“Your politicians seemed at best to be mouthpieces for ideas and arguments developed outside the legislature,” said Fairweather.“And the people of British Columbia were going unrepresented in the most important political debate in decades.” The reason Canadians don’t live in a totalitarian society, said Fairweather, is because of institutions such as Parliament and legisla tures, “where issues can be debated in full public view.” United States, in answer to an overrunning of Europe by conventional Soviet forces, will want to start World War III — an atomic war?” Barre said to even consider asking such a question would be a sign of doubt.Stevens said he thought Barre’s reply was well put.“You don’t raise those questions unless you think it’s a question.” Trudeau meets today with Swiss Foreign Minister Pierre Aubert before flying to East Berlin.He was in Czechoslovakia last week and concludes his three-country tour of Eastern Europe with a visit to Romania.He and Dam squabbled Saturday over the secretary’s remarks that it was “a misconception that the United States has been steadily building up the number and megatonnage of its nuclear weapons.” Trudeau acknowledged some reductions have occurred, but that new generations of weapons were more accurate and effective and therefore the western arsenal posed as great a threat as before."LET’S BE CANDID’ “The question is, have we reduced their deadliness?” Trudeau asked.“Let’s be candid, we are withdrawing weapons .They have become obsolete or they are contrary to our own stated strategy in Europe.” He also seemed to question the validity of NATO’s deployment of new U.S.cruise and Pershing 2 missiles last December, at least their contribution to European confidence in Washington.“As we know, the question is being increasingly asked : “Ah yes, but will the U.S.president really order the use of an atomic weapon, even in Europe, if he knows it is going to result in World War III,” Trudeau said.“I don’t know the answerof the president but one can speculate whether he would want to start World War III through INFS (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) any more than he would through START weapons (the intercontinental bombers and missiles under discussion at the adjourned Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva, Switzerland.)” Moscow walked out of the talks after deployment began.In the months preceding the deployment, U.S.-Soviet relations deteriorated, prompting Trudeau to launch his peace initiative.RECORD PERRY HI A ION Sherbrooke flips out Look, up in the sky—it’s a bird, it’s a plane and it’s on the King Street Hill! The Iveco ski acrobats were flying high Saturday night.See photo and cutline on page three.Marines retaliate after snipers attack base BEIRUT (API —U.S.marines fired tank cannons and small arms at antigovernment militia positions today after their base at Beirut’s airport was shelled for the first time in two weeks, a marine spokesman said.A spokesman for Amal, the main militia force of Lebanon’s Shiite Moslems, said at least 10 people were wounded by marine fire in the Shiite neighborhood of Hay el-Sellum, east of the airport .Maj.Dennis Brooks said the marines came under sniper fire and then were shelled by mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.He said no marine casualties were reported in the hour-long attack.Brooks said the sniper fire came from the east and the shelling from the south and southeast, areas where Druse militiamen are based.Lebanon’s state radio said two Lebanese civilians were wounded in the shelling, which forced a temporary halt to opertaions at the airport.The spokesman at Amal headquarters said the clash erupted when an Amal militiaman was shot and wounded by marines near their airport perimeter.“Urgent contacts between the Amal leadership and the marine command succeeded in halting the one-hour clash,” the spokesman said.He declined the use of his name.The last previous shelling attack on the marines Jan.15 prompted a naval retaliatory barrage from the U.S.battleship New Jersey against Druse gunners in the hills southeast of Beirut.Druse leader Walid Jumblatt, who opposes the Lebanese government, met Sunday in Libya writh its leader Col.Moammar Khadafy, the official Libyan news agency said.It did not say what the men talked about.The Druse, a sect based on Islam, have received support from Libya and Syria.Elsewhere in the Middle East, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt accepted today an invitation for his country to rejoin the Islamic Conference Organization, which suspended its membership five years ago because of the Israeli-Egyptian peace accords.“Of course we accepted the invitation,” Mubarak said after talks with delegates sent by a summit meeting of the conference that issued the invitation Jan.19.The summit overcame bitter Syrian and Lybian opposition to the invitation on Jan.19, and Mubarak vowed last week that Egypt will support Islamic causes and honor conference principles.However, Mubarak has repeatedly said Egypt will not renounce its peace treaty with Israel.In Israeli, a government official confirmed that Israel is holding talks with the United States about the possible formation of a Jordanian rapid deployment force.WOULD NOT COMMENT The official, who asked for anonymity, refused to comment on reports that Israel wants Jordan to promise not to use such a force against the Jewish state.In two areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Israeli troops imposed a curfew Sunday after stone-throwing demonstrators protested following a thwarted attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest shrines, military sources reported.The sources said troops fired tear gas into crowds of Palestinian protesters at the central market of Nablus and the nearby Balatta refugee camp.On Friday, men with guns and grenades tried to break into the Jerusalem shrine where, the Koran says, the prophet Mohammed prayed before going to heaven.In demonstrations Saturday, Israeli troops killed a 17-year-old Palestinian.Israel Television said the attempted attack on the mosque appeared to be the work of the Jewish underground group Terror Against Terror.Reagan makes ‘difficult decision’ to run in ’84 WASHINGTON (CP) — President Reagan says he plans to run in the November election for a second four-year term, declaring the United States is better off than when he took office “but our work is not finished.” The Republican leader Sunday night launched his campaign for the Nov.6 election in a $400,000 five-minute paid political announcement on three national television networks, ending any suspense over what he called “a difficult personal decision.” Hundreds of celebrating Republicans at a hotel ballroom near the White House applauded and cheered when Reagan finally made it official.They watched the president, seated behind his desk in the Oval Office, on giant video screens.“Now the campaign begins,” Walter Mondale, former vice-president, said in a television interview that followed the Reagan announcement.Mondale was campaigning in California, Reagan’s home state.He is considered leading eight candidates' race for the Democratic party presidential nomination.Reagan’s wife Nancy, rumored to have favored retirement for her husband who turns 73 next week, issued a statement of support: “It was a mutual decision.I support him fully.I’m very proud of him, and all he’s accomplished in a very short space of time.’ ’ BUSH AGAIN Reagan announced that Vice-President George Bush, 59, would be his running mate and listed achievements in the first three years of his administration to include economic recovery, a strengthened military and a revival of traditional moral values.“But our work is not finished,” he declared.“We have more to do in creating jobs, achieving control over government spending, returning more autonomy to the states, keeping peace in a more settled world, and seeing if we can’t find room in our schools for God.” Reagan claimed he has reversed problems — he cited economic collapse and military weakness — that faced the country when he replaced Jimmy Carter’s Democrat administration in 1980.Carter declined to respond but other Democrats immedia-tedly accused Reagan of making life worse, not better.“The American people will reject four more years of danger, four more years of pain,” said Massachusetts Democrat Thomas (Tip) O’Neill, speaker of the House of Representa- tives and one of Reagan’s harshest critics.“Ronald Reagan has been a divi der, not a uniter.He has divided our country between rich and poor, between the hopeful and the hopeless, between the comfortable and the miserable.He has not been fair and the people know it.” Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, Republican majority leader in the Senate and a potential presidential candidate had Reagan chosen not to run, pledged his support, saying that the president “has clearly earned the right to finish the job he began over three years ago.” Reagan is favoed in current public opinion polls but events such as calls for withdraw! of more than 1,200 U.S.marines in Lebanon, could swing against him during the next nine months.Republican party chairman Frank Fahrenkopf predicted “a close, tough election,” but that Reagan would win on grounds he offers better leadership than the Democrats."These presidential campaigns have a way of closing up and getting tough and we're preparing for what we expect will be a close race," said James Baker.White House chief of staff.Baker was one of the many presidential officials who declined to the last minute to say whether Reagan was going to run again.Reagan had made it obvious he would seek re-election but continually left doubt when asked to say so flatly.NEW BEGINNING “We have made a new beginning.” Reagan said in launching his campaign.“Vice-eresident Bush and I would like to have your continued support and co-operation in completing what we began three years ago.I am therefore announcing that I am a candidate and will seek re-election to the office 1 presently hold.” As achievements during the first three years of his tenure, Reagan sin gled out a reduction in the rate of inflation to 13.2 per cent from 19 per cent, almost half of interest rates that had soared above 21 per cent : growth in the labor force last year of four million workers ; and an increase in mili tary defences.He repeated the theme of his state of-the-union address made to Congress last week that "America is back and standing tall" and used a personal approach to his TV audience, saying he felt a special bond of kinship with each one of them.The broadcast said 19 grenades found near the mosque were of the same type of Israeli army issue used by TNT members in attacks on Christian and Moslem buildings in the Jerusalem area in which a nun and a Moslem clergyman were injured.Quit or stay former party pres tells PM OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Trudeau should end the "unfortunate” suspense over his leadership plans because it is seriously damaging Liberal preparations for the election expected later this year, former party president Norman Ma cLeod said Sunday.A decision to quit or stay “you can deal with" but "the uncertainty is worse than either decision,” he said in an interview as he left a weekend meeting of the national Liberal executive.Sources said MacLeod has also been privately circulating the idea that perhaps a committee of three or four senior Liberals should be delegated to raise the matter personally with Trudeau, who returns Thursday after another trip to Europe on his peace initiâtiie.But MacLeod did not raise his concerns at the meeting, apparently fearing he is too closely identified with former finance minister and potential Trudeau successor John Turner.And despite private support from other quarters, no one else raised the issue either.“This is not a party that goes around stabbing its leaders in the back,” MacLeod’s successor, Iona Campagnolo, told reporters."Any Liberal leader can rest secure in the fact that they are our leader as long as they wish to be ” MacLeod, ousted as president 14 months ago, said it will be difficult to find candidates in many areas until the potential recruits know who they woould be running with as leader.Some might like to run with Trudeau, others would prefer someone new, he said.National vice-president Alice Mol loy of Saskatoon, a Trudeau supporter, said in an interview she doesn't personally feel any pressing need to know Trudeau's plans but “I suppose things like that are factors" in finding new blood for the party, MacLeod also said the uncertainty See SUPPORT page 2 / 'I—The RECORD—Monday, January 30, 1984 Petrochemical plant putting fresh vegetables on Alberta tables RED DEER, Alta (CP) — The la test products of the Alberta oil patch are for the dinner table.At a $1.5-billion petrochemical plant northeast of Red Deer, tomatoes and cucumbers tumble out of a site designed to manufacture raw polyethylene plastic and ethylene for synthetic items such as tires and upholstery.The brand name — Prairie Sun Vine-Ripened — comes close to being an accurate description of the output.While only mechanized greenhouses make the crops possible, they do grow on vines and the company is the professed rising sun of Prairie big busi- ness, Nova Corp.The heat for the greenhouses comes from an inferno that uses the same fuel as the sun, hydrogen The fire is in 815-degree furnaces that “crack” ethylene and hydrogen, which is recycled and burned — out of natural-gas-derived ethane at Nova’s Alberta Gas Ethylene petrochemical complex at Joffre, Alta.Besides the vegetables.Nova sells bedding plants and flowers, including a crop of poinsettias at Christmas.Nova started nibbling at the vegetable business in 1978.trying to turn to profit waste heat created by the network of pipelines and pumping sta- tions it had built since the 1950s as Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co.Fire destroyed the first greenhouse at the Princess compressor station, near Brooks in southeast Alberta, in February 1980.Nova, created by an act of the Alberta legislature and primed with orders to be a business leader, rebuilt the Princess operation — and doubled its size.Four years after the fire, subsidiary Noval Enterprises Ltd cultivates three hectares of crops in sprawling greenhouses at Joffre as well as Princess.The Noval greenhouses, brainchil- dren of a corporate think-tank group on energy conservation, now are setting out to try and pay their own way, said Noval vice-president Stephanie Ho Lem.The greenhouses feature the latest methods of capturing heat from gas and chemical plants with hot water lines, converters and air circulation systems.The $L5-million Princess greenhouse has the capacity to produce about 200,000 kilograms of tomatoes a year in two crops.That is less than two per cent of the 12.3 million kilograms of tomatoes consumed annually by residents of Calgary and Ed- monton.The new Joffre plant greenhouse, which cost about $5.5 million, is 2.5 times the size of the Princess operation and has the capacity to better than double Noval’s produce production.Ho Lem said vegetable production is a new game for the oil and gas conglomerate.As Alberta Gas Trunk, Nova was born with a monopoly in a tightly regulated business, gathering up all the natural gas produced in Alberta for sale to shippers with out-of-province and foreign markets.The vegetable trade is highly competitive commerce in freely tra- ded commodities open to wide and rapid variations in price.Nova executives are “complete novices” at the grocery game, said Ho Lem, whose job before was preparing applications for construction of the Alaska Highway natural gas pipeline.Noval’s greenhouse program was based on projections of strong tomato prices, up to $2.42 a kilogram in the stores and at least $1.76 a kilogram to the grower.Ho Lem said the company has since learned that a bountiful harvest in Florida, where growers don’t need to build greenhouses, can cut prices in half.Paradis: PQ will lose but one year is an eternity MONTREAL (CP)—The Parti Que becois would face certain defeat if it called an election within six months ande an on the issue of independence, says Pierre Paradis, Liberal member of the national assembly."I’m sure they would not run on that issue because they would be defeated so badly that they would not be able to revive,” he said Sunday.The PQ and its supporters will put the matter aside “at the last minute as they did in the two previous elections.If they wait a year or a year and a half and see themselves coming up in the polls —not enough to win —then they’ll bring back the option.” Paradis, who represents the Eastern Townships riding of Brome-Missisquoi, was commenting on PQ and Liberal prospects in an interview on radio station CJAD.He also mentioned Liberal mistakes of the past and what his party must do if it is to regain power.“If elections were going to be held within the next six months, 1 really believe the PQ would lose.But one year in politics is an eternity, and 1 hope we will not make the same mistake that we did in 1981 when we lost.“The mistake we made in 1981 was to behave as a government while we were in opposition.We still have to believe that we are an opposition if we want to become a government.If we think of ourselves as a government before we get a mandate from the people, we will never be the government.” CLEARING THE AIR A Liberal government would have to clear the air on sovereignty, Paradis said.“People we’re dealing with across Canada and even outside Canada have a right to know if they’re dealing with a province in a country or a province in the way of becoming a country.“Until that is clear, there can be no successful economic recovery for Quebec because it creates a political climate of uncertainty.” Support for MacLeod is overwhelming says Liberal Continued from page one could “possibly” affect the eventual leadership race but didn’t know how it might affect Turner.A Toronto newspaper reported last week that some of Turner’s Montreal friends think he might not run if Trudeau left his departure so late that a new leader wouldn’t have enough time to recruit a new team of his own.MacLeod said he suggested to senior party officers Friday night the issue should be discussed before the full executive, which isn’t scheduled to meet again until late April.But although Campagnolo replied that anyone could raise anything they liked, no one did.Another senior Liberal, speaking on condition he not be identified, said private support on the executive for MacLeod’s position is “overwhelming” but no one raised it because they believe there will be an announcement from Trudeau by March.Some hint of the executive’s expectations can be found in the $7.5-million budget approved for 1984.which includes $1 million for contingencies such as a leadership convention.Preparations are also going ahead for the regular biennial convention in late November — even though there is virtually no chance it will be held — because the plans in effect give party officials a head start on the three to four months needed to arrange a leadership convention.This piano Sonata has really gone to the dogs VICTORIA (CP) — General.Bruno and Harmony were howling to their hearts' content, but no one reported the noisy hounds to the local police — in fact they were applauded for their efforts.A crowd at the University Centre Auditorium paid to listen to the three hounds perform Friday night in Sonata for Piano and Dog, a composition written by Kirk Nurock, a classical Weathe Mostly cloudy today with light snow and a high of -3.Low tonight of -13.Outlook for Tuesday snow and rapidly-falling tempe- musician who has worked for several years in New York with an ensemble that’s performed choral music with zoo animals.After auditioning numerous Victoria hopefuls for the performance, Nurock selected General, a lhasa apso, and Bruno and Harmony, which are mixed bred beasts.For the sonata's final movement, the dogs gathered beside the piano where they were coaxed into performing by their owners, who blew on small pipes, or by Nurock, who imitated the dogs’ howls.Nurock played the piano during the performance, which was the first of three Victoria Symphony Discovery programs.The composer said his Sonata for Piano and Dog was inspired by a cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker magazine.ratures.George MacLaren, Publisher .569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .569-9525 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent 569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager 569-9931 Debra Waite, 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another week without buses if Saturday’s conciliation session in the city’s transit dispute is any indication.“We’re still very far apart,” said Jean-Claude Larouche, an official of one of five locked-out unions.The commission locked out its 524 unionized employees lust Tuesday, forcing a suspension of bus service within the city just north of the Island of Montreal, and between Laval and the northern terminus of the Montreal subway system.Male-oriented unions denounced QUEBEC (CP) — About 800 female union activists denounced male-oriented union structures after an all-day meeting here Saturday.The women came from diverse parts of Quebec and belong to the Confederation of National Trade Unions, one of the most powerful labor organizations in Quebec.The theme of the meeting was: “for a labor movement with a feminine image”.It was the first such meeting, but the exercise may be repeated, and a report on the dicussions will be prepared.Women form 45 per cent of the CNTU membership.Gaspé grocers divvy up lotto NEWPORT, Que.(CP) — A local grocer and 58 partners — many of them her customers — are claiming the $2,728,399 first prize in last week’s 6-49 lottery draw.Brigitte Beauchamp.51, her husband Lionel and 58 partners say they had the winning combination of 15-24-27-32-34-49, and that each share will bring $46,237.Aside from Beauchamp family members, the winning group is composed of customers at Marche Beauchamp Inc.in this small town on the eastern coast of the Gaspe Peninsula.West German sailor hurt at sea HALIFAX (CP) — A crew member of the West German bulk carrier Hermod was in hospital in St.John's, Nlfd., with undisclosed injuries after being lifted off the freighter by a Canadian Forces helicopter off the coast of Newfoundland late Saturday.A spokesman for the rescue centre in Halifax said the man was injured when a large wave crashed over the deck of the Hermod and threw him against some equipment.N.S.writer dies at 92 SACKVILLE, N.B.(CP) — William Richard (Will R.) Bird, a prominent Nova Scotia writer of 27 books of fiction and non-fiction, died Saturday in a nursing home here.He was 92.Born in Maplcton, N.S., Bird homesteaded in Alberta in his early days but lived in Halifax most of his life.He served overseas in the Canadian Army in the First World War and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery.Fire kills live in New Brunswick BATHURST, N.B.(CP) — Three children and two adults died Saturday morning when fire destroyed a two-storey wooden house in Sormany, about 12 kilometres from Bathurst.The victims, Therese Hachey, 48, her daughter Angela, 12, son Stéphane, 7, Fernande Roy, 11, and Doris Boudreau.53, apparently were sleeping when the fire broke out shortly before 8 a.m.AST.Hachey s husband, Gerald, and their daughter, Mireille, 14, wearing only their pyjamas, managed to get out of the house.Mr.Hachey was burned on his hands and head and his daughter suffered frostbite.They were treated in hospital and released in the care of relatives.Union calls for herring seiner ban ST.JOSEPH, N.B.(CP) — The Maritime Fishermen’s Union has called for a ban on herring seiners in the Gulf of St Lawrence following admissions by seiner fishermen that they have been overfishing their quotas.Union officials said Sunday they will not accept any conservation measures, such as quotas, set seasons or net limits until the seiners are removed.At its annual meeting, the union also called for a federal inquiry into whether seiners and processors have misrepresented their landings.Belleville hotel fire injures 1 BELLEVILLE, Ont.(CP) — A 30-year-old woman whose hands and face were so badly burned the skin was peeling was rescued from a hotel fire early Sunday by a group of ambulance attendants staying at the hotel for a union conference.The fire started at the Belleville Four Seasons about 3 a.m.and was confined to one section of the third floor.All of the hotel guests, numbering about 165, were evacuated to other hotels.Sherril Murray, one of four Ottawa-area ambulance attendants staying at the hotel for an Ontario Public Service Employees Union meeting, said they saw a burned woman wandering the hall on the third floor.Trudeau should stay: Mackassey OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau should continue as leader of the Liberal party and run in the next federal election, says veteran Liberal MP Bryce Mackasey.“I think that he arouses very strong passions amongst people, but I do think that he is the right man for our party at a period when we’re coming out of the economic doldrums and when such issues as peace and international affairs are becoming prominent ones,” Mackasey said in a weekend radio interview with Standard Broadcast News.Sauvé in hospital with virus OTTAWA (CP) — Jeanne Sauve, appointed the country’s first woman Governor General in December, is in an Ottawa hospital apparently suffering from the same respiratory virus that has troubled her for months.A spokesman for the Ottawa General Hospital confirmed Sunday that Sauve is a patient there but refused further comment on her condition or how long she has been in the hospital.There was no official word Sunday from the family or the government on whether the former Commons Speaker's illness was serious enough to cause a postponement of ceremonies to swear her into office, tentatively scheduled for early March.Hees going for the record TRENTON, Ont.(CP) — George Hees, veteran Conservative MP for the eastern Ontario riding of Northumberland, will definitely run in the next federal election, he told his riding association at their annual meeting during the weekend.If elected, Hees, 72, will replace New Democrat Stanley Knowles as Canada’s senior member of Parliament.Knowles has announced he will not seek re-election.Hees was first eleced to Parliament in 1950.Two die in small-plane crash RED DEER, Alta.(CP) — The two founders of an Edmonton-based ultra-light aircraft manufacturing company were killed Saturday in a plane crash near Innisfail in central Alberta.Terry Jones, 42, and his wife, Marielle Petley-Jones, 40, of Wizard Lake, Alta., ran Birdman Enterprises Ltd.They died instantly when their Cessna 180 crashed in a farmer’s field east of Innisfail, about 150 kilometres south of Edmonton.RCMP said the accident triggered the aircraft’s emergency locator and police were notified by search and rescue officials at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton.Mila Mulroney makes stage debut VICTORIA (CP) — About 800 people turned out Sunday night to listen to Mila Mulroney, wife of federal Opposition Leader Brian Mulroney, narrate a Victoria Symphony Orchestra production of Peter and the Wolf.Mulroney had been invited to take part in the event at the Royal Theatre, held to raise funds for the symphony, by conductor Paul Freeman.She said following her 15-minute performance, the last one of the evening, that she felt at ease on stage.“I read aloud to my children a great deal,” she said.It was her first visit to Victoria.Reagan floating above the issues NEW YORK ( Reuter) — Most Americans think President Reagan is doing a good job, the latest Newsweek poll suggests.The magazine said the poll shows Reagan’s “personal popularity seems to float above the issues.” Results of the poll, published Sunday in the Feb.6 edition of the weekly newsmagazine, show 56 per cent of the respondents said they have personal confidence in Reagan to do the right thing.It said the respondents felt Reagan has helped the United States regain respect in the world — they “like the way he stands up for America” — but they were uneasy about the way he was handling events in Central America and the Middle East.Macy’s shoppers flee fire NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from a roof fire spread down an elevator shaft and through part of the first five floors of Macy’s department store Sunday, forcing hundreds of customers and employees to flee, officials said.Harding said two firefighters were slightly hurt extinguishing the small fire in a storage and work area on the roof of the midtown Manhattan store, but no customers or employees were injured.The store reopened about three hours after being evacuated.Mistimed bomb burns singer CULVER CITY, Calif.(AP) — Blurry videotapes indicate the accident in which singer Michael Jackson suffered scalp burns during the filming of a commercial was caused when fireworks went off at the wrong time, his physician said Sunday.Dr.Steven Hoefflin said he, Jackson and others on Saturday reviewed the videotapes, used by camera operators to set up shot angles and not for the actual commercial.Jackson’s pomaded hair was set ablaze when fireworks went off nearby during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial Radicals bomb NYC factory NEW YORK (Reuter) — A radical group dedicated to fighting “war mongers and profiteers” claimed responsibility for a bomb blast Sunday night at a Motorola factory in the Queens section of New York City, police said.The bomb caused extensive damages, police said.No one was injured.A news agency received an anonymous phone call from a man who claimed the bombing for the United Freedom Front, a police spokesman said.The group has claimed responsibility for previous bombings in the New York area, including one last year at a U.S.Navy recruiting centre on Long Island.Actor charged with drug running LONDON (Reuter) — American actor Anthony Perkins, star of the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, was charged Sunday with smuggling marijuana and LSD into Britain, police said.Perkins, 51, was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport after flying in from Los Angeles.He will appear in court Thursday charged with illegally importing about seven grams of marijuana and three doses of LSD.Bodyguards let sleeping Prince lie PORTLAND, England (AP) - Prince Andrew’s bodyguard halted three drunken sailors who tried to break into Royal Navy base quarters where the prince, a helicopter pilot, was sleeping, a Defence Ministry spokesman said Saturday.Two stewards and a cook were stopped early Friday as they tried to get into a wardroom at HMS Osprey, a naval shore base, he said.He said the wardroom leads to officers’ quarters where the 23-year-old prince was sleeping.A bodyguard sleeps in a room next to the wardroom.The three had been drinking and decided to test security at the base, said the spokesman, who would not allow his name to be used.Youths celebrate Bloody Sunday LONDONDERRY (Reuter) — Roman Catholic youths threw gasoline bombs at police and soldiers Sunday on the 12th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when British troops shot dead 13 people after a Northern Ireland civil rights march, police said.They said 30 to 40 youths threw gasoline bombs, rocks and bottles at the end of the commemoration march, attended by about 2,000 people.The attacks were quelled with billyclub charges, police added.Prostitutes educating Italians BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — A technical institute near this northern Italian city is offering sex education courses from one of the most informed people in the field — a prostitute.“It is a correct initiative from both the scientific and cultural points of view,” Prof.Paola De Donato, principal of the Techical Institute of Cas-telmaggiore, said of the plan to include a prostitute in the faculty for the course in February entitled Males and Females.“It will offer an interesting perspective,” De Donato said, adding that attendance will not be mandatory.“I can only hope that the lectures will, be taken seriously.” Israeli police kill Palestinian TEL AVIV (Reuter) — Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday after their patrol was stoned by a group of demonstrators, an Israel army spokesman said.Police fired in self-defence after warning shots failed to disperse Palestinian demonstrators attacking the patrol with stones, the spokesman said.Nablus, the largest town in the occupied West Bank, has been a frequent scene of clashes between Palestinians and Israelis.Hackers kill 13 in Kampala KAMPALA (AP) — A band of men stabbed and hacked to death at least 13 men, women and children in a village 40 kilometres southwest of Kampala, survivors said Saturday.The survivors, interviewed in Kampala’s Nsambya Hospital, said the unidentified men wore tattered clothes and carried automatic weapons when they raided Muduuma village Friday night.The villagers said they did not believe the attack was politically motivated.The men fired in the air and then went from house to house, killing with knives and axes, said the survivors, who refused to give their names for fear of reprisal.They said the attackers looted homes and burned what they could not carry off.New Zealand appeals for flood help WELLINGTON (Reuter) — The New Zealand government launched an appeal Monday for help to victims of floods in the south of the country.Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon said the government is putting $650,000 into an aid fund and hopes the public will contribute at least the same amount.About 2,000 people were evacuated Friday from their homes in Invercargill, New Zealand's southernmost city, and many were unable to return Monday because of health hazards from broken sewers.Losses from the floods have not yet been calculated.but are expected to run into millions of dollars.I f i The Townships The RECORD—Monday, January 30, 1984—3 Bpffirtl Continued existence of family farm a problem today—Pierre Paradis i s • A K J m RK ORIM'I.AUDIA VII I I MAIRI Liberal Social Affairs critic Lierre Paradis told members of the Québec Farmer’s Association Saturday if an association other than the UPA could gain legal status farmers would have the opportunity to choose the group that best suits their needs.Over 250 people turned up at the banquet and speech, including Doug Heard and his wife, Marion (left).Continued from page one environment laws governing animal-waste storage systems.The brief you presented was seriously considered and I understand you even received a “thank you” in English from the ministry.Your association, which represents about 10 per cent of the farming community of Québec, should have legal status,” Paradis said.Paradis claimed the question of the monopoly in farm organizations has not come up since the ’70s “and it’s high time someone had the courage to deal with the issue squarely,” he said.Known for his straightforward remarks about the politics of power, he says he is the man who will dare.“I’m sure there are many UPA members who would like to belong to another type of organization which would also MONTREAL — Quebec Justice Minister Marc-André Bédard li kely will name a new coroner this week to investigate the shooting death of an innocent carpet-layer during a raid at a Rock Forest motel last Dec.23.Denis Boudrias, the coroner previously named to the case, was removed Friday by Justice Réjane Colas of Quebec Superior Court, who said comments the coroner made at a news conference Dec.29 cast doubt on his impartiality.A spokesman for Bedard said the minister would make a decision on the inquest early this week and that “naming a new coroner is a strong possibility.” The Justice Department could appeal Colas’s ruling, but Come Poulin, a lawyer for the family of Serge Beaudoin, the slain carpet-layer, urged Bedard to let it stand so the inquest can start.Boudrias was scheduled to open the inquest last week, but Colas ordered a delay after Sherbrooke police filed suit challenging his fitness to handle the case.Boudrias had told reporters that he planned to make recommendations after the inquest to ensure that events such as those that cost Beaudoin his life do not happen again.Beaudoin, 33, was killed and his partner, Jean-Paul Beaumont.32, injured when eight policemen from Sherbrooke raided their room at Rock Forest’s Le Chatillon Motel, looking for suspects in the killing of a Brinks security guard the day before during a robbery in Sherbrooke.Two Sherbrooke detectives, André Castonguay and Roger Dion, were suspended indefinitely with pay the day after Beaudoin was shot.In reaching her decision, Colas agreed with lawyer Michel Proulx, representing Sherbrooke police, that several statements Boudrias made at a news conference Dec.29 gave rise “to a reasonable doubt .that (Boudrias) had formed an opinion before the inquest began.” Boudrias had told reporters he By Michael McDevitt SHERBROOKE — The Centre de services sociaux de l’Estrie (CSSE, the Estrie social service centre) is opposed to proposals by the Ministry of Social Affairs that will divide social services between the CSSE and Local Community Service Centres (CLSCs).Jean-Pierre Duplantie, director-general of the CSSE, says the proposals will only serve to duplicate responsibilities, dilute already insufficient resources and disrupt the families of those receiving the services offered by the two agencies.The CSSE is responsible for social service co-ordination in the Estrie region, while the eight CLSCs planned or already existing in the region are responsible for local medical, social, counselling and referral services.Under the proposed redistribution of responsibility, CLSCs will be responsible for all social services and follow-up care provided in the home, while the CSSE will be in charge of co-ordinating social services in “substitute surroundings”, i.e.institutions, foster homes, supervised residences, etc.Duplantie says this arrangement not only will produce chaos on an organizational and resource allocation level, but will also increase the disruption of family life by social service personnel.“If, for example it is deemed necessary to place a child somewhere other than with his family,” Duplantie says, “there will be a social worker involved with the foster family, or the welcome centre involved and another one involved with the child’s own family.This not only confuses things on an organizational level, but also confuses and disrupts the family itself for no good reason.People will not know where to go for help and will end have legal status.As the law stands right now, there is no other place in the free world where the agricultural community must join a specific union, the only one, a union which is almost as strong as the government and has a stranglehold on its members.” Paradis, who opened his talk by quoting from his invitation to be guest speaker, said he had two subjects stated in the letter from local secretary Marilyn Wingeat.“Donkey breeding was the first choice and Communism versus the free-enterprise system the other.I decided that free enterprise in the Quebec agricultural community would be suitable and then chose two main priorities which I consider the most important.” Paradis is now social affairs critic for the Liberals in the National As- planned to make recommendations at the conclusion of his inquest to ensure that events such as Beaudoin’s shooting do not happen again.HARD TO JUSTIFY’ “Holding such a news conference is uncommon, especially before the start of a public inquiry,” Colas said.“It is difficult to justify.” A judge or individual who is to preside over an inquiry “must give his comments and his conclusions in his ruling.or in his verdict,” Colas noted in her 24-page decision.“That is the only valid vehicle to ensure his independence and his impartiality.” Boudrias also exceeded his jurisdiction by visiting the scene of the shooting and talking to police before his inquest started, the judge ruled.It was clear from the transcript of the news conference that Boudrias “had undertaken his own inquiry even before the start of the inquest.” Colas rejected Proulx’s argument that Boudrias had exceeded his jurisdiction by refusing to postpone the inquest to some time in February to suit the lawyer’s schedule.NOT BINDING Coroner’s inquests are held in Quebec to determine whether there is any criminal responsibility in a suspicious or violent death.Coroners’ rulings are not binding on the Crown and a finding of criminal responsibility does not necessarily lead to criminal charges being laid.A bill which limits coroners’ pow'ers was adopted by the national assembly at the end of last year but has not yet been declared law.Under the new law.coroners will not be allowed to rule on civil or criminal responsibility, but instead will be limited to determining the cause of a suspicious or apparently accidental death.The law will also give coroners the right to forbid publication of information relating to an inquest that could damage an individual’s private life, reputation or chances of a fair trial later.up receiving none.The system will also try to divide insufficient personnel among too many different CLSCs.” Duplantie says that the plan presented by the ministry will allow neither CLSCs nor the CSSE to fulfill their mandate as the only immediate results of the partition of responsibility will be to increase bureaucratic chaos and to dilute reasources already spread too thinly.“We recognize that the CLSCs want — and with good reason — sufficient resources to fulfill their duties,” Duplantie says, “but as long as there are restraints on expenditures, there is nothing to be gained by disturbing a pool of professional personnel that have become used to and efficient operating within the present system.The disruption of the system now in place will not be countered by any inc-crease in service to the population or in any foreseeable financial savings.On the contrary the plans as they now stand will only decrease efficiency, disrupt procedures developed through experience and increase the amount of outside interference endured by families.It will also seriously compromise some of the projects that are now in the development stage like our progress in dealing with the problem of incest and its victims, for example.” The CSSE will join with other regional CSSs to present their objections to the proposals to Social Affairs Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson at a meeting February 1.The CSSE says it feels that the expansion of the capabilities of CLSCs should not be considered in their present form as long as the funds necessary to support them cannot be provided.“They are taking from one hand to feed the other,” Duplantie says, “and are spilling a lot in the process.Everybody ends up with less.” sembly.Before being elected in 1980, the Brome-Missisquoi MNA was a Bedford farm lawyer who often took the side of dissident groups against the agricultural power structure, as exemplified by the UPA.The continued existence of the family farm — by selling within the family when a farmer wants to retire — is a very serious problem today, according to Paradis.The family farm as a unit is threatened with extinction if laws governing credit and taxation are not changed.Selling the farm within the family, father to son, for example, should be an easy change.But Paradis pointed out the difficulties facing anyone involved in this type of transaction.“It is most unfortunate and I think, one of the most serious areas of study any government should be looking into,” he said.Selling below value means the son or family member buying the family farm will be able to raise the money.This is a generous move on the part of the sellers, and they pay dearly for it.Income tax is charged according to the real value of the agricultural operation — sometimes eating up the small profit the father has realized.If on the other hand he sells at market value, credit is next to impossible to get, and very often the family farm goes to people who come from outside the area, the province and even the country.” “Any new government must take a long look at these problems.We have not come up with any solutions yet, but the study is on-going and another election should bring about the necessary changes.” Paradis, who with his wife Anne spoke English throughout the evening.emphasized the fact that both By Merritt Clifton VENISE EN QUEBEC — “Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink," Venise en Québec residents la ment.Their thirst may end by 1985, however, if the Québec government approves a municipal water supply plan currently advanced by mayor Rosaire Daigle.Daigle recently appealed to the ministry for urban affairs in search of “between 12 and 13 million dollars” needed to install water mains in Venise en Québec and nearby St.Sebastian, then connect them to Henry-ville’s filtration plant and pumping station.Henryville tapped into the Richelieu River "about 10 years ago”, the federal and provincial charters of rights guarantee the rights of the individual and the right to legal association.“I am proud of you who represent the Québec Farmers Association.Daigle says.“At that time, the government practically forced them to build a filtration plant and pumping station big enough to serve us, too,” he continues.Unfortunately, short funds have prevented extending the Henryville system as originally planned.Venise en Québec’s 1,500 full-time residents and additional 6,500 summer residents have continued drinking from shallow water-trap-type wells, or, in some cases, directly from Mis-sisquoi Bay.“Right now our summer population is going down,” Daigle says, “partly because of the lack of good water service.Our community depends upon touxism, so it is time to improve our service.” Daigle has stated in the past You have chosen to stay in Quebec and even more difficult, be a farmer in Québec.Your association with its motto ‘Education and Information’ has a reputation for expressing opi nions that are relative and valid." that he would like to see Venise en Québec become “a little Monaco”, taking full advantage of a long beach, sheltered harbor and golf course, located only 40 minutes from Montreal.The town has no other industry.The municipal water supply could be drawn from Missisquoi Bay, which already supplies I’hillipsburg and Bedford via a pipeline, filtration plant and pumping station set up to catch the current from the Missisquoi River.The distance around the bay to that system, however, is greater than the distance to Henryville, and a new pipeline going in that direction wouldn’t also supply St.Sebastian, a farming community of about 400.If Venise en Québec took water directly "1 think you should have legal status and if and when we form a new government.the minister with the agriculture portfolio will recognize your strength as producers united in a strong organization.” from Venise Bay, a cove on Missisquoi Bay, the town would also have to build their own pumping and filtration plant.Daigle is quick to rebut any suggestion that Venise Bay water might be too polluted to drink, while acknowledging that weed growth is a problem there during late summer.Venise Bay is protected from the Pike River’s heavily contaminated outflow by Jameson Point, but high water on Lake Champlain does cause backflow in spring that pushes whatever has accumulated in Missisquoi Bay over the winter into Venice Bay.Spring flooding also brings manure runoff into Venice Bay from farms along Route 133 between St.Sebastian and Pike River.Daigle doesn't expect to get a fast answer fi*om the government about his pipeline proposal, nor does he expect the ministry for urban affairs to supply the whole cost.“We have to think about this stage right now," he says.“We will have to get support from maybe four ministers,” he anticipates, also including the ministers for tourism and environment.Local taxpayers will also carry part of the load.it might take another four to five months to get an answer from the ministers,” Daigle continues, "If all goes as 1 expect, however, this project could be done within the next two years." Woman killed in two-car collision Friday TH ET FORD MINES A 32 year old woman was killed in St-Jacquesde Leeds Friday night when another vehicle lost control and slammed into the right side of her car on route 269.Hélène Pouliot, of St-Jean Chrysotome, was killed in the accident, which occurred about 7 p.m.No other deaths were reported but considerable damage was done to both cars.The Quebec Police Force in Thet-ford Mines is investigating the crash.Hot-diggity-dog RFCORO/IM RRY HI MON Oh, the joy of success.Marcella Gandini was in top form the King St.hill.The spotlit spectacle was part of the Saturday night as part of the eight-person I veto team of ski week-long Féerie des Neiges, which ended Sunday night, acrobats which performed for a huge crowd gathered on Townships talk SHERBROOKE — If you live in Bury, pull out your plugs.The regional office of the Ministry of the Environment says it’s no longer necessary for residents of the municipality to boil their water before drinking.Bacterial analysis shows the quality of the water has improved following sanitary measures begun by officials January 17.DON’T BE SHY COME JOIN US! UlTIf, 'tVlllllll/UM'/Mi BE A + BLOOD DONOR MATHIAS TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE Sales & Service Reconditioned Typewriters Repairs to All Makes 41 Wellington St.North phone 562-0440 QUEBEC — Yvon Vallieres, Liberal deputy for Richmond, has announced he will leave the public scene for a few weeks.He will be entering the Notre-Dame de Montreal Hospital shortly to un dergo important surgery for a tumor.In his absence, constituents may contact his personnel at either office in Danv ille (819) 839-3326 or Québec (418) 643-7866.Admission 14 50 Stuil*nls>3 SO FBI * SAT ; 7 00 « 930 SUNDAY t 30 A 730 MON TO TOURS 7 30 Smoking Is a dying habit.Join the Majority Be a Non-Smoker THE WORLD of TASTE and SMELL FREE ADMISSION DR.VINCENT DETHIER This gifted and entertaining speaker of international repute from the University of Massachusetts will address the general public on the biological basis of taste and smell.Date: Thurs.Feb.2/84 Time: 8:00 p.m.Place: Room 20, Johnson Science Building Bishop's Universily Lennoxville, Québec (819) 569-9551 Boudrias removed, new coroner expected this week CSSE director-general against service division Venise en Quebec pipeline awaits gov’t okay i t 4—Thr R WORD—Monday, January 30, 19H4 üscoriâ The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Shared traditions A great deal has been written and said about the decline of Quebec's English-speaking population.This erosion has been, we are told, particularly significant in the rural areas of the province as farm life becomes ever more unattractive and small, village businesses close their doors.What lias been overlooked — and greatly underestimated — in this process of analysis however, is the resilience and commitment of Quebec's English-speaking population — a commitment to the province that they and their families call home which is both deep and abi-ding.A particularly vivid example of the hidden’ strength of this community could be seen in Scotstown Saturday evening.Nearly two hundred English-speaking Quebecers, most of Scots ancestry, gathered to celebrate the ‘patron Saint' of Scotland — Robbie Burns.Those who gathered for the ‘ceilidh’ — some attired in Highland kilt and many more sporting the tartan tie of their clan — ate haggis, tried their hand at genuine Scots dances and generally celebrated a tradition which is still suprisingly strong.More important however, is the fact that both young and old were demonstrating a sense of community that, although threatened, has indeed survived.Admittedly, the number of middle aged and elderly outnumbered the young and those assembled had in some cases travelled many miles to attend, but the fact remains they came.They came because of the meal, they came because of the dancing, they came because their friends came, but most of all they came despite what the academics may say because they do have a tradition and a culture that is not only rooted in the history of Quebec but looks to the future.English-speaking Quebec has been forced over the last few years to take a long, hard look at itself a look that has resulted, in many ways, in a radically new approach to life as a minority.Many have chosen to leave their home, some have chosen to fight and others have sought an accommodation.Large, government-funded organizations such as Alliance Quebec and our own Towns-hippers Association, must all play a part in the survival of our community but in the end it will be the willingness of each of us as individuals to survive and thrive that will count.Culture is not created by the government nor is a community.They both grow from the shared traditions and goals of like-minded human beings.The Scotstown Ceilidh Society made a point Saturday a point that many of us have unfortunately overlooked lately.Thanks for the reminder.TIMOTHY BELFORD In this, the best of all possible worlds PRINCETON, N.J lAFP) - Argentinians, Americans.South Koreans and Canadians rank in that order as the world’s top optimists while Filipinos and Bolivians are the most pessimistic peoples, a new Gallup international poll shows.The findings came in Gallup’s opinion poll on how people felt about the new year, whether it would be better, worse, or much the same as the one ended four weeks ago.Gallup said it found the number of countries where at least 10 pur cent of the population thought 1984 would be better than the year before has grown slightly from its last such survey; to nine from seven.The most spectacular turnaround came in Argentina where 83 per cent of those polled said they thought 1984 would he better than 1983, an increase of 49 per cent from last year.The reason for this surge of optimism, said Gallup, ulearly has a great deal to do with political changes since Argentina’s war with Britain over the British colony o! Falkland islands in the South Atlantic and the Latin American country’s return to democracy late last year.The United States came close behind Argentina on the list of optimists, with 70 per cent who thought 1984 would l)e better than 1983, followed by South Korea’s 66 per cent and Canada’s 59.BETTER ECONOMIES The United States and Canada show an increase of 20 and 2.5 per cent respectively over the last survey.Gallup attributed the increases to the two countries’ improved economies.Other optimists were Australians, 57 per cent; Greeks, 50; Venezuelians and Indians, 42 each; Brazilians.40; and Chileans, classified as optimists with only 23 per cent but 51 per cent expressed no opinion.Filipinos head the list of pessimists with a score of 60 per cent, compared with 23 per cent last year.Gallup attributed the change in mood to the turn of events in the Philippines since the assassination late last year of opposition leader Benigno Aquino.Bolivia followed the Philippines with 59 per cent.Next came Ireland, 55 per cent; Belgium, 53; Costa Rica.49; Sweden, 17; the Netherlands and France, 45 each; Austria, 42; Italy, 41; and Portugal 40.Britain barely qualified as pessimistic.Gallup said 36 per cent of its population were pessimistic, only one percentage point more than those who were optimistic.Norway headed the category of neutral countries, where people thought 1984 would be neither better nor worse than the year before.This group has changed little from last year, except that it has been joined by Luxembourg and Denmark, who were among the pessimists in the last poll.Behind Norway with 62 per cent came Switzerland and Wi st Germany, 52 per cent each ; Luxembourg, 50; Denmark.47; Japan, 46; Finland, 43; and Uruguay, 32.Three Mile Island: Back to life in a dying industry NEW YORK (CP> — The U S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission quietly voted last week to allow the startup of the section of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant left undamaged by the infamous accident there in 1979.But when the reactor comes back on line, it will be to a very different environ ment from when it was shut down almost five years ago.The nuclear power industry in the Uni ted States appears to be dying, though not because of fears of mass irradiation so much as horror at its costs.Billion dollar plants are being shut down, cancelled in mid-construction or converted to coal burning across the country, and investors are desperately dumping many utilities which made decisions during the past decade to turn to nuclear power.“Ten years ago the Public Service Co.of Indiana was about the strongest bond there was," one investment analyst noted this week.“This week they announced they’re abandoning a half-finished plant that’s already cost them $2.5 billion.'’ The Indiana reactor, at Marble Hill on the Ohio River, is only the most recent — and most costly — of more than 100 cancellations of nuclear projects since 1974.The government of Michigan has advised a Larry Black IN NEW YORK private utility to follow suit with a plant, projected to cost $260 million in 1967, which is expected to cost $6 billion.DENIED LICENCE In Illinois, the regulatory commission has denied a licence to a completed plant built by the country’s most experienced nuclear utility, Commonwealth Edison.In Ohio a half-finished plant is being adapted to burn coal.Herein New York, it is widely expected the controversial Shoreham nuclear facility, which the Long Island Lighting Co.has built at a cost of $3.7 billion, will never open.“A decade ago when oil was $12 a barrel Lileo said their power from Shoreham was going to undercut that,” said the analyst.“Now oil’s $29 a barrel and the Shoreham power still couldn’t compete.” Today, 26 years after the advent of nuclear-generated electricity to glowing predictions of cheap, clean energy for the future, only some 80 plants are in operation in the United States.Nuclear power accounts for about 13 per cent of the country’s electricity supply, and no new plants have been ordered since 1978.Some nuclear-power advocates now argue that “irrational fears” generated by the Three Mile Island incident are the cause of the industry’s financial woes, because they have forced expensive safety regulation on builders and operators and have tied up construction with long hearings.The Wall Street Journal, in a bitter editorial last week, voiced this opinion when it blamed environmentalists for the cost overruns and construction stretchouts.“Our most rabid environmentalists long ago began manipulating these fears to destroy the nuclear industry,” the editorial said.“They'd do anything possible to delay and delay, making nuclear energy uneconomical.” FINGERS VILLAIN The editorial also attacks “capricious regulators” but it does concede that management of the projects has also been a “villain,” and most observers say the American nuclear industry is alone to blame for its downfall.Energy demand was overstated, predictions of oil prices increases were exaggerated, and many of the private utilities were simply overwhelmed by the size and complexity of their multi-billion-dollar projects.But American utilities now face new problems in deciding on alternative sources of electricity.The price of genera^ ting electricity with the most obvious alternative, coal, could well rise drastically in coming years once the United States begins finally to move to clean up the damaging pollution it emits.Significant reductions in the amount of sulphur dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning coal — the cause of acid rain and global temperature changes — have been estimated to cost billions of dollars, an expense which will likely be born by fossil-fuel power utilities.One proposal before the U.S.Congress would add at least 75 cents a month to electricity bills in the eastern part of the country, and cleanup costs are expected to increase the longer the Reagan administration stalls on the emissions problem.Letter Why should Mr.Epps try to disprove a positive thought?To the Editor: On Wednesday, January 15th, the headline on Page 11 of the Record read: “Loyalists were the Pioneers of the Eastern Townships?Codswallop”.This article was written by Mr.Bernard Epps.It is regrettable that Mr.Epps is not more knowledgeable about the history of the Eastern Townships and the Loyalists who settled here.Maybe he could care to attend a meeting of the Sir John Johnson Centennial Branch of the United Empire Loyalists’ Ass’n of Canada and meet some of the descendants of the Loyalists Who Did Not Exist! Our Branch has been in existance since 1967.Membership in the UEL Ass’n requires documented proof of descent from a Loyalist ancestor.We have over one hundred and twenty five members.This documentation entails photocopies of military service in one of the many Loyalist corps or proof of confiscated property and - or persecution by the rebels.These men and their families suffered for their loyalty by imprisonment and starvation In our files we have proof that many of the des- cendants of these Loyalists stayed in the area where their ancestors had settled, i.e.Caldwell’s Manor, Christie’s Manor, Philipsburg, Dunn’s Patent etc.and took up land in the Eastern Townships as quickly as the land was surveyed.These settlers created the first English-speaking nucleus of what we know today to be the Eastern Townships.They built houses, many of which were similar in architecture to those which had been left behind in the American Colonies.There were no markings on the bricks or stone to say that the house was built by a Loyalist or by a settler who came a few years later who had, in some cases, fought in the Revolution as a rebel.Each one copied the design from the area from where he had come.But, because these men fought or suffered for a cause in which they believed, they should be honored and not a subject to ridicule and contempt.Mr.Epps has gone so far as to quote the Dominion President of the United Empire Loyalists’ as follows: “From them,” crowed the the Dominion President in October 1981 at meeting to the Townships’ branch, “we have inherited certain characteristics: a sense of responsibility, an espousing of the work ethic, a willingness to help our neighbors and a belief in the system of law and order.” Why should Mr.Epps try to disprove a positive thought that was, in most eases, true?I do not believe that Mr.Epps has taken the trouble to avail himself of the irrefutable evidence which is available in our local historical museum libraries, proving the existance of many Loyalist families in the Eastern Townships.Mr.Henry Ruiter, for your information, Mr.Epps, did not settle in Sutton Township, but was the founder and earliest settler of Potton Townships where you will find the Ruiter Brook.Do you have a problem with Eastern Townships’ geography?It is a big confusing! To continue with Henry Ruiter, I wish to quote from our bicentennial publication, Loyalists Of The Eastern Townships, (now at the printers) : “Henry Ruiter was a simple farmer in Hoosick Co., New York.He bought 260 acres of land on which he had built a house, mill etc.In 1776he declared himself for the Loyalist position had joined a se- (piiiS fW WOHH f!AK-TEtE6WW Hfffilr ne* & "Better order another gross of little red pins of vital and strategic interest.” '* he’s still defining areas cret loyalist military unit with the rank of Captain.Threatened with persecution by his rebellious neighbours for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance to the newly independent State of New York, he took to the woods with his young brother John and forty others and they made their way north to join the British forces under Gen.Burgoyne.After the defeat at Saratoga in 1777.he escaped to Canada where he enlisted in Sir John Johnson’s Royal Regiment and later served in Roger’s Corps.” If you wish to be more knowledgeable about our Loyalist heritage you may order a copy by sending $11.50 to Mrs.Audrey McCaw, R.R.1, Abercorn, Que.JOE 1B0.Your remarks about potato whiskey apply to a much later period in the Eastern Townships’ history when land was opened up for settlement to the Americans who found it much more advantageous to come here than to head west.The Loyalists were not likely to have made whiskey from potatoes when their rations from the British Government were cut off after two years.They either planted them or ate them.and then there was the Hungrey Year.Mr.Epps.Have you ever read about it?Look it up.it will convince you that they would not make whiskey from the potatoes they drew when their families were starving.Maybe they were not Godfearing, however this I doubt, but they would not have gone that far! Speaking of Mrs.Day’s book, Pioneers of the Eastern Townships, which you quoted in your article as saying that “those who comprised our earlier population were anything but religiously inclin-ced;”.this is probably true but in our records there are cases where women from Caldwell’s Manor walked to St.Johns with their children and from there to Montreal in order to have their children christened.Have you read the History of the Eastern Townships up the same author?There are Loyalists named throughout the book who were settlers and pillars of their community.Mr.Epps you ha ve a lot to learn about adopted heritage ! You do not seem to be very proud of people in the area where you work and earn a * living! I am a Townshipper and a descendants of a Loyalists of which I am very proud ! Yours truly, JEAN DARRAH McCAW, U.E., Branch genealogist.Sir John Johnson Centennial Branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Ass'n of Canada.Sutton Doomsday Clock: Keeper sees concern spreading By Michael Conlon CHICAGO (Reuter) — The keepers of the doomsday clock work in a rambling, three-storey brick house five blocks from where the atomic age dawned 42 years ago.But the keepers, who caught the world's attention in December when they moved the hands of their symbolic clock to within three minutes of nuclear disaster, say the advance “is not supposed to be a movement of despair.” They see hope and, perhaps, even progress in the global arms control turmoil.The clock has appeared on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for the last 37 years.On its debut in 1947, the hands were set at seven minutes to midnight, to dramatize the closeness of mankind to nuclear holocaust.The magazine was founded in 1945 by scientists looking for a way to help countries live together in a nuclear age.It is supported today by 47 scientists, 18 of whom are Nobel Laureates.Only once have the clock’s hands been closer to the hour of apocalypse — 1953 when the Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb and they stood at two minutes to midnight NOT DESPAIR Ruth Adams, the Bulletin's editor who along with the sponsoring scientists helped determine the hands' latest position, said the advance "is not supposed to be a movement of despair.It's only supposed to indicate that we have to work a little harder to solve the problem.” The Bulletin blamed the recent repositioning of the hands on “the accelerating nuclear arms race and the almost complete breakdown of communications between the superpowers .a situation of the most extreme and immediate danger.” Adams, whose offices on the University of Chicago campus are a quick stroll from the site where scientists conducted the first successful nuclear chain reaction in 1942, said in an interview she does not find her task depressing.‘ ‘ 1 think that if you didn’t have a community that shared your goals, one would get very down about it.But for years now, whether it’s in this country or Europe, people — scientists and scholars especially — meet and discuss these issues and try to bring some influence to bear on their governments.“In recent years, with the public being so concerned, one doesn’t get down any more.It gives one hope that we can control it, manage it,” she said OFTEN SPOTTY Adams said the editors always contact the sponsoring scientists when the hands are moved in reaction to the global climate, but response is often spotty.This time, she said, “almost everyone responded.There was clearly a change in the perception that people have of whether we are on the right course in building some kind of global security system.“The breakdown of communication with the Soviet Union has been very threatening.Clearly everybody is worried,” she said.The December announcement drew far more media attention worldwide than the last time the hands of the doomsday clock were advanced — to four minutes to midnight — in 1981.“People are beginning to relate other problems to the nuclear problem which they have not done in the past,” Adams said of the heightened interest.“We’ve always isolated the issue — the nuclear arms race, brinksmanship — as something for experts to handle.“That’s changed now,” she added.“People are beginning to understand the impact on the economy, the impact on government controls and secrecy, the way society is organized, the impact on communications, the impact on their children." NO LONGER REMOTE “The nuclear issue is no longer out there somewhere.It’s come home.” She traces the increased concern about the issue to U.S.President Reagan’s election three years ago.Renewed debate about star wars and ballistic missiles, she said, left people asking, “Is this the only alternative, is this the only way we can survive?” Adams believes women have helped push the nuclear issue to the forefront and It in this year's presidential election “wo men are going to be the deciding vote.will probably rest on how they view the candidates in this world today."I think its clear that Reagan is respon sive to that.He’s moderating his posi lion.,” she said.PAST MEMBERS The bulletin, which numbers Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer among past members of its advising scientists has a circulation today of 25,000 in 70 eoun tries.Of those, 5,000 are institutions, inclu ding libraries, said Thomas Hazinski, general manager of the publication.”1 think our status and our importance far exceeds what are really relatively small numbers in circulation,” Hazinski said.The magazine features essays on the world environment, economy and other issues which flow from the arms control debate.Hazinski said the magazine circulates in the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries.The non-profit Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science Inc., which publishes the Bulletin, is “financially very healthy,” he said, due to subscription income and contributions.And, yes, there is actually a clock.Made of blond wood and duplicating the drawing on the magazine cover, it was a gift to the Bulletin 15 years ago.It hangs silently on a wall of the Bulletin’s cluttered offices, its hands waiting for the next move.I Farm and business The RECORD—Monday, January JO, 19H4—5 the' #1___ggl «ecora MICT, SDI announce new programs for expansion, job creation By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — Three new programs aimed at creating businesses and jobs in the manufactoring sector were announced last week at a Sherbrooke Chamber of Commerce meeting by officials from the Québec Ministry of Industry, Trade and Commerce (MICT) and the Society for Industrial Development (SDI).Programs for financing new manufacturing businesses or expanding an existing one, to help recent graduates start a business or to help manufacturers do marketing studies were explained to a sometimes skeptical crowd of regional businessmen.The crowd was partieularily interested in the program to help recent graduates.Upon meeting a numberof conditions, anyone — no matter their age — who received a university or a CEGEP diploma in one of the professions within the last five years can apply for a $25,000 loan from any financial institution with two-thirds of the interest guaranteed by the government.Businessmen wondered aloud how they could put this to use in their own businesses but were skeptical that any financial institution would loan such an amount to a recent graduate with only the interest guaranteed.Paul Meunier, regional director of the MICT, said the criteria anyone applying for the loan must meet would probably satisfy most loan institu tions.“This is an unprecedented type of program,” he said.“Our youth will be able to use it to start a business or to research one.Since the guaranteed loan is available by the individual and not by the project groups can pool the money.We are counting on them.” The MICT is counting on graduates but only if they can find the backing of someone who has experience in the business they are trying to get into.“Sort of an advisor,” said Meunier.He feels this is one of the conditions that will make the program more interesting to loan institutions The market-study program offers small to medium-sized manufacturers that have their headquarters in Québec and have been around for over a year, various grants to help get their products on the market.The MICT will finance 60 per cent of expenses to study a market to a maximum of $15.000.The same is offered to businesses hiring a consultant.The MICT will also finance 40 per cent of the costs of designing a catalogue or brochure up to $10,000.“This program existed in 1983 and it was such a success we ran out of money,” Meunier said.“It is aimed at dynamic manu factoring businesses with less than 250 employees.” The SDI’s program to finance new or existing manufacturing enterprises cames from a bill passed in the National Assembly in 1971.It was amended in 1982 to include businesses that offer services to manufacturers, such as computer companies.It has been a success so far, claims Jean-Guy Leclerc, a financial analyst for the SDI."We spent $176 million and created 35,000 jobs before deciding to expand to help other businesses,” he said.“Over 30 financial institutions have participated in it.” The program offers businesses that have 25 per cent of their activities in manufacturing an interest rate insurance that covers 65 per cent of the difference between an average rate set by the SDI and the going rate.The loan cannot have a term longer than five years to be eligible, or be bigger than $10 million There is no minimum Recycling businesses are also eligible.The tw o MICT programs are so new this year the application forms still haven’t come back from the printer.However, complete information on all the programs can be had by calling the regional MICT or SDI offices in Sherbrooke.1983’s pulp and paper recovery expected to continue in ‘84 — CPPA MONTREAL (CP) — Shipments of newsprint, pulp and other paper products increased last year and the prospect is for further increases in 1984, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association said last week.The year 1983 “was one of recovery” for the industry with total shipments at 20,225,000 tonnes, or 11 per cent over the depressed level of 1982, the CPPA said in a statement.Newsprint shipments last year rose-to 8.5 million tonnes, or five per cent more than in 1982, but were still considerably below the record of 8.9 million tonnes achieved in 1978 and again in 1981, the association said.Newsprint shipments to the United States were up by eight per cent and to the Canadian market by five per cent.Overseas shipments declined by seven per cent.Consumption of newsprint in the U.S.rose by five per cent, reflecting increases in the volume of newspaper advertising as well as a small increase in circulation.The statement, issued prior to the annual CPPA convention in Montreal, said economic growth in Canada and the United States was expected to continue in 1984.Total shipments by the Canadian industry in 1984 are forecast to rise to 21.8 million tonnes, an increase of eight per cent over last year.Shipments to the Canadian market are forecast to rise by about eight per cent to reach 4.5 million tonnes, those to the U.S.by 10 per cent to 11.3 million and overseas exports by four per cent to 5.9 million.However, the market acosss North America could be greatly affected by how the U.S.administration deals with its massive deficit, said David Wilson, the association's director of economic and statistical services.Wilson said economists feel U.S.government deficit problems will probably be put off until after this fall's presidential election.But without a drop in U.S.federal borrowing requirements, interest rates are likely to rise, with corresponding serious effects to both sales and capital expan sion in the pulp and paper industry, he said.NEAR CAPACITY The association statement said in- creases in shipments of all products in 1983 were such that the industry as a whole was operating at about 90 per cent of capacity by the end of the year, with some sectors at about 95 per cent.Projections for 1984 in specific cate- gories are for an operating rate of 92 per cent for newsprint, up from 85 per cent last year; 90 per cent for printing, writing and sanitary papers, no change; and 93 per cent for packaging papers and boards, as well as market pulp, up from 88 per cent in 1983.Several thousand delegates from within the industry and from manufacturers for the industry, most from Canada and the United States, are expected to attend the week long CPPA convention, which this year is spread over three downtown hotels.Firms lease equipment despite higher costs VANCOUVER (CP) — Equipment leasing has become a fact of life for many companies even though it continues to be more expensive than outright purchasing, says Bob Graham, president of First City Capital Ltd.First City, which has an equipment leasing portfolio worth about $350 million, is one of the largest leasing firms in Canada.“It's been growing rapidly in Canada and continues to grow,” Graham said in an interview.“Even during the difficult times last year, in fact because of the difficult times per- haps, equipment leasing grew and we had a very good year in the last two years.“We act exactly like your bank.You decide on the piece of equipment you want, you decide on the supplier of the equipment, the capability of the equipment and the price of the equipment.“We then come along and buy the equipment at the price you negotiated and we lease that piece of equipment to you over a period of time with no regards to the maintenance and warranties — those are all your responsi- Montreal contract losers turn to U.S.army MONTREAL (CP) — Matrox Electronic Systems, losers on a contract to supply microcomputers to Quebec schools, has turned to the United States Army in hopes of winning a $200-million contract to supply video discs for the Ml Abrams battle tank.The Montreal firm has been awarded a $350,000 development contract by the U.S.Army to develop an electronic repair manual, using the discs, for the Ml tank.Its competitors are Sony Corp.of Japan and the American-Dutch Emerson Electric-Philips consortium.The winner will be given a contract to supply 40,000 of the video-disc systems at a cost of about $5,000 each.Matrox sales engineer Christian Morin said the U.S.Army wants to have a video-disc repair manual for its new tanks because a whole truck is needed to carry the repair manual in book form.“With the video disc, all the information required can be stored inside the tank and a computer can explain to the mechanic, through images, what repairs are needed.” HAND OVER Matrox will hand over a prototype of the system to the U.S.Army in May.B.C.sea farms promising VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia virtually ignores potentially important sea crops other parts of the world have pioneered and exploited, says a University of Victoria biologist.Patrick Lucey says mariculture — farming marine plants and sea life — has vast promise along British Columbia's 43,450 kilometres of unpolluted, nutrient-rich coastal waters.One million tonnes of fish.shellfish, shrimps, prawns and seaweeds worth $1 billion is harvested annually, mainly by Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines, Lucey said.As whole food or processed and refined into extracts, “their usefulness can’t be underestimated.” But Lucey admitted that because of market conditions and trends, mariculture can be a risky business.For it to work in Canada, mari-culturists would have to break into foreign markets, change conservative investing habits and reduce labor costs.Other discouragements to development of mariculture are dis- puted federal-provincial jurisdiction, native claims and the argument that harvesting sea plant crops will affect established fisheries, said Lucey.HAS SPECIALISTS He said British Columbia has about 500 seaweed species and many specialists with vast knowledge of the subject, most of them at the University of B.C., but no commercial producers of marine seaweed.The United States, Japan and the industrialized West consume most of the extracts of seaweed, notably in pharmaceuticals, food processing, dairy products, baked goods, beverages and confections.“It seems reasonable there’s a fairly important market there,” Lucey said.Natural seaweed was harvested in British Columbia from the 1940s to the 1970s when government stopped it to assess the resource, he said.There has been considerable study of red and brown species with industrial potential and it is estimated that the Queen Charlotte Islands and the west coast of Vancouver Island could yield about 500,000 tonnes a year.One potentially useful seaweed is known to grow well in winter, another during summer, allowing a year-round harvest, Lucey said.“According to the Americans who came to see us two weeks ago, excellence will be the main criterion in awarding the contract,” said Morin.“They have assured us there are no hidden political criteria as was the case in Quebec for the school microcomputers.” Quebec Premier René Lévesque announced in Paris last November the school computer contract had been awarded to Bytec-Comterm Inc.of Montreal, skipping the regular bidding procedure to the chagrin of potential bidders, including Matrox.Bytec-Comterm will make French Matra computers here under licence.Matrox also had a French partner, Olivetti-Logbax, in its bid.“We have been dealing with the Americans and it doesn’t matter if you're Chinese, American or whatever.If you have the technological knowhow at a good price, you’re going to get it.” PRODUCT BETTER Morin said Matrox is confident its technology is superior to that of its competitors.The company was founded in 1976 by two former Canadian Marconi Co.employees.It sells 95 per cent of its production outside Québec and anticipates sales of $15 million this year.The video disc, originally conceived for the home-entertainment market, has lost out to the video cassette because people like to record their own programs, Morin said.The video discs made by Matrox are metal and pressed in the same way as phonograph records at a-TOst of about $10 each.They are coated withplastic and read by a small laser beam so they don’t get scratched.The disc spins at 1,800 revolutions a minute and can hold 2,400,000 kilobytes of information, the equivalent of the 400,000 pages or the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.The firm hopes to market a civilian version of the system that can store moving television images, electronic information, text, sound and graphs.It can also be used to store gover nment and other documents and of-fersa cheap way to transport information.Morin said telephone companies are thinking of using the technology to record all international telephone calls and radio stations could transcribe their entire audio disc libraries on a few video discs.bilities.It’s a financing transaction, although it’s called equipment leasing.” EXPANDS SERVICE First City recently expanded its leasing services to include lower-priced items in its leasing portfolio in addition to the medium and high-priced items it has arranged leases on for several years.Graham said the decision to enter all levels of the market —so that First City now leases equipment with values from $501) through several million dollars indicates that the company considers leasing a financing tool that is here to stay.“That (low-ticket leasing) is an administrative-intensive area and we thought about it carefully before we got into it.There was one major competitor in Canada, who was not a Canadian company, and who didn’t seem to be doing the job.“There was a host of small ones around, little local companies.So we we went to the marketplace and asked major suppliers oTequjpment if they would be interested in our supplying such a service.They were all very happy about our entry into the market.” Graham said First City likes to work in conjunction with sunoliers be cause “it multiplies our sales force” and helps ensure that the equipment it leases is reliable.It is possible to lease anything from survival suits for arctic oil rigs to the ships that service oil rigs, he said.The only condition is that the equipment last the term of the lease.MUST BE RELIABLE “We would like it generally to have proven itself because if the client starts to have a lot of repair problems or maintenance he’s very unhappy.We generally deal with well-known brands.” Graham said the reasons clients lease instead of buy have more to do with accounting and tax considerations than anything else.Leased equipment can be written off for tax purposes at the rate at which it actually depreciates, leasing costs come from operating funds rather than capital reserves and no down payment is required.When these factors are considered, leasing may not be the most expensive option, he said.“The majority of the top companies in Canada are leasees of ours.” Nor does leasing stop at the private sector.A major school district in the Vancouver area has done $4 million to $5 million worth of leasing business in the last three years since the British Columbia government began tightening the education budget, said a school official who asked not to be named.“If there’s a real requirement for equipment and there’s insufficient funds in the capital equipment budget then the easiest way is to lease," he said."Definitely you pay more for the equipment in the long run But the end justifies the means.It's the only option we have.” Join the majority- Bea non* smoker LAST PHASE NEW OPENING RESTAURANT LA NOUVELLE MAISON DU DRAGON Specializing: Chinese Food HOST.Joe Woo 175 Mam St Cowansville, Que.Shopping center DAILY SPECIALS: *3” Licenced 514-263-5522 ^ n befm • Corvée rate of 9V2 % subsidy ^Jg^^ore advantages For further information : Ùv Quelfêô) MCOOÇ/Up K&xlô U>0iÂ.Quebec city: 643-7676 4 6—Th»- RECORD—Monday, January 30, 19K4 Living SccurB The Spinal Column By DR.RICHARD ARGÂLL CHIROPRACTOR Your Children.Your children are the most valuable possessions of humanity.Through them the universal scheme will be unfolded Through their actions humanity will either elevate to new conscious heights or will continue on its path of self-inflicted self annihilation.Hut, the choice of whether your child will be an ancestor to a harmonious, healthy world or one which continues to perpetuate our present destructive existence lies not with him or her, but with you.The Parents’ Role.1 lave you ever considered your role in the desti ny of the universe?Whether you want to or not, you have a role to play.You can either accept your part and perform well, or you can add to the existing chaos.The stage is set.The script is written.An Organized World.The universe is organized; all aspects of our universe affect each other and adherence to certain basic laws will allow us to fit effortlessly into this organization.The atomic scientist recognizes this organization in the simplest atom, hydrogen, whose single electron flows in an organized chartable path.The astonomer follows the orbits of millions of planets and can accurately chart where each one will be at any given time.Why?Because they function in an oranized manner, each exerting controls over the other so that the universe is at all times balanced.You are a small part of the universe but an important part.An Organized Body.The human body is also organized.Its 25 to 30 quadrillion cells function in a coordinated manner.When they do, the body maintains a state of balance, a condition known as health.All of us were born with this innate potential.There is one system whose function is to keep all the parts of the physical body coordinated.This allows the physical and mental aspects of each individual to be perfectly integrated.This communications network is the nervous system, and it is aptly called the master control system of the body.Keepthenervoussystem freeof interference, and the body stays innately healthy.But, interfere with the nervous system, disrupt the communication channels, and the innate harmony is lost.This loss of harmony is seen in many different ways.It appears as physical conditions of which there are over 1,864 different types.It appears as mental disharmony.Often the disharmony is so subtle that we see no outward signs at all, especially in children.Why?Because the interference to the nervous system may persist unnoticed for years until it has caused enough damage that physical and mental symptoms appear.Your Children Deserve Chiropractic care.Periodic chiropractic checks are essential to your child's health and thus to the health of the world.If interference does occur, where does it occur?The nervous system can only be interfered with where the nerves exist the bony articulations of the spine.By regular analysis of the spine, this interference can be located.When does this interference occur?Usually at birth.We have made childbirth, in this country, an operative procedure.With the advent of induced and suppressed labors, pain-killing depressants and unnatural antigravitational positions, it has become necessary to use force, either by hand or forceps, to deliver the child.Thus, many children are twisted and manipulated at birth, causing the vertebrae of the neck to interfere with the delicate nervous system.The result is a child who expresses less than the perfect harmony that lies within; a child whose physical and mental being is one of chaos rather than organization; a child who lives to be 1,40, or 70 years old, instead of 140-180, which scientists tell us we each have the potential of living.Even our few years on earth are lived in physical, mental, and social disease.Chiropractic is concerned with finding interference to the coordinator, the nervous system, and w ith correcting this interference so that children can begin expressing 10071 of their physical and mental capacities.Even children have a price tag on their little heads WINNIPEG (CP) — Kids don’t come cheap.This year in Winnipeg, for example, one study suggests an eight-year-old girl will cost her parents $2,060 for food, clothing, transportation and other essentials.That’s a bare-bones figure provided by the Manitoba government which doesn’t include such things as snacks at McDonalds, designer jeans or piano lessons.Nor does it include the cost of housing, day care or baby sitting.However, it’s probably enough to make prospective parents whip out their calculators and draw up balance sheets to get some idea of where the bottom line for bringing up baby falls.Ruth Berry, a family studies authority at the University of Ma- nitoba, says the cost of having children has swelled so much parents must think of a child in new terms.“Children have changed in value to some families, from a productive good who could go out and earn money to a consumptive good,’’ she said.“It’s a rather mercenary way of looking at it but you have to.’’ Berry says too little emphasis is put on educating young people about the financial implications of starting a family.Figures on what it costs to raise a child to age 18 vary.The Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto’s family budget guidebook placed the cost in 1981 at $84,000.COST $200,000 In 1981, Financial Post Maga- zine figured a child would cost a staggering $200,000 if 10-per-cent inflation were considered for each year up to age 18.The Manitoba Health Department’s home economies directorate also compiles figures on the costs of raising families.However, Manitoba provides no full estimate of birth-to-18 costs, concentrating instead on samples of costs for certain age groups.Nor does it take into account some expenses included in other studies.The Manitoba study found the grand total of raising a girl in Winnipeg from age three to 18 is only $34,887.While it is possible to get by on less than the figures indicated by some studies, today’s parents tend to spend more on their children than the parents of the pre- vious generation.Berry says there is a heavy guilt factor involved in spending on children, since many mothers now go back to full-time jobs weeks or months after giving birth.Parents put emphasis on finding time to play with the children but still tend to overpurchase to compensate for being absent so much of the time, she said.“A really good example of what parents seem willing to do are those Cabbage Patch dolls,” said Berry, referring to the pre-Christmas mania that had some people willing to spend hundreds of dollars for the dolls.“I think we consider more things essential that we found discretionary 15 years ago —like color TV sets,” she said.“The same holds true for the child-care market.Things like expensive walkers and swings are deemed necessary now.” One Manitoba study found that between the ages of eight and 18 a girl will eat $11,288 worth of food in 1983 dollars and another $5,650 will go for clothing.Berry says it’s possible for parents to get by on smaller amounts and “you have to be able to say no.” There’s also no evidence to support the idea that spending more or less on a child produces a better son or daughter in the end.And there’s even less evidence to suggest couples base decisions on child-rearing solely on the basis of costs.“I don’t think money ever stops anybody,” Berry said.Project works to help people kick habits for good OTTAWA (CP) — Many people attend weight-control or stopsmoking programs only to find they revert to their former habits once the program ends.That, says Alison Black, is the main problem with present programs.Healthstyles, a health promotion project started in January 1983, hopes to stop the trend.“Many people .stop smoking or lose weight,” says Black, 38, the project co-ordinator.“But then three months down the road they start smoking again or gain back their lost weight because they still haven't learned to cope with stress or change." She says it takes time to change behavior and that’s why Healthstyles has an 18-month follow-up program of support that makes it effective.RECEIVED GRANT The project was developed by the Centretown Community Health Centre in downtown Ottawa.The centre, a non-profit organization, received a $1.1-million grant from the W.K.Kellogg Foundation for its development.The idea of the program is “promotion rather than prevention,” says Black.“The focus is not on the risks involved with potentially harmful behavior, but on the immediate benefits that will accrue from a healthy lifestyle.“The health educator motivates people to make changes by stressing, for example, that if they stop smoking they’ll lower their chances of getting lung can- cer.But the idea of risk and disease for most people is way in the future.They don’t believe that anything is going to happen to them.“Whereas if you talk now about well being and how you feel in the present — what your energy level is like and how often you get sick — people can relate to that.They will be motivated more if they concentrate on the here and now.” TAKES WEEKEND The core of the program is a 2'/i-day-weekend workshop for groups of 15 to 20 people.During workshops, participants discuss health behaviors and the importance of self-awareness and selfacceptance.Physical, mental and social aspects of health are emphasized.After the weekend workshop, participants outline to Healths-tyle personnel the lifestyle changes they hope to achieve.Each group meets after the first, third, seventh, 12th and 18th months to discuss progress and difficulties experienced in changing their behavior.During the first month, each participant receives a weekly phone call from staff to review progress and outline goals for the next week.At the end of the first month, telephone support is arranged among group members.NEED PHONE LINK Jim Morrison, 41, a member of the centre, thinks the telephone support is essential.“One of the most important things was the follow-up calls to see if I was still on track, to provide support.When someone’s checking, you want to be able to say yes, I’m doing it.” Black expects about 660 in the program by September, when they stop accepting participants.To date, about 400 are enrolled.Once all participants have completed the 18-month followup, the entire program will be evaluated by the centre and the University of Ottawa’s department of epidemiology and community medicine.The program’s findings, expected by September 1986, will be forwarded to the Ontario Ministry of Health, health centres in Canada and to professional associations in Canada and the United States.Cat staffers find their love a little misunderstood by others VANCOUVER (CP) — When Castro died at age 14, Gail Cle-vette couldn't bear to be parted from her faithful cat.So, she had him stuffed.Now.with white forepaws primly and forever together, the mongrel sits on top of the Clevettes' television set in their east end home.Gail and her husband, Randy, are cat proud souls and talk about their cats the way some people talk about their children.“Castro was born on Nov.25, 1963,” Mrs.Clevette said Tuesday.“He used to sleep with me and sit on the sink while I took a shower.He worshipped me and I him.“After he died, 1 couldn’t bear to put him in the cold ground.1 had him stuffed and anybody who sees that as weird doesn’t have any love in their heart.” She thinks people would understand if they'd seen the way Fonzie (another cat) mothered over Castro while he was dying of cancer.GOOD BUDDIES “Fonzie and Castro were good buddies,” Mrs.Clevette said.“When we first put Castro on the TV set, Fonzie used to clean his fur and sleep beside him.” Mrs.Clevette, 39, has four children.Now that they’re grown up, she dotes instead on cats.Once, she had 23 cats and 10 dogs, but unsympathetic welfare people complained and she reduced the brood to five cats and just one dog, Chimo, a German Shepherd cross.Although Castro has been sitting on the television set for seven years, Mrs.Clevette said she only decided to go public about him now because she wants others to know that for a mere $275 they too can enshrine the memory of a loved one.Castro is the work of taxider- mist Steve Kulash, of nearby Burnaby, but his price for a stuffed cat has risen to $375.These days, Charlie, who has won a trophy case full of ribbons at shows put on by the B.C.Cat Fanciers’ Association, is the Clevettes’ favorite.Although they’re on a tight budget with Randy unemployed.they say when Charlie cashes in, he’ll be taken to the taxidermist and then assume his rightful place next to Castro.High resistance to carcinogens could cause cancer CHALK RIVER, Ont.(CP) — People with high resistance to cancer-causing agents may actually be more susceptible to cancer, says Dr.Malcolm Paterson, a scientist with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.and a leading expert in his field.Paterson, 39, says normal cells bombarded with carcinogens die before cancer can spread.But cells taken from patients with high resistance survived the carcinogens — but they suffered sufficient damage to bring on cancer.“Maybe there’s a mechanism we haven’t been considering where increased resistance means cells survive at the expense of spreading cancer,” he says.“Killed cells don’t spread.This is the first evidence I know of that there is a viable alternative for how malignancy might develop in some cancers.” Paterson, considered a world leader in genetic aspects of cancer, is conducting experiments with the help of $1.3 million from the U.S.National Cancer Institute.He also is involved in developing a simple test to identify people with a genetic defect giving them five times the normal risk of developing the disease before age 45.The test could be used to screen nuclear workers who face increased risks of radiation-induced cancer if they carry the gene found in one of every 100 people.Atomic Energy, a Crown corporation, is involved in developing nuclear power systems and medical-therapy equipment.Dr.William Blat-tner, chief of the cancer institute’s family study section in Bethesda, Md., describes Paterson’s research as exciting.“Ultimately, the experiments are really aimed at dissecting out how the process works so someday we may know how to interfere and control cancer,” Blattner says.Wealthy JtoartJ 1*0 gtan.htart fund m « SEX SHOWS MONDAYl SCRATCH GAME • BIS BLACK TOWERS • HARD LIQUOR «BEER «DANCE AT YOUR TABLES «SCRATCH YOUR TICKETS TUESDAY RETRO EVENING • PRIZES (RETRO DRINKS) WEDNESDAY LADIES’ NIGHT • FREE DRINKS CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY WITH US & RECEIVE SOUVENIR GIFT FOR RESERVATIONS: 5G6-4161 AT ADAM & EVE IT'S ALWAYS A PARTY 85 THERRIEN • SHERBROOKE • 566-4161 LENN0XVILLE DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ST.FRANCIS PROTESTANT SCHOOL BOARD 257 Queen Street, Lennoxville, QC JIM 2A5 REGISTRATION 1984/85 Registration of all Protestant and Non-Catholic Kindergarten and Elementary students of the Lennoxville District School Board and the St.Francis Protestant School Board will begin: MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1984 and continue until FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1984 A) ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION A form to be completed by a parent will be sent home with the students presently attending a school under the jurisdiction ot the Lennoxville District or the St.Francis Protestant School Boards B) NEW STUDENTS Parents may register their child, Monday through Friday, at the nearest school of the Lennoxville District or St.Francis School Boards bringing with them the student's birth certificate and, either producing the student's Certificate ot Eligibility for instruction in English or making an application for a Certificate of Eligibility.SCHOOL Ayer's Cliff Cookshire Lennoxville North Hatley Pope Memorial Princess Elizabeth Sawyerville Sherbrooke Sunnyside St.Francis Asbestos-Danville-Shipton ADDRESS TELEPHONE Sanborn St., Ayer’s Cliff 838-4983 Cookshire 875-3785 1 Academy, Lennoxville 569-5103 North Hatley 842-2491 Bury 872-3771 420 Bellevue, Magog 843-4847 Sawyerville 889-2263 242 Ontario, Sherbrooke 562-3515 1 Main, Rock Island 876-2469 355 College, Richmond 826-3737 R.R.#3, Danville 839-2352 Flugh C.Auger Director General Welcome Hôtel £e president OFFERS YOU IN OUR ^imng-'Rvvm =kChaumière= IHE BUSINESS LUNCHEON Monday To Friday from 12:00 Noon To 2:30 P.M.Our Chefs Complimentary Entrée Home Made Soup Grilled Beef Tenderloin Potatoes & Vegetables Salad Bar (All You Can Eat) Coffee or Tea $495 Try our new "Popular Priced Menu" Monday To Friday from 12:00 Noon To 2-30 P.M.Grilled Beef Tenderloin with A Seafood Filled Scallop Shell Potatoes & Vegetables Salad Bar (All You Can Eat) s695 3535 King St.West Reservations: 563-2941 i Tht* KKCORI>—Monday.January I JO, I9HJ—7 Reilly House committee holds first meeting of year Sawyerville Alice Wilson Deaths Deaths Deaths MANSONVILLE (BN) — On January 7at 7:30p.m.the first regular meeting of the Reilly House Committee was held in the Tea Room with ten present.Arthur Aiken, President.called the meeting to order.Executive officers for 1984are: President, Arthur Aiken; Vice-President, Ron Noel; Secretary, Bertha Nichols; Treasurer, Ralph Bushenbaum.Reports included: Craft Shop — Total sales of $15,000.00 to the end of 1983 with 62 people exhibiting crafts.Clothing store was very busy also with total sales of $1923.75.As soon as renovations have been completed the complete variety will be available to the public.At present much is inaccessible.The Tea Room is still open Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m.The Tourist Bureau is a very successful operation which will continue as a valuable part of the Reilly House.Past projects have been completed and new ones will be undertaken as plans develop.A program for summer employment for students is being studied and interested parties may contact Jacques Marcoux.The Director-General for Employment from Sherbrooke plans to visit the Reilly House to verify rumours of unusual acti- vities following gover-nment grants to a struggling community centre.Mr.Jean Claude Guimond will be given a tour by Arthur Aiken and Jacques Marcoux.Mr.Andre Bachand.M.P., for Brome Missisquoi has already shown his definite approval.Three animators for the Tea Room, Craft Shop and Nearly New Clothing Store will be chosen from the Manpower office in Magog.Preferably bilingual, jobs are available for three people who are either unemployed or on welfare, either male or female.The present Katima-vik youth group have completed their work at the Reilly House.A second group will ar- Results B btoquOtx'c $100,000.00 i61191 rm 6/36 grand' prize \> TTT 3 Ho ns l 27-01-04 STFTg 14/ 294 7835 $232,202.50 $71,065.00 $725.10 $75.60 Tot«m«r$»71.$50,000 21204 Izl $1000 204 Z $50 1204 IÜM $250 04 S $5 Provincial.I 1362796 >$500,000 362796 z $50,000 62796 S I11,000 2796 796 96 $25 m.Super Lotoj *.,[mssr ^ $100,000 sa™»-1' 111C461 497A095 668C472 0538194 0548565 2048184 3706117 3581883 2693811 ttcfc ©# Umf 4 numbers tbovt $50,000 UMSdrçrttt $5,900 totAOÿtu $500 laaOâtÿu «100 Urtttfgta$10 ii GRAND ^ PRIZES $1,000,00g La Quotidienne® T W 3 4 M '*ttk «tirtirç 1 23-01-M | F S 983 588 663 239 029 899 ! 2964 6768 6968 8004 8048 8957 ^/°49SRAMp‘ PRIZE DTssbo.ooo.oo N 28-01-64 | [ 15 I 24 i 27 1 32 1 34 l~49 trim 242 17,670 K 321,153 $2,728,: $210, ,399.60 10,414.30 $2,600.30 $91.50 $10 25 $18,061,670.00 C*M>rata Quabac' — at ona of 98 avant* aponaorad by Loto-Québac Carnaval da I’adar TRACY Fab.10th to 18th For ixynimi of prim, •«« Dm 0*dc of ttckttt.trio cvtnr of aiKupowcY tM» lin ««dm» ofriciol Wtomrq lotritnhai pmoH/1 rive in March, .and a third is expected in June.The Reilly House project benefits greatly from these motivated young people from across Canada.Renovations are in progress in the kit-chen/tpurist bureau area; in the clothing rooms; and in the upstairs community events room.Many places have been insulated against the bitter cold weather.New electrical wiring will be installed beginning the week of January 9.Regrettably the long awaited tax number seems to be unavai-lablô to the Reilly House.Charitable organizations are gran ted tax numbers.The Reilly Hosue is a non profit organization, it is not considered a cha ritable one, since money is received for ser-vices rendered.The Reilly House still needs the monetary support of local or other interested people since there are concerns which are not covered by grants from the government.Other topics discussed were Cross Coun- HERNIA try ski trails and walking trails, tennis court, Country Inn, the need for continuing the present volunteer personnel (which includes the members'of the executive), and the general success of the community centre.An organigram was drawn by Arthur Aiken and Jacques Marcoux to denote the methods of dealing with problems which may arise within the Reilly House working groups.Each of the seven departments described are answerable to the President.If two or more groups conflict they are to approach the President to prevent friction between groups.The continued success of the Reilly House Community Centre depends on the complete cooperation from each area, from all persons, whether paid or volunteer.A copy of the organigram is posted in each room of the Reilly House.The meeting was adjourned at 10 p.m.889-2932 The Women's Institutes of Clifton and Sawyerville held a card party in the community Center on Sat., Jan 21, for the benefit of Second Mile Home.Prizewinners; Ladies — Mabel Hall, Mildred Waldron and Marjorie Rowland.Gents — Lincoln Matthew.Herbert Loveland and Basil Gaulin.For taking a trick with four hearts — Gordon French.Door prizes — Kathleen Mackay, Wil da Robinson, Alice Wil son, Alphia Lowry.A drawing was held and winners were vouchers of $20.(M) from A.Charpentier of Lowry’s store won by Mrs.Andrea LaPerle.$10.00 voucher Gagnon Store won by Lincoln Matthew.$5.00 cash won by Zeph Rousseau.* * * Recent callers of Mrs.Ruby Waldron were Mrs.Hilda Little, Sand Hill, Mr.and Mrs.Lawrence Kinnear, East Angus, and Mr.and Mrs.Don MacRae, Lennoxville.Brownie news KNOWLTON (KT) — On December 21 the 1st Knowlton Brownie Pack enrolled 12 new Brownies bringing their number to 29.The new Brownies repeated their promise and were welcomed to their sixes.Leaders present were Dot Coulson, Debra Lenz and Deborah „ Lawson.The new Badge Secretary, Debbie Ladouceur was welcomed and a special thank-you extended to Allison Bailey for her guidance in the music department and to Sue Parker for preparing the Christmas crafts with the Brownies.Astro • Modem method for Inguinal hernia.• Belt strengthening & supporting muscles & holding your hernia.• Belt without elastic.• Comfortable with light belt Information & adjusting tree SOS.! ORTHOPEDIC SERVICES FERNAND GR0LEAU 604 King SI.E.Sherbrooke 566-5551 Bernice Bede Osol cYour ‘Birthday Jan.31,1904 There are strong possibilities you'll have more involvements this coming year that bring you before the public.Always conduct yourselt in ways that will enhance your image.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) There is a chance that you are presently spending too much time on goals which may not gratify you once they are attained.Recheck your targets.What’s in store for you where your work or career is concerned is revealed in Aquarius's Astro-Graph for the year ahead.Mail $1 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio City Station, N.Y.10019.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Others may find you difficult to please today because ot your reluctance to honestly express what Is really disturbing you.Open up a bit.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Screen carefully persons with whom you associate today.Avoid being too closely identified with one who is always stirring up trouble.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Objectives important to you may not be of equal interest to your companions today.They could dissuade you from your goals.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Normally you’re the type who tries to be helpful.However, today you might pretend to be unavailable to one who needs assistance.CANCER (June 21-July 22) There is a possibility you may leave too much up to chance tor your own good today.Probabilities could prove to be unreliable allies.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) An old issue which caused triction in your household may surface again today.Strive to treat'it' more tactfully this time.uti VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Even though co-workers may do things that displease you today, try to look the other way Caustic remarks or criticism could create serious problems.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Be a trille more security-conscious than usual where your prized possessions are concerned today.Carelessness may invite loss or theft.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Being too insistent upon doing things your way today can cause frustrations.Handle with tolerance conditions that inhibit your independence.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Actions motivated by spite or a desire to get even with another will backfire and leave you worse off than when you begun.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) On occasion your better judgment has deserted you and you've been too generous to the wrong people.This might be one of those days.QLILLIAMS.Orval Phelps — Died peace fully at his home in Wa terloo on Friday, Ja nuary 27, 1984.on his 80th birthday.Beloved husband of Ethel Spencer.Dear father of Howard of Granby, Bar bara (Mrs.Warren Johnston) of Waterloo, eight grandchildren, and one g rea t-granddaughter.Dear brother of Stanley of Foster, a deceased brother Edgar and sister-in-law Mrs.Aileen Quilliams.Also survived by several nieces and nephews.A memorial service will be held at a later date at St.Paul's United Church.In lieu of flowers contributions to the South Stukely Cemetery Fund, e/o Mrs.Vi-vianne Bockus, sec.South Stukely, Que., would be greatly appreciated Funeral arrangements by the Leo-Paul Ledoux Funeral Home Inc., 5034 Foster St., Waterloo, Que.ROBINSON, James Reginald —Suddenly at Granby Hill, Que.on January 20, 1984 in his 72th year, beloved husband of Margaret (Coupland), loving father of James Edward Robinson, loving grandfather to Kerry Lee, Kevin.Karen, Keith, Kathy and Kristy, dear brother of Muriel (Mrs.Norman Coupland).Funeral service was held Monday January 23rd.Followed by internment in Pinewood Cemetery, Granby, Que.SMITH—Peacefully at the Griffith McConnell Infirmary, Montreal, on January 20, 1984, Alice Victoria, beloved daughter of the late Rev.W.I.and Mrs.Victoria (Elliott) Smith, in her 87th year.A private funeral service was held on Monday January 23rd.The Rev.Bob Williams of Fairmount St.Gilles United Church officiated.Memorial donations to the Canadian Bible Society would be gratefully acknowledged.Waterloo One afternoon recently, Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Grubb and Joanne, were calling on Mrs.Elsie Williams and Miss Beulah Williams at Iron Hill.Also on Mrs.Beatrice Williams and Brian of the same place.BITS AND BYTES Bits and Bytes, a correspondence course offered by the ministère de l’Éducation, is to be broadcast over the CBC English television network beginning Saturday, February 4 at 11:00 a.m.By signing up for this series of 12 half-hour courses, you will receive all the necessary courseware and will benefit from a quality support system.At the end of the course, the ministère de l’Éducation will issue a certificate in your name.All this for $59 ! 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Date.EMERY.Geneva Martha—At the CHU Hospital on Friday, Janua ry 27, 1984.Geneva Emery, in her 82nd year Beloved wife of the late Willis Emery Dear mother of Do rothy and her husband Bert Rice of St.Louis, Missouri.Phyllis and her husband Terry Skeates of Waterville and the late Joyce and Winston.Also loving grandmother of Sharon, Russell.Joanne.Jeffery, Brian and Michael.Funeral service was held at Hatley United Church on Monday, Jan.30 at 2:30 p.m.Rev, Jane Aikman officiated, assisted by Bishop T.J.Matthews.Interment in Hatley United Church Cemetery.Arrangements by Webster-Cass Funeral Home.McLEOD, Willard At the Grey's Home, Bury, Que., on Friday.January 27, 1984.Willard O McLeod of Bury, in his 94th year.Beloved husband of the late Belinda MacLean.Rested at Bury Fune ral Home, where funeral service was held Sunday, Jan.29 at 2:15 p.m., Rev.Jim Lawson officiated.Spring interment at Bury Cemetery, Gould.Que O’BREAD Y.Michel — At the C.H.U.of Sherbrooke on Sat.Jan.28, 1984.Michel O’Bready, beloved son of Jacques O'Bready and Pierrette Marquis and dear brother of Mare and Maryse of Sherbrooke, in his 21st year.Resting at the Vel & Elkas Ine.Funeral Home, 601 Conseil St., Sherbrooke, tel.565-1155, where the funeral will leave on Tuesday for service in St-Bonifaee Church at 2 p.m.Inter ment St-Michel Cemetery.In lieu of flowers donations to the C.H.U.of Sherbrooke Foundation or Montreal Chil dren’s Hospital.Visitation 2 to 4, 7 to 10.COTE, Marcel Sud denly at his home in Waterloo on Thursday, January 26,1984, in his 53rd year Marcel Cote, beloved husband of Roxie Hiltz.Dear father of Carol and Brian of Waterloo.Dear son of Mrs.Lu tienne Cote of Montreal Son-in-law of Mrs.Alice E Hiltz of Nova Scotia.Dear brother of Yolande (Mrs Edmond Theriault) and Aline (Mrs.Romeo Ruel).Survived by several brothers in law.sisters-in-law and nieces and nephews.Rested at the Leo Paul Ledoux Funeral Home Inc.C.Bessette.Assistant Director, 5034 Foster St., Waterloo.Funeral service was held at the St.Bernardin Catholic Church on Monday.Jan.30 at 2 p.m , Father Marcel Pa rent eau officiated.Interment at St.Bernardin Cemetery.In lieu of flowers donations to the Quebec H e a r t F o u n d a t i o n would gratefully be appreciated.DEMERS, Anatole Si meon At the Monc ton Hospital.Moncton, N.B.on Friday.January 27.1984.Anatole Simeon Demers, age66 years, of 297 High St .Moncton, N.B., formerly of Danville, Que.Beloved husband of Alberta Smith Dear father of Mrs.Bonnie Findlay.Dear father of Robert, daughter-in-law Nicola, and grandchild Lisa of Moncton, N.B Brother of Mrs.Gertrude Nadeau o( Richmond.Que.Resting at Stuart-Lockwood Inc.Funeral Home, Danville.Que., Sunday evening from 7-9 p.m., Monday 2-1 and 7-9 p.m.Funeral service in Trinity United Church, Tuesday, Jan.31 at 2 p.m.Rev.Watson Glover officiating.Sitt ing interment Briellet L E N N O X V I L L E —Nearly new sale, held at St George’s Church hall.84 Queen St., Lennoxville on February 4th at 10 a.m., sponsored by St Monica’s Guild.l.O.ss * son ltd.FUflfRAL DIRECTORS Am S CUFF STANSTiAD 819-876-5213 SHERBROOKi 300 Qwttn Blvd N Webster Cass 819 562 2685 IINNOKVIUI « Btlvidere It R.L.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapels SHiRMOOKE fild 1,0 0077 tlNNOXVIUS 300 Quttn Blvd N olirDOt'^3/ / 71 Qimmmi St Gordon Smith Funeral Home SAWYStviui 819-562 2685 / 889-2231 cooximih PLEASE NOTE All — Births - Cards of Thanks - In Memoriams - Brieflets - Criers — should be sent in typed or printed.All of the following must be sent to The Record in writing They will not be accepted by phone Please include a phone number where you can be reached during the day BRIEFLETS (No dances accepted) BIRTHS CARDS OF THANKS IN MEMORIAMS 50c per count line Minimum charge $3.50 WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS/SOCIAL NOTES: No charge for publication providing news submitted within one month, $10.00 production charge for wedding or engagement pictures Wedding write-ups received one month or more alter event, $15.00 charge with or without 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shot at 134 of the first period.Feelers suffered a cut above the right eye w hen struck accidentally by Ryan Walter's stick at 11:38 and he left the game temporarily to receive six stitches.He was replaced by Doug Keans for the remainder of the period and Bob Gainey made it 2-0 with an assist from Robinson at lfi:17.Peelers returned to the Boston goal at the outset of the second period, but referee Kerry Fraser and linesman Ron Foyt were left to work the rest of the game alone as linesman Jim Christison was forced to leave the game because of food poisoning.Boston pulled to within 2-1 at 13:13 as Doug Kostynski scored his first NHL goal on a pass from Terry O’Reilly.Robinson then ignited the third-period outburst.Alfie Turcotte made it 4-1 before Rick Middleton of the Bruins scored a power play goal, his 33rd, at 7:55.Chris Nilan, Pierre Mondou and Mats Naslund then completed the rout.Mondou’s goal was unassisted and came while he was killing a penalty.In other games Sunday.Quebec Nordiques tied Hartford Whalers 5-5, Buffalo Sabres downed Pittsburgh Penguins 7-3.New York Rangers edged St.Louis Blues 3-2, Philadelphia Flyers tied Chicago Black Hawks 5-5, and Vancouver Canucks defeated New Jersey Devils 3-2.Saturday, Wayne Gretzky’s conse- cutive point-scoring streak was stopped at 51 games as Los Angeles Kings defeated Edmonton Oilers 4-2, Boston beat Winnipeg Jets 5-2, Detroit Red Wings edged New York Islanders 4-3, Montreal defeated Pittburgh 5-2, Quebec blanked Hartford 3-0, Washington Capitals trounced Toronto Maple Leafs 8-0 and Chicago beat Minnesota North Stars 4-2.Nordiques 5 Whalers 5 In Hartford, Michel Goulet scored his second goal of the night to give Quebec the tie.Goulet’s goal, his 42nd of the season, came during a power play with five minutes left, on a pass from Peter Stastny.Also scoring for Quebec were Wilf Paiement, with two, and Paul Gillis.Sylain Turgeon, with two, Mark Johnson, Risto Silta- nen and Tony Currie scored for Hartford, which extended its winless streak to nine games.Sabres 7 Penguins 3 Gil Perreault and Craig Ramsey each scored two goals in the third period as Buffalo extended its unbeaten streak to 13 games.Paul Cyr, Ric Soiling and Gilles Hamel also scored for the Adams Division-leading Sabres.Doug Sheddon scored two and Ron Floekhart added another for Pittsburgh.Perreault was playing his 1,000th NHL game, only the 52nd player in league history to do so.Rangers 3 Blues 2 In New York, Reijo Ruotsalainen’s second goal of the game with 7:22 remaining in the third period gave the Rangers the win.Anders Hedberg scored the other New York goal.Ber-nie Federko and Doug Wickenheiser replied for St.Louis.The victory lifted New York into first place in the Patrick Division, one point ahead of idle New York Islanders.It marks the first time since 1972 that the Rangers have been in first place this late in the season.Canucks 3 Devils 2 In Vancouver, Thomas Gradin fired two goals to give the Canucks their second consecutive win.Captain Stan Smyl, set up by Gradin, scored the other Vancouver goal as the Canucks ' evened their record at 2-2-1 since general manager Harry Neale took over behind the bench Jan.19 from Roger Neilson.Tim Higgins and Paul Gagne scored for New Jersey.Lafleur says no way to all-star appearance BOSTON (CP) — Guy Lafleui says he would refuse an invitation to play in Tuesday night's National Hockey League all-star game at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.Despite having scored 20 goals this season, the veteran right winger said Sunday he hasn’t received an invitation and won’t go if he does.He has already said he doesn’t deserve a berth on the team.A spot for a right winger has opened with the knee injury suffered by New York Islanders’ Mike Bossy.Lafleur, 32, who also has 24 assists, has bowed out of some previous all-star engagements because of injuries.The Canadiens lone representative on the Prince of Wales Conference team is left winger Mats Naslund.Jets drop weekend pair while Skipjacks stay out in front RKCORD/PKRRY HI ATON Sherbrooke goaltender Warren Skorodenski appears to be asking for help after making a save in the Jets’ 4-3 loss to Nova Scotia Voyageurs Friday A goal by Barry Melrose with 3:36 remaining in the game gave Adirondack Red Wings a 5-5 tie Sunday with Baltimore Skipjacks in American Hockey League action.Adirondack led 2-0 and 3-1 in the early going before Baltimore rallied to take a 5-4 lead on Ron Meighan’s goal at 6:58 of the third period.However, Melrose’s goal sent the game into a five-minute overtime period and Baltimore, with the best record in AHL, couldn’t find the net.In other league games Sunday night, Fredericton lost 3-2 to Moncton Alpines, New Haven Nighthawks ed-^ed Springfield Indians 6-5 in overtime, Nova Scotia Voyageurs trounced Binghamton Whalers 6-1, Rochester topped Hershey Bears 9-2, and St.Catharines Saints defeated Sherbrooke Jets 6-4.In Saturday games, Fredericton edged Binghamton 5-4, Hershey tied Baltimore 3-3, Nova Scotia downed Adirondack 7-3, St.Catharines beat Maine 6-5 and Springfield defeated New Haven 6-3.Baltimore had two goals from Paul Gardner and one each from Warren Young and Jim Hamilton.Scoring for Adirondack in addition to Melrose Manning sparkles as Gaiters stop U de S SHERBROOKE — The old saying: They don’t get older; they get better’, never rang truer than Friday night when the old boys from the Université de Sherbrooke Vert et Or faced off against Bishop’s University Gaiters.In a game scheduled as part of Bishop’s Winter Homecoming and loosely aimed at reviving the long-dormant hockey program at the U de S, an ’old’ veteran played the starring role in a 4-2 Gaiters' victory.Goaltender Terry Manning was the difference from start to finish with a little more emphasis on the finish.He allowed only a shot by Denis Drolet less than five minutes into the game and a second period ‘blast’ by Yvon Robert elude him and was the only reason the Gaiter's skin was saved in the final five minutes.The 37-year-old Manning was spectacular in the closing minutes of the game when the Gaiters were assessed overlapping penalties and Ver et Or coach Georges Guilbault elected to remove his goaltender in favor of a sixth attacker.The Bishop’s penalty killing unit held steady throughout the numerical disadvantage and Manning provided two superb glove saves to maintain the Gaiters’ two-goal advantage.But to keep the lead Bishop’s had to first establish one.After fallling behind on Drolet’s goal, the Gaiter’s came back and tied the score courtesy of Brien Gray.The Vert et Or went ahead again only to have Rob McLer-non pull Bishop’s even once more.Erik Iverson scored the eventual game winner for the Gaiters before Steve Mitchell added insurance for Bishop’s first win over the U de S since the 1972-73 season.The series, played for the Skinner and Nadeau Trophy, now stands at 15 wins, 12 losses and three ties overall in favor of the Vert et Or.Players from both teams later expressed an interest in continuing the once-bitter but now friendly rivalry and athletic directors Yvon Lamarche and Bruce Coulter from the U de S and Bishop's respectively both indicated that they would enjoy maintaining the yearly meeting.Manning deservedly was selected the game’s first star and McLernon and Drolet picked up numbers two and three respectively.» Hr , ^ i U : 'U' .- - ' -.AVf f RHCORD/PERRY BEATON Ron F e row ne raises his arms in celebration after his Bishop's University Gaiters scored during Friday night's game against the Université de Sherbrooke Vert et Or.KHDRD W RRY BEAlUN Things got a little sticky at some points when Bishop's University met Université de Sherbrooke Friday night.Yvon Robert (left) figured it was better to keep smiling after Bishop's Cliff Goodwin put the grab on him.JANUARY • JANUARY • JANUARY • JANUARY • Al your service since 1904 5 King SI.West, in front of Bus Terminal Free Parking in the rear J.N.BOISVERT & FILS IN FRONT OF BUS TERMINAL - SHERBROOKE - 562-0938 JANUARY • JANUARY • JANUARY • JANUARY were Randy MacGregor, Gerry Gallant, Jody Gage and Andre St.Laurent.Baltimore has a 29-12-10 won-lost-tied record, while Adirondack is five points behind the Northern Divisionleading Fredericton Express with a 23-19-10 record.Alpines 3 Express 2 In Moncton, Bert Yachimec’s goal with 21 seconds remaining in the second period proved the game-winner.After a scoreless first period, the Alpines’ Todd Strueby, Ross Lambert and Yachimec scored unanswered goals in the second frame.Fredericton battled back with two third-period goals by Grant Martin and Mark Kirton.Moncton is 24-22-5 for fourth place in the Northern Division, while Fredericton leads the Northern with a 29-21-3 record.Americans 9 Bears 2 In Rochester, Yvon Lambert recorded two goals and three assists to lead the Americans to the win.Mai Davis and Bob Mongrain collected two goals each, and defence-man Daniel Naud added a goal and four assists for the 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