The record, 14 septembre 1984, vendredi 14 septembre 1984

Knowlton prepares to host the fifth edition of Towns-hippers Day and Robert Palmer discusses the details with the force behind the action while Mike McDe-vitt looks at the expanding world of ‘serious’ music in Lennoxville.This, along with Tadeusz, What’s on and all the regulars in Townships week.o 0 RAINING TODAY LYNN ROTHNFY.AGE 6 mOKSHIRE PRIMARY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, September 14, 1984 40 cents weSüitiis * Births, deaths .12 Business.7 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8-9 City .3 This Soviet granny was right all along MOSCOW (AP) — For 43 years Zinaida Bragantsova has been telling people there was a Second World War bomb buried under her bed.Someone finally took her seriously and demolition experts found it and blew it up.Now she doesn’t have a house.It began in 1941 when Nazi troops advanced toward the Ukranian city of Berdyansk, the newspaper Literary Gazette reported this week.“One night at the very start of the war, she was sitting by the window of her home and sewing on her machine,” the newspaper said.“Suddenly a noise was heard, and a whistling close by.She got up and in the following moment was struck by a blast of wind.“When she came to, the sewing machine was gone and there was a hole in the floor,” as well as in the ceiling, the newspaper said.With the battle advancing on the town, there was no time for authorities to investigate the damage, so she patched up the roof and floor and continued living in the home throughout the war.After the war she wrote local officials several times to tell them there was an unexploded bomb under her house.And she became known to her neighbors as “the grandmother with her own bomb,” Literary Gazette said.BUILDS APARTMENTS But she didn’t get action and the paper suggested authorities suspected Bragantsova of telling her story to get one of the new apartments built around her neighborhood after the Second World War.“Years went by,” and Bragantsova, advancing into her 70s, became something of a city legend, the paper said.Recently, new telephone cable was being laid in the area and demolition experts were called in to probe for buried explosives, the paper said.Bragantsova decided to try again to bring her buried predicament to official attention, and officials decided to check.“Where’s your bomb, grandma?” asked the smiling army lieutenant sent to talk to her.“No doubt, under your bed?” “Under my bed,” Bragantsova answered dryly.The 74-year-old woman's bed was indeed placed squarely over the patched spot in the floor covering the 225 kilogram bomb, the paper said.Local militia evacuated 2,000 people from the apartment bt lildings surrounding Bragantsova’s small home.Wires were connected to the bomb and the army specialists exploded it.Bragantosova’s home was destroyed.But the newspaper says, “the grandmother, freed of her bomb, will soon receive a new apartment.” J.Bromont sculptor working hard for John Paul II v-'f’cfci “So much for the Pope.Now, what shall I wear for the Queen?” By John McCaghey BROMONT — Canadian talent and Eastern Townships marble were combined in what can only be imagined as a hectic flurry of activity and concentration this week as Denis Ha-pi put the finishing touches on the sculpture ‘‘FIAT’ which is to be presented to Pope John Paul II at Toronto’s Downsview Airport on Sept.21.It is expected the Supreme Pontiff will bless the work of art.It was commissioned by Toronto’s Church of St.Paul, the oldest Roman Catholic parish in the Ontario capital, and, in all probability, will be left for future viewing in the Queen Street church.Hapi said he originally thought he would cast the sculpture in bronze but the committee chaired by pastor Francis P.Corliss opted for stone.Then the search for white marble, a rarity in Canada, began.Hapi cited the cost of purchasing and transporting a block from Vermont as too costly, then he began hearing of an abandoned quarry in Ste.Anne de La Rochelle, northeast of Waterloo.He tracked it down and then visited it with the owner, 76 year old Mrs.Emma Dupré, of Montreal, whose grandfather developed the quarry.The first marble was used in construction of the church in nearby Bonsecours in 1881.Mrs.Dupré made a gift of the four- ton block, which was the birth of the statue.In its labor the sculptor sweated hard.The finished piece weighs about 3,900 lbs.FIAT represents the Immaculate Conception.An eight-months-pregnant woman, the three cords around her waist denoting dedication to the world of God, an absence of desires of worldly possessions, and obe- See STATUE, page 3 Secret meetings pave the way to Parliament Pot Counter and Rob Daly leave Canada today for three years of missionary work in Zambia By Merritt Clifton NORTH HATLEY — Most newlyweds go on a honeymoon.Newlyweds Rob and Patricia Caunter-Daly depart today (Friday) to do three years at least of missionary work in Zambezi, Zambia.Where’s that?Well, Zambezi lies near the western edge of Zambia, a landlocked nation of about 5 million, located in southern Africa.Immediate neighbors include the war-tom countries of Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, and the Congo.The nearest modern cities are in South Africa, but there’s no direct route to them from Zambezi because most black African nations don’t politically recognize South Africa.Zambezi lies along the Zambezi River, which can be found on every globe.Zambezi itself can be found on most maps, because Zambia has so few population centres.“But it’s a big dot,” Rob jokes.In actuality, Zambezi is about the size of Huntingville, where Rob and Pat were married on August 18.Most Zambezians are subsistance farmers, struggling against the worst drought in living memory.They have water enough to get by, and haven’t yet suffered the famines revaging other parts of Africa, but famine remains a none-to-distant threat.And the water they do have isn’t clean.Missionaries boil theirs, while many of the natives suffer from intestinal parasites.WORRIED ABOUT GOODBYES Having spent the past three years in Zambezi, Rob knows exactly what he’s getting into.Pat doesn’t, not quite.After living in North Hatley for 25 of her 28 years, “I’ve been so worried about saying goodbye to people,” she admits, “that I haven’t had time to worry about living in Zambia.I was scared of the idea at first,” she adds, “because it was such a strange place compared to what I’ve been used to, but I’ve been corresponding with some of the other missionary women and they’ve been really great.I know I’ll have friends when I get there.” Formerly a nursing assistant at the Grace Christian Home in Huntingville, Pat expects to divide her time in Zambia between nursing and tea- ching.ROB TEACHES BIBLE Rob, 33, teaches Bible knowledge to secondary students in Zambezi.“Grades 8 through 12,” he explains.“12 to 20 years old.You can’t really compare the educational system there to ours, though.The students there tend to be older, and they haven’t had the same opportunities early in life.” See NO, page 3 OTTAWA (CP) — Prime minister-designate Brian Mulroney began hammering together his new Conservative government Thursday, privately meeting some of the men and women he wants sworn into his cabinet Monday.And meanwhile John Turner wouldn’t face the cameras.Details were scarce, and even the location of Mulroney’s meetings was closely guarded by aides.But party insiders acknowledged their chief was personally meeting those on the inner circle whose names will be given to Gov.Gen.Jeanne Sauvé on Sunday.As outsiders searched for clues to the cabinet makeup, expected to resemble the Conservative shadow cabinet in the last Parliament, Tories were guessing about Mulroney’s plans for another key part of his new administration — the prime minister’s office.Details about staffing in Mulroney’s office had been expected today, but a Mulroney press aide said Thursday they might not be released until after Mulroney and his cabinet are sworn in.The people surrounding the prime minister will be among the most influential Tories on Parliament Hill, and their ranks are expected to include several friends and advisers who helped Mulroney throughout the election campaign.ORCHESTRATES CAMPAIGN Jean Bazin, an old friend from Mulroney’s university days at Laval in Quebec City, who orchestrated the successful Tory election campaign in Quebec, may now move into Ottawa.Pat MacAdam, another old friend who was Mulroney’s caucus liaison officer in the Opposition, is expected to stay.Charles McMillan, the economics professor who played a key role in Tory policy development and was rumored to be leaving after the election, now is expected to remain.While Mulroney prepared himself for government, the Tories announced plans to prepare their 117 rookie MPs for the House of Commons.British Columbia MP Robert Wen-man, in charge of seminars that trained Tory candidates for the election campaign, said freshman Conservative MPs will go through an intensive Parliament Hill orientation seminar on Tuesday, before the governing party’s first full caucus meeting the next day.The prime minister attended a reception on Parliament Hill for defeated Liberals, many expressing regret they would not be returning to the Commons.While the former MPs freely discussed their campaign mistakes, John Turner avoided reminders of his defeat and brushed aside requests for a picture-taking session.“No more holsteins for you, no more fairs, no more clouds,” Turner said to cameramen.“I can’t do it.” Charter of Rights saves hijackers from extradition MONTREAL (CP) — Two former Quebec terrorists won’t be extradited to the United States to stand trial on a 15-year-old airplane hijacking charge because U.S.authorities waited too long to act, a Quebec Superior Court justice ruled Thursday.Granting the American request for the extradition of Alain Allard and Pierre Charette would constitute a violation of “those fundamental principles of justice which underlie the community’s sense of fair play and decency,” ruled Mr.Justice Réjean Paul.The two former members of the Front de libération du Québec were indicted by a New York grand jury in 1975 for hijacking a New York-Miami National Airlines flight — now Pan American World Airways — to Cuba on May 5,1969.There were 75 passengers on board.The judge said the “extraordinary and unexplained” five-year delay between the accused’s return to Canada in 1979 and the time the case came before the court, violated the rights of the accused.Extraditing them would be a breach of their “right to life, liberty and security” as guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Moreover, Paul said, if Allard and Charette were convicted on the charges in New York they would face a long spell in jail.Hijacking carries a minimum 20-year sentence in the United States.FRIENDS APPLAUD Applause broke out at the back of the courtroom where Allard and Charette sat, and the two men jumped up to hug relatives and friends.“I think it’s normal in a country which respects the rights of people,” Charette told reporters later.“After all I had to be considered as I was — a normal citizen, ready to live honestly.“Most of all I’m happy to see that there is — really — justice.” Allard, 37, and Charette, 41, were identified in sworn statements by a pilot, a stewardess and a passenger as the men who hijacked the aircraft.They spent 10 years in exile in Cuba.American authorities were informed of their return to Canada in 1979.But it was only in May 1983 that a warrant was issued for the arrest of the pair, a prerequisite in applying for extradition.In August of that year, supporting affidavits were sent to the Canadian Justice Department.The extradition case went before the courts last May.WAITED YEARS “The judge based his decision on the fact that the Americans waited from 1969 to 1975 to charge them, and waited from 1975 to 1983 to have information sent to Canada,” said defence lawyer Ronald Picard.“This, despite the fact that they knew as of 1979 that these people were in Canada.‘ ‘They waited five years before they charged them, which I think in any kind of situation is unjust,” he added.“After they had paid their debt to society, got a job and started working as normal citizens, you don’t take them and send them back to the U.S.where they were facing a minimum 20-year sentence.” When the two returned to Canada, they stood trial and served short jail sentences for planting bombs for the FLQ in 1968 Mackasey: ‘Competent’ Harrison saved my bacon By Joyce Napier MONTREAL (CP) — Bryce Mackasey told a court Thursday that “thanks to the competence” of businessman Robert Harrison, he only paid off $50,000 of a $625,000 debt to the Bank of Montreal in 1981.Testifying at the preliminary hearing of his onetime financial adviser on 13 fraud-related charges, the former federal Liberal cabinet minister said he was “in the hands of Mr.Harrison” while he was settling his debt.Harrison, former president of the Montreal Board of Trade and former senior partner of the Touche, Ross ac-counting firm, disappeared two weeks ago.Sessions Judge John D’Ar-cy Asselin ordered the case to proceed in his absence.The judge also issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Harrison, who is accused of defrauding the Bank of Montreal in an attempt to help Mackasey pay off his debt.On Thursday, Joseph Silver, Harrison’s lawyer, asked Mackasey if he was on the board of directors of a Montreal machine-tooling company which helped him pay off his debt Mackasey said he was offered a directorship on the board of Les Ateliers d'usinage Hall Liée but turned it down.Previous testimony indicated that $400,000 of Mackasey’s debts were rolled over to a numbered company owned by Harrison.Through the transaction, arranged by Harrison, the numbered company purchased Mackasey’s $178,000 stock portfolio for $400,000.The numbered company borrowed the money from the Bank of Montreal with a guarantee from Les Ateliers, which went bankrupt six months later.Mackasey testified that at that time, he was “in the hands of Mr.Harrison.” Silver asked Mackasey how he settled the balance of his debt.Mackasey said the bank accepted $50,000 as a final settlement, "thanks to the competence of Mr.Harrison.” Outside the courtroom, Mackasey told reporters that spending eight gruelling days in the witness box “seemed like a lifetime,” and was “a very traumatic experience." He said he felt at times that he was the accused.He noted he had been cleared last year of influence peddling charges when a judge ruled there was “not a shred of evidence” that he had lobbied for federal contracts on behalf of Les Ateliers.Mackasey, a veteran Liberal MP, was appointed Canadian ambassador to Portugal on July 9 by the outgoing Liberal government but has yet to take up the post.The hearing continues today.Diana downgrades after ripping through Carolina WILMINGTON, N.C.(AP) — Hurricane Diana howled into the Carolinas on Thursday, causing more than $25 million damage as it ripped off roofs, toppled power lines and blocked roads before being downgraded to a tropical storm.At least one looting incident was reported, and many people who had left shelters were stranded.No deaths or injuries were blamed directly on the storm.which had hovered off the coast most of Wednesday before turning inland just after midnight.Diana rapidly lost strength and began breaking up after running ashore, and the National Weather Service downgraded it to a tropical storm late in the afternoon.All hurricane watches were discontinued at 6 p.m.But by then it had done so much damage that the weather service called it "the worst hurricane since Hazel” in the Cape Fear area.Hazel struck Oct.5-18,1954, killing 95 people in the United States and causing $280 million worth of property damage.Tornadoes that swept eastern North Carolina on March 28 caused $100 million in damage and killed 44 people.Preliminary damage estimates reached $20 million in three small coastal communities alone, said state Highway Patrol Capt.Robert Barefoot.He listed them as Yaupon Beach and Long Beach, both on Oak Island, which he said was “devastated.It is very, very severe." DAMAGE HEAVY Sky Conklin, inspections director for New Hanover County, said damage in the county and Wilmington was estimated at $5.6 million.The state suffered “some very great damage,” with the worst in Brunswick and New Hanover counties, said Gov.Jim Hunt, adding that details were sketchy because of the difficulty in reaching affected areas.An estimated 80 per cent or 45,000 of the customers of the Carolina Power and Light Co.in and around Wilmington lost power, the utility said.3# Dunham gets unlisted Dunham telephone customers will have to let their flippers do the walking instead of their fingers while the phone-book distributor tries to find out who threw all the new directories into Stevens Creek.See story, page 3.» 2—The RECORD—Friday, September 14, 1984 Key Mulroney strategist Rodrigue Pageau dies in hospital at 5 2 MONTREAL (CP) — Rodrigue Pageau, director general of the successful Conservative election campaign in Quebec, died Thursday after a long illness.He was 52.Pageau, who underwent major surgery last year while managing Brian Mulroney’s winning bid for the Tory leadership, entered the Royal Victoria Hospital about one month before the Sept.4 election.Bernard Roy, campaign chairman for Quebec took on most of Pageau’s duties for the remainder of the campaign, but Pageau kept tabs on the race from his hospital bed.Tory organizers brought him poll results and consulted him on tactics.Mulroney spent an hour at his bedside in mid-August.The prime minister-designate was not available for comment Thursday but an aide said he would likely attend Pageau's funeral in Quebec City on Saturday.During the election campaign, on learning a reporter was preparing a story on him.Pageau said he was “just a soldier” on the Mulroney team.“In fact, he is the chief architect,” said Roger Nantel.Pageau was a partner with Nantel in the Montreal pu- blic relations firm Nantel et Associés.DREW ATTENTION Pageau’s organizational skills first drew the attention of late Union Nationale leader Daniel Johnson when Pageau engineered the separation of the French-speaking Junior Chamber of Commerce from the national organization in the early 1960s.Johnson made him chief Union Nationale organizer for eastern Quebec.In that role Pageau played a key part in the Union Nationale comeback of 1966 when the party won more seats than the provincial Liberals even though its share of the popular vote was lower.Pageau was a Quebec nationalist but a firm federalist as well.He was director-general of the No committee in the period leading up to Quebec’s 1980 referendum on sovereignty- association.He ensured that then Union Nationale leader Rodrigue Biron did not take the rest of the party with him when Biron announced he planned to vote Yes in the referendum.Biron now is a Parti Québécois cabinet minister.Pageau is survived by his wife and three children.Liberal old boys convinced — well, almost that they’ll be back By Steve Kerstetter OTTAWA (CP) — The big question on the eve of the Sept.4 election was whether Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservatives would rival the 1958 Tory landslide engineered by John Diefenbaker.In the aftermath of the election, the big question is whether John Turner can lead the Liberals out of the wilderness the way Lester Pearson did a quarter-century earlier.Three former MPs who survived the 1958 rout — Liberal stalwarts Paul Martin and Jack Pickersgill and New Democrat Doug Fisher— share many of the same views on why the Liberals bounced back so quickly.Where they fail to agree is on the prospects for another Liberal resurrection — especially in light of the NDP’s surprisingly strong finish this time.Martin is the most optimistic of the three about the future of his party.“There is a very big job ahead, but it can be done and it must be done,” he said in a telephone interview from his home in Windsor.Fisher, now a columnist in Ottawa for the Toronto Sun, says Sept.4 could well be the beginning of the end for the Liberals as a force in Canadian politics.“Parties don’t die very quickly in this country, but I think history changed last week,” he said.FIVE YEAR RECOVERY It took only five years for the Liberals to recover from their last crushing defeat.The party reduced the Conservatives to a minority government in 1962 and formed its own minority government under Pearson after the 1963 vote.Historians generally attribute that astounding reversal to the strong showing of the Liberals in Opposition and Conservative wounds that were largely self-inflicted.Martin and Pickersgill tend to play down their own roles in ousting the Conservatives and say Diefenbaker was largely the author of his own misfortune.In an interview from his home in Ottawa, Pickersgill said Diefenba-ker's lack of understanding of francophones was a fatal flaw.“Perhaps of all his incompetence, the most serious was his utter incapacity to deal with French-Canada,” he said.Pickersgill said Mulroney probably won’t alienate francophone voters the way Diefenbaker did.Fisher said the Diefenbaker government fall from grace was due mainly to the unrelenting efforts of Pearson, Martin, Pickersgill and Lionel Chevrier, a group of MPs that came to be known as “the four horsemen.” Although Keith Davey and others worked to rebuild the party from the grassroots up, the battle was really won in Parliament, he said.Diefenbaker came under attack day after day in the Commons and finally went down in the very institution he cherished.Fisher said the Liberals in the next Commons don’t seem to have the same potential to chip away endlessly at Mulroney.“I just don’t see how Turner can do it, because he hasn’t got the horses.” IN BAD TROUBLE A close look at the 1984 election results shows the Liberals in much deeper trouble than ever before — in large part because of the strong showing of the New Democratic Party.In 1958, the Liberals won 49 seats in the Commons, and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, forerunner of the NDP, was reduced to a mere eight seats.This year, Turner and his party captured only 40 seats and the New Democrats took 30.In English Canada, the NDP overtook the Liberals as the clear alternative to the Tories.Aside from their Quebec seats, four seats in largely francophone ridings in New Brunswick and Ontario and two seats in ethnic ridings in Toronto, the Liberals won only 17 seats in anglophone ridings — nine in Ontario, six in Atlantic Canada and two in the West.The results have raised hopes among New Democrats that they’ll finally send the Liberals into oblivion.Martin and Pickersgill disagree.Martin said the strength of the Liberal party is a long tradition of small ! liberal ideals that the other two parties have come to embrace.ALL LIBERALS?“There is no conservative party, there is no socialist party.They’re all liberal parties,” he said.“Everyone’s advocating the things that the Liberal party has believed in for years.” Pickersgill accepts Martin’s analysis, but not necessarily his conclusions.If everyone agrees with liberal ideals, that could be less reason for people to vote for the Liberal party.For example, Mulroney realized early in the campaign that voters wouldn’t take kindly to handing the work of government over to the cham- ber of commerce or gutting well-established social programs, he said.“He very early discerned that all that talk about cutting social security and so on was a sure road to defeat.” Pickersgill also believes that support for the NDP has peaked and doesn’t pose a major problem — even in English Canada — because of the party’s ties with the Canadian Labor Congress.“The ridings they’ve won were pretty well all they can expect to win as long as they are so clearly affiliated with the CLC.” Fisher thinks otherwise.He said the NDP will make further inroads in future federal elections if it winds up with a solid second-place finish in the next Ontario election expected relatively soon.A good NDP showing in the provincial vote would cripple the Liberals at the worst possible time, he said.“They lose that, and where the hell are they?” John Paul II —___ftgi mam Playing the lead in a 12-page run only shows when there’s no crowd MONCTON, N.B.(CP) — From the first papal mass at Quebec City, which ended with fireworks and credits rolling on the giant screens at Laval University, it was obvious that Canadians are witness to a theatrical as much as a religious event.The youth rally at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium on Tuesday resembled one of MGM’s more ambitious musicals, right down to 700 girls dressed in flowing white who formed the beating wings of a dove on the playing field.The focus of all this spectacle, of course, is Pope John Paul.He is playing a bigger stage the he could ever have dreamed possible during his salad days in Krakow as an actor, playwright and student.The papal roadshow is a carefully scripted series of events with some improvisation by a pontiff who loves to step over the footlights occasionally to wade into the audience.There are those who call him the “pop Pope,” which isn’t a bad description as far as it goes, says Re-demptorist Father Mathew Meehan, who is following the national tour as a correspondent for the Catholic Register.As a Redemptorist — an order with a mission to popularize the gospel — Meehan can watch the performance with a critic’s eye.EVER THE ACTOR The pontiff calls frequently on his skills as an actor, pacing each speech to allow for the inevitable cheers and applause.It is most obvious in his fluid French but no less true in his Weather Definitely duck and rubber boot weather today, with overcast skies, cool temperatures and showers scattered throughout the day with the outlook for Saturday calling for more rain.heavily accented English.But what is so wrong with that?asks Meehan.While many of the speeches are drafted by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, he says, John Paul does his own rewriting.And what he says from the stage is 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an end — selling some bitter medicine on abortion, sex, drugs and contraception.It is an exhausting 12-day run, playing to good reviews but to crowds lower than the first astronomical predictions.But there is never a chance to ask him how he feels ; if he is tired or if it hurts when his performances are applauded but his words ignored.There is only his poem, The Actor, written as a young man : “So many people inside me — living their lives — seeing all that I see — speaking only through me.“I’m like the channel of a river — and there’s always running through me — all the passions and illusions of men.“But I also have my own life — which I fear that these others within me — may in some way be changing.“Sometimes it seems I have melted into all men — with their yearnings and their follies — so like my own.“All of their voices I hear, so demanding.“They're all around me." ,.?v: |||ppW'n i.?ope John Paul II’s appearance at the Olympic Stadium this week was dramatic if not theatrical mmm ¦' ¦ ''{'W'Ia'I/iïiIÎT» Remembered: ‘Bishop of Rome comes to you’ By Penny MacRae MONCTON, N.B.(CP) — Under stained-glass windows depicting the history of the Acadians, Pope John Paul praised New Brunswick francophones Thursday for remaining true to their language and faith.Speaking at a service in Moncton — often considered the heart of Acadian life — the pontiff said the Acadians’ troubles reminded him of the difficulties faced by his Polish countrymen “in the course of centuries." Flanked on one side by the gold and white flag of the Vatican and on the other by the red, white and blue Acadian flag, the Pope recounted to the mainly French-speaking congregation how an Acadian priest, Rev.François-Michel Richard, came to Rome to appeal to Pope Pius X for a bishop for the Acadians.Pius gave Richard, a key figure in the growth of Acadian cultural identity during the late 1800s, a gold chalice as a token of his concern “Today, it is the Bishop of Rome who comes to you." said the pontiff in ringing tones that filled the massive Moncton Cathedral, built by the Acadians in 1940 in honor of their patron saint, the Virgin Mary.“Despite the trials of deportation and even the threat of annihilation, the Acadians remained faithful to their faith, faithful to their culture, faithful to the land to which they continuously strove to return.” CELEBRATES MASS Later, at a mass attended by 100,000 near Magnetic Hill, a famed tourist attraction just outside Moncton, the Pope celebrated the eucharist with the same gold chalice given to Richard by Pope Pius X.A few of the 1,500 who attended the earlier mass in the Moncton Cathedral wiped tears from their eyes during the Pope's address.Sister Marie-Paule Couturier, superior-general of the Daughters’ of Mary of the Assumption, a Campbell-ton, N B., order that works with Acadians, said she found encouragement in the pontiff’s words."It makes me feel he really is in communion with what has been lived by our people,” said Couturier.Teacher Edouina Rossignol, of Grandsault, N.B., south of Edmund-ston, also took comfort in John Paul’s address.“We didn’t even know he (the Pope) knew about the Acadians in New Brunswick,” she said.“For so long, we've had quite a hard time, keeping our culture and our language and it’s still a bit difficult.” ACADIAN TRIALS Earlier, in his welcoming words to the Pope, Archbishop Donat Chiasson of Moncton also made reference to the trials of the Acadians, speaking of their expulsion from Nova Scotia by the English in 1755.The Acadians started trickling back to the Maritimes in the early 1760s, settling mainly along the northern and eastern coasts of what is now New Brunswick.Recently, the provincial government stirred up controversy when it decided to mark the 100th anniversa ry of the creation of the Acadian flag by announcing it would fly alongside the Canadian and New Brunswick flags.English-rights groups reacted angrily, charging the government was giving special status to francophones.The pontiff also praised the Irish and other immigrants who settled New Brunswick, saying the Roman Catholic Church in the province owes much of its vitality to them.And he made a pitch for religious unity, calling it "this arduous but necessary road." John Paul won a sustained standing ovation as he entered the granite cathedral, whose sombre interior was brightened for the occasion by yellow and white bouquets of flowers.A few stood on pews to get a better view of the pontiff as he made his way up the centre aisle to the blare of trumpets During the service, the 100-voice choir and congregation sang Ave Ma ria Stellis, the Acadian anthem The Pope's words were heard through loudspeakers by those gathered outside Some perched on rooftops to get a better view of John Paul when he arrived t ; 4 The RECORD—Friday, September 14.19M—3 The Townships +9___Ouj KBCora No Niagara Falls for North Hatley couple; it’s off to sunny Zambia Continued from page 1 Originally from Montreal, Rob became a missionary teacher after three years of conventional teaching at Alexander Galt Regional High School in Lennoxville.“1 was always in churches, but I wasn’t really religious,” he recalls, until after Peter, the elder of his two brothers, underwent a religious renewal at a local summer camp.“I saw the effect that accepting the Lord had on my brother,” Rob continues, “and I decided to try the same thing myself.” Peter joined the missionary organization Christian Mission In Many Lands, which sponsors some 1,500 missionaries worldwide, including about 120 in Zambia.He and his family were assigned to Angola, where they stayed until the civil war forced them out late last year.Rob petitioned the organization elders to become a missionary, too, but was not accepted immediatly.FINALLY ‘CALLED’ AT 30 “The Lord requires patience,” he says.“I asked to do His work when I was 27, and I was finally called to go when I was 30.” That was in 1981.One of Rob’s first tasks on arriving in Zambia was learning to speak the native dialect.“Zambia was a British colony, and the official language is English,” he laughs, “but out in the bush you have to learn whatever the native people speak.Language was Patricia Caunter-Daly.Dinner in Zambezi.never my best subject in school, but I prayed for help, and I learned.My brother had to leam Portugese,” he adds, “because Angola was a Portugese colony, and that was much harder.His knowledge of French helped a little bit.” Though surrounded by nations at war, and by military dictatorships, Zambia is a rare, native-ruled, multiparty, peaceful democracy.Much of the nation’s infrastructure, including moct r.t tho fen«r>itals and schools, was built by generations of missionaries from Great Britain and other former British colonies.But missionaries are gradually disappearing, as natives take over supplying their own essential services.TOO FAST IN SOME AREAS A national ‘Zambianization’ program “is working fairly well,” Rob believes, though “they’ve pushed too fast in some areas.” The missionaries remaining are almost all health workers or teachers in specialized subjects.Being isolated, and dwindling in numbers, the missionaries “really depend upon mail from home,” Pat says.Parcels of dried food are important, providing their main source of variation in diet, and sometimes their only sources of certain vitamins.Many creature-comforts can only be had by mail — but even mail-order shopping is difficult, because mail delivery in Zambia is extremely erratic.Recent improvements have cut parcel delivery time to four months, average, from eight months about five years ago.Still, many parcels arrive held together by string with all corners burst.Even tin cans arrive ruptured sometimes.“Since Zambia is landlocked, everything has to go through hands, and hands, and hands,” Pat concludes.Many of the hands are impoveris- Statue cut from four-ton marble block Continued from page 1 dience to the laws of God.The egg in front of her is part of medieval tradition of birth and the space between her body and the egg could be used as a baptismal font.“If they place it out- side the church it could also become a i.:_j - }japj explained.YOUNG VIRGIN CHOSEN “The theme of the young virgin chosen to bear the son in the name of God was selected as we are all bom ; thus - sjeHi Sculptor Denis Hapi will present his completed work, FIAT, to Pope Jean-Paul in Toronto September 21.There’s plenty in Bromont these days By Robert Palmer SHERBROOKE — You might caU it plus qu’ une montagne, to borrow a phrase.To the slogan Ski Bromont, you could add play, ride, run, slide and glide.You can even throw Bromont.The Bromont Tourist Centre unveiled its fall activities in Sherbrooke Thursday, incorporating everything from an 18-hole frisbee course to a ve-lo-cross track under the theme Vivre en Coleur.“We’re trying to utilize all our services to the maximum,” explained Michel Fournier, the centre’s director of marketing.“We have one of the largest facilities and there’a a lot to do." Utilization of all the mountain's services might take some time but it definitely won’t cost much.Five dollars buys a pass which allows a visitor access to half-a-dozen different activities run by the centre, which is open this weekend and every weekend until the end of October.Organizers are also offering a ski equipment exchange each of those weekends which gives skiers a chance to buy and sell new and used equipment at good prices.Bring your equipment to the ski centre during the weekend and, if it isn’t sold at the price you specify by Sunday afternoon, it’s all taken to a big tent and auctioned off.All profits from the exchange go to the Bromont ski team.SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE “We’ve got something for everyone,” said marketing co-ordinator Donald Demers.And he means everyone.For the nature-lover, the mountain hed and desperate for what they can plunder.Others are professionally corrupt.Rob was once asked for a bribe of (1,000 when trying to get a new mission truck through customs.And then there’s petty theft to contend with.“It’s strange to be back somewhere that you don’t have to lock your car,” Rob observed on his recent furlough in the Eastern Townships.“In Zambia, you have to take your distributor cap and anything else that can be removed with you.You practically have to be a mechanic just to put you- car back together in order to drive it." Then there’s the constant danger of warfare spreading to Zambia from surrounding nations.South Africa is known to be actively promoting political instability in nearby black-ruled nations, to keep them at war with themselves instead of perhaps assisting South African rebels.Marxism is an increasingly popular political ideology in Africa, promoted by Cuban mercenaries and opposed by mercenaries allegedly hired by the CIA.NO ROAD TO ANGOLA “We’re only about 50 miles from Angola,” Rob says, “but so far the fighting going on there hasn’t really reached us because there are no roads.There was one, but it’s been closed.We used to get refugees, but not lately because the border has been mined.” Without knowing for sure who did the mining, Rob suspects anti-Marxist forces, mainly because that's the local scuttlebutt.The object of the mining would be to prevent mass tribal migrations that would in turn destroy the Angolan social and economic structure.While Rob’s decision to become a missionary was rather simple and straightforward, Pat’s came, indirectly, as result of a trauma.Four years ago she was a part-time artist and full-time industrial worker.She protested unsafe condiditons at her plant, was fired, and eventually won a landmark decision under Bill 116, The then-new Quebec occupational safety law.Meanwhile, she had to stand almost alone against the employer, a community institution.Co-workers didn’t back her up.Even members of her family told her she’d picked an impossible fight.PROMISING ROADRACER Pat was also one of the most promi-sing newcomers to the Eastern Townships roadracing circuit.She completed the first-ever Montreal International Marathon in 1979 without ever having run in a race before.A skiing injury nearly destroyed her knee and forced her to miss the 1980 running season.Told she would never run again, Pat made a comeback, however, and in her second 1981 race.took third medal for women at the Fi-recrackeer 10,000 in Newport.She followed up with a women’s division victory and course record that stood until this year in the rugged Jay Peak 20 kilometres.She completed her comeback with a personal-best 3:50 marathon at Montreal, despite illness over the last six miles.Then that fall, Pat was assaulted on a training run near North Hatley and nearly beaten to death by a man who was never caught.That, and continuing knee pain, caused Pat to give up competitive running.At the same time, having withstood the pressures of her fight for industrial safety and having survived the roadside assault convinced Pat that she had what it takes to follow her inner inclinations and devote her life to the service of humanity.She worked at the Grace Christian Home and helped found a Christian coffeehouse in Lennoxville while awaiting some further sign of her life’s avocation.She told friends she'd found it within days of meeting Rob, who’d come to the coffeehouse to deliver a talk on his work in Zambia.Their courtship took place mostly by mail, as Rob had only been in Canada for two weeks.But the physical distance between them proved no handicap.she becomes a symbol of all of us and her hair flows like a river representing the river of life,” Hapi said.“The face is without any distinguishing features as the parish comprises 18 different ethnic grups so she can be representative of all.” Hapi, a native of Newfoundland, has worked with Art Sutton for the past four or five years and he and his wife, a Torontonian, sold their gallery in Toronto earlier this year.Work on the stone began on June 21, and represents about six man-months as Hapi worked with other sculptors and masons on the project.“There were many 10-hour days and local sculptors Serge Beaumont, François Lauzon, and myself worked in teams of two or three so we didn’t get in each other’s way.” MARBLE PRAISED Work began in the quarry and Hapi just recently moved the work to his Bromont home where he was putting the finishing touches on it before shipping it to Toronto earlier this week.He lauded the quality of the marble found in Ste.Anne de La Rochelle and said Dupré is hoping to re-open the quarry.The output will be limited to sculptors or for use in the construction of religious buildings.Hapi says he will be holding a symposium next year displaying works made from the local marble, “as good as any found elsewhere in the world.” “Eight months had elapsed before we began work in earnest which is why I decided she should be eight months pregnant.” Hapi says he hopes he won’t be branded a heretic, although he does imagine he might come in for a bit of flack from the womens liberation movement.PHOTO/MI RRin n.II ION Dunham’s new telephone directories ended up in the drink Tuesday night.Dial W-A-T-E-R for Dunham directory offers a one-kilometre walking trail.For the nature-lover who likes an upbeat tempo, there is a fitness course encorporating 11 different exercise stations.“This course is sanctioned by the Nautilus (fitness) organization,” Demers pointed out.The velocross is a dirt track for mo-tocross-style bicycles whose riders like bumps, turns, mud and a little good old-fashioned competition.To wash it off, the waterslide at the bottom of the mountain fits the bill perfectly.For the golfer there’s a multistation practise centre and your entrance pass gets you both clubs and balls.For those who love the walk but could never get into chasing a little white ball around thousands of yards of short grass, there's a frisbee course which looks like a golf course — but isn't.Finally, for the armchair — or rather chairlift — quarterbacks who don’t mind heights, the lift gives you a great view and you don’t even have to move.Off exit 78 of the Townships autoroute, the centre is open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 to 4:30p.m.For more information, call either (514) 534-2200 or the toll-free number 1-800-363-5530.P S.We were just kidding about throwing Bromont.You'll put your back out.By Merritt Clifton DUNHAM — Residents of the Dunham hills found their new telephone directories awaiting them in a central location Wednesday morning: Stevens’s Creek, just below the waterfall at the Favreau Road bridge.At least 50 of the brand-new directories had apparently been tossed over the bridge by their alleged distributor during Tuesday night's torrential rain.By morning, they were soggy shreds scattered for a quarter mile downstream.Only a few copies reached telephone customers.Some had been dropped in driveways to get soaked, before the rest were drop-shipped in bulk Others turned up in back yards abutting the creek.None were in condition to use.At first, Bell Canada brushed off complaints from irate customers with cool promises to have new directories mailed.But by mid-morning Wednes- day, distribution supervisor Bob Rivet of National Citizens' Distribution Co.was hopping mad — and hopping in his truck to visit Dunham and do something about it.DRY ONES NEXT TIME By late afternoon, he'd picked up as many of the soggy directories as he could find in driveways, and had promised that the whole Dunham route would be checked to make sure everyone gets a directory — a dry directory, this time.Rivet estimated that at least two full bundles of 28 directories each had been dumped into Stevens’ Creek by the individual hired to do the Dunham route.The actual total could be higher.Rivet says he didn’t retrieve the directories from the creek because the current was too fast and too strong.However, a neighbor and a photographer did manage to pull most of the dumped directories out of the mainstream and pile them on large, dry rocks before Rivet got there.He says he’ll try again when the water level drops.ONLY SLIGHT DAMAGE Actually, the dumped directories won’t cause significant environmental damage.The pulp paper will decay quickly, and the dye in the yellow pages, while toxic to fish, will probal-by be diluted just as quickly.But Dunham residents are still mad as hell.And so’s Rivet.“This docs not do any good for the image of our company," he notes.“We have responsibility for delivering 55,000 directories in the Eastern Townships This is the only time something like this has happened.” National Citizens’ Distributing hires local distributors on a casual basis from among respondents to newspaper advertisements.Thus there’s nobody Rivet can fire.But he promises the dumper won’t get paid, and won’t get another job from him again.Bedford District has a busy opening SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) —The fall term of the District of Bedford assizes opened in criminal division of Superior Court here Wednesday Mr.Justice Paul M.Gervais presided when trial dates were set.Austin Butt, of West Bolton, charged with breaking and entering a dwelling in West Bolton in February with intent to commit an assault and sexual assault saw his case set to Nov.12, with the consent of Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk and defence lawyer Donald Bissonnette.Keyserlingk estimated the trial would last four days.Claude Archambault, who represented Rejean Tetreault, of Montreal, charged with theft and willful property damage in Famham, managed to have the case continued to the spring term citing he had not received a transcript of the stenographic notes from the preliminary hearing as well as jury trials in other districts.Defence lawyers of the group of eight who were arrested in connection with the drug bust in Glen Sutton on July 20, in concert with federal prosecutor Michel Viens, agreed to a continuation of the trials.RCMP agents located a clandestine laboratory in a shed on a farm on Cemetery Road capable of producing up to (8 million worth of amphetamines on a daily basis.Larry Colbeck, of Palmerston, Ont., Mario St.Laurent and Jean Si-rois, of Quebec City, and Larry Mol-noly, Jimmy ‘Pepe’ Hertrich, Harold Zaqnnis, André Lutfy, and Serge Leclerc, all of the Montreal area, earlier waived their rights to preliminary hearing on charges of possession and conspiracy to traffick in restricted drugs under terms of the Food and Drug Act when the crown told the defence it would provide them with a complete transcript of the electronic surveillance as well as a précis of the details concerning the raid.Those cases will be heard in Granby on Oct.17.Bench warrants were issued for Colbeck and Hertrich to ensure their présence as provincial prison authorities did not act to have them returned to Sweetsburg from the federal penitentiaries where they are presently held completing other sentences.1 your marketplace WAIÏÏADS Canadian Red Cross Donald Demers.Something for everyone.Michel Fournier.One of the largest facilities.We’ll Help.WUlYbu?Stansteod Chapter I0DE BAZAAR and TEA at Sunnyside School, Rock Island Sat., Sept.22,1984 — 2 to 4:30 p.m.Admission $1.50 Door Prizes EVERYONE WELCOME DANCE Salle Veilleux Sawyerville Saturday, September 15th 9 p.m.to 1:30 a.m.Music by Ramblin’ Fever Benefit of the Cookshire Primary School Committee Admission: $3.00 per person. 4_The RECORD—Friday, September 14, 1984 Record The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Hopes Surely one of this country’s greatest truths is that despite the fact the Conservative Party will emerge from the depths of the Opposition to raze the Liberals once in a while, the Liberals will miraculously return within the span of a few short years to regain power.The Liberal party has dominated Canadian politics since Canada was Canada.The Liberals count among their numbers some of the most influencial politicians this country has even seen.They’ve broken the country, repaired it again, lead it into and through hard economic times and governed us during the best and worst years of our lives.But they have returned.And they will return again.Historically, the Liberal record speaks for itself.The party has been in the seat of power so long it has needed new upholstery countless times.Each time, the color remains red.Why change it?They’ll be back soon.Before we know it, actually.Some say it has been the Conservative’s own political incompetance that has wrenched them from their brief stints in government.The Conservatives have never handled the French fact as well as their Liberal counterparts.Before Brian Mulroney, John Diefenbaker was the only Conservative to lead his party to power with a majority of that magnitude.But even the chief was defeated just four short years later.Others say this time is different.Brian Mulroney, not the current ruinous state of the Liberal Party, will guarantee a lengthy Conservative stint in power, they say.Brian Mulroney is different.He’s a better leader than Dief, a Quebecer who understands the role of his home province in the context of one Canada.He is a small town boy who made good, a boy who married a woman capable of understanding the phenomenon of hyphenated Canadianism.Brian’s different, they say, he’ll last.Maybe so but there’s just too much evidence in favor of a Liberal return — maybe not next year or 1986, but before the next election.The Liberal party has and can rebuild again, for better or for worse.The economy is sagging and after 16 years of Liberal reign, the Canadian people see in Mulroney change and hope.And expectations.No one can undo what has been done to Canada in just four years.How long are Canadians prepared to wait?Will they allow the Conservative Party two terms to straighten out the mess or will they tire quickly and give the veterans another chance?The hopes and aspirations of Canadians lie in the hands of Brian Mulroney.But how long will it take?ROBERT PALMER Bruce Levett •.rir Fishermen reel in catch and throw it under a seat Have you ever wondered why the flavor of your favourite fish seems to change occasionally?Why some days it is light and delicate and on other days heavy and “fishy”?Fish caught in different lakes will have slightly different flavors because of the different water content in those lakes.However the main cause of taste difference has nothing to do with the water, the time of year or how you cook it.The major problem arises from how you handle the fish once it is in your boat or creel.You wouldn't dream of leaving a choice sirloin steak sitting out in the sun all day or hanging on a rope in a pail of water.Not and expect it to taste like a sirloin! How many fishermen reel in their catch and throw it under a seat in the boat for the rest of the day, stick it in the trunk of their hot car wrapped in an old sack, to protect the carpet, stick it in the freezer for six months and then complain about the taste?If you don’t throw it under a seat, how many of us clip it onto a stringer and dump it back into the water beside the boat for the rest of the day?It’s no wonder people say they like catching them, but can’t stand eating them! TRIAL AND ERROR Lake Memphremagog is a terrific trout and salmon lake.Over the years I’ve caught a good many Browns, Rainbows and Salmon (Ouananiche) in its deep, cold waters.We’ve learned by trial and error, and by watching some of the better fishermen, how to keep them.Looking back over Where the pavement .Ab- ends ) JIM LAWRENCE J the way we treated them at first, it is no wonder we never really enjoyed the flavor of fresh-caught trout.We’d hit the lake early and anchor in about 100 feet at the “bar”.Using fresh or frozen smelt we’d catch one or two early in the morning, sit through the noon doldrums, and them sometimes catch again in the evening.The early caught fish would be snapped onto the stringer and lowered into the water.The late caught fish would be attached to the stringer for a short time, and then onto the floor of the boat for the trip home.We could never understand why some tasted better than others.It has taken many years and many fishing trips to teach my lesson.I talked to guides, local fishermen and biologists, I read books and fishing articles and finally the light dawned.I took my fish stringer, rolled it into a ball and put it in the garbage.I sharpened my fish knife and hung it under the rod holder.I dug out my grandfather’s priest and put it on the same hook.(Incidently the “priest” I’m talking about has nothing to do with the church.A “priest” is a weighted club used specifically to kill fish.Mine was made in 1864 in England and has brass fittings at either end.The business end has been weighted with lead, poured into the teak handle.) RAPPED ON THE HEAD When a fish comes over the side of the boat it gets its head rapped while still in the net.The hook is removed and the fish is cleaned immediately, wrapped in newspaper, dipped once in the lake to wet the paper, and stored in the cooler, all of a sudden they have started to taste better.Fish have powerful stomach acids that, if allowed to remain in the fish after it is killed, start to work almost immediately.If the fish is allowed to die on the stringer these acids eat their way out of the stomach and into the flesh.By killing and cleaning immediately these acids are removed before they have a chance to spoil the flavor.Most trout fishermen carefully wash their brook trout to remove the “slime” before storing them in their creel.That slime is a natural preservative and should be retained on the fish until just before cooking.It is far better to clean the fish, wrap it in leaves or grass, and then store it in the creel.Cooking your catch is the next step.I think that any trout-type fish small enough to fit into your frying pan should be simply fried in butter.Ones that are too large to fit, should be filleted and the fillets fried the same way.We’ve played around by baking and poaching with all sorts of fancy stuffings and marinades.We keep returning to the old cast-iron frying pan and a healthy chunk of butter.There are lots of other methods and recipes and if you like them.then what do I know about it?FILLETING BEST Other game fish are best filleted if they can be handled without cutting off your thumb.Fresh cold-water perch, skinned and cleaned, and then fried to a golden brown have no equal.But the basic rule in fish catching and fish eating is to Uke care of your catch before you try to eat it.Fish is always better if eaten on the day it is caught.If you have to freeze it expect some flavor loss when it comes time to cook it.You can preserve it well however if you wrap it well in an approved freezer paper.We put our freezer-bound fish in a “bread” bag and draw out excess air.Then we wrap it in freezer paper and put it in the quick-freeze section of the freezer.The faster it is frozen, the better it will taste.Make certain to mark the date and type of fish on the wrapper before you put it away.That will allow to know what you have, when you clean out the freezer six years later.We feel that any fish left over three months in the freezer makes good cat food, as by then it tastes nothing like it should.If you take good care of the fish you catch, you’ll enjoy eating them as much as catching them.Letters Rodeo could not exist without the animals suffering Circuses are fun for humans but misery for animals.stl 1ePO: 'n 0*the *n,) S* NEA Inc (HAV/tS V/4- EEK & MEEK M)by Howie Schneider UUERE THE FIRST REAL ASTRONAUTS, SOJ ttJOW thevVê.occupied the HEAWêMS (OR CEMTURIE5 MAVBD.BUTTHE ASTRONAUTS COME PACK y SNAKE TALES» by Sola SO FAR, IS GET TO THE^1 SO GOOD' f PACIFIC OCEAN NOWALL 1 BEFORE THEY z/L I HAVE \ KNOW I'M TO DO —\|'1ISSIN