The record, 3 septembre 1980, mercredi 3 septembre 1980

Clearing Weather, Page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, September 3,1980 20 cents Quebec-ET air service begins By CAROLE TREISER SHERBROOKE — You can now fly directly to Quebec City from the Sherbrooke municipal airport — and back Direct Air Ltd , a Montreal-based airline yesterday began servicing the airport with a daily morning flight to the provincial capital and an afternoon flight back Up to now, you could only fly to Quebec City from Sherbrooke via Boston on Air Bar Harbor but because Bar Harbor is an American company, it can’t provide direct-flight domestic service News of Direct Air's new route was announced at city council last night by councillor Gaston Goulet, a member of the airport’s administrative committee.The airline hasn't begun its advertising campaign yet, nor did Goulet know' Direct Air’s schedule fares The airline's number at Sherbrooke airport isn't listed with directory assistance, but a quick call to airport officials at 832-2546.will give you all the information you need on fares and departure times The new flight service culminates Goulet's efforts in getting the provincial and federal governments to recognize the airport's "potential and importance in our community”.For years, the municipal administration which runs the airport, has tried to continue the higher governments the airport not only caters to Sherbrooke but to all the Townships The city has used this argument in trying to get the federal government to designate the facility a “regional airport" so that it wouldn't have to foot the upkeep bill The city also wants region al status, so the feds might pay for improved instrument landing systems they only give larger airports But the federal government consistently turned a deaf ear Transport Canada's criterion in establishing a regional airport isn't how large an area the facility serves, but how many flights it can attract to the area Because Bar Harbor was the only airline to offer Townshippers regular service, the airport wasn't considered a large enough to merit regional status “But this new service is only the be ginning for us," Goulet said "There’s more good news " The federal government will soon negotiate with the provincial Ministry of Transport to give the province full responsibility of Quebec’s regional air ports Goulet got assurances from the province today that if the deal goes through, Quebec will grant Sherbrooke regional status “The province is currently setting up a plan to convert many of the prov ince’s municipal airports into regional airports and it will bear the burden of running them," Goulet said But even if the federal government continues to administer Quebec's regional airports and even if Ottawa isn’t impressed with Direct Air’s move into town, Goulet says the city has another trump to assure regional status "We haven't renewed the lease on the municipal airport, which we rent from the federal government If Ottawa doesn't meet our demands, the prov ince has assured us it will build us ano ther airport in Sherbrooke's industrial park See SCOTCH ROAD, Page 2.Ministers to quit; Samson joins Grits GUYJORON .rumors true AH in good faith.HALMSTAD, Sweden (Reuter) — Anders Raange, director of Halmstad prison, admits he allows his prisoners to make rope ladders in the prison shops, but on one condition : "They have promised not to use them to escape.” In the last month, 3,000 ladders have been made and sold for use as toys and fire escape equipment without one escape attempt.Raange says the last escape attempt was 25 years ago when a prisoner undressed, smeared himself with butter and tried to squeeze between window bars.The fire department had to cut him loose.QUEBEC (CP) — The Parti Québécois will enter the next provincial election without at least two cabinet ministers while the opposition Liberals will have one of the most vocal champions of rural Quebec in their corner Guy Joron, minister of consumers, co-operatives and financial institutions, announced Tuesday he is dropping out of politics, as is Jacques Couture, minister of immigration.Meanwhile, Camil Samson, the last elected Social Credit representative in Quebec, announced he was joining the Liberal caucus.The departures of Joron and Couture had been rumored for weeks and reinforced the PQ's image as a party of the professional middle class with little feel for either the very top or very bottom of the economic scale.Joron, 40, a wealthy former stockbroker, is among the few ministers viewed by Quebec businessmen as sympathetic to their interests.Last year, businessmen hailed his shift to the financial institutions job from the energy portfolio he had been given when the PQ took power in 1976.RETAINS FAITH Couture, 50, a Roman Catholic worker priest with a long history of inner-city activism, said he had reached the stage where he could no longer combine religion and politics.He said he plans to rejoin the Jesuit order when he leaves his seat in the Montreal workingclass riding of St.Henri, which he won in 1976.Samson’s defection to the Liberals from the Démocrates Creditistes — the last of a long line of splinter parties spun off by the Social Credit movement — completes the electoral extinction of the Quebec Socreds.His switch has been in the works since the referendum campaign, when the 45-year-old former car salesman endeared himself to the Liberals with colorful warm-up speeches for Liberal chief Claude Ryan.They 're L.A.bound Photo JohnMcC*flh«y It's across Canada and down to LA for Cowansville students Mark Lindsay, left, and Serge Naud.The former swim-team buddies who hold opposing views on sovereignty association see eye to eye on the issues tearing Canada apart.The two plan to research a paper on Canadian unity and test freedom of movement across the continent.Page 3.Liberal cabinet meets BNA here by year end?Bill 90 appèal route sought By JAMES DUFF GRANBY Municipalities who feel they've been given the runaround by the commission overseeing the enforcement of Bill 90, Quebec’s controversial agricultural land protection act, will soon have another avenue of appeal "There have been so many inconsistencies we have tabled a proposition which would better harmonize Bill 90 with Bill 125 and other legislation.” Jacques laxmard.Minister of State for Planning and Development said la're yesterday “It will be in the form of an appeal mechanism, but it won’t attempt to demolish the fundamental objective* of Bill 90," lanmard added Considering it's not even within his realm of responsibility, Leonard has heard a considerable amount about the bill during his six weeks of consultations in 19 separate regions of the province on behalf of Bill 125, far-reaching legislation passed last November and in effect April 15.The bill aims at improving the coordination and co-operation between municipalities within a given region and the purpose of Leonard's tour was to launch the process into its second phase Yesterday's visit to Granby was to outline the machinery and purpose of Bill 125 to about 125 municipal officials, businessmen and professionals from Lacolle to Ste Hermenegilde The division of the Townships into two consultation areas with no relationship to either electoral districts or administrative regions caused some comment at yester day’s session, but lanmard laid to rest fears that municipalities would have to sever long existing links just because their neighbors wore in another area."This is all purely arbitrary,” liaison man Pierre Renaud explained “Were asking municipalities to decide their own groupings, what’s best for them.” Leonard stressed the need for those in attendance to get to work themselves, set their own deadlines, meeting dates and consultative processes.“Were hoping to get all the municipalities within our area together by September 17,” said Austin Mayor Roger Nicolct.“There’s a six month deadline proposed for the adoption of general guidelines; we should know where we’re going by then.We’ll go to the public later.” In the long term, Bill 125 would provide for the decentralization of everything, from education to the use of school bases for regional transportation to the coordination of agricultural, environmental and social legislation.LAKE LOUISE, Alta.(CP) - The constitution will be brought to Canada from Britain along with a charter of human rights and a formula to amend it, all by the end of the year, Prime Minister Trudeau said Tuesday.He indicated it would also include language rights for education in English or French, in spite of strong opposition from some province, notably Quebec.Trudeau and his senior cabinet ministers are here for two days of talks to plot strategy for next week's first ministers’ meeting on the constitution, as well as to talk about a planned fall budget.Trudeau told reporters he will decide after next week's meeting whether to recall Parliament earlier than the planned Oct.15 date to begin debate on patriating the 1867 British North America Act from London."If things go very well, and it’s a matter of getting Parliament to ratify in a few days, there is no need to get Parliament back before the scheduled date," he said.Polish coalminers end strike JASTRZEBIE, Poland (AP) - Polish coalminers ended their strike today and prepared to return to work, promising an end to the country-wide labor rebellion which has wrested unprecedented concessions from a Soviet bloc government.Deputy Premier Aleksander Kopec and the miners' strike committee signed an agreement before dawn today promising the miners an end to weekend work shifts, other safety improvements and better pay as well as the social and political rights won last weekend by the strikers in northern Poland.“It is an act of historical importance.Go with God,” said Kopec after the pact was signed just before dawn in a smoke-filled auditorium in this mining town near the Czechoslovak border "I declare the strike over," said Miroslaw Siemiewill, chairman of the strike committee "We will resume work on the fourth of September and make up for losses suffered by the national economy.” Other members of the strike committee said some men will return to the mines today to resume maintenance work.Trudeau said he is ready to defer the difficult debate over the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments in a new constitution in order to get his basic “package for the people” into law.That would leave contentious issues such as economic and natural-resources control to be settled later."On patriation, amending and bill of rights, essentially I think we have to do something by the end of the year," Trudeau said.The strategy means Trudeau’s basic constitutional goals could be achieved without unanimous agreement of the provinces next week In Saskatoon, meanwhile, Saskatchewan Attorney-General Roy Roma non refused comment on a report that the three western provinces are discussing a joint referendum on constitutional change.The Ottawa report quoted three Saskatchewan New Democratic Party MPs as saying the idea was aired at an Aug 6 meeting in Regina where Romanow presented a report on the progress of constitutional talks Leger defends Yamaska water solution By MERRITT CLIFTON FARNHAM — Quebec Environment Minister Marcel Leger himself was in town this afternoon to defend his ministry's controversial plan to pipe drinking water from the South Branch of the Yamaska River.as the local Chamber of Commerce continues its campaign in favor of an artesian well system.Leger is also expected to announce a plan that would have his office take over managing the Cowansville dam in order to insure a strong water flow to Farnham However, critics say this would mean gradually draining the Cowansville reservoir, since the rate of flow necessary to supply Farnham entirely from the south branch is greater than the flow filling it.The chamber, led by local attorney Marc Turcot, will be polling residents on the alternative on September 10.The chamber has been opposed to the pipeline ever since it was announced.The Quebec ministry for the environment and Farnham town council committed themselves to building the pipeline based upon a report erroneously stating that wells couldn't reliably supply the community.By the time the error became acknowledged, pipeline contracts had already been let and some ditches dug In addition, filtration plant expansion is well underway.Well water wouldn’t need filtration.All told, Quebec and Farnham have nearly $4 million scheduled toward the pipeline scheme, including $2 million toward the pipeline itself, and environment minister Marcel Leger has touted it as a major portion of his Yamaska River cleanup effort.The artesian well system would cost a bit less than half what the pipeline will, and would come on line approximately nine months later.Environment spokesman Claude Vallee has repeatedly claimed Farnham can't afford the extra wait, having already been without clean tapwater for more than half of 1980 Hotel and restaurant business has dropped in response, the tourist trade has virtually disappeared, and many families have moved out of town But Farnham is also strapped for money, since the province is covering only half the cost of the pipeline, none of the cost of the filtration plant, and none of the $35,000 spent this year on trucking drinking water in from Iberville.Farnham is also obligated to pay $450,000 toward building a sewage treatment plant soon, and because of the depressed local economy, can ill afford a steep tax increase “Claude Vallee says that without the improved pipeline,” a concrete conduit replacing the present three aluminum pipes, "we would be forced to take water from the north branch of the Yamaska again,” Turcot sums up.The north branch receives Granby city sewage, industrial wastes, and field runoff containing large amounts of manure spread each spring as fertilizer The south branch receives Cowansville sewage, cow-manure runoff, and somewhat less industrial waste.register their dissent.Otherwise we would be ill-received if we went to Quebec and asked for another million dollars in a few years because we went for the wrong solution now.” Turcot, Vallee, and Tremblay have recently taken their debate to the airwaves, in 5-minute interviews on CBC radio’s ‘Home Run' program.‘Home Run' questioned the wisdom of building a pipeline even before the present plan became official, through interviews with independent experts.The Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting of volunteers interested in helping with their poll at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters, 389 Main interested "Our purpose now," Turcot says, "is Street tonight.Those interested in to get Farnham to pronounce itself attending should get complete details prior to investing $2 million in a from Marc Turcot at Paradis and pipeline — to give citizens a chance to Paradis in Farnham.Inside CATCHING ON Boardsailing has come on so strong In recent years that many novices are learning stunts soon after first mounting sail boards, according to one of the winners at the Canadian Championships last weekend James Duff reports on Page 9 H GORDON GREEN It's back to school today for many students across the prov Ince and H Gordon Green takes the opportunity to ask why we educate our young and what is expected of them.Page 3 BIRTHS, DEATHS.2 BUSINESS.5 CLASSIFIED .16 COMICS.17 EDITORIAL.4 LIVING.6 SPORTS.9 Government is a lot like your digestive system - If It’s working right, you hardly know you have it.r^’-V “ § 'It's Fort Knox They want a little something to see them through the end of the year.” » 2 WED., SEPTEMBER 3, 1980 Fox forced to give up run NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.; Terry Fox had trouble attracting attention when he set out to run across Canada on one good leg and one made from metal and plastic But the more he ran, the more people noticed And even though cancer has struck him again and cancelled the last half of the coast to-coast run he started April 12, the 22-year^)ld from nearby Port Coquitlam, has not given up.Fox ran from St.John's, Nfld , to Thunder Bay, Ont., but he raised twice as much money for cancer research Reagan apologizes for KKK town comments Ronald Reagan, under fire from outraged southern governors, said Tuesday he meant no harm by claiming that President Carter opened his campaign in the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan And Reagan insisted that it is Carter, rather than himself, who should apologize “for using this issue.” Indeed, Reagan and other Republican leaders took the offensive over his Labor Day gaffe, in which he attacked the president, who appeared at a picnic in Tuscumbia, Ala., for "opening his campaign down in the city that gave birth to and is the parent body of the Ku Klux Klan." Reagan found himself apologizing to the South, the state of Alabama, and to Tuscumbia But not to Carter, who said in Missouri that “I resent very deeply what Ronald Reagan said .when he pointed out erroneously that I opened my campaign in the home of the Ku Klux Klan.” Carter declared that “anybody who resorts to slurs and innuendo against a whole region of the country, based on a false statement is not doing the South or our nation good service.” Reagan, in Detroit, blamed Carter for allowing a huge deluge of foreign cars into the country.“The government has a responsibility it has shirked so far,” he said “That is to convince the Japanese that in one way or another .that deluge of their cars into the United States must be slowed while our industry gets back on its feet.” Independent challenger John Anderson also courted the Detroit area, but he, too, took Reagan to task for the Klan remark, saying it was typical of the “flip, off-hand" statements which have got Reagan into trouble.as he first set as his goal Fox told reporters Tuesday that, while running his daily marathon during the weekend, he thought he had a cold.“We were nearing Thunder Bay For the past three days I had been feeling a little nauseous, a bit short of breath.“On Monday I did 18 miles Other offices across Canada •**îîs * Vo Bv ANN LOUISE CARSON SHAWVILLE — Young farmers from the Richmond, Brome, Cowansville and Waterloo clubs were among the more than 125 participants at the 5th Annual Quebec Young Farmers' Calf Rally, held in Shawville early in August These young farmers, both English and French, represented 15 clubs from many rural areas across the province, such as the Townships, the Chateau-guay Valley.Shawville, La-chute, Thurso and Deux Montagnes.The Townshippers did extremely well, both on an individual basis and a club basis.The Brome club finished third in the overall aggregate and group classes, while Linda Jack-son and Kathy Beerwort of this club took top and second places, respectively in the Individual Aggregate competition Many of the top calves hailed from tiie Townships.Marie Duncan, Brome, had the Grand Champion Holstein calf, while Neil Richardson of the Richmond club had the reserve Holstein entry.In other breeds, the reserve Ayrshire calf belonged to Linda Jackson, Brome, while Ruth Steiner, Cowansville, took Grand Champion Jersey with her calf.The concept of a calf rally was started in the Townships.when in 1976, the Richmond Young Farmers invited other clubs to a friendly competition.The event was such a success that the activity was turned over to the provincial office of the Quebec Young Farmers to assure it would become an annual activity.It is now the highlight of the QYF calendar, and anticipated by all 1 ELECTION ANNOUNCED J.Hardy Craft, president of B.W.Draper Assurance Inc., of Bedford has been elected by the regional sub-commitlees of Richelieu and Estrie Sud to the Board of Directors of the Insurance Brokers’ Association of Quebec.Craft, the regional director will work as liaison for the local sub-committees at the provincial level.£4# The Holstein breed had the highest representation at this year's rally, as in the past.Pictured, is one of the senior won.Holstein classes, which Marie Duncan, Brome, the members every year.In the past, the Calf Rally has rotated between Richmond and Ormstown.before finding its way to Shawville in 1980.Participants at the calf rally compete in three areas: the judging competition, the calf classes and the showmanship classes.Equal points are given to each section, and the total is used to determine the individual high aggregate winner.To obtain a club high ag- gregate, the top five scores are totalled with the scores of the barn competition and the group class.In the group class, each club puts together their best group of three animals.In the barn competition each club is allotted a space in the barn for their calves and belongings and the designated judges keep a very close watch on this area Quality and originality of the decorations, neatness and upkeep and the conduct of the club members to fel- low participants and to the general public are all factors which are taken into account for this competition.The weekend formally got underway following registration on Friday afternoon with a welcome from the QYF provincial executive During the evening, the judging competition was held, with Carole Ness of the Howick club coming out on top.In this competition, participants use their skills in placing beef, dairy, hay, On an overall basis in the Holstein breed, Marie Duncan (right) accepts her Grand Champion trophies from Brian Ouimet of the Holstein Association of Quebec.Charles Pirie (left) of the Pontiac Holstein Club, presents the Reserve Champion trophy to Neil Richardson, of the Richmond Club.grain and dairy sire selection classes.After all participants had finished those last minute touches on their prize calves, the calf classes got underway Saturday at 9 a m.The judge for the Holstein entries was Sandy Snedden, of Mississippi Farms, Almonte Ontario, while Ross Rodger, of Woodlea Farms, Vankleek Hill, Ontario, judged the Ayrshire and Jersey calves.Both judges did an excellent job, and by the end of the morning the top two calves of the show were known.The Grand Champion Dairy Calf belonged to Marie Duncan, Brome, while Linda Ness, Howick claimed Reserve with her Ayrshire calf.During the afternoon, the showmanship classes were held.In this event, it is not the calf that is judged, but the abilities of the show man.The Grand Champion Dairy Showman was Sheila Beer-wort, of the Brome club, followed by her sister Kathy, who took Reserve.Beef calf and showmanship classes were also held during the afternoon, under the watchful eye of judge Sterling McGib-bon, of Luskville, Que.The Grand and Reserve calves were the animals belonging to Sheila and Hal Stewart, respectively of Wakefield.In the showmanship class, top honors went to Sharon Stewart, followed by her sister, Sheila.To obtain the Grand Champion and Reserve Overall Showmen, the top Beef and Dairy Showmen — or in this year’s case, show-ladies, must compete against each other, interchanging animals.This was a very stiff competition, but when it was all over, the win- ner was Sheila Beerwort.followed by Sharon Stewart Following this championship class, the group class was held.This class is always a favorite for the audience, as it is very impressive to see so many lop calves in the ring at once.The banquet was held Saturday evening This is the highlight of the weekend because although all the competitive classes are over, it is at the banquet that aggre gate results are announced The individual high aggre gate winner was Linda Jack son of the Brome club, and top honors for club aggre gate went to the Shawville club.The weekend is not all work for the participants at the QYF Calf Rally The annual Tug-0 War was held Friday evening, following the judging competition.The Shawville club proved to have the most muscles, closely followed by the La chute club Following the banquet Saturday evening, a dance was enjoyed by all Everyone awaited Sunday morning with impatience to participate in the traditional calf rally water fight, which like the rest of the weekend, was a great success.Army, Navy & Air Force Unit 318 Presents Mtl.Black Watch (Vet) Association Pipe Band for CLAN GATHERING Salle Jean Paul (Bury, Que.) 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