The record, 26 juin 1981, vendredi 26 juin 1981

W eekend week * OrforJ's musk festival Townships Week The Orford international music festival will be starting soon and Nelly Young takes an advance look, Merritt Clifton reviews an art exhibit by local artist Mary Martin, and there is a round-up of the great Canadian drama festivals.All this as well as our regular features, What’s On, Country Music and Keeping Up, in this week’s Townships Week.Real Hebert This summer, teach your kids the joys of fishing by starting them off with perch or trout-pond trout/12 Tour du Lac Brome The famous (or infamous) Tour du Lac Brome road race starts at 9 a.m.Sunday from the park in Knowlton and freelancer Merritt Clifton is there to match his running skills with those of severa' hundred other competitors from all over the Townships/12 Births, Deaths.7 Business.5 Classified.14 Comics.15 Editorial.4 Living.6 Sports.11 That sage who said "Go West" evidently never had to figure out how to do it on a cloverleaf intersection.“As the days dwindle down to a precious few, I say to hell with the banks and their one over prime.” Report OKs Agent Orange at Gagetown OTTAWA (CP) — A federal committee of experts has found no evidence of health problems arising from spraying of Agent Orange at Camp Gagetow'n New Brunswick.But while the New Brunswick government agrees with the report, controversy continues over another N.B.spraying program -against the spruce budworm.A four-member committee of experts has found no evidence of health problems from the experimental use of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange at the Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, N.B., in 1966 and 1967.PM travels find little BONN (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau headed to London today after a diplomatic doubleheader Thursday failed to dispel suspicions that leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest countries will be unable, to come up with many concrete solutions at the economic summit in Canada Despite Trudeau’s recent world travels, aimed at increasing chances of consensus, a Canadian official said in Bonn not to expect “any drastic bottom lines” from the two-day summit, which opens July 20 in Montebello.Que.The summit wasn’t the only topic discussed Thursday when the prime minister met French President Francois Mitterrand over lunch in Paris and then dined in the German capital with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.Trudeau apparently got a promise that France’s new Socialist leader won’t interfere in the tussle between Ottawa and Quebec.Returning the favor, the prime minister said Mitterrand’s appointment of four Communists to his 40-member cabinet will not affect relations between France and Canada, a different stand from that of the United States, which expresed concern about the move The committee's report, made public Thursday by federal Health Minister Monique Begin and New Brunswick Health Minister Brenda Robertson, said it is doubtful the chemical spread beyond the boundaries of the military base.It also said a review of health records in surrounding areas showed no significant variations from the normal rates of spontaneous abortions, stillbirths or infant mortality.However, the report suggested it would be impossible to determine whether the use of Agent Orange could lead to a higher incidence of cancer in the long term — partly because of the small number of persons that were potentially at risk.The New Brunswick government is satisfied the health of the general population has not been jeopardized by experimental use of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange at the Canadian Forces Base in Gagetowm, N.B., in 1966 and 1967.Health Minister Robertson said the report has “closed the book” on possible health hazards as a result of the incident.The report said it is doubtful the chemical spread beyond the boundaries of the military base, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Fredericton.The indictment in the United States of five scientists for falsifying health tests on pesticides and drugs has provided new ammunition to a protest group fighting the New Brunswick spruce budworm spray program.The Concerned Parents Group, the main voice of opposition to the province's 29-year-old campaign to wipe out the budworm.said Thursday two of the scientists indicted were involved in research on fenitrothion, the chemical insecticide used in the spray program.The federal indictment handed down in Chicago Monday alleges that the former president of a research lab and four former subordinates carried out four fake tests on drugs and pesticides to save money.Fenitrothion was not mentioned in the incident.Escape artist indicted by U.S.federal grand jury By James Duff NEWPORT — Daniel Pruneau, the 29-year-old convicted thief whose three jailbreaks from the Winter Street Jail prompted local law-enforcement officers to vow to shoot him on sight, was indicted by a U.S.federal grand jury for bank robbery, assault on a U.S.officer and illegal entry into the U.S.U.S.District Court in Burlington handed up a nine-count indictment which included several counts of assault and robbery in connection with the $7,000 holdup of a Newport Branch of the Passumpsic Savings Bank June 18, theft of a U.S.Border Patrolman's service revolver June 16 and illegal entry intotheU.S.Pruneau was recaptured by City of Newport police and a CP Rail constable the evening of the Passumpsic holdup.He was flushed out of tall grass alongside the CP Rail yards here and all $7,000 was recov ered Pruneau escaped from the Winter Street jail in early June after he and a cellmate tunnelled through a brick wall and the outer limestone ramparts on time later but the first evidence Pru-Rejean Jutras, was recaptured a short time alter but the first evidence Pruneau was moving came when U.S.Border Patrolman Peter Eaton came face to face with a suspect between Beebe and Derby Line.The suspect, wearing a transparent green-tinted poncho and carrying a faded fishing bag, pulled a revolver and ordered the U.S.federal officer to hand over his service weapon.If convicted, Pruneau could face up to 15 years on each of the three main counts, to be served consecutively.However, chances are state and federal prosecutors will agree on a sentence of between five and eight years, followed by Pruneau’s deportation to Canada.Once deported, the suspect still faces Canadian charges of robbery with violence, use of a weapon, escape and theft of a motorcycle.Cloudy Weather, Page 2 Sherbrooke, Friday, June 26,1981 30 cents QPF off reserve — Levesque QUEBEC (CP' Premier Rene Metallic was quick to note that the Levesque gave his personal guarantee premier did not rule out the possnntv Thursday that Quebec provincial police band fishing nets on the river wou d x-will not enter the Micmac Indian seized.reserve at Restigouche to resolve the “l want a written statement from nm salmon fishing dispute between his that my fishermen won t be bothered government and the Micmacs.for the rest of the season, he said."I guarantee that it won’t happen "Nothing verbal anymore, again.” he said, adding that it was a The band is maintaining barricades “very debatable decision” on the part at the four entry points to the reset \e of provincial police officials to use and reinforcing them with sand bags massive force in two raids on the and logs despite Levesque s reserve.âssurences.In Restigouche.chief Alphonse During a June 11 raid on the reserve.which resulted in ll arrests, 275 riot- sent large task forces to the reserve for equipped provincial police officers the two raids because during a i97:i went on reserve lands to protect 100 operation on the Restigouche reserve a fisheries officers who seized gill nets small force was chased away, used in salmon fishing.Before the June 11 raid “there were On June 20 a 225 member police task threats of violence,1’ he added force went 25 kilometres through New In Montreal Thursday the Quebec Brunswick to approach the reserve, human rights league and the movement although they did not set foot on it.Six to combat racism denounced police boats, including an armor-plated tug, action during the two raids on the and two helicopters were used in the reserve raid They called on the Levesque WERE CHASED AWAY government to drop charges against Levesque said the provincial police those arrested during the June 11 raid 'jjlNI Iippw» Energy plan Absolute madness9 QUEBEC il’i’) Calling Ottawa's latest proposals ‘absolute madness’, Premier Rene Levesque stayed away from a conference of Atlantic premiers and New England governors in St.John's, Newfoundland yesterday while liis colleagues discussed a possible Canadian petroleum reserve for use during New England shortages and the pressing question of acid rains.Premier Levesque described as “absolute madness" Thursday the proposed federal legislation which would allow Ottawa to expropriate Quebec land to build a hydroelectric transmission line for the export of Newfoundland power to the United States “We sure as hell won’t be a carrier for Newfoundland power through our territory," the Quebec premier said at a news conference called to explain why he is boycotting the annual meeting of Eastern Canadian premiers and New England governors, “No province has ever accepted such a corridor and no province will ever accept it.’’ With Newfoundland expressing support for the federal proposal, "it would be absolutely ridiculous and indecent" for the Quebec premier to go to St John's to attend a conference which centres largely on energy policy.Bury spruces What do Bury, Knowlton, Hatley and South Bolton have in common?All are sprucing up for Canada Day celebrations and festivities between tomorrow and next Saturday.As it has for about 60 years, Bury is opening its doors and its heart this weekend to the several thousand visitors expected from across Canada and the U.S., while Hatley will be featuring an 18th-century troop of American Revolutionary soldiers done up in full regalia right down to their Brown RI.CORI)/CHARLES LEVEOUH up for July 1 Bess muskets.Knowlton promises a wide range of activities centred around the younger set, kicked off with a teen street dance Saturday, while South Bolton is holding its Canada Day celebrations next Saturday, July 4, so as not to conflict with celebrations elsewhere.More on what's happening on Page 13 in today's Record as well as in the Canada Day supplement in Monday 's paper.Premier Levesque’s boycott left a blank spot Thursday as participants talked about hydroelectricity.“It would be nice if Mr.Levesque was here," said Gov.Joseph Brennan of Maine, co-host with Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford of the annual gathering that ends today.The idea of a petroleum reserve in Canada to supply the northeastern United States in time of need was revived Thursday at the conference.The proposal was made by Gov.Joseph Brennan of Maine, who said previous attempts by the American and Canadian governments to establish a strategic oil reserve in abandoned iron ore mines at Bell Island, Nfld.and in salt domes near Canso, N.S., never lot past the talking stage.Brennah said the threat of a disruption in petroleum supplies per sisLs despite a current worldwide oil surplus.Resident fed up with muddy cloudburst clog k •: Wellington South resident Gerard Charron is getting pretty fed up with the river that roars through his backyard every time a cloudburst hits Sherbrooke.Ever since he bought his triplex in 1958, rock-and-debris dams in the storm sewer serving a large section of the city from Le Phare High School down to Wellington cause the water to back up.When it pours, the dams burst and send rivers of muddy water cascading down the hillside, under the CP Nail main line and across Wellington.Traffic is blocked, cars stall and water threatens to flood Charron's basement.“/ used to have a garage there, but I had to take it down.They paid me, but.” "Every time, the city comes and fixes the damage but what I’m afraid of is that the viaduct under the railway will clog someday and the water will wash the railbed down the hill.If a train is coming, it could be another Mississauga.” The area isn't stable, either — immediately across the street is the Spur gas bar where a landslide last month forced the owners to tear the service station down.—James Duff I 2 FRIDAY, J U IM E 26, 1981 Diplomats’ wives named to Order OTTAWA 01_JCiI,AS CBC journalists approve return MONTRE A.(CP) — CBC journalists in Quebec voted Douglas is also being named a comoanion.He was leader of the NDP from its inception in 1961 until he retired in 1971.He became premier of Saskatchewan in 1947 and stayed in that post until moving to the federal scene.The three appointments as companions are: Margaret Atwood, Alliston, Ont.; Edward Milton Culliton, Regina; T.C.Douglas, Ottawa.The 22 individuals named officers of the order are: Dr.Wilfred Gordon Bigelon, Toronto; Gerald K.Bouey, Ottawa, Prof J.Maurice S.Careless, Toronto; Prof.Gilles G.Cloutier, Edmonton; Prof.Paul-Andre Crepeau, Montreal; Betty Farraliy, Kelowna, B.C.; Mavis Gallant, Paris, France; Dr.James P.Gilmore, Victoria; Prof.George P.Grant, Halifax; Dr.Robert Orville Jones, Halifax, Dr.Fernand Labrie, Ste Foy, Que.; Dr.J.Ross Mackay, Vancouver; Prof.Paul Marmet, Ste.Foy; W.Earle McLaughlin, Westmount, Que.; Farley McGill Mowat, Port Hope, Ont.; Susan Marie Nattrass, Edmonton; Sydney Newman, Toronto; Clermont Pepin, Outremont, Que., Germain Perrault, Outremont; Dr Michael Snow, Toronto; Roger Tasse, Chelsea, Que.; Patrick Watson, Smiths Falls, Ont.The 37 new members and one honorary member named are: News-in-brief Maurice Allan, Dorval, Que.; Lewis Haldane Miller Ayre, St.John’s; Ruth Marion Bell, Nepean, Ont.; Camille Bernard, Montreal; Victor Bouchard, Quebec; Gerard Brady, Laval, Que.; Walter T.Burns, Mount Lehman, B.C.; Neil William Campbell, Vineland Station, Ont.; Samuel Donaghey, Edmonton; Dr.John G.Egnatoff, Saskatoon; Mark Evaluarjuk, Ogloolik, N W.T.; Martin Wise Goodman, Toronto; Sister Mary Greene, Campbellton, N.B ; Mrs.Albert Hudec, Regina; Ian K.Hume, Melbourne, Que.; Derek Arnold Inman, West Vancouver, Dr.Norman S.Johnston, Ottawa; Roland Jomphe, Havre-Saint-Pierre, Que.; Franz Kraemer, Ottawa; Ftank W.Laird, Penticton, B.C.; Sarah Lavalley, Golden Lake, Ont.; Johnny Barbalinardo Lombardi, Toronto, Dr.fleorge Luscombe, Toronto; Hartland M.MacDougall, Belfountain, Que.; Josephine McCarthy, Toronto; Edna Hellen Mclvor, Winnipeg; Renee Morisset, Quebec; Dr.Thomas Joseph Pashby, Toronto; Leona Dawne Pedosuk, North Vancouver; Tina Plaw, Montreal; Lieut.-Col.G.Charles Rafter, Winnipeg; X-Zena Khan Sheardown, Ottawa; Dr.Stuart Allen Smith, Mouth of Keswick, N.B.; Stan Stronge, North Vancouver; Dr.Jean Taranu, Montreal; Patricia E.Taylor, New York; Lieut.-Col.Mark Tennant, Calgary; Richard M.Veenis, Kabwe, Zambia.X-Honorary Member.* WE SETTLE ESTATES * TAX PLAN YOUR INCOME * FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION * SPECIALIZE - FARM ROLLOVERS PROFESSIONAL ADVICE W.D.DUKE ASSOCIATES LTD.109 William St., Cowansville J2K 1K9 514-263-4123 President: W.D.Duke.B.Comm.C.A.Vice-President: J.R.Boulé B.A.H.Gordon Green ^ Iodine: The magic cure was guaranteed Molson moving on energy Ministers want more committees Thursday 69 to 31 per cent in favor of a return to work protocol that will have news programming back on the air July 6.The protocol was the last obstacle to ending the strike that began Oc tober 30, when the 200 French-and English-language joui" nalists walked out for salary increases and other contract t issues.Earlier Thursday the membership, affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new contract that will increase their pay by more than 33 per cent by the time the agreement expires in March, 1963 Under the new contract the salary of a senior reporter will rise to S31,000 a year from $23,300.The journalists are to return to work next Monday to prepare to on the air a week later.An earlier* protocol called on the journalists to return to work today ut 10 a m EDT and have news on the air by Monday.Under the new contract, the journalists will work a 37'/2-hour week, x^i th paid half-hour lunch breaks.They also gained what union leaders described as prece dent-setting, job security clauses for part-time employees.The CBC accepted for the first time a clause acknowledging the public’s right to receive balanced, impartial news that “must include all possible elements that are essential to tlie subject ” It is a clause that is common in private media contracts in Quebec.t>ut the union said the CBC had steadfastly fought its inclusion in the contract After the strikers balked at returning today, the company agreed that they could begin on Monday, and that regular news programming would resume a week later once the journalists had time to catch up with developments in ttieir specialties.Those wliu took on other work during the dispute were given an additional two weeks until July 13 - to return to their CBC jobs.The strik.o disrupted all news programming on the French radio and television networks as well as local news reporting on the English networks.In addition, the Toron to-based national newsrooms for the English radio and TV scx"vice had to use alternative sources, mainly wire services, for Quebec news.The union, an affiliate of the Confederation of National Trade Unions, says the increase is slightly better than increases won by CBC employees in the rest of the country who settled without a strike.MI^s in high gear as holidays loom OTTAWA.(CP) — With ment departments, eyes fixed firmly on their looming summer holiday, MPs kept tlie legislative mill in high gear Thursday.The Commons gave final approval to bills clarifying the pension rights of air traffic controllers and retroactively authorizing the decentralization of govern- MONTREAL (CP) — The Molson Companies Ltd.group has more than just beer on its mind these days.At a news conference following the annual shareholders’ meeting Thursday, Molson president James Thompson Black said the company holds some junior oil and natural gas stocks to get a “window” on the fast-moving, big-buck energy field.And at the meeting itself, board chairman Donald Willmot called for a “Canadian common market” to ensure “the free movement of labor, goods, services and capital” within the country.Thomson chain may have known ahead OTTAWA (CP) — Justice Minister Jean Chretien confirmed Thursday the RCMP is investigating the possibility a leak alerted Thomson Newspapers Ltd.to the fact federal combines investigators were about to raid 20 of its newspapers three years ago.But Consumer Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet refused to talk about the allegations or the investigation and brushed aside repeated Progressive Conservative questions about whether someone in the government might still be tipping companies about impending raids Petro-exploration rules get tighter OTTAWA (CP) — Oil and natural gas exploration regulations are being tightened to prevent foreign-owned firms from receiving too much of the increased benefits designed for Canadian companies.The change is part of a package of revisions announced Thursday affecting companies wanting to cash in on the proposed federal incentives program for oil and gas exploration For example, a situation might arise whereby a Canadian company undertakes to do work on land leased to a foreign company.Postal negotiations stall OTTAWA (CP) — Negotiations to fend off a strike by 23,000 inside postal workers appeared stalled Thursday when union officials said their talks with government representatives yielded no progress on major issues.The two sides are to meet again today but Jean-Claude Parrot, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, was grim when he left Thursday’s meeting.‘The employer is acting like there has been no conciliation at all," Parrot told reporters, adding he has called the union's national executive to Ottawa because of government reluctance to discuss more than minor contract points.Rate up — but just a bit OTTAWA (CP) — The Bank of Canada nudged its trendsetting bank rate up to 19.08 per cent Thursday but the small change — one-hundredth of a percentage point — prompted renewed hope that interest rates have finally peaked and may begin to decline in a few weeks.The rate has been at 19.07 per cent since June 11, just a whisker short of the 19.1 per cent record set June 4.Genstar also after Canada Permanent The pace, carried over from Tuesday when the House last sat, and general agreement among the parties to keep it up next week led to increased speculation that the long-awaited summer break may be at hand Weather Cloudy Avith sunny breaks today.Winds will be moderate.A chance of showers late in the day - Saturday mostly sunny.High today, 20, low tonight, 10.High Saturday, 22.TORONTO (CP) — Genstar Corp.of Vancouver has emerged as the white knight in a multi-million-dollar control battle for Canada Permanent Mortgage Corp.of Toronto, Canada's third largest real estate company.Genstar, a massive construction conglomorate, made a $230-million cash offer Thursday to compete with a share exchange bid by First City Financial Corp , controlled by the Belzberg family of Vancouver Canada Permanent, the target of a takeover bid for the last month from First City, and Genstar said Thursday their boards had approved the signing of an agreement under which Canada Permanent shareholders will receive $30 a share in cash and $35.70 for each convertible preference share Anti-Inflation board did harm TORONTO (CP) — The now-defunct anti-inflation board did “long term harm" to industrial relations by reinforcing the idea that wage increases should provide some measure of protection from inflation, says an economist with the federal government.“In 1961, people still think they have the right to wage increases equal to increases in the consumer price index,” Thomas McCormick, former reasearch director with the board, told an economic outlook conference Thursday.Oil companies need more money! TORONTO (CP) — Many gas statirn owners say their lease renewal increases are exorbitant, but spokesmen for multinational oil companies say the increases are warranted Ron Baldwin, executive vice-president for the Automotive Trades Association, said Thursday results of a recent survey conducted by the association into Canadawide rent increases revealed rents were “going up very fast.” VICTORIA (CP) —Provincial finance ministers agreed Thursday to set up a series of committees to study the problems of Canada’s pension system.The ministers sidestepped, for the moment, the touchy issue of equalization payments to concentrate on retirement income.Ontario Treasurer Frank Miller said he proposed the committee idea and it won unanimous agreement from his colleagues.Finance ministers from all provinces except Quebec are discussing a wide range of fiscal problems in a two-day meeting here.Fox gets stamp NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.(CP) — The federal government has broken tradition and will issue a stamp honoring Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope.The announcement Thursday by Postmaster-General Andre Ouellet came as Fox, 22, lay in New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital — a little more animated than the previous day, but still in critical condition.Indians 28, CNR 0 DAUPHIN, Man.(CP) — Indian and Metis protesters claimed a partial victory Thursday when Canadian National Railways announced it would rehire the 28 men who walked off the job June 12.The announcement, by CN regional vice-president Ralph Hansen, put an end to three days of protest against alleged discrimination and bad working conditions for native workers.i Senator honors ‘unsung hero’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Paul Tsongas (Dem.Mass.) introduced a bill Thursday to grant permanent U.S.residence to “the unsung hero” who he said sheltered five American hostages after their escape from the American Embassy in Iran.Tsongas’s bill would grant resident-status to Somjai Sriweownetr, a Thai cook, along with his wife and their three children.Gays OK in U.S.A.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge ruled Thursday that the U.S.government cannot exclude people from entering the United States just because they are homosexual.In granting a preliminary injunction, Judge Robert Aguilar said the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs, Lesbian-Gay Fteedom Day Committee Inc.and others, were threatened by a policy of blocking homosexuals or those accused of being homosexual from visiting the country.Seagram offers $2.55 billion NEW YORK (AP) — A $2.555-billion offer Thursday by a unit of Seagram Co.Ltd.of Montreal for up to 41 per cent of the outstanding stock in Conoco Inc.scuttled merger talks between Conoco and Cities Service Co.Conoco and Cities Service, major oil companies that are fighting attempts by Canadian interests to acquire their stock, both announced that merger talks broke off as a result of the unsolicited bid for Conoco stock by the Canadian liquor distiller.Salvador soldiers destroy hospital SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Salvadoran soldiers destroyed a battlefield hospital and killed 40 guerrillas, an army officer reported Thursday.His account of the army's attack came as the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission released new estimates of the number of victims in El Salvador’s power struggle, and five European Parliament members arrived on a fact-finding mission.Royal Navy short of gravy LONDON (AP) — A major broadside hit Britain’s storied Royal Navy on Thursday with the government announcing major reductions in its surface fleet, manpower, home bases and shore depots.Defence Secretary John Nott told the Commons that nine of the 59 destroyers and frigates assigned to NATO in the eastern Atlantic will be put in reserve ahead of schedule.He said the navy base at Chatham would be shut down in 1984, work at the Portsmouth base will “contract very severely, and that the future of the dockyard at the Rock of Gilbraltar will be reviewed.” Ayatollah’s toll 1,600 and rising LONDON (AP) — Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime has executed more than 1.600 people since taking over Iran in February 1979, and at least 32 have died in the wave of executions surrounding the ouster of President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.Amnesty International said Thursday.The London-based human rights organization said it has asked its members around the world to appeal to Iranian authorities to halt the killings.Amnesty, an independent organization, has made political prisoners around the world its special concern.It is opposed to capital punishment.Remember how when we were barefoot brats and we would come into the kitchen some awful day with a toe we had stubbed against a rock0 Remember the inevitable cure that mother insisted upon administering as soon as that massacred toe was washed with hot water and P & G soap?How can you ever forget it?Iodine! And when it began to sting and you were hopping on your one good foot dancing out the agony of it, remember how your dear old mother tried to comfort you by telling you that the sting came from the iodine killing all the germs?Well now some of the clever people in the white coats are telling us that it was all in vain.That the iodine probably didn’t help much at all.That it might even have made the wound a bit worse.Which must bring a sad smile to many a man my age as he calls to mind a lot of those other remedies which were thought so essential to good mothering a half century ago.There was goose grease, for instance, which every conscientious mother saved in mason jars for rubbing over a youngster’s throat and chest whenever a winter's cough threatened.Add a little camphor to it and its magic was practically guaranteed.Or so she thought.Skunk oil on the other hand was an adult remedy, its magic being wondrous for such ailments as arthritis and eczema.For a piece of dirt in the eye, there was the simple but painfully delicate business of putting a flaxseed under the lid, the theory being that the seed would chase the dirt into a corner of the eye where it could be easily brushed out.Other remedies with wonderful powers to cure an ailment or scare it away included red flannel, and a piece of red flannel which had already been anointed with camphorated goose grease - well that was the absolute best that human hands could do for you.But mind you, that flannel had to be red! And so great was the faith in the sorcery of this material that in our neighborhood at least, red flannel longjohns would be flapping from frosty clothelines from November to St.Patrick’s Day.Come spring there were of course the internal concoctions which would “clean out the system and thin the blood.Here sulphur and molasses was the time-honoured standby, and every self respecting housewife had a jar of dry sulphur somewhere in her medicine chest.Sulphur and lard would cure almost any kind of itch that afflicted us in those days; and sulphur alone was wonderful for lice too - the kind you got from the home as well as the little beasties you sometimes brought home from school.To reduce swelling, God had provided the furry leaves of the mullein plant and you steeped these in hot vinegar before applying.Or if it wasn't the season for mullein, maybe a bread and milk poultice would do.It certainly wouldn't do any harm anyhow and afterwards the dog could have it.Well we may marvel now that mother could have been so unenlightened as to believe in such folklore, but I wonder if those of us who keep rushing off to the drugstore for the latest remedy we saw advertised on television are really much more scientific.One Quebec pharmacist made the papers the other day by telling a convention that some of our most popular remedies are little more than aspirin “with a bit of fizz added”.He was honest enough to state further that “there is no justification at all for the prices charged for such nostrums.So before we cast aspersions on the memory of our sainted mothers, let's remember that if the remedies they inflicted upon us had nothing else in their favour, there certainly was no profit motive in their concoction; there was no danger of addiction and there was tender concern in every one of them.And while the clever people in those white coats haven't got around to proving it yet, seems to me that their test-tubes have yet to give us any remedy to equal that of plain, old-fashioned mother love.Even when it hurt.Or tasted awful.Show of force mars ceremony WARSAW (AP) — Soviet and Polish troops held joint training manoeuvres in southern Poland as Solidarity leader Lech Walesa led 15,000 people in anniversary ceremonies in the central part of the country commemorating food riots in 1976.Czechoslovakia, one of the sternest critics of Polish liberalism, called the observance in Radom a provocative celebration of “anti-state riots.” Striker gets ‘no’ from Commons LONDON ( AP) — The House of Commons voted 144 to 36 Thursday night to prevent a repetition of Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands's election of the British Parliament.The proposal now goes to the House of Lords, and is expected to become law next week Sands, serving a 14-year term in the Maze prison near Belfast, died May 5 on the 66th day of his hunger strike, less than a month after his election.Rabin trump card for Peres bid TEL AVIV (Reuter) — I^abor party leader Shimon Peres has brushed aside his long-running feud with former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and brought him back into the leadership lineup as the opposition's general election trump card Rabin, regarded by Israelis as the party's most popular figure, appeared at a news conference with Peres on Thursday night and announced he would serve under him as defence minister if Labor wins Tuesday's election.A » „ p The Townships FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1981 3 #¦___tel ttecora Quebec blasts Ducks for Brome water deterioration By Merritt Clifton KNOW'LTON — Brome Lake water quality is worse than ever.Environment Quebec reports.Only six years after a new sewage treatment plant supposedly saved the lake, shoreline weed banks have spread far past their former perimeters, water clarity hasn't improved, and oxygen depletion has be come a problem toward the southern end.Environment Quebec engineer Henri Durocher rates Brome Lake eutnv phication at 8.5 on a scale of 10 Eutrophication is the process by w hich lakes deteriorate into swamps and then finally disappear At 10, the lake would be come unfit for fishing, boating, and swimming The Environment Quebec report doc uments three years of charges by the Brome Lake Conservation Association that pollution from Brome lake Ducks Inc is more than offsetting benefits from the treatment plant After cottages all around the lake were forced to hook into a 21-mile sewer system stretching clear to Bondville, the shore line weed perimeter held steady at 1974 measurements, except surrounding Brome Lake Ducks.There the weed perimeter spread outward another 100 metres Brome lake Ducks Inc.is responsible for 36 per cent of total pollution, Durocher claims, and for 10 per cent of the Brome Lake phosphorus content.Phosphorus is the nutrient most likely to promote weed growth Most of the Brome lake Ducks input comes from duck manure, 160,000 cubic yards of which are in storage awaiting some dis position solution The company intends to bag and sell their duck manure for fertilizer, but until they obtain the necessary equipment, contaminated runoff still enters the lake Brome Lake Conservation Association president James Wilkins adds that Brome Lake Ducks also dumps offal from slaughtered ducks into two tributary streams from time to time."Three years ago we caught the duck farm dumping guts into the lake because of a broken pump,” Wilkins recalls.“They had a pipe running with blood The environmental people came and cut the pipe.” He points it out on a motorboat tour of pollution point sources.More recently, on April 15 of this year, Wilkins received a report from two muskrat trappers that piles of duck offal lay in a swamp beside the lake.However, W'ilkins failed in an attempt to photograph the evidence.Checking the Knowlton sewage treatment plant's records of waste volume processed failed to turn up any hint that the duck farm was dumping anything.Like other industrial facilities.Brome l^ake Ducks is individually metered and charged for treatment service by volume of waste matter handled The largest duck producer in Canada, Brome Lake Ducks has a total duck population of over 100,000 at any given time.The farm hatches 6,700 ducks per week, in two groups, one Tuesday, the other Thursday.2,600 ducks are slaughtered, gutted, frozen and shipped to cils tomers per week.The farm also sells live ducks and duck eggs Company employees claim no duck offal goes to waste "We even sell the feet to Hong Kong,” one says “They're a delicacy over there.” Brome Lake Ducks is among Knowl-ton's oldest and largest industries, established over 40 years ago, employing 44 hourly workers and several more on salary Eleven triple rowtxi duck barns are in current use.A twelfth barn has been retirer! from service.Wilkins Ik* lieves Brome lake Ducks could Ik* re located by the ministry of the environment, citing precedents concerning several Montreal factories But the town council, he says, as a forrier councillor himself, isn’t eager to lose the company.Meanwhile, stopping phosphorus pollution from Brome Lake Ducks might not in itself end the expanding weed problem Domestic water weeds such as potomegon and coontail might recede, lake ecologist Haul Rivard believes, but Eurasian watennilfoil has also appeared in Brome Ivike and might be harder to overcome.Right now the domestic weeds can compete successfully against Eurasian water-milfoil because where the pollution is worst, water clarity is poor Eurasian watennilfoil requires clear water and light to begin rapid growth As the water clears, however, the Eurasian watennilfoil could conceivably crowd out the domestic weeds, as has happened at l^ike Massawippi and l^ake Selby.At this point it begins to act as a nutrient pump, recycling phosphorus from years of accumulated bottom sediments by means of a long stem.The long stem feeds thousands of tiny leaves Huit constantly die, break off, and build a new phosphorus layer for milfoil to food upon “Right now Brome l«iko doesn't have a Eurasian watennilfoil problem," Rivard says, “1 see a lot of reasons why this lake is fairly safe, for the time be ing, anyway.The main problem to tackle is the ongoing phosphorus loading from the duck farm Gel rid of that, and then we’ll see what has to Ik* done about the milfoil ” rr~ PHOTO/MFRRin CLIFTON Paul Rivard takes Brome Lake soundings.Environment officials are worried about the quality of the lake's water.Education beat BY ANTHONY ROSS Declining enrolment, parent concerns about the quality of education and a back-to-basics approach all are features of our educational system in North America but they have many of the same problems across the Atlantic.David Johnson and David Wren from Derbyshire, England visited the Lennoxville District School Board last week as part of an exchange program between their board and the LDSB and voiced many of the same concerns and problems which affect our system.Johnson and Wren are consultants in England who work w’ith elementary school principals and teachers on all aspects of school life from curriculum to the hiring and promoting of teacchers.The two gave a series of workshops to LDSB teachers explaining various methods and teaching styles.The LDSB teacchers were particularly interested in the creative aspect of the work.Wren and Johnson said one of the teaching methods they were explaining was to try and combine various courses.They believe teachers shouldn’t just teach one subject at a time but make the students use all their skills all the time For example if a class is involved in a geography project they could use research methods learned in history and creative writting.The idea is to let students come up with their own ideas in some kind of structured system.Wren and Johnson disagreed with the opinion of many parents that schools had to go back to basics because they don't believe they have ever been lost.Children are still scoring well on tests devised to rate how well they are learning, they offer as proof.They agreed it is important to concentrate on the basic skills but that the formal method of teaching was not always the best.The style the teacher should adopt is one that is well-organized and structured but with a certain amount of looseness.A meld between the formal and informal approach usually works best.In England the drop in the elementary school population is having a major effect upon their school system and educators are fighting many of the same battles we are on this side of the Atlantic to keep schools open.English teachers don’t have the same type of surplus arrangement as in Quebec but often they must move to other schools as the student populations drop in their area.Also, teachers in the UK are promoted on the basis of merit and not simply seniority and scholarity as is generally the case in our system.Wren and Johnson agree students and teachers are going to have to take a different look at education and what it accomplishes.No longer is a good education a ticket for a job.Educators and students have to understand they are not being just trained for a specific profession in most cases these days because the jobs simply may not be there.They must begin to understand that education is not an end in itself but a means to achieve that end.Charges coming in parking theft SHERBROOKE — Four city workers and one employee of the Downtown Corporation will soon be charged with stealing money from the city at the Webster and La Grenouillère parking lots the French-language daily La Tribune reported today.Suspicions were raised when Corporation members noticed the repeated disappearance of an unusually large number of parking tokens.A three-month investigation by city police has shown the thefts took place beginning in August 1979 and continued until this month, the paper says in an unsigned article.Some 1.000 to 1,500 tickets averaging $1 in value were apparently taken each week The tickets are issued ’ by machines at the parking lot entrances, and used by customers to pay their bills.The four city employees, since suspended, will be charged with thefts of from $100 to $1000.The Corporation worker's charge apparently involves only $5.50 Man escapes from detention WATERLOO (JD) — The Waterloo detention centre sprang another leak Monday, causing police to issue a bulletin announcing the escape of 24-year-old Serge Gagnon, serving less than two years for undisclosed crimes.Gagnon, 59 kilos and 1.7 metres tall, went missing at about 4 p.m.Monday.Anyone with information can call the Quebec Police Force at 395-4155.Watennilfoil threat to Yamaska not serious yet By Merritt Clifton COWANSVILLE Eurasian watennilfoil, the weed already choking lakes Massawippi and Selby, has suddenly appeared in Cowansville's artificial reservoir, and could spread from there throughout the Yamaska River system.“We do not have a serious problem with this water-milfoil yet,” city manager Georges Bernier states, "but this does not mean we intend to let it go until we get a serious problem five or six years from now.” Lake ecologist and Eurasian watermjjfoil ex pert Paul RivJrtUfferitified al sample taken from the reservoir late last week.Bernier immediately pledged to bring the discovery to the attention of the city council, and also to the attention of the city engineers, who are already working on reservoir water quality problems.Eurasian watermilfoi! was accidentally imported to North America about 25 years ago as an aquarium plant.Flushed down toilets from overcrowded goldfish bowls, it rapidly spread throughout the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, then appeared semi-simultaneously in British Columbia, the St.Lawrence Seaway, and the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario.No biological control for Eurasian watermilfoil has ever been discovered.It can grow in any depth of water up to 30 feet, provided adequate water clarity, can survive either extreme septic pollution or acid rain, and secretes phenols, a poisonous chemical related to the phenoxy herbicides 2,4-1) and 2,4,5-T.The phenol secretions apparently poison rival plants.Eurasian watermilfoil itself seems immune, for reasons not yet scientifically understood.Ironically, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T are the only known chemical controls for Eurasian watermilfoil.Both were used extensively in British Columbia and Ontario, until public alarm over diojfm found in some samples resulted in a federal ban.Chemical solutions couldn’t be applied in the Cowansville reservoir, Bernier acknowledges, because it supplies drinking water not only to Cowansville itself, but also to many downstream communities, including Farnham and St.Hyacinthe.The other attempted technological fix, Aquamarine harvesting, is also impractical, Harvesting at tiny Lake Selby will still cost between $22,000 and $30,000 this summer alone.Harvesting removes the plant mass, permitting swimming and boating, but also spreads the milfoil banks, since milfoil can regenerate itself from any fragment of seed, stem, or leaf, and the harvesting machines inevitably spread chopped up pieces w herever they go.Bernier and Rivard are optimistic that the Cowansville watermilfoil won’t get as far out of hand as it did in Selby and Massawippi.To begin with, the plant has been identified at an early stage of infestation.Severe infestation was underway at Selby and Massawippi for over seven years before Rivard iden iified Eurasian watermilfoil as the culprit Pat Lindsay made the first tentative Eurasian water milfoil identification at Cowansville late last year.She failed to recognize other specimens, but did pinpoint growth areas that Rivard later acknowledged would be conducive to Eurasian watermilfoil, if indeed it were present One such area is just a hundred yards from the Cowansville filtration plant intake.Last year, Lindsay complained, "Mayor Rosaire Raymond didn’t even seem to listen to me.The people of Cowansville have spent a lot of money there on that lake Now they’re letting it go down the drain.” Just before moving with her family to Ontario, Lindsay added.T feel sorry for people here five years from now, if something isn’t done.” If Eurasian watermilfoil does seem to be getting out of hand, Cowansville could attempt a theoretical CGE bash celebrates $97 million plant construction By James Duff BROMONT — Canadian General Electric is throwing a gala bash here Monday to celebrate the dedication of the site, marking beginning of construction of its $97 million engine-components plant.Defence Minister Gilles Lamontagne, Supply and Services Minister Jean-Jacques Blais and Bernard Landry, Quebec’s Minister of State for economic development, and “a number of other federal, provin- Brieflet STANSTEAD Lawn supper, Christ Church Lawn, Stanstead, Que , July 2, 5 - 7 p.m.Sale at 3 p.m.Menu - Baked ham, salads, strawberry cake and ice cream.MATHIAS TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE SALES& SERVICE Reconditioned typewriters 41 Wellington St.North Phone 562 0440 cial and local dignitaries” will be participating in Monday’s short ceremony dedicating a plaque.Won by Bromont in a tough competition with Sherbrooke, Cowansville and Granby, the compressor airfoil plant, will produce blades and vanes for jet engines for use in commercial aircraft.The plant is a large part of the industrial benefits program associated with the CF-18 fighter aircraft chosen by the federal defence ministry for use by the Canadian armed forces.The McDon-nell-Douglas F-18 was chos- en over the already-proven General Dynamics F-16 because it had two engines, considered essential for use in Canada’s extreme conditions of heat and cold.Canada has agreed to purchase 137 of the planes at a total cost of over $4 billion, and although none of the components produced in Bromont will go into the F-18, construction of the plant — to employ 400 — was one of the conditions of the contract.Fart of Monday’s gala will consist of a flyover by several of the 2,000-mph plus fighters.W.G.Quigley, MEd.Individual - Family - Marriage COUNSELLING announces the opening of an office in Cowansville.For appointment please call Knowltoh Medical Clinic, 243-6189.solution Rivard suggested last year: manipulating water levels by means of the city sluice gate, to reduce the amount of ideal watermilfoil habitat.This solution hasn't been attempted elsewhere because watermilfoil hasn’t appeared anywhere else that has such a sluice gate ready for use.Before Cowansville attempts it, water levels would have to be charted and the Eurasian watermilfoil growth cycle studied for about a year, to be certain the habitat could be reduced significantly.Meanwhile, what happens farther down the Yamaska will become a matter of provincial concern.P.J Kemp and Rivard have also recently identified Eurasian watermilfoil in another Yamaska tributary, Brome Lake Whether it will spread downstream is therefore less a question than how rapidly and dangerously it might take root, especially in slow-moving sections behind dams and in the St Lawrence valley."We will do what we can,” Bernier promises, “but the responsibility for stopping milfoil is too big to be han died all by Cowansville.Surely the ministry for the environment will have to help at some point.” Regardless of that.however, Bernier concludes, “You may rest assured that we will not let this matter remain in file.Something will be done " Unchecked, Eurasian watermilfoil reduces shallow lakes to swamps within just a few years Before lhal stage, it prevents fishing, swimming, and navigation If the weed afflicting the reservoir last year was indeed milfoil, it is already implicated in one drowning, where a young man's corpse was found tangled in weeds.If it reappears as thickly this year, it could close the Cowansville beach by August.IT-,- ’ PHOTO/MhKRITT CLIFTON Environmentalists have identified watermilfoil growing in areas of the Yamaska, but town officials say it is not a serious threat — yet.f| June 24, HI $ ) 07 "ÿp SO^TBI m ê / Xl.6 $1,956.20 451 $ 81.50 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20-kilometre main event Sunday in Granby’s Tour de la Princesse’ day of road-racing, trotting through the industrial park, the zoo, around the inside of Granby Pond, and back to the Polyvalente J.H.Leclerc in just one hour, seven seconds.Daniel Thibodeau followed him home in one hour, 11 seconds.Over 50 other runners captured prizes, in five, 10 and 20-kilometre events run simultaneously over the same course.But organizational ineptitude by the sponsoring Club Athlos de Granby drew at least as much attention.The 10-kilometre final results were altered because some runners mistakenly continued on the 20-kilometre course where the two routes divided.After the Granby Zoo segment of the 20-kilometre race, runners often found race officials absent at major intersections and had to ask bystanders which way to go.Although the ‘Tour de la Princesse’ attracted entrants from as far away as Maine, officials made no effort to provide race information in English.“We expected 15 or 20 guys to show up from St John Ambulance,” medic Robert Duhamel shrugged.“I was the only one who came We should have had someone following the five and 10-kilometre runners because those are the people more likely to be out of shape.But I had to follow the 20-kilometre runners in case one of them got hurt on the latter part of the coarse We were lucky, no one did get hurt.” Duhamel himself was working with only two hours sleep.The last runner cleared the 20-kilometre course just after noon, but printed results weren’t released until nearly 3 p.m.At most races, results by name and number are posted within 20 minutes after the last entrant finishes.Huguette Plante of Sherbrooke claimed the dubious honor of finishing last, in two hours, 19 minutes.But she also received a bronze medal as third place winner among women over 40.“For 29 years I have worked sitting down,” she grinned.“I only began running last September and I feel good.” Daniel Girard paced the five-kilometre field alongside Bernard Roy.Both finished in 17 minutes, three seconds.Andrea Sperry led the women home in 21:14.Jacques Parent grabbed top honors for the 10 kilometres in 35:50.Suzanne Arakgi was first among 10-kilometre women runners, in 45:22.Florence Marcoux led women in the 20 kilometres with a time of 1:37.Surprisingly, the tough 20-kilometre course drew the most runners.65 finished, as opposed to only 48 finishing the 10 kilometres and just 30 finishing the five kilometres.Many top local runners chose the 10-kilometre course in an attempt to break personal speed records, including the entire Brome Lake Runners contingent.Brome Lake Runners president Roger Page expressed disappointment in his fifth place finish, good for second among men over 30.Page runs rull 26-mile marathons in under three hours.Brome Lake Runners members Alden Peasley and Robert Berke were third and fifth in the same division.They’ll all be going 20 kilometres June 28, at the Tour Du Lac Brome, 9 a m., Sunday, beginning from the Lions Club Park in Knowlton.Maybe the Brome Lake Runners can show Granby how to stage an efficient race.The Tour de la Princesse was, all in all, just a spectacular one, with lots of celebrities and giveaways to participants, along an excellent course — if only it had been better marked.Revenge is so sweet CEMENT GRAVEL TOP SOIL SAND CRUSHED ROCK POWELL TRANSPORT TEL.: (819) 562-0212; Res.: 562-0803 Captain video leads Canucks VANCOUVER (CP) -Roger Neilson brings his Captain Video reputation to Vancouver Canucks next season with the belief that the National Hockey League team is heading in the right direction.Neilson, who will be associate coach with head man Harry Neale in 1981-82, told a news conference Wednesday he's impressed with the way the Vancouver ownership and front office is “hanging tough on the Czech situation." “When you have 20 teams against you, but you think you're right, you’ve got to just hang right in there with what you believe,” said Neilson.“That’s exactly what the Canucks are doing and I like to work with an organization like that.” The Canucks are involved in a controversy with NHL president John Ziegler over their signing of centre Ivan Hlinka and defenceman Jiri Bubla of Czechoslovakia, selected by Winnipeg Jets and Colorado Rockies respectively in a special draft.Vancouver contends there was no formal agreement signed between the NHL and the Czechoslovakian Ice Hockey Federation, leaving the players as free agents.Neilson, 48, joins the Canucks after resigning from Buffalo Sabres where he was head coach last season and guided the team to a fifth place finish in the over all standings The Sabres were eliminated in five games by Minnesota North Stars in the Stanley Cup quarter-finals.The previous season, Neilson was associate coach with general manager Scotty Bowman, who returns to the Buffalo bench as head coach next season.By Merritt Clifton GRANBY — Record readers know I’ve never minded making a public jackass of myself.But after last year’s West Brome demi-marathon fiasco, I wore ears so long I could have passed for an oversized jackrab-bit.I’d entered half-drunk and sleepless, on a dare, and while I completed the 13 miles somehow, I finished dead last, in two hours, 31 minutes.Brome Lake Runners president Roger Page could possibly run 26 miles faster than that.I got beaten by a fat girl with both her knees in bandages and by 10-year-old Stevie Soule, among others.“Never again!”, I vowed, and my inability to move out of bed for two days afterward just about convinced me I’d never make a runner.But jackasses are supposed to be able to run pretty well, if they’re worth their hay and oats.When Granby’s 13-mile Tour de la Princesse started Sunday, I was back in the field, in my cutoff shorts and green bandana, somewhat resembling a pirate who’d walked the wrong plank This time I entered not on a dare, but on a challenge from myself.I was going to beat the hell out of somebody, preferably someone who’d left me eating dust at West Brome.I was going to do it for myself, for wounded pride.My quest for revenge had already pushed me through a tough daily running regimen since mid-March, when the snow melted.I’d started out at three miles a day, cross-country, then moved up to seven miles, on roads.I began working to whittle my times down, from one hour to 54 minutes, then 52 minutes, finally 49 minutes.I ate well, got ny rest, and even quit drinking beer all night with friends.I felt it all paying off.I’ve never really been out of shape.My weight hasn’t climbed since my sophomore year in high school.But even when I used to swim an hour a day I couldn’t run more than a mile without almost asphixiating.Now I could almost cruise my daily seven miles, watching girls, birds, airplanes — anything more exciting than the same strips of dirt and asphalt ahead I’d already covered 50 times.Still, cutting through the Granby pack during the first few miles, surprised to find myself able to see the leaders until after several sharp bends, I retained nagging misgivings.This wasn’t my first race of the season.I’d finished 89th out of 111 finishers in the 6.2-mile Lake Memphremagog Road-race at Newport, Vermont, last month.I’d beaten only two men under age 30.All the rest were old men, women, and children.This field didn’t contain many old men, women and children to pick on.To beat anyone here, I’d have to beat other men in their physical prime.Other 28-year-olds.28-year-olds who’d been running — and probably winning — all of their lives.I held my own through the first five kilometres with effort.Between five and 10 kilometres I felt myself dropping back, as runner after runner passed me, some not even breathing hard.Halfway through the race, a course official gave my time: 56 minutes, much slower than what I’d done in training and at Newport.I’d have trouble finishing in under two hours, my target.I wouldn’t come close to the target Dr.Robert Berke set for me, based on physique and state of health: 1 hour, 45 minutes.But, swinging around the bend leading through Granby Zoo, I felt a sudden cool breeze bring my second wind.Or maybe my first.I also heard more footsteps behind me.I started running as I never ran before.I didn’t catch my split-time at 13 kilometres, but I knew the distance between kilometre markers and water-stops seemed to be getting shorter and shorter.There wasn’t another runner in sight ahead, just those footsteps behind me, as I swooped down the hill to Granby Pond, running on the grass center-strip to avoid blistering my already-sore feet on the road At 18 kilometres I felt strong enough to skip my last possible water-stop.But at 19, those footsteps behind me sounded ominous.“That’s the dude I’m going to beat,” I vowed.Once upon a time, 11 years ago, I was fast enough to run as anchor-man on a 440 relay team coached by Lee Evans, the former Olympian record-holder.By now I’ve forgotten most of what he taught me — and I lasted only one race before he found someone faster — 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fishing and the various rods, reels, lines, lures, baits and how to use them.After learning all this theory in clinics, they should be given the chance to practise their newfound skills in lakes or ponds.It seems to me that efforts like these on the part of associations and fish and game clubs would contribute valuable service to our young as well as turning at least some of them into future sport fishermen.Not only that, but youngsters interested in fishing are rarely juvenile delinquents.Parents as well, and fathers in particular should be the ones to initiate their offspring in the art of fishing by devoting several days of their summer holidays to take their children on fishing trips nearby.The best and cheap- est way to begin a youngster fishing is to take him or her to any body of water where perch abound, since for kids of this age, the species of fish caught is of little importance.What counts for them is that the fish are biting and since perch are everywhere and ready to bite 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