The record, 3 février 1982, mercredi 3 février 1982

W ednesday Sherbrooke, Wednesday, February 3,1982 30 cents No assault on Bush limo — FBI Rainy Weather, page 2 Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified.8 Comics.9 Editorial.4 Living.6 Sports.10-11 WASHINGTON (AP) — Riot squads assembled, helicopters hovered, streets were blocked and offices searched.But in the end, authorities said it was just a chunk of cement which nicked the armored limousine of U.S.Vice President George Bush as he rode towards the White House early yesterday.Though the initial response centred on speculation that Bush may have been fired upon, the police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service jointly concluded late in the day that “there was no assault.” Instead, said special agent James Boyle of the Secret Service, FBI laboratory tests had demonstrated that the object which struck the car and startled the vice president and his bodyguards was “a substance consistent with the building materials being used in the area.” A Bush aide, Peter Teeley, said the tests disclosed no metal fragments, showing instead that “the object contained clay and cement.” “We heard a loud bang and drove on to work and that was it,” Bush said later.“There really wasn’t heightened tension even.There wasn’t anything scary about it at all.Really.” Hundreds of police swarmed into the area.Special operations officers wearing flak jackets and carrying rifles with scopes conducted room-to-room searches of office buildings and checked rooftops.Former Senator Paul Desruisseaux dead Senator Paul Desruisseaux.dead at 76 M 1 yrw By Timothy Belford Senator Paul Desruisseaux who represented the Eastern Townships riding of Wellington is dead at the age of 76.Desruisseaux, who was well known throughout the Eastern Townships and particularly in the Sherbrooke area as a lawyer and financier, was appointed to the senate by the late Prime Minister Lester Pearson in 1966.Born in Sherbrooke May 1,1905, Des-ruisseaux was the son of Geoffrey Des-ruisseaux, owner of the American Hotel, formerly on Wellington Street and Sarah Gautier of Warwick, Quebec He attended the Sacred Heart School, Séminaire St.Charles Borromee and the Séminaire de Montreal before graduating from the law faculty of the University of Montreal.Senator Desruisseaux also attended the Babson Institute and Harvard University where he See DESRUISSEAUX Page 3 Ottawa still head to head against the provinces RECORD/PERRY BEATON In search of the monster snowbank The snowbanks are higher this year than in snowbank in the Townships.Joe Lemire, one recent memory as Record photographer Perry of the snowblower drivers on the Hereford Beaton discovered on his quest for the highest Road, is busy keeping them that way.OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government, backed by the firm stance of Bank of Canada Governor Gerald Bouey, refused to cave in Tuesday to provincial premiers’ demands to lower interest rates.Bouey, in a four-hour afternoon session during the opening day of the first ministers’ economic conference, however, appeared to win few converts to his belief that reducing interest rates below levels in the United States would invite economic disaster.Bouey warned that lowering interest rates would cause a sharp drop in the dollar’s value and in order to stop the plunge, interest rates would have to be driven up to even higher levels.The provinces argued that lower interest rates would boost business and consumer confidence, stimulate spending and investment and improve sales of Canadian goods here and abroad.The premiers entered the conference united in their demands for lower rates but New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield later agreed with the federal view that lower rates alone are not the answer.Minister wants Quebec ‘planetary model5 MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec Immigration Minister Gerald Godin said Tuesday he wants the province to become “a planetary model, a homeland where we can achieve brotherhood between different peoples.” “If we can succeed at that, we will have made a valuable contribution to mankind,” he said.Speaking to a meeting of the Montreal Citizenship Council, Godin said that all but the English-speaking, Russian and Chinese cultures are in a minority situation and, “Quebec is in the vanguard of threatened cultures.” Asked about the negative aspects of Quebec’s language law, Godin replied that the government is still willing to negotiate a reciprocal agreement with other provinces on language of education first proposed at an interprovincial conference in St.Andrews, N.B., in 1977.“The offer is still on the table,” he said.“We are waiting for action and not just words from the other provinces.” Godin said the language law protects the culture of Quebec’s French-language majority.But other provincial government programs such as those encouraging the teaching of ethnic languages, maintenance and development of ethnic cultures and creation of ethnic community centres also help new' Quebecers to keep their culture, he said.There is no question of an American-style melting pot in Quebec, he said.Instead there will be a mosaic founded on co-existence and mutual respect between cultures.The language law, he said, “is the ultimate survival tool of people whose mother tongue is French, born out of 15 years of studies and two aborted attempts” at legislation under earlier Union Nationale and Liberal governments.It constitutes a sort of revolution, he said, but a revolution so quiet that it is practically unique in the world.S.A.blacks too primitive to rule says MP OTTAWA (CP) — The only MP to accept a South African government offer for a free tour last fall says blacks in that country are too primitive to govern themselves.Progressive Conservative Dan McKenzie, MP for Winnipeg-Assiniboine, said in an interview Tuesday his eyes were opened by the month-long August trip paid for by the apartheid goverment.“Many of them (blacks) practise witchcraft and go to witch doctors,” McKenzie said.“Many of them prefer to live in a primitive manner out in the wide open spaces.” McKenzie was ridiculed in the Commons Tuesday by New Democrat Terry Sargeant for comments McKenzie made in an interview with the Toronto-based newspaper Contrast.“Blacks in South Africa are still too primitive for self-rule,” he told the paper Sargeant.MP for Selkirk-Interlake in Manitoba, failed to get required unanimous consent for a motion asking the Commons to establish a scholarship fund for “remedial courses in race relations.humanity, morals, Christianity and native studies” for McKenzie.WAS DISGUSTED Sargeant said later he is disgusted by the Tory’s remarks, adding: “It goes against everything I believe in.” McKenzie confirmed he had made the comments reported by Contrast, but said the South African government showed him it is doing everything it can for blacks.Among other things, he said, they “have the most advanced universities in the world.” But “none of this is coming out in the American press and the Canadian press.“We met with whites and blacks and coloreds — they don’t even appreciate this controversy around the world.” McKenzie, who said Canada has no right to criticize South Africa as long as natives here are living well below the standard of living for whites, said he was offended by Sargeant’s comments in the House El Salvador battle for town kills 100 Record News Services SAN SALVADOR — About 100 people were killed and many injured yesterday when guerrillas stormed the town of Nueva Trinidad, near El Salvador’s border with Honduras, military sources said.The local military chief and 11 soldiers were reported to be among the dead.About 500 guerrillas attacked the town, 121 kilometres northeast of San Salvador, the sources said.The fighting followed in upsurge in the guerrillas’ struggle to overthrow the ruling junta.MONTREAL (CP) — A poster by a Quebec nationalist group labelling the province’s Liberal MPs traitors falls within the limits of legitimate political expression, a judge ruled Tuesday.The judgment by Quebec Superior Court Chief Justice Jules Deschenes gives the St.Jean Baptiste Society of Montreal the green light to distribute copies of the poster calling all Quebec Liberal MPs who supported the constitutional resolution “traitors.” The poster, a reprint of a controversial newspaper ad the society placed two days after Parliament passed its constitutional resolution in November, warns: "Remember each and every one of them.These are the traitors, to be remembered as such.Today they have the upper hand but tomorrow you will, and you will make them pay for their treason.” MPs Celine Hervieux-Payette (Montreal-Mercier), David Berger (Montreal-Laurier), Jean-Guy Dubois (Lotbiniere) and Gaston Gourd (Levis) tried to stop distribution of the poster by contending in a request for a court injunction that it was defamatory and Earlier the guerrillas’ radio urged peasants and workers to take up arms against the junta “to hasten the struggle for freedom.” The radio’s warnings of bigger battles were an apparent reference to guerrilla plans to disrupt constituent assembly elections planned for March 28.The U.S.-backed junta sees elections as the only way toward establishing peace in the country.In Ottawa, External Affairs Minister Marck MacGuigan criticized a U.S.decision to send more military aid to El Salvador and said he would discuss the an incitement to violence.NOT CONTRADICTED’ “That the wording of the poster is defamatory could not be contradicted either objectively or subjectively,” Deschenes wrote.“But the defamation, although clear, can find its justification in the context of public interest.Because that clearly is the case here.” Citing the more than 100-year-old debate between Quebec nationalists and federalists, Deschenes accepted the society’s argument that in a political and historical context it could legitimately claim the Liberal MPs had betrayed Quebec’s interests.It was not up to the courts to decide which side was right, the judge added.Deschenes also accepted the society’s contention that the words “traitors,” “treason” and “betrayal” have been common in Canadian politics, particularly in French Canada.As for the poster urging Quebecers to make the MPs pay for their treason, Deschenes said this could be easily interpreted as a call to vote them out of office.matter with Secretary of State Alexander Haig next week.MacGuigan told the Parliament he would meet Haig and “once again repeat our stand against supplying arms to any side.” MacGuigan was referring to a pledge by the U.S.administration on Monday to supply the junta with an additional $55 million in arms aid and to ask Congress for another $100 million this year.MacGuigan said the reported killings of 20 people by the military in San Salvador last weekend “makes us seriously consider whether we should participate in their election campaign as observers or in any other fashion.” He conceded that Canada’s proposal to act as an observer in the elections was a “dead” offer.“Our offer still stands but what’s the point?The reberls rejected our offer and, although the military junta agreed, they said the rebels would never accept it — so in a sense, they turned us down too.” MacGuigan said he had asked the government in El Salvador for details of the weekend slayings."They were terrible events — too horrible to contemplate,” he said.“But there is no link between the massacre and the election next month.” In Washington, Haig vowed yesterday to do “whatever is necessary” to block a left-wing victory in El Salvador.He told the Senate foreign relations committee: “We are considering a whole range of political, economic and security-related steps.” He said the clandestine infiltration of communist arms into El Salvador “is again approaching the high levels recorded just before last year so-called ‘final offensive’.” Later, speaking to reporters outside the hearing room, Haig said he believed President Ronald Reagan “has made it very clear” that he would be reluctant to commit troops to El Salvador.But Haig declined to rule out the possibility.Traitors ad within limits of fair political expression “Giving a direction to the Bank of Canada to lower interest rates and go home is no longer the answer,” Hatfield said at the end of Tuesday’s session.However, the other premiers remained adamant that rates should be lowered.Some of the premiers said they were prepared to live with a 75-cent dollar if it meant lower interest rates but most refused to speculate on how low they would be prepared to let it go.One outside economist said the general rule of thumb is the value of the dollar would drop by roughly one cent for each percentage point interest rates are forced down.Each one-per-cent devaluation of the dollar would lead in turn to a half a percentage point increase in the rate of inflation although it might take more than two years to show up, the economist said.The assessment of the first day of what now has been extended by a day to a three-day conference ran the spectrum from useful to useless.Quebec Premier Rene Levesque condemned the federal defence of high interest rates as paternalistic and “almost injurious.” Emerging from the in-camera afternoon session of the first ministers’ conference on the economy, the Quebec premier said the defence by Bank of Canada Governor Gerald Bouey was a dry, academic course in monetarist policy given “more or less on automatic pilot.” “But at least it allowed us to see the level of neo-conservatism we’re dealing with in Ottawa,” Levesque said, adding: ‘It doesn’t leave us much hope for the short term.” Levesque, like his fellow premiers, has been calling for federal action on high interest rates, which he said particularly hurt small and mediumsized businesses in Quebec and contribute to the province’s rising unemployment rate.At a media briefing later, Quebec Economic Development Minister Bernard Landry said Quebec would rather see the Canadian dollar fall in relation to the U.S.dollar than have interest rates remain above those in the U.S.Quebec is more interested in preserving jobs than exchange rates, Landry said.Earlier, Levesque got into a $1 billion war of figures with the Ottawa about how proposed cuts in federal transfer payments to the provinces would work out in dollars.Levesque said Quebec would lose $675 million in 1982-83 — “not peanuts” for a province that gets 25 per cent of its revenues from Ottawa and is facing a deficit of more than $3 billion.The premier had hardly finished making his statement when Pierre Bussieres, federal minister of state for finance, called a news conference to say Quebec would really be gaining about $600 million next fiscal year over this one when income tax is considered.Bussieres said Levesque had presented only a partial picture of reality, leaving out the fact Ottawa has allowed the province to increase its share of income tax collections, And the Quebec-Ottawa squabbling was not limited to financial matters.The governments had two showdowns during the day, one about the time the conference was to start and the other involving new conferences.Levesque was upset when the Prime Minister opened the meeting and began addressing the premiers before the Quebec delegation arrived.Quebec officials said they thought the meeting was to start at 10 a.m.but federal officials maintained they had said 9:30 a m.And later, Landry’s media briefing was delayed when he and federal Finance Minister Allan MacEachen quibbled about who would go first.Federal officials said they had reserved the briefing room, the Quebecers replied it was first come, first served.Landry went ahead and MacEachen held his briefing in the hall.Prince Edward Island Premier James Lee said the premiers agreed to extend the conference to Thursday to allow the finance ministers more time to discuss agreements on federal payments to the provinces.lECORD/PERR' :IAV*:! Grand North Hatley plan North Hatley developer Saad Gabr has grand plans for the town, but the municipal council isn't quite sure they understand it all.Small town versus big developer, Page 13. 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, February 3,1982 Export plan ‘nuclear electronic lunacy’—NDP critic OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government thinks construction of nuclear reactors to export electricity to the United States may be an “interesting option” to create jobs and help the industry, Energy Minister Marc Lalonde said Tuesday.New Brunswick has discussed the possibility of building a second Candu reactor for export purposes, and more talks are likely, Lalonde told reporters.But he also stressed that Ottawa has no firm policy on the matter.Earlier in the Commons, New Democrat Mark Rose said Ottawa has given the green light to a “massive bailout" of the industry through the proposed electricity exports and through plans to expand and subsidize Candu sales overseas.Rose, NDP alternate energy critic, called the idea of building reactors for export of electricity “nuclear electronic lunacy.” That would mean Canadians would face the risks of nuclear energy production while the U.S.consumes the power According to a leaked cabinet document, suggestions have been made to build a second Candu reactor at Point Lepreau, N.B., which would be used primarily for exports to the power-hungry eastern U.S.There have also been reports reactors could be built in Ontario and Quebec for the same purpose.Rose said a bid for sale of Candu reactors to Mexico, tendered Monday by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., probably includes ar offer of guaranteed or preferrec loans with interest rates between 7.f and eight per cent.Lalonde refused to release details of the bid, saying they will be revealed only if the contract is won.“Until the bids are opened and the Mexicans say something about it, we’re not saying boo,’ ” an AECL official added Estimates of the value of all associated sales and services for the Mexican deal have ranged from $5 billion to $6 billion.Rose, MP for the British Columbia riding of Mission-Port Moody, criticized the government for the wall of secrecy it has constructed around such nuclear plans as the Mexican contract.* Wi 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.Teen, mother guilty of neglect in dumping baby News-in-brief QPF sued for big bang No blame in needless death Trade surplus down in 1981 OTTAWA (CP) — A teenage mother and the grandmother of a one-day-old baby found in a cardboard box pn the doorstep of a home last June were found guilty Tuesday of abandoning the child and placed on probation for one year.County Court Judge Charles Doyle, saying he was unsure whether the baby’s life was endangered when it was left hours after its birth, opted for probation for 56-year-old Juana Lima and her 17-year-old daughter, Angela.Court heard neither woman knew Angela was pregnant until she gave birth last June 10.The women said the baby was abandoned because they feared what might happen if the birth became known to Angela’s father, from whom Juana had been divorced.Angela, a high school student, said she had been "a bit overweight” and was visiting a weight-loss clinic.“But I had no idea I was pregnant,” she said.In testimony during the one-day trial, Juana said she came home June 10 and found Angela had given birth to a boy.She said she tried to arrange to leave the baby with the Children’s Aid Society, "but when we called, there was no answer." The two women drove to the Ottawa Civic Hospital with the baby, but saw “lots of activity” when they arrived, Lima said.“My daughter was scared of meeting somebody,” Lima told the court.“So we decided to leave the baby in the nice neighborhood nearby.” They left the baby at a home where there were no cars in the driveway, thinking that the occupants would soon arrive home because it was late at night.When Archie Ready came home, at about 2 a.m.on June 11, he found a cardboard box.Inside, wrapped in the blanket, was the baby.A hand-written note said: ‘‘Please find a good home for him to stay.God Bless You.” Man acquitted of rape after he walked the dog MONTREAL (CP) — An all-woman jury acquitted a 34-year-old electrician of rape Tuesday.Testimony at Pierre Arsenault’s trial showed that was arrested at his Montreal apartment after he and the woman who accused him of rape “closed” a downtown beer hall several months ago.The woman testified that because Arsenault did not have a car, he took her keys to drive her car to his apartment and forced her to have sex with him against her will Arsenault' testified that tae wcanat) drove her own car to his apartment and that he did not not forcé her’into his' apartment.Afterwards, he said, he left her alone in the apartment to go out and walk his dog.Testimony showed that while he was gone, she used his telephone to call a girlfriend and ask her to call the police.When he returned with his dog, police arrested him.Arsenault's lawyer Norbert hosier watched in frustration at the beginning of the trial as the prosecutor systematically removed men from the list of jurors.Of the 12 women chosen, only three were over over the age of 40.They delivered their verdict after deliberating for a day and a half.AlseiiaUlL’s innocence, Ldsièr argued, was demonstrated by the fact that he left (he woman alone ïh his apartment while he went out for the walk.Simone sings for supper as bill charges dropped MONTREAL (CP) — American jazz great Nina Simone put the soul on ice this week as she sweated through the first of three obligatory appearances at an Old Montreal nightclub.Owner George Durst of Le Bijou paid for her lodging at a midtown hotel last week after she was arrested when she told the credit manager there she was “without funds.” In return for paying the hotel bill, Durst was given custody of her passport and the internationally acclaimed singer grudgingly agreed to perform for three nights at Le Bijou.Simone turned up for her first mandatory concert Monday night in a black leather outfit sprinkled with studs and sat down at the piano for a short potpourri of gut-wrenching songs and mildly venomous repartee which in- Weathe Light snow today, changing to rain in the afternoon, then changing back to snow in the evening.High today, 5, low tonight, -6, Thursday, light snow flurries and moderate winds.High, -6.eluded references to Durst as "George Dirt.” There was a friend sitting beside her with a stop-watch, poised to tell her exactly when her 45-minute set was over.Simone had been expected to give two shows a night, but only performed one set the first evening.Her engagement lasted only two nights, until Tuesday, before she departed for Paris.WANTK1) RIDE Simone, who now is a Swiss resident, arrived in Montreal Jan.26 from Paris on a personal visit and called Durst to request transportation to his club from the Mirabel International Airport north of the city.Durst paid for the limousine and the singer agreed to consider an offer to sing at the Bijou.But unable to pay her $128 hotel bill, she was charged with “fraudulently obtaining lodging.” The charge was dropped when Durst agreed to pay the bill on condition she perform for three nights at Le Bijou for a total of $450.“She’s flipped,” Durst said Tuesday.“She’s already cost me $1,450 since she’s been in town for limousines, flowers, liquor and the star treatment.It’s great publicity for the club but it’s just a little too expensive.“The place was 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569-9931 569 9931 569-4856 3 months $19.00 1 month $11 50 MONTREAL (CP) Quebec provincial police are being sued by an insurance company for $6,600 for setting off too loud an explosion at a quarry in suburban Carignan two years ago.Allstate Insurance Co.of Canada says in its suit, filed Tuesday in Quebec Superior Court, that it had to pay that amount to three homeowners after police blew up a cache of stolen dynamite at the quarry.The insurance company alleges the blast was so strong that the windows and walls of the homes of its clients were cracked.Lawyer gets obstruction charge MONTREAL (CP) — A Montreal criminal lawyer has been charged with obstructing justice after allegedly advising a witness not to testify at a , coroner’s inquest into the shooting death of a bank teller in December.During the inquest, lawyer Real Charbonneau, representing a witness who eventually was charged in the slaying, exchanged heated words with coroner Roch Heroux over procedure.At one point Heroux ordered the lawyer out of the courtroom.Charbonneau was charged Tuesday.The teller, 28-year-old Rachel Pratte, was shot in the head during a bungled holdup at a downtown bank.Four men and a woman have been charged with murder and other crimes in connection with her death.In Quebec, coroner's inquests are held to determine if criminal responsibility is involved in suspicious or violent deaths.Quebec cuts language help MONTREAL (CP) — Leaders of Montreal’s Italian community complained Tuesday they may have to eliminate special language classes for their children because the Italian government is cutting financial assistance to the program in half.About 5,000 pupils attend the Italian-language classes each Saturday.A 10-year tradition in the community, the classes are part of an international program subsidized by the Italian government to aid countrymen living abroad.Program official Romano Venturelli accused Rome of "abandoning immigrafvts» and of being unfair to the Italian community of Montreal.Students run drug trade MONTREAL (CP) — The illegal drug trade has reached an all-time high in Montreal high schools and many students are turning to crime to support their habits or to establish their own drug-selling network, says the head of the Montreal police drug squad Robbery is the most common method used by teenagers to obtain money to purchase drugs, Det -Capt.Henri Marchessault said in an interview.Police statistics indicate that about 46 per cent of armed robberies in Montreal are committed by teenagers."The authors of these crimes often use the money they obtain as capital to set up their own trafficking businesses,” the detective says.Because of the illicit nature of the trade, statistics are hard to formulate, but Marchessault estimates that the combined marijuana and hashish market in the city is worth hundreds of millions of dollars James Bay labor peaceful MONTREAL (CP) With the economy in a slide, Gilles Bacon says he is “reasonably optimistic” there won’t be major strikes at the James Bay hydroelectric development this year.Twenty-five contracts are being negotiated this year at the multi-billion-dollar project in northern Quebec and Bacon, vice-president for labor relations at the James Bay Energy Corp., know-s some strikes can be particularly debilitating to an isolated work site like James Bay.When 1,500 cafeteria workers and janitors employed by subcontractors struck in 1980 , 7,000 construction workers were forced to leave because management couldn’t feed them or clean up after them, a situation that could always repeat itself, to Bacon’s chagrin.Even though the work force has shrunk to about 4,400, support workers will continue to have a disproportionately large role in the negotiating picture.Bacon said in an interview.Air Canada eases access MONTREAL (CP) — Air Canada is moving ahead with plans to make its planes more accessible to people travelling in wheelchairs by changing the seating in its aircraft.During an eight-day experiment that ended Tuesday, the airline tested several models of rotating seats which could help compensate for small aisles.Some aisle seats in the company’s DC-98 have already been replaced with seats with moveable arms Air Canada is one of eight North American and European airline companies participating in a program launched last year by an organization called Access to the Skies.The goal of the program is greater access to aircraft for the elderly and handicapped.Sinai settlers should stay MONTREAL ( CP ) Israelis should not be forced to move out of the Sinai, since Egypt and the United States have so far failed to observe the Camp David peace agreements, say representatives of settlers bent on remaining in the occupied territory.Miriam Levinger charged Tuesday that Egypt has broken the treaty by building three tunnels under the Suez Canal and “vast military fortifications" in the desert.MONTREAL (CP) — Coroner Maurice Laniel ruled Tuesday that Meloche Industries Ltd.was not criminally responsible for the death of an employee last September, even if his death “could easily have been prevented.” Emile Bourbonnet, 25, was working inside a manhole at a sanitary landfill site in suburban Kirkland when he fell and was asphyxiated by toxic gases.The coroner noted that the company had ignored Quebec government regulations requiring it to check safety in working areas and to ensure employees working in manholes wore safety belts, but he ruled the company was not criminally responsible because “there was no intent to harm.” In Quebec, coroner’s inquests are held to determine if criminal responsibility is involved in suspicious or violent deaths.Poles jump ship at Levis LEVIS, Que.(CP) — Five Polish sailors jumped ship here during the weekend, Canadian immigration officials reported Tuesday.Three crew members of the Uniwersytet Slaski, who left that vessel Saturday, and two who left the Felicks Daierzynski Sunday, are to appear before immigration officials in Quebec City today.The two ships left this port across the St.Lawrence River from Quebec City on Monday.Electric bellringer blamed MONT-LAURIER, Que.(CP) — An overheated electric motor used to drive church bells caused a fire that razed 64-year-old Mont-Laurier Cathedral on Monday, says Msgr.Jean Gratton, bishop of Mont-Laurier diocese.Damage is estimated at $1 million, the bishop said Tuesday, adding that the cathedral will be rebuilt.There were no injuries in the fire, but priceless artifacts including an engraved red oak chair and three ornate stained glass windows from Toulouse, France, were destroyed.The fire was described as “a catastrophe” by Msgr.Gratton.Mont Laurier is located 125 kilometres northeast of Ottawa.Fraud squad hits Caisse CHICOUTIMI, Que.(CP) — The ailing Federation des caisses d’entraide economique received another blow Tuesday when Quebec provincial police staged six raids in connection with a suspected $1.7-million fraud.Entraide, a network of 76 co-operative credit branches specializing in loans to rural Quebec businesses, has been in the throes of a liquidity crisis since last summer.On Tuesday, police seized documents at Entraide headquarters in Alma, Que., at a branch in Rimouski, Que., and at four other companies in connection with allegations that falsified documents were used to obtain credit.Town defies post office OTTAWA (CP) — The Hydro Commission of nearby Nepean will defy the Canada Post Corp.and hand-deliver its bills for a two-month trial period beginning late February or early March.Acting on the advice of the Nepean city solicitor, Hydro commissioners agreed Tuesday to hire extra employees to deliver about 28,000 residential and 5,000 commercial bills normally sent every two months by mail to customers.The post office says only it can deliver mail.The law says customers must pay three times the postal rate for private couriers.MacEachen backs tax claim OTTAWA (CP) — Finance Minister Allan MacEachen reiterated Tuesday his much-ridiculed claim that 12 million Canadians will pay less tax this year as a result of his Nov.12 budget.MacEachen, under intense Progressive Conservative pressure for several days, said once again in a news release that the claim is based on retention of indexation — which protects taxpayers from being thrown into higher brackets when incomes rise to match inflation.If indexation were dropped, taxes would rise, he argues.Therefore, when indexation is retained it amounts to a tax cut.ECC wants deregulation OTTAWA (CP) — The government-regulated air industry should be released into the world of competition a move that would probably mean better prices and service for air travellers — the Economic Council of Canada said Tuesday.Régula*ion of the airlines “is no longer justified,” council chairman David Slater told the Commons transport committee as it began hearings into a government proposal to keep the industry under tight control.Ottawa should move instead toward complete deregulation, he said, defending a position advanced by the council in a government-commissioned report last June.The idea was rejected two months later when Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin released details of his regulation-intensive proposal.There is no evidence deregulation would open the door for excessive competition and lead to price wars that would cripple the industry, as some critics fear.Slater said.Nor is it likely airline prices would be exhorbitant because of inadequate competition.Instead, all indications are that competition would be healthy and “result in a wider range of prices, flight frequencies and service levels, with each carrier moving into that niche in the market which it can fill most efficiently.” OTTAWA (CP) — The country recorded a merchandise trade surplus of $6.51 billion in 1981, a drop from the record $7.81 billion for 1980, Statistics Canada said today.Farm Credit increase closer OTTAWA (CP) — Legislation to increase the amount of money the Farm Credit Corp.has for loans to farmers received approval in principle Tuesday night in the Commons, but opposition MPs say the government has a lot of questions to answer before the bill passes.The bill would allow Farm Credit, now totally dependent on the federal treasury for finances, to obtain money from private sources.One of those sources could be retiring farmers if Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan can convince his colleagues to accept a change to tax laws.The minister wants retiring farmers to be able to invest proceeds from sales of their farms in Farm Credit and only be taxed on the annual payments they receive from the corporation.Freedom bill threatened OTTAWA ( CP ) — The government is getting cold feet over its long-awaited freedom of information legislation and is trying to kill the bill, opposition MPs said Tuesday.Their recurring fears were rekindled in the Commons Tuesday when Communications Minister Francis Fox refused to confirm or deny reports that the legislation is no longer a government priority.In fact, he later admitted to reporters the bill has little chance of being approved during this session of Parliament.“I think they got cold feet,” New Democrat justice critic Svend Robinson said after a heated Commons exchange with Fox.“I don’t like the vibrations we’re getting at all,” said Progressive Conservative critic Ray Hnatyshyn.“I’m concerned they’re going to let this legislation go by the boards and try to point the finger at the provincial governments and say it’s their fault.” LNGs would hurt Greenland OTTXW/Y1 YfcP) — Canada risks alierib’ting' Greenland if it approves a $2.1-billion proposal to transport natural gas through the High Arctic, a National Energy Board hearing into the project was told Tuesday.Ian Blue, a lawyer representing Canada’s Inuit, submitted written evidence saying Greenland opposes the project because noise and possible pollution from the massive ice-breaking tankers carrying the gas could endanger fishing and hunting on its west coast.But the evidence may not be ruled admissible during this first stage of hearings into the so-called Arctic Pilot Project.Tuesday was the first day of the hearings, chaired by L.M.Thur.Admiral bailout fails TORONTO (CP) — Two banks with substantial loans to Canadian Admiral Corp.Ltd.of Mississauga, Ont., moved to assume the company’s assets the day after its lenders rejected a controversial independent viability study that recommended continuing Admiral and reorganizing it.The study, prepared by Thorne Riddell Inc.of Montreal, was dated Nov.4.The seizures by the Mercantile Bank of Canada and the National Bank of Canada of Admiral’s inventories and receivables took place on Nov.5 and sealed the fate of the appliance manufacturer.A chain reaction followed that put about 2,400 employees out of work in Ontario and Quebec plants as other creditors moved to protect their positions.On Nov.6, the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec seized Admiral’s fixed assets, including its machinery and real estate.The seizures by the banks came after $40 million in loans was called sometime in October.Wheat Board unilingual WINNIPEG (CP) — The Canadian Wheat Board isn’t giving customers the service in French that Official Languages Commissioner Max Yalden says a federal board should provide.In an interview Tuesday from his Ottawa office, Yalden said the Winnipeg-based board was the subject of 20 complaints last year about French-language service.Most of the complaints came from Manitoba.However, Yalden said Wheat Board plans to improve service in the French language, including the addition of a telephone line for French customers, would help matters.“That will probably be a significant improvement," Yalden said.He said the commission would press the Wheat Board to improve service to French-speaking customers The dispute between the board and the commission is an old one and culminated in a meeting in Winnipeg in October John Morriss, Wheat Board information officer, said in most cases information can be provided in French.“But when we re dealing in mass production, we have to consider costs," he added.Bomb threat empties embassy MEXICO ( I PY (AFP) — The Canadian embassy in Mexico City was evacuated Tuesday after an anonymous telephone caller warned thal a bomb had been planted in the building, police said.Explosives' experts later found a shoe box in an elevator cage, but it contained only newspaper clippings t / % r % fii* The RECORD—Wednesday, February 3,1982—3 The Townships —____tel icccara Hydro developments reassessed along Missisquoi By Merritt Clifton ENOSBURG FALLS, Vt.— The month-long cold snap has Vermont energy officials reassessing shelved low-head hydroelectric development plans for the Missisquoi River.On the one hand, frozen waters aren’t flowing through the turbines at Enos-burg Falls and Swanton, just when consumers are demanding more electri- city to heat their homes.Rated at 750-kilowatt capacity, the Enosburg Falls plant is red-lining at 500 kilowatts right now.Rarely-used backup diesel generators are in continuous operation, while Enosburg Falls Water and Light Co.has also been forced to purchase outside electricity at rates exceeding what they can charge their customers.On the other hand, the energy shortage could be prevented in future years b> increasing hydro potential along the Missisquoi.Three years ago the state unveiled a $40-million plan to build a dam on the Missisquoi’s southern fork at North Troy, replacing one destroyed in the flood of 1927.This would permit year-round regulation of both water levels and rate of flow.Increasing the rate of flow could decrease the danger of freezing, in turn increasing the generating capacity at Enosburg Falls, Swanton, and other low-head plants yet to be built.This plan was shelved in favor of purchasing more power from Quebec when current governor Richard Snelling took office.Hydro-Quebec is already developing plans to move power south.Vermont, however, hasn’t yet decided what to do with it.If that power is routed into the North Country, as backup to Enosburg Falls, Swanton.and other border communities, southern Vermont will still need energy.Southern Vermont utilities have already lost anticipated energy from two recently-cancelled nuclear projects.Since Vermont’s population is greater in the south, the state would prefer to route Quebec power southward.But Enosburg Falls and other northern utilities have recently lost contracts with the Power Authority of the State of New York (PASNY) to supply backup electricity, meaning that the North Troy dam looks more and more like a desirable option.Since it would affect the Missisquoi’s flow through Quebec, permission to construct would have to be negotiated with Environment Canada, the Quebec environment ministry and Hydro Quebec, which owns water rights on all Quebec rivers.H.Gordon Green Over in Finland some years ago a picturesque and impious old farmer died and left behind him one of the most unusual wills ever recorded.He directed that his farm - and a well appointed and prosperous one it was too - to the Devil.And just in case the Devil chose to be difficult about keeping the taxes paid up, the old fellow revealed that he had given a sum of money to the care of a Trust company and that the interest from this sum should keep the taxes paid up perpetually.The courts, after due deliberation, decided that ridiculous or not, the will was a legal one and that there was a solemn obligation to carry it out to the best of its ability.But assuming that there was indeed a Devil, how was one to go about handing over a farm to him?Eventually a bishop was consulted, and this man of God gave an answer that was as logical as it was easy to carry out.Said he, “The best way to let this farm go to the Devil is to do absolutely nothing with it! Lock the gates! Let the buildings rot! Let the weeds grow!” So that’s the way the old infidel’s farm was left for 20 years or more.But there proved to be one fatal flaw in the old fellow’s will.Had the taxation rate remained the same as it was when the will was drawn up, the money given over to the trust company would indeed have kept the taxes paid forever.But in Finland, as everywhere else in the world, taxes began to climb dramatically.So much so in fact, that 22 years after the man died, the farm which he had left to his good friend the Devil, was seized by the municipality because of unpaid taxes.It was thought at first that the officials might have some trouble selling the place.There were some of the more godly people who were afraid it might have a curse on it.The more practical citizens wondered who in the world would be interested in buying 50 hectares of jungle.And by now it did indéed look like a little forgotten jungle set in the midst of farms which were as modern and well groomed as any in the country.And everyone was astounded when the farm was finally purchased by one of the shrewdest and most successful agriculturalist in the district, and that he paid considerably more for it per hectare than what would ordinarily have been paid for the very progressive farms which were its neighbors.Nor was this man reluctant to give his reasons.“There is of course the matter of timber on this place,” he said.“The woodlot on this farm has not been slaughtered as have the woodlots on so many of the other farms here.But the main reason I was willing to pay a premium price for this farm is because I know the land must be better.It has not been mined of its nutrients by making it grow the same crops year after year.And the soil hasn’t been spoiled by lathering it with fertilizer.You know by the feel of it under your feet that it’s still mellow, still unhurt by all the unnatural things that a man has to do now if he farms the modern way.” It must have given the bishop and his faithful followers quite a shock to learn that land handed over to the devil had proven more valuable than land which had been in the care of the good and faithful stewards who had done their scientific utmost to produce.But quite apart from the theological puzzle that old Finlander’s will must have given the bishop, it seems to me that it should have given the better minds in modern agriculture something to think about too.What is the highly mechanized, highly fertilized farming of today doing to the fundamental nature of the land itself?What kind of soil are we bequeathing to the generations yet unborn?Do the experts really know?Or could it be that they know and would sooner not talk about it?’2*-F *11 iltls RECORO/PERRY BEATON A little snow, a few new friends and a crisp winter night It was fun in the snow last night as Galt students and their visitors from Halifax made a game of trying to stay on the sleigh.The event, at the Warren Ross farm on Scotch Road, Brompton- ville, is one of many the students will participate in during their week-long exchange.Galtys North American Literature students visited Halifax for a week in November.Townships talk COWANSVILLE (JM) — Peter Riordon was acclaimed school commissioner for Cowansville Ward Four of the District of Bedford Protestant Regional School Board.Riordon defeated John Chapman during a regular board election in June 1981.Chapman later contested the legality of the election due to the appointment of deputy returning officers.Judge Guy Genest upheld Chapman’s argument, forcing the by-election.Riordon, who had been the DBRSB’s delegate to the Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards, was automatically reelected as he was not challenged when nominations closed at 2 p.m.Monday.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) - George Corey, alias Robert Bockus, entered no plea at his arraignment on counts of uttering a forged cheque, attempted fraud on the Frelighsburg branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and conspiracy with one or more persons to commit a fraud in the amount of $475 in Frelighsburg on October 1, 1981.Claude Hamann chose jury trial and the preliminary hearings were continued to February 9.Corey, who was earlier remanded in custody, saw other hearings on fraud charges in Bedford and Cowansville continued to the same date.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Michel Lemieux, of St.Jean, pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking and entering commercial establishments and one of simple theft in Vanise en Quebec during July 1981.The Crown told the court the accused had been sentenced to three years for similar infractions in St.Jean and suggested six months on each term.Judge Guy Genest handed Lemieux six months, concurrent among themselves and concurrent to all terms he is presently serving.Brieflet i r RECORD/PERRY BEATON MOE’S Benefit bridge and progressive 500 card party for Jack and Kay Ewart and Everett Bryant of Moe’s River, victims of recent loss by fire.Thursday, February 11, 7:30 p.m., RIVER in Ascot Lodge building, 4 Belvidere St., Len-noxville.Sponsored jointly by Ascot Masonic Lodge No.30 and the Moe’s River Community Association.Lunch provided.Desruisseaux worked to boost the Townships Continued from page one did graduate work.Called to the bar in 1934, he was a founder of the law firm, Desruisseaux, Fortin and Rouillard and its senior partner f.om 1934 to 1961.Shortly after entering the legal profession Desruisseaux decided to enter the world of business, as well as starting several successful firms including one that manufactured chewing gum.His interest and administrative ability led him to a career in finance and journalism which culminated in 1955 with his ownership of La Tribune, the radio stations CHLT and CKTS, and the CHLT television station.Desruisseaux’s exceptional business sense and his ability in administration were recognized throughout Quebec and led to his appointment to the board of directors of numerous firms including Premier Theatres, General Electric and the Royal Bank.He was also President of Lucky One Beverages and Melcher’s Distilleries.Always an active participant in his many businesses Desruisseaux eventually sold his communications empire in 1966 after a series of strikes and labor disruptions which included serious acts of vandalism forced him to give in to union demands he could not agree to nor accept.In 1966, at the request of the then Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Des-ruisseaux accepted a seat in the Canadian Senate.A long-time ardent Federalist and supporter of the Liberal party, Desruisseaux distinguished himself during his term in the Senate by his participation in several important committees including the Senate Research Committee, the Transportation and Communication Regulations Reform Committee and the Commercial Banks Committee.He was both known and respected for his unflagging interest and his knowledge of public financing.Desruisseaux, for all his many and diverse business interests, and despite his time consuming work in the Senate, was also known as an active participant in the social and cultural life of Sherbrooke and the province in general.He was a member of a variety of organizations including the Canadian Council for Christians and Jews and the Association for Mentally Retarded Children Desruisseaux was also one of the prime movers behind the establishment of the University of Sherbrooke which he served as its first Vice-dean of the Faculty of Commerce.As well as owning and operating many businesses of his own, Desruisseaux was an active booster of the Eastern Townships and the city of his birth.He continually worked for the economic development of the region and was responsible for the establishment of several firms in the area including the Lowney chocolate company.Tributes to Senator Desruisseaux poured in from across the province today including one from Jean Marchand, president of the Senate who said of Desruisseaux, “By his tenacity and his vision he carved for himself an enviable place in our society passing through difficult periods with dignity and courage.” Mayor Jacques O’Bready added his praise, calling Desruisseaux a man who “has been for a quarter of a century a dominant figure in the world of politics and business.” Federal Liberal MP Irenee Pelletier described Desruisseaux’s death as a “heavy loss” adding that the late Senator had been a full participant “in all aspects of the life of Canada, Quebec and Sherbrooke.” Senator Desruisseaux, who had been in ill-health for a long period prior to his death, is survived by his wife Celine Duchesne and four children.Quotidienne Winning Number 3-8-9 JACK LEMMON ROBBY BENSON LEE REMICK W M K rcxjs iriXiVl; © ASSIGNMENT GENEVIEVE BUJOLD MICHAEL YORK Weak 4SM Final 7:00; TrIOula: » 50 Sunday Final 3:05 , 7:00; Inbuia 1 00.4:57.5:50 ROLLED ROAST PORK "Boneless butt" kg.3.50 lb.1.59 FRESH PORK PICNICS kg.2.62 lb.1.19 CORNED BEEF BRISKETS kg 4.39 lb 1.99 FRESH PORK HOCKS kg.1.52 lb.69 FRESH CHEESE CURDS 200 g.1.29 SOLE FILLETS B 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is freedom of expression.‘Planetary models’ don’t prevent the children of some families from going to classes which are specially set up to welcome them to the community (classes d’accueil) just because they happen to come from this country and not another.They welcome everyone to the welcoming classes.They don’t discriminate based on place of birth.‘Planetary models’ don’t show their brotherhood between different peoples by sending armor-clad police bully squads in to beat up on Indians because the white man says they are over-fishing in the river they have been harvesting successfully for hundreds of years.The least they can do is treat them like white poachers, if they can’t just leave them alone.That is racial equality.‘Planetary models’ allow freedom of expression, even on billboards.They give everyone the same chance at school.They beat up white men as much — or as little — as they do red ones or brown ones or black ones or yellow ones.At least on this planet.And the Ministers in ‘planetary models’ do their homework, rather than spending all day watching Star Trek, as some of ours seem to do.CHARLES BURY Romania facing price problems too By Larry Gerber BUCHAREST (AP> — Romania is another East European Communist government in economic straits and up to its ears in debt to the West.It is preparing for price increases But diplomats, businessmen and economic experts say there is little or no possibility in this tightly controlled society of a major protest like the strike wave in Poland after price increases were announced there in 1980.President Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist party chief for almost 17 years, has built one of the world’s most pervasive personality cults and one of the most effective internal security systems.Any attempt to organize an independent union like Poland’s Solidarity would be “nipped in the bud,” said one Western diplomat.The government-controlled news media have been hinting at price increases for about two weeks.Nicoara lonescu, an editor of the weekly Economic Review, says they are expected this month.The 1982 economic plan calls for a five-per-cent rise in the general price index, the biggest in years, but increases of up to 100 per cent are widely rumored for sugar, cooking oil, rice, some dairy products and other goods.One planning official, quoted by the Communist party newspaper Scinteia, said increases are unavoidable because some foodstuffs have been held at the same price for 25 years while production costs rose.But controlled prices for staple foods are as high as they are in the United States, and the average wage in Romania is about $205 a month.Rice sells for 32 cents for each 45 grams, butter $1.65 for each 45 grams, sugar 37 cents and flour 33 cents.ADMIT MISTAKES’ The economic woes result in large part from mismanagement, poor harvests, high oil prices and a shortage of convertible currency, say local and Western experts Romanian officials admit "mistakes” and “shortcomings” in farm administration and other sectors.Farming, the traditional backbone of the economy, was neglected as Ceausescu and his predecessor, Gheorghiu Dej, concentrated on building huge petrochemical facilities and other heavy industries.The oil price boom of the 1970s hit hard at the industrialization plans at a time when Romania’s own oil reserves were running low.Now, with food supplies dwindling, the government is emphasizing new incentives to farmers as well as increased coal production and energy conservation.Television programming has been cut two hours, to about seven hours a day as an energy-saving measure.Streetlights have been dimmed in Bucharest, and pedestrians dodge each other on the dark streets.Unannounced power cuts strand people in elevators.Some workers have been told the public may be in for regular shutoffs of electricity, water and heat and cuts in public transportation, an informed source said.One Western expert said it would take a major change in the economic system to correct most of the troubles.But this is highly unlikely, either from within or from outside the leadership, he said.Help from the West also appears unlikely.Romania, the only Soviet Bloc member of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, owes Western banks and governments an estimated $10 billion, the biggest in the bloc after Poland.Giant neighbor limits Canadian economic option By Carl Mollins WASHINGTON (CP) - When Canadian provincial premiers complain to Ottawa about economic recession and its encouragement by depressingly high borrowing rates, they are told in effect to take their troubles to Washington, whose high-interest policy constrains Canada’s freedom to differ.When the 10 Canadian provinces protest against Ottawa’s plans to restrict federal contributions to their social programs, they might well be cautioned to thank their lucky stars they aren’t one of the 50 American state governments facing an even tougher transfer of responsibilities and costs — a move likewise inspired by anti-inflation economics.Canadian leaders conferring in Ottawa this week about the depressed economy and federal-provincial finances thus face the frustration of Canada’s dependency on made-in-Washington policies.The Canadian government says it is constrained in its choice of economic options by the influence of a neighbor 10 times Canada’s size through investment, trade and political example.“There is no way by which it is possible to insulate Canada against interest rate changes in the United States without paying a very heavy price,” Finance Minister Allan MacEachen reiterated in Ottawa last week.The price of trying to reduce Canadian borrowing costs, he said, would be an outflow of investment money attracted by higher U S.rates.SEES DECLINE This outflow of funds, the MacEachen argument goes, would further depress the exchange value of the Canadian dollar, adding to the cost of imported goods and thus to inflation in Canada.The MacEachen alternative is to follow the U.S.lead in maintaining the high cost of borrowing as a weapon against inflation, discouraging spending and investment on credit.At the same time, avowed policy in both countries is to reduce federal government borrowing to help reduce the upward pressure on interest rates and fight inflation.This would be done by cutting down gradually on the annual budget deficit, the amount by which federal outlays exceed income.A central feature of the deficit-trimming proposals in both federal governments — Canada in the MacEachen budget last Nov.12, the United States in President Reagan’s state-of-the-union speech last Tuesday — is to shift to the regional governments some financial obligations for social programs, such as welfare and education.The terms and scale of the programs differ, but the aims are similar — to curb federal outlays and deficits.CITE SAVINGS “We have had to seek some savings in order to achieve our target of fiscal restraint,” said MacEachen last November when introducing his new federal-provincial spending shift, which he pledged would nevertheless leave the national social programs intact.“This will make welfare less costly,” said Reagan last week when announcing his “new federalism” program, which he vowed would not harm the nation’s social-safeguard system.While Canadian provincial leaders are being asked to acknowledge the constraints imposed by U.S.policy and the example of revised federal-state cost-sharing adopted by Washington, they may also find criticism of the U.S.approach instructive.Critics of the U.S.policies attack them on the grounds that they are directed against the wrong target and will be ineffectual anyway.Recession and unemployment are more urgent problems than inflation, they say Even Reagan has assailed the high interest rates maintained by the central banking authorities as contributing to recession.While reduced rates might devalue the dollar in either country, this would also make exported goods cheaper on world markets, increasing sales, demand and jobs, the critics say.As for transferring responsibility for social programs to regional governments, if the programs are truly not to be diminished the over all costs to the country would be the same, simply shifting part of the federal deficit to the regional governments.In the United States, the critics are turning increasingly to other causes of deficit spending — notably the rising expenditure on the military by a government pledged simultaneously to reduce deficits.Reagan steadfastly rejected advice to curb the growth of military spending or to raise taxes in order to pare the deficit, opting instead for “new federalism.In Canada, military spending is nowhere near the 28 cents out of every federal budget dollar it is in the United States: The $7 billion earmarked in Canada for defence in the coming financial year constitutes just over nine cents of every federal budget dollar But it is rising at a faster rate than any other major component of the Canadian budget — by more than 18 per cent in the coming year compared with 17 per cent this fiscal year, while total federal outlays go up by less than 12 per cent.*.« we awuH'T hwe A&eo HtM FOR AN COPY OF MOM'S CATZST BOOK Letter Nixon still tops but PM on the short list TORONTO (CP) — David Frost, who next week adds Prime Minister Trudeau to the long list of world figures he has interviewed, still counts his conversations with Richard Nixon as the hallmark of his career.The British broadcaster, in Canada to tape six shows, entitled Frost Over Canada, says he is in this country on a “journey of discovery — I want to find out what makes Canadians different from other people.” In addition to a Feb.9 interview with Trudeau, Frost will produce shows on Canadian lifestyle in the 1980s, using experts from the fields of business, health, science and sports.“I don’t really have an image of what Canada is like,” Frost said in a brief news conference Monday.“But I’d like to learn whether the social patterns are different; how people here think about marriage, for instance.” He also said that Trudeau is on a short list of world figures he wants to interview — one that includes Pope John PaulpZimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Pakistani * | President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and Queen Elizabeth “because I don’t think anyone has ever interviewed her, not even Prince Phillip.” Trudeau has long interested him, he said, “because he always seems to swim against the current.” HOPES FOR DIALOGUE During his interview with Trudeau, he says, the challenge “as with all politicians” will be to avoid stale policy statements and to move toward a revealing dialogue — one that will “provide a portrait of the prime minister.” The six shows have been purchased by Global TV in Ontario, ATV in the Maritimes and independent stations in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Yorkton, Sask.The series is produced by Bruce Raymond Production, in association with Frost’s company.Frost, who first gained attention in the early the 1960s on the BBC’s That Was the Week That Was, has interviewed such leaders as Golda Meir, Ian Smith, Joshua Kykomo, Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan.The most charismatic political figure he ever met, he says, was Robert Kennedy ; the coldest, least human was Indira Gandhi, and the shah of Iran was the most dignified.The person he most regrets not interviewing was Charles de Gaulle.But nobody was nearly as fascinating as Nixon, the former U.S.president whom he interviewed over a 12-day period in 1976 after the Watergate fiasco.“Nixon had absolutely no ability for small talk.But when I first went to his office to meet him about the interviews, he had this sense of protocol that told him he had to spend five minutes chatting before we got down to business.” Everything to gain Editor: A 25,000 SEAT CENTRE INSHERBROOKE It is most certainly not dreaming in technicolor to see Sherbrooke, the Queen of the Eastern Townships, acquire a 25,000 seat centre, somewhat like the Olympic stadium in Montreal, but with the difference that it would have a permanent roof and it would be paid for.I am not dreaming in technicolor when I see Sherbrooke involved in the AA baseball league We were in it twice before, why not a third time?There is always a third time but, this time with a real stadium and a good organization.In this same stadium, we could have soccer, football, shows, group gatherings - in one word, the same as in Montreal Stadium but with numerous advantages like a roof, heating in winter, air conditioning summer and, most important, an indoor racing track.Countless are the many other activities that could take place inside this stadium.To prove that it is erroneous to say one is dreaming in technicolor because he wants to see Sherbrooke on the map of Quebec as a leader in the tourist industry, here are some good examples and proofs : Was Msgr.Cabana dreaming in technicolor when he talked about one nickel at Mass on Sunday for the construction of the Cathedral and then, in 1958, with his “Fair Share” for the University of Sherbrooke?Was Mayor Nadeau dreaming in technicolor when he suggested his voluntary tax in 1969 and Mayor Drapeau’s similar tax in Montreal, both of which have become our Quebec lottery in 1970?W’as Mayor Drapeau dreaming in technicolor with his plans for Expo ’67 in the Islands which today is still in existence and very active?Was Mayor Drapeau dreaming in technicolor with his projects for the Metro, the Expos, the 1976 Olympics and how many other great things that were accomplished by this man?But he did not accomplish all this by himself.All of Montreal believed in him and, today, Montreal has its place on the world map.One could also talk about the “Caisses”, wholesale businesses, huge shopping centres, etc.Quebec is going ahead, why not Sherbrooke?Plateau Park could become, in very little time, the most attractive tourist center in Quebec.Sherbrooke has been worthy of such a title for a long time.The ETAA group lias worked hard all these years to promote this site and now is getting ready to celebrate a 100th anniversary in 1985.Let us put aside all our trivialities and misunderstandings.Let us roll up our sleeves and bring down those old existing buildings to replace them with modern facilities for our farmers.Let us rebuild the Eugene Lalonde arena for the Eastern Townships Agricultural Association.The ETAA will continue to work and will be in a position to present good exhibitions which will be all in Sherbrooke’s honor.They have done it before w’hen they had more and better facilities and more freedom of action.It is very difficult to promote something in one’s hometown.It is like an artist who cannot be a star in his own country.As my friend Christian tells us, after playing some good music, “Thank you for the warm welcome and applaud coming from outsiders.” I am confident that someone will make a move and will come forward to hear more and talk about it, because 1 have a lot to show One does not come up with a $10 million project without being ready.As far as I am concerned, I will not give up Now let us talk about this very important facet which, in order to be able to ac- complish such a huge project, tends to make the non-believers say “Dreaming in technicolor” -and I am talking about finance.I cannot reveal this plan for the time being but I can say that is relatively simple and could be carried into effect under short notice and, in no time, could become a reality.The population of the Eastern Townships is impatient to see Sherbrooke earn back her title of “Queen City.” The confidence and encouragement provided me by my assistant, Miss Louise Bergeron, is a precious help toward my goal of setting up, for the fine youth of the Townships, this centre, and these young people will be proud to lend a hand, and they will be privileged to witness in the future all that we have known in the past.They certainly deserve it.I repeat what I have already said “The City of Sherbrooke has nothing to lose but really everything to gain” in putting its trust in such a project.If we were a little bit more curious and confident, we would quickly realize that it would be possible to get down to business.It is not too late to see, in 1982, work getting underway at Plateau Park.We could rebuild the Eugene Lalonde arena and renovate all the buildings for our farmers and, thus, the ETAA would be in a position to present their 97th exhibition with more adequate facilities.Then could come, in 1983, the construction of the large centre and, in 1984, the complete program.We must be on time to celebrate the Centennial of the Sherbrooke Exhibition in 1985.And with all these preparations, we would be able to amply commemorate Sherbrooke’s 150th anniversary in 1987.At the beginning of the year, I heard them wish “Bonne Annee, Roger.” I have well understood the instructions behind the word I am ready.ROGER PERREAULT.Sherbrooke ) à r r r * - 0 w > I Business —____g»ei «ecora The RECORD—Wednesday.February 3,1982—5 the< Transport tech should change but demand will By Joel Ruimy MONTREAL (CP) — Twenty-five years ago, popular science magazines were promising commuter helicopters in every garage and high-speed undersea trains to Europe.Forget all that, the experts say now.In the next five years, as the Ottawa-Alberta energy agreement works its way into the economy, transportation in Canada will look much as it does now.But it will cost more — probably a lot more — and it will force you to rethink how you get to work, how you ship goods and where you go on your vacation.The energy deal, signed Sept.1, means the price of gasoline will almost Increase production not fertilizer use MONTREAL (CP) — A McGill University researcher is trying to increase agricultural productivity while decreasing dependence on expensive man-made fertilizers.Biologist Dr.Desh Pal S.Verma is looking for a way of giving grain crops, such as wheat, barley and corn, the ability to use — or “fix” — nitrogen out on the air and make it into proteins.Only members of the family of plants known as legumes — alfalfa, peas, beans, soybeans — have this capability.Other agricultural plants must rely on applied fertilizers as a source of nitrogen.Using the latest methods of biotechnology, Verma is trying to transfer the genes which make this activity possible in legumes into plants which do not have them.Legumes do not actually fix nitrogen themselves.Instead, they depend on rhizobium, a type of bacteria, to take nitrogen which has filtered down into the soil, and combine it with hydrogen to form ammonia which the plant can then use to make proteins.SWELL VISIBLY In return for fixing nitrogen, the plant provides a home for the bacteria and supplies it with energy.Rgizobium lives in the plant’s root cells, which swell visibly as round bumps, or nodules, as it multiplies.Although other plants come in contact with the same bacteria, they do not develop this type of symbiotic relationship.“A specific set of plant genes make this association possible,” said Verma during an interview in his McGill lab.He and his students have managed to identify these genes after about six years of intensive work.The next step is to manipulate the genes and insert them into plants which do not have them, so that wheat, for example, will be able to establish a symbiotic relationship with nitrogenfixing bacteria.Verma said his is a unique approach to the problem.Other researchers are trying to insert the genes controlling nitrogen fixation from the bacteria directly into the plant.Even if scientists are successful in physically transferring the genes, Verma believes the bacteria’s genes won’t function in a foreign environment.“You can’t take a fish and hope it will swim in an oil tank, and that is the strategy most researchers are taking.” Verma doesn’t expect farmers to be cultivating nitrogen-fixing wheat or corn for at least 20 years, but when they are, billions of dollars to produce fertilizer could be saved.The energy to transform nitrogen into fertilizer, alone with the other main ingredients — phosphorus and potassium — comes from increasingly expensive fossil fuels.“We can’t continue to apply more fertilizer and hope the yield will increase proportionately,” the Indian-born scientist added.“There is a saturation point.” He predicted that a short-term spinoff of his research will be the development of better varieties of legumes which fix nitrogen more efficiently and yield more food.double to a minimum 70 cents a litre (more than $3 a gallon) by 1986.Prices of other fuels will rise accordingly.Experts have a variety of opinions on what the new prices will do to transportation, but they all agree on one thing — mass transit is on the verge of a massive boom.“A lot of people who now think nothing of driving IV4 hours from the suburbs to downtown and UA hours back will start to think twice because of the cost,” says Lawrence Hanigan, chairman of the Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission.“As they move back closer to the city, they’ll have access to mass transit and they’ll find it advantageous to use.” ADD TO SYSTEMS Hanigan sees little development in bus or subway system technology in the next few years.Instead, cities will meet increased demand by adding more buses and extending subway routes.And watch for integration — the merger of suburban trains and metropolitan transit lines — as cities reach out to a growing commuter pool.A resident of Pincourt, a suburb west of Montreal, now must pay $92 a month for a rail pass that gets him to and from the city and another $19 a month for a transit pass.Rut when Montreal starts integration next year, both services will be offered to that Pincourt resident with one pass at about half the present cost.Raymond Royer, president of the mass transit manufacturing division at Bombardier Inc., estimates the North American market for buses, subway cars and streetcars will be worth $1 billion annually for the next 10 years.“Right now, 47 per cent of Canada’s oil consumption goes to transportation,” Royal says as he lays out the case for mass transit.“Of that, 74 per cent is used in cars, 9.5 per cent in trucks, and only one per cent on passenger rail and buses.“If we can reduce our car and truck habits by 10 percentage points, we save 17 million barrels a year.” Canada now consumes 1.8 million barrels of oil a day.But the federal Transport Department, which Royer says now is preoccupied with air travel, “doesn’t have a policy on mass transit yet and it will have to develop one.” SIMULATE IMPACT Economist Bill Sims of Concordia University says the institution is working on a computer simulation that, when completed about a year from now, will give some idea of the impact the new fuel pricing structures will have.But he doesn’t need the computer to make this prediction: “There will be a fair-sized boom in mass transit and more municipal governments will have to think about it.” Government efforts here and in the United States to balance budgets by cutting expenditures won’t, in the long run, affect the deficit-ridden mass transit services because “they’ll simply take the money from somewhere else — they’ll have to.” However, the consensus of the experts on the future of transportation ends with mass transit.Ask them about vacations and answers vary.Sims predicts that “we’ll go to the Laurentians ( a resort area just north of Montreal) rather than Florida.” But Frank Roberts, chairman and president of Via Rail Canada, says “a few things will always stay.” “People will always be looking for sunshine and warm weather in winter.That market’s not going to dry up by any stretch of the imagination." Vacations, Roberts says, will become more “destination-orientated.” “Things like touring around by automobile — forget it.” People will travel only from their homes to their destination, and back, without wandering.MORE DOMESTIC FLIGHTS Pierre Jeanniot, Air Canada’s chief of airline operations and executive vice-president, says transatlantic markets will probably continue to stagnate or decline but long-haul domestic flights will pick up.“That may not be so good for the tourism industry, though, because when people travel within the country, they tend to spend less money and they stay with friends or relatives rather than at hotels.” Roberts and Jeanniot disagree on the role their respective industries will play five years hence.Roberts says Via Rail’s new Light-Rapid-Comfortable trains will, with some modifications to existing track, make the Montreal-Toronto run in about three hours and 45 minutes.That’s comparable, he says, to the time it takes to make the same trip by airplane, if you count the time spent getting to and from airports.But Jeanniot says trains “will never be a serious competitor until they can do that route in 212 hours like the trains they have today in France and Japan.” It's cold outside but there's lot of activity indoors Farms, furrows and feathers BY CLAUDIA BOWERS A weasel zigzagged across the snow covered highway in front of me a few days ago, the black tip on his tail a dead giveaway in a snow-white world.Winter must be tough for this wily animal to be hunting in the middle of a busy road between Lennoxville and Sherbrooke.I stopped to watch, and wondered at the miles he must travel w igwagging between the yellow line and across to the snowbank.Last weekend was one of my busiest, and my tracks were much like the weasel’s.The girls at home ‘must’ go to the Huntingville Carnival Dance, but this reporter ‘must’ attend the Lennoxville 4H re-union at Ascot Corner.So, off we went, first to deposit the budding dancers in Huntingville, then across country to Ascot Corner where music and old friends made an enjoyable evening for all.Don MacMillan, agronomist from Cookshire, spoke of the successes the Lennoxville Club had won during the past 25 years.“We were often part of the judging teams that represented the province at Toronto, and some competitors even went on to Washington to compete on an international basis.” Aluminum in our diets may contribute to senility TORONTO (CP) — Aluminum in the food we eat and the utensils we cook with may contribute to senility, a Toronto pharmacologist says.Dr.Armand Lione says as little as two or three milligrams of aluminum filtering into the brain can disrupt normal functioning and contribute to a form of senility known as Alzheimer’s disease.While the average North American takes in about 22 mg daily, Lione says, most is excreted.However, he warns that the efficiency of the kidneys begins to decline after age 30, allowing some aluminum to remain in the body.Common sources, he says are commercial cake mixes, pancake batters, self-rising flours and frozen doughs, which usually contain sodium aluminum phosphate as a leavening agent.The final concentration in each serving would range from five to 15 milligrams.Similarly, a home-made cake with one to three teaspoons of aluminum-containing baking powder would produce five to 15 mg of aluminum per serving.Dr.Lione suggests tartaric acid, a more expensive leavening agent but one that is aluminum-free.Processed cheeses, can legally contain up to 3.5 per cent sodium aluminum phosphate by weight, according to Canadian food regulations.The additive provides soft texture and enhances melting.Lione says individually wrapped cheese slices have been shown to be particularly rich in the additive.In the form of sulfate salts of aluminum, known as “alums,” aluminum is also present in many pickled foods, such as maraschino cherries and pickled cucumbers.A medium-sized cucumber pickled in alum-containing solution would provide five to 10 mg of aluminum.Don MacMillan, Cookshire agronome, Gordon Garfat, senior leader of the Lennoxville Young Farmers Club and David Nichols, one of the evening's organizers talk over old memories and new projects at the Lennoxville 4-H reunion last Friday night.Politics of saving face needed The politics involved in saving face is all that is delaying needed changes in last year’s federal budget, says John Bulloch, head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.But he adds that it’s time Finance Minister Allan MacEachen admits he made some mistakes and gets around to repairing the damage.The head of the 63,000-member federation — “we’ll be down to 2,000 members by next year if that budget isn’t changed” — says it’s tough for a politician to admit publicly that he erred.“But MacEachen and his technicians didn’t realize the implications of what they were doing.“We’re going to be feeling the effects of that budget for years.” Fighting against budgets is old hat for Bulloch.He founded the federation 10 years ago to protest one brought in by then Liberal finance minister Edgar Benson.The howls of protest that budget aroused from both business and labor resulted in 175 changes being made promptly, Bulloch says.MANY CORRECTIONS “But what people don’t realize is that the government had to make 491 further corrections during the next four years.“Tax legislation is an incredibly complex matter.It's all interwoven and when you tinker with one part of it you get widespread ramifications.” Bulloch says the latest budget which proposed many tax changes in what MacEachen said was in the interests of equity, is like throwing an old, rusty gear into a piece of delicate machinery and expecting it to work.“But it won’t.It was a meat-cleaver approach to the economy to try to get as much money as possible.” Because of the budget, he says, businessmen are facing many more economic uncertainties -— at a time when they need to be planning with more foresight than in any period of recent history.“The real significance of the budget to small businesses is that they are very aware of taxes, much more so than large corporations."So when MacEachen says the budget was designed to soak the rich he’s got to be kidding It's the small businessman who will really get hurt.” NEW PROBLEMS Economic developments in the United States have created a new set of problems for Canada, Bulloch says.“We’re going in opposite directions.U.S.inflation is under nine per cent while we re over 12 per cent.Wage settlement in both countries are in the same range.“Sc Canada is facing a threat of being left non-comfietitive because of labor costs and interest rates.Canada, he says, needs policies which will improve the economic outlook, and especially narrow the differences between interest rates.THE DISTRIBUTION MTERNATKWAU INC -A CONNECTION MONTREAL TO AUSTRALIA ICL Consolidation Service Close WIDEX ETO Austral Envoy V45 2-17 2-19 A.C.T.6 V2441 3-4 3-8 Tamara V0205 3-18 3-23 Rotes and Enquiries for Worldwide Service Please Call:- ^tUTdex DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONALE INC 3049-0 Deacon Road.Dollard Des Ormeaux.Que.(514) 683-1180 Former Record staffers We’re celebrating The Record’s 85th Anniversary with a reunion of all former employees on February 12, 13 and 14 IVhy not join us?We’re inviting all former Record employees to join us in a weekend of celebration with a dinner and dance on Saturday, February 13.Registration for the weekend will be $20, $40 per couple.As our mailing list is incomplete, we would appreciate hearing from you.For more information, write: Patricia Tracy, 85th Anniversary Reunion, The Record, Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1K 5L6 Tel.(819) 569-6345 MacMillan urged the young people to continue the work started by their parents so many years ago and congratulated them for a strong club in the Eastern Townships.Then it was time to rush back to Huntingville, perhaps have one dance, and after pizza, take my young charges home to bed.Saturday was another story, with two main events taking place many icy miles apart.Richmond Quebec Farmers’ Association held their Annual Banquet and dance, with Darcy Ryan of Champlain College, Lennoxville, guest speaker.Nearly 200 members and friends attended the QFA Annual in Richmond which has become one of the main social events of the year for agricultural producers Ryan spoke of the need for more advanced agriculture courses for today’s farmer.He outlined the various subjects which will be covered during the two year course at Champlain.“If a student takes the CEGEP humanities, language and PhsEd courses as well as the practical and technical agriculture courses, he will receive a certificate which will enable him to find employment in fields demanding technical skills related to agriculture.” The course will prepare our future farmers for the big’ business farming has become,” he said.Ryan explained the college has already purchased a neighboring farm, which, when modified, will provide students with first hand training in apply their theory and techniques.A quick visit with old friends, and once more, a slippery highway skidded under my wheels as we headed for Ascot Corner again, to take in the ‘Soiree’ for provincial UPA president Jacques Proulx and his wife Pauline.Nearly 1,000 people attended from every corner of the Sherbrooke Federation, including recently elected Jacques Blais, president of the region.“We jived and danced the night away,” a pleased Proulx reported.Invitations to visit the head office in Montreal were extended, in particular after the new ‘Maison de 1’UPA’ is built in Longueuil.At last, as the first sign of dawn glimmered in the east, we slipped across country once more, heading for home and a welcome rest.The cerebral palsy moi, » l’y crois! Feb.6 &7,11 p.m.to?p.m.Channel 7 For donations call 566-5735 - 563-9770 or send to: A.P.C.Q.I.Estrie 230 King St.W,, Suite 204 Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 1P9 / 1 6—The RECORD—Wednesday, February 3,1882 Living i____gyj UBcara Crepes and fish dishes for supper are easy and light Eating in Crepes stuffed with leftovers make a simple light supper.There are times when most of us become a little lazy.And then there are the times when, after a business lunch or a super Sunday brunch, when a big meal really isn’t appropriate for supper.With a little imagination and the help of the leftovers in the fridge, a light meal can be interesting and just satisfying enough.Crepes, although a little difficult at first, are a perfect solution.Stuff with leftover meat, a little grated cheese or some frozen vegetables such as broccoli or cauliflower.Homemade pizza with just about any topping is also worth a try.CREPES I cup all-purpose flour II tsp.salt 1 thsp.sugar 3 eggs I11 cups of milk 1 tbsp.brandy 1 tbsp.melted butter Sift together the flour, salt and sugar, Place in a bowl.Make a well in the middle and break the eggs into it.Stir with a wooden spoon folding in the flour little by little - continue until flour mixture and eggs are well blended.Add the milk gradually and beat with handbeater until batter is smooth.Add the brandy and let stand for an hour.To cook the crepes, heat the frying pan, brush with butter and pour about IVz tablespoons to cover the bottom.Tilt the pan back and forth to spread crepe evenly.When the bottom has browned slightly, turn the crepe BY PAT TRACY over.Place under broiler and grill about 3 minutes or until tomato is tender.Accompany by whole grain rolls.+ + + m Salmon Divan uses canned salmon for an inexpensive light meal.Cherry bread teams up with cream cheese Correction: I GOOFED! Inadvertently the rice was omitted in that marvellous Rice Pudding last week (January 27).To readers who clipped it - please add V\ cup of rice to the ingredients.The omission would be noted I think, but 1 do apologize for any inconvenience.- Kay.+ + + For the homemaker able to stay in on wintry days, this may have been just the time for a few coffee breaks with a close neighbor.Maybe you would like to surprise them with this golden, crusty coffee bread which is made with cornmeal and is ful of bright red cherries.It teams well with butter or cream cheese or any other mild spread, but please not anything that will mask its own delightful flavour CHERRY COFFEE BREAD Kay's kitchen korner BY KAY TAYLOR eggs, beaten a cup sugar cup milk 1 cup cornmeal 2 cups sifted bread flour OR (211 cups sifted pastry flour) 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted shortening One-third cup chopped maraschino cherries, drained Line a loaf pan with wax paper and grease the paper.Heat oven to 350 degrees F.Make a will before it’s too late Ann Dear Ann Landers: I have been married to John for 26 years.We have had more than our share of trouble, but we’ve weathered the storms despite the fact that he was never much of a communicator.Our children haven’t given us much pleasure.The boy quit college to take a sales job He is trying to recover from a drug problem and a failed marriage.Our daughter is living in a commune in California.She has contacted us only twice in the last two years.Both times she needed money.John had a stroke two w'eeks ago He may not recover.His lawyer tells me he never made a will.I phoned my daughter to tell her about her father.She said, “If he dies, send my third out here.” Is the girl entitled to one-third of her father’s estate?For obvious reasons, I do not want to repeat our conversation to my lawyer at this time Will you please find out for me?— Uninformed In Illinois Dear Uninformed: Laws vary according to state According to Jean Feehan, a Chicago attorney, when there is no will in Illinois, the wife gets half and the children get half.(This law went into effect in 1980.It used to be one-third for the wife and two-thirds for the children.) If there are no children, all the money goes to the spouse.If there is no spouse, the estate is divided between the parents, brothers and sisters.I hope those who are reading this and have been putting off writing a will will read it again.Too often people are superstitious about wills, fearful they will die the next week if they write one.Nonsense.It is plain foolish to work all your life and not make sure your financial assets and personal belongings will go to the people you want to have them.Wake up out there, I am talking to YOU! Dear Ann Landers: I am employed in a pleasant office with nice people.My immediate superior is an able executive in his late 50s.He has always been cordial but somewhat distant, which suits us all La ndersr fine.Several weeks ago a co-worker (I’ll call her Alice) misplaced a report, and we both spent half an hour looking for it.I finally decided to check the boss’s wastebaskets because he has been known to throw away things we need.To our amazement, we discovered discarded drafts of a filthy novel he is writing.The language and descriptions of sado-masochism were shocking - completely out of character for this church-going pillar of the community.I have been checking his basket regularly, and the story is getting dirtier and dirtier.The other secretaries think it is hilarious, but I am very uncomfortable.First, I feel guilty rummaging through the garbage to find his filth and, second, I don’t think he is being fair to the company - writing this novel during business hours.I am tempted to report him to his boss.Would I be justified?— Faithful Employee Devoted To Her Company Dear Faithful: Maybe someone should report you for wasting company time scrounging in the trash looking for pornography - from which you are obviously getting lots of jollies.(Why else would you continue to do it?) MYOB, dearie.Your letter tells me as much about you as it does about your boss Beat eggs till light.Add sugar and milk.Beat until well blended.Add sifted dry ingredients and beat mixture about 1 minute.Lightly stir in the melted shortening and the cherries.Bake in prepared pan for about one hour.Cool for five minutes before removing from pan.Serve warm or cold, lightly buttered.+ + + And here is a year-round favourite.Both are real old-time recipes I acquired in the late ’20s.APPLESAUCE FRUIT-LOAF 1 cup fine day-old bread crumbs cup (each) currants, chopped walnuts and raisins I cup plus 2 tablespoons pastry flour ¦ 2 teaspoon baking soda One-third teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon ' 2 teaspoon cloves One-third teaspoon mace H tablespoons butter 1 cup fine granulated sugar I cup cold thick smooth applesauce Prepare crumbs and mix with currants, walnuts and raisins.Measure flour and sift with salt and spices.Cream butter (or a mixture of butter and shortening) and gradually blend in sugar.Add applesauce, then mix in dry ingredients.Add crumbs, fruit and nuts and combine very thoroughly.Turn in well greased and floured loaf pan.Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) about 70 minutes.This cake keeps w'ell.Makes 1 loaf.by lifting one corner with a knife and holding it with fingers.Let it brown on the other side.When cooked, slip it onto a warm flat plate and keep in a warm place until all crepes are cooked.+ + + SALMON SALAD CREPES to fill 12 crepes 1 cup raw elbow macaroni or vegeroni 1 can 2 oz.) 1 Spanish onion, thinly sliced :l4 cup salad oil '4 cup lemon juice, fresh if possible 1 tablespoon capers :l4 teaspoon salt '2 teaspoon dill weed Drain salmon, reserving juice, and flake coarsely into a glass bowl.Layer onion slices over.Combine reserved salmon juice and remaining ingredients: Pour over salmon and onions.Cover and chill overnight before serving.+ + + BUCCANEERS’ SALAD .serves 6 2 cans (1-^k oz.each) salmon OR 1 can (IS-'/i oz.) 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Mandarin orange segments 2 medium apples, cored and diced ’ i cup mayonnaise 11 cup chopped walnuts Salt and pepper to taste Shredded lettuce OR alfalfa sprouts Chunk salmon and combine with remaining ingredients, except lettuce or sprouts, seasoning to taste.Toss gently before spooning mixture onto individual salad plates which have been lined with lettuce or sprouts.Serve immediately.+ + + SALMON DIVAN 1 can (3-:,/4 oz.) salmon I tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour '2 teaspoon chicken bouillon base '2 cup milk Dash salt and pepper 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese 2 teaspoons sherry Asparagus spears, cooked Toast points Drain salmon, reserving juices, and break into chunks.Melt butter and blend in flour and chicken bouillon base.Add salmon juices, milk, salt and pepper.Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened and smooth.Blend in cheese and sherry.Arrange asparagus in small shallow oven-to-table dish.Top with salmon chunks and then with sauce.Bake at 350 degrees F.for 15 minutes.+ + + LUNCHEON GRILL 1 can (3-:s4 oz.) salmon 1 tomato, quartered or halved 12 cup thickly sliced zucchini * 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce t teaspoon melted butter '4 teaspoon basil Place round of salmon, surrounded by tomato pieces and zucchini slices, on ovenproof plate.Spread Worcestershire sauce over top of salmon.Brush vegetables with butter and sprinkle basil OPEN-FACED SUPPER SANDWICHES 8-10 small broccoli spears 1 can y n CO QÛ CC o X CO WE WANT TO BECOME KNIGHTS SIR.a °o WE CAN CUT YOUR ARMOR COSTS IN WALF SIRE-, a; ¦g œ c .c u CO g 5 o X >a J3 * LU LU 5 oa be: LU LU *1 came over as -Pastas I could.Vou called.You said it was.important." * ! 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'' Right, Ma'am.lets have a look." 2-3 .I—A —____9*1 uecora Golden Age Club meets WATERLOO - On Monday, January 25, 70 members of Waterloo Golden Age Club met at the Legion Hall for their first meeting of 1982.President, Mrs.Quilliams welcomed all, after which the new Secretary, Mrs.E.McCutcheon read minutes and thank-you cards which had been received.An executive meeting had been held on January 20, at this time it was decided to raise the membership fee to $2.00.that no new members would be accepted and that members must be 60 years of age or over.500 was played at 16 tables with three at the game table, prizes for highest scores won by Juliette Morin, Geraldine Barbeau, Donald Quilliams and Herb Foster.Door prize winners were Lena Fortin, Bernard Lefebvre, Elvia Johnson, Marguerite Fortin, Harold Spencer, Hazel Bunker, Lottie Benoit, Nelson Langevin, Mildred Bowering, Tillie Derby, Clara Boyd, Loys Heatherington, Dorothy Champagne, John Gibbon, Therese Jauron, Donald Spencer, Alice Ashton and Mrs.Lamoureux.Refreshments were served including Mrs.Johnson’s birthday cake, especially for the members having January birthdays.Before leaving the hall, all members present, paid their membership fees.The next meeting will be on February 8.Jacoby's bridge Oswald Jacoby and Alan Sontag Coup with no name NORTH 2 3 82 ?10 8 4 3 ?A K 10 ?K Q J 8 ?10 4 WEST EAST ?75 ?AS ?8 4 32 irQJ76 ?107 5 2 43 ?K83 ?AQ9762 SOUTH ?KQJ92 ?95 ?A964 ?J 5 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: East West North East South !?Pass 4^ Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: 43 By Oswald Jacoby and Alan Sontag Today’s hand illustrates what is now known as the "scissors coup." When first described by Ely Culbertson in “Bridge World” almost 50 years ago Ely called it, "the coup without a name.” The modern name gives the purpose of the play which is to cut communication between the defenders’ hands so that one particular opponent can be kept out of the lead.South is not proud of his overcall, but when he sees dummy it looks as if everything will come up roses.Then the defense starts to annoy him.East takes his ace of clubs and leads back the three of diamonds.Obviously, he has led a singleton and plans to take his ace of trumps and put his partner in witn the king of clubs to give him a diamond ruff and the fourth defensive trick.The “scissors coup” can come to South's rescue.He wins the diamond and promptly plays dummy’s ace-king ana 10 of hearts.East wins but South chucks his jack of clubs and there is no way for East to get his ruff.Note that the coup would not succeed if West could win the third heart, but then no play would succeed.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) Lennoxville 4-H Club The Lennoxville 4-H Club met at the Lennoxville Town Hall on Friday, Jan.8.President, Paul Driver opened the meeting with the 4-H pledge.There were 16 members and one senior leader in attendance.The club was also pleased to have Neil Burns, president of the Quebec Young Farmers at their meeting The minutes of the December meeting and a report of the Christmas caroling were read by the secretary Donald Garfat.A letter from Mr MacDougall, the club’s honorary senior leader, expressing his .appreciation for the caroling, was also read.The sleigh ride at the Card party SUTTON-The ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Legion held a 500 card party in the Legion Hall on Wednesday afternoon, January 20.Cards were played at 5 tables with prizes going to Bernice Racette, Mrs.L.farm of Donald Coates on Jan.16 was discussed.This was sponsored by the Sherbrooke Oddfellows and there was a hot supper and carpet bowling afterwards.It was then announced that chocolate bars will be received for the February meeting.It was decided that we start the drive that night selling chocolate bars around the Lennoxville area before the meeting.The reunion dance was held on Friday, Jan.29 at the Salle 0-Grand R.It was decided to invite surrounding 4-H club members to the dance also.The music for this dance was supplied by the Rambling Fever band.Lavalliere and Margaret Paul Men’s: George Cote, Walter Moynan and Lloyd Cooke.Door prizes claimed by Marie Ouimette, Helen Cooke, Simmone Gagne, and Hazel Foster.Lunch was served by Comrades Day and Sevigny.Ladies Aid ROCK ISLAND (DB) — The regular monthly meeting of the Stan-stead South Ladies Aid was held on Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs.Rudy Miller in Rock Island.The president of the month Mrs.Mildred Goodall opened the meeting with a prayer.Roll call was answered and routine reports were read and approved.It was voted to pay all outstanding bills.The menu for the February 11th senior citizens dinner was Astro Thursday, Fab.4 Bernice Bede Osol