The record, 29 juillet 1983, vendredi 29 juillet 1983

Weekend .month left Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .8 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10-11 SUNNY NO\S CI OUI» I \Tf K (OIIMNMSHMN \t-l COOKSHIKI I'RIMARH SdlUtM Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, July 29, 1983 35 cents Québec Eté Danse winds up its season and a wandering Tim Belford visits a Friend, plus What’s On and Tad.All in Townships week.Canada to accept four rejected Nicaraguans “How do I know you’re not working for Kaplan?’’ Kissinger’s return has all Washington alive with gossip MIAMI, Fla.(AP) — Four Nicaraguans denied political asylum in the United States have been accepted by Canada and resettled in Alberta, and a Canadian official says Ottawa is prepared to accept 2,000 more Central American refugees this year.The four left the Krome Avenue refugee camp Tuesday for Calgary.“I feel free now,” a jubilant Antonio Lacayo Murillo, 28, told The Miami News.“I never believed that I would get out of the Krome camp in Miami.I thought I would stay there until finally they would deport me to Nicaragua.” Les Scott, Canadian consul and senior Immigration officer based in Atlanta, Ga., said Canada intends to accept 2,000 Central American refugees this year.He said six other Nicaraguans and three Salvadorans at Krome would probably soon be invited to resettle in Canada.“These people are well-received in Canada,” Scott said.“It appears that public opinion in Canada is more sympathetic to their situation.” MISK1TO INDIANS Two of the four who were sent to Canada this week are from the Miski-to Indian tribe, an English-speaking minority in northeast Nicaragua whose leaders charge the ruling San- dinistas are driving thgm from their land and putting them in prisons.“They claim their friends were thrown in jail on .trumped up charges ; they had no alternative but to run for it.” said Scott.The other refugees who left Krome on Tuesday with Lacayo are Walter Forbes, 22; Snide Lampson, 31, and Alii Waters Benduliss, 30.The Canadian government provides support for the refugees for up to one year.Lacayo, a fisherman in Nicaragua, said he hopes the Canadian government will allow him to resettle in Vancouver so he can make his living at fishing."In the name of all the Indian people in Nicaragua, I give thanks to the government of Canada ; they un derstand the situation of my people," said Lacayo.Anthony Wiggins, a Miskito Indian and co-ordinator of the Central and South American Project of the Indian Law Research Centre in Washington, D.C., said the U.S.government held up the Miskito situation as a human rights violation, but then denied the Indians political asylum.“We are discouraged by the way the United States has handled the Miskito situation and that another government has to give them refugee status," he said WASHINGTON (CP) — The return of Doctor K to the anterooms of political power has titillated this talkative capital like nothing since the California cowboys took over the White House 2V2 years ago.Beyond the breathless gossip about why Ronald Reagan recruited his sometime political whipping boy to fashion a fathomable policy toward Central America, there is earnest talk about where the appointment places Henry Alfred Kissinger in the Washington power stakes.Kissinger.60, gained global renown in the 1970s as the shuttling dynamo of U.S.foreign policy — first as national security director in the White House, then as state secretary — and also as no mean operator in the corridors of domestic power.Along the way, he affronted perennial presidential candidate Reagan for trying to make friends of the Soviets, among other things.He spent seven power-lean years on the academic sidelines, albeit collecting $10,000 and up a lecture, his flat, basso profundo delivery making the commonplace sound profound.But now Kissinger is seen suddenly as a comebacker who could, again and not long from now, king it over decisions shaping the United States, its enemies and afterthought dependents such as Canada.SEEKS POLICY His publicly assigned task, as head of a new presidential commission on Central America, is to recommend longer-term U.S.approaches to a region beset by poverty, revolution and alien meddling, including an outpouring of sometimes-contradictory policy approaches from the White House.The political purpose, some savants say, is to rescue Reagan from a militant policy morass that the poll-tested American public doesn’t seem to like, to invest a foundering administration with a restorative cachet of credibility.Given Kissinger’s record under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford — as an adviser who generated advice the boss wanted to hear — and a comparable role at a ticklish time in Reagan’s 1980 election campaign.Doctor K is expected to produce a policy that bridges the president’s militant approach and public anxiety about it.The underside of the assignment’s political purpose is that it tends to foist responsibility for repair of a failing policy onto the confident Kissinger.It is a prospect reinforced by his natural impulse to take charge and his proven record as a salesman of political concepts, workable or not.Anyway, barring a political mishap that even the resilient Kissinger couldn’t survive, he is seen to be in line for another potent position in government.His new role carries with it the potential for political reward, the speculation goes, perhaps in a cabinet shuffle as prelude to Reagan’s expected re-election run next year — if Kissinger wants it.For a man who once described power as the ultimate aphrodisiac, it is accepted that he would want it again.Since his alien birth in Germany denies Kissinger the presidency itself under the U.S.constitution, the highest reward is cabinet-level power.The prize there is secretary of state, occupied now by George Shultz.The recent evidence is that Shultz, after rescuing Reagan from the em-barassment of his first state secretary, Alexander Haig, has fallen on hard times in the estimation of the presidential power centre.The White House, through National Security Director William Clark, has been treading on the State Department’s turf with increasing regularity — notably in replacing State’s men with its own to direct relations with Central America and the Middle East.Clark, 51, is a California rancher whom Reagan made a judge while state governor and is one of several old associates recruited there for senior advisory roles in Washington.He gained early notoriety in a Senate hearing by revealing that his awareness of the world was confined pretty much to California.But he stands now, in the speculation about Kissinger, as one factor that could hobble Doctor K’s comeback.New can redeemer trades trash for cash RECORH/PKRRY BEATON Junior Men’s golf Louis Larue won the Quebec Junior Boys golf championship Thursday h Milby’s Eric Mercier tied for third.Story page 10.hile Portuguese police track bombers LISBON (Reuter) — Police mounted a countrywide hunt Thursday for accomplices of the Armenian guerrillas whose bloody assault Wednesday on the Turkish Embassy residence left seven people dead.Anti-terrorist police also closely guarded the U.S., French and British embassies in Lisbon for fear that the guerrillas may launch another attack as part of their violent campaign in a blood feud with Turkey dating back 68 years.Police sources in Lisbon said the guerrillas had reserved hotel rooms in Portugal from a public Telex in Beirut and had entered the country on Lebanese passports.In Beirut, Armenian sources said Thursday that the terrorists — four of whom blew themselves up when their mission failed — may have come from Lisbon and their passports may have been forgeries.The sources added that they had not heard of the Armenian Revolutionary Army, which in telephone calls to various news organizations Wednesday claimed responsibility for the attack.In addition to five guerrillas killed, the attack left the wife of the Turkish charge d’affaires and a policeman dead.Portuguese news agencies received a letter through the mail Thursday addressed to the police showing that the Armenians intended to occupy the embassy for at least two days.It warned police to keep away from the area and not to use roof top surveillance or helicopters to watch the building.“We remind you, for a second time, that the slightest movement or inter ference not only will endanger the life of the hostages but the security of the whole neighborhood,” it said.Another letter addressed to Portu geusfe officials asked them to understand that the action was not intended against Portugal but against Turkey.“We are sorry we have had to break the law and disturb the order of your country,” the letter said.The Portuguese media praised Socialist Prime Minister Mario Soares’ firm stand and a special police squad which stormed the embassy residence.BLOCK EMBASSY Embassy guards blocked the gunmen’s way into the embassy itself, forcing them to take refuge in the ad joining residence.The anti-terrorist squad found all five gunmen dead inside.Four had blown themselves up.The fifth had been shot dead by a security guard when the attack was first launched.MONTREAL (CP) — The can redeemer, a vending-type machine that spits out coins in exchange for aluminum beverage cans, was demonstrated for the first time in Canada on Thursday.Environmental Products Corp.(Envipco) of McLean, Va., already has nearly 500 of its computerized machines in grocery stores and other outlets in nine U.S.states, and now has its eye on the Canadian market.The can eater appears to be a breakthrough for the recycling of beverage cans, since they eliminate bothering a retailer with storing, giving out money and accounting.In Quebec alone, 600 million cans are in circulation — and they nearly all end up in the garbage.It’s a major environmental problem since aluminum doesn’t even rust.But Envipco olficials say if an efficient recycling program could be developed, it would be a boon to Quebec’s aluminum industry, the largest in Canada.“It takes 95 per cent less energy to produce aluminum from scrap than to produce it from bauxite,” said Michael Ernst, vice-president for marketing with Envipco.Operation is simple.The customer drops in a can, where it is crushed flat and droppd into a sack, and out comes one penny.In states where there is a mandatory five-cent deposit, it returns five cents.The machine’s micro-processor and memory reads the labels and does the accounting.SELL COUPONS Scrap aluminum fetches $1 a kilogram in the U.S., and it takes 53 cans to make a kilogram.But what makes it more interesting for Envipco is merchandising coupons that come out along with coins.Ernst says the marketing possibilities with the cou pons are endless.Usually they can be redeemed immediately for products at the store where the machine is.Ernst said New York State will be the ninth to intoduce a mandatory deposit for cans, in September.“We expect to place 10,000 machines in the greater New York City within one year.” Aluminum, as opposed to steel, beverage cans were introduced into Quebec two years ago by Labatt Brewing Co.Ltd.The cans, unavailable in Quebec, are imported from a Reynolds Aluminum plant in New York, one reason the Quebec government has not been eagerly pushing the changeover to aluminum.However, Continental Can Co.Ltd.of Montreal will begin producing alumminum containers this fall, on the heels of an amendment to the provincial licencing law which went into effect in June abolishing a two cent tax on aluminum cans, making them cheaper than steel CONSIDERING DEPOSIT Environment Department spokesman Pierre Fortin said the province is considering a five-çent mandatory deposit to encourage the changeover.Ninety per cent of beverage cans in the U S.are aluminum.With a mandatory deposit, Fortin’s department believes that within two years half of all cans will be recycled.The Environment Department has commissioned a study on the can eaters, while Alcan Aluminium Ltd.is conducting a recycling experiment near Quebec City that involves door-to-door pickups.The outcome will help determine whether Quebec introduces mandatory deposits, said Fortin.Transfer for Gregoire’s own safety QUEBEC (CP) — Gilles Grégoire, the Quebec national assembly member convicted on morals charges involving minor girls, will be transferred to the minimum-security section of the provincial jail where he is serving his sentence, a prison official said Thursday.Grégoire has been kept in the infirmary of nearby Orsainville Detention Centre after other prisoners threatened him with physical violence.Orsainville deputy director Pierre Gamache said Thursday Grégoire will be moved to protect him from other prisoners.Grégoire, 57, was convicted earlier this month on seven counts of sexual immorality with girls aged 12 to 17.He was sentenced to two years less a day and fined $2,900.He could be released after serving eight months.Meanwhile, the city council of Thet-ford Mines, located in Gregoire’s Eastern Townships riding of Frontenac, is planning to ask the assemblyman to resign his seat.Mayor Maurice Cote said Thursday that he will try to persuade the mayors of the riding’s two other major towns, Disraeli and Black Lake, to also back the resignation call.**U Latin American ministers confer PANAMA CITY (AP) — Nine Latin American foreign ministers conferred in Panama on Thursday in a new round of talks aimed at bringing peace to Central America.In Costa Rica, President Luis Alberto Monge said a meeting between U.S.presidential envoy Richard Stone and Salvadoran leftists is possible.Stone was expected in Costa Rica shortly and Monge said: “The doors are open (for a meeting) but up to this point no new attempt has been solidified.” Monge criticized the presence of 19 U.S.Navy ships patrolling off Nicaragua’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts.U.S.military exercises involving between 3,000 and 4,000 troops are scheduled in Honduras soon.“We don’t like it," he told The Associated Press.“We don’t believe it contributes to progress toward pacification.It can give the Marxist-Leninist groups more pretexts to say they have to fight against American domination in the region.” The foreign ministers’ meeting offer the best hope of peace in the region, said Monge, adding: “Thereare not many options available.” The so-called Contadora group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela first met in January in an attempt to find solutions to regional disputes.Contadora foreign ministers have been joined by their counterparts from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua for the current round.Officials gave no agenda for the meetings, saying they would continue today.“My mission has not failed, and I feel very good about what 1 have done,’’ Stone told Honduran reporters Thursday, speaking in Spanish.He would not provide details and had no comment on a possible meeting with Salvadoran leftists, saying: “Publicity could cause us to lose what we are doing.” The Contadora group takes its name from the Panamanian resort island where the four ministers first met with the goal of establishing regional dialogue on the conflicts in the region.While Stone emphasizes the importance of dialogue with leftist Salvadoran rebels trying to overthrow El Sal vador’s U.S.-backed government, the Contadora group sees escalating threats between Nicaragua and Honduras as a priority.There have been repeated mutual charges of border violations between those two countries.Nicaragua's San-dinista government blames Honduras for allowing U.S.-backed insurgents to use Honduran territory as a base for cross-border attacks.Salvadorian insurgents abruptly cancelled a meeting with Stone on Ju ly 9, complaining of too much publicity surrounding the planned encounter.They also sought an open agenda, saying Stone wanted to limit discussion to their participation in elections later this year.m % A prickly problem Rl (t)l'l)'PERRY HI.ATON 7 he long July hot spell is taking its toll on man and beast alike and this normally shy porcupine was no exception throwing caution to the wind and taking a rare daytime stroll. 2—The RECORD—Friday, July 29, 198,'i Polish government gives itself new police powers * WE SETTLE ESTATES * TAX PLAN YOUR INCOME * FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION * SPECIALIZE-FARM ROLLOVERS WARSAW (Reuter) — The Polish Sejm (parliament), meeting Thursday a week after the lifting of martial law, gave the government extra powers to counter opposition and prevent demons trations, and tightened censorship 1?ws.It passed amendments to the legal code prescribing up to three years in prison for taking part in a banned organization, like the now outlawed Solidarity labor union or one whose registration has been turned down.It envisaged the same punishment for anyone found guilty of organizing or leading an illegal protest.The bills, which were strongly opposed by the Roman Catholic Church and lay Roman Catholic members of parliament, are permanent changes which augment temporary post-martial-law government powers to control security and the economy valid to the end of 1985.The parliament also adopted a package of tax laws which will affect virtually all sections of the economy as the government struggles to raise revenue to prop up welfare services hit by the crisis of the last few years.Roman Catholic and independent deputies fiercely criticized the penal code changes, which were passed with only six votes against and 19 abstentions by the Communist-dominated parliament.In the face of the Roman Catholic opposition, the government cut out two other changes aimed at widening powers against those who spread false information.It also withdrew some changes to censorship laws, but the Communist authorities have still given themselves broader powers to suppress written material, stop texts coming in from abroad and censor photographic and other exhibitions.Three years of abuse — News-in-brlef 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.Baha’i’s Iranian legacy After being questioned and threatened for hours, assured they could save their lives and gain national respect if they renounced their “misguided” faith, the 10 unyielding women were hanged.They included two teenage girls, five others in their 20’s and three older women — wives, mothers, daughters, sisters — members of one of the world’s most tolerant, peace-loving religions, the Baha'i.Their executions in the city of Shiraz in southern Iran on June 18, as recounted by American Baha’i leaders, was only one episode in a grisly, three-year succession of deaths and abuse against Iran’s largest religious minority.“The objective is the elimination of the Baha’i community,” says Firuz Kazemzadeh, a Yale University expert on the Middle East and chief executive of the Baha’i national assembly in the United States.It’s a process of arrests, confiscations of property and assets, dismissals from jobs, expulsion of children from school and recurrent executions designed to intimidate and spread fear Only two days before the women died, six Baha’i men, ranging in age from 23 to 60, were hanged in the same city.Baha’i officials said the victims were offered release if they recanted their faith.FEW GIVE IN “They’re told they can be freed, have their homes back and their jobs,” said Robert Blum of the Baha’i temple and headquarters in Wilmette, 111.“That’s the offer — your life versus your faith.Many are offered more than they had before.” But few have given in, he added, believing that earthly survival is not as important as life’s quality for eternity.Kazemsadeh likens the situation of Iran's Baha’is to that of the early Christians under the Roman Empire when many died rather than renounce their faith.“It’s a matter of transcen- dence, of values greater than life itself,” he said.In the last three years under the Khomeini government in Iran, there have been 142 hangings, firing-squad executions or assassinations recorded of Baha’is, mostly local or national leaders.In the first week of July, about 130 Baha’is from the northern village of Ival, including women and children, were confined three days and denied food and water unless they converted to Islam.Released without yielding, they were attacked by mobs, driven from their homes and forced to hide in a forest outside the village.In the execution of Baha’is, the Iranian courts variously label them American spies, agents of Zionism, collaborators with imperialism, enemies of Iran, moral degenerates and in the case of women, prostitutes.TEACHES EQUALITY That charge, Kazemsadeh says, is “because Baha’is teach the equality of the sexes” — which Islam rejects and which the Khomeini zealots see as depraved.While the Iranian courts cite such charges against the Baha’is, rather than religion, the judge in Shiraz said in an interview in the newspaper, Khabar-I-Junub, on Feb.22: “The Iranian nation has .determined to establish the government of God on earth.Therefore, it cannot tolerate the perverted Baha’is who are instruments of Satan and followers of the devil .There is no place for Baha’is and Bahaism.” Onslaughts against them are seen by Baha’i leaders as intending gradual extermination of Iran’s 350,000 Baha’is, the largest religious minority in a land where the faith originated in 1844.Baha’ism claims 3.5 million members in 165 countries.Members believe in the oneness of God, the divine origin of all the world’s major religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the unity and equality of humanity and work for world peace and order.Celebrity money savers give out trade secrets NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Nicklaus uses pennies instead of dimes to mark where his golf ball stops on the green.Columnist Art Buchwald makes sure the lights are off in his swimming pool when he goes to bed.The August issue of Money magazine asked Nicklaus, Buchwald and a host of celebrities how they save money.Here’s a sampling: Lynn Redgrave, actress: “We have an old English habit: instead of throwing soap ends away, we stick them all together and make a new bar.” Representative Claude Pepper, a Florida Democrat: “The best way I’ve found to save money is not to get Weathe ¦ j Variable cloudiness today with a 50% chance of showers or thunderstorms.Low tonight 18-20.Outlook for Saturday - fair and hot.it in my hands.I refrain from rece ving it." Willard Scott, NBC television’s T day show weatherman: “Ever since I was a child, I’ve t; ken all my loose change and put it ini a family pot.We use the money < Christmas time to buy decoratior and stocking stuffers.” Diane Sawyer, co-anchor of CE Morning News: “The most effective way I’ve four to save is to get up at 2 a m.There ai no afternoon shopping binges, no fi volous gifts for friends.It’s Drac nian but it works.” Howard Ruff, financial adviser ar father of 10 children: “When I take a dozen people to tl movies, instead of spending $25 at tl popcorn counter, we make popcoi ahead of time and bring it with us.Leonard Shane, chairman of tl U.S.League of Savings Institutions “All surplus funds I put into savins instruments.My wife and I were vei careful in our early years.Now, i empty nesters, we can do anything w want.” #1___fogl uecora George MacLaren, Publisher .569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor .569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .569 9525 Mark Guillette, Press 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grain deal Italy calls for aid fighting fires MONTREAL (CP) — Employees of Molson’s Brewery Quebec Ltd., in the first strike of the company’s 200-year-old history, walked off the job early today to protest stalled contract talks.The union, representing about 900 employees, threatened strike unless the company meets nonmonetary demands.Intense negotiations had been continuing for the past few days.The union says it wants reduced work hours for some employees, better working conditions for part-time workers and improvements in the grievance procedure.A Molson official earlier this week said a “substantial" wage offer had been made to employees that would match salaries negotiated recently in the brewing industry in Quebec and throughout Canada.Lawyer charged in freezer murder ST.JEROME, Que.(CP) —Lawyer Claire Lor-tie was charged today with the first-degree murder of her former lover, Rodolphe Rousseau, who was found last week in a freezer buried in a vacant lot owned by Lortie.A preliminary hearing, expected to last two days, was set for Aug.4 by sessions Judge Roger Largarde.About 50 people crowded into the courtroom for the appearance of the 33-year-old Lortie of nearby St.Sauveur.She remained in detention at Montreal’s Tanguay prison.The body of the 37-year-old Rousseau was found in a freezer buried under two metres of earth in a lot in nearby St.Canut, 40 kilometres north of Montreal.Secretary nabbed for trafficking OTTAWA (CP) — The first secretary of the Nicaraguan Embassy has been arrested on a charge of possession of cocaine for purposes of trafficking — but the embassy contends he enjoys diplomatic immunity and should be released.Rodolfo Palacios, 29, was arrested and charged by city police Wednesday, and the Canadian government says his diplomatic immunity expired earlier this month.The government was informed by diplomatic note July 12 that Palacios had ended his assignment in Canada, said a spokesman for the External Affairs Department.That would ordinarily mean he no longer has diplomatic immunity and the charges could proceed.Digoxin overdoses caused deaths TORONTO (CP) — Seven infants who died at the Hospital for Sick Children during a wave of fatalities two years ago were probably killed by deliberate overdoses of the heart drug digoxin, the hospital’s chief cardiologist said Thursday.Dr.Richard Rowe also told a royal commission that although he believes 29 other babies under investigation died of natural causes, doctors will never be able to rule out drug overdoses.Rowe said three-month-old Justin Cook — an Owen Sound, Ont., infant found in March, 1981, to* have massive levels of digoxin in his system even though never prescribed the drug — “unquestionably” died of digoxin poisoning.C-Channel’s physical assets bought TORONTO (CP) — The assets of C-Channel, the pay TV network that went into receivership in June, have been purchased by an organization hoping to help establish a religious TV channel, says a spokesman for the religious group.Rev.David Mainse says his group — the Toronto-based Crossroads Christian Communications Inc.— has purchased only the physical assets of C-Channel, including its videotape library, studio and other production facilities.The group is not attempting to take over the C-Channel licence or to resurrect the pay network, said Mainse.Mainse, a Pentecostal minister, has said he hopes to work with the Interchurch Communications Co-operative to establish a national religious TV channel.Morgentaler bail correct — Court TORONTO (CP) — A Crown appeal of the terms of bail set for Dr.Henry Morgentaler and two colleagues charged in connection with the operation of a downtown Toronto abortion clinic was dismissed Thursday by county court judge.In his decision.Judge James Trotter said provincial court Judge David Scott did not err in principle when he allowed Morgentaler of Montreal, Dr.Robert Scott, of Ste Anne de Prescott, Ont., and Dr Leslie Smoling of Toronto, free on $3,000 bail with no conditions attached.All three are charged with conspiring to procure a miscarriage, the term used in the section of the Criminal Code referring to abortion.Scott and Smoling also are each charged with two counts of procuring a miscarriage.We paid $160,000 to keep PM TORONTO (CP)— The Star says Canadian taxpayers spent more than $160.000 in the 1981-82 fiscal year to maintain Prime Minister Trudeau’s two official residences and to feed him and his family.The Star said information it obtained under the Access to Information Act, proclaimed July 1, showed $102,470 of that amount was spent on labor, material and vehicles used to maintain the grounds of 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa and the summer residence at Harrington Lake in the nearby Gatineau Hills.Almost $29,000 was spent on cleaning the homes, feeding Trudeau and his three children and laundering their clothes.The bill for liquor at the residences was $3,859.WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Soviet Union have reached tentative agreement on a five-year grain sales agreement allowing Moscow to buy up to 12 million tonnes of wheat and com a year, it was announced Thursday.“This is a happy day for American agriculture and for the citizens of this country,” said Agriculture Secretary John Block.He said the sales would produce no more than a minimal increase in grain prices for Americans because the U.S.has a huge grain surplus.“It’s not going to drain the stockpile we currently have,” Block said.Contracts bring little rewards WASHINGTON (AP) — Major labor contracts reached in the first half of the year in the U.S.netted the smallest average pay raise in at least 15 years — 2.7 per cent — as a fourth of unionized American workers took pay cuts and a fifth achieved no gains, the U.S.government said Thursday.Economists said the report bodes well for continued modest inflation.And that, one said, provides the best prospect in many years for a sustainable recovery.The U.S.Labor Department report said the 1.2 million workers covered by contracts settled Jan.1 through J une 30 got pay raises averaging 2.7 per cent over the life of the contracts and 0.9 per cent in the first year.‘Break power of mob’ — Reagan WASHINGTON (Reuter) — President Reagan, vowing to “break the power of the mob,” has created a special commission to recommend ways of crippling organized crime in the United States.The 20-member President’s Commission on Organized Crime was told to throw a spotlight on crime and, in the words of its chairman, Judge Irving Kaufman of New York, to root out a “cancer” destroying American society.Reagan said in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden that the commission would hold public hearings over a three-year period on organized crime and recommend legislation to smash criminal syndicates.Anti-nuke groups to take action WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Six anti-nuclear groups said Thursday they will take legal action to bar U.S.supply of reactor parts for the Indian nuclear power plant in Tarapur.Paul Leventhal, president of the>private Nuclear Control Institute, said the Reagan administration’s recent announcement it will supply the reactor parts violated the spirit of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and made the spread of nuclear weapons more likely.He said the U.S.decision was in response to Indian government “blackmail,” which he said entailed a threat by India to end its assurances the plutonium produced by the reactor will be used only for peaceful purposes.Reagan orders review of UNESCO WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reagan administration has ordered a “thorough review” of U.S.participation in UNESCO, a United Nations organization that receives $50 million or 25 per cent of its annual budget from the United States, the U.S.State Department said Thursday.“The United States is concerned about our current relations with UNESCO and has begun a thorough review of our participation in that organization,” said John Hughes, the department’s chief spokesman.Ford urged to recall subcompacts DETROIT (AP) — The National Highway Safety Administration is urging Ford Motor Co.to recall 345.000 subcompacts in the U.S.because of an alleged fire hazard, but the automaker says it has no plans to recall the vehicles.A spokesman for Ford Motor of Canada Ltd.said no cars are affected in Canada as there have been no reported incidents.The administration wants Ford to recall 1981 and 1982 model Escort, Lynx, EXP and LN7 models because of alleged defects that may cause the cars to catch fire, an administration spokesman said.Britain spends money at home LONDON (Reuter) — Britain has decided to spend $450 million on a home-built missile to attack radar sites rather than purchase an American weapon, Defence Secretary Michael Hesel-tine announced Thursday.Heseltine told Parliament he will equip the Royal Air Force with the ALARM (air-launched anti-radiation) air-to-ground missile being developed by British Aerospace Corp, in preference to the HARM (high speed anti-radiation) missile, a weapon soon to be deployed in Europe by the U.S.Air Force.Baha’is arrested for espionage LONDON (Reuter) — Twenty-two prominent Baha’i sect members have been arrested in Iran following executions last month of 17 Baha’is accused of espionage, a British spokesman for the sect said Thursday.Mary Hardy, national secretary of the British Baha’is, said eight men and eight women have been imprisoned this month after being arrested in Tehran, Shiraz and Mashhad.Three men and three women held in the central city of Yazd have been exiled to Khash near the border with Pakistan.ROME (AP) — Italy called Thursday for emergency aid from European neighbors to help battle forest fires raging out of control throughout the country during a heat wave that has pushed temperatures past 38 C.Two farmers, one in Sicily and one in southern Calabria, have been killed by smoke while fighting fires on their property, officials said.Damage from the blazes was estimated in the millions of dollars.Forest fires were also reported out of control Thursday in eastern Switzerland.More than 100 firefighters and volunteers were battling the blazes in Munster Valley on the Swiss-Italian border.Craxi wins conditional backing ROME (Reuter) — Bettino Craxi advanced his bid to become Italy’s first Socialist prime minister when he won conditional backing from the small Social Democratic party.The general election last month failed to give any party a majority vote, so Craxi is trying to put together a five-party coalition government of his Socialists, the majority Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats, Republicans and Liberals.The Christian Democrats said they agree with the main aims of Craxi’s program — the fight to reduce the 16-per-cent inflation rate, an incomes policy and a reform of state institutions — and there was a similar reaction from the Social Democrats.Comiso majority refuses cruise COMISO, Sicily (Reuter) — An overwhelming majority of people in Comiso do not want U.S.cruise missiles to be based near them, a survey by a peace group says.The Italian Movement for Peace, which has organized demonstrations near the base where 112 of the missiles are to be deployed next year, distributed thousands of leaflets around the town, and said 96 per cent of the 983 replies said they did not want the missiles.Only 17 people said they would accept them.Turks, Chileans occupy AI office BERN (Reuter) —- A small group of Turks and Chileans peacefully took over the Bern office of the human rights organization Amnesty International on Thursday in a protest against the Turkish military government.Police said 12 masked people entered the office, while others distributed leaflets on the street outside.Sub search finds U.S.S.R.buoy COPENHAGEN (AP) — A 15-day search of Greenland’s west coast to confirm reports of submarines prowling near U.S.-Danish defence bases has yielded a radio buoy used by Soviet subs to communicate with their home base, the military command said Thursday.Maj.Kurt Broens-Hansen, spokesman for the Danish defence staff, said its Greenland command has confirmed a two-metre-long cylindrical object found by a fisherman last week on a beach near Nuuk came from “a Soviet oceangoing submarine.” He said the command is trying to recover a similar buoy reported to be lying on ice about 200 nautical miles south of Nuuk, off Frederikshaab.Syrian exile killed in shooting ATHENS (AP) — A Syrian political exile was killed in a shooting witnessed by dozens of Greeks at a cafe on a crowded city street, police said Thursday.He was identified as Joseph Radouan, 25, of Damascus, who came to Greece four years ago to study, said a police spokesman.The spokesman said a “dark-haired man,” about 22 years old, was waiting for Radouan on Wednesday night in the port of Piraeus and fired two bullets from a pistol at close range.Radouan died of head wounds in hospital.The gunman escaped by car, police said.Octopus uncorks bottle in 14 secs.PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (Reuter)_A schoolboy has trained an octopus to uncork a bottle.The achievement won Nicholas Kruger, 17 a science competition.Nicholas first fed the octopus baby crabs by hand, then put the crabs in an open-topped bottle.After trying for a long time to get through the glass the octopus learned to reach through the top.When the bottle was corked, he eventually mastered that too.It now can extract a tight cork in 14 seconds.1,800 join 21-day-old strike ISTANBUL (AP) — About 1,800 prisoners — most members of outlawed leftist groups — have joined a hunger strike launched 21 days ago by 150 detainees to protest solitary confinement and beatings.Relatives and defence lawyers say prisoners in four military detention centres are taking part in the strike, and that scores of prisoners were taken to military hospitals in recent days for “starvation-related complications.” The RECORD—Friday, July 29.1983—3 The Townships —___ uecara Sumy says Québec English-speaking happy with federal services By Michael McDevitt Most Quebec anglophones still work in their mother tongue, are satisfied with services in English from most institutions (other than those provided by the Quebec government) and are greatly disturbed by the exodus of their young from the province, according to a survey taken on behalf of the Canadian Secretariat of State.Conducted by the Centre de recherche sur l’opinion publique (CROP) the poll is part of a research project commissioned by the federal government to determine the attitudes and apprehensions of official language minorities in Canada (En- glish in Quebec ; French outside Quebec.) and their relationships with the majorities in their regions.The CROP report contains r.o major surprises and reinforces currently held beliefs about the English in Quebec.One in five expect to leave the province within five years.A reduction of the availability of English language education in the province is also anticipated.Approximately 20 percent of Quebec’s English minority refer to themselves as unilingual while 44 per cent say they speak French well.A growing number feel the knowledge of French is vitally important in Quebec — but a large number feel this knowledge is more important for their children than for themselves, in contrast to French Quebecers who also feel the acquisition of a second language is important — as much for themselves as for their children.One important trend noted by the survey is that while still maintaining a cultural chauvinism regarding their position relative to francophones more and more anglophones suspect francophones of also feeling superior to them in the workplace.This is in marked contrast to a similar survey conducted in 1973 which indicated most anglophones thought franco- phones felt inferior there.A result that is not surprising is that when questioned about the reasons for and possible solutions to their linguistic problems most anglophones referred specifically to questions arising out of political government policy.Most anglophones feel most of Quebec’s linguistic problems would go away if equal respect were given both languages throughout he country.The report also indicated a surpri sing ignorance among Quebec anglophones of institutions and organiza tions designed to look after their inte- rests.Only 1 per cent recognized the federal Department of State as the specific government department responsible for encouraging minority development.The report on anglophones in Quebec is one of five volumes resulting from the CROP survey.Council fence-sits over bridge SHERBROOKE (CB) — City council has refused to come down on either side of the fence — or rather the Jacques Cartier Bridge.Early this month council decided that since major repairs and repaving were required on the bridge, a major north-south artery crossing the Ma- Sherbrooke’s 60-year-old synagogue was sold recently after three years on the market.Synagogue sold to church SHERBROOKE — After three years on the real-estate market, Sherbrooke’s first and only synagogue was recently sold to the Pentecostal Church.The synagogue, the Judaic equivalent of a church, was built in 1920 on Montreal Street where it stands today.Although the Eastern Townships Jewish community flourished in the early fifties, the Jewish population has been steadily decreasing since.The sale has not yet been finalized but Cy Simmons, a prominent member of Sherbrooke’s Agudath Achim Congregation, has been drawing up the neccessary papers for completion of the sale.The building had been up for sale for three-and-a-half years as the small remaining Jewish population could no longer financially support the synagogue’s maintenance.The religious closing service for the synagogue will be held Sunday at 11 a.m.Lenn burglar fined S300 SHERBROOKE — Jean Charland of Lennoxville has been sentenced to a $300 fine and ordered to keep the peace for 18 months following his conviction on charges of breaking and entering.Charland, 24, was found guilty of having broken into his father’s Lennoxville restaurant and stealing $660.In imposing his sentence Judge Yvon Roberge took into consideration that Charland has been working continuously since his arrest and has appa- rently taken measures to help him deal with with alcohol and drug-related problems.Roberge said work is one of the best forms of rehabilitation.Crown attorney Claude Mélançon had argued that the theft from the restaurant had occurred only seven days after Charland had been found guilty and released under surveillance following another burglary — that of $382 from a garage—and of having performed an indecent act.Police seek clues in murder SHERBROOKE — Police are still seeking clues and questioning neighbors and friends of Louise Turcotte in an attempt to piece together the events which led to the young woman’s death here last week.Turcotte, 20, was found dead on her bed in an apartment on Bellevue Street by her sister and brother-in-law.An autopsy report named asphyxiation as the cause of death, perhaps as a result of strangulation.Jean-Guy Grégoire, 47, with whom Turcotte shared the apartment, was alone with the girl when she was found.Police say he appeared confused and disoriented.He is being held as a material witness on a coroner’s warrant until such time as a coroner’s inquest can determine the exact cause of death.Police say they have questioned most of the couple’s neighbors over the last week, and have also questioned family members and friends.They ask that anyone who believes they may have seen the couple between Thursday and Friday of last week should inform police as any information pertaining to the events leading up to Turcotte’s death might be important, regardless of how seemingly insignificant it is.Grégoire is an employee of the Commission scolaire régional de l’Es-trie, where Turcotte had also worked part-time as a secretary.Klein sentenced to two years SHERBROOKE — William Bela Klein, 51, has been sentenced to two years in prison following his conviction for fraud in a case involving $3,700.The sentence will be served concurrently with a four year and 11 month sentence he received on March 1 on 30 other similar charges.Jean-Pierre Rancourt, Klein’s lawyer, had argued that his client had purchased some jewelry valued at over $117,000 and had sent someone to pick it up.He said he had then been picked up by police before he’d had time to cover his cheque.Rancourt said Klein’s messenger has not been seen since.help your Heart Fund gog River in the Queen City of the Eastern Townships, it would be closed to traffic for at least three weeks.It was later decided that city busses would be allowed to cross, along with emergency vehicles.City taxidrivers objected, saying they too are part of the public transit network and should have the same rights as their competition, the bus line.Last week the cabbies dramatized their complaint by blocking all traffic on the three-lane span for about ten minutes Thursday.A wise policeman referred them to city administrator Roch Létourneau.Létourneau listened to the drivers’ complaints and called the city councillors to find a temporary consensus.Council agreed that at least during last weekend the bridge would be open to taxis as well as busses and emergency vehicles, but Monday it would close temporarily again (to all traffic but the pigeons and seagulls) until a permanent decision could be reached on the temporary closing — or opening.But the council had troubles of its own.A closed workshop set for Monday was postponed until Wednesday when it was discovered that there were documents to consult before a decision could be made.But that decision didn’t hold for long because Tuesday it was determined that too many councillors were vacationing and would be unable to attend Wednesday’s meeting so it was postponed again — this time,until Thursday.Thursday came and went, but so at last did the council meeting.Council decided in its wisdom to deny access to the bridge to all vehicles — public or private — for all purposes — routine or emergency.In a terse phone call late Thursday area media were informed that hereafter the bridge is closed temporarily until August 20.And that’s permanent.And the pigeons and seagulls are laughing.Ready to go and waiting to be welded, these pipes stand silent witness to another plumbers’ union dispute.More 144 hassles threaten pipeline SHERBROOKE — Members of plumbers’ union local 144 will vote Monday to boycott or not to boycott construction sites on the Eastern Townships branch of the new pipeline being built to link eastern factories with western gas.But they say they won’t allow western plumbers to weld eastern pipe.Gaz Inter-Cité, the company building the long-awaited pipeline, has said it will bring specialized welders in from western Canada to do the work if the members of 144 refuse.The union says there “will be action” if the western welders try to move in.Following their mandatory two-week ‘vacance de la construction', the union welders will be asked to confirm an earlier decision to refuse to work on the line for what they call the “paltry” $21-per-hour rate alowed them under the Québec building trades decrees.They want to work for no less than $27 an hour, the top rate allowed under the National Pipeline Agreement which applies in other provinces.“Although we will stay within the law, we may take actions that could cause a lot of harm to a lot of people,” says 144 spokesman Jean-Claude Sureau.Local 144 recently was removed from provincial government trusteeship after eight years of tight control imposed on the recommendation of the Québec commission of inquiry into organized crime (CECO).A CECO report had called 144 leaders “a menace to society” following the destruction of a James Bay construction site by members in 1974 over another union dispute.Although members say they don’t want trouble, Monday's vote is expected to bring on 144’s second batch in a month.Last month 144 members threatened violence against members of Eastern Townships Local 825 — another local of the same parent union, the United International Association of Plumbers and Pipewelders — in a dispute over the same National Pipeline Agreement.144 wanted the $27 plus fringe benefits ; 825 wanted to work — if not at any price, then at the $21 Québec rate.That dispute was ironed out peacefully when the members, as opposed to their business agents, met at work sites in St-Elie d’Orford.The current dispute is over the Mon treal-Farnham section of the pipeline, well within 144’s home turf.The plumbers say they won’t work for less than the $27-plus rate.Gaz Inter-Cité and its subcontractors say that they won’t pay more than the Québec legal maximum — $21-plus.The companies have threatened to bring in the wes- tern workers rather than break the provincial law; the Québec government says it won’t allow an exemption from the law.At least some welders are willing to come in from the west — where pipeline work is scarce these days — to get the job done, and get the jobs.Since Québec owns 51 per cent of Gaz Inter-Cité, 144’s Sureau says he finds it ridiculous that the firm is even considering bringing in outside help.“If the Quebec welders are replaced by welders from the west, that means we have gone pretty far and the government no longer respects its workers,” he says.Another solution, one that may solve Gaz Inter-Cité s problem but not the welders’ — either east or west — is the use of automated machinery to do the work.Welding machines have been used on other jobs, and the companies are looking into the possibility here.Four robotics’ are currently undergoping tests in Québec City in anticipation of just such a move.Townships talk Correction Two stories in Wednesday’s Record contained errors.In the story on pages 12 and 13 titled ‘University of Sherbrooke’s foreign students find different styles of life in Canada’, student Mamadou Saliou was described as one of a number of foreign students who find racial prejudice among some professors and Canadian students on campus.Saliou says that although he was among a small group of students who discussed racism, none of the remarks quoted was made by him.Stewart Hopps phoned to make a correction in the page 5 stories on the condition of Lake Memphre-magog.He was incorrectly described as the pollution control inspector’ of Memphremagog regional municipality (MRC).In fact he is the environment inspector for the municipalities of Magog Township, Stanstead Township, Hatley Township.Ayer's Cliff, North Hatley and Waterville.Otherwise, says Hopps.“it was a hell of a good article." The Record regrets any inconvenience arising from these errors.SHERBROOKE (AV)—Employment Canada’s program for students in Sherbrooke, East Angus and Coaticook has announced that it has attained its objectives for the summer season in 1983.With still a month before the closing of these offices for the summer, Sherbrooke’s office found jobs for 1,068 students (the objective was 1,000).This figure corresponds to a 45 per cent increase over last year’s figure at the same date.In Coaticook 166 jobs were found (the objective was 135) and in East Angus the office was able to place 181 students (objective was 175).The summer subsidization program of Eté Canada found jobs for 340 students in Sherbrooke, 28 in Coaticook and 47 in East Angus.The principal sectors that generated jobs were in small businesses, hotels and restaurants and agricultural producers.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — David Debuck and Tommy Gendron, both of Sutton, pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing on the property of Jacques Besre in East Hill on June 6.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk told the court the land was clearly posted and the victim had been plagued with uninvited guests using his pond.He pointed out the accused had no prior records and the offence did not call for either a fine or a jail term.Judge Guy Genest handed the young men conditional discharges with the condition they stay away from Mr.Besre’s property for one year.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Jean Pierre Reynaert, of Granby, entered no plea at his arraignment on a charge of breaking and entering Bill Smith’s dwelling at East Farnham.Claude Hamannchose jury trial and the preliminary hearing was set, for the form to September 20.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Judge Guy Genest ruled the crown had not proven beyond reasonable doubt the nine grams of hashish found in Alain Turcot's possession were for purposes of trafficking, however found him guilty of simple possession.Special prosecutor Robert Brisebois noted Turcot’s prior convictions as an adolescent on similar charges and called for three months imprisonment.Bernard Monast argued the Crown’s demand was excessive and suggested a heavier than usual fine noting his client’s probation had been revoked due to the charge.Judge Genest fined the Granby resident $400 and costs, in default to three months.Tinker Bell, Peter Pan and other cutsey-poo titles This spring I blew myself to a pair of expensive tennis sneakers which were on sale.When I returned home I discovered that not only had I not paid the reduced price, but the shoes were two different sizes.I rushed back to the store and the owner apologized and preceded to remedy the mistakes.He hunched over a very fancy looking calculator and began to push about a hundred buttons.Eight minutes later he graciously handed mé the four dollars difference.I couldn’t resist asking him why he had not simply adjusted this in his head or on a small piece of scrap paper.He looked astonished at my question and explained that his machine saved him countless hours of work every single day.Almost any machine intimidates me so I left the store still brooding as to why he couldn’t subtract four dollars from thirty-two in a matter of three seconds.For me the computer age represents the biggest generation gap I have so far encountered.I managed to adjust to Elvis, then The Beatles, whom I grew to love, and the Rolling Stones whom I still loathe.The shoulder length hair worn by all males under thirty didn’t bother me in the least.On looking back, unconsciously I believed that all of the above would eventually pass and so they did.But this is different.I’m finally convinced that the computer age is here to stay.It does little good Global Village BY JEAN HAIG to think silently old cliches such as ’ignorance is bliss’ or ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’.My total ignorance may well turn into a disaster.In short I’m spooked.Recently a friend went to a great deal of trouble in order to travel into the city to take a three day course on how to allay her fears of these new fandangled machines.The first thing she was told was that in 10 years those of us who have not come to terms with the computer will be considered illiterate.That projection really alarmed me.Did that mean that all our present and future reading would be shredded and writing newsy little notes would go the way of the dodo bird?She quickly assured me that this was not so but declined to elaborate any further.Heaven help us I understand that certain schools are now renting computers in order to get those eager little minds conditioned for the world of the future.Mind you, even I have accepted the fact that these monsters are only as good as the information they have ingested.Praise be that real honest to goodness humans are needed to feed in the information.In no time the sincere computer buff comes to regard his piece of machinery as his or her new best friend.They often give them pet names such as Tinker Bell, Peter Pan and other cutsey-poo titles.As a total ignoramus, these weird relationships make me want to barf Most computer experts will look you straight in the eye and swear that there are no jobs being lost because of this new split-second efficiency.Next you will be told that it would take fifteen people an entire week to attain the results spewed out by good old Floopsy in a matter of minutes.Small wonder that many young people are madly trying to get into courses in computer programming.I don’t need a calculator to figure out that before long there will be a glut on the market of these would-be experts.Recently, while visiting a friend, the phone rang.Then I overheard my hostess asking in a faint desperate voice “excuse me, but are you a live person?" and a second later, "am 1 talking to a human being?’’ The answer to both questions was no It was a voice from a computer, programmed to dial home phone numbers in an attempt to sell insurance Old fashioned, stubborn, illiterate I’m still going to fight the day when a human being could become almost superfluous, if not downright obsolete 4—The RECORD—Friday, July 29, 1983 #1___togi Kccora The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Staggering Tory party workers worry about their jobs.Hurray for the Environmental Products Corporation ! These wizards from south of the border have come up with a machine that eats aluminum cans and spits out money to the person who fed it.No more garbage-littered roads, no more over-stuffed Glad bags the morning after.For the first time, Quebecers will no longer have an excuse to cover the verdant countryside with free advertising for the nations brewers and soft drink producers.Eat your heart out Bill Cosbie! But why stop there?Surely given a little incentive these legitimate heirs to the Bells and Edisons of history could solve more of our problems.What about a machine that eats government information brochures and returns a suitable proportion of our wasted tax dollars?Or perhaps they could whip up a little number that devours government regulations and exchanges them for instructions in simple French and — God forbid — English.The possibilities are undoubtedly endless and the benefits to be accrued staggering.As an ultimate gift to mankind they might even be able to design a machine that eats the politicians themselves and in return gives us back control over our own lives.Today aluminum cans.Tomorrow the world.TIMOTHY BELFORD Too forgiving a society When a society begins to glorify murderers, it is time to re-evaluate our attitudes concerning criminality.This is the case with Marie-Andrée Leclerc, a native of Lévis, Québec who was convicted of the murder of Alan Jacobs, an Israeli tourist who was on a trip to India.Leclerc was allowed to return to Canada after being granted provisional freedom by the Indian Supreme Court pending the appeal of her conviction for the 1975 murder.Leclerc is allowed to remain in Canada for one year for cancer treatments and then must return to India to complete her life sentence.When this convicted murderess arrived in Québec she was greeted by 500 well-wishers seemingly unconvinced or indifferent to the fact that she was involved in the slaying of an innocent man.The social perception of the Leclerc case demonstrates that our society has become too tolerant of the criminals that besiege it.Sympathy is a marvellous human quality, but one that has its proper place.Upon her arrival at the airport, Leclerc told reporters that “it is like a dream for me”.One can only stop and wonder if it was her return to her homeland or the misguided adulation of the well-wishers that seemed like a dream.The question that remains is why the people are treating her as a heroine.Was it the danger, romance and adventure of her trip that captured the hearts and imaginations of her sympathizers?Perhaps it was simply the fact that she is a victim of cancer, and is pitied and supported for that reason alone.Whatever the reasons for the adulation she received, they amply demonstrate that we are too forgiving a society.And a society that forgives and forgets, may live to regret.ARI VINEBERG by Leslie Shepherd OTTAWA (CP) — Progressive Conservative party workers are in limbo this summer, wondering how many of them will have jobs when Brian Mulroney strides into Parliament as Opposition leader this fall.A wide range of caucus, party and advisers’ jobs are held at the leader’s discretion and Mulroney is expected to announce who stays and who leaves after the Aug.29 byelection in Central Nova, which he is expected to win.Party workers don't expect a wholesale purge but they recognize Mulroney, like any new leader, will want to install those closest to him in the top jobs.Mulroney has received recommendations from a transition team set up to keep in touch with the party and caucus and to examine party headquarters in Ottawa, the caucus research bureau and the leader’s office.He has already accepted the resignations of three top party officials appointed by former leader Joe Clark, offered as a standard courtesy soon after last month’s convention.Gone are Senator Lowell Murray, chairman of the party’s national campaign and priorities committee; Senator Arthur Tremblay, chairman of the policy advisory council, and fundraiser Terry Yates, the Hamilton, Ont., car dealer who headed the PC Canada Fund.Murray, one of Clark’s closest advisers and godfather to his daughter, Catherine, has also been friends with Mulroney since they were classmates at St.Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.Clark, as a former prime minister, is entitled to a larger staff than most MPs — probably six or seven aides instead of the usual three.His new staff will include Peggy Mason, who is currently policy co-ordinator for women’s issues in the leader’s office, and probably his long-time private secretary Adèle Desjardins.Mason, a lawyer, will be an assistant, possibly concentrating on social policy and constitutional issues.SEVERAL REMAIN That still leaves several people Clark hired in the leader’s office — associate press secretary Angèle Dos-taler, legislative assistant Effie Triantafilopoulos, principle secretary Peter Harder, who is also involved in transition work, and program director David MacDonald, secretary of state and communications minister in the Clark government.Tim Ralfe, a former journalist long associated with Clark, left his job as a Tory researcher in January to work on the Clark campaign.He was hired by Alberta MP Arnold Malone but has been looking for work since his contract expired at the end of June.Mulroney aides say they have approached Finlay MacDonald, a former chairman of the PC Canada Fund hired as Clark’s senior assistant in late 1982, and asked him to stay to help plan what they hope will be the Tories’ transition into government.MacDonald, a former broadcaster who was chief of staff to former leader Robert Stanfield, also left the Opposition leader’s office in January to work on Clark’s campaign and has remained in Clark’s office this summer.Discussions have also been held with organizers for other candidates, say Mulroney workers.John Las-chinger, who resigned as Ontario’s assistant deputy minister of tourism and recreation to run John Cros-bie’s campaign, would be an obvious asset to Mulroney.In addition, Mulroney has asked Clark to define the role he’d like to play in the party, but even Clark’s closes aides say they don’t know what he’s chosen.BEST BET The best bet is federal-provincial relations for both a critic’s job and cabinet post.Manitoba MP Jake Epp.a key Clark campaign supporter, is the current critic.But there’s also speculation Clark is interested in external affairs, which would allow him to travel outside the country.Mulroney is also expected to unveil a new “shadow cabinet,” MPs responsible for keeping track of various government departments.The shadow cabinet was shuffled during the spring, to remove leadership candidates Crosbie, Michael Wilson and David Crombie from their high-profile jobs as external affairs, finance and labor critics.Bringing backbench MPs into the shadow cabinet and promoting those already there is one way Mulroney can reward those who supported his candidacy.Treasury Board critic Sinclair Stevens, MP for the Toronto area riding of York-Peel, is likely to be bumped up, possibly to external affairs, in appreciation for his efforts on the Ontario campaign.Vancouver-area MP Tom Siddon and Manitoba MP Jack Murta could also be on the promotion list, either for critics jobs or provincial campaign posts.Speculation is under way as to what will happen to the other 90 employees at party headquarters, from national director Pierre Fortier down, to the 18-member research bureau, to about 40 people now employed by interim Opposition Leader Erik Nielsen and to the MPs and senators who hold regional campaign posts or critics jobs.Some, who were close to Clark during his seven-year term as leader and helped him fight two leadership battles against Mulroney, have no desire to work with the new Tory chief and are quietly looking for work elsewhere.Others, who want to stay in the hopes the Tories will soon form the government, say they are in a state of “suspended animation.’’ “We’re all just taking it day to day,” said one worker.Several party insiders say the transition between the Clark-Nielsen and Mulroney teams will be handled tactfully in the spirit of party unity set by Clark after his defeat.While top posts will be shuffled, they expect middle-and lower-level jobs to be retained on merit.“They’re going to need some continuity,” said one employee.“Mulroney’s people are bright and capable, but most of them have no Ottawa experience.It behooves them to blend.” FORMER JOB Nielsen, the Yukon MP who took over as Opposition leader in the Commons when Clark asked for a leadership convention in January, will likely return to his former job as House leader.Although he is a fierce Clark loyalist, he knows parliamentary procedure better than most MPs, particularly those who supported Mulroney.Nielsen will also turn over a staff of about 40 people, many of them clerical and support staff who Mulroney will likely retain.But the advisers Nielsen inherited from Clark are unsure how many, if any, will be kept on.Several left the leader’s office in January to work on Clark’s campaign, including press secretary Jock Osier, special assistant Jean-Claude Danis and executive assistant Bill Parsons.Only Osier returned to Nielsen’s office to help with the transition but he is expected to head back to Calgary to resume public relations work in the energy industry.Parsons is working in Clark’s office for the summer.While Brian’s gang moves in on the Rideau by Leslie Shepherd OTTAWA (CP) — None of them would be recognized on the streets but they’ll soon be among the most influential people in Ottawa because they all have access to the man who could be the next prime minister.‘They’ are the men Conservativ&,Leader Brian Mulroney asks for advice £ind has chosen as his transition team while campaining for a Commons seat in Nova Scotia.Most are close friends whose ties with Mulroney date back to his days as a student at St.Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and at Laval University law school.The transition team, working next door to Parliament Hill in a suite of offices at the Chateau Laurier Hotel, is headed by Montreal lawyer Michel Cogger, a special adviser during Mulroney’s leadership campaign and now his intermediary with the party.The diminutive Cogger is probably Mulroney’s closest adviser and is godfather to his oldest daughter.The two men have been friends since law school.York University Prof.Charles McMillan, a top policy adviser during Mulroney’s 1976 and 1983 leadership bids, has retained that role on the transition team.He’s the twin brother of Prince Edward Island MP Tom McMillan, who supported Clark’s campaign to retain the leadership.MEDIA RELATIONS Roger Nantel, a former journalist who heads his own public relations firm in Montreal, is handling media relations, as he did during the 4‘/2-month campaign.Patrick MacAdam, aide to Alberta MP Gordon Taylor and friend since university, is Mulroney’s liason with caucus and the Opposition leader’s office.MacAdam kept tabs on Ottawa for Mulroney during the last couple of years and helped recruit MPs’ support.He often travelled with Mulroney during the campaign, helping with media liason, particularly during last month’s convention.Michael McSweeny, an Ottawa alderman, is handling Mulroney’s appointments and logistics, tasks he handled during the campaign along with shielding Mulroney’s wife, Mila, during some of the rougher encounters with reporters.Four men have been appointed to work branches of the Conservative party in Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia and the West.Paul Weed, Mulroney’s national campaign chairman, is co-ordinating relations with the party in Ontario.Weed, who has been an organizer for and confidant of Premier Bill Davis, was one of the first members of the Big Blue Machine to swing to Mulroney’s campaign.QUEBEC LIASON Montreal lawyer Jean Bazin, a senior adviser on campaign strategy, is the principal liason with the party in Québec.Bazin, nicknamed “Ti-Baz,” wasn’t involved in the bitter clashes over delegate selection in Québec and is well regarded by both the Clark and Mulroney camps.He s seen as the best candidate to help heal divisions in the Québec wing of the party.Bazin has been friends with Mulroney since Laval, and his law firm of Byers, Casgrain counts the Iron Ore Co.of Canada, which Mulroney headed for five years, among its clients.Lee Richardson, executive assistant to Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, is the party’s western liason with Mulroney.Richardson was an assistant to former prime minister John Diefenbaker in the early 1970s before returning to Alberta.Fred Doucet is Mulroney’s liason with the party in Nova Scotia, where MP Elmer MacKay resigned his seat to allow Mulroney to enter the Commons.MacKay has been appointed a senior adviser with vague duties and will be working out of the leader’s office in Ottawa.Mulroney’s network of influential friends and advisers also includes Toronto lawyer Michael Meighen, a former party president; London, Ont., businessman Peter White, a director of some of the Conrad Black group of companies, Toronto lawyer Sam Wakim, a former MP, and Knowlton businessman Keith Hamilton.CREDIT CORPORATION ?.sure,.just turn right 3+Thé Tractor C^al^rshiR.àr'wie.pas'-f fhd- \j^cm\^es -torn -thd ev\zdn\gqery.- pass' misr '/////777V.Florida’s sunshine narcs bust top Québec dopers by Robert Winters MONTREAL (CP) — U S drug investigators, claiming to have broken a ring dubbed the “French Canadian connection,” have charged several Quebecers with trafficking drugs in Florida, including some who appeared before Québee’s organized crime inquiry in the 1970s.Florida has long been a favorite winter haunt for sun-starved Québecers, many of whom have moved to Fort Lauderdale on a year-round basis, setting up restaurants, hotels and other businesses.It was perhaps inevitable that among Québecers putting down roots would be a handful of people who had previously been in the spotlight of a Québec Police Commission inquiry into organized crime — and became household names in the process.Three years ago, the U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration office in Miami launched what it described as a “large, significant” undercover investigation centred in Fort Lauderdale after reports were received about a drug smuggling ring.The investigation, codenamed Operation Birdman, led to arrests and charges being laid a week ago against 27 people, while arrest warrants for another 13 were issued.Several of those sought on warrants have since surrendered.The DEA said the ring was smuggling a variety of drugs — including Quaaludes, other tranquilizers and cocaine — into Florida from Canada and Europe, bringing them in from Canada by caror truck.The DEA said at least six are former residents of Canada, including former Québecer William (Obie) Obront, a onetime Montreal meat packer described as the local underworld’s banker before the organized crime inquiry.Another well-known face that popped up in Montreal tabloids again with his arrest was Marcel (The Chinaman) Salvail, described before the crime inquiry as the underworld boss of Sorel, an industrial city 60 kilometres northeast of Montreal.Obront remained in jail after he was unable to post the $1 million required for his bail on Tuesday.His two children tried to raise the money on an inheritance from their mother, but federal court in Fort Lauderdale ruled against them because the estate is still unsettled.Salvail was freed on $250,000 bail, along with another Canadian, Michel Thiffault.Police are searching for Québecer André Desjardins, also charged in the case.BUSSIERE RELEASED Another Québecer charged is Roméo Yvon Bussière, 46, a Fort Lauderdale resident originally from Shawinigan-Sud, near Trois-Rivières.He was released after posting a $200,000 cash bond.He is also charged in a separate case involving a state prosecution involving 200,000 Quaaludes, a tranquilizer and muscle relaxant, said Florida state prosecutor William Thomas in Miami.Bussière is also charged with marijuana smuggling after another arrest a week ago involving “five or six other French-Canadians," Thomas said in a telephone interview.As for Obront, the crime inquiry was told he liked Cuban cigars and made a habit of giving Christmas gifts to friendly bankers.He was described as a major “money mover,” “fixer” and “errand boy” for the Montreal underworld.The inquiry heard testimony that an es-timated $90 million passed through Obront’s personal bank accounts during a 10-year period in the 1960s and 1970s.But he never reported income of more than $50,000 a year to tax authorities and sometimes gambled that much in a weekend, the inquiry was told.MEAT FOR MILLIONS Obront operated a large wholesale meat operation, Obie’s Meat Inc., which he once said supplied most of the meat for restaurants at the Expo 67 world’s fair in Montreal.But he also had interests in 37 other companies between 1950 and 1975.Obront boasted of knowing policemen, judges and politicians and was a contributor to former Québec Liberal premier Robert Bourassa’s campaign fund — produ- cing a thank-you letter after Bourassa denied he had received the gift.He left Québec for Florida in 1974 after receiving a subpoena to appear before the crime inquiry.He became a naturalized U.$.citizen in 1975 — a process that usual ly takes five years.Extradition procedures began after fraud charges were laid in Canada.But he fled Florida in 1976 for Costa Rica where RCMP officers picked him up and brought him back to Canada, where he was convicted and imprisoned on fraud charges.He moved back to the U.S.in 1980.As for Salvail, police witnesses told the Québec crime inquiry that he had links with the Montreal Cotroni family, in turn connected with a leading New York Mafia family.DENIED EXTORTION Salvail started his career with a hot dog stand, but eventually controlled organized crime activities with an iron fist, the inquiry was told.An occasional informer for the Québec Police Force, Salvail conceded in a 1978 interview he was “not white like snow” butdisputed testimony that he extorted protection money from bars and cheated business rivals.Described as one of Québec’s “untouchable" crime figures, Salvail denied testimony linking him with cases of arson, extortion and fraud and has never been convicted in any of the cases. Farm and business The RECORD—Friday, July 29, 1983—5 the' #1___ MBCOrtt Canada protests proposed legislation to change tolls on seaway WASHINGTON (CP) — Legislation before the U.S.Congress that would change the system of collecting tolls on the St.Lawrence Seaway has drawn a formal protest from the Canadian government.Proposed laws whereby so-called user fees would be levied on the U.S.side of the jointly owned seaway would undercut the U.S.-Canada Seaway Treaty of 1959, says a formal Canadian note delivered to the U.S.State Department earlier this month and made available by Canadian Embassy officials.The 1959 treaty, which established the deep-water seaway, provides for negotiated agreement on tolls throughout the waterways linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.About 300 kilometres of the 3,750-kilometre system, the stretch linking Montreal and Lake Ontario, is a joint U.S.-Canada project.Canada acknowledges that it is stu- dying plans for user fees to cover rising losses and meet the costs of dredging and other maintenance.But it objects to any U.S.moves to reform the system on its own, without Ottawa’s prior agreement.Further, the 1,500-word protest note says the U.S.proposals as they stand might violate international trade agreements, disrupt cargo patterns and cause “increased uncertainty" in the shipping industry.In particular, the note objects to one congressional provision that would penalize shipments judged to be diverted through Canadian ports on their way to or from U.S.shipping points.This so-called cargo diversion, whereby American handlers of cargo-container traffic seek to benefit from lower costs or more efficient land-and-sea delivery systems through Canada, has generated controversy during the last two years.m 1 ;,r^ ***••1141 ).¦ » ; Ik Several years ago I began scuba diving.In September of 1979 one of my first discoveries was the anchor from the Anthémis which had been lost about 50 years ago in a bay north of Georgeville.This was the bay where the boat was put in storage every three years in the winter.The photos accompanying this text show the Anthémis on dry dock and the windlass which was turned by the horses belonging to John Cochrane of Georgeville to draw the boat onto the bank.As soon as the Memphrémagog museum is founded this anchor will be located there.I am drawn to writing about this boat because of my passion for steam navigation, particularly that which has taken place on our lake from around 1850, with the Mountain Maid, Lady of the Lake, Jenny Lind, etc.The Anthémis has a great place in my heart because when it was retired it brought back an unforgettable memory from my youth.With a group of friends including Laurent Martin, Pierre-Paul Landreville and Lome Meek, we rented this boat to organize a moonlight excursion with our girlfriends.We had engaged the well-known pianist Collie Ramsey of Chateau du Lac to serendade us (here I’m going to touch a few hearts).Needless to say it was an evening one does not forget.At the beginning of my investigations into our history I had the chance to meet on several occasions Miss Elisabeth Clarke of Newport, who is the daughter of Captain Clarke, owner of the boat from 1918 to 1948.She recounted many anecdotes and it happened that, henceforth, from time to time I would call her to verify certain facts.Recently an article which appeared in a biennial publication mentioned that the name Anthémis was of greek origin and meant “Goddess of Steam”.If my memory is good, Denis Papin is the father of steam navigation.He lived from 1647 to 1712.This meaning left me in doubt, particularly sinces after some investiga- Bubbles By JACQUES BOISVERT of the Société Historique du Lac Memphrémagog Inc.tion I learned that this boat had been built by E.Geoff Penny between 1908 and 1909 at Magog, not far from the town’s waterpump.I thought that Mr.Penny had given his boat the first name of his wife because of the english term ‘ship’ which is feminine and because we often find boats with feminine names long before the Year of the Woman or the Equal Rights Amendment.Nonetheless this was an assumption and I was not convinced, so 1 once again made a call to my friend the bénédictine monk.In less time than it took for me to write these lines I received his reply by mail.Permit me to cite a portion of the text (from pages 1515 and 1516 of Gray’s Manual of Botany, eighth ediion): “I did not find the word ‘Anthémis’ in greek mythology, but I did find ‘Arthémis’ which could be confused with it.The word Arthémis’ from which the french and english word ‘Anthémis’ came by intermediary, signifies ‘little flower’ in botany.It designates more precisely the camomille and related plants.” I believe finally to have a worthy explanation of the name of the boat, all the more so since Miss Clarke had already mentioned to me that this could be the name of a little flower, but without further details.You will agree with me that this is another precision added to our history and I thank my benedictine friend for his close collaboration.The Anthémis was certainly the most beautiful flower to scent the voyages of our beautiful ladies and gentlemen on the Memphrémagog.$156.2 m in FREDERICTON (CP) — Many Canadians are all too familiar with the results of alcohol abuse, from the aching head that follows a night of partying to the ravaging effects of prolonged abuse — broken health, homes and dreams.Now a New Brunswick report puts the problem in stark economic terms.The report, released by the province’s Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Commission, says the price tag on alcohol abuse in the province during 1981-82 was $156.2 million.Measured against the projected $190-million budget deficit for the province this year, the figure is startling.But it’s staggering when one considers New Brunswick is at the bottom of the national scale when it comes to alcohol consumption.Research officer Elaine Campbell, the author of the report, said in an interview Wednesday it’s reasonable to assume the economic costs of alcohol abuse in other provinces are proportionately higher.A review of the literature suggests “it is possible that alcohol abuse could be costing Canada about $4 billion in a given year." Campbell also said there is an east-west pattern of alcohol consumption in Canada.People in the Atlantic region drink relatively little, residents drug abuse of Ontario and Quebec consume somewhat more and “by the time you get out to Yukon, you find almost twice the alcohol consumption rate that you have in the East.” SUGGESTS DIFFERENCES Pressed to account for the differences, Campbell suggested a variety of lifestyles, age groups and degrees of isolation might all play a role.Campbell considered seven factors before arriving at what she calls her “conservative guesstimate” for New Brunswick —healthcare costs, social welfare costs, fire losses, crime, the cost of lost production and motor vehicle accidents and social response to alcohol abuse.Research has shown, for example, 13 per cent of money spent by adults for hospitals, doctors’ services, drugs and nursing homes are related to alcohol abuse.That translates into a cost in New Brunswick of $54.7 million.Motor vehicle accidents in which alcohol played a role claimed an estimated 75 lives in the province in 1981, left another 735 people injured and caused $2.5-million damage.But the commission’s chairman.Dr.Everett Chalmers, echoes the report when he says not all the economic costs of alcohol abuse can be tallied.The Canadian note attaches statistics which show U.S.ports recorded a slight advantage over Canada in handling international container traffic through both east and west ports last year, after a substantial deficit the year before.However, Canada maintained its advantage on east coast and seaway traffic alone.The shipping dispute involves efforts on both sides of the border to reform the financing of seaway operations to meet losses, debts and delayed improvements there and in seaports generally.The St.Lawrence Seaway Authority, operating agency on the Canadian side, reported a 1982 loss of $3.7 million Monday and projected almost double the losses this fiscal year, despite agreed U.S.-Canadian toll increases this year averaging 10 per cent.The U.S.St.Lawrence Seaway Corp.which operates two of the se- ven river locks, faces a $600,000 U.S.operating loss this year, a congressional study estimates.Congress relieved the U.S.agency of a $110-million debt to the U.S.Treasury in legislation passed last December.Major maintenance and improvement projects have been postponed.Authorities on both sides have proposed shifting from tonnage tolls to a system of user fees designed to cover costs of dredging and maintenance, currently financed largely by the governments or through debt, as well as operations.Encouraged by the Reagan admi nistration, proposals for systems of user fees in all ports were debated in the previous U.S.Congress but foundered in the face of disputes among shipping industries, regional author! ties and between big and small seaports.Various new versions, designed as compromise bills but conflicting in details, now are before congressional committees.Committee officials say hearings are expected to be scheduled this fall at the earliest, when attempts would be made to reconcile different proposals for presentation ultimately to the full Senate and the House of Representatives.Two versions cited in the Canadian protest are a national harbors maintenance bill sponsored by Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and a deep-draft navigation bill backed by Senator Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.).FORMULAS DIFFER Moynihan’s user-fee formula would be based on the volume of cargo passing through a port.Hatfield's on its value.For the seaway, Moynihan’s bill proposes a special provision whereby the U.S.federal government would pay half the tolls.The seaway charges would be reduced further because “fees collected from Canadian ves- sels using Great Lakes connecting channels but not U.S.ports would be credited to the (U.S.) St Lawrence Seaway Corp.” The Hatfield bill would set up a development trust fund, financed from surplus user fees, and this would be used to pay all the U.S.share of seaway operation and maintenance.It requires negotiations with Canada “with the objective of reducing or eliminating all tolls” on the Great Lakes and seaway.The Canadian note objects to proposals for unilateral reduction or elimination of tolls, directly or indirectly, observing that Canadian law requires its seaway authority to be self financing.The U.S.-Canada treaty assigns the Canadian seaway authority 71 per cent of revenue from the Montreal-Lake Ontario section and all the income from the Welland Canal, linking lakes Ontario and Erie.Glossy tourist magazine for sale Not a handout VANCOUVER (CP) — Want to buy a glossy tourist magazine, two ski resorts or a bus company?Has the British Columbia government got a deal for you — maybe.The government, as part of its privatization push unveiled in the restraint budget introduced earlier this month, has put Beautiful B.C.magazine, Cypress Bowl, Manning Park Lodge and Pacific Coast Lines on the block.Government spokesmen had no ready inventory of assets or profit-and-loss statements for any of the sale items except Pacific Coach Lines, which operates bus routes in the province.But comments from possible bidders indicate the magazine and the bus line may be the most sought-after items, while the sales appeal of the ski resorts is more difficult to assess.Beautiful B.C., published by the Tourism Ministry, is by far the plum.There are roughly 360,000 people who pay $7 a year for subscriptions, mostly as gifts for friends and relatives outside B.C, said John Plul, a former editor of the magazine.Other copies are sold at newsstands and distributed to groups interested in holding conventions in B.C.“I was shocked.” Plul said of his reaction to the government’s plans.“I don’t understand why the government is getting rid of a publication that goes to 400,000 homes around the world, is paid for by somebody else and turns a profit.” MAKES PROFIT Paul said paid subscriptions alone bring in more than $2.5 million a year, against last year’s expenses of $1.8 million.“Out of a $16-million (tourism) budget it’s the last place I would have looked for cuts,” he said.Rod Cameron, director of information for the Environment Ministry, is responsible for answering questions about the magazine.“I’m a little bit fuzzy because I’m new at all this and we haven't really thought the whole thing out,” Cameron said, conceding financial statements for the magazine are not available.Cameron said the decision to sell Beautiful B.C.was not based on its profitability.“It was a question of whether the government should be competing for subscribers with the pri vate sector." Pacific Coach Lines doesn’t come close to paying its own way.PCL was formed in 1978 when the provincial government amalgamated Pacific Stage Lines, owned by B.C.Hydro, and Vancouver Island Coach Lines, once owned by its employees and bought by the NDP government in 1974.It has 113 buses running scheduled routes on Vancouver Island and the Vancouver area.LOSES MONEY The bus operation incurred heavy losses — $8 million in each of the past two years, said general manager Jack Thomas, who refused to say what the asking price for the operation might be.This has not dulled the appetite of Bud Coles, owner of Maverick Coach Lines Ltd.Asked if he was thinking about bidding for PCL, Coles replied: “It’s been foremost on our minds for about 14 years.” He said he would not raise fares because “you can only charge so much for a ride and then you hit the breaking point.” So far there have been no potential takers for Cypress Bowl — leased land and a chairlift in the alpine and cross country ski area on Hollyburn Ridge in West Vancouver.At Manning Park Lodge, halfway between Hope and Princeton on the Trans Canada Highway east of Vancouver, the government intends to sell the lodge, lift and parking facilities while continuing to run the rest of the provincial park as usual.No profit or loss statements were available for either Cypress Bowl or Manning Park Lodge.Gary Kiefer, general manager of Grouse Mountain Resorts Ltd., said Manning Lodge and related facilities will probably be priced “in the range of $1 million” while Cypress will go for less.Kiefer said the weather — “one good year since 1976” — has soured investor confidence in southern B.C.resorts.Russian ship in Panama canal WASHINGTON (AP) — It is an irony of history that the Soviet freighter that Ronald Reagan says is heading for Nicaragua with a load of helicopters will first pass through the Panama Canal — with a helping hand from the United States.American technicians still run the Panama Canal, whose “giveaway” Reagan emphatically denounced in the campaigns of 1976 and 1980.Everywhere Reagan went in 1976, he said this about the Panama Canal : “We built it, we paid for it, it’s ours.” Jimmy Carter negotiated two treaties turning the canal over to Panama, but the transfer won’t be completed until Dec.31, 1999.The Panama Canal Commission, an agency of the U.S.government, runs if.Some 1,100 Americans work with Panamanians, opening and closing the locks.And it would be an act of belligerency for the U.S.to keep the Soviet ship Ul’Yanov from passing through the canal en route to the port of Co-rinto on the western coast of Nicaragua.“By longstanding U.S.and international practice, the canal is a waterway that’s open to the ships of all nations,” says a State Department expert.The Panama Canal treaties won’t alter that.They provide — at American insistence — that the canal will remain a neutral passageway.SHOWS MODERATION Reagan made no threat against Soviet ships at his news conference Tuesday night.He pointed to the peaceful passage of the Ul’Yanov as evidence of American moderation.“It is carrying a load of military equipment, helicopters for military purposes and so forth,” he said.“And no one shot at them.” Other Soviet ships have passed through the canal en route to Corinto, the only Nicaraguan port capable of accommodating big vessels.This spring, the White House distributed what it said were reconnaissance photographs showing Soviet vessels unloading military cargo at the port.The U.S.claims that weapons are smuggled through the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua to guerrillas fighting the American-backed government in El Salvador.The Reagan administration cut off aid to Nica ragua in 1981 for that reason and lent support to anti-Sandinista rebels based in Honduras.Now Nicaragua, with the help of the Soviet Union and Bulgaria, is building a Caribbean coast deep-water port at El Bluff.It will be capable of handling 25,000-tonne ships, ending Nicaragua’s dependence on the Panama Canal.All this makes American conservatives scratch their heads.“Reagan got to the White House probably on the Panama Canal issue more than any other." said Richard Viguerie, publisher of Conservative Digest.“Now we see these issues come full circle: He ran for president attacking Henry Kissinger and the Panama Canal and now we see Kissinger helping make policy for Reagan and the Soviets using the Panama Canal.It gets curiouser and curiouser.” OTTAWA (CP) — The millions of dollars the railways will gain for hauling grain under the federal bill to end the historic Crowsnest Pass freight rates won’t cover all of their costs, the heads of the two national railways said Wednesday.“Canadian Pacific believes the revenues provided by the bill to compensate the railways for the carriage of export grain border on the inadequate,” Fred Bur-bidge, chairman of CP Ltd.told the Commons transport committee.Payments to the railways fall “significantly short of full compensation for handling grain, nor does it (the bill) recognize or redress the cumulative costs suffered in the movemnent of grain in the past,” said Ron Lawless, president of CN Rail "This is not a handout for the railways,” Lawless said as the committee began its second day of hearings on the bill to double the 86-year-old grain rate of $4.89 a tonne by 1985 and raise it five times by 1991.The committee hea rs today from Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin and the Canadian Export Association before heading west for two weeks of hearings with farm organizations, municipal groups and provincial governments.Despite the concerns over revenue and provisions in the bill to monitor railway movement of grain, the railways both said it was urgent the bill be passed.They said that passage would make it possible for the railways to each bor row more than $3 billion in private money markets to finance expansion projects on their western lines.Bill Stinson, president of CP Ltd , said as soon as the bill is law, the railway will call tenders for the building of the $660 million Beaver tunnel in the Rogers Pass.Construction work could be under way next summer, a CP official said.The railways lost more than $500 million hauling grain in 1982.They say that without the relief the bill gives them from those losses they cannot afford to borrow money for expansion projects.Under the bill, the railways would get a share of the annual $651-million annual subsidy.EXPLAIN VIEWS Detailed discussion of the factors involved in setting freight rates dominated much of Wednesday’s hearing as Conservative MPs pressed the railway’s to explain why they regard the new freight structure is inadequate.Burbidge said that compensation to CP under the federal bill will be less than four-fifths of the revenues a study by economist Carl Snavely said the railway should get.While CN didn’t put a figure on how much it needed, Lawless said it fell well short of what Snavely has recommended for the railway.Conservative Crow spokesman Don Ma-zankowski said that rather than shortchanging the railways, the bill has provided them with an overly-generous freight rate system.Grian producers could end up in the same nightmare that VIA Rail faces in the formula it has for paying CN and CP for running its passenger trains, Mazankowski said.The railways said they were concerned that special provisions in the bill to force the railways to deliver grain provides unnec-cesary duplication of requirements imposed on (hem under the National Transportation Act.PHILtr MIGNON Americas leading chain of steak sandwich restaufants has PRIME SITE AVAILABLE Minimum cash investment S30 $40 000 Othei locations loo For franchise information- CALL COLLECT ?01 879 4818 Career ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Applicants should be career secretaries with qualifications tor management.The candidate must have a well developed sense of organization, a good knowledge of bookkeeping and of general office work.Be tactful, 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hy blind people all over the world These dogs often provide the autonomy and freedom that a blind person loses when their eyesight begins to fail.They are in fact not dogs but caring, selfless companions.Robert Auclair, a Montreal North resident who has been using a seeing-eye dog for 2 years, says that “the dog gave me an enormous sense of autonomy and companionship." Previous to MIRA, a non-profit, Quebec-based seeing-eye dog center, Canada did not have a facility that could train and provide dogs for the thousands of blind Canadian citizens.In the past, those who have required the services of a guide—dog could only purchase one in the United States, where there are eight major seeing—eye dog centers.Aside from the inconvenience of having to purchase the dog in the U.S., the blind per son was often required to leave his family and environment in some cases for weeks .The follow-up training which is also very important was made more difficult by the fact that the trainers were sometimes thousand: of miles away.“This is one of the prime reasons that MIRA is so important for Québec,” said Gaétan Tardif, a Sherbrooke University student who works for the organization Although MIRA is a self-sufficient, nonprofit organization founded by blind people who raise funds selling macarons in shopping centers, the organization does not have the funds that it requires for expansion.Expansion is needed, for there is a greater demand for the dogs than there is a supply."We have to expand,” said Tardif, who explained that “one of the major objectives is to find a company that would assure MIRA of continued existence.All we need now is somebody to support us financially for two or three years until we have trained enough people to be truly self-sufficient.” The current problem in Canada is that there are no schools to train the instructors.Each school trains their own instructors — a process that can take up to three years.“We already have two instructors but we need another five,” says Tardif, who conducted the cost-analysis study for the inception of an instructor school in Canada.Tardif got the idea after he had attended the Congress for the Handicapped in Montreal.The 50 handicapped organizations that attended the Congress all felt that MIRA was a good idea, for it attempted to coordinate the efforts of handicapped organizations and the government in an effort to decide which way would be best to serve the visually handicapped population.Eric St-Pierre, the man in charge of MIRA, works marvels with his dogs.St-Pierre had previously worked for SPAR Co., where he trained guard dogs and bomb-and-drug-sniffing dogs for the MUC police.St-Pierre then decided that he wanted to train dogs for the blind and with the help of supporting blind citizens, founded MIRA.MIRA is currently working hand-in-hand with the Nazareth and Louis Braille Institute for the visually handicapped in Montreal in an effort to jointly develop training and mobility courses whereby the handicapped person at the Institute follows his training program with his dog.It is an integrated service with the objective of giving the visually handicapped person a more efficient, wholistic special service.Although the dogs are expensive, they are each worth their weight in gold.Of all the species of dogs, only one in a hundred will qualify to be a seeing-eye dog.The dogs require an enormous amount of training and retraining, which is why they are so costly.The animal must be trained to lose his natural visual dimensions and take on the visual dimensions of the person ; the dog must become the eyes of the visually- impaired person.The dogs’ training period may last up to six months with two hours of training each day.Although a seeing-eye dog may cost anywhere between $5,000 and $6,000, it is nowhere near the $11,000 price tag for a dog purchased in the U.S.And, when one takes into account the cost of the dog’s specialized training, the operation of the kennel and the follow-up training sessions, the sum is a mere pittance when one considers the possibilities for freedom that the dog may give.“It’s really a prosthesis for autonomy,” said Tardif, who added that “people don’t understand how a dog can totally change their lives.” MIRA will be in the Eatern Townships area from August 4th to 6th to give demonstrations of the dogs’ abilities at the Carrefour de L’Estrie in Sherbrooke and the Galerie d’Orford in Magog.The demonstrations are not to be missed, for these dogs are truly phenomenal creatures.Man’s best friend takes on a new meaning when one appreciates the selfless tasks that these dogs are trained to do for men.And, all they want in return is affection.Ann La nders iM* Dear Ann Landers: Last weekend I went camping with friends.I asked my mom if I could go and she said yes.I decided not to tell her there would be boys along on the trip because I was afraid she wouldn’t let me go.(I am 13 years old.) It was the best camping trip ever.There were four girls and four boys, but nobody got out of line — if you know what I mean.We hiked, swam in the lake, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows, sang songs and like that.When I got home, Mom was boiling.She found out there were guys on the trip.The person who spilled the beans heard about it from the mother of one of the guys.She opened her yap because she thought I was too young to be going overnight in a mixed crowd.The other kids were 14 and 15.I am grounded for one whole month.Do you think this if fair?Please be on my side.I need your help.Monica In Michigan Dear Mon: Sorry, I can’t plead the case of a girl who knowingly withheld information and got caught telling only half a story.Nor am I in favor of 13-, 14-and 15-year-olds camping out with no adult supervision.Dear Ann Landers: My husband is often called to speak at public functions.He is very good at it but always talks too long.What can I say to help him?Embarrassed Wife In White Plains Dear Wife: Tell him that a gift of gab is of little value unless you know how to wrap it.Awards, windsurfing, inns, horseshows and all About Brome Lake Brome Missisquoi Realties had their first annual awards dinner at the Knowlton Golf Club on July 7th.Mary Heath was recognized as the most successful agent; Reg Gauthier earned the Sales Achievement Award.This company has been instrumental in the redevelopment of various sections of Knowlton, including a facelift of its own building and such innovations as the Art Gallery and the old B.P.station.Those smart-looking new shops that took over from the decaying old B.P.station in Knowlton are the work of Rudy Roder, who owns a farm nearby and lives in Florida in the winter.Rudy hoped that his small intervention into the appearance of Knowlton would start a chain reaction; and it did! First to follow was the new Art Gallery.Now Cam and Helen Brown, who operate two antique stores in Montreal, have decided to move their Eas-tern Townships Shop to social notes Engagement Mr.and Mrs.G.Clayton Johnston of Dunham, Quebec, and Mr.and Mrs.Stanley E.McHannof Edmonton, Alberta, are proud to announce the engagement of their children, Jennifer Jean and Jonathan Hayes.Marriage to take place the first of October, 1983, in All Saints Anglican Church, Dunham, Quebec.Jennifer and Jonathan are residents of Edmonton.Jennifer is a 1982 graduate of Bishop's University; B.B.A., and Jonathan is a graduate of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Congratulations Congratulations are being extended to John H.Y.Cruickshank, who on August 2nd will celebrate his 80th birthday.Best wishes from his family and friends.THE BRETAGNE BAR SALON Rte.: 143, Woterville DANCE COUNTRY MUSIC FRI.& SAT.9:00 P M.- THE DRIFTERS (Gordie Smith, Ian Crawford, Jerry & Mike) Free Admission No Minimum the large white house opposite to the Gallery, diagonally across the intersection from Rudy’s new shops.The house was known in Knowlton as “P.V.M.de K” and now, with the B.P.station transformed into lovely new shops, it seems the corner could use a new name.If you have an idea for such a name why not write it down and mail it to: Mr.Rudy Roder, c/o Brome Missisquoi Inc., C.P.130, Knowlton, Qué.JOE IV0.Gallerie Lac Brome’s opening was a smash success and hundreds of people attended.Sales were plentiful, but most of all people loved the Gallery — it’s professional and exciting.And, it looks like it’s in Knowlton to stay! The Gallery is open each Thursday thru Sunday until Thanksgiving.Hours are from 10 a m.to 5 p.m.The Knowlton Youth Group is reportedly “broke” but full of enthusiasm after their successful presentation of “Jesus Christ Superstar”.They are working in a temporary shop planning for Christmas and even next summer.They could use a permanent home that is heated in the winter and that could withstand 30 or 40 teenagers acting, building sets and just being teenagers.This is a worthwhile project, so if you have an idea, contact Emma Stevens in Knowlton — 243-6821 (or one of the many new teenage actors in Brome Lake).A Knowlton Pony Club Fund Raiser Lobster or Steak dinner at The Pub on August 7.There will be three sittings at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 p.m.It is reasonably priced with a rebate for those who attend the 4 or 5 o’clock sittings right on time.Tickets available at The Pub.Call Kathie Simms at 243-5593 for information.Knowlton Pony Club is a non-profit organization and the only pony club owning its own land and maintaining its own ponies.Come and have a good time and support this most excellent undertaking.• One area to catch your attention is Brome Lake Country Inn — there is so much happening — much of it new and exciting,— all of it most interesting.The Windsurfers Canadian Championships ’83 is being held from July 30 to August 1 on the Auberge Lac Brome beach.Competitions start Friday afternoon, July 29 and the finals are on Monday, August 1.On August 3, Brome Lake Country Inn is presenting big band sound under the tent in front of the Auberge where “Le Stage Band Plus” will be playing from 8:00 p.m.to midnight.($5.00 adults, $2 children) Bring your own picnic and wine.(Tables and chairs will be provided in the tent.) Soft drinks, ice cream, hot dogs, etc,, will be on sale on the site.Parking is at the Auberge.On August 4 — the LaWn Sale of the year; under the tent again; from 10a.m.toSp.m.If you have something to sell, rent a table ($5.00) for the day.Bring your things to the tent between 8 to 10 a.m.Refreshments will be on sale on the site.Call Auberge Lac Brome at 243-5755 to reserve BARBECUE STEAK SUPPER ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION 470 Bowen St.Sherbrooke Sot., July 30thf 5 p.m.to 7 p.m.STEAK SUPPER SALAD BAR GLASS OF WINE $800 per Person (Inc.Dance) your table.For August 5 and 6 a couple of nights of theatre had been planned, but due to the loss of a member of the cast (he/she did not die) that will now not be possible.Some other arrangements are being worked on, so look out for news in the near future.Highlights of Foster Horse Show and Fair.The 33rd Annual Foster Horse Show, in tandem with the 3rd Annual edition of the Knowlton Country Fair, will be held Sunday, July 31, at the Lions Club Park in Knowlton.Throughout the day, from 9 a.m.’til sunset, the finest horses and riders from the Eastern Townships will engage in a wide variety of jumping, riding and fun-riding competitions.Championship trophies will be awarded in each of four divisions — one senior and three junior classifications.The Country Fair will feature a full complement of field events, as well as several family-oriented special attractions including softball, a fiddling contest, the tug-of-war and grease pole, log-sawing and archery competitions, dog-obedience trials and a sheepdog-herding demonstration.A late afternoon corn roast is also on the agenda.Sandy Martin’s Bavarian Band will be featured in the refreshment trent.An added attraction is the Canadian Unity Caravan “At Your Service” with information on the programs offered by the Government of Canada.Admission is free, with only a nominal charge for use of the Park’s ample parking facilities.All proceeds are used to support lo-cal hospital and community projects.With the Sailboard Championships in August (and the Foster Horse Show this month) the Brome Lake Tourist Council would like to remind retailers in Knowlton that tourists who take part in events such as these really do appreciate being recognized and welcomed by a few small (temporary) signs.The more the better on the day of competitions.Also of special note Festival de Bromont opens its sixth summer season on August 6th with a concert by the Preservation Hall All Star Jazz Band of New Orleans, at8:30p.m.at the Centre Sportif and Culturel, Bromont.On August 13th, renowned pianist Mena-hem Pressler will appear with the Colorado String Quartet.The Colorado Quartet are this year’s winners of the Naumberg and the International String Quartet Competition.The concert is at 8:30 p.m.at the St-Francois-Xavier Church, Shefford Street, Bromont.Que.On August 14th at 11 a.m.at St-Francois-Xavier Church, there will be a concert featuring violinist.Jean-Marc Leclerc, winner SIROIS-GAUTHIER 1 Dispensing Opticians PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED WITH CARE COMPLETE LAB SERVICE Next time you have your eyes examined, insist that your Prescription is given to you in writing.We will help you with the V selection of your frames Î and suggest the type of G lenses best suited for your work and hobbies.9A WELLINGTON N.SHERBROOKE, QUE.TEL: 5627095 5627838 'A $45'.week-end winner! Spend the weekend at Montreal’s HIGGEST little apt/hotel for only tfh X ^y per night, per room not per person! Nt-M-rvaiion* rttitiircd.Romm subir»i to availability.2100 de Maisonneuve Blvd.Wcsi Montreal, Canada II.HI 1K(> (514)931-8861 Call TOLL FREE 1-800-361-7191 1 Or coniact your travel agent l Him kv eavt of the Forum Manoir ffMoyne of the 1983 Quebec Music Competition.Free admission.August 19 features a concert by Celin & Pepe Romero, world famous classical guitarists.This is their second appearance at the Festival St-Francois-Xavier Church, Shefford Street, Bromont.August 20th from 8 p.m.to 2 a m.Festival Bromont presents a star-studded Country and Western Show and Dance featuring Bobby Hachey, The King Family, Georges Hamel, Marie Lise and The Country Boys, and The White River Blue Grass Band, all at the Centre Sportif & Culturel, Bromont.Admission charge for all events except as noted.Tickets available from Diana Timmins — 263-4733.The Town of Brome Lake has created ad new consulting committee to establish the town’s long range goals for municipal zoning and other projects or plans including the M.R.C.Right now the committee is at a technical stage; they are considering and classifying the town’s resources — i.e.agricultural, hydro graphi-y, forest, in-place municipal services, residen- tial population, provincial laws, commercial aims, taxation structures, outdoor advertizing, topographical information, etc.If you would like to be informed of this committee’s progress, write to The Brome Lake Tourist Council, Box 598, Knowlton, and they will do their best to see whatever is available gets to you.Knowlton is 100 kilometres southeast of Montreal, Exit 90 off the Eastern Townships Autoroute.For further information — G.A.Rotherham, President, Lions Club of Knowlton, Chairman, Fair Committee (243-5712).P S.— Don’t forget to drop off news of Brome Lake Community events, openings, or happenings at Robb’s Hardware or directly to Kay Taylor.Look for us next month on the fourth Friday! 38th Annual Reunion The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment Association Saturday, July 30th, 1983 Timetable 30th July 1983 1000 hrs Registration William Si., Armoury 1300 hn Annual Meeting Mems' Mess Hospitality to The Ladies in Sgfs' Mess Hostess will be Ms Alec Graham 1430 hrs Form up March on Memorial Tank BOMB, at Parade Grounds Parade Sgt.Maj.Com.Midge Cathcort 1445 hrs Memorial Service 1530 hrs St.Peter's Church Service at Regimental Guidon in Memorial Chapel 1630 hn Return to Armoury With the kind appreciation of the Pipe Major, The New Eastern Townships Pipes and Drams will be on Parade, Com Charlie Gordon Pipe Major 1830 hn Reunion Banquet at AN AF The Hut', St.Francis Blvd., Lennoxville 2100 hrs Regular Saturday Night Dance, at The Hut 31 July 1983 1100 hrs Sunday Hospitality at The Hut, coffee B, sandwiches, , doughnuts, Courtesy Ladies' Aux.ANAF 1300 hrs Sunday (THE HUT) The Ontario Branch S F RA.will present the film "THE GREEN BEYOND" 2100 hrs Regular Sunday Night Dance at Canadian legion Memorial Home, Bowen Ave.S., Sherbrooke All SFRA are invited Area Veteran», with Medal», Area Veterans Associo-tion, with their Colour Parlies, are invited to attend the Parade and Memorial Service at Tank BOMB to pay homage to their Fallen Comrades. Women s Institute members hold regular meeting DUNHAM—The July meeting was a pleasing change from our usual monthly routine.It had been decided that we invite Darcy Vaughan, one of the Massey Vanier senior students who was privileged to make the British trip in March, to show a slide presentation.This was very interesting, colorful, and sufficiently varied to make one wistful for such a journey.The president Jane Greig opened the meeting with comments, and a request for O Canada, followed by the recitation of the Mary Stewart Collect.Guests were members of the Fordyce and Cowansville branches, along with many young children.There were approximately 55 persons present.Dorothy Paterson introduced Darcy and Marion Robertson ex- tended the vote of thanks.Jane Greig acknowledged with appreciation the floral arrangements by Betty Wilkinson, and the delicious refreshments under the supervision of Ruby Sherrer and the members.Subsequently the WI Grace was spoken, and Jane Greig invited Rev.Ivor Paterson to pronounce the Benediction.Next meeting will be at the home of Myrtle Selby on August 3rd.It was appropriate that we sang the Hymn of All Nations after the slide presentation.Would members please note that on Saturday August 6, we are going to visit the Cleveland branch.The President also commented on the success of the food sale in Cowansville June 30 and thanked everyone for their contributions.UCW meetings Jacoby's bridge Oswald Jacoby and James Jacoby Well bid, well made NORTH ?K J 8 4 VAK 9 7 5 2 ?4 ?K 9 7-30-83 WEST ?1 (I 6 5 3 *J ?632 ?Q 6 5 4 3 EAST ?7 V g 10 8 6 4 ?A 10 9 8 + .1 10 2 SOI Til ?A Q 9 2 *3 ?K Q J 7 : ?A 8 7 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: North West North East Suuth IV Pass 26 Pass 2?Pass 24 Pass 44 Pass 64 Pass H4 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead Vj By Oswald Jacoby and James Jacoby Today's hand is a real gem The bidding is worthy of study Note that South's two-level response in diamonds followed by the spade rebid showed a good hand with four spades.North, who had made a nonforcing rebid of two hearts, showed very good spades by his jump to four.South invited the slam by his five-club cue bid since he knew that Blackwood was not appropriate.Finally, North’s jump to six was a fine gamble.South won the heart lead with dummy’s king and led the singleton diamond.East went right up with the ace to lead back the queen of hearts.South ruffed with the ace and carefully led the nine of trumps to dummy's jack, a second trump back to his queen and then his deuce of trumps to dummy's king-eight.which was’ now a tenace over West's 10.He discarded his remaining low diamond on the last trump and threw a low club on the ace of hearts The remaining five tricks went to the ace-king of clubs and the K-Q-J of diamonds.Had East ducked the first diamond.South would have ruffed a diamond in dummy, drawn trumps, led his king of diamonds and made the slam since diamonds broke 4-3.FOSTFiR — A meeting of the Creek United Church Women was held at the Church Hall on Wednesday afternoon, July 20.The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs.Ludovici and opened with a reading by the secretary, Mrs.Esther Honey, who also read the minutes of the last meeting.Ten members answered the roll.The Treasurer reported a substantial sum realized from the rummage sale and the bakeless bake sale.After routine business discussion, the meeting was closed with the Lord’s Prayer.Next meeting at the Church hall on August 10.Lunch was served by the members and a social hour enjoyed.BISHOPTON — The Bishopton U.C.W.met with On a Gilbert for a dessert meeting.M-s.Irving Willard opened the meeting with the Purpose and Lord’s Prayer repeated in unison.The worship period was led by Mrs.Flora McIntyre reading “Underneath the Everlasting Arms”, a Bible reading and “Faith is a Crossword 1 5 14 ACROSS Vex Constrict 10 “Heartbreak House” author ‘Baked in —’ 15 “Positive Thinking” man 16 Vetch 17 Transmitted 18 Street show 19 Being, in Cordoba 20 Mental burden 22 Roved at large 24 First name in fairy tales 25 Hindu viceroy 26 Put back a fallen picture 29 Fashion 30 Sprite 33 Antelope 34 Santa’s reindeer 35 Part of HRH 36 Louisiana political name 37 Aligns 38 Apiarist’s concern 39 “The -and I” 40 Military VIPs Yesterday’s Puzzle Solved: LIGJLJU UULluI UUUULJti IJLILJ 7/29/83 41 Sari wearer 42 Young sheep 43 “— we forget” 44 Presented 45 Dog’s strap 47 Squealed 48 During the time that 50 Haunts 54 Harass 55 — share (major part) 57 Meat 58 Fish sauce 59 Happify 60 Logan or Raines 61 Wine 62 Of ecological communities 63 Depend DOWN 1 Pant 2 Mimic 3 Queue 4 Doesn’t finish 5 Pardoned, to a con 6 Signs of sorrow 7 Seldom seen 8 Pub quaff 9 Nobles’ rankings 10 Office worker 11 Lag 12 A Johnson 13 Gardener’s woe 21 Grit 23 Aid’s partner 25 Titles 26 Sublease 27 Funeral oration 28 Aerial daredevil 29 Wake rudely 31 River sight 32 Like 5D 34 1929 word 37 Braced frames 38 Result of a binge 40 “Gil 41 Pealed 44 Gretel’s partner 46 Opt 47 — Anita 48 Make a package 49 Hawaiian port 50 Kind of frost 51 African river 52 Lanky 53 Murder 56 — de France 1 2 3 14 17 20 S 6 7 8 9 ,S 27 28 31 32 48 49 54 58 61 Mighty Fortress." Roll call was answered by six members repeating a Bible verse.Mrs.Ralph Gilbert gave the treasurer’s report and a donation was given towards the refrigerator fund in the parsonage at Sawyer-ville.Mrs.Ella Betts read a thank-you from Flora McIntyre.A generous donation has been received from Mr.F.A.Leonard.The meeting was closed by repeating a benediction.9k * * Mrs.George Hatfield of Cypress Gardens, Florida and Mr.and Mrs.George Astro McFadden of Lindsay, Ont., were guests of their aunt, Mrs.Ona Gilbert for a few days.Mr.Austin Currier of Wallingford, Conn., was also a guest of his sister and on his return trip was accompa-gnied by Mrs.Charles Kingsley, Lennoxville, Mrs.Linton Westman, Sawyerville, Mrs.Oral Downes and Ona Gilbert of Bishopton as far as Lyme, N.H.to attend a Porter reunion held there for the weekend.Mrs.Edith Bellam and Mrs.Elinor Blair of Sawyerville spent a day visiting Mr.and Mrs.Frank McConnell.Bernice Bede Osol cfour ‘Birthday July 30,1983 A greater number of fun things will be in store for you this coming year as opposed to serious ones.There will be exciting happenings to enjoy and new interests to develop.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Romance seems to be in the wind for you today.If unattached, you could cross paths with one to whom you'll find a mutual attraction Leo predictions for the year ahead are now ready.Romance, career, luck, earnings, travel and much more are discussed Send $1 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio City Station, N Y.10019.Be sure lo stale your zodiac sign.Send an additional $2 for the NEW Astro-Graph Matchmaker wheel and booklet Reveals romantic compatibilities for all signs.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) There's a good chance you'll find a way today to obtain something you've been wanting.You'll strike a bargain acceptable to the source involved.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Your pleasant and gentle disposition is always a welcome addition to any gathering, but today your soothing demeanor is especially appreciated.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) You know how to turn things around for yourself today so that you'll be able to realize personal advantages for which you've been striving.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Get your head together with two cohorts who are more able to assist you with your present plans The three of you can generate a number of bright ideas CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan 19) Your material desires can be fulfilled today if you try to improve the lot of others as well as your own You gain by being unselfish AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Your dreams are not that far out of line regarding things for which you are hoping at this time However, you must take positive action PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) You could be extremely fortunate in joint business ventures today, especially if you're associated with one who is idealistic as well as smart ARIES (March 21-April 19) You don't come on in a demonstrative manner today and yet your subtle kindness lo pals, both in word and deed, makes a strong impression TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your imaginative, creative mind is especially sharp today You'll offer your ideas freely and generously to all who seek your assistance GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Commanding attention may not be your intention, but your cheery and witty disposition makes you especially attractive today CANCER (June 21-July 22) One of your special lalenls is sensing the heeds of others.Today, while striving to make life easier for them, unsolicited advantages come to you cfour ‘Birthday July 31,1983 Be practical and prudent if you are working to enlarge your material base in the year ahead While conditions favor you, there's no room for foolish risk-taking.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) It may again be extremely difficult today to get your point of view across to individuals who have rejected your ideas in the past Order now: The NEW Matchmaker wheel and booklet which reveals romantic compatibilities for all signs, tells how to get along with others, finds rising signs, hidden qualities, plus more Mail $2 to Astro-Graph.Box 489, Radio City Station.N Y 10019.Send an additional $1 for your Leo Astro-Graph predictions for the year ahead Be sure to give your zodiac sign.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Be certain that persons you delegate to attend to important matters lor you today have the ability to carry them through.A bad selection will be costly LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Usu ally you welcome partnership arrangements, but today it may prove wise to avoid involvements of this type Strive to be independent SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) The row you elect to hoe today may be littered with numerous obstacles Unfortunately, most of them are likely to be placed there by yourself.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Self-centered people interested only in what they have to say will annoy you today If you encounter one at a gathering give him a wide berth CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) A good way to ruin the day tor the family is to introduce emotionally charged topics around the dinner table which will force them to take opposing positions.AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 19) Before jumping in to support the underdog today, be sure you have all the facts There s a chance you could defend someone who is unworthy PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Work things out lor yourself today, rather than risk your resources with someone who might not be able to manage them as well as you can ARIES (March 21-April 19) Be mindful of your own faults and shortcomings today before judging others If you clean up youi act.they'll clean up theirs TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Try to keep outsiders out of your private affairs today They could turn sticky situations into something far more complicated.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Make the most of what you are doing and who you are with today, even if there is someone in the crowd who rubs you the wrong way CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be very careful how you conduct yourselt today in front ol per sons whose respect is impor tant to you Wrong moves will hurt your image Obituary OLOF KNUTSON of Waterville, Quebec On July 13,1983, Ollie’s life ended peacefully in the home in which he was born 74 years previously.A memorial service was held in the Waterville United Church on July 16.Officiating were Carl Gustafson, a lifelong friend, Jane Aikman, the new minister in the charge, and his son Fred Knutson, a Baptist minister.Ollie and his twin brother, the late Frank Knutson, were the youngest of five children bom to John and Hanna Knutson in Waterville.He worked alongside his father and brothers John and Frank in a lumber business prior to retirement in 1970.Along with his family, he valued his Norwegian and Swedish heritage.Relatives visiting from Scandinavia in the past few years enjoyed his fluency in both languages.He loved to play his accordion for relatives and friends at gatherings.Ollie’s summers were spent surrounded by a community which he loved at Cedardale on Lake Massawippi.The summer days were filled with fishing on the lake, swimming and golf.In his later years, he particularly valued the compa nionship of fellow seniors at the golf course and curling club.For 42 years, Ollie was married to Ruth Ger-rard.He is survived by her, two children and three grandchildren.Fred and his wife Carolyn live with their three sons (Sean 12, Graham 9, and Aaron, born six days prior to his grandfather’s death) in Millbrook, Ontario.Linda and her husband Fabian reside in Edmonton, Alberta.Ollie’s memorial service was held in the church with which he was affiliated for most of his life.Joe Allworth, Gerry Bryant, Ed Caron and Rudy Nelson served as ushers for the service.Ollie is remembered by his family as a lover of flowers, birds and animals.He is remembered by relatives and friends for his buoyant spirit and welcoming smile.He will be dearly missed.From the pens of FT writers THERE HAS TO BE A REASON In order to stop smoking you have to want to quit more than you want to smoke.You have to want to keep on living more than dying with a stroke.The same thing applies to boozing that expensive useless slop, You have got to want to give it up more than you want to never stop.There has to be a reason for every move you make while playing chess When you check-mate your opponent’s king, it wasn’t just a guess.You maneuver him into position, then apply the coup d'état.A really first class fighter will knock the other guy flat.Life is just a chess game, you see several moves ahead.The fool who cannot do this might just as well be dead.You have to want healthy kidneys and hate having a stinking breath.You have to want to walk with your head held high in front of sister Beathe.When one student gets far higher marks in a university intelligence test The reason he or she got the highest marks is a better brain than all the rest.In order to even out all the money, we would all need identical thinking brains.People just ain’t made this way, some never ever make any gain.Property for sale signs are everywhere, valueless because it’s here in the province of Quebec.Political goons have done this to us, good government is a total wreck.Everyone wants off a sinking ship before time says that now it’s too late.Because of inept management this province is a huge Watergate.TED WRIGHT, Dunham, Quebec ENJOY YOURSELF ON YOUR VACATION AT THE ARMY-NAVY-AIR FORCE UNIT 318 July 30th Have an Evening of Fun, Music & Entertainment Featuring THE RAMBLIN' COUNTRY CATS Members & Guests Welcome to Dance THt Bti> CROSS IS CONSCIOUS Of YOUR SAFETY, NEAR, ON AND IN THE WAÎER 1 m M i m m i 14 Years ago today, CpI.Daniel A.Bolduc was killed in action in Viet Nam, July 29, 1969.He is remembered by his classmates from Lennoxville High School.His name is respectfully displayed forever on The Washington D.C.Viet Nam War Monument.The RECORD—Friday, July 29.1983—7 In Memoriam EVERETT.George— In loving memory of a dear husband and father who passed away July 30.1981 We do not forget him We loved him too dearly For his memory to fade From our lives like a dream Our lips need not speak When our hearts mourn sincerely For grief often dwells Where it seldom is seen.Sadly missed.NINA, BONNIE and LARRY Card pf Thanks LITTLE — We wish to express our sincere thanks to all who were so kind at thetimeof the death of our mother, Annie (Cook) Little.A special thanks to Christ Church Ladies Guild.Lower Ireland, who served lunch after the funeral and also to all whose who called at the funeral home, sent flowers, and donations to the cemetery fund and cancer fund Your thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated.THE LITTLE FAMILY 1 Card party IVES HILL —A successful card party was held at Ives Hill Community Hall on Wed.July 27 when 500 was played at 13 tables.Prizes were as follows : Ladies 1st, Doris McHarg; Huguette Maheux; consolation, Dorothy Gilchrist.Gents 1st, Lester McKelvey; 2nd, Lloyd Hartwell; consolation, H.Neeley.The floating prize of nine spade won by Ronald Clark.The door prizes : Clarence Chartier; Evelyn Johnston; Tammy Wing; Holger Mogen-son ; D.Campbell; Mayotta Taylor; C.Sylvester; Helen Char-tier.The grocery box won by H.Neeley.The next card party will be held on Wed.August 3 at 8:15 p.m.Everyone welcome.______Death WILLISON, Walter Arthur — In Victoria, B.C.on July 27, 1983 at the age of 83.He leaves his son Walter, daughter-in-law Evelyn, Victoria, B.C., sister Gwen Reid, Muriel Soden and Doris Martin all of Montreal, Que.Two grandsons Bruce and Alan.Victo-ria, B.C., grand-daughter Terry Lea-Leason, Hem-mingford.Que., niece Emily Reid, Montreal, Que.Until his retirement, Mr.Willison was employed for 40 years with the Bell Canada Company, Montreal and was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers.Visitation at Bishop & Sons, 76 Queen St., Lennoxville, Que.on Monday, Aug.1 from 7-8 p.m.Service at St.George’s Anglican Church, Lennoxville on Tues.Aug.2 at 2 p.m.Interment at Melvern Cemetery at Lennoxville.Arrangements by the Sands Funeral Chapel of Heather, 317 Coldstream Ave., Colwood, R.C.SMITH, Mrs.Leona — A Committal Service for the late Mrs.Leona Smith, a former resident of the Stayner Nursing Home, Stayner, Ontario and formerly of the Eastern Townships was held at the Mount Forest Cemetery, Coaticook, Que., on Saturday, July 23.1983, at 2 p.m.with the Rev.Stanley Beerworth officiating.Relatives and friends from Vermont, Saskatoon, Lennoxville and Sherbrooke attended the Service.1.0.SS 4 SOn LTD fune»ai dkkctops AYfft S CUM STANSTIAD 819-876 5213 SHIRftROOKI 300 Ow««n Blvd N Webster Cass 819 5622685 LENNOXVILLE 4 ••Ividtr* Si R.L.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapels SHERBROOKE Q1Q QQ77 300 Ou««n Blvd N 819 56