The record, 10 novembre 1983, jeudi 10 novembre 1983

Thursday Births, deaths .10 Business.5 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10 Queen gets cold shoulder from Quebec OTTAWA (CP) — No group or organization wanted to invite Queen Elizabeth to Quebec next summer — not even organizers of a celebration to mark Jacques Cartier’s first voyage of exploration to Canada —Secretary of State Serge Joyal said today.And the federal cabinet didn’t ask the Queen to appear at the Cartier fete, Joyal said, because “it wasn’t judged appropriate at this time to associate a royal appearance with an historic exploration of a purely geographic element.” The Ontario intergovernmental affairs department confirmed Tuesday that the Queen has been invited to participate in bicentennial celebrations next summer which — in at least some towns — will recall the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution Buckingham Palace has not yet responded to the invitation, and a report from Montreal that the Queen might also visit Quebec was denied in Ottawa.Joyal, questioned by reporters today at the unveiling of a commemorative book on the Constitution, said there was a difference between the Ontario festivities and the Quebec City celebration of Cartier’s voyage in 1534.“You can easily see the historic link between a British sovereign and the Loyalists,” Joyal said.“But when it’s the discovery of Canada by a French explorer in the 16th century, there's not necessarily a political manifestation linked to an event like that.” The Quebec and federal governments have been skirmishing to extract the maximum propaganda value from the Cartier celebrations.Joyal denied the Quebec government had been opposed to a royal visit, although he admitted later there had been “no communication or correspondence” between the two governments.He also denied reports that Finance Minister Marc Lalonde had been lobbying to get the Queen to visit Quebec.French government officials are to attend the Quebec City festivities next August, along with federal and provincial representatives.Asked if Ottawa feared that Quebecers might greet the Queen with demonstrations, Joyal noted “there was no hostility or aggressivity” when the Queen opened the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.“I think Quebecers have evolved in their perception of the royal presence and (any visit) certainly wouldn’t cause difficulties like at the beginning of the 1960s,” when supporters of independence waged a bloody street battle with Quebec City police during a 1964 royal visit.“I’m sure Her Majesty or other members of the Royal Family would be received very politely and courteously by Quebecers,” Joyal said.Townships Week Charles Bury reviews Maple Leaf Route: Falaise, the story of the Normandy landing and the Sherbrooke connection and Peter Scowen talks with one of the founders of Townships Theatre.B EB P BLUSTERY DAY 01)1 ! t | ASM NBA ACiE 10 COOKSHIRh PRIMARY SCHOOl Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Ihursday, November 10, 1983 35 cents Gossip: a negative, developed and enlarged.Lack of love leads to mental illness—Vanier By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — To be unloved brings tortured anger to the young and handicapped, says a w'orld leader in caring for the uncared for.Jean Vanier, founder of Arche, a centre for the physically and mentally handicapped in France, spoke Wednesday to an audience the main amphitheatre at the Sherbrooke University hospital centre (CHUS) could not contain.People were seated in the aisles and in the corridor outside to hear Vanier talk about the handicapped and “their cry for human relation ”.He said he had not come to talk about Arche, nor was he there to deliver a technical discourse on treatment of the handicapped.Instead he talked for over an hour about the human need for love and contact and how the lack of these things can lead to mental illness.“If a child feels he is unloved”, Va- nier said," he will conclude he is unlovable and therefore bad.He will become anguished, tortured, angry.He puts up barriers that become crippling.Mental illness is a marvellous protection against pain and anguish".Vanier told the and ience the story of a girl he found sitting in her own excrement in the padded cell of an asylum.She could not talk — she could only scream.Vanier took her to Arche where she was given love and human contact and it wasn't long before she was speaking.The screams had been her way of calling out for the human comfort she had been denied, he said.The story ended tragically when in a state of confused jealousy the girl threw herself through a window because Vanier had friends over for dm-ner at his house where she was staying That kind of confused pain and the need for barriers to protect yourself from it can be avoided or eliminated if See WORDS page 3 J Lumbermen stall cabinet meet The Québec cabinet, led by Premier René Lévesque and Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau, is meeting in Compton this weekend.A group of angry foresters gave them a warm welcome to the Eastern Townships.Lévesque to announce economic recovery plan on Sunday show By Charles Bury COMPTON — In a bold twopronged attack Wednesday Eastern Townships pulpwood producers focused company, government and public attention on a problem that threatens to shut down Kruger Paper’s Bromp-tonville newsprint mill and put at least hundreds and possibly thousands of small-scale lumber and trucking workers out of business.Members of the Eastern Townships wood producers syndicate, backed up by dozens of drivers in their semitrailer hauling rigs, blocked access to the Kruger plant Wednesday morning and delayed the start of a three-day Québec cabinet meeting in the afternoon.In the evening they and millions of others watched their day’s activities on national television.On October 27 Kruger stopped buying Eastern Townships pulpwood and started bringing in wood from New Hampshire and Vermont.The producers say this is a form of subtle blackmail designed to force them to take a cut in their selling price.The truckers are backing up the wood producers’ syndicate because the buying freeze is being felt throughout the Eastern Townships — in the woodlots, in the farmhouses and by the truckers whose hauling contracts are disappearing.The syndicate negotiates with Dom-tar and Kruger each year, and establishes amounts of local wood which will be purchased by the mills.But this year, say spokesmen for the producers, Kruger has reneged on the deal.“They want to put the wood cheaper than the cost of production," said syndicate president Wells Coates.The angry woodsmen asked for — and got — a 30-minute meeting with Energy and Natural Resources Minister Yves Duhaime at the Compton hotel where the cabinet is gathered.Both sides came out of the meeting saying they think the Kruger problem will be settled quickly — now that Duhaime has agreed to intervene.Jean-Claude Dumas, secretary of the Eastern Townships wood producers’ syndicate was one of the leaders of the Bromptonville demonstration.“They want to pay us $2 less per metre if we deliver over 256,000 metres this year,” he said.“It can’t cost them less for U.S.wood after the exchange and transport costs are considered.They just want to force us to concede.” “The company was even going door-to-door in the region to have each hauler sell his wood individually, you know, on the sly.” The wood producers’ group represents over 10,000 members in the Eastern Townships including includes haulers, woodsmen and others involved in the forest industry.Kruger has been buying wood from American haulers since early this year.As negotiations with Kruger in Bromptonville started to fail in the spring and summer the U.S.pul pwood purchases increased, say the angry producers.No figures were given.See KRUGER page 3 RBCORt) NI-.WS SERVICES COMPTON — An economic recovery program, a massive advertising blitz to promote government policies and a drop in the provincial gasoline tax are expected to be among measures to be announced this weekend by Premier René Lévesque.On the political offensive to bolster his government’s sagging popularity, Lévesque will take to the airwaves Sunday to make public the results of a three-day cabinet meeting that began here Wednesday.Even before Lévesque and his 26 cabinet colleagues buckled down to the brain-storming session, enough information had dribbled out to indicate that the government is planning an economic recovery program, which some reports say could cost as much as $2 billion.The thrust of the program would be job re training for some of Québec’s 260,000 welfare recipients — especially the 70,000 under 30 years of age.That would be combined with incen tives for investment, including extension of the program to offer cut-rate electricty for business.The cabinet is also expected to give approval to a supplementary budget to be unveiled by Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau at the reopening of the National Assembly next Tuesday.GET GAS BREAK Although such budgets normally contain only adjustments to spending estimates, this one is expected to give consumers a long-awaited break in gasoline prices by lowering the hefty provincial tax.Finance Department officials have been working under tight security for several days to prepare the fiscal adjustments.To sell its re vitalization program to the public, the government will be spending $1.2 million on an adverti sing campaign between now and February, 1984.Most of the money will tout the Department of Employment and Income Security’s job-creation programs.Not only the government’s image, but Lévesque’s personal future is riding on the success of these programs.Seven years after its first election, the PQ is riding so low in public opinion polls that Lévesque has told his ministers he will resign if his government’s popularity has not doubled in six months.Since the beginning of this year, the polls have shown the party’s popularity ranging between 19 and 24 per cent — an all-time low.The PQ itself has lost half the 302,000 members it had just two years ago.HARD SELL ON TV So important is the selling of its new initiatives that Lévesque has reserved prime time on the provincial edu cational television network Radio-Québec Sunday evening to broadcast details of his program And in a rare gesture, the premier has invited about a dozen journalists to chat with him at a private lunch on Monday, the day after the broadcast.He also agreed to hold a press conference Thursday afternoon.On Sunday, the premier is also expected to announce changes to Bill 101.Québec’s controversial language law.Gerald Godin, the minister responsible for the law, has already said it will be altered to guarantee the rights of Québec’s English-language institutions.Bill 101 may be softened to allow greater use of bilingual signs and to allow English institutions to communicate with each other in English It is not likely that Lévesque will say much about the conclusions of a special ministerial committee set up in October to re-examine the "natio nal question.” The popularity of the Québec inde pendence issue is so low in the polls that the government will probably prefer to keep it in the background until the economic program gives the government the desired boost.The cabinet is meeting in the gen teel surroundings of Domaine St-Laurent, a resort hotel complex hou sed in the buildings of a former private school, King’s Hall School for Girls.The ministers are surrounded by a tight — by Compton standards at least — security net and have brought dozens of aides, stenographers and drivers with them.About 15 specially-assigned Québec Police Force officers and two dozen journalists are al so present.Ministers rolled up in their limousines one at a time starting Tuesday night Each was greeted by St-François MNA Réal Rancourt.The start of the meeting was delayed when several ministers arrived late.Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister Jean Garon was last.Energy and Natural Resources Minister Yves Duhaime met briefly with representatives of the Eastern Townships wood producers syndicate Wednesday afternoon after a 25 truck protest parade showed up to express their discontent at pulpwood sales negotiations with Kruger Paper in Bromptonville.New York investment bank gives Hydro-Quebec a triple A rating MONTREAL (CP) — Hydro-Québec got a triple-A mark Wednesday from Kidder, Peabody and Co.Ltd., a New York investment bank which underwrites securities for Hydro-Québec and the provincial government.“We believe that Hydro-Québec is currently and will continue to be the premier electrical energy company in the world,” said Kidder, Peabody vice-president Edward Waters, waxing enthusiastic.“Its securities should be rated triple-A.” Last year the major American bond rating agencies lowered the rating on Hydro-Québec and Québec government bonds a notch.Moody’s Investors Service rates them at Al and Standard and Poor’s gives them its AA rating.“I tell them they’re wrong,” said Waters, explaining that the American agencies rate Canadian provincial utilities the same way they rate American utilités.Their evaluation also takes into account the performance of the provincial government behind the utility.Québec’s rating dropped last year because of the recession and increased reliance on deficit financing.Hy-dro-Québec’s rating followed.PRAISED HYDRO In April, 1977, shortly after the Parti Québécois came to power in the province, Waters issued a report praising Hydro-Québec for its “strong, conservative" financial management.Kidder’s latest evaluation of Hydro-Québec is even more bullish, comparing it with American utilities and world scale oil companies.Converting Hydro-Québee’s existing and potential energy reserves into their oil equivalent, Kidder determined that Hydro-Québec has power reserves for the next KM) years equal to 57.3 billion barrels.The total energy reserves of the rest of Canada for the same period, Kidder estimates, are only 23.7 billion barrels.Oil-rich Alberta accounts for 17.2 billion barrels of those reserves.The oil sands were not counted because they are not commercially viable, Waters noted.Hydro-Québec came out ahead of the 10 largest energy companies in the United States, which had combined reserves of 48.4 billion barrels.Exxon, the worldest largest energy company has 11.2 billion barrels in reserves.Exxon has a triple-A rating.POWER TUSSLE Québec and Newfoundland are involved in a continuing dispute over the 60-year contract by which Hydro-Québec buys power from Churchill Falls in Labrador for about one-tenth the market price.The Kidder report said Hydro-Québec has sufficient capacity to meet its internal demands without Churchill Falls.If the Québec utility lost that power, its profitability would suffer and Québec consumers would be hit with “modest rate increases.” Hydro-Québec has negotiated contracts to export surplus power over the next 20 years, but Waters questioned the wisdom of a stepped-up construction program to create greater surpluses for export as Québec Liberal leader Robert Bourassa proposes.He said Québec consumers payw about a third what New Yorkers pay^ for power."Do you export your economic advantage?” Waters pointed to the multi-billion bankruptcy of the Washington Public Power Supply System as an example of the hazards of building power plants to anticipate future markets.Demand for power has dropped in Québec and in the northeastern Uni ted States, where Bourassa would like to sell power, there is excess capacity.The New York Power Authority has 44 per cent idle generating capacity.American utilities would like to buy cheap Canadian power, Waters acknowledged.“But there is a big difference between what they would like and whether they really can.” Waters mentioned the “myriad” of complications involved just in building new transmission lines in the United States.“There has to be a viable market.” In addition, the New York banker said, Québecers must ask them selves: “Would this power be attracting industry to New York that could have come to Québec?” Meanwhile Hydro-Québec said Wednesday its profits for the first nine months of 1983 were $584 million, up three per cent from the $567 million earned in the corresponding period last year Sales by the Québec-owned utility were $2.6 billion, an increase of 9.5 per cent from $2 4 billion in the first nine months of 1982 Electricity sales total led 63,338 billion kilowatt-hours, a slight increase of 0.6 per cent from sales of 62,966 billion kilowatt hours in the first nine months last year.Electricity sales picked up in the third quarteron the strength of a 13.1-per-cent increase in sales to industrial customers, rising to 17.399 billion kilowatt hours from 15,759 billion ki lowatt-hours in the last year’s third quarter The 7.3-per-cent rate increase effective Jan.1 this year was responsible for the higher earnings on relatively static sales.Sales outside Québec were up 9.2 per cent, largely because of increased exports to the United States under Hy dro-Québec’s contracts to sell surplus power on an interruptible basis to New York and New England utilities.Intensified cost-cutting measures in the first nine months held the increase in operating expenditures to 1.2 percent, or$741 million, compared with $732 million by the end of third quarter last year.Depreciation and interest charges increased 14.9 per cent and 23.6 per cent respectively, partly due to the commissioning of the first of seven generating units at the La Grande 3 power station in the James Bay re gion.V 2—The KKCORD—Thursday.November 10, lOX.'i West must take initiative in East-West dialogue says PM Trudeau ROME (CP) — Western governments will have to take the initiative to restore an East-West dialogue if U.S.-Soviet talks on missile deployment in Europe break down, Prime Minister Trudeau said Wednesday.“We have to reintroduce political dialogue in a very tense situation,” Trudeau told reporters in Brussels earlier in the day after a lunch with Belgian Prime Miniser Wilfried Mar- tens and Foreign Minister 1 ,eo Tinde-mans."Time is growing short to avoid deployment of Euromissiles,” he said before heading for Rome, the fourth stop on his European peace tour.", We must above all think of the after-November, after-December situation” he said, referring to the planned deployment of U.S.-built cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe over the next two months.Trudeau’s chances are slim says good friend Pitfield OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister Trudeau's chances of opening an East-West dialogue are slim, says his former right-hand man.Senator Mi chael Pitfield.“But I do know that whatever happens, he must keep trying,” Pitfield told the Ottawa Board of Trade Wednesday, as Trudeau was midway through a six-nation tour of Western Europe to promote East-West peace.Pitfield, whose former position as Clerk of the Privy Council made him Ottawa's top civil servant, said disarmament is not an issue that belongs to the right or the left, but to “all mankind" If the Canadian government doesn't make disarmament an “overwhelming concern." then domestic problems like parliamentary reform, constitutional development and better relations between government and business "may not matter much,” Pitfield said it is vital the most senior political leaders speak out be- cause the two superpowers have “not only our national interests but our very survival as human beings in their hands.” "And more and more, they are not talking with each other.” Pitfield said he is not a major player in Trudeau’s initiative, al though he recently became a Canadian representative to the United Nations Disarmament Committee.”1 am learning, and the more 1 learn the more I am depressed,” he said.“If I ever saw the wheels of orga-nization churning in hopelessness and cynicism, it is in this area so vital to mankind." Pitfield also said that in his first year in Parliament’s upper chamber, he w'as shocked by the complexity of some legislation and “the rotten drafting of others.” Another discovery was what he calls “the arrogance of government.” “Solutions are dropped on an unsuspecting public, not yet even aw'are there is a problem.” Fighting oil policy election just fine by Jean Chretien OTTAWA (CP) — A meeting to promote oil industry nationalism flared into a shouting match Wednesday after a Conservative MP appeared to contradict Tory Leader Brian Mulro-ney’s promise that a Conservative government would abolish'the national energy program.Conservative MP Paul Dick said the party would likely retain some elements of the federal program, reject others and then change the program's name.Mulroney said at a $200-a-plate dinner in Calgary Tuesday that a Tory government would abolish the program and singled out discrimination against foreign companies as one of his main targets.Dick’s comments prompted shouts from members of the Committee for the Canadianizationof the Petroleum Industry, who accused the MP of avoiding a stand on the issue.Energy Minister Jean Chretien, in- vited to the luncheon meeting with Dick and New Democrat Ray Skelly, had told reporters earlier he would welcome an election fight over the government's energy policy.The energy minister recounted the program’s main goals — energy self-sufficiency and more Canadian ownership — and said the Tories would lose in a battle on those points.“I'd like to take them on, on that, any day, anytime, any platform,” Chretien said.Dick said the Tories have supported self-sufficiency and Canadian ownership.since 1978.No one would disagree with the aims, Dick said, but there is conflict over the methods used to achieve them."I want to make it clear that our party has always been in favor of Ca-nadianization,” added Dick, member for the Ontario riding of Lanark-Renfrew-Carleton and Tory deputy House leader.Khadafy wants resignation of ‘power mad’Reagan BEIRUT ( Reuter) Libyan leader Col Moammar Khadafy sent a message to the U.S.Congress on Wednesday declaring President Reagan "power mad” and calling for his removal from the White House.In the message, reported by the official Libyan news agency JANA, Khadafy said: “President Reagan has reached the Weathe Cloudy today with moderate winds.Showers or snowtlurries expected for late tonight or early I riday.Low today 0; High 7 stage of power madness and delusions of grandeur."At this delicate time when peace is in danger, we address ourselves to you and the American people to end Reagan's presidency before he puts an end to the world, including America.” In a separate message also reported by Jana, Khadafy called for international action to force the United States to pull its growing naval force from the eastern Mediterranean.In the message, sent to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, the presidents of the Security Concil and General Assembly, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of African Unity, Khadafy said the U.S.naval build-up presented the greatest danger to world peace in 40 years.“The world could blow up at any minute," he said.#¦___Ml «focora George MacLaren, Publisher Charles Bury, Editor Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent Richard Lessard, Production Manager Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room CIRCULATION DEPT.—569-9528 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year - $65 00 weekly $t 25 Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1 year - $49.00 6 months - $28 00 3 months - $19 00 1 month - $11.50 U.S.& Foreign: 1 year - $88.00 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 6 months - $51.00 3 months - $32.00 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publication 50c per copy Copies ordered more than a month after publication $1 00 per copy Established February 9.1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by Townships Communications Inc./ Communications des Cantons.Inc., Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street.Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations “I hope something will happen before the deployment.But, if the Soviets leave the (Geneva-based disarmament) negotiations, we have to find other ways to resume the dialogue."It is more important that the two superpowers begin looking for ways to reduce tensions.” WINS SUPPORT During his talks with the Belgian leaders, Trudeau appeared to have won an enthusiastic but general endorsement of his disarmament efforts.However, the pi me minister ruled out any suggestion he might propose a delay in the deployment of U.S.missiles.The missiles are scheduled for deployment beginning in West Germany and Britain and Trudeau remains committed to the two-month timetable and the NATO two-track plan.“I’ve had no discussions about a pause (in deployment) and none has been suggested to me” he said.Shortly before he spoke with reporters, Tindemans said he was “extre-meiy glad of this visit.” Tindeman s endorsement of the peace effort avoided any mention of the Canadian leader’s specific proposals which remain shrouded in secrecy."I think it is a token that the allies of NATO are doing all that can be done for the moment to improve East-West relations,” said Tindemans.He said Trudeau has a special position as neither an American nor a European.Calling Trudeau's effort “an excellent one” Tindemans added “when he tries to improve East-West relations in a long-term perspective, I approve totally of what he is trying to do.” News-in-brief Fire chief gets too hot to handle MONTREAL (CP) — The chief of a suburban volunteer fire department was found guilty Wednesday of contributing to the delinquency of a 14-year-old girl.Juvenile court Judge Pierre Dorion ruled that Bill Rowden had been a close friend of the girl’s family since she was five or six years old, and became a kind of second lather to her during subsequent family troubles.However, when the girl was 14, Rowden's relationship with her took a sexual turn and he encouraged her to use drugs and alcohol.Rowden, chief of the 40-member Greenfield Park fire department, faces a maximum sentence of two years in jail and a $500 fine.Pre-sentence arguments will be heard Nov.16.Feds to boost Quebec aerospace MONTREAL (CP) — The federal government announced two programs Wednesday to help ensure a steady supply of qualified workers for the Quebec aerospace industry.An $8.6-million grant will enable the Edouard-Montpetit aerospace training college in nearby St.Hubert to boost enrollment by 282 students.Employment Minister John Roberts told a new conference.The expansion, which also includes a modernization of existing facilities, covers six programs in three fields and will allow the school to train and retrain workers to make major modifications in aircraft design and in manufacturing and operating methods.ICAO inquest heads for Moscow MONTREAL (CP) — The secretary-general of the International Civil Aviation Organization leaves today for Moscow as part of the agency’s investigation into the Sept.1 Korean airliner tragedy.The Soviets invited Yves Lambert to observe their own investigation into the downing of the Boeing 747, shot down by one of their fighters with the loss of 269 lives, including 10 Canadians.But the Soviet authorities won’t say publicly what information they may make available to the secretary-general.The Soviets opposed the ICAO investigation, saying the United Nations agency, the regulatory authority for civil aviation, should accept the findings of their own inquiry.Steinberg workers want new vote MONTREAL (CP) — About 450 locked out employees of Steinberg Inc., crying foul over last week’s secretjmion ballot that led the company to close its 97 Montreal-area supermarkets, marched through the streets Wednesday demanding another vote.The workers, members of Local 500 of the United Food and Commercial International Union, say the secret union ballot last week by which employees rejected the company’s final contract offer, was taken improperly."Under the union constitution, if 10 per cent of the people are not satisfied with the results of a vote, they can force another one,” said marcher Don Gallagher, a Steinberg meat manager."That means we need 750 names: we have 1,600.The union cannot refuse our demand.Construction workers honor picket AMHERST, N.S.(CP) — About a dozen construction workers refused to cross a picket line set up yesterday by the Canadian Union of Public Employees at a nursing home being built in Amherst.CUPE w'as protesting management’s handling of a strike at the former Keddy’s nursing home in Halifax, whose new owner has interests in the home here.The strike began 10 months ago.Minto miners mandate walkout MINTO, N.B.(CP) — Miners employed by NB Coal Ltd., a provincial Crown corporation, have given their union a mandate to call a strike.No date was set for a walkout when the 200 miners voted in favor of strike action.The miners have been offered a wage increase of just more than 50 cents an hour which, combined with benefits, works out to a raise of more than eight percent, said company president Andy Cormier.Bob Burchill.United Mine Workers negotiator, said the miners will accept nothing less than $1 an hour as a pay raise.He said the average wage now is $8.50 an hour.CBC announces appointments OTTAWA (CP) — The CBC named Ron Fournier vice president of finance and Erik Peters internal auditor Wednesday.Fournier, senior assistant deputy minister of finance for the Indian Affairs Department, takes over his new post Nov.15.Fournier replaces Arthur Boughner who left the CBC Nov.1 to accept a special assignment for the Public Service C8 mission.Peters, European area controller and chief accounting officer for Geneva-based Alcan Aluminum (Europe) Co., joins the CBC Dec.1.The appointments are part of the CBC’s reorganization announced in March.Combustion lays off local workers OTTAWA (CP) — Combustion Engineering Superheater Ltd.is eliminating 119 positions at plants in Ottawa, Toronto, Cornwall, Ont., Sherbrooke, Que., and Moncton, N.B., the company said Wednesday.Forty of the positions are in Ottawa, where the company also has unilaterally extended the work week of its remaining 350 employees to 40 hours from 37.5 hours.Combustion Engineering has 2,500 workers across the country, about 1,800 of whom are unionized.Gordon Dalgard, director of human resources, said the changes are “a question of downsizing” as the the company tries to maintain competitiveness in a shrinking market.Picassos, Rembrandts in burglary OTTAWA (CP) — Art and jewels stolen from the mansion of a Cumberland, Ont., family were worth $1.4 million, Ontario Provincial Police said today.Police originally said $1 million in artifacts were stolen from George de Dozsa’s $500,000 mansion in the community 25 kilometres east of Ottawa sometime between Oct.12 and Nov.1.Police said 105 items — including 41 paintings or sketches, Egyptian jade, ivory and coral artifacts, jewels and camera equipment — were stolen.The artworks include two Rembrandt and three Picasso etchings.Trade surplus down in September OTTAWA (CP) — The monthly trade surplus slipped to its lowest level so far this year in September, with the value of exported goods outstripping imports by only $1.12 billion.Statistics Canada reported today.It also was the fifth consecutive month the surplus has narrowed, dropping $280 million from the August figure.Despite the slippage in recent months, the agency said the merchandise trade surplus during the first nine months of the year matched the $13.3 billion achieved in the same period last year.However, an agency official said the trend indicates there is little chance the country will repeat the record $18.3-billion surplus registered last year.‘With my trustee dagger.CALGARY (CP) — Impassioned pleas from a dagger-wielding trustee were not enough Tuesday night to stop the Calgary School Board from removing four religious schools from its system.Drama was intense throughout the evening but nothing equalled the melodramatic performance of trustee Sandra Anderson.Pulling a dagger from its sheath, Anderson likened the board’s decision to eliminate the schools to abortion.‘‘Be careful that at the same time you don’t kill the mother — the public education system,” she said.Strike swamps B.C.’s privates VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia’s public school system struggled through a second day of chaos Wednesday as a strike by the 28,000-member B.C.Teachers' Federation continued.But it was schooling as usual for youngsters who attend private schools or take lessons at home.By the time the strike was three hours old Tuesday, Roman Catholic schools were getting telephone calls from parents wanting to enrol their children, Vancouver-area superintendent Al Blesch said Wednesday."But most of our schools are full and have waiting lists already,” he said.School boards urged parents to send their children to school to see if teachers were there.Working Women attack TV image Canada not on Dam list — again OTTAWA (CP) — A senior U.S.State Depar-t men! official is touring major western capitals at least partly to counter criticisms of the U .S.invasion of Grenada, but Canada, which wasn't consulted about the invasion, isn't on the list this time either.Kenneth Dam, deputy secretary of state, met British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Monday for 90 minutes.He was also scheduled to meet Belgian leaders as well as officials in Bonn, Rome, Paris and at the North Atlantic Council.State Department spokesman Joe Reap said from W; Wednesday he doesn't know why cc, c ’ 'O allies were chosen and not others is only one item on an agenda which ii (as "everything in the world,” he said.The imminent deployment of U.S.-built cruise missiles in Europe is also being discussed.WASHINGTON (AID — The U.S.National Commission on Working Women released a study Wednesday castigating the major TV networks for “failing to reflect the diversity of real-life working women.” "Despite the fact that 33 million women in the work force hold clerical, sales, service and factory jobs, you wouldn't know it from reading the papers or watching television,” said commission chairman Elizabeth Koontz.In its study, the commission found stereotypes in female roles still abound, said Koontz.She cited a new NBC sitcom titled We Got It Made, which features two young men who hire a pretty, live-in maid, "My problem is not with the idea of fantasy,” Koontz said.“God knows at the end of a hard day many of us need a good fantasy.“My problem is that this particular fantasy is regressive and stereotyped.It’s the return of the ‘dumb blonde syndrome,’ which insults our intelligence and our essence as working women.Baby scream like jackhammer BOSTON (Reuter) — Science has confirmed what harried mothers have known for years: the scream of a young child sitting on your lap can rival the noise of a jackhammer.When a group of Minneapolis researchers took sound readings from an 11-month-old infant, they found the noise heard by a mother holding the baby was nearly as loud as a jackhammer blasting a metre away.A study in the New England Journal of Medicine said the scream was 30 times louder than normal conversation and only slightly softer than the blare of an automobile horn five metres away.Ex-CIA man Wilson gets 25 more NEW YORK (AP) — Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson, already serving time for selling explosives to Libya, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for trying to murder two federal prosecutors, a business associate and five government witnesses.The judge said he showed ‘‘utter disrespect and contempt for law and for human life.” Wilson was also fined $75,000.The sentence stems from an attempt to kill some of the prosecutors and witnesses who uncovered evidence leading to Wilsom’s earlier convictions.Before the sentencing, defence lawyer Michael Dowd said his client had been shaped by 20 years as a secret agent for the U.S.government.Wilson said nothing.After the session, he was handcuffed and led away.Scoon appoints provisional cabinet ST.GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) — Sir Paul Scoon, Grenada’s governor general, appointed an advisory council Wednesday to serve as a provisional government and prepare for elections, and U.S.forces exchanged fire with snipers for the first time in four days.Maj.Douglas Frey, a U.S.military spokesman, said five or six men opened fire with automatic weapons on seven soldiers manning a roadblock Wednesday morning.He said the Americans scattered and returned the fire, but there were no casualties.U.S Grenada kill count questioned LONDON ( AP) — More than twieoas many U.S.servicemen died in thé U.S.-led invasion of Grenada than the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged, the British Broadcasting Corp.reported Wednesday.BBC correspondent Brian Barron, reporting from the Caribbean island, quoted unidentified military sources as saying at least 42 soldiers had died, but the final toll could "rise past 70 as more severely wounded die.” Asked about the BBC report, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington said U.S.officials were sticking by their casualty count of 18 dead, 91 wounded and no one unaccounted for.Natives want end to FDR buzzing BONN (AFP) — Canada’s Indians and Inuit want the West German air force to immediately halt its low-altitude training flights over Labrador, which they say are causing havoc in the ecology of the region.Gilbert Pilot, representing 2,000 Labrador Inuit and a member of a delegation invited by Germany’s Green Party, told a news conferernce here Wednesday that the planes, travelling as low as 30 metres above ground at speeds reaching 900 kilometres an hour, have already disturbed the migration habits of the region’s caribou herds.Some 9,000 native people in Labrador depend on caribou meat and hides, he said.Syrians shell, Arafat talks truce TRIPOLI, Lebanon (CP) — Palestinian rebels backed by Syria rained hundreds of shells on PLO chairman Yasser Arafat’s last Middle East bastion Wednesday, but an Arafat spokesman said a truce was arranged later in the day.“We pray this is serious but we are very skeptical,” said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified.Wednesday’s withering barrage cornered Arafat in this northern port city.His spokesman said shelling diminished after the truce agreement, but Arafat strongholds in the Baddawi refugee camp and Tripoli still were being hit.TASS claims Yanks to hit mideast MOSCOW (Reuter) — The official Soviet news agency Tass said Wednesday that the United States is gathering forces in the eastern Mediterranean in order to mount a major military intervention in Lebanon.Tass said a gathering of more than 30 U.S.warships off the Lebanese coast is the biggest U.S.armada in the region since the Second World War and charged it was assembled in readiness for a strike.“This is not just another U.S.show of force.A large-scale military operation is being prepared.” Japan abandons KAL 007 search TOKYO (AP) — Japan has ended a 70-day sea search for wreckage of the South Korean airliner shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, the Maritime Safety Agency announced Wednesday.It said the agency found parts of three bodies, 349 pieces of the plane’s wreckage and 24 items belonging to the victims during the search.The United States ended its search Tuesday.Neither U.S.nor Japanese searchers found flight recorders from the jumbo jet that carried 269 people to their deaths over Sakhalin on Sept.1.1 The RKCOKI)—Thursday, November 10, 1983—3 The Townships —____ftej Kocora Electoral commission to hold public meetings over proposed change By Michael McDevitt SHERBROOKE — La Commission de la représentation électorale (the electoral representation commission) will be holding public information meetings in Sherbrooke Tuesday to solicit opinions on proposed changes to the electoral system presently being studied by the National Assembly.The meetings will be held from 2.30 until 5.30 in the afternoon and from 7.30 until H-30 in the evening at the Hotel Le Baron.The general public as well as interested groups are encouraged to attend these meetings to make sure their views are known.According to commissioner Guy Bourassa, the Commission has been mandated by the National Assembly to hold these meetings so the Assembly may have the benefit of general public opinion.The National Assembly is considering proposals by Marc-André Bedard, Quebec’s Justice Mi nister and the minister responsible for electoral reform, that Quebec should adopt a regional representative system aimed at ensuring that election results — the number of seats awarded each party — correspond more closely to the percentage of the popular vote each party receives in a general election.Bourassa claims the commission has no opinion of its own as yet on Bédard’s proposals, as this is the first time it has ever had to study the question directly.The commission, whose normal function is to draw up the electoral map, was instructed by the assembly on June 22 to prepare a report on the subject which it must submit by February 1984.“As the commission responsible for drawing the electoral map, we must be exztremely non-partisan,” Bourassa, a Montreal political scientist explains, "we do not support or oppose the proposals of Mr.Bedard Our job is to gather as much information as possible about how people feel about this subject, and where possible, to inform people about what the options are and what the possible drawbacks and advantages of any particular system — including the present one — might be.We will present our report to the government in February, and from there on, it becomes a political question.Our job is information." Bourassa says the commission undertook a poll earlier in the year to determine the awareness in the province of how our electoral system works.The results, he said, were surprising in that almost half the respon-dants demonstrated little or no understanding of the present system.An even greater number said they were completely unaware that changes were being considered something that has been going on for many years.Bourassa says the main impetus behind the move to modify the electoral system stems from the fact that in most Québec general elections the percentage of the popular vote won by a party rarely reflects the percentage of National Assembly seats that they win.In fact, in the elections of HMit; the Union National won 56 of 108 seats an absolute majority with only 40.8 per cent of the popular vote, while the Kruger problem ‘an aberration’ — Duhaime Continued from page I The crunch came two weeks ago when Kruger Bromptonville stopped buying any Eastern Townships wood at all.Producers claim that for anything over a 256,000-metre pulpwood limit, Kruger wanted to pay $7 per cord ($2 per metre) less than in 1982.Resources Minister Duhaime says he can’t understand why Kruger is refusing to go along with a provincewide marketing system, but he adds that he thinks he can settle the matter shortly.“All the pulp mills in Québec have agreed to the same plan,” he said.“I don’t know why Kruger in Bromptonville would be any different.It seems to involve only 10,000 to 12,000 cords but it is a matter of principle for the producers and I can’t blame them for being unhappy.It’s an aberration.” Duhaime said he would “try to settle it this afternoon on the telephone.It should only take a few calls.” Coates said after the meeting the union “hopes to have something for us in the coming days.” He said leaders would meet on the weekend to discuss developments.“We’re not going to let foreign wood take away our market,” he said."Mr.Duhaime should be able to do something about it but only if he can get in touch with the right people at Kruger in Montreal.They aren’t easy to talk to.But the minister showed a very sincere concern.He said he would do everything in his power.” Coates has been president of the syndicate since 1972.He says there has “never been a problem before like this with any of the pulpmills, in the 20 years I have been involved in the union.” “Remember,” he added, “we aren’t talking about a price increase here.All we want is the same price as last year.Kruger wants to cut it by $8 a cord.Kruger has shown very bad faith.We want them to obey the laws and regulations of Québec.” Coates says he fears that if the union accepts the cut Kruger wants, all the other pulp companies will go after it as well.The price the producers want is $21.96 per cubic metre ($79.60 per cord).The roadside price is $58.25 a cord with the balance pooled for the trucking costs, which vary from supplier to supplier.Coates says about 2500 of the union’s 10,000 members are active in any given year."It isn't like growing corn or something like that,” he said.Apart from Kruger’s Bromptonville and Three Rivers operations, there are few’ outlets for the softwood pulp.This year the quota negotiations have been complicated by the fact that 35,000 cords of wood damaged by spruce budworm will be brought in from other regions of Quebec, cutting down the amount needed from local producers.The union says there was a certain amount of stockpiling during production slowdowns caused by the 1981-82 depression.A Kruger official who asked not to be named said Wednesday's 90-minute demonstration didn’t affect the mill’s operations but said a long stoppage in delivery of wood and chips could seriously affect its production.A blockade would interfere with shipping as well.The official said the company brings in “a few freight cars of wood,” but added that they “really don’t amount to that much over the long term.” The official refused to give any figures.A Kruger insider watching the morning demonstration said she had worked there several years and knew most of the truckers by sight if not by name.She remarked that many of the faces she saw today during the protest were not familiar — site had never seen them before.However many were woodcutters who sell their product at the roadside and have had no reason to go near the plant until now.Map group to present petition ___________ ____ ____ ')