The record, 3 avril 1984, mardi 3 avril 1984

Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .10 Experience: something you stumble across while looking for something else.“And now, the award for the most names mentioned in an acceptance speech.” THAWING KELLY DAWN CÜLLMAN.AGE 10 BURY PRIMARY Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Tuesday, April 3, 1984 35 cents Rights Charter insures no repeat of wartime internment OTTAWA (CP) — The language of the Charter of Rights supercedes the War Measures Act, Prime Minister Trudeau reiterated Monday, a constitutional development that should rule out human rights abuses such as the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.“The Charter of Rights does supercede the War Measures Act in its own language,” Trudeau told the Commons, “and I’m certain that the kinds of actions that we regret would not be justified or condoned by the courts in the future.“.Therefore we have brought in redress for our time and the future to the most unacceptable type of acts that have happened in the past.’’ Trudeau made the comment when he was asked by New Democrat MP Lynn McDonald if Ottawa is willing to examine some form of compensation for the Japanese-Canadians who were uprooted from their homes and interned during the war.About 22,000 Japanese-Canadians were interned under the War Measures Act and later received token restitution for their lost homes, fishing boats, farms and businesses.Last week, a parliamentary committee recommended that the government consider compensation, pu blicly acknowlege the rights abuse and amend the War Measures Act to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.Trudeau said he hadn't yet read the committee’s report, but that any decisions would have to be made collectively in cabinet.But Trudeau said that personally “Pm not inclined to envisage questions of compensatiuon about acts that perhaps discolored our history in the past if other means of redress are possible.“I’m not quite sure where we would stop in compensating.I know we d have to go back a great deal of time in our history and perhaps look at all the injustices, beginning with the depor tation of the Acadians, then going on to the treatment of Chinese-Canadians in the late 19th century “ Thousands of French-speaking Acadians were expelled from what now are the Maritime provinces when they refused to swear allegiance to the king of England in the 1750s.LITTLE TO GAIN “I don’t see much to gain by trying to apologize for the acts of our great- grandfathers and their greatgrandfathers.” Trudeau said he preferred the ap proach of "being just in our time ” rather than trying ‘ to correct the economic consequences of the unjust acts committed in the past to whole groups.“I find it more important to be just in our time, for instance, by giving jobs with the money to the people who are unemployed now, rather than to try to use money to compensate people who’s ancestors in some way have been deprived.” It’s sugar time! i ';T 7*11» m V * 4’ ki ¦¦ » =% ; JPgl •;«, ' ’W ¦ Ts* > HFCORD/PKTKR SCOWEN Patrick and Andrée Anne Brault took time out at last weekend’s Sutton Maple Sugar Festival to enjoy a little bit of the real thing.and why not?_____________________________________________________________ Mondale has N.Y.primary edge NEW YORK (AP) — A bruising New York primary campaign ends today with Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson contending for the biggest prize so far in the Democratic presidential marathon — 252 national convention delegates.Public opinion polls gave Mondale the edge as voters began casting their ballots.But the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll released late Monday showed the lace tightening, with Hart drawing close and Jackson a strong third.All three contenders arranged early morning appearances around New York City, hoping to pick up support from voters who were late ma- king up their minds.There was no underestimating the importance of the primary for Mondale, the one-time leading contender trying to continue a remarkable comeback in a state where large union and Jewish populations seemed tailor-made for his candidacy.“If we lose, we’re in trouble,” he told teachers at a private meeting Sunday.“But if we win, they’re going to have to make a pretty good grab at our coattails to catch up with us.” Hart said New York is less crucial to the success of his “new ideas” candidacy.He was an overwhelming winner a week ago in Connecticut, and his aides already are looking ahead to next week’s Pennsylvania primary and later contests in the West.EXPAND SUPPORTERS Jackson is hoping to attract enough Hispanic and liberal white voters to expand his Rainbow Coalition beyond the black supporters who have been with him from the start.New York aside, Wisconsin voters are holding a non-binding presidential preference vote in the Democratic race.Caucuses on Saturday will begin allocating 78 of the state’s convention delegates.Mondale leads in the competition for delegates — 731.25 to 437 for Hart and 93.5 for Jackson.It takes 1,967 to win the nomination.MacEachen treads very fine line on 10-day Latin American tour WASHINGTON (CP) - External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen headed for Central America today to find out whether Canada can lend a hand to regional peace efforts and help prevent the spread of civil strife and border fighting.His 10-day tour of four Latin American capitals follows two days of closed talks in Washington, where he publicly maintained his distance from U S.involvement in Central America and avoided any hint of accepting U S.direction.The Canadian minister turned down a request from U S.State Secretary George Shultz to add El Salvador to his itinerary, a move that would have demonstrated Canada’s support for U.S.-backed political forces conducting an election amid opposition from insurgent leftist factions.MacEachen and Shultz, in their seventh quarterly meeting in 19 months, also signed a treaty settling an old argument about water power on the British Columbia border, agreed to disagree again on cross-boundary acid rain pollution, expressed hopes of progress in a tangled West Coast salmon fisheries dispute, and talked about a wide range of bilateral and international issues.A senior American official, answering questions on condition he not be identified, expressed disappointment that MacEachen had rejected a written appeal from Shultz, delivered last Saturday, to add El Salvador to his tour of three Central American coun tries and neighboring Colombia, a sponsor of a regional peace plan.A GOOD EXERCISE?“I think it would have been a good exercise to show Canadian support for free elections,” the U.S.official said.MacEachen said at a news conference he favors free and proper elections.But Canadian authorities indicated it would have been difficult to accept the Shultz suggestion without appearing to be acting at Washington’s behest.Further, it would have been hard for MacEachen to avoid meeting Salvadoran election candidates and thus appear to be meddling.Altogether, the visit to El Salvador might have endangered any future Canadian role as part of a neutral body overseeing a peace settlement, authorities argued.MacEachen told reporters he believes his present itinerary — Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras and Nicaragua — will give him “a balanced perspective." The El Salvador presidential elections — the inconclusive first round held March 23-28 and a runoff due early next month — are opposed by leftist insurgents seeking control of the country.They want a negotiated political settlement in advance of elections.MacEachen said he had reiterated to Shultz the Canadian opposition to any military intervention by outsi- ders — “the first thing that is necessary is the demilitarization of the region” — and support for a negotiated peace advocated by the Contadora group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela.He said Shultz also supports the Contadora initiative and observed that President Reagan has said the United States is ready to withdraw militarily from the region if others do likewise.Washington says the Salvadoran revolution is backed by Cuba and the Soviets through Nicaragua.Also discussed by MacEachen was a proposal for Canada to provide observers to the next stage of elections in El Salvador.He said that “if we re asked, 1 would be very sympathetic." A Canadian team observed the first Former sect tells of near ST-JOVITE, Que.(CP) — Allega tions by two young men that they were raised in “terror and hate” by a breakaway Roman Catholic sect will hopefully spur the provincial government to investigate religious cults and sects in the province, a Quebec youth protection official said Monday.Marc Belanger says the government’s Youth Protection Committee has been pushing for such an investigation for several years.He says he hopes accounts by Jean-Guy Sevigny, 18, and his brother Mathieu, 21, of their life in a monastery here run by the Apostles of Infinite Love will convince the government to finally act.Surrendered to the sect when their parents joined 18 years ago, the brothers left in February and have made public allegations of mistreatment.“Whenever I wet my bed as a child 1 would be tied up in a sleeping bag and thrown in the river," said Jean-Guy, adding he would be taken out of the water when he was near drowning.The Apostles were founded in 1952 by a charismatic Catholic, Gaston Tremblay, who rejects the authority of the Vatican Tremblay, known to his followers as Father Jean Grégoire de la trinite, calls himself the Pope.The Sevignys said they were not allowed to listen to the radio, watch television or read newspapers.“1 don’t know anything about anything,” said Jean-Guy.“We were taught that everything outside was evil Whenever we travelled we couldn’t look out or we’d be hit.” They say they escaped the “forced seclusion" of the monastery at St-Jovite and went to another Apostles’ monastery where their sister Elaine, 24, was living.After being refused permission to meet her they called Quebec provincial police, who obtained her release.Now the three siblings hope to se stage and reported that conduct of the polling was inept but appeared to be free of coercion First stop on the MacEachen tour to confer with government officials is Costa Rica, where one group of Nicaragua rebels is based for operations across the border.He is to move Colombia on Thursday for talks on the Contadora peace plan.He goes to Nicaragua on Sunday for a meeting with Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista junta that seized power in 1979.MacEachen is scheduled to fly April 11 for a two day visit to Honduras, where the main Nicaragua rebel group is based and where the United States has been conducting military exercises member drowning cure the release of their mother, who-lives in the Apostles’ Winnipeg branch, and their father, who livesin a Montreal mission.But another sister, a 25-year-old Grey Nun known as Sister Marthe who is still with the sect, says she is “ashamed" of what her brothers are doing.In the lava?N One stroke HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Like most courses, the Volcano Golf and Country Club has its share of creeks and sand traps — but the hazards that can really add strokes to your game are the lava flows and bottomless crevasse.Molten rock from Manna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes hasn't actually reached the course, but the furious mountains do add a spectacular background to a quiet round of golf.“It adds color,” said Bill Hayas-hi, superintendent of the course lo cated between the two volcanoes on the island of Hawaii.“Where else could you play golf and watch an erupting volcano?” Club policy probably would not grant a free lift from lava flows were they to creep onto the course, Hayashi said.“It’s the earthquakes 1 find distracting,” Hayashi said.On Nov.16, a quake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale of ground measurement rocked the island, opening a six-metre-long, 30-centimetrewide crack on the 18th hole, with no apparent bottom, Hayashi said.The crack is marked by small flags."You drop a shot in there, and that’s a lost ball,” he said American claim to Georges Bank lacks common sense says Canada THE HAGUE (CP) — Canada dismissed U.S.claims to the lion’s share of the Gulf of Maine as “absurd,” “artificial’’ and “astonishing” Monday as the two countries took their bitter East Coast boundary dispute to the international Court of Justice.Leonard Legault, legal adviser to the External Affairs Department, called elements of the U.S.claim — which would deny Canada access to the bountiful fishing grounds and potentially rich offshore oil and gas reserves between Nova Scotia and the American seaboard — “as inconsistent with the law as it is with common sense.” Attacking the heart of the U.S.claim, which contends that Maine’s coast takes priority over Nova Scotia’s in defining the boundary in the gulf, Legault said: “The notion of first-class coasts and second-class coasts with unequal entitlements has no authority in law.” The Canadian claim rests largely on the principle of equidistance — the measuring of a maritime boundary as halfway between the receding coasts of both countries.That line would give Canada about one-third of Georges Bank.The U.S.argues that the gulf lies “in front of” the New England states and follows the so-called northeast channel — the deepest water separating Nova Scotia and the U.S.coast.The U.S.claim would give it all of the Georges Bank.Later, Legault suggested the U.S.argument was grounded not in legal precedent or fairness, but to make the boundary “conform to the United States’ vision of the North American geopolitical order.” He suenested that view holds that Canada should be “confined to tho-seareas that lie north of the United States.Underscoring the political and economic importance of the case, Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan delivered the opening overview of the Canadian case to the court's five-judge panel, specially constituted to hear the case.MacGuigan said the variance between the Canadian and U.S.claims was “more than a simple quantitative difference.” EVICTION’ FEARED “Whatever may be the outcome of the present proceedings, the United States will not cease to be present on the Georges Bank since the Canadian claim itself leaves more than half of the bank to the United States.“If the chamber were to accept the United States’ claims, however, the result would be Canada's eviction from the bank,” said MacGuigan, who has handled the dispute through two portfolios.He was external affairs minister when the U.S.Senate, under pressure from New England fisherman, rejected a draft fisheries treaty signed by Ottawa and the administration of former U.S.president Jimmy Carter.MacGuigan called the Canadian claim, which would give Nova Scotia’s fishermen access to the northeastern half of the Georges Bank, equitable and balanced.“It results from the application of law to geography,” he said.The first 10 days of hearings will be devoted entirely to the initial presentation of the Canadian argument Only then will the U.S.team, led by Davis Robinson, legal adviser to the U.S.State Department, unveil its oral arguments in support of its claim to all ol the Georges Bank.Members of the U.S.team declined, as expected in an ongoing judicial proceeding, to comment on the opening Canadian arguments.LOST THE TOSS However, the Canadian command of the opening round can be regarded as a disadvantage in the intricate workings of international proceeding It allows the U.S.team to incorporate counter arguments to the Canadian claims in its first oral presentations.The decision as to which party would go first was determined by the toss of a coin.MacGuigan admitted: “We lost the toss." After a few minutes of opening niceties, the Canadian team, some of whom having been battling through fruitless negotiations for the Georges Bank for eight years, proceeded with an all-out assault on the U.S case, which would deny Canadian fishermen right of access to grounds they have fished for more than a century MacGuigan dismissed the U S case as a “stepbackward,.a new form of isolationism and no form of law.” MacGuigan even quoted a New En gland fisherman during his presentation.“If it were up to the fishermen themselves, we would keep the wa ters open between the two countries We get along with the Canadians " But the fishermen of both nationalities were an ocean away Monday as the dispute entered the final round of legal argument.Both countries have agreed to abide by the court’s decision It can rule in favor of either claim or draw a new line in between.k ( 2—The RKCORI>—Tuesday, April 3, 1984 Competition law would remove Crown corporations’ immunity OTTAWA (CP) — Provincial and federal Crown corporations would lose their immunity against charges of conspiring to lessen competition if new federal legislation is approved and becomes law The revamped competition legislation.tabled Monday in the Commons, takes direct aim at preventing a recurrence of a situation last year where two federally owned corporations that had allegedly set up cartel escaped prosecution.The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in December 1983 that Eldorado Nu- clear Ltd and Uranium Canada Ltd., now defunct, could not be charged in connection with an alleged international uranium cartel because they were Crown agents and above the law.In particular, the high court said the Combines Act does not contain a specific clause applying to Crown agents.Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan subsequently dropped charges against four private uranium companies which government lawyers contended had broken the law by taking part in a cartel to fix prices more than a decade ago.Latest terrorist raid renews border tension JERUSALEM (API— Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said today Israel may crack down on crossings at the I .ebanese border after three Arab terrorists apparently slipped across the frontier on a mission to randomly kill Israelis in Jerusalem.Police said 48 people were wounded Monday as the terrorists fired subma chine-guns and threw hand grenades on King George Street in the commer cial district of Jerusalem’s Jewish sector.Eighteen of the victims remained in hospital this morning, including one reported in critical condition.In Lebanon, the country’ warring factions battled with artillery and machine-guns in and around Beirut as President Amin Gemayel’s administration sought a disengagement formula to separate the rival Moslem and Christian combatants.Police said one person was killed and nine wounded overnight in Shiite Moslem neighborhoods south of Beirut.They also reported fighting at Souk el-Gharb along a mountain ridge 12 kilometres east of the capital.The attack Monday in Jerusalem was contained by a quick response from armed civilians, who shot and mortally wounded one of the terrorists.Another was captured fleeing on foot 800 metres away and the third was stopped at a police roadblock five kilometres south on the road to Bethlehem Commission may charge anti-Catholic hate mailer WINNIPEG (CP) — The Manitoba Human Rights Commission is investigating anti-Roman Catholic material being distributed by a man who is daring authorities to take him to court.It is uncertain whether dissemination of the hate literature can be stopped before Pope John Paul visits Winnipeg Sept.16.“It’s possible, whether or not it’s probable is anybody’s guess,” Darlene Germsheid, executive director of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, said in an interview Monday.If the commission finds the Human Rights Act is being violated, it tries to settle the matter voluntarily.If that fails, it asks the attorney general to appoint an adjudicator.A final alternative is the laying of charges.The Pope’s visit is apparently a fo- Hydro-Quebec regrets Nfld.rejection of offer MONTREAL(CP) —Hydro-Quebec said Monday it is sorry that the Newfoundland government has broken off negotiations over the contentious issue of Churchill Falls hydroelectric power.The public utility said in a news release that it “regrets that its offer to settle the Church Falls matter was rejected, without a counter offer by Newfoundland.” Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford said Friday that the latest offer by Quebec “was in its nature a very inadequate proposal and they knew it ” In the circumstances, there was no point delaying any further a Weathe Sunny with some cloudy periods today and a high of 8 Low tonight -5.Outlook for Wednesday, variable skies with a high of 7.settlement by the Supreme Court of Canada.The Churchill Falls project was jointly developed by the two provinces in the 1960s.Under a 65-year contract signed in 1969, Quebec buys almost all the Churchill Falls power at low, fixed rates, enabling it to sell surplus power to New England states.It is estimated Hydro-Quebec makes $700 million annually on what Newfoundland sells to Quebec for $10 million.Newfoundland has sought since the early 1970s to have the contract reopened.The two sides had to reach a negotiated settlement by Friday or the Supreme Court would proceed on a ruling on the validity of Newfoundlan-dlegislation passed in 1980 which would strip Hydro-Quebec of water rights at the Churchill Falls site.Given Peckford’s rejection of Quebec’s latest offer and Newfoundland’s decision not to ask the Supreme Court for an extension of bargaining time, Hydro-Quebec said that it will sit back and wait for the court’s ruling.Newfoundland has already lost two related cases in Quebec and Newfoun dland courts.569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 —_________________asi tœcara George MacLaren, Publisher .Charles Bury, Editor.Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent 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prosecute the four private companies for their role in the alleged cartel when the two government companies were deemed immune As a result, charges were dropped against Denison Mines Ltd.Gulf Canada Minerals Ltd., Rio Algom Ltd.and Uranerz Canada Ltd.Corporate Affairs Minister Judy Erola sidestepped specific questions Monday on whether the proposed legislation would have changed the outcome of the uranium cartel contro- versy.NOT LOOKING BACK The minister told a news conference she did not want to look over her shoulder to see how previous cases would have been affected if her proposed new legislation had been in place.However, officials said later that charges could have been brought against the corporations if the new legislation had existed at the time.Chris Speyer, Progressive Conservative consumer and corporate affairs critic, said Monday he will be studying the legislation closely to en- sure there is no escape hatch for Crown corporations.If such corporations entangle private companies in actions which might be illegal, they must be equally liable under the law, he said.Canada, South Africa, France, Australia and the Rio Tinto Zinc mining conglomerate of Britain joined in 1972 to combat falling world prices for uranium.They officially dissolved the group in 1975 after uranium prices had risen substantially along with other energy prices, but charges were laid in 1981.At the time of the cartel controversy, the Conservatives condemned the government’s decision to drop the charges against the private companies as an attempt to hide its own involvement in the cartel.If the privafe companies had gone to trial, details of the government’s activities would have emerged, said Conservative justice critic Ray Hna-tyshyn.The opposition insisted the cabinet was merely trying to cover up the role of prominent Liberals and former cabinet ministers in the cartel.News-in-brief eus for the campaign by Frank De-venney who has stepped up distribu tion of anti-Catholic propaganda in recent months.“About August, then I’ll really hit them heavy,” says Devenney, 50, a member of the Canadian Protestant League who recently quit his job as manager of a trucking company The material he distributes says the Pope is the anti-Christ and accuses the Catholic church of being behind both world wars, the American Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.PREMIER GETS COPIES Devenney has dared Attorney General Roland Penner to lay charges and he has sent Penner and Premier Howard Pawley copies of the California-based anti-Catholic paper Battle Cry.Soldiers getting more pay OTTAWA (CP) — Not only is there no life like it as the ads say, but now military life also pays more.Defence Minister Jean-Jacques Blais, who left on the weekend for Europe, announced through his Ottawa office on Monday that regular and reserve forces members are getting an average five per cent more in pay effective April 1.A recruit now will receive $876 a month, or $10,512 a year, up from $835.A fully trained private can earn $1,561 monthly or $18,732 annually.Murder attempt kills kids OTTAWA (CP) — The first-degree murder conviction of a man who accidentally killed his two children while trying to kill his wife was upheld Monday by the Supreme Court of Canada.Rolf Arthur Droste was convicted in Stratford, Ont., after co-workers testified he had spoke of killing his wife, collecting insurance, and living with another woman he had fallen in love with.Droste used four gallons of gasoline to clean his car before taking his wife and children Rolf and Monique to a birthday party.Hull of a story TORONTO — As Bobby Hull crosses the country promoting his book.Hockey Made Easy, part of his repertoire is an Air Canada story.“The other day I took four bags to the airport and said I wanted this one to go to Fredericton, that one to Moncton, this one to Halifax, that one to Charlottetown,” he said recently.‘“We can’t do that,’ the young woman told me.“ Why not?’ I wondered.‘You did it last week when I went to Winnipeg.’” Police chief eats lead DILLEY, Tex.( AP)—A small town police chief was shot in the jaw and swallowed the bullet before drawing his gun and killing his assailant, authorities said Monday.Killed Saturday was Modesto Villareal, 37, of Cotulla, who was shot five times by Police Chief Eliodora Gonzalez, 28.Villareal and a female friend were being transported to the Frio County jail in Pearsall when he pulled a gun and threatened to kill the chief, said Deputy Clayton Schelcher.Killing good for morale in IRA NEW YORK (Reuter) — A member of the Irish Republican Army fighting British extradition said Monday he felt it was his duty to inflict as many casualties as possible on the British.Joseph Doherty, 29, told a federal court in New York he felt such casualties helped the “morale” of the Irish people.He told of his capture after a gunfight, his escape from Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail and how he fled first to the Irish Republic and then to the United States.Doherty was arrested last year in Clancy’s Bar in Manhattan.War anniversary sparks violence BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Veterans of the war with Britain over the Falkland Islands marked the second anniversary of its beginning by setting fire to the English Tower and pulling down the statue of a 19th-century British diplomat.The violence followed an address earlier Monday by President Raul Alfonsin who told several thousand people at a memorial service in the town of Lujan that Argentina is determined to gain sovereignty over the islands, but through negotiations, not war.Greenpeace reaches new heights BONN (Reuter) — Greenpeace members scaled power station and refinery chimneys across Europe on Monday in an anti-pollution protest.A spokesman said chimneys were scaled in eight countries and banners were displayed protesting acid rain.Spokesman Gerd Leipold in Hamburg said three Greenpeace members climbed a chimney in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, on Monday morning, but came down after warning shots were fired and fire engines with hoses were brought in.Women force police to retreat GREENHAM COMMON, England (AP) — Bailiffs armed with a court order moved in Monday to evict protesters camping on Department of Transport land outside the U.S.Air Force’s cruise missile base, but they retreated before 200 chanting women.Just after dawn Monday, police set up traffic controls in the area of the main gate at the Green-ham Common base.Then Berkshire county’s undersheriff, Nicholas Blandly, turned up with his chief bailiff.U.K.rail union supports miners LONDON (AP) — Britain’s largest rail union gave its support to striking miners Monday, cutting off the industry’s main mode of transport by ordering members not to move coal or coke or cross picket lines.“Pit closures on the scale envisaged will mean a massive loss of railway jobs,” said the 150,200-member National Union of Railmen.The miners have been on strike for four weeks to protest the state-run National Coal Board’s plan to close 20 uneconomic pits at a cost of 20,000 jobs.Grits meet elderly, Indians, women, students SASKATOON (CP) — Liberal leadership candidate John Turner said Monday he would have scrapped many of the projects Ottawa has financed in recent years if he had been prime minister.“There are a lot of projects over the past number of years, without being too specific, we could have done without,” Turner told students at the University of Saskatchewan as he described how he would lower the $30 billion annual federal deficit.But he refused later to say whether he was referring to projects of the size of Canadair, which lost $1.4 billion in federal money last year.“I told you when I started this campaign in Ottawa I wasn’t going to deal with the past so I’m not going to be specific about that,” the former finance minister told reporters later.“We ll certainly be specific about the future but I’m not going to be specific about the past.” However, asked what sort of projects he might turn down in future, he replied: “well, we’ll be a little more definitive when we get there.” The issue arose when a student Roberts: No independence questioned how Turner could provide more incentives for economic development and maintain services for the poor, aged and unemployed while cutting the deficit.Turner said more economic growth will raise government revenue and help somewhat but some spending cuts and tax increases may be necessary.“Your generation is going to be strangled if Ottawa continues to go into debt at the current pace,” he said, adding that total government deficits in Canada now are about 2xh times the per capita deficits in the United States.On other questions, he said Crown corporations would have to be more accountable under a Turner government and he would make major changes to the cabinet committee system.STRONGER STYLE “I would want a stronger style of ministerial government,” he told the students who were wedged like sardines into a small classroom and spilled out into the hallway.Turner also defended his record in private business to another questioner who inquired about his involvement in Infinitum Growth Fund Inc., which lost $3 million last year while he was chairman.MONTREAL (CP) — Employment Minister John Roberts challenged fellow Liberal leadership contenders Monday to make a public commitment to pressure Ontario Premier Bill Davis for a bilingualism policy.Speaking to students at Jean de Brebeuf College, Roberts said that as a resident of Ontario he deplored Davis’s attitude on bilingualism and that other leadership contenders should take a public stand on the issue.The Ontario government supplies some French-language services and is willing to expand services where numbers warrant, but Davis has balked at making the province officially bilingual.Speaking two days after Prime Minister Trudeau told the Quebec wing of the Liberal party that “French Power” will live on without him, Roberts said Trudeau’s efforts to have franco- phones play a more important role in government will not be wasted.“There are very strong Quebecers who are at the head of the government and they must stay there,” Roberts said.“We will continue, in our policy, to put francophones in government.“There is no question of letting the Trudeau government’s fine effort go to waste.” Roberts repeated his support of the federal government’s decision to go to the Supreme Court of Canada in an attempt to guarantee francophone rights in Manitoba.Roberts, who received a polite reception from the 150 students at the French-language college, warned that if the Liberals want a prime minister who will negotiate Quebec independence, they shouldn’t support his candidacy.Under the gun — Munro , No quotas — Johnston MONTREAL (CP) — Canada’s veteran politicians should leave politics so that more women can be elected, Economic Development Minister Donald Johnston said Monday.Speaking on a local phone-in radio show.Johnston, one of six candidates for the federal Liberal leadership, said many politicians remain in office too long.“As I’ve said many times, I think it’s good for the system to get people both into politics and out of politics,” he said.“Fifty per cent of the (282-seat) House of Commons should be occupied by women and if people stay in too long, obviously, you block the progression of women through the system and young people with energy and new ideas." Johnston did not name the specific politicians who should step down so that more women could run in the next federal election.But he assured listeners that whatever the outcome of the leadership race, he personally plans to run again in the Montreal riding of St-Henri-Westmount, a seat he has held since 1978.He added, however, (hat he had “never planned on spending a long career in politics.” Johnston said he endorses the idea of promoting the interests of underprivileged and under-represented groups in the federal civil service.“I actually had responsibility for affirmative action programs in the public service” for more than two years as President of the Treasury Board, Johnston said.“Affirmative action, of course, has to be defined.I don’t believe in a quota system.I believe any barriers to progress of minority groups — women and so on — in the public service should be identified and eliminated.“That was the nature of our program and that’s the one I would hope to reinforce.” Commenting on his leadership chances, Johnston, who is not considered a front-runner, said, “I’m running to win; I wouldn’t go in it if I didn’t think we had a shot.” He said one of his main campaign themes is the creation of a “negative income tax" which would replace a handful of programs to aid the country’s needy and would be administered “in a manner similar to a tax-credit plan." BRANDON, Man.(CP) —Manitoba Indian leaders must fall in line with federal proposals or risk losing their fight for self-government, Indian Affairs Minister John Munro said Monday.He said the proposals to provide self-government for Canadian Indians are not being forced on anybody but they are hanging in the balance as the life of the current government comes to an end.“If the Indian people don’t want this.I’m not going ahead with it,” he said in an interview after meeting with the Dakota-Ojibway Tribal Council.But he added that he was “under the gun” to get the constitutional amending resolution through the House of Commons before this sesson of Parliament ends.Munro, a candidate for the leadership of the federal Liberal party, also met with Brandon Liberals to ask for their support during part of his four-hour visit to the city.He said they remained non- committal but he also defended his right to remain a cabinet minister while campaigning for the Liberal leadership.Former Progessive Conservative leader Joe Clark has suggested cabinet ministers can’t do their jobs properly while contesting the leadership.But Munro, one of five cabinet members seeking the post, said people expect ministers to be in the race because of their experience in government.He said ministers who are leadership candidates will help ensure the concerns associated with their portfolios are addressed during the contest.Munro said Clark had trouble balancing his former job as Leader of the Opposition with attempts to hold off challenges from within the Conservative party.But he said that is no reason for Clark to doubt the ability of ministers to perform their cabinet duties while campaigning for the Liberal leadership.Help mothers — Courts TORONTO (CP) — Fresh from proposing new initiatives to help unemployed Canadian youth, Jim Coutts spoke out Monday in favor of more economic help for single working mothers and elderly women.The Liberal nominee for the Toronto riding of Spadina, who is considered a possible seventh candidate in the Liberal leadership race, said “during this period of leadership choice,” is the time to strengthen the political will to help the economic plight of women.Coutts said the government should act no later than this summer to boost the income of single working mothers through a direct payment.A government subsidy of as much as $3 an hour above minimum wage would give economically strapped working mothers an income to meet their expenses, particularly daycare, he said.This would save tax money by keeping single mothers off welfare while maintaining their productivity in the workforce.An increased child tax credit or a system of guaranteed income supplement could be the vehicle for this economic help, Coutts said.There are 580,000 Canadian women who are single heads of households, 41 per cent of whom live below the poverty line, he said.Coutts also proposed lowering the qualifying age for the guaranteed income supplement to 55 from 65 to help single women who have been left without an income through divorce or the death of their spouse.Estimating the cost of the expanded program at $1 billion, Coutts said .“I put it to you that most taxpayers are not aware that many Canadians, mostly women, are in this position, and if they were aware of it they would support such a necessary action.” I r The Townships The MhX'OKI)—Tuesday, April 3, 19H4—3 the< ___g>gi Kscam Grégoire given five years, appears shocked by severity of sentence SHERBROOKE — Jean-Guy Grégoire, convicted last month of manslaughter in the July 1983 strangling death of his girlfriend, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison by Superior Court Judge Georges Savoie.Grégoire appeared shocked at the severity of the sentence, His lawyer Jean-Pierre Rancourt had requested a sentence of less than two years or community work in lieu of a long prison term Rancourt had asked the court to consider the special nature of the case, Grégoire’s lack of any previous criminal record and the unlikelihood of his ever being a threat to society again.The Crown had asked for eight years imprisonment.In handing down his sentence, Savoie said society demanded that Grégoire pay for his crime, despite the unique circumstances that had led up to it, and said Grégoire had to bear the responsibilty for his actions.Grégoire, a 47 year-old administrator for the Commission scolaire régionale de l’Estrie, was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of 20 year-old Louise Turcotte, found strangled last July 22 in the Sherbrooke apartment she had shared with Grégoire.Grégoire, disoriented and confused, was alone in the apartment with the body when it was found by Turcotte’s sister.During his trial, the court was told of a passionate relationship that developed between Grégoire and Turcotte after she had gone to work in Grégoire’s office early in 1982.Grégoire, who had recently separated from his wife, amassed a $67,000 debt over the next year, spending freely on entertaining Turcotte with expensive meals and vacations.Witnesses testified that until this time Grégoire had always demonstrated financial responsibility.CONSIDERABLE DISHARMONY The court was also told of a wedding the couple planned for July 9 of last year which was cancelled only at the last minute when Grégoire complained of severe head- and stomachaches and loss of consciousness and had to be taken to hospital.It was after this aborted ceremony that Turcotte discovered that Grégoire was still legally married to his wife and had exhausted his credit and was virtually penniless.This discovery, the court was told, led to considerable disharmony between the couple, ending with Turcotte’s death.In his defence, Rancourt produced evidence that Grégoire, under increasing emotional pressure from the falsity of his position and his fear of losing Turcotte, and had suffered from the psychological disorders known as conversion hysteria and dissociative hysteria, which had rendered him in capable of bearing responsibility for his actions.Grégoire testified that he remembered very little of the two week period between the cancelled wedding and Turcotte’s death, al though he did admit to vaguely remembering a physical altercation du ring which the girl had become hysterical.By handing in a verdict of guilty on the reduced charge of manslaughter the jury rejected this defence of insa nity.In handing down his sentence, Savoie told Grégoire that he was taking into consideration Grégoire’s lack of Magog septic tank company fined for 1981 illegal sewage dumping By Peter Scowen MAGOG — A Magog septic tank company has been fined a total of $5,600 for emptying the contents of one of its sewage transport tanks into a field less than a dozen metres from a brook that drains into Lake Mem-phremagog.Modern Septic Tank Inc.(MST), was found guilty of illegally dumping sewage and of dumping sewage at a site not authorized by the environment department in a decision handed down March 19.The first offence will cost $5,000 and the second $600.The culprits have three months to pay the fines.Stewart Hopps, the Lake Memphre-magog pollution inspector who caught MST doing the dumping on August 25,1981 and successfully took the company to court, said he is “quite happy with the fines.” MST went out of business shortly after the 1981 dumping incident, when the company was discovered transporting molasses intended for pig feed in the same unwashed tankers.The driver who inspector Hopps discovered and photographed dumping human waste near Castle Brook actually left the scene of that crime to go load up with molasses for delivery to the Sherbrooke Co-operative, a feed-supply operation.It was never proven that MST had delivered polluted feed because that particular load was discovered by the press, seized by the government and incinerated before it got into any feed troughs.There were no convictions, * # Stewart Hopps.We'll catch some more.but MST lost its operating permits and the Co-op Agricole de Sherbrooke, which had hired the septic tank company, was out 8,000 gallons of molasses.The co-op, already in trouble with its members over poor-quality feed and financial mismanagement, was soon taken over and reorganized by the giant Co-op Fédérée of Montreal.EVERYONE AN INSPECTOR Hopps said MST was caught and convicted because he had been tipped off by suspicious citizens.“I figure everyone is an inspector of the environment,” he said.Many sewage transport companies prefer to illegally dump their loads because it is cheaper than transporting them all the way to government-approved sites, such as the purification plant at the Domtex factory in Magog.A company like MST actually has to pay five or six dollars to unload at the sites as well, Hopps said, but that is a minor sum compared with the $80 it can get for emptying a septic tank.“MST wasn’t the only one breaking the law,” Hopps said.“We’ll catch some more.Citizens have the right to turn in poeople they see illegally dum-pimg sewage.” Hopps would like to see the creation of more approved dumping sites, and more inspectors as well.He is the only full-time watchdog keeping an eye on the environment in the Townships of Magog and Hatley as well as in the towns of North Hatley and Ayers Cliff.“We need more inspectors with more training who know how to take a case to court and win,” he said.Townships talk SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Mitzi Green, of Montreal, reopted for trial before a magistrate alone and pleaded guilty to article 315 of the Criminal Code.“It is a rarely used section of the code,” Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk explained prior to reviewing the facts.He said the accused was arrested at a Canadian port of entry in possession of a fur coat she knew had been obtained through the commission of a crime in the United States.” Every one who brings into or has in Canada anything that he has obtained outside Canada by an act that, if it had been committed in Canada, would have been the offence of theft or an offence under section 312 (receiving stolen goods), is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for 10 years.” Keyserlingk said the fur coat, valued at $2,000, was found under the front seat of Green's car by border authorities, and told the court the accused had no prior record.Donald Bissonnette told the court his client had been at an after-ski party at Jay Peak when she consumed a large amount of alcohol, took the coat, went to her home and woke up about noon when she realized it wasn’t her property.” She knew it belonged to another Canadian and was bringing it back with the intention of contacting the president of their ski club to have it restored to his rightful owner,” Bissonnette explained.He then suggested she be given an absolute discharge noting there were no charges against her in the United Statek, adding she was a professional with a multi-national firm which requires travel to the United States and a criminal record could hamper her career.Judge Bernard Legaré demurred, stating she could have made a telephone call to locate the owner, in the United States and the traditions of the local court call for fines in cases of receiving stolen goods.He fined Green $300 without costs, in default to 30 days, allowed 90 days for payment of the fine, and bound her over to keep the public peace for two years.• SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Arguments that Real Lague had not been told of his rights under the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms following his arrest on a charge of impaired driving in St.Alphonse de Granby on Feb.16, 1983, were dismissed by Judge Bernard Legaré.He reviewed testimony when he said two experienced Québec Police Force officers picked up the Roxton Pond resident after he failed to stop at the intersection of the Eastern Townships Autoroute exit ramp and Route 139 about 1:10 a.m.He upheld the police version Lague had been told of his rights to call a lawyer, and the accused then underwent two breathalyser tests within the time frame defined in the criminal code.He found Lague guilty of impaired driving, fined him $160 and costs, in default to 15 days.Lague, the president of a heavy machinery distribution company, was allowed a restricted permit.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Jean-Marie Beaudin, of Rainville, was arraigned in cells when the Crown and defence in concert with the judge decided he was not fit to answer to a charge of willful property damage in excess of $10,000 in his mother’s home on March 21.He was ordered remanded in Sherbrooke for a 30-day psychiatric evaluation by Dr.Pierre Gagné and ordered returned no later than April 17.SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — “I have talked to my client and he consents to being examined by Dr.Gagné in Sherbrooke,” Donald Bissonnette said in the case of Francis Benoit.Benoit, 59, of Knowlton, will be examined to see if he is fit to answer to a charge of assaulting a police officer in Knowlton last December.“While the evaluation is being done it would be beneficial to the court to determine his degree of criminal responsibility in the context of article 16,” Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk suggested.“I assure my learned colleague of my full cooperation in the case and if he can have Dr.Gagné conclude his examination within 10 days I’ll have the accused returned as quickly as possible.” • SWEETSBURG WARD (JM)— Robert Maguire, of Charlesbourg, was absent for arraignment on two counts of violation of the Aeronautic Act.Federal prosecutor Guy Cordeau explained the charges entail two counts of low flying in Pike River during 1983 when his aircraft was spotted by membersof the RCMP under the 1,000 foot limit in a populated area.Maguire’s trial, with the consent of defence lawyer Ixiuis Hebert, was set to May 4.a previous criminal record and the excellent chances he demonstrated for rehabilitation, but said society demanded that he pay for his crime."You were already almost 48 years old,” Savoie said, “with a considerable experience of life that should have made you aware of the responsibility you bore toward that young person.But not only did you lie to her, without any doubt only to satisfy your own passion, but you also carried out actions the consequence of which was to deprive her of her life." Savoie said that not only had the initiative in the affair been Grégoire’s but that Turcotte had come to rely on him for advice and support.Two cabbies kidnapped in one day SHERBROOKE (CB) — Springtime can be dangerous for local cabbies.Seems as if it isn’t the best of times for would-be imitators of Jacques Mesrine either.Twice in less than 24 hours Sherbrooke taxidrivers have been kidnapped and robbed at knifepoint, and forced to drive their robbers out of town.One of the Sunday-night misadventures ended in Montreal, the other in Magog.Both the cabbies were unhurt and a pair of suspects will appear in court today to answer charges.In the first incident a pair of “longhaired" males entered the taxi of Serge Morin at the corner of Belvedere and Minto streets in Sherbrooke and asked to be driven to Magog.On the way there — at the Ciné-Parc Rock Forest on Route 55 between Omerville and Deauville — one of the passengers took out a knife, brandished it at the throat of driver Morin and ordered him to stop the car, hand over his keys and wallet and get out.There he was at the drive-in movies, without a car or the price of a ticket — and no shows scheduled until May! Morin got a ride from a passerby and sought refuge at a nearby gas station, where he called police.A Québec Police Force Operation 100’ failed to nab the bandits but Morin's car was recovered on Range 8, St-Élie d’Orford, at about 7:30 p.m.It was taken to the QPF garage for closer examination, including a fingerprint check.Morin lost $35, a couple pf litres of sweat and an evening’s work.MEANWHILE, BACK IN SHERBROOKE Denis Demers' Sunday evening was even more bizarre, although he got a couple of ‘free’ beers and an unexpected evening in the big city for his troubles.Demers, 19, of Capelton, was crui- sing downtown Sherbrooke for a fare at about 11:30 p.m.when he got a call for a pickup at Wellington and Ball.When he got there no one was waiting but in a couple of minutes out came a woman making signs that he should be patient.How pa tient, he only found out later.Demers waited in his car like a good cabbie and a few minutes later the woman returned, indicating silently that he should keep on wai ting.Finally two ‘customers’ appeared and got into the cab.They asked for a ride to the Centre Dépannage 140, the former King George Hotel on King West which now serves as a dormitory for under-30 welfare recipients.One of Demers’ passengers then took out a knife (sound familiar), held it to Demers’ throat and ordered him to drive the pair to Montreal.“No trouble or we ll stick you full of holes and put you in the trunk,” they told him, leaving little doubt as to their motives.Off they went, only to turn back when one of the kidnappers realized he had left his bags at the hotel Back to the King George.Baggage aboard and back on the road again, they made it to the city with no further untoward incidents, except for the knife constantly at Demers’ throat.There was no indication of who paid the autoroute tolls.FEELING GENEROUS Once in Montreal, the robbers ob viously felt some remorse for their victim.In the style of the notorious French outlaw Jacques Mesrine, whose life of crime is the subject of a popular current movie, the pair in sisted on buying Demers a couple of beers: “No, no, don’t go away mad, we insist,” they said, with the knife still out.“Come inside and have a quick one with us before you hit the road.We want to thank you for the ride." Never one to pass up the orders of a pair of armed desperados, the cabbie went along.Inside the un named club, young Demers sipped his beer for a while and, taking courage from his predicament, tried to attract attention and help He started yelling and threw a chair across the room.No one noticed — not even the club bouncer, who must have taken his observation lessons at the NHL school for referees.This was Montreal: big-city style.Demers was ignored.Even his criminal companions somehow forgot about their captive long enough for the taxidriver to go to the bar and explain his situation to the barmaid, who like all good barmaids, listened to his story.The adventure revealed, she showed a little understanding and phoned for the police.By the time the cops arrived the robbers had flown the coop, but not very far.They were picked up in the next bar down the road.With the culprits in the slammer, at about 4 a m., the Montreal police called their Sherbrooke colleagues and asked them to make a pickup (sound familiar?) at the corner of Bonsecours and Fulford streets (MUC police headquarters).A couple of hours later Sherbrooke detectives Bertrand Fortier and Gérard Leblanc arrived in the metropolis to find the two robbers behind bars (with their baggage), waiting for another ride.This one was fortunately not on their terms.Demers, meanwhile was curled up on a bench in a corner of the waiting room.All he had to do was drive back to Sherbrooke.But the meter stayed off, and he paid the tolls himself.Two men, one 20.the other 28, will be charged in Sessions Court this morning.Three-day robbery binge nets Montreal man six By John McCaghey SWEETSBURG WARD — Serge Pimparé will have six years to reflect on a series of armed robberies committed during a three-day spree in Montreal and the Townships last September.Pimparé, 21, of Montreal, pleaded guilty to counts of armed robbery, conspiracy to commit an armed robbery, illegal detention of two persons, assault causing bodily harm during the commission of an armed robbery, theft of over $4,000 while armed with an offensive weapon, and wearing a disguise when the robbery occurred at the El Paso Motel in Phillipsburg on Sept.5, 1983.Pimparé and a juvenile accomplice were arrested by members of the St.Jean Québec Police Force at a roadblock as they were returning to Montreal in a taxi.Pimparé then pleaded guilty to similar charges in a robbery at a dépanneur on Ontario St.in Montreal on Sept.3 when armed with the same sawed-off .22 rifle, and two armed robberies while armed with a knife at the same dépanneur on Roy.St.on Sept.4.Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk called for 10 years, citing the premeditation, the traumatization of the vic- tims including those who hadn’t been directly assaulted, and emphasized the need of exemplarity to deter others from similar crimes.Defence lawyer Claude Hamann argued his client pleaded guilty at the earliest possible date due to the transfers from Montreal, said the robberies were committed to satisfy his drug habit, pointed out Pimparé had spent six months in preventative detention, then suggested five years would satisfy the interests of justice.Judge Bernard Legaré noted the prior record of the accused, told him he was liable to life imprisonment for the armed robberies, then considered the objective gravity of the crimes.He handed Pimparé two years, concurrent among themselves for each of the armed robberies, one year, concurrent, for the conspira cies, wearing disguises, and one year, additional, on each of the charges of use of a weapon in crimes of violence.He recommended Pimparé be incarcerated where he could receive treatment for his drug problem, ordered the weapons confiscated and forbade him to own any arms, ammunition, or other explosive devices for five years following his release."I also considered the time served prior to sentence and 1 think there is still some hope for your possible rehabilitation," Ix'garé said.Highway hit and run charge dismissed SWEETSBURG WARD (JM) — Judge Bernard Legaré dismissed a charge of hit and run levied against Mansonville resident Daniel Pouliot.He reviewed the facts of the incident on Route 245 in St.Etienne de Bolton on June 19, 1983, when Pouliot’s car struck a bicyclist causing the death of Stanley Sxott.“It was about 1:15 a m.when the accused was driving 40 to 45 miles per hour in a fog when he saw a reflector, pulled to his left in an attempt to a void contact, but struck the then unidenti fied object.He halted his car, which was proven by antifreeze on the pavement in pictures taken at the scene the next day, and walked back about 100 or so feet.He then drove to Eastman when he talked the situation over with his girlfriend, thinking he had struck a parked motorcycle They decided to sleep on it then report to the nearest police office the same morning after he consulted with his father He saw the police at the scene, went to his fathers home, then turned himself into the Cowansville QPF," Legaré said in his recapitulation.COULD NOT HAVE HELPED VICTIM The judge cited jurisprudence concerning hit and run and said the Crown had not proven beyond all rea sonable doubt Pouliot attempted to avoid his civil and criminal responsibilities.“He stopped and went back to the scene in the dark of night in a fog.He did not sec the victim thus he could not have helped him.He rested, turned himself in to the police the same day, there was no proof he was trying to avoid a breathalyser examination, and 1 accept the testimony of the accused and his friend who were both credible witnesses.He had no inten tion of avoiding either civil or criminal responsibilities and as the onus of proof is on the Crown, the accused is given the benefit of reasonable doubt and the charge is dismissed," Legaré ruled.Sherbrooke council votes to press for tolls abolition SHERBROOKE — Sherbrooke’s elected municipal officials have once again entered the fray and have called on the provincial government to abolish tolls on Quebec autoroutes.In a resolution passed at a meeting Monday night the Sherbrooke municipal council unanimously voted to exert pressure to that end on Sherbrooke MNA and Labor Minister Raynald Fréchette.The resolution, introduced by councillor Jean Perrault de- mands that “the minister Fréchette energetically intervene at the National Assembly to see that autoroute tolls as a source of revenue be abolished by the beginning of the financial year (April) and that as a result tolls be abolis-hed with the least delay.” The resolution also demands that “the debt service for the maintenance of the Eastern Townships Autoroute be placed in the general budget as is that of other Quebec highways whose use is free.” The resolution is the third of its kind passed by the council since debate on the subject began in earnest in Au- gust 1982.It differs from the others in that it appeals directly to Sherbrooke’s own MNA to actively inter- vene.Sherbrooke joins municipalities in the 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6—The RKCORD—Tuesday.April 3.19H4 Living Kay’s kitchen korner By KAY TAYLOR With "sugarinK time” upon us it was with great pleasure an attractive little book titled “Pure Maple Syrup Recipes" was received this past week.The collection comes from John.Dianne Rhicard and Family of Pure Maple Products, Stanbridge East, and was accompanied by a note from Dianne in which she suggested Kitchen Korner readers might enjoy some of the special maple recipes.The 18 page book contains over 50 recipes which are so interesting that it is difficult to choose but here are a few at random.MAPLE MEMORY COOKIES Sift: 2'/i cups flour 2 teaspoons baking power Vj teaspoon soda 'h teaspoon salt Cream: % cup shortening Vi cup granulated maple sugar Add: I egg 1 teaspoon maple flavoring Measure: Vi cup maple syrup alternately with the dry ingredients.Add: ¦A cup walnuts Drop by spoonful on ungreased cookie sheet.Rake at 400 deg.F.8-10 minutes.• MAPLE APPLE PUFFS Preheat oven 425 deg.F.Core, pare and slice 6 apples and put them into greased, shallow 8” x 12” baking pan.Boil 1 cup maple syrup, 2 tablespoons butter, Vt cup water,1/» teaspoon salt together until blended.Add V< cup flour and continue beating until thin sauce forms.Pour this over the apples.Combine IVi cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking power and Vi teaspoon salt.Cut in Vt cup butter and add % cup milk.Stir until just blended Drop by spoonfuls on apple tops Make a dent in the top of each spoonful and place a little of the following mixture in each dent.Blend 2 tablespoons butter, IVi teaspoons granulated maple sugar and Vi teaspoon cinnamon.Bake at 425 deg.F.for 25 minutes.Serve warm.• MAPLE NUTTY COFFEE SAUCE Foundation launches campaign The Parkinson Foundation of Quebec, created in 1979, is launching its 5th annual subscription campaign from April 1st to April 15th.The goalsof the campaign are to inform and sentitize the population about Parkinson’s disease, and to collect funds to pursue medical research on this disease.Parkinson’s disease, a problem which affects a great number of elderly people, is a degenerative process in a central nervous system.Individuals of both sexes are equally affected, mainly after the age of 40.Symptoms include tremor, rigidity and general slowness of movement.Patients may eventually become completely disabled.Parkinson’s disease is one of the most frequent neurogical entities affecting middle-aged persons.There are 6,000 to 7,000 persons suffering from this disease in Quebec, close to 25,000 in Canada.The incidence increases with age: 1/200 is affected after the age of 40,1 /100 after 60 and 1/25 after 75 years of age.The Foundation supports a Research Unit on Parkinson’s disease at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute.This unit is headed by Professor André Barbeau, well known internationally for his research on Parkinson’s disease, and his pioneering work on L-DOPA therapy.The Parkinson Foundation of Quebec is under the direction of an 8 member Board of Administration This board is supported by a Council of Governors which includes eminent personnalities from the business, academic, religious and political communities, under the chairmanship of the Honorable Jean-Paul Geoffroy, and by a scientific Advisory Board gathering experts on Parkinson’s disease.The objective of the 1984 campaign is : $100,000.Donations should be sent to: La Fondation Parkinson du Québec, 110 ouest, avenue des Pins, Montréal, Qué.H2W 1R7.social notes Congratulations Congratulations and best wishes from their families and many friends are extended to Mrs.Mabel McBurney who will observe her 97th birthday on April 2, and to Mrs.Agnes Scott who will be 87 on April 2nd.Both ladies are residents of Second Mile Senior Home in Sawyerville.Congratulations from his friends and relatives go to Francis Jackson of Sherbrooke, who recently received a medal and certificate from the Joslin Diabetic Foundation of Boston, Mass., for over 50 years of living as an insulin dependent diabetic.Congratulations to Mrs.Richard Middleton Sr.of Stanstead who will be celebrating her 74th birthday on April 6.Best wishes from her family and friends in the border area.Congratulations to Mr.and Mrs.Percy Hawes on their 60th wedding anniversary Thursday April 5, 1984.This loving couple lives at Maple Manor in Ayer’s Cliff, and all the folks there wish them continued good health and happiness.Congratulations and best wishes to Mr.Eugene Palmer of Sutton Junction, Que., on the occasion of his 95th birthday on April 4th, from relatives and friends.Approaching marriage Engagement Attending the ground-breaking ceremony in Magog March 17 marking the construction of 26 apartments for senior citizens was (left to right) Gary Longchamps, general contractor; BernardWirich, manager, CMHC; André Bac hand, Brome-Missisquoi MP, Paul-René Gilbert, president, Heberge-ment Magog-Orford; and Rev.L.Ross, Magog Anglican Church.Ceremony held to begin construction of Magog home MAGOG — A ground-breaking ceremony attended by dignitaries of the Magog area was held March 17 at Pinecroft, MacDonald Street in Magog, marking the construction of 26 apartments for senior citizens.The building, owned and operated by a newly formed non- profit organization “Hébergement Magog-Orford Inc.” is possible through a federal program which will grant up to $57,000 per year over the next 35 years to insure the availability of medium priced housing for retired citizens.The program makes it possible to amortize a long term loan of over $700,000 at an annual rate of 2 per cent.Mr.André Bachand, Member of Parliament for Brome-Missisquoi, was highly praised for the aid his government is contributing to this realization.H.M.O.is sponsored jointly by the Magog Area Senior Citizens’ Home Inc.and by the Magog Lions Club.Basil and Catherine Gibson of Cobourg, Ont., are happy to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Pte.Tammy Lynn, to Cpl.Norman Robert, son of Russell and Phyliss Marsh of Bolton Centre, Que.The wedding will take place on May 5, 1984 at the Base Chapel, CFB Toronto, Downsview.Ont.Mr.and Mrs.Robert Perry of Brampton, Ontario, wish to announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Tracy Ann to Brent Gordon Fowler, son of Mr.and Mrs.Lewis Fowler of Danville, Quebec.The wedding has been arranged to take place June 2nd, 1984 at the Emmanuel Uni ted Church, Brampton, Ontario.Give your lungs and heart a break.Join the Majority — Be a Non-Smoker.'A cup maple syrup Vs teaspoon (instant) coffee I tablespoon butter Vt cup sliced almonds Bring syrup to a boil.Add instant coffee and simmer 3 minutes, stirring constantly.Remove from heat and stir in butter or margarine and nuts.Serve warm on vanilla pudding or ice cream Yield % cup sauce.• YUMMY BAKE CHICKEN 3 lb chicken, cut up Vt cup butter, melted Vj cup maple syrup Vi teaspoon grated lemon rind 1 teaspoon salt Vt teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons lemon juice V< teaspoon chopped almonds Heat over to 400 deg.F.Place chicken pieces in shallow greased baking dish.Combine remaining ingredients and pour evenly over chicken.Bake uncovered 1 hour at 400 deg.F., basting occasionally.4 servings.• MAPLE PECAN PIE 2 large eggs Vi cup sugar Vt cup melted butter 1 cup maple syrup Vt cup pecan halves Vt teaspoon salt Beat together eggs, sugar, salt, butter and syrup.Add pecans.Pour filling into an 8-inch pastry-lined pie pan.Bake at 375 deg.F.about 40 minutes.Social nofes notice Please note that all social notes must be sent to The Record in writing.They will not be accepted by telephone.For all submissions please include a telephone number where you can be reached during the day.Encourage our advertisers MOVED RICHARD T0UTANT, druggist IS PLEASED TO ADVISE HIS CLIENTELE THAT HIS DRUG STORE IS NOW LOCATED AT 46 VIMY NORTH (IN THE MEDICAL CLINIC BUILDING) AND LOOKS FORWARD TO GIVING YOU HIS USUAL FINEST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE OPEN DAYS: MONDAY TO SATURDAY 5 NIGHTS A WEEK — MONDAY TO FRIDAY FREE DELIVERY CALL: 563-6767 or 567-4864 The Government of Canada recognizes the fact that all Canadians must work together in partnership if Canada is to grow and prosper.This is particularly important now, at a time when the economy is recovering and new opportunities are presenting themselves.Budget 84 is designed to allow us to capitalize on this climate and to provide the economic opportunity and security all Canadians seek.A Fair Ax System Taxpayers’ rights are being strengthened, particularly with regard to assessments, penalties and interest charges.And, quarterly payments are being eliminated for some 550,000 individual Canadians.Budget involves o o o Q Partnership for growth Greater Pension Security Women, senior citizens and farmers in particular, will benefit from increased pension security.New pension legislation will allow all Canadians better opportunities to save for their retirement.Arm Sale - Ax Savings In order to encourage the continuation of family farms, new legislation will be introduced that will help farmers to provide for their retirement adequately.The Mortgage Bate Protection Program This program will be introduced to enable homebuyers and homeowners to buy protection against extraordinary increases in mortgage rates.$160 Million Beduction in Federal Axes lor Small Business The net result of simplification of small business tax laws, as well as new initiatives and provisions for growing small businesses, will mean a tax saving for small and medium sized businesses of some $150 million.Profit Participation Employee Profit Participation Plans will assist Canadian workers and managers to build a more productive and competitive economy.The budget proposes to encourage gain sharing with a special tax credit that would be shared between employers and employees.These are just a few of the important provisions of Budget 84 that benefit us all.The Government of Canada needs your participation to help build for the future.Get involved.I* Finance Canada Finances Canada If you’re a taxpayer a pensioner a woman a small business owner a farmer a homeowner or homebuyer a worker A number of simple-to-read brochures have been prepared to help you.Find out more about Budget 84 by sending the coupon below.Mail to: Budget 84, Department of Finance 0 ^ 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa.Ontario K1A0G5 jg Please send me the following brochure/s): The Budget and ?Women ?Pensions ?Small Business ?Taxpayers ?Profit ?Homeowners i ] Farmers Participation and Homebuyers Name________________________________ Address.Postal Code Canada Thr RECORD—Tuesday, April 3.19H4—7 Lennoxville Ascot Historical and Museum Society holds regular meeting At the March meeting of the Lennoxville Ascot Historical and Museum Society the president, Canon Mer-vyn Awcock announced the programs for the next three months.The award winning audio visual presentation River Road and Rail produced by McGill’s Brian Morel and Donald Patriquin will be the feature of the next meeting April 9 in the Gertrude Scott Hall.This presentation of outstanding photography of the Richmond area and interviews with its residents has been acclaimed by the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada.The public is cordially invited to this presen- tation.A collection to cover expense will be made.Bernard Epps, local historian whose work is featured regularly in The Record and Townships Sun will be the speaker at the May 14 meeting.His topic will be “The Importance of La Petite Histoire to the Eastern Townships”.The Rich- mond Historical Society will be guests at that time.The June meeting will feature the opening of the museum on Monday, June 11 John Pille, curator, stated that this year’s theme will be Image of Our Past.This will be presented in three categories: Tools and Implements, A Child’s World Townships’ Crier COURTESY OF HATLEY Rummage sale and food sale in the Anglican Church Hall, Hatley, on Saturday, April 7 from 10 a m.to 1 p.m.Sponsored by the Anglican Church Women.AYER’S CLIFF Ayer’s Cliff QFA meeting, Legion Hall, 8:00 p.m.Program: Fieldman Fraser Adam will present the paper on the study of Beef.All welcome on April 5.STANSTEAD A rummage sale will be held in Centenary United Church Hall, Stanstead, on Thursday April 5 from 1 to 5 p.m.Sponsored by the Allegro Unit.BEEBE April 6, Card Party 8 p.m.in basement of Wesley United Church, Beebe.Prizes and refreshments.SCOTSTOWN The Ceilidh Society of Scotstown will be sponsoring a dinner and Scottish evening on the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden at the Scotstown Hotel on Saturday April 14 at 6:30 p.m.Dinner reservations must be made by April 10th, by calling 872-3315 or 657-4795.Everyone welcome.Admission charged.MELBOURNE A rummage sale will be held at St.Paul’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Melbourne, on Thursday, April 5, from 2:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.and Friday, April 6, from 2:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.SUTTON 500 card party, Sutton Legion Hall, Curly St., April 5, 1:30 p.m.Adm.charged.Prizes, refreshments.Sponsored by Ladies Auxiliary.R.C.Legion Branch 151.ROCK ISLAND Rummage Sale in Stanstead South United Church Hall, Rock Island, Saturday, April 7, starting at 9 a m.Sponsored by the ladies of the Helping Circle.MANSONVILLE A Book Fair will be held in the Mansonvillc Elementary School on Thursday, April 5 from 12:30 noon through 7:30 p.m.A 15% to 80% reduction in prices with none $10.00.Sponsored by the School Committee - an opportunity to find good reading and to help your school.RICHMOND The Richmond region peace movement will hold a meeting on Wednesday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m.at the Richmond Regional High School.Everyone is invited to attend.SAWYERVILLE Advance notice - Pancake supper, Sunday April 15, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., benefit of Second Mile Senior Centre Inc.Children under 6, free.To be held at the community centre.LENNOXVILLE Rummage sale, sponsored by St.George’s Guild, St.George’s Church hall, 84 Queen St.on April 6 from 6 p.m.- 9 p.m.and April 7, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.SUTTON On April 4 at 8 p.m.the Scottish Society (a newly founded non-profit group) will meet at 6A Main Street for their regular meeting — for more information you may call 538-3201.SHERBROOKE Card Party sponsored by Queen Mary Chapter in the Victoria Masonic Temple, 510 Prospect St., Sherbrooke, Que., on Thursday, April 5.Prizes at each table as well as lunch and door prizes.Everybody welcome.KNOWLTON 500 card party, Saturday, April 7, at 8:00 p.m.Masonic Hall, Lakeside Road.Prizes, refreshments.Admission charged.Everyone welcome.and Pattern and Pressed Glass 1820-1920 Mr.Pille distributed lists of items which are needed to complete the display.Anyone having items which they might wish to loan should contact him at 569-7603.All items in the summer display are fully insured.The museum will be open Wednesday and Sunday afternoons for the summer season as well as full days during Len-noxville’s Cultural Village celebrations July 5-8.Heritage walks are also planned for that period.The treasurer reported a successful mini financial campaign for improvements to the museum.A donation of $250 from the Town of Lennoxville has been gratefully received.The society has made application for a grant through the Ministry of Cultural Affairs for the improvement of its archives, the major portion to be spent on salaries.No response will be received before the month of May.The treasurer, Frances Whittle introduced Mrs.Jean Coates, speaker of the evening whose talk on Depression Glass was accompanied by a fine display Mrs.Coates has been collecting this glassware for eleven years and now is a dealer who displays at several Ontario shows.She explained that the pink, green and amber glassware peculiar to the Depression years of the thirties met the needs of that period.It was colorful and inexpensive and available in the five and dime stores of the day.This coloured glass was produced by machine in over a hundred patterns in the United States.Only clear glass was made in Canada featuring such patterns as Saguenay and Hiawatha Much interest was shown by the group, many of whom were anxious to identify items in their own cupboards.Mrs.Coates was thanked by the secretary, Muriel Brand.Light refreshments were served by Mona Bigg and Mrs.Weston World Day of Prayer Service DUNHAM — The World Day of Prayer Service was held in the United Church, here, at 8 p.m., March 2nd, when the community was invited to attend.Some years ago, this annual Worldwide Service was known as “Women’s World Day of Prayer” and was held in the afternoons.However, it is important for the public to know these services are held for all and everyone who wish to attend.In many communities, these services are now held in the evening, making it more possible for families to attend.This year, the theme was Living Water From Christ, Our Hope, and was written by the women of Sweden.An Ecumenical choir was made up of women’s voices from the Catholic, Anglican and United Churches of the town.Following a word of welcome from Mrs.Douglas Vaughan who acted as leader, they 0f SHAVtB^ *