The record, 18 septembre 1984, mardi 18 septembre 1984

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Tory cabinet more gov’t — Turner By Peter Dockrill OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal Leader John Turner attacked Prime Minister Mulroney’s 40-member cabinet Monday for being too large, but New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent said it remains to be seen whether the record number of ministers will hurt the running of government.“Mr.Mulroney promised us during the campaign a leaner government, less government, and what he has done is given us more government,” Turner said during a news conference shortly after the cabinet, the largest in Canadian history, was sworn in.Both business and women’s leaders were pleased with the make-up of the new cabinet, though for different reasons.And, predictably, Conservative premiers across the country had nothing but praise for Mulroney’s choices.Turner had reduced the number of ministers to 29 from 37, a previous record high, after winning the Liberal leadership in June, saying he wanted to end a style of government that was too elaborate and expensive.However, Broadbent said “If they get control of their bureaucracy, if they establish programs and courses of action soon, that number is not necessarily bad.” In the business community, reaction was generally favorable to the number of former businessmen in cabinet, though there were a few dissenters.APPROVES CABINET “We think there is a good business representation in cabinet,” David Gibson, vice-president of government relations for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said in Toronto.Business spokesmen unanimously hailed the appointment of Michael Wilson as finance minister.“We are very pleased with his selection,” said Andrew Kniewasse, president of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada.“He knows the financial and business situation of this country as well as anybody.He will be a strong minister of finance.” Quebec business spokesmen said they were pleased with the regional balance of Mulroney’s new cabinet.“Quebec is well served with its 25-per-cent (share) of the cabinet,” said Arthur Earle, president of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce.Spokesmen for women’s groups praised Mulroney for giving cabinet posts to six women, another record.Sally Barnes, former head of the Ontario Advisory Council on the Status of Women, said she is pleased women were given tough portfolios and not the usual social service posts.Barnes said she was particularly happy with the choice of Flora MacDonald as employment and immigration minister.MacDonald will be able “to make changes that particularly affect women and have a department to back her up.” CRITICIZES MACDONALD However, Geoffrey Hale, policy director for the Canadian Organization for Small Business, had harsh words for MacDonald’s appointment “That is a ministry which has had schizoid tendencies for many years between those who believe in pushing around small business and those who want it to work,” he said.MacDonald “has shown herself to be in the first group.” Ontario Premier Bill Davis said in Toronto the new ministers were a group of able MPs who should help improve relations between Ontario and Ottawa.“What I’m looking for is a much higher degree of co-operation between our two governments and I think we’ll get it.” Both Davis and Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan said there was nothing wrong with Mulroney appointing a large cabinet while promising government restraint.“With a country as diverse as Canada and with as many members as he (Mulroney) has, I have no problem with that at all," said Buchanan, attending a Conservative reception in Ottawa.SI NNY SARAH.AGEK NORTH HATLEY PRIMARY SOKXH.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Tuesday, September 18, 1984 35 cents Mulroney names 10 Quebecers to record-size cabinet By David Lord OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Mulroney paid part of his political debt to Québec on Monday by naming 10 ministers to his 40-member cabinet from the province that gave the Conservatives the largest parliamentary majority ever in Canada.As expected, two former ministers in Joe Clark’s shortlived government were at the top of Mulroney’s list; veteran MP Roch LaSalle, who landed the public works portfolio, and Robert de Cotret, who received the senior economic post of Treasury Board president.The only other elected Québecer with legislative experience, former provincial Union Nationale education minister Marcel Masse, landed the communications portfolio.The remaining seven are little known nationally or even within Québec.They run the gamut from staunch Québec nationalists such as Benoit Bouchard, the new minister of state for transport from the remote Lac St.Jean region north of Québec City, to self-made millionaire André Bisson-nette, founder of a chicken processing firm in the city of St.Jean south of Montreal, who Mulroney selected as minister of state for small businesses.Other newcomers were Monique Vezina, a co-operative movement ex-cutive, who became minister of state for external relations, Robert Layton, See QUÉBEC, page 2 RECORD/PERRY BEATON Cabinet-maker * fpl Cabinet-maker Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced the new gnations were a record 40 members of which six were cabinet of his recently-elected Progressive Conservative women, also a new mark in Canadian politics, government Monday in Ottawa.Included in the desi- Farm community praises Wise choice Mulroney draws on West to fill ministry posts By Clyde Graham WINNIPEG (CP) — The appointment of Ontario MP John Wise as federal agriculture minister — a job he held briefly in 1979 — was praised Monday by farm groups.“I think farmers around the country will be very well pleased with Mr.Wise’s appointment because of his experience,” said Glenn Flaten, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.There was some disappointment by western farm leaders that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney hadn't chosen a westerner for the farm portfolio when his new Cabinet was sworn in Monday.The last three agriculture minsters — including Wise — have all been from Ontario.However, Lome Hehn, president of Winnipeg-based United Grain Growers Ltd., said although he had hoped for a western agriculture minister, Wise is still a good choice.“I think Mr.Wise has the ability and experience and will be sensitive to western issues,” said Hehn, head of Western Canada’s largest farmer-owned grain co-operative.There was also general support among farmers for the appointment of Manitoba M P Charlie Mayer as minister of state for the Canadian Wheat Board.Mayer, who replaced Wise as Conservative agriculture critic when Mulroney took over the party leadership, had been touted as a contender for the agriculture portfolio.BACKGROUND HELPS Hehn said Mayer's background as a farmer at Carberry, Man., will help him in running the federal agency responsible for exporting Prairie grain.Stuart Thiesson, executive secretary of the left leaning National Farmers Union, said although he applauded Wise’s appointment, he fears Mayer doesn’t support the principles behind the Wheat Board.Thiesson said Mayer has spoken out against the use of marketing boards in the livestock industry and has opposed adding feed grains to the list of grains already marketed by the Wheat Board.Wise, 58, the MP for the southern Ontario riding of Elgin, is a dairy farmer and held the farm portfolio in Joe Clark’s brief Tory Government formed in 1979 and defeated in 1980.The former municipal politician left behind few concrete developments after his brief tenure.He increased support for dairy farmers and pushed in Cabinet for aid to farmers hurt by Canada’s grain embargo against the Soviet Union.By Irwin Block MONTREAL (CP)- A 65-year-old American transient sent rambling letters warning about a “second coming” and “the end of the papacy” before and after a Labor Day bombing here that killed three French tourists and wounded 41 people, a coroner’s inquiry was told Monday.Three witnesses told Quebec City fire commissioner Cyrille Delage they received the bizarre communiques from a man identifying himself as Thomas Brigham or Brigham Young.And an explosives expert testified that the bomb which caused the blast was a "complex” and “unusual” device.Thomas Brigham, 65, is being detained in connection with the death of one of the victims, while the inquiry takes place.Kathleen Baktis, who works at the information counter at Central Station where the bomb exploded, said she received two pages from Brigham Aug.28, with disjointed references of the coming of “Fatima to Ville-Marie." Bank employee Michel Masson received similar letters warning of “disturbances scheduled labor week." In the past, he has supported supply-management programs and was instrumental in setting up several Ontario marketing boards.However, as agriculture critic, he opposed establishment of the Liberal government’s new farm products marketing agency, Canagrex.Flaten said the major issue Wise will face initially is the financial plight facing many farmers, hit by high interest rates and low prices for their produce.CBC news anchorwoman Kathy Keefler met a man she identified as Brigham at the CBC parking lot in mid-August when he handed her two of more than a dozen notes that were eventually sent to the CBC that also warned of the end of the papacy and of a second coming.Keefler quoted Brigham as saying : “I want to be sure that everyone gets the message and that it doesn’t end up in the waste basket.” Delage was named by Quebec Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson to inquire into the bombing that occurred days before Pope John Paul arrived in Quebec.DESCRIBES BOMB Bernard Pomainville, a physicist with the Montreal police, said the explosion was probably caused by a pipe bomb that contained nytroglycerine with gasoline as an added explosive.The bomb had the force of seven to 10 pounds of dynamite, he said.Pomainville said the bomb was “very powerful, relatively complex, unusual." Madeleine Lalande runs the rooming house where Brigham had been staying since last April.She said she saw him leave the morning of the explosion with a brown duffle bag.She said she saw him again at about 12.30, and he asked her if she had By Edison Stewart OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Mulroney shifted power to the West from Quebec on Monday as he announced an unprecedented 40-member cabinet that includes six women — double the previous record — to head the first Conservative majority government in almost a quarter century.There are 13 westerners or northerners in all, including former prime minister Joe Clark from Alberta in the prestigious External Affairs portfolio, Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen from Yukon, Energy Minister Pat Carney from Vancouver and Government House Leader Ray Hnatys-hyn from Saskatoon.It is the largest single contingent in cabinet.Quebec and Ontario each have 11 ministers and the four Atlantic provinces have only five.It is a marked contrast from the previous government which had Quebecers in such senior portfolios as external affairs, finance, health and Treasury Board.Now the most senior Quebecer — aside from Mulroney himself — is Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret, former vice-president of the National Bank of Canada and a survivor of the short-lived Clark government of 1979.APPOINTS NEWCOMERS Most of the other Quebec ministers, being complete newcomers, were consigned to junior ministries of state to earn their stripes.The key Finance portfolio went to Michael Wilson, a former Toronto investment dealer and leadership candidate who eventually threw his support to Mulroney at the 1983 leadership convention.Mulroney and his new team were sworn in by Gov.Gen.Jeanne Sauve in a nationally televised ceremony less than an hour after Liberal Leader John Turner stepped down as the 17th prime minister after 80 days in office.The Conservatives — riding high on their record 211-seat majority — were enthused at reaching the oasis of power after wandering for so long in the political desert.Industry Minister Sinclair Stevens even skipped over part of his oath in the rush to be sworn in, prompting some gentle teasing from Mulroney heard about what had happened at the station.“I answered that I had,” said Lalande.“He smiled and went to his room, after telling me that he was in the toilet at the station when the bomb went off.” Sixteen-year-old Darryl Branch, of Bathurst, N.B., said he saw Brigham standing near the lockers at the station with a brief case just before the blast.His mother, Brenda Branch, testified that Brigham offered to give them change for $2 so they could use the lockers, and appeared uncomfortable.“He was very nervous.His hands were shaking.He seemed to want to leave in a hurry,” she said.Canadian Press reporter Kathryn Leger testified she interviewed Brigham for up to 30 minutes after the blast outside Central Station.She said he told her he had written a rambling note that talked about the end of the papacy.Leger said Brigham told her at the time :“A11 we are trying to do is make people aware " When she left him and headed toward a group of policemen, Leger said Brigham walked away briskly.and laughter from the audience in the ballroom of Government House, Sauve’s official residence.Turner, who leaves today for a southern vacation, immediately attacked Mulroney for the size of the new cabinet —11 larger than his own, three larger than Pierre Trudeau’s record 37 — and charged instead of less government, as he had promised, “what he has done is given us more government.” RESERVES JUDGEMENT However, New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent reserved judgment.“If they get control of their bureaucracy, if they establish programs and courses of action soon, that number is not necessarily bad,’ ’ Broadbent said.Mulroney acknowledged to reporters the cabinet is “fairly large” but said it is worthwhile.“I want, as the Canadian people would want, (a) that the regions be thoroughly and adequately represented and (b) that we exert political control over the instruments of government and by that I mean, in the best sense of the word, that the public service and its instruments are responsive to the will of the people.” However, in adding 11 ministers — a move expected to cost taxpayers at least a few million dollars a year — Mulroney seems to have had more in mind.He appeased the right wing of the party through such appointments as former party president Robert Coates from Nova Scotia as defence minister.But he also bowed to the left, the so-called Red Tories, through such appointments as southern Ontario’s Walter McLean, a Presbyterian minister, as secretary of state.Mulroney even saluted John Diefenbaker, the last Tory to head a majority government, by appointing former Diefenbaker minister George Hees to veterans affairs.Similarly, he rewarded Toronto's Sinclair Stevens — one of his top caucus supporters in the drive to dump dark — with industry but put former Clark supporters Flora MacDonald and Jake Epp in employment and health respectively.In all, 16 ministers from the former Clark government were included, though not all backed Mulroney in the 1983 leadership contest.Newfoundlander John Crosbie, Clark’s outspoken former finance minister and a former leadership adversary, was shunted into the less troublesome justice portfolio.Elmer MacKay, who briefly gave up his Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova so Mulroney could enter the Commons last fall, was rewarded with the job of solicitor general.Gerald Merrithew, a former New Brunswick cabinet minister, was named to head the new Forestry Department West coaster John Fraser was given fisheries.Ontario MP Perrin Beatty, who led a Tory assault against alleged inequities of the tax system, was given the Revenue Department to put his theories into practice.Other prominent appointments included: — Don Mazankowski of Alberta to transport, the same job he held under Clark.— Ontario MP John Wise, agriculture minister under Clark, as agriculture minister.— George Hees, the senior Ontario MP who has held a Commons seat since 1950 except for a two-year absence, as veterans affairs minister.— Saskatchewan MP Bill McKnight to labor.Three witnesses received warnings of CN station bombing, commission told 2—The RECORD—Tuesday.September 18, 1984 Québec cabinet ministers balk at possible caucus language problems Continued from page I a Montreal engineer, now minister of state for mines, Michel Côté, a Québec City accountant and onetime organizer for Mulroney's bid for the leadership of the Tories, who was named minister of consumer and corporate affairs.APPOINTS ACTOR Andrée Champagne, a former Québec television star who became active in the province’s performing artists’ union, was named minister of state for youth, while Suzanne Blais-Grenier, a former Québec civil servant with an impressive academic record in economics, sociology and social work, became environment minister.Most of the new cabinet members from Québec are among those Mulroney personally sought out to run as Tory candidates in a province that had been a political wasteland for the Conservatives since the early 1960s.On Sept.4, the Conservatives went from one Québec seat to 58.Bouchard, a former vice-principal of a junior college who decided to take the plunge into federal politics after working as an organizer for Parti Québécois cabinet minister Marc André Bedard said he plans to meet Transport Minister, Don Mazan-kowski, to get an idea of what the department’s priorities will be.Vezina, who was among several Tory candidates singled out as having separatist leanings during the elec- tion campaign by former prime minister John Turner, wouldn’t discuss her priorities as minister for external relations.“Everything is new.I’m very happy with the responsibilities that have been confided with me.” On the possibility of friction between anglophones and the Québec MPs in the Tory caucus, Vezina said, “I think it’s recognized now that we can speak in English and French; therefore I’m altogether serene with my commitment.” Mulroney ruffled some Manitoba MPs when he backed a controversial Commons resolution supporting the expansion of French-language rights in that province.But he also courted Québec nationalists during the election campaign by promising to protect Québec’s interests in Ottawa and heal the wounds left by a decade of federalist-nationalist wrangling within the province.LaSalle, the only Québec Tory MP at the time of the party skirmishing over the Manitoba language issue last spring, said he didn’t expect any friction between English-speaking and French-speaking caucus members.“Nobody’s going to be reproached for being a nationalist,” he said.“The philosophy of the party has been drawn up along the lines of cooperative federalism and must therefore respond to the expectations of the provinces.On that I don t think there will be any problem.Papal visit left vendors high and dry WINNIPEG (CP) — When Pope John Paul flew out of Winnipeg, he left behind a debt of more than $1 million, a mountain of garbage and thousands of unsold hotdog buns.The pontiff’s visit Sunday was the experience of a lifetime for many.But it was a disappointment to those who miscalculated how much up to 200,000 people would spend on a day at a papal mass.The cost of the visit was between $5 million and $6 million and organizers expect a deficit of more than $1 million.“We’ll try to reduce it as much as we can,” said Father Walter Szumski, who is in charge of finance for the papal visit secretariat in Winnipeg.Szumski said the debt could go well past $1 million if there is a significant shortfall in revenues from the bus service that took worshipers from Winni- in Winnipeg peg to the papal mass at Birds Hill Park, just north of the city.Organizers planned on 130,000 riders but it was estimated that only 15,000 used the service.The biggest losers Sunday were food vendors at Birds Hill, some of whom may go bankrupt and are considering filing a lawsuit against visit organizers.SANDWICH ANYONE?“I took a big dip,” said Chris Argi-riou, who estimated he will lose $28,000 unless he finds a buyer for a frozen mound of 28,000 unsold sandwiches.McGavins Foods Ltd.hauled several truck loads of hotdog buns and sandwich bread to Birds Hill but only sold a fraction of the supply.McGavins spokesman Bill Moody says the company will probably try to turn the bread into turkey stuffing in time for Thanksgiving.Atlantic balloonist OK, looking for place to land AIX EN PROVINCE, France (AP) — American balloonist Joe Kittinger was still aloft over Europe this morning, looking for a landing site, after completing the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.His 10-storey high, helium-filled balloon, the Rosie O’Grady, crossed the French coast 19 kilometres north of Biarritz on Monday night — just over 80 hours after Kittinger lifted off from Caribou, Me., late Friday.Six other men have failed in solo crossings, two died in the attempt.Officials at the Aix en Province air traffic control centre said Kittinger was over the Mediterranean, heading toward a possible landing in Italy.It reported his position at 9:30 a m.(3:30 a.m.EDT) as 10 kilometres off the southern French coast over St.Tropez.It said his speed was 72 kilometres an hour and his altitude about 4,500 metres.The balloon crossed over the French Atlantic coast at 10:29 p.m.Monday (4:29 p.m.EDT), and travelled during the night over southern France and out over the Mediterranean, crossing near the port of Narbonne, Toulouse air traffic control reported.A French reporter who spoke briefly to Kittinger from the Biarritz control tower said the balloonist described the completion of the crossing as “magnificent, now I just have to land safe and sound.” Finger-plugging rafters rescued after 24 hours WILSON, N Y.(AP) — Two Canadian fihsermen who used their fingers to plug a hole in their inflatable life raft were rescued after spending 24 hours adrift on Lake Ontario, officials say.The U S.coast guard reported that Steve Kralik, 31, of Toronto and Howie Hamilton.43, of Newfoundland, his hometown not immediately available, were rescued Sunday afternoon off Wilson, N.Y., about 19 kilomeres east of the Niagara river.The men were rescued by a fishing Weather Mostly sunny today with increasing cloudiness tonight.Outlook for Wednesday — mostly cloudy with a chance of showers.High both days 18, low tonight 5.charter boat operated by Joe Kulis, a taxidermist from Bedford, Ohio, near Cleveland, officials said.“It was extremely lucky that we found them,” said Kulis, 40, who also runs the Kulis Charter Boats service near Wilson, N.Y.“We never go into that area.I guess we were supposed to find them.” The coast guard said Kralik and Hamilton left Toronto about 1 p.m.Saturday and their 8.5-metre cabin cruiser sank about 12 nutical miles off Toronto island.The men were able to salvage the raft, a down sleeping bag, life jackets and some flares.They sent up about 25 flares, the coast guard reported.As the boat broke up, the men grabbed some wooden boards to use as paddles.A nail in one board punctured the raft, and the men were forced to take turns plugging the hole with their fingers to stay afloat, officials said.The two were treated in a hospital in Newfane, N.Y., for cold-water exposure, officials said.thei -I ^ H Ij ¦ I I 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 - $72 80 weekly $1 40 Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1 year - $55 00 6 months - $32 50 3 months - $22 50 1 month - $13 00 U S.8> Foreign: 1 year • $100.00 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of 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the rehabilitation of Joe Clark from the low days that followed his nine-month government in 1979 and subsequent resignation as party leader in February 1983.Later that year, Mulroney won the party leadership and Clark started the long climb back to finding a spot within the only profession that he has ever practised for any period of time — politics.Mulroney helped, to a degree.He made Clark the Tories’ expert on arms control and disarmament and commissioned him to do a thorough study on the issue.However the report, given to Mulro- ney last summer, hasn’t been published and may never be.Similarly, although Mulroney has appointed Clark external affairs minister, he simultaneously abolished the influential cabinet committee on foreign and defence policy that the minister by tradition heads.Instead, the powerful cabinet committee on planning and priorities, headed by Mulroney himself, will oversee policy and spending decisions on external affairs and aid.‘INNER CABINET’ Clark will be one of 14 ministers on priorities and planning — which is essentially the “inner cabinet.” Just after being sworn in Monday as the architect of Canadian foreign policy, Clark was asked what has happened to his disarmament report, which by some accounts includes proposals for a limited nuclear-weapons freeze.After refusing to discuss any specifics, Clark said he had talked to Mulroney about the report’s future “very quickly” last week and no decision was reached.‘ ‘The options range from publishing it through to having it serve as one of the documents that would be a basis of the public policy revision that we’re intending to act on fairly quickly as a government,” he added.Exactly how the Conservatives intend to shape Canadian foreign policy, for example whether it will be directed at specific problem areas, will be the subject of a discussion paper, Clark indicated.“We are committed to a public review of foreign policy questions but in a way that reflects the greatest respect which I personally hold for the people who are serving in the (External Affairs) Department now.” Asked how he expects to manage Canada-U.S.relations, Clark said, “We have interests of our own that we have to protect and will and we have a great many interests that are in common with the United States and I think there'll be an understanding of that on their part whatever the administration after the election in November.” Clark will have his first chance to meet senior Reagan administration officials as external affairs minister next week in New York, where he will attend meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.Clark must also deal with some business remaining from the Liberal government, particularly former prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s personal peace initiative aimed at promoting U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks.He said Monday that Trudeau’s ideas were “worth looking at,” but what the Conservatives will do remains “something we’re going to continue to study.” As much as Clark wanted the external affairs job, there is some irony in his receiving it.While Clark’s government helped engineer the dramatic escape of Americans during the hostage crisis in Iran, Clark also had to back away from an election campaign promise to move the Canadian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.There is just a flash of anger in his voice when he replies to a question about whether he made any deal with Mulroney for the external affairs job.“I was appointed on my talent which is apparent to everyone in the country,” he said sharply.Mulroney praised for women appointments By Nicole Baer OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney named a record six women to his first cabinet Monday, doubling the previous record of three and gave responsibility for the Status of Women to a man.Spokesmen for women’s groups immediately praised Mulroney’s decision to give so many of his 40 cabinet posts to women, saying he was taking a first step toward putting flesh on the bones of his campaign promises of equality for women.Veteran Ontario MP Flora MacDonald, external affairs minister in Joe Clark’s 1979 government, returned to cabinet — this time as minister of employment and immigration.British Columbia MP Pat Carney, also re-elected Sept.4, was given the weighty Energy, Mines and Resources portfolio.She was Tory ener- gy critic in the last Parliament.The remaining four women are all from the ranks of the 16 female Tory newcomers.Toronto-St.Paul’s MP Barbara MacDougall, a financial analyst, business journalist and former political aide, was named minister of state for finance — a junior portfolio responsible to Finance Minister Michael Wilson.From Quebec, Suzanne Blais-Grenier, a former director of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, was given responsibility for the environment; community activist Monique Vezina was named minister of state for external relations and actress, writer and broadcaster Andrée Champagne was given the post of minister of state for youth.Meanwhile, Secretary of State Walter McLean, MP for Ontario’s Wa- terloo riding and a Presbyterian minister, was given the added responsibility for the status of women.That job, held by men such as Lloyd Axworthy, Marc Lalonde and John Munro in earlier Liberal administrations, was most recently held by former corporate affairs minister Judy Erola in the Liberal governments of both Pierre Trudeau and John Turner.McLean said it is natural for the Secretary of State Department to have responsibility for the status of women since that department distributes funds to women’s organizations.Prior to the appointment of six women on Monday, a total of only eight women ever sat around the cabinet table.In his last cabinet shuffle before resigning as prime minister in February, Trudeau had a record three women ministers.Sally Barnes, former head of the Ontario Advisory Council on the Status of Women, said in a Toronto interview she is pleased women were given some tough portfolios and not typical social service posts.She said she is especially happy MacDonald was given responsibility for employment “where she’ll be able to make changes that particularly affect women and have a department to back her up.” Dorothy Inglis, vice-president of the non-partisan National Action Committee on the Status of Women, said from Newfoundland that MacDonald has done some important work on the effect on jobs of new advances in microtechnology.Experts in the field fear jobs in the clerical sector most often held by women will be hit hardest in the technological revolution.Forestry minister says more funds top priority By Madelaine Drohan OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Mulroney looked east instead of west for his first forestry minister, but Gerry Merrithew of New Brunswick says he has a firm grasp on the industry’s problems from coast to coast.Merrithew, one of 39 cabinet ministers announced by Mulroney on Monday, left the New Brunswick legislature after 12 years to run in the federal election.He says forestry is the No.1 industry in his home province as well as in British Columbia and he looks forward to running the new ministry.He reminded reporters Monday that as minister of natural resources in New Brunswick since 1982 he has been responsible for the province’s forests.He also sat on the board of directors of the Crown agency Forest Protection Ltd., which administers the province’s controversial spraying program against spruce budworm.Although the Canadian Forestry Service was established before the turn of the century, forestry was not made a full-fledged ministry until 1960 under John Diefenbaker.It was merged with another ministry in 1966 and was subsequently reduced to a branch of the environment ministry headed by an assistant deputy minister.Merrithew said Monday the provinces and the forest industry have been urging the federal government to establish a separate ministry for some time.The Liberals resisted, saying forestry is a provincial concern.The provinces own about 80 per cent of productive forest land in Canada, compared with about 11 per cent for the federal government and eight per cent for private interests.Nevertheless, Merrithew says he anticipates few problems in dealing with the provinces, especially British Columbia which accounts for the majority of forest product exports."I’ve worked with the minister in B.C.and while I might not know all of the details, you have to remember that in New Brunswick forestry is our first industry as well.We’ll be able to work with all the ministers.I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again.” Merrithew said increased funding for forestry is his first priority, something that will be welcomed by the Canadian Forestry Service.Richard Herring, assistant deputy minister in charge of the forestry service, says he is delighted with Mer-rithew’s appointment.The new minister has a good view of the forest industry and has experience in managing a forestry operation, Herring said in an interview.He added that if the Conservatives live up to their campaign promises, funding for the new ministry will double from its current $150 million a year.However, Herring does not expect the staff of about 1,200 will increase significantly.PROVIDES MANY JOBS William Dumont, president of the Association of B.C.Foresters, said the appointment recognizes that forestry provides 10 per cent of Canadian jobs.“I don’t see a massive increase in spending, but I think we will see forestry used as a vehicle for solving some of the unemployment,” he said.Dumont and Allan Sinclair, vice-president of the Council of Forest Industries of B.C., said they would have preferred creation of a forestry department rather than a ministry because a department would have meant greater clout in cabinet.However, Sinclair said the council is delighted that the first step has been taken to ensure the forestry industry is represented at the cabinet table.In the past, relations between the federal government and the provinces on forestry have not always been amiable and negotiations between Ottawa and British Columbia for a new forestry agreement ended in a stalemate earlier this year.Agreements have been signed or initialled with all but three of the provinces, Herring said.But the three holdouts are the major forestry producers — B.C., Ontario and Quebec.Businesses pleased with PM s balancing act TORONTO (CP) — Apart from the odd dissenter, business spokesmen called Prime Minister Mulroney’s new cabinet Monday a clever balancing act — and all expressed delight that Michael Wilson had won the finance ministry.“We think there is a good business representation in cabinet,” said David Gibson, vice-president of government relations for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.“It appears that close to one-third of the cabinet has a business background and we feel that is enough but not too much.” Gibson said he was also encouraged by the number of women who made it into cabinet positions."They seem to us to bring considerable experience; they’re not just tokens." Meanwhile, Quebec business spokesmen said they were pleased with the regional balance of Mulroney’s new cabinet.“Quebec is well-served with its 45 per cent (share) of the cabinet."said Arthur Earle, president of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce.The appointment of Michael Wilson was hailed by every business spokesman, who see him as one of them."We are very pleased with his selection," said Andrew Kniewasser, president of the Investment Dealers’ Association of Canada.“He knows the financial and business situation of this country as well as anybody.He will be a strong minister of finance.” Wilson, who held the post of executive vice-president of the investment house Dominion Securities Ames Ltd.during the mid-1970s, should make re- duction of the deficit and restoration of investor confidence in Canada his two major tasks, several spokesmen said.Sebastien Allard, president of the Conseil du patronat, Quebec’s largest employers’ group, suggested that the new cabinet tackle the deficit by reviewing the universality of such social programs as medicare and family allowances.Business also generally welcomed the appointment of Pat Carney as energy, mines and resources minister, Perrin Beatty to National Revenue, Robert dc Cotret to the Treasury Board and Sinclair Stevens to Regional Industrial Expansion.Kniewasser said Beatty "did a wonderful job” as Opposition revenue critic "and I have no doubt his department will be more fairly administe- red than it was under the previous administration.” Beatty played a leading role in exposing heavy-handed tactics the department used in trying to collect taxes.However, Geoffrey Hale, policy director for the Canadian Organization of Small Business said Beatty “is overqualified” for the job.He had even harsher words for Flora MacDonald’s appointment to the employment and immigration portfolio, which deals with among other things unemployment insurance claims and policies.“That is a ministry which has had schizoid tendencies for many years between those who believe in pushing around small business and those who want it to work," he said MacDonald “has shown herself to be in the first group " 1 The RECORD—Tuesday, September 18, 1984—3 The Townships fleMWiSSl tcecora Farnham licorice plant may close instead of negotiating with union By Merritt Clifton FARNHAM — Faced with the odd combination of a strike settlement and a lockout, the 46 workers at Far-nham's Sucraft licorice plant are demanding that the government investigate whatever’s going on.Their belief is that plant owners Robert Lafave, Harvey Uline, and Pak-Tech are attempting to circumvent the Quebec labor code by going out of business rather than negotiate.The workers believe Sucraft accepted a strike settlement last month only to keep within the letter of the law, without having any intention of actually fulfilling the agreed-upon terms.Lafave, Uline, and Pak-Tech spokesmen are meanwhile unavailable for comment, as is their official spokesman, Montreal lawyer Edouard Labelle.Even the government labor arbitration office has apparently been unable to reach Labelle, the third negotiator the owners have assigned to the case.The Famham labor dispute started about a year ago, when the Sucraft workers formed Le Syndicat des salaries de Reglisse Sucraft Inc., affiliated with the Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN).Acknowledged by the Quebec Labor Ministry in September, the union began negotiating a new contract last December.“Salaries, working conditions — everything at Sucraft was the legal minimum,” CSN spokesman Gerard Taylor charges.“The nearest plant doing something like Sucraft is Trebor, up in Granby.Their average wage is $8.20.Here it was $4.70, with only the mini mu m extra for overtime.They were making money.They had 30 or 32 employees when the union was organized, and when we went out on strike, they had 46.I won’t say they were making a lot of money,” Taylor continues, “but they had covered their expenses and their old debts, and were starting to make profits.” Sucraft had then been making licorice in Famham for about five years, as a supplier to other candy companies.The licorice was sold under a variety of brand names, throughout Canada and the United States.The firm had been organized around the equipment and rented warehouse left idle when another candymaker went bankrupt during Famham’s prolonged water pollution crisis of the late 1970s, which repeatedly forced the plant to close for public health reasons.“Water is no longer a problem,” Taylor says.The CSN claims to have had no idea that Sucraft might close when they launched what became a bitter five-month strike.Eventually the union requested government arbitration.Spurred by concilliator Normand Gauthier of the ministry for labor, Sucraft appointed a new negotiator, attorney Edmund Tobin of Sherbrooke.Taylor claims Tobin, Gauthier, and the union finally reached agreement in principle on a contract and back-to-work protocol at the end of July.28 of the 46 workers ratified the agreement on July 30, a margin of 62%.But on August 6, when the owners and CSN were to have signed the new contract, the union found there wasn't one.Instead, Lafave, Uline, and Pak-Tech fired Tobin.Labelle was their new spokesman, who couldn’t be contacted.“Since they appear to be shutting down, we have formed an anti-closing committee,” Taylor said at a press conference last Friday.“We went to the unemployment office and stated formally that there is no strike here, since the workers have accepted the terms of the contract, and that because there is no strike, the workers should get unemployment insurance.” Meanwhile, the CSN will continue providing strike pay to the Sucraft workers, and will maintain their picket line “even though they have no strike.It is not a matter of money,” Taylor emphasizes.“The workers agreed to getting much less money than their competitors get, and we are not getting any money from them besides the $2.00 apiece they paid for their membership cards when the union was formed.It is a matter of standing up for workers’ rights, and we will support them until the plant is reopened, either as Sucraft or under somebody else who takes it over.” Taylor believes the CSN can force Sucraft to financially contribute to a government inquiry into the closure.“We are going to force them to state whether they are opened or closed,” Taylor promises.“If they are going 4 aeti&WW: w PHOTO MFRRl rï CLIFTON ' * f ' HtHS The Sucraft licorice plant in Famham.Wages there are well below par, Workers have been locked out.out of business here, we are going to file a complaint because the workers did not receive proper notice and did not get their severence pay.It would not be much for most of them, a week or two weeks, but under the law they should receive it.” One reason behind the CSN’s intense interest in this case is that the Sucraft owners have several other, larger plants in Quebec.Lafave, whom Taylor says is “well-known to be anti-union,” recently accepted a contract agreement at a plant in Joliet after 18 months of government arbitration.With Sucraft closed, at least temporarily, Famham’s north industrial park boasts only two operating factories.Most of the south industrial park but there are no negotiations going on.was never developed at all, after grandiose plans for it were announced 20 years ago.Once one of the Eastern Townships’ major economic hubs, Famham today is believed to have the highest unemployment rate in all the region, rivaled only by Waterloo.Labor Canada won’t release the official statistics, but the rate could exceed 40%.Vandals bust up Baptist graveyard PHOTO/MKRRITT CLIFTON :**£ ' f'- I* ÉÉMlf ip* •****- -A* S* "M.A , , > .% r, f-' * ' Wp&Si mm.wgp! sfe* MU S*: l- f Wvr | Hi 11 ^ ••***-1 Vv • 17 gravestones were knocked down at the Baptist cemetery in Abbott's Comer.A startlingly high number of them marked children's graves.ABBOTT’S CORNER ,4 No, they aren’t cheating.That’s the way competition plowing is done.Each one finishes his partner’s land as well as his own, making a neat job of the affair.judging crowns, ins and outs, finishes and the over-all efficiency of each plowmen.“This is quite different from tractor plowing,” he added, as the judges sheets flapped in the chilly breeze.“The ridge is about 25 feet by 150 long and the biggest difference is in the finish where a water furrow must be the final pass.With tractors, a trash furrow is the last one turned.That puts quite a different approach to the competitors’ measurement and makes horse plowing very different from the tractors,” he added.The group is planning a banquet and prize distribution sometime in November when the other county matches have been completed.U.S.campaign could change Canadian fortunes There’s an old saying that goes: “When the United States sneezes, Canada gets a cold.” The line especially applies to agriculture, since the bulk of Canada’s farm produce is sold to world markets, where the United States is the biggest player.And since, more directly, the United States is also a major buyer of Canadian meat.With a presidential election campaign added to the situation, Canadian farmers are watching for symptoms south of the border that could give them a touch of the grippe, or in other cases, possible relief in the form of new opportunities.International grain prices, for example, are generally set on commodity markets of the Chicago Board of Trade because the United States is the world’s leading exporter of grain.Although Canada’s grain harvest has been cut by about 16 per cent because of drought this summer, prices rise and fall more with the fortunes of American farmers.U.S.DOING WELL The latest Statistics Canada situation report says crops in the United States have generally been doing well.“In contrast to the Canadian situation, estimates of the 1984 U.S.crop suggest that a return to more normal growing conditions has led to a rebuilding of stocks,” says the report.That means there likely won’t be any major increases in grain prices for Canadian farmers, who are harvesting their worst crop since 1980.On the political side, with Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale vying for the top job in the White House, the U.S.administration is caught in a tug of war between the powerful farm lobby and a number of business interests.The American steel, copper and •Focus on Farmmg I textile industries have been pressing for protection from foreign imports.But farm groups have been opposing higher tariffs, quotas and other regulations, fearing that other countries will retaliate with import restrictions against U.S.farm products.TIED TO TEXTILES American farmers are especially worried about rules that would cut imports of Chinese textiles.One of those stiffer regulations took effect Sept.7 and farm analysts fear China, which had a bumper grain crop this year, will retaliate by cutting back on exports from the United States.The last time the United States took action against Chinese textiles, in 1983, American farmers lost $500 million in sales.Chinese trade retaliation might normally mean a greater market opportunity for Canada, which ships more grain to China than any other country other than the Soviet Union.However, because of the drought on the Prairies, grain available for export will be down sharply.“We won’t have enough left for market development,” says Carol Nachtigall, a market analyst with the Manitoba Departmentof Agriculture.Canadian livestock producers are also worried by complaints from U.S.farmers about imports of low-priced Canadian pork.Farmers in Iowa, a hog-producing state, have been calling for restrictions on the movement of Canadian pork into U.S.supermarkets.Howe- ver, officials on both sides of the issue have said formal controls are unlikely.But that was before the U.S.National Pork Producers Council announced in August it will back calls for import controls on pork.The U.S.International Trade Commission is studying the impact of Canadian pork imports and a report is expected in November.Canada’s pork exports to the United States were valued at $69 million in the first half of this year.American farmers have also been complaining about competition from Canadian cabbage, carrots and potatoes.Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives have already promised to go to bat for Canadian farm interests ; it could be one of the new government’s first tests on agricultural policy.Sector meetings The regional UPA federation is gearing up for its annual general meeting scheduled for October 4 in Ascot Corner at the Salle O Grand Air with a series of sector meetings, most of which have already taken place.The remaining meetings are as follows; Lake Megantic sector — Tuesday, Sept.18, 8:30p.m., Motel-Hotel Paolo, Lake Megantic: Coati-cook sector — Wednesday, Sept, 19, 8:30 p.m.in the basement of St-Edmond Church, Coaticook: Wee-don sector— Monday, Sept.24,8:30, main room of the Weedon Community Centre: SawyerviUe sector — Tuesday, Sept.25, 8:30 p.m.in the basement of the Sawyerville church.At the big meeting in October a new executive of the regional federation will be elected (or an old one re-elected).All nominations must be given to your regional secretary by Sept.26.Nominations for the presidency, held at the moment by Jacques Blais, must be handed into the federation by Sept.26 at 4:30.Nomination forms are available upon request.• Anyone who wants to take part in UPA '&SNEWS a special calf and beef cattle auction and haven’t yet received registration forms can still get them at the UPA office on Bourque Boulevard in Rock Forest or from any regional Quebec Agriculture Ministry office.The auction is scheduled for two days — October 12 and 26.Those who want to be in the first one should register as soon as possible.For more information call Robert Trudeau at (819) 567-8905.• The Eastern Townships Wood Producers Syndicate has some ‘first-come-first-serve’ government money available 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WHAT6 PoRtH! patio: OTHER PP THE P -STAND FbR?Bury Nina Rowell Recent guests of Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Dougherty were Mrs.Marguerite Bennett and Donna Bennett of Sherbrooke, Mrs.Connie Martel and Ca- rolyn of Repentigny, Mrs.Jean Letky and Louis Sonneveld of Asbestos.Mr.and Mrs.Aulden Clark and Mr.Frank McConnell of Bishop-ton were Sunday guests of Mrs.Carl Clark.Mr McConnell attended the funeral of Allen Kelso.Mrs.Jessie Pierce and daughter Jane of Ayer’s Cliff, accompanied by Mr.Howard Gibson of Lennoxville, were recent dinner guests of the Mayhews.Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Boynton and daughters Orma and Mary spent a few days in Belleville, Ont., visiting Mrs.Boynton’s mother, Mrs.Naomi Bowker, and brother and sister-in-law, Mr.and Mrs.Wesley Bowker.Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Boynton, Orma and Mary attended the Caunter-Daley wedding in Hunting ville.Miss Orma Boynton has returned to John Abbott College in Ste.Anne de Bellevue, where she has resumed her studies in nursing.Mr.and Mrs.Dan Pehleman 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patrons in the air-conditioned comfort of the hotel pub, the only one in this tiny village within sight of the United States border.“You’re in the heart of Mennonite country now,” says the bespectacled bartender, a Scotsman and retired federal civil servant named Gerry who left the big city for a town of a few hundred.Gretna, named by a Scotsman, is the exception in an area dotted with towns that are mostly German in name, agricultural-based in trade and largely Mennonite in makeup.Some Manitoba Mennonite communities, such as Altona and Winkler, have grown to become major centres of trade for the region, a little more than an hour’s drive south of Winnipeg.Still, it’s towns with names like Reinland, Schoenwiese, Blumen-feld, New Bercthal and Halbstpdt that dot the map south of Winnipeg and, with their friendly residents, give the region a flavor and culture of its own.Most of the villages are well off the main roads and were settled long ago by Menno-nites who left Russia — where they had emigrated from Germany — for a place where they could practise their religion and work the land.AREA BYPASSED They found it here, an area that other set-tlers bypassed in search of land better suited to agriculture.“This land was swamp,” says Henry Friesen, 66, a retired school administrator, businessman and now Gretna town councillor from the lush front yard of his home.“It waa bare, no trees, nothing," says the frail-looking Friesen, whose father and grandfather were Men-nonites."It was rather forbidding country.“But the Mennonites moved in here and you can see it today.After 100 years it’s a garden.They drained the land, were efficient at managing it and became very prosperous.” A freedom-seeking people, the Mennonites wanted to leave Russia because Catherine the Great was to revoke the rights they had left Germany to find.They came here in 1875 after the Canadian government invited them to settle land that would be set aside for them.Under the agreement, each adult male was given a free quarter-section of land in the southwest comer of the Pembina Valley with the option to purchase the remaining three-quarters at a dollar an acre.They were chosen to colonize the area after a government representative who visited Europe in search of suitable settlers reported the Russian Mennonites were “a hardworking, sober, moral and intelligent people.” COMMUNITY CHANGES Mennonites are followers of Menno Simons, a Dutch Catholic priest.They believe their society and religion are indivisible and that they owe allegiance to no wordly authority, only Christ.Friesen, who is not a member of the Mennonite Church but shares their heritage and background, says things are changing in the Mennonite communities in southern Manitoba.“There's not too much Low German spoken anymore,” he says.“You go to the coffee shop now and there might be 40 people around but all you hear is English.” Low German — the dialect generally spo- Making cider from your apples H.0 cyder is a great thing, A great thing to me, Spinning down to Weymouth town By Ridgeway thirstily, And maid and mistress summoning Who tend the hostelry : 0 cyder is a great thing, A great thing to me: So begins the poem Thomas Hardy wrote in praise of the truly great things in his life.At the top of the list, fermented Apple juice.Hardy even ranked it ahead of women and love.Was Hardy really that old when he penned his famous poem?Or did the cyder of Victorian Britain perhaps have a higher octane rating than the cider that is now being offered us on this side of the water?But it seems to me that for pure wicked adventure neither the cyder of old England nor store bought Canadian cider can compare with what can be generated from juice coaxed from your own apples and barrelled away in the far comer of the cellar until the bung threatens to blow.Commercially made ciders are completely predictable.Not so with what you make at home.Beyond the fact that your homebrew stuff will be a Mississippi brown in colour, you can never be sure how it will turn out.Sometimes, when it is finally ready to sample, you may wonder if your cider barrel might have once held paint remover.Sometimes it may taste like vinegar Indeed it may well be vinegar.And once when I was a boy back on the farm and my brothers and I hid away a stone jug full of juice by lowering it down the well, it tasted and smelled like turpentine when we were certain sure that we would have the real McCoy.The reason, so we discovered later, was that one of our pious little sisters had squealed on us and our pious little mother had secretly doctored the brew to teach us a lesson.“Be sure your sin will find you out, boys!” she said.Mother had a suitable scripture for any occasion.Our parents were temperance people.Belligerently so.Sweet cider was of course quite acceptable and we generally managed to have some made around Hallowe’en time.If I recall correctly the kind of apple preferred for cider making was the Fameuse, known to us then as the Snow apple, because its unique flavour was at its prime after the first snowfall.But at our home we were never permitted to make any more cider than could be manufactured with a kitchen food grinder.Our parents were apparently of the opinion that so small an amount would surely be consumed before it had time enough to ferment.Even the faintest suggestion that the juice might be mustering “zip” was enough to have it tossed into the swill barrel.1 am sure that it was the potential for evil in cider which made it so attractive to us boys then, and one summer we actually did get a gallon of the stuff hidden away in the haymow And while no one ever found out about it, the cider was a total failure.At first we thought that we hadn’t given it enough time, but the longer we waited, the worse it got.Finally the stuff turned completely vile, and no matter how carefully we strained out the gray slime which gathered on it, the flavour only got worse.It wasn’t even a sinful flavour.It tasted like a bad medicine of some sort.Now unbeknownst to our parents, we knew what real hard cider was like.We had tasted it on several deliciously secret afternoons in the cellar Gordon Green ken by residents of the lowlands of Germany — is used more in towns like Altona and Winkler, Friesen says.“Most people have a stereotyped image of Mennonites as being very sober and dark-clothed and all that, like the Amish in Ontario or Pennsylvania," he says, struggling to light his pipe in the breeze.“That’s not the case.There are a few groups, small groups, who are still very conservative but they’ve changed terrifically.” Friesen says education was long considered of minor importance by Mennonites because they didn’t have time for it and, as a people, they almost developed a phobia against it.But now, he says, Mennonites are right in the forefront of education.And while most Mennonites used to be farmers, they have now branched out into all vocations and pro- fessions.Until 50 years ago.Friesen says, Mennonites wouldn't take part in politics and wouldn't even vote.“But now all your municipal leaders, or most of them, are Mennonite.I’m on the town council myself.Our lo-cal MLA (Arnold Brown) is a Mennonite.We've had Mennonite MPs too." PRAISES NEIGHBORS Farmer Rhynie Pie-per, 76, a no Mennonite Gretna resident of German ancestry, speaks highly of his Mennonite neighbors.“They cut the mustard, if you know what I mean,” says Pieper, sipping a glass of draft in the Queen’s.“They work hard for what they get and they’re respected for it,” Marcel Bellec, 71, the always-smiling proprietor of a museum in the French community of St.Claude, about 90 kilo- metres northwest of Gretna, commended the Mennonites for their advances in education."While everybody is upset about the French-language issue in Manitoba, the Mennonites are teaching it to all of their kids," he says."They know that it’s an advantage to learn French." Back in his front yard, Friesen says the Mennonites are being integrated into the mainstream of rural Canadian society.But he says they'll always maintain some distance.“There used to be an expression among Mennonites, mind you this was a long time back: ‘He's not one of ours,'" Friesen says.“He might have been a good fellow and all that, but he was on the outer fringe.Friesen attributes that attitude to the isolation of ethnic pockets of settlers.“Now, with a hundred miles being nothing to travel, that’s disappearing.You’re getting a much more homogenized Ca-nadianism.Local people and a whole lot of others are very defi nitely Canadian and nothing else." Au Bon Marché 45 King West DART HEADQUARTERS! 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groceries, we went down to one of our drinking uncles and borrowed his cider press.Our uncle was so intrigued with the project that he lent his old truck as well, and when we got the press home we took it behind the garage, jacked up one rear wheel of the truck, connected said wheel to the press with a belt and started up the motor.A good many things went wrong before we discovered the exact combination of mechanics needed to power a cider press with the back wheel of that old truck, but eventually we were in business No one ever thought of spraying trees in those days and our apples were well populated with worms.Which meant that we couldn’t just throw the apples into the press whole.We had to slice each one in half, scoop out the worms and their little brown leavings, give the piece a quick wash and toss it in.And for two long hours that afternoon, while that old truck delivered power from the one hind leg in the air, we worked furiously and conscientiously.And then it became painfully clear to us that we were taking far too much time.So why worry about the worms?They didn’t eat anything but apple anyhow, did they?By mid afternoon we stopped cutting out the worms.We hadn’t found a suitable barrel as yet, but we cleaned out a wash tub as a temporary receptacle.And now that we had abandoned the folly of being perfectionists, the tub began to fill.But always there was the fear that we might get caught by our returning parents.And when we finally decided to cease operations for the day, we left the tub of brown juice where it was, hoisted the press into the truck, and breathed a great sigh of rehef when we got back home before there was any sign of our folks coming back from the vil- ,age The sigh gave way to anguish however as soon as we got into our barnyard.For there, draining the last dregs of our afternoon’s labour, were two very grateful cows.Eventually of course, our tele of woe got back to mother.And immediately she got scriptural again.“Be sure your sin will find you out, boys!” she said.HAMILTON (CP) -If mealtimes are a nightmare of green gobs catapulted across your kitchen floor, you may not be taking the right approach in encouraging your children to eat.Before you scream, threaten or punish by witholding dessert, pause a moment, and listen to what some experts say.“Parents who are over-insistent aren’t necessarily winning,” says Dr.Peter Elder, a child psychiatrist at McMaster University Medical Centre.“They’re doing it at the cost of the child be-coming subdued, overwhelmed,” he says.Children may respond from a desire to obey rather than out of development and growth.Parents also risk encouraging a habit of overeating.Anne Kennedy, nutritionist with the Ha-milton-Wentworth Department of Health Services, says: “If a child is forced to eat everything on his plate, he may be forcing himself to disregard feelings of fullness.” WATCH OBESITY Diane Pirhonen, pediatrics nutritionist at Chedoke-Me Master Hospital, says obesity is a far greater problem than undernutrition in children.“Other than obesity and occasionally anemia, we don’t have any other deficiency problems at the present time,” she says.“It’s very, very normal for children not to eat much.Our expectations are far too high about what children should be eating.” Pirhonen said parents worry needlessly when their children cut back on food intake af- ter their second year.A baby gains three times its birth weight in its first two ’ears, she said.They need smaller amounts of food after that.Kennedy says “it’s not so much the children who are the big concerns, it’s the parents adjusting themselves to feeding small children.” Although quantity of food may not be a problem, quality can be, and experts suggest a number of tactics to get children to eat proper foods.DESCRIBE TACTICS — Provide a good example.Donna Ci-liska, assistant professor of nursing at McMaster University, says “being a good example is the best way.“That's where parents fall down.The preach one thing and act another.” Pirhonen, who has raised three children to healthy eating, says she and her husband never kept chips or candy in the house.They offered their children snacks that were healthy and tasty — fresh fruit, raisins, unsalted peanuts and cheese.— Serve three well-balanced meals a day, as well as nutritious snacks.Pirhonen recommended setting a place for the child at every meal, and serving small quantities of a variety of foods.If the child refuses to eat, don’t nag him or her but don’t cook special meals afterwards.Her children “had to know that supper was over, the restaurant was closed after dinner,” says Pirhonen.“Even if there were skipped meals, that was OK.” per set Black chromed, 5 pat-tarn*, 19 to M grama.Alamo ahatta, re-seal flights.Harrows point guard, quality wallet The flight of the future! $-|87 FALCON Nickel Tungsten Darts 19 to 30 grams; wallet Included.Rag.$29.981 SILVER ARROW Darts ! $1747 SALE FACTORY SAMPLES and SLIGHTLY DAMAGED 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Institute's regular meeting was held September 7 in St.Augustine’s Church hall with six members and four guests from the Denison's Mills branch attending.After the recitation of the Mary Stewart Collect, the president, Pat Broscomb welcomed the members and guests.The roll call was answered by naming a favorite teacher and telling why.Answers were varied, and included strictness, a sense of humor, fairness, insistence on good posture, etc, The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting and the treasurer's report completed and the correspondence dealt with, plans were made for the upcoming County Tea to be held the following week.Dora Morrill.Agriculture convenor, reported that much valuable farmland has been, and is •>«*•"" "li- ned by soil erosion, not frequent enough rotation of crops, too much chemical fertiliser, and heavy machinery.Frances Hall, convenor of Home Economics and Health, gave an idea to get rid of the smell of javel water on the hands.Marion Sutherland gave a report of various activities of the County Historical Society.Donations were given to Pennies for Friendship, the birthday and sunshine Island Brook Mrs.Garfield Spaulding Angus MacLeod returned home from Pi-neridge campsite in Vermont in time to accompany his mother, Mrs.Leslie MacLeod for a few days holiday in North Conway, N.H.Accompanying them were Allan Stanley and Ginger Batley, and Leslie MacLeod and Mrs.Westgate joined them on the weekend.Mr.and Mrs.Justin Morrow of Northport, Fla., spent three weeks with his brother, Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth Morrow.While here, other visitors at the same home were Mr.and Mrs.W.Morrow, Mr.and Mrs.Lemieux and children of Montreal.Mr.and Mrs.Bert Lyon and their daughter and her husband of Sherbrooke, Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Osier and children of Dorval and Mr.and Mrs.Ian MacAulay of Montreal.John Ilika of Guelph, Ont., spent a week with his aunt, Mr.and Mrs.Earl Dawson and cousins, Mr.and Mrs.Terry Howell.The community was sorry to lose Mr.and Mrs Roland Warbur-ton from this area to Randboro.We wish them much happiness in their new area, "What is our loss is Randboro’s gain”.Terry Marlin of Ka-tevale has moved into the Warburton home.We welcome him and hope he has many good years here.Mr.and Mrs.Fred Burns were in Perth, Ont., where they attended the wedding of Mr.Bums’ niece’s (Daphne Burns-Henderson) daughter, then attended an Ayrshire Show in Ottawa.Congratulations go out to Mr.and Mrs.Fred Bums observing their 25th wedding anniversary.Many more years to you both.Mr.Walter Chamberlain celebrated his 91st birthday recently.Congratulations to you.Mr.Chamberlain takes walks every day and seems to be well for his years.The Aylmer Kerrs of Nova Scotia and the Keith Kerrs of Magog were visitors of their nephew, Fred Burns and Mrs.Bums.They also called on and visited many relatives and former neighbors in the area, during the summer.Mr.Arlington Spaulding and Mrs.Peggy Buick of Tillsonburg, Ont., were visitors of Mrs.Evelyn Lister and also visited Mrs.Ruby Banks.Other visitors of Mrs.Lister were Mrs.Olive Painter, with her two daughters Ardath and Beverly of Milby, and Mrs.Frank Stickles of Ottawa.Dale Burns has re- turned home from Whitby, Ont., where he was employed and has returned to his studies at Macdonald College, Montreal.Mrs.Frank Stickles of Montreal was a visitor of her sister, Mrs.Frank Hearn and Mr.Hearn.Mr.and Mrs.George Young of Ontario were visitors of his sister, Mrs.Clarence Lister and Mr.Lister and his brother, John and his wife.The Listers were guests of Mr.and Mrs.R.Westbroom and Mrs.Young in Sand Hill.Mr.and Mrs.H.Laroche and family of Georgetown, Ont., and Mrs.Geraldine Lowry of Sawyerville were guests of Mr.and Mrs.G.Boutin.Mrs.Boutin had the misfortune of hurting her foot which required medical attention.We all wish you a speedy recovery.The McNaughtons of Vankleek Hill, Ont., were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Robert Burns.Another visitor who spent a few days with her parents was Mrs.David Walker, while Mr.Robert Bums and Andrew were on a canoe trip to the Veren-drye Park.Tom Bean and family of North Hatley were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Malcolm Bums.While here, they all attended a car rally.Guests were Mr.and Mrs.R.Letourneau of North r The TOWNSHIP FERS ASSOCIATION invites everyone to attend thej fifth annual TOWNSHIPPERS' DAY Saturday, September 22nd, 1984 in KNOWLTON, QUEBEC ^Celebrating “THE WAY WE ARE’ with "Music *Art “Crafts “Dancing “Children’s Activities I*Information Booths “Special Events (Come to the showcase of Eastern Townships talent! ^Schedule of the day: |10:30 a.m.Booths and displays open at Knowlton Academy ]11:00 a.m.A Fashion Show of Antique Clothing at the Brome County Museum 1 30 p m ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF TOWNSHIPPERS’ ASSOCIATION 2:30 p.m.Hysterical Historical Trivia Quiz of the Eastern Townships.4:00 p.m.Tug-of-War competitions Mhere’s something for everyone at Townshippers’ Day.Bring the {whole family! I Day care facilities available between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.I For more information please contact the TOWNSHIPPERS’ ASSOCIATION j2313 King St.W.#308 Sherbrooke, Que.J1J 3W7 Tel.: (819) 566-5717 203 Main St.Cowansville, Que.J2K 1J3 Tel.: (514) 263-4422 jars.The travelling prize brought by Rita Olney was won by Kathy Potts.The next meeting will be held on October 8 at which time we hope to have a speaker on the subject of Learning Disabilities.At the close of the afternoon, everyone enjoyed delicious refreshments and a social hour.CLEVELAND-The Cleveland W.I.held Hatley who attended a birthday dinner in honor of their granddaughter Janice.Mr.and Mrs.Jeff Westgate and two sons of Kingston, Ont., and Mr.and Mrs.Paul Innés and daughters of St.Lambert were visitors of their grandmother, Mrs.Verna Westgate and of the Batleys and MacLeods.Mr.and Mrs.Howard Ryshpan, daughter and son of Toronto were visitors of Mrs.Ileana Burns.Milton Burns and daughter of Montreal were visitors at the same home.Mrs.Ileana Burns spent three days at Kemptville, Ont., where she attended Summer Event for the United Church work.Miss J.Perras of Oakville, Ont., spent a weekend with her uncle and aunt, Mr.and Mrs.Earl Dawson and cousins, the Howells.Before coming here, she was in Quebec where she registered at Laval University.their September meeting at the home of Dolly Sloane.The President, Doris Stevens opened the meeting with the Collect repeated in unison.Motto: It is with life, as with men, we make friends by being a friend.RollcaU: Name your favorite TV program.Eleven members were present.The minutes were read by the secretary, Myma Hebert.Treasurer’s report was given by Winnie Beausoleil.Motion made that bills be paid.Correspondence: a thank-you was received from the Taylor family for the sympathy card, a letter from Red Cross for a donation.Convenors reports: Agriculture, Matty Banfill brought in a book on houseplants.Citizenship, Legislation: Dolly Sloane received a letter on NDP.Home Economics and Health, Sandra Pari-seau read a letter from CanSave and passed around our cookbook for our 65th anniversary.Education and Cultu-ral Affairs: Peggy Healy held a quiz on “scrambled school words”.1st prize, Louise Perkins, 2nd, Doris Stevens.Canadian Indus- tries: Aline Healy read an article, “If Memory Serves", Sunshine and Buying: Ina Young sent a card.Old business : discussion of the 65th anniversary; new business: the tea and bazaar, Sept.15.A donation was made to Red Cross Rally taking place at North Hatley on Sept.25.The floating prize brought by Louise Perkins was won by Donna Coddington.Meeting adjourned, with the next one to be held at the home of Sandra Pariseau on October 4 at 7 p.m., cohostess Helen Mastine.A delicious lunch was served by our hostess Dolly Sloane and co-hostess Donna Coddington.GRANBY — The Granby West W.I.held their September meeting on Wed., Sept.5 at the home of Frances Crossfield, Abbotsford.Six members enjoyed a delicious salad luncheon, two other members joined the meeting at 2 p.m.The minutes of the June meeting were read and approved as read.There is never any meeting in July and this year due to illness among the mem- bers, there was no August meeting.Eight members answered the roll call: "Pay a penny for every year of your age.” Two bills were presented, one for a gift for a member who is in hospital and a bill for a donation to the Wales Home.These bills were moved paid and seconded.Convenor reports: Agriculture, read an article on coconut trees; Cit., reported on the election; Ed., read an article on five grade six students in Dallas couldn't find the U.S.A.on a map of the world.Home Ec, read an article on natural foods and vitamins, Canadian Industries, convenor absent.Publicity — All events reported to the right sources.Plans were made to attend the Shefford County WI semiannual meeting on Sept.12 at the United Church, Granby.As some of the mem-bers were leaving early to visit member Jeannie Lussier who is in the Cowansville Hospital, there was no time for a contest, so the meeting was adjourned.The October meeting will be held at the ho-meof Edna Irwin, Fisher’s Point, in Foster.Skinner So (Nadeau