The record, 20 septembre 1984, jeudi 20 septembre 1984

Thursday Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8 City .3 WHERE AH FOG CHARLIE GOODWIN.GRADE 5 LENNOXV1LLE PRIMARY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, September 20, 1984 35 cents I c-uSTat*.s 1 “And you say you had these given to you, is that right?” Works minister LaSalle freezes land groups’ activities OTTAWA (CP) — Public Works Minister Roch LaSalle imposed a moratorium Wednesday on the contracting activities of three Crown corporations and requested an immediate suspension on all land sales in the vicinity of Mirabel Airport near Montreal.The corporations, grouped under the Canada Lands Corp., are responsible for Mirabel and the old port areas of Montreal and Quebec City.In a letter addressed to the presidents of the corporations — Jean- Pierre Coyer, Paul Gerin-Lajoie and Jean Lambert — LaSalle also requested that all future contracts be withheld and submitted for his consideration.Coyer, a former Liberal cabinet minister, is president of the lands corporation.LaSalle asked for details on all contracts awarded during the past three or four months and information on contracts ready to be awarded.A news release from the minister’s office did not give any indication when the moratorium might be lifted.About 125 farmers whose land was expropriated to make way for Mirabel blocked access to the Canada Lands Corp.offices earlier this month, promising to stay put until the Conservative government was sworn into office.FOUGHT LIBERALS A spokesman for the demonstrators said the group, which had waged a long battle in and out of court with the Liberal government, wanted to en- sure that the Crown corporation didn’t dispose of excess expropriated land before the Tories took power.Spokesman Colette Cousineau said at the time that Prime Minister Mulroney had pledged his “unconditional support” for the farmers during the election campaign and Mulroney’s victory represented “a real opportunity to settle this out of court.” Last year, about 200 farmers filed for an injunction in federal court asking that Ottawa give them the first opportunity to buy back about 20,234 hectares of the expropriated farm land.The federal government said last winter it planned to give half the excess land to municipalities in the Mirabel area for industrial parks and an amusement centre.The other half was to be offered for sale to current occupants, many of whom are not the owners of expropriated land and rent their property from the corporation.m F .qrtmuii Hood ornament RECORD/PETER SCOWEN Sometimes it’s hard to find a parking spot at the McDonalds on King street, but this is going too far.Actually, the Chevette ended up on top of the Parisienne when its driver got to close to the steep embankment above the restaurant's parking lot and slowly slid down onto the hood of the car below.There were no injuries, in fact some people thought it was the funniest thing they’d seen in years.Van bomb rocks Embassy, kills 23, wounds 60 BEIRUT (CP) — A van filled with explosives crashed into the U.S.Embassy annex in mostly Christian East Beirut and blew up today, killing at least 23 people, wounding another 60, including the American ambassador and damaging the six-storey building.The Christian-owned Voice of Lebanon radio said the casualties included people inside the annex compound and outside, but it did not give a breakdown of the victims’ nationalities.In London, the British Foreign Office reported that Ambassador David Miers had been near the blast but was not hit.In Washington, U.S.State Department spokesman Sondra McCarty said she had received reports that Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew walked out of the compound and was being treated at a hospital for minor injuries.Lebanese military sources said Bartholomew had sustained head and chest injuries and was in intensive care.Brigham drops pants, is ordered to undergo psychiatric exam MONTREAL (CP) — Thomas Brigham, accused of planting a bomb that killed three French tourists in a Montreal train station on Labor Day, pulled down his trousers in court Wednesday and proclaimed his innocence.Sessions Judge Bernard Grenier and courthouse guards did not intervene as the 65-year-old American transient, wearing handcuffs, managed to strip to his undershorts and launched into a five-minute diatribe.“I’m not part of the bomb squad,” Brigham said of the Sept.3 pipe bomb explosion that rained lethal debris on travellers in Central Station a week before Pope John Paul began his Canadian tour.“I am the truth squad.I couldn’t be part of a heinous thing like this.” Brigham is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.On the advice of psychiatrist Dr.Charles Daoust, who interviewed him earlier, court remanded Brigham to custody for 30 days to undergo psychiatric tests before he enters a plea.“It’s up to the doctors to say if he is capable of standing trial,” Crown prosecutor Claude Parent told reporters.“Right now we want to know if he is even capable of understanding the charges as they are read to him.” WARNED OF BLAST Largely circumstantial evidence led a coroner to rule earlier this week that Brigham — who admitted writing cryptic notes warning of a bomb blast — was criminally responsible for the tragedy.In his courtroom outburst Wednesday, Brigham gave what he termed “ample warning (that) 10, possibly 20, possibly 30 bombs” would rain on Montreal, with prime targets being the Jacques Cartier bridge and “trashy, lousy strip clubs.“This is the start of Mary’s prediction of Fatima,” he said, apparently referring to a 1917 apparition by the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, in which three shepherd children were allegedly told that mankind must change its evil ways.“Montreal is going to be the sacrifice to the second coming,” he said.“This is the start of a new time, à new period of life.” Brigham, acknowledging he was in Central Station when the bomb exploded, said he spent several hours helping people in the aftermath.When police arrested him in a downtown rooming house the night of the incident, he said, he was doing his laundry.Trudeau back into law career with prestigious Montreal firm MONTREAL (CP) — Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau begins a new job today as counsel to a high-powered Montreal legal firm which specializes in corporate, tax and labor law.Trudeau, 64, who has made few public appearances since leaving the prime minister’s office in June, said there were several reasons for his joining Heenan, Blaikie, John, Potvin, Trepanier, Cobbett.“It is young and dynamic and reflects the bilingual and bicultural nature of this city and this country,” said Trudeau in a statement issued Wednesday by his new employers.“We share a common vision of Canada and the role of Quebec within the federal system.We are also determined to commit ourselves to the future of Montreal as a vigorous, cosmopolitan centre.” A native Montrealer, Trudeau moved into an historic Art Deco style house within walking distance of Heenan, Blaikie’s downtown headquarters after leaving Ottawa during the summer.“He’ll be here as counsel to the firm,” said senier partner Roy Heenan.“He’ll have his office here; he’ll be available for discussion and advice from any of the lawyers and some of our clients.” Final negotiations for the job were conducted in July.There were several law firms bidding for Trudeau’s services, Heenan said, adding Trudeau will likely not argue cases in court.GETS LAW DEGREE Trudeau, justice minister in the Liberal cabinet before becoming prime minister in 1968, obtained a law degree from the University of Montreal in 1943.In 1951, after studies in Britain, France and the United States, Trudeau opened a practice in Montreal specializing in labor law and civil liberties.He joined the University of Montreal law faculty in 1961 as a specialist in constitutional law, but left four years later after being elected to the House of Commons.As a counsel, Trudeau will not be a partner in the firm.Heenan refused to reveal his salary, although Trudeau did earn slightly more than $100,000 a year as prime minister.Heenan said Trudeau’s knowledge of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — which he helped write into the 1982 Constitution — would benefit the firm because it is serving more and more as the basis for legal challenges to laws and regulations.Heenan, Blaikie is already well-known in political circles.Former Liberal justice minister Donald Johnston was one of its founders and one- time Progressive Conservative party president Peter Blaikie is a senior partner.Trudeau’s close friend and former cabinet colleague, Marc Lalonde, recently joined another Montreal law firm, Stikeman Elliott.About 90 minutes after the explosion, a man telephoned the Beirut office of the French news agency Agence France-Presse to claim responsibility on behalf of Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War — the same group that claimed responsibility for the suicide car-bomb attack on the former U.S.Embassy in mostly Moslem West Beirut on April 18,1983, that left at least 63 people dead, 17 of them Americans.VEHICLE WRECKED The wreckage of the vehicle used in the attack lay about five metres from the main entrance to the annex building, inside the compound.The Dodge or Chevrolet van apparently exploded only one metre from the annex entrance.One diplomat on the scene said: “Our guards shot at the car and tried to stop it, but it got into the compound and exploded right here” — pointing to the spot in front of the entrance.The building did not collapse, but there was severe damage to the ground floor, and considerable damage to the other five storeys.The embassy recently moved some of its offices and personnel to East Beirut for security reasons.Damage from shrapnel could be seen 500 metres away from the building.Three bodies were being carried away from the scene.U.S.marine guards said there were about 20 wounded.But the military sources reported 23 killed and 60 wounded.It was unclear how many were Americans and how many Lebanese.The announcement attributed to Islamic Holy War said today’s attack was carried out “to prove we will carry out our previous promise not to allow a single American to remain on Lebanese soil." No member of Islamic Jihad has ever been identified.Lebanese and American officials have said there may not actually be such a group, and that the name may be used by many individual attackers or small independent groups.Broadbent praises Mulroney for civility toward opposition parties By Edison Stewart OTTAWA (CP) — NDP Leader Ed Broadbent saluted Prime Minister Mulroney on Wednesday for his “attitude of civility” and sensitivity toward opposition parties and Parliament in light of the Conservatives’ awesome 211-seat majority.“I think he has begun in a very appropriate way to show that he is serious about that,” the New Democrat told reporters after a 25-minute “courtesy visit” with Mulroney on his second full day in office.“It was a very excellent discussion,” Mulroney added later.“We talked about the legislative agenda in general terms and we discussed some housekeeping matters as it relates to the parliamentary agenda and as it relates as well to our respective roles as party leaders and so on.” Meanwhile, as Mulroney’s record-size caucus met for five hours to prepare for the resumption of Parliament, the prime minister announced another key appointment to his staff.Fred Doucet, a 45-year-old Nova Scotia native, has been named the prime minister’s senior adviser.His old job, chief of staff, was taken Tuesday by Bernard Roy, Mulroney’s 44-year-old Quebec campaign chief.Roy was also appointed principal secretary, a position that combined two duties under former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.The principal secretary headed the administrative operation of the prime minister’s office and was also the prime minister’s top staff adviser on political strategy.Mulroney may be opting more for the style of former prime minister John Turner, who in his brief tenure split the political and administrative aspects of the job between two people.Mulroney also signalled his intention to take some role in the appointment of ministerial staff for his 39 cabinet members.“You can take for granted that I will have a word to say on all appointments,” he said in response to questions.In another development, Health Minister Jake Epp said a poll that suggested 86 per cent of Canadians would favor cutting social benefits to households earning over $40,000 as a means of reducing the $30-billion deficit obviously “will need study,” but he declined further comment.All three parties vowed during the election campaign that social benefits such as the family allowance should go to all, regardless of income.But the poll, conducted in May for the Canadian Unity Information Office and just released recently under the Access to Information Act, suggests that position is out of step with public opinion.Broadbent met Mulroney in the latter’s Parliament Hill office, virtually the same on the outside as it was under the Liberals—except for the addi- tion of one more national flag and a bust of Sir Robert Borden, Conservative prime minister from 1911 to 1920.Broadbent told reporters Mulroney is taking Parliament seriously and is aware “that he has a very large majority and the opposition view in a democratic context must be taken ac- count.“And I think he has begun in a very appropriate way to show that he is serious about that.” Broadbent said he also repeated privately that the record 40-member cabinet is a “sensible” size representing all regions “and that what I thought was now important from the point of view of the people of Canada is that the government of Canada start to act in terms of programs and policy." He urged Mulroney to recall Parliament within a month “but no precise date was given.” Pope urges leaders to join his vision OTTAWA (CP) — Pope John Paul, facing the powerful in the last hours of his grassroots Canadian pilgrimage, appealed to political leaders Wednesday to join him in pursuing an “uplifting vision of humanity.” John Paul, who flies to Rome today after meeting bishops and delivering a homily on world peace at his final Canadian mass, addressed the country’s political establishment and diplomats from 75 countries in the opulence of Rideau Hall, the Governor General’s residence.Expanding from the apocalyptic warnings he has delivered across Canada on the perils of abortion, the arms race, human rights infringements and economic deprivation and imbalance, the Pope said there is also reason for optimism.Met by Prime Minister Mulroney and another excited throng after a flight from Vancouver, the Pope transferred to a pontoon boat for a cruise into the capital on the Rideau Canal.Tens of thousands cheered from the manicured banks of the canal, scoured for weeks by frogmen who came up with nothing more harmful than an old bicycle, a stroller and wire.REINFORCES FAITH As he has done from Newfoundland to British Columbia, the Pope made many feel better about their faith, even if the effects of his words and magnetism turn out to be fleeting.“I just can’t tell you what this meant to me,” said a weeping Geraldine Joyce, 79, of Timmins, Ont.“He’s God’s representative and it won’t be long before I’m there with God.” During his stay in Ottawa, the pontiff offered encouragement to people-both in the shadow and in the spotlight of Canadian society — urging cloiste- red nuns to keep the faith in the difficult isolation of their lives and asking the dignitaries at Rideau Hall to intensify their efforts to improve the lot of mankind.As members of Parliament, judges, senators and ambassadors stood shoulder to shoulder in the glittering ballroom, the Pope said too much of society remains insensitive to deep-seated ills, including hunger, arms buildup, experimentation on human embryos and the lack of basic health care for billions.But he also noted progress on the road toward a society built on “true human values,” saying respect for human rights has improved and coun tries are showing more of a sense of shared responsibility.And he had special praise for Cana da, which he said has been generous See POPE, page 2 ; » 2—The RECORD—Thursday, September 20,1984 Teenage cop-killer stopped by police on the way to kill ex-girlfriend TORONTO (CP) — The teenage gunman responsible for the third death of a Toronto-area policeman in less than a month was on his way to kill a former girlfriend when he was intercepted by police, authorities say.Armed with a Belgian-made semiautomatic rifle stolen from his uncle’s collection of weaponry and wearing military fatigures, Gary White, 18, set out early Tuesday morning to shoot Kim Bauer.He stole a car at gunpoint and was intercepted minutes later by police.White shot and killed Const.David Dunmore, 40, and wounded two other officers before being felled by one of the injured policemen in a bloody exchange of gunfire on a main street in suburban Etobicoke.Staff Sgt.Herman Lowe of Toronto police said White was upset that Bauer’s family had laid charges against him for harassing them with obscene phone calls.Facing a November court date, White apparently was afraid a criminal record would destroy his dream of joining the U.S.army.Described by friends and family as a quiet, polite young man with a fascination for guns and the military, White served with the militia of the Royal Regiment of Canada until Fe- bruary, when he was discharged for poor attendance.White’s current girlfriend, Carole Szpik, 17, said in an interview he told her he was going to kill Bauer, explaining only that she had done something to him he could not forgive.“He always said ‘I’d love to kill her,”’ Szpik said.“If he didn’t die (at the hands of police), he was going to shoot himself.He wouldn’t want to live after having killed somebody.” Last Thursday, White showed Szpik a letter he planned to leave her after the killing, describing it as “something he just had to do” and begging her not to hate him.After sho- wing her the guns he planned to use, he told her “No, I won’t do this,” and Szpik was convinced she had persuaded him to abandon the fatal plan.White had many disappointments in life, Szpik said.He believed any hope of a career was ruined and that he had no future.The shooting was “his revenge on the world,” she said, because “he wanted more in life than he could get back.” NOT VIOLENT Szpik said despite White’s fascination with guns, “He was not a violent person.He would never lay a finger on me.To me, he will never be a murderer.He was not a bad person and I loved him.” Police said White crawled unseen from the basement window of the house where he lived with an aunt and uncle, a gun collector with what police described as an arsenal of almost 30 weapons and an impressive stock of ammunition.He was clad in army-type fatigues, black boots and a black headband, in what police called a deadly reflection of his obsession with First Blood, a movie strong on revenge and graphic violence in which a Vietnam veteran takes on hordes of police after being unjustly imprisoned.A friend and neighbor who saw White about 11:30 p.m.Monday night said he offered no hint of what was to come.“He waited for me to come home to say something,” Gordon Lemaire, 22, said."It was as if he had to say it.He came in and offered me very strict advice on something I will not divulge.It was personal.He then left without saying goodbye.” Ninety minutes later, White and a policeman lay dead after an estimated 60 shots had been fired, 40 of them by White.Pope praises Canada NewS-in-brief for peace commitment Continued from page 1 with refugees and has tried to follow a path of commitment to peace and selflessness in its approach to underdeveloped countries.SUPPORTS CAUSE “Be assured that the Holy See supports this cause and stands by all of you in order to proclaim before the world the importance of your activities and their effectiveness in helping build true peace,” he said.Gov.Gen.Jeanne Sauve told the Pope it is too early to measure the impact of his 12-day tour, but all Canadians have heard and understood his words.Paul Robinson, the U.S.ambassador to Canada, said the Pope’s remarks on peace and other matters may serve as a backdrop for Mulro-ney’s meeting with President Reagan on Tuesday.An hour before the pontiff arrived at Rideau Hall, most cabinet members in the new Progressive Conservative government were milling around behind a roped barrier, acting much like the thousands of wide-eyed spectators who have turned out to see the Pope across the country.Mulroney later introduced the pontiff to each member of the cabinet, most dressed in dark blue suits and accompanied by wives or husbands.After the speech, the Pope went through a receiving line, chatting with many in the audience before being presented with a wall hanging by the prime minister.It was his only significant encounter with politicians during the tour.Met by premiers and other officials at airports, he usually moved quickly to waiting crowds, especially to the children.The bulk of his visit was taken up with large masses and rallies for the young, the old and the handicapped.His 7.8-kilometre canal cruise gave few people a chance to touch him but many a bird’s eye view of the spectacle.He showed that his sense of humor has survived the heavy demands of his schedule when, upon being introduced to Nepean Mayor Ben Franklin, the Pope said: “Oh, the president of the United States.” “No,” replied the mayor, “right name, but wrong century.” Beatty to review post office service conflicts OTTAWA (CP) — Perrin Beatty, the new cabinet minister responsible for the post office, said Wednesday he plans to review operations of the Crown corporation that compete with private enterprise.Private interests ranging from small-town merchants to major newspaper publishers have protested post office experiments in delivering consumer goods and attracting a greater distribution share of supermarket advertising flyers.Prime Minister Mulroney agreed during the election that the corporation should not compete with private enterprise but was not specific on which operations should be stopped.Canada Post president Michael War- ren has defended the business ventures as a key part of a strategy to wipe out the corporation’s deficit, which has reached more than 8300 million annually.Newspaper publishers in Quebec complained last month about what they said was unfair competition from the corporation in the delivery of supermarket circulars.But a spokesman for the post office said it has been delivering advertising mail since the turn of the century, while newspapers have been distributing circulars only since the 1950s.“The service, called Admail, is nothing more than third-class mail,” spokesman Laszlo Szabo said in an interview last month.Radioactive tables give restaurant glowing review WINNIPEG (CP) — For three or four days, diners at a Winnipeg restaurant ate at tables that had been contaminated with radioactivity — the result of a nuclear accident in Mexico last year.A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Control Board in Ottawa said the restaurant had 17 tables made with pedestal bases that were contaminated with low-level radiation.______ Weather Cloudy and foggy today with a chance of showers, high 18.The skies will clear over night and it will be sunny tomorrow with a high of 15.Overnight low — 5.However, Robert Potvin, who refused to name the restaurant, stressed the tables were not considered a health hazard.“Our policy is that any unnecessary exposure is to be avoided,” said Potvin, explaining why the tables were removed immediately.He said even if someone had been sitting at one of the tables all day for the three or four days they were in the restaurant, he would have been exposed to about 2.4 millirems of radiation.The maximum permissible limit for public exposure to radiation is 500 millirems a year, he said.The imported tables were among 39 that were ordered sent out of the country after Canadian officials discovered the problem in February.The other 22 tables were still in a Winnipeg distributor’s warehouse.N.S.oil rig in trouble HALIFAX (CP) — Some workers from the Zapata Scotian oil rig took to lifeboats today after what was described as a “problem aboard the rig.” A spokesman for the Search and Rescue Co-Ordination Centre said the nature of the problem was not immediately known and that four rescue helicopters were on their way to other rigs close to the Zapata Scotian, off Sable Island.He said some men had been taken off the rig as a precautionary measure.Three saved from boat accident HALIFAX (CP — Rescue helicopters saved three people today and are searching for two others from a fishing boat that went on the rocks north of St.John’s, Nfld.Major Gary Naylor of the Search and Rescue Co-Ordination Centre said another fishing boat spotted the vessel in trouble about 40 nautical miles north of St.John’s.Five people were trapped aboard when the boat grounded on rocks.Search and rescue officials were notified and helicopters lifted three people from the stricken vessel.Two others are missing.Nude dancer business risky CARAQUET, N.B.(CP) — The owner of a local nightclub was philosophical Wednesday after his licence was suspended for the second time in a dispute over nude dancers.Louis Boudreau closed down the bar two weeks ago after the first suspension.“It makes no difference to me now,” said Boudreau, owner of the financially troubled Aux Flots Bleus.“I’m trying to be cheerful.After all, any business is a risk.” The New Brunswick Liquor Board imposed the second 15-day suspension after a liquor board officer testified he saw a man and woman simulating a sexual act on stage.Date of Clark speech may change OTTAWA (CP) — The External Affairs Department is looking into the possibility of changing the date for Joe Clark’s speech to the United Nations, scheduled for next Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the department said Wednesday.Spokesman Sean Brady said that although the Canadian mission at the UN in New York is considering the matter, there has been no decision on whether the date will actually be changed, what date it may be moved to and whether any other foreign spokesman scheduled to address the UN would be willing to switch with Clark.GM strike not to affect new cars CALGARY (CP) — The strike at General Motors Corp.plants in the United States should not hamper introduction of new cars and trucks, Michael Johnston, director of fleet and truck sales for the company’s Canadian subsidiary, said Wednesday.Johnston said North America’s largest automaker expects to make up any lost production through overtime work, 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his wife, Sandra, was found in their trailer about 15 kilometres from Woodstock on June 2.She had also suffered a blow to the abdomen that tore her liver, causing potentially fatal internal bleeding.Two charged with misdemeanor MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two employees of the Children’s Theatre School, where four men including its founder have been charged with molesting students, were indicted Wednesday on charges of failure to report suspected cases of sexual abuse of children.John Clark Donahue, founder of the renowned Children’s Theatre, was charged in April with sexually abusing three boys at the theatre and school.He later resigned as artistic director.Since then, a dance instructor, an actor and a sound technician connected with the theatre also have been charged with sexually abusing male or female students.CBS lawsuit can’t make it on TV NEW YORK (Reuter) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the trial of retired Gen.William Westmoreland’s $26-million libel suit against CBS can’t be televised.U.S.District Judge Pierre Laval said he made his decision reluctantly because there is no provision in the federal court code for televising trials.The Cable News Network had sought permission to televise the trial, to start in New York on Oct.9.Westmoreland, former commander of the U.S.military forces in Vietnam, alleges he was libelled in a 1982 CBS documentary that raised the question of whether the U.S.military command in Vietnam had distorted intelligence data to substantiate optimistic reports on the progress of the war.Reagan-watcher' arrested HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J.(AP) — PoUce ' arrested a man along President Reagan’s motorcade route Wednesday after they received reports of a gunman on the Atlantic City expressway, but all they found on the man was a camera.Lieut.Frank Lentz said John Williamson, 28, was standing on the expressway, which is out of bounds to pedestrians, waiting to photograph Reagan when the motorcade passed by.A motorist noticed Williamson and reported to a state trooper that he saw someone walking on the highway and thought he had a gun, Lentz said.Hamilton police descended on the area and chased Williamson, who fled into a nearby wooded area.Bomb damages Paris bank PARIS (Reuter) — A bomb explosion damaged a bank in central Paris Wednesday night but there were no casualties, police said.Nobody claimed responsibility for the blast, which followed six similar attacks against banks and public offices in the city Monday night.Police said the violence may have been linked to the opening of a trial today of five suspected Corsican separatists charged with bomb attacks in the capital in 1982 and 1983.2000 demand labor unions SEOUL (Reuter) — Police said today they detained more than 120 workers and students for questioning after 2,000 demonstrators demanding free labor unions clashed with police Wednesday.The protesting textile workers and university students called for the resignation of President Chun Doo-Hwan and the abolition of South Korea’s labor laws which they said were restrictive.Strikes are banned in South Korea, where labor unions are largely controlled by the government.Hungary to fight power project VIENNA (AP) — Hungarian environmentalists are asking Austrians to help them fight a huge Soviet-bloc power project which they say will cause irreversible damage to a long stretch of the Danube River.The Hungarians, members of the Independent Danube Circle, are seeking Austrian support for a petition they started this summer.It was believed to be the largest environmental protest ever in the Soviet bloc.An appeal being circulated in Vienna says the project, which includes plans to dam or divert a 220-kilometre stretch of the Danube, “ignores economic factors, in particular the supply of drinking water and the protection of nature.” 15 more killed by guerrillas AYACUCHO, Peru (Reuter) — Maoist guerrillas have killed 15 Indian peasants in the Peruvian Andes, taking the reported death toll in the rebel war to 95 this month, the armed forces said.A military statement Wednesday said rebels of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) group armed with knives, explosives and guns killed the Indians on Monday in the village of Chaca, 112 kilometres north of the city of Ayacucho.The rebels, who are most active in the southeastern region of Ayacucho, burned homes and looted stores during the raid, the statement said.Guerrilla supporters to stay TEL AVIV (Reuter) — Israeli Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin rejected a demand Wednesday by angry Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank that he order the expulsion of suspected supporters of Palestinian guerrillas.The demand for strong measures follows the guerrilla attack Monday on a civilian bus in the area.Japan eases Soviet sanctions TOKYO (Reuter)—Japan plans to ease sanctions imposed against the Soviet Union after the declaration of martial law in Poland in December 1981, Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said.Abe told reporters in an interview published today that Japan is prepared to resume the annual governmental trade talks which were suspended as part of a series of sanctions imposed in February 1982.The move toward easing the sanctions is intended to show Japan’s readiness to improve its relations with the Soviet Union, he added.Soldier barred from El Salvador CARACAS (AP) — President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador said Wednesday no U.S.or other foreign soldiers will be allowed in his country but that U.S.military advisers can stay.“I don’t accept foreign troops, no matter where they come from, just as I don’t accept the penetration of Cubans, or communists from other places, by way of Nicaragua,” Duarte said a a news conference on his last day of a three-day visit to Venezuela.He said as many as 55 U.S.military advisers can continue to operate in El Salvador, which is fighting a war against leftist guerrillas.Co-op to defend Persian Gulf MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Cabinet ministers of the six-state Gulf Co-operation Council agreed Wednesday to jointly defend the Persian Gulf region and to strive to prevent disruption of navigation and oil exports by the Iran-Iraq war.In a communique issued at the end of a two-day conference of foreign and defence ministers in the Saudi summer resort of Abha, the ministers said the council will give top priority to military means for the defence of the gulf.Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman belong to the council.Nazi criminal dies LYON, France (AP) — Paul Touvier, the Lyon militia chief during the Nazi occupation and wanted for “crimes against humanity,” has died, a death notice in Wednesday’s edition of the newspaper Dauphine-Libere announced.He was 70.Touvier, who spent more than 30 years in hiding, died in a similar fashion.Neither the date nor place of his death was given in the notice.In 1971, then President Georges Pompidou pardoned Touvier, freeing his confiscated property and releasing him from an order that barred him from residing in the Lyon region in southeastern France.But in 1981, a Paris judge issued an international arrest warrant against Touvier for “crimes against humanity.” Soviets borrow from West FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) — The Soviet Union obtained a loan of $166 million from a consortium of nine western banks Wednesday, its third loan this year from the West.Bankers said it was a cash loan to replenish Moscow’s hard currency reserves and was not linked to any specific trade deals.The Soviet Union often finances imports by borrowing from banks in the countries providing the goods.The interest rate was set at a half point over the London Interbank Offered Rate for the first four years, and five-eights of a point over for the remainder of the maturity.The rate, called Libor, fluctuates, but it currently is about six per cent.Racist board game banned ZWEIBRUECKEN, West Germany (Reuter) — A former West German policeman was acquitted Wednesday of distributing a board game based on the Nazi extermination of the Jews.The court in Zweibruecken said it could not be proven beyond doubt that Hans-Guenther Froehlich, a 35-year-old known neo-Nazi sympathizer, was guilty.His girlfriend, Ingeborg Schulte, 29, was given a nine-month suspended prison sentence for writing the rules of the game and helping to distribute it.State prosecutors had sought jail terms of 22 months for Froehlich and 10 months for Schulte on formal charges of inciting racial hatred and spreading Nazi propaganda.Rower returns after rough trip RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuter) — A Brazilian arri ved home Wednesday after rowing 6,800 kilometres solo across the South Atlantic in 101 days and almost getting sunk by a whale.“After a few unsuccessful bids to destroy my boat, (the whale) gave up and went away," Amir Klink, a 28-year-old economist seeking a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, told reporters on arrival in the southeastern city of Salvador.Klink said he encountered rough waters shortly after setting out from Luderitz Bay in Namibia (South-West Africa) June 10, but the trip was otherwise uneventful. The RECORD—Thursday, September 20, 1904—3 The Townships Six councillors take on mayor in dispute over old Bedford hospital By Peter Scowen BEDFORD — When the town council here passed a resolution to change the zoning at a former hospital it wanted to sell, Mayor Gilles Groulx vetoed it.When the council passed a resolution hiring last year’s auditing firm at the same cost, Groulx vetoed that, too.When the council passed a resolution changing the zoning at the municipal garage, that had the veto put to it.When the council passed a motion of no-confidence in their mayor, guess what Groulx did.He vetoed it.In all Groulx has vetoed six resolutions put forward by his six-man council since last January.“I think they’re trying to get rid of me,” he said Wednesday.Groulx also vetoed a resolution to put the town’s garbage contract up for tenders and another to sign a $4 million water purification agreement with the provincial government, which he says he doesn’t fully understand yet.The hostilities between mayor and council, which have virtually stopped anything big from getting done in Bedford, stem from the budget passed at the beginning of the year.It was a deficit budget, some $64,000 in the hole, according to Groulx, although councillor Eric Dryden says it was only about $40,000 in the red.The mayor opposed the budget, but it went through anyway.“I said we were spending too much money,” he explained.According to Dryden, the council, five of whom were elected to power for the first time in November, 1983, planned to make up the deficit by selling three municipally-owned buildings in Bedford.This is where the real problem began.One of those buildings is the former Lagacé hospital which Groulx, acclaimed to his second term in November, had been planning to turn into a new town hall since his first term.In 1982, under his influence, the council had passed a resolution buying the rundown and empty hospital building.Groulx claims it is the only building in Bedford which is part of the French Roman Catholic heritage of the town.“It has a cultural value," he said.“It’s worth preserving.” Bedford received a $3,000 grant to study the possibility of preserving the hospital, Groulx said.The building isn’t going to disappear, however.The council has an offer to buy it from a person who wants to turn it into an old folks home.“The offer to buy has been accepted by council,” said Dryden.The agreed sale price is $25,000, while the evaluation of the former hospital is over $70,000.“But it’s in very, very bad shape,” the councillor added.Dryden said over $18,000 worth of equipment has been taken out of the building, and that higher prices for it were ignored by buyers.The deal can’t be finalized until the zoning of the former hospital is changed, however.At the moment it sits on land reserved for non-profit use.“We said we would co-operate any way we could (to ensure the sale),” Dryden said.Groulx didn’t say that and he vetoed the council’s attempt to change the zoning.A veto is only a delay tactic, however.Resolutions which are vetoed by the mayor are put on hold for a minumum of 48 hours and then brought up as the first thing on the agenda at the next council meeting.They can’t be vetoed twice.“It gets people’s attention,” said Groulx.“At the next meeting they just go over your head.” The other buildings ths council wants to sell are an old house in the industrial park and the old post office, where the police station used to be.The police are now working out of the community centre where the town hall is, but they are in the process of being moved into the municipal garage.Groulx has vetoed an attempt to change the zoning at the garage to give it public access, and accused the council of going ahead and renovating the new police headquarters without the re-zoning.Dryden admits work has already started on the garage, but accuses Groulx of having turned part of the town’s fire department into a licensing bureau without having it rezoned for public access.“We’ve thrown that right back in his face,” he said.Groulx vetoed the other resolutions — the garbage, the auditors and the water purification agreement — usually claiming the town could be getting better deals and the council, which he calls “inexperienced”, was moving too fast.On the no-confidence motion, Groulx said he found the councillors' behavior strange.‘They knew what I stood for when I ran in the election,” he said.“I had no opposition.I think they’re trying to get rid of me.I don’t know what the no-confidence motion means, but I have nothing to be ashamed of.” Dryden maintains the six councillors who are at such odds with their mayor ran on individual tickets, and the question of the hospital wasn’t even mentionned before the election last November.“We think we are acting in good faith and so far we have been above board," he said.Dryden claims the council has legal opinions which prove evrything it has done is within the law.The municipal commission, the Quebec municipal affairs ministry board which settles disputes like the one in Bedford, has so far been on the side of the councillors.It has approved the sale of the hospital for one third of its evaluation because “they know the condition of the building”, according to Dryden.The old folks home will bring in over $300,000 in investments, Dryden claims, and create some thirty permanent jobs.The cost to Bedford taxpayers of redoing the hospital into a town hall was estimated at close to $400,000 in 1982, he added.Groulx said he has sent some of the town council’s minutes to the commission to inform it of “things I think they should know”, such as his claim the council has put up tenders for work on the garage without having any architect’s plans.Bedford citizens, who are notoriously bad about attending council meetings, have the chance to get a first-hand look at what is going on in their town on Friday night at 8:30 at the community centre when a special meeting is scheduled.It was called by the council to deal with the six vetos, and most likely the resolutions will be passed this time by a vote of six to one.“I want people at the meeting,” Groulx said.“I may be wrong — they can judge for themselves.But they’ll be getting their money’s worth.” Petition gathering names to save only area hospital By Merritt Clifton COWANSVILLE — Over 6000 citizens have signed a four-day-old petition to save the Brome Missisquoi Perkins Hospital.The hospital is threatened by a budget cut of $800,000 mandated by Quebec.Originally hoping to get 3000 signatures in the three weeks before the National Assembly opens, the petitioners now think they might get as many as 20,000.The petition will be presented to Quebec Social Affairs Minister Camille Laurin as a last-ditch effort to keep hospital services at their present level.The hospital is expected to lay off four more employees this weekend, after already imposing substantial cuts over the past 4 years.If the full cuts are imposed, the BMP staff will be down by 40 positions from two years ago, and the hospital will be reduced to a chronic care facility with an emergency clinic.Brome-Missisquoi residents would have to drive to Sherbrooke or St.John for routine medical service, such as check-ups and blood tests.CALL ARTHUR TODD Citizens willing to sign or circulate a petition may call Arthur Todd 263-0682.A retired real estate broker, Todd became aware of the BMP’s financial problems after reading a Record story on Sept.6.“I said, ‘ Holy Toledo! $800,000 ?There must be be some typo there’,” Todd recalls.“I got to looking into the thing, and I found out they’re over one million dollars in debt and the government is not willing to help them at aU.” Todd and Arthur Beattie of Dunham got together the petition drive after consulting with hospital and government officials.They soon found many allies.“This thing spreads much farther than Cowansville,” Todd explains.“We have lots of signers from Abercom, Knowl-ton, Glen Sutton, Mansonville — this is the nearest hospital any of them can come to.” Any other hospital would be an extra hour’s drive away.“Somebody’s got to take a stand somewhere,” Todd continues.“We’re not out to criticize people with this petition.We just want to save the hospi tal.It’s the only one we have.” Todd believes this is the third peti tion to save the hospital that has been circulated in as many years.The hos-pitasl was initially threatened by the across-the-board five per cent budget reduction the ministry of social affairs imposed upon all hospitals in Quebec.The BMP however, had already initiated an austerity drive, and in Brome-Missisquoi MNA Pierre Paradis words, “they had no more fat to cut.All the cuts since then have been made into the bone of medical services.” NO HELP Paradis has made keeping the hos pital open one of his top priorities for at least the past 18 months but his efforts at lobbying were rebuffed earlier this month when the regional council for health and social services told the BMP they would receive no financial help from the govemement in 1985.In addition the regional council may recommend that the hospital be put under trusteeship by the social af fairs minister.At issue is a loan of $300,000 from the regional council to build a laundry facility that the BMP is having difficulty repaying.Accor ding to hospital director Roland Fournier, the laundry was expected to turn a profit by accepting work from regional long-term care facilities, but has not managed to break even.So far, the BMP has only managed to reduce operating expenses for this year by $338,129, a little less than half the total amount they will have to save by year’s end._____ Reshaping of Orford moving along on schedule By Bobby Fisher MOUNT ORFORD — The $4 million Phase I refurbishment of Mount Or-ford’s ski area is beginning to take shape.You might want to call it ‘Making a Skihill out of a Mountain.’ The massive contraction project, three quarters of which is being sponsored by the Québec government, will open an extra three kilomeres of runs on Mount Orford, build a new triple seat chairlift, install an artificial snowmaking system and widen existing trails.Work on the established trails is nearly complete and the new trails will be finished by the end of October, according to Fernand Magnan, the man in charge of the whole operation and general manager of Ski Mount Orford.He said Wednesday at a midafternoon progress report press conference that the artificial snow system will be in operation “by the end of November”, the same for the new triple-lift system.QASH INJECTION The renovations at Orford are part of a scheme between the Québec government and Magog-area businessmen to attract more tourists to the region.They are after the cash injection that that tourists will bring in.“I can’t tell you exactly how much money we expect to bring into the region," Magnan said.“I do know that with the artificial snow we can extend our season and we will be able to gu-rantee good conditions.” “People will book accomodations in advance and everybody around Magog profits from it — restaurants, hotels, stores.” He said similar construction last year at Mont St.Anne, near Quebec City, increased business there by 25 per cent.Enlargening old trails, building a new one and the new three-passenger lift will allow Mount Orford staff to handle 4005 skiers at once, up 1000 from the maximum capacity last year.Magnan said Phase II, a new chalet and services at the bottom of the mountain, will come about next year with another $1 million shot.LOTS OF MONEY The chair lift will cost $800,000 to construct while the snow system takes $1.75 million.The balance of the $4 million is being used to reshape the mountain’s southwest face.About 35.000 cubic metres of rock, or about 10.000 track loads, have been dynamited, Magnan said.Forty-thousand pounds of dynamite have been used so far.The snowmaking system will cost $300,000 to operate.It is supplied with water from Cherry Lake by two 600 HP pumps that shoot water 10,000 feet to the base of the mountain in a 10-inch wide pipe.At the mountain’s foot, the pipe narrows to eight inches and then to six as it is branched out to the system’s 37,000 feet total length.It has a capability of covering 60 acres of land with snow.Magnan said lights for the ski area are a maybe, but that project may come under a Phase III heading several years from now.“Lights are a possibility but not in the beginning.This is a big ski area that serves a larger area.Lighted hills are more for a regional hill.” Asked if the longer season and higher water runoff from the mountain would affect the local ecology, Magnan said “I don’t know about that.” He indicated that an environmental impact study had not been undertaken.wk itk'i.to-*#*- Ê*m jf.RfcCORD/PERRY BEATON Work is continuing on ski trails and pipe is being laid for the snowmaking system at Mount Orford.Citizens warned away from polluted town water SAWYERVILLE — Tests conducted on water feeding the Sawyerville reservoir have revealed it contains an non-permissable level of contaminants and authorities are recommending that all water from that source be boiled before consumption.According to Claude Marengoof SM Laboratories which conducted the tests, water samples were found to contain up to 54 parts per 100 ml.of coliform bacteria, some of which comes from fecal matter.The Quebec Environment Ministry has set 10 parts per 100 ml.as the acceptable limit providing none are generated by fecal material.Coliforms are bacteria whose presence indicates the presence of other potentially hazardous bacteria or viruses.Marengo says more extensive tests will be required in order to determine the exact nature of any possible hazards “The risks may in fact be only minor,” he says, “but at the moment they remain unknown.” According to epidemiologist Roberto Iglesias of the Sherbrooke University Medical Centre, residents should not take the warning lightly and he recommends that any water from the reservoir should be boiled for at least twenty minutes before being consumed directly or used for cooking or making coffee.“Even if most gastrointestinal diseases diappeared almost 20 years ago,” he says, “they can still come back.” Iglesias recommends that people should get their water from a source that they know is safe rather than spend the time and money boiling water or purchasing bottled water.Municipal officials meanwhile comment only that a government grant to search for new wells has been approved and should arrive this week, allowing drilling to begin early next week.According to mayor Patrice Dodier, engineers consulted by the town have assured him that new sources of water will solve the problem.mm m*.-I SewTii Pfll; x’’ < RETORD/PERRY BEATON Pot grower gets 1 month \imi Morin (left) and Marcel Gagnon (second from left) of and Jean-Pierre Martel (right) ofrivalCKSH were on hand Tele-7 wore red faces for a while Wednesday afternoon with batteries that did work so that both stations got footage when they rode the chairlift to the top of Mount Orford to from the top for the evening news, find out their batteries were dead.Luckily, Jean-Marie Roy So much for network competition.Sept.23- paffi 2 P"1 Foolsffe Sept 27.7:30 P"1 SHERBROOKE — A Valcourt resident has been sentenced to one month in prison and a year probation for conspiracy and the growing of over 3,000 marijuana plants seized by police on August 28 in woods near Kingsbury Alain Couture, a 25 year-old ironworker, pleaded guilty to the charges before Judge Michel Côté in Sessions Court Tuesday.The Crown agreed to drop charges of possession of narco- tics with intent to traffic.Defence attorney Jean-Pierre Ran-court begged the Court’s indulgence for his client reminding Côté that Couture had readily admitted his guilt, had no previous criminal record and presently holds a job, while Côté said he had to take into consideration the large quantity of drags seized, estimated as ha ving a street value of over a quarter of a million dollars.ON TOP OF MOUNT ORFORD — Who says media types can’t get along with the competition?Wednesday afternoon management personnel at Ski Mount Orford invited regional media out for a look at the $4 million contraction work that is going on there.A 20-minute ride up the mountain in the two-seater chairlift and camera-crews, reporters, photogra phers had the ran of the top.A good chance to get some different foo- tage for the TV fellows.Not so, almost, for the people from Tele-7, cameraman Aimé Morin and reporter Marcel Gagnon.The high altitude must have affected their camera system because it wouldn't work.“We checked the batteries at the bottom of the hill and they were working,” said Gagnon.They wouldn’t work at 1,772 feet above sea level however, and the Channel 7 people had to have so- mething from the top.Anything.No problem.Reporter Jean-Pierre Martel and cameraman Jean-Marie Roy of rival CKSH Channell 9 had their apparatus in full operation.A couple of red faces, some humble pie on the menu, a quick change of video-cassettes and everyone was in business.Nothing like competition.— Perry Beaton and Bobby Fisher LET’S SEEYOU DO IT.OUTDOORS! potmopacnon, 4j unonm c 4—The RECORD—Thursday, September 20,1984 the1 Sfeconl The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Delusion The tragic shooting deaths Tuesday of a Toronto policeman and his killer are sure to add more fuel to the arguments of those in our society who advocate a reinstatement of the death penalty for certain serious crimes.The astonishing thing is the simple inappropriateness of this response to a horrifying and needless tragedy.Eighteen year-old Gary White, described as a “quiet, well-mannered boy”, was apparently on his way to murder a former girlfriend when approached by police after having stolen a car at gunpoint.Minutes — and approximately sixty shots — later.White and Constable David Dunsmore lay dying from their wounds.It is only natural for outraged citizens to cry out for vengeance following yet another death of a community police officer, but one must question what good the death penalty could have served in this case.White was obviously beyond the realm of rational persuasion when he set out on his murderous quest and it is extremely unlikely that the possibility of a death sentence would have dissuaded him from his chosen course.If deterrence is not a factor then, for the state to inflict death as punishment serves no purpose other than vengeance.Vengeance is an ugly motivation in individuals — in societies it is insidious, primitive and dangerous.Perhaps what is most surprising following this horrible occurrence is that the loudest screams will come from those state-sponsored vengeance advocates who are frequently the same people who so vehemently oppose reasonable gun control laws which could have made the whole thing impossible.Had Gary White not had such open and easy access to an arsenal of weaponry, both he and the murdered policemen would still be alive.Those who insist on their ‘god-given’ right to possess such firearms should be held absolutely accountable for whatever happens as a result of their use.Strict training and licensing requirements should be universally applicable, and owners of weapons who do not take adequate precautions to prevent them from being stolen or misused, should be held accountable by law.White learned his attitudes towards weapons from society at large and within his disturbed mind they became obsessive and beyond control.Because of this he can only be held partly responsible for his ultimate breakdown.Society, in the meantime, must accept its share of the blame.If we refuse to take the kind of precautions necessary to protect ourselves from madmen like Gary White, we must be prepared to take the consequences.Revenge might make us feel better, but it is a delusion to believe it will actually do any good.Through an aberration in his mental functions, Gary White became a killer.Our society should not choose to emulate him through force of legal sanction.MICHAEL McDEVITT Military men eye new defence minister with hope — 4 • 1_A*_:__ forces LANDAU, West Germany (CP) — At the sharp edge, close to the Czech border, Canadian troops in Western Europe waited with high hopes and some trepidation for the announcement of the new Conservative defence minister.Even in the middle of NATO’s big annual fall exercises with more than 250,000 men on the move, Canadian officers and men found time to ask about Bob Coates and what could be expected from him.After two decades of steady decline which has left Canada's armed forces cut to the bone, there is an almost palpable feeling that the tide has turned.In Germany, where 4,100 Canadian troops voted in the field nearly three weeks ago, it is hard to find any who didn’t cast their ballots for the Tories.The reason always seems to be the same.Despite major equipment purchases by the Liberals in the last few years, including tanks, new fighter aircraft and an order for six new patrol frigates, there is an unshakeable sentiment that the Trudeau years wounded the military badly.Officers, loathe to admit inadequacies, concede that Canada’s single brigade in Europe can defend a front only 10-kilometres long.Even with the addition of 1,000 men ¦n Paul Koring IN LONDON flown over from Canada for the big fall exercises, the brigade — Canada’s most tangible commitment to NATO — is only at two-thirds strength.Every different type of unit from ambulance squads to logistics battalions to the infantry can cite shortfalls in men and equipment.PROBLEMS WORSE If anything, the problems are worse for troops stationed in Canada and the reserves.So, there are high hopes for an increased commitment to defence from the Conservatives.Promises to spend more money and recruit more men were welcomed, albeit with more than a touch of cynisism.In particular, the issue of new uniforms, or rather a return to the old three distinctive uniforms for army, navy, and air force, generates surprisingly little enthusiasm among the troops in Europe.Many, especially the majority who joined the forces since 1968 when the common uniform was adopted and the three services integrated, feel no sentimental attachment to the old uniforms.And among “army” personel the current green uniforms don’t generate the emotional response found in the “navy." Still, the debate about uniforms remains hot, if only because politicians and reporters keep focusing on the issue.Irrespective of the demonstrable military efficiencies achieved by integration, the common uniform that accompanied the changeover has become symbolic of the years of Liberal government.Not surprisingly, the Tories made the promise of a return to distinctive three-service uniforms an element in demonstrating their different attitude towards the military.But more than a few officers, some of them senior, have expressed fears that the new government will make bold, but militarily irrelevant, gestures to prove its commitment to strengthening the armed forces.TRUE COST The figure of $80 million — four times the Tory estimate — is bandied about in Europe as the true cost of issuing new uniforms to Canada’s 80,000 military personel.The promise of more men gets a warmer welcome but even the prospect of increasing Canada’s relatively tiny force in Europe is tempered by concerns that more prosaic problems will get overlooked.For instance, the Canadian base at Lahr in the Black Forest is 300 kilometres from the East German and Czechoslovakian borders and the re-supply link is tenuous.Despite recent deliveries of new trucks, officers repeatedly cite the critical Lahr-to-the-front link as one of their major worries.Yet trucks and X-ray machines and bringing existing units up to strength have little of the public-attention-grabbing appeal of new uniforms.If there is a common denominator at the sharp end at the front, it is a nagging worry that the increased funding expected from the Tories may get spent on image rather than fighting effectiveness.Cabinet size increase will be costly for taxpayers By Edison Stewart OTTAWA (CP) — Taxpayers will likely be paying a minimum of $3 million more a year to finance Prime Minister Mulroney’s decision to boost his cabinet to a record 40 members by adding 11 ministers.Moreover, the annual cost seems roughly similar to that of 42 Liberal patronage appointments Mulroney railed against in the election campaign.Mulroney — who just weeks ago promised to reduce government “overhead expenses” — estimated that over 20 years the Liberal appointments would cost $84.4 million based on inflation of five per cent a year.Ministers are paid about $40,000 a year over and above their MP’s salary of about $70,000, according to Sam Morell, director of personnel in the Privy Council office.In addition, Morell said, Treasury Board policy under the previous government allowed ministers $260,400 for personal staff — making the minimum cost for each minister about $300,000 and the total for the 11 about $3.3 million.GETS MORE STAFF Since some members of the previous Liberal cabinet held more than one portfolio — and were therefore enti tied to spend slightly more on staff—the net increase in that aspect of ministerial expenses is probably less than $3.3 million.But ministers are also given the use of a car, may use government jets for government business and have other expenses paid - probably at a cost of several thousand dollars each — so the net increase is probably still over $3 million.[Out of the frying pan.By Colin McIntyre CROSSMAGLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuter) — For someone who risked his life fleeing Vietnam in a tiny boat, the idea of starting a restaurant in what is arguably the most dangerous town in Europe may seem odd.But Chi Chuong Ly, who left Communist Vietnam with his family in 1979, saysCrossmaglen, a name synonymous with violence and tension since the troubles began in Northern Ireland 15 years ago, has been good to him.This fiercely republican town on the Irish border, which refuses to recognize British rule in Northern Ireland, has a permanent garrison of 200 British troops, one for every seven inhabitants.More than 30 soldiers have been killed in and around the town, most of them blown up by bombs and booby traps, and several civilians have died or disappeared.The troops now have to be brought in and out by helicopter.“The bombs don’t worry me; I heard plenty in Vietnam,” says 26-year-old Ly, who now calls himself John Lee for the benefit of the local people who flock to his Chinese restaurant just off the main square.He recalls a raid by American B-52 bombers on the village of Phan-Ri-Qua, near Phan-Thiet on the southeast coast of Vietnam, where his father worked as an acupuncturist.The family, of Chinese extraction, lived there until their escape.“Many bombs were dropped, and many people were killed and injured,” he says.In Crossmaglen, the daily sight of soldiers patrolling the streets, with faces blackened and automatic rifles at the ready, periodically stopping people for questioning, leaves him unmoved.“I don’t care about the soldiers; we had plenty of those in Vietnam.Soldiers’ uniforms all look alike.” None of the soldiers come to the restaurant, which along with the other eating and drinking places in the town, is off limits to the troops.They spend a four-month tour of duty behind high walls and barbed wire.Ly’s journey began in the summer of 1979 when he and members of his family set out from Saigon with nearly 300 other people in a six-metre-long boat.After being at sea for a week, they ran out of water and food but were eventually picked up by a British freighter and taken to Taiwan, where they were barred from landing.After two months on board, the British government agreed to accept them and they were transferred to a hostel in London, where officials from Northern Ireland persuaded 15 families to come to the troubled province.“I liked the idea of Northern Ireland because of the training centres there,” says Ly.“I knew of the troubles, but compared to what we had experienced it was nothing.” Ly trained as a machine operator, but after failing to find a job he worked in a Chinese restaurant in Castle-blayney, in the Irish Republic.A friend encouraged him to come to Crossmaglen, and with a bank loan he set up the restaurant with two brothers.Mr1 fir mm rJ H a.A ffi 0 *7» PAP I3W TliTTflOS îeiMVfD OR çnAfloeieo %.95; III I m It %All — Mir “v.f v i P « And that assumes that no additional departmental staff will have to be hired to help the personal aides serve the new ministers.Mulroney could lower the cost by cutting the salaries of ministers or their staffs but Mulroney spokesman Bill Fox, asked Tuesday about that possibility, said he knew of no such plan.Pierre Trudeau appointed 37 cabinet ministers, including himself.Compared with Trudeau’s, the extra cost of Mulroney’s cabinet is reduced to about $1 million.John Turner, promising leaner, more efficient government, dropped eight positions when he took over June 30 _ although a few ministers had more than one job and therefore were entitled to an additional $57,000 for staff.‘FAIRLY LARGE’ Mulroney admitted Monday the cabinet is "fairly large” but rejected any suggestion it was too big.“No, it’s not, not when you consider that the Progressive Conservative party has been in Opposition for the better part of 20 years,” he said.“And 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.” Mulroney also seemed to win some support from an unexpected quarter — Senator Michael Pitfield, Ottawa’s top civU servant and Privy Council clerk under Trudeau, who said Sept.11 that “the bleating about cost must be a very marginal consideration.” “The big government of the 1980s requires more political control than the smaller governments of our greatgrandfathers’ time,” Pitfield said in a speech then.“This requires reform in both the executive and Parliament.In each there must be greater involvement of the members of Parliament.” Unlike Turner, New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent has also reserved judgment on the cabinet size.“If they get control of their bureaucracy, if they establish programs and courses of action soon, that number is not necessarily bad.” Letter That’s the way we see it over there I have received many a comment about the poems that you have entered into your fine paper.Some are good comments while others, sort of did in under the flesh.There is one man at the C.E.plant, here in Sherbrooke, that does not buy your paper, but from others, he received the information, then he shoots off his fat head, and says, “Even a two-year-old wouldn’t put junk into The Record like you do, why don’t you grow up?” Now this fellow is very jealous because he cannot think to be able to write poems, of course.I know he thinks that he is very smart but he is only showing his ignorance, that’s the way we all see it over there.EARL A.RUBLES, Lennoxville Calgary’s 100th birthday a well-kept secret By Jeff Adams CALGARY (CP) — Although few Calgarians visit it, a patch of weeds and grass within easy walking distance of downtown office towers is their oldest link to local history.It is the site of Fort Calgary, a North West Mounted Police outpost built in 1875 that within nine years had attracted enough settlers to become a town.This Nov.7 marks the centennial of Calgary’s incorporation.It is an event that thousands in the city know little about.Hugh Dempsey, a Glenbow Museum historian, says that apart from a few dedi-I cated and interested people, most Calgarians are abysmally indifferent towards their history- I Dempsey blames Alberta’s oil booms, which began with the Turney Valley discovery in 1914 and really took off after the famous Leduc find in 1947.He said the booms attracted a flood of drifters who were more interested in pay cheques than history.Calgary's 1947 population of 100,000 doubled during the next 10 years and had doubled again by 1971.It topped 600,000 in 1982.The city experienced more urban expansion than almost any other community in North America as tail, cubical offices and apartments sprang up like wild flowers under the prairie sun.Wags suggested Calgary would be a great city if only someone would uncrate it.LEVELS BUILDINGS In the rush to raise skyscrapers, hundreds of the city’s distinguished older buildings were levelled.A light hearted Calgary Herald cartoon depicted the foreman of a crew working on a downtown high-rise glancing worriedly across to a neighboring building under de-mol.tion, and warning: “Hurry up, they’re gaining on us.” Some significant buildings remain, including several sandstone structures built after an 1886 fire that destroyed much of downtown.A few historic wooden structures have also been moved or rebuilt at the city’s Heritage Park.But the starting point, Fort Calgary, is long gone.The fort was demolished and the property sold to private interests about 1914.During the next 50 years the site was lost in a tangle of railway tracks, warehouses and a scrap heap.Historians re-discovered it in 1969 and the city bought and cleared the land, allowing archeologists to discover a wealth of artifacts.They are on display today in the Fort Calgary Interpretive Centre, built beside the original fort site in 1975 to mark the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the North West Mounted Police The man in command of those police, sent to establish a post in the 500-kilometre expanse between Edmonton and Fort MacLeod, was Ephram Brisebois.CHANGES NAME Dempsey said Brisebois angered his superiors by naming the fort after himself instead of waiting to see if they would ho nor him.But for that, the historian suggests, people might stage the Brisebois Stampede each year The police changed the new settlement’s name to Calgary, which they mistakenly believed meant clear running water in Gaelic.The word is better translated as meaning a farm near water.In 1884, the Edmonton Bulletin newspaper described Calgary as 240 tents.The Calgary Herald complained that “this blazing away with a pistol whenever a man gets drunk, whether it is a policeman or a citizen, is getting monotonous.” The railway arrived in 1884 and Calgary’s days as a wild and woolly frontier town soon ended.Growth was fast and steady, due mostly to farming and ranching Guy Weadick, a popular promoter who dressed like a cowboy but was born in Rochester, N.Y., put Calgary on the international map when he convinced four local businessmen to invest a then-substantial $100,000 and launch the first-ever Stampede in 1912.” Today, the annual Stampede, like the 20th century city in which it is held, is only vaguely linked to the pioneer and range existence that spawned it.f The RECORD—Thursday, September 20, 19&4—5 Farm and business Computers will increase office jobs — expert By Eugene Ellmen TORONTO (CP) — Computerized office technology will create twice as many jobs as it will eliminate in the next 10 years, says a leading U.S.office consultant.But the new jobs created by word processing, computerized messaging, automated budgeting and other office technology could be menial and low paying, Alexia Martin said this week.Martin told a meeting of Kelly Services Ltd., a temporary-help company, that there are legitimate fears the new technology will eliminate jobs by increasing office productivity.But figures compiled by the U.S.Cdn.firms face dumping fines WASHINGTON (CP) — Canadian exporters of pulp egg containers are injuring U.S.competitors by selling at less than fair value in the United States, the U.S.International Trade Commission says in a preliminary ruling.The finding, which could lead to anti-dumping penalties against two Canadian firms, now goes to the U.S.Commerce Department for screening before returning to the trade commission for a final ruling.The case was brought to the commission by Keyes Fibre Company of Stamford, Conn., and Packaging Corp.of America, whose executives say low-priced Canadian imports threaten to drive them out of the business of producing pulp containers used to protect eggs during shipment.They told a commission hearing the imports have pushed the average price for 1,000 containers by almost $5 to $44 in the last 28 months.Two Canadian companies, Cascade Paper Inc.of Kinsey Falls, Que.and Fripp’s Fibre Form Ltd.Inc.of Tisdale, Sask., sell about $3.5 million worth of the containers in the United States each year.Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate there will “be double the number of opportunities” compared with the jobs lost, the Los Gatos, Calif., consultant said.By 1995 there will be nearly 12 million people in U.S.office jobs in categories of above-average growth in employment, said the bureau in a November 1983 report, compared with 5.5 million with jobs of below average growth.But Martin warned her audience that unless office managers take measures to the contrary, the jobs to be created by such technology will be frustrating and dead-end.“The transition to the automated office brings with it a number of fears,” said Martin.AFFECT JOBS “Jobs may become fragmented, where one person does one thing and the next person does another thing — kind of like an assembly line, which leads to fewer career paths.” In a study done for the Stanford Research Institute, Martin cited the example of insurance agents who traditionally gathered information on prospective policy-buyers to determine whether they should be insured.With the advent of personal computers, however, insurance agents now customarily feed data into a system and the computer makes a judgment about whether to insure the client.“In this case, computer judgment substitutes for human judgment, thereby trivializing the agent’s duties,” Martin said in her study.She also said that career advancement is sometimes limited through office automation.The study notes a report by Women Employed, a U.S.group of working women, suggestmg that management is not upgrading secretarial jobs while demanding that secretaries have word processor training.The Martin study also said it’s ques-tionable whether automation will bring higher pay for office workers.“Pay scales indicate that most employers do not look at word processing as a career opportunity or as a technical specialty that should command higher pay; yet these are the promises used to convince workers to become word processors,” said the study.Martin said management must allow workers to decide what equipment is chosen before it is installed, must reward staff who show initiative and must encourage participation from personnel departments as well as the technical side in implementing new technology.Farmer’s Market opens in Richmond RICHMOND — Richmond Quebec Farmer’s Association will hold their annual Farmers Market this weekend at the new Richmond Community Center.With several more market gar-dners in attendance at this year’s event, organizers feel the increase in variety and quantity of farm produce will induce more shoppers than ever.“We also have three honey producers, two maple products kiosks and, new this year, goat dairy products from the Labrie enterprise of Val-court,” said Marilyn Wingeat, secretary.The event has proven that folks still like to get out to a farmers-market type sale and this year, business hours are planned in conjunction with store hours and shoppers convenience.The market opens Friday, September 21 at 2 p.m.and is open until 10 p.m.Saturday hours are from 10 a.m.to 8 p.m.and Sunday, the final day, the market opens at 11 a.m.and closes at 4 p.m.“There will also be homecooking on sale as well as a few handicraft New mid-size AMC car to be built in Brampton MONTREAL (CP) — American Motors (Canada) Inc., will build a new intermediate-size car, the X-58, at its Brampton, Ont., assembly plant.Maurice Fertey, president and director general of American Motors (Canada), which has been controlled by the French government’s Renault Group since 1981, said this week the new car will be bigger than any passenger car built by Renault for the European market.The first models will roll off the Brampton line in mid 1987 in time for the 1988 model year.The X-58 will be a four-door sedan.A two-door coupe, designated the X-59, will be built later.They will be equipped with four-and six-cylinder engines, turbos or diesels.“It’s going to be a new model which is larger than a Renault 25,” Fertey said.The Renault 25 is the new top-of-the-line model for Renault in France.Fertey added that the new car would be comparable to the General Motors Corp.01-dsmobile or the Ford Thunderbird.It would use engines and trans- mission systems developed for the Renault 25.The X-58 is being developed by Renault for American Motors and the Brampton plant will turn it out for the entire North American market.American Motors now makes its Eagle four-wheel drive car at Brampton where it has 1,000 employees.EXPANSION PLANS Work will begin next month on a $764-million expansion program to build a modem assembly plant at Brampton for assembly of the X-58, he said.The new plant will employ 3,000.Although Renault is a French company, it has no plans to build an assembly plant in Quebec or an aluminum engine factory at the Alu-minerie de Becancour Inc.smelter in Becancour, Que., where the French government’s Pechiney Corp.has a major investment.“We build assembly plants where qualified manpower exists,” Fertey said, describing the present Brampton workforce as “a core” for the planned expansion.The Brampton plant will be able to turn out 720 X-58s and X-59s daily, for an annual capacity of 160,000 to 170,000 cars.For the 1985 model year, American Motors is introducing a new convertible model of its Alliance, known as the Renault 9 in Europe.Fertey said the market for convertibles has grown dramatically in recent years and in 1985 about 100,000 will be sold in North America.He estimated that American Motors could sell between 7,500 and 10,000 convertibles in the coming model year.The Society of Management Accountants of Canada warning f signs arthritis ^ persistent patn and stiffness on arising ^ pain, tenderness or swelling In one or more joints ^ recurrence o( these symptoms, especially when they Involve more than one joint ^ persistent pain and stiffness in the neck, lower back or knees For more Information contact * THE ARTHRITIS SOCIEtY booths,” Wingeat explained.“But the emphasis is on the farmer and his or her produce, fresh from the garden of the persons behind the counters.” “This is a non-profit event organized with its sole purpose of providing Richmond and area folks with some farm-fresh produce.At the same time, this type of event serves as an exhibition of just what we have readi- ly available from our local producers and proves that the consumer really doesn’t have to go very far afield for most of his food needs.” Wingeat also noted that the Richmond Pickle Festival is scheduled for the same weekend, “so folks can take home fresh fruits and vegetables with their pickles,” she chuckled.UPA’s annual meeting needs larger turnout UFA K^NEWS Attention all English-speaking farmers in the Eastern Townships.On Tuesday, Sept.25 the English UFA sector of the Sherbrooke Federation is holding its annual meeting at Intercité Motel on Bourque Boulevard in Rock Forest starting at 9:30 in the morning.Members of the four mini-sectors — Richmond, Ayer’s Cliff, Bulwer and Knolwton — are urged to attend this important meeting.On the agenda are computer quota sales, choosing 15 delegates and drawing up resolutions for the regional annual meeting on October 4 in Ascot Comer and the nomination of auditors.Elections are also on the order of the day.President Randy McCourt and Vice-President Douglas MacKinnon are at the end of their year long mandates.They may be re-elected but nominations for replacements are open.Lunch will be provided for eveyone who comes, and the meeting should be over by 4:30 p.m., in time to for chores.Attendance at these meetings has been poor in the past, according to McCourt's wife Marlene, who is secretary/treasurer of the sector There are over 800 farmers eligible to vote in the elections but “we’ll be lucky if we get 40,” she said.This meeting is an opportunity for English-speaking farmers to have a say in the union they are obliged to pay dues to.Don’t pass it up.• On Wednesday, Sept.26 at Sherbrooke University the UPA is putting on a day for women in farming and business.Starting at 10 a.m., there will be an-as-yet-unnamed speaker discussing farm unions and in the afternoon Sylvie Frédette, a union accountant, will discuss the status of women in the business world.The talks take place in the auditorium of the faculty of education on the university campus, and they should go on until about 4 p.m.It costs $4 to attend, and will be held all in French.Business briefs Reginald Dugrc, M.Scj., RIA, FSIMAC Reginald Dugré was recently elected President of the 37,000 member Society of Management Accountants of Canada.Mr.Dugré is the Assistant Dean, Faculty of Administration at I aval University in Quebec City.Other members of the SMAC National executive Committee are: D.T.lowery, Regina; W.P.Petrie, Toronto; W.G.Rodden, Aldergrove, B.C.; G.E.M.Cummings, Oakville, Ont.; W.H.Richardson, Halifax; and W.F.I angdon, Burlington, Ont.The Society of Management Accountants is the pro-fessional organization responsible for the training and accreditation of RIA Management Accountants.COPENHAGEN (AP) — Denmark’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held at 10.5 per cent of the work force in July, the government’s Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday.The figure was down slightly from 10.6 per cent in July 1983.The agency said 274,800 people were unemployed in July, a slight dip from 276,600 in June and down from 278,900 a year before.O SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Levi Strauss and Co., the largest U.S.maker of jeans, said Tuesday its profit fell 65 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier, as popularity of its denim products continued to fade.Profit fell to $22.5 million, or 61 cents a share, from $64.8 million, or $1.53 a share, in the third quarter of 1983, the company said.Revenue fell to $718.8 million from $785 million a year earlier.For the first nine months of the current fiscal year, Levi Strauss said its profit fell to $39.7 million, or $1.02 a share, from $142.9 million, or $3.39 a share, a year earlier.Revenue fell to $1.91 billion from $2.03 billion a year earlier.o FRANKFURT (AP) — West German motor vehicle production rose 10.5 per cent last month from July and 11.2 per cent from 12 months earlier, the auto industry association said Tuesday.The association said total production in August rose to 300,400 cars, trucks and buses from 271,924 vehicles in July.¦o TOKYO (AP) — Sony Corp.said Tuesday that its profit in the third quarter more than tripled from a year earlier, amid surging sales of all product lines and a decrease in interest expenses.The major Japanese electronics company said its profit in the three months ended July 31 rose to 19.25 billion yen, or $77.9 million U.S., from 6.17 billion yen in the third quarter of 1983.Revenue rose 12.8 percent to 310.41 billion yen, or $1.26 billion, from 275.1 billion yen a year earlier.The whole Jackpot Pool must be won in SportSelect’s Final Baseball Pool Next Sunday, September 30! 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SportSelect baseba 11 is not associated with or approved by The National and/or American League of Professional Baseball Clubs.IS •Official Mark O Canadian Olympic Association 1967 1 6—The RECORD—Thursday, September 20,1984 Living Sccanl Down the Pike By Ashley Sheltus Taking things as they come, followed by how things went, I’ll start off with coming events and move smoothly into a report on last week’s Duck-hunter breakfast and the Terry Fox run.As most legionaires know, there is a General Meeting of Branch 82, Philipsburg Legion this Friday night.Friday is also the time to have items turned in to the Nesbitt Residence for Saturday’s Tea and Sale.The Tea is being catered this year by the Anglican Church in Knowlton.There will be a 500 and Bridge card party at All Saints Anglican Church in Dunham, Friday night, starting at 8:00 p.m.The entry fee is a huge $2 but of course you do get a fine social evening, prizes (if you play well enough) and a late lunch.Proceeds from the evening will be used to carry out necessary work at the cemetery at East Dunham.A number of people from Bedford are buried there and so the appeal for money covers quite a large area.Like everything else, cemeteries have to be kept up so donations to the East Dunham Cemetery should be sent to Mrs.Eric Sheerer, Dunham, JOE 1M0.On Saturday it will be Knowlton’s turn to play host to hordes (we keep hoping) of ravening Townshippers.I particularly recommend the Hysterical History Quiz at 2:30 and anyone thinking of joining a tug-o-warteam, bring gloves and running shoes.It also might be a good idea, before the hysterical history session confuses you totally, to find the booth run by the Sir John Johnson Centennial Branch UEL.Look for the funny three-cornered hats.They are selling a fine history of the Townships from the Loyalist point of view, one that hasn't been done before.You can do Sid McCaw and his U.E.L.confrères a favour and buy out their stock of books early to let them get away and enjoy the fun too.After Townshippers Day, why not end off with the Roast Pig Supper at the Bedford curling club?That starts at 7:00 p.m.and for more information or tickets, call 248-3323 - 3822 or 7881.The Bedford United Church will hold their annual Rummage Sale next week.The church hall will be open Wednesday night from 7:00 p.m.until 9:00.On Thursday, the hours are from 2.00 p.m.until 4.00.Mark the Missisquoi Museum Apple Pie Festival on your calendar! Sunday, September 30th, between 2 and 5 p.m is the time and there will be plenty of food for all.Last year the estimate was for about 200 people and 700 came.This year the organizers are ready to take on a veritable horde (that’s around 800, regular hordes run only up to 750).The charge of $3 for adults and $1.50 for children between 6 and 12, includes admission to the museum.It’s apple pie, ice cream, cheese, coffee, tea or cider in profusion.Rain or shine.As a suggestion, take your dessert at the Museum, then go to the Legion at Phillipsburg for the main course, a Bar-B Que chicken with all the trimmings.Service starts at 4:00 p.m.and goes roughly until 8:00.The price is $5.50.Now, under ‘How it went’, the Legion duckhun-ter’s breakfast was a smash hit — again, with approximately 700 "hunters" served.Several were in fact real hunters.Many of them are early due to a number of what are called ‘City Hunters’ locally.At least that's the only name I can quote here.They are people who blaze away at a duck the moment the poor bird comes over the horizon.All it does is give the ducks a good laugh and sends serious hunters home early and empty.1 don’t have a full report on the Terry Fox run so far but it looks like a success.Participation was up and I’m told that over two thousand dollars was collected.Yea Bedford! I’ll close with some municipal news.The town council and mayor of Bedford are engaged in their own private Cold War.Whatever the mayor proposes the council rejects.Anything the council proposes the mayor vetoes.Under these conditions it’s hard to get any constructive work done and as of now, two important town projects are being delayed and a third is about to be presented, joining the backlog line.In the end Quebec City will have to arbitrate.It could happen that both mayor and council would be fired and a new election called.The way things work, the regular election time may arrive first One thing might help.Why don’t citizens attend the special council meeting set for Friday night at 8:30 in the community centre on Corriveau Street?They can see at first hand what is going on, and who knows, the sight of real voters in the audience might concentrate the council and mayor on finding a compromise.____ Group raising money to fight intestinal diseases By Bobby Fisher SHERBROOKE — The Eastern Townships’s branch of the Canadian Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis announced plans for its fundraising and information campaign Tuesday.The information and moneyraising drive began yesterday with a luncheon press conference which presented the foundation’s television advertisement, committee members and a time- table for upcoming events.Roger Fortier, president of the regional office, said the fundraising campaign will begin with a wine and cheese party at the St-Elie d’Orford Community Centre September 29.It starts at 7:30 p.m.He added that donations from local companies will be sought throughout November — the national campaign’s official month.The Carrefour de l’Estrie will be the site of a fruit and cake sale November 22-24, Fortier also said, adding that cadets will also be selling buttons thoughout the month and fruit sales will be held in local hospitals.There is also a painting up for raffle.BOWEL DIEASES Ileitis and colitis are inflammatory bowel diseases.There are no known causes but researchers are working on that mystery.Ileitis, also known as Crohn's Diseease, in most cases affects the end of the small intestine and beginning of the colon (large in- testine) but may also touch other parts of the digestive system, from mouth to rectum.Colitis is confined to the large intestine.Symptons of the two diseases are similar.Victims will suffer from abdominal cramps and substantial weight loss as well as diarrehea with traces of blood in it, loss of appetite and fever.Rough estimates indicate that between 100 and 200 thousand Canadians suffer from one of the two diseases and while anyone may contract them the incidence rate of Crohn’s Disease is particularly high among children.About 30 per cent of the victioms of Crohn’s Disease are between 15 and 30 years of age.For more information about Ileitis and Colitis or the local office's upcoming fundraising activities, write to the Candian Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis, provincial secretary, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, room 8509, or call (819) 564-8577.% Maple County Swingers hold fun night Sept.14 Heart fund names new president The Sherbrooke chapter of the Quebec Heart Foundation announced its new 1985 committee Tuesday.The date for the annual door-to-door fundraising event was also set for February 12.The foundation hopes to exceed the $25,422 collected during the door-to-door campaign last year, which made up part of the $322,000 donated to the CHUS.Pierre Casey stepped down as president of the Sherbrooke chapter of the foundation and Michel Cousineau (right), was announced as the 1985 president.He is seen here with Fundraising president Renée Blais.social notes Christening On August 26, 1984, the infant daughter of Hubert and Sherrilyn Lunnie of Ste.Catharines, Ont., was christened during the morning service at the St.George’s Anglican Church, Ayer’s Cliff, Que., with Deacon W.Provis officiating.The child received the names Sabrina Lyn.The godparents were Larry and Marilyn Corriveau of Sherbrooke and the legal guardian was Graydon Lunnie of Waterville.Sabrina wore a lavishly lace-trimmed christening gown with matching bonnet and a gold chain necklace with cross, a gift from her maternal grandmother.Following the service a buffet luncheon was served to forty guests at the Canadian legion Hall by the Ladies Auxiliary of that branch.The christening cake which was daintily decorated for the occasion was served by Sabrina’s parents.Special souvenirs of this day were snapshots and a guest book.Sabrina was the recipient of many beautiful and useful gifts which were opened by her parents and displayed for all to admire.Birthday wishes Happy birthday to “Dad”, Mr.Burton Shonyo of Magog, on his 88th birthday September 24, 1984, from his children, 14 grandchildren, 14 greatgrandchildren and friends.Birthday wishes are extended to Mr.Howard Seale of Second Mile Senior Centre, SawyervUle, who celebrated his 92nd birthday on September 18.__ ____________________________________ Happy birthday Happy birthday wishes to Mrs.Nellie Powers on the occasion of her 91st birthday, Friday, September 21, 1984.Christening On August 19 the infant daughter of Gerry and Elaine Boisvert of R.R.2 Stanstead was christened, receiving the names Laura Michelle.Father Paul Pare officiated at the ceremony held in St.Barthélémy Church, Ayer’s Cliff.Laura's sisters Joanna and Bonnie, mater-nal and paternal grandparents, Stanley and Lois Cooper, Ayer’s Cliff, Donat and Alicia Boisvert, Kate-vale, godparents Michel and Michelle Fortier, and son, as well as 30 relatives and friends attended.Also present was baby’s maternal great-grandmother Mrs.Hazel Bliss, thus having four generations present.A lovely reception was given by the godparents at their new home in Hatley.The christening cake was made and decorated by Elaine for the occasion.The day also marked a special reunion as Gerry and Elaine and girls have recently moved back to the area after living 2 years in Calgary, Alberta.By Janet Element RICHMOND — On Friday evening, September 14th and with a feebng of autumn in the air, cars were parked around the horse-shoe shaped driveway at ADS Elementary School, as the Maple Country Swingers of Richmond were tapping their toes to the music and calling of Lorne Scott and wife Onie of Lennoxville.This being the beginning of the season, couples in the area had received invitations from this Western Square Dance Club to join them in one of their Fun Nights.The evenings of Sept.21st and 28th will also be free evenings of learning at St.Francis Elementary in Richmond.Enid Goodfellow, club member, felt the newcomers at ADS enjoyed the evening greatly and were impressed.The 20 couples who are now members hope to have a larger membership after the mentioned dates, but there isn’t an obligation.Couples that are thirteen years of age and older are welcome.The Maple Country Swingers of Richmond was founded in 1979.There are four clubs in the Eastern Townships — Richmond, Lennoxville, Knowlton and Sutton.The present officers of the Richmond Club are: Past Presidents-Wayne and Alice Mellish; Presidents-Bill and Colleen Lyon; Vice-Presidents- Bob and Enid Goodfellow; Sec.-Treas.- Wilfrid and Joyce Lancaster; Social Convenors- Bill and Joyce Stevens, Gerard and Johanna Verboef; Membership- Everett and Mathy Banfill; Publicity- Peter and Charlotte Griffith; Club caller- Lane and Unie Scott.The new officers will be elected October 4th.The club meets every Thursday evening and the class instruction is Friday evening starting in September until April.During the first year while the newcomers are learning, the members help out in anyway possible.There is a convention every two years, the last one being in Winnipeg this past August and the next one will be in Calgary in 1986.The Modem Western Square Dancing Clubs are located in every province of Canada, throughout the United States, in more than 50 countries abroad and the entertainment is enjoyed in schools, church basements, community centres and also outdoors.This favourite pastime is very economical.Most square dancers spend about $4 per couple for an evening of fun and relaxation.It gives you that “great-to-be-alive” feeling by combining a healthy atmosphere and stimulating exercise with fun and many good times as a by-product.Modem square dancing is the world’s greatest social mixer, using a nonalcoholic stimulant called fun and fellowship.No special skills are necessary or needed, just know your left hand from your right hand.And the dressing is not an expense.Ladies are most comfortable dancing in a full skirt, a loose blouse and flat shoes.Men wear slacks and long-sleeved shirts.Fancy outfits are fun but never a requirement.A camp and dance weekend is planned by the club on June 7-8-9 1985 at the Camp Musical at Trois-Lacs.These three days will be enjoyed by campers living on the site and noncampers.The facilities are excellent, a modem concert hall (used for dancing) a new cafeteria and a very attractive dormitory with all facilities.This reporter was very impressed at the manner the instruction was conducted.Everyone was so friendly and having a great time Unfortunately, not having a partner, she left for home early.Once again, do not forget Sept.21 and 28 at St.Francis.There are approximately thirty sessions at the class level.For further information you may contact Bob Goodfellow at 879-4284 or Wayne Mellish at 826-3645.“To find out what you have been missing, become involved in the weekly class for new dancers.” LET’S SEEYOU DO IT.OUTDOORS! partnapamanW 411 35V! a at Toronto N Boston at Baltimore N Hem York at Detroit N Seattle at Chicago N Oakland at Kansas City N Cleveland at Minnesota H Teas at Caiiforrea H 739.2 86 raw.ill SavM Ouwnbarry Kansas City 41 Cau-m.Oakland 33 HOCKEY 78 73 76 74 76 75 71 82 70 81 89 84 85 M Boston 10 Toronto 4 Oakland 8 Texas 7 Detroit 4 Milwaukee ?New York 6 Baltimore 5 Chicago 7 Mmnrwta 3 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