The record, 23 janvier 1985, mercredi 23 janvier 1985

Wednesday Births, deauia .9 Business.7 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8 Education .5 City .3 ffl «3 Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke WINDY LOUIS beaurecard Wednesday, January 23, 1985 WATERLOO ELEMENTARY Jg CGfltS “There, there, dear.Maybe another country will want you for their deputy minister.” 2555SSb5555S^SS55555S55555S555S5SS555SS5S555S555555SSB5SBS55555S5B555SS5SSS5S555S5S5 Ottawa-Quebec farm deal the first of its kind in country OTTAWA — Agriculture Minister John Wise has announced a five-year, $5-million program to assist farm research and development in Quebec.The Technological Innovation Assistance Program will be used to increase the overall productivity of the Quebec agri-food industry, thus enhancing its competitiveness in the domestic and export markets, according to communiqué released Tuesday.Project proposals will be solicited from all interested parties in the Quebec agri-food industry, such as : — trade associations, food and beverage processing enterprises, and enterprises that manufacture, distribute or process farm and food products, or equipment and other goods specifically used by the agri-food industry; — associations, cooperatives, producer federations and individual farmers; — consulting firms and educational and research institutions.“Canada is entering a new era of co-operation between the federal government and all provinces,” Wise said.The Minister pointed to current negotiations on developing a new Econo-mic and Regional Development Agreement (ERDA) between the fede- ral government and Quebec as an example of how this co-operation is being translated into action.“I have held recent discussions with Garon, (Jean Garon — Quebec agriculture minister) and we have agreed that programs such as the one I am announcing today will go a long way toward aiding Quebec’s agri-food industry in the short term,” Wise said.“I hope now that the two levels of government can begin discussing pro- posals to develop a form agricultural development agreement.” To be eligible for assistance for the program, all projects must be undertaken in commercial enterprises and participants must agree to release the results obtained.Wise stressed that the new program evolved from consultations with the Quebec agri-food sector.“It responds to a pressing need,” he said.Dissidents plan party autopsy 21 PQ committee members quit MONTREAL (CP) — Leaders of the hardline faction in the Parti Québécois have scheduled a post-mortem here this weekend to assess their position in the wake of the party’s decision to drop independence from the electoral platform .Dissidents denied published reports Tuesday stating that several hardline members of the PQ caucus will announce their resignations over the next few weeks to get maximum impact for their pro-independence campaign.Instead they’ll spend the next month studying alternatives which include quitting to form a pressure group or new party, or staying to fight for the leadership if Premier René Lévesque resigns.Diane Sylvestre, a spokesman for the dissidents, said no additional resignations are in the cards beyond that of Denis Vaugeois, who announced Monday that he was resigning his seat as member for Trois-Rivieres.Former cabinet minister Louise Hard agreed, saying Vaugeois’s resignation is not part of a master plan by the hardliners.QUIT IN PROTEST Vaugeois’s resignation leaves three vacancies in the national assembly.The two others are the ridings held by former cabinet ministers Jacques Parizeau and Denis Lazure, who quit late last year to protest Lévesque’s stand that sovereignty be dropped.Byelections must be held no later than six months after a vacancy is created.The PQ, with 64 seats in the 122-seat national assembely, has an eight-seat majority.The Liberals have 49 seats and there are six independents.“The convention was a success,” said Roger Le Clerc of Sherbrooke, one of four hardline members of the PQ executive who resigned their positions Saturday but retain party membership.As proof, he pointed to the 35 per cent of delegates who voted to keep independence in the party’s electoral platform — slightly higher than anticipated — and to the show of strength demonstrated by 500 dissidents when they twice walked out of the convention.Jacques Soulieres, one of three PQ regional presidents to resign Saturday, led 21 members of PQ executive committes in the region to quit their positions on Tuesday.But he said all would remain party members.‘HAVE MY SAY’ “I am keeping my membership for one simple reason,” Soulieres explained.“There are still some more fights to be fought, there will probably be a leadership convention in a few months and I want to have the chance to have my say.” “We are going to give ourselves a few weeks for a ‘reasonable’ plan of action,” he explained.Despite the denials that a planned series of resignations is in the works, several members of the PQ caucus are said to be on the verge of leaving.Back-bencher Jules Boucher, who was persuaded by Lévesque to remain in caucus during the spate of resignations from caucus and cabinet last November, has scheduled a news conference next week when he’ll announce his intentions.Former social affairs minister Camille Laurin, a leader of the dissident faction, is expected to announce he will not run in the next election to became head of the psychiatric wing of a Montreal hospital.And back-bencher Jacques Baril was so fed up with the dropping of independence that he first resigned from caucus, changed his mind and then went on vacation rather than attend the convention.Chantal Charest, spokesman for Baril, said he would wait for publication of the party’s electoral platform before deciding on his future.Federal agents following me, says SSJB’s Gilles Rheaume LAVALTRIE, Que.(CP) — The president of the Montreal chapter of the nationalist St-Jean Baptiste Society says he thinks the RCMP or other federal security agents are following him, opening his mail and eavesdropping on his telephone conversations.Gilles Rheaume, who is hiking to Quebec City from Montreal to promote Quebec independence, told The Canadian Press Tuesday that he thinks he has been under surveillance since he took over as head of the society four years ago.“Everybody who calls my house has noticed it; the line always seems to have problems and there is constant noise,” he said.Rheaume said he wrote Justice Minister John Crosbie last November about his suspicions.Crosbie acknowledged the letter and said the matter has been handed over to Solicitor General Elmer MacKay.Lavaltrie is about 40 kilometres northeast of Montreal.Rheaume, who left Montreal on Sunday, hopes to reach Quebec City Feb.4.f- ,'.V I*»1 Physician's body recovered from lake Police divers found the body of Dr.Eugene Jenness, of Newport, Vt., in 135 feet of water Tuesday.Story, page 3.RECORD/PERRY BEATON Lortie defence lawyers prepare insanity plea QUEBEC (CP) — Cpl.Denis Lor-tie’s lawyers are expected to begin calling the first of a dozen defence witnesses Wednesday when the murder trial of the Canadian armed forces supply clerk resumes after a one-day recess.Lortie, 25, faces three charges of first-degree murder in a submachine-gun rampage at the Quebec National Assembly last May 8 during which a lone gunman killed three government employees and wounded 13 other people.Crown prosecutor André Plante finished presenting his case Monday, having called some fifty witnesses since the Quebec Superior Court trial began Jan.7.Defence lawyers André Royer and Francois Fortier asked for the one-day adjournment to allow their experts to view videotapes filmed by the legislature’s in-house television cameras during the attack.Lortie’s lawyers do not plan to contest the Crown’s evidence but rather to base their plea on insanity.The five men and seven women of the jury have heard gripping testimony from victims wounded in the attack, from soldiers at Canadian Forces Base Carp where Lortie was stationed, and from assembly Ser-geant-at-Arms Rene Jalbert, who is credited with minimizing the bloodshed by calming the rampaging gunman.The videotapes, screened in the hushed courtroom Monday, showed an agitated man dressed in combat fatigues and wielding a sub-machinegun seated on the Speaker’s throne in the assembly’s Blue Room.He was shown firing his weapon in front of him and towards the government benches.The films also showed a calm, unarmed Jalbert approach the gunman, persuade him to allow the wounded in the room to leave, and eventually talk him into going down to Jalbert’s legislature basement office.OTTAWA (CP) — External Affairs Minister Joe Clark said Tuesday Canada sought and received “a firm guarantee” that the United States won’t put nuclear weapons in Canada without permission in the event of an international crisis.Responding to questions in the Commons from Pauline Jewett, NDP foreign affairs critic, Clark claimed this doesn’t represent any shift in long-standing government policy against basing nuclear weapons in Canada.“The policy of the government of Canada is, as it has been, that there Jalbert negotiated the terms for the gunman’s surrender, bringing an end to the siege after five hours.Mr.Justice Yvan Mignault granted Lortie’s request to leave the courtroom while the videotapes were being shown.Lortie said he did not wish to be present.The jury also heard audio cassettes Lortie allegedly sent to his wife, to the chaplain at Canadian Forces Base Val-Cartier, and a Quebec City radio station before the shooting.On the tape to Lortie’s wife, Lise Lévesque, a man said in French that life was too hard for him, but that “be- wiii not be nuclear weapons on Canadian soil,” Clark said.“The guarantee of that is that we have sought and we have received from the United States assurances that before any plans that they might have or that they might develop which would affect Canadian territory are implemented there would not only be consultation but there would be the right to refuse in Canada.“This government, if we considered it in the interests of Canada, would exercise that right to refuse.“It’s very simple,” Clark said as opposition MPs hooted.The whole issue of basing U.S.nu- fore they kill me, I will have killed a lot.” In the message to the chaplain, a man spoke of drug and alcohol abuse in the forces, as well as of a black market in army equipment and supplies.The voice on the tape to open-line radio host Andre Arthur explained his love of the French language, and that he wanted to destroy ‘ ‘those who want to destroy the French language — this government, including (Premier) René Lévesque.” The trial is expected to continue into next week.clear weapons in Canada arose when a Washington-based defence researcher made public two weeks ago a U.S.document signed by President Reagan that outlined contingency plans for putting 32 nuclear depth charges in Canada in the event of war.Defence Minister Robert Coates, who avoided reporters for a second consecutive day Tuesday, first said he knew nothing about the U.S.plan, then said it was an expired program approved by the former Liberal government led by the late prime minister Pearson in 1967.He subsequently amended that to say there has been no such emergency U.S.plan since 1975.Clark: No depth to nuclear charges Auditor’s report gets MPs off back benches to save Canada millions OTTAWA (CP) — Economy-minded back-bench Tory MPs squeezed about $40 million in promised savings next year from senior bureaucrats Tuesday.The Conservatives, along with New Democratic Party MPs, all members of the Commons public accounts committee, also pressed the bureaucrats appearing before the committee to clean up government banking practices and get tough with banks that do business with the government.They managed to get William Bind-man, the acting comptroller general, to accept final responsibility for those practices which Auditor General Ken Dye has estimated may be costing taxpayers up to $95 million a year too much.In his annual report released in No- vember, Dye complained the government isn’t getting the best value for its money in its banking practices.He said the problem was compounded by a lack of clarity about which department has ultimate responsibility for managing the $500 billion a year that flows into and out of the government’s bank account.Dye, who attended Tuesday’s committee meeting, was overjoyed with the results obtained by the MPs, who through persistent questioning and biting criticism badgered bureaucrats for a commitment not only to act on his complaints but to produce tangible results within the 1985-86 fiscal year.“I think that’s a significant step forward,” Dye said.“I was impressed that deputy ministers would make dollar commitments and time commitments.“I think that shows that the parliamentarians are playing their role in trying to help the taxpayer and I’m pleased that it comes out of efforts of my office to make them focus on the topic.” He also said, “I think there’s a heightened concern about immediate cash savings from this (Conservative) administration versus others." In his annual report, Dye estimated the current arrangement under which financial institutions provide banking services to the federal government in exchange for interest-free use of certain government cash balances has resulted in Ottawa paying an estimated $52 million more than necessary annually over the past five years.COSTING $43 MILLION Other cash management practices, such as the early payment of suppliers and delays in financial institutions clearing payments made directly by business and individuals, were costing the government up to $43 million a year in loss interest.The $40 million in promised savings came as Alan Redway, Conservative MP for Ontario’s York East, extracted point-by-point commitments from the bureaucrats to rectify the cash-management shortcomings Dye outlined.Meanwhile, other MPs told the bureaucrats to get moving on stalled negotiations with financial institutions to implement a new arrangement for receiving banking services and placing deposits.Gerry St.Germain, Conservative MP for Mission-Port Moody riding in British Columbia, said “as a businessman I can’t believe what I’m hearing,” when Deputy Finance Minister Mickey Cohen said he couldn’t say when negotiations for a new ar-rangment with the institutions would be completed.The negotiations have been going for almost three years and there have been no formal meetings since the spring of last year.Doug Lewis, Conservative MP for Ontario’s Simcoe North, suggested there was “foot dragging” in renegotiating the agreement with the banks He and other MPs, including New Democrat Stan Hovdebo, MP for Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert riding, pushed the bureaucrats to get tough and suggested the banks are purposely delaying the negotiations because the current agreement is in their favor.Cohen said the issue was complex but promised the problem will be cleared up before Dye makes his next annual report.MPs also criticized the present situation of co-responsibility between departments for managing the government’s cash balances, with Hovdebo equating the current co-responsibility situation between departments with no responsibility at all.The criticism prompted Bindman to tell the MPs to blame him for any shortcomings and said his department would take final responsibility for managing the government’s banking arrangements.» < > 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, January 23, 1985 Famine camps running out of food as 3,000 refugees arrive each day KHARTOUM (AP) — Camps that took in tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Ethiopia's famine could run out of food in a few days, say relief workers who fear up to 80,000 more Ethiopians are walking hundreds of kilometres to facilities unable to handle them.At least one camp, caring for 22,000 refugess in the Fau area of Sudan, about 200 kilometres southeast of Khartoum, will run out of ground water in three weeks, said an American health technician for a private relief agency who asked that he and the agency remain anonymous.“In the east, the situation is undoubtedly much worse than it was last month,” said Nicholas Morris, Khartoum representative for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.‘ “The problem is food,” he said.“We are receiving 2,000 to 3,000 (refugees) a day, and we’re basically living from day to day.” The UN agency estimates that since November about 130,000 Ethiopians have fled into Sudan from drought-ravaged districts in the provinces of Tigre and Eritrea.The exodus has been organized in famine areas by the Relief Society of Tigre, which is affiliated with the Tigre People’s Liberation Front, a rebel group waging a secessionist war against the Marxist Ethiopian government.Western countries have accused the pro-Soviet Ethiopian government of interrupting food shipments to rebel-controlled areas in Ethiopia.SUPPLIES SEIZED On Jan.12, Ethiopia seized $1.2 million worth of Australian relief supplies bound via Sudan for rebel-held areas, saying Australia was meddling in the country’s “internal affairs.” Ethiopia has denied that it has made food a political weapon.The Ethiopian government has recently begun a controversial plan to resettle 1.5 million famine victims — many from Eritrea and Tigre — in camps in southern Ethiopia.Relief Society officials have told the Sudanese that 80,000 people have left their homes in northern Ethiopia and are walking hundreds of kilometres over rough terrain to the Sudanese border to take refugee in relief camps.Some 500,000 Ethiopians live where the Relief Society says food supplies can barely support survival, and relief officials say that many of those hungry people may be forced to flee to Sudan by summer to avoid the rainy season.If the Relief Society’s projections prove accurate, the Sudanese Commission for Refugees estimates the number of Ethiopians arriving since November will reach 250,000 by April.Among those who took refugee in Sudan are some 25,000 Ethiopian Jews, called Falashas, most of whom were ferried to Israel in a secret airlift that was called off on Jan.4 after it was made public.Neither Ethiopia nor Sudan have diplomatic relations with Israel.Both Sudanese and foreign workers say the overwhelming task of feeding so many helpless people is compounded by Sudan’s domestic problems, including shortages of food, fuel and inadequate communication and transport systems.Florida freeze could rank as worst in state’s history LAKELAND, Fla.(AP) — As the mercury dipped below freezing Wednesday, Florida citrus growers rushed their icy product to market amid predictions that their losses from a three-day cold snap could exceed the $1 billion from the 1983 killer freeze.Gov.Bob Graham declared a state of emergency Tuesday, and federal inspectors were sent to assess damage to citrus and vegetable crops caused by the state’s worst cold spell in a century.Wednesday is the third consecutive day that citrus fields are being ravaged by frigid arctic air.Record lows for Jan.22 were set in 13 Florida communities, and the weather service warned that the cold wave is not over.“Everybody expected low temperatures,” Bernie Hamel of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association said Tuesday.“But what really hurt the most was the duration.It just got down and stayed down.” State Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner said reports he received Tuesday led him to believe that the freeze could rank as the worst ever in Florida.He said the damage this time is “more widespread, more crops destroyed.” HEAVY LOSSES The 1983 freeze damaged or destroyed trees and fruit of more than 101,100 hectares, causing more than $1 billion in losses, industry economists said.Wilson McGee, retired citrus executive, said the latest freeze has been “more democratic and systematic — it seemed to hit everywhere.” The Florida Crop and Livestock Reporting Service sampled fruit from 130 citrus belt sites on Tuesday.Eleven of the 32 citrus belt counties were not surveyed because they suffered such extensive damage during the 1983 freeze that there was not enough fruit to make a sampling valid, said Ernie Neff, a spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual.But of those counties surveyed, 89 per cent of the fruit samples contained some ice, indicating “a high percentage of the state’s citrus crop was impacted,” said Bobby McKown, executive vice-president of Florida Citrus Mutual.Quebec ‘foreign’ student tuition plan postponed MONTREAL (CP) — A Quebec government proposal to charge higher tuition fees to students from other provinces has been put off, Yves Berube, minister of post-secondary education, said Tuesday.Education Department officials said last March the government had approved in principle a plan to charge about $1,000 tuition a year for Canadian students from outside Quebec.Domestic students currently pay about $500 a year, depending on the university and the course.The proposal was almost universally criticized, in and out of Quebec, as a form of discrimination.No other province charges differential fees for out-of-province students, although foreign students often pay more.Critics said the proposal would raise barriers against mobility between provinces and would hit Quebec’s anglophone universities the hardest.Lucie Beauchemin, press attache to Berube, said that “different scenarios were examined, and it was decided that, at this stage, it wasn’t the thing to do.It simply has been put off.” Berube also announced that foreign students’ fees would remain at their present levels for 1985-86.They were raised for new students last September to $2,900 per semester, or generally about $5,800 a year.About half of the 6,500 foreign students in Quebec pay domestic rates, however, because of reciprocity agreements signed by the province with about 30 francophone countries.Bedroom fire interrupts family’s viewing pleasure BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — George Thurlow’s family found the te-levision show St.Elsewhere so compelling that they ignored a fire in their house to watch it.When firemen arrived at Thurlow’s house Monday night in this industrial city in northwest England, he was standing at the front door waving his arms.“I asked him where the fire was and he said upstairs in a back bedroom, so I sent two chaps in wearing breathing apparatus,” said station officer Paul Cullen.“The smoke was really thick.” “I then asked him if anyone else was inside, and he said his wife and two daughters.I thought, ‘Oh my God!’ and sent another two chaps in.“They found (all three) in the back room watching television through the haze.One of the daughters was smoking a cigarette.” When firemen brought them out, Cullen said, “the wife was coughing, but I’m not sure whether that was from the smoke of the fire or from her daughter’s cigarette.” Cullen said he then asked Thurlow, 60, if anyone else was inside.“He said there were two dogs, so back in went the firemen and got them.I asked him if there was anybody else, and he said, ‘Oh blimey, the cat ! ’ So they went back in and brought out this big fluffy cat.“During the half-hour it took us to deal with the incident the family were sitting on the wall.When it was all over they went back in, maybe to watch the end of the film.” —__ umra George MacUaren, Publisher .Charles Bury, Editor .Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent Richard Lessard, Production Manager Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room CIRCULATION DEPT.-569-9526 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year - $72 80 weekly $1 40 Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1 year - $55 00 6 months - $32 50 3 months - $22 50 1 month - $13 00 U.S.A Foreign: 1 year • $100.00 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publication 60c per copy Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1 10 per copy 6 months - $60.00 3 months - $40.00 1 month -$20.00 Established February 9,1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by Townships Communications Inc./ Communications des Cantons, Inc., Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064 Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations News-in-brief Tainted meat suppliers sought MONTREAL (CP) — The provincial Access to Information Commission has been asked to order the Montreal Urban Community to reveal the names of firms from which it seized 45,678 kilograms of tainted meat and 32,948 litres of milk unfit for human consumption in 1983.Robert Winters, a reporter for the Montreal Gazette, appeared before the commission Tuesday to appeal the city’s refusal to make public its records on the tainted food seizures, which are mentioned in the city’s 1983 annual report.Lawyer Louis-Philipe Bourgeois, representing the city, argued that revealing the names of restaurants, hotels and stores where tainted food had been seized would do irreparable damage to the firms named.Gazette lawyer Mark Bantey told the commission that “it is in the public interest to know if there is a seizure of food at a restaurant.” Winters also wants city records on the hiring of ethnic police officers, the enforcement of industrial pollution standards, and other matters.A ruling on most of the requests is expected within a month.Three killed on slippery street MONTREAL (CP) — A woman and her two children were killed yesterday morning when their car collided with a bus on a slippery street.Several bus passengers suffered minor injuries.Names and ages of the victims have not been released.Police have warned motorists across southwestern Quebec to drive only if necessary because of blowing and drifting snow.Trade missions open MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec will open three new overseas trade missions in February, bringing to 28 the number of such offices existing outside the province, the Foreign Relations Department said Tuesday.Michelle Bussieres has been named economic delegate to Bogota, Colombia, Pierre Belanger to Stockholm, Sweden, and Dominique Bonifacio to Singapore.The province now has four delegations in Canada and 24 in other countries.Maltais to seek assembly seat QUEBEC (CP) — Andre Maltais, former Liberal M P for the North Shore riding of M anicouagan who was defeated by Prime Minister Mulroney in last year’s federal election, has announced that he will try his hand at provincial politics.Maltais said Tuesday he will seek the Liberal nomination in the provincial riding of Duplessis, in the same North Shore area as the Manicouagan riding.Duplessis is now represented in the national assembly by Parti Québécois member Denis Perron.Maltais has been teaching school administration at Laval University here since the federal election.A Quebec election is expected sometime this year.Ski centre absolved of blame QUEBEC (CP) — A Superior Court judge has rejected a $6.7 million lawsuit against a ski centre owned by the Quebec government, saying the centre was not responsible for an accident on its slopes which left a 20-year-old skier a quadriplegic.In his ruling Tuesday, Mr.Justice ReneLetarte absolved the Mont-Sainte-Anne ski resort of all blame in the March 9, 1981 accident, in which plaintiff Daniel Paradis hit a rock while skiing at the centre and fractured his spine.Michael Sheehan, representing the government, said management had carried out normal maintenance, had classified the slope as being for experts and had placed signs atop the slope warning of ice and rocks.Hospital services back to normal DOLBEAU, Que.(CP) — Doctors at a local hospital in the Lac-St-Jean region of northern Quebec have withdrawn their resignations after Social Affairs Minister Guy Chevrette promised to act on their complaints about working conditions.A spokesman at the hospital said services were back to normal.The doctors resigned last Thursday to protest what they said was government failure to live up to its commitment to provide more physicians and equipment for remote areas.The 11 doctors at Dolbeau staged a similar protest last May, and the same tactic has been employed in other rural or remote areas in the province where doctors are overworked because of recruitment problems.MP calls for drawbridge reopening Air Force plane falls into sea OTTAWA (CP) — The CBC’s cancellation of the long-running children’s show The Friendly Giant is “in poor judgment, poor taste and downright selfish,” Conservative MP Barry Turner told the Commons Tuesday.The MP for Ottawa-Carleton, who said he had fond memories of “imported fictional characters” such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White and Buck Rogers, added that without Rusty, Jerome and Friendly, “Canadian youth.will be deprived of an unmistakable element of pure Canadian goodness.” Turner said MPs should “reopen the drawbridge to the castle of warmth and friendship and keep Friendly, Rusty and Jerome in business for years to come.” Fire breaks out at seniors home OTTAWA (CP) — One man died and more than 20 were taken to hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation or precautionary checks Tuesday when fire broke out in a 15-storey senior citizens apartment building.The badly burned body of the victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was found on the eighth floor of the 216-unit Rideau-Charlotte Towers, owned by the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Housing Authority.Six residents were taken by ambulances to Montfort and Ottawa General Hospitals for treatment of smoke inhalation, while about 20 others were taken by a city bus to Ottawa Civic Hospital for what were described as check-ups.Aid leader calls for more donations WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.air force transport plane with 21 aboard went down Tuesday in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras coast and rescuers battled fog and foul weather, the Defence Department said.The C-130A transport was bound for the Honduran coastal town of Trujillo from Howard Air Force Base in Panama.It went into the water about 11 a m.EST, said Lt.-Col.Gene Sands, a Defence Department spokesman.Sands said “no hostile action was indicated.” He said it was unclear whether the plane, which he said was on a routine troop transport mission, crashed or ditched in the sea.He said there was no word on the fate of the estimated 21 military people aboard.Cold weather postpones launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.(AP) — The third straight night of freezing temperatures has forced a 24-hour delay of today’s scheduled first U.S.military man-in-space mission, the first time in 46 astronaut flights that cold weather has postponed a launch.Shortly before midnight EST Tuesday night, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that “extreme weather conditions in the area are projected to cause icing conditions on the external tank” that could be hazardous.At the time the temperature was near freezing and dropping.The launch was rescheduled for between 1:15 p.m and 4:15 p.m.Thursday.Florida tourists avoid beaches OTTAWA (CP) — Canadians and likely the fede ral government will have to “renew and re double” their assistance to several African na tions at the brink of disaster, David MacDonald Canada’s aid co-ordinator for the African famine said Tuesday.Just 90 minutes after returning from an eight-day tour of three African countries, MacDonald told reporters he is confident Canadians will continue their flow of donations despite an investigation into one aid agency and claims of political manipulation of aid by the Ethiopian government.“I think people are wise enough to realize that in any major crisis, there may be individuals or organizations that will either appear to or (do) not act responsibly,” said MacDonald, still wearing a tropical-weight suit after his visit to the sub-Saharan countries of Mali, Niger and Mauritania.Prostitution laws to be updated OTTAWA (CP) — Justice Minister John Crosbie says he may go ahead and toughen soliciting laws without waiting for recommendations from a federal committee which has been stuyding pornography and prostitution for more than a year.“I’m not just going to wait forever,” Crosbie told the Commons justice committee Tuesday, indicating his growing displeasure that the committee, headed by Vancouver lawyer Paul Fraser, has not yet submitted its report.TAMPA, Fla.(AP) — Tourists who went to Florida to escape winter were disappointed by the wave of arctic air that dropped temperatures to record levels, but many are sticking it out and just avoiding the beaches.Overnight temperatures in the Sunshine State plummeted well below freezing Monday and Tuesday and meteorologists predicted more of the same for Wednesday.The balmy readings in the high 20s Celsius at Christmas have disap peared.Instead of the beach, where temperatures hovered around the freezing mark, vacationers flocked to shoppiiig malls, restaurants and attractions._____¦_ Smith lawyer sees her as ‘victim’ LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former singer Cathy Evelyn Smith may plead guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of comedian John Belushi, but the deal is off if prosecutors insist on a prison term, her lawyer said.Smith ended her 22-month fight against extradition from Toronto and returned Tuesday to Los Angeles to stand trial.She was indicted in 1983 on charges including murder.“I view her as more of a victim than a criminal, ’ said Howard Weitzman, who successfully defended automaker John DeLorean on cocaine trafficking charges last year.“She clearly didn’t .« intend to murder anyone.She was involved in her lough drunk driving fines proposed own drug problems, as was Mr.Belushi.” OTTAWA (CP) — Fines based on a person’s income might be more of a deterrent to drunk drivers than the fines proposed in the government’s Criminal Code amendments, New Democrat justice critic Svend Robinson said Tuesday.Robinson told the Commons justice committee that government proposals to increase minimum fines to $300 from $50 for a first offence are not significant because judges are already imposing fines in the $300 range.He said many European countries set fines as a percentage of an individual’s income, although there is always a set minimum fine.The Burnaby, B.C., MP said wealthy individuals would not find a $300 fine to be much of a deterrent.Soviet dissident’s rescue planned VANCOUVER (CP) — Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky can breathe easier in his Siberian prison camp — Vancouver city council has a plan to rescue him.Crafted by Aid.Marguerite Ford, the scheme goes like this : End the Arms Race organizers, at the urging of council, will ask the Soviet government to permit Shcharanksy to speak to Vancouver’s 1985 peace march.“What can we lose?” Ford asked as council voted 7-2 in favor of her proposal.“We may be instrumental in getting this man out of Russia.” Other aldermen were skeptical.“This is kind of a dumb motion,” Aid.Bruce Eriksen observed, although he voted for it.Opposed were Eriksen’s fellow left-leaning aldermen, Harry Rankin and Libby Davies.Major nickel mine sabotaged NOUMEA (AP) — Saboteurs trying to cripple the vital nickel mining industry on the French territory of New Caledonia attacked a major mine, wrecking trucks and equipment in a bid to immobilize the operation, authorities said today.The French High Commission said the state-owned nickel mine at Kouaoua was attacked Tuesday night and 90 per cent of its machinery was destroyed.Extensive damage by saboteurs was discovered earlier this week at another major mining complex.Nickel mining accounts for close to 90 per cent of the exports of New Caledonia, which holds about one-third of the world’s known reserves of the metal.With the latest attack, the industry is at almost a complete stop.Sea search starts for missing plane AGANA, Guam (AP) — A search is underway for a navy A-3 reconnaissance plane carrying nine people that was overdue on a flight from Japan to Guam today and was presumed down in the Pacific Ocean, officials said.Lieut.Roberta Hackney, a duty officer in Guam, said an air and sea search was launched 125 nautical miles north of Guam where the plane is thought to have gone down after disappearing from radar screens.Hackney said the A-3 was on a flight to the air station on Guam from the Atsugi naval air facility in Japan.She said the aircraft was assigned to the VQ-1 or fleet air reconnaissance squadron on Guam.Weather Cloudy today and Thursday with snow flurries and winds gusting up to 50 kilometres an hour causing blowing snow.High both days -7, low tonight -15.Winds diminishing by late Thursday.Doonesbury ÎP LIKE 10 WELCOME THE MEMBERS OF THE PKE9E TO THE BA8YPOC COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS- I'M PRE5LPENT PUKE, ANP I'll BE VOLK PRESS LIAISON purins mmrs surseny.I'LL BE SENPLNS IN PERJOP/C BULLETINS PIRECT FROM THE 'OPERATING , THEATRE.\ UNTIL THEN, PLEASE ENJOY OUR HAITIAN HOSPITALITY, TEQUILA ANP NUTS.USAT, SUG6E5TIVE BANTER WILL BE SERNEP UP SI YOUR LOVELY ANP W/LUNS \ hostess, HONEY.BY GARRY TRUDEAU \ SIR! C'MON, HONEY, IMA WESOTTAKEEP COLLEGE THESE MEP/A DEAN/ B0Y5HAPFY./ 4 ) 4 The RECORD—Wednesday, January 23, 1985—3 The Townships SecorH Storm brings accordion crash on autoroute; schoolbusses collide SHERBROOKE — The windiest day yet this winter in the Eastern Townships Tuesday caused an estimated 75 traffic accidents, delayed travellers, reduced workplace productivity and wrought havoc on the personal plans of almost everyone who has to use a car.Only two people were reported injured as a result of the storm.The worst pile-up came just before noon when six passenger cars, a minibus, a Quebec Police patrol car, a tow truck and a delivery truck full of chocolates ran into each other on the Eastern Townships autoroute near Cherry River, between the highway’s two Magog exits.Bruno Cienciala, 68, of Montreal was treated for minor injuries and released at Magog’s La Providence hos pital.Police reported that four of the vehicles involved were destroyed.As well, the candy truck’s box was split open, scattering fine chocolates across the roadway.CRASH MARKS THE SPOT The eastbound autoroute accident was the second in the same spot within minutes.QPF Cst.Daniel Hébert had stopped to assist a motorist whose car had become stuck in the slippery road.A second QPF patrol car stopped behind the first one to warn oncoming drivers and slow down the traffic.Visibility was severely limited by blowing snow.The second QPF car, ridden by Csts.Richard Blais and Denis Brien, was called away to another accident.As it left the scene of the first mishap, the patrolmen began to hear telltale thuds and thumps behind them in the whiteout.As soon as the injured man had been taken to hospital and the mess cleaned up, the Magog section of the four-lane highway was closed.Sherbrooke police reported more than 20 traffic accidents between 7:30 a.m.and 5:30 p.m.DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Student Maryse Holion, 19, was injured when the schoolbus in which she was riding was involved with another at Polyvalente Le Triolet and University Blvd.Holion was taken to Hôtel-Dieu hospital with “serious” injuries.Several busdrivers at the scene said they have been asking for years for the installation of a traffic light where the school’s driveway meets the four-lane, divided boulevard at a sharp curve.Meanwhile productivity in industry went down for the day as some employees failed to get through the snow to work and others left for home early to make sure they got through.Many of those who did show up for work spent much of the day gazing out windows at the weather and pondering their homeward trips.The same was true in stores and service businesses, where many customers stayed away as well.Some schools, social service and other government agencies stayed closed for the day or sent employees home early.Only the police, tow-truck crews and snow removal teams were kept fully occupied all day.i U' V 'V I 'k Not all bad, anyway Weather conditions hampered many human activities Tuesday but for those with an eye for the artistic side of life, ice and snow were busy combining to create some fancy scenes.Wood producers set to sign a ten-year supply deal with Domtar mill By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — The Eastern Townships Wood Producers Syndicate (ETWPS) is about to sign its first long-term contract to ship wood to a local pulp and paper mill, ETWPS president Wells Coates said Tuesday.The deal with the Domtar fine pa per mill in Windsor calls for the delivery of 1,100,000 cords of hardwood over 10 years at a price which is indexed to increase every year, A preli- minary agreement has been signed, Coates said, and he expects it to be finalized very soon.The 10-year, renewable contract means Domtar is one step closer to building its new mill behind the existing one on the St.Francis River, as well as providing Eastern Townships hardwood producers with a guaranteed market for their logs.Coates said Domtar has to have three things before beginning contruction on the one-billion-dollar mill it is has been planning since 1983 : a union contract with its 700 employees, government grants and the contract it is going to sign with the ETWPS.‘THE GO-AHEAD’ “The guarantee of an adequate supply of wood for the mill gives them the go-ahead with the new mill,” said Coates, adding it was Domtar who proposed the 10-year deal.The company is still waiting for money from Ottawa, however.Quebec agreed last week to contribute $80 million to the project but made sure to point out that its federal counterpart has yet to do the same.Coates said the delay on the federal money is not a problem and Ottawa will come through with it.He pointed out that both levels of government make $60 on every cord of wood produced in Canada, and adds that the forest industry directly or indirectly supplies one out of every 10 jobs in the country.Loggers sidestep supply quota problem for this year SHERBROOKE (PS) — The Eastern Townships Wood Producers Syndicate (ETWPS) is giving up on its project to pass a regulation that would change the way quotas are shared among woodlot owners, president Wells Coates said Tuesday.’Ol .O *111.1 I The regulation, undei; which the Syndicate would have distributed quota based on producers' acreage instead of giving each member the same amount, has been a source of controversy since it was passed last April.Wood quota is basically the right to ship logs to sawmills and paper mills.At the moment, it is distributed evenly among all producers regardless of how much land they have, and it isn’t transferable.Woodlot owners who have more logs than quota have to get , their wood to the mills with the help of agents and independent shippers.It was the agents and shippers who challenged the regulation because they didn’t want to lose part of their business.They went to the Régie des marchés agricoles, which oversees Quebec’s farm product marketing laws, and it held a hearing on the matter in Sherbrooke last fall.SIDESTEPS REGULATION There has still been no decision from the Régie.At the last ETWPS board meeting, the directors passed a resolution asking the governmental body to drop, the| regulation, according to Coates.“It'was too controversial,” he said.But the controversy will probably continue because the wood producers syndicate knows there’s more than one wav to skin a cat.Instead of trying to pass a permanent rule, the ETWPS now plans to pass annual resolutions that will do the same thing as the regulation was intended to do.Members of the syndicate will be granted quota based on their acreage this year, Coates said.“I’m convinced the new method (of distributing quota) that the board of directors is taking a’decision on will be a very fair method of sharing the market,” he said.“The regulation wasn’t flexible enough The yearly resolution will be more acceptable.” Seen any hairless cats, lately?Boards meet with deputy minister over Bill 3 By Robert Palmer LENNOXVILLE — When it comes to education systems and school board reform, the Eastern Townships, like Panasonic, is well ahead of its time, says the Quebec associate deputy minister (Protestant) of education.“Perhaps in the Eastern Townships it was an enlightened attitude which brought you to the conclusion long ago that this was the way to have English-speaking schools,” Ann Schlutz told an informal meeting of Eastern Townships Regional School Board executives Tuesday.Schlutz was in Lennoxville to explain and help the ETRSB interpret the recently-enacted Bill 3, the revised version of the complicated, controversial legislation (Bill 40) on school board reform.Schlutz says the legislation is “much better” and “more sensible in view of the actual situation.” But she stressed that in the Eastern Townships, “the situation presecribed by the Bill has existed for many years.“You have had linguistic school boards for many years,” she said.“You have fought and learned to maintain anglophone education.“Now, for the first time, the Bill guarantees English schools.” In fact, Bill 3 responds accurately to almost all of the concerns raised in the region by the 8,000-member Townshippers’ Association in its briefs during the lengthy hearings on Bill 40 last year.In an interview Nov.6, Association president Marjorie Goodfellow said she was originally concerned with the power relationship between the ministry of education, the school boards and the school committees, the election process of school boards, the school-community relationship, access.and constitutional guarantees for linguistic school boards.In almost all cases, those concerns were either clarified or eliminated by Bill 3, she said.The two major exceptions however, were the lack of constitutional guarantees for linguistic school boards, and access to English-language schools as dictated in Bill 101.In response to the former, Schlutz said the constitution never guaranteed linguistic school boards in the first place.Even in the instance of confessional school boards, “it only ever guaranteed confessional schools, not school boards." As far as access is concerned, Schlutz echoed the phrase heard so often.‘Accessibility to schools is part of Bill 101.This Bill is in no way connected.“What this Bill does do is generally widen accessibility and guarantee it.Linguistic access has nothing to do Divers find doctor’s body GEORGEVILLE — The body of Dr.Eugene Jenness, 37, of Newport, Vt., was recovered from Lake Memphre-magog Tuesday by Quebec Police Force divers.Jenness was reported missing late on Sunday, Jan.13 after he failed to return from a planned marathon skate around the 27-mile-long lake from Newport.He apparently went through a patch of thin ice into deep water off George-ville.The body was found near George-ville, at the bottom of the lake in 135 feet of water, near where United States Air Force searchers had found an orange parka and a backpack the day after he disappeared.The following day bad weather forced a halt to the search, and by the time skies cleared snow had hidden the jacket, which had been left frozen in the ice to mark the spot where Jenness was believed to have gone down.U.S.Air force and QPF searchers later rediscovered the jacket and preparations began for an underwater search, which finally began Monday.Able to stay in the deep frigid water only ten minutes a day without endangering their own lives, the QPF divers from Montreal made a first discovery Monday when they turned up a plastic skate guard.Tuesday the diving team was increased from two divers to five with the addition of a second underwater squad from Quebec City.But the body of the popular physician and heart specialist was found on the first descent, at about 2:15 p.m.Jenness was a competition skater and had planned to take part in an international marathon race in Europe later this winter.with it,” she said.POWERS SINGLED OUT Schlutz also singled out the Bill’s success in the area of school board powers.“The right of the school boards have not been diminished.If elected democratically, almost anyone may sit.“The powers of the school board itself have been increased inasmuch as the individual citizen has been brought into the life of the school as much as possible.The Bill also asks the community to take charge of the whole pedagogical and social life of the school,” she said.Schlutz acknowledged that fears of Eastern Townshippers over the loss of their rural schools were understandable.“The fears and objections encountered have a strong emotional content in that the decreasing anglophone population sees its institutions disappearing.“In a way it is inevitable with a decrease in population.” In the period 1972-1984, the total en- rolment of the ETRSB, Lennoxville and District, St.Francis Protestant and District of Bedford school boards declined from 11,350 to just under 6,000.Schlutz’s comments on the Bill were well-received by her audience.ETRSB officials seemed impressed with the changes.“It’s a great leap forward,” said Wendell Sparkes, ETRSB assistant director general.“Basically, we are quite happy with it,” said Margaret Paulette.ETRSB chairperson.“We were concerned over the loss of school board powers in Bill 40 but we believe with this Bill we can manage the schools with the powers we have maintained.” Paulette attributed some of the negative reaction to the school board legislation to “a lack of understanding” of its complex nature and implications.“It’s a big job constantly educating everyone on the law’s interpretations.“We must understand how the specifics will work,” she said.Coroner asks for lights SHERBROOKE — St.Francis district Coroner Michel Durand suggested Tuesday that the City of Sherbrooke look into the possibility of installing traffic signals on the corner of Portland and Quebec streets following an inquest into the death of 59 year-old Émile Thibault.Thibault was killed when struck by a car as he tried to cross Portland at the intersection on the evening of last December 4.“I can’t but agree with the suggestion put forward by the investigator in the case, Alain Lévesque,” Durand said, “to the effect that a crossing signal be installed at this location, taking into consideration the two fatal accidents and three others where people suffered injury in the same sector in the last three years.” HIRE EXPERTS In ruling Thibault’s death to be accidental, Durand added that neither he nor Lévesque were traffic experts, and suggested that the city engage such experts to study the possibility of installing signals “to protect the lives and safety of our citizens.” Thibault was struck by a pick-up truck while trying to cross Portland Street after having returned from work by bus.Evidence presented at the hearing indicates that the nature of the street between London and Quebec provides a particularly hazardous obstacle for pedestrians and that four other serious accidents involving pedestrians have occurred in the area within the last three years.» /gcr Sunday: 1:00, 3:15, 7:00, 9:15 Pri., Sot.: 7:00 & 9:15 thru Thun.: 8:00 CimiMA CAPITOL 59 king est ses oui The long-term contract, which will supply Domtar with 45 per cent of its hardwood needs, is new to the ETWPS.The syndicate usually makes deals on an annual basis with local mills and has to negotiate prices every year at this time.Talks with other mills are going on this week, Coates said.The 110,000 cords going to Domtar are more than half the annual production for the entire region in both hardwood and softwood, however, which makes the contract even more important to the ETWS.FOREST DEVELOPMENT PLAN The 10-year deal fits right into Coates’ plans for forestry development in the Eastern Townships.He says the region produces only half the wood it is capable of growing and needs to develop a replanting program.The ETWPS is promoting three projects at next week’s regional econo-iqjc s.urpmit in Compton which, if approved by provincial ministers, would help the Townships meet its wood-producing potential.The three projects — planting trees on unused land, improving drainage on woodlots and helping private forest owners maintain their trees -— would Wells Coates.Domtar asked for deal.j a cost $16 over five years of which the ETWPS wants the provincial government to pay $12.5 million.“We are expecting that the ministers (at the summit) will be in a definite position to make committments to forest management in the Eastern Townships,” Coates said optimistically.NEW ZEALAND SPRING LAMB SPECIALS LEGS OR BONELESS SHOULDER *,,4.37 1.98 PACKAGED LOIN CHOPS 4/pack kg.6.37 lb.2.891 PRIME RIB ROAST OR STEAK Class Akg.8.71 lb.3.95 FRESH VEAL CHOPS Rib or loin kg.6.50 lb.2.95 ROLLED ROAST PORK Boneless butt kg.3.51 lb.1.59 SEVILLE ORANGES FOR MARMALADEt» 2.1»» .99 FRESH BRUSSELS SPROUTS kg.1.52 lb.69 QUEBEC YELLOW ONIONS 5 lb.bag .75 FRESH WHITE MUSHROOMS kg.4.30 lb.1.95 Quebec mcintosh apples 3 lb.bag 1.09 BAKING BEANS Yellow eye or red kidney 1 lb.pkg.1.09 M0ZERELLA CHEESE Black Diamond 450 g.3.39 VANILLA CREAM COOKIES Christies 450 g.1.95 KENT ORANGE JUICE Frozen i2 oz.99 CHOc ST.HUBERT CHICKEN PIE or Turkey 227 g.1.09 AYLMER GREEN PEAS 19 oz.tin .69 Tel.562-1531 CROSS 4—The RECORD—Wednesday.January 23.1985 Becdnl The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Share the guilt As often appears to be the case, the current parliamentary furor over a recently revealed American contingency plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Canadian harbors in the event of an international crisis is missing the point entirely.The plan, outlined in a document signed by president Reagan, indicates that should the Americans find themselves rapidly approaching an all-out conflict, nuclear depth charges would be deployed in two Canadian Forces Bases — one for each ocean — but does not define the criteria for such deployment.The document also fails to say whether Candian government permission will be necessary for the decision to be reached.Understandably, opposition members of parliament have been harping on this document, demanding to know whether Canada intends to allow such nuclear deployment should the “need” arise.Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Clark has stated in reply that he has “firm guarantees” from the Americans that Canadian permission would be requested before any such deployment occurs.Canada has long maintained a nuclear-free stance with regard to its territory, and Clark insists his statement does not represent a change from that traditional position.Clark adds that his government would certainly refuse a request to place such weapons on Canadian soil “if we considered it in the interests of Canada.” Very re assuring.What everybody seems to be ignoring is the kind of situation which might provoke the American military leaders to consider placing their nuclear depth charges in Canada in the first place.What is a nuclear depth charge, after all, and what role is envisaged for it in any future conflict?Unfortunately, the very term nuclear depth charge implies a weapon which would be used in an extended, almost traditional struggle.Presumably, they would be used to cripple enemy submarines patrolling Canadian waters.Considering the number of nuclear weapons both the United States and the Soviet Union now possess and the use to which most would be assigned in the event of a conflict, the practicability of such weapons is dubious to say the least.Most experts agree that an all-out nuclear confrontation would last a very short while, after which civilization as we know it would virtually cease to exist.The extent of the destruction would be so great that to talk in terms of winners and losers is a luxury only the obsessed intellects of the military high commands can indulge in.For the resf of us’, the point is moot.Canada, because of its geographic location, cannot hope to remain aloof from any major military action the Americans decide to undertake.Our economy, traditions and general outlook bind us as closely with the United States as any two nations on earth could ever be.It is only natural that in their surrealistic planning, the generals should think of using our territory as if it were their own.We should not be terribly offended by that.Since the Second World War, Canada has allowed the United States to take almost complete responsibility for continental defence and is inextricably tied to American planning.It is nice to know that the Americans will ask our permission before installing weapons that will definitely invite a reaction from the enemy in the event of war, but the meaning of such assurances should not be overestimated.In times of war, diplomatic niceties are the first casualties and we should not delude ourselves into thinking that should the Americans be refused the permission they seek they will simply shrug and go away.They will do what they feel is necessary.As long as the world’s superpowers insist on playing their deadly game of nuclear chicken, the rest of us must live our lives under the threat of total destruction.Canada, like all other nations will suffer terribly in the event of a nuclear war and her only chance for a decent future is to do her utmost to make sure such a situation never arises.Beyond that, we are powerless.Nuclear depth charges in Canada won’t alter the outcome of a conlict in any appreciable way.They will only allow us to share the guilt.MICHAEL McDEVITT Metric beats noose OTTAWA (CP) — Conservative MP Bill Domm said Tuesday that Canadians appear to be less interested in bringing back capital punishment than in scrapping compulsory metrication.Domm, an anti-metric crusader and strong advocate of a return to hanging, made the comment after presenting a 14,277-name petition in the Commons that calls for a free vote by MPs on whether to bring back capital punishment or a national referendum on the issue.Outside the Commons, Domm conceded that capital punishment may not be the burning national issue many people say it is, judging by the reaction to a separate petition circulated by policemen.The Canadian Police Association has gathered only a third as many signatures calling for a free vote on the death penalty as were collected in a petition against mandatory metric measurement.“If you’ve got 52,000 signatures on a petition supporting capital punishment and 137,000 signatures against mandatory metric, which do you think nationally is the bigger issue?” he asked.The petition presented Tuesday was started by Ruth Ross, widow of Ontario Provincial Police officer Jack Ross, killed while on duty last October in Woodstock, Ont., and asks MPs to support the call by Domm and other capital-punishment advocates for a free vote in the Commons.Capital punishment was abolished in 1976 after a bitter parliamentary debate.Nuclear jargon uses cute terms for deadly concepts WASHINGTON (CP) — In the language of arms talk, things often are not what they appear to be, complex words are used for simple facts, cute terms are used for deadly weapons and acronyms prevail.Thus it is that one destructive nuclear missile is called a Peacekeeper, a bill that would expand U.S.weaponry is titled The People Protection Act, a proposed military defence program takes on the title of a children’s movie called Star Wars and an arms treaty is known as SALT.The U.S.atomic bombs that devastated Japan in 1945 were called Little Boy and Fat Man.Following is a guide to key terms in the arms language that experts have been using in Switzerland to discuss prospects for renewed weapons negotiations.Offensive weapons: Designed to attack the enemy.Defensive weapons : Intended to protect or shield from enemy attack.Deterrent weapons : Created to frighten the enemy out of attacking in the first place.Active defence: Tries to neutralize or destroy the attacking weapon before it hits.An example is the F-18 fighter plane designed to defend a fleet from attacking aircraft.Passive defence : Tries to limit the damage from an attack with bomb shelters, for example.Early-warning systems, such as the radar system across northern Canada known as the DEW line, can contribute to both types of defence.Juliet O’Neill IN WASHINGTON Missile : An airplane without a pilot, or a kind of rocket, designed to carry warheads.Warheads: The part of a missile, bomb or torpedo that contains the nuclear, chemical or other material meant to kill or destroy.Ballistic: A missile without wings or a winglike flying surface.It is launched into the air from land, sea or air and climbs into the upper atmosphere in a series of stages during which it sheds engines and fuel supplies.It ejects bombs at programmed points along the way and returns to earth.Cruise : A low-flying missile that is like a small plane powered by a jet engine and equipped with its own guidance system, also capable of being launched from land, sea or air and firing bombs at programmed points.Intercontinental ballistic missile: A rocket without wings that can deliver bombs thousands of kilometres away.Launched from the ground they are known as ICBMs and launched from a submarine they are known as SLBMs.Depending on the type, they can go from a few kilometres to almost 10,000 kilometres, Tactical warfare: Situations where there is direct contact between enemy forces in battle.AIMS DIFFER Strategic warfare: Aimed at the enemy’s basic means of support such as civilians and the economy.Blasting enemy tanks on a battlefield is tactical while blowing up the enemy’s tank factory back home is strategic.(Thus strategic intercontinental nuclear missile is a fancy name for a modern rocket that can quickly carry and release nuclear bombs over long distances, such as from the United States to the Soviet Union and vice-versa.) SALT I : The 1968-72 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks that resulted in an Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an Interim Agreement on Offensive Weapons.The treaty, in effect, was to limit the Soviets and the Americans from creating a comprehensive defence system against the other’s ballistic missile system.Some analysts say both countries have violated the spirit if not the letter of the treaty.President Reagan’s proposal for a strategic defence program, dubbed Star Wars because of its space-based weaponry, is generally seen as a reversal of the offensive strategy preached by the United States for more than two decades.The separate five-year SALT I agreement established ceilings on missile launchers but not on missile warheads, enabling both sides to continue the arms race by multiplying the killing power of existing missiles.TREATY NOT SIGNED SALT II: The 1972-1979 strategic arms limitation treaty that set several different kinds of limitations on many categories of strategic nuclear weapons, such as land-based missiles, that are currently in use as well as some not yet built.Bogged down by debate over how treaty compliance would be verified and alienated by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S.Senate never formally ratified the treaty.START: Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, third stage of the SALT negotiations, that started in the summer of 1982 and aimed at cutting long-range missiles on both sides.The Soviets refused to set a date for resuming the talks in December 1983, after walking out of separate talks on medium-range and short-range nuclear weapons the month before.INF: Intermediate Nuclear Force Talks, the ones the Soviets abandoned last winter to protest the American installation of extra Pershing 2 and ground launched cruise missiles in Europe over a five-year period.The Americans, backed by their military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said they were installing the new missiles in response to extra SS-20 missiles the Soviets installed against European targets.The talks were bogged down, in any case, over what missiles should be counted in deciding how many should be cut.The Soviets want the Americans to count French and British nuclear forces in their arsenal and want to exclude their own missiles aimed at Asia.Letters Demanding their participation Not isolated cases Dear Editor: This letter is a short introduction to an issue of great importance.Within the next few months, the fate of a children and youth television service will be decided.A public hearing, set for February 5, 1985, is to consider applications (now received by the CRTC) for the provision of such a service.It was in response to this proposed hearing that in late August, 20 young people (aged 15-24) gathered in Regina to express their dissatisfaction with the present television service.From the Regina Conference came a clear unequivocal statement: the existing service is inadequate and does not meet the needs of children and young people.A channel serving these specific audiences and one which is as widely available as possible was a top recommendation on the part of these young people.A further recommendation was a delay of any licencing hearing until those most affected, youth themselves, are heard by the CRTC.We, the youth dele- gates urge the Commission to once again delay the hearing until it has held a general policy hearing on children and youth and television.As well, it must set up mechanisms to allow young people to appear in person in locations across the country.We, the youth delegates also call upon other young people to make their views known on an issue that affects their daily lives.Youth across the country cannot ignore this Opportunity to pa -ticipate in a dialogue which concerns them.The year 1985 has been pronounced International Youth Year.It would be disconcerting to think that the CRTC would not give young people in 1985 an opportunity to speak on a subject well demanding their participation.TAMARA ANDRUSZKIEWICZ, Ottawa, Ontario NATHALIE CÔTÉ, Ottawa, Ontario N.B.We have noticed CP stories and other stories, and therefore wish to notify you of this matter.DE/AYSriF/lNS THE.CRUlSe.you iwve NorwHfi to worov Aeovr V* IN CONTROL- LOW TRACKING NAVI&TION AND RAMff DETECTION CENTER NUCLEAR PA/LCAD AREA CENTRAL COMMAND rocket thrust and STABILIZATION SECTION Dear Editor.This is in response to Mrs.Daisy Allison’s letter to the editor in January 15 Record.I am a stamp collector.I have philatelic correspondence throughout Canada and the United States.In all the years of stamp trading through the mails, (an average of fifteen pieces of mail per week) I have yet to have a piece of mail lost.I have yet to find fault with the delivery either.Here are a few examples.A letter dated six P M.one day, from Ormstown, in my mail box at ten A.M.the following day.A piece of mail sent to Brossard, Quebec on Monday, printed matter.A reply received by Thursday.These are not isolated cases.It is this way on a regular basis.What people don’t realize is, the Record, like all newspapers, is mailed at bulk rate.You just can’t expect to receive the same sort of service as you would for first class mail.I truly believe Canada Post Corporation do a fine job for the millions of pieces of mail handled daily.The only complaint I would have, is the Mississauga outlet.It needs improvement.Other than that, I say, keep up the good work Canada Post.peter j.McCarthy Richmond Think of the mm Honorable Editor: I have found out after writing to McGill University that to reach the nearest other solar system in our galaxy travelling at 100 miles per hour a person would have to live to be 28.520.000 years of age.Allowing the same time to get back here and report the find, our own star the sun would probably have burned itself out and earth would be no more, along with The Record.It is therefore hardly likely space ships have ever come here.And another thing, a 57.040.000 year old man would need a huge food sup- ply.Just think of the rum I would need ! Most respectfully, TED WRIGHT, Dunham, Que.A tiny bit of astronomy.Beebe Editor: If any readers have any information regarding ancestors, industries and old pictures of Beebe, also special events, this information would be appreciated.Contact Mrs.John Wol-ski, Beebe or phone 876-5821 before March 1st.Arms talks may just serve to protect superpowers At the end of their final marathon session in Geneva, U.S.Secretary of State George Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told the waiting world that they had agreed to new arms control talks linking all the most urgent topics together, with the ultimate aim of achieving “the complete elimination of nuclear arms everywhere”.The more likely long-term result, however, may be just to make the superpowers invulnerable to other people’s nuclear weapons.It is certainly not going to make them invulnerable to each other, despite all the brave talk in the United States about how the ‘Star Wars’ proposals for anti-missile defence could provide the country with an impenetrable defence against incoming missiles.Nor, indeed, are the talks themselves likely to get very far so long as the U.S.remains wedded to this project.The ‘Space Defence Initiative’ (as it is formally called) was the lever that got the Soviet Union to resume the talks on nuclear arms control that it had broken off more than a year ago, even though there have been no significant American concessions on any issue.Moscow swallowed its pride and went to Geneva because keeping the arms race from moving into space has now become of overriding importance to the Russians.SUPERDOGGLE?Most people in the American scientific community think the ‘Star Wars’ project is the largest single technological boondoggle to heave into sight since the infamous nuclear airplane program of the late 1950s, but the Soviets have an almost Gwynne Dyer superstitious fear of American technological prowess.They cannot afford to spend the huge sums needed to keep up with the U.S.in this field, and they secretly suspect they would fall behind no matter what they spent.The technology for space-based interception of missiles could not possibly be operational until ten or fifteen years from now, and would certainly never be leak-proof in the face of a full-scale attack.Nevertheless, the Russians worry about the effect that even a partially effective defence might have on the strategic balance — or rather, on American perceptions of the balance.Over-confidence can be lethal in a nuclear confrontation.In terms of facts, a U.S.space defence that could stop 90 per cent of all Soviet warheads (a highly improbable level of efficiency) would still let so many through that the country would be utterly destroyed.In that basic, common-sense context, mutual deterrence cannot be upset by the ‘Space Defence Initiative': the Russians would not have to fear a U.S.first strike against which they could not retaliate effectively.LIKE POKER But in terms of the highly abstruse, a almost theological concepts of current American strategic thinking, a U.S.government possessing such defences might believe it thereby gained certain strategic advantages (or could pretend to believe that).Nuclear crises tend to be played like poker games, and in such a crisis the Russians would then be forced to take account of an apparent American confidence (and willingness to escalate) which was greater than their own.So the Russians are desperately anxious to stop the whole ‘Star Wars’ research program.That is why they went to Geneva, and why they successfully sought to have the forthcoming arms talks conducted within a single negotiating framework for all the major categories of strategic weapons: ‘Euromissiles’, long range missiles, and ‘strategic defence’ weapons.But it will be months before any actual negotiations get underway, and until then it will not be clear how tightly Gromyko has managed to link the various issues together.The flood of U.S.government statements after Geneva suggests, however, that Washington does not feel bound to offer any meaningful concessions on space defences in return for Soviet concessions in other areas.IN FIVE OR TEN YEARS?M \ Robert McFarlane, President Reagan’s National Security adviser, stressed that detailed negotiations on space de-fences could only take place when, in five or ten years’ time, the present American research program enabled the U.S.to make a judgment on developing and deploying such a system.“We simply have not determined whether these systems can prove themselves technologically feasible.” he said.One does not have to be very cynical about the way the military-industrial complex works in the United States to foresee that by then, it will be too late to prevent the deployment of at least some elements of the system.The Soviet Union will simply have to follow suit, matching whatever the U.S.puts up as best it can.These leaky defences will not provide the superpowers with any real security against each other, but they may contain a hidden side benefit for both Washington and Moscow.For though they could be overwhelmed by the thousands of missiles the other superpower could throw against them, they might be a fairly effective defence against a few hundred warheads.That is, for example, the scale of the nuclear threat the Russians might expect to face from the Chinese in a decade’s time — so Moscow may yet come round to the view that a little space defence is a good thing.If nuclear proliferation gives other countries the ability to launch a few dozen long-range missiles with nuclear warheads over the next ten or twenty years, all the more will the superpowers want limited space defences.They cannot protect themselves against each other, but they do have a strong and common interest in making sure that thev stay a long way ahead of everybody clsi 4 » » Education The RECX)RD—Wednesday, January 23,1985—5 Beconl Seminar teaches people how to find job they want By Robert Palmer RICHMOND — Eastern Townships young people may be shortchanging themselves by not knowing the value of what they’ve accomplished, says Kevan Durrell, leader of a weekend seminar here on effective job search techniques.Durrell, co-ordinator of job opportunities and youth involvement for the 8,000-member Townshippers’ Association, told a dozen job-seekers Saturday that virtually any task they have performed in the past is worth something on a resume, regardless of how small or unimportant it may seem.Saturday’s seminar was in part a follow-up to one Nov.10 on employment and self employment, held by the association and co-sponsored by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.The three-hour morning session focused on resumes: what to include, evaluation of skills, making the most of your results and the all-important cover letter.The afternoon session dealt with interview strategies: preparation, tough questions and a series of mock interviews among the participants.Wendell Hughes, 22, of Richmond, helped organize the seminar locally.After three years off, Hughes is heading back to school to study at Champlain College in Lennoxville.Following that, he said he plans to try to find work in the Townships.“I really learned a lot,” Hughes said after the workshop.“My chances of getting a job are better now because I’ve increased my knowledge of how to go about it properly.” Richmond Regional High School student Karen Fraser, 17, said the seminar will “probably” help her in her searcn tor a cooking job somewhere in Ontario.She said she will likely leave the Townships because she can’t speak French and she has relatives in Ontario.Karen’s 18-year-old sister, Colleen, liked the seminar because she said she “had no clue as to where to start before.” “I’ve got a rough idea now,” she said.“I want to go into fashion merchandising and now I know where to start.” Colleen said her field will likely take her to the city “because there isn’t much of a market here.” One man, who asked that his name not be used because he is planning to leave his present company, said the seminar was worthwhile because “I’ll be able to go in and have better answers.“I learned more about the relationship between the interviewer and the potential employee, how to go in and break the ice and feel at ease.“I’ll be much better prepared next time,” he said.Durrell said there is an application filed with the Quebec government under the International Youth Year funding program to take the seminar on the road to five Townships communities.“We would like to tailor it to the needs of the local communities,” he said.“At the moment it looks as if there would be enough money for five (seminars).” Durrell said he hopes to hear from Quebec City by late February.In the meantime communities which are interested in having a seminar and can provide some local organization should call the Townshippers’ Association at either (819) 566-5717 (Sherbrooke), or (514) 263-4422 (Cowansville).Magog victorious in broomball MAGOG (CG) — Floor hockey games were recently played between Ayer’s Cliff Elementary School and Princess Elizabeth Elementary School.The Ayer’s Cliff girls team played against Princess Elizabeth on Thursday, January 10th.The victorious team was Magog with a score of 4 to 1., u.Des Courtem.anche .(cen^fj and Christine Bergeron (right wing) were •'«the outstanding players for PEES.The boys teams played on Friday, January 12th.Once again, the Magog team won, this time by a score of 9 to 6.Bert Pinard (goal tender) and Christian Carrière (center) were the outstanding players for PEES.The exhibition games were played in preparation for a floor hockey tournament at Sunnyside Elementary School in February.Colleges visit to help students with course decisions The Red - Purple Block Raffle is still under way with the drawing being held on February 5,1985.You still have lots of time to buy your tickets.There will be three prizes awarded: The first prize will be a forty dollar grocery voucher.The second and third prizes are each grocery vouchers worth twenty dollars.All proceeds will go to the Red - Purple Students’ Council.The council will spend the money on such things as field trips for Red - Purple students.Red - Purple Scholarships, as well as other activities directly related to Red and Purple houses.A Sock-Hop was held in the gymnasium on Friday, January 18.The admission price was 25 cents.The money will be invested into records for future dances.The group responsible for the dances hopes to hold a Sock-Hop each week to provide students with more noon-hour activities The movie called Trading Places starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd, was to play in the auditorium on January 22, 23 and 24, but was un- Galt News By Randy Spaulding fortunately cancelled due to complaints by staff members.It is hoped that movies can be held in the auditorium in the future to provide students with a little noon- hour entertainment.The committee in charge of organizing the annual Winter Carnival is busy at work these days.On Friday, January 18, students voted for their Carnival Princes, Princesses, Dukes, and Dut-chesses.Students always look forward to the upcoming Carnival with much excitment.This Friday, January 25, representatives from John Abbott College and Macdonald College will be at Galt during the afternoon to meet with students who would like information about the colleges.Jim Currie of Macdonald College will be talking about the new three-year Farm Management Course which is replacing the old Diploma Program as well as other programs in Food Science and Agriculture.Terry Schwan is representing all of John Abbott, but his particular expertise is in the Forestry Technician Program.Talking with these representatives will greatly aid students with their course decisions.Don't forget to put aside February 14.On this evening, Galt will be on review to the general public.There will be a lot of interesting things to see, so don’t forget to attend.Bishop’s carnival committee is looking for helpers Tonight at 7:00 p.m.Tom Cruise will appear in the movie All the Right Moves presented by the Bishop’s University Film Society (BUFS) at Centennial Theatre.On Sunday Bachelor Party will be shown.Poor old BUFS didn’t break even last term and consequently is compelled to raise its admission prices to : $1.50 for under 12-ers, $2.50 for Bishop’s students, $3.00 for students that fit into neither of those categories, and $3.50 for regular people.BUFS has also had to oust two titles from its schedule — Ghostbusters and The Aristocats, but due to difficulties other than financial.On Friday, January 25, Bishop’s newly acquired harpsichord will make its world debut at Centennial Theatre.L’Ensemble Carl Philipp and Dom André Laberge will be there too.Yves Beaupré, “reputed to be one of the best organolo-gists in North America” according to The Campus, constructed the instrument and his wife decorated it.Radio Champlain/Bishop’s University, better known to its friends as RCBU, is organizing a M*A*S*H Party for those who always wanted to dress up as one of the show’s characters but were afraid to do it.On this occasion, the M*A*S*H fashions will be judged and prizes will be awarded.The party takes place in the Pub on January 31 from 9:00 p.m.’till 1:00 a.m.This Saturday is Ski Day for members of the International Students’ Association.Two weeks later, on Saturday February 9, the ISA will be making a trip to Quebec City to see the Winter Carnival.The weekend after that it will hold a Chess Tournament.The winner will be presented with a trophy.Anyone who wishes to enter the Champlain news By Jennifer Epps contest must do so by Monday, February 11.Information on the tournament is available at the ISA Office (Room 114 of the Student Union Building) or at Box 404.The 1985 Bishop’s Champlain Winter Carnival is soon to occur.Andy Gaudet (Box 1607) and Bruce Peever (Box 588) are involved in it and looking for assistance.The Language Club’s first meetings of the semester are this week.The group is divided into three: the Spanish Club, the German Club, and the Italian Club.Anyone can become a member and no specific level of proficiency in any of the languages is required.The Italian Club met yesterday, and more information can be obtained from Bruno Abrate, Box 861.The German-speakers are to congregate Thursday at 4:30 p.m.in Room 240 of the Student Union.The Spanish section gets together this Friday at 11:30 a.m.in Room 240.All the clubs will arrange a time to meet; twice a month except for the Spanish club, which will only come together once a month.People for Animal Welfare (PAW) will meet January 24 at 1:00 p.m.in Room 101 of the Student Union.Anyone may join — Champlain and Bis- hop’s students, faculty and staff, and even outsiders (the latter becoming “associate” members.) By the way, the group is not a radical organization that breaks into laboratories stealing animals from them and suchlike.“Winter is one of the best times of the year to learn to drive” claims the notice for this semester’s Driver’s Ed.course in the Champlain Bulletin.Driver’s Ed.lasts five weeks, with two classes a week.Thursday at 1:00 p.m.the details will be given to those present in McGreer 121.B.U.would like to trade in some of its students for awhile—those scholars in their second y ear in 1985-86 with a B-plus average.The school wants to send them to North Dakota.New England, New York, New Mexico, or France, as part of its new university student exchange program.Applications and the universities’ calendars are available from the Grant Advisor’s Office (Hamilton 341) on Tuesdays between 9:00 a.m.and noon and Thursdays 1:30 p.m.— 4:30 p.m.Applications must be in by March 1st of this year.Yet another event will transpire on January 24 — the visit of the McGill University representatives to McGreer 108 between the hours of a quarter to co-curricular and 3:30 p.m.Amnesty International also meets on that day, at 1:15 p.m.in the Norton Common Room.Amnesty will be conducting a campaign on human rights abuses in Peru this semester, among other projects.The CSA (Champlain Students’ Association) textbook sale is short this term.In other words, it ends tomorrow.So if you need a textbook, hurry over on your little Billie Jean King legs to Room 208 of the Student Union.Friendship, unemployment concerns for teenagers Ohio student seeks information on our Canadian communities Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Jared Mossholder and I’m a seventh grade student at Clyde Jr.High School in Clyde, Ohio U.S.A.As a part of our geography course we are studying campari-tive culture between communities in Canada and our hometown of Clyde.1 would really like to know what it is like to live in Canada and was hoping perhaps some of your readers would like to correspond with me.Could you print your letter in your paper, so your readers could possibly get me an A on my report?Several kids from Clyde, have written in the past, but they keep all the information as sou-veniers.So I really need help! Thanks for your attention Sincerely, Jared Mossholder your friend in Clyde, Ohio Please write: 275 East Maple Clyde, Ohio U.S.A.43410 Drop in enrolment results in return to one-room school OTTAWA (CP) — The little red schoolhouse may be gone, but the “one-room school” is making a comeback of sorts — in the city.Declining enrolment is forcing some Ottawa Board of Education schools to return to the days when several grades were taught in one room by one teacher.Six elementary schools in the capital now have triple-grade classes.And while some parents fear children get less attention and a poorer education in the classes, teachers say the opposite.“The philosophy is that the older children will help the younger ones,” says John Deering, principal of McNabb Park School.“The children gain a sense of independence .It’s amazing to see how they’ll relate to one another.” PARENTS REQUEST Although enrolment is not declining at McNabb, the school chose to offer a triple-grade class because there was demand for one, says Deering.“Parents love the triple-grade class and a lot of them request it.They’ve seen the results at home.They like the sense of security their children get.” Grade 2 student Amy Watson, 7, who is in a triple-grade class at Whitehaven Public School, says: “You feel a lot more comfortable.” TORONTO (CP) — A two-year study involving thousands of young people from across Canada has found that today’s youth do not match the conventional stereotype of the irresponsible, rebellious teenager.Instead they are most concerned with friendship and how they will earn a living.In the survey, 91 per cent viewed friendship as “very important.” Asked what they enjoy “a great deal,” friendship was again top of the list, named by 75 per cent.Unemployment was most frequently named as a “very serious” social problem, by 60 per cent.The survey is based on a sample of 3,530 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19.Gallup polls generally use a sample of about 1,110, which is accurate to within four percentage points, 19 times in 20.A co-author of the study, University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald Bibby, said his survey is accurate to within three percentage points 19 times in 20.The survey cpntains 333 questions, many of which were developed by coauthor Don Posterski, Ontario head of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, in consultation with school guidance counsellors, youth workers and education experts.It was sent to randomly selected classrooms of Grades 10 to 12 in 200 high schools — including public, private, separate, French and English — to reflect geographic distribution.A total of 152 schools returned the survey.CITES MISTRUST The two authors give great significance to the respondents’ views on friendship, seeing its importance as a result of mistrust of adults.“As friends have been elevated to new levels of importance, adults have been demoted,” Posterski said.“In several ways, adolescents have computed that adults are against them.‘ ‘They feel their opinions don’t matter.They feel powerless.They think they are not listened to by the older generation .that they are stereotyped as reckless and untrustworthy and treated as half-humans until they’re 21.” Other high scorers on the chart of what teenagers value were being loved, 86 per cent ; freedom, 85 per cent ; and success and a comfortable life, 78 and 74 per cent respectively.Well down the list were acceptance by God, 43 per cent; recognition, 39 per cent; and being popular, 21 per cent.PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.(CP) — When John Mercuri spoke, he squinted his eyes, waved his hands in front of his body and contorted his face into a grimace before the words began rushing from his mouth.John was a stutterer.At 14, despite the fact he is a bright student, his speech difficulty had already affected his performance in school and his social life.At the beginning of the school term he considered not taking the honors English class because of the oral work the course included.Fortunately for John, he was one of the five students who attended a free Along with their friends, 72 per cent of the respondents said they get “a great deal” of enjoyment from music while 54 per cent described their boyfriend or girlfriend this way and 50 per cent named dating in general.Only 10 per cent felt sexual relations were acceptable on the first date, but 42 per cent felt it was permissible after a few dates.Seventy-nine per cent saw sex before marriage as acceptable when the people love each other.Ninety-four per cent said birth control information should be available to any teenager who wants it, and 38 per cent said abortion should be available when a woman does not want more children.URGES EQUALITY On homosexuality, 69 per cent said homosexuals should have the same rights as others, but only 25 per cent said sexual relations between people two-week workshop for students who stutter, arranged by local school district speech therapists, Lynnette Froese and John Scott.John now is able to control his speech pattern to the point where it is impossible to detect any sign of his stuttering.And parents of other students who attended the workshop report their children are now more communicative and display fewer nervous habits at home.The course is believed to be the first intensive program ever organized in British Columbia for students who of the same gender is sometimes acceptable.Most said they worry “a great deal” about what they are going to do when they leave school.But while unemployment was seen as a “very serious” problem by 60 per cent, the economy was described that way by only 37 per cent.Other social concerns were all below 50 per cent, with child abuse and crime at 49 per cent, the threat of nuclear war at 48 per cent and drugs at 45 per cent.Suicide was named by 40 per cent.Seventy per cent of students said hard work will lead to success, but Bibby said other studies he has done indicate only 44 per cent of adults believe this.The authors’ book on the subject will be published in April under the title The Emerging Generation — An Inside Look at Canadian Teenagers.stutter.It is estimated that three per cent of the North American population stutter, so there should be approximately 600 stutterers among the Prince George district’s 20,000 students, but Scott and Froese have had only five students referred to the workshop.“This is partly a problem of the recession because we are seen as being very busy and teachers didn’t refer students,” Scott says.“This is unfortunate because the two-week workshop method is a very time-efficient and effective way of helping these students.” Workshops designed to help stutterers School news from around the Townships The fifth meeting of the Cookshire School Committee was held on Jan.8 with 12 in attendance.The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved as read.The principal, Mr.Fitzsimmons, extended best wishes for 1985, and expressed his thanks for the turkey dinner which had been held in December.The committee owes $100.00 for the music from December to the end of January, including choir lessons.The school now has 3 Vic 20 Computers, but the committee feels they are inferior to Commodore 64.Possibly they will be used in grades one and two to learn basic keyboard skills.Mr.Fitzsimmons hopes to receive Commodore 60’s from the Richmond Regional, when they switch to P.C.Junior Computers.The report cards will be given out on Jan.31st.Madame Frechette leaves on Jan.31si, her replacement is not known at this time.Bev Steale, Language Arts Consultant, will be asked to attend the next meeting, check out the next agenda for confirmation.The children were checked for lice and nits, there were no new cases.$523.00 was received from the sale of calendars, and $64.77 collected for UNICEF.Grades 5 and 6 would like to plan a trip to Ottawa on June 6 and 7.The estimated cost would be $1,200 for food and transportation.Swimming at Bishop’s, April 23 -May 30: children are asked to take their swimming badges with them.The Parents’ Report showed that Parent Representative Delegates were to meet with government officials to discuss Bill 3, (which has already passed into law.) The English Speaking Parent Network (ESPN) has published an outline on the new system of school councils (how they are to work).The network hopes parents will try to inform themselves and get involved in their schools.The School Committees have been the responsibilities of the parents.They were designed to work in close harmony with the schools, and they have done an admirable job in this respect.Under Bill 3, parents will have an even bigger role to play in helping to run the schools.Our educational system will only be as effective as we make it.Many parents are busy, but they will have to define their load, and decide upon the priorities, school being of very great importance for their children.It was decided to join the English Speaking Parents Network.Some important items were out forward by John Rivett, who attended the Lennoxville Committee Meeting.1.A film on child abuse is available, is the Committee interested in seeing it?2.There is great concern about children who are absent from class.Do the parents know where they are, or is that child in danger?3.What about the children who do not get on the bus at night, where are they?4.Should the parents call the school when their child is going to be absent?The average attendance at the cafeteria is 37.A ‘Thank You Note’ will be sent to Galt Photo Lith.Students and Staff for a job well done on the school calendars.The School Centennial Committee will soon send out a letter containing all prices and a questionaire requesting money for dinner, dance, etc.The Tartan Twirlers will be performing, and other entertainment provided.The dance will be held at O Grand ‘R’ for 18 and over, and the Countrymen with Red Bray will be playing.A dance for those 18 or under will be held in the Cookshire School, on Friday night, and refreshments will be on sale during the activities.The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Feb.12th.Kay Parsons adjourned the meeting.— E.S.Heatherington • MANSONVILLE (BN) — The last meeting of the Mansonville Elementary School Committee for 1984 was held on December 12 with five members present.Principal’s Report: The parent volunteer program, organized by Jim Simpson of the Regional School Board, will get under way in early January.The school may participate in the Winter Carnival in February.Four Workshops will be held in Heroes Memorial School in Cowansville to deal with the four new programs to be introduced into our school - Math, English, Social Studies and French.Present report cards must be revised to comply with regulations in the Education Bill.Other business: A new mural is being painted on the stage wall - with Katimavik help, supervised by Lau-rette Rouleau.Downhill skiing is planned for Grades six and seven, provided that enough volunteers (including parents) can be found to go along.School cancellations will continue to be made in the mornings on radio station CJAD.The next school committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 30th at 7:30 p.m.at the school.Parents, please come, we need your support. 6—The RECORD—Wednesday, Ja*- ary 23,1985 Living Rural women speak out about farm life concerns VANCOUVER (CP) — Hilda Bom remembers drawing the curtains of her Fraser Val-ley farmhouse one summer day 15 years ago, in envy and frustration at the sight of vacationing families driving past in their campers.Born still sews her own clothes and depends on her vegetable garden.But she and her husband, Jake, now have a spacious new house and one of their five grown children, John, helps them on the 31-hectare operation with 85 milk cows and an equal number of heifers and calves.With her serious financial worries behind and her children away from home, Bom is one of a growing number of rural women speaking out about farm life.A new organization called B.C.Dairy Women, a group of Fraser Valley farm women, is trying to educate city people — whose ignorance, some say, may lead to the collapse of the food supply.Born, a teacher before she married, realized the role of farm wo- men at a 1980 conference of Women for the Survival of Agriculture, an Ontario-based lobby group formed in 1973.Partly because of its work, the Income Tax Act was amended to permit payment of wages to farm wives and the Farm Credit Act’s treatment of legal partnerships between husbands and wives was eased.CHANGES STATUS Farm women “aren’t classified as second-grade citizens like they used to be,” says Tina White, a partner with her husband in a dairy farm near the Boms’ in Matsqui.Many farm women remember feed and equipment salesmen reluctant to talk business with them and bank managers who denied loans even to land owning women who didn’t have a husband or father to cosign.The Fraser Valley Milk Producers’ Association, with 40 per cent its 2,400 members women, has four women among its 20 representatives of local Gisele Ireland, an Ontario hog producer and farm writer, says farm women have always been liberated because they have worked side-by-side with men, doing similar tasks.Ireland, author of The Farmer Takes a Wife, believes most farm women are content with a supporting role on the farm.Marjorie Hodgins-Smith, a Yarrow, B.C., dairy farmer, agrees.She ran a farm alone for six years after her husband died in 1964, before she remarried.“I have never felt I had to be liberated,” she says.“All the men I ever dealt with were more than willing to help me.” Anxious about margarine, coffee white-ners and other nondairy substitutes for milk products, Hod-gson-Smith joined B.C.Dairy Women to try to inform the public.Women can do this best, she says, speaking woman-to-woman with urban consumers.LACKS CONCERN She worries that lack of public concern for agriculture could result in the kind of mass starvation that her grandfather witnessed in the Ukraine during the early 1900s.She recalls her own Depression-era childhood on a Saskatchewan farm devastated by weather and the international economy.While they say the image of farmers in broken-down pickup trucks and patched blue jeans is outdated, Born and White are worried about the debt load of hundreds of thousands of dollars required to buy land and equipment even for a small farm.Both are boosters of marketing boards to stabilize prices.“The only way we can be sure we can make our payments is by being sure we can sell so much milk for such and such a price,” Born says.White says marketing boards ensure a steady supply of milk in grocery stores and give farmers the same kind of security that unionized nurses or plumbers have.“And because our in-vestment is so high.there has to be an incentive.” producer ermine social notes Engagements Mr.and Mrs.Richard Fowler of Compton are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter Penny to Scott Coote, son of Mr.and Mrs.Ralph Coote of Sherbrooke.A July wedding is planned.• Mr.and Mrs.R.Leigh Catchpaugh are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Wanda-Lee to Alan Cunningham, son of Mr.and Mrs.Norman Cunningham of Girouxville, Alta.Wanda is the granddaughter of Mr.and Mrs.Percy Catchpaugh of Magog and Mrs.Lucien Richard of Rogersville, N.B.The wedding is planned for December 1985 in Sherwood, Alta.Legally speaking By Jacqueline Kouri New husband can adopt child A.At age 19, four years ago, I gave birth to my son out-of-wedlock.The birth certificate states that the father is unknown.This year I married a man who is not the child’s father and he would like to adopt my son.I have heard that there is a new adoption law and that the procedure to adopt a child has changed.Would you please tell me if my husband could adopt my son?Does the father of the child have to consent?Q.You are correct that the Adoption Act as it was known has been changed.In fact it has been revoked and replaced by new dispositions in the Civil Code of Quebec which came into effect in April of 1983.The major change in the law concerning adoption is that the court must now order the placement by the Minister of Social Affairs of a child who is eligible for adoption whereas in the past a child could be placed either privately or through an agency without prior approval by the court.To answer your question, yes, your husband could adopt your son by following the procedure set out in the law.The consent of the natural father of the child is not necessary as his filiation with the child has not been legally established; that is, he does not appear on the birth certificate as the child’s father.I am presuming that the father is truly unknown or that he has not admitted to being the father of the child.Your husband would have to first of all petition the court for an order of placement.The court when it hears the petition will verify the facts of the case and ensure that you have consented to the placement.The court will then order that the child be placed with you and your husband for a period of six months during which a social worker will visit you and prepare a report which will be deposited in the court file.This delay of six months may be shortened to 3 months by the court in a case such as yours in v/hich the child is already living with the adopter.After the delay of three months, your husband may petition the court for a judgment of adoption.In the petition your husband may state the name he wishes your child to have.The child could bear your surname, the surname of your husband or a combination of both ; for example, Smith, Jones, Smith-Jones or Jones-Smith.When the petitions are presented at court your lawyer will represent you and it is usually not necessary for the parents to attend.Jacqueline Kouri is an attorney in private practise in Lennoxville, Que.All question should be addressed to "Legally Speaking", The Record, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Que., J1K1A1.No personal replies are possible but topics of general interest will be answered in future columns.English radio show aims to inform, entertain The English-speaking community of the Eastern Townships is blessed with an extensive regional communications system when it comes to printed media.What other English-speaking community outside of Montreal can boast a daily, a weekly and a monthly newspaper of their very own?(Not to mention a number of bilingual publications).We also have access to various electronic media outlets, but soon, keeping in touch will be an even easier task for members of our community.Townships Magazine, a new two-hour radio program, will make its debut on the airwaves on Sunday, January 27th.Designed to serve the English-speaking residents of the Townships, the program will be aired from 1-3 p.m.every Sunday until June 9th on CFLX, the Sherbrooke area community radio station, 95.5 on the FM dial 0U VET.WRONG SNAKE TALES™ by Sols r ANY SIGN OF SNAKE YET FROM v AMERICA?, > NO BUT I / HEAR HES SOTTWO COLOR TVS \ AND $37 IN CASH! COAST GUARD JH3L 'f; >SALlSÔ0Rr-l«îô5 iStributed NE A.lnc WHAT THE HECK HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH IT?HE MUST BE TRYING TO STEAL 1 HIS WAY OUT OF THE COUNTRY!! COAST GUARD WINTHROP ' by Dick Cavalli WHY WAS THE PRINCIPAL HOLLER INS AT YOU THIS MORNING?©WeSbyNEA.Inc BECAUSE I TOLD HIM MY BARENTS CHANGED THEIR MINDS ABOUT MOVING AWAY.1/ AND HE'D ALREADY INVITED A LOT OF PEOPLE TO A CELEBRATION PARTY.[** awn MR.MEN™ AND LITTLE MISS™ by Hargreaves & Sellers omd I uy uun muuis HE'S EXPANDING HIS CHEST MATCH HIS STGVACH / © 1985 Hargieaves and Sellers Distributed by NEA Inc ITS MR.GREEDY HE SENT AWAY FOR ONE OF THOSE BODYBUILDING GADGETS Dicing EXERCISES WHATS ALL THAT GRUNlTllNG AND GROANING ?6IRÊRE ANYTHING GOOD TO WATCH ON TeLEVALIUM?T5K! IT I5HT TÊieVALIUM, DoffcY.' iT4.J/,