The record, 8 février 1985, vendredi 8 février 1985

Weekend Townships week Globe-trotting Travel editor Louise Léger, fresh from an all-expense paid trip to Jamaica, just can't wait to tell those of us left behind to freeze in the dark all about the joys of fun in the Caribbean sun, while Tad ponders orbital human detritus.Births, deaths .7 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .8-9 City .3 “If you don’t stop complaining about overcrowding, Evans, you’ll be taken out of solitary.” SNOW JONATHAN BURNS COOK SHIRK PRIMARY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, February 8, 1985 40 cents WÊKÊtÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊtÊÊÊtÊÊÊÊÊÊtÊÊÊtÊÊÊÊÊÊÊIÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊtÊÊÊÊHMÊtÊKÊtÊmMÊÊKÊÊÊiÊÊÊÊtltKÊÊlÊÊtÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊIIÊÊÊÊÊKKÊÊÊÊÊÊÊiKKÊItÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊilÊtÊttÊÊÊm U.S.demand pushes Hydro plans ahead By Kevin Dougherty MONTREAL (CP) — Stepped up sales of surplus power to New York state could give Hydro-Quebec’s stalled construction program a jumpstart, the provincial energy minister said Thursday.“Discussions are now underway,” Jean-Guy Rodrigue told reporters at a symposioum on energy.If the New York Power Authority buys more interruptible surplus power from Quebec, work to upgrade the Manic-5 hydroelectric station on the Manicouagan River could go ahead before the planned date of 1992.Work could start as early as 1987, he said.The American utility has an agreement to buy up to 24 billion kilowatt-hours of Hydro-Quebec electricity a year until 1997.Of that amount seven billion kilowatt-hours a year is interruptible power supplied under an 111-billion kilowatt-hour export contract for the years 1984-97.A Hydro-Quebec official explained that the interruptible amount will rise to nine billion kilowatt- hours a year in 1987 but transmission facilities could handle 11 billion kilowatt-hours annually.The official stressed that although discussions are taking place, detailed negotiations to reopen export contracts with the New York Power Authority haven't begun.But in December New York Gov.Mario Cuomo said he would like to triple imports of Quebec power to his state.New York gets seven per cent of its power from Quebec at a cost of $385 million U.S.last year.Hydro-Quebec and the New York agency are also working out final details of a sales contract for 1,000 megawatts of firm, non-interruptible power from Quebec.Quebec has power to spare for export because demand projections of 7.4-per-cent annual growth, made when the $15-billion James Bay project began in 1971, have proved wildly optimistic.The annual growth of domestic demand has fallen to 2.9 per cent and the Quebec government has been actively seeking export See NEW YORK page 2 Canada takes up Nazi hunt OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government will establish an independent commission to investigate whether any Nazi war criminals remain in Canada and whether they can be prosecuted, extradited or deported, Justice Minister John Crosbie said Thursday.Crosbie also said Ottawa estimates that only 30-40 alleged Nazi war criminals now are residing in Canada, although estimates from Jewish groups range as high as 3,000.Justice Jules Deschenes, former chief justice of Quebec Superior Court, will head the inquiry, which Crosbie said could cost about $1 million.Crosbie told the Commons the Conservative government believes only “relatively few” persons living in Canada have ever been accused of war crimes, but outside the Commons he told reporters government investigators have turned up 30-40 cases.In response to opposition concerns that the inquiry could stall current investigations or put off deportation proceedings, Crosbie insisted that all police investigations will continue.He aslo said justice officials could be able to move on one case within a matter of weeks, but he didn’t give any details.Asked by New Democrat House Leader Ian Deans whether the Deschenes commission will have complete access to cabinet documents, Crosbie said he couldn’t give that blanket assurance.But he didn ’t rule out the handing over of some cabinet documents and noted that the commission will have access to RCMP files, immigration documents, personnel files and any other government information available.The commission will also look at the possibility of trying alleged war criminals in Canada in cases of crimes committed in countries with which Canada doesn’t have extradition treaties, such as the Soviet Union and the Baltic states.Crosbie told r eporters the government wanted the commissioner “to be very careful in terms of privacy,” to curb unjustified denunciations.The commission will be able to hold in-camera sessions to hear evidence and Crosbie said he expects Deschenes will use “his good sense” to protect people under investigation.Outside the Commons, he said “We don’t want people named be- fore the commission having to defend themselves in public (against unsubstantiated accusations.) So he’ll decide whether he should hold that section of his hearings in private.” Crosbie said the commission is being set up because “unfortunately, some of the interested groups don’t really trust the politicians and the bureaucrats.” “They say there are 3,000 in Canada and we say, no, as far as we know there’s no more than 30 or 40.There are at least that many who have been investigated.“So by having this commissioner, a jurist of great reputation and ability, this should put this matter at rest.” Deschenes will also look at “whether it will be a criminal act in Canada to have committed a war crime during the war,” Crosbie said, a change to the Criminal Code previous Liberal governments have rejected.The justice minister said the Charter of Rights provides for retroactive legislation.Earlier in the Commons he said that such legislation may be needed for what he called “extraordinary and heinous” crimes.Media moguls celebrate sale Radio-Mutuel president Normand Beauchamp and Magog businessman Claude Boulardgot slightly into the bubbly Thursday after they announced that Boulard is buying Sherbrooke station CJRS from the radio network.The pair had a little pre-champagne problem before their toast, however.Story and picture, page 3.Make up your own mind, judge tells jury QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec Superior Court Justice Ivan Mignault cautioned the jury in the murder trial of army Cpl.Denis Lortie Thursday that statements to psychiatrists by the accused are not proven fact under the law.“For example, a psychiatrist’s testimony about what symptoms an individual said he was suffering from does not constitute proof of those symptoms,” the judge said, addressing expert testimony during the four-month trial.“You can’t consider those symptoms as proven.” Lortie, a 25-year-old supply clerk at the top-secret Canadian Forces base at Carp, Ont., has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murders of three legislature clerks in a sub-machinegun attack on the National Assembly last May 8.Thirteen other people were wounded.In his charge to the seven-woman, five-man jury, the judge told the panel they will have to use common sense in reaching one of four possible verdicts ranging from guilty of first degree murder to not guilty by reason of insanity.He said they could also find Lortie guilty of reduced charges of se-cond-degree murder or manslaughter.The judge said the jury can consider as admissible psychia trists’ testimony on evidence presented in court, such as their eva-laution of the three audio cassetes Lortie recorded before the attack or the video tape of Lortie in the Assembly filmed by the legislature’s in-house television service.The judge took the jury through testimony given by defense psychiatrist Dr.Pierre Mailloux, who interviewed Lortie five days after the shooting spree.On several occasions, the judge warned the jury “you must ask yourselves to what extent was his diagnosis May 13 (the day of the interview with Lortie) is able to influence his opinion of the video tape, audio cassettes and the testimony of the other witnesses.“The same thing goes for all the other psychaitrists.” The judge said the jury can find Lortie not guilty by reason of insanity if they decide he was so mentally ill he did not realize he had a sub-machinegun in his hands during the attack.He said Lortie could also be found not guilty by reason of insanity if jurors concur he did not know that in loading the sub-machinegun and firing it, he could kill people or if he did not realize what he was doing was wrong or illegal.The defense has acknowledged Lortie staged the attack, but argued he was insane at the time and was not responsible for his actions.The Crown contends he was sane and the attack was premeditated.Nunziata: Reporter met with minister OTTAWA (CP) — A meeting between Solicitor General Elmer MacKay and a television reporter before drug charges were laid against Premier Richard Hatfield suggests improper political involvement in the case, Liberal MP John Nunziata charged Thursday.“In my view, it is not proper for the solicitor general to have done what he did, meeting with Mr.(Pat) Ryan and doing what the RCMP are empowered to do,” Nunziata told reporters outside the Commons.But Ryan — the Atlantic Television reporter who first learned that marijuana had been found in Hatfield’s luggage during a royal tour in late September — said he merely met MacKay at the Halifax airport to ask him to comment on the Liberals have no money for a convention OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberal party, $3.5 million in debt and still reeling from last fall’s election defeat, is on the verge of postponing by as much as a year a major convention on internal party reform.“We simply can’t afford it,” Shefford MP Jean Lapierre said Thursday.“I’ll give you the agenda that was proposed to us,” he added later.“You would have a provincial convention next fall in Quebec, then you’d come to Ottawa or Edmonton or I don’t know where with the reform convention.“Then you’d have a think-tank in the summer and then you’d have in the fall of 1986 another national convention (the biennial meeting required by the party constitution).“So if you add this all up, you’re at a point where it costs more than we would ever raise in our lives.” Hamilton East MP Sheila Copps said a 10-person delegation from each of the 282 riding associations would likely cost each one $5.000 or more “and a lot of local riding associations are just crawling out of lue uebt imposed by the last election.” She said the Ontario caucus has recommended the convention be postponed until 1986 and be replaced this year by a series of regional meetings, which she said would be “tremendously less expensive.” The final decision is to be taken by the party’s national executive, now meeting in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, but both MPs said the clear consensus of the national caucus Wednesday was that it is too much too soon.However, any change would mean overturning the party constitution and it is not clear what power the executive has to do that.In a vote taken at last June’s leadership convention and sponsored by Liberal president Iona Campa-ganolo, the constitution was amended to require the party to hold a convention devoted strictly to internal reform within the calendar year 1985 or in the case of a federal election in 1985, within six months of that date.The convention is supposed to Hmi with the final report of the par- ty’s reform commission.Its preliminary report, released less than four weeks before then prime minister Pierre Trudeau announced his resignation Feb.29, 1984, complained that too much authority is concentrated in the hands of the leader and not enough in the elected executive.Besides saving money, both Copps and Lapierre said a delay would allow grassroots Liberals to catch their breath and become fully involved in the reform process rather than leaving the job to a few.In Quebec, Lapierre noted wryly, there now are 58 Conservative ridings that are used to having a Liberal as their MP.“In every riding association you now have what you call a ‘realignment’,” Lapierre added, chuckling.“And those people that are going to be elected in annual meetings of the riding associations, some of them are going to be starting from scratch, almost.We’ve got to do our homework before we get into a big national event.” Jean Lapierre.‘Realignment’ police investigation.He knew MacKay was on his way to his home riding, so he went to the airport last Oct.3 to met the plane, only to find that the solicitor general had nothing to say, Ryan said in an interview.That meeting, which took place eight days after the marijuana was found in Hatfield’s suitcase, was the only time he met MacKay, Ryan said.MacKay, who was not in the Commons Thursday, was not immediately available for comment.Liberal justice critic Bob Kaplan, who has also raised questions about the investigation and prosecution of the New Brunswick premier, admitted the meeting may have been legitimate.But he said suggestions during Hatfield’s trial — that Ryan may have planted the small bag of marijuana in the premier’s luggage during the Queen’s visit — mean Ryan “is more than just a reporter in this case.” DEFENCE SUGGESTION The suggestions of a plant were made by the defence lawyer during Hatfield’s two-day trial in New Brunswick provincial court and mentioned again by Chief Judge Andrew Harrigan when he found the premier not guilty of possession.Ryan, who learned about ther CMP investigation within 24 hours of its start but did not broadcast the information, later gave police his fingerprints.They did not match those found on the bag of marijuana.12 MNAs to demand Lévesque’s resignation MONTREAL (CP) — A group of 12 Parti Québécois back-benchers is planning to ask Premier René Lévesque to resign, a French language radio network reported Thursday.The group is to meet shortly to decide how to make the request which could be presented to the premier during a caucus meeting Feb.19, the Télémedia network said.It did not name the backbenchers involved.The network said Lévesque’s rambling speech and dubious jokes Wednesday at a dinner launching activities for International Youth Year sent shock waves through the provincial capital and revived de bate within the PQ over whether he is fit to remain leader.Télémedia quoted Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, PQ member for • Verchères who attended the dinner for 150 young Quebec achievers, as saying he was ashamed by Lévesque’s comments.The premier referred to Olympic diving gold medallist Sylvie Bernier “the little wench” and told one of the youth secretariat staff members he was introducing that he thought she had gone to the toilet.In presenting another staff member, the premier said she had just given birth “but it doesn’t show now.” The speech came two days after Lévesque returned from a two week holiday — his second southern vacation in a month.He cut short his first holiday complaining of dizzy spells and checked into hospital for tests.Doctors gave him a clean bill of health but said he was suffering from extreme fatigue and recommended rest.Lévesque headed south again after the Jan.19 PQ convention which stripped independence from the party’s electoral platform.Doubts about his health first surfaced last fall when the crisis over the independence issue erupted within the PQ.The premier behaved erratically in the National Assembly and gave several ram bling, almost incoherent speeches.PC puts color back into armed forces OTTAWA (CP) — The men and women who guard Canada’s air, land and sea frontiers paraded their new vari-colored uniforms for reporters Thursday as the Tory government moved closer to fulfil ling one more election promise.Defence Minister Robert Coates, appearing at defence headquar ters with seven models who wore the blue, white, tan and green outfits, said the cost of outfitting the 82,000 armed forces members as well as reserves will be $35.6 million.Canada’s armed forces are to re main unified, but in future naval members will wear dark blue uni forms in winter, white in summer; the air force two different weights of light blue uniforms, and the ar my will wear green in the winter and tan in the summer It was Brian Mulroney, campaigning in Atlantic Canada last Au gust, who pledged to bring back distinctive colored uniforms, a tradition that ended when the Liberal government unified the armed forces in the 1960s and put all its members in a common green uniform. 2—The RECORD—Friday, February 8, 1985 Mila avoids women’s issues, concentrates on multiculturism OTTAWA (CP) — Mila Mulroney has shaken hands with heads of state, repeatedly jetted across the country and taken up residence in a 30-room mansion on the banks of the Ottawa River.But the striking 31-year-old wife of the prime minister, who once said she still scrubs sinks and bathtubs at 24 Sussex Drive, doesn’t think she’s all that much different from other women.“Having been the wife of a corporate president, and having been the wife of a lawyer, I don’t think my life’s really different from other women, except that it’s maybe a little more charged,” Mila says in an interview in her office across from Parliament Hill.“And I think I’m probably very fortunate because I get to meet some of the people who make it all work and that's exciting for me.” Popular, wholesome Mila — who avoids controversy and speaks mostly about her husband and children — is a dramatic contrast to Maureen McTeer and Margaret Trudeau, outspoken career-minded predecessors.She says she realizes her traditional, home-oriented approach won’t please everyone but is happy with what she’s doing.And she bubbles with enthusiasm as she explains how she juggles her time between raising three young children, doing speeches and fundraisers for charities and accompanying her husband Brian at affairs of state.“You can almost do each one for 24 hours a day,” she says, pausing a moment before continuing with her characteristic impish grin: “I think we should make it compulsory that there are 30 hours in a day.” Assisted by one full-time secretary and an executive assistant, Mila is now devoting her energies to raising money for research into cystic fibrosis and shelters for battered women.But as a Yugoslav immigrant, the concerns of the ethnocultural community are closest to her heart.“These are the things that interest me.These are the things I want to do.I can’t do everything but I’m going to choose certain things this year and next year I can expand and do more.” Mila considers herself to be a working woman even though she isn’t paid for making speeches and promoting her causes.“I have all the problems of working mothers and all the benefits of working mothers,” she insists.She says she is still spending a healthy amount of time with her children despite the flood of requests for speaking engagements that comes with being the wife of the prime minister.“That’s the big change, that they’re inviting me to speak and there are certain people that want to listen.I’ve never had that happen to me before.” A big change, too, from the days when her husband was Opposition leader is that she can now pick and choose her activities.“When you’re No.2, you have to try harder.You have to travel more.You have to meet more people and you can’t really focus in on one or two things.” McTeer, former prime minister Joe Clark’s wife, threw herself wholeheartedly into the feminist cause.But Mila — a tall, lithe, impeccably-dressed brunette sometimes called the perfect political wife — appears to be more hesitant to discuss women’s issues.“I’m primarily a good listener and I’d like women’s groups to tell me what they’d like me to do,” she says.“That’s why I’m now still in the consultative process.” So far, she has been passing on to Status of Women Minister Walter McLean the concerns that working women have been expressing to her.And she prides herself on being able to tap into women’s networks to come up with appropriate names when the prime minister is looking for a woman to fill an appointment.But, within moments, she manoeuvres the conversation back to her favorite topic.“I can’t be an expert on eve- rything .(but) one of the reasons I’m so strong in the multicultural community is because I know from the ground up what it’s like to be a new Canadian, to have family here, to have children who are half Yugoslav, half Irish and all Canadian.“I relate very well to the multicultural community and therefore I can make speeches and I have a huge amount of input because this is something I feel from the heart, ’ ’ says Mila, who is also fluent in French and Serbian.Mila’s popularity and hard work in last summer's election campaign once prompted outgoing Ontario Premier Bill Davis to say — only half-jokingly — she probably won more votes for the Conservatives than her husband.But asked directly whether active politics could give her the forum to pursue some of the issues she holds dear, Mulroney muses: “Maybe.Maybe the multicultural side of it.” But she adds: “I think I can do that now in this job.” And besides, all the public speaking involved in political life just isn’t her cup of tea, she says.“When you run for public office at whatever level, whether it be municipal or provincial or federal, Continued from page 1 contracts with utilities in New York and New England.The opening the LG-4 dam in Northern Quebec last May marked the end of major work on the James Bay project.The addition of 10,269 megawatts from the three dams on the La Grande River will increase Hydro-Quebec'scapacity to 34,000 megawatts.The proposed LG-1 dam and other new projects have been put off until the next century, although the announced sale of 2,000 megawatts of firm power to the New England Power Pool may mean that LG-1 could start in the 1990s.MAY PLUG IN Further sales to the United there’s a lot of public speaxing and I tell you, there hasn’t been one minute in any speech that there haven’t been so many butterflies in my stomach.” She pauses and shrugs.“But I’m sure I’ll outgrow it, so we’ll see, time will tell.” Mila feels her children — Caroline, 10, Benedict, eight, and Mark, five, — lead perfectly normal lives “99.9 per cent of the time.” They skate, ski, play piano and invite their friends home to 24 Sussex Drive or the prime ministerial summer residence at nearby Harrington Lake.“I try to tell them they’re not all that different.Their father just happens to be the head of a government, like he was before the head of a company.” PRAISES MOUNTIES “It’s a little more in the eye of the media,” she observes, without sounding like she is laying any blame.“There was a TV network filming them at school and that kind of scared them.I think that they’re just adjusting to it now.” She avoids discussing publicly the security arrangments around her children but speaks warmly about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police guards who accompany States before the end of the century may push forward plans to increase the output of LG-2 as well Manic-5.Hydro-Quebec could also move up construction of its Delaney pumping station near Quebec City and gas turbines in Laprairie near Montreal, now scheduled to come into operation between 1993 and 2000.Rodrigue was named energy minister following the resignation of seven ministers from the Quebec cabinet.The ministers quit after Premier René Lévesque dropped his commitment to an independent Quebec in November.An engineer with Hydro-Quebec the children.“The Mounties are tremendous.They really are fun and they drive them (the children) to school and they play with them.They really enjoy them.They’re like their pals.” She stops and shifts around in the beige velvet couch before confiding with a conspiratorial grin: “I tease Caroline.I say she’s going to have no problems with dates from me.She can go out with anyone she wants as long as there’s a Mountie with her.” In the course of the conversation in the three-room suite of office decorated with Canadian art, Mila reiterates how much she enjoys the job as she has cut it out for herself.POSITIVE EMPHASIS “I’ve never focused on the down sides.I think we can find down sides in everything and I hesitate to do that because there are so many positive things.“There are so many things that are real learning experiences for me — the people I’ve met, the places I’ve visited or am going to visit, the limits that I’m going to push myself to.“I can tell you that I miss my family and that I perhaps feel guilty that I’m not spending as much time with my children as I could, for 21 years before his election to the Quebec national assembly in 1981, Rodrigue called former premier Robert Bourassa’s decision to go ahead with the James Bay project in 1971 a mistake.Bourassa, who has made a comeback as Liberal leader, wants to increase exports of power to the United States beyond levels currently envisioned by Hydro-Quebec.NUKES TO GO Birgitta Dahl, energy minister in Sweden’s Social Democratic government, told the symposium her country is committed to phasing out its 12 nuclear power stations by the year 2010.Sweden has developed rigorous Mila Mulroney.something l feel from the heart.At.I and yet, most working mothers don’t spend as much time as they want.” She says she has come to terms with the universal wisdom that it’s impossible to please everyone all the time but she still wants to make an impact in some areas important to her personally.That means she’s not now likely to go back to university to pick up the two credits she still needs to complete her engineering degree.“I’ve chose to work in the political arena for now.So, I think what I’ll do now is concentrate and enjoy what I’m doing.” policies of energy conservation and substitution to make this possible and will use clean, coal-fired stations as a last resort.Swedish companies hope to sell heat-pump and anti-pollution technology in Canada.“We are only too willing to share these experiences with you,” Dahl said.“The exchange is, of course, mutual.” Sweden is interested in electrical technology developed in Quebec.Rodrigue said Quebec would just be returning the favor by selling its knowledge to Sweden because Hydro-Quebec used electricity generating skills developed in Sweden in the 1960s when the Swedes were ahead.New York wants Quebec’s excess power Parliament’s use of immunity raises controversial questions By Alan Bass OTTAWA (CP) — Being a member of Parliament may not let you get away with murder, but getting away with slander is a cinch.That’s because MPs and senators are protected from legal reprisal for anything they say in Parliament or any of its committees by the time-honored tradition of parliamentary immunity.If your local MP gets up one day and tells the Commons or any of its committees that you’re a crook, a fraud and an all-around creep who can’t be trusted, there isn't a thing you can do about it but issue a denial or hope everyone else slept through the member’s speech.MPs can be kicked out of the Commons for a day if they so much as imply another MP has lied, but they can say whatever they like about the rest of us without fear of any formal sanction The idea is that MPs must be free of any muzzling to guard the interests of their constituents and that the forum for MPs.Parliament, holds supremacy over Canadian courts of law Immunity is normally seldom resorted to and most observers don’t question the right of MPs to be free of court action.However, it has become an issue several times during the past few months, most recently over Liberal MP John Nunziata's accusation in the Commons that New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield’s acquittal on drug possession charges was a “grave miscarriage of justice ” Now a few MPs have begun to wonder whether Parhame itself should impose some restraints on the use of immunity.Nunziata is one of them.Nunzia-ta, a freshman MP from Toronto who is rapidly earning a reputation as a parliam ntary maverick, says he resorted to using immunity because it was the only way to get newspapers to print comments similar to those he had made outside the Commons the previous day.Nunziata tried and failed in December to persuade Commons Speaker John Bosley to discipline New Democrat justice critic Svend Robinson for stating in a Commons committee that two Petro-Canada executives were gathering information for the U.S.Central Intelligence Agency.Robinson later retracted the remark and apologized.ABSOLUTE RIGHT In his ruling, Bosley said an MP’s right to speak freely was “absolute” unless it obstructed other MPs from fulfilling their duties.He seemed to suggest that meant it could not be curtailed even by his peers in the Commons, at least under existing rules.“The privilege of a member of Parliament when speaking in the House or in a commitee is absolute and it would be very difficult to find that any statement made under the cloak of parliamentary privilege constituted a violation of that privilege,” Bosley told the Commons.However, he added, “It is not for me to discuss whether members should or should not have this protection.It would be for Parliament to change the law if it felt this degree of immunity was too great.” Nunziata says he now will take his case to a special committee on parliamentary reform.He says it is proper for MPs to be free from legal reprisals for their statements, but wants the #1___tel icecura George Macleren, Publisher .569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .569-9525 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent .569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager .569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room.569-4856 CIRCULATION DEPT.—569-9526 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 6 months • $60.00 3 months - 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criticize or chastise the member or we’re going to allow this person compensation, redress.” However, NDP MP John Rodriguez says Nunziata is a “hypocrite” because he was prepared to use immunity when it suited him.Rodriguez told the Commons that Nunziata had tarnished Hatfield’s reputation by commenting on unsubstantiated allegations that the premier had participated in drug use in 1981.He asked Bosley to rule that Nunziata had violated MPs’ privileges by disclosing his Justice Department source.Bosley rejected Rodiguez’s complaint, which did not really directly involve immunity.However, Rodriguez said he too will seek rule changes from the parliamentary reform committee.“I’d like them to look at the grey areas of privilege,” Rodriguez said.“While Mr.Nunziata in this particular case did not do anything against me personally, (he) indirectly affected the privilege of an MP, which is the special relationship between himself and his sources of information.“I think we should look at some way of being very clear in the rules of the House that your privilege can be breached by another member.” ,.Nunziata and Rodriguez, however, are bucking a 500-year-old tradition that traces its roots to the infancy of Parliament and is zealously guarded by their colleagues even today.Freedom of speech and immunity from prosecution for MPs goes back to the early days of the House of Commons in England, when commoners had a lot to fear from an angry king.The first recognition of immunity came in 1396, when a king’s clerk was sentenced to death by Richard II as a traitor after giving Parliament a bill that angered the king by proposing to reduce charges for the royal household.When Henry IV took the throne, he agreed the sentence violated Parliament’s privilege and withdrew it.A more famous case involved MP Richard Strode, who was imprisoned by Henry VIII in 1512 for proposing an act to regulate tinsmiths.The Commons passed a retroactive act stating any legal action against an MP for any bill or statement in Parliament to be “utterly void and of no effect.” RIGHT ENSHRINED The right of immunity was finally enshrined in the 1688 Bill of Rights, which declared: “The freedom of speech and debates, or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or any place outside of Parliament.” Canadian legislatures and Canadian courts have continued to uphold MPs’ right to be immune from prosecution.In 1971, for example, then prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his energy minister, John Greene, were taken to court by an irate uranium mine investor who said he was harmed when Trudeau told the Commons legislation was forthcoming to prevent the mine from being sold to Americans.The court ruled Trudeau and Greene didn’t have to defend in court what they said or did in the Commons.Of course, MPs are fair game once off the floor of the Commons, as then consumer and corporate affairs minister Andre Ouellet discovered in 1976, when he was found guilty of contempt for criticizing a court decision in the lobby of the Parliament Buildings instead of in Parliament itself.Ironically, MPs themselves have from time to time been known to demand redress for statements made about them.A special Commons committee, for example, upheld former Liberal MP Bryce Mackasey’s complaint in 1983 that the Montreal Gazette hurt his reputation and thus damaged the privileges of all MPs, even though the paper’s reports about Mackasey’s financial dealings were fair.The committee said it was the headlines that did the damage because they failed to cite Mackasey’s denials.Legal and procedural authorities also uphold MPs’ absolute im- munity from prosecution for remarks made in Parliament.Beauchesne’s authoritative Parliamentary Rules and Forms, tor example, declares inipiunity “both the least questioned and the most fundamental right of the members of Parliament on the floor of the House and in committee.” In 1978, then justice minister Ron Basford declared he would not charge Tory MP Tom Cossitt with violating the Official Secrets Act by releasing secret security information because “it is well established that no charge in a court can be based on any statement made by an honorable member in this House.” And according to Jim McGrath, Conservative chairman of the parliamentary reform committee, there isn’t much likelihood that Parliament wil toughen its rules dealing with immunity to crack down on abusers.He says Bosley’s ruling on Nun-ziata’s complaint was “definitive” and any abuse of parliamentary immunity will have to be dealt with on an informal, ad hoc basis.“It’s a rare exception that it’s abused,” McGrath said.“When it is abused, the member, quite rightly, usually incurs the wrath and the scorn of his peers not to mention public scorn.“While that’s not redress to the offended person, it is a kind of discipline that is automatically imposed on members not to abuse the privilege.” BY GARRY TRUDEAU Weather Doonesbury Cloudy today with 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A 1 The Townships The RECORD—Friday.February 8.1985—3 the #1___rai lEBcora More deals coming, says Chamber ‘personality of the month’ By Charles Bury SHERBROOKE — The latest Chamber of Commerce personality of the month’ says good times are on the horizon for the Eastern Townships.Notary Louis Lagassé, a prominent figure in local business circles and the man behind the contract when many businessmen sign on the dotted line, says he is aware of “at least four big investments” likely to be finalized in the next 12 months.And even better for the region, investments in smaller businesses are on the rise, he says.“There is a definite resurgence of demand for financing in the small and medium industrial sectors,” Lagassé told reporters at a Louis Lagassé.Capital, energy and social commitment press conference Thursday announcing his award.“And this is the most important area.” Smaller enterprises “may be less visible than the big projects,” he said, “but they are certainly the biggest generators of both jobs and money.” Lagassé, a director of several local companies, says the business climate in Sherbrooke has proven “very propitious, very fruitful” for investors who have come here in recent years.LONG INVOLVEMENT He said the Chamber of Commerce itself should take some of the credit.“Sherbrooke and its chamber of commerce are very well regarded in business circles, because of the dynamic constructive attitude here.” If anyone knows about chambers of commerce, it’s Notary Lagassé.He was president of the Sherbrooke unit in 1978 and joined the executive of the Quebec chamber in 1982.He’s been a vice-president of the provincial body since 1983 and is now its first vice-president, specializing in government relations.Lagassé says Sherbrooke has had a close-knit business community from its beginning.“It started with the Sherbrooke Board of Trade in the 1880s,” he said.“If you look back at the records of those days, you see that the people who started up the region’s industry and commerce came from that group.” “It’s the same today as it was then, but now we call it the chamber of commerce.” BIG DEALS COMING?Lagassé says that as a business notary he has been “in on most of the big deals” lately in the region’s industrial sector, and he adds that they have all been successful.“Tie Communications, Baxter-Travenol, Berkley Wallpapers, these people have come to Sherbrooke, and none of them have been disappointed.” He says professional secrecy — and his own highly-developed business sense — prevent him from giving even the slightest hints about planned transactions.But at the press conference he told reporters, “between you and me, there will be at least four big investments in the next 12 months” in the Sherbrooke area.Lagassé is a member of the executive committees of several companies, including les Papiers peints Berkley, Le Groupe commerce Intercité, les Restaurants Pamdar and les Restaurants Pastificio.He is also a member of the board of directors of la Caisse d’Établissement de l'Estrie.“With my professional work and my involvement in the Chamber,” he said.“I combine three things I value highly: capital, energy and social commitment.” •EXCELLENT AMBASSADOR’ The notary drew strong praise from Sherbrooke chamber president Richard Labrosse, who presented the award.“Mé.Lagassé is one of our more active members, both here in Sherbrooke and at the provincial level,” Labrosse said.“His legal (notarial) practice has favored his close ties to tho business community.’ Lagassé is “an excellent ambassador and displays great pride in his region,” Labrosse added.“He fully meets our standards of proud belonging to his milieu' and ‘economic support for his region’ which justify his nomination.” Sherbrooke Mayor Jean-Paul Pelletier echoed Labrosse's glowing comments."I praise his great will to make things happen here,” he said.“Mr.Lagassé is extremely worthy of this honor.at least four big investments in the he said, “I combine three things I to tho business community.” worthy of this honor.” Bérubé singing two different songs — C of C SHERBROOKE — Science and build their factories.I onlv wish he would learn a little SHERBROOKE — Science and Technology Minister Yves Bérubé “has two different speechwriters,” one for Quebec and one when he goes to other provinces, says Chamber of Commerce president Richard Labrosse.While the minister has been saying elsewhere that Quebec must get into high technology in a big way, he failed, in just as big a way, to put his money where his mouth was in the Eastern Townships last week.An angry Labrosse took time out from announcing the Chamber’s ‘personality of the month’ at a press conference Thursday to complain to reporters about Bé-rubé’s disappointing behavior at the regional economic summit last week.The mainstay of planning for the Sherbrooke-area industrial community in recent years has been the hoped-for construction of a ‘research park’ for high-technology industrial development.The park would combine the resources of manufacturers, universities and government in one place and would be a key attraction for industries looking for a place to build their factories.But at the summit, held in Compton Jan.29-31, Bérubé refused to commit a single high-tech dollar to the $50-million dream.The minister even seemed to surprise cabinet colleague Raynald Fréchette and fellow PQ MNA Réal Rancourt with his hesitation waltz.‘SLIM RESULTS IN R&D’ Bérubé was a “big disappointment, with the slim results in research and development,” Labrosse said.“Those who followed the summit saw all the emphasis, all the projects concerning research and development.And they saw the lack of a worthy answer from the minister of science and technology.” “And now I see that the same minister was in Calgary this week and endorsed a statement with all the other provincial ministers about the importance of spending lots of money — much more money — on research and development!” “The week before he had rejected all our projects, although they were well-presented, well thought-out.Then this week he’s saying we aren’t doing enough — preaching! I only wish he would learn a little bit himself about what he’s preaching.” SEPARATE TEXTS?“He must have another speechwriter when he goes out of the province,” Labrosse concluded.“I invite the president of the summit organizing committee, Mr.Wilfrid Morin, and our cabinet minister, Mr.Fréchette, to say they won’t accept a negative answer about our research park.We need it, and we’ll get it.I only hope we get it in the near future, when it will be relatively cheap to build.” Sherbrooke Mayor Jean Paul Pelletier agreed with Labrosse.“What Mr.Bérubé said — or rather didn’t say — was a big disappointment for the entire region,” Pelletier said.“Everything was well-presented but the minister opted differently.” Pelletier holds out a ray of hope for the research-park project.“Mr.Bérubé was negative but he did not give us a definite ‘no’,” said the mayor.“We ll have to wait and see if he changes his thinking.” — Charles Bury Jean-Paul Pelletier.Disappointment for the whole area State office for Sherbrooke CIMO’s Boulard adds CJRS to his radio stable courtesy of Liberal party By Peter Scowen SHERBROOKE — The Office of the Secretary of State will open a regional branch hère this“year, a spokesman for the federal pffice said Wednesday.“We don’t expect it to open before the end of the summer,” said Marie-Josée Lapointe, press secretary for Walter McLean, secretary of state.“But it will be in 1985.” The regional office was one of seven announced by then-Secretary of State Serge Joyal last June.The Liberal cabinet minister said they would open “within nine months.” Sherbrooke, Montreal, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Longueuil, St.Jérome and La Sarre were all slated to have regional offices.Father Pouliot led the hunt, Maheu says MONTREAL (CP) —- An eyewitness to a multiple roadside slaying last summer broke into tears Thursday while testifying at the Quebec Superior Court trial of Jean-Luc Pouliot.Andre Maheu told the court he stood by helplessly as one of Pou-liot’s sons fired a hunting rifle at the four victims, whose bodies were found in a roadside ditch J une 26.Pouliot, 50, of Compton Station, faces a total of 19 charges, including four counts each of kidnapping, use of a firearm and complicity after a murder.Maheu began crying as he testified seeing the victims shot in reprisal for alleged vandalism at the Pouliot family’s chalet.The accused ordered his sons to find a man named Renaud Paquette, who was suspected of da maging the family chalet, Maheu said.He testified that he himself participated in a raid on a house, whose four occupants were taken back to the Pouliot home where they were beaten.Police found the bodies of Paquette, 27, France Michaud, 21, Gaston Scalabrini, 24 and Jean-Pierre Truchon, 34, beside an isolated gravel road near East Hatley a few hours after they were shot.He said that after the four were shot, he did not have the “stomach-”to help haul the todies into the ditch and cover them with branches.Ronald Pouliot, the accused’s son was convicted late last year of one count each of first and second degree mnurders in connection with the case.Another son, Mario, faces four charges of first-degree murder while a third son, Marc, is serving a five year sentence after having pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault charges.The trial continues today.The purpose of the offices was to “ensure departmental services are more accesible and better suited to local needs,” according to a communiqué from Joyal’s department dated June 28, 1984.The department’s role, among other things, is to promote and defend bilingualism, women’s rights, the disabled and Canadian studies.GIVES MONEY Most of its support comes in the form of money and several Eastern Townships English-language organizations depend on the Secretary of State for basic funding.There actually used to be a regional office in Sherbrooke, but it was closed in the 1970s by Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government.For a while it seemed like no one in Ottawa knew what the fate of the regional office in Sherbrooke would be.Rumors picked up by The Record from a source within the Office of the Secretary of State suggested that only the branch in Quebec City would be opened.“Other than that I don’t think anything will be opening shortly,” the bureaucrat said last month.The decentralization was not listed to be either cut or deferred in Finance Minister Micheal Wilson’s financial statment of last November.Calls to Ottawa went unanswered and others were fruitless.Lapointe said she would look into the matter but then fell sick and became unavailable.Lapointe said Wednesday that she can confirm the Sherbrooke office will open in 1985 but didn’t know anything about the other six because she hadn’t been asked to look into them.By Charles Bury SHERBROOKE — The French-language radio network Radio-Mutuel has sold its Sherbrooke station CJRS-AM to Magog businessman Claude Boulard.The Sherbrooke station will become Boulard’s second radio operation, along with his CIMO-FM in Magog.Boulard says he will let each station “go its own way” in programming, keep its own staff and maintain its own office and transmitter.He says the only combined operation among the two will be their national advertising sales.The deal depends on a favorable decision by the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the federal governing body which oversees broadcasting.In the meantime Boulard has taken over the administration of the Sherbrooke station as of today.Boulard and Radio-Mutuel president Normand Beauchamp held a joint news conference in Sherbrooke Thursday to announce the deal.They refused to disclose the purchase price or other terms — the “confidential clauses” — but Beauchamp said it was “cheap” and added that Boulard will become the “complete owner”.GOOD DEAL “This deal is excellent for both of us,” said Beauchamp.“Radio-Mutuel is in the process of restructuring the whole network, and Sherbrooke is a very competitive AM radio market.” “For Mr.Boulard the combination of AM and FM stations here will work very well.” Boulard says he has no plans to change the programming at either t jürfkt * ui • t • i .A The CJRS-CIMO champagne bottle wouldn’t open as easily as Radio-Mutuel president Normand Beau- RKl'ORD/CHARLUS BURY champ wanted it to, or as quietly as new owner Claude Boulard hoped.of his stations.“There will be no radical changes,” he said.“We have pretty much what we want on the FM side at CIMO, and CJRS is an excellent AM station.We hope to give it a bit more of a regional tone, though.” Although its programming may please the new boss, the business end of CJRS has been going through some hard times in recent years.It has steadily come in second to rival CHLT.part of the Té- lémedia chain, in the middle-of-the-road’ AM program market, and fourth overall (compared to CHLT’s first) in the Board of Broadcast Measurement (BBM) ratings for the region The station laid off several em ployees last month and is down to a skeleton staff.But the remaining employees signed a new union contract Jan.10 and both the workers and their new owner hope things will improve under the new management.“I am perfectly happy with the new contract and it must be fine to the people who signed it,” said owner Boulard.“We will enforce it to the letter.” A station employee said morale at CJRS has been “rock-bottom low” in recent months.He said prospects suddenly look better, “and any change is worth a try compared to that.” Mainland Press brings English-speaking Quebecers together By Peter Scowen STE-ANNE-DE-BELLEVUE — Quebec’s only “one-horse town” news service is off to a successful start but its future depends on a government grant that might not come, says the editor of Mainland Press.Even if the money never comes, however, Judy Taylor will know it won’t be for lack of trying.Mainland Press was set up last November by the Association of Quebec Regional English Media (AQREM), a organization representing 13 weeklies, a monthly and one daily in the province.It was an idea that had been “brewing for years,” Taylor said at an AQREM conference at MacDonald College Thursday.It started off slowly.Mainland Press is a news service sending stories of province-wide interest to the the 15 AQREM papers.Contributions are welcome from fulltime journalists and freelancers but the articles can't have appeared in print before.STORIES ROLLING IN' A story sent to the press service 'm ft Judy Taylor.‘It’s what I expected’ is edited by Taylor and then mailed to the AQREM papers.“Anyone who reads it anywhere in the province should find it relates to them,” she said.“I was panicking at first but now they’re rolling in.” Mainland Press is not meant to be a competitor for the Canadian Press, the country’s only news service which sends hundreds of stories a day via ultramodern micro-wave and satellite telecommunica lions systems.With stories going out by mail, MPS wouldn’t stand a chance anyway.“It’s Quebec's only one-horse town wire service,” said Taylor, a former Gazette reporter, ex-editor of the Huntingdon Gleaner and a graduate of Bishop’s University in Lennoxville.The goal of the new news service is to supply Quebec's regional English-language newspapers with stories about issues and people that a re of interest to their readers.Among the articles Taylor has sent so far is one on H.Gordon Green, a popular writer and columnist from Ormstown, and another on provincial government forestry plans.The stories have been picked up.by member papers about 10 times, the editor said.“It’s what I expected.I’m hoping people will pick up one thing (story) once.I’m sending stuff every 10 days.” Mainland Press will handle a hot news story if it has a wide enough implication.It would be sent either by courier or telephone, depending on the story.Taylor also wants to get to work sending backgrounders —- stories which inform readers on provincial legislation and other general happenings in Quebec.NO CHARGE TO PAPERS One of the best things about the Mainland Press is that it’s free to the papers that pick up the stories.The writers get $100 for each article accepted by Taylor and another $5 whenever it appears in print, but all the money comes from the news service budget.A $15,000 grant from the federal Office of the Secretary of State set up the service for six months.Taylor still doesn't know if the government will come through more financial aid in three months.“I don’t know if it will continue,” she said.It is also too early to tell whether MPS has been well accepted by the AQREM newspapers.“I don’t want to go off the deep end and send reams of stuff,” Taylor said Tve just sent a sampling Mainland Press so far.I want to get in touch with editors." At least one editor of a member paper is happy with the service so far.Record editor Charles Bury said Thursday he “couldn’t be more pleased” with Mainland Press.“The stories are interesting to our readers, they are timely and well written, and they're free,” he said.“What more could we ask for?” 4—The RECORD—Friday, February 8, 1985 «¦___toa Kccozn The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editoria % « Less than sympathetic There is something quintessentially Canadian about Justice Minister John Crosbie’s decision to establish a commission to investigate whether or not Canada is still harboring Nazi war criminals.Forty years after the fact, our government is inally getting around to checking immigration ists to see if, just by chance, Josef Mengele or Vlartin Bormann might be living in Etobicoke or Red Deer.Forty years after we rejected the appeal of thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing Hi-ler’s ‘final solution’, we are checking to see if the men who chased them out of Europe were allowed to settle in Ontario, Quebec or any other province.It’s probably not too strange, after all it’s only recently — forty-three years too late — that we’ve finally begun to accept the fact that we mistreated Japanese-CANADIANS when we seized their homes and businesses and forced them into internment camps for no other reason than the fact that their ancestors were Japanese.Let’s face it, as a nation, we have a history of icing less than sympathetic to anyone who is other than ‘white, Anglo-Saxon or protestant’.Whether it be the first shipload of Sikhs who were refused a landing permit in Vancouver in the early 1900s, or the latest plane-load of Chilean and Salvadoran refugees who were lucky enough to gain the sanctuary of the United Church, immigrants to this country have never received a warm welcome.And despite the protests of individuals such as Robert Kaplan, former Attorney General, it is not the fault of any particular party or government.It was, after all, Kaplan’s own Liberals that refused access to the Jews fleeing what was to become the Holocaust.It was also the Liberal government of Louis St.Laurent that reportedly admitted the likes of Helmut Rau-ca, the only mass-murderer we’ve managed to extradite in forty years.Justice Minister, John Crosbie, says the commission is being set up because, “unfortunately, some of the interested groups don’t really trust the politicians and the bureaucrats.” Is it any wonder?TIMOTHY BELFORD Bruce Levett “Afflatus” might Success in this particular line of endeavor depends upon many things — not the least of which being the state of your friends’ bookshelves.And so it was that, one night recently, a slim volume vanished from the stacks of my good friend Irving.The missing book will, I am quite certain, reappear just as mysteriously one day — but not before I have had a chance to share it with you.It is The Superior Person’s Little Book of Words, by Peter Bowler and appears to be published in Australia.“Words are not only tools, they are also weapons,” Bowler tells us.and he forges ahead to prove the contention.His first word is “abecedarian,” meaning arranged in alphebetical order.He gives an example.Abecedarian insult : Sir, you are an apogenous, bova-ristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, exerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphailic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rébarbative, saponaceous, thersiti-cal, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, hirning zoophyte.Translation : Sir, you are an impotent, conceited, obscene, hairy-buttocked, brainless, wicked, toadying, goatish, indecent, stable-smelling, hunchbacked, thick-lipped, stinking, turnip-shaped, feeble-minded, pimply, trashy, repellent, smarmy, foul-mouth, greasy, gluttonous, lothsome, wooden-headed, whining, extremely low form of animal life.CANADIAN CONTENT?One word which should be familiar to all Canadians — and isn’t — is kakistocracy.It means government by the worst citizens.“For reasons which can only be speculated upon, there is no word for government by the best citizens,” Bowler explains."Some words are included, obviously, because not only are they unusual, but they sound like words that are not “Afflatus” might fall into this category — “formicate” certainly does.Afflatus is a sudden rush of divine or poetic inspiration: “While dining out with your beloved, you might suddenly put down knife and fork, gasp, strike forehead with hand, lean forward tensely, and say, in unconcealed agitation, ‘Jennifer, I think I’ve just had an afflatus.’” Formicate means to swarm like ants: “Headmaster, I thought you ought to know — 3B are formicating all over No.2 oval.” Peter Bowler sounds like a man 1 would dearly love to meet — a man who could be described as the eminence grise of certain ultramontane circles; a person with a sparkling sense of fun.He is also, as he describes himself, just an easily confused fat man with a poor memory.I would like to think we may have something in common there.That world famous marine biologist Brigitte I see by the paper that the “Royal Commission on Seals and the Sealing Industry in Canada” is finally going to get to the bottom of the sealing issue.They are having hearings to discuss the “social, cultural, ethical, legal, scientific and economic implications, resource management and international comparisons.” Yes Sir, they’re really going to get to the bottom of the whole situation.Once and for all they will be able to make educated decisions aboutthe future of the sealing industry.They are having their hearings in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver so that all the “experts” in those major centers will be able to have their say on the matter.Sure.all those experts who live just about as far away from the sealing industry as you can get.I’m surprised they don’t schedule a few for Winnipeg and Calgary as well, there must be sealing experts living in those major centers.Once again the bleeding heart liberals (those new breed of liberal conservatives) will be able to have their say about something that affects them not at all,and about which they know so little.There will be long lineups of people there to express their opinions, people who have never even seen a seal except in those tear-jerking photos and at the local zoo, people who have been bombarded with professionally prepared literature from the anti’s, people who have come to think that their programmed opinions are actually their own, people who need a cause that doesn’t affect them in any way.They will be screaming and crying and putting forth their arguments based on our new sub-culture that is based on nothing but pure emotion with little actual thought about the industry, the Where the pavement fiends ; _ 4 / JIM LAWRENCE7 people involved in it, or even the seals themselves.Chances are there even might be a few marine biologists giving their opinions, and if at a later date they actually have hearings within a country mile of the industry itself, perhaps a few sealers and fishermen might be allowed to have their say as well.Of course those blood-thirsty, ignorent, good for-nothing maritimers won’t say anything of value so we can disregard any of their opinions right from the start.In fact to make the whole thing really fair to everybody we should demand they have a poll before anyone is allowed to participate.The question should read “Are you for or against the sealing industry?” Anyone who says they are for the industry should simply be refused access to the hearing rooms, that will simplify things a whole lot and make the decisions of the commission much easier to make.Why fool around?The only reason the commission was established was to relieve world pressure to ban the annual seal hunt.That pressure will only be relaxed if the hunt is totally banned, for ever.None of the anti’s will be satisfied with a quota system, no matter how low it is established.No proof that the hunt is not endange- ring the species will be accepted, no matter how accurate it may be.That world famous marine biologist Brigitte Bardot will never stop her relentless scientifically-based anti-sealing campaign until the last club is burned for firewood and the hunt only an in-, distinct memory.There are hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside to fight the seal harvest.Money that has been collected by associations dedicated to “saving” everything from moo-cows to grasshoppers.(How many of these associations sent any relief money to Ethiopia?Did you see Greenpeace offering to ferry food on their yacht?) They would prefer to spend their dollars grabbing headlines and enlarging their endangered species list.They will spend enormous amounts of cash trying to convince the commissioners that the hunt should be banned.Their high-priced, high-pressure lawyers will make long, wordy briefs (sort of a contradiction in itself) to the commission.In the end the commission will decide who has the most political clout.the anti’s or the sealers, and make their recommendations based on what will look best for the government.Then the government will enact legislation that will affect the matter.If the hunt is banned the anti’s will cheer and call it a victory and the sealers will tighten their belts yet still another notch.If it is not banned, then the anti’s will increase their pressure forcing another commission, forcing new legislation.Brigitte will have to donate another ivory bracelet (made from the tusks of animals they are sworn to protect) to help raise more money for their cause.The final outcome has to be the politically popular banning of the whole thing.It is the urban vote that keeps Q s* AM ORE' A,65Eun1 fiUEBEC PC.PART/ the politicians in business, the anti movement is primarily an urban growth, it follows therefore that the hunt must eventually be banned, whether or not there is any real reason, any real danger to the seal herd.It will be banned in spite of the protests of the sealers themselves, in spite of the economic realities of the situation, in spite of the biologists who claim the herd is healthy, in spite of the fishermen who claim damage to the fishing industry.It will be banned because somebody once took a photograph of a young seal pup, and like all young of any species it was cute and cuddly.With that victory in their pocket the anti’s will move on to some other area, perhaps the protection of earthworms so cruelly tortured by fishermen or the use of the dangerous spring-loaded mouse trap used to tear mommy and daddy mice away from their families.Don’t worry they’ll find something.Gee, it sure would be nice if only those directly involved in the seal hunt, only those with real knowledge of the situation were heard.But then we wouldn't need a commission would we?We wouldn’t have to build the facade to give the anti’s their placebo, to quiet world opinion.All we’d need would be a few meetings in Halifax and Ottawa with the biologists who know the herd and the hunters who harvest it.Of course that wouldn’t be the “Canadian Way” would it?No, we’ll drag it out, hoping the whole damn thing will go away, and eventually placate the urban vote, and the manipulators who run it.I hope Mr.Watson buys a new home in beautiful St.John.He’ll enjoy the neighbours who will immediately invite him to a barbecue.The sooner the better! Letters IVho is in charge Dear Sir or Ms, I.would like to know who is in charge of the Gre^nhouge Effect and just what is taking them so long.Would it help speed things up if we made more pollution?Herménégilde Tranchemontagne R.R.1 Hereford A good response Editor, I am writing on behalf of the Bown Cemetery Committee to thank you for your generous publicity asking for funds to help repair the cemetery in 1984.We had a good response, for this, we thank you again.Sincerely, IRMA CHAPMAN, 'Hnê WOP- Sec.-Treas., Bury Don’t count on extra-terrestrial salvation “NGC 6543 cannot be seen by the naked eye,” wrote Dr.Boris Fesenko in the Moscow News recently, “but I believe it forebodes the possibility of a brilliant future for our descendants.” The gently pulsing nebula 1,000 light-years from earth is, according to Fesenko, “a beacon from a higher civilisation” whose benevolent members may send us information on how to “diminish the danger of a nuclear catastrophe on earth” The Soviet Union is particularly fertile ground for this sort of speculation, but the hunt for other intelligent species proceeds in a less mystical way elsewhere : last year Harvard University’s Oak Ridge Station began surveying the entire sky at 128,000 different wavelengths, using a 26-metre radio telescope.Behind the quest, the arguments about whether the whole project is worthwhile rage with undiminished vigour.The supporters of the programme suggest that the first fruits of contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence may include “detailed prescriptions for the avoidance of technological disaster” ; their critics accuse them of a futile hankering after a miraculous intervention from the stars.Ever since the search first began in 1960, astronomers have been locked in protracted debates carried on with great passion and sparse data One faction, convinced that the search for civilisations among the stars is one of science's highest priorities, argues from the ‘principle of terrestrial mediocrity’ : earth is an ordi nary planet circling an ordinary star, and if intelligent life has evolved here it must be as common as dirt Gwynne Dyer throughout the universe.With around 100 billion stars in our own galaxy alone, they estimate that the number of galactic civilisations must be a million or more.The opposing faction argues that even if life is commonplace in the universe— and the biochemical building blocks of life are certainly widespread even in the interstellar dust clouds — that proves nothing about the likeliness of intelligent life.Even if evolution does chance to pursue a course that leads to the occasional emergence of an intelligent species here and there in the galaxy, there is no evidence that intelligence guarantees a species success or even survival Our own civilisation does not inspire considence: it is no more than nine thousand years old — a mere one-millionth of the age of the galaxy — and in its technological phase it has only lasted a century ortwo, Yet there seems a large chance that human technological civilisation will destroy itself before even another century has passed.If that is typical, then it scarcely matters how many million species have evolved to the point of creating a technological civilisation.With only a couple of centuries before they self-destruct, they would be so many brief, isolated sparks sprinkled across the billions of years of galactic history.Most of the time, there would not be a single living civilisation anywhere in the galaxy.Both sides resort to arguments that are reminiscent of the theological ‘proofs’ of St.Thomas Aquinas.For example, Prof.FrankTipler has pointed out that a civilisation only slightly more advanced than our own could build interstellar exploration craft — ‘von Neumann probes’, named after the mathematician who first described them — which could create replicas of themselves from the resources they found at their destinations, and send those replicas on to explore further stars.If the idea has occurred to us, it would have occurred to any other intelligent species.If only one civilisation ever launched ‘von Neumann probes’, their innumerable progeny would have visited every star in the galaxy in only 300 million years.So where are they?If there are multitudes of technological civilisations among the stars, then there should be hundreds of their probes in parking orbits around our sun, patiently waiting for the first signs of intelligence in this solar system.Yet we have found none.Ipso facto, there are noother technological civilisations.Nonsense, say the searchers for oiner civilisations.Carl Sagan recently pointed out that if large numbers of civilisations went in for building ‘von Neumann probes’, they would unleash a plague whose ever-expanding influence would have reworked the entire mass of the galaxy, stars, planets and all, into countless numbers of exploration machines in as little as two million years.Therefore, every prudent civilisation would refrain from turning these voracious machines loose on the galaxy, and destroy any probes launched by less responsible civilisations, in order to contain the spread of the infection.And if there are a few 'von Neumann probes’ that escaped destruction in our system — well, we could not detect them anyway with current technology The present radio-telescope search for the deliberate or accidental electromagnetic transmissions of other civilisations, on the other hand, costs so little that it is certainly worth conti-nuing.But the critics of the programme do have a point: we should act as if we are alone.If we are the only intelligent species in the galaxy, then our responsibility to solve our problems and survive is awesome, and the inheritance that awaits us if we do is vast beyond imagining.If we are just one more civilisation struggling to come to terms with the technological ability to destroy itself, then at least when we finally make contact with the others, we will be standing on our own two feet.The search is worthwile for its own sake, but there is no point in looking for salvation from the skies. Farm and Business The RECORD—Friday.February 8, 1985—5 the' #1_«gf mum Via Rail starts talks with CN over sky-high maintenance costs By David Gersovitz MONTREAL (CP) — Via Rail has started talks with Canadian National Railways on renegotiating the costing agreement under which the railway operates and maintains passenger trains.Eldon Horsman, Via’s executive vice-president, told a reporter Wednesday that talks are in an early phase and it would be inappropriate to comment further.If and when a deal is struck with CN Rail, Via will seek a new agreement with CP Rail.Via wants to renegotiate the agreements to help reduce its deficit — $398 million last year — and get better service from the railways.Their bill has been as nigh as $400 million some years, but has been falling the last two years.They charge for such things as fuel, labor, maintenance and the use of tracks and signals.CN and CP Rail refuse to publicly debate their Via contracts, but rail executives say the charges have been a fair representation of what it costs to run Via’s trains.Via and Canadian National are federal Crown corporations.The challenge for CN is to negotiate a deal which satisfies Via without significantly reducing its own profit.Otherwise, Ottawa could step in and dictate terms.COSTS TOO MUCH?Costs billed to Via are based on a CTC formula which critics say gives Via little information about how bills are compiled, and consequently less control over its expenditures.A Canadian Transport Commission report last November critical of Via’s on-time record during the preceding Christmas holiday period said it should renegotiate its contracts with the railways to incorporate hefty incentive and penalty clauses.“Via is actively pursuing this matter with the operating railways with a view to establishing shortterm avoidable costs as the basis for compensation,” the agency said in a written response last week to the CTC report.“It is only in this context that large incentives and penalties could be consi- dered.” Short-term avoidable costs, by one definition, are those expenses and liabilities which would disappear quickly — if not immediately — should the passenger-rail system ever be dismantled.That’s as opposed to long-term obligations which would remain.Via told the CTC it is aiming for a 98- to 99-per-cent performance reliability level for its LRC (Light Rapid Comfortable) equipment.Horsman said that can be achieved this year.GETTING DEBUGGED The LRC’s, prone to a variety of mechanical and design problems since their introduction in 1982.have undergone extensive debug- ging.Now, says Via, they are approaching normal reliability levels.Horsman said the LRCs had an 86 per cent on-time record during the recent Christmas-New Year period And this included delays from all sources, including faulty track signals, bad weather, derailed freight trains and frozen switches.Via is expected to get funding approval shortly from the government to buy a batch of F-40PH locomotives from the diesel division of General Motors Co.of Canada in London.Ont., to replace part of its aged conventional motive-power fleet.This badly kept secret prompted a gibe in the Commons Wednesday from Liberal transport critic Andre Ouellet, who called on the government to award Via contracts to Bombardier Inc., of Montreal.Ouellet, a Montreal MP, asked Transport Minister Don Mazan-kowski whether he would send the minister of state for transport, Benoit Bouchard, to Montreal to announce the General Motors order.Bouchard often comes to Quebec to explain government policies in French.Mazankowski responded that the government intends to buy new rolling stock from Canadian compa nies with a proven product.Industry sources say General Motors was the only bidder for the Via order.Provigo sports expansion plan brings diversity to grocery chain By Kevin Dougherty MONTREAL (CP) — Provigo Inc., Quebec’s leading food retailer, aims to dominate the Canadian sporting goods market with the first country-wide retail sports equipment chain.“There is no national sports chain across Canada,” Provigo president Pierre Lessard said Wednesday.“It’s a very attractive market.” In 1980 Provigo bought the Sports Experts chain, which now has 114 stores in Quebec and the Maritimes.All but 12 of the Sports Experts stores are operated under franchise.Earlier this week the Montreal company announced its acquisition of Collegiate Arlington Sports Inc.of Toronto effective April 2.Collegiate Arlington, with 44 corporate-owned stores in Ontario and the West, was bought last year from Imasco Ltd.by Vancouver entrepreneur Joseph Segal.Imasco sold out because of the chain’s disappointing performance.The two existing chains will be merged under the name Sports Experts, operating from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.Provigo will hold an 80-per-cent interest in the new chain with the Segal group retaining 20 per cent.IN THE BLACK Lessard told reporters that Sports Experts was unprofitable when Provigo bought it.“And now we’re very, very happy,” he said, adding that Collegiate Arlington was also a moneymaker last year.The expanded chain will have an advantage over smaller retailers.Lessard said, because of the membership of Sports Experts in Intersport, an international buying group.Intersport, based in Bern, Switzerland, has 17 member companies operating a total of 2,500 stores in Europe, Japan, the United States and Canada.Sports Experts is the only Canadian member of Intersport.Lessard told financial analysts that Provigo anticipates that its profits from grocery sales will decline to 60 per cent of its total profits in the next five years from the current 65 per cent.The company’s sales for the year ended Jan.26 will be “more than $4 billion,” he said, calling the year they just ended “excellent.” Last year Provigo’s sales were $3.89 billion.Lessard said the company aims this year for profits equal to one per cent of its sales.Last year the company’s profits were 0.7 per cent of sales, or $26.5 million.MORE PROFITS At present 82 per cent of its sales are in food retailing although this sector only accounts for 65 per cent of profits.Sports Experts and other activities contribute eight per cent of sales but 21 per cent of profits.“Our strategy is to look at sectors where there is faster growth and higher net margins,” he said.One such diversification effort is what Lessard termed “adult fast food.” The company’s Les Pres restaurants offer “bigger hamburgers” served with wine and other alcoholic beverages.In April it plans to open up its first home renovation centres, aimed at the furniture-stripping, basement-finishing set.The home centres will be operated as a joint venture with Quebec Val-Royal hardware chain.Thechain.which bought the Quebec division of Dominion Stores Ltd.in 1979, is not interested in the 89 remaining Dominion stores which are rumored to be for sale, Lessard said.Garon offers fish-plant help to Magdalen Islands MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Que.(CP) — The Quebec government announced last week it will spend $13.6 million to modernize and restructure two financially-troubled fishing facilities on these islands northeast of Prince Edward Island.Fisheries Minister Jean Garon said that under the plan, his department would fund half of a new $3-million crab processing plant to replace an older one in Havre-Aubert.The government bought the Havre-Aubert plant as well as a lobster and mackerel plant at Grande-Entrée from National Sea Products Ltd.of Halifax for $2.5 million last December.Garon said the government will spend $3 million to erase a two-year deficit accumulated by Madeli-peche Inc., a fishermen’s co-operative that operates both plants.Quebec will also spend half of the estimated $1 million needed to modernize the Grande-Entrée plant.Another $4.1 million will go to modernize and expand a fish processing plant in Cap-aux-Meules and $2.5 million to buy shares in National Sea Products.The funding should soon boost Madeli-peche’s fish production in the area to 60 million tonnes from 30 million in recent years, solidifying the jobs of 1,000 employees and 470 fishermen, said Garon.FACES PROBLEMS Processing plants on the islands and in the Gaspé have been beset by financial difficulties and caught in the midst of a federal-provincial fight over the Quebec fishing industry.Quebec launched a commission of inquiry into the affairs of two plants in 1983 at the height of a dispute between Ottawa and Quebec City over United Fishermen of Quebec, a co-operative of Gaspé fish-packing plants, and Madeli-peche.Ottawa had previously bailed out Uni- Caribou marketing may help Quebec Inuit By Dennis Bueckert MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec Inuit leaders, anxious to capitalize on a large, untapped market, hope to set up the world’s first commercial slaughterhouse for caribou.Current plans call for the processing of 22,000 animals annually and packaging the meat for sale in the South.“It could be very profitable,” said Jean-Guy Bousquet, an official for the Kativik Regional Development Council.The body promotes Inuit interests in the Kuu-jjuaq region on Ungava Bay.“We’re thinking of selling shares across northern Quebec.” The Kuujjuaq herd attracted attention last September when an estimated 9,600 caribou drowned in a river swollen by rain and the increased flow from a Hydro-Quebec reservoir.In a telephone interview from Kuujjuaq, formerly known as Fort Chimo, Bousquet said the caribou would be herded into pens and slaughtered by the same methods used for cattle.Hunters now sell some caribou meat but their methods — following the herd and shooting animals individually — are inefficient, said Bosquet.MAKES REQUEST A private company, Caribou Ungava Ltd., owned by three Kuujjuaq men, has made a formal request to the consultative committee of the James Bay Development Corp.for permission to begin the slaughter operation as early as next spring.A feasibility study conducted by the Quebec government last summer concluded the caribou meat would be sell well in southern markets, said Bousquet.“It tastes a lot like beef but there’s no fat,” he said.“You woul-dfind strong consumers in the anticholesterol group.” The feasibility study estimated that 22,000 animals per year could be harvested at Kuujjuaq, creating 30 jobs and bringing in gross revenues of $9 million a year, he said.“But that was based on a herd of 350,000 head,” he said, noting that recent estimates place the size of the herd as high as 600,000 head.“ If that is true there could be several slaughterhouses.” Asked whether wildlife groups World champion pitchman pushes ‘small stuff’ LONDON, Ont.(CP) — Frank Stapleton, crowned 1985 world champion auctioneer on the weekend, says there’s just as much work selling a 50-cent cup and saucer set as a $200,000 parcel of land.Stapleton, 37, owner of an auction company in Newtonville, Ont., has been a caller for 15 years and finally claimed the title at the second annual world auctioneers’ championship in London.He lost last year in Winnipeg to Manitoban Garth Rogers.Stapleton, who picked up a $1,200 gold belt buckle and $1,000 cash, says one of the keys to his success is to work just as hard on the little things as the big-ticket items.Forty auctioneers were marked by seven judges on such things as clarity, voice quality and control, alertness, courtesy and presentation, speed and control of the auction.Stapleton, who said there are 2,000 auctioneers in Canada, became a part-time auctioneer in 1970, then quit his job as a Canadian Pacific claims investigator five years ago to set up a full-time auction business.PROMOTES METHOD “We’re trying to promote auctio- neering as a method of selling,” he said before the contest, which coincided with the annual convention of the Auctioneers of Canada.“We want to make the public aware that there’s more to the job than what they see on the surface.“Auctioneers generate millions and millions of dollars for economies throughout the world.” Don Raffan, 30, of Armstrong, B.C., who took the second prize of $500, has been at the trade since he was 19 and followed the auctioneering footsteps of his father and three uncles.“Honesty and integrity” are im- ted Fishermen several times.Madelipeche, 49 per cent owned by the Quebec government, was managed by United, which owned the remaining 51 per cent.The commission said the Quebec government, fearing that Madelipeche would shut down with money that United owed it, stepped in and seized the assets of United, pushing it into bankruptcy.Ottawa then provided $30 million to pay off United’s creditors and get Pecheries Cartier, its federally-controlled successor, on its feet.might oppose commercial slaughter of caribou, Bousquet said: “They would.I don’t doubt that.But the Inuit have been hurt so much by the seal ban they won’t tolerate much more from the wildlife groups.” Robert Joyal.a professor of biology and wildlife management at the Montreal campus of the University of Quebec, said the George River herd is growing at 13 per cent a year and could be in danger if the growth rate continues unchecked.“Maybe the habitat could support one million head,” he said.“But the caribou are starting to get thin, which may be a sign we are reaching the limit.Besides, why shouldn’t we harvest some animals now?It’s good meat.” "Convenient looking before you buy?” Foryour information ADVERTISING ADVISORY BOARD ppcp Danny Uvalle & Steve Allait Hava a New Office to serve the WE CAN ASSIST YOU IN SELECTING THE OPTION THAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU.THERE’S NO OBLIGATION OR CHARGE FOR OUR SERVICE.DANNY LAVALLE INSURANCE INC UFE - SALARY - GROUP INSURANCE DANNY LAVALLE STEVE ALLAH 112 QUEEN ST.LENN0XVILLE TEL: (819) 566-8833 ENGLISH SPEAKING LAWYER IN ASBESTOS Denis Beaubien Marc-André Martel portant to a successful auctioneer, he said, joking that he entered the business “so I wouldn’t have to work hard in manual labor.“But it’s a big way of doing business in our country” and one that forces him 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He said the solution to the problem of tired working mothers is not a return to the kitchen, but more willingness on the part of their husbands to adapt and begin helping with the housework Flint said the 10 areas of greatest struggle for married couples in or- der of frequency are breakdown in communication, money, loss of shared goals and interests, sexual incompatibility, infidelity, a loss of fun and excitement from the marriage, conflicts over raising children, alcohol and drugs, the concept of women’s equality and problems with in-laws.Of the couples he has counselled over the past 16 years, Flint said 60 per cent listed an affair as the cause of their marital troubles.“I’ve never seen as many casual affairs as I’ve seen in the past five years,” he said, adding that the guilt of an affair always spills over into the marriage.FEEL TRAPPED He found six reasons for embarking on an affair: a feeling of being trapped within a marriage with little freedom to grow or be yourself ; the need to feel loved ; the need for sexual fulfilment; loneliness ; the need for a sense of freedom without the price of divorce, and a desire to punish a mate.He predicted that within the next two years, loneliness would rise to become the No.l reason.Flint gave seven suggestions for a happy marriage: let a spouse know he or she is special ; remember to say “I love you” in words and actions; continue to date your mate; remember to remember the special times; do things that are unexpected; remember to be a friend as well as a lover, and communicate.Every two or three months couples should “run away for a weekend together,” and once a week, they should schedule a “date night,” he said.Everyone dreams of a stable, satisfactory marriage, but Flint said in his 16 years of marriage counselling, he’s only seen two that fit that category.These were couples who had been married many years and began to look and talk alike, he said.One of the biggest reasons for unstable relationships is the phenomenon of opposites attracting.Flint said.Marriage brings together, for example, the optimist and the pessimist, the neat and the messy, the ’ penny-pincher and the penny-spender.” However, he cautioned against trying to change a spouse.“What good is it if a person changes and hates himself?If you can’t accept a person, you can’t love him.” Flint’s definition of love combines physical attraction, friendship, trust, and an unselfish type of love which involves uncon- ditional giving and commitment ta a partner.Marriage is a unity of mind, body and spirit, and when marriage begins to die, it’s always the unity of mind that goes first as couples stop communicating, Flint said.The unity of spirit goes next as couples quit caring, while the physical component is the last to die.He said that last year, 38 per cent of all divorces in North America occurred to couples who had been married 19 to 24 years or 29 to 32 years.This is often because couples find they no longer know each other after their children leave home, he said.Depression in the elderly is often mistaken for senility EDMONTON (CP) — The elderly woman lay immobile for three years, her body barely functioning.She did not speak and was placed first in a psychiatric ward, then a nursing home in a small southern Ontario town.The woman was thought to be suffering from senility or dementia brought on by Alzheimer’s disease, said Dr.John Roy, an associate professor of psychiatry at McMaster University in Hamilton.Roy was asked to examine the woman when she was trans- social notes Engagement Mr.and Mrs.Alfred Bahary are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Marina to David, son of Mr.and Mrs.Rufus Cromwell of Sutton.A June wedding is planned in Montreal ferred to Hamilton.He found that she was in a “depressive stupor.” The woman suffered from “depression so severe her bodily functions were almost stopped,” he said in an interview while in Edmonton to attend a recent medical symposium.After treatment by Roy, who runs a psychiatric clinic for the elderly in Hamilton, the woman showed considerable improvement.DRAMATIC CHANGE Roy said the woman now does crossthough most cases are not as dramatic, Roy said depression in the elderly is often not correctly diagnosed and treated.This is happening at a time when the average age of Canadians is increasing.“Doctors have generally been slow in recognizing psychological disorders among elderly patients,” he said.“Depression doesn’t have to be the inevitable result of aging.” Although there are signs doctors are slowly beginning to recognize depression sooner in the aged, more emphasis needs to be placed on helping depressed elderly patients because they can be treated as successfully as younger people, Roy said.The mistaken belief that senility is causing traditional symptoms like memory lapses is one of the reasons doctors have been slow to properly diagnose it, the psychiatrist said.The problem is complicated by the fact that a physical illness in the elderly can look like depression.Roy said he believes 15 to 25 per cent of the elderly population in Canada suffers from depression, a higher percentage than the general population.COMMIT SUICIDES “In the U.S., 25 per cent of those who commit suicide are over the age of 65, yet they only represent 10 to 12 per cent of the population,” Roy said.Since Canada’s population is aging, the needs of the elderly will have to be addressed.“We have the opportunity and chal- lenge to develop geriatric-psychiatric units in general and university hospitals.” He said governments should supply more money for research and programs to meet the needs of elderly patients suffering from depression.“With more widespread funding, it would make residential care for some elderly patients unnecessary or delay it by two or three years.” That would provide enormous saving on the cost of providing residential care to the elderly, said Roy.Ann Landers Birthday greetings Many men confused about relationships Congratulations and best wishes from relatives and friends to Mrs.Alice Wilson on the occasion of her 80th birthday February 12,1985.The Record also extends their best wishes to Mrs.Wilson who is our correspondent in the Sa-wyerville.High Forest area.Best wishes to Mr.William Hobbs of North Hatley who will observe his 85th birthday on Monday, February 11.Congratulations from relatives and friends Birthday greetings and all good wishes are extended by his family and friends to Mr.Gerald ( Bud) Fuller of West Bolton on the occasion of his birthday, February 13.Love and best wishes are extended to Mrs.Irene Flanders of the Youville Hospital in Sherbrooke, on the occasion of her birthday on February 11.COME & ENJOY AN EVENING OF GREAT FUN ARMY, NAVY, AIR-FORCE VETERANS • UNIT 318 7AV O>k-O>80 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9th MUSIC BY THE CAROUSELS MEMBERSANDGUESTS welcome CALGARY (CP) — More women may be adapting to the working world, but when men try to deal with working women, the results include divorce, burnout and other traumas.Hal Boulter, raised in the macho world of Alberta’s ranches, is a pioneer of men’s support groups in Calgary.He says many men have found the he-man image no longer works, so they have been forced to reexamine their roles.“Since the turn of the century, women have addressed themselves and their changing role in the strug- gle for equality with men,” says the 37-year-old counsellor for men.“But men are only just starting to question their role in response to this.It’s been happening a few years in the U.S.but it’s pretty new here.” Boulter has been a counsellor involved in the personal growth movement for 15 years.In Calgary, he calls his support group Man of the ’80s : Teamwork and Personal Growth for Men.“Men who grew up in the baby-boom years are confronted by women unlike those of their fathers’ generation, he says.These women — self-confident and career-minded — are no longer prepared to play the role of housewife.They resent the patriarchal attitudes of traditional men whom they criticize as insensitive.Often battered by divorce or broken relationships, some men responded to this criticism by becoming softer and more sensitive — the “Woody Allen” syndrome.REJECTS ROLE “We have given up the macho role in that it’s not working,’’ says Boulter.“But the quiche-eating alternative is no answer either.Today’s woman wants a man who is strong — and soft ; a man who knows his feelings and has gone beyond that.” “It’s not about me telling men what it’s like to be a man today because we don’t fully know what that means in this rapidly changing world.My role is to help people discover what that means for themselves.“The great sense of confusion for men today is in their personal relationships,” he says.Next is the problem of burnout, which “often strikes at a man who has the outward trappings of success and yet experiences a sense of meaninglessness and alienation.” For most men, the greatest hurdle is to admit things aren’t working.“They’ve traditionally faced problems of helplessness, alienation and inadequacy alone, considering it a weakness to discuss it.” The team of between six and 12 men meets one evening a week with a commitment to stay the three months each group lasts.Battered farm women often criticized LONDON, Ont.(CP) — Battered farm women have more difficulty obtaining help because of traditional community pressures, a conference on family violence was told Wednesday.Maria Van Bom-mell, a national organizer for Women for Supportive Agriculture, said community feeling makes it highly unlikely a farm wife who flees an abusive husband will ever return.“Sometimes the sin is 20 years old, but they (the community) never forget,” she said.Van Bommell said farm men usually inherit or buy their farms from their fathers and there is a long-standing family structure built up in 95 YOUR CHOICE PROVENÇALES CREOLES TERYAKI YUVETSI, BROCHETTE.SUPPER SPECIAL lu., SHRIMPS Q95 MONDAY'S SPECIAL ZubsopSHRIMPS 1395 the community which implies men are strong, upright members of the community.If there is trouble between husband and wife it is the wife who is seen to be in the wrong, she said, because “it could never be the man.” Other farm women are the harshest critics because they say the battered wife “should have given in here, there and everywhere,” Van Bommell said.There is also little privacy in the farm community so farm women won’t readily admit being battered in order to preserve what little privacy they have, she said.Workshop group members said setting up safe houses or transition houses in rural areas would be difficult because of the problem of removing the woman from the farm home where she is integrated so deeply in the farm business and family.DOWNPLAY PROBLEM In reality, some argued, it is even more difficult to persuade rural councils to admit battering is a problem and to allocate funds for use in a transition home.Valerie Bolton, a worker with the Women Today self-help organization in Huron County, said surveys show farm women first seek help from a friend, then a relative or family doctor.They turn to specialized professional workers only as a last resort she said.In other discussions at the conference, Mike Martin, a local Crown attorney, said family violence is “a crime with a capital C” and should usually be dealt with in criminal court rather than family court.The greater publicity given in criminal court “lets the community know that it (family violence) is something that won’t be tolerated," he said.Martin said current laws provide adequate protection for the public and family members but they must be maintained and administered effectively.In the past, police were reluctant to lay charges in cases of lesser family assaults, he said, but preferred to encourage victims to lay charges.The Crown attorney’s office now refuses to withdraw charges in such cases and will subpoena the victim to testify if necessary, he said, because even if a case fails, it acts as a deterrent on the offending spouse.Dear Ann Landers : We ha ve just learned that our dear mother, age 53, is terminally ill with cancer.We are devastated.As I write this, she is still in the hospital recovering from surgery.The doctors do not know how much longer she will live, but they have assured us that the cancer (which originated in the lung) has invaded other parts of her body and there is no way that she can recover.My father does not want to tell Mother the true nature of her condition.He says it is better if she doesn’t know until the end.My husband and I believe she should be told.After all, it is her life and she might want to do or say certain things in the time she has left.We have not discussed this with other family members or friends but we suspect the word will be out soon since Mother probably will never leave the hospital.Please give us your advice, Ann.— Dedicated Reader In Akron Dear Akron Reader: I have done a great deal of reading or this subject, attended seminars, lectures and discussed it with people who are must wiser than I.I am now quite certain that almost all individuals who are in the advanced stages of a fatal illness (especially cancer) know it.I also believe they want to talk about it.My advice is to tell your mother how much you love her and ask what you can do to make her remaining days happy.The conspiracy of silence can be exhausting.She will probably be relieved that the game-playing is over so she can use hbr energy in more creative and rewarding ways.Dear Readers: Someone asked if I knew a word to describe a female wimp.I said I did not and invited input from those who were better informed.Here are some of the replies : New Paltz, N.Y.: A female wimp?A wamp, of course.Flint, Mich.: How about wimpette?Baton Rouge, La.: I thought everyone knew that one.She’s a simp! Long Island, N.Y.: When I was in school (20 years ago) they called wimps Casper Milquetoasts.The female counterpart was known as a mouse.Chicago: How about doormat?(I was one myself.) Amarillo, Tex.: A buckpasser.For example: A woman who doesn’t want to do something and says, “I’d love to but my husband would kill me.” Get it?Santa Monica : We call them G.W.'s - Gutless Wonders.Traverse City: Years ago we nicknamed them “Long-suffering Martyrs.” Happily there aren’t as many around as there used to be.Dallax, Tex.: How about Nebbishess, Spineless Suzies, Lightweights and Weaklings?I’ll think of 10 more as soon as I lick the envelope.Dear Ann Landers: I have three sons (from 7 to 16 years of age) and one daughter who is 14.1 would rather raise six boys than one girl.The boys were at times difficult, but the daughter has made my life hell and she’ll be home another three years before college.How do you feel about this?— Driven Nuts In Trenton Dear T.: I have raised only a daughter and didn’t find it all that difficult, but many women who have raised both agree with you.§ v S2 VALENTINE DANCE Unnoxville Rifle Club Saturday, Feb.9th The Old Tyme 4 Orchestra Chocolates for door prizes EVERYONE WELCOME.V $ V 9 PIZZAVILLE du NORD 5000, boul.Bourque, Rock Forest 564-2227 1 THE o„i, SOURCE for all ijour 'Residential and Commercial '-Decorating ^Meeds l\ * \ tCORNW,, MEMBER SIDAC 156 Wellington St.N.Sherbrooke, Tel.: 565-8484 fr«9 Porting wi(f G CARPETS •WALLPAPER ¦C-l-L PAINTS DRAPERIES AND BLINDS •KNOWLEDGEABLE AND COMPETENT DECORATOR SERVICE Royal Canadian Legion Br.10, 470 Bowen South, Sherbrooke, Valentine Dance with “Country Cats" 4 pc.Orchestra, Modern & Western Music, on Sat.Feb.9 from 8:30 p.m.to closing.A Brunch will be served on Sun.Feb.10 from 10:00 a.m.to 1:00 p.m.Admission charged.All welcome.COUNTRY WESTERN MUSIC by BUCK SAYERS & THE NIGHT RIDEH Evary Friday and Satun Night until tha end ot Febru: at MARY'S C0UNTR BAR & RESTAURANT Downstairs at me Domaine Mont Joye.Capelton Road.North Hi The RECORD—Friday.February 8.1985—j (Ojurcl| Itrectnrfl Anglican Ctjurct) of Canaba ST.GEORGE S CHURCH LENNOXVILLE —Intfd 1822-Rector: Rev.Canon A.Mervyn Awcock Director of Music Morris C.Austin SEXAGESIMA 8:00 a m.Holy Communion 10:00 a m.Morning Prayer 10:00 a.m.Sunday School Wednesday 10:00 a.m.Holy Communion &0£>emt)lte0 of Christian ^retljren tëract Ctapel 267 Montreal Street, Sherbrooke 9:30-10:30 a m.The Lord’s Supper 11:00 a.m.Family Bible Hour Speaker: Mr.Francis Hatch Sunday School for Nursery, Primary and Junior children Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.Prayer meeting and Bible Study ALL THE WORD OF GOD FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF GOD.Catholic ST.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Corner King & Gordon St.Pastor: Rev.Paul Brault Tel.: 569-1145 MASSES Saturday - 7:00 p.m.Sunday: 8:30 a.m.11:00 a.m.CtjnBtian Atientf CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY A branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Mass.291 Alexander Street Services in English every Sunday, 11 a.m.Services in French, 2nd Sunday at 9:30 a m.Fcr information write P.O.Box 31 Sherbrooke Reading Room is open Wed.and Sat.2:00-4:00 p.m.7:00 p.m.First Wednesday of every month April through November Testimony meeting IfreBbpterian THE WORD OF GRACE C.K.T.S.Dial 90 8:00 a.m.with Blake Walker PRESBYTERIAN ST.ANDREWS Minister: Rev.Blake Walker Organist: Mr.Irving Richards 10:30 a.m.Morning Worship and Sunday School A cordial welcome to all CHURCH Amnd tlfc cEiurdi of gour cffotce tfjia &unàag anglitan Cfjurdj of Canaba THE PARISH OF THE ADVENT & ST.PAUL SHERBROOKE WITH THE CHAPEL OF ST.MARY Rector, Rev.D.E.Ross Seiagesima 11 am.Church of the Advent Holy Eucharist We welcome you baptist Cburclj FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Portland at Queen Minister: Elmore Boomer 9:45 a.m.Sunday School 11 a.m.Morning Worship Text for the Day “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” John 3: 7 3Jniteb Cfjurcf) of Canaba LENNOXVILLE UNITED CHURCH CORNER OF Queen and Church St.Minister: Rev.0.Warren Organist: Claude Bernier Mrs.Nancy Rahn, Choir Director 10 a m.Service of Communion Sunday School for all ages Anglican Cfjurtl) of Canaba ST.PETER S CHURCH Dufferin Street Sherbrooke (569-1818) Sunday 8 a.m.Holy Communion 9:15 a.m.Young People’s Service 10:30 a m.Choral Mattins and Sermon Wednesday Service cancelled Œniteb Cfjurcf) of Canaba ¦ - 10:30 a.m.Public Worship ‘God heals the hrokendiearted'’ Sunday School $lpmout!)-&rtnitj?Dufferin at Montreal in Sherbrooke 567-6373 Minister: Rev.M.Sadler CORRECTION In our circular “Sears.Tough to Beat” effective until February 16, on page 12 for Sears RoadHandler Tire series #79000, the text for wearout warranty should have read 80,000 Km instead of 85,000 Km, 49,711 miles Instead of 52,828.We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers.Sears Canada Inc.January 13 thru February 17,1985 ?ONEIDA 5-PC.PLACE SETTING SALE 33VsOff MADE IN CANADA ALSO 20% Off Matching Accessory Sets! 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you to his loving home And freed you from all pain.Lovingly remembered and sadly missed by.daughter, THELMA, RICHARD, granddaughters and great-grandchildren.®niteb Cfjurtl) of Canaba We welcome you for worship 9:30 a.m.North Hatley 11 a.m.Waterville 2 p.m.Hatley LEMAIR — In memory of Hazel Lemair.who passed away on the 10th of February.1963.Life goes on and years pass by.But memories of you will never die.GILBERT (Brother) and RITA (sister-in-law) MACKAY — In memory of a dear husband and father, who left us so suddenly on Feb.9.1963 Our hearts are filled with memories.Our love endures forever.Deeply missed but lovingly remembered by his wife and daughter.KATHLEEN and SANDRA MACKAY.Lawrence John — In memory of a wonderful brother-in-law and uncle who left us February 9.1983.Your presence we miss.Your memory we treasure.ALVIN, RUTH and BOYS MACKAY — In loving memory of our dear brother, Lawrence who passed away Feb.9,1983.Sadly missed by DOUGLAS and MABEL MAGWOOD, Annie (nee King — Sept.9,1982 - Feb.8, 1983) — As thoughts go back, as they often do, We treasure the memories we keep of you.Remembered with love by, ALMA, VIC and all of her family and friends SYLVESTER, Chester — We extend heartfelt thanks to relatives, friends and neighbours for being with us during the sudden loss of our dear husband, father, grandfather and greatgrandfather.Thanks to Rev.Jervis Reed for officiating and Mr.Ron West for assisting.Thanks for the food leH at the farm, phone calls, flowers, cards and donations to the Heart Fund.A special thank you to members of our community who served a delicious lunch at the Anglican Church Hall following the burial.Please accept this as a personal thanks to you all.and may God bless everyone.WINNIFRED (wife) and all her children and their families WESTON — The family of the late Mrs.Olive Weston (nee Ross) wish to express our sincere thanks to all our relatives and friends for their kindness shown during our bereavement.A special thanks to those who sent flowers, sympathy cards, donations.and food, also to Rev.L.Westman, Everett and Gordon Boynton.A helping hand from Violet Ross, Muriel Boynton and Debbie Murray was greatly appreciated.Thanks to the Bury Legion for refreshments.MR.and MRS.RAYMOND AUDIT (PRISCILLA) SHIRLEY JONES and friend REAL FORTIN The grandchildren Saturday, February 9 Sunday, Fabruary 10 ASTRO •GRAPH Bernice Bede Osol ©cfour cBirthday February 9,1985 Something you have long hoped for has excellent chances of becoming a reality in the year ahead.Key people will step into the situation and do things for you that you can’t do on your own.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Be mindful of your past experiences when plotting your course for today.Do not allow companions with less savvy to do your thinking for you.The Matchmaker wheel reveals your compatibility to all signs, as well as shows you what signs you are best suited to romantically.To get yours mail $2 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio •City Station, New York, NY 10019.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Do not be hesitant today to request favors from people you’ve helped in the past.Anyone who is indebted to you will welcome the chance to balance the books.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Others will be drawn to you today because of your open, friendly manner.They may even share information with you they dare not mention to others.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Career ccn-ditions are favorable tor you today.If you apply yourself, you can accomplish (eats too difficult for co-workers.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) It's important today that you set aside adequate time for fun activities.Plan something enjoyable that includes close friends.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Financial seeds you have planted are about to bear fruit.You will derive benefits and so will two others with whom you're associated.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Partnership situations should work out fortunately for you today, provided neither you nor your cohort tries to upstage the other.The spotlight is big enough for both.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Financial trends will start taking a turn for the better today.However, do not use this as an excuse to squander your resources.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Friends will receive you with open arms today, especially in social situations.The more you relax and enjoy yourself, the more you’ll captivate your pals.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Be definite about what you want to accomplish today, and concentrate your efforts on the end game.You can do what you set your mind to.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) If there is an acquaintance you would like to get to know better, entertain him at your place today.Friendship will blossom in convivial surroundings.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Today you’ll reap rewards for your past actions.Gains will be substantial tor your meritorious efforts or minimal where you didn't do your best ofour ‘Birthday February 10,1985 Substantial strides can be made this coming year in your chosen field.However.you must be careful not to alienate friends to fulfill your ambitions.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Do not be intimidated by challenging situations today.Although they may overwhelm others, you'll rise to the occasion.Major changes are in store for Aquarians in the coming year.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions today.Mail $1 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) A friend may come to you for advice today and.out of kindness, you might be tempted to tell him what he wants to hear.Tinting the truth won’t be helpful.ARIES (March 21-Aphl 19) Industriousness, not Lady Luck, will enable you to accomplish what you set out to do today.Stand on your own two feet, not the rabbit's foot.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Today your presence will have a soothing and harmonizing effect on your companions.You'll know exactly what to do to calm troubled waters.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You should be able to find willing helpers today to finish a task you couldn't do alone.It'll be a welcome relief to get it out of the way.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Even though you'll be in a sociable and gregarious mood today, you'll also appreciate serious thinkers with whom you can exchange worthwhile ideas.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) You'll function best today if you operate independently ol others.Partners may be fun to have around, but they'll keep you from finishing what you start.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) It you intend to relax today, forget about your work and enjoy yourself.However, if you intend to work, don't daydream about doing something else.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) A situation that has been going downhill can be rectified today, it looks like you'll be enjoying gains instead of coming out on the short end.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Your judgment in important matters is likely to be better than your peers' today.Listen to what they have to say, but make the (inal decision yourself.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) II you hope to have an old debt repaid, it may be necessary lor you to call the indebted person aside today to give him a gentle reminder.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) An organization or group you're aftiliated with may ask you to take on some added responsibilities today.Render your services but not your purse.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ) PINCHIN — We wish to thank everyone who organized and contributed to the parties given us after fire destroyed our home and most of our belongings Thanks for the dance at the Bulwer Community Center, the gathering at the Eaton Corner Hall; and the Royal Canadian Legion.Branch No 165.Sawyer-ville, for the Card Party.We are also very grateful to the Legion for giving us permission to stay in the Legion Hut until we get settled elsewhere Many thanks to Chilston Lowry and daughters for serving coffee to the firemen.and all their gracious support.Thanks to the Sawyerville and Cookshire Fire Departments: thanks to Gen Pak in Cookshire for the nice set of dishes: also to several organizations too numerous to mention: to all who brought in food or clothing or helped in any way.Thanks to all our friends and relatives for the many generous donations.If we have missed anyone, please consider this a personal thank you.It is nice to knew that we have so many friends.God bless you all.GEORGE, MARJORY and RON PINCHIN SPECK — The family of the late Elva Speck would like to express their sincere thanks to all who supported them during her long illness, subsequent death and funeral.To Dr.Lowry and staff of Second Mile Senior Centre, Sawyerville; Dr.Clarke and 3rd Floor Staff of Sherbrooke Hospital, Webster-Cass, bearers, soloist and organist To Rev.Sheila Lawson and Ron Owen for their comforting words, the friends responsible for preparing and serving the bountiful lunch after the service.For the many cards, flowers, food and numerous donations to the Second Mile Senior Centre and Sherbrooke Hospital Foundation.To those who came from near and far to pay their respects and share our sorrow.Words are inadequate to express our deep appreciation to our relatives, friends and neighbours for all that was done to helpourdear mother during her last few years and for us at this time of bereavement.Please accept this as our personal thanks to each of you.Your kindness will always be remembered.THE SPECK FAMILY WILLIAMS — The family of the late Elsie Williams rush to extend their most sincere thanks to relatives, friends and neighbours for their many acts of kindness, phone calls, food, cards and cards of sympathy, floral tributes and donations, during her stay in the B M P.Hospital, death and burial.Thanks to Dr.Daigle and all the nurses and staff on the 3rd floor who took excellent care of my mother and grandmother.Thanks to Rev.Serjeant-son for visits, special thanks to Rev.Wilbur Davidson for officiating at the service, the organist, the bearers and to the Ladies Guild of Holy Trinity Church, Iron Hill, for serving refreshments after the funeral, your thoughtfulness is much appreciated.BEULAH and the WILLIAMS family In Memoriam BAKER, Edward — In loving memory, who passed away February 9,1970.The memory of you will always remain in my heart.A FRIEND TOWNSHIPS EDUCATIONAL AGRI-SERVICES HERD MANAGEMENT: DAIRY PRODUCTION COWS, cows, cows DATE: Tuesday, February 12th, 1985 PLACE: Champlain Regional College Memorial Hou*e Building at "THE PUB” time: 9:30 a.m.to 3:30 p.m.SUBJECTS 1) Feet and leg problems in dairy herds 2) Embryo transfer in cattle 3) Producing quality forages 4) Dilemma in feeding high producing dairy cattle REGISTRATION FEE AND LUNCH: $10.00 Sponsor») py TEAS with • ipoclil contribution from If» Fnrm Minigoment Progrim.Champlain Regional College.Lennoxvllle Deaths HOWLAND, Ernest Arthur — In hospital in Ottawa on Thursday, February 7, 1985.Beloved husband of Georgina (Ena) Shtyka.Loving father of Ernest Jr.Also survived by six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.Friends may call at the St.Laurent Funeral Home and Chapel.1200 Ogilvie Rd., Ottawa, on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.Funeral service to be held in the chapel on Saturday at 10 a m.with Rev.Thomas Simms officiating.Interment at Capital Memorial Gardens.NICHOLSON, Ver-nice — Passed away in her 89th year.Ver-nice Twofoot.beloved wife of the late William Nicholson.Dear mother of Mr.and Mrs.Stanley Drew (Florence), Mr.and Mrs.George Soutiére (Edna), Mr.and Mrs.Lesley Cook (Leona), Mr.and Mrs.Paul Lemieux (Doris), Mr.and Mrs.Harvey Mal-com (Alice), Mr.and Mrs.Gilles Desmarais (Marion), Mr.Ernest Nicholson, Mr.and Mrs.Roger Desruisseau (Shirley), and the late Mr.and Mrs.Garnet Howe (Ida).Also many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.Visitation at the Charron and Son Funeral Home, 228 Child St., Coaticook, on Thursday, Feb.7 from 7-9, and Friday, Feb.8 from 2-4 and 7-9.Funeral service from the Baptist Church, Coaticook, on Saturday, Feb.9 at 2:30 p.m.Interment in Mount Forest Cemetery, Coaticook.In lieu of flowers donations to the Maple Manor Home, Ayer’s Cliff, would gratefully be acknowledged.BROADHURST — Keith and Janet are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Stephanie Jayne attheC.H.U.on December 31, 1984.First grandchild for Wenda Broadhurst of Toronto, Ont., and for Glendon and June Morrison of Bury, Que.Great- grandchild for Harry Ord of Bury, Que.Deaths DESMARAIS, Gerard — Suddenly in his 81st year.Gerard Des-marais of 127 CleevC-mont St.in Richmond-Husband of Olivfe Stimson.Funeral oh Saturday from J.H.Fleury Funeral Home at 1:45 for service at the Holy Family Church at 2 p.m.In1 terment in St.Bibiané Cemetery.Survived by Mr.and Mrs.Je^ rome Desmarais, Paul Desmarais, Gajl Desmaraks, Montreal, Dr.and Mrs.Rene Desmarais, Ottawa, his brother Judge and Mrs.Ga$T ton Desmarais, Mrs.Doris Desmaraisj grandchildren Carole, Michel, Marq, Julie (Mrs.Peter Syt vester), Vincent, Mq?rie-Josee, Pierrew Chantal, Yvan^ Maxime, and Carl Desmarais, LouisJ( Martin, and Veronfc; que Plante.SHEA, Eugenie (ivrf mi) — Suddenly at her home, Sherbrooke, oh Thursday, 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on Thursday night.The victory boosted Montreal back into a first-place tie with Buffalo Sabres atop the Adams Division.Nilan, whose 14 goals are within two of his career-best performance last season, showed a flash of brilliance of his second goal.He picked up a clearing pass from Guy Car-bonneau in the Montreal zone and outskated Quebec defenceman Brad Maxwell before deking goal-tender Mario Gosselin.Besides giving the Canadiens a 5-3 lead, the goal prompted two students from the Laval University engineering faculty, celebrating their winter carnival, to scale the boards and release three pigs onto the ice.The game was delayed for several minutes before police escorted the pranksters off the ice and a cleanup crew captured the pigs.The Nordiques Michel Goulet closed the gap to 5-4 at 15:30, blasting a slap shot from the centre of the left face-off circle while the teams were playing four aside.Earlier, the Canadiens, who have won five and tied one of the seven games against their bitter provincial rivals, got goals from Bob Gainey, Larry Robinson and Alfie Turcotte.The Nordiques trailed 4-1 at the midway mark of the second period before Brent Ashton, with his second goal, and Anton Stastny found the target against Montreal goal-tender Steve Penney, who faced 26 shots.Gosselin, meanwhile, was tested 27 times.Montreal had the only goal in a free-wheeling opening period that saw the Canadiens outshoot Quebec by a 12-10 margin.SHORT-HANDED EFFORT Gainey tallied for the 12th time this season, a short-handed effort at 15:09 when he seemed to surprise Gosselin with a quick shot from the right face-off circle.Both goaltenders made key saves in the period.Gosselin used his glove to deflect a low shot by Ryan Walter in the fifth minute of play, and later, with Montreal on the power play, he redirected a hard shot from Robinson over the glass.Penney, facing two fewer shots than Gosselin, was also sharp, especially against Anton Stastny’s deflection from the slot and on Alain Lemieux from point-blank range.Following his save on Lemieux, Penney used his outstretched stick to clear the puck, taking a sure goal away from Dale Hunter.Canadiens opened up a 4-1 lead in the second period, but Quebec, out-shooting the Habs 11-7, got two back before the teams headed into the dressing rooms.Ashton tied the game at 1-1 at the 3:27 mark, working a neat give-and-go with Anton Stastny, but Turcotte once again put Montreal in the lead only 32 seconds later, flipping the puck into an open net after Gosselin pokechecked John Newberry on a partial breakaway.DRIVE FROM BOARDS Nilan’s hard drive from the right boards gave Montreal its third goal, before Robinson scored from the slot with the teams playing five-aside.Ashton cut Montreal’s lead to 4-2 at 9:51, just 12 seconds after Robinson’s goal, on a drive from the right circle.Anton Stastny got the third goal for Quebec, an unassisted effort on a backhander at 16:48.Stastny found himself alone in the slot when Robinson lost control of the puck in his own zone.Orser wins compulsories, on way to title MONCTON, N.B.(CP) — Brian Orser all but clinched his fifth consecutive Canadian senior men’s figure skating title with a ry figures at the national championships Thursday.“That’s the first time I’ve ever won figures in a senior event and breakthrough victory in compulso- I’ve skated as a senior for six years Quebec skier Laroche is athlete of the month OTTAWA (CP) — Alain Laroche of Lac-Beauport, Que., has been selected as Sports Federation of Canada athlete of the month for Ja-nuary.The 21-year-old freestyle skier, for a second year in a row, is leading one of Canada’s most successful national teams to another banner year in World Cup competition.In January alone, Laroche won the combined title at three consecutive World Cup meets involving aerial, mogul and ballet disciplines.In 1984 he was overall World Cup combined champion The team as a whole, through Ja-nuary, had competed in five tour events, wining 28 of 102 available medals, 13 of them gold.Other gold medal winners for the team during the month were Laroche’s brother Yves, Meredith Gardner of Oakville, Ont., Bill Keenan of Calgary and Lloyd Langlois of Magog, Que.Laroche was selected from among several athletes who had outstanding performances in the month, including Caroll-Ann Alie of Gracefield, Que., who won the world Windsurfer boardsailing championship at Perth, Australia, 60-metre sprinter Ben Johnson of Toronto and 3,000-metre runner Debbie Scott of Vancouver who won gold medals at the first world indoor track championships in Paris.Also strongly considered were speedskater Gaétan Boucher of Ste-Foy, Que., for sweeping two events in Davos, Switzerland, as well as Dave Collie of Toronto, who won a wrestling gold medal at the Australian Games, and Saskatoon gymnast Warren Long, who took gold in the vault at the same games.so that’s quite a feat,” said Orser, whose weakness in compulsory figures has, in the past, kept him from securing an international title.“I’ve always wanted to have the best figures in Canada and now I can say that,” said the 23-year-old skater whose forte until now lay in free-skating.Orser, who trains at Orillia, near his hometown of Penetanguishene, Ont., was second at both the world championships and the Winter Olympics last year and will be shooting for the global crown in Tokyo next month.‘‘They weren’t the best I could do but that’s the best I’ve felt doing the figures,” Orser said of his figures.“I was very calm and very aware of what I was doing whereas in the past I’ve gotten a little nervous and it got the best of me.Neil Paterson of North Vancouver, B.C., was second in figures, a marked improvement from his performance at last year’s nationals when he sat eighth after figures.“I’m very surprised with this placing,” said Paterson, 20, who finished 10th overall last year.“Ifelt my figures had improved and I was confident out there today.Third in the field of 12 skaters was Andre Bourgeois of nearby Dieppe.Kevin Parker of Camp-bellville, Ont., stood fourth and Gordon Forbes, a Brockville, Ont., native who trains in Ottawa, skated to a disappointing fifth.‘All-around’ Montmorency to face Cougars tonight SHERBROOKE (RP) — The Champlain Cougars will try to snap a two-game losing streak tonight when they face second-place Montmorency in Quebec CEGEP AA Hockey League action in Len-noxville.Champlain, fourth in the Blue Division with an 8-10-2 won-lost-tied record, is coming off a pair of losses to John Abbott, 3-2, and So-rel-Tracy, 7-6.Montmorency, nine points ahead of Champlain in the same division, beat the Cougars twice before Christmas.Prior to league action Thursday night, Champlain held a four-point lead over Rosemont in the race for the division’s fourth and final playoff spot.Rosemont, with two games played less than the Cougars, hosted Joliette Thursday.“They’ve got good size, they skate well, they’ve got good control.they’re a good all-around hockey team,” said Champlain coach Rod McKell of Montmorency, 12-5-2.Montmorency would like a win in Lennoxville to open up daylight ahead of third-place John Abbott, just two points out of second.Nonetheless, McKell remains optimistic following the Cougars last outing against Montmorency.The Cougars won 4-1 and outshot the opposition 32-12.Game time is 8:30 p.m.at the W.B.Scott Arena.Buckingham rink curls to undefeated record QUEBEC (CP) — Ted Butler skipped his Buckingham rink to the only undefeated record in the qualifying round of the Quebec men’s curling championship, recording a 5-4 victory over Denis Marchand and his Otterburn Park rink Thursday.The triumph enabled Butler to finish atop the B section standings with an unblemished 7-0 won-lost mark, while Marchand suffered his first defeat.The Buckingham foursome enters the semifinal round today with a match against the St.Laurent rink, skipped by veteran Don Aitken.St.Laurent captured the A section with a 6-1 record, capped by a 6-3 victory over Tom Poulton’s squad from Sutton.The loss dropped Sutton to a 4-3 record and third place in the A sec- tion.The other playoff spot in that section was grabbed by the Karl Murovic-skipped rink from La-chine.Murovic guided his crew to a 14-2 thrashing of Jacques Cartier — skipped by Jacques Desharnais — to finish with a 5-2 record.Lachine faces the Marchand-led Otterburn Park side in the other semifinal.Marchand won the world junior championships in 1981 and the Quebec men’s crown in 1983 as a skip with Trois-Rivieres, but he faces a stiff test this time because of the playoff format.The loser of the Lachine-Otterburn Park match is eliminated, while the winner must defeat the loser of the Butler-Aitken showdown before getting the chance to move on to the final Saturday.West German edges out Swiss-sensation Zurbriggen BORMIO, Italy (CP) — West German Markus Wasmaier edged Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland by five one-hundredths of a second to win the men’s giant slalom Thursday at the world Alpine ski championships.Favorite Marc Girardelli, the Austrian-born leader in the overall World Cup standings who races for Luxembourg, finished third.Egon Hirt of West Germany was fourth.“In the second run, I hit a gate with my head and lost my hat,” said Wasmaier.“Then I told myself all or nothing,’ so I went for it.” Wasmaier’s best performance in major international competition previous to his win Thursday was a second place in the giant slalom last December in a World Cup event at Sestiere, Italy.Wasmaier had runs of one minute 8.78 seconds and 1:20.12 for a total time of 2:28.90 down the course marked with 50 gates and through a vertical drop of 385 metres.Wasmaier injured his right wrist and part of his hand hitting a gate in a World Cup race last month, and raced Thursday with a bandage for support.“You had to be courageous to take the course at full speed in the first run,” he said.“The second run was more like a normal giant slalom.” MISSES GOAL Derek Trussler of Rossland, B.C., narrowly missed his goal of placing in the top 30, finishing 31st.Trussler, 21, was the only Canadian to complete two runs down the icy Stelvio course, clocking a combined time of 2:44.93 — 16.03 seconds slower than Wasmeier.Despite his disappointment, Trussler is confident Canadians will be reckoned with in the slalom disciplines at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.“We’re still building and I think we can do it by then,” he said.“This (the world championships) is a good gauge .If you can ski this then you can ski pretty well anything.” Gordon Perry, 21, of Calgary, failed to complete both runs while Jim Read, 22, of Calgary, and Alain Villiard, 19, of Ste-Adele, Que., were eliminated on their first run.Wasmaier said he was as surprised as anybody after learning he’d won the gold against several giant slalom specialists.Swedish star Ingemar Stenmark, the 1978 world champion, was disqualified after missing a gate on the second run.Zurbriggen captured his third medal at the championships, following his gold medals in the men’s downhill and combined event.Zurbriggen finished the first run in second place, behind Wasmaier in 1:09.17, and had the fastest time in the second heat with 1:19.78 for a total of 2:28.95.NOT SATISFIED Trussler, a member of the Canadian development squad, said he had hoped for a better result.“I’m not satisfied,” he said.“I learned a lot today.“I got a good experience from this.I made a lot of mistakes but it’ll help me in the future.I was expecting by the time I got down (to the bottom) it would be pretty tricky and I think I might have been a little too cautious because of that.” Read, considered the Canadian team’s top giant slalom racer, said the speed on the course was awesome, some skiers comparing it to a Super giant slalom layout.“I just wasn’t expecting it to be that fast and it took me by surprise,” he said.“I made about three gates but I couldn’t make the next one because I had too low a line.” Girardelli, allowed to compete after signing a pledge of his intention to seek Luxembourg citizenship, had a total of 2:29.22.Wasmaier’s victory was the first gold medal for West Germany at the championships.Switzerland has four golds and the United States one.Sport shorts CHICAGO (AP) — Negotiators for major league baseball’s owners and players have set Feb.19 as a date to put detailed proposals on the table toward a contract for the 1985 season, a spokesman for the owners’ committee said Thursday.Bob Fishel, who is acting as labor spokesman during the negotiations, said the two sides met for about Th hours in Chicago to discuss proposals relating to the free agent re-entry draft and benefit plan portions of a new agreement.Fishel is also the executive vice-president of the American League.• NEW YORK(AP)— Marge Schott’s purchase of controlling interest in Cincinnati Reds has been approved by major league baseball owners, commissioner Peter Ueberroth said Thursday.Under the purchase agreement, Schott, previously a limited partner in the National League club, becomes managing general partner, replacing brothers James and William Williams Schott also obtained the interests of several other limited partners in the transaction.The purchase agreement was first considered at a major league meeting Jan.8 in New York.No action was taken at the time because the owners chose to study the issue.• CHICAGO ( AP) — The mother of a 13-year-old boy has filed a complaint of battery against Chicago White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk, saying he handled her son roughly when he broke up a fight between the boy and his own son, officials said Thursday.Fisk, 37, was ordered to appear in court Feb.20 after the boy’s mother signed the complaint Wednesday, said spokesman Betsy Barstead of the Cook County sheriff’s office Barstead refu sed to disclose the woman’s name or the name of her son.“This (summons) is just like receiving a traffic violation notice in the mail," Barstead said in explaining the difference between the complaint and a police charge Fisk's son and the other boy got into a fight during a youth basketball game Saturday afternoon.Expos sign six more MONTREAL (CP) — The Montreal Expos Thursday announced the signings of six more players from their 40-man major league roster to one-year contracts.The Expos signed pitchers Tim Cates, John Dopson and Floyd You-mans, along with infielders Rene Gonzales, A1 Newman and Luis Rivera.All except Youmans, who was acquired in the five-player deal that sent catcher Gary Carter to the New York Mets in December, spent last season in he Expos minor league system.Gonzales saw brief action with the major league club, hitting .233 in 29 games with Montreal in September.The Expos now have 24 roster players under contract.The clubs’ spring training camp in West Palm Beach, Fla.opens Feb.23 for pitchers and catchers, and Feb.27 for the full squad.TILDEN VAl CSTWIE LET’S SEEYOU DO IT.OUEDOORS! panmtpatmn.Sunday February 10 — 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been meeting regularly since last April, weekly since the middle of January.“We’ve divvied up responsibilities and spread it out overall, and things are looking good.’’ There are about 14 people on the executive committees, with a few of those having as many as a dozen members on sub committees below them.“I don’t think I’d be too far off in saying that there may be fifty or sixty people working on this thing by the end,” Allen said.SEVEN PLUS BISHOP'S Eight teams will compete in the tournament: one from the Atlantic, two from Ontario, one from the Prairies, Quebec and the West, and one ‘wild-card’ team to be selected by a national committee.As tournament host, Bishop’s Lady Gaiters gain an automatic berth in the final.The Lady Gaiters are also 1983 and 1984 reigning Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) women’s basketball champions.Should the Lady Gaiters win the Quebec university league title this year, another wild-card team would be chosen to participate in the tournament by the national committee.Each team is allowed to bring 12 players, two coaches and a trainer: over 120 participants in all.Allen says it is difficult to predict how many visitors the tournament will have “but we want to pack the final (game).” “It’s hard to tell (how many); it’s the first time we’ve ever done something like this,” he said.And Allen is determined to do it right.WENT LAST YEAR He and Bishop’s athletic and tournament director Bruce Coulter attended last year’s national championship in Winnipeg."We went to see how it ran, and to see how we could improve it, what changes we could make,” Allen said.“We came back and wrote reports on what we saw and kept that in mind in terms of planning this one.” What will Bishop’s do differently?“We’re going to spruce it up overall,” Allen said.“Specifically, the ‘All-Canadian’ (awards) banquet from the menu to the presentations.We want to make it more presentable.” The All-Canadian awards are sponsored by the huge Converse athletic footwear manufacturer.The CIAU is publishing a national championship program and Allen says the organizing committee is arranging for local inserts with coach and player information.Advertising is being sold for it to offset production and tournament costs.The usual assortment of tournament t-shirts and souvenirs will also be sold.SEVENTY ROOMS Seventy rooms have been booked at a Sherbrooke hotel.“We would have liked to use Lennoxville but it’s too bad we don’t have a hotel big enough to accomodate this large a number,” Allen said.“And we don’t want to get into the situation where everyone is spread all !> * » * » * Tournament convenorTom Allen (above) and his committees have been meeting since last April to plan the CIAU women’s basketball championships at Bishop’s University Feb.28 to March 2.**•< «2 over.Wefoundthatit’sbesttokeep everyone together.” As well, rented vans have been reserved for teams to pick up at Dorval for the trip to Sherbrooke and back, and between Sherbooke and the university during the tournament.‘Budget’ rent-a-car is offering visiting teams special prices.Allen says in keeping with the spirit of the university, the tournament will have “a personal touch.” “Each team will be assigned a ‘host’ to show them around.They’ll be Bishop’s students and we’re even getting ones from the teams’ home provinces — cities, if we can manage it.” COMPUTER STATS The statistical side of the tournament will be high-tech, in order to get the latest information to players, coaches and media fast, Allen says.Bishop's has secured the statistical computer program used last year in Winnipeg to get fast printouts.The final wind-up before the games begins Tuesday, Feb.26 with simultaneous press conferences in Sherbrooke and Montreal.Allen says some teams will arrive late that day.Registration is Tuesday night and Wednesday.Wednesday night is the All-Canadian awards banquet in Dewhurst dining hall.At past national championships, Allen says teams have been charged for the banquet.This year he says Saga Foods, which prepares meals for all on-campus students, is picking up the tab.Guests will be charged $20.GAME TIMES Games begin Thursday at 2, 4, 6 and 8:30 p.m.The four losing teams Thursday will play Friday at 2 and 4 to qualify for the consolation final Saturday at 3.The four winners Thursday will play Friday at 6 and 8.Friday’s two losing teams will play Saturday at 5, just before the national championship game at 7.Saturday night’s final will be taped by CTV and a highlights package shown on the television program Wide World of Sports Mar.9.Allen makes special mention of the opening ceremonies Thursday.Teams will be piped’ in carrying their team and provincial flags ‘Olympic-style’.The Bishop’s College School choir will sing the national anthem.“Everything’s going to be short and sweet — but well done.” The Alexander Galt junior girls basketball team will act as the basketball equivalent of tennis ‘ball girls’, maintaining the court surface during the games.LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS Local high schools have received letters inviting them to bring their teams to watch the tournament as well, Allen said.Daily ticket prices are $3 for students, $4 for adults, with tournament passes going for $8 and $10 respectively.Large groups of high school students may also qualify for a discount rate of $1 per person, providing they phone ahead first.It’s a massive undertaking, Allen says, and he’s quick to point out it wouldn’t be possible to manage the tournament’s $17,000-$18,000 operating budget without local contributions and corporate sponsors.“We've received promotional consideration from Converse, Carling O’Keefe, Sport Canada, Saga Foods, MVP Magazine, the QUAA, Petro-Canada, Sealtest and the Quebec government,” he said.“There are still a few last-minute details yet to be confirmed,” he added, “but it’s going to be good.” Galt Pipers overwhelm BCS 8-2 in hard-hitting hockey game Galt students traveled to the Bishop’s University rink, their home ice, for a Wednesday afternoon of exciting hockey action.The Pipers treated a packed house to a super game as they crushed BCS 8-2.It took only 39 seconds for Galt to show the winning spirit as Mike Chute scored on a pass from Glenn Dezan.Gary Boucher scored the first of a hat trick at the 8:07 mark in the same period.Undaunted, BCS stormed back seconds later on Mark Tinker’s quick shot assisted by Robert Fraser.The entire game was physical and hard hitting.Many times players were left on the ice after being slammed into the boards.Later in the period, Carmen La-vallee flipped in a solo goal, putting Galt up by two.Early in the second period, Troy Bean was penalized for interference.Bishop’s saw this as an excellent opportunity to come back.Unfortunately for BCS, a bad pass allowed La vallee to break away for a short-handed goal.Seconds later, Tim Guild had an opportunity for another Piper goal but lost the puck in front.Galt’s Peter MacDonald tried but tripped in his attempt to up the margin.All this offensive action took place while being one man short.Later on, Keith Lane passed to Alain Quirion who lifted the puck over BCS goaltender John Bunge.High School f Roundup, r.By Bruce Tracy Midway through the period Galt fouled-up a power-play, allowing Themis Efraimidis to score a solo, short-handed goal for BCS.The play continued to be physical but Galt showed dominance, checking their opponents at every opportunity.Boucher scored his second goal on a beautiful pass from MacDonald that left the puck sitting in front.A minute later, a Galt goal was denied as Bean was entangled in the goalie’s crease.The third period saw Boucher score his third as Galt succeeded in a power-play opportunity.Bishop’s took a beating in their own end, getting checked left and right.Galt had many more opportunities but failed to convert them.The final goal came from Lavallee as he rounded off his hat trick.It was a two-on-two situation and both BCS players covered the same man, leaving Lavallee free to skate in.With seconds showing on the clock a four-on-four situation was created by penalties.Chute had a chance for a last second goal but his shot was high.The buzzer sounded and the crowd showed its appreciation as the home team sailed to victory.In other hockey action, on Tuesday the BCS bantam team lost to Mount-Ste-Anne 5-3.Bill MacDonald, Keith Tinker, and Thane Cal-der made up the losing scorers.The BCS midget team were narrowly defeated 4-3.Martin Roy scored two while Stephan Côté and Fredrick Boivin rounded off the winning total.On the losing side, Stephan Thorne, Sherif Jadros and Peter Bakos each scored once.On Saturday, BCS whipped Selwyn House 5-2 in senior hockey.John Wright netted a pair while singles went to Mark Tinker, Alain Grégoire and Chris Mosley.Bishop’s bantams battled Sherbrooke and came away in a 2-2 tie.Vincent Ballivy and Daniel Ronsay scored for Sherbrooke while on the BCS side, the scorers were MacDonald and Charlie Goodwin.On the preceeding day, the BCS seniors were pounced on by Massey Vanier as Scott Tinker picked up the only goal in a 6-1 loss.S.Pidner had a hat trick while singles went to E.Paulpe, R.Judge, and P.Ashleigh.The greatest amount of damage was done in the third period as Massey Vanier scored four in a row.The midget boys of BCS edged the Sherbrooke Bruins 3-2.Eric Grenier and Alberto Rivera with a pair made up the winning total.Stéphane Lacombe and Rene Du-grenier scored in a losing cause.BASKETBALL: RICHMOND SENIORS CLINCH TITLE The big story in basketball action is that for the first time in the history of the ETIAC conference, the Richmond senior team clinched first place.On Wednesday, they defeated the former champion Galt team 42-33.Frank Pearson led the way with 17 points followed by Teddy Fenton who had eight.Doug Clarke managed 10 points for the losers.With Richmond’s perfect record, it appears that they are unstoppable in their quest for the championship.The junior boys of Galt were 56-34 winners over the hosting Richmond team.At Galt, the senior girls lost to BCS 35-30 as Arina DeLeeuw led the way with her high-scoring 14 points.Connie Harrison netted 15 points in a losing cause.In the junior girls game, Galt doubled Bishop’s 52-26.Andrea De-zan’s 11 points and Linda Salters 10 helped the victory.On Monday, Richmond hosted two games against Galt.In the first, Robin Chabot’s 14 points and Shelly Grainger’s 13 led Richmond to a 53-20 victory over the visiting seniors.In the bantam boys game.Richmond won easily 56-36.High scorers were Chris Johnston with 22 points and Craig Dunn with 20.On Saturday, the BCS junior (midget) girls travelled to Canaan, Vermont where they defeated the home team 41-25.Richmond hosted five games against Thetford.Shane Kydd, with 16 points, and Mark Devries, with 12, led the way as the hosting senior boys squeaked by 38-36.Mike Power hooped 14 points in response.The senior girls topped the visitors 47-33.Nancy Raymond and Shelly Grainger were high scorers with 19 and 14 points respectively.In the junior girls game, Erika Brock played a key role in Rich-mond s 54-29 victory.The hosting bantam boys slid past Thetford 46- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies added right-handed reliever Pat Zachry to their bullpen and Los Angeles Dodgers gained hard-hitting A1 Oliver in a National League trade completed Thursday.The straight one-for-one deal sent Zachry, 32, who has a 3.51 lifetime earned-run average, to the Phillies for the Oliver, a 38-year-old first baseman who boasts nine straight .300 seasons and a lifetime .301 average.Former Phillies manager Paul Owens, now an assistant to team 28.Johnston, with 24 points, and Dunn, with 11, topped the scorers on the winning side.Thetford picked up its only win in the junior boys division.The score was 57-44 as Bobby Rahal’s 26 points could not help the losers.Friday saw two teams from Richmond and BCS do battle.In the senior girls game, Bishop’s sailed away to a 53-27 win.Top point-getter was Alex Webster with 14 while Grainger had eight in response.Bishop’s bantam girls slipped past their opponents 33-29.Kate Hubard scored 17 points to aid the win.In senior volleyball action on Tuesday, Séminaire Saleisen’s B-team spiked its way to a stunning 4-1 victory over BCS.president Bill Giles, said Zachry would be used as a long reliever and spot starter.“Zachry adds some depth to our bullpen,” Owens said.“He can be used as a long reliever to help us get to the late innings, where we can use Larry Anderson and A1 Holland.“We are well stocked at first base and Oliver didn’t fit into our picture.” The deal has been in the works for several weeks while the Dodgers and Oliver hammered out contract terms.Oliver goes to Dodgers Valcourt braces for snowmobilers Eastern Townships organizers of the third International Snowmobile Festival are preparing to welcome thousands of visitors to Valcourt on Feb.8,9 and 10.The numerous preparations for the two major winter activities are taking place in Valcourt and on the St.Laurent grand prix trail a few kilometers away.The festivities commence Friday night and continue through Saturday when thousands of snowmobilers will gather at the Valcourt arena for a monstrous banquet.According to organizers, the St.Laurent grand prix will have preliminary races on Feb.9, continuing the following day.Sunday there will be the exciting finals on oval trails placed, for the first time this year, on moto-neiges courses.This type of competition is to snowmobiles what moto cross is to moter-cycles.For more information on this festival, phone (514) 532-3443.FISHING VILLAGES ON ICE Ice fishing is clearly visible on all permitted lakes.Last year, a Magog group, headed by Richard Langlois, created a village on ice.A few dozen cabins were erected on lake Memphrema-gog between the Soutière beach and the pier behind the tourist office.These cabins were ren ted to fisherman so that they may fish in comfort, shielded from winter’s cold, harsh winds.They came in all sizes for a varied number of dwellers.The idea was a great success as Outdoors BY REAL HEBERT hundreds of anglers profited from this village on ice last year.Last year’s success enabled organizers to once again offer ice-fishing cabins in the same location.All arc equiped with wood-burning stoves for maximum comfort.On the weekend, rates are: $15.00 for one person, $10.00 each for two people, $9.00 each for three, $8.00 each for four, and seven or more $5.00 per person.On week-days, the rates are reduced by about one third.This tarif includes use of cabin, heating wood, holes in the ice.fishing equipment, and transportation by snowmobile between the cabin and the shore parking lot.Bait is not included but can be purchased on location.The village is equiped with toilets.To those interested in renting a cabin, it is advisable to reserve in advance, especially on weekends.To reserve or for more information, call 843-8550 between 8 a m.and 6 p.m REMOTE CONTROL 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Ref.127 Laurette Rediker Société Immobilière JEM Ltée Tel.Res.1-876-5353 Off.1-876-2742 Magog 843-0091 LENNOXVILLE: 3- bedroom split-level, 2 bathrooms, playroom, fireplace.Close to schools and downtown.No agent.Call 564-8494 LENNOXVILLE — Attractive 3 bedroom brick bungalow, 2 bathrooms, large playroom, no agents please Call 567-3696.NORTH HATLEY, small partly renovated home on 3V5 acres, price greatly reduced.Claude Ostiguy, 838-5830.Immeubles M.Cousineau, Broker, 838-4621.Job Opportunities North Hatley: 4 apts block, on lot 131 x 147, bordering golf course, fantastic view of lake & mountains, great potential.Mike Allan 842-2698 TRUST GENERAL, courtier North Hatley: Charming 7 room house, on large lot, sunken living room, fireplace, hardwood floors, garage, beach.Mike Allan 842-2698 TRUST GENERAL, courtier West: Triplex 2-6Vi & SVi, large rooms, price lower than min.evaluation, revenue: S13,000.large lot zoned commercial, 3 garages, excellent condition.Bob Bowers 569-1337 TRUST GENERAL, courtier LENNOXVILLE: New lis ting, charming 4 bedroom family residence.Finished basement, bright spacious kitchen, double lot with in-ground pool.Move-in condition.Franklyn fireplace plus many extra features.LENNOXVILLE: REVENUE PROPERTY.Brick Duplex 2 x 4y2 rooms.New furnace, wiring and porch.Large brick rooms with hard-wood floors.Separate garage with spacious grounds.Revenue off-sets mortgage payments.1st floor apartment available immediately.NEAR LENNOXVILLE: Country handy-mans farm-house with additional building.2 storey, 3 bedroom older property located on Spring Road with approx.2 acres.Needs repairs by someone who is looking for a country retreat.Priced below $25,000.00.LENNOXVILLE: "A TOUCH OF CLASS”: A dream house, 3 floors located on double private lot in superb location with magnificent views.Patio doors to spacious sundeck.Possible 4 bedrooms or den area.Large kitchen with many extras.Ideal for professional couple who require office facilities with separate entrance.Ga rage.A-1 condition.Ex elusive by calling.LENNOXVILLE AREA: SMALL BUSINESS.Own your own business accommodation store with revenue apartments for either your own living or excellent revenue to offset expenses.Why not be your own boss! FOR A FREE MARKET OPINION OF YOUR HOME CALL YOUR REAL ESTATE EXPERT WITH OVER 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE JUDY BUDNING 563-9834 Office 562-1333 Home Personal SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE, 16 Maple St., Len-noxvilte Brick house, garage and T.V.room in basement, 3 bedrooms, fireplace in livingroom, hardwood floors, excellent condition.Price $58,000 Call Robert Downey, Nota-ry, 563-2424.STORE for sale with apartment overhead, fully licensed.beer, wine, meats and vegetables.Tel.(514) 292-5882, or after 6, 514-292-3286.511, Chute Rd.: A village family home near Lennox-ville.FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING REAL ESTATE MARKET IN LENNOXVILLE AND ENVIRONS, CONTACT.GUEN CALDER 563-1834 home 565-8181 office TRUST GENERAL BURY: 6-room stone Que-bec-style house with attached garage, 8 acres land, quiet spot, beautiful oak and pine trees, brook.Immediate possession, transferred.Must sell.$41,900 or best offer.LENNOXVILLE: Belvidere Street, gentille 4-bedroom with dining room, large living room, must be seen to be appreciated.SCOTSTOWN: Older style 4-bedroom village house on ZVi acres.Only $13,000.BURY: 44 acres, good house, 2 barns, 7 acres field, pine plantation, brook, woods, nice private setting.$45,000.NEAR COOKSHIRE: 20 acres with small new house, not quite completed.Asking $37,000.BURY: 2'/?acres with trout pond, farm house, 2 garages, nice setting.Only $23,000.ISLAND BROOK: 107 acres with renovated house, 2fi replaces, double garage, shop, stable, plantation fields, woods.Outstanding view.BURY: 30-acre farm, 5-room house, barn, fields, woods.Ideal for hobby farm.Asking $39,000.Needed for clients: Houses, city and country; farms, wood/ofs and acreage.To sell or buy contact: ROWERT BIMNS, Broker or ANDREW BURKS, Agent Cookshire 875-3203 No Sundays LENNOXVILLE — Basement apartment to rent, 4'A-room semi-furnished plus bathroom, not heated (electric heat), $200/ month.Available now.72 Winder St.Call between 7-8 p.m.at 565-8921 LENNOXVILLE 172-C Queen, 4Vi rooms, fridge, stove, available Feb 15.$235.monthly.Tel.: 562-6622.LENNOXVILLE: 4% rooms, heating and hot water supplied, available April 1st.Call 565-1445 between 9 a.m.and 9 p.m.QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.Preferences: male, non-smoker, 5 days per week.Less than 1 km from Bishop's University.Phone 562-4162 before 8:30 a.m.and after 6 p.m.SEMI-PIVATE ROOM available in St-Paul Rest Home in Bury.Call 872-3356.SUBLET: Vk semi-furnished in Lennoxville, $275/month.Please phone 565-8273.TENEMENT TO LET, Sherbrooke: 3% room apartment, heated with hot water for 1 or 2 middle-age quiet people.No car.Avai-lable May 1st.562-0005 TWO NICE LARGE rooms and one Bachelor to rent in the Sherbrooke area, all accomodations.Call 563-2730.Wanted to rent 10 Rest homes Property wanted IN MAGOG — An older type house that may or may not need repairs - on either side of the river.Call W.Simms at 297-2809.Or a serviced building lot.Brokers invited.For Rent 3,4,5 rooms, near Belvedere street, between She-brooke and Lennoxville, near park, bus, church, school, quiet.Call 565-9350.Visit your local clinic today.lift i Property for sale 1 Property for sale 1 Property for sale 1 Property for sale Office open every Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.569-GOLF 569-4653 comer Jacques Cortier and Prospect 565-9844 uBtaSgsH fljg .C&ndos,or Reqidqncçs çnjowts jrjiano 1,51)0 A/so available: Lofs for bungalows i_5 year guananbee vlrotim^nt.quality ^ j | | cqesilbHtfrj | j | i • Quality of: llii_; j i , t L^yicfoity of sport! artd Ijeisuree Promoters! : > I lard-Villeneuva Agent d'information (under contract) Working under the authority of the director general, devising, planning, organizing, co-ordinating and executing activities relative to the public awareness and expectation of services offered to the population of the district served by the CLSC Versant Est (Sherbrooke).— The person chosen will prepare all pertinent documentation and see to its distribution.— Meet organizations — private or public — to make the services of the CLSC Versant Est known to all levels of the population.— Establish information mechanisms to maintain contact with the general population and various groups in the milieu.QUALIFICATIONS: — University diploma in communications or relevant experience; — French, and a written and spoken knowledge of English; — A car; — Be available for work during the day, night and weekends.SALARY: In accordance with Social Affairs scale.DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT: More or less one year.Your application must be accompanied by a resume.You will also be asked to include a written submission — in English and in French — communicating your interest in working at the CLSC Versant Est.Address all applications no later than Feb.22,1985, to: Poste d’agent(e) d’information CLSC Versant Est 1200 King St.East, Room 100 JIG 1E4 MEET YOUR MATCH for all ages and unattached.Thousands of members anxious to meet you.Prestige Acquantances Toll Free 1-800-263-6673 noon till 8 p.m.ili# Miscellaneous COMPRESSORS from 1-5 hp at affordable prices.Example: a 5 hp compressor of 22.4 cfmfor$1 ,595.R.Robitaille, Lennoxville, 567-7721.NEW TOOL DEPOT for 10" table saws, 14” band saws, 6” jointers, 6x48 belt Sanders, etc.R.Robitaille.300 Queen, Lennoxville, 567-7721.WOULD PAY CASH for all of your wood-working tools such as table saws, jointers, band saws and compressors, etc.Dealer: 567-7721 21 Sales reps Wanted INTERESTED IN A Duplex or a large house in Lennoxville area or Sherbrooke, for June, with op-tion to buy.Call 569-6525.MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE are looking for a house "to-sit” from June.1985.Time negotiable.Reply to Record Box 116, c/o The Record, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke.Que.J1H 5L6.SMALL UNFURNISHED HOUSE or large apartment required In Three Villages.Required March 30 - 31st.Phone 876-7401 between 9 a.m.and 7 p m.YOUNG RESPONSIBLE COUPLE wanting to rent semi-furnished 3 or 3Vz room for March 1st.Call 875-5194 after 5 p.m.ATTENTION! Rapidly expanding cosmetic company needs representative to teach skin care and make-up techniques throughout the Townships.For further information call Mary, 843-6657.25 Work wanted NEW REST HOME at 982 Portland St., Sherbrooke, all new furniture and good cooking.Not more than 6 persons, 65 or over.Open for visitors, call 567-2884 or 567-8833.PRIVATE AND SEMIPRIVATE rooms available on ground floor in new wing of small rest home.Good meals, reasonable rates, family atmosphere.Write: Sherman Residence Inc., Box 159, Scot-stown, JOB 3B0.ROOM & BOARD for elderly people, in our home.One semi-private vacancy for man.The Wilson Home, Lennoxville.Call anytime.562-5900.Calling all RED CROSS Blood J)onors HANDY MAN — Janitorial services by the hour, buil-ding managment on a montly basis.Call 563-0038 between 9 a.m.and 10 p.m.WILL DEEP CLEAN, sanitize and shampoo your upholstery and carpets.Very professional.Results for reasonable rates and free estimates.Call 563-9433 after 5 p.m.Ask for Mr.Hughes.WILLING TO do babysitting, from 8:30 a.m.to 5 p.m., in Rock Forest.Children up to 4 years old.Call 564-5142.28 Protessional Services nQl Miscellaneous 4-»^ Services 40 Cars for sale Hi Trucks for sale Horses 1974 CHEVROLET truck with cap for sale, settlement of estate.Asking $1200,843-3897 or 843-2235.1983 FORD Ranger,4cylinder, $4,800.or best offer.Call 843-6715.PICK-UP CHEVROLET 1981, 305 motor, 73,000 k.m.Price $5,000.Call 569-0339.Choice Colors REGISTERED two-year-old AQH stallion.Sired by Pocomui.Call 292-3276.Garage Sales ¦ Campers-T Trailers FITCH BAY FLEA MARKET, corner of Tomifobia and Brown's Hill road - Open every day from 9 a.m.- 8 p.m.Outside tables to rent on Saturday and Sunday.J.C.Raby, 1-876-2630 RECREATION VEHICLE FOR SALE — 35 ft., fifth wheel travel trailer, 1980, globe start, complete with awning, air conditioning, generator, sleeps six, in-cluding hitch.Price $18,000.U S.Tel.: 1-603-237-8968.M Home Improvemeni Mi ü Motorcycles- Biç^çles__ 1982 HONDA 650 equipped with saddlebags and windshield.10,000 km, like new.$1850.Phone 835-5527.ü Articles for sale BMW.Tired of your old BMW, but can t afford a new one?Make it like new or upgraded to any specifications you desire.Parts, repairs and complete mechanical or body overhaul.Free estimate.Call (819) 837-3018.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT William A.Lyon, 85C Queen St., Lennoxville.Call (819) 566-6577.INCOME TAX: Interested in completing income tax returns as well as Relevé Forms.Reasonable rates.Call between 9 a.m.and 9 p.m.565-1445 for appointment NOTARY WILLIAM L.HOME, NOTARY, 121 Lome St., Lennoxville, Tel.567-0169 - Office hours 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.and Wednesdays, Georgeville by appointment COUNSELLING SERVICE Individual, family, marriage.W.G.Quigley.MEd., Lennoxville, (819) 563-4953 - Knowlton (514) 243-6189.LAWYER JACQUELINE KOURI, ATTORNEY, 85 Queen street, Lennoxville.Tel.564-0184.Office hours 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.Evenings by appointment.LAWYERS HACKETT, CAMPBELL, & BOUCHARD, 80 Peel St, Sherbrooke.Tel.565-7885, 40 Main St., Rock Island, Tel.876-7295.FURNITURE AND wood work refinishing.Reasonable rates and free estimate For information call 563-0071.SEWING: get your spring and summer sewing done early.Call 565-1445 between 9 a m and 9 p m 15 cu.ft.freezer, 1 year old, very good condition.Reg.$625.selling for $450.Call 564-5142.AUCTION EVERY TUESDAY night at 7 p.m.Salle Chez Yvon, 2000 feet past the C.H.U.Stoke Road.Bring your articles.We sell everything.Tel.567-7781.BATHTUB, antique, cast iron with legs.Best offer.Call 563-7134.BUY DIRECT FROM the Manufacturer - Save 50% -Quality Neotex mattresses and box springs in all sizes.Latex pillow, cushions, etc.Since 1924, WATERVILLE MATTRESS AND BEDDING REG'D.837-2463.Evenings or weekends call for a rendezvous.FIRST ANNIVERSARY SALE — January, February and March.Ladies lamb-swool sweaters, blouses, slacks, ladies selected coats and blazers.Shetland Shop.North Hatley, 842-4260.FOR SALE: 4-speed MGB transmission.Best offer.(819) 569-8100.FOR SALE — Firewood, delivery possible.Also, Browning bow, 60 pound pull, like new.Call 876-2270 or 876-7466 (Stanstead) or 843-2533 (Magog).NORTHERN FOOD TREES: Old-fashioned apples, pear, apricot, nut trees, shrubs, evergreens, seedlings.Guaranteed delivery.Reasonable prices.Catalog $1.00.Golden Bough Tree Farm, Marlbank, Ont.KOK 2L0.ONE SMITH-CORONA electric portable typewriter.Condition is like new and you get an eight-month guarantee.Price?Just $275 (819) 569-1800 SALE-TIFFANY LAMPS Leaded glass, stained glass, directly from the artisan.Tiffany Martha, RR 5, Magog 819-864-9673 SNOW BLOWER, Snow Flite, 8 h p , good condition, $475.Call: 842-4137, MASONRY WORKS — Brick and stone works, fireplaces and repairs.Frank McGowan, 563-4549.MOULTON HILL PAINTERS — Registered, licenced, Class A painters.Also wallpapering, commercial and residential, spraying, gyproc joints.By the hour or contract, (in or out of town.) Free estimates.Tel.563-8983.TREE CUTTING, pruning.Trimming of trees, shrubs and cedar hedges.Free estimate - Sherbrooke and vicinity.Call 569-2036 after 5 p.m.TREES SERVICES - Specializing in fruit trees, evergreens, etc.Property clean-up (dead trees).Ted Coulson, Box 268, Knowl- fn Sherbrooke ft Area BATHTUB KING Replacing a bathtub can be costly Our exclusive reglazing process will restore your bathtub to a bright "like new" shine at a fraction ot the cost, right in your own home.We also reglaze: SINKS TOILETS CERAMIC TILE Choice of Decorator Colours Call now tor a FREE estimate.(819) 875-3716 Franchise available Golden age club meets MANSONVILLE — The Golden Age Club met on Jan.29 at the town hall, with an excellent attendance.Door prizes were donated by the club, Elsie Knowlton and Eileen Eldridge, and won by Evelyn Dubuc, Ken Lamorey and Jerry Carrier.500 was played at three tables, prizewinners were (1) Eileen Eldridge, (2) Maud Mossa; (1) Leonard Lessard, (2) Rolland Fontaine.Game winners: Noella Coutu, Theresa Lloyd, J.D.Fontaine, Flora Jersey, Cecile Bernier, Elsie Knowlton, Ken Lamorey, Dot Woodard, Irene Carrier, Winston White and Rose Alma Pouliot.Lunch was furnished by the club, Hazel Eldridge and Evelyn Dubuc.feaflIBHCnMWi Auctioneers SIUNGUAI «UOtONEU Complété auction service at 290 Queen St com pint cost »?ROONEY LLOYD S66-7922 TTTT J8 1 i ill IHII STMTS Boutique HUGO HP ft«B 0.MI-W» lai HERTZ CAR-TRUCK-MINIBUS RENTAL Location Do Lute Em.717 Conseil.Sher.562-4933 Bélanger Héber ang< berr Chartered Accountants ,A.Jackson Noble, c.a.; Réjean Desrosiers, c.a.Maurice Di Stéfano, c.a.James Crook, c.a.234 Dufferin Suite 400 Sherbrooke, Quebec JIH 4M2 819/563-2331 III Personal 1 LAC MEG ANTIC • COWANSVILLE • ASBESTOS • WIEDON • SUTTON ATTENTION FARMERS The selling of cattle at the South Stukely Auction barn now starts at eight o’clock every Tuesday night.DO YOU HAVE questions about who you really are and your purpose in life?Then you must read “ In My Soul 1 am Free”, sent to you free on request.Write P.O.Box 344, Lennoxville, P.O.J1M 1Z5.MAN IN HIS60 S would like to meet woman in her 40's or 50’s who would like a good home in town.Write: Box 353, Ayers Cliff, JOB 1C0.(Give phone number).1975 DODGE Coronet, body good, excellent running condition, 4 new steel-belted radial snow tires.4 extra rims, new bat-tery, $700 firm ; $500 without snows, 582-0693.FOR SALE — 1978 Honda Civic, hatchback.5 speed, good condition Cell 643-5437 after 6 p.m.Collectors PRIVATE COLLECTOR would like to buy works of art and paintings, new or old, from Canadian.American and European artists Tel 566-1570 or 562-5418 CARRIERS WANTED TO DELIVER Itecunl The Record needs carriers for the following routes: Rte41 Sherbrooke: Dominion, Newton, Howard, Argyie, White.Rte 43 Sherbrooke: Queen, London, Portland, Quebec, Victoria, Ontario, Dominion.Please apply to: Circulation Department 569-9528 Tkr RECORD—Friday.February 8, 1885—11 IF I START TO FALL ASLEEP TOPAT MARCÆTAP ME WITH YOUR RULER.TO # CUMP!t slapshot WINTMROP ' by Dick CavalU ROSES ARE RED, CARNATIONS.AND SCARE UH-HUH.THIS MOTHER'S MORN NS SHE A POET?SAiDTOME.BUGrSiNâr ME, OF PATIENCE F 'YOU KEEP HOWS THIS?IS THIS ANY SETTER?MUCH BETTER.VERY EFFECTIVE CRABBY LOOKS TAKE A LOT OF PRACTICE MR.MEN™ AND LITTLE MISS™ by Hargreaves A Sellers Ito JU&T