The record, 7 août 1985, mercredi 7 août 1985

Wednesday Births, deaths .9 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6-7 Sports .8 You cau go to a psychiatrist if you want to break out of your shell, but once you get the bill the yoke’s on you anyway.“And this is our newest weapon.He hits their missiles before they get to us.” Baseball rep views of strike state differ NEW YORK (Reuter) — A strike that everyone said they didn’t want was the major event on today’s major league baseball schedule, and many fans were up in arms.Major league baseball players, who earn an average of $360,000 U.S.a year, went on strike over salaries and pensions.Lee MacPhail, the owners’ labor representative, expressed optimism after a bargaining session ended early today.“1 feel we are ironing things out, but it is far from done,” he said.The two sides will resume negotiations this morning.During a break in the bargaining late Tuesday, Donald Fehr, head of the Major League Players Association, told reporters the two sides were not close to an agreement.He said the major issue was salary arbitration.The strike was the second in the last four seasons, and it infuriated fans who accused both players and team owners of greed.‘‘We’re getting slapped in the face,” said Eric Yaverbaum, head of a Washington group called Strike Back, which is seeking a boycott of the sport when it returns.“We need revenge.” The strike came as most of the 26 major league teams had completed 105 of their 162-games scheduled in the season, which runs from early April until the final playoffs in early October.Two games were cancelled in Canada on Tuesday — the American League’s Blue Jays vs Baltimore Orioles in Toronto and in Montreal the National League’s Expos vs New York Mets.A strike over money in 1981 interrupted the season for 50 days.It has been estimated that the players will lose an average of $2,500 for each unplayed game.Unlike 1981, the team owners no longer have strike insurance.IT'S A VKKY HOT DAY C'LAUDT BALLAKGON COOKSHIRE PRIMARY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, August 7, 1985 40 cents No water forcing Shermag out of Ascot Township?SHERBROOKE (CB) — Shermag may move elsewhere rather than rebuild its Lennoxvan truck-body factory in Ascot Township, where the lack of a municipal water supply has driven the company's insurance rates from $35,000 to over $200,000 in one year.The fibreglass-moulding shop, located on Route 108 east of Len-noxville, was destroyed Monday night in a fire which caused over $500,000 in damage.Firemen on the scene said hydrants wouldn’t have helped save the plant, but a convoy of borrowed bulk-milk transport trucks shuttled back and forth for several hours between the fire and nearby Alexander Galt Regional High School, bringing hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to the scene.Serge Racine is president of the Shermag furniture company, which owns Lennoxvan and also operates a large woodworking plant (currently idled by a strike) on the same 26-acre Ascot Township site.BETTER-SERVICED SITE?Racine said Tuesday the water supply question may cause the company to look for a better-serviced site for both the 42-worker truck shop and the 150-employee furniture plant.The Lennoxvan fire was caused by an explosion in a faulty production machine.Racine said it is almost certain to be rebuilt, but it will take time to replace the custom-built fibreglass production moulds and other specialized machinery destroyed in the chemical-driven blaze.Truck bodies are a profitable sideline for Shermag, which is Quebec’s biggest producer of household furniture, with Quebec plants in Lennoxville, Scotstown, Disraeli and Thurso, and Athol, Mass.Ra- Angels’ court battle continues More on the baseball strike, page 8.Bourassa makes meek integrity call in PQ race MONTREAL (CP) - Quebec Liberal Leader Robert Bourassa has called on the four ministerial candidates running for the leadership of the Parti Québécois to not use their personal staff and government services in their campaigns.Bourassa said Tuesday that the political staff members of ministers Pierre Marc Johnson, Jean Garon, Bernard Landry and Pauline Marois should resign.As well, he said, the ministers should stop using their limousines and government telephones lines in the contest.“One must not use public funds for personal political ambition,” Bourassa said in an interview.“It’s a fundamental principle of political morals.” Guy Bertrand, a Quebec City lawyer who is also running for the leadership, has called on the provincial auditor-general to investigate the spending of the four ministers.Bourassa declined to say which of the candidates he would like to campaign against in a Quebec election, expected this fall.RECORD PHOTO/GRANT SIMEON As usual, a heavy police guard surrounded the Joliette courthouse during the Hell’s Angels’ brief appearance Tuesday.Hell’s lawyers continue stalling tactics By Gary Regenstreif JOLIETTE (CP) — Legal efforts to hamstring an inquest into the deaths of Six Montreal-area members of the Hell’s Angels continued Tuesday as lawyers for the motorcycle gang sought the dismissal of the second coroner appointed to handle the case.Lawyers Jacques Bouchard and Léo-René Maranda told Quebec Superior Court that Sessions Court Judge Jean-B.Falardeau cannot act as coroner at the inquest into the slayings last March because Quebec law forbids fulltime Sessions Court judges from holding a second job.“A judge cannot depart from his magisterial duties," Bouchard told Mr.Justice Jean Cre- peau, who heard three hours of legal fine points over a defence request to have Falardeau ousted as coroner.Crepeau said he would decide today whether to keep Falardeau as coroner.The 10 bikers being held as material witnesses in the six deaths appeared briefly behind a clear plastic shield in the courtroom, handcuffed by the wrist and ankles.They were guarded by a half-dozen Quebec Police Force officers.The courthouse itself has been surrounded by tight security since proceedings in the case began several weeks ago.As usual, dozens of heavily armed members of the QPF tactical squad formed a security perimeter outside.Falardeau told the bikers to return for the inquest this afternoon if Crepeau upholds his appointment as coroner.He also extended the warrants for the bikers by a day.Maranda argued that Falardeau had revealed a bias against the bikers when he ordered them to appear before the court before he had convened the inquest.Maranda plans to present the court with a written report on why his clients are being unlawfully detained.Crepeau said those arguments wouldn't be heard until next Tuesday.See LAWYERS, page 2 cine said the company will spend at least a week examining its options for rebuilding — including the possibility of abandoning the Ascot Township location altogether.WELLS NOT ENOUGH Although company officials have long complained to Ascot authorities about the water shortage, there are no signs that the township will do anything to alleviate the problem.Shermag has dug wells to supply its own water, but they can’t provide sufficient volume to supply either a fire-control sprin- kler system or hydrants for firemen.“We will ask council (again) to bring municipal water up to the plants, where we employ over 150 people,” Racine said.“There is lots of room for expansion there, but it would all be compromised by the water problem.” Racine said Shermag’s insurance premiums soared from $35,000 to over $200,000 in a single year.Following the fire, he added, the company is wondering if any insurance company will take the risk.Tutu calls for end to violence JOHANNESBURG (CP)—Black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, who defied a government ban to address mourners at the funeral of South African unrest victims, says he is ready to go to jail for preaching the gospel.But onlookers at a funeral in Da-veyton township near Johannesburg said Tutu played a vital role Tuesday in preventing violence between mourners and large security forces.The bishop of Johannesburg and Nobel Peace Prize winner pleaded with the white minority government to lift restrictions on the way blacks could bury their dead.“Please, I don’t want to go to jail,” he appealed to the authorities in his address.“But if I am to go to jail for preaching the gospel, then so be it.” The purpled-robed bishop urged angry mourners to avoid violence against the government forces.‘ ‘ Let us comport ourselves with the discipline of those who know they will be free,” he said.Tutu told Reuters news agency : “These (township) children scare me.They have a recklessness that is incredible.Most of them think they are going to die.Not that they have a death wish, but they think if this is the way we are going to get freedom then so be it.” A black was killed Tuesday near the port of Durban when a policeman fired on rioters who had set fire to his home and car.At the remote farming town of Brandfort, police hurled tear gas grenades into the home of Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela.Police said they arrested 30 people there who had attacked them with a gasoline bomb and rocks in Mrs.Mandela’s absence.Mrs.Mandela was banished to Brandfort, 426 kilometres south of Johannesburg, more than eight years ago for her opposition to the government.Today, the state-controlled radio praised U.S.President Ronald Reagan’s comment that the 17-day-old state of emergency imposed by authorities may reflect a need to reduce racial violence.More than 500 blacks and two whites have been slain in almost a year of violence against apartheid, South Africa’s system of racial segregation under which five million whites rule 24 million blacks.Police say 1,436 people have been arrested without charge since a state of emergency was decreed in 36 cities and towns July 21 in an effort to quell the violence.Police say 255 of those detained have been released.Shadows of The Bomb By The Canadian Press Thousands of ghostly white shadows, their arms and legs flung outward as if in despair or their hands clasped in a parody of prayer, covered city sidewalks across Canada on Tuesday, grim memorials to those killed in the atomic blast that levelled Hiroshima 40 years ago.The images, sponged with white print by an army of artists in the pre-dawn hours, were part of a worldwide paint-in that heralded a day of rallies and demonstrations to protest the dropping of the nuclear bomb on the Japanese city on Aug.6, 1945.Dubbed Little Boy, the bomb killed up to 140,000 people and left thousands of others crippled and poisoned with radiation.About 10,000 people and countless animals were instantly vaporized and left as atomic shadows — black silhouettes ringed by white halos that were etched on the sidewalks, steps and walls of buildings of Hiroshima.A second bomb — nicknamed Fat Man — was dropped on Nagasaki three days later and killed up to 70,000.Censorship strike stops BBC news for 24 hours LONDON (AP) — An estimated 120 million listeners around the world tuned in to their favorite BBC radio or television news program today, only to hear music interspersed with a recorded notice of a 24-hour journalists' strike.It was the first time in its 53-year-old history that the BBC’s World Services had been silenced.“We are sorry that we are not able to bring you our usual programs,” the BBC began announcing at midnight Tuesday night.“This is because many members of staff in the external services and throughout the BBC are striking for 24 hours." Journalists at the BBC and many of Britain’s other TV and radio networks went on strike to protest alleged government interference in the BBC’s editorial independence.Newspapers and news agencies were not taking part in the strike.On July 30, BBC governors cancelled a TV program on political extremism in strife-torn Northern Ireland following a request by Home Secretary Leon Brittan for it not to be screened.After a J'/i-hour meeting Tuesday, the 12 government-appointed governors issued a statement reaffirming their decision to cancel the program, but denied having bowed to government pressure.Nevertheless, they asked for an urgent meeting with Brittan to discuss “these serious matters relating to the total unacceptability of censorship.” That meeting was set for today.PROTESTS DECISION BBC’s World Service, in announcing the blackout, said: “As you may have heard earlier this week, this action is in protest against the decision by the BBC Board of Go- vernors to withdraw a television documentary about extremism in Northern Ireland following a request from the British Home Secretary.“Our normal programs will resume with our transmission at 2300 hours Greenwich Mean Time (9 p.m.EDT) on Wednesday.” The blackout covered the English-language World Service and BBC broadcasts in 36 other languages ranging from Arabic to Vietnamese.The BBC says that together they are heard by a world audience of 120 million people, including 14.5 million in the Soviet Union.The Soviet government is among those who jam BBC frequencies in a bid to blot out world service reception.The BBC is financed by licence fees paid by TV viewers, apart from external services, which are funded by the government.Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Brittan had urged the BBC to suppress the documentary because it included an interview with Martin McGuinness, an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army, which makes him a terrorist by official definition.Opposition politicians and civil libertarians said the affair damaged the credibility of the BBC as an independent news source and gave the outlawed IRA far more publicity ’han if the documentary had been shown without argument.Protestants outnumber Roman Catholics 2-1 in Northern Ireland.The IRA is fighting to drive the British from Ulster and unite it with the Irish republic under a socialist government.About 2,500 people have been killed in Northern Ireland in 16 years of sectarian violence.About 35 Canadian cities ar towns coast to coast joined aboi 300 other municipalities — incl ding Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 20 countries in the internation shadow project.In Montreal, where artists sea tered about 600 white symbo throughout the city, police wei less than sympathetic to their me sage and arrested 92 people for d facing public property.In Regin three women were charged wil wilful damage in connection wil the shadow-printing program i that city.About 1,000 volunteers using cî cium carbonate and water tran formed downtown Toronto sid walks into a war zone of abo 25.000 chalky outstretched torn representing children, adult cats, dogs and even bicycles.Although the city issues a périr allowing participants to pai spectres on sidewalks, where thi can remain until Aug.20, five sh dows sketched in front of Toron city hall were quickly scrubbi away by municipal workers.Meanwhile, two men were cha ged with mischief after a demon tration at the suburban Toron plant of Litton Industries Ltc which makes the guidance syste for the U.S.cruise missile.In Winnipeg, about 50 artis brushed the life-sized human o tlines on pavement with wate soluble paint after receiving pe mission from the city worl committee.“It’s my hope — indeed, expect tion—that people seeing these sh dows will take action to avert o collective disintegration,” sa Martin Zeilig, spokesman for tl Winnipeg Co-ordinating Comm tee for Disarmament.The shadow-painting concei was developed three years ago Is New York artist Alan Gussow, d rector of this year’s internatiom paint-in, when he saw a photi graph of a human shadow left c the steps of a Hiroshima bank.More than 150 Vancouver artisl also got in on the act, spreading whitewash made of water, whitin and powdered milk to form close t 2.000 human impressions on the c ty’s walkways./ 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, August 7, 1985 Hydro won’t foot caribou clean-up tab: We are not responsible By Dennis Bueckert MONTREAL (CP) — Hydro-Quebec has stopped all runoff from a northern reservoir into a river where 9,600 caribou drowned last fall, despite a subsidiary company’s rejection of responsibilty for the disaster.ponsible for native affairs.SAGMAI concluded in its report in June that the main cause of the drownings was the decision to release huge amounts of water from the reservoir into the Caniapiscau-River about 450 kilometres upstream from where the animals died.Hydro spokesman Marie-Anne Robady said Tuesday the publicly-owned utility has stopped all runoff from the Caniapiscau Reservoir until Oct.31 as recommended in a study of the drownings by SAGMAI, the provincial office res- The report said responsibility for the disaster belonged to the James Bay Energy Corporation and recommended that the corporation, a Hydro-Quebec subsidiary, repay the Quebec government for the $760,000 spent cleaning ud the cari- Teenager saves child from jaws of cougar bou carcasses.“We reject a certain number of conclusions in the SAGMAI report as being false,” said Jean-Paul Fontaine, public relations manager for the James Bay Energy Corp.REJECTS CHARGE The corporation was responsible for the James Bay hydroelectric project during the construction phase, but since last year the Caniapiscau Reservoir has been completed and turned over to its parent company, Hydro-Quebec.“Since we don’t believe we are responsible, we don’t think we are responsible for cleanup costs,” said Fontaine, who predicted future drownings because of the size of the caribou herd."If we don’t do something, we can expect other catastrophes,” said Fontaine.The 300,000-strong George River herd has grown so rapidly in recent years it is being forced to cover more territory and take increasingly dangerous migration routes such as Limestone Falls where the caribou died attempting to cross the river.Even without runoff from the reservoir, the natural flow of the river makes it “completely possible there will be another accident just as big or even bigger than last year,” he said.“If you study the topography of the site (at Limestone Falls) you will see it is very dangerous for caribou, even with no runoff from the dam,” said Fontaine.TIME RELEASES The SAGMAI report recommended that no extra water be spilled from the reservoir between Aug.1 and Oct.31, the period when the caribou migrate.Fontaine said that before the accident last September, the corporation was releasing water from the reservoir at 1,400 cubic metres per second.He said this was still less than if there was no dam.He said last fall’s release of water was a one-time operation involving the start-up of the generating system.Releases would be required about once every 10 years, said Fontaine.Future releases will take place in early summer, not during the caribou migration season, he said.News-in-brief SOOKE, B C.(CP) — A teenage camp counsellor who rescued a 10-year-old girl from a cougar’s jaws by hitting it with a log said Tuesday she felt an “unreal calm” at the time.It was only afterwards that the counsellor felt dizzy from the encounter with the 85-pound cougar, which attacked Alyson Parker, 10, Saturday at a camp run by the YM-YWCA near Sooke.about 40 kilometers west of Victoria.“It was an unreal calm; I couldn’t believe I was so calm.” said Lifely, 19, a University of Victoria student in charge of seven children at a Camp Thunderbird outing.The group was preparing lunch at an outlook called Crow’s Nest when the children suddenly starting squealing and running, she said.“Wild cat!’’ one of them screamed.“I ran down and there was a cougar mauling Alyson,” Lifely said.The animal was holding the girl by the head with its mouth and paws, she said.“I yelled and it sort of backed up a bit but it still stayed there.So I looked around and I somehow found a quarter of a log and I hit it on the head and it backed up.” HIT COUGAR TWICE The cougar stared at Lifely, as if warning her to stay away from its prey and then attacked Alyson again.“I guess I broke a big piece of a tree off and I hit it again, and it really took off,” she said.Lifely, of Fruitvale, B.C., said her own safety never crossed her mind as she approached the cou-' gar.“I guess a part of you wants to say ‘get out’ but you don’t check your step.You just go.I never even thought about it.” With the cat gone, Lifely started first aid on Alyson, putting her own T-shirt on the wounds to stop the bleeding.The counsellor also started shouting for help.“The kids must have thought I lost my mind because I took off my shirt, so I was running around in my bra, had a big stick and all this blood running down my legs and screaming, running up the hill,” she recalled with a chuckle.Alyson was in good condition but will have to stay at least several more days at Victoria General Hospital, a spokesman said.Delta flight recorders studied by investigators GRAPEVINE, Tex.(AP) — Investigators examined recordings and wreckage Tuesday from Delta Air Lines Flight 191 as Dallas-area funeral-home owners squabbled over division of the corpses from the crash that killed 133 people.The Lockheed L-1011 widebodied plane hit short of a Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport runway Friday evening, bounced off the ground and smashed a car on a highway before it clipped two water-storage tanks and exploded.The crash killed 132 people aboard the plane and the driver of the car.Dr.Charles Petty, Dallas county chief medical examiner, said the victims all died of trauma or bums and would not have survived “if they crashed right next to a hospital.” Investigators said that, according to the cockpit voice recorder, the crew of the ill-fated jet gave no indication anything was wrong.And while the machine picked up the sound of the control tower’s radioed order to abort the landing, it came after the start of sounds of the jet disintegrating.A group of about 20 business owners charged racism and favoritism in the distribution of bodies to area funeral homes.“We’re not demanding anything.We just want our share,” said Nat Clark, a Dallas funeral home owner.“It’s greed on the part of a few owners, flat greed.” LEFT OFF LIST The group says the president of a mostly white funeral home association deliberately left them off a list of seven homes authorized to prepare and transport the bodies of crash victims.The homes on the list will charge Delta $390 for each body.Challenger back on the ground safe and sound SPACE CENTRE, Houston (AP) — Challenger’s astronauts, safe on the ground after a successful eight-day mission, said a heart-stopping engine shutdown in the first minutes after launch “held our attention,” but they’re glad it happened when it did.“I felt very lucky we didn’t just get a quick trip to Spain,” space shuttle pilot Roy Bridges said Tuesday night after the crew returned to Houston from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where Challenger completed its 5.3 million-kilometre voyage.The seven astronauts knew immediately when one of the shuttle’s main engines shut down just mi- nutes after the July 29 launch, said mission commander Gordon Fullerton.The emergency “held our attention,” he said.“Most of it was just trying to figure out what to do.We were glad it happened it when it happened.There was no doubt then that we’d make it to orbit.” The shuttle could have been forced to land in Europe or the ocean if a second main engine shut down as it had threatened.Instead, the crew was told to override a computer-controlled sensor.The crew also burned fuel to lighten the space plane and fired the remaining engines an extra 86 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2850 Delorme Stre' Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1084.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Police force lifts ban on beards MONTREAL (CP) — Whiskers are welcome on the Montreal police force.Chief Roland Bourget has lifted his department’s long-standing ban on beards — and several officers have already taken advantage of it.“Put it down to evolution — different times, different mores,” Bourget said Tuesday.The new policy, in effect since July 10 for a one-year trial, includes restrictions.Beards may be no longer than two centimetres, and an officer’s cheeks and neck must be clean-shaven.Officers will have to grow their beards during their holidays.Reporter tests bathing suit ban MONTREAL (CP) — A newspaper sent a reporter wearing only a bathing suit into a park in suburban Outremont Tuesday, but officials refused to enforce a newly-imposed ban on bathing suits.“My bosses told me not to do anything,” a park attendant told the reporter from The Gazette who was accompanied by a small group of scantily-clad strollers.“They said it was staged, a trap.” But he said that under normal circumstances he would give a warning before calling police.Bus driver thought he was dead MONTREAL (CP) — A bus driver testifed Tuesday he thought he had been killed after a hunting rifle was fired a few inches from his head during a struggle with a passenger.“I couldn’t see anything or hear anything,” said Jean Deslauriers, adriverfor the Montreal South Shore Transit Commission.“I relly believed I was dead.” Deslauriers testified that a passenger car: rying a long bag boarded the bus at a subway station on July 27.Later, a man ran to the front of the vehicle and jammed the barrel of a rifle into his neck.Insult may cause resignation MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec Superior Court Justice Kenneth Mackay said Tuesday he will resign from the Canadian-South African Society because its president called Prime Minister Brian Mulroney a “pipsqueak.” Mackay, who said he has a great deal of respect for Mulroney, said he is appalled by South Africa’s policy of apartheid and he understood the society to be interested in promoting dialogue between South Africa and the rest of the world.He said he did not feel he was in a conflict of interest as a judge because the society had nothing to do with Canadian politics.Boy loses arm after wolf attack TORONTO (CP) — A six-year-old boy mauled by Arctic wolves Tuesday after entering a restricted area of the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo had his right arm amputated later during emergency surgery.Scott Connor of suburban Scarborough was conscious and in serious condition after surgeons at Centenary Hospital removed his mangled right arm.His eight-year-old brother Adam also underwent surgery and was in fair condition with cuts to his right arm and face after he tried to pull a pack of wolves off Scott.Province gives French ruling REGINA (CP) — A court of Queen’s Bench justice refused Tuesday to grant a Baie-Comeau, Que., man bail in Saskatchewan’s first ruling written in French.Mr.Justice S.J.Walker refused to grant bail to Michel Tremblay, charged with robbing a Regina stationery store, pending his trial this fall.From the page-one mention of La Cour du Banc de la Reine (the Court of Queen’s Bench) to a closing reference to Particle 457 of the Criminal Code, the judgment contains only a word or t;wo of English.Bomb joke costs Quebecer $268 LONDON ( AP) — A 20-year-old Canadian was fined $268 Tuesday for joking to airport officials that he had a bomb in his luggage.Real Champagne of Pointe-aux-Trebles, Que., told a magistrate’s court his remark to customs officers at London’s Heathrow Airport was a horrible joke.But the joke was taken seriously, and the Montreal-bound plane’s baggage was searched before takeoff while Champagne was arrested.U.S.praises Soviet offer WASHINGTON (AP) — An offer by the Soviet Union to open two nuclear power reactors to international inspection would still keep sensitive facilities off-limits, but is drawing Reagan administration praise anyway.“Certainly, we are very pleased,” a State Department spokesman said Tuesday in response to the Soviet move to open two civilian nuclear facilities to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency.With final details still to be worked out, U.S.officials said it was clear Moscow would not permit monitors at facilities used for enriching or reprocessing nuclear material.Former reporter jailed for fraud NEW YORK(AP)— Former Wall Street Journal reporter Foster Winans was sentenced to 18 months in prison and five years’ probation Tuesday for using his position at the paper to make quick profits in the stock market.U.S.District Judge Charles Stewart found Winans guilty of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire and mail fraud in June after a lengthy nonjury trial.Winans was one of the writers of a column that offers stock tips to investors, and which many analysts believe has an effect on the price of stocks.Prosecutors charged that Winans tried to capitalize on those price moves by tipping a top broker about the contents of forthcoming columns, so the broker could take advantage of the price changes those columns could be expected to produce.Drowning victim found ESSEX, N.Y.(AP) — The body of one of two Canadian men presumed drowned in a Lake Champlain boating accident last week was recovered Tuesday near this Essex County village, state police said.The body of Pierre Petit, 28, of Longueuil, Que., was found by divers in about 14 metres of water.Troopers at Westport said divers were continuing to search for Petit’s companion, 36-year-old Michelle Paul of Montreal.Both men were last seen alive last Tuesday in a rubber life raft not far from their sailboat, which was anchored near the Essex Marina.Man survives eight days in woods WENDELL, Mass.(AP) — A 79-year-old man with a heart condition survived eight days lost in the woods on 225 grams of saltwater taffy and creek water.Arthur Harrington, a retired maritime engineer who suffers from hardening of the arteries and underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery last November, was found Monday by two loggers near a reservoir in New Salem.They took him to a niece’s home.Harrington endured heavy rain and chilly nights without medication for his heart condition.Afghan soldiers tortured, killed MOSCOW (Reuter) — Rebels tortured 264 captured Afghan government soldiers, then killed them and many villagers before fleeing over the border into Pakistan, a Soviet television report says.Unusually detailed film lasting 20 minutes Tuesday showed dismembered bodies lying in a ruined village about 70 kilometres from Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.Reporter Mikhail Leshchinsky said the captives were held in cramped underground prisons where they were tortured with what he described as medieval instruments.Caribbean leader Burnham dies GEORGETOWN (Reuter) — Forbes Burnham, the longest-serving and reputedly toughest political leader in the English-speaking Caribbean, died Tuesday following a throat operation.He was 62.As Socialist leader of the People’s National Congress, he had served as Guyana’s prime minister after independence from Britain in 1966 and became its president in 1980.He was replaced by former prime minister Desmond Hoyte.Hoyte said in a radio address Burnham was hospitalized last night for throat surgery but died at midmorning Tuesday.The new president said the world had been diminished by Burnham’s death.Bolivian president urges sacrifice LA PAZ (AP) — Victor Paz Estenssoro assumed the Bolivian presidency for a fourth time Tuesday and urged “the sacrifice of all” to revive the poorest economy in South America.Paz Estenssoro, 77, donned the red, green and yellow presidential sash for a four-year term, one day after his election by the 157-member legislature.He succeeded Hernan Siles Zuazo, a leftist who was forced by congressional opposition to leave office a year early.Guerrillas ignore ceasefire call KAMPALA (Reuter) — Pressure is mounting in Uganda for a conference to end bloody rebel wars in the south and northwest of the country, but the key guerrilla faction has yet to respond to calls for a ceasefire.The Democratic party, which draws its political support from the Baganda heartland where the main rebels operate, called for a ceasefire and a conference Tuesday on ending the war, as well as ways of forming a new army.The appeal was made to the rebels as well as to Lt.-Gen.Tito Okello, head of the ruling Military Council that seized power after a July 27 coup that toppled President Milton Obote.Lougheed an issue in appeal EDMONTON (CP) — Premier Peter Lougheed’s successful fight against a subpoena ordering him to testify at Jim Keegstra’s trial will be part of the former Eckville, Alta., teacher’s appeal, says Keegstra’s lawyer Doug Christie.On Tuesday, Christie said he will argue the court was wrong to set aside Lougheed’s subpoena to attend the trial.Christie said he will also challenge the judge’s ruling that freedom of speech was not an issue at the trial.A number of tactics used by the Crown in the course of the trial will also be cited in the appeal, Christie said.Comet dimmer than expected LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronomers have sighted Halley’s comet again, three months after it disappeared behind the sun, and it isn’t as bright as expected, scientists said Tuesday.“It has been picked up following its conjunction with the sun,” said astronomer Daniel Green of the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory’s Minor Planet Centre.“We’ve got photographs from two professionals and one amateur (astronomer) we can verify.” The comet, basically a dirty snowball of dust and ice that orbits the sun every 74 to 79 years, was first observed on its current journey in October 1982.South Pacific declared nuke-free RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (AP)— Eight Pacific countries including Australia and New Zealand signed a treaty declaring the South Pacific a nuclear-free zone, and said they would ask the United States, France and Britain to abide by its terms.The signing took place Tuesday in a ceremony that fell coincidentally on the 40th anniversary of the atomic bomb attackon Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of the Second World War.Five other countries of the South Pacific Forum will sign the treaty after it goes through constitutional processes at home, said Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand, a spokesman for the group.Weather Hot with hazy sunshine, thunderstorms in the evening.High 26.Low tonight 16.Thursday: Thundershowers early, clearing later.Doonesbury WHEN THE CALL CAME TO GEORGE BUSH THAT FATEFUL SATURDAY, HE WAS AT HIS FAMILY COMPOUND 1 IN MAINE.AIDE DYSON TYSON ; WAS WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT./ f • r ! a r I i flÉB .nr BY GARRY TRUDEAU UP ROLANP, MAIN615 0NB jySM OF MR.dUShfc SPIRITUAL aiuy ' HOMES.UmiHFUMPl Mines œwMiDHi$/vors,\m ^ OFTEN HE’LL COME HERE.EWISilW THATS WHY WERE HOPING THE RESIDENTE OF KEHNEdUNKPORT IAJIEL EVEHTUALL / ALWUI THEIR TOWN TO BETHE SITE OF THE 6E0PÛE BUSH ACTING PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY r s THEYRE BALKING, ARE THEY?I: Pf="— HELL,THERE'S SOME CONCERN THE TOWN MOULD GETALLWRISTY.-/- MMI58.Hl ^7 A a ’ft» 1 The RECORD—Wednesday, August 7, 1985—3 The Townships Candidate Pauline Marois in Sherbrooke: Programs must be integrated to improve Quebecers’ lives By Laurel Sherrer SHERBROOKE — An improved quality of life for Quebecers has to come through the integration of social and economic approaches, Parti-Québécois leadership hopeful Pauline Marois said Tuesday.Marois, also Manpower Minister and the first woman to declare her candidacy for leadership of a major political party in Quebec, is in Sherbrooke for two days to meet with businessmen, workers and party supporters, as well as those who support her in her leadership bid.An example of this kind of integration, she explained in a press conference, would be government incentives for job-sharing.“There are people who don't want their whole life governed by their profession, but would like a guaranteed income,” she said "In many cases the family has two paycheques, and people would not mind giving up part of one paycheque for some leisure time.” Marois cited a recent study of public servants that showed about 30 per cent would be willing to share their job, even if it meant a cut in income."Some people want to do it,” she said, “but in their business it’s impossible.” The problem is often in integrating the new worker into the job, in many cases a younger, less experienced person looking for a start in their profession.SHARING COSTS The government could help by sharing the costs of training new workers, Marois said.Quebec has already instituted this kind of program on an experimental basis, she said.For those who are ready to share their jobs, the cost of subsidizing new workers would be small, Marois added It has to be on a voluntary basis, however.“I don’t believe we’ll get there by obliging people to take one route or another,” Marois said."This way they will be limited in their freedom of choice.” “I don’t perceive it as a step where people will be obliged to do it, but it gives them the conditions in which they can do it,” she said.Full employment for the province has to remain a top priority, Marois said.“We can't accept and remain inactive in the face of the unemployment problem.We would all be winners if we could break this vicious circle we’re in right now." Marois refused to comment on the policies of her opponents in the leadership race, saying only that “naturally, some of the things my colleagues propose displease me." but "I have a lot of respect for them all." Asked if the number of candidates in the leadership campaign meant a lack of solidarity in the party, Marois said “there exists at least a basic consensus" on the major issues.As for her own campaign, Marois said "It’s going well.We’re in a very good second place.” FQ members vote for their new leader Sept.29.If no candidate emerges with an overall majority after the first ballot, a run-off vote will be held a week later.PQ leadership hopeful Pauline Marois says Quebecers should share their jobs to help fight unemployment.Local péquistes curious at reception for first female leadership hopeful SHERBROOKE — Over one hundred people gathered at the Centre Communautaire Ste-Jeanne d'Arc Tuesday night for a buffet followed by a speech by Parti-Québécois leadership candidate Pauline Marois.It was clear she was preaching to the converted at this affair, although some challenges were brought up by the 10 to 12 people who got up to question or comment.One man asked her position on the use of public funds for the leadership campaign, referring to accusations by Guy Bertrand, a Montreal Lawyer running against Ma- rois, that the candidates who are cabinet members have an advantage over the others thanks to the resources at their disposal.SAME RULES’ “Each of the candidates has exactly the same rules to follow,” she responded.“There is a fixed amount of money we can spend.” However, she said, she still has the duties of minister to carry out and it's impossible at times to strictly separate campaign expenses and those related to her job.During her two days in Sherbrooke, for example, along with her campaigning, she had some business to take care of for the Mi- nistry of Manpower.Besides this, she said, any advantage she may have is tempered by the fact that in political campaigns most of the work is done by volunteers.While she might save money by campaigning on a minis-try-related trip, the non-ministerial candidates save by having volunteers drive them around.The questions and comments at the dinner were largely related to employment and the economy, and the people attending seemed to like Marois’ ideas.“She seems to be a woman who is very solid, well-informed and experienced despite her age," said Jean-Guy Labreque, a Sherbrooke electrician who has been a member of the Parti-Québécois since 1980.“I believe she is a person capable of governing the province.” ADMIRABLE IDEAS Renée Gilbert, a young mother and university student, said she attended the meeting because she was attracted by Marois’ image, but now admires many of her ideas “I found it very important that she stressed that if people want change, they have to participate — they have to do something," she said.Marois' emphasis on consultation impressed her, she said.Jean Civil, a Haitian native who teaches at the high school level, said he feels she will be a leader who will work “at the level of the people", and that being a woman, she will have a good understanding of the needs of the disadvantaged.“If she has a chance for power,” he said, “she will remember women’s experiences with discrimination and that there are minorities who have the same experience.” In an interview Marois said she was pleased with the turnout and the questions that were asked.“You have to decode the questions," she said.“In the questions they give you their preoccupations." Meetings yesterday gave her a good idea of what’s on the minds of people in the region, she said.About two-thirds of the attendance was female, but more men got up to speak.Marois said this shows women still have a ways to go in making their voices heard.“Women haven’t yet taken their right to speak,” she said.“They still have hesitations in this regard.” — Laurel Sherrer Quebec ‘now sure’ CPR oversprayed along tracks By Merritt Clifton SHERBROOKE — Environment Quebec has now officially confirmed that herbicides were applied improperly along CP Rail rights-of-way in the Eastern Townships late last month.“We have received lots of reports and have done lots of investigation,” explained Jocelyn Roy.Environment Quebec’s Eastern Townships bureau pesticide expert.“We are now sure that in several places the terms of the authorization to spray were not respected.There are more of these places on the Beebe line,” which parallels the Tomifobia River.According to Roy, “The Newport line,” running through Farnham.Brigham, Cowansville, West Brome, gnd Sutton, "seems not too bad.Obviously the crew has not respected all of the watercourses, but the authorization was respected around Lac Davignon," the Cowansville reservoir.Although herbicides were apparently applied specifically to certain individual bushes within 60 metres of the lake, the sprays were not directed at all trackside vegetation, as they were along the Tomifobia.FEWER DEAD PLANTS Where virtually everything is dead now along the Beebe line, die-back along the Newport line is quite selective.“We have taken lots of photos and lots of samples,” Roy continues.“Now we are putting all of the documentation together, discussing with our lawyers, and consulting with the people in Quebec who issued the spray permit to CP Rail.This was not done locally, in Sherbrooke,” Roy notes.“After that,” Roy promises, “we will discuss the case with CP Rail.It’s sure that we have the facts about what happened," but Environment Quebec also wants to know why.Meanwhile, results of chemical analysis are still pending, including checks on plant samples taken near Lac Davignon.It is still possible that the herbicides involved will be found in the Lac Davignon samples, even though few of the plants died.Torrential rains a few hours after the spraying could have rinsed most of the herbicides off before they did enough damage to kill the plants.Liberals launch PR blitz By Michael McDevitt SHERBROOKE — Two Eastern Townships Liberal Members of Parliament, upset by what they perceive as a lack of concern for Quebec issues by Conservative MPs, have launched a massive public relations campaign aimed at “provoking public response.” Shefford MP Jean Lapierre and Richmond-Wolfe’s Alain Tardif, two Liberal survivor’s of last year’s Conservative electoral sweep, were in Sherbrooke Monday announcing their ‘Operation Contact’ through which they hope to meet with constituents to discuss “issues of regional importance that they (the Consertva-tives) seem to have forgotten.” “We will be meeting with our constituents individually at their homes, if they wish,” Lapierre said, “and with groups representing women, farmers and municipalities — groups who were promised great changes during the course of last year’s campaign.Well, we haven’t seen any of these changes and we believe people feel that after almost a year in office it’s time for them to deliver the goods.*’ CORNROAST FINALE Lapierre and Tardif will spend the next month in their ridings meeting with constituents in the over 90 municipalities within their districts and will culminate their project with an open-house cor-nroast at the Grandy Zoo September 1.“We just want to get people’s impressions about the way the government is living up to its promises,” Tardif said.According to the two MPs.Quebec Conservative Members of Parliament have betrayed the pro- mises they made during the 1984 campaign and have since become mere lackeys to the federal party.Citing such regional issues as the Sherbrooke Cartography Institute, the asbestos industry and the economic problems facing the Lake Megantic area, the MPs say the Conservatives have failed miserably in keeping their campaign promises.“In the cartography dossier, for instance,” Tardif says, “not one Quebec Conservative MP has raised his voice saying that it is needed.One gets the impression that there is one guy defining the line of conduct for the government and all the rest are just following.” MONEY FOR MANICOUAGAN “We don’t have the money for a cartography institute in Sherbrooke,” adds Lapierre, “but we have plenty for Manicouagan (Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s riding where the government has recently announced several million dollars worth of projects).It’s simply a matter of two different scales being used.” Tardif also complained of government inaction concerning both the shoe and textile manufacturing industries.“Last year the Conservative party emphasized that both these industries are in need of support from the government, but since then they have done absolutely nothing to help.” Residents of Shefford wishing to meet with Lapierre are invited to contact him by calling his office at (514) 378-7987 in Granby or by asking the operator for Zenith 54660.In Richmond-Wolfe, those wishing to meet with Tardif can call his Asbestos office at (819) 879-5189 or a toll free number 1-800-567-6017.Hatley resident vows to fight for his scrapyard By Peter Scowen HATLEY TOWNSHIP — A local scrapyard owner says he’ll go to jail before giving in to a municipal bylaw that prohibits his type of business in Hatley Township.Clifford Roy said Tuesday his only income comes from his scrapyard and antique car lot on the Sherbrooke Road.“I’ve got to live, you know,” he said.“If worse comes to worst, I’ll goto jail and let them feed my kids.” Roy’s problems started when a neighbor complained to town council that the car lot was unsightly and the source of a lot of noise.The neighbor also complained that the lot and the scrapyard, which is 500 feet behind Roy’s house and hidden from view, is on green-zoned land — land reserved for farming only under Quebec’s Bill 90.Roy says the car lot is on the half hectare of land around his house which the law permits green-land owners to use as they please.An official from the Farmland Protection Commission visited his property, he says, and measured off the area where his old Buicks and Chevrolets are now.‘NO RIGHT’ At a regular town council meeting Tuesday, Mayor Garnet Card told Roy the official was not a surveyor and had “no right to measure anything.” Card said the council would ask the commission for a written confirmation of the offi-cial s visit.Roy’s scrapyard is a different matter.Card says there is a 1964 bylaw that prohibits scrapyards in Hatley Township, but added the council wouldn't look into the matter as long as Roy’s land is zoned green.“It’s not up to us,” the mayor said.Roy says he applied a month ago to have four acres ‘dezoned' for his scrapyard.All such requests are supposed to backed by a council re- solution, however.Card said Tuesday the council couldn’t back Roy since it knew he was operating a scrapyard.Roy says that if his dezoning request is turned down he'll apply for spot-zoning — a temporary dezoning that would end if he moved away.One councillor told Roy that if his scrapyard is near a waterway he may get into trouble with the provincial Environment Ministry.Roy says there is a dried-up brook beside the yard, and that the land is swampy.Roy bought the 85-acre property on the road that connects North Hatley to the Stanstead highway last summer.He says the land hasn't been farmed in years.He has been operating the lot and the scrapyard for over a year.He used to own a gravel pit on the Stanstead Highway but sold out after business went bad.He has a wife and two children.He saysthey have been told they are ineligible for welfare because the land and cars make them worth too much.A complaint may put an end to Clifford Roy's antique car lot on the Sherbrooke road in_ Hatley Township Lawyers argue over inquest Continued from page I There is no precedent in Quebec legal history of a Sessions Court judge acting as coroner, Bouchard argued.He contended that Falardeau didn’t receive the proper authorization to take the coroner’s job and said a letter signed by Justice Minister Pierre Marc Johnson allowing Falardeau to act as coroner was insufficient without permission from the full cabinet.“He (Johnson) has got no right to do it,” said Bouchard.Crown lawyer Louis Crète, however, said cabinet did provide authorization and permission from Johnson was sufficient.The inquest has been plagued by procedural wrangling since Judge John D’Arcy Asselin was named the first coroner June 21 by Johnson.Bouchard and Maranda sco- red a legal coup late last month when Superior Court ruled Asselin could not act as coroner after a court action was filed alleging he detained the bikers illegally because he had been improperly sworn in.The bodies of the six slain bikers, members of the suburban Laval Hell’s Angels ‘North’ chapter, were pulled from the St.Lawrence River in early June.The bodies were stuffed in sleeping bags and weighed down by cement blocks.A QPF detective testified last week at the inquest the Laval gang members were targeted for death after they tried to cheat the gang’s Halifax chapter out of $200,000.A familiar walk: Hell's Angels entering Joliette courthouse Tuesday.T-BONE OR WIN6STMK ci.a i kg.10.12 Ib.4.59 FRESH PORK LOINS whole o, hail kg.3.64 lb.1.65 CENTER CUT PORK CHOPS kg.5.05 Ib.2.29 FRESH ATLANTIC SALMON i.s .b.kg.9.68 Ib.4.39 MAPLE LEAF WEINERS h„ , 1 lbs.1.49 ST.BENOIT GUYERE CHEESE kg.7.25 Ib.3.29 FRESH LOCAL GREEN PEAS NEW MELBA APPLES 3 ib.bag ICEBERG LETTUCE size is NEW LOCAL POTATOES 10 ib bag FRESH GREEN BROCCOLI size 14 FRESH N.J.BLUEBERRIES Pint basket kg.2.18 .b .99 1.49 .57 1.09 .79 1.49 HERSHEY CHOCOLATE 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effect.Under this old law, Quebec coroners are given extensive powers to investigate deaths to determine their cause and allows them to assign criminal responsibility at the conclusion of their hearings.They possess judge-like powers of subpoena and can order witnesses detained in order to ensure their presence at the inquest.Witnesses must testify before a coroner and to refuse to do so invariably leads to contempt of court charges — and imprisonment.Naturally, defence attorneys despise this process because it denies suspect ‘witnesses’ the fundamental right to refuse to incriminate themselves.Fully aware of this, police forces frequently use the coroners inquest as a means to coerce information from witnesses in the furtherance of their investigations.While it is true that the men being detained while their lawyers dither are not the type of individuals most Quebecers tend to feel sympathy for, it is equally true that through all of this, the Quebec legal system is no closer to the end of this case than it was three weeks ago.In the meantime an expensive and destructive comedy continues to unfold.If the Quebec Police Force belives it has a viable case against any or all of the bikers it accuses of taking part in the murders, it should get on with it and press charges against them, bringing the affair before a duly appointed court where it belongs.The continuance of the charade in Joliette can accomplish nothing further than to delay the cause of justice and to further undermine Quebecers’ already shaky confidence in our legal apparatti.We deserve better.MICHAEL McDEVITT Radiation warfare planned in WW II documents reveal STANFORD, Calif.(AP) — Fearful of a radiological attack by Nazi Germany, U S.scientists plotted ways to poison 500,000 Germans and Japanese by putting radioactive material in food and water, government documents show.The plans apparently foundered because of technical problems and the emphasis on developing the atomic bomb, Stanford University history professor and nuclear weapons specialist Barton Bernstein said in a report Tuesday based on the recently declassified documents.“Dotted through the partly declassified wartime British and U.S.documents is a rich tale linking defensive and offensive uses of radiological warfare," Bernstein wrote in the August issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.The plot was initially disclosed earlier this year by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology periodical, which published a letter from J.Robert Oppenheimer to Enrico Fermi, two pioneers of the atomic bomb.Seven months before the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, a panel of scientists headed by Nobel physicist Arthur Holly Compton proposed radiological attacks and gave it top priority over nuclear-powered ships and atomic bombs.On Dec.10, 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor, a top-secret U.S.report concluded that a large enemy area could be made uninhabitable by dumping a pile of radioactive material, Bernstein said.BECAME CONVINCED “We have become convinced that there is a real danger of bombardment by the Germans within the next few months using bombs designed to spread radioactive material in lethal quantities,” Compton wrote in 1942.Compton assigned a small group of scientists to develop a defence against radioactive attacks or at least a system for quickly identifying them.In 1943, Fermi, who worked under Compton at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, “secretly proposed using fission products to poison the enemy's food supply,” Bernstein wrote.Oppenheimer proposed that “we should not attempt a plan unless we can poison food sufficient to kill a half million men, since there is no doubt that the actual number affected will, because of non-uniform distribution, be much smaller than this.” Bernstein said it is unclear whether the target was to he troops, civilians or both.Oppenheimer and Hamilton wrote to each other about the plan, but there is no evidence that they or Fermi went much further in the venture, Bernstein said.The ongoing saga of Dunkin McMansonville In answer to absolutely no requests and in spite of repeated warnings I thought I might take a few more minutes of your time and relate yet still another true story of my family’s roots here in the Eastern Townships.Although the lawsuits from the Association of Mansonville’s Ancient Daughters (or M.A.D.) failed to provide them with any real protection and the sixteen kamikaze raids of irate Record readers we had to repel left us somewhat reluctant to continue this series the search for truth and honesty in modern newspaper reporting makes it imperative we board up the windows again.As you may not wish to remember, my long lost relative Dunkin McMan-sonville started the whole thing off when he made a wrong turn in Boston and ended up settling in the area known today as Fotton Municipality.Over period of years he and his wife Highway McMansonville had a number of offspring, some of which resembled human beings and spread out across the townships becoming the forefathers of the modern residents.In fact the present day name of the municipality came from Dunkin’s first question about dinner when he came home from slaving over his giant still.“Have you got the pot on?” he’d ask."No, but I’ll put the pot on you!” Highwater woulc shout and immediately dump the contents of whatever cooking utensil she was holding all over Dunkin’s head.Gradually the residents got so used to hearing “pot on” “pot on you” that the area was known as “Pot On” or in the modern day spelling Potton.That may well answer a few nagging questions you might V Where the pavement x ends JIM LAWRENCE have had about theorigin of the name.You’re welcome, and same to you fella! Theirfirst child was named Perkins McMansonville.He was so ugly that he took to wearing a discarded potato sack over his head in the form of a veil.He quickly became known as “veilled Perkins”.At the tender age of seven, after tiring of his nickname or “that ugly fat kid with the pimples”, Perkins moved away from home and settled on the East shore of Lake Memphremagog in a site that would latter bear his name.although misspelled, perhaps on purpose.The foregoing was in the form of a review for those who have been following the series with baited breath (that’s breath that smells like old worms) or for those of you have had the good fortune to miss the last three episodes.You might want to take notes from here on though, I might be asking questions later.Perkins was given the job of organizing a native commercial fishing industry on the lake.It was an early job creation project of the government at the time.Chief Owl of the local Abenaki tribe was quickly tiring of all his braves hanging around Dunkin McMansonville’s road house and getting tanked-up on cheap illegal potato vodka.He decided to start a massive fishing industry to get his tribe off that bad fare and onto the lake.(As opposed to welfare the modern day term).It was quickly discovered that simply by sticking his head under water Perkins could cause hundreds of large fish to leap into the air, into boats and onto the shore.The Indians simply collected the fish, many of which were ready to be cooked having actually been scared out of their skins.He was held in great reverence by the tribe except for those who caught a peek of his face before he veilled it, they immediately turned to stone, fell into the water and were never seen again.This explains the hundreds of life-sized indian statues that can be found on the lake bottom only a few hundred yards from the wharf at Perkins Landing.Incidentally this name came from the old Indian phrase “Stay away from the wharf when Perkins’ landing ! ” You can well imagine the relief when the lookout would shout.“It’s in the bag!” The fishing industry made great progress and was doing very well until one day Perkins, in a moment of indiscretion, took off his bag to shave, looked in the mirror, and turned himself to solid stone.It was his most monumental decision.His wife was very upset however as from that moment on, although he was solid limestone, everybody took him for granit.The tribe laughed for years by walking up to the now immobile Perkins and asking in loud voices “Hey, is stat chew?” However the joke waned and they carried him off to hide somewhere on Owl’s Head where he is lurking even today waiting to make some unwary skier even more bolder, (little play on words there).Eventually however he was forgotten, the fishing industry died along with his memory, the Indians moved away (some with reservations) and the area settled by other less interesting people.Now and then however mothers still warn their children, when they are bad, that “Perkins will get you” although most people think it’s Dave and not poor old Veilled Perkins to whom she refers.Perkins wife, a wasted old lady of fourteen, was so moved by the whole experience of being married to the world's ugliest man, took up with a bullfrog and moved to Hemmingford from where she never bothered to write, perhaps hoping to forget the entire episode, not unlike many of my readers.As I related earlier his two children “Hey there” and “Commerce” remain in the area cemented into the wharf.Perkins either forgot they were holding up a timber when he poured the concreate or perhaps he let them take a peek before he poured.In future articles I may be convinced to relate how Dunkin McMansonville travelled to Quebec City to set up our present day legislative assembly (as much a joke as anything) or how the Righter Ruiter and his two brothers Writer and Rider were responsible for the Canadian Pacific Railway (everybody else trying to get as far away as possible), on the other hand perhaps I may not.U&ERAt >n SPACE.FU/RDUHETTE?-—,,____ mss Golden Age Thursday, Aug.8 Club meets KNOWLTON - On July 8 a bus load of 44 members left Knowl-ton at 8 a.m.to tour the Granite Quarry at Barre, Vermont.A stop was made for coffee at Howard Johnson’s in Burlington, and then on to the granite location just outside Barre.All boarded the train and toured the route in this manner, while a narrator explained the formation of the granite and how it was cut.Lunch was enjoyed at the Hilltop Restaurant.The next stop was at a Burlington Shopping Centre.Our dinner stop was at a near-by Howard Johnson’s where service and food was good, and then on to arrive home at 9:30 p.m.The meeting of July 11 was attended by 44 members who enjoyed the customary game of 500.Prize winners: Ladies (1) Eva Carrara (4460); (2) Marjorie Osborne (3780).Gents: (1) John Gibbon (3300); (2) Norman Jones (2660).Door prize: Vivian Beakes, Lucille Ashton, Mrs.Shneider, Kathy Gorham, Lillian Godefroy, Norma Owens, Ernest Ladd, Nelson Langevin, David Mason, Mary Pille, Guy Booth, Eva Westcott, Grayson Cousens, Marie Gravel, Hildred Gibbon, Elvia Johnson, Ardell Mason.Another meeting with an attendance of 44 members took place in the Legion Hall on Thursday, July 18, with ten tables of 500, and one game table.Top scorers in 500: Ladies (1) Irene Boyce (4400), (2) Ardell Mason (4140).Gents: (1) John Gibbon (4690), (2) David Mason (3920).Door prizes : Trixie Ladd, Rose Benoit, Mrs.Schneider, Suzanne Quilliams, Joyce Jones, Emilie Boucher, Hildred Gibbon, Bernadette Foster, Ernest Ladd, Nelson Langevin, Lee Lawruk, Evelyn Potter, Kathy Graham, Friedel Jaqusch, Marguerite Fortin, Lucille Ashton, Lillian Godefroy, Elvia Johnson, Helen Campbell, Eva Westcott, and Janet Squires.Attendance at the meeting on July 25, numbered 48.The 500 prizewinners: Ladies (1) Elsie Royea (4200); (2) Ardell Mason (4000).Gents (1) A.G.Morfee (4040), (2) John Gibbon (3000).Door prizes went to Trixie Ladd, Marguerite Fortin, Elvia Johnson, Friedel Ju-qusch, Lillian Godefroy, Jeanette Egli, Preston Crittenden, Janet Squires, Eva Westcott, Norma Owens, Hilda Luce, Marion Crittenden, Ebba Parkes, Lillian Barber, John Syberg, Harold Little, Lilian Brown, Evelyn Potter.A sympathy card was sent to Syd and Reba DeSolla on the tragic death of Mr.DeSolla’s brother Peter.All meetings opened with a warm welcome from president Elsie Royea, and the pleasant afternoons came to a close with tea and social hour.ASTRO*GRAPH Bernice Bede Osol cfour ‘Birthday Aug.8,1985 Stronger than usual ambitions wll be aroused within you in the year ahead.It’s OK to drive yourself hard to get what you want, but also try to take time to smell the roses.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) It’s best to count to 10 today before responding angrily to the boss.Bear in mind that he or she might not be right, but he or she is still the boss.Major changes are ahead for Leos in the coming year.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions today.Mail $2 to Astro-Graph, Box 489, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sapt.22) The results of events are likely to turn out as you envision them today.It you picture yourself as a loser, don’t expect a trophy.LIBRA (Sept.23-Ocl.23) Others may try to impose upon you today.Keep your guard up, even if you're with a close pal who is normally reticent about requesting (avors.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Objectives may not be achieved today if you and your mate are not In complete harmony.Be sure both of you are tuned into the same wavelength.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) This could be the wrong day for you to attempt a do-it-yourself project where you lack expertise.Bent nails and frayed tempers may be all you produce.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Don’t be too openhanded today and lend something to another that isn’t yours without first consulting the owner.You’ll be held accountable for damages.AQUARIUS (Jen.20-Feb.19) It's imperative that your mate have an input into decisions today that atfect the lamily.His or her thoughts could correct flaws you'll overlook.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Be careful today that you do not ask others to do things you wouldn't choose to do If the roles were reversed.Put yourself in their place.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Subdue temptations today to take long-shot financial risks.If you're heading for the track or bingo parlor, don't carry more than you can afford to lose.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Others may find you difficult to comprehend today in situations where you are in a position of authority.You might ask for one thing but expect something else.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In a conversation with another today, you might lind the perfect opening to repeat something told to you In confidence.Don't betray a trust.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Have fun and enjoy yourself today, but try to adhere to your budget.If you dip into funds you've earmarked lor other purposes, they’ll ba hard to replace.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ) tmee Crossword James Jacoby NORTH 8.7-S5 ?974 ?63 ?KQJ62 ?652 WEST EAST ?Q 10 632 ?JS ?4 ?8752 ?94 ?A 10 85 ?Q 10 8 7 4 ?J 9 3 SOUTH ?A K 5 ?AKQJ 109 ?73 ?AK Vulnerable: East-West Dealer: North West North East South Pass Pass ’24 Pass 24 Pass 2V Pass 38 Pass 3V Pass 4V Pass 6^ Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: +3 An eastern route to the north By James Jacoby Look how the lack of bidding methods propelled South into a rather mediocre slam contract.The two-diamond response by North was temporizing and artificial.After two hearts by South, a bid of three clubs by North would also have been artificial, denying any significant high cards.In tournament parlance, this is called the “double negative.” Because three diamonds did express values in the diamond suit, South threw caution to the winds and bid six hearts.He might have been better advised to try for slam by bidding five hearts In this auction, with South holding the strong hand, he could hardly be asking for a black suit control.Instead, five hearts logically would be asking! "Partner, how good are your diamonds?” North might still have bid six.Even bad contracts must be played out, and declarer gave himself his best chance.He won the spade king, drew trumps in four rounds, and played the A-K of clubs.Next he led a diamond to dummy.West signaled even distribution with the nine and East properly held off.Declarer played a club from dummy and trumped it.That was one key play.Now came another: He played the ace of spades, making West’s queen a winner.Finally the second diamond was played.East won but had nothing left to play but another diamond allowing South to ditch his losing spade and make the contract.(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) ACROSS 1 Seal group 4 Line on a letter 9 Knowledge 13 Finial ornament 14 Certain Arabs 15 Breathing sounds 16 Cap 17 Jukebox of yore 19 Exhilarate 21 Ineffective 22 Moral lapses 23 Otaru’sland 25 Musical piece 27 Good sense 28 The present 32 Acidity 33 Snitch 35 Corrida rah 36 Historical soc.37 from heaven” 38 Walk 39 Pub drink 40 First—(oners) 1 2 3 13 16 19 25 26 32 36 39 42 ©1985 Tribune Media Services.Inc.All Rights Reserved 8/7/85 41 Hit hard 42 Billiards shot 44 Affirmative 45 Recliners 46 Drudges 48 Scorch 49 Over there 52 Lobster’s backstroke organ 55 Musical symbol 58 Wrath 59 Act together 60 Stopover 61 Make a lap 62 Appends 63 Epee or foil 64 Owns DOWN 1 Baseball Rose 2 Cacholong 3 Near-extinct shops 4 Having sound 5 Discharges 6 Strong current 7 Printing fluid 8 Interjection 9 Sp.dialect 1Q Butterine T1 Vintage cars 12 Slave 15 Turns 18 Prune a tree 20 Competitor 23 Small buses 24 Garb 25 Title 26 Fla.city 27 Paid notice 29 Atlantic coast catch 30 Eskimo 31 Safecrackers 33 Cagorball 34 Singer — Paul 37 Bishop 41 Ornamental stamp 43 Shows off, as clothes 45 Protection 47 Poem 46 Provide food Yesterday’s Puzzle Solved: B U R Rj N E E aaaan D E D| C E NTC 0 L V E L 0 E S e" 0 N S R D 0 S 10 H k [L_ 0 r w T D] uuuuu uana aaaa DBaamaaaa aaaa 8/7/85 49 Bluish-green 50 Ger.group 51 Incursion 52 In — (completely) 53 Diva’s forte 54 Profits 56 Landlord’s abbr.57 Presently 12—The RECORD—Wednesday, August 7,1985 Prosperity Rebekah Lodge 32 welcomes President Social notes COWANSVILLE — The regular meeting of Prosperity Rebekah Lodge No.32 met in the Fraternal Hall on July 15 at 8:15 p.m.Lodge opened in form with Sister Mabel Ingalls, N.G.and Sister Eileen Pettes, V.G.Sister Mabel welcomed all by reading a poem.There were 15 officers, five supporters and 17 Past Noble Grands who answered the roll call.Sister Mable asked Sister Donna to introduce the elective offi-cers, who were Brother Donald Macmillan.Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of Quebec, Brother Harry Redmile G.Rep.of the Gr.Enc.of Quebec, Sister Roberta Macmillan, P.P., and I.A.R.A.Rep.of the Rebekah Assembly, Sister Thelma Picken, Warden of the R.A., Brother Douglas McClay, Gr.Junior Warden of the Gr.Enc., Sister Laura Burnham, Vice-Pres.of the R.A.and Sister Margaret Sanborn Treasurer of the R.A.They were given the honors.The N.G.read a poem and they were then seated.Sister Irene Williams, P.P.introduced the President of the R.A.Sister Marilyn Adams, who was also given the Honors and the N.G.read another poem.She was escorted to the dais where Sister Mabel presented her with a wristlet corsage of yellow roses.Communications read by Sister Donna Luce, Secretary, was a thank-you from Brother Marcel Beaulieu, Sister Marion White of Orillia, Ont., had sent dues and a donation and from Wilhelmina Lodge No.23 notifying us they still had cookbooks for sale, excerpts from the Bulletin and about International Night to be celebrated July 20 at Highgate, Vt.Sister Isabella Beattie reported that our Chicken Pie supper would be on October 20, instead of Oct.6, as previously reported.Under new business, a donation will be sent to the United Church for the use of their hall for our Flea Market.Under Good of the Order Sisters put on a Puppet Show pertaining to the President’s program, which proved very amusing.The puppets also sang “Let There be Peace on Earth”, the President’s song.After lodge reconvened, Sister Roberta Macmillan read a list concerning the special awards the Sovereign Grand Lodge were handing out this year.She also mentioned that the International Rebekah News was a good paper to subscribe to.At this time, the Grand Patriarch Donald Macmillan spoke a few words, saying how he had enjoyed the meeting and the floor work, and congratulated Sister Mabel for conducting her meeting without a ritual.He brought greetings from the Grand Encampment, his own personal greetings and thanked the lodge for all courtesies.The President, Sister Marilyn Adams then spoke and also congratulated Sister Mabel and said how she had enjoyed the floor work.She brought greetings from the Rebekah Assembly of Quebec and her own personal greetings and also thanked the lodge for all courtesies and for the owl plaque that Sister Mabel had presented to her.A silver collection was taken, after which lodge closed in form and retired to the dining-hall where the walls had Sister Marilyn's watchwords enscribed on them.Green and pink candles adorned the tables with pink and green streamers and vases of yellow roses.Lunch consisted of sandwiches, pickles, ice-cream, strawberries and iced tea.Once again the President thanked Prosperity on behalf of all the guests for a memorable evening.She presented Sister Mabel with her certificate of perfection.She was given a round of applause, which ended another night of fellowship.Stanbridge East Guests of Mrs.Tom Brown have been Mr.and Mrs.David Brown and family of Morocco, and Mr.and Mrs.David Paterson and family of Guelph, Ont.Mr.and Mrs.Peter Antell spent a week in North Carolina, guests of the latter’s sister, Mrs.Allan Bombard and Mr.Bombard.Mrs.Sharon Ewing and two children, Melanie and Benjamin, have returned home, after spending a week in Amherst, N.S.guests of the former’s sister, Mrs.Delmar Wilson and family.Sawyerville Alice Wilson 889-2932 Mr.and Mrs.John Bain, Richmond Hill, Ont., spent a week with his mother Mrs.Frances Bain.Mr.and Mrs.Lance Hoye, Huntingville, were supper guests of Mrs.Bain, John and Cheryl while they were here.Mrs.Frances Bain accompanied Mr.and Mrs.Ellis Waldron of Montreal to Beulah, Mich, to attend the wedding of their great-nephew David Bissell.En route they were supper guests of Mr.and Mrs.Mark Waldron in Guelph, ,Ont.They returned home by Sudbury and North Bay and were overnight guests of Mr.and Mrs.Jim La-bow in Cobden.In Ottawa they were dinner guests of Mr.and Mrs.Doug MacKenzie and supper guests of Miss Nerine Waldron.Mr.and Mrs.Donald Laroche visited Miss Vera Hover in Sherbrooke and Mrs.Bertha Laroche and Hilda in Lennox ville.Miss Deanna Fowler entertained four of her friends, Andrea Eastman, Angie Thompson, Elea- nor Crosby and Sharon French.The after-noon was spent playing games and a treasure hunt, with all winning prizes, then swimming was enjoyed, after which Deanna’s parents, Alton and Bonnie Fowler served a bar-beque supper.On Sunday Mrs.Ruby Waldron, Mrs.Eva Ellis, Mrs.Minnie Desruisseaux and Mrs.Frances Bail were in Island Pond, Vt., at Mr.and Mrs.Newell Percy’s cottage for a picnic dinner and friendly visit.Sutton Mable Boyce 538-2946 Mr.and Mrs.Walter Miltimore and daughter Barbara Mandigo visited their cousin Mrs.Pearl Webster in Hyde Park, Vt.on Sunday, July 28 and were supper guests of Mr.and Mrs.Keith Sherrer in Jeffersonville, Vt.Mrs.Francis Baker has sold her home on Mountain Street and moved to Cowansville.Several from here attended the William-son-Hamel wedding at the Anglican church in Knowlton on Saturday, July 27, and enjoyed the buffet dinner and reception at the IOOF Hall in Knowlton.Recent guests of Mrs.Myrtle Needham at the Sutton Foyer were Maxine Needham, Layton Needham and Mr.and Mrs.Murray Davis.It being Maxine’s birthday, a lunch provided by family members was enjoyed, , thus allowing Myrtle to help celebrate her daughter’s birthday.Mrs.Douglas Miltimore spent a few days in Montreal to be near her brother Harold Barette of Cowansville who was hospitalized there.Mr.Rupert Phelps has returned to Sutton after spending a few days with his sister Marion Phelps in Knowlton.Mr.Gary Goyette wishes to thank everyone who helped him in any way with the Scottish Parade on Sunday, July 28.A good job, Gary! Bulwer Mrs.Marjory Pinchin 875-5288 Reggie and Alice Drake, accompanied by Florence Wheeler were dinner guests of Mr.and Mrs.Ivan Herring in Ayer’s Cliff.Supper guests on Friday night of Mr.and Mrs.Curtis Ross were Mr.and Mrs.Foster Ross of Rothesay, N.B., and Mrs.Violet Ross of Bury.Curtis and Mabel Ross attended the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr.and Mrs.Eric Fisher in Bury on Saturday, July 27.On Sunday, July 28, those attending the L.O.L.and L.O.B.A.Church Service and parade at St.George’s Anglican Church, Lennoxville, were Curtis and Mabel Ross and George and Marjory Pinchin.Allan and Cindy Kerr of Oshawa.Ont., are spending two weeks at the home of his parents, Mr.and Mrs.Howard Kerr.Gerald and Catherine Lowd spent three days at Little Lake Magog.George and Marjory Pinchin joined with the L.O.B.A.of Sawyerville at Charles Cruickshank’s in Cookshire to present Mr.and Mrs.Cruicks-hank with a wedding gift from the Lodge.Russell and Beverly Nutbrown spent ten days in Ontario visiting their daughter, Linda MacSpurren.They were accompanied by Basil and Muriel Prescott of Bir-chton to visit at Lynn Williams.Abbotsford Mrs.Arlene Coates Mr.and Mrs.Boyd Honey of Kitchener, Ont., were in this vicinity recently.Mrs.A.Harvey of Toronto, Ont.was recently calling on old friends and neighbours.Mr.and Mrs.Robert Crossfield accompanied Mr.and Mrs.F.Helynck to New Hampshire where they were visiting friends and relatives in that area.Mr.and Mrs.J.Davis of Trenton, Ont., were weekend guests of Mr.and Mrs.B.A.Rowell.Mr.and Mrs.G.Thomson and Jessica of Guelph, Ont., spent a few days here at the home of the former’s parents, Mr.and Mrs.A.Thomson.Mr.and Mrs.Malcolm Crossfield spent a recent weekend visiting friends, in Bis-hopton.