The record, 5 septembre 1985, jeudi 5 septembre 1985

Births, deaths .8 Business.5 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Living .6 Sports .7 Sailor: a wolf in ship's clothing.“This land is my land, “This land is my land, “This land is my land, “This land is my land.FAli DONALD THAYER LENNOX VILLE ELEMENT AID SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, September 5, 1^85 40 cents South African rioting moves into white neighborhood JOHANNESBURG (AP Reuter) — Black and mixed race youths hurled gasoline bombs and stones at homes in w hite suburbs of Cape Town and East London, and one homeowner responded with gunfire, South African police said Thursday.It was the first report in South Africa’s year of racial unrest of violence spreading to white areas.About 60 mixed-race youths shattered windows of a home in Cape Town's w^hite Windsor Park district late Wednesday.Two homes were damaged in a nearly simultaneous attack by about 50 blacks in the Amalinda suburb of East London, police said.Serious rioting that began during the day Wednesday continued through the night in Cape Town's mixed-race districts.Police said they shot and killed two youths.Arson and looting also erupted in Eastern Cape black townships and black districts outside Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg, police said.40 WOUNDED The independent South African Press Association reported “at least 40" people were wounded Wednesday by police firing shotguns and rubber bullets during rioting east of Cape Town.Police reported arresting 22 people, 20 of them white, near Rhodes University in Grahams-tow n.after the group gathered at the school’s gates to protest apartheid, then pelted police with stones.Witnesses said 6,000 youngsters set up flaming road blocks near a high school in Athlone, east of Cape Town, and stoned police.Police struck back with tear gas and rub- ber bullets.There was no reliable report of casualties.Meanwhile, Gerhard de Kock, South Africa’s top banker, was returning to Europe Thursday after aparently failing to win promises of financial support from the United States to help the country cope with its burgeoning debt crisis.De Kock, governor of South Africa’s Reserve (central) Bank, told a New York news conference Wednesday South Africa might soon have to seek emergency laons backed by its gold rserves.He said he was received courteously by major New York banks.But some bankers who attended de Kock's meetings said he was clearly informed that new credits would be forthcoming only if Pretoria began genuine political re forms.“I would hope that de Kock left here understanding the gravity of the situation," one U.S.bank offi cer said.“He got very little assu ranee of anything in the future, and 1 don’t think there was any break in the unwillingness of American banks to roll over short term credits." One year later — PC delivers OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney celebrated the first anniversary of last year’s sweeping Conservative election victory the way he wanted to Wednesday when his wife Mila gave birth to the couple’s fourth child.Mulroney, calling the birth the “ultimate in miracles,” was by Mila’s side when the couple's third boy was born at 2:21 EDT at Ottawa General Hospital.“Nothing beats this,” Mulroney told reporters when asked to compare his paternal experience with the emotions he felt on election night last year “There is no substitute for family life, it’s what makes our society and what makes our country.” The seven-pound, 14-ounce boy was unnamed as of late Wednesday, but shortly before and after his timely birth, he had already become the subject of lighthearted political bantering.‘‘He is loud enough to be a Tory, ’ ’ the prime minister joked at a news conference in the hospital, where he announced the birth to reporters who had also been waiting through the night.Earlier, New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbrent joked about the timing of the birth, suggesting it was more than coincidence that the latest addition to the Mulroney family arrived on the election anniversary date.Broadbent, who had called a news conference to attack Mulro-ney’s record during the first year of Tory power, said the birth was “the only example of good planning he (Mulroney) has indulged in.” After joking “it was just another fluke,” Broadbent said “The first thing I would like to do is deny a rumor that Lucille (Broadbent) is in the hospital.“It’s not true that she is having a baby.Some politicians plan and some don’t.” Mulroney spent all of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at the hospital after Mila was admitted Tuesday afternoon.“She’s great,” Mulroney said of Mila's condition after the delivery, adding that although the labor had been prolonged, the baby was born about five minutes after she went into the delivery room.Mila’s personal doctor, Constant Nucci of Montreal, was present for the birth.The Mulroneys have three other children — Caroline, 11, Benedict, 9 and Mark, 6.SAYS FAVOR RICH Broadbent accused the Conservatives of favoring the rich in their first year of power.“The favoritism toward the rich is, unfortunately, the clearest pattern that this government has established so far,” the New Democrat leader said.As evidence, Broadbent cited tax changes to benefit oil companies, a lifetime $500,000 exemption from capital gains tax that he said benefits the wealthy and elimination of the Foreign Investment Review Agency.The NDP leader said the Mulro ney government has ignored promises to roll back a proposed sales tax increase, has failed to bring in a minimum income tax for the wealthy and has failed to create jobs for the country’s 1.27-million unemployed.Broadbent attributed drops in inflation and interest rates to improvements in the United States economy.“He has got to really do some redirecling of his priorities to make it clear that the government of Canada is not just a government of the rich, but has a set of policies and programs that will benefit the majority of Canadians," 1® w ' ^:***k& rnff!**» * — J *¦&£**£ * * ** * -1 L.v .^ » ’ g,#*»,»,:.I € •* « t 4' 'Mm rlffff ilfif!§! II m.- J* •'«to*' ,v ft», a v ?I Doris Dean of Lennoxville bears up well under the weight of her 35-pound squash that is expected to taste surprisingly good.Her assistant, Kevin Wol- KI.CORI) I'l RK'i 111.A ION ford from across the street, is holding one that is a little more his size.Third PQ regional meeting held Garon makes call for independence Free trade necessary, commission says OTTAWA (CP) — The Macdonald royal commission report on the economy says Canada must move to free trade with the United States and suggests this be phased in over 10 years beginning in 1987, the CBC reported Wednesday night.It said the three-volume report, which recommends greater reliance on the free market and less on government economic policy, calls for tough conditions to protect Canadian industry and Canada’s national identity.Without those guarantees, the commission says, free trade should not proceed.The commission acknowledges this will mean problems for some industries but said Canada’s industries are stronger and more competitive than many Canadians believe.It also suggests a retraining program for workers in industries that may be forced out of business by free trade.It says old age pensions would not be touched but welfare should be eliminated entirely and the unemployment insurance program should be cut back dramatically.Those payments would be replaced by a guaranteed annual income, which the commission believes would increase the st andard of living of poorer Canadians bv more than 30 per cent.To reduce the unemployment rate, the commission calls for a massive increase in the money supply and lower interest rates.A program of voluntary wage and price controls would be used to keep inflation in check.The commission is to release its final report today.The commission says this massive stimulus to the economy could reduce unemployment to five per cent by 1990.Major recommended changes to industrial policy would give more responsibility to the provincial governments.By Penny MacRae MONTREAL(CP)—Agriculture Minister Jean Garon fired up a Parti Québécois all-candidates meeting Wednesday with a rousing pitch for Quebec independence as Justice Minister Pierre Marc Johnson, the acknowledged frontrunner in the leadership race, skirted the issue.“I've supported Quebec independence for 25 years and I’m not going to stop supporting it until we achieve it,” said Garon as an overflow crowd of 1,400 party members roared its approval.Garon, believed to be battling Manpower Minister Pauline Ma-rois for second place in the six-way race, said the PQ’s decision not to fight the next election on independence does not mean the party must put the issue in the closet forever.Quebecers should not have to “negotiate on their knees” for powers from the federal government, added Garon, wiping his brow in the sweltering hotel hall in subur ban Laval He stopped shy, however, of joining candidate Guy Bertrand in denouncing the PQ's conditions for signing the Constitution presented to Ottawa last spring.The meeting was the fourth in a series of 10 all-candidates’ meetings leading up to the Sept.29 vote in which the nearly 130,000 eligible PQ members can pick a new leader to replace Premier René Lévesque.Johnson, who was booed at an earlier all-candidates’ meeting when he criticized independence, skirted the issue, choosing to tackle Opposition Leader Robert Bourassa.BURY BOURASSA Buoyed by an opinion poll indicating the PQ is moving ahead of the Liberals in voter support, Johnson vowed the party would bury Bourassa in the next election.“There is a PQ wave sweeping Quebec which is going to unleash itself on Mr.Bourassa,” said Johnson.whose relaxed, low-key speaking style contrasted sharply with Garon’s tub-thumping oratory.A survey released earlier Wednesday suggested the PQ under Johnson or Marois was favored by more voters in August than were the Liberals.Johnson, who has avoided making any promises throughout his campaign, derided Bourassa’s pledge to lower both taxes and spending as “old-time politics — that’s not the kind of frankness Quebecers deserve .There are no miracle solutions.” Although Garon received by far the most enthusiastic reception du ring his speech.Johnson suppor ters dominated the floor and mob bed him as he left the podium.Marois, who at the outset of the campaign was expected to be more vocal on independence, also avoided the issue, aiming her guns at Bourassa.She said Bourassa’s stand would mean “economic growth al all costs” which would exclude women from the policy-making process, and she issued a challenge to women to run as PQ candidates in the next election.CONSIDERED LONGSHOT Bertrand, who has been trying to make independence the No.1 issue in the race, again appealed to the party to ignore polls indicating little support for independence.Bertrand, considered a longshot, praised Johnson’s father, Daniel Johnson, who served as Union Na tionale premier in the 1960s, for his 1965 work Equality or Independence which said the status quo was not acceptable to Quebec.Quebec has sought equality, said Bertrand.“It’s now up to us to seek independence, rather than negotiate dependence with (Prime Mi nister Brian) Mulroney.” Francine Lalonde, the former status of women minister who quit after being defeated by Bourassa in her byelection bid to gain a Na tional Assembly seat, urged the party to concentrate on job créa tion.And Luc Gagnon, an ecologist, deplored the waste of natural resources and demanded an end to unrestrained consumerism.The leadership is being decided by universal suffrage according to a formula adopted by the party last year to do away with traditional leadership conventions.If no candidate obtains a clear majority on the first vote Sept.29, a run-off ballot will be held Oct.6.Quebec gets B-plus for acid rain cleanup effort TORONTO (CP) Quebec has stepped to the head of the class in Canada's fight against acid rain, says a report card issued Wednesday by a coalition of environment groups.Ontario, once at the top, has slipped to a bare passing grade while the Atlantic provinces are slow learners, having earned an F, said Michael Perley, executive coordinator of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain.The prairie provinces and British Columbia got grades of D-plus while the Northern territories matched Ontario’s C.Perley told a news conference.“The position at the top of the class is occupied by Quebec," which received a B-plus grade, said Perley.In February, Quebec passed a comprehensive acid-rain control program that includes a 50-percent cut in sulphur-dioxide emissions from Noranda Mines' Horne smelter, the second-largest source of the pollution in North America.Acid precipitation, caused by sulphur dioxide emissions from smelters and coal-burning power plants and by emissions from vehicles, has been linked to the death of fish and other aquatic life in lakes, as well as damage to trees, buildings and human health.Perley said it is estimated that 14,000 Canadian lakes have been acidified and, although progress has been made in the past year, the number could double by 1990.Ontario, where as many as 1,400 lakes have been acidified, has ordered Ontario Hydro to reduce emissions from its coal-burning generating stations by 43 per cent before the end of the decade and Inco Ltd., North America’s largest single source of sulphur dioxide pollution, has voluntarily agreed to a 50-per-cent cut.Regulations imposed by the province made it Canada’s leader in 1981 and 1982, but little has been done since then, Perley said.In addition, “concern continues about Hydro’s ability to meet (its) target,” and Inco’s plan is “not legally binding and and may not be a large enough reduction, given Inco’s relatively large contribution overall to acid-gas emissions in Eastern Canada.” Perley said Ontario Environment Minister James Bradley “has given indications that he intends to pursue this matter in a serious fashion.However .Ontario is no longer the leader in acid-rain abatement in Canada.” The Atlantic provinces have substantial sources of the sulphur-dioxide pollution that causes acid rain — most notably coal-fired electricity plants — and many of the region’s lakes and salmon rivers have been acidified, Perley said.However, no government in the region has required specific sources to cut emissions.“There is no money and no regulations," Perley said.“Nova Scotia has been particularly reluctant to crack down on emissions” from power plants.The Prairie provinces, whose northern areas are susceptible to acid-rain damage, have stressed research and monitoring over emission controls, he said.Read this tomorrow PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Procrastinators’ Club issued a call to celebrate National Be Late for Something Day today by wearing some old item of clothing that should have been thrown out long ago.“Everyone is a procrastinator when it comes to getting rid of their old clothes,” club President Leonard Waas said Wednesday.“Everyone can wear at least one wide-lapel suit or an extranarrow tie.” The club had also planned a formal banquet for Be Late Day, but it won’t be until next week.“We couldn't get it ready in time,” Waas said.He couldn’t estimate how many people would show up.“We never know until the last minute,” he explained."As you might imagine, it usually creates havoc for the restaurant where we meet.” But the Procrastinators relaxed attitude doesn't allow them to fret about trouble at the banquet."We don’t worry about the event until the day before,” Waas said.“That way we save a lot of up-front worrying time.” A special day for procrastinators might seem a good time to recruit new members, but Waas said the club is still in the middle of its 1979 membership drive.“A lot of people want to join for that year, because we did practically nothing — and the dues were less,” « 2—The RECOKD—Thursday.September 5, 1985 Raymond Garneau: Turner has one more year to prove his worth LAC-DELAGE, Que.— Federal Liberal Leader John Turner deserves a fair shot and has another year to "prove what he can do,” Quebec Liberal MP Raymond Garneau said Wednesday.“Mr Turner will not stay if he sees it’s not for the good of the party,” Garneau told reporters at the opening of a two-day meeting of the federal Liberals Quebec caucus."We're not like the Tories, we’re not used to kicking our leaders around "He has another year to prove what he can do,” added Garneau.The MP for the Montreal-area riding of Laval-des-Rapides said he would take ‘‘a strong stand” against anyone in the party who pushed the leadership issue before next fall’s Liberal convention.Garneau was recruited by Turner as high profile candidate in the last federal election.The former banker and provincial Liberal cabinet minister was one of only 17 Grits who won in Quebec.The Conservatives swept 58 seats Former Liberal cabinet minister Don Johnston agreed with Garneau that Turner’s leadership is not yet an issue.“If the leadership becomes an issue it is because of the media,” Johnston said."Putting the focus on the leadership takes it away from other issues that are much more fundamental for winning the next election.” Turner will not attend the meeting in the resort town just north of Quebec City.The caucus is meeting to prepare strategy for the start of the next session of Parliament, which opens on Monday.Later, Garneau said enough time had been spent during the Liberals’ 15 years in power on the issues of a constitutional accord and the threat of Quebec separation.More time can now be spent on the economy, particularly the key issue of unemployment, said EAU.INDEPENDENCE UNWANTED "Now it seems that no one really wants independence for Quebec," said Garneau.“We (the Liberals) now have the freedom to stay up late to find solutions to Quebec's economic problems, and that’s what we intend to do.” The caucus discussed a proposal whereby they would pressure the Conservative government to undertake working agreements which would cover research and training assistance to companies of strategic importance to Quebec.Such help could be provided through special programs or existing Crown corporations.The assistance would also help stave off closings of businesses and the resulting layoffs and attract new investment.In other discussions, the Liberals also attacked the Conservatives on failing to provide more help for middle- and low-income families.Discussions today are expected to be devoted to internal party business such as organization.Bourassa says latest poll is not telling the truth By Irwin Block MONTREAL (CP) — Liberal Leader Robert Bourassa took issue Wednesday with a public opinion poll indicating the Parti Québécois under new leadership was favored by more voters last month than the Liberals.Bourassa, in a telephone interview from Switzerland, likened the poll to a survey last year which suggested the federal Liberals under then leadership candidate John Turner could have defeated Brian Mulroney’s Conservatives.Bourassa insisted his party's polls indicate the Liberals have “a clear majority” in most ridings.Wednesday’s survey, conducted by the Institut québécois sur l'opinion publique for Le Journal de Montreal and the Radiomutuel broadcasting network Aug.19 to 28, suggested the PQ under leadership hopefuls Pierre Marc Johnson and Pauline Marois, was favored by more voters than the Liberals.Under Marois, the manpower minister, the PQ had the support of 42 per cent of respondents to 38 per cent for the Liberals.Under Johnson, the justice minister, the PQ had 42 per cent to 37 per cent for the Liberals.Statisticians warn that the results of surveys such as today’s could be misleading.The survey had a built-in margin of error of 3.4 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.This means that Liberal support could have ranged from 35 per cent to 41 per cent, while PQ popularity could have been as low as 39 per cent or as high as 45 per cent.Twenty per cent of resondents were undecided.LITTLE TROUBLE Several polls over the last year have suggested Bourassa and the Liberals would have little difficulty winning the next election.Bourassa, in Europe on a factfinding mission, said it was normal that the PQ’s high visibility created by the leadership campaign should give it a slightly higher standing now.And Fernand Lalonde, the Liberals’ campaign chairman, said he warned his organizers throughout the province last week: “It’s going to be a different ball game.“We might be starting nose to nose,” said Lalonde.“Now we have a fight on our hands, whereas last June it was a shoo-in.” Bourassa said he would be “more in the field” now that the summer holiday season is about over.He is in Europe gathering information on how to create jobs while introducing more high technology in Quebec industry.Titanic claims disputed LONDON (AP) — The wreckage of the Titanic probably cannot be legally claimed by any shipping company, including the Cunard Line Ltd.— successor to the White Star line that operated the ship — a Cunard director said Wednesday.Ownership became an issue when a joint U.S.-French venture found the Titanic this week 367 nautical miles off Newfoundland.The ship struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing 1.513 people.Cunard director Bernard Crisp said the line’s legal advisers reviewed the history of Cunard's merger with White Star."The ship sank 22 years before Cunard had involvement in White Star,” Crisp said by telephone.The Depression caused White Star to leave its ships idle, he said, and construction of the liner Queen Mary was halted for lack of funds.The British government fostered the White Star-Cunard merger in return for providing capital to finish the Queen Mary, he said.“All we acquired were their ships and trading name,” he said."We didn’t acquire the company, which went into liquidation.” Asked who might have a claim to the wreckage, Crisp replied, "Nobody, I would expect.” Crisp said he thought descendants of the victims would have rights to possessions that went down with the ship.Ownership may be a moot point since the wreck lies over 4,000 metres below the surface.It is believed a salvage effort would cost more than the value of the wreckage and its contents.Members of the expedition that found the wreck said they have no plans for a salvage operation and instead propose the site be declared a marine memorial.Ontario lient.-governor named TORONTO (CF) — Lincoln Alexander’s father was a railway porter and his mother was a maid "and because they were black,” he says, “(they) couldn’t go any further.” Alexander’s parents, both of whom are dead, likely never dreamed their son would someday be the Queen's representative in Ontario.On Wednesday, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced in Ottawa that Lincoln MacCaulay Alexander, 63, will be Ontario’s next lieutenant-governor.Alexander, Canada's first black member of Parliament and first black federal cabinet minister, takes over from John Black Aird, who was appointed to the post Sept.15, 1980, and returns to his law practice on the same date this year.Alexander’s appointment ended months of speculation about who would replace Aird, who had previously rejected a request by Mulroney that his term be extended.At a news conference at the On-tario Workers’ Compensation Board, of which he has been chairman since 1980, Alexander said he was “very excited, elated and nervous” about his appointment.—____ftgl HBCOXu George MacLaren, Publisher .569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor .569-6345 Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent.569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager.569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room .569-4858 CIRCULATION DEPT.— 569-9528 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year: $83.20 weekly $1.60 Subscriptions by Mall: Canada: 1 year- $60.00 6 months- $35.50 3 months- $24.50 1 month- $14.00 U.S.6 Foreign: 1 year- $120.00 6 months- $72.00 3 months- $48.00 1 month- $24.00 Back 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the airline’s Quebec regional offices in Montreal.About 75 chanting strikers occupied the offices for 45 minutes, tieing up telephone reservations activities.They were eventually escorted out by Montreal police, who made no arrests, said Air Canada spokesman Esther Szyn-karsky.Quebec-Aid concert cancelled MONTREAL (CP) — A Québécois edition of the Live-Aid concerts for Africa has been cancelled because of lagging ticket sales.Organizers Daniel Lafrance and Gil Courte-manche of Foundation Quebec-Afrique said in an interview Wednesday that only about 1,200 tickets —10 per cent of the total — had been sold.Tickets for the Forum concerts, scheduled for Sept.12-13, were priced at $16.50.The slow sales left too many risks and uncertainties, said Lafrance and Courtemanche.Legal aid phone service planned MONTREAL (CP) — Justice Minister Pierre Marc Johnson announced Wednesday that a new legal aid telephone service will be launched in November for Montreal-area residents.Through Info-Law, citizens will be able to call a telephone number and receive free French and English information on 100 legal subjects, such as making out wills, shoplifting and marriage contracts.Up-to-date information will be provided by the Quebec Bar Association and the Quebec Chamber of Notaries.Morgentaler hearing postponed MONTREAL (CP) — A hearing to determine whether a new charge of committing an illegal abortion should be brought against Dr.Henry Morgentaler was postponed on Wednesday until Sept.26.Michel Breton, a justice of the peace, postponed the hearing because the court was not equipped to screen a National Film Board documentary that shows Morgentaler performing an abortion.Hospital to have ombudsman QUEBEC (CP) — Social Affairs Minister Guy Chevrette said Wednesday he will move quickly to appoint an ombudsman to protect patients at a Montreal psychiatric hospital investigated for patient abuse.In a preliminary report released Tuesday, investigator Richard Shadley cleared the Rivière-Des-Prairies hospital of charges of drug and sexual abuse saying there had only been isolated incidents.But he recommended the appointment of an ambudsmen to act for the hospital’s 595 patients — mostly retarded adults — who have lived there for an average of 20 years.U.S.fisherman fined $15,000 BRIDGEWATER, N.S.(CP — A fishing boat captain from the United States was fined $15,000 Wednesday for fishing illegally in Canadian waters last June.Francis Edward Carter, 49, of Lakeville, Mass., was caught scallop fishing three nautical miles inside the Canadian portion of Georges Bank.He pleaded guilty and was told by Provincial Court Judge Joseph Kennedy he was being fined heavily because he was caught so far inside Ca nadian waters.Lee gives briefings on S.Africa OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s ambassador to South Africa, Edward Lee, met provincial officials Wednesday to brief them on the current situation in South Africa, a spokesman for the External Affairs Department said.Rejane Dodd said the briefing also dealt with present and past Canadian policy toward the country, which has been racked for months by violent demonstrations against apartheid.More than 620 blacks have died in the violence that has been largely confined to separate townships where blacks are forced to live by the white-minority government.TORONTO (CP) — A poll conducted in August suggests a majority of top business executives are disappointed in the performance of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Conservative government.The poll, conducted for the Toronto Globe and Mail by Angus Reid Associates Inc., shows 66 per cent of the executives surveyed feel Mulroney has done worse than expected.Ontario to look at French needs ¦ TORONTO (CP) — The Ontario government will soon appoint a French-language commission to examine the needs and services of the province’s francophones, says Premier David Peterson.Establishing such a commission was one of the promises Peterson made during last spring’s election campaign and he told reporters Wednesday his promise will be put into action “sooner rather than later,” probably within a few weeks.PCB storage yard to be cleaned SMITHVILLE, Ont.(CP)—Ontario will spend “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to clean up a PCB storage yard following reports that traces of the toxic chemical are seeping into the local drinking water supply.An Environment Ministry spokesman said Wednesday construction of a metal storage building with a concrete floor to house transformers, drums and other containers holding the polychlorinated biphenyls will start immediately.Drug may reduce AIDS risk WASHINGTON (AP) — A California drug company has filed the first application for American approval of a drug to treat people susceptible to AIDS, the U.S.Food and Drug Administration confirmed Wednesday.FDA spokesman Faye Peterson said Newport Pharmaceuticals of Newport Beach, Calif., filed application asking permission to market Iso-prinosine, a drug the company says can .timu-late a flagging immune system.Newport said the boost to the body’s natural defences may help people with what is called “AIDS-related complex,” a deficiency in the immune system coupled with the presence of antibodies to the AIDS virus.Two boys caused Passaic fire PASSAIC, N.J.(AP) — Two boys have been charged with juvenile delinquency after admitting they started a fire that devastated a working-class neighborhood here, Mayor Joseph Lipari announced Wednesday.The boys, aged 12 and 13, lived in the neighborhood where the blaze roared out of control for KM hours before being contained early Tuesday.Damage to factories and homes has been estimated at $400 million.Up to 400 people were left homeless and about 2,200 jobs were lost with destruction of the four blocks of massive brick factories.A firefighter died of a heart attack.The boys’ homes were within two blocks of the fire but were not among those destroyed.Controllers accused in crash DALLAS (Reuter) — Delta Air Lines has accused U.S.air traffic controllers of negligence in the Aug.2 airliner crash that killed 135 people, an airline spokesman said Wednesday.In a complaint filed last week in U S.District Court in Dallas, Delta said the Federal Aviation Administration should contribute to any damages the airline may eventually have to pay.Jim Ewing, a Delta spokesman at the company’s Atlanta headquarters, refused to comment on the lawsuit other than to confirm information contained in the document.British defense plans “terrifying” LONDON (Reuter) —The British government has emergency plans to hand control of parts of Britain to U.S.forces in time of war, The New Statesman magazine reported in this week’s edition.The weekly journal said three emergency power bills have been drawn up which senior officials concerned with top-level defence planning described as terrifying, draconian, and sweeping.As part of a secret agreement with the United States, the draft legislation also “promises to hand over British military and civil resources to the United States,” the report said.BONN (AP) — A secretary in the West German president’s office who is under arrest has admitted she was paid by and spied for East Germany, the federal prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.The secretary, Margarete Hoeke, was arrested Aug.24 on suspicion of espionage.Prosecutors said her admissions came during questioning by police.Parliament’s defence committee questioned government security experts for more than two hours Wednesday about the still-unfolding spy scandal that involves at least five defections, arrests or disappearances.Rembrandt painting stolen AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (AP) — Thieves stole a Rembrandt painting valued at $3.5 million U.S.from the Granet Museum, police said Wednesday.ey said an unidentified painting of the Flemish school also was stolen in the break-in Monday night or Tuesday morning.The Rembrandt painting was not identified, but the only one in the museum’s catalog is a well-known self-portrait.Pinochet wants tighter control SANTIAGO (AP) — Chilean President Augus-to Pinochet theatened to “tighten the grip” of military rule to control anti-government protests by thousands of people in which three died and more than 300 were arrested.The protests and a strike on Wednesday by transport workers paralysed parts of Santiago, Concepcion and Valparaiso, Chile’s largest cities.Police said two people were shot to death overnight in unexplained incidents in Santiago slums, and a 16-year-old boy was shot as 100 demonstrators attacked a community centre in another slum district.Soviets react to weapon tests MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union announced it will “consider itself free” to place antisatellite systems in space if the United States goes ahead with plans to test an anti-satellite weapon.The official news agency Tass made the announcement Wednesday in a statement thought to have the authorization of top Kremlin leaders .U.S.officials responded that the statement had “little practical meaning” because the Soviets already have an anti-satellite system.The Tass announcement, which appeared to be timed to coincide with the planned test, accused the United States of ‘ ‘taking yet another step to escalate the arms race and spread it to space.Khmer Rouge claim 2,583 killed BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrillas of the Communist Khmer Rouge claimed Thursday they killed 2,583 Vietnamese soldiers in 14 major battles in Cambodia during August.Khmer Rouge Radio monitored in Bangkok said the casualties included 11 Vietnamese soldiers killed and seven others wounded in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.Such claims are impossible to confirm and most diplomats regard them as exaggerated.Bombs go off in Paris companies PARIS (AP) — Bombs exploded at four businesses early today, injuring one person, police said.An anonymous caller claimed responsibli-ty on behalf of the leftist terror group Direct Action, saying the companies oppress blacks by operating in South Africa.The businesses included a coal-importing company; a construction company, the automater Renault, and an aluminum firm.The attacks occurred in La Defence, the business district west of Paris.Lebanese Christians hit hard BEIRUT (AP) — Six Palestinians were killed and 10 others wounded in an Israeli air raid on a guerrilla base near the only major Christian population centre in Syrian-controlled eastern Lebanon, police said today.^ Police also reported a car-bombing in the Christian enclave of Zahle three hours before the air raid Wednesday killed 14 people and injured 46.Five more people were missing and presumed dead.The car bomb was the sixth in Lebanon since Aug.14, At least 154 people have been killed and 296 wounded in the explosions.Weather Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU Cloudy with a few sunny breaks.High 23.Low tonight 10.Friday: cloudy with scattered showers.APPAPBNTLY the housing MARKET IS OUT OF CONTROL.THESE ARE THE ONLYRENT-\ALS HE HAD IN OUR PRICE 1 RANGE THE AGENT TOLD ME WE MAT 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The Townships The RECORD—Thursday.September 5.1985—3 —_______frej «Beam Buck goes back and forth in Lennoxville crosswalk tango By Peter Scowen LENNOXVILLE — A bitter in council dispute about who has what responsibilities is depriving schoolchildren here of proper protection at town crosswalks.Four out of five resolutions passed in June to increase child safety at dangerous intersections have still not been put in force, even though school started last week at Ecole St Antoine and this week at Lennoxville Primary.Mayor Cecil Dougherty aggravated the situation Monday night at a regular town council meeting when he apparently became "aggressive and abusive" after a group of about 15 concerned parents asked him what had become of the resolutions.Wendy Warbrick.spokesman for Block Parents, said Tuesday Dougherty was "condescending” and inexplicably aggressive over RKCORD FI RRY BHATON Wendy Warbrick.Didn't need this battle.S* an issue she feels is simple and vital.“There’s no reason that a sane man would cause the fuss like this over a simple issue when children’s safety is at stake,’’ Warbrick said.The now controversial issue dates back to early this year when councillor Frances Noble became the chairman of a one-person committee to protect children walking home from school.Her mandate is to “secure the safety of children" in Lennoxville, according to council records.RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Noble insists that all she was meant to do was prepare a set of recommendations to present to council.On June 17 her recommendations became adopted resolutions.Only one has apparently had any effect, however.The five resolutions were : place 2 large flashing signs on Belvidere Street, on either side of the crosswalk at Park Street to warn vehicles of the danger, designate Speid Street between Hunting and Queen streets a park area to reduce the maximum speed to 30 km per hour; reduce the maximums on the lower parts of Church and Clough streets to 30 kph; declare Academy Street a school zone ; and transfer the hiring and training of crosswalk guards to the Ascot-Lennoxville Metro police force.A letter to the town's lawyer asking him to rewrite the necessary bylaws was only sent at the end of July, while the signs were ordered last Thursday, according to Noble.As well, a letter to the Quebec Transport Ministry asking permis- sion to put up the big signs on Belvidere \yas only sent Friday, she says.Belvidere is under provincial jurisdiction.Noble says the only resolution that has been put into effect is the one concerning crosswalk guards, and that the police have done a good job.Guards were on duty the first day of school, and police patrol cars were also there to make sure everything went smoothly.JUST PAPER The four other resolutions are still just paper, and Dougherty says its all Noble's fault.He said it Monday at the meeting, shocking the parents, and he repeated it Tuesday."I can accept no responsibility for this," he said Tuesday.He says Noble, as committee chairman, should have done whatever was necessary to “secure the gw RHCORD PERRY HEATON i' * - Frances Noble denies she didn 't fulfil her mandate as chairman of a committee to protect Lennoxville schoolchildren at crosswalks.safety of children" in lennoxville."For some unknown reason she feels all she has to do is make a plan and it will be done," Doughte-ry said.Instead of making sure the five resolutions were carried out.Noble spent the summer "at her cottage in Ayer's Cliff," according to the mayor.He said she has a “misunderstanding" about her duties and powers as a committee chairman.Noble denies this.She said Tuesday that if she had ordered the necessary signs and done the neces sary work she would have gone over the head of the roads committee chairman, something she says she can’t do “1 have no right to order signs,” Noble says.Town hall should have done it, she claims, and that all the necessary letters should have been written within a week after the re solutions were passed in June.SUMMER SLACK Town secretary Jules Gervais blames delays in implementing the resolutions on a “slack at the office” during summer holidays.“There’s always more than we can do here,” he says.Meanwhile, cars are still speeding around a blind corner just above the crosswalk at Belvidere and Park streets, and parents are wondering why no one is doing anything to protect their children.Warbrick says they are angry Dougherty has “passed the buck.” “Basically all that we feel is that this is such a simple issue that we didn’t need this battle,” says War brick, mother of two elementary school children.She said all the parents at the meeting wanted to know is why the resolutions hadn't been put into effect.“But instead this ridiculous man gets everyone upset.” Dougherty says now that the signs have been ordered they should be in place by the end of the month Kindergarten numbers pleasing to U de S officials — rector Cabana By Bobby Fisher SHERBROOKE — The rector of this region's largest institute of learning says he is “surprised" but “very pleased” with statistics released by the Eastern Townships SHERBROOKE — A 55-year-old mother who is also a postmistress and managerof asawmill was handed a penalty of 120 hours of community work Wednesday after she was found guilty of defrauding the Unemployment Insurance Commission of $9,695.Hélène Turgeon, postmistress at Notre Dame des Bois, tricked the commission from January 1982 to June ’83 by issuing false employment statements to her own children, claiming they had worked when they hadn't.The UIC then gave them pogey payments they didn’t deserve; they used the money to clear up family debts and “get established” in life.Turgeon wept throughout a hearing during which Sessions Court School Board (ETSB) Tuesday which indicate enrolment in English-language kindergartens is up 43 per cent.Aidée Cabana, rector of the University of Sherbrooke, said at a Judge Michel Côté was told by defence lawyer Jean Couture that she was her family’s only support and had become desperate when business at the sawmill went bad.Turgeon received no personal benefit from the fraud, the lawyer added.Crown prosecutor Danielle Côté said the crime had clearly been premeditated, making it a worse offence.Judge Côté said that UIC frauds of this type are normally punishable by jail terms, but that community work has become an acceptable alternative and had been recommended by a probation officer in the Turgeon case.He added that should one be imposed.the accused would not be able to pay a fine anyway.press conference announcing local events and competitions for National Universities Week (Oct.19-27) he was “not aware of that” when told enrolment in English kindergartens was up substantially from one year ago."I think it is very good as far as the number of people we can expect in high schools and universities later on,” Cabana said.“I am a bit surprised but it is very good news.” “If these figures are good, and I have no reason not to believe them,” Cabana said, “it will certainly indicate a growing population.That would be good for the Eastern Townships in general and good for the universities —- Bishop’s and us also.” MOST AT BISHOP S Cabana said that while the University of Sherbrooke has some anglophone students it “is not a very substantial number” because “most of the English students of the Eastern Townships attend Bis hop’s University” or go elsewhere.But, he added, more than 75 per cent of the University of Sherbrooke’s student body is from out- side the region, which parallels the percentage of non-Eastern Townships angles at the school Cabana also said that what’s good for Bishop’s is good for the ASCOT TOWNSHIP — Here’s one way to keep insurance premiums down; build a 500,000-gallon pond, complete with pumphouse and two wells, so the firemen won’t run out of water partway through a fire.Ascot Township council will offer to build such a giant pond for the owners of Shermag furniture, whose Lennoxvan truck-body division burned to the ground last month.Firemen were hampered in their efforts at the $500.000 Lennoxvan fire because there is no municipal water supply along Route 108 east of Lennoxville.A convoy of borrowed milk trucks was pressed into University of Sherbrooke "because we share several programs with Bishop’s and we have very good relations with them.If we had more students and they had more students it would be good for both ins- service to haul water to the scene of the blaze.Shermag president Serge Racine said later the company would consider rebuilding elsewhere because of the lack of water.Racine said the company is also considering the relocation of its much larger furniture factory, located on the same site.Mayor Robert Pouliot replied that Ascot Township "doesn't want to lose a nice cake like that.” and the township council asked the Sherbrooke engineering firm Lemieux- Royer to search for possible solutions.Wednesday, Pouliot said the engineers proposed construction of the big pond, which would also titutions.” “1 think it is beneficial for Que bec in general if there is an in crease in student enrolment,” Cabana said, “whether they be English or French ” serve as a fire reserve for Alexander Galt Regional High School next door aswellasany other industries which might build there Pouliot said he would take the proposal to Racine this week.He said the $200,000 cost would be covered by a municipal borrowing bylaw ; Shermag and any other po tential users would pay the township back at a rate of $26,000 a year.“That’s not so bad considering that in the case of Lennoxvan, its insurance rates would go down 75 per cent," Pouliot said.Racine said in August the fire insurance policy for the destroyed plant had risen from $35,000 a year to $200,000 as a result of the water shortage.Postmistress in fraud; gets community work Ascot offers Shermag fire-protection package: Big pond offered at cost Ex-war correspondent, editor Amaron dead from heart failure TORONTO (CP) — Douglas Amaron, an overseas correspondent during the Second World War who later became general superintendent of The Canadian Press, died of heart failure in hospital Tuesday night at the age 70.He was a former managing editor of the Sherbrooke Daily Record Amaron, who held the No.2 position in the national news-gathering co-operative until his retirement in 1979, was born in Quebec City.After graduating from McGill University, he joined CP in Montreal in 1936 in the first of his two careers with the news agency.The slender, soft-spoken Amaron, known for “the quiet example” he set during his management years at CP, became managing editor of the Record in 1947, when the paper belonged to the John Bassett family of Toronto.He re joined CP as executive assistant in 1953, becoming general news editor in 1963 and general superintendent in 1969.Nobody ever heard Dougie raise his voice,” Gillis Purcell, CP general manager until 1969, said Tuesday night.“His influence, as much as his quiet example, was terrific in a period when a steam of new staff was brought in to meet CP's growing needs.» “He became a close friend of each of the staff because of his special interest in them." GREAT GUY’ John Dauphinée, former general manager of CP, said he worked with Amaron for almost 40 years, “He was a great guy, a real news- paperman."He was always there when you needed him.” After retirement in 1979, Amaron did public relations work for the Canadian Bankers Association and was involved with Canadian Scene, an ethnic publication.While covering the Second World War, the troopship he was on was torpedoed in the Mediterranean — another story he promptly filed to CP.He followed commandos onto the beaches of France and survi- ved the bombing of London.Former CP president Ross Mun-ro, the CP reporter credited with filing the first report on D-Day and who later became a Southam Inc.publisher, called Amaron “one of the ablest war correspondents on the Allied side in the Second World War.” “He was a stickler for facts and never had a story challenged in the thousands he wrote.His post-war contributions to the development of CP were as distinctive as his wartime coverage.” ON DUTY Amaron was a charter member of the Canadian Press War Correspondents Association, formed in 1945, which became the Canadian War Correspondents Association in 1953.He missed the Association's inaugural meeting in 1945 because he was on duty in Belgium as a correspondent.In 1966, Amaron was posted to Vietnam for six weeks to provide a Canadian perspective on the U.S.war.His experience in war zones showed in a dispatch he prepared for the company newsletter from Saigon.He wrote of “explosions in the distance and the constant knowledge that someone may toss a grenade into your hotel at any time.I 'm on the fourth (top) floor so I'm not much worried about the grenades.” Amaron is survived by his wife, Peggy, his son, Brian, living in Spain, and daughters Estelle of To ronto and Beryl of Kelowna, B.C.The body is at Turner and Porter Funeral Home’s Yorke Chapel at 2357 Bloor St.West, with visiting hours 2-4 p.m.and 7-9 p.m.Thursday and Friday.The funeral ser vice will be held in the chapel at 11 a m.Saturday.The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Lung Association, 573 King St.East, Toronto.“He trained an awful lot of people ” — Ivan Saunders SHERBROOKE — Doug Amaron was "an all-around great guy who will be sadly missed by all his many friends,” says a man who worked with him at the Sherbrooke Daily Record in the 1940s and ’50s.Amaron, who died Tuesday, had earlier been a top war correspondent and later became general superintendant of Canada’s largest news-gathering agency, The Canadian Press.From 1947 to 1953 he was editor of the Record, quickly applying his legendary talents in the Eastern Townships."He was a good newsman with terrific abilities," Amaron’s friend and former workmate Ivan Saunders said Wednesday.“He trained an awful lot of people in the business who are now working all over the world.” Everybody liked him because he was such a nice guy — people from all walks of life,” Saunders recalled.“He’ll sure be missed.” SKILFUL EDITOR Saunders worked over 30 years at the Record, rising to the top post of publisher and eventually heading a local group which bought the paper from the Bassetts.Now retired from a second career as director of buildings and grounds at Bishop’s University, he said in an interview from his Lennoxville home that Amaron was an exceptionally skilful editor.“He could edit copy at 90 miles an hour,” Saunders said.“He just had that feeling for the written word.” “And when he wasn't editing, he would turn around and do the engraving of the pictures for the paper.We were the first daily in Canada to go to electronic engraving from the old way.Doug was the one who ran the electronic machine.” A fully bilingual native of Quebec City, Amaron was also thoroughly involved in the affairs of his community.“He was in the (Royal Canadian) Legion and a lot of other local organizations,” Saunders said.“An awful lot of people in the Eastern Townships knew him " Amaron had another Eastern Townships connection.His brother Errol was headmaster of Stans-tead College for “about 40 years,” says Saunders.WARTIME MEMORY The well-liked Amaron wasn't afraid to buck the system when he felt he had to.Saunders remembers a story the ex-war correspon dent often told about one of his war time experiences.“Doug was living in London during the Blitz and he and another lad had married London girls.They were receiving living allowances and were pretty well set up.” “One day he and this friend decided to go to Italy and have a look at the war over there." The pair went to Casino, where U.S.and German troops were fighting over a monastery which commanded a vital mountain pass high in the Italian Alps.The two sides had battled to a soggy stand-off."They were sitting in a foxhole in the mud when they got a telegram from The Canadian Press back in Canada,” Sauders recalls.“They were told that they were to stay in Italy and that their living allowances had been cut off." The two of them got to talking, concluded that since they weren't soldiers they didn't have to take that kind of treatment, and sent back a telegram of their own.“The message they sent was simple," says Saunders.“It said 'Telegram received, we resign'." Amaron and his buddy got a quick reply from Ottawa; “They got another telegram back.It said ‘Telegram received, living allo- wance restored’.” “They just kept right on working.” Douglas Amaron.‘He had that feeling for the written word' 4—The RECORD—Thursday.September 5.19H5 #1____fog.1 icecura The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial The best Thatcher shuffle Musical chairs to dead beat is yet to come Sure, the Parti Québécois leadership race has been less than exciting up to this point, but maybe that’s only because everyone has been too preoccupied with their summer vacations and the Montreal Expos’ annual pennant aspirations.But now it’s September.The summer is over, the Expos have bumbled their way out of contention, and everyone has a little extra thinking time on their hands.Luckily, the PQ race is showing every indication of heating up.Two events in the last couple of days have shaken Quebec political junkies out of their deep sleep.First, the PQ travelling candidates’ show rolled into Montreal last night, where Johnson, Garon, Marois & Co.were greeted by more enthusiasm than at all of the previous meetings combined.Organizers described the high turnout as “a return to the good old days,” and indicated that they'll be looking for larger halls for future meetings.Second, there was the poll released Tuesday which showed that the PQ under either Pierre-Marc Johnson or Pauline Marois would defeat Robert Bourassa and the Liberals if an election were held right now.Regardless of what the margin of error in such a poll might be, one thing is for sure — the upcoming election will be a lot closer than most people thought it would be six months ago.Bourassa, who is currently off in Switzerland somewhere, dismissed the poll results on Wednesday, claiming that Liberal polls put his party well ahead in most ridings.What else could he say?But it’s a well-known fact that 99 per cent of all politicians DO pay close attention to public opinion polls, because most have been stunningly accurate ever since Truman beat Dewey.Given this, the latest poll has to worry Bourassa and his party, if only because of the upswing in PQ momentum and rhetoric which is sure to follow.Maybe now Bourassa will have to start spending a little more time in his home province FIGHTING to become premier, instead of touring around the world, acting as if he’s already been elected.If so, we could have a real ‘horserace’ on our hands.Don’t dismiss the PQ leadership race or the upcoming Quebec election as ‘dull’ just yet — the best, thank God, is yet to come.WILLIAM HARRIS Bruce Levett Underground perils Of all the wonderments unknown to our ancestors, one stands out high above the rest.This is, of course, the first encounter with the underground garage.That they had come late to this institution is understandable when you consider that all their previous vehicles had been too large to enter through those awesome portals.But NOW — aha! The new, sleek little runabout was not the sort of thing to be left about above ground, subject to the ravages of weather and the attentions of passing vandals.“Excuse me, madam, but while we do not live in your building, we were wondering whether we might rent accommodation here for our new vehicle?” “Certainly, sir I’m sure we can squeeze you in.Yours will be position 692.Here is your key.” “692?You have 692 parking spaces down there?” “On the first floor, yes.You are quite lucky that we just had a cancellation.Otherwise, you might have en ded up somewhat closer to the bowels of the earth.” “My cup runneth over.” Getting the car in there was, actually, quite simple.Drive up to the little red box, insert key and turn.Majestically, a door about the size of the Berlin wall rose slowly before their incredulous eyeballs.“Quick!” she squeaked.“Before it closes!” Deftly dancing from brake to accelerator and twiddling the gear lever like a swizzle stick, he plunged them over the edge of the abyss and into darkness.A cinch, they agreed later.A lead pipe cinch Not a bit of trouble getting the nimble wee beast berthed.Getting it UNberthed, however, was to prove something else again.The next morning, bright and early — driving gloves and flat caps at the ready — they showed up to collect their charge.But how to get at it?Because they didn't live on the premises, they had not been given a key to the main door.They stood there, clutching each other, at the top of that sinister slope.Now, we arc speaking steep here.What we are involved with is something on the order of about 60degrees.This, before them, was crampons and alpenstock country.He inserted the key.Tearfully, she kissed him He turned the key and.heart racing and knees pumping, hurtled downward to be swallowed up in the Stygian gloom.Much later, after driving swlong, long way, he found her wringing her hands at the spot where they had parted.(The exit, it seems, was somewhere across town.) “There has got to be a better way,” he sighed.“Come winter, what with the ice and all.I ll never make the turn at the bottom of the ramp — not without track shoes.” LONDON (CP) — As Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sank steadily in popularity polls and Britain’s jobless rate climbed to politically threatening proportions, the pundits predicted a major cabinet shuffle aimed at broadening the Conservative party’s appeal But by the time the last of the summoned callers departed No.10 Downing Street on Monday, the shuffle was perhaps most surprising for what it didn’t change.Thatcher loyalists still hold all the key posts.No gains have been made by the “wets,” which is the prime minister’s less-than-flattering term for moderates in the Tory party.Thatcher has juggled people to provide strength in those areas where she places personal priority but despite the relatively large numbers involved in the shake-up, there are no dramatic changes in overall tenor of the government.Even the predictable derision of opposition leaders was noticeably lacking in any real criticism.“This is a game of musical chairs to a dead march,” claimed Labor leader Neil Kinnock who may be secretly delighted that Thatcher has clearly stayed her course and remains determined to keep loyalists in key posts.Paul Koring So far that has produced a steady decline in both the party’s fortunes and the prime minister’s personal popularity since they delivered a stunning drubbing to Labor in the June 1983 election.NOW IN THIRD PLACE The latest polls show the Tories in third place behind both Labor and the Alliance of the Liberal and Social Democrat parties which sense the Conservatives might actually be beatable in the next election — due in 1987 — despite Thatcher’s current majority of 140 seats in the 646-seat House of Commons.“The Cabinet has been shaken about a bit but it is still the same old jar of jellybeans,” said Liberal leader David Steel who currently tops the polls as the most admired leader in Britain “The result may look different but the flavor remains the same.” That flavor is pure Thatcher.Norman Tebbit, whose abrasive style and loyalty to the prime minister are unquestioned, got the key political post of chairman of the Conservative party where he will be the architect of the next election campaign.The “wets” and the 150 or more Tory MPs in vulnerable seats can derive little relief from knowing that undiluted Thatcherism will form the basis on any future campaign — if, as the prime minister avows, she runs for a third term.JOBLESS BIG PROBLEM Lord Young, another Thatcher stalwart, takes on the crucial portfolio of unemployment — now the No.1 problem in Britain.But he will handle the task from the security of the House of Lords, untroubled by the increasingly shrill feedback of jobless constituents which has many backbenchers deeply worried.Unemployment has doubled since Thatcher first became prime minister in 1979 and now stands close to 14 per cent with nearly four million out of work.Perhaps the only indication that Thatcher has been restrained at all by the sagging fortunes of her party in the last year was a reluctant reversal of her plan to bring back Cecil Parkinson to the cabinet.Parkinson, Thatcher's protege and stategist for the 1983 election land side, was discredited in a messy.scan dal after an affair with his secretary and resigned in disgrace at the annual Tory convention two years ago.So, Parkinson stays out — at least for now.Thatcher phoned him Sunday in the Carribean where he was on holiday awaiting a recall to the limelight.How the reshuffled Cabinet plays to the rank and file of the Tory party may become evident at this year’s convention next month in Blackpool.At last year’s convenion, the prime minister breezed through the political pitfalls by displaying enormous courage after surviving an Irish Republican Army attack at the hotel in which she was staying.Tebbit was one of those injured in the blast that killed five people and left his wife paralysed.This year, with the fortunes of the party ebbing and Thatcher reuffing calls to broaden its appeal, the going may get much rougher.German spy scandal case of trading a tic for a tac?^.S>-P @ 1985 by NEA Inc “Look at the size of that crowd! What group is this Pope guy with?’’ By Mark Wood BONN (Reuter) — West Germany's espionage scandal remains a riddle, but one theory gaining favor among security experts is that it may all have stemmed from the defection of a Soviet KGB agent.According to this hypothesis, Moscow responded to the defection by pulling out one of its top agents in Bonn for fear of betrayal.Analysts in Western embassies say the theory is the only one offering a plausible explanation for a baffling series of defections, disappearances and arrests.The analysts say the new theory’s most attractive feature is that it resolves one of the most puzzling elements in the whole affair: why the secretary of West German Economics Minister Martin Bangemann suddenly vanished early last month.The disappearance of Sonja Luene-burg sparked the scandal, which has since widened to include about a dozen people, including top West German spy-hunter Hans Joachim Tiedge, who has defected to East Berlin.Lueneburg, 60, was under no suspicion when she vanished but has since been identified as a suspected spy infiltrated into West Germany with a false identitity.Authorities say they believe she was working for East Berlin.DENIES A LINK But security sources said East German contacts had strenuously denied any connection with her, fueling theories in the counter-intelligence services that she may have been working for Moscow’s KGB.In the new hypothesis, Soviet diplomat Vitaly Yurchenko disappears Aug.l while visiting Rome, with indications he was a KGB official.On Aug.6 Lueneburg’s disappearance is reported, and Tiedge defects.The 48-year-old intelligence official was a debt-ridden alcoholic kept in charge of West German operations against East German agents by the head of counter-intelligence, Heribert lid lenbroich, until Aug.1 when Hellen-broich left his counter-intelligence post to become head of West Germany’s secret service.The experts say Tiedge may have realized that without his former chief’s protection, his chances of staying in his job were slim.The analysts believe Tiedge made a snap decision to defect and had not been a long-term Communist "mole ’’ On Aug.19 secretary Ursula Rich ter, 52, disappears, and is identified as a woman long suspected of being an East German spy, and on Aug.19 Tiedge disappears.On Aug.21 the disappearance of another spy suspect, army messenger Lorenz Betzing, is reported, and on Aug.25 Margarete Hoeke, 50, a secretary in President Richard von Weizsaecker’s office, is arrested on suspicion of espionage.On the same day senior East German diplomat Martin Winkler defects to the West in Buenos Aires.The Western analysts say that much of the hypothesis is built on speculation, but one said: “At least it of fers a coherent account of what might have happened.” Marriage is alive and well in Canada — study OTTAWA (CP) — Skeptics who point to high divorce rates to condemn the institution of marriage are looking at just part of the facts and too much of the myth, a London, Ont., sociologist says in a report prepared for Statistics Canada.“My own impression is that marriage, or something like it, is alive and well in Canada.” Thomas Burch said in a telephone interview.“The basic institution is there —it’s just taking different forms which are more in line with the nature of our urban, industrialized, 20th century,” the University of Western Ontario professor added.“You can’t just focus on legal marriage and divorce in the strictest sense,” Burch said, adding that an increasing number of couples are living together in liaisons which do not fit into the traditional definition of church or civil marriage.While many legal marriages now end in divorce, more than 90 per cent of Canadians still marry or participate in common-law relationships at some point in their lives, he said.He also stressed that society’s ideal of a single marriage for life stems from Victorian-era myths which ten- ded to produce an “idealized and romantic view of family life in the past.” In fact, the increasing divorce rate can be attributed in part to the fact that fewer marriages today end through premature death of one of the spouses.Another explanation is that many women couldn’t leave unsatisfactory marriages in the past because of an economic or social dependency on their husbands, Burch said.RATE LOWER Preliminary findings of the family history survey, conducted in February 1984.show a lower Canadian di- vorce rate than other recent studies.Burch's figures, based on telephone interviews with 6,750 men and 7,250 women, suggest that about one in 10 males and about one in eight females see their marriages dissolved through divorce.Other studies, including some conducted by Statistics Canada, have produced figures showing that four in 10 marriages are likely to end in divorce.Burch said his figures are ba sed on actual divorces that occurred I in the past while the other studies use current statistics to make predictions about the future.Tips on writing from the world’s greatest ever A chair, please, for Sir Winston Churchill.Over there, between Morley Callaghan and Somerset Maugham, will be fine.Now, ladies and gentlemen, to business.You big-name writers know why you’re here — to give writing tips to all those readers out there who want to write but find it’s hard, often frustrating work.As one reader put it, coal mining is easier.(Laughter) That strikes a chord, eh?Right, then.To open the seminar, here’s our friend the old Greek philosopher Epictetus.What advice have you to offer, sir?“If you wish to be a writer, write.” Thank you, Epictetus.Would you agree.Morley Callaghan?“There is only one trait that marks the writer.He is always writing.” Cato the Elder?“Seize the subject and the words will follow." Sounds easy, doesn't it’’ But Red Smith, the columnist, has his hand up Yes, Red?Take my word By BOB TAYLOR “There’s nothing to writing.All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein ” REVISION A MUST Hmm.But presumably once you get going, the rest is easy.Right?Oh-oh.Lillian Heilman disagrees.Lillian?“Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.” Vladimir Nabokov?“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published.My pencils outlast their erasers.” But there must he days when the words just seem to write themselves.Would the British contingent agree?Richard Brinsley Sheridan?“Easy writing's vile hard reading.” Somerset Maugham is nodding agreement.“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Samuel Johnson?“Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage you think is particularly fine, strike it out.” Prof.William Strunk, you are perhaps best-known for your dictum on the need to keep sentences lean.How does it go again?BE CONCISE “Vigorous writing is concise.A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all details and treat his subjects in outline, but that every word tell.” (Prolonged applause) Is it advisable to have a plan or just let the writing flow?Katherine Anne Porter?“If I didn’t know the ending of a story, I wouldn’t begin.” Stanley Walker, what did you preach as city editor at the Now York Herald Tribune?“To avoid adjectives and to swear by the little verbs that bounce and leap and swim and cut.” Sir Winston Churchill is waving his cigar.Yes, Sir Winston?“Short words are best, and the old words when short are best of all.’’ There’s time for one more pearl E.B.White, you are regarded by ma ny as the greatest American stylist of our times.Have you a final word?“When you say something, make sure you have said it.The chances of your having said it are only fair.” Bob Taylor weleomes letters about language.He is editor of the ( Canadian I'ress Stylcbook ($12 including postage) and CP Caps and Spelling ($10).The address: The Canadian Press.76’ King St.E., Toronto.Ont.M.ïC 2U( The RECORD—Thursday, September 5, 1985—5 Fanr^and Business RccorH __ Low crop prices may result in cheaper land, fewer farm owners EDMONTON (CPi - Agricul-tuie now is a buyers’ market and farmers future depends on their salesmanship, efficiency, awareness of foreign tastes and the diplomacy of their politicians, says the Toronto Dominion Bank’s agricultural services manager.With more countries such as the Soviet Union.India and China raising bumper crops, “we may run the risk of not only losing those markets but having to compete with those countries,” A1 Caldwell said in an interview.Foreign crop failures, which so often boosted Canadian sales, have declined, he said, and pressures for self-sufficiency have increased.OTTAWA (CP) — The Mitel Corp.plant at Kanata, Ont., will lose 440 jobs, 20 per cent of its current local work force, over the next year as the telecommunications company moves some manufacturing and assembly operations to plants in Renfrew, Ont., and Britain.Mitel says the moves are to improve operational effectiveness as it strives to return to profitability after losses for two years.The number to be laid off is not known.Some jobs will be transferred to Renfrew, about 80 kilometres west of Ottawa.Chairman and co-founder Michael Cowpland said the Renfrew plant should achieve world-class productivity after the change.He said the job transfers and layoffs are unrelated to the tentative acquisition of 50.1 per cent of Mitel by British Telecom PLC of London.Employees said layoffs are oc- “Food production is a motherhood issue in a lot of countries.They’re willing to use a lot of their treasuries to prevent reliance on another country.” Since Canadian producers cannot fight low prices, Caldwell said, they must cut costs and farm land is an obvious target He believes prices will fall to reflect land’s productive value.That would cut production costs, but bankrupt some farmers who paid too much for their land.In the long term, Caldwell suggests separating ownership from operation.“I think you’ll see more and more professional farm managers who will not own farm land at all.” curring everywhere in the high-tech industry.They are not unionized.By the fall of 1986, all Canadian and international PBX (private branch exchange, the technical term for office telephone switchboards) manufacturing will be consolidated at the Renfrew plant, which was built in 1982 and now operates at half capacity.An unknown number of the 319 Kanata employees now working on manufacture of the large-scale SX-2000 PBX will be offered jobs at Renfrew, where 350 workers now manufacture the smaller PBXs.Because the Renfrew operation is expected to be more efficient, there will be some jobs lost.Company spokesman Mary Murphy said the company’s plans are not advanced enough now to state how many.Transfer of thick film hybrid production to the Mitel plant in Cal- SEES MERIT Len Bauer, a University of Alberta economist, sees merit in Caldwell’s view.At present, tenants work 40 per cent of Alberta farms compared with eight per cent in 1901.Bauer believes the trend will continue, to a point.He questioned the assumption that farm land is over-priced, especially for skilled farmers.“If the buyer already has an established unit, the productive value is higher than it would be to someone who is just starting out.” His research shows farmers who bought in 1963 and sold in 1981 earned an average annual return on investment, after labor and ex- dicot, Wales, where that product is already manufactured, will cost 121 jobs in Kanata.That transfer is to occur by next February but those employees will be eligible for relocation to Renfrew or elsewhere in the company.Thick film hybrids are a speciali zed semiconductor component used in the PBXs.Once all moves take place, Kanata will house about 1,700 employees involved in head office administration, marketing, research and development, the manufacture of integrated circuits and the pilot manufacturing of new products.Cowpland said in an interview that manufacturing productivity has been a weak point at Mitel and the Renfrew plant had been extremely successful manufacturing the smaller PBX products using Japanese production techniques.penses, of 19.1 per cent.Average farm land prices rose from about $80 to $560 an acre between 1971 and 1982 and have since fallen to about $410.Caldwell said effective marketing also means listening to what buyers want For example, said Caldwell, Canadian, American and Pacific Rim markets might be better reached with cheaper, range-fed beef Provigo Inc.MONTREAL(CP)— Shoppers at some foodstores owned by giant Provigo Inc.will find something new in the aisles this fall: a catalogue order counter.Investor analysts were puzzled when Provigo bought control of Consumers Distributing Co.Ltd.of Toronto earlier this summer.Now the strategy of Provigo’s new chairman, Pierre Lortie, is becoming clear.“We re going to invent the micro-combo," says the 38-year-old whiz kid imposed on an unenthu-siastic Provigo executive suite shortly before the takeover.Provigo now holds a 46.4-per-cent voting interest in the firm, acquired for $36 million from Consumers chairman and chief executive Jack Stupp and on the open market.The investment community was lukewarm at best on Consumers, North America’s third-largest catalogue-showroom retailer.Consumers was seen as so big in Canada that it had little room for growth.Its U S.operation, responsible for half of last year’s $1.03-billion total sales, was losing increasing amounts of money.And Consumer’s reputation was Chris Mills, policy analyst for the Alberta Cattle Commission, agrees “The world beef market is not going to mop up large supplies of expensive product,” said Mills.“Most of the world's beef trade is low-quality manufacturing beef.” Access to other markets could require different tactics, said Caldwell.tarnished Stupp is fighting criminal charges that he conspired to manipulate Consumers’ stock price.The company itself was fined $125,000 this year for falsifying its books to hide under the-table payoffs to an official of the Teamsters union.TOURED DIVISION But Lortie, having toured Consumers’ troubled U S.division, is convinced it has begun a turnaround.He also knew that one of the most successful new grocery-retailing formats is the super-combo store, a giant outlet that combines a big supermarket’s grocery offerings with a wide selection of high-profit hard goods ranging from toys to television sets.The super-combo represents a threat to Provigo’s more than 2,100 grocery and convenience stores unless the company can come up with a response.There isn’t room to stock hard goods in a conventional grocery store, much less a convenience store But a catalogue order coun ter takes little space and no investment in inventory, as long as customers don't mind waiting a couple He pointed to developing Rations that need food they cannot phy for, at least not in cash.He suggested Canada enter bilateral trade agreements, buying goods Ohnada must import anyway from’coun tries that take Canadian extorts "We may have to necomepetter barterers," he said “Some countries just don’t have th foreign exchange to purchase goods.”¦ of days for delivery.Consumers president Mjchael Haberman is enthusiastic ;about the “micro-combo”.Haberman hopes to have ajdozen of the outlets installed in Prjn igo affiliated stores in Quebec.Ontario and Alberta this autumn.If tjhe ex périment works, there could j>e two or three dozen such counters by spring, and a similar expeijment could then begin at the Californian stores supplied by its Markej Wholesale Grocery Co.subsidiary.Lortie, formerly president*)! the Montreal Exchange, said Provigo and Consumers should be able to realize immediate benefits by combining their buying pox^er in sporting goods and hardware Consumers is a major retajler in both product categories.Provigo runs the country’s biggest |spor ting-goods chain through its Sjports Experts, Collegiate and Arlington stores, and has just opened the first in a planned chain of home-improvement centres.« Provigo’s profit has more than doubled in the past five years, to $40.3 million on sales of $4.37 billion in the year ended last Jan.20 Mitel workers in Ontario to be laid off invents the ‘super-combo' Cow Aid: Rockers plan concert to help farmers Last spring, it was three famous actresses who took up the cause of struggling American famers.Sissy Spacek, Jane Fonda and Jessica Lange — fresh from successful television and movie roles as farm women — appealed to a U.S.congressional committee to provide more aid to farmers., Now'.Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Huey Lewis and Billy Joel and more than a dozen other musical performers have scheduled a benefit concert for hard-pressed farmers.The concert, remarkably similar to a transatlantic Live Aid concert for African hunger relief staged this summer, will be held in Champaign, 111., on Sept.22.About 78,000 tickets will be on sale and the concert will be televised on the cable Nashville Network, which is available in Canada.The concert was first proposed by Illinois Gov.James Thompson, country singer Willie Nelson and rock musician John Cougar Mellen-eamp.Other performers already booked include Daryl Hall, Eddie Van Halen.Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, B.B.King, The Charlie Daniels Band, Joni Mitchell, Kenny Rogers, Waylon Jennings and Alabama.DECIDE USE State agriculture director Larry Werries says he will ask farmers and agriculture officials for ideas about how the money from the concert should be used.During the last year, the number of farmers in Focus on Farming 4 :% Illinois declined by 4,000 to 90,000.The drop was second only to the state of Minnesota, which lost 5,000 producers.Many of those U.S.farmers were forced out of business by the same low world prices for grain and other farm goods that have been pinching Canadian farmers.Last year, a post-Depression high of 551 Canadian farmers declared bankruptcy.In Western Canada particularly, the second consecutive year of drought has added to the financial woes facing many farmers.In the United States at least, the plight of the farming community has clearly caught the imagination of the entertainment industry.Last year, Hollywood turned out two major motion pictures about farm families' fighting to survive.PLAYED FARM WOMEN Lange starred in Country, while Spacek played the female lead in The River.Fonda’s farm role was in the madc-for-TV movie The Dollmaker.Now the music industry is ready to give American farmers the same type of assistance that starving Africans got from the Live Aid concert.The problems facing American agriculture are real and serious — particularly for farmers forced off land that may ha ve been in their families for generations.However, there remains something a bit odd about a benefit concert for American farmers while the United States as a whole is sitting on a mountain of surplus grain and is paying billions of dollars in agricultural assistance.Meanwhile, millions of Africans desperately need grain, but can’t afford it even at current, depressed world prices.Latest prices MONTREAL (CP) — Agriculture Department quotations Wednesday: Butter: Canadian Dairy Commission car lots basis Montreal and Toronto buying price: 92 score: $4.76 per kg; 93 score: $4.78 per kg; average wholesale-to-retail price; $5.15 per kg.Cheese: $4.869 per kg; colored: $4.876 per kg.Concentrated products: skim milk powder spray No.1 in 25-kg bags: $2.851 per kg; skim milk feed: $1.103 per kg; edible whey powder: $0.474 per kg; whey feed: $0.352 per kg; buttermilk spray: $1.947 per kg; buttermilk: too few to quote.Eggs: Wholesale prices to re tailers in dozen cartons: A exjra large: $1.29 6-10; A-iarge: $128 5-10; A-medium: $1.25 3-10;; A-small: $0.88 2-10.Average wholesale price to pis tributors supplied by the Quebec Federation of Egg Producers| A extra-large: $1.25; A-large: $1.24; A medium $1.21 A small: $0.84; A-peewee: $0.5:}.Wholesale potato prices : Quebec: 101b: $0.55-0.60; 201b: $1U)5-1.10;50 lb: $1.40-1.65; white, washed, in boxes: 50 lb: $3-3.50; Bed, washed, in boxes: 50 lbs: $4-4150.1^ ft Jltsljop'si Hnfoersitp FRENCH COURSES THIS FALL AND WINTER EVENING COURSES — 12 WEEKS (2 nights per week) INTENSIVE FRENCH LANGUAGE COURSE FOR BEGINNERS FRANÇAIS 091a - Pre-University Level French I - Sept.- Dec.1985 FRANÇAIS 092b - Pre-University Level French II - Jan.- April 1986 TIME: Monday and Wednesday nights, 7:00-10:00 p.m., starting on September 9th, 1985.CLASSES ARE LIMITED.PLEASE APPLY EARLY EVENING COURSES — 12 WEEKS (1 night per week) FRANÇAIS 201a - Français intermédiaire I - Sept.- Dec.1985 FRANÇAIS 202b - Français intermédiaire II - Jan.- April 1986 Time: Monday nights, 7:00-10:00 p.m., starting on Sept.9th, 1985, FRANÇAIS 301a - Stylistique et traduction I - Sept.- Dec.1985 FRANÇAIS 302b - Stylistique et traduction II - Jan.- April 1986 Time: Wednesday nights, 7:00-10:00 p.m., starting on Sept.11th, 1985 For course listings or further information contact; Mrs.M.BANDRAUK Office of Continuing Education Bishop's University Ixnnoxville, Que.JIM IZ7 (819) 569-9551 ext.222 or 569-7878 Eastern Townships School Board Adult Education Services Don't Forget To Register For Fall Classes! Call our office to register or go to one of the following locations: AYER’S CLIFF AYER’S CLIFF ELEM.SC.SEPT.LENN0XVILLE LENNOXVILLE ELEM.SC.SEPT.MAGOG PRINCESS ELIZABETH ELEM.SC.SEPT.NORTH HATLEY NORTH HATLEY ELEM.SC.SEPT.RICHMOND RICHMOND REGIONAL HIGH SC.SEPT.SAWYERVILLE SAWYERVILLE ELEM.SC.SEPT.SHERBROOKE (ESL) GAGNON CENTER SEPT.STANSTEAD SUNNYSIDE ELEM.SC.SEPT.7-9 p.m.3 & 4 CALL FOR A FREE BROCHURE 569-9466 ft—The RKCORD—Thursday.September 5, 1985 Living Beconl History society to look at British Royal Family LACHINE — Guest speaker Gerald lies will talk and present slides on the British Royal Family when the Quebec Family History Society meets next Tuesday, September 10.lies is best known for his African safari and St.Lawrence River whale watching tours.He was director of the Manchester Zoo for 25 years until invited by the city of Montreal to build the projected Montreal zoological park.Although the plans for this were changed.lies laid the groundwork for the Montreal Aquarium and founded the zoological societies of Montreal and Canada.He is an authority on the history and geneology of the royal family and, with beautiful color slides, traces their many interesting lines and connections.The public is welcome to the meeting, which will be held at La Maison de Brasseur, 2901 St.Joseph Street in Lachine.For more information call Mary Rose at (514)488-7798.Too much aspirin causes woman to hear old tunes BOSTON ( Reuter) — It all began in October 1981 when a 70-year-old Minneapolis woman began hearing music w’hen her radio wasn't on.Worst of all, she kept hearing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, a song she had wanted played at her funeral.Hearing it over and over again made her change her funeral plans and consult a doctor.The doctor put her in a soundproof room, but she still heard the music.The doctor checked her out.She wasn’t crazy.But all the music, mostly tunes from the 1930s and 1940s, was starting to drive her insane.Then her doctor uncovered a vital clue.The woman had been taking 12 aspirin tablets a day for her arthritis.Because too much aspirin can cause a buzzing or ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus, the doctor told her to reduce the number of aspirin tablets she took by half.social notes Many a child lurks within an adult body It must be after Labour Day, my feet are sore from Brome Fair.Now, in my usual fearless way, I have some advice for the organizers.If the midw ay changes next year as reported, why not consider allowing adults onto the Merry-go-round?Not the seats.THE HORSES! 1 doubt if the rush will be so great as to deny any child a ride - and there’s many a child lurking within an adult body.Working back down the Pike, this Saturday, the Prosperity Rebekah Lodge #32 is sponsoring a %00’ card party at 910 Main St.in Cowansville.The time is 8:00 p.m.There will be refreshments and prizes and the world will discover who wins the afghan and ceramic lamps in the raffle.There’s an admission charge, but it won't break the bank.By way of warning to allow dieting to start, the Missisquoi Museum’s annual apple pie festival is coming September 29th, rain or shine.Judging by recent weather, you’ll get both but there’s a tent.Based on previous years, don’t eat a big Sunday dinner and then pop over to Stanbridge East for dessert.In fact, I strongly advise missing breakfast.This is one occasion when the police turn a blind, benign eye on drivers who are obviously pie-eyed.PLAN TO BE THERE Also coming up (and needing planning) is the premier angle-fone orgy of the year, Township-pers' Day! Plan to be there on the 21st.This week I II begin to raise the curtain on some of the things that have been ‘organized' .and that is the key w'ord.If all goes according to schedule, acts and events will be on and off stage with the precision of a Trooping The Colour ceremony.Come applaud and appreciate all the work.Broadly speaking, there’s entertainment (a lot of it), special events (The Black Watch pipes.Down the Pike By Ashley Sheltus Townshippers’ annual meeting and an Ident-A-Kid programme), not to mention magic, storytelling and sports for the juvenile crowd.Under entertainment there’s dancing (rock, square and clog), singing and sing-a-longs, a Gay 90’s band and lots of just plain music.The MC is Jeanette Kelly of CBC fame and what an appropriate name for a townships party.There’s something for everyone.Information booths and kiosques will be scattered around the park.You can find almost everything from batik to the Pioneer Loyalist Assn, selling commissions in the Philipsburg Fencibles (a military unit with a valiant history running all the way back to last July), or get information about local papers (and The Sherbrooke Record), the CBC, Farming.Rotarians and the E.T.School Board.There’s even something for masochists.The Sherbrooke Hospital will conduct physical phit-ness tests and will nastily give you a report.My advice is to take the test late in the day so you'll have a good excuse for the results.NOT INVITATION ONLY How to get there?Members of Townshippers’ will get a map of the route to Howardene Park in their next copy of Crossroads.This isn’t an invitation only event though, so even if you aren’t a member (and why aren’t you?) you can phone the Townshippers’ office in Sherbrooke or Co- wansville and get directions.Next week.I’ll mention car pools.When I said last week that attendance from this side of the region wouldn’t be massive.I didn’t mean that nobody u'as coming.Considering the number of Bedford area people who didn’t even get to Stanbridge East two years ago, the statement was meant as a bit of realism in an otherwise optimistic column.Perhaps now that the Dunham is again open to traffic (in a way) a few more may decide to go.Organizers may be assured that the west will be there in quality if not vast quantity.One quick Bedford note.Those were NOT bagpipes heard in the centre of town last Saturday night, it was the sound of mourning for a finished decade.In addition, those apparitions were NOT highland dancing in the yard.Whatever it was - it was NOT highland dancing.GETTING TO SHELTER To end the series on Battered women, one pro blem in a rural area is getting to a shelter.The Cowansville Police do a fabulous job but if you live in a smaller centre the local police can’t afford to use perhaps their only car as a taxi.Some volunteer services are available through the CLSC or local medical centre.Most operate on a ‘pay-what-you-can’ basis.Horizon Pour Elle in Cowansville may be able to find a ride for you as well - or you might phone and offer to drive for them in an emergency.In our society, nobody should have to live with violence; nobody should condone violence, even by silence.Almost certainly you know someone who is battered, you just don’t know who it is.Whenever the subject comes up.speak out strongly against violence and be supportive of its victims.You may never know who will take heart from your words.Baby Golden Wedding Anniversary shower A surprise baby shower was held at the home of Bruce and Cindi Johnston, South Durham, for Debbie Germain.Debbie was invited to a cook-out with hot dogs and hamburgs and was asked to bring a macaroni salad and juice for the punch can.Everyone helped with the lunch (sweets and coffee).Twenty six relatives W'ere present.Ruth and Gerald French.Abbie French.Debbie and Robert Germain and son Philip of Sawyer-ville, Beverly and Erwin Brazel.Laurie Ann Brazel.Eaton Corner and her fiance Robert Rogers.Len-noxville.Mrs Mitchell of the Wales Home, Ivan and Gwen Johnston, Brossard, and Melvin of Mon treald, George and Shirley Johnston.Melbourne Ridge, Judy, Pete, Mark and Tracy Cote of Melbourne, Ernest and Irma Johnston.Robert and Rheta Johnston and Cindi and Bruce Johnston, all of South Durham.f-\ Join the human race.We're all out running in the park.^0 pa/maparnon^.On July 27.1985, one of summer's few warm Saturday nights, Eric and Irene Fisher of Bury were surprised to find Galen Morrison waiting to take them for a ride in his 1930 Ford, which had been decorated for the occasion, (as their honeymoon car, a 1927 Durant, was not licensed) ending up at the Bury Town Hall, where over 200 people were awaiting their arrival.Amid flashing of cameras and a video tape going, they were met at the car by their four grandchildren Natalie and Wade Fisher of Fer-nie, B.C.and Todd and Karin Fisher of Bury, who showered them with confetti and escorted them to the front of the hall where their attendants of 50 years ago awaited them, with the orchestra.The Canadian Rainbows playing."Here Comes the Bride’’.The bride was becomingly dressed in blue with a corsage of red roses, the bridesmaid’s corsage, peach roses, and the bride’s mother’s pink roses.The gentlemen of the wedding party wore white carnations in their lapels.The hall was decorated with gold and white streamers, and Happy 50th Anniversary banners, bells and gold 50's.After receiving best wishes from their relatives and friends, the groom of 50 years led his bride to the dancefloor, with family and friends joining in.as the orchestra played the Anniversary Waltz.The honoured couple received many gifts, flowers, currency, long distance phone calls, tele- MAKEHOF “ROBERT” WINDOWS DOORS-FRAMES CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS Tel.: 819-845-2731 1-800-567-6163 ROBERT & ROBERTiki St.François-Xavier de Brompton, Que.DANCE for the benefit of ST.PAUL’S REST HOME OF BURY to be held at BURY TOWN HALL Saturday, Sept.7th Music by 0LDE TYME 4 Over 18 years NOTICE TO VETERANS WERE YOU AWARE THAT veterans, some war civilians, their dependents or wives, were eligible to some benefits and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and its related agencies?DON’T WAIT TO MEET US Three departmental counsellors from the Sherbrooke District Office will answer all your questions regarding allowances, pensions, the Aging Veterans Program or any other benefits available through the Department.WHERE AND WHEN?COWANSVILLE Royal Canadian Legion, 120 Davignon From September 9 to 12th: 9:00 a m.to 5:00 p.m.6:00 p.m.to 8:00 p.m.September 13th: 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m.CONTACT: DON WELLS TEL.: (514) 263-1462 ¦ ^ Veterans Affairs f''m » i'wT'V Canada If Kiel grams and cards from relatives and friends, far and near.At midnight, lunch was served by the ladies of St.Paul’s Guild.The head table was centered by the three-tiered anniversary cake, iced in white, with gold leaves and 50s.and topped with love birds and a large gold 50.The cake was flanked by gold candles in crystal holders and several floral arrangements.Seated at the head table with the bride and groom were Ruth MacMillan Harris (bridesmaid), Clifford Anderson (best man), the bride's mother, Mrs.Winnifred Dougherty - a very rare and auspicious occasion to have a parent present at a Golden Wedding, the Rev.Canon and Mrs.Linton Westman.and the M.C.Gordon MacMillan.Unfortunately, Alex Lavalliere (usher) was unable to stay for lunch.The M .C.called upon the Rev.Westman to say Grace.After lunch Gordon introduced the head table and also asked the three sons, Wayne, Del-mar and Ashley to stand, as it had been 15 years since the family had all been together.He then asked the four grandchildren, Natalie, Wade, Todd and Karin to stand as some did not know them.After a few witty remarks, Gordon called on Natalie to read a poem she had composed for her grandparents.He concluded his remarks by wishing the honoured couple many more happy years together.Eric and Irene both expressed their appreciation to everyone who had contributed to the success of such a lovely party.The bride and groom passed around the anniversary cake to each guest.Natalie and Karin, the two granddaughters, were in charge of the guest book.After lunch, dancing continued.Relatives and friends attending were from Fernie and Sparwood, B.C., Olympia, Wash., Pittsfield, Mass., Nashua, N.H., Rothesay, N.B., Windsor and Ottawa, Ont., Richmond, Montreal, Asbestos, Sherbrooke, Lennoxville, and the surrounding area.Irene Dougherty and Eric Fisher were united in marriage on July 24, 1935, by the Rev.Cooke of Marbleton, in St.Paul’s Anglican Church, Bury, where Irene’s parents and grandparents, and Erie’s parents had been married.Their attendants were Ruth MacMillan (Harris), cousin of the bride, as bridesmaid, Clifford Anderson, best man, and Alex Lavalliere, usher, both cousins of the groom, who were all able to be together for this Golden Anniversary.Of this union three sons were born, Wayne, who is married to Joan (King) and lives in Fernie.B.C., Delmar, who married Nicole (Fortier) and lives across from their parents, and Ashley, who married Mildred (Lapointe) and lives in Sparwood, B.C.They have four grandchildren, Natalie, Wade, Todd and Karin.Most of their life was spent in and around Bury, except for sixteen years in Gagnon, where Eric was employed.They returned to live on the Fisher farm on Hardwood Flat, the farm that Eric’s grandfather, John Fisher, had cleared and settled in a dense wooded area in the 1850s.one of the first settlers of Hardwood Flat, the farm where Eric’s parents had lived and where Eric was born, making the third generation of Fishers to live there.50 Years Of Love by Natalie Fisher One of God’s miracles brought together Two very special people of long ago.Together they have made a life; Love growing with each new day.As promised to each other 50 years ago They have lived through good and bad; Grown with each new experience; To the couple we all know and love.Three fine sons they have raised.Giving the best of themselves to each one; Grown up now are all three, but none will forget, The love and encouragement given to them.No one in need is ever sent away from their home Without a gift of kindness and love.So unselfish this couple truly are; They are an inspiration to one and all.This very special couple is honored tonight, With the passing of 50 years of love.My Grannie and Grandpa, Irene and Eric Fisher.the TO SERVE YOU BETTER THE -Delices de X Orient One.HAS MOVED TO 1085 KING 569-2711 566-7626 STREET EAST (SHERBROOKE) FOR THE OCCASION, WE ARE OFFERING THE FOLLOWING SPECIALS TOBLERONE SWISS MILK CHOCOLATE ^29 PRODUCT OF SWITZERLAND 400 g.14 oz.OLYMPIC BRAND ARTICHOKES /m/MC v W üt Him*, 99 PRODUCT OF SPAIN 14 fl.oz.398 ml.mm o BERT0LLI 100% PURE OLIVE OIL $g99 PRODUCT OF ITALY 3 Litres RED FEATHER BRAND TOMATOES RED FEATHER BRAND HEARTS OF PALM BALKAN JAM mm r .69 FROM MY HAND, 6RA4SHoPP£R, ,, TH6N YOU WILL SHAW L.WOW a Mew WAY To 6ET RID OF OLIV£ pits' HE BORN LOSER by Art Sansom ^Wbrutu^pid'oa 1965 by NY A HATCH?HATCH?HATCH WHO?WHAT HAPPENED POOR OLD "HATCH'1?WINTHROP by Dick Cavalli cesUHDHEIT! 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