The record, 16 mai 1986, vendredi 16 mai 1986

Weekend In this week's Townships Week you can read all about a meeting of steam engine buffs coming up in May, a dinner theatre which is planned for Knowlton’s Lakeview House and the latest Pigeonnier theatre production.The Record will not publish Monday.Have a good, safe holiday folks.Births, deaths .9 Classified .10-11 Comics .12 Editorial .4 Environment.5 Farm, Business .7 Living .6 Religion .8 Sports .13-14 Townships.3 Inside The latest news on budget cuts to the Bedford school board.See page 2.A new Canada-U.S.waterfowl agreement is good news for our feathered friends.See On the Wild Side on page 5 Sports editor William Harris tries yet again to pick a winner in his column on the backpage and helps break the ice at Milby.Ryan gives school ‘illegals’ amnesty QUEBEC (CP) — A bitter language dispute that lasted nearly a decade ended Thursday when Education Minister Claude Ryan gave all Quebec children illegally enrolled in English schools an unconditional amnesty.The amnesty, outlined in the National Assembly as Bill 58, "is the only humane solution capable of putting an end to nine years of civil disobe-diance,” said Ryan.Under a section of Bill 101, the controversial language legislation brought in by the former Parti Québécois government in 1977, all children were obliged to enter French schools unless their parents received English education in the province.A Supreme Court of Canada judgment in 1982 enlarged the number of students allowed into English schools by ruling that children of parents who had received English education outside of Quebec would also be exempt from the legislation.Parents of illegally enrolled students will have until July 15 to register their children with local English school boards.The boards will pass the information on to a ministry official who will verify admission.FACE PENALTIES However, Ryan said school boards, principals and teachers that continue to teach illegally- admitted students will face penalties, including possible suspensions.No action is planned against parents of the children.The number of children who escaped the education provisions of Bill 101 are not precisely known, but ministry officials have estimated the number to be around 1,500.In a voice vote, the PQ opposition voted against Ryan’s bill, but the Liberal majority in the assembly easily carried the vote.PQ Leader Pierre Marc Johnson said his party voted against the legislation because the government failed to allow the public to submit their points of view to a government commission.Johnson also slammed the government for “granting a general and unconditional amnesty without ensuring that those pardoned have a sufficient knowledge of French.” Weeks like these to be expected — PM OTTAWA (CP) — A drawnlooking Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, home from an intensive three-week Asian tour, has shrugged off a series of events which sent his government reeling this week as normal “disappointments” expected in public life.“Long after today’s headlines.we’ll be back dealing with the realities that govern Canada,” the prime minister said Thursday after he stepped off an Air Canada jet into the growing crisis at home.“The tide goes in and the tide goes out,” the prime minister said, quoting former Newfoundland Liberal premier Joey Smallwood.Mulroney was barely off the aircraft before his office named an Ontario judge to investigate conflict of interest allegations which forced the resignation of former industry minister Sinclair Stevens.The prime minister refused to comment on 50 charges of influence peddling, bribery and abuse of public trust which were laid Thursday against Quebec To- ry MP Michel Gravel.And he earlier played down the desertion Wednesday of Tory Robert Toupin.who left the Conservative caucus to sit as an Independent MP after criticizing Ottawa’s economic policy for Quebec.“Every month is different — it has its good points and its disappointments,” the prime minister said.“That’s what life is all about.It’s no different in public life.” FIGHTING MOOD But the prime minister, while appearing philosophical about his government’s problems, said he is in a fighting mood to take on John Turner and his Liberals for what Mulroney called their “condemna tion” of Stevens before he had had a fair hearing.“I believe, in fairness, I believe in people getting a fair and an equitable hearing, and the public will quite properly judge.” Liberals and New Democrats hounded Stevens in the Commons for two weeks over a $2.6-million loan his wife arranged.Unpaid fines could mean withheld license QUEBEC (CP) — Motorists with unpaid traffic fines may have to cough up before their drivers licences will be renewed by the Quebec Automobile Insurance Board.A bill tabled in the national assembly Thursday is intended to make the collection of fines “much more effective", said Justice Minster Herbert Marx.The proposed legislation would apply to fines arising from violations of the Highway Safety Code as well as infractions of municipal traffic laws.While he was in Opposition before the Liberals were elected last December, Marx pressed the previous Parti Québécois government for a more effective way of collecting outstanding traffic fines.An aide to Marx, Francois Gha-11.said municipalities were consulted about the legislation and are expected to support it.The City of Montreal alone is owed some $10 million in unpaid fines depite its own methods of fine collection.The methods include the use of the much-cursed Denver Boot, a metal clamp which locks automobile wheels in place.GET THE BOOT The clamp, which was first used in Denver, Colo., is carried by bailiffs hired by the city to locate cars owned by drivers who haven’t paid parking or traffic fines.Thursday’s legislation, Bill 76, is an omnibus bill covering financial provisions related to the administration of justice.It includes fine increases of about 15 per cent for violations of 46 statutes including the Automobile Insurance Act, the Liquor Permit Act and the French-language charter, Bill 101./ / I U Li 14 V J ^ RMN NINA PELLETIER SHhllHSIlOM PKIMOM - KT) Weather, page 2 3 oâ Sherbrooke Friday.May 16, 1986 50 cents New car plant project would dwarf Hyundai QUEBEC (CPi — Ottawa and Quebec are discussing possible aid for a joint venture by Bombardier Inc.of Montreal and Daihatsu of Japan to build small cars in the province.Industry Minister Daniel Johnson said Thursday.Published reports have indicated that the venture, a $500-million assembly plant in the Eastern Townships region, would begin producing 200.000 cars a year by 1991.Johnson told the legisature the venture is “serious,” and he has discussed it with officials from Bombardier and the federal gover nment.“We are involved first and foremost in finalizing, discussing, (and) concluding agreements (for) the financial structure and the support the Quebec and Canadian governments could eventually contribute,” Johnson said.Bombardier, which produces mass-transit, recreational and military vehicles, is also one of five companies bidding to buy Cana-dair Ltd.of Montreal, the federally owned aerospace company.Daihatsu is the smallest of nine Japanese carmakers.The Japa nese auto giant Toyota owns 14 7 per cent of Daihatsu.Last year, the Quebec and fede ral governments contributed $1 million each toward $5 million w’orth of feasibility studies on the project.The studies are now complete, says Bombardier The project would dwarf the $300-million Hyundai plant an nounced last fall for Bromont.Que.That plant will produce 100,000 cars per year beginning in 1990.and create 1.200direct and 1,600in direct jobs.Published reports indicated the Bombardier-Daihatsu plant would produce a low-priced, three-cylinder.front-wheel-drive vehicle called Venus, based on the Daihat su Charade.A second model would go into production later.Eighty per cent of the plant's production would be for the U S.market.Daihatsu has invested $400 million to set up a distribution network in that country.Hatley Church having a birthday > £ The Hatley United Church will be celebrating its 150 anniversary May 24.Rt.Rev.Robert Smith, the Moderator of the United Church, will be the guest preacher.On May IS, Rev.Jane Aikman will speak at the KK ORD H RRY MiATON 10:30 a.m.service when the congregation will observe the birthday after the service.American Methodists inspired the church’s beginnings in IS 15 and British missionaries came later.See more on page S.MP charged with abuse of trust HULL.Que.(CP) - Prime Mi nister Brian Mulroney’s government was rocked Thursday by the third major blow this week as one his MPs was charged with 50 counts of influence peddling, bribe ry and abuse of the public trust.Michel Gravel, rookie member for the Montreal riding of Gamelin.is alleged to have corruptly obtained or sought to obtain more than $100,000 from individuals or companies doing business w ith the government.Only the day before, fellow Montreal MP Robert Toupin quit the caucus to sit as an Independent and on Monday Sinclair Stevens bowed to a scorching controversy over conflict of interest allegations and resigned as industry minister.Ironically, the charges also came just hours after a beleaguered Mulroney — stoutly defending his action in the Stevens case boasted that the Conservatives “are erecting a new standard of morality day by day in Canada.” Mulroney was speaking to repor ters in Seoul, South Korea, as he ended a three-country Asian tour.He returned to Ottawa later in the day.Gravel’s lawyer, Daniel Rock, said immediately from Montreal that his client intends to plead not guilty but will have no comment until the proceedings are over.The charges include 10 counts of bribery, eight for breach of trust and 32 under various sections of the Criminal Code relating to frauds upon the government.They allege that Gravel had or pretended to have influence in the awarding of government contracts and used that position to obtain payments from contractors.There was no indication from the charges themselves what the contracts related to but the RCMP confirmed last month Gravel w'as under investigation for alleged wrongdoing connected with the construction of the new National Museum of Man in Hull.Alliance disappointed with English bill delay By Paul Mooney QUEBEC (CPI — Shelving a bill to guarantee English-language health and social services because of the current language debate in Quebec would be “totally unacceptable,” the president of the En-glish-rights group Alliance Quebec said Thursday.But Michael Goldbloom said he does not believe the Liberal government is procrastinating on the issue, despite published reports that the government has shelved the legislation until the fall to avoid more criticism over its handling of language matters since coming to power last Decemher.A senior aide to Premier Robert Bourassa has been quoted in news reports as saying the government feels the bill needs more work before it is tabled in the assembly.Goldbloom said, “We are disappointed the government isn’t going to table the bill this spring — but if it’s because of the complexity of the issue, we can accept that.” The legislation would give English-speaking Quebecers the right to services in their own language and would designate certain institutions such as the Royal Victoria Hospital as primarily English institutions.Goldbloom said Alliance Quebec was consulted about the legislation and believes the bill should be flexible enough for health and social service institutions in outlying regions.“In some areas where there are very few English-speaking Quebe cers, it may not be realistic to expect a full range of services,” he said."You start with the principal of the right to services and then each regional health and social services council can submit a plan for the government’s approval.” The government has been criticized for its application of French-only sign provisions in Quebec’s French-language charter.Bill 101.One source in a published report indicated that Premier Robert Bourassa wanted to wait until the fall before dealing with the thorny language question.Goldbloom said the right to English health and social services is not a political issue.“It’s a fundamental right, not symbolic.If the bill was shelved for political reasons it would be totally unacceptable and unjustified." The Alliance Quebec president noted that Parti Québécois Leader Pierre Marc Johnson endorsed the right to English services in last fall’s election campaign.More study needed before acid rain controls — EPA WASHINGTON (CP) — The U S.Environmental Protection Agency argued in court Thursday that it is not obligated to curb chemical emissions that are causing acid rain in Canada despite a finding that public welfare is endangered.The agency urged the U S.Court of Appeals to strike down a lower court ruling that would force seven states in the U.S.Midwest to require reductions of sulphur dioxide emissions from coal-fired electrical power plants and other sources of acid rain that falls in Canada.The Qntario government urged the court to uphold the ruling made last summer by Judge Norma Johnson of the U.S.District Court, saying “Ontario’s residents have suffered direct injury from U.S.-generated acid rain.” Rod McLeod, Ontario’s deputy environment minister, said in an interview after the court hearing that Ontario’s lakes, streams, forests and property have been damaged by acid rain caused by Canadian and U.S.chemical emissions.Even after the full impact of current restictions on Canadian emissions are felt, he said, damage will continue from U.S.sources if the agency does not take action.He said the U.S.agency is "under considerable pressure” from U.S.emitters to avoid ordering them to control their pollution CLEAN AIR ACT The court case is based on whether Section 115 of the U.S.Clean Air Act should be triggered to reduce U.S.-caused acid rain in Canada.That section of the law is aimed at giving foreign countries protection from U.S.sources of acid rain in cases where the foreign country has reciprocal laws to protect the United States.The legal arguments revolve around whether the law should be triggered by a letter written more than five years ago by then-EPA Administrator Douglas Costle to then-State Secretary Edmund Muskie and U.S.Senator George Mitchell (D-Me.).Costle wrote that “acid deposition is endangering the public welfare in the U.S.and Canada .and U.S.and Canadian sources contribute to the problem not only in the country where they are located but also in the neighboring country." New York and seven other states, four environmental groups, a congressman and three Americans with cottages in Ontario’s Muskoka lake district took the case to court more than a year ago, saying that letter w'as the basis on which the agency should have ordered the Midwest states to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions.Ontario has joined their side in arguing against the appeal.David Shilton, lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency, argued that the letter “is not a sufficient finding” to make cleanup orders by the agency mandatory.WANTS MORE EVIDENCE Shilton said there are “enormously difficult scientific questions" yet to be answered about the extent of damage to Canada and how much of the acid rain in Canada can be blamed on U.S.sources before thought can be given to ordering emission reductions in specific states.He said it would be several years yet before such information was available, adding that “the key here is that there is simply not sufficient scientific information to proceed to identity the states." 2—The RECORD—Friday, May 16.I9S6 Don’t expect miracles in school sharing, Bedford rep.says.By Merritt Clifton WATERLOO — School-sharing discussions are underway here as a means of keeping Waterloo Elementary open.But miracles aren’t likely, warned Marty Bagshaw, Waterloo representative on the District of Bedford Protestant Regional School Board.“I felt more encouraged when I talked with the ex-chairs of the Waterloo Catholic school committees,” Bagshaw said late this week, “and less encouraged when I talked with Arthur Hébert,” the Waterloo Catholic director general.Bagshaw has been obliged to deal with former school committee chairmen because, while their mandates have expired, their replacements haven’t been elected yet.The Waterloo board is awaiting definite word concerning possible restructuring of Catholic school boards before holding another board election.Meanwhile, “At this point there is no space available for the District of Bedford in Waterloo Catholic schools,” Bagshaw stated.Hébert told the Record a week ago that he had an open block of 10 unused classrooms in one downtown building, but according to Bagshaw, “The 10 classrooms are a myth” as they have already been rented to the Waterloo CLSC “There could be 10 classrooms if the Waterloo district offices and the CLSC were moved,” Bagshaw continued, "but I don't see how Hébert would give up his nicely-renovated offices just to accomodate us.” A STAGE The issue is still far from closed, because the Catholic board might still be persuaded to share Waterloo Elementary.Waterloo Elementary now has 199 students, but was built as a high school to serve 600 or 700.It has a much bigger gymnasium, library, cafeteria, and athletic field than any of the five schools now in use in the Waterloo Catholic district.(Two other Waterloo Catholic schools are used for CLSC and warehouse space.) Waterloo Elementary is also “the only building in Waterloo that has a stage," Bagshaw noted.“Every organization in town that needs a stage comes to use ours, including groups from the Catholic school commission.” According to Hébert, the Catholic board doesn’t need the Waterloo Elementary facilities, but apparently some of the ex-school committee chairmen disagree.They expect an enrollment increase of about 35 next year, with only three empty classrooms left in the five open schools.Class size would probably jump from around 24 students per room in some schools to 27 — well over the recommended teacher/student ratio.“Next week,” Bagshaw added, “I’ll be meeting with the new chairpersons.I'm going to ask them to come up to Waterloo Elementary and visit our school as part of their meeting, to let them know what we’ve got and what we can offer.” INTEGRATION If the parents favor sharing Waterloo Elementary, the next step is to persuade the Catholic board.Bagshaw believed that may be difficult, because Waterloo isn’t a community that has traditionally favored a lot of linguistic integration.The final decision on schoolsharing will rest with the Catholic board.Unlike in Sutton, where schoolsharing appears almost certain, there’s very little linguistic crossover in Waterloo.“We only have about 10 English-speaking kids in the Waterloo French system,” Bagshaw claimed, “and we have only about 30 French-speaking kids from Waterloo in our system.” If school-sharing can’t be arranged.Waterloo Elementary may have to find alternate space.One possibility is sharing Parkview Elementary with Granby students.Another is sharing a new school that may be built in Bromont.Either possibility would involve increased bussing time.But Bagshaw didn’t see any other realistic hopes.Outside the Catholic board, “There’s only one other building that was ever used as a school still standing in Waterloo.That’s the Maplewood convent.It used to have 16 classrooms, I’m told, because it was a private girls’ school.” In theory, 16 classrooms would be enough to accomodate the Waterloo Protestant enrolment.“But I have not yet been to see this," Bagshaw cautioned.“I believe five or six people live there now, and the 16 classrooms may have been completely renovated into apartments.Finally, a classroom of 30 years ago is not a clas- sroom of today, with all the necessary fire doors, exits, and so forth.I’m going to have to have a look at it,” he went on.TEAR DOWN “This is going to be a personal effort on my part.The effort has to be very strong to keep a school in Waterloo — to keep an English cultural centre.” Tearing down part of Waterloo Elementary to reduce unused space has been discussed, but probably wouldn’t work.Bagshaw believes.“You’d have to tear down the newest part of the building," he explained.“The steam heating, and all the facilities that we’d really have to keep, are all in the older part.” Waterloo Elementary is also an architect's headache when it comes to redesign, because the drawings for the old part are notoriously inaccurate.“There’s a four-inch pipe where you’re supposed to have a five-inch pipe, and a tee here instead of a tee there.” Bagshaw described.“Basically, the whole thing would have to go through a good architect.It sounds simple to block off the unused half of a school, but it’s really not.” Jewett is opposed to mini Massey-Vanier MANSONVILLE — The money may be available for building a big new elementary school in Bromont — nobody seems to know for sure — but the District of Bedford may not necessarily want it.District of Bedford Protestant Regional School Board chairman Sandra Jewett said this week she is personally opposed to construction “of a mini-Massey-Vanier for elementary students,” whether in Bromont or anywhere else.Jewett also acknowledged that she was the initial source of rumors that the District of Bedford might join the Davignon Catholic district to build such a school.The development package that enticed Hyundai to locate their new automobile factory in Bromont is supposed to include $25 million for education, at all levels from elementary to adult jobtraining.Both Davignon and Bedford employees have indicated that about half the $25 million might already be earmarked for building an elementary school that could serve up to 1,000 students.But the official Davignon and Bedford spokesmen continue denying that any of this is firm.Both Jewett and Bedford board director general Jim Bissell said no dollar figures have been discussed.TOO BIG?In theory, the Bromont school would include 575 District of Bedford students from Waterloo and Granby, the 225 students at the existing Davignon board school in Bromont, newcomers to Bromont attracted by Hyundai, and about 100 students from the overcrowded Davignon board school in Adams- ville.It would operate much like Massey-Vanier Regional High School, which is already shared by Bedford and Davignon.“But how big is too big and where does it stop?” Jewett asked.“We have a school in the Town of Brome Lake, which is adjacent to Bromont.Cowansville isn’t that far away.” And then Bedford’s school in Farnham serves much of the Magenta Road, running from Farnham alongside the Yamaska River into Bromont.“Are we going to treat our elementary school kids like the high schoolers and bus them into one centre from all over the district?Personally, I am very uncomfortable with that idea.” Jewett’s viewpoint is not shared by some District of Bedford board members.Waterloo board representative Marty Bagshaw stated Wednesday night that he favored a big school at Bromont if Waterloo Elementary can’t be kept open.“Bromont, educationally speaking, has to be the best thing for the students,” Bagshaw argued.“You’d have no split classes with half the students in one grade and half in another, and you’d have the depth of people to draw from” to have extra student activities.Bagshaw cited the Massey-Vanier drama club and participation in Cowansville’s annual fashion festival.THE SOLITUDE Bagshaw said “an extra 15-minute bus ride” isn’t too high a price to pay for the benefits Bromont could offer.“I know several families,” he claimed, “that education is so important to them, they moved out of the country and into a town, to be nearer to schools that had the services they thought were necessary.Country living might be great for some things, like the solitude, but there’s a price you pay.Schools aren’t built in the country.They used to be.but not today.You can’t supply today’s educational necessities with small schools out in the country.” Davignon board secretary-general Georges Lizotte has indicated that Davignon would favor COWANSVILLE — Despite firing 14 staffers Wednesday and cutting out virtually all optional services, the District of Bedford Protestant Regional School Board still has to do some major budgetchopping.The District of Bedford barely got under its 1986-1987 budget limit with the $350,000 personnel cuts, but, says board chairman Sandra Jewett, “That just leaves us with a $335,000 problem for next year.” At that, Bedford will be late submitting its 1986-1987 budget to the Longueiul regional office of the ministry of education.The deadline is May 23, but because of the severity of the cuts, Longuieul is allowing Bedford an extra week.Almost as soon as that budget is finished, Bedford must begin preliminary work on the 1987-1988 budget.“We can’t consider that after May 25 the heat's off,” Jewett emphasizes.“We need to go through a period of self-examination.The most important part is to figure out how to ressurrect our school sys- sharing a school at Bromont with the District of Bedford, but has also suggested that a moderate-sized school of 500 or fewer students would be best.A smaller school could still include several classrooms for District of Bedford students, depending upon need, which in turn will probably depend upon the fate of Waterloo Elementary and Parkview Elementary in Granby.— Merritt Clifton tern.There can be no sacred cows.We need to pare down our whole operation.Perhaps as one of our members put it, we’ve been ‘A small board with a big board mentality.’” Quebec has promised Bedford a $25,000 permanent budget increase and $40,000 in temporary adjustment money to help ease the cuts.But Jewett called that amount “almost laughable, it’s so miniscule compared to the total size of our problem.It doesn’t help much — but we won’t refuse it.” Jewett said she is “extremely dissatisfied” with the $25,000 in particular, which would be barely enough to keep the late bus running, or Clarenceville Elementary or Mansonville Elementary schools open.The money may be allocated at the board’s discretion, which could make for some interesting tugs-of-war over priorities between now and when the 1986-1987 and 1987-1988 budgets are finalized.— Merritt Clifton Still more cuts needed World-class acrobats from China starring in Cirque du Soleil Sherbrooke visit By Melanie Gruer SHERBROOKE — The circus is coming, the circus is coming! The Cirque du Soleil is in town and opens tonight at 8 p.m.with two shows daily until May 24, except Tuesday.Thirty-two performers including acrobats, jugglers, clowns, cy- Xu Juan (top) is 23 years old and Li Yi Shi is 27.Roth acrobats perform with Chui F eng 1 un in the spinning meteor act and are members of the Chinese circus.The Cirque du Soleil opens tonight and runs until May 24 with two performances daily except May 20.—_____ftef IFECPTfl George MacLaren, Publisher.Charlea Bury, Editor.Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent.Richard Leaaard, Production Manager.Debra Walla, Superintendent.Composing Room .CIRCULATION DEPT.— S69-952S 589-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 Subacrlptlona by Carrier: 1 year: $83.20 weekly: $1,60 Subacrlptlona by Mall: Canada: 1 year- $60.00 6 months- $35.50 3 months- $24.50 1 month- $14.00 U.S.A Foreign: 1 year- $120.00 6 months- $72.00 3 months- $48.00 1 month- $24.00 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publication: 60c per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy.Fî?rlJîry *’ 1®97’ •ncorporatlng the Sherbrooke Gazette (e 1637) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).' Published Monday to Friday by Townships Communications Inc./Commui cations des Cantons Inc., Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Strei Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Member of Canadian Preas Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation clists, trapeze artists, fire breathers and tight rope walkers have just arrived from a well-acclaimed run at the Vancouver Children’s Festival.The Quebec-based circus has only been in existence since the sum- mer of 1984 when the Club des Talons Hauts were given a mandate to create their own travelling circus.The first year, Cirque du Soleil travelled to only 11 Quebec towns.In 1985, the circus made a second tour of Quebec and went to Ontario.They gave 160 performances that year.This year, the season opened in April and the troup will be on the road until the end of September with performances in Toronto, Ot- tawa, Montreal, Laval, St-Sauveur and Rhode Island.Two hundred performances have been scheduled.The feature attraction this year is the spinning meteorites act performed by three acrobats on loan from the Chinese circus.The act includes one female acrobat, Xu Juan, 23, and two men: Li Yi Shi, 27, and Chui Feng Yun, 42.Chui Feng Yun is the only man in the world who can handle two spinning meteorites at the same time.The meteorite is actually a long rope with two silver bowls filled with water on the ends.They defy gravity as the three acrobats spin and throw the meteorites (with their hands and feet) while jumping, flipping, and rolling.In fact, the Cirque du Soleil is based on the Chinese tradition of the circus — there are no animals at all.All of the acts are performed by human beings.The show is pure magic says Normand Latourelle, the assistant director general of the Cirque du Soleil.“We put a lot of emphasis on the technical part, the creativity and the young people.” he says, “We consider ourselves salespeople of happiness.” The Cirque du Soleil will give 13 performances at the Parc Plateau of thœlais des Sports.Ticket price ranges from $4 to $8 for children and $10 to $15 for adults.They are available at the ticket booth at the circus site or at the Ticketron outlet at the University of Sherbrooke.BY GARRY TRUDEAU mi \A Chui Feng Yun is a member of the Chinese circus who is currently performing with the Cirque du Soleil.He is the only man in the world who can spin these two meteorites at the same time while he performs acrobatics.Weather Doonesbury Cloudy today with isolated showers and a high of 23.Variable cloudiness Saturday with a chance of showers.mSHTICN, 600P PBOPLE! 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EXCUSE ME, SIR.SHALL WE START HANDING OUT THE COOKIES?\ 4 The RECORD—Friday.May 16.1986—3 The Townships SEccotB Fluoridation means fewer cavities and cheaper bills says doctor By Eleanor Brown SHERBROOKE — Reducing the incidence of tooth decay by 50 per cent outweighs any potential health risks or environmental damage inherent in the fluoridation of drinking water, said a four-man task force studying the problem.And the money saved by such a move makes it well worthwhile, the CLSC-sponsored research group said Thursday.The four were given a mandate at the CLSC Soc’s last general assembly April 12 to make public their support of the controversial fluoridation program.The vote was unanimous.The municipalities of Rock Forest, Ascot Township and Sher- brooke have said they intend to go ahead with the fluoridation plan The practice has become more common in the last 40 years, as town councils commit themselves to reduce cavities.Those against the practice cite links between the chemical and mongolism and cancer.But such claims are tenuous at best, insisted task force member Dr.André M unger.“It is often the results of a rea-searcher who is isolated from his fellows,” Munger said."The incidence of intestinal cancer (is reported) in animals at very high doses, 20, 30, 100 times what humans would ingest.(These results) have yet to be reproduced in humans.All these studies.there is no evidence of pathological disorders.” “What is clear, what has been show n.is the advantage of a 50 per cent reduction in cavities.It’s scientifically irrefutable.” he said.“Very tangible." The Département de santé communautaire de l'Estrie recently relased a study comparing children in Windsor and Richmond Windsor has been adding fluoride to its municipal water supply since 1978.Richmond has no such program.The report stated that children aged six to seven in Richmond suffered from twice the number of cavities as their Windsor counterparts.The need for action is demonstrated in the latest statistics, said Jean Foisy, a dental hygienist.Each 12-year-old Quebecer had 4.38 cavities in 1984 — the highest rate on the continent.Youths in the Townships had a slightly lower incidence; 4.02 teeth were damaged Americans in the same age group had 2.5 rotten teeth in 1980.“At the present time," Foisy said, “an effective preventative method to ameloriate this problem is adjusting fluoride levels in drinking water.As far as we are concerned, its effectiveness no Ion ger needs to be proven.” Industrial hygienist Jean Tim mons discounted adverse effects on the environment.Fluoride is already present in nature.Timmons said.Levels in the St.Lawrence River register at .16 parts per millilitre, and if fluoride were to be simultaneously released in every waterway in Que- bec and Ontario, the increase would amount to .05 ppm.he claimed The fluoride would be absorbed by fish, but accumulates in the bones, which humans don't eat.Plants, on the other hand, don't take in fluoride at all.he assured.Fluoride in the atmosphere could fall onto leaves, he admitted, "but there’s no important accumulation.” "There are no medical risks,” reiterated Munger Foisy listed the legislative controls overseeing the program.Samples are taken every four hours.There are spot checks once a week.The health bureau tests the reliability of field equipment monthly, and examines each new batch as it is churned out of the factory.“It’s the most controlled method." Foisy said."Better than chlorine.” Foisy pointed out an economic benefit For each dollar spent by the government.Quebecers will save $10 on dental bills, he said.Fluoride also strengthens bones, reducing osteoporosis, he said.But many dissenters are upset that they don’t have a choice in the matter.Every glass from the tap will include small amounts of fluoride.whether parents want their children to drink the stuff or not “Find us a better way of reaching an optimum population," Munger said."It's easy, the controls are easy, it's inexpensive, and practical." Cap Espoir seamen need money: Hail and hearty square rigger sailors don’t want to miss boat A fundraising campaign for the Cap Espoir program theatre performed for a crowd at the Sherbrooke was kicked off Thursday when a Improvisation Cegep.Balloons were a popular part of this act.By Philip Authier SHERBROOKE — With a $25.000 target in mind, local organizers of the Cap Espoir ‘life school’ project have launched their annual fundraising drive.At a news conference Thursday, organizers said that over the next few weeks everything from raffles to a casino night would be tried in a bid to raise the funds needed to help defray the anticipated $75,000 the group will spend during this year’s activities.Cap Espoir, a program started by the Boscoville Foundation, draws young people from all over the province to travel together on rented square riggers.Bound together by the confines of the craft, the hail and hearty from different social strata, nationalities and linquistic groups, are forced to work together as a team.COMPLEX The first priority is learning the complex task of operating a square rigger.Since that entails precision team work and co-operation, the second goal of the project, of being a model for real life, is achieved.The idea is so new that two psychology students at Bishop’s University have decided to conduct a study of what actually happens to those who agree to bob around on the ocean for three straight weeks.HARD WORK In order to participate in Cap Espoir, individuals have to raise about a third of the total cost of their trip.There are five excursions in the works this year.The fee is $30 per student per day.While the students work for months to raise their share of the funds, the local association, Les amies de la voile, also raises funds — this year $25,000.The major drive involves a raffle for an all expense paid trip to Paris and back.Tickets are$l apiece and the winner will be drawn at a special fundraising casino night the group has planned for J une 13 at Le Triolet High School.Meanwhile Cap Espoir organizers continue to plan the summer’s activities, which means there is still time for individuals to sign aboard.In fact, according to organizer Florien Gayer, there are three spots for anglophones which have yet to be filled.Gayer, who was on an excursion last year aboard the West German ship.The Outlaw-, is back again this year, this time participating in a voyage on the Grand Detour from Quebec City to New York which has been timed to coincide with the official unveiling of a newly restored Statue of Liberty.At the r.^me time.The Ellinor will sail from Puerto Rico to New York in time for the festival.A third excursion will then take place, when the Ellinor leaves the Big Apple for Quebec.The two final trips are from Quebec City to Rivière du Loup and from Rivière du Loup to Gaspé.Information about both the rattle and the program can be had by calling one of the two local sponsors, Le Relais St-François or Val du Lac.Sewage construction not jeopardized, says Environment Minister Lincoln By Bernard St-Laurent and Charles Bury QUEBEC CITY — The Sher-brooke-area sewage clean-up construction has not had its budget cut by the Quebec government as reported this week, Environment Minister Clifford Lincoln said Thursday.“I don’t know where you get cutbacks from,” Lincoln said.“In ¦ ,j fact we went $50-million beyond the projected investment target of the previous government.” Media reports this week quoted Environment-Quebec official André Boucher as telling members of the local sewage-treatment board that they would be getting far less money to spend in the coming years, thereby delaying completion of the $82-million metropolitan project.His remarks were backed up by comments from Sherbrooke Mayor Jean-Paul Pelletier, president of the intermunicipal sewage board which groups Sherbrooke, Lennoxville, Fleurimont, Ascot Township and Rock Forest.But it ain’t so, according to Minister Lincoln.“I can’t tell you specifically about Sherbrooke and surrounding municipalities,” Lincoln said in an interview at the National Assembly.“But certainly, you know, we can’t cover all the municipalities in Quebec to the full extent of where they would want to be covered.” “We’ve got $500 million available.$500 million covers most of the work that’s already going at the moment,” Lincoln added.“There’s sure to be delays, there’s sure to be.But that is the the way it is.We can’t provide more than $500 million, which by the way is the highest limit ever allowed by a government of Quebec.” Is Sherbrooke getting its fair share?The earlier reports said there would be less than $2 million to spend in 1986 on the $82-million project.“Well I can tell you Sherbrooke has been treated very, very fairly in all the distribution of the money.I have spoken to (André Hamel), the MNA for Sherbrooke." ‘VERY SURPRISED’ “Really, unless you’ve got specific figures to throw at me, I’m very very surprised about Sherbrooke sort of saying that they’ve been unfairly treated.” “There will be projects that’ll be delayed ; some projects will be sort of delayed in the sense that some of the money will come later rather than earlier.” “But that would have been the case anyway,” Lincoln continued.“It’s got nothing to do with this government.In fact we went $50 million beyond the projected investment target of the previous government.” Boucher and Pelletier said the project budget was to be reduced as a result of provincial attempts to reduce government spending.“I don’t know where you get ‘cutback’ from.What I'm saying is that the treasury board had set a limit of $450 million in October 1985.We came along and said it’s $500 million.” “I don’t see where the talk of cutbacks comes from.” For years, Lincoln concluded, “Something like 900 municipalities in Quebec" have been after government money to help clean up their sewers.vmètir i ¦ >¦ LV mwm International Affair A team of Bell Canada linemen managed to work on both sides of the border at once Thursday as they did some transboundary maintenance work for New England Telephone a few steps inside Derby Line, Vermont.At least, well, the front of their truck was in the U.S.The back end was on Main Street in Beebe Plain, Quebec.Thirty-year phone worker Wendell Conner of Minton (above), and Pierre Gagnon of Sherbrooke held up Bell’s end of the deal while Jean-Paul (left) and Gilles Cloutier (right) of Estrie security service kept back the crowds.Century-old registry won’t be closing by Charles Bury STANSTEAD — The century-old land registry office here will not close as had been rumored for weeks.Why?Precisely because of its centenary status.The provincially-run office, which collects, catlogues and stores real-estate and other legal documents, had apparently been slated to lock up its doors for the last time this summer as a budgetcutting measure.But that decision — if indeed it was a decision — has been reversed.“No, We aren’t going to close after all,” office manager Claire Cournoyer said in an interview Thursday.“This one stays open.” In an unusual move, the decision was passed along by Justice Minister Herbert Marx.“I had a call from the minister himself,” Cournoyer said.“He said it would be kept open because it is more than a hundred years old.He thought I would be nervous.He called to reassure me.” “Yes, he’s a very nice man.” “There had been a lot of complaints about the move,” Cournoyer added.“A lot of people use this office.” Offices in Cookshire and Coati-cook also apparently on the chopping block also got a reprieve, Cournoyer said.“They were going to close but that has been delayed at least,” she said.“The government is going to study them.” Another registry office, in Ham South, is “definitely going to close,” Cournoyer said.But offices in Knowlton and Bedford “won’t be touched.” Cournoyer said she’s been answering requests for information and documents in the handsome Stanstead registry building for 40 years.“Mr.Marx said We aren’t going to have a lot like you’,” she said.Claire Cournoyer laughed off the hesitation of a reporter reluctant to ask her age.“You could figure it out for yourself,” she said.“I was 18 when I came out of the convent and I’ve been working here ever since.” Assistant Jeanne Comeau has been nine years at the office.“She might be my replacement someday,” Cournoyer said, “but she'll have to wait quite a while!” CORRECTION Please note that the advertisement published on Wednesday, May 14 for Nichol's Store that the Fiddlehead Greens, 1 lb.package, should have read $1.19, not .97c.We apologize for any inconvenience.Justice Minister Herbert Marx called personally to tell Claire Cournoyer that she and Jeanne Comeùu (right) will be able to keep on working at the Stanstead land registry office.LE COIN DE LA CAMERA 562-4988 AUTHORIZED DEALER: RICOH FUJICA KONICA ' WE REPAIR ALL KINDS OF CAMERAS PHOTO FINISH ON PLACE ARMAND BOUCHER TECHNICIAN 1543 CARREFOUR DUNANT SHERBROOKEJ1H 5N6 4—The RECORD—Friday, May 16.1986 —___ttgl mcam The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial 2 g | £ The same anxiety Nine years after the Parti Québécois government made it illegal for children to attend English schools unless one of their parents had attended an English school in Quebec, Education Minister Claude Ryan has announced that some 1500 illegals' will be granted amnesty.Their parents have until July 15 to get them properly registered in the English schools they've been attending all along.The amnesty outlined in Bill 58, “is the only humane solution capable of putting an end to nine years of civil disobedience,” Ryan said.An end to a situation where so many people are defying the law is indeed to be desired.When a situation like this is allowed to go on, it makes a mockery of our whole legislative system.But this isn’t quite the end the parents who defied Bill 101 were looking for.Their children may now be legal and secure in the schools the parents want them to attend, but we’re still dealing with the same oppressive law.There will continue to be penalties for enrolling one’s child in an English school if he or she is not eligible under the provisions of Bill 101.How Ryan can say this will do away with civil disobedience is hard to understand.There are new students enrolled every year.Surely there are still parents who will want their children educated in English enough to defy the law.Shall we have regulatory amnesty declarations, say, every ten years or so?The decision to grant amnesty, in fact, doesn’t make sense except if seen as a temporary measure on the way to eliminating the sections of Bill 101 dealing with who’s allowed into English schools.It doesn't solve anything in itself except to alleviate the embarrassment of the province having a law so flagrantly ignored both by parents and by the school administrators who have been accessories to the crime.For parents of children illegally attending English schools the announcement undoubtedly comes as a great relief.Not to have to live in uncertainty, with the prospect of the children’s education being rudely disrupted if the government were to decide to take action, must be a great weight off their shoulders.But the battle isn’t over as long as other parents still have to go through the same anxiety of being outside the law when they want their children educated in English.LAUREL SHERRER Bruce Levett We’re talking rupture gulch Really, chaps — have you thought this thing through?It has been suggested that mail delivery in Canada might be cut to twice a week or so, in order for Canada Post to make inroads into the old deficit which is running.at present, something like $245 million per annum.On the surface, this might seem to be an admirable course to contemplate.Letter carriers would get a two-day week and the kiting of cheques would be facilitated, to list only two of the possible benefits.However.Have we considered such things as the sudden rise in hernia insurance?1 mean, we re talking rupture gulch here.The mere fact that the post office would be delivering the mail less than half as often as at present doesn't take into account one salient factor — people will continue to write just as many letters as of yore« Discount warehouses will continue to pour out just as much propaganda on the delights that may be yours should you take advantage of whatever offer it is that’s available for a limited time only.Creditors will not shrink from tendering just as many bills.Worthy organizations will solicit as strongly as before.Politicians will, with their usual modesty, continue to cry wonder over their own accomplishments.In short, though the frequency of service be cut by half or more, the volume will show little if any diminution.What does this mean?It means although your friendly neighborhood letter carrier will show up only half as often — his load bids fair to weigh at least twice as much.Look for a gigantic increaste in the share price of truss companies.I have often wondered how the British manage things.Generally, Britain is not something at which to point when it comes to efficiency — except in certain areas, and two-a-day postal service is one of these.There was an instance in London — not so long ago — when 1 arranged access to an important report.“I'll be right over to pick it up,’’ I enthused.“Not unless you fee! you must, old boy,” was the cool reply.“I’ll just pop it in the post before closing and it should be on your desk tomorrow morning." That was just after noon.He did, and you know what?It was.How do they do that, do you think?Maybe we should ask them.New breed of RCMP form terrorism squad By Janet Steffenhagen CARLETON PLACE.Ont.(CP) — Heavily armed and clad like creatures from another world in their combat gear, the 42 members of Canada’s new anti-terrorist squad are learning to kill without questions, to fire without drawing a bead.Here, in a picturesque Ottawa Valley town about 50 kilometres west of the capital, the RCMP’s creme de la creme is preparing for what may be the force’s dirtiest battle.The war against terrorism.The men were hand-picked from local emergency response teams across the country after Solicitor General Perrin Beatty announced plans in March for a commando-style unit to rescue hostages and end hijackings anywhere in Canada.Since then, they have been running, jumping barrels, creeping through spring’s finest foliage, scaling walls like Spiderman, learning self-defence tactics, shooting cardboard terrorists and rescuing hooded hostages.And they are learning to treat their weapons, usually submachine-guns and pistols, like appendages.They “double-tap” their cardboard targets without taking aim — two bullets to the head and two bullets to the body.Inspector A1 Sabean, chief trainer for the special emergency response team, says the men are ready for action any time, but Beatty says it will take a year before they are up to peak.The solicitor general obviously considers them ready for public display.since he recently invited reporters and photographers to special showings of the skills the men have honed during their first month of training as a team.Even RCMP Commissioner Robert Simmonds, who has in the past demonstrated a special dexterity in dod-ging reporters, was available throughout the demonstration to answer questions.NO GUESSING The RCMP usually tries to keep its activities quiet, he acknowledged, but in this case, the solicitor general decided it would be better to give reporters information than to leave them guessing.During a news conference at the end of the day, Beatty admitted that the demonstration was designed hot only to inform reporters, but also to send a message to any would-be terrorists that Canada has a top-notch team ready to do battle.“I think the message should certainly be sent out that we ha ve a group like this, and we’re prepared to use it in cases where it’s necessary,” said Beatty, who will ultimately be responsible for dispatching the killer unit.“It (will be) brought in at the last minute, when all else has failed (and) usually after the terrorists have started to kill innocent people,” he said.“It’s an extreme measure which is used only in extreme eases in order to save innocent lives.” The RCMP intends to recruit a total of 49 people for two teams.The teams will rotate shifts, spending one month on-call 24 hours a day and one month on more regular police duties.Although their main job is to fight terrorism and protect foreign diplomats and dignitaries, they could also be used to end a criminal hostagetaking when the local police force doesn’t have its own emergency response team.However, the team will act only when it has orders from the federal government.“We believe that with a team like this, even though it’s essentially a refinement of the emergency response teams we have today.it is necessary to maintain political control.” Beatty told reporters.“It will be the single, best trained group of 49 fighting people in Canada and, as such, it’s an extremely powerful weapon and one that should only be used under civilian control.” NOT LIKE RAMBO The 42 members selected thus far have an average age of 32 and are a far cry from the murderous Rambo of the silver screen, said Beatty.“That’s precisely the kind of person we wouldn’t want on the team.” There are no regulations prohibiting female Mounties from joining the group, but so far there are no women on the local emergency response teams that are serving as the drawing pool for the top talent.The government has committed more than $11 million to cover startup costs and an additional $4.4 million Çc&EwwpéfhiA Summ&il -—, ~ ,, , Aiheni oirport.flheif, Our TWterrarm though!hi5bracttUiefZ «^Mtfirne-wijh.^ a conmkJ weapon O "irawie.ywoWe here OnsfeadofuQ.1 a year for salaries, equipment and operating costs.Only two of the men showed their faces during the three-hour demonstration.The others were hidden by Balaclavas and gas masks; black turtle-neck sweaters; green vests with pocketed pistols, radios, flashlights and batteries; black pants with more pockets, and black combat boots.After slides of training techniques and a film of the British SAS team’s response to the 1980 siege of the Iranian embassy in London, the reporters were transported to the site of a 10-storey building and shown how the men use ropes to lower themselves down the wall to enter through a window.The reporters and photographers were moved to a second building and given ear protectors for a shooting de-monstration and mock hostage rescue.A man with a white hood sat at a desk with three cardboard terrorists to his left and three to his right.Suddenly, there were several explosions outside and six members of the special squad burst through the door.As the cameras flashed, four Mounties drilled real bullets into cardboard heads and two snatched the hostage from his chair and dragged him out of the building uninjured.It was over in seconds, but the team offered a repeat demonstration in slower motion for those who were unprepared the first time.TEMPORARY TEAM The RCMP, with the help of the British SAS, put together a similar team in 1981 when leaders of industrialized countries gathered in Ottawa for an economic summit.But that team was disbanded when the summit ended.Simmonds conceded there have been few events in Canada that would have required the services of the hit team, apart from the siege of the Turkish embassy in Ottawa last year by an Armenian group and the 1970 October Crisis in Quebec.But with the spread of international terrorism, it would have been irresponsible for Canada not to develop such a unit, he said.“I guess the question you have to ask yourself is how much risk are you prepared to take.” Beatty described the group as “an insurance policy,” adding that countries that fail to take protective measures are opening the door to terrorism.“If someone were attacking a foreign installation, it wouldn’t be particularly important to them whether the act took place in London or Paris or in Germany or Washington or here in Ottawa.What would be important is that there be a vulnerable target.and a good communication system.“My hope is that it (the team) will never be used,’-’ he said.“And if it is never used, I won’t see that as a sign that it wasn’t needed, but rather as a sign of its effectiveness in terms of dissuading potential terrorists.” Saying goodbye to a Singer sewing machine My Singer sewing machine was the first purchase of my married life when I was 20.It made maternity outfits, baby clothes, curtains, untold presents, and even enabled me to start a small cooperative business when my marriage ended and I had three children to support.And now Singer is abandoning the manufacture of sewing machines “to better devote its energies to the military business".This in a nutshell, or a bobbin, is why women all over the world are realizing that it is time we recognize our role in making policies, in deciding how our world is being run.Tending and teaching children, running our homes, balancing all the many wonderful roles we have as wives, mothers, and caring women, we have developed unique and valuable skills.The men who have been running' the world need women to share the burden now to get all of us out of the mess we are in.This doesn’t mean becoming something that we aren’t, but rather finding ways to “speak our peace" and shape our world accor ding to our visions.Helen Forsey, a member of Dandelion, an intentional community in south eastern Ontario offering workshops and training for people who want to learn more about how to live their daily lives based on principles of cooperation and non-violence, (R.R.1, Enterprise, Ont.K0K 1Z0), puts it th>s way; “How can we hope to put an end to war while men are told that their manhood depends on their ability and willingness to fight each other?How can the arms race be stopped when massive weapons of destruction are but the logical extension of that deadly competitive agression by which men are trained to assert their male strength?And how can we expect national or world affairs to be governed according to humanistic or ecological values as long as those who govern are men who have been taught to deny their capacities for gentleness Peace Initiatives 0€rmptirEp\ By Brad Howat and Rosemary Sullivan and emotion, and to sever their connection with the natural universe?” Here in Canada, we have a unique international centre matching women’s needs and resources in Canada and the Third World which supports women to have an equal voice in decision making about world development and links women working for change all over the world.Match International Centre, (401-171 Nepean St., Ottawa, Ont K2P 0B4) distributes a newsletter, audio-visual resources and supports community based projects in the Third World: “the conditions that perpetuate war, violence and inequality affecting women's lives are often the results of underdevelopment and development plans that do not consider the needs of the people, and especially the needs of women.Match sponsors projects that support women against violence in the belief that this struggle for peace is a part of our ongoing commitment for equal development.” Match is also the Canadian distributor of “Women: a World Survey” by Ruth LegerSivard.With a forward by Liv Ullman, it is an invaluable collection of facts about our world and women’s place in it.It states "women are the sole breadwinners in one quarter to one-third of the families in the world (here in Canada half of these families are living below the poverty line — that’s 300,000 women, 600,000 kids); if the unpaid labor of women in the household was given economic value, it would add an estimated one third or $4,000,000,000,000 to the world’s annual economic product; although women comprise 50 per cent of the world’s enfranchised population, they hold no more than 10 per cent of the seats in the national legislatures; rural women work an average of an 18-hour day".As we learn about women around the world, we '•ome to realize that as women we are all one nation, we have so many things in common, we want the same things, safety and security and a future for our children and for the world.The more we see our common goals, the more we can support each other to help everyone realize that the important things of this world are not nation states, ideological differences, economic systems which exploit the majority for the gain of a few, but rather healthy children, loving relationships, clean water.shelter, spring flowers, a hand to hold in the dark.Another excellent Canadian resource Women and Human Wholeness' by the Christian Movement for Peace(427 BloorSt.W., Toronto, Ont.M5S 1X7), offers learning activities in the form of a curriculum for use in schools or by groups.It is not just “about women" but is based on and tries to listen to women’s experiences and has clear instructions to help any group of men and women learn how to do this.Why is this important?According to the authors, “most of what we learn about the world, or about ourselves, we learn from a white male perspective.the dominant perspective in our society.Writers of books, characters and experiences they present, de- cision makers, people in power, those who control media, education and Church teaching are frequently white males”.If all of this about “women’s perspective” and “women’s experience" is a new idea for you, you might want to look over some of the newer books on women’s history like “Not in God’s Image” by editors Julia O’Faolain and Lauro Martines, “Man’s World, Woman’s Place” by Elizabeth Janeway, “Women’s Roots: Status and Achievements in Western Civilization” by June Stephenson, “Creative Women in Changing Societies: a Quest for Alternatives” edited by three women for United Nations Institute for Training and Research and “Educating for Peace: Feminist Perspective" by Birgit Brock-Utne (all available at the Peacemaking Centre).Also keep your eyes open for a new NFB film with Elizabeth Dodson Grey.When something is omitted, it’s hard to realize it even exists.Women’s history, contribution and present importance in the global arena at the negotiating table deciding international issues is like that.it’s been omitted for so long, as a world we don’t even know we re missing it.I know my life would have been very different if Singer sewing machines had never been made, if that technology had always been used to develop machines to kill people.Maybe like women s contribution to world peacemaking there are other things in our world today we don't even realize we are missing.Next column we will look at nonviolent actions and resources created by earing women and men.Did you know that Mother’s Day was originated in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe as a day of peace?For comments or follow-up on anything mentioned in our column write Pigeon Hill Peacemaking Centre— 1965 chemin St.Armand.Pigeon Bill, Que., J0J 1T() (514) 248-2524. The RECORD—Friday.May 16.1986—S Environment —____tel UBcara Ducks Unlimited: Chief movers and shakers of habitat improvement Canada and the U.S.may not be able to get together on such subjects as free trade and acid rain but the wildlife-conservation forces on both sides of the border have managed to come to an agreement which will help guarantee the future of North America’s waterfowl — ducks, geese, swans and the other species that associate with them and share their soggy habitat.After years of planning, consultations, negotiations, more consultations and more negotiations.Canadian Environment Minister Tom McMillan and U.S.Secretary of the Interior Don Hodel signed a plan in Washington Thursday to conserve North American water-fowl.According to an electronic press release announcing the deal, the plan proposes a “far-reaching management agreement” to be undertaken jointly by private and public interests in both countries to bring “seriously declining” waterfowl populations back to their 1970s average annual fall migration levels of about 100 million birds.FRAMEWORK “The plan provides the framework for a Canada-U.S.joint management agreement that will ensure healthy and sustainable waterfowl populations for generations to come,” McMillan was quoted as saying.“It presents a challenge to all public and private conservation organizations in Canada and the United States to generate the $1.5 billion needed to accomplish the plan’s objectives by the year 2000,” Hodel was said to add.According to Dr.Jim Patterson of the Canadian Wildlife Service, the economic value to Canadians of waterfowl is about $1 billion and 40.000 jobs a year in goods and services associated with waterfowl-related activities such as tourism, hunting, and observation and enjoyment of these birds and their spectacular seasonal migrations.Roughly three quarters of the nearly $1 billion expenditure to finance Canadian projects for the 15-year plan will come from U.S.sources, Patterson said, with the balance to be contributed by Canadian funding.The U.S.will spend an additional $475 million to finance U.S.projects under the plan.GUIDING PRINCIPLES The plan sets out several guiding principles to ensure conservation of North American waterfowl populations, according to the communiqué.“Key among these are the central theme that protection of waterfowl and its habitat re- On the wild side Charles quires long-term planning and close co-ordination of management activities between different jurisdictions in North America; co-operation and financial contributions from users of the resource tsport and subsistence hunters, naturalists and other recreational users I, and scientific research in support of conservation measures.” The signing of the plan followed a lengthy review process.Federal, provincial, territorial and state governments in Canada and the U.S.received public commentary on a draft version of the document, then hashed it all down into something workable.• • • While the governments are taking credit today, the fact is that most of what has been accomplished in the restoration of habitat and building of public awareness of waterfowl on our continent has been the work of the private side.Chief among the movers and shakers of habitat improvement has been the pioneering group Ducks Unlimited.The U.S.-based association is now international, although much of its money still comes from the American duck hunters who make up the bulk of its membership.For example, DU Canada had a total 1985 budget of about $39.5-million.Of that, fully $35.2 million came from the U.S.mother.Canadians have been taking steps to right the balance.A Sherbrooke-based Eastern Townships DU chapter has been in existence for almost two years.The Sherbrooke group’s main fund-raising source is its annual banquet-auction This year's is set for Tuesday, May 27 at Le Baron Hotel on King Street West.This year's president is lawyer Marc Vaillancourt.Honorary chairman is the well-known insurance general John J.Dunn.The banquet consists of a stan dard hotel supper.The auction, on the other hand, sells all sorts of wildlife objects to the highest bidder.There are all kinds of nature prints and paintings, a finely engraved 12-gauge pump gun too nice to take near the swamp and several hand-carved and painted decoys too nice to set out under it.Ducks Unlimited is moving its habitat development spending into the Eastern Townships.Of the $16 million to be spent on 2,500 acres of Quebec land this year, at least $50,000 will go to a couple of projects near Sherbrooke.Of course the $50,000 is well more than the local chapter collects from members and donors, but at a deductable $30 a pop, the banquet should help.Call Denis Lamontagne at (819) 569-5968, or Sylvie Couture at (819) 821-5893 for tickets or more information.I have a ticket in my pocket.See you there.Last week was another of those crazy trips for me; I had to go to a newspaper meeting in Ste-Anne de Bellevue (just west of Montreal) Wednesday, then to an acid rain conference in Quebec City Thursday, then back to the office Thursday evening to write my column and help put the paper out.Trouble was, the Wednesday meeting didn't end until after 2 a m.Thursday, if you know what I mean.1 found a cheap motel near Drùmmondville and crashed out for a few hours, then it was back on the road again for the all day acid rain meet Then I headed back to wards the Townships but started getting drowsy round about 6pm near Richmond I pulled off the road for a few minutes sleep but when 1 awoke it was dark and I was late.Got back to Sherbrooke in time to write my acid rain story and help put the pa- per out — at least I think I was some help — but no column.This week wasn't quite so bad but 1 did get to St a nstead-Rock-Island Beebe Plain.a few steps into Berby Line Ch — make that Derby Line — LT.S.A.Ayer's Cliff, my bank manager's office and Veil-leux's John Deere dealership in Lennoxville Thursday.But that too is another story.Next week I hope to have some contest results for you.Happy Vic-toria-Dollard Day! John Dunn (left) and Marc Vaillancourt invite you to the Ducks Unlimited banquet-auction in Sherbrooke May 27.You too can own a hand-engraved shotgun or fine-art decoy.Environmental report: Canada rates anything but high in conservation grades By Marlene Orton OTTAWA (CP) — A massive, comprehensive report on Canada’s natural resources — down to the last duck — shows everyone “is helping to trash our life-support systems,” Environment Minister Tom McMillan said Thursday.And a 1986 report card accompanying the 300-page federal document, State of the Environment Report for Canada, gives barely a passing grade to the overall environment, with toxic wastes rating, an F.“Canada has made some progress” in recent years, McMillan told a news conference.“But the record is checkered.” Essentially, Canada is ruining its drinking water, destroying the land, poisoning the air, losing fish stocks, killing off plant life and letting whole forests die, he said.That information is hardly new, but the document provides the first comprehensive look into every nook and cranny of the country’s prized but beleaguered natural resources., A reference book accompanying the report includes detailed charts and graphs on every conceivable aspect of Canadian resources, from the number of fishermen and how many black bear pelts are taken to the amount of cargo moved through each Canadian port, the length of natural gas transmission lines and extent of mercury pollution on the Prairies.Both documents took more than five years to compile in collaboration with international experts, industry and at least four federal departments.They are “unvarnished by politics and unbridled in every important way,” McMillan said.“It’s hard, cold, impartial information with hardly any analysis,” he added.They are basically ency- clopedias that will be used “as n instrument, a tool in guiding us in future policies,” McMillan said.The most controversial data has been reported in the past and in fact most figures collected reflect 1981 information and may already be out of date.SENT TO EMBASSIES McMillan promised the documents will be brought up to date every few years but said it’s the first time any country has attempted such a project.Copies of both books have been sent to the United States government and Canadian embassies around the world for reference use, he added.Among the general areas studied, McMillan singled out each with serious problems.Fish stocks are both increasing and dropping, depending on the species.But fish breeding areas and feeding grounds are disappearing across the country as wetlands are reclaimed for growing urban areas and fish are killed off by acid rain.Agriculture productivity has improved in the last several decades, “but we’ve badly misused the resource with pesticides and herbicides.” Forests are systematically cut, killed off by disease, pests and fire but are not restocked.Twenty-two million hectares of forest are not sufficiently restocked.Many small and mediumed-sized towns and cities still dump raw sewage and industrial waste into nearby rivers and lakes.The water is then drawn for drinking.An average of 82 per cent of the population gets treated water.In 1981, only 56 per cent of British Columbia’s population was drinking treated water.The figure was about the same for New Brunswick and was at 36.5 per cent in Prince Edward Island.Industrial giants dump waste by the tonne into nearby lakes and rivers and millions of tonnes of poison into the air year after year.AIR POLLUTED Details from the reports show that in 1980 nearly two million tonnes of air pollution other than sulphur dioxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides — most of it from industrial sources — was spewed into the air.Among the pollutants were lead and mercury, both deadly poison in high concentrations.About 4,000 tonnes of lead and 20 tonnes of mercury from industrial stacks were recorded in 1982 — some of which works its way through the food chain.For example, minute traces of lead have turned up in samples of apple juice and even ready-to-serve infant formula.As well, McMillan said 45 kinds of plants are endangered.Wildlife, including ducks and swans, is threatened as well because of pol- lution and reclaimed nesting and breeding grounds.In 1984, the overall duck population was in decline.Seven species of dabbling ducks, for example, were threatened.The report reveals a threatened environment but it also shows public perception that Canada's natural resources are in trouble.Surveys taken in the early 1980s show water pollution and acid rain were among the most important environmental problems singled out by respondents.But nearly one quarter of about 2,000 people across the country surveyed by the Centre de Recherche sur l'Opinion Publique oi Montreal said they did not know which problem was most important.A Gallup survey, also in the early 1980s, found that nearly half were dissatisfied with the water quality of the Great Lakes and just under half said the quality was getting worse.4 Nuclear primer: Some isotopes are more stable than others.The Canadian-made Candu reactors use heavy water as their coolant.Quebec’s 585-megawatt (lentillyll reactor ( above) is of this type; the experimental Gentilly I has been decommissioned but is still highly radioactive.mm"* By Warren Caragata OTTAWA (CP) — The shock and fear that has spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere following the Soviet nuclear accident in the Ukraine has driven many people back to their old high school text books for a quick lesson on nuclear physics.What follows is a nuclear primer: Atoms: The building blocks of the universe.They are very tiny.The number in the human body is 10 to the 28th power.This is a one followed by 28 zeros: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.Each atom contains a nucleus.Hydrogen atom (h> proton ELECTRON Molecule of water which is made up of neutrons and protons.They have the same atomic weight.The neutron carries no charge.The proton carries a positive charge.Circling the nucleus in their own orbits are electrons.Each electron has a negative charge.Electrons can be bumped out of their orbit.If they leave the atom altogether, the atom is left with a positive charge.If one is bumped from one atom to another, the atom with the new electron has a negative charge.An atom with a negative or positive charge is called an ion.In a stable atom, the number of electrons and protons equal each Deuterium atom(D) PROTON./O NEUTRON NC / ELECTRON Molecule of heavy water other.The number of neutrons change, which is important.In addition to protons, neutrons and electrons, there are other pieces called sub-atomic particles.These are very very tiny.One of them, a photon, is the thing that makes up light.Elements : There are 92 naturally occurring elements.An element is made of atoms that all have the same number of protons.Hydrogen is an element, so is iodine, uranium, nitrogen and lead.Water is a chemical made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen.During fission, new elements can be created.Plutonium is a manmade element.They are very unstable and don’t last, in relative terms, all that long, which is why they do not exist in nature.Isotopes: The number of neutrons an element can have can change.In normal hydrogen, for example, there is one proton and one electron but no neutron.There are two other forms, deuterium and tritium.These are called isotopes of hydrogen.Each is chemically the same as the other because the number of protons doesn’t change.But each has a different atomic weight.In deuterium, there is one neutron.In tritium, there are two neutrons.Normal hydrogen has an atomic weight of one (because it has only one proton and no neutron.) Deuterium has an atomic weight of two because it has one proton and one neutron.Tritium has an atomic weight of three because there is one proton and two neutrons.One of products produced in the Chernobyl accident is Iodine-131.This is an isotope of iodine.All iodine has 53 protons.The most common isotope has 74 neutrons.Iodine-131 has 78 neutrons.Some isotopes are more unstable than others.The unstable ones desperately want to become stable, so they emit energy, or radiation.Isotopes like this are radioactive — they emit radiation.As radioactive isotopes, they are called radioisotopes or radio-nucleides.Fission : Fission is the splitting of an atom.The atom is held together by powerful forces.When split, it releases energy.In a nuclear reactor, this energy heats water which creates steam which drives a turbine which produces electricity.In a bomb, the force released produces an explosion.Neutrons thrown out by an unstable atom fly around and because they are heavy, they can split an adjacent atom.To do their job properly, the neutrons cannot go too fast.To slow them down, engineers use a moderator, which slows the neutrons down.Heavy water is made of deuterium, the heavier isotope of hydrogen, and oxygen.It is the moderator used in the Canadian-designed Candu reactor.When the amount of moderator is increased, more neutrons are slowed down and more collisions take place, splitting more atoms and creating more energy.When the amount of moderator is decreased, there are more fast neutrons which just go spinning around without splitting as many atoms.Some things don't slow neutrons down, they absorb them.Engi neers use these things to stop a reaction.Boron, which is an ele- ment, absorbs neutrons very well.The Russians are reported to have used boron to bring Chernobyl un der control.Fission products: When atoms split, they create more than just raw energy.When a heavy element like uranium splits, it also creates new elements.These are called fission products.Many of them are unstable and emit energy.Iodine-137 is a fission product.It exists only when created in a reactor core or a nuclear explosion.Half-life: Half-life is a measure of stability.It is the length of time that half the amount of a radioisotope will decay into another element.Iodine-131 has a half-life of eight days.Uranium-235, which is common uranium, has a half-life of 713 million years.In the course of about six half-lives, there is basically nothing left.For Iodine-131, that would take 48 days.Ionizing radiation: This is what all the fuss is about.There are two kinds of radiation.Non-ionizing radiation is radiation that is not powerful enough to impart an electrical charge to whatever it hits.It has less energy than ionizing radiation.Light, ultrasound and microwaves are non-ionizing radia- tion.There are three kinds of ionizing radiation.Gamma radiation is a stream of high-energy photons.It is what makes up an X-ray.This is the most powerful form of radiation but is not necessarily the most dangerous.It has so much energy that it can penetrate most anything.But because it is so fast, it often strikes just a glancing blow that does not do a great deal of damage.Beta radiation is a stream of electrons travelling almost at the speed of light.It has less punch than gamma radiation and can be stopped by a piece of paper or skin.Alpha radiation is stream of particles made up of the nuclei of helium, each consisting of two protons and two neutrons.They are not very fast, in nuclear terms, but can clip along at a speed of 16,000 kilometres per second.They can be stopped by the outer layer of skin or a few centimetres of air.Alpha radiation can be harmful once inside the body because when it hits another atom, it imparts much of its energy to what it hits.That can lead to changes in the atomic structure of what it hits, such as the lining of the lungi BURY * The REt'ORD—Friday.May 16.1986 —___ ivBcora Gov’t watches as Mexicans are killed Scores of Mexican peasants and Indians have been killed in recent years as a result of land conflicts and disputes with landowners, but the government has failed to act to stop the killings and bring those responsible to justice.Amnesty International said Wednesday.In a new report, Mexico: Human Rights in Rural Areas, the worldwide human rights organization said also that torture of detainees was commonplace, and that rural prisoners were often held on false criminal charges.The findings of the 132-page report are confined to the southeastern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas and include the results of two Amnesty International missions there in March 1984 and January 1985.Both states have been troubled for many years by boundary disputes and conflicts between Indian communities (ejidos) and private landowners over rights to traditional Indian communal lands.Amnesty International said it believed other states with similar land problems showed the same pattern of abuses.Armed civilians or gunmen known locally as pistoleros, ostensibly in the pay of landowners or “rural bosses”, appear to be responsible for many killings.Civilian members of government-sponsored peasant organizations who often joined in policing activities in remote areas were also implicated in the killings.The same individuals have been alleged to be responsible for repeated abuses including killings, in the San Juan Copala region of Oaxaca, since 1981.Typical of the many killings in this region was that of Camilo mar-tinez Cruz, a peasant representative from the village of Santa Cruz Tilapa.who was murdered in September 1983 after being seized by several individuals including three believed to be close collaborators with the police and municipal authorities.Warrants for the arrest of the men involved were never put into effect.State government representatives stated that no legal record existed of the killing of Elpidio Vasquez Vasquez, a peasant leader from the Chiapas village of Villa de las Rosas, who was reportedly killed in September 1979 by armed men travelling in a municipal truck.Amnesty International said that official documents in its possession show that the authorities were informed of a killing but failed to set up an inquiry.It called on the judicial authorities of Oaxaca and Chiapas to review investigations conducted by lower officials into unsolved killings and to investigate allegations of collusion by local authorities and law-enforcement officials in killings or their cover-up.It said, however, that the federal government was ultimately responsible for the protection of human rights in all parts of Mexico.The report says that detainees often are held incommunicado for long periods and tortured to extract confessions.Many are beaten after their arrest and electric shocks, the forcing of mineral water up the nose and other forms of torture are common.While Amnesty International welcomes recent legal reforms introduced by the government including proposed legislation against torture, it says that procedures for the investigation of allegations of torture and ill-treatment have failed to provide victims with any real possibilities of redress.In several cases analysed in the report, peasant leaders were falsely charged with murder or other serious offences on unsubstantiated evidence.Many were released when the case came before the courts, or when the charges against them were dropped, but trial proceedings were often subject to long delays.In its reply to Amnesty International, which is published in full in the report, the Mexican Government denies that it has failed to investigate killings impartially, citing in detail four cases which led to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.However, it confirms that in numerous other cases investigations failed to lead to any arrest.The government also dismisses Amnesty International’s concerns regarding torture as “untrue generalizations”, referring to recent legislative proposals to end this abuse.House for rent?Call the tourist bureau The wind blows sweeping the silence away as another flower blooms, this month of May.I am content to just sit at my window and watch Mother Nature do her thing.Again this year, the robin has built her nest in a strange place and she sits there a statue.Her only movement are her eyes slowly blinking as her dreams dance through her mind.The froggies in the distant pond have returned and even on the coldest night they sing their songs of what is yet to come.As April gave birth to May, May like a flower will blossom into the special month of June.Teenagers, 13 to 17 years old: Are you interested in taking a few tennis lessons this summer?Yes?Well, if you are living in the Man-sonville area and you would like to participate in this activity which is sponsored by the Optimist Club of Mansonville, you are asked to provide the club with the following information: your name age and telephone number.Let them know if you have played tennis before and if you own a raquet.Would you prefer courses Saturday mornings or during the week in early evening (if so, which evening)?Send your answer to: Optimist Club of Mansonville, c/o Jacques Ducharme, Box 194, Mansonville, P.Q., JOE 1X0 or hand it in personally to Alain Lessard or Lisa social note 60th anniversary Clarissa and Harry Burt will be At Home to friends on the occasion of their 60th weddning anniversary on Saturday, May 17 from 3 p.m.at 12 Clough St., Lennoxville.Best wishes only please.DANCE for the benefit of ST.PAUL’S REST HOME OF BURY to be held at BURY TOWN HALL Saturday, May 24 Music by OLDE TYME 4 Over 18 years Bretagne Bar Salon Rte.143 South Waterville 837-2323 Dance to Friday & Saturday 9:00 p.m.Sunday.May 18 at 4 p.m.Vicloria Day Dance With country music by the Good Old Boys, Ray & Lyndon Sunday Special Price on Quarts ! News from the Owl’s Head Published by the Mansonville Tourist Bureau Steinback.Parents, please remember that this is a great opportunity for your teenagers to get interested in a fun worthwhile activity.Have fun everyone! Restaurant Le Voyageur on route 243 north of Mansonville is under new administration and is now being run by Colin McKelvey.The new hours are: Monday to Thursday: 6 a m.to 10 p.m., Friday to Saturday 6 a.m.to 3 a m.and Sunday: 6a.m.to 10p.m.Pizza fresh everyday and also a daily special Monday through Friday for $3.25.Now open seven days a week.A lob ball tournament will be held at the Owl’s Nest Inn on May 24 and 25th.Entry fee is $2 per person.For information please call 292-5291 no later than Thursday, May 22nd.Trophies and money! Bring new ball.The United church in Mansonville will hold a confirmation on June 15th and there will be 15 participants.Guest speaker will be Donald Rabson, president of the Montreal and Ottawa conference.Also the United Church auction will be held on July 5th.Look for more details in next month’s newsletter.The Anglican Church ladies will hold a flea market on Saturday the 17th of may in the Anglican Church hall on Main Street in Mansonville from 10 a m.to 4 p.m.A variety of nic-nacs, clothing, raffles, lunch counter and don’t forget to visit the senior citizens DANCE I SALLE JEAN-PAUL BURY May 16, 17, 18 May 23, 24, 25 9 to 1:30 a.m.Orch.: Nashville Cat with Bob Lasenba Fully licenced 872-3249 table! Everyone is most welcome.Congratulations to Marvin Sher-rer who celebrated his birthday on the 14th of May.Happy Birthday Marvin! Henry Woodard who will celebrate his birthday on the 23rd of May.All members of the Chamber of Commerce of Mansonville are invited to attend a conference supper which will be held at the Soleil Rouge Restaurant on May 21st from 7p.m.On that occassion we will greet Roger Constantin, Touristic Commissioner with “1’a-gence de développement touristique Memphremagog.” Constantin will inform everyone of the future touristic development in the Memphremagog MRC.The cost of the supper has been fixed to $15 per person.Please confirm with Ma hie Hastings (292-3956), Thérèse Lutzmann (292-5978) or Jacques Mareoux (292-5757) before Monday, May 19th.Anyone who is not yet a member of the chamber can become one by sending a cheque $30 for business and $20 non-business to C.P.56, Mansonville, P.Q., JOE 1X0.You will then receive your membership certificate promptly.An English gun-safety course will be given on Sunday, June 1st at 8 a.m.sharp.In the town hall in Mansonville.Cost is $15, your social insurance number is required.For information call C.Barnett at 292-3446 or Jim Lawrence at 292-3527.Do you have a house for rent in the Mansonville area?If you do, please contact the tourist bureau at 292-3956.The demand for houses is a great one and we are sure we rent yours.DANCE ENJOY OLD FRIENDS ON THE HOLIDAY WEEK-END AT THE ARMY-NAVY-AIR FORCE VETERANS UNIT 318 SATURDAY, MAY 17th MUSIC WITH: THE CARROUSELS Members & Guests Welcome ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED THIS SUMMER AND CAN'T FIND WEDDING DECORATIONS ANYWHERE?COME TO 154 QUEEN STREET LENNOXVILLE treasure Ctjeôt Wedding bells, cake knives, crepe streamers, banquet table covers, place cards, cake doilies, invitations, picture laminating service Those without disabilities need help By Eleanor Brown SHERBROOKE —Polio has almost disappeared.That’s partly thanks to the Royal Canadian Legion.During the 1946 polio epidemic, the Legion's Quebec command offered its help to the Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis.The RCL raised funds for research and equipment such as iron lungs and braces for those suffering from the crippling disease.Ten years later, volunteers from the newly named Quebec March of Dimes helped immunize over 2 million people between 1956 and 1961.Only isolated cases of polio are now reported.But the medical miracle left the March of Dimes cum legionnaires at a loss.In 1963, they decided to continue their charitable works by affiliating themselves with the Canadian Council for Crippled Children and Adults.But this time, they aren’t out to ‘cure’ anybody.Those who need curing, said this year’s fund raising drive president Dr.Bertrand Primeau, are those with out any disabilities.“The handicap is caused by the environment— by the difficulties encountered in the environment, not by the loss of limbs.If this individual arrives