The record, 19 juin 1986, jeudi 19 juin 1986

V Thursday m ) »i THUNDfcRSTORMS MEGHAN MOORE SHERBROOKE PRIMARY Sherbrooke Thursday, June 19, 1986 40 cents New herpes treatment has a Sherbrooke connection Births, deaths .7 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Farm, Business .5 Living .6 Sports .8 Townships.3 “So much for the arrow test ban treaty." By Philip Authier and The Canadian Press SHERBROOKE — A discovery made by a team of Sherbrooke-connected doctors stands to revolutionize the way man treats virus bugs from herpes to chickenpox, says one of the doctors.Dr.Paul Brazeau, a Sherbrooke native who studied at the Universi- ty of Sherbrooke's medical wing (Centre Hospitalier Université de Sherbrooke) headed the research team which on Wednesday said it had isolated an enzyme inhibitor that stops multiplication in the test tube of a herpes virus.The announcement was made by Notre-Dame Hospital and the Montreal Cancer Institute at a news conference in Montreal.Other doc- tors from Sherbrooke who worked on the project include Yves Lange-lier and Pierrette Gaudreau.both graduates of the CHUS.The development holds the promise, though not yet the assurance, of effectively controlling the virus that causes genital herpes and cold sores in humans.STOPS HERPES The inhibitor, known technically as a peptide, “stops the propagation of the herpes simplex virus,” Brazeau, head of the neuroendocrinology laboratory at Notre-Dame, said in Montreal.“Not only can we do it in a very specific way but in a natural way, expected not to be toxic.It’s a new approach that we are announcing.This new approach can be of some use for other viral infections.” Brazeau said the peptides can be synthesized fairly easily at low cost, “therefore rendering our ap-proachnot only feasible on a fundamental basis but economical for further development of therapy against viral infections.” In an interview with The Record in Lennoxville, where he was at- See BRAZEAU, page 3.PM gets flack for travel OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was likened to a high-flying sheik from Araby Wednesday for spending more than $800,000 on himself and his en-tourage on three foreign trips between October and March.“I’m not asking the prime minister to stay at the YMCA, but does the prime minister think that this kind of lavish spending, like some Middle Eastern sheik, is the kind of example .we should be holding up to the Canadian people while at the same time we cut back on their services and on their programs?” New Democrat John Rodriguez asked in the Commons.Mulroney was not in the House Wednesday.His office said he was in private meetings.But External Affairs Minister Joe Clark dismissed as ridiculous Rodriguez’s questioning about the prime minister’s $l,200-a-night New York hotel room.“In our view, this is a country of standing and pride in the councils of the world and we should act that way, as we do.” Clark also defended the more than $500,000 spent on a week-long visit to Paris in February for the first-ever summit of the world’s francophone countries and an official visit to France.Two lifted barrier that killed four MONTREAL (CP) — Police say two 11-year-olds have admitted lifting a barrier at a suburban railway crossing just before a car-train collision which killed four teenagers.The accident occurred last Friday when a commuter train rammed a car on a level crossing in Pierrefonds.“We’ve spoken to the parents,” said Police Const.Andre Quenneville.“They’ll make sure their kids never do this again.“I don’t think they need worry, the kids were still there when the accident happened and narrowly missed getting killed themselves.The incident is engraved in their minds.” But Quenneville said the youngsters, who were not named, were not the only ones to blame for the accident.“Even if that barrier is lifted, it’s impossible to miss the flashin-glights and the bells." Language groups will be combined QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec may merge four controversial boards to streamline enforcement of the French Language Charter, Premier Robert Bourassa indicated Wednesday.The Liberal government will soon set up a task force that will study the possibility of combining some or all of the four language agencies that have a total budget of $20 million, Bourassa told a news conference.The panel may also recommend amendments to the language law, known as Bill 101, to legalize bilingual signs as promised by the Liberals in last fall's election campaign.The Quebec Appeal Court is expected to rule this summer whether the requirement for French-only signs violates the freedom of expression clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights.Bourassa has said he will await the ruling before reopening the language debate.m ul à' / i f ! fi // / A spectacular pre-wedding party for 500 in Hatley Acres Wednesday went on all night long.Included HI I RI) PI NKY ill VI"' was a $10,000 fireworks display over Lake Massa-wippi.Story, pictures, page 2.Dominion Textiles doesn’t pay South African workers enough By Dan Leger OTTAWA (CP) — Five Canadian companies or their subsidiaries are paying their black South African employees less than what is needed to maintain a decent standard of living for their families, a new report to the government revealed Wednesday.External Affairs Minister Joe Clark tabled in the Commons the report by consultant Albert Hart, who is administering a voluntary code of conduct developed for Canadian companies operating in the apartheid regime.Hart told reporters later that the five Canadian companies — Fal- conbridge Ltd., Dominion Textiles, Massey-Ferguson, Bata Ltd.and Moore Corp.— all had plants or operations in which the lowest-paid black employees were paid less than the standard for a decent living set by researchers at the University of South Africa.And three of the 22 Canadian companies operating in South Africa — Bayer Foreign Investments Ltd., Sternson Ltd.and Cobra Emerald Mines — had not filed re ports as to their compliance with the code of conduct.Hart said he did not want to clas sify the companies according to whether they were corporate “good guys or bad guys," but he said generally, Canadian companies are striving to comply with the code of conduct set by the federal government for their operations in South Africa.All the companies that reported in his survey "support unreservedly the principle of equal pay for equal work." he added.Hart said some instances of non-compliance may be due more to the laws of race separation enfor ced by the government in Pretoria than by any reluctance by mana gers to treat black and other non white workers any differently than their white employees.Chiefs resignation asked for when he was drunk on the job QUEBEC (CP) —The head of the suburban Ste-Foy police brotherhood testified Wednesday that he withdrew his demand for the resignation of police chief Andre Saint Marie last summer after receiving threats on his life.Jules Dubois told a Quebec Police Commission inquiry into the operations of the Ste-Foy force that he asked for Saint-Marie’s resignation last July 8 after repeatedly seeing him drunk on the job.“He was no longer interested in cases,” said Dubois.“He wasn’t doing anything anymore." Saint-Marie has been suspended pending the outcome of the in quiry.Dubois said that two days after he demanded his boss’s resigna tion, he received anonymous threats.“1 was obliged to come back on the decision because of the threats on my life,” he said.Dubois said he did not consult members of the police union before making the demand because “the guys would have been scared to do this.“But it had to be done.” Dubois also testified that th-’ brotherhood hired a psychologist last week to examine members who he said suffered from mental and physical exhaustion Their motivation and morale were also low, he said The inquiry was launched after Ste-Foy police officer Serge Lefebvre was charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the fata! shootings of two Quebec City police officers while they were answering a burglary alarm last summer Lefebvre also told the inquiry last week that he committed at least 300 thefts while on the force.Welfare policy will continue says Bourassa By Paul Mooney QUEBEC (CP) — Despite mounting pressure, Premier Robert Bourassa has refused to back down on his government’s campaign to get tough with welfare cheats.The premier told a news conference Wednesday that the government is trying to apply the welfare policy “as responsibly and fairly as possible,” but enforcement is needed to curb “exploding costs” for public services.The Liberal government has come under fire from welfare rights groups, social activists and church leaders for increasing home visits by welfare inspectors.The government plans to spend $9 million for addit ional inspectors this year and says it hopes to recover about $68 million in unwarranted welfare payments.DRAW PROTESTS Complaining of harassment by inspectors, welfare recipients say the government should focus on income tax evasion instead of the least fortunate people.But Bourassa simply referred to responses given earlier In the national assembly by Pierre Paradis, the minister for manpower and in come Security.“The minister said he is doing the very maximum to watch over the situation and apply department guidelines on ethics,” Bourassa said.“He is applying the policy as humanely as possible." Paradis told the house he will ensure that all welfare recipients are treated fairly.“I will not tolerate any violation of their rights, and if we identify any public servant guilty of such abuses, very severe measures will be taken against that employee.” OPPOSE VISITS On Tuesday, a coalition of more than 20 organizations called for an end to surprise visits by welfare inspectors.The coalition included the Quebec Assembly of Roman Catholic Bishops, the United Church, the Quebec Federation of Women, along with lawyers and trade union and welfare rights groups.The public service union which represents the welfare inspectors, the Syndicat des fonctionnaires provinciaux de Quebec, wrote to Paradis Wednesday asking him to suspend the home visits.The president of the union, Jean-Louis Harguindeguy, said the visits should be halted until Paradis has legal advice to show they do not infringe on basic rights of welfare recipients.“The present situation could also threaten (he safety of agents from your department, who could face problems in the execution of their duties,” Harguindeguy wrote.“We also ask that your department state publicly who is responsible for the policy so that it isn’t attributed to the public servants we represent,” Demands met by Friday or nurses will strike MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec nursing organizations warn they may go on strike within the next few days unless the government sweetens contract offers it made last February.Three nurses federations, representing 39,500 nurses across the province, have declared they won’t accept the 3.5 per cent salary increase the government proposed as its bottom line for raises in the public sector in 1986.Helene Pelletier, president of the Quebec Federation of Professional Nurses, said the government has until Friday to produce “a significant answer to our demands.” “If that doesn't happen, a general strike will start in the 26(1 establishments we represent,” said Pelletier.The federation acts for about 18,(KM) nurses.“A strike is probable within the next few days because 3.5 per cent without anything else added will be hard to accept," said Paul Chaput, a federation official Premier Robert Bourassa said Wednesday the government is "perfectly aware of the nurses’ situation — they have very deman- ding working conditions.” "But as a government we also have to take into account our capacity to pay and we cannot destabilize public finances,” he told reporters in Quebec City.WANT CATCH UP The Quebec nurses say their average salaries of $26,200 a year should be raised to$30,000, to bring them up to the level of their Ontario counterparts.“Our members are being consul- .ted and so far 80 per cent of those who have voted are in favor of a strike if there are no advances in negotiations,” said Lucie Prejean of the United Federation of Nurses which represents 9,500 nurses.The group’s consultations with its members end Friday, after which the nurses will be poised to walk out if they get the word from their leaders, she said.A third group, the Quebec Federation of Nurses which has 12,000 members in 82 health establishments mainly in the Montreal area, has also got the go-ahead from its membership for eventual strike action ifnegotiations fail.Bear pulls down man’s pants WINNIPEG (CP) - A prospec tor who was mauled by a black bear that pulled down his pants and chased him for more than an hour credits his female partner with saving his life.Miles Meagher, 28, was attacked while working on the southwest shore of Oxford Lake in northern Manitoba.“It was nightmarish,’’ Meagher said, recalling how he dodged the bear by playing hide-and seek around an alder bush.The Noranda Ltd.prospector and geological mapper gave full credit to fellow worker, Wendy Gibbons, for saving his life.Gibbons distracted the 68-kilogram bear while she and Meagher and rabies shots.worked their way to safety along a marsh on the southwest shore of the lake.The bear approached Meagher as he was working on a rock outcropping.Meagher dropped his hammer beside his pack and moved away but the bear continued to approach him, backing Meagher into knee-deep water.“There was an alder bush between him and me.We circled that, sort of playing hide-and-seek.” The bear caught the waistband of Meagher's jeans with his teeth and clawed through his heavy mackinaw shirt.“He bit my pants down," he laughed.“It sounds kind of funny now." < I 2—The RECORD—Thursday, June 19.19X6 The Townships f I_frgl mam The wedding party of the year surprises Hatley Acres, pleases 500 By Charles Bury HATLEY ACRES — Five hundred guests gathered in the cool moonlight here Wednesday at a traditional all-night Moroccan prewedding party which included dancing girls and white horses, oriental music, glittering North-African costumes, a giant fireworks display and a minor disruption when the power went off as guests were arriving.The big party was held at the sumptuous lakeside home of Saad Gabr, an enigmatic engineer and investor who lent his country place to the father of the bride for the occasion.Gabr’s name was on the guest list but he did not attend, although his wife was present.It was the Eastern Townships social event of the year but only a single invitation went to a local resident—North Hatley Mayor Ruth Taylor.A small ‘selected’ group of journalists and photographers were also welcomed.Dozens of local residents gathe-fed on the roadside outside the house to watch the spectacular proceedings.They frequently jiroke into cheers when well-dressed women exited limousines at the door.WEDDING SUNDAY The gathering was a preliminary to the wedding of Ann Malka, of Montreal, and Dan Sequerra, of Tangier, Morocco.The couple will marry in Montreal Sunday.Most of the glittering guests were dressed in traditional North-African costumes — colorful floor-length dresses for the women and flowing desert-beige robes for the men.They arrived at Hatley Acres in limousines and chartered luxury busses.Guests were greeted at the door by the bridal couple’s parents, with professional dancers and a strolling Moroccan band in the background.Father of the bride is Montreal real-estate developer Elias Malka, a leader of Montreal’s French-speaking Jewish-Moroccan community.The groom’s father is Émile Sequerra, a Moroccan owner of insurance companies.A dozen members of the Sequerra family had flown from Tangier for the wedding.The couple met in Montreal where both were studying at university.During pre-dinner cocktails a Hydro-Quebec transformer outside blew, breaking a supply wire which fell on a parked car outside.Electricity was cut for only a few minutes as organizers had anticipated every eventuality and had not one but two separate back-up generators ready.MOROCCAN-STYLE TENT Following the cocktails, guests entered a 200-foot white nylon tent with festooned pillars, erected specially for the occasion next to the house.They took their seats under signs identifying each of the major families present, as a nine-piece Moroccan band played strong, rhythmic eastern music.Instruments included a zither, tambo-rines, two sets of drums and a violin played upright on the musician’s knee.Although the music itself was traditional, the band used an electronic keyboard and amplifiers to fill the tent with sound.At just after 10 p.m., the excited crowd fell silent.The couple’s fathers paced nervously near the entrance to the tent.Four drummers marched slowly through the doorway towards the centre of the room.After a brief wait which seemed to agonize many in the crowd, the couple’s brothers and sisters entered in procession.Then, finally, the bridal pair entered the tent in The bridal couple's parents greeted 500 at the door.>¦ V spectacular fashion — astride a pair of white Arabian horses, the groom sporting a maroon fez and the bride a golden cap atop her lacquered hair.The band struck up again; amid wild cheering the couple rode to centre stage.There they dismounted and were led to an elevated double throne where they could be seen by all.INSTAMATICS EVERYWHERE Then followed a round of humorous songs obviously aimed at the bridal couple.As Instamatics flashed everywhere, the pair then led a new round of dancing.Next on the agenda was a feast fit for kings and queens — a traditional méchoui, cooked and served outside by a staff of more than 70 chefs, waitresses, busmen and maitre d’s.Whole roast lambs were cut into quarters and served with assembly-line efficiency in the cool night air.Between courses, the guests moved outside to watch a spectacular fireworks display at midnight sharp.The fireworks were set up 3 km away, across Lake Massawippi at Hovey Manor and must have awakened light sleepers for miles around.Then the crowd moved back inside the giant tent for more rounds of food and drink.Chief organizer André Stabile, a project manager #¦___ggl xsecara Q*org« MacLaran, Publisher.Charles Bury, Editor.Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.Mark Gulllatta, Press 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Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation in the Malka real-estate empire, said festivities would continue all night long.The groom’s father, Émile Sequerra, said he was pleased with his son’s choice.“The Malkas are a very honorable, very well-known family,” he said.SYMBOL OF PEACE Elias Malka is a Montreal area developer.He said in an interview his daughter had met groom-to-be Sequerra “four years ago, while they were at school together.” “We had one big party when they got engaged, then this one and the wedding on Sunday,” Malka said.“Tonight is La Henné, an important Moroccan tradition in which the families on both sides meet, make their peace and become friends in view of the coming union.” “It is a very symbolic ceremony,” he said.It is a symbol of peace.” When not concerned with nuptials, Malka controls a $150-million private investment portfolio.Hosting the pre-wedding blow-out was no problem.One member of the organizing team said the Hatley Acres party would cost “between $125,000 and $175,000.” PRICE DOESN’T MATTER “We won’t know for sure until all the bills are in," he added.“But it doesn’t make any difference to Mr.Malka.He wanted a nice party for Ann and he's getting it.A few thousand dollars more or less won’t mean anything.” The fireworks display alone cost over $10,000.It was put together by three members of the Canadian team which competed last week in the Montreal International Fireworks Exhibition.The Arabian horses were brought in by trainer Jean Bélanger of Les Écuries Quatre Saisons in Saint Bruno.They are often used in films produced in the Montreal area, Bélanger said.“I’m pretty happy with the way things went," he said after the steeds' triumphal entrance.“They don’t usually go into the middle of a crowd cheering like that — and with a band playing too! They behaved very well.” M Bride-to-be Ann Malka entered the 200-foot tent on her Arabian horse.Elias Malka .A symbol of peace between families.Émile Sequerra.from Morocco.Family flew in Prospective groom Dan Sequerra met his bride in college.1 A staff of 70 prepared the midnight feast.M The bridal couple (centre) led off a round of traditional dancing.1 - mAmm* Everything was ready for the 500 invited guests.> P5WSW» The Townships The RECORD—Thursday.June 19.1986—3 —_____ftg-l Awccnni Wrongful dismissal: Balfour’s to pay former vice-president $30,000 By Eleanor Brown SHERBROOKE - L.G.Balfour of Canada Ltd.will not appeal a Superior Court decision awarding one of its former employees compensation for being fired and denied severance pay without cause.Donald ‘Dick’ Fuller sued Balfour after he was shown the way to the door in August, 1984.The dismissal marked the end of a two-year stint as vice-president, manufacturing and sales.The court awarded Fuller $30,334.60, plus interest.But Mr.Justice Thomas Tôth rejected a demand for an extra $25,000for‘moral damages’, ruling that the plaintiff had not suffered excessive harm.Some $13,000 of benefits and pay received before the dismissal was also deducted from the total $78,046 Fuller had requested.Originally, $155,000 was sought but the figure was reduced before the trial.The case wound up March 26, with a decision rendered May 14.Balfour then had 30 days to file an appeal.Balfour’s legal counsel, Guy Achim, angrily refused this week to comment on the status of the case.WON’T APPEAL But Joseph Cassar, Fuller’s lawyer, confirmed that Balfour, the defendant, had decided not to appeal the decision.Balfour’s American parent, L.G.Balfour Company of Attleboro, Mass, sent Fuller — an employee of 14 years — to its Canadian counterpart as a consultant in 1982.Newcomer Fuller was named production manager that same year.Eventually, the responsibilities of sales and marketing were entrusted him as well.He was sacked two years later.Balfour's case hinged on testimony by former vice president of finance Rosemary Pruneau.Using three pages of his 18-page written decision to explain, Mr.Justice Tôth dismissed Pruneau's deposition: “Her testimony is a veritable indictment of the plaintiff, an indictment cooked up in advance, abundantly loaded with hearsay." Pruneau’s evidence claimed Fuller was “disloyal” and sought to undermine the authority of his equals and superiors, the judge said.Fuller was also attacked for an inability to maintain harmonious relations with employees.DISLOYAL’ COMPLAINTS Justice Tôth said Pruneau took advantage of contact with the parent company to attack Fuller while the two were complaining about former president Don Fleis- cher.The judge found it ironic that her comments were seen as profiting the company, while he said Fuller’s complaints about Fleischer were “disloyal”.However Fuller was not blameless either, Mr.Justice Tôth said.He said the plaintiff “lacked tact and flexibility” with employees.The judge said the newcomer’s attempted overhall of a system proving itself unprofitable made him enemies.Fuller was too ambitious, lacked imagination, and didn’t foresee obvious negative reactions, the decision stated.Despite this, a letter dated November 1983 and signed by Fleischer referred to Fuller’s performance on the job as “outstanding”, and to the vice-president himself as a “result getter”.Regardless, Balfour’s U.S.president James Cook told Fleischer to fire Fuller.Cook then fired Fleischer immediately.NO JUST CAUSE’ Fuller was not told why his services were no longer needed, the judge said “In all this,” Justice Tôth concluded, “this tribunal cannot find ‘just cause' justifying dismissal without warning.The notion of ‘just cause’ implies serious grounds such as dishonesty, insubordination or gross negligence, grounds which reflect a certain gravity since they result in dismissal — a considerable sanction — and not a disciplinary measure of lessor importance.” Fuller also said he was denied severance pay.Balfour countered that he had agreed to receive severance pay from the American company, an account Mr.Justice Tôth dismissed.“There is no proof whatsoever of acceptance on the part of the plaintiff.Further, the American company did not pay him anything.” Finally.Mr.Justice Tôth said some of the blame for the unfortunate turn of circumstances had to be lain right at the top —- at the feet of Cook, the president of Balfour's U.S.corporate parent.“It is quite curious to observe that Cook knew the plaintiff (Fuller) had a communications problem with his subordinates.” "He (Fuller) was therefore not the suitable person to occupy the position of sales manager, especially since his expertise was in the field of production and not in sales.Nevertheless, in his capacity as president of the board of directors* (Cook) did not prevent the nomination.” Instead, concluded Justice Tôth, “he approved it.” Connaught Home residents whose eyes aren’t as good as they used to be now read big-print books By Melanie Gruer NORTH HATLEY — For three or four years now, the residents at the Connaught Home have been catching up on their reading the easy way.The 40 residents have been able to get their hands on literature with a twist: bigger print.It’s easier to see and much easier to read without straining the eyes.Elizabeth Biron and Betty Bunting are in charge of the in-house library which holds about 200 books.The library is a success, claims Biron, because most of the people at the Connaught Home aren’t able to get out to the town’s hbrary.The books are taken from room to room on a cart bought with a donation.“People have been so happy with the service they get that there is never a lack of donations.Sometimes I go into someone’s room and they say, ‘Here’s your cheque’,” says Biron.TWO A WEEK The big print library started about four years ago with only a few books.More donations have made it possible for the North Hatley Public Library to buy books and gradually, the collection has grown.Now the novels include a wide selection with something for everyone, from Robin Moore’s The French Connection to Catherine Gaskin’s Edge of Glass.Elizabeth Sparks lives at the Connaught Home and she says she reads at least two books each week.“I do enjoy the library,” Sparks says.“I read everything and I always finish everything.I’m not one to put a book down in the middle just because I get to a dull part.” The selection of books at the home is always changing because Biron and Bunting swap novels with other homes in Rock Island and Lennoxville.Soon the Connaught Home hopes to be trading books with homes in Sherbrooke too.Lee Watson likes the selection of books that are available to her and says most of the others do too.“We think it’s marvelous.They’re doing a great job,” Watson says But Biron says not everyone is able to read even the large print books: “Sometimes their eyes get so bad they can’t even read these.” She says if enough people show interest, the library would like to get some books recorded on tapes.The library has looked into such tapes, available at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.But these tapes are only available ¦ v* J : •-I J ¦ v & ; & : * flisi li .• „ - "Wi -iJ- i , '*< • i •>x y li'î* 4 ; Im % ; « ; tH è - V# rrerr * 2 i i * * m i h j ! i ( f!i! i i I U.y 1 I I i i i :*pli II if in,! i 2 § : » _TT~ iff sill yiiiij iiiii j Elizabeth Biron helps to run the big print library.One of the favorite books is Elizabeth Goudge’s The Castle on the Hill.mmÊ Mrs.Lee Watson shows off the big print in the book she is currently reading Edge of Glass by Catharine Gaskin.jp : ^ spfef I to those who have been declared legally blind.So Biron says the library has decided to record its own books as soon as someone wants a tape made.Biron says she loves her job and the people that go with it.“I thoroughly enjoy it and they are such fun.It's never a chore to come here.” Pipeline leaks 60,000 litres of oil, will cost Sherbrooke $30,000 SHERBROOKE (EB) — A break in an underground pipeline that no one noticed for five months has resulted in the loss of over 60,000 litres of oil, the Tribune reported today.The leak occurred at the site of the municipal Public Works in Sherbrooke, alongside the St.Francis river, reported Tribune journalist François Gougeon in a front page story.The newspaper quoted reliable sources as saying a large amount of fuel was lost when a feed pipe at the reservoir started leaking.The problem worsened over “several months,” the report states, and could even have developed at the beginning of winter.But the loss was still so small it wasn’t noticed until recently.The environment minister has been alerted.Specialists will be sent to determine the fuel’s whereabouts, said the Tribune, which may have been lost into the St.Francis river or may be trapped underground.The team will also try to discover the leak’s cause.COUNCILLORS TOLD City of Sherbrooke council mem- Brazeau: Much research still to be done Continued from page 1 tending a barbecue, Brazeau said the discovery means man now has a new tool for attacking viruses.“You attack the enzyme of the virus and you don’t touch at all the enzyme of the regular cell that is being infected,” Brazeau said.“In other words, you kill the bug right where you can get it.” Brazeau said it is true that herpes is one of the more “glamorous” viruses for researchers to attack but said it just so happens that it was the first.OTHER BENEFITS He highlighted the benefits the model his team has developed will have on other viruses such as chickenpox, rabies in pigs and cancer in chicken blood cells.“Of course this gives us tremendous leeway,” he said.“It’s a fabulous tool to go further.It’s (herpes is) a first step, it’s our first model." “We just found the key that locks the survival of viruses and with that key we can design other keys for other viruses and knock the hell out of them," he said.Brazenu.It’s a fabulous tool.Brazeau admitted a great deal of research remains to be done before it can be applied to humans, although he noted there is hope for people who have herpes.He called it a fantastic leap.“We believe we have a breakthrough.But beyond the enthusiasm., we still depend on the amount of money available for us to develop the rest of this project.” USE ON HUMANS?Asked how long it would take to produce an actual substance that could be used on humans, Brazeau estimated that it could be up to five years.Another doctor said it might be 10 years before government permission is received to use it.When a reporter suggested that the real purpose of the news conference was a veiled appeal for money, Brazeau replied: "Not necessarily.We’re talking about science.” He told The Record that given between $3 and $6 million, he would have the result.As for the current use of the substance called acyclovir in the treatment of herpes in humans, Brazeau said the difference is essentially that “our approach would act as a preceding step in the replication of the virus.” He said it would be more effec- tive because it would attack the virus at the incubation stage.Asked whether the announcement was premature, Brazeau said : “I don’t think it’s premature to tell you that we have a new way, a new control.It’s premature to tell you exactly when and how and what preparation we’re going to use on patients.” CRITICAL However, a Montreal doctor told CBC radio news this morning (Thursday) that the announcement was premature and it would take years of testing before it could be applied.A statement issued by the hospital said the discovery of the peptide represented the first step in the treatment of the herpes virus, but many obstacles must be overcome before its effectiveness in humans is established.An accompanying statement noted that genital herpes appears to be spreading.It said a recent study conducted in Montreal showed that at least 30 per cent of the women examined have been infected by herpes simplex type 2.Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU RIGHT BY TH5 LITTIB CROSS OF ST.GEORGE ANP CHECK.tmiHER you'll BE V ATTBNPtHG THEROWL YUP.miRmiB ThEWemNG* ENTITLES YOU.TMINVITEP THE INVITE'S HERE TO THE IN YOUR' MEPPIN6* FILE I PONT BE- THE OTHERSTUFF UEVE THIS! IN THERE IS THE T/H GOING VISCOUNTS PER- TO MEET SONAL \ SOME OF THEM BUT THESE FROM THE m ARE.ARE.CENTURA.FASCJN-UNPAIP ATING, \ BIOS.HUH?bers were told of the problem at a closed meeting.Reservoir director-general Roch Letourneau did not deny the Tribune's information.Letourneau said the leak was repaired upon its discovery.He also said no blame could be laid on employees.“It’s an unfortunate happening, but there are no reproaches to be made to anyone, at least by us., as we immediately made the neccessary repairs and advised the Environment Ministry, to which we have offered our collaboration.” Continued Létourneau: “It appears that this goes back several months, perhaps even to last winter, and the trickle was small.” The smell of gas was not more pronounced than usual near the reservoirs, making its existance difficult to detect.The Tribune stated control me-chanisms only measure the amount of fuel leaving the reservoir compared to that used by vehicles.Létourneau, the newspaper said, did not try to hide the fact the system was outdated.The director said major changes are on the way, including computerization.THOUGHT OF THEFT But Létourneau implied the fuel might not have been ‘lost’.The small yet obvious losses were perhaps too regular.“We’ve asked ourselves about that,” he said.“At one point, we were even thinking of theft." Létourneau said the Ministry of Energy has established the 60,000-litres-lost figure.The loss, totaling some $30,000, may up the .50 a litre price tag at the pumps, not to mention damage to the St.Francis River, if that’s where the fuel is.If it seeped underground, the city may have to dig down and pump it back to the surface.n CINEMAS CARREFOUR DE L’ESTRIE boul.Portland, Sherbrooke 565-0366 Special every Tuesday *2.50 TOM CRUISE = * CINEMA 7:15 - 9:20 UP THERE WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST Gq POLTERGEIST II "oral swcoas soExi CINEMA 7:00 • 9:00 Crime is a disease.Meet the cure.STALLONE/COB CINEMA 7:30 - 9:30 4—The RECORD—Thursday, June 19, I9XG The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial When the facades topple There was a style of building, popular during the days when cowboys and prospectors were taming the Wild West, that attempted to give the hastily-constructed western towns an air of grandeur.Main streets lined with imposing false-fronted buildings became a standard feature in a rash of western movies in the 50s and 60s.Movie producers must have blessed their pretentious ancestors for providing such an easy setting to duplicate with relative authenticity.They could create the impression of a thriving western community with little more than cardboard cutouts with no structures behind them.Yesterday in the House of Commons Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was compared to “some Middle Eastern sheik’’ for spending more than $800,000 on himself and the rest of a delegation on three foreign trips between October and March.New Democrat John Rodriguez asked if this kind of “lavish spending” by the Prime Minister is the kind of example that should be held up to Canadians while services are being cut back left and right.The response, from External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, was that, “In our view, this is a country of standing and pride in the councils of the world and we should act that way, as we do.” Like the dream-weavers who put together the glossy products that have graced the silver screen for decades, Canada’s political leaders are making a concerted effort to put up false fronts for the rest of the world to see, while neglecting the firmer structures required to make up a real town — and a real nation.Unfortunately, in this case, the procedure is not in the interest of economy.Taxpayers’ money is being spent on elaborate packaging at the expense of the quality of :?the product.Politicians and diplomats galli-:• vanting around the world, living a life of grace and ease in the interest of effective PR for the ** country, make fools of the rest of us left behind working diligently to cut corners and tighten our belts in every way possible.Is our pride as a nation worth the sacrifices required for these image-building exercises?: Wouldn’t a little humility among our politicians and diplomats be preferable, while we put our efforts into building something here at home that we can really be proud of — and will last?If we don't soon put a lid on indiscriminate spending on such things as accomodation and < hospitality during politicians’ trips abroad, we > risk even greater humiliation.When the fa-I; cades topple, as they invariably do, we’ll be left standing red-faced before creaking tar-paper shanties.LAUREL SHEERER Levett I Odds and ends It’s Odds Bodkin time once more —time to peel away *’ all the strange stuff that has been festering thereon L since the last onset of good housekeeping.% (The Odds Bodkin is.in reality, an old.encrusted ^ filing spike upon which is plunked that which you really meant to get around to some day.It must be pruned $ down every now and then because all those clippings ** make cleaning the pipe a decidedly messy operation.) Somehow, though, you just hate to let some of these stories pass unheralded.For instance, there’s one from California about a new telephone coming on the market.The caller merely has to touch a button to send his or her photograph to the person being called.On the one hand, it should add a new dimension to the obscene phone-call, but, on the other, just think of the possibilities for revenge.New York checks in with a story about something called Silent Persuasion.This is McDonald’s (the hamburger people) name for their new television commercial for the deaf It’s in sign language, captioned for those who might miss the unspoken message.REJECTS SHEEP From Hancock, Mass., comes word that the owners of a nudist camp have won a court decision that should force their farmer neighbor to keep his animals from trying to horn in on the camp's southern exposure.The nudists say the 40 sheep, 10 cows, 15 horses and uncounted goats are not really the problem — it’s what they leave behind.Wellington.N.Z.contributes a piece on the discovery of something called a sea daisy.This creature has 10 sex organs and stores food in its feet because it has no stomach.This bizarre form of marine life lives in waterlogged wood, deep under the sea, which is probably just as well.The latest boon to mankind comes from Roger Gam-blin of Dayton, Ohio, who has developed a smudgeless newspaper ink Pity it took him so long, otherwise you wouldn't be getting this stuff all over your hands right now, would you?The manufacturers of a new mosquito repellent proved their point the hard way when they set up a publicity stunt in a London restaurant.They smeared a model with the stuff and locked her in a glass cage with :i.(KH) ravening mosquitoes that had been starved for three days.The model wasn't bitten, but the mosquitoes got out somehow and fed on the audience of assembled business executives and journalists Canada has its share of protection problems By Alan Bass OTTAWA (CP) — The politician stood before a steel industry conference in his home town — a steel town racked by layoffs.“You asked for protection from dumped and subsidized steel,” he proclaimed.“Well, I have news for you.You asked for it, you got it!” This was another one of those protectionist American senators fishing for votes in some Pennsylvania town, right?Wrong.This was Sault Ste.Marie, Ont., home to troubled Algoma Steel Corp.And the home-town politician playing to a protectionist lobby last month was none other than Canada’s freer-trading trade minister, Jim Kelleher.He was announcing a major investigation into foreign steel imports and measures to make it easier for Canadian steel producers to get punitive duties imposed against their competitors' products.As substantive freer-trade talks between Canada and the United States got under way this week, most Canadians had heard all about the growing tide of protectionism in the United States and the threat it poses to Canadian trade.Fewer Canadians realize there’s a growing mood of protectionism in Canada too.SEEKS PROTECTION An increasing number of Canadian industries, like their American counterparts, are petitioning the government for special “contingency protection" against imports they claim are unfairly subsidized by foreign governments or dumped into Canada at artificially low prices.Their complaints are investigated by an obscure Canadian government agency called the Canadian Import Tribunal, which has the same protectionist powers as the U.S.International Trade Commission, the body whose investigation into Canadian softwood lumber has been splashed all over the front pages of Canadian newspapers.The import tribunal decides whether dumped or subsidized imports are hurting domestic produ- cers.If they are, punitive duties are imposed — anti dumping duties on dumped products and countervail duties on subsidized goods.In 1981, the tribunal handled just 19 trade investigations.Last year it handled 49, including several against American products.Import tribunal chairman Robert Bertrand acknowledged the increased caseload indicates that many Canadian industries are nursing the same protectionist mood that grips American business, and for much the same reason.FEELS PINCH “Following the recession in 1981-82, there is no doubt that the demand from the market dropped for many products,” Bertrand said.“With a falling demand in Canada, there’s a tendency for the domestic producer to feel more of a pinch from import competition.When demand is falling you will object to your competitor.You’re bound to have more complaints.” If protectionism is growing in Canada, why do so many Canadian indus- tries support the government's freer-trade initiative?Some critics say it’s because freer trade with the United States will actually bring Canada under the U.S.protectionist umbrella and lead to more severe restrictions against non-American imports."That’s where I see the big divide on this free-trade question,” said NDP MP Steven Langdon.“Those who support a free-trade agreement with the United States are really saying our long-term interest is becoming part of Fortress North America.” Meanwhile, anti-Canadian protectionism in the United States is big news in Canada while Canadian protectionism gets scant attention.According to Ottawa trade lawyer Peter Clark, that’s the way things usually go in the world of trade.“It’s a question of whose ox is being gored,” Clark said.“We represented the Koreans, for example, in a case against color television sets a while back.There was little in the Canadian press on that, but there sure was a lot in the Korean press.” The complex business of predicting weather By Gerald Weseen HALIFAX (CP) — When it rains on your parade, don’t blame the folks W'ho predicted sunshine.They're like everyone else — trying to do their best in a complex business, says the man in charge of the Maritimes Weather Centre.And they don’t need more criticism than they already get.“F’orecasters are always bothered by it a little bit because we view ourselves as making our best effort,” says Paul Galbraith, whose brown hair is streaked with grey after 20 years in the business."It can be frustrating because the atmosphere’s not always co-operative.” For instance, he admits, while it’s easy to predict rain, it’s not so easy to say how much.Even the weathermen can be surprised by a downpour.“Meteorology is a very complex study,” adds Galbraith, a serious, bearded man who has heard his share of weather jokes.Complex indeed.That 10-second forecast you hear on the radio as you dash out the door is the result of hours of work with data from banks of computers.There’s a radar screen that keeps tabs on preci- pitation, satellite photographs and charts that look more like abstract art than a tool for telling whether it’s safe for Maritime fishermen to put out to sea.DATA COLLECTED The ingredients for an accurate forecast are mind-boggling.Data on atmospheric conditions are collected twice daily by weather balloons, satellites and ground stations around the world, fed into computers in Washington, D.C., the Soviet Union and Australia and sent to national forecast headquarters in each country.The Canadian headquarters is in Montreal, where the information is turned into maps of current conditions with the help of computer programs called weather prediction models.The maps go to the regional weather centres across the country, where meteorologists take hourly reports from observation stations and do a more detailed analysis of local weather patterns.Only then do they convert the jumble of figures, swirls and colors into a written forecast that people can understand.“By using these computer models you predict what state the atmosphere will be in 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours, 48 hours,” says Galbraith.“We get a prediction for 12 hours into the future” and also a general indication of weather for the next five days.SENT TO MEDIA The forecasts — a paragraph or so for a half-dozen regions in each province — are usually done three times a day, unless storms require more frequent updates.Then they’re sent to radio and television stations and newspapers.The fact that some trust their lives to the 50-odd people who work in the Maritimes Weather Centre is never far from Galbraith’s thoughts.“We’re always trying to think of the importance, it concerns us,” he says.“For example, we realize that in the marine community there are people who rely on our forecast when they head out in relatively small craft to fish and their lives can, in extreme cases, be at stake if our forecast is really poor.“If really strong winds and waves were to occur unexpectedly they could be in a precarious situation.” UNFAIR '^WciAh/Sj fÿSil Another episode in that continuing saga Strangely enough the last excursion into the memoirs of Dunkin McMan-sonville passed without the usual re-percusions.Either those who normally raise to the occasion have since passed on to their just rewards or my veritable barrage of unrefutable historical information has become simply too much to fight.In any case I must assume that my claims to family roots here in the townships have been accepted fully by those who might have doubted their authenticity.Consequently it is with no little pride I take typewriter in hand once again and disclose more factual information gleaned from the back pages of the family bible, and offer yet still, another exciting episode in the ongoing saga.As you may remember, or may wish to forget (and in that case let me remind you) Dunkin McMansonville arrived here a long time ago.He was accompanied by his wife Highwater and a set of blueprints for the world’s largest alcohol producing still.In past literary adventures I have explained how this still and it's illegal production went a long way towards establishing relations between the recently arrived anglo saxons and the resident Abenaki tribe.In fact it was one of Dunkin’s sons, his only normal son I might add (normal in that although he wore a potato sack to hide his ugly-ness from the world and consequently became known as Veiled Perkins he failed to exhibit some of the stranger habits adopted by his younger brothers and sisters) who convinced the Abenaki to set up and then later abandon a commercial fishing industry on beautious Lake Memphrema-gog.But that’s another story completely.It was during this early establishment of the family tree that another of Dunkin’s relatives arrived to lay yet still more roots.Dunkin had written home a series of glowing reports about the potential business opportu- Where ^ ^ the g*) pavement x _ à ends ?7 JIM LAWRENCE nities in this his adopted land.His letter could not have arrived at a better time for his third cousin Harry Ruiter.Harry had risen to the dizzy heights of a full colonel in the Royal Guards but found himself in the position of having to “leave town” somewhat quickly.Apparently, and the details are rather sketchy, he took a urine test normally reserved for the royal mounts (horses) while he was slightly under the influence.Not only did the sample act as a perfect thermometer and record the day’s temperature (a mild 74’ F) due to the high alcoholic content, but when dropped by an amazed veterinarian, ignited and was responsible for a massive fire which completely destroyed two wings of the Royal Stables at Leeds.He was immediately cashiered from the regiment and his name was striken from the records.Proof of this story can be found even today as there is no record of a Colonel Ruiter shown in the regimental archives.Colonel Harry (weak bladder) Ruiter was no doubt excited about the prospects of joining his cousin Dunkin in this Garden of Eden as he left on the next available ship.It was some time however before he arrived in this area.Dunkin.still convinced that he was living in Florida between two orange groves rather than in Quebec between two stands of skunk cabbage (which grew much larger in those days) had listed his return address as Mansonville, Florida.(It has also been suggested that this was not so much a mistake but as an attempt to hide his real address from the authorities who had lost track of he and his wife while they are being shipped to a penal colony in Australia - but that’s another story as well, see The Record Friday Jan.3, 1986).Colonel Ruiter searched the entire eastern seaboard living on his wits and a series of bad cheques issued on a non-existant financial institution.Finally after months of searching he picked up a trail of discarded bottles labelled McMansonville’s Orange Juice Supplement (which smelled strangely of potato vodka) and was lead directly to Dunkin’s establishment.He arrived on a warm July morning as Dunkin was throwing the last of his customers, from the night before, into the street.(Things haven’t changed much) “Hi there Dunkin” he shouted “I’m your cousin Harry.” Dunkin looked up and scuttled back into the building where he immediately began to lock the doors and windows.Not dismayed by this apparent lack of family spirit, nor by Dunkin’s quickly assumed heavy Italian accent, Harry found his way into the hotel by a coal chute and demanded family hospitality.His demands for a “room with a bath” allowed Dunkin to rent him a bathroom on the third floor, in which he immediately set up housekeeping.One of Colonel Ruiter’s driving ambitions was to establish a series of bull fighting schools across North America.As a pilot project he built a massive, extensive arena directly in front of the McMansonville Hotel and spent weeks diligently painting signs explaining the project and inviting the locals, both Indian and White, to sign up for one of his “Arthur Murray style" bull fighting courses.Hisescallating rates would take one from a mere Picador to a full three-star Matedor over a series of weekly and monthly sessions at a cost of slightly under what it would cost to build a small battleship.Unfortunately for Harry a local Abenaki ordinance forbid the use of any language other than pure Iroquois on public signs and he was forced to paint out his long English language explanation of what was going on inside the building.Since nobody understood his totally white signboards no one was convinced to sign up for any courses, in fact nobody even ventured into the huge building except for the maintenance people he had hired to feed the herd of bulls he had imported at great expense from Spain.In later years the building was completely destroyed by fire and the remains levelled and planted with crabgrass and weeds.Even today you can see the outlines of his arena still vacant in the middle of Mansonville.The extreme green of the grass indicates it’s healthy state which is due obviously to the original contents of the arena and the by products of housing Colonel Ruiter’s herd of bulls.Heartbroken because of his disaste-rous business venture Colonel Harry Ruiter moved from Dunkin’s hotel and set up housekeeping in a valley to the west which he immediately named after himself.It was many years before Colonel Valley was renamed the Ruiter Valley to coincide with the Ruiter Brook which had been originally named Harry’s Creek.He devoted the rest of his life to teaching pornographic versions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas by rote to the Abenaki and building a beautiful nine hole golf course high in the mountains.Even today many of the local inhabitants go up to the “nine holes” to play a round.Such is the place carved by common men in history and obviously my family was a little more common than most.r I Farm and Business___________________ ‘Val St.François CLE is accomplishing its goal’ The RECORD—Thursday, June 19, 1986—5 the « By Claudia Villemaire BROMPTONVILLE — A successful year has just been reported, ‘ Proving the Val St.François CLE is accomplishing its goal after just one year of operation,” confirmed president Roch Leblanc.The organization, formed on a non-profit basis to promote new industry, expand existing ones and provide management, technical and financial help to small and medium sized enterprises, presented its first annual report to the public Tuesday in Bromptonville.The financial year ended April 30.“(The year) eighty-five has been very successful.We have used the money granted to the organization to help individuals and groups to start new business or expand what they already have resulting in the creation of more jobs in this area,” said Marc Simoneau, director general of the organization.President Leblanc explained the success the group had last year was in large part due to the dynamism of all the people directly concerned with CLE as well as the tremendous co-operation of the business community and the public in general.“Thanks to the organization which got us off the ground financially, Le Fonds de prévoyance de Windsor inc.we began operations with a firm financial base,” Leblanc said “Our name, CLE (Création locale de l’emploi), derives from a federal job-creation program aimed at high unemployment areas where the will to build and progress is blocked through a lack of finance, management or technical skills,” he added.“We differ from other similar organizations in that our mandate includes both technical and financial help and we are more willing to invest in an enterprise where risks are too high for conventional financing,” he said.Leblanc explained assistance Left to right: CLE director general Marc Simoneau, president Roch Leblanc, Bromptonville representa- from CLE could come in several forms; as a loan, endorsing a loan, acting as guarantors or in some cases becoming a special type of share holder, all depending on the financial structure of any given enterprise.“For these reasons our participation is subject to definite criteria and limited to a maximum of $25,000 per enterprise per year.Therefore ours is a young clientele and industries are mainly small,” Leblanc said.SPECIFIC PROBLEMS “Whether a client needs updating or education in financing, marketing, management or production, we are prepared to fill these needs either with our own personnel or by initiating courses that may be attended by several clients at the same time.During our first year of operation we were able, with the close collaboration of local chambers of commerce, seven formation courses, bringing together 160 perticipants.“During our second year,” “ he continued, “we plan to intensify and expand these seminars and formation courses with more emphasis on specific problems.We have a special budget set aside to provide the specialized information which this type of intense study can require.” PRIME CONCERN Summing up Leblanc emphasized the société was formed “by you and for you.Decisions are made right here by people who live and work here.The dynamism of this group is a direct reflection of the willingness of the population to make changes happen and keep local development on the upswing.The structure of this group has been devised and supported by industry, business and the public from Val St.Francois.Our goal is to carry out the mandate given us through increased employment and a better future here, now and in the years to come”.There will be at least two management seminars coming up, probably in September and April, 1987.Other courses will be more specific with specialists presenting the information.“Job creation in this area is a prime concern of the CLE and for this reason we keep in close contact with all the organizations and government agencies which have the same concerns.Municipal councils, mayors, Val St.Francois MRC, chambers of commerce as well as industrial promoteurs are all aware of our existence and what we offer,” said Simoneau.NEB starts unraveling natural gas regulations By Warren Caragata OTTAWA (CP) — The National Energy Board started to unravel some of the web of regulations over the natural gas industry Tuesday, making it easier for gas producers to cut their own deals with purchasers in Eastern Canada.The board said its decision will give producers making direct sales better access to the TransCa-nada PipeLines Ltd.system, the only way of getting natural gas from Alberta to markets in Ontario and Quebec.The decision will encourage more competition in natural gas markets, Energy Minister Pat Carney said in a statement.The recommendations from the board are well balanced and appear “to be fair to both producers and consumers,” she said.NDP energy critic Ian Waddell said that while he has some concerns about the ruling, it appears to break TransCanada’s monopoly.The issue, decided after three months of public hearings this winter, is one of the most complex the board has ever had to deal with, said John Dunn, manager of regulatory affairs for Shell Canada in Calgary.“So much of a web of regulation has been woven that it is difficult to tear it apart,” he said before the decision was handed down.The decision was necessary because of the move last year by the federal government to begin deregulation of the complex natural gas industry.The board ruled Tuesday that independent gas producers who are not tied into the TransCanada system as contract suppliers can transport their gas through the line even though it displaces gas that is sold under contract.LONG-TERM CONTRACTS Until last year, almost all the gas in Canada was sold under longterm contracts between purchasers and TransCanada.In turn, TransCanada had long-term supply contracts with most of the gas producers in Alberta.Some of the contracts run for as long as 20 years.However, some contracts with industrial users have shorter terms.To kick off deregulation, the government allowed direct sales to large industrial users of gas.The board ruled that while independent producers will be able to buy pipeline space, they will have to pay some of the charges that were run up several years ago when TransCanada bought more gas than it could use.Because it had signed contracts to take the gas anyway, it was on the hook for more than $2 billion.The board also decided that TransCanada will not be able to bill industrial users twice for so-called “demand charges.’’ Demand charges are a fixed monthly payment that TransCanada uses to pay its fixed costs of running the pipeline.To sort out the results of Tuesday’s decision, the board said it now will ha ve to set up a new way of determining the charges that TransCanada levies for use of the 3,900-kilometre pipeline.The decision pitted TransCanada and most Alberta gas producers, plus a consortium of 29 banks, against large industrial users of gas and Ontario and Quebec, which want to get gas as cheaply as possible, Robert Reid, an analyst with McLeod Young Weir in Toronto, said.The most contentious issue was how to deal with the take-or-pay charges that were run up earlier.Those charges are about 20 cents per gigajoule, or seven per cent of the cost of gas at the Alberta border.Because TransCanada had signed take-or-pay deals with producers, it was liable to pay for gas even if it did not take it.Having over-estimated the demand, it contracted for more gas than it could sell and was on the hook to pay for it.When the charges reached about $2.3 billion, TransCanada and a consortium of 29 banks reached a deal called Topgas (take-or-pay gas).The banks took over the obligation to pay the producers.In return for getting an immediate injection of cash from the banks, the producers agreed to pay off the loan.These payments are made from revenue from gas sales through the TransCanada system.Independent gas producers who are not part of the Topgas deal and industrial users have argued that they should not have to pay the Topgas charges of about 20 cents-a-giga joule.TransCanada, its gas producers and the Topgas banks opposed that notion.If independents were free of the Topgas charges, their gas would be more competitive than gas sold by TransCanada and its stable of producers, including all the major producers.The board ruled independent producers will have to pay a portion of the Topgas charges for three years, while the industry adapts to deregulation.They will begin making the payments Nov.1.Their share will be about half the Topgas charge, or 10 cents in the first year, declining to eight cents in the third.Bob Price, an industry analyst with Peters and Co.in Calgary, said the board’s decision on the Topgas issue appears to be a good compromise.Economy back on the rise OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian economy has lost a little steam but is still expected to chug along in the near term, figures released by Statistics Canada on Monday indicate.The leading indicator put out by the government agency rose to 172.3 in March, an increase of 0.9 per cent, compared with a rise of 1.0 per cent the previous month.The indicator, which signals future economic trends, accelerated continuously between May and December 1985, but slowed gradually Bankruptcy OTTAWA (CP) — The number of businesses and consumers declaring bankruptcy dropped last month, compared with May 1985, but the total to date in 1986 is higher than the comparable 1985 figure.The superintendent of bankruptcy announced today there were 2,374 bankruptcies last month, .down from 2,463 in May 1985.Figures for the first five months of the year show 12,451 failures this year, up from 12,195 in 1985.Looking at the year to date, bankruptcies were up in every province and territory except Alberta, where they stand at 1,375 compared with 1,594 last year, and the Yukon, where 1986 bankruptcies total five, down from 12 in the same period last year.in January, February and March, the agency said.Initially, indicators reflecting household demand led the deceleration, but manufacturing indicators have since turned down as well.Of the 10 components that make up the leading indicator, five showed decreases in March, with four increasing and one remaining unchanged.Increases in the Toronto Stock Exchange stock price index and the U.S.composite 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Hire SHERBROOKE 566-1044 a student MAGOG 843-0986 EAST ANGUS 832-3931 4 889898^1 ^ 6—The RECORD—Thursday, June 19, 1986 Living On Strawberry socials, services, and reunions For the next two Saturdays, there will be services in the old church of St.James the Less in Pigeon Hill, starting at 5 p.m.In addition, there will be a service in the Anglican church of St.John the Evangelist in Stanbury on June 22.To get there, you take the north road from Stanbridge East and drive for about seven miles Stanbury is also called St.Ignace de Stanbridge - but the church isn’t in the present town.The service is Communion and the normal attendees from Cowansville, Dunham, Bedford, Stanbridge East and Farnham are invited to come and bring friends.It was announced there would be a Strawberry Social at the Bedford Anglican Church Hall today.Thanks to the heavy frost this month, the festival is in a jam and had to be delayed.The new date is June 26.The Strawberry Social in Phi-lipsburg announced for June 21 is now cancelled.Slow-ripening strawberries and an overly full Philipsburg social weekend event-list are the main reasons for the cancellation.I do hear rumours there will be an event of some kind though, probably in August—sort of a Strawberry Social, hold the berries.The Anglican Church in Philipsburg is 175 years old this year so there will be a number of things to watch for.Even with the cancellation, don’t forget there are still two big events in Philipsburg on June 21.First comes the Legion Lobster Supper which runs from 4 to 11 p.m.A large supply of crustaceans has been assembled, a sufficient number of cooking pots are ready, and claw-crackers and bibs await.All is in readiness for your arrival.The cost is $15 for two lobsters and additional ones are $5 each.The 21st is also the day the Philipsburg St Jean Baptiste Society celebrates, and there’s a big party by the lake that night.After you recover from Saturday night, remember that Sunday the 22nd is open house day at Camp Garagona.You can visit between 2 and 4 p.m.for the wine & cheese party.Under future events, watch out for an exhibition of recent paintings by Mary Martin at the Down the Pike By Ashley Sheltus Brome County Historical Society Museum in Knowlton.It will be open June 28 to July 6.More next week.I’m sorry to have to miss the opening but that is the weekend of my wife’s school reunion in Hanover, N.H.I’m going to say a grateful Nnnnaaahhh! to the dummies that let her get away and come to Canada.Speaking of Reunions - Bedford High School (as I may have mentioned before) is holding one on the 1, 2 & 3 of August.If you ever went there, come on back.Organizers must know this week.OK, next Monday at the latest.who is coming.Phone Murray Gunson at 514-248-2090.There’s a wine & cheese party, the Purple & Gold Dance & review and a BBQ on Sunday.We re going to play Pis-torea too.Remember how?Remember the rules?Do you know how to spell it?A winner may justly style themself a world champion! Still on future events, the weekend of the July 12 and 13 is the date of the third annual Pioneer Day in Philipsburg.Saturday night will be a fun night with square dancing, singing and, they hope, a bonfire.On the Sunday, after church and the 5 km run, there will be Scottish and German dancers performing as well as the usual historical displays.The Fearsome Filipsburg Fencibles will be on parade too.and therein lies a problem.Does anyone out there have a Brown Bess or Tower Musket flintlock replica that can be fired?Like the Canadian Unified Army, our militia is short of working weapons.All loaned weapons are covered by insurance and I will take personal responsiblity for their safe return.If you can help, phone 514-248-7319.‘I became involved.Both were circumsised’ Dear Ann Landers: Regarding your article on circumcision, 1 have something to contribute out of my own experience.I was married at 19.My husband was circumcised.We were divorced after five years and I became involved in two intimate relationships.Both men were circumcised.The man I married (after a brief courtship) was not circumcised.This created several problems.First, it put a damper on our sex life.I didn’t enjoy him nearly as much as I enjoyed my previous partners and was never able to tell him why.Second, I had bladder infections constantly from the time I married him until I divorced him.We had one brief fling a few months after the divorce and guess what?Another bladder infection.So, you see, Ann, there’smore than one good reason for males to be circumcised.Sign me — In The Know In Wassau, Wis.Dear Wassau: I checked with three gynecologists.Two said your bladder infections may have been related to your husband’s being uticircumci-sed.One said, “It is unlikely.” As for the pleasurable aspects, my mail revealed that women disagree.Dear Ann Landers: Have you ever noticed how difficult it is for people to accept a compliment graciously?Instead of saying, “Thank you," they begin to cut themselves down by saying, “This dress if five years old.” Or, “My sister's husband never liked this coat so she gave it to me.” Ann Landers i and myself doing the same thing and wonder why.How can I get over this awkward and ungracious habit?— Judy In Carbondale Dear Judy: People who respond to a compliment by cutting themselves down are not completely comfortable with themselves.They need to practice saying, “Thank you,” and let it go at that.Dear Readers: Thanks to all who wrote to tell me the author of that beautiful poem.“To My Grown-Up Son,” is Alice E.Chase.Several people wished they had written it and some claimed they did, but Alice Chase is the legitimate author.BENEFIT DANCE FRIDAY, JUNE 20 AT 8:30 P.M.AT IVES HILL COMMUNITY HALL FOR RUSS & SUE NICHOLS WHO LOST THEIR BARNS BY FIRE POT LUCK LUNCH What will they think of next?A duck that can read: not just quackery Is it possible that all mild- mannered ducks, such as this one, actually have the potential to read?By Gay Cordes DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At Drake University proficiency in reading is considered the norm.But in the case of Sir Lancelot, his reading ability attracts special attention.Sir Lancelot is a duck.Lance, as he’s called, is a nine-year-old mallard that’s been under the wing of Dr.Kenneth Lloyd, professor of psychology at the university.Training Lance to read was part of an experiment in behavioral psychology.Lloyd simply wanted to find out if an animal could read.“Similar studies have been done with pigeons,” L'oyd said.“But we thought it would be interesting to have a duck for the university.We like to call it ‘Drake’s drake reading program.’” Lance’s reading career began several years ago through a process known as shaping.It’s a gradual method of changing behavior by selective, positive reinforcement, Lloyd explained.In Lance’s case, Lloyd and his students decided that every time the duck turned his body, they would reward him with food to see if they could shape his behavior.SHAPE BEHAVIOR It worked, so the experimenters moved to the next step, a process called fading.Fading has to do with an animal’s response to stimuli in the environment.“Ducks have excellent eyesight and are very sensitive to color,” said Lloyd.“So we put black letters on colored cards.Lance learned that if he pecked at a red card, we would feed him.So we reasoned that if we slowly took the color away, but left a word such as peck he would respond to our command.” The team gradually faded out color on the cards by layering onion skin everywhere but over the words.Finally Lance was responding just to words, on white paper, not to color.“He built up discrimination,” Lloyd said.At this point there are seven words in his vocabulary: peck, turn, talk, do peck, no peck, bell and ball.For instance, when the card for “talk” is shown, he’ll stretch up to the experimenter and quack face-to-face.When “do peck” is presen- Birthday wishes Congratulations to Burton Laroche of Sawyerville on the occasion of his 90th birthday on June 20.Best wishes from his wife, family and friends.ted, he pecks madly at the card, but remains unresponsive when “no peck" is shown.RINGS BELL If ball and bell are printed together on one card, Lance will correctly peck at bell when shown the object.Lance’s unusual talent has taken him to schools and libraries to help promote reading.Sir Lancelot even has his own library cards for the university library.Critics have charged that Lance may only be responding to individual letters.When tested, this seems to be untrue, Lloyd points out.He will not react when shown the p of peck, for example, but will respond when the entire word is uncovered.So, can ducks read?“Technically the answer to that is no,” Lloyd said.“But Lance can, from a behavioral standpoint.He’s showing appropriate response to words, which is what you and I do when we read.” * * * Best wishes to Sydney Taylor of Knowlton from his family and many friends on his 91st birthday, Thursday, June 19.social notes SEE 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appliances, food table, toys and much more.Rain or shine.FOSTER Multi-family lawn sale, 89 and 96 Robinson Bay, Foster on Sunday, June 22 at 10 a.m.If raining, postponed to July.ROCK GARDENS.FLOWERS GARDENS.HEDGES.PLANTING, CUTTING, TREE CLEARING.TOP SOIL, GRAVEL.RETAINING WAILS S < 6, RAILS, FENCES, SODDING.SPRING A FALL CLEAN UP, ETC, ETC, ETC.WE HAVE ALL NECESSARY EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS NO JOB IS TOO SMALL OR TOO BIG FREE ESTIMATES REASONABLE RATES CALL US (AFTER 5 P.M IF POSSIBLE) LES JARDINS BENOIT STRAWBERRIES The strawberries look good, and will be opened on Thursday, June 19th, 1986.Pick your own or call to reserve your season’s supply BUNKER HILL ROAD • FITCH BAY „ EAST SIDE OF LOVERING LAKE (CRYSTAL) 843-4696 .A-,*s STRAWBERRIES Come md pick them youreell One suggestion: bring your containers Everyday from 7 a.m.to 7 p.m.(Iresh cream available on silo) “Tomatoes and other vegetables available in August and September” Ferme Wera Enr.2'/?miles from downtown Lennoxville Stanstead direction, jet.Route 143-147 (formerly 5-22) To check on picking conditions Tel: 562-5938 and 562-4515 Quick and Courteous Discount on cream and participate in a weekly drawing (details on site) Les Fraisières du Québec 772 Jacques-Cartier South St-Jean (Québec) 514-346-3916 HAgrlculturi, Péehwrin •t Allnwntitlon Québec Syndicat des producteurs et productrices de fraises et de framboises du Québec 50 Fruits, Vegetables STRAWBERRIES — The berry season will be earlier than usual and we will be open Wednesday and Thursday.Pick your own at the Gass Farm.For information call 562-4476.51 Video MACHINE RENTAL SPECIALS — Mon- day to Thursday: $3 95 for 1 day, $5.95 for 2 days.Friday to Sunday: $5.95 for 1 day, $8 95 for 2 days.Le Club Video Lennoxville, 567-3797, 178 Queen Street.57 Antiques ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES Special 10th Anniversary.Furniture, all kindsof dishes, collectible items, primitives, quilts, etc.Open Saturday from 10 a m.to 5 p.m., Sunday from 1 p.m.to 5 p.m.or by appointment A l'Etage, P.O.Box 58, Foster (Ville de Lac Brome), Que.JOE IRQ (next to Hotel).Call (514) 539-2303 BEAUTIFUL LOVE SEAT (Empire) restored.$450 00 After 5 p.m.: 569-6206.60 Articles for sale 15 cu.ft freezer, $200.; twin beds, $10.each; electric floor polisher, $10.Call 567-3588 1976 FORD CLUB CAB fiberglass top.Call 567-8361.3 PC.living room set in excellent condi-tion.Also, coffee table Call 566-0324.BEAUTIFUL BLANKETS and overthrows for the Spring Bride Buy now -June 10 to 20, special discount 20%.The Wool Shop, 159 Queen Street, Lennoxville, 567-4344.Articles for sale BENJAMIN MOORE PAiNT at contractor prices.Ferronnerie Wellington, 31 Wellington St.South, Sherbrooke.Call 564-8525.CASITA GAZEBO (screenhouse), like new, used only 2 months.Call 566-5931, 60 Speid Street, Lennoxville.CLASSICAL RECORDS (collector items); 8 mm projector, like new; Craft yarns at reasonable prices.Call 562-1409 after 6:30 p.m.FOR SALE — Transmission, turbo-hydramatic, 350, for Chevrolet Also body parts for 1976 Chevrolet Bel-Air, 4 door.Call 565-9714 after 5:30 p.m.or anytime on weekends.GUNS, military rifles and boyonets, hand guns, amunitions for collectors and shooters Weekdays from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m., Plarnondon and St-Pierre, 552 Montreal St,, Sherbrooke, 569-6880.KOOLATRON portable refrigerator chest, 12 volt, plugs into cigarette lighter, holds 30 cans of beer, new Call 569-1834 LIL & ORM BROWN'S Antiques and Handicraft, Knowlton, now offer a 20% discount on all June cash sales.MOWER CONDITIONER, International 1190, 9 ft., used one year, like new.Four registered Angus cows, 6 years old with calves Call (514) 263-1714 after 6 p.m.PIONEER STEREO SYSTEM, cabinet tapedeck, AM/FM radio, record player, 2 speakers and earphones, $500.Also glider swing, $300 Call 566-2557between 8 a.m.and 6 p m.62 Machinery MASSEY FERGUSON 35 h p.diesel farm tractor, heavy duty, utility model with front loader, in excellent condition.Call 538-2578, Sutton.FULFORD 275 Fulford Street, lawn sale at Shirley Wilson’s, Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22.HUNTINGVILLE Saturday, June 21 at 8 a.m., household items, tools, bicycles, etc.at 1550 Mitchell Road.LENNOXVILLE Multi-family sale at 68 Belvidere on Saturday, June 21 at 9 a.m.LENNOXVILLE Continuation of gigantic garage sale at 130 Lome St.Many new items added, reduced prices on other items.Bell piano, 12' fiberglass boat, camping trailer, linens, books, jewellery, clothing, antique pine box, antique sled, crocks, bedroom, living room, Vilas dining room furniture.8 a.m.rain or shine.LENNOXVILLE Jigg’s garage sale, Route 143, 1 miles past Rolling Hills.All kinds of stuff.Bench saw, lawn mower, garage equipment, etc.Something for everyone.NORTH HATLEY 950 Massawippi Street.Huge 5 family sale.Antique sleigh, loom, sofas, chairs, baskets and dishes.Kitchen items, linens, magazines and toys.Baby equipment, cribs, twin stroller, childrens clothing.Lotsof interesting small items.Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, 9 a.m.to 4 p.m.No sale before 9 a.m.RANDBORO Sam Harbinson's on Friday from 1 to 9 p.m.and on Saturday from 9 a m.to 4:30 p.m.Miscellaneous sale.RICHMOND 453 Wales Home Road, Saturday, June 21 from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.Multi-family garage sale.Household items, books, toys,' clothes, miscellaneous articles.Rain or shine.No early birds.RICHMOND 164 Healy Road at the Curtis place.June 21-22-23-24,8:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m.Rain or shine.826-3135.¦ Home Services | CARPET & FURNITURE CLEANING — Professional service with industrial steam-cleaning equipment.Free “scot-chguard” treatment with every cleaning Reasonable rates.Satisfaction ga-ranteed.Call Dean Littlechilds for an estimate: 567-5930.PLUMBING SERVICE: Sherbrooke, Ayer's Cliff, Lennoxville and area.Reasonable rates.Call Robert Stewart at 846-4025 or 567-4340.81 Garden center CEDAR TREES delivered or planted.We also do hedge trimming and light trucking.Call 567-6875.Miscellaneous ATTENTION ALL MOTHERSI A demos-tration will be given to all mothers on preserving your baby's first shoes in color Bronze, Silver and Gold.Call for time and place.Sara, 566-6297.A.Jackson Noble, c.a.Réjean Desrosiers, c.a.Maurice Di Stéfano, c.a.Janies Crook, c.s.234 Dufferin Suite 400 Sherbrooke, Quebec ' J1H4M2 819/563-2331 LAC MEGANTIC • ASBESTOS -^yAN^VILLF-«WAilTO C.W.LANDSCAPING (819) 838-4897 Public Notice Ville de Sherbrooke VILLE DE SHERBROOKE To the property owners who are entered on the valuation roll in force in the Ville de Sherbrooke on June 9th, 1986 with respect to an immovable situated in zones adjacent to zones B9 and B58 and to the tenants of immovables situated in said adjacent zones and registered on the electoral list revised on June 18th, 1986.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned, City Clerk, that at a special meeting held on June 9th, 1986 the Municipal Council of the Ville de Sherbrooke has adopted by-law no.3126 amending zoning by-law no.1071 and modifying the zoning in zones B9 and B58 of the City so as to widen zone B58 within part of zone B9 and to permit triple dwelling units in zone B58.Zones B9 and B58 are bounded as follows as it appears on the plan annexed to by-law No.1071, extract of which is reproduced in the present notice: fflBO PORTUND KING 0UES1'— 0 110 ma vAw LTU-! N that property owners and tenants of an immovable situated in a zone adjacent to zones B9 and B58, and, in the case of physical persons, who were of full age and Canadian Citizens on June 9th, 1986, are qualified to vote on by-law no.3126 and to request by way of the registration procedure provided for in sections 370 to 384 of the Cities and Towns Act, that said by-law no.3126 be submitted to a secret poll upon presentation to the undersigned, within the five days following the publication of the present notice, of a petition signed, for each zone adjacent to zones B9 and B58, by at least twelve property owners and tenants qualified to vote on by-law no.3126 or by a majority of the property owners and tenants of said adjacent zone if their number if inferior to twenty-four.GIVEN ATSHERBROOKE, this 19th day of June, 1986.Me Pierre Huard, City Clerk AUCTION FOR MR.CLAUDE PETIT SO Grove St., Danville, Que.SATURDAY, JUNE 21 AT 10 A.M.SHARP TO BE SOLD: Beatty 30" electric stove; Belanger refrigerator; Kenmore deep freezer app.10 cu.ft.; beautiful kitchen hutch cabinet; La-Z-Boy chair; AM/FM stereo-radio; "Futura” style kitchen set consisting of table and four matching chairs; antique sewing machine in perfect working order; battery operated kitchen clock; '‘Cadillac" rocking chair; 2 beautiful antique walnut Victorian side chairs reupholstered as new; wrought iron chair; large pine coffee table; large selection of end tables; mantle clock with three chimes; knick-knacks; beautiful model sailing ship app.4' long x 2’ high; large selection of ash trays on stands; set of three matching tables, 2 telephone tables with separate lamps and 1 coffee table; etagere;3easy chairs; living room set of sofa and 2 chairs; 2 hardwood tables with glass tops; table lamps; rugs; Spanish style bedroom set of double bed, triple bureau, chest of drawers and night table; bedroom mirror; bedroom set, 3/4 size bed, bureau with mirror and chest of drawers; one bedroom set, 3/4 size spindle bed, bureau and chest of drawers; 2 bunk beds, chest of drawers; assortment of dishes; box stove; large selection of hand tools; nails, nuts, bolts, etc.; rakes; shovels, hoes; hand saw; hammers; selection of hockey equipment; ladders and many other articles too long to list.AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Please note that this is a large and important sale and must start at 10 a.m.sharp.All listed merchandise is in “as new" condition and from a very well maintained home.For further information please contact the auctioneer.TERMS: Cash.JIM SNADEN Bilingual Auctioneer Danville, Quebec 839-3625 AUCTION SALE FOR NICOLE GAUTIER (TO BE HELD ON THE FARM PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY MR.WINSTON DUFFY) SOUTH DURHAM, QUEBEC (IN THE TOWN OF SOUTH DURHAM TURN LEFT AT STOP SIGN ON CHEMIN D’EGLISE CONTINUE APPROX.1 MILE TO CORNER OF BETHEL RD.& 12TH RANG) WATCH FOR SIGNS SATURDAY JUNE 28,1986 AT 10:00 A.M.TO BE SOLD: Household - General Electric fridge; Belanger stove; living room set; 2 arm chairs; coffee table; end table; T.V.(B&W); stereo; chairs; lamps; plant stands; rocking chair; bureaus; vanity; wardrobe; sewing machine; folding chairs.Viking washer and dryer; franklin stove.ANTIQUES - Dining room set consisting of table, 6 chairs, square china cabinet and buffet; wicker plant stand; pine chest of drawers; jam cupboard; pine table; Brunswick grammo-phone with records; pressback rocker; trunks; milk cans; wicker love seat & 2 chairs; oil lamps; alladin lamp; wrought iron54" bed with brass trim; iron crib; pastry table; antique washing machine; radio; sythe; wagon wheels; quantity of excellent wooden sap buckets; antique 4-wheel buggy; driving sleigh; poles; shaves; bedroom set consisting of bed, washs-tand and bureau with bevelled mirror; bonnet chest; horse harness parts such as bridles, collars, whiffle trees, etc., Shed stock and Machinery -Logging chains; tools; grinder;2 rolls of page wire; wheelbarrow; circular saw; extension ladder; cant hook; snow fence; rabbit cages; bee hives; horse rake; moving machine; stone picker; dirt scoop; horse sleds; turnip cutter; potato hiller; hay elevator; farm wagon; 2-wheel trailer; plow; manure spreader; disc harrows; gravel blade; gravel blade; sugaring equipment, pans, etc., quantity of lumber and scrap iron; also many other articles too numerous to mention.For further information please contact the auctioneer.Cantine on the premises.Terms - Cash or cheques accepted from known buyers.BRIAN S.BARRIE Bilingual Auctioneer Richmond, Que.(819) 826-5373 Advertising can save shopping time.CANADIAM ADVERTISING FOUNDATION QUARK THE VMY 1 SEE IT, QUARK,» YOU'RE NOT ¦ QOtNQ YOUR dHRRE OF THE MüKK RROUNP H HERE.SO I’VEMROtUPH JMRUU9T V._______________OF THINGS YOU CO*JLO -flHDXVC MHKUPMÏ «iiusroF THINGS C MONTca DO TO HELP.by Danl*l Shelton BABYMAN * by Don Addis I THI^ YooU LIKE MfcW ToY, BABY MM)?(U new You To 6ct ^TAfrféD.' 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