The record, 5 novembre 1986, mercredi 5 novembre 1986

Wednesday Births, deaths .8 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Education .5 Farm & Business .7 Living .6 Sports .13 Townships.3 ***#*,**.* * VERY COLD SHAWNA KNOWLTON ACADEMY Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, November 5, 1986 40 cents Pawley won’t stall constitutional talks because of CF-18 dav to discuss the awarding of the f “Good evening.There was no news today and this is Knowlton Nash reading it.” WINNIPEG (CP) — Premier Howard Pawley has denied that he will stall federal-provincial talks to bring Quebec into the constitution.Pawley was reacting Tuesday to newspaper reports that he had threatened the future of the constitutional talks because he is unhappy with Ottawa’s decision to award the CF-18 maintenance contract to Canadair Ltd.of Montreal.A consortium headed by Bristol Aerospace Ltd.of Winnipeg had submitted a lower bid for the contract, worth $104 million.On his return to Winnipeg, Pawley singled out a headline in Tuesday’s edition of the Montreal Gazette as misrepresenting his position.The headline says: “Jet deal halts constitution talks: Pawley.” “The headline is one that suggests I would halt or block the constitutional discussions," he said."The headline does not conform to the newspaper article.” Pawley said that although he will make the awarding of the contract a top priority at the federal- provincial conference in Vancouver later this month, he has no plans to stall the constitutional talks.However, the Toronto Star quoted the Manitoba premier Tuesday as saying “constitutional matters, as far as Manitoba is concerned, will have to wait for the time being.” Pawley was in Ottawa on Mon- contract with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.Pawley called the 90-minute meeting in Mulroney’s office unsatisfactory and vowed to fight at future premiers’ meetings with Ottawa for fair treatment for smaller provinces "without large voting blocks." r/ Over 90 representatives from different corners of the working world gathered Tuesday at Champlain ’.v Career Bazaar.Students, teachers and all kinds of people showed up to find out about how to get into their dream professions.Jan Draper of the college's English department gave willing RECORD/PERRY BEATON victims a list of words, some spelled correctly and some not.Among the list were common spelling errors such as vaccum (vacuum), caffein (or caffeine) and rythm (rhythm).See more photos on page three.Hatfield lobbies for takeover of CN shops 'Reagan revolution' over Republicans lose control of Senate By Norma Greenaway WASHINGTON (CP) — Democrats threw a wrench into Ronald Reagan’s plans for his final two years in the presidency Tuesday, stealing control of the Senate and strengthening their grip on the House of Representatives in congressional elections.The Democrats ended the Republicans’ supremacy in the powerful 100-member Senate, robbing Reagan of the clout he has enjoyed on Capitol Hill since his landslide win in 1980.“If there was a Reagan revolution, it’s over,” said retiring House OTTAWA (CP) — The fate of the Moncton railway shops is dangling by a thread as politicians and railway officials try to work out a deal to convert the facility into a locomotive plant.New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield met Transport Minister John Crosbie on Tuesday as part of his campaign to save a takeover of the CN Rail shops by Canadian General Electric.He had little to say to reporters after the meeting except that he OTTAWA (CP) - Federal Health Minister Jake Epp says he’ll be talking to Finance Minister Michael Wilson at the earliest opportunity about the possibility of finding more money to spend on health care.Epp made the comment in an interview Tuesday after discussing MONTREAL (CP) — About 30 members of a youth lobby group have occupied a Quebec government office to demand that Robert Bourassa’s government honor its election promise on welfare.The group — Regroupement autonome des jeunes — wants monthly welfare payments for people under 30 boosted from $171 to the $456 received by those over 30.Heating costs for some homeowners are expected to follow the dip in temperatures in the coming months.Two major developments since last winter — the easing of Canada's natural gas regulations and the collapse in the price of crude oil — has left residential fuel users with one question: Will 1 benefit?The answer is a qualified yes A survey by The Canadian Press indicates that those who heat their homes with oil can anticipate a si gnificant drop in fuel hills, while remained hopeful that CGE would proceed with its plan to build locomotives at the facility.The issue also prompted angry exchanges in the Commons as Liberals and New Democrats accused Crosbie of doing nothing for Moncton and the workers.CGE announced Monday it was abandoning its plan to take over the shops because of the opposition of two unions to CGE doing repair work for CN during the next three health care financing at a private meeting with his provincial counterparts, but he refused to speculate about how much money might be involved.Provincial governments have been pushing Ottawa to pick up the tab for experiments with new new kinds of health care programs, The occupiers are also demanding that welfare agents stop visiting their homes to check for fraudulent claims.The agents have been dubbed Boubou Macoutes, a play on Bourassa’s name and the dreaded Tontons Macoutes secret police of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.They are also seeking a public meeting with Manpower Minister Pierre Paradis or with Bou- gas users will face charges similar to or slightly less than last year’s damage.Electricity rates, however, will be mostly up.Terry Slack of En-Pro Associates, an Oshawa, Ont.,-based data company which keeps a close watch on industrial energy prices, says the price of furnace oil in Ontario, about 39 cents a litre a year ago.now is going for about 29.5 cents.SLIGHT SAVING Based on an average Consump- years while it builds up its locomotive manufacturing business.Crosbie said earlier that two of the seven unions at the shops are blocking the sale “using a technicality .that will hurt the people of Moncton.” He said CN “had gone to extraordinary lengths to get someone to take over the facility” rather than closing the plant and leaving the workers without jobs.UP TO UNIONS?programs that would make medicare more efficient or provide better care to patients.Epp said their argument is that the money for new programs should be in addition to the money provided under existing federal-provincial financial arrangements.rassa.They have called a news conference for this morning.Paradis said last month welfare parity will likely not be brought in before 1988, but it remains a priority for the Liberal govenment.The occupation began about 2:30p.m.Tuesday and has been peaceful.Montreal police, who have been given no order to e va-cuate the building, are watching the building.tion of 3,000 litres a year, "we re talking about $270 less” in bills for the homeowner, says Slack.Based on the 3,000 litre consumption figure, Montrealers spent $1,035 to heat their homes with oil last year, as fuel prices hovered in the 34.5 ccnts-a-litre range This year, the price is down to 19.8 cents a litre, says Brian MacGregor, manager of Imperial Oil Ltd.'s home comfort centres.It would mean the same consumption would cost only $594 Homeowners can add nine per in the dispute and its resolution lies with the unions, CN, CGE and the people of Moncton.In the Commons, Liberal Leader John Turner said the government is not fulfilling its responsibilities.Fern Robichaud, the sole Liberal MP from New Brunswick, said Crosbie should instruct CN to get a better deal with CGE.Crosbie replied that the Liberals should encourage the unions “to drop their ideological fixation and allow CGE to complete the deal.” “I don’t‘concede’ that point,” he said.“I have made that point myself.” Manitoba Health Minister Larry Desjardins urged the federal government earlier in the day to establish a health initiatives fund to finance new provincial programs.Desjardins didn’t put a specific i price tag on his proposal, but he’s been thinking of a fund of several billion dollars that would be financed by Ottawa over the next five years."We’ve been putting forward concrete, positive proposals and suggestions for several years now with no result,” Desjardins said in a prepared statement issued just before the start of the meeting.Desjardins said his proposal was well received by the other ministers and that the provinces agree Ottawa should put up substantial sums to help them redesign their medicare programs.cent to that figure, however — the Quebec government slapped a new sales tax on furnace oil this year.But it’s not the 50-per-cent drop in world crude prices that has kept prices low in Montreal.MacGregor says.It’s “the tremendous amount of players in the game," all who are anxious to maintain their customers through various marketing strategics.The drop in the cost of furnace oil is similar across Canada.l Speaker Tip O'Neill, adding that the popular Republican president will have to rely on the “art of government by compromise” during his final two years in office.Democrats now have a slim majority in the Senate and added at least four seats to their 253-seat majority in the 435-member House.A shift to Democratic control of the Senate was expected to jeopardize efforts to negotiate a freer-trade agreement between Canada and the United States.The Senate finance committee, which will play a key role should a trade agreement be reached, now will,be headed by Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen who has displayed a strong protectionist bent.Republican Bob Packwood of Oregon, the former chairman, was instrumental in salvaging Reagan’s request to open the talks last spring despite concerns in his home state about Canadian lumber imports.IMPROVES CHANCES On the environmental front, Democratic majorities in the Senate and House should improve chances of Congress approving stiff new controls on U.S.chemical emissions that cause acid rain on both sides of the border.The only consolation for the Republicans was their significant gains in 36 governors’ races where they threatened to upset the Democratic majority hold on the 50 top state posts for the first time since 1969.Conceding Republican defeat at the federal level, Bob Dole, outgoing Republican majority leader in the Senate, glumly concluded: “It’s going to make it more difficult for Ronald Reagan.” Anticipating stormy partisan struggles over trade, farm, employment and budget policies, Dole said the Democrats are going to have to work with the Republican minority.“It’s going to take some conciliation.” Vice-President George Bush said the Democratic majority will require a tougher selling job of Reagan’s initiatives on Capitol Hill but added: “There’s no way we’re going to change the agenda.” OTTAWA (CP) — The RCMP is examining the deal in which two Canadian cargo planes, sold by a Quebec air operator to a mysterious Panamanian company, eventually found their way to Central America for use in support of antigovernment rebels in Nicaragua.Sgt.Gordon MacLean of the RCMP export-import section confirmed Tuesday the force is looking into the matter.But he stressed the investigation is at a preliminary stage and gave no indication that any evidence of wrongdoing has been found Senior spokesmen for the force would not comment, nor would the office of Solicitor General Jim Kel-leher.Jean Pronovost, president of Propair, based in Rouyn.Que.has confirmed his company sold two DHC-4 Caribou cari planes early this year to a numbered Panama nian company.The planes were later traced to supply operations for the Contra rebels, backed by the United States in their battle Reagan had leaned heavily on the Republican majority in the Senate to push his conservative agenda through Congress, despite opposition from the Democratic-controlled House.RESHAPE PLANS Democrat Robert Byrd, who hopes to become the new' majority leader in the Senate, was clearly relishing the prospect of using combined Democratic majorities in the two congressional bodies to reshape Reagan’s plans for the country.“Our party will do it’s duty,” he said.“We’re going to pull the administration back from the extremes to the centre.” Softening Bill 101 could bring René back OTTAWA (CP) — Former Quebec premier René Lévesque warned Tuesday that he would come out of political retirement to actively oppose softening the province’s controversial language legislation.“If, for example, they touch Bill 101, I’m going to intervene,” said Lévesque, in Ottawa to drum up sales of his recently-published memoirs.Bill 101, enacted by Léves-que’s Parti Québécois government in 1977, made French Quebec’s official language.In recent months, Premier Robert Bourassa has indicated he would like to soften some provisions of the law, particularly those forbidding the use of bilingual signs.“There are things where I believe I still have the right to give my opinions,” Lévesque said on a radio interview program However, the former premier stressed that he would never again become involved in an election campaign.against Nicaragua’s leftist government Pronovost has had no comment since the matter first became public, and could not be reached Tuesday.Propair duly notified the federal Transport Department the two planes had been sold, and the department has said none of its regulations governing the registration and sale of aircraft was broken.But the External Affairs Department started a separate investigation last week of whether federal rules on export permits had been followed.The RCMP regularly in vestigates such cases when asked to do so by External.Part of the current investigation centres on whether the planes may have gone first to the United States before continuing to Central America.Export permits are generally required for sales of aircraft_even non-military planes — to any country other than the United States said Sgt MacLean.He said he has done all he could Epp may seek more federal health care funding Welfare lobby group occupies office Some homeowners could face lower heating costs Why are Quebec cargo planes in Nicaragua?* 2—The RECORD—Wednesday.November 5.l9Wi Today in court Mrs.Stevens will start telling her side of the story By Jim Coyle TORONTO (CP) - Peter Her bert’s words seem a little ironic now.In October 1984, shortly after he was sworn in as a member of the federal cabinet, Sinclair Stevens received a letter a Herbert, the bureaucrat responsible for administering conflict-of-interest guidelines.He wrote: “Your wife, Noreen, has no activities or assets which might pose any problem for you vis-a-vis the guidelines, I understand.” A judicial inquiry into conflict-of-interest allegations against the former federal industry minister has been told Mrs.Stevens did have “activities.” And they have caused "problems" for her husband.who resigned from cabinet May 12 over the conflict controversy.protesting his innocence and requesting an inquiry Today, after almost four months of public scrutiny into the couple’s private business affairs, Mrs.Stevens — lawyer, businesswoman and political wife at the centre of the allegations against her husband — begins telling her side of the story.The Stevenses, partners in law and business as well as marriage.are aggressive entrepreneurs who invested over the last 25 years in everything from shoe companies and real-estate development to Beaufort Sea oil wells and Saskat-chew’an gold mines.The flagship of their cash-starved empire is York Centre Corp.Mr.Stevens effectively controlled the firm through a majority interest in his holding company Gill Construction Ltd.His Gill shares were placed in blind trust when he was appointed to cabinet in September 1984.VESTED INTERESTS York Centre has interests in a host of real-estate, resource and fi- nancial service subsidiaries, a corporate structure which Mrs.Stevens — a director of some of the firms — and a small group of colleagues were trying to reorganize and refinance while her husband was in cabinet.Chief among the conflict allegations is that the refinancing effort became a violation of federal guidelines when Mrs.Stevens negotiated a $2.6-million mortgage loan from a businessman with ties to a firm that received grants from her husband’s government department.Commission counsel David Scott has alleged the loan — issued by Anton Czapka against six properties held by Stevens-related firms — was a “sweetheart deal” given by Magna International Inc.Czapka, a Magna co-founder who remains a consultant to the auto parts company, has insisted repeatedly he did not know until after the deal was signed that Noreen Stevens was married to the cabinet minister.Magna president Frank Stro-nach denied vigorously his firm had anything to do with the loan.Mr.Stevens, who is expected to testify next week, has said he had no knowledge of his wife’s business dealings.The inquiry adjourned Tuesday after brief session to prepare for the testimony of Mrs.Stevens, who is expected to be on the stand for at least the rest of the week.The 29-page book of allegations, tabled by Scott when the inquiry began July 14.also contains the charge Mrs.Stevens was a conduit of information to her husband, enabling him to influence his blind-trust assets while in cabinet.Evidence at the inquiry has shown the couple discussed private business dealings — with an accountant and a Calgary geologist — on various occasions at their farm north of Toronto.Gov’t has no jurisdiction over Malenfant’s wishes News-in-brief QUEBEC (CP) —The Quebec government can do nothing to prevent the owner of the protest-plagued Manoir Richelieu hotel from sparking a second labor dispute at another of his properties, Tourism Minister Yvon Picotte said Tuesday.Controversial hotellier Raymond Malenfant is challenging the right of the Confederation of Nation Trade Unions to represent workers at a ski centre in Mont Grand-Fonds, located near the Manoir where a protestor died on Oct.29.The union also represented the 350 Manoir employees Malenfant refused to rehire when he bought the hotel from the Quebec government.Instead he hired 250 mostly new workers, setting off an ugly 10-month labor dispute that culminated in the death of Gaston Harvey.Malenfant bought the ski centre for $700,000 last summer from two neighboring small towns.His lawyers say the accreditation of the union is “irregular and void” because the former employer has “no legal existence.Picotte told the Quebec legislature his hands are tied because he didn’t sign the sale contract and he can’t stop anyone from challenging a union accreditation.A spokesman for the regional tourist association said he had been assured by union officials that the ski centre workers "won’t cause any trouble” over Malen-fant's challenge."I’m confident that the ski season will not be hampered,’’ said Pierre Tremblay.“There is no panic.The people have shown they don’t want to poison things.” Two more join in fight over penitentiary site MONTREAL (CP) — A spokesman for federal prison guards and a Salvation Army captain joined the growing opposition Tuesday to a proposed $68.1 million penitentiary in Prime Minister Brian Mulro-ney’s riding.The isolated location of the penitentiary “represents an enormous risk for serious trouble,” Gilbert Faulkner, regional vice-president for the Union of Solicitor General Employees, told reporters.And Capt.Ken Wagar, of the Salvation Army's correctional services, said in an interview, “I think the decision to build the prison so far away was made by one man against the advice of everybody involved in the correctional field and that man was Brian Mulroney.” Mulroney first proposed a penitentiary for the region four years ago.when as president of the Iron Ore Co.of Canada, he closed company operations in the remote town of Schefferville.The penitentiary plan was criticized two weeks ago by Auditor General Kenneth Dye who said its cost could not be justified.And on Tuesday the Coalition Against the Proposal to Construct a Penitentiary in Port Cartier urged Mulroney to halt work on the project while the Commons public accounts committee examined it.Pierre Landreville, a criminologist at the University of Montreal who called the news conference, said there is already a surplus of maximum security facilities in Quebec.Landreville said the isolated location of the new penitentiary would punish not only prisoners but also their families and the professionals who work with them.“Without a relationship with their families and without any contact with their community, the successful reintegration of prisoners into society will be greatly affected,” Landreville said.Jacobsen finally sees children and weeps WIESBADEN, West Germany (AP) — David Jacobsen wept for joy Tuesday on seeing his children again and said he longs for the day other U.S.nationals held in Lebanon also are free.Hours later, Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite offered hope the others may be freed soon.Jacobsen’s three grown children arrived in nearby Frankfurt on Tuesday morning to see their father.Jacobsen, 55, was released by Shiite Moslem kidnappers in Beirut on Sunday after more than 17 months of captivity and now is undergoing medical tests at the U.S.Air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden.Hospital director Col.Charles Maffet told a news conference later Tuesday Jacobsen is in good health and will not need follow-up medical care.Tuesday evening, Waite told a news conference in Wiesbaden he expects to hear within 24 hours from his contacts whether he will return to Beirut to negotiate the release of more western hostages.Waite, envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, said there are “reasonably strong suggestions” the next two hostages to be released will be two U.S.citizens also held since 1985 — Associated Press 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slips back off the front page.But if you look at the newspaper the next time it happens, you might notice a little extra article which outlines the number of recent hijackings, usually listing the number of innocent victims as well.It’s all very accurate and detailed.It’s also a pretty chilling reminder of the cutthroat world which lays beyond the security of our homes.The only trouble is you cannot even say terrorist activities are restricted to some other country.Terrorism is international in scope.Travel, even in North America, has become a risky business.The obvious danger is that world leaders — secure in their armored limos and watched over by guards — will give up believing something can be done about the spectre of violence.But it seems at least one group is going to make sure no one forgets.At the annual conference of the Montreal-based International Air Transport Association, members called on governments to step up measures and do their share to pay for the burden of protecting air traffic.The resolution passed by members requested governments implement all existing international agreements requiring countries to bring accused terrorists to trial or extradite them.Chief on the list of countries harboring terrorists are Libya and Syria.Yet despite the appeal, the question remains: is the association preaching to the converted?Libya and Syria are two countries who may choose not to hear the requests, since they have already decided to shelter these people in the first place.It could be they look at the requests with either amusement or simply try to find ways to work around them So for the average person, the request from the association may not come as much of an inspiration.They might even laugh, knowing fully the quest for air safety is a long way off.But you cannot blame the association for trying.PHILIP AUTHIER Bomb detection systems change TORONTO (CP) — For years, the Achilles heel of the western world has been the airliner — the favorite target for terrorists bent on taking innocent lives to promote their various causes.The arrows used to pierce that vulnerable target have often been plastic explosives, which evade detection from conventional bomb sniffers.In an effort to deflect the terrorists, governments and airports are testing a new generation of bomb-sniffing technology — electronic devices that detect minute traces of explosive vapors.“We have to stay a half step ahead of the terrorists who are coming out with more and more sophisticated bombs and better ways of hiding them,” says Lome Elias, senior research officer at the National Research Council in Ottawa.“Fortunately, most explosives .emit a characteristic explosive vapor .a fairly volatile thing, which makes it easier for us to detect.” Elias’s research in monitoring environmental poilu tants has been adapted by Scintrex Ltd of Toronto to produce one of the most sophisticated bomb detectors in the world.It is so accurate it could have detected the plastic explosive strapped below the seat of a Trans World Airlines jet over Greece last April that blew a hole in the aircraft through which four passengers were sucked out to their death.DETECTS VAPORS The latest generation of bomb sniffers samples air around luggage and air travellers to detect explosive vapors.Scintrex’s sniffer, which will be ready fortesting at a Canadian airport next year, will process passengers every six seconds.The sniffer will be stationed next to the X-ray machine used to monitor hand-luggage and next to the metal detection arch through which all air travellers must pass.Scintrex and Sciex, a division of MDS Health Group Ltd.of Toronto, are two of the three companies that lead the world in technology designed to defend a prime terrorist target.Thermedics Inc.of Woburn, Mass., is the third company in the field.Its devices guard several U S embassies against car bombs and explosives concealed in packages.The bomb sniffers are promising but expensive.The Scintrex model costs $30,000 to $40,000 for an attache-case device used in airports and by police.Sciex’s model offers a “dial-a-sniff” for about 120 different contraband items, such as narcotics and explosives and even alcohol for the Islamic buyers.Unlike previous sniffers, the new breed also puts a stop to false alarms, such as those triggered by anything nitrogenous — including the preservative in salami and musk that smells like TNT This false alarm rate led Transport Canada to ask the National Research Council to come up with a better bomb sniffer.I » Estey steered a difficult course By Madelaine Drohan The Canadian Press When two Alberta banks collapsed in September 1985, plunging the government into a full-scale crisis, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney turned to Mr.Justice Willard Estey to sort out the mess.In his recent report, the Supreme Court of Canada justice traces the whole sorry history of the banks and Ottawa’s ill-conceived attempts to save them.Estey had to toe a careful line throughout his inquiry because of political passions the incident aroused and the legal implications of his findings.In an interview in his Ottawa office recently, Estey talked about how he came to head the inquiry and the problems and pleasures he ëncountered when he began to dig beneath the surface of the banking story."The phone rings with a desperate politician on the other end saying ‘We need a commission study.’ ” That’s how it began, said Estey.But why him?“Usually they get a judge that they’ve heard somewhere did this kind of thing when he was a lawyer and therefore must know som hing about it.That’s generally how it happens.” In order for Estey to take the assignment, which took almost a year of his time and meant he often had to do double duty as a judge and a commissioner, both he and the chief justice had to be convinced the matter was serious enough to warrant a long absence from the Supreme Court.“I’ve turned some down, way back,” he said."But mostly you simply say 'if you say it’s important (and) even though it interrupts the court work the nation should have this service.that’s good enough for me.’ And away you go.” His approach to the bank inquiry was much the same as the one he used with inquiries into Air Canada and the steel industry in the mid-1970s."I have a very simple system.I hire the best lawyer I know and 1 tell him ‘we start tomorrow morning.’ It will be chaotic, but that’s the way you’ve got to start.” In this case, Estey contacted Toronto lawyer John Sopinka of Stikeman Elliott, currently acting for Sinclair Stevens at hearings looking into possible conflict of interest on the part of the former industry minister.NO CRASH COURSE There was no crash course in banking before the hearings began.That was provided by the multitude of bankers, former bankers, bank regulators and ministers responsible for banking who appeared before Estey throughout last fall, winter and early spring Besides, banking isn’t as complicated as it first appears, said Estey.“We had witnesses coming out our ears and thousands and thousands of pages of stuff.But auditing is auditing .when you strip off all the nonsense, a bad debt reserve is a bad debt reserve They call it appropriations for contingencies account and they got at it in an old-fashioned English way instead of a North American way, but it’s not all that complicated.” Over and over again during the hearings Estey demonstrated his knack at getting to the bottom of things quic-kly.More than one witness was brought up short by the Supreme Court judge who asked him to translate convoluted banking lingo into something the layman could understand.Estey also kept a tight rein on lawyers who acted as though their client were on trial or indulged in lengthy presentations when a short sentence would do.“I had to read the riot act two or three times — this is not a trial.You can’t make it into a trial.You’re wasting your time and if you keep it up I just won’t listen to the witness.That’s all.” Estey said most of the offenders smartened up.“But we had some that aggravated me no end because they were so long-winded.Hopeless.And in my day at the bar they would not do well because the clients couldn’t afford to pay them.” “Now the country seems so rich they can waste all that time and still bill it.And that is sad.The legal bills.Sometimes I wonder how can the bar survive this expensive process.” The former corporate lawyer, who served on the Ontario Supreme Court before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1977, can’t tolerate long-windedness in private life either.He was able to sit happily through five hours of speeches at a recent legal function only because of the radio in his pocket by which he was able to listen to one of the final World Series games.“They all know I’m a baseball fan,” said Estey, who is also chairman of Hockey Canada.There was no such recourse during the long hearings into the two failed banks, but Estey said his interest never flagged.His years as a lawyer taught him how to shift from one topic to another quickly and get interested in everybody’s business.“If you don’t like that you shouldn’t practise law.” Still, the hearings were an endurance test for the 66-year-old judge who sat from early in the morning until early evening hearing evidence, then retired to his home or hotel room to read submissions and work on Supreme Court judgments.He did 12 in all during the course of the inquiry.While the long hours and heavy workload made life difficult at times, Estey said the painful part came when he had to sit down and write the report.WROTE IT HIMSELF Unlike many commissioners who hire professional writers, Estey penned the report himself, with the help of two law clerks, an assistant, commission counsel Sopinka and his junior counsel Peter Howard.“The thing that hurt, that was hard and painful, was writing the report.” Part of the problem was the mountain of evidence and submissions that had to be culled for relevant dates and facts."The other big problem we had is that everybody was being sued by everybody and so constantly, as you’ll see in there, you have to say this is just what wc found out from our resources, with our rules of evidence.But in another place with different rules of evidence and different information you may come to different conclusions." Estey said he had to pick his words carefully and make sure he was rested when he sat down to write."I learned you should never write anything when you're tired because then you’re hard on people.You really cut them up.And so you go back and look at it again and say ‘Oh my God, I can’t say that.’ "And then there’s some argument from amongst your people as to what precise impact you want to make.You don’t use strong words if you want to get a subtle effect.And sometimes you want to be careful.People are being sued.” The political aspects posed problems.The opposition parties wanted someone’s head on a platter for the two bank failures that will end up costing taxpayers more than $1 billion.And they weren’t going to be satisfied without a public hanging.To their dismay, Estey largely absolved Finance Minister Michael Wilson and his former junior minister Barbara McDougall, putting much of the blame on the federal inspector general of banks and the external auditors of the two banks.While he did not want to comment on his conclusions specifically, he addressed the issue in general during the interview.“You’ve got a problem when you’re a judge.If you comb the government up and down and you’re right, I suppose everything works out.But if you give them a bad time and it turns out you’re wrong and it’s serious policy, you haven’t helped the country a heck of a lot.“On the other hand, if you go through a factual thing like we did and you draw conclusions which you say justify this kind of finding — like no culpability in the minister of finance — some people are glad to say ‘yeah, well he’s too close to those guys who live in Ottawa and you don’t like to find a mistake made by a guy like that or maybe you’re friendly with.’ “It’s a tough thing for a judge in the same city to make those findings involving people who also devoted a lot of time to the public good.And they don’t get much pay for that.And here’s the judge second-guessing them with hindsight.That’s difficult.” STILL FINDS IT HARD Despite his many years on the bench, Estey said he still finds it hard when the research is done, the hearings are over and he has to write his conclusions.“I didn’t like the end where you’ve got to find some people didn’t do their work as well as they should have and damage flowed from this result and from that.“I don’t like that very much and neither did the other people.But that’s the job.And it hurts a lot of people, no question about it.” But then comes the high point — signing the final report.“You never forget th because you worked so hard and you’re tired and you sign that and you go out.You feel like a kid getting out of grade four.It’s exactly like that you know, summer holidays.” Now that he’s back at the Supreme Court, Estey is finding time to fulfil the speaking engagements he put off during the long inquiry.And he has picked up tennis again, after dropping it for two months while he wrote his report.He follows what happens to his reports from a distance and was grati fied to find that with both Air Canada and the steel industry, most of his suggestions were accepted.If another desperate politician pho ned him up, would he head up an in quiry?“Well, I’d try like the devil to dis courage them because it's hard on the rest of the guys around here,” he said referring to the other Supreme Court justices."I'd try my utmost to discourage them But if something serious happe ned that I thought was serious in the country, I would do it again.Sure Interpreting the News By Norma Greenaway Republicans after lost power in vote WASHINGTON (CP) — The Democrats’ quest for control of the U.S.Senate in today’s congressional election boils down to a thirst to regain the power lost six years ago in a wave of Republican fever generated by Ronald Reagan.Chief among the rewards, if they win, will be more clout in steering the legislative agenda in the two years leading to the 1988 presidential election.The Democrats are expected to remain firmly in the driver’s seat in the 435-member House of Representatives, and reversing the Republicans’ slim 53-47 majority in the 100-member Senate would be the crowning glory.Such a shift would put Democrats at the helm of the major powerbroking centres on Capitol Hill — Senate committees.Following is a sampling of how key committee chairmanships would shift if the Democrats win a majority in the Senate.The chairmanships would go to the ranking, or senior Democrat on the committee.Foreign Relations: Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, a known consensus builder who came up with a compromise that saved Reagan’s proposal to pump $100 million US in aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, would be replaced by liberal Claiborne Pell (D-R.L).Critics question whether Pell has the leadership qualities to head such a high-profile and powerful committee as he has demonstrated no flair for behind-the-scenes dealings with his colleagues.Finance: Republican Bob Packwood of Oregon, who led the tax-reform drive while preventing the committee from writing tough new trade legislation opposed by the Reagan administration, would be replaced by Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a pro-business Texan with strong protectionist leanings.This committee will have an influential role should Congress be asked to approve a possible freer-trade pact between Canada and the United States.Environment and Public Works Republican Robert Stafford of Vermont, a leading advocate of a stringent program to curb acid rain-causing emissions in the United States, would be replaced by Quentin Burdick (D-N.D.), who has been lukewarm to acid rain legislation.This is a shift which might give Reagan, an avowed opponent of implementing tough new controls, some comfort.Judiciary: Reagan loyalist Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) would relinquish the chairmanship to either Joseph Bi-den of Deleware or Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, both liberals.Kennedy and Biden led the unsuccessful at tempt to block Senate confirmation of conservative William Rehnquist as chief justice of the U.S.Supreme Court.Armed Services: Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, an ardent opponent of Reagan’s Star Wars anti-missile, space-based defence project but sympathetic to many of the administration’s defence priorities, would replace retiring Barry Goldwater (R-Aru.), one of thp Pentagon’s most avid defenders.Appropriations: Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon, a critic of military expansionism at the expense of spending on domestic social programs, would be forced to give up the reins on this committee which makes crucial decisions on government spending on given programs in a given year.The new chairman would be Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, a prodefence conservative who promises to be more in tune with the Reagan administration’s priorities.Budget: Democrat Lawton Chiles of Florida would replace Pete Domenici (R-N M.).Passage of bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing the $220 billion US deficit to zero by 1991 has made this committee one of the major battlegrounds over spending priorities.Democrats could use their majority to severely curb the Reagan administration's defence spending plans. Education The RECORD—Wednesday.November 5.19H6—5 —_______tel Kccora Peace message expressed in various languages Recently, the students and staff of Bishop’s College School observed National Peace Week.In light of this theme, the Friday morning chapel service was graced with readings in every language represented at the school.Through the varying languages ranging from German, Japanese, Arabic and Chinese (just to name a few) were incomprehensible to most, the idea and message of peace was well expressed and generally acknowledged by the congregation as a whole.Peace Week ended with a Sunday sermon from special guest speaker Capt.Robert Belleville, port chaplain of the Quebec “Missions to Seamen” As in the past, to help along this worth while cause, five boys are engaged in ‘Operation Shoeboy” in which Christmas care-packages are made up and sent off to needy seamen through this charity organization.Looking back, many trips and cultural events have taken place.Thursday, Oct.23, Mr.Charles Peacock took his 7th form English class, currently studying African literature, to the Centaur Theatre in Montreal where they viewed a gripping 90 minute production of Asinimaleby MbongeniNgema.In this piece of powerful theatre, five South African actors engaged in sketches revolving around their way of life.The skits were alternately frightening, humurous and at times very moving.The students returned enlightened with new ideas and a better comprehension of South African Life.Also enjoying a cultural outing were four chosen members of the school’s Enrichment Program.Presently in its second year, the program allows students who excel academically to further their abilities and to be introduced into new fields and projects.Tracy Ste-vans, Margaret Sims.Caroline Bish Biz By Charlie Scott Beaudinet and David Trower enjoyed a weekend of Shakespeare in Stratford.They, along with English/Drama teacher Mr.Lewis Evans saw Cymbeline after which they met and conversed with the actors.On Saturday they viewed Hamlet and Sunday night the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.The group was thoroughly impressed with each performance and returned with lots of positive feedback.During the Thanksgiving week, four delegates from B.C.S.went to Salem, Germany, for the 100th anniversary celebrations of Kurt Hahn’s birthday and for the 19th Round Square Conference.Anne Heenan, Claire Sykes, Colin Bunge and Mr.Robert Common all shared in the international discussions of schools Hahn would build today, enjoyed tours to Birklehof, Hohen-fels, and Spetzgart schools, and participated in the fundraising plans for the service project in the Simla Hills of India.Also on a foreign trip was Mrs.Shirley Brown.She was chosen to represent the Quebec education system during her two-week stay in Hong King and Taiwan, she gave two presentations and attended the ongoing "Money ’86” trade show in which senior Trade Communications, the Department of Education and Canadian Industry were prominent factors on the agenda.She was shown hospitality by the Ho, Wong and Pong families whose children attend B.C.S and she admits to gaining a little weight due to the delectable cuisine of the various regions.Students raise $2,700 for cancer research By Angela Giguere COWANSVILLE — A Terry Fox Run at the Heroes Elementary School Sept.19 raised $2,700 for the Cancer Society.Here is a list of collected monies : Grade 1, Ryan Stowe, $17; grade 1/2 split, Melissa Irving, $23.55; grade 2/3 split, Tracy Rumsby, $47.25; grade3, Melissa Knowlton, $53.70; grade 4, Robert Ford.$63; grade 5, Melissa Greenwood, $31.95; grade 5-6, Sylvia Weinhold, $85 (overall winner); grade 6, Cindy Rumbolt.$60; grade 7, Lisa Robinson, $40.The most money collected by a class was Mrs.Enright’s, 5/6 split, $390.Most laps: Grade 1, François Pinsonault, Joshua Hunter, Chris Bienvenue, 17 laps.Split 1/2, Sabrina Ford, 21 laps; split 2/3, Garth Burnham and Michael Kokitko, 19 laps; 3, Scott Gendron and Cameron Gagnon, 22 laps.Grade 4: Joel Boudreau, 26laps; Maxine Howard, 213laps; grades/ 6, Adam Barney and Jannique R., 26 laps; grade 6, Peter Wilkinson, 26 laps.All students who participated received a “Terry Fox Run” certificate.72 students registered at ADS in 1986-’87 DANVILLE (JE) — Seventy-two students are attending ADS Elementary in the school year 1986-87.George Morrison is enjoying his second year as head teacher and Richard Orzechowski is principal.ADS has four full-time and five part-time teachers.They are T.Wilson, kindergarten; Miss Pellerin.French; B.Smith, grades 1 and 2; C.Jewett, grades 2 and 3; George Morrison, grades 5 and 6; Keith Whittal, music grades 1 to6; K.Cook, phys.ed.in K to 6 and science grades 5 and 6; Sister McNeil, Catholic Religion and J.Pye works with children with se’-if'us learning difficulties.On Oct.15 ADS played soccer against St.Francis.In the boy’s game St.Francis won 1 to 0.In the girl’s game Christine Edwards from ADS scored a goal, but St.Francis still won 2 to 0.Grade 6 wrote a composition for a contest about the Quebec Provincial Police.The winners, a boy and a girl, won a bike.The two winners were from Ecole Masson.From ADS Brenda Williams placed fourth and Scott Forst fifth.This out of 145 participants.Scott Frost was chosen to receive an award from the Optimist Club for being the best allround student of the year.Council warns students of overcrowding at university OTTAWA —The Council of Ontario Universities has taken what it calls the “unprecedented step’’ of issuing a consumer warning to incoming first-year students.The council is distributing a four-page brochure to about 45,000 students on Ontario campuses, warning them that inadequate government funding has led to problems such as oversized classes and obsolete laboratory equipment.In an open letter to students, Alan Earp, president of Brock University and chairman of COU, says “the problems are real and they will affect you”.Students are encouraged to help make (he government aware of the consequences of a “decade of neglect" by discussing their concerns with university administrators, parents, friends and elected representatives.Earp’s letter assures students, however, that Ontario universities will continue their efforts to give students a “world-class education".OTTAWA — Almost half of all Canadians say universities need more government funding to maintain their quality.The national Reid poll found support for increased funding strongest in British Columbia, where 58 per cent believe universities need more money.In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, however, only 41 per cent want the universities to be better funded and more than one-quarter say institutions should “learn to get by with less money".The poll questioned a cross-section of 1,675 Canadians about their attitudes toward education.Galt guests talk about peace, disarmament On Wednesday, Oct.29, three students from foreign countries and two from Western Canada who are members of the International Youth for Peace and Justice Tour visited Alexander Galt.While here, they shared with students their experiences in their homelands dealing with starvation, war, racism, terrorism, alcoholism, drug abuse, and many other surprising difficulties.Galt students were made more aware of some of society’s many problems.Through contact with the visiting students, Galt students and staff gained a great deal of insight concerning the issues discussed.Friday, Oct.31, two Montreal area students who are members of S.A.G.E.(Students Against Global Extermination) visited Galt.They gave a very informa tive presentation which included skits by Galt drama classes.The MGalt ^News By Randy Spaulding topic of nuclear war and the arms race was dealt with in a very serious manner.After showing the movie If You Love this Planet, the two S.A.G.E.students lead a discussion on the nuclear issue.Galt students had many questions on the topic, which were answered with a great deal of knowledge.Galt students were encouraged to voice their opinions about the nu- Students from the International Peace and Justice Tour speak to Galt students about their experiences in their home countries.clear arms race through forming school groups, writing various members of parliament or discussing the issue with friends and relatives.The S.A.G.E.presentation was followed by a short speech by the Honorable Jean Charest, MP for the Sherbrooke, Lennoxville area, and National Youth Minister for Canada.Charest encouraged the group to continue its battle against the arms race.He also spoke about the importance of student involvement with the issue, as well as Canada's role in the arms race.The Galt Peace Education Program was a great success.The hard work of those responsible for organizing the program is surely appreciated by those who enjoyed its many activities.Another activity which was a success at Galt was the annual chocolate bar drive.Following are the prize winners for the activity; 1st prize (250$) Tim Call - sold 413 bars 2nd prize (150$) Sherry Markwell -sold 360 bars 3rd prize (125$) James Piva - sold 287 bars 4th prize (100$) Serge Cormier -sold 240 bars RED/PURPLE BLOCK 1st prize (50$) Stephan Langlois -sold 150 bars 2nd prize (50$) Sandra Pepin - sold 105 bars ORANGE/YELLOW BLOCK 1st prize (50$) Philip Richard -sold 105 bars 2nd prize (50$) Luke Bury - sold 103 bars The following students are winners of $20 door prizes: Andrea Eastman; Dawn Mosher; Wendy Lyonnais; Asher Cutting; Kelly Coleman; Mirko Perkov; Kevin Warren; Julie Heath; Corey Andrews; Wendy Neil.The following students are winners of $10 door prizes Allen Christie; Philip Biron; Bruce Burrows; Debbie Desruisseaux; Patrick Seale.Winners of $5 door prizes are the following : Jeffrey Ryan ; Tracey Keeble; Angie Locke; Kimberly Crook; Lisa Durocher; Ron Coates; Mike Roy; Robbie Fish; Scott Muth; Denis Dostie.Members of Galt winter sports teams are now going door to door taking orders for their annual orange and grapefruit sale.For those of you who gained weight eating Galt chocolate bars, here’s your chance to lose weight eating oranges and grapefruit! The fruit is once again being sold in 20-lb.and 40-lb.boxes.The oranges are being sold for $17 (20 lbs.) and $31 (40 lbs.).The grapefruit is selling for $12 (20 lbs.) and $21 (40 lbs.).Orders will be taken for the next two weeks and it is expected that the fruit will be delivered to the school around Dec.8.Proceeds of the sale will go towards Galt’s athletic program.A reminder that the awards night ceremony will be held in the Galt auditorium on Nov.6.The ceremony will begin at 8 p.m.Please note that if the auditorium exceeds the regulatory limit, closed-circuit television coverage of the ceremony will be available in the cafeteria.Students still attending Galt will receive their seating instructions at the rehearsal.For those students no longer attending Galt, please present yourself to the hostess upon arrival.ISA has the most popular shindigs around Time to catch up: What’s been happening, what will happen, and the occasional why it’ll happen: A deadline to meet: today’s the last chance to apply.Anyone out there interested in becoming a respected member of the establishment should submit their vital stats to Bishop’s student council v.p.academic Jodi Hosking.Positions open include: off-campus council student-at-large, radio board student-at-large, off-campus publications board stu-dent-at-large, on-campus committee on student conduct student-at-large.Duties include occaisionally showing up at a meeting and promising not to nod off during roll call.There was a time when the biggest, most active club on campus went bust.But the International Students’ Association is now back on its feet and organizing one of the most popular shindigs around.The ISA Cultural Show is slated for November 8 at 7:30 p.m.in the pub.Who won the elections ?The follo-wing students represent on-campus students: student-at-large, student council: James Maloney; student-at-large, pub board; Chris Fewster; student-at-large, publications board: Will Abbott.Representing off-campus kids: student-at-large, student council: Nathalie Oostrom ; committee on student conduct: Mario Derekson.The good thing about having some positions set aside for October voting is allowing newcomers the chance to run for office.The bad news: the majority of the five newly elected VIPs lost races late last year to the current executives — not, of course, a horrible happening.But where are those first ti mers?Students Against Global Extermination (SAGE) dropped by for a Campus News By Eleanor Brown visit October 30.As there already at least two other references made to this group on this page.I won’t repeat the specifics of the antinuke travellers.Seven foreign students met an army of Champlain youths last week.Refugees from war-torn countries, they spoke of their experiences.This too shows up elsewhere on this page.Capital punishment and penal reform workshops will be held all day Saturday.Cosponsored by the campus ministry and the Quebec Diocesan Council for Social Service.Discussion starts at 9:30 a.m.and continues til 4 in the afternoon in the Outside Inn, Marjorie Donald building.This as a Tory MP attempts to convince federal policymakers to introduce a bill into Parliament which if passed would bring back the death penalty.Tonight: Poet P.K Page reads some of her work.That’s at 8 p.m.in the MacKinnon red room.Champlain grad photos will be taken November 12 and 13 in SUB room 218.Some 90 professionals spent four hours behind a counter Tuesday counselling those soon to be on the job market.Melanie Cutting, coordinator of the CRC academic advising department, brought together the representatives from various universities and diverse occupations in the school’s second annual Career Bazaar.Fewer students showed up this time around (the crowd was estimated at 450).Youngsters from Alexander Galt, the high school up the hill, had flooded in last year.Still, Cutting seemed pleased with the turnout, adding that fewer professionals bowed out at the last second this year.Champlain’s general assembly is on for Thursday.The group’s constitution requires one per semester.Topics to be discussed include voting on a strike proposal.The student boycott of classes is, of course, over.But the formality, it appears, must be dealt with.CRC council president Heidi Wilson will be calling for a no vote.“I don’t want to see people go on strike.It’s absolutely useless," Wilson says.Given attendence at such events in the past, the three or four thrill seekers who show up won’t have to worry about the meeting dragging on.Champlain teachers meet this week to decide whether to give their union executives the power to call up to four 24-hour strikes before January 1.Included in the mandate is a provision for ‘evaluation’ after the first two proposed boycotts.The pedagogues have been working under decree (Bill 111) for the past three years.(dhy hill people uho hill people to show that hilling people is wrong?Knowlton students take part in Peace Week events KNOWLTON (KT) - Recently, many residents here were impressed and moved by the parade of the Knowlton students with their banners, as part of the International Year of Peace.Some white doves had been also drawn and placed at various spots along the route.This was a prelude to the visit on October 28 of students from the International Youth for Peace and Justice Tour.This year has been set aside as the International Year of Peace, with an attempt being made to offer children the opportunity of acquiring an ever broader and more generous perception of their community, their country and the world.Attitudes of tolerance must be cultivated, with respect for others, acceptance of the law, commitment to the service of justice and an open mind which will help them effectively serve peace in every facet of their lives, organizers believe.It was in an attempt to start chil dren thinking that Knowlton Academy was pleased to welcome on Tuesday these students from other nations who talked about their experiences of violence, poverty, economic injustice, war, peace, ra-cism, cultural and religious conflicts.The following is a report on the International Youth for Peace and Justice tour, by two Knowlton Academy students : On Oct.28 some students from the International Youth for Peace and Justice tour came to Knowlton Academy to speak with the grade six and secondary one classes.The International Youth for Peace and Justice tour is an organization that was started with 10.000 people gathering together at the St.James Church in New York, to hear five or six students from different countries talk about their experiences in their countries.The students were travelling around six different provinces of Canada for two weeks visiting about two or three schools, community centres and churches a day.The main ob- jectives of the International Youth for Peace and Justice are hope, love and empowerment.The students that were chosen had to meet certain criteria.They had to be able to speak the Canadian Languages and had to have worked for peace and justice in their own countries.The students that were chosen to speak to Knowlton Academy and its surrounding area were Darren Boisvert, Jack Barlow.Rami Mavogy, Priscilla Joe and Kayvan Hey-darzadehazar.Jack was a 12-year-old boy from Uganda.He talked about the political problems of Uganda.Kayvan was a 15-year-old boy originally from Iran.He talked about the war between Iran and Iraq.He also recounted the terrible circumstances under which most of his friends were killed.Ramzi was a young man of 18 who left his home in Iraq to come to Canada when he was 14 years old.Since then he has not seen his parents but has kept in contact with them.He, like Kayvan.talked about the war between Iran and Iraq.Pricilla was a young lady of 19 who is a British Columbia native.She talked about how she and other tribe members attended a public school and frequently got threatened and criticized by their teachers and white students so most of them quit.Although she left school, she intends to continue her studies as a college student.Darren was a boy of 15 who lives in Alberta.He talked about El Salvador and how their people ha ve no freedom to express their feelings towards the government.He also made a point of telling us how lucky we are to live in the free country of Canada.The five students made a big hit at Knowlton Academy and did not leave before enjoying a noon-hour game of volley-ball with the other students.Submitted by Sonya Whitehead, age 12 and Jessica Brown, age 12.) I 6—The RECORD—Wedni Living Guide was adapted to English after lobbying the government Senior citizens in the Kin speaking community ha-., some time had difficulty lea; of the services available to 1 Oct.24 saw the iaunchhu in treal of a Quebec governmer blication that tills this n thanks to lobbying by Town pers’ Association.Allianci bee, and English spea groups and citizens acros; Province.GUIDE FOR SENIORS In 1984.a provincial guid senior citizens called Le C des Aînés was published book became a number one tseller for the publishers.Le blications du Quebec.Le f.des Aînés was called an inde sible tool and a practical 'v~ outlining senior citizens ser and rights within the Pro m Quebec.Indeed it was, and is, an e lent guide.The only problem that it wasn't available in glish.Townshippers' Associatioi couraged English spea groups, organizations, and viduals to make dear to th vernment that an Kngli h ve of Le Guide des Aînés would real need.Lobbying by man; glish-speaking Quebecer-wed.and at last the Minis! Communications has lam; The Seniors' Guide SPECIALLY ADAPTED Published by Les Publiea du Québec, this 6:50-page vol specially revised for Eng speaking users, is on sale for at Quebec’s leading bookst For a small price citizens ag and over are provided with t ted information on the varioi vernment.comrminih and .Keeping in touch By Cynthia Belisle Townshippers Association programs available to them.The Seniors' Guide'is the equivalent of the French version of Le Guide des Aînés, but some of the information has been adapted in order to properly address the needs of English-speaking Quebecers.Written in a dear and interesting manner.The Guide contains advice and information on health, money matters, taxes, and estate planning, to name a few.Indeed, it is an easy to use and trustworthy source of practical advice and information for any household — not just for seniors.Many chapters can be used by Quebecers of all ages.Have you ever wanted to know' more about the Quebec Pension Plan, Group Insurance Plans, vehicle registration.income tax, social aid.or even how to obtain legal aid?Reading The Seniors' Guide is an interesting way to discover what health and social services are available to you as a Que-becer.« ¦ SUPPORT GUIDE 11 is important for you to support the publication of The Seniors Guide It isthe first volume from the series of guides offered by Les Publications du Québec adapted to the English-speaking community.We now have an opportunity to demonstrate how important it is for all of us to have government information offered in English.The Seniors' Guide will make a great stocking stuffer for any Quebec household.If you want further information on how to get a copy, phone us at (819) 566-5717 or (514) 263-4422.• News of importance to the mentally handicapped and their fami-lies in the Lennoxville-Watervilie-Ascot area: Randy Little, a graduating student in special care counselling, is working with CLSC Gaston-Lessard (219 Queen Street, Len-noxville) on a project designed to help the English-speaking mentally handicaped and their families find as many resources as possible for self-help and networking.Interested in participating in the project?Call Randy at (819)566-1134.• Do you like good live music in a pleasant setting?Wednesday, Nov.5, at 8:30 p.m.,in St.Peter’s Church, (corner of Dufferin and Montreal Streets in Sherbrooke), Michel Dussault is playing the musie of Chopin.Tickets are $8 and $5 and are available from Sautier’s Stationery on Wellington Street and the Permanent Trust office in the King Street West Shopping Centre.• TOWNSHIPPERS: KEEPING IN TOUCH is a weekly column written by the Townshippers ’ Association.Any comments, criticism or ideas for future columns are most welcome, and should be sent to: TOWNSHIPERS: KEEPING IN TOUCH, c/o William Floch, Townshippers' Association, 2313 King Street West, Suite 308, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1J3W7.#1__tel irecom Top masqueraders win awards Did someone say Halloween is just for children?Last Friday, Halloween day, both students and teachers were bustling around at “A.D.S.Elementary” preparing for the noon-hour party arranged by the Student Council and grade six students who prepared the activities.As everyone entered the auditorium at 12:30 p.m., the head organizer Cathy Cook explained to the children what would soon take place.And then music and the Grand March took place.The judges were Nancy Marston.Joan Pye and Janet Element who had the difficult task of choosing winners in different categories, as a great deal of work had been put into many of the costumes.The winners were: Most Original — Jason Bowering as a mummy; Best Homemade — Amy Nickerson as a clown and Steve Gi-guere as a wolf; Scariest — Jeff Le Roux as Dracula; Prettiest — Natalie Ouelette as an old-fashioned lady; special prize went to Christine Edwards dressed as a clown; Cutest — Luc Middleton.After the winners had received their prizes and photos were taken, several games were played.The Pumpkin Draw was popu- lar, with Brenda Williams and Annie Demers in charge.Next came thé Ring Toss with Denise Rivard and Roger Edwards explaining the rules.How Fast Are You was an obstacle course with Kendra Brock, Lynda Mercier and Scott Frost explaining the rules.Next in line was Vision Impossible, guessing how many peas in a jar with Jason Carson and Jeff Saf-fin in charge.And last of all was the Laboratory with Mark Frost and Jason Bowering.The Grade Six students did a super job organizing this “Fun Fare” for the lower classes.And a good time was had by all.The winners from left to right: Luc Middleton, Jeff LeRoux, Christine Edwards, Steve Giguere, Jason Bowering, Natalie Ouellette, and Amy Nickerson.Don’t be resentful to handicapped Dear Ann Landers: I would like to address this to your readers: DEAR MR.AND MRS.JOHN Q.PUBLIC: I’m a 13-year-old boy who hit his head diving through an inner tube in a backyard pool.I’m a 26-year-old housewife who was slammed into broadside by a drunk driver.I’m a 36-year-old male who had a motorcycle wreck at 18 miles per Ann Landers hour.I’m a 52-year-old farmer who sat Winter Coats & Walking Coats °ff our already Jia# /0 low, low prices! year’s newest styles, newest fabrics, newest colors in Junior, Misses and Half-Sizes, (on the Ladies’ Mezzanine & in the NAG).This w Use our L This week only Au Bon Marché offers you our great collection of Ladies’ Au Bon Marché 45 King West Free Parking Token with purchase.BEST COPY AVAILABLE Illustrations not necessarily exact.down in his backyard swing and the chain broke.We all have one thing in common.We crushed ur spinal cords.We are handicapped.We are in wheelchairs.When your children see us in public places and make a comment, don’t yank them away as though we were monsters.They are curious about what has happened to us.Let them ask us and we will tell them.When we park in a handicapped parking place that seems spacious to you, please don’t glare at us and become angry.We need a space large enough to get out of our vehicles.Mr.Businessman, when we ask your security to ticket the vehicles, please don’t become belligerent and say it drives away customers.We spend money, too.What I’m trying to explain is that we are you, only we had our accidents before you did.We didn’t think it could happen to us either, but a patch of wet sand and a motorcycle going 18 miles an hour changed my life forever.I still love my wife and 7-year-old son as béfore.I want to be able to take them out to eat, to movies and on vacations, just as you do.1 don’t get upset because you have 5,000 parking spaces at a shopping mall and I have only three.The physically disabled don’t need your sympathy, and we don’t need your resentment either.— G.W L.IN NORCROSS, GA.DEAR NORCROSS: You’ve written a letter that is sure to shake a lot of complacent people out of their comfy, little cocoons.Thank you for reminding us once again that the difference between you and us is a split second of bad luck.We all need to be brought face-to-face with that chiling fact of life and you did just that.Dear Ann Landers : Today I stepped out of a fabric store and saw an elderly woman lying on the sidewalk with a small crowd of onlookers standing around gawking.The woman had fallen and shattered her glasses while running to catch the bus.Her face was cut and she apeared to have a fractured wrist.Someone had the good sense to call a police car to take her to the hospital, but no one seemed to know what to do next.I bent down, took the woman’s hand, and began talking to her in a calm, reassuring way.I told her she would be OK and that help was on the way.As I spoke, I kept patting her hand.She calmed down and even began joking about it “not being her day” when the police car arrived.Ann, please tell your readers that they need not be nurses or doctors to offer comfort to an injured person.(I am a former teacher.) If someone witnesses an accident, first direct a person nearby to call an ambulance or the police.Then kneel at the injured person’s side and speak softly in an authoritative, reassuring manner.Even if a person has not been seriously injured he or she needs to know that someone is in charge and someone cares.— M N.IN MIDDLETOWN, R.l.DEAR M.N.Thank you for addressing a problem that cannot be anticipated.It’s good to be told what to do in advance.PHOTO/JANET ELEMENT The RECORD—Wednesday, November 5,1986—7 Farm and Business —____ftej Kccora Polluting waste materials are sought-after By Peter Tonge The Chnslian Science Monitor LEBANON, Conn.— The dump truck pulls up at one end of a long, greenhouse-type structure on the outskirts of this rural community and offloads its cargo: several days’ accumulation of apple pomace from a cider and juicema-king mill.The scene is repeated all week long with a variety of other wastes, principally manure from local dairy and chicken operations and more distant horse-racing stables.What starts out as a sloppy, odoriferous mess at one end of the building emerges 18 days later from the other end as a dry, peatlike, odor-free and profit-making material.To the uninitiated, the transformation appears almost miraculous.Simple and relatively inexpensive composting technology, developed in Japan and modified in the United States, enables the Earth-gro Company to convert potentially polluting wastes into sought-after products, sold through garden outlets around the country.Most significantly, the transformation is taking place on a smaller scale and at much lower cost than was previously deemed possible.Moreover, the Japanese operations have shown that sewage waste can be composted as well.20 TONS OF COMPOST Says Dr.Geoff Kuter.head of research at the Connecticut facility: “We’re producing 20 tons of dry compost every day, and we can’t make enough to meet demand.” The eight-month-old plant is the latest to benefit from the increased understanding of large-scale composting coming out of universities and agricultural colleges in recent years.In contrast to the gene- ral rule where progress often is accompanied by ever more complicated technology, this new knowledge has simplified the engineering needed to compost solid waste effectively.Little more than a decade ago, long-held prejudices against composting were still widespread in the US, and the professor who openly stated his desire to specialize in solid-waste composting might have jeopardized his academic career.But today all that has changed: Composting is now both a respected and a practical science.It is also being slowly recognized worldwide as the most acceptable and cost-effective way for a world with 5 billion inhabitants (twice as many as 35 years ago) to handle its organic wastes, according to Henry Hoitink, a plant pathologist at Ohio State University and a leading expert in compost science.WASTE REDUCTION Dr.Hoitink, one of a handful of biologists in this country to investigate biological waste reduction even before it was deemed respectable, contends that the global trend in this direction is irreversible.“We are learning that we can no longer walk away from this problem.The envirionment,” he warns, “simply cannot continue to accept the volumes of unprocessed organic waste we are producing.” The alternatives, landfill and incineration, present problems of their own, including lack of space and soil (for landfill) and costs that are rapidly outdistancing those of composting.Composting, Dr.Hoitink points out, reduces the volume of waste at least by half and leaves it in a highly stable form so that runoff from composted farmlands presents no threat to rivers or un- derground water supplies.The improved understanding of what occurs during the breakdown of large compost heaps opened the way for the less costly engineering that characterizes the Lebanon, Conn., operation and some others such as the Paygro compost plant at Charleston, Ohio.Where it was long assumed that rapid decomposition was equated with high temperatures, it has been discovered that optimum breakdown occurs at 55 degrees C.(131 degrees F.) which is high enough to destroy all harmful pathogens.On the other hand, too high a temperature slows decomposition by killing most of the beneficial microorganisms.EVAPORATIVE COOLING By the simple technique of forcing air through the composting pile, two things are accomplished: Temperature is checked by evaporative cooling, and the improved oxygen supply discourages the growth of anaerobic, stench-producing bacteria.Turning the compost regularly (as every backyard gardener knows) is another way to introduce needed oxygen.Forced air and mechanical turning, both involving straightforward engineering, are principal features of the Earthgro and Paygro systems and a few' others in the US, but the Japanese-developed Earthgro system is the simplest and, so far, least expensive of all.Dr.Andy Higgins, a Rutgers University composting expert, toured Japan specifically to investigate their composting plants.What he found were very effective operations that could be readily sized to meet any need, small or large.On his recommendation, the Earthgro company adopted the Japanese system.“The only drawback to the system,” he told Dr.Kuter, “is its cost.It’s too cheap for most Americans to take seriously.” FOUR TROUGHS The Earthgro plant involves four parallel concrete troughs (six feet, six inches wide, six feet deep, and 180 feet long).Once a day, an automated machine travels down each trough, turning the compost and moving it back 10 feet.A batch of raw waste (mixed with sawdust to absorb excess moisture and balance the carbon-nitrogen ratio needed for good decomposition) takes 18 days to travel the 180 feet before it emerges as the finished product.Beginning soon, a dozen smaller communities in the region will bring sewage sludge for composting on a trial basis.At first, sawdust will be added to provide the needed bulk, but later the towns’ solid waste (with non-biodegradables removed) might replace the sawdust.(Composted sewage is not the same as Milorga-nite, a product that has long been on the market.Milorganite and other similar products are dewatered and cooked dry, rather than composted.) Where composted farm and food wastes could be spread on any agricultural lands or private gardens, Kuter believes that for the forseeable future composted sewage would be confined to ornamentals, lawns, playing fields, and the like because of possible contamination by heavy metals from industrial waste.Kuter estimates that a similar system processing 40 wet tons a day could be installed and ready to run for “about a million dollars.” That’s about a quarter the cost of most comparable facilities, “the result of simplifying the system,” Kuter says.“You have to hand it to the Japanese.” Farmer better off on welfare than orchards FENWICK, Ont.(CP) - Stan Burke is fed up with the little money he’s making pn his pears, so hels planning to cut down a major chunk of the orchard.“I’d be better off on welfare with no investment,” says the 53-year-old Niagara Peninsula grower, whose Bartlett pear crops have been yielding financial woes for him the last few years.“I put 20 years into building up this business, and I’m not compensated for it at all.I’m admitting defeat.” His big problem is with the Bar-tletts — the variety in most demand by canners — which represent about three-quarters of his crop but only one-third of his pear income.He plans to cut down about half of the Bartlett trees on his 12-hectare farm just south of St.Catharines, leaving the rest of them to pollinate the other pear varieties on the farm.Burke said he grew 80 tonnes of Bartletts this year and received $359 a tonne for them, only seven per cent more than he was getting in 1981.Meanwhile, his overall farm expenses have been increasing dramatically — to a total of $52,498 this year.For example, the bill for spraying his orchard increased to $7,000 this year from $2,840 in 1981, thinning the trees to $5,000 from $2,500, and wages to $13,000 from $8,610.OTHERS BETTER He does better on his other pear varieties, which he sells on the fresh fruit market rather than to processors, but they constitute a small part of his farm and it takes years to develop a crop, he said.Burke is also fed up with the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers’ Marketing Board, which he said negotiates prices with the processors but doesn’t help sell the product.“My cheque goes directly to the marketing board and they take three per cent off the top and I get the balance,” he said.“What do they do for their money?Next year they’ll probably tell me I’ll get the same amount (price).” John Smith, a farmer and chairman of the marketing board, said pear growers in the region had “an exceptionally good year” and complaints about prices are unjustified.Prices are better than farmers in other countries are getting, he said.For example, California pear growers are paid only $175 a ton.SUGGESTS BLIGHT Smith also suggested that Burke’s orchard may have been hit by the so-called fire blight, a bacteria that attacks pear trees in humid, damp weather and has affected some Niagara crops.But Burke angrily denied the suggestion, saying his orchard was regularly tested this year and no such blight was detected.Burke has been trying for three years to sell his farm, but no one seems interested in the price tag of $269,000 which includes the orchard, house, barns, machinery and fruit cold-storage facilities.His son considered taking over the farm, but “I don’t know how he could make ends meet when I can’t,” Burke said.Collins new CREA director SHERBROOKE — Keith Collins of Sherbrooke was elected a director of the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) at its annual meeting October 26 in Halifax.He begins his two-year term immediately.As director, Collins becomes actively involved in an association representing more than 85 per cent of real estate liccncees in Canada, who together oversee some $24-billion in transactions annually.Collins, a licenced salesperson, is a manager for Royal LePage Ltd.in Sherbrooke.He specializes in residential real estate.^"ms is quickly becoming an important leader of organized real estate.He was elected president of the Chambre d'immeuble de l’Es-trie in 1985 and became president of the Quebec Real Estate Association in 1986.Recently, he has been working on CREA’s Political Action Committee.The 72,000-member Canadian Real Estate Association is the voice and representative for the real estate industry on matters of national importance.It is composed of members of Canada’s 113 real estate boards and 10 provincial associations.Kmo-Ouébec, a ministère Loisir, Chasse et Pèche Program C MON, LEVEt.UJITH IÆ -rfOU GET MERE BEFORE AIMVONE Ei-æ and yoo re in a good ^ HUMOR TOO • .I USE’ MV FEET © cM World’s largest car firm goes through a crisis DETROIT (AP) — Faced with unprecedented competition, declining market share and heavy operating losses.General Motors Corp., the world’s largest automaker and manufacturer, has been going through an identity crisis.GM has spent the last nine months looking in the mirror — and over its shoulder — assessing the progress of its American and foreign competition and comparing it with its own top-heavy, factory-heavy structure.Auto industry experts disagree on what course GM must take, but agree the automaker must decide what kind of company it will be in the future : a large, vertically integrated full-line manufacturer or a smaller, leaner, auto assembler and marketer.GM appears to be taking the course its two top American competitors chose earlier in the decade: scaling back production capacity and white-collar staff,' tightening its belt and turning over manufacture of subcompact cars to its low-cost Japanese and South Korean trading partners.When GM announced a $338-million, third-quarter 1986 operating loss on its car and truck ma-nufacturing operation last month, it also announced plans to close an unspecified number of assembly and component plants.Speculation has set the number as high as nine plants.It has also announced plans to cut back its engineering staff by 32 per cent and total white-collar employment by 25 per cent by 1989.SCRAPS PROGRAM And it has announced the soon-to-be demise of the Chevrolet Chevette and Pontiac 1000 subcompacts and scrapped plans for its $1.2-billion GM80 program, a plastic-body version of Chevrolet’s Camaro and Pontiac’s Firebird.Other measures include the pending sale of GM’s South African carmaking affiliate, restructuring of its Australian interest and sale of its Pontiac-based bus operation.Instead of trying to compete in the subcompact market, GM will concentrate on what it does best: making mid-size cars, including the new GM10 series that is expected to be introduced in 1988 as GM’s answer to Ford’s popular, upscale Taurus and Sable.After sinking billions of dollars into automation and other high-technology capital, GM has learned it made a costly mistake and is cutting back on capital investment, says auto industry analyst Phillip Fricke at Goldman Sachs Co.in New York.“The thing is they’ve had some difficulty in making the technology work,” Fricke said.“It has really not achieved the kind of efficiencies GM had hoped.” At the same time, he said, GM has learned a lot from its joint manufacturing venture with Toyota at Fremont, Calif., the most productive car plant in North America.The New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.plant turns out 1,000 cars a day with 2,100 workers, but it “is not one big technology den,” Fricke said.Career PRÉPOSÉS AUX BÉNÉFICIAIRES A centre supporting a comprehensive network of both residential and vocational services to persons with an intellectual handicap whose services are located in the regional municipalities (M.R.C.) of Haute-Yamaska, Brome-Missisquoi and Memphremagog.This highly decentralized and community-based service organization is looking for Préposés aux bénéficiaires for group homes.Requirements: — Able to speak in English and French; — Have a driver's permit (class 13 is an asset) and a vehicle; — Willing to work different shifts and every other week-end; — Willing to work in different units in the territory served; — Interested in working with intellectually handicapped clients.Remuneration: We offer an hourly salary of 8 48$, with a complete range of fringe benefits.If you wish to join our team, please come to our office, fill out a job application form before November 14,1986 at: Le Centre Butters Inc.66, rue Court, Suite 302 Granby, QC J2G 4Y5 Managers don’t need to be computer literate Q.I have often read in trade magazines, that it’s imperative for a manager to be computer literate in order to succeed 1 feel that this is the viewpoint of the technologists.As well as the need to be knowledgeable about the problems of the industry, a manager must be able to deal with people.In other words, people skills have not been considered by these technology oriented people.What do you believe are the real advantages to being a computer literate manager, if you lack skill in dealing with people ?A.Why do you feel that the two skills are mutually exclusive?Systems analysts, for example, must be more than computer literate, they must be very knowled geable about a wide range of computer options.They must also have access to a wide range of information sources, and the technical ability to understand it.All of these skills will not make anyone a success as an analyst unless they also have the ability to communicate easily and well with a wide range of people.It is impossible to develop a system that will serve the user s needs unless you can get them to tell you what their real needs are.My personal belief is that at least 45 hours of interview techniques should be included in any data processing course.One of my analyst friends claims that of all the courses he’s ever taken, the Xerox profesional sales course is the one that did the most to improve his skill as an analyst.This course focuses attention on active listening, in order to get the client to tell you what he wants, expects and needs from your product (or system).Most successful managers are very knowledgeable about their product and their company.So are many less successful managers.The difference is that the successful managers are able to identify problems faster and get them solved.Every manager uses a number of tools in order to do their job.I have repeatedly referred to the computer as the most versatile tool available.I feel that the statement that it is imperative for a successful manager to be computer literate is a little too strong.If a manager is capable of identifying and solving the department’s problems quickly and efficiently, he will be promoted.No one will be interested in whether or not a computer is one of the tools used.Every day it becomes more unlikely that this will be possible.With the advent of the IBM PC, hundreds of management aid programs are now available.These range from problem specific programs such as sales management or personnel management programs, to general use programs such as Lotus.Lotus has done more to change management styles than any other single factor.Anyone associated with budgeting (another important management tool), can recognize the advantages that a spreadsheet program such as Lotus can offer.The ability to enter either data, or formulas COMPUTER EASE By Norman J.Longworth that use the data provide a most flexible tool for manipulating numbers.Any budget is a series of compromises between optimistic and pessimistic visiions of what may happen in the coming year.The speed of recalculating the budget using a spreadsheet allows top management to play the "what if game”.After a budget has been accepted, a number of scenarios can be tried.For example, what if the sales increase is only 6 per cent, and not the 8 per cent forecast.Additionally, what if the salary increase is 7 per cent instead of 5 per cent.This is an endlessly tedious job done with a calculator and a typewriter.Just this past week two acquaintances, both company controllers, have said that their jobs would be nearly impossible without Lotus.One is the controller of a Sherbrooke area shoe manufacturer.After the removal of the shoe import quotas last year, he claims the number of adjustments required to fine tune the budget to the changed conditions could not have been done on time manually.Another acquaintance, a production manager, uses Lotus to do a number of statistical breakdowns of rejects, production rates.He uses them in order to detect trends and solve the problems before they become deeply rooted.He finds the graphics capability to be the best method to demonstrate the trends.The ease with which he can relate current figures to past history to see if there is improvement or decline in performance also impresses him.Every day about ten minutes are spent entering data, and prin-touts are made weekly and monthly in about another 10 minutes.The time required to set up the worksheet was about two hours.The negative side to all this, is the time required to learn a general use program.The more powerful it is, the longer it takes to learn it thoroughly.A novice computer user will generally take about 40 hours to get a good grasp of Lotus to a similar program.It is sometimes argued that someone can be hired to set up the required spreadsheets.This is true, but unless you are computer literate you won’t know what is possible.If you have any computer questions.write me care of this column.Questions that are of general interest will be answered in the column.Norman J.Longworth has been working in Data processing since 1961, and is currently a computer systems consultant practicing in the Sherbrooke region.all subscribers to ____gyj JSBcara ing system We are presently putting our label .j, on computer.If you notice errors on your subscriber's label or encounter delivery problems, please call the circulation department collect at: (819) 569-9528. 8—The RECORD—Wednesday.Novembers, l»86 Social notes Birchton Muriel Prescott Mrs.Betty Harbinson of Halifax, N.S.spent a week with Mr.and Mrs.Tommy Harbinson.All were supper guests of Mr.and Mrs.Michael Harbinson and Robert.Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Rogers visited Mr.and Mrs.Carl Whitney (Alice Thompson) in Abbotsford.Mrs.Phyllis Lowry visited her aunt, Mrs.Myrtle Murray.On Sunday, Mrs.Elva Glen and her mother, Mrs.Jessie Coates, Eaton Corner called on Mrs.Myrtle Murray and all enjoyed a drive on that beautiful sunny afternoon.The Birchton UCW held a very gratifying tea and sale in the hall here on Saturday, Oct.18.Many thanks to all who contributed food and sale articles, for donations, to all who worked that day, and to the many guests who made it a success.The Birchton UCW also reported a successful sale of cooking and a variety of articles at the Cookshire School Committee Flea Market.Mrs.Heather Turchyn called on Mr.and Mrs.Jimmie Lowry and family in Lennoxville.Mrs.Hazel Rogers, accompa nied by Mrs.Edith Bellam and Mrs.Melva Williams of Sawyer ville, visited the Rolling Hills Residence in Lennoxville and called on Eleanor Reed, Elizabeth Williams, Pearle Damon.Gertrude Montgomery and Mrs.Bob Logan.The great ones would still have all the fun The cover girl on one of the cattle magazines on my desk is a Limousin cow posing proudly with her six purebred calves.The calves are all of the same age and size and there's no doubt at all that the calves are all hers.They all look exactly like her, and besides the magazine says they’re hers.All of which is worth a special story because that cow didn’t birth a single one of those calves.Actually there’s pitifully little romance to that story.First, the cow was given a hormone injection so that more than one egg would become capable of being impregnated.A few hours later the cow was given an anesthesia and her newly fertilized eggs were surgically removed.These eggs were then implanted into the ovaries of other cows, one to a customer.Any cow will do for a recipient as long as she is healthy enough to nourish an embryo for nine months and then give birth to the calf.But though the recipient cow carries it all that time, gives birth to it and nurses it afterward, the calf is never hers.In appearance, temperament and in every other way, the calf's true parents are the ones which did the little act that began the whole procedure.To us cattlemen who can now use cheap, scrub cows to produce the most valuable of purebred calves by the dozen, the ability to transplant embryos would seem to usher in a dramatic new era : but personally the whole business scares the life out of me.Surely it is only a matter of time now before our sociologists will ask “Why not improve the breed of men the same way our agriculturists are setting out to improve the nation’s cattle?” And they will remind us that as matters stand now there is no sensible selection at all in our present method of propagating the human race.That the great and clever people are in fact the ones who have the fewest children.They’re too busy with other jobs that they deem more important.Seems that this business of progenating kids and raising them is too messy and too primitive to have much appeal to the truly intellectual.Buy why not induce the great people to just start the procedure and then, just as our more successful cattlemen are now doing.H.Gordon Green transplant the eggs to some of the healthy young women who really don’t have much else to do nowadays anyhow.Pay them, of course.Or maybe the government will pay them, for these women will not only be giving birth to super duper babies but a whole new industry as well.Of special interest to such an industry is the fact that a fertilized ovum can now be frozen and kept indefinitely.The attraction of such a program would, I think, be so great that the government would actually be able to make money on it and thus feel obligated to turn it over to one of the multi-national corporations.Can you imagine how the adver tisements might read?To the woman who really cares! Give him the gift which you alone can give! The gift which will live on after you., your own fertilized ovum., yours and his.All our superbly trained technicians ask of you is to make a beginning.They will do the rest.A bevy of specially selected, wonderfully virile peasant girls from Lower Slobbovia are now awaiting your pleasure, and they are eager to act as recipients at prices you can afford.Visa and Mastercard cheerfully accepted.So let us help you start your family either now.or at any later time you wish .Ah but it seems to be that in one sad respect our way of life would go on pretty much as it has since the beginning of time.For it would still be the little, unimportant people who w ould be called upon to endure the blood, sweat and tears - and the labour pains - and the great ones would still have all the fun.Mrs.Mildred Judge spent a few days with her sister and brother-in-law.Mr and Mrs.Frank McConnell in Bishopton.Mr and Mrs.Thomas Harbinson motored to St.John.N.B to visit their son Barry, his wife and family Mr.and Mrs.Bill Owen of East Hereford called on Mrs.Gwendolyn Robinson on a recent Sunday.Steven Halsall has returned to work in Toronto after spending a few days here with his parents.Mr.and Mrs.Albert Halsall.Cliff Kay from Georgeville.a friend of the Halsall family, was also a visitor when Steven was home.Mr.and Mrs.Wayne Robinson and son Adam were weekend guests of Mrs.Robinson's mother.Mrs.Gwendolyn Robinson.Several from this place attended the Compton County Historical Society banquet held in the Community Centre, Sawyerville.M rs.Maybelle Caldwell of Sherbrooke.accompanied by her niece Tammy Kane and girl friend of Ottawa.were luncheon guests of her sister and brother, Mrs.Olive Simons and Mr.Walter Hodgman.Mr.and Mrs.Jack Sims, Sand Hill, were supper guests of Mrs.Eleanor Taylor and sister, Mrs.Anita McKenna.Russell Rothney accompanied Gordon Harron on a trip to Ottawa.Gordon Shaughnessy spent an afternoon visiting Basil Prescott when they enjoyed reminiscing about their school days and friends.Mr.and Mrs.Bruce Patton of Moe’s River and Mr.and Mrs.Robert Magon and family were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Russell Rothney.Mrs Myrna MacDonald with Tim and Bethy of Eaton Corner called on Mrs.Myrtle Murray and received some roots to add to their 1987 garden.Basil and Muriel Prescott took Eleanor Taylor to East Angus, on Sunday and called on Mr.and Mrs.Murray Labonte and sister, Anita McKenna.Eleanor stayed for a longer visit and family dinner at the home of her niece, Mrs.Rodger Heatherington.Mr.and Mrs.Lloyd Martin of Compton called to visit Mrs.Myrtle Murray on Sunday.After visiting Harvey.Dorothy and Judy Parsons in Scotstown and attending the Birchton tea and sale.Rod and Helen MacDonald, Peter and Anna Clement of Sherbrooke spent some time with their aunt.Mrs.Myrtle Murray.Miss Francine Perron, who is studying Business Management in Sherbroke, visited her family the Maurice Perrons and Mrs.Florence Perron.While here, she called on Mrs.Myrtle Murray to return her coat which had been taken mistakenly at the tea and sale.Mrs.Kay Gordon of Scotstown was a luncheon guest of Mrs.Eleanor Taylor and Mrs.Anita McKenna.The latter accompanied Mrs.Gordon home to spend a night with her.Connie Little and Muriel Prescott visited the Funeral Home in Lennoxville to pay their last respects to the late Charlie Little.Connie Little accompanied Vera Todd of Lennoxville to the UCW tea and sale in Bury and the ACW tea and sale in Sawyerville on Satur- CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE FALL CARRIER CONTEST 1st Prize Corie Frost Danville 2nd Prize Cynthia Foster Knowlton 3rd Prize Ron Smith North Hatley 4th Prize Marcel Boudreau Cowansville Most New Subscriptions Velmore Smith Lennoxville $100 * .) «S *6/,^ £4: v?Deaths Births day, October 25.Others from here who attended the teas were Rena Halsall, Mildred Judge, Heather Turchyn, Hazel Rogers and Muriel Prescott.Trudy Lasenba, Arlene and Miles Winslow attended the ACW tea and sale in Sawyerville.Mrs Paul Taylor returned to her Birchton home on Oct.20 after spending three weeks visiting her sister Mrs.Anita McKenna at Porters Lake, Nova Scotia.Eleanor travelled down to the Maritimes by car with Mrs.Rodger Heatherington, son Derek, and Mr.and Mrs.Murray Labonte of East Angus.They were lucky to get beautiful sunny weather most of the time, and the autumn leaves were at their peak in Maine and New Brunswick en route.Highlights of this N.S.vacation included a concert in Halifax by Cape Breton folk singer Reta McNeill, one of the entertainers at Expo in Vancouver this past summer/also a musical production on stage at Neptune Theatre entitled "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream-coat”.This was a really spectacular show featuring 16 cast members and a four piece band.After the Labontes had returned to East Angus, Eleanor and her sister had Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Anita’s daughter Jeannie and husband Dave Wilmshurst in their new house near the shore of Porters Lake.Mrs.Anita McKenna accompanied her sister, Mrs.Paul Taylor, on the VIA railway journey from Halifax to Sherbrooke.They were met at the CN station by Miss Ran-di Heatherington and her grandfather Murray Labonte and spent the weekend as guests of their brother and sister-in-law, Mr.and Mrs.Labonte in East Angus.They attended the supper and annual meeting of the Compton County Historical Society in Sawyerville on Saturday evening, Mrs.McKenna is spending a couple of weeks at the Paul Taylor’s home in Birchton.Waterloo Alice Ashton Mr.Raymond Streeteris recovering nicely after eye surgery at the B M P.Hospital, Cowansville.Mrs.Dorothy Bazinet and Miss Donna Jones accompanied Ken Bazinet.one afternoon recently to Oliv er’s Corner where they visited Dorothy’s aunt, Mrs.Harley Waid.Thanksgiving guests of Mr.and Mrs.Raymond Streeter were their daughters.Mrs.Helen Bo-renzweig, Mississauga, Ont., and Miss Audrey Streeter.Scarborough, Ont.They also attended the christening party of Jessica White-head of North Augusta, Ont.at Foster.Que.On Oct.20 Mrs.Anita Hanna accompanied Mr.and Mrs.A.Larsen to Stanstead where they were guests of Mrs.Mabel Wallace.Mr.and Mrs.Ersel Thompson, Richmond, Virginia, and Mr.and Mrs.Adrian Whitehead, Foster, were recent luncheon guests of their sister.Mrs.Raymond Streeter and Mr.Streeter.St.Luke's Church Women would like to give notice of their annual Christmas Sale and Tea to be held in the Church Hall on Nov.14 from 3 to 6 p.m.Marbleton Marian Guillettc Mr.and Mrs.Joseph Mackay received the sad news of the sudden passing of Mr.Mackay’s brother, Arthur (Dick) Halsall in Vancouver, B.C.Sympathy is extended from friends and neighbors.Mr.and Mrs.Halsall were former residents of this place.Recent guests of Mrs.Kay Davidson over Thanksgiving weekend were Pete Davidson and daughter Natalie of Kincardine, Ont., Mrs.Robert Harris, Melrose, Mass., and Gordon Van Buskirk.Pemaquid, Maine.They also called at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Joseph Mackay, while in town.Obituary OSBORNE WILKINS of Melbourne, Quebec There was an omission in the obituary of Osborne Wilkins published on Tuesday, October 28.He is also survived by his sister Margaret and Lyle (Pariseau) of Lennoxville; brothers Douglas and Phyllis (Wilkins) of Sault Ste.Marie; Ernest and Norene of Melbourne Ridge, as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles.Those attending the funeral were from Dayton, Ohio.White River Junction, Vermont, St.Andrews, New Brunswick, Lennoxville, Cookshire, Sherbrooke, Valeourt, Waterloo, Greenfield Park, Acton-vale, Magog, Pincourt, Rock Island, Massawippi.St.Hubert, South Durham.Windsor, Danville, Asbestos, Kingsbury.Ulverton, Richmond, and Melbourne.He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.NOBLE, Viola (Miss) — At the Wales Home on November 4, 1986.Miss Viola Noble, in her 81st year, of Richmond, Que.Beloved daughter of the late Gardiner Noble and Edna Dowd.Dear sister of Mrs.Ida Hazard.Resting at the St.Anne’s Church, Richmond, where friends may call on Wednesday from 7-9 p.m.and from noon on Thursday, and where funeral service will be held at 2 p.m.Interment will be in St.James Cemetery, South Durham, Rev.Richard Salt officiating.Arrangements by L.O.Cass and Son Ltd., 564-1750.SWEENY, Joan Howden Walsh — After a short illness at the Montreal Neurological Hospital, on November 1st, 1986.Joan Howden Walsh, dearly beloved wife of Thomas Gray Sweeney and mother of James (Rev.Heather Thomson) and Robert.Survived by her sisters Norah (Mrs.A.A.Weir) of Philadelphia and Alison (Mrs.W.A.Shaw) of Dorval.Loving grandmother of Claire Joan and Mary Ruth.A memorial service will be held on Wednesday* November 5th at 2 p.m.at St.Andrew’s-Dominion-Douglas Church, Wes-tmount, Quebec.In lieu of flowers donations to the Endowment Fund of St-Andrew’s-Dominion-Douglas Church would be appreciated.Card of Thanks BARRIE — We wish to thank all those who supported us in many ways during the illness and deathof our dear mother, Rita; Mr.Stewart Lockwood.Rev.Clarke, Rev.Shaver, all those who sent flowers, cards and messages of sympathy.Your kindness will always be remembered.THE BARRIE FAMILY MERRIMAN — Many thanks to the Allegro members and friends who organized and worked on my 90th birthday party which took place Saturday, October 25 at Centenary Church Hall; and to those who sent cards, gifts, made phone calls and attended from near and far.It is one birthday I am sure I II never forget! ALICE MERRIMAN SHERBROOKE U.C.W.pre-Christmas Tea and Sale in Plymouth-Trinity Church Hall.380 Dufferin St, Sherbrooke, on Saturday, November 8 from 3 to 6 p.m.Menu will include chicken and biscuits and there will be sale tables of home baking, novelties, handicrafts, new-to-you articles, jams, pickles, etc.Adults: .$5.00.Tomifobia Mrs.W.Embury 876-5576 Mr.and Mrs.Allen Rever and sons Kennie and Kevin, Smiths Falls, Ont.and Mr.and Mrs.Glen Trim.Kingston, were Thanksgiving weekend guests of Mrs.Myarl Bishop and Miss Muriel Bishop.Sympathy of the community is extended to the family of the late Kenneth Buzzell who passed away recently at his home.to.AYER 5 CUFF STANSTEAD 819 876 5213 ss «I son ltd.FUflERAl DIRECTORS Webster Cass tHEtMOOKE 300 Qutto 11,d N IENNOXVIIIE t Iftwidc* Si 819 562-2685 R.L.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapel ihekmooke — 300 Qwccn tl.d N 819 562-9977 ’ > Gordon Smith Funeral Home SAWYEEVIUE COOKJHIIE 819 562 2685 / 889 2231 “THE ASSOCIATES” Professional Services We Settle Estates Estate and Income Tax Planning Financial and Portfolio Administration Full Range of Consulting Services for Individuals and Businesses Farm Rollovers W.D.DUKE ASSOCIATES LTD 109 William St.Cowansville, Quebec J2K 1K9 514-263-4123 W O.DUKE B.Com.C.A.Pres.J.R.BOULE, B.A.Vice-Pres.DOHERTY — Matthew is pleased to announce the birth if his baby sister, Christina Mae, 6 lbs.B’/a oz., on October 7,1986at B.M.P.Hospital, Cowansville.Proud parents are Andrea (nee Willis) and Kevin Doherty.TAYLOR — Mike and Lucie (nee Groleau) are very proud to announce the arrival of their daughter, Stephanie Ann, at the St.Vincent de Paul on Wednesday the 22nd of October, 1986 at 10:45 a.m.We wish to thank Dr.Johanne Fre-geau and the nurses in Obstetrics for their wonderful care and support.CARPENTER, Doris — In Verdun, Sunday, November 2, 1986.Doris Miner, in her 56th year.Beloved wife of Wilfrid Carpenter.Loving mother of Barbara (Mrs.Jacques Berthiaume) of Cowansville, and Lillian (Mrs.Joseph Wheeler), Diane (Mrs.Guy Laplante), Edward Carpenter, Jerry Carpenter, all of Montreal.Also survived by several grandchildren.Funeral service from the chapel of the De-sourdy-Wilson Funeral Home, 104 Buzzell Ave., Cowansville.Wednesday, Nov.5 at 2 p.m.Interment Cowansville United Cemetery.HATCH, Norman — Suddenly at Sherbrooke, Que., on Monday, November 3, 1986.Norman Hatch, in his 72nd year.Beloved husband of the late Lauça Williams.Dear father of Mary Ann and Susan, and loving grandfather of Christine and Shawn.Cremation.No visitation.A memorial service will be held at L.O.Cass and Son Funeral Chapel, 300 Queen Blvd.N., Sherbrooke, on Saturday, Nov.8 at 11 a.m., Rev.Keith Perry-Gore officiating.If friends so desire contributions to the charity of your choice will be gratefully acknowledged.HUNTING, Alice — Peacefully at her home on Monday.November 3, 1986.Alice Call, in her 99th year.Beloved wife of Kenneth Hunting.Dear mother of Norma and George Beers, Ottawa, Ont., Jean and Douglas Brooks, Onoway, Alta., Ross and Iris Hunting of Hunting-ville, and the late Karl.Loving grandmother of 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.Also survived by her sister Jean Me-glicz and her brother Lawrence and his wife Myrtle Call.Resting at the L.O.Cass and Son Funeral Home, 6 Belvidere St., Lennoxville, where funeral service will be held on Thursday, Nov.6 at 2 p.m.followed by cremation.Canon A.M.Awcock officiating.If friends so desire contributions to the Hun-tingville Cemetery will be appreciated.PLEASE NOTE ALL — Births, Card of Thanks, In Memorial!», Brieflets, and items lor the Townships Crier should be sent In typewritten or printed In block letters.All of the following must be sent to The Record typewritten or neatly printed.They will not be accepted by phone.Please include a telephone number where you can be reached during the day.BRIEFLETS (No dances accepted) BIRTHS CAROS OF THANKS IN MEM0RIAMS 75* per count line Minimum charge: $3.50 WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS, SOCIAL NOTES: No charge for publication providing news submitted within one month, $10.00 production charge for wedding or engagement pictures.Wedding write-ups received one month or more after event, $15.00 charge with or without picture.Subject to condensation.ALL OTHER PHOTOS.$10.00 OBITUARIES: No charge if received within one month of death.Subject to condensation.$15.00 if received more than one month after death.Subject to condensation.All above notices must carry signature of person sending notices.DEATH NOTICES: Cost: 75* per count line.DEADLINE (Monday through Thur-tday): 8:15 a.m.Death notices received after 8:15 a.m.will be published the following day.DEADLINE FOR FRIDAY RECORD ONLY: Death notices for Friday editions of The Record may be called in between 10:00 a m.and 4:00 p.m.Thursday, and between 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.Thursday night.Death notices called in Friday will be published in Monday's Record.To place a death notice in the paper, call (819) 569-4856.If any other Record number is called, The Record cannot guarantee publication the same day. 90th birthday lavishly celebrated by Alice Merriman The RECORD—Wednesday.November 5.1986_9 Ashlar Masonic Lodge A.F.& A.M.honors two of its members STANSTEAD (IH) — Mrs.Charles (Alice Ayer) Merriman of this community was 90 years young on October 24.a date that was celebrated all week.It began on Tuesday evening, October 21 when her brother Howard Ayer and his wife Pauline of Hatley took Alice to Wayne's Fisherman's Platter for a scallops dinner.Alice was presented with a miniature birthday cake adorned with a sparkler.Alice is a faithful member of the United Steeples choir and selcom does she miss a practice or a Sunday in church.October 23 after the practice Rev.K.Eddy announced “someone is having a birthday”, it was Alice and she was serenaded by all singing the Birthday Song and She’s a Jolly Good Fellow.October 24, the actual date, guests arrived, Mr and Mrs.Donald Black of Enfield, Connecticut and Mary Archer of Greenfield, Massachusetts who remained for the weekend.Later in the afternoon they motored to Hatley and the home of Howard and Pauline Ayer who hosted a dinner party.This included a birthday cake centered with a tall taper.A lovely basket of silk and dried flowers was further adorned with “tree limbs” on which were fan folded currency, a gift from the American guests and their family.A delightful social evening followed.October 25, Saturday afternoon, the community celebration took place.It was arranged by the Centenary Church Allegro Unit and friends and held in the church hall.The burgundy gown worn by the celebrant was complemented with a bronze and yellow mums corsage entwined with gold to form the numeral 90, and was a gift from Arlene Probyn.Lexie Rogers was in charge of the guest book.On the same table was a large flower bedecked basket which was soon filled with congratulatory cards, several containing currency and other personal gifts, even though the announcements read “best wishes only”.St.Paul’s Church news KNOWLTON (KT) — At St.Paul’s Church, Sunday.October 19, a service of Holy Communion at 8 and Morning Prayer at 10 a m.Servers Lara Henderson ; (8) Linda Martin (10).Readers: Maureen Johnston-Main and Craig Quinn.Sidesfolk Roland Kimball (8) Gordon and Phyllis Lad (10).The theme of the sermon “Whose Jesus”.Prayer requests- For the second team of Church School teachers; Parish Council; and the sick- Albert Whitehead, Ernest Ladd.The bulletin noted St.Luke’s Day.St.Luke was a travelling companion of St.Paul and a doctor by profession.In his biblical writings (Luke and Acts) he portrays much of the healing power of the Holy Spirit.The congregation was invited to come forward after the recessional hymn to pray for healing of body, soul or spirit.The Deanery Chapter at Grace Church, Sutton, on October 23 was noted, when Dr.Kenneth McCall was guest speaker.On October 26 — Services of Holy Communion at 8 and 10 a.m.Servers: Cynthia Foster (8); Scott Evans (10).Readers: Janet Woodley and Michael O’Brien.Sidesfolk: Marjorie Marks (8).Bill and Evelyn Partridge (10).Lay Communion Helper.Steve Morson.Under Prayer Needs- Thanks for the healing power of Christ in the Eucharist; The sick- with Albert Whitehead especially rememberd; The Anglican Marriage Encounter Weekend and for Howard and Annie Holloway who were attending.Sunday Night prayer gatherings will take place on the 2nd, and 4th, Sundays of the month.All are warmly invited to attend.Prayers for one hour from 7 to 8 p.m.The evenings commence the second Sunday of November.Evenings for couples were not meeting on Friday, October 31 but will resume November 7 and 14th at the Rectory.Youth group began Tuesday evening, October 28, at 7 p.m.young folks 13-17 are invited to come and bring friends if they wish.Also bring a bible and a pen (If you do not have a bible there will be one for you).Church calendars are availabe.Very useful, with all the major festivals.They are also a nice gift.Price $3.00.Schedule of November Services.Holy Communion at 8 a m.each Sunday.(Book of Common Prayer).Nov 2- at 10 am- Holy Communion; November 9, Morning Prayer; November 16- Holy Communion; November 23 Holy Baptism; November 30- Morning Prayer.Father Henderson was attending the Diocesan Clergy Conference from Sunday evening until Tuesday noon.Alice was busy greeting the 123 guests, many of whom had come from a considerable distance.Two refreshment tables were linen-covered, one centered with a crystal vase of red sweetheart roses, white mums and baby’s breath, a gift from the Allegro Unit.The other displayed the birthday cake, made and decorated by Ruby Sheldon in an open book design, one page had a gold cross surrounded by flowers, the other was enscribed with Happy 90th Birthday, Alice, 1896-1986.The initial cut of the cake was made by Alice who later served it to all the guests.Rev.Ralph Rogers proposed a toast of his own composition.“If I had a silver chalice I’d fill it with rarest wine; Then I’d drink a toast to Alice, Friend of yours and mine.She lives in a house by the side of the road And is truly a friend to man; Living her life by the Christian code.Far past the allotted span.So here’s to Alice, a lovely lady, A Queen without a palace; Raise your glasses and drink a toast To our one and only Alice.” The pourers were Ruby Greer, Pauline Ayer, Mabel Wallace and Faith Davies.During the afternoon the Birthday song was sung by all, then two friends sang it in Polish.Among the guests were Alice’s sister, Mrs.Earle Remick and Mr.Remickof Burlington, Vt., Howard and Pauline Ayer, Hatley, nephews : Ronald Kent and Mrs.Kent and four children from North Hatley, Stuart Kent.Mrs.Kent and twins Bobby and Billy, Magog.Donald and Beverly Remick, Burlington, Vt.Allan Remick and a friend from Montpelier, Vt.the trio from Connecticut and Massachusetts, and others from points of Massachusetts, Vermont and the Eastern Townships.Alice is an amazing person.After completing her education she was employed until retirement in the office of the Butterfield Company.She is still a member of the Butterfield Quarter Century Club and attends the annual gathering; she is a valued member of Centenary United Church, active in the Women’s groups and the choir, plus the Border Senior Citizens and is secretary for the Meals on Wheels project, and active in other groups in the communities.Alice loves to travel and late September with the Ayers went to Dallas, Texas where they visited relatives on their ranch.While there one relative took them in his private plane and from the air they viewed many historic sites to include “Southport” the home of the TV Ewings.Alice said it was a great trip.Alice was the recipient of many greeting cards in the mails, over 125, and was sent a certificate of membership in CBC Fresh Air 90 club by Bill and Cy which was framed by a friend.We all wish Alice “many happy returns.” COAT1COOK (IH) — Two members of Ashlar Masonic Lodge A.F.& A.M.here were honored on Sunday evening.October 26 at Ladies Night held in the L’Epervier Reception Hail.These two were Cecil and Lloyd Mayhew.Wor.Bro.Tim Bagley spoke words of tribute of these two, Cecil, who was raised a Master Mason in 1964 and Lloyd, raised in 1966.Since then both have worked actively within the Lodge in many ways.Wor.Bro.MikeClowery presented each with a diamond set jewel, a belt buckle and penknife with a Masonic ensignia "in appreciation of your highly valued service” said the speaker.Their wives were each presented with a red rose buds and baby’s breath corsage, for it is said “behind every good Mason is a good wife”.The special evening started with a cocktail hour.R.W.Wor.Bro.Stanley Beerworth was M.C.and invited all the ladies to form a circle facing outward, then the men formed an outer circle and circled greeting each lady in turn.Brother Beerworth gave the blessing and proposed a toast to Her Majesty, The Queen.Brother Bagley proposed a toast to the president of the United States.The management served a delicious turkey and ham dinner which left nothing to be desired.R.W.Brother Nelson, Acting Master of Ashlar, in his remarks, commended the Mayhew brothers on their years of service in Ashlar, he also thanked Brothers ASHLAR LODGE — Left to right, XL- flowery, Lloyd and Mrs.Mayhew, Cecil and Mrs.Mayhew and Tim Bagley.Beerworth, Bagley and Clowery for arranging this Masonic event.Other speakers were Brother Harry Turnbull who proposed a toast to the Grand Lodge of Quebec.This was responsed to by Rt.Wor.Brother James Scallon, D.D.Gr.Lodge of Quebec, who said “visiting is a large part of Masonry”.He promised “big things are coming up”.He noted that in May 1986, over 1000 Masons were on parade in Montreal.Rt.Wor.Brother Ivor W'hite-house and his wife, Violet, former residents in the Coaticook area, now residing in Dunkin, B.C.were among the guests present.Brother Ivor had been Ashlar secretary for many years.In his remarks he spoke on Masonry in the West coast.Vi said “I’m just happy to be here ”.Brother Albert Tolhurst of Ascot Lodge also spoke about upcoming events in his lodge.Mildred Laming was asked to speak and she voiced appreciation to Ashlar for inviting the ladies to this social event.She brought greetings from her husband George who has been hospitalised the past four years, mentioning especially Cecil and Lloyd Mayhew who take Brother Laming to his home in his wheel chair every weekend for the day.This brought the program to a close.For those who wished, there was continued socializing and dancing It had been another pleasant fraternal evening shared by the ladies of the Ashlar Lodge.^fffSyoUTHt iTACHI 0 HITACHI MT 2550 MODEL TS-6410 A high performance color TV Hitachi sMT 2550 will certainly impress yodr friends and neighbours The fabulous avant garde Lummar system, a 19 function remote control, a tinted screen make a real star out of the 2550 For those who would rather have a classic here s your color 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MUSIC — Honolulu, 201 King St.East, Sherbrooke, 562-7840.Sales, exchange, rental, repairs, teaching.All instruments have a warranty.Visa, Mastercard accepted.Honolulu Orchestra for all receptions.33 Florist Consultant RITA THERRIEN, Florist Consultant, 20 River Street, apt.201.Sherbrooke.Tel: 563-1047 Personalized bride bouquet by appointment only.7 For Rent A BRIGHT SPACIOUS 2 floor apartment to rent, 5 minutes from North Hatley, unfurnished, includes fridge and stove, and wood burning stove.$375./month.Call 565-1454 days or 842-2573 evenings.2V5 room apartment, heated, all utilities included 69 Winder Street, Lennoxville.Also, 4 room apartment, no utilities included 565-7875.5 ROOM APARTMENT for rent, two picture windows, wall to wall carpet, across from Canadian Customs in Beebe.Call 873-3410.- 7 For Rent Les Appartements Belvédère 31/2 4V2 5V2 rooms Pool •Sauna • Janitoral Service •Washer/Dryer Outlet «Wall to Wall Carpeting For Rental Information: Lennoxville: Mrs.Bennett: 563-9949 Administration: 564-4080 8 Wanted to rent 20 Job Opportunities WANTED: GARAGE to store car for winter, from October to April.Call Stephen at 566-1327 or 839-2933.10 Rest homes ROOM & BOARD for senior citizens in Lennoxville.Call 563-5593.20 Job Opportunities ATTENTION! Best job in town Smiling women needed to teach skin care, make-up and color coding.Part-time or full-time.Training provided.Advancement available.For interview call 843-7773 or 843-2571.RECEPTIONIST/typist required for maternity replacement.Must be perfectly bilingual (language of work English) and must possess computer experience Starting date is December 1, 1986.Location: Coaticook.Duration of approx.5 months.Send c.v.to Record Box 14, c/o The Record, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke.Que.J1H 5L6.27 Child Care MOTHER'S HELPER wanted with experience with newborn, bilingual preferred, 5 days/week, time negotiable from 2 to 8 p.m., 2 children in my Lennoxville home.Call 565-1364.28 Professional Services 40 Cars for sale SPORTS CAR — 1982 Mercury LN7, 2 door, 4 speed standard, sun roof, rally tires, new paint, AM/FM cassette.$2,600 Call 567-7781.1977 THUNDERBIRD, V-8, automatic, vinly top, clean, ready for winter, $775.Call 565-9964 after 4 p.m.1978 DODGE ASPEN, 2 door, 6 cylinder, automatic, very good condition New brakes and new exhaust system Call 565-9200.1979 CAMERO Z-28.black, new paint, Pioneer AM/FM cassette, 6 Alpine speakers, 350 4 speed, mag wheels with 4 T/ A s, in good condition.Price to be discussed Call 569-2464 Serious buyers only.1980 MAZDA GLC, 5 speed, sport model, good condition.Call 842-2236.1982 PONTIAC J2000 compact, excellent condition, 1 owner, automatic, 4 extra tires, 91,000 km,, price $3,700.Call 569-4678 1984 CELEBRITY CL, V-6 automatic, AM/ FM stereo, 2 tone, 53,000 km., Ralley wheels, $8,300.Call 562-4675 41 Trucks for sale 1977 FORD SUPER CAB, power brakes, power steering, 65.000 miles, very good condition.Call 563-1200.1977 GMC VAN, 305 motor, automatic, clean, windows all around, ready for winter, $1.490 Call 567-7781 47 Motors BMW 2002 engine and automatic transmission for sale, good condition.Price $650., negotiable.Call 567-3567between 9 a.m.and 5 p.m.and ask for Joe.INDEX.I REAL EfTATE I #1-#19 l^llEmpiownEnil #20-#39 AUTOmOTIVE #40-#S9 IfnERCHAWl #60-#79 llfflUCEUAnKWl #80-#100 RATES 10c per word Minimum charge $2.50 per day lor 25 words or less.Ad will run a minimum of 3 days unless paid in advance.Discounts for consecutive insertions without copy change, when paid in advance.3 insertions - less 10% 6 insertions - less 15% 21 insertions • less 20% #84-Found - 3 consecutive days - no charge Use ol “Record Box” for replies is $1.50 per week.We accept Visa & Master Card DEADLINE 10 a.m.working day previous to publication.ATTORNEY JACQUELINE KOURI, ATTORNEY, 85 Queen street, Lennoxville.Tel.564-0184 Office hours 8:30 a m.to 4:30 p.m.Evenings by appointment.ATTORNEY Robert L.O'Donnell, 295 Main Street South, Suite 102, Richmond.Office: 826-5929.Residence: 826-2541.LAWYERS HACKETT, CAMPBELL & BOUCHARD, 80 Peel St., Sherbrooke.Tel.565-7885,40 Main St, Rock Island.Tel.876-7295.28 Professional Services NORMAN J.LONQWORTH Computer System* Consultent snd Computer Ssntcs Burssu • MAI UNO LISTS • ACCOUNTING • CUSTOM SERVICES 2S Yssrs of Exportsneo st Your Sonrtcs P.O.BOX 903, 50 COUTURE ST.SHERBROOKE, QUE.J1H SL1 (818) 567-0611 29 Miscellaneous Services LENNOXVILLE PLUMBING Domestic repairs and water refiners.Call Norman Walker at 563-1491 PRIVATE Intensive French conversation classes, quick and easy.Licensed professional Call Denise at 563-6736.60 Articles for sale ANTIQUE GLENWOOD wood burning kitchen stove, black with chrome trim Call 562-5588.DOUBLE DRESSER with mirror.4 drawer dresser and 2 night stands, all for $50.Also telephone answering machine, $75.Call 569-9595 ELECTRIC SNOW SHOVEL, excellent condition.Call 565-0112 after 5 p.m.FIREWOOD — Maple-Bobbin wood for sale Quick delivery.Call 1-514-292-5880 after 5 p.m.FOR SALE — Home-made shed, 8 x8\ with A shape roof, $400.Also old fridge] excellent running condition, $100 Call 566-6790 after 6 p.m.LADY'S MUSKRAT fur coat and hat.good condition, size 16 Call 569-1337 Les Distribuation de Planure de Bois (wood shavings), in bulk or in bags of 45 lbs.Call (819) 843-9389 Thank you for your attention PRINTED BUTTONS (Macarons), rubber stamps and printing of all kinds 1 week delivery or sooner at a very good price For information call Rock Forest Printing at 562-0266 SINGER SUBMERGIBLE special zigzag sewing machine, model 638.on Its own table with chair.A-1 condition.$190.Please call 566-0748 TIRES, wheels.14 inch wheels for old GM cars, $5.00 each.Call Stephen at 566-1327 or 839-2933 60 Articles for sale Home Improvement TURBO HYDROMATIC 350 transmission for Chevrolet.Also, 5 rims for full size G.M.car or pick-up.Priced to sell.Call 565-9714.LADIES WINTER COAT, Suede, reverse sheep skin, size 12, taupe color, impe-cable, $200.Brown tweed suit, size 10-12, classic tailored style, $50.paid $350.Call 566-7138.61 Articles wanted BISQUE DOLLS — Serious collector wishes to purchase old dolls, doll clothes, body parts and related para-phenalia, furniture and carriages.Will pay a good price for any antique Bisque dolls, even in parts.1-514-653-8170.WANTED: 1 wooden kitchen table (with chairs preferably).Call 569-5277.KITCHEN CABINETS.Discounted prices.All models in stock for immediate delivery.Come visit our showroom for a free estimate.2415 Portland Street (side door), Sherbrooke.569-1061.2 p.m.to 9 p.m.weekdays or 10 a.m.to 4 p.m.Saturdays Notice is hereby given that the contractofsale dated March 27, 1 985 to The Toronto-Dominion Bank of all the debts, present or future, payable to La Brique Estrielle Inc.was registered at the Registry Office for the Registration Division of Compton on the 11th day of April, 1985 under Number 112566.Dated the 30th day of October 1986.The Toronto-Dominion Bank 3000 King West Sherbrooke Livestock 10 BRED EWES, $60.each.Call (819) 858-2535.l&ll PERSIAN KITTENS, registered, $150.Also adult male, $100.Call 562-1856.Notice is hereby given that the contract of sale dated March 27, 1985 to The Toronto-Dominion Bank of all the debts, present or future, payable to 124984 Canada Ltée was registered at the Registry Office for the Registration Division of Compton on the 11th day of April, 1985 under Number 112567.Dated the 30th day of October, 1986.The Toronto-Dominion Bank 3000 King West Sherbrooke 80 Home Services ANDRE LAPI ERRE SERVICE ENR.Plumbing and heating service.Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Magog, Ayer's Cliff and area.Reasonable rates.Call Bob Stewart at 846-4025 or 567-4340.Bélanger Héberïâ Chartered Accountant* A.Jackson Noble, c.a.Réjean Desrosiers, e.a.Maurice Di Stéfano, c.a.Koss Ian Mackay, c.a.234 Duffcrin Suite 400 Sherbrooke, Quebec JIH 4M2 819/563-2331 LAC MEGANTIC • ASBESTOS COWANSVILLE • COATICOOK Accountants Samson Belair CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS James Crook, c.a.Chantal Touzin, c.a.Michael Drew Kimball Smith 2144KingSt.West, Suite240 Sherbrooke, Quebec J1J2E8 Telephone: (819)822-1515 EASTERN EXPRESS Across the townships, the pro-i vince, the country, the world.819-564-7011 800-567-3437 Esthetician Centre d’Esthétique et de coiffure Facial Ginette an* Anne Chrlitlne ' Malœ-up \ tar piercing 69 Belvedere, Lennoxville Latest hair cuts 565-0916 Highlighting Braids Home Decoration