The record, 2 mars 1990, vendredi 2 mars 1990

Weekend In Townships Week: Meet a new rock band — Desert Heat — who offer a wise message along with their rockin’ sounds.The boys all hail from the Cowansville area of the Townships.Births, deaths .15 Classified .12-13 Comics .14 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .6-7 Living .8 Sports .16-17 Townships .3 Inside Orford's lean Dion is thinking casino and slot machines again.Page 3.Check out the new monthly conservation column all about Lake Champlain.Page 5.And in the sports pages, the editor uncovers an AHL linesman who’s flipping pizzas on the side.Page 17.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, March 2,1990 50 cents Tires ! Firefighters seek concrete solution MONTREAL(CP) —The provincial firefighters’ union has suggested a concrete way to eliminate the millions of used tires stockpiled in Quebec — burn them in cement plant incinerators.Gilles Raymond, president of the 1.500-member union, said at a news conference Thursday that the incinerator proposal is being presented to the provincial government in an attempt to prevent a potential environmental disaster.Raymond referred to the mountains of old tires as time bombs.He repeated a warning that, if the 15 million tires near St-Amable east of Montreal ever caught fire, the result could be equivalent to a nuclear winter.Raymond said plans for a two-month test project involving Quebec cement plants will be discussed with Environment Minister Pierre Paradis and Public Security Minister Sam Elkas as soon as possible.After studying the matter, he said, the union concluded that controlled burning of tires is the only solution.Raymond said the world's largest tire incinerator, located in California, has proved effective and meets all federal anti-pollution norms.Citing studies conducted by the Recycling Research Institute in Connecticut, he said the burning of tires in cement incinerators causes no more pollution than coal.SHREDDED FIRST Cement incinerators in Quebec aren't capable of burning whole tires, however They would first have to be shredded and cement companies aren’t yet prepared for the added expense.Raymond named St.Lawrence Cement Inc.as being interested in the pilot project using the four incinerators at its Joliette plant.Gilles Bernardin, director of energy recovery for St.Lawrence Cement in Canada and the United States, confirmed meeting with the union on the ti re matter earlier this week, but said there was "no mention of any test project.Gentilly: Three deformed babies born near nuclear plant TROIS-RIVIERES (CP) — Community health officials are investigating the birth of three deformed babies last summer to mothers who live near a nuclear power station.Dr.Maurice Poulin said in an interview Thursday the babies were born without anuses.The problem was corrected surgically but two of the children still have serious internal deformities.Poulin, community health director at Ste-Marie Hospital who is heading the investigation, said he did not have any other details or know if the mothers worked at the plant.Poulin said there is no evidence the nuclear power plant, which has been operating since 1982 in this community 140 kilometres northeast of Montreal, caused the deformities.He said the deformities, which normally occur only in one in 5,000 births, could have been caused by heredity, medication taken during pregnancy, accidental exposure to a toxic source or pure chance.Health officials were tipped off to the situation last month by a local doctor whose patient wanted an abortion because she was worried about a possible deformed fetus.Henri Marois, a spokesman for the Gentilly 2 nuclear plant, confirmed an employee at the power station gave birth to a deformed baby.But it could not be ascertained immediately whether that baby was one of the three targeted by health officials.HEART DEFORMED Le Nouvelliste of Trois-Rivieres reported Thursday a fourth baby born last summer in Gentilly, the neighborhood near the plant, had a heart deformity which proved fatal.The Candu reactor at Gentilly, run by Hydro-Quebec, has an excellent safety record, said Bob Pot-vin, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Control Board, the federal body which regulates nuclear safety.Potvin said the Gentilly plant was warned in January to tighten up security after a union official said workers were leaving the plant without going through radiation checks.But he added that even if workers left the plant with small amounts of radiation on their clothing or shoes it would not be enough to deform a fetus.Potvin said that precautions are always taken with pregnant women who worked in nuclear plants “There has been a lot of research done around the world,” he said."Small amounts of radiation have not had any adverse effect on fetuses.” Marois, head of workplace safety at the plant, said in an interview that the plant conformed with the standards set out by the Atomic Energy Control Board.He said that the employee who bore a deformed child worked in administration, a radiation-free area, although she occasionally passed through a zone where minor contamination was cleaned up She did not go into the reactor zone where water lightly contaminated with radiation sometimes spills.BACK AT WORK "The woman has also had a baby which was healthy.She is now back working atthe plant,” Marois said, declining to give any other details about the woman.“We have had several cases of miscarriages among our employees over the past few years but not in greater numbers than in the general population.” Poulin said it will be difficult to pinpoint the cause of the deformities, citing a U.S.case where investigators took 10 years to trace the cause of baby deformities to disinfectant soap used in a hospital.“For the moment, we don’t have any precise advice to give women-.but we are taking the matter very seriously,” he said.Poulin said that only one deformed baby was born in the region in the three years prior to last summer’s births.“We want to see what has happened in previous years in other municipalities and regions so we can compare,” he said, adding that his office will circulate a questionnaire to try and turn up similar cases.The Gentilly plant employs 630 employees and generates 180,000 megawatts, enough to power a city of 180,000.Shouldn’t have called her Tequila Sheila Crosbie gets a tsk-tsk from the boss By Helen Branswell BAIE-COMEAU, Que.(CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney rapped John Crosbie’s knuckles Thursday for his “Pass me the tequila, Sheila” remark — a remark the trade minister now says was aimed at nobody in particular.But the quip that has outraged women’s groups won’t cost the outspoken Crosbie his job as international trade minister.“If you got rid of all the politicians that put their feet in their mouths, there wouldn’t be a single person sitting in the House of Commons,” Mulroney said during a visit to a school in his hometown.“The fact of the matter is that we all, from time to time, make statements that we regret.” Crosbie touched off the tempest Tuesday night when he told a Con- BA1E COMEAU, Que.(CPl — Linguistic tensions are not as strong in Canada today as they were 14 years ago, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said Thursday.Recent eruptions of intolerance are “isolated eases.” the prime minister insisted when asked about an incident that happened in Toronto on Wednesday About 50 municipal representatives from across Ontario walked out of a luncheon when Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall began speaking in French McDougall was addressing an audience of about 500 at the Ontario Good Roads Association.“Well, when somebody gets up and walks out when you're speaking French, it says a lot more about them than it does about Barbara McDougall,” Mulroney said.“And all of it would be unfavorable “It’s an element of intolerance servative fundraiser in Victoria : “Sheila Copps is running in a certain race for the leadership of the Liberal party.It reminds me of a — 1 don’t know whether you’ve heard this — old song.It goes: ‘Pass me the tequila, Sheila, and lie down and love me again.’ “Now this is just a song; it hasn’t happened." The remark was unacceptable, Mulroney said."When 1 found out, I reached Mr.Crosbie and even with the genuine apology that he put forward .(1 said) that kind of humor and that kind of statement was unacceptable." In Ottawa on Thursday, Crosbie said he said nothing derogatory about Copps.“I said the name Sheila reminded me of this song and then I and thoughtlessness that is unacceptable, but unfortunately we run into it from time to time.” Mulroney said the worst linguistic divisions he remembers occurred during the period from 1976 to 1982.The Parti Québécois first came to power in Quebec in 1976."What we seem to have now are isolated cases of intolerance, stupidity.” said Mulroney.“People who don’t understand the magnificence of English- and French speaking people working together.They don’t understand the glory of Canada.” More than 40 municipalities in Ontario and Manitoba recently declared themselves English only.But Mulroney called these actions “irritants that are ongoing and that I suppose will be with us forever.They come and go in cycles." gave the song.Sheila Copps did not figure in my speech.I’m not interested in Sheila Copps one way or the other.” SEEMS BAFFLED Liberal Leader Herb Gray seemed baffled when told of the most recent statement in Ottawa.“You mean he insulted another person called Sheila in our caucus?” he asked.“That explanation doesn’t make any sense at all and is no less acceptable than his original attempt at apology.” While not condoning the original remark, Mulroney said everyone makes mistakes.“That’s what Christian charity is for.Humans aren’t perfect.He apologized frankly, sincerely.So I don’t see why we wouldn’t accept his apology.” MP Mary Clancy, the Liberal critic for women’s issues, said Crosbie owed Copps and all women an apology.“What that statement says is: ‘Give a woman a couple of drinks.,’ ” Clancy said.Crosbie issued a statement Wednesday night, saying he “aimed no insult at Sheila Copps or anyone else,” and regretted if he offended anyone.The controversy also touched Mulroney’s new minister for the status of women, Mary Collins, but Mulroney let her off the hook Thursday.Collins, who took on that portfolio last week, was at the fundraiser and thanked Crosbie for his speech.She said Wednesday the remark didn’t strike her as offensive at first but later she saw that it could be seen in that light.Mulroney praised Collins as a single mother of three who has “done a remarkable job in very difficult circumstances.” He added Copps herself has been known to throw out the odd unflattering epithet McDougall walkout: An isolated language case?Pizzas on the side mm -¦ .’-a i _ RECORD/GRANT SIMKON | A Sherbrooke Canadien linesman has been caught Tim Colby is the entrepreneur who brought the fast- 1 moonlighting.growing, fast-food Domino’s Pizza to Sherbrooke.Apart from calling the offsides in the Sports Palace, For the full story, turn to page 17.Fire injures Canadians in Cairo hotel From AP-Reuters-CP CAIRO (CP) — Fire began in a luxury hotel’s tent restaurant early Thursday and wind-whipped flames leaped to the main building, killing 16 people and injuring about 70.Several Canadians were among those hurt at the Heliopolis Sheraton in the Egyptian capital Guests at the six-storey hotel jumped from windows and slid down bedsheets that were tied together.Many of the injuries were broken bones suffered in falls.The fire began at 1 a.m.and burned for nine hours.By early afternoon, after the last flames had been put out and the smoke extinguished, guests were returning to retrieve belongings.As people carried soggy luggage out of the ruined building, rescue teams were seen carrying out at least four bodies.The hotel northeast of Cairo had no fire alarms or sprinklers, and many guests heard of the fire from other guests.A Canadian official in Cairo said about 20 Canadians were staying at the hotel.Ambassador Marc Brault said Thursday in a telephone interview that several were hurt but none seriously.“They’re all fine and in hotels in various places in Cairo.” A Calgary couple were treated for smoke inhalation and bruises, but Brault said they had been re- leased.Tourism Minister Fuad Sultan said the blaze started accidentally in the Nubian Tent restaurant — a cotton canvas tent attached to one of the three blocks of the T-shaped hotel.The head of Cairo’s fire brigade, Maj.-Gen.Adel Nigm, said such tents are fire hazards and the Sher- aton put it up without consulting the fire department Sparks jumped from a clay oven to the ceiling of the tent, igniting flames that quickly spread to the hotel, said Sultan.The Helioplis Sheraton, about 10 years old, is the only one of Egypt’s six Sheratons without an alarm system or sprinklers.Felix Leclerc would roll over if he saw the girls MONTREAL (CP) — A theatre named in honor of poet and singer Felix Leclerc may soon be transformed into a spot for drinking and nude dancing.The theatre has been closed since 1986, two years before Leclerc died.The owners, Teesdale Bradford Corp., say they have signed a five-year lease with a group that, instead of presenting Moliere and Racine, intends to turn it into a beer hall cum show bar.Kathleen Verdon, a member of the Montreal executive committee, said the planned transformation of the theatre is regrettable, but the city has no plans to buy the site.The permits department has not yet received an official request fora necessary zoning change, she said.A request in 1986 to open a discotheque there was turned down.The Quebec Theatre Council has dismissed the building as one of the most poorly conceived halls in Montreal.“We won’t do anything with this theatre because it is not suitable,’’ Verdon said."It’s not good for artistic presentations.It was a mistake." Jean Dorion, president of the Montreal St-Jean-Baptiste Society, said it was sad to see the failure of a theatre that carries Leclerc’s name and regrettable that it might become a strip joint.But, because the artistic community was never happy with the building, the society will not try to preserve it.¦bkmmmmhm 2—Tbe RECORD—Friday, March 2, 1990 Casino; Jean Dion brings back old Orford dream Jean Dion.‘A casino is a volun tary tax.' - By Ann McLaughlin SHERBROOKE — As the eco nomy cools its heels, notorious Orford businessman, developer and former mayor Jean Dion has brought back the old idea of open ing a casino in the Eastern Townships."Quebec has just lost $600 million out of the federal government’s budget.Maybe this formula will force Quebec to come out of its shell,” Dion said Thursday from his Jardin des Sables condominium and Sheraton hotel development at the base of Mount Orford.Successive Quebec governments have been against opening betting parlors in Quebec because they don't want to attract the type of tourists who frequent such places as Altlantic City, said Lynn Blouin, political attaché for Orford MNA Robert Benoit.NO BUT MAYBE "Mr.Dion's point is that for two months a casino in Winnipeg has been operating under government supervision, and it works well.Mr.Benoit is personally against the idea, but that does not mean that the government would not study it again," Blouin added Thursday.Benoit was at a parliamentary committee meeting Thursday and could not be reached for comment.Dion said he wants the government to change its policy on casinos.He is not sure if Meech Lake or Quebec's language problems will have an effect on the upcoming tourist season.But high interest rates will definitely drag the economy down.Dion said, and he does not want to take any chances.“We need money in the region.Many might think that building a casino is not necessarily a good idea, but 1 am convinced it is the best idea that will bring money here very rapidly.” Dion said.EX MAYOR Dion occupied the mayor's chair in Orford Township for 12 years until his party was ousted by a citizen's movement in last November's municipal election.The citizens’ platform denigrated Dion for having built himself an empire while mayor The full slate of winning candidates wanted the pace of local development slowed down.But the always-undaunted Dion scoffs at the citizens, and takes pride in the Orford tax roll that ballooned from under $1 million to over $150 million while he reigned on town council.Although Orford residents be- came environmentally conscious as development snowballed in Cherry River, located just a few miles from both Lake Memphre-magog and the mountain.Dion said "it is not pedestrian and bicycle paths that will develop the region.” BETTER IDEA?“If the government has a better idea than opening a casino, well, I'd like to hear it.We desperately need money for our social programs and the government cannot go on taking it from the pockets of taxpayers,” he said.“A casino is a voluntary tax and the money would be mostly coming from Europeans and Americans,” he added.Dion first mentioned the idea of opening a gambling casino in 1980 and few Townshippers approved.Many feared that the Magog area would be transformed into a Township of iniquity, festering with organized crime, drugs and prostitution.But Dion said one casino would not turn any town's Rue Principale into a Las Vegas strip.His idea of a gambling parlor would be operated by private entreprise but stiffly regulated by government.But Orford or not, he added, it doesn’t really matter where the casino goes in the area, as long as the dice and tourists start rolling into the Townships.Still, when asked if he would rent out a floor of the Sheraton for gambling purposes, Dion responded, “I think it could be arranged.” Pot plants: Stanbridge Sta.dealer gets two years By John McCaghey COWANSVILLE - Richard Couture of Stanbridge Station, was sentenced to two years less one day in jail Thursday by Mr.Justice Louis-Philippe Galipeau in Superior Court.Last week a jury found Couture guilty of trafficking in Marijuana, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under the Narcotics Control Act.“Your lawyer told the court that local sentences for trafficking in marijuana resulted in sentences up to a maximum of two years in jail,” Justice Galipeau said.He dismissed lawyer Donald Bissonnet-te’s suggestion that one month in jail accompanied by a $3000 fine or donations to drug detox centres would be ample punishment.WRONG MESSAGE “That type of sentence would only send a message that people could traffic in drugs and pay a small part of their profits as a penally,” Justice Galipeau continued.He told Couture that while marijuana is a soft drug, traffick- ers have to be punished, although not as severely as those who traffic in cocaine or heroin.The judge upheld federal prosecutor Serge Champoux’s argument that Couture showed no remorse for the crime and appeared to deserve a stiff sentence to deter other would-be traffickers.He said the accused appeared to be part of a well-organized group so had to receive a severe enough term to deter him from similar acts following his relaese.Couture was originally charged with posession of 7000 marijuana plants with intent to traffic in the Bedford area on Sept.23 1988, and cultivation and posession of 335 freshly-cut pot plants in an adjacent field three days later.Couture was arrested near the freshly-cut plants by Bedford RCMP on Sept.26, 1988.It took six RCMP members eight hours to cut down and remove the 70(H) plants found in drying sheds three days before.No arrest were made during that raid.The judge omitted any mention of the first raid in his instructions to the jury.Seven women and five men deliberated for Vh hours, then acquitted Couture of cultivation of the 335 plants, but found him guilty ofor possession for trafficking.HEALTHY GARDEN Judge Galipeau recalled RCMP Cst.Pierre Lauzon’s testimony concerning the vigorous state of the freshly-cut plants.Based on a yield of eight ounces per plant Lauzon placed a minimum street value of $50,000 on the crop.Following a suggestion by Bis-sonnette.Justice Galipeau recommended Couture be sent to the Waterloo rehab centre.But much of that maybe useless.Bissonnette served the Crown with a notice of appeal Wednesday.He alleged that the judge erred in law by allowing introduction of an “illegal” search warrant which permitted evidence not mentioned in the indictment.Couture’s bail hearing will be heard in appeal court in Montreal today.Hussars: Anyone in terested in finding out more about Canada's part-time soldiers can try on a helmet for size this weekend at Carrefour de I'Estrie in Sherbrooke.The Sherbrooke Hussars are manning — make that peopling — an information booth at the shopping \ centre until Saturday at 5.Goodhue: Keenan saves the day By Jean Potvin BROMPTONVILLE — Thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of John Keenan, a local garment plant has been saved from closing and the 32 employees working there still have a job today.Keenan, manager of the J.B.Goodhue work clothes plant since 1985, has recently acquired the 16,000 square foot Bromptonville plant in a joint buyout, with the help of government agencies and commercial partners.The Centre d aide aux Entreprises (CAE) and the Fonds de Développement Industriel de Rich mond-Wolfe each contributed $50,000 to help finance the buyout.The other partner in the new venture is the union Solidarity Fund of the Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), which bought $100,000 in shares.The Fund thereby owns 40 per cent of J.B.Goodhue.GOOD LUCK Liette Mercier, spokesman for the CAE, and FDI president Luc Pinard said they are confident Keenan and his team will succeed."I wish Mr.Keenan and all employees present here today the best of luck,” Mercier said.Union man Gilles Côté said the FTQ invested in Goodhue for its own reasons.“First, investing in the textile industry is a priority for the fund.Second, the firm passes from Ontario to Quebec ownership,” said Côté, financial advisor for the Solidarity Fund.“We went through tough times and good times, but everyone pitched in to keep the place afloat,” said Réjean Bouffard, president of Goodhue’s union.“We have the cream of the cream as far as worker’s competence is concerned.We have the best employees,” he added.FOR FREE TRADE Goodhue makes clothing for industrial workers, including heavy shirts, trousers and coveralls.Keenan said he approves of free trade since it’s “an advantage”.“Many manufacturing firms need specialty clothing in a 250 km radius,” Keenan added in an interview after the announcement.Keenan said Goodhue has many faitrhful customers including Sid-bec, Stelco, Canadian Electrolytic Zinc and N.L.Chem.“We keep supplies in stock for them.Service is very important,” Keenan said.Goodhue’s annual sales are about $1.5 million annually, and up to eight new employees could be hired in the coming years.The company was formerly a division of Bradshaw Stradwick in Welland Ontario.Meech: Here comes Mr.Parallel— Rémillard By Jim Macdonald REGINA (CP) — A political deal guaranteeing future discussion on Senate reform and minority rights may smooth the way for passage of the Meech Lake accord, says Gil Rémillard, Quebec’s intergovernmental affairs minister.A deal could be struck among Canada's first ministers to discuss other constitutional issues after the Meech Lake accord is adopted, Rémillard said Thursday after meeting with Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine.A guarantee to discuss aboriginal rights and special provisions for the Northwest Territories and the Yukon could also be included in a political accord, said Rémillard.“The problem we have is people are trying to see Meech Lake as the solution to all our constitutional problems,’’ he said.The Quebec minister, who is known as the province’s Meech Lake ambassador, is touring the West to discuss his proposal to 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WHAT?V V The RECORD—Friday.March 2, 11 The Townships #1___gpj lECCOlu Brome Lake Frances MacKeen.Zoning change fits town goals.By Sharon McCully KNOWLTON — A bylaw to modify residential and commercial (VC) building zones around Brome Lake will be the subject of hot debate when property owners appear at a March 12 consultation.The new zoning bylaw would res trict permitted uses and the density in the lakeside area along the Bondville Road.Michel Gabareau.owner of Auberge Au Joli Vent, one of the properties affected by the proposed changes, circulated a petition opposing the modifications at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night.Gabareau, who moved to Brome Lake from Toronto last year, says he planned to construct a cluster of moderately priced houses — similar to the Cheribourg tourist centre in Cherry River — on his land behind the Auberge.The bylaw change restricts new construction to single family Zoning change worries promoter dwellings on minimum one-acre lots.NO PROBLEM Councillor Frances MacKeen, head of the town's zoning committee.said Thursday Gabareau s project would not be affected by the changes since it w as presented to council prior to the zoning bylaw."His request for double family homes came before the zoning changes, and we don’t apply bylaws retroactively,” MacKeen said.But Gabareau is not convinced.“I have nothing official from the town and I don’t intend to get caught like Pinsonnault did,” Gabareau said, referring to still unresolved verbal agreements between condo developer Maurice Pinsonnault and the town.“The town is asking me to spend $8000 to $10,000 on soil tests to make sure the development would pass environmental standards, before they give me a firm commitment the project would be accepted if it passes the tests.” Gabareau said “At the same time,” he added, "they are planning to pass a bylaw which would make my project illegal.” BAD IDEA Gabareau said apart from his personal concerns about the bylaw, he believes the principle is wrong.Imposing a one-acre requirement for building a single family home.Gabareau says, means restricting the area to mansions on the lakeside.“We have to ask where is the town going.” he added.“If you refer to the economic development report for Waterloo, Bromont, and Brome Lake, you see that Waterloo and Bromont are moving ahead while Brome Lake actually lost jobs in 1989 because of this antidevelopment sentiment.” Councillor MacKeen, seen by many as a leader of the antigrowth faction in town, says the proposed zoning changes stem from recommendations of a citizens committee called Imagi-naction.coupled with the town’s own objectives of maintaining the rural character of Brome Lake and protecting its main resource, the lake.WITH A VIEW MacKeen says by definition “rural character" means adequate green space and a view.“'Obviously, if we allowed large blocks of apartments to be built there, it would pose a threat to both the lake and the rural character, by obstructing the view and increasing the density.” A public consultation on the zoning changes will be held at a 7 o’clock meeting preceding the regular monthly council meeting March 12 at Prouty Hall in Bondville."If there is a lot of opposition, we may decide to go back to the zoning committee before introducing the motion to council." MacKeen said.In the absence of strong opposition.the bylaw will be presented to council for adoption — with or without amendment.SIGN THE BOOK If the bylaw is adopted by council, those affected by the changes who wish to express their opposition may do so by signing the town register at a date to be set.If enough sign council would have to withdraw it or hold a binding referendum Speaking to a group of town merchants, Mayor Gilles Decelles pointed out it’s the responsibility of the zoning committee to examine the principles for zoning changes and make recommendations to council.““But it’s council,” he said, “that deals with the politics of change.” “If the public is against the changes," Decelles added, “being politicians, we ll probably listen to what they have to say.” Inquest: Not enough police to go around — chief By Rita Legault GRANBY — Municipal police have enough to do without worrying about transporting accident victims, says a spokesman for the provincial association of police and fire chiefs.Capt.André Trudel told a coroner’s inquest into 26 deaths on three deadly stretches of Eastern Townships highway that police officers already spend too much time on other duties and not enough patrolling roads.The Quebec Automobile Insurance Board and a government committee have proposed an emergency response plan for the province which would drastically reduce the role of ambulance drivers and put some of the burden on policemen, particularly in small rural municipalities and isolated areas.André Trudel.‘Can't blame the policemen.’ “SCOOP AND RUN’ The plan is to transfer the drivers’ duties in rural and isolated areas to firefighters and police.In urban centres like Montreal ambulance drivers would follow the “scoop and run” method taking victims to the nearest hospital with little or no intervention at the accident scene.Trudel told Coroner Marc-André Bouliane the chiefs’ association would respond to the pre-hospital treatment plans in writing following a meeting March 12.But in an interview following his testimony Trudel said it is unlikely the police and fire chiefs will endorse the plan.“It is unthinkable that policemen can take on the job” of shepherding accident victims to hospital, he said, adding that municipalities will refuse to pay the extra costs.“We will be against police taking over the role of ambulance drivers,” he said.“Absorbing those responsibilities is just unrealistic.” On the other hand, Trudel said firefighters, many already trained in heart resuscitation and first aid, would be a good choice to replace ambulance drivers in remote areas.CATCHING DOGS Trudel said municipal cops spend too much time catching dogs, getting cats out of trees and directing traffic when traffic lights are out.He added that they should be out on the roads trying to prevent accidents by ticketing speeders and drunk drivers.The head of public safety for the Quebec City suburb of Sillery, Trudel said he also supports a Quebec Police Force request for a separate highway patrol of at least 300 officers — as long as the mobile force will help municipalities on request.QPF road safety head Claude Gill told Coroner Bouliane earlier this week he has been waiting since 1987 for an answer from Quebec’s treasury board on the additional patrolmen.Trudel said 75 per cent of auto accidents happen on municipal territory and 25 per cent are fatal.He said much work remains to make mayors and councillors more aware of road safety.REACXTING He said most town councils’ idea of road safety is merely reacting — “installing a stop sign on a corner because a citizen has complained.” Trudel said municipalities and local police forces spend a lot of time and energy on crime prevention but not enough on road safety promotion.“When you look at the number of road deaths and its cost you realize we don’t spend enough money and effort on road safety,” he said, comparing the number of murders to the number of highway deaths in the province.Trudel said there are less policemen on the roads when they are needed the most — one weekends and holidays, he said that’s because policemen have the right to take holidays and weekends in their contract and there is little or no money to hire part-time replacements.MONEY AND TIME Ho said police departments have to work within budget and contract restraints and are doing the best they can.“You can’t blame policemen for not being present on the roads,” Trudel said.“There is a will to act as effectively as we can to prevent catastrophes every weekend.Trudel said he would like to see a provincial committee set up to deal with road safety.He added that responsibility for road safety should be taken away from the auto insurance board and handed over to that new committee.He said the committee would stress the three Es — education, enforcement and engineering.Trudel said officials must stress education and changing driving behavior — the most important factor in road safety.He added that increased patrols and better maintained roads are the other two factors which will make Quebec safer.Marc-André Bouliane.Looking at 26 local highway deaths.Seat belts: Three-point hitch saves lives GRANBY — Three-point seat-belts must be made mandatory in all passenger vehicles, say the parents of a five-year-old girl whose death might have been avoided if she had been wearing one when the family passenger van collided with a car in January 1989.Afternoon testimony at a coroner’s inquest Thursday focused on seatbelts — particularly “two-point” lapbelts, which were a factor in at least four of the 26 deaths under investigation.Christie Trew, 5, was killed when her neck snapped in the impact of the collision Her Knowlton parents, attending the inquest, talked with reporters about the painful experience following testimony from a seatbelt expert.“Three point seatbelts are better,” said Stephen Trew.“They should be mandatory in all passenger cars and vans.” LIVES SAVED?The expert said the lives of Christie Trew as well as Anick, Christine and Émilie Raymond could have been saved if they had been properly strapped into automobiles before head-on collisions.But he said lapbelts weren’t to blame for any of the deaths.The Raymond girls, aged 2,4 and 6, were Idlled when the car they were back seat passengers in crashed with another car which lost control on Route 133 near St-Sebastien in December 1987.All three were buckled in with lap-belts.Claude Dussault, a safety expert for the Régie d’Assurance Automobile du Québec, said the deaths of the two youngest Raymond girls -could have been avoided if they had been in child-restraint seats.He said the deaths of the older Raymond child and Christie Trew could also have been avoided if they had been wearing three-point shoulder-belts and sitting on booster cushions to make sure the belt crossed their chests.Wearing seatblets in the back seat as well as using baby seats for children under five has been mandatory in Quebec since Jan.1.A GAP Dussault said that while there are secure baby and toddler seats and well designed seatbelts for adults, there is a gap for 5 to 12 year-olds.“We need to find a better adapted way to restrain kids in cars," he said.Dussault said all experts agree that three-point seatbelts, which hold the passenger’s torso back in head-on collisions, are much superior to two point lapbelts which only restrain the hips.While lapbelts are less effective in head-on collisions — which make up 40 per cent of all fatal crashed in Quebec — they are effective in other crashes and when cars roll over into ditches, Dussault added.Three-point seatbelts have been mandatory in front seats of cars since 1978.Transport Canada will require three-point back-seat belts „ beginning with cars of the 1991 model year.The Trew family vehicle, a popular Dodge Caravan, is not considered a passenger car.It is considered a recreational vehicle and is.not subject to the same safety stan-, dards.Coroner Marc-André Bouliane pointed out that in 1978 he had a Peugeot with three-point belts and, head rests in the back seat.Now he drives a recent-model Chrysler, which has neither.“What are we waiting for to put three-point seat belts in the back seat?” he asked.Dussault also debunked a common myth about seatbelts.He said while lapbelts are less effective than three-point belts, they a re “far better than nothing at all.” , Rita Legault MagOg: Only communications were lacking By Ann McLaughlin MAGOG — When highly-corrosive chlorine gas was leaking from the Magog sewage treatment plant Wednesday there appeared to be a break-down in communications, with police and town officials refusing to release any information as the emergency unravelled.But after the leak turned out to be a minor one — about 20 pounds of the gas escaped from a worn valve on one of the plant's two one-tonne tanks of chlorine — town offi- Stanstead: SHERBROOKE (CV) — Human error seems to ha ve been the cause of a car crash that claimed one victim and seriously injured another early Thursday in Stanstead.Driver Kevin Walsh, 20.apparently turned up dead-end Chemin Les Ursulines, instead of a cials removed their muzzles and candidly explained Thursday that they were in control the whole time.“If a similar or worse situation happened again, we would take the same precautions and, like yesterday, initiate our civil defence emergency plan,” said Adrien Mercier, head of operations at Magog’s joint police-fire station.CIVIL DEFENCE The civil emergency plan is updated every two years in Magog, Newport teen through road nearby, police said.The vehicle struck a sand pile at the end of the road and overturned, fatally injuring passenger Michael Gannon.18, also of Derby Line.Walsh, a U S.citizen was taken to hospital in Newport, Vt.where his condition is considered serious.Mercier said, and provides for speedy evacuation of citizens should a chemical leak, explosion, train derailment or any other environmental disaster happen.When the chlorine leak was reported to police at 10:15 Wenesday morning, Mercier said specialists on the scene were continually monitoring air conditions inside and outside the Hatley Street building.“Every ten minutes, we were being told what the chlorine ppms Gannon was rushed to La Providence hospital in Magog but was declared dead on arrival.Preliminary investigation by Quebec Police Force Cst.Yves Bonsant listed the cause of the accident as misadventure — a mistaken entry on Les Ursulines and collision with the frozen sand.(particles per million) were,” Mercier said, adding that the federal government 24-hour dangerous materials hotline in Ottawa, called CANUTECH, was also reached for advice.At the climax of the emergency, the acceptable chlorine level of 3 ppm inside the building were exceeded.The level hit 7 ppm.Although 50 feet outside the building the instruments failed to pickup traces of chlorine in the air.Mercier said, “We initiated our emergency plan because there was enough chlorine in that tank to cause serious damage.Luckily we did not have to carry it out fully.” PREPARATIONS In Magog’s town emergency plan, hospitals are the first to be contacted.Then there is a list of stand-by organizations to be advised to prepare for transport, shelter, food and other basic necessities.“On Wednesday for example, if the leak had worsened, we would have evacuated about 450 families in the east sector of town, a bout one mile downwind from the plant,” Mercier explained.“We were assured of having a bus at our disposal to evacuate people, having the LaRuche high school ready to take people, which meant having someone there to open the doors since there was no school.” This is spring break week in local schools.“There would have also been place in a church basement,” he added.All 25 fire-policemen on the day shift would have been available if needed, he added.SAFE AND SOUND “The residents of Magog are very secure, our security force is well prepared for emergencies,” Mercier assured But the public safety chief added that these days, no town can be 100 per cent safe because dangerous chemicals are found in just about every industry.Magog is not excluded.but the town is not an accident waiting to happen.Mercier added.There are several high-risk plants in the Magog industrial park, such as Quénord and Airco Gas, which are manufacturers of deadly chemicals.And other companies utilize dangerous chemicals in their daily operations, he said.QUÉNORD “All these companies are mentioned in our emergency plan along with a list of the chemicals they stoT'.Companies which make chemicals present a greater danger, and each submits its own emergency plan to us,” Mercier said.Mercier added that the Quénord plant, for instance, has chemical-spill experts on location in accordance with strict government safety guidelines.Indeed when the town’s sewer plant was spewing chlorine and its supplier's emergency unit was over one hour’s drive away, Quénord specialists brought their sophisticated equipment over and helped out dies in crash 4—The RECORD—Friday, March 2,1990 Secorcl The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Why settle for second best?Letter Is separation the answer?Testimony at a coroner’s inquest this week investigating the causes and circumstances surrounding the deaths of 26 people on three deadly stretches of Eastern Townships highways showed that three-point seatblelts are recognized as being much better in preventing death or injury in serious car accidents.Despite the clear evidence — acknowledged by all the experts — three-point seatbelts are still not mandatory in back seats.This is particularly significant now that Quebec law requires backseat passengers to buckle-up at all times.Three-point seatbelts, which cross over the passenger’s chest, are effective because they hold the torso back upon impact.They are especially effective in head-on collisions which make up 40 per cent of accidents in the province.The belts have been mandatory in the front seat of cars since 1978.But, for federal transport officials, what’s good for the front seat, is not necessarily good for the back — or so their actions seem to demonstrate.In 1978 when Transport Canada made front three-point seatbelts the rule, it also insisted manufacturers build cars which can support rear three-point belts.However, they didn’t go as far as to insist on installing the Ufe-saving equipment.Accidents, which the driver and front seat passenger walk away from, are often fatal for those buckled up in the back.And in many cases, back seat passengers wearing lapbelts have their spines snapped in half on impact — causing what is now commonly called seatbelt syndrome.A question that has come up at the inquest again and again is : What is the cost of a human life?Can it be measured in the savings to automobile makers by installing cheaper lapbelts?They would only pass the cost on to consumers anyway.So why the delay?More bureaucratic stupidity?Three-point seatbelts will be mandatory in 1991 model cars.But they won’t be mandatory equipment in recreational vans — which more and more families are using as family cars — until 1992.Why is it that people in the back seats of cars, mostly vulnerable children and people driving recreational vehicles, have to wait longer to be secure?While lapbelts are better than nothing —why should Canadian consumers have to settle for less than the best?One of the reasons is that we have to follow the whims of the much larger American markets — where people are arguing for their right not to wear seatbelts and kill themselves.Why should safety conscious Canadians have to risk their lives for the comfort of American consumers and car manufacturers.We deserve better, so let’s stop being whimps and demand our rights to the safest most secure transportation we can get.RITA LEGAULT Alien smuggling: Asian gold mine Dear Editor: The confusion concerning our fire protection in rural Ascot has to be drawn out in the open.During the month of February we have had two fires — one partial destruction and one total.To quote the Mayor, the first was only a house with $8000 damage, and yet a contractor’s estimate is three to four times more, plus the cleaning of clothes, furniture and such.The second, a total loss and the only thing saved was the chimney and foundation.I, personally, witnessed the fire truck speeding through Lennoxville at 10:40 a.m.at break-neck speed.heading for the intersection with traffic coming up College Street.This large red missile was forced to brake very hard, swerving side-ways to avoid a serious accident at this important intersection.The tanker truck sitting above the Junction of Routes 251 and 108 on the Cookshire Highway was sent for, by the firemen from Sherbrooke, and not knowing our country came down through Lennoxville traffic and all, instead of going across country to Johnville (Route 251) and on to Mr.Couture’s on the top end of the Orr Road, thus avoiding the lone erade.a savine of four miles and traffic, when every MINUTE counts.The account in to-day’s Record (Feb.27), leaves doubt in one’s mind on the timing of the call-in and the arrival, especially the “mobile hydrant” which was followed and noted at crawling at a speed of 15-20 m.p.h.on the Orr Road.An investigation by out side parties should be initiated.We were assured by the Mayor, on the 5th of February verbally that these so called mobile hydrants would be manned by people living within one mile or five minutes.We are still waiting for the 10 day solution as promised by Mayor Robert Pouliot, which has not been made public.The present solution does not work and will not work.The newly formed 400+ member Rural Citizens Association passed a resolution to have the status quo agreements re-instated.It is time for the municipal affairs department to solve this intolerable so-called better protection.We rural residents, need better representation on a council dominated by “urban thinkers”.Is separation the answer?A disgruntled Ascot resident MILT.LOOMIS, h e.0r\]he gfivironivignt frcdrh ' ¦ >v -Ms* \ T One year later: Surviving crewmember haunted by crash By John Pomfret HONG KONG (AP) — Selling travel documents and smuggling aliens have become gold mines in Asia, with government officials and middlemen making fortunes creating new identities for thousands of people.Paying the equivalent of up to $30,000 US apiece, thousands of Asians are leaving their continent and hoping for a better life.Most want to come to North \merica.Some enter a life of crime along the way.“ Alien smuggling is the crime of the ’90s,” said Mark Riordan, a Hong Kong-based special agent of the U S.Immigration and Naturalization Service.“It’s almost as lucrative as drugs but the penalties and dangers are minimal." The latest technique involves a complex paper trail where legitimate travel agents in Hong Kong pay large fees for real passports and visas and then sell them to their clients.But it’s also done traditionally by faking visas and smuggling travellers across borders at night.Diplomats and travel agents say officials from Latin American countries have sold thousands of genuine travel documents to Chinese fleeing the communist regime.On the traditional end, counterfeit rings are pumping out thousands of bogus travel documents to people from Thailand, Malaya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Hong Kong.CHINA BIG MARKET Currently, the biggest market for travel documents is China, where businessmen and the children of important officials are fleeing the increasingly hardline state.Another is Hong Kong, which comes under communist Chinese sovereignty in 1997.Most of the travellers want to come to North America, businessmen and immigration officials say.But immigrating legally is difficult.Canada has strict residency requirements.And most people have little chance of becoming Americans unless they have a relative in the United States.One way people leave Asia is to first obtain Latin American travel documents.Then they head to South America by way of the United States or Canada, entering North America under a category called ‘‘transit without visa.” ' i n' ing in North America, the immigrants attempt to sneak out of airports.Failing that, they continue to Latin America where they try to enter North America from the south By Laura Eggertson SUDBURY, Ont.(CP) — In the knots in the cedar planks of her bedroom walls, Sonia Hartwick sees the imagined faces of dead crewmembers and passengers of Air Ontario Flight 1363.‘‘In my bedroom there are certain knots that I’ve named.There’s Nancy (Ayer) and there’s Katharine (Say) — I guess it makes me feel comfortable, knowing that they’re around me.” The doomed flight haunts the sleeping and waking reality of the slender, dark haired flight attendant, the lone crewmember to survive when the Fokker F 28 jet crashed a year ago in Dryden, Ont.Hartwick lost 21 passengers, including Ayer, and three colleagues — flight attendant Say, co-pilot Keith Mills and pilot George Morwood — when the aircraft crashed seconds after takeoff during a snow squall in the northern pulp-and-paper town.RELIVES DAY Curled up on a loveseat in her carpeted, high-ceilinged living room, Hartwick, 27, is vulnerable but self- possessed.She is warm, open, eager to talk about March 10, 1989.She has relived that day, moment by moment, almost each day since.‘ Right now, this is my life.The crash,” she says simply.Against the rhythmic tick-tock of the pendulum swinging from the clock on the dining room wall, Hartwick glances to her right at another clock on an end table in the living room.“This is when we crashed — 1:10.“Even right now, as we speak, you sort of turn on your own little VCR and it brings back the screaming and the yelling, the fear, the sound of the fire and the explosions.“The smells — they’re just so strong.And the little baby — you can still smell that flesh burning off her.” KEEPS UNIFORM Hartwick has kept her uniform, stained and torn, in the same plastic bag she brought home from Dryden.“Every once in a while you just get this urge to go down and sniff that smell of jet fuel — it’s so virid.” Considered a hero by most of the 45 crash survivors and those who heard her compelling testimony at a federal inquiry into the disaster, Hartwick has not been able to purge the guilt she feels for those who died.She sees a psychologist regularly.She leans on the wide shoulders of her husband, Mark, a lineman for Ontario Hydro.Mark still awakens two or three times a week to hear Hartwick shouting in her sleep, “Brace! Brace!” Survivors credit Hartwick with warning them in time to brace against the impact as the aircraft slammed into trees, and then helping them out of the burning plane.Shoeless, coatless and injured, she then rounded up all the passengers she could find near the wreckage.CARRIED BABY Carrying a screaming three-month-old baby who had been burned by molten plastic dripping from the lining of the plane, she led her charges through thigh-deep snow to a road where rescuers waited.But whatever she did, Hartwick says, “I don’t feel it is enough.“I just don’t like failure and I feel that I’ve failed.” Before takeoff in Dryden, Hartwick watched thick, wet snow building up on the wings of the plane.Hartwick’s uneasiness intensified as she overheard a conversation between Say and a worried RCMP officer.who asked about de-icing.But she trusted Morwood, the pilot, a fatherly man who fussed about the well-being of his passengers and crew.Morwood did not de ice the plane, which has been cited as a possible cause of the crash.“It’s always in the back of your mind — that you had such a sick feeling but you didn’t do anything because of the system, because of the authority of the crew,” Hartwick says.CHILLING WORDS Hartwick again glances at the clock, an almost unconscious and eerie gesture as she measures everything in the present against a frozen, suspended past.“I’m still at the site right now — (now) I’m going to the emergency room.” Her words chill the peaceful room, warmed by afternoon sunlight Her thoughts return to Ayer.Horribly disfigured by burns, the woman from Thunder Bay, Ont., who later died in hospital, was conscious at the crash site, urging Hartwick and rescuers to help others.“Something that I find hard to erase is Nancy Ayer.Seeing her, that poor person — what little breath she had left to talk, she told me to do that," says Hartwick, her doe eyes wide beneath delicately arched brows in an oval face.ONE FLIGHT TRY Hartwick, who once wanted to be a police officer, has flown only once since the crash.Although accompanied by her husband, it was a disastrous attempt which she attributes to company pressure to help achieve her goal of returning to work in the air.“Until it’s not the first thought of my day and the last thought when 1 go to bed — I can’t go back.” Hartwick remains on full salary with Air Ontario, but says the company has not contacted her since December.She finds it difficult to make even the most routine decisions, such as choosing food at the supermarket, or to plan for the future.Since testifying at the inquiry, Hartwick has concentrated on her home and family.Her husband has been sensitive and supportive despite the strain her ordeal has placed on their marriage, she says.She shovels snow piled up against her chalet-style house, situated on more than four hectares of wooded land with a pond just outside Sudbury.SEEKS DETAILS She racks her memory for details that might improve passenger safety and aid the inquiry.She pores through three bulky scrapbooks of press clippings about the crash, and is starting a fourth.She watches taped testimony of CBC Newsworld coverage of the hearings.“I’m trying to work on myself, trying to get myself stronger and trying to regain confidence in myself.“I don’t like to run away from what’s happened to me.You either deal with it now or you deal with it later.” And she still hopes, hopelessly, that she will awaken from a terrible nightmare and find Morwood, Say, Mills and the passengers alive.The anniversary of the crash may lay some of those ghosts to rest, Hartwick says.“Maybe I’ll surprise myself and maybe I’ll bury Katharine, George and Keith for the last time.” wmtm ¦I The RECORD—Friday.Mardi l, 1990—5 Environment The ice sets the stage for the lake’s equivalent of blackout snow.Under the The following article marks the début o/Lake Looks, a new monthly column prepared by Vermont-based professional naturalist Frank Lowenstein of the Lake Champlain Committee.Although Lowenstein's articles will deal specifically with the Champlain-Richelieu watershed, most will apply just as well to the many other lakes in and around the Eastern Townships.By Frank Lowenstein Winter brings to Lake Champlain, and to the many smaller lakes and ponds around the Lake Champlain Basin, a window into a world where the normal rules of life are suspended.People who can’t swim can walk on the water instead.Hoads do not end at the lake’s edge, but extend out to ephemeral villages of ice fishing shanties.Those who insist on swimming must carry an axe or a very large ice drill.Dramatic as these changes are, we are largely spared the full impact of winter’s chill.At the end of a day of ice fishing or ice skating, we can return to the warmth of our furnaces and stoves, cover ourselves with blankets, and bed down in near-tropical temperatures.The animals and plants which live in Lake Champlain must cope each day with cold temperatures, failing light, ice, and decreased currents.And how well they cope has a great deal of influence on how we see the lake year-round.Take, for example, the tiny floating plants, many of them comprised of just a single cell, that are the basis of the food chain in Lake Champlain.These plans, known as phytoplankton, convert sunlight to carbohydrates and proteins; they are food for nearly equally small animals, the zooplankton, which in turn are food for fish and other animals.In summer, with its abundant light, phytoplankton grow and reproduce as long as there are enough nutrients in the water.In winter, light replaces nutrients as the major constraint on growth.DARK Several factors combine to make winter a time of darkness for the phytoplankton.First, shorter days mean fewer hours of sunlight.Even if the weather were always perfectly clear, our part of the country would receive only two thirds as many hours of sunlight during winter as during summer.In addition, because the sun is low in the sky, sunlight during winter is less intense that the hot, high sun of summer.Combined, the short days and low angle of the sun mean that less than half as much solar energy reaches the area in December, January, and February as in June, July and August.Ice on the surface of the lake may compound the problem.Although clear ice, like liquid water, absorbs or reflects little light, milky ice or ice with many bubbles blocks much more light.STAYS OPEN Of course even in winter ice doesn’t always form on the lake.According to David Scher-merhorn, operations manager at the Lake Champlain Transportation Company, ice didn’t close over Lake Champlain in at least nine years between 1816 and 1982.When ice did close the lake, it came as early as January 7 (in 1868) and as late as March 26 (in 1894).In average years, when the lake freezes over by mid-February, the ice sets the stage for the lake’s equivalent of blackout shades — snow.“Snow cover really makes a big difference,” explains Dr.Phil Cook, associate professor of botany at the University of Vermont.In one study in Massachusetts, a foot of snow on top of the ice prevented more than 99 per cent of the weak winter sunlight from reaching the water below.Less than a half inch of new snow can block two thirds of the light from penetrating.Without sunlight to maintain photosynthesis, most phytoplankton die.FOUR WAYS According to Cook, different species of phytoplankton typically rely one one of four strategies to get through winter’s darkness.Some, including certain blue-green algae and diatoms (a type of algae characterized by elaborate cell walls containing much silica), rely on what scientists call "resting stages,” special cells that persist through the winter with little or no activity, using very little energy.Like hibernating animals, algae in resting stages essentially suspend the day to day efforts of living for the duration of the cold season.Another approach is simply to persist through the winter without tremendous metabolic slowdown, living on stored food.Yet a third approach is used by a few algae which can live on dissolved organic compounds present in the water — essentially behaving more like animals than like plants, in that they are not creating their own food.Finally, some types of phytoplankton, particularly those capable of adjusting their position in the water column, persist and even thrive under the ice.When snow shuts down most others, these cluster near the under surface of the ice where the light is strongest.Species using this strategy include some of the blue-green algae which can regulate their buoyancy by retaining or expelling gases, as well some algae with flaeella lone whin like organs that allow the plants to move independent of water currents.CAN HELP For these species, ice may even offer some advantages.In summer, wind-driven currents and turbulence from waves often sweep even mobile phytoplankton away from their preferred depths.Ice cover, by protecting the water’s surface from the wind, eliminates turbulence and slows currents.This allows phytoplankton that actively regulate their depth more control.Species which simply float, however, may sink to the bottom without the turbulence of waves and currents to keep them suspended.There is one way winter is easier on all phytoplankton than on peo pie or other largely land-bound organisms.While air tempera- tures may drop to twenty below, the water under the ice is never colder than 22 degrees Farenheit (OC).Near the lake bottom, temperatures will hover at round 40 degrees through the coldest of cold snaps Thus unlike their terrestrial cousins — trees, shrubs, and grasses — phytoplankton do not need special adaptations to prevent their cells from freezing.IF.If phytoplankton did not have adaptations to survive winter's chill and darkness, Lake Champlain would be a very different place.For instance, phytoplankton are the main food of zooplankton, which in turn are a primary food of smelt, which are the main forage fish for sport species such as lake trout and walleye.Fish-eating birds such as mergansers and cormorants are similarly dependent on the phytoplank- ton.And without phytoplankton, phosphorus which pollutes the lake from sewage treatment plants, agricultural runoff, and urban runoff would be more available as a fertilizer for other aquatic plants The result might be a thick coating of green slime on the rocky shores of the lake With fewer fish, fewer birds, and more slippery rocks, our year-round enjoyment of Lake Champlain would be greatly reduced.Lake Look is a monthly natural history column by the Lake Champlain Committee, a 1700-member citizens conservation organization working in Vermont, New York, and Quebec.For more information.contact the Lake Champlain Committee, 14 South Williams Street, Burlington, Vermont.05401, (S02) 658-1414.Lake Champlain has stayed open all winter only about nine years since 1816.This helps some microscopic plants and animals to survive, increasing the amount of light reaching them.¦ IÉJM ?f M sUfÜlÿi Wh» • Ivory : World ban beset by mammoth problems By Robert Powell NAIROBI (Reuter) — People who thought that a ban on the international ivory trade would save the elephant did not take into account the giant mammal’s ancient relative, the mammoth.Since an international conference banned trade in elephant ivory last October, demand for mammoth tusks — still buried in the frozen wastes of northeastern Siberia — has soared.And wildlife experts fear trade in mammoth ivory could disguise illegal trade in elephant tusks.Kenya-based conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin says the Soviet Union, which sold mammoth ivory to India at $26 US a kilogram in 1986, now is asking $1000 a kilogram from prospective Japanese buyers.The mammoth, a type of hairy elephant which adapted to live in arctic climates, died out about 10,000 years ago, but tens of thousands of mammoth carcasses have been preserved in Siberia’s permanently frozen subsoil.“Mammoth ivory affords substantial cover for unlawful elephant ivory and the economists’ prediction that a ban would push the price up appears to be correct,” says Ian Parker, an elephant expert based in Nairobi.PRICE SPIRAL Mammoth ivory, which formerly sold at less than half the price of elephant ivory, now is three times as expensive.Britain has defied the ban on ivory trading, which took effect Jan.18, to allow its Hong Kong colony six more months to dispose of 600 tonnes of elephant tusks in stock.And Burundi, until recently the main centre for trading poached ivory in Africa, is sitting on 80 tonnes.Parker fears that these and other stocks will be shifted to other countries and then reappear labelled as mammoth ivory — on which no trading restrictions apply since the animal is extinct Mammoth ivory from Siberia has been traded extensively in Asia and northern Europe for at least 1000 years.Basset Digby, an English trader active in Siberia early in the 20th century, reported that during the spring thaw native ivory collectors would excavate tusks buried in frozen tundra which had been exposed by the erosion of river banks or the battering of the sea against the coast.“Tusks are to be found at low tide, sometimes quite a grove of them sticking up in the sand, their drooping curves making them look, as the Yakuts graphically put it, like great candles that have been placed too near the fire,” Digby wrote MEAT ON BONES Most of the mammoth carcasses have been reduced to skeletons, but some have been preserved perfectly in the ice.“People have even eaten the meat and some mammoths have been found because of wolves and other animals tearing away pieces oftheexposedflesh,” Parkersays.Even when the flesh decays, mammoth ivory tens of thousands of years old often remains in good condition.“The cold has delayed the normal chemical and biological processes of decay and much of the ivory is close to its original state,” says Parker.There are differences between the tusks of mammoths and modern elephants.“Mammoth ivory tends to be longer and more heavily curved," Parker says.“The ivory is frequently stained by minerals in colors ranging from pure blue through pinks and reds to russets, some of which are very attrac- tive.” Mammoth ivory is also harder to carve than elephant ivory and cracks more easily.“But the best mammoth ivory is virtually indistinguishable from elephant ivory to anyone but an expert,” Parker adds.DEMAND SUPPLIED The trade in mammoth tusks virtually disappeared after the 1917 Russian Revolution, but it re- emerged in the late 1980s as ivory prices soared and poaching ravaged the elephant population of Africa.Bradley Martin says traders in Japan — which consumes 40 per cent of the world’s ivory — have told him that since they can no longer import elephant tusks they plan to negotiate imports of Soviet mammoth ivory.Most countries have agreed to respect the ban on ivory trading declared by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora.But some—including South Afri-ca and Zimbabwe, which have stable elephant populations, and China, a major importer of ivory, have said they plan to continue trading.Other countries, among them South Korea and many Persian Gulf states, are not members of the convention, and environmentalists are resigned to a continuing, if restricted, legal trade in elephant tusks.Many wildlife experts, including Parker, were skeptical all along that a ban would stop the ivory trade.The renewed interest in mammoth tusks reinforces their conviction that it will continue.Myth: Dead Sea not so dead QUMRAN, Occupied West Bank (AP) —- The Dead Sea, which now lives up to its name with few boats and only sparse settlement along its bleak shores, was a lively commercial waterway two millennia ago, researchers say.The research may also throw new light on the Essenes, casting doubt on the accepted theory that the keepers of the Dead Sea Scrolls were isolated hermits.Arieh Nissenbaum, a geochemist, says three stone anchors and mooring ropes found recently are the ‘ ‘first datable evidence” to support the theory that the Dead Sea was an active scene of commerce in the fourth century BC.He said carbon-14 testing of well-preserved rope fragments hints that they were from ships sunk in the Middle East's first oil war.‘‘The Dead Sea was not so dead, ” says archeologist Gideon Hadas.“This is a misleading name given to the lake by the British.” According to ancient historians, a naval battle was fought in 312 BC when Antigonus, ruler of Syria, tried to seize control of the trade in asphalt.He was repelled by the superior archery of the Nabateans of southern Jordan who were backed by Egypt.‘MUTE WITNESSES’ The newly found anchors, Nissenbaum said, may be “mute witnesses to that battle.” Hadas discovered the 100-kilogram anchors along the western shore of the lake, which at 394 metres below sea level is the lowest spot on earth.He said the ropes were well preserved because of the high salt content of the water, and suggested other remains — even complete boats — may nestle on the lake bottom.Asphalt, which came to the lake's surface in blocks from fissures in the bottom, was used in ancient times as mortar for buildings, an embalming agent in Egyptian mummification, medicine to treat skin wounds and bug-killer.In a new study of Dead Sea ship- ping, Nissenbaum found that until the end of the Crusader era there was active traffic.TRADE ROUTE Ships carried wheat and corn from southern Jordan along the 80-kilometre length of the salt lake to the northern end where roads led to Jericho and Jerusalem.A large Israelite community developed, and a series of fortresses was built.The Dead Sea region, surrounded by barren mountains and rocky desert, fell into economic decline when the Crusader period ended after the 13th century.Today the only boats on the lake are Israeli military patrol craft.A few small settlements occupy its shores, and foreign visitors come mostly to the health spas that promote the curative powers of the salt water and mineral-rich mud.Robert Eisenman, chairman of religious studies at California State University in Long Beach, suggests that today’s image of the Dead Sea may have caused a misleading view of the Essenes, keepers of the Dead Sea Scrolls.Traditional theories about the Essene sect portray it as a small communal group of hermits in a remote wilderness.Eisenman says this may not have been the case.His 15-member surveying and mapping expedition recently studied the Qumran caves at the northern end of the Dead Sea.It was there that the scrolls, dating back to the second century BC, were discovered in 1947 — radically changing scholarly assumptions about Jewish culture in the period around the birth of Christ.Eisenman said his group explored 282 desert caves and found pottery and other evidence of human occupation in 62.Earlier research had indicated only 17 caves in the region were inhabitable “There was a lot of habitation,” he says, adding that other caves may still contain undiscovered scrolls."This means it was not isolated like a lot of people think.The idea of hermetic Essenes contemplating their navels in isolation is rather peculiar.” S—The RECORD—Friday, March 2, 1990 Farm and Business Seconl How earned income defined PENSION REFORM (Part II) Second in a series 5) Earned Income Last week, we saw that the allowable RRSP deduction de pends on the income earned by the individual for the year in which he makes his RRSP con tribution : • salary or wages; • superannuation or pension be nefits; • retiring allowances; • death benefits; • royalties in respect of a work or invention of which the taxpayer was the author or inventor; • alimony received ; • old age security; • amounts received from the Régie des rentes du Québec; • amounts received under a supplementary unemployment benefit plan ; • amounts received from an RRSP, DPSP, RRIF; • income (loss) from carrying on a business, profession, farming, etc.; • rental income (loss) from real property ; • research grants (net of applic able expenses); • maintenance payments re ceived from a former common-law spouse; Less: • tax-free transfers of amounts to the taxpayer’s RRSP; • alimony paid; • maintenance payments made by the taxpayer to a former common-law spouse.*») Transfer of Lump-Sum Payments Generally, starting in 1989, lump sum payments from an RPP, DPSP or RRSP will continued to be transferable but only if the funds are transferred directly between the plans.tinder the direct transfer provisions, the amounts transferred will not be included in income and will not give rise to a deduction.7) Transfers in Specific Circumstances a) Marriage Breakdown A lump-sum amount payable by an RPP to the annuitant’s spouse or former spouse under the terms of a court order or a separation agreement providing for the division of property on the breakdown of the marriage may be transferred to an RPP or RAYMOND, CHABOT, MARTIN, PARÉ spousal RRSP.b) Death of an RPP Member A lump-sum amount paid by an RPP to the individual’s surviving spouse by reason of his(her) death may be transferred to an RPP or RRSP (provided that it is not related to an acturial surplus).Starting in 1989, the lump-sum amounts payable by an RPP to a beneficiary (other than the spouse) of the deceased plan member may no longer be transferred to an RPP or RRSP.However, where a lump-sum amount is paid to a beneficiary who is a child or grandchild of the deceased plan member and is less than 18 years of age.a deduction may be claimed where the amount was used to purchase an annuity payable over a period not exceeding 18 less the beneficiary’s age at the time the annuity is purchased.cl Retiring Allowance A tax-free transfer of a retiring allowance to the taxpayer’s own RRSP is still possible in 1989.Given the higher RRSP contribution limits, the current limits are replaced by a single limit of $2,000 per year of service after 1988.The existing limits (maximum of 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great natural forests, expects to start importing raw material from the “urban forests” of the United States.The material will be old newspapers destined for de-inking mills and a new life as recycled paper.The recycling movement to which more and more Canadians are subscribing could mean profound changes for the industrial giants of Canada’s wilderness.The projected demand for recycled newsprint, especially in the United States, will affect the competitive advantage Canada has long enjoyed from its vast woodlands and abundant energy, says Brian MeClay of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.Charles-Albert Poissant, chairman of Donahue Inc.in Quebec City, has predicted that recycling will shift newsprint production to the United States.“It puts the Canadian industry in peril.” Whether it goes that far, transition of some sort seems unavoidable for a Canadian industry that sends 70 per cent of its product to the United States, almost all of it virgin fibre.That export makes up almost 60 per cent of all newsprint consumed in the United States.CAPACITY LAGS But Canada can only make one-fifth the recycled paper of U.S.mills, and that’s what Americans increasingly want.“Virgin fibre always had preference,” MeClay said.“Up until six months ago, this remained true.“Today, I think, without doubt, if you produce a recycled sheet you’re looked upon more favorably by publishers.” Despite the current glut of newspapers saved under Ontario's blue-box curbside collection program, MeClay said the industry will be short of supplies when more recycling mills are built.“Clearly, we’re going to import lots of waste paper from the United States,” he said, adding that would be true even if all newspapers sold across Canada were collected.Newspaper recycling has caught on wildly across the United States, where many dumps are clogged and the average Sunday paper runs 350 pages.Paper and paper-board make up about 40 per cent of garbage, with plastics trailing at seven per cent.About 35 per cent of old U.S.newspapers are collected to be turned into newsprint or other products.The U.S.paper industry expects the rate to exceed 50 per cent within 10 years.The market for new material won’t vanish because virgin fibre has to go into the mix to make new newsprint.But the percentage of recycled fibre is rising.SPURS PUBLISHERS The American Newspaper Publishers Association has called for increased use and production of recycled newsprint, aware that more publishers may be forced by government to do what they can now do voluntarily.The newspaper industry remains concerned that people won’t buy as many papers if they have to be bothered with sorting them for collection.Moreover, some newspapers are shareholders in newsprint companies using virgin fibre.“Despite these complications, however, newspapers know that solutions must be found because the tide of public opinion is surging strongly in favor of recycling,” says Presstime, the journal of the U.S.newspaper publishers association.The Canadian newsprint industry, which has admitted being caught off guard by the movement, is building several new recycling plants.Recycled production capacity, now 340,000 tonnes, is expected to exceed 800,000 tonnes in two years, still less than a tenth of Canada’s overall newsprint production.“They won’t be left behind by recycling,” MeClay said of Canadian companies.WHAT’S LEFT?But even if Canadian producers catch up, why would U.S.publishers go north when the biggest supply of waste paper is close to.home?“They’ll buy newsprint the way they’ve always bought newsprint — if the quality is right, the service is good and prices are right,” MeClay contends.“If it contains recycled newsprint, even better.” The Canadian forest, however, “certainly will not be as important.” Neither will Canada ’ s advantage in affordable energy, he added, because making recycled paper requires only one-fifth the energy of newsprint from wood.But Canada, unlike some parts of the United States, at least has abundant water for its mills.Laws requiring newspapers to use more recycled paper or taxing those that don’t are in effect in three states and under consideration in a dozen others.More than 1,000 communities in 35 states have curbside newspaper collection programs, about half of them mandatory.Canada’s most substantial effort is in Ontario, where 1.6 million households in 300 communities are served by the blue boxes.Garbage: An eternal problem AN ENDURING TRIBUTE Many people find deep satisfaction in making contributions to the Quebec Heart Foundation Memorial Fund as a thoughtful and lasting tribute to the memory of a relative ortriend.Your gift allows Heart and Stroke Research and Education to continue.* Call in or mail your contribution to: QUEBEC HEART FOUNDATION 1358 King West, Suite 103, Sherbrooke.Quebec J1J 2B6 — (819) 562-7942 By Calvin Woodward What’s new in garbage disposal?Basically, nothing.While primitive humans were nomads, littering worked fine, 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Quebec permit holder your money’s worth.and more reused tombs and much else — achieving what experts today call “source reduction.” What has changed, of course, is some of the household garbage itself.Apart from plastics, the modern throwaway that many love to hate, competing volumes of Yellow Pages in the United States have created mountains of thick, heavy phone books to be disposed of each year UP FROM DEPTHS And at the New York City dump on Staten Island, rubber tires act in the same way as shaking a jar containing small and large marbles.Just as the large marbles rise to the top of the jar, the tires over time percolate to the surface from as far down as seven metres, dump supervisors say.But the makeup of today’s garbage is not all bad.Cities no longer have to worry about getting rid of hundreds of thousands of dead horses a year.Nor the 540 kilograms of coal ash that the average U.S.home produced annually until the 1900s.Indeed, says U.S.garbage expert William Rath je, “it is difficult for anyone alive now to comprehend how appalling, as recently as a century ago, were the conditions of daily life in all the cities of the western world, even in the wealthiest parts of town.” British historian Hugh Thomas, writing in History of the World, said of Venice in the late 18th century: “Rubbish, including excrement, was pushed into corners, and irregularly carried away in flat-bottomed boats, as manure to the mainland, or thrown into the RAISED THE ROOF In the 1950s, archeologist C.W.Blegen discovered that people in ancient Troy would spread garbage on their floors, cover it with dirt or clay, and carry on in that fashion until doors and ceilings — and eventually the city — had to be raised.Slopping and scavenging, the norm in the West until the 1800s, continue in some parts of the world In the Philippines, thousands of people live in a village of stilted shacks on Manila’s Smoky Mountain, a vast and vile garbage dump which they mine for salvageable material.“The image of sulphurous mountains in the Third World may be repellent,” Rath je wrote recently in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, “but the people who work these dumps, herding their pigs even as they sort out paper and plastic and metal, are performing the most thorough job of garbage recycling and resource recovery in the world.” In the West, burning garbage has probably had more ups and downs than other disposal methods.Only a few of the powergenerating trash incinerators that spread during the 1970s energy crisis remain in operation in the United States and Canada.A new generation of incinerators from Europe, called mass-burn, is more efficient but can release emissions implicated in cancer and birth defects.The modern landfill movement, meanwhile, matured after the Second World War.Canadian and U.S.engineers, not content merely to find the best place for trash, adopted the secondary goal of reclaiming wasteland for public use such as parks.Often, that meant putting landfills along rivers or on other wetlands, the places scientists now say are the worst to dump garbage.BEEF DAY Dr.David Bailey of Lethbridge, Alberta Topic: Where to go in Crossbreeding of beef cattle Other speakers: Agronome MAPAQ, Denis Brouillard, his topic is; Uses of Pelvic Meter; and Dr.Walter Con-zani, Veterinarian, topic: Prenatal Preventive Care.Saturday, March 3 10 a.m.to 3 p.m.Sevigny Building, Lennoxville Research Station QFA Members: $10.00 Non-members: $15.00 Lunch included Joint project of QFA and E.T.Adult Education The RECORD—Friday.March 2, 1990-7 Farm and Business 1__tel mam ‘ÎS Killoran: Delay of adjustment cost us $5 million Blame lost revenue on the feds Cut in freight rates not good news OTTAWA (CP) — Dairy farmers have already lost $5 million because the federal government refused on Feb.1 to raise the price paid for their milk, a farm group said Thursday.“Already, the one-month delay in price adjustment represents close to $5 million in lost income for Canadian milk producers,” John Killoran, president of the Dairy Farmers of Canada, said in a statement.The formula used to calculate milk prices should have triggered a 2.8 per cent increase which would have raised the price to $48.65 a hectolitre from the current $47.31, Killoaran said.But Agriculture Minister Don Mazankowski announced on Feb.1 there would be no increase in the price paid to farmers.As a result, there was no change in consumer prices for butter, cheese, skim milk powder and other dairy products.The Dairy Farmers, the national organization of the country's milk producers, said Mazankowski promised a review of the issue after they complained about the lack of a price increase.AWAIT RESPONSE The group is still waiting for a response.Killoran said the Canadian Dairy Commission, which oversees the production of so-called industrial milk used to make dairy products, can’t explain why it didn’t recommend a price increase.Provincial boards regulate the production of milk destined for the kitchen table.The price for industrial milk is usually adjusted on Feb.1 and Aug.1 each year based on a farmer’s cost of production determined by a complicated formula.Last August, the price was raised by less than one per cent which the Dairy Farmers said was below current production costs.At the time, the farm group said it was optimistic that consultations with Mazankowski would resolve concerns about milk prices by the Feb.1 price setting.The government has set up a task force which is trying to find a way to get the government out of the price-setting process.Its final report is expected next year.By Glenn Cheater WINNIPEG (CP) — In the upside down world of agriculture, a proposal to cut grain freight rates is being decried by some as bad news for farmers.At issue is a crop that has yet to be planted, much less harvested and sold to foreign buyers.But once the crop is in, the National Transportation Agency wants to cut the freight bill for shipping it to port by about 13 per cent That's prompted critics to charge the agency is setting the stage for huge leaps in freight costs in years to come.The agency is recommending the federal cabinet cut rates because it predicts dry soil and a lack of snow could lead to another drought this year.The size of the crop affects freight rates because Ottawa's share of freight costs is fixed at $720 million That means the more ATV’s are kid killers — Chvala WASHINGTON (AP) — All-terrain vehicles remain inherently unstable and kill hundreds of people each year, safety advocates say.“ATVs are kid-killers, plain and simple,” charged Charles Chvala, a Wisconsin state senator who is pushing state legislation to restrict the little fat-tired vehicles.He and other advocates of tougher restrictions testified Wednesday before a House of Representatives subcommittee.The industry defended its safety record.“Riding an ATV is far less risky than a number of other popular activities,” said Howard Willens, a lobbyist on behalf of Honda, Kawa- Toyota, Ford recalling some of their best sellers DETROIT (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp.and Ford Motor Co.recalled some of their mid-1980s cars Wednesday because of potential cruise control and emissions problems.Toyota spokeswoman Deborah Sanchez-Fair said about 120,000 1983-84 model Camrys and 1984-model Corollas were being recalled because of a cruise-control problem that could cause high engine speed.The automaker said it was aware of no accidents or injuries because of the problem.Meanwhile, Ford said it was re- calling about 16,000 1986 Ford Escort and EXP and Mercury Lynx cars made for sale in California.The company said emissions from the cars, all equipped with 1.9-litre engines and automatic transmissions, exceed maximum levels for hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen set by the California Air Resources Board.Cars made for sale in California have different emission-control systems than cars sold elsewhere.Owners of cars in both recalls will be notified by mail and alterations will be performed free.Canadians fear slowdown is in the works — Gallup TORONTO (CP) — More than six in 10 Canadians fear an economic tailspin within six months, suggests a Gallup poll released today.The number of respondents who believe the economy will swing down — 62 per cent — is the highest since the devastating 1981-82 recession when Canadians were rocked by double-digit inflation and interest rates above 20 per cent.The poll’s findings are a steep jump from the only 23 per cent of Canadians who shared that gloomy view a year ago.In a report out of Ottawa, the Toronto Star says the poll suggests only 15 per cent of Canadians believe the economy will improve in the next half-year, while 18 per cent think it will be roughly the same.Gallup’s results are consistent with those released last week by the Conference Board of Canada, Business brief_______________________ DARTMOUTH.N.S.(CP) — Newfoundland Capital Corp., a communications and transportation firm, recorded no earnings per share last year, compared with $1.01 in 1988.Earnings before extraordinary items were $13,000 last year, compared with $5 million in 1988, the company announced.Revenues were nearly $222.6 million against $191.6 million the previous year.Newfoundland Capital is a giant holding company that publishes 43 newspapers and specialty magazines, including the daily Halifax News, the St.John’s Sunday Express and about a dozen smalltown weeklies in Newfoundland.It also operates 14 radio stations across Canada.Its transportation division has interests in trucking, container shipping, marine container terminals and ferry services.ANNUITIES & RRIF's All retirement options explained.NO cost or obligation.Also RRSFs and LIFE INSURANCE.EDDY ECHENBERG 562-4711 WSH! 835-5627 Dr.Denis Chabot, d.m.d.Dental Surgeon available for emergencies 77 Clough Street Lennoxville 6 saki, Suzuki and Yamaha.Distributors of the three- and four-wheeled vehicles agreed to a consent decree with the federal government in 1988, in response to a suit by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.Under the agreement, the industry promised to sell only four-wheeled ATVs, but there was no recall of three-wheel models.Frank Johnson, a Texas safety engineer, testified that four-wheel ATVs are safer than the threewheeled versions, but are still inherently unstable.Subcommittee chairman Doug Barnard, a Georgia Democrat, told the product safety commission’s chairman, Jacqueline Jones-Smith: “Your advocacy, to me, comes short.” Jones-Smith defended the consent agreement and her commission’s enforcement.She said ATV-related deaths and injuries in the U.S.have declined to about 300 a year from 350 in 1986.About 40 per cent of those killed are younger than 16, she added.She acknowledged difficulty in enforcing age requirements for riders.Use tires for power generation — Colman By John Valorzi The Canadian Press California businessman Robert Colman has found a way to chip away at the mountains of dirty old tires piling up in dumps around Canada and the United States — and make money to boot.A few years ago, the former Wall Street banker hit on the idea of burning discarded tires in a high-technology plant to produce electricity.Now as president of Oxford Energy Co., an alternative-energy firm based in Santa Clara, Calif., Colman runs the world's biggest power plant that converts scrap tires into electricity.The plant, in a town called Westley about 150 kilometres southeast of San Francisco, produces enough power to meet the daily needs of 14,000 homes, while burning five millions tires a year from a neighboring dump.More important, it meets California’s air-pollution standards, the toughest in the United States.Colman said there’s nothing magic to Oxford’s technology — an improvement on a West German rubber-burning system used since the mid-1970s.So far, the idea has proven a success.With negligible fuel costs and long-term contracts to sell the power to California’s biggest utility, Oxford is making money.Colman also plans to build larger power plants in Connecticut and up state New York, near the Canadian border at Buffalo.NO WASTE Oxford uses technology that leaves no waste residues.High temperatures in its boilers ensure complete combustion and modern scrubbers and other controls keep toxic emissions within allowable limits.In addition, all byproducts of the process can be marketed — from scrap tires that are sold to retreading companies to zinc ash sent to smelters and other byproducts bought by cement companies.If the company gains state and local-government approval, the New York plant would open in 1992 south of Buffalo near Lake Erie, and would process 10 million waste tires a year, including some from Ontario.While Canadian entrepreneurs aren’t yet warming up to Oxford’s technology, the fire at a tire dump in Hagersville, Ont., has intensified efforts to find better ways to dispose of millions of tires discarded each year across the country.“We’re not definitely saying no to producing energy from waste tires,” said John Steele, a spokesman for the Ontario Environment Ministry.“But we would prefer to see tires simply recycled.” grain shipped, the more farmers must pay and they pay up front.The National Transportation Agency proposal has brought it into conflict with another government body with a similar title, the Grain Transportation Agency.The Grain Transportation Agency doesn't set recommended freight rates and it doesn't do annual crop estimates.SEND RATES UP Instead, it estimates long-term average exports.This year, its figure is 33 million tonnes which, if used to set rates, would push them up, not dow n.“What you gain now (from cheaper rates) you lose in the long run.so I'm not sure you're further ahead by adjusting on a yearly basis,” administrator Peter Thomson said in an interview.Moreover, lower freight rates will save farmers only about one dollar per tonne of grain shipped, he said.That means a typical farmer would save between $1,000 and $2,000.But a spokesman for the National Farmers Union says most farmers will take help wherever they can find it."In this coming crop year, we’re looking at very difficult times and a lower freight rate would certainly help our financial picture," said Bob Lemon of Saskatoon.The president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association says the whole affair is just a tempest in a bureaucratic teapot.A saving of $1 per tonne in shipping costs isn’t a big deal in a business where grain prices can change by $50 or more per tonne in a single year, said Harvey McEwen.“For my money, I get a lot more excited about the price of grain,” ; said the grain farmer from Fran- , cis, Sask.A new spirit of giving A national program to encourage giving and volunteering which indicate consumer confidence has dipped to its lowest level since the recession of the early 80s.Financial analysts are divided on whether the economy is moving into a recession, defined by economists as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.A regional breakdown of Gallup's results shows 70 per cent of the respondents in Ontario and the Atlantic provinces think the economy will turn down in the next six months.In booming British Columbia, 47 per cent of the respondents predict a weaker economy.The figure stands at 59 per cent in Quebec and the Prairie provinces.Results of the survey were based on 1,003 personal interviews with adults, 18 years and older, conducted Feb.7-10.Samples of this size, when applied nationally, are considered accurate within four percentage points, 19 times out of 20.The margin of error is larger when the figures are broken down regionally.INFORMATION ON THE PROPOSED GST AND HOUSING.HourvMonday - Tuesday 1 p.m.- 9 p.m.Wed.-Thurs.-Fri.9 a.m.- 6 p.m.(819) 822-4616 ¦ GST HOUSING REBATE ON SALES OF NEW HOMES.The proposed GST* will replace the current Federal Sales Thx, which now adds more than 4% to the price of new homes.The GST Housing Rebate of 2.5% on new homes under $350,000 will reduce the 7% GST to 4.5%, about the same amount of sales tax as now.¦ 95% of all new home buyers will qualify for a GST Housing Rebate which will be applied at time of purchase."The GST legislation is currently being considered by Parliament.Goods and Services Tax Information on Housing Canada ¦ NO GST ON SALES OF EXISTING HOMES.The proposed GST also includes the following features: ¦ NO GST charged on residential rents of one month or longer.¦ NO GST charged on condominium fees.¦ NO GST charged on students’ and seniors’ residences.¦ NO GST charged on loans, mortgages or home insurance policies.Call the GST Info Line toll-free now for the informative pamphlet: Information on Housing.1 800 267-6620 9 a.m.-5 pm Mon.-Fri.Telecommunications device for the hearing impaired: 1 800 267-6650 Canada’s GST.Information you should know.Department ot Finance Ministère des Finances Canada Canada Canada 8—The RECORD—Friday, March 2, 1990 Living ! Women’s Women’s International Day is coming up next week on March 8.1 know, a lot of people ask, ‘Why do women need a day?Let’s have an international men’s day too!’ Personally.I grew up feeling most of the holidays were men's days.Except, of course, in May, for Mary’s Day, when I had the opportunity to dress up in white with a lace veil and feel special — something between a bride and a nun.So, as you can imagine, there were some drawbacks to that experience.like confusion around spirituality, sexuality and what it meant to be a women.Growing up in the twentieth century, 1 know many people are confused about what it means to be a man or a woman.So, on second thought, maybe men should have an international day to reflect on how they behave and on how they want to change that.As a woman, I am happy there is an International Women’s Day.It allows all women to celebrate just being a woman, regardless of their Day, a chance for both sexes to discover selves religion, race, culture or color It’s a time when women can look at themselves, at what it really means to be a woman from inside, to learn about women being women in other countries, in other ways.It's a time when women can reflect on defining themselves as they want to be, instead of carrying around the images, labels and projections of the culture — how men want them to be.If you want to do something special on March 8, consider joining Voice of Women, a Canadian women and peace organization that is celebrating its thirteenth anniversary this year.Send $25 ($10 or what ever you can afford) to Quebec Voice of Women, Box 935, Stn.B, Montreal, Que.H3B 3K5, or write to the national office at 736 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ont.M5S 2R4 and ask for a sample copy of their newsletter.Their publication is always chock full of information about projects for peace which women can get involved in.The recent issue reminded me ^ .IDf that the Greenham Common women in England are still keeping their vigil at the military base that houses nuclear warheads.Over 60,000 women have been a part of the vigil over the years.The women there now are monitoring the movements of the warheads which are supposed to be dismantled by 1991.Movements such as Greenham certainly had an effect in bringing about the changes we are seeing today between the East and the West.The British Columbia Status of Women group put out a great journal with about 45 pages of ideas for teaching and resources for the March 8 activities in your school, church or community group.For example: invite a prominent woman to speak, get a film or video from the NFB on women’s issues, organize a lunch, make a bulletin board with historical info, gather statistics on women/careers/work etc.To get a copy, write Debbie Omand, British Columbia Teachers’ Federatopm.2235 Bur-ranrSt., Vancouver.B.C.V6J 3H9.FIRST WORLD SUMMIT It isn’t too early to mention the First World Summit: “Women and the Many Dimensions of Power”, which will take place in Montreal from June 3 to 8.There will be workshops on power and the economy, the media, politics, peace, science, senior citizens, sexuality, handicapped women, education, health, language, religion, work, law, and sports.Speakers include individuals such as authors Hans Suyin and Marilyn French, and Canadians Rosalie Bertell, Yoland Bedard, Nicole Brossard, Michele Jean, Marie Andree Bertrand, Helene Lajambe, Anne Marie Alonzo, Louky Bersianik, Celine Saint Pierre, Edith Deleury, Lor- raine Page, Monique Dumais.Speakers from Italy, Morocco, Japan, and Venezuela will also be there.For more information about this opportunity to experience first hand the reality of women sharing their learnings and their power across borders, contact FRAPPE, 822 Sherbrooke St.East #322, Montreal, Que.H2L 1K4 (514) 521-0152).CARD On a card sent to me from the British Women’s Campaign: “Because a woman’s work is never done, and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repititious, and we’re the first to get the sack, and what we look like is more important than what we do, and if we get raped it’s our fault, and if we get bashed we must have provoked it, and if we raise our voices we’re nagging bitches, and if we enjoy sex we’re nymphos, and if we don’t we’re frigid.and for lots and lots of other reasons, we are part of the women’s liberation movement.” Because of all this confusion around sexuality and my interest in spirituality, I will be co-leading a group March 23-25 in Montreal on "Exploring Our Sexuality and Spirituality”.Anyone, man or woman, can contact me if you are interested.Next November, the Canadian Institite for the Advancement of Women, or CRIAW, is having its conference in Prince Edward Island.It will focus on disabled women, highlighting the need to overcome our differences of ability/disability.CRIAW offers many good resources.Their latest is their Community Resource Kit on New Reproductive Technologies — big words, but a very basic issue of “womb rights”, infertility, sterility, and genetic manipulation.For more information about the conference, or the organization, write 151 Slater # 408, Ottawa, Ont.KIP 5H3, or contact us here at Pigeon Hill/Bruideen Peacemaking Centre, 1965 St.Armand Rd., Pigeon Hill, Que.J0J 1T0 (514) 248-2524.Native fights to the end for status rights a cure for baldness?By Joyce Langerak VERNON, B.C.(CP) — Anna Tanner stands at the window watching as her sons burn Leonard’s things in the back yard.Her husband’s shoes, his watch, his wallet, his clothes, the hat he wore so much, and the old jacket that still smells of him — all are consumed by the flames.Now his spirit will be set free.With his death, Leonard Tanner’s widow will lose all her material posessions — every stick of furniture, every pot, pan, bed and blanket — even the home she has lived in for 17 years.All will go.This is tradition.She will honor her husband’s wish to follow the old ways.Family will stand by her now.Leonard Tanner, an Okanagan Indian, was born in Penticton in 1931.Though he was a gentle man, he spent much of his life fighting for native rights, and in 1969 was one of the founders of the B.C.Association of Non-Status Indians.“If a person works for the people,’’ says Anna Tanner, “when he dies, all that he has goes back to the people.’’ After Tanner’s funeral, friends — both white and native — and family gather at his home and divide the posessions of a lifetime among one another.“If I let everything go,” says his widow, “then he is free to go.” LED POLITICAL LIFE Leonard Tanner's life was a poli tical life, says Anna.“Whatever happened that was good for the people, he was there to help.He encouraged them and talked to them.He told them.The prog rams are there.We can do it if we get together.’ He never tried to take over.” Leonard Tanner died in Vernon on Jan.22.The legacy he left was not a material one.Stripped of his native status in the early 1960s because he lived and worked off his reserve, Tanner struggled to regain his rights, and those of other non-status native people.Loss of status meant loss of access to government programs offering free medical and dental care, educational oportunities, on-reserve housing and in some provinces, even deductions on automobile fuel bought on the reserve.It was not until 1949 that B.C.Indians were granted the right to vote in provincial elections, and more than a decade would pass before.on July 1, 1960, they won the right to vote in federal elections.“At that time,” recalls Anna, “Indians could not work off the reserve without losing status.They could not join the service or leave the reserve to become educated.All these things we thought were really horrid because they were taking tools away from us that would give us progress.“People were quite concerned about status We got together with BENEFIT DANCE Brian & Debbie Suitor ARMY, NAVY, AIR-FORCE UNIT 318 SATURDAY, MARCH 3/90 MUSIC BY: THE GOOD 0l( BOYS ADDED ATTRACTION: The doggers will be putting on a demonstration a lot of other concerned native people.and tried to organize an association of some kind to fight the government.” FOUGHT FOR STATUS Emerging in 1969, the B.C.Association of Non-Status Indians spoke for a disenfranchised people.Anna lost her Indian status when her husband did.In those days, status was passed down through the man, and an Indian woman marrying a non-Indian also lost status, as did her children.Several times the couple approached the government to apply for a permit to homestead.“They literally laughed in our faces,” recalls Anna.“They said, ‘What the hell do you want a homestead for?This is a white people’s program.You can’t get a homestead! ’” The couple, set adrift from their reserve and struggling to raise a growing family, tried for entry into various housing programs available to non-Indians.“Other people were allowed to go ahead, but somehow we couldn't because we were native people.” Chinese, Japanese and European immigrants had access to government programs, says Tanner.“When they came they all had a chance at education and everything.” But not non-status Indians.Supporting his family by ranching and farming, Leonard volunteered as a field worker for the B.C.Association for Non-Status In dians, travelling throughout the province, to Ottawa, and into the north gathering support for the native cause.Though he worked in this capacity for many years, he received a salary during only six of those years.Staying in the background, Tanner never became president of the group.HUMBLE WORKER “He was a very humble person,” says Anna.“He didn’t want a title.” The group, supported by other native associations, lobbied for changes that would allow native Indians access to all government programs.In the mid-1970s, the association became known as the United Native Nations.Later, Leonard became active in establishing the UNN Friendship Society in Vernon, a centre where native people gather to find help with employment, training, and in combatting the stereotyping of native people that is common in our society.Such centres are now found throughout British Columbia.Leonard became angry when he saw injustices, says his widow, but he never showed anger against people.“He was only angry at the government.He didn’t like cities because they pollute the environment.He didn’t like houses built on farmland.” Though there were things he disliked about white society, it was not the white man he disliked.“He had a lot of white friends.It’s the system he didn’t like.” In 1985, Bill C31 removed restrictions on non-status Indians.Work is in progress to restore status to all non-status Indians who apply for their status card.Gential warts from unsafe sex Dear Ann Landers: After reading the letters in your column from readers who have herpes, I knew I had to write.Maybe I can help others.I am a divorced, 32-year-old mother of two.After my divorce, I did not date for five years.I met a man I liked a lot, and we went together for three months before w'e became intimate.I made one big mistake.I didn't ask "Brad" to use a condom.I now have genital warts.Brad says he didn't know that he had them.After a few weeks, I felt some itching and thought I felt a lump, so I went to my gynecologist.He informed me that I had genital warts.I had no idea what they were.He told me that this w’as definitely nj2i a sexually transmitted disease.After five months of very painful and expensive treatments (he's been burning them off), I still have the warts.I now go to the doctor three times a week, and it costs $15 a treatment.If they don’t go away soon, I may have to have laser surgery.This has been a real nightmare.Brad saw a urologist one time and is clear of lesions.He doesn't understand why I'm having such a difficult time.I cry a lot and am very depressed.Needless to say, this has cast a pall over our relationship.I am furious that he has gotten off so lightly when he's the one who gave these damn things to me.Is it possible that he didn't know he had them?Please answer my questions, and give me some encouragement.- S.CAROLINA Ann Landers DEAR S.: Yes, it is possible that Brad did not know he had venereal warts, because they can be invisible, and often there are no symptoms.I suggest that you see another doctor.If this one believes that venereal warts are not sexually transmitted, he knows nothing about the subject.(There may be rare exceptions.) I would worry about what else he doesn't know.You are not alone.Millions of others share this problem.With proper precaution and early treatment, you can lead a perfectly normal life.The lesson to be learned.Dear Readers, is this: Unprotected sex can be dangerous.It's never worth the chance you take.Dear Ann Landers: I know I'm late with this, but it has taken me until now to gather my thoughts.Here's my answer to why I am settling for half of a married man.I have the best half.I don't need to account for my time or money.I don't have to cook, clean, do the laundry or accommodate his kids.I have the benefit of a companion, a handyman, an auto mechanic and a fabulous sex partner.I don’t feel like a home wrecker, because I am not taking anything away from his wife.He gives her status, security, a home, a car, and all the financial benefits without her having to tolerate sex, which she hates.A divorce would mean giving up half of his assets and retirement benefits.Since I don't want marriage, I pose no threat.He's al ways there when I need him, and we communicate well.I take an interest in his work and his hobbies.I am an enthusiastic sex partner, something he never had until we met.He fills my needs, and I fill his.Everybody's happy, and nobody gets hurt.I never realized how perfect the arrangement was until I wrote this letter.Thanks, Ann.- CHIRPING IN SAN BERNARDINO Family Practice Dr.Allen Fein 1072 Main Street Ayer’s Cliff New Office Hours 9 - 12 Monday to Saturday Except Wednesdays 1 - 5:30 Monday to Friday Evening clinic Wednesday 6 - 8 Appointment or Walk-in Emergencies 838-4242 DANCE Lennoxville Rifle Club Saturday, March 3/90 'The 01 de Tyme 4 Orchestra” Everyone Welcome 10e ONCE BOUGHTA LOT OF CHOCOLATE BAR.HONCE BOUGHTA LOT OF HELP.The giving begins with you.CANADIAN DtNTAt ASSOCIATION TORONTO (CP) — A surgical method of stretching skin to cover injuries now is giving full heads of hair to bald men.The technique — stretching hairy parts of the scalp to create a single patch of hair — has worked for 20 patients who have tried it since 1984, says Dr.Ernest Man-ders, the man behind the idea.AH 20 were treated at the teaching hospital of Pennsylvania State University, where Manders is chief of plastic surgery.The technique has also been used in Toronto, says Dr.James Mahoney, a cosmetic surgeon at St.Michael’s Hospital.But hair transplants remain by far more popular, he adds.The technique costs several thousand dollars, Mahoney says.According to some, it also requires several weeks of looking like an alien.FRINGE CASES Candidates are men who have a substantial fringe of hair around their heads.Over several months, Manders expands the hair-bearing part of the scalp — stretching the skin up to twice its normal size — until it’s wide enough to cover the head.Then he cuts away the skin of the bald pate, pulls the fringe scalp over the patient’s crown and sews the two sides together.Some men may wind up having to part their hair only in the middle, Manders said in an interview.People may cringe at the technique, but Manders says it involves little discomfort.The surgery is done under local anesthetic and little time is spent in hospital.WELL TRIED Soft-tissue expansion is a well established technique to cover injuries, scars and burns.“I have used this for patients who have lost as much as 40 per cent of their total scalp through injuries or other problems,” says Mahoney.The technique can be used on other parts of the body, in breast reconstruction for women, for example.Most patients are pleased with the results, he adds.For treating baldness, the procedure begins with three to four months of gentle pressure to expand the hairy part of the scalp.This is done by injecting water into balloon-like silicone bags surgically inserted under the scalp.A patient may look as if he has a huge doughnut growing steadily bigger around his head.Says Manders: “It involves real commitment on the patient’s part” Health Notes GUELPH, Ont.(CP) — Decks, porch railings and lakeside docks have been coming up green all over Canada in the last several years— the familiar green of pressure-treated lumber.While treated wood’s durability is popular for outdoor structures, it is causing concern among environmentalists.Tests conducted by graduate student John Warner of the University of Guelph show that toxic metals from preservatives in the wood can leach into the environment, particularly when washed by rain or submerged in water.The green color comes from chromated copper arsenic, a pesticide toxic to wood-boring insects and bacteria — but also to animals and humans.“It’s important to measure the leaching of these metals so we can assess the environmental risks they pose,” says Prof.Keith Solomon, Warner’s supervisor and associate director of the Canadian Centre for Toxicology.Warner’s study evaluates the hazarJ to fish and other aquatic organisms in areas where pressure-treated lumber is used for docks.After submerging lumber in water with acid levels similar to most freshwater lakes in the Canadian Shield, Warner found that 91 per cent of the copper, 12 per cent of the chromium and 30 per cent of the arsenic leached into the water from the wood within 40 days.Other studies by the toxicology centre are looking at different kinds of wood treated with preservatives and the rate at which these chemicals leach from cut lumber, poles and fenceposts, said Solomon.“The data will be used to help industry and government manage the use of treated wood so that the chemicals used to preserve it do not impact on the environment,” he says.HAMILTON (CP) — A computer network described as a 911 service for doctors will be available by November for physicians in a large section of southwestern Ontario.A doctor can call toll-free to the service, called Regional Access to On-Call Health Personnel, and find out which hospitals in the area have an open bed and appropriate medical specialists on staff to deal with particular patients.Dr.Frank Baillie of Chedoke-McMaster Hospital in Hamilton said the program is the first of its kind in Canada.The Ontario government is providing $150,000 to the program for computer equipment and staff.The switchboard at the service, which covers the Niagara-Hamilton-Brantford-Kitchener area, will be staffed around the clock.Baillie said the system should alleviate the frustrations and delays experienced by doctors who sometimes have to call hospital after hospital to get help in an emergency.Social notes New address Friends of Mrs.Hersehel (Win-nifred) French will be pleased to hear that she is at the Connaught Home, North Hatley.Visitors would be most welcome.The address is Connaught Home, North Hatley.Room 35, JOB 2C0. The RECORD—Friday, March 2.1990—9 Friday, March 2,1990 cfeur ‘Birthday March 2, 1990 A number of ventures in which you’ve been involved that have never really paid off could come to fruition in the year ahead.Don't plow under seeds you've already sown.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) You are still in a fortunate cycle regarding the fulfillment of your hopes and expectations Don't lower your sights, instead try to elevate them a bit.Get a jump on life by understanding the influences which are governing you in the year ahead.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions today by mailing $1.25 to Astro-Graph, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.ARIES (March 21-Apri! 19) Major achievements are possible today, especially if you follow the lines of least resistance In fact, things could go so smoothly for you that you might wonder if you’re on the right course.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Lessons you've learned from experience can be utilized in effective ways today.Your know-how will give you an edge over persons with whom you'll be involved.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) There may be a way for you to fit into an arrangement that is presently being conducted by someone with whom you’ve worked successfully in the past.This person will be contacting you.CANCER (June 21-July 22) It might be necessary for you to temporarily set aside your personal goals today in order to do certain things that provide the greatest good for the largest number.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Someone who is fond of you might put you on the track of an opportunity today.This person's assistance will be substantial, but you'll still have to work for what you hope to gain.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Your popularity with your peers is at a high point today and this should help make things rather pleasant for you.You may have to deal with one individual, however, who won’t be running with the pack.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Your mate’s judgment in family financial matters could be a trifle sharper than yours today.It might be wise to examine in detail that which he/she proposes.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Mentally you're likely to be very imaginative and creative today, but you may be a slow starter.Your ideas are too good to sit on, so get moving.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Your financial and commercial prospects look extremely encouraging today, provided you exploit your opportunities to their fullest.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Your leadership qualities will be accentuated today, but this could be more obvious to others than to yourself.Don’t be modest about taking charge if command is foisted upon you.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) This could be a lucky day for you, because persons with whom you’ll be involved may treat you in a more generous fashion than usual.There will be opportunities for you to reciprocate at later dates.Saturday, March 3,1990 ‘Your ‘Birthday March 3,1990 It might take you a tad longer to get things done in the year ahead, but you will eventually complete everything to your satisfaction.It’s not how you open, but how you finish that counts.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Others won't appreciate your company today if you are too insistent upon doing everything your way.Be cooperative instead of difficult.Know where to look for romance and you'll find it.The Astro-Graph Matchmaker instantly reveals which signs are romantically perfect for you.Mail $2 to Matchmaker, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Don t let friends do things for you today that you know for certain you can do better, because you might have to go behind them and clean up the mess they create TAURUS (April 20-May 20) There is a likelihood you may get what you desire today, only to discover after you've gotten it that it really wasn’t worth all the effort you had to expend to get it.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Associates who usually show a willingness to cooperate with you might not be agreeable today, so to protect yourself, don’t rely too heavily on their anticipated input.CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be rather lucky today where your material interests are concerned, but you might not operate as impressively where your social life is concerned.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Even though someone is a close friend, don't attempt to pry into this person's business or financial affairs today and, by the same token, don’t be too revealing about yours.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) It could be a grievous mistake to take things for granted today where your career is concerned, especially if you're attempting to negotiate a complicated deal.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Some information from a usually reliable source may be passed on to you today, however, it shouldn’t be taken for gospel.This is one of those times when the message may be distorted.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) This might not be a good day to take a financial risk on something where the control is in the hands of someone other than yourself.If it starts to go downhill, you won't be able to reach the brakes SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Try to avoid an arrangement today where another slips into a position where he/she makes decisions for you.It could turn out to be a bum set-up.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) If someone is performing some type of critical task for you today it might be wise to put your instructions in writing rather than issuing them verbally.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Unless you have a definite limit in mind today, there is a strong likelihood you could spend too much money on frivolous activities while out on the town.Be budget minded.Sunday, March 4,1990 ©‘Your ‘Birthday March 4,1990 Involvements you have with clubs or social organizations could work out very well for you in the year ahead.The more exposure you have, the greater your chances for beneficial happenings.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) This is a good day to get in touch with a person you recently met you'd like to know better.Something constructive could develop through this relationship.Pisces, treat yourself to a birthday gift.Send tor your Astro-Graph predictions for the year ahead by mailing $1.25 to Astro-Graph, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Persons with whom you’ll be associating today will be responsive to your needs and interests.If some type of assistance is required, politely express your desires.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Try to pal around with friends today whose ideas are compatible with yours.Conditions are both interesting and unusual, and all parties could gain something from the arrangement.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Events over which you'll have little or no control should work out to your advantage today.By the time the dust settles, your status or reputation could be enhanced in some manner.CANCER (June 21-July 22) If you feel conditions warrant it, don't be fearful about taking a reasonable risk today in order to advance your self-interests.Your judgment should be reliable.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Projects or enterprises that require imagination and creativity should be your cup of tea today.If you get teamed up with someone equally as talented as yourself, look out world.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) A relationship in which you’re presently involved could begin to take on new dimensions at this time.Each may start to see more to admire in the other.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Conditions that have a bearing upon your material well being are rather unusual, yet positive today.Through some type of mysterious maze personal gain is likely.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) In your conversations with others today you will be gifted with the rare ability to say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time.Something fortuitous may result.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) A financial development that has been looking rather "iffy” lately could take a turn for the better today.Gains, rather than losses, appear more probable.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Yield to your restless urges today, particularly if they are directing you to get in touch with persons you’ve been neglecting lately.Make a list and start calling or visiting.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Your insights and hunches in financial or commercial situations could be rather astounding today.Pay heed to urging that strongly direct you to do a specific thing.© 1990, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ASTRO-GRAPH > f BERNICE BEDE OSOL \ Friday, March 2, 1990 NORTH 3-2-90 ?K 6 3 ?A J53 ?Q 6 2 ?K J9 EAST ?A 9 8 2 ?82 ?J 10 9 3 ?A Q 10 SOUTH ?7 ?K Q 10 6 4 ?A K 5 4 ?8 4 2 Vulnerable: Neither Dealer: South South West North East 1 ?Pass 3 ?Pass 4 ?All pass Opening lead: ?Q WEST ?Q J 10 5 4 ?9 7 ?8 7 ?7 6 5 3 As to lost opportunity, declarer can always be assured of getting the end-play if he covers the opening lead with dummy's king That way West will not be on lead to shift to a club Recounting this deal is like watching the turnovers in a high school basketball game.Saturday, March 3,1990 WEST NORTH 3-3-9® ?K Q J 6 3 ?Q 5 ?K 7 4 2 ?Q 10 EAST ?954 ?10 7 2 ?J 10 9 8 ?7 62 ?A 10 ?J 8 6 3 ?K J 7 3 ?A 8 5 SOUTH ?A 8 ?A K 4 3 ?Q9 5 ?96 4 2 Vulnerable: North-South Dealer: South South West North East 1 ?Pass 1 ?Pass 1 NT Pass 3 NT All pass Opening lead: V J Going legitimate By James Jacoby Declarer did not give his opponents much credit in the play of three no-trump.He won dummy’s queen of hearts and played a diamond to his queen.West won the ace and woodenly played another heart.So South quickly rattled off five spade tricks, three hearts and one diamond.West can do much better.It is a tip-off that declarer holds the ace of spades when he does not attack that suit at trick two.And West knows that declarer holds A-K of hearts and the queen of diamonds.He therefore cannot hold the club ace or he would have opened the bidding with a strong one no-trump.So West should play clubs, and the right approach is to bang down the club king.That enables East to encourage with the club eight.A second club will be played to East’s ace, and a club back goes through declarer s remaining 9-6 with West holding the J-7.If declarer wants to force the defense to give him the contract, rather than rely on a defensive error, he can try running the spade suit after taking the first trick with dummy’s heart queen He can throw one diamond and two clubs away on the long spades.Meanwhile what can West do with his four clubs, since he has to make two discards on the spades?Sure, he can safely throw the 10 of diamonds.What next?Since a heart discard will make South's little heart a winner, West must shed a club.Now declarer plays a diamond to the queen as before, and West no longer has four clubs that can be run to set the contract.James Jacoby's books "Jacoby on Bridge " and ‘Jacoby on Card Games"(written with his father, the late Oswald Jacoby) are now available at bookstores.Both are published by Pharos Books © 1990, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.BRIDGE JAMES JACOBY Sawyerville Rev.and Mrs.Howard Fraser, Kingston, Ont.were weekend guests of Mr.and Mrs.Crescent Bain and attended the United Church service on Sunday where they met many old friends.They were supper guests of Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Dempsey and visited other friends.Ron Jamieson and Zelma Mac-Rae were visitors of Harold and Shirley Nutbrown.Lennoxville.Lynford Laroche, Edmonton, Alta., and Mrs.Judy Arbery, St.Elie d’Orford were calling on Mr.and Mrs.Burton Laroche and were dinner guests of Mrs.Zelma MacRae.Harrison and Beth Evans, Lancaster.N.H.and Brian and Frances Hewett of He Bizard were weekend guests of Mrs.M.Evans and family.Mrs.Hewett remained for a tew days.1077 1977 Sherbrooke Snow Shoe Glub inc.Church day at the club and members were spiritually refreshed with lessons, sermon February 18 was Church at the Club and there were close to 200 there.The weather was cold and the Club hadn't warmed up yet at 3:30, so the early birds were seen trying out various chairs to find a warm one The late comers had to sit on any cold chair they could find.The choir paraded in at 3:56p.m.and President Bob Bell's bell tolled right on the dot at 4 p.m.President Bob welcomed everyone and told us that two of our members had their 50th wedding anniversary this weekend, Ivan and Pat Saunders and Fred and Marjorie Barton-Slater, then turned the service over to Rev.Lynn Ross.The service was almost completely choral and gave us a chance to find out once again just how good our choir is They sang several anthems and one could have heard a pin drop.Since he lost Lew Jenne, Irving has had to be both pianist and choir director but he still manages to get the boys to produce some very pleasing music.Past President Ed Mills read the first lesson and President Bob Bell read the second.Rev.Lynn Ross followed with a ten-minute sermon.Some of the Reverends we have had got carried away with the size of the congregation, but although the temptation was great, Lynn is to be congratulated for not yielding.Mrs Lacroix' buffet was beautiful and lasty and finished up to the last crumb, it took care of the needs of the body like Lynn's sermon took care of the needs of the spirit So everyone went home happy.particularly the wives who didn’t have to make supper and wash dishes.The collection which was a good one, went to The Children’s Wish Foundation.Submitted by Fred Hicks, Honorary Secretary Church congregational meeting ABBOTSFORD — The congregational meeting of Abbotsford United Church was held recently at the home of Mr.and Mrs John Gibb with a fair attendance.Chairperson Rev.B Purdon opened the meeting with singing of two hymns, followed by prayer for those absent from us.A moment of silence also for the ones who will no longer be with us.The appropriate hymn "Blest Be The Tie” was sung immediately after this quiet time.Several reports were given re: Cemetery, Anniversary, U.C.W.and Session, reminding all that 1989 had been a very busy year for this congregation.Communion was served during the singing of the hymn “More Love to Thee”, concluding another meeting for Abbotsford United Church members.Refreshments were served while an hour of fellowship was enjoyed.Opportunities come and go By James Jacoby Today’s theme is ‘lost opportunity.” At trick one declarer was certain of his contract, but he made a mistake.No matter — West did not do the right thing either Declarer was home free, but he erred once more.So the defense accidentally emerged victorious.Declarer ducked the queen of spades lead in dummy.If West now shifted to a club, four hearts would easily be set, but West continued spades.Declarer ruffed the second spade, played two rounds of hearts and ruffed another spade.Now he played a club When East won the club, he got off lead with the jack of diamonds Declarer played the Q-K-A of diamonds, but the last diamond was not a winner So declarer had to play up to the clubs once more, and East took two more club tricks to set the contract.Declarer had an easy play for the contract after West played a second spade He should play as described before.ruffing dummy's last spade, but then he should play out the diamonds They don't split, but that doesn't matter South can play the last diamond and discard a club from dummy East wins the diamond and must lead away from the A-Q of clubs or give declarer a stuff and ruff by playing a spade Students have what it takes to get your projects off the ground This summer hire energy and enthusiasm.Hire a student.Under 'Challenge '90', the Government of Canada has funding assistance available to help private businesses, municipalities and non-profit organizations hire a high school, college or university student.We want to help you create additional jobs this summer — jobs that would otherwise not be possible without our support.Invest in Canada's future workforce by providing a student with practical on-the-job work experience.Become a Challenge '90 employer — it's good for students and it's good for business.Apply now through your local Canada Employment Centre.Applications must be postmarked no later than March 16th.-Canada ; Government of Canada Gouvernement du Canaçf»^ [lîjçHflQ ÇO Minister of State for Youth Ministre d'État à ia Jeu ii»—The RECORD—Friday, March 2,1990 HO ItalMllMj»'l“’.s A WA JoZ i Ladies' & Children's jl Men's & Boy's WearH Monday & Tuesday FEATURE EASTER CHOCOLATE RABBIT ^ BABY’S TRAINING PANTS Polyester/cotton.Size: 2-3-4.| /|y| GIRL’S VEST OR BRIEF Polyester/cotton.2- 3X.Print.| /|/| GIRL'S BRIEF Cotton or cotton/ polyester.4-6X.^ J LADIES’ SHORT SOCKS OR BERMUDA SOCKS Size 9-11.Assorted styies J 44 MEN’S THERMAL SOCKS Cotton/nylon.Black, white or grey 10-12 2/1.44 LADIES’ NYLON KNEE HIGH 2 prs/box.9-11.Beige, spice or back 2/1.44 “PERSPECTIVE” PANTY HOSE Size: A-B.Beige, spice or taupe.1.44 LADIES’ BRIEF 100% cotton.Beige or white.S.M.L.3/2.44 LADIES’ SOCKETS 3 prs/pck.Cotton/ nylon.9-11.Reg.3.99 “LADIES PLUS” PANTY HOSE Size: 160 to 210 pounds.Beige, spice or taupe Reg 1.19 each .81 LADIES’ BRA Cotton or nylon.White only.34A to 38C Reg.4.50 GIRL’S PULLOVER Polyester/cotton.S.M L.Req.2/$7 CHILDREN S PANTS 100% nylon Assorted colours 2-3X.q Reg.5.93 LADIES’ 2 PCE UNDERWEAR SET Pink or white with print.S.M.L.Reg.7.97 LADIES' T-SHIRT Short sleeves.White with print.S M L.Reg.6.99 LADIES' SHIRT Short sleeves.Solid or print.S.M.L.Reg.9.99 LADIES' CANVAS PURSE Beige.Choice of 4 styles.Reg.9 99 5.44 5.44 7.44 MEN’S SPORT SOCKS Twin pack.Cotton/ nylon.Reg.2.99 2.44 BOY’S SPORT SHIRT Long sleeves.8 at 14.Reg.9.88 ^ 44 MEN’S SPORT SOCKS 3 prs/pack.Cotton/ nylon.Reg.5.99 ^ 44 MEN’S WORK HOSE Twin pack.Reg.4.99 44 MEN’S VEST OR BRIEF Twin pack.Polyes-ter/cotton.m /¦ ya S.M.L.XL.Reg.5.69 MEN’S T-SHIRT Twin pack.M.L.XL.Reg.8.99 5.44 Solid.454 grams.Reg.2.79 Sew & Bedding Food 3.44 FACE CLOTH Pack of 6.100% cotton.26x 26 cm.Reg.5.96 FOAM CHIPS _ A A 1 pound bag.Reg.2/3*44 299 each 1.72 BATHROOM TOWEL 100% cotton.47 x 2/7.44 each 3.72 “GATTUSO” COLLATION 65 grams.Assorted "a''ours 2/1.44 “WINDSOR" CREAM WAFER 450 grams.92 cm.Reg.2/$9 1.44 E 3/1.44 MEN’S BOXED BIKINI 1 0 0 % cotton.S.M.L.Reg.3.88 44 each 2.72 MEN’S BOXER BRIEF Polyester/cotton.S.M.L.XL.Reg.3.99 each 2.72 Health & Beauty “ALBERTO BALSAM” SHAMPOO OR CONDITIONER 450 + 150 ml.bonus.1.44 2/5.44 Family Shoes LADIES’ CANVAS SHOES Assorted colours and styles.6-9.Reg.m mm 7 97 0*44 “BULLIT” YOUTH’S VELCRO JOGGER Assorted colours >1/1 and sizes.Reg.15.97 w *44 “BULLIT” JOGGING SHOES Men s, ladies’ or boy’s.Reg.24.97 7.44 Men's & Boy's Wear MEN’S REGULAR BRIEF Polyester/cotton S.M.L.XL.1 .44 MEN’S BOXED BIKINI Polyester/cotton.S.M.L 1.44 14.44 Sew & Bedding ADHESIVE PATCH 4 x 5" or 5 x 7".Assorted colours.2^^ 44 SCISSORS Stainless steel blade.8V2 inches.ASSORTED FABRICS 90 to 150 width.^ SPOOL OF THREAD 100% polyester.Assorted colours.^^ ^ ^J4 “CLASSIC” OR “PUFFY LIGHT” KNITTING YARN 2/1.44 DECORATIVE RIBBON Assorted colours or print.GRANOLA BARS 4 flavours.6 bars/pck.225 grams.| “CLOSE-UP” TOOTHPASTE 100 + 50 ml.bonus.Mint or regular.j 44 “MERIT” DISPOSABLE RAZOR 10s pack.j 44 “SUCARYL” LOW CALORIE SWEETENER 100s pack.^ 44 WHITE PETROLEUM GELLY “VASELINE” _ 50 grams.| *44 “SIZZLE” LIPSTICK OR NAIL POLISH Assorted colours ^ 44 “FASCINATION” LATEX GLOVES O/O A3.Small,medium or large Reg.1.39 each .81 “FACELLE” FACIAL TISSUES 60s box.3 plys - >1/¦ Reg.89 4/2*44 each.61 Treats 2/1.44 UTILITY CARPET 18 x 24 cm.Reg.1.96 1.44 CHAIR PADS Assorted colours.Reg.2.96 £ FARM FESTIVAL Milk chocolate.90 9rams \ .44 EASTER EGG Milk chocolate.400 /l/l grams.Reg.$3 A*4!"?“RIO” TAFFY CONES 15 cones pack.^ 44 “WOOLCREST” PEANUTS 500 grams.Salted, un- « A/i salted or Spanish.I •“T“¥ “ALLAN” EASTER SOLID CHOCOLATE RABBIT _ 200 grams.Reg.3.49 2*44 EASTER RALLY Milk chocolate.300 *)>¦>¦ grams.Reg.4.97 3*44 “ITALPASTA” CHEESE MACARONI 200 grams.SUB-PIZZA _ _ _ 205 grams.| *44 “LESTER” COOKED HAM 290 grams.j “AMBASSADOR”TOASTED PASTRIES 300 grams.j /|y| “COLONIAL” COOKIES 400 grams.Assorted, 44 "SUPREME” PORK MEAT LOAF 340 grams.Reg.2/2.44 each 1.22 “MONARCH” BROWNIES MIX 425 grams.Reg.99 2/2.44 each 1.22 “MONARCH”SAUCE N’ CAKE Apple, caramel S'err 225 °4/2.44 ALL DRESSED PIZZA 12 inches.Reg.3.99 ^ 44 “SUPREME” PINK SALMON 213 grams.Reg.2/3 /|/| each 1.72 “SUPREME” COOKED HAM 454 grams Reg.4 99 ^ 44 CHEF MAX PEPPER 340 grams.Reg.3.99 ^ /|/| Household Needs “SANI-FLUSH” BOWL CLEANER I A A 450 ml.1 “WIZARD” ADHESIVE AIR FRESHENER 2 per pack.1.44 MOTH BALLS 400 grams.2.44 “GLAD" CLING WRAP 40 metres.>| “STUART HOUSE” CAKE CUP Medium or large.44 “STUART HOUSE” FOIL WRAP 8X25 1#44 Household Needs “WOOLCREST” KITCHEN GARBAGE BAG 15s pack.2/1.44 KITCHEN DOOR GARBAGE BAG 30s pack.j 44 “EASY OFF” OVEN CLEANER 400 grams.Reg.2.99 ^ 44 “JAVEX” STAIN AWAY REMOVER 1 litre.Reg.2.99 ^ 44 “24/24" BOWL CLEANER 350 ml.Reg.1.19 ^/2 each .81 "JETS” SCOURING PADS ]%pack ne9 3/2.44 each .81 BURNER SAVER _ Small or large.3/2*44 Re9 99 each .81 “WOOLCREST” SANDWICH BAGS /|/| 100s pack.Reg.O/ a*"T"T 1.37 each .81 “WOOLCREST” FOAM PLATES 50s pack.Reg.3.27 ^ 44 “AJAX” SCOURING POWDER 400 grams.Reg 4/3.44 each .86 “SWEETHEART” LIQUID SOFTENER .*» /|/| 3.6 litres.Reg.2/0*4#4# 1.99 each 1.72 “DOWNY” LIQUID SOFTENER 1.5 litres.Reg.3.99 ^ 44 “ABC”POWDER LAUNDRY DETERGENT 5 litres.Reg.6.99 j/^ 44 each 3.22 “SAMI-FOAM” OR KITCHEN FOAM CLEANER 0iA A A 400 or 425 grams.x/*f**T*t Reg.2.49 each 2.22 “CASCADE” POWDER DISHWASHING MACHINE DETERGENT Regular or lemon.1.8 kg.Reg 6.99 5.44 Plants & Pets Plants & Pets “WOOLCREST” DOG FOOD 8 kg.bag.Reg.7.96 £ 44 Hardware 1.44 CLEAR ADHESIVE TAPE 2‘6Y 1.44 “WOOLCREST” BULBS 4 per pck.40-60-100W.44 “ROCKET” BATTERIES C-D-AA = 4, 9V = 2.Pck BRASS DECORATIVE FRAME 8 x 10 inches.Reg.397 2.44 “TYE-TAC” ADHESIVE VINYL 18 x 69 inches.Reg 2 69 2/3.44 each 1.72 Automotive ALL PURPOSE POTTING SOIL 17.5 litres.^