The record, 21 mai 1987, jeudi 21 mai 1987

Thursday Births, deaths .7 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living .6 Sports .13-14 Townships .3 MOT \LLAN til ILBAl LT NIWSONVILLT ELEMENTARY Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, May 21, 1987 40 cents Taste of work may mean less Bedford drop-outs “But Mr.Reagan, we’re so short of money that even our army is in rags.’’ New draft ready by June 2 — officials OTTAWA (CP) — It will take more time to prepare a final text of last month’s tentative constitutional deal, a senior federal official said Wednesday.But officials working on the legal wording expect it will be ready in time for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the premiers to sign the accord June 2.While the possibility of a major snag can’t be ruled out, most of the federal and provincial officials who attended the first meeting agreed the accord shouldn’t be tampered with, the official said.“My sense is that the momentum is still there,” he told reporters, speaking on condition he not be identified.Some provincial officials also expressed optimism, although not all would talk to reporters.Asked whether the signing will still go ahead June 2, one said: ‘‘Oh, certainly.No question of that.” Asked what was taking so long, he said: “Have you ever put three lawyers in a room?” One of the possible stumbling blocks is the clause allowing provinces to opt out of new shared-cost programs in exclusive provincial jurisdiction.Provinces would receive compensation from the federal treasury if the province establishes a corresponding program or initiative “compatible with national objectives.” Quebec wants to give the clause a broad interpretation that would make it as easy as possible for provinces to opt out, while Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley has suggested the wording be tightened so national programs don’t suffer.The federal official acknowledged there has been criticism of the clause, “and to the extent that comments were critical, people begin to ask themselves whether the package should be reopened.” By Laurel Sherrer COWANSVILLE — The District of Bedford Protestant Regional School Board (DBPRSB) has received notice of federal government grants totalling $42.000 for a summer program designed to keep potential drop-outs in school.The grants are to be used to conduct three Work Orientation Workshops (WOW), each made up of 10 students who have been judged likely to drop out of high school.The co-ordinator of the program for the board, guidance counsellor Jim Colley, says it’s the third year the district has been involved in the program and it’s showing some results.“it’s been very, very beneficial,” he says.“We’ve had 30 students who've gone through the program and we probably have 80 per cent of those left in school.” The aim of the program, he says, is to prevent dropping out by giving students “a taste of what it’s like being out in the work market.” “Invariably, what the kids say is school is really a breeze compared to working,” he says.“Things are a lot more lenient in school and a lot more flexible than on the job.They come to appreciate education a bit more.” The program is also meant to give these students skills to help them out in the working world if they still decide to drop out.The program consists of three weeks of workshops and four weeks of experience on the job In the workshops the students are taught how to make up a resume, how to do a job interview, and the importance of punctuality, neatness and courtesy among other things.They are then required to find an employer willing to take them on for two weeks and treat them like any other employee, while their salary is paid through the grant.The students then return to the workshops to assess their time on the job and prepare for another two weeks in the workplace.Dearly beloved.Peggy Munkittrick and her "bride” May Povey exchange vows to never dress this way again.The two women took first prize for their costumes at the Sher- KECORD/DERKK CONLON brooke-Lennoxville 50 Plus Club fashion show Wednesday.The District of Bedford was the first English school board in the province to have the program, says Colley.This year the Eastern Tow nships School Board has received grants to operate three of these workshops as well.The program provides jobs for the 10 students in each group and one animator.In the Bedford district, one of these programs will be run in the Mansonville area by Citizen Advocacy, an outreach mission of the United Church of Canada.The students and animator of this workshop will be from the Mansonville area.The other workshops will be set up in elementary schools in the region once the participants have been chosen and it's decided which location would be most convenient for them.Connie Peacock, a student advisor in charge of selecting the participants.says the program is designed for two kinds of students: those who are likely to leave school without graduating, and those who will probably stay in school but who are having so much difficulty that their schooling is not doing them much good.Students are chosen based on a survey given to all students entering Secondary HI.Others are referred to the program by teachers or other professionals.Don’t deprive English rights — President Goldbloom: Give assurance deal won’t forget English Captain knew only seconds before ship hit By Penny MacRae QUEBEC (CP) — Alliance Quebec, the province’s largest anglophone lobby group, waded into the debate over the Meech Lake constitutional accord Wednesday, defending the rights of English Quebecers and francophones in other provinces.“Give us the assurance it will not in any way diminish the fundamental rights of any Canadian,” Alliance president Michael Gold-bloom told a legislature committee examining the agreement-inprinciple reached last month by first ministers at Meech Lake.Recognition in the accord of Quebec as a “distinct society” should not be used to deprive English Quebecers of rights enjoyed by their francophone counterparts in Quebec or Canadians in other provinces, he said.The association proposed a clause be added to the accord that nothing in it should ‘ ‘derogate from any rights or freedoms accorded by the Constitution of Canada.” Echoing views expressed earlier by former Parti Québécois cabinet minister Jacques-Yvan Morin, the 40,000-member group condemned the deal as silent on francophone rights outside Quebec.“One must conclude that Quebec and its Confederation partners failed to meet their historic responsibilities,” said Goldbloom.WANTS RECOGNIZED Goldbloom decried the lack of explicit recognition of the presence of francophone communities in the other nine provinces and the territories.Assimilation threatens the existence of francophone communities outside Quebec while the province’s English-speaking minority is also declining, he said.“If Canada’s linguistic duality is to continue to be an essential facet of our country, our governments must commit themselves to an active role,” said Goldbloom.Under the agreement, the Quebec legislature has the right to promote the province’s “distinct identity.” But Gil Remillard, Quebec’s minister of intergovernmental affairs, rejected Goldbloom’s arguments, saying the Canadian duality and Quebec’s “distinct identity” are separate.He said the agreement had been deliberately worded to show “Quebec can take not only measures to protect — but also to favor — the evolution of its fundamental characteristic.” NOT STRONG ENOUGH While Alliance Quebec expressed concern that recognition of Quebec as a “distinct society” might prevent the posting of bilingual signs — forbidden by Quebec’s language law — the Quebec Federation of Labor told the committee the clause was not strong enough.“It is imperative to protect French by special measures in the North American context,” argued Fernand Daoust, secretary-general of the 300,000-member federation, Quebec’s largest union group.The legislature hearings were extended until Monday— an extra two days — after the Opposition complained the six days allotted were not enough.The majority Liberal party hopes to have the accord ratified by the legislature by mid-June.MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The captain of the USS Stark said Wednesday he was warned only seconds before Iraqi missiles struck his ship and killed 37 men, so he had no time to activate the frigate’s defences.Capt.Glenn Brindel was asked whether he felt partly to blame for the deaths.“I don’t know if it’s my fault.an operator's fault.or an act of God.” In his first public comments since the attack, Brindel said a lookout telephoned the warning after Canadian sexual hang-ups no different — Dr.Ruth TORONTO (CP) — The famous Canadian identity crisis does not extend to the bedroom, says Dr.Ruth Westheimer.Our sexual hang-ups, fixations, fears and individual fetishes are no different than those in the United States, Britain or Western Europe.Nor do Canadians take a different approach to sex, she said in an interview Wednesday.“I haven’t had yet a question from Canada that I had to ask what it was about.I would say 50 per cent of the questions are relationship questions and 50 per cent specific sexual questions, like inability to have sexual satisfaction, difficulty with obtaining an erection.” What kind of relationship questions?“Long-distance relationships (this is a vast country), somebody cheating, somebody wondering why he or she doesn’t call, or she is in a relationship with a married man."You know, the issues of people having a hard time finding the ! right person.” Westheimer, who’s syndicated j talk show Good Sex! is carried on j radio and television stations across North America, was interviewed at the Harbour Castle Hilton hotel after a speech to the 57th i annual conference of the Interna- : tional Newspaper Marketing Association, a worldwide organiza- ! tion of newspaper promotional ! and marketing executives.The topic was Sex and Promotion and the newspapermen were sort of hoping she’d delve into the secrets of how to use sex to sell their products, just like breweries.carmakers and others do.Instead, the four-foot-seven celebrity, standing on a box to reach the microphone, delivered anecdotes to laughter and applause on the basic Dr.Ruth theme: "Everything that two consenting adults do together in the bedroom is all right.” seeing the trail of an Exocet mis-sile streaking through the darkness Sunday night.“The aircraft launched the missiles, I believe, at a significantly close range, where only a matter of seconds were able to be given for defensive measures,” Brindel told a news conference.Brindel said the Stark’s Phalanx anti-missile battery would have fired on its own had it been on automatic, but he said the crew kept the system on manual to avert shooting down the wrong target.NO REASON He said there was no reason to think it necessary to set the system for automatic operation.The Iraqi aircraft was warned twice it was approaching a U.S.vessel, he said, with the last warning given two or three minutes before the first of two missiles hit the warship.Asked why the pilot did not respond, Brindel speculated he was not listening.“We give the same warning to the Iranians and they acknowledge and they stay out.” He said Iraqi aircraft were considered “friendly.” Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz said Tuesday night in Baghdad the Mirage fighter's pilot thought he was attacking an Iranian target.A brief ceremony at Bahrain International Airport honored 35 crew whose bodies were being flown home.Two men still are listed as missing and presumed dead.CONSOLES CAPTAIN The captain said he was consoled by Barbara Kiser, widow of Chief Petty Officer Stephen Greg Kiser, 36, of Elkhart, Ind.“I’d like to thank the American people for the support they’re giving us,” Brindel said.U.S.Ambassador Sam Zakhem showed reporters a letter he said Mrs.Kiser wrote to the Iraqi pilot.He said it contained a “message of peace” and was accompanied by a New Testament.Zakhem would not divulge the contents of the letter, which he said he will hand to the Iraqi ambassador in the Persian Gulf emirate of Bahrain.Iraq has not identified the pilot.At the news conference.Brindel introduced an engineer he called the “hero of the firefighting” after the attack.Petty Officer Michael O'Keefe, 27, of Palmdale, Calif., said he was awakened by the explosion, “got up and started yelling at everybody and pulling people out of their racks and throwing them some emergency breathing apparatus.” O'Keefe said he pushed some of the crew toward a hatch, then saw “fireballs.That’s when the second explosion happened." The crippled guided-missile frigate was at anchor Wednesday three nautical miles off Bahrain.Broadbent won’t impose views on Quebec NDP By Robert Russo MONTREAL (CP) — NDP Leader Ed Broadbent admitted Wednesday the federal and Quebec wings of the New Democratic Party are split over the Meech Lake constitutional accord but he isn’t going to force his opinion on anyone.“It is entirely inappropriate for a federal party to come into Quebec and tell a provincial party what to do,” said Broadbent, whose party has supported the deal to get Quebec to sign the Constitution.Quebec NDP Leader Jean-Paul Harney has called the tentative accord arranged by Canada’s 11 first ministers “a bad deal for Quebec,” whereas Broadbent hailed it as “a remarkable achievement.” Mindful of recent opinion polls showing his party doing better than ever in Quebec, Broadbent told reporters the tradition in Quebec is that federal and provincial parties are autonomous.“It’s not up to me, as leader of the NDP, to impose my decision on the provincial wing of the party," said Broadbent, who added he discussed his philosophical differences with Harney during a telephone conversation Monday Harney told a Quebec legislature hearing on the constitutional deal that the Meech Lake accord didn’t give Quebec enough power over language and culture.He also called for a referendum on the agreement.Broadbent, in Montreal to lend his support to environmental groups fighting acid rain and to address a union convention, said he didn’t think the disagreement between the two wings of the NDP would create any confusion in Quebecers’ minds.However, Michel Agnaieff, the party’s chief organizer in Quebec, said Broadbent’s and Harney’s positions could change before the Constitution is amended.“These positions are only preliminary hypotheses on a very complex question,” said Agnaieff, The dispute over the Constitution comes a week after an Angus Reid poll showed the NDP is favored by 48 per cent of decided voters in Quebec, with the Liberals and Conservatives trailing badly.A subsequent Gallup poll indicated the NDP was running a close second to the Liberals in Quebec.The NDP has never won a seat in Wuehec. 2—The RECORD—Thursday.May 21.1987 Contra leader kept in the dark after looking beyond arms chain WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicaraguan Contra leader Adolfo Calero was shut out of the money pipehne after he sought to buy arms outside the channel set up by Lt.-Col.Oliver North, testimony presented to congressional investigators shows.“This man (Calero) was kept mostly in the dark” after he arranged independently to buy $5.3 million US worth of weapons through retired army major-general John Singlaub in June 1985 at a lower price than Calero had been paying.Senator William Cohen (R-Me.) said Wednesday.The House of Representatives-Senate investigating committees are focusing in increasing detail on the rebels’ sources and spending of money, and they planned to call as witnesses today three Americans who have donated to the rebel cause: Joseph Coors, Ellen Garwood and William O'Boyle.Calero, leader of the largest rebel fighting force, had been receiving a steady flow of $1 million or more a month from Saudi Arabia.Calero at first used the money to buy weapons through retired air force major-general Richard Se-cord.The Secord connection had been made by North, who was co- ordinating Contra aid from his office at the National Security Council.WORK OUT DEAL Singlaub contacted Calero in the spring of 1985 and worked out a virtual half-price deal for small arms and ammunition.‘He got no new equipment from the summer of 1985 on,” Cohen said.“It’s very clear that as of August 1985 he’s no longer receiving that money.” At that point, Cohen said, arrangements were being made to sell U.S.arms to Iran, and payments from those sales later were channelled to Secord, who used some of the money to set up an air resupply effort for the Contras.But Calero on Wednesday told the House-Senate panels investigating the Iran-Contra affair that he knew little of the airlift effort, and at one point complained to North the service "was lousy.” Singlaub, also appearing before the committee on Wednesday, portrayed Elliott Abrams, assistant state secretary for inter-American affairs, as having a far larger role in the Contra aid effort than Abrams has acknowledged.By the spring of 1986, during the congressional ban on U.S.military aid to the Contras, Abrams became Sin- glaub’s chief government contact in efforts to solicit Contra aid money from other countries, Singlaub said.OTHER ISSUES In other testimony, Calero said: — North asked him in the spring of 1985 for money to use in a covert effort to free U.S.hostages in Lebanon, and Calero ultimately gave him $90,000 in traveller’s cheques.Committee investigators found that North signed cheques worth $2,440, cashing some at stores and using one to buy two snow tires.— He had more than 50 meetings with North over a two-year period to keep North advised of Nicara- guan mihtary developments and the Contras' needs.He also met five or six times with former CIA director William Casey and with Reagan three or four times.He said he did not discuss Contra aid with Reagan.— He had approached a country — identified by sources as Taiwan — for a contribution after Congress cut off military aid to his army in October 1984.That country later gave $2 million to the Contras, but deposited it into an account controlled by Secord, and it is unclear whether the money was used to help the Contras, Cohen said.ANC blamed for South African bomb attack JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two bombs exploded a minute apart outside a downtown courthouse Wednesday afternoon, killing three white policemen and injuring five officers and nine civilians, police said.Authorities blamed the outlawed African National Congress for the attack.The police death toll is believed to be the highest ever from a suspected guerrilla bombing.The two bombs were in cars parked near the magistrate’s court building at the edge of Johannesburg’s financial district.The second and more powerful blast sprayed shrapnel into police officers who had arrived to investigate the first blast.One report said the two bombs may have been in one car.“It was terrible,” said a man at the scene.“There was this huge bang and I looked around and saw this woman flying through the air.” The attack came on the fourth anniversary of South Africa’s deadliest guerrilla bombing, when 19 people were killed and more than 230 injured outside an office building in Pretoria.There was no comment Wednesday from the ANC, which claimed responsibility for the 1983 bombing.FIGHTS APARTHEID The ANC is the largest guerrilla group fighting apartheid.By law and custom, apartheid establishes a racially segregated society in which the 24 million blacks have no vote in national affairs.The five million whites control the economy and maintain separate districts, schools and health services.Thirteen people have been killed in explosions since a state of emergency was declared last June.More than 280 people have been injured.Islands feel they’re better off with France ST.JOHN’S, Nfld.(CP) — Turning St-Pierre-Miquelon over to Canada would be the “worst thing that could happen” to the French colony off Newfoundland, says the president of the islands’ Chamber of Commerce.Louis Hardy was responding Wednesday to a telegram sent by island politicians to French President Francois Mitterrand calling on Paris to make peace with Ottawa, provide economic relief to the islands or turn them over to Canada.Hardy and others claim the islands face economic ruin if a March 17 ban preventing French vessels from entering Canadian ports is not lifted.When Ottawa announced the ban, it also imposed tougher enforcement of regulations on French fishing in Canadian waters.The move came in response to alleged overfishing by ships from continental France in disputed waters Critics fail export tax By Alan Bass OTTAWA (CP) — Canada's lumber agreement with the United States, in which Ottawa agreed to slap a 15-per-cent export tax on lumber exports, was finally approved by the Commons on Wednesday.Legislation to implement the Dec.30 deal was passed by a 92-33 vote.Opposition MPs were easily outvoted by the Conservative majority.Canada agreed to impose the export tax to avoid a punitive U.S.duty.The export tax, which has been collected since Jan.8, is expected to generate up to $600 mil- off Newfoundland.“I have seen too many communities in Newfoundland — too many fishing villages — being washed out because the government of Canada says they don’t want to support them,” Hardy said in an interview.“I don’t foresee any Canadian interest in maintaining economic activity on St-Pierre-Miquelon.” NOT POPULAR St-Pierre Mayor Albert Penn, the colony’s only member of the French Senate, admits the idea proposed in his telegram is not popular among the islands’ 6,500 residents.However, speaking through an interpeter, he said France might as well give up the islands to Canada if it fails to resolve the dispute.If Canada took control of the islands off Newfoundland’s south coast, St-Pierre-Miquelon would become “little more than a national park,” Penn said.to prevent on lumber lion in revenue, which is being given to the provinces.The negotiations that produced the lumber deal were exceptionally bitter.Agreement was reached moments before U.S.trade authorities were due to render a final decision on a punitive duty.The Americans claimed provincial timber-cutting fees were too low and constituted an unfair subsidy to the Canadian lumber industry.The agreement has also generated controversy in Canada.Opponents accused the government of selling out the lumber industry and allowing the Americans to interfere in domestic matters.#1 _ fo-f Kama Qaorga MacLartn, Publisher.569-9511 CharlM Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd Q.Schalb, Advertising Manager.569-9625 Mark Quillatta, Press 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Circulation News-in-brief No cars may mean layoffs MONTREAL (CP) — Ottawa’s decision not to have new passenger cars built for Via Rail Canada Inc.will likely mean layoffs at Bombardier Inc., the president of the company’s mass-transit division said Wednesday."The decision was a tough blow for us that will bring a certain number of layoffs,” said Jean-Yves Leblanc.Transport Minister John Crosbie said Tuesday that Via Rail will get $361 million in the next five years to refurbish 200 coaches, buy 19 new locomotives, expand maintenance facilities and improve stations.Difficulties in free trade talks OTTAWA (CP) — The free-trade talks are encountering major difficulties, negotiators admitted Wednesday following a gruelling three-day bargaining session in which a long-simmering dispute over investment broke into open battle.“We’re making some progress, but I must tell you it’s tough,” U.S.trade negotiator Peter Murphy told reporters.“There are a lot of major difficulties.” But Murphy and Canadian trade negotiator Simon Reisman both expressed hope they can make a deal before the October deadline for submitting a draft agreement to Congress.Pilot didn’t see hydro cable OTTAWA (CP) — The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in a lake near Hull, apparently did not see a hydro cable that snagged the aircraft, officials said Wednesday after viewing a videotape taken by a telvision crew that died in the accident.All five men aboard were killed when the low-flying helicopter struck the Unmarked Hydro-Quebec line last Saturday and crashed into Lac Grand, about 40 kilometres north of Hull.“There’s nothing on the film to indicate the pilot attempted to take any evasive action,” Bill Muncy of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board told a news conference.Supports hard bargaining OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative government wants to avoid a postal strike but supports the hard bargaining stance Canada Post is taking with its unions, the minister responsible for the post office said Wednesday.“The survival of the post office is really what’s at stake,” Harvie Andre told reporters as he entered a Tory caucus.“There is the expectation that the new contracts will allow the management sufficient flexibility to make sure that the post office stays up to date and can function in a more competitive environemnt.” The 20,000-member Letter Carriers’ Union of Canada says a strike is inevitable by mid-June unless Canada Post moderates demands for contract concessions.People not that badly off — MP OTTAWA (CP) — A Liberal MP has changed his mind about Warsaw Pact countries, saying the people there are not as badly off and not as restricted as has been portrayed in the media.John Nunziata says a recent trip to three east block countries with External Affairs Minister Joe Clark has transformed his view of the Soviet-dominated regimes.The Toronto MP now believes that the Solidarity movement in Poland gets its main support only from “Polish yuppies.” Nunziata also said his 10-day trip to Poland, Hungary and East Germany will liberalize the way he looks at East-West relations and change his approach to foreign policy.CN ready to sell Toronto tower?TORONTO (CP) — Canadian National is considering selling the CN Tower in Toronto, the Toronto Globe and Mail reports.Several unidentified CN directors said the sale of the tower was discussed by some board members, although no decision or vote has been taken, the newspaper said today.But a CN spokesman in Montreal, in an interview with The Canadian Press, denied the showpiece $128-million tower is being considered for sale, although he said the possibility of CN selling five Canadian hotels is being studied.“Right now it’s not part of the package being discussed,’ said Ed Pawlusiak, assistant manager of information services.No bad news was good news TORONTO (CP) — No bad news was the good news for millions of Ontario taxpayers in the budget handed down Wednesday by Treasurer Robert Nixon.His third budget contains modest tax breaks only for the poor and elderly but, for the first time since the minority Liberal government came to power two years ago, there won’t be any tax increases.The budget, likely to be the last before Premier David Peterson calls an election, also chops the deficit and aims aid at groups and regions not sharing in the economic boom that last year generated more than $1.2 billion in unanticipated revenue.Olson: Rights are being denied TORONTO (CP) — Canada’s most notorious murderer has asked the Ontario Supreme Court to rule his constitutional rights are being denied because he is refused access to the news media.Clifford Olson, serving a life term in Kingston penitentiary for murdering 11 children, says the refusal infringes his rights under three sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.Brian Evernden, representing the attorney general, said Wednesday he is concerned Olson — “perhaps one of the most infamous killers in Canada” — may want to use the court challenge to brag about more killings.Some teachers not prepared TORONTO (CP) — Some English teachers have not been adequately prepared to teach their subject, says the Canadian Council of Teachers of English.The group said the situation is serious and issued a statement at its annual conference in Winnipeg recently outlining the kind of preparation it considers necessary.“Many of these (elementary and secondary) teachers were prepared to teach other subjects but were seconded to teach English when enrolments dropped,” Nancy Carlman, an official with the teachers’ council, said in a covering letter.Little control over education REGINA (CP) — More and more French-Canadians are blending into Saskatchewan’s English-speaking majority largely because francophones have little control over their children’s education, a sociologist said Tuesday.Wilfrid Denis told a Court of Queen’s Bench judge that at one time in the region’s history the French outnumbered anglophones.But if assimilation continues unabated only an isolated few French-speaking “fransaskois” will be left in the year 2000, said Denis, an associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan.Mayor ready to help CALGARY (CP) —Mayor Ralph Klein says he’s willing to help work out the public relations problems facing the Calgary Olympics — if the organizing committee wants his assistance.Klein made the remark Wednesday during an airport news conference minutes after his return from a 16-day trip to several European cities and Istanbul, Turkey, where he attended executive meetings of the International Olympics Committee.The Calgary mayor confirmed that IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch asked him Monday to form a new committee to deal with the bad image the Games have outside North America, largely as a result of controversies like the ticket scandal.House: No troops in Nicaragua WASHINGTON (Reuter) — The U.S.House of Representatives has voted to prohibit use of U.S.combat troops in Nicaragua except in special circumstances.During consideration of its $289-billion US defence bill for 1988, the House also rejected a non-binding resolution saying Washington should cut diplomatic ties with the Nicaraguan government and recognize U.S.-backed rebels as the legitimate government of the country.Republicans said it is ridiculous the United States maintains diplomatic relations with the Nicaraguan government while supporting rebels trying to overthrow it.But Democrats, who control the House, said while they do not support the Nicaraguan government, the rebels do not represent a real alternative.Unexploded warhead found WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexploded missile warhead was found Wednesday aboard the American frigate Stark but was quickly disarmed, the Pentagon said.The Stark was attacked by an Iraqi jet Sunday in the Persian Gulf.Lt.-Cmdr.Chris Baumann, a Pentagon spokesman, said Wednesday the French-made Exocet missile “has been disarmed, crated and is now aboard the USS LaSalle.” Five years for gun smuggling MIAMI (AP) — A Canadian who pleaded guilty to illegally trying to buy machine-guns, silencers and explosives for shipment abroad, was sentenced to five years in U.S.federal prison Wednesday.Robert LeClerc, 38, originally of Valleyfield, 70 kilometres from Montreal, is also awaiting sentencing on a separate marijuana conspiracy charge.LeClerc’s co-accused in the weapons case, Brian Riberdy, 31, of Salem, N.H., was sentenced to four years in prison by U.S.District Judge James Kehoe.Both men pleaded guilty on March 17 to charges of conspiring to receive and possess the weapons.They were indicted Feb.11.Fiji to become a republic?SUVA (CP) — Fiji might become a republic if the representative of the Queen continues to refuse to recognize the military that took power in a coup last week, the coup’s leader said today.Gov.Gen.Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau was booed by a crowd of several thousand Fijians today.Earlier today, racial violence erupted in Suva, and about 35 East Indians were injured in an attack by ethnic Fijians at a rally.Troops and police restored order but the mobs went on a rampage in other parts of the city, smashing shop windows and attacking the few East Indians who ventured outdoors.Isolated cases of cheating?MANILA (AP) — President Corazon Aquino said Wednesday that “isolated” cases of cheating marred Philippine elections her supporters apparently swept last week, but she denied charges of massive fraud that would negate the voting.Aquino made the remarks about cheating when speaking on naional television.The statement appeared to be a reply to charges from both the right and the left that the voting May 11 was rigged.Reimbursement for allegations LONDON (CP) — Air Canada filed notice with British Customs today that it intends to seek reimbursement of a &50,000-fine imposed in a dispute over allegations of lax security against drug smuggling.The fine — the equivalent of more than $100,000 Cdn — was paid by the airline on May 1 to secure quick release of a TriStar jet that had been impounded by Customs shortly after it arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport from Bombay.Searched 12 years for Barbie LYON, France (Reuter) — The son of a Nazi concentration camp victim told the Lyon Assize Court on Wednesday how he searched out Klaus Barbie 12 years ago in Bolivia, planning to assassinate him for his role as a senior Gestapo officer in Lyon from 1942 to 1944.Taking the witness stand at Barbie’s trial for crimes against humanity, Michel Codot Goldberg, 48, said he located and interviewed Barbie in Bolivia in 1975 but gave up his plan to assassinate him.Shumuk readies to come LONDON (CP) — Ukrainian dissident Danylo Shumuk met officials at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow on Wednesday as he prepares to leave the Soviet Union for Canada this week, an embassy spokesman said.The spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said Shumuk, 73, appeared “in pretty good health and seemed fit to travel despite having spent more than 40 years in Soviet and Polish labor camps and internal exile."His papers were in order for him to leave for Canada,” the embassy spokesman said in a telephone interview.Shumuk will be accompanied by embassy counsellor Hector Cowan on a flight Friday from Moscow to Amsterdam.Weather Today’s for-cast calls for sunny skies for most of the day with increasing cloud and a high of 22.Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU KJeiL.imHKWUSHOULP MM MS FIRST piece ISN'T ON ANT OF THE CAN~ D/anres.ttsonus./ B£N.PIP YOU REALLY ASSIGN REPFERNTOWRTTB 1 ONXHARACTER.Î ISSUES’* ! l KMM.IT ms MY tPEA.iFieuREpn MIGHT CLEAR.THE AIR OFALLTH5 SANCTIMONY Aen/uDucee APm/uDucpf 4 The H ECO RD—Thursday.May 21, 1987—3 The Townships —__g«i mam Cop accused of taking sides after bar-room brawl Police told Farnham victim broken nose not enough evidence of assault?By Gracie MacDonald GRANBY — A witness told a police commission hearing Wednesday that four Farnham policemen had given him misinformation and discouraged him from making a complaint against a man who was later convicted of assaulting him The commission is investigating a complaint by Micheline Mathieu against Pierre Benoit, Serge Couture, Michel Chiasson and Jean Mercier.All except Mercier are still with the force.The commission has just finished hearing a separate complaint against Benoit allegedly using excessive violence.Mathieu’s son, Mario Mathieu, 25, told investigators that Csts.Pierre Benoit and Jean Mercier came to his parent’s house following a brawl at the Farnham Hotel and told Mathieu and his mother, Micheline, that they should not make a complaint against Mario Fontaine because Mario and his father were the ones at fault.Benoit also described other assaults where complaints didn't make it to court and said the Mathieus would be wasting their time.DIDN’T KNOW LAW1 Mario testified that he and his parents “only knew that you could make a complaint against someone and that it could be done with the police." He implied that police had tried to take advantage of their ignorance of the law.The police officers and Mathieu’s parents will testify Thursday.The complaints arise from a fight that broke out during a private party at the Farnham Hotel on March 16, 1985.Mario, his mother and father.Jean Gilles, were among 100 or so guests at a dinner dance hosted by the hotel’s owner, Bernard Fontaine.Mario testified that the fighting started with a shouting match between him and another guest and then moved out to the parking lot.Mario said Fontaine’s son, also named Mario, “beat him up” outside the hotel.BROKEN NOSES, CUTS Both the Mathieus received broken noses and a cuts and bruises on their faces.Jean Gilles was later operated on for a broken sinus.The Mathieu men were taken by police to the Farnham station where Mario started to make a formal complaint with Const.Benoit against Mario Fontaine.According to Mario, he told Benoit that he was willing to complain, but was worried about his father and wanted to take him to the hospital.At that point, he said, Benoit was encouraging him.While they were making a report, Jean Gilles fainted in pool of his own blood in another room.Mario said his family then went to the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville.When they got home Benoit and Mercier arrived and, according to Mario, “tried to talk us out of complaining.” Mario said that at no time did he or his father agree not to press charges.“I was in his office (despite my father’s condition).Wasn’t that proof enough?” He said Benoit seemed to “take sides” in witness reports of the events at the hotel.Mario also said that later when his mother went to the police station with a typewritten complaint, Driver got a boost he didn’t need LENNOXVILLE—Talk about getting pushed around ! The driver of a small Honda motor car got the scare of his life Wednesday when he and the car were pushed more than 2000 feet down the street by a semi-trailer whose driver didn’t know they were there.The Honda was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Queen and Belvidere streets in Lennox-ville when the huge truck pulled up behind it.Both were heading towards Sherbrooke.When the light turned green the truck driver hit the gas pedal and began moving.But he was a bit quicker than the driver of the Honda, and the truck bumped into the back of it — apparently out of sight of the trucker, whose seat is about eight feet off the ground.The truck’s front bumper and the car’s rear bumper locked.The truck kept going.The little car had no choice and.followed ahead.MOBILE REAR-ENDER With the Honda owner honking his horn, jamming on his brakes and accelerating in attempts to attract the trucker’s attention or get loose, the mobile rear-ender conti- nued along Queen for several blocks.Finally the trucker caught on.Red-faced to say the least, he apologized to his involuntary passenger The inadvertant hitch-hiker said he was afraid.“After you’ve seen those trucking movies on TV, and you look in the rear-view mirror and see nothing but a green hulk filling up the window, you kind of see blue.” Lennoxville-Ascot policewoman Brigitte Ouimette’s latest accident report may make it to the Highway Hall of Fame.Stolen car pair hung up after chase SHERBROOKE — A wild car chase at speeds up to 150 kilometres per hour Wednesday ended with Lennoxville-Ascot police arresting two men who hung themselves up in a barbed-wire fence.The chase began on Queen Street in Lennoxville when patrolmen Claude Toupin and André Tardif spotted a car screaming around the corner to head up Belvidere hill.The constables gave chase.The car, with two men aboard, took off at speeds up to 150 km-h.It failed to stop at four intersections in a row: Belvidere and Bel Horizon, Dunant and Felton, Felton and North Hatley, and Felton and Ste-Catherine roads.Racing south along Ste-Catherine Road, the suspect driver turned onto what he thought was a gravel side road.It turned out to be a private driveway.The driver and passenger jumped from the car while it was still moving and ran towards the woods.Their car was stopped by a garden swing on the lawn.The policemen stopped their car, then ran after the pair on foot.The chase ended when the two runaways tried to climb a fence and got caught in the barbed wire.Arrested and identified, the two turned out to be “well-known” to police.One of them, 26, had an extensive criminal record, police said.Both he and his 19-year old junior partner are now in jail.The car they were driving was stolen in Sherbrooke last week.The licence plate on it was stolen in Montreal Tuesday.Sutton anti-acid group busy for Environment Week Const.Chiasson didn’t w ant to take it."He told her that there w as too many people who were involved.that we’d have to get a lawyer just to make a complaint." Mario said According to Mario.Chiasson also said they only had one witness on his side, the man who drove his mother to the police station the night of the braw l Mathieu made the complaint in January 1986, 10 months after the brawl started.Only five of the 17 witnesses slated to testify were heard Wednesday and the investigation resumes Thursday morning.Policeman Benoit denies Boutin beating charge GRANBY — (GM) Farnham po lice Const.Pierre Benoit told a po lice commission investigation Wednesday he didn't hit or intentionally hurt Serge Boutin during an arrest on Nov.2, 1985.Benoit said that he tried to calm Boutin down after he was called in to break up a fight between Boutin and an acquaintance, Sylvain Ra-cicot, but Boutin was "very aggressive and swore at me.” He said to get Boutin into handcuffs he had to restrain him by crouching on him and pressing his knee into his shoulder, but added that he never punched the man."He must have hit his face on something metallic,” Benoit said.Benoit was testifying Wednesday at an investigation into complaints he physically abused Boutin in the back of a police car.Tuesday Boutin told the investi gators that Benoit beat him up on the drive between the Farnham police station and the Sweetsburg jail in Cowanville.Boutin said he asked the officers to stop so he could urinate but that Benoit wouldn't let him.CAN’T REMEMBER?But neither Benoit or the constable who drove, Claude Lavoie, say they can remember Boutin asking to stop the car.Their testimony also contradicted Boutin’s on their destination in Cowansville.Benoit said that al-htough he had threatened Boutin “he'd take him to prison if he didn't be quiet,” he planned all along to take Boutin to the hospiatl before bringing him to the jail, which is next door.Wednesday Boutin said they went to prison first, and that the guards had turned him away be cause he was in “in such bad shape." Boutin was treatedfor bruises on his face.Benoit said Boutin had blood on his face before he got in the car, and that while he tried to subdue him some of it rubbed off on his clothes.Benoit said he had arrested Boutin for fighting "around ten times" before and that Boutin was always aggressive and insulting when he drank Commissioner Fernand Côté said he will study the evidence before making his recommendations.Whatever his decision, Farnham is not bound to follow them.Costumes a hit with seniors’ fashion show ¦ Contestants and winners of the Sherbrooke- costumes were the “rhubarb lady” and hand-made Lennoxville 50 Plus Club fashion show gather to quilt dress, display their costumes.Some of the more interesting ‘The whole population is sort of amazed’ — mayor Bad news can bring St-Jean good times: enjoying post-Bissonnette boom SUTTON — Recognizing increasing damage done to the local habitat, the Sutton Acid Rain Committee in cooperation with Environment Canada has planned three commemorative activities for Environment Week, June 1-7.“Nowhere in North America receives more acid rain than the Sutton mountains, as verified by two years of testing at Environment Canada’s Mount Sutton research station,” the committee said in a press release this week announcing a picnic, awards to student artists and the launching of an acid-rain greeting card.On Tuesday June2atlla.m.Sutton committee will erect an ‘acid rain gauge’ at a roadside picnic area just north of town.“The gauge will dramatize the hazards of acid rain via large, colorful symbols that correlate pH readings with fish deaths and tree deaths,” according to the press release, prepared by environmentalist Merritt Clifton.ACTUAL READINGS “The gauge will be adjusted frequently to reflect the actual level of acidity measured at the Mount Sutton research station,” Clifton said.Wednesday, June 3, at noon, prizes will be presented to winners of an acid rain poster-drawing contest for school children.Students at 22 schools of the Davignon and the District of Bedford school boards have been invited to participate.The Cowansville Cultural Committee will display the posters in their exhibition hall next door to the Cowansville library (beneath Paper box moves SHERBROOKE — If you’re looking for that familiar old recycling bin to put your old newspapers in and can’t find it anymore, that’s because it may have moved.The nmewsprint recycling container formerly situated at the Caisse populaire sociale de Sherbrooke on Jardins Fleuris Street has been moved to the Galeries Quatre-Saisons on 13th Avenue.The container had to find a new Main Street) throughout Environment Week.Prizes will be awarded for the best posters from each grade level and for other outstanding entries.All participants will receive certificates of appreciation, Clifton said.“If the printing can be completed in time, the Sutton Acid Rain Committee will also present to the public an acid rain greeting card,” the press release added.DEPICTS DEAD TREES Taken from a photograph by environmental journalist Phil Norton of Franklin Centre this “alloccasion greeting card depicts trees killed by acid rain on the slopes of Mount Sutton.” “The Sutton Acid Rain Committee hopes concerned citizens will use this card to make the seriousness of our acid rain problem known to friends and relatives in the regions of the U.S.and Canada that contribute the most acidic pollution.It can also be used to send expressions of concern to politicians.” Members of both the media and the general public are welcome at both functions.Headed by president Katherine O’Connor, the Sutton committee’s leaders include Clifton, Jennifer Scott, Robert Fournier and Daniel Coderre.Three nurses unions may merge SHERBROOKE (MHG) — Three provincial nurses’ unions may merge to form a single, “more forceful union ”, says the outgoing president of the Eastern Townships branch of one of the unions.After two days of the Syndicat professionnel des infirmières et infirmiers de l'Estrie's (SPIIQ) annual general meeting in Sherbrooke, Anne Bergeron said her union will decide in June whether or not to support the merger.In June, SPIIQ will hold its provincial meeting and 30 delegates from the Eastern Twonships branch will be there to vote on the move to merge with the Fédération Québécois des infirmières et infirmiers (F Ql) and the Fédération des infirmières et infirmiers unis (FIIU).to shopping centre home in order to make way for construction of a new building.It’s been moved to beside the go-kart tracks at the east-end shopping centre.Each box is maintained by a separate organization along with the help of Eco-Ressources de 1’ Estrie.The 40th Desjardins scout troop gives the Quatre-Saisons container the loving care it needs.Bergeron said the move would create one 40,000-member union of nurses.“It would be better when it comes to negotiating with the government.We would be more forceful and more impressive.” She said her own union seems to be in favor of the merge.“The feeling is good.We just have to work out the technical problems now.But members seem to want it.” Bergeron’s union has some 18,000 members across Quebec.They work in hospitals all around the Townships — Asbestos, Cowansville and Sherbrooke.The FQI has some 12,000 members, with locals at hospitals such as the Hôtel Dieu, the CHUS and the Youville hospital.The FIIU’s 9,000 members include nurses at the Sherbrooke Hospital.Bergeron said the provincial meeting will be held June 15 to 17.POACHING ST-JE AN-SUR-RICHELIEU (CP) — Last January, the Oerlikon affair brought down a cabinet minister and set off an RCMP investigation.Local officials say it’s the best thing that ever happened to the economy of the region.A city of 38,800, St-Jean has reaped unexpected benefits from the wave of publicity that followed the firing of André Bissonnette, local MP and former junior transport minister, for alleged wrongdoing in the sale of land to the Swiss firm Oerlikon Aerospace Inc.Mayor Delbert Deschambault says industrial concerns from California to Belgium are lining up to purchase land in the city’s industrial park.A developer announced this week that construction will begin June 1 on a $10-million, 130-room hotel slated to open in 1988.Residential prices have risen 12 per cent in the last 10 months and more than 600 jobs are expected to be created by next fall.Deschambault says the hotel will employ another 200 people when it opens.That’s good news for a city where the jobless rate stood at 15 per cent last fall.Times are so heady in the area that St-Jean’s industrial commissioner will be sent to France in June to drum up interest at the Paris air show.MICHAEL J.FOX £| THE SECRET OF MY ;UJcdng/doq flSWW.I J Hil H-F'TTb Success CAPITOl 565 om' PEOPLE AMAZED “The whole population is sort of amazed that in a few short months all this has taken place,” Deschambault said in an interview Wednesday.“We’ve been watching other cities boom and we were always at a standstill.Our turn is coming and we re not going to neglect anything.” If the city is, as Deschambault says, “going after its piece of the cake,” the mayor credits Bissonnette.“He’s the one who was the motor who brought in Oerlikon, first of all,” Deschambault said.“Then we had all this so-called negative publicity that surrounded the whole Oerlikon affair, but which is turning out to be positive after all.” The publicity focused on a series of deals that sent the price of land which Oerlikon purchased for its plant to manufacture Canada’s low-level air defence system to nearly $3 million from $800,000 in a two-week span.Deschambault acknowledges that the by-now-well-known 10-cents-per-square-foot — the lowest rate in the province — industrial park rate is a major selling point for the city.“At city hall, we’ve made a lot of the fact that there is no speculation possible by buying land from the city,” Deschambault said.“There’s only one price for everybody.” THE HERTS BACK ON ^EXCELLENT Tdifhcbve dg rytudgf dgfe fhbe tu.Eytgf fhjgurd gdferh.Pghrb » -Tuedk Vjjdwr, TUEt WSEDC Rthebest Tdifhcbve dg rytudgf dgfe fhbe __ - Tuedk Vjdwf, TUEI WSEDC Rawinner Tdifhcbve dg rytudgf dgfe fhbe -Tuedk VjidwT, TUEI WSEDC EDDIE MURPHY BIEVIE12L'6J-U1-I-S WRTTHfTE M Weekdays: 7:15 - 9:30.Sat.ft Sun.: 12:30 - 2:45 - 5:00 - 7:15 - 9:30.nn(DOLBY STEREO] CARREFOUR ,'ESTRIE 3050 Boul PORTLAND 56b 0366 I 4—The RECORD—Thursday, May 21, 1987 —____tel nocora The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial A few more voices Things are not looking good for Quebec’s anglophones right now.Judging by the reaction of the province’s minister of intergovernmental affairs to some concerns raised by Alliance Quebec Wednesday, the rights of English-speaking Quebecers are not high on the government’s list of priorities.Alliance president Michael Goldbloom, addressing a legislature committee examining the agreement-in-principle reached last month on the Constitution, asked for assurance that the accord will in no way diminish the fundamental rights of any Canadian.He is concerned that the Quebec legislature, given the right to promote Quebec’s “distinct identity” through the agreement, might use this provision to prevent the posting of bilingual signs and to further diminish the rights of English Quebecers.He also criticized the accord for failing to recognize the presence of francophone communities in the other nine provinces and territories.The answer he received from Gil Remillard was less than encouraging.The minister said Canadian duality and Quebec’s “distinct identity” are two separate things and that the agreement has been worded to show “Quebec can take not only measures to protect — but also to favor — the evolution of its fundamental characteristics.” In other words, Quebec intends to use the much-disputed phrase in its campaign to suppress the English element in the province.The government hopes that by having its distinctness enshrined in the Constitution it will be able to reduce the cultural threat posed by the English-speaking people of the province.The government seems to have some powerful support for this concept in the Quebec Federation of Labor, the province’s largest union group.The federation complained Wednesday that the “distinct identity” clause is not strong enough to protect the French language.Goldbloom’s arguments may not have been well received in the Quebec legislature, but they deserve some careful consideration by the people who make up this province.With the kind of attitude Mr.Remillard is expressing toward minority rights, it’s clear that our watchdogs have to be more vigilant than ever to ensure that the English-speaking people of Quebec don’t suffer further indignities at the hands of the Anglophobes running the province.Goldbloom could use a few more voices backing him up.LAUREL SHEERER Soft drugs an everyday commodity for Netherlanders AMSTERDAM (AP) — For hundreds of thousands of Dutch, buying a bit of marijuana has become as simple as getting a six-pack of beer.A decade after being decriminalized, “soft” drugs are an everyday commodity — and an almost forgotten issue — in the Netherlands.The cannabis-based substances are readily available in Amsterdam at hundreds of coffee bars, which keep on the safe side of the law by limiting advertising to a simple picture of a marijuana leaf in the window.Aggressive advertising is strictly banned, but otherwise the sale, use and possession of 30 grams (1.05 ounce) or less of hashish or marijuana is punishable by a only small fine, under the 1976 revisions to Dutch law.Even these minor penalties are seldom imposed.While other western countries try to suppress use of such substances, Dutch authorities, with the most liberal drug laws in Western Europe, channel their efforts toward stopping the heavy flow of heroin into the Netherlands.Cocaine, also a criminally proscribed drug, is not widely distributed in the Netherlands.Reports by U S.government agencies have long said marijuana and hashish use impairs memory, judgment and motor skills, and is associated with greater use of other drugs, with socially deviant activities and with psychological problems.NO REEFER MADNESS Professional Dutch observers dispute this, contending these soft drugs have no measurable impact on public health or on the country’s social structure.Amsterdam police spokesman Klaas Wilting says soft drugs are often used in “a certain scene” in which users might feel encouraged to switch to hard drugs.However, he said, “soft drugs as such are no more dangerous than alcohol.” University of Amsterdam sociologist Peter Cohen, who has done research on drug use, estimates one million of the Netherlands’ 14.6 million people regularly use soft drugs, most of them relatively well-educated city dwellers.“The health risk and social problems are negligible,” said Abram de Swaan, a sociology professor at the University of Amsterdam who admits to occasional use of marijuana.“Most people are less unpleasant when they’re stoned than when they’re drunk ” Not all Dutch specialists agree that soft-drug use is relatively harmless.Peter van Dalen of the Consultation Bureau on Alcohol and Drugs, a government-sponsored counselling service, reports an upsurge in psychological addiction to hashish and marijuana in the last two years.The addicts "notice it impairs them in their social behavior,” Van Dalen said.He said he hadn’t opposed decriminalization of soft drugs.The going rate in the coffee bars is approximately 10 guilders — $5 — for a gram (.035 ounce) of hashish, enough for three or four smokes.The drugs generally come in small, sealed plastic bags containing $5 or $12.50 portions.High drama on the waters of the Persian Gulf This is the first chapter of a fantastic story.Imagine, if you will, three Soviet tankers at sea in the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf loaded with Arab oil destined for the West.On the arching north-eastern embankment Iranian troops bring the Russian ships into the sights of their shore batteries and their Chinese-made missile launchers.Further off, units of the U S.Indian Ocean fleet watch intensely as the Russian tankers plow their passage through the threatened waterway.A Soviet fishing trawler lurks suspiciously in the vicinity and a Russian submarine may be patroling under the surface nearby.Meanwhile, on military airfields in Southern Iraq, Iraqi mirage fighter planes warm their engines as they prepare to find and strike tankers carrying Iranian crude.The stuff of fiction, right?Wrong.This was the scene for the disaster that struck the American frigate, Stark last Sunday night.The Stark was one of several American naval units patroling the waters of the Persian Gulf, keeping an eye on the shipments of Western oil from the area and a watch over the latest Soviet moves in the Gulf.Their presence in the Gulf, the U.S.hoped, would be reassuring to Arab oil exporters in the region and help discourage Iranian attacks on tankers carrying Arab oil.The ships would also monitor the increasing number of Soviet merchant ships and naval units in the Gulf.Under an agreement with the Ku-weiti government, Russian tankers, complete with Russian crews, have been leased to Kuweit to transport oil from Kuweit down the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz to safe transhipment points outside the Gulf.Since they fly the Russian flag they are entitled to automatic Soviet naval protection without involving Kuweit.The agreement followed a series of Iranian attacks on Persian Gulf shipping that seemed to single out shipments of Kuweiti crude.Kuweiti officials point out that 17 out of the last 22 attacks were directed against ships from Kuweit.The agreement had a particular ap- Window to the world By Rudy Nassar peal to Kuweit.The Kuweitis earlier had refused American naval patrols for tankers docking in Kuweit.The Irangate revelations had made American motives in the region suspect.Moreover Kuweitis did not want to openly identify with specific U.S.military strategies in the region or appear to be part of a protective U.S.military umbrella.Kuweit was trying to keep a balance between the two superpowers in the region and promote regional Gulf security measures rather than seek superpower intervention.To show it was taking its agreement with Kuweit seriously, the Kremlin vowed firm and decisive action if Iran stopped, searched or attacked the Russian tankers.To back this up, the Soviet’s were reported to have sent several of their own naval units into the Gulf.Sources in Kuweit, reported that the Kuweiti government is also working on arrangements to lease U.S.tankers under similar conditions.“These various arrangements,” wrote one noted Middle East correspondent who has been following Persian Gulf developments closely, “would mean that both superpowers would be daring Iran to attack Kuweiti oil being shipped under their protection.” The underlying cause for all these moves and the heightened tensions in the Gulf is the decision by Iran to deploy Chinese “silkworm” missiles, that can span the 25-mile width of the Strait of Hormuz, at the narrow entrance to the Gulf, and then to target Kuweiti oil shipments in particular.Just why Iran chose to do so is not clear, except that Kuweit has been helping Iraq financially.What is clear is that Iran has opened the door of the Tehran* Baghdai IRAN Tigris River Euphrates^.___—A, River Basra Khorramshahr a Abadan Kharg Island KUWAIT Strait of Hormuz BAHRAIN H Riyadh QATAR SAUDI ARABIA OMAN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Map from the Congressional Quarterly Inc.The Middle East.1986 Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union and invited a new intense superpower rivalry in the region.Meanwhile chapter two of the story has already begun.Two Soviet tankers were hit and damaged by Iranian missiles and mines, and the U.S.frigate Stark was mistakenly attacked by two Iraqi warplanes, killing 37 men on board.The attacks will not deter the superpowers.They will make their naval presence more felt and put their naval units on full alert ready to strike back.These military responses carry with them the dangers of increased military confrontation.The real solution to the safety of shipping in the Persian Gulf lies in a genuine effort by both superpowers to end the eight yearlong Iran-Iraq war.This is something neither of them has been willing to do so far.But now that the dangers of an expansion of that war are becoming so painfully clear, chapter three of this story may just begin with such a peace effort.MpeviouaY, HWE NEVER MET RoNMP RENsMU' YOU CAN Ftt SflMS OF ¥ | ALL OF THF; SOME OFlj V W ALL OFTi - i mm mi .I.uiimiiii v filtMtiU Letter Further information about Mallorys Dear Sir: I have received a letter from a Mrs.Teri Rodeman, 7051 Cerritos Ave.#2 Stanton, Ca 90680, who is researching the geneology of the Mallory family.Her great-great grandfather John Wiliam Mallory was born in Bury approx 1860.He died 25 Oct 1922 in Huntington.His father was the Rev.C.P.Mallory.He had one sister, Mrs.Maria Eliott and two brothers, Edwin and Albert Mallory.John William Mallory had one child, a daughter, Grace Agatha Mallory Scott, who is Mrs.Rodeman’s grandmother’s mother.John played the pipe organ in the church in Bury for many years.If anyone has any further information about the Mallorys in the Townships would they please write to Mrs.Rodeman, or they would write me and I will forward the information to her.Thank for all your help.Yours truly Robin Mallory P.O.Box 1306 Richmond, P.Q.JOB 2H0 France rethinks its legacy of splendid isolation By Alan Philps PARIS (Reuter) — Spurred by the prospect of the United States scrapping some of its nuclear weapons in Europe, France is contemplating an expanded role for its strategic forces in the defence of the continent.Analysts close to Prime Minister Jacques Chirac say it is time to rethink the legacy of "splendid isolation” left by Gen.Charles de Gaulle when he withdrew from the NATO command structure in 1966.Some strategists see signs of a new tripartite alliance linking France and Britain — Europe’s two nuclear powers — with West Germany to step into any gap left by the Americans.“We need a credible defence so that we may become the driving force within Europe,” Chirac said in an April speech presenting high-spending military plans.ZERO OPTION The key factor in modifying France’s staunch independence in defence has been the prospect of a superpower accord to remove all medium-range and possibly also some shorter-range nuclear missiles from Europe, under the so-called “zero option.” Chirac, a zealous defender of nuclear deterrence, is worried that scrapping superpower rocketry would rob the West of its last-ditch defence against what it sees as a massive Soviet superiority in tanks, aircraft and chemical weapons.Such a deal would also place pressure on France to run with the tide of nuclear disarmament in Europe, and put its small nuclear strike force on the negotiating table.France has six nuclear-armed submarines, 18 ground-launched missiles and four squadrons of strategic bombers.This small force allows France to proclaim an independent deterrent based on its doctrine of “the weak standing up to the strong.” SEES DANGER Chirac argues the zero option would be dangerous if it appeared to be the “start of an inevitable process of American disengagement and denuclearization of Western Europe.” He and Defence Minister Andre Giraud have become ardent advocates of a joint European defence policy to strengthen the European side of the Atlantic alliance.“To avoid being the losers under the zero option, the Europeans must.take more control of their own defence,” Giraud said.Western Europe should maintainor even boost its nuclear arsenals “and take care not to weaken the close relations which should continue to exist between the United States and our continent,” he said.Experts say the prospect of the zero option taking shape has speeded up a gradual evolution of defence doctrine over recent years to take in territory beyond the country’s borders — effectively West Germany.“If the battle fora nation's survival is fought at the frontier, then the battle for its security is fought at its neighbor’s frontier,” said Chirac.PROPOSE CHARTER The French prime minister went last year to the seven-nation Western European Union to propose a defence charter, including the primacy of nuclear deterrence.But the proposal has failed to galvanize the WEU, a semi-dormant body which debates defence co-operation.France, Britain, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg belong to the group.French officials say a major worry is the prospect of West Germany, with its strong anti-nuclear movement, abandoning the western alliance in favor of neutrality like Finland.France, with a political consensu on keeping nuclear weapons, could bolster countries like Britain and the Netherlands which are divided over defence, they say.NOT ALONE ‘ 'It is not enough for France to stand firm alone,” said Francois Fillon, chairman of the National Assembly defence commission.“A nuclear policy of splendid isolation could in fact lead to the finlandization of the continent.” Fillon has promoted the idea of a joint Franco-British supersonic cruise missile to unite the two countries’ nuclear deterrent forces in the next century.Defence Minister Giraud said the two countries have moved toward strategic co-ordination by agreeing to make a joint study of enemy defenses in the way of their nuclear strike forces.The decision marks a symbolic breach in France’s go-it-alone nuclear policy, though there is still a long way to go before the two countries can formally co-ordinate their nuclear submarine patrols.I Farm and Business The RECORD—Thursday.May 21.1987-5 —____tel itecora Part of farm reporter’s soul is still rooted in the black soil Clyde Graham, who is moving from Winnipeg to the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press, reflects on five years of reporting on Canadian agriculture.By Clyde Graham The Canadian Press Almost since the day I was born, it seemed inevitable that I wouldn’t take my place in a long line of farmers in my family.I still remember the day, back when I was in high school, 1 asked my father in the cab of our fire-engine-red pickup about going farming with him one day.“You can’t make a decent living off a half section of land,” he told me.That was in the 1970s, when a half section — about 130 hectares — was rapidly becoming a small farm.I wasn’t overly upset.I did enjoy running the tractor each summer under the July sun, with a lone (Focus on Farming^ ' .TK,- ~ vr.-, haw'k riding the heat waves overhead, waiting for mice to be turned up by the cultivator.But I liked books a lot more than diesel mechanics and hay fever used to force me to bury my nose in a handkerchief while I drove the truck at harvest.So I went to university and became a journalist.I thought when I graduated that farming was more or less out of my life and my system.GOT FARM BEAT Then one day, out of the blue, my boss at the Winnipeg bureau of The Canadian Press asked me to take over the farm beat.‘By the way,” the bureau chief said, expelling a blue cloud of cigar smoke, ‘ do you know anything about farming?” So, for the last five years.I’ve driven the dusty gravel roads of the Prairies, talking to farmers over mugs of coffee, in the cabs of tractors or around a desk in the office of a grain elevator agent.Heads shake.There’s a joke or two.But the smiles are grim.These are not the heady days of the 1970s, when wheat prices were on the rise and farmers could see the value of their land climbing with each passing harvest.IN DECLINE Today, grain prices are at a 15-year low and the federal government will spend about $3.3 billion for prairie farmers just to stem the decline in farm income.That’s an average of about $20,000 per farm.But there’s always a pinch of personal sadness each time 1 see a farm.I never question the decision to leave the farm, but a part of my soul is still rooted in the soil.Trite, but true.My father died one harvest and two spring seedings ago.I will not take his place on the black vinyl seat of the old Case tractor.It’s already been auctioned off Dad’s grain farm, a square of black soil 30 dusty kilometres west of Regina, was passed down from his mother, a feisty woman who had to raise six children alone in a clapboard farmhouse through the Depression after my grandfather died in 1928 Before that, my ancestors farmed in Ontario and before that, Scotland.HOUSE EMPTY Today, the once-grand white, clapboard farmhouse is grey with neglect.It has shifted on its foundation The lead glass windows, long ago broken by vandals, are covered by plywood sheets and bricks from the chimney lie deep in the overgrown grass.No one has lived there since I was 10 when my parents bought a house in Regina.My father commuted to the farm each morning, driving against the flow of hobby farmers headed for their offices in the city.The treehouse my father built for me and my sister one day when it was too wet to cultivate is gone, along with the giant poplar it was built in down by the garden But the land is still rich.My mother has rented it to my uncle, who still farms in the area.One day, when prices rise again, she'll sell the land.TELL MY CHILD I like to tell my daughter, who is only three, that the spaghetti on her plate might have been made from durum wheat grown on the family farm, or the bread under the thick blanket of peanut butter is from spring wheat grown on the farm.Likely the closest she'll come to farming are the plastic animals, tractor and barn that she likes to scatter across the floor of her room — or the garden in the backyard.And I know it’ll be tough to persuade her that milk comes from a cow and not just a carton.Since the 1940s.Canada's farm population has been steadily decli ning.The lights of the city are bright Few really want to return to the country.I don’t.Even so.when the fall air turns crisp and the pollen on the wind makes my eyes water.1 like to take a drive in the country, just to see how the harvest is shaping up.Competitive Japan readies to go where few men have gone before By Steven Paulson TANEGASHIMA, Japan (AP) — On this small island dotted with sugar cane fields, rice paddies and tea bushes, Japan’s hopes for a space industry are taking shape.The Japanese government maintains it has no immediate commercial aims in space.But businesses and officials working on the island indicate it is only a matter of time before Japan is ready to compete in space the same way it did in the world’s automobile, computer and camera markets.Mounds of earth are being moved here at the Tanegashima Space Centre, concrete is being poured and the rocky coastline is Business briefs being sculpted to make way for a new launch pad.Cables are being laid for an H-II rocket that is still on the drawing board.Nearby is the launch pad for older-model N-II andH-I rockets.Inside the blockhouse, men dressed in blue Mitsubishi Heavy Industries uniforms work at their panels, checking out systems.NO FAILURES A late entry in the aerospace field because of prohibitions imposed by the United States at the end of the Second World War, Japan has had 16 straight successful launches with its N- and H-series rockets.Government officials say limi- VANCOUVER (CP) — The Vancouver Stock Exchange started trading platinum options Tuesday as part of an international network of commodity options trading.The exchange said the options will also be traded on the European Options Exchange in Amsterdam, the Montreal Exhange and the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney.The International Options Clearing Corporation will effectively create a 20-hour trading day.• WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.government is ending its investigation of General Dynamics Corp.’s submarine-building program without prosecuting anyone, the Justice Department said Tuesday.The department said the books are being shut on the three-year-old investigation involving the largest U.S.defence contractor “because of the absence of any reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution.” The decision brought immediate outcries from Capitol Hill, where Representative John Dingell (D-Mich.) said he would conduct a hea- ring on the matter.The investigation began in 1984, when a former General Dynamics executive released tape-recorded conversations suggesting the company may have misstated the delivery date of the first Trident submarine and the magnitude of cost overruns.• LONDON (AP) — Guinness PLC, the scandal-plagued brewery giant, said Bank Leu PLC of Switzerland sold its 4.8-per-cent stake in the scandal-plagued brewing giant to unidentified institutional investors Tuesday.Guinness said the sale of 40 million Guinness shares was arranged by the British brokerage firm James Capel and Co.It didn’t say what price was paid.Guinness shares were trading at 359 pence, about $8.08 Cdn a share, on the London Stock Exchange after the announcement.Bank Leu was caught up in the stock-manipulation scandal that engulfed Guinness last December over its earlier takeover of Distillers Co., a Scotch whisky and gin maker.Mallette Benoil Boulanger Rondeau& Associés Ward, Mallette & Co.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS (819) 564-1757 2727 King St.West, Sherbrooke (Quebec) J1L 1C2_ OFFICES IN 18 CITIES IN QUEBEC INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION - BINDER, DIJKER, OTTE & CO ted resources make it necessary for the space program to concentrate on government goals of putting men into orbit in the 21st century, and fulfilling commitments made to the United States to participate in joint space ventures such as a U.S.shuttle mission in the 1990s and an international space station program.But Japanese companies Working on the government programs believe Japan will be ready to make a major move into the commercial field in the next decade.Even project officials are excited about the commercial potential of rockets they are now developing.MUST CUT COSTS “We will have to make our missiles cheaper and more efficient for commercial satellite launches,” said Masashi Mochizu-ki, head of the space centre’s rocket division.“We can accommodate a commercial market.“At present, our launches are more costly, but reduction of cost is our goal,” he told reporters visiting the island on Japan’s southern tip.The key to Japan’s success is whether it can develop technology to launch the larger payloads needed by commercial satellite companies.At present, its pay-loads for a geo stationary orbit are limited to 550 kilograms.To be competitive, Japan must develop a rocket able to handle at least a two-tonne capacity.That means a state-of-the-art, double-combustion engine, and some western space experts have said they doubt Japan can develop that kind of technology by the 1992 deadline it has set for itself.NEED MORE 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Quebec Grand Prix lives! The cars weren’t Formula 1 and the only on-board computers were in the heads of the drivers as they raced around the soon-to-be famous Brome Lake circuit.I attended (clad in a grey topper and long coat) but next year such casual costumery won’t wash.It will be a weekend of Prince Albert frock coats, toppers, spats and gentlemen — you must wear gloves.As usual, the ladies (my own included) were far more Down the Pike By Ashley Sheltus authentic in their costume.There is the chance of a proper Victorian Ball next year so start looking for the appropriate things to wear.Last week, I mentioned the possibility of a boat trip down Lake Memphremagog this coming Saturday.It’s on! The excursion will depart from the pier at Magog at the unfashionable hour of 0800 — that’s a.m., folks, and will return somewhere between 4:30 and 5 p.m., in time for everyone to get rid of their sea legs and head for the Spring Fling.As a matter of fact, considering what modern dancing is like, sea legs might be an advantage.During the trip, Jacques Boisvert, the cartoonist who has been making the monster of those deeps famous will be on hand with some of his cartoons and to tell people about the various Memphre sightings that have taken place.Naturally, everyone hopes that Memphre will put in an appearance.Leaving nothing to chance, the organizers have arranged for a bar to be open during the trip.Sandwiches are also available.The cost of the excursion (bar and food included) is $15.The boat will dock at Newport around 11 and a a brunch will be served.Cost of the brunch (if you haven’t eaten your noon meal already) will be an additional $13 Cdn.For tickets, call Bernice Sergent at 263-7364 in Cowansville.The Rock Island number is 876-5553.There are a few other things happening along the shores of the turgid Pike.The first of these will take place at the old Mystic schoolhouse on Thursday, May 28.The event is that wild melee known as a bag sale.Naturally, bags are not sold at such a sale.You bring your bag and stuff as much into it as you can and then head for the payout desk.Small bags get out after paying $1.Large bags are charged $3 and I believe to be honest, The seams gloves.As usual, the ladies (my the unfashionable hour of 0800 — The cost of the excursion (bar and Large bags are charged $3 and I own included) were far more that’s a m., folks, and will return food included) is $15.believe to be honest.The seams Don’t worry about crying: Tears a release Dear Ann Landers: My problem become insensitive to animals we that it is useless to argue with has gotten so bad that I am busy AA V1 IB become insensitive to all living people like you.Obviously, you are Dear Ann Landers: My problem has gotten so bad that I am busy making up excuses to stay home.Why?Because I am a crier, and it is becoming so embarrassing that I can’t hold my head up.Last week I cried at the opening of a K mart.I know this sound ridiculous but I can’t help it.Whenever I attend a wedding, baptism, bar mitzvah, retirement party, graduation or a funeral I am a mess.Most people can shed a few tears in a sad movie, mop their eyes and go back to the popcorn, but not me.I bawl my head off and go through half a box of paper tissues.I have been this way as long as I can remember Why can’t I control my tears like most people?Can you suggest some literature to help me get over this?Please come to the rescue.— Cry Baby in Birmingham.Dear Birm: You are a sensitive person and I doubt that you can change, so I suggest that you look Ann Landers at your problem through the other end of the telescope.Actually you are much better off than people who can’t cry.Tears offer a healthy release.They allow you to express your grief or joy or sympathy or whatever you feel.This is truly a blessing.(P S.If you cry when you get this letter, I don’t want to hear about it.) Dear Ann Landers: I am outraged by your statement, “It is better to hit an animal than to stop suddenly and risk getting rear-ended or swerve and hit another car.” Don't you realize a statement like that gives people permission to kill a defenseless creature?When we become insensitive to animals we become insensitive to all living things.People need to be more caring.Remarks like yours, if heeded, would turn us into a totally selfish society.— Fuming in Oklahoma Dear Fuming: Meet “Furious in Arizona.” She wrote: Dear Ann Landers : Your column this morning made me so angry I couldn’t finish my breakfast.How can you say it is better to hit an animal than risk getting rear-ended?If 1 had to choose between hitting an animal or a human I would hit the human because I know that a great many people will rush to the aid of an injured person but they will let an injured animal lie there and die.I don’t expect you to print this letter but I had to have my say.— Furious in Arizona Dear Furious: You said you’d rather hit a human than an animal?Incredible.I learned long ago that it is useless to argue with people like you.Obviously, you are a fanatic on this subject so I’ll just take a pass.Dear Ann Landers: My fiance and I plan to marry in August and move to Europe.We are going to have a big wedding.The problem: We do not want gifts.We want money.Gifts tend to be useless, and it would be difficult to lug them to Europe.Also, we would prefer to buy what we need.How can we request cash instead of gifts on the invitation without appearing to be crass?We need your assistance with this delicate matter.— Bride-to-Be in Montebello, Calif.Dear B.T.B.: Sorry, there’s no genteel way to phrase a request for money on a wedding invitation.Your parents might pass the word to Grandma and Gramps and maybe an aunt or uncle who is close, but beyond that — my advice is to forget it.Social notes Congratulations To Gene Morse in West Brome, happy birthday on May 28 from Evelyn.Special birthday greetings to El-den Judd who will be 66 years old on May 22nd, from Evelyn, Linda, Gerry and Maria.A belated birthday greeting is sent to Mable Judd, Glen Sutton, who celebrated her 84th anniversary on May 13, from her children.DANCE R.S.V.P.(Salle Veilleux) Sawyerville MAY 23, 1987 9 P.M.- 1 A.M.MUSIC BY THE COUNTRYMEN Benefit of Sherbrooke Ploughmen’s Association Door Prizes Admission charged Four generations Baby Jennie Ina Eastcott seven month old daughter of Mae (Wright) Eastcott, Brechin, Ont., her grandmother Marion (Little) Wright, Inverness, Que., her greatgrandfather the late Allan Little, Inverness, Que.Congratulations The parents and family of Sheri-Lee Eldridge are extremely proud to announce to all her relatives and friends that she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, on May 3,1987, at St.Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Garden 120 BELVIDERE ST.LENNOXVILLE •SHRUBS • TREES • EVERGREENS •ANNUAL & PERENNIAL FLOWERS •VEGETABLE PLANTS • HANGING BASKETS QUALITY & SERVICE VIC & LOUISE ROULEAU -PROPS have to be intact.This is in fact a POST rummage sale.On May 30, the firemen at Philip-sburg are raising money through a card and cribbage party.Prizes will be awarded for every game and you are promised a light lunch.Knowing the gang down there, ‘light’ lunch might be something along the lines of what happens when you ask for a certain light beer.It might also consist of a bun with a fluorescent bulb in it with a Duracell battery on the side.Or there might actually be some really food.Whatever.The party starts at 8 p.m.at the Legion Hall and the entry fee is $3.The firemen are still hoping to move into their new building this year.Any support you can give is appreciated.It will also be a fun night, these guys (and galluses) are fired with enthusiasm.The Bedford Social Club will be holding their annual flea market and food sale in the Masonic Hall, Bedford, on June 6 starting at 10 a m.For the people who have food and stuff to sell, you can rent a table by calling Fred Gilman at 248-3341.Finally, remember the Country Home Tour sponsored by the Mis-sisquoi Historical Society on June 13.Tickets are $10 each and there are seven homes on the tour including the Walbridge house in Mystic.You can call Valerie Van Horn, Richard Martin.Rolland Messier, Floyd Gage or Carl Proctor for tickets.As a final finally, the Brome County Museum is now open for the year.I did a fast walk-through on Victoria Day and highly recommend a more leisurely tour.a Creative retirement better than boredom Retirement should be like winning a lottery—in both cases, you should be concerned with looking after your money and finding something worth while to do with your time, says retirement consultant Alan Roadburg.“But finding something meaningful to do is undoubtedly the biggest hurdle you will have to face when you retire,” says Roadburg.The 43-year-oid consultant conducts courses across Canada on “creative retirement” for large companies and groups of individuals who want more than simply financial planning advice.“It is amazing how many people begin retirement without a properly planned scheme and how many of them become disenchanted when their earlier hopes turn out to be a disappointment,” he says.“This leads to boredom because they have lost the sense of meaning derived from work.” Most pre-retirement courses are based solely on financial preparation rather than the whole picture, said Roadburg, who taught a gerontology program at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and at Dalhousie University in Halifax.BEST OF LIFE “ Retirement should be the best part of people’s lives because they have the freedom, maturity, life experiences and, to a degree, financial independence,” says Roadburg.He has conducted a research project with 352 retired Canadians, aged 52 to 86.The project subjects had a wide range of occupational experiences — from professionals to laborers and housewives — and varying educational 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We have all you need to make your job easier & safer! * Work Pants (GWG, Big Bill, Goodhue) * Gloves & Mitts (Best, Edmont) * Over-Alls * Hard Hats * Acid-Proof Clothing * Water Proof Clothing * Jeans * Dusters * Shirts * etc.i?i •!.We specialize in Work Boots & Safety Shoes & Boots for Men & Women G column ncccpts Itcmi tree cl charge announcing ayant» organized by church»», aarvlca club» and recognized charitable Inatltutione.Baguait» ehould be mailed, wall In advene*, to THE RECORD, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Qua.J1H SU, be algnad and Include telephone number cl par-ion forwarding the notice.Telephone raquait» cannot be accepted.Admlaeion charges and bade name» will be delated.Minister installed An evening service was held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, North Hatley, Sunday, April 26, when the Reverend Emily Morse Palmer was officially installed as minister of the Church.The Reve-rend Palmer serves three churches, one in Derby Line, Vt.and one in West Burke, Vt.as well as the North Hatley congregation.There was a large congregation present for the service, many coming from Vermont where they are members of the other churches served by Emily.Colleagues of the minister present at the service were the Reverends Charles Ed-dis, Ann Fields, Nina Grey, Margaret Gooding, Madelyn Barber and Deane Starr.The Reverend Jane Aikman of the United Church brought greetings from the area clergy; greetings were also given by the Rev.Deane Starr on behalf of the New Hampshire Vermont District of U.U.Societies.The service began with the lighting of candles by the presidents of the Derby Line and West Burke churches, Erland Gjessing and Dawn Colleran.Members and guests were welcomed by Margaret Stoddard to the service.In her welcome she noted that the church had recently celebrated its 100th anniversary as a congregation; the Reverend Palmer was the first woman to become a minister of the Church and that she is the 13th minister to serve the church since its inception.Joyce Booth read a poem by Neil Tracy and Barbara Lewis sang a solo accompanied by the organist, Maryse Simard.A short sermon entitled “Becoming Real : Growing Towards Religious Authenticity” was given by the Rev.Nina Grey.The act of installation was performed by the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Helen McCammon.The congregation for its part affirmed the installation, saying.We, the congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Church of North Hatley do now instal and welcome you as our minister.We ask you to lead our religious community in the search for the ideals of truth, freedom and love.We pledge to you our support so that we may move forward together in srengthening our understanding and our religious fellowship.We shall share together our joys and sorrows and learn together to live in trust and love.The Reverend Palmer, now officially installed, responded briefly to the commitment made by the congregation.The servoce continued with a musical interlude, a charge to the minister, a charge to the congregation, a prayer and a benediction.A social hour was held in the Church hall after the service.In Memoriam CHASE.Victoria — In loving memory of a dear wife, mother, sister and grandmother.July 10.1925 to May 20, 1977 The time had come We had to part All we have is memories Of you so dear in our hearts Sadly missed forever NORMAN CHASE (husband) CHILDREN 4 GRANDCHILDREN SISTERS 4 BROTHERS AND SON-IN-LAWS GUY — In loving memory of our dear husband, father and grandfather, Leonard Guy.who passed away May 21.1978 We treasure still With love sincere Beautiful memories Of one so dear Sadly missed by LUELLA GUY (wife) AND FAMILY McCOMB Mary Ruth — In loving memory of a dear mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who passed away May 21.1986 We watched you suffer.We watched you sigh.But all we could do was just stand by When the time came, we suffered too For you never deserved what you went through.God took your hand and we had to part.He eased your pain but broke our hearts.Sadly missed and always remembered CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN VINTINNER — I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the kindness and helpfulness shown at the time of my accident.A special thanks to Paulette Hebert and Charles and Carole Taillon for the sunshine baskets and to everyone who contributed to them.For all the visits in and out of the hospital, gifts, cards and phone calls, thank you one and all To family and relatives for their support, to doctors, nurses and staff in the I.C.U and on third floor A at Hotel Dieu Hospital for their excellent care; my sincere thanks.PHIL VINTINNER SHERBROOKE Spring Salad Supper, St.Andrew's Church Hall, 280 Frontenac St., Sat.May 23,4-6p.m.Charge: $4.50.Sponsored by St.Andrew’s Guild.SHERBROOKE Mission Cricle flea market, St.Patrick’s Church Hall, Thursday, May 21, 9:30 a m.to 4 p.m.ACW meeting SUTTON — Grace Anglican Church Women met at the Parish Hall on Wednesday, May 6th at 2 p.m.President Ann Jameson graciously welcomed 20 members.In the absence of the Devotional Secretary, Jean McCaw, Margaret Keefe opened the devotions with prayer and gave a most interesting talk on our thoughts and feelings regarding the new prayer book of Alternate Services.The President thanked all the members who had worked on the Holmes-Page wedding, and also on the memorial service for the Doak family.A letter from the family was read saying how much they had appreciated everyone’s kindness.The hall was beautiful both days with spring flowers and candles and the food as always was delicious.The treasurer’s report was read and a discussion on the events coming up in the next few weeks.The Maytime Tea and Food Sale is May 16th and the Cemetery Memorial Service will be held in the Cemetery on June 14th (if rain, in the church) with a lunch in the Church Parish Hall.The Rummage Sale and Church Auction will be held JUne 26 and 27.Several letters and notes of thanks and other items of correspondence were read.Norma Jennings showed the members lovely knitted teddy bears which she is making for the bazaar.The Penny Sale and social hour followed the business meeting, and a most delicious tea was enjoyed.Hostesses were Elaine Seline and Doreen Page.Doreen was substituting for Shirley Cowan who had sprained her ankle and for Debbie Mercier who was working.Next meeting will be on June 3rd at 2 p.m.All welcome.i.o AYf« $ Cliff STANSTEAD 819876 5213 ss it son ltd funCDAl DIRTC TOPS SHIIttftOOKf 300 Qvttn Blvd N Webster Cass lINNOXVIllf 4 ¦«Ivzd*'* St 819-564-1750 R.1.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapel SHiaitooxf >00 Outtn ei.d N 819-564-1750 Gordon Smith Funeral Home tAWTIlVIllE COOKSHME 819-564-1750 / 889773I AIKEN, Harold — At the BMP Hospital.Cowansville, on Wednesday.May 20, 1987, Harold Aiken, beloved husband of Verlie Waldron and dear father of Andrea (Mrs.Bruce Smith) and Roy.Survived by 8 grandchildren and brother of Mrs.Evelyn Macy.Resting at the Desourdy Wilson Funeral Home, Mansonville.Funeral service Saturday.May 23 at 2 p.m.from the Mansonville Baptist Church.Interment Dunkin.Que In lieu of flowers.donations may be made to the church of your choice BARNES, Evelyn — At the Cour ville Nursing Home in Waterloo, Que., on Tuesday.May 19, 1987, Evelyn Barnes, in her 77th year.Daughter of the late Mr.and Mrs.Alfred Barnes.Dear sister of Mrs.Elsie Jolley and Miss Grace Barnes of Calgary, Alta.Survived by a nephew John Robert Jolley of Vancouver.Cremation.A committal service w ill be held on Tuesday, May 26 at 2:30 p.m.at the Warden Cemetery, where friends are welcome to attend.Rev.Gayle Choui-nard officiating.Donations to a charity of your choice would be appreciated.Arrangements by Leo-Paul Ledoux Funeral Home Inc., G.A.Bessette, president, 5034 Foster St.Waterloo, Que.FERGUSSON, Winnifred Mary (nee Trussell, remarried Taylor) — Passed away peacefully in Hawkesbury Hospital, Ontario, on May 20, 1987, after a lengthy illness, aged 63 years.Much loved and sadly missed by her sons Phillip Fergusson of North Hatley, Que., Richard Fergusson of Ottawa, Ont., her husband Ashton Taylor of Hawkesbury, Ont., and three grandchildren.She is also survived by a brother, Philip Trussell of SaultSte.Marie.Friends may call at Noel Funeral Home Ltd., 416 McGill St., Hawkesbury, Ont.Funeral service Friday, May 22,1987, at 1:30 at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Hawkesbury.Cremation to follow in Ottawa.Visiting hours Thursday 2-5 and 7-10, Friday starting at 12:30 at the church.In lieu of flowers donations lo the Canadian Cancer Society would be gratefully acknowledged.SMITH, Capt.John Angus — Suddenly at Sunnybrook Veterans’ Hospital, Toronto, on March 22, 1987, in his 77th year.Beloved son of the late Rev.John William and Annie Smith, lately of Scotstown.Dear brother of Calvin of Cornwall, Greta (Mrs.T.D.Blanc), North Sydney, N.S., Mary (Mrs.LG.Wilkie), Paris, Ont.and Dole-na (Mrs.R.J.Wilson), Ottawa.Also survived by nieces and nephews.Pre deceased by sister Ruth Memorial service will be held at 11 a m.on Saturday, May 23 at St.Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Scotstown, followed by interment of cremains at Lyngwick Protestant Cemetery.PLEASE NOTE ALL — Births, Card o! Thanks, la Ms-moriams, Brleflets, and Hams lor tha Townships Crier should be sent In typewritten or printed In block tetters.All of the following must be sent to The Record typewritten or neatly printed.They will not be accepted by phone.Please include a telephone number where you can be reached during the day.BRIEFLETS (No dances accepted) BIRTHS CARDS OF THANKS IN MEM0RIAMS 75* per count line Minimum charge: $3.50 WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS, SOCIAL NOTES: No charge for publication providing news submitted within one month, $10.00 production charge for wedding or engagement pictures.Wedding write-ups received one month or more after event, $15.00 charge with or without picture.Subject to condensation.ALL OTHER PHOTOS.$10.00 OBITUARIES: No charge if received within one month of death.Subject to condensation.$15.00 if received more than one month after death.Subject to condensation.All above notices must carry signature of person sending notices.DEATH NOTICES: Cost: 75* per count line.DEADLINE (Monday through Thar* iday): 8:15 a m Death notices received after 8:15 a m.will be published the following day.DEADLINE FOR FRIDAY RECORD ONLY: Death notices for Friday editions of The Record may be called in between 10:00 a.m.and 4:00 p m.Thursday, and between 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.Thursday night.Death notices called in Friday will be published in Monday’s Record.To place a death notice in the paper, call (819) 569-4856.II any other Record number is called, The Record cannot guarantee publication the same day.K 8—The RECORD—Thursday, May 21, 1987 Classified (819) 569-9525 1 Property for sale For Rent Pore fnr cola Lennoxville: Apt.block 4 x AV2, excellent revenue, this block pays for itself.Don't miss this good chance, call for inf.Lennoxville: Commercial property for sale on Queen St., buil-ding in good condition, many possible uses, call for inf.Lennoxville: Cosy family home on mature lot, 4 bedrooms, electric heating, hardwood finish, house in excellent condition.Lennoxville: Duplex on Queen St.on large lot in good condition, with garage, call for inf.Bungalow close to services, possible 5 bedrooms, excellent for family, finished basement, landscaped lot, low taxes.Cottage: On large river, very quiet area, building in excellent condition, low taxes, all on 1 acre of land.BOB BOWERS 564-4452 Trust General, broker, 565-8181 11 Property for sale HOUSE FOR SALE — $210./month, 3 and 5 Bigilow Street, Beebe, Quebec, quiet dead-end street, some repairs need.$25,000.or make an offer.Only serious buyers need apply.(819) 838-4761.381 ACRES, organic since before 1973, quiet countryside with completely renovated house, log cabin 2 car garage with work space, barn, good mixed timber, plantation, 100 acres open, excellent opportunity for beef or sheep.$125,000 For more information and appointment call 1-877-2451 or write to: Box 352, Lennoxville, Que.[3 Cottages for sale ST.GERARD — On Lake Alymer.Cottage, 2 storey, 5 rooms, furnished, $26,000.Call (819) 877-2869 or (514) 342-2978.Lots for sale LENNOXVILLE — Large wooded lot for new construction, 70x100.Call (819) 569-4977.Rent APARTMENT TO SUBLET for July 1st.West end, Tessier Street.Call (819) 567-3588 after 6 p.m.COTTAGE on Lake Massawippi.3 bedrooms, comfortable for family, for the month of June.Call (819) 562-6262 after 5 p.m.or on weekends.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS — Country home in Maricourt, 3 upper bedrooms, unheated, available immediately, $375./ month.Call (514) 532-2898 between 5 p.m.and 9 p.m.LENNOXVILLE — 3% room apartment, available July 1st, heat and hot water included.Call after 6 p.m.at (819) 563-9205 or 569-4698, LENNOXVILLE — New construction.New 4V5 in 8-apartment block, on Queen and Vaudry Streets.Near all services.Quiet.Nice view Available May.June, July and September.Call (819) 565-7063 or 567-4177.LENNOXVILLE — 14 College Street.Room, all furnished, from $95./month.Call (819) 847-1900.LENNOXVILLE - 70 Belvidere, A'h room apartment, fridge and stove, balcony.Sherbrooke — 540 Malouin.Th, 3%, 4Vè, heated, fridge and stove.Available immediately.Call (819) 563-3253 or 565-1035 LENNOXVILLE—4'/2and5%, heated and hot water included.Responsible people only.Call (819) 566-5410 after 4:30 p.m" LENNOXVILLE — 64 Belvidere.Sublet with option to sign new lease Large 2Vi furnished, utilities, pool.Available now for $280./month.Call (819) 569-5628.LENNOXVILLE — 3'A, 2’A, furnished, heated and hot water, fresh paint, 2 parkings, quiet place.4 James Street.Call (819) 566-5330 or 845-2226.NORTH — Vimy Street.3VS> room apartment (basement), heated, hot water, wall to wall carpeting, quiet area.Available July 1st.For information call (819) 563-1700.ROOM TO RENT in private home with kitchen privileges, Lennoxville.Call (819) 567-4340.SAWYERVILLE - Old style duplex, 4 rooms, completely insulated, oil heat, $170./month.Call (819) 569-6457 or 875-3232.31/2 ROOM APARTMENT to sublet for June, July and August.New lease in September.Also chesterfield, dryer and dresser for sale.Call (819) 563-8937.8 Wanted to rent LOOKING for small house for rent in Lennoxville.Call (819) 567-5144.9 Room and board ROOM AND BOARD for quiet persons, preferrably 50 years old and over.For information call (819) 563-4739.ROOM & BOARD in the Dixville area.Call (819) 849-4612.10 Rest homes SAWYERVILLE SENIOR RESIDENCE has 2 semi-private rooms, 1 upstairs and 1 down, for ladies.Available June 1.Call (819) 889-2810.SEMI-PRIVATE ROOM with private bathroom for elderly couple or single, reliable people, family astmosphere, good meals and good references.Near Sherbrooke Hospital.For more information call (819) 567-2884.[24 Professional Help Wanted 7 I For Rent Lennoxville Choice of 1V2 to 5’/2 room apartments, freshly painted, balcony, furnished or unfurnished, immediate occupancy, quality construction Can ben seen from 6 p.m.to 9 p.m.565-7876 or 821-3624 85 OXFORD CRESCENT Lennoxville INDEX.llREALEflATE | #1-#19 fâôllMIPUMTCTl #20-#39 |i^|AUTOmOTIVE| • #40-#59 IMIlmERCHAnwnl #60-# 79 ISIlfnifCELiAntouTI #80-#100 RATES 10c per word Minimum charge $2.50 per day lor 25 words or less.Ad will run a minimum of 3 days unless paid In advance.Discounts for consecutive insertions without copy change, when paid In advance.3 insertions - less 10% 6 insertions • less 15% 21 insertions - less 20% #84-Found - 3 consecutive days - no charge Use of "Record Box" tor replies is $1.50 per week.We accept Visa & Master Card DEADLINE 10 a.m.working day previous to publication.REGISTERED NURSE for small (100) girl s private camp in Laurentians.For all or part of the summer.Call Madelene Allen, Camp Ouareau, (819) 562-9641.25 Work Wanted 17 YEAR OLD GIRL needs summer employment, experienced with child care, housekeeping and lawn care.Have references and drivers license.Call (819) 875-5371.28 Professional Services ATTORNEY JACQUELINE KOURI.ATTORNEY, 85 Queen street, Lennoxville.Tel.564-0184.Office hours 8:30 a m.to 4:30 p.m.Evenings by appointment.LAWYERS HACKETT, CAMPBELL & BOUCHARD, 80 Peel St., Sherbrooke.Tel.565-7885,40 Main St., Rock Island.Tel.876-7295.29 Miscellaneous Services CAMERA REPAIR, Baldini Cam-Teck, 3 factory trained technicians.Minolta, Canon, Pentax, Nikon, Yashica, Hassel-blad, Bronica, Kodak.Binoculars.Microscopes.109 Frontenac Street, Sherbrooke.562-0900 LENNOXVILLE PLUMBING.Domestic repairs and water refiners.Call Norman Walker at 563-1491 MAC S WOOD WORK SHOP.Wood crafts, cabinets and furniture.Specialized in restoration of antiques.Call (819) 821-2152 askfor Mac's Work Shop during the day.Free estimates.SOI L TESTS performed on your 2 ounce sample taken three inches below ground level.Know your pH and nutrient levels so you can fertilize for best results.I ndlcate crop types and gardening philosophy with your sample and $10.00 and mail to Sutton Soil Tests, R.R 4, Box 24, Sutton, Que.JOE 2KO.(514) 538-3500 VENETIAN BLINDS — Cleaning, repairing and painting all kinds of ventian blinds from A-Z.Prompt service and guarantee.Call (819) 567-2892.1975 CHEVROLET CORVETTE.Brown, T-top.Call (819) 563-1084 1978 PLYMOUTH VOLARE, 318 motor, 8 cylinder, with 2 new 4-Season tires.To be sold for pieces or as is.Best offer.Call (819) 569-6125 1978 PONTIAC, automatic, 302, 4 door, good mechanics, clean.$1,175.Call (819) 565-4131.1979 MERCURY ZEPHER, 6 cylinder automatic, $750.Call (819) 567-5144.1982 NIVA, 4x4, 4 cylinder, 4-speed, excellent condition, $2,100.or best offer.Call (819) 838-5922.1982 PONTIAC J2000, very good condition, 1 owner, automatic, 4 extra tires, 91.000 km.Call (819) 569-4678.1984 DODGE ARIES.4 door, 4 cylinder, stereo, automatic, 64,000 km., excellent condition, $4,750.Apply at 11 McMurray Street, Lennoxville.1984 RENAULT 18 Sports wagon, automatic, 2.165 L., power steering and brakes, AM/FM stereo cassette radio, mechanically A-1, excellent condition inside and out, 72,000 km., extended 5 years P.P.P.warranty expi res May 1988.4 season and winter Michelin tires.Private price $5,800.Conditions: cash.Call (514) 538-3428, Sutton.44j Motorcycles — Bicycles FOR SALE —1982 HONDA CX 500 Custom, $900, helmets and saddle bags included.Tel.569-0469.1976 SUZUKI GT 250 cc street bike, 4,000 miles, excellent condition.$500.or best Offer.Call (819) 838-5922.45 Boats 14' FIBERGLASS BOAT with steering, windshelld, speedometer, 4 bucket seats and 45 h.p.motor.Clean as new.Call (819) 562-0005 after 5 p.m.m Articles for sale BENJAMIN MOORE PAINT at contractor's prices.Ferronnerie Wellington, 31 Wellington St.South, Sherbrooke.Tel: (819) 564-8525.CEDAR FENCE POSTS.5 and 6 feet long, sharpened.Call (819) 569-0841 COLONIAL BEDROOM SET, Pine, 7 pieces, twin bed.box spring mattress, mirror, 3 drawer bureau, 4 drawer bureau, and 1 night table.Call (819) 566-1156 BROOKRIDGE FARMS BULLS Sim-mentals.yearling and 2 years old.Blood line Fame.Call (819) 872-3623.HOLSTEINS FOR SALE.Bull, 14 months old.Call Stanley Holmes at (819) 838-4845.BEDFORD 69 Philipsbury Street (corner of Dutch).Saturday.May 23,8 a m.to 6 p.m.Gigantic multi-family sale.Loads of antiques, collectables, furniture, glassware, china, etc.Too many articles to list! Don t miss this one! 68 Pets COLLIES — Purebred, quality show puppies.Available now.All registered.Serious buyers only.Call Denise at (819) 843-1759 or Carole at (819) 562-2174 FOR SALE — 2 dogs, one Bouvia de Flande, male, black, 5 months old; also female, small, housebroken, 2 years old; good with children.Reason: owners moving.Call (514) 539-3792.POODLES FOR SALE.Call (819) 843-2203 or 843-3129.BROME 3 family garage sale on Saturday, May 23 at 10 a m at Mrs Wayne Dudley s, 303 Jackson Road, Brome.Dishes, collector plates, iron pots, dump trailer, winch, tools, lawn furniture.In case of rain, to be held on Sunday, May 24.CANTON ASCOT 1555 Smith Road (near Pat Leclerc sera-peyard),Saturday.May 23,8a.m.to6p.m.Something for everyone.Lots of stuff! FOSTER Saturday, May 23 from 9 a m.to 4 p.m.Follow signs.Antiques, dishes, cribs, knick-knacks, baby clothes, books, electric percolator, etc., etc.MAGOG Multi-family, Saturday, May 23 from 8:30 a m.to 2 30 p.m., 170 Tarrant Street, Magog (2nd street on left after Princess Elizabeth School).Vilas chesterfield and chair, kitchen wood cook stove, curtains and bedspreads, linens, dishes, luggage, pictures, wicker baskets, Sears portable chemical toilet (like new).MOE’S RIVER 409 Moe s River Road.4 family yard sale on Saturday.May 23 at 9 a m.China cabinet, buffet, old trunk, clothing, many other items.ROCK ISLAND Multi-family sale at 25 Martin Street (next to Stanstead College) on Saturday, May 23 from 9 a.m.to 2 p.m.Furniture, books, skidoo.etc.SHERBROOKE 1630 Dunant Street.7 family sale.May 23 and 24.Motors, tools, more than 1,000 articles.Garage Sales SUPER GARAGE SALE FROM OUT OF TOWN ESTATE 55 Clough Street, Lennoxville (corner of Spring Garden Road) 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1987 ANTIQUES: Silver flatware and serving pieces; bone china pieces, including cups and saucers; dishes; furniture; small electrical appliances; lamps; golf clubs and carts; lawn mower; clothing; record albums.In case of rain, sale will be Sunday, May 24.No sales before 8 a.m.LENNOXVILLE Books, 24" kitchen stove, chrome kitchen set, material (various kinds), dishes, pans, etc., Hoover floor polisher, glassware, record player and speakers, T V., Radiogram, tape recorder, bookshelves, odds and ends.Saturday, May 23, 9 a.m.to 4 p.m.No early birds.6 Mackin-non Drive.Bishop's University.LENNOXVILLE Corner of Summer and Clough Streets.Saturday, May 23 at 9 a m.No early birds please.Rain or shine.LENNOXVILLE 292 Queen Street on Saturday.May 23 from 9 a.m.to 3 p.m.LENNOXVILLE Group of 10 families.1 to 17 Glendale Street (facing Paysanne Motel), Saturday, May 30 from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.Rain or shine.Articles of all kinds.Must see! No early birds.EUSTIS Flea Market for Eustis Guild held in North Hatley Community Hall, May 23, 9 a m.For table reservations please call Rita Nugent, 562-4137.MILBY 1800 McVety Road ('/s mile off Route 147).Multi-family garage sale on Saturday, May 23 from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m.Something for everyone.Cancelled in case of rain.An mieqr«i pan of RAYMOND, CHABOT.MARTIN.PAWË Chartered accountants BELANGER HEBERT 234.rue Duffenn Bureau 400 Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 4M2 819/563-2331 A.Jackson Noble, c.a.Réjean Desrosiers, c.a.Maurice Di Stéfano, c.a.Ross i.Mackay, c.a.John Pan ken, c.a.Sia Afshari, c.a.WATERVILLE Garage sale at 800 Principale Nor;h on Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, from 9 a.m.to 8 p.m Rain or shine.Many articles too numerous to mention.80 Home Services ALS PLUMBING SERVICE REG.Service of all plumbing and heating problems.Renovation in plumbing and heating.Call us for free demonstration and estimation of new super-economic oil furnace 88.8% eff.Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Magog, Ayer's Cliff and area.Call Rep.Robert Stewart at (819) 569-6676.81 Garden Center CALL PETE & CARLA for your general gardening.We have shrubs, perennials and annuals.And also window box planters and hanging plants on order.Call (819) 837-2206.GENERAL WORK.Lawn cutting, trimming hedges, sowing, lawn repairs, cedar trees planted.Call (819) 567-2572.82 Home Improvement MOULTON HILL PAINTERS - Registered Class A painters.Also wallpapering, commercial and residential spraying.Apoxy paint.Spray gun.Gyproc joints.By the hour or contract.In or out of town.Free estimates.Call (819) 563-8983 or 567-6585.84 Found COMFORT AT ITS BEST! Water-beds.We have more than 60 models available, that are manufactured by us.Lit D’Eau Waterbeds Inc., 177 Queen Street, Lennoxville.(819) 821-2299.GUNS, COINS, STAMPS, Sam Browne belt, hummels, Llades and other figurines.Lady's Beaver fur coat, medium, collar with hat to match.Call (819) 562-4948.JACUZZI V2 h.p.pump and filter for above ground pool, used one year.$200.firm.Call (819) 837-2729.OVEN FOR COPPER enamelling, including powders, etc.Jars for preserving.Wooden picnic table.Call (819) 563-5957 during the day.1 PHOTOCOPIER, 1 Gestetner, 1 typing stand, 1 Onewrite banking system, 1 adding machine, 1 index file card cabinet.All in working order.Good for small business.Call (819) 563-9096.1.2 H P.GAMEFISHER trolling motor.Also Lowrence model 2330 portable depth sounder.Both new, never used.Cheap.Call (819) 847-0115, Magog.200 GALLON oil tank with approximately 80 gallons of oil in it, $75.Call (819) 887-6871.m Articles wanted BUYING PINE CUPBOARDS and other old furniture, handmade quilts, baskets, clocks, old toys and games, postcards.Charles Chute, Eaton Corner, (819) 875-3855.PRE-1950 postcards and covers.Stamps, collection appraised free.570 Argyle Street, Sherbrooke.Call (819) 562-2152.WOULD LIKE to buy a leather sewing machine (harness), Pearson type or similar, in good condition.Your price is mine for a good machine Call (819) 845-7046.Machinery FARM MACHINERY for sale: 3-furrow Kverland plough; model 461 - 9' New Holland haybine; model 9 M.F.baler.1 haywagon with rack; and 1 snowblower.Call (819) 875-5309.£5 Horses 2 HORSES, V4 Canadian, Vi Percheron, brother 4 years old (sister 3 years old), broken for harness, $1,400 for team.Also 1 pair of light driving harnesses with collars, excellent condition, $1.200.Call (514) 538-3976.TENDER CALL Champlain Regional College requests tenders for janitorial services at its administrative office located at 554, Ontario, Sherbrooke, for the period of 1 July 1987 to 30 June 1988.QUALIFICATIONS: Only firms or individuals having their principal place of business in the Province of Québec are authorized to submit tenders.TENDER DOCUMENTS & CONDITIONS Plans, specifications, contractual documents and other information may be obtained after the 25th of May 1987 from: Mr.Lawence Smith Manager of Purchasing Champlain Regional College 554, Ontario Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N1 Telephone: (819) 564-3617 by depositing an amount of fifteen dollars (15.00$) nonreimbursable payable to Champlain Regional College.TENDERS Sealed tenders should be addressed to the undersigned at 554, Ontario Street, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N1 no later than 14:00 hours, local time, Thursday, 11 June 1987, at which time and place bids will be publicly opened.Champlain Regional College does not undertake to accept the lowest or any other bid nor accept any obligation or changes of any nature on behalf of the tenders.Wendell Greer Director, Administrative Services.(Ehamjplain ftpqional (UdUpijp ¦* Public Works Canada Travaux publics Canada INVITATION TO TENDER SEALED TENDERS for the project(s) or service(s) listed below, addressed to the Regional Manager, Contract Policy and Administration, Québec Region, Public Works Canada, Guy-Favreau Complex, 200 Dorchester Blvd.West, East Tower, 6th floor (if by mail, room 702-14), Montréal Québec) H2Z1X4 will be received until 15:00 on the specified closing date.Tender documents can be obtained through the Distribution Office, at above address.Telephone 283-2497.PROJECT Tender Call No.87M-451-0006-1 Project No.601077 For: Employment and Immigration Canada Interior fit-up 65 Principale Street Magog, Quebec Tender documents may be seen at the Construction Association offices in Montréal, Granby and Sherbrooke, Québec.Closing date: Wednesday, June 10,1987 Deposit: Nil General information: Tel.: (514) 283-2497/6656 Technical information: Tel.: (514) 283-7333 INSTRUCTIONS The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.Canad'â' FOUND — Grey cat with brown collar at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville.Call (819) 563-4593.SHER-AUTO SPRING SPECIAL Body Repairs — Competitive Prices Paint: Big cai - W75*Mediun tar - S410*Small (dr - S350 569-5451 — 864-4041 Samson Belair Chartered Accountants James Crook, c.a.Chantal Touzin, c.a.Michael Drew, c.a.Samson Rélair Consultants Inc.Kimball Smith 2144 King St.West, Suite 240 Sherbrooke, J1J 2E8 Telephone: (819) 822-1515 Equipment Rental mmn LOCATION EQUIPC0 VENTE - SERVICE - SALES 50 VERSAILLES -SHERBROOKE 562-2922 GREENHOUSES MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS 8:00 A.M.TO 8:00 P.M.ANNUALS — PERENNIALS BLACK DIRT — PEAT MOSS 1085 Massawippi Street NORTH HATLEY Custom 1 Hour Photo Service •Certified Technician •Kodak paper •low rates Free 5x7 with each roll of 35mm developed 178 QUEEN STREET LENNOXVILLE - 567-3797 Classified The RECORD—Thursday.May 21.1967-9 8TH QUEBEC SPRING SALE SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1987 at 10:30 a.m.(Breakfast will be served complimentary from 8:30 a.m.to 10:00 a.m.) at the Exhibition Grounds, Richmond, Que.WILL BE SOLD: 100 head of quality purebred Holsteins; 75 exceptional young cows & bred heifers; the balance are fancy show calves.Type, pedigree, & production all combined, with records to 46,000 lbs.milk with 4.2 test.Will be followed by 25 head from Tranquillity Farms, prop, of Truman Clark of Brownsburg, Que Sires represented are: 20 head by Starbuck, 8 by Warden, 6 by Mark Anthony, 4 by Pete, 4 by Matinee, Elevator, Enhancer, Valiant, Banker, Sydney, Majesty, Threat, Ned, Chief Mark, Sheik, Senator, Marlin, Valentin, etc.The date: May 23,1987 The time: 10:30 a.m.The place: Richmond Exhibition Grounds There is something here for everyone.Don’t miss this exceptional sale.For information or catalogues contact: CRACKHOLM AUCTION SERVICE DAVID “BUTCH” CRACK P.O.514 Richmond, Que.JOB 2H0 Tel: 819-826-2424 For Hard to Mow Lawns CORRECTION In our circular "Our Great Outdoor Sale" effective until May 23 and inserted in The Record on May 19, on page 19, the casual pants are not available, however we are accepting orders.Sears apologizes for any inconvenience caused to its customers.SEARS TUFF-CUT1 High-Wheel Mower AuthorfMOd Dealer David Taylor, prop.• Handles Held and garden mowing jobs other mowers can't touchl • Self-propelled models, 22" & 24" cutting widths.LES ÉQUIPEMENTS DAVID TAYLOR me 140,Rte116 Richmond,Qué.JOB 2H0 (819) 826-5101 AUCTION SALE Of the Antiques and Furniture of HUBERT ROUSSEAU of Coaticook, Que.To be held at Robert Riendeau farm, located 3 miles from Compton, 390 Chemin Cochrane SATURDAY, MAY 23,1987 at 10:30 a.m.TO BE SOLD: Nine piece walnut dining room set, two piece French Provincial chesterfield set, French Provincial table and many nice odd tables, some antique pieces, Mahogany tea wagon with glass top tray, set of pressback chairs, small china cabinet, Tiffany hanging lamp, chandlier type, antique lift-top commode, antique trunks, B&W TV set, antique wicker chairs, kitchen set with round table, many nice parlor chairs, antique bureaus & chests of drawers, single beds complete, ladies' antique secretary desk, complete four piece bedroom set, antique picture frames and antique mirrors, floor lamps and table lamps, and antique oil lamps, antique blanket boxes, stereo, antique wicker pieces, antique bells, antique photo albums, quantity of books, cast iron pieces, curtains & linens, many antique dishes, many pieces of Nippon, Depression glass, electrical appliances, cooking utensils, quantity of silver pieces.Many other articles too numerous to mention.Please note this furniture is very clean and in good condition.All to be sold without reserve.Please note in case of hard rain, sale will be held Sunday the following day, at noon.Terms: Cash or cheques accepted from known buyers.ART BENNETT & ROSS BENNETT Bilingual Auctioneers Tel: 889-2272 or 889-2840 Sawyerville, Que.or ROBERT RIENDEAU Tel: 849-4773 AUCTION SALE FOR DUTCHY Grande Ligne Road.Frelighsburg, P.Q.SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1987 at 10:00 a.m.sharp WILL BE SOLD: D6 Caterpillar bulldozer, diesel; TD30 International bulldozer with winch (for parts only); Allis Chalmer HD11 diesel crawler loader bulldozer; Hough diesel loader model 4A-1199; Hough diesel loader model 3A-1056 TRACTORS: International model B250, diesel, 3 pt.hitch pto; Fordson Dexta gas, 3 pt.hitch pto; Ferguson model 2085 gas, 3 pt.hitch pto: Massey Ferguson model 165 diesel.3 pt.hitch pto; International model W4gas, pto; International Super C gas, pto; 1977 Ford pick up truck model F150; Wortington turbine rotary air compressor model 85 CFM, gas; large air compressor; 2 wood splitters, 3 pt.hitch pto; Onan diesel generator; Continental 4 cylinders gas engine; 65 H P.Mercury outboard motor needing repairs; Ford mowing machine 7 ft.cut, 3 pt.hitch pto; New Holland hay baler model 65 pto; 11 discs grain seeder; wood land roller; 3 pt.hitch snow blower; 2 hay wagons with rack; Ford 2 furrow plow 3 pt.hitch; Ford 24 discs harrow, 3 pt.hitch; 3 pt.hitch shovel; 3 pt.hitch manure fork; 3 pt.hitch scrapper; 3 pt.hitch springtooth harrow; 28 ft.bale elevator; tandem hydraulic dump trailer; Massey Ferguson side hay rake 3 pt.hitch; John Deere trailing type side rake; set of lags for Ford tractor; trailing type disc harrow; Case hay baler model 200 pto; tractor cabin; International chopper with hay pick up and 1 furrow corn head, pto; Massey Ferguson 3 furrow plow, 3 pt.hitch; tractor front loader; 5 H.P.gas roto tiller; 18 ft.platform truck box; camper cab for Vh ton truck; 3 Western saddles; 4 tractor gravel buckets; hydraulic jack; assorted drill bits from 1 to 2 inches; front axel for truck; assorted brake shoes; Frost fence; large amount of hydraulic cylinders; assorted truck tires of all sizes; axels and drive shafts for trucks; kitchen wood stove; assorted chicken wire (new); large amount of scrap iron and a shed stock too numerous to mention.Terms: Cash.Canteen on premises.For more information contact the auctioneer: DENIS P.DUNN Licensed Bilingual Auctioneer 52 Sanborn Road R.R.3 Cowansville P.Q.Tel: 514-263-4612 Note; Sale agent not responsible for personal accidents, damages to the property or theft./r/r tWWkMA has designed a special package for you to get your Garage Sale off to a great start.In conjunction with your prepaid ad you'll receive a Special Garage Sale Package which includes everything you'll need to let your prospective customers know about your sale and to help you get things organized.What you get for only $7.00 Up to 25 words for 3 days in our classified 'garage sale" column.10‘ per word per day for extra words.Plus, • 2 large Garage Sale signs e 2 large arrows e 32 price tags e 2 inventory sheets • Your Garage Sale Checklist complete with helpful tips And if ony merchandise remains after the sale, give Classified a call.Our Merchandise classification will help you sell what's left.Get the whole family involved and start today to plan for your Garage Sale with the help of Beconl Come in and place your Garage Sale ad and pick up your special Package from flnrrrJSI ifccara Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.If you cannot come in, we will accept collect calls for placement of your Garage Sale ad, and mail your Garage Sale Kit.($1.00 extra for postage) Payment is required with your order.ES and C© «¦» accepted.THE MEETING OF THE CACTUS CLUB WILL COME TO ORPER.T96~ joitefl Feature Syndrcete me OUR PlSCUSSlON TODAY UtILL BE ON WHETHER OR NOT HATS SHOULD BE uJORN ATOUR MEETINGS AFTER A SPIRITED DISCUSSION.IT HAS DECIDED THAT HATS COULD BE UJORN AT OUR MEETINGS.q?-7.1* FRANK AND ERNEST ^by Bob Thevea 1 ^7 | mi?ii LI U LI U CON6 PATU l-ATE?Ujr, HE£Ê.You,/?é LOOKING AT TWO "HALL OF FbAM" \NPU