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Weekend In Townships Week this week: a story on how a local boy’s board game is selling like hot cakes, a preview of Bruce Cockbum’s music, and a look at one of the many choirs tuning up for Christmas concerts.Births, deaths .9 Classified .10-11-12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .6-7 History .5 Living .8 Sports .16-17 Townships .3 Inside A $36-million liquid hydrogen plant will open in Magog in 1990.See page 3.A look at how Townships ‘heathen’ were converted on page 5.and the complex issue of numbering sports jerseys is analysed in Craig Pearson’s column on page 17.W'ealher, page 2 Sherbrooke Fridav, December 4, 1987 50 cents Pagé tells farmers they will be protected QUEBEC (CP) — Agriculture Minister Michel Pagé reassured farmers Thursday that the province would oppose a free trade deal if it lacks protection for agricultural products Pagé told the annual meeting of the Union des producteurs agricoles, representing 42,000 farmers, that Quebec wants written guarantees that Canada would retain its right to impose restrictions on imports.That condition, contained in article 11 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, has been opposed by the United States and is expected to be a major issue at the forthcoming round of GATT talks in Uruguay.“Article 11 is an essential lever for the security (of the agriculture sector),” Pagé told reporters later.If the final draft of a free trade agreement does not include the clause, Pagé said he would make a “negative recommendation” to cabinet.Pagé said he made his demands known at a federal-provincial meeting of agriculture ministers this week in Ottawa.He said he had the “unanimous or quasi-unanimous support” of other provinces and was confident the guarantees would be included in the final document.He said it was "self-evident” that Premier Robert Bourassa, a strong proponent of free trade, agreed with him Jacques Proulx, head of the far mers’ group, hailed Pagé’s statement and said it was tantamount to agreeing to the association's demand to exclude agriculture from the free trade deal.Pagé.whose reassurances managed to calm an initially hostile audience, said he believed agriculture was still a key issue in the talks between U S.and Canadian negotiators who are drafting a legal version of the agreement.'Better get used' to new Ascot /f Ax A new set of part-time stop lights is causing headaches for drivers at a busy intersection between Sherbrooke and Lennoxville.But some of the problem stems from bad driving habits, says the two men in charge of putting up the lights.RECORD/PERRY BEATON Meanwhile, a Maine newspaper columnist is highly critical of Quebecers' driving habits while on holiday.See both stories on Page 3.Canadian Iraq-arms plot surfaces Ruling on post office closings appealed OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association is appealing a Federal Court ruling that frees Canada Post to close rural post offices without government approval.The 10,000-member union said Thursday it believes the court misinterpreted the Canada Post Corp.Act in making the ruling last month.Cited in the case were six of the estimated 100 rural post offices closed by Canada Post since 1984.They were in Country Road, Nfld., Rose Bay, N.S., Millerton, N.B., Ninga, Man., Aylesbury, Sask., and Ruskin, B.C.Union president Lloyd Johnson said he hopes the Federal Court of Appeal will hear the case by spring.“It’s very straightforward and limited to a very narrow point of law,” he said in an interview.Lawyers for the union argued in court that postal closures should be approved by cabinet in the same manner as postal rate increases.Canada Post welcomed the ruling, saying it needs freedom to adapt to changing circumstances in communities it serves.The agency reiterated that it will not close any rural post office without a minimum notice of 90 days and consultation with residents affected.Canada Post plans to close or turn over to private operators all outlets in its rural network of about 5,200 offices.About 3,000 are already privately operated or located on private premises.MONTREAL (CP) — A senior vice-president of Canadair Ltd.has been indicted in the United States in an alleged plot to sell combat helicopters and anti-tank weapons to Iraq, U.S.Customs agents said Thursday.U.S.Customs agent Jim Kilfoil said Montreal resident and former Hughes Helicopter executive Carl D.Perry, the vice-president for marketing of Canadair’s Challenger executive jet, two Lebanese arms dealers and another former Hughes executive were indicted in Miami.The indictment charges the four with violations of the U.S.Arms Export Control Act.Lebanese arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian and his son are accused of attempting to arrange to build and ship Hughes model 500MD-TOW helicopters to Iraq in 1983 under the guise of shipping them to Kuwait.Iraq has been involved in a bloody, eight-year war with Iran, The Lebanese are also charged with hiring U.S.air force reserve officers to train the Iraqis to fly U.S.F-4 jets captured from Iran.Perry, 55, and William Ellis are accused of helping to arrange the helicopter deal and of helping to send a TOW anti-tank missile shipment to Iraq while employed with Hughes.Each of the four could face up to 30 years in prison.The charges were laid after a federal grand jury in Miami decided there was sufficient evidence to warrant a trial.Rated second most dullest country after Singapore Dull Canada a ‘colonial outback’ — Magazine LONDON (CP) — Canada is a great place to live, a prominent international magazine says.But if you’re looking for a good time, try India, Mexico or even Libya.Labelling Canada as a boring wasteland has been a popular pastime in recent years with the British press.The World in 1988 follows the trend, rating Canada as the second-dullest country in the world in terms of “the yawn factor.” The annual review of the year ahead from the publishers of the respected business magazine, the Economist, defines the yawn factor as “the degree to which despite all its many virtues, a country may be irredeemably boring.” And in those terms, only tiny Singapore is worse than Canada, writes author Dimitri Goulan-dris.Zimbabwe, Iran and Libya are far more exciting while India, Mexico, Brazil and China get top marks in terms of the chances of a visitor having “a very interesting time.” But Canada, says Goulandris, is little more than “a colonial outback.” VISIONS OF RCMP “The vision that people have of it is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, skiing in the Rocky Mountains, perhaps the Calgary Olympics,” he said in an interview Thursday.“What else (is there)?I don’t know.“If one looks at Commonwealth countries,” he said, “people would know more about Australia.It has sheep farming, which is a very big industry.” Goulandris and his colleagues also give Canada low marks on what they call “the Philistine factor,” a rating of the country’s culture.“One doesn’t think of many me-morable composers who have eminated from Canada (or) many famous artists,” he says.“When one goes to Canada, one doesn’t immediately say: ‘I must go to the royal opera house of Montreal or something.’ “I think the fact that Canada is so large means that it is very difficult to find, shall we say, as much culture as one would perhaps want — unless you are in the major cities.” NEVER IN CANADA Goulandris, the only one of the four contributors to the article who has never visited Canada, admits that many of their negative judgments are “completely subjective.” But there’s good news, too, in the magazine whose parent is sold in more than 50 countries around the globe.Canada scores high marks for having a booming economy, low inflation and good records on human rights, life expectancy, literacy and higher education.It also gets a few bonus points for beautiful scenery and having the most desirable passport.“Canadians need no visa to visit most western countries, enjoy priority in obtaining work permits in Commonwealth countries and the United States, are unlikely targets for anti-western terrorists and are not required by their government to perform military service,” the magazine informs its readers.Add it all together and Canada comes out as the fifth best place for a child to be born in 1988, the World in 1988 says.Parker: Complete disregard for code of conduct Stevens broke rules 14 times — Inquiry OTTAWA (CP) — Sinclair Stevens violated conflict-of-interest guidelines 14 times while a federal cabinet minister and demonstrated “complete disregard’’ for the code of conduct expected of him, a judicial inquiry has concluded.Mr.Justice William Parker of the Ontario Supreme Court said in a report tabled Thursday in the Commons that Stevens “used his public office for private advantage” and kept tabs on his personal holdings while in cabinet from September 1984 to May 12 last year.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who predicted when the allegations against Stevens broke 20 months ago that his minister would be vindicated and returned to cabinet, said in a statement that Parker’s conclusions “speak for themselves.” The high standards Canadians have a right to expect from cabinet ministers “were not observed in this case,” said Mulroney, who promised quick action to improve conflict-of-interest rules.Parker said the practice of blind trusts should be abolished and that all MPs should publicly disclose their holdings when they join cabinet.Conflict of interest should be clearly defined and the spouses of cabinet ministers should be required to disclose their assets.If they violate the rules, Parker recommended they be thrown in jail or fined.Stevens, who said he did not intend to resign his York-Peel seat, told a news conference he was considering a request that the Federal Court of Canada review the report.He will decide whether to do so within 10 days.Despite his suggestion that Stevens abused his position, Parker did not recommend criminal charges.Nor did Parker suggest the former minister quit his seat.Parker said the blind trust Stevens established in October 1984 after he was appointed to cabinet “was not in fact blind.” Stevens received information from both his wife and his secretary Shirley Walker on his personal holdings.Parker said, and remained involved in the management of his York Centre Corp.family of real estate, energy and financial service firms.Six of the violations committed by Stevens related to the former minister’s continued involvement with Magna International Inc.af ter he learned that his wife negotiated a $2.6-million mortgage loan with a former executive of the auto parts firm as part of a bid to refinance the couple's ailing web of firms.THREE EXAMPLES Parker also found that Stevens was in conflict on three occasions as a result of his dealings with Toronto financial companies.While Stevens was cburting them with potential government business and possible appointments of their executives, his wife was approaching them, often on his introduction, for refinancing help for York Centre.Parker said the behavior was part of an established pattern which saw “the minister making an initial contact ensuring access, with Mrs.Stevens then seeking specific advice or assistance.” Stevens showed a regular “willingness to open doors for his wife,” Parker concluded.Day care grants good but not quite enough OTTAWA (CP) — Social service ministers from the provinces with the most day-care centres welcomed the federal government’s offer Thursday of billions of additional dollars over the next seven years.However, there was also a complaint or two that Ottawa had set aside too much money for tax breaks for parents and too little for capital and operating grants to day-care centres.“My first reaction is I think it’s a good program,” Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, Quebec minister in charge of the status of women and the MNA for the St-François riding, told reporters after a meeting of the provincial ministers with federal Health Minister Jake Epp “It’s very flexible, and it respects the jurisdiction of the pro vinces.” Quebec will be coming out soon with a new day-care policy of its own, and Gagnon-Tremblay said additional federal money will make her job easier.“With the help that we are ha ving from the federal government, it will help Quebec to develop and also diversify the choices.” Ontario’s John Sweeney said the proposed new federal program lived up to his expectations, but he’s anxious to find out exactly how much he’ll be getting during the next two years.“The one reservation I had to indicate was that we still have not been told the amount of money that’s going to be available in Year 1 and Year 2,” he said.Environmental act will give people too much influence—Asbestos Institute OTTAWA (CP) — The proposed environmental protection act will give people too much influence in determining what substances are dangerous to their health, says the Asbestos Institute.The federal government has a certain responsibility to identify and manage risks, institute president Claude Forget told a Commons committee Thursday.But the government must maintain an impartial, objective stance and base its assessments on scientific proof that is accepted by international consensus, Forget told the committee studying the proposed act.The impending legislation, he said, goes too far and tries to accomplish too much.One of several complaints from the institute — a Quebec-based research and lobby group funded by government, the asbestos industry and labor — is that the act would create an adversarial approach to assessing and controlling toxic chemicals.“Indeed, the process set out in the proposed legislation is one which will likely be driven more by public opinion and influential lobby groups than by consensus and an objective assessment of the scientific evidence," Forget said.The act would, among other things, implement new procedures I for assessing the environmental and health risks of chemicals, subject approved chemicals to tough controls on their manufacture, distribution, use and disposal and provide for fines of up to $1 million a day and jail terms of up to three years for major infractions.TOO VAGUE The methods the act envisages for determining what is too toxic are too vague, Forget told the committee.They also do not allow for a proper weighing of the balance between risk and overall benefit, he said.And the sanctions for violations are too severe.“One may be forgiven tor the suspicion that they are also intended to appease demands from certain quarters for tougher sanctions against environmental violations,” said a brief that Forget left with the committee.“Whether such toughness will actually result in improved environmental quality is an open question,” the brief said.Forget’s arguments were reminiscent of those used “when child labor was banished lOOyears ago,” Liberal Environment critic Charles Caccia said.Forget objected to the comment, claiming there is a major difference between the issues of child labor and toxic chemicals.The subjects may be different but the arguments are very similar, New Democrat environment critic Lynn McDonald told Forget.“No one argued that child labor was a good thing, or that slavery was a good thing,” McDonald said.The arguments were that doing away with child labor or slavery would create too much economic hardship, McDonald said, adding that many industries are using the same justification to limit moves to rid society of dangerous chemicals.The Petroleum Association for Conservation of the Canadian Environment also called for changes k to the act at Thursday’s committee hearing.TOO MUCH POWER Ed Arnold, association president, said the act would give inspectors too much power.He also challenged sections on the publication of information under the act on grounds they would hurt the confidentiality of business information.He called for creation of an independent screening agency to decide whether data should be released or kept confidential.Industry is not the only group with complaints about the propo sed legislation. 2—The RKCORD—Friday, Oecember 4, 1987 Red Christmas lights for those pesky Grits Capital Notebook By Vic Parsons OTTAWA (CP) — Brian Mulro-ney may not be able to turn on the electorate, but he can sure turn on the electricity.The prime minister threw a switch this week that lit up more than 100,000 Christmas multi-hued lights on and about Parlia-ment Hill.Similar lighting ceremonies were held in every province and territory but Quebec, Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories.This year, the federal government is spending $65,000 to keep the lights going throughout the festive season.The lights are also up along the so-called downtown ceremonial route.If put end to end, the Christmas lights would stretch for 35 kilometres.Virtually every tree, bush and building on the Hill has its string of lights.Officials say there are twice as many lights this year as there were in 1986.It may have been mere coincidence, of course, but all the red lights on the Hill surround the East Block.That’s where many of those pesky Liberal senators who have been giving Mulroney trouble of late have their offices.It sounded to some like a bread-and-circuses idea.It was a 14-storey castle built of blocks of ice, with three enormous towers representing the three rivers of the Ottawa area — the Ottawa, the Rideau and the Gatineau.The castle would celebrate the 10th anniversary of Winterlude, the capital’s version of a winter carnival.And the 1,800-ton structure could all be built at the mere cost of $1.6 million.Relax, taxpayers.For once, the federal treasury was not coughing some of the cash for the icy edifice.The National Capital Commission, the federal landlord in the Ottawa area, did offer the land at the same site where the Pope’s mass was held in 1984.But the commission’s chairman, Jean Pigott, and Ottawa mayor Jim Durrell both shied away from suggestions by the sponsors that maybe they could advance a little cash to pay the bills.That left funding of the project entirely to private donors.Misgivings arose as soon as the project was announced.How, some asked, with soup kitchens within sight of Parliament Hill and with homeless roaming the streets in winter could the spending of that amount of money be justified on a building that would disappear with the spring sun?Now it appears the project faces premature meltdown.Sponsors failed to meet their funding target by $350,000, so they’ve put the idea off until 1989.Some honorable members might have been tempted to shout: “Speak for yourself, Mike” when Michael Cassidy spoke this week on the anti-pornography legislation now bfore the Commons.Cassidy, the NDP member for Ottawa Centre, offered an impressive list of sexual activity, the depiction of which might be forbidden under the proposed law.Then he said: “The bill means that a great deal of normal — let us put it quite bluntly — human activity, which I venture to say every member of Parliament has taken part in, and hopefully with a great deal of pleasure, anticipation and fond remembrance, is dirty.“Members of Parliament, our constituents, and all of us, would not have been here if it had not been for human sexual activity.” The Townships $34-million investment to create 55 full-time jobs Liquid hydrogen plant to start up in Magog By Gracie MacDonald MAGOG — Work will start next year on a $36-million liquid hydrogen plant to be built beside Qué-Nord in Magog.At a press conference Thursday Canadian Oxygen (CANOX) president John Tindale said Magog’s cheap electricity, good roads and proximity to the U.S.make it a “natural choice” for the plant.The federal and provincial governments will each kick in $2.4 million.The plant, expected to open in late 1990, will hire 55 full-time employees including everyone from truckers to technicians.Tindale said he hopes to hire people from the area.Tindale said the plant was also a “perfect marriage” between CANOX and QuéNord.Hydrogen is made from a purified and liquified by-product of sodium chlorate.QuéNord produces sodium chlorate but has no use for the waste.POWERS SPACE SHUTTLES Hydrogen has many industrial and medical uses.Tindale described it as the “fuel of the future," saying it is used to power space shuttles because of its clean bum and efficiency.On hand to give the provincial grant, Minister for Regional Industrial Expansion Daniel Johnson said Quebecers can be proud CANOX chose southern Quebec.“We have all the advantages.availiability (to U.S.markets) stability and hydroelectric power,” he said.Brome-Missisquoi MP Gabrielle Bertrand said the project will strengthen and diversify Magog’s industrial base.Tindale said the plant will produce 15 tons of liquid hydrogen a day.He said 80 per cent of that will go to the U.S.by way of the Towns-hips-Vermont border.But he isn’t worried about road accidents.Hydrogen, like gasoline, is extremely explosive.He said special container trucks will make transportation “safer than an oil truck.” WON’T HURT Tindale said the possibility of a free trade deal with the U.S.had no influence on the company’s decision to build, but said it certainly wouldn’t hurt.Magog hydrogen will be sold in Canada by CANOX, and in the U.S.by Airco Gases.CANOX is an Ontario-based gas company owned by the multinational BOC group.The federal grant is from a branch of the Department of Regional and Industrial Expansion.Quebec’s contribution is an advanced-technology business assistance grant from the province’s industrial development corporation.Daniel Johnson, advantages.all the ‘Based on Pelletier’s attitude, people think it’s a one-man show in Sherbrooke Sherbrooke group forms to keep tabs on council By Melanie Gruer SHERBROOKE — A new citizens’ group has formed to fight what it calls “the closed-door attitude” of the current city administration.The Regroupement municipal des citoyens et citoyennes de Sherbrooke is a non-political group of about 20 Sherbrookers who call themselves “the watchdogs of the city council.” President Réal Latulippe said at a press conference Thursday the group will try to make the current administration reduce the city debt.The group’s figures show the debt at $131.6 million — 21.8 per cent of the city’s annual budget.Latulippe said Mayor Jean Paul Pelletier would probably not agree with the group’s figures.In a report submitted to the city from the Canadian Bond Rating Service, the debt is estimated at $118.4 million.DANGER OF RISING DEBT Latulippe said the group’s figures are based on “statistics” and that there is a danger of the debt rising at a rapid rate over the next three years.“That’s 21.8 per cent of the annual budget.That’s almost one quarter and the population is decreasing,” he said.Latulippe’s figures show the population was 76,804 in 1977 and only 71,500 this year.“In Sherbrooke there is a good life with green spaces but they (the city council) are developing to develop.They aren’t looking at the quality of life or the debt,” Latulippe said.He said the debt is rising and if the council continues to ignore it, there will be another crisis for Sherbrooke like the 1982 recession.“The rate can’t stay the same.They’ll be taking it on to future generations.” Latulippe said the administration is operating behind closed doors on city affairs and it’s time for a group like theirs to step in.He pointed out a statement made earlier this week by the president of the administrative committee, councillor Jean-Yves Laflamme, that the city’s operating budget would be raised from $1 million to $2 million.“It shows the city is consulting the public less and less,” he said.“Ask Pelletier what his plans are in three or four years.He has no long-term plans,” Latulippe said.“Sherbrooke has no long-term fiscal policy.” CONSULT WITH PUBLIC The watchdog group wants the city to consult with the public more on administrative matters.They say there is too much going on that affects Sherbrookers that they don’t know about.“Some councillors do good work in their own sectors.But based on Pelletier’s attitude, people think it’s a one-man show in Sherbrooke.But the councillors are doing a good job,” the president said.He said there were no current or past city councillors who belonged to the group but they were hoping some would step forward and agree with the group’s philosophy.Latulippe said he didn’t know if the group would run as a party in the next municipal election.It’s too early to say yet, he said.But if they do decide to run, Latulippe said he wouldn’t be seeking a mandate.Letters for the group’s first financial campaign were put in the mail Thursday morning.The group hopes to raise about $800 and between 60 to 80 new members to keep it going until next spring.Newfoundland tells NEB to stall Hydro export sales offer from Quebec By Allan Swift MONTREAL (CP) — The head of Newfoundland Hydro accused Hydro-Quebec Thursday of playing by lopsided rules in its offers of power to its Canadian neighbors and the United States.David Mercer compared Hydro-Quebec’s tactics to a skewed hockey game.“Hydro-Quebec says ‘If you want to play on our team you have to be six feet tall.’ We’re only five-foot-eight,’’ Mercer told a National Energy Board hearing.Newfoundland is attempting to short-circuit Hydro-Quebec’s proposed $3-billion power sale through the Eastern Townships to 37 New England utilities.The province says it was not given a fair shot at büÿing some of the power.The National Energy Board Act requires utilities to offer it to their neighbors before export.The energy board refused Hy-dro-Quebec’s application for an export licence last June, saying it had not made a similar offer to adjoining provinces.It later did so, but Newfoundland argues the offer was unacceptable.“The board should not just look at letters of offer but determine if meaningful discussions had been held with Canadian customers,” said Mercer.Mercer said Hydro-Quebec agreed to negotiate but only if the proposed package to New England was not touched.OFFER INAPPROPRIATE He said Hydro-Quebec’s offer was based on the U.S.offer and was inappropriate to Newfoundland’s needs.Mercer added that Hydro-Quebec shouldn’t be allowed to make offers to the United States unless it’s clear only surplus energy is being offered.Newfoundland’s objective is to sign a large enough contract with Hydro-Quebec to make it feasible to build an underwater cable from Labrador’s vast hydroelectric re- sources to the island, which depends largely on oil-fired generators.The 16-kilometre cable across the Strait of Belle-Isle would cost about $1.7 billion in 1992 dollars, Mercer said.It would pay for itself in the long run by replacing imported oil.The mainland link would also make it economical to develop two more large Labrador sites, Gull Island and Muskrat Falls.Hydro-Quebec lawyer Yves Fortier replied that Hydro-Quebec sells $700 million worth of power a year and had just concluded another sale to New Brunswick.“They (Newfoundland) must be reasonable negotiators,” declared Fortier.Lawyer William Burnett, representing Manitoba Hydro, described Newfoundland’s objections as “a lot of posturing and gameplaying.It is not appropriate to ask the board to look into negotiations between two utilities.” Commissioner Boyd Gilmour asked Mercer: “How long can we expect a utility to sit on a surplus and allow a proposed export deal to be impaired by chopping a corner off it at some future date?” BITTER DISPUTE In the background to the hearings is a bitter David-Goliath dispute over a contract between the Newfoundland and Quebec hydro utilities.Hydro-Quebec developed the Churchill Falls project in Labrador in the 1960s and buys the power from Newfoundland.But the price it pays today is the equivalent of $2 a barrel of oil.It is costing Newfoundland $30 a barrel to run its own generators, and the deal is sealed until 2034.Meanwhile, federal Energy Minister Marcel Masse said in Montreal Thursday he was considering changing the rules to put the onus on the provincial electricity buyer, instead of the exporter, to prove that a sale to the United States was surplus to Canadian needs.The hearings conclude today.» ° St-Jean airport expansion will get a closer look from Ottawa panel By Robert Plasktn OTTAWA (CP) — A federal review of a controversial $14.5 million airport expansion project in St-Jean sur Richelieu will look at the rationale behind the plan as well as its social and environmental impact, says Environment Minister Tom McMillan.Federal environmental assessments are usually limited to social and ecological factors.But the review panel McMillan appointed Thursday has also been asked to “examine the rationale for the project and any alternatives to it,” the minister said in a statement.That aspect of the review was requested by local residents who have opposed the airport expansion scheme since it was first revealed last year.That 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André Bis-sonette, was involved in a land flip before the Oerlikon deal went through.VALUE TRIPLED The value of the land Oerlikon eventually bought for the weapons plants after it was awarded a $1-billion defence contract tripled in just 11 days in January 1986.Bissonnette has had a preliminary hearing on charges of fraud, corruption and breach of public trust.The court is to decide Dec.21 whether he will stand trial.St-Jean opponents of the airport project had hoped it would die when Bissonnette was dismissed as junior transpot minister.“We have looked at the economic data and we really don’t understand the economic rationale” for the airport expansion, said Pierre Brodeur, a spokesman for the Citizens Protection Committee created to oppose the project.Residents are worried about noise if the airport starts handling large jets and about the impact the project would have on residential property values.Transport Canada had hoped to start work on the project last spring.Construction of the weapons plant is almost complete.The environmental panel studying the project will be chaired by Carol Martin, an official of the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office.Other members will be Luc Ouimet, an official of the Bureau des audiences publique surl’environnment.the Quebec government department responsible for environmental hearings, and Laurent Chartier, a former Que bec regional director of civil aviation for Transport Canada.McMillan said the review panel will also consider the impact of future developments that could be inspired by the airport expansion, if it goes ahead.The minister did not say when the panel might begin public hearings on the project, nor when he expects its report.Previous reviews by the office have lasted anywhere from six months to two years.Weather 'itbtv* 'f (A/ > A: SNOW JOh RIDHOUT I I NNOXVIU K Kl.KMENTARY SCHOOL Doonesbury THATS/T.NOTIN THELBAST!.AFTER ALL, HB HASNOFOR-[ EIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE.RHISPOUnœARE HOPE-] IS9SLY OLP-FASHIONEDIX 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HB\ CANTPBIEGATE! he's thin-skJnnëdA m BY GARRY TRUDEAU LEVS WATT a Lima LONGER.—- - WELL* SHALL WE GO?\HE'SNOT [COMING.ÏMHEREl TM HERB! nay.WHERE IS EVERYONE?MAYBE WMOR- ROW.NONO.ITS TOO LATE FOR THAT.- ll/CNEWHE [MUONt i Th* RECORD—Friday.Decern hr r 4.1987—3 The Townships t »_&a «ecora Accord can be improved without harm — Orr Alliance Quebec: ‘Fatal flaw’ in Meech Lake deal for language minorities SHERBROOKE — Alliance Quebec President Royal Orr was in Ottawa this week “to demand that the Meech Lake Accord be amended.” Orr said the Alliance has "grave concerns” in an appearance before the Senate committee looking into the constitutional accord signed last June by the ten provinces and Ottawa.Orr repeated the Alliance stance that the deal will damage “the fundamental rights and freedoms” of Quebec's English-language minority.Orr criticized the process used to negotiate the constitutional package,” says an Alliance press release delivered Thursday.The Meech Lake accord has been adopted with “unseemly and unacceptable haste”, which undermines the ability of Canadians to suggest changes in it, Orr was quoted as saying.Orr also responded to Tory Senator Lowell Murray’s contention that the deal is a “seamless web” that cannot be changed without having the agreement fall apart.Murray was one of the deal's main architects.‘ONLY TO IMPROVE' “Alliance Quebec does not seek to jeopardize the accord, only to improve it,” Orr said.“Perhaps no community feels the impact of Quebec’s isolation within Confederation more than the English-speaking community Quebec, and certainly no Canadians feel more strongly about the importance of obtaining Quebec’s adherence to the Constitution than English-speaking Quebecers,” he added.“But neither will we be intimidated by those who say the agreement will unravel if amendments are made to it, nor will we be mollified by the suggestion that improvements could be made in future years.” “We firmly believe this accord must be improved and we will continue to advocate changes to it,” Orr said.Orr focused on Section 16 of the accord, which he called the “critical flaw” of the agreement, said the communiqué.“This clause provides that nothing in the section recognizing Canada's duality and Quebec’s distinctiveness shall effect the rights of the aboriginal peoples or the multicultural heritage of Canadians.” OUR RIGHTS' Alliance Quebec has repeatedly called on the eleven First Ministers to give English-speaking Quebeckers and all Canadians “a clear and explicit assurance that our rights cannot be adversely affected by the Accord, said Alliance spokesman Geoff Kelley.Orr noted that the Joint Senate-House of Commons Committee Report failed to respond to the concerns raised by the Alliance and many other groups who were disturbed by the potential REAGAN IN A MINOR SUPPORTING RolE.The perfect gift for the medical student on your list Isn't modern science wonderful?On May 19, 1987, the United States Patent Office granted a proprietory number to inventor Chet Fleming of St.Louis, Missouri, for a ‘Device for Perfusing an Animal Head.’ That is a delightful invention for keeping a severed head alive, alert — and even talking — while it is experimented upon; “If necessary, the surgical cuts may be made in such a way that the larynx (containing the vocal cords) remains attached to the head.The severed end of the trachea (windpipe) may be sutured to a tube carrying slightly compressed, humidified air, so that the primate or human head may use its vocal cords if it is conscious.The compressor may be controlled by a switch mounted below the chin of the head so that the animal or human may turn the compressor on or off by opening its mouth.” Just think of the possibilities! For this miraculous advance in medical science, Mr Fleming should not only make a handsome fortune and get a hospital named after him but win the Nobel Prize besides: “The device of this invention can be manufactured and sold, and it may be used for various purposes such as analysis of drugs which are metabolized by the liver into undesired compounds or which cannot cross the blood-brain barrier." And it doesn't take a P.T.Barnum to recognize non-medical uses: “The head of a laboratory animal such as a chimpanzee or rhesus monkey may be severed from the body and coupled to the cabinet described herein, using means known to experimental surgeons.After this invention has been thoroughly tested on lab animals, it might also be possible to use this invention on terminally ill persons, subject to various government approvals and other legal requirements.” Back in 1936.French scientists developed a technique called encephale isole by which heads could be kept alive and alert by severing the spinal cords at the base of the brain.That paralyzed the body and prevented the Commentary By Bernard Epps victim from struggling while keeping the juices flowing to provide biofeedback for experimenters — twitching whiskers, grimaces, screams.In the 1960s, Dr.Robert White of the Brain Research Laboratories in Cleveland’s Metropolitan General Hospital successfully transplanted the head of one monkey onto the body of another.The resulting creature could see, hear, chew and grimace — although it is not known what it thought (Results of this and subsequent entertaining experiments may be read in Dr.White’s delightful book Brain.published in 1981).In 1936, young Dylan Thomas wrote a short story called The Lemon which began; “Early one morning, under the arc of a lamp, carefully, silently, in smock and rubber gloves, old Doctor Monza grafted a cat’s head on a chicken’s trunk.The cat-headed creature, in a house of glass, swayed on its legs.” In the 1950s, Samuel Beckett wrote (in French) an entire novel, The Unna-mable, narrated by a disembodied head: “A collar, fixed to the mouth of the jar, now encircles my neck just below the chin.And my lips which used to be hidden, and which I sometimes pressed against the freshness of the stone, can now be seen by all and sundry.Did I say I catch flies?I snap them up, clack! Does that mean I still have my teeth?To have lost one’s limbs and preserved one’s dentition, what a mockery!” But fiction fades in the fact of fact.Mr.Fleming’s device has brought dreams to reality, available to anyone with the price, yet his Summary of Invention submitted to the patent office begins with admirable modesty; “This invention relates to a device HE IN i OUT 56 54-^ £2 CO tirs 30 voU r OXYGEN IN t WASTE OUT WASTE OUT Device for Perpusing an Animal Head CHET FLEMING, ST.LOUIS, MO.U.S.PATENT MAY 19, 1087 referred to as a ‘cabinet’ which will provide physical and biochemical support for an animal’s head which has been ‘discorporated’ or ‘dis-corped’.” The distinction is exact.A ‘decapitated’ creature has its head cut off ; a ‘discorped’ one has its body removed.Amusing variations are possible; “If desired, the spine may be left attached to the discorped head.The severed head preferably should retain all the sensory organs, and the vocal cords if desired.” Mr.Fleming’s Detailed Descrip tion of the Invention elaborates on all the handy features of his device; “The cabinet is equipped with means of mounting the head in a post tion such that the veins and arteries which emerge from the head can be connected to the venuous and arterial cannulae.This can be accomplished by inserting one or more surgical pins into the vertebrae of the neck, or by immobilizing the neck with an inflatable or padded collar.If desired, the cabinet may be equipped to allow the head to be inclined for ease of access during surgery.” What a marvelous Christmas pre sent for the medical student on your list! But its potential is not confined to experimental surgeons — or even si deshow entrepreneurs.The nation needs no longer lose its wise old heads when hearts give out — we could fill the Senate with them, like pickle jars in a larder — safe from sex scandals and pocketless too, reasonably safe from greed.That favorite old uncle who ruined liver and lungs with whisky and cigars could still roar his comic songs from a corner of the parlour, entertain guests with his scandalous stories.What a conversation piece for par ties! What a memorable and decora live centerpiece for formal dinners Fisher-Price might eventually pro duce an unbreakable plastic version for budding little brain surgeons that — with a little help from Fido or Fluf fy — could provide hours of instruc ture entertainment for the whole fa mily.Isn’t modern science wonderful?I The RECORD—Friday.December 4.1987—5 History #1____ttei tfecora ‘A really God-fearing man was a very rare exception among them.' ‘Wicked and abandoned people’: Converting the heathen Townshipper PART ONE “I report them to be in general the most immoral collection of men I ever knew,” wrote Governor Murray of the English-speaking Protestants in Quebec.He was, nevertheless, instructed to induce the habitants “to embrace the Protestant Religion” and to establish the Church of England here “both in Principles and Practice.” Being a decent man and a practical politician, he ignored those instructions.His successors generally followed his example.But, once the Revolution was over and Loyalists in the land.Britain turned again to bolstering its influence in Quebec with a state church and converting the misguided Canadiens.One seventh of all public lands were reserved to endow Protestant (meaning Anglican) clergy and Quebec’s first Anglican bishop was sent out in 1793.Lord Bishop Jacob Jehosaphat Mountain, bewigged, powdered and Cambridge educated, brought much of his congregation with him — his wife and four children, two maiden sisters, his brother, his brother’s wife and their three children — because his see, which covered both Upper and Lower Canada, had just nine priests.He had no authority to ordain others and was unimpressed with the raw material from which to shape them ; “Of the persons born in the country”, he explained to his superior, “I need not inform your Grace that few indeed have been so educated as to give them any decent pretension to instruct others, and among the persons who come to settle here, there is less probability of finding proper subjects.Your Grace, I am sure, would be far from recommending it to me to open the Sacred Profession for the reception of such adventurers, as disappointed speculations may have disposed to enter it.” SLOW START Consequently, the state church got off to a slow start and less fastidious Protestants got the jump.Baptists and Methodists, Univer-salists and Congregationalists, appealed to the emotional as well as the spiritual needs of isolated frontiersmen.Frugal, hard-working pioneers wanted a little hell-fire and damnation from their preachers — not for themselves, of course, but for the idle and the rich.They wanted some assurance that their self-denying lives would be ultimately rewarded.Having little money and less leisure themselves, they had no sympathy for gambling and cards, dancing and drinking by others, and, being American by birth and consequently corrupted with Republican ideas, they were convinced God loved them quite as much as he loved lords and ladies.Anglicans knew better.Bishop Mountain and his peers looked down their long English noses at “enthusiasm” by those who needed only “a stump for a pulpit and saddlebags for a vestry.As early as 1794, he was complaining of “itinerant & mendicant Methodists; a set of ignorant Enthusiasts whose preaching is calculated only to perplex the understanding & corrupt the morals ; to relax the nerves of industry, & dissolve the bonds of society.” DIFFERENT VIEW Methodist Rev.Nathan Bangs, of the Niagara region, had a different view of which church corrupted morals : “There were no preachers of the gospel near us except the poor drunken card-playing minister of the Church of England, whom I sometimes heard mumble over his form of prayers so fast that I could scarcely understand a word of it, and then read his short manuscript sermon with the same indifference and haste.” Methodists might save souls but Anglicans increased property values.When Leeds Township was threatened with Methodists, a local Anglican catechist was authorized to offer bribes: “You may assure the people that in a short time the Bishop will send them a clergyman to live and labour among them.and that a church or two will consequently be built, in a great measure at the Bishop’s expense.and point out to them the impossibility of having a clergyman of any other denomina- Bernard Epps tion unless they are able to support him; and how much it would increase the respectability of the settlement, and the value of property, to have a respectable clergyman resident among them.” UNDENIABLE The most fertile field for sowing Protestantism in Quebec was the Eastern Townships.The need was undeniable.“Generally speaking,” wrote Mrs.Catherine Matilda Day in her book Pioneers of the Eastern Townships, “the class of men who comprised our earliest population were anything but religiously inclined; indeed, it has been said, and we fear with too much truth, that a really God-fearing man was a very rare exception among them.” Rev.Ammi Parker, himself American and a pioneer Congrega-tionalist, even suggested some came to the Townships to escape religion ; “The religious and civil restraints imposed by the laws and the prevailing sentiment of the community there (in Puritan New England) became quite unwelcome to not a few who seemed to care little for God or heaven.Hence they were willing to leave behind the sanctuaries of God and the restraining and ennobling influences which certainly come to communities through this medium.” The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) assisted the Lord Bishop by sending the first English missionaries to work among the 1500 residents of St.Armand in 1798.They found wickedness so rooted that three of them gave up in quick succession and the mission stood empty between 1802 and 1804 when the Rev.Charles Caleb Cotton tried again.THE VERY PLACE’ Cotton wrestled with these “wicked and abandoned people” for three years until his “utter despondency” came to the attention of the Rev.Charles James Stewart, fifth son of the Earl of Galloway.He’d offered himself to the SPG for service in India but when he heard of the desperate need in the Eastern Townships, he decided ; “Then this is the very place for me.Here I am needed, and, by God’s grace, here I will remain." With that sort of dedication (and an income of 650 pounds a year) Stewart made progress.On January 20,1809, Bishop Mountain came to Frelighsburg to consecrate “the first place of worship in this whole region of the country” — Trinity Church.He was very impressed with Stewart’s efforts.“The change in the character and manners of the people, since this gentleman settled here, is as wonderful as it is pleasing : and in no part of the world, perhaps, has the power of religion more rapidly and more decidedly manifested itself than here.“Mr.Stewart, without any sort of cant, and without the least appearance of enthusiasm, has more zeal, and more persevering activity than it has ever been my good fortune to witness.” CHURCH IN 1797 The enthusiastic Baptists had a toehold in Caldwell’s Manor by 1794 and spread throughout the Townships largely through the efforts of Rev.William Marsh.There was a Baptist church in Sutton by 1797 — possibly the first church of any kind anywhere in the Townships — and another in Stanstead two years later — the first church in that county.Methodists were not far behind.There were Methodist classes at Copp’s Ferry by 1804 and the first saddlebag preacher to reach Eaton was a methodist in 1805.A circuit was formally organized in Stanstead the following year, another at Richmond in 1810, and by the outbreak of the Border War, Methodists boasted a Dunham circuit with 335 members, Stanstead with 200, St.Francis River with 47.They had less appeal in the cities — Montreal had just 35 members and Quebec only 26.But still these “wicked and abandoned people” generally resisted salvation.As late as 1821, Wesleyan missionary Henry Pope wrote of Shipton Township; “I know of no part of Canada that stands in more need of the Gospel ministry.than this circuit and some townships adjoining it.” LOG MEETING HOUSE Baptists generally subscribed to the Calvinist orientation but Free Will Baptists — those maintaining the possibility of salvation for everybody — began drifting into the Townships as early as 1802.By 1804, there was a log meeting house for them in Stanstead.“But a dark day came,” said Forests and Clearings, History of Stanstead.“Mille-rism shook the Free Will Baptist Church to its foundations.” William Miller, the eldest of 16 children, was raised as a Baptist in Upstate New York, took a wife and a farm in Poultney, Vermont, and devoted himself to the study of Revelations and Daniel.By 1823, he had calculated the time of the ‘chaining of the Beast’ by five different methods and all pointed to the end of the world in the same year— 1843.Miller, however, was a modest man and kept this disturbing bit of news to himself until 1831 when a Voice summarily commanded him “Go tell it to the world.” Miller began telling his tale around rural New England, was ordained a Baptist minister in 1834 and brought his message to Stanstead the following year.His news spread quickly through the Townships and even came to the notice of the aloof and disapproving Anglicans.On a visit to Shefford, the Bishop of Montreal wrote of Mille-rism; PILLAR’ RAN OFF “The pillar of the cause in this neighbourhood is a tin-smith of Waterloo Village, formerly a sol- CMCMftS, A Millerite preparing for the end of the world: 'Now let it come! I'm ready! !' — 1844 lithograph.dier in the British army, and now enjoying a pension.Another great preacher of the same doctrine in the township is a man who, eighteen months ago, ran off with a neighbour’s wife.“In the meetings of the Mille-rites, persons.fall into what are technically called, the struggles.and roll on the floor of the meetinghouse, striking out their limbs with an excessive violence; all which is understood to be an act of devotion in behalf of some unconverted individual, who is immediately sent for, if not present, that he may witness the process designed for his benefit.Females are thus prompted to exhibit themselves, and I was credibly assured, that at Hatley two young girls Were thus in the struggles, the objects of their intercession being two of the troopers quartered in the village.” The news of the end of the world had to make way for the rebellions of 1837 and 1838 (hence the troopers stationed in Hatley) but expectations mounted as 1843 drew closer.THE LAST TRUMPET “In the fall of 1842,” says Forests and Clearings, “a number of families banded together and took their bedding, provisions, & c., to the old Union meeting-house in Stanstead, where they intended to remain until the spring of 1843, when they believed the last trumpet would sound.A few even went so far as to prepare their ascension robes.” They entertained each other with lurid accounts of the inevitable; “All will be wild and mad confusion.The earth rocks; she feels to and fro; and from her very bowels heaves up on every side her burning flames; she throws her fires of melted lava up to the cloud-top height, and pours them forth, in furious madness, on cities, villages, and the affrighted people, too, who flee in frantic wildness ” Certain of salvation themselves, they sung from Millerite hymn books rousing songs of remarkable smugness — like The Millenial Harp; “We, while the stars of heaven shall fall, And mountains are on mountains hurled, Shall stand unmoved amidst them all.And smile to see the burning world.“The earth and all the works therein Dissolve, by raging flames destroyed; While we survey the awful scene And mount above the fiery void.” Anglicans, utterly convinced that if the Second Coming was imminent, they’d have been the first informed, went calmly ahead with plans to educate priests in Quebec by establishing the Diocesan College of Canada East.The enabling act, in fact, received Royal assent in the very year the Millerites expected the end of the World —1843.By then the name of the projected institution had been changed to Bishop's College.NEXT: Converting the heathen Townshipper, Part Two.Rev.William Miller.Pointed to the end of the world.Frelighshurn Church.THE FIRST REPORT ijfued iy tht Socirty ftr thr Propagation of the Gofptl.1704-, V The circuit rider, Bible in hand, could make a pulpit of any stump Jacob Mountain’s charge ran from Quebec City to York; he travelled his diocese by sleigh, canoe and on foot. 6—The RECORD—Friday, December 4, 1987 Farm and Business Recdnl Scotland experimenting with goats By Gotten Timberlake K1NLOCHARD, Scotland (AP) — "Finn,” yells kilted herder John Barrington.“That'll do, Finn.” The black-and-white dog crouches on the rough hill, peering out intently.Then Barrington whistles and she rockets forward to flank a small herd.Finn is a sheep dog and the dark-bearded Barrington is a shepherd.But the animals they are badgering down toward the lochside Le-dard Farm aren’t gentle, pastoral sheep.They’re big, mean-looking wild goats.They are part of a bold experiment here in the hills 80 kilometres to the west of Edinburgh.RAISE GOATS Fergus Wood, with the help of flockmaster Barrington, is one of a handful of farmers trying to raise a superbreed of cashmere-producing goats in Scotland.And they’re doing it in a sheep-dominated country that scorns goats as pesty friends of the devil.The incentive is that one kilogram of cashmere fetches $105 US, while the same amount of wool RECORD appointment George R.MacLaren, publisher of The Record, announces the recent appointment of Randy K.Kinnear as Assistant Publisher.A native of East Angus, Kinnear is a graduate of Alexander Galt Regional High School, Champlain Regional College and Bishop's University, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration in 1979.Kinnear worked at the Montreal chartered accountancy firm Zitter, Siblin, Stein, Levine, and for the North Hatley Group of companies before coming to the Record in 1983.Kinnear acquires his new duties in addition to the role of controller he has filled since 1983.The Record is a division of Québécor Inc.brings only $1.75.Tweed and tartan may be subject to the vagaries of fashion, Wood said, but "the thing that never goes out of demand is cashmere.That’s because it’s luxurious.” Scotland imports 99 per cent of the cashmere it uses in its famous sweaters and other knitwear products, said Wood, who also is a director of the Edinburgh-based Scottish Woolen Industry trade group.COMES FROM ASIA Scotland is the largest consumer of the world’s cashmere crop, taking in more than 40 per cent of it, he said, but most of it comes from breeds of goats in China, Mongolia and Afghanistan.“Logically, the most ideal supplier of cashmere would be a domestic supplier,” Wood said.Easier said than done.“I think the biggest problem is the natural reticence of farmers to handle goats,” Wood said.“It’s just been a prejudice farmers have.” According to Celtic folklore, Barrington said, you can’t keep your eye on a goat for 24 hours because at some point it goes off to have its goatee brushed by the devil.No wonder the locals at the nearby Alstkeith pub poke fun of Woods’ venture.GIVE FUNDS But the European Economic Community and Scottish Development Agency have provided the breeders with $875,000 US to get started.Five farmers have set up a cooperative called Cashmere Breeders Ltd., which is acquiring what they call “the best genetic sources from abroad.” Cashmere is the down the goat grows under its outer coat during winter.It is harvested by combing.All breeds produce cashmere, except the Angora goat, which grows a single mohair coat.The breeders hope to raise 1.5 million to 2 million high-yielding goats in herds of 50 to 250 goats within 10 years.Barrington is enthusiastic about the new venture with cashmere-producing goats.“It will be a great pity if farmers miss this opportunity,” he said.CHRISTMAS FOR PEACE A WORLD-WIDE ECUMENICAL APPEAL i LIGHT THE FLAME OF PEACE The evening of December 24th 9 P.M.Chrlatma* •««, everyone It Invited to •tend et their window, holding a lighted candle, aa a sign ot friendship with their neighbours snd all the people of the world, thus creating, In a night of misery and violence, a Chain of Peace and Light.Sunday.December 6, we olfer Christmas candles for sale at a price of $2.00.By purchasing.you are making a gesture of solidarity.The sums gathered through this Christmas campaign for Peace will allow the International Action Fraternity to bring refugees now in camps to Canada to be reunited with their families Dr Marcel-Charles Roy's work of love, a medical clinic for children of South-East Asians, and a group of friends of Peace will also benefit from the proceeds of the campaign In o night of seffishneu and misery W* will light the torch of Justice In a night of solitude and resignation We will light the Home of Hope In a night of violence We will shine the light of Pence Farmers extol virtues of raising Duffalo for lean, rich-tasting meat Action fraternité International# (Action for International Fraternity) A unit of CAWITA8-8HERBROOKE •36, Québec St., Sherbrooke, QC Tel.: («t») 5M-6345 By Michael Bernard CECIL LAKE, B.C.(CP) — BUI Bickford is bullish about buffalo right down to the BISON 1 licence plates on his blue-and-yellow 1976 Cadillac.The stocky, gravelly voiced rancher, a Yul Brynner look-alike, isn’t the kind of guy you’d think would appreciate the grace of an animal he plans to slaughter.Cows are stupid, says Bickford, who spent more than 30 years raising them before turning to buffalo farming five years ago.Buffalo, with their magnificent shag-gy-mained heads, are different— cagier, more curious and independent.‘‘Sometimes I can sit and watch them for hours,” Bickford says of his herd of 170 buffalo, the common name for North American bison.“They really are majestic.” RUNS RANCH Bickford, 57, runs a 388-hectare ranch near this northeastern British Columbia village.He’s one of about 80 people raising buffalo in Canada.The game farmers, mainly in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, have built up a total herd of about 6,000 during the last 17 years.Their goal is to cash in on a smaU, but apparently insatiable, consumer market.“Buffalo tastes like good beef should,” says Bickford as he wolfs down a mammoth ranch-style lunch of buffalo-stuffed cabbage rolls, sausages and buffalo salami.Those who haven’t tasted buffalo are in for a pleasant surprise.It has a rich taste and a dense texture — mainly because of its low fat content — but none of the gamey flavor normally associated with wild animals.The meat is so lean, in fact, that Bickford’s wife Lynne has to add some vegetable oil to the frying pan to avoid scorching the meat.Bickford, who bought his first breeding stock in 1982, hasn’t started marketing his buffalo yet, preferring to first build up his herd.But he has done more than his share of homework.HAS CLIPPINGS His cramped office next to the family recreation room is strewn with newspaper clippings, magazines, buffalo cookbooks and nu- tritionists’ reports.It’s all ammunition for his pitch to the unini- “ Mother Nature did a hell of a job making the buffalo,” he says, leaning back and drawing on an American cigarette.“We humans think we have done such a good job (breeding leaner cattle), but we’ve had the ideal animal right on our doorstep all along.’ The statistics he cites are per-suasive U.S.Department of Agriculture figures show that the average buffalo cut contains only a fraction of the fat beef possesses — 2.8 per cent compared with 28 per cent — and a higher percentage of protein — 35 per cent compared with 24 per cent.Those who haven’t tasted buffalo are in for a pleasant surprise.It has a rich taste and a dense texture — mainly because of its low fat content — but none of the gamey flavor normally associated with wild animals.But the feature he and other promoters play up is the dramatic difference in cholesterol levels — the suspected culprit in heart disease—between beef and buffalo.CHOLESTEROL LOW A 100-gram cooked serving of beef chuck steak has about 106 milligrams of cholesterol.A similar cut of buffalo contains only 40 milligrams.For Bickford and others, buffalo farming is a way to escape traditionally volatile beef markets which can make ranching a nerve-racking business.Gervais Bisson, newly elected president of the Canadian Bison Association, was one of the first in Canada to begin raising the animal.He delights in greeting people with the the phrase “Bisson’s my name and bison’s my game.” Speaking by telephone from his St.Claude, Que., farm, Bisson said he switched to buffalo in 1979 because raising cows and horses didn’t pay off.He says demand for buffalo meat has grown dramatically because of diet-conscious North Americans.Willy Effinger, general manager of Thornbury Grandview Farms on Georgian Bay in Ontario, says demand for buffalo meat is great.“Even if all of us sold everything we have, we couldn’t supply the market.” PRICES HIGH Buffalo commands prices ranging up to $5.50 a kilogram on the hoof, compared with about$1.75 a kilogram for beef cattle, says Hugh Bryce, of the B.C.Agriculture Department’s specialty livestock marketing division.However, anyone considering the buffalo business should also take a close look at what it costs to start up.Breeder stock, if you can find it, is expensive, says Bickford.Two-year-old buffalo cows fetch up to $2,000 at auctions, compared with about $600 a head for beef cattle.Game ranchers must also spend more money on higher fences and pens for buffalo, which tend to be skittish and sometimes downright panicky when confined.On the plus side, buffalo require only about half as much feed as cows do.And they will continue to graze in bitterly cold weather long after cows have retreated to the barn to feed on hay.WANTED TONGUES North Americans are just beginning to rediscover buffalo.In the last century, millions of buffalo were slaughtered — and nearly driven into extinction — to satisfy European demand for buffalo tongue.But it’s not a cheap dining experience.At the Hotel Vancouver, for example, a 225-gram (eight-ounce) charbroiled buffalo sHoin steak costs $24.75.Retail prices vary, but Mert Lenton, secretary of the Canadian Bison Association, says you can count on paying about twice as much for buffalo as beef.For those who still can’t contemplate eating what they still think of as an endangered species, take heart.Thanks largely to government conservation efforts, there are now a total of about 70,000 buffalo in North America — in zoos, wildlife preserves, and on farms.Longhorns making a small comeback REGINA (CP) —- Longhorns are the stuff of American legend — direct descendants of animals that ruled the Texas ranges in the mid- ANNUITIES & RRIF’s All retirement options explained.NO cost or obligation.Also RRSP’s and LIFE INSURANCE.EDDY ECHENBERG 562-4711 835-5627 1800s, when cowboys with six-guns and 10-gallon hats rode herd on the long drives north.Today, Longhorns are making a small comeback as an animal good for cross-breeding, says Jack Sheir of Cayley, Alta., who has raised Longhorns for three years and has a herd of 20 cows.Some of his animals are on display at the Canadian Western Agri-bition, an annual agricultural fair attended by livestock producers from across North America.Longhorn calves are light at birth, vigorous and active shortly after birth, 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collect—we’re in the Yellow Pages under "Recruiting!’ THE CANADIAN I nc VMDIMLSIKnl 11*1 armed forces Canada The RECORD—Friday, December 4.1987—7 Farm and Business —_____tel tcecora New entrepreneurs:4A gift to society’ A look at how tax reform affects industry One of the consequences of tax reform is that companies will carry a larger share of the Cana dian tax burden.To this end, it is proposed that the tax rate as well as the basis on which the rates are applied be increased.On July 1.1987, the federal tax rate applicable to small manufacturing companies was decrea sed from 10 per cent to 8 per cent on the first $200,000 of income, ex eluding temporary surtaxes.On July 1, 1988, this rate w ill be increased to 12 per cent; non-manufacturing companies will also be subject to the same tax rate.Prior to the reform, there was a differential of at least 5 per cent between these two types of income.Prior to the reform, manufacturing companies were entitled to favorable capital cost allowance rates on equipment and machinery used in manufacturing and processing.Because these terms are not defined in the Income Tax Act, the ordinary and everyday meaning of the terms must be looked to for a definition.Manufacturing normally involves the creation of a property or the shaping, stamping or for ming of an object out of something.The following activities are some of the activities that meet this definition: sewing clothes, making soup and making rubber balls.Processing of goods generally means any activity designed to effect a physical or chemical change in an article or substance, other than natural growth.Certain activities are specifically excluded from the definition of manufacturing or processing: far- ming, fishing, logging and construction.Lastly, it should be mentioned that even if an activity qualifies as manufacturing or processing,; it will not be considered to be manufacturing or processing if the gross revenues generated from such activities is less than 10 per cent of the gross revenues from all active businesses carried on by the company in Canada.Capital cost allowance on equipment acquired after 1987 and used in manufacturing and processing activities will be redu ced to 40 per cent of the declining balance in 1988, 35 per cent in 1989,30 per cent in 1990 and 25 per cent starting in 1991.The half-rate rule wdl continue to apply in the year of acquisition.Under the previous system, such equipment could be depreciated over three years.Hence, the tax department has substantially reduced the deductions allowed under the old system.Because these businesses create jobs and form the basis of the Canadian economy, we should question whether the additional tax burden should have af fected them to this extent.Renée (iladu, C.A.Tax Department Bélanger Hébert BÉLANGER HÉBERT An mtagra! pan ol RAYMOND, CHABOT.MARTIN, PAR$ Chauaisd accounums Group to be bought out By Phillip Norton for Mainland Press It’s 9 a.m.and more than 200 people are seated in the Cegep auditorium.Some men are dressed in suits and ties ; some women are in dresses and high heels.Others are in jeans and T-shirts.There is an equal ratio of men to women.Although the audience’s average age is about 30, there are teenagers as well as senior citizens present.In the front row a man sits in a wheelchair and in the back a new mother holds her baby.What common interest could have brought together such a diverse cross-section of the population?All of these people, men and women, young and old, employed and jobless, hope to become enterpre-neurs.They dream of going into business for themselves.Many have definite projects in mind — to open a restaurant, to start a lawn care service, to design computer programs — but they lack the knowledge of financing and marketing.Others, fresh out of business school, have the business know-how and are just seeking the most profitable commerce to promote.Still others have come because they are fed up with the 9 to 5 routine or they are tired of working long hours for the benefit of their By Seema Sirohi AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Bharat Bhatt’s job takes him across raging rivers and into remote districts of India to seek out villagers tucked away from the pace of modern life but possessed with a desire to succeed.Bhatt works for a program that has become a Third-World model for finding and developing private entrepreneurs in unlikely places.The major idea behind the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India is to help would-be tycoons set up industries in places where opportunities are few.“We are training employmentgenerating persons, not employment-seeking people,” said Ashok K.Sinha, a faculty member at the institute."‘We train them to be on their own, to take risks.” The World Bank says the institute, based here in Ahmedabad in western India’s Gujarat state, is the only facility of its kind in Asia.FINDS PROSPECTS It does much more than teach business skills.It identifies likely prospects, instructs them in the problems they will face with banks and government bureaucracy, and then helps them get started.The institute has 23 faculty members who train “motivators” like Bhatt to go into villages to spot latent talent.Money comes from a fund eqivalent to about $1.5 million US donated by private and government financial institutions.The institute also works with local entrepreneurial agencies in other Indian states, and has conducted workshops in 37 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, Mauritius, Zambia, Zaire and Ghana.“The concept of enterprise seems to be the only answer to development,” says Vihari G.Patel, the institute’s director.“There is no way out for this country except to create a great deal of self- Career ir.Accountant — The applicant should be bilingual and have previous experience in preparation of personal tax returns and bookkeeping — Position available in our (Knowlton) Ville de Lac Brome office — Please send application to Tardif.Harbec & Gagné 104 Sud Cowansville, Québec J2K 2X2 Attention: Jacques Bonnette, c.a.boss's pocketbook.They all believe that they are creative enough to make their own niche in the work world and to be their own boss either full-time or on the side of a part-time job.BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR Becoming an entrepreneur is what more and more individuals are doing in small towns and rural areas throughout the province.Run-down store fronts are being refurbished on main streets and business signs are sprouting along country roads as Mainland Quebecers decide to invest in their own enterprises and create jobs for themselves and, often, for neighbors.The government realizes the importance of growth in this sector; small and medium sized businesses accounted for 70 per cent of the new jobs in Canada between 1975 and 1980.Businesses with fewer than 20 employees created 20 per cent of the new jobs from 1974-82.Between April 1985 and December 1986, 1,543 new enterprises were founded by young Quebecers.They created 2,838 full-time jobs and 556 part-time jobs.The Quebec government offers many business start-up grants and interest-free loans to make use of generating employment.“Other developing countries have realized this.They want ownership patterns to change from expatriate ownings to the local people.” Patel, who has a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, is credited with pioneering the training of entrepreneurs in India.He emphasized that development is a long-term process.“For real impact, we have to work backward,” he said.“The first attack has to be the family where children’s enterprise must be encouraged.” India has special problems, he added.“The whole bureaucracy has to be reoriented.This jungle of controls has to go.We must not just simplify procedures, but abolish them.” ‘There is no way outfor this country except to create a great deal of self-generating employment.’ A man who wants to start a business in India, for example, may have to go to 43 government agencies to procure the necessary licences, loans, water, electricity and land.The bureaucratic procedures claim their toll, and some would-be entrepreneurs give up in the beginning.But the institute says its success rate is about 60 per cent.WAS EXPERIMENT The institute began as a small experiment in 1979 and opened with its present national scope in May 1983.It has since trained 78 Indians and 42 foreigners to be “motivators and trainers.” The institute has conducted demonstration EDPs, paid for by lo- its human resources.One of these is a unique program which has always been tried out in several regions of the province and will soon be introduced to others.It is administered by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and is entitled Cour-Concours Devenez Entrepreneuse).This “Course-Contest” format draws everyone who has seriously considered going into business All who follow the three day-long classes are eligible to compete in a contest for the best business plan.First prize is $10,000 and an equal amount of cash and consulting services is offered to the next 15 finishers.What is most interesting for some entrepreneurs-to-be is that this Cour-Concours does not restrict participants to those over 30 years old.Most of the other government grants such as Jeunes promoteurs and Nouveaux entrepreneurs target only the youth sector.What is disappointing about the program, though, is that it is not offered anywhere in the province in English.Why not?Serge Dauray of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce says if Cours-Concours is to be given in English, it is up to the anglophone community to organize it.The pro- in India cal banks and other financial institutions, in almost all of India’s 25 states, including some with no history of industrial activity.Gujarat state, the institute’s home, has long been a centre for businessmen and traders.The trainers often face unusual problems.In Arunachal Pradesh state in the remote northeast, for example, a trainer was faced with about 35 tribespeople who had no common language and belonged to 14 different tribes.The trainer ended up teaching accounting with leaves and beads.HAS SUCCESS The program has its success stories.Among them: — Mahendra Mashru, an unemployed village youth in Gujarat, wanted to do something different, but didn’t know what.He came across an institute trainer after reading an advertisement and was selected to receive entrepreneur-ship training.He started manufacturing a mouth freshener in 1979, and by 1984 had a turnover of 1.4 million rupees ($107,000 USl, a considerable sum in a land where annual per capita income is about $260 US.Today, Mashru is planning expansion and product diversification, institute officials said.—ChinuDabgar, a Gujarat villager who made drums, learned marketing techniques from the institute.While he once sold only two or three drums a week, he now supplies them to cities and has a shop.“The only thing lacking in Dabgar was confidence and we helped him develop that,” Sinha said.— Ramgir Singh, the youngest son of a business-owning family, was barred by his father from starting a business of his own.Singh took the institute’s training program and decided to set up a stonecrushing business in Rajasthan state, with 3,000 rupees ($230 US) from his married sister.vincial government, he says, is willing to co-ordinate such a session if an English-language Cegep will take charge of the logistics.French-language Cegeps have already organized Cours-Concours in Quebec City.Sherbrook, Trois Rivières, Longueuil, and, this fall, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Granby.Next on the agenda are Mon treal and St-Hyacinthe.To organize the sessions it requires dynamic economic leaders such as those from colleges, gover nment bureaus, business clubs, chambers of commerce, lending institutions, and private consulting firms.In St-Jean, for instance, the co sponsors included the Caisses Desjardins, Société Clé, the city council, the local member of parliament, Chabot Business Consultants and Oerlikon Aerospace among others.Serge Dauray says that regions which cannot provide such sponsorships are not likely to bring the Cour-Concours to their future entrepreneurs.The fee for participation ranges from $25 to 70 which covers inten sive instructional workshops, lectures.and a textbook written by Paul Arthur Fortin.IMPORTANCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP Paul A.Fortin has assisted at the courses in each region.Speaking to the more than 200 participants in St-Jean, he focused on the importance of people like themselves who stir regional growth.“Entrepreneurs are a gift to society and they are welcome in Quebec like never before,” he told them.“If there are not people to create jobs, there will be no jobs.We are convinced that the entrepreneurs needed to create those jobs exist here.” In defining what it takes to become an entrepreneurs, he said, people who can transform ideas, dreams, and solutions to problems into enterprisesviable and profitable.’’ He quoted an American 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are Helen Knowles and Marion Pa- jdf trick of Richmond.Great-grandpa JR is Frank Riff of Ulverton.CASTONGUAY, Lucien — At the Notre Dame Hospital, Montreal, on Wednesday, December 2, 1987, 1 Lucien Castonguay, in his 48th rfg) year.Beloved husband of Gaetanc lilF Therrien.Dear father of Francine, Jm Chantal (Mrs.Bryan Young), iM Marc, Nathalie and her friend Jean Monfette.Loving grand- t father of Emilie and April Caston- n»j guay.Also survived by his mother, his brothers, other relatives and % friends.Resting at L.O.Cass and Son Ltd.Funeral Home, 50 Craig St., Cookshire.where friends may call on Friday from 2-4 and 7-10 p.m., and Saturday from 11 a.m.Funeral service will be held at St.Camille Church, Cookshire, on Saturday, December 5 at 2 p.m., followed by cremation.If friends so desire, contributions to the Quebec Heart Fund would be appreciated.| LABEREE — Although these few words seem inadequate they truly convey all my sincere gratitude and heartfelt appreciation to my family, 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skill tests in shorthand (if no diploma availabie) and in typing, grammar and spelling.Candidates must reside in Canada.We offer an initial salary of $18,542 plus a bilingualism bonus of $800.Secretaries receive such benefits as dental and medical plans and while serving abroad, tax-free allowances.After completing an initial period in Ottawa, successful candidates will be assigned to various countries around the world.Forward your application form and/or résumé with proof of completion of above education requirements, quoting the following reference number 87-EXT-OC-6050(A74) to: External Affairs Canada APSS-SCY Ottawa, Ontario K1A0G2 Closing date: December 18, 1967 Tout renseignement est disponible en français en téléphonant le (613) 996-5934 Canada The Department of External Affairs of Canada it an equal opportunity employer STORAGE WE STORE HOUSEHOLD goods and various items that require temperature controlled atmosphere.We are equipped with a security system for added protection.Every item is individually wrapped.Call us for free estimate at (819) 562-8062.Transport Dave Inc.Job Opportunities COUPLE REQUIRED for full-time caretakers, 3 years of experience required, for 75 tenement apartment building.Must be bilingual with written French and English.Send your curriculum vitae to: P.O.Box 4402, Rock Forest, Que.JIN 1E4.JAY PEAK SKI RESORT, Vermont (just 7 miles from border) is looking for smiling, high energy, bilingual switchboard operator and front desk persons, with office experience, for ski season.$5.13 U.S./per hour plus skiing privileges.Send resume to Jay Peak Resort, Route 242 Jay, Vermont, 05859.Phone (802) 988-2611 NEEDED: Reliable mature person to take care of pet and house in owner s home while owner on vacation and weekend get-aways.Call (819) 821-2306.Sales Reps Wanted SALESPERSON WANTED for condominium project, bilingual, with experience, Lake Memphremagog/Owl's Head region.Excellent remuneration.Starting soon.Send c.v.to P.O.Box 450, Knowlton's Landing, Que.JOE 1X0.Child Care WILL KEEP CHILDREN in my Lennoxville home Full or part time.References.Call (819) 566-4421.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.28 Professional Services OSIVMI Distributor *“ La clef du curseur inc.Norman J.Longworth Consultant 1360, rue King ouest Sherbrooke (Québec) J1J 2B6 Tél.: (819) 821-4418 XEROX SERVICE CENTER WALTER ENSLIN initie Jemeüwj — 0Vat clics — flocks iViamonds Vh'od selection anJ prices ^ts the best choice for your flmstmas shopping W.Enslin Jewellers 54 King St.E.SHERBROOKE Tel: 567-2215 Vhee parking corner 'Bowen-J(mg Complete 'Kepair (Service 50 years experience Profit-Phis J Tenue de livres pour petites entreprises Bookkeeping for smêll businesses BOOKKEEPING INCOME TAX WORD PROCESSING • COMPUTERIZED ADDRESS LISTS (819) 562-8503 * The RECORD—Friday, December 4, 1Ü87—11 dcE$$i{lG(l Or mail your classified ads to: ^ÜEXXKf!L a ¦¦ _ ._ _ _ _ , Æ __ P.O.Box 1200 Call (819) 569-9525 or (514) 243-0088 "s00"6,Que' 29 Miscellaneous Services GERRY'S BED & BREAKFAST, Austin Call (819) 843-3744.LENNOXVILLE PLUMBING.Domestic repairs and water refiners.Call Norman Walker at 563-1491.TYPING and/or translating done in my home.Call 563-9693 after 3 p,m.CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC - Honolulu, 201 King St.East, Sherbrooke, 562-7840.Sales, exchange, rental, repairs, teaching.All instruments have awarran-ty Visa, Mastercard accepted.Honolulu Orchestra for all receptions.DO YOU NEED music for your holiday parties?Singles, duo s or bands.Book now! Call Peggy at (819) 821-2256.GREAT CHOICE of electric guitars, ac-cousticand classical guitars, amplifiers, microphones, synthetizers and electronic pianos.Sale, leasing and repair.Layaway plan.Financing at bank rates.Painchaud Musique Inc., 825 Short Street, Sherbrooke.LEAD GUITARIST and drummer wanted for country rock band.Call Bob at (819) 567-5995.MESA-BOOG IE guitar combo amplifier, 100 watts RMS, channel switching, reverb.Call (819) 567-0469.PIANO TUNING AND REPAIR.John S.Foster, R.R.1 Ayer’s Cliff, Que.JOB ICO.1-819-837-2121 or 838-5909.40 Cars for sale 1978 HONDA CIVIC WAGON, running order.Best offer.Call (819) 876-7498.1979 CHEVROLET IMPALA station wagon, good condition, good mechanics, ready for winter, $875.Call (819) 837-2914.1986 TOYOTA CELICA GTS, 13,400 km.Call (514) 243-0351.41 Trucks for sale 1978 FORD pick-up truck, very good shape, except needs work on the platform, 2 new winter tires in the back, power steering, power brakes, radio.Call (819) 838-4497.1986 MAZDA B-200 pick-up, 5 speed, box on back, excellent condition.Priced to sell.Call Tammy at (819) 565-2249 after 6 p.m.Snowmobiles SKI-DOO FOR SALE, as is, $240.For information call (514) 292-5228, C.Hall, Bolton Centre.SOlFmils, Vegetables HEATH ORCHARD CLEAN UP.You pick $6.00 bushell.Apples in storage until Christmas at wholesale prices.Still excellent quality of McIntosh, Cortland and Lobo available for picking.Also already picked available.We use a minimum of pesticides to give you safer produce (no Alar or Plictrum).Honey, fresh pressed apple juice and squash.Heath s Orchards, open daily 8 a.m.to 7 p.m., 5 miles before Stanstead on Route 143.1-876-2817.531 Cameras CAMERA REPAIR Baldini Cam-Teck.3 factory trained technicians.Minolta, Canon, Pentax, Nikon, Yashica, Hassel-blad, Bronica, Kodak, binoculars, microscopes, projectors.109 Frontenac Street, Sherbrooke.Tel: (819) 562-0900.m Antiques ANTIQUES ETCETERA, 24A Main Street North, Sutton.Open weekends from 11 a.m.to 5 p.m.ANTIQUES ROYAL, 214 Queen Street, Lennoxville.Tel: (819) 822-3183.Dishes, furniture, Christmas decorations.Come in and browse.AUCTION EVERY 1st Sunday of each month at 11:30 a.m.at 390 Principale Street, St-Thomas-d'Aquin, near St-Hyacinthe, exit 130-N Autoroute 20.On December 6, we will sell many collectable Victorian and Canadian furniture.For information or if you are interested in bringing articles to be auctioned, contact Sylvain Gelineau, Auctioneer, (514) 796-2886 or (514) 375-5510.Don't miss the auctions held every Thursday from 3:30 p.m.to 6:30 p.m.Sunday, January 3 will be closed due to holidays, the next Sunday auction will be held February 7.M Articles for sale BOUTIQUE MASSAWIPPI.Gotta Getta Gundt, hand knit topi sweaters, classic ornaments or special Christmas gifts and decorations?Try our cheese cake and coffee.Route 143 Massawippi.DARK RANCH MINK coat, 10-12, good condition (come from Holt Renfrew in Montreal), 3/4 length black Persian coat, size 14 tall.Call (819) 562-5474.60 Articles for sale Articles for sale MIDNIGHT SALE December 4th from 9 p.m.to midnight.SAVE UP TO 80% • Cash & Carry only HOMESTEAD GIFT SHOP 3905 Route 147 • LENNOXVILLE 60 Articles for sale 65 Horses EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT of men’s wool sweaters, attractive styles Also Viyella shirts.All sizes up to 2XL.The FARRIER PETER THEYSEN, Corrective and normal shoeing R R.3 Foster, Que JOE 1R0.(514) 539-1304 Wool Shop, 159 Queen Street, Lennoxville.567-4344.GEESE FRESHLY DRESSED, up to December 22 for Christmas, December 28 for New Year s.$27lb.Ready for oven.Call (514) 263-5994 or (514) 263-7480 68 Pets COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES for sale, 2 months old.Call (819) 877-3245, GIVE SOMETHING personal and unique for Christmas, a hand-crafted doll house recalling days gone by.Call (819) 566-2218.GOLD SOFA & CHAIR, $100.French Provincial style Mahogany coffee and end table, $90.Call (819) 564-2143.LUDWIG-BURG INC.GiftandChristmas Shop.Antiques and second-hand furniture.Something for everyone.1300 Main Street South, Ayer's Cliff.838-4906 or 838-5440.PAPERBACK BOOKS BY MAIL - Buy 3 get 1 free! Large variety, no obilgation.Send for list: 7130 - 12th Avenue, Montreal, Que.H2A 2Y3.PERFECTION & La Marquise panty hose, very good quality.Buy by the dozen and save.Call Francine: 566-6790 after 5 p.m.ROXTON KITCHEN SET, 2 captain chairs and 4 other chairs, $500 Call (819) 569-5747.VERMONT CASTING parlor stove, used only 1 month, $600 Call (819) 875-5236.WESTINGHOUSE FRIDGE, like new; Whirlpool washer and dryer, in good conditin, all white; other miscellaneous items.Call (819) 838-5984.«3 * ea r*