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Wednesday SUNNY AFRA TUCKER LENNOX VILLE ELEMENTARY St'HlX>L -O 11 PSra Tmtlct.1 Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, June 8,1988 40 cents Search off for missing girl after she used bank card Births, deaths .12 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Education .5 Farm & Business .7 Living .6 Sports .13 Townships.3 "Okay Swaggart, I can see you!.and you, Bakker." MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec provincial police have called off the search for a missing teenage girl after they learned her bank card was used three times in Ottawa the day she was reported missing.Police say three withdrawals were made Sunday afternoon at an Ottawa-area banking machine for $5, $10 and $30 on a card owned by Kathy Fraser, 16, of suburban Pierrefonds.Spokesman Const.Michel Mar- tin said police are assuming “she is alive and well in the Ottawa area." The videotape from the automatic camera at the bank where the withdrawals were made may show w'hether she was alone and acting of her own free will, Martin said.Since Sunday afternoon.up to 400 volunteers and 40 provincial police have combed the heavily wooded region west of Montreal, near the Quebec-Ontario border, where the girl was last seen.Kathy’s sister Karen, 18, who was among the searchers, said she was not aware of any trouble at home which w'ould make Kathy run away.She said the disappearance is particularly puzzling because it came a week before final examinations.She said Kathy is a keen stu dent who does well at her courses.Her parents last heard from her Saturday when she telephoned from the pizza parlour wTiere she had a part-time job to say she was going to a party with her best friend.Norman Fraser, the girl's father, said he and his wife began to worry when they got home at 2:45 am.Sunday and their daughter wasn't there."That wasn’t like Kathy," he said."She always phones and tells us what time she’s going to be home." Kathy’s friend cancelled out at the last minute.Alone for the evening, she met four other young people who drove in a van to a quarry near the edge of some woods.Fraser said the four were not among her regular circle of friends.The van was parked near a major highway in an area crisscrossed with sideroads.The group went to sleep at about 3:30 a m.Sunday.Martin said, "Someone saw her go out of the van and went back to sleep, thinking she was going to the bathroom.They woke up at 5:30 a m.and realized she hadn’t come back.” Dukakis wins Democratic nomination By the Canadian Press From A P-Reuters Michael Dukakis clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday with victories over Jesse Jackson in the New Jersey and New Mexico primaries.CBS News said Dukakis won enough delegates in the two states to reach the 2,081 needed to capture the nomination to oppose Vice-President George Bush, the certain Republican nominee, in the Nov.8 general election.NBC and ABC News also said their estimates showed Dukakis would win the delegates needed for the nomination by the time all the results were in from the day’s other Democratic primaries in California and Montana.With about half of the votes counted in New Jersey, where 109 delegates were at stake, Dukakis had 67 per cent, compared with 29 per cent for Jackson.With 22 per cent of the vote counted in New Mexico, Dukakis was ahead of Jackson 64 to 26 per cent.The votes split along racial lines, according to NBC exit polls.Jackson, the first black to make a major bid for the presidency, won just nine per cent of the white vote in New Jersey.BIGGEST PRIZE Dukakis was expected to defeat his lone remaining rival in California, the biggest prize with 314 of the 466 delegates at stake Tuesday.He will be formally nominated at his party’s national convention in Atlanta beginning July 18.Jackson offered no rebuttal to the claims of victory from the Dukakis camp, and was already turning his attention to the next phase of the campaign.Talk of the vice-presidential nomination and convention platform issues was in the air even before the polling places opened to voters on the final primary day of the year.Recent national polls show Dukakis with a solid lead over Bush in the race to succeed President Ronald Reagan, who is barred by the Constitution from seeking a third four-year term in the White House.Brush fire near North Hatley 4 RECORD/GRANT SIMEON firemen from Station 2 in Sherbrooke.While the Sherbrooke firemen were readying their hoses, the North Hatley group were stamping out the flames with shovels and portable water guns.The alarm sounded shortly after 3 p.m.in North Hatley and volunteer firemen raced into action, down Capelton Road to the abandoned Eustis cop-I per mine where a brush fire had begun.When the volunteers arrived they were meet by PSBGM fights for curriculum control OTTAWA (CP) — The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal is challenging the power of the Quebec government to set a compulsory curriculum that leaves no room, for example, for the teaching of Canadian history.The board told the Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday that the Quebec National Assembly hadn't the power to take control of the curriculum out of the hands of Protestant school boards in the province and give it to the minister of education 11 years ago.Board lawyer Colin K Irving said that Section 93 of the constitu- tion has always been used to protect Roman Catholic separate school boards in the English provinces.And, he said, Quebec’s Protestant school boards should enjoy the same protection, even though they were “quite different institutions” in which religion was played down and teaching was secular.Quebec, supported by Ontario, says constitutional protection is confined to denominational aspects of education and doesn't extend to the curriculum.But Irving said the constitutional right is the right of school boards to manage and control schools, including the curriculum.That didn’t mean that government couldn’t exercise some general control, he added, but that control couldn’t be the absolute control it is today.As an example, Irving said, the right of the province to require teaching of the history of Quebec could not be denied.But at present, the only history course was compulsory and left no time for teaching Canadian history.NO TIME minister’s permission to teach Canadian history as an option, Irving said, but compulsory subjects left no teaching time for options in some grades.In another example, the court was told that French must be taught as a second language beginning in Grade 1, “a practice which Protestant school boards in Quebec have long followed.” But the education department prohibits teaching of English as a second language before Grade 4.‘‘contrary to sound pedagogical practice and the wishes of the parents.” A board could ask the education Rural Dignity delivers anti-supermailbox ballots OTTAWA (CP) — A group campaigning to save rural post offices brought 200,000 signed protest ballots to Parliament Hill on Tuesday, causing a noisy scene when sympathetic MPs tried to deliver some of them personally to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.Cyril Keeper, New Democratic postal critic, led a high-spirited groupof NDPand Liberal MPs into the Parliament Buildings with boxes of the ballots after Rural Dignity of Canada ended a crosscountry caravan focusing attention on rural postal service."We won't put them in supermailboxes — we ll give the prime minister first-class service,” Kee- per said, heading for Mulroney's office.The ballots were brought to Parliament Hill in boxes, bags, fish nets, lobster traps, boots and other receptacles meant to illustrate the variety of rural communities affected by rural postal service.Betty Green, a surprised and irritated Mulroney staff member, met the half-dozen MPs at the door.The prime minister was out when they arrived.“Would you mind holding on?" Green instructed Keeper when he attempted to place a ballot box inside.She suggested he leave it down a corridor.When Keeper objected, she snapped: “As far as I’m concerned, you can stick it in your left ear." “Stick it where?” Keeper asked.The scene, monitored by security guards reluctant to interfere with the activities of parliamentarians, broke up with most of the half-dozen MPs depositing their ballots on the floor at Mulroney's door Meanwhile Canada Post, shunning all suggestions of post office closures, said today it plans to convert 150 rural post offices during the next year to outlets run by rural businessmen.Gil Hebert, head of rural service for the post office, said the figure is in addition to 152 rural offices coverted to alternate forms of service since the corporation’s controversial overhaul of rural postal service began in late 1986.He released (he figures at a news conference called to denounce Rural Dignity, the umbrella group formed by rural postmasters, community groups, municipalities, church groups and women’s organizations to protest changes being made in rural postal service.“We are not closing post offices.We are converting them to the private sector.’ Hebert said Bouchard: Federal bilingualism no threat to Quebec By Penny MacRae QUEBEC (CP) — Secretary of State Lucien Bouchard reassured Quebec politicians Tuesday that a federal bilingualism bill is not a threat to the province’s language law.“The French face of Quebec, its French character, we will respect it,” said Bouchard, responding to concerns this week that the federal legislation will weaken Bill 101, which restricts the use of languages other than French.The federal bill commits Ottawa to "enhance the vitality and support the development of English and French linguistic communities.” Bouchard, who was taking time out from campaigning for a seat in the June 20 federal by election in Lac Saint-Jean, said Bill C-72 is mainly intended to help francophones outside Quebec, not to assist Quebec’s anglophone minority.“The essence of the powers.are to aid francophones outside Quebec in their survival,” he told a news conference.Bouchard said the bill will not be changed.But he said he accepts Quebec’s request that Ottawa refrain from promoting English in the province without first signing an agreement with Quebec.“lam convinced that we will be able to negotiate an agreement that will satisfy Quebec,” he said.FACE FIGHT Earlier, Gil Remillard, Quebec’s intergovernmental affairs minister warned that Ottawa would face a court fight if it intruded on provincial jurisdiction in language matters.In a letter he gave Bouchard at an earlier meeting, Remillard said it would be “completely unacceptable” for the federal government to use the bill to promote bilingualism in the workplace in Quebec.“We can’t compare the situation of the anglophone minority in Quebec with the francophone minority outside Quebec,” said Remillard.Bouchard said he could not guarantee there would never be an attempt by a federal government to undermine Quebec’s powers over language but “we have shown our colors, we respect our promises.” Bouchard, a former Parti Québécois supporter who campaigned for the pro-sovereignty forces in the 1980 referendum, also made a pitch in support of the Meech Lake constitutional agreement which recognizes Quebec as a distinct so-cietv THINK AGAIN He warned opponents of the accord they are “terribly wrong” if they believe Quebec will ever settle for anything less.If the agreement is not ratified, “everyone will be in big trouble,” said Bouchard.Bouchard also promised that if he is elected, he will throw all his weight behind Montreal's bid to be the site for a new federal space agency.Asked how much influence he has, Bouchard replied with a grin that he does not believe Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, an old law school chum, “can risk not being on my side.” Bouchard made the comments as he announced Ottawa will boost its spending on bilingualism over the next five years by $195 million — pushing the total to $1.4 billion.The bulk of the money will go to teaching French and English as second languages.Division of the funds among the provinces is still being negotiated, said a federal official.More for spending on bilingualism OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government will boost its spending on bilingualism over the next five years by $195 million, pushing the total to $1.4 billion, Secretary of State Lucien Bouchard said Tuesday.The biggest increase, $145 million, will go to the provinces to expand the teaching of both official languages, Bouchard said in a statement.That will push the total to $1.2 billion.The rest of the increase, $50 million, will expand direct assistance to minority-official-language communities.A major portion of the new money will go to direct funding to groups representing and working on behalf of those communities, Bouchard said, boosting the total for that section of the program to $214 million.‘There must be something there* Tracks yes, but no sign of Abominable Snowman LONDON (AP) — A seven-week search for the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas turned up footprints and the carcasses of two dead sheep, but not the legendary beast, a member of the expedition said Tuesday.Alan Hinkes, 34, one of the six-member British team, said the climbers uncovered more clues but no conclusive evidence that the hairy, man-like beast also known as the Yeti exists.“It would have been nice to find the actual Yeti," Hinkes said.“In Nepal, all believe in it, which is quite startling — there must be something there." Expedition leader Chris Bonington, 53, planned to present the team’s findings at a news conference today.The team, accompanied by a BBC television crew and reporters from London’s Mail on Sunday newspaper, spent seven weeks ex-ploring the 7,082-metre Men- glungtse, where British explorer Eric Shipton took his celebrated photograph of a Yeti footprint in 1951.Hinkes said the team discovered the carcasses of two mountain sheep that appeared to have been killed with some type of instrument and skinned.The remains were sent to Ixmdon’s Natural History Museum for scientific tests.Museum zoologist Iain Bishop has agreed to rule on the scientific validity of the expedition’s findings.He was hired by the British betting firm William Hill, which said it stood to lose the equivalent of about $1,86 million Cdn if the team found proof the Abominable Snowman exists.Hinkes said the team took photographs of footprints slightly smaller than a man’s boot, but Bishop had said previously that photographs alone wouldn't constitute proof.r 2—The RFX'ORD—Wednesday, June 8, 1988 Hockin supports bank ombudsman and may implement idea soon By Cord McIntosh and Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA (CP) — Bank customers who feel they have been unfairly treated should soon be able to make a toll-free call from anywhere in the country to a federal ombudsman to complain.That is one of several draft recommendations of a federal interdepartmental committee presented to junior finance minister Tom Hockin, sources close to the proceedings said Tuesday.That committee, drawn from Hockin's office, the departments of Finance and Consumer and Corporate Affairs, and the office of the superintendent of financial institutions, has also been studying the issue of bank service charges.Hockin, who meets today with his officials on the report, has not decided on everything he will propose to the government, sources said, but he has already made up his mind to support the ombud sman and will likely implement the idea shortly.However, the minister is expected to reject controversial Commons finance committee recommendations that place restrictions on what banks can charge for their services.The interdepartmental committee “put together a series of recom- mendations and they did not include any of those things,” said a source familiar with the work of the bureaucrats.IDENTICAL PROPOSALS The interdepartmental committee has drafted recommendations for change almost identical to those released earlier by the Commons committee with the exception of limiting what banks can charge for services, sources said.The drafted recommendations include new rules governing how and when banks notify their customers of any change in service charges.“Things that interfere with the market mechanism, they don’t go along with that.” said one source.The Commons committee aroused the anger of the banking community this week by calling for the elimination of service charges on no-frills — so-called Plain Jane — accounts.The interdepartmental committee recommendations, which will be the basis for changes the government implements, initially called for the office of the banking ombudsman to be operated by the banks as is the two-year-old office of the banking ombudsman in Britain.However, Hockin is expected to go along with the finance committee and have the ombudsman in the federal superintendent's office.AMENDMENTS LATER Amendments to regulations governing notification of service fee changes will be incorporated later when the government amends each of the separate acts governing banks, trust companies and credit unions.In the interim, sources expect Hockin will ask financial institutions to begin immediately to act as though they were already legislated.“I suspect he might put proposals forward and say T am asking all institutions to immediately comply with these because they will be part of the regulations’.he’s done that in the past,” one source said.Several weeks ago Hockin told reporters he will bring down the new regulations immediately after the finance committee’s report is tabled.But sources now say Hockin's release may be several weeks away depending on what happens at today’s meeting.Harmonized regulation of all financial institutions across the country is also on the agenda of today’s meeting, the sources said, because Ottawa does not have exclusive control of trust companies the way it does with banks.Stop treating Quebec unfairly says Garneau OTTAWA (CP) — With an important Quebec byelection less than two weeks away, opposition Liberals pounced Tuesday on a statement by Secretary of State Lucien Bouchard — the government’s candidate — that the province isn’t getting its share of economic development “When will the government stop treating Quebec unfairly?” Liberal finance critic Raymond Garneau asked in the Commons.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney retorted that the Liberals had treated Quebecers with contempt when they were in power, creating only 40.000 jobs in the province in their last 55 months in office, while 272.000 jobs have been created in Quebec since he took power in 1984.Mulroney also said the Liberals had betrayed Quebec by opposing new drug patent legislation, which he has predicted will create thousands more jobs in the province.The skirmish came as all three parties struggle for the upper hand in the June 20 byelection in Lac St-Jean, called in an attempt to find a seat in the Commons for Bouchard, Canada’s former ambassador to Paris who was catapulted into the cabinet earlier this year.In an all-candidates debate in the riding on Monday, Bouchard conceded that Quebec has been the victim of injustices and said Quebec’s share in the economic development sector isn’t what it should be.Gov’t already looking at hate literature law OTTAWA (CP) — Federal and provincial officials had already started reviewing the country’s hate literature law before the Alberta Court of Appeal struck down the legislation, Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn said Tuesday.A joint working group of civil servants, established at the federal-provincial conference of justice ministers in Quebec City last month, is expected to report to the ministers in the fall, Hnatyshyn told reporters.He would not comment specifically on the decision by the Alberta appeal court, which overturned the conviction of former high-school teacher Jim Keegstra and ruled that the hate prpaganda provision in the Criminal Code was too broad and relied too heavily on the dis-cretioon of prosecutors.The decision is not binding beyond Alberta, although decisions by provincial appeal courts often carry judicial weight in other provinces.A decision on whether to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada is up to Alberta Attorney General Jim Horsman.CAC: Doctors getting rich without medicare OTTAWA (CP) — Doctors in some provinces are making financial killings on procedures provincial governments have removed from medicare coverage, says the Consumers’ Association of Canada.When this happens, the federal government should reduce the amount of money it gives a province for health services, in the same way it withheld funds from provinces that allowed doctors to extra-bill, says Dr.Richard Plain, co-chairman of the association's health committee.Ophthalmologists in Edmonton and Calgary, for example, have raised the cost of eye examinations by between 25 per cent and 60 per cent since Alberta eliminated medicare coverage for the examinations among people aged 19 to 64, PI; told the Commons health committee Tuesday.The government announced in May 1987 that the examinations weren’t medically required and were being removed from medicare coverage.Although the government then said it had consulted the medical profession before making its decision, Plain said it only talked to the Alberta Medical Association while the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons, which sets standards and approves procedures, was not consulted.Plain said the issue is who decides the definition of a medically-necessary procedure.Canada’s medicare system is being eroded because “doctors are being second-guessed on what is medically necessary.” The federal government told the consumers' association the Canada Health Act does not define a medically required service.If a province wants to remove a procedure from health insurance coverage in order to cut costs, it should have to prove it isn’t medically necessary, Plain said.The federal government must require the provinces to adhere to the principles of C ¦ Health Act, an association briei the committee said.#¦____ttg-1 Kccara 569-9511 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: $1.80 Subscriptions by Mail: ‘Canada: 1 year- $69 00 6 months- $41.00 3 months- $28.50 1.month- $14.00 U.S.& Foreign: 1 year- $140 00 6 months- $85.00 3 months- $57.00 1 month- $29.00 Established February 9, 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner 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restrictions on visiting rights were unworkable.The Montreal couple split up when the man decided to have a sex change after nine years of marriage.Before the breakup there was a short period of reconciliation after the husband had second thoughts and decided to revert to his male identity but when the wife found the situation intolerable she moved out, taking her son with her, and filed for divorce.Additional closures MONTREAL (CP) — Steinberg Inc.could close five more supermarkets soon, bringing the total number of jobs affected by the current spate of closures to almost 1,000, says a company official.Claude Durand, Steinberg’s director of public relations, said in an interview Tuesday she expects the additional closures — all in the Montreal area — to be announced within days.The company has already announced seven store closings in the past 10 days, including one in Ottawa, one in Candiac, Que., and five in the Montreal area.Those closures affected 341 employees, including 219 part-timers, said Durand.Survivalist on trial VALLEYFIELD, Que.(CP) — A jury has been selected for the trial of David White, co-owner of a survival training school, who is charged with the first-degree murder of a teenager who was shot in the back, strangled, stabbed and had his throat slashed.White, 33, is one of five people charged in the death of Remi Lahaie, whose body was found near his home in the Montreal suburb of He Perrot last Aug.19.Jean-Claude Legault.24, White’s partner in the Mecca Survival Centre in nearby Rigaud, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment last month.Dupras ends suit OTTAWA (CP) — Former Liberal MP Maurice Dupras has dropped his suit against Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for unspecified damages for being deprived of his post as consul-general in Bordeaux.Mulroney no longer faces the risk of setting precedent by having to defend in open court, as prime minister of Canada, his revocation of a diplomatic appointment made by a previous government.Dupras, 64.hasn’t worked since his posting was snatched from him by the Tories in 1984.In an interview Monday.Dupras wouldn’t disclose the amount of the financial settlement.A powerful judgment OTTAWA (CP) - The Supreme Court of Canada will hand down judgment Thursday on appeals by Newfoundland and Quebec involving claims to hydroelectric power produced by Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corp.The rulings will be among the first to be simply deposited with the registrar rather than delivered in court.Changes in the law now allow the court to skip the ritual in delivering judgments.In the appeals, Newfoundland is seeking broader access to Churchill Falls power and Hydro-Quebec contends that by contract with the power corporation, all power produced at the falls must be sold to the Quebec utility.Just the facts OTTAWA (CP) — A Mississauga, Ont., taxpayer who claims Revenue Canada leaked confidential information about his company to a competitor will get a statement of facts from the government, Revenue Minister Elmer Mackay promised Tuesday.Douglas Lloyd, proprietor of Copy Choice Office Equipment Inc., believes that some of his competitors received Revenue Canada forms saying Copy Choice owed back taxes.But Revenue Canada officials have refused to say whether or not the department breached its own confidentiality rules, citing those same confidentiality rules.Senators take their time OTTAWA (CP) —- Liberal Senators flexed their muscles on Tuesday against the Conservative government’s proposed free-trade legislation and took an unprecedented step that could kill a planned billion-dollar development agency for Atlantic Canada.Liberal House Leader Allan MacEachen told the Senate he will reject the government’s request for the Senate to begin early study of the sweeping legislation to implement the free-trade deal with the United States.The legislation, which would anmend 27 federal statutes, is still being considered by the House of Commons.Postal profits OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative government is setting up a new board to advise the cabinet on postal rates and decide how Canada Post should spend its profits.The agency expects to show a profit of $26 million this year, after more than a decade in the red, and make a further $247 million over the subsequent four years.It has also budgeted for postal rate increases totalling $521 million between 1988 and 1993.Coverup uncovered OTTAWA (CP) — A federal Human Rights Commission tribunal says Agriculture Canada officials tried to block investigation of an alleged sexual assault against a former poultry worker at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa.The tribunal ordered Agriculture Canada to pay the woman more than $11,000 after finding she was sexually harassed by a co-worker.The three-member tribunal, chaired by Sarnia, Ont.lawyer Carl Fleck, found that despite the seriousness of the incident, senior department officials were ineffective and indecisive.The woman was on job probation at Agriculture Canada in February 1981 when a male coworker, who sometimes supervised her work, began making sexual comments and physical advances toward her, the tribunal found.The battle continues TORONTO (CP) — A trip to the dentist in the future may include a simple enzyme test to predict whether that patient will develop severe gum disease — the leading cause of tooth loss in adults.Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a test to detect the presence of two enzymes believed to cause tissue and jaw-! ’ ss in people with the disease, a meeting of il scientists was told Tuesday, dentist would rinse a patient’s mouth two oi uiree times with distilled water and analyse the mouth rinse for the enzymes, said Jaro So-dek, a biochemistry professor.Students injured TORONTO (CP) — A trip to the CN Tower by elementary school students turned into a nightmare Tuesday when a crowded escalator at the bottom of the structure brought children crashing into others who were packed together at the escalator’s base.Nine Grade 6 students were treated at the Hospital for Sick Children with minor cuts and bruises and released, said hospital spokesman Judy Irwin.The accident took place as 54 students from Ontario Street public school in nearby Bowman-ville, Ont., and visiting exchange students from ecole des quatre vants in Chicoutimi, Que., as well as eight adults began jamming up at the bottom of a down escalator at the base of the CN Tower, witnesses said.Union raises funds MONCTON.N.B.(CP) —The New Brunswick Federation of Labor is setting up a fund to pay for any legal action arising from an incident involving Mila Mulroney.Mila Mulroney was struck in the stomach as she walked by a labor protest outside a local arena on May 7.She and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney were attending the annual meeting of the provincial Progressive Conservative party.Two union leaders were taken into custody during the shoving match between police and protestors and later released.Moncton police are investigating who was responsible for the blow and whether assault charges should be laid.U.S.to act on acid rain?WASHINGTON (CP) — A new proposal by two U.S.governors to curb acid rain has raised hopes Congress will act on the issue soon, the chairman of the Canadian parliamentary committee on acid rain said Tuesday.Conservative MP Stan Darling said after meeting a handful of congressmen and their aides he’s more hopeful than ever a resolution to the thorny acid-rain problem is in sight.“You know, you always hope for a miracle — even in politics,” he said, suggesting his optimism remains guarded.“We know it is a tough ball game down here.” AIDS fuels fire WASHINGTON (AP) - AIDS has made U.S.homosexuals more vulnerable to attack, said a study released Tuesday that said reported incidents of anti-gay violence in the United States rose 42 per cent last year over a year earlier.A record 7,008 incidents, ranging from verbal abuse to murder, were reported in 1987 to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said Kevin Berrill, director of the group’s Anti-Violence Project.The statistics were included in the report: Anti-Gay Violence, Victimization Defamation in 1987, the third such annual study by the gay-rights advocacy group.Swaggart saves a soul NEW YORK ( AP) — The New Orleans woman who says evangelist Jimmy Swaggart paid her to perform sexual acts said Tuesday she has given up prostitution and plans to go back to Indiana to finish high school and raise her children./ But first Debra Murphree, 28, will make a 14-day, 10-city tour to promote the July issue of Penthouse magazine, which contains her description of dates with Swaggart and photos that illustrate some of the sexual poses she says the television preacher paid her to assume.At a news conference at Penthouse’s New York office, Murphree described Swaggart as “very attractive” but said he was “just another customer to me.All I wanted was the money.” She would not discuss how much the magazine paid her for her story.Violence in South Africa JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Widespread violence and eight deaths were reported Tuesday, the second day of a national general strike in South Africa that organizers said involves 2.5 million people.Employers and transport companies said support for the strike has dwindled and more workers were on the job in many areas Tuesday.In Durban, the Federated Chamber of Industries said the strike has intensified around the country's third-largest city.Arafat pledges war ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — At an emergency summit meeting of Arab leaders Tuesday, PLO chief Yasser Arafat pledged to keep up the six-month-old Palestinian uprising in Israeli-occupied territories and inspire more riots until victory.Arafat, wearing his traditional battle fatigues, spoke briefly to the opening session of the three-day meeting of the 21-country Arab League, which was convened to support the Palestinian insurrection.Israeli backed Arab stabbed EL BIREH (AP) — The Israeli-appointed Arab mayor of the town of El Bireh on the occupied West Bank was stabbed in the heart outside his office Tuesday.The attack on Hassan Tawil, 74 and mayor since 1986, came as leaders of the uprising in Israeli-occupied territories issued a new leaflet renewing a demand that all Israeli-appointed mayors and Arab employees of the military government step down.Officials at Ramallah Hospital said Tawil was in serious but stable condition after surgery.He was stabbed once with a “very long knife” that pierced his heart, diaphragm, liver and stomach, a doctor said, speaking on condition of anonymity.The United Leadership of the uprising also called for protests and a general strike Thursday on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.Weather Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU Sunny today with cloudy breaks.Cool and windy.A high of 17.The weather outlook for Thursday is fair and still cool.HELLO?HI, 5TRAN6ER ! y ITS ELAINE \ KOuiru > KniZ/LM ' REMEM-^ > BERME* REMEMBER YOU* JUST GREAT.YOU'RE THE ONLY LISTEN, I THING IPO RE- HEARP ABOUT MEMBER FROM J.J., AN PI MET ON, YEAH, TM FINE.I MEAN, THESE THINGS HAPPEN, PONT THEY* PEOPLE CHANGE- BOY./SNT THATTHE TRUTH* i r The RECORD—Wednesday.June 8.1988—3 The Townships 11___ icecura Quebec: Angry Blais is just confused UPA wants a boycott: Farmers asked to ignore payments for lab-tests By Rita Legault ROCK FOREST — Local farm union president Jacques Blais called on farmers yesterday to boycott payments for laboratory services which until now were paid for by the provincial government.Union des Producteurs Agricoles (UPA) president Blais said the government is imposing user-fees for services he claimed should be free.He called the government action a setback for the development of agriculture in the province.Blais said the boycott stemmed from a general meeting of the provincial union last week.Farmers are being urged to refuse to pay for soil analyssis tests by the provincial government lab and to boycott the part of pathology services to be included on veterinarians’ bills.Quebec says farmers will have to begin paying the lab costs starting July 11.They have been paying the lab costs for soil analysis since May 16.$40 A COW?Pathology services include autopsies of dead farm animals, tissue samples, viral and toxicology samples as well as other lab tests for parasites and viral infections.“On top of losing his cow.a far- mer will now have to pay $40, the cost of having the carcass analyzed," Blais said.Blais claims that making farmers pay for the service will be dangerous because many farmers will be tempted to just bury dead animals or to ship carcasses out without bothering find out why they died."The health of the herds is important not only to all farmers in Quebec,” Blais said, “it is important to all the people of Quebec.” “If people start sending carcasses of to the dead-meat factories instead of to the labs it will take much longer before contagious diseases are spotted,” he said.TOO DRAMATIC?But Agriculture Ministry officials in Quebec City were quick to deny this will happen.“Blais is dramatizing the situation,” said ministry information officer André Ouellet.“Do you honestly think the agriculture ministry would adopt a policy if it put people’s health in question?” Dr.Yvan Rouleau, assistant deputy minister of agriculture in charge of inspection of animals says farmers who have a large investment in their herds are unlike- Jacques Blais.'What will it be next?' ly to ignore an animal’s death.“They are more likely to protect their investment by protecting the health of their animals,” he said.“People who are serious about their investment will realize they have to get their dead animals analyzed to avoid the risk of losing the whole herd.” At a press conference yesterday Blais told reporters that a maximum limit of $125 per year has been set for soil analysis, but that there is no fixed limit for pathology costs He said the average farmer could spend between $300 and $400 a year for pathology services.Rouleau contradicted both statements.' There is a $300-a-year limit for pathological analysis." Rouleau said."And if you look at the numbers, the average costs to farmers will be about $41.” “Some farmers will have to use the service more and some may not even need it, if none of their cows die in a particular year,” Rouleau said.Quebec expects to save taxpayers about $6 million a year in laboratory costs but Rouleau says that this is only 20 to 30 per cent of what it costs the government to run the service.IN OTHER PROVINCES “Quebec is one of the last provinces to charge for these services," Rouleau said.“Ontario, British Columbia and large beef producing provinces like Alberta have been charging for these services for years.” “Page (Agriculture Minister Mi- chel) thinks we are childish to boycott these services,” said Blais, who insists that not just the cost but the principle of the matter is important.He says the Liberal government has been putting a larger burden on farmers."The are getting at us grain by grain," he said."First with crop and animal insurance now with lab fees What will it be next?" "If we don’t stop this thing now, they will get us bit by bit," Blais said But in all likelihood it will be the province's veterinarians who will suffer most in the battle over lab fees.Veterinarians will be caught in the middle when they bill farmers for the lab services and farmers refuse to pay.Rouleau said the tests could represent thousands of dollars a year on the average veterinarian’s income.But Rouleau said the government will do nothing to help the vets.“Veterinarians are already stuck in the middle,” admitted Rouleau.“They have to bill the farmers and will have to come to terms with the farmers to make them pay.” He said if they are unsuccessful they will have the usual ‘But I can’t remember anything wrong with the seat’ legal means to ensure they are paid.Sherbrooke veterinarian Dr Richard Bourassa said in an inter-view that the provincial Order of Veterinarians will meet next week and at the top of the agenda will be the laboratory payment issue.INSTRUCTIONS VAGUE Bourassa, who is an area delegate to the provincial board, said vets have received a letter from the Agriculture Ministry but that instructions on the issue are unclear He said the Order will come up with a position on the issue, then meet agriculture ministry officials and the provincial UPA."The analyses are prescribed by veterinarians, so we are a little bit stuck in the middle," Bourassa said.“But 1 am confident that we will be able to solve the issue in a civilized manner." “They are using veterinarians as the go-between,” Blais said.“We re convinced they will not stop the service.But if they do we will take the means to make sure they continue the service." “We have already paraded dead cows through the streets of Sherbrooke," Blais said.“We wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.” Smuggling trial: Acquitted lawyer remembers his client fixing the car seat By John McCaghey GRANBY — Louis Kaperonis was the only witness Tuesday during José Aguiar’s trial on smuug-gling five pounds of cocaine into Canada at Philipsburg on September 19, 1986.The illegal drugs had an estimated street value between $800,000 and $1 million.Kaperonis, a 32 year old Montreal lawyer, said he and Aguiar were negotiating a “Briskets” fan-chise and he had gone to the airport in Burlington, Vermont to pick Aguiar up.He said the lease on a projected location had to be signed by 5:15 that evening, otherwise the fran- chise would be awarded to another bidder, He said the office they had to go to was close to RCMP headquarters in Montreal.CAR DIDN’T WORK Kaperonis told federal prosecutor Serge Champoux his car wasn't working, and that Aguiar had given him the keys to his jeep about a week earlier, stating that he was flying to Miami.Kaperonis said he arrived at the airport, went in and met Aguiar in the waiting room and they each carried a piece of luggage out and put them in the rear of the jeep.Kaperonis said he drove because Aguiar told him he was tired.“We stopped in Burlington and filled up with gas, and Aguiar bought some candy or something to eat, We left for Montreal and had passed one rest area, and as we approached the second, I said I had to go to the restroom,” Kaperonis explained.“I pulled in.went to the toilet .evacuated, washed and dried my hands, then went outside and saw Aguiar bent over in the driver’s door.” Kaperonis told Champoux the stop probably took seven or eight minutes.FIXING THE SEAT’ “When I got to him, I asked him what he was doing.He had a screwdriver in his hand.He said he had ‘fixed the seat.’ The car was old and squeaky but I can’t remember Youville to open English wards anything the matter with the seat,” Kaperonis said.Customs officers found two packages of drugs under the front seat of the jeep.Kaperonis recalled being questioned by a female customs officer at initial inspection at the customs port.He said he told her he had made a round trip to Burlington to get Aguiar.He said Aguiar didn't hear her when she asked him how long he had been out of the country and they simultaneously replied ‘one week’ when she repeated the question.Kaperonis also said he no real knowledge of how long Aguiar had been out of Canada.Under cross-examination by de- fence lawyer Raphael Schachter, Kaperonis decribed the rest area and said the Burlington airport was small compared to Dorval.He said he couldn't recall who had carried the third piece of luggage to the jeep.COAT WAS THERE He said there was a coat in the back seat when he left Montreal and, to the best of his knowledge, it did not belong to Aguiar.A customs agent found a small amout of marijuana in the pocket of the coat.Pressed by Schachter, Kaperonis finally admitted the first time any dicussion of the screwdriver occured was whep he and his then defence lawyer, Claude Girouard, were in Girouard’s office reconstructing the arrest.Following Kaperonis’ testimony, prosecutor Champoux declared his proof complete.Judge Bernard Legaré advised council he will entertain written pleas — Schachter’s first, then the Crown’s.Earlier this year Kaperonis was given the benefit of the doubt and aquitted on a smuggling charge by Judge Louis-Denis Bouchard.The defence opens today, and a Spanish French interpreter has been assigned.Tuesday’s hearing was scheedu led to end at noon as Schachter was hosting the Chief Justice of Israel in Montreal later in the day.By Roy MacLaren SHERBROOKE — English-speaking patients at Sherbrooke’s Youville Hospital will be receiving more services in their own language, but it will take a couple of years for the changes to take effect, says general manager Daniel Bergeron.A recently-published report on the hospital’s long-term care program gives top priority to the 46 anglophone residents at the predominantly French hospital, which specializes in caring for the chronically ill.According to some anglophone patients they often feel lonely and cut-off from fellow English speakers.They also complain of being unable to communicate their needs to unilingual French nurses and orderlies.“This is a very French hospital and English-speakers definitely feel isolated,” said Youville resi- dent William Wadleigh of Rock Island."I can explain what I need through gestures and so on but if I was 82 and it was an emergency it might be hard for me to point out the problem.” KIND OF LONESOME’ "For the English people who don’t speak French it’s kind of lonesome,” agreed patient Billy James.The hospital hopes to change this.The report, compiled by the “committee for the co-ordination of long term care” and adopted by the board of directors, proposes creating two wards specifically for English-speaking patients instead of leaving anglophones spread throughout the hospital as they are now.This would “permit English-speaking people to talk among themselves and establish relations with a bilingual staff,” said the report.General manager Bergeron said / RECORD/ROY MkLAREN Although Youville Hospital patient Norris Wilson is learning French, he says an English section ‘would certainly he a comfort.’ creating a single English-language unit would be extremely difficult because of the difference in the amount and type of care needed by anglophone patients.“We feel two units would be the best match between cultural problems and health problems,” he said.Bergeron said language instruction will be given to unilingual-French staff in the English wards.The report also recommends that more recreational activities be offered in English at Youville.PROCESS UNDER WAY According to Bergeron it is impossible to forecast when the English-language units will be in place.He said the hospital is already placing newly-arrived anglophones in three wards and later hopes to cut this down to the recommended two.However Bergeron hastened to add that it is a gradual process which cannot be rushed.“We can’t just start moving people,” he said.“When beds become available in these units then we offer it to an English person.” “It’s always a very long process because you can only start moving people when there is a bed free.The average stay of people here is five years so obviously there is not much rotation of beds in a month." FEEL AT HOME In long-term hospitals, patients become attached to their ward.They get to know the neighbors and nurses and often don’t want to move, he added.“We can't just move somebody because he might like that place.” Irene Flanders agrees as a hospital resident that she doesn’t want to move around."An English section would be nice, but I’m learning to speak French and I like it where I am now,” she said.Patient Norris Wilson has no complaints about the hospital but believes an English section would help anglophones adjust to life in a French institution.“It’s really nice here and is a great place to be,” he said, "but an English section would certainly be a comfort and would prevent confusion.I’m learning French now.” An informal poll of more than a dozen anglophone Youville patients conducted by The Record revealed that they are resoundingly in favor of the creation of an English ward.“I'd be awful glad if they could," said Frank Smith, formerly of Richmond.“Even if I had a bed maid who spoke English it wouldn’t be so bad." A team from the Ministry of Recreation, Hunting and Fishing will be wading along the shores of the St.Francis River today trying to determine why dozens and dozens of these white fish were found floating dead under the bridge between Bishop's University and Bishop's College School in Lennoxville 7 uesday morning.But government specialists aren't without their theories.Roger Gagnon of the Environment Ministry says carp were found floating dead in the St.Francis about this time last year.Gagnon said the carp died from a lack of available food during their reproduction period.He said there wasn’t enough food to keep their strength up and the fish perished.Bernard Bergeron, a biologist at the Ministry of Recreation, Hunting and Fishing, says the dead fish may be suckers (?) but he plans on sending a team to find out for sure.Neither department had heard of the dead fish until contacted by the RECORD.The firs! was for himself.^ The second was for his counlry.This time it's to save his friend.STALLONE IRAMB0 III Fish not fit for ducks kg.4.17 lb kg.8.80 lb.kg.6.S9 lb.kg.S.OS lb FRESH PORK SPARE RIBS BONELESS SIRLOIN STEAK a,,, « FRESH MILK FED VEAL Rolled (rants COUNTRY STYLE BAG SAUSAGE PLATTER STYLE BACON Sliced.1 lb package HYGRADE WEINERS Baseball brand, 1 lb.package QUEBEC EWIMANTHEL CHEESE „ CALIFORNIA CELERY s* » QUEBEC GROWN MUSHROOMS 4.3» GRANNY SMITH APPLES s,«