The record, 15 décembre 1988, jeudi 15 décembre 1988

Thursday Births, deaths .12 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living .6 Sports .15 Townships.3 m: SNOVS l M R\ noi is KNOVM H'N U'M'I MV ; r Weather, page 2 I Sherbrooke Thursday, December 15,1988 40 cents Police told to be on look out for English-only signs \ " I asked for a 40MB hard disk 1 2M floppy drive computer with a 101 -key enhanced keyboard." QUEBEC (CP)- Quebecers braced for a Supreme Court of Canada judgment today on the province’s French-only sign rule that many fear could heat up language tensions and polarize relations between the French and English communities.Police have been told to pay special attention today to English-speaking districts in Montreal where bilingual or English-only signs are posted in defiance of the sign rule.Const.Infante Aniello, of the Montreal police, said Wednesday.Premier Robert Bourassa said he “trusts in the maturity of Que- By Clyde Graham OTTAWA (CP) — A bill that would make the Canada-U.S.free-trade agreement law was introdu- Broadbent: Free trade killed jobs OTTAWA (CP) — Saying 2,400 workers have been laid off since the Nov.21 election because of free trade, Ed Broadbent blasted the Tory government today for pushing ahead with free-trade legislation while doing nothing to help displaced workers.“They haven't done — to put it bluntly — one damn thing about it,” the NDP leader told a delegation of communications workers facing layoff at a Northern Telecom plant in Aylmer, Que., near Ottawa.“We are losing jobs and we are losing them now,” Broadbent said as he welcomed the group to the New Democratic Party caucus.Broadbent said it was bad enough for the government to press Parliament to pass the Canada-U.S.free-trade agreement in a hurry.“It’s quite another.to simpily ignore the consequences.” Other than Northern Telecom, which plans to close its Aylmer plant in September, displacing 630 workers, Broadbent did not say how he arrived at the layoff total of 2,400.But he used the same figure Tuesday in the Commons.And critics of the trade deal have linked the closing of a shoe plant in Lachine, Que., a razor-blade manufacturer in Montreal and a paint plant in Toronto to the trade deal.Spokesmen for the plants have denied the connection.Northern Telecom says the layoffs would have occurred regardless of free trade.Any soldiers to buy for?OTTAWA (CP) - Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for that soldier of fortune on your list?Local Canadian Tire stores are offering a .22-calibre M16R semiautomatic assault rifle for $169.99 — less than one-tenth the price the Canadian Armed Forces pays for its new rifles based on the M16 design.The Canadian Tire model features a 15-round magazine, a short barrel and a pistol grip that makes it possible to fire the weapon from the hip.Canadian Tire officials at the company’s Toronto headquarters were unavailable to comment on the M16R on Tuesday.But Ron Jones, a sales clerk at at a Canadian Tire store in Ottawa, said the weapon is selling reasonably well locally.One downtown store was sold out of M16Rs, but a new shipment was expected in time for Christmas.-, The weapon meets all provincial standards and is perfectly legal to sell, says Sgt.Bruce Burkholder, of the Ontario Provincial Police’s firearms section in Toronto.A prospective buyer must have a $10 firearm acquisition permit from the local police force.The permits are available to any adult who hasn’t been convicted of a violent crime in the previous five years, hasn’t lost or been refused a licence and does not have a history of violent mental illness, says Barbara Pioro, of the Ottawa police’s firearm registration office.POLICE HAVE FEARS The availability of the M16R worries Ottawa Deputy Chief Tom Flanagan.He’s ordered an investigation of the weapon.“It sounds as if it’s quite concealable,” Flanagan said on Tuesday.“I hope they’re not all being sold to bank robbers.” Don Cassidy, executive director of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, said the situation is worrisome.Cassidy said his organization has been pushing for tighter gun laws to prevent the sale of weapons such as the M16R.An armed forces spokesman expressed surprise on Tuesday that a version of the Canadian military’s main personal weapon is available in local stores.“You’re kidding,’’ said Capt.Don Roy at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa.But Roy said the Department of National Defence can’t prevent the sale of military weapons in civilian stores.becers" to respond calmly to the decision on the legality of the sign regulations, part of the U-year-old language law known as Bill 101.A command centre was to be set up in Bourassa’s office according to a battle plan leaked to the media earlier this month.The plan also called for extra security to be on standby for cabinet members on the front lines, such as Justice Minister Gil Remillard.Bourassa "will be the man responsible for any unhappiness in the two (language) communities be cause he refused for three years to put his cards on the table," Guy Chevrette, Parti Québécois leader in the legislature, told reporters Wednesday Bourassa promised to allow bilingual signs in the 1985 election campaign but backtracked in lace of francophone protests and attacks on stores with signs that violated the language law.NEEDS LEEWAY Now.Bourassa is hoping the judgment gives him leeway to introduce a compromise formula; the one most often mentioned would permit bilingual signs inside stores but maintain the French-only restriction outside The disputed regulation Article 58 of the Charter of the French Language — says that all “public signs and public advertisements must be in French only .” Lower courts have ruled the pro vision violâte s f ree do m-o f -expression guarantees in the fede ral Charter of Rights and Free doms But the courts have also ruled, in a case that will also be part of today's Supreme Court jud gment, that Quebec is justified in requiring that French be included on all signs The government is reportedly heartened because today's judgment was prepared by Mr Justice Jean Beet/, who wrote in 1986 that the “courts should hesitate to serve as instruments of change in the area of linguistic rights ” Bourassa has said he hopes a so Opposition continues to use stalling tactics ideo store garni IK ced Wednesday in the Commons, but the opposition indicated that the government will have trouble getting it through by its Jan.1 deadline.The NDP and Liberal opposition continued stalling tactics by calling for a recorded vote on Trade Minister John Crosbie’s motion to introduce the bill.That used 30 minutes of Commons time while members were called.The government wdh the vote 153-109.NDP House leader Nelson Riis said the government will have to use “closure, closure, closure, closure,” to get the bill passed before year end.However, first reading for the legislation.affecting almost 30 federal statutes, easily passed in a second vote 152-113.The bill is required to begin phasing out tariffs and other trade barriers with the United States on Jan.1.It would affect almost every aspect of the Canadian economy from energy to agriculture.Crosbie said later at a news conference had a feeling of déjà vu, having introduced almost identical legislation last spring.BILL DIES The first free-trade bill was passed by the Commons, but died in the Senate when the election was called for Nov.21.Crosbie said it is important to get the free-trade agreement up and running as scheduled Jan.1 for businesses and others with investment plans.Free trade has been touted by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government as an economic bonanza.Critics call it a sellout of sovereignty.It was the main issue in the campaign for the Nov.21 election that saw Mulroney’s government returned with a reduced majority.Although the deal is set to begin Jan.1, the United States has said the deadline could be extended by several months.m ¦ il I - S i Jills* : JD .SÉF*fl s i lllll CORD/GKANl SI Ml.ON Robert Yellin owner of Queen Street’s Club Video says it isn’t right for Lennoxville to outlaw pinball and video machines.He wants the bylaw changed.See page 2.lufion can be found through political compromise.“Wo are the only one of 62 gover nments on this continent respon sible for protection and promotion of French culture." he said, adding that he also wants to respect individual rights.Bourassa said be hopes to avoid a split in his caucus over the issue.Some francophone members believe Quebec should use the controversial escape clause in the Constitution to override any judgment that goes against the sign rule; some anglophone members are apparently ready to resign if he doesn’t change the law to allow bilingual signs.English test sparks blaze in Montreal MONTH EAL(CP) The head of the union representing Montreal firefighters charged Wednesday that the city took advantage of two candidates for the job of station captain by making them take a test in English.Under an injunction issued by Quebec Superior Court last week, the city must not force applicants seeking the job of station captain to pass a written test in English.But union president Michel Lefebvre said the city acted unfairly by making two candidates for the job of station captain take English tests between the request for the injunction and the ruling by Mr.Justice Louis Tannebaum on Dec.7.Lefebvre said he is considering filing charges of contempt of court if the city does not give the candidates, who failed the exams, another crack.The injunction is a temporary one and applies only until the legality of the tests can be determined by the Office de la langue française.a provincial agency charged with mediating disputes between employers and staff on language issues.The 1,750 member firefighters’ union has asked the agency to rule on whether the city has the right to impose English as a requirement for a job as captain.The union claims the hiring criterion could hamper the promotion chances of some firefighters.Arguing before Tannenbaum last month, union la wyer Gino Cas-tiglio described the English exams as unfair, saying they could block promotion for firefighters with long years of service.Knowledge of English has always been a requirement for the post but in November, the city introduced the written tests.City lawyer Diane Lafond noted that the Office de la langue française has already upheld a similar requirement for district fire chiefs.Loose lips libel suit cost taxpayers money By Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA (CP) — Loose lips, sticky fingers, low-flying aircraft and over-zealous customs officials contributed to the thousands of goofs, misdeeds and accidents that cost Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars last year.Those are the horror stories Auditor General Ken Dye didn’t reveal when he presented his annual report on government waste and mismanagement to Parliament this week.Instead, they are buried in the government's annual financial statement for the 1987-88 fiscal year ended March 31, the four-volume Public Accounts which were quietly tabled in the Commons this week.The loose lips, which cost the government $20,000 in an out-of-court settlement last year, belonged to former Liberal fisheries minister and now senator.Pierre de Bane “Damages for remarks made on the news media — International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc.$20,0000,” is how the lifeless accounts list that payment of tax dollars under a section on damage claim payments.Ministry officials, however, confirmed the payment was rela ted to remarks by de Bane during the heated debate over the seal hunt But that cost was peanuts compared to the $10.5 million — up from $6 9 million a year earlier — that Ottawa was forced to write off thanks to the theft, damage or loss of its property.Ottawa doesn’t carry insurance on its billions of dollars in property so when something disappears taxpayers swallow the loss.Among the items stolen: A titration system — whatever that is worth $27,034; one pair of night-vision goggles worth $4,611 and another pair — obviously up scale — valued at $8,000.And there were hundreds of other less-costly items — magnetic screwdrivers, wheelbarrows, sleeping bags, gardening equipment, flashlights, electric pencil sharpeners.to name only a few — that came out of the pockets of taxpayers and ended up in the hands of thieves.FRAUD COSTLY Fraud, most of it by customs and tax cheats, also cost Ottawa $5.9 million, “an amount not expected to be recovered.” Other losses of money, most of it due to fraud, some of it petty cash, left the government short by $2.3 million, again an amount not expected to be recovered.Errors were also costly.One malpractice suit cost $400,000; the improper dismissal of an individual.$85,000.Low-flying aircraft — only one of many such payments — resulted in the payout of $38,869 to a fox ran cher.Under damage claims, the De- fence Department got stuck with a $220,000 payment to New Brunswick for the province’s assistance in fighting a forest fire near CFB Gagetown.While Dye’s report questioned the military s fire power, the public accounts suggest the military at times has too much fire power — artillery fire on the base started the blaze which destroyed hun dreds of square kilometres of forests and buildings.Another $25,000 went to a Hamilton couple who in March 1987 were strip-searched and had their motor home torn apart by customs officials looking for drugs.The officials, whodidn'tfind any drugs, said at the time that they acted on a tip from a “reliable source.” The accounts also reveal that the Solicitor General’s Department, among other things, paid $12,000 in an out-of-court settlement for the alleged mistreatment of a prisoner.And the RCMP paid out $1.2 million in hundreds of settlements related to assaults, arrests, property damage and numerous car accidents.Adding to the taxpayers’ burden were hundreds of other payments for everything from a skirt damaged by a faulty chair to injuries blamed on a faulty refrigerator QPF raid Levy’s office MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec provincial police have raided the offices of the law firm representing Marc Levy, whose PCB warehouse in nearby St-Basile-le-Grand caught fire last August, sparking one of the worst environmental disasters in Canadian history, court documents indicate.About 3,300 people in St-Basile, St-Bruno and Ste-Julie were forced to flee their homes after the Aug 23 blaze and were not allowed to return for almost three weeks.Levy was reported in Florida shortly after the disaster and is believed to be there still.Quebec Court Judge Gilbert Morier issued a search warrant Nov.24 giving provincial police the right to search the Montreal offices of law firm Martineau Walker.The raid was carried out in the presence of Quebec Bar officials.Martineau Walker has filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court to determine where and when a judge will decide whether the seized documents can be made oublie.The lawyers said the documents must remain confidential because they received them as part of a lawyer-client relationship.Origin licrof ilmet varying intensities because the text 2yish or colour background. j—Tli*‘ IIKCOHD—Thursday, December 15, !!•«« The Townships 'Discrimination is more subtle today" Sherbrooke students discuss human rights during 40th anniversary h i I By Rossana Coriandoli di te vlllOlVdOi V' SHERBROOKE - The wat- chdog of the provincial human J % j * , rights association said people often ‘ ' ‘ i V > y forget that children have the same rights as adults.“Human rights apply to children too," Jacques Lachapelle, president of the Quebec human rights commission said in an interview Wednesday.“People forget that they’re little humans whose rights are protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.’' Lachapelle was correcting a statement made by the director of public relations at the commission, Paule Sainte-Marie, in an inter- Quebec Human Rights Commission president Jacques iMchapelle was in Sherbrooke Wednesday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights.He was also here to see how well local schools have done in teaching their students about their rights and those of others.view two weeks ago Sainte-Marie said the commission deals only with cases of discrimination which does not include child abuse.And that those cases are within the jurisdiction of the provincial Youth Protection Committee, Article 39 of the Quebec charter specifies that all children have the right to protection, safety and the attention of his or her parents or those whose responsibility it is to look after them.As child abuse is a violation of that right, it is the commission’s role to step in, Lachapelle said.Lachapelle was in Sherbrooke Wednesday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights.The declaration, passed by the United Nations in the aftermath of the second world war.was adopted on Decem-z ber 10, 1948.It covers civil, politi-3 cal, economic, social and cultural 1 rights.g Lachapelle said the Canadian x Human Rights Commission fol-a lows the universal declaration p while his own commission follows ~ the regulations set by the provincial Charter of Rights and Freedoms, implemented in 1976 and initiated by the Quebec League of Rights and Freedoms, founded, among others, by Pierre Eliott Trudeau.Lachapelle said there has been a change in the kind of discrimination brought to the commission’s attention since the charter was put into practice."At first cases of flagrant discrimination were most prevalent,” he said Discrimination is more subtle today,” Lachapelle was also in Sherbrooke to look at efforts made to teach students and other citizens about fundamental human rights."One of our first objectives is to inform people about their rights,” Lachapelle said.The commission received a federal grant to help promote the charter and the declaration of human rights.The money was distributed to schools throughout the area to promote student projects that would help them learn about human rights.MOCK TRIAL The commission awarded the Sherbrooke elementary school Le Carillon a grant of about $250 which the teaching staff used to organize several events, including a video of a mock trial.The case involved students playing the roles of lawyers and judges, defendant and accused, witnesses and jurors.Le Carillon student Caroline Grégoire said she and her classmates learned a great lesson from the experience."I found out that we have plenty of laws but we don’t pay attention to make sure we respect them.” the ten-year-old said at Wednesday’s press conference."Sometimes we forget that other people have rights.” Normand Dauphin, director of the commission’s regional offices, said although the charter and a universal declaration of rights have brought about many improvements, there is still work to be done.But children's education in this area ensures the protection of human rights, he added."With these young people’s participation we can have hope for change,” Dauphin said.“They are the gauge for a society that is well protected.Young people are now looking through an open door towards a future that means truly respected rights.” ‘Bound to increase’ Age discrimination seen often in Sherbrooke SHERBROOKE-Withanaging population, the question of human rights violations may become of greater importance to older people than with their children.Out of the 183 cases investigated since Sherbrooke’s Quebec Human Rights Commission office opened in 1986.141 cases dealt with discrimination on the basis of age, according to representative Suzanne Valéry.There were over 7,082 complaints of discrimination brought to the commission’s local office.Valéry said most cases of age discrimination are encountered in the workplace, with 42 complaints about hiring practices, 36 about layoffs, 32 about working conditions and 31 firings.“This kind of discriminatory practice is bound to increase with the aging population,” said commission president Jacques Lachapelle at a press conference Wednesday.Valéry said her office is one of the busiest in the province, next to Montreal, Quebec City and Hull.But she said she solved each case outside the courtroom, and tried to find solutions without carrying the investigations to their limit.SEXUAL HARASSMENT “An investigation is not always the best method,” she said Wednesday."In cases of sexual harassment in the workplace, for example, I give the person being harassed pamphlets we publish on the topic so they can put it on the harasser’s desk.” “Harassers stop as soon as they know the person (being harassed) knows they are protected under the law," Valéry said.“The harassment stops right away almost in every case.It takes subtle solutions to subtle harassment.” Valéry said there were 26 cases of sexual harassment under investigation in the Sherbrooke area in February 1987.Suzanne Valéry.investigation not the best method.Sherbrooke group vows fight against welfare-reform law will gather strength By John Tollefsrud SHERBROOKE — Opponents of the welfare reform law, Bill 37, yesterday to denounce the bill’s passage by closure in Quebec's National Assembly Tuesday.The Sherbrooke area welfare recipients said the real fight has just begun “The battle is far from over," welfare recipient Mario Mercier said.“We re headed towards a much greater struggle.” He said women's groups, religious and student organizations are all rallying against the welfare-reform, which stipulates higher welfare payments for those under 30 years of age but links the cheques to w'ork or study pro- grams.Welfare payments are currently $178 per month for recipients under 30 and the amount will increase to $487 per month beginning in Jan.1990.Mercier, discussing the issue with eight fellow welfare reform opponents, expressed confidence the fight will intensify in the coming year.He also said legal experts have suggested several parts of the legislation could be challenged in the courts.Mercier is a member of FRA-CRAPP, or Front d'action Contre la réforme a Pierre Paradis, a coalition of local groups dedicated to scrapping the welfare-reform package.He said the key now is to continue to publicize objection to the law and to recruit as many groups as possible in the campaign."What’s important now is to form a tie with the union movement," Mercier said."Our responsibility as a group is to maintain and encourage collective opposition." He went on to say the onus was on all groups in society to stand up and be counted on the issue of welfare reform.“We believe every group in society has to take a position on this matter," Mercier said.“There aren't two or three fights, there’s only one." Asked about his reaction to Tuesday's passage of Bill 37, Mercier expressed disillusionment.“I realized we (welfare recipients» weren’t represented (in the National Assembly),” he said, adding that 800,000 Quebecers live on welfare.In reference to a recent proposal that welfare recipients work for government-subsidized wages at the Bromont Hyundai plant, Mercier and others present called for decent wages and decent jobs, not the use of cheap labor.’ Mercier concluded by saying two elements were now needed in the fight against the welfare-reform law.The first was a daily effort to talk about the issue and the second was a broader tactic emphasizing poverty in Quebec society.Small but concerned: Local welfare recipients discuss complaints about Quebec welfare law.'It's a ridiculous law’ Queen Street storeowners want Town Hall to let them keep video games By Ann McLaughlin LENNOXVILLE — The town is trying to run pinball, pac man and poker games out of town.Dépanneur, restaurant and other storeowners along Queen Street who have electronic games on their premises received notices mailed a few weeks ago from the Lennoxville-Ascot police, informing them about the the bylaw.They were given ten days to get rid of the games, or face the municipal judge.The only exemptions are for establishments with full liquor licenses such as bars, taverns and brasseries, reads bylaw 404.The ten days are now up and the pinball and poker games are still around and the storeowners are waiting for the town’s next move.The storeowners are angry.They want to know why the city suddenly decided to enforce a by- —______ftg-1 Jkfecnra George MacLeren, Publisher.569-9511 Randy Klnnear, Assistant Publisher.569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager .569-9525 Richard Lessard, Production Manager .569-9931 Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent .569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent, Composing Room.569-4856 CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: $180 Subscriptions by Mall: 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 (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by The Record Division, Groupe Québécor Inc.OHices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publications: 60c per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy.law in 1988 that was passed in 1977.DOESN’T SEEM RIGHT "We don't have the right to have video machines unless we have a liquor license, it just doesn’t seem right,” said Robert Yellin who for over a year has had one pinball and a zap-the-alien type game in his video store Club Video.“It’s a ridiculous law.The video games don't disturb anyone.Customers come in, play a few games, rent t heir movie and leave.Noboby hangs out playing them all day." he said.Yellin suspects that the video poker games, which have recently surged in popularity in Quebec, are what riled Metro-police He is angry that to ban the poker games the town is banning all video games.Accomodation P.M.L.has four video poker games operating in a back room of the store and owner Gaétan Tardif was also surprised to discover he was breaking the law.“I have never had any trouble here, we don’t let children under 18 play and I want to know why the poker games are suddenly illegal.I called the police and they gave me a stupid answer.They told me that they don’t want people on welfare spending all their money in video machines," Tardif said.ONLY IN THE BARS “But bars are allowed to have them." he added.“If people play poker here they might buy a soft drink for $.50, if they go to the bar they will buy beer for $2 or $3.It’s much more expensive to play there.” Tardif said that keeping the video poker games out of the bars is a better w’ay to keep the peace.“How many times do the police raid the Georgian because fights break out between drunken people arguing over poker?” Tardif asked.Tardif said he wonders where the police pressure originated."Is it the town or the hotel owners who want to stop our business?" Tardif questioned."They've had them in the bars for years but as soon as others have them, they make us stop.” Lennoxville-Ascot police, however, said they have their reasons for enforcing the bylaw.WILL PROSECUTE “A year ago we tolerated them, but now the poker games are everywhere so we decided to enforce the law, and we are going to prosecute,” said Capt.Jacques Gagnon, adding that the judge would determine the amount of the fines.Gagnon said police are really after the poker games and removing them is a form of prevention.Gagnon said he has seen some storowners paying people who win at the games, and that is illegal.“Paying winners of the poker games is running a gambling house.It’s an offense under the criminal code,” Gagnon said.“We would rather enforce the bylaw than start arresting and prosecuting people.” Gagnon said the police were concerned about citizens' wellbeing, especially the financially disadvantaged and welfare recipients, adding that the poker games are a trap.“You spend $50 to win $20,” he said.“I saw a woman with two young children playing poker all day in a restaurant, each day.If people can’t govern themselves properly, it is up to us to protect them," he said.NOT HEAVY GAMBLERS Lennox ville restaurant ,4 L'Abri has four video poker games and owner Carmen Labrie says at lunchtime some customers play a few games while waiting for their lunch hour to end."The provigo crowd comes in.eat their lunch, play a few games, have a coffee, that type thing,” Labrie said.“They don't cause trouble.Sometimes two or three play and they all have a good laugh.They are not gamblers, they’re only having a good time,” she said.Labrie has a full restaurant liquor license and could not understand why she was told to get rid of her machines.She said she called metro-police but no one returned her call.The storeowners don’t know what they'll do, some have washed their hands of the matter by passing the police notices on to the machine rental companies.Yellin said he will leave his pinball machine in the store and wait to see what happens.“Maybe I'll fight the city in court." he said.Weather Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU Snow this morning, clearing in the afternoon although the temperature will drop.Friday, sunny with cloudy periods, the high -15.A PUBL 1C BUS ?NOW.NOW! etnm/iPNTir mcWsmu.BE EASIER OUST TASTE TOP j TO PAVE MV APVEWUPE; WVCK, ion: iyiks?V' / ICDCkAV?, t' - WED UKB TWO YOU NEED TICKETS, PLEASE1 TOKENS AND WE'PE OFF TO l DON’T THE GAME! 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CROSS-COUNTRY But the Eastern Townships are not the only ones to benefit from the victory as the federal law soon to be passed will forbid garbage imports across the country.The trucking of solid wastes from the United States to dump sites in the Eastern Tow nships will stop Dec.28.Environnment Minister Clifford Lincoln announced in Quebec City.Lincoln introduced new régula lions setting fines of up to $25,000 for people and $50,000 for businesses w'ho accept dry waste from outside the province.The anti-garbage coalition has cancelled a protest march on government offices scheduled for today considering it no longer necessary.Meanwhile in Ottawa, Transport and interim Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard promised the coalition he would introduce legislation within the next two months making it illegal to trans port garbage across the border.JUST BAD MEMORY Bouchard made the promise at a meeting with the coalition.Sherbrooke Ml* and Sports Minister Jean Chares!, Agriculture Minister Pierre Blais, Richmond-Wolfe MP Yvon Cote and Environment department officials."We hope in three months it will just be a bad memory." Morency said at a press conference Wednesday.In a meeting with Lincoln Mon day.a coalition of 12t> Townships municipalities and other organizations demanded an end to the dumping of tonnes of building w'aste from Boston-area demolition sites and ash from American incinerators at a site in St-Denis-de-Brompton.The coalition complained that taxpayers would eventually have to pay to develop and inspect new dump sites and were concerned that the loads might contain toxic waste.New England trucking companies haul the waste to Quebec be cause of cheaper dumping fees.STOP DUMPING At the meeting Lincoln promised he would stop the dumping as soon as possible."That was a half-victory.We needed the other half and we got that today." said Morency, who has travelled to Quebec and Ottawa in the past 48 hours to discuss pos sible solutions to the waste problem with government officials.Morency said environmental issues are society’s concern and that it was up to the population of the Townships to say no to things like imported waste and the nuclear reactor being considered for the Sherbrooke University Hospital tCHUS).And he added that they have now found allies at both go vernment levels Morency and other members of the coalition have decided the best way to continue protecting the en vironment is to form a Conseil En vironmontulv Est rien.PILOT ZONE “We have done something posi live and we want to continue," Morency said, adding that the Slier brooke area has now become a pi lot zone for environmental protection."Mission accomplished Thanks Estrie.” Morency said he now plans to take on the battle of the Atomic Energy of Canada nuclear reactor planned for the CHUS, "giving all my personal credibility to the Coalition" CHI'S which is fighting the nuke plan."Its very personal." he said."But 1 am sure many people will be folio wing me." Robert Pouliot.head of the Shor brooke regional municipality, said Wednesday he was delighted with the action Lincoln has taken."We are very pleased he moved so fast,” Pouliot said Rejean Duhamel, president of the company that owns the St Denis de Brompton site, said the new regulations will mean the loss of three jobs at the dump NO CHOICE "But we’ve always said that if the law was changed we would res poet it." he said."We don't have much of a choice.II will mean a loss of business but it was never as important as it was made out to be." “Lincoln’s the boss," added Jo see Bessette, an official of the firm that owns another dump site near Magog."It won’t mean a loss of jobs for us.We had a maximum of five trucks a day arriving from the U.S.” Charest the next environment minister?SHERBROOKE - Rumors that Sherbrooke MP and Minister for Youth and amateur sport Jean Charest may soon be Canada’s next Environment Minister resurfaced yesterday.Garbage Coalition president Pierre Morency said that at his meeting with Charest and interim Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard, the latter said the next environement minister was sitting in that room.The meeting was also attended by Richmond-Wolfe MP Y von Côte and Agriculture Minister Pierre Blais.PLEASED WITH CHAREST The environmental coalition said they would be pleased with the choice of Charest as a spokesman to negotiate an acid rain treaty with the U.S.Charest lives in the region most hurt by acid rain.Charest, 30.was first elected to the House of Commons in 1984 In June 1986, at the age of 28.he became Canada's youngest ever ca binet minister when he was named Minister of State for Youth In March 1988 he was also given the amateur sports portfolio.Following his re-election in the Nov.21 election Charest was reappointed to the sports and youth portfolios.Secretary of State Bouchard was named acting environment minister.Institutions shuffle services to make it easier on the mentally handicapped Jean-Pierre Duplantie.Reorganization to deinstitutionalize mentally handicapped.By John Tollefsrud SHERBROOKE — Two réadaptation centres for the mentally handicapped are being reorganized in an attempt to reduce the number of institutionalized patients in the Sherbrooke area.“The winners are going to be the mentally handicapped and those who need the services," said Jean-Pierre Duplantie.director-general of the regional health council.One of the changes announced yesterday is a transfer of 40 pre-vocational places from the Centre de Réadaptation Estrie (CRE) to the Centre Notre-Dame-de-I'Enfant (NDE).The move is part of a plan to eliminate the duplication of services at the two centres and thereby create two distinct institutions to serve different clientele.The CRE has five full-time professionals in areas such as phy- siotherapy and audiology and serves as a transition base for mildly handicapped people to enter or remain in the work force.After the 40 places for the more seriously handicapped are transferred from the NDE, a total of 110 workshop places will remain in two Sherbrooke branches and one each in Lac Mégantic, Windsor.East Angus and Asbestos.From the administrators' point of view, the shift towards separate services makes far more sense than the old system.“It’s unthinkable to suggest we can provide all the services,” Armand Marcoux said.Marcoux is the president of the NDE’s administrative council.The NDE serves medium to severely handicapped people who require more time to enter mainstream society.Marcoux praised the realignment, saying it would allow the mentally handicapped and their families to receive consistent service from one of the two institutions, rather than being shuttled back and forth.At present the NDE does not have any therapists, but the new arrangement will change that as the CRE will provide professional services for the centre.Duplantie, head of the Conseil Régional de la Santé et des Services Sociaux de l'Estrie (CRSSSEt, also announced additio nal funding from the Quebec health ministry on the order of $42,000 for each of the two centres along with a $4600 grant for the anglophone Dix-ville group home in Lennoxville.The money provided to the Dix-ville home is unrelated to the reorganization and is to be used for mentally handicapped children, Duplantie said.The restructuring of the CRE and the NDE reflects progress towards more efficient services for mentally handicapped persons, Duplantie added.He argued that the health ministry should recognize the distinct character of the two centres and should allocate budgets separately.CRE director-general Gilles Servant was also present at yesterday’s press conference to lend support to the realignment.He said two objectives lay behind the change.“It prevents the duplication of services,” Servant said, and “it provides pre-vocational workshops for those who aren’t able to reintegrate." The 1988 89 priorities of the CRSSSE were also published yesterday and included unemployment problems, family violence, accessible anglophone services and defining regional challenges.Armand Marcoux.Providing all services is impossible.Richmond shoe plant future bright despite free trade threat — President ‘Many small entrepreneurs will decide there’s abetter future in pizzas’ H.H.Brown employee makes safety shoes at Richmond plant.ip By Rita Legault RICHMOND — “Free trade is not a threat to people in Rich mond,” the president and chief of operations of H.H.Brown Shoes, the largest employer in the town said yesterday.“Yes, it will have some effect on the footwear industry but it is an alarmist thing to say it is catastrophic,” said Stevenson, who was in town to witness the 32nd millionth pair of shoes manufactured at the Richmond plant.While most people in the soft industries, such as shoes and textiles, are terrified of the free-trade deal with the United States, the 35-year-old plant which employs 500 locals is not worried.“The company will be in Rich mond for many more years to come," Stevenson said, adding that consumers are not only looking at price when they buy H.H.Brown shoes.“It’s the quality, service, and all the other elements we provide.” MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKS Plant manager Jules Lachapelle agreed with bosses' interpretation, calling free trade pessimists Monday morning quarterbacks who prematurely predict a catastrophe before all the facts are in." “We have been successful in Canada so far,” Lachapelle said, ad ding that the company has had five years of continuous growth in sales.“When opportunities in the Is it just a license plate?U.S.present themselves, we will be ready.” “I have no crystal ball," Stevenson said."But I do have a strategy for this company." He said he thinks the company will survive because of its size and because only one per cent of its production is exported, all of it to the U.S.“Smaller companies, on the other hand, I don’t think have what it takes to compete,” Stevenson said.Following the implementation of free trade, H.H.Brown will see the consolidation of many small companies, he added.“Many small entrepreneurs will decide there’s a better future in pizzas than in shoes,” Stevenson said.NOT VULNERABLE The company is also not as vulnerable as a fashion shoe company which must go to Europe and the States to check out the latest fashions.H.H.Brown specializes in quality safety work boots and cowboy boots, said Stevenson.“We are not going to be starting ladies shoes." Stevenson said.“We will be satisfied to grow intelligently in the categories we do well.” Stevenson said that because H.H.Brown shoes has been in the Canadian market for more than 35 years it understands the market better than newly arrived Americans.This, he said, will give them another edge in competition with U.S.companies.“Is an American company KKK plates won't be recalled, but will be replaced at By Scott David Harrison It's quite simple actually: you buy a car.pay for insurance, go to the Régie de L'assurance Automobile du Quebec and pick up your license plate.Simple, right?Wrong.Not only did I find myself out of a lot of money, but when the license plate the clerk handed me read KKK-0331 was less than enthusiastic.Not that I m against the number 33.but 1 hardly wanted to spread the idea of racism around on the back of my Toyota Tercel — which also happens to be white.Do I really want this plateon the back end of my car?’ I asked.Without much of a choice.I had to accept the plate even though 1 put up a mild fuss about the plate's letter association with the Ku Klux Klan But the Regie has told The Record the government issued, ran domly picked KKK license plates may now be changed without a commotion.KKK-TOTING DRIVERS Jean-François Racine of the Régie said the KKK plates will be re- placed at no cost to the consumer.All the KKK toting driver has to do is take his plate to the Régie and have it replaced.“With the KKK series in Quebec we didn't think we d have any problems." Racine said.We don't have any problems with the Ku Klux Klan in Quebec." But he did acknowledge a problem may exist outside Quebec “We do have a lot of Quebecers that go down to the southern United States They pass through states like Alabama or Georgia, where there could be a problem." he said "If those people want to change (their plates), it's no problem.All they have to do is bring it in and we ll change it." Racine said that their are 999 of the KKK plates on Quebec roads, a large portion of which were handed out in the Sherbrooke office.WE LL REPLACE IT “What we re going to do is, if a person feels he is being prejudiced against with the license plate, we ll replace it." “We honestly didn't think we'd have a problem." he said from his Quebec City office.But Racine didn't say the KKK coming in going to understand customers as well as we do?” he asked.Of course, Stevenson admited, there will be some challenges when free trade comes into effect.But he said the company will deal with them as they come.“We have to ask ourselves ’how can we handle ourselves in this new environment?’,” he said.“This will mean changes down the road But surely we are agressive enough to make those changes." SOCIAL PROGRAMS Stevenson said the main problem is the stong, valuable Canadian social structure which artificially increases the price per pair.“Because of lower labor costs the U.S.is in a better position to do business in the textile and footwear categories,” Stevenson said.“Here it costs us $7.50 to manufacture a pair of shoes.This is compared to $6 or $6.50 in the States.” Contrary to trade deal critics, Stevenson said there will be lots of pressure on U.S.companies to pick up more employee social benefits, and he foresees labor costs coming closer together rather than further apart.The present duty on shoes is 23 per cent and it will be reduced at a rate of 10 per cent per year, he said.“If there are any actuaries in the room, they aren’t going to be here next year,” Stevenson joked, adding that while it will have some effect on the industry, it will not be catastrophic.Stevenson.No threat to Richmond.LOW PRICE IMPORTS One more protection is from ve ry low price product coming in from Third World and less develo peri countries, he said.But Cana dian footwear manufacturers will be protected from goods diverted to Canada from these countries due to regulations which insist on 50 per cent American content in shoes.Anti dumping legislation will prevent large manufacturers from dumping massive quantities of shoes on the market at lower prices than in the U.S., Stevenson said.H.H.Brown Shoes was recently awarded two federal contracts totalling $1.3 million to make boots and shoes for the Canadian Armed Forces.no cost if consumer insists plates — which, because of the three letters, have been associated with the white-supremacist movement < Ku Klux Klan) — will be recalled Racine said although the plates will be replaced at no cost, the Régie isn’t about to demand a total recall of all 999 plates.“(We won’t ask for a recall) because if we wanted to recall the KKK series we could easily write to the people who have the KKK plates.” he said.Racine said when Quebec plates are manufactured the Régie tries to filter out the more contraversial three letter words He named SEX and GAY as english examples that will never hit the streets.He also named CUL and its English conn terpart as words people see on the road.“With an alphabetic letter sys tern you try to stay away from pro blems like this." he said."We don’t c hoice what goes on a license plate scientifically.We choose the series that we think might not cause a problem.” “With KKK we didn't think we’d have a nrohlem " I The Iti:( design.It’s available at Canadian l ire stores and features a 15-round magazine, a short barrel and a pistol grip that makes it possible to tire the weapon from the hip, and miss everything you aim at.The first question that comes to mind is why anyone would want such a rifle?It is useless for target practice and very impractical for hunting.Any self respecting marksman would not touch it with a ten-foot pole.So what type of market are the manufacturers aiming at?Why does it not surprise me that such a revolting weapon is selling like hotcakes in Ontario?One down town Ottawa store cannot keep up with the demand and is awaiting a new shipment of the sold-out M 16Rs before Christmas.Every self-respecting Rambo fan must have one on his Christmas list.According to Ontario Provincial Police the weapon meets provincial standards and is legal to sell.All a prospective buyer needs is a $10 firearm acquisition permit from the local police force.No problem.Permits are available to any adult who hasn't been convicted of a violent crime in the previous five years, hasn't lost or been refused a licence and doesn't have a history of violent mental illness.What a comforting thought.But the availability of the M16R worries Ottawa policemen, who say they hope the weapon isn't being sold to bank robbers.They have ordered an investigation of the weapon while other police have been pushing for tighter gun laws to prevent the sale of weapons such as this one.A spokesman from the Department of National Defence says it can t prevent the sale of military weapons in civilian stores.Is this beginning to sound like our neighbor to the south, where ordinary citizens defend their contitutional right to bear arms?,Iim Lawrence buddies and fans may note that, apart from military applications, the M16R is best suited for hunting defenceless small game such as groundhogs and rabbits.RITA LEGAULT Tadeusz Letarte tries to offend.and succeeds By S.L.Black Ho hum.I sec that Tadeusz Le-tarte’s habitually tiresome column has become a bit more tiresome than usual recently.He has switched in his column of December 2 from "humour" to championing the free speech of such worthy organizations and individuals as the Church of Jesus Christ Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan, and Malcolm Ross, who denies that the Holocaust has taken place.Mr Letarte undoubtedly is trying hard to offend.and I want to let him know that he has succeeded.I am not offended that he would support f reedom of expression, although it is surprising that he would do so in a column better known for trivialities than for intelligent discussion of moral and legal issues.I am also not offended by his parallel between the right of an Israeli (i.e.Jewish) professor to dtmy the Exodus and Mr.Ross’s right to deny the Holocaust.It apparently has not occurred to Mr.Letarte that there is a small diffe- Commentar rence between claiming that an event 3000 years ago never happened, and claiming that an event within memory, supported by overwhelming physical evidence and eyewitness testimony, never happened.It also has not occurred to Mr.Le tarte that those who deny the Holocaust have more in mind than simple historical truth.If the Holocaust did not happen, then many people, eyewitnesses, people who have suffered profoundly, are liars.If the Holocaust did not happen then Hitler was not as bad as he seems, merely misunderstood and he was, after all, very efficient and capable.If the Holocaust did not happen, there must be an international Jewish conspiracy to suppress this "truth".And if people can be made to believe that the Holocaust did not happen, it is it to happen again, None of these views of Mr.Letarte offend me (well, not very much».Instead.what offends me is Mr.Letarte’s gratuitous statement that “Of all the people in this world, Jews must know that you don't destroy an idea by persecuting it.” Leaving aside the question whether asking the court to decide if Mr.Ross has violated Canadian law is "persecution" equivalent to that suffered by the Jews at the hands of the Nazis, there remains the troubling claim that it is Jews li e.all Jews) who are responsible for the law suit.I am not sufficiently familiar with the details of this case to know whether the law suit has been initiated by a single individual, by a group of individuals, or by an organization, or whether any of the people involved are Jewish (Mr.Letarte does not tell us).Nevertheless, Mr.Letarte holds all Jews collectively responsible.This certainly is offensive.If there is a lesson to bo learned from past expe- not so unthinkable that they can allow rience, it is that prejudice begins when an entire population is held responsible for the actions of any one of its members.1 do not believe Mr.Letarte made his remark with anti-Semitic intent, and I accept his right to support in print whatever unsavory cause he chooses in the name of freedom of expression.However, he should recognize that the issue of free speech and whether it should be limited in any way is a difficult and complex issue poorly suited for discussion in the superficial manner of his column.In fact, as a long-time occasional reader of his column, I can say that while his .earliest work was sometimes mildly amusing, it has been merely boring for a long time.Perhaps Mr.Letarte should re-read those initial efforts to see if he can re capture the original spirit of the column.On the other hand, this may be too severe a punishment.S.L.Black Lennoxville Letters Christ is left out of Christmas Dear Editor, I have noticed in the Record a number of times that articles are written in the paper Xmas for Christmas.Like "No item in toy stores this Xmas ", Dec.9th Record It means Christ is left out of Christmas.X means what it is wrong or nothing.Without Christ there would be no Christmas.God gave the greatest gift that was ever given.His Son.Matthew 1 21: And she shall bring forth a Son and thou shall call his name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins.Jesus means Saviour.Matthew 1:23: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name, Emmanuel, means God with us.Christ means His Diety.Jesus is His earthly name and Christ is His heavenly name.God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, are the Trinity, three in one.God gave us his best gift, let us give Him our best gift, ourselves.As each one reads this letter, let him or her say, I believe, come into my heart Lord Jesus, my heart’s door is open.Forgive my sins.I give myself to you.Amen.God bless you all.Have a Merry Christmas and a Hapy New Year.Esther Dix Lennoxville CSIS has cleaned house — report By Jim Brown ( )TTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has put its house in order and is finally developing into the kind of agency that Parliament inten ded ’’ say the civilian watchdogs who monitor the service.A year after the head of CSIS resigned over a bungled wiretap, the service has tightened its operating rules and is running a first-rate anti-terrorist operation, the five member oversight committee reported Tuesday.¦We believe the security service has indeed turned the corner," said Ron Atkey, the former Tory MP who chairs the all-party committee.In their annual report tabled in the Commons, committee members defended CSIS against allegations that it mishandled its investigation of Sikh militants before the 1985 bombingof an Air-India jumbo jet.They also rejected claims that the security service w as responsible for letting a convicted Palestinian terrorist slip into the country last year, or that it later blocked efforts to get him out.And they said the service has apparently given up its habit — inherited from the former RCMP security ser vice that was disbanded in 1984 — of harassing labor unions and domestic dissidents.PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE The most pointed criticism they offered was that CSIS is better at day-to-day operations than at longterm analysis.The committee suggested the government may want to set up a new agency, outside the security service, to handle "strategic” analysis and make sure intelligence reports get routed through the bureacratic channels to the people who can make best use of them.One proposed solution would be to create a kind of intelligence clearing house, modeled on the Australian government's Office of National Assessments.Reid Morden, who took over as director of CSIS in September 1987, welcomed the "positive tone" of the report following a year of turmoil.Morden replaced Ted Finn, who quit after the service admitted it had relied on a discredited informer to get judicial permission to tap the phone of a suspected Sikh militant in British Columbia.The revelation made the evidence gathered by the tap inadmissible in court and forced the Crown to stay conspiracy charges in the shooting of a visiting E’unjabi cabinet minister.ABSOLVES CSIS Later, there were allegations that the erasure of other wiretap tapes deprived investigators of vital evi dence in the downing of the Air-India jumbo jet, which plunged into the Irish Sea in June 1985 after a terrorist bomb apparently went off on board.But Atkey, reiterating a preliminary opinion first delivered a year ago, said the oversight committee has found no proof that key evidence was lost The service routinely erases tapes, but only after making transcripts, The committee also absolved CSIS of blame in allowing Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, a Palestinian activist convicted of manslaughter in a 1968 attack on an Israeli airliner in Athens, to enter Canada as an immigrant."CSIS did not slip up,” said the annual report."So meone did, but it was not CSIS." Atkey refused to say who made the mistake.There have been reports CSIS had a tip about Mohammad's arrival and passed it on to the Immigration Department, but immigration officers at Toronto airport were caught in a shift change just as Mohammad ar rived i|||U! m i) il'iK ' W&- wheres -We Perfce ^Uildir^î SIËS& Laurel for Bernie Epps Sir, It is my pleasure to offer the Record a "Laurel” for publishing Bernard Epps' most prolific, and enlightening portrayals of historical events which occurred in the Eastern Townships more than a century ago.I am a senior citizen, born and raised in the E T Until Mr.Epps’ articles appeared in the Record, I must confess to my near total ignorance of many of his interesting and colorful revelations which took place in “My own back yard" These sentiments are not exclusive to the writer.This correspondent mails each article to an E.T.expatriate in Toronto.He.in turn, sends them to a group of former Eastern Townshippers in Victoria.B.C.These Westerners dispatch the material to Maritimers, who expedite the articles to former Quebecers in Europe.I am confident that you will be pleased to learn, that part of your newspaper enjoys International coverage.To paraphrase one local man, now living in Europe, “Keep them articles cornin’” Len Gingras, Lennoxville Senior couple enjoys Record Dear Sir.I am giving my hsuband an exten sion on his subscription to the Record for Christmas.We are senior citizens and he really enjoys it coming every day.Yours truly, Mrs.Ethel Gilbert Beebe Merry Xmas to you all Life for francophones has improved thanks to Bill 101 By Don Macdonald MONTREAL (CP) — Browsing through the handbag section on the main floor of the Eaton department store on downtown Ste-Catherine Street.Marie-Louise Trudel says the situation for French-speaking shoppers like herself has improved a lot in the last decade.Trudel remembers when she had difficulty getting service at Eaton in her own language in the heart of the second largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris."It was the sort of thing that just made you burn," said Trudel, 63, her blue eyes narrowing under a fringe of soft silver hair."The situation has improved a lot, not only here hut all over downtown, and it's mostly because of Bill 101,” she said in an interview, before rushing off to finish some Christmas shopping.On Aug.27, 1977, Quebecers awoke to a new linguistic order.The day before, the Parti Québécois had passed Bill 101 — a law the government said was aimed at ending the "humiliation" of francophones.Among other things, the law forced stores like Eaton's and Simpson's to change the English possessive form of their names, turning them into Eaton and Simpson.That was only a small example of the changes in everyday life that Bill 101 heralded From offices and factories to the schools of the burgeoning ethnic communities, the PQ had moved to end what it called “domination" by the province's English minority.TENSIONS LOW On Thursday, in a decision that will pack an emotional and symbolic punch for both the French and English communities in Quebec, the Su preme Court of Canada will rule on the provision in Bill 101 that bans commercial signs in languages other than French.“I think linguistic tensions right now are relatively low." said Eric Maldoff, former president of the 40,000-member Alliance Quebec, the main English-rights lobby in the province.“Could it degenerate into a very polarized and tense situation'1 Yes, it could." Claude Morin, former PQ intergovernmental affairs minister and now a university professor, said Premier Robert Bourassa is in for a long, hard struggle if he waters down Bill 101 in response to a Supreme Court decision declaring the law's sign provisions unconstitutional.“For the people, it has become more than a symbol.It is the common denominator." he said.“I don’t know what's going to happen Thursday, but I know that the language problem is not finished.” According to Statistics Canada, there are about 5,3 million French speaking people in Quebec compared with 580,000 English-speaking, and about 90,000 from ethnic groups who speak either French or English or both.In metropolitan Montreal, there are about two million francophones, compared with about 433,000 anglophones.The majority of the ethnic p pulation is in Montreal.Bill 101 crystallized mounting ten sions between the French speaking majority and the English minority ana sel me stage tor years of court challenges, confrontations with so-called language police, demonstrations, vandalism of English signs and the flight of anglophones and their businesses to other provinces.SYMBOL ENDURES The law has endured for more than II years as a symbol —on one side, of the survival of the fragile language of the tiny French minority on the North American continent; on the other, of the determination of the English minority in Quebec to defend its traditional rights.It was the dour, chain-smoking Camille Laurin, then minister of state for cultural development, who introduced Bill 101 with a preamble that stated ".the French language permits the Quebec people to express their identity.” Laurin, a psychiatrist with a penchant for describing Quebec as a patient with a serious inferiority complex, had written the law with the collaboration of a group of academics who were among the brightest in the province.The law they devised entrenched French the official language of Quebec, not only on store signs but in the courts, the legislature and in business.It also sharply restricted the right to an English education and required professionals to pass French-language proficiency tests.Many of the harsher sections of the law have been eliminated or watered down over the years by various court decisions and amendments.Judges eventually ruled that both languages could be used in the courts and the legislature; all printed advertising material could be bilingual; and people educated in English anywhere in Canada could have their children educated in English in Quebec.REMAIN INTACT But the current PQ leadership and members of the former government are united in their insistence that the sign provisions of the law must remain intact to preserve "the French face" of Quebec They want Bourassa to use the so-called notwithstanding clause in the Constitution to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms if the court rules that the sign provisions contravene it Gerald Godin, who brought in a package of reforms to Bill 101 in 1984 when he was PQ minister responsible for the law’s application, said Bill 101 has had the effect over the years of reducing, not increasing, tensions between English and French “I think the English language isn t as much of a threat as it used to be,” said Godin, whose reforms, among other things, dropped the requirement that all staff in English institutions such as hospitals, schools and social service agencies, be bilingual.“The French language has taken its place in the business world.There isn’t a class in Quebec that feels humiliated like in the past," said Godin, who sits in Opposition in the legisla ture as member for Montreal Laurier.But he warned of a severe backlash if the court rules against the sign law and francophones feel they are losing what they have gained under Bill 101 "I think Mr.Bourassa underestimates how attached francophones are to the French face of Montreal And that will be the beginning of his problems,” Godin said Farm and Business Hi*' HKCOKI) Thursday, Dorrinb*1 r 15, HISS—5 the' #¦___gyj uecoxn Ottawa collects $2.3 billion in tax revenue from oil sales Holland tulip industry Feds profit from gas but industry struggles remains a big business CALGARY (CP) - The federal government has been a big winner in the oilpatch this year while the oil companies themselves are ‘ running faster .to stay still," the Petroleum Monitoring Agency said Tuesday.Ottawa collected almost twice as much in taxes on petroleum products — $2.3 billion — as the entire Canadian energy industry earned in net income during the first six months of the year, the agency said in a report to Energy Minister Marcel Masse.A copy of the report was obtained in Ottawa by the Calgary Herald.Net income in the petroleum industry dropped by 29 per cent to $1.28 billion during the first half of the year, the government's energy watchdog reported.The industry cut dividends to shareholders to about $880 million from $730 million in the same period last year."Net income was negatively affected by higher operating costs and increased federal sales and excise taxes," the agency said.The increased tax revenue came from a cent-a-litre increase at the pumps announced last February and put into effect April 1.and the extra revenue collected from another one-cent increase in early 1987 The government, with its 10-cent-a litre federal tax on gasoline, was lust about the only one making any more money from oil and gas development and refining, the agency said.CI TS CASH FLOW "The industry is running faster basically to stay still,” said agency director George Reinecke.The industry's cash flow dropped by three per cent to $4 4 billion despite a seven-per-cent increase in product sales and a 21-per-cent increase in oil and gas production While total downstream income increased by 26 per cent, most of that was because of a 73-per-cent increase in profits on petrochemical sales to $264 million from $153 million in the same six-month period in 1987.Among refiners, income crept ahead by three per cent to $325 million from $316 million, thanks to increased sales and slightly lower costs.Total revenue in the industry rose by a marginal one per cent, mostly because of petrochemical sales, to $23.9 billion from $23.6 bil- lion At the same time, operating costs increased by $600 million to $5 billion.The debt of Canadian energy firms is expected to drop to about $7.5 billion this year from $15.7 billion last year as a result of restructuring after Amoco Canada bought Dome Petroleum.Husky Oil bought Canterra Energy and what the agency describes as the "partial purchase" of Bow Valley Industries by British Gas A survey of 127 companies re presenting about 90 per cent of the industry working in Canada sho wed a surprising increase in eapi tal spending, up 47 per cent to $4 4 billion.But the spending plans were made when the industry was generally more optimistic about oil prices, the report said.Poison-pill strategy is to make hostile takeovers too costly Primary industry next in line to ward off buyouts By Susan Yellin TORONTO (CP) — Resource-, based companies, coming through a boom cycle, will probably be the ones to follow Inco Ltd.'s lead in adopting poison pills to discourage unwelcome takeovers, suggests the president of a Toronto brokerage firm William Allen, president of Al-lenvest Group Ltd., said the pills, designed to make hostile takeovers unattractive, might be tempting to companies basking in the glow of high metal prices."It's reasonable speculation that they are (next) because it's at the tail end of the cycle that these resource-type companies sometimes get extremely undervalued,” said Allen.Allen said some of the companies are finishing their best years ever, but the market recognizes the good times aren't going to last much longer.Allen believes all poison pills, or shareholder rights plans, should go to stockholders for approval first.And he remains a staunch opponent of Inco’s decision to sweeten its pill with a $10-US-a-share special dividend.The dividend was contingent upon stockholders approving the pill.HIGH PRICE A poison pill is designed to make hostile takeovers prohibitively expensive.In Inco’s case and those of many others, the pill would let shareholders buy company stock, or that of the takeover firm, at a 50-per cent discount if the acquiring firm wants to buy more than 20 per cent of company stock without board approval.Alcan Aluminium Ltd., based in Montreal, has already held discussions about adopting a rights plan.Meanwhile, Echo Bay Mines Ltd.of Edmonton and Toronto-based LAC Minerals Ltd., both gold producers, are also rumored to be looking at digesting the pill.Shareholders at Inco were the first to approve the pill in Canada last week.The Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, the country's largest institutional investor, has launched a lawsuit against Inco, claiming the pill is illegal.The court case is expected to begin Friday.Another metal producer, Pegasus Gold Inc.based in Vancouver, swallowed its pill Dec.1 without shareholder approval.It doesn't include any special dividend, but is otherwise similar to Inco's plan.DISPUTES DECISION Mike Arneth, manager of industrial relations for the mediumsized gold producer, said Pegasus directors don’t think the pill should need stockholder approval.But a committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange has told Pegasus it must seek such approval Pega sus is looking at possible options, including an appeal, of the ex change decision While shareholder rights plans are commonplace in the United States, their spread to Canada has been delayed partially because most major public companies here have controlling shareholders who must be convinced.But Arneth.in an interview from Pegasus’s executive offices in Spokane, Wash., said that might now be changing."There are a sufficient number of publicly held companies that do not have such blocks that perhaps now the time has come to say: maybe this is something we need to add to our arsenal, to our tool chest.” 263 securities violations filed against Osier Inc.TORONTO (CP) — The Ontario Securities Commission has laid a total of 263 charges under the Securities Act against brokerage house Osier Inc., three of its executives ami two employees.The charges will be heard in provincial court starting in February, the commission announced Tuesday.If convicted, the individuals could face up to a year in jail, a fine of up to $2,000, or both, on each charge.Meanwhile, a report by Clarkson Gordon, receiver for Osier, is expected to be made public at an Ontario Supreme Court hearing today.Osier’s collapse became public last Dec.16.Clarkson will seek court approval to launch civil actions, the Toronto Stock Exchange said in a release.Losses to Osier’s creditors are estimated at $57 million.The bulk of any recoveries made by Clarkson will be returned to the brokerage community through the National Contingency Fund, used by stockbrokers to protect small investors from brokerage house failures, the exchange said.The Osier failure has already cost the fund more than $25 million, it said.The exchange, following the commission’s lead, also said Tuesday it will begin disciplinary proceedings against Osier and three of the company's principals — Len Gaudet, Tony Chesnutt and Paul Cohen.SEEK FINES The exchange will try the parties on 503 counts, seeking fines and lifetime bans from the industry.The hearings are public, but dates have not been announced.Ontario Provincial Police are al so investigating the Osier collapse.Included among the commission's charges are 42 counts allé ging that Osier failed to meet minimum capital requirements dating back to April 1986 by amounts of between $909,000 and $11,247,000.Other charges include inappro piate record-keeping, giving false information to Osier’s auditors, keeping false monthly financial reports, failing to keep securities segregated and in trust for clients and failing to have repurchase agreements in enforceable, written form.The commission said its investigation isn’t over, and “further proceedings are possible.” Business brief MONTREAL (CP) — The fourth of five Challenger 601 jets ordered by China was delivered Wednesday in a brief ceremony at the Ca-nadair plant and soon after, the owners took off for China aboard the 14-passenger plane.Another 14-passenger plane is to be turned over early next year.A company official said the last two planes are worth a total of $4() mil lion.Canadair president Donald Lowe turned over the Challenger to Gen.Wang Zhen Duo of the Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army, and Xie Da Tong, vice-president of Poly Technologies Inc., the Chinese procurement agency.MALLETTE, BENOIT, BOULANGER, RONDEAU Integral part of Le Groupe Mallette Pierre Robert, C.A., Partner and Consultant Claude Charest, C.A., Partner, Tax Group Terry Hankins, C.A., Tax Group Alain Létourneau, C.A., Audit Group Canadian representation: Ward Mallette & Associates, C.A.Worldwide 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International Flowerbulb Centre, which promotes the sale of Dutch bulbs in more than 101) countries TRADE DOUBLES As bulb production increases at home, more than doubling in the past 15 years, Dutch exporters are keenly looking for new outlets beyond their traditional market base in Europe and North America.The Dutch, also the world’s No.1 sellers of cut flowers, cultivate at least 1,000 bulb varieties, including gladioli, lilies, daffodils and hyacinths.But by far the most important crop is the tulip, grown in every color, shape and size on nearly half the country's 16,000 hectares of bulb fields.Few bulbous plants originate in the Netherlands.The tulip, as an example, was brought to Europe from Turkey in the 16th century.In the 1590s, Carolus Clusius, professor of botany at Leiden Uni versity, first planted tulips in the Netherlands 4*89, y Waterford Light To have and behold.Awe-inspiring Waterford crystal from Ireland.Mouthblown and hand-cut to sparkling brilliance.capturing the 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than numbers.The study, released yesterday, created four categories: women under 25, women between 25 and 35, women over 35, and men.The findings found that single male parents are far better off than their female counterparts Severe loneliness plagues single parent women up to the age of 25, according to the study.ISOLATED “Women under 25 are very isola- ted," Loraine Chagnon said in an interview.“There’s very little support from the natural fathers.” Chagnon is chief author of the report and a community organizer at Gaston Lessard CLSC, which covers east Sherbrooke and several communities south of the city.She added that local social services were explained to the parents en countered in the study.Women under 25 who rear chil dren alone complain of a helpless feeling of not having control over the course of their lives.The report cites single mothers’ rejection by their parents, the falling away of friends, and even the fear of becoming violent.There is light at the end of the tunnel for this youngest singleparent group, however, as many expressed hope in spite of their financial insecurity.One woman told the interviewers that being a single parent allowed her to grow and become more mature.AFRAID OF SELVES But the report cites an overwhelming lack of confidence among un- der-25 single mothers in how well they raise their children.The survey also found contradictions between women’s perception of themselves and some of the answers given in the interviews Most women between 25 and 35 said they are more content with their lives as single parents than they were when living with a man.The report says many find their new freedom and independence makes up for a lower standard of living.Some of the single mothers reported being battered and others told of alcohol problems in their former relationships.But despite the hardships, most seem stable in their single-parent roles.Unlike their younger counterparts, the 25-35 women all had their children in daycare facilities and all had used community support groups.In the over-35 women’s category, the report makes some disturbing revelations.Adultery and violence head the list of motives for family break-ups and most of the women receive only infrequent alimony or child support payments.The report says single mothers suffer a brutal cycle of vulnerability, in which some women feel powerless to improve their situation.As a group, the over-35 women feel the social stigma of being a single parent more than younger women.Some even blame themselves.“The women over 35 often feel responsible for their situation,” Chagnon said.Some over-35 women said it isn't their right to demand financial support from their ex-partners, while others cut off all contacts for fear of reprisals.Harrassment fears cited by the women in the report include threats of suicide by the ex-partner and fears of sexual abuse of the children.The study reported one woman’s husband had committed incest with the daughters.Over-35 single mothers have few friends, many of them having been other couples who disappeared from view after the break-up.Only three male single parents were interviewed but their situa- tions indicate fewer problems than single mothers.The fathers claim stable employment and greater social acceptance, even sympathy, as the factors which make their lives easier.One man said single fathers don’t stay single very long and all three agreed single women face greater difficulty.The Gaston Lessard CLSC report on single-parent families in Sherbrooke East concludes that society must change its attitude towards single-parent families.Calling the situation in Quebec a ‘social nonrecognition’ of single-parenthood, the authors demand proper recognition of this family structure.Chagnon said the growth of single-parent families is ‘ enormous.” She said that in certain parishes of Sherbrooke the rate is as high as 68 per cent.The report recommends publicizing support services such as those offered by CLSCs, and that new services be geared to the specific needs of single parents and their families.Loraine Chagnon.Young mothers are often abandoned.Only mums can decide on abortion Gifts don’t have to cost fortune Dear Ann Landers: Our only son has been going with a young woman for four years.We were never particularly fond of “Marian." but we resigned ourselves to the fact that “George” had the right to choose his friends.We never let him know our feelings, even after he told us they were going to be married.Soon after Goerge gave us that news he gave us more news that really shocked us.Marian is pregnant.I immediately thought tht she had trapped our son on purpose, but I was wrong.Two weeks later he told us that Marian is getting an abortion.Although neither my husband nor 1 are terribly fond of Marian, we want that grandchild 1 have already spoken to her in the hope that 1 could talk her out of the abortion, but she refuses to hear of it.She said our son has hit her twice, she never wants to see him 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Canadian legal system.Believe me, after reading this book, you will never fight a traffic ticket with the same mind set again.By the time you read this, the Supreme Court decision will have been handed down, promising a long hot winter.Has anyone given any thought to the idea that the dreaded Greenhouse Effect may be at least in part due to the language rhetoric here in Canada?At least there is some good news.The government has given a Christmas present to our area in the form of a new group home for anglophone youths who are in trouble.Mike Calouri and many others have worked for years to make this happen.Now it is a funded reality, and as soon as an appropriate place has been found, our kids will start getting a break.Now for a quick overview of Down the Pike By Ashley Sheltus what is happening along the Pike-ly and Yamaskan shores.By the way, last week’s column apparently got lost in the maze of some Sherbrooke computer.Sorry to have missed spreading the word about local events.In Cowansville, the United Church is asking for donations of non-perishable foodstuffs, good toys, games and books.Mitts, socks and hats suitable for boys and girls are also welcome.All donations are to be used in the Christmas Basket Programme aimed at making more people happy at this season than would be the case if the baskets did not get sent.Please bring all donations to the church office on Main Street by December 20.You might also remember the fund-raising drive that the Mis-sisquoi Historical Society has on.Remember too that whatever you give is tax-deductible.If you want to help the museum, give Audry Craighead a call, 248-3323 or 248-2051.Ten thousand dollars is not a huge amount of money these days, but it is all badly needed.If anyone has a friend or relative staying at the Centre d’accueil, 200 Main Street, Cowansville, you might take some time off on Saturday the 24th for a special visit.There will be a mass starting at 3:00 p.m.and following that, a cold buffet and social gathering for all friends and relatives.There is an admission charge of $4.00.Interested attendees should call Maryse at 263-5142.You might also take a look at the gizmo by the front door that' shows how their fund-raising drive is going.It would make a nice Christmas present to add a few dollars to the total before you leave.OK, I know money is tight by Christmas Eve.How about pledging to make a donation?There will be more on this later, but you also might make a note in your 1989 calendar.On January 17th, there will be a slide presentation entitled “Sunshine and Shadows”, given by Cynthia Chalk in Stanbridge East, starting at 7:30 p.m.Finally, the Townshippers’ Association Open House and General Festive Extravaganza on Wednesday, December 21.The locale of this incredible fruit-punch orgy is the church basement, 203 Main Street, between the hours of 2:30 and 6:00 p.m.There will even be a handicraft table there for you shoppers who like to run things right down to the wire.Since this is an open house, naturally there will be door prizes.The good news is that you will not be expected to give back any door you win as a prize when they want to close the open house.Extra doors have been donated for that purpose.In addition to the door prizes, I am reliably informed that there will be “goodies” as well.Come early to ensure a good choice of mystery goodies.A number of Townshipper Directors and ex-directors will be on hand to take complaints, listen to your suggestions on how to maintain the social peace (or stir it up), accept compliments and in general, listen to you.ross Ladd has promised to tell at least one funny story.A lot of fun is promi sed, and will be delivered — but you have to do your part.Come Just a few pointers for prospective Santa Clauses WINDSOR, Ont.(CP) - Wear a glasses for effect, feather pillow, not foam foam And don't stop smiling in the big flattens too much.Glue on your chair.beard and get wire-rimmed That, say practising Santas.ÜXtpplecobe 3ni :>;(< ! how to survive this jolly job.It’s unlike any other, and not just a role, say several men who do it is every season.Just who makes a good Santa?People who already are Santa, who don’t have to act, says Vivian Klinck of Cherry Hill Inc., which hires Santas for shopping malls.Here are a few other pointers for prospective Santas: —Hold infants' and toddlers’ hands before they grab the costume.—If a youngster is frightened but the parent wants a photo, have the parent sit on your knee holding the per person ’ per person (December 25lh) — V: j ^ vue * - —_ » - » - ,vo ' ‘ Celebrate the Holidays with us! 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SCIES à chaîneN< CLMJDE CARDER / -^TT L'*NCÈT"li>Si — Principale East Cookshire (819) 875-3847 | Mondty to Wednttday: 8:00 a m.to J?6:00 p.m.Ç< « oo prMm niunday: 0:00 a.m.to 8:00 p m Mda»: 6:00 a.m.to t:00 a.m.T2 oumcFnit*11 i.m.to 12:00 Nom Ct / tVLMA) \ ^\l| /^c: Î Cowaf^ A A I 1ft—The RECORD—Thursday, December 15.19KX Classified CALL (819) 569-9525 between 8:30 a.m.and 4:30 p.m., or (514) 243-0088 between 8:30 a.m.and 1:30 p.m., Monday-Friday —______ftej HBCam P.O.Box 1200 Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6 Or mail your prepaid classified ads to: | Property for sale SAWYERVILLE — Nice, well kept wood 7 room house, 39 Main Street For more information please call (819) 889 2726 For Rent APARTMENT FOR RENT — 3% furnished, heat and electricity included.$300 / ! month.Availabe January 1.Beaver Pond Motel (514) 243-6878 AYER'S CLIFF — 2 bedroom apartment, Main Street, Ayer's Cliff Available immediately.Call at noon or after 5 p m.at (819) 838-4778.HOUSE FOR RENT in Lennoxville —4%, $325./month.Available January 1.Call (819) 569-8865 HUNTINGVILLE — 5Vi room newly renovated apartment, furnished if desired.For more information please call 562- 8206, LENNOXVILLE —70 Belvidere, 1'/a, heated, furnished, available, 563-3253, 565-1035.35 Speid, large basement apartment, 563-3253.A juntants RELANCil.K HEBERT An integral pari of RAYMOND, CHABOT, MARTIN, PARC Chartered accountants 455, rue King ouest.Bureau 500 Sherbrooke (Québec) J1H 6G4 1819) 822 4000 A Jackson Noble, c.a.Réjean Desrosiers, c.a.Maurice Di Stéfano, c.a.Ross I.Mackay, c.a.John Pankert, c.a.Sia Afshari, c.a.Samson Belair Chartered Accountants James Crook, c.a.Chantal Touzln, c.a.Michael Drew, c.a.2144 King St.West.Suite 240 Sherbrooke JU 2E8 Telephone: (SIS) 822-1515 INDEX, | REAL EÏÏATE1 #20-#39 AUTOmOM #40-#S9 #60-#79 ImilCEIiAnKHlfl .‘ #80-# 100 RATES 11$ per word Minimum charge $2.75 per day for 25 words or less.Discounts for consecutive insertions without copy change.3 insertions - less 10% 6 insertions - less 15% 21 insertions - less 20% #84 Found - 3 consecutive days -no charge Use of "Record Box” for replies is $1.50 per week.We accept Visa & MasterCard DEADLINE 10 a.m.working day previous to publication.Classified ads must be prepaid.For Rent 40 Cars for sale Articles for sale Articles for sale LENNOXVILLE — Vh furnished.Available January 1 till April 30.Rent negotiable Call (819) 565-7633or 569-9551 ext.366.________________________ LENNOXVILLE — 85 Queen Street, apt 201 4'/?room apartment.$415/month Available January 1.Call (819) 562-3979 LENNOXVILLE — Large 2'h basement apartment, heated and electricity included, furnished or not.$250./month Available Immediately.Call (819) 562-1293 LENNOXVILLE — Vh room apartments on Queen Street, close to all services.Available now Quiet permanent person please Call (819) 562-2165.NORTH HATLEY — Commercial location next to municipal parking View of river and lake 400 sq.ft with terrace Immediate occupancy.Call (819) 838-5503 ROOMS TO RENT, also Bachelors, completely furnished, laundry.14 College Street, Lennoxville.Call (819) 847-1900 or 567-6021.TO SUBLET — 4,/2 room apartment.55 Warren Street, Lennoxville.Available immediately.Call (819) 562-8247.3’/2 IN LENNOXVILLE, 1 month free, new and very clean Available immediately Call (819) 822-4382, leave a message.4i/2 - 2 bedroom apartment near Galerie 4-Saisons and C.H U., new building, carpeting in every room, electric heating, sub-lease to June 89, $400 .immediate occupancy Call (819) 562-5721 or 566-1501 1978 PONTIAC LEMANS.V-6, in good condition.Make me an offer! Call (819) 567-1319 1983 TOYOTA TERCEL, automatic, hatchback, only 60.000 km Very good condition, Price negotiable.Call (819) 569-1493 20 Job Opportunities GREAT OPPORTUNITY for someone who can sit up, make adjustments and supervise the operation of a multispindle drilling machine Reply to Record Box 106, c/o The Record, P.O Box 1200.Sherbrooke, Que J1H 5L6 LOOKING FOR A BABYSITTER in North Hatley for a 3 year old child, week days, full time, starting in January Call (819) 842-2851 WAITERS/WAITRESSES Full and part time wait persons are needed to work in a first class country resort.Excellent remuneration and possibilities for promotion French and English essential.To apply call Mr Stafford at Ripplecove Inn.Ayer s Cliff.(819) 838-4296 27 Child Care UNICO DAY CARE CENTRE.20 Winder Street Lennoxville.We are now accepting new registrations for January 1, 1989.Children ages 1 to 5 Call (819) 565-7628 28 Professional Services 29 Miscellaneous Services 31 Travel 32 Music i TO PLACE YOUR PREPAID j CLASSIFIED AD: I TELEPHONE: (819) 569-9525 (514) 243-0088 ! BY MAIL: Use this coupon I IN PERSON: Come to our otlices 1 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke I or 88 Lakeside Street, Knowlton J OFFICE HOURS: | Monday to Friday 8:30 a m.to 4:30 p.m.I DEADLINE: 10 a.m.working day previous 1 to publication S ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE I STREET ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER 41 Trucks for sale 4x4 FORD PICK-UP, 1981, super cab.Only $4.000.Call (819) 842-4290 VISIT SANTA at ACCOMMODATION G.S.103 St.Francis, Lennoxville SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18 1 p.m.to 3 p.m.Drawing for turkey with every $8.00 purchase SPECIALS — FULLY LICENSED - CHRISTMAS TREES 50 Fruits, Vegetables is Articles for sale 80 Home Services APPLES IN STORAGE —McIntosh, Cortland.$l0 /bushel, seconds $6./bushel.Fresh apple juice and honey.Open daily.Heath Orchard, chemin Heath, off Route 143, 6 miles before Stanstead (819) 876-2817 STILL AVAILABLE — Certified organic young beef, yellow and white potatoes, carrots beets and cabbages, Open every Saturday The Brand's, Fellgarth Farm.(819) 842-4149.150 BLIZZARD SKIES with Geze bindings, size 6 Nordica boots Also 170 Tecno skies with Look bindings.Call (819) 843-2019.1951 A J.S 500cc motorcycle, $500.38-55 Winchester, very good, $350.Délavai gas engine.$100.Ferro 10 h.p.Inzoard boat engine, $100.Call (819) 566-4245.FIX APPLIANCES AT HOME - Experienced technicians, reasonable rate, good service, anytime.Call Service Electro Ménagers at (819) 823-6674.81 Home Improvement 53 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) 562-0900.60 Articles for sale ALPINE SKIES, "Elan", for lady, poles and bindings, boots size 1'h.Used twice, $350 for the set Call (819) 562-5978.DARK BROWN RACOON coat, size 14-16 Dark brown Otter coat with pastel mink collar and pastel mink hat.187 Goodhue Street, Sherbrooke (819) 562-4010 Pottery j by j • Lucy Doheny at McRats 1S6 Queen Street Lennoxville S62-8059 December 8-24 also at Pharmacy Valerie Courchesne Lennoxville MOULTON HILL PAINTERS —Registered licensed, class A painters.Also wallpapering, commercial and residential spraying, apoxy paint, spray gun, gyproc joints.By the hour or contract (in or out of town).Free estimates.Call (819) 563-8983 or 567-6585 Lost LOST — Set of keys on Clough Street, near Park, in Lennoxville.Call (819) 563-0437.Personal 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.LENNOXVILLE PLUMBING Domestic repairs and water refiners.Call Norman Walker at 563-1491 NEED YOUR HAIR done at home or need your errands run for you?Call Eileen at (819) 875-5172.ARE YOU LOOKING for a unique Christmas gift for someone you love?How about a 2-week vacation In warm, sunny Cuba Airfare, hotel, 2 meals a day and many other extras - $1,250 /person.Take advantage today of this special tour.Call Randmar Adventures (819) 845-7739 or Escapade Travel (Quebec permithol-der) (819) 563-5344 PI ANC TUNING and repair John Foster, Box 9, Waterville.Cue JOB 3H0.Tel (819)837-2121 or 838-5909 DINING ROOM SET — French Provincial, includes 2 captain chairs plus 6 regular chairs, oval table, china cabinet, like new, good price Hammond Organ, Romance 123" 2 keyboards, bench music books, almost new, good price.Call (819) 565-7133 or 567-0591 FORD GARDEN TRACTOR, model 120, 12 h.p., snow blower, lawn mower, cab and garden plough and harrows, $1,950 40 other lawn and garden tractors in stock - some with snow blowers.Dougherty Equipment Enr, Lennoxville, (819) 821-2590.FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS shopping convenience, order a gift certificate -practical and certain to please.Telephone 567-4344.The Wool Shop, 159 Queen Street, Lennoxville GUITAR — Ibanez, musician series 24 frets, full neck, mint condition Case included.PI us Roland cube amp - 60 watts.Also excellent condition Reasonable offer accepted.(819) 884-2175.LOOKING for a special gift?Have it carved in wood, coat of arms, military, police or club crest, your favourite church or building.Call (819) 849-3956 or take a drive to Baldwin's Mills, follow the signs and visit our craft shop where we have a good selection of gift items including ceramics and hand-made dolls.LUDWIG BURG Gift and Coffee Shop.Come and see our selection of cards, gifts, eel skin wallets, pewter articles, jewellery and German Nutcrackers.Wreaths Order you Pointsettia.Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 9 a.m.to 5 p m.at Place Sanborn, Ayer s Cliff (819) 838-5440 TENT TRAILER sleeps 6, good condition $500.00 or best offer 1982 Dodge Charger, 4 cyl, 4speed, excellent condition, 87,000 km with extended warranty, $2,500 négociable 884-5597.USED CHAIN SAWS: Jonsereds 520 -$250.510 - $200, 520 - $200.Poulan 3700-$250.Micro 25 - $400.3400 - $200., 5-25 -$175 Sthil 024 $250 .028 $250 , 038 -$300 Echo 6700demo - $500 Partner 330 -$230.like new December Special (in stock) - Chain oil, $14.case.All chains up to 16" - $15.99 All bars less 15%.Files -$12.dozen.Limited quantity Stock up now at David Taylor Equipments lnc„ 140 Route 116 Richmond or C.O.D.orders (819) 826-510V_____________ WURLITZER (Orbit III) ORGAN with built-in tape recorder.Please call (819) 567-9356 between 5 p.m.and 9 p m.|63 Collectors SENIORS: Tired of being alone?Join Partners Network - exclusively for unattached 50 plus, singles, USA and Canada.Select a partner from our monthly membership.You might find your mate.Send $2.00 for sample newsletter and information.(Registered with Gov’t of Ontario, Canada).All information confidential.Partners Network, Box 283, Station A, Ottawa.KIN 8V2.THANKS for the response to last year's Eastern Townships books wanted ad! I still want lots of E.T.material but I'm also buying pre-1900 non-fiction Canadiarta and Americana Claude Arpin, c/o The Gazette.250 St.Antoine Street, Montreal, Que, H2Y 3R7.95 Companions 65 Horses I AM 39 year old gentleman looking for someone between 30 and 40.Send photo and telephone number.Reply to Record Box 107, c/o The Record, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6.WANTED: Quiet pony, 50" or over (or half horse).Also small to medium pony team.Call A.Webster (514) 292-5715.4 YEAR OLD GELDING standard bred with papers, trained for Western and harness.Gentle.Call (819) 843-2019.68 Pets GROOMING & CLIPPING, professional.Also boarding.Call (819) 562-1856.REGISTERED American Cocker Spaniel puppies.Toy Poodle puppies.Also Dalmation puppies.All have been veter-nary inspected, vaccinated and health certificates.Call (819) 567-5314.Cars, trucks, campers, motorcycles or boats for sale?Place an advertisement in The Record classified section and sell your vehicle! Call (819) 569-9525 or (514) 243-0088.72 Christmas Trees BRING YOUR FAMILY - Choose and cut your own Balsam Christmas tree on Saturdays and Sundays only from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m.commencing December 3 until Christmas.(819) 563-2163.3 miles from Lennoxville south on Route 143, take the second road on right on to Broadhurst Road, then follow signs.Prices: $12.to $15.Cut trees also available.CHRISTMAS TREES — Balsam, cultivated and wild, Scotch Pine, Spruce, wreaths and boughs.Tree lot on corner of Prospect and Jacques-Cartier at Snow Shoe Club.We deliver.Farmer Brown (819) 562-6261.CHRISTMAS TREES — Cultivated Scotch Pines.Come and cut your own Christmas tree in Hatley Village.The Jensens (819) 838-4792.80 Home Services ALS PLUMBING SERVICE REG.Lennoxville, Sherbrooke and area.Quality work.Resonable rates.Call Robert Stewart at (819) 569-6676 or 562-0215.NUEK COOKSHIRE Ulverton Mrs.A.W.Mace 826-3252 Best wishes go to Mrs.Olive Har-riman who is presently a patient at the CHU.Family and friends from here have visited her several times.Raymond Waterhouse of Melbourne, formerly of Ulverton, who was a surgical patient in Sherbrooke Hospital has returned home.Best wishes are extended for a speedy recove-y.Knowlton Kay Taylor 243-0004 Sadie Laflamme, Dorothy Harding lBrome) and Dorothy Lalonde (Bondville), spent a weekend at Mclndoe Falls, Vermont where they were guests of Sadie’s sister and husband, Mr.and Mrs.Ross Davis.They were joined by Mrs.Leah Worden and granddaughter Danielle, both of Attleboro and Mr.and Mrs.Keith Kerr of Magog.Sincere sympathy is extended to Mrs.Arlene Darbe and members of the family at this time of loss.Her husband, Mr.Hollis Darbe passed away on November 29 at BMP Hospital.Mr.and Mrs.Gaétan Forgues of Bedford with their two sons were calling on the Dennis Taylors recently.Get-well wishes to Mrs.Mabel Moseley who has been “under the weather” a bit recently.Get well soon.PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned secretary-treasurer.THAT during a meeting held on December 6,1988 the council of the said municipality adopted bylaw number 332-88 modifying bylaw no.315-86 with regards to fixing the dates and times the council will meet.PUBLIC NOTICE is also given that the said bylaw is presently at the office of the secretary-treasurer at the Town Hall where all those interested can acknowledge it from 8:30 A M to 4 P.M.Given in Cookshire, this 8th day of December 1988.André Croisetière, Secretary-treasurer.PLEASE DDIklT He per word.Minimum charge $2.75 per day for 25 words or less.Discounts PRINT for prepaid consecutive insertions without copy change: 3 insertions - less CLEARLY 10%, 6 insertions - less 15%, 21 insertions - less 20%.AUCTION SALE For ANDRE MARTEL From Sabrevois The auction will be in DANVILLE SALES BARN INC.Route 116 Danville, Richmond Cty Tel: 819-839-2781 or 2303 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1988 at 1:00 p.m.WILL BE SOLD: 80 good young cows Charolais and Simmental all bred by Charolais purebred bull.These cattles are due to fresh in January, February, March, confirmed by the veterinary and all injected Triangle 8.For information: André 514-466-2725 Terms: Cash or bank loan For information or credit arrangement, contact the auctioneer: ENCANS JULES CÔTÉ INC.1274 South Street Cowansville, Que.Tel: 514-263-0670 or 263-4480 O* O* O* q *o *o Thank Please look over your ad the tinrt day It appears making sure it reads as you requested, as The Record cannot be responsible tor more than one Insertion.0*0*0* *o -o *o ADVERTISER'S NAME_________ ADDRESS.CATEGORY NAME CATEGORY NUMBER PROVINCE .POSTAL CODE.)¦ TELEPHONE PLEASE CHECK FORM OF PAYMENT: CHEQUED MONEY ORDER ?CREDIT CARD ?CREDIT CARD PAYMENT: MASTERCARD ?VISAD CARD NO.(25 words) MAIL THIS COUPON TO: The Record P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1H 5L6 COST OF ADVERTISEMENT: (min.$2.75) $0.11 x_words x days = $_ EXPIRATION DATE SIGNATURE_______ THE RECORD RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT OR EDIT ANY ADVERTISEMENT.I Brigham Doris E.Dougall Mr.and Mrs.Derrick Marier and little granddaughter Clare of St.Lambert were guests one Sunday of Mr.and Mrs.George Patterson.On Saturday, October 29.Mrs.Owen Patterson, Mrs.Eunice Stowe, Mrs.John Madden, Mrs.Cedric Dougall and little Tania de la Mare gathered at the home of Mrs.Norma Sherrer at the noon hour to celebrate Norma's birthday.A delicious lunch, complete with birthday cake, was enjoyed by all, followed by a very pleasant afternoon together.Mrs.Norma Sherrer was a supper guest of her daughter Mr.and Mrs.Michael de la Mare and Tania on October 28.Mr.and Mrs.J.F.Blue of Ingle-side, Ont were recent weekend guests of Miss Doris Dougall and Mrs.Ada Goodhue.They, with their guests, were supper guests of Miss Hilda McEwing on Saturday.November 12.Mr.and Mrs.Cedric Dougall w ere dinner guests on Sunday.November 13 of Miss D.Dougall.Mrs Ada Goodhue and Mr.and Mrs.Blue.Mr.and Mrs.Owen Patterson motored to Perth.Ont.on Monday.November 21 to attend the funeral of Stuart Hawke.• >~i£r CÏ |P & gift tfjat keeps; on gibing tfje entire pear sabes non 15% y f 1 V « I A signed card will accompany each gift subscription.Looking for a Christmas gift that will be appreciated throughout the year?A great way to remember your friends and relatives this Christmas is by ordering them a gift subscription to The Record.It's easy to order and the cost is small compared to the pleasure given each day.Your gift subscription will remind the recipient of your thoughtfulness throughout the year.Home delivery where available CHRISTMAS RATES I ENCLOSE PAYMENT FOR: MAIL SUBSCRIPTION AVAILABLE ONLY WHEN SENT TO: The Record, Box 1200 Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6 1 YEAR 6 months 3 months 1 month Home Delivery jmw jS44rfttr jwifrar surtitr $58.65 $34.85 $24.22 $11.90 JMffî $79.56 NAME: ADDRESS: & CARD SIGNED BY: GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS Crossword ACROSS 1 Hook for landing fish 5 Packaging machine 10 Alencon e.g.14 Jai - 15 Come up 16 Acidity 17 Foundation 18 Acts of breaking up 20 Ancestry 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