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K MS Wednesday Births, deaths.7 Classified .# Comics .9 Editorial.4 Farm & Business .5 Living .6 Sports .n Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, December 28.1988 40 cents Liberal senators not preventing passage of free trade is expected in time to bring the 150-clause bill into effect as sche duled on New Year's Day.Of the 98 sitting senators in the 104-seat chamber, there are 57 Liberals, 35 Tories, five independents, one independent PC and six seats are vacant, WONT GO ON “It has been already, a very, very long chapter and I will try not to prolong it,” said Senator Lowell Murray, chairman of the Senate standing committee on trade, when introducing the bill for second reading.“Never before in the history of Canada and in the history of international trade negotiations has such a consultation taken place,” said the government lea der in the Senate.“The free-trade agreement is supported by eight provinces.and a great majority of organizations representing industry and Canadian expor ters.“The trade agreement, as the prime minister has pointed out, is first and foremost an insuran a1 policy for two million Cana dian jobs." Murray pointed out that the standing committee on external affairs and foreign trade in the Commons heard 158 witnesses during 24 days in the fall of 1987.And a senate committee on exter nal affairs held 43 meetings and heard from 90 witnesses since November 1987.He said the free trade bill, first tabled in May 1988, was debated for more than 160 hours over 39 days.Under the deal, the largest two-way trade agreement in his tory will begin phasing out tariffs a kind of import tax and other obstacles to commerce over 10 years.The Progressive Conservative government invoked closure on all three readings to get the bill thgrough the Commons by early-last Saturday morning.Duck, you’re supper Florida courts won’t give bail money back to Jaffe i William Kenny is manager of Brcme iMke Ducks Ltd.in Knowlton, where annual production reaches almost three-quarters of a million birds.Thai's a lot of piatefcls.And what do you do with all those feathers?Turn the page to find out this and much more about Brome Lake’s favorite namesake.MPs and senators will get raises Townships ." How many days to next Christmas?" CALGARY (CP) - The creaking, sluggish wheels of Immigration Canada turned just far enough last week to grind out a Christmas present for Oscar and Vilma Rivas — refugee status.“I feel so happy,” said Oscar, who came to Canada from his native Chile two years ago, through an interpreter.“It’s the very best Christmas present that we could receive.” The approval of their refugee claim ended more than two years of uncertainty for the Rivas’, but they are only two of the tens of thousands of refugees clogging the Canadian immigration system.For the rest, the waiting goes on.“They’re one of the very few lucky families,” said Morley Stall, an immigration consultant who guided the family’s claim through the bureaucracy.On Jan.1, Canada’s immigration laws change, throwing the fate of more than 82,000 refugee applicants into a new limbo.There has been no decision made” on what rules will apply to this massive backlog, said Wilf Lindner, manager of Immigration Canada’s Calgary office.The federal cabinet has said it will announce Wednesday how it intends to handle the scores of weary, stateless people wanting to stay in Canada.Since a general amnesty has already been ruled out, it is expected to set up a government-appointed panel to deal with the backlog.In an effort to clean up the ever-expanding list full of refugee applications, Ottawa has already set up a board to process new refugee claims, starting Jan.1.SPAN SHORTENED The new process is supposed to hand out rulings in less than three months, a far cry from the TORONTO (CP) - Toronto businessman Sidney Jaffe — whose 1981 kidnapping by bounty hunters created a diplomatic stir with the United States — has lost a lawsuit to recover $150,000 US in bail money from a Florida court.In a decision released on the weekend, an Ontario Supreme Court judge ruled Jaffe’s claim was frivolous.Jaffe, a New York City native, was charged in 1981 of bilking more than 1,100 Florida residents of $2 million US in phoney land deals.Before he could be brought to trial on the charges, Jaffe fled to Toronto.But later that year two U.S.bounty hunters kidnapped Jaffe, 63, and brought him to Florida where he was sentenced to 145 years in prison.While in jail, Jaffe successfully appealed the sentence to the Flordia Court of Appeal and a retrial was ordered.LAWYER ARGUES He posted the $150,000 in bail OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberal mEgority in the Senate abstained Tuesday to allow approval in principle of the bill to implement the Canada-U.S.free-trade agreement.The bill passed second reading by a vote of 24-0 with 32 Liberals abstaining.But one Liberal senator, George Van Roggen, joined with the 23 Conservatives present to move the bill one step closer to becoming law.Van Roggen resigned as chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee this summer because he disagreed with the Senate’s decision to force a federal election on the free-trade issue.“Even though we intend to acquiesce and the bill will become law, our concerns have not disappeared,” said Senator Allan MacEachen, leader of the opposition in the Senate.“Large gaping holes exist.“Critical points still need to be negotiated.” two years of anxiety the Rivases faced.But Gordon Fairweather, chairman of the new Immigration and Refugee Board, said earlier this month that unless the government makes some policy decisions soon, the backlog will continue to grow.Fairweather said that as late as Dec.16, he still had not gotten a list of safe third countries for unsuccessful refugee claimants.“That would have implications for building another backlog and I hope the government realizes that.” Many of those caught in the refugee process may stay in Canada, but thousands could be banished to their homeland if their claims are rejected.They may have to return to their country and take advantage of normal immigration procedures,” Lindner said.And the refugee problem is growing.Federal Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall told reporters in Ottawa last Friday that as many as 160,000 immigrants will arrive in Canada next year, up 25,000 from 1988.About 30,000 of the new arrivals will be refugees, she said.But the future of the Rivases and their five-year-old daughter now is assured — they’re Canadians.As immigration officers handed Vilma a letter for Alberta health care insurance, a wave of joy crossed the young couple’s face.It means they’ve taken one of the final steps toward landed immigrant status, a guaranteed right to work and permanent residence.It also means the Rivases will never have to return to Chile, where they could face political persecution or possible death.and again returned to Toronto, then failed to show up for the retrial in 1983.The Sun Bank of Tallahassee turned the bail money over to the Florida government after he didn’t appear for the retrial.Lawyer Charles Campbell, representing Jaffe, argued his client did not show up at the Florida trial because he was a material witness in the kidnapping trial in Canada of the two bounty hunters.Campbell said the bail terms were illegal to begin with and the money should be returned to Jaffe.But Mr.Justice Robert Reid said he was “not persuaded that the bank had any choice in the matter," noting that Jaffe had unsuccessfully tried to block the forfeiture of the bail money earlier in a U.S.court.Jaffe’s abduction created an international conflict with the United States, when the two bounty hunters were convicted by a Canadian court of kidnapping.He said Liberal senators plan to ask a lot of questions when the bill goes to committee stage on its way through the Liberal-dominated upper house.MacEachen, in a speech that lasted more than an hour, said he is concerned that the powers of the National Energy Board are going to be eroded under the deal.“The free-trade agreement removes its (the board’s) independent status as a regulatory agency," he said.MacEachen also voiced dismay about the future of social programs and what kind of subsidies will be negotiated for Canadian producers.He said Canadian businessmen are already expressing concerns about the cost of social programs, which U.S.businesses don’t have.The Senate, after only a brief break for the holidays, resumed sitting Tuesday and the Liberals have promised to allow the bill to By Robert Russo OTTAWA (CP) — The basic pay package for members of Parliament will rise by three per cent to about $80,000 in 1989 — almost double what they earned in 1980.At the beginning of the decade, MPs earned $44,200.They received a 1.8 per cent increase in 1988 that brought their annual pay to $77,700.Senators, who are unelected and can serve until age 75, will get a $2,000 raise that will bring their annual income to about $70,000.Senators earn the same base pay as MPs but get smaller expense allowances.The annual Jan 1 increase pass by Friday.Earlier this year after the bill had passed through the Commons, it was held up by Literal senators at the request of Literal Leader John Turner, who said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney should let the people decide whether free trade with the United States was desireable.Mulroney called an election Oct.1 and on Nov.21 was reelected with a majority.He quickly recalled Parliament and the bill went through the requisite three readings by early last Saturday morning before being sent to the Senate.After second reading, the bill goes to a committee for a couple of days before it is ready for third — and final — reading and then royal assent on Friday.The bill had already reached committee stage in the Senate when the election was called and it then died.Now, however, final approval has not teen officially set, but under the Senate and House of Commons Act, raises are determined by taking one percentage point off the lowest economic indicator.For this round of increases, the latest consumer price index showed an inflation rate of four per cent, so Parliamentarians got a three per cent hike, said Herve Coulombe, spokesman for the personnel department of the Privy Council office.Prime Minister Brian Mulro-ney’s salary jumps by $4,500 to $153,400.Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau was paid $88.100 in 1980.Most MPs will receive a base stipend of $60,100, up from $58,300, plus a tax-free expense allowance of $20,000.But a handful of MPs representing large, remote ridings will receive larger expense allowances.For example, those elected to represent the Northwest Territories can claim up to $27,400 in travel expenses.Those holding special positions will earn more.Mulroney is at the top of the scale, followed by Liberal Leader John Turner and Commons Speaker John Fraser, who will be paid $126,000 — an increase of $3.700.First bodies head back LOCKERBIE, Scotland (AP) — In a biting Scottish wind, bun dreds of residents lined the streets of this shattered village to pay silent tribute to five Americans killed in the crash of Pan Am Flight 103, as they began their journey home.A lone polkx' motorcycle led a long white truck slowly through town carrying the five plain pine coffins containing the tedies, the first among the 259 crash victims identified and released for burial.Meanwhile, investigators tes ted a suitcase and pieces of wreckage of the jumbo jet in an effort to determine whether the Dec 21 crash was caused by a bomb or a structural flaw.All aboard the Boeing 747, including two Canadians, were killed and 11 Lockerbie area residents in an area where a huge chunk of wreckage fell are missing and presumed dead.An honor guard of Pan Am flight attendants, police, sol diers, U.S.Embassy officials and rescue workers stood quietly as the five coffins were moved from a warehouse, serving as a chapel, and placed in the truck.The crowd stood silently for two or three minutes as the truck left town, heading for tendon, where the coffins were to be put aboard a flight to the United States.Some women bowed their heads, one man raised a hand in a gesture of farewell, and the lord Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire, John Milne-Hulme, who represents the Queen in the region, stood at attention with local council officials.Labrador to use two languages ST.JOHN’S, Nffd.(CP) — Signs in the provincially operated supply stores in four Labrador coastal communities are going bilingual, but not in the English-French way Canadians are used to.In Davis Inlet the signs will be in English and Innu, while in Nain, Ilopedale and Makko-vik they will be in English and Inuit in others.The Innu are Indians who inhabit the southern parts of Labrador.The Inuit inhabit the far north.All four communities are in Torngat Mountains riding, whose representative, provincial Labrador Affairs Minister Garfield Warren, proposed the idea.Warren says he has been pressing for the bilingual signs tecause of concerns expressed by native people who can neither read nor speak English.He said many times they have purchased foodstuffs and other items, only to find out when they got home it wasn’t what they wanted tecause they couldn’t read the labels.“If you’re going to sell a product, people have to know what they are buying,” Warren said.He said $35,000 has been made available for the translation program and it will be done as quickly as possible, hopefully early in the new year.And it is only the start of what he hopes will eventually lead to bilingualism in all signs on buildings and roads and in all nublic notices Federal cabinet will set law for refugees 2—The KRCOKI)—Wednesday, December 28, IliHH Behind the news Record New U.S.plant will recycle useless plastics into usable goods By Carolyn Lumsden LEOMINSTER, Mass.(AI’) -The first plant in the United States to turn plastic items like foam coffee cups and hamburger trays into things like flowerpots, coat hangers and even fence posts opens next month.And its creators expect the $4-million US plant to change the reputation of the maligned material.“I predict that the plastic bashing that’s going on today will stop and polystyrene will become an environmental hero," said Robert Barrett, safety environ mental officer at Mobil Chemical Co.of Rochester, N.Y., one of two backers of the factory.The plant, called Plastics Again, is a converted warehouse with machines that can turn 1.4 million kilograms of dirty cups, trays and cutlery — the amount that 1,000 schools throw away yearly — into hard, pea-size pellets.Mobil and Genpak Corp.of Glens Falls,N.Y., hope to use the pellets themselves and sell them to other companies for making wall insulation, fence posts, flowerpots and packing material, or anything not dealing with food because of the danger of contamination.They expect a profit by 1992.SEES GOOD MARKET Barrett sees a lucrative market because the United States uses 2.2 billion kilograms of polystyrene yearly.He said Mobil has five people searching for cheap sources of used or low-grade plastic film for recycling.One key to the plant’s survival, however, is teaching diners to stack their used cups and trays in a special garbage can so the waste can be collected easily and carted to the l,950-squari‘ metre plant in this industrial town 65 kilometres west of Bos ton.To that end, the company has spent three months carrying out lunchroom experiments at schools in Lexington and Glastonbury, Conn.The company has agreed to take their polystyrene waste for free if the schools use the special garbage cans.The project has worked so well at one school in Lexington that a principal at another complained about being left out of the experiment, said James Maclnnes, assistant superintendent.The reason for its success, the two said, is that children are worried about diminishing land fill space for garbage including polystyrene, which accounts for half the waste in school cafeterias.Maclnnes said 300 teenagers signed petitions last spring demanding that Lexington schools switch to paper from polystyrene, although plastic is cheaper, keeps food warm longer and doesn’t get soggy.FOR ENVIRONMENT The plant is the result of these and many other protests against the material that has become the rallying point of environmentalists.Supporters claim that polystyrene accounts for only 10 per cent of all the plastics produced in the world, takes up only one-quarter of one per cent of the landfill space in the country and takes just as long as paper to biodegrade.The polystyrene industry even volunteered to stop using chloro-fluorocarbons in plastic manufacture by the end of 1988 because it threaten Earth’s ozone layer.Nevertheless, Berkeley, Calif., and Suffolk County, N.Y., have banned polystyrene.Even Gov.Michael Dukakis, in the state where the recycling plant is being built, bas banned state agencies from buying plastic-foam food packaging beginning in July.,, Genpak and Mobil already had in their plants machinery to crumble pieces of polystyrene left over from making plastic trays and other products and to smooth them out into sheets ready for manufacturing again.Researchers from the two companies came up with a series of machines that crumble, wash, dry and remove the air from the plastic particles and turn them into pellets.Massachusetts was chosen because of CRInc., a Billerica-based fleet of trucks started by the liquor industry for recycling under the bottle bill.Climber slightly hurt NeWS-in-brief after fall off mountain QUEBEC (CP) - Mario Laberge suffered only minor injuries when he fell atout 30 metres down a cliff on Christmas Day but he says he’s finished with mountain climbing.“I could have been killed or paralysed but miraculously, I came through,” said Laberge, 23, interviewed as he lay on his hos-pital bed at L’Hopital L’Enfant-Jesus with a broken wrist, sprained thumb, fractured ribs and a mild head injury.“I’ve had it with mountaineering.I like life too much.” The mid-afternoon fall from the top of a cliffin the middle of a forest near the town of Stone-ham, about 20 kilometres north of here, gave him the fright of his life.“I was climbing with two companions when the knot on the rope came undone and I fell,” he said.For more than four hours, he waited below the cliff for help but kept his wits about him.“I was conscious the whole time,” Laberge said.“I thought of only one thing: my back, which was hurting.Fortunately, the doctors have told me that it’s not serious.” CAULS POUCE It took Laberge’s companions more than an hour to march out to the roadway so they could call for police and ambulance assistance.A Quebec provincial police tactical squad was summoned and it took another hour to reach the fallen climber.The rescue team first considered bringing in a helicopter from nearby CFB Valcartier but rejected the idea because the terrain did not lend itself to a chopper operation.Laberge was carried on a stretcher to the roadway by rescuers who took extra care to avoid aggravating any back injury.Meanwhile, rescuers kept chatting so he would stay awake.“My feet were cold and there were so many people around me that I couldn’t have fallen asleep,” said Laberge, who took the fall about 4 p.m.Christmas Day — he had been been expected home later that day for a family dinner.Laberge, a native of Ste-Marie in the Beauce region of Quebec, underwent an operation Boxing Day for the injured right wrist and is expected to be released soon from hospital.In retrospect, he said, it would have been better to get training before tackling the cliff.“I have to say I’m not an expert climber,” he said.“I had climbed before, but not often in snow.“Anyhow, I’m finished with mountain climbing, that’s for sure.You have to to qualified to climb in a place like that.I didn’t know the area, and it’s very precipitous.” Aging airplanes are under investigation WASHINGTON (AP) - When is an airplane too old to fly?Though old isn’t necessarily unsafe for a jet, recent structural failures in aging aircraft prompted U.S.federal officials and the industry to re-examine that question.The effect of aging aircraft on safety gained widespread attention eight months ago when a third of the roof of a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore away during flight, sweeping a flight attendant to her death.Industry experts from Boeing engineers and airline maintenance officials to government regulators and aviation crash investigators were stunned that such a large section — six metres along the top of the plane — would peel away.The plane’s safe landing was described as miraculous.The issue surfaced again in the investigation of the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 last week in Scotland.A massive structural failure on the Boeing 747 — the 15th off the assembly line in 1970 — hasn’t been ruled out.And on Monday, a 35-centimetre hole tore open along the crown of a 20-year-old Boeing 727 belonging to Eastern Airlines, forcing the plane to make an emergency descent from 9,400 metres and land at Charleston, W.Va.#1____tel ¦HBCtBPP George MacLaren, Publisher.S69-9511 Randy Klnnear, Assistant Publisher.569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager 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Circulation Peacekeepers home for Xmas Two Canadian members of the United Nations peacekeeping force protecting the Iran-Iraq border arrived home recently to special Christmas presents — new babies.“She’s gorgeous, she’s beautiful," Signalman Robert Fraser said, holding his daughter Sarah for the first time.But Cpl.John Lachaine was speechless when he saw his son David for the first time.“He was a big boy and I was so happy, I couldn’t speak,” Lachaine said Both men missed the births of their children while serving with the 1st Canadian Signal Regiment’s long-range communications terminal, on peacekeeping duty in the Persian Gulf.The UN forces won a Nobel prize this year for their peacekeeping efforts.Fraser also missed the birth of his son, who arrived while he was on an army exercise in Wainright, Alta., in 1987.Law to make patronage illegal?FREDERICTON (CP) — Noel Kinsella, outgoing chairman of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, has challenged Premier Frank McKenna to get rid of political patronage by making it illegal.Political patronage has always been a problem in New Brunswick and things bave not changed with the new Liberal government, Kinsella said Tuesday.Premier Frank McKenna has said he opposes patronage.Kinsella said the premier can prove it by including a clause specifically outlawing political patronage when his government overhauls the Human Rights Act as it plans to do.Looking for lobster capital YARMOUTH, N.S.(CP) — Yarmouth doesn’t want it all.The southwestern Nova Scotia town has derided to abandon efforts to become known as the lobster capital of the world and will settle for the more modest moniker of lobster capital of Nova Scotia.The change of heart comes a month after town councillors announced they were going after the big prize only to find out there already were two lobster capitals of the world — in Shediac, N.B., and Rockland, Me.Those communities had a 40- to 50-year jump on Yarmouth.Now the councillors are worried that neighboring municipalities might claw their way to the provincial title.Coun.Jan Morrow wants an investigation into whether the title has already been claimed and how it can be registered in the name of all Yarmouthians.The order is a tall one for clerk Bill Scott since there is no place for communities to officially register their lobster catching prowess or anything else.And with reduced lobster landings this year, the entire matter may be academic.Mansion burns down VANCOUVER (CP) — It took nearly three years for industrialist Edgar Kaiser to build his dream house on “millionaire’s row” in the posh Point Grey area, but only about 20 minutes for it to be destroyed in a fire.The 46-year-old multi-millionaire and other occupants escaped unharmed in the Christmas Day blaze.One fireman suffered minor injuries when part of a ceiling collapsed.He was treated in hospital and later released, assistant fire chief Gerry Sheanh said.Kaiser’s lawyer, Peter Stafford, said Tuesday it is suspected the fire started in the living room where a Christmas tree stood.The cause of the early afternoon fire is under investigation, Sheanh said.“It was very scary,” neighbor Erma Bla manfald said.Hole downs jet safely CHARLESTON, W.Va.(AP) — Eastern Airlines Flight 251 from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta landed safely Monday at Yeager airport near Charleston after the 3514 -centimetre hole in the fuselage caused the plane to lose cabin pressure.Two passengers were treated at hospital for nosebleeds and headaches as a result of the decompression, said Gary Chernenko, a hospital spokesman.Passenger Sam Piazza, 55, a former pilot from Boca Raton, Fla., said he and his wife at first thought a bomb had exploded, a possible cause of last week’s crash of Pan Am Flight 103 with 258 aboard in Scotland.“We were cruising along and you could hear the rush of the wind and the pitch of the wind and all of a sudden you could hear a big pop,” he said.“I looked up, and I could see sunlight shining through” the cabin roof, said another passenger, David Moore of Phoenix.The opening in the crown of the fuselage was “about a 14-inch (35K« -centimetre) square hole,” said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jack Barker in Atlanta.“Those things start with a crack and end up as a hole.” Contras release captives TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Nicaragua’s Contra rebels say they have released, on the Nicaraguan border, 104 captives they had held for at least a year in Honduras.In a separate development Monday, an umbrella organization for Contra and internal opposition groups said it had requested a meeting with President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua next week so it can offer a peace proposal.In Honduras, a spokesman for the rebels said all prisoners were turned over to Red Cross, Roman Catholic church and human rights representatives near the border towns of Trojes and Capire.The rebel spokesman, identified as Commander Johnson, said the prisoners released Friday included more than 70 former Nicaraguan soldiers, captured in battles more than a year ago.British hostage released LONDON (Reuter) — Iran has freed a Briton jailed two years ago but the British government cautioned Tuesday against linking the case to efforts to win freedom for western hostages in tobanon.Nicholas Nicola, 23, of London, was release Monday.He returned home on a scheduled Iranian commercial flight from Tehran Tuesday and made no comment to reporters at Heathrow Airport.A British Foreign Office spokesman said Nicola’s release was “an important step forward” in British-Iranian relations which were fully restored last month after a series of expulsions of diplomats last year.Grub to Soviet satellite MOSCOW (Reuter) — An unmanned cargo ship carrying supplies docked with the Soviet Union’s orbiting space sta tion Mir today, Tass news agency reported.The Progress-39 vehicle, launched from Earth two days ago, docked at 8.35 a.m.Moscow time (12:35 a.m.EST) next to the space research module Kvant, which is attached to Mir, the official Soviet news agency said.The docking was guided by ground control as well as the three Soviet cosmonauts on board, Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalyov and Valery Polyakov.The cargo ship carried food, water, mail and other supplies to Mir, which was launched in February 1986 as the core of the world’s first permanently manned space station.Weather Wednesday occasional rain turning to light snow in the afternoon, a high of 4.Thursday will be cooler, sunny with some cloudy periods and a high of -12.Doonesbury Gorbachev resurfaces President Mikhail Gorbachev reappeared Monday after a rare 15-day absence from public events and Soviet television news coverage.In news film of his meeting in Moscow with Herbert Mies, head of the West German Communist party, Gorbachev appeared smiling, rested and healthy — in contrast to the shocked and saddened visage he showed after viewing the carnage in earthquake-stricken Armenia on Dec.11.Since then, he had neither been shown on television, nor reported as attending any public event.He missed no scheduled event, but for Gorbachev to be absent from public view for so long is rare.Gorbachev’s meeting Monday with Mies included a discussion of his forthcoming visit to West Germany in the first half of 1989.Hirohito hanging on TOKYO (AP) — Doctors gave Emperor Hirohito a blood transfusion when his blood pressure fell today, the 100th day he has been bedridden since suffering severe internal bleeding, palace officials said.Officials said the 87-year-old monarch discharged a small amount of blood, but his condition was stable by evening.Doctors gave Hirohito 0.43 pints of blood in the morning when his systolic blood pressure dropped below 100 and his temperture started rising, Imperial Household Agency spokesman Keryi Maeda said.Doctors believed the lower blood pressure resulted from internal bleeding, Maeda said.Africans and Chinese clash BEIJING (AP) — More than 130 African students trying to flee to Beijing were held incommunicado today at a hotel in the central eastern Chinese city of Narying to keep them from angry Chinese students after three days of racial dashes, an official said.About 5,000 Chinese youths chanting “Kill the black devils!” surrounded Narying’s train station Monday as the Africans tried to leave for the capital by rail, U.S.witnesses said.But police would not let the Africans embark and had to carry them from the station, one U.S.student said.“They didn’t want to go,” the U.S.student said.“The Chinese had to carry them out, two officers for every African.” The student said four Americans from Duke and Wesleyan universities, who had joined the Africans at the station, were also taken to the hotel.The disturbances, which began when African students brought Chinese women to a weekend school dance, were the latest in a series of violent outbreaks between African students and Chinese during the last several years.200 drown in Bangladesh DHAKA (AP) — A passenger ship sank Tuesday in the Dhaleswari River in Bangladesh after being rammed by a cargo vessel and 200 people are feared drowned.The United News of Bangladesh said about 60 people swam to safety after an unidentified cargo vessel struck the rear of the passenger ship Shasayal.The report said the passenger ship carried about 250 people.The crash occurred near Narayanganj, 16 kilometres south of Dhaka.The Shasayal was headed for the capital from Faridpur district when it went down, police said.Officials in Narayanganj confirmed the passenger ship sank in more than 10 metres of water and said four todies had been recovered.They said they had no further details on casualties.The United News said angry onlookers attacked and ransacked the cargo ship and beat up its crew members.The skipper of the vessel was missing.BY GARRY TRUDEAU A 5 mow of me ujpjp aub - t MTwssppfAp, memup [ OUr^Pe TUB TDMBPE6AN TOSMBU^ 'rv -/ AW SINCE im STENCH OF PEATH HJU ALWAYS ATTRACT Fuse ANP VERMIN.-M.WSPtRSB .ATONCB'^k 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IbEQYOW PONOT LET YOUR CHIUXEN HATCH THIQ MEANWHILE, INSIPE, THE TRAITOR HAP BEEN FOUNP.YOU’RE IN PEEP POO POO, FELLAH Th«« HKt'OHIV |)i*c»*inbi>r 2S, l%s > The Townships «Bcora Tasty immigrant from China has Empire Loyalist roots Brome Lake Ducks: Breeding, freezing methods keep Knowlton farm on top By Sharon McCully Brome Lake Ducks Ltd.can probably thank the Loyalists for introducing the Pekin duck to Brome Lake when they arrived in the Eastern Townships in 1784.Manager of the multi-million dollar operation, William Kenny, a graduate of Guelph Agricultural College, says the Pekin duck came from China to Long Island, New York and most likely made a first appearance in the Eastern Townships with the first United Empire Loyalist settlers.“Other strains have been brought in and we’re always moving the bloodlines around to get a better product, said Kenny, adding that defining strains and making genetic improvements is a long, slow process — one which began at Brome Lake Ducks 75 years age.ALL BY HAND Arthur Bates counted 2000 ducks on his farm when he began production in 1914.In those days, each duck was slaughtered and plucked by hand.Today, 700,000 ducks are produced annually, generating yearly revenues in excess of $4 million in a highly automated environment.From their early beginnings, the Huffy yellow ducklings are fed a specially formulated product exclusive to Brome Lake ducks.When they are sufficien- l* r * ?¥ V* 4 RK'OKD GRANT S1MKON More than 700,000 ducks a year start their lives as fluffy yellow hatchlings at Brome Lake Ducks.tly aged and fattened, the birds are shackled and electrically stunned to render them unconscious.They are then bled, scalded, and mechanically plucked.A waxing procedure carefully removes the precious down feathers destined for sale in Korea, and later sold back to Canadians in highly priced pillows, jackets, duvets, and sleeping bags.By-products such as feet and tongues have found a niche in the Hong Kong marketplace, while the giblets and livers are exported to France for use in pâtés.Fine Canadian restaurants account for more than half the market for the breast of duck which the company is now promoting in its boneless form.Forty-three employees, many with the company for more than a decade, have watched the company grow from a local operation to a world leader in the field.The employees were feted for their share in the success of the company during a 75th anniversary party held December 10.Office staffer Donna Wiseman Court reporter gets sentimental It was Paul Tardif’s best Christmas present ever COWANSVILLE — You meet cynics and become very cynical as you ply the reporting trade, especially after more than 20 years on the court beat.Sometimes something comes along to give a boost.Humanity can’t be all that bad; otherwise how would it have gone on for so long?SHERBROOKE — A Magog man who died in a packing plant accident last week was apparently not swallowed by a meatmixing machine as was widely reported.The man was working underneath the 5000-pound capacity machine, which resembles a large cement-mixer, when his clothing became entangled in its external gears.Workman Denis Christmas week a talk with Paul Tardif put a lot of things straight.Tardif, on workmen’s compensation for iiyuries sustained the second time he was taken hostage at Sweetsburg Jail, was chatting about spirit or a lack of it.His face, always lively, became almost brilliant in joy.This is his Boudreau, 32, was crushed, not swallowed, Coroner Dr.Allen Fein said Tuesday.Fein also said in an interview safety plates covering the machine’s gears and other moving parts had been removed.Fein added both Boudreau, who worked on the machine regularly, and his Taillefer meat products foreman had never been trained to service the Christmas story.“Some 25 to 28 years ago I was walkingon South St., in Cowansville, and I met this little guy, five, maybe six years old, crying his eyes out.” WHAT’S THE MATTER?“I asked him what the matter was.He told me he’d lost his mittens and his father would ‘kill machine.Neither apparently knew it could be stopped for cleaning and repairs.The coroner’s investigation continues and a public inquiry into the circumstances will be held with a view to avoiding repeats.Fein said earlier reports of the death were in poor taste and might wrongly drive customers away from Taillefer products.him’ if he went home without them.We were outside a clothing store; I took him in and asked if he saw any mittens that resembled his.He spotted an identical pair, “I bought them.They cost less than a dollar, and I sent him home sure he wouldn’t be harmed.” This Christmas week was the time of reckoning.Tardif said he was in having a quiet drink with friends when a man in his early 30s came up to him and said “I know you.” Twenty years as a prison guard gives one an edge on whom one talks to.Paul replied he didn’t know him.“Then he repeated word for word what I had said to him when I bought the mittens,” Tardif said.“He bought me a drink and after he left I simply broke down and cried.It was the best Christmas present I’ve ever had.” — John McCaghey Safety plates removed — coroner Reports got Magog accident wrong The inquiring photographer: Has Christmas season become too commercial?KNOWLTON — Once again Tuesday Record photographer Grant Simeon was sent out to feel the public pulse on a pressing current issue.The Question: Do you think Christmas has become too commercialized, and if so what can be done about it?The Answers: Arthur George, Bolton Centre: “I’ve felt for a number of years it was commercialized, with all the ads it seems too much.Christmas has become too marketed.” “The old-fashioned Christmas was more sincere.The family unit was much closer before.It will be hard to return to the old style because big business presents an obstacle.” “The kids are brainwashed to expect this sort of thing of bring a lot of toys and gifts.” Sandra Jewett, Vale Perkins: “I don’t believe in a plastic Christmas, I believe in the older qualities like taking time with your family because they are more important and make more sense than the plastic society we live in.” “In order to change this we will have to teach our children the values that our parents taught us.” Mary and Boyd Hiltz, Vale Perkins: “Yes! I could have told you that twenty years ago.The stores push Christmas too much.The gap is widening too much between the poor and the rich.” ‘The poor people feel that they can’t enjoy Christmas without buying a lot of gifts they can’t afford.Curb inflation and the poor will feel better.” Luc Poulin, Sherbrooke, Montreal: T feel that Christmas is not commercialized.The people that I’ve talked to said that they looked forward to being with their loved ones, so these people have the Christmas spirit.” “They know that there is a commercial side but that does not deter them from the true spirit.” Luc Poulin.'That doesn’t deter Arthur George.'The kids are them from the true spirit.’ brainwashed to expect this.’ vv’Svy Raymond Tétrcault, Knowlton: “It’s a bit less family oriented and more business and store parties than family get-together.” “Society is geared to the fast pace, we have more holidays but less time to er\joy them.We would have to slow down, but how?We just have to follow the pace.” — Grant Simeon Mary and Boyd Hiltz: The gap is widening too much between the poor and the rich.’ Raymond Tétreault.‘We would Sandra Jewett.'1 don’t believe in a have to slow down, but how?’ plastic Christmas.’ W: M f! tm ¦ ¦¦ wm won the draw for a trip for two to Florida THE OLDEST According to Kenny, there are only four major duck farms in Canada and Brome Lake Ducks is the oldest, and second largest.Among the recent technical advancements at the farm is a freezing method which allows fresh duck to be shipped longer distances.The 12-minute freezing process produces a carbon dioxide crust on the exterior packaging of the vacuum packed ducks.Kenny said the process has opened new markets for fresh duckling on the west coast.Fresh duck is available in some local grocery stores or at the Knowlton Brome Lake Duck farm for around $1.40 per pound.Recipes are free, and the pleasure is all yours, said Kenny.William Kenny.Better freezing means new duckling markets.tm Kl CORD GRAN I SIMI.ON Going after the big one: It starts tomorrow and Danny Langlois will be ready.Danny was busy Tuesday (above) preparing the warming huts that will be placed on iMke Mempremagog for ice fishermen during the next few months.Last year the fishing was not up to par, Danny said.But this year he expects that to be different.This year the big one won’t get away.Other ice fishermen jumped the gun, drilling holes and setting out tip-ups on iMke Massawippi Monday (below).Disrespect for the rules may be why the fishing isn’t any better.) «¦u PRIME RIB ROAST BEEF a.» « >, 8.75,1, 3.97 FRESH GRADE A TURKEYS3 8i ».1.73 CROSS RIB ROAST BEEF >, 5.27 » 2.39 NICHOL’S SMOKED LEG HAM >, 3.28» 1.49 FRESH PORK SAUSAGES 4.39 » 1.99 FROZEN I.Q.F.SCALLOPS Medium elze kg.9.59 lb.4.35 ST.BENOIT GRUYERE CHEESEkg 9.68.b 4.39 BUTTERCUP SQUASH kg i.osib .49 FRESH CANTALOUP s.» 30, usa .98 FLORIDA GRAPEFRUIT white, »ize 48 4 ,or .85 QUEBEC WASHED CARROTS 5 ,b bag .98 FRESH WHITE MUSHROOMS kg 4.39 ,b 1.99 FRONTENAC ICE-CREAM Assorted.2 litre 2.09 CRANBERRY COCKTAIL Ocean Spray.40 oz.2.19 MRS.SMITH’S MINCED MEAT PIEoeog 2.97 FROZEN PATTY SHELLS Pepperidge Farm, 6 pack 1.09 PURE GRAPE JUICE Wiley, 1 litre bottle 1.99 UPTON ONION SOUP French style with wine, 2 pack .99 MILD CHEDDAR CHEESE La Chaudière, 525 g.2.99 SCHWEPPES MIXERS Assorted, 26 oz.59 Tel.S6MS31 4—The RECORD—Wednesday, December 2K, 1!WH Kgcflm The most precious resource The Canadian government should move quickly to resolve the present controversy over the new immigration law scheduled to take effect Jan.1.Opponents of the new law are determined to fight it in court, citing violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.And so the law should be questioned, for in its haste to process the abominable backlog of 82,000 refugee claimants, the government may run roughshod over the Charter.The law will provide people arriving in Canada with a chance to plead their case to an immigration adjudicator and a member of the refugee board within one week of arrival.However, the law will reject claimants who have already been given refugee status elsewhere, or who arrived from a so-called safe country.These people, estimated by an immigration department official to be about 20 per cent, or 16,000 souls, will be asked to leave Canada.The ‘safe country’ stipulation has critics of the law worried because it appears to place refugee protection too low on the priority list.It’s also an arbitrary system prone to be inconsistent.A refugee accepted by one country may not be welcome in another, even if deemed “safe”.The government should list conditions, not countries under which a refugee claimant should be received, as many have argued.Canada should not blend other countries into internal immigration policy, except when it is pertinent, as when a country serves as a launching base for illegitimate refugees to Canada.The immigration department should rethink the law to make it more efficient, fair and independent.Demographic studies have shown that Canada is a nation whose natural resources would be better served by more people.Our low birth-rate must be complemented by a healthy influx of refugees — substantially more than the number currently admitted.Immigration, after all, is at the heart of this nation’s growth and history.The most precious resource in the world is the human one.Canada should deal fairly with refugee claimants, while at the same time stand firm against improprieties like queue-jumping and unscrupulous sea captains who trade in human lives.The immigration department should rework the law to speedily process the backlog of refugee claimants.This can be done without violating anyone’s rights.An efficient law can also be a compassionate one.JOHN TOLLEFSRUD Sex offenders are scum in prison SAINT JOHN, N.B.(CP) — No one ranks lower than a sex offender in the heirarchy behind prison bars.And their presence among murderers, petty thieves and other law-breakers is the cause of much tension and trouble.‘They’re asking prisoners to do time with men who have raped their own daughters, to sit beside them at lunch,” said former prisoner Tom LaRose.LaRose endured 30 days locked in “the hole” at the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre earlier this year when he refused to get along with child molesters and rapists.He was serving 10 months for passing bad cheques.The hole is a small cell with a concrete bed, no blankets and 24-hour-a-day lights.It’s used to punish prisoners who misbehave.The experience was humiliating, but LaRose said he’d rather go back to the hole than be friendly to sex offenders — “the scum of the earth,” he called them.But since 1982, New Brunswick has phased out protective custody for sex offenders and expects other prisoners to live with them peacefully.NOT LABELLING “We’re making every attempt not to segregate inmates by labelling them,” said Brian Mackin, correctional supervisor for the province’s adult institutions.“Certainly, it’s not perfect — there is trouble and some cases require isolation but we think it works.” Many federal prisons contain special sections for prisoners who fear iqjury or death if they mix with the general population.Three penitentiaries — in Quebec, Ontario and Saskatchewan — handle nothing but these protective-custody cases.Makin said that unlike the “death-sentence” stigma automatically attached to high-profile sex offenders in federal jails, offenders in provincial jails are usually serving just three to four months for less publicized crimes.“One reason for doing it is we don’t have the space and another is that sooner or later these inmates will have to get along on the outside,” he said.Sex offenders are advised to keep quiet and guards are ordered not to discuss the offenders’ crimes around other prisoners, Makin said.The Voice of the Eawtern Townnhips since 1897 Editorial Letters St.Francis is losing its woods Dear Sir, For some time now teachers at St.Francis Elementary School in Richmond have been in a quandary.We have seen a threat to the wholeness of our school manifest itself from a most unlikely source.The St.Francis College Board, the owners of most of our school grounds, has seen fit to sell to a local developer most of the wooded area behind the soccer field.This is the only green space in the immediate area; it provides a natural location for a number of school activities, and it is an esthetically plea-sing boundary to the school grounds.The hardwood grove helps to identify St.Francis as the school of a natural area and a rural population.When we heard of this decision, we decided at a staff meeting to do everything we could to save our trees.The dilemma we faced consisted of our choice of options: to go public and ask for community help or to keep the matter quiet and atempt to open a dialogue with the St.Francis College Board with the hope that the members might be convinced to reverse their decision.With some misgivings, we decided on the latter option.It has failed.So with time running out (the lease expires at the end of June, 1989), we have decided to form a coalition with concerned parents of our students and equally upset members of the community.The original charter of the St.Francis College Board stipulates that all of the staff is to be on the said Board.For this reason we and our lawyer believe that the decision to sell the grove was illegal.We, the teachers, with the financial assistance of parents and other concerned citizens, intend to go to court to save our trees.But why in this day and age of ecological and environmental concern, do we have to take such a route?Why has an educational body abandoned a vestige of our history and a living laboratory for our students?It seems that the grove has always been there.A number of us were students here in younger days.The grove was here then, as it must have been for our parents when they were young.Was this its failure?That it was taken for granted as that bit of land in the back of the soccer field.If these trees were part of the disappearing rain forest, would they be more valuable or useful?In this world of ugly buildings, which is more valuable, another squat structure or a wild woods?For years we have taken this grove for granted.We had better begin to treasure it and freeze-frame its image in our memory, for some believe that increasing the tax revenue of the town and depriving it of green space is an example of progress.For some time now the Department of Education has encouraged the study of ecoogy and nature within the science programs.There has been an emphasis on relating all classroom work with the real world.The two seem to be completely incompatible in this situation.For the past few years schools have been offered trees by the Forestry Department to promote reforestation and awarenes of the importance of trees in our environment.Two years ago we planted a number of conifers along the fence which borders the soccer field.None has survived.Imagine if we tried to plant and nurture a decidious grove, a much more difficult project than encouraging coniferous growth.Yet, here we are witnessing the possible loss of the school ground trees while attempting through education to change the wasteful and irresponsible destruction of our larger environment.Can students fail to see the hypocrisy of our position — the difference between what we elders teach and what we elders practise?Such were our thoughts in September when we first heard of this transaction and these remain our concerns.We are all making individual financial contributions to proceed with this battle, but we will need outside help to save the trees.We appreciate any help and encour-gement that any reader may offer.Yours truly, Ronald Ewing Marnie Thompson Esther Healy David Laberee Brian Woods George Morrison Jane Bishop Claire Beaubien «Mes \ Sheila Bowen Allan Nourse Sandra Willey Louise Lamoureux Elizabeth Frank Sr.MacNeil Vincent Parant Peter Taylor Sr.V.Belair | Sr.M.McKenna Keith Whittall Can you name the person?Dear Mr.Bury: I am enclosing a snap-shot (a copy) of a graduating class from St.Francis College, Richmond, taken about the year 1888.At that time, St.Francis College granted Associate in Arts diplomas.Students with that diploma were credited with two years in Arts at McGill University.I can identify three members and one professor of that graduating class.They are as follows: Back row, John G.Moore, Geo.L.Hume, (he later became Dr, George L.Hume, a prominent Physician and Surgeon in Sherbrooke), second row: number one I do not know, number two was professor John Parker, and number three was Hortense Fraser of Richmond.I wonder if any of your readers could identify the first person in the second row.Also, did that class graduate in the year 1888.I am only asuming that that is the date.Some of the people who attended St.Francis College, at that time, later became quite famous — names like A.G.Racey, F.S.Cobum, J.H.McConnell, Norman Bayne, Albert Fransworth.Maybe, some of their descendants might have snap-shots similar to the enclosed, or an old diploma, or any information that might have been handed down by word of mouth.If anyone can provide me with any information concerning that period in time regarding St.Francis College, I woud be delighted.I would gladly exchange any information which I have on the subject.Yours sincerely, J.Clifford Moore P.S.My father’s autograph album contains the signatures of all the above-mentioned persons.C.M.i 4 Resolving never to talk about killer frogs again! This week is perfect for columnists searching around for things to column about.Instead of wracking their brains (?) for hours, now that the sign issue has been beaten to death, we have a ready-made topic coming up at the end of this week.Saturday?No you fool.New Years! Wow! I get a chance to write something without doing any thinking at all!(voice from stage left, sotto voice,“Isn’t that the way you write everything?” “Shuddup!”) Before I tell you of some of the wonderful things coming up in the new year, let me make a few personal New Year’s Resolutions: 1) I promise never to mention African Killer Frogs again.Don’t say however that I didn’t warn you.When the townships are overrun you’ll realize I wasn’t kidding at all! 2) I hereby promise to continue upsetting Bernard Epps and his motley crew of quasi-ecoligical animal lovers (?).3) I promise to only read bilingual signs, not withstanding the not withstanding bill.(And here I thought Bill 101 was the next Pope!) 4) I promise to continue inflicting the adventures of Dunkin McMan-sonville at every given opportunity.That’s more than enough resolutions so here we go with the really good stuff If you’re looking for exciting things to celebrate, look no further.Here’s just what January brings us.1989 is going to be a great year! January 1: New Year’s Day, also known as National Hangover Day Where the pavement ends „ iw/' M >» JIM LAWRENCE — celebrate with raw eggs and tomato juice.Also Eve’s mother’s birthday.January 2: One month before Groundchuck Day when woodhogs all over Canada stick their heads out of their holes.A likely story! Also the anniversay of Queen Victoria saying “We are not amused” in 1990.And neither am I.January 3: Bobby Hull’s birthday (1939) he’s 50 years old today.How old do you feel now?January 4: Anniversay of George Washington’s army being hit by a masive snow storm in 1780, in Morristown N.J.So who cares, right?January 5: Diane Keaton’s birthday (1946) just a kid by Bobby’s standards, she’s only 43.January 6: Epiphany — proof that Christmas is over! January 7: National Snowshoe Day in Potton.Anniversay of the day Dunkin McMansonville ate his snowshoes.January 8: Elvis Presley’s birthday (1935) he’d have been 54 today.How old do you feel now?January 9: Plough Monday.In Canada?Are you kidding?January 10: Sal Mineo’s birthday (1939) lots of famous people will turn 50 this year.January 11: Birthday of Canada’s most famous drunk, Sir John A.MacDonald.Born Glasgow 1815,he’d have been 174 if he’d made it.January 12: Jack London’s birthday (1876) he was the guy who kept going out behind the house to answer the call of the wild.January 13: Birthdays of Sophie Tucker (1884) he was the guy who kept going out behind the house to answer the call of the wild.January 14: This day is guaranteed never to fall in February.A strange but true Canadian fact.January 15: Little Billy smith bom this day 1989.(Prediction) January 16: Martin Luther King’s birthday and strangely enough the anniversary of the mercenary attack on Cotonou, Benin, West Africa.January 17: Anniversary of the coldest day on record all over the east coast (1982) January 18: A sad, sad day.Hang down your head and cry.The anniversary of income tax introduced on this day in 1917 as a temporary measure.I suggest this date as the extra national holiday King Brian wants to establish.January 19: Anniversary of a snowstorm in Miami , Florida.January 20: Happy Birthday to George Burns born 1896.93 and still smoking! January 21: Feast of St.Agnes.Let’s all go over to Agnes’ house for dinner! January 22: Lord Byron’s birthday (1788) January 23: Play it Sam, play it again (or whatever it was he said) Humphrey Bogart’s birthday (1899).He’d be 90 years old — can you imagine a 90 year old tough guy?January 24: Get out the flags for Union Day in Romania.January 25: Robbie Burns Day.I wish you all a haggis, personally I’m planning a wee drop with Doris.January 26: Start of National Fur Care Week, at olur house it’s National Don’t Care Week.January 27: Birthdays of: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756) Lewis Carrol (1832) twas brilling and the slithy toves, and Jerome Kerne (1885).Pick your hero and have a birthday party.January 28: Birthday of Colette in St.Saweur-en-Puisaye in 1873.I don’t know either, so don’t ask.January 29: Annual Canadian celebration of January 29, celebrated in Newfoundland on January 28 at noon.January 30: Anniversary of the beheading of King Charles 1.That’ll teach him, eh?January 31: Annual celebration of it being — 59C in Smith River Be in 1947.Hey, that’s 74.2 below in real temperature! January 32: Celebration of February 1, all over the world.Wow! If the rest of the year is as exciting as January — think of the fun well have! Happy Gnu Year! Tht* KKC'OKI)—VWriiiostluy, Dct omlu i 2S, l!>ss Farm and Business Ucconl 'Now it’s showing upon farms that didn't have it two years ago' Slack controls cited in spread of costly weed Grain farmers work for price-protection policy By Darlene Rude WINNIPEG (CP) - Wild oats, a pesky Prairie weed that costs farmers millions of dollars annually in chemical control, is sprouting up 2,500 kilometres away in Maritime grain fields.The unwanted weed spread from shipments of Prairie feed-grain into the region and is becoming more and more of a problem, said George Burris, secretary-manager of the Altan-tic Grains Council.“We’ve been harping on it sometime,” Burris said from Canning, N.S.“Now it’s showing up on farms that didn’t have it two years ago." About 200,000 tonnes of Prairie wheat, oats and barley are shipped each year to the Maritimes to feed cattle and hogs.Burris blames the mfestation on what he considers slack regulations by the Canadian Grain Commission, a federal agency By David Dishneau The Associated Press Coffee drinkers should get ready to swallow a price increase.Poor growing and harvesting conditions have pushed prices for green, unroasted coffee beans to their highest levels in two years, and roasters say they’ll pass the costs along to consumers.Procter and Gamble Co.says it’ll raise wholesale prices of its ground, roasted coffees by 79 cents Cdn a kilogram Jan.23.Procter and Gamble, which produces Folger’s coffee, also plans increases of 71 cents a kilogram for its special-roast flaked coffee and $1.69 a kilogram for its instant coffees.“All I can say is that coffee is a fluctuating market,” company spokesman Belinda Baxter Thousands of Canadians will soon fly away from the snow and cold weather and spend a few weeks or months in a milder climate.Some may be in for a bad surprise if their trip arrangements do not include instructions for handling their securities portfolios, such as giving a trusted relative, associate or professional advisor a power of attorney to deal with matters like redemption notices, etc.In the scope of the investor alert program, the securities commissions and better business bureaus wish to warn travelers about the consequences of leaving a portfolio behind without a clear process for making decisions.BAD SURPRISES Unpleasant returns can be avoided, especially after long holidays, if investors take the required time to review their portfolio.Here is what could happen if it is not done.A British Columbia retiree was the owner of preferred shares of a m^jor Canadian corporation; they were redeemable and convertible into common shares at any time, and were kept in a bank safety-deposit box.The shareholder left Canada to spend the winter in Florida.Unfortunately, a few days later, the corporation announced the redemption of all preferred shares as permitted in the prospectus.The corporation elected to call them early instead of doing it over a period of a few days.Since the redemption was taking Career which sets standards for the amount of foreign materials allowed in grain exported and used domestically.For example, the highest grade of barley used to feed pigs can contain up to three per cent wild oats, while No.1 feed oats is allowed two per cent.However stricter tolerance levels aren’t the way to keep eastern grain bins free of the grassy weed, said George Leith, head commissioner of the Winnipeg-based commission.REDUCE TOLERANCE ‘They want zero tolerance and that’s impossible,” Leith said.“What they want us to do is drastically reduce the tolerance for wild oats which would require double or triple cleaning.” Leith said Maritime farmers and feedlot operators could make private arrangements to get grain more thoroughly cleaned at a terminal elevator in Welsh in a telephone interview from her office in Cincinnati, Ohio.“We try very hard not to increase our prices any more than we have to, but the price of green coffee went up.” Analysts expect other roasters to follow the lead of Procter and Gamble, the second-largest U.S.coffee roaster behind Philip Morris Cos.’ General Foods division.General Foods, maker of Maxwell House coffee, didn’t comment.The rise in green coffee prices may more quickly affect those who buy freshly roasted beans from bins at gourmet coffee shops, said David Siefer, manager of the Coffee and Tea Exchange in Chicago.RAISES PRICES Siefer said he planned to raise prices by 79 cents a kilogram on Monday.place when the price of the common shares was at a high, the corporation was recommending to convert preferred into common shares.They attempted to inform all shareholders through the news media.The retired person heard about the company’s efforts upon returning a few weeks after the date of redemption, resulting in a loss of $17,000.An expensive trip.This sort of thing has happened to many investors and illustrates that the unexpected must be .expected.One must always make sure that certain precautions have been taken when that is possible in order to prevent such losses.A trip may mean that you miss the occasion to make a good investment decision.Such situations sometimes do happen with rights and warrants because they have expiration dates.The price of rights and warrants varies with that of the underlying securities.Before you leave on a trip, the value of rights may be very low because the exercise price exceeds the market price for a common share.But it might have been profitable to exercise or sell your rights on the stock exchange during your holidays if the market had gone up unexpectedly.The holder of option contracts is likely to undergo the same situation.A takeover bid may also be announced while you are away.Time limits are often short and Thunder Bay, Ont., one of Canada’s main grain ports.Wild oats, native to Eurasia, have plagued Western farmers for decades.The cost of herbicides to control the weed on the Prairies is about $250 million a year, an official with Manitoba Agriculture estimated.Jock Peill, a Nova Scotia grain farmer, said wild oats appeared in patches on his farm years ago but have now infested 25 per cent of his fields.Spraying costs about $50 a hectare.He said farmers have been unsuccessful in getting anything done about the problem, despite years of writing letters and meeting with government officials.NEGLECT DUTY?“From the federal agriculture minister down to the grain commission, the whole bunch of them are guilty of neglect," Peill said from Kentville, N.S.Peill fears the weed will ruin “We don’t have quite the capital the major companies have.They buy by the (16,875-kilogram) rnntainer-load, but we generally have less than 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) on hand.” Prices for green coffee from Brazil, the world’s largest producer, have soared this month as the seasonal rise in North American consumption focused attention on supply problems.Those problems range from drought conditions in Brazil to a rain-delayed harvest in Colombia.In the last two weeks, coffee for March delivery on New York’s Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange has jumped from about $3.34 a kilogram to about $3.92 a kilogram.The tight-supply picture eased somewhat late this week.you could lose money by waiting.In order to avoid those kinds of surprises, you must make plans before leaving.The securities commissions and better business bureaus recommend observing four easy precautions: 1.Make a complete inventory of all your securities You must not leave for holidays wihtout knowing what you' have in your portfolio.Make a list of the securities you have: find expiration dates for rights, warrants and options, and redemption periods for convertible securities.It is important to note which stocks have been bought on margin or given as collateral for a loan.The list will enable you to prevent problem situations.2.Keep your broker informed Leaving for holidays without telling your representative is a serious mistake.Tell your broker where you can be reached by phone or telegram.Decide under which circumstances the broker should make contact — only for an urgent matter or as usual.Also, give your broker a list of securities you keep in a safety-deposit box or at home.3.Give your broker specific instructions Co-ordinate your plan with the broker’s representative.If you wish to buy or sell securities after you are gone, be specific.You may decide upon a precise strategy (if a stock reaches a certain price, sell.) Do not forget to leave with the broker any securities likely to be sold, along with a proxy form.the crops he grows for oat seed, which must be completely free of wild oats before being sold in the province.In some parts of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, ditches of roads used routinely by grain trucks are littered with the weeds, which then move to nearby fields, Peill said.The seeds are also spread by birds, farm equipment and animal waste, The weed is now found in virtually all parts of Nova Scotia, but officials are just starting to track its spread, said David Mel-lish, a provincial crop specialist in Truro, N.S.Wild oats costs about $140,000 to control in 3,200 hectares of infected area in Prince Edward Island, which has the biggest grain industry of the three Maritime provinces, an oftical with the P.E.I agriculture department said.A 10-day Brazilian dockworkers’ strike ended Thursday and the 15-day moving average of overall coffee prices rose above $3 a kilogram.That increase triggered a one-million bag increase in the amount of coffee that producing countries are allowed to export under the rules of the International Coffee Organization.Analysts say supplies are still very tight.In early 1986, under similar conditions, green coffee futures prices rose to more than $7 a kilogram.“We are not up there yet but we may get up there,” said Arthur Stevenson, a coffee-market analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities Inc.in New York.“It depends how much further these weather conditions bite into production.” on vacation Have your mail picked up or forwarded You might ask a friend or relative to pick up your mail.Pay utility bills, and so on.Do not forget to sign a proxy form authorizing the bearer to take delivery of registered mail.Certain important corporate notices are sent by registered mail.Unclaimed registered mail is returned to the sender.The securities administrator in your province or territory is responsible for the protection of investors.If you have doubts whether a particular offering or its sales representative is duly registered, or if they fail to provide adequate information, contact the securities administrator listed in this alert.The Council of Better Business Bureaus and Better Business Bureaus in the United States and Canada answer inquiries on companies located in the areas they serve.Before putting money in any investment plan, it is a good idea to contact your Better Business Bureau for a reliability report on the company you intend to deal with.For more information, contact the BBB office listed in this alert.Commission des valeurs mobilières du Quebec (Montreal): (514) 873-5326.(Elsewhere in Quebec): 1-800-361-5072.Better Business Bureau (Montreal): (514) 286-9281.Better Business Bureau (Quebec): (418) 523-2555.The Canadian Council of Better Business Bureaus: (416) 669-1248.By Darlene Rude The Canadian IVess Canada’s jigsaw-puzzle system of support for grain growers may be pieced together into a single national plan, depending on the success of talks set For January.Up to 100 grain farmers, representing farm organizations across the country, will meet at the end of the month to pore over plans for a national program to help them better survive the ups and downs of world grain prices.A study released recently in Winnipeg by the National Grains Bureau outlines five possible plans that would protect grain farmers from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia against drastic price drops.Existing programs, which vary widely in different regions, have been strained in recent years, said Brian Pad-dock, director of policy development at the bureau, a federal agency created last spring.“Since 1984, we’ve come through some pretty traumatic conditions with three drought years and two trade wars,” he said.“Conditions like that show off where the warts are.” SUBSIDY WAR In 1986 subsidy battles between the United States and the European Community pushed prices for wheat, oats and barley to a 15-year low and put many producers out of business.Prairie farmers received hefty payouts from the Western Grain Stabilization Program, an insurance-style plan funded by producers and government.Ontario farmers collected from the Agriculture Stabilization Act.As well, the federal and provincial governments stepped in with $2.1 billion in direct payments over two years in the Special Canadian Grains Program.But as governments scrambled to come up with programs, financially troubled farmers faced uncertainty about how much cash they would receive and when.MORE SECURITY In November, the Economic Council of Canada recommended comprehensive agriculture support programs to give farmers a more secure safety net.Producers agree that getting the roughly 160,000 grain growers in Canada to agree on a single plan will not be easy.“You’re obviously looking at a fairly mqjor and likely difficult task,” said Paul Sim, policy analyst with the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.“It’s not something you’re (Focus qn Farmingi going to accomplish in six or eight months." Allison McNally, a P.E.I.barley grower, said the main government subsidy for the Island’s small but growing grain indust ry is $13 a tonne in freight assistance, despite the area’s high production costs.Lime must bo added to balance acidic soil, while expensive chemicals must be brought from the mainland to battle moisture-related grain diseases.WOULDNT WORK “There's not any sense in putting an eastern farmer and a western farmer together in the same room," McNally said in an interview from his farm outside Charlottetown.“It’s like bringing a Chinese and a white man together and trying to paint them the same color.” Ross Addeman, general manager of the Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board, said the implementation of the Canada-U.S.free-trade agreement means grain support sys terns must be the same across the country.“It has to be a Canadian system, and not just an Ontario or a Manitoba one," Addeman said from Chatham, Out.PROPOSED PIANS In a nutshell, here are the five proposed programs from the National Grains Bureau: — A government funded sta bilization plan, similar to the one used by Ontario farmers, where payments for individual commodities are triggered when prices fall below a certain level.— Individual contracts, whereby producers and government pay levies into an account for up to a decade.Payments would be triggered when prices fell below a 10-year average.— A government and farmer-funded scheme that would ensure preducers cover their full costs of production in any year.— A program that would guarantee payments to farmers if prices fell below a five-year average.Producers would contribute five per cent of their gross income annually, with matching dollars from the government.— A plan that would pay farmers when the gross value of production drops below a gross revenue guarantee.Paddock said the cost of each program has not been calculated.RNPs and LPN;s }jou Aiake the ‘Difference North Country Hospital knows you’re very important to modern community care.Our 80-bed acute care facility offers excellent opportunities in medical/surgical, obstetrical, pediatric.1CU/CCU and emergency nursing.You’ll be living in the country and yet you're only 90 minutes from Burlington/Montreal.Great benefits and educational opportunties too! 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Some plastics do fall apart at the seams Wife must lose the pounds to save marriage Dear Ann LandersrDoes anyone out there feel as frustrated as I do?I have been married for 20 years and have never been unfaithful.My wife and I have three wonderful children.The youngest is now 10.This was a first marriage for both of us.We are good friends.We share the same philosophy of life.We agree about politics, religion and how to raise children.We appreciate each other’s sense of humor., The problem is that we don t have much of a sexual relationship anymore.We kiss, but that’s about it.The fault is mine.I have no physical desire for my wife.The thought of her body is not exciting or appealing.To be honest, it is repulsive.She has become morbidly obese.She says she has tried to lose weight but she can’t do it.I really feel sorry for her because she loves to eat.I don’t want a divorce, Ann.I love my children too much to break up our home and be separated from them.I don’t want to Ann Landers risk AIDS by going to a prostitute; besides, that is not my style.An affair is out of the question.That’s not my style either.I’ve been reading Ann Landers since I was in college and never dreamed I’d be writing to you.But here I am.Can you help me?—Madison, Wis.Dear Madison: Show this column to your wife.Tell her this letter is from you.Let her know you will do everything under the sun to be supportive if she decides to do something about her weight.She probably needs counseling: as well as professional help with a diet and exercise.Write again in six months and tell me what happened.I’m betting things will be better.uear Ann Landers: In 1942, I was on the staff of a well-known military academy in the Midwest.One day the frustrated father of a cadet came to my office very agitated and upset.It seems he had just sold his prefabricated housing business to the government for several million dollars and he wanted to use some of the money to assure his son’s future.At the same time he did not want to jeopardize his son’s chances of being a hardworking, productive young man by taking away his incentive to work.I understood what he meant because we both knew that the boy was an umtalented wimp with nothing much going for him.Without batting a eye, I looked up very quietly said, “Tie up his money in a lifetime trust fund so that it will provide your son with an additional dollar for every dollar earned after he graduates from college.Make the terms foolproof and tamperproof.This means he will have to work to get the money but he still can live twice as well as he normally would have if he hadn’t had you for a father.” That was excellent advice 46 years ago and it is still good today for any rich father in a similar situation.Pass it along, Ann.— G.B., Calif.Dear G.B.: Thanks for singing my song! Nothing destroys incentive like knowing you don’t have to do anything because an inheritance is right there, waiting.Dear Ann Landers: I was taught to turn out lights to keep the light bills down.My husband says it takes more electricity to turn lights off and on again and that I’m kidding myself.Who is right?— Frugal in Chattanooga Dear Nooga: You win.According to Phillip Rosenbach, coordinator of Conversation Programs for Commonwealth Edison (Chicago), whenever lights burn they cost money.It doesn’t cost anything to turn lights off and on.Childrens’ hospital brought home for Christmas By Ian Bailey TORONTO (CP) — When shoppers buy cosmetics at any of the 61 Body Shop health care stores across Canada, their goods are packed in a plastic bag that’s supposed to be good for the environment.Like bags of Safeway supermarkets in Western Canada, Body Shop plastic bags are designed to eventually fall apart.They’re laced with starch which tiny organisms in the soil eat when the bags end up in dumps.“You’re putting in a natural ingredient — starch — that goes back into the environment,” says Sean Quinn, spokesman for Body Shop.For the store, these biodegradable bags fit in with its socially conscious image.But critics say such plastics aren’t a solution to disposal problems and may threaten recycling efforts.PROMPTS STUDY Complaints from the Society of the Plastics Industry of Canada, which represents plastics manufacturers, have prompted Ontario’s Environment Ministry to study the biodegradable concept.“We want to take a good look at this,” says David Oved, a spokesman for Environment Minister Jim Bradley.“On the surface, it seems like a good idea but the jury is still out.” But Colin Isaacs, head of Pollution Probe, says the jury has already returned with its verdict.“The average person thinks biodegradable means disintegrating; it actually means falling apart,” says Isaacs.After the starch is gone, plastic bits remain to contaminate water leaking from landfills, he says.No organisms can eat plastic, says David Carlsson, senior research officer for the National Research Council in Ottawa.STILL IN DUMP “(Biodegradable bags) make people feel good but do nothing for solid waste in a dump,” says John Angus, a director at Eco Corp.in Toronto.In the 1970s Eco invented MONTREAL (CP) — Mario and Carmen Masone have so much sophisticated hospital equipment in their living room there’s no space for the big Christmas tree they like to put UP- But thanks to such devices as inhalators and oxygen concentrators, the most important ingredient of Christmas is home: their 10-month-old twin sons.The boys were bom more than three months premature, before their lungs were properly formed.The twins spent four months on respirators at Montreal Children’s Hospital and then were allowed to go home — because the hospital, in effect, went home along with them.“It’s a blessing really, a real dream come true,’’ Carmen Masone said in an interview.Her husband said the twins ate well and had fun —just like other kids — on Christmas Day.For the last six months, the parents have coped with tubes to the boys’ lungs and stomachs, the suctioning of blocked airways and even an oxygen tent in the kids’ bedroom.The couple got training from nurses in the hospital’s innovative home-care unit.NEEDS EFFORT The equipment, purchased by the hospital’s Tiny Tim Fund, has made the living room a minihospital, said the mother.‘The- life re’s a lot to taking care of children at home like this but we’re very happy with it because they’re ours, that’s the secret.“Children want their mother when they’re ill like this,” she said.‘They trust their parents more (than other caregivers) and this is important when so much of what has to be done is painful for them, when practically everything is not easy for them.” Backing up the parents is the team of eight nurses and two doctors that makes the hospital’s home-care program possible.The hospital has 232 beds but usually another 300 to 350 youngsters are treated at home, under the service launched in 1964.“Children are better off at home,” Dr.Hanna Strawczynski, director of the service, said in an Jlppctizets Seafood chowder ‘(’ream of Six Onion Soup (Duck Trap Smoked Xroul w/horwodiih sauc* Oysters 'Rockefeller (coquille St-(Jacques Shrimp 'Rémoulade Terrine à I Orange (fresh (h(atne 'Oral ffochtail or Shrimp < w/four peppercorn beurre blanc Sauteed 'Choice Beef Tenderloin au Poiore ^ (Desserts Baked Masha, Jce Box Cheese Cake, ^ and many more.Black (forest Tone Cake.All meals include choice of appetizers, salad, choice of potatoe, rice, fresh vegetable and choice of dessert.% (Music by: ihe Overtime 'Band Playing from 9 00 to 12:30 a.m.Music to suit all from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.All Inclusive Price 55.00/couple a Serving dinners from 5:00 - on 0 Celebrate New Year's Eve with Champagne & Party Favors CHAMPLAI REAL ESTATE PROGRAM COME LEARN WITH US, THEN SELL PROPERTY! For Reservations Call: 802-334-6278 ^ Lake St.Newport, Vermont Ecolyte, a “photo-degradable” additive for such products as garbage bags and plastic foam cups that causes them to crumble into pieces when exposed to ultraviolet light.Ecolyte now is produced and sold in Canada, the United States, the Far East and Europe through Polysar Ltd.An Eco-sponsored poll of 1,500 Canadians showed 84 per cent thought degradable bags were a good idea.And 77 per cent said they would pay more for hamburger packages that would break down.But Ron Evason, president of the plastics society, scoffs at Eco — a society member — saying the more people learn about self-destructing plastic the less endeared they are to it.SEE BIG MARKET The substance used in Body Shop bags is called Ecostar.Based on corn starch, it is produced by St.Lawrence Starch Co.and sold as an additive to plastic.“If we were to take 10 per cent of the market-share in the appropriate plastics industry, where biodegradable plastics fit, it would be like selling 70,000 bushels of com a day,” says Wayne Maddever, spokesman for St.Lawrence Starch.But recycling authorities are worried that if degradable plastics were mixed with other plastics for recycling, the end-product would be weakened.Recycling is becoming more important in cities that are running out of room for dump sites.As Bradley, the environment minister, recently said, Ontarians once annually produced enough municipal garbage to fill garbage trucks lined up from Windsor, Ont., to Whitehorse, Y.T., but a $7.7-million recycling program has eliminated about 26,000 trucks.That program, known for the blue boxes distributed to Ontario households for recycling bottles and cans, now only dabbles in plastic recycling but is to expand soon.“If recycling is what we want to do to plastics, we should be wary about using biodegradability,” says John Hanson, executive director of the Recycling Council of Ontario.interview.‘They recover better in their own surroundings and there are no cross-infections at home af there are in a hospital with other ill children.” NEEDS VARY Some kids at home may need short-term intravenous treatment for a persistent infection.Others may suffer from severe chronic illnesses which, Strawczynski said, can explode into acute attacks that otherwise would require frequent hospital admissions.Strawczynski said most of the seriously ill kids in the program suffer from the same respiratory difficulties the Masone boys face, or ailments requiring blood transfusions, such as haemophilia or an inherited form of chronic anemia called tnelassemia.FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL US AT 563-9574 January 3, 1989 Continuing Education Services Confining dog can lead to hyperactive behavior Most of the time a dog descri- %# I I V bed as hyperactive by the ^ | owner is engaging in too high a level of play, contact seeking or —^ .¦ m « -exercise.Play is characteristic U ^ T O Ai Gk T of young animals.I l sj w Vlr • Dogs can play by themselves.They are also highly motivated to play with members of their social group, other dogs, other species of animals, and humans.A young healthy dog that is a single pet in a household is highly motivated to engage its owner in play.This is often perceived by owners to be hyperactivity.The problem is often compounded by confinement that is used in an attempt to control the dog or to prevent destruction of property while the owners are at work.Frequent play with another dog, long walks and even jogging can be forms of play that will satisfy your dog’s needs.Extremely destructive or damaging play can be stopped by using a startling inhibiting stimulus such as a fog horn.Sometimes owners reinforce their dog’s overactivity.For example, they might chase their dog when it grabs a sock.The dog may think it is a great By Dr.Peter O’Donnell game.Also, some breeds such as sled and hunting dogs have been selected for high levels of activity.Their activity in a home might be overwhelming.True hyperkinesis in dogs is rare.Its treatment must be monitored by a veterinarian.After Christmas Specials Come in and see us! NEW YAMAHA Home Keyboards starting at ^89^ Christmas sounds that strike the right notest Home Pianos large selection of musical instruments ChunpUln RogloruJ College, L»rmo*vÜl».Qu*- JIM ZA1 663-9074 Musique Painchaud Inc.825 Short St.Sherbrooke 569-1015 I Th«> KKl'OHn—W t'dnetulay.Dect'iiibt'r 28, litSH 7 Man has never felt any urgency to improve .,,"m Deaths Deaths' The cover girl on one of the cattle magazines on my desk is a Limousin cow posing proudly with her six purebred calves.The calves are all of the same age and size and there's no doubt at all that the calves are all hers.They all look exactly like her, and besides the magazine says they're hers.All of which is worth a special story because that cow didn't birth a single one of those calves, Actually there was pitifully little romance to that story.First the cow was given a hormone injection so that more than one egg would become capable of being impregnated Then a few hours after the eggs were artificially inseminated with semen from a bull of her own breed, the cow was given anesthesia, hoisted onto a lab table and her newly fertilized eggs were surgically removed.These eggs were then implanted into the ovaries of other cows, one to a customer.Any cow will do for a recipient as long as she is healthy enough to nourish an embryo for nine months and then give birth to the calf.But though the recipient cow carries it all that time, gives birth to it and nurses it afterward, the calf is never hers.In appearance, temperament and in every other way, th'.calf's true parents are the ones which furnished the raw materials that began the whole procedure.To us cattlemen who can now use cheap, scrub cows to produce the most valuable of purebred calves by the dozen, the ability to trans- Gordon Green plant embryos would seem to usher in a dramatic new era; but personally the whole business scares the life out of me.Surely it is only a matter of time now before our sociologists will ask "Why not improve the breed of men the same way our agriculturists are setting out to improve the nation’s cattle?" And they will remind us that as matters stand now there is no sensible selection at all in our present method of propogating the human race.That the great and clever people are in fact the ones who have the fewest children.They’re too busy with other jobs that they deem more important.Seems that this business of progenating kids and raising them is too messy and too primitive to have much appeal to the truly intellectual! But why not induce the great people to just start the procedure and then, just as our more successful cattlemen are now doing, transplant the eggs to some of the healthy young women who really don’t have much else to do nowadays anyhow.Pay them of course.There should indeed be government sub- sidies for such self-sacrificing women because they will not only be giving birth to super duper babies but they will be helping to establish a thriving new industry for the nation.But what of us males who do not have a 6'2’’ football physique, who do not have an intelligence quota of 140 plus, nor a smile like Robert Redford’s?I’m afraid that we would be declared surplus, and that the surplus would soon be so huge that the great people in government might have to establish an army of human drones and promote a war or two to get nd of us.Now since such a scheme involves unnatural sex we might get moral support from the church.The evangelical people in partieu lar would get awfully excited about it, although if they were really consistent in their theology they should realize that there is absolu tely no pleasure in this new scheme for male nor female, something they have been trying to legislate into the race since the day of St.Paul.So to sum it all up, while this new embryo transplant technique promises a bright new day for the cattle business, I take some comfort in thinking that 1 will probably be safely dead before it attempts to rectify the selfish and senseless sex habits of Homo sa piens.The wizardry of our geneticists has after all, been for the improve ment of our animals only.Man has never felt any great urgency to improve himself.Obituaries OPOL SMITH of Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec Opol Smith passed away peacefully at the Maple Manor Home in Ayer’s Cliff, on November 3, 1988.She was bom in Massawippi on November 22,1912, the youngest of four children and only daughter of Henry and Elmina Stone (L’esperanoe).Early in her life the family moved to Greenboro, Vermont where she received her education.Later on returning to Canada the family moved to a farm in Kingscroft, thence her life was spent in or around the vicinity of Way’s Mills, Ayer’s Cliff and Stanstead.On November 26, 1934 she married Donald F.Smith.This union was blessed with five children- Dale, Della, Delma, Dorothy and Delbert.Opol worked hard helping Don on the farm with outside duties.She especially epjoyed working in the garden.After her husband’s death in 1969, she moved to Ayer’s Cliff and became very involved in the community.She was a member of the U.C.W.Fidelity Rebekah Lodge, and the Jolly Twelve Card Club.Opol was always willing to lend a helping hand wherever it was needed and will be missed by her neighbors and friends.Left to mourn her passing are her five children.Dale and Dyanne Smith, Della and Jack Prang, Delma and Wayne Alden, Dorothy and Wayne Mogensen, Delbert and Christina Smith; a brother William Stone of Bethlehem, N.H.and his wife Maijorie; sisters-in-law Waver Johnson of Trenton and Louise Stone of Compton, also several grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom she cherished and loved dearly.On the evening preceding the funeral several members of the Rebekah Lodge conducted their memorial service at the Cass Funeral Home, Ayer’s Cliff.The funeral took place in the Beulah United Church on November 7 at 2 p.m.Rev.Rick Spies officiated speaking words of tribute concerning the life of Opol and sympathy to the bereaved.The organ music was played by Mrs.Douglas McKinnon and included two favorite hymns of the deceased, “Amazing Grace” and “The Old Rugged Cross”.The bearers were grandsons Steven and Scott Smith, Bradley and Neil Mogensen, Jeffrey Alden and Brian Rowell.Interment in the Beulah United Church Cemetery beside her late husband.MISS LUCIENNE POULIN of Milan, Quebec This community was saddened to learn of the death of Miss Lucienne Poulin, long-time resident of Milan, which occurred in Hotel Dieu Hospital, Sherbrooke, on November 21, 1988.She was the local postmistress, 1946-1972, having completed 26 years service at the time of her retirement.Her sister Imelda was postmistress 1926-1946, and sister Irene 1972-1976, making a total of 50 years that the Poulin family were in charge of the local post office.She was the second daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Cyrille Poulin.Born in Notre Dame des Bois in 1908, she came to Milan with the family in 1914 where her father was employed as sectionman on the C.P.R.until retirement in 1941.The family purchased the general store located in the Gil-landers Mclver building from Damase Breton in 1924 and closed out the business in 1977.Lucy and sister Imelda operated the store under the name of L.Poulin & Soeurs.Lucy attended the English school in Milan, the R.C.Normal school in Lambton, and taught in the R.C.French schools in Val Racine, Milan and Lingwick.She was also employed in the Civil Service in Ottawa for approximately 4 years.She was predeceased by her parents, her father on Dec.3, 1961, her mother on Dec.24, 1964, her brother Philippe in 1924 and brother Albert in 1975.She is survived by her sisters, Imelda, Mrs.Gerard Turcotte; Alexandrine; Irene; and Jeanne, Mrs.Gerard Légaré; her brothers Louis and Leon; brother-in-law, Gerard Légaré; sister-in-law Yvette Cinq-Mars; Normand and Suzanna Poulin, nephew and niece.The funeral Mass was conducted by her pastor, Rev.F.X.Raymond in the Milan R.C.Church assisted by Rev.Leo Parent of St.Alphonse de Stornoway parish.Burial took place in the cemetery at Val Racine beside her parents.The sympathy of all is extended to the family in their bereavement.Island Brook Mrs.Garfield Spaulding Mrs.Wm.Osier of Dorval spent a week with her parents Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth Morrow, which they enjoyed as she did many things to help.Mr.and Mrs.Ian MacAulay and Debbie of Montreal and Bruce MacAulay of Dorval spent a weekend with their parents and grandparents, Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth Morrow.Mr.and Mrs.Peter Banks of St.Jean sur Richelieu and Miss Lynda Banks of Sherbrooke were weekend visitors of Mrs.Ruby Banks.Peter did several maintenance jobs for his mother.Angus MacLeod has employment in Barrie, Ont.where he is doing an apprenticeship in welding.He is staying with his aunt and uncle.Mr Henry Shaw is still in hospital where he is improving slowly, the community wishes you the best.Mrs.Terry Howell attended Teachers’ Convention in Montreal recently and also visited relatives and friends.Mr.and Mrs.Mailin Westgate of Kingston, Ont.spent a few days with his mother Mrs.Verna Westgate and visited his sisters and families.Danville Eleanor Besmargian 839-2193 Mrs.Debbie Tisluck (Thompson) has returned from Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic, where she spent a week on a business trip.Vera Miller of Richmond visited Muriel Ames and took her out to dinner at the Auberge Albatros in Asbestos.Muriel was also visiting Verna May and Mildred Lowe at the Wales Home recently.Alice Penney has returned from a trip to Israel, joining a tour of people from the Eastern Townships.She visited Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem and Tel Aviv, and reports excellent weather and a very interesting trip.The Tuesday and Thursday Bridge clubs joined together for lunch at Le Temps de Cerises restaurant for a holiday treat and then gathered at the home of Joyce Beli-veau for bridge.A delicious dessert was served by Joyce and Christmas wishes and gifts were exchanged before the clubs resume playing in the new year.GRIFFIN, Margaret — At the Sherbrooke Hospital on Saturday, December 24, 1988, Margaret Spottiswood, in her 80th year.Beloved wife of Lewis Griffin.Dear mother of June and Gerry Hill, Don and Mary, David and Caroline, Gordon and Maggie, and Russell.Loving grandmother of eleven grandchildren and three great-grandsons.A private family service was held on Tuesday, December 27, followed by cremation.Rev.Sheila Murray officiating.Arrangements by L.O.Cass and Son Ltd.Card of Thai SMITH, Joyce — I wish to express my sincere thanks to neighbours and friends tor your kind support and transportation during my mother's extended stay at the Sherbrooke Hospital and your expressions ot sympathy at the time of her death A special thank you to Marie Brodeur ot the Palliative Care Unit, the nursing staff of I C.U, and third floor, for the wonderful care she received.Also, thank you to the choir and bearers, and members of St.Luke's Guild for the lunch following the service as this provided such a wonderful opportunity for me to speak with friends of my mother.ANN SMITH POULSON YOUNG — We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of our neighbours and friends for all the kindness shown us at the time of the death of our dear wife and mother.To all who sent flowers, cards, food, donations and who phoned and visited Your thoughtfulness will always be remembered.God bless you all.AUSTIN YOUNG JANET RICHARDSON JOAN BENNETT ROBINSON — Alan and Linda (Bishop) are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Holly Elizabeth, weighing 8 lbs.15 oz., born December 20, 1988 in Prince Rupert, B.C.Proud grandparents are Joan and Curtis Bishop of Sherbrooke and Joyce Robinson of Lancashire, England.Brookbury Daisy Allison Sympathy is expressed to Mr.Stanley Downes and family, also Mrs.Rialph Gilbert and family in the sudden passing of Marion (Gilbert) Downes, the wife, mother, daughter and sister at her home in Keene, New Hampshire on December 12.The deceased was born and spent most of her life until she was married, in Bishopton and Bury, and was well known and respected in the area.Lionel and Daisy Allison visited their cousins Bill and Winnie Paterson and Dora McCourt and son Brian, in Windsor one afternoon recently and eryoyed a very tasty supper with Dora and Brian.The members of the Bury U.C.W.their husbands and a friend Mrs.Lena Dougherty enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner at the new G.G.Restaurant in East Angus on Wednesday, Dec.14 at 12:30 as a special treat for all at the Christmas season.They were sorry that Ruth and Byron Beaton and Mrs.Ambia Morrison were unable to attend due to illness and Jean McArthur had company so was unable to join us.I wish to extend our very best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year 1989 to all our friends and relatives.Your correspondent, Daisy and Lionel Allison.This includes my friends at the Record Office.So mony «••pond on THE RED CROSS GIVE GENEROUSLY! HOYE, Richard — At the Sherbrooke Hospital on Thursday, December 22, 1988, Richard Hoye, beloved husband of Elinor.Dear father of Patricia, Elissa, Richard, and his wife Valerie.Dear grandfather of Jacob and Jade, Brother of Francis Hoye, Mary E.Stark, and the late Margaret.Funeral was private, followed by cremation.Arrangements by L.O.Cass and Son Funeral Directors, Sherbrooke.ijr?'- BOLDUC, Martin — At Massawippi, December 24, 1988, Martin Bolduc, at the age of 26 years.Son of Gaston Bolduc and Claire Duplessis, living in Lennoxville.Under the direction of the Cooperative Funéraire de l’Estrie, 530 Prospect, Sherbrooke, tel.565-7646, Alain Leclerc, director general.Funeral service Thursday, December 29 at 2:30 at St.Antoine Church, Lennoxville.Interment St.Antoine Cemetery.The family will be at the church at 1:30 to receive condolences.The deceased leaves to mourn in addition to his parents: his friend Cathy Bolduc; his brothers and sisters: Lily (Gilles Emond), Eric, Elise; his grandparents Mr.and Mrs.Raymond Bolduc; his uncles and aunts, and many relatives and friends.BERNARD — At Victoria, B.C., on Sunday, December 18, 1988, Maijory Alice, at the age of 90 years.Sister-in-law of Rita Bernard, aunt of Muriel Dawson, Merrick and Francis Bernard.Predeceased by her brother Ralph.Funeral and interment at Victoria, B.C.MACKEY, Ethel (Goddard) — Suddenly at the Sherbrooke Hospital on Tuesday, December 27, 1988.Funeral notice later.DAINE, Annie (née MetcalD — In Waterloo on Tuesday, December 27, 1988, Annie Metcalf, in her 98th year.Beloved wife of the late Edmund Daine.Dear mother of Iris (Mrs.Lyndon Peasley) and the late Gerald Daine.Survived by six grandchildren, fourteen greatgrandchildren, two great-greatgrandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.Resting at the Bessette and Sons Funeral Home Inc., 5034 Foster St., Waterloo.No visitation.Private funeral.Burial in the spring.By request of the deceased, no flowers.Donations will be gratefully accepted to the Courville Nursing Home Foundation or to the St.Paul’s United Church, &b Mrs.Edna Wing, Treasurer, 4034 Foster St, Waterloo, Que.JOE 2N0.ss&son FUDERAL DIRECTORS 1-B00-56/-5031 SHERBROOXE 300 (Keen Blvd.N SAWYERVILLE 55 Ciolishire RICHMOND 295 Main S.STANSTEAD 39 Dutlerin LENNOXVILlE 6 Belvidere C00KSHIRE 50 Craig 564-1750 >26-2502 AYER'S CUFF 676-5213 900 Clough NEIL, Mm.Clifford (Evelyn Wood) Peacefully at the Granby Hospital on Monday, December 26, 1988, Evelyn Wood, in her 68th year.Beloved wife of ClifTord Neil.Survived by a brother Harold Wood and seve ral cousins, nieces and nephews.Resting at the Bessette and Sons Funeral Home Inc., 31 Drummond St, Granby, 375-3131.Funeral service will be held at the St.George’s Anglican Church in Granby on Thursday, December 29 at 2 p.m.Raw.Gordon Ingram officiating.Interment at the Pinewood Cemetery.Visitation Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9, on day of funeral from 12:30 p.m.In lii'u of flowers, church donations or a charity of your choice would lie appreciated.HARB1NSON, Mary — At the People Care Center, Tavistock, Ontario, on Monday, December 26, 1988, Mary Conley in her 91st year.Beloved wife of the late Robert Harbinson.Dear mother of Thomas, Birchton, Qc., Charles, Mississauga, Ont., David (Ronald), Ottawa, Ont., Mae Weston, Tavistock, Ont., and the late Sadie Jameson.She is survived by twenty-two grand children, thirty-four greatgrandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren, her sister Lizzie McKee of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, sister-in-law Annie Conley, Ireland and son-in-law Ronnie Jameson of Thet-ford, Qc.She is pre-deceased by her daughter Sadie Jameson, brothers John, Sam and Robert and sons-in law Victor Bernard and Stemie Weston.Resting at L.O.Cass and Son Funeral Home, 55 Cookshire Street, Sawyerville, where friends may call on Friday from 2-4 p.m.and 7-9 p.m.Funeral service will be held at the Sawyerville Baptist Church on Saturday, December 31 at 2 p.m.Pastor Bruce Kaiser officiating.Spring interment at 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822-1515 li i il Opticians Sirois • Gauthier • Complete service on glasses • Housecalls on request 9A Wellington N., Sherbrooke 562-7095 562-7838 mm INDEX.REAL EÏÏATE | #1-#19 (^lEmPUMTl #20-#39 |^||AUTOniOWE| • #40-#59 | (RERCHAUDiJI | #60-#79 niimAntodfl #80-#100 RATES 11C 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 8 Wanted to rent MATURE FEMALE STUDENT looking for apartment or mom in private house near Bishop's Universify from January to April 1989.Call (819) 567-5745 aller 7 p.m È Sales Reps Wanted SALES INDUSTRIAL We are Lawson Products, Inc., one of the fastest growing companies in the industrial maintenance field.We are a AAAAA1 rated, publicly traded Corporation looking for a great Salesperson to sell direct to industrial plants, fleets, contractors, institutional and automotive accounts in the local area.We offer a complete field and product orientation program, no overnight travel, large territories, and the highest commissions paid in the industry.Doors to management are wide open.Whether you're in our field now, or wouldlike to be, if you are one of the great ones, call now for an immediate local interview Contact Mr.Guy Bertrand at 565-0464 on Monday or Tuesday from 8:00 A M.to 5:00 P.M.LAWSON PRODUCTS 27 Child Care 28 Professional Services 29 Miscellaneous Services Music LENNOXVILLE — 70 Belvidere, IVt, heated, furnished, available, 563-3253, 565-1035 35 Speid, large basement apartment, 563 3253 LENNOXVILLE — 3/.fully furnished Oxford Crescent.Available January i till Apnl 30.Must sublell Rent $275 Call (819) 565-7633 or 1-425-5019 ask for Phil.LENNOXVILLE — 3'/'.room apartment, partly furnished, on Queen Street, dose to all services.Available now Quiet person please.Also 37i available on Clough Street.Call (819) 562- 2165.LENNOXVILLE — 70 Belvidere, I’/i, healed, furnished, available, 563 3253, 565-1035.Sherbrooke West — 1125 des Seigneurs, new 4% , near Ml.Bellevue, special price for winter, sound-prool, 567 3022.LES APARTEMENTS BELVEDERE, 69^73-77 81 Belvidere, Lennoxville.3'/t -4'4 -5!4 rooms.Family special.Pool, sauna, jamtoral service, washer-dryer outlet, wall to wall carpeting.For rental information call 567-2362 or administration 564-4080.NORTH HATLEY — Complete 2 storey house, newly renovated, 6’/i rooms, 2 floors, new carpets, electric heating, quiet location.$600/tnonth.Available immediately.Call (819) 563- 1200.ROOMS TO RENT, also Bachelors, completely lurnished, laundry.14 College Street, Lennoxville.Call (819) 847-1900 or 567-6021.TO SUBLET OR SHARE - New 3VS , furnished, Oxford Cresent, Lennoxville.Negotiable.Available January 1 to July 30,1989 Call Pauline at (819) 876-5506 or 563 7361.3'/i ROOM APARTMENT, heal and electricity included, $300/month.Available January 1.Beaver Pond Motel (514) 243-6878.4'/, - 2 bedroom apartment near Galerie 4-Sai-sons 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.HONOLULU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 201 King St East, Sherbrooke, 562-7840 Sales, trade-in, rental, repairs, teaching of all musical instruments.Full warranty since 1937.Visa, Mastercard and lay away plan accepted Honolulu Orchestra for all kinds of entertainment.MOTHER'S HELPER for 3 children, 4 to 10 years old.Hastings on Hudson, New York.Private home in the country.Call (819) 876-5154.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 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I still want lots of E.T.material but I’m also buying pre-1900 nonfiction Canadians and Americana.Claude Arpin, oo The Gazette, 250 St.Antoine Street, Montreal, Que.H2Y 3R7.CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC Town of Waterville PUBLIC NOTICE BYLAW PROJECT NO.307 MAYOR AND COUNCILLORS' SALARIES The municipal corporation of the Town of Waterville, during a special meeting held on December 12.1988, deposited bylaw project no.307 decreeing the mayor and each of the councillors' salaries.The mayor's present annual salary is two thousand two hundred ninety four dollars ($2,294.) and seven hundred sixty-four ($764.) for the councillors.The actual annual allocation is one thousand one hundred forty seven dollars ($1,147) for the mayor and three hundred eighty two dollars ($382) for the councillors.Consequently, it is decreed by the present bylaw project: 1— That the annual amount of two thousand four hundred dollars (2,400) will be paid to the mayor as salary and that the annual amount of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) will be for inherent task-related expenses.2— That the annual amount of eight hundred dollars ($800) will be paid to each of the councillors as salary and that the annual amount of four hundred dollars ($400) will be for inherent task-related expenses.3— That the actual expenses incurred for the corporation and authorized by a resolution from the council will be refunded in addition to the salary established in articles 6 and 7 of the present bylaw.4— The council could by virtue of the present bylaw annually raise the amounts mentioned in articles 6 and 7 by applying a percentage corresponding to the increase percentage of the consumers price index for Canada established by statistics Canada up to 6%.The bylaw project project will be adopted on February 6, 1989, at 7 p.m.at the council meeting place.GIVEN IN WATERVILLE, this December 20, 1988 Gilles Boisvert, Secretary-treasurer 80 Home Services Lennoxville-Ascot Historical ALS PLUMBING SERVICE REG.Lennoxville, onH X/ïllCfMim hold Sherbrooke and area Quality work Resonable dllU.IVlUoCUlli vj IV IJ Victorian Christmas party rates.Call Robert Stewart at (819) 569-6676 or 562-0215, Greetings HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATHY i From all of us out back.Do you have a house, collage, (arm or loi for sale?Are you looking lor property?Why not try our Record classified section! Call (819) 569-9525 or (514) 243-0088.O' O* O' q *0 'O For V.Please look over your ad the lint day it appeare making sure It reads as you requested, as The Record cannot be responsible tor more than one insertion.0*0 0 *0*0*0 A large number of members and friends of the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical and Museum Society gathered on a cold and frosty night for their Christmas iarty at Uplands.The cheery laze in the fireplace gave a cozy 6 CARRIERS WANTED TO DELIVER Hecrinl Main, Please apply to: The Record needs carriers for the following routes: Sutton: Rte 645: Streets: Mountain, Western Pine.If interested call our Knowlton office 514-243-0088 Magog: Rte 490: Streets: Pine, Victoria, College.Rte 120: Queen Blvd.N., Elm, Beausejour, Prospect.If interested please call Circulation 569-9528 Circulation Department 569-9528 atmosphere to the library and made a good setting for the Christmas tree in all its Victorian glory — strings of beads, popcorn and lace, real (unlighted) candles in clip-on holders, decorated gingerbread, dried apples, ribbon candy.Toys and books of yesteryear were piled around the tree.Overlooking it all was Queen Victoria from her place over the mantel.Background music was Christmas carols played on a Regina Music Box, originally owned by the Reverend Douglas Warren’s grandfather.Members had leisure time to visit over a glass of fruit punch and to view Dr.Robert E.Paulette’s photography exhibition and the ongoing dairy exhibit before assembling in the drawing room for a musical evening by some of the young local artists.The piano and violin solos and duets were much enjoyed.Those taking part were Philip Dutton, Christopher Forrest, Claire Gordon, Sarah Heath, Amanda Loney and Eva Purkey.Following this Nancy Rahn led the group in carol singing with Tom Gordon at the piano.The attractively decorated diningroom was the setting for a colourful buffet of salads and cold meats, followed by coffee and sweets, which included traditional shortbread, fruitcake and cream puffs.The lunch, supervised by Mabel Davidson, assisted by other members of her family, brought a pleasant evening to a close.Submitted by Gwen Parker Publicity TO PLACE YOUR PREPAID CLASSIFIED AD: TELEPHONE: (819) 569-9525 (514) 243-0088 BY MAIL: Use this coupon IN PERSON: Come to our offices 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke or 88 Lakeside Street, Knowlton OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 8:30 a m.to 4:30 p.m.DEADLINE: 10 a m.working day previous to publication ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE STREET ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER PLEASE bdimt Per worcJ- 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%.ADVERTISER'S NAME_________ ADDRESS.CATEGORY NAME CATEGORY NUMBER PROVINCE .POSTAL CODE.TELEPHONE ( ) ______________________ PLEASE CHECK FORM OF PAYMENT: CHEOUED 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.f Unity 50 Plus Club holds regular meeting The KKt'ORl)—Wednesday, December 28, 1888—8 AYER’S CLIFF - Eighty members of the Unity Fifty Plus Club of Ayer’s Cliff and area met at the United Church hall on Tuesday, Decembers at noon for the regular monthly get-together.Phyllis Davidson, club president welcomed everyone and asked Alice Mayhew to lead in prayer in memory of four members who had passed away during the year.A delicious turkey dinner was served, catered by Richard’s Restaurant and capably served by Debbie Keeble and Tiffany Stan-dish.The birthday cake, made in the shape of a lighted Christmas candle was the work of art of Ruth Roy and was cut and served by Alice Mayhew and Irene Ride.Celebrating birthdays in December were Mrs.Riches, Mrs.Marion, Diane Saanum, Wallace Hartwell and Bob Mayhew and they were serenaded with the birthday song.Following the meal a hearty vote of thanks and hand clap was given to Richard for the delicious meal and to Debbie and Tiffany for serving it.Tickets were sold and ACW meeting LENNOXVILLE — St.George’s ACW held their annual meeting on December 2 at the home of Mrs.E.Matthews.President M.Annesley welcomed members and guests.Devotions conducted by E.Matthews consisted of a meditation for Advent and reading of an epistle of St.Paul to the Ephesians for St.Thomas Day.M.Durrell thanked the ACW for their card and best wishes during her illness.Bishop Matthews as chairman of the annual meeting called on the various secretaries to give their reports.The secretary read and moved for adoption the annual report which summarized the year’s activities.In the absence of the treasu- I WANT TO HELP OXF AM's CHILDREN Sand your donation to OXF AM's CHILDREN 169 St.Paul St.East Montreal, Quebec H2Y 9Z9 prizes won by May MacDonald — the Santa Claus decoration donated by our president, chocolates won by Hilda Robinson — donated by Gladys Holmes, the Christmas door hanging won by Fiorina Drew donated by Bill Cutler.Drawings were held on several boxes of peppermint patties, some of the winners being Gladys Holmes, Stanley Drew, Gordie Stuart, Mrs.Marion.President Phyl reported that Sadie Wilder, Grace Keeble and Frank Smith had all been on the sick list recently and that Rose Johnson was in the Magog Hospital.Special thanks were given to Ruth Roy for making the beautiful birthday cakes each month and she was presented with a little gift in appreciation.Thanks also accorded to Ruth Piercy for the pretty table decorations and George Jobel thanked Phyl for her leadership over the years and presented her with a gift.George presented our pre-si dent with a cheque for one hun-dred and twenty five dollars from the CLSC for the survey ten of the members had conducted in rer D.Barnett gave the financial statement.She also reported on the number of subscriptions to the Anglican Magazine.Supplies secretary B.Hewitt forwarded knitted articles for seamen to Quebec City, also prepared a box of good clothing for children to Schefferville.M.Durrell turned in calendar money received to date.D.Barnett of the nominating committee presented the new slate of officers showing a few changes.M.Annesley thanked all for their support during her two years in office.M.Durrell, the new president, then took the chair.Guest Mrs.A.Godbout as St.Francis Deanery representative expressed thanks for the invitation to attend our meeting and explained that she can serve as liaison between the branches and the diocesan executive.M.Bigg arranged to have Mrs.M.Fox preside at the piano while all joined in singing favorite Christmas hymns and carols.This was followed by a social hour while tea was served by hostesses E.Mat thews and M.Annesley.Our president expressed thanks to Mrs.Matthews for her hospitality and to the Bishop for chairing our annual meeting.October for the area.Those from the club who participated were Ruth McFarlane, Garth Morris-sette, Gordon Stuart, Diane Saanum, Mr.and Mrs.Palmquist, Mr.and Mrs.Stanley Drew, Mr.and Mrs.George Jobel and Mr.and Mrs.Stanley Gage.With Edna Curtis at the piano a sing song was eqjoyed of Christmas songs and carols.George Jobel was thanked for making all the song sheets.Following the singing he held a contest naming the pictures of provinces, advertising, TV personalities etc.Before leaving for home at the end of the afternoon our president announced that our January meeting would be a casserole dinner at noon.Bulwer Mrs.George Pinchin Miss Wilma Matchett of Ottawa was an afternoon and lunch guest of Alberta Everett on Sunday.Alberta and her guest were supper guests of Mr and Mrs.Garnet Card.North Hatley.Marilyn Grey and her pony with daughter Emily leading her lamb, visited Gladwyn and Ellen Geake.George and Marjory Pinchin attended the Armistice Service at Sa-wyerville.While George was at Island Brook, Scotstown and Gould for the Services.Marjory visited her sister Annie Hodge in Eaton Corner.Nelson and Charlotte Bullard were in Inverness one day.They also called on Bert and Mabel Finlay in Lennoxville one afternoon.Cindy Kerr, Oshawa.spent a week with Howard and Blanche Kerr and returned home with her husband Allan who had been at the Kerr home for two weeks.The sympathy of the community is extended to Ruby Stanley in the loss of an uncle, Abner McLaughlin in St.Malachie.Ruby, her sister Mrs.Miltimore of Waterville, her son Merlin of Sawyerville and Steven Harvey attended the funeral.Johnnie and Alice King attended the funeral of Mrs.Norman Gill at Sawyerville Baptist Church.The Kings, with several around the area attended the 25th Anniversary for Clinton and Deenie King at the Rifle Club, Lennoxville.Mr.and Mrs.Roland Gallup and son Mark of Springfield, Virginia were weekend guests of the former’s father Earl Gallup.Earl’s sister Hazel of Sherbrooke was also a guest.Crossword ACROSS 1 Like - of bricks 5 Family member 8 Fountain 12 Breathing sound 13 Taunts 15 Secondhand 16 Storage device 18 Phoned 19 Harsh sounds 20 Hairy 22 Seed covering 24 Gr.letter 25 Equality 28 D.C.suburb 33 Glacial direction word 34 VI, VI 35 Secreted 36 Composer Khachaturian 37 Passenger 38 Osseous 39 Hat 40 Artifact 41 Kilt feature 42 Extinct tusker 44 Oriental entertainer 45 Pub pour 46 Festivals 48 Brain-teaser 52 Item for a prom date 56 Unfictitious 57 Investor’s choice 59 Concerning 60 George C.61 Provo’s state 62 Maximum 63 Garden tool 64 Moos DOWN 1 Sandy sounds 2 Powder 3 Swan genus 4 Favoritism relatively speaking 5 Central part 6 Sash 7 Interlock 1 2 3 4 12 16 19 13 22 25 26 27 33 36 39 42 17 120 21 r 9 10 11 " 30 135 48 49 50 56 59 62 J 47 152 58 63 31 32 161 164 53 54 55 ©1988 Tribune Media Services, Inc.All Rights Reserved 8 Go after 9 Edom 10 Big top 11 Advantage 13 Wanderer 14 Move 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Adults: $10.00 I Students / Seniors: $6.50 j Chddren under 12: $3.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: THE ROSE WINDOW 100 lAKESlüÿ, KNOWLTON or at ItHE KNOWLTON PUB PLAYHOUSE I one hour before each performance Don't miss this musical adaptation of a 20th century classic; A timeless story about the joy and sadness of caring.SPONSORED BY RESERVATIONS: 243-6565 WRITTEN BY: ANTOINE DE ST.EXUPERY ADAPTATION BY: DAVE CLARKE DIRECTED BY: EILEEN SPROULE SET & COSTUMES BY: HELENE TURP vors.A well deserving recipient, Sheila Blinn’s name was entered on the Honour Roll, which has been established in order to give recognition to and justly honour those who are deserving by virtue of their contribution over the years to the promotion and development of sports and recreation in the community.Shawn Realffe was presented with the Barry Gage Memorial Trophy which was established in 1975 by Wesley and Louise Gage for being the outstanding Teenager of the Year.Craig Boomhower received the Vernon Boomhower Memorial Trophy by Natalie Ingalls.The trophy was established in 1971 and is awarded annually to the person who gives most of himself in promoting and developing the sports activities in the Stanbridge East area while exhibiting true sportsmanship, fair play and a willingness to help others.In closing Raymond thanked all members of the Sports Association and those who had helped in various ways to make this evening possible.He also encouraged participation in the Association as our youth is our greatest investment.Submitted by Thelma Rhicard Shawn Realffe being presented the Barry Gage Memorial Trophy by Louise and Wes Gage.Stanstead Historical Society directors’ meeting STANSTEAD (IH) — Recently the directors of the Stanstead Historical Society held a general meeting in the museum to hear reports and make decisions.Irene Blandford, President, welcomed the large attendance and expressed the regrets of some who could not attend.A planning committee had been formed for short and long range plans, especially in regards to the addition to the Colby-Curtis museum; co-ordination of activities, chairperson, Theresa Skelton, executive vice-president; the Planning committee is composed of Kit Skelton, Chairperson; Philip Poaps, secretary and Ann Kasowski, Albert Elliott, with the Society president, Mrs.Blandford, ex-officio.Mrs.Blandford reported that the Group of Seven English speaking museums will be divided into two groups: Stanstead and Richmond Societies, Ascot, Lennoxville and Compton Societies will remain under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture, Quebec City.Brome, Stan- bridge East and Sutton will belong to the Group of Montreal museums.The president reported that Valerie Cerini and Howard Smith, former owners of the Stanstead Journal have donated books, papers and presses to the Society.This is a much appreciated gift and is valuable to both the Society and the area for it depicts many years of publications.Reports were heard from executive vice-president, Theresa Skelton, noting the success of the Wednesday, Dec.28, 1988 autumn turkey dinner and made suggestions for a similar event in 1989.Ann Kasowski noted a bursary received for Suzanne Labrec-que who had worked in the Archives for four months.Bill Milsom, Fund raising committee said his assistants are Denis Chenette, Velma Eryou, Gertrude Ketcham and Bill Taylor.Special buttons to be made up and will go on sale.Other business was discussed with decisions to be made later.172 WELLINGTON ST.NORT EVERYTHING MUST BE LIQUIDATED If master charge Department Store for Children Sizes: Birth to 16 Years 3050 Portland Blvd.Sherbrooke 172 Wellington Si.N.Sherbrooke BERNICE BEDE OSOL Dec.28, 1988 In the year ahead you are likely to be shooting for several major objectives.Although each might not be attained, your most important goals will have good chances of being achieved.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Today you might secretly resent having to do something for someone because you’ll feel you're being imposed upon unfairly, yet you'll still comply without making a big deal about it.Capricorn, treat yourself to a birthday gift.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions for the year ahead by mailing $1 to Astro-Graph, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.Be sure to state your zodiac sign AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Be wary about getting involved in any form of romantic intrigue at this time, because what you’ll hope to keep secret will not go undetected.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Be fair, but also be realistic if you have to negotiate a delicate agreement today.Don’t be wishy-washy and say "yes” to terms you don’t like just to be nice.ARIES (March 21-April 19) Avoid tackling minor chores today if your heart is not in them.You’ll be much more eftec-tive doing the same tasks later when your mood changes.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Don t let possessiveness gain the upper hand today if someone you’re very fond of appears to be paying more attention to someone other than you.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Continue to be kind to others today, especially family members, even if they do not show proper appreciation for your gestures Their minds could be on other things.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be extremely careful today that you do not treat others in a condescending fashion If you are insincere or try to use flattery to gain your ends, it won't work.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) If you have a Christmas gift to return today, don't exchange it for something impractical just because the packaging dazzled you.Look for substance, not flash VIRGO (Aug.23-Sep«.22) Try not to butt into situations today that do not directly concern you.Although your intentions will be good, they could be misunderstood and rejected.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Someone you like who has hurt your feelings recently could be completely unaware of your reaction.Bring it out into the open today.because it can be easily resolved.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Be selective regarding the types of outside activities you get involved with at this time.There's a possibility you might jump into something which is over your purse.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) If you are not willing to share the limelight today with a person who made a recent accomplishment possible, you might not get help the next time it is needed.© 1988, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ASTRO-GRAPH NORTH ?A VK 8 2 + A 9 ?A 10 8 7 6 5 4 12-28-88 WEST ?Q 10 987432 V7 6 3 ?53 ?EAST ?J 6 ¥- ?K Q J 10 8 6 4 2 ?QJ9 SOUTH ?K 5 V A Q J 10 9 5 4 ?7 ?K 3 2 Vulnerable: North-South Dealer: East West North East 4 ?South 4* Pass 4 NT Pass 5 ?Pass 5 NT Pass 6V Pass Pass 7V Pass Pass Opening lead: ?5 A no-risk safety play By James Jacoby One of the marks of a good player is that he takes nothing for granted.He anticipates bad luck and acts accordingly if possible.South would have preferred a slower approach with his hand, but East’s four-diamond bid forced the issue.North tried Blackwood and settled in seven hearts with fair expectation of success.In view of East’s bid, North felt he could count on South’s having the king of spades and the king of clubs.West led his partner's suit and declarer saw he had 17 tricks if the clubs broke 2-1.A hasty player would draw trumps and then test the clubs.A thoughtful player would look ahead, ask what might go wrong and then decide what, if anything, could be done about it.There is a danger.If either opponent has three clubs, he will get a club trick.Noting this danger, South drew just two rounds of trumps.Then he cashed the ace of spades, a crucial play as it turned out.Next came five more hearts and the king of spades, reducing all hands to three cards.Since East had to keep a high diamond to protect against dummy’s nine, he threw a club.This meant that declarer could now take three club winners.Normally this line of play would not be required, but since it was without danger, it was “free” for declarer to cater to what actually occurred.Note that if declarer draws all three trumps before cashing the ace of spades, he won't be able to achieve the proper end position.James Jacoby 's books "Jacoby on Bridge’ and "Jacoby on Card Games"(written with his father, the late Oswald Jacoby) are now available at bookstores Both are published by Pharos Books © 1988, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN BRIDGE JAMES JACOBY MMMW Sports The HKl'Oim—\Vt'dm*sdi>>, UiHTinbor 2S, litSM—II the1 —_____gp-i U6C0XY1 Gruelling playoffs see L.A.go full seven games three times NBA 1988: Lakers repeat as champions The Associated Press The Los Angeles Lakers finally proved it could be done.A National Basketball Association champion can come back and do it again.The champagne wasn’t dry in the Lakers’ locker room after winning the NBA title in 1987 when coach Pat Riley said he guaranteed” they would repeat as champions in 1988.Riley believed that despite four titles since 1980, the Lakers would miss the mark of greatness if they couldn’t do what no team had done since 1969 — when the Boston Celtics were the last team to win back-to-back championships.The route they took to the title, however, was much different than the one they took in 1987, when they won 11 of 12 playoff games before beating Boston 4-2 in the finals.After a league-best 62-20 record in the regular-season and a 3-0 first-round sweep of the San Antonio Spurs, the Lakers had to leap three difficult hurdles before Riley’s prediction came true.“It was almost 55 straight days of basketball for this team (in the playoffs),” Riley said.“This was as gruelling a season as I’ve ever been involved with, and it was the same for the players.” NEEDS SEVEN In the Western Conference playoffs, the Lakers needed seven games to eliminate the Utah Jazz in the semifinals and the Dallas Mavericks in the final.The final obstacle for the Lakers were the Detroit Pistons, who broke an eight-year stranglehold on the Eastern Conference by Boston and the Philadelphia 76ers.Not since 1979 had any team other than the Lakers, Boston, Philadelphia or the Houston Rockets reached the finals until Detroit did it in 1988.The Pistons, who won their first division title since moving to Detroit in 1957, gained a 3-2 lead in the championship series, but they needed a victory on the road to upset the Lakers’ hopes of repeating.They almost pulled it off.Isiah Thomas set a final record of 25 points in the third quarter and finished with 43 despite a sprained ankle,leading the Pistons to a 102-99 lead with exactly a minute left in Game 6.But Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hit two free throws with 14 seconds left and Joe Dumars missed a shot in the lane for Detroit, preserving a 103-102 victory for the Lakers.MAKES CLOSE James Worthy, the playoff MVP, had 36 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in the Lakers’ 108-105 victory in Game 7, which was made close by a 17-4 Detroit spurt down the stretch.Also in 1988, Michael Jordan dominated the individual awards, winning both the regular-season most valuable player and defensive player of the year honors.He also became the first player to win consecutive scoring titles since George Gervin won three scoring crowns from 1978-80.After months of uncertainty, the NBA and the players association agreed on a new contract through the 1993-94 season that gave unrestricted free agency to seven-year veterans.Previously, free agents had to stay with their original teams if a contract offer from a new team was matched.The pact also continues the salary-cap system and will reduce the college draft to two rounds in 1989.In 1988, the draft was reduced to three rounds, but as usual the focus was only on the first-rounders.Danny Manning, who led Kansas to the NCAA title, was chosen first by the Clippers.Manning missed the start of the season before the Clippers signed him.The start of the 1988-89 season had Abdul-Jabbar, playing his last season, started his farewell tour while new franchises began play at Charlotte and Miami.The Hornets and Heat played their homes games in front of enthusiastic crowds at sold-out arenas, but found victories hard to come by.Miami set an NBA record with 17 consecutive losses to start the season.Stephens NFL offensive rookie in 88: AP FOXBORO, Mass.(AP) — John Stephens did much more than an NFL rookie reasonably could be expected to do.One thing he couldn’t do was satisfy himself.His accomplishments were exceptional: five games with more than 100 yards rushing in his last nine, a total of 1,168 yards, fifth best among NFL runners and fourth most in New England history, and just one lost fumble in 297 carries.In the game the Patriots had to win to make the playoffs — the season finale in Denver — he carried the offense again: 130 rushing yards, a 23-yard touchdown run and a 52-yard ramble.But the Patriots lost 21-10 and missed the playoffs.“I’ll think about it over and over again,” said Stephens, as hard on himself as he was on defenders.“If I had done this or that, maybe we would have made the playoffs.” There was something else he couldn’t do: avoid attention.His play made that impossible, a fact underscored Tuesday when he was named the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year by The Associated Press.Stephens, drafted by the Patriots out of Northwestern (La.) State with the 17th pic':, received 30 votes.JACKSON SECOND He edged Philadelphia tight end Keith Jackson, who had 29.Cincinnati running back Ickey Woods had 19 and Los Angeles Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown had 4.The voting was done by sports writers and broadcasters in each NFL city.“It makes me feel good,” Stephens said, “but I mainly don’t concern myself with awards because you don’t control what happens with them.If you set your sights on awards and you don’t get them, you’re disappointed.” The running back who expected to be a backup this season is headed for the Pro Bowl Jan.29 when he will team with Eric Dickerson in the AFC’s starting backfield.“He’s a horse,” Patriots’ offensive tackle Bruce Armstrong said after Stephens ran 10 times for 65 yards in the preseason opener.“I hope we can give him the ball a lot.” Stephens admitted he was intimidated in his first regular- season game, a 28-3 victory over the New York Jets.Players like Mark Gastineau, Marty Lyons and Robin Cole, whom he had seen for years on television, were trying to tackle him.“I was a little wary,” he said, “-but as the game went on, I forgot about it.” Next season it will be Stephens that NFL defenders must remember.By Terry Scott The Canadian Press There was a time when athletes didn’t need to portray the personality of a product they were endorsing.If the name was familiar and the price was right, a player might be used to promote anything from undergarments to Walt Disney World.But today’s consumer is more discerning about merchandise and marketing.So if you have a can of soup to handle the appetite of the meanest men, you bring someone like Mike Ditka or Howie Long into the sales pitch.Athletes will keep promoting merchandise on our television screens.Here are some sales pitches and pitchmen we’d like to see.One of the major airlines should enlist sprinter Ben Johnson to promote fast service.Few people ever made a faster exit Time out from a country than the 100-metre specialist did from South Korea.And you thought O.J.Simpson was quick when he leaped over suitcases during a rental-car commercial?Jose Canseco, the Oakland Athletics slugger, might also find work promoting bubble gum as Bazooka Joe.Look at his muscular forearms.Orel Hershiser could sell a lot of cream of wheat using his gentle, country-boy good looks.Imagine the advertising campaigns that could use Wayne Gretzky, the sporting world’s most famous new father.How about diapers etched with the familiar 99 on the side?How about teething rings shaped like hockey pucks?PLAYERS PROMOTE Keith Acton, Rich Sutter and Jeff Norton wouldn’t ordinarily attract many endorsement offers, but the trio, who had noses broken, teeth removed and ribs bruised as victims of vicious attacks by National Hockey League opponents, might be of interest to an insurance firm.Seldom does an entire team get the chance to cash in on endorsements, but a credit-card company should approach the British Columbia Lions.Any team with players that had to use personal credit cards when they checked into a hotel obviously knows that you don’t leave home without it.One would be well-advised to retain Olympian Carolyn Waldo to promote a new line of dolls that are water-resistant and swim in perfect synchronization at the sound of music.Elizabeth Manley, another top female Olympian, already has an endorsement with a fruit-juice company.That might be the cue for a rival firm to issue the taste-test challenge, as they do in beer and cola wars.It could be the battle of the Manleys — Canada’s own Elizabeth, sweet and pleasant, against Dexter Manley, defensive lineman with the Washington Redskins.And really, isn’t it time George Steinbrenner, Harold Ballard and Bill Bidwell, those three chaotic sports magnates, joined together for commercial purposes?What would they endorse?A line of video cassettes would seem to be a natural — a package containing the finest slapstick of The Three Stooges.NHL midseason report By The Associated Press Are you ready for the Big Bad Penguins?While the Pittsburgh Penguins have piled up the goals in their surge to the top of the Patrick Division, they’ve piled up the penalty minutes even faster.As the league took a break for Christmas, the Penguins were No.1 in penalty minutes per game by a large margin, averaging more than 38 per game.Led by brawlers such as Jay Caufield, Richard Zexnlak and Troy Loney (combined totals: three goals, three assists, 280 penalty minutes), the Penguins also are No.1 in mqjor penalties with 68 — well ahead of second-place Philadelphia.The Penguins also have been involved in more than 30 per cent (nine of 29) of games in which there have been 100 or more penalty minutes, a fact that shocked coach Gene Ubriaco.“I can’t believe it,” he said.“What’s happened is that we have a lot of game misconducts.“We’ve gotten majors, too, but a lot of those penalties have been accidents.I hate to say it, but we’ve been a victim of circumstance.” No one will mistake Mick Vukota of the New York Islanders for Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux.But he does lead the league in one intriguing category.Vukota, playing his first full season in the NHL, was second in the NHL at the Christmas break with 15 m^jor penalties, all for fighting.But he’s No.1 in the league at suckering opponents into fights.Six times, opponents have drawn an extra two-minute instigator penalty.Vukota has been tagged just once for instigating a fight.Think the Edmonton Oilers are a dynasty?How about the Islanders of the early ’80s or the Canadiens of the late ’50s or late ’70s?As great as those teams were, they’re strictly smalltime when compared to the way the Central Red Army team has dominated the Soviet mqjor league.The Red Army, whose players form the core of the Soviet national team, have won the Soviet championship for the past 12 seasons.The last time the Red Army team came up short was in 1976, when Spartak Moscow won the title.In all, the Red Army has 31 titles and is first in the standings at the halfway mark of the Soviet season this year.Everybody else combined have 11 titles.Bears, Eagles to punish each other on game day By The Associated Press It takes a neutral observer to define Saturday’s National Football League playoff game between Mike Ditka’s Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles, coached by Ditka’s onetime defensive coordinator and longtime antagonist, Buddy Ryan.“I think they’ll bloody each other up; they’re both real physical teams and their game will be real ugly,” said Minnesota offensive tackle Tim Irwin.It was the Vikings’ 28-17 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Monday in the NFC wild-card game that sent Minnesota to San Francisco and put the Eagles up against the Bears in Chicago.The NFL’s run for the Super Bowl looks as wide open this year as it has ever been.In fact, a case could be made that the two wild-card winners — Houston and Minnesota — are as strong as any of the eight remaining competitors.“I may be going out on a limb, but I think Cleveland may be the toughest team well play,” said Allen Pinkett, whose two touchdowns in a 15-second span of the second quarter were the key to the Oilers’ 24-23 win over the Browns in the AFC wild-card game Saturday.Next weekend’s games begin at 12:30 p.m.EST Saturday when the Eagles, NFC East champions, meet the Bears, NFC Central winners.Then AFC West champion Seattle, whose 9-7 record is the worst of any playoff team, visits AFC Central champion Cincinnati in a game starting at 4 p.m.Buffalo, the AFC East winner, plays Houston at 12:30 p.m.Sunday followed by the Vikings and 49ers at 4 p.m.Minnesota, which lost 17-10 to Washington in the NFC final as a wild-card last year, has played all three other NFC playofi teams this year and is 3-1 against them.“I think we play much better when we feel we have something to prove,” said Minnesota quarterback Wade Wilson.“Hopefully, we will keep feeling that way." Houston, whose win over Cleveland atoned for a loss there just six days earlier, goes into Buffalo a 3Vi point underdo against a team that lost three of its last four games after clinching the AFC East with an 11-1 record.The Oilers, 7-1 indoors in the Astrodome but 3-5 on the road, think their victory over Cleveland was a turning point.Pro-prospect Murphy helps juniors win 7-1 How about diapers etched with the familiar 99 on the side?Athletes now market personality in products By Grant Kerr ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CP) — The world junior hockey tournament couldn’t have been timed any better for pro pros-pect Rob Murphy of the Vancouver Canucks.Murphy has played sparingly this season in the National Hockey League and recently spent two weeks in the minors with the Milwaukee Admirals for conditioning after an iryury.He now finds himself on the world stage with the Canadian juniors and on Monday he acquitted himself with dignity.The 20-year-old scored a spectacular goal in the third period with Canada two men short to help the defending champions defeat Norway 7-1 with a workmanlike performance on the opening day of play.In other games, the Soviet Union blasted West Germany 15-0, Sweden downed Czechoslovakia 5-3 and the host United States needed a goal with 15 seconds left in the third period to tie Finland, silver medallists last year, 5-5 after blowing a 4-1 lead.The eight-country tournament continues today, with Czechoslovakia pîaying Norway and the Americans taking on the Soviets.Canada next plays West Germany on Wednesday.“Being the first game, I think everybody was nervous,” said Murphy, who played a few games this season with the Canucks, mostly at left wing, before suffering a shoulder iryury.“We hadn’t played in a while, so getting Norway, not one of the strongest teams in the tournament, gave us a chance to get our game back together.” The Canadian team killed off six Norwegian power plays handed out by the Soviet referee.Murphy responded to the extra duties handed him by coach Tom Webster of Windsor, Out.Murphy’s goal in the final period gave Canada a 6-1 lead and came with teammates Sheldon Kennedy of the Swift Current Broncos and Yves Racine of the Victoriaville Tigers in the penalty box for high-sticking infractions.“I saw 1 had a chance to catch their guy, so I went behind the net and lifted his stick," Mur phy said about his surprise goal.“1 just got in front of the net and stuffed it in.” KILLED PENALTY The Canadians killed off the two-man disadvantage using two forwards and one defence man on the wider international ice surface.The other Canadian marksmen were Reginald Savage of Victoriaville, Mike Ricci of the Peterborough Petes, team cap tain and defenceman Eric Des jardins of the Montreal Cana diens, defenceman Corey Fos ter of Peterborough, Darrin Shannon of the Windsor Spitfires and Rob Cimetta ot the Toronto Marl boros.Canadian goaltender Stéphane Fiset of Victoriaville often was busy while Canada was shorthanded.His save total wasn’t recorded on the official scoresheet.Canada, with three world junior titles to its credit this decade, led 2-1 after the first period and 4-1 after two.The Soviets had a scare in the second period when Alexander Mogilny, the leading scorer of last year's tournament, crashed into the boards and was taken off the ice with a leg iiyu ry.Mogilny was treated at a local hospital and released.Sweden jumped to a 3-0 lead and survived a third-period rally by Czechoslovakia.Two goals by Ola Rosander and one by Daniel Rydrnark provided the lead.Two quick goals by Roman Kontsek, at 28 seconds and 2:28 into the third period, pul led Czechoslovakia within 3-2.But Patrik Erickson knocked in an errant Czechoslovak pass at 4:50 and Patrie Kjellberg followed with a power-play goal to put the game out of reach.Junior notes: Webster named two team captains; Desjardins wore the ‘C’ in the opening game and Kennedy was the assistant .Left winger Darey Loewen of the Spokane Chiefs drew three minor penalties .Norway’s goal came from Glenn Asland to tie the score in the first period .The Canadians were interested to note that Sweden beat Czechoslovakia because Canada split two exibition games against the Swedes in Calgary last week.Schottenheimer quits after Browns bow out CLEVELAND (AP) - Marty Schottenheimer quit Tuesday as coach of the Cleveland Browns.“The Cleveland Browns and Marty Schottenheimer have reached an agreement to an amicable parting of company due to a number of irreconcilable differences regarding the Browns’ coaching philosophies, particularly the position of offensive coordinator,” club owner Art Modell said.Schottenheimer has been criticized for assuming the role of offensive coordinator during the 1988 season.He took over that role after former offensive coordinator Lindy Infante left to become head coach at Green Bay.Cleveland lost to Houston 24-23 on Saturday in the AFC wild-card game and Modell hinted at changes in an interview published Tuesday.“I will be meeting with my people within 48 hours.Obviously, we will reassess everything and everybody.” Schottenheimer said after the Houston loss that he had felt comfortable in the offensive coordinator job.“I think it’s the real essence of competition,” he said.“It’s a bit of a chess game.I was frankly satisfied that I did a good enough job.” Schottenheimer, a former NFL linebacker, joined the Browns as a defensive coordina- tor in 1980.He took over as head coach when Sam Rutigliano was fired midway through the 1984 season.Schottenheimer led the Browns to AFC Central Division titlesin each of his first three full seasons as head coach and he took them to the AFC championship game after the 1986 and 1987 seasons.The Browns finished second in the division this year with a 10-6 record.Schottenheimer was 46-31 as the Browns’ head coach, including playoff games.CHAMPLAIN Will it keep flV beating?Bo RED CROSS Blood Donor TILDEN AR RENTAL A MOVING TRUCKS WEEKEND SPECIALS CHRYSLER VEHICLES YAL CSTAIE I22-4141 Management with a Micro-Computer Day & Evening courses 554 Ontario St., Sherbrooke For more information, call starting January 3, 1989 CONTINUING EDUCATION SERVICES (819) 563-9574 1 12—Th»1 KECOHD—Wednesday, l)«*»'