The record, 14 février 1989, mardi 14 février 1989

Tuesday Births, deaths.7 Classified.10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living .6 Sports .13 Townships .3 " He sent me a Valentine card knowing I hadn't sent him one.Isn't that mental cruelty?1 VMSUT ^ Ml M SHI KKKtH >kt ItlAU MMO SCHOtM Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Tuesday, February 14, 1989 40 cents Lac-St-Jean cancer rate much higher than national average: study Worst toxic chemical is found in Bouchard’s riding MONTREAL (CP) - A list of 44 toxic chemicals, earmarked by scientists for possible controls by the federal government, is topped by one that is spewed by the tonne into the air over Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard's own riding.No.1 on a list made public Monday are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), produced during the incomplete or inefficient burning of coal, oil, wood and other organic matter.The largest PAH polluter in Quebec is Alcan Aluminum Ltd., which operates three smelters in the Lac-St-Jean area.Alcan has embarked on a 30-year modernization program that will dramatically reduce the volume of its PAH emissions.Bouchard, who could not be reached for comment Monday, represents Lac-St-Jean in the House of Commons.The list of chemicals made ou- blie Monday was prepared by a group of seven independent toxicologists, environmentalists and scientists appointed by former en-vironment minister Tom McMillan.The committee was asked to list chemicals that are not regulated by the federal government, that are produced in large quantities and pose a threat to public health and the environment.Other chemicals on the list include dioxins, furans, the effluent from pulp and paper mills, arsenic and benzene.CHEMICALS EVALUATED The new Canadian Environmental Protection Act obliges the environment minister to have risk assesment reports done on the top nine chemicals on the list within three years and the remainder within five years.A recent report prepared by Environment Canada showed that more than half of the 2,290 tonnes of PAHs spewed into Quebec skies every year come from Alcan’s five smelters in the province.One of the authors of the Envi ronment Canada report said exposure to PAHs has been linked to cancers of the bladder, skin, scro turn, lungs, pancreas and kidneys A new study by the Department of Health and Welfare shows that the rates of those cancers in the Lac-St-Jean region are much higher than the national average.Senator to see Getty on reform OTTAWA (CP) — Senator Lowell Murray, the prime minister’s point man on constitutional reform, is heading to Alberta to discuss Senate reform today with Premier Don Getty.Murray, minister for federal-provincial relations, has consulted the other provinces on the next round of constitutional reform.The premiers and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney are also to discuss Senate reform, although no firm date has been set for a conference.Getty supports Senate reform and has proposed that the Alberta legislature consider a bill that would provide province-wide elections to choose a nominee for a Senate opening from Alberta.Three Albertans, two of them provincial cabinet ministers, have indicated they want to contest an election.However, Mulroney said last week that a submission with only one name on it “would be incomplete and therefore unnaccep-table.’’ However, Jim Horsman, Alberta intergovernmental affairs minister, said he plans to go ahead with the Senate election plan anyway.“Despite what the prime minister has said, it is our intention to proceed with our proposal and we will be putting it before Albertans,” Horsman said.WANTS THE LAW Getty later said he wants a Senate election law passed before the next provincial election.Murray also plans to meet the provincial task force on Senate reform.Under the 1987 Meech Lake constitutional accord, the provinces agreed to submit a list of names to the prime minister for Se-nate vacancies.Quebec and Newfoundland have each submitted lists with five names each.Mulroney chose new senators for those provinces from the lists.Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan has also submitted five names for one of the two Senate seats open for that province, but Mulroney has not made the selection.The most romantic day.REtX)RI) , as r Wien U I'nMommant rtJÎT* ^ ^ Quebec and fede und hr hüii t?r w I ?'* thr Cons-iitutton which v used b> Queer, w hen the amendments were passed Among the cases that were w ithdr»« r Moe/is» « .a.,, Allan Smger a staunch opponent ot the sign law ^ ‘ ’ fMhion *"*** ^BTomtee 7n Ms c “I display im said sign outside alt dax and bring it inside for the night hr -The RECORD—Tuesday, February 14, 1989 Road repair project could create 300,000 jobs, billions in taxes EDMONTON (CP) — Ottawa ould create 300,000 new jobs and collect billions in extra taxes if it agreed to spend $15 billion on road and sewer repairs across the country, says the president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.“There is a very big payoff back to the federal government in terms of people not being on the unemployment rolls,” said George Cuff.“Local economies would have a surge in them because of the amount of money being spent.” The municipalities have made the pitch for federal money since 1984, but the federal government has been reluctant to get into the business of plugging leaks and filling cracks.“The government’s position hasn’t changed,” said Vera Ho-liad, spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski.“It is not the policy of the government to fund municipal infrastructure.” Ottawa is hobbled by the deficit and won’t move into an area of municipal and provincial control “unless there’s a compelling case made,” said Conservative Edmonton MP Jim Edwards.“And I haven’t seen that case made yet.” Ottawa did contribute $2.7 billion in loans and grants to city sewer lines and treatment plants between 1961 and 1980.But the government felt it wasn’t “getting the value that it might” from its investment, said Denis Davis.Davis, who heads Environment Canada’s inland water directorate, is Ottawa's representative at a conference on urban streets, sewers and water lines in Edmonton today and Tuesday.The conference is sponsored by the federation, the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto.Davis said the previous federal funds were used in capital-intensive and not necessarily efficient ways.And Ottawa would prefer to create those jobs in sectors where it has control and responsibility.“It’s a case of comparing, say.an investment in municipal infrastructure versus an investment in technology or research.” Ottawa has the worst debt-equity ratio of any of the three levels of government, Davis added.“If you're looking at incurring new debt, the municipal and provincial levels are in fact financial- ly in a significantly better position than the federal government.” Liberal MP Lloyd Ax worthy of Winnipeg doesn’t buy the deficit argument.“The government keeps talking about commitment to the environment and yet the real serious deterioration in sewage treatment and water treatment plants, garbage treatment, is one of the major causes and sources of our environmental pollution,” Axworthy said.An investment in city repair “is a productive investment as opposed to, say, the nuclear submarines that the government has committed to.” Last week the Canadian Construction Association joined the debate by calling on Ottawa to spend billions on road repair rather than day care, “(Day care) isn’t essential for certain people.The highway system and spending on it is essential for all,” Peter Lysak, outgoing chairman of the association, said at the group’s annual convention in Toronto.Lysak suggested that a one-cent-a-litre federal fuel tax would earn $500 million annually toward road improvement.Caribbean wants free NeWS-in-bNGf trade deal with Canada OTTAWA (CP) — Commonwealth Caribbean countries have asked Canada for the same tariff cuts granted American exports under the Canada-U.S.free-trade deal.Bernard Yankey, high commissioner for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean .States, said Monday that Caribbean countries will press for full duty-free access to Canada at a trade meeting in Guyana next month.The Commonwealth countries will also ask for special incentives to encourage investment in the Caribbean and to improve international shipping.The Guyana meeting is to review a 1986 trade agreement called Ca-ribcan, which allows most exports from the Commonwealth Caribbean countries to enter Canada du- ty free.The agreement exempts several products — including textiles, clothing, footwear and luggage — and the Caribbean countries fear U S.competitors will push them out of the market unless the exemption list is dropped, Yankey said in an interview.Chris Bryant, executive director of CUSO, an independent development organization, said the Caribbean countries aren’t the only developing countries worried about the affects of Canada-U.S.free trade.“A number of the smaller countries that we work with are asking ‘what about us?’ ” Bryant said.“Now is the time to start looking at where this agreement leaves them." Canadian lawyers asked to fight apartheid laws OTTAWA (CP) - Canadian lawyers have been urged to cooperate to fight apartheid in South Africa.“Lawyers in particular have a role to play in raising consciousness about apartheid,” said Winnipeg lawyer David Matas, coordinator of Amnesty International’s Canadian legal network.“The law is used in the imposition of apartheid and lawyers have to be concerned when the law is abused that way.” Matas was one of five speakers at a forum on Sunday sponsored by the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and the University of Ottawa’s law faculty.Audio taping was not permitted during the meeting and two speakers, one of them a Toronto lawyer, asked not to be identified.British lawyer Geoffrey Bind-man suggested Canadian lawyers form a group similar to the 500-member Lawyers Against Apartheid established two years ago in Great Britain.Members publish a bulletin outlining legal developments and abuses in South Africa, write and publish articles in legal journals, hold public meetings, gather research and place public notices in newspapers.Matas said lawyers could be an “effective voice analysing whether the policy (of sanctions) is working and how it could be improved.” He also suggested influential legal organizations, such as the Canadian Bar Association, pass resolutions opposing apartheid.Italian city seeks to reclaim St-Valentine TERNI (AP) — Led by their Communist mayor, the people of Terni have launched a crusade to reclaim St.Valentine, the patron saint of lovers who has attained greater fame abroad than in his native Italy.On Sunday, the city in central Italy's Umbria region launched a yearly award ceremony dedicated to acts of love around the world.Next year, it plans to offer free honeymoons to newlyweds.This steel town wants its decapitated 3rd century bishop to really be its valentine.The Roman Catholic saint for lovers has been as much a mixture of myth, religion and tradition as Easter bunnies or St.Nicholas, who eventually became a jolly red-suited Santa Claus.The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints says 17 Valentines are listed in the official encyclopedia of saints — including ones from Italy, France, Spain, and Germany.Historical accounts from the Middle Ages say that Placido, the prefect of Rome, had the spiritual head of Terni’s Christians beheaded on Feb.14 of the year 270 after having him imprisoned and whipped.After his martyrdom, Valentino's body was brought back to Terni by his followers and buried.The funeral urn was discovered in a cemetery during the 17th century and now is kept in a basilica, minus a tooth given at the time to Leopold of Austria, who venerated the saint and financed the basilica’s construction.—______tel ¦rBtfliPlll Priests want $3 million MONTREAL (CP) — The Sulpician Roman Catholic priests and the Quebec government will spend nearly $3 million to restore two of the Sulpicians' earliest buildings.One is a greystone seminary, part of which dates back to 1685, featuring an outside clock.The seminary is located beside the famous Notre Dame Basilica, itself built around 1848.The other historical site is an ancient ornamental pool, measuring 162 metres, located on the flank of Mount Royal Sulpician priests were associated with Cho-medey de Maisonneuve in the founding of the city in 1642.Adoption agency should go MONTREAL (CP) — A group representing parents adopting children from foreign countries wants Quebec’s international adoption agency disbanded.The group — la federation des parents adoptants du Quebec — also wants responsibility for international adoptions taken away from Quebec Social Affairs Minister Therese Lavoie-Roux.“Things have been getting worse and worse for the last three years,” the federation said in an open letter to Premier Robert Bourassa.Quebec insists that before any foreign child can be legally adopted by any Quebec citizens, the adoption must be authorized in advance by the province’s international adoption secretariat.As a result, there has been a drop in the annual number of legal foreign adoptions completed by Quebec parents and a longer waiting period before the adoptions can be formalized, Claire-Marie Gagnon, federation vice-president, said at a news conference.Gagnon called the system, "a police control of adoptions and not a public service.” RCMP complaint dismissed OTTAWA (CP) — A human rights tribunal has dismissed a complaint by two Ontario men who were denied jobs by the RCMP because of poor eyesight.In a release, the Canadian Human Rights Commission said it will not appeal the tribunal’s decision.Under the Canadian Human Rights Act, says the release, practices which might be considered disciminatory are allowed if they are necessary to ensure the job is performed safely and well.Andre Seguin, of Cornwall, and George Tusko-vish, of Iroquois Falls, filed complaints with the commission in June 1985 after they were refused jobs as special constables.Both men wear glasses.Neither meets the RCMP's vision standards for the naked eye.The RCMP says these requirements are necessary because officers might be in an emergency and lose their glasses or contact lenses.Ottawa to meet Ontario OTTAW A (CP ) — Trade officials from Ottawa and Ontario plan to report to their governments this week on talks aimed at bringing Ontario’s liquor regulations into line with the free-trade deal with the United States.Abbie Dann, a spokesman for Trade Minister John Crosbie, said Monday that both sides are wrapping up negotiations designed to smooth over the long-standing dispute.Dann said Ottawa is still waiting for a formal response from Ontario on whether it will comply with the trade deal and phase out price markups on U S.wines.She denied a weekend report that the federal government gave Ontario a 10-day deadline to comply before forcing the province to change its liquor regulations.George MacLaren, Publisher.Randy Kinnear, Assistant Publisher.Charles Bury, Editor .Lloyd G.Schelb, 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Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation T Insane or not?TORONTO (CP) — Crown lawyers and three Ontario Court of Appeal judges are criticizing Helmuth Buxbaum’s argument that he was insane when his wife was killed 4% years ago.Buxbaum, who didn’t plead insanity before he was convicted of masterminding the murder three years ago, shouldn't be able to use that argument in his appeal of the conviction, Crown lawyer John Pearson said Monday.“He should not be allowed to appeal on a defence that was clearly disclaimed at his trial,” said Pearson, who added there would be danger of setting a court precedent “in opening the door to that kind of approach.” Buxbaum’s appeal lawyer, Clayton Ruby, argued there is “fresh evidence” that his client — who was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for first-degree murder — was mentally unfit, even at his trial.Buxbaum ended up suing his trial lawyer, Edward Greenspan, over his $1.3-rhillion fees.MacEachern forged documents VANCOUVER (CP) - A former British Columbia deputy minister fired from his $72,000-a-year job received a suspended sentence Monday after pleading guilty to using forged airline ticket coupons to get travel bonus points.Gordon MacEachern, now general manager of the Prince Edward Island Potato Marketing Commission, was also placed on six months’ probation by county court Judge Harry Boyle.Defence counsel David Vickers sought an absolute discharge for MacEachern.Although the ticket coupons were bought with taxpayers’ money while MacEachern was deputy minister of agriculture, Vickers said the travel vouchers he obtained with the bonus points from the tickets were never used.“Nothing was obtained,” said Vickers.Boyle refused a Crown request for a fine that would deter others in high positions of public trust.But the judge said the fact that no benefit had been obtained “does not make this an empty exercise.” Soldier faces court martial LONDON (CP) — A court martial will begin March 6 in Lahr, West Germany, for a Canadian soldier in connection with the stabbing death of a young Canadian woman last June in Hungary, a Canadian Armed Forces spokesman said Monday.Cpl.Christian Pepin, 27, of the Royal 22nd Regiment at CFB Lahr, has been charged with first-degree murder and desertion while on active duty.Pepin was arrested June 3 after Hungarian authorities discovered the body of Antonette Charest, 21, in a hotel room in the small town of Vasarosnemeny, eight kilometres from the Soviet border.He was later returned by Hungary to Canadian military authorities in West Germany.Charest, daughter of a warrant officer in the same regiment as Pepin, had been stabbed 11 times.91 get pink slips TORONTO (CP) — Central Guaranty Trustee says it has notified 91 employees in its Toronto and Halifax offices that their jobs are being terminated.A spokesman said the jobs are being eliminated in a reorganization stemming from the December amalgamation of Central Trust Co.of Halifax with Guaranty Trust Co.of Toronto, Yorkshire Trust Co.of Vancouver and Nova Scotia Savings Loan Co.of Halifax.The spokesman said 42 jobs will be eliminated in the Toronto computer systems divisions of Central Guaranty.In Halifax, 22 management, 17 clerical and 10 part-time accounting em-ployees will be laid off Doonesbury Straight, dead at 79 VANCOUVER (CP) — Veteran newspaper publisher Hal Straight, a former managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, died Sunday at his West Vancouver home after a lengthy illness.He was 79.“As far as I’m concerned, he was one of the last of the good, hard-nosed, straight-from-the-shoulder newspapermen,” said broadcaster Jack Webster.“He trained a generation of postwar reporters." Straight started his newspaper career in 1933 when he joined the V ancouver Sun sports department.He worked as a columnist, baseball and golf writer before becoming sports editor.In 1942, he was named managing editor.In 1948, Straight resigned to become publisher of the Edmonton Bulletin.Under Straight, the Bulletin increased circulation to 30,000 from 17,000.Rising costs, however, forced its closure in 1951.U.S.wants probe re-opened WASHINGTON (AFP) —AU.S.magazine has called on Canada to reopen the inquiry into the 1985 crash of a DC-8 airliner in Gander, Nfld., which killed 248 U.S.troops and eight civilian flight-crew members.Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine said in an editorial in its latest issue that many questions remain unanswered about the crash, which was blamed by investigators on ice on the plane's wings.The magazine said four of the nine members of the inquiry team said there were similarities between the Gander disaster and the crash of a Pan American Boeing 747 over Lockerbie.Scotland.two months ago.British authorities said the Pan Am crash was caused by a bomb.260 prisoners will be freed NICOSIA (Reuter) — Iran said Monday it will free 260 disabled and sick Iraqi prisoners of war next week.Iran's news agency IRNA, monitored in Nicosia.said the names of those to be freed were given to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tehran It said Iran freed 800 sick and disabled Iraqi prisoners by the End of last October and accused Iraq of preventing ICRC officials from registering the names of Iranian PoWS, Weather Risk of freezing drizzle, clouding over in the afternoon with high winds and a high of 3.Outlook for Wednesday: snow turning to rain, a low of -10 and a high of 1.Concorde cracks PARIS (AP)—A supersonic Concorde jetliner en route to New York with 69 passengers returned to Paris after cracks appeared above a porthole as the plane was about halfway across the Atlantic, Air France said today.Air France Flight 001 was at 18,000 metres and had just reached supersonic speed Sunday when the cracks were noticed in the first of four glass plates in one porthole, said Air France spokesman Laurent Kressman.He did not know who first noticed the crack «bout 90 minutes into the three-hour and 45-minute flight.The pilot slowed the jet, dropped its altitude to 9,750 metres and returned to Charles de Gaulle airport, Kressman said.Passengers were put aboard another Concorde, but the plane was delayed and travellers on the high-tech jet arrived about nine hours after the normal transatlantic Air France flight to New York.“They were not very, very happy,” said Kressman.Voters receive death threats COLOMBO (AP) — Thousands of armed soldiers and police are going on alert in Sri Lanka to combat a new Sinhalese extremist threat to kill voters at legislative elections Wednesday.“Boycott the elections or the punishment is death,” said a slogan that appeared overnight on walls in Colombo.Also Monday, authorities said the latest deaths in the country’s bloody election campaign include at least four civilians, a policeman, a soldier and eight guerrillas.Militants also derailed a train, they said.Other notices in Colombo called a general strike today and Wednesday and warned people to stay out of the capital.All the threats were in the Sinhalese language and were signed J.V.P., the Sinhalese initials for the People’s Liberation Front.Police blame the movement for more than 800 killings this year.3 die, 3 missing in avalanche GRANADA, Spain (Reuter) — Three French climbers died and three more were missing today after an avalanche high up on the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Spain.The provincial governor’s office said Civil Guards backed by helicopters recovered three unidentified bodies 3,300 metres up on the Mul-hacen, which at 3,480 metres is the highest mountain on the Spanish mainland.It said the group's only woman escaped the avalanche which swept over the middle-aged mountaineers Sunday afternoon as they climbed toward a refuge.She reached the hut and raised the alarm by radio.Ecological disaster for China?BEIJING (Reuter) — China could be heading toward ecological disaster unless pollution is halted, a leading scientist warned Monday."There could be a deadly threat to the survival of the Chinese nation if immediate action is not taken to halt environmental pollution,” Chinese Academy of Sciences President Zhou Guangzhao told a national scientific meeting.Zhou, quoted by the official New China News Agency, said forests were rapidly shrinking.150 million people are drinking polluted water and acid rain is attacking the southwestern provinces.home to the endangered panda.“The ever-increasing population is facing a deteriorating living environment — a sure recipe for disaster.BY GARRY TRUDEAU Wf.H UHCfKmtP.IN ORPFfi, ID HurGeowe mh on a hanm on w vem nm, cvpcoa&a I ' CAftTOONIiTS HONEYMOON H/BIK ' ANpfUPGf- TOAKTAINHXM - FmuuNG mPR&tpmi m .N0LBSS THAN 56VBN PAYS.amr IW| .ANPAlOÎOr 07HEKGUY5.Ï IT'S KINP OF AN emKMBNT, IMCX OUR HOPE IS THAT IF ME REMOVE THE FEAR (JFRipiaitE, REMAPS PUSH WU OO SOME -THING THAT'S ACTUALCy STATESMANLIKE' MU.AU OF YOU ARB RBAUTGOING TOlAy OFF PUSH FOR A WHOLE P/Ef-K 7 tr WHAT IF HE OOESSOME-THING REALLY, REALLY BUSH LIKE*/ sfSSF aT WELL THAT.OF axjRse.wouLP VIOLATE THE SPIRIT OF THE HONEYMOON HEV HAVE TOCALUT OFF.V # The RECORD—Tuesday, February 14.1989—3 The Townships —___ «ecora fcVou can’t stop me from building if I put in the sewage' Lennoxville council gets an earload from a couple of angry ratepayers Léo Valcourt.answer?' ‘Where is my By Ann McLaughlin LENNOXVILLE - Two highly irritated Lennoxville residents beleaguered town council Monday night, demanding answers for inaction on the development of new streets.Marcel Gagnon wants to build a house on Amesbury Street and said he has been trying relentlessly to obtain a permit for three years.He says the municipality has no legal right to deny him the go ahead."The municipality says there is no street there and I cannot have a permit because water and sewage service are not installed.” Gagnon said of past excuses given to him by .town hall.“But I am willing to install the weeping field and artesian well myself, at my own cost,” Gagnon said, adding that he has checked regulations of Sherbrooke regional municipality (MRC) and found no law forbidding his demands.NOT A STREET YET But town manager Jacques Gagnon disagreed with taxpayer Marcel Gagnon, saying that Amesbury is not yet a street and that permits could not be issued without the installation of adequate city waterworks.“You can’t stop me from building if I put in the sewage in accordance with municipal and environmental regulations,” citizen Gagnon insisted, adding that some Lennoxville residents don’t have adequate waterworks and their sewers empty straight into the St.Francis River.Citizen Gagnon threatened to report this well-known environmental hazard to the environment ministry.After failing to receive concrete answers from town council on his points in question, citizen Gagnon said there must be another reason for the town's inaction.“I've heard that if you have an English name in Lennoxville you get what you want.I have a French name and am starting to believe it’s true." he said.WATSON AND OXFORD?Citoyen Gagnon backed up his accusations to the seven-member council, citing examples of streets which obtained services whose residents had applied for them w ay after he did.“Watson and Oxford Streets were given permits to build before the sewage was installed — you are inconsistent,” he said angrily.Town manager Gagnon told résident Gagnon that the council meeting w as not the place to discuss the issue.“Your lawyer has contacted us so we will be contacting you by our lawyer,” he said, putting an end to the heated discussion.Then a second property owner, Léo Valcourt, who can spot a reporter’s notepad half a mile away, stood up and gave the council a piece of his mind — on a similar issue but a different street.CHARLOTTE STREET Valcourt is a property owner on Charlotte Street and he too wants a building permit for a house and has been waiting to hear if the town plans to put in waterworks.“One month ago you told me your directeur générale would let me know in a week,” he said to the by-then weary council members."Where is my answer?Why isn't this guy doing his job?” asked the fired-up Valcourt, probably a veteran of as many council meetings as anyone elected to the post.The sewage system has been built half way up Charlotte Street and property owners on the top half of the street want the pipes exten ded.They too have been waiting for about four years, Valcourt said.TOWN WILL DO IT BUT.Council decided that the town will put in the pipes but the resi dents will have to pay for the job, estimated at around $125,000, said directeur generale Gagnon.Good, replied Valcourt.adding that the half-dozen property owners have been saying for years that they would split the cost of se wers.Then he wanted to know when the work would start seeking concrete answers on the concrete pipes.But once again a resident was put off He w as told by Mayor Duncan Bruce that he should obtain signatures from the affected proper ty owners and bring it to town hall Tensions rose after citoyen Gagnon and veteran Valcourt claimed that petitions had been ignored when submitted in the past.The two stormed out right about the time Bruce was about to slam the hardwood hamrnerdown to call for order.Townshippers: Liberals should get off the pot, onto Bill 142 Quebec holding back on anglo services after regions have shown the need?By Rita Legault SHERBROOKE — Premier Robert Bourassa is spreading meaningless fudge when he tells anglophones he has given them Bill 142, which guarantees health and social services in English.The law provides nothing yet, says Townshipper’s Association general manager Cynthia Belisle.Belisle was one of three representatives from off-island English-language rights groups at joint Montreal press conference with Alliance Quebec yesterday to denounce Quebec's lack of action putting the law into force."It's important to understand that Bill 142 is not a fait-accompli?' she said.“It has not gone through 100 per cent.” The Townshippers spokeswoman said regional health councils drew up action plans to implement Bill 142 more than ten months ago.But the reports have been sitting unattended on the desk of Christos Sirros, junior health minister responsible for application of Bill 142.BASIC SERVICES “Our message to everybody is that not enough has been done on the province for providing basic health and social services,” Belisle said in an interview Monday.While the is plenty of good will on the part of regional health councils (Conseils régional de santé et des services sociaux—CRSSS) to work with anglo groups, there still isn’t the political desire in Quebec City to follow up on policy and implement the action plans.“At the community level there is a willingness to work with us,” she said.“But we still need the government to come through and approve the action plans.” Belisle said that in the Eastern Townships the biggest language-related health problems are coping with an aging community and caring for troubled youths.“We still feel very uneasy about our aging anglophone population,” Belisle said.“Services to isolated elderly are not up to par.” RURAL POPULATION Most people in the Townships live in rural areas, Belisle said.This means they are far from centres with abundant health care services, and are often without a car or access to mass transit.As well, the elderly are less likely to speak and understand French easily.Y et home care for old folks living in the country is hard to find so they often end up with French-speaking helpers they can’t talk with, she said.“For elderly people alone in their homes this can be very difficult,” Belisle said, adding that local clinics (CLSCs Centre local de services communautaires) must find a way to provide services in English to isolated angles.Belisle added that English services for victims of child abuse and for delinquent children are not much available in the Sherbrooke area.If Townships minors have to be removed from their homes or have trouble with the law they “have to be transfered to Montreal,” Belisle said, adding that it is hard enough Continued from page I BILL 142: was most noticeable in some local health and social service clinics (CLSCs).WANT ACTION “We acknowledge that presenting a plan might be more complicated and take more time in an area as big and with as many health and social service institutions, but we still hope to see some for children to be taken out of their homes, let alone completely out of their community.Similarly care in English for beaten women is virtually non-existant here, she added.NEED BETTER There are no centres for battered wives in Sherbrooke either, she said, adding that victims of abuse and others needing psychological care need it their own language Belisle also said front line jobs such as receptionists and telephone operators in hospitals and local CLSLCs should be bilingual in order to deal with anglophone clientele.However Belisle said there are movement soon on the Island of Montreal.” he said.The outgoing Alliance president admitted being at a loss to explain the government’s inaction.“The situation has gone on for so long, one has to wonder if it’s caused by gross inefficiency or some kind of political manoeuvering,” Orr said.“I guess a case could be made that the government has hesitated to avoid any more heat on the language issue." Regional Alliance Quebec members, representing If Pascau callers and Lynden can agree, we just might be onto something here some bright spots.The local CRSSS Estrie showed goodwill by publishing a guide to health and social services available in English in the area, she said Also a group home for trouble youth in Cowansville was finally given the go-ahead recently after an eight-year battle.UP TO ANGLOS Belisle stressed that it is up to anglos themselves to make sure health and social services are available to them.“Each individual has a role to play in making sure services exist,” she said.“The English community has to be more aware of the services that are available the Townshippers Association, the Voice of English Quebec, based in the provincial capital, the Gaspé peninsula Committee for Social Action (CASA) and the Outaouais Alliance were also present at the news conference.MARY’S BOARDING HOUSE CASA spokesperson Joan Richards cited the recent closure of Mary’s Boarding House — the last Gaspé peninsula health care centre for elderly anglophones — as evidence that conditions haven't improved since the adoption of Çill before they get sick " Belisle said Townshippers are also worried about the lack of information such as brochures and pamphlets available in English.She said regional health councils have a role to play in providing more information in English about what services exist.In response to criticism that the anglo rights groups are just bringing up Bill 142 now because they lost the fight against 178, Belisle replied that although the timing seems bad that just isn't so.“This isn't something new,” she insists.“We fought to get Bill 142 put in.Now we are just fighting to have it put into effect ." 142.“The closure of Mary's Boarding .House has meant that some of our elderly citizens unable to speak French have had to be transferred to health care centres in other regions, far away from their families and friends," Richards said."Others are now in francophone facilities, where they can’t get the proper animation or stimulation in their own language.In such instances, they might as well not have any services.” ‘The feeling down here is that Lincoln is right’ Two completely separate episodes yesterday lead me to believe that Clifford Lincoln’s proposal for a “We’re fed up with language wars rally” might be a good idea.Pierre Pascau.host of L'Informateur, Télémedia’s top-rated public affairs show, blasted Lincoln during his lunchtime interview with the former environment minister.Commentary By Bernard St-Laurent Montreal Daily News He accused Lincoln of wanting to make people forget about the language debate.He talked about how francophones couldn't be served in French in a store at NDG's Cavendish Mall He suggested French Quebec is threatened because immigrants are being assimilated into the English community.Lincoln told Pascau that English Quebec has changed.He said people want to talk about the environment, education, health services and not only language.He challenged Pascau to forget old stereotypes which no longer exist.The exchange was bitter — but reaction from callers was surprising.EIGHT OF TEN Pascau read comments from 10 listeners at the end of the show.Eight agreed with Lincoln and only two sympathized with hardliner Pascau.The other episode came when 1 called an old friend of mine, Lynden Bechervaise, director-general of the Regional School Board of Gaspesia.He’s also a founding co-chairman of the Committee of Anglophones for Social Action (CASA), the English rights group on the Gaspé coast.1 wanted to talk to Lynden about Bill 142—which guarantees access to health and social services in English — and the problems anglos have getting basic services in the Gaspé region.But Bechervaise was obsessed with Lincoln’s proposal.“1 just came back from a CASA meeting, and 1 was really surprised by the reaction,” he said.“They all loved Lincoln’s idea.” EARLY FIGHTER Now Bechervaise is not your compromising kind of a guy.He was fighting for English rights before it was a popular thing to do.You get that way when you’re an anglo living on the Gaspé coast, because in many ways you’ve been an underprivileged minority for decades Each high school graduation sees another wave of kids leave for Montreal or Mississauga.There are no English hospitals.There are very few health and social services available in English.And before 1984, all you got was Atlantic television, CKNB, a top-40 radio station from Campbellton, New Brunswick, and another, CKBC, from Bathurst.You had more in common with Maritimers than with Quebecers.Nowadays CBC radio and television are fed in and some towns on the coast have cable.But still, the school board is the only real English-language institution to speak of.‘LINCOLN IS RIGHT' "Well, the feeling down here is that Lincoln is right," Bechervaise said.“We’ve got to get past Bill 178 and get on to the future.“If Lincoln's rally works, it would take some of the nationalist thunder away.It would open the door to other kinds of dialogue.” "Nobody is listening right now.If we say, ‘Look, we recognize French, we’ve got to live together anyway, what’s best for Quebec is best for us too,’ maybe they (francophones) won’t look at us with such a jaundiced eye," Bechervaise said.“We ll gain credibility and we’ll be more effective in our other fights.” “I know it’s like saying we got shafted and we love it.But I don’t see any other way out.So an overwhelming majority of francophone callers to one of the most listened-to radio programs in French Quebec blasted Pascau and agreed with Lincoln.And one of the oldest and most vulnerable English rights groups also thinks its a good idea.We just might be on to somet hing here.Judge: Do you have trials here often?Not a day like any other as winter court term opens in Bedford district By John McCaghey GRANBY — The opening of the winter term of the district of Bedford Superior Court criminal assizes Monday was not a day like any other in local tradition.Known as a stickler for rules of practice.Mr Justice Jean-Guy Bollard of Montreal had been assigned to preside in criminal division of Superior Court here.It didn’t lake long for the fireworks to start.Crown attorney Claude Melan-gon and defence lawyer Thomas Walsh said they had agreed to put off Denis Brazeau's police brutality trials to the spring term.’ The cases are set for this term and will proceed unless there is a rèoption for trial before a Quebec Court judge," Justice Boilard ruled.The lawyers reflected then told the court they would re-opt before a Quebec Court judge and the case w«s eventually set for April 26 in Gfanby Brazeau.a constable with the Brome Lake police, faces charges of assault causing bodily harm on James Frizzle, Jerry Anderson and Randy Lace as well as a charge of illegal confinement of Lace.IN HOSPITAL Justice Boilard rescinded a delayed bench warrant issued for De-zonie Desolin Ferguson-Johnson, issued when the assizes opened Jan.25.Defence lawyer Thomas Walsh explained that her son was in hospital and Justice Thomas Toth had issued the warrant to maintain jurisdiction over the accused.Federal prosecutor Serge Cham-poux said he consented to the delay on humanitarian grounds.Johnson, of Montreal, is charged with conspiracy and smuggling cocaine at Phillipsburg in the autumn of 1987 Her trial was set to proceed Feb 20 Her cousin Carline Ferron also of Montreal and charged with the same offences, had her case set for Feb 28.WalsJi and Ferron's defence la- wyer Donald Bissonnette and Champoux agreed each trial would take three days.The chain of possession and the nature of the substance were admitted by both sides at a pre-trial conference ROYEA CASE Georges Tringle.20, of Sutton, appeared on a charge of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 68-year-old Frank Royea at 14a Maple Street in Sutton on Nov.2, 1988.Justice Boilard allowed defence lawyer Bissonnette to withdraw from the case."I had negotiated a common suggestion for sentencing with Crown attorney Henry Key serlingk," Bissonnette explained “Thursday my client disagreed with the agreement and as this is a very serious charge I advised him to seek other counsel." Tringle, known as "ape man" in the Sutton subculture, told the court what Bissonnette had said “I'm meeting another lawyer.Claude Hyman (Hamanni on Wednesday," he told the Judge Justice Boilard set Tringle's triai to proceed March u despite Keyserlingk s objection that Ha-mann could find himself in conflict of interest SCREWDRIVER ASSAULT In a case apparently set to proceed right away, screwdriver-attack suspect Georges Hamel, 63, presently held at Archambault maximum security penitentiary, said he would not be able to proceed in his own defence Monday.He said Justice Toth had told him he would reappear Feb.13 to have a trial date set The court file indicated nothing to the contrary but met with objections by Keyserlingk, who maintained the trial had been set to go on Monday Hamel said that all his defence documents were at Archambault, and that he had not called his defence witnesses He admitted the Crown had sent him a transcript of his preliminary hearing but said prosecutors hadn't answered writs requesting a summary of the Crown's proof Keyserlingk said he modified the charges to assault while armed with an offensive weapon, a screwdriver, and attempted armed robbery while armed with a screwdriver.PHOTOCOPIES OF REPORT Keyserlingk gave the accused a copy of declarations made by the alleged victims, and told the court he would give him photocopies of the police report.Justice Boilard gave the jail-house lawyer his day in court after Keyserlingk suggested they listen to a recording of the Jan 25 procee dings.It became absolutely clear Justice Toth had delayed Hamel's case only “for the form" to Feb 13.Justice Boilard set the case to proceed March 28 after Hamel explained he needed more time to prepare his own defence.He has refused all legal counsel.The final case at the present term of the assizes involves Debra Dupont, of Bedford, charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, leading police to conduct a false investigation.and insurance fraud WHERE ARE THE FORMS?Justice Boilard set Dupont’s case to proceed March 6 He insis ted on proceeding with pre-trial conferences and showed extreme displeasure when the required pa perwork forms were not available in the court house "Do you have as sizes (jury) trials here often?" he asked Keyserlingk “Rarely," the Crown prosecutor replied During proceedings the colorful judge indicated he had only been assigned to Granby to open the term and to preside at the Hamel trial.He assured Walsh and Bissonnette a justice or justices with good understanding of English would be assigned for the Johnson and Ferron trials About noon Justice Boislard called in potential French language jurors who had been cooling their heels outside the courtroom for almost 3V) hours."I feel as if I have been wasting my time and that of the jurors,” boilard commented — before he called them in to dismiss them to a later date Origii varying intensities because the text is eyish or colour background» 4—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 14, 1989 #1_______fogl Kocora The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 189i Editorial Stop begging the question As anyone who has ever been charged with making a decision knows, there comes a time when you stop begging the question.That time has come for the town of Brome Lake council.The mayor and council took a decisive step in that direction Sunday by unanimously proposing the railroad bed as the site of extended sewage services to residents of Fishers Point and the Auberge du Lac condos, and by agreeing upon the town’s contribution to the project.To arrive at this decision, three councillors had to set aside their preferred choice of the less expensive, on-site local collection system and the Mayor had to compromise on his stand that the town had a moral obligation to foot half the bill.The decision by council respects a town plebescite, a Superior Court ruling, and environmental protection conditions imposed by the ministry.It should have ended any further debate on the issue and allowed council to get on with some of the other problems facing the town.But councillors unwittingly left the debate open ended by stating their personal positions publicly.As long as certain interest groups believe their lobbying efforts have a hope in Hades of succeeding, they will continue to stoke the fires.Mayor Decelles lacked judgement in telling the people who will be paying the bill, that he thinks the town should pay half.Particularly alter concensus was reached in council to pay $250,000 and not a penny more.And there should have been no further discussion by councillors about their personal preference for the on-site option, once council had taken the decision to go the railroad bed route.Councillors, like all other citizens, have a right to a personal view.But when they are conducting the business of council, they have a responsibility to publicly defend those positions which have evolved through the democratic process.It isn’t necessary to publicly re-hash the arguments which have taken place behind closed doors thus engaging the entire community in a debate without a mediator.Councillors are not only elected to represent the views of their constituents in council, they arc v barged with making decisions.There is no need tor mea culpas.SHARON McCULLY Will Aquino allow deposed Marcos come home to die?By Robert H.Reid MANILA iAPi — The prospect that Ferdinand Mar cos may soon die presents his successor, President Co-razon Aquino, with the tricky decision of whether to let him return to the Philippines.It also has led to speculation about who will lead Marcos s followers upon his death.The deposed president has been in a Honolulu hospital since Jan 16 and last week suffered a relapse of pneumonia and bronchial asthma.Supporters of the 71-year-old Marcos say he is dying and wants to return to the country he ruled for 20 years until he was ousted in 1986 in a popular uprising.Aquino has repeatedly banned Marcos from returning from exile, citing security concerns, but she allowed a Filipino official to travel to the United States to talk with Marcos representatives.DEAL FOR MONEY?That implied she might consider negotiating some sort of deal, possibly involving the return of some of the estimated $10 billion US that Marcos and his associates allegedly embezzled during his administration.Rei ause the government's position is not entirely clear, rumors abound about an impending deal and there is lively debate among politicians and commentators on what Aquino should do.‘‘National interest demands that we deny him a homecoming.” wrote the independent Philippine Inquirer “In sum Marcos, even in death, should not be allowed to return to the Philippines.” Hut Senate President Jovito Salonga said Marcos should be allowed to return home to die if he can settle U S.racketeering charges against him.Even if Marcos dies abroad, the government would face the emotional question of whether to allow him to he buried in his native land.RISKY DECISION Forbidding a funeral in the Philippines would infuriate Marcos supporters and risk portraying Aquino as vengeful and unforgiving, especially since she refused Marcos's requests to return home in May after his 95 year old mother died “Considering the fact that we Filipinos revere the dead and even forgive their misdeeds .a Marcos bu rial in his home town should make Cory rise above the pettiness and recriminations of the people around her,” wrote independent columnist Emil Jurado in the Manila Standard Another question raised by Marcos's poor health is who will lead his supporters after his death Several candidates have emerged, including Vice-President Salvador Laurel, who met with Marcos in Hawaii this month, and Senator Juan Ponce Enrile.whom Aquino fired as defence minister in 1986 after a lailed coup attempt by his followers.Several politicians have pointed to Eduardo Co-juangco, a wealthy former Marcos ally who lives in California Cojuangco is a cousin of Aquino “The figure to watch is really Danding,” said Representative Bonifacio Gillego, calling Cojuangco by his nickname “People admire him because he did not bring his wealth out of the country and knows how to take care of his people." ÊT-H-l-G-A-U PfQ-LUTTO-tl .j '704.hWWeMAÆô 6(wemB\ ft* ME.I f60s.4 lET&Cb SOMETHING C VMRT61N rr ftp.ME.,?\ .HEY, mi, ue, chert; «oIEtoJ WHKTBJ02- rrweô.Letters Incident left a very, very angry taste in our mouths Dear Mr.Bury: With so much being said about the shortcomings of Bill 178 to fulfill our rights as English-speaking people regarding our language and with so much negative criticism being directed towards Premier Bourassa and the Liberals, I would like to share an experience which my wife and I had recently which should give everybody some food for very serious thought.My wife and I were in a certain fruit store in, what we will call, the north end of Waterloo and were waiting to be served while a couple was taking an incredible amount of time to make all their various little purchases and decisions on what kind of goumet type food and fruit they were going to purchase.As my wife and I stood there for minute after minute after minute we began to notice that several other customers were coming and going and being served ahead of us.Otherwise, this original couple were still being waited on hand and foot by the owner, the only one in the store.All of a sudden, as I happened to glance directly at the first couple a little more closely I realized what was going on.The gentleman being served was none other than the Parti Québécois leader himself and his wife.Now, of course, 1 don’t really mind at all that since they got there before we did, they had every right to be served completely and to the best of the store owner’s capabilities.However, I do mind the fact that we were ignored and passed up to serve several French-speaking customers before we were even considered to be served.1 should point out that my wife and I were openly talking (in English) with each other.To make matters worse, this particular PQ leader purposely attempted to block the door while chatting with someone he knew (one of the ones who had been served before we were but who came in after we did).The only way my wile and I could get past him after I very politely said excusez-moi was to use some good old-fashioned “Brome County persuasion”.This in cident left a very, very angry taste in our mouths and made us realize something which is being far overlooked lately with all the nonsense and debate about the shortcomings of the Liberals in addressing the Supreme Court decision on Bill 101.In case we get drawn into witnessing another tragedy of 1976 we better take a good hard look at what is waitng around the cornertotake Mr Bourassa’splace! ' Regards, RICHARD H.PRICE Foster Speak up and demand the same rights for everyone QFA condemns news reports on Orr Editor: Would like the space for some comments on the controversy over Bill 178 and the media trial and crucifixion of Royal Orr.First of all, keep your head high and don't give in Mr.Orr, you may be guilty be media standards but they aren't the law of this country, thank God! I commend you for your corage in standing up for your beliefs and those of others and for your leadership of Alliance Quebec.Next on my list are all the labels, francophone, allophone, etc.sounds like an answering service for Ma Bell! I am was, and always, will be a Canadian who happens to live in the province of Quebec not the country of Quebec.I'm proud to be a Canadian and if all the people of this country would do that most of the problem would be solved.I came to Quebec from Ontario in 1970 and although I have a French name I do not speak the language.My husband is from Quebec, speaks French but went to English schools.I came to Quebec originally from New Brunswick to teach and always admired Quebec for its unique status that two different language groups lived side by side and got along so well.I have no quarrel with preserving the French language and culture.Their language, etc.should be prominent in this province but it cannot be done by taking away the rights of others.It has been tried numerous times in history and doesn't work as we know from Nazy Germany and the Jews and today in South Africa and Israel.These are extreme examples but they all started out the same way by taking away what seemed insignificant things at first and for the good of a group.No one, majority or not, should be allowed a right they will not grant others.Also the French rights are being trampled on as well.They cannot send their children to learn another language within the school system, it must be done by private means so that only thge well-off can afford it Ask Mr.Parizeau and other members of our government where their children have attended school and if they are learning another language9 You may be in for a surprise! Since moving here any store or business I’ve entered always speak French to me first unless it’s a small local business who knows I’m unilin-gual.I never objected, after all I was in Quebec, sometimes they could speak English, if not.we made do with the few words we knew of each other’s language and signs.No problems, we always got the message across.So come on Canadians (French, English or otherwise) speak up and demand the same rights for everyone or you may find the same hand you think is defending you will turn on you as well.Already you must send your children to French only school or not at all while the English may go to either.A great disadvantage if you would like to live elsewhere.Doesn’t that bother you just a bit?It’s not only the English of Quebec who are being treated as second class citizens! Yours truly, VELMA LEROUX, Richmond How on earth can bilingual signs hurt them Concerning the bilingual Quebec This Mr Maxwell who says the an-glophnes who do not like the language laws have all the other provinces to live in.Has he no loyalty to the actual province?If the language wasn’t involved.would he want to leave a province, his family had lived 5 or 6 generations in.We care about the land, our homes, our roots, and feel we kinda have a right to live here.In the majority of the hospitals maybe all of them all English nurses have to speak French and read it.Or they cannot work.Yet I have personally been in three hospitals where nine out of 10 are French nurses who speak no English Also there will be three english doc-tor’s to 9 or 10 french on the staff 1 would like someone to count up the exact number of representitives in the Quebec government presided over by Mr.Bourassa; Liberal Consertative.NDP.Parti Québéquois and what ever.Who are English.I know of a young man who went to a shop in Cowansville to get a job.He was given an application form to fill out and when he got to the part about his knowledge of French he wrote nil as he handed it back to the receptionist.she pointed out he’d not filled part and he said “I don’t read and speak French”.So she tore his application across and put it in her waste basket and motioned him to leave.NO FRENCH.NO JOB How on earth can bilingual signs hurt them.It’s only common sense unless they intend to have guards on all the boun-dries screening the tourists to see if they speak French or come from France.Now if you are in need of a lawyer look in the yellow pages.The very few you find can’t possibly pose a threat to the francophones Almost all of the banks have French managers.I’m pretty sure there are no English bank managers in Cowansville.They, ever since I can remember, were allowed to have their own language in there homes and never threatened (as we were) that they could not worship and have their own schools.And a greal many of important positions are held by French.And we the English have not banned them from running and obtaining these positions And French boys have married English girls and English boys have married French girls.Since Canada was Canada, so we are ail mixed up.How can we help but be anything else but bilingual.Now I for one feel that Quebec is the loveliest country and province in Canada.The valleys and mountains all so beautiful to behold.I just do not want to live any where else.MRS.DONNA CARTER Cowansville An open letter to Royal Orr.Presi dent, Alliance Quebec Dear Mr.Orr, It was with concern and deep regret that the Board of Directors of the Quebec Farmers’ Association has witnes sed the manner in which various me dia have reported events following the fire in the Alliance Quebec office In particular, it is with abhonance that we have seen you subjected to implied accusations in a way we had hoped we would not see happen to anyone in our society.In addition, we also recognize the tremendous stress that this, and associated events, has placed on both you and your family Thus.theQFA.bythewayofareso lution at our recent Boeard meeting, want to indicate to you, and all Quebc cers, our condemnation of the news reports which ha\e implicated you with the fire without a shred of supporting evidence.Secondly, we wish to express to you and your family our support during this very trying and difficult time.Yours sincerely, WARREN GRAPES President Quebec Farmers’ Association Do we need "two solitudes" Dear Record : An Anglo's letter to La Presse today makes us think: Do we need to havr “two solitudes" in Quebec?Are we too self-centered, perhaps lazy, to try to communicate with and try to under stand our French speaking neighbours?It needs thinking about Sincerely yours.MARGARET TECTOR.Sherbrooke » a/v mi 1’irui caaaii , m w I a 1.r^aiiivrjv caaa Vi i*>v Maili\OllCavvI IvllVII iTirtf».LrV/lNINtt !YI,‘\K( I An isertative.NDP.Parti Québéquois managers.I'm pretty sure there are Cowansville Incongruity with long-standing peace-keeping role is blatant i open letter to Jean J.Charest, first-strike nuclear capability, this ment of weapons ot ultimate destruc- mands can only humilia P.Minister of State for Youth, development represents an escala- tion The incongruity with our long- flnd further erode our IVsiral K*'ittlfks«h Atirl Anmtmr Snort tion of thp inlpmutionol firms TAPP vtnmtmu nnarn-lropninc?rnlo ic hlo.Wp insist that vnn rnttrvr An open letter to Jean J.Charest, M.P., Minister of State for Youth, Physical Fitness and Amateur Sport Citizens for Nuclear Responsibility was shocked to hear that Ottawa has agreed to test the American Stealth Cruise Missile on Canadian territory.Because the stealth missile has a first-strike nuclear capability, this development represents an escalation of the international arms race Could you explain to us why.at a time of increasing detente among the great powers, Canada should conti nue to assist in American develop- ment of weapons ot ultimate destruction The incongruity with our longstanding peace keeping role is blatant The vast majority of Canadians appear opposed to continued cruise testing Your government s readiness to acquiesce to U S.government de- mands can only humiliate Canadian) and further erode our sovereignty We insist that you report our stand U your cabinet colleagues MICHAEL BENAZG for CFN Lrnnoxvil I Farm and Business U.S.tobacco firm accused of ‘orchestrating’ The RECORD—Tuesday.February 14.198S— the1 1_____IffJ ifBcora TORONTO (CP) — A confidential manual shows a court challenge of Canada's Tobacco Products Control Act is being orchestrated by an American firm, an industry-analyst says.The manual was produced by a public relations firm for R.J.Reynolds Tobacco USA, said Richard Daynard.chairman of the Tobacco Products Liability Project at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.RJR-Macdonald Inc., a Rey- nolds subsidiary.is one of three Canadian tobacco producers asking the Quebec Superior Court to quash the legislation on the grounds that it violates Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.The legislation prohibited newspaper, magazine and billboard advertisements and signs in retail stores as of Jan.1.The 22-page manual is “basically an instruction sheet for undermining the Canadian health police,’' Davnard said Sunday.“It’s a briefing manual for people who are going to be arguing against the tobacco policy." Daynard said one section, marked Privileged and Confidential.includes more than 80 questions and answers on smoking and health litigation “for use of attorneys only." Cohn Irving, a Montreal lawyer representing RJR-Macdonald, called the manual “completely irrele-vent’’ and denied he is using it to fight the Canadian legislation.The trial is scheduled for March 20, but the federal government has applied for a postponement.Irving said.Garfield Mahood.executive director of the Non-Smokers Rights Association, said the manual contains distortions and deceptions.“Much of what is being said by the tobacco industry in Canada is being orchestrated in the United States." he said.Free trade will force province to drop 66-per-cent hike on U.S.wines Ontario, Ottawa expected to conclude liquor talks By Clyde Graham OTTAWA (CP) — Trade officials from Ottawa and Ontario plan to report to their governments this week on talks aimed at bringing Ontario’s liquor regulations into line with the free-trade deal with the United States.Abbie Dann, a spokesman for Trade Minister John Crosbie, said Monday that both sides are wrapping up negotiations designed to smooth over the long-standing dispute.Dann said Ottawa is still waiting for a formal response from Ontario on whether it will comply with the trade deal and phase out price markups on U.S.wines.Dann denied a weekend report that the federal government gave Ontario a 10-day deadline to comply before forcing the province to change its liquor regulations.She said the government is still confident a negotiated settlement can be reached over one of the most controversial sections of the trade deal.But she also indicated that Ottawa is still prepared to use a provision in its free-trade law to force compliance if necessary.Ontario could challenge Ottawa’s constitutional right to do so, but federal officials say their power in the trade area gives them the clout they need to win.“Depending on w'hat they say, we will be acting accordingly,” said Dann.An Ontario government official also denied the province had been given a deadline.Val Gibbons, deputy minister of consumer and commercial relations, said the talks are continuing with Ottawa but both sides needed to seek direction from their political masters.The trade deal requires Ontario to phase out a 66 per-cent markup on U.S.wines in its liquor stores.Ontario wines only face a one-per-cent markup.Under the trade deal which took effect on Jan.1, Ontario is required to give U.S.wines equal treatment within seven years.Ontario Premier David Peterson has so far refused to comply, but has indicated he would change his mind if Ottawa offers a generous enough compensation package.All other provinces have notified Ottawa they plan to comply with the deal.On Jan.4, John McDermid, for- mer junior trade minister, told a news conference that he expected an answer from Ontario by the end of January otherwise Ottawa would take action to force compliance.Since then, federal and Ontario officials have been meeting to try to come up with a compromise.Peterson, who opposed the trade deal as a sellout of Canadian sovereignty, wants 12 years to remove that trade barrier.U.S.officials have so far delayed a formal protest over Ontario's failure to comply, preferring to give Ottawa time to persuade or force the province to act.However, the United States could retaliate against Canadian exports to the United States if Ontario doesn’t make the required changes.Canadian Wheat Board exporting last grains?Fortier reveals BCE lost bid for Commerce Group By Allan Swift MONTREAL (CP) — A Quebec cabinet minister said Monday that the giant holding company BCE Inc.wanted to buy the Commerce Group insurance company but was rebuffed by the federal government.Quebec-based Commerce was sold last month to a Dutch company, to the dismay of many Quebecers.Pierre Fortier, associate minister of finance and privatization, said in a speech that the failure of BCE to buy Commerce Group is another example of a Canadian company being lost to foreigners because of an “outdated” federal law.“They tried a couple of times to get the green light" but were stopped by federal law that prohibits financial institutions being owned by companies with holdings in other sectors of the economy, he told reporters after his speech.“The current law gives the advantage to foreign companies,” Fortier said, adding that he did not know if Montreal-based BCE would have succeeded in buying Commerce of nearby St-Hyacinthe.He said Quebec is preparing its own legislation to allow commercial links.The first phase, which will come into force by this fall, will allow insurance companies with a Quebec charter to set up a holding company and invest in industries.USES EXAMPLE Fortier, speaking to the Canadian Club, used the Commerce example to attack Ottawa for not moving with Quebec to pass legislation that would allow links between financial and non-financial companies."How can the federal minister of finance continue to support a policy which so obviously runs counter to the best interests of Quebec and of Canada?” Sharing the head table wdth Fortier was former Quebec cabinet minister Claude Castonguay, now head of the large Laurentian Group financial holding company and an active lobbyist for the province's legislation.The Commerce Group and Be-lair Insurance Co.were bought by Nationale Nederlanden N.V., the largest insurer in the Netherlands, which already owns some smaller Canadian insurance companies.The two Quebec firms had joint revenues in 1987 of $402 million.Other provinces and industries have been after Ottawa to change its law.They point to huge industrial companies, especially from Japan and West Germany, that have their own banks, giving them an added advantage as they invest in Canada.‘I’ve been called a manure mogul’ Cow dung drives American plant, supplies 20,000 homes By Lee Siegel LOS ANGELES (AP) — A desert power plant burns enough cow dung to electrify up to 20,000 homes, thanks to 250,000 cattle, $37 million in tax-exempt bonds and an environmentalist-lawyer seeking his fortune as an “entre-manure.” It’s the first commercial power plant that burns only cattle chips for fuel, although smaller facilities “digest” manure to produce methane to generate electricity, said Will Parish, founder and president of National Energy Associates Inc.Parish, 36, left his job with a San Francisco law firm to start the Mill Valley company, which he said is dedicated to “doing well by doing good” by building profitable but socially and environmentally responsible energy projects.The $46-million, nVa-megawatt Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project, financed by the bonds plus $9 million from investors, is located next to its fuel supply: cattle feedlots near Imperial in the desert about 176 kilometres , east of San Diego.It fired up in November 1987 and began continuous on-line electricity production last October.“It truly is a unique plant," said Bill McCroskey, a project development manager for Southern California Edison Co.“We are presently buying power from them (under a 30-year contract).The plant satisfactorily passed its operating test last fall.They are considered a reliable energy source.” The plant runs at 70 to 85 per cent of its maximum capacity as its construction company, Lurgi Corp.of Frankfurt, West Germany, “tweaks” it toward full net capacity of 15 megawatts, enough to power 15,000 to 20,000 homes using 800 to 900 tonnes of manure daily.Parish said.Parish said the plant’s output represents annual savings of 300,000 barrels of oil that otherwise would be burned for power.and relieves pressure on Imperial Valley landfills.Until the (entrepreneur came along, feedlot owners paid to have manure carted away and dumped.It has little value as fertilizer because it contain^ too much salt and weed seeds.Now NEA buys the dung for $1 a tonne from 15 feedlots.“I’ve been called a manure mogul,” Parish joked.“My alma mater .referred to me in the alumni notes as the class of 1975’s first ‘entremanure.’” Loaders scoop up manure from about 250,000 cattle, and about 60 trucks deliver it to the Mesquite Lake plant, where “we stack it like a precious commodity,” Parish said.Conveyor belts feed 40 tonnes of manure an hour into the plant, where it is dried and dropped into special furnaces.The heat produces more than 68,000 kilograms of steam hourly to drive a turbine and electric generator.By Darlene Rude The Canadian Press Just weeks after an announcement that stunned and divided the farm community, grain companies and producers are gearing up for a major change in the way Prairie oats are exported.In January, Charlie Mayer, grains and oilseeds minister, an nounced that export oats would be removed from the jurisdiction of the Canadian Wheat Board and handed to the private grain trade as of Aug.1.While some groups applauded the move, others such as the Prairie wheat pools said it could spell the beginning of the end of the board, which has sold wheat, oats and barley overseas for 40 years.One group of farmers that ad vises the board called on Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to re verse the move and fire Mayer from his post.The Alberta pool remains oppo sed to the change, but since the announcement it has already started selling oats into the United States for delivery next fall, said spokesman Doug Brunton.The pool, which handles about 60 per cent of Alberta’s crop through its country elevator system.would rather deal with the board but doesn't want to lose export possibilities for farmers, Brunton said from Calgary.“We’ll be just as aggressive in the market.” Brunton said.“We had to take some pragmatic steps to ensure we were able to secure a good healthy portion of that U.S.market.” CHANGES BEGIN Mayer’s a n n o u n c e m e n t marked a major change for the board, which had been the sole exporter of Canadian oats since 1949, when the crop was produced in much larger amounts to feed draught horses.Three million tonnes of oats are grown in Canada each year, about half in Alberta.About three per cent is exported — much to the United States where it ends up in race horse feedbags and on the plates of health-conscious Americans, who are increasingly interested in products like oat bran and oat meal.The pools and the National Far mers Union believe Mayer sdeci sion represents the first step in dismantling the wheat board as a result of the Canada-U.S.free-trade agreement.And they were enraged that a federal minister made the change without consulting farm leaders first.(Focus on Fanning^ N-J «, * 4 H FIND MARKETS However, some groups say pri vate grain companies can better dig up niche markets for oats than the board, which usually handles multimilhon tonne grain sales to customers like China and the Soviet Union The United Grain Growers Ltd.is already drafting contracts that farmers can sign to guarantee a buyer for their export oats, said Russell Jeffrey, a trader for the firm.Prairie farmers will need to learn the ins and outs of the oats market so they can decide when to sell the crop for the best return, Jeffrey said Some grain compa nies are already holding mee tings on the issue Under the board system, re turns from oats sales are pooled through tin' year and all farmers receive the same price “It's going to be a riskier un dertaking to market oats than it was in the past," Brunton said “They (farmers) are going to have to learn what factors drive this market EXPORTS KEY At the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, where non board grains like canola and domesti cally used oats are already bought and sold on the open market, officials are hoping for increased trading levels."We think it's an opportunity for U.S.millers and companies to use the exchange,” said Erie Wood, chairman of the exchange.“Wo should see vastly increased volumes Wood said the exchange is re vamping itsoats futures contract to allow both feed oats and oats used for human consumption to be hedged, since they fetch sligh tly different prices.The test of the new system, traders say, is whether more export markets can be found for oats, allowing farmers to grow more in the next few years Canada's expansion into the U.S.market is credited partly to crop failures in Scandinavia and a U.S.farm policy that until now encouraged producers to grow crops other than oats Some analysts predict the price of oats, now at $160 a tonne through the board, could fall to as low as $100 next year if farmers around the world plant more .CoModa! paRvanaimni Execs help small businesses REGINA (CP) — Without an accountant's advice, Jeanne Hry-niuk s tiny northern convenience store might not have survived its first year And Hryniuk couldn't have easily afforded that advice if it hadn't been for the Canadian Executive Service Organization A national non profit consulting firm, the organization is best known for sending hundreds of senior or retired professionals and managers overseas, where they work as volunteer advisers in developing cofintries But much of its work happens in aboriginal communities here at home In the past year alone, its volunteers helped Indians, Metis and Inuit with more than 1,500 business.housing, community and administration projects.Almost a third of the projects were in Saskatchewan.“A lot of our clients are repeat clients." Claude McCabe, vice-president in charge of the native program, said in a recent inter view “It’s hard to be more cost-effective than when you're free.” In the case of Hryniuk's store in Patuanak a largely Indian community about ion kilometres northwest of Prince Albert vo- lunteers have helped her set up accounting ledgers and keep them up to date SET UP PLAN Another volunteer from the executive service organization is assisting her with a business plan for a government grant application.Hryniuk wants to use the money to expand into new products and move the year-old store out of the kitchen of her family home and into a separate building.“It helps when you have that little feeling inside that someone believes in you and your business," said Morris Hryniuk.a former tea cher who helps his status-Indian wife with her business “We were really at a loss as to how to set up our books.It really helped to have someone around with experience.” Hands-on experience is something the organization's volunteers have plenty of.Before retiring, George Rathwell spent 31 years in the provincial civil service.many of them running the regional park program Now a volunteer for the group, Rathwell hikes around Indian reserves helping bands evaluate proposals for cottage, golf course and other recreation developments Now, more than ever investing in a Scotiabank RRSP is the right thing to do.^ For your money.And your (Mure.c Scotiabank Orii at varying intenaities because the text is printed on greyish or colour background. 6—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 14, 1989 Living Record Soup from the 1930’s Quebec medicare won’t pick up the tab Soup’s on! These all date back to 1939 and were taken from Better Homes and Gardens at that time.TOMATO-CELERY SOUP Brown 1 small chopped onion in 2 tablespoons butter and add one lOVi oz.can of condensed tomato soup and l-10‘/2oz.can water, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, '/z cup finely chopped celery, 1 tablespoon lemon , juice, 1 teaspoon sugar, ‘/«teaspoon ,'salt, Vs teaspoon pepper.Simmer ,'for 5 minutes.The celery will re-.'main crisp.Serve at once- serves 6.(from Evanston, 111.) You can sprinkle bite-size cereal with melted butter and heat in the oven for an accompaniment for first course.Suggestion- follow with braised chuck roast, browned potatoes, celery-cabbage slaw with dressing; chilled canned pear halves, sprinkled with toasted co-coanut.Another “quick ’n easy!” CHICKEN MERINGUE SOUP Heat one quart chicken broth with 1 sliced carrot, 3 onion slices, 1 sprig of parsley for 15 minutes in double boiler.Strain.Slowly add 2 tablespoons quickcooking tapioca to the broth ; place over hot water; cook until tapioca is transparent, stirring occasionally.Add 2 cups hot milk, then 2 beaten egg yolks combined with Vs cup cream.Cook, stining constantly, until slightly thick.Season with salt and pepper.Add ‘/z teaspoon salt to 2 egg whites and beat stiff.Serve the soup in individual dishes topped with a puff of egg white sprinkled with paprika or chopped parsley.Bridge luncheon hint-Chicken Meringue Soup with assorted olives and frozen fruit salad.(from Kentucky) LIVER-BALL SOUP Cover 2 lbs.cubed beef brisket with cold water; add 2 teaspoons salt, Vn teaspoon pepper and 1 bay leaf; simmer 1 hour.Add 1 cup coarsley chopped celery, l!/zcups canned tomatoes, 1 cup sliced carrots.Simmer l‘/z hours.Strain stock, force vegetables through a colander or sieve and add to meat stock.Reheat.Add liver balls.Liver Balls: Combine Vi lb.ground liver, % cup dry bread crumbs, Vi cup finely chopped parsley, Vs teaspoon celery seed, Vi teaspoon salt, 1/16 teaspoon pepper, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 beaten egg, Vi teaspoon onion juice.Chill thoroughly ; form into 1-inch balls ; Kay's kitchen korner BY KAY TAYLOR drop in hot soup.Simmer for 15 minutes.Serves 6-8 persons, (from Cincinnati, Ohio) For a school lunch serve Liver-Ball soup with toasted butter wafers lettuce slices with chutney mayonnaise and peach-tapioca pudding.We all serve Bread Pudding from time to time, but this old Pol Martin recipe is a little bit “extra”.BREAD PUDDING 1 small loaf French bread 1 quart milk 3 eggs P/z cups brown sugar 2 tablespoons vanilla 2 tablespoons margarine (melted) 1 cup raisins Trim the crusts from the bread and cut into Vz-inch slices.Break the break into large pieces.Soak the break in the milk for 1 hour.Beat the eggs, then add them to the bread.Mix in the sugar, vanilla and raisins.Pour in the melted margarine which should be lukewarm.Butter and sugar a P/z quart oven-proof baking dish Pour the mixture into the baking dish and bake at 375°F approximately 45 minutes or until a knife blade inserted in the middle of the pudding comes out clean.SPECIAL CHEESE SANDWICH (another Pol Martin recipe) 4 oz.Imperial cheese or any other soft, strong Canadian cheese lA cup chicken, finely chopped 1 tablespoon finely chopped scallions Pinch cayenne pepper Salt and pepper 8 slices light rye or French bread Mix cheese, chicken, scallions and cayenne pepper together.Season to taste with salt and pepper.Spread the mixture on bread.Broil the sandwiches in the middle of the oven for approximately 10 to 12 minutes until bubbly.Makes 4 servings.GATINEAU, Que.(CP) — Constance Charbonneau spent 25 days at Ottawa General Hospital last summer after major surgery.Now the 57-year-old Quebec welfare recipient is wondering how she’ll pay a bill from the Ottawa anesthetists who treated her.Like most people, Charbonneau believed she would be completely covered by Canada’s medicare system in all the provinces.‘‘My doctor told me (Ottawa General) was best equipped for this kind of operation,” said Charbonneau.who had arterial grafts to repair two blocked blood vessels in her leg.Charbonneau was billed $1,294 and was reimbursed $644.90 by Quebec’s medicare program.She was told the rest of the bill was her problem She’s caught in the squeeze because Quebec, in contravention of the Canada Health Act, pays its own rates to doctors outside the province when they treat Quebec residents.And Quebec rates, on average, are the lowest in Canada.Machine reads text to blind MONTREAL (CP) — In a back room at the offices of the Montreal Association for the Blind, you could swear it was still Christmas.Technicians, executives and blind clients alike were lining up for their turn on a new machine that reads conventionally printed books and documents aloud ‘‘It boggles the mind,” said executive director John Simms.The object of all the attention was the Xerox-Kurzweil Personal Reader, an optical scanner that reads typeset and typewrit ten material and turns it into synthetic speech There have been other scanning devices, Simms said, but at nine kilograms and $10,000 US, this is the first completely portable and reasonably affordable model as well as the most sophisticated.The association, which has been educating and training the blind for 81 years, is the first in Canada to have the new model.“A person can carry this into an office or a library, wherever they need to read material, plug it in and away it goes, running across an eight-by-11 page in three or four seconds,” Simms said SCAN BY HAND About as bulky as a sample case or double briefcase, the unit has a hand-held scanner for use in the field.It can also be attached to a larger flatbed scanner, about the size of a desk top copier, to read material brought to it.There are keys to change the speed or inflection of the reading voices, to instruct the machine to read by the line, the phrase or the paragraph, and to select a host of other variations including a choice of nine reading voices: four male, four female and one child's.“The machine also instructs you vocally when you're not aligning something properly,’’ Simms said.The scanner will not only allow blind individuals to read books, magazines, newspapers and documents whenever they want, but will help the association print more material in braille faster.SCANNER FASTER “The scanner can feed material from a textbook into a computer system that prints braille,” he said.“The scanner can do this at a rate of 350 words a minute, whereas now we have to rely on volunteer typists at a maximum of 100 words per minute to type material into the computer or type it onto a brailler.This new system could really speed up our production of braille." One of the first to try the new scanner this week was John As-four, a 43-year author and poet who lost his sight in his native Lebanon when a bomb blew up in his face when he was 14 years old.After coming to Canada in 1968.he continued his education and in 1985 completed a doctorate in En glish at McGill University.“This is going to make a big difference in the lives of blind people,” he said after listening to the device read one of the four poetry books he has written — and pronounce the Arabic names right.“When I was doing my gra duate work and teaching for 11 years at Dawson and Vanier (ju nior colleges),” he said, ”1 had to rely on volunteers to come and read material to me." The association provides a variety of services for more than 3,000 visually impaired people in the Montreal area.1989 Fund Raising Campaign + Back something you believe in, Under an agreement in force since last April, the nine other provinces pay doctors their regular rates whether they're treating patients from inside our outside the province.But Quebec refuses to sign the agreement, contending it threatens provincial control over health care.WON’T CHANGE Yves-Thomas Dorval.an aide to Quebec Health Minister Therese Lavoie-Roux.said Quebec has no intention of increasing the fees it pays doctors outside the province.“We impose strict cost controls on Quebec doctors.Why should we pay more to doctors elsewhere?” Dorval said.“Quebec’s system is the envy of other provinces because we have negotiated contracts wisely and kept rates down.It’s not our problem that other provinces haven't done such a good job.” Several Ottawa-area hospitals have begun posting signs to warn Quebec patients that they might have to pay from their own pockets for treatment they receive there.And some Ontario doctors demand cash up front from Quebec patients — or refuse to treat them at all.About 80,000 residents in western Quebec seek medical care in eastern Ontario every year.In the border towns of Campbell-ton and Edmundston, N.B., doctors are also warning patients from eastern Quebec that their Quebec medicare cards may not be worth as much as they think VIOLATING LAW “Quebec is violating federal law and is forcing its own people to be treated as second-class citizens when they travel outside the province,” said Dr.Charles Shaver, of Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa.Dr Benoit Samson, of the Ottawa General Hospital, said about 20 per cent of patients at the hospital come from Gatineau, Hull and other Quebec towns near the Ontario border for specialized care such as kidney transplants and or- thopedic or cardiovascular surgery.“They could go to Montreal hospitals for this care, but that’s a two-hour drive and everybody knows how overcrowded Montreal’s hospitals are,” Samson said.Samson wants new federal Health Minister Perrin Beatty to withhold transfer payments to Quebec until it agrees to sign the rate accord.Ontario doctors who treat Quebec patients often never recover the amount beyond Quebec’s rate that the patient has to pay, he said.• ‘There is a limit to the amount of charity we are prepared to give,” said Samson.New Brunswick doctors echo Samson’s complaints.“There is definitely an overflow from Quebec into our hospitals,” said David Balmain, executive director of the New Brunswick Medical Society.“It would only seem reasonable for Quebec to honor the treatment New Brunswick doctors offer its residents.” YETSS: a polite way to say constipation By John Platcro FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.(AP) — Dr.Steven Wexner treats a malady that is quite common, quite painful — and seldom discussed in polite company.He calls it YETSS — Young Executive Tight Sphincter Syndrome.For the uninformed, that means constipation.When the condition is prolonged until it causes anal bleeding, the patient generally winds up with a colon and rectal surgeon such as Wexner.Wexner’s patients are usually in the 25 to 55 age group and are generally professionals lawyers, doctors and business executives.“It begins with a type-A personality — the type who eats a low-fibre.high junk food diet and can't take a few minutes to relax on the toilet,” says Wexner, a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, a not-for-profit, multi-specialty group practice in Fort Lauderdale.PROBLEMS OCCUR Such habits lead to irregularity, constipation and straining during bowel movement, he says.Repeated straining against a tight anal sphincter, or muscle, causes delicate skin to crack and bleed, Wexner continues, creating what is called a fissure.Bowel movements then become so painful, he says, that people try to avoid them.People suffering from constipation often wrongly assume they have hemorrhoids when they discover anal bleeding.“Then they buy those preparations which do nothing," says Wexner.The cure for YETSS, says Wexner.is minor surgery on an outpatient basis.A small cut is made to relax the sphincter and ease bowel movement.SURGERY HELPS Most patients are able to return to work the next day.“Patients call me the next day and say they haven’t felt so good in months,” says Wexner.“These are the only patients I know who feel better after a surgical incision than they did before.” Surgery, says Wexner, is not always necessary if the patient seeks medical help at the first sign of anal bleeding tied to persistent constipation.In its early stages, constipation can be resolved through diet and relaxation.He urges a high-fibre diet of fruits, vegetables and bran.Everyone should also exercise and drink eight to 10 glasses of nonalcoholic beverages a day.“Ignore the symptoms and you’ll be worse off,” he warns.“And don't get in the habit of taking laxatives and enemas.The colon gets addicted to them after prolonged abuse.” Normal bowel movements range from three times a day to three times a week.Wexner also warns that individuals suffering from constipation often have other medical problems such as ulcers, high blood pressure and nerves.When constipated, make inquiries, says Wexner.“As the public gets more aware,” he says, “that makes doctors more aware.” Menopause widely misunderstood by doctors Give generously to the Red Cross ! By Judy Creighton The Canadian Press “My male doctor just shrugs his shoulders and finds it amusing.Should I be taking estrogen or is there any other remedy?" The physician’s reaction to this 68-year-old woman reader’s complaint of hot flashes — a symptom common during menopause — is not unusual, says Dr.Jean Mar-moreo, a Toronto family doctor.“The clay feet of the medical profession in dealing with menopause has become a phenomenon.” she said in a recent interview.Marmoreo is not alone in speaking out against her professional colleagues both male and female.Dr.Rachel Edney, a member of the newly established women's health issues committee of the Ontario Medical Association, says: “Many, many doctors say there is nothing that can be done when a woman begins to display menopausal symptoms.“Many physicians — both gynecologists and family doctors — do not have the understanding or interest.” HELP SCARCE Janine O’Leary Cobb agrees.The Montreal professor of humanities and sociology found precious little information on menopause when she went looking five years ago.So, profoundly annoyed by the lack of information, she created a newsletter to share her new-found knowledge with other women.Cobb describes menopause as “a five to-seven-year period usually during midlife that marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years.” Thousands of people across Canada and as far away as Hong Kong and Australia read A Friend Indeed, the monthly newsletter on menopause-related issues.However, it’s obvious that the newsletter is not getting into the hands of many doctors or is being ignored by the medical community.Marmoreo said many doctors “were badly burned between the mid-1960s and 70s when the estrogen drug Premarin was widely prescribed to help women with moderate to severe symptoms associated with menopause." DOCTORS REACT In 1975, Premarin was implicated in several cases of endometritis cancer and the medical profession was blamed for its broad acceptance of the drug “ It was touted as keeping women young." Marmoreo said "People fell into that North American trap that doesn’t value aging because it is seen as a loss of productivity and worth.‘ And when the link between Premarin and cancer was reported, boy, did we (doctors) react.” Instead of judging each patient individually, most doctors decided to have nothing to do with estrogen therapy, Marmoreo said.In her practice, Marmoreo does prescribe estrogen replacement drugs to some menopausal patients.“But I talk to women about the risks.” Cobb says some feminists have strong views on menopause.“Feminists say that it is a rite of passage and that women need not seek assistance” for their ailments.“They are as militant and rigid as those who view menopause as an illness.” TRAINING HELPS Zubeida Ramgi, who is setting up a menopause support clinic at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, said the ultimate answer is education.“W’omen should be more informed,” she said.“To be more comfortable with this time of their life, they need information on the pros and cons of various therapies.” Not only should women be informed, said Edney, but doctors too.“For instance, on the issue of estrogen and the direction that should be taken, it is important that the medical profession take a stand.“ And a lot of women simply need to have someone who can explain what’s going on.” Judy Creighton welcomes letters at The Canadian Press, 36 King St.E., Toronto, Ont.M5C 2L9but cannot promise to answer all correspondence personally.Social notes Tammy Ticehurst, Christopher Crosby exchange marriage vows in Stanstead A pretty wedding took place on December 3,1988, at 3 p.m.in Centenary Church, Stanstead, when Tammy Lynn Ticehurst and Christopher Crosby exchanged their marriage vows.Tammy is the younger daughter of Erwin and Pauline Ticehurst of Stanstead, the groom is the son of Douglas and Joye Crosby of Len-noxville.Rev.Keith Eddy officiated for the double ring ceremony and Viola Moranville presided at the organ.Cluster bows of white satin ribbons faced with a pink or a blue flower marked the guest pews.The bride was escorted down the aisle on the arm of her father who gave her in marriage Tammy was charming in a gown of white nylon sheer over satin fashioned with a high lace collar, long full sleeves gathered to wide pointed cuffs over her hands, in A-line with lace trim accented with pearls.A wedding ring of pearls held in place her cathedral train veil of nylon outlined with white daisy lace.She carried a cascade of white roses, red rosebuds and baby's breath Nancy Ticehurst was maid of honor for her sister, with the groom's sister, Tiffany Crosby, the bridesmaid.They were wearing satin gowns of seafoam aqua, with lace bordering at the hemline, short puff sleeves, and square neckline edged with lace on the fitted bodice.They carried miniature cascades of aqua roses, red rosebuds and baby's breath.The groom wore a tuxedo of charcoal grey with a red cummerbund and bow tie.His boutonniere was a white rose and red rosebud Mark McCrea was groomsman.and Christien Gilbert, the usher.They and the fathers’ boutonnieres were a white rose and red rosebud.Mrs.Ticehurst, the bride's mother, was attired in a dress of forest green with graduated pleats in the skirt, long sleeves with lace at the round neckline.This was complemented by a corsage of white roses and aqua ribbons.The groom's mother, Mrs.Crosby.chose a two piece jersey knit in salmon color having long sleeves and wedding ring collar.Her corsage was white roses and toning ribbons.Grandparents attending were the bride's maternal.Ena Ticehurst; the groom's maternal, Mr.and Mrs.Sidney Raycraft, and paternal, Mrs.Eleanor Crosby.Corsages of roses were given the grandmothers and a boutonniere to his grandfather.The reception was held at Burroughs Falls dance hall where the happy couple received the best wishes of 120 guests.A turkey dinner was served The bride's table was decored in aqua on white and upon a separate table reposed the triple tier fruited wedding cake, made and iced by Lorraine Smith of Lennoxville.The top tier was raised from the other larger two by pillars and topped with a ceramic bride and groom in a gazebo.The tiers were iced in white designs, and aqua roses.The initial cut was made by the couple who later circulated to serve guests from a de corated basket.A wine toast was proposed to Tammy and Chris for many happy years together.Following dinner a large number of friends of the families came for the dance, the music was played by the Mountain Dew band.Prior to the departure of the couple for their honeymoon in Ontario, the bride tossed a bouquet, caught by Lisa Smith, and the traditional blue garter tossed by the groom was caught by friend Pat.Sonya Ticehurst, a cousin of the bride was in charge of the guest book.Guests attended from points of Ontario.Vermont, the Eastern Townships and St.Paul, Minnesota.Tammy and Chris are now residing in Lennoxville.* * * Prior to her marriage, Tammy was guest of honor at two nuptial showers, both miscellaneous.Hos tesses were Louise McComb and Nancy Ticehurst, held at the McComb home.The other was given by Judy Demers and Koren The evening previous to the wedding.following the rehearsal in the church.Erwin and Pauline entertained the wedding party and other guests in their home.41 st anniversary Congratulations and best wishes from their family and friends in this area to Bill and Marguerite Rousseau of Red Bank, New Jersey who will celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary on February 14.Best wishes Eric Heckley of Magog is a patient in La Providence Hospital His relatives and many friends extend best wishes for a speedy and lasting recovery.4 Obituaries IRVIN (PETE) ALLEN of Richmond, Que.People of the community were ,-saddened on Thursday.January 'Ha, 1989, by the sudden death of Irvin (Pete) Allen in his 71st year.He enlisted with the Royal Rifles of Canada and was captured with his comrades on Christmas Day, 1941, and held prisoner by the Japanese for four years.On his return to Canada he was employed by Domtar Fine Paper Co.until his retirement 35 years later.He was an active member of the Canadian Legion, and was always ready and willing to help those in need.He was also a member of the St.Patrick’s Society.At the Remembrance Day banquet in 1987 he was honored as Le- Townships’CrieT COURTESY OF Deaths The RECORD—Tuesday.February 14.1989 ^ | 1 Deaths gionnaire of the year.A special ritual service was held by the members of the Legion and the Women's Auxiliary at the J H Fleury Funeral Home.He is survived by his wife Willa (Dunn), his children.John, Sandra (John Croteau), his mother Viola Allen, sister Alice (Welles MacDonald).brothers George (Lise) and Harry (Blanche), predeceased by sister Claire and brother Stewart; his grandchildren, Jason, Tina and Cindy and a brother-in-law Albert Dunn (Rosa).Funeral service was held at Holy Family Church on January 20.Father Paul Authier officiating.The numerous calls, visitors, cards and flowers received at the Funeral Home, as well as acts of thoughtfulness and warm support to his family were a high testimony to the regard Irvin (Pete) had earned.The family would like, at this time, to thank the members of the Royal Canadian Legion, the Women's Auxiliary and everyone for their moral support.COWANSVILLE The Canadian Peoples Party of Quebec will hold a public meeting on Friday, February 17 from 7 p.m.to 9 p.m.at Le Centre de Benova-lat, 169 rue Principale, Cowansville.Everyone welcome.• DUNHAM Dunham Women’s Institute will be holding a Valentine dessert card party on Thursday, February 16 at 12:30 p.m.in All Saints Anglican Church, Dunham.500 and bridge.Prizes.Everyone welcome.• LENNOXVILLE A Turkey Bingo on Wednesday, February 15 at 8 p.m.at the Army, Navy and Air Force Unit 318, St.Francis Street, Lennoxville.Everyone welcome.• LENNOXVILLE Is Bill 178 affecting your human rights?Come and hear Royal Orr, Heather Keith-Ryan and Duncan Bruce at Lennoxville Elementary School on Tuesday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m.Outdoor boots not allowed on gym floor.Information 569-1179.• NEWPORT, VT.North Country Hospital Auxiliary is planning an Antique Fair for Sa-turday, June 3.We anticipate space will be reserved quickly, so if you are interested in participating in this event, please call Marie Smith (802) 334-8643.Deadline date for reservations and payment is Wednesday, March 15.• DUNAHM All Saints Anglican Church, Dunham, Ladies Guild are having a rummage sale on February 25 and 26 from 10 a m.to 4 p.m.in the Church Hall.Light refreshments will be available If you have any contributions for this event, it can be brought to the Church Hall or given to members of the guild.For pick-up please call 295-3341.• FITCH BAY tfy$t.Mathias Church is celebrating ;«pits 100th anniversary this summer.>;t>o you have crafts you would like *î to sell.We are taking orders for tables, if you are interested call 876-5050 for details and ask for Irene.LENNOXVILLE Lennoxville Curling Club - A beef Shroganoff luncheon will be held on Saturday, February 18 at 1:30 p.m.All active and associate lady members are invited.Please reserve by phoning Sylvia King 562-5669 or by signing up at the Clubhouse.• This column accèpts Items free'or charge announcing events organised by churches, service clubs and recognized charitable Institutions.Requests should be mailed, well In advance, to THE RECORD, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6, be signed and Include telephone number of person forwarding the notice.Telephone requests cannot be accepted.Admission charges and trade names will be deleted.No-dances.WINETA ALBERTA (STANDISH) MILLER of Rock Island, Que.Peaceful rest, after failing health for some time, came to Mrs.Franklin Miller, the former W.A.Standish of Rock Island, Quebec.Her death occurred at the Sherbrooke Medical Centre on Friday, January 6, 1989.Born on August 28,1919 at Ayer’s Cliff, she was the daughter of the late Ervyn Standish and his wife Elsie (Robinson).On January 22, 1937 Wineta was united in marriage to Franklin Thompson Miller of Rock Island.Of their union there were three children bom - Ben, Maureen (deceased 1978) and Penny.She was an active member and volunteer in the community up to her time of death.In 1961, Wineta was President of the Ladies Auxiliary Royal Canadian Legion Branch No.5, she was Past District Deputy of the Rebekah Lodge in Rock Island, and Past President of the 35 Club.Wineta was a member of the Stanstead South United Church and Secretary of the Ladies Aid.A devoted wife, mother, grandmother and sister, her courage to deal with her pain and incapability was an inspiration to her family, friends, relatives and all who knew her.The funeral service was held from Stanstead South United Church on Monday aftemon, January 9, at 2 p.m.Reverend Keith Eddy officiated.Organ music was played by Viola Moranville.Three lovely hymns, “How Great Thou Art", “In the Garden" and “Rock of Ages”, were rendered beautifully by Jack St.Saveur.The bearers were three grandsons, Todd Harding, Ben Miller Jr.and Brodie Coffin.Other bearers were Macky and Roy Chamberlain and Norman Girard.Interment will take place in the spring at Crystal Lake Cemetery.Left to cherish her memory is her husband Franklin; son Ben Miller of Sauble Beach, Ontario; daughter Penny (Mrs.Edgar Coffin) of Sherwood, P.E.I.; eight grandchildren - Todd Harding of Montreal; Jim and Ben Jr.of Guelph, Ontario; Debbie Diaz of Los Angeles, California; Valerie Miller of Toronto; Brodie, Jamie and Amber Coffin of Sherwood, PEL Also surviving is a sister Arlene (Mrs.Paul Ledoux) of Lydonville, Vermont ; and a brother Cyril Standish of St.Catharines, Ontario.“We never lose the ones we love, for even though they’re gone.Within the hearts of those who care, Precious memories will live on." Will it keep beating?Be^ RED CROSS Blood Donor BOUCHER — Steve and Nancy (Blake) are proud to announce the birth of Daniel Robert Blake on January 9, 1989.Weight : 9 lbs.1 oz.A brother for Melanie and Gary.Proud grandparents.Harold and Margaret Blake.Robert and Cecil Boucher of Kingsey Falls.GALLICHON — Andy and Sandra (nee Bennett) joyfull announce the arrival of their son.Adam Earl.10 lbs.2 oz., on January 5.1989.A brother for Katie.Proud grandparents are Mr.and Mrs.Leland Bennett of Bury and Mr and Mrs.Maynard Galliehon of La Tabatière.Great-grandparents are Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Ward and Mr.Earl Galliehon.Women’s Institute meeting HATLEY (DS) — Members of the Hatley W.I.met on February 1st in the United Church vestry with eight members present.The president Phyllis Knapp conducted the meeting.Motto: If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.Roll call: Name a handicraft you would like to learn.During roll call dues were paid.The treasurer gave her report, showing a good bank balance.The minutes ot the last meeting were read and approved.Correspondence was read, a thank-you from N.H.E.S.for knitted articles.Annual reports were given by each convenor.President Phyllis gave a short talk thanking everyone for helping out all year.She also thanked Olive Whitcomb for taking meetings when she (Phyllis) was absent.Donations were made to the UCW for use of the vestry, the Kan-garoo pre-school in Ayer’s Cliff and the Karoussel pre-school in Rock Island.Mildred Miller and Madelene McClary read the new program for 89/90.This was approved by all.Money was sent in memory of Rose Johnson to the Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead.Cheer baskets were made up for friends and each member delivered these on their way home.A get-well card was signed by all members and this was sent to Mrs.N.Gemmell.President Phyllis adjourned the meeting, with a social hour following.Lunch was served by Mildred Roarke and Debbie Smith.MILLER — The (amily of the late Wineta Miller wish to extend our sincere thanks to all who were so kind and helpful during our recent bereavement Special thanks to the doctors, nurses and staff on the fOth floor Medical Centre and especially Doctor Gilles Bouchard who has been the family doctor for many years To June Federico, a friend and neighbour, who rode in the ambulance and found time to make regular checks on Mom, we offer our heartfelt thanks To Rev Keith Eddy for his visit to the hospital and kind words of comfort, to Cass Funeral Home for their excellent help and assistance, and the ambulance attendants, we thank you Special thanks to the Ladies Aid for providing sandwiches, sweets and tea after the funeral, To all who sent floral arrangements and contributions to the Arthritic Society in Wineta s memory, we deeply appreciate your kindness Also, to those who brought food to our homes, visited the funeral home, for sympathy cards and letters received, phone calls so warmly welcomed and to each and everyone who helped in so many ways to ease our sorrow during the loss of our wife, mother and grandmother, we thank you very much Your kindness will long be remembered May God Bless you all! FRANKLIN MILLER BEN MILLER & FAMILY PENNY & EDGAR COFFIN & FAMILY TODD HARDING DUNDIN — The family of the late Louise Dundin would like to express our sincere appreciation for the floral ar-rangments, mass cards, cards, phone calls, food and to all who visited at the funeral home A special thanks to Margaret and Alan Young.Just knowing you care helps us all during our period of bereavement.Thanks to Mr Barter and the staff of L.O.Cass Funeral Home, organist and choir of St.Anthony's Church and Rev.Father Jacques Paqum.DONALD DUNDIN NANCY CAMERON JUDY DOMINGUE and GRANDCHILDREN GAGE — I would like to express thanks and appreciation for the many curtesies and get well wishes extended to me during my hospitalization and conval-scence My sincere thanks to the doctors and staff of the B M P Hospital - 1C Unit, especially to Lynn, also to doctors and nurses on the 10th floor of the CHUS Hospital.Sherbrooke.A special thanks to family members for their assistance as well as the help given to my wife.WESLEY GAGE ¦(M!iuiiiiii|iililiiiil.l.|l,|llii!!H!| HI!|!!!l!ll|j1!!|W in Memoriam CHAPMAN, Gladys Elizabeth — Who passed away one year ago on February 13.Ever lovingly remembered by THE FAMILY LOWRY — In loving memory of Evelyn May who passed away February 13,1973.Always in our hearts and sadly missed by HER FAMILY PERSONS — Happy Birthday Pete.Oh how we all miss you There were so much love Between us all.You will never be forgotten, Pete.YOUR LOVING FAMILY High blood pressure, often a kidney related condition, affects 15% of the adult population.Have your blood pressure checked today.Lady curlers annual Mardi Gras Bonspiel coming up The annual Mardi Gras Bonspiel is being held at the Ladies’ Lennoxville Curling Club on February 16, 17 and 18.Sixteen teams will be competing from North Hatley, Ste.Anne de Bellevue, Sherbrooke, Windsor and Lennoxville.They will be welcomed by Mrs.M.Shepard, Club President; Mrs.S.King.Bonspiel Chairman, and Mrs.B.Retchless, Co-Chairman.The Mardi Gras party, convened by Mrs.S.King will be held on Friday, February 17 from 5 to 7 p.m.for the curlers and club members.Music will be provided by Mrs.Janice Graham.Mrs.B.Retchless will convene the luncheon to be held at 1:30 p.m.Saturday, February 18 at the club, after which the finals of the Bonspiel will be played at 3 p.m.Mrs.A.Shapcott is in charge of the draw, and registration with Mrs.G.Martin.Refreshments Convenor, Mrs.M MacLean; House Chairman, Mrs.N.Harrison; Decorations, Mrs.H.St.Pierre; Secretary.Mrs.M.Dale; Treasurer, Mrs.R.Hallam; Publicity, Mrs.W.Gingras.Members, prospective members and friends are invited to attend the games.The following is the first game draw for the Bonspiel: - Thursday, 11 a m.: M.Doiron, Sherbrooke vs.H.St.Pierre.Lennoxville; E Win get.North Hatley vs.A.Shapcott, Lennoxville.Thursday, 6:30 p.m.: C.Boulet, Sherbrooke vs.E.Runions, Sherbrooke; T Wright, Lennoxville vs.J.Smith, Sherbrooke.Friday, 12:00Noon: L.Therrien, Windsor vs.R.Hallam, Lennoxville; A.Connelly, Lennoxville vs.B Landry, Ste.Anne de Bellevue.Friday, 6:30 p.m.: J.Rourke, Lennoxville vs.M.Greenlay, Lennoxville; S.Shapcott, Lennoxville vs.L.McKindsey, North Hatley.! 10 PLACE YOUR PREPAID BIRTHS, CARDS OF THANKS, IN MEMORIAMS, BRIEFLETS’ AND CEMETERY NOTICES: PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY 17c per word.Minimum charge $4.00.BY MAIL: Use this coupon ' IN PERSON: Come to our offices 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbroke, Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.or 88 Lakeside Street, Knwolton, 8:30 a.m.to 1:30 p.m.Information: (819) 569-9525 or (514) 243-0088.DEADLINE: Noon working day previous to publication.AH ORDERS MUST INCLUDE STREET ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER BOOTH.Ralph M.— At St.Mary’s Hospital.Kitchener.Ont., on Saturday.February 11.1989.after a lengthy illness Ralph Melvin Booth had farmed most of his life in the Waterloo area, until he retired in 1974 Brother of Kenneth and his wife Isabel, Stanley and his wife Catherine, all of Kitchener.He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.He is sadly missed by his dear friend Eva Grasser Predeceased by his parents, two sisters, Orma (Mrs.George Jewitt) and Onna (Mrs.Floyd Sanbourn).Cremation has taken place and donations to St.Mary's Hospital Buil ding Fund or the Canadian Cancer Society may be made as expressions of sympathy.BRYCE.Bessie E.At the Sherbrooke Hospital on Saturday, February 11,1989, Bessie E.Bryce in her 90th year.Former school principal and teacher and life long resident of Sherbrooke.She is survived by her sister Frances of La Mesa, California, and her brother Allan of Ottawa, three nephews, six nieces and their children.Resting at L.O Cass & Son Funeral Chapel, 300 Queen Boulevard North, Sherbrooke where funeral service will be held on Monday, February 13 at 2:30 p.m.Rev.Martyn Saddler of ficiating.Interment Elmwood Cemetery.HARRISON, Rita - At the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall, Ontario on Monday, February 13.1989.Rita Wilson in her 75th year.Beloved wife of the late Edward Harrison.Dear mother of Mrs.Robert Jasper (Doreen) of Cornwall, Ontario, John (Sandrai of Peterborough, and James (Lorinda), Lennoxville, Stewart (Line).Montreal, and Grant of Valleyfield Dear grandmother of fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild.Resting at L.O.Cass & Son Funeral Home, 6 Belvidere Street, Lennoxville where friends may call on Wednesday 2 4, 7-9 p.m, and where the funeral service will be held on Thursday, February 16, 1989 at 2 p.m.Cremation followed by interment in Elmwood Cemetery at a later date.In lieu of flowers donations to the charity of your choice would be gratefully acknowledged.PLEASE NOTE ALL — Births, Card of Thanks, In Me-moriams, Brteltets, and items for the Townships Crier should be sent in typewritten or printed in block letters.All of the following must be sent to The Record typewritten or neatly printed.They will not be accepted by phone.Please Include a telephone number where you can be reached during the day.BRIEFLETS (No dances accepted) BIRTHS CARDS OF THANKS IN MEMORIAMS 17' per word Minimum charge- $4.00 WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS, SOCIAL NOTES: No charge for publication providing news submitted within one month, $10.00 production charge for wedding or engagement pictures.Wedding write-ups received one month or more after event, $15.00 charge with or without picture.Subject to condensation.ALL OTHER PHOTOS.$10.00 OBITUARIES: No charge if received within one month of death, Subject to condensation.$15.00 if received more than one month after death Subject to condensation.All above notices must carry signature of person sending notices.DEATH NOTICES: Cost: 17' per word.DEADLINE: For death notices to apear In Monday editions: Death notices may be called in to the Record between 5 p.m.and 9 p.m.Sunday.For death notices lo appear in Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday editions: Death notices may be called in to The Record between 9 a m.and 9 p.m the day previous to the day the notice is to appear.To place a death notice in the paper, call (819) 569-4856.If any other Record number is called, The Record cannot guarantee publication the next day.ADVERTISER'S NAME_________ PEARSON.Mr.Lawrence A.(Larry) At his home in Richmond on February 12.1989.Mr.Lawrence A Pearson, in his 83rd year.Beloved husband of the late Patricia Bonner.Dear father of Henry.Resting at L.O.Cass and Son Ltd Funeral Home.295 Main St.South, Richmond.Funeral service will be held Thursday, February 16 at 2 p m.at the Ste.Famille Church, Richmond.Interment Ste Bibiane Cemetery, Richmond.Visitation from 7-9 p.m Wednesday only.SEGUIN, Roland — At his home.Beebe Plain.Vermont, February 12, 1989.in his 62nd year.Beloved husband of Jeanine Russell.Dear father of Susan (Mrs.Jean Desco-teaux) of Manchester, N.H., and Paul and wife Carol of Boca Raton, Fla.Survived by one grandchild.Survived as well by two brothers, Alfred and Clarence of Beebe, Que , three sisters Leona (Mrs.Russell Philip), Therese (Mrs.Gor don Bronson' of Beebe.Que., and Jeannette Doster of Ft.Lauderdale, Fla , along with several nieces and nephews.Resting at Cass Funeral Home, 39 Dufferin Road.Stanstead.A funeral mass will be held on Wednesday, February 15 at 2 p.m.at the St.Therese de l’Enfant Jesus Church, Beebe.Que.Rev.Father G.Rin-guette and Rev.Father J.Hamilton officiating.Spring interment at St Mary’s Cemetery, Stanstead Visitation Tuesday 7 to 10 p.m.In his memory, contributions may be made to the Beebe Fire Depar tment or to the Canadian Cancer Society, c/o the Cass Funeral Home, Stanstead, Quo., and would be greatly appreciated by the family.VAN, Raymond At the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Sherbrooke on Sun day.February 12, 1989, Raymond M Van beloved husband of the late Germaine Brossard Dear father of Jocelyn (Rein Vanbenyssel) of Dollard des Ormo, Robert Allen (Dixie) of Sandy Coves, Nova Scotia, George (Janine) of Nashville, Tennessee.Also survived by several grandchildren and his sisters Helen Gaulm of Scotstown, Catherine Parsons of Broekville, Ontario and Jean and Ken Ross of Sherbrooke.At his request he will be cremated.No flowers please.A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, February 15 at 3:30 p m.The family will be at the church Vi hour prior to the service to receive condolences of relatives and friends.If friends so desire donations to the Chicoutimi General Hospital or charity of your choice would be gratefully acknowledged Arrangements by L.O.Cass & Son Ltd.WHEELER, Cindy — At Stoke on Wednesday, February 8,1989.Cindy Wheeler in her 19th year.Dear daughter of Thelma Wheeler and granddaughter of Henry Wheeler and the late Mildred Young Christie.She leaves to mourn her passing Mr.and Mrs.Lee Clouge (Do ris), Mr.and Mrs.Alex Akers (Phyllis), Mr.and Mrs.Robert Christie (Joanne), Mr.and Mrs.Donald WheeleriJoyce), Rhoda Christie, Lester Christie, Mr and Mrs Mark Buck (Shirley), Mrs.Al bert Wheeler (Gladys), Mr and Mrs.Georges Wheeler (Doris), Mr and Mrs.Nelson Wheeler (Au drey), Mrs.Ben Jr.Wheeler (Eunice).Resting at the Vel & Elkos Funeral Home, 601 Conseil, Sher brooke, 565 1155 Where the funeral will be held on Wednesday, February 15 at 1 p m.Interment El mwood Cemetery Visitation Tues day 7-9 p.m.ss