The record, 16 mars 1989, jeudi 16 mars 1989

Thursday Births, deaths .10 Classified.12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living.6 Sports .14-15 Townships .3 SW&s • u | i *>,N M'\DI SO Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Thursday, March 16,1989 40 cents bilingual signs for large or chain stores —Ryan " Okay, how about halt a million?.10.000?.200?.5 bucks?." Algonquin tribe owns Parliament?OTTAWA (CP) — A group of Algonquin Indians will be allowed to argue that it owns Parliament Hill in defence of charges the natives were illegally camping there last fall, a judge has ruled Provincial court Judge Brian Lennox said on Tuesday that the defence is relevant to the issue of whether federal regulations enacted in 1985 outlawing tents on Parliament Hill are valid.RCMP officers arrested 11 men and five women Sept.28 and charged them with breaching the nuisance regulations of the Public Works Act.The Barrière Lake band, from Rapid Lake, Que., about 200 kilometres north of Ottawa, set up tents on Parliament Hill to publicize their demands that logging and hunting near their land by nonnatives be stopped.All 16 have pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a maximum fine of $400 Lawyer David Nahwegahbow says he will argue that the natives never surrendered their title to or property interest in their land — including Parliament Hill — to the federal government.He will also argue that any designation of Parliament Hill as a public facility under control of the Public Works minister was illegal.Aboriginal land rights are being considered by the Supreme Court of Canada and could affect the outcome of the Barrière Lake band’s case so the trial was adjourned to Nov.20.CBC staff on strike OTTAWA (CP) — Nearly 3,000 CBC television and radio announcers, production staff and office workers were to strike across the country at 12:01 a m today, their union announced Wednesday.The network said it would maintain programming as much as possible, but added that some aspects of production are bound to be affected.“A contingency plan will be put into effect,” network spokesman Guy Theriault said Wednesday in an interview.“How this will translate out in Corner Brook, (Nfld.,) or Sydney, (N.S.,) will be different than what may occur in Vancouver or Edmonton.” The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents the workers, said the public may notice the impact quickly.National, regional and local programming could be affected.Members of the union include Peter Mansbridge, anchor for The National, the CBC’s prime-time evening television news broadcast Mansbridge has said publicly he will not cross picket lines.It would be the first strike by the CUPE broadcast division, formed in the late 1960s.QUEBEC (CP) — Quebec will not allow stores with 50 or more employees to use languages other than French on indoor signs, Claude Ryan, the minister responsible for the province's French Language Charter, said Wednesday.And franchised firms also will have to use only French signs inside, Ryan told the Opposition Par ti Québécois in the provincial legislature.Quebec Premier Robert Bouras-sa had hinted in December the gov ernment might hand down regulations allowing.But stores with fewer than 50 employees will be allowed to post signs in other languages as long as French is predominant.Ryan told the legislature.Bourassa s Liberal government passed amendments to Quebec's language law last December, continuing the French only rule for signs on the outside of businesses but allowing bilingual signs inside some stores Although the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law’s French-only signs provisions violated the Quebec Charter of Rights, Bourassa invoked an override clause in the federal and Quebec rights charters to exempt the amendments from those charters.Ryan dismissed claims that allowing some bilingual signs spells "mortal danger" for the fu lure of Quebec francophones.It was a cinch Ùmm !|pp C- Wè ^ V LI I ill :&'kÂ:k4 Msk f/ r - «*|LL *•#- RHCOKD/fiRANT SIMhON Lennoxville Elementary students came back from a trip to Montreal where they received top honors in the provincial round of the Royal Commonwealth Essay Writing competition.The grade six students who swept awards in their age category (II years and under), from left, Sean Marshall, Erin Bennett, Sarah Heath, and Dina Nelson.The four are now entered in the next round of the competition, where they will compete with students from other Commonwealth countries.Chilean ambassador: Don’t look to us for compensation By Helen Branswell OTTAWA (CP) — Chile's ambassador to Canada says the ban against his country’s fruit and vegetables wasn't justified and should be lifted immediately.And Jorge Bergunoserved warning Wednesday that Canadian retailers and wholesalers seeking compensation for losses needn't look to Chile.Fruit imported to Canada is Canadian property, not Chilean, the grim-faced diplomat told a news conference in his downtown Ottawa office.“So with Canadian importers, grocery stores or retailers, it's really a matter between the Canadian government and themselves.“It is very good fruit and it has been removed by instructions of the Canadian government,” Berguno noted.‘ Surely it is not a matter for Chile.” Retailers and wholesalers insist they shouldn't be left holding the bag for millions of dollars worth of produce that can’t be sold.Tony Wilshaw, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said Wednesday he believes North American businessmen will seek compensation from whoever sold them the fruit That path ultimately leads to Chile Health Minister Perrin Beatty banned imports of Chilean fruit and asked retailers to pull existing stocks off store shelves on Monday, following the discovery in Phi- Nader says free trade to hurt Canada MONTREAL — The controversial law which increased the patent protection of brand-name drugs — making it more difficult to produce cheaper generic copies — was the first price Canada had to pay to land the free-trade accord, American consumer guru Ralph Nader said Wednesday.He said the accord with the United States will lead to erosion of Canada's “superior system’’ of social services.“If you had a free-trade agreement in 1900 you wouldn't have such a system, I can guarantee you that,” Nader told reporters after speaking on the crisis in health care at a conference on rehabilitation The 1987 legislation, which gave 10 years of protection against copying of brand name medication.“was a direct result of free trade,” he told the conference, where he was guest speaker Nader said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney came under pressure to show good faith from then U.S, president Ronald Reagan, who was in turn the subject of lobbying from the pharmaceutics giants.Nader has been fighting on various consumer fronts for decades He has published several books and heads the Centre for the Study of Responsive Law in Washington.D C., which carries on his work Nader said Mulroney also softened his stand on acid rain to get the accord, signed last fall He said the current merger movement in the Canadian business world is another effect of the deal BOOST PRICES Companies are merging with the excuse that they havetobelar ger to cope with international competition.'' he said.“That concen tration means less competition and higher prices for the consumer ' Claude Filion.language critic for the PQ.which wants French-only signs in all stores, charged Wednesday that the move not to allow bilingual signs inside large stores is merely an ’’electoral ploy to appease those fran- c o phone voters who feel threatened by widespread bilingualism Hydro ombudsman coming — Ciaccia By Donald McKenzie QUEBEC (CP> Quebecers up set with the service they receive from Hydro-Quebec may soon be able to voice their complaints to a provincially appointed ombuds man.Energy Minister John Ciaccia said Wednesday.“The idea is to have someone else other than Hydro to review or make a decision on a particular lease), because right now the consumer can go only to Hydro and if Hydro says no, he feels a little bit like Hydro is judge and jury.” Ciaccia said.“This would give an impartial appeal procedure for disputed cases,“ he said in a telephone in terview.Currently, consumers who want to pursue beefs with Hydro must take the provincially owned utility to court, Ciaccia said.But that could mean hefty legal fees and lengthy delays Legal ex perts say there have been few sue cessful lawsuits for financial claims against such public utilities because most outages are caused by the weather, not by negligence.DENIES LINK Ciaccia strongly denied that Monday’s provincewide blackout, which left Quebec's entire population of more than six million with out electricity for several hours, has hastened his desire to appoint an ombudsman, likely this spring “No, honestly, I don t want to relate one to the other because this is something that was in my energy policy I made public in Septem ber,” Ciaccia said.Hydro and federal government scientists have cited a magnetic storm — sparked by an explosion on the sun — as the likeliest cause of the blackout.The Hydro ombudsman, whom Ciaccia would like to appoint this spring, would have powers of in- quiry and recommendation, although the recommendations would not be binding on the utility.Ciaccia said the ombudsman would not be empowered to make decisions because “then you’re talking about another court.” “You get involved in a quasi-judicial proceeding and that’s what we want to avoid.” The ombudsman would investigate complaints about customer service, billing and even power outages, Ciaccia added “There could definitely be com pensation in certain cases for people after blackouts.” Ciaccia said he is confident any new appointee would not be entirely toothless and would be as influential as the provincial ombudsman, whose recommendations are adopted 75 per cent of the time.But Robert Bilodeau, a spokesman for l’Association co-operative d'economie familiale, a consumers’ rights groups, said such an appointment would not be enough because “the final decision would remain within Hydro-Quebec.” “The ultimate decision after a complaint hasn’t been answered in a satisfactory manner within Hydro should be assigned to an outside body,” Bilodeau said in a telephone interview.CAUSED BY SUNSPOTS Hydro Quebec officials said Wednesday in Montreal that the latest blackout was caused by a solar flare or sun spot which resulted in “the strongest magnetic storm ever recorded since the power system was commissioned.” Magnetic storms produce variations in the magnetic field which in turn result in voltage distortions and variations in electric current.These fluctuations throughout the power grid overload transformers and trip emergency signals.‘Pedophile’ Lacroix gets two years in jail ladelphia of two Chilean grapes contaminated with cyanide.An anonymous caller had twice warned the U.S.Embassy in Chile that fruit destined for the United States would be poisoned.The United States.Japan.West Germany, Denmark and Hong Kong issued similar embargoes.Berguno questioned U.S.investigators' belief that the grapes were poisoned in Chile.Security measures surrounding Chilean fruit operations are stringent, he insisted.Federal officials still hadn’t decided Wednesday what to do with mountains of spoiling Chilean produce sitting in cold storage across the country; wholesalers and retailers were getting impatient for direction.I would assume that everybody’s going to say: Let’s just throw it out,”’ said Wilshaw.“But the government has to decide what they want us to do with the product and then assist certainly the retail sector in recovering their financial losses." To destroy or not to destroy — that is the question The answer, a health department spokesman hinted, is unlikely before the United States decides on the issue.That decision is expected today.But John Riou.director of field operations in the Health Protection Branch, insisted Canada isn't waiting for the U.S.decision It makes only good sense that we would know what the U.S, is doing because they have more first-hand information on this situation than we do,'’ Riou said By Penny MacRae QUEBEC (CP) — Roman Catholic TV preacher Pierre Lacroix was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on a charge of gross indecency by a judge who told him there are too many pedophiles like you running the streets ” Mr Justice Jean Bienvenue of Quebec Superior Court said he wanted to impose a penalty that would serve as a deterrent as he sentenced the evangelist who was found guilty on Tuesday of one charge of gross indecency and acquitted on two other counts of gross indecency involving a young male, “There are too many children and adolescents who are victims because they don’t dare say anything out of fear or shame,” said the judge in an 18-minute tongue-lashing to the religious spellbinder whose fervent preaching style made him a household name in Quebec.Lacroix, 40, used the youth who came to him for counselling for drug problems to satisfy his “own base instincts,” said the judge.“There is all the difference in the world between helping and corrupting people.” Lacroix, whose “Marathon of Love” rallies used to pack the Mon treal Forum, had carried out a “marathon of gross indecency,” said the judge, referring to acts committed by the pair in hotel rooms across the province.Lacroix, a married father of four, bowed his head slightly after the sentence was pronounced before being led away by guards.He faced a maximum prison term of five years.Defence lawyer Carol St-Cyr said an appeal of the verdict would be lodged either today or Friday He said he would also ask the court to free Lacroix on bail.In sentencing Lacroix, the judge referred to testimony during pre-sentence arguments by the Crown of a psychiatrist who said the evangelist fitted the “classic profile” of a pedophile.Lacroix refused to recognize the gravity of the situation he was in or show any remorse for the acts he committed, said Dr.Martin Courcy The doctor urged incarceration with therapy for Lacroix, saying without treatment, the odds were about 80 per cent that he would commit similar acts.In his pre-sentencing arguments, the defence lawyer argued Lacroix was guilty of no crime as gross indecency is no longeron the books.Lacroix was tried according to the old Criminal Code because at the time the incidents took place, a charge of gross indecency could be brought if an adult committed sexual acts with someone under 21 years old.Under changes made in January 1988, the charge of gross indecency has been replaced by sexual assault and the age lowered to 18.It is not that justice has been done but that it appears to have been done,” St-Cyr declared.St-Cyr noted, however, that under the old Criminal Code the normal sentence for a first offender would be a fine with possibly probation.“How can you impose a deterrent sentence for a crime that no longer exists?” he asked in response to the prosecution’s call for a sentence that would serve as an example.After sentencing, St-Cyr refused any comment, except to say his client maintains his innocence.Lacroix did not show “any particu- See LACROIX, Page 2 f 2—The RECORD—Thursday, March 16, 1989 ‘(Board’s) report has not established that there was ice on the wings of the aircraft' Leaked document on Gander air crash contradicts Transport’s Bouchard By Alex Binkley OTTAWA (CP) — A leaked Transport Department study critical of the way the Canadian Aviation Safety Board investigated the worst air crash on Canadian soil created a major problem Wednesday for Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard.Parts of the study were obtained by the Ottawa Citizen and say the board’s conclusion that the crash of the Arrow Air DC-8 in 1985 was caused by wing icing isn't supportable “Transport Canada has not been able to determine the cause of this accident from the review of the available evidence, analysis and findings published in the CASB reports.The (board’s) report has not established that there was ice on the wings of the aircraft.” The study is a major embarrassment for Bouchard who said last week his department had accepted the icing conclusion and recommendations from the board to ma ke pilots more aware of the danger of wing icing.Spokesman Sandra Wood said the minister’s statement was based on recommendations from his officials.The minister didn’t know about the critical study, she said Claude Lafrance.an assistant deputy transport minister, told reporters he ordered the study in De-cember But he didn’t tell the minister or deputy minister about it when Bouchard was briefed on the department’s response to the board’s report on the Gander crash.Despite its sharp criticisms of the safety board’s investigation, the study wasn't second guessing the Gander report, he said."We were looking for anything else that we might use to promote aviation safety ’’ He admitted he and his officials weren’t convinced about wing icing.But he didn't answer questions about what authority the department has to do a detailed review of the board report.The department is only supposed to review the board's safety recommendations Lafrance also admitted a warning about the dangers of wing icing was not sent to Air Ontario until Wednesday — six days after one of its Fokker F-28 jets crashed on takeoff with ice encrusted wings.The crash killed 24 people.Bouchard had said last week the warning had been sent to all Canadian airlines as a result of the safety board’s study; however, Lafrance admitted he had given Bouchard *he wrong information Meanwhile, safety board member Bruce Pultz sa.d Transport “didn’t have the evidence to be able to reject the icing conclusion.” HAS ENEMIES He said the study “shows this outfit (the board) still has enemies over there (Transport).They keep trying to discredit us to get themselves more powers.” The board was created in 1983 on the recommendation of Mr Justice Charles Dubin.currently heading an inquiry into illegal drugs in sport Dubin wanted the board to be clearly independent of Transport and the sole role of the department was to review the safety recommendations from the board, not to pass judgment on Us accident investigations.Ken Thorneycroft, head of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, said he had not read the Transport Canada report and had no idea such a report existed “I suppose you could argue that as a matter of courtesy we should get (a copy of the report),” Thorneycroft said at a news conference.“Rut it’c an internal working docu- ment ’’ His board's report into the Gan der crash was not flawed in any way, he said And the investigative team did not arrive at the crash site with preconceived notions of the cause of the accident, he added Thorneycroft said a judicial inquiry would not shed any additional light on the cause of the accident The four dissenting members would probably maintain their stand to publicize their disagreement with the way the agency is run.he said.“The dissenters will never be satisfied.They use the Gander crash as a vehicle to object to the way we function." Pollution, mismanagement killing Canadian forests News-in-brief By Dennis Bueckert OTTAWA (CP) — The country’s forests are being destroyed by air pollution and mismanagement at a dizzying rate, says a federal report released Wednesday.The report, from the Library of Parliament’s research branch, says 40 million hectares of forest in Eastern Canada and another seven million in the West are seriously affected by airborne pollution.In addition to sugar maples, considered most vulnerable to pollution, white ash, beech, linden, yellow birch and red maple are also suffering, says the report written by researcher Jean-Pierre Amyot.Early signs of the blight have been detected in coniferous species like fir, white spruce and hemlock, says Amyot, who referred to the forest damage as “AIDS of the trees." Half of all sugar maples are affected and 15 per cent of them are already dead, says the report.“If the decline continues at the current rate, only a handful of maple stands will remain in Quebec by the end of the next decade.” The report says progress in forest management is still painfully slow, quoting a 1987 study by the Science Council of Canada.That study estimated 12 percent of Canada’s productive forest land hasn’t been restocked, and said the unstocked proportion is increasing at a rate of one per cent a year.“Canada’s forests — once thought to be inexhaustible — are being destroyed at a dizzying rate," writes Amyot.He conceded it may not be possible to prove irrefutably the relationship between air pollution and forest decline, but said most scientists believe there is such a link.He noted that an international conference of forestry experts in Toronto last August called for urgent action to stop the decline.Conference participants said fertilization of forest lands is only a stopgap measure since it focuses on the symptoms of problem, not its causes.He quoted their closing statement that “the use of the latest air pollution control technology should be enforced as soon as possible by all government levels.” Legionnaire’s kills two, but hospital not alarmed HALIFAX (CP) — Five patients at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax have contracted legionnaire’s disease since last December, but the hospital’s medical director said there was no cause for alarm.Two of the patients have died, but the hospital said they were both seriously ill and their deaths cannot be bla med on the disease that is similar to pneumonia.Medical director Vanora Haldane said legionnaire's disease periodically strikes patients at the hospital and the recent cases were no cause for panic.“We don't feel at the moment we have a problem,” she said.“The disease is not necessarily fatal and in fact most people recover ” Haldane said usually only patients with immune system problem, such as transplant patients and those taking anti-cancer drugs, are susceptible to infection by legionella bacteria, a microorganism commonly found in the water supply systems of large buildings.“Practically all large buildings have legionella bacteria in their water systems," said Haldane.“Most hospitals in the world have it.” Haldane also said the hospital has been giving sterile drinking water to susceptible patients.“Sterile water will give these patients some added protection and help to decrease their exposure to the disease,” she said.“We are taking every step that we can to prevent patients from contracting hospital-acquired infections.” Haldane said health care workers and other people in good health are not in danger of contracting the disease from the hospital’s water supply.Legionnaire’s disease was so named in 1976 after 180 legionnaires attending a conference in Philadelphia became ill with the previously unknown disease.Nearly 15 per cent of the men died of the disease, which had symptoms similar to those exhibited by pneumonia sufferers.It was later discovered the men had contracted the disease from bacteria called legionella pneumophilia.which had originated in their hotel's air conditioning system.paRvtwacvon George MacLaren, Publisher.569-9511 Randy Kinnear, Assistant Publisher.569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor .569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager.,.569-9525 Richard Lessard, Production Manager.569-9931 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent .569-9931 Guy Renaud, Graphics.569-4656 Francine Thibault, Composition.569-9931 CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly $1.80 Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1 year- $74.00 6 months- $44.00 3 months- $30.60 1 month- $15.00 U.S.& Foreign: 1 year- $151.00 6 months- $92 00 3 months- $62.00 1 month- $32.00 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publications: 60c per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy.Established February 9, 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by The Record Division, Groupe Québécor Inc.Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Cops discover chips MONTREAL (CP) — Police recovered $800,000 in stolen computer microchips from a locker in Montreal’s main bus station on Wednesday, after evacuating part of the terminal in case the locker contained a bomb The chips were stolen from Ogivar Inc of suburban St-Laurent a year ago and two company executives have been charged with theft and fraud.Det.Y van Pilon of Montreal police said Ogivar received an anonymous letter on Wednesday claiming the chips were in the locker at the Voyageur bus terminal.“We figured there was something strange about the thing,” said Pilon, who has been investigating the theft."We didn't want to take any chances so we called in the bomb squad.” Police used a remote-controlled robot to open the locker and discovered three plastic garbage bags filled with computer chips.The 13,000 chips in the bags were the most valuable of a total of 84,000 stolen from the company, Pilon said Prince Philip?Who’s he?TORONTO (CP) — Prince Philip?Beatrice Lillie?Jose and Maria Maciel had never heard of either person and thought nothing of forcing the City of Toronto to rearrange the prince’s itinerary during his visit this week.Prince Philip was supposed to dedicate a plaque on their front door honoring Lillie, the Toronto-born actress who became a favorite of royalty and a darling of the British stage.Lillie, said to have clinked glasses regularly with Noel Coward and the Queen Mother, was born 93 years ago in the Maciels’ semi-detached house.But when excited city officials appeared on the their doorstep to propose the plaque and dedication ceremony after Lillie died in January, the couple told them bluntly they had never heard of her.The Maciels said through an interpreter they’d never heard of Prince Philip either.“I don’t even know who he is,” said the couple’s daughter, Anna, 18.The family emigrated from Portugal to Toronto 17 years ago.Instead, the prince named a nearby public health building for the actress.The building was a library when Lillie attended public school.Startling U.S.health figures WASHINGTON (AP) — White Americans, be-nefitting from dramatic declines across the population in heart disease and strokes, are living longer than ever.But black Americans, increasingly the victims of homicide and AIDS, are seeing their life expectancy fall.The latest report on health in the United States, released Wednesday, also said blacks are twice as likely to die in infancy as whites.Pregnant black women receive early prenatal care far less than whites.Blacks are disproportionately afflicted with influenza and pneumonia.U.S.Health Secretary Louis Sullivan said the report showed — as statistics have since 1970 — “there is a disparity between the health of our white and black populations.” Manning Feinleib.director of the U S.National Centre for Health Statistics, told reporters the basic causes for blacks’ declining life expectancy relate to “nutrition, poverty, access to (health) care.” Amnesia victim finds Quebec Soldier foggy on war and peace WESTFIELD, Mass.(AP) — A former amnesia patient who left behind an $8,700 US hospital bill and unanswered questions when he left this western Massachusetts town three weeks ago has inexplicably turned up in a small Quebec town.Canadian officials say Peter Ian Rouse, 47, was found March 3 in Napierville, Que., and is being treated for amnesia in a hospital in nearby St.Jean.The native Briton was discovered "sitting on the side of the road .with no memory at all,” said Cpl.Jean Pierre Poirier of the Napierville police.Rouse was found similarly disoriented on Christmas Eve in Huntington He spent 25 days in a local hospital before checking himself out several weeks ago, saiid the Union-News of Springfield.Immigration officials from the United States and Canada told the newspaper it was unclear how Rouse, who was carrying neither a wallet nor money when he was picked up in Canada, gained entrance to that country.North trial reveals Reagan deals WASHINGTON (AP) — Then-president Ronald Reagan approved a secret pact in 1985 to give Honduras more than $110 million US for helping the Nicaraguan Contras, the Oliver North jury was told Wednesday.Reagan also telephoned the president of Honduras when the Honduran military delayed an ammunition shipment to the rebels, the trial was told.Reagan made a note of his call to Roberto Soazo that said the Honduran “will call his military commander to tell him to deliver the ammunition,” former national security adviser Robert McFarlane testified.The ammunition then got to the guerrillas.Under questioning by defence lawyers, McFarlane told how Reagan initialled a plan in mid-February 1985 that resulted in Honduras getting speeded-up delivery of rifles, ammunition and machines.It was a “quid pro quo” arrangement that Reagan was advised would “provide incentives” to the Hondurans for helping out.Chile talks to rebels SANTIAGO (AP) — Interior Minister Carlos Caceres discussed proposed constitutional changes with the opposition Wednesday in the first talks Chile's military government has accepted with its foes in five years.The opposition’s chief spokesman, Patricio Aylwin.the first such leader invited to the government palace under the 15-year-old military government, called his 30-minute talk with Caceres “positive.” Caceres said some proposals submitted by Aylwin for democratic changes to the constitution were “interesting.” Canada joins other in war test FORT ORD, Calif.(Reuter) - Canada, the United States, Britain and Australia launched an 18-day military exercise Wednesday designed to test battlefield procedures they could use as a co-ordinated force in any future war.Some 5,000 troops from the four countries assembled at this military base on the central California coast and nearby Fort Hunter Liggett where they will engage in both daytime and nighttime joint manoeuvres.LAHR, West Germany (CP) — Quebec soldier Christian Pepin, who admits killing a Canadian woman in Hungary, sought psychiatric help for emotional problems more than a year before the incident last June, a military court was told Wednesday.He had trouble relating to women and distinguishing between war and peace, the court was told by character witnesses testifying on his behalf.But scheduling conflicts with his military duties prevented him from attending sessions with a Canadian Armed Forces mental health nurse and no further such sessions were arranged Pepin, 27, a corporal with the Royal 22nd Regiment stationed at CFB Lahr, startled what had been expected to be a long court martial Monday when he admitted killing Antonnette Charest, 20, June 3 in a small Hungarian town near the Soviet border.He had originally been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death but pleaded guilty instead to the lesser charge of manslaughter.The maximum sentence for both offences is life in prison.Chuck and Di snub Muslims?LONDON (Reuter) — Tehran Radio said Wednesday a Persian Gulf tour by Prince Charles and his wife Diana, the Princess of Wales, was a snub to Muslims after the furore over British author Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses.The radio, monitored by the BBC, also accused some Islamic countries of being too lukewarm in their response to Rushdie’s novel, which many Muslims consider blasphemous.It recalled that Muslims all over the world had staged protests and demonstrations against Britain because of its support for Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim family in India and now isâ British citizen.“Undoubtedly, the well-calculated trip of the British crown prince to these countries contains some symbolical measure in that it openly expresses hostility towards the Muslims' demands," the radio’s English-language service said in a commentary.Charles and Diana was visiting Arab countries in the gulf.Iran intensifies death threat RIYADH (AP) — Iran called Wednesday on Islamic foreign ministers attending a conference in the Saudi Arabian capital to support Tehran’s order for the killing of author Salman Rushdie and the decision to break relations with Britain.But the Saudi Arabian foreign minister, chairman of the 46-member Organization of Islamic Conference, said he believed the organization would only denounce Rushdie and his book, The Satanic Verses.However, Mohammad Taskhiri, head of Iran’s delegation, said his country was "honored to have broken ties with the leader of the plot,” referring to Britain.Taskhiri urged all Islamic governments to unite against what he described as “these mean attempts to offend the image of the prophet Mohammed, his wives and daughters.” “If we are silent now, the West will make a film and then a video" of The Satanic Verses, he said.LACROIX: Continued from page I lar" emotion over the sentence when he met him afterward, the lawyer said.The jury which found Lacroix guiPy sat in the front row of spectators who packed the courtroom to hear the sentence pronounced.NO PROPOSALS The judge, who concluded his sentence with the words, “May God Help You," did not make any proposals for therapy.He said Lacroix had betrayed the talents given him and used the words of God for false purposes.The trial's graphic testimony made headline news throughout Quebec where Lacroix became a religious celebrity through his daily television show, which was yanked off the air after his arrest last September , Radio open line shows were abuzz Wednesday with discussion of the case.The judge lashed out at critics of the verdict, saying if any of them were in the court, they “dirtied it" by their presence.The youth — now 22 and married — testified he began seeing Lacroix for counselling when he was 16 and that they engaged in sexual acts from the time he was 17 to 20.Letters from the bearded preacher telling his accuser he loved him were read aloud in court.The young man testified he and wife received a gift of a washing machine from Lacroix after he swore them to secrecy about the relationship.Germaine Firlotte, 57, who frequented the prayer centre.Cite du pere (City of the father), founded by Lacroix, said she continues to believe in his innocence.Weather Thursday sunny in the afternoon, the high near -3.Friday, flurries and a high of -3.iDoonesbury “I will always support him,” said Firlotte.But Jacques Baie, 53, said the evangelist's career was over.“I feel sorry for him," Baie said, adding that he felt the sentence was too harsh.Lawyer Andre Langlois, a spokesman for Cite du pere, which served as the cornerstone of Lacroix's evangelical ministry, said the centre will remain open for business.There will always be a place for Lacroix at the prayer centre, said Langlois.BY GARRY TRUDEAU IF THF- DOWNTOWN O'OWD COULD SFB MF NOW.c=y TO ACCEPT A JOB UNB THIS, YOU HAVE VKEBP TBLUNO YOURSELF ONE 4 THING OVER AND OVER .APPROPRIATING FROM THE MASTERS WITHOUT A TRACE OF IRONY' MkT HEY, UP THERE' YOU HAVE GIVE THOSE A,^V}y ' NYMPHS SOME HOOTERS! A KWW- u u o ucliuuyz /ouuuuuuuCi 4 V Î The RECORD—Thursday.March 1*.11 The Townships —_____ftgl icecora ‘They’re made to believe it's just a blob Abortion watch: Vigil of protest at part-time clinic in Cowansville By Sharon McCully COWANSVILLE - Demonstrators who maintain a weekly vigil outside the CLSC in Cowansville estimate 95 abortions have been performed there since the clinic opened last July 12.Reverend Don Wilson, pastor of the Pentecostal Church in Cowansville and a leader of the antiabortion group, says when the clinic opened in July, officials at the CLSC invited the protesters to a meeting to discuss the new man- date "They told us they expected to do about three abortions a week, so we have kept a running total of how many that would be to date." Wilson said Lise Lecain.a family planning counsellor with the CLSC in Far-nham.confirmed that three abortions per week was an accurate estimate.LOW-KEY Wilson said his group has adopted a low-key approach to get- ting the pro-life message across."We feel a lot of girls are having abortions who aren’t given all the facts —they're made to believe it ’s just a blob, when actually it is a human being with a heartbeat and all the human characteristics ’’ At least six to eight pro lifers march in front of the CLSC each Tuesday, carrying placards and distributing pamphlets outlining the development of a foetus from conception to term The Pentecostal minister said he hopes to initiate an outreach program in the region’s high schools to reach young people before it's too late.We want to get the message across that if there are girls with out family or financial support, we can help them." he said.We have people who are willing to open their homes to girls in this situation.There's no price we re not willing to pay to save a life." The Cowansville CLSC is the onl\ abortion clinic for women liv- ing in or around Cowansville, Far nham.Granby.Bedford and St Jean.Abortions are performed one day a week there Lise Lecain w as unable to supply the number or age of women re ceiving abortions.In Quebec it is possible for girls as young as 14 years old to have an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents by virtue of a section of the Quebec Health Act which allows children over 14 In «siihmil In a medical liroc- edure without parental consent within the first 24 hours."We believe girls suffer emotionally afterward." Wilson said.Although the pastor admitted it’s unlikely demonstrators have changed the minds of anyone going to the clinic to have an abortion, he said they will maintain the march."It might take years, but we have to continue to try to change the attitudes in society — the sexual revolution is claiming a lot of victims." Gaston Lessard short half a million CLSC cries ‘broke’ as budget ropes tighten around community clinics By Rita Legault funded CLSCs in the province He brooke’s regional health council for CLSC services, the Gaston- is to lobby Health Minister Thérèse • J t By Rita Legault SHERBROOKE - Local hospitals aren’t the only health centres suffering from budget restrictions.Some local community health clinics are also feeling the crunch of the provincial health ministry.The Centre Local des Services Communautaires (CLSC) Gaston Lessard this week announced it will end its fiscal year March 31 with a $40,000 deficit.“It isn’t because we do not manage our budgets well,” said CLSC Gaston Lessard general manager Jacques Lacroix.“It's because the demands are great and the budget is inadequate.” Lacroix said Gaston Lessard, which serves east and south Sherbrooke along with neighboring municipalities, is one of the worst funded CLSCs in the province He said this is despite the fact it has the same job as the others.Lacroix said the problem stems from inadequate funding for CLSCs opened after 1980.Until then, new CLSCs were given gener-ous start up allocations and budgets.After 1980, and particularly after 1983, the government finished its network of CLSCs on a cutback budget, he said.Gaston Lessard was built in 1985.It has two branches, in east Sherbrooke and Lennoxville.LESS THAN AVERAGE “Our CLSC gets half the budget of those built before 1980,” Lacroix said, adding that Gaston Lessard gets $40 per capita while the provincial average is $60.He said that statistics from Sher- brooke’s regional health council show Gaston Lessard is short $500,000 compared to the provincial average."We have the same responsibili ties, the same territory and the same mandate as the others,” he said, “but we don’t have the same resources." Lacroix said there are eight CLSCs in the Sherbrooke area and the four opened after 1980 — Gaston Lessard.Alfred Desrochers, Albert Samson and Maria Thibault — are all in the same leaky boat.Four other CLSCs — Richmond.Weedon, Asbestos and Sherbrooke’s SOC (Sud, Ouest.Centre) were all built before 1980 and are not suffering as much, he said.Lacroix said with a rising population and increased demand for CLSC services, the Gaston-Lessard board of directors has difficult decisions ahead, especially on offering new services.We have the choice between saying yes and no, and we say yes a little bit." he said "But this translates bv our deficit going up." NO SUCCESS Lacroix said Gaston Lessard has not yet complained to the government about its financial situation.He said the provincial federation of CLSCs has been demanding adequate funding for post-1980 clinics but so far without success.Lacroix said the CLSC board will hold a special finance meeting soon to discuss next year's budget and consider strategy to improve its financial outlook He said one thing board members may deride is to lobby Health Minister Thérèse Lavoie-Roux for more money.Lacroix said if the CLSC doesn’t get more next year it will have to look at cutting services to break even, especially since it will start off with a $40,000 deficit.In the meantime the CLSC is cut ting back where it can on train ing for employees, overtime, magazines for patients and is unable to fulfill requests for additional services such as programs for brain-damage victims and troubled adolescents, recently proposed by the Sherbrooke-area regional health council."We don’t expect unlimited budgets," Lacroix said.“All we want is enough money to meet out minimum requirements.” CLSC GASTON LESSARD ‘Confrontation climate’ Vallières wires for help of Quebec in thorny Camoplast labor lockout Fire Station 3 opens.Sherbrooke's west-end and Ascot Township residents can finally sleep at ease.Construction of the area's new fire station, which replaces the 89-year-old Belvedere Street station which closed down in 1982, is completed.Firechief Jacques Dunault, left, with Sherbrooke Mayor Jean-Paul Pelletier, Ascot Township Mayor Robert Pouliot, and two firefighters launched the new station on St-Joseph Street Wednesday.The new station will house 16 firefighters and four lieutenants.SHERBROOKE (RL) - Richmond Liberal MNA Yvon Vallières says Labor Minister Yves Séguin must step into the bitter labor dispute at the Camoplast plant in Kingsbury Some 250 employees at the Rockland Division of Camoplast have been locked out of the plant since Feb.1.Vallières, party whip in the National Assembly, said in a telegram to the minister that many of his constituents are affected by the conflict.He called on Séguin to make a special effort to bring the two parties, already meeting with a govern ment conciliator, closer to an agreement.The telegram was sent following a conversation Vallières had with mayors Marc-André Martel of Richmond and Marc-André Pélo-quin of Kingsbury.The two mayors told the MNA the lock-out is harming local economies and said such a climate makes it difficult to attract investment.“The confrontation climate is not favorable to the reputation of the region, especially when we’re Y von Vallières.Camoplast dispute damaging the region's reputation.trying to attract investments here,” Vallières said in a telephone interview “It’s hard enough under the best circumstances." NOT TAKING SIDES Vallières said he is not taking sides in the dispute and has not met either workers or management, although a planned meeting with workers was cancelled last week due to a conciliation session.He said he’s been talking to the labor minister about the situation for the past couple of weeks, although he has yet had no promise of action from Séguin.“The longer it lasts, the harder their bargaining positions get,” he said.The government has no power to force private enterprises or unions to accept a contract.Vallières said Séguin is better equipped than he to intervene in the dispute.Camoplast has four divisions in Richmond, Roxton Falls and Kingsbury which employ about 1000 local workers.‘Unable to drive many times this winter’ — Stagecoach Road resident West Bolton: Road woes mount in wake of slippery season for drivers '* 4 * •% .• * * .* "W > •;> • ¦ I TmJ m if 4 «¦f ;* ' , , « ^ v * .1 ÿ, 3b J?% ’ Dammed ice Unusually warm weather and rain caused a thaw on local rivers, creating ice dams and prompting minor flooding throughout the Eastern Townships Wednesday.RIXOKU (IRANI SIMMlN The rain was expected to stop overnight and temperatures today should drop back below zero, turning the puddles back into ice.WEST BOLTON — Irate residents are threatening to re-name this area “Skid Row” if something isn’t done to improve dangerous road conditions.Build-ups of ice, brought about by the extreme weather conditions this winter, have left many of the municipality’s roads in sad shape.In outlying areas, even the well-equipped sand-and-salt truck haven’t been able to negotiate the slippery slopes that characterize higher elevations.And residents are starting to make their concerns about the situation known to town council Russell Lightbody, an area resident since 1957 who lives on Stagecoach Road not far from where it dips down to Bolton Pass, complained to council about road conditions in that area at this month’s town meeting.Tve had to phone repeatedly to the mayor and the contractor responsible for roads, to complain about the lack of sanding and plowing," he said MANY TIMES "Though I’m an experienced driver and used to hard road codi-tions in my area, I’ve been unable to drive many times this winter Since Christmas, I’ve been calling to complain on an average of once every week-and-a-half.” Lightbody, a retired Bell Canada engineer, claimed he averages one trip daily to Knowlton from his isolated residence.He said it’s necessary to do so to ferry his wife to the Farfelu shop where she works, as well as to take care of other business.The trip is often difficult, especially along the section of Stagecoach where he lives.Sand has been all but non-existent on some parts of the road, he said BAD YEAR Mayor Fred Lahue, responding to the criticism, said he wasn’t tak ing the complaint lightly But he pointed out that it’d been a very bad year weatherwise, especially regarding ice “Temperatures after a storm have often been so cold that sand has had no effect on the icy roadways,” the mayor said, “Nevertheless, the road contractor has responsibilities and, other than in the case of acts of God, he must carry them out satisfactorily." Clement Lepage, who handles the winter road clearing and sanding for the municipality and who was present at the meeting, said he’d put enough sand on the difficult stretch of road where Light body lives I do my best with the amount of sand I have during the icy conditions,” he pointed out.“I admit it’s been bad at times this year, with all the ice we’ve had.But the school bus goes by where Mr.Lightbody lives every day, and does okay.And, that bus has four summer tires on it." COMMON COMPLAINT Councillor Donald Badger, who holds seat 2 on West Bolton council, said complaints about road conditions in winter are an ongoing affair “Ninety per cent of the complaints we get here in council concern the sanding of roads,” he pointed out Both the municipality and contractor Lepage are currently being threatened with legal action as the result of a winter accident apparently due to icy road conditions, earlier this year.Representatives of Edward Hardy, owner of Service Santaire Hardy, a garbage pickup firm that services West Bolton, are claiming damages for an accident on Bailey Road January 9.A truck owned by Hardy overturned after sliding down a hill.Damages claimed against the municipality and/or Clement Lepage amount to $8201.35.TAKE A STAND.4 Régie de I assurance automobile du Québec 4—The RECORD—Thursday, March 16.19W* flr.rrrsl^l Kccora Favor patients — not the doctors Isn’t it time the Quebec government stopped waffling and recognized midvives?Despite the fact that the government has recommended their legal recognition several times, midwives are losing patience with Quebec’s slowness in giving them a license.According to the World Health Organization, Canada and South Africa are the only industrialized countries which do not recognize midwives.Women’s groups and consumers groups support the demand for legalization of this honorable profession — one of the oldest in the world.But Health Minister Thérèse Lavoie-Koux is still hesitating.Just what seems to be the problem?Doctors who fiercly oppose the legal recognition of midwives seems to be the biggest roadblock.While many sensible doctors welcome the idea of having midwives, Quebec’s College of Physicians — which exercises an iron clad control on medical acts in the province, including births — condemns the practice.Why would well-heeled doctors want a bunch of lower-paid women to come in and take away their jobs.Of course, they are willing to allow midwives to practice in rural areas and isolated communities where doctors are not interested in going.What a convenient double standard.Well, maybe doctors don’t want midwives, but patients sure do.Many women argue the medical profession dehumnanizes the birth process and do much too many caeserian births, forcep deliveries, induced labors, use too much uneccessary anesthetic and perform too many unneeded, not to mention painful, epiosiotomies and other medical interventions.Many women give birth with strange, cold-handed doctors while their own obstetrician is off-duty, on holiday or on the golf course, or doesn’t bother to come in until the last minute.The natural birthing process is quickly be-comimg a three-ring circus not unlike the birth scene in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.Midwives insist the best and safest way to delevier a baby is in surroundings where the mother feels at home, with as little intervention as possible, and with assistance from someone who has more time to spend there than a doctor.That sounds like a good argu ment to me.Doctors have opposed midwives mostly on grounds that even normal births may unexpectedly become dangerous to mother and child.Women want midwives on the grounds that even normal births have become unexpectedly traumatic to mother and child.It’s time Lavoie-Roux forced the issue with doctors and insisted that women be allowed freedom of choice when deciding how they are going to have their child.If the doctors disagree, then perhaps it is time to look at the power they hold and take some of it away.Quebec’s medical act should be used to favor the patients — not the doctors.RITA LEGAULT Winnipeg rockets to [test earth’s ozone layerl By Tom Blackwell WINNIPEG (CP) —- A series of rockets scheduled to blast off from the shores of Hudson Bay starting this week will study the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect —- and could put Canada’s partly mothballed rocket range back into orbit.The U.S.space agency, NASA, is launching four re search rockets, the first since the federal government shut down the rocket range in frigid Churchill, Man., three years ago.Some of the rockets will release barium into the upper atmosphere, creating colorful, artificial clouds visible from as far away as Chicago.The projects are hopeful signs for Canadian space research, David Kendall, a spokesman for the National Research Council, said Tuesday from Ottawa “It has been a loss, there’s no doubt about that,” said Kendall, who is with the council’s space division Meanwhile, the Manitoba government is conducting a study that suggests the half-dismantled launch site could be permanently re-opened, partly fuelled by con corns about the environment.“We’re optimistic,’’ said Les Tough, head of the pro vince’s aerospace technology program “The range is there, it’s in good condition, it’s been described as a world-class facility.If the process of dismantling it is allowed to continue unabated.I have no doubt we would never see another range in Canada for rocket research ’’ STUDY CFCs The first NASA rockets are part of an experiment by University of Pittsburgh researcher Edward Zipf to study the chemical makeup of the atmosphere Samples taken by the rocket will be analysed for such materials as chlorofluorocarbons.They're blamed for holes in the earth’s ozone layer The project will also measure buildup in the atmos phere of carbon dioxide from car fumes and industrial burning of fossil fuels.It’s believed that such buildup is causing a global warming trend — the greenhouse effect The second project, which involves the release of barium clouds, is set to start late this month The clouds will enable researchers to measure electrical fields aligned with the earth's magnetic fields, said project scientist Robert Hoffman from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Green Belt, Md Scientists believe the fields speed particles from so lar flares into the atmosphere, a phenomenon that can lead to power surges in electricity lines, Hoffman said The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Gorbachev’s new openness may help arms reduction OTTAWA (CP) — Earlier this month, the warm wnds of the East-West thaw swept through an ornate red and gold hall in Vienna.Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact gathered in a baroque Austrian palace to begin what may prove to be the most significant arms reduction talks since the onset of the Cold War The aim is to negotiate deep cuts in non-nuclear weapons in Europe that would leave both sides with enough arms to repel an invasion — but not enough to launch one.Diplomats hope such an outcome, sometimes called “non-provocative defence," will also lead to a breakdown of political bar riers that would change the face of Europe.They’ve tried before to reduce the level of arms, and failed.So what's different this time?Diplomats credit Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with a new openness toward the West.They cite a Soviet willingness to acknowledge their huge numerical advantage in some kinds of weapons and a new flexibility toward NATO proposals.CP news analysis “The starting positions are quite reasonable and give plenty of room for compromise,” said Richard Field-house, research fellow at the Stockholm Peace Research Institute.“It looks like there’s the political will and interest to do the things required for an agreement.” If talks are successful, Canada, with a small force of 7,500 troops in Europe, may be called upon to rethink its contribution to NATO.For 40 years, the two military blocs have snarled at each other across a boundary that splits Europe from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic.The heaviest concentration of arms in the world bristles along the divide.By Paul Mooney Mary Collins, Canada’s associate defence minister, told the opening ceremonies Moscow's fresh approach has helped change the international climate “Soviet leaders and their Warsaw Pact partners now espouse a concept of reasonable sufficiency’ in military doctrine which suggests a shift to a more defensive posture,” she said.The West German foreign minister, Hans Detriech Genscher, said chances for achieving substantive results “are better than ever before.” And the talks aren’t just about numbers, weapons or military options, he said “They also concern a new stage along the road toward a peaceful order in Europe or, as we may also put it, on the path to the common European house.” Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was also upbeat.“The mutual ‘image of the enemy’ that used to pervade both Western and our propaganda is giving way to a more objective and serious look at each other,” he told the diplomats, negotiating teams and military advisers.STILL DAUNTING But the task remains daunting.The alliances have framed their opening positions in terms that reflect their own security concerns.The 16 NATO allies have proposed weapon ceilings within a complex system of regional zones that would preserve almost the same amount of military hardware along the central frpnt between East and West Germany.That reflects NATO strategy for defending West Germany and the capital of Bonn, close to the border.But the seven Warsaw Pact members want a reduction of troops and weapons in the central zone — “the neutralization of West Germany,” some Western observers grumble — that would entail a major cut in American troops in the region.The Warsaw Pact wants to expand the talks to include aircraft and naval forces.NATO doesn’t.Lawrence Freedman, who teaches war studies at King’s College in London, said re- cently those are areas of western technological advantage “which NATO is seeking to insulate from arms control.” Instead, NATO wants to first tackle Soviet superiority in tanks and other ground weapons which can take and hold territory.Discussions are under way about the possibility of including aircraft later, but naval forces will be kept off the table, western delegates insist.DRIVE A WEDGE The mandate for the talks doesn't include nuclear arms, but the Warsaw Pact has called for the withdraw al of short-range nuclear weapons to areas out of range of the other side.West Germans are especially concerned about the presence of such weapons on their soil and some in NATO see the offer as an attempt to drive a wedge between the western allies.And arms cuts alone aren’t enough The goal is stable deterrence with effective verification measures.With that in mind, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe of Britain warned against getting into a “striptease competition” where each side tries to outdo the other in the number of weapons it can peel off.Still, experts foresee an initial agreement in two to four years.If early talks go well, they say, parallel negotiations will begin on short-range nuclear arms and chemical weapons.Letters moderates are looking for leadership I read in The Record on Friday That all in Quebec is just fine; The only problem is language And that is not really ‘serious’.These are the feelings of M.Rivard Who’s in charge of Quebec language laws.1 always believed that I lived In a Canadian democratic society.Where Rule of Law is respected, Which means government is under the law.But our government passed Bill 178 Which is against the Supreme Court's decision Does that mean that our Quebec Government Does not recognize Rule of Law?So I must disagree with Mr Rivard When he says all is well in our province I’d call it a ‘serious’ condition When our government ignores the Supreme Court of our land.We moderates are looking for leadership.For a party which will truly reflect Rule of Law in all of our governments, A true democratic régime.PS.I see that M.Ryan has been given the language portfolio.One would think his job in Education would keep him sufficiently busy.But if the language situation is really not ‘serious’, he should have ample time to do both.R.JEAN MILLER Knowlton BUREAU< SAFETY j T E5T STATION » ¦mê* On this day in history March 16, 1989 By The Canadian Press Former Italian prime minister Aide Moro was kidnapped 11 years ago today — in 1979.Moro, prime minister from 1963-1968 and 1974-1976, and his five bodyguards were ambushed by members of the Red Brigades, a terrorist organization All the body guards were killed in the attack.The government refused to negotiate with the kidnappers, who demanded the release of several terrorists.Moro was killed and his body was found in Rome on May 9.Also on this day in: 1649 — Father Jean de Brebeuf, a Jesuit missionary working with the Huron Indians, was killed by invading Iroquois.1850 — The Scarlett Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published.1935 — Adolf Hitler announced compulsory military conscription would resume in Germany, breaking the terms of First World War peace treaties.Blacksmith Irons finds satisfaction, but little money By John Lewandowski WEST RIVER, N.S.(CP) — Rocky Irons has answered the old question: “What's in a name?” Irons is a blacksmith with an abiding love of horses.And his name has served him well.If you're into electronics with a name like Rocky Irons it wouldn’t be a big deal," he says, laughing through his salt and pepper beard.“But if you're a blacksmith and a horseshoer, people remember that.“Everybody thinks that I made it up but I didn’t.” A few broken bones, two knee operations and several horse kicks later, the former electronics technician.who was christened Rockwell Irons, still speaks with a passion about his chosen trade.“There's something about the outside of a horse that’s good for the inside of a man," he says as he sits with in ringer distance of one of his forges.TEACHES COURSES Not only does Irons, 48.continue to ply his shoeing skills, he also teaches farrier courses (a farrier is a blacksmith who shoes horses), writes for trade publications and raises and trains standardbred horses on his farm in rural Pictou County Blacksmithing is “not a big money trade,” says Irons.“If you want to amass a lot of money this is the wrong business to be in.“It's a business where you work real hard for what you get.You sweat a lot.You have to stay in pretty good shape and it’s tough on your body.I’ve had operations on both legs from the wear and tear,” Irons’s fascination with horses developed when he was a child in upstate New York.The next-door neighbors had a pony.“I’d climb up that pony’s tail in the pasture.It'd buck me off and kick me, thump me all around and I should have learned from that, horses don't like humans a lot of the time." His career choice has drifted a long way from the rest of his family.His father was a nuclear scientist.One of his brothers teaches law and another is an architect.BOUGHT LAND Irons first came to Nova Scotia on a vacation trip in 1969.A short while later he bought some land in the province.When a chance to make a living at smithing presented itself a few years later, he wasn't long in moving up permanently.For a time Irons taught at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro but a few years ago he struck out on his own.He now offers private instruction to small groups at his Atlantic Farrier School.Three times a year the walls of the red barn, just off the Trans-Canada Hignway near New uiasgow, resonate with the awkward and hesitant ringing of anvils.Irons says his students inevitably share the same fascination with horses and with bending and shaping red-hot steel into practical items.“Obviously everybody who comes here has to have one focal point,” he says as he leans across an old chair and lifts the peak of his soot-smudged baseball cap."If you don’t love horses this business wouldn't spin your wheels at all .wouldn't mean a thing to you.” TRADE CHANGES In the 20-odd years Irons has plied his trade he’s watched it change.No longer does the village smith stand under the spreading chestnut tree in leather apron while horses are brought in.Smithing is now a highly mobile trade.Many of the coal-fired forges have given way to propane.“Today’s smith is working out of the back of a pickup truck,” says Irons Horse owners expect you to come to them, and when you do you got to be set up.“Propane is quick and fast.Boom! You’ve got instant heat and you can weld in that fire.” Irons himself still uses a fair amount of coal because of the setup at his school and because he says it’s better for heavier work like shoeing draft horses.But even at that, the times seem to be conspiring against him.COAL FROM MAINE The school is less than 200 kilometres from some of Cape Breton’s best metallurgical coal mines Yet, in order to set up shop for his courses.Irons says he has to drive six times that distance, to Pittfield, Me., to get the high-quality coal he needs Several frustrating phone calls have failed to furnish Irons with a reasonable explanation as to why producers won’t sell good quality coal to local blacksmiths any more.T used to meet guys at farriers' conventions and horse shows that would ask me to bring them some of that good Cape Breton coal,”' he says with a wistful sigh.“Now I'm embarrassed to let any body burn any coal that I have.I’d get more heat out of burning the gravel in my driveway.” As a concession to the times, Irons is thinking about using a machine to stamp shoes out of metal plates.He’s careful to point out it's only an idea he's kicking around Irons doesn't want to lose any of the mystical qualities that hot steel and a forge impart.The bottom line, he says, is personal satisfaction.“It has to do with what you perceive as success.If you perceive success in terms of money, there aren’t many upsides to this.” The RKt'OKIV-Thursday.March 16.1989-5 Farm and Business #¦___gpj record ‘There's a lot of facts that just aren't getting out' Fruit, vegetable growers to ease public fears OTTAWA tCP) — Fruit and vegetable growers, wholesalers and retailers plan a national program to try to reassure consumers that their produce is safe and wholesome, says Susan Sutherland, director of the Fresh for Fla vor Foundation.“There’s a lot of facts that just aren't getting out to the news media, health professionals and everyone in the industry from growers to retailers," she said V, -dnesday in an interview, t'he foundation is the promotion-arm of the Canadian Horticultu- ral Council, which represents growers, and the Canadian Fruit Wholesalers Association, which represents fruit and vegetable importers, wholesalers and retailers.The foundation has so far raised $66.000 for the campaign and will be looking for more contributions from the industry, Sutherland said She said this week's ban on imported Chilean produce and a recent controversy over alar, a chemical used to keep apples fresh, highlights the need to make con- sumers and the industry more aware of how the food system works, IK) NOT KNOW “A lot of people don't know about the government controls that exist to make sure our food is safe, and consumers don t understand the role of farmers and government departments.“Our campaign would try to bring attention to the safeguards and controls .and also what kinds of information are available for consumers." To help organize the campaign, the foundation has hired John Brown, a fanner and former president of the horticultural council, who has also worked for food wholesalers."Wre want to bring in all the players in the industry and put together a campaign in a highly focused manner” The foundation will also be work ing closely with the agrifood safety division of the Agriculture Department, set up last fall to give greater attention to food safety.(Quebec is behind in automation' Robotics seen vital to competing under free trade By Allan Swift MONTREAL (CP) — The free-trade agreement with the United States will force Quebec companies to use more robots to boost efficiency, say organizers of a conference and exhibition.“Robotics is one of the keys for manufacturers in the next decade,” said Robert Lupien, an organizer of Technidustry, a two-day trade show on automation that concludes here today.Quebec's large companies, such as the General Motors assembly plant or the Pratt and Whitney Canada Inc.plant which makes aircraft engines, have used robotics for years, Lupien noted in an interview Tuesday, but he said smaller firms are lagging behind.Gilles Delisle, an official with the Quebec Industry, Trade and Tech nology Department, said a partial study done by his department four years ago indicated that 20 per cent of Quebec industry was using automation in some stage of production.But Germany and Japan were using 70 to 80 per cent, said Delisle.Those countries are also the leading producers of robotic equipment, as well as the United States, France and Italy.Canada produces almost none.LAGS BEHIND “The idea (for the conference) is to wake people up,” said Yves Gen-dron, director of the CAD-CAM Association — the acronym stands for computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing — which puts on the robotics show.“Quebec is behind in automation."Some companies will have to close if they don’t follow the trend to automation.It’s become a necessity." This year’s show is aiming at seven sectors where robotics can be applied: plastics, wood, furni ture, metal products, machinery, transport equipment and textiles.Delisle said that contrary to popular belief, robots do not lead to overall staff reductions although they replace workers on some routine jobs.“Not one has yet taken a job in Quebec," he said.The advantage to a small company in going automatic is not to replace workers and save on labor costs, but to make products faster and more efficiently, said Delisle.He added that it is vital for a firm adopting automatic equipment to “involve the employees right from the start so they won’t put spokes in your wheels." IMPORT PARTS Delisle said Quebec manufacturing plants buy about $4 billion worth of machinery every year, including replacement parts, nearly all of it imported.Jean Mailloux, technical director for plastic pipe manufacturer Plastiques BOV AC, said his company recently invested $1.5 million in an American-made automated system to mix raw ingredients.He said the automatic system makes its products— from sewage pipes to tubes for vacuum cleaners — more uniform in size and quality, and prevents wasting materials.It eliminated the routine work of an operator who filled bins, but it has not cost any of BOVAC’s 150 employees their jobs.BOVAC, of St-Joseph-de-Beauce, Que., ships about $30 million worth of products annually through Eastern Canada and has just begun to penetrate the New England market “Free trade, welcome," Mailloux said with a grin at the end of his presentation ‘Our motto here is keep it simple, stupid — and it works’ Gambling on fast food: Mr.Sub to double in size TORONTO (CPi — Mr.Sub marine plans to double the size of its 300-outlet chain over the next three years, betting the North American appetite for fast food will continue to grow.And within the next six years, the Toronto-based sandwich maker expects to triple its stores to more than 1,000 and push annual sales over the $300-million mark, company spokesmen say.The company is negotiating with an international conglomerate that wants it to expand outside Canada, and is considering tackling the U S.market wdth a second network of 1,000 stores.“We are growing faster than we ever have before," said president Earl Linzon, a founder of the company.“We used to think that we were limited to busy urban areas, but we're opening mostly now in rural areas.And what we re finding is that business in the smaller satellite towns is as good as anywhere else.” The first Mr.Submarine sandwich store opened 21 years ago in Toronto’s Yorkville area, then a popular hippie enclave.Scraping together $1,600, Linzon, then a physical education teacher, and his partner Jack Levinson, an accounting clerk, were looking for a project to make extra money and came up with the idea of a fast-food stand.Competition was slack, with McDonald’s Corp.having just begun its invasion of Canada and chains such as Harvey's still in their infancy.Business was better than expected.SUSPECTED FAD “We only had a six month lease,” Linzon recalled.“We were hopeful, of course, but we really weren’t looking at the concept as a long term thing.Initially, I thought the whole thing might just be a fad.We were looking to make some quick money and run.” Buoyed by their success, the pair opened 12 more outlets in the next four years.In 1972, as the potential for growth became more than they could handle, the partners decided to start franchising Mr.Submarine outlets, offering franchisees a money-back guarantee if their stores weren't profitable after a year.Levinson’s brother, Bernard, also became a major shareholder.Eight of Mr.Submarine’s 300 outlets are company-owned; the re mainder are franchised.Management charges a franchise fee of $15,000 an outlet, and stores average an annual turnover of $320,000.To keep pace with increasing competiton, the company has increased its lineup of sandwiches to 18 varieties from six and has added salads and desserts to its menu.But otherwise they’ve resisted change, Levinson said."We’re sticking with what has seen us through for more than two decades.Our motto here is keep it simple, stupid — and it works.” Texaco spokesman says late bidder simply out of running CALGARY (CP) — An obscure Toronto company that says it wants to block Imperial Oil’s $5-billion takeover of Texaco Canada and make a bid itself for Canada’s fourth largest oil company cannot turn back the clock, says a Texaco spokesman.Anita Larsen said Imperial Oil Ltd.notes worth $3.24 billion US were sent to Texaco Inc.two weeks ago for its 78-per-cent interest in Toronto-based Texaco Canada.“Everything has been exchanged and the money is in the bank,” Larsen said Tuesday in a telephone interview from White Plains, N.Y, She acknowledged the takeover is still being examined by Canada’s Bureau of Competition Policy and a further review by the Competition Tribunal is likely.But she said that process could only result in Imperial being forced to sell off some of its Texaco assets.John Hargrave, president of Barron Hunter Hargrave Strategic Resources Ltd., a penny-stock company that trades on the speculative Alberta Stock Exchange, said Monday his firm has backers who will finance an offer for Texaco Canada if the Imperial takeover is blocked.WON’T REVEAL Hargrave would not reveal the name of his backers, saying only that one was a “big bank” and the other a “big brokerage.” He denied suggestions the company’s recent statements about making a bid for Texaco Canada were designed to drive up the price of Strategic Resources shares — which have jumped since late last week to seven cents from four cents in active trading.Financial statements for the fiscal year which ended Jan.31,1988, put the assets of Strategic Resources at $17 million, including Canadian Pacific Ltd.profits increase 22 per cent in 1988 TORONTO (CP) — Forest products and real estate provided almost all the fuel for the 22 percent increase in profits at Cana dian Pacific Ltd.in 1988.The Montreal-based conglomer ate said its profit rose to$774.5 mil lion, up by $137.8 million Forest products brought in $259.6 million, up almost 53 per cent from 1987.Profit from real estate and hotels more than doubled to $102.3 million.Extraordinary income added a further $45.6 million to profit in 1988.That income came primarily from the sale of 18 bulk ships, partly offset by a loss on the sale of Algoma Steel Corp.and writedown and restructuring charges in CP Telecommunications.The hefty increase in profit was achieved despite a slight decline in total revenue — $12.02 billion for 1988, down from $12.21 billion the previous year.Transportation and waste services brought an overall eight-per-cent increase in profit, to $246.8 million, despite a six-per-cent slip CLEARLY i WHEN BUYING A FULL TANK OF GAS WE WILL FILL UP YOUR WINDSHIELD WASHER RESERVOIR DESAULNIERS PONTIAC — BUICK — CMC 131 Principale St.Windsor 845-2711 GUARANTEED SERVICE GM PARTS GUARANTEED PRICE GUARANTEED CLOSING OUT SALE commencing March 0 CHRISTIAN READER BOOKSTORE INC.147 A Queen Street Lennoxville 30% DISCOUNT ON ALL MERCHANDISE Any outstanding gift certificates must be redeemed by April 1,1989 Open Monday through Saturday $15 million committed to research and development.Almost all of the company's $12.5 million in liabilities is unpaid taxes.Bob Demcoe, a spokesman for the Alberta Securities Commission, said the provincial agency is probing Strategic Resources’ claim that it is a Texaco Canada suitor.He said if the claim appears false, the commission will press for a public hearing that could result in the company being delisted by the Alberta Stock Exchange.Listings director Gerry Roman-zin said the stock exchange has started its own investigation.in Canadian Pacific’s biggest operation, CP Rail, to $181.2 million.Rail traffic declined last year from record levels in 1987 while operating expenses increased, the company said.Drought in the Prairies cut grain traffic and lumber traffic declined because of a slip in housing starts across North America Welsh farming expert part of QFA Beef Day SHERBROOKE - Warren Grapes informs the public that a Welsh agricultural expert will be making a presentation at the Lennoxville Research Station this coming Saturday as a special guest of the Quebec Farmers Association on their annual Beef Day.Wales, a land known for good singers, tough rugby players, hardy coal miners —- and thinly soiled hillsides! Learning how the Welsh farmers produce top quality sheep and beef from excellent pastures on marginal land may well have benefits for Townships farmers.An opportunity to hear first hand how it’s done in Wales will be available when David James, Welsh agricultural specialist, makes a slide presentation and answers questions at the QFA Beef Day on Saturday.March 18, 10 a m.to 3 p.m.at the Agriculture Canada Research Station in Lennoxville.The presentation is entitled ’Pasture Reclamation' and will give all the details of a 10-year project that has led to the establishment of excellent pasture on the Welsh hillsides, ideas and information that will be of interest to all livestock producers.Also of interest to Townships farmers will be a presentation and discussion by Chet Parson of the University of Vermont on intensive rotational grazing.This will be a very practical talk on pasture management and Chet will be accompanied by a producer who is currently using this system that allows him to feed more cattle per acre of land than conventional grazing systems.All farmers are welcome to attend and the $10 registration fee includes lunch.For more information please contact Warren Grapes, (819 ) 889-2598.P.E.I.’tato commision is french-fried by court CHARLOTTETOWN (CP)— The P.E.I.Supreme Court has thrown out results of a plebiscite held in December into the future of the provincial potato marketing com mission.Mr.Justice Charles McQuaid, in ruling the plebiscite null and void Wednesday, said the P.E.I.Potato Marketing Council had no jurisdiction to hold the vote.McQuaid ordered the ballots destroyed.The council had asked producers across the province to vote on whether to keep the commission, or replace it with a new board made up of members elected by the producers.The commission, which is Business brief OTTAWA (CP) — CN Rail may abandon a Quebec rail line which has been out of service since 1975 but it must continue operating two other lines, the National Transportation Agency said on Wednesday The agency said it received no evidence the line between Sorel and Nicolet would be used in the future and may be abandoned next month.However, tracks between Sorel and Tracy and Nicolet and St-Gregoire could become viable and must be maintained appointed by the provincial gov ernment, regulates the industry and sets prices.The council, an organization made up of producers, has no reg ulatory powers.The National Farmers Union challenged the plebiscite, saying the questions were inappropriately worded and biased in favor of the plan fora producer elected board.It also challenged the council’s authority to hold the vote Soon after the plebiscite was held, the farmers' union won a court injunction to stop the release of the results.The council has 50 days in which to appeal the decision.// THE ASSOCIATES" Professional Services for Individuals & Businesses We Settle Estates Estate and Income Tax Planning Full Range of Consulting, Tax & Accounting Services 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Original microfilmed at varying intensities because the text is printed on greyish or colour background, 6—The RECORD—Thursday, March 16, 1989 Living ‘Canadians are so protected’ Record Champlain students learn the difference: Who’s a ‘Have’ and who’s not V ( hamplain C 'allege students gathered round the bean pot Tuesday to get a taste of life in undeveloped countries.By Ann McLaughlin LENNOXV1LLE - As part of Hunger Awareness Week on Bishop’s campus, a few dozen Champlain College students and professors tried out what it’s like to be in a "have and a have not” situation.Participants in an experimental workshop were divided into two groups.Names were picked and some became the Haves and others the Have Nots.This meant that five students would get to eat a western-world style lunch, served at a dining table, while others were relegated to sit on the floor, for a meal of beans and rice — served the North American way on cardboard plates with disposable plastic utensils and paper napkins.AWARENESS “The purpose of this workshop is to make students aware of the problems of world hunger, to make them experience the discrepancy between the haves and the have nots,” said Jan Draper, coordinator of the event and an academic advisor at Champlain who has visited Third World countries."People here are eating rice and This column must be read before lunchtime If you don’t pick up your copy of the Accord until afternoon, you can skip this paragraph because you have already missed the Soup and Dessert Luncheon at All Saints Anglican Church in Dunham.If on I he other hand you are a morning paper buyer, you will be interested to know that the aboveevent starts at noon today and will be followed by an afternoon of cards if that’s the kind of deal you’re looking for Whatever you decide on, the lun cheon, the cards or both, it costs $5.00 for a place at the table.For anyone not acquainted with Dunham geography, All Saints is on the East side of Main Street, up on a hill.The church hall is in the basement.If you want to celebrate the feast of St.Patrick, this is a good way of doing it in a restrained way considering the Lenten season and all All things considered, remember where Dunham is as you read on.That is where most activities being mentioned here today are being held.The next event takes place down the road a bit from the Anglican church.This is the reservations-only Ham and Bean supper on Saturday night at the United Church, the other stone church in town.There are still a few tickets left, and I have heard that some people Down the Pike By Ashley Sheltus may be waiting to see what the weather will be that day.Come now This is Quebec in its almost-spring configuration.The weather can be fine when you start out, but if you’re coming from the suburbs of Mystic, by the time you arrive in Dunham, it can be better, worse, far worse or perfect What’s happening outside can change between the main course and dessert.With only a few tickets left, you might as well take a chance and sign up for one now.Risk-taking like that is what made Canada great.In order to nail down a pair of tickets, call 295-2348, 295-2355 or 295-3251.Those numbers put you in touch with Barbara Harvey, Shir ley Vaughn or Joyce Martin.If tone of them doesn’t have a ticket left, she’ll tell you who does.As a special bargain, the price has not changed.$7.00 still gets one adult into the hall and $3.50 admits one additional human being of the under-ten variety.The time is 6:00 p.m., Saturday, March 18.| CANADIAN MONEY AT PAR 2 GREAT STORES OFFERING Needlemans is Newport's oldest Family known clothing store since 1925.60 Main St.Newport, Vt.(802) 334-8000 Featuring All Famous Name Brand Merchandise NATURALIZER SHOES AND MUCH MORE 62 Main Si Featuring: 270 Jean-Talon Cowansville 263-1217 Liliane J.Dion .4 4 4 4 Official Opening March 14th More than 15 Years of Experience Special Opening Price on Permanents Thank you to all the clients of Salon Lido for your wonderful generosity and support.It has been a great pleasure serving you.• All of you who are going will be only looking for a good meal at a reasonable price and a chance to meet friends.The event is being run by the Dunham United Church Fund Raising Committee, so apart from having a good time, you can do some good at the same time.That’s it for immediate events.Howeveryou might keep the 31st of March and April 1st open That’s when there will be a huge Rum mage.Sale- yes, Dunham again — which is being run to benefit the Quebec Women's Institutes and the Associated Country Women of the World.Un Friday the 31st, the doors open at 9:30 a m.and you can rummage contentedly untill 8:30 that evening.On Saturday it's the same starting time, but it ends at 4:30.Light refreshments are available to sustain your labors.It still isn’t too late to donate clothes, toys, books, linen, china or a spare etc.You probably ran across a lot of potential rummage Monday morning as you searched for a flashlight.Get rid of it now.Quebec’s birthrate is a mere 14 — among humans.It can be shown that rummage in the privacy of its own attic or cellar, can triple in volume in a single season under normal circumstances, and in periods of high solar activity such as flares or sun-spots, the reproduction rate simply runs amok.You don’t believe me?Hey, if Quebec Hydro can get zapped by solar flares right out where everybody can watch (with the help of a flashlight), think what may be happening in your attic right now! The people to call for information or rummage disposal are Thelma Doherty, 295-2689; Pearle Yates, 295-2346 or Jane Grieg, 248-2393.I have in the past urged people to write letters of praise or protest on various matters.Would anyone be interested in informing Quebec Hydro that while long power outages (especially in cold weather) may well be the best cure for our low birthrate, they only have to pull the plug between the hours of 8:00 p.m.and midnight?Everything else is waste.The shift workers they are trying to influence probably can’t even get home.Attention all writers! The nice people at WARM, or those nice warm people, want to help you get published or find an agent who can help you get published.As a matter of fact, an article in the New York Times Magazine claims that literary agents are now a more dominant force in publishing than editors — unless your name is Charles Bury, of course.On Monday, March 20th, there will be a special evening entitled: Getting Your Book to Market and Dealing with Publishers and Agents.The seminar is actually run by the Canadian Authors Association, which naturally has many warm members.The guest speaker is Helen Hel 1er.She has worked for Harlequin, Penguin and Avon Books, and was editor-in-chief at Fitzhenry & Whiteside.Now she had her own agency and represents several well known authors including Northrop Frye and Richard Clér-oux.To succinctify that, as we grammar-freaks often say, she knows what she is doing.It happens in Montreal this coming Monday, 7:30p.m.at the Faculty Club.Concordia University, the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, on the 7th floor.The price of admission for nonmembers of the C.A.A.is $3.00.and no, your Automobile Association card will not get you in free, but you can get there via the Eastern Townships author-route.If you have a book in a dusty drawer, or one steaming in your typewriter or word processor, this is the place to be Monday night.If you are only thinking of writing a book — or anything else, you may be more interested in the next WARM event on May 13th.More on that later.Sa\c the Children-Canada Aide à l'enfance-Canada LENNOXVILLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL 5 CHURCH STREET 563-6228 There is still a few places left for September '89, for 3 to 5 year olds.School has trained educators, a rich environment for growing children.Children are allowed to develop at their own pace at the same time as they learn from the environment and each other.Mornings in English / Afternoons in French For information call ANN TIPPET lentils but many people in the world don’t even get this.It would actually be more realistic if there were stones in the food," Draper said The bean and rice dish Dahl’ is a common staple in the Third World, Draper said, and many people in North America have no idea what fan Draper.‘Too much money is wasted.' it is like to live in such poor conditions.“Canadians are so protected, we have so much, and many people don’t realize it.It’s sad," she added.“You walk into Provigo and see all the food on the shelves.Much of it is unnecessary, it’s not even nutritious.Too much money is wasted on producing junk foods in our world," Draper said.Hunger Awareness Week continues Thursday with a symposium between 10 a.m.and 4 p.m.in the student pub.Guest speakers will include Champlain College campus director Gerald Cutting, prof.Fakhari Siddiqui of Bishop’s, who will speak on Third World debt; and Paul Carrick of Champlain St-Lambert, who will speak on the role of Canadian agencies in Third World development; H.F.Fletcher of C1DA, who will talk on the India experience; Jim Dyer of Agriculture Canada will speak on food aid programs; and JafferNurmoham-med of CUSO will talk about CUSO in International development.Bishop's and Champlain students as well as the public are welcome to attend.Hot bed partner should install air conditioning Ann Landers Dear Ann Landers: I have a new one for you.No one has ever written about this problem since I’ve been reading your column.My husband complains that 1 am “too hot” in bed.You may laugh and wonder why a husband would complain about that.Most men would love to have the “problem,” but it’s not what you think, Ann.It’s my body temperature.My husband says I am like a small furnace.and if he sleeps too close to me he becomes overheated and uncomfortable.I don’t wear any night clothes.(He sleeps in a T-shirt.) Our room is freezing.I try to throw an arm or leg out of the covers so some body heat escapes.We both enjoy covers and can’t sleep without them so don’t suggest that we remove them.The real problem is that I love to cuddle and be close to my wonderful husband.In the summertime, 1 even slept outdoors in a tent so that we could be together.He said I was still too hot and that my body heat kept him from getting a good night’s sleep.I know my husband loves me, but I can't help but feel rejected when he refuses to hold me at night.I need some outside help and am turning to you.Please sign me —Too Hot in Wyoming Dear Wyoming: Have you tried air conditioning your bedroom year round?If not, I recommend it.If that doesn't work I suggest that you invest in a body pillow.It is a 6-foot-by-20-inch tube filled with down.It won’t complain about your body heat.And it doesn’t snore.Dear Ann Landers: With so many tragedies in the news these days I thought you might want to know about something heartwarming and wonderful that was reported in the Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent.The story was by Michael King Here it is: A Fox River Valley woman was shocked when she opened an envelope to find a check for $3.000 and a letter from a Pennsylvania man who stole her wallet containing $95.The letter said, “On a summer evening 20 years ago, I stole your wallet, I promised God that I would make restitution, and, according to the Bible, anything stolen should be returned fourfold.1 am sorry for any inconvenience I caused you and your family.” The man took that amount and adjusted it, allowing for 20 years inflation.The woman recalled that her wallet had been stolen a few days before she and her husband were going off for a vacation.“He had to go to the credit union and take out a loan,” she said.“At that time, $95 was a lot of money.” Since that time the woman learned that the man who sent the check is suffering from a muscle disease and is confined to a wheelchair.She seriously considered sending the check back to him, but friends persuaded her that it would not be the right thing to do because he needed to be forgiven and this was his way of doing it.Touched by the gesture, the woman wrote a long letter saying, “Everyone makes mistakes at some time in their lives and we all need to be forgiven.” I hope you can print this.—Daily Reader Dear Daily: Thanks for the heartwarming article.There are several things to be learnd from it, not the least of which is, it’s never too late to right a wrong, and everyone feels so much better when we forgive.Social notes Best wishes Mrs.Evelyn Jones has returned to her home in Georgeville after being a patient in La Providence Hospital.Magog, for a few days.Your many friends extend best wishes for a fast and complete recovery, Evelyn! * * * Mrs Barbara Quilliams of Magog had an unfortunate accident while cross country skiing and suffered a fractured wrist.Best wishes go to you.Barbara, for a fast recovery.* * ?Best wishes go to Carol Bernier of Magog who had a bad fall and injured her knee.All the best, Carol, for a quick recovery.* *1 * Friends of Barbara Kerr of Magog are happy to hear that she is "on the mend” after suffering a broken wrist.Wishes for a continued recovery are extended to you, Barb! 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