The Sherbrooke record, 12 octobre 1978, jeudi 12 octobre 1978

CEY POWERS DODGERS WIN COS ANGELES i AP) — Hon Ce y slammed a three-run homer and drove in another run as Los Angeles Dodgers edged New York Yankees 4-3 on Wednesday to take a 2-0 lead in baseball s 75th World Senes The best-of-seven series now moves to New \ ork.w here Don Sutton w ill pitch for Los Angeles against New X ork ace Ron Guidry in the third game on Friday night The Los Angeles come-from-behind victory was preserved by rookie pitcher Bob Welch, who replaced reliever Terry Forster in the ninth inning w ith one out and runners on first and second W elch got Thurman Munson on a soft liner to right field for the second out and then ended the game by getting Reggie Jackson, who had driven in all three X ankee runs, to strike out on a 3-2 pitch Cey drove in the first Los Angeles run with a fourth-inning single and then turned the game around in his next at bat in the sixth He powered a Catfish Hunter pitch into the leftcentrefield seats with two men on base Cey’s three run homer in the sixth put the Dodgers ahead 4-2.but the Yankees came back in the seventh inning Roy White's second hit of the game pushed Los Angeles starter Burt Hooton out of the game and Forster was brought in from the bullpen THE WEATHER Today cloudy with a few showers and moderate winds.Risk of a thundershower this afternoon.Variable cloudiness overnight.Friday cloudy with rain.High today near 18.Low tonight 8 to 11.High Friday, near 15.Record Highlights CHURCH BLAZE The QPF arson squad is investigating a fire which damaged St.George’s Church in Granby.Page 3.AGRHS AWARDS Xlexander Galt High School held its annual awards night recently.Story on page 5.ON SPORTS There are still some kinks to be ironed out by Canadian Grand Prix organizers.Terry Scott’s column appears on page 14 of today’s Record.BIRTHS, DEATHS 12 FAMILY 6 CLASSIFIED 10 FINANCIAL 2 COMIC'S 11 SPORTS .13 EDITORIAL 4 TV 8 A disappointed homeowner bought a two-story house.The real estate man gave him one story before he bought it and another one after.THE SHERBROOKE RECORD The \ oice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 GUARANTEED INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES The SAFE way to obtain MAXIMUM INTERESTon your money Call us tor current rates Crown Trust C entral Building 31 King St West.Sherbrooke — 5é8 9446 Other offices across C anada Till RSI>AY.OCTOBER 12.1978 IS CENTS 31 evicted by Gables closure By TERRY SCOTT COWANSVILLE - 31 elderly residents of the Pine Gables Nursing Home have been forced to find new accommodations immediately after the ministry of social affairs advised them of its closure yesterday.*‘We were requested by the owners of Pine Gables last weekend to interv ene on their behalf because the nursing home was on the verge of bankruptcy,” an attache to social affairs minister Denis Lazure told The Record in a telephone interview The nursing home, located .as tears betray sorrow By TERRY SCOT l COWANSVILLE — In the midst of the chaos at the Pine Gables nursing home yesterday, the kitchen staff were bustling feverishly to prepare a mid-day meal.For the residents still awaiting word on their next home, it was to bear all the significance of the Last Supper and most of the faces reflected the trauma While some sat around reminiscing about warm friendships that would soon be cooler than last week’s ashes, others paced the familiar corridors and fought back the tears.“A lot of the people here were born and raised in the Townships,” said one woman, and for some of them the closing means they’ll have to relocate in an area unfamiliar to them.” In a room not far from the kitchen table, directrice Monique Tremblay, who had given so much to the nursing home, restrained her frustrations and continued the last-minute placement of her loved ones.For the umpteenth time, the calm, deliberate voice of social affairs ministry representative Andre Beaudoin patiently explained to a family member that his department was only an innocent bystander to the closure and he had ar- See HOME, page 3 at 455 Beil Street, cares for both ambulatory and semi invalid patients The closure came one day after 20 residents, most of them invalids, were ousted from Residence sous les arbres’ in Chateauguay, a nursing home owned by the same company which is headed by Jean Gagnon, a Montreal lawyer, and Charles E Campeau, a Montreal architect Neither could be reached for comment yesterday, but the Social Affairs spokes man confirmed that the poor financial state of the homes is the reason for the deci- sion “Their current bank threatened to petition them into bankruptcy and then they went to an American bank Iboking for funds and were refused That’s when they realized it was time to close.” According to records at city hall in Cowansville, the group has owned Pine Gables since 1976 Many of the nursing home staff are still owed several weeks’ back pay as the result of the company’s financial position “Some of them simply See EVICTED, page 3.Svi.tost * *f$V -4: * A .r - i 'jvv 7: *-r* * ! w ¦ 'bàtèkA vtêààïttÀ?- Morning mist A fall-morning mist traces the dips and valleys in a Town- covered field in the foreground of this classic dawn shot hv ships ridge as nary a breath of a breeze ripples the frost- Bruce Porter.Do-nothing Throne speech rapped "Those days, nothing's certain but death and tax cut promises." OTTAWA (CP)-The government throne speech Wednesday offered a platter ?i of economic and con-^ stitutional reform the op* • position said was lukewarm ?at best Only moments after Gov -Gen.Jules Leger and his ; wife Gaby finished reading | the throne speech opening the fourth and final session of the 30th Parliament, opposition leaders denounced the government for failing to deal with Canada’s financial woes The measures the government promised to use to ease economic problems had all been announced by ministers earlier this year and were criticized by the opposition as insufficient.The government also recommitted itself to carry out constitutional reform begun in June by revising its proposals.But it did not indicate the extent of the changes The throne speech, read amid traditional pomp and ceremony to MPs and senators in the redcarpeted Senate chamber, pledged to “strengthen Canada through unity, to unify Canada PQ 6seeking mandate9 QUEBEC (CP) - Premier Rene Levesque told the Quebec national assembly Wednesday that his government will seek a mandate in the promised referendum to negotiate sovereignty-association with the rest of Canada The clarification that the referendum would only give Quebec the go-ahead to negotiate, rather than a clear mandate for sovereignty association, came one day after Levesque laid out the basics of his party’s option He added that even though opposition to the PQ program from the federal government and the other provinces has been constant, he is confident the rest of Canada will eventually be ready to negotiate If Quebec makes a demo^ cratic decision, he said.English Canada will have no choice but to negotiate The premier’s statement sparked Liberal house leader Gerard Levesque to ask whether a second referendum dealing with the actual declaration of independence would follow Levesque refused to be pinned down on this possibility, saying “that doesn’t seem to he one of the questions we have to answer at this point.” Opinion polls have indicated that support for sovereignty-associât ion among Quebec voters does not exceed 30 per cent, while most voters would favor negotiation of a new deal within Confederation Levesque’s approach appears to be an attempt to go dow n the middle, trying to retain the support of Quebecers who favor independence, while also at tracting those who want to negotiate constitutional change.He told the assembly Tuesday that Quebec would seek a common currency under the new constitutional deal and there would he a joint central bank There would he no Quebec passport and no Quebec eus toms duties on goods shipped within the associated states of Canada and Quebec, allowing the existing flow of goods and people to continue RYAN: 'COLOSSAL DUPLICITY' MONTREAL (CP) — Premier Rene Levesque’s statement that the Parti Québécois government would negotiate political sovereignty and economic association for Quebec concurrently is “colossal duplicity,” Quebec Liberal leader Claude Ryan said Wednesday Ryan made the comments during a news conference called to announce the official launching of the Quebec Liberal party’s 1978 fund-raising campaign, which aims to collect $1.25 million by Nov.17 Ryan said Quebec has only two choices- to stay in Con federation or leave it.“If Quebec decides to stay in the Canadian federation, all discussion on the program of economic association as conceived by the PQ becomes redundant and super fluous,” he said He added that the current federal system already offers an economic union “far more solid and efficient than that dreamed on paper by the PQ.” If Quebec decides to leave Confederation, Ryan said, it must he willing to negotiate economic association on a new basis, without any guarantee it will he accepted by the other provinces through economic strength ” “Seldom in the past have the seriousness of the challenge, the strength of our national will and the scope of our opportunities combined to create for ( anada a moment in history so full of potential for good,” slid the speech, written Photo Agnes dpl.ail > r;W pSm Dropping in A trio of parachutists advertising a skydiving course at Bishop’s University took the opportunity at noon yesterday to drop into the campus - from 7,000 feet up.Nelson Wyatt has more in Campus Chatter on Page 3.under the direction of Prime Minister Trudeau Progressive Conservative Leader Joe ( lark and Ed Broadhent, New Démocrate Parly leader, were less enthusiastic about Canada's potential after hearing the government’s intentions “What disappoints me is there is no indication of anything new.certainly nothing to merit an eight month delay before a general election,” Clark told reporters.Broadhent said the speech should have promised economic stimulation, in eluding tax cuts and promotion of house con stmet ion Neither expected the speech to have significant impact on 15 federal byelections Monday.Clark and his party’s constitutional critic, Flora MacDonald (Kingston and The Islands) said they were pleased the government appears willing to revise the* constitution in one stage rather than in two steps The throne speech said Trudeau is willing to discuss federal provincial power sharing later this month when he meets the premiers to evaluate federal constitutional proposals tabled See THRONE, page 12.OTTAWA PLOTS MAIL STRATEGY OTTAWA (CP) — A special cabinet committee met Wednesday to plot the government’s next move in its hitter contract dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which has threatened a strike Monday Bill Kelly, the federal labor department’s top mediator and a key figure in the post office’s recent settlement with the Letter Carriers Union of Canada, was among those attending the government's strategy meeting.Postmaster-General Gilles Lamontagne was noncommittal as he entered the meeting “We are discussing the whole situation ” It is expected that recommendations from the meeting will l>e presented to the full cabinet today Iximontagne indicated in the Commons Tuesday that the government will seek baek-to-work legislation if a settlement cannot be reached But first, the government will try for a resumption of negotiations The union, now conducting a national strike vote, asked for the appointment of a new mediator A strike was threatened for Monday if no progress was made Union anger flared Wednesday with the appearance of newspaper advertisements presenting the post office version of negotiations to date The advertisements, based on the union’s opening demands 18 months ago.claimed the cost of CUPW proposals would amount to $11 an hour The headline on the post office advertisements, that appeared in daily newspapers across the country, was “It’s your Money ” The advertisements, Lamontagne said Tuesday, cost ha If-a-cent for every taxpayer Valence trial hears ransom recordings MONTREAL (CP) - In spite of numerous objections from the defence on points of law.two cassette tape recordings that accompanied written com muniques from the alleged kidnappers of Charles vtarion were allowed into evidence Wednesday in the rial of Claude and Jeanne Valence The Valences are charged with conspiring to kidnap Marion, kidnapping, forcibly detention, attempted ex- tortion and extortion The recordings were played over courtroom loudspeakers and terminated with a voice repeating the name Charles Marion—a credit union employee- seven times The voice on the first tape said it was recorded Sept 16.1977.at an unknown place The second tape allegedly was recorded Sept 21.46 days after Marion's disappearance Alleged communiques already in evidence have indicated lengthy negotiations between the kidnappers and credit union officials over ransom and exchange procedures In the first tape a voice says: ‘I had great hopes— now 1 am disappointed I don't know exactly what I can hoi 1 on to ” \SK AUTHORITIES The voice asked authorities to give the kidnappers' the time they requested -1to three hours from the time the $500,000 ransom was to he dropped off to the time Marion would he released “I have a great deal of confidence in my kidnappers.” the voice said “They assure me that they’ll keep me alive if you act as they have requested ” “Do what they tell you and my Calvary will come to an end .” The second tape began “My dear friends, to you my dear wife, my children.Pierre, my Roseline.I love you so much—I want to see you again “I am certain 1 won't he the only one killed in the province if plans aren't carried out as they should he.” the recording continues “ I’m sure I’m on the verge of having a nervous breakdown I am at the end My morale is at ground level This must end quickly.” EXCHANGE FOR RANSOM The recordings were en tered as evidence as provincial police technical expert (’pi Yvon Deshiens read through the communiques that had been given to him to authenticate during Marion’s disappearence for 82 days from Aug 6 to Oct 27 last year When the hearing was ad journed Wednesday.18 of the messages from the presumed kidnappers and numerous accompanying letters and photographs had been placed before the jury The last communique discussed.dated Sept 7.was addressed to Sherbrooke television reporter Normand Maltais and Montreal radio reporter Claude Poirier It described an attempted ransom exchange and claimed police “organized the biggest frame up imaginable.” “You (Maltais and Poirier) kept vour word,” the message said, but the “so-called (police) force de frappe from Montreal was called in and was right on your heels with their lights out.” It added Maltais and Poirier could have been cut down in a cross fire if the kidnappers had decided to shoot “hut we kept our word, we told you nothing would happen to you ” Earlier communiques threatening the lives of credit union employees, clients, their families and friends had been read to the seven woman five-man jury. I 2 - THE SHERBROOKE RECORD - THl'RS., OCT.12.I»7H business and finance MEMO Mexican airlines cancel flights MEXICO CITY (AP> — Mexico’s two major airlines Aeromexico and Mexicana—cancelled 80 per cent of their flights Tuesday so foreign airlines could operate normally on the sixth day of a strike by the country’s air traffic controllers.A government source said President Lopez Portillo met with two cabinet ministers to discuss ways to end the strike, which has paralysed airline service and disrupted Mexico’s tourism industry Only 10 of 36 airports were open The government banned take offs and landings between 9 p m.and 9 a m The walkout, similar to one staged last month, was called to protest the government’s attempt to make the 900 commercial controllers join a new organization and sign individual contracts that would reduce salaries and fringe benefits.Only 65 qualified controllers were manning the country’s airport control towers Tuesday Hydro bills unpaid QUEBEC (CP) — Hydro-Quebec the provincially-owned electrical utility, lost $16.2 million in the last eight years because of unpaid bills, the national assembly has been told In a written reply to Fabien Hoy