The Sherbrooke record, 6 août 1979, lundi 6 août 1979

Sunny A high prrssurt* area forming in (he »esl of the prownce will bring generally *unn> and cool Heather today and tomorro*.aith some cloudy periods.Temperatures vs ill be somewhat below normal today v%ith a maximum between 23 and 26 and a minimum tonight between 12 and 15.The temperature tomorrow will be closer to normal vs ith the high expected to be betueen 25 and 28.THE SHERBROOKE RECORD The Voice of the Eastern Townships since lttc>7 SAf l CUSTODY OF SECURITIES We offer a COMPLETE custodial service for ALL your investments For further information call t entrai Building II King M West sherbrooke « Mher offices across I anada MOND.W U GUST 6.1979 15 CfNTS t‘r Ni YSTERIOUS DISEASE KILLS TWO Hospital, where six victims are being treated, said doctors at the hospital have agreed to treat the patients as if they had the disease although it was not confirmed.Ferguson said Oran Kerr, 27, of Toronto died Saturday, 45 minutes after arriving at the hospital complaining of chest pains and difficulty breathing A post mortem revealed he died of acute viral pneumonia Last Monday, Stephen Lowe, 68, died of pneumonia at the hospital.All of the victims of thfc disease are from North York, a city in Metropolitan Toronto, and have been admitted to hospital in the last 10 days Ferguson said Sunday there is no common denominator between the victims “They don’t work in the same place and they didn’t attend a common social event These people don’t know each other ” He said the ministry of health con ducted tests earlier last week but results will not be available for 10 days.He said three of the patients at Humber See DISEASE, Page 2 Teams from Sherbrooke-Lennox-ville and Sherbrooke-Fleurimont advanced to the final of the Quebec Little League Baseball Championships .Page 3.Little house An orderly’s refusal to carry a stretcher, which triggered a full scale walkout at a Montreal hospital recently, would have been unthinkable with the orderlies that Katharine Snow knew in her nursing days.Page 10.BIRTHS, DEATHS 2 CLASSIFIED .8 COMICS .9 EDITORIAL.4 FAMILY .6 SPORTS .10 There’s a new toy out called a doctor dolL You wind it up and it operates on batteries.Shipwrecked Photo James Duff A brief but violent squall which swept the southern Townships yesterday evening caught this sailing family unaware and left their 24-foot Shark stranded high and dry in two feet of water.According to the skipper, the thunder-squall which swept down from the head of Sargent’s Bay was so violent all he could do was lower his sails and let the boat blow onto shore.Fortunately for the shipwrecked family and their guests, they missed the cliffs on the western side of Lake Memphremagog and blew onto a gravel beach.But it left sleeping hags, clothing and personal effects soaked and clammy, and the first thing the stranded sailors did was build a fire on the beach and hang their things out to drip.The group turned their attention to refloating their Shark for the trip hack to Magog, but it took the efforts of six stalwarts and another boat to drag the auxiliary into the three feet of water it needed to float once more.PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two days of protest, involving millions of union members and activists, are being organized in the United States to kick off a campaign against the political influence of “big oil.” On Aug 22, 1.5 million members of the United Auto Workers will “put down their tools and pick up their pens for the minutes necessary to write President Carter and the Congress on energy,” UAW President Douglas Fraser said Sunday The UAW protest will be the first U S -wide work stoppage aimed at urging action on a political issue, said Fraser And on Oct 17, a huge coalition of labor unions and citizen groups will hold local Big Oil Day events to rally public support for a drive to lower oil prices and creation of a public energy corporation to explore and drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands These protests signal an ambitious new strategy by leaders of labor and citizen groups who say they feel frustrated with attempts to “outlobby” the oil industry on Capitol Hill.of steamrolling PQ Beauce-sud byelection SKoe “Just until the public service starts hiring again.” Ex-coroner nominated ST GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE.Que (CP) — Quebec Liberals have begun fanning the political fires in the bucolic Beauce region of Quebec, even though a date for the Beauce-Sud byelection hasn’t been set yet.Nearly 5,000 Liberals, the largest gathering of Grits in the riding in recent memory, turned out Sunday to select Hermann Mathieu, a former coroner for the region south of Quebec City, as their candidate for the byelection Premier Rene Levesque’s troops have rented the same local school hall which overflowed with Liberals Sunday for their own meeting tonight Raymond Boisvert, a local businessman, has no opponent for the PQ nomination, but the nominating convention is being held anyway to acclaim him as can didate The meeting should give Levesque and other party notables a chance to get in their licks at the Liberals.Beaucerons have a reputation for voting for the individual rather than the party, but the byelection, which Levesque has promised will be held before the end of September, is shaping up as a baitle between party big guns Liberal Leader Claude Ryan criticized the PQ government Sunday, describing it as “a gang of jokers and impostors’’ whom the Liberals would roll over “like a steamroller.” DESTINED FOR DEFEAT “I can’t see how this government can remain in power.” he said.“They are destined for opposition, and sooner than they think ” Mathieu, 43, beat out local industrialist Robert Dutil, 29, taking 2,775 Krrurd photo Mayor Jacques O’Breaih The city’s transit system shouldn’t just he a taxi service for a few Local bus runs change Bv NELSON WY ATT SHERBROOKE Riding on a bus may get a little challenging in the next little while as area residents get used to the new Transport Commission schedules The decision to revamp the schedule was taken by Sherbrooke City Council last month and approved by the Quebec Ministry of Transport Transport Committee Chairman Jean Guy Archambault told The Record that the reason for the switchover was to provice total service to the city, thereby providing bus routes to areas not previously covered, and to improve the regularity of the bus arrival times The bus service revamp will entail the complete changeover of all bus numbers and a difference in some routes No buses will run on Sundays or holidays, because of a limited demand for service on those days, said Archambault Bus number One (former 10), which will run in the Laurentien and Des Jonquilles area, in the North, will operate between 6:40 a m and 5:40 p m during the morning and afternoon and 6:10 p m.and 9:10 pm in the evening This changes on Thursday and Friday nights with the run extended to 9:40 p m.It will stop at the intersections of King Wellington, Prospect London; Prospect Bouchette, Farwell Portland; Prospect-Victoria; Frontenac Dufferin and King and Wellington See BUS, Page 3 » TORONTO (CP) — Eleven persons are in hospital and two others are dead following an outbreak of a disease medical officials say could be legion naires’ disease, the mysterious illness that killed 29 persons who attended an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976 Robert Ferguson, administrative director for Humber Memorial UA Wplans protest against4big oil 9 CLAUDE RYAN.Grits will steamroll PQ ST GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE, Que (CP) — Claude Ryan predicted con fidently Sunday night that his Liberal party is about to run over the Parti Québécois government of Rene Levesque like a steamroller He described the PQ as “a gang of jokers and impostors’’ who don’t mean what they say about sovereignty-association What they really want is independence for Quebec Speaking at a nomination meeting in Beauce-Sud riding, where a byelection is expected this fall, Ryan said it is mathematically impossible that the PQ will win its referendum next spring Hermann Mathieu, 43, beat Robert Dutil.29.for the nomination, taking 2,775 votes compared with Dutil’s 1,970 in one of the best-attended nomination meetings in recent Quebec history PQ candidate Robert Boisvert, 37, who has been acclaimed, will be presented at a meeting tonight in the same high school where the Liberals met Sunday Premier Rene Levesque is to speak at that meeting Ryan described Mathieu as a populist and noted that in his campaign literature he called himself “the people s candidate, the candidate of the little guy ” The Liberal leader said that after April byelection wins by his party in Jean Talon and Argenteuil ridings.Levesque said the PQ lost because it had not sufficiently explained sover eignty-association PQ hopeful Boisvert has said he will campaign on issues other than sovereignty association, a concept he admits he has more to learn about Ryan said that instead of “collec tivizing and socializing’’ as the PQ is doing, a Liberal government would ’’rekindle economic activity in Quebec ” The Liberal leader announced that his party’s constitutional position paper on renewed federalism is complete and will be made public in the fall Liberal party members, and officials of other provinces and levels of government, will be given a chance to discuss and dehate it before a policy convention next February at which the party will iron out its official stance going into the referendum campaign Inside Sports Ryan:Gritson verge Zimbabwe Rhodesia plan meets radical opposition LUSAKA, Zambia \Y, AUGUST 3rd, 197