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The wind is strong. At the Grand Trunk office the water came up to the desk at the innermost end. The works are, of course, stopped, only by last accounts communication is kept up. Several horses are known to have been drowned, and no doubt not a few cows have met like fate. The people are in a sad plight. Not only are they without means of communication, but many are without food or the means of obtaining it, for but few of the retailers in the affected districts are able to run. Even if it were still the waters recede, it would be impractical to reach it. At the station no trains arrived yesterday. The cars in the yard stand in the water. At Our Street an engine was caught by the rising flood, submerged and its course stopped. ""Bill AMATS!"" Boatmen who have established their businesses at several points are evidently determined to make all they can of their particular situation, and exorbitant prices from whoever seeks to use their means of transportation.
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S, vice-president Al Gore, who called it a fraud designed to mislead Canadians. Yesterday, however, Harper said the plan would succeed where the previous Liberal government failed after making Arctic melting picks up. The Arctic could be ice-free in summer within two decades, according to a new study showing polar ice has been disappearing almost three times faster than projected by most climate models. The shrinking summertime ice is about 30 years ahead of projections used by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which recently suggested the Arctic would not lose its ice before 2050, according to new U.S. findings published today in Geophysical Research Letters. When the summer ice goes, scientists say it will be an extraordinary change for the planet, which has had a polar ice cap for close to a million years. CANWEST NEWS SERVICE detainees being mistreated by the NDS; in some cases the treatment amounted to torture. Human Rights Watch urged NATO leaders to come up with a common policy that would ensure detainees were not abused. GLOBAL WARMING CONTROVERSY pie in the sky: Harper "pie-in-the-sky promises" but doing nothing to stop greenhouse gas emissions from rising by more than 35 per cent above the target it agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. "You have to balance environmental progress while preserving jobs," Harper told the Commons. "That's what the minister of the environment has done. He's taking the tough decisions that they (the Liberals) didn't have the guts to take." The Tory plan calls for air pollution to be cut in half by 2015, and for greenhouse gases to be cut to concentrations five per cent above 1990 levels in 2020—abandoning Canada's international obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Critics of the Conservative plan have zeroed in on its "intensity" targets for reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists reject intensity targets because they are linked to economic growth and can be achieved despite allowing overall emissions to rise. Baird has argued his plan sets a high enough intensity target to force a real reduction within five years. The three opposition parties said they plan to mobilize public opinion to force the Tories to accept the tougher plan they crafted during a lengthy review of the government's clean air and climate change legislation. The opposition proposed a "carbon budget" approach that would impose absolute reductions on industry, in line with Canada's Kyoto commitments. "Canadians are drawing their own conclusions," said Liberal environment critic David McGuinty. Meanwhile, New Democratic officials suggested they could use procedural tricks in the Commons to stall the government's agenda, and force it to accept the opposition plan. "We're not intended to be a critique," Williams, who is chairing the event, said in an interview yesterday. "It will all be with a view to coming out with our own plan, with our own suggestions, (but) I don’t mean that we’re going to come out with a competing or conflicting climate-change plan." Today's session had its genesis in Banff, Alta, about 18 months ago, when the council decided to collect information on provincial energy issues and come up with a national energy inventory. Working committees will present draft papers on such topics as climate change, energy transmission and efficiency. Renewable minister Greens' May sticks by 'appeasement' remark. OTTAWA Green leader Elizabeth May stands by her weekend comments calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stance on climate change "a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis." May added yesterday that acting on the environment is a "moral" issue. The longtime environmentalist said her Chamberlain-Nazi analogy originated with British author George Monbiot, who appeared with Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki in Toronto on the weekend. In what she called an "environmental sermon" to the Wesley Knox United Church near London, Ont., on Sunday, May said the government is threatening the genocide of mankind by failing to remedy global warming. May is an Anglican minister-in-training. A Conservative spokesman said May should retract and apologize for making the "extremist and undignified statement." OTTAWA CITIZEN energy and provincial roles in international energy activities. Following a caucus meeting in Montmagny, Premier Jean Charest said Quebec will develop its own green plan while continuing to defend the Kyoto Protocol. "In my eyes it's fundamental." For his part, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty intends to float two ideas: an inter-provincial emissions-trading system and a national electricity grid to move green hydroelectric power across the country. Provincial leaders should consider the idea of such a national power grid in much the same way as the trans-Canada railway that helped knit the country together, McGuinty said. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told reporters yesterday that Corrections Canada officials have visited some detention centres and had spoken to two inmates who made unsubstantiated allegations of torture. "The two correctional officers assured the minister that they had seen no evidence of torture," said Day's spokeswoman Melisa Leclerc. Last week, Day dismissed complaints of torture as coming from Taliban prisoners who were trained to make up stories of abuse. As the calls for his resignation entered a second week, O'Connor avoided another noisy question period altogether, but his spokeswoman denied rumours he is planning to step down. "It is not true," Isabelle Bouchard said in an email. "He will not resign." She explained O'Connor's absence from the House of Commons, saying he had "to take care of work that needs to be done" at National Defence headquarters and would return to the Commons today. A senior Conservative insider also said that Harper has no plans to fire O'Connor, who has been accused by the opposition of mismanaging the Afghan detainee transfer issue. The insider said O'Connor has the confidence of the prime minister. But Harper himself remained silent again yesterday when asked directly by Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and his deputy, Michael Ignatieff, whether he still had confidence in his defence minister. Both times Harper deflected the question. OTTAWA CITIZEN fast NEWFOUNDLANDLABRADOR Vessels still trapped St. John's - Efforts continued yesterday to free eight vessels and 29 crew that have been trapped in heavy ice off Newfoundland's northeast coast since early April. The Canadian Coast Guard freed 11 sealing ships over the weekend. Yesterday, four icebreakers were still trying to free the remainder, 32 kilometres north of Fogo Island. ALBERTA Teen guilty in killing Edmonton - A 17-year-old teenage girl has been convicted of manslaughter for her role in the brutal slaying of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte at a local golf course two years ago. Judge June Ross of the Court of Queen's Bench said yesterday the defendant lacked the specific intent necessary for a first-degree murder conviction. SASKATCHEWAN Sex assault verdict Prince Albert - A man who provided alcohol to his teenage daughter and her friends was found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting three of them in February 2006. James Arthur Clark, 43, will be sentenced June 18. The mother of a victim who was 14 at the time said she is "ecstatic" about the verdict. BRITISH COLUMBIA Fault line found Abbotsford - Mayor George Ferguson said he will ask staff to look into the discovery of an earthquake fault line about 20 kilometres from the city. "We're trying to get higher density in our city and, of course, we're looking at high-rises," he said yesterday. "I will make sure they give it consideration." CANWEST NEWS SERVICE M H2 Mil MiiIIi M E Nj A N OS OljK A R M A 53 Big Blue 55 Dismay Reiser or Revere? 60 Whistle-blower's exposure 62 Pulitzer winner James 63 Out of kilter 64 Final authority 65 Sans ice 66 Slave away 67 Day one 68 Ferrara family name 69 Choice word DOWN 1 Source of pumice 2 Many a Barron's reader, for short 3 A Waugh 4 Compound of iron 5 Where we are 6 Clear wrap 7 Sticker figure 8 Visionary 9 Dealership area 10 La, Bolivia 11 Love something offered at home improvement stores? 12 Gossipy Barrett 13 Joint that may jerk No 0320 21 A, in Ardennes 22 Hot time in Quebec 26 E G? Email tour3vide0tron.ca Maximum 30 students per visit, Grades 4 and up. Cost: $40. THE GAZETTE I MONTREAL I TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007 EDITOR: BRENDA These are two of the many Inuit dogs that were reintroduced into Kangiqsualujjuaq in northern Quebec. The photo, taken by students, is in the book about their community. Chronicling their roots Blue Met Fest celebrates students' efforts to connect with their heritage. When Tivi Etok was growing up in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, life was very different. He remembers traveling across the snowy tundra, looking for places to hunt and set.
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In Gunmetal Blues, she plays The Blonde. Not surprisingly, her big song is called The Blonde Song, which she turns into a high-vamp show-stopper. Sam, played Bogart-cool by Al Goulem, sets the stage with, "It was one of those gray days in the city. Gray rain out of a gray sky. I was waiting for a client." He and the piano player, Buddy Buddy Toupee (Robert Burns), keep the narrative ball rolling throughout this meandering evening. Robert Burns is light-fingered on the ivories and Jayne Patterson is a star on the rise. Burns is as adept on the asides as he is light-fingered on the ivories. His singing is a pleasure, right up to falsetto and back again. Sam is approached by a sexy blonde named Laura Vespers to find the murderer of her boss, Adrian Wasp, a fabulously wealthy man with an alcoholic mistress, an elusive daughter and plenty of enemies. Naturally, Sam has a little trouble keeping his mind on business.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla - Only a month after the Florida Panthers played in the Stanley Cup final the team might be looking for a new arena. Panthers officials said yesterday the team will begin looking for a new home soon unless the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority approves a new Miami Arena lease. The MSEA rejected a lease extension worked out in May between the Panthers and Leisure Management. PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Flyers signed free-agent right wing Steven King, formerly of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, yesterday. The 6-foot, 200-pounder appeared in only seven games last season with the Ducks, scoring two goals. PHOENIX - The Phoenix Coyotes yesterday hired Paul MacLean as an IAN MacDONALD "But what's happening is he's learning how to use that fastball consistently. He's learning how to locate the ball. He's using both sides of the plate." Vazquez was 6-6 at this level last year and is dominating this season. The 6-foot-2, 185-pounder was scouted by Fred Ferreira, Expos director of International scouting.
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Giroux is part of a cross-Canada tour organized by Actar Airforce Inc., a manufacturer of CPR mannequins, to promote widespread knowledge of CPR skills. Montreal lags way behind such cities as Seattle, he says, where CPR courses are compulsory in high school. He and a team of local CPR instructors showed shoppers how to keep alive someone whose heart has stopped. CPR may not always save the victim, but it improves his chances drastically. Kathy McGuigan, visiting Montreal from New Jersey, took the opportunity to refresh her skills. "Many people don't take a course because they'd be afraid to approach someone on the street," she said. "This makes you aware that it can happen to a family member or a close friend." Would you like the latest short news on your doorstep every morning? Call 987-2400 and get home delivery of The Gazette. Nice and warm inside, that is. Especially for those who know about our Total Comfort plan. As a Total Comfort customer, you'll benefit from a full service (Automatic Oil Delivery, the Esso Protection and Maintenance plan, etc.) and the peace of mind that it entails.
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As always, the ones whose interests have been betrayed are those who have no voice within the current amending formula: the residents of the two territories and minority-language groups. It is the position of the Young Liberals of Canada that the two territories should be permitted to become provinces merely on the assent of the Parliament of Canada and the residents of the territory concerned. It is unacceptable in our view for the provinces to be able to forever block the legitimate gun-control laws won't stop the criminals from their work Your July 29 editorial concerning gun control once again betrayed your ignorance of effective firearms regulations. You seem to argue, ludicrously, that by banning the gun that Marc Lepine used, a popular small-game rifle, Canada would be a safer place. Any police officer will tell you that a criminal doesn't buy his firearm at the local gun store, but obtains it on the black market. Furthermore, a lunatic like Marc Lepine will always find a way to commit his bloody mayhem. As further evidence of my argument, one need only look at the harsh gun-control laws in both New York City and Washington.
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"Or, probably, you are walking along the street in a contemplative frame of mind, and an icicle rattles down on your head and then someone shouts ""Look out there!"" You look up instead, and see a demon seated nonchalantly in a window (out of your reach, fortunately for him), with a long pole in his hand playfully tapping the long pendants from the eaves and the Gothic windows of the attic. A little further down the street two poles rest against the wall; avalanches of snow are tumbling from the roof of the building, and the magnificent form of a policeman is to be seen on the street corner, the limb of the law chatting pleasantly to the cabman on the stand, while the genial afternoon sun lights up the figures of your friend smiling amiably on the other side of the street. You know, or have heard somewhere, that it is AGAINST THE LAW TO SHOVEL SNOW off a tool after nine o'clock in the morning, but then, who ever heard of the police enforcing the city ordinance?
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The drifted snow and the high wind played havoc with the mail. Nearly all the mail trains were late, and from some of them no tidings were received until late in the day. All the roads suffered, both the eastern and western trains being from one to eight hours late. The driving snow made signals on the railroad tracks practically useless, and caused a collision between two freight trains on the West Shore tracks near 97th street and Stoney avenue about noon. Luther J. Webster, fireman on the second train, had his foot crushed. More accidents were reported to the police today resulting from the high wind. In spite of the fearful weather and the condition of the streets the ambulances were kept busy a large part of the day. BLOOMINGTON, Ill., February 12. A violent snowstorm raged throughout central Illinois all today. The snow is ten inches on a level, and is badly drifted. Many trains are delayed, and one passenger train on the Big Four is stuck in a drift near Tremont. There are drifts here five feet deep. INDIANA, FORT WAYNE, February 12.
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Louis Cloudy 21 8 San Francisco Sunny 23 13 Washington Cloudy 26 16 World Max Min Amsterdam Cloudy 23 15 Athens Sunny 24 17 Beijing Sunny 22 12 Berlin Cloudy 21 11 Copenhagen Cloudy 15 11 Dublin Cloudy 15 12 Hong Kong Cloudy 29 23 Jerusalem Sunny 22 14 Lisbon Cloudy 21 14 London Cloudy 22 14 Madrid Cloudy 20 14 Mexico City Thunderstorms 24 14 Moscow Sunny 17 7 Nairobi Cloudy 29 12 New Delhi Sunny 33 23 Paris Rain 21 15 Rio de Janeiro Cloudy 24 20 Rome Cloudy 25 17 Sydney Cloudy 19 7 Tokyo Sunny 22 16 Resorts Max Un Acapulco Cloudy 32 24 Barbados Sunny 30 24 Bermuda Sunny 30 26 Honolulu Showers 31 24 Kingston Cloudy 33 25 Miami Thunderstorms 32 24 Myrtle Beach Cloudy 28 20 Nassau Sunny 31 24 Old Orchard Sunny 22 8 Virginia Beach Cloudy 26 19 Soviet threat now worries JIM MANN and SAM JAMESON
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NOVEMBER 15, 1992 WW EMOTIONAL SCARS As far as children are concerned, there's no such thing as getting over Mom and Dad's divorce. Divorce has a lifelong impact on the children in a family, says Pennsylvania State University researcher Thomas Berner, author of Parents Whose Parents Were Divorced. "It does not mean that children of divorce go through life flawed," Berner said, "but it means that a piece of them is still trying to resolve the trauma of their parents' divorce." PET PROJECT As you replace or top off the antifreeze in the car to prepare for winter, be careful of spills. Antifreeze poisoning of dogs and cats is common this time of year, because animals are often drawn to the sweet-tasting liquid. Pets who live outdoors in subfreezing temperatures may find that the only unfrozen water available is in places where radiators were drained. NICE TRY Nice guys - and gals - really do finish last. Likability ranks dead last among traits employers value, according to a survey of executives by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Team-playing was far and away the most valued employee trait, followed by dependability and being responsible. SNAKEY DEALS Drug dealers are using poisonous snakes to guard their illegal valuables, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered. David Chiszar, an animal behaviorist, became curious at several requests from Colorado law officers to help them handle poisonous reptiles found at the scene of drug busts. Chiszar sent questionnaires to reptile experts around the country and discovered several had been called on to help officers with snakes found through drug dealers. The reptiles included rattlesnakes, cobras, mambas, African vipers and tiger snakes. Besides being used as guards or to intimidate customers, snakes have also been used as objects for smuggling drugs, being force-fed packets of drugs and later sacrificed to retrieve the goods. CANCER RISK CUT Taking vitamin E may reduce one's risk of oral cancer, a study by the U.S. FRONT PARTLY CLOUDY High 1 Low -6 PARTLY CLOUDY High 0 Low -1 Canada Iqaluit Yellowknife Whitehorse Vancouver Victoria Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon Regina Winnipeg Thunder Bay Sudbury Toronto Fredericton Halifax Charlottetown St. John's Sunny Snow Flurries Rain Rain P Cloudy Sunny P Cloudy P Cloudy P Cloudy P Cloudy P Cloudy Cloudy P Cloudy P Cloudy Rain Max Min -19 -23 -8 -16 -2 -8 6 5 6 11 2 3 0 0 -1 -1 4 4 4 7 6 5 -3 -2 -7 -7 -10 -7 -7 -8 -5 0 -2 5 United States THUNDERSTORM FREEZING RAIN LOW PRESSURE Max Min Atlanta Sunny 15 2 Boston P Cloudy 4 -2 Chicago P Cloudy 21 -4 Dallas Sunny 20 8 Denver Sunny 19 1 Las Vegas Sunny 23 9 Los Angeles Sunny 25 14 New Orleans P Cloudy 20 8 New York Sunny 4 -2 Phoenix Sunny 30 14 St. Louis P Cloudy 9 -1 San Francisco Sunny 20 12 Washington Sunny 7 -1 World Max Min Amsterdam Sunny 9 2 Athens Cloudy 18 15 Beijing Sunny 10 2 Berlin Rain 5 3 Copenhagen Sunny 7 1 Dublin Rain 11 6 Hong Kong P Cloudy 25 17 Jerusalem Sunny 20 6 Lisbon Drizzle 16 12 London Cloudy 7 0 Madrid Cloudy 12 6 Mexico City Haze 21 11 Moscow Cloudy 2 -1 Nairobi Cloudy 25 15 New Delhi Sunny 27 15 Paris Cloudy 8 3 Rio de Janeiro P Cloudy 29 23 Rome Sunny 15 7 Sydney Cloudy 19 13 Tokyo Sunny 19 10 Resorts Max Min Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Daytona Honolulu Kingston Miami Myrtle Beach Nassau Tampa Sunny P Cloudy Cloudy Sunny Sunny Sunny Cloudy Sunny P Cloudy Sunny 33 26 27 24 25 23 20 8 30 23 33 24 26 20 16 2 29 20 22 11 Britain, other nations feud with U.S. Making up Smart Shopping columnist Sandra Phillips tells where you can get a makeover. Page D5 What women want Women want more and they want it sooner, says columnist Janice Kennedy. Page D2 Duel of wits Quiz master Arthur Kaptainis challenges readers to test their knowledge of dueling trivia. Page D3 MONTREAL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1992 SECTION J Users guide to winter Freezing rain, snow flurries and ice pellets what does it all really mean? MARK ABLEY THE GAZETTE Winter's almost here. Children all over town are impatiently asking when it will be time to make snowmen, when it will be time to go tobogganing, and when Santa Claus will finally arrive. Adults have other kinds of questions. Do we have enough flashlights and candles in the cupboards? Does the car have its snow tires and antifreeze? And just what does "sleet" mean, anyway? Today, we bring you a user's guide to bad weather everything you wanted to know about Montreal winters, but were afraid to ask. We hope it helps you understand those ominous weather forecasts in the dark months ahead. FREEZING RAIN Unpleasant stuff. It usually falls when a cold mass of air has filled the basin that Montreal occupies. A warm front approaches, but can't flush the cold air out of the valley. Rain begins to drop through the dome of chilly air. But because the objects on the surface are colder than the air, the rain freezes as it hits the ground or you and me. ICE PELLETS Even nastier. Ice pellets fall when a thick dome of cold air (often at minus-2 or -3 Celsius) hangs over Montreal. An approaching warm front sends rain down through the dome but as the rain falls, it freezes in mid-air. How do the weather forecasters decide when to predict freezing rain and when to call for ice pellets? "Judgment and experience," according to Environment Canada's Richard Fournier. ICE FOG Beautiful, scary and rare around Montreal. To form, ice fog needs an air temperature of minus-25 C or colder. It also requires an open body of water. When a wind blows damp air off the water, the moisture evaporates and crystallizes into fog. SNOW FLURRIES We've had them already, we'll have them again soon. Flurries are predicted when the weathermen are looking for "no significant accumulation of snow." But as soon as snow is expected to cover the ground, the term "flurries" is replaced by "snow." SNOW Even in summer, precipitation forms as snow at high altitudes. But until the arrival of winter, those snow crystals melt into rain as they drop through warmer air. In winter, when the air temperature is below freezing all the way to ground level, we get snow. BLOWING SNOW Best advice: avoid it. The weather office calls for blowing-snow conditions when the winds have reached at least 40 kilometres an hour, when visibility is 1 km or less, and when these factors are likely to persist for six hours or more. The secret of ROD CURRIE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Ever wonder if your toddler terror of the keyboard might be another Glenn Gould? Or your virtuoso of the crayon set, blithely redecorating the walls, another Emily Carr? Don't worry. If you've got a budding genius or child prodigy another Mozart or Margaret Laurence they'll let you know. As English poet Owen Meredith put it: "Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can." Blowing snow is more severe in rural areas than in the city. BLIZZARDS Loosely, we use the word "blizzard" to describe any old snowstorm. But the weathermen have a more specific usage. For them, a blizzard occurs when blowing-snow conditions are accompanied by intense cold a wind-chill factor of 1875 watts per square metre. That's the equivalent of minus-40 C. Montreal gets such a pure and dur blizzard less than once a year. SNOWSTORMS They come at us from two main directions: the Canadian West and the U.S. East Coast. Western storms usually bring dry snow; coastal storms give us wet snow, excellent for making snowmen. But those wet storms are often followed by a spell of very cold weather, as the wind systems shift around. A third, less important source of our storms is the Mississippi-Ohio Valley. These tend to be not so dry as the prairie storms, nor so wet as the Atlantic ones. Luckily, it's exceptional for Montreal to endure a cold-weather system out of Hudson Bay. MISCELLANEOUS STUFF Why does it never hail in winter? Because hail is born of warm air. Hail falls, mostly in summer, when droplets of moisture solidify into stones that are too heavy to stay aloft. For this to happen, the genius: a rare what it can. In the view of Canadian arts experts and teachers, true genius will not be denied, but talent must often be discovered. Sometimes the clues are elusive. Nicholas Goldschmidt, long a prominent figure in Canadian music, used to tell students: "If you haven't got it, you've had it." Genius is a rare combination of heart, head and hand, says Goldschmidt, the Vienna-born first director of the Canadian Opera Company. "Wunderkind" is the German word for it wonder child, like moisture must be lifted high up into belts of freezing air. Updrafts of up to 6,000 feet a minute have been recorded. Why do the worst storms seem to come in December and March? Because those are the months when a belt of Arctic air is most likely to meet up with a belt of warmer air from the south. The clash of systems can bring heavy snow. In January and February, by contrast, Montreal usually lies well inside a zone of cold air. What is sleet? That's a tricky question. Environment Canada doesn't like the term, because it can mean different things to different people. The commonest meaning of sleet is a mixture of snow, rain and freezing rain. But it can also refer (in the United States, especially) to the thin coat of ice that forms when rain freezes on cold surfaces; and in Britain, it can mean wet snow. How much snow do we get in an average winter? The average amount, between 1961 and 1990, was 214.4 centimetres. Are winters getting longer? No if anything, they're getting shorter. But Environment Canada is wary of making definitive pronouncements about the climate. Still, it's noticeable that the last seven winters have all produced less than 214.4 cm of snow. In the driest winter on record (1979-80), we received a mere 93.1 cm. Last winter's total (206.3 cm) was boosted by a depressingly large amount of snow in April. combination Gould," he says of the pianist who made his Toronto Symphony debut at 15. Then there was Mozart, the most astonishing prodigy of them all, composing at age 5. The late Harold Town, outrageous multi-talented bad boy of Canadian art, drew on the walls and the kitchen table. "It was a part of me as much as my blond hair," he's quoted as saying in a recent book on his life. Laurence, who gave the world The Stone Angel and A Jest of God, started writing in Grade 2. Whether rain, weather office "Every storm is different," Martin Bartczak was saying. "We look forward to a good storm it adds excitement to the office. It gets our adrenaline flowing." Bartczak is one of 13 employees (all of them men) at the Dorval Weather Office of Environment Canada. Someone is on duty there, day and night, to give weather information to radio stations, farmers, vacationers, fishermen, film crews and the public at large. To reach the weather office, you take the elevator to the fourth floor of Dorval airport's main terminal building. Its plate-glass windows look north, over the runways toward the distant Laurentians. Although the forecasts reach us from Dorval, Montreal-area forecasters work out of a building in St. Laurent. They transmit their predictions to the Dorval weather office, whose employees adapt and pass them on to us. Environment Canada also maintains more than 50 weather-observing stations around Quebec. Because of automation, the number is decreasing. A few months ago, the station at Ste. Agathe was closed as a cost-cutting measure. Bartczak and his colleagues are experts at explaining the vagaries of local weather. Their job is to adapt the raw data of the sky to the needs of each client. "It can happen," of heart, head "It wasn't a hobby," she once recalled, "but a vocation." Still, nature can play dirty tricks, with mere panache or the cavalier flourish masquerading as genius. A would-be Karen Kain may have all the ballet attributes at 9 but suddenly develop a dumpy figure. Candidates may have talent, bone structure, intelligence and style, said Carole Chadwick who conducts the annual cross-country auditions for the National Ballet School. But they won't make it if they don't have the royal jelly of "the natural storm or snow is on the job he remarked, "that we'll have rain here in Dorval, freezing rain in Laval and snow in Ste. Therese. "Or it might be 2 degrees at Dorval and minus-2 at Mirabel. That's a bad place for an airport, eh? In the dip just before the Laurentians begin, you get lots of fog and freezing rain." The employees at the weather office are approaching one of their busiest times of year. April and October are their quietest months: little snow, and no agricultural forecasts. Rush-hours for weathermen come in summer and winter. The pre-recorded local forecasts attract about 12,000 calls a day not counting people who give up because the line is busy. When a storm is coming, up to 15,000 calls a day are received. Our biggest-ever snowstorm dumped 43.2 cm of snow on March 4, 1971. In the Dorval office, that day is remembered fondly- "I was working here, plotting maps," said Richard Fournier. "We were expecting a storm to come up the U.
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"He is not an overpowering pitcher," Sisson said. "He can get his fastball up to 93 (mph) and averages out at 90-91." Back with Impact Didn't enjoy brief RANDY PHILLIPS THE GAZETTE Jamaican forward Onandi Lowe is back with the Montreal Impact after an abbreviated stint with Guadalajara of the Mexican First Division. "I didn't like the environment. It was a different world and it wasn't really where I wanted to be at this point in my career," Lowe said yesterday. Lowe was loaned indefinitely to Guadalajara in a deal concluded by Impact president Joey Saputo several weeks ago to give the talented 21-year-old striker a chance to play at a higher level of competition than in the A-League and to earn more money. A-League salaries range from $15,000 to $40,000 depending on performance incentives. Lowe stood to earn "three or four times more" in Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement with Guadalajara, Lowe could choose to leave if he was unhappy. "(My decision) had nothing to do with the money. Money wasn't the issue.
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"' and very conflicting accounts as to the nature of this mystery are current To the casual observer Sir Isaac L Rice is the only man that looms up in connection with Reading at present, of whom it can be said that he has a clear cut and well-defined policy There are many who believe that he will control the destinies of Reading next spring By contrast with his position that of the present management of Reading is hopelessly illogical and contrary to common sense There is unfortunately good ground for accusing the two committees representing general and income bondholders of being too easygoing in their dealings with the management Just at present these things are not very important, except in a general way, as showing that life is beginning to re-enter some of the corpses resulting from the recent panic, so far not much importance is attached to the stories of Mr McLeod's reappearance as an active railroad man in constructive partnership with Mr Russell Haire Hill, even the talk with regard thereto is valuable as an index of the extent to which the tendency to recovery is at work The monetary position across the lines must be easing up and the feeling is apparent that the worst has been seen and that the remainder of the year will witness a progress, if a slow one,
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"I don't understand why they can have a recount in Outremont and we can't have one in Dorion," Goyer said. However, Lemaire said he is confident he can work with the four councillors who were elected on Goyer's slate because their platforms were similar. Both camps called for a socio-economic study to determine whether Dorion should merge services with neighboring Vaudreuil. They were also opposed to the previous council's proposal to spend $1 million to build a new police and fire station. Sixty-four percent of Dorion's 2,622 eligible voters cast their ballots in the municipal election. Former Mayor Andre Bourbonnais retired this year after eight years in office. Red Cross seeks funds for Haiti The Quebec Division of the Canadian Red Cross will launch an appeal for funds today to deal with what it describes as an emergency in Haiti. Money raised is to be turned over to the Haitian Red Cross to help care for thousands of sick and wounded victims, it said in a statement. The drive is supported by the association of expatriate Haitian doctors and the Bureau de la Communaut锟斤拷 Chr锟斤拷tienne des Ha?tiens de Montreal.
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levees and canals have segmented the vital sheet flow Sugar cane and tomato farmers now control the water table in large areas of the Everglades, dumping or retaining water according to weather conditions and growing schedules Anytime they want to, they can pump out, and anytime they want they can pump it back in, said Burkett Neely, manager of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, one of three water conservation areas that serve as a buffer between the cane fields and the park Drought recently prompted neighboring sugar cane growers to pump more water onto their land for irrigation, forcing the water district to draw down the water level in the 58,000-hectare refuge by 7.5 cm I called them on it, and they said it was a drop in the bucket, Neely said Well, it was, but it was a drop that we needed I had birds and ducks change their feeding patterns because of that The disruptions have been especially cruel to the Everglades' famous plumed wading birds, which once gathered here in enormous white clouds and were a major factor in the decision to establish the park in 1947 For example, artificial water fluctuations have forced wood storks to delay nesting until late winter,
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Connecticut police are reported to be investigating allegations that Allen sexually molested Dylan. In the following statement given to Newsweek by Allen's publicist, Previn, whose age has been variously given at between 19 and 21, speaks out for herself: "Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me. I never had any dealings with him. He rarely came to our apartment before his own children were born." Bryan Adams and Co. kick off belated summer A BRENDAN KELLY SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE Summer came just in time for Montreal rock fans. After weeks of miserable weather, the sun finally decided to make its comeback in full force yesterday right on time for the Waking Up the Neighbours rock festival featuring Bryan Adams, Steve Miller, Extreme, and Montreal singers Sass Jordan and France D'Amour. The combination of clear, blue skies, an idyllic concert site on Ile Ste. Helene, and eight hours of non-stop live rock'n'roll made for some of the hottest musical fun this town has seen all summer.
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The recent comparatively mild weather which has prevailed in Great Britain has been interrupted by a thorough blizzard in many parts of the country, especially in the North, where the snowdrifts have been several feet deep. Three men perished in the snow in the Highlands, a train was blown off the rails near Tralee, Ireland, numbers of fishing boats have been lost, many fishermen have perished, and the Irish mail boats and cross-channel mail services were interrupted or seriously delayed. The Belfast mail boat was twenty hours in making a trip which is usually accomplished in six hours, trains have been snowed up at several places, and, generally, the snowstorm is considered to have been the worst for many years. The severe weather reached as far south as the Mediterranean, where a French transport, bound for Tunis, was obliged to return to Toulon in a damaged condition. She also reported that some of the recruits on board of her were killed or injured during the storm. THE QUEEN Queen Victoria is taking keen interest just now in the progress of the scheme for connecting Cape Town with Cairo.
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is a joint effort of the corps and the South Florida Water Management District, the state agency that operates the system Last fall, Congress authorized a 43,000-hectare expansion of the park's eastern border, directing the corps to prepare a plan for restoring natural water flows there That is likely to involve construction of two concrete spillways in the 16-km long earthen levee on the park's northern boundary, as well as new pumps to move water from drainage canals back into the Everglades, corps officials said Six spillways will be added to a levee upstream of the park, while another will be bulldozed entirely We're trying to make it part of the Everglades hydrologic system, project manager Lewis Hornuns said of the expansion area The improvements are expected to provide water to between 28,000 and 32,000 hectares of drought-stricken marsh inside the new park boundary The project poses daunting political obstacles, pitting the interests of conservationists, bird-lovers and park officials against developers, farmers and others with vested interests in the status quo Constant attention needed The Everglades ecosystem is not ranked as an equal partner with agricultural and urban demands, said Steve Davis,
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To the mournful sounds of freezing rain and the Remembrance Day pipes on the CBC, I sorted and sifted. Flipped open a copy of Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus, like most of my books these days purchased at Russell's, used or remaindered, thus inexpensive. An expressionistic work about the potential horrors of genetic engineering. Momentum, presented by Nuits Blanches at 8 p.m. at Theatre La Chapelle, 3700 St. Dominique St. Fiddler on the Roof, a revival of last year's hit production of the Broadway musical, presented by Dora Wasserman's Yiddish Theatre Company, at 8 p.m. at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, 5170 C?te Ste. Catherine Rd. Anne Est Morte, by Rene-Daniel Dubois, at 8 p.m. at Cafe de la Place, Place des Arts. Suicide, murder and a passionate volley of words by one of Quebec's foremost playwrights. It's a premiere.
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Filiatrault Funeral Home, 76 Dussault, Laval-des-Rapides. Visiting hours Sunday and Monday, 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. Executive Director Committee IN MEMORIAM SCALES, George Albert. Memories are treasures no one can steal. Death is a heartbreak no one can heal. While some may forget you when you are gone, we will remember you no matter how long. Your loving wife, May and Steve. TONGE, Aggie and Joe. In loving memory of a dear Mom (May 13, 1986) and Dad (February 17, 1978). Miss you today and every day. Love you, Linda and Joe. WEINHOLTZ, Mira. The very best mother and grandmother in the world who passed away 5 years ago on Mother's Day. Your smile is gone forever. Your hands we cannot touch. All we have are memories of one we love so much. Always loved and remembered by Lisa, David and Florence, grandchildren, Steven, Michael and Arron, and your namesakes, Matthew and Miriam. Ex-news agency chief Dauphinee dies at 76 NAPANEE, Ont. (CP) John Dauphinee, retired general manager and chief executive of The Canadian Press and a journalist for nearly 45 years, died in hospital Friday. He was 76. Dauphinee, who joined the news co-operative in Vancouver in 1936, worked in most CP bureaus in Canada and abroad before being appointed to the top post in 1969, succeeding Gillis Purcell. He had been in hospital in this eastern Ontario town near his summer home for several weeks where he was being treated for cancer. An incisive editor-manager whose handling of many of CP's most difficult situations earned him respect from editors and publishers across the country, Dauphinee was involved directly or indirectly in coverage of news events around the world. As news editor in London he was responsible for CP's coverage of the last months of the Second World War and early postwar years; as Ottawa bureau chief he had to oversee political reporting from Parliament Hill; as chief in Winnipeg he worked, ate and slept in his office, his sharp news eye fixed on some of the raging Red River's worst floods. A Vancouver native whose fore- Twins' birth surprise for travelling mother. When Geraldine Asprec felt stomach pains last Thursday aboard an Air Canada flight over Alberta, she had no idea she was in for the most painful and rewarding experience of her life. Calgary became the unexpected birthplace of Asprec's twin son and daughter after her labor pains forced the non-stop Vancouver to Montreal flight to land in the southern Alberta city. ""I thought I did not feel comfortable,"" Asprec said in an interview. ""I asked the stewardess for a pain killer. I didn't think I was giving birth."" It was Asprec's first day in Canada. Seven months pregnant, the 22-year-old Filipino was flying to Montreal to be reunited with her family after being separated for 3 1/2 years. ""When the doctor said you have... Man charged after woman LANTTER A 38-year-old Laurentian man was charged yesterday in connection with the slaying of his former common-law wife in this small town, 15 kilometres northeast of Ste. Agathe. Serge Miron, of Ste. Agathe, was charged at the St. Jerome courthouse with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of 32-year-old France Bazinet on Friday night. Bazinet was at her 15th Ave. home when she was hit in the chest by a single rifle shot around 11. Entire village joins demonstration against plan to close high school; HAM NORD They didn't want to lose the local high school, so nearly the entire population of this tiny village burned an old school bus in protest yesterday. ""It was a symbolic gesture. Every four, five years, they try to close the school,"" Diane Taschereau, a member of the school committee, said last night. Ham Nord is 35 kilometres southeast of Victoriaville. Traffic on Road 161 was stopped shortly while 300 demonstrators burned the broken-down bus, which had been donated by a resident. Residents have been protesting since the Victoriaville School Com IN MEMORIAM WENDT, Alma. For Mother's Day. In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother who passed away on April 10, 1990. You have a place within our hearts that no one else can fill, a place of love that's just for you and you always will. Love, Elaine, Gordon, David, Rodney, Darlene and Peter. WOOD, Clara. In loving memory of a dear mother and grandmother who passed away one year ago today. Today, tomorrow our whole life through, we will always love and remember you. Sadly missed by daughter Dorothy and granddaughter Ashley. PRAYERS THANKS to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Blessed Mother, St. Theresa and St. Jude for favours granted with a promise to publish. SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1990 Nicaragua reviving Anti-racist protesters turn on right-wing politicians policies of former dictatorship: Ortega GAZETTE NEWS SERVICES MANAGUA Recent decrees by the Nicaraguan government are bringing back the policies of the dictator that the Sandinista-led revolution overthrew in 1979, former president Daniel Ortega said yesterday. The Sandinista leader was referring to decrees by President Violeta Chamorro that suspend Nicaragua's civil service law and allow expropriated farmlands to be cultivated by their former owners. Ortega said his party sees those measures as attempts to reinstate the policies of ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza. ""We see in all this a return to Somocismo, an attempt to impose Somocismo,"" he said. ""Logically, the (Sandinista) Front rejects this and the people reject this."" Chamorro took over the presidency from Ortega last month, ending 10 years of Sandinista rule. A statement from the nine-member Sandinista directorate called for Chamorro to repeal the decrees and begin talks with all the economic and social sectors in Nicaragua to reach a consensus on the government's actions. On Thursday, Chamorro temporarily suspended the country's civil service law, which officials said impeded the government from making personnel changes. In response, about 60,000 Sandinista-affiliated state workers walked off their jobs Friday. The government threatened to fire them if they did not return. On Friday, Chamorro signed a decree under which former owners of expropriated farmlands now belonging to the government could rent the property for immediate cultivation. A second decree said the new government would review all expropriations by the Sandinistas with the aim of returning property deemed unjustifiably seized to its former owners. Chamorro said a return to privately run farming is needed to revive farm production for the next planting season, which begins in about two months. Food production dropped drastically under the Sandinistas and especially during a U.N. TIMES, WASHINGTON POST EARTHWEEK: A DIARY OF THE PLANET By Steve Newman Hi Mom! We're on our way. Happy Mother's Day Perrie. Worth Waiting For. FOCUS ON YOUR FUTURE Apply Now. FOR THE SEMESTER BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 1990 THE COLLEGE OF CENTENNIAL ACADEMY Sciences Social Science Commerce Creative Arts Application forms available from: High School Guidance Counsellor or Contact The College of Centennial Academy 3641 Prud'homme Ave, Montreal, Quebec H2A 3M6 486-5533 Cyclone A severe tropical cyclone lashed southeast India's Andhra Pradesh coast with 250 km/h winds and storm surge tides 5 metres above normal. Early reports from three of the seven districts hit by the storm say that at least 45 people have died as a result of the winds and flooding. Advance warnings by government meteorologists allowed authorities to evacuate 125,000 people from 40 low-lying coastal villages, some of which were flattened by the storm's tides and high winds. Seven thousand people were stranded on Edurumandi Island, which took the full brunt of the storm, after refusing to leave. They were believed to be safe in a government shelter. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Channa Reddy told reporters the cyclone was more fierce than one in 1977 that killed 10,000 people and caused extensive damage to crops and property. Windstorm High winds from a powerful Pacific storm that hit parts of British Columbia and Washington state killed at least eight people. A man from Kennewick, Wash., survived the capsizing of his boat on the Columbia River only to be killed by a passenger train he was trying to flag down after swimming ashore. Lava's End Poisonous vapor rose from the Pacific where lava from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano ended its fiery journey after burying the town of Kalapana. Officials kept a watch on the steam clouds, which contained hydrochloric acid and other hazardous chemicals, but fortunately trade winds kept blowing the gas out to sea. Morten lava stopped issuing from the volcano, but geologists said it could be just another in a series of pauses in the flow this year. For the week ending May 11, 1990 Chronic Features 73 Vostok, (U.S. and Soviet Union, and urged Moscow to destroy its samples now that there is no further scientific reason to keep them. Wildfires Unseasonably hot weather in Finland that broke a 150-year temperature record sparked fires in two peat fields. More than 400 hectares of peat, several office buildings, warehouses and farm equipment were destroyed in Oulu province. In northern Michigan, firefighters aided by cool, damp weather gained the upper hand over two forest fires that blackened more than 30 square kilometres of dry woods and grass. MANOR STEGER WISHING YOU A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. Affordable studios, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments geared to the active senior. Rent includes the following services: Lunch and dinner served in the dining room Indoor Parking Linens, towels and maid service Bell Telephone Cable TV Alarm systems 24-hour security 24-hour nursing staff Lounge with washer/dryer on every floor Stove and refrigerator Additional charge LEASING HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. Outdoor swimming pool Exercise room, saunas and jacuzzis Guest parking Card room with piano and big-screen Library Banking & travel services Hair salon and barber-shop Non-denominational chapel Hobby room Shuttle bus services 5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. 12 p.m.-5 p.m. 2450 Thimens Blvd, Ville Saint-Laurent Information 339-5457 will not publish on Monday, May 21 VICTORIA DAY Our offices will be closed all day ADVERTISING DEADLINES DEADLINES FOR SUNDAY, MAY 20 Proof Display Advertising Careers Classified Advertising FOR TUESDAY, MAY 22 Proof Display Advertising Careers Classified Advertising 5 p.m. Wed. May 16 12 noon Fri. May 18 12 noon Fri. May 18 4 p.m. Fri. May 18 DEADLINES 5 p.m. Wed. May 16 3 p.m. Fri. May 18 4 p.m. Fri. May 18 4 p.m. Fri. May 18 DEADLINES 5 p.m. Thur. May 17 5 p.m. Fri. May 18 4 p.m. Fri. May 18 4 p.m. Tues. May 22 FOR THURSDAY, MAY 24 ZONED EDITIONS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Proof Display Advertising Careers Classified Advertising WEST ISLAND AND SOUTH SHORE Proof Display Advertising Careers Classified Advertising BIRTH AND DEATH NOTICES will be accepted at 282-2324 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. on Monday, May 21 for Tuesday's paper. DEADLINES 5 p.m. Fri. May 18 5 p.m. Fri. May 18 12 noon Tues. May 22 12 noon Wed. May 23 land, and destroyed 75 homes. More wildfires blackened parts of Florida where a heat wave worsened a 20-month drought. A 10,000-hectare grass fire in the Everglades was close to jumping a canal that separates it from the sprawling Big Cypress National Wildlife Preserve. Bison Empire Humankind's fading imprint on the vast Great Plains under the buffalo hooves in parts of 10 states if a New Jersey social scientist gets his way. Frank Popper, chairman of Rutgers University's urban studies program delivered his suggestion of a ""buffalo commons"" to a conference of environmentalists in Chicago. He believes the drought and economic hardship that have befallen many farmers in the region provide an unprecedented opportunity to restore the Plains to their late 17th-century ecological balance, when buffalo herds roamed to the horizon. Popper proposed that fences be torn down and grasses replanted to return vast tracts from the Dakotas to the Rocky Mountains to their former natural splendor. Earthquakes At least two people were killed and 16 others injured by an earthquake that rocked the Potenza area south of Naples, Italy. Earth movements were also felt in Western Australia, Panama, New Mexico, Iran and Southern California. Mosquito Flood Nudists in northern Texas prepared to protect themselves from the hordes of mosquitoes expected to emerge this spring after recent record floods. The Ponderosa Ranch nudist colony near Wills Point, Texas, is constructing bird houses to attract purple martins, which eat large quantities of the blood-sucking insects. ALL WEATHER White Walls SIZE PRICE SIZE PRICE P15580R13 44. MAY 13, 1990 D-3 Baseball fan played his cards right - and business is Montrealer's stores thrive as stock exchanges where all-stars' rookie cards are worth big money BILL BROWNSTEIN THE GAZETTE ""I'll trade you a Mario Lemieux rookie card and a Gretzky all-star for a Bo Jackson rookie card but only if it's in mint,"" one little grade-school munchkin blurts to his buddy. ""No way, man,"" the buddy shoots back. ""Throw in a Jose Canseco and maybe we'll talk trade."" The action is fast and furious at Westmount Baseball Card Company, the kiddie world equivalent of the stock exchange. Five-year-old kids as well as 80-year-old fun-seekers buy, sell and trade cards with a vengeance at the company's two stores on Victoria Ave. in Westmount and Queen Mary Rd. in Snowdon. The cards come with or without gum and protective plastic covering. They feature football, basketball, hockey and baseball players. Some were packaged this year; others date back to 1888. Some cards are discolored and a little frayed at the edges; others are in mint condition and a trip to the mint would be in order if you planned to purchase, say, a flawless Mickey Mantle rookie card. ""Baseball is really my forte,"" says Bruce Pearson, 32, the company's high-energy owner. And baseball has been very good to Pearson, who's been riding the crest of the card-buying boom that has swept this country. But he's no rookie in the business. Pearson has been collecting and trading cards since he was a kid. He opened his first shop five years ago. ""This is not an overnight fad,"" Pearson explains. ""People have been buying cards for 100 years."" The first cards go back to 1888 when ballplayers didn't even wear gloves. Simple steps can save energy Energy conservation is an important and simple way to help our environment. Saving energy will mean less air pollution, reduce acid rain and save thousands of acres from being flooded by new hydro-electric power dams. Energy-saving tips such as turning off lights and TVs when no one is in the room are a good place to start. Below are more tips to use on home appliances. Although each may save only a small amount of energy, they add up to a sizable savings. When buying new appliances, select the most energy-efficient one available. The ENERGUIDE symbol on the appliance is there to help you. However, without a comparison chart, the ENERGUIDE ratings don't tell you much. So Energy, Mines and Resources Canada has published the Energuide Directory to help you choose the most efficient models. To get a copy, write: Energy, Mines and Resources, Energy Publications Department, Ottawa, Ont. Pearson's Queen Mary Rd. outlet is only two weeks old and already it is jammed with stock and youthful customers. ""Hey, what'ya give me for this Gretzky rookie card, sir?"" a determined grade-schooler asks the boss. ""It's not mint,"" snaps trader Pearson, ""but I'll give you 60 bucks for it."" Whoa, ""$60!"" Where are all those mislaid cards of my lost youth? ""Hey, that's nothing,"" says Pearson. ""A Ty Cobb card in mint condition will cost you a mere $5,000."" The trick, though, is to collect players' rookie cards, hang on to them and hope the players become Hall of Famers one day. That's how a 10-cent card could be worth thousands of dollars. Card-collecting is no longer a hobby for some of Pearson's customers, especially the older ones. ""For many, it's an investment and the perfect hedge against inflation."" According to the Wall Street Journal, stockbrokers and major investors rushed out to buy baseball cards after the 1987 market crash. They thought it would be a recession-proof investment, like art. ""And it is art, too,"" adds Pearson, as he pulls out a 1953 card of legendary pitcher Satchell Paige. Card-collecting is no longer a hobby for Pearson, either. He's holding on to a few gems to pass on to his son who just turned 11 months but otherwise everything in his stores is up for grabs. That includes the vintage stuff as well as the 1,000 boxes of cards featuring new sports heroes. Joanne F Mills CLEAN LIVING Qv refrigerator's efficiency. Hard though it may be, train your children not to stare blankly into the fridge with the door wide open. Plan ahead and defrost food in the fridge to reduce energy consumption. You will provide an additional cold source for the fridge and eliminate the need to use an oven or microwave to do the work. Freezers When buying a freezer, choose a chest model. It is much more efficient than an upright because the cold air stays down in the unit rather than flowing out when the door is opened. Don't buy a bigger unit than you need and make sure you fill it up, as an empty freezer demands a lot more energy than a full one. Defrost your freezer whenever ice builds up. This varies according to the model, age of the freezer and how often the door is opened. Again, use a thermometer to help maintain the optimum temperature, usually around minus-18 C (or 0 F). Check your manual. Ranges An advantage of self-cleaning units is the elimination of toxic cleaners. If you turn on the cleaning cycle immediately after using the oven, you take advantage of the heat already available. When using the oven, cook as many dishes as possible to get maximum benefit from the energy used. For example, bake two or three cakes or casseroles at the same time and freeze what you don't immediately need. When checking on food in the oven, look through the window rather than opening the door and wasting energy. Make sure to use the right size pot on the burner (small pot, small element) and always use a lid to speed up the heating process. If possible, use a smaller appliance to do the job. For example, an electric kettle uses less energy than the stove-top element. Dishwashers Run the machine only when it is full to save hot water and electricity. Wash pots and pans by hand. It avoids the high energy consumption required to clean these items in the dishwasher. Even washing your dishes by hand doesn't really take much time and saves a lot of energy. Clothes washer Whenever feasible, cold-water wash and rinse to reduce the energy demands on your hot water tank. Run full loads as much as possible and when you need to wash a smaller load, lower the water amount to a corresponding level. Clothes dryer As with the washer, a full load utilizes energy more efficiently than several small loads. Remember to empty the lint basket before each load to help maintain efficiency. If your machine is equipped with an energy-conserving ""cool down"" cycle, use it whenever possible. Do not over-dry your clothes. If your machine does not have an automatic shutoff when the clothes are dry, experiment with different settings to find out the time needed for different size loads. The most energy-efficient dryer is an outdoors clothesline. Use it whenever you can, especially in this glorious weather! was one of many Métis who broke that law. Although he was found guilty, the court feared a riot so he was freed. The decision led to the disintegration of the Hudson's Bay Company monopoly. May 18 The Colonial Advocate, William Lyon Mackenzie's most famous newspaper, was first published in Niagara-on-the-Lake 166 years ago in 1824. Mackenzie used the paper to denounce the Conservative government of Upper Canada. May 19 Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin set out from England to map the Northwest Passage through the Arctic 145 years ago in 1845. It was a voyage from which he and his men never returned. Bruce Pearson turned his love of baseball into a two-store collectors' Sunday Crossword Down 1 Make into law 2 Heliacal 3 Crossbeam 4 Seraglio 5 Patron 6 Eskimo knife 7 Apartment complex 8 Freshwater polyps 9 Note sounded to signal attack 10 Literary conflict 11 Testy rejoinder? 12 Dolt 13 Ladies of fashion? 14 Sheep-like 15 Throe 16 Advantage 17 Man of vision 23 Goat antelopes 24 Trails 27 Gang 29 Household spirit 33 Surpasses 35 Dressing gown 37 Put forth 38 Cryptogram 39 Responsibility 40 ""Porgy and Bess"" 41 Bounces 42 Works on texts 43 Desolate 44 Appellation 46 Claw 49 Neither fish nor fowl 51 Man at bat? 53 Arab 57 Consort 58 Source of vigor poet booming GAZETTE, PIOTR A heaven for sports-card enthusiasts, ANDREWS Edited by Herb Ettenson 59 Aquarium fish 89 Grim 60 Lamprey 91 Ribs 63 Cpls. or sgts. 95 Weights: abb. 65 Dawn goddess 96 Token of infamy 67 Whirled 98 Legal thing 68 days 99 Weary (formative period) 101 Anesthetic 103 Flood 69 Sp. month 104 Refuge 70 Volumes 105 Ceremonies 74 Torment 106 Wear away gradually 75 Witty remarks 107 Impediment 78 Musical call for atmosphere an encore 109 Curt 79 Brief stay-over? 111 Experts 80 Convex moldings 114 Place for Indian convalescence 85 Hung around 115 Forty-niner's quest SOLUTION to last week's puzzle. MAY 13, 1990 Quebec 'divorce' would be regretted later. Separatists see in the liberation of East Bloc countries from Communist tyranny a parallel to the Quebec situation. But we Quebecois live in a blessed, free democratic society, not in a Hungary or a Czechoslovakia brutalized by Stalinist invasion. Self-determination is legitimate and desirable only where oppression and ruthless exploitation prevail. We must resist those who would Balkanize our land. That is Sanctify rights charter within the accord. There appears to be a fear in the rest of Canada that Quebec would use the ""distinct society"" clause to justify legislation overriding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This fear is a reasonable one since Premier Bourassa has already enacted Bill 178 to negate the Supreme Court decision con Hydro expansion economically absurd; I wish to add my voice to the many others who oppose the plans of the Quebec government to proceed with the second stage of the James Bay Hydro project. This policy is environmentally destructive and economically absurd. As I understand it, Hydro-Quebec is proposing to flood thousands of hectares of forests in northern Quebec, displacing hundreds of Cree and Inuit people, in order to generate electricity to sell to New York and New England. This at a time when the true value and function of forests in the Earth's biosphere is finally becoming clear. Dual citizenship? When Quebec separates, will the new national government allow people who wish to be only Canadian to stay in Quebec as aliens holding a Canadian passport? Or will it allow dual citizenship, or demand that everyone become a Quebecois and relinquish Canadian citizenship? OKSANA DMYTRIW Montreal What about non-French contributions? The 50th anniversary of Quebec women getting the vote was a cause for celebration. Unfortunately, The Gazette did not think it important enough to include Quebec women of non-French background in its April 29 article titled ""A salute to 10 special women."" To make matters worse, The Gazette went along with the choice of Les Co-operants insurance group and sent your reporter to interview the 10 francophone women already celebrated by the French media. All this came without any critical comment or recognition that there have been other women who have contributed to life in Quebec. Is there to be Your May 7 article, titled ""Feminist boycotts fete,"" about longtime feminist and unionist Madeleine Parent, was both reassuring and disturbing. It was reassuring in that it's heartening to see a Quebec nationalist of stature voice her concerns about racism and the trend among certain Quebec feminists (and other groups normally considered to be ""progressive"") to disregard the issues immigrant women and visible minorities are dealing with in this province. It was disturbing though to realize that there appears to be no place for me, the anglo-Quebec woman. In fact, I'm a fully bilingual Jew integrated by socio-cultural circles. Western Edmonton Journal, May 9. This week's summit of western premiers is as sorry a display of political impotence as one is likely to see. By their own admission, the premiers gathered at a time of national crisis: divisions over the Meech Lake constitutional accord strain the future of Confederation, mounting economic strains sap the vitality and effectiveness of governments. Yet the leaders of the four western provinces together, as populous as the central Canadian power bases they forever complain about have nothing to offer but whining about the failings of the federal government. Canada's political and economic turmoil is a pretty clear signal that the federal government isn't doing the job; that's why we expect other leaders to find a way out of the problems. Instead, the premiers state the obvious, and work themselves into a fine sense of outrage. The Meech Lake discord demands new national initiatives to at least ease the bitterness a failure not self-determination; it's splintering. Less than a decade ago I served as president of the Canadian Centre of International Policy."
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In this region alone, 2 million people are going to need food aid by April. In the Eastern Cape, the drought is worse than it has been in nearly 120 years and 2,000 farmers have gone bankrupt. A traditional food exporter, South Africa will need to import 5 million tons of food this year. Namibia has lost its entire maize crop and, like Zambia, needs to import a million tons of maize. In Zambia, people have begun moving to the cities in search of food and water. Cholera is rife because water and sanitation facilities cannot cope. Tanzania has also been severely afflicted and on Wednesday the United Nations said that Kenya in East Africa faces famine. The two countries where starvation has been common for more than a decade, Mozambique and Angola, have had good rains and good crops. But famine in those countries has been caused mainly by prolonged civil wars and the problem will be getting food to the people who need it. The United Nations estimates 500,000 people face starvation in Mozambique's central provinces. Charles Bassett, the Canadian high commissioner in Zimbabwe, said Thursday that people are already dying in Zimbabwe as a result of malnutrition.
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"We are making a cut that really hurts," Gysi said after the meeting. "This clean cut will enable us to step into the political future with our heads held high." The party emerged last fall from the ruins of the corrupt Communist regime toppled in a bloodless grass-roots revolution. Renaming themselves the Democratic Socialists, the mostly young leaders of the restructured party touted it as the voice of opposition and reform. Critics have demanded the party be stripped of all holdings and be forced to start from scratch. But its "new and improved" image was badly tarnished last month when three key officials admitted they smuggled $71 million out of the country to Moscow to avoid confiscation by Bonn after the two Germanys merged. Gysi denied any involvement in the secret transfer of funds, and he won a vote of confidence from the party when he offered to resign. The party also decided to slash its central staff from 212 to 75 paid members and to give a piece of its prime Berlin real estate to the civil rights groups that spearheaded last fall's revolution.
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Hundreds of men were employed by the trolley companies to put them in condition, but their efforts were futile. Suburban traffic was blocked for several hours in the morning and after that trains ran at long intervals. All trains were delayed. Some that were due in the early morning hours had not been heard from at night. The superintendent of mails in the general Post Office reported that the mail train from Boston, due at 6 a.m., had not been heard from, nor had the mails been received up to 10 o'clock tonight. The incoming mails from other parts, he said, were from two hours to an unknown number of hours behind time. The damage to small shipping in the harbor and down the bay was very great. It is reported tonight that several tug boats belonging to the Kingston Towing Company, together with a large number of canal boats, were sunk up the river by the force of the gale. The shores of the Hudson are littered with wreckage. At 9 o'clock this morning a fleet of twenty-two ocean-going steamships were anchored in the bay.
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When the English Football Association announced that it was hiring Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has had great success coaching in Italy and Portugal, as its new national team coach, the outcry was tremendous. "Disaster," the tabloid London Daily Mirror headlined the news. "England's humiliation knows no end. All that is left is for the football men of England to pull the sackcloth up over our heads and let the grave-dancers pile on the ashes," wrote Daily Mail columnist Jeff Powell. "We've sold our birthright down the river to a nation of 7 million skiers and hammer-throwers who spend half their lives in darkness." John Sadler of the Sun, a newspaper that has a well-deserved reputation for xenophobia, used words like "humiliation" and "climb-down" to describe the appointment. "What a terrible, pathetic self-inflicted indictment," he wrote. "What an awful mess." Predictably, Gordon Taylor, a former manager who heads the Professional Footballers' Association, the players' union, and John Barnwell, head of the League Managers' Association, also condemned the move.
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Almanac Record 1896 1902 Temperature Yesterday Year ago today Normal this date Max Min 32 -5 19 20 17 14 9 7 Regional synopses Abitibi-Lac St. Jean High 11, Low near 2, Sunny and cool, Laurentians, High 16, Low near 4, Partly cloudy, Eastern Ontario High 18, Low near 6, Mainly sunny, Southern Ontario High 21, Low near 8, Sunny with a few morning clouds, Quebec City High 16, Low near 6, Mainly sunny, Eastern Townships High 16, Low near 4, Mainly cloudy, Northern New England High 18, Low near 6, Cloudy with afternoon sunny periods, Gasps High 9, Low near 3, Partly cloudy and cool, Lower North Shore High 5, Low near -1, Sunny and cool, Sunny High 21 Low 7, Sunny High 25 Low 12 Showers High 21 Low 11 Partly cloudy High 24 Low 9 Miami Weather systems forecast for 1 p.m.
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FIRST OF THE SEASON Severe Snowstorms in North Britain and the Midlands London November 23 Severe snowstorms prevailed today over the Midlands and North Britain, and heavy gales are sweeping the coasts. Train and mail boats have been delayed. In Sheffield the storm is described as a blizzard, and in Manchester the street and railway traffic is badly crippled. A despatch from Brussels says that the Belgian coast was swept by a storm yesterday, and that great damage was done. A despatch from Amsterdam says that the steamer Montenegro went ashore in the storm near Texel Island, in the North Sea. London November 23 The fierce winds, accompanied by a sudden cold snap, have proved serious over the whole northern portion of the kingdom. The snow has caused many blockades and a number of accidents on the railways. Along the coast there have been numerous wrecks, and the lifeboats have been in constant requisition. The Channel traffic is practically suspended, and the hotels at Calais on the French side are crowded with travellers waiting to cross to Dover. NEW YORK New York November 23 There was a disposition manifest to curtail operations on the stock exchange in the early hours of today's session, on account of tomorrow's holiday for one thing, and on account of one or two depressing influences in the market, which offered obstacles to the successful prosecution of the bull campaign. The snowstorm in the West, with its obstruction to traffic and reports of damage to livestock was a discouragement to advancing prices. There was rather less assurance felt also that the Northern Pacific-Oregon Navigation imbroglio was sure to be patched up, and Northern Pacific stocks and others concerned in the quarrel tended downwards. Weakness in a number of the specialties, notably Tobacco, on reports of the character of the opposition in the cigarette branch accentuated the prevailing tendency. People's Gas dropped off at one time 1 1-2, and Federal Steel continued to droop. There was a marked falling off in the recent activity in Atchison preferred, probably the reason for the depressing influences for the other stocks. There was a very marked bull spirit latent in the market, nevertheless, and it turned from the centres of depression and from the region of the snowstorm to other specialties and the eastern railroads. The movement was more marked in the Coalers, and had its inception in the Reading issues. The buying of these securities was attributed to the banking interest, which yesterday advanced Southern preferred and which is dominant in Northern Pacific and has important interests in Federal Steel. How far yesterday's manipulation of Southern preferred and today's of the trading securities is designed to sustain the weak spots elsewhere in the common interest of the manipulator can only be a matter of surmise. Louisville, New York Central, Ontario & Western and a number of other eastern railways enjoyed their period of strength and aided towards the late recovery and the firm close at a level generally above yesterday's prices. Andrew McKinney & Co, members of the New York Stock Exchange, wire J E Fairchild, manager, U St, Sacramento street: The stock market was active, but irregular today, with prices towards an improvement. The delay in the reply of the Spanish peace commission was construed as favorable to an amicable settlement and a sharp advance took place. Manhattan rose about 2 percent, on rumors that a large short interest in the stock was forced to cover, and near the approach toward a change in the motive power. In the Industrials there was very little of interest. The market has been very dull all day, with the usual closing up of contracts before a holiday, but without any pressure of long stocks as the feeling is very confident of an early and satisfactory settlement of our affairs with Spain. All conditions point to a better market and an advance in prices all along the list. Money easy, 2 percent.
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AT OTHER POINTS Hartford, Conn, November 27. The storm in this city is the heaviest known since the blizzard of 1888. The snow is about two feet on a level, and is drifted badly. Trains on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad were much delayed. The train from New York Saturday night reached here at 4 o'clock this afternoon, 14 hours behind time. Trolley travel has been entirely suspended during the day, but some short lines are being cleared up this evening. John A. Horn, an electrician, was killed on the Glastonbury line this morning while working at clearing the track. He was shifting the trolley bar when he was struck by a snow plow. Nyack, N.Y, November 27. A storm raged through Rockland County last night and today, doing much damage. The snow drifts are from three to seven feet high, and have made traveling through the county impossible on some roads. This has been the severest snowstorm since 1888. St. John B, November 27.
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"These are certainly different circumstances," Meloche said. "I know that a lot of people have put '90 in the past. For instance, we have got cots (for Kahnawake's shelter) from the Red Cross and there was a time in '90 when it refused to come in here because they deemed Kahnawake a war zone. But now we are working with them." Damage from ice will be most costly GEOFF BAKER The Gazette A senior insurance official now says the ice storm that has ravaged southern Quebec this week will cost more to fix than any other winter weather disaster in Canadian history. "I think this is definitely the worst storm where insurance was involved in terms of winter storms," said Raymond Medza, general manager for the Quebec region of the Insurance Bureau of Canada. Medza said that from the initial reports he's been getting, the cost of storm damage should rise well into the tens of millions of dollars when his umbrella association, which counts about 140 insurers in Quebec, starts getting financial estimates from members next week. Costly winter storms are unusual, he said, since the biggest inconveniences are usually limited to traffic chaos and not physical damage.
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"CHANGE OF PATH Owing to the steady downpour of rain yesterday we were obliged to cancel the trip to the Lake Shore and substitute today (Wednesday) instead Our wuku will therefore leave the Italian Warehouse today (Wednesday) morning at 10 o'clock sharp for Lachine, Dorval, Valois, Pointe Claire and Beaconsfield FRABER, VIGER & CO A meeting, and took advantage of the suspension of the matches today on account of the rain to visit several of the departments, Messrs P for Lisgar, who is in the city has been summoned to Ottawa by the Government with the view of inducing him to waive his claim to the lieutenant-governorship in favor of Sir Hector Langevin The five farm delegates who came out on the Parisian spent the afternoon after the rain had cleared up in visiting the Central Experimental Farm, over which 1 1 Ma, Gilbert, and with which they expressed themselves as highly pleased They left for the Northwest tonight Hon (I 28 '94 C FI IT HAS AN AWFUL It Left Death and Distress Behind It Down South THE TAIL END UP NORTH Made Things Vastly Unpleasant All Over Yesterday A Great Quantity of Rain Fell Throughout Canada Savannah, Ga,
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A SNOWFALL AT NIAGARA Aa Keanls the Small Fruit Crop Is Wired Out but Little Damage Done In Quebec Toronto, May 14 Special From all parts of Ontario come reports of great damage done by the recent cold snap In some parts frost was so severe that ice formed on standing water to the thickness of half an inch Farmers and market gardeners who were in the city today said that, besides fruits and vegetables being destroyed, the pea crops in many places were badly nipped Other grains have escaped The weather that has followed the big drop in temperature is most favorable The cold rain removes the chill, but had a hot sun followed, the crops that now look healthy would have turned black Niagara Falls, Ont, May 14 Snow fell to the depth of four inches this morning, followed during the afternoon by drizzling rain The grape crop in this locality has been almost totally destroyed, which means thousands of dollars loss Strawberry patches look as if they had been swept by fire, and cherries suffered severely, as did the peach trees Corn, potatoes and other vegetables are lying flat on the ground The season being fully three weeks ahead of last year, the frost Sunday night means hard times for the fruit growers and farmers in the Niagara district EtdtvK Ont, May 14 The frost has done considerable damage to fruit trees, but grain, especially barley and peas, suffered the most Plkmhuokk, Ont, May 14 No damage to crops or fruit by frost in this locality Hmitii's F'ai, Ont, May 14 Very little damage has been done to crops or gardens by frost in this vicinity Pi ANTAdKNKT, May 14 Heavy frost last night, but no damage to crops as yet done Pun, Ont, May 14 No damage is as yet apparent from the frost, but it is feared it will do so in a day or so BHAiaiauj, Ont, May 14 The frost has completely destroyed fruit and early vegetables of every description in this neighborhood Fall wheat and barley are also badly injured Snow has been falling for over two hours this morning Avonmohg, Ont, May 14 There was a slight frost last night, but nothing was damaged to any extent Hawkksbvrv, Ont, May 14 Light frost here No damage done worth mentioning Bknfiusw, Ont, May 14 Frost has not damaged crops to any great extent Fruit has escaped fairly well, not being far enough advanced to suffer permanent injury, The plum crop may be affected to some extent Montkuf, Que, May 14 No frost here on Sunday night Last night's will damage small fruit, etc, but grain is not enough advanced to have been seriously injured Cam eton Pi acb, Ont, May 14 The slight frost last two nights does not seem to have done much injury in this locality A imontk, Ont, May 14 Frost has not hurt crops in this locality, not being sufficiently advanced, but grapes and fruits generally are very badly damaged Thermometer fell to 28 degrees Mm Tbia Province Btanbtkad, Que, May 14 Gardens were not far enough advanced to be damaged by the recent frosts Some slight damage was done to apple and plum trees Kazabazua, Que, May 14 Very heavy frost last night, but little damage done to crops around here Wakbukld, Que, May 14 The frost was quite heavy here last night but no damage reported, although fruit trees and tender plants must certainly have been nipped Hemminofohd, Que, May 14 Nothing was damaged by the frost here except cherry and plum blossoms St IsiroiiK, May 14 There was a heavy frost in this vicinity last night The fruit crop, if not lost altogether, is seriously damaged Bbossbap, May 14 There was a heavy frost here last night which seriously damaged the fruit crop, if it did not ruin it altogether Huntingdon, Que, May 14 Garden stuff generally suffered pretty severely from frost last night Grape vines, cabbage and tomatoes are especially frost bitten It is a question whether or not fruit trees will be affected Vaudbeuil, Que, May 14 Frost did no damage in Vaudreuil Across the Lines St Paul, May 14 Reports indicate that there was another severe frost last night all over Minnesota and South Dakota It is feared the damage was even greater than on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights Omaha, Neb, May 14 Railway officials have been conducting an exhaustive search for damage done by last night's frost, and the damage is found to be insignificant it is chiefly confined to orchards and garden stuffs KpwNOFisiLD, Ills, May 14 Central Illinois was visited by a heavy frost last night Grapes and other fruits were badly damaged, corn, which was well advanced, is bitten off close to the ground Potatoes are killed to the roots and garden vegetables are generally badly damaged Grand Rapids, Mich, May 14 Reports from various portions of the fruit belt of Western Michigan are to the effect that more damage was done by the gale than by freezing $6,000,000 Though the earnings are $102,000 less than in the preceding year, there will be few who will not feel that the result was a very satisfactory one The Bank of Montreal's interests are as wide as Canada itself, and usually it is affected but slightly by a depression that may visit even a large section of the country In 1891, however, it had to seek employment for the great resources at its command at a time when slowness of trade affected all parts, not of the Dominion alone, but of the commercial world There was here no crisis and no financial crash; but everywhere trade was restricted, and the demand for bank accommodation proportionately curtailed Though it is not customary to give information on such matters to the public, it is no doubt the case that to a lack of opportunity for safe employment and diminished rates of interest, and not to losses on account of bad debts, is to be ascribed the falling off in earnings in 1894 compared with 1893, Canada, in the latter year, having, it will be remembered, suffered very little from the commercial calamities that befell her neighbors The annual statement of the Bank of Montreal is always looked for at this period, both by commercial and public men It is an index of the state of trade equal in its way to the national revenue returns Whether from a shareholder's or a public man's point of view the results just announced can be viewed with content It is not minimizing the importance of the efforts of those responsible for the direction and management of the bank's affairs at such a time to say that so satisfactory an outcome could hardly have been obtained in a time of financial collapse or crisis Fortunately it can be said, also, that signs of improving trade are now visible in many quarters, and there is reason to expect that with the increasing commercial activity there will come a better demand for money for business purposes, a demand which the statement of the bank's assets shows it is in good position to meet, and profit by H Smith, an ex-conductor of the Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad, was arrested at the home of his father, near here, this morning, charged with wrecking a Grand Trunk train at Battle Creek during the troubles in July last year, in which the fireman, Thomas Brown, was killed and many passengers were injured Smith disappeared at the time and has been in hiding since He was taken to Battle Creek, THE SUBURBAN RESORT People are flocking out to them These days are for those who are rusticating This is the time of the year in which the suburban resident who has braved the sleet and snowdrifts of outrageous winters and whose chief end in life, outside of business hours, has been to keep the furnace going, reaps the reward of his labors At least it will be so when the present cold snap is over, the city resident who has sniffed pityingly at the suburbanite during the past six months will be the one to be pitied, while the suburbanite comes into town each morning redolent with bucolic happiness All sorts of jibes, jocose and otherwise, have been made by the humorist at the expense of the poor suburbanite, his garden in which, according to the humorist, he usually gets $10 worth of vegetables for $12; in fact, everything that he owns But now, now is the time when the suburban resident takes cut his revenge In the evenings he can take the pure fresh air, either in his canoe on the bosom of placid old Lake St Louis, or in the lovely spots that lie thick upon its shores Among those whom the heat of the past week has hastened away to the numerous summer resorts in our vicinity are the families of the following, many of them being well known in Montreal These are but the first, however, for during the rest of the month the numbers will be wonderfully increased, and by the end of the month the city will have adopted a forlorn and deserted appearance, while the lake shore and other charming resorts will be crowded to their utmost capacity, and all will be gayety and life At Dorval are already Messrs, G Eadie and family, L de Bruere, H
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TURKEY, Bwsaltus snnwItloMs mt war, BrcnADHT, June 22, Russia has presented to Bulgaria another warship, also 16,000 rifles, Al baaia and rientenejrro, CossTAjmyoPL, June 22, The Porte declines to force the Albanians to surrender their territory to Montenegro, but is willing to use its persuasion, ARSTRIA-nTXGART, Klnteterial crisis, Yuxxa, June 22, A Ministerial crisis is imminent GEKJIAJY, ttiaaatrsnsi raiasu B kr Us, June 22, In the district of Lambar, in Breslau, Prussia, heavy torrential rains have killed 36 persons and destroyed 105 houses
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At least one person died and up to 15 others were injured in a bombing near a Ramos party rally in Cotabato, 900 km south of Manila. Some reports put the death toll at Cotabato as high as four. A grenade exploded before dawn yesterday in the office of a mayoral candidate in a Manila suburb, but there were no casualties. The latest attacks brought to at least 38 the number killed since the campaign began last February. Hundreds died during the fraud-marred 1986 election that Ferdinand Marcos nominally won over Aquino. Police chief Cesar Na, "areno placed the country's 100,000-strong police force on red alert yesterday. Surveys show four contenders are locked in a tight race. They include Ramos, house Speaker Ramon Mitra, former judge Miriam Defensor Santiago and businessman Eduardo (Danding) Cojuangco, a close Marcos ally. Marcos trails along with Senator Jovito Salonga and Vice-President Salvador Laurel.
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is being lost through fraud in the United States and Canada alone,"" he said. SNOW Private citizen is seldom fined, city says CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 the full meaning of it. Milne isn't alone. Confusing notices being issued by city inspectors have many people thinking they've just been handed $100 tickets, when in fact they've been given 24 hours to clear snow piled on streets or sidewalks. If they don't comply, a ticket is issued. Sid Stevens, founder of the Sun Youth Organization, which runs a number of programs to help the elderly, said his group got two or three calls this week about people who received similar notices and believed they were $100 tickets. In Milne's case, it was only when Sun Youth worker Victor Rodriguez showed up with a $100 donation from someone who heard Milne had been ticketed that he discovered the ""ticket"" was a warning. Now Sun Youth is trying to return the money to the donor. City officials say they can understand how the notice can be confusing, since the same form is used to issue warnings and impose fines. Diane Leduc of the public-works department said the city is considering plans to draft new forms. While the new forms may say that an English version of the notice is available on request, Quebec's language laws prohibit the city from issuing bilingual notices, she said. People who receive the notices and can't understand them should call their local Access Montreal office. Leduc said city inspectors handed out 150 to 200 notices across the city after the latest snowstorm, warning residents they faced fines of $100 if they didn't remove snow they had piled on streets or sidewalks. ""But it is extremely rare that we fine a citizen for it,"" Robert De Repentigny, chief public-works inspector for the western half of the city, said the city handed out 100 to 115 tickets to Montrealers who piled snow in the streets over the last three years, roughly 80 per cent to businesses. De Repentigny said ordinary residents are not usually fined until they commit several offences. De Repentigny said the bylaw has been on the books for years, but fines are up this year. Last year, minimum fines ranged from $30 to $100. Now, fines start at $100 and rise to $1,000 for a third offence. But a fine isn't worrying Milne any more. After all the upset, he awoke yesterday to find the two-foot-high pile of snow that touched off a bureaucratic snowstorm was gone, scattered by passing cars and trucks. Escobar's offer acceptable: prosecutor NEW YORK TIMES BOGOTA, Colombia Fugitive drug-trafficker Pablo Escobar has proposed a new set of conditions for his surrender, and Colombia's chief prosecutor said yesterday that they are acceptable. In a message delivered to the Roman Catholic bishop of the city of Bucaramanga by one of Escobar's lawyers yesterday morning, the drug-trafficker said that to avoid being poisoned he wants private cooking facilities when in prison. He also asked that he be allowed to call family members three times a week and that they be given government protection. Since his escape from prison last July, Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine-trafficking ring, has made repeated attempts to negotiate his surrender, but up to now the authorities have refused all of his offers. Two weeks ago, Escobar said he would turn himself in if the U.P. credit curd 12-24 months to pay 60 days interest free. Valleyfield institution agrees to review policy after golden age clubs complain DEBBIE PARKES, Gaston Lafontaine, hospital, the federation and the ambulance company - Hosoif THE GAZETTE: VALLEYFIELD - A federation of golden age clubs is up in arms over a policy of the Centre Hospitalier de Valleyfield to charge seniors for ambulance services. The hospital says it sympathizes with the seniors and has already agreed to review its year-old policy. Ambulance services for people aged 65 and older are normally covered by the hospital as long as the person's medical status makes the trips necessary. The problem is that the Department of Health and Social Services regulation about free trips is unclear about what is necessary. So it can be interpreted by different hospitals differently, said the Federation des Clubs de l'Age d'Or du Sud-Ouest. In the past several months, the organization has received 131 complaints from people 65 years old or older who were billed for their ambulance ride to the Valleyfield hospital, said federation director-general. He said a specialist who was hired by his organization to review the 131 files concluded that in no more than two cases was the hospital justified in refusing to pay. Lafontaine said many of the people were transported by ambulance after complaining of chest pains or stomach problems. Without seeing a doctor, the seniors cannot know for sure what the problem is, he said. It would be foolhardy for them not to act as if the pains were potentially serious. The hospital's error, Lafontaine continued, is that it's paying for ambulances based on the final diagnosis and not on the symptoms. The federation, which represents about 30 golden-age groups, brought the matter to the attention of the Regie Regionale de la Sante et des Services Sociaux de la Monteregie at a board meeting a month ago. A meeting between representatives of the Regie, the hospital, the federation and the ambulance company - Longueuil-based Cooperative et Techniciens Ambulanciers de la Montérégie - was held this month to come to some agreement. The hospital has already agreed to review the contentious cases with the federation. Anne Chiasson, director of nursing services at the 259-bed hospital, said the institution is willing to comply with more specific billing guidelines once they are drawn up. Chiasson said that until April of last year, the hospital paid pretty much all of the seniors' ambulance bills. It then became more strict. Since the federation's complaint, the Regie has formed its own internal committee to establish criteria. Meanwhile, said Jocelyne Juneau, the Regie's director of community relations, the ambulance company PLEASE SEE AMBULANCE, PAGE G2 3 ""fc "" M tr, ""r -r PUP ' o - -twrr'i'iiffliiiWfifiiM GAZETTE, GORDON BECK. Heave ho through the snow The weekend snowstorm brought this group of friends and neighbors together to lend a hand and help push one driver's car out of the snowdrifts in Brossard. But snow piles engineered by Mother Nature and city plows weren't the only problems motorists had to contend with. Blowing snow lodged inside the engine of Gilles Guay's van. Once he got his battery boosted, though, the fan blew most of it away. Mercier man 'born to fight fires' mourned after dying in snowstorm KATHERINE WILTON THE GAZETTE MERCIER - When Jean-Pierre Dufort asked Lucien Amyot to work an overtime shift during Saturday's snowstorm, Dufort knew he was leaving the Pointe Claire fire department in capable hands. ""He said he was leaving home right away and asked what he would be doing,"" said Dufort, Pointe Claire's assistant fire director. Dufort had called Amyot, the department's chief of operations, about 8 p.m. It would be the last time he would speak to Amyot, a Mercier resident. Two hours later, Dufort got a call from Fire Chief Kurt Langguth, saying Amyot hadn't arrived. Langguth said there were accidents on the Mercier Bridge and Amyot might have been stuck in traffic. An hour later, Langguth called back with bad news. Amyot, 46, had been found dead in his car on a LaSalle road near the bridge. He had died of a heart attack shortly after leaving home, where he lived with his wife and three teenage daughters. ""When he (Langguth) told me I said stop fooling around,"" Dufort said. ""When he said he wasn't joking, I was stunned. I couldn't believe it. He was so young."" Amyot's wife, Viviane, said her husband was fine when he left home. Firefighters from across Quebec have been calling to say they want to attend today's funeral at St. Philomène de Mercier Church in Mercier, she said. Amyot was renowned for teaching innovative firefighting techniques to firefighters in other departments, his wife said. ""He learned so many new methods on his own,"" she said. ""He wanted to pass on the knowledge to others so it wouldn't be forgotten."" Pointe Claire's fire director, Maurice Lamoureux, said Amyot was one of the best in the business. ""He was always looking for perfection,"" said Lamoureux, who met Amyot on a training course in 1974. ""He was a legend in his field. It's a great loss."" Lamoureux said he was shocked by Amyot's death because he was in excellent health and didn't drink or smoke. The director of Mercier's fire department said his firefighters were devastated by Amyot's death. ""He was our chief instructor for the past 12 years,"" said Andre Prud'homme, a lifelong friend. ""He was like a father to the men. Whenever they needed advice they went to his house. This is a big hole for us to fill."" Amyot's roots with Mercier's part-time force were deep. His father, Gerard, set up a volunteer force in 1959. Amyot began working with his father in 1969. After getting his start in Mercier, he worked in Cote St. Luc, Dorval, Ville St. Pierre and Pointe Claire, where he was hired in 1990. ""He was one of the most qualified firefighters in Quebec,"" Prud'homme said. ""He lived to fight fires."" Candiac council ordered to rehire top employee fired in 1991 HARVEY SHEPHERD THE GAZETTE CANDIAC - Council members are to meet with legal advisors Monday to discuss a Quebec Municipal Commission decision ordering the town to rehire a top employee fired in 1991. The town had challenged the decision, claiming that the municipal board had exceeded its powers, but on March 3 Superior Court Judge Nicole Morneau upheld the commission's ruling. In a decision last September, the commission ordered the town to rehire Andre Pellan as director of technical services. He had been demoted from that position in February 1990 and then fired in November 1991. The demotion came after a series of disagreements with Mayor Claude Hebert and director-general Claude Donaldson. The dispute covered several issues, specifically whether Pellan had showed undue rigor in the late 1980s in enforcing bylaws on a 537-unit, $57-million housing project along the Riviere a la PLEASE SEE CANDIAC, PAGE A n i n i i t urn HP hp WliAin o inside: a, ""Chambers B3: Wcnderword B7: ick- :es tarqet deficit Revenue Canada drops suit against Yes group. OTTAWA Revenue Canada won't try to collect the $539,619 in GST payments it claims was mistakenly refunded to the Yes committee in last October's constitutional referendum. Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek said yesterday the debt is ""unfortunately uncollectable,"" since the national Canada Referendum Committee was required by the referendum law to shut down Feb. 26. ""According to my officials, it is a situation which is impossible to deal with at this point in time,"" Jelinek said in an interview. ""There is no Yes committee any longer in place."" But the minister said he believes there were errors made on both sides. During the campaign for the Oct. 26 referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord, the three main political parties joined forces to create a national Yes committee. Shortly after it was incorporated, the committee received advice that it could qualify for a refund on the GST it paid out on goods and services if it sold memberships as a non-profit organization. In January, the committee submitted its GST returns and after a few phone calls, received three refund cheques totaling about $527,000. But about a week later, Revenue Canada conducted an audit and reassessed the committee, demanding repayment of the refund. No racism by teacher; probe; TORONTO There is no evidence that teacher Paul Fromm, who spoke at a 1990 neo-Nazi rally, discriminates against students in the classroom, an independent inquiry said yesterday. However, Toronto lawyer Jeff Cowan said Fromm's activities outside school might lead minority students and parents to feel he does not support policies promoting equality and anti-racism. ""There is no direct substantive evidence that Mr. Fromm consciously or actively discriminates against students in his classroom,"" said Cowan's report, submitted to Education Minister Dave Cooke. The Education Ministry asked Cowan last October to investigate complaints against Fromm, who set off a controversy 18 months ago when he was kicked out of a meeting of the Toronto mayor's committee on race relations. As Indian Rodney Bobiwash spoke at the meeting, Fromm yelled ""Scalp 'em."" Fromm, who has taught for 18 years, said his comments were not meant to be racist. Killer denies racist motive, PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. A white supremacist released a statement yesterday about his role in the killing of a native trapper one day after he was cited for contempt for refusing to testify at an inquiry into the death. ""In the statement, which was read on CBC radio by his lawyer, Carney Nerland said: ""At no time was any of my conduct on that day racially motivated, as has been suggested by some people."" Nerland, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, is serving a four-year sentence for the shooting of Leo LaChance. The Cree Indian was killed in January 1991, when he was hit by a bullet outside Nerland's gun store in this northwestern Saskatchewan city. The sentence sparked a series of protests by Indian groups, which pressured the Saskatchewan government into calling a public inquiry. In his statement, Nerland said the shooting was an accident. He said a person he didn't recognize came into the shop to talk to another man about selling a rifle. ""While he was in the shop, nothing insulting or threatening was said to him and the atmosphere was not hostile,"" he said in the statement. Nerland said he was checking his rifle to make sure it was empty when it accidentally discharged. ""At no time did I believe that I had struck anyone with the bullet,"" said Nerland, Saskatchewan leader of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian Aryan Nations. ""I was totally surprised to hear the gun discharge. I am most remorseful that Mr. LaChance was struck by the bullet."" Ex-priest gets 2 years STEPHENVILLE, Nfld. - A former Roman Catholic priest in western Newfoundland was sentenced yesterday to two years for sexually assaulting a girl. Hillary Mahar, 44, had earlier pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault and indecent assault. The crime occurred in the early 1980s while he was parish priest in the Stephenville area. Mahar was sentenced to 17 months in jail for the sexual assault and seven months for indecent assault. The sentences are to run consecutively. Deficit crunch hits all provinces, PAGE B4 Piper scandal comes closer to Rae, PAGE B5 TERRANCE WILLS GAZETTE OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA The Tory leadership race is shaping up as a mutual admiration society that wants to slash government spending, including social programs. Toronto MP Garth Turner, 44, formally entered the race yesterday saying Defence Minister Kim Campbell ""would make a great prime minister."" ""Garth Who?"" Liberal MP Stan Keyes demanded in the House of Commons after the obscure backbencher announced his shoe-string bid. ""If the campaign runs out of money, it'll stop,"" Turner said. He told a press conference: ""I'm not anti-Kim Campbell at all. I think she is an immensely talented person."" A little later, Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek, who says he's leaning toward running, told reporters: ""I'm not anti-Kim Campbell by the way. I want to make that clear. I think she'd make a great prime minister."" Both Turner and Jelinek said they wanted social spending cut. Two other announced candidates, Environment Minister Jean Charest and backbencher Patrick Boyer, said they also wanted the deficit cut, but did not specify a review of social programs. All four are trying to catch up to Campbell, 46, before nearly 4,000 Tory delegates pick a new leader at the June 9-13 convention in Ottawa. Turner, a former tabloid business writer, said his purpose in running to succeed Brian Mulroney as Conservative Party leader and PM is to ensure the party's grassroots have a voice. Calling himself a Ross Perot without money, Turner said his primary platform is to cut the deficit and the federal debt. He wants all government programs reviewed, including medicare, and he said he has no aversion to extra billing by doctors. Charest, who launched his campaign in Sherbrooke Tuesday night, received a standing ovation from Tory MPs yesterday and a compliment from an unexpected quarter. ""He's shown more guts than all these people who ran for cover,"" Liberal leader Jean Chrétien told Parliament, referring to several senior cabinet ministers who withdrew from the race because of Campbell's apparent lead. Turner used several charts to illustrate his concern that the combined federal-provincial debt has reached 92 per cent of gross domestic product or economic output from less than 50 per cent 10 years ago. ""Just look what we've done to this country,"" Turner said in an outburst that gleeful Liberals pounced on. Reminded that Mulroney also promised to balance the budget in his 1983 leadership campaign, Turner replied: ""Now is the time to end the rhetoric about deficit reduction."" While praising both Campbell and Charest ""he's a very talented guy,"" Turner did take a dig at the backroom boys backing Campbell. ""It's no secret my chances of winning are remote. I don't have the Ottawa bigwigs or lobbyists behind me."" ""My message is a simple one: it's time to change the political system, not just the leader."" CP Birthday blow-out Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his son, Nicolas, 7, blow out the candles on the PM's birthday cake during a party on Parliament Hill yesterday. Mulroney turns 54 on March 20. Canada's birth rate dips, ending three-year surge BOB COX CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA Has the baby boomlet burst? Figures released yesterday by Statistics Canada show the country's birth rate dropped in 1991, ending a three-year increase that many demographers had dubbed a mini baby boom. But an official with the federal agency's health information branch warned it's hard to determine the meaning of the 2.6 per cent drop to 14.9 births per 1,000 people from 15.3 in 1990. ""This is a slight dip,"" said Surinder Wadhera. ""I think it's not significant, but if it continues over the next few years then it should be a matter of concern."" Canada's birth rate hit an all-time low in 1987 when 14.4 babies were born per 1,000 population. The long-term trend toward a lower birth rate was halted briefly in the late 1980s; the 1990 rate was the highest in 10 years largely because women in their 30s who had delayed having children were starting families. In 1991, about 35 per cent of babies, more than one in three, were born to women in their 30s, compared with 18 percent in 1975. The average age of women giving birth was 28.2 years in 1991, the oldest ever. But the number of women in their 30s is now falling as the original members of the post-World War II baby boom grow older. ""They will be replaced by a much smaller number of women from the next generation who were born in the 1960s and '70s,"" said Wadhera. Canada's birth rate at the peak of the original baby boom in 1954 was 28.5 babies per 1,000 people. In 1991 the average Canadian woman was expected to have 1.79 children, well below the 2.1 needed to replace the population. A total of 402,528 babies were born in 1991. Canada's birth rate of 14.9 babies per 1,000 people was similar to countries such as Norway (14.2), Poland and Sweden (14.3 each) and Australia (14.8). Industrial countries with higher birth rates included the United States (16.3 births per 1,000 people) and New Zealand (17.8). Countries with significantly lower rates included Italy (9.8 births per 1,000 people), Japan (9.9), Germany (11.3), Denmark (12.5) and Switzerland (12.6). Birth rates within Canada ranged from a high of 29.9 babies per 1,000 people in the Northwest Territories to 12.5 in Newfoundland. Other provincial and territorial rates were: Quebec, 14.2; Prince Edward Island, 14.5; Nova Scotia, 13.4; New Brunswick, 13.1; Ontario, 15.3; Manitoba, 15.8; Saskatchewan, 15.4; Alberta, 17.0; British Columbia, 14.2, and Yukon, 21.1. Rampaging teenage rap fans were just bored: expert LUANN LASALLE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Teens who went to see a humorous rap movie in Toronto and Edmonton and then stormed wildly through shopping malls simply wanted some excitement before returning to their everyday lives, says a child psychologist. ""It's misdirected energy and anger that their situation isn't exciting or doesn't have a leather jacket in it,"" Brent Willock, chief psychologist at Toronto's CM Hincks Treatment Centre for troubled teens, said yesterday. The teens in both cities turned out to see the movie, CB4, a comedy about the rap music industry. Both malls closed Tuesday night about 90 minutes early. About 2,500 young people packed into the Scarborough Town Centre in suburban Toronto to see the movie. A series of fights broke out and a glass door was broken when about 1,000 of the teens weren't able to get tickets because the show was sold out. Fifty police officers were called to get them out of the 220-store mall. Police said there were no arrests. Willock said the teens probably acted out their frustration because they didn't want to feel like ""losers in the lottery for tickets."" In Edmonton, 300 people, most of them teens, fought and terrorized patrons in two downtown malls in a rampage that began after the young people left the movie. Police used pepper spray and batons to subdue the wild crowd in the basement food court of Edmonton's Eaton Centre. ""It's a racist thing,"" screamed a black teen who was led away in handcuffs. ""Whether it was a case of the winter blues or what, we don't know,"" said Insp. Hugh Richards. Eight people were arrested, including two adults and several minors. They were charged with causing a disturbance, assaulting a police officer and breach of peace. At least four of the teens sported blue jackets with a gang name, said a waitress at the Eaton Centre's pub. ""It was the most shocking thing I've ever seen,"" she said. ""It was unreal."" In Toronto, one teen turned away from the Scarborough mall theatre said there were several fights. She said tempers rose partly because the police were over-reacting. ""I don't think it's because of the movie,"" said Tanya, 15, who spent yesterday hanging out at downtown Toronto's Eaton Centre. ""If there weren't so many cops, nothing would have happened."" Cineplex Odeon, which was showing the movie in its theatres, blamed the incidents on spring break, high demand, discount night which offers movies for about half-price and a snowstorm which kept many people home until after the weekend. ""We don't think it's movie-related,"" said Howard Lichtman, the movie company's vice-president of marketing. ""The demand exceeded the capacity."" Police in Toronto blamed the melee on spring break and ""cheap night at the movies."" ""There was the potential there for problems because you have so many young people,"" said Sgt. Patrick Tal-lon. ""When you have that many people milling about it's a recipe for hooliganism."" Inuit fighting oil-company plan to dump scrap metal in Arctic Ocean JUUA NECHEFF CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON Two Inuit communities in Canada's Far North, upset with an oil company's plan to use the Arctic Ocean as a dump site for its waste metal, want the idea scrapped. Panarctic Oils Ltd. of Calgary successfully applied for an Environment Canada permit to dump 400 tonnes of scrap metal into the ocean from its old base camp on remote Loughheed Island, about 1,700 kilometres north of Yellowknife near the north pole. The dumping permit would have gone into effect tomorrow. But when the communities of Resolute Bay and Grisc Fiord in the Eastern Arctic raised objections, Environment Canada agreed to delay the permit until April 15. In the meantime, it will also hold another public meeting to look at other options. But that has riled Grey Alexander, manager of operations for Panarctic. There is no sound environmental basis for the objections, Alexander said. He suggested some people in Resolute Bay are more interested in using the camp for their own purposes, which is why they don't want to see it dismantled. At a public meeting last month, local residents proposed the camp be either left behind or the company move it intact to Resolute Bay for local use, he said. ""Our position is we applied for this thing under EPS (Environmental Protection Service) guidelines, and if the guidelines are followed there is no reason why it should be withheld,"" Alexander said. ""If there was some real basis for scientific concern here, then it would be different."" But Ludy Pudluk, a member of the Northwest Territories legislature who represents the area, said people are concerned most about the environment. Pudluk said they are worried about the long-term effect corroding metal in strong ocean currents might have on fish and sea mammals and eventually on northerners who eat the animals. ""That was the first issue for us,"" he said. ""We don't want materials dumped into salt water."" Pudluk said the Inuit would prefer the scrap be transported south, or at least buried. Both options have been rejected by the company or the government. Pudluk acknowledged community members suggested at the meeting that the camp materials be moved to Resolute Bay, but only because the Inuit's preferred two options were rejected. ""If they can't bury it or move it down south, some people said, 'why not move the materials to the community so we can use it?'"" Panarctic has decided it no longer needs the camp and is obligated to clean up the lease site, said Alexander. ""We either dump it in the ocean or we spend a staggering amount of money"" to send it south, about $2 million, he said. If the permit is revoked, Alexander said Panarctic will apply for a ministerial review board to look into the matter. The scrap includes steel supports for buildings, drill pipe and barrels. Under Environment Canada guidelines, the company must crush and burn the scrap to get rid of residues, then haul it far out across snowdrifts and ice ridges to dump it into deep ocean waters. GAZETTE, GORDON BECK Tiptoe through the tulips Outside, Longueuil was feeling the effects of another snowstorm. Inside, the Perce-Neige gardening festival offered a more pleasurable sight on Saturday. Author to lead Lenten retreat 'Do you believe in Jesus Christ?' will be theme BROSSARD - An Arizona author and teacher specializing in spirituality, personal growth and scripture will lead a Lenten retreat at the Roman Catholic Community of the Good Shepherd on March 24-25. Marilyn Gustin, whose latest book is You Can Know God: Christian Spirituality for Daily Living, will preach at the weekend masses at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 20, and at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Sunday, March 21. She will also speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday March 22-25. All are welcome. Her theme: ""Do you believe in Jesus Christ?"" She will emphasize the Gospel of John. Gustin, who already had a seminary degree when she was received into the Catholic Church in 1973, has worked with the mentally ill and in an Arizona retreat house. She has also taught at a broad range of places including a Christian Brothers novitiate and a Benedictine monastery. Good Shepherd Parish is at 7900 Naples St. in Brossard. For information, call Rev. Bradley McGovern at 676-7577. Chateauguay Valley Spartans capture girls' championship Team jumped to early lead, winning 64-29 over Gait DAVID PETERS SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE The Chateauguay Valley Spartans and Lennoxville's Alexander Gait Pipers turned the QASA McLeod-Visser provincial high-school basketball championships into a two-team affair last Saturday. Chateauguay Valley captured the Quebec Association of School Administrators McLeod girls' championship with a decisive 64-29 over Gait. The Pipers returned the favor in the Visser boys' final, winning 51-42. The championships were held at Bishop's University in Lennoxville. Chateauguay Valley advanced to the girls' final by virtue of its 69-21 drubbing of Quebec High School Friday night and a 60-33 victory over Greenfield Park's Centennial Regional Saturday morning. ""The girls were pumped,"" said an elated Faye Craig, who, along with Tony Evans, coaches the Chateauguay Valley girls. ""They came down to win and weren't going to be stopped."" Guard was catalyst The Spartans jumped out to an early lead in the final and never looked back as they cruised to a 32-15 halftime lead and kept the pressure on Gait the rest of the way. Centre Jennifer Grant led Chateauguay with 20 points, forward Megan Woods added 16 and guard Tracey Marshall pitched in with 12. Guard Wendy Brunct was the Spartans' catalyst. With precise, crisp passes, she established offensive momentum and turned back Piper forwards with tight defensive play. ""She really gets things going, displays good leadership and was one of the reasons we controlled the boards so well in all of our games,"" Grant said. In the boys' final, the 400-strong partisan crowd was treated to a classic defensive struggle with Gait and Chateauguay Valley tied at 36 at the close of the third quarter, after Gait took an initial 12-2 lead. However, the Pipers used home court to their advantage, going on a 15-6 run in the final period to salt away a 51-42 win. Todd Allen led Piper point-getters with 12. Centennial captured the consolation final with a 61-43 win over Stanstead. One of the tourney's finer games was D'Arcy McGee's 63-62 win over the Centennial boys' squad. The Chargers, down 24 points at halftime, nearly engineered an impressive comeback, getting to within one point with 15 seconds left. Centennial had possession of the ball in the final seconds but was unable to score. Danny McArthur, convenor of both South Shore leagues and Centennial girls' coach, was pleased by the strong showing of the teams in his leagues and impressed by the way the tournament was run. ""Our teams did very well,"" McArthur said. ""And I think that speaks volumes for the basketball program on the South Shore. Don Caldwell (tournament convenor and coach of the Champlain College men's team) and (QASA representative) Doug Flewwelling did a fine job all weekend long. They deserve a lot of credit,"" he added. McArthur's only regret was that he and his team could not stay to watch the finals because of Saturday's blizzard. The snow started falling in Lennoxville around 2 p.m. when he decided to make a break for it and return home. He said the driving was dicey but all arrived safely. Some teams were not as lucky and ended up stranded in Lennoxville until the following day. Preparing for Richelieu Zone Chateauguay Valley will prepare for the Richelieu Zone championships later this month by competing in the Civic Provincials for community-based Double and Triple A teams this weekend. The Spartans will play in the Double A section. Gait came very close to accomplishing a rare provincial troika last weekend. While the boys won the Visser and the girls were finalists in the McLeod, the Pipers hockey team was busy winning the QASA championship 6-5 over LaSalle Catholic at the Kahnawake Sports Complex. It marked the fifth time the Pipers have been crowned provincial champions and now join Pierrefonds Comprehensive as the only five-time winners. Have Fun With The Whole Family For $8 Hour! Children under 16 years accompanied by an adult. We do not serve alcohol."
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In an interview with an intimate friend today Sir John Thompson, in answer to a question whether he intended to reply to the attack of Dr. Douglas in the Methodist conference, said: ""Those who know that a man may change his religious views need no explanation. It would be idle to give reasons to those who do not believe that a man may conscientiously become a Catholic."" A CYCLONE WRECKED BY St. Johns, Que, Swept by a Terrific Windstorm Ottawa A Windstorm St. Johns, Que, June 14 A cyclone passed over the southwestern part of this town about 1:30 this afternoon, carrying destruction in its way. Mr. A. Bertrand lost two buildings completely demolished and part of a large barn used for pressing and storing hay. Two hay presses were also damaged, large beams torn from the buildings destroyed were carried hundreds of feet in the air and deposited in the surrounding yards and gardens. The peculiar noise alarmed the citizens. Those who got out of doors in time viewed a scene seldom witnessed.
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Baynes, bursar, October 9th, 1887; Mr. Kerr, February 12th, 1888; the Hon. Judge Mackay, February 23rd, 1888; Mr. Barnham, May 16th, 1888; and the Hon. Senator Ferrier, who died May 30th, 1888. Mr. Taylor, the librarian, died March 25th, 1888. Struck a Rich, A curious story is told of Mr. Olivier Dunnuis, the California millionaire, who has purchased Mille Flours, the residence of Hon. Senator Thibaudeau. He was born at Boreal and when quite a boy moved out west to push his fortune. At the foot of the Rocky Mountains he fell in with a tribe of Indians who used bands of silver as ornaments for their guns and other purposes. They refused to give any indication as to where they got the silver, but Mr. Dunnuis joined the tribe, married an Indian girl and thus learned their secret.
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The research findings were presented yesterday at a conference of neuroscientists in New Orleans, the New York Times said. Marcus Raichle of Washington University of St. Louis and his researchers used the X-rays to put together an unexpected picture of how the brain remembers. The findings should help scientists better understand how the brain remembers, said Mortimer Mishkin, a leading researcher of human memory at the U."
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a Defence Department spokesman said yesterday Defence Minister Marcel Masse and External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall decided last night to send the ship sometime this spring, said Capt. Brett Boudreau HMCS Restigouche will join a multinational force patrolling the Red Sea to enforce UN trade sanctions imposed 18 months ago following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait The Defence Department is taking steps to inform the crew and their families, said Boudreau The Restigouche, based in Esquimalt, B.C. Wings 2, Lakeshore Hawks 1 DIVISION C Pierrelonds Marquis 5, PAT Lamborghini 1 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pet CB New York 28 16 .636 Boston 27 18 .600 Vk Philadelphia 23 23 .500 6 Miami 22 24 .478 7 New Jersey 19 26 .422 9'4 Washington 15 29 .341 13 Orlando 11 35 .239 18 Central Division W L pct G3 Chicago 39 8 .830 Cleveland 30 13 .690 7 Detroit 26 20 .565 12H Atlanta 23 23 .
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"But these elections could result in a surprise." Carpio, a publishing magnate who had run the best-financed campaign, had been leading by a narrow margin in pre-election polls. Despite its apparent poor showing yesterday, the ruling Christian Democratic Party is the best-organized political group in the country and one of the few capable of providing transportation to take its followers to the polls. The army, which has dominated Guatemala's political life for most of the past three decades, kept a low profile yesterday. BONN, Germany Amid growing controversy and scandal, the former East German Communist Party promised yesterday to give up 80 per cent of its vast holdings, estimated at more than $1 billion. "The less there is, the less can be manipulated," the party's beleaguered chairman, Gregor Gysi, told a news conference. The move comes just three weeks before the first free all-German elections in nearly 60 years. Polls have suggested that the party still may be able to win the 10 per cent of 12 million votes in eastern Germany that are needed to secure seats in the Bonn parliament.
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The federal government is prepared to sell us out to save the country. The Quebec Liberal Party has shown that it will sell us out to appease the nationalists, and brags of it. And, above all, the Parti Quebecois is fewer better when it comes to constitution talks? It's a rare occasion when a reader finds himself defending a government, especially the present federal government, against a journalist. Norman Webster's March 21 column provides one. Mr. Webster made the critical statement, "In Ottawa, the parties at the constitutional negotiating table have been increased officially from 11 to a ridiculous 17," and went on to bemoan the representation of the territories and four native organizations. Apparently, Norman Webster feels that The Group of Eleven first ministers ought to hold forth, as in Meech Lake, unencumbered by troublesome "process." It is, admittedly, an efficient method, but some don't see it as terribly democratic. Some might say that, at last, thanks to Joe Clark, Bob Rae and Ovide Mercredi, this Canada Round is beginning to take on the character of its name.
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V, July 11, The report of a drummer who was drowned in the flood is incorrect. Sheriff Sutcliffe estimates the loss in this town alone at $100,000. As near as can be determined there were only 15 people on the Perry Street bridge when it gave way. Five escaped, five were rescued and five were drowned. Several hundred dollars have been raised already for the relatives of the victims of the flood. It hit by lightning. BRADFORD, Pa, July 11, During last night's terrific thunderstorm lightning struck a cottage near Mason Hill occupied by a colored family and killed Thomas Williams, aged 13. At Temple the residence of Aug Mur-ling was struck and the house and contents consumed. Mrs. Geo. Holden, a visitor, had her arm paralyzed. HOLLAND IN NEW MEXICO, A.
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(hail) July 17, 1995 18,839 $52 million Medicine Hat, Alta. (tornado) June 7, 1988 21,764 $50 million Most expensive winter storms Sarnia, Ont. (tornado) March 27-28, 1991 14,608 $25 million Ont., Que. fighting the ice Ottawa declares state of emergency; parts of Vermont, Maine in the dark JONATHON GATEHOUSE The Gazette It may be cold comfort to the millions of Quebecers left shivering in the dark by a series of freezing rain storms, but they are not alone in their misery. The same weather system that has dumped more than 50 millimeters - and counting - of icy precipitation on southwestern Quebec this week has also wreaked havoc on eastern Ontario and several U.S. states. More than 200,000 Ontario Hydro customers in the areas of Ottawa, Kingston and Cornwall were left without power yesterday, and officials said it may be days before service is re-established. "It's difficult to tell how long this is going to take, the weather is really working against us," said Ontario Hydro spokesman Al Manchee.
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Founder freed The founder of the Red Brigades, Italy's most feared terrorist gang for decades, leaves a Rome prison yesterday on a work-release program after 17 years behind bars. Renato Curcio, 51, will help a small publishing firm prepare a study on former terrorists. Curcio will return Russian nuclear accident triggers fear abroad Western countries fall short on promises of aid to improve safety standards WILLIAM DROZDIAK WASHINGTON POST PARIS Despite rising anxiety about the perilous condition of Soviet-made nuclear facilities, Western governments have failed to live up to last year's promises of substantial aid to improve the safety standards of those sites. After a leak in graphite tubing released a small amount of radioactive gas from a Chernobyl-type nuclear plant near St. Petersburg in March of 1992, leaders from the world's major industrial countries vowed at last summer's Group of Seven summit to spend $700 million on upgrading the most dangerous nuclear plants in the former Soviet Union. But nearly a year after the $700 million was promised, hardly any of the money has been released because the industrial powers could not agree on who should disburse the funds and manage the cleanup.
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The Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales says it has outgrown its present building on Decelles Ave. at Jean Brillant Ave. The city's district advisory committee for C?te des Neiges and N. Westmount Otiircniont 5th 1 lMr 486-7305 273-8889 842-7711 We might expropriate Outremont Theatre: mayor HAZEL PORTER THE GAZETTE OUTREMONT - The city will expropriate the Outremont Theatre to protect it from further deterioration unless the municipality and owners can agree on a price, Mayor Jean Pomminville said this week. Outremont has offered $1 million for the landmark but the owners, Shelley Investments, want $2.5 million. "We're trying to negotiate with them but they want more," Pomminville said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "Yes, we will go that far if it is necessary," the mayor replied when asked whether the city is prepared to expropriate.
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W. Campbell and another physician, Dr. Davidson, were on board the train and they attended to the man's injuries. These were of a most serious nature. The right arm was broken in two places; the left arm was broken, and there were also severe internal injuries. These were attended to as well as possible under the circumstances. The General Hospital ambulance was telephoned for, and met the train on arrival at the Bonaventure Station. The man was conveyed to the hospital, where he now lies in a precarious condition. His escape from drowning was a most miraculous one. Joseph Jimnet is a man of about 40 years of age, residing at No. 113 Quesnel street, Ste. Curie-gonde, and is married, with several children. Yesterday's terrific gale had a very marked effect on the river opposite the city. The ice, which had formed between the wharves and the Guard Pier, was completely honeycombed by the deluge of rain of the early morning, and large fields of ice were carried out by the force of the wind. As a result of the hurricane, the city supply of water was rendered very dirty in appearance, and, during the day, was anything but an inviting beverage. In many places along the wharves the ice and snow have entirely disappeared, and are, in places, as bare as in summer. The Harbor Commissioners' fleet of dredges, etc., which are moored at the foot of the canal, did not suffer any material damage from the fury of the storm. IN THE HEART OF THE CITY Saturday's wind storm was certainly one to be remembered in Montreal, and its severity has not been equalled in the city for many years. On Monday evening the storm was brewing, and gaining strength every hour. The pelting rain and uncomfortable atmosphere made it an unpleasant night to be outdoors. As the wind strengthened, towards the early morning hours, the rain ceased. From about one o'clock in the morning until about twelve noon yesterday, the storm was at its height. The gale howled through the trees, whistled down the chimneys and the windows ominously. By the morning all hopes that the gale would quickly subside were dispelled. Instead, the wind kept on increasing, and the greater part of the damage was done between the hours of eight and eleven o'clock in the morning. The most disastrous effect was noticed upon McGill street, which had a most demoralized appearance. Some fifteen of the gigantic telegraph poles were blown over; in front of the St. Ann's market alone, there were seven of the massive poles snapped in twain. Traffic was completely blocked all afternoon, from the market to the Albion Hotel; in many cases, parts of the broken poles and tops hung on the mass of wires and threatened to fall every moment and crush the number of men working below. It took some time to clear away the mass of wreckage, and tangled and broken wires, although a great many men were working. It seemed miraculous that no fatal accident had occurred on this busy thoroughfare. The huge poles, lying on the ground, completely blocked the way; the wires, glass and huge splinters made the sidewalks almost impassable. The iron swinging beams of the electric light also lay scattered around, broken into many pieces. At the corners of McGill and Wellington streets two poles had been snapped in two and destroyed. Looking up the street the scene was like that often seen after a fire. In one of the large wholesale warehouses on McGill street, the front door, with large glass windows, had been completely blown in and the glass shattered to atoms. In other places there were poles that looked as if very little would bowl them over, too, and some had the appearance of snapping at the base. Several other streets were affected to a less extent. On Cathedral street, where the wind has a fine sweep from Dominion Square, a good deal of damage was done to the telegraph poles. Just below St. Antoine street one had snapped in two, and the upper part had crashed onto the roof of a dwelling house, effecting considerable damage. At the corner of St. Antoine street, again, there were two poles broken in two, while, looking up the street, others were noticed in a very precarious position, leaning to one side and supported by ropes. Here and there, along the other streets, a pole or fence is noticed down, but no real heavy damage was done. The huge piles were blown down, and the tracks scattered like so many feathers. During the morning the employees in the top storey of the Canada Jute Company's Building, on St. Martin street, below William, had a great scare. Without very much warning, the entire roof seemed to come away and gently deposit itself in a lane at the rear. This was rather too much for the women employees, who decamped in a great hurry. The buildings of the Montreal Ice Exchange in the immediate vicinity also experienced considerable damage. One side and end of one of the old buildings caved in, but no one was hurt. The small building standing by itself at the western corner of Chaboillez square and Notre Dame street was considerably damaged. Part of the roof was blown off. In Westmount there are several cases reported where roofs have been hurled into adjoining yards. A small conservatory was also taken up bodily and placed in an adjoining field, to the complete demolishing of both conservatory and contents. No accidents are reported within the town. RACKET CLUB Results of the ""Blind"" Handcap-Read Weather for Curlers Turf and General Sporting. The Shamrock Hockey Team will have its first opportunity of proving to the hockeyites what measure of strength it has, and to what extent it may be relied upon in the future, when its forces will meet the great Ottawa combination on the ice at the Crystal Rink on Saturday evening next, in a tussle for the championship. The visitors have at the opening of the season demonstrated most effectively, by the defeat they administered to the Victorias, that they are going to create no mere everyday kind of excitement in the coming season of the championship, and, as a consequence, the match on Saturday is arousing a very keen feeling of excitement amongst the hockey people. The Shamrocks will put a splendid team on the ice, and Stephens, who has just returned from Quebec, will be in his old place. The forwards will be the same as last year, with the exception of the late Willie Fairbairn, whose place will be filled by that level-headed and fleet skater, Sammy Lee. The position of cover-point is to be filled by a new man from the Morrisburghs, and those who have seen him play at the Beaver Rink last winter, unite in saying that he is a coming man, and, in the meantime, will serve the purpose of forming a formidable stonewall behind the advance sharpshooters of the team. Hob Wall is now in fine form, and from present appearances, he is going to be a prominent figure in hockey this season, as he has had quite a rest since the close of the lacrosse season, and says himself, that he never started out like a season worn in the same spirit as at present. Dave Brown, the man who takes more hard knocks and covers more ice than most of the players, is again to the front, and will do more good work, while Drysdale, White, Dwyer, Fyfe, Dobby and a number of others are standing in the rank and file to give the executive an opportunity of testing their power of discrimination in making selections for a place, and which will, no doubt, be the cause of a good deal of that kind of debating, which usually winds up by a protest from the proprietor who has to pay the gas bill. The Shamrocks have decided to renew the good arrangements of last year, when the final match of the season was played with the Victorias. Special reserved seats with ushers will be provided, and every possible attention will be paid to spectators. The Shamrock executive are bound to keep up the reputation they earned last season for the accommodation of the public. Victorias and Montreal Will Meet on Friday. The opening hockey match of the season for the championship will be played in the Victoria Rink on Friday next. A great deal depends on this match, as both clubs calculate that a defeat in the early part of the season means a great deal. It should prove a most exciting match, and, no doubt, it will be well attended. GOLF AS A PASTIME The Game In the West, but New York the Virtual Centre. Columbus Dispatch. Judging from the way golf has risen in the West, during the past year, it is more than likely Columbus will be seen in the field during the season of 1896. Golf has evidently established itself as a fixture in this portion of the world. Chicago boasts of no fewer than four clubs, the first of which, the Chicago Golf Club, was established two years ago, with a membership of only 20. This same club now boasts of 171 names upon its list. The Onwentensia, formerly the Lake Forest Club, has a roster of nine hundred or so. Both the Riverside and Illinois Clubs are yet young organizations, but they are counting upon large accessions in the spring. As to their ability, it is said that not fewer than a dozen men in their ranks entitle them to be classed with the top notchers in Eastern circles. New York is the virtual centre of golf, both in the number of matches played this year and in the quality of games. The season's work has been highly gratifying, although 1895 may be classed as the first practical season of the great society fad. That the game has come to stay is evidenced by the rapid accumulation of club revenues and property by the various golf clubs in existence. The Shinnecock Club, near New York, now owns 210 acres, and the club house has been twice enlarged. The Chicago Club has 200 acres, not over twenty miles from the city, and proposes to expend $60,000 next season in enlarging and beautifying its present quarters. The Lake Forest Club, which has recently changed its name to Onwentensia (the Indian for ""Kenton""), has recently built a new club house, all at an expense of $75,000. Other clubs throughout the country are similarly situated, the latest being the new club at Ardsley, which contemplates expending over a quarter of a million dollars upon its site in 1896. Its club house at Newport is the finest to be found anywhere. While the size of the figures presented above means a heavy expense in the way of interest charges, it also demonstrates that a high rate of dues is to be kept up, and that golf, as it is played by the better element of society, must be classed as one of the luxuries of life. The game requires a large extent of territory upon which to play, and the cost of keeping the grounds in perfect condition is, by no means, inconsiderable. Still, this is our American way of doing things. We may be laughed at by our Scottish and English friends, but we have one thing in our favor: the sport of this country is confined to that class of society amateurs who do not seek to pattern by the foreign standard, but content themselves with the fact that they will have all the very best golfing advantages that enthusiasm can create or money can buy, at the same time taking into consideration the fact that it is not the position of the ball, but the man behind it that scores the winner. From the above it may be inferred that golfing is confined to the exclusive set, and not for people to be found in the ordinary walks of life. Such, however, is not the case. Golf is for the masses. The size of the exchequer is not to be computed, and it was never intended to turn the game into a ""shibboleth of snobbishness,"" as one writer states. In the home of its nativity it is one of the most democratic of sports, and while there are plenty of ""swell private clubs"" to be found, they are greatly outnumbered by the public courses, and, I may add, there are even courses for the workingman. There are opportunities in abundance for all who wish to play the game. The sport is the main object in view, so let us hope that these few remarks may serve as a beginning to encourage the great game in this city. The Dispatch will be ever ready to assist in carrying out the idea of making the sport popular and lasting among the masses. Golf should prove a welcome addition to our list of college sports and the formation of an intercollegiate Ohio association would meet with hearty support. Flood at St. Raymond. St. Raymond, Que., December 31. The river St. Anne is in flood at St. Raymond. The ice has jammed near the railway bridge, causing the water to flood the village. Several inhabitants had to move in boats to higher ground, on account of having from six to ten inches of water on the floors of their houses. The river bed is apparently taking another direction. The flat between the River St. Anne and the north branch is mostly all covered with water and floating ice. The land is cut to a large extent in several places, and about fifty feet of land has been washed away near the cemetery. The river has begun falling tonight, and cold weather is setting in. The damage is as yet unknown. Argentina Will Retort. Buenos Aires, December 31. It is said that the Senate has decided to impose light duties on all American products brought into Argentina if the United States reimpose a tariff duty on wool. Congress has passed a bill authorizing an issue of Government bonds for the purpose of paying the railroad guarantees. Four Children Burned to Death. Pittsburgh, Pa., December 31. By the burning of a small dwelling, last night, in the mining town of Frontrun, four boys, Hubert, Will, John and Archie McTavish, aged 1, 10, 11 and 14, lost their lives. CUSTOMS, December 31. The Customs receipts at the port of St. John for December show a decline of $3,605, compared with the same period last year, and the Inland Revenue receipts decreased about $7,000. Twenty-one steamers from foreign ports and forty-five coasting steamers arrived at St. John during December. The barque Pulchre and barquentine Primrose both cleared today for Buenos Ayres, with spruce lumber. Some time ago, a half-yearly dividend of 6 percent on the capital stock of the Bank of New Brunswick was announced. This morning the directors found that the funds were in such a healthy state they were able, in addition, to carry $5,000 to the rest, which is now brought up to $30,000. Today's gale was very severe along the crest. Signs and chimneys were blown down in various parts of the city. There is a large ice jam on the St. John river, about twelve miles above Fredericton, and as last night's rain swelled the river considerably, fears are felt for the safety of the two Fredericton bridges, in event of the jam breaking. Fourteen carloads of American grain arrived today, for shipment to England, and sixteen thousand bags of flour are now en route from Minneapolis. ICE IN THE HARBOR. Louis Cost Takes Issue with the Views of MP Kennedy-Pilotage Matters. At the weekly meeting of the Harbor Commissioners, yesterday, a petition from the Montreal pilots was received, asking that article 126 of the by-laws be modified so that the suspension of a pilot would only date from the day that judgment was rendered, instead of, as at present, from the happening of the accident; requesting representation on the Board of Harbor Commissioners when sitting as pilotage authority, and, also, that the tariff of pilotage fees be increased by 50 cents per foot for all vessels of from 2,000 tons to 2,500 tons, and $1 per foot on vessels measuring over 2,500 tons. The petition was referred to the Commissioners Committee on Pilots, Deacons and Lighters to consider and report. A letter was received from the secretary of the Montreal Bridge Company submitting a plan of the site upon which the company proposes to build the bridge which they are authorized to construct across the River St. Lawrence, and asking modifications as to the placing of the piers on both sides of the St. Mary's current, which was referred to the Chief Engineer for report. Tenders for timbers and planks for 1898, to the number of 17, were opened, and referred to the Chief Engineer for tabulation and report at next meeting. After discussion of a report from the Chief Engineer, the following resolution was passed with reference to the supply of fine-dressing stone for 1896: ""That the Chief Engineer be instructed to take out say 330 tons of stone by men regularly employed on the works as has been done in the past, 80 tons to be taken from the jail."" The following letter was received from the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works: Department of Public Works of Canada, Chief Engineer's Office, Ottawa, 28th December, 1895. J. H. Buhner, Esq., Chairman Harbor Commissioners, Montreal: On the 18th instant I received from the Secretary of the Harbor Commissioners of Montreal, a copy of a report by Mr. Kennedy in connection with the movement of the ice in the basin within the Guard Pier. I was so astonished that Mr. Kennedy should so early in the winter arrive at the conclusion that the opening of 1,000 feet between the upper end of the Guard Pier and the Victoria Bridge abutment was too wide to give immunity from ice shoves inside the pier, and I immediately left for Montreal, where I remained two days (the 19th and 20th), investigating the statement made by your Chief Engineer. I am bound to admit, however, that I was unable to see any ice shove in the basin within the Guard Pier, and I cannot, therefore, understand what can have prompted Mr. Kennedy to report as he has done. It is quite true that the large field of ice within the basin cracked and moved bodily downwards some 25 feet, but I see nothing strange in that occurrence. Anyone can conceive that such a large surface of thin ice, when lifted 7 or 8 feet in a few hours, must, of necessity, crack, and then the movement downwards is easy to explain. The ice moved when it got above the wharves, until it butted against the main revetment wall of the Harbor. The conclusion of Mr. Kennedy's report is certainly not warranted by the facts, and his pessimistic views are not shared by me. I have never denied the possibility of some ice being shoved in the spring into the Windmill Basin through the 1,000 feet opening, but I have stated that, in my opinion, there was no danger of ice being shoved into that part of the Harbor below the Lachine Locks, and within the Guard Pier, unless the Guard Pier itself was carried away. Further, I have always insisted that the benefits to be derived by the opening were so great that the Commissioners were fully warranted in fully trying the experiment of not building the Guard Pier as far as the Victoria Bridge. Mr. Kennedy knows well that he could not have added one foot to the Guard Pier last autumn, and that, therefore, the opening was bound to remain during the present winter, affording him an excellent opportunity to study the movement of the ice next spring, and to ascertain the extent of the damage that ice shoves will make. Louis Coktk, Chief Engineer. FINANCE COMMITTEE Closing out the Year's Business A Number of Claims and Accounts Settled. The Finance Committee, pursuant to adjournment, held the last meeting of the year, yesterday afternoon, Aid. Rainville (Chairman), and all the members being present. Aid. Costigan, Chairman of the Water Committee, submitted an account for $9,500 for repairs to the high duty attachment of the Worthington Engine, No. C. Wallace discussed his position. Ice in the harbor. City Hall intelligence.
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UNITED STATES, Church burner! Cincinnati, April 7 Xavler's Church (Catholic) was burned this morning. The building and contents cost $150,000. Hornton conference Halt Lake, April 7 The Mormon Spring Conference met yesterday. Proceedings were tame. The Mormons demand that Church leaders shall openly announce submission to the law or their intention to continue to defy it. Their instructions to polygamists find that separate houses for plural wives is regarded as cowardly and creating dissatisfaction among Mormon women. Polygamists will probably not endeavor to be registered for voting for the election of Commissioners. They expect to be able to elect monogamous Mormons to all offices. Nevertheless, there is a great rush for naturalization papers. The Senate committee on Corners New York, April 7 The Senate committee to investigate corners and dealing in futures, meets here tomorrow. It is expected that the committee will examine Vanderbilt, Depew, Jewett, Blanchard and other prominent citizens. The new comet Philadelphia, April 7 Professor Sharpies says the new comet will be visible to the naked eye in about two weeks, just after midnight, and remain in light until dawn. The comet is a large one. The comet of 1612 will probably follow this. The fraud of Charles Francis Adams Boston, April 7 Morrison, arrested for obtaining cheques for $20,000 from Charles Francis Adams, was today committed in default of $15,000 bail. His real name is James Fitzgerald, alias The Kid. Horton, implicated with Fitzgerald, gave the cheque to Fornold, a lawyer, to collect. The latter had previously had dealings with Horton, who claimed to be a real estate dealer. The appearance of the cheque excited Fornold's suspicions, and he was prompted to notify Adams, but finally decided to deposit the cheque to his own credit, and not draw against it until April 1st, when he knew all cheques would be sent to Adams, who would discover if anything were wrong. The truth came out as Fornold anticipated. The money received on the $17,600 check which Charles Francis Adams was induced to sign has been returned by Tmall. The Harmony mills strike Caboes, Mass, April 7 The meeting of Harmony Mills operatives tonight was a failure. Only 500 assembled. One leader stated that a large number of employees had given notice to enable them at the expiration of two weeks to draw all pay due and be at liberty to act. There would be trouble, as they could not meet the demands of living at present wages. There is great diversity of opinion as to future action of the operatives. The general superintendent of the mills says they have been losing money, and if prices of goods advance the interests of the employees will be looked after. The President and the Chinese bill New York, April 1 The Commercial's Washington special says: A Senator who called on the President today reports him in the best possible spirits over the veto of the Chinese bill and the reception accorded to the message throughout the country. The President said he felt assured that the Republican party would not be a loser by the interpolation of the veto to save the honor of the country in standing by the spirit and letter of the treaty with China. He felt assured that in consequence of this veto American interests in China would be stronger than ever, and the Chinese Government would be more readily disposed to make concessions to the United States in a matter restricting Chinese subjects from coming into the United States. The President is confident that the people will, without distinction of party, when the welfare of the country is looked at, sustain him in what he has done. Cyclone Topeka, April 7 A cyclone started south of Arkansas River near Raymond, Rice Co, last night, and moved in a northerly direction. It prostrated telegraph poles where it crossed the Santa Fe Railroad track. The storm struck the new and thriving town of Chase, demolished 26 buildings, and threw a number of cars from the track. Several persons were killed. A small cyclone also passed through the eastern part of the county, but did little damage. It was accompanied by a waterspout, pouring a deluge of water in places. The wind sucked all the water out of the wells. The cloud, as it approached Chase, was funnel-shaped, whirling and twisting with fearful velocity. The loss at Chase is about $25,000. The wrecked buildings include two churches. But few inhabitants of Chase escaped unhurt. People are living in box cars, and many families are destitute. East Saginaw, Mich, April 7 A hurricane passed near Highland Station, on the Flint & Pere Marquette road, last evening. The dwelling of Mr. Crandell was blown down. Crandell and child were killed and the daughter severely injured. The hurricane covered an area of less than half a mile wide, and leveled everything in its path.
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Sunset 4:12 p.m. Moonrise 2:48 p.m. Moonset 5:47 a.m. Total daylight: 8hrs 56 min. -20 J -Edmonton. Vancouver. Winnipeg. Los Angeles. Dallas. Chicago. Weather systems shown are for 2 p.m. today. Eastern Ontario High 1 Low near -9 Flurries Southern Ontario High 1 Low near -5 Flurries Quebec City High -4 Low near -8 Flurries Eastern Townships High -1 Low near -6 Light snow Northern New England High 2 Low near -1 Partly cloudy Gaspi High -2 Low near -9 Warm Front LL Occlusion H Cold Front High pressure Trough. TEMPERATURE CONVERSION 25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 C -13 -4 5 14 23 32 41 50 59 68 77 86 95 F UV INDEX (X Moderate High Extreme more than 2 hours to sunburn Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius ALMANAC Today's Records
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You have surely heard of, if not seen the great video Smells Like Nirvana, a brilliant take on Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Well if you find that funny, wait till you see the album cover! Also on the album is Polka Your Eyes Out, a medley of popular songs turned polka. It's great dancing music! It includes such songs as Losing my Religion, Enter Sandman and Ice Ice Baby. There are five originals all extremely funny, some to the point of nausea (I mean that in a good way). "Weird Al" is one twisted person but ya gotta love him! Reviewed by Jennifer Cobby, 16 SOUP DRAGONS, Hotwired The Soup Dragons are danceable rock music with an ounce of alternative thrown in. You'll find little, if any, of the machinery that we've come to expect in dance music. The song Pleasure sounds a little forced in terms of lyrics, which generally aren't impressive. There are some reflective ideas going on throughout the tape and some really good variety musically. The tone goes from heavy in songs like Dream On, to Understanding, a relaxing, trance-inducing tune.
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Especially for those who know about our Total Comfort plan. As a Total Comfort customer, you'll benefit from a full service (Automatic Oil Delivery, the Esso Protection and Maintenance plan, etc.) and the peace of mind that it entails. You can also depend on our exclusive one-hour repair service. It applies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And it's guaranteed. Furthermore, we're accredited by Hydro-Quebec for the dual-energy program. So call Esso Home Comfort's experts today, and rest assured that a nice, warm winter is right around the corner. (514) 337-5252 THE IDEAL ENVIRONMENT POINTE-CLAIRE NEW LOOK without weighing you down. And it's cut in a full-length, single-breasted style that provides all-over protection without bulk. Finally, we've added classic trench details like epaulets, a storm tab, a back yoke and a deep back vent that buttons closed when you need it. So if you're looking for a way to beat the cold in style, try our Down-Filled Trench. It's yours in black, khaki and navy. And it's only at Holt's.
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Snowstorm Revives a Drooping Business TRAINS SLIGHTLY DELAYED Street Car Lines Pound Active for All Their Giant Snow Sweepers, Montreal has been visited with a snowstorm, and fortunately, she has received little or no damage. It started on Friday night, and owing to the slippery state of the sidewalks, pedestrians were compelled for safety's sake to walk in the middle of the road. As the flakes got larger and more profuse, the wind also increased, until at midnight there was a half gale blowing. The velocity of the wind at times was so great that people who wished to turn a corner were compelled to make a herculean effort if they wished to succeed. It made the carters feel happy, and assuredly more courteous. It was predicted that a snowstorm would happen about the New Year, and as each day passed by and no snow arrived, the men were so grievously disappointed that the majority placed their sleighs in the stables and reverted to the wheeled vehicles. A carter told a Gazette reporter last night that the snow had not come a bit too soon, for business during the holidays was so bad that they had not made enough to defray expenses. They, however, reaped a good harvest on Saturday, especially at the close of the theatrical performances, very few sleighs going away without a load. It also made the hearts of the snowshoe men feel glad. As soon as the secretaries of the several clubs discovered that the beautiful snow had come to remain, they at once issued notices to their members to prepare for regular tramps. The members of St. George's Snowshoe Club have extended an invitation to the members of the ""Old Tuque Bleue"" to join them in a union tramp and entertainment at their clubhouse tomorrow night, and a jolly time is predicted. Among those who do not look with favor upon snowstorms are the Street Railway officials. Although they carry a larger number of passengers, their service is greatly impeded, and the extra expense of running the snowplows and sweepers cuts deeply into the profits. The sweepers are a wonderful invention. Instead of carrying everything before them, they viciously cast everything to the side, with the result that the tracks are clear, but the bank is a great menace to those who drive rigs, and the bumps that one is apt to receive while driving over these innocent banks of snow are not soon forgotten. The importance of these snow sweepers has made many a driver who has the reputation of being a brave man, on seeing a sweeper approaching, suddenly remember that he had a business call on a side street. The sweeper makes it also bad for the passengers. The latter wait patiently for perhaps six minutes for a car at a corner of a street. They signal the motorman to stop, and the latter makes a great effort to oblige, but the rails are so slippery that the car refuses to stop until the wheels have propelled it about fifty yards past the corner. Then there is a frantic run to catch the car, and the half-winded passenger at once begins to abuse the conductor. The conductor, however, being accustomed to such little matters as ""rail down,"" remains as mute as a sphinx, and pacifies the irritated passenger by calmly asking for his fare. The storm had a delaying effect on some of the incoming trains on Saturday night. At the Windsor station, the Vancouver train, which was due at 6:23, did not arrive until midnight, and the New York train, due at 9:20, was an hour late. At the Grand Trunk depot, the Intercolonial train from Campbellton, due at 10:10, was three hours late, and the Intercolonial from Riviere du Loup, due at 10:20, was an hour late. There were no accidents from the storm reported, and the telegraph officials report that their wires had sustained no damage. B. Taylor, so many of whom preceded him to the undiscovered country. To sum his sterling worth in one brief line, ""And honest truth with well-earned praise combine, The Spartan epitaph reversed must be His country had no worthier son than he."" Funeral of Mr. Dalglish The funeral of Mr. Robert Dalglish took place on Friday, at 2 p.m., from his late residence, 86 Mackay street, and, notwithstanding the prevalence of a driving snowstorm, was attended by a very large number of the leading men of the city, with whom the deceased had long been on terms of great intimacy, and whose respect, confidence and goodwill he enjoyed in the fullest degree. The body was taken to the Church of St. James the Apostle, where an impressive service was held, Canon Ellegood and the assistant rector officiating. At its conclusion, the cortege reformed and proceeded up Bishop street, where many took sleighs and accompanied the remains to their last resting place at Mount Royal Cemetery. Among those who were present were Thomas Davidson, W. Wainwright, of the Grand Trunk Railway, who called upon Mr. Tarte and informally talked over with him the proposed Toronto-Collingwood line. It is too early yet to discuss definite proposals, but the prospect is that the scheme will rapidly assume practical form. Instead of diverging to Allendale, as is now done, the new road would have to be built as a straight line between Toronto and Collingwood. The idea of the Grand Trunk is that the traffic, upon reaching Toronto, might be divided, a portion being there transferred to vessels for transportation to Montreal, and a portion being taken direct by the main line of railway to that city. No doubt a question of subsidy would have to be considered if the construction of a new line were to be undertaken. The argument which will likely be advanced in support of the application will be that the new line would reserve to Canada a large amount of traffic that would otherwise go by way of the lakes to Buffalo, and that it would therefore be a work that would generally benefit the country. DECEMBER WEATHER Temperature Generally Below the Average During the Month The Dominion Meteorological Service weather chart for December says: The temperature was a little below average in British Columbia and throughout Ontario, except in the extreme eastern portion, where no damage was just maintained; in all the remaining portions of the Dominion it was above average, the excess being particularly marked in the Northwest Territories, and strikingly so in northern Alberta, where Edmonton reports as much as 11 degrees above average. In eastern Canada, Quebec reports the greatest amount above average, namely 3 degrees, and Halifax, Sydney and Charlottetown each give an excess of 2 degrees. The interior portion of the Lower Lake region gives the greatest general amount below average, Brantford and Lucknow each reporting a deficiency of 3 degrees. In the western and southwestern portions of the Lower Lakes region, also from the eastern portion of Lake Superior to about the Ottawa River and embracing the Georgian Bay district in Cape Breton, it was also above average, but seemingly local, whilst in all other portions of Canada it was below average, especially in the province of Quebec and over Vancouver Island. In the former province, there occurred at Quebec a deficiency of 1.5 inches, and at Father Point, 1.8 inches; Victoria in Vancouver Island records 4 inches less than average. In nearly all parts of the Dominion, the precipitation was largely snow, and in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces, some heavy falls occurred. The snowstorm of the 4th and 6th over Ontario was exceptionally heavy. During this storm, Orangeville reports that 28 inches fell, and Collingwood 24 inches. The snowfall during the month in the immediate neighborhood of Owen Sound was phenomenally heavy, the total fall at Owen Sound being reported as 8 feet 5 inches. In Quebec, the weather during December was stormy, and comparatively mild. The temperature was recorded on the 25th at Quebec. A strong northeast gale occurred on the 5th, with a maximum velocity of 62 miles per hour, snow fell nearly every day during the month, yet precipitation is under the average. Snow on the ground at the end of the month was five inches. At Richmond, the snow was from four to five inches in depth on the 31st, and teams have been crossing the river since the 28th. Dominion Line Regular lines of first-class steamships BETWEEN Portland, Me., and Bristol Avonmouth, consisting of the following first-class steamers, which have splendid accommodations for passengers at very reasonable rates.
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Rain 26 13 Barbados Cloudy 29 27 Cincinnati Rain 27 17 Daytona Clear 37 26 Dallas Cloudy 37 23 Havana Cloudy 29 25 Denver Cloudy 31 25 Honolulu Cloudy 31 24 Los Angeles Cloudy 21 18 Kingston Cloudy 33 30 New York Clear 33 21 Las Vegas Clear 39 22 Phoenix Clear 46 29 Miami Clear 34 29 St Louis Cloudy 28 18 Myrtle Beach Fog 31 25 San Francisco Cloudy 20 12 Nassau Cloudy 33 23 Washington Cloudy 33 24 Tampa Clear 34 28 For free weather information, updated four times a day, please call Gazette Info-Line, 521-8600, code: 6800 North American weather maps by Weather Central. Trans-Am and Pro Sport 2000 series have been added to the program for the Grand Prix de Trois Rivieres (Aug 17-19), but officials are hunting bigger game. With the Player's Ltd Atlantic and the Player's Ltd GM Motorsport East series already on the program, the city is guaranteed a first-class event.
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The Red Cross is not interested in transferring its blood-related assets to the Quebec government and would not consider a proposal to open negotiations on the matter, a Red Cross spokesman said yesterday. We support an integrated national system, said Dennis Orchard, acting national director of public affairs for the humanitarian agency. We've looked at the Quebec alternative and rejected it. Experts say it would be difficult and costly for the Quebec government to set up a new blood system from scratch. A spokesman for Quebec Health Minister Jean Rochon expressed surprise and disbelief when told of Orchard's comments. What I am told is that the door to the Red Cross, concerning the personnel and assets of the Red Cross, that the door is still open, and that the option is still open, said France Amyot. The Red Cross has given no indication that it would not be open to discuss assets and personnel. But Orchard said it would not make sense to maintain a blood system for one province only, given the complexity of the apparatus and expertise. It would not make sense, period. He said the Red Cross's position on the issue was reinforced by the Krever report on the country's blood system, which said services should be managed by a single national entity. A federal-provincial-territorial committee - including representatives of all provinces but Quebec - is currently negotiating with the Red Cross to acquire blood-related assets worth several hundred million dollars. The committee also plans to transfer some 2,100 employees to the new Canadian Blood Services, the agency which will replace the Red Cross as operator of the national blood system. Last summer, after the other provinces announced plans to set up a new national blood agency, Rochon said he would prefer to retain Red Cross services in Quebec. When the Red Cross rejected that option in December, Rochon expressed interest in the creation of a separate Quebec blood agency using the existing staff and assets of the Red Cross in Quebec. The latest comments from the Red Cross appear to squelch that option. Michel Amar, spokesman for the Canadian Blood Service Transition Bureau, said Quebec would be welcome in the national agency. It would certainly make things a lot easier in terms of managing supply, he said. If you have a national blood system where there's a single national license, it's a lot less of a regulatory burden than having to regulate two separate systems. Amar said Quebec would face significant administrative problems trying to create a separate system from the ground up. Amyot said Quebec is still considering several options, including joining the national agency, and will not make a decision before the next meeting of health ministers. Court strikes down tough joyrider law Toronto Star NEWMARKET, Ont. - A tough new law aimed at making it easier to convict joyriders was declared unconstitutional Monday when a judge acquitted a 17-year-old. In a strongly worded ruling, Ontario Court Judge Sherrill Rogers said the law punishes people merely for being present during a crime and therefore violates a citizen's rights. The federal law, proclaimed last June, was designed to make it easier to convict young passengers who go for a spin with someone who has taken a car, often belonging to a parent, without consent. It allowed them to be convicted and jailed for up to six months, for no other reason than being present in the car. To make such a young person culpable in a criminal sense seems quite removed from the objective of curbing joyriding, Rogers said. Defence lawyer James Silver said Rogers's decision, thought to be the first to strike down the law, could influence but will not bind other judges in the country. Publication of the accused youth's name is banned under the Young Offenders Act. Rogers ruled that the law casts such a wide net that it could catch a young person who, seeking a quick way home, is offered a ride from school in a car that he or she later finds was taken without the owner's consent. The Crown has 30 days in which to file an appeal. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1998 A3 THE BIG FREEZE PEGGY CURRAN: This ice is not? I nicel But Montrealers tough it out again Jan 5, 1643, Sieur de Maisonneuve planted a wooden cross atop Mount Royal to thank God after the colony narrowly escaped being destroyed by flooding. Three hundred and fifty-five years later, it looks like we're gonna need a bigger cross. The Storm of the Millennium is upon us. Better not put away your candles and battery chargers yet. So much for life getting back to normal after the holidays. Those of us who were lucky enough to make it through Day One without a power failure awoke yesterday to the sound of falling trees, crashing icicles, revving engines and whining windshield wipers. Hedges wilted, roofs strained and snowplows pushed away broken branches. Instead of packing the kids off to school, it was time to talk them out of playing in the slush. Those of us who absolutely had to go to work - or couldn't come up with a half-way believable excuse to stay home after two weeks' vacation - skidded on slippery highways or waded through the ice floes doing our best imitations of penguins in Sorel boots. Good thing the Rolling Stones aren't coming to the Olympic Stadium until next week, or the world's only octogenarian rock band might have fallen down and had to change their name to the Tragically Broken Hip. TAKES PRACTICE Montrealers weathered the fiercest ice storm in nearly 40 years with the aplomb that comes with generations of practice. When Mark Twain came to Montreal in 1881, he said that what we lacked in weather, we made up for in the means of grace. If grace means a mixture of prayer, fortitude and crazy endurance, we've got it by the shovelful. Whether we want to or not, real Montrealers carry a resilient winter gene. It doesn't matter how many years we've been away or how much we'd rather be in the sunny tropics, when the worst weather comes, we know what to do. Hoist that shovel. Lift that pail of rock salt. And never stick your tongue on a metal fence. However, Montrealers have different ways of putting this instinctive knowledge to use, of which several have been isolated and documented: The cozy-slipper syndrome (Montrealis fuzzy pantoufus): Copes with the rigours of winter by avoiding it. Books off sick at the first hint of a flurry. Pantry well-stocked with hot chocolate. Sometimes closes the blinds, plays old Don Ho albums and pretends to be in Waikiki. Knows that if he/she waits long enough, the snow/sleet will melt. Subscribes to extended cable service. The hot-dog syndrome (Montrealis stupidus extremis): Believes what's good for July is good for January. This social deviant makes no concessions to climate change when barreling down boulevards with one hand on the wheel and the other on the telephone. Honks at mothers with strollers and old people with canes who take too long crossing the street. Thinks nothing of parking in other people's driveways. The entrepreneur syndrome (Montrealis makeabuckus): Can't wait to get their power back. Meanwhile, they're sitting in the dark designing the I Survived T-shirts. NOTHING DAUNTED The hardy, persevere-against-all-odds strain (Montrealis undauntibus): When the going gets tough, the tough get shoveling. They would never let a little thing like a monster ice storm or fractured ribs keep them from going about their business. Typical is my friend Rita, who broke her wrist when she fell on the ice while delivering Meals on Wheels a few days before Christmas. She eventually went to the hospital - but only after she finished her rounds, washed the dishes, went bowling and had the rest of her bowling club over for holiday treats. She finally got her cast at 5 a.m., in time to drive an elderly distant relative to her appointment at the hairdresser. Truly, there's nothing like a cold-climate catastrophe to test our sense of community, whether that means helping the folks next door lift a tree off their car, giving strangers tips on how to ford the big pond without getting drenched or brewing coffee and organizing slumber parties for relatives without electricity. This is two parts good will, one part self-preservation. No one wants to be remembered as the guy who refused to push when the neighbour's car got stuck in an ice bank. And they will remember, until the next big one. Peggy Curran's E-mail address is pcurrandathegazette.southam.ca Ice ties up roads and airport - One of the worst storms I've lived through SUSAN SEMENAK The Gazette Hundreds of people turned up at hospital emergency wards yesterday with hip, leg and arm fractures resulting from nasty spills on ice-glazed driveways, sidewalks and streets. Virtually every school board in and around Montreal, including the Montreal Catholic School Commission and Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, canceled classes, as did Concordia University's Loyola campus. And the ice storm, the worst to hit the city in nearly 40 years, isn't over. Environment Canada is calling for more rain and freezing rain throughout the Montreal region over the next several days. Getting around should prove to be equally treacherous today. Hydro-Quebec says it will be days before its crews finish repairing power lines and clearing away broken tree branches. And municipal crews will be salting and scraping streets and sidewalks for days before their job is done. Transport Quebec closed Metropolitan Blvd. and one lane of Decarie Blvd. in both directions overnight to remove the snow and ice that clogged drains and snarled traffic, axle-deep in water, yesterday. Both arteries were to reopen at 5:30 today. Highway 15 was also closed last night between de Salaberry and Cartier in Laval for snow removal, but reopens early this morning. There's no guarantee the chaos that reigned at Dorval airport yesterday will have improved for air travelers coming and going this morning. We have no reason to believe things will be improving, said Air Canada spokesman Priscille Leblanc. And there's nothing we can do about it as long as this weather continues. Yesterday, most flights in and out of Dorval were delayed by 1 hour or more as planes lined up for de-icing. What's more, most airline staff on duty yesterday were an hour or more late reporting for work, Leblanc said, because of treacherous road conditions. By midday, 20 flights - nearly half the 48 regularly scheduled arrivals and departures - had been canceled. Pierre Morrissette of He Perrot and his wife, Suzanne, spent the first night of their winter vacation at an airport hotel in Toronto because they missed their connection to Barbados. He said they arrived at Dorval yesterday at 4:45 a.m. to catch a 6 a.m. plane to Toronto, in what he thought was plenty of time to make a 9:30 a.m. flight to Barbados. It was not to be. The first employee to show up at the Air Canada counter didn't get there until 15 minutes before the flight was supposed to leave, Morrissette fumed while killing time at Pearson airport in Toronto. By then the lineups were endless. Then the flight was canceled. The next flights were delayed and by the time we finally got out of there it was too late. Closer to home, there was so much panic that the administrators of the region's 911 emergency line put out an urgent appeal to Montrealers to stop calling except in cases of crisis. Richard Boyer, director of the 911 emergency centre, said his operators fielded 5,300 calls yesterday morning. That's 1,300 more than they get all day on average. Boyer said 1,500 were calls from people complaining of broken tree branches. They jammed the lines and forced others with real health emergencies to wait to speak with an operator. The lines have been overloaded. It's one call after another, many from people who are not really in any danger, Boyer said in an interview. We are urging people to be patient, to wait until the crews have had a chance to do their work. Suzanne Daningburg and her three A6 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1998 THE BIG FREEZE JOHN MAHONEY, GAZETTE F-word follows another Freezing rain, flooding cause nightmare for road crews DAVID JOHNSTON The Gazette It was an unusual combination: freezing rain and flooding. Both at the same time. As ice pellets pounded down on southwestern Quebec during morning rush hour yesterday, road crews responded with massive salting of major highways and urban thoroughfares. The salt melted the ice all right, but the resulting water failed to drain into the sewer system. Reason: manhole covers were plugged up. Result: widespread flooding on sections of highways and busy city streets. So many manhole covers were plugged by frozen snow and heavy slush yesterday morning that the volume of water circulating through the Montreal Urban Community's sewer system was less than the average for a dry Montreal morning. In an average dry morning, water flows through the island's sewer system at a rate of 30 cubic metres per second in the form of residential, industrial and commercial waste; none of it is due to precipitation. At 7 a.m. yesterday, the MUC sewage engineers recorded a flow of 29 cubic metres. The manhole covers all just got plugged up, said Rejean Levesque, director of the MUC sewage-treatment plant. Sometimes we see the same phenomenon in the fall when leaves plug up manhole covers, preventing drainage during a major storm. As yesterday progressed, municipal road crews worked to unplug manholes and curbside catch basins designed to catch storm waters. Peter Clark, director of public works for Pointe Claire, said his crews had unplugged probably hundreds of manholes and catch basins. With a mixture of rain and freezing rain forecast for the rest of the week, it's hard to say what curbside and sidewalk conditions will be like. If temperatures rise above freezing, slush and ice will thaw into water - and as long as manhole covers simultaneously open, all that water will drain within 24 hours, Levesque said. If the resulting drainage volume exceeds the sewage system's treatment capacity of 80 cubic metres of water per second, the surplus will be discharged untreated into the St Lawrence River and Riviere des Prairies through 180 outfall pipes, he added. Yesterday's flooding was worst on major highways, which must be heavily salted for safety reasons, and in municipalities like the city of Montreal that had not cleaned their streets of snow that fell during the holiday season. We'd worked like the devil to clean our streets of snow, said Clark, because you wouldn't have wanted to get anything on top of what we got between Christmas and New Year's. Loft: Pedestrians along Édouard Montpetit Blvd. yesterday were forced to find a way around fallen tree limbs at McKenna St. Below: Andrew Leaver wore protective headgear while chipping ice from his car in Saint-Lambert. JOHN KENNEY, GAZETTE vision The Gazette Grappling with the worst ice storm to hit the region in nearly four decades, and with more freezing rain in the forecast, Hydro-Quebec warned yesterday that blackouts won't end quickly. It's going to be long, it's going to be hard, and it's going to take several days, Hydro spokesman Steve Flana- gan told reporters. Act responsibly and find a comfortable place to stay. Heavy accumulations of ice and broken tree limbs snapped power lines across a wide swath from Hull to Drummondville, but the Montreal region bore the brunt of the damage. One death was reported, that of an 82-year-old man of carbon-monoxide poisoning from a gas generator in his basement. Rolland Parent of Papineauville, east of Hull, installed the generator after his power went out. By 10 p.m., Hydro crews had re-established electricity to just over 60,000 customers in the Montreal region. There were still 332,000 clients without electricity on the South Shore and 124,000 in the Laurentians and the Outaouais. On the island of Montreal, there were 235,000 households without power - a little less than 25 per cent of Hydro's customers on the island. At Dorval airport yesterday, 20 morning flights were canceled and many others were delayed for 90 minutes or more in lineups awaiting de-icing. Hundreds of people went to hospital emergency wards for treatment of fractures suffered in falls on icy walks, and thousands showed up for work an hour or more late because of treacherous road conditions. INSIDE WEATHER Freezing rain Today's high, -1 Tonight's low, -5 For weather updates, please call The Gazette QuUk&ie at 555-1234 code 6000. EoCrmilt costs 50 cents. 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Page A1 ENTERTAINMENT Sonny Bono dies Sonny Bono, who went from pop stardom with ex-wife Cher to U.S. Congress, dies at age 62 after hitting a tree in a skiing accident. Page A1 A small miracle Firefighter saves 2-year-old in LaSalle YVONNE ZACHARIAS The Gazette Through the smoke and darkness, Ron Monahan ran his coarse firefighter's hands over the rumpled bedsheets. He was looking for a body - a baby, the one Maleha Amrov couldn't get back to save when a storm and then a huge electrical fire shattered the quiet of her LaSalle home. Monahan could hear Amrov's cries outside: My baby, my baby. He dropped to his hands and knees and ran those big hands over the floor. He felt a foot. Then inch by inch, he located a tiny body under the bed. I got her, I got her, he yelled to no one, to nothing but the empty darkness. He pulled on the foot. But there was no reaction, no moaning, no nothing. Right then, I knew something was very wrong. That's when the pounding in his chest started. Cradling her, he stumbled through the darkness, outside the door and to the only light he could find - a streetlamp surrounded by a pool of water. He got his first look at the human treasure tucked in his massive arms. Her face, framed by curly brown hair, was covered in soot, and her lips were blue. Monahan couldn't see breathing. He tried, a few hours later, to describe the terrible loneliness that washed over him under the streetlamp, standing deep in water, a storm raging around him. His eyes filled with tears: I'm on the street and I'm alone. Monahan paused for a moment, then searched for the right words. I really felt alone. There was nobody around, he offered weakly. He lifted the baby in his arms, lowered his face and carefully clamped his lips over her nose and mouth, just like they'd taught him in training. One breath in. No response. He later said that he'd prayed silently to himself: Please, God, please, God. Make this right, make me do the right thing. Please, please, make her come back. Another breath. Then a tiny cough. Please see RESCUE, Page A2 As the extent of the damage became known, Montreal and a number of suburbs opened emergency shelters for people left without electricity. Montreal opened its Little Burgundy and Cote des Neiges sports centres as shelters while Outremont treated its residents to warmth and refreshments in the municipal library. Please see REGION, Page A2 More storm coverage inside For a list of phone numbers to report power failures, or to contact municipalities to report fallen trees or other dangerous objects, turn to Page A2. Virtually every school board in and around Montreal cancels classes, as does Concordia University's Loyola campus. Chaos reigns at Dorval airport, and Metropolitan Blvd. is closed overnight. Page A3 Town and cities in many parts of the Montreal Urban Community open their libraries and other public buildings to provide the residents with overnight shelter while Hydro-Quebec crews struggle to restore electricity to stricken areas. Page A4 Mayor Pierre Bourque cuts short a vacation in Asia to oversee work crews' efforts to clean up the city after the ice storm. Page A5 Road crews are out in force applying salt to all major streets and roads. The salt melts the ice, but the water can't reach sewers because manhole covers are plugged. Page A6 FROM THE BUTCHERSHOP BONELESS $C99 NEW YORK STRIPLOIN 3 lb A perfect cut of prime quality beef, aged to perfection the way you like. Superb for steaks or roasts. BUTCHERSHOP SUPER SPECIAL: "an winced beef $1.39 Efegsst Stshcsssa la Tcva. Perfectly prime for perfectly delicious hamburgers and casseroles. SPKIAISVAUD FROM JAN 7-13 98 Major credit cards accepted. MARIE-FRANCE COAUIER, GAZETTE Blame it on that El Nino Expect a yo-yo of a winter season DOUG SWEET The Gazette Our weather sucks. That's why much of southern Quebec was slipping and sliding yesterday through another ice storm. Actually, it's the St. Lawrence River Valley that sucks cold air from the northeast, Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Pommainville said yesterday. That cold air, when it lies under a mass of warm moist air that has moved up from the Gulf of Mexico, is what makes freezing rain. And this year, thanks to the El Nino effect in the Pacific Ocean, we can expect more freezing rain than usual, said Lawrence Mysak, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at McGill University and past president of the Canadian Academy of Sciences. Yesterday's storm, which dumped about 23 millimetres of freezing rain at Dorval airport, was about the fourth or fifth worst storm on record, Pommainville said. The worst was Feb. 25, 1961, when 21.5 millimetres fell in one 24-hour period, leading to an ice coating 3 centimetres thick. Pommainville said the Montreal region can expect another 5 to 10 millimetres of freezing rain today. Rain in January is not unusual, he said, noting that the first month of the year usually racks up about 20 millimetres of rain at the Dorval weather station. When rain from the warm air aloft passes through a low-altitude layer of below-zero air that has been drawn down into the St. Lawrence Valley, from Sept-Iles to Montreal, it freezes on contact and the fun begins on sidewalks, roads and driveways. If the rain has a chance to freeze on the way down, we get ice pellets. That's the good news. The bad news is that this year could be a nasty one for freezing rain because of a periodic climatological effect called El Nino. Named for the baby Jesus because it begins to appear in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America at about Christmas time with a relaxation of the normal east-to-west trade winds, the El Nino phenomenon results in the shift of a large pool of warm water from west to east in the Pacific, affecting weather in many parts of the globe. The results can be devastating. In 1982-83, the most pronounced El Nino effect recorded, about $8 billion in damage was attributed to weather around the world. So far, this El Nino is huge compared with '82-'83, Mysak said, referring to the substantial rise of up to 5 or 6 degrees Celsius in Pacific surface temperatures that has been recorded as well as the lengthy duration of this El Nino, which began last summer. Savage storms can be expected along the Pacific coasts of North and Central America, leading to landslides and flooding, while severe drought is forecast from southern Africa to Australia. And Montrealers can look forward to a yo-yo of a winter, where the temperature could plummet with a blast of dry Arctic air or stay mild enough to produce copious quantities of rain, freezing rain, ice pellets or wet snow. While yesterday's storm might not be directly attributable to El Nino, it was consistent with the kind of weather the effect can produce, Mysak said. The principal forces governing our weather during an El Nino period are a huge high-pressure system over Winnipeg and a massive low over the Gulf of Mexico near Florida, said Mysak. These systems, along with an Aleutian low, are more intense than normal and form what is called the Pacific North America Teleconnection Pattern. The high over Winnipeg spins clockwise, forcing cold air from the north down into eastern Canada and sucking warm, dry air up from Texas and the U.S. 12919 The Gazette number is 6000. Please recycle this paper More REGION Continued from Page A1 Other shelters on the island were opened in LaSalle, Verdun and Town of Mount Royal. The Fairview shopping centre in Pointe Claire stayed open overnight to shelter West Islanders left without power. On the South Shore, a number of cities and towns - including Saint-Bruno, Greenfield Park, Saint-Lambert, Longueuil and Candiac - were offering emergency accommodation for residents. The widespread power outages left Hydro officials grasping for adjectives. Lucy Bertrand, vice-president (customer service), said the storm damage appeared to be even worse than last winter's freak ice showers that left hundreds of thousands of people in the Lanaudiere region without electricity for more than a week. Last year was exceptional, she said. This is even more exceptional. The area is a lot bigger, and many more customers have been affected. Bertrand refused to predict when customers, some of whom have been without power since late Monday, will have power restored. It all depends on the weather, she said. We hope the situation will stabilize. Bertrand said yesterday's relatively mild temperatures were a mixed blessing; they kept power consumption low, but if a cold snap arrived, pushing up demand, more blackouts could follow. More than 2,000 Hydro employees were working around the clock to inspect power lines, clear fallen trees and repair damage. Public institutions like hospitals and old-age homes that were without electricity were the utility's first priority. At least five area health-care centres - including the Jewish, Lakeshore General and Charles Lemoyne hospitals - had to rely on emergency power for most of the day. Workers restored electricity to 25,000 customers between noon and 4 p.m., but couldn't keep pace with expanding power failures. Additional crews from the Quebec City and Abitibi regions were supposed to be on the job by early evening. Emergency workers from utilities in the northeastern United States were on standby should the predicted freezing rain worsen the problem, as it might well do. Environment Canada is forecasting freezing rain for the next few days. Today, we should get freezing rain in the morning, turning to drizzle this afternoon. The temperature today is expected to hover around the freezing point. But tomorrow will be worse. Meteorologists are predicting more freezing rain, but it will be accompanied by ice pellets. The high will be around minus-2 Celsius. And there's another low-pressure system heading our way after that, said meteorologist Steve McCusky. We should feel its effects by Friday. It doesn't look like this weather will end before the weekend, McCusky said. By last night, about 23 millimetres of precipitation had fallen since early Monday. The freezing rain and drizzle is being caused by cold air that's trapped in the St. Lawrence River valley between the Earth's surface and warmer, humid air above. As the precipitation falls through the colder air, it freezes, turning to ice pellets or freezing rain as it hits the Earth. In a steady drizzle on Notre Dame de Grace's Oxford Ave. yesterday afternoon, Hydro workers Daniel Cote and Roch Petit struggled to haul dangling tree limbs from sagging wires. With each shift of the breeze, more ice-laden branches fell from the trees above them. I was in the Lanaudiere last year, but this is much worse, Cote said. There are so many trees and wires in such a close space. Petit was succinct. It's hell, he said. Donald Fraser, a crew foreman surveying lines on du Manoir Ave. in Outremont, said he knew the damage would be severe when the storm continued through Monday. He and his assistant had been on the job since 3 a.m. I've never seen anything like it, the veteran Hydro employee said. Fraser said he fears things may get worse before they get better. The worst thing that could happen now is wind. If the breeze picks up, all of these ice-covered trees will just snap. Jean Lapointe, who lives in a nearby apartment block that had been without power since early morning, said the building was becoming uncomfortable. It's not a joke. The whole building does not have any heat. In addition to the tens of thousands of smaller power-line breaks, seven large hydro towers along the Nicolet-to-Boucherville corridor collapsed under the weight of ice yesterday. High-tension wires blocked a portion of Highway 20 near Drummondville for part of the day, but the road had reopened by nightfall. A Hydro official said power was quickly rerouted to another transmission line and the fallen towers did not contribute to the blackout. But the damage will take months to repair, she said. Pierre Martel, Montreal region director of Quebec's Public Security Department, said the situation, though dire, was not considered a true emergency because so far there has been no need for mass evacuations. However, Martel advised people to take the blackout and its inherent dangers seriously. If you have a heating source other than electricity, use it moderately. Or go (and stay with) a friend or family. He warned people not to try to heat their homes with barbecues, camp stoves or other outdoor heaters because of the danger of carbon-monoxide poisoning. He also cautioned people to steer clear of fallen wires, even if they seem to be inert. Martel said perishables should keep in a closed fridge or freezer for one or two days but people should throw food out if they doubt its freshness. Much of Ottawa-Hull remained frozen last night in the grip of the storm, which knocked out power and downed trees in most neighbourhoods, and disrupted air and road traffic. SUSAN SEMENAK AND MONIQUE BEAUDIN OF THE GAZETTE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT Phone your town about damage caused by the storm DAVE SIDAWAY, GAZETTE Firefighter Ron Monahan (right) gives Jenanne Amrov a teddy bear at the Montreal Children's Hospital as her father, Mahmoud Amrov, looks on. Baby's cries bring tears RESCUE Continued from Page A1 Relief came over Monahan like fine spray from a firefighter's hose. He clamped his big, clumsy firefighter's breathing apparatus over the baby's chubby face. Her eyes opened and closed - it was like she was in and out. Mahmoud Amrov was at his elbow. His wife was fine. So were four of his children. But what about his little Jenanne? Was she going to be OK, too? Monahan lost track of time. He lost track of the other firefighters - even his partner, Jean Beaudet, who had gone off to search one part of the master bedroom while Monahan plunged into the darkness on the other side, where Jenanne had been curled up for the night. But somehow Monahan remembered there was a hospital a short distance away. It wasn't exactly procedure, but he spotted Mahmoud Amrov's car and said: Let's go. They sped over sidewalks, around fallen branches, over clumps of ice and straight inside a door left open for ambulances. Monahan's knees were buckling. I ran into the emergency room. There wasn't a soul there. I'm opening doors like a madman in the emergency room, and finally they directed me to the intensive-care unit. It was there that he heard the baby with the big brown eyes cry for the first time. Now that did it for me, Monahan's voice choked and his eyes flooded. It was hard to explain, even when it was all over. Yesterday, a city shuddered and shook itself awake to an ice-glazed world outside. There were fallen branches, padlocked schools and fires like the one at 6:15 a.m. that destroyed the Amrov home at 8534 Champlain Blvd. in LaSalle. Police think it was caused by a power surge after an electrical blackout caused by the storm. But there was a small miracle, too. Two-year-old Jenanne Amrov was alive, recovering after being transferred to the Montreal Children's Hospital because one firefighter wanted nothing more in the world than to bring her back to life. While light dawned on a city of dark houses, a 40-year-old man trudged out of a fire station in LaSalle. He felt good, a little proud, terribly at peace with himself. The sky showered a fine mist on him as he rode through empty streets. And when he got home, smelling of smoke, his eyes bleary, he leaned over and gently kissed his 11-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. Monahan became a firefighter 17 years ago because he wanted to help people. This time, he thinks, maybe he succeeded. Don't phone 911 - it should be used only in the event of emergencies. For power failures, call Hydro-Quebec toll-free at (800) 790-2424. For fallen trees or other damage caused by freezing rain, call your municipality's public-works department. Some phone numbers for Montreal-area municipalities are listed below: Anjou: 493-5130 Baie d'Urfe: 457-3321 Beaconsfield: 428-4500 Candiac: 444-6000 Cote St Luc: 485-868 Dollard des Ormeaux: 684-1012 Dorval: 633-4046 Hampstead: 369-8280 École Bizard: 620-6331 Kahnawake: 622-7500 Lachine: 634-3471 LaSalle: 367-1100 Montreal: 872-3434 Montreal North: 328-4100 Montreal West: 484-8616 Outremont: 495-6257 Pierrefonds: 624-1599 Pointe Claire: 630-1230 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue: 457-8105 Saint-Hubert: 445-7667 Saint-Lambert: 672-4444 St. Laurent: 956-2400 St. Leonard: 328-8300 Town of Mount Royal: 734-2999 Verdun: 765-7200 Westmount: 989-5222 To our readers: Many of our home-delivery customers benefited from the extraordinary efforts of our carriers, who braved fallen trees, downed hydro lines and ice-covered steps to deliver papers during the storm. Our distributors, district managers and drivers also faced difficult and dangerous conditions to get The Gazette delivered. If you did not receive your paper, please call customer service at 987-2400 for a credit.
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The defending titlist Australians will now meet Samoa, which beat Scotland 20-12 in Edinburgh yesterday to reach the quarter-finals. Cricket scandal sparks denials West Indies great Lara says he wasn't involved in fixing matches Associated Press PERTH, Australia - The West Indies cricket team closed ranks around an embattled Brian Lara as the visitors arrived in Australia for the start of a four-month tour. Lara, 31, together with six former international cricket captains, has been accused of match-fixing in a report released last week by India's Central Bureau of Investigation. Based predominantly on the testimony of an admitted illegal gambler, Mukesh Gupta, the report alleges that Lara took $40,000 to "underperform" during two 1994 matches in India. The champion batsman, who has denied Gupta's claims, dodged the media on arrival in Perth. English not so Swede about Eriksson hiring "It was as if Canada appointed a Finn to coach its national hockey team." When the English Football Association announced that it was hiring Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has had great success coaching in Italy and Portugal, as its new national team coach, the outcry was tremendous.
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This is my hero; look how they're treating him! If Hitchcock couldn't get it, how would I get it? Before the chubby, jovial author agreed to create Ray Bradbury Theatre with Toronto's Atlantis Films, he turned down offers from Screen Gems and NBC On one occasion, contracts were on the desk when Bradbury excused himself for a moment and unceremoniously disappeared into a taxi Barracudas! he harrumphs good-naturedly I sat there and looked at the presidents and the vice-presidents, all smiling at me, and I thought, Barracudas!
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BEST AVAILABLE COPY D 10 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1993 Dinosaur egg might hold embryo Snowstorm delays U.S. soldiers returning from Somalia duty ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LEWIS, Wash. - Nearly 300 soldiers returning from Somalia arrived home in time for Christmas dinner after a snowstorm delayed their flight for more than 24 hours. About 185 Fort Lewis-based soldiers originally were scheduled to arrive home Friday morning, but a snowstorm closed the Canadian Forces base in Gander, Nfld., where their plane landed for refueling. THE GUARDIAN A small bone discovered in the rubble around the eggs suggests that the parent might be one of the large, four-footed herbivores such as brachiosaurus, which last roamed the Earth 65 million years ago. Although embryos have been discovered in the nests of maiasaura, the so-called ""good-mother lizard,"" it would be the first such find among the big herbivores. ""They laid them in a clutch and we know they looked after their young, as they had some kind of herd instinct,"" Clark said. Should the museum find an embryo, the golden egg will stay in safe-keeping. ""We wouldn't sell it. We are interested in the scientific value of these things,"" Clark said. ""But on the open market you would find them going for a few hundred thousand."" LONDON - The Hunterian Museum of Glasgow University might be sitting on a nice little nest egg: a clutch of dinosaur eggs bought from China in July for $22,200 (US) might contain an embryo worth 20 times as much. Two of the six eggs seem not to have hatched. One certainly has. Scientists from a veterinary school have been comparing structures of the hatched and unhatched fossil eggshells - 15 to 20 centimetres in diameter - and decided that they are different enough to warrant a closer look. ""One of the big problems with these eggs is that you can't really X-ray them to find out what is inside,"" said Neil Gark, curator of paleontology. ""The only way of finding out what is inside is to dig them out."" Resignation shocks India Finance minister's departure could put India back by 50 years JOKX-THOR DAHUUR8 LOS ANGELES TIMES (NEW DELHI - Dr. Manmohan Singh might now wish he were a lighter sleeper. Singh, India's finance minister, resigned in the biggest financial scandal in his country's history, plunging business and industrial circles yesterday into gloom over the possible departure of the placid, turbaned former professor, dubbed the ""messiah"" of Indian economic reform. ""It will be an utter disaster for India, if the resignation is really accepted by the prime minister,"" said Keshub Mahindra, chairman of a leading Indian automobile company, Mahindra and Mahindra. ""It will put India back by at least 50 years."" The 1-year-old economist's bombshell decision, submitted Thursday to Prime Minister P. G. fire, is to be used to purchase food and supplies for a belated Christmas celebration. Volunteers managed to get food, new clothing and toys to the Huang family yesterday, Fatica added. Another fire before dawn on Christmas prompted firefighters to clear 14 families out of seven neighboring duplexes on the 9100 block of St. Hubert St. The fire began at about 2:30 a.m. at 9160 St. Hubert St., spreading to neighboring duplexes for the next half-hour. A dispatcher at the Montreal fire department said more than 50 firefighters were called to the scene. They brought the fire under control by 5:19 a.m., he said. Most of the families were allowed to return to their homes after firefighters left the scene at about 7:30 a.m., said Constable Jacques de Koninck of the Montreal Urban Community police. Arson investigators are investigating whether the fire was deliberately set, de Koninck said in an interview. Firefighters and police said no one was hurt in the fire, but three duplexes were damaged. Two other fires struck in the Montreal area on Christmas Eve. Arson is suspected in a 4:30 a.m. fire that damaged a two-storey building on Roy St. near St. Laurent Blvd. A man was slightly injured when he jumped from a second-floor window to escape the fire, while a police officer was overcome by smoke. In Verdun, fire damaged a three-story apartment building, and also forced a man to jump from a second-floor balcony, police said. The man was not seriously hurt. The fire started on a kitchen stove at 5:27 a.m. and was brought under control about 45 minutes later. leader sees jobs in Quebec from within the province. Quebec secured a promise that Ontario will urge its public sector to advertise all construction contracts worth more than $100,000 in Quebec. Quebec union leader Gerald Larose said he has long favored allowing Ontario companies to bid on Quebec government contracts, regardless of whether or not they have an office in the province. But the free movement of construction workers between the provinces is not desirable, said Larose, president of the Confederation of National Trade Unions. He noted Quebec's building tradesmen face tough times and won't welcome more competition for scarce jobs. ""They want to keep their jobs for themselves and not open the market for everybody who wants to work in the building industry."" Tremblay conceded some Quebec construction workers could lose their jobs in the short term, but said freer trade will help in the long run. CANADIAN PRESS Smiling Faces story brings a cascade of donations You might remember last Sunday's front-page story on the Smiling Faces Organization, which collects Christmas toys for underprivileged children. Walter Buchignant, who wrote the story, offers this update about the toy rally held last Tuesday at the Rockpile club in St. Leonard. Admission price was one toy to see four rock bands plus pop singer Nancy Martinez. As Buchignani reports, ""Unfortunately, Tuesday also happened to be the day of the big snowstorm."" The result was that fewer people showed up than had been hoped for. Dino Pacifici, 35, one of the organizers, told Buchignani, ""The place was full, but we could have had more."" ""Wouldn't you know it, the season's only snowstorm happens on the day of the event."" Despite the bad weather, the Gazette story helped generate an outpouring of support before Tuesday's benefit. ""After the article appeared, we started getting calls like crazy,"" said Pacifici, who estimated that more than 1,000 toys were collected, an increase over previous years. Organizers also received calls from people offering help next year. And they heard from people who needed toys. ""We got a call from a grandmother who has cancer,"" Pacifici said. ""She couldn't afford to buy toys for her five grandchildren. She couldn't even get out of the house."" Smiling Faces came through for the grandmother and other families who called for help, plus groups including the Women's Centre of Montreal, the Shriners Hospital, St. Brendan's Church and the Jewish Local Hero column. The week's lotteries Sunday 931219 La Quotidienne-4 0-8-7-6 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 9-6-5 (in order) Banco 1-3-4-8-11-14-18 24-30-31-35-37-42 47-50-52-54-56-59-61 Monday 931220 La Quotidienne-4 3-0-1-0 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 0-0-4 (in order) Banco 2-3-7-8-10-13-17 21-25-26-27 8-29 35-42-49-51-54-56-66 Tuesday 931221 La Quotidienne-4 1-3-1-1 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 1-4-6 (in order) Banco 3-5-7-8-9-15-25 27-28-30-34-35-37 44-45-50-57-58-59-67 Wednesday 931222 649 4-9-17-26-32-37 Bonus: 22 Extra 1-0-4-0-7-8 La Quotidienne-4 6-5-9-6 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 0-9-1 (in order) Banco 2-4-6-11-12-18-21 27-32-33-38-39-40 51-57-58-59-61-65-68 Thursday 931223 La Quotidienne-4 4-4-3-7 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 3-3-0 (in order) Banco 3-5-8-9-10-21-27 28-36-37-38-45-48 50-54-55-59-63-65-68 Friday 931224 Mini Loto 937648 Inter Plus 218668 La Quotidienne-4 6-2-0-2 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 5-3-6 (in order) woman CECELIA MCQUIRE SUNDAY NOTEBOOK Family Services of the Baron de Hirsch Institute And here's a good-news story from a student at Champlain College. Dimitri Martin wrote The Gazette last week to tell about a program in which some of his fellow students have been participating. According to Martin, psychology students were offered a choice last fall of writing a term paper or doing a volunteer placement in a centre that needed their help. Forty-four students chose to volunteer at senior citizens' homes and hospitals, as teaching assistants in schools and daycare centres and as companions to the mentally and physically handicapped. Some of the organizations involved were Sun Youth, Champlain Regional School, Garderie Chateau de Reves, Action Integration Brossard and Central Park Lodge. Martin reports that even though the students have fulfilled the course requirement, many of them continue to work on their own time at the institutions. returns in 2 weeks Banco 4-5-8-10-15-19-22 27-29-31-33-37-44 52-53-54-56-58-65-67 Saturday 931225 649 1-7-13-24-40-46 Bonus: 45 Select 42 1-12-15-17-19-21 Bonus: 6 Mise-T6t: 6-25-30-34 Extra 5-7-1-5-6-5 La Quotidienne-4 6-5-9-3 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 6-0-1 (in order) Banco 4-8-9-16-18-19-20 21-23-26-27-34-41 42-44-48-53-54-56-65 Atout Selection 1 2 30 5 8 QO (trump) Selection 2 6 7 8 Kv (trump) Celebration 94 414C639 I42C950 258B975 257C385 370B904 171D087 448B073 428E234 564B916 484E789 587E237 he Mid Winter Fur Clearance, 0 r -f o f & milOIIll ClllltHllINHIJN I Dl n ng h, AM Ol Fui linct lltV MioiuriENi 1 bU 8, 1 Mil t 801 714"
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The damage done to property, as far as can be ascertained, amounts to 80 millions of marks ($20,000,000). The condition of the inhabitants of the unhappy provinces is heartrending in the extreme. Many families, having lost their supporters and the whole of their worldly possessions, are made entirely dependent upon the assistance afforded them by communities and Government, but in spite of the generous efforts made all over the Empire, to alleviate the wants of the sufferers, the means of the Government, as well as of private individuals, are found to be altogether inadequate to cope with the magnitude of the disaster. Thousands of dollars are required every day to provide shelter, warm clothing and food for the poor sufferers, and Germans all over the world are exerting themselves to assist those at home in raising the funds necessary for the work of charity. Their appeals have been crowned with success; large sums of money have been forwarded to the Imperial authorities and distributed by them in the flooded districts, and votes of thanks have been passed in the Reichstag to the generous contributors abroad.
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iron bars and workshop tools, prison officials said Two inmates were seriously injured and two others suffered minor injuries in the fight which broke out in the exercise yard shortly before 7 p.m The most severely injured got their wounds scaling the fence which is topped with wire reinforced with razor-sharp pieces of metal Bernheim said he felt the use of a firearm to stop an unarmed prisoner from escaping was unjustifiable The police are there, guards are there, they have dogs There's a regular motorized patrol around the penitentiary They could have caught him easily even if he had scaled the fence Faulkner said Bernheim doesn't know what he's talking about There's only one pickup truck for the perimeter of the pen, he said, and prisoners know the buffer zone between the fences is forbidden to them The inmates know the rules Even if they're in the buffer zone the guard won't shoot at them unless they start climbing the second fence In Bouchard's case, he said, the guard fired several warning shots and there was even an exchange of words before the fatal shot The guard shouted at him Don't go over the second fence and the inmate shouted back I'm going,
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D, January 5 The destitution in Booth Dakota lies north and west of a line drawn from Yankton to Canton, with Spink County nearly the center of the drought-stricken district. In some counties, notably Spink, Clark, Kings, Miner, McCook and the counties west, the destitution is severe.
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She booked in Wednesday, and says she's having a great time. "I've brought my dog, and I'm trying to make a mini-vacation of it all," she said. She's taking advantage of a special $98-a-night, ice-storm rate introduced by the hotel on Tuesday afternoon. Greenspon, a businesswoman, is staying in a room that would normally go for $150 in winter and $250 in summer. "Most of our local guests are from Saint-Lambert." THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1998 F7 Across 1 Kind of wrench 7 Venomous, as a snake 13 Do well 14 Not real 16 Reducer 17 Eavesdropped 19 With 49-Across, underlying theme of 24-Down 21 Prefix with stasis 22 only 23 Appropriate, in a way 25 School sub 26 Hall of fame 28 Brine-cured cheeses 30 The skeptic 32 Hairy-chested 33 With the worst consequences 35 Convictions 36 Foods, Inc.
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T. Howard 173 St. Peter Street Jas Vitrtoe 19 Ayimer St. Thoa Ferguson Contract i:rt 1 m Wm Bifeop Lagaacbetiereslre Taos Kirma 14 Ottawa Street lst Orders received by Telephone THE CANADA FUEL IFL1 TTJTE3 MORE CKABLE CHidAPER TFT AX COAL AXO BURNS BRILLIANTLY FOR SIXTEEN HOURS Can be relighted and burned over again for equal periods with a small addition of fresh fuel; will be submitted to any test to satisfy purchasers. Can be seen burning at 832 St. Mary Street or 80 St. Maurice Street. Mays 121 New Job Printing House We take much pleasure in announcing to our friends and the public that we have added to our Binder and Stationery business well and our PRINTING OFFICE, which will be under the special charge of Mr. Hugh Caverot Jr., who was admitted a partner in our firm, January 5th from 1st September. With new type, the latest improved presses and steam power, we are in a position to turn out first-class work with promptness and reasonable rates. The combination of Bindery, Stationery and Printing departments under one roof gives us unprecedented facilities for executing orders in all the branches to the satisfaction of our customers. STON, PHILLIPS & Co. Job Printers, 128 Notre Dame Street, Continued from second page some of them had paid a much higher price than they should have done for their wagons, etc. It is a great mistake for immigrants to take heavy articles with them; the carriage costs more than they are worth. We started for THE PRAIRIE DISTRICT, crossing the Assiniboine, which will rail lay for 40 miles along the banks of the Red River. For ten miles or so to the La Salle River the road passes through a rather low and wooded country, most of the timber being in small copses. We then emerge on open prairie, most of the river lots being settled and under cultivation. This continued, with intervals of unbroken prairie, all the way to Morris, which we reached at dusk. The prairie west of the road was mostly unbroken and had been swept by fire. We saw a good many stacks of prairie hay and some cattle. Prairie chickens were pretty numerous, and we shot 25 brace on this journey. The land at Morris is hardly so heavy as nearer Winnipeg. Winnipeg. Crops were reported to average 18 to 20 bushels per acre. Next day we struck west along the second base line, and ten miles out reached the Lowe farm, the only house for 25 miles. We were kindly entertained by Mr. Lowe, Jr., on our return. This farm consists of 19,000 acres, which Messrs. Lowe intend farming on a scale similar to the Dalrymple farms. They have erected a fine house and buildings and have 500 acres broken for next crop. They have had some losses among their horses, the work of breaking being severe, and the hay and water not suiting horses from Ontario at first. Oxen or mules do better for breaking. They have also had some difficulty in getting good water, and have put down a bore of 90 feet in the rock, where they hope to find a good supply. Meantime they have to draw supplies some distance. Water is one of the first considerations with the settler. It is rare that water is so difficult to get as in the case we have mentioned. The water of the creeks is good, and we made a point of tasting the well water at a good many places we visited. Sometimes it was sweet, and sometimes it had an alkaline or sulphurous taste, but stock take to it readily enough. The Lowe farm is all level prairie, with a little marsh, on which you might drive a plough for miles in any direction. It is intersected here and there by small channels or coulees, which carry off the water in spring, but do not impede a plough or reaper. The soil is a rich, black mould, eighteen inches deep on a clay subsoil. Our trail for several miles lay through the south corner of the big marsh, consisting of many thousand acres, which is flooded by the Boyne River in the rainy season, but could be drained with little difficulty. It was covered with most luxuriant grass, in some places three to four feet high. In some places it was still soft, and the horses went up to the knees and pulled us through with some difficulty. We travelled over 40 miles, and reached Messrs. Bidder's farm on Tobacco Creek just in time, as we were hardly well inside when a thunderstorm, with heavy rain, came on, and a very dark night. Next day we drove over Messrs. Bidder's farm and some of the surrounding country. Messrs. Bidder have several thousand acres of nice dry land, well situated on the creek, along which there is some fair timber. They have not yet cultivated much wheat, as they are some distance from a market, but they expect ere long to have communication with Winnipeg by the Pembina Railway branch, which will add greatly to the value of their land. Their wheat has averaged fully thirty bushels per acre. This and the Pembina mountain district is considered one of the finest parts of Manitoba. The Pembina mountains are terraces of some 200 to 300 feet high, well clad with timber, their summits being an immense plateau of level prairie, which is thickly settled nearly as far west as Rock Lake. This district is fairly well wooded and grows the wild dog rose, a sign of good dry land. We re-crossed the Atlantic with a young man who had bought 320 acres, with a log house and some improvements, for $800. We had fine weather for our return to Winnipeg, and witnessed a Red River dance at Morris. We also drove out to Mr. Gerrie's farm on Sturgeon Creek, eight miles northwest of Winnipeg. Mr. Gerrie owns 40,000 acres in different parts of the Province, and has here a block of 5,000 acres, nearly all dry and well situated. The soil is a black loam of 12 to 18 inches deep, on a friable clay loam. A crop of oats, sown on breaking, had been very bulky; but the quality of the oats grown on new land is generally poor. Mr. Gerrie has sold a part of this block at $1 an acre. Returning to Winnipeg we passed through a considerable breadth of lower land on which hay had been cut. We saw loads going into town, where it sells from $6 to $8 a ton in quantity. Six dollars is about the lowest price; and as the cost of cutting, stacking, and delivering in town does not exceed $3 to $3.50 per ton, it seems to be a profitable business on land which yields two tons per acre, and which can be bought at less than $5. We also drove out with Mayor Logan and some other gentlemen to Bird Hill, east of the Red River, from which we had a fine view. The country east of the river is more rolling and broken than the west side, and more wooded. We saw prairie fires to the south and west. The railway from Winnipeg to Selkirk is now finished, and we saw here some large deposits of gravel, which by-and-bye will be of great use in road making. We passed through the settlement of SILDOXA, which skirts both banks of the Red River north of Winnipeg. It was settled by Highlanders from Sutherlandshire in 1812. The claims are from 5 to 12 chains wide, and go four miles back. Only a small proportion along the river is cultivated, the rest being used for hay and pasture. We saw land which had been in wheat for 35 to 50 years, and took samples of the wheat, soil, and subsoil. We also saw some first-rate turnips. We did not see any signs of manure being applied, though we saw manure heaps, the accumulations of 50 years. As there is no decrease of crops the natives do not think it necessary to use manure yet; indeed it has been customary to draw the manure on to the ice of the river in winter and allow it to go off in the spring freshets. Others who had not this facility had found it necessary to remove their barns rather than remove the manure heap. The cultivated land was clean and seemed in good condition. On the banks of the river we could see a depth of 12 to 14 feet of soil, all alluvial deposit. The settlement of Selkirk, farther down the river, was settled in the same way, and is similar to Kildonan. Returning to Winnipeg we saw a start being made on the first section of the Canada Pacific Railway west of the point. The construction of this section is contracted for at $6,000 per mile, being little more than the cost of rails, sleepers, and ballasting. The cost of working will also be light, as the steepest gradient from Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains does not exceed 1 in 100. When in Winnipeg a banquet was given to the Ministers Aikins and Bowell, to which the delegates were invited, and at which a great future for the Northwest was confidently predicted. Mr. Cowan, from Wigtownshire, who visited the district west of the Portage, as far as Rapid City, kindly favored us with his notes on that section. He says the land for 12 miles west of the Portage is good, similar to the land of High Bluff. Twenty miles west is low and rather marshy, then changes to a sandy loam, and then very low for 16 miles past Gladstone, and no use till drained. The trail here strikes White Mud River, a clear, and in places rapid stream. From White Mud River to Stoney Creek and over Riding Mountains, the land is light and sandy in parts, but generally good rolling prairie, fit for mixed husbandry, till the Prairie City on the Little Saskatchewan is reached. From Prairie City to Rapid City the trail is along this river, the banks of which are light and gravelly, but a mile back the land is good rolling prairie, not quite so heavy as the land near the Portage. The south trail from Rapid City to the Portage passes through land similar to that we have described. In this big plain, 23 miles east, Mr. McKenzie has a farm of 4,000 acres. This gentleman, who came from Ontario eleven years ago, gave Mr. Cowan some useful information. He owns about 18,000 acres of land, selected very judiciously in various parts of the province. One of his sons is on a farm of 1,700 acres on the Beautiful Plain, and has 300 acres under crop. He has also a grazing farm, 60 miles northwest of the Portage, on which he says 800 acres would yield enough hay to winter 2,500 cattle. He lives on a farm of 2,400 acres, 9 miles west of Portage-la-Prairie, some of which he has cultivated for nine consecutive years. His wheat yielded 41 bushels per acre in 1877, 36 bushels last year, and he expects 40 bushels from this year's crop, all of the fine variety, and 60 to 62 lbs per bushel. He sows wheat from 15th April to 12th May, and reaps in August. Oats may be sown till 20th May, and barley as late as 10th June. Oats yield 75 to 80 bushels per acre, 34 to 36 lbs; barley, 40 to 45 bushels, 50 to 53 lbs. He drills in about 1 bushel of each. His land is a good black loam, 18 inches deep, on a subsoil of 3 or 4 feet of loamy clay, and grows excellent crops of roots of all kinds. Potatoes, with very rude cultivation, grow 7 to 10 tons per acre, and turnips as high as 30 tons without manure; swedes frequently weigh 16 to 20 lbs. One exhibited last year weighed 36 lbs. Good water is found at 16 feet, and stock do well. Mackenzie has a stock of very useful well-bred cattle, the best in the Province. He finds a ready market for all his produce in settlers coming in, and expects to need no other for some years. He pays $40 a year and board for white labor; and $2 per day and board for Indian labor. He had an Indian ploughing one of his fields. Mackenzie must be considered a good authority on the matter of crops, but his results are relatively considerably better than the average, and it would not be safe to calculate on his figures. Though we spent nearly four weeks on our journey to and from Manitoba, including the time we were there, we only saw a very small proportion of the 1,000,000 acres it contains; and as Manitoba is only the beginning of the immense extent of fertile country which extends to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, we can hardly do more than say that we have had our foot in the Northwest. The British possessions in North America are larger than the whole of Europe, and larger than the United States, without Alaska; and as the wheat region through which the Canada Pacific Railway will pass is estimated to contain 160 million acres, the Canadians may well be enthusiastic over their possessions. None of the delegates went west of Rapid City, but the country south to the Assiniboine is reported good dry land, water good, and timber scarce. At Shoal Lake, 40 miles away, the land is similar, and on to Fort Ellice and the Touchwood Hills. At Edmonton, 850 miles, the land is said to be undulating and of the highest cultivation, and those who have visited the Peace River describe it as the finest country of the whole, and say that notwithstanding its high latitude it grows richly, while owing to its situation on the east slope of the Rocky Mountains, the climate is much milder than in the much lower latitudes. A diagram to a man, on which isothermal lines of winter and summer are marked, will illustrate this. But I may say that while it is in the same latitude as Scotland, the summer is similar to that of Belgium. Most of the land in Manitoba is now taken up, and emigration is moving westward to the free grant lands. The land is surveyed in sections of a mile square, or 640 acres; half of these sections, corresponding to the white squares of a draught board, are reserved as railway lands, and sold at fixed prices according to distance from the line of railway. The sections corresponding to the black squares are reserved as free grant lands, each settler receiving 160 acres on payment of a nominal sum, and with power to buy 160 acres more on easy terms, the price varying from $1 to $2.50 per acre. The policy of the Government is, if possible, to build the railway ahead of settlement, but we hardly think it will succeed. The Government also wish to prevent speculators getting possession of large breadths of land to hold on speculation, but in this they have hitherto failed, as many men own from 10 to 40 thousand acres within 100 miles of Winnipeg. These lands at present bring in no revenue to the owners; indeed it is probable that some are paying interest on the purchase money at high rates. These lands are all for sale at prices from $1 to $5 per acre for unbroken land, and in some cases improved lots might be bought for much higher sums. There are many men who have taken up homesteads and preemptions who will sell their rights for a small profit, so there is no likelihood of land being scarce for many years to come, and settlers who can pay the prices I have named do not need to go far west unless they choose. On the whole, I was favorably impressed with Manitoba, and the other delegates whom I met expressed the same opinion. No one who sees the immense extent of fertile soil and the excellence of its products can doubt for a moment that there is a great future before that country. Nearly everyone we met who had seen anything of the Northwest spoke of it in glowing terms; and though it is necessary to allow considerable discounts of the statements of those who have not much experience in agriculture, we were satisfied that settlers with industry, experience, and some capital could not fail to do well. A man with $100 can make a start on a homestead; a man with $200 to $300 can start well; but as a rule men with more capital have the best chance. Stock do well, but require shelter and hay in winter. There is a good home trade in cattle, large numbers being imported at present from Minnesota. The cattle we saw in Manitoba were good and strong, rather short of breeding, but infinitely superior to the Texas and native Colorado cattle we afterwards saw in Chicago market. We think Galloway cattle would suit the country well. Yearling cattle were selling at $12 to $16; two-year-olds at $20 to $25; and three-year-olds at $40 to $45. Draft oxen bring $90 to $180 per pair according to size, condition, and training. Most of the settlers at present are avoiding the low lands and taking up the dry lands for wheat-growing, which gives a quicker return than cattle; but as soon as stock-raising is more general, we think these lands will be found very valuable. We saw some few flocks of 50 to 100 sheep. In some districts a spear grass grows, which gets into the wool, pierces the skin, and kills the animal; but this only occurs at one part of the year, and when the land is cultivated this grass disappears. Like cattle, sheep require shelter and hay in winter. The disadvantages of Manitoba are at present bad roads, especially in the rainy season; the long winter of fully five months; the scarcity of wood and of water in some parts; the mosquitoes and black flies, which for a couple of months in summer, and especially in marshy places, are very annoying to man and beast, and particularly to new settlers. The opening of the railway will help to get over the first difficulty, and also bring in supplies of timber where needed. Care is required in selecting land where good water can be had. The winter is long, and the temperature often very low; but we were assured by Governor Morris and others that the cold is not severe, as the air is generally still and clear, and that even invalids with weak lungs find the climate healthy and pleasant. There is no cure for the insect plagues, which, however, disappear as the land is drained and cultivated. It is well for the emigrant to be prepared for these difficulties, which we would be careful neither to exaggerate nor conceal. As a field for money-making and enterprise, we consider the Northwest decidedly the best part of the Dominion; and those who are willing to face those difficulties and disadvantages of pioneer life, difficulties and disadvantages which will be rapidly overcome, and which are nothing to those which the early settlers in Ontario had to contend with, have every prospect of success and independence. It would be a great mistake to suppose that I recommend Manitoba to all who think of emigrating. The propriety of going there depends very much on the means and habits of the emigrant. There are many whom I could not recommend to make a change which would involve the loss of a good many of their present life comforts, and which might be especially hard on the female members of the family; but young people with health, energy, and some means, accustomed to work, would certainly improve their condition and do well. There are many families, too, who may be working as hard here, without making things any better, as they would have to do there, for whom the change would be a good one. We left Winnipeg on Tuesday, 21st October, and, travelling night and day, reached Chicago in 48 hours. We passed over the St. Paul and Michigan Central Railways, a distance of 1,200 miles, on free passes. These railways carry most of the emigrants who go to the Northwest at present, and the arrangements are very satisfactory. During the whole of the first day we traversed the expanse of burned prairie we have already described, which often stretched away for miles to the horizon unbroken by a house or tree, but strewn with numerous bones of buffalo, deer and other animals, scattered over the surface, or half buried in the soil. Near Emerson and Cookton we saw some farms of considerable size; on one there were excellent buildings, and five or six teams were returning from work. On another we saw ten horses at work driving a thrashing machine; there were more than 100 large stacks of wheat in the fields and at the buildings, and it struck us that there was work enough for a steam thrasher, and that the horses would have been better employed ploughing. At night we passed some extensive prairie fires, which were tearing along before a brisk wind, and where the grass was high, leaping to a great height. It was a grand sight. We heard that many settlers had lost house and crop by recent fire. We spent two weeks in Ontario, which was not sufficient to see it thoroughly, but our visit was cut short by an early fall of snow. We visited some farms near Toronto, on one of which we saw stumps extracted by an ingenious machine. Two men and a boy and a pair of light horses were pulling up large pine stumps expeditiously. These stumps are not ripe for pulling for seven or eight years after the trees are cut; and in passing through the Province the patches of land under stumps and the snake rail fences were the strangest features. We visited Guelph, and were kindly entertained by Messrs. McCrae, natives of that place, and several other gentlemen. This is one of the best-farmed districts of Canada, the stock of cattle on several farms being exceptionally good. The chief attraction here was the Ontario School of Agriculture and Model Farm, an excellent institution, partly supported by Government. They have at present 88 pupils, and have had to refuse many applications for want of accommodation. The pupils study and work half time. They are paid for their labor according to industry and ability, and it is possible for an active lad to make the payments for work nearly cover the charges of the school. We were shown over the farm by the Professor of Agriculture, Mr. Brown, a Scotchman. We saw a fine field of turnips tested to average 20 tons per imperial acre. 10 or 12 sorts of swedes had been tried. Experiments were also being made with different varieties of wheat. The pastures were sown out with clover and timothy, and were fairly good, but rather patchy in places. The land is a good, deep, gravelly loam, heavier than similar land here, and not so red in color; some parts were rather soft and heavy, but clean and in good order. The stock included good specimens of Shorthorns, Hereford, Devon, Polled Angus, Galloway, and Ayrshire cattle; and of Southdown, Lothwold, and Leicester sheep, a good many of the animals having been imported from this country. Several of the horses were very nearly pure Clydesdale. They are at present carrying on experiments in cattle feeding with animals of different breeds, and test the increase of live weight on the scales from time to time. Professor Brown expects each animal to gain 2 lbs per head daily. He has found it profitable to reduce the allowance of roots to 30 and 40 lbs daily, and allow a larger quantity of grain, say 6 to 10 lbs, according to circumstances. He has tried steaming and chopping all the food, but found the stock do equally well on the raw food. In experimenting with various forms and kinds of food he found that pigs made most progress on peas supplied whole, although a considerable proportion seemed to pass through the animals undigested. The results of these experiments, as well as a general report of the affairs of the school and farm are published annually, and form an interesting and instructive volume. We saw parties of students engaged on various farm work, attending stock, and thrashing out experimental lots of grain. We think this is a valuable institution and worthy of imitation in this country. We visited several farms in this district. At Mr. Stones' we saw some very good shorthorn stock and Cotswold sheep. At Mr. McCrae's, we saw good turnips and a nice herd of Galloways, including some of the principal prize winners at Ottawa. At Mr. Hobson's farm we saw some excellent shorthorns. Mr. Hobson feeds a good many cattle, buying half fat cattle in December and January, and feeding till June. He allows 12 to 15 lbs meal daily and 60 lbs roots. He also feeds off 400 lambs on rape, selling them in August at 10s to 12s each, and making them worth 22s to 24s by middle of December. The rape is sown in drills and worked the same as turnips. On this farm of 300 acres, 240 cleared, four men are employed in summer and two in winter, and some extra help at busy seasons. Mr. Hobson estimates the necessary capital for such a farm at $3 per acre. Of course where pedigree stock is kept it is much higher. We visited a farm of 180 acres, all good land except 20 acres, which was for sale at about $13 per acre. It was a nice place, near a railway station. The house was new, had cost $800; and the buildings were fair. Another farm of 200 acres, let at 12s an acre, was considered too dear. The soil was a fair sandy loam on a clay subsoil, intersected by a gravelly ridge. The turnips were a very good crop. The divisions of crop on this farm were as follows: 70 acres hay, 60 acres pasture, 15 turnips, 20 fall wheat, 20 peas, 20 oats. The taxes payable by the tenant were about $13, in addition to eight days' statute road labor. This farm was part of a block of 800 acres for sale at $12 per acre. Near Guelph we saw two farms of 400 acres farmed by two sons of the late Mr. Gerrand, Marchfield. They pay about $200 a year rent and taxes, and are said to be doing well. These seemed very desirable, in a good situation, and were for sale, price $12 to $13 per acre. We passed through part of the Paisley block, a district settled a good many years ago by emigrants from Paisley, few of whom had been brought up to farming. They have, in nearly all cases, been successful, and possess very comfortable residences and tidy, well-managed farms. We next visited Gait, where a large proportion of the people are of Scotch descent. Mr. Cowan, a native of Dumfrieshire, has a good farm of 540 acres in the neighborhood. Mr. Cowan is a member of Parliament, and well known as a breeder of Leicester sheep. We saw a first-rate flock of ewes. He also breeds shorthorns. The land is mostly rolling, a deep sandy loam, and free from stones. We went to Bow Park, near Brantford, where we met an old acquaintance, Mr. John Clay, Jr., of Kerchesters. Bow Park belongs to Mr. George Brown, of Toronto, a gentleman of much spirit and enterprise, who founded the splendid herd of shorthorn cattle there. Mr. Clay had just returned from Chicago, where they had sold 40 head of shorthorns at an average of 60 guineas each, and some Clydesdale horses at handsome prices. After luncheon we inspected the splendid buildings and the stock they contained. There are at present about 340 head of shorthorns and one or two Clydesdale horses on the farm. We first saw a very fine lot of one and two-year-old heifers, including some very stylish animals. We then passed through the stable for 24 horses, the immense barn filled with crop and hay, and root-house underneath. In a shed containing 44 loose boxes we found a splendid collection of cows and heifers of the Oxford, Princess, Duchess, and other famous tribes. Many of the animals were very fine, and had been imported from England at a great expense. Some had just returned from a round of shows, where they had carried all before them. In other sheds we found more cows and heifers and the bull 'Fourth Duke of Clarence', a magnificent bull of great style and substance. Mr. Clay informed us that they found a ready market for their young stock chiefly in the States. Now that Canadian cattle are shut out, they will have to find a market in Canada; but judging from the impetus which has been given to cattle-breeding by the export trade to England, we would expect the home trade to increase and by-and-by pay the proprietors. The importation and breeding of such a class of cattle is calculated to be of untold benefit to the province, and indeed to the whole Dominion. Bow Park estate contains 800 acres of fine sandy land situated in a loop of the Grand River, and grows excellent crops of Indian corn, rye, barley, and oats. A large breadth is cut for hay, and the 150 acres of Indian corn are also cut green and stand in stook till required for stock. The stock consume all the produce of the farm. We drove from Brantford to Paris through a very nice country. On the way we visited a very nice farm of 540 acres, 80 acres in wood, nicely situated and well laid out. The house was fine but buildings inferior. The land was a deep sandy loam, easily cultivated, but not in good order. We saw a 60-acre field of grass sown down five or six years ago, which was the best sward of grass we saw in Canada. This was a most desirable farm, and was for sale. We next went from PARIS TO WOODSTOCK, in Oxford Co., and visited Mr. Donaldson's farm of 300 acres at Zorra. Mr. Donaldson is a native of Cumberland, and had excellent farm buildings and very good turnips. He feeds a good many cattle and gave us some details of expenses and returns. He allowed 60 to 70 lbs turnips, and 8 to 10 lbs meal and bran daily, which he estimated rather low; we thought at 3s a week. His cattle paid 13s per month for grazing without cake, and from 22s to 30s per month for house feeding. He estimates grazing sheep at 3d per week, and wintering at 6d, or 20s 6d per annum. Ewes kept in this way should pay nearly 30s each in wool and lambs. He estimates the cost of fattening sheep in winter at 3d per week, including an allowance of grain. Sheep, like cattle, require to be housed in winter, and do well, if not too crowded; 40 in a lot being sufficient. Sheep in Canada are not affected by scab, foot-rot, or murrain. We stayed a night with Mr. Dunlop, a native of Ayrshire. Mr. Dunlop has his farms let at about 12s per acre. He also owns lands in Dakota, and furnished us with useful information. He estimates the necessary working capital for a farm of 200 acres in Oxford County, where 15 to 20 percent of the land is still under timber, at $40 to $60 per acre, but of course many start with much less. The annual labour bill would amount to 16s to 20s per acre if hired, but on such farms the farmer generally takes an active part in the work. He estimates the cost of raising fall wheat, including rent and taxes, at $75 per acre, and of spring wheat at $50. Barley sometimes pays as well as wheat, but prices are more fluctuating. Oats are only grown for home consumption. We visited a large cheese factory at Strathallan station, recently erected on the best principles. The storing room is placed some 20 feet from the making room, and is connected with it by a tramway. The piggeries are about 80 yards off. The balance of cheese on hand had been sold at 6陆d per lb. At Stratford we met Mr. Ballantyne and visited his factory at Black Creek, 8 miles off. This factory was started in 1864, and was one of the first in the neighborhood. Mr. Ballantyne is largely engaged in the cheese trade, is connected with a good many factories, and is probably as good an authority on cheese making and the cheese trade as we could have met with. He has devoted great attention to the scientific principles of cheese making and overcome the main difficulties which American makers have to contend with. He is of the opinion that in many cases the milk is tainted before it is drawn from the cow, owing to water pasture or other subtle causes which affect an article so susceptible of taint as milk. In dealing with such milk (which is indicated by floating gaseous curd), Mr. Ballantyne sets it at a temperature of 80 degrees; he maintains this temperature and draws off the whey as soon as possible, even at the loss of a little curd, as he holds that he gets rid of much of the taint in the whey and that allowing the whey to remain on the curd simply fixes and increases the taint. He allows the curd to ripen well before going to press during a period of from 1 to 5 hours, which the oxygen of the air brings the curd into proper condition. The fitness of the curd for press is tested on a moderately hot iron. If it is sufficiently ripe it should adhere to the iron and draw out in a stringy fashion. I do not know enough of cheese making to make any remarks of my own on these points, but no doubt many of you can appreciate these hints, which I simply repeat as Mr. Ballantyne stated them. July and August, when the weather is hot, is the most critical season with Canadian cheese makers, and we saw some August cheese made on a principle from tainted milk, which were perfectly sweet. At this factory they receive the milk of 1,000 cows, and make fully a ton of cheese daily. The cows yield most milk in June, some 26,000 lbs daily producing 2,600 to 2,700 lbs cheese. The worst yield is in July. The milk is richest in October, when 8陆 lbs milk will yield 1 lb of cheese. Farmers sending milk to the factories do not as a rule feed their cows highly, and consider $6 per cow a fair return for the season. Mr. Ballantyne said it would not pay them to make good cheese under 6d per lb, and that in consequence of the low prices prevailing for some time, many had fed off their cows. The make of American cheese was therefore short, and would probably continue so for some time. He expected to see prices maintained, and did not think makers of the English cheese would be affected as they had been by American competition for a good few years to come. We visited Niagara, and were much impressed with the grandeur and magnificence of the Fa
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FLOODS AND THE SOUTH SHORE St Lambert Council Asks the Government to Come to its Aid The following resolutions were adopted unanimously, on Friday evening, by the village council of St Lambert: Whereas, the municipality of the village of St Lambert has suffered serious damage during the past three seasons from inundations, resulting from ice gorges in the River St Lawrence; Whereas, in a report asked for by the Department of Public Works, Ottawa, the mayor of this village explained the damage caused by the ice and flows to property in general, and especially to the principal public roadway along the bank of the said river, which is worn dangerously narrow by the ice, and is liable to be totally destroyed if no protection is afforded; Whereas, certain protective works are being constructed on the north side of the river by the city of Montreal, the completion of which must, of necessity, largely increase the danger of damage and disaster to life and property on the south shore, by forcing the volume of water and ice in that direction; And as it must be admitted that the works required to give adequate protection to the village are of too costly a character to be undertaken by so small a community, on which heavy costs have already been entailed in repairing damages caused by said floods: Resolved, that a memorial be presented to the Federal Government praying them to erect such works as in their wisdom they may deem necessary to prevent or diminish said floods, and to erect a protection wall or ramp along the river bank to preserve said roadway, material for which can be obtained by the removal of Mount's Island and the wharf north of the same; Resolved, that a deputation composed of the Mayor (Mr. Cudlal) and Councillor T. Mallinson be appointed to proceed to Ottawa in company with the delegates from the town of Longueuil and the Federal representative of the county, to confer with the Minister of Public Works in order to secure Government action in this important matter without further delay. ALMOST DECAPITATED Fireman Sparling, of the Salvage Corps, has a Narrow Escape Rescued by a Comrade A telephone alarm to No. 2 station, quickly followed by a second alarm from box 7, brought out the central division of the brigade at 4:20 o'clock on Saturday afternoon for a fire in the Western House, corner of St Paul and McGill streets. The fire had taken from the furnace in the kitchen, and getting in between the lath and plaster and the brick wall, was difficult to get at. After some trouble it was extinguished by two charges from the salvage hose. When the salvage wagon was leaving the station an accident happened by which Fireman Sparling had a narrow escape for his life. As is well known, the harness is suspended from the ceiling by cords and hooks. After the harness was fastened on the horses something went wrong with the weight which pulls the cords back, and the result was that one of the loops caught Mr. Sparling (who was driving) around the neck, drawing him to the back of the wagon. If one of the firemen had not seen the occurrence and swerved the horses round, catching the wheel against the wall, stopping the wagon, nothing could have saved Mr. Sparling's head from being torn off. As it was, a nasty cut has been made round the front portion of his neck and the tendons badly strained. Notwithstanding that he could hardly hold his head up, Mr. Sparling gallantly responded to the call of duty. She scolds and frets, she's full of pets, she's rarely kind and tender; The thorn of life is a fretful wire I wonder what will mend her? Try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Ten to one, your wife is cross and fretful because she is sick and suffering, and cannot control her nervousness when things go wrong. Make a healthy woman of her and the chances are you will make a cheerful and pleasant one. ""Favorite Prescription"" the only remedy for woman's peculiar ailments, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. See guarantee on bottle wrapper. Large bottles, $1. Six for $5. Mobs Necessarily True Love ""I love you,"" he protested, ""better than my life, would die for you if necessary."" ""Oh, nonsense!"" replied the practical girl, ""swear to me that you will get up and make the fires and I'll consider your proposition."" F. H. Clayton, who is to remove to another deanery, with a warm address and a testimonial from the brethren with whom he has worked for seventeen years. The address was moved by Rev. Canon Davidson and seconded by Archdeacon Lindsay. A fatal accident happened to Kenneth McLeod on the 7th Inst., about two miles from Bury village. On his way home one of the lines slipped out of his hand, and in endeavoring to reach it he lost his balance and fell out, receiving a severe shock. Dr. Wales was at once summoned, and after a careful examination entertained strong hopes of his recovery, but inflammation set in and he died the following Wednesday. The Missisquoi Record, to get a true idea of the crops in the district, issued circulars to representative farmers in Missisquoi and Brume, the replies to which, it says, in the majority of cases speak very encouragingly of the farmers' prospects, and although in some instances the crops will not come up to the expectations of six weeks ago, yet, taken as a whole, the husbandmen of the Townships have no reason to complain. Speaking of the harvest, the Ormstown correspondent of the Huntingdon Gleaner says: Harvesting may be said to be over, there being only occasional fields here and there uncut. Many farmers report the presence in their peas of a pest which this section has been free of hitherto, though it has been doing great damage in Ontario for years—the worm; the extent of the damage will be known on threshing them, which has begun. Grain is light in most places. The Waterloo Advertiser says: The Richmond Guardian points out that the Hon. Frank Gilman does not possess the necessary property qualifications to entitle him to sit as legislative councillor for the Wellington division! He should own four thousand dollars in real estate in the division which he represents. As the Hon. Frank is a wealthy man he should lose no time in supplying the little omission, or better still, he might gracefully retire and give the place to some representative Townships Liberal. MONITOBA'S HARVEST—A Magnificent Wheat Crop Now Being Gathered The wheat harvest began in dead earnest yesterday all over the province, and for the next two weeks or so there will be little rest for the farmers. The barley and oat crops by this time are nearly all harvested; and here and there over the province, particularly near Virden, Brandon, Morden and Gretna, wheat cutting has been going on more or less extensively for the past two weeks, and a good portion has been harvested. But speaking of the province as a whole, wheat cutting has only just commenced, but it is now underway in every section of the country and every fine day will see tens of thousands of bushels harvested. On the whole wheat has been from eight to ten days later in maturing this year than last, as by the 20th of August last year most of the grain was down. It will also take a good deal longer to gather in the harvest this year than in previous seasons. The acreage is considerably larger than ever before, and the yield is quite as heavy as anticipated, frequently running up to thirty-five bushels to the acre. Harvest help is also scarce, and in Southern Manitoba $45 per month, with board, is being offered for farm laborers. There also threatens to be a dearth of binding twine, owing to the vast quantities that will be needed. The Dakota farmers are even worse off. An implement dealer in the city went to the trouble the other day of getting quotations of binding twine at leading points throughout the Northwestern States. In St. Paul the price is 15c for sisal in carload lots, with the freight charges to add; at Fargo it is 18c to 20c for manila; at Barnesville there is no twine to be had at any price; at Crookston 18c to 20c for manila. The price in Manitoba is 15c at all points for manila. Winnipeg Free Press, August 17. ""It Meant to us"" A sympathetic Kind Old Lady ""And so you are blind my poor man?"" Poor Man ""Yessum; I was born blind."" Kind Old Lady (shocked) ""Born Blind? Is it possible? How you must feel the loss of your eyesight!"" ""Satinette CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CHANGE OF TIME, commencing MONDAY, August 14th, THE NEW SHORT LINE of the Canadian Pacific Railway to TORONTO, Open for passenger travel. The train will leave Bonaventure Station, Montreal, as follows: For Toronto and the West, via New Short Line at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. For Ottawa 8:00 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. For Winnipeg and Vancouver 8:20 p.m. For Quebec, 6:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. For Portland, Boston, etc.
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November Snow caused a postponement of the racing at the Pennings race track this afternoon. The day a card was declared and new entries were compiled for Monday as follows: First race, selling; 5 furlongs-100 yards-Dan Hill, Azael, Hurry Crawford, Chatagrace, 100, Cam-anh, 1ona, Deu, Marslan, 8quan, Wordsworth, Endeavor, Beau Ideal, Taranto, Talisman, 50. In addition to this, the plaintiff claimed $2,000 for a puddle wall to be constructed outside the foundations to prevent the water from continuing to damage the wall. This item I refuse because the puddle wall would not be necessary if the defendant constructs it, and if it does not do so it will be liable for damages in the future. With regard to diminution in value of the property, I found the proof insufficient and I appoint experts to report on that point.
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75 OUTSIDE METRO AREA $2,000 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Laugh it up at comedy Test's Old Port site El SA LANGUAGE Golf gives up our umi limy or $ party hospitals More councillors expected to resign from Vision Montreal next week a warning MONIQUE BEAUDIN and ELENA CHERNEY The Gazette CHRIS TAYLOR The Gazette Local hospitals and health boards are about to come under the microscope of the Office de la Langue Française, according to a letter obtained by Alliance Quebec. In the July 14 letter, sent to the 69 health-care institutions across Quebec that have bilingual status, Office president Nicole Rene outlined her plans for a Sept. 17 meeting. The institutions will be reminded at the meeting that they must be able, at all times, to provide health-care services in French. "Not all personnel have to be bilingual, but there should always be someone available who is able to offer services in French," Rene said in an interview yesterday. The letter comes at a time when regional access plans for English-language health care have yet to be approved by the Quebec government. A decision has been delayed until late August or September. "It's disgusting, frankly," said Michael Hamelin, president of Alliance Quebec. "For them to find the time to drag in English-language institutions for 'consultation,' it's the kind of intimidation we're seeing day in and day out." Please see OFFICE, Page A2 Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque faces the greatest test yet to his leadership after four city councillors quit his party yesterday, whittling his majority down to a single vote. Even as Councillors Pierre Gagnier, Marie Lebeau, Jacques Charbonneau and Serge-Eric Belanger read their resignation letters to reporters, other Vision Montreal councillors were considering whether to join them. "There are others who are very ill at ease," Charbonneau said. At least six other councillors - including executive-committee member Germain Pregent, and Councillors Jean-Guy Deschamps, Michelle Daines, Giovanni Di Michele and Jack Chadirdjian - are rumoured to be thinking of quitting the party, and some could quit within the next week. "I'm talking to my family, the people who helped me get elected and my constituents, the residents of St. Henri," Pregent said in an interview yesterday. "I'll make up my mind in the next few days." Pregent and the other councillors could come under considerable pressure, as both the party president and remaining Vision councillors said they'll try to persuade them to stay. "If they have a malaise, they can come to the family here and see us," said party president Robert Archambault, who added that the councillors who quit yesterday never told him they were unhappy. "I hope that the remaining people are a solid core." Please see VISION, Page A5 Mayor can stay in power, Page A5 Bourque's time of turmoil, Page A5 The Saguenay: one year later Targeting the OLE Page A3 INSIDE NATION RCMP fear unrest The RCMP predict Ottawa's "lukewarm response" to the recent royal commission report on aboriginals may fuel unrest. Page A10 WORLD Mir repairs on hold Mir's critical power shortages are resolved, but mission control likely will wait until the next crew arrives before making further repairs. Page A11 BUSINESS No sale, Imasco says Imasco Ltd. denies that it is negotiating to sell Canada Trust to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Page C1 WEATHER GORDON BECK, GAZETTE Chicoutimi is spending $11 million to restore the museum housed in this old pulp-and-paper mill, which was gutted by last summer's flood. Region rebuilding after deluge Partly cloudy tomorrow, Page B8 For weather updates, please call The Gazette Quickline at 555-1234 code 6000. Each call costs 50 cents. INDEX- Architecture, Auto, Births, Books, Bridge, Brownstein, Business, Comilli, Car Doctor, Careers, Classified, Collard, Comics, Crosswords, Curtail, Editorials, Entertainment, Freed, Health Matters, Horoscope, Landers, Legal Notices, Needletrade, Obituaries, QuickLine, RSVP, Scoreboard, Sports, Travel, What's on, Wonderword. First of a two-part series JONATHON GATEHOUSE The Gazette LA BAIE - As the heavens open up, people run for the cover of front porches and cars. The rivulets trickling in the channels between rounded boulders quickly expand into cataracts of roaring white foam. In the gathering darkness, roofs and trees begin to float by on the wall of water and the dull thump of helicopters fills the air. The 2,300 people crammed into the stuffy community centre on a hot July night squirm in their seats and murmur, unsure how to react to the dramatic depiction of the most devastating flood in Quebec history, as thousands of gallons of water flow across the enormous stage in front of them. But when the grand historical pageant they're watching comes to its singing-and-dancing finale a few minutes later, they leap to their feet and deliver a sustained round of applause. The $100,000 the city of La Baie spent on rain-making machines to add last summer's deluge to its main tourist attraction, La Fabuleuse Histoire d'un Royaume, didn't go to waste. It's only one short year since a huge storm dumped 277 millimetres of rain on the Saguenay region in three days, unleashing torrents of water that caused more than $700 million in damage, but the events of July 19-21, 1996, have already become part of the local mythology. Now, as life in the flood-ravaged communities slowly returns to normal, the region has been hit by two far more welcome waves - an economic boom and an inundation of tourists. "We've had a lot of tourists since the floods, and that's great," says Cyprien Gaudreault, La Baie's deputy mayor. "We want to prove to people that the residents of the Saguenay have recovered and are strong." Last summer's flooding killed 10 people, drove more than 15,800 across the region from their homes, and destroyed or severely damaged the homes of 3,500 families. The "once-in-1,000-years" storm unleashed the full fury of nature on the area bordering the Saguenay River Fjord, which is 175 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. Two reservoirs serving communities in the region overflowed or gave way during the sustained downpour, releasing as much as four times the normal water flow into rivers and streams. Entire villages were left underwater as rivers ate through dikes or carved beds around dams that would not give way. Sections of the area's three major cities - La Baie, Chicoutimi and Jonquière - that had never been flooded in more than a century of settlement were wiped off the map in a matter of hours. Please see FLOOD, Page A3 Fatal floods in Europe, Page A4 QUOTE Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall. Confucius DNA tests exonerate Milgaard Murder case reopened after man jailed for 23 years is cleared STEPHEN BINDMAN and JOHN IBBITSON Southam Newspapers TORONTO - The Saskatchewan government has apologized to David Milgaard after science proved what he and his family have been claiming for almost 30 years - that he spent most of his adult life in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Sophisticated DNA testing completed at a British laboratory yesterday confirmed Milgaard did not rape and kill Saskatoon nursing-aide Gail Miller in 1969 and appeared to point to the man he and his supporters have long said was the true killer. "It has been 27 years for all of us, and we are glad it is over now," a subdued Milgaard said in Winnipeg. "Waiting for today has been a struggle." The startling developments in the 28-year-old murder case prompted Saskatoon police to reopen their investigation and led to a contrite apology from Saskatchewan's justice minister. "It appears that a wrong of the most serious kind has been done to Mr. Milgaard by our justice system," John Nilson said. "For this we owe him and his family the most heartfelt apology." Nilson said he is "actively considering" an independent inquiry into all aspects of the case and discussions would begin immediately on compensation for Milgaard and his family. The federal justice minister, Anne McLellan, expressed her "deepest sympathies and regret" to Milgaard and his family. "The (DNA) results show that a terrible wrong was done to David Milgaard by his wrongful conviction." Milgaard was released from prison in 1992 after 23 years when the Supreme Court of Canada overturned his murder conviction following an unprecedented review, but the top court did not exonerate him. The Saskatchewan government said too much time had elapsed to retry him, but has since steadfastly refused to call a public inquiry or compensate him for the years he spent behind bars. Please see DNA, Page A2 NOTE TO READERS TV-channel indicators incorrect Because of an error by the company that supplies listings for the TV Times, the channel indicators for the Saturday listings in today's TV Times magazine are incorrect. We are reprinting today's TV listings with the correct channel indicators on Page C8. The Saturday prime-time grid in the TV Times magazine, however, is correct. The Gazette regrets the inconvenience. embassy; 6:30 p.m. (CBM-FM) Double Exposure Summer '97 7 p.m. (CIQC) National Sports Radio 7 p.m. (CJAD) Saturday Night In Montreal 7 p.m. (CBM-FM) RealTime 7 p.m. (CJFM) Mix 96 Party Mix 7:05 p.m. (CBM-AM) Random Sampling 8 p.m. (CHOM) Hot 8 at 8 8 p.m. (CFQR) Live at Le Castillon, International dance music 8 p.m. (VPR) The Thistle and the Shamrock 8:06 p.m. (CBM-AM) Finkleman's 45s 9 p.m. (CKGM) The Funnies 9 p.m. (VPR) My Place 10 p.m. (CKGM) Golden Age of Radio 10 p.m. (CHOM) Buzzcutz 10 p.m. (VPR) Hearts of Space 10:05 p.m. (CBM-AM) A Propos, A guide to the music of Quebec 11 p.m. (CJAD) Olga and Laurie 11 p.m. (VPR) Best of Hearts of Space 11:05 p.m. (CBM-AM) Saturday Night Blues, Features Canadian and international artists performing blues music 11:30 p.m. (CBF-FM) Le Club de Minuit Midnight (CIQC) Good Time Oldies 92.5 93.5 95.9 97.7 100.7 102.3 103.7 107.9 Midnight (CKGM) People Helping People Midnight (CBM-FM) Night Lines Midnight (CFQR) Numuzik Midnight (CJFM) Club Mix 12:30 a.m. (CBF-FM) La Boîte à Frissons 1:04 a.m. (CBF-FM) Voyage de Nuit 2 a.m. (CJAD) Best of CJAD's Broadcast Day 3:04 a.m. (CBF-FM) Un Dimanche à la Campagne 5:04 a.m. (CBF-FM) La Planète Bleue SUNDAY 4 a.m. (CKGM) Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show (Repeat) 5 a.m. (CBM-FM) Weekender 6 a.m. (CIQC) Religious Program 6 a.m. (CJAD) Dave Fisher 6 a.m. (CKRK) Country Weekend 6:04 a.m. (CBF-FM) La Grande Fugue 7 a.m. (CKGM) Working Mom on the Run 7 a.m. (VPR) Classical Music 8 a.m. (CIQC) Jack Curran Show 8 a.m. (CJFM) American Top 40 8 a.m. (VPR) Weekend Edition 8:11 a.m. (CBM-FM) Choral Concert, With the North German Radio Choir and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin conducted by Karl Anton Rickenbacher 9 a.m. (CJAD) Family Show 9 a.m. (CFQR) Casey's Countdown 9 a.m. (CHOM) Electric Brunch 9:06 a.m. (CBF-FM) Les Enfants du Déluge 9:11 a.m. (CBM-AM) Sunday Morning 10 a.m. (CJAD) Trivia Show 10 a.m. (CKGM) Auto Den 10 a.m. (CBF-FM) Rencontres en Musique 10 a.m. (VPR) Classical Music 10:05 a.m. (CBM-FM) Music Alive, Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit, with Sarah Chang, violin 12 p.m. (CIQC) The Price Is Right Noon (CKGM) Kim Kommando Noon (CKRK) Golden Eras, Kahnawake's past told with music Noon (VPR) A Prairie Home Companion 12:06 p.m. (CBM-FM) To be announced 12:08 p.m. (CBM-AM) Gilmour's Albums 12:10 p.m. (CBF-FM) Une Oreille sur le Monde 12:30 p.m. (CJAD) Alstin's Alley, With Terry Mosher of The Gazette 1 p.m. (CKRK) Memory Lane 1:05 p.m. (CBM-FM) The Trancontinental, A musical train trip through Europe 1:08 p.m. (CBM-AM) Tapestry, Explores the broad range of spiritual and human issues facing people of various cultures and religions 3:08 p.m. (CBM-AM) Writers and Company 4 p.m. (CKGM) Good Time Oldies 4 p.m. (CKGM) The Group Room 4 p.m. (CBF-FM) Chansons en Liberté 4 p.m. (VPR) The Folk Sampler 4:05 p.m. (CBM-FM) Say It With Music, Leonard Bernstein's New York 4:09 p.m. (CBM-AM) Cross-Country Checkup, Open-line program 4:30 p.m. (CJAD) George Balcan's Funday Monday Replay 5:15 p.m. (CIQC) Showdown 5 p.m. (VPR) All Things Considered 5:04 p.m. (CBF-FM) La Boîte à Frissons 5:05 p.m. (CBM-FM) Random Sampling, This Is Art, Features an essay on music based on the eccentric musings of the host 5:30 p.m. (CJAD) Father John Walsh 5:30 p.m. (CBF-FM) Invitation au Château 6 p.m. (CKGM) Dr. Gabe Mirkin 6 p.m. (CFQR) Lite Rock Favorites 6 p.m. JULY 19, 1997 Le Devoir columnist and separatism supporter Josee Legault portrayed Queen Elizabeth during a show headlined by satirists Bowser and Blue at the Old Port last night. The performance, titled Woodstock for Square Heads, was part of the Just for Laughs comedy festival. Page E1 ALLEN McINNIS, GAZETTE Target: language police Boy, 14, plans to deluge OLF with empty complaints letters CAROLYN ADOLPH The Gazette Message to the Office de la Langue Française: beware of 14-year-olds carrying pamphlets. Liosha Kenjeev, tired of hearing so much angry talk about the language watchdog's stepped-up enforcement campaigns in English-speaking areas, has decided to mount a campaign of his own. "I was thinking - if I know everyone is upset with the OLF, and I do, it's hard to get people to speak up," he said yesterday. "I'd have to make it quite easy." Kenjeev's idea is this: as a protest against the sudden outpouring of enforcement activity that has recently hit anglo merchants and municipalities, people should flood the OLF with complaints letters - letters with nothing in them. "It's a political statement," he said. "I already wrote the OLF to explain what it meant." Kenjeev gets an A for industry. First he borrowed enough cash from his parents to print 500 posters exhorting people to rain empty letters upon the Office. Then it hit him that people would hardly be able to remember the mailing address he had put on the posters. So he went to Alliance Quebec, which agreed to pay for 1,000 fliers. Kenjeev is delivering them himself, to mailboxes all over the west end. Alliance Quebec president Michael Hamelin said he was impressed and hopes Montrealers will participate. "What you've got there is a dedicated, angry young person who clearly wants to make a point. We need to make a statement about this harassment." But OLF spokesman Gerald Paquette was unimpressed by the empty-letter campaign. "Empty letters go in the garbage - that's what happens. You're shooting the wrong dog," he added in English, saying the OLF is merely an administrative organization. Hamelin said Alliance Quebec receives four or five complaints every day from merchants angry about petty infraction letters from the Office. One such complaint came from Brenda Levy, who co-owns a restaurant in a north-end shopping mall. Last month, an OLF inspector nailed her for three signs with equal-sized French and English words and for a unilingual "hot club roll" sign. "I didn't think you could translate that. I don't know of any translation," Levy said yesterday. So she called the Office bureaucrat who wrote the infraction letter. "He said: 'You'll have to find out yourself.'" Paquette confirmed that complaints officials do not have to help people with translations. Other OLF officials will help, but charge $5 per consultation unless the question is related to a complaint. The address of the Office de la Langue Française is: Post Office Box 316, Tour de la Place Victoria, Montreal H4Z 1G8. "We need to make a statement about this harassment." Alliance Quebec president Michael Hamelin accuses vandalism Fire chiefs find office doors glued shut LYNN MOORE The Gazette The dispute between the city of Montreal and its firefighters took another nasty turn yesterday over what the city contended was another wave of vandalism in a conflict tied to contract negotiations. According to city and fire-department officials, disgruntled firefighters vandalized the vehicles and seven offices used by the department's 35 chiefs of operations. "They have escalated their tactics to a level that is totally unacceptable," said Saulie Zajdel, the executive-committee member responsible for the fire department, who claimed fire hoses were used to flood vehicle interiors and glue or caulking was used to seal office doors and locks. "The city is in the process of moving its chiefs to other sites and yesterday fired off a legal letter to the firefighters' association, informing it that it will have to pay for damage and moving costs." Gaston Fauvel, president of the Montreal Firefighters Association, acknowledged yesterday there was "one isolated incident" of mischief at one fire station in which caulking was used to seal doors. But he insisted the city was seeking to manufacture a "public-relations campaign" to smear firefighters. "It is just a big balloon (of propaganda) that they are trying to blow up." What has incensed the city and "has made (Mayor Pierre) Bourque crazy" is the firefighters' most recent publicity campaign, which features Bourque as a devil with the phrase "gestion d'enfer" (administration from hell) across his chest. While yesterday's contest between the two feuding parties played out, the provincial Essential Services Council continued its deliberations on whether to put a stop to the firefighters' pressure tactics. A decision is expected next week, a spokesman said yesterday. The city's contract with its 1,617 firefighters expired in December but negotiations are at a standstill. The hottest point of contention is the city's plan to cut $9.25 million from the fire department's budget and eliminate 124 firefighters in 36 stations over the next two years. Operating on the principle that seeing is believing, Zajdel and assistant fire chief Andre Brunelle took reporters to Station 9 in Montreal's north end, where a substance that appeared to be caulking had been used to seal two interior doors and an exterior door. The substance had also been applied to the locks and one lock had a piece of metal in it. Similar damage was done to the six other offices in stations that house operations chiefs and their vehicles were vandalized, Brunelle said. "It differs from one (station) to another but this (damage) is representative," he said. Fauvel hotly disputed that statement, saying he had visited five of the seven stations and the only damage he had seen was at Station 9. "At the four other stations there was absolutely nothing," he said. "There was no vandalism, there was nothing broken. There was nothing." Fauvel's claim was later disputed by Zajdel, who responded: "Give me a break." Fauvel said the metal-jammed lock at Station 9 was caused when the chief of operations broke his key in the lock. He ordered that the caulking be removed from Station 9 doors, calling the situation "an isolated incident that is a symbolic gesture that indicates that we'd prefer that (the chief of operations) stays in his office and doesn't mix with station personnel." Firefighters at the station - most of whom were wearing Bourque-as-devil T-shirts - said the doors were like that when they arrived for their shift. Firefighter Karen Degagne said she and her colleagues are not allowed to strike and have limited means to make their positions known to management. "They want to cut everything (the number of firefighters and trucks) and we want to make sure the public has proper service and they aren't in danger, and we aren't in danger," she said. "At the four other stations there was absolutely nothing. No vandalism." Firefighters' association boss Gaston Fauvel Royal Montreal greens getting greener Call it the greening of the greens. The Royal Montreal Golf Club, site of the coming Canadian Open and home to the oldest golf club in North America, is in the process of doing something groundbreaking: making the fairways safe for small creatures without cleated shoes, motorized carts or expense accounts. We're talking about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees. The elite club, which began in 1873 when Alexander Dennistown and his friends took turns putting against the stone wall surrounding Hotel Dieu hospital, has spent two years and considerable effort getting back to nature. Already considered one of the nicest courses in Quebec, the 800-acre property on Ile Bizard is on the verge of being certified by Audubon International as an Audubon Cooperative Nature Sanctuary, a program designed to help landowners "preserve and enhance the environmental quality of their property for the good of people and wildlife." "The open space of a golf course is utilized not only by golfers, but is habitat for a variety of wildlife species," says Maria Briggs, senior staff ecologist for Audubon International. "We are pleased with the efforts of Royal Montreal to become certified in wildlife and habitat management, integrated pest management, water conservation, water-quality management and environmental planning. We look forward to receiving the certification request for their final category: outreach and education." Two weeks ago, the Hillsdale course in Mirabel became the first in Quebec to be certified by Audubon International. Golf courses have often been singled out for their heavy use of pesticides, which help keep the turf bright green and weed-free but can have a harmful impact on the habitat, and the people who use it. A study by researchers at the University of Iowa identified a potential link between pesticide use on golf courses and higher-than-normal instances of cancer among golf-course superintendents. In recent years, however, some golf-course managers have joined forces with environmental groups, particularly Audubon, to find less potent ways to keep weeds and insects under control. At Royal Montreal, that has meant leaving half the golf course's terrain au natural - woods, wildflower zones and grassy areas which are mowed only once a summer. Other prime habitat areas include dead trees, which provide food and shelter for insects and birds. Blake McMaster, course and property manager, has also promoted integrated pest management. Staff members monitor for pest problems daily and determine what measures, if any, are needed to control them. "With diseases, a change in the weather will normally bring relief without the need to apply fungicides so we rely heavily on the weather," McMaster explained. When a pest problem must be treated, Royal Montreal does its best to spot-treat. "This is especially true with insecticides, as they will kill all insects including the beneficial ones in the soil," McMaster said. "Last year, we treated a total of 400 square metres out of the 3,237,600-square-metre property - or 0.01 percent." The project has also meant keeping track of the wildlife that lives in and around the course - so far Royal Montreal has identified foxes, a great blue heron, wood ducks with their young, turtles and a variety of birds. To make sure those animals and others continue to feel welcome, the club has built 46 houses and boxes for bats, bluebirds, purple martins, wrens, flickers and wood ducks. A pond ecologist has been hired to test the course's five ponds for pesticide and nutrient pollution. Royal Montreal proudly cites studies by the United States Golf Association which herald the economic and ecological benefits of golf courses to a community, including research which suggests a turf area of 2,000 square feet produces enough oxygen for one person per year. By that calculation, Royal Montreal is producing enough oxygen for more than 8,700 people a year, which is good news for the birds, and for the birdies. Peggy Curran's E-mail address is [email protected] Hillsdale gets Audubon seal, Page K3 With every purchase of a place setting, receive a free 8" rim soup bowl. Purchase a 20 piece set and receive 4 free soups! A value of up to $220. 20 piece service consists of 4 dinner plates, 4 dessert plates, 4 side plates, 4 cups and saucers. 20 pc sets Retail Arctic White $212 $68 Essex Court $808 $220 Landon $580 $152 Golden Myth $580 $152 Lockkigh $432 $108 Whitecliff $488 $132 $115 $436 $312 $312 $232 $264 Till: (HI AT HOME FASHION SUPERSTORE MENQH LEST Place Portobello, Brossard 671-2202 Les Galeries Laval 681-9090 Centre Rockland 341-7810 Les Promenades de la Cathédrale 282-9525 JULY 19, 1997 WORLD Scores die in Polish, Czech flooding CHRISTINE SPOLAT Washington Post WROCLAW, Poland - Deadly rain that has swollen rivers and swallowed people and villages whole in the last two weeks is still falling on southern Poland and neighbouring Czech flatlands, devastating agriculture and manufacturing. Forecasters predicted the storms would continue through the weekend. On what was proclaimed a day of national mourning for the dozens of flood victims, more heavy rain pelted this cultural centre's watery streets, already lined with sandbags piled up to the windowsills. In Poland, 48 people have been lost to the overflowing, fast-moving Odra River, which grew to monstrous proportions over the past 10 days. At least 38 deaths in the Czech Republic have been blamed on the deluge. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in both countries, and factories, roads, farmland and animal stocks appear to have suffered massive damage. Meanwhile, in adjacent Germany the Oder River spilled over its banks into the centre of Frankfurt an der Oder, 90 kilometres east of Berlin. A 160 km dike, waterlogged but reinforced overnight by sandbags, prevented more serious flooding. "Nature has done us in. I've lost 6 kilos in five days because I've been working to protect my home," said Janusz Siennack, an engineer who stood, hands caked with mud and pants legs ripped and flapping in the wind, outside his two-storey Wroclaw house. The agricultural tally alone in Poland, where about one-third of all people make a living from the land, is daunting: About 900,000 chicks and ducks, 4,825 pigs and hogs, 1,353 cattle and 90 sheep were carried downstream, according to preliminary farm ministry estimates. Dead horses have been seen floating by farmhouses. In the Czech Republic, the country's largest steel mills - Nova Hut, Vitkovice and Trinecke Zelezarny - cut back on production because raw materials are unable to reach the plants and finished steel couldn't move out. Losses are soaring into multibillion-dollar estimates. Both countries' markets have slumped from fear of flood losses. The storms have sparked legislation and high-level borrowing to cover the emergency. In Poland, the government sought a $110-million credit line from the Polish National Bank and a $300-million World Bank loan. The disaster also has engendered political gamesmanship two months before parliamentary elections. Researchers at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute seek volunteers for investigations of the effects of smoking on brain metabolism. Volunteers aged 19 years or older who are currently regular smokers (1 pack/day for the past year) may contact Dr. Cumming 398-1996 weekday mornings. Compensation for your time and inconvenience. Exclusive Wines of California Historic Building VIEUX PORT 39 St. Paul East Old Montreal Buy Direct And Save Open Sunday Brown Jordan Wicker Wrought Iron Reflect your individual tastes. Our designers will help you "custom create" your furniture and build it just the way you want it. 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Predictably, director of recruitment Andre Boudrias defended Montreal's selection of Stevenson. "I think he's a good player," Boudrias said this week. "He's very alert around the net and has a good offensive mind. I feel he could, with his size, be pretty rugged along the boards and in the corners. He has character and a pretty good shot." Boudrias added that the Canadiens selected a good cross-section of players this year, including their share of scorers. Fifth-round choice Paul DiPietro (56-63 in 66 games) was the Ontario Hockey League's second-leading scorer, fourth-round pick Gilbert Dionne was 48-57 in 64 games with Kitchener, while eighth-round selection Brent Fleetwood had 41-43 totals in 72 games. Fredericton gets AHL Canadiens as 70 businessmen to foot bill Weeks of speculation ended yesterday when the Canadiens announced their American Hockey League affiliate will operate out of Fredericton, N.B., and Kansas City. Le Club de Hockey Canadien Inc will continue owning the franchise and will provide the coach and players.
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REG 16 98m reached 6 Skim then cool slightly Stir to distribute the peel and ladle into hot sterilized jars and seal Makes about 10 cups (2 5 L) To test for jelling stage: Place two small plates in the freezer Spoon a little marmalade onto a cold plate and return to freezer for one to two minutes until cold (Remove preserving kettle from heat while testing to prevent overcooking) Push the marmalade on the plate with your fingers If it wrinkles when pushed, it has reached the jelling point If still syrupy, continue to boil marmalade and test again Variation Four-Fruit Marmalade: Instead of using six Seville oranges called for in the above recipe, use one large grapefruit, four limes and two sweet oranges along with the two lemons Prepare recipe in the same way as you would making Seville orange marmalade If you have any questions or suggestions, write to Serves You Right, c/o The Gazette, Living Section, 250 St Antoine St, Montreal H2Y 3R7 You know it’s Steakhouse in Town Le Litheque, South Shore Boulevard Montagne Bouchenria 449-3308 FUIJETTE IB REG 14 98m 00 on NOW ffV w m m $00 A 1 39 lb 3 06 kg DRY APRICOTS 1 99 lb 4 38 kg 4 53 lb 9 99 kg TILSIT CHEESE 4 53 lb 9 99 kg right to limit quantities Baked potato makes main course itself A large baked potato, either stuffed or with a sauce, makes a tasty and economical meal A salad followed by a fruit dessert such as a pear crisp completes the menu Micro tips To bake potatoes in the microwave: Scrub well and pierce skins with a fork to allow steam to escape Arrange potatoes in a circle, spacing them one inch apart on a roasting rack or set them on a paper towel in the microwave oven Microwave at High (100 per cent) until potatoes give slightly when squeezed, turning over halfway through and rearranging once while cooking If you prefer a moist potato, wrap each cooked potato individually in foil For a drier potato, wrap in a tea towel Let stand for five minutes after cooking Here are the cooking times for large baking potatoes at High: 1 potato, 4 to 5 minutes 2 potatoes, 6 to 8 minutes 4 potatoes, 10 to 12 minutes Baked potatoes with broccoli sauce 4 large baking potatoes 2 tablespoons (25 mL) butter 2 tablespoons (25 mL) all-purpose flour 1 ½ cups (300 mL) milk 1 teaspoon (5 mL) Dijon mustard 1 cup (250 mL) shredded Gruyere or Cheddar cheese Salt and ground black pepper 3 cups (750 mL) broccoli, cut into small flowerets 1 Microwave potatoes as directed in Micro tips Let stand covered while preparing the filling 2 In a four-cup (1 L) casserole dish, melt the butter at High (100 per cent) for 30 seconds Blend in flour; stir in milk until smooth Microwave uncovered at High for three to four minutes, or until sauce comes to a boil and thickens, stirring every minute 3 Add mustard and cheese; stir until cheese melts Season with salt and pepper 4 Rinse broccoli under cold water and shake off excess Place in a casserole dish and microwave, covered ESPOSITO PUBLIC MARKET 7030 ST MICHEL 722-1069 CHOCK FULL O NUTS COFFEE 369 g 3 49 HUMPTY DUMPTY POTATO CHIPS OR POPCORN 200 g 1 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1990 F 11 'Bigot Beer' gets cold reception in Washington JACK BROOM; SEATTLE TIMES 'SEATTLE Dean Crist calls it a smooth lager, brewed to help the cause of sport fishermen and hunters across the U T Hampered by -40 C weather and only three hours of daylight, about 100 searchers combed the area in the northwest corner of the territories for the pilot, who had been stationed at CFB Cold Lake in northeastern Alberta The searchers had hoped that Corver ejected and would survive dressed in his cold-weather gear Confirming Corver was in the plane when it crashed was a complicated job, said Maj Jan Martinsen, spokesman for CFB Cold Lake Searchers are not supposed to disturb the wreckage, which is sitting in a huge crater caused when the plane exploded on impact The investigation team will eventually have to bring the wreckage back to Cold Lake for further examination Martinsen would not speculate on the cause of the accident A military board of inquiry was formed to investigate the crash, the eighth by a CF-18 Hornet since the Canadian Forces bought 138 of the single-seat jets in 1982 Corver, who was married, had been stationed at Cold Lake for the last three years and was on his first tour as pilot, Martinsen said She did not know him well but said that, like other fighter pilots, he would have been dedicated to his job That's what will motivate them to do the job they are doing in austere conditions such as flying in the Arctic The other 19 pilots in Corver's squadron will have to learn how to cope with losing a co-worker, she said It's something that in this business people have to deal with It never gets easier Corver's jet crashed a minute after takeoff It was the third of four jets to take off to track and intercept the unarmed cruise missile, released from a B52 bomber over the Beaufort Sea minutes earlier The three other jets aborted the exercise, but the cruise test flight went ahead as planned NDP calls for probe of two judges in Marshall case CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA Justice Minister Doug Lewis should have the Canadian Judicial Council investigate two judges criticized for their handling of the Donald Marshall case It was the second day in a row that the opposition attacked the government over the case of Marshall, a Nova Scotia Indian who spent 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit Since the federal judiciary is entirely within the responsibility of his ministry, will he immediately refer this matter to the judicial council for investigation and possible disciplinary action? Bob Skelly asked in the Commons A Nova Scotia royal commission report released last week criticized two of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal judges Justice Leonard Pace and former chief justice Ian Mac-Keigan who dealt with the case Since the Appeal Court judges were appointed by the federal government, they are subject to review by the judicial council Skelly said Lewis should direct the council to investigate But Lewis said he needed more time to study the report The opposition accused him once again of foot-dragging Marshall has had a heck of a lot of time in jail and out awaiting process, said Skelly, the NDP Indian affairs critic, outside the Commons Further delay is simply further justice denied On Monday, the opposition demanded action on the report's recommendation to set up a native justice system in Nova Scotia MacKeigan is singled out for steering the federal government away from granting Marshall an outright pardon in 1982 by recommending that Jean Chretien, then justice minister, send the case to the court of appeal instead The decision put the onus on Marshall to prove his innocence at a time when Chretien's officials were aware the 1971 murder conviction was flimsy at best Also, new evidence could not be heard on why the wrongful conviction occurred in the first place In the case of Pace, the report said he should not have sat in judgment of Marshall in 1983 because he was Nova Scotia attorney general at the time The appeal court cleared Marshall in 1983 but said he was partially to blame for what happened to him It's too late to register Pre-Calculus Calculus I & II Math Refresher Functions I Interior Design General Chemistry II Intermediate Chemistry Introduction to Chemistry Electricity & Magnetism Wave Motion & Modern Physics Intermediate Physics Mechanics Drafting Blueprint Reading D budget law, the deficit is supposed to fall to $64 billion this year and be wiped out completely by the end of the 1993 fiscal year SOUTHAM NEWS lj Mm f Wilson Budget leak Who's bugging the chief? Argentines ask PAGE A9 South African police battle black marchers PAGE A12 Israel denies sending Soviet Jews to territories PAGE A13 Reagan ordered to release diary excerpts PAGE D16 'Bigot Beer' gets cold reception in Washington That may be why Defence Minister William McKnight this week was gallantly attempting to put the best face possible on new cuts to this country's defence establishment that are sure to be part of Finance Minister Wilson's next budget Last year, Mr Wilson slashed defence spending by $2.74 billion over the next five years No one doubts he will cut more But cutting doesn't represent a quick fix, either for politicians or taxpayers Quite apart from the political problems, it costs money to close bases, pay penalties to break contracts on weapon development and cut people This means, ironically, that defence budgets may have to go up in the first few years after cuts are made To be sure, military thinking must change But there is going to be plenty of short-term pain for politicians as well as finance ministers before there is any long-term gain wars can do without us was the Roman god of war So now that the Cold War has melted into a puddle and chunks of the Berlin Wall are being sold as souvenirs, it would be particularly fitting if space exploration to the planet Mars were a forum for U R 240 Verdun 2B West Island 250 Westmount 252 Houses for Rent 253 Houses Out of Town 254 Furnished Efficiencies 258 Senior & Nursing Residences 257 Rooms 253 Board 260 Rooms Wanted 282 Share Living Quarters 264 Houses Wanted 260 Flats/Duplexes Wanted 287 Apartments Wanted 283 Anjou 200 ANJOU Duplex, extra large lower 6½, finished basement, double garage, alarm, intercom, fireplace, cold room, balcony, backyard Close to all amenities Asking $700 monthly Call Masood 694-0840, ReMax Royal (Cadillac) Broker ANJOU heated 1½, 3½, 4½ equipped, taxes paid, 352-4922, 352-6540 ATTENTION For the cost of five or ten additional words, you can attract more readers to your ad by using a heading much like the one here! 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S are committed to respecting the Geneva Conventions that demand refugee status and asylum for people who have left their home countries out of fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. The drafters of the 1949 refugee conventions had in mind several million Europeans uprooted by World War II. Throughout the years of the Cold War, refugees fleeing ideological oppression were received with open arms. But the 1980s saw an explosion in the world's refugee population. A record 100 million people are now classed as international migrants by the United Nations Population Fund in its report The State of World Population. Of them, 17 million are refugees and another 20 million have fled violence, drought and environmental destruction, the report says. Migration is the visible face of social change, the report said. It is a face often greeted with apprehension. Critics of federal immigration policy are not moved by arguments that there is a limit to what we can afford to do for refugee claimants, says Juneau of the Immigration Department. This year, Canada expects to give refugee status to about 25,000 people who have arrived in this country on their own. In addition to that, another 19,000 are expected to be sponsored from abroad. If Canada were to conclude an agreement with the U. S. A PLANET OF THE INSECTS New studies explain pest success: 'we're resistant to extinction' WASHINGTON - If human beings had any sense of proportion, they would know that Earth is ruled not by two-legged anthropoids or by mammals or even by vertebrates. They would acknowledge what entomologists have long known: this is the planet of the insects. In evolutionary terms, these six-legged creatures are by far the most successful form of animal life known. Scientists have discerned more than 876,000 distinct species. Dozens of new insect species are added to the list every day. For mammals, the figure is closer to one a year. And yet, for all the study, according to two paleobiologists who have just completed a major review of the world's literature on fossil insects, the textbook explanation of why there are so many kinds of bugs is wrong in at least two major respects. First, the researchers report in the July 16 Science, it's not because insects do more evolving than other kinds of life. It's because they are surprisingly resistant to extinction. And second, insect body forms did not suddenly diversify when flowering plants arose 125 million years ago, even though such plants dominate the planet today and are major hosts for insects. Instead, the rate of insect evolution appears to have slowed since then. Moreover, the research challenges the usual view that flowering plants offered new kinds of ecological niches to which insects became adapted. Instead, it might have been the other way around: the plants evolved to take advantage of insect types already in existence. People have had the wrong impression about insect evolution for a long time and mainly for one major reason - they didn't think the fossil record had much to say about insects, said Conrad Labandeira, a specialist in fossil insects at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History who wrote the new report with J. John Sepkoski Jr., a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. WASHINGTON POST WILD The Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi, floods a trailer park in St. Charles, Mo. ISABEL WILKERSON NEW YORK TIMES Archeologists unearth ancient piece of linen NEW YORK - Archeologists digging at Çatalhöyük, the site of a prehistoric agricultural village in southern Turkey, have found a small fragment of cloth dating back to 7000 BC. It is the earliest known example of woven fabric and is almost certainly a piece of linen made from domesticated flax. Analysis shows the weave to be an adaptation of even earlier basket-weaving technology. Once people began settling down to farming in the Middle East more than 9,000 years ago, they shed their old hunting clothing of animal skins and learned to make lighter, cooler garments from the fibers of flax. They became the first weavers of textiles, one of the earliest crafts - well before ceramics - associated with the beginnings of agriculture and the rise of human civilization. Robert Braidwood, a University of Chicago archeologist and co-director of the excavation, said it was a rare find because fabrics are seldom preserved in prehistoric ruins. The cloth fragment was in a semi-fossilized state, still clinging to what was probably a tool made of antler. Archeologists are not sure what the material was for. But in the following millennium, figurines would be showing people wearing apparently unisex cloth skirts. NEW YORK TIMES Andromeda has double nucleus, Hubble shows NEW YORK - Astronomers peering deep into the core of the neighboring galaxy Andromeda are seeing double. Where there should be only one nucleus of densely clustered stars, they have detected two, and so are confronted with yet another puzzle over the violent forces that roil the central regions of galaxies. The discovery of the apparent double nucleus in the M31 spiral galaxy in the Andromeda constellation was announced this week by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In a detailed examination of new photographs taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers identified two bright spots of light at the heart of the galaxy, which is the nearest major aggregation of stars to our own Milky Way. The dimmer of the two spots appears to be at the center of the galaxy. The brighter one is at least five light-years away from the true center, but it corresponds to what astronomers had previously thought was the galactic nucleus, based on observations from the ground. It is not the first time a double nucleus has been found at the center of a galaxy, but astronomers said its occurrence in the Andromeda galaxy was particularly surprising and hard to explain. The few double-nucleus galaxies that have been discovered in recent years are generally attributed to the merger of two galaxies. Andromeda had appeared to be a single, relatively undisturbed spiral galaxy. ""Hubble shows that the M31 nucleus is much more complex than previously thought,"" said Tod Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Ariz. He and Sandra Faber of the University of California at Santa Cruz directed the photographic analysis that led to the discovery. Lauer and Faber suggested two possible interpretations of the Andromeda findings. One is that the brighter object might be the remnant of a smaller galaxy cannibalized by Andromeda. The other possibility is that dust might be dimming the core to create the illusion of a pair of star clusters when, in fact, they are two segments of a single elongated nucleus. NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO - No one alive has seen the Father of Rivers yawn this high or this wide. No one imagined the Mississippi or its relatives would take such liberties, consuming so many hamlets whole, or that, if they did, technology would be nearly helpless to stop them. There have been floods before. People in Hannibal, Mo., or Keokuk, Iowa, or Quincy, Ill., can tell you about watching their fathers and uncles pack sandbags to protect the year's corn crop or the feed store. For generations, some farmers figured floods and droughts into the cost of doing business. But then the country's big plumbing system of levees and dams, made better after every flood, was supposed to keep the rivers in their place and maintain the comfortable paradox of living on a floodplain. Now the unimaginable has happened. Across the Midwestern corn belt it has rained in biblical proportions - more than 40 straight days, often in torrents. The rivers, driven past their banks, have taken back land that long ago was theirs, invading more than 15 million acres of farmland in eight states, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes, halting river traffic for 600 miles and causing billions of dollars in damage. From the air, from Minnesota to Missouri, from Kansas to Illinois, it looks like someone has spilled gallons and gallons of coffee on a green patchwork quilt that happens to be farms and towns. In silt rivers now wide as lakes, treetops look like bushes in a swimming pool, bridges and highways and other brave monuments to engineering are reduced to thin, threatened slivers, and even their builders know the water could take them, too, if it wanted. The floods have made the broad, S-curved Mississippi and its otherwise perfectly ordered valley look more like the Florida Keys. Unlike earthquakes and hurricanes, floods defy the human urge to quantify. There is no single measure - no Richter scale, or mph wind as in the eye of a hurricane - to gauge a flood. There are only the hundreds of crests and toppled levees on the rivers and their swollen creeks, and the thousand heartbreaks of lost soybean fields and moated Main Streets. If the floods of 1993 have reminded people of anything, it is that the Mississippi River was never the docile pensioner some had come to think it was. It is not, after all, the Swanee. The Mississippi is America's watery aorta, draining or potentially flooding rivers in 31 states from the Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains. ""It's like talking about God Almighty himself,"" said Shelby Foote, the Memphis writer who has lived his whole life on the river. The river, ecologists and farmers say, was never supposed to follow the tight course humans have expected it to, indeed ordered it to, with their walls of dirt and concrete levees. Of course, that has not stopped people from building homes and farms and cities along the river. The Mississippi Valley's thick black soil is considered the richest on Earth, impossible for farmers to resist. But to claim the land meant making a bargain with the river, confining it to an artificially narrow path so that farms could reach as far as the shore and places like New Orleans and St. Louis could live undisturbed while their goods were carried safely from port to port. The price that river people pay is sudden and catastrophic flooding when excess rainwater, forced into a narrow channel by the levees, runs out of places to go and cannot drain naturally into the soil. Then the river goes faster and faster, and it goes where it wishes, as it did during the flooding of the lower Mississippi in 1927, where, as William Faulkner wrote, the river ""was now doing what it liked to do, had waited patiently the 10 years in order to do, as a mule will work for you 10 years for nothing."" The forces of nature are responsible for both the cause and cure of the flooding that has devastated the Midwest. Experts say the rainy season that caused the floods may not be over yet. Once the rain subsides, the flooding will take at least three to four weeks to be absorbed into the earth and back into the Mississippi and other rivers. The water will dissipate in several ways. Rain that falls in the Mississippi's drainage basin is fed into the river through its 250 tributaries. The basin covers about 3 million square kilometers. Some water will return to the water cycle through evaporation. Levees are earthen banks that are built to keep out floodwaters. The levees have given way, allowing the floodwaters to inundate towns and farmland. Most of the water will flow directly into the Mississippi. Other water will filter down to the water table and flow into the river. Subsurface drainage systems will return water trapped on farmland on the other side of intact levees back to the river through underground tile pipes. Excess moisture that seeps through the cracks in the pipes is carried away from the farmland to ponds, rivers or drainage ditches. The unimaginable has happened. After rains of biblical proportions, the Mississippi has triumphed over man - and the tight course it was never meant to follow. Foote was a boy during that flood. He remembers when word came that the levee had broken at Mounds Landing in Scott, Miss., north of Greenville. ""It was a slow creeping rise,"" he said. ""You can't even see it rise but if you turn away and then you look back, you see it is a little higher. Everything in its path is submerged or invaded. It presses against every crack and crevice. It's like solid wind when it comes."" BECAUSE of its might and wilfulness, some ecologists argue that the very way people define a river is not particularly useful. They say that the river is not just whatever water you see in the channel, but the banks, the floodplain, in fact, the valley itself, from bluff to bluff. It is anywhere the water has been and could potentially go - a river, Mark Twain said, ""whose alluvial banks cave and change constantly, whose snags are always hunting up new quarters, whose sand bars are never at rest."" In earlier centuries, when towns in the bottomlands were invaded by river water, townspeople packed up and moved to higher ground - as Franklin, Mo., for example, on the Missouri River, did in 1826. (Even that move could not save Franklin from the flooding of 1993, however, the town is underwater again.) Now, more than 7 million people live directly along the Mississippi, including more than 2 million around its confluence with the Missouri in St. Louis. ""No one is going to move St. Louis just because it happens to be in the river,"" said David Johnson, an aquatic ecologist who is assistant director of the School of Natural Resources at Ohio State University. ""It's a question of working with the river or fighting the river. Fighting the river is almost always going to be a losing battle."" He argues for restoring the kind of wide open spaces that the river once had before Europeans and the great cities came, wetlands where the water could collect in times of severe rains. The Army Corps of Engineers already has built some reservoirs to catch the runoff, although the current flooding suggests they might not be enough. In defense of the complex and normally efficient flood-control system, hydraulic engineers say that without the man-made reservoirs, the bloated river would now stretch from bluff to bluff, five miles across in spots, covering what we now know as Dubuque, Iowa, or St. Louis. ""People think of the river as their enemy,"" said David Lanegran, a professor of geography and urban studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. ""They fight the river, dike the river, pollute the river, ignore the river. Now the river is taking back its old places. You can see the old marshes coming back in the farmers' fields, all the places where the duck ponds used to be. It's almost like a ghost. The water is saying, 'This is where I used to be. This used to be my place.' If there is an economic beneficiary of this flood, it is the farm states of the eastern Midwest - Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, where farmers will get to take advantage of the run-up in crop prices due to the low supply. ""That will make the flood even more painful for farmers in the floodplains,"" said William Heffernan, a professor and chairman of rural sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. ""They will be watching the highest prices in years and, they don't have anything to sell."" As disastrous as a flood is to those in its path, it is nonetheless part of a natural cycle of renewal just as forest fires are. The river channels grow so wide and the currents so strong they lift topsoil, carry nutrients downstream and deposit them in new soil. Iowa's loss might be Missouri's gain, but then Iowa might get its own refill from Minnesota. The heavy rains that precede the flooding can also cleanse the waters and make a better pool for fish to spawn. The current crisis will undoubtedly set off wide debate over ways to improve the system with an eye not to just one city or river but to the 250 or so creeks and rivers that feed into the Mississippi. Only fairly recently in the river's history, when Congress authorized a federal levee project after the 1927 flood, has there been any systematic approach to flood control. But that was based in part on bringing up to code the haphazard levees of assorted farm towns which in times of desperation built wherever they felt like it. New and better levees have gone up, but they, too, can fail. ""People expect more out of what was there than was ever intended,"" said Harry Kitch, chief of the central-planning management branch of the Army Corps of Engineers. THE GREAT LESSON of the floods may be that humans will have to do a lot more if they are to outwit nature, if that is even possible. ""I think we as moderns tend to think that geological and meteorological changes have stopped,"" said Bruce Michaelson, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana, who is writing a book about Mark Twain, ""that volcanoes will no longer erupt, that hurricanes will no longer come off the coasts and the great rivers of the world are going to stay quietly in their banks so we can cruise them in our boats and barges."" But just as the river that Mark Twain romanced and revered carried the pieces of wrecked houses and trees from floods upstream, so it does a century later - ""the debris,"" Michaelson said, ""of battlefields between water and man."" AFP"
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HUDSON'S BAY NAVIGATION, Report of the Commander of the Expedition of Last Year, THE ICE BARRIERS ENCOUNTERED, GTTiwi, February 10, The report of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, presented this afternoon, contains a most interesting and important report by Lieut. Gordon, who commanded the expedition to Hudson's Bay last summer. The Neptune, the vessel chartered for the expedition, left Halifax on July 7, 1911, and arrived at Churchill Island, Hudson's Bay, on September 9th, and at York Factory on the 11th of the same month, having established along the way a number of observatory stations. The main interest in the report centers in the condition and character of the navigation of Hudson's Straits and Bay, on which point Lieut. Gordon says: The ice has been supposed, hitherto, to be the most formidable barrier to the navigation of the straits, but its nature disappears, to a great extent, under investigation. The ice met with on the cruise of the Neptune may be divided into three classes having distinctly separate origins. They are: icebergs from the glaciers of Fox Channel; heavy Arctic field ice from the channel itself, and what may be called ordinary field ice, being that which had been formed on the shores of the bay and straits. We met no icebergs in Hudson's Bay, nor did I hear of any being seen there. In the straits a good many were seen, principally along the north shore, where many of them were stranded in the coves, and some were met with in mid-channel. Of those seen in the eastern end of the straits, some had undoubtedly come in from Davis' Straits, passing between Resolution Island and East Bluff; but all of those met to the westward had come from Fox Channel, as observations made by Mr. Ashe, at North Bluff, show that an iceberg coming in sight from the westward will pass out of view to the eastward in from three to four tides, showing an easterly set of upwards of ten miles a day. The ICEBERGS SEEN IN HUDSON'S STRAITS in August and September would form no greater barriers to navigation than do those met with off the Straits of Belle Isle, nor were they more numerous in Hudson's Straits than they frequently are off Belle Isle. The ordinary field ice was met with off North Bluff and the Upper Savages, on the 11th of August. This ice, though it would have compelled an ordinary iron steamer to go dead slow, gave no trouble to the Neptune, the mate on watch running the steamer at full speed through between the pans, rarely touching one of them. Just before entering Ashe's Inlet we had to break through a heavy string, which was, however, done without in the slightest degree injuring the ship. In the harbor (Ashe Inlet) the ice came in with the flood tide, and set so fast that the Eskimo were able to walk off to the ship, a distance of three-quarters of a mile. On the south shore our experience was much the same, but no ice was met with through which the ship could not have forced her way without damage. In the center of the straits, to the east of North Bluff, no field ice was seen at all, and after leaving Stuart's Bay, on the outward voyage, although the vessel lay-to for the night in the ice, it was only to wait for daylight, and not because the ice was too heavy. This pack extended about eighteen miles out into the straits, and after getting over this distance we came into clear water. From this point to Charles Island, and thence to the end of Salisbury Island, icebergs were frequently seen, but as their direction was invariably parallel to our course, or nearly so, we coasted round them. On the homeward voyage none of this field ice was seen. The Eskimo, both at Ashe Inlet and Stuart's Bay, informed me that there was an unusually great quantity of ice in the straits this year, and that they had never seen the ice hang to the shores so late in the season. THE HEAVY ARCTIC ICE, After passing the east end of Salisbury Island the ice got heavier and closer, and when off Nottingham Island the pack was so run together that I determined to give up the attempt to force the ship through it, and working out again, headed more to the southward. In making in for the land here we broke the propeller, but succeeded in taking the ship into harbor with the stumps. Viewed from the top of a hill on Nottingham Island the sea in every direction was one vast ice field, and to the southward, between Southeast Point and Cape Oigges, we saw four vessels fast. The ice was altogether of a different type to what we had hitherto met with. Some of it was over 40 feet thick of solid blue ice, not field ice, which had been thickened by piling of pan on pan, but a solid sheet of ice which had evidently been frozen just as we saw it. Much of it was 20 feet thick, and for the general average of all the field we passed through coming into harbor I estimate that the thickness would have been upwards of 15 feet. The question as to the origin of this ice and whether it will be frequently met with in the west end of the Straits is an important one; for in such ice, when closely packed, a vessel even of the build and power of the Neptune was perfectly helpless. I do not consider that it is possible for ice to form in Fox Channel to a greater thickness than 10 feet in a single year, and I feel convinced that much of the ice which we encountered was the accumulation of several years. The depth to which water will freeze has, so far as I know, never yet been determined, but it is certain that ice being a very poor conductor of heat, once a certain thickness of ice has been formed, the rate of thickening will be very slow. In regard to this point, measurements of the formation of ice will be made at some of the observing stations in Hudson's Straits this year, which will assist in finally determining this question. If, as seems probable from the reports of the Hudson's Bay ships, this year and last year have been exceptionally heavy ice years, it is reasonable to conclude that only occasionally does this heavy Fox Channel ice appear in Hudson's Straits. Another piece of confirmatory evidence as to the EXCEPTIONAL NATURE of THE ICE met with in the northern part of the bay this year is the statement in Captain Fisher's letter, found at Marble Island and quoted in the narrative portion of my report, that he had been unable to reach, up to the date of his letter, the east shore, or to go up the Welcome on account of the ice. The harbor ice forms at Churchill on the average about the middle of November and breaks up about the middle of June. As this is the only known harbor on the west coast of the bay, these times may be taken as marking the extreme limits of the season during which it would be possible for a ship to enter and leave the harbor. It is only fair to state that had I been making the passage from Cape Chudleigh, direct to Churchill instead of coasting and working across the Straits, I do not consider that I should have been delayed by ice more than forty-eight hours; but no ordinary iron steamship, built as the modern freight carrier is, could have got through the heavier ice that was met without incurring serious risk, if not without actual disaster. Since the foregoing was written, I have received a copy of the report of Lieut. Kay, United States Signal Service, to the Chief Signal Officer, on the conduct of the observations at Point Barrow in the Arctic. He gives as the greatest thickness of ice formed in one season 6 feet 3 inches. At Point Barrow the formation of ice on the shore is certainly influenced by the passage of a current of warm water passing through Bering Straits and setting northeast. Fox Channel has no such advantage, and I still think it possible that a sheet of ice 10 feet in thickness might be formed there in one season. L. Mathews, P.O. Box 10. The annual dinner will be held in the Windsor on Saturday evening, when a pleasant time is assured. THE TRAPPERS AT QUEBEC, Quebec, February 10, La Trappeur Snow Shoe Club of Montreal have had a splendid time since their arrival here yesterday morning. This afternoon the city clubs marched to the St. Louis Hotel and escorted the visitors on a tramp across the ice bridge to the Tofield Hotel, where they were treated to a sumptuous luncheon, after which they turned to the city en route for the concert at the Music Hall. At the conclusion of the day's sports the clubs of the city accompanied the visitors to the North Shore Station with lighted torches and headed by two bands. A display of fireworks took place along the route and considerable enthusiasm was manifested. A great concourse of people had assembled at the depot to see them off, and as the train left the station three hearty cheers were given. C. McDonald; $75, from Messrs. Chase & Sanborn, being the net proceeds of the sale of the ""Standard Java"" coffee at the Crystal Ice Palace during the carnival week for the benefit of the hospital; $10 from Mrs. James McLeod; $1 from Master Willie Bagg, and 50 cents from a gentleman, a reward for spectacles found. The St. George's Society beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of one barrel of flour from the Montreal Curling Club. The Board of Outdoor Relief acknowledges with thanks from Miss Ellis, $2; W. EX, H. BREMNER, 640 Craig Street, Montreal. PORK! PORK! Short Cut Meats, Pork, Sugar-Cured Hams, Lard in Drums, Tubs, and Pails, all from fine Canada-fed Hogs. WHAT THIS BOSTON TRANSCRIPT SAYS ABOUT ""CARNIVAL WEEK"" THE CARNIVAL WEEK, 1886, Illustrated, published at 162 St. James St., Montreal, contains on its title page a vivid sketch of the Canadian Sports that have attracted so many visitors to Montreal during the last two years; a view of Victoria Square, showing MARSHALL WOOD'S Celebrated Statue of the Queen, with a fine sketch of the TUQUE BLEUE Toboggan Slide, a glimpse of Victoria Skating Rink, and last but not least, a picture of the ICE PALACE as it will appear under the attack of two thousand SNOW-SHOERS. The contents of the number are interesting and varied. ICE ON THE ATLANTIC, Large quantities encountered A steamer's peril, (Special to the Gazette) If any February 10, The steamer Rioon City, Capt. Jenkins, from New York bound to Newcastle, England, put in here damaged by ice. Captain Jenkins makes the following report: We left New York at noon on the 1st instant with a cargo of merchandise. On the 7th ice was met and that evening after dark we sailed right into an open bay of ice; it became impossible to force our way any farther and about midnight the plates close to the water line were cracked and damaged. The steamer's position at the time was about 48° 20' North and 58° West. The ice had closed in around her and as far as the eye could reach nothing was visible but a vast field of ice and there were immense bergs towering hundreds of feet above the surface, with their glittering pinnacles. North of latitude 45 seemed a solid field. Captain Jenkins states that he never saw so much ice in his life, particularly in the position and so early in the season. For four days the steamer was wedged in solid, and when at last it was managed to get her out she was headed at once for Halifax. She will be temporarily repaired here and proceed for her destination as soon as possible. The port warden will make a thorough inspection of the Ripon City tomorrow. He took a look at her today; although the vessel is leaking somewhat in the forward compartment, temporary repairs, he considers, will be quite sufficient to carry her safely across. The mail steamer Campion, which arrived at 8 a.m. today from Liverpool, had a mild passage across. On Friday last, in lat. 1:12, long. E. de Cossar, who is personally acquainted with King John and thinks not meanly of his talents and character, and of the prospects of his people under favorable circumstances, was of the opinion early last summer that if his good offices were sought, he would prove a valuable ally. Whether it is still possible or desirable to utilize his friendship in that way we do not know, but perhaps it has remained for Italy to avail herself of opportunities which England allowed to pass unused. It is also possible that the Abyssinians, seeing the Mahdi in possession, may be moved to try the chances of a march from Gellabat which, Sir S. Baker says, would be a direct descent upon Khartoum by the river Ilahad and the Blue Nile, through a fertile country teeming with supplies. Awkward as would, at other times, be such a move, whatever would engage the attention of the victorious Mahdi would be welcome at the present crisis. Though acting for herself, Abyssinia would in such a case be England's timely ally. HUDSON'S BAY NAVIGATION, The information acquired by Lieut. Gordon, who commanded the expedition to Hudson's Bay last summer, is necessarily of a partial and incomplete character, the journey being somewhat hurriedly made, and having for its object the establishment of observatory stations rather than the ascertainment of definite and large knowledge of the duration of navigation in the bay and straits. Such conclusions as can be drawn, however, from the observations made and the data obtained, point to the possibility of safely navigating these waters during three or four months of the year. The character of the ice met with is divided into three classes, having each a separate origin, namely: icebergs from the glaciers of Fox Channel, heavy Arctic field ice from the channel itself, and ordinary field ice formed on the shores of the bay and straits. Icebergs were not seen in Hudson's Bay, and in the straits those encountered are reported to have been not more numerous or more formidable than are met with off the Straits of Belle Isle. The ordinary field ice forms no barrier to the easy passage of steamers, but the heavy field ice attaining a depth of forty feet, and averaging last season quite fifteen feet in thickness, renders the progress of steamers and vessels impossible. This apparently serious drawback to navigation is qualified by Lieut. Gordon with the explanation that the season was an unusually severe one, and an unfair test of the character of the ice ordinarily encountered in the straits and bay during August and September. He expresses the opinion that the more formidable ice of this description was the result of an accumulation of several years. It is probable from the report that the expedition will have to be made and observations taken during three or four years in succession to solve with reasonable certainty the duration of the safe navigation of Hudson's Bay, and in view of the importance of the question to the Northwest, a definite settlement of the problem is well worth the expenditure involved. The great value of the fisheries of Hudson's Bay is made apparent by the report of Lieut. Gordon, from which it appears that New England whaling vessels have been engaged in these waters for many years past, and have taken therefrom in a recent period fish to the value of more than two million dollars, and that the catch per vessel averages nearly thirty thousand dollars. The Hudson's Bay Company also is extensively engaged in the fisheries of the bay, deriving therefrom considerable profit. The company has established extensive refineries at several of their northern stations, and instead of exporting the blubber of the porpoise in bulk, now refine it and ship the pure oil in casks. Fresh salmon in refrigerators are also largely exported to England where a ready and profitable market is found. In connection with this subject, Lieut. Gordon makes the timely suggestion that in any negotiations undertaken by the Canadian government looking to reciprocity of trade with the United States, the value of the fisheries of Hudson's Bay should receive due consideration. They are already valuable in character, largely availed of by the Americans, and likely to become more and more sought after as the resources of the region become better known, and pending a treaty it is desirable that such regulations should be framed as will prevent the use of explosives in the whale fisheries of Hudson's Bay, the effect of which is inevitably to rapidly exhaust the supply. Another undue advantage the Americans now enjoy is trading with the natives of the region. The Hudson's Bay Company, in trading, have to pay duties, and a considerable amount of money accrues to the government from customs dues on importations at Churchill, York, and Moose Factory, but every American whaler entering the bay is an unlicensed trader, carrying in American goods and trading with the natives, in unfair competition with the Hudson's Bay Company, whose goods pay duties. The French papers which have of late been prophesying the uprising of India should reflect that there is far more likelihood of an insurrection in Tunis and Algiers. The wave of fanaticism is more likely to sweep westward by its old route along the Mediterranean seaboard than it is to cross the Indian Ocean or to make its way through conflicting nations and tribes to beyond the Indus. It is the Sultan, if anyone, that should be concerned about the Mahdi's success. It is forgotten that Islam is not one any more than Christendom, and that the sword of the faithful has for long centuries been drawn as often against each other as against the giaour. The Canadian Gazette says: Many of the leading commercial men of the Dominion are actively supporting the action of our chambers of commerce, in regard to Canada's bankruptcy law. As will have been seen from our Dominion News last week, a very influential deputation waited on Sir John Macdonald on the subject, on his return from England, and evidently desired to strengthen in every way possible the impression produced on the mind of the Premier by the representations of the gentlemen who approached him on the matter whilst in London. Sir John addressed the deputation at some length, and from the general tenor of his remarks it is evident that while still recognizing the difficulties of the problem, he is resolved that the whole matter shall be considered most earnestly by the Government at the earliest date. The supreme importance of the question to the trade of Canada is fully recognized. These remarks are all the more to the point now that, as our readers are aware, a committee has been appointed to collect information on the subject from all the provinces. The Rev.
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For information about other Newspaper-in-Education projects and services, call (514) 987-2400 and ask for a Newspaper-in-Education rep. THE TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN BY WERNER WEJP-OLSEN Your Partner in Education bid to erode the free-trade deal's protection for cultural industries Reed Scowen, the incoming chairman of Alliance Quebec, has sent a wrong set of messages PAGE B2 CAW - The joy of haggling Ian Shulman and Veronique Marin beat down the price for a two-flat building they bought by $40,000. They know the reward of haggling a good deal PAGE C 1 Partly cloudy today's high 24 Tonight's low 16 The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of a shower or thundershower PAGE C8 Anderson E1 BirthsDeaths E16 Boone H1 Bridge E16 Business E1 Doug Camilli H5 Chambers B3 Classified F1 G1 Comics C7 Crossword G8 Dear Doctor C6 Editorials B2 Farber E11 Gardening C3 Horoscope E16 Landers C6 Legal Notices G8 Living C1 Macpherson B3 McBride A2 Needletrade G7 Probe C4 Rock Talk H1 Scoreboard E14 Seniors C5 Show H1 Sports E11 Todd A3 TV Listings H2 Wonderword G8 PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER This newspaper's recycling can be retrieved from the recycling boxes Montreal residents can find out about the recycling station nearest them by calling The Gazette NFO line at 521-8600, code 1234 First Quebecer scales Everest Yves Laforest of Iberville has been to the top of the world and he's ecstatic. The 35-year-old became the first Quebecer to reach the summit of Mount Everest at 8:35 a.m. on May 15. Laforest, who left Montreal on March 1, is now in Katmandu, Nepal, making arrangements to fly home. Details, PAGE E11 Cabinet authorizes secret loan to hotelier PHILIP AUTHIER GAZETTE QUEBEC BUREAU QUEBEC The provincial cabinet has quietly authorized a $2.9-million loan to Quebec hotel magnate Raymond Malenfant to help his struggling empire through the recession. Malenfant, the man at the centre of the Manoir Richelieu labor conflict and the 1988 Quebec hotelier of the year, is to get the money from the government's industrial development agency, the Société de Développement Industriel, under a program to help businesses affected by the economic slowdown. While not confirming the amount, Dominique Lambert, press aide to Industry and Commerce Minister Gerald Tremblay, said last night the loan was authorized. Documents presented to cabinet by Tourism Minister André Vallée who piloted the request show Malenfant was to be granted a one-year loan of $2.9 million. It is conditional on his obtaining other financial backing, including a recent request for a $42-million loan from the Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec. The cabinet document said the announcement was to have been kept secret until April 1992 because publicizing it would compromise the financial picture of Malenfant's PLEASE SEE LOAN, PAGE A2 as Buildings ineyriniagidSii BOB DEANS COX NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI More than 50,000 mourners had streamed past the shrouded body of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by this morning, as his Italian-born widow was chosen to lead his party's drive to regain power in the world's largest democracy. While the mourners paid their last respects at Gandhi's coffin, millions more poured into the streets elsewhere across India in expressions of grief and anger over his death. The 46-year-old politician was killed in a bomb blast Tuesday night while campaigning in southern India. Tough security measures helped head off violent protests, but 11 people were killed nonetheless as a stunned and emotionally wracked nation began a week of official mourning and braced for a state funeral scheduled for tomorrow. The party's working committee selected 43-year-old Sonia Gandhi to head the 106-year-old Congress Party, which has dominated Indian politics for nearly five decades. But it was not immediately clear if she would accept. Her selection stunned some analysts. It appeared aimed at demonstrating party unity and assuring the party of attracting sympathy votes in parliamentary elections that were suspended yesterday due to the assassination. Polls showed Rajiv Gandhi to be the front-runner in the elections. The polling is to resume in mid-June. If Sonia Gandhi were to accept the party presidency and the party emerged with a majority following the delayed general election on June 12 and 15, she could be- PLEASE SEE GANDHI, PAGE A15 Sonia Gandhi: a profile PAGE A15 Democracy big loser PAGE B3 iM 35 IM? D4S 3 80 6"x6"x8' 14 40 6"x6"x12' 22 25 Ce4t c&tfcel) PRIVACY FENCES 8 ft Section consisting of 2-2"x4"x8' and 17 boards of 1"x6"x5' or 1"x6"x6' PRESSURE TREATED WOOD 5' Height $ 99' 6' Height $ 28 SPRUCE 5' Height $ 6' Height $ 25 32 YES! We cut wood to your specifications YES! We deliver anywhere in Metro Montreal LIFETIME WARRANTY The Montreal Machine are on the final lap of the race to the North American East Division Championship! 3 teams are neck to neck w L MONTREAL 4 5 Orlando 4 5 New-York 4 5 The Machine needs your support for the last game of the season THE MACHINE"THE ORLANDO THUNDER MONDAY MAY 27, AT 8 PM. What's more, you could be the winner of a trip for four persons to the 1992 SUPER BOWL. Get your tickets now by calling TELETRON at 288-2525, at all TICKETRON outlets, or at THE MACHINE box office (201) MONTREAL at the Big "O" Monday-Friday 10 AM to 6 PM, Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM. 'Service charge extra' MACHINE S European Open tournament at Geneva. The victory moved the fourth-seeded Kelesi into the quarter-finals. Top-seeded Conchita Martinez of Spain overwhelmed Linda Ferrando of Italy 6-0, 6-2. Stefan Edberg and Magnus Gustafsson carried Sweden to a 3-0 victory over Spain, virtually assuring the Swedes of a berth in the finals of the World Team Cup tournament in Dusseldorf. Gustafsson defeated Juan Aguilera 6-3, 6-3 and Edberg beat Emilio Sanchez 6-4, 6-4 before they teamed to beat Sanchez and Sergio Casal 7-5, 6-1 in doubles. Andrei Cherkasov battled to a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Horacio de la Pena and Alexander Volkov defeated Franco Davin 6-0, 6-2 to lead the Soviet Union to a 2-1 win over Argentina. Second-seeded Lori McNeil of the United States won her second-round match at the Strasbourg Open women's tennis tournament, beating compatriot Ann Grossman 6-2, 6-3. McNeil's quarter-final opponent will be Australian Anne Minter, a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Karine Quentrec of France. Motorsports In an unprecedented move, the sanctioning body for stock car racing's top circuit reduced the 12-week suspension handed to car owner Junior Johnson for using an oversized engine. The decision was made by NASCAR commissioner Simon E. Knudsen less than three hours after officials announced that an appeals panel had refused to soften the suspension. Knudsen, the final possible route of appeal, trimmed the suspension to four races. Johnson and crew chief Tim Brewer, who also had been slapped with a 12-week suspension, will be eligible to rejoin their team at Michigan next month. Meanwhile, Mark Martin won the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 by being the fastest of three drivers to break the year-old event record at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Martin had a top lap of 174.820 miles an hour in his Ford Thunderbird. Ken Schrader and Michael Waltrip also broke the record of 173.693 mph set by Schrader last year. Soccer Billy McNeill's four-year reign as Celtics manager ended when he was sacked after an hour-long meeting of the Scottish League soccer team's directors. In another move, Southampton of English Division 1, sacked manager Chris Nicholl and first team coach Dennis Rofe. Manchester United plans to become the fourth English League team to go public. Current owner Martin Edwards said he hopes to raise $33 million by selling 75 per cent of the team in a public stock offering. Most of the money will be used to refurbish Old Trafford stadium. Miscellany Only five horses will challenge Ontario invader Apaches Fame in Quebec City on Sunday night in the Grand Prix Quebec, a $65,900 race for older pacers at Hippodrome de Quebec. Apaches Fame, who blazed a mile in 1:51.4 two weeks ago at Mohawk Raceway in his only start this year, will leave from post Position 3 for driver Bud Fritz. Inside of him are No Taste (Yves Filion) and Proprietors Choice (John Kopas). The outside horses are Scoot Outa Reach (Michel Lachance), Power Swing (Alain C6t) and Broussard (Michel Ouel-let). The Canadian Olympic hockey team will play the Canadiens on Dec. 10 at the Forum. The game is part of a 22-game package of games pitting NHL teams against the Canadian and U. THURSDAY MAY 23, 1991 NOISE! Modern life takes toll on hearing SHERYL UBELACKER CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Hair dryers, vacuum cleaners, stereos, lawn mowers, motor boats, chain saws. Indoors and out, Canadians are assaulted by a daily cacophony of noise. Although often painfully aware of all the buzzing, screeching, clattering and wailing, most have no idea what those sounds are doing to their hearing. For a growing number of people, all that noise is causing them to lose it. Forever. A hearing loss is permanent and irreversible, said Denis Morrice, executive director of the Canadian Hearing Society. There's no medical solution, no operation. A hearing aid does not correct hearing, it just amplifies sound. Morrice said about 10 per cent of the population has some hearing loss, and most cases can be attributed to the seemingly unceasing pounding on the ears associated with modern living. Almost everything is starting to cause a problem because we have been conditioned to accept noise, he said in an interview. And we've been taught that louder is better; louder is more powerful. Your home may be your castle, but that doesn't mean it's quiet. Household appliances can bombard the ears: hair dryers and vacuum cleaners at least 70 decibels; electric razors 85 decibels; coffee grinders more than 90 decibels. Hearing damage begins to occur with sustained exposure to sounds measuring 85 decibels. Getting away from it all in the basement workroom offers no escape. Many electric tools such as a power saw at 110 decibels can be deafening. Garden and leisure equipment can be just as bad: lawn mowers 90 to 110 decibels; outboard boat motors and chain saws 100 decibels. The higher the decibel level, the shorter the length of time needed to harm the ears permanently, said Toronto audiologist Marshall Chasin. But it's the cumulative effect over time of noise-makers the coffee-grinder on top of the baby's toy drum on top of the hair dryer that gradually and insidiously steals our hearing, Chasin said. Among the most ruinous for the ears are portable cassette players and in-car stereos, or boom boxes, cranked up full volume, Chasin said. One of his patients, a 19-year-old girl, had her portable cassette blasting at 126 decibels and she has suffered severe hearing loss. Too much noise damages hairlike sensory cells in the inner ear, which transmit sound through the auditory nerve to the brain. The repeated hammering of high-intensity sound can cause those hair cells to break off or die. They are trampled, just like blades of grass, Morrice said. First to go is recognition of higher pitched sounds, but people often don't realize they can't hear them, he said. Even when hearing loss begins affecting perception of the lower speech range, many people believe their hearing is fine, but the other person is mumbling. I wish blood would drip from the ear when you're losing your hearing, Morrice said. We just won't do anything, because it's invisible. But hearing loss can be prevented, Morrice and Chasin said. Besides always wearing ear protection around noisy equipment, people should push for legislation regulating noise levels on manufactured goods and exercise their power as consumers by not buying the hair dryer that makes so much noise, Morrice said. We have to turn our attitude right around, the same way we did with smoking and hockey helmets and drinking and driving. Noise is something we can do something about. Being meticulous won't stop lice from making headway I'm considered to be a meticulous housekeeper in fact, some people might say too meticulous. So how do you account for the fact that my daughter was sent home from school with a note that she had lice in her hair? Could she have gotten them from our dog? Is there any way to avoid this in the future? K J C Broker VOLKS Fox GL '88, 72,000km, winter tires included, $5,400, 382-9402 private VOLKS Fox 1989, 4-door, 5-speed, white, 53,500kms, TOYOTA Tercel 1987, 2-door, 5-speed, red, 58,000kms, SUBARU Legacy LS 1990, auto, fully equipped, 47,500kms, Yves 678-0971, Mil 4-Cylinder VOLKS Golf 1986, 4-door sunroof, 90,000kms, 5-speed $4,500 487-3736, Tonalco Auto VOLKS Jetta GL 86, automatic sunroof, very clean $5,000 687-1151 Private PONTIAC Le Mans 1981, needs mechanical work, 1 new snow tire, rims, $575 negotiable, 684-1290 private PONTIAC Parisienne Brougham 79, very good condition, fully equipped, $900 Roger after 5, 767-3641, 365-7472 private RELIANT 1982, 4 doors, 140,000 kms, $600, 738-0821 private RELIANT, 1982, 2-doors, automatic, 4 cylinder, good condition, $950 333-3082 private RENAULT Alliance 83, 5-speed, $500 271-8205 Private SUBARU GLF 1981, rust free, $1,000 928-0300 private SUBARU GLF 1982, 5-speed, very good condition, $950, 467-2057 private TERCEL 81, $400, Running condition, David 341-6780 ext. 2311 (davidprivate THUNDERBIRD 1981, mechanically sound, body average shape, negotiable- Evenings 738-0514 private Painting Body Work 564 VOLKS Jetta GTX 1990, 16V 20,000km, warranty, mint $15,500 or offer Days 382-0774, evenings 483-3743 private 10,000 satisfied clients Exterior Paint $399 VOLKS Passat 1990 very good condition, 8 tires, a balance of warranty 25! 5914 VOLKS Supi" Bi'ffHe 1973, good condition, $7,500 748-9353 after 4pm Private O, ISoiav $OQ95 Rustproofing with Guarantee 975 Pacific Lachine 364-2222 S Payment Wis 696-2222 87 Gland, lit Petrol 425-2777 Asking $3,500, 681-84 681-84 Private FORD Taurus 1989, 6-cyl, loaded, 63,000km, Ford warranty, $7,900 951-1906 AUTOMART SALE CONTINUES Til FRIDAY, MAY 24th Featuring 1991 TAURUS I THUNDERBIRD Example: Stock 1571 3-liter 6 cyl engine AM/FM stereocassette, Speed control, Automatic transmission, Block heater, and many more options, Ford Rebates included, PLUS AIR CONDITIONING EXAMPLE: Stock 1867 3.8 liter 6 cyl engine AM/FM stereocassette, Dual electric mirrors, 6 way power driver's seat, Speed control, tilt steering and many more options, Ford Rebates included, PLUS AIR CONDITIONING PLAN A PLAN B MANUFACTURER'S REDUCED FINANCE REBATE RATE OR FORD REBATE Transport, preparation & taxes not included, Ford rebate included, 48 month Red Carpet Lease program, Tax, transport & preparation not included, Ford rebate included, Subject to credit approval, TRADE-INS ACCEPTED FREE COURTESY CAR PROGRAM 20 HOUR A DAY SERVICE Cars for Sale 525 FAX YOUR CAR AD TO GAZETTE CLASSIFIED 987-2300 Fax your classified ad to 514-987-2300 24 hours a day! Be sure you include the following information: complete billing name, address and phone number; ad copy and the dates you want the ad to appear; name of person we can call for confirmation; and the phone number at which you can be reached during office hours. All car ads must be pre-paid or charged to a credit card. All faxed ads will be confirmed with the advertiser and are subject to credit approval as well as approval of their content. The Gazette reserves the right to publish the ad in the appropriate classification or to cancel the ad. HONDA Accord, EXI 1989, Block, 44,000 kms, 2-door, 5-speed, fully equipped, best offer, and more $13,500, Negotiable, Day 455-2010, Evenings 455-2993 SEARAY 1989, 220 Sundancer, 13'8" long, 8' beam, 4.3 Mercruiser stern drive, less than 501 hours, loaded with extras, I'm selling for $36,000, Offers accepted, 519-561-6437, 518-563-2242 SEARAY Sundancer, 30 ft, 300 hours, equipped, Must sell, Best offer, 487-7451 SUNRAY 17ft open deck with 150hp mercury, full instrumentation, 18gal cruising tank, new top, new prop, full tune-up summer 1990, trailer, $4,900, negotiable, Robert 620-5527 THUNDERCRAFT Magnum 230, 1999, 235 hours, Mercruiser; 230, well equipped, BLOW, 692-2090 TRADE condo for yacht value $300,000, in Chateau Westmount, 1,900 SQ ft, ultimate luxury, Jenny 861-3389, after 5:00 pm TROJAN F26, mint condition, $37,000, Call: Frank, 613-554-1743 Sailboats Boards 605 ASSORTED sailboat parts Cabins, fixtures, 7 porthole windows for sale, No reasonable offer refused, 453-4768 CATAMARAN Tornado 1979, fully restored, 2 main sails, 1 protective cover, excellent condition, 430-1243 CATAMARAN Mystere, new, with trailer, 646-2555 CATAMARAN Hobie 18 Magnum, trailer, mint, $6,500, Trades or easy terms, 681-7394 DRAGON 1962, varnished mahogany, mint condition, trailer unique opportunity, 631-5472 DUFOUR 27 Exceptionally clean, recent awlgrip, new cushions, draperies, countertop and sink, electronics, dinghy, Marina paid Lake Champlain, 1991, $11,500 Cdn, 514-655-9350 after 5:30 pm ECHO 121 sailboat complete with trailer, White with yellow trim.
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"and it will take the shipping interests and the road contractors considerable time to recover from the damage done One feature of the heavy rainfall was that it gave the Road department considerable trouble Mr St George said yesterday that the department had never had a worse experience in getting the water away through the sewers than during that rainfall The William street sewer, with which there had been no trouble previously, could scarcely carry off the flow Some of the other sewers were also choked up The Wellington street subway was flooded by about eight feet of water, which rendered it practically useless, and pedestrians had to resort to the old level crossing while streetcar passengers had to be transferred Moreover, the storm played havoc with the telegraph wires, rendering communication with outside points most difficult, if not impossible The telephone and fire alarm wires were also badly damaged On the River The storm was rather severe on the upper river, and delayed the passengers of the R H while the business department will be managed by Fred Mailette, of this city Leaders of the Canadian independence movement have subscribed $1,000 toward starting the paper Its name will be Independence and will be recognized as the official organ of the Canadian independence movement for New England The paper will also advocate high license Nearly 3,
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THE BIG STORM A Good Deal of Damage Was Done Along the Jersey Coast Atlantic City, October 1 During the storm Werner's Wonderland building collapsed, and the exhibits and building are a total loss. Richard's bathhouses, Ventnor, have been destroyed, and the steamboat pier on Brighton Beach, 300 feet in length, is gone, sections of it having been carried out to sea. Commodore Harry Turner of the Cricket fleet, in company with Charles Jeffries and William Bavday, left on a halting trip on Friday up the bay and have not been heard from since. Their friends in this city are much alarmed. Beach Isle, N.J., October 13 The high tide yesterday tore away sections of the walk and demolished the fences and verandahs of many cottages on the front. The water undermined the Hotel Brunswick, which is located on the beach, and in a few minutes it collapsed. In falling the building carried with it the house of Mrs. German, of Philadelphia, which is a complete wreck. The railroads are badly washed out. The storm shows no signs of abating. Reports come that several houses have been ruined by the inroads of the sea at Holly Beach. The Phillip J. Walsh Seaside Home for Catholic Orphans is also damaged. All roads are badly washed out. Cape May, N.Y., October 13 In Mount Basba Lake, Orange County, a floating island about one acre in extent, and nearly ten feet deep. It is well covered with large and small trees, and brush and swamp vegetation. Recently the island was anchored at one side of the lake, but in the storm of Sunday night it got loose again, and now floats about, interfering with the fishermen. Ottawa Municipal Statistics Ottawa, October 13 The city assessors' figures show the population of Ottawa to be 61,510, an increase of 1,808 over last year. The valuation has gone up by $953,015, and is now $22,079,735. The increase in real estate is $705,415, and in personal property $102,000. The public school supporters are assessed on $10,407,110, and the separate school supporters on $5,577,910, an interesting fact. We are the only house in Montreal which makes a specialty of fur repairs. All kinds of furs repaired and made as good as new at very moderate prices. Raccoon and muskrat linings constantly kept in stock. Furs of all kinds for trimming. Coats made and trimmed to order by a tailor on the premises. If you wish to get a good article at a good price come to Charles Desjardins & Co., 1537 St. Catherine street. ""James' Garotte"" The exceptional violence of the recent tornado in Paris, analogous to, but fortunately far less destructive than, the fearful catastrophe at St. Louis in May this year, attracts attention to the extraordinary vicissitudes of the world's weather during the last eighteen months. It will be observed that storms of this locally violent character, entirely different from what are properly termed cyclones, generally occur at the close of a long period of drought such as we have lately experienced. It would almost seem, indeed, as though nature, weary of one type, swung over to the opposite with the petulant violence of a spoiled child. The tornadoes which peppered the Middle States of America this spring terminated a drought which affected a large portion of the territory so severely as to allow the bed of the Ohio river to be worked for coal, reduced the fall at Niagara and lowered the St. Lawrence to an unprecedented extent. Extending the area of observation, we find ever since February 1895, equally abnormal conditions prevalent over India, Australia and the Pacific and the Indian oceans. For example, the southeast trade wind of the Indian ocean, and its twin brother, the southwest monsoon of India, were both very feeble last summer, the failure of the latter causing a drought nearly down to famine mark in some parts of India. Coincidently with and following these conditions on the Australian side of the high pressure atmospheric wall bounding the southeast trades, an extraordinary prevalence of hot, dry northwest winds occurred right on to April 1896, throughout Australia and New Zealand, raising the temperature in New South Wales to such a height that the Government actually carried people free by rail from the Interior to the coast in order to save their lives. The temperature in Sydney ran up to such record heights at 100 and 108 degrees, and even in New Zealand, except at the extreme southern end, the famous hot northwesters of the Canterbury district dried up the crops, while the North Island, especially near Auckland, looked as though it had been toasted in front of some Titanic fire. In contrast, but evidently in correspondence with the abnormal features, the North Pacific was unusually stormy, Honolulu receiving quite an unusual supply of ""Koua,"" or winter storms, while California, at the boundary of the oceanic area, came in for a similar excess of its curiously marked winter rains. Elsewhere drought seems to have been the rule. The ""low Nile"" was recently a formidable obstacle to the Soukan expedition, and the violent resumption of rain over its basin in common with the similar change which now seems to be everywhere terminating this world land drought, is creating a fresh scourge by promoting the conditions favorable to the spread of cholera. It is not easy to discover even the proximate cause for such a widespread anomaly, or to draw a practical moral; but a general survey would appear to show that the equatorial rain belt has been less developed than usual, and that the atmosphere over the continents on either side of it has been less heaped up into narrow belts of high pressure and more uniformly spread over large areas. Where this occurs in summer we have the conditions which are favorable to drought, emerging subsequently when the lower air remains stationary, as it did over the United States in the spring, and gradually becomes charged with excessive heat and humidity into those favorable to the production of local storms and tornadoes. The storm at Paris was due to such conditions, and the result of a stagnation rather than an increase in the ordinary movements of the atmosphere. When the circulation over the North Atlantic is more than ordinarily vigorous the energy is expended in the larger horizontal movements, termed cyclones, which frequently embrace an area as large as Russia. It is only when these motions are so reduced as to allow the warm lower air to penetrate the upper layers in places, like water flowing through a sink, and like it to draw in the surrounding air in rapidly rotating whirls, that tornadoes are generated. Such conditions, though common enough over a large land area like the United States, are, fortunately, rendered rare in Europe by virtue of its latitude and geography, so that we need not conclude that the tornado epidemic will ever find a favorable breeding ground over here. On the other hand, it is plain that the occurrence of periods of abnormal weather is common to the whole world, and are of much greater economical importance than the daily changes which at present form the sole subject of prediction by the European Bureau. Not prominently marked, and thus to a large extent masked by the latter, these long waves nevertheless dominate the variation in our seasons, regulate our crops and in many ways affect our general welfare. In India, where the daily changes owing to the comparative absence of frequent minor disturbances are less prominent, predictions are officially made of the average weather of each half-yearly monsoon or season, and with such success that the Government there has recently sanctioned an extension of the mean for constructing such forecasts. ""Some men,"" said Uncle Eben, ""seem to think that talking at the top of your voice can take the place of speaking from the bottom of your heart."" Washington Star Grace Darling Fifty-eight years ago, the 7th of September, Grace Darling and her father, through their heroic effort, saved from a watery grave nine precious souls. The work of life saving and health preserving still goes on, in which we, L & T 100 30 60 60 100 100 3 5 4 100 100 100 4 I S 120 60 117 10 m ""m"" 129"" 82 Ji 135 100 98 Ex-dly? New York, October 13 When a financial community sets itself resolutely at work to make itself despondent where there is no conceivable cause of despondency, it is subject to rude awakening from its nightmare. Wall street philosophers have been out-touting one another for a week with assurance that the political horizon was black, that cheerfulness and confidence were inexcusable, that within three weeks the storm would break. All this time the indications of a wholesome issue to the national election were bright to a degree wholly unprecedented in this generation and were growing daily brighter. The whole performance cannot be otherwise described than as a physiological phenomenon. Senator Quay issues a bulletin which contains nothing more than all Wall street was saying ten days ago; the one free coinage organ in New York talks of the silver party's outlook in precisely the dubious terms employed by all the serious free coinage leaders ten days ago: and the Stock Exchange discovers a complete reversal in the situation. If this is the end of the experiment which began with the mutual declaration: ""Come let us be sane,"" the return of common sense would of itself be welcome. But after but weeks experience the community is quite capable of falling into depths of gloom again. Nobody can predict the certain course of sentiment during the balance of this month or the course of the market which reflects it. The habit of jumping at shadows may have become chronic enough not to be cured before November 3. Today's market, however, made no uncertain response. It started to advance in London before New York opened for business. Its initial gains here averaged half a point and active stocks were up to two points before the afternoon. As it happened, there was more than one noticeable reason for the recovery. Another lot of $600,000 gold was engaged in London for shipment, making a total engagement of $1,000,000 within three days. Still more significant was the renewed and violent advance in wheat, which this time carried up along with it all other domestic produce. Wheat sold today 3c above last Wednesday's lowest, and 13c above its price at the opening of September. Corn sold 3c per bushel above last week, and is above the September minimum. Oats have advanced 2c within the week and 43c since last month's opening. Even in provisions generally a similar movement is going on, and the perfectly obvious basis for the entire upward movement is the very active demand from Europe. The enormous increase in the export of corn is a safe witness to the real urgency of the situation, with shipments for the week as reported today being half a million bushels above the average of the last four weeks, and double the export average of October 1885. Reflecting all these factors in the situation, stocks advanced sharply at the opening. ANOTHER PLEASANT DAY Fine and Not Much Change In Temperature, the Promise Toronto, Ont., October 13 The great Atlantic storm, which has been travelling up the Gulf stream since Sunday, is now centered a little to the southward of Nova Scotia, and is causing a very heavy east and northeast gale throughout the Maritime Provinces. Elsewhere in Canada the weather has been fine. Minimum and maximum temperatures-Calgary, 36, 60; Qu'Appelle, 28, 70; Winnipeg, 30, 62; Port Arthur, 30, 60; Toronto, 42, 68; Ottawa, 40, 60; Montreal, 30, 54; Quebec, 38, 60; Halifax, 40, 61. MORANILITIES Lower Lakes and Georgian Bay Northwest to southwest winds; fine and comparatively warm. Ottawa Valley and Upper St. Lawrence Fine; not much change in temperature. Lower St. Lawrence Strong winds and gales, east to northwest; local rains chiefly in the eastern portion. Gulf Fresh to heavy easterly to northerly gales; cloudy and rainy. Maritime Fresh to heavy gales; cloudy and rainy. Manitoba Fresh to strong south to west winds; generally fair and warm today; then local showers and cooler tomorrow.
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Competitors will be shooting at two clays whizzing out at various angles from various heights at each of the 14 stations. Entry fees are $75 for men, seniors and veterans, and $50 for ladies, juniors (16-18) or sub juniors (12-15). Beretta is contributing shotguns as prizes for the winners of the best overall, ladies, junior and sub-junior categories, if participants have competed with a Beretta, and another gun as a draw prize for all entrants. About 150 of the best shooters from the U."
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ranked in a class with African superstars Salif Keita, Mory Kante and fellow countryman Youssou N'Dour, will squeeze onto the intimate Club Balattou stage with his eight-piece band Dande Lenol this Thursday night Then, on Friday and Sunday, the free-spirited, super soukous group Loketo from Zaire will inaugurate one of Montreal's newest concert venues, The Coconut, at 3417 St. Lawrence Blvd, just north of St. Catherine St When Baaba Maal and his musicians performed at Balattou about a year ago, the complexity of their rhythms and the stirring brilliance of their music left most in the full-house crowd gasping Their return from Dakar marks an auspicious beginning to this Montreal season of international music Like the best of West Africa's contemporary musicians, Maal's songs are a rich blend of traditional and modern influences His searing vocals and tremendous range put him in a league with Youssou N'Dour, while Dande Lenol, his precision outfit, provide a sumptuous accompaniment propelled by sweltering percussion Massamba Diop's mastery of tama, West African talking drum,
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directed The World Is Watching, co-wrote the script with Harold Crooks and tried to sell his critique of TV news to the CBC For years, the network wasn't buying CBC policy excluded most independent documentaries, especially those with a strong personal point of view particularly when the strongly expressed viewpoint is skepticism of TV news News is the holiest of holy divisions at the CBC The department considers itself not without justification as the network's indisputably world-class division CBC journalists were not amused by a documentary that dared to suggest that TV news (albeit an American network's product) is less than meets the eye My film raised a lot of hackles at the CBC, Raymont said during a phone conversation yesterday It kind of attacks some of the ethics of television news When I sent in rough cuts of the film, people at CBC News would be upset because they'd feel that in some way it was attacking the tenets that their whole life has been based on But The World Is Watching never mentions CBC News The documentary is about ABC's Nicaragua coverage None of the film's supporting players editorial writer Randolph Ryan of the Boston Globe, Newsweek photographer Bill Gentile, Jon Snow, Central America reporter for ITV of Britain,
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she said early in her hour-long performance at the new Mirage Hotel and Casino Cher opened the show wearing slacks, a blouse and a vest She promised the crowd it would be the most attire she would wear the rest of the evening, and made good on the promise when she returned later in a black-lace bodysuit British opera star dies at 98 LONDON Dame Eva Turner, Britain's first internationally acclaimed opera star, has died at the age of 98 Born in Oldham, Lancashire, she made her debut as a page in Tannhauser in 1916 She retired from the stage in 1950 to teach voice at the University of Oklahoma She returned to England in 1959, and continued to coach young singers until recently Summer starts wet with an African beat Senegalese, Zairean bands here this week DANIEL FEIST SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE Montreal's bountiful summer of worldbeat music will begin this week with concerts by two of modern Africa's most exciting groups The compelling Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, ranked in a class with African superstars Salif Keita, Mory Kante and fellow countryman Youssou N'Dour,
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GOSSIP FROM TORONTO: A Record-Breaking Rainstorm Blared Real Estate Speculators Tided Over Their Trouble From our own correspondent Toronto, June 20 The rainstorm which deluged the city last evening was of the record-breaking character Nothing like it has been seen for some time The damage resulting is roughly estimated in the neighborhood of $100,000 Merchants in the central portion of the city were the greatest sufferers and Guinane's boot store and Armson & Stone's millinery emporium lose between them $2,000 on Yonge street The shopkeepers on the south side of King street, between Yonge and Bay streets, are very heavy losers, Caldwell & Hodgins, wine merchants, at Queen and John streets, will probably be minus $5,000 The affairs of the big speculators in real estate here, reported some time ago in difficulty, have been settled so as to avoid an assignment One prominent and wealthy lawyer, who is very largely interested in real estate in and about Toronto, has obtained a five years' extension from banks on $800,000, on which he will have to pay an interest of $48,
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ML COST $400,080 Several New Intercepting Sewers Proposed by Mr St George THE FLOODING OF CELLARS In Great Part Caused by Outside Municipalities-The City Surveyor had Reported This but no Action was Taken by the Council The City Surveyor has addressed the following important communication to the chairman and members of the Road committee on the flooding of cellars, and also on the necessity of constructing a new intercepting sewer on Sherbrooke and St James streets. It reads as follows: Gentlemen, I beg to attach you herewith a report of Mr Brittain, recommending the construction of a new intercepting sewer on Sherbrooke street from Beaudry street to Coteau Neiges road. The construction of this sewer has become necessary by the fact that the city is receiving so many claims for flooding through the overflowing of the Coteau Harron main sewer and the intercepting sewer during very heavy exceptional rain storms. In my opinion these claims should not be entertained for the following reasons: 1. The Coteau Harron main sewer was built in 1867 in a low swampy valley, when the street was not formed and consequently no houses could have existed then. The natural conclusion is that the houses must have been built since the sewer was constructed, and therefore, the city should not be held responsible. In regard to the intercepting sewer on St Catherine street, there is only one portion of it which is at present needed during heavy rainstorms, that is between St Lawrence and St George streets. These floodings take place only when there is an exceptionally heavy rainstorm, but these floodings would not have occurred if Westmount municipality, who had the permission of the city to drain their drainage into the intercepting sewer, had abided by the plan which they submitted to the city. However, I find that the said municipality have extended their drainage system so as to take in the whole of the water from the little mountain, as it is called, above Sherbrooke street, running lateral sewers away up into the mountain, carrying the drainage from that mountain too rapidly into the city sewers, and I therefore think that it is just that the municipality of Westmount should be charged a portion of the cost of the intercepting sewer which is rendered necessary by their action. 2. In regard to the duplicate sewer in St James street, from McGill street to the western city limits, the necessity of building this sewer has been caused entirely by the action of the municipality of Lachine and the municipality of St Henri, diverting a natural water course which used to drain into the little St Pierre river into their sewers which empty into the St James street sewer. I have repeatedly notified the city of their action and have asked the city to allow me to dam the end of our sewer so as to prevent the water coming from Lachine and St Henri doing damage to the properties of the citizens of Montreal, but so far I have received no instructions to do so, and in consequence, the cellars of the properties on that street, and also on the adjoining streets, are nearly always flooded in heavy rain storms; therefore, it is necessary to build this sewer, and the cost of same should be charged to these two municipalities, and I would advise the city to notify them notarially of it. You will note by the agreement between the city and these municipalities that they rendered themselves liable for all damages which they might cause to the city. 3. In order to relieve St Catherine street, east of Amherst street, on the old Coteau Harron main sewer, we can make a temporary relief for these floodings by constructing a sewer on St Catherine street between De Lorimier avenue and Papineau road this autumn. I would also remind you that a year ago I recommended an intercepting sewer on de Levis street to drain the northeast part of the city; this report has gone before the Finance committee, but we have heard nothing further. It is necessary that this sewer should be constructed in conjunction with the other sewers, which is included in the estimate made by Mr Brittain herewith attached. In conclusion, in regard to the construction of these works recommended, I would recommend that the Sherbrooke street intercepting sewer and de Levis street sewer be let by contract, and that the St James street sewer be done by day work. The reason why I recommend that the work be done by day on St James street sewer is because the ground is swampy and the sewer will be very shallow and the work must be specially done irrespective of cost. Yours truly, (Signed) Perival W St George, City Surveyor. The estimated cost of the Sherbrooke street sewer is $149,300; St Catherine street, $411,740; St James street, $103,894; de Levis street, $139,409, and $10,000 for the extension of the main sewer now discharging into Elgin basin, making a total of $414,403. The above has been forwarded to the council and Finance committee for immediate action. The City Council The regular monthly meeting of the City council will be held on Monday evening, when, after routine business, of which there is considerable, is disposed of, the orders of the day will be taken up. The first is for the council to go into committee of the whole and consider clause by clause the early closing by-law. When this is complete the by-law will be considered. On Tuesday night there will be a special meeting of the council to take up the gas contract. An effort was made yesterday morning to get a meeting for tomorrow evening, a most unusual thing for the council to meet on Saturday, but after a conference between the City Clerk and those anxious for the meeting, it was deferred to Tuesday night. The Street Railway company owes the city $47,000 for removing the snow from the tracks last winter. The Building Inspector will leave tonight or tomorrow for Baltimore to attend the Building Inspectors' convention, which is to be held there. J trains leave indoor Station at 9:50 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. at Calhoun Square Station 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. to train due to leave via Ottawa at 6:15 a.m. will be held for the excursionists until 7 p.m. and return to Notre Dame Street Station, CITY TICKET & TELEGRAPH OFFICE 129 St James, (next to Post Office) Timber, Fence Posts, etc. Tenders are invited for Lumber, Fence Posts, etc., required by the Company during the year 1913. Specifications and forms of tender can be had on application to John Taylor, General Storekeeper, Montreal. Tenders endorsed ""Tender for Lumber, etc.,"" and addressed to the undersigned, will be received on or before Wednesday, October 30th. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. MAY RAIN TODAY If It Does it Will Probably Be Only a Little Shower Toronto, October 10, 11 p.m. The depression in the Northwest is now central to the north of Lake Superior, having changed little in energy. The pressure is decreasing over Ontario but is generally high eastward. The weather is generally fair everywhere, with somewhat higher temperature in the lake district. Minimum and maximum temperatures: Battleford, 28, 38; Qu'Appelle, 32, 41; Winnipeg, 32, 40; Toronto, 38, 52; Kingston, 28, 40; Montreal, 34, 44; Quebec, 20, 40; Chatham, 32, 40; Halifax, 40, 48. Lakes and St Lawrence Fresh to brisk southerly shifting to westerly winds; a few local showers, otherwise fair a little higher temperature. Gulf Southeast to south winds, increasing to brisk; fair weather. Maritime Winds shifting to south and southeast; fair; stationary or a little higher temperature, Manitoba West and northwest winds; fair weather; stationary or a little lower temperature.
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Great suffering was reported to the police early in the day and prompt measures were taken for relief. Fifteen and a half below is reported from Anniston, Alabama. IN BOSTON Boston, Mass, February 13 There is a regular old-fashioned snowstorm which has been raging throughout New England since early Sunday morning increased in intensity today and by night had developed into a blizzard with the usual accompaniment of stalled railroad trains, paralyzed streetcars and a general blockade. The storm, following the severe cold wave of last week, seems to have been a fitting climax for the severest weather that has been experienced in this region for many years. The main storm began at an early hour this morning and since then it has snowed incessantly, while the northwest gale at times reached a velocity of over 60 miles an hour. The steam railway companies wrestled all day with great drifts but by night the train service was practically suspended throughout New England.
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A few workingmen were slightly injured. IrsiivKR, Col, April 9 A terrific wind storm passed over this city yesterday. Many homes were unroofed and the walls of several buildings in course of erection were blown down. No one was injured. New York, April 9 A terrific thunderstorm passed over this city at three o'clock this morning. The lightning and thunder were continuous for half an hour. No damage is reported thus far. (Jcissmno, Col, April 9 A tornado destroyed $20,000 worth of property here yesterday. Fort Wayne, Ind, April 9 Miss Ida Miller was killed by lightning last night. NEWS FROM DOWN EAST. Late Arrival at New Boot Snare The Disabled No. 1 Towed Into Halifax A Train Wrecker Held for Trial. Halifax, April 9 The steamer Bona arrived from Hamburg this morning with a cargo consisting of 30,351 bags of beetroot sugar, 10,000 for the Nova Scotia refinery and the balance for Moncton and Montreal refineries.
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Frankenstein's assistant 112 Rich tapestry 113 "Karenina" 114 "On Your" 115 Speck 116 Unimaginative 117 Eager tourist 1 Gospel 2 Fluff 3 Make reparation 4 Kind of room 5 Unassuming 6 Iniquities 7 Generous one 8 Toast cover 9 Package abbr. 10 Saree wearer 11 Fiery 12 Made a break for it 13 Golf club end 14 Anwar of Egypt 15 Conjure up 16 Bogged down 17 Stopovers 21 Order of the 23 Lots of water 24 Previously owned 29 down the hatches 31 Scale 32 City on the Adige 33 Kind of bean 35 Sericeous 36 "poor Yorick" 38 Lacquer Ingredient 39 "What God wrought" 40 HRE king 41 Parnassian 42 Stallone movie 44 Sleep ender 45 contendere 46 Short whip 47 Advantage 49 Street group 50 Blueprint 51 "A mixture of doth ever add pleasure" (Bacon) 54 Eminent one 55 Cooking byproduct 60 Ravine 61 Aspect 62
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; Gerald Gartner of Roxboro, who was outside his house in February 1996 when a child ran up and said a playmate had gone through the ice on the river Gartner ran to Mille lies River and crawled on the unstable ice to grab the 6-year-old boy Pierre Guy Ricard of Dorval, who dove into Lac St. Louis to rescue a woman trapped inside a boat when it capsized in June 1996 Although the woman didn't survive, Ricard and his son plucked 12 people from the lake Steve D'Astous of Montreal, who was admiring the falls on the Rimouski River in February 1996 with three friends when a chunk of ice broke away and his friends plunged into the river D'Astous saved one, another got out on his own and the third drowned Marie-Eve Renaud of Montreal, who freed a motorist when a CP Rail viaduct began to collapse in July 1996 Hydro told to tighten security
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THE ANCIENT CAPITAL A Political Shuffle Talked of A Furious Snowstorm Does Much Damage A Big Mearilus Planned (From our own correspondent) Quebec, December 28 A furious snowstorm from the east set in this morning and still continues, raging with great violence. About 9 o'clock the steamer Pilot was at Barras wharf, Levis, when suddenly an enormous mass of ice caught it and pinned it to the wharf, causing considerable damage. It was torn from its fastenings and was being drifted away. It needed all the ability of the captain and crew to prevent a serious accident. Fortunately the steamer got safely up the river to its own wharf. It is said that a deputation from the Quebec Board of Trade will proceed to Ottawa in a few days to wait on the Premier and his colleagues on the ocean mail subsidy question. The deputation will be very strong and representative of the leading interests of the place. The people of the town of Chicoutimi and of Hebertville are organizing a great excursion to Quebec, via the Lake St. John railway, on the occasion of the opening of the Provincial Legislature. A number of merchants from Chicoutimi have been in town since the beginning of the winter, all coming by rail, although the distance from Chicoutimi to Lake St. John is so considerable. Goods to and from Chicoutimi are also sent by this route. There is a rumor on the street, which is given for what it is worth, to the effect that a swap is on the tapis by which Hon. Mr. Shebryn and Mr. Francois Langelier will change positions, Mr. Shebryn going to Ottawa to sit in the Commons, and Mr. Langelier assuming for the time being, during Mr. Mercier's illness, the post of Acting Premier of the province. Messrs. Shebryn and Langelier each represent Quebec constituencies so strongly Liberal in their tendencies that there would be no risk in making the proposed arrangement. NEW GRAIN STANDARDS For Manitoba Wheat Strongly Denounced by the Toronto Board of Trade Toronto, December 28 The grain and flour sections of the Board of Trade met this afternoon to consider the order-in-council changing the present standard of grain for Manitoba and the Northwest. After a warm discussion the following resolution was passed by the grain section and ordered to be telegraphed to Mr. Hull, Inland Revenue department, Ottawa: ""That, whereas an order-in-council has been passed changing the grades of Manitoba wheat, which will disarrange and cause endless trouble in carrying out contracts already entered into for future delivery on the basis of present grades, as well as necessitating the withdrawal of all samples now in the hands of foreign buyers and the furnishing of new standards, thereby causing great delay and cessation of business operations; therefore, be it resolved, that this board desires to express its strong feeling of disapprobation at the changing of grain standards by the governor-in-council without consulting the commercial interests of the country through their various channels; and would, therefore, move that the council of this Board of Trade take such action in the matter as they may deem best to obtain, if possible, the remanding of the order-in-council until such time as all interested are consulted and their views ascertained."" The flour section passed the following resolutions: Resolved, ""That whereas an order-in-council has been passed amending the standard of Manitoba wheat, and which is fraught with most pressing import to all millers and flour dealers, any change at this time when the grades are fixed, approved and known, is undesirable and likely to obstruct business and also involve in litigation all contracts of sale fixed and still executed. Resolved that this section deprecates the fact that any change in existing standards of grain is not possible, not coming through the regular constituted board of grain examiners, who should be, in our opinion, the only authority possible."" The council of the Board of Trade will meet tomorrow, and it is probable a deputation will be appointed to wait upon the government at Ottawa. A ZERO WAVE Very Cold Weather to Follow the Big Snowstorm How the Trains Were Delayed Toronto, Ont., December 29, 1 a.m. The depression nearing the Lakes yesterday has developed throughout into a severe storm, and is causing a gale throughout the Lake and eastern district. The weather is clearing in Ontario and becoming decidedly colder. It is snowing heavily in Quebec and the Maritime provinces with moderately cold weather. Storm signals will be continued in the Maritime district. St. Lawrence, gales from the west and northwest; clearing weather, becoming decidedly colder, temperature falling to below zero by night.
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the provincial educational network's director of marketing Desroches states that Radio-Quebec's advertising"
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Super-size 45cm stainless roaster rack, Fits up to 25lb turkey, $249.99, $124.99 60 OFF! Big 32cm non-stick stainless steel wok with durable non-stick interior coating, $210.00, $87.75 OFF! 2L saucepan w/cover, the perfect all-rounder for any kitchen, $120.00, $29.99 65 OFF! 28cm stainless steel Everyday pan with tempered glass lid and durable non-stick surface, $130.00, $49. Great value! Non-stick cookie pan, round pan or bake pan, Lists to $18.99, from $4.50 OFF! Stainless mixing bowl set with non-slip base in three colours, $59.99, 43 OFF! 6pc Jumbo steak knife set, Dishwasher safe, $34.99, $29.
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CLUBS Club Balattou, 4372 St. Laurent Blvd. Les Segum, 499-9239. MONTREAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1991 The floor will take rests unless housing found: ten GEOFF BAKER THE GAZETTE d'Action Populaire accused Mayor Jean Dor锟斤拷 and the Montreal Citizens' Movement of failing to adequately defend the housing interests of the city's poor before the federal and provincial governments. "We are very worried because we see poverty becoming greater," Gaudreau told the crowd of onlookers gathered at McGill University. "We need municipal, provincial and federal governments that defend social rights." Gaudreau did compliment the MCM for policies which defend the concept of public housing and call for the city to purchase units of private housing. But he said it still has a long way to go. "If the Dor锟斤拷 administration was serious about its policies, they would do more," he continued. "They would do more when the (Claude) Ryan bill goes into effect and provides less money to municipalities." John Gardiner, vice-chairman of the city's executive committee, defended his party's track record on housing.
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We should be sorry to think, nevertheless, that no advance has been made towards the formation of a rational and reliable system of seasonal forecast. The success which has attended research into the influence of sunspots, when at their maximum and minimum, gives reason to hope that continued investigation will reveal causes of weather phenomena as to which we are now in the dark. Prof. Maury says, ""the prime object was to gain a daily prospectus of the atmosphere over the country as it actually was, and as it would be seen if a photographic view of it, so to speak, could be taken."" And, as he adds, ""the simultaneous method, when announced, seemed so natural and simple that we might have wondered that any other was ever attempted."" The old so-called synchronous method had regard only to local time, and thus much of the value of the observations was lost. By the simultaneous plan, all the observers read their instruments at the same actual moment. In September, 1873, an International Meteorological Congress met at Vienna to institute researches and arrive at some scheme of common action.
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Louis Pcloudy 36 24 San Francisco Cloudy 20 12 Washington Sunny 36 25 after Friday's crash which resulted in Vermes in a 2-0 upset of Mexico that put the U.C. and Toronto, has four Grey Cup rings and three times was named the league's outstanding defensive player, was five times an all-Canadian all-star, led all defenders in sacks four times and is second on the all-time list of sack leaders with 139.5. His 26.5 sacks in 1984 is a CFL single-season record. Americans Kris Feddersen won the men's championship and Kristie Porter won the women's title in a freestyle aerial ski competition at Regional synopses. Abitibi-Lac St. Jean High 28, Low near 16, Variable cloud, Chance of a shower or thundershower. Laurentians High 26, Low 14 to 16, Cloudy with sunny periods. Eastern Ontario High 30, Low near 18, Variable cloudiness. Southern Ontario High 33, Low near 24, Sunny and hot.
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A GREAT STORM: Much Damage Done on the East Coast of Scotland, London, October 18. The sea fronts of the east coast towns have suffered severely. At Leith, the port of Edinburgh, the breakwater, the parade, and half the principal pier have been washed away. The Sunderland lighthouse, at the mouth of the river Wear, has been destroyed. At West Wemyss, on the Firth of Forth, north of Edinburgh, seven foreign colliers broke their moorings and all were wrecked. The torrential rains are interfering greatly with traffic on all the northern railways. A Norwegian vessel was wrecked on Salts Rock, near Leith, and thirteen were drowned.
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There are already reports of deaths from starvation and malnutrition-related diseases in a region that has been largely able to feed itself until now. It is estimated that Africa south of the equator will have to import between 12 million and 15 million tons of food in the next 12 months. While the food can be obtained, there is serious doubt the region's transportation system can handle its distribution. And distributing the food will require a high degree of cooperation among countries more used to rivalries and jealousies. There are indications that there may be long-term consequences for the region's agriculture. Beef and dairy herds are dying or being slaughtered in large numbers because of lack of water and feed, and it will take many years to rebuild them. The drought follows a decade of poor rains and meteorologists speculate it may herald a semi-permanent climatic change. In Zambia and Zimbabwe, the drought will undoubtedly affect the government's plans to move away from quasi-socialist economies to free-market systems. Diplomats say they do not believe Zimbabwe's World Bank-sponsored economic adjustment program will survive the drought.
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The chemical 2-4 toluene diamine can be detected when the foam coating of the silicone-gel implant decomposes. The chemical causes liver cancer in rats and mice and is suspected of causing cancer in humans. "It is obvious to us that there should be a moratorium on further implantation of the Meme," said Robert Guidoin, head of the university's laboratory of experimental surgery. "Our studies show the foam degrades very easily and rapidly and the formation of (the chemical) is obvious," said Guidoin, head of the seven-member scientific team. Germany approves economic union REUTER PLEASE SEE IMPLANT, PAGE A2 BONN The West German parliament approved a treaty yesterday to merge its economy with East Germany's on July 1. Earlier East Germany also ratified the treaty which will bring the powerful West German mark and restore capitalism in the East in the first major step to full unification. In Bonn's Bundestag (lower house) 445 deputies backed the treaty, with 60 votes against. One abstained. The East German parliament also voted to recognize Poland's borders as final.
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WE BUY DIAMONDS & FINE WATCHES for HIGH immediate CASH Old, new, gold and diamond jewellery, etc. Estate and Antique Jewellery Dental Gold Coins Pearls Bars DON'T SELL BEFORE YOU SEE US! LOANS ON JEWELLERY ALL CHARGES INCLUDED UNIQUE JEWELLERS 486 St. Catherine W, Suite 301 861-2381 Senate committee this week that any armed UN intervention would be all too likely to escalate and lead to a military quagmire. His expert opinion cannot be lightly dismissed. As important as those questions are, though, there is another that is at least as vital: what is the world prepared to do to ensure that Serbia's aggression against Bosnia does not pay off? Delivering humanitarian aid, helping refugees, investigating reports of concentration camps and condemning the atrocities of all sides are vital tasks. But to focus on them almost exclusively is to treat the symptoms without treating the disease. Serbian forces control about two-thirds of Bosnia and Croatian forces control much of the rest. Only a few enclaves are left under Bosnian control.
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All Mia's children Mia Farrow has 11 children, 7 adopted and 4 biological. Her relationship with Woody Allen ended earlier this year when she learned of his love affair with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi. Farrow family tree Marries Frank Sinatra Marries Andre Previn Begins relationship with Woody Allen No children Matthew Sascha Fletcher Lark Daisy Dylan Satchel Moses 12-year-old girl 8-week-old boy (Biological) (Biological) (Biological) (Adopted) (Adopted) (Adopted) (Adopted) (Biological) (Adopted) (Mia has legal custody) SOURCE: Newsweek Kicking custody NEWSWEEK Knight Ridder Tribune NEW YORK Amid a bombardment of tabloid missiles and an outpouring of accusations and counteraccusations, filmmaker Woody Allen met with Newsweek senior editor Jack Kroll for 3? hours in his spacious Fifth Ave. penthouse apartment.
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The gusts of wind and blinding particles of snow frightened men as well as women from attempting to cross Dearborn street at Van Buren. The effect of others kept them within sheltering doorways. Civilians and policemen became a volunteer brigade, and on the principle that in union there is strength, they locked arms with the belated police workers and crossed in safety. At the stockyards there was a practical suspension of business all the morning. No buyers were to be seen. Stock trains were late, and when they did arrive were covered with snow. In the suburbs the storm was felt with rather more severity than in the heart of the city. One of the big front windows of the Leland hotel was blown in early this morning at the very beginning of the storm. The glass was blown clear across one of the parlors by the force of the wind, but the window was boarded up before any serious damage was done by the snow. The drifted snow and the high wind played havoc with the mail. Nearly all the mail trains were late, and from some of them no tidings were received until late in the day.
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despite sunny skies - even lower than forecast on the weather map issued earlier in the day (see Page F6) And with winds of 25-30 kilometres per hour from the west, the temperature will feel more like minus-30 across most of the region "It's going to be a full seven degrees colder than the seasonal average, and that's a lot," Denis Larochelle, a Weather Network meteorologist, said last night "When you factor in the wind, it's going to be a real problem for those in unheated houses; plumbing will freeze" The winds should let up by nightfall, but the cold temperatures will continue overnight, with a predicted low of minus-18 in the city and minus-20 to minus-22 in the Monteregie A slow-moving high-pressure system from the Prairies will continue to bathe the region in cold, dry air until at least the weekend "Systems like this have a tendency to stick around for a while, especially in winter," Larochelle said The outlook for tomorrow is more sun and cool temperatures - a daytime high of minus-10 and a nighttime low of minus-15 Friday should be partially cloudy and slightly warmer, with a high near minus-8,
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Some might say that, at last, thanks to Joe Clark, Bob Rae and Ovide Mercredi, this Canada Round is beginning to take on the character of its name. At last, it is not just another re-enactment of the Plains of Abraham, with only two players in the drama: the English and the French. (In fact, the French are absent without leave.) Joe Clark just may have made his smartest move yet. With the premier of Quebec still sulking over Meech Lake, the rest of the country has a wonderful opportunity to address constitutional questions at least as deserving as the Quebec question. A 12 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1992 Famine and food riots begin as drought settles in southern Africa JONATHAN MANTHORPE SOUTHAM NEWS HARARE, Zimbabwe As the worst drought in more than 100 years settles its grip on the 85 million people of southern Africa, the first signs of serious famine and social breakdown are beginning to show. There are already reports of deaths from starvation and malnutrition-related diseases in a region that has been largely able to feed itself until now.
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Paez took six of the last seven rounds on the cards of two ringside judges to beat Espinoza. They fought to a draw last May during their first meeting for the IBF crown. IN TOLEDO, Ohio, Toronto's Todd Binns advanced to the semifinals of the $25,000 North American Pro Squash Open with a 15-14, 18-15, 15-9 victory over Mexico's Rodolfo Rodriguez.
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QUEBEC NATION A9 L! THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006 Rail, winds storm into town TREES TOPPLED Two deaths blamed on slick roadway JAN RAVENSBERGEN THE GAZETTE Toppled trees, crushed cars, streets clogged with debris-these were scenes across Montreal Island yesterday that rekindled memories of the January 1998 ice storm. But the damage inflicted by Friday evening's freezing rain, and the violent winds that followed, was on a much less disastrous scale. The stormy weather was a factor in an accident about 40 kilometres east of Montreal that killed two people, police said. A driver and a passenger were killed late Friday in a head-on collision involving their vehicle and a large truck on a two-lane road in the town of St. Jean Baptiste, near Mont St. Hilaire. The road was slippery, police said. The freezing rain, working in tandem with heavy gusts of wind that swept through southern Quebec yesterday morning, created havoc on and off Montreal Island.
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London, January 24 seven bodies have been washed ashore at Hythe. Paris, January 27 A destructive storm raged here last night. A temporary panic was caused among the audience at the Port St. Martin Theatre by the sudden quenching of the gas light. Cries were raised of ""Turn off the gas."" The slamming of doors by the wind and the roar of the tempest drowned the voices of the actors. Mme Bernhardt's foot was wounded by the fragments from a broken window.
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