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"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured." Building Success at Sn ChabanelW. OFFICE. RETAIL INDUSTRIAL SPACE. ACROSS CANADA. fc4ft44'i it-Mr' f.aAjJ." MONTREAL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989 FINAL, For Laailng Inlormillon ay off Simpson to shut! W03 0 By JAY BRYAN and PEGGY CURRAN of The Gazette The Simpson store on St.

Catherine a downtown landmark since 1905, will close its doors Jan. 28, the store's owner, Toronto-based Hudson's Rav Cn annniinrpri last Hudson's Bay Co. also operates a third chain, Zellers discount stores, which are not affected. The board of directors of Hudson's Bay authorized the Simpson closings Sept. 1, but the final decision was made yesterday by the board's management committee, Huband said.

Outside hiring has been frozen at the 11 Montreal-area Bay stores as of last night, and displaced Simpson workers will have priority for any jobs that come open. Huband estimated that this might mean new jobs for about 60 of the 300 full-time (See SIMPSON, Page A-2) History of Simpson. Page A-5 p.m. A half-hour later Cary Deacon, an executive vice-president of Hudson's Bay, announced the shutdown of the Simpson chain in Montreal. Huband said Hudson's Bay has been thinking since last summer of closing the Montreal Simpson stores, whose operations have lost about $24 million over the past five years.

"The straw that broke the camel's back is that we need to invest more money" in the stores to keep them competitive, he said. A prepared statement issued by Hudson's Bay president George Kosich said: ''Our studies show that we can serve the Montreal customer better and operate more profitably" by operating only through the Bay night. The closing will throw 900 employees out of work. Also closing will be the four Simpson stores in Montreal's suburbs, but three chain instead of maintaining both Bay and Simpson stores. "More importantly," Kosich said in his statement, "we have reached a crossroads where we have to invest approximately $25 million to update our (Montreal) Simpson stores with no guarantee of a return on that new investment." in rointe uaire, Laval and Anjou will immediately reopen under the Bay name.

Hudson's Bay Co. will try to sell a fourth, in St. Bruno, as a going concern. If it is un will be in question. Rolph Huband, a vice-president of Hudson's Bay said employees at the downtown store were asked to gather in the store's cafeteria after the store closed at 6 successful, the jobs of its 200 employees 5 killed, 30 hurt as gunman sprays schoolyard Rabin allows more troops to fire on Arab rioters Gazette News Services Gazette News Services STOCKTON, Calif.

A young drifter wearing combat fatigues methodically fired an automatic rifle at children in an elementary schoolyard yesterday, killing five children and wounding 29 others and a teacher before taking his own life. The dead children were all refugees from Southeast Asia. "He was just standing there with a gun, making wide sweeps," said Lori Mackey, a teacher at Cleveland Elementary School, which has a large proportion of Asian American children. "He wasn't talking. He was very straight-faced.

He was just standing there, not angry, not screaming, just kind of matter-of-fact." Armed with a fully automatic AK-47 assault rifle, two pistols and a fixed bayonet, wearing fatigues and a flak vest, the gunman entered the schoolyard and positioned himself behind a temporary classroom. From there, he directed gunfire on a playground crowded with hundreds of children. The attack lasted three or four minutes, and in that time at least 60 rounds were fired. Four girls and a boy, ranging in age from 6 to 9, were killed. Twenty children and one adult were being cared for late yesterday afternoon at hospitals throughout the region; many were undergoing surgery.

Nine pupils were treated for their wounds and released. Lucian Neely, deputy police chief of Stockton, 100 kilometres southeast of San Francisco, identified the gunman as Patrick Edward Purdy, 24, originally from Stockton. Purdy, also known as Patrick West, lived most recently in Lodi, about 25 km northeast of Stockton. Before that, he lived in Sandy, where he purchased an AK-47 from the Sandy Trading Post on 3., said Sandy police chief Fred Punzel. Neely said Purdy, who used the alias Patrick West, had an "extensive criminal history and said police had no idea of a motive.

Purdy's criminal record was JERUSALEM Israeli defence minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday announced tough new measures against Palestinians accused of throwing stones in the occupied territories. Rabin confirmed that he also had authorized more soldiers to fire controversial plastic and rubber bullets that have killed dozens of Palestinians, but would not say when the changes were adopted. The measures include sealing or destroying the homes of stone-throwers. Rabin's new guidelines probably account for the recent increase in Arab casualties. Three more Palestinians died yesterday of gunshot wounds suffered after they threw stones at soldiers, bringing the death toll over the last six days to 13.

Twenty-six Palestinians have been killed in the month ending Jan. 9, the highest one-month total in the 14-month-old uprising. In all, 362 Palestinians and 15 Israelis have been killed. Speaking to Radio Israel, Rabin said the new guidelines allowed officers and sergeants to fire the bullets at rioters "throwing rocks or running away after throwing the rocks." Previously, only officers could fire at riot leaders or at Arabs in the act of throwing stones. As the army handed down the new orders, Israeli reserve soldiers confronted Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir at an army camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus and said they were forced to beat innocent people and betray their country's values to maintain order.

"When I get up in the morning, I say to myself, 'Now I have to go out and catch a man, and I have to slap him or beat him (with) murderous blows to get him to fear said a soldier who identified himself as Yo-tam from Tiberius. Shamir said the Palestinians are intent on destroying Israel and that the soldiers must defend their homeland. "They force us to bear arms, but we must do that to survive." N.Y. Times, Knight Ridder, AP Wounded children are attended to after gunman opened fire with a machine-gun in a crowded schoolyard. it hurts when you get a bullet in you.

My friend Benjamin said, 'Ouch, and started screaming. They were dripping blood." In the minutes between when the gunman ended his spree and the emergency equipment arrived, a strange calm befell the "The officers had their guns out and were going from body to body in the schoolyard," the witness said. "There were kids laying all over. Some were moving, some were not. No one made a sound, except the balls rolling around the play yard." Los Angeles Times, AP mostly in the Los Angeles area and included narcotics and weapons violations and soliciting for sex, Neely said.

Punzel said Purdy lived with an aunt and uncle in Sandy for several months until October and the aunt "told me he was a loner and as a child he was an alcoholic." Deputy police chief Ralph Trib-ble said the gunman set his car on fire as a diversion before entering the schoolyard at about 11:40 a.m. local time. Benito Victory, saw two playmates felled. "Two people got shot in the leg," he said, and I felt sad because Irate worker wears A for anglo on his hat Variable High -10. Low -12.

Sunny in the morning with' in- creasing cloudiness later in the day, Winds will be moderate in the afternoon. PageC-14 QFL members who are anglo-phones and allophones by attending a rally last month in defence of Bill 101. At a rally in the Paul Sauve arena, an angry Laberge hinted that he might organize a general strike to protest bilingual signs inside stores. The Liberal government's new sign law requires French-only signs outdoors, but allows bilingual signs indoors. Underwood said he wrote a letter to Laberge last month criticizing him for his nationalist outbursts.

The response in English from Laberge was "an insult to all anglophones in Quebec," Underwood said. "You have the guts to compare the situation of the English-speaking Quebecers to the French-Cana able for comment. But an official in his office said the labor leader was "well acquainted" with Underwood and his views on many subjects. Underwood said he photocopied Laberge's letter and passed it around among English-speaking colleagues, who decided to protest. "I'm certainly not a product of any dominating elite," said Underwood, of Verdun.

"But because of Mr. Laberge's statements, anglophones are meant to feel like outcasts even though they pay their union dues like anyone else." About 25 to 30 per cent of the 1,000 workers at the CNR shops on Leber St. in Point St. Charles are anglophones and allophones, he said. By SUSAN SEMENAK of The Gazette John Underwood has taken to wearing a big black letter A for anglophone or les autres on his hard hat to protest Quebec's new sign law and his union leader's nationalist speeches.

The Canadian National Railways electrician said he and about two dozen colleagues at the CNR shops in Point SL Charles are protesting remarks made by Louis Laberge, president of the Quebec Federation of Labor, about the language debate. Underwood is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electricians, which is affiliated with the QFL. He said Laberge insulted the thousands of dians (in other provinces)?" Laberge wrote. "I must say that you are either blind, totally ignorant, or of bad faith. "I do understand your resentment and the resentment of some of the English-speaking Quebecers.

It has nothing to do with posting signs," Laberge continued. "You (even though a minority) have been so entrenched in ruling and governing us (even though a majority) that you cannot accept the fact that the majority has decided to rule and govern. "John, your days of minority domination are over and instead of talking about democracy, accept to live under democratic rules and then, everything will be fine," Laberge said. The QFL leader was not avail Mohawks bag big one army helicopter By PETER KUITENBROUWER of The Gazette Mohawk hunters in Kahnawake bagged the biggest game of the season in woods at a golf course yesterday a Canadian Forces helicopter. Capt.

Jean Egan, the pilot and only occupant of the two-seater CH 136 Kiowa aircraft, said heavy snow forced him to make an emergency landing at 11:30 a.m. while on a flight from St. Hubert to Ottawa. Members of the Mohawk Warrior Society sped to the scene on snowmobiles and escorted the pilot under guard to the Kahnawake Peacekeepers' office. "We just called up the air centre and checked out his ID," said Warrior official Earl Cross.

"Then we took him out to lunch. "We have no problem with the helicopter coming down. But we have jurisdiction and sovereignty over this land," Cross said. "I was out hunting for partridge and grouse when I heard it land," said Taheratie, one of the first Mohawks at the scene. The Warriors laughed at the horde of reporters at the scene and shouted to Cross: "Hey Earl, tell them how you single-handedly jumped off a cloud and caught it How you had it in a headlock!" Egan left the helicopter on the reserve overnight.

Hecklers give MNA rough ride on Bill 178 Births Deaths F-9 Boone C-12 Bridge F-13 Business D-1 Camiili C-9 Careers D-10 Classified E-1, F-1 Comics F-10 Crossword F-13 Editorials B-2 Entertainment C-11 Farber B-4 Fitness C-8 Hadekel D-1 Horoscope F-1 4 Landers C-10 Living C-1 Movies C-1 3 Outdoors B-8 F-13 Schnurmacher C-11 f- Scoreboard B-6 Sports B-4 TV Listings C-12 Wonderword F-8 is shocking if I were sitting there (in the audience), I would feel most likely like all of you. "I respect your feelings," Dubois assured the audience. A heckler interrupted him, shouting: "How about the Supreme Court? Do you respect that?" Bill 178 was adopted Dec. 21, (See HECKLERS, Page A-2) Dubois, who appeared agitated at times, said he understood the audience's anger and frustration with Bill 178, which bans all languages but French from most outdoor commercial signs. He acknowledged that it didn't fulfil the Liberals' 1985 election promise that Bill 101 would be changed to lift restrictions on the use of bilingual commercial signs.

"I think it is shocking, I know it side stores, relaxed some of the conditions of the French Language Charter (Bill 101) which imposed a general ban on bilingual signs. Dubois was one of several speakers at a "rights meeting" held in a seniors' residence in this town 50 kilometres southwest of Montreal. Some 350 people packed the meeting, organized by the Chateauguay Valley English-Speaking People's Association. By LYNN MOORE of The Gazette ORMSTOWN Hecklers gave Claude Dubois, Liberal MNA for Huntingdon, a hard time yesterday as he tried to defend his government's language legislation. "Don't be too generous," one member of the audience yelled as Dubois suggested that Bill 178, in allowing some bilingual signs in.