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‘PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, November 9, 1977

Salmon feeding

srounds wiped out

VANCOUVER
Federal

(CP) —
fishery —en-

‘ forcement agents Monday

called for an investigation
into the dredging of the

: Fraser River after viewing

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the river,

More than six acres of
intertidal marshland were
effected by dredging
processes carried out by a
Richmond, B.C., firm under
a federal government
contract.

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.Contract was awarded to

Rivcon Industries Ltd. of

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- excavation of 700,000 cubic

_yards of sand on the north

.arm jetty which runs nor-
: theast of Iona Island.

" Lyle Freeman, fisheries
: district supervisor, said a
: valuable habitat for salmon

; had been lost.

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Fisheries agents were
called in to inspect the area
- by Will Pollock, director of

: the Lower Mainland Branch

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"Of the British Columbia

: wildlife Federation.

A spokesman for Environ-

=ment Canada, which sanc-
. ‘tioned the work, said it, too,
-would launch an in-

vestigation
dr

into the

:, The purpose of the project
“was to provide a log storage
‘area for the North Arm
: Fraser Commission.

* Pollock said he would
surge Environment Minister
‘ken Marchand to call a

public inquiry into the
situation.

Forbes Boyd, acting
director of the B.C, habitat
protection division, saic
approval was based on a
complicated formula which

wnivitonmenkh a
values against commerical
values. .
Jim Nielsen, provincial
environment minister, said
he would monitor federal
investigations.

‘second

The Terrace Chamber of
Commerce elected a new
board of directors at a
regular luncheon meeting
Tuesday.

Mike Tindall was asked to
stand a second term as
president. Al Romano was
voted first vice-president
and Ear] Hansford took the
vice-presiden:
position. The new treasurer
will be Norm Butterfield.

Jim McEwan, Will
Schneider, Derek Francis,
Dave Sparrow, Fred
Waldie, Jim MacKay, Shiela
Jackson, Doug Bell, Wayne
Gauntand RichGreenarethe
directors for 1978.

The new board goes into
effect Dec. 1 although the

formal installation dinner is
not unti] January. For the
time being, they have been
invited to participate in the
informal 4&breakfast
meetings held each Wed-
nesday.

After the election, Bill
McRae told the chamber of
his activities as a member

Chamber of Commerce
elects new officers

of the board of directors of
the B.C. Development
Corporation. .He has
travelled across the]
province in this capacity.

“BCDC is trying to help
small business more than
big ones,” he said. “‘One o
the most difficult things to
realize is that once someone
starts a small business and
gets in trouble, he stays in
trouble.”

“DREE won't help him
once he’s started his
business and most often we
won't either. Before starting
on a venture, make sure
your plans are crystal clear
and approach DREE or
BCDC” he said. :

MeRae thinks the Kitimat
pipeline will go through.
“Something is cooking” he
said. “A few years ago, CPR
cut off ferry service ‘to
Kitimat and Northland took]
over. Now CPR has bought|-
out Northalnd, and is ser-|
ving the area again. i
suspect they know something
that I don't.” . .

~ New lead in bizarre murder ~

: MONTREAL (CP) —
‘Shortly after her disap-
:pearance on Aug. 3, 1961,
‘Denise Therrien was de-
‘seribed as “the prettiest,
:most intelligent girl” in
‘Shawinigan. |

’ The vivacious 16-year-old
‘had left her home in
‘Shawinigansud, 140
‘kilometres northeast ol
-here, to meet a man who had
‘ealled the loca). unem-
-ployment insurance com-
“mission for a babysitter. It
-was the last heard of her.

_ Some 45 months later an
unemployed gravedigger,
‘Marcel Bernier, led police to
‘a desolate hillside near
‘Shawinigan, where Denise's
skeleton, the skull frac-
‘tured, was uncovered.

_ Bernier served more than
10 years of two life terms for
the slaying of Denise and
‘another woman, 39-year-old
‘Laurette Beaudoin, who was
found buried in the
Shawinigan graveyare
where Bernier worked.

_ Jacques Lavoie, Liberal
MP for Nontreal’s east-end
Hochelaga. riding, says the
bespectacled gravedigger,
who died of a heart attack
last May in British
Columbia's Mountair
Prison, did not kill Denise

‘Therrien, and only mur-

dered Miss Beaudoin
because she involved him in

’ the young girl’s murder.

’ The new information,
Lavoie said Monday, is
revealed by the only man
who knew the whole bizarre
story—Bernier himself—in
a new French-language
book called “Le
Fossoyeur—Les Confessions

November 30th, 1977.

hours.

cepted.

DISTRICT OF TERRACE
NOTICE
GALL FOR TENDERS
“ANIMAL CONTROL”

Sealed bids relating to the above contract will be
accepted at the Municipal Offices until 4:30 p.m.

advised to view the proposed contract (s) and-or
obtain further information at the Municipal
Office, 5-3215 Eby Street, during normal business

Tenders must be submitied in sealed envelopes -
addressed to the Clerk-Administrator and
clearly marked “Tender to Animal Control’’.
- The lowest or any terder not necessarily ac-

de Marcel Bernier (The
Gravedigger—Confessions
of Marcel Bernier).

Lavoie says he will place
formal requests for a re-
opening of the case this
week on the desks of federal
Justice Minister Ron
Basford and Quebec Justice
Minister Marc-Andr
Bedard.

PLOTTED KIDNAPPING

In the ‘‘confessions,”
written during his stay in
prison and collected by
Lavoie, Bernier says Miss
Beaudoin, with whom he
had fallen in love, plotted
the Therrien kidnapping
with her boyfriend, a man
whose name Bernier kept
secret unto death for fear,
he says, that his own
children’s lives would be in
danger.

Denise, says Bernier, was
kept drugged in a house in
nearby Grand-Mere. He
says Miss Beaudoin told him
that one day when the girl
was descending to the kit-
chen for a meal she slipped
on the stairs, fell and
fractured her skull,

Out of love for Miss Beau-
doin, Bernier says, he
agreed to dispose of the
girl’s body, but resolved the
same day to repay she and
her boyfriend for involving
him in the “disgusting”
death of the young girl.

Lavoie said he first met
Bernier last February when
he was a member of a
federal justice department
committee investigating
prison conditions. During
this and subsequent
meetings, Lavoie says, he
became convinced of

Interested parties are

Bernier'’s innocence in the
Therrien murder.

Bernier’s lawyer, Guy
Germain, says he was
unaware of Lavoie’s efforts
to reopen the case. ‘I also-

wonder whether Bernier .

was guilty. He always
maintained he was not, al-
though he pleaded guilty —
later to the murder of
Laurette Beaudoin.

Reporting to the General

In Loving Memory
of Mrs. Dollie Laval -

who passed away Saturday, October 29, 1977. She Is survived
by her loving husband George and two daughters, Sherry and
Cindy, her mother and father. Mr. and Mrs, R. Haller of
Kelowna and one sister Mrs. Valerie Wowkol Kelowna.

.. Mrs, Laval was a well respected member of our com-
munity and business manager of the Medical Clinic from 1947
to July af 1977 when her Hiness forcedhertoreiire. - :

-- Flowers gratefully deciined. A memorial fund for the
purpose of beautifying one of Terraces parks will be
established in memory of Mrs, Laval.. Donations may be
made at the Medical Clinic at 4623 Greig. : os

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HOUSTON, B.C.
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HOUSTON FOREST PRODUCTS LIMITED, a [oint
venture af Weldwood of Canada Lid. and Evrocan Pulp

& Paper Company Ltd., is anew Sawmill) Planermill |
complex scheduled for start-up in the summer of 1978."

"os i
Manager, the successful
candidate will have the unique opportunity of im- ..
plementing the total personnel function encompasaing |
some 200 employees. This will Involve the recruitment :
of ail personnel, supervisory devekpment,” coor: |
dinatlon of safety programs, salary, .wage, and
benefits administration;:plus contract megoflations,
administration, and Interpretation. -
these normal personnel responsibilities, special em-

phasis will be placed on developing extensive training .

programs for mill start-up. :

Centered inthe Bulkley Valley, west of Prince George: |
Housten (pop. 2,600) is a growing resource and
agriculturalty-based community offering modern
schools, shopping facilities, moderately priced
housing, and a pleasant, safe, family environment,

The Valley provides some of the best hunting and
freshwater fishing to be found in B.C. :

Quallfied applicants possessing a proven track record
of achievement in the field of forest industry personnel
and the confidence to undertake this demanding
challange should submit resumes with full details of
education, experlence, and present remunerations to:

Robert A. McMillin
Personnel Manager

WELDWOOD OF CANADA LIMITED

P.O. Bom 2179
. Vancouver, 8.C. VéB 3V8

VANCOUVER (cP) —
The current - Social . Credit

government is not sub-

jecting the British Columbia

Railway to political in-

terference, as was the case

‘under past administrations,

the - royal commission

inquiry into railway affairs

was told. Tuesday. ~. .
BCR vice-president Mac

"Norris said the original go-.

ahead to build the. con-
troversial Dease Lake
extension in 1969, by then
Social Credit premier and
BCR president W, A. C.
Bennett, was . strictly

political. And the decision to —

continue with the line, made
in 1975 by then NDP premier
and BCR president. Dave
Barrett, also was political.
But the move to suspend
construction in March this
year. stemmed - from the
railway itself and was in no
way a political interference
from: the’ present’ govern-
ment, Norris said. °.~_,
“The -board of directors
made the . recom-
mendation.” ‘ ue
--BCR president Jack
Fraine also made it clear
the Social: Credit govern-
ment had riothing to do with
the ‘decision to settle out of
court with MEL Paving, a
Dease contractor, for §2.5
million,:§ =
. The inquiry. was told that
until the Socreds came. to
power, BCR - chiefs were

early always summonsed

to Victoria: to discuss *.the

- Bease problem, even though

BCR's head office was in
Vancouver. .
CHANGES MADE .
Gordon Ritchie, BCR’s
administration ., manager,
said that now-meetings ‘are

- held in different venues, but

mainly at head office ‘in
‘Vancouver. .
- “And that makes a great

‘difference,” he. said. -

_ BCR's current board of
directors. contains’ only one
politician—Economic

Development Minister Don
Phillips—whereas ‘previous
provincial governments

tn addition to

_ Politics not part of
‘govt plan for BCR

ensured the railway's board
was heavily weighted with
cabinet ministers.

Norris, correcting earlier
testimony, said that
although the NDP goyern-
ment had been told of
massive cost over-runs on
the Dease line, BCR never

made a bid for the extension |
to’ be abandoned. He said a -

decision to continue Dease
work in February, 1975, was
‘made at a meeting at which
only one person had
-authority to act as a board
director—then premier
Dave Barrett.

Asked why he was not in
attendance, Norris said he
was on vacation in Hawaii at
-that — time.

The directors, however,
chose in June, 1975, to
complete the Dease line,
and nine days before the
Dec. 10, 1975, provincial
election, they ordered the
re-letting of contracts for
the last 49 miles.

The inquiry continues,

NORAD
test soon

VANCOUVER (CP} —
The North American Air
Defence Command
(NORAD) will conduct a

four-day test of. its aero-

space warning and defence
systems Nov, 14 to 17.

The exercise, called
Vigilant Overview, is
conducted four times a year
to let NORAD know how
‘well its personnel and
equipment can give warning
of an air, space or missile
attack.

About 12,000 NORAD
personnel will take part in
the exercise, including
Canadian Forces personnel
from 409 All.- Weather

Fighter Squadron based at
the Canadian: Forces Base
at Comox, B.C.

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MINISTRY OF HIGHWAYS & PUBLIC WORKS —
HIGHWAYS DIVISION -

TENDER FOR QUOTES ON KEY
PUNCHING OF COMPUTER CARDS

AT TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA

MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT AND
EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

COMPUTER CARD KEY PUNCHING SPECIFICATIONS

1. —- The company providing the key punching service is alsa to supply the computer
cards. No particular colour of card is required excep! that each batch control card
must be of a contrasting colour. ; .

2. As there is only one copy of the source documents available, insurance must be

> carried on the data for the time it is in the care of the key punching service company.
Each source document is to be valued af $1.00 each for Insurance purposes.

3. it is intended that the documents will be sent or dallvered to the key punching conv-
pany on a weekly basis, at feast, throughout the month. :

4. All cards for any one month must be key punched within 3 working days after the
delivery of the final source documents for that month.

3. All key punched cards are to be verified. —

é& There are 7 types of forms te be key punched. Estimated volumes average ap-
proximately 10,000 computer cards per month. The key punching will illl an average
of 50 percent of each card.

7. Detalled key punch instructions will be issued regarding card types, batch numbers
and transaction codes.

8. Would you please submit an hourly price for key punching, including the cost of
computer cards. Secondly, an hourly price for key punching, without the cost of
computer cards inciuded; but their cost shown separately. This is to be submitted by
December 15th for award on Januery 3rd, 1978,

.. Additional information and samples of the forms may be obtained from the Regional
Maintenance Management Technician, Room 328 - 1498 - 4th Avenue, Prince Gearge, British
Columbia. Telephone 562-8131, Local 223.

W.J. SUNDERWOOD
REGIONAL MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT TECHNICIAN

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NOVEMBER 11, 1977, THE FOLLOWING GHANGE IN
REFUSE PICKUP IS INTRODUCED:

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TO VEHICLES OF LESS THAN ONE TON,
DISTRICT OF. TERRAC

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