ORE ser TEES eae ana * Mountain Elementary feels her child is the victin harassment ‘by other children in and out cower 4, PARLIAMENT SUL HINGS, ViIcTORTA, 8.¢C.; a | Vav-1X4. : - The problem with m y daughter and her frl nd ta they're the only ones denough to want to dc ie - work and behave themselves.” . ' Lo ‘For most parents, -having.a child who “waits ‘to behave and learn in school would be anything tia problem, bit one parent whose child attends.Cppper classroom. “Many parents must have: the same prot emi,” continued the child's mother, “and I’ll bet therejare a- ’ fot of them in. abject frustration about what to do: to a= kids,” LEGTS!. ATIVE 1. reiry, lal. xpress ‘concern about harassment ‘children being har. ot area , an ert en aap te f } COUP. MTS ‘T0GO Fol Another mother: expressed similar concerns about her child. ‘We want to get behind the principal,” she said, “but the parents who are concerned go to the schoo and the Test ther aren't aware or jst don't care,’ When asked tor ond to parental reports of by other children, Jack Cook, chairman of the achool board, -respontied, “this went on ‘when I went to school.” |. : . “T haven't heard anything andI usually piek up on things pretty fast," added.Cook, when asked if there ‘dat been any unusual discipline: problems in the strict. Bruce Phillips, principal of Copper Mountain, did not want to go into details when asked about the parents’concerns. ~ P hit ie you I’m not trying to hide anything, " said 6. “without becoming apecific, we've had an elementary special counsellor, child care workers and other personnel from human resources, and public health nurses in. Sometimes we've made progress following these avenues, sometimes we. haven't.” Phillips continued. Frank Hamilton, superintendent of the school district, said he had no reports of problems from parents who had children attendling Copper Mountain or any other school in the dis trict. - “Iwish we bad a way to con tact more parents, and see a few more come to school. board meetings,’ one woman told the Herald. Jack Cook said there was no {mention on the agenda of tonight’s school board meeting about some con; cerned parents attending, as ha A been reported to the Herald, but parental action wot id seem to be the o way to clarify whether therds is a problem wi harassment from other student j facing children in the local schools. + »BB55 TAXI (4978 LTD.) | od. 24 HOUR SERVICE 635-5555, 635-2525 | 635-5050 teas ’s peopl | were delighted| a a a wet peers to onservative,::..candida ‘oot Nitehael Wileon: ie mood was - "TERRACE-KITTMAT ‘mu 3 3 No. 100 | \ ; . y herald 20¢° ‘ Wednesday, May. 23, 1979 ) [Rupert Stool k Salvage Lid. rr COPPER | wo! ALL METALS we buy : og PATTEM, MON-SAT. “OPEN tt 6 pa, es | Location Seal Cov Phone e450, LIGHT DELIVERY SERVICE! j SPRUCE GROVE; Alta. Earlier Tuesday, Clark (CP) — Progressive Con- and his advisers expressed servative campaign confidence ‘ but strategists expressed delight displayed tension. | : as the first election resulis “We're going'to w! poured in Tuesday night Bi Nevill, Clask's ; _ Eastern Canada in- dicating a handful of Liberal ‘ministers from, ‘Ontarlo were this community. ch the * lowing. outskirts of - Edmonton, “We can go home now," a Clark's wife, Nijuredn senior’ aide to Joe Clark said + McTeer, was seen nervous! after reporters told. him pacing a ‘hotel corrider, Energy.-Minieter ‘Alastair - * said * gald. rr, rea aetint carole pendently ghd Sas i ¥v ‘as the western edge of bes, However, as roportera the first election julla.to Clark's entourage, enerally . Sombre because of the dif- fleulty to predict a’ clear Yellowhead, and winner before Western Canadian resulta arrived, Cont 2 Trudeau now in oppositio hlef of a = hortly before = to . “rll be. gad when it's kilometre tong riding of & lowly: 7 ores eee ee ef R UDEAU CONCEDES HISLOSS eir chance Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives beat Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals in a federal election Teesday but fall narrowly short of a clear 142-seat majority in the House of Commons, - The result left open possibility that Clark 1 nig govern against a splintered opposition that made. both the New Democratic’ Party and the tiny Social. Credit rump potentiai brokers ina minority Parila- , ment. Clark’s slim win increases - odds of another election well before the. end of the customary four-year ticularly if he sticks to a pledge to follow through with romiged 2o a and of ‘the. country by voting overwhelmingly "Liberal, pleasing supporters of the separatist Parti’ Quebecois government. “Of course we find it to our advantage,” said Pierre de Bellefeulle, a member of Quebec Premier Rene Levesque’s provincial government. Trudeau's loss would improve Partl Quebecois chances of winning support in a provincial referendum expected within the year, he said, A full half-hour after the power- _ parliamentary term, par-'° Fulton winner ~ herein Skeena by Brian: Giregg _ It was Clearly a two-way race between Tonya’ Cam- pagnolo the Liberal incumbent; who concedizd with 10,343 votes and Jim Fulton, the New Democratic Party candidate who won_ the : federal eleel on. in Skeena Tuesday with 10,025 votes. . — By 8:30 p.m. it was appareit theyt Skeena was: ‘going to be represented by an’ opposition member of parliament but the close race kept the natlonal-zures shifting one seat back and forth between the ‘Libstals and the NDP until late into the eviening. Rod Cousins, the Progressive (Conservative (cane eye who, conceded - om ie |e, 453 voles mpagnolo by votes, a - iy 3A votes while hip edd fer, Joe ie me cepted the detent’ ef Pierre Elliot ' eet ae as he: prime minister of Canada. M Nick Gurvich, the returning offie! er from Prinice Rupert said he knew it was a close raci? all evening bi ut he had no idea which way it was going \to go. Fulton’s slight.edge over. Campaginola by a abt ference of one vote during the first eeturns, quickh y changed to Campagnolo having the edge of 196 votes., then by 308 votes over Fulton before thle trend shifted’ to Fulton over Campagnolo by 184 votes! and finally. by 582 votes. : “There are eight polls left to count biit that's. iEfor tonight,” said Gurvich. ''The other polls are small and . will have to use radio telephone to report." : The final poll on Tuesday showed Fulto.n with 10,928; Campagnolo with 10,343; Cousins with 41,453 and the Independent candidates Tony Organ with aS and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau conceded defeat to Joe Clark. on Tuesday following a general election that left the 39-year-old Progressive Conservative ‘leader without a clear taajority of Parliament's 252 seats, “We've lost the campaign but we'll continue to fight,"’ said Trudeau as he acknowledged tha end of his 11-year regime and 16 yeara of Liberal government. . “] think it is my duty to’ recommend my -eolleagues that we © hand the ‘government over and that I recommend to the Governor. General that he ask Mr. He Clark to form a meat,” Trudeau said. to shouts of protest supporters at headquarters In Ottawa. “This country will in the future as it in the past ... smiling,” ’ Trades his supporters, some weeping, contemplated the ead vealed era | md e another under the country’s 1éth and youngest prime miniater, » Trudeay made no direct mention of the division of the country politically, Con- servatives won. in every reglon ‘but heavily-Libeval Quebec as that province prepares to vote on propos- als lo separate from Canada. a keen id as Broadbent has the big stick OSHAWA, Ont. (CP) — Broadbent, New Democratic Party leader, was secluded in a downtown hotel room with only hia cloeest staff and wife, Locille, Tresday evening to wai era election results on television. Parliament's potential or, in the event that . malther the Liberal nor the Conservative parties won a clear majority of the 292 Commons seats, Broadhent planned no public statements about national results until after British Columbia votes were in. However, he promised to make a statement of thanks to the constituents he has resented here since 1968 when re*ulta from the Oshawa wiriding were available mid-evening. He refused throughout the eight week ‘campaign and on election day to state hof the larger parties he} would back or what stralegy would ie etal se iz ce of power in a Parliament i th a minority government. The NDP held 17 of seats when Parliament; was dissolved for the vote. Broadbent spent day personally driving voters to polling “itatlone isiting residents of & sentor citizens’ home, dining with wife and mother, Mary, yan meeting national ca staff, who were subuded by the suspense, One aide wan literally sick wit citement. The 43-year-old ormer Cont'd 2 | his ‘Liberal. ‘them - JOE WHO IS MR. PRIME MINISTER NOW Jast polls In the country had closed, Trudeau and Clark both held back from com- ment or predictions about the country’s political future. Former NDP leader David Lewis, who formed a coalition that kept Trudeau in power between 1972 and 1974, said he doubted Clark “is golng to want to depend on any other party” in a minority Parliament. Roy said through a spokes- man that he and hia five Social Credit MPs would operate “day ta day,’’ fighting measures they felt conflicted with the best in- terests of Quebecers. _ The election was a ciif- fhanger from the day it was called to the counting of the last ballots on the Weat Coast, thefi Before nal few polling stations closed in northern Cont'd 2 Franz Colet with 95. 4 CAMPAGNOLO CONCEDES DEATH WAS POS TPONED Condemned pair win reprieves STARKE, Fla. (AP) & The scheduled executions today of condemned murderers John Spenkelink and Willie Jasper Darden were post- poned Tueaday when U.S. federal judges granted both men a stay of execution, Spenkellnk was the second n ” of the two men to be tem- porarily spared execution In the electric chair, and his reprieve came legs than seven hours before his 7 a.m. date with death, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall postponed Spenkelink's execution in a rullng ipgsed in Washington, Spenkelink’s appeal had been rejected earlier by two Supreme Court justices before it was granted by Marshall. Darden had been scheduled ta die in the electric chair today, a short time after the scheduled execution of John Spenkelink. Spenkelink Is pursuing a number of ap- peals, but four of them have already been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. district Judge William T. Hodges, in Darden’s exec, sald after a tily arranged two-hour hearing that because it was the first time Darden’s case has reached U.S. federal ‘eourts In a habeas corpus proceeding, a stay would be necessary to preserve the court’s jurisdiction to con- sider the claim. Earlier, about 400 prisoners at the North Florida ison in Starke, one-third of the prison population, refused thelr reakfast to protest the planned executions. Spenkelink, 30, was to be allowed one last embrace wiLh his 67-year-old widowed mether, Lois. Officials said the mother and son would be separated by a glass par- tition during her first visit Tuesday, but later Tuesday night she was allowed a “contact” visit, Darden, 45, looked forward to a last visit from hia girl- friend, Mary Nolan, who was reported driving to the prison from her apartment in Jacksonville. Spenkelink is scheduled to die in the electric chair at 7 a.m, EDT today and Darden at 4 a.m, Convicted for separate murders con- mitted in 1979, thelr death warrants were singed Friday by Gov. Bob Gra- m. Spenkelink’s lawyer also t a delay, but an Ap- pen Court in New Orleans turned him down, 2-lo-i, in a terse iwosenlence order. Spenkellnk's lawyera were also in Washington at- tempting to get a U.S, Supreme Court justice to grant a stay of execution. Both men were to be allowed to see friends and relatives until just hours before their executions. Today's executions will be the first in the United States . since 1977 and the first of an unwilling prisoner since 1967. Florida's last previous execution was in 1964. Death penalty opponents began oeriving Tuesday. morning to protest the executlon. They: were directed to a field acroas a highway several hundred metres from the prison. Spenkelink was convicted of the Feb. 4, 1973, shooting of a travelling companion, Ohio parole violator Joseph Syzmankiewicz, who was killed ina Tallahassee motel “Darden was convicted hy a Citrus County jury. of . the. Se 1973, shooting. of” eterna, Fia. »» furniture store owner James Turman.