Legislative Library Parliment Bhilding Victoria, B. Vav-124 Cc. comp. Serving the Progressive - Northwest "‘Thesday, March 27, 1964: Mary Litde, right, a nine year member of the Millis Momortal Hospital - Board, wae presented with two silver goblets, Friday, on the occasion of her retirement from the board. During her term as trustee, she saw the construction of a $8 million, 25 ted psychiatric ward, Mary firet served — .on the board asa councllwoman, when she was the Terrace counell Anamary. representative Mary Hrstaerved on the board asa councllwoman, in 1972, » Affera two year term in office, she was appointed by the government te be their representative on that body, With Mary.is Dorothy Lewks, hospital board. tmuatec, and current ° slce;preaident of the ) Ladies ; ‘Established 1908 “Hennessy. sentenced for Terrace. murders. - PRINCE RLPeAD Bia! (CP) — A 26-year-old Sieamous, B.C., man pleaded guilty in. B.C... Suprenie Court Monday to bo counts of second-degree -. murder Monday and was sentenced to” life imprisonment. Justice J. C. Bouck was tad that in June, 1983, William Ray Hennessy hid in the attic of his estranged . girlfriend's home in Terrace for two and a half | days before using. a ‘pick to kill her and the man she was. with, Maria Deutch, 23, and Ear] Auatin Barber, 29, both: af Terrace, were struck pevera! times with the pick as they lay in bed. Hennessy will not be eligible for parole until he has served 10 years of his sentence, Court was told that | Hennessy met Deutch In November, 1982, The two lived together until April 1983, A few attempts by, Hennessy to.reconcile with Deutch failed. Ox June 9, Deutch called Terrace RCMP, complaining that - several articles of clothing in her house’ had been cat’ up. Crown counsel Mike Fulmer ve) incident waa’ Fepasted, Deutch. again. notified, authorities and changed | the locks ‘on her‘ doors,” , At the ‘mie of Deutch’s On June 12, Barber visited Deutch's heme “i getond repr sto-authorltien,~ ‘unéipectediy; Hehnessy. wie hidiig in ber _attie, Fulmer said, . te ‘told. There weie giieata in: ‘the house ‘and when: they - left, ‘the: -eouple: retired. ain Barber. me -Hennemy later took’a pick Watson Lake three days that was keptin the porch o after the murders, Duarte leads EI Salvador's. election . SAN SALVADOR ° (AP) — Christian Democrat Josa Napoleon Duarte took & commanding lead In El Salvador's presidential election as the vote count resumed Monday, but it appeared he will face a runoff'with right-wing | candidate Roberto d@’Aubulzson, There were’ scattered clashes between government ’ soldiers and left-wing rebels during Sunday's balloting, but no direct attacks on polling places. were reported, Tn. the biggest battle, 30 soldiers were killed near Tejutepeqis € 35 kilometres northeast of San-Salvador, Lt-Col, Carlos Alfredo Rivas, the army commander in: Cabanas’ province, said some of the soldiers were shot after they ‘wera taken prisoner, He said the bodies of six ‘guerrillas were found and quoted witnesses as reporting the rebels cartled away the ‘bodies of ‘about 3 of comrades, thelr No official returns were released, but those tabulated by the Chriatian Democrata showed Ducirte winning 47.9 per -- cent.of the vote with 3,327 of the country’s 6,598 precincts reporting’ in the eight-man race. They showed d'Aubulsaon of the Republican Nationalist Alliance getling 29.7 per cent and Francisco Jose Guerrero of the National Conciliation party receiving 18.4 per cent. If no candidate receiyes a majority, the two leaders will meet ina runoff election inabouta month: The Christian Democrats’ figures were similar’ to eatinatas given by U.S. chearvers who said they were -baeed on = information from the Central Election. Council, | ' Brother and sister win lottery TORONTO | (CP) — Salvatore. (Sam) Di Costanzo and his sister. Maria came to Canada from Italy more than30 years ago because, as she says, ‘we . knew If you wanted to work you could have bread,” Today they can have as much bread — a as many bakeries ~- as they want to. uy. The Di Costanzos of Toronto. dropped by. the Ontarlo Lottery Corp. dtles today to pick up a cheque for $4,110,999 an winhers of the Lotto 649 draw. March 10, plus an extra $000.10 for . a third prize win, . Both have quit tile jobi. Hewasa porterat thé Royal York Hotel for 28 years and took home $350 every two. weeks, Maria was making $20d a week as a sewing machine operator. Both sald they had no immediate plans on how. to spend thelr money, She says she told her boss she was going “to atop work for a while’ while Sam telephoned the hotel to say he wasn’t feeling well ‘and wouldn't be in. They. figure their boases will read about. their good fortune in the newspapers | or se it on television, Family lawyer John. Capo acted as interpreter. Asked if they came here from the Naples area of Italy because they thought the streets of Canada were paved with gold, Maria replied seriously, ‘No, because we knew everybody gets bread if they want to. work far it and we love this country and don't want bo go: . anywhere else." They have no intention of moving out of thelr home in the northern aectlon of Toronto and, halve no plans for a car. LAGE FAMILY They have 14 nieces and tephews and three brothers and two sisters with whom they aay they will share thelr wealth. “We are very. happy and very pleased," Maria said, “I've always | wanted time-to be with old people or sitk people and -Now. Pll have it." Sam, wearing his bhie pinstripe sult and extra wide blue and red te. | mostly just grinned but said he'd be quite happy: mot to work, Asked why nelther a them married, she replied - through their lawyer, “it's too longa story and wa don't talk about it,’’ : They sald they spend $25 ' $30 a week: on lottery tickets but have no special © way of picking numbers. “‘Juat out of here,’ she paushe, pdnting to her They said they waited willl now to collect their ticket because they were a0 wurprined and wanted to talk to thet lawyer. “We didn’t tell anybody right away, not even family," she sald, They watched the numbers being drawn on television, They sai when the Kelly family of Brantford, Ont, wor $19.9 million, they knew “anyone can win — you don't have ti be special, and “we can win,” Their cheque was presented to them by Reuben Baetz, minister of tourism and recreation. 4 The vole count, suspended late Sunday after a dispute at the election computer: centre, resumed Monday. . It was not known when official figures would be released, ‘te wee results were not expected tobe known until later in we US. Officials sald guerrilla sabotage, including attacks - 00 power facilities, and election foulups lowered the turnout . " from the balloting for a constltutent assembly in 1982. They said between 1.1 milllon and 1.3 million voters cast their ballots Sunday compared to about 1.5 million in 1982. The. “election council had: estimated there were 2.8 million . -Salvadcrans eligible to vote in the election boycotted by the leftists. “Seventy-five per cent ‘of the people ‘voted against . WAubaisson, against the death squads, against the violence of the extreme right and the extreme left and against the guerrillas,” Duarte told a news conference, D'Aubuisson has dented accusations he is connected with the death squads blamed for so many of the killings in E1 Salvadce’s 444 years of civil war, He favors crushitig the errillas militarily, while Duarte favors negotiating with mt _ Jullo Adolfo Rey Prendes, the. ‘Christian Democrats’ secretary general said, ‘We still have hopes for a tirst- round victory but I personally think we will get just over 48 per cent of the vole.” - Duarte said his parly estimates that 30 to 35 per cent of the people who tried to vote could. not because of . frregularities, mainly bureaucratic bungling, A Canadian observer to the election confirmed there were difficulties which frustrated voters and delayed counting. * The problem was a technical one as we see it now," said Gordon Fairweather, head of the Canadian bhuman Righta Commission, in a telephone Interview with Broadcast News in Toronto, - Fairweather, one of three Canadian observers to the election, said instructions were so complicated for election Cillcers, some of whom didn’t even have ballot boxes, that’ matty of them couldn't cope. Canada was one of 24 countries that sent observers. Thirty people came from the Ualted States, In Washington, President-Reagan called the election “another victory for freedom over. tyranny” and sald, “Those vallant people braved guerrilla violence and . Sabotage ta do what we take for granted — casting their vole for president.” ; BRUSSELS (AP) — European Economle Community agriculture ministers began two daya of talks Monday on _the 1984 farm buigel and were quickly deadlocked on Propesed: cuts in the Common Market's runaway milk production, © “I do not see a way out quickly," French Sectelary of Agriculture Rene Souchon told reporters“! am pessimistic. I do not see any breakthrough tonight," He said French Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard, the meeting's chairman, proposed to grant Ireland a five-per- - cent rise in ita 1983 inillc output of 5,9 million tonnes, But Irish Agriculture Minister Abstin Deasy rejected it and asked for a five-per-cent rise annually for four years, while Britain and Holland said the one-year increase was already too high, Sources sald Deasy indicated he would invoke “vital national interests’ to avold any cutin milic production. The Common Market currently has 800,000 tonnes of surplus butter. ‘ witome and riled Deuieh Eh ‘Hennessy was arrested in ’ putbacks . operating ‘Jihad, which Council concerned ‘Volume 76 No.61, over college cutbacks by RALPH RESCHKE Herald Staff Writer TERRACE— Terrace council. will be Inviting membera of the board of trustees from the Northweat Community College, Dr. V. George, president. of _the College and Tim Henthorne, chairperson for North West . Students for Education, toa meeting with council to discuss the impact that * cutbacks in the provinclal education budget would have on the community, - The moves stems from a . presentation made during a regular council meeting held Monday evening, by representallves from - the ‘Students for Education group, -, Their figures show that the Ministry of Education plans to cut $21,000,000 from ‘the education budget. over the next three years. They claim that as a result of: cutbacks in educational funding, half a million dollars in revenue will be lost from the local economy. | The students alsosay that because of the cutbacks, ‘gatellite campuses In Smithers, Kitimat, New Hazelton ‘and . other “Jocations are slated to be closed; university transfer preparation courses will be halted; tentative - fee increases of betweeh 12 and’ . 40 per cent, ; Alderman “George Clark feels that council should “consult with the: “college | board: ont: see. -what - “they”: have for Beopoaais “peolécting the. facility: and: ‘ what assistance council can provide. ~~ Alderman Alan ‘goutar quésHoned what — the difference is between the college experlencing and local business’s shutting down. He wondered how council ' gduld become involved in the operations of the college, saylng that it should be up-to the college board: to manage thelr operations aa they see fit Clarks motion to meet with the college board cartied, Council, has declded to allocate $5,000 to allow Stanley’ and Associates Engineering Co. Ltd, to undertake all the necessary work. to. prepare the documentation . and _ Coat estimates for the sewage lagoon: expansion, in order that a referendum be beld. This decision was reached after-.counci] bad ‘given * thought to hiring a local firm to prepare the cont estimates, The conclusion reached; however, was that a local firm would not. be able to prepare the Information for lesa’ than §5,000, so the "district will continue. to use Stanley and Associates for - this particulay project, . Alderman: Gellately, said today that it wasn’t a: matter of refusing to go totender on the $4,000 project, because the municipality had already gone to tender on the pre- design phase of the project and out of all ‘the bids, ‘Stanley and Associates had been awarded the contract, He feels that this latest moye by. council is just based upon a continuation of. - phase: one of- the ° sewage lagoon project. The