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

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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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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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- excavation of 700,000 cubic

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.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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: 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.

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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.

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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

.. rn re a ae " at : 1 ee ” : HOUSTON, B.C. . ay

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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