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B4 "CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 3, 1980

MAX HAINES

On rare. occasions.'a factual
murder case isso wrought with
unusual events it borders on the-
unbelievable. Honest, the'saga of
Lonnie Jenkins-is not ‘a figment
of my invagination. It really did
happen, *™: :

Lonnié,{.27'. was-employed as a
streetcar Gond
the, his w

would have it, one day a
neighbor of the Jenkins’ mentioned that
her daughter, Betty, didn’t’ get alon;

an
wi
Betty was approached with this idea
and jumped at the chance to leave-her
home. To make matters easier for
Betty, the Jenkins moved to a new
neighborhood where Betty -was

own,
For a short while everything went
along smoothly, but soon trouble: spots
appeared. Neighbors. noticed that
Lonnie and Betty were often home
alone. Betty, at 16, was. more of a
voluptuous woman than a teenager.’
Tongues wagged.. o

Treuble at-home
To make matters worse, frail Mrs.
Jenkins was ofjen o'

police of Betty's disruptive influence
while she was staying with the

enkins, es x
When faced. with these accusations, %;
ponnle admitted ‘Betty had obviously.

had a crush on him, but swore that he
had done nothing to encourage her. In
the meantime q coroner's jury ajudged
Edith's death to be a suicide, but the

lice did not agree. They continued to
Investigate Edjth’s death. The sutcide

note was shown to fellow workers: at’.
Edith’s place of employment who.knew -

her handwriting well. They all agreed
the handwriting was very similar to
Edith’s but that there seemed to be

. Some slight differences.

Beity told all

‘Detectives located Betty, who by this
time was confined to a detention home
in Indiana. Betty told all. She told police
she and: Lonnie. had had a torrid love
affair. Lonnie had made her practise
Edith’s handwriting until she could
duplicate it almost perfectly. She had
‘written the suicide note. Lonnie had
often told Betty that someday he would
get rid of Edith and she would become
Mrs. Jenkins.

Lonnie vehemently stated he had
always been.a good ‘husband, and had
nothing whatever to do with his wife’s
death. Despite his denials, Lonnie was
arrested and c

ed hol a revolver
with his fest in- various
stances. ‘ :

On April 13,1932, Kent called on
Detective Henry W;-Piel.to discuss the
Jenkins case. Taking out’a pistol and

lacing it to his:own heath Kent said,

‘Look, she placed the gun-Hke this." He
“assured the detective that the gun was
not loaded. z iss

at Lonnie. It whs obvious that the couple
lomestic squabbles. Soon
i to skipping school. As
tendance at school was a
condition of staying with the Jenkins,
Edith was forced to report her truancy
-to the authorities. As a result, Betty was
taken from the Jenkins’: home. All of

from the house and fetched a doctor who ©

lived only a block away. Edith was stili

alive when the doctor. arrived, but .

died ert route to hospital:
‘Police found a suicide note on tie
a

Kent was dead, and with him went the
only person who had been ‘working to
free Lonnie Jenkins. Lonnie languished
in prison for many years before another.
person took up his cause. -

Remember the Jenkins’ 10-year-old
daughter, Helen? Now ‘an intelligent
youhg ‘worhan she was convinced her
father was innocent. Helen proceeded to
gather:up an‘array of evidence to

Uupport her contention. She was the only. --

sl

one. who“had actually seen: her father
and Betty together. She remembered
her father had loved her mother dearly,
and had often been rude to Betty in
order to repulse her advances,

Helen contacted some of the mos
respected ballistics experts in the U.S.,
who provided her with sworn.affidavits
stating they had encountered many sui-
cides who had taken their lives in the

same manner as Mrs. Jenkins. Many °

were found lying. on their backs,
Helen took this new evidence toa
prosecuting attorney, who soon became

kitchen table. It read, cd

and Baby. I can’t go on any longer. Bea °

good girl and a good Daddy. Your
Momma.” oh

From the outset Lonnie’s story didn’t
sit well with investigating officers. They

had investigated many suicides and ail _

convinced Lonnie had been frongly

i He was instrumental in instl-
tuting an investigation into the old
case.

On Dec. 23, 1940, nine years after his
conviction, Lonnie Jenkins was granted
a new trial. Ballistics reports from
experts proved without a doubt that

victims who had sho in
the head had fallen forward. No one

* could remember a suicide victim being
found lying on his or her back after
being shot in the head. Neighbors
fanned the s by

the pr had erred at the original
trial. Another piece of damaging evi-
dence presented at the first trial was
also repudiated. The suicide note, which
resembled Edith’s handwriting, but had

been written by Betty, was

| it was suicid.

Lonnie,. but her love had
_ turned: ate when he scorned her
advances. When police had approached
her with their suspicions of Lonnie’s
involvement in his. wife’s murder, she
went along with them and.invented the
story of writing the suicide note to get

er... ‘even with Lonnie. it ie
After:spending ‘nine long years in
prison, Lonnie Jenkins walked out of the
+ tourtroom’a free man, arm in arm with
. his daughtér Helen--

"Vin love wil
turned.

fe. F 2 ae
Once again Betty gave evidence. This
time she confessed she had lied about
the whole thing. She stated she had been

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NEWMARKET,: ONT.
{CP) — John Diefenbaket's
dog McAndy, which disap-
peared last week, has been
returned to his new owners
just when they thought they
would never see the sandy-
colored Cairn terrier again.

“He was found before he
was lost," an Ontario Hu-
mane Society spokesman
said, explaining that a man
who had lost a dog which
looked like McAndy had
picked up the terrier shortly
after it had wandered off.

The spokesman said the
man, who was promised an-

onymity, eventually realized -

the dog was not his. He heard
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McAndy moved into
Weir's home in August, 1979,
after Diefenbaker died.

“Building a stronger B.C.”

' A “nugget” of.
information: :

| dustry eamings =
create newjohbsinB.C. = _

The British Columbia mining industry eamed $510 million in
1979—and directly reinvested $425:million in exploration,
development, and capital expenditures* That means the
industry used most of its profits to generate jobs and income °°
for people in B.C. in developing new mines and expanding |
existing operations. This, in turn, will create more long-term
employment and benefits for all British Columbians.

THE MINING ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

“Source: 1979 Price Waterhouse study of 8.C. mining industry.

School Board elections.

 — Fred Merriman:

the conversation.’

[inflation affects our
8 Shopping list, too.

. When you talk about prices

these days, the word down,
never seems to come into

. In 1975 we could buy a power
. Sweeper, which‘is a cleaning

machine just slightly bigger
iene golf cart, for $15,000.

Today that machine will cost

us $32,000 or more. Another
example,.a.small front end
loader cost $28,000 in 1975,
and the price tag now is
$47,000... :.

. We have hundreds of

examples — one more:

We use a lot of heavy duty .
industrial rubber gloves.

They’ve gone up 43 per cent
in the same time period.

‘Prices have skyrocketed.

Unlike many businesses, we

can’t always pass our increased

costs on to our customers.

“We deal in the international
-marketplace. And there, you

meet your competition’s price,
or you just don’t sell anything.

' /We’re just as concerned about ,

‘inflation as you are.

\. “Ladies and: gentlemen:
Bcots, through . heredity,
Scotsiof:the!soul.”” 9 7
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evening began with.an Italian’
dinner, deacribed'as “a fitting
peace feast after 2,000 years
between. the descendents of
the’ ancient © Caledonian:

‘Glover. Miss

tribesmen and
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Rem mber- when a child Was. lat:
mother always asked, “What's the

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bayonets ‘of the Redcoats,

Reprisals by the British
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alive, of, over.a million dol-

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Elementary pupils
_ better readers

VICTORIA (CP) — El-
ementary pupils in B.C, have
become better readers in the
last few years but their grade
12 counterparts haven't, says
‘a report to the education.
minis'

try. :
Comparing reading skill
studies: made in 1980 and
1976-77, “the gains made
speak well for the 1980 grade
4-and grade’8 pupils,”’ the

: t.
hold at the grade-12 level.
:, “There. is the obyious
fact that the pupils ‘in grade
12 did not do well compared

. to their peers in 1977," said

the report’s authors, Jaap
Tuinman and Janet Kendall
of Simon Fraser University, :
who -assessed: reading pro-
grams in B.C. schools earlier
this year. aN

= The survey was. part of
the. ministry's © continuous.
learning assessment program
and was. compared with re-
sults ‘of earlier studies. .

The . report’ describes
reading skills of more than
100,000 students in grades 4,,
8: and 12. Questionnaires
were: completed < by: more’
than.3,000 teachers and ad-
ministrators. Bert

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While ‘the study didn’t
compare B.C. students with
those elsewhere, it cited evi-
dence from other research
showing the average reading
performance in the -prov-
ince's elementary and secon-
dary schools last year con-
sistently equalled. or _ex-
ceeded the average of similar.
educational levels in Canada
and the United States.

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abouts, no one betrayed him,

HN CHARTERS
reaiguest speaker

vw, Be x
+ T. MacLACHLAN
Scottishairs -

for John

John Holuboff, 65,
former’ resident of Robson,

late of Grand Forks, passed

away Saturday at the Boun-
dary General Hospital in
Grand Forks.

.  Prayers.were held Mon-
day evening at the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel with services
continuing on into Tuesday at
the Castlegar Russian Hall.

Born in Brilliant on Jan.
7, 1915, Mr. Holuboff grew up:
and lived in the area most of
his life. He began and oper-
ated Johnny's Grocery until
1970 and operated the Rasp-
berry’ Lodge until his re-
tirement, moving to Grand
Forks, in 1978. Mr. Holuboff
was active in Doukhobor
cultural affairs,

Besides his wife, Tina,

. Mr. Holuboff is survived by

ald, who not only
prince and was

. oner, but later was honored _§

throughout Britain for. her
courage and patriotism. |
Continuing his talk,
Charters said “Scots are by
nature and nurture a strange
combination’ of' hard-headed
. pragmatism and. ultra-roman-
ticlam — a unique amamgam

gal
which has produced’a people

- who have travelled: across

‘the face of the earth ant
had an impact on the’:
of history and the progress

of
mankind which is far,out of

proportion to their. numbers..
. “They: have | been -
citizens and loyal Babjects
‘the lands of their ‘adoption’

while at the sanie time,re-,
ie

taining a fierce

for generation :
the other hand; with its many
deeds of heroism, patriotism

‘of Scots. On. |

and devotion to’ duty, it ,

; inspired the’ Scottish -nation,

and ‘no’ one exemplifies‘the ”

spirit; more.than: Flora ‘Mac-
Donald.” **- :

The speaker was.

‘thanked. . by past-president

Ivari_ Stewart, “--.

The ‘second’ half. of the ©

* program was devoted - to
: dancing; some. tq the music

the music of the pipes.
/ A’ special toast ° was
: drunk to long-time member
Jack McCabe who had just
announced his’ retirement
from the Tadanac Fire De-

partment. - i

The next major social
event for the society will be
the annual Burn's Night cel-
ebrations and any persons
interested in the event. or in
making application for mem-
bership should do so at once.

Funeral service

Holuboff

one son, Walter, of Castlegar,

three grandchildren; one

brother, Sam, and one sister,

Mrs. Nastia Horeoff, both of
+ Robson..

Burial took place. at
Brilliant Cemetery with ar-
rangements under the direc-
tion of the Castlegar Funeral
Chapel.

CASTLEGAR NEWS; Decomber 3, 1960::

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Cominco ‘trial '

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has been delayed

ROSSLAND (CP) — A
- legal technicality delayed on
Monday the trial of Cominco
Ltd. on charges laid under
the provincial Pollution Con-
trol Act. bs :
Comineo, which operates
a ledd-zine smelter at Trail is
charged with failing to advise
the regional waste manager
rior'¥o ‘eléandiit ‘of dit eid
“splat allitte bakes tmn-
tinuous samples of the clean-
out, and failure to analyze the
content for mereury.

- But lawyers for Cominco
argued in, provincial court
that. the information sworn
by-the Crown wasn’t valid.

‘The information says the
company violated a 1978
pollution control order signed
by HP. Klassen, assistant
director of. the provincial
Pollution Control Branch.

, But. Vancouver lawyer
Edward Chaisson argued
that only the director of the

Castlegar socials

MRS. H. JOHNSON 365-8234

Mr. and Mra. H. Bate
returned home .. Thursday

eventing from. a trip to:

England, where they. visited
with relatives in the’ Mid-
lands. They had been called
there owing to the death of

Mrs. Bate's aunt.
.- . s s:
Mr. and Mrs, Neil. Gil-

christ ‘left last weekend to -

make their home in Revel-
stoke. They will be missed by
all their friends here, who
wish them much happiness in
their new home.

Pollution Control Board, not |
an assistant director of the -
Pollution Control Branch,
could sign the order, and
therefore Cominco -had not

* broken a law.

An August, 1980, pro-
vincial legislative amend--
ment to the Pollution Control
Act. states that documents .
signed; previously; by ,the, as-,,-

sistint director of'the-branch

are conisidéred'tv'haVe'bieen *
signed by the director of the
Pollution Control Board.

Cominco argued that al-
though the amendment in-
fluences violations made af-
ter August, the amendments
can't be imposed retroactive-

The company allegedly
violated its pollution control
order in + .

Judge David J. Lunn
said he -will rule’ on’ the
validity of the information’
Jan. 9 in Cranbrook.

- Crown. counsel Don
Skogstad said although.Com-
ineo objected to a pollution
control order signed by the
assistant director, it did not

object to an effluent dis-

chargo permit signed by the
same person at the same
time. Weg?

The pollution control or-
der sets out régulations for

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