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Saturday, October 1, 1994 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada 13 College honor student gets visa to stay in United States lX rf 1 "He did remarkably well, considering all the distractions he had with the trial," said David Owen, Ibarra's adviser at the University of Chicago. "We really want him back," Owen said. "He's the kind of student we like to have here." Back in the ninth grade, Ibarra nearly dropped out. "I didn't see anything for me in school," he said. Then he began winning wrestling and cross-country trophies, and as part of a racial diversity program, he was bused to a high school where he came in contact with upper middle-class teen agers who considered higher education a given.

"That's when I decided I wanted to go to college," he said. He said he earned A's and B's last year, giving him a grade point average of 3.5 to 3.6 out of a possible 4.0. mi i i yfvKtfrv ltlmln This week's mystery photos are from the Northeastern Nevada Museum's itajoiuj unidentified photo collection. Anyone able to identify the people in these photos is asked to contact the museum at The unidentified photo collection is always available at the museum's front desk. People in the mystery photo below have been identified by Donna Drake Monks, Norma Pengally and Berna Hansen Johnson of Elko and Kathleen Hansen Ewald of Reno.

Front row from left: Dolly Saviozzi, Jean Blackett, Rosemary Leighton, Mildred Weeks and Margaret Gray. Back row from left: Pearl Wood, Phyllis Iligley, Billie Gilmer, Kathleen Hansen, Edna Edwards, June Nielson and Teressa Gilmer Death penalty canceled 'ii i'v rrm SAN DIEGO (AP) Rafael Ibarra, high school valedictorian and top student at the University of Chicago, passed one of his toughest tests this week, four days before classes were to resume. Ibarra, an illegal resident of the United States for 14 years, was granted a visa allowing him to live here legally and return for his sophomore year when classes start Monday. "He's not someone who came here and was living on the fringes of society," federal administrative law Judge Kenneth Bagley said after his ruling. "He did not work illegally and take more than he gave back," Ibarra said he was euphoric.

"I definitely felt like I had my hands tied behind my back because of this barrier. Now I feel free," he said. Ibarra, 20, graduated from a San Diego high school in 1993 and won full scholarships from top colleges around the country. When it came time to fill in applications, he acknowledged that he is a Mexican citizen and not a legal resident of the United States, where he has lived since his mother brought him in when he was 6. The University of Chicago said it would take him anyway if he tried to legalize his status.

Ibarra asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service for an international student visa. The INS arranged for an expedited hearing before an- administrative law judge because of Ibarra's academic standing, INS spokesman Rudy Murillo said. The judge had to weigh several factors, including the hardship that deporting Ibarra would create and how well he has assimilated. In Chicago, about the only difficulties the biochemistry major had were adjusting to the rough Midwestern winter and school bureaucracy. News from past issues of the ELKO FREE PRESS compiled by the Northeastern Nevada Museum staf Most of Rwandan refugees now in camps outside Goma CARSON CITY (AP) The death sentence ordered for a southern Nevada man convicted of strangling and beating his wife and two stepdaughters with a hammer has been canceled by the state supreme court.

While the court upheld Joseph Weldon Smith's three first-degree murder convictions, justices on Wednesday ordered a new penalty hearing because there were improper jury instructions during Smith's first penalty hearing. Clark County District Judge Jeff Sobel had imposed two death sentences for the slayings of Wendy Cox, 20, and Kristy Cox, 12. He imposed a consecutive sentence of life without possible parole for the killing of Smith's wife, Judith, 47. The supreme court also cut in half a 40-year term for the attempted murder of Frank Allen, the landlord of the posh Green Valley home where the family lived. The sentence had been doubled from 20 years on grounds the hammer was a deadly weapon.

But justices said Nevada's penalty enhancement law is aimed at guns "and other inherently dangerous deadly weapons." Smith has insisted he didn't kill his wife and stepdaughters. He claimed drug dealers invaded the mors of Tutsi reprisals, Hutu preparations for future military operations, and possible new flights of refugees. For local Zairians. getting most of the refugees out of Goma was just the first step: They want them out of the country. "They have destroyed everything all the forests, flowers.

They brought diseases and people died," said Kahanya Kimuha Tassi, the regional administrative director. "We'd like to see them going back very -soon." Guillaume Baurti, 33, who sells soap, candles and batteries in the market, said the number of pickpockets had increased "and they're all Rwandans." He complained that refugees got better medical care and food than the locals because they're helped by relief organizations. The refugees, mostly Hutus fearing retribution, fled to Zaire after the Tutsi-led rebel army overthrew Rwanda's Hutu government in July. More than 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis. were killed by Hutu troops and militia in an orgy of ethnic violence that exploded after Rwanda's Hutu president was killed in a suspicious plane crash April 6.

Before the refugees arrived, Goma's population was 197,000. Now, Goma's mayor Mashako Mamba Sebi estimates it is triple that. Surrounded by four towering volcanoes and nestled on the banks of Lake Kivu on the Rwandan border, Goma boasts breathtakingly beautiful scenery. Nyiragongo Volcano belches smoke and lights the night sky with an orange glow. Some locals believe it is about to erupt and wreak divine retribution on them and the refugees.

Like much of Africa, Goma is a place of stark contrasts: The rich are ensconsed in lakeside villas, the poor in wood huts or tin roofed shacks inland near the rundown Dubcic's home in October 1990 and killed them. Allen testified that he came to Smith's home and was attacked by Smith who began pounding him on the head with a hammer. He ran straight through a glass front door to get away, On appeal, Smith said his convictions should be reversed because of prosecutorial misconduct. He tried to get a mistrial because of the prosecutor's line of questioning, but the Supreme Court said Judge Sobel didn't overstep his authority in refusing the defense motion. In addition to the improper jury instructions, Smith also challenged the penalty phase testimony of his wife's oldest daughter, Adrien McEachin, who told jurors she hoped they'd never have to go through the nightmare of having family members slain.

But justices said the short, powerful statement was allowed under a state law permitting "victim impact" comments by a crime victim or survivors of victims. Smith fled the Las Vegas area and was captured six months later in California, where authorities found evidence that -he, was trying to change his identity. town center. The corner where moneychangers operate is nicknamed "Wall Street." While barefoot refugees and poor Zairians wander the streets struggling to survive, wealthy locals and Rwandans who escaped with money live it up at the Feeling Club and the Dancing Night, or wander over to the Nyira Hotel to dine on smoked salmon, steak and French wine. The- rich are buried in graves marked bv concrete slabs or rows of black lava rock.

The 55.000 to 60.000 refugees who died in epidemics here are buried in mass graves marked by a single cross. The stench of decaying flesh did not deter several refugees from plowing up the land where several mass graves were in preparation for planting. Most locals go home before sundown and spend their nights in fear of attacks by bandits. Vumilia Kabagale. a 25-year-old mother of five selling sandals in the market, said she believed the bandits were both Zairians and members of the defeated Hutu militias.

"They came with a lot of weapons and the Zairian government didn't take them." she said. Pascasia Nyanvura, a 34year-old mother of four selling bananas and avocados near the border, was reading a well-worn copy of the Bible and praying "because life has changed and I am more worried than ever." "I'm afraid of bandits at night and epidemics," she said. "I want the Rwandan refugees to go back to their country, and maybe after they go back, life will become safe." The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, was ratified on Dec. 18. 18(13.

Beginning Sign Language Class Mondays 6-8 p.m. October 3 thru December 5 0K CLVfllV 100 YEARS AGO October 6, 1894: The educational facilities of Elko are assuming such shape as to be of vast benefit, not only to the pupils attending school here, but to the town also. The present Principal, Prof. E.C. Snyder is making the institution first-class in every respect.

In addition to the many advantages already to be gained by the attendance at the Elko school, it is now proposed to put the Grammar department on such a grade that a student wishing to enter the state university at Reno will not have to take an additional examination to gain admission to that institution. During the Board of County Commissioners meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 1894, a petition was presented by the citizens in and for Butte Valley asking that an election precinct be established in that district. It was ordered that said precinct be established and be known as Taylors. The Clerk was then instructed to furnish the necessary election supplies.

A large heating furnace is being put in the basement of the Episcopal Church. 75 YEARS AGO October 1, 1919: Willie Duncan and Mrs. Kate Lukes, who have been running the Clifton Hotel and the Club Rooming House, have taken a lease on the rooms of the Commercial Hotel and will take possession on the first of the coming month. It is understood that Mr. Doyle, formerly with the Commercial Hotel, will move to Reno where he will engage in business.

October 3. 1919: The students of the high school are in the midst of their annual election of officers for their republic. The school has a government similar in every way to the Elko city government and each fall elect their mayor, city judge and councilmen. Primaries have been held, and on Oct. 14 a regular election will be held.

The candidates nominated were: Mayor Orma Boyer, Democrat and Chester Scran- Zaire (AP) The piles of rotting bodies that lined the road from the Rwandan border are gone, and most of the 1.2 million refugees who turned Goma into a cesspool of death and despair have moved to camps outside town. At first glance, Goma looks much as it did before July, when the quiet backwater town was swamped with the biggest, quickest refugee exodus in history. Streets are clean. Drivers honk their horns incessantly. Shoppers in the market swat flies and haggle over prices.

Young men get drunk on potent banana beer or the local European-style brew. But a closer look reveals the legacy of the refugee occupation: Hundreds of trees have been cut down or gouged by refugees desperate for firewood. Flower beds are gone, trampled by thousands of feet. The cost of living has increased sharply, rents have skyrocketed because of the influx of foreign relief workers, and the town's roads, schools, sewers, drainpipes and traffic circles have been damaged. And there is a lingering fear fear of fresh killings, new epidemics, and another mass influx of refugees.

To the world, the name Goma has become a synonym for the almost unimaginable misery 'of the Rwandan refugee crisis, But the residents of the town in eastern Zaire know another Goma and they want it back. Over the past two months, the vast majority of refugees who once squatted in every available inch of space in the town have been moved to camps several miles outside Some refugees refused to leave, and still sleep in unfinished churches, closed schools and empty buildings. Others walk miles from the camps to beg or sell relief food in the town market. In cafes, bars, homes and refugee tents, locals and refugees listen to the radio for news of Rwanda. Almost all conversation centers on ru Robert in St.

Thomas Aquinas Cathedral. Miss Kathcrine Harton of Reno and Elko was maid of honor with Miss Marguerite LaVoy and Miss Dolores LaVoy serving as bridesmaids. Lt. William Pasutti was best man. Mrs.

LaVoy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hcnnen who formerly resided in Elko. A talented musician, she has been organist at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno.

The bridegroom is the son of Louis Lavoy and the late Mrs. LaVoy of Sparks: Lt. and Mrs. LaVoy will reside in New Bern, North Carolina, while the bridegroom is stationed at the Marine Corps base at Cherry Point, North Carolina. 25 YEARS AGO October 2.

19: Word has been received here indicating the Elko High School Band has been designated to lead the Nevada Day Parade on Friday, Oct. 31, in Carson City. Announcement of the selection of the Elko High "Band of Indians" was made in a letter to Oren Probert, chairman of the Elko Centennial Committee. The Nevada Day Parade is an annual statewide observance in Carson City marking the anniversary of the admission of Nevada to the United States in 1864. Elko, which this year marked its 100th birthday, also will be represented in the 1969 Nevada Day Parade by the official Elko Centennial float, which was built by Roger Mariani of Elko and won sweepstakes honors during the Elko Countv Fair Parade here.

October 3. Security National Bank of Nevada. Klko's newest institution, held the official opening of its local temporary location here on Oct. 1. The Elko branch is located for the present time in the Professional Building at Sixth ami Court Streets.

Charles Ballew. formerly a vice-president with Nevada National Bank is the bank manager with Alton Parker, also formerly with Nevada National Bank as a.v-i-tant manager. Chief clerk is June Turner. Mao-Jane (Liz) Moiola, is the secretary: and the tellers are Hetty Quiroz. Louise Konakis and Vickie Micheli.

A full sen-ice operation is being car-' ried on at the temporary location with deposits being accepted and loans being made. Ballew noted that construction is moving along at the bank's new structure at Sixth and Idaho. October 4, 19(i9: Elko High School Principal Edwin Jensen has announced that three students at Elko High School have been awarded Letters of Commendation honoring them for their high performance on the 1969 National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Those named Com mended Students are Russell McMul len, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Hugh McMul len, Teena Moy. daughter of Mr and Mrs. Danial Moy. and Barbara Ho gers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Birney Powell. They are among 39.000 students who scored in the upper 2 per cent of those who are expected to graduate from high school in 1970. Janet Petersen, Museum Registrar CALLING ALL VOLUNTEENS If you are a teenager with an interest in volunteering at Elko General Hospital, please call Kirsten Wyman, Volunteer Coordinator Llko General ilcpib! 7-9174 ton, Republican; Judge Robert McKee, Democrat and Charles Fike, Republican; For SuperVisors Democrats Ada Grover, John Higgen-botham, Mildred McFall and Will Thompson; Republicans, Tom Christine McFarlane, Jim Russell and Barbara Steninger. A real estate deal of considerable importance was concluded today when Messers. E.C.

Murphy, G.E. Crooks and Savino Goveia purchased the ground adjoining the Bradley Opera House on the west, for the purpose of erecting a new garage. The new firm will be known as the Pikes Peak Garage Company. The new building will contain a modern garage which will include a vulcanizing and battery station. In addition, the new firm expects to secure the agency for one of the popular cars.

50 YEARS AGO October 2, 1944: Floyd Loveless died in the Nevada state prison lethal gas chamber Friday night for the murder of Constable A.H. Berning of Carlin. The former Indiana youth would have been 18 years old on Nov. 2. Twice convicted here of the murder two years ago of A.H.

Berning and refused a commutation to life earlier last week by the parole and pardons board, Loveless lost his final appeal last Friday. He was the youngest prisoner ever executed in this state. The annual Harvest Ball, held Saturday night at the high school, proved to be one of the most successful in the history of the event. A king as well as a queen was crowned. Royalty honors went to Miss Josephine Uriarte and Gene Anderson.

Miss Uriarte was crowned by James Wright, student body president and Anderson was crowned by Miss Theo Henry, president of the Fireside Girls, sponsors of the dance. Music was furnished for the dance by the school orchestra, under the direction of Cecil Furr. October 5. 1944: The marriage of Miss Marian Elizabeth Hennen and Lt. John LaVoy was solmnized Oct.

3 talks averted a U.S. invasion of the Caribbean nation, allowing the U.S. forces to land peacefully. After the official U.S. delegation left Haiti.

Pastor "was left behind to run the entire show." Helms said. Both Carter and Clinton, he said, "knew the Senate had problems with Mr. Pastor's nomination (yeti they chose to act as if he already had the advice and consent and approval of the Senate." Helms contended that Pastor's in volvement in the negotiations "raises serious questions about his judgment." The conservative senator also said Pastor was a chief architect of hat he called the Carter administration's "giveaway" of the Panama Canal in the late 1970s. Helms said that during Pastor's tenure on the National Security Council, he "presided over one of the most disastrous and humiliating periods" in U.S. policy toward Latin America, including Panama and Nicaragua.

Pastor. 47. was director of Latin American and Caribbean affairs for the security council during the Carter administration- In addition to his current post as director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Canb bean program, he also is a professor of political science at Emory University. Helms stalls Pastor's bid for nomination im Mni2 IHTGUGCT (on oxymoron) performance LUritten ond Performed by Robert Dubac Directed by Mark lonoiu i ii 1 1 -ii I i.j "i WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Jesse Helms stalled the nomination of a Jimmy Carter protege as ambassador to Panama on Thursday, criticizing his role in the recent negotiations with Haiti's military and in the "giveaway" of the Panama Canal.

In May, President Clinton nominated Robert Pastor, a Latin American specialist at the Carter Center in Atlanta, as envoy to Panama. Prospects for his Senate approval before Congress" scheduled adjournment on Oct. 7 appeared dim, after Helms, stalled Senate Foreign Relations Committee action on the nomination. Helms' action meant the committee would have to vote on Pastor's nomination another day, possibly Friday. It could be difficult in the crush of last-minute business to get enough committee members together and for the Senate as a whole to vote.

"You can probably conclude this nomination's dead" for this congressional session, said a committee aide, speaking on condition of anonymity. Telephone calls to Pastor and the White House seeking comment weren't immediately returned. Helms criticized Pastor's participation, as a private citizen, in the talks held by Carter, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell and Sen. Sam Nunn. with the Haitian military leaders.

The 1H MRL INTaiea-on oxymoron', storing Robert Duboc, is a hilarious solo performonce thot charts one man's attempt to flush the chauvinism out of his sustem. In it Mr. Duboc pious five other characters, maintains schizophrenic dialogue with his feminine side ond tries to straighten out the inside of his mote dominant brain oil the while hopefully ocquiring the elusive mo'efemole "balance" he so desperately needs. Vou don't wont to miss this show! ii- ii. 7 OT I 'Ill a delightful romp through the trials of male and female relationships.

Dubac slrcngth is his laid-back sty le of storytelling. one-man comedy show onh seeing." Drhak flnaAy f.w Slur- Trtrjum October 2 at 8:00 PM Tickets $8.00 Reservations are suggested. 738-3181 ext. 143 Thw ibt T.vTTwirr cf this (rUu-jHy aciLwv? cvwV beisrr il to BRO.APVAi 3-45 4th Street.