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This Day Sports Also inside Area news $12,000 swimming pool smashed for flood project: Bl Local man learns tricks of the neon trade: CI Ann Landers: C2 Classified: C4 Comics: D6 The whole truth and nothing but about Gonzaga Prep: Dl The Daily News Friday, December 5, 1986 Serving the Lower Columbia area from Longview, Washington 35 Cents Colombian gunman kills 26 in bloody rampage before going to three other apartments in the building and shooting whoever opened their doors, killing four women. A fifth woman died later at a hospital, police said. Delgado then visited one of his students. She said he did not give any indication of what had happened, staying for about an hour. He remained standing the entire time, and kept a briefcase at his side, she said.

Police said Delgado was wearing an ammunition belt and carrying additional rounds in his briefcase. After leaving his student's home, Delgado walked to a nearby restaurant, where he drank eight vodka tonics with his dinner, read an English-language magazine and then began firing at other diners with a revolver, witnesses said. Authorities said 15 people, including Delgado, died at the restaurant and six died later at hospitals. Fifteen women and 12 men were killed in the massacre, counting Delgado and his mother. Police investigator Lucena said most of the victims were shot in the head.

In the United States, the worst one-day massacre by a lone assailant occurred on July 18, 1984 in San Ysidro, Calif. A jobless security guard, James Oliver Huberty, shot and killed 21 people at a McDonald's restaurant before he was killed by a police sharpshooter. Delgado had lived in West Germany, the United States and France, returning to Colombia two years ago. Delgado had planned to return to West Germany to live, a friend said. He strolled through the restaurant and had to reload several times amid the pleas for mercy.

About 30 diners and staff were in the restaurant at the time. One of the diners, Juan Guillermo Gomez, said police using loudspeakers ordered Delgado to give himself up, but that he kept shooting, firing at those already wounded. "He was a madman. He kept shooting and shooting," said Gomez. "At first, we thought the shots were firecrackers.

Then we realized it was a madman at the bar, shooting at all of us." Firecrackers are commonly set off in Latin American countries during the Christmas season. Police stormed the restaurant and killed Delgado with several shots to the head. t. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) A 52-year-old English teacher fatally shot his mother, set her afire and went on a shooting spree in his apartment building and a nearby restaurant, gunning down 26 people before being killed by police. At least six other people were wounded.

"I have never seen so much blood in my life," said criminal investigator Judge Gloria Lucena. Police did not know the motive of the gunman, Campos Elias Delgado. Friends described him as a man who hated violence, but also said he repeatedly beat his mother. Authorities said the bloodbath began Thursday afternoon when Delgado fatally shot his mother, 72-year-old Rita Delgado, in the apartment they shared. He covered her body with newspapers and set it on fire United Way beats '87 goal Cowlitz County's United Way campaign surpassed its goal of $630,000 in pledges for 1987 Thursday.

United Way officials attribute their success to better-trained volunteers, a better collection strategy, better media exposure and a public that better understands the need for the United Way. United Way pledges for 1986 totaled $604,000, short of the organization's goal of $660,000, said Gale Long, co-chairman of the group's campaign committee. That goal was reduced slightly for 1987, but the results have been better. Businesses are important to the United Way, but so are employees, said Long. "Employees have really been responding to the United Way.

A lot of them have been really close to not having work, and that is a very meaningful signal to these people that this is so important," Long said. In 1985, 1,000 people had lost their jobs in the county, he said, and those who regained jobs can see the need for the United Way. "They can see the people that need help." The United Way distributes money to 22 agencies in Cowlitz County such as Red Cross, the Emergency Support Shelter, YMCA and agencies that help the handicapped, the poor, the homeless and alcoholics. Long credited part of this year's success to the improved training that the 240 United Way volunteers received before they solicited community donations. The official campaign drive ended in October, but donations and pledges are still coming in, Long said.

United Way's goal for 1988 will be higher than the 1987 goal, he said. Montana student kills substitute, shoots 3 others LEWISTOWN, Mont. (AP) Students at Fergus High School returned to class today, less than than 24 hours after 14-year-old Kristofer Hans went on a shooting spree that left a teacher dead, an administrator hospitalized and two students injured. School Superintendent Jim Turner said counselors, psychologists and clergy would be available today to help students deal with their feelings about the shootings. Hans had told friends that he intended to kill his French teacher, LaVonne Simonfy, because he was flunking.

Police Chief Russell Dunnington said Hans went to Simonfy's classroom and knocked on the door. "A student opened the door, and he asked for the teacher that was in there. The teacher came to the door, and he pulled the gun and shot her," Dunnington said. Henrietta Smith, who was substituting for LaVonne Simonfy was shot in the face and died. Hans fired several other shots as he fled the school, wounding a vice principal and two students and sending others screaming through the halls, authorities said.

He then ran about a mile to his home, where his parents turned him over to police. He was charged with being a delinquent youth for reason of committing deliberate homicide in the death of Smith, a 40-year-old mother of two, and attempted deliberate homicide in the wounding of Vice Principal John Moffatt. A hearing was scheduled for this i' Daily News photo by Geff Hmds Kyra Cook, who suffers from total episodic amnesia, says she won't feel 'normal' until she can remember the first 18 years of her life Kyra builds a future without a past to the warm beaches of although she doesn't really know why she wants to go there. "I want to be like everyone else." Another one of Kyra's pet peeves is people who anxiously wait for her memory to come back every time she hits her head on something. Once she whammed her head getting into her brother's car.

When she had composed herself, she saw him staring at her. "Well?" he asked. "That just drives me crazy," Kyra says. "If it was that easy, I'd just take a hammer to my head and pound it." Kyra says she enjoys going to college and meeting new people. She has already signed up for classes next quarter and plans to take geography because she remembers hardly any of it.

At home, her mother says Kyra spends almost all of her free time studying. Her mother says Kyra is obsessed with getting straight A's at LCC this quarter, but she wasn't so worried about her grades when she attended R.A. Long High School. Please see Amnesiac, Page A2 By Kevin Dolan The Daily Newi News of the first 18 years of her life is just plain boring to Kyra Cook. Since Sept.

8, when a bump on the head erased her memory, Kyra has been adjusting to her new life, getting to know her family and old friends and attending classes at Lower Columbia College where she is earning straight A's. But one thing Kyra doesn't want to do is listen to tales of her life before Sept. 8. To her, the pre-Sept. 8 Kyra is someone she doesn't know.

"I'm sick and tired of people telling me what I did because I didn't do it," she says, stroking her favorite pet, a six-month-old ferret named Baby. "It drives me up the wall. "It's like listening to a lecture you know nothing about. It's boring. "I don't care what I did before," she says.

"I want to remember it myself." Kyra can't remember a thing about her life or Stranger in the house: Page Bl anyone she knew before Sept. 8. Her mother, Gloria Cook, thinks Kyra was hit in the head in a midday mugging in R.A. Long Park that day. Kyra's memory has been erased by total episodic amnesia.

That means Kyra knows what grandmother, fifth-grade and baking cookies mean, but she can't remember her grandmother baking cookies when Kyra was in the fifth grade. When talking about her amnesia, or anything else, words spurt from Kyra's mouth with blunt honesty. "I don't like commercials. Those people are stupid. I'd never do that for money." Another thing she dislikes is being regarded as an oddity.

"I hate people staring at me," Kyra says as she looks out into the busy cafeteria at the LCC Student Center. "They do it all the time. "I want to get far away from everybody who knows me for one week," she says. She often talks of escaping of.he News Departure puts shelter in limbo Pacific NW Bell asks for rate hike to cover refund By Ted M. Natt people have to rummage through garbage." Finance committee members were surprised when Redmill told them he was resigning, said Neil Wheeldon, interim president of the new board.

But they understood, he added. "The stress got to him over the years because, basically, they were always $8,000 or $9,000 behind," Wheeldon said. "He bootstrapped it in. But he finally saw he just couldn't do it." Redmill, who started the Word of Life as a hot-meal program in February 1982 and later opened a church bearing the same name, has taken a job selling cars. Patty Redmill said this morning they don't want to discuss their decision until after a meeting of the full board of directors Tuesday.

Redmill has battled constant money problems from the beginning. The United Way cut its funding in 1983, citing the lack of an active board of directors and inadequate financial statements. The Word of Life has more than $12,000 in bills, Wheeldon said, and owes between $80,000 and $90,000 on the Hudson Hotel. The organization moved its meal and shelter program Please see Shelter, Page A2 By Jeannie Kever The Daily Newt The man who turned caring for the homeless and the hungry into a personal mission at the Word of Life Fellowship resigned Thursday, saying the constant financial struggle had become too great a burden. J.L.

Redmill stunned members of the fellowship's finance committee part of a new, 17-member board of directors that took office in mid-October with the news that he and his wife, Patty, would no longer work with the group or serve on the board after Dec. 31. The board's interim president said it probably will try to restructure the agency and continue its work. The Word of Life is the only shelter for the homeless in Cowlitz or Wahkiakum counties. But an associate pastor at another church said the board's success will depend on its ability to convince the community it will be financially responsible.

Losing the Word of Life's shelter and meal program would leave the community reeling under a new burden of dealing with the homeless, said Tom Adams, associate pastor at the Church of the Risen Saviour. The Word of Life "keeps Longview from being a place where Fair for all FEDERAL PROSECUTORS in New York have decided to bring 13 people to trial on criminal charges arising from plans to sell Iran $2 billion worth of arms. Given the Iran arms sale situation in Washington, D.C., the decision has to be one of the Justice Department's worst in years. If the government prosecutes private citizens for attempting to do what White House operatives actually did do, then the responsible people in the White House ought to be prosecuted as well. As Richard Nixon and his White House cronies found out, the law applies to everyone, no matter how high or mighty his station in govern- Please see Views, Page A2 mission favored, but the U.S.

Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state agency May 27. The 1.7 million phone company customers will share in the refund even if they were not subscribers during April 15, 1983, to last Jan. 14, the period of the dispute. The refund is being given out as a one-time credit on phone bills. Most Seattle customers will receive a credit of $38.37 in the current billing cycle, which began Nov.

16. Residential customers on measured service will receive credit for $21.39. The state Utilities and Transportation Commission has given PNB permission to spread the refund costs over time. PNB said it would ask for a boost in rates to pay for the refunds and the cost of borrowing money to cover them. SEATTLE (AP) Pacific Northwest Bell says it will ask for a rate increase to help recover the $78 million it has been ordered to refund to 1.7 million phone customers.

Bruce Amundson, a PNB spokesman, said that if the rate increase is approved, customers eventually would pay $2 for every $1 refunded to cover the costs of outside funding for the $78.6 million refund. The refunds grew out of a dispute over the method PNB used to calculate how quickly customers must pay for modernizing telephone equipment. The Federal Communications Commission instructed PNB to use a depreciation method different from what the Washington Utilities and Transportation Com.