Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lassi fashions with a kick insulators join 3 genetic genetic connection 12 classic Story Ith a sad ending new sweeps fail to locate Sto Bio Dex horoscope.25 bridge.30 57 crossword.30 finance.12-15 for people.19-30 letters.52 jumble.40 movies.29 television.26 weather report from sunny High 15t Low 2 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Vol. 85 no. 186 tuesday May 9, 1978 15 cents use with coloured comics kills three p15nsacola, Fla. A three persons were killed and three others were Unac counted for today after a National airlines Jet crashed in Escambia Bay forcing Pas sengers to scramble out emergency doors into fog and a sea slicked with Jet fuel. The plane carrying 55 Pas sengers and a Crew of six settled in mud 10 feet below the Bay s surface. Divers sent into the partially submerged plane said everybody was out. But fog and hampered Rescue efforts during the night and a thunderstorm that moved Over the Bay Early today churned up the seas As divers searched for the missing. A head count was further con fused because passengers were scattered among six hospitals and several Rescue stations. Many were injured in lie crash monday night but dozens escaped safely when a tugboat Captain pulled his Barge to the plane tied it up and helped men women and children clamber aboard. If that Barge had t been there there s no telling How Many would have said Marine patrol sgt. Wil Liam Clenny. The identity of the Captain of the tugboat called the Little Joe was not immediately available. The plane flight out of Mobile ala., crashed on the Western tip of Florida s pan handle 32 Kilometres from the Alabama Border and til Kilometres from Mobile As it made a final Landing approach at the Pensacola air port disappearing from the radar screens five kilo metres from the runway. The downed Airliner its Tail lights still shining hours after the crash was mired in mud with at least one third of the fuselage above the water. Rescue boats and helicopters rushed to the scene in Calm seas. That plane skipped across the water like a Rock on a Pond and then settled into the a witness said. There were two loud re ports Blain blam As it know the scores hockey world championship soviet Union 4 Canada 2 Czechoslovakia 3 Sweden 2 memorial cup now Westminster 6 trois Meres 4 third oame round Robin tournament Centennial cup Guelph 6 Prince Albert 2 Guelph leads Besl of seven final 2-oj baseball american league Boston 8 Kansas City 4 National league new York 3 Cincinnati 2 details in sports pages 49 54, a 67 looking for a bicycle this want and under bicycles men s Peugeot 10-Speed Bike with and Carrier. 233-3022. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section pages 38 51, 58 65 no matter what you need save with free press want ads. Prices match to a Penny after a Long Winter s storage umbrellas of every style and shape reappeared on the City s streets monday s rainfall. Some of the Little people had Protection that served the purpose just As Well. Rev Cilam during Bob Banman tight lipped by Mike Ward and Dave Lee tourism minister Bob Banman of Manitoba declined to confirm or deny monday that the provincial Cabinet has rejected the controversial White Shell Condo minium development pro Josed by Winnipeg business Man Joe Jar Moe. Banman was responding both inside and outside the legislature to an article in monday s edition of the free press. The minister came under heavy fire in the legislature with opposition Las de manding answers on the development s current status. Sidney Green Ster asked Banman to con firm the report that Cabinet had rejected the White Shell plan. Banman replied that lie could t confirm the report. He said he was looking into various aspects of the development proposal including memorandums written by two department Heads recommending the project be abandoned. Outside the legislature Banman again refused to vetoed the development. He said he could t con firm that Walter Danyluk had left the department because he was the author of one of the memorandums. Meanwhile Joe Jar Moe who presented his million project to government last fall said in an interview he would be surprised if Cabi net had rejected the idea. Jar Moe said he had been in touch with government As late As last Friday and had b Een Given no indication that Cabinet had turned Down his see ban Man Page 4 Ottawa up unemployment improved in april for the first Timeon six months with the actual number of jobless standing at statistics Canada reported today. But the jobless rate when adjusted for seasonal changes which indicates trends in the work Force remained unchanged from March s High of 8.6 per cent. The figures show that april s jobless total was an improvement from the Peak of estimated in March. In april there were Unzem Plo de. The actual jobless rate was 9.3 per cent compared with 9.7 per cent in March and 8.8 per cent in april last year. The number of persons will jobs stood at the highest total since november. A year earlier there were persons working. The seasonally adjusted jobless Rale Rose in four provinces declined in five and remained unchanged at 7 a per cent in the largely Industrial province of Ontario. Jobless rates for women of All Ages fell but the rates for men increased. The rate for women 15 to dropped to per cent from per cent in March while that for women 25 and Over fell to 7.8 per cent from Rel per cent. For men 15 to 21 the jobless rate worsened to lfi.1 per cent from 15.9 per cent. Men 25 and Over saw their unemployment rate climb to 5.i per cent from 5.1 per cent. Ontario had the most unemployed with last month edging out que Bec with the unemployment rate Rose in new Brunswick to m per cent from 13.3 per cent in March increased to 11.1 per cent from 10.5 per cent in Prince Edward Island jumped to 6.8 per cent in Manitoba from 6.5 per cent and was up to .1.8 per cent from .1.5 per cent in Alberta the province with the lowest jobless British Columbia showed the biggest improvement with its unemployment Rale falling last month to 7.7 per cent from 8.5 per cent. By John Sullivan senior officials of Canada Cement Lafarge Ltd. And Inland Cement industries will be asked on May 23 to explain three years of identical bids on a municipal sup ply contract. The hearing was called monday by Winnipeg s works and operations com Mittee after both firms bid on the City s Cement contract. The prices quoted Are also the same to the Penny for All three types of con Crete which comprise the total contract. The to companies control every Canadian Cement Plant West of and including Winnipeg and identical bids on municipal contracts have been common in Calgary leg Iii and Edmonton As Well. Noting that the two companies have been annually charged with Price fixing by City councillors since Pistili. Hie committee also asked civic officials to study the possibility of giving the con tract to a . Supplier. However works commissioner Nick Diakiw said this would be an unlikely option for 1978 since the City s Cement inventory is already running thin. The commissioner said Winnipeg approached the Federal combines Branch to investigate the two compan ies in h175 but nothing has been done. The combines Branch has informed the City hat based on court rulings identical bidding does t necessarily presume the existence of col Council also complained to a subsequent Federal Royal commission on corporate concentration but we never heard Back from Diakiw said. He added that the prices quoted by the two firms Are 13 per cent higher than last year. Inland Cement industries held the City s business for years begin Ning in 197 to but Canada Cement was awarded the con tract last year. Although Diakiw noted that Canada Cement s bid was higher than its competitor s in 1974 and s150 higher in 1975, an angry councillor Harold Piercy called this a distinction without a it s just an amazing Coin Piercy Independent Henderson exclaimed. A s almost an insult to one s intelligence maybe we should go to the Ameri cans because we sure seem to have a captive Market Piercy said City Council should find out from the combines Branch what Evi Dence it needs to demand a Federal investigation and called for More detailed con tract specifications by the City. Lie said this would Force the companies to disclose their ingredient costs on More items and open up heir pricing practices to scrutiny. C Oun. Eldon Koss ice Deer Lodge added that if councillors Are forced to choose Between the two firms company officials should be required to reveal their lax Hills and How Many employees they have so we can at least give i to the one see City Page i judge decides the shooting death of Larry Schultx. Last May 20 in Labarriere Park could have been suicide but it was highly provincial judge Sid Cohan ruled monday. Judge Cohan delivered his finding after three Days of testimony earlier this year at an inquest about death after the robbery of the Sanford credit Union. Schultz died of two Bullet wounds through his Chest after police pursued him and George William Labium from Sanford to the Park. Labium 27, serving nine years in jail for his part in the armed robbery and another credit Union Holdup testified at the inquest last month that he was watching Schultz from Bushes in the Park about 50 to 75 Yards away. He testified he saw Schultz put his hands up to surrender when two shots rang out. But judge Cohan said according to other testimony it was impossible to see Schultz As Labium testified. Labium said the two had fled after leaving their car at the end of a High Speed Chase from the Sanford area to the Park in fort Garry. Shots were fired both from the car of the fleeing fugitives and by police. Schultz s left hand had Small lacerations on the Finger tips and powder Burns around the Bullet holes could have been from slugs of the .44-magnum Semi automatic Rifle he car ried according to medical testimony. Judge Cohan ruled the evidence surrounding the Circum stances of Schultz s death was he said it was possible that the fatal wounds resulted from Schultz shooting himself while fleeing. But judge Cohan person or persons unknown could have caused the death. He said he was unable to determine if death was by an unlawful act or by Accident. Persons Berkowitz cooly details killing new York a David Berkowitz pleaded guilty monday to the six .44-calibre killings committed during a year Long reign of terror As the furtive son of Sam. I m an excellent Berkowitz said quietly at one stage in an interrogation by three different judges. At another Point the 2-f-year-old Burkowitz cooly detailed the shooting death of 18-year old Donna Lauria of the Bronx the first of his six victims. You the girl s sobbing Mother Rose said through a handkerchief from a fourth Row seat in the courtroom where emotions among parents of the victims ran High and seemed in Stark contrast to the defendant s self control. Berkowitz faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison for each of the six slayings and a maximum of 25 years in prison for the attempted murder of seven victims who escaped with injuries. Sentencing was set for May 22 on All counts. However under new York stale Law any cumulative sentence for the former sol Dier and former postal clerk cannot exceed 30 years to life making him eligible to see Berkowitz Page 4 ;