Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 who can t forget for 25 years survivors of the 1953 polio epidemic have been forced to live together in a single Hospital Ward see Page 21 super Saint retires Dave Mills has retired from the super saints during a brazilian tour ending 17 years of dedication to the team see Page 59 will free Trade help the Canadian Export association presi Dent . Burns considers it a future option to Aid the Canadian Economy see Page 32 Clear Low -18, High -6 Winnipeg free press tuesday november 21, 1978 final vol. 86 no. 44 15 cents 25c with coloured comics soldiers searching Jungle for survivors of massive suicide Georgetown Guyana a guyanese troops searched the Jungle today for hundreds of . Cultists who fled from a mass suicide in which More than 400 others died some shot but most poisoned by a mixture of Kool Aid and cyanide. Eye witness account of cult killings Page s the . Defence department was flying about 200 troops to Guyana to get the bodies of the dead in the Jonestown agricultural settlement which Rev. Jim Jones and members of his people s Temple established in Northwest Guyana four years ago. The bodies of Jones and his wife were among 409 corpses which a police spokesman said guyanese troops had counted in and around the meeting Hall in Jonestown. One re Porter who visited the scene said it looked like a garbage dump where somebody dumped a lot of rag Jones and several others had been shot presumably by themselves. The others had drunk Kool Aid into which the Camp doctor mixed cyanide. Also found at the Camp was in Cash and some jewelry. Unconfirmed reports also said in Gold and hundreds of social Security cheques had also been found. Fifteen survivors were reported found three in the Camp and 12 who came out of the Jungle. Estimates of the missing ranged from More than 375 to More than 775. An exact Esti mate was not possible because re ports of the settlement s total Popula Tion ranged from 800 to 1.200. Most were from California the Headquarters of the sect. Jones a former san Francisco City official ordered the mass suicide sat urday after members of the cult attacked representative Leo Ryan of California and . Reporters who visited Jonestown to investigate re ports that residents of the settlement were being brutally treated and that would be defectors were prevented from leaving. Ryan and his party were attacked As they were boarding two planes at the port Kainuma Airstrip 13 kilo metres from Jonestown with 16 defectors from the settlement. Ryan three . Reporters and a woman fleeing from the settlement were killed and 10 others were wounded. One of the survivors found in Jonestown a 26-year-old teacher named Odell Rhodes said after Ryan left the settlement Jones announced by loud speaker that he had ordered the con Gressman and the journalists with him killed. See guyanese Page i score Board football nil Houston 35 Miami 30 hockey nil los armies 4 Chicago 3 details in sports Page Sam inside anytime.7 horoscope.24 jumble.45 comics.65 letters.58 crossword.26 movies.31 television.29 weather.5 Sun rises Moon rises . Sets 12m2p.nl. Looking for furniture this want and is under furniture 575 la Vino City. Must sell contents of 5-room Bungalow including acc room also mint Condi lion a Clotzman piano. Phone 832-4750. It is among the hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 42 this View shows an area of the Encampment at Jonestown Guyana where cultists committed mass suicide. Egyptian demands rejected Jerusalem a the israeli Cabinet approved a draft peace treaty with Egypt today but rejected Cairo s latest de mands prime minister Mena chem begin said. By a vote of 15 to 2, the Cabinet also endorsed a decision to begin separate negotiations Over an autonomy scheme for the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza strip after the ratification of the Israel Egypt treaty. Begin gave no details of the terms of the treaty but it was believed to be based on a . Compromise draft that was worked out Between . State Secretary Cyrus Vance and Israel s top negotiators nov. Ii. Sources said the draft varied Only slightly from that of a month ago. Archer confessed officer tells Coart by Brian Cole Brandon a remorseful Herbert Archer told several ramp officers after his arrest that he had shot an officer who had cocked his gun after police had kicked open the door to his Virden Man., Motel room last Jan. 23. Const. Garry Harrison testified monday that Archer said the police came to the door yelled and kicked open the door. I grabbed the gun. The police had their guns out. The cop on the right pulled Back the Hammer and 1 fired. I did t see where it hit Reading from a Small Black note Book Harrison said Archer told him he took a second shot and missed. He then grabbed a .308 with his left hand and aimed with his left Eye at a shadowy figure hitting Archer is said to have blurted out the confession while giving a 30-Mi Nute disjointed account of the shoot ing incident and subsequent events while being driven to Brandon shortly after being arrested following a hos Tage taking incident at Oak Lake Man. Archer also said he was sorry one of the officers had to die Harrison testified. The evidence was heard during the sixth Day of testimony at the trial of Herbert Archer 42, and Dorothy a Cher 28. The two have pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree murder stemming from the shooting death of const. Dennis Onofrey last january at the Countryside inn in Virden. Onofrey was shot after he along with three other officers initiated an see mountie Page 4 3rd increase in 3 years first class mail to Cost 1 As of april 1 Ottawa up the Cost of first class mail will Rise to 17 cents an ounce from the present 14 cents along with other postal rates next april 1, postmaster general Gilles Lamontagne announced monday. Opposition maps whistled when the minister made his announce ment in the commons and later strongly criticized the minister s running of the department. Walter Dinsdale conservative postal critic said the announce ment will do nothing to enhance the tarnished reputation of the Post office and probably will Hurt it. Asking this postmaster general to run the department is like asking evil Knievel to Park your car shouted John Rodriguez Nickle the minister also announced that an agreement has been reached with the state Secretary John Roberts under which the state Secre tary s department will subsidize losses suffered by the Post office on second class As publications. Natural Gas Price to Rise Winnipeg residents could face their third natural Gas Price in crease in less than a year As greater Winnipeg Gas company seeks an improvement in its Al Lowed rate of return. The company has filed an application with the Public utilities Board to increase rates and improve its allowed return on in the Board has tentatively scheduled hearings into the proposal for next february. Company spokesman Ian Suth Erland said in an interview Mon Day that inflation and the higher Cost of borrowing have pushed All the firm s costs up which Neces see greater Page 4 he gave no details of the agree ment other than to say that the state Secretary will set postal rates. The minister said there will be no subsidy to publications but compensation to the Post office for losses incurred through any government policy to assist publications in their mailing costs. Opposition Leader Joe Clark expressed Strong concern because there was no indication in the min ister s announcement to show which publications would be helped by the new policy. Clark said the announcement was alarming and has implications of censorship. A later announcement from Roberts said his department will set rates for certain categories of mail affecting periodicals books and the Nev policy would provide the Opportunity to consider alternative ways of ensuring that these kinds of cultural products Are support see first Page 4 increase expected in Oil prices following Ottawa Alberta talks Ottawa up Consumers May have to face some Oil Price increase Early next year even if not a full three cents a gallon As a result of current negotiations be tween Ottawa and Alberta. Federal Energy minister alas Tair Gillespie says that As far As he is concerned it is All or nothing in talks with the province on Feder Al proposals to skip a Jan. 1 in crease of a barrel in the Price of crude Oil. But Federal officials say privately that at some Point in the talks it May become necessary to accept a Compromise on Price something Between nothing and the is figure negotiated 18 months ago. It is also possible they say that the ministers will negotiate a longer term Deal covering further increases in later months. A increase in crude prices Jan. 1 would result in about an additional three cents a gallon on the Cost of gasoline or Home heating Oil when it passes through the system to Consumers by March the Federal government failed see increase Page 4 97% of Calls were false fire alarm Box removal urged by Andy Blicq a task Force headed by the Winni Peg fire department has recommended that City fire alarm boxes be removed and Telephone Booths be used by the Public for emergency Calls. A 96.7 per cent false alarm rate for the boxes is the main reason for the recommendation fire chief Jack Coulter said monday. But the City s finance commissioner g. R. Evans said he did not know the status of the task Force report. He bluntly refused to release any information on the recommendation say ing he d be crazier than hell to do so. Insisting the Public should not be informed of the possibility of removal of the boxes Evans said our elected people should be the first to know it is a very politically sensitive it s not any of your Evans added. There is no Way you re going to determine anything from however a City Hall source said monday that the report has been seen by the City s Board of commissioners and returned to the task Force for some minor additional information. The source said god Only knows when the report will again be before the City s Board of commissioners. A fire department spokesman said the information requested is being assembled by the fire department. After some details Are confirmed it will go Back to City Hall he said. Coulter said the task Force has recommended that the 689 Street boxes and 148 auxiliary boxes in buildings and department stores be removed. The Public would instead use 175 existing Telephone Booths located throughout Winnipeg. An additional 76 Telephone Booths would be placed in the High fire see most Page 4 Prioto another false alarm ;