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 sea 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 the Canadian Export association presi Dent . Burns considers it a future option to Aid the Canadian Economy see Page 32 Clear High-12, Tow-21 Winnipeg free press to m final tuesday november 21, 1978 15 cents 2k with coloured comics this View shows an area of the Encampment at Jonestown Guyana where cultists committed mass suicide. A the vat of death sits on a sidewalk at the people s Temple Tho bodies of followers around. The vat contained a drink laced with cyanide. Death Camp survivors stalked Georgetown a guyanese soldiers searched through a steam ing Jungle monday for hundreds of american religious zealots who fled their Remote compound after the suicide murder deaths of at least -109 fellow cultists. Some were shot but most apparently lined up and took doses of cyanide Poison mixed in a tub with Flavoured water government officials said. A witness said Poison was spoon fed to babies. All were reported to be americans. With most of them from California. They perished at about the same time saturday that enraged members of the sect attacked an investigative group led by representative Leo Ryan killing Ryan and four others at a dirt Airstrip. By mid afternoon soldiers reported counting the bodies of 163 women 138 men and 82 children. A police spokes Man said later the toll was 409 As the terrible task continued at the Settle ment in this Small South american country tucked below Venezuela. He said bodies still were being found. Also found in the Fields huts and communal dormitories were 17 shot guns 14 rifles seven pistols a flare gun and Large amounts of ammunition government officials said. Afore coverage on Page s by dark police and soldiers had found Only 12 survivors from among the estimated 500 to 900 who had fled into the Bush. Among the dead were Jim Jones founder of the people s Temple Settle ment called Jonestown his wife and one of their sons. Jones the offspring of an inter racial marriage and his followers both Blacks and Whites established the Inland settlement last year. It was carved from the Jun Gle in an isolated Region 240 kilo metres Northeast of Georgetown and 80 Kilometres South of the venezuelan Border. Charles Kraus a reporter for the Washington Post who was with the Ryan party saturday but escaped death was in a Pool of journalists permitted to return to Jonestown with government forces monday. He said Jones had been shot in the head and was one of the few to die from a Bullet wound. Jones s body clothed in Black pants and a coloured casual shirt was on a stage of the communal meeting Hall Kraus said. Scores of bodies were packed in the Hall a round Pavilion about 40 metres in diameter with a roof but no Walls he said and other bodies were in clusters outside the Hall Many with their arms around one an other. Government investigators told re porters Jones apparently had shot himself. They said most of the dead apparently drank the fruit Flavoured water spiked with cyanide but it appeared some had Poison injected in their veins while infants were fed the deadly doses. See soldiers Page 4 suicide concept in Jones s cult the Washington Post Washington ultimately when they could do no More for their Leader the followers of the Rev. Jim Jones did just what he had programmed them to they died for his Brand of socialism. Throughout the 15-year history of the people s Temple Jones constantly used fear of violent death or persecution As a tool to Mold his band of sex cons drug addicts misfits and lost souls into a cohesive almost military congregation. Suicide was ingrained in his one for Mer cult member said monday. Everyone who joined people s Temple not Only entered into a suicide pact but frequently rehearsed the morbid act with Jones. A master manipulator Jones frequently used pub Lic beatings and Pep talks to impress upon his followers the fact that the United states was on the verge of a fascist takeover and anti Black race War. When he took some of his followers to the Jun Gle of Guyana in South America he told them they we re entering the promised according to a relative of one who went. According to former cult member Stoen Jones frequently put his congregation through tests. He would pass around a Brown Stoen said in a West coast to interview telecast monday and Tell everyone to drink it. After they drank it he would Tell them they would die in about an hour. Meanwhile he would ask them to stand up one by one and Tell the group Why they were proud and honoured to die for then after an hour went by Stoen added Jones would Tell his followers that they would not Din and that he had just conducted a test of their loyalty. Police gun cocked i fired Archer by Brian Cole Brandon Man. 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 i fired. I did t see where it hit see mountie Page 4 report says most Street Box alarms prove false. False alarms cited fire alarm Box removal urged by Andy Blicq a task Force headed by the Winnipeg fire depart ment 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 saying he d be crazier than hell to do so. 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 see report Page first class 17 cents postal rates Rise 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 postmaster general Gilles Lamontagne announced monday. Opposition maps whistled when the minister made his announcement in the commons and later strongly criticized the minister s running of the department. Walter Dinsdale conservative postal critic said the announcement will do nothing to enhance the tarnished reputation of the Post office and probably will Hurt it. Asking this postmaster general to natural Gas Price Rise sought in application Winnipeg homeowners using Natu ral Gas Are facing their third Price in crease in less than a year. The greater Winnipeg Gas company has filed an application with the Public utilities Board of Manitoba asking for permission to increase its rates and improve its return on in vestment. The Board has tentatively scheduled hearings into the proposal for next february. Company spokesman Ian Suther land said in an interview monday that inflation and the higher Cost of Bor rowing have pushed up All the firm s costs which necessitates another rate increase. Previous rate increases in the last year Are a result of increased costs of Gas from the pipeline and higher property tax assessments which Are unrelated of the company s rate of return he said. The utilities Board granted the Gas company an 8.3 per cent hike last March and an additional average monthly increase in septem Ber. The average annual Gas Bill for the company s customers has risen to this year while next year s Bill will top for the first time the utilities Board will consider allowing the Gas company to argue for an increase in return on investment based on projected expenses. In the past the see greater Page 4 fuel Cost increases Likely As result of Oil Price talks run the department is like asking Evel Knievel to Park your shouted John Rodriguez Nickle the minister also announced that an agreement has been reached with state Secretary John Roberts under which the state Secretary s depart ment will subsidize losses suffered by the Post office on second class mail such As publications. 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 minister s announcement to show which publications would be helped by the new policy. Clark said the announcement was alarming and has implications of censorship. Score Board football nil Houston 35 Miami 30 hockey nil los Angeles 4 Chicago 3 details in sports Page inside Ottawa up Consumers May have to face some fuel Price in creases Early next year even if not a full three cents a gallon As a result of current negotiations Between Ottawa and Alberta. Federal Energy minister Alastair 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 increase of a barrel in the Price of crude. But Federal officials say privately that at some Point in the talks it May become necessary to accept a com Promise on Price something Between nothing and the figure negotiated 8 months ago. It is also possible they say that the ministers will negotiate a longer term Deal covering later increases. A Al a barrel 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 1. Anytime.7 horoscope.14 jumble.45 comics.65 crossword.26 movies.30 31 finance.32-3. Weather.5 Sun risk . Sets . Moon rises . Sels . Looking for furniture this want and is under furniture 575 leaving City. Must sell contents of 5-room Bungalow he Lurono rec room also mint ten hash inn piano. Phone Ku-4750. It is among the hundreds of bargains in classified Starling on Page 42 ;