Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ian Smith Rhodesia future depends on How Well he can Lead country Hick rakes in Cash this Roy Clark will earn a staggering the shrewd businessman earns for each of his 220 concerts a see Page 23 Leisure problems Downto Earth answer s for those human failings Nee sunny Low high17 Winnipeg free press december 1978 final 15 cents with coloured comics 86 54 City towing contract police chief recommends me Arthurs by John Sullivan Mcarthur towing service should get the cites rus hour stowaway business for another Winnipeg police chief Norm Stewart has re in a report almost guaranteed to prompt Stewart said civic finance committee should award the 1979 contract to Mcarth Urs because of its better lower fees and speedy service in the past the approved by City finance commissioner Evans for submission to the com will be considered by finance members Mcarthur handling of the 1978 awarded by the Winnipeg police commission last prompted a flurry of complaints by the Public and City councillors in the past allegations of illegal stowaways and damage to vehicles led civic works and operations committee to insist on the insertion of severe antabuse provisions in the 1979 including a Complete ban on vehicle entry by to truck Neil Mcarthur enterprises which owns the towing was one of five firms which submitted tenders on the police contract to haul away offenders from no parking zones during 7to9 and 4to6 the other bidders were Camino enterprises owner of Adams and barrys towing United towing Al Hiway and City towing services and ass towing services the tenders were opened 16 and forwarded to the police chief for a in his Stewart said Mcarth Urs was the Only one of the five companies to freeze its charge for see police Page 4 United awarded aut Opac contract United towing services has been awarded Auto acs City Tow ing contract for the fifth year in a and two Winnipeg competitors Are crying the unsuccessful Maliken services and als towing ser vice claimed Friday that Auto Pac officials first weighted the con tract in United favor and then awarded it to the company even though it didst offer the lowest tender As aut Opac administrative director Carl Laufer revealed Friday the Public Agency did not hire a consulting firm to review its tender ing procedures for the Tow contract despite assurances june 20 by High ways minister Harry Enns that this had been at that Enns and aut Opac manager Dutton said the Winni Peg firm Gordon and company had been hired to Analyse the to contract system because of a Public outcry Over previous awards to the firm was first Given the Acci Dent contract for 1975 and received a three year renewal for 197678 in both the firm and aut Opac refused to reveal the value scoreboard r x of that contract or the number of tenders neither Enns nor de now the provincial minister responsible for the Manitoba Public insurance corporation could be reached for comment a division of United Rescue services was awarded the new 1979 contract 2 by Auto acs Board of directors after quoting a oneyear fee of to Tow vehicles involved in accidents within a 20mile radius of Winnipeg to Auto pics City bidders had to be Able to handle about stowaways in begin Ning but Andrew owner of Sali Ken services and operator of Auto Rescue towing said Friday his bid was less than United and claimed there was some Monkey business involved in Auto Pac contract Maliken insisted that although Tow firms were asked to enter bids on a possible two or three year con the Agency administrative Carl had made it quite Clear that a three year con see United Page 4 vietnamese arrive in City a second Small group of Vietnam Ese refugees his wife and their seven children arrived in Winnipeg Friday and quickly expressed excitement about their futures in advice for new arrival Page 81 the preceded thursday by a vietnamese woman and her two were met at the Winnipeg International Airport by a Small Wel coming party and sent to a City hotel with the few belongings they had with them the family escaped from Saigon in a Small boat about one month the aftermath at Jonestown a Camp of death a massacre the eyewitness report Tew t a i t of w w f 2m unbelievable Day in the Jungles of a Little known coun Charles the 31 year old Washington Post Cor respondent travelling with congressman Leo be came an eyewitness to the unimaginable details of suicide and incalculable the free press begins an exclusive serialization from Kra uses jus published Guyana which de tails those experiences and the tragedy of immense proper in this first who was wounded in the hip while trying to escape the armed assault on the Airport outside of tells what took him to on the Early leg of his Krause found the atmosphere almost by Charles Krause and Laurence Stern we were in the process of Board ing two planes at Mas Jungle Landing strip nearing the end of a curious Story about a congressman who wanted to investigate a Freaky religious com Mune in suddenly the Story was no longer three men on a dump truck and tractor approached our aircraft and began i went the bodies of other passengers started rolling Over me As the shooting the shots were louder and i could feel dirt spraying Over me but i didst hear anyone screaming or moan just the Poppo pop of the i Lay behind one of the wheels of the hoping they would think i was i knew then i was i the wrong place because they had come around to my the my left hip i Felt a part of a tooth and i knew i had been i was i thought that i wanted to be i was waiting to die As the seconds went i became resigned to i was then the shots seemed to come from further i dont know see unbelievable Page 8 70 May have died in iranian riots a troops fired on antigovernment rioters in Tehran Bazaar today at the Start of a volatile moslem holy least nine persons by official unconfirmed reports from dissident sources said 70 per sons were killed when troops fired machine guns into rioters in the crowded an undetermined number of others died in clashes in 400 Kilometres South of the troops chased rioters through the narrow the Tehran Bazaar with automatic weapons Blaz the government reported 35 wounded in addition to the dead and 115 diplomats put the toll at More than 20 waving Black islamic banners and shouting Mur the troops As the deadly Catan mouse game swirled through the bazaars labyrinth of shuttered stalls and much of Tehran was blacked out by sporadic Power cuts As violence boiled around the giant Flash Point of earlier protests against snap Mohammed Reza pah Lavis authoritarian the army moved tanks and a Mored cars into main squares and helicopters crisscrossed the apparently directing troops on the free wife told Archer by Brian Cole Brandon Dorothy Archer volunteered to talk her her Bert into releasing three hos tages he was holding in an Oak House last Archer took the hostages shortly after becoming involved in a gun Battle with ramp in in which one officer was killed and two others Gerald Coulter said a Cher volunteered to talk to Archer while she was in Brandon general Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound she received in the shootout at Coulter told the nine Man jury Archer said she would try to talk him into releasing Marcus his wife Stephanie Scherz and Dave Penny but that she do anything until she had a Chance to talk to the evidence came during the 15th Day of testimony at the trial of her Bert and Dorothy Archer on a joint charge of first degree her Bert and Dorothy have pleaded not guilty to the charge in connection with the shoot ing death of Dennis Onofrey outside the Countryside inn at Virden last Onofrey was killed by a single Shotgun blast after along with three other went to a Motel room occupied by Archer Toi vesti Gate a stolen vehicle the hostages have testified Archer told them he shot an officer outside the Motel room door after an officer pointed a cocked gun at his see archers Page 4 customers got the gears Toronto up two year investigation by the Ontario govern ment shows that franchised trans Mission repair shops have charged customers millions dollars for unnecessary or nonexistent re Frank Drea said the minister of consumer and commercial said the study found that Ontario repair dealers have charged customers As much As for repairs when none were lured customers to their shops with such things As Low Cost special then manipulated them into paying for major but nonexistent misled customers into believing they were receiving new or remanufacture transmissions when the dealers Only replaced some inexpensive parts and re painted the old received three week courses in psychological sales but Learned nothing about trans Mission told customers that residue in the transmission Oil pan meant Seri Ous when residue often indicates Normal been told to never discuss re pair costs with but to emphasize lifetime guarantees offered with expensive memorized special Selling see transmission Page 4 80 policemen quell Kenora strike violence up inside workers at Boise Cascade Canada were breathing easier today after Ontario attorney general sent 80 extra provincial policeman to escort them Cross picket lines set up by the lumber and Sawmill work ers Lyle president of local United paperworkers1 International said in an interview Friday that attorney general Roy Mcmurtry decision to Send in extra police has taken the pressure off workers who feared they would be injured crossing picket the 530member local is the largest of seven unions at the additional police arrived thursday after Hudson sent an urgent Telegram to Mcmurtry and provincial police commissioner graham1 follow ing a clash on the picket line wednes Hudson said his who arrived Friday in four buses escorted by a Large of provincial police Are prepared to re main on the Job until the strike is settled or they Are Laid ;