Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 4, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Centurions again fort Richmond centurions won the fit basketball tourney i for a recording setting third time see Page 49 imlach fired i Buffalo sabres of the nil today announced the dismissal of general manager George punch Mlach and coach Marcel Pronovost. Imlach 60, has been general manager of the sabres since they joined the nil in 1970. The announcement came after Buffalo lost a weekend Home and Home series with Montreal canadians. A a the rundown on wrap aluminium foil and plastic wrap can be used for Many of the same purposes but foil is heavier and versatile. Which brands of each give you the Best Dollar value see Page 17 web Cloudy Low -10, High -2 Winnipeg free monday december 4, 1978 15 cents 25c with coloured Cotta cd vol. 86 no. 55 three Toronto up three fire fighters were killed today in an Early morning Blaze that fire officials believe was the work of an arsonist. It was the third fire in two years at the giant Kimberly Clark of Canada Ltd. Warehouse in Northwest metro Politan Toronto said Bryan Mitchell Etobicoke fire chief. The three firefighters killed were buried under a stack of falling paper at the Plant which manufactures facial tissue and other products. The three were District chief Lloyd Janes 54, capt. Donald Kerr 46, and firefighter John Clark 44. Firefighters who worked frantically for about two hours to recover two of the dead men wept As the bodies were carried to an ambulance shortly after 5 . The body of the first victim was recovered minutes after the Nies of paper fell. Mitchell said arson had been suspected in the previous two fires at the Plant in the metro Borough of Etobicoke but investigations were hampered Fay falling paper which crushed any evidence. But let s face it. Fire just does t Start accidentally in paper and did t in this Case today. 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Moon rises . Sets . Looking for a fur coat this want and is under clothing 570 Tusk ret code 1-m6. Men s clothing size 35-12. Girl s dresses Etc. Open to offers. 582-2438. It is among he hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 34 malaysian villagers and a vietnamese refugee help an elderly woman ashore after she abandoned a which Sank sunday near Kuala Trengganu. The woman was one of 153 rescued refugees on the boat. Nearly 250 vietnamese drown p Priolo boat Kuala Bumpur a Al most 250 vietnamese refugees drowned or were missing after three escape boats Sank during the weekend while hundreds of others made it to Shore in the growing exodus from Vietnam. Two refugee boats went Down in the Gulf of Thailand and off malay Sia s Northeast coast sunday. Authorities said 108 persons were dead or missing and there were More than 265 survivors. The third boat Sank off Malaysia saturday and Marine police said 139 persons drowned or were missing and feared dead. The weekend sinking raised the known toll from such tragedies to close to 400. Hundreds of other refugees dodged stepped up malaysian coastal patrols As the currents car ried them South from Vietnam in search of new Homes. Most of the refugees Are ethnic chinese who dominated Vietnam s commercial life before the communist takeover in 1975. They say they Are not wanted by the government in Vietnam and say officials Are letting them buy their Way out for hefty payments in Gold. Hundreds have slipped into Malaysia despite that government s Campaign to head them off and turn those in seaworthy boats Back out to sea. Malaysia puts them in Camps until other countries can be found to take them but officials Here say the transit Camps Are overcrowded with arrivals outnumbering Depar Tures 20 to 1 since november. Officials in Thailand said today they recovered the bodies of 40 Refu gees and were searching for 60 others following the sinking of a boat off the Southern City of Narath wat on sunday. Police said 220 persons swam ashore. The boat had been refused per Mission to land at Narath wat on saturday. Police speculated the refugees might have scuttled it rather than head Back out to sea. Another boat Sank off me Chang on Malaysia s Northeast coast on sunday. Ottawa up government intervention in International Money markets reduced reserves of foreign currencies by More than million during november the finance department reported today. Bank of Canada traders spent million of . Dollar holdings to support the value of the Canadian Dollar which dropped by More than half a cent . During the month. Depreciation of the . Dollar on world currency markets Cost Canada another s123.9 million. This is be cause the Gold and International monetary Reserve holdings Are calculated in terms of a composite of the currencies of the major economic Powers. The . Which the Canadian Dollar is closely lost seven cents against this International Standard finance officials said. Total official reserves now stand at s4.5 billion of which More than half Are . Dollars. Last month s total was billion. Last month s drop in reserves was a contrast to the s297-million increase the government reported for octo ber. But november unlike the previous month saw a weakening in the value of Canada s currency. The Dollar ended the month at 85.45 cents ., compared with an opening value of 85.93 cents. The changes in International re serves were -. Dollar holdings decreased by s46s.9 million. Holdings of other foreign Curren cies decreased by drawing rights in the International monetary fund were Down by million. Reserve position in the International monetary fund was Down by million. By Paul Moloney aut Opac has succeeded in pressuring Manitoba s Auto Glass installers to Stop giving discounts to motorists or run the risk of being forced out of business. In a harshly worded ultimatum mailed to the Glass Industry nov. 13, the Public insurance Agency said it would tender out its Glass replace ment work if the discount practice did t Stop immediately. A tendering system would conceivably limit Auto Pac work to a Small number of successful bidders and put the others out of business according to Industry officials. The Industry represented by Auto motive trades association Manitoba inc., hastily met with installers and was Able to procure signed agreements that the businessmen would Stop discounting As of last Friday. Ray Strofel of the association said implications of tendering were Hor conceivably a Glass re pair contract could be awarded to Only one firm perhaps an out of province operation which would thus put Many companies out of Busi Ness. The provincial insurance Agency decided to use the tendering threat after it found it had no Legal author Ity to require individual Glass shops to change their pricing practices said k. M. Jordan director of claims. Aut Opac objected to discounts be cause it Felt companies which could afford them must be making wind fall profits from aut Opac financed repair work. The Industry has denied that excess profits Are being made. Jordan of aut Opac said the corporation has no evidence of Windfall profits. In any event Carl Laufer aut Opac administration director wrote the Industry that the discount practices indicate to us the presence of excess profits in an Industry which is closely linked to Public expenditures at a time when government is actively and publicly following a program of restraint and Cost reduction. See Glass Page 4 by John Sullivan nearly vehicles were towed from Winnipeg Rush hour parking zones in first nine months of 1978, a trend which could earn Mcarthur s towing service an estimated by the end of the year. Towing it s big business Page s however a look at towing practices indicates the City contract now held by Mcarthur s but up for grabs in 1979 just a Small part of Winnipeg s Multi million Dol Lar towing business. Mcarthur a whose tender on next year s contract received the support of police chief Norm Stewart Friday Over four other bidders towed illegally parked vehicles from Rush hour zones during the i Ine months ending sept. 21, said police traffic superintendent Harry Forgie in an interview. The firm hauled away vehicles during the 4 . To 6 . Period and another during the 7 . To 9 . Rush hour he said. A conservative estimate of the year end tally is Between and stowaways which would earn Mcarthur s about for the year at the City imposed rate of for towing and one Day s storage. Another three or four cars Are hauled each month under special police order Forgie said. The superintendent said Mcarthur s had told police the City con tract represents Only 20 per cent of its business. Mcarthur s also obtains Revenue from its towing agreements with owners of commercial buildings apartment blocks and other private lots. As Well it offers the traditional boosting services and personal Tow ing Calls. Although Mcarthur s is the City s largest towing concern there Are about 30 other firms engaged in towing full time. Estimates of total annual reve nue earned by the Industry Are made even More difficult because at least 30 area sen ice stations and car dealers offer towing As part of their operations As Well. Neil Mcarthur enterprises Ltd. Is one of six corporations or sets of individuals who own another 20 City lowing businesses among them Al though some of the subsidiary names Are not officially registered with the company Branch of Manitoba s department of consumer and corporate affairs. Guyana massacre the eyewitness report we know congressman Leo Ryan spent two frustrating Days imploring officials to let him and his news Media Contin gent travel to Jonestown in the second of this exclusive seven part serialization from Guyana massacre the report and cye witness Charles Krause de scribes the lengths to which the Ryan contingent went to seek ing Entrance to Jonestown. And How finally with the arrival of the Temple s attorneys Mark Lane and Charles Garry Ryan decided to Fly to Jonestown without imitation and despite threats and warnings. As for Krause Don Harris and the other journalists the Choice to go along was theirs. Our Only concern was to get the show on the Road and Fly into Jonestown. By Charles a. Krause and Laurence Stern a few minutes after Midnight on wednesday november 15, con Gressman Leo Ryan and two staff assistants Jackie Speier and Jim Schollaert were Given the vip treatment by guyanese immigration officials at the Georgetown Airport. They moved quickly through the Gates were met by . Embassy officials and were driven off in official cars to Guyana s capital City a somnolent overgrown Vil Lage an hour s drive from the air port. Ryan was to stay in ambassador John Burke s residence in route to his death in the Jungle less than 72 hours later. Speier and Schollaert had rooms waiting for them at the Pegasus hotel in Georgetown. The rest of us nine journalists and 13 members of the concerned relatives group stood for an hour in the Airport sweating it out in the Long lines waiting to be processed by customs and Immi Gration. The air in the terminal was stale and humid. I thought it was a fitting introduction to Guyana and to the Kooky assignment that had brought me Here. Two members of Jim Jones peo Ples Temple were at the Airport to watch our arrival. They caused a stir among the Calico Means. One of the templates was Sherwin Harris sex wife Linda who was now known As Sharon. She ignored her former husband and stared silently As we moved slowly through the lines. Four Days later she would be dead her Throat slashed. The Harris 22-year-old daughter Liane. Would die too As a Side event to the massacre that was coming. I had no intimations of any of that. This Story was starting out As a tedious farce peopled with Cra Zies and publicity hounds. All i wanted was to get my passport stamped and head for the Pegasus hotel where i assumed i had a room reserved and waiting. At the hotel there was another four up. Our rooms had been Given to other guests. The concerned relatives thought this was pan of a plot by the Peoples Temple to Dis courage the visit. I thought it was just another irritating episode in see we did t Page 6 ;