Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, June 07, 1979

Issue date: Thursday, June 7, 1979
Pages available: 98
Previous edition: Wednesday, June 6, 1979
Next edition: Friday, June 8, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free shipboard Blaze horrors recalled a ten exhausted grief stricken sailors from the Canadian freighter Cartie Cliffe Hall gathered in a Duluth Motel room wednesday evening and talked of a disaster they the men described the terror filled moments after their ship burst into flames Early tuesday in Lake Supe rior 16 Kilometres off Michigan Kew Enaw leaving four known dead and two others Scott 19yearold night and Eugene ships Cook who has been sailing almost As Long As Blair 56 hours in trunk of car a for 56 Dorothy Hudson was a trem bling voice in a car trunk calling out to a world that passed her giggling children mimicked the anguished cries of the 60yearold woman locked in the trunk of her 1963 Sedan by other passersby ignored her weakening she she heard a startled who that in locked in the she Call and at Long last Hudson was dazed and the 91pound pensioner told authorities her ordeal began last wednesday when she stopped her car at a Down town intersection and two Young men walked up to ask for directions to the nearest gasoline one of the men Slid into the car on the Drivers Side and the other got in the passenger squeezing her in the Middle of the front she its hard to Tell kid he cant go continued from Page 1 donations can be sent to the free press Sunshine 300 Cariton r3c or dropped off at the free press Classi fied receipts will be issued and names of donors published the free press and the Manitoba camping association Are cooperating in the fundraising donations will be used to Send kids to the 44 member amps in the All Are nonprofit and operated by a screening committee set up by the association will ensure that applicants pay As much of the Cost As names of those who receive a subsidy will remain parents who like to sign up their children can write the Manitoba Camp ing 1483 Pembina High r3t the association also has a special Sunshine fund Telephone line at donations 9n300 Roslyn 41946 473 Montrose Lac do 4011745 youth soccer Paul total to has been were two of four men who climbed out Cabin portholes to escape the suffocating when 1 woke there was just a Tittle bit of smoke in the Blair by the time he jumped from his bunk and grabbed for his smoke filled the hallway leading from his blocking his Only real it was so thick you could grab said Gerry a fellow the Crews quarters surrounds the engine the sailors a hallway runs Between the living quarters and the engine room other than the was the Only Means of the hallway quickly tilted with trapping the men in their Blair and Lamkin scrambled for portholes and were pulled to safety by sailors on the deck for a Lamkin thought he was destined to die regardless if what route he i could go into the Lamkin and id be i knew if i stayed it my room id be for a split he he contemplated then he was putted from the porthole to the upper it was Blair who found third mate Paul with bums Over More than 96 per cent of his sitting in a smoke filled corridor Yelling for he was completely the youth Blair put a Blanket around Boisvert and helped him into the cold night he walked All the Way to the front of the burned like a Blair Hes the strongest Man Ive Ever Boisvert remains in critical condition at the University of Michigan Burn Centre in Ann the Crew also told of Captain Ray mond Boudreau despite Burns Over a third of his still tried to help Blair shrugged off a comment that he had done much to in a Blair i helped out As much As i i knew i want going to the survivors said they didst realize others were trapped said Mark 22 i thought t was the last to be t thought i was t didst think anyone else was Down the men spoke Little of their six mates who were trapped their eyes turned to the floor when asked of the four were found dead tues Day and two More bodies were Reco Vered i feel very Lamkin said Sim the men will Tell their stories again at a coast guard inquiry Friday in Ken free press whee Lathon raises funds for Van City police Michael Krywy Onizuka escorts the 35 participants in a whee Lathon held yesterday afternoon to raise Money for a wheelchair Van for the Amant Centre for handicapped the who travelled a mile Long route along River were sponsored through pledges collected by Volunteer students who work at the event was part of the centres Celebration of the International year of the half the funds for the Van have already been raised and a giant disco Hon is planned for this goalpost Anchor pins missing carriers forecast produce famine continued from Page 1 we have no More information than what the police gave she said we dont know anything about them the the club cuts the grass on the playing said but the association has had to pick up broken Glass littering the Field before recent vandalism to the Field has been a he the association president said the fatality occurred during a halftime break when three boys had run to jump up on the goalposts which were scaled Down for minor league two of them hit the crossbar with their while David missed and fell to the the Force of the boys hitting the crossbar toppled the which fell on the Young soccer hitting him on the an ambulance was called and the boy was taken to Portage general Hospi he was dead on last year the association had wooden phony doctor fined Halifax up Stephen Ralph fined yesterday for prac Tising Medicine without a says he impersonated a doctor in for two months because he Felt a concern for the people and not out of any sense of i simply came up saw the facilities and wrote a letter saying 1 would take the office Weaver said in a Telephone interview with the Canadian press from the county jail last goalposts made of but the executive considered the Sharp edges to be Holmes the association adopted the use of rounded pipe following the example of senior he although aluminium pipe is normally the association president said it was not readily available and was steel pipe was and the association decided the extra weight would be beneficial because the posts were meant to be permanently placed during the the association says the posts Are but the anchoring of the steel pipes will be changed to make them More Holmes the minor soccer games will be continued next he in an interview the boys father said he dropped his son off at the Southside athletic club on tuesday evening and was playing Ball with friends when a soccer coach approached him and told him his son had been injured Charles Guy said the family Hast really considered whether any Legal action will be Holmes said the association was carrying no insurance at the time of the the boys body and his family will be transported today by an armed forces aircraft to where funeral services will be held an ramp spokesman said it would be a week before an investigation into the incident is the spokesman said police Haven talked to All the witnesses and described it As a Fluke a woman whose son was to play in the next game said they told us All further games were cancelled until the goalpost was the two soccer goals at the Southside club were taken apart but remained yesterday at the scene of the similar goals were found at another Community club in the the Guy family neighbors de scribed David As a pleasant Little a member of a fairly close family who enjoyed David is survived by his a twin brother a and a White Way hints he May get Job As head of National transport Board continued from Page 1 housing corporation would interest it is a Field where he has some expertise and could make a contrib he Whiteway said he int in dire need of a Job and wont take any Bureau cratic Board appointment simply out of political Sidney Spivak said yesterday he will attend the Friday caucus in Otta but Doest expect the question of appointments even to be the meeting is simply designed to gather together elected Defeated candidates and other party workers for discussions with the prime minister and he who was edged out of a seat in the commons and a possible Cabinet Post by Lloyd Axworthy in say whether he was interested in any government that decision will be entirely and it will be based on considerations other than just the association with the he Jack who lost a rematch with Liberal Bob Bockstael in Winni said he is being kept quite Busy running his own Busi Ness in Winnipeg but might be interested in an appointment if it was he said he didst intend to lobby for any i make a Point of never asking the government for he and 1 dont believe in the old policy of Peter Masliuk said he scoff at the idea of continuing to serve the Public in some capacity if he were but he expressed the desire to continue living at his Home in about 45 Miles Northwest of first elected to the com Mons in 1972 and reelected in was Defeated by nip candidate Terry Sargeant in continued from Page 1 nobody knows whats going All i know is we Are receiving our produce each but the grocery store Chain is experiencing some shipment delays of up to 48 due to Long waiting lines at service stations where diesel fuel is still Betty general manager of Scotts truck brokers in grand said the number of trucks going to Canada has been decreasing because of the High fuel costs and Scotts is another major trucking firm which delivers produce to Winnipeg from Texas most produce in local stores is brought from California and trucking rates have gone up per Load since the fuel shortage in the began and produce has already in creased approximately two per cent to absorb the new Riel other major Winnipeg grocers were reluctant to saying Only that the situation rests in the hands of trucking companies that deliver their Somoza clamps martial Law on Nicaragua Somoza battling strike news Roundup Managua president Anastasio Somoza clamped a state of siege on Nicaragua yesterday to help his government break a general strike and put Down a spreading insurrection led by sandinista heavy fighting raged in 88 Kilometres Northwest of this and there were reports of continued Battles in the South the Costa rican Border and in a half dozen Somoza told reporters in a Telephone interview that the state of a form of martial would enable the National guard to arrest people with out warrants and hold them longer than the constitutionally mandated 24 he said Domestic news Media would be restricted and the movement of persons in the Countryside military sources said reservists were being called up to Active duty and ordered to Managua National stadium for russians launch capsule Moscow the soviet Union launched an unmanned soyuz space capsule yesterday to rendezvous with the orbiting space station salyut which is occupied by two the official soviet news Agency Tass the soyuz is fitted with improved Booster rockets to Avert the kind of Docking failure that foiled a soviet bulgarian Mission two months Tass soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Yumin have been orbiting in the space station since 26 and Western space experts said the soyuz Craft might be used to bring them Back to to ban drug Washington the food and drug administration is planning to ban a cancer aus ing Antihistamine used in sleep aids and other outgoing Fra com missioner Donald Kennedy said yes the National cancer Institute concluded in april that used As an Active ingredient in Somin excedrin and numerous sleep causes liver cancer in rats and mice and should be presumed to do so in Sanjay Gandhi charged new Delhi Sanjay 32 year old son of former Indian prime minister Indira was charged yesterday with attempted murder and rioting during a protest demonstration in this capital last formal charges against who was arrested four times last were filed in magistrates he was arrested along with 301 of his supporters after a demonstration he was leading turned into a pitched Battle with death sought for 330 Turkey a military prosecutor asked the death penalty yester Day for 330 defendants in a mass trial on charges of involvement in sectarian fighting that killed 111 persons in the City of Kahraman Maras last de the prosecutor made the re quest in the third Day of hearings after the martial Law court completed a Rol Call of the 804 including women and the trial is being held in a sports Auditori 238 die in heat wave Calcutta a searing heat wave and drought have killed 238 persons in two weeks and caused widespread crop destruction in Eastern officials said in Bihar 198 persons were reported to have died As temperatures reached the heat scorched jute and Paddy crops in West causing million portuguese pm resigns Lisbon Portugal main left Wing political parties forced prime minister Carlos Mota Pinto to offer his resignation faced with censure motions from the socialists and the prime minister submitted the Resigna Tion of his six Montgold no party government to president Antonio Ramalho president eanes chose Mota a Law professor and at 42 Europe youngest prime from outside the political parties to head the government last assailant ruled insane Toronto a Man who shot mayor Mike Solski of Nickel because he thought the politician was part of a conspiracy to take away his property has been found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of in it was not Clear whether Romeo understood the jury verdict in the Ontario supreme court yester Kerim will be sent to the Maxi mum Security Section of the mental health Centre in from the news services ;