a Page 2, The Herald, Monday, October 2, 1978 MONDAY HARDWARE STORES Sauna All listings subject to change without notice. a wTTTT UTIL itif itt tilt Ls 5 p.m. to midnight KING F CFTK BCTY 9 KCTS 2 (NBC) 3 (CBA) 4 (CTV) (PBS) :00 | Carol Mary Tyler 6 Million Dollar J Mister :15 9 Burnett Moore Man Rogers :30 | News Hourglass Electric 145 Company 00 Capra News Growing oN Hour - Years :30 . Dick 145 Cavell :09 . | Seattle Grand Old MacNeil -15 | Tonight Country Lehrer :30 [| Hollywood The Newsworld :45 | Squares Waltons 09 | Little Hause on WKRP Opium :1§ | Prairie ‘The Politicians’ 230 MA.S.H. 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J ANDERSON } in a trunk The world’s must famuus ventriloquist, Edgar Bergen, 75, was found dead by his wife, Frances, in their hutel suite here Saturday af- lernoun as she went to awaken him. A euruner said ihe apparently died of a heart attack. Show business —_per- sonalities were stunned by the death of the gentle, mild- mannered Bergen, who had provided the insults and quips for the immaculalely- dressed McCarthy, in his m™ white tie, tails and lop hat, for 60 years, He had received standing ovations al Caesar’s Palace nightclub cach night leading up lo what was to have been his final performance before retirement on Oct. 11. Close friends knew he had heart trouble and had been advised tu take il easy, bul former bandleader Phil Harris said “Entertaining people was Edgar's whole life. 1 could never have imagined him net working.” Bergen was a high schoul student when he had a woadearver make Charilic for $35. McCarthy spent his ‘life’ trading insulls with Bergen and with the stars of shuw business, including the late W. C. Fields who once ihreatened lu feed him to a pencil sharpener. At the retirement party, he asked Bergen: ‘What are you retiring’ frum? You jiaven’t worked a day since you mel me.” Bergen reached his peak when he starred in his own radio series suun after (he Secund World War, He also ran a television quiz show, and appeared in such films as Charlie McCarthy— Detective. He (upped the bill. in theatres here and vver- seas, including Sweden where his parents were burn, In Stockholm, MeCarthy amazed audiences with his fluent Swedish. . Apart from McCarthy, Bergen most frequently used two other dummies, country bumpkin Murtimer Snerd and spinster Effie Klinker. But it was for McCarthy that ilent now Bergen was best knuwn-— and the dummy was probably better known than his manipulater. ~ Bergen, whuse, daughter Candice is an actress and photographer, finished his last show al Caesar's Palace Saturday morning with lhe ‘words. he had used lo con- clude all his shows since he had announced his re lirement—‘‘all acts have @ ‘ beginning and an end... And! think that time has come for me.”" As fur McCarthy, the dummy will ge to the Smithsonian Institution in Washinglon. ‘You would think there were enough dummies in Washinglon al- ready,’ McCarthy told Bergen in their final act. 'Transport decisions pose problems for Trudeau gov't OTTAWA (CP) — Several Me decisiuns of the Canadian transport cummissiun have develuped intu political hot pulatues for the Trudeau government as it prepares fur a new session of Parliament. Transport Minister Qito Lang got rid of one em- barrassment last weekend when he reversed a cum- mission decisiun and urdered Mm daily rail passenger service in Northern Ontario tv con: tinue for al Jeast one mure year. The vriginal commissiun decision not only would have decreased rail service for ihe 20H residents along ihe CNR tracks between Capreol and Winnipeg, bul also would have affected railway employment in other parts of Northern Ontario. And as the government Twelve AYER'S CLIFF, Que. iCP) — As many as 12 elderly members of a Barrie, Ont., hurticultural group are believed to have died in a [ire early Sunday which de- struyed the Ripple Cove Inn in this town by Lake Massawippi, 130 kilumetres southeast of Muntreal, By late afternoon, pulice Shad recovered eight bodies and were still searching the rubble fur four more. Eight survivurs needed tv be taken tu hospital in a nearby Sherbrovke where iy they were reported in salisfaciory condition suf- fering from burns, shock, smoke inhalation and other minor injuries. About half uf the group of 47, most of whom were elderly, were in the main building when fire broke ut Sshortly after 2 am., a Quebec provincial police spokesman said. The rest were staying in cottages behind the inn. Murray Ruttan, driver uf the group's chartered bus, was asleep in one of the cuttages when a passenger began banging un his win- duw. “She yelled al me that the inn was on fire,"' he said. “I lugked wut the window and il was just in flames. “T put my clothes on as quickly as 1 cuuld and ran out tu help take peuple out of the building.” “The biggest prublem," he added, ‘“‘was that some. wanted to go back for their luggage...."" They went back in ‘and never came oui,” Rultan said. We'’r Listed Here! “the *Sherbrovke If you wish your Business Phone listed for your customers please call enters into the final months af ils mandate, the pleadings uf fuur Liberal MPs frum the area had tu be taken intu acecuunt in the order tu keep the trains running daily. “There had to be sume political avertunes," one commissiun ufficial remarked Friday. At feast two other recent decisions of the com- mission—bath involving air tarriers—alsu are being reviewed by the cabinet. Perhaps the mast pressing of the wwois the commission decision to alluw Nordair to iake over Winnipeg-Eastern Canada.routes now operated by Transair. The airlines agreed to- swap roules bul Transair tow Wants the changeover tu lake place nex! year instead of this fall. Nurdair wants to go ahead this year. The transport commission ruled that since Nurdair had done all if had been asked to du, the swap.should becume effective ai the end of Oc- iuber. Transair appealed tv Lang fur a delay and meanwhile served notice of layoffs if the changeover takes place this year. One of the issues in the re- yiew befure Lang is the allegation that the transport commission decision allowing the ruute swap came tuo late fur Transair lo accomplish it this year. Anuther appeal to cabinet involves the commission decision nut to disallow a bid by Air-Canada to take over Nordair, The proposed takeover has dead in blaze panic on the part uf the survivors The cause of the fire has nul been determined, but Earl Gould, spokesman for General Huspital, said une uf the survivors reported hearing a small explosion. “He opened the door of his room and was greeted by a sheet of flames,” Gould said. “And his ruom im- mediately filled with smoke and he decided tv jump gut the window." ” The group was on a four- day tour, Ruttan said. They had left Barrie Thursday and stopped over in Quebec Cily, and were due lw return Sunday. é HIJACKING OVER bruught charges thal com- petition among airlines in Ontario will diminish since Nordair and Air Canada already operale in similar areas. It also is argued that too many airlines are coming under guvernment owner: ship and the case is cited uf Alberta purchasing Pacific | Western Airlines which in turn acquired Transair. The appeal lo cabinet, based un loss uf competilion, was launched by the Ontario government and is backed by a number of carriers, including CP Air and Great | Lakes. Herb Gray, Liberal MP fer Windsor, Ont, a prime Nordair destination, also wants the sale rolled back, Yel anuther appeal on the proposed Air Canada lakeuver is before the transpurt commission and might come to cabinet for a final decision. ‘ This appeal was filed by Quebecair and is based on excessive government ownership of airlines. Quebecair indicated at the public hearings into the - takevver--that it,was in-.... terested in acquiring Nor-— dair’s.charler services, «. The flurry of appeals wilh their polilical content are bound to become issues in the Cummons when it resumes hearings Ocl. 10. They let him get away then they grabbed him HELSINKI (AP) — After 24 —shuurs and 4,800 kilometres, a bizarre air hijacking came to an unlikely end Sunday when police let the pistol-armed skyjacker go home tu cool off befure his arrest, {hen ap- parently lust their patience with him, sturmed his house and uverpuwered him. The arrest uf businessman Aarno Lamminporras in Qulu, 350 km north of here, climaxed a strange odyssey in which the hijacker commandeered a Finnair jetliner, spent 16 huurs tak- ing it back and forth between Oulu and Helsinki and al une point to the Netherlands, cul- lected $206,000 ransom, then finally released his hostages and the plane when authorities granted his final demand—that he be alluwed to ge home with his wife on the assurance he would ‘surrender this morning. DIAL-AN-ORDER 432-3689 3 TERRACE VETERINARY CENTRE 635-300 S SKOGLUND HOTSPRINGS * 798-2221 Bs OLI'S PLACE - 798-2231 PETS BEAUTIFUL. 635.925) Free - for ONE month courtesy of THE we ‘ @ naseTereraze fet DAILY HERALD B.C. Tel Directory. AURORA ANIMAL HOSPITAL - 635-2040 “We intend to honor his last wish as well,” Finnish Air Traffic Minister Veikku Saarto said as the hijacking came tv a peaceful end at Oulu's airport. There was no explanation why pulice decided seven hours later tv burst into the 37-yearuld Lamminporras' house. He had taken his pistul and part of the ransom home with him. Several eyewitnesses said police, who had trailed Lamminporras home from the airport and then ringed his house, first sent two pulice dogs threugh the front door, then followed quickly behind them. Authorities said Lammin- purras was a bankrupl hemebuilding contractor. They cuuld find no clear-cut motive for the hijacking but he apparently acted under the influence of alcohol. During the plane's many naTarevecerelnielei 80,0 orerelen SS a eo rate te! ob et eran ocean a a! arate: me zs, "a0; Se IG? se Fa ear stops he demanded and re- ceived two bottles of whiskey. The hijacker also had ordered that $175,000 of the ransom be given tu an ur- phanage and a_ veterans’ huspital. Finnair the = country’s newspaper, Sanumal, paid $39,000. The money was nut given to the (wu charities. largest The incident began at 2 aboul 4 p.m. Saturday abuard a scheduled Finnair flight from Oulu to Helsinki. Pulice said’ Lamminporras entered the cockpit and ordered the pilot al gunpoint tu follow his instructions. The plane, a Caravelle, landed an hour later at Helsinki, and 34 of the 49 persons aboard were released. At the hijacker’s request, a lawyer came abuard. The plane was flown back to Oulu, where it circled for several hours, then landed. It tak on more fuel, and $168,000 in ransom from Finnair was put abvard. [t returned (lo Helsinki, where Lamminporras demanded $38,-KH) from the newspaper. Abuul $18,000 of it was put aboard and 12 passengers were freed. —- The plane flew to Schiphol Airpurt in Amsterdam, where it landed and refueled, then returned to Helsinki where the balance of the newspaper's share of the ransum was picked up. Ii returned v Oulu, where Lamminporras freed his final three hostages, all crew members, and joined his wile. They were driven home in a car arranged for by authorities, lf convieted of armed hijacking. Lamminportas faces a prison term of bet: ween two and 12 years. paid ° $168,000 of ihe ransyum and - Helsingin | Super- . t