News August 19, 1987 FLIGHT 255 Plane just took off ROMULUS, MICH. (AP) — Northwest Airlines Flight 255 took off in light rain from a runway where traffic was moved because of shifting winds, and rose less than 45 metres before it crashed, killing up to 158 people, investigators say. The lone survivor of Sunday night's crash, the second deadliest air disaster in U.S. history, was a four-year-old girl who remained in hospital today in serious condition, authorities said. National Transportation Safety Board investigators stressed Tuesday night they were ruling out nothing as a The cockpit recorder caught the flight crew discussing computer-generated voice of a: cockpit Nang system saying “stall! stall! stall!” only seconds . “That system was for some period of time, arlerprdaptpiaty ig; oi parypregeralirs up” are heard on the tape. The possible cause of the crash near Detroit P “There is nothing that draws us to any particular area,” said the board's John Lauber. At least 152 people on the plane and as many as five or six on the ground were killed, said the safety board. The airline, which has. refused to release an official passenger list, says 154 were killed on the plane. Lauber couldn't account for the discrepancy. No ‘Canadians are among the casualties. Commercial pilots who saw the crash from an adjacent taxiway told investigators the MD-80 aircraft climbed at an unusually steep angle. They and other witnesses said the plane never got higher than 45 metres. The pilots’ accounts differed from other witnesses who said the jet was ablaze before it hit the ground and exploded. “They reported no signs of external fire prior to impact,” Lauber said. WITHIN LIMIT He said Flight 255 was 2,300 kilograms below its 68,000-kilogram limit when it left on a runway designated 30 minutes earlier for all traffic because low-level wind shifts, known as wind shears, were detected by the airport's computer-controlled detection system. Wind shears, or a sudden shift in winds, cause airplanes to lose speed without warning and have been cited as a factor in several air disasters, including a 1985 crash in Dallas and a 1988 crash in Kenner, La. Previous reports algo said the weather was clear at the time of Sunday's crash, but Lauber said a light rain was falling and a thunderstorm was about 32 kilometres away. Cross winds were blowing at 16 to 19 kilometres an hour at the time of takeoff, said Jack Drake, director of the safety board investigation. has been set hack about two days by a glitch in the equipment, used to decipher the plane's flight data recorders, Lauber said. ‘HEAL’ ‘THY PLANE’ A preliminary review of the aircraft's maintenance records showed no problems, Lauber said. “It was characterized as a pretty healthy plane,” he said. Investigators hoped today to get their first look inside the plane's right engine, which surviyed the crash relatively intact. It was still at the crash site at Interstate 94, which reopened Tuesday. The engine will be sent to the Connecticut headquarters of its manufacturer, Pratt and Whitney, to be dismantled under safety board supervision. Technicians isolated the remains of the pilot and co-pilot, and routine drug and alcohol tests were being conducted, Lauber said. The condition of young Cecilia Cichan of Tempe, Ariz., was upgraded to serious after two days on the critical list. She suffered burns over 29 per cent of her body and other injuries in the crash that killed her parents and six-year-old brother. Pathologists expected to spend at least two more days trying to identify the charred remains of the crash victims. Wayne County Coronor Werner Spitz said about half the bodies had been identified, all but one through dental records, fingerprints, or personal belongings. Officials said some bodies may never be identified. The crash was the first of a major commercial plane in the United States in almost a year, and the first involving a domestic carrier in almost two years. The death toll was the worst since the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 on May 25, 1979, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport killed 275 people.” lFrancophon SALISBURY, N.B. (CP) —Francophone -Lynn Levesque says warnings that she is not welcome as the new postmistress in the anglophone village of Salisbury will not keep her from reporting for work. “The people who selected me think I'm qualified and I have no intention of backing out,” she said firmly Tuesday night in a telephone interview with The Canadian Press. “It's my right to apply for a job anywhere in Canada. My own home town welcomes outsiders and I don’t see why this area should be any different. More than 1,100 residents of the southeastern New Brunswick village — 65 per cent of the population — have signed a petition demanding that Canada Post rescind Levesque's appointment, which is to take effect early next month. Salisbury is on the western outskirts of Moncton. Local politicians at all levels have expressed support for the petitioners and Dennis Cochrane, Conservative MP for Moncton, has promised to present the petition to the top levels of Canada Post. Cochrane made the promise Monday when about 400 held a noisy in front of the post office. It was the first time in memory there had been such a display in the quiet village. Residents said the job should have gone to one of six local applicants because the post office has been run by area people for more than 100 years and the practice should continue. One of the six has been interim postmistress since the former postmaster retired in June and residents said she has been doing a good job. FOCAL POINT Language has also become a focal point, admitted Salisbury Mayor Ron Tait. “It's wrong .. . but the fact is it’s there.” The dispute parallels one last February on northern New Brunswick's French-speaking Acadian shore, where francophone protests pressured the RCMP into cancell. e unwanted ing the appointment of a bilingual anglophone as head of the detachment in Caraquet. Levesque, who speaks fluent English with a slight French accent, has worked for the post office in northern New Brunswick since 1982. She was a secretary and later a supervisor in C: served as postmi in Lameque for three years and was most recently postmistress in Atholville, near Campbellton. She is currently in Moncton undergoing training Hess strangled self? By RALPH BOULTON WEST BERLIN (REUTER) — Nazi German dictator ‘Adolf Hitler's former deputy Rudolf Hess appeared today to have committed the final act of defiance toward his Allied captors — strangling himself after 45 years behind bars. ‘The Second World War Allies — France, Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States — said in a statement on Tuesday that Hess, 93, probably killed himself. He was dead in a military Monday after being found in Spandau jail with a length of electrical cord around his neck. ‘The statement, breaking a 24-hour silence over the circumstances of his death, said: “A preliminary investigation indicates that Rudolf Hess attempted to take his own life.” He was found in a cottage in the prison garden where he usually sat during his daily walk. The statement said he had been escorted there by a guard but added: “On looking into the cottage a few minutes later, the warden found Hess with an electrical cord around his neck.” The statement made no mention of how Hess, who was going blind and usually had to be supported by 4 guard because of his frailty, managed to obtain the cord and wrap it around his neck. said an has begun to cctaiin how Hess had been allowed the chance of a fourth suicide attempt. But death of the man with the wild, staring eyes who dreamed of becoming Emperor of Hur ope means the priews is docned. now 0.be Sern town and the four-por UNDER GUARD Hess's body, still under Allied guard in the hospital early today, was due to be flown by military aircraft to West Germany and handed over to his family for burial. But the timing of the flight remained a secret, with Allied officials planning further medical examinations. Small groups of right-wing radicals gathered at the prison last night and laid flowers. Left-wing opponents shouted abuse, but there were no clashes. Hess's apparent suicide, after 21 years as the sole occupant of the grim, red brick Prussian-built prison designed to hold 600, followed the pattern of other top Nazis who killed themselves in the months after the 1945 defeat of the Third Reich. Hitler committed suicide with his wife Eva Braun in the dictator's chancellery bunker as Soviet artillery bombarded Berlin. Propaganda chief Josef Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, leader of Nasi party elite SS unit, died by shots own Reichsmarschall Herman Goering cheat the hangman’after the 1946 Allied war crimes trials by swallowing cyanide on the eve of his execution. The Allied tribunal sentenced pelt ig me imprisonment, despite Soviet demands for the deat sentence, and committed him to Spandau prison with six other war KNOWN AS NO. 7 By 1966 the last two fellow Nazis, Hitler youth leader Baldur von Shirach and the dictator's confidante Albert Speer, were released, leaving only “prisoner No. 7” as Hess was called by his guards. Hess, a fanatical follower of Hitler, made three previous suicide attempts since after he was captured in Britain in 194. ee pause aguas parachute drop into ded by ma as an abortive attempt toclear the way we a a Nazi German attack on the Soviet Union by making a separate peace with Britain. Hess was detained and denied his requested audience with King George. In exasperation, he threw himself down a stairwell but was only slightly injured. He twice tried to slash his wrists after becoming the last captive of Spandau. Moscow resisted all western calls for his release on humanitarian grounds. His son, lawyer Wolf Ruediger, visited West Berlin on Tuesday to finalize plans for the handover of his father’s body. The funeral seems set for the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel, where Hess's parents and brother are buried. But the townsfolk are less than enthusiastic about becoming the final resting place of the last known top Nazi. “May Hess rest in peace, but preferably somewhere else,” said one town official. ' SS August 19, 1987 Castlegar News Longliner forced to say ‘lO-4' VANCOUVER (CP) — A 71-year-old man has had his citizen’s band radio licence revoked for a month after complaints about foul lan- guage over the airwaves. Rae Archel, whose CB and instructing supervisors. She said language should not be an issue in Salisbury because she was judged to be most qualified for the job, which was advertised as a unilingual English position. NOT NEW Language disputes are not new in Canada’s only officially bilingual province, where about one-third of the population is frescenbes In 1984, a i i held hearings on the future of bilingualism in New Brunswick. During sessions in Newcastle, Saint John and Moncton, anglophones hurled insults — and eggs, in one instance — at committee members. “There is a segment of the population, mainly in southern New Brunswick, which is opposed to bilingualism and anything that promotes French,” Michel Doucet, president of the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, said in a telephone interview. “Salisbury is not what you'd call the typical pro- bilingualism region.” The 1984 hearings recommended equal French and English in provincial government services and more French in hospitals, courts, schools, Crown corporations and municipal government. But the government has still not adopted many of the recommendations and Doucet said what support it has offered is symbolic. “New Brunswick is not really as bilingual as the province likes to say.” Man would MELBOURNE, AUS. intelligence,” Robertson TRALIA (REUTER) — The said. “He had a face like man who captured Rudolf granite and you could tell Hess 46 years ago said today he would have shot him dead had he known the man was Hitler's deputy. Charles Robertson, 84, commander of a Scottish Home Guard unit during the Second World War, said: “All the money spent to keep him in jail all that time could have MOSCOW-(REUTER) — been saved if someone. had About 13,000 Soviet citizens invested in a five-cent bullet. have received permission “If I knew who he was this year to, settle abroad, when we caught him, I would about double the number of have done the job,” said Rob- last year, the head of the ertson, a retired engineer visa-issuing authority said who now lives in Gippsland Thursday. near Melbourne. Rudolf Kuznetsov told re Soviets given o.k. to to leave Russia have killed that he was somebody im-. segtrain his men from shoot- portant.” ing Hess, who wore a blue- Robertson said he had to grey uniform and hat. He was not dead all West estimate as many as 400,000 Soviet Jews would KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — like to emigrate. A 65-year-old Malaysian man, But the Soviet authorities given up for dead, shocked say that figure is grossly his relatives when he sat up exaggerated. while being given the last Kuznetsov denied that rites and asked why every many people were refused one was crying, a newspaper or “handle” is Longliner, admits he swears on the air, but says he’s been singled out unfairly for pun- ishment. “Goddamn right I'm not guilty,” he said Monday. “I'm going to court on this. Federal Communications Minister Flora MacDonald approved the penalty against Archel following three writ- ten warnings from her de- partment in the last six months. MacDonald said radio in- spectors taped Archel's con- versations and she saw the transcripts as “downright profane.” Archel said he has 18 hours of tapes of the “rottenest language” from other radio operators. His suspension Aug. 4. Children suffer MOSCOW (REUTER) — Thousands of Soviet children are growing up abandoned by their parents and neglected by the state, the head of a newly-created Soviet Chil- dren’s Foundation said Thursday. Calling for a rebirth of “the cult of the family,” he said his high Soviet divorce rates, young mothers abandoning their infants, and a long- standing practice of giving higher priority to work than to the home has led to chil. dren being neglected. Likhanov said orphans have suffered serious neglect at the hands of society and the state. started FLYING HIGH . friend Pearl Koochin of smen Park. BIG RED . . . Some Castlegar gardeners have been getting more than their. share of bigger-than- average tomatoes in their gardens this year. Pic- Castlégar News TREET TALK IT'S A BIG year for tomatoes and Castlegar resident Cennie DeMelo should know — she has one in her garden over seven inches wide and weighing 2 lbs. DeMelo, who has been gardening for 22 years, said the seeds she used were 13 years old, given to her from Portugal. “There are always big tomatoes here but not like this year,” she said. “I don’t know what's happened. It’s beautiful.” IF YOU heard the City’s fire alarm go off yesterday, your ears weren't playing tricks on you. It is the first time in several years the alarm has sounded. “Everybody woke up pretty fast at City Hall,” said Mayor Audrey Moore at last night's City council meeting. Ald. Albert Calderbank said everybody West's” when it went off. City administrator Dave Gairns explained that crews working at the firehall accidentally crossed some wires, setting it off. “Now we know it works,” “cleared said Ald. Carl Henne. CASTLEGAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has filled the three vacancies on its Board of Directors. The new appointees to join the board are Ernie tured above is a 2 Ib, tomatoe from the garden of Connie DeMelo. Photo submitted already has an official flower (the Dogwood) and an official mineral (jade) the Forestry Association sees a serious gap in the official tree category. The B.C. Tree Council, now being formed, will have the heady responsibility of making the final selection based on input from a wide variety of interest groups, associations and interested individuals across the province. It will also be considering the ideas of B.C. students who, in the fall, will be asked to participate in an essay contest. In the meantime, the public is being asked to think about the wide variety of trees that grow in our province and begin to consider each species in terms of its contribution to the province's history, economy and culture. TOUGH NEW measures to deter so-called trouble- makers in provincial parks have been announced by the Environment and Parks Ministry which could include on thes spot fines as high as $100 which can be paid out of Offences under the measure include vandalism, illegal liquor consumption and excessive noise iff camp- grounds. They will also have the power to ticket for speeding. According to the ministry, reported property damage has totalled more than $600,000 over the last five years. HELENE CURTIS wants you to “Catch a Wave” for the Dystrophy Associati Hundreds of Canadian hair salons will be selling Helene Curtis perms this summer and every person who selects Helene Curtis will be assisting the Canadians who EhGoh FhIER WHOLE FRESH ¢ FRYING CHICKEN unr xo. a9 r| PRYING CHICKEN BREASTS FRESH. $5.09 eg. FRYING CHICKEN THIGHS Pad fae $4. 39/kg. PRYING CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS » 91.99] or%%. 51% FRYING CHICKEN ome A kg. $373)... $1 68 se. *8"%Iw. 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He was arrested June 17 and charged in an unrelated incident with threatening to blow up. the site of a U.S. museum de voted to the memory of Jews killed by the Nazis in the Second World War. Howard said the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, part of the U.S. Treasury, is now scrutinizing each of the 920 stamps and hand-etched dies that have been processed by its staff since 1970. The star, not visible to the naked eye, was etched into the beard of a likeness of Hebrew educator Bernard Revel, founder of New York's Yeshiva University It was discovered after a telephone tip, Howard said. She said Kipperman has been reassigned to other duties within the bureau pending results of the review. Millions of the Revel stamps have been printed as part of a series honoring dis tinguished U.S. figures. A.M. -5 P.M. Prices Effective Thru Sunday. 10 0x. 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The human ailment can be treated only with a heart transplant or implantation of an artificia) heart. The cat research might lead to disvoery of the cause and a treatment of conges- tive heart failure, Pion said. “What we have found applies directly only to cats,” he said. “Whether there's a human component, we don't know yet.” Pion said the cat food slow in taurine, which is found in fish and red meat, now have been supplemented. Hess, 93, who had been a prisoner in West Berlin's Spandau prison since July, 1947, died Monday. Allied authorities said he appar ently committed suicide. Robertson told reporters he arrested Hess after he parachuted into Scotland on May 10, 1941 but did not know he was Hitler's right. hand man until three months afterwards. “The thing that struck me about him was his obvious porters his organization does not keep statistics on the na tionalities of those allowed to leave. But diplomats said most are Jews, ethnic Ger mans and Armenians. “Permits for permanent residence have been given to 13,000 people in the last seven months,” he said “That is double the size of last year.” Jewish emigration reached a peak of 51,000 in 1979. Jewish lobby gropus in the visas becasue of an exces. sively broad interpretation of laws saying a person deemed to have had access to state secrets cannot leave the Soviet Union. A Soviet woman married to a Toronto man had her application to leave rejected twice on those grounds. However, Kirby Inwood said this month his wife, Tanya Sedorova Inwood, and their 11-month-old son have now been given permission to emigrate to Canada. reported today. Munir Mahidun had been ill for a week with asthma at his house in Pontian, about 300 kilometres south of Kuala Lumpur, The New Straits Times reported. His wife, Som Kosnin, his eight children and neighbors believed he was dead when his constant coughing stop. ped, his pulse appeared to have stopped, and his body became cold and motionless Sunday morning, the daily said. GLASS continued from front poge free his limbs. apartment where he found a key left in On the night of the escape, he waited the lock. another hideout with the warning: “If you make a mistake like that again we're going to kill you.” After the discovery of the notes, Glass was also shackled to his bed with a wrist chain as well as an ankle chain. Glass aid he began his final bid for freedom 10 days before his escape by painstakingly working on the two chains until they were loose enough to until he heard his two guards snoring in a room opposite his before quietly moving a cupboard covering shutters which led to his room's balcony. He said his escape nearly ended then when he found he could not jump from the balcony to other buildings. 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