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THE AGE, Friday, January 21, 1977 HOME NEWS JUnne murcler clue Tendering system no secret, says Dunstan Your future holds a videophone By JO WILES Swedish futurologist Gunnar Nelker sees videophones and cable television in his crystal ball. A time when people will go to church, a school parents meeting or. a political rally simply by turning on their picture telephone. Station discovery may show time killer struck Loans case doubt over SM CANBERRA. A challenge could be mounted to overturn the self-disqualification of Mr.

d'Arcy Leo, SM, in the loans conspiracy case before Queanbeyan petty sessions. On Wednesday, Mr. Leo disqualified himself from any further hearing because of a writ he has issued against a newspaper over a report of statements made in Parliament about the case. A Sydney solicitor, Mr. Danny Sankey, in a private' information, has brought-charges of conspiracy against former Prime Minis-, ter, Mr.

Whitlam, and three former Ministers over loan-raising attempts in late 1974 and 1975. When the hearing re-; sumed before Mr. Murray Farquhar, CSM, Mr. David Rolfe, QC, for'. Mr.

Sankey, asked for an adjournment of about week to allow discussions Wiith his client. A silver sheath knife found at the Collingwood railway station is one of the strongest leads yet in the search to the Easey Street sex killer. Forensic scientists have found blood samples on the handle of the knife that match the blood grouping of one of the two women who were murdered 1 1 days ago. iBy IMHICKIAIEI GO'RiDON Mr. Gunnor Nelker Greenfields fnn Selective tendering for Public Works Department contracts was authorised under Section 33A of the Public Accounts and Stores Regulations, the Public Works Minister, Mr.

Dunstan, said last night. He said there had never been any secrecy that works of a certain value were tendered for under the selective tendering system. Newspaper advertisements asking firms to register as selective tenderers were put in the Press in November 1968, he said. Mr. Dunstan, who has refused to comment on the controversy surrounding selective tenders for almost a week, said: "There are some 63 firms registered for building works in the various categories under the system, and many others" in the mechanical and electrical engineering field.

"In order to enable a judgment to be made in regard to the capabilities of the firms registered it is necessary for the department to obtain quite detailed information in regards to financial mat-tprq and technical capability. "Outte understandably, firms are sensitive that the information is treated in a highly confidential manner. "Not only must the information received be regarded as confidential, but also the decisions that are made as a result of an analvsis of this infor-. mation," Mr. Dunstain said.

"Where tender documents are available, six firms on the list are requested to submit tenders for each project. The firms are'selected by a selection panel having regard to the level of registration of the firms concerned and the type and location of the work to T. be carried out." The. bodies of Susan Bartlett, 28, and Suzanne Armstrong, 27, were found in their Easey Street, Collingwood, house last Thursday week. Both had multiple stab wounds and had been raped.

If the knife is the murder weapon it will be a clue to: the time of the killings and the escape route used by the killer. The knife was found on the platform of Victoria Park station on the night of the murders. It was discovered just 90 minutes after the last known person to see the women alive left their house. Homicide detectives cannot be certain they have the murder weapon because there are no blood samples on the knife to match the blood grouping of Miss Bartlett. The knife had been wiped clean.

But scientists found blood samples inside its brown plastic handle. The blood group found in the knife' was Group A the same as Suzanne Armstrong's blood type. There was no trace of Miss Bartlett's group 0. Both blood groups are fairly common. Homicide squad detective, Inspector Noel Jubb said it was possible that the blood from Miss Armstrong's wound had cleared away any trace of Bartlett's blood.

MAROONDAH HWV Mr. Nelker, an author and lecturer on sociology and futurology, believes electronic mass mediums will grow in importance. He sees ttiem becoming an essential force in the survival of democracy by allowing idealistic movements immediate access into people's homes. Mr. Nelker, who is also managing director of Ansvar a Swedish company formed by temperance societies to insure total abstainers is visiting Melbourne.

He said yesterday that Ansvar had initiated a study of the future in Sweden to assess whether churches, education groups and organisations like temperance societies could survive in the future. These groups, which he called idealistic people's movements, had played an important role in informing people and building up a democratic system of government. But trends in mass communication had minimised the groups' influences, and allowed mass media to take over some of the groups' functions. Missed train Mr. Nelker said the groups had largely "missed the train" in mass communications.

In the future monopolies and governments could take over electronic mass mediums unless people's movements went into the field to offer alternative programmes. Mr. Nelker said he believed Australia was far ahead of Sweden with its access and community radio, stations. Mr. Nelker said the biggest difficulty in predicting the future was that people, by their nature for change, tried to ensure the prediction was not fulfilled.

ClAREDAtE STS DANDENONG North of overhead bridas 2 PEEL ST LILYDALE 7355722 ELTHAM The metropolitan crime co-ordinator, Chief Inspector Eric Janetzki, with the weapon found soon after the Collingwood murders. tween 9 and 9.30 pm when Bartlett's brother Martin, left the house and between 10.30 and 11 pm when the knife was found. It is possible that the knife was washed in the house after the murder. Although it may not have been bought specifically tor the killings, the knife was reasonably new and had not been sharpened, Inspector Jubb said. Collingwood's Victoria Park station, where the knife was found, is about 400 metres from the murder house.

But police are not convinced the killer left the house on foot and caught a train. The knife is about 26 centimetres (10 inches) long and has a brown plastic handle with red strips at either end. The sheath is brown with yellow stitching. Police yesterday began inquiries at hardware and disposal stores in a bid to find the origin of the knife, which is described as a "fairly common dagger Open mind "We are very hopeful that the knife can bear fruit on the case, but we still have a completely open mind," Inspector Jubb said. "We are still sifting through information from the public and other people and we still appeal to people who may know something to come forward.

The metropolitan crime co-ordinator, Superintendent Eric Janetzke, believes the Easey Street killer may still have the marks on his hand if the knife is the weapon. The hilt of the knife would probably have injured the killer as he stabbed repeatedly at the two women, he said. OPEN 9 AM TO 5 PM each weekday for the convenience of our New Year investors. PROVIDENT pays 10 p.a. Interest TO EVERY INVESTOR.

1o Last $10 to $30,000 p.a. at call "If that was the case, then we could probably say that Armstrong was the last to be stabbed," he said. Inspector Jubb said he hoped pictures of the knife released yesterday could spark the memories of anyone who may have sold it shortly before the murder. the knife was the weapon, the murder time can be restricted to be I BUILDING SOCIETY ft st a ,0,1 60S Little Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000 Phone 62 1611 PUBLIC FILL A CHAPEL FOR VICTIMS' FUNERAL fit The knife and its case. A murder every two days By MIKE ROBERTS "What word do we use when we hear through the Press that a weapon has been found and Identified?" he said.

"We are glad but we are sad." The crowded little chapel was hot and here and there a man slipped his jacket off as Mr. Lock spoke. There were more tears as he said Suzanne and Susan had been people of high ideals, had loved flowers, liked to be close to nature, but most of all, loved people. "Those of us here find it hard to understand the pressures of those inner suburbs," Mr. Lock said.

"Yet they chose to live In that area to express something of their personalities and their involvement and understanding of others." And soon it was over, a 25-minute service nine days after a brutal murder. It was a quiet funeral, quiet but public. It was a family affair. The Minister was a friend of the Armstrongs and the Bartletts. His assistant was an uncle of Susan Bartlett.

But it had to be a public affair too, because Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong were murdered together on January 11 with a total of 67 stab wounds. Their deaths are called the "Easey Street Murders" but at Springvale Crematorium the man on the gate called it the "Armstrong Bartlett About 60 people followed his directions to the Blair chapel, a small room with a lectern for the Minister and 10 chairs for the mourners. The Bartlett and Armstrong families took the chairs, another 50 people stood behind and the doors were shut. The man who killed the two women wasn't there, but his presence was felt. "I would like there to be no minimising of the brutality and wrongfulness.

Evil is a reality," said the Rev. Geoff Crouch, Susan Bartlett's uncle. "How much are we responsible for the kind of society that we have said the Rev. Alan Lock. "We live In a society that can produce so many good and noble persons, but one that can also produce someone who can deal with another human being in such a cruel and senseless way." But the atmosphere was one of grief, not anger, as Mr.

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So far this year there have been 1,1 murders an average of one every second day. According to police records, dating back to 1955, it is the largest number for any 21-day period. The double murder of the two women in Easey Street, Collingwood, on January 10, was one of the most brutal sex crimes in Victoria's history, police said. Victims of other unsolved murders are: Peter Fergus, 32, of Epping: stabbed in the throat with a broken beer bottle early on New Year's Day. Massage parlor owner, James Kelly, 49: gunned down as he left his home in Kew early Wednesday morning.

There was another shooting last night. Police found a man shot dead and his wife seriously injured with gunshot wounds in a house in Sunshine. Detectives late last night were trying to establish what took place when neighbors heard shots in the house in Cary Street at about 9.10 p.m. The woman was taken to the Western and General Hospital where she was in a serious condition in the intensive care ward. The 18-man homicide squad has been supplemented with men from the vice squad, and local CIB and uniform branches which handle the immense volume of paperwork in the Easey Street and Kelly killings.

Average murders A study of police figures in 1965 showed that in no month had there been more than nine murders in any 20-day period. In the past five years the most murders to be investigated in any January were eight, in 1974. The average number of murders in each month last year was five. The figures showed no real seasonal pattern although in some years there was a tendency toward more murders during the summer holidays. Dr.

Peter Barnes a psychiatrist, has made a survey of murders over the past five years and detected a slight seasonal fluctuation, with more murders just before Christmas and early in January. "It is difficult to attach any significance to the fluctuations observed by myself and others in criminology," Dr. Barnes said. 30,000 a month ask for phones Demand for telephones has exceeded Telecom forecasts in the past six months, the managing director of Telecom, Mr. J.

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