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Festival.

These three young ladies from Skeena Junior are entered in the
. woodwind quartet competition at the. Paclflc Northwest Music -

-From left to right, they are: Jennifer Peters, Coleen
_ Atiderson and Gayle Epp. Missing from the picture Is Sylvia
. Mailidux. Jennifer and Gayle will‘also be entering In-a flute duet
. at the festival, while Coleen will, be. -solng a alto s sax: duet with

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L Michelle Gleselman:.

- Review recommended -

WINNIPEG. (CP) ~~ An air-safety watch-
dog group ‘recommended Wednesday a full-
scale review of wircraft fuel systems and
maintenance procedures to help prevent
incidents like one last July when an Air

Canada jet ran out of fuel and glided toa .

forced landing at Gimli, Man...
In the first comprehensive, independent .-
report tabled at a federal inquiry into. the
* July 23 emergency landing of a Boeing 787,
the- Aviation Safely Bureau outlined the
series of human and mechanical fallures it -
says led to the iricident.
The bureau is a federally: funded but
independent agency based in Montreal that -

was set up by’ ‘Transport Canada, It can
hold public hearings and make. recom-"

mendations that Ottawa: must take into"
_ consideration,

“Much of what is contained in its report to

- ‘the inquiry has already been heard. Butits -

' chronological recording . of what actually

took place brings the technically laced

_, details of the incident intd perspectiveiah®). #U'Tha wovrect specific: ‘qnavityafigureiwas ° “
“ANGne* of. :the-76 ’ passenperk? an and chew" 905,80 the crew left for Edntonton thinking +;
“the plane had 22,166 kilograms of fuel when

_it really had 10,080 kilograms, the report

niembers on the .767 Were’ Injuréd' alter -
_ Capt. Rob Pearson glided the powerless jet
— Air Canada’s only metric: plane — to an
abandoned airstrip at Gimli, about 66
kilometres north of Winnipeg.
LANDING MIRACULOUS
‘Some aviation experts termed.the lan-
ding miraculous, but Pearson was demoted
and his co-pilot suspended for, two weeks
because of the incident, which officials
blamed on a metric mixup.
The report notes that trouble started in
_ Edmonton July 22 when maintenance
workers tried to repair a, faulty fuel
‘quantity processor which was leaving the
_ aircraft's fuel gauges blank.
- The 767 was flown to Montreal July 2
after a mechanic repaired the fuel gauges
by: pulling the circuit breakers on both

channels of the processor, resetting one and ©

tagging the other with yellow tape. —- *

“But the subsequent entry in the airplane's

. logbook did not alert other Air Canada
maintenance personne) to ensure the cir-

cuit breaker remained pulled, the report -

Negotiations

_ VANCOUVER (CP) — _ Contract.
negotiations at The Sun and The Province
began Wednesday. with a brief meeting; a
company proposal for a three-year ex-"
- tension of the current pact and a union plan
to conduct strike votes. :
.. Negotiators. for. Pacific . Press, which *
publishes the two daily newspapers, “told
union representatives Wednesday that the,
company wan't meet requests fer contract
changes, hut won't, demand concessions
either, :
‘Gevige Townsend, ‘the. company’s chief
negatiater,. told Tepresentatives of the six
. Rhewspaper “vinloris that "the. company

requires a three-year extension with no |

wage increases in the first year atid no
other contract language changes,

The company said it would be willing to
negotiate on wages in the second and, third, .
years of the contract. |

The last contract, a ‘two-year ‘deal, ee
pires today. .

In a ‘atatément, the’ ‘joint’ ‘goimeil. of
newspaper Unions called the company’s. :;
position “‘a three-year, take-it-or-leave-it

. ultimatum” that left no alternative but, to,
seek strike mandates,

In his statement,"Tovirisend sajd the Sun,

turned an $18-million profit last. year, The
Province lost $15 million. He said the §3-
milion operating profit was reduced by -

' depreciation and taxes to $400,000, a return
on investment of less. than half of one per
cent,

“The prospect for 1994. dictates that

Pacific Press cannot contintie to ineet the
rapidly escalating: costs of wages and.
benefits,” Townsend sald. © .
‘HARD TO BELIEVE’ ,

Jim Young, so-chairman of the joint
council of newspaper unlons, said he found

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. “the. ‘company’ 8
proposal hard to believe.

ghey ay

ays, ‘

blank again and. the aircraft left on the

‘return flight to Edmonton with inoperative
- fuel. gauges.

The Teport ‘also notes: that neither ‘the,

' flight crew nor ground crews in Montreal’

and Oltawa — where the plane stopped to.
be refuelled — knew that without. fune-

tioning gauges: the aircraft was flying ;

illegally. -
FACTOR WAS WRONG . _
Fuel levels were measured manually in

. Montreal and.Ottawa, the report says. But |

the flight crew used a metric conversion

factor of 1.77 to caleulate the: weight of fuel
on board, eer ra
' The. crew thought L777: represented -

specific gravity ‘and’ would give them the
fuel’s weight in kilograms, but 1.77 was for

"specific welght, a figure. whieh Bave the

fuel's weight in pounds. .

saya...
Once in’ the air, the plane's’ ‘warning

incorrect figures’ were manually entered .

into it at the beginning of the flight...

“The bureau called on. Transport Canada’
_ to launch a review that would investigate

methods of improving fuel quanitity
systems, maintenance arid equipment
safety, ee .
MAKES SUGGESTIONS —is’ .
Specifically, 'it recommends that: *
— All aircraft have a simple’ and ac-

* eurate system for fueling under normal and

abnormal conditions;
— Low fuel quantity warning systems be
iriggered by a direct fuel reading device;
— Emergency landing gear . and flight

Instruments be improved;
” <» Flight attendants ‘get

improved

graining on emergency equipment. .
The inquiry, headed by. County Court

Judge, George Lockwood, continues. .

have. begun

three-year. extension

No further meetings are. planned, but
Young said the unions will meet “at any
time for constructive negotiations the
moment Pacific’: Press:. drops’ - tts
. provocative refusal to bargain.”

Townsend said:the company won't refuse

- to;meet — it {ust wor't agree fo any con-

tract changes. .,:

“The unions have just come off a ‘ contract .

where the waged have. been increased 36°
per.cent over two years, That doesn’t in-
clude. benefits. We need. three years just to
get back on our feet again. "

"At Wednesday! / meeting, the company
did not make an offer for wage increases in .

.;the final. two years of the proposed three-

“year pact.

; The unions did’ nol propose a contract’
term, and did ‘not “table ‘specific wage:
demands, either! but’ Your. said the unions —

are ‘asking for substarltial‘increases, .
/Young,. whois. also: president of The
Newspaper Guild — the largest of the six

"intons in the councit — said non-monetary

_ demands; are just'as iniportant to the Guild -
ag wage increases, “*

, Among those. demands are contract
improvements regarding . job security, *.

‘protection for temporary’ employees, :
health protection for workers who use video.

display terminals and a’ faster. and cheaper
grievance procedure,

‘The last round of contract talks, i in 1982,
produced a two-year agreement providing

the current: $701.53 from $530.62,.

“annual wage increases of 17 and 13 pér cent, - 4
boosting a seniot reporter's weekly pay to

The last dispute at Pacific Press shut

. down. both newspapers from Ney. 4 m8,

for éight months. «

uf agi tf

“near Quebec City, '

seven |
targets” ‘at the: head ‘of wi
Persian Gulf today. as Bagh-

dad and Tehran reported ;

fresh -. fighting: ; .on

An” Iraqi
apokesman gail Iraq’s. air.
force and navy attacked the’
seven vessels as. they tried
to . enter the ‘southern

. Iranian port of Bandar |”
. Khomeini from. the Khor

Musa channel. : ; ;
The attack ‘was a con-
tinuation of the alege of

Iranian ports: including :the ©
_Kharg Island oil terminal in. |

an Traqi-declared |,’

prohibited war zone: at ‘the’ -

head of the gulf, he said,”

adding all the Iraqi aircraft
- units - iad -

and. “ naval
returned to base...
The spokesman: did» ‘nol:

identify the: vessels, which
- he sald were seen. ablaze:
and sinking, Prévious Iraql -
‘strikes on shipping in the:

area have sunk or damaged _.
non-franian inerchant

Blizzard. continues

_ Residents . of

. Canada were still trying. to
‘shovel, scrape and blow
“their way back to normal
today” as the nastiest bliz-

- When a'mechanic reconnected the circuit: a zard of the winter appes ared:

breaker ‘in Montreal, fuel. gduges went -

_ ready to settle into flurries
and drift.

“The going: was still .bad
Wednesday as two: people,

- aged 47 and 29,.died and two .

: others were injured when an

‘Abitibi-bound train hit two,

‘cars ata level crossing: in

Montreal’s north end, None

of -the passengers on” “the
train, were injured. :-- °°.

A police spokesman said
“the Vie Rail Canada Ltd.

“train engineer didn’t sée'the .

two, vehicles until it was too
late.

‘Four other deaths °
~ Quebec have been blamed
on ‘the storm that started

Tuesday-and dumped up to.

- 60 (centimetres Pe a
‘regions, bah

FU i. Sp bh 9 Pes

an’ 8 rly. § Sipe y uti),
pieces Frederic
"Toussaint, of St-Augustin,

was
taken to-hospital in critical

system didn’t indicate low fuel because condition Wednesday’ night

after being trapped | for
almost’ an hour under snow
following a‘ mini-avalanche
as he played in a raving. He

. Was -resrued by. police,

alerted by two friends who
were able to free them-

selves. ‘
- "In: Ontario, police said.

there were hundreds of
' traffic accidents associated
with the bilzzard, including

* [100 in the Ottawa area and

more than 60 on a section of
_ Highway 403 across nor-
thern Toronto, No accidents
attributed to the storm were
reported in New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia.

- Visibility continued to be -

a problem as some roads
stayed closed, Most air-
plans, ‘buses and trains
continued to - operate.
Although = ~-ski hill
operators rejoiced, skiing
was 50 treacherous in Lac
Beauport, Que., organizers

of a women’s. World Cup’

downhill race scheduled for
Saturfay called off a
_ training run . Wednesday.

’ Weather. - - officials - are
‘predicting strong and cold
winds... to .. Gontribute.- to
drifting today. and Friday.
Actual snowfall should be
limited to flurries in most

ions, |
me highways have been

‘reopened, but abandoned
cars have complicated the
' inassive snow. cleanup

“expected . to take several -

_ daya.

«We lost count of the
“number of calls of people
looking for their cars,” said
~Ontario Provineial Police
‘ Corp. Len Atchingon,

Th the Niagara regian of
Oniario,. which received
-mere than 58 centimetres of
snow during the two days,

fore’ than 300 cars and

transport, trucks were
abandoned | helter-skelter
along the’ highway and on
Sloverleats.

Even‘ two Charlo, N.B.,

“weatherien were hung up
by: the storm Wednesday

when they. got stuck on their
way to work at, the airport -
a8 "up to 23 cenlimetres of
“ snow fell on northern New
. Brunswick, and _ gusting
"Winds caused drifting. .

_A snow emergency was

F Spokesman
““Tranians, |
: Wednesday night, gained
- footholds-in three positions

Central '

: workers,

“Baghdad. and Tehran,

S4-year. war between the

~An-. ‘Iraqi military .
said the

who attacked

‘in. the ‘front lines, but “were
being encircled and wiped

+ ut.

‘The Iranian national news

_ agency: IRNA said. the
Iranian attack. force had

achieved most of its ob-

” jectives and inflicted heavy

casualties on the Iraqis.
Both sides

‘planes today. Iraq said an
Tranian F-4 fighter was shot

‘down. by Iraqi jets in a.
‘dogfight over the southern .

declared in. “Toronto,
{Meaning cars. “parked, on
snow routes will be ticketed
for $30 and towed away at
the owner's expense.
Similar collection. -
Operations were urider way
:in other municipalities. . -
One Ottawa man, who had

been ‘warned not to use a

i :parking lot, discovered that

When the lot was. cleared —

later in the day the snow
had been. . deliberately
,dumped on his‘ear. .*

In Trois-Rivieres, Que., a
: Superior Court, judge’ ar-

dered city blue-collar
who staged’ a
-wildeat strike when the
-Storm began, back to work.

The cleanup will sub- .

itantially . bite into snow

‘removal budgets in most: '

areas, Montreal city — of-
‘ficials .- predicted the
operation will cost about $5
million, much of it in
soverlimes tegen!

Sy .
“pPiePouile gf etara}

battlefront and 2 an Iraniai r act
~ Phantom wad brought down of: seareasion and black. 3
nieanwhile, reported a new — r
“Iranian offensive near the

“southern = Tragi
the
‘southern battlefront, —-

port of ¢ -
‘Basra, the focus of a series ~
“* “of Iranian offensives in the
smilitary
“two gulf neighbors. ‘The :
. offensives began eight days :
gO, .

‘GAIN FOOTHOLDS Je

‘eame three:-days after
Baghdad said its air force north of: Basra which had
’, been. the Scene of. a fierce
’ strike”. on», oil .tankers al
' Kharg island:

as" “imaginary”
‘Buropeain- ‘tanker captains .. ».
. reported that- the situation .
was normal‘at the terminal,
- which, handles almost all of -
ran’ 8 oil. exports,

reported . KEEP STRAIT OPEN |

‘shooting down each other's’

pledged ‘to; keep: the atrail
_ to the West:

: statements >

ne re
eeu US pete

by anti-aircraft ‘fire In the, “mall,

same area. *

iran said it had shot down: “ Department
a Soviet-made Iraqi: ‘war: :
plane in. the south, bringing

of fighting.”
‘latest: attack, ‘on shipping

had mounted a ‘‘deatructive ,

" Meanwhile, the U.S, State .

Tran’s’. victory claims «as
exaggerated and said there
to seven the “number . of “was “little” evidence of oo
‘enemy planea downed since significant change in the |
- the start of the latest round . front lites. _ ;

’ a: Iraq: allowed several -
The Iraqi. ‘peport of: its foreign: reporters to visit the
village ‘of Baida, in the
marehes 100 . kilometres

Shi Iraqi sergeant, who
réfised to give his name,
craldy . Wednesday that
Iranian troops had come
within 500 metres of the
- Strategic Baghdad-Basra
highway before they were
héaten back, .  -
. The bodies of at least .500
dead Iranian soldiers were
visible near the town, and
Iraqi: military officials said
about 200 members of a
village reserve force had
“been killed.

i described

Tran dismissed the ctaim:.
and”

Sallew News |

Tran hag said it woul
eldse the’ Strategic Strait of
Hormuz at the entrance to

Gayle Pipe.

States, which - chas 30 War-
ships in’ -the area,’ “has.

by ANDREA DEAKIN

. ‘The current exhibit at the Terrace Art Gallery features
d. - work by Joan Humphrey, Mary Walker, Edna Cooper and

-' Edna Cooper offers a variety of workin felt, in particular, .

a series of variations: in tonal lity and emphasis of
“the gulf if-Treq disrupts its fn: Mountain quality phas
oil exports, while the United

The juxtaposition of various tones and

‘shades bring. out qualities of the scene which suggest
Changes of light, angle and ‘season.
A light touch is offered by her tree-trunk minature house.
Joan Huinphrey-is showing:aome beautifully modulated

open for” vital ail shipments colour. in. lengths of dyed silk’ and some lovely hangings, |

. Wednesday —

. imbued with that aparkle of wit which is so much a part of
‘Tran istued “two separate - her fine work.”

Mary Walker is displaying some. very fine weavings, The

warning the United ‘States to. use of colour and texture exceptionally displayed in “Fallen

stay away. from the. area,

Leaves" and. the misty suggestion of shades in “Plying

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