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‘There are many factors to
be... considered... when
establishing a jlookout™,
system oh a Forest Region
Scale, according to. the

Wincial forest service. A
few of those factors are; {ire
occurrence, people tse,
lightaing occurrence,
weather” patterns, access,
viblbility and cost.

The basic premise is that
before.we can fight a forest
fire'we must know that there
is ‘@ fire and where it is.

Forest fires are reported
in many ways in the Prince
Rupert Forest Region, Fire
reports are received from
the‘ travelling public, in-
dustrial operators, com-.:
mercial. - airlines, —
homeowners and residents,
amateur pilots, CB’ers and
many others. Each report is
carefully checked but often
the forest service finds that
the location given is inac-
curate, (sometimes by

distances measured in
hundreds of kilometers) that
the smoke reported is ac-
tually'dust, pollen or even
drifting snow, and that the
reported size is wrong. On
the other hand many of the
fires are found and quickly
brought under control. '

The most reliable
reporting system available
to them is an overlapping
system of lookouts, perched
high on the ‘mountain sides,
covering vast areas of our
forests.

In the Prince. Rupert
Forest Region this year
there ‘will, be "23 lockouts
operating: from’ Terrace’

‘through to ‘Burns Lake‘and.

Southbank, . and, from.
Meziadey Lake through. , to.
Dease Lake and‘Atlin in the ©
North.! Some of the fookouts
are accessible by road such
as Andimaul near Kitwanga ¢
and Pendleton near Burns
Lake, Others such a3 Bell

IDIDA

federal candidates in

«May 8, Smithers.

.. CF TK open-line from
then to Hazelton.

..Rupert.

"WHERE THE

Pee ‘following is ‘the

‘"lona. Campagnolo (Liberal) May 2,
Smithers; May 3, Terrace, open-line radio
. from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and library arts room
at 8 p.m.; May 4, Prince Rupert office; May
5, Terrace office; May 7, Whitehorse to
Telegraph Creek to Atlan.

_ Rod Cousins (Progressive Conservative)
May 1, Terrace office: May 2, Prince
.Rupert open-line; May 3, Frince Rupert;
. May 4, Terrace open-line from 9 a.m. to 10
-aim..and Trades Fair; May 5, Prince
Rupert; May 6, Terrace; May 7, Kitimat;

-. Jim Fulton (New Democratic Party) May
‘1, Terrace for Ed Broadbent visit; May 2,
Kitimat: May 3, Prince Rupert; May 4,
‘Terrace; May 5, Terrace; and Prince
Rupert; May 6, Queen Charlotte Islands;
May 7, Queen Charlotte Islands; May 8,

+ Tony Organ (Independent) May 1, Prince
Rupert; May 2, Kitimat: May 3, Hazelton;
,.May 4, Smithers; May 5, Kitmat.
Franz Colet Is a new independent can-
didate. He has not been In contact with the
- Daily Herald from his home In Prince

nerary he |
the May 22 election.

9 a.m. fo 10 a.m. and

Canadian drug
not dangerous

MONTREAL (CP) -- Two
af five brands of sleeping
named In the U.S. as
containing methapyrilene,
considered to be potentially
dangerous, do not contain
the substance in the Ca-
‘nadian product, drug
company spokesmen said

Wednescay.

The U.S. government said
Tuesday it may soon ban
methapyrilene, the active
ingredient commonly used in
nom-prescription sleep alds,
following findings that the
aubstance is a potent car-
cinogen in animals and “a
potential human haza ”
, .Two of the over-the-
counter drugs containing

ethapyrilen sold in the
United States are Sominex
dnd Nytol, but the Canadian
distributors for the drugs say
they do. not contain the
substance.

Howard Freed, general
manager of J.B. Williams of
Montreal, the Canadian
distributor for Sominex, said
that methapyrilene “Is not
weettin Somlinex (in Canada)
and never has been. It's a

matter of differing govern-
ment regulations.”

The formula manufac-
tured and gold here ‘‘is fully
approved by the Food and
Drug Act and sold across
Canada.”

In Toronto, the Canadian

distributor of Nytol, Block
Drug Co, (Canada) Ltd., said
‘he Nytol formula is com-
pletely different in the
Canadian product.

“(We've never had
methapyrilene in Canada,”
said Albert Bowen, Block
president, ‘The federal
government has a different
set of regulations.”

A group of experts from
the U.S. Clearinghouse on
Environmental Carcinogens
has concluded that the
substance caused liver
cancer in one. laboratory
study and already has been
responsible for the deaths of
about one-fifth of the rate in
another test still underway.

Methapyrilene has also
been used in the past in
cough and cold preparations,
but the Industry says it has
been removed.

near Meziaden Lake and
Footsore near Hazelton are
accessible by helicopter

only,

Most of the lockout persons
have gone to lookout school,
a weeklong course held at
Smithers each spring. The
school covers su
spotting and reporting fires,

things as

on, “h
anys

weather

~.S.* Lookout tower is where they watch for forest fires

wt t : : :
Lookout system organized
use of two way radios, use of
instruments,
cooking and living alone.
The men and women who
spend the summer season 00
a mountain top form an
important part in the fire
fighting operation of the
Prince
Region.

Rupert Forest

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