SE eRe a PF en tee ey de IN NORTHWEST ‘Six new: fires were | reported in‘the Prince Rupert Forget Region this week for a total of 38 fires this year. - One hundred-fourty-one hectares have burned costing $49,000 to control. ’ The forestry service warns that extra caution is now warranted if we wish to avoid something like a year ago, when someone out in the Kitimat Valley was careless with fire. The temperature was Alberta..fires. ragin . EDRA AIRSTRIP, Alta. (CP) — The men collapse at the bush camp, famished, exhausted and reeking of They have been fighting the biggest forest fires to hit Alberta in 10 years. * smoke, Electrical storms touched . off blazes covering almost §00,000 acres of forest. The last time the situation was this bad waa 1968, when a monster milllonacre fire burned through the North. This airstrip northwest of ’ Fort MeMurray hummed steadily during the weekend as DC-3s, helicopters and light planes ferried in sup- plies, fuel and men. — Almost 600 men worked 12 to 16 hours a day. . A 15,000-acre blaze 24 kilo- metres east of the- airstrip consumed black spruce and scrub pine in a wall of flame. Skyab due Wednesday WASHINGTON {AP) — Skylab will re-enter the earth’s atmosphere sometime Wednesday and if it falls midway through the day it could scatter debris across the Indian Ocean and the most uninhabited part of Australia, the U.S. space agency sald Monday. ‘A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said he is 85-per-cent sure the dying U.S. space station will re-enter the earth’s at- mosphere between 2:10 a.m. and 10:10 p.m, EDT Wednes- day. The midpoint of that 20- hour time span is 12:10 p.m. when the spacecralt {a over Ascension Island in the mid- Atlantle. : “That turns out to be the set of orblis with the least population under it," sald Richard Smith, head of NASA's Skylab task force. Obviously, he said, NASA expects the re-entry to be close to the midpoint of the Victims named GOLD RIVER, B.C. (CP) — Police have identified two- sisters from Sooke, B.C., as the women found murdered Saturday near this Van- couver Island community. Christina Beatrice Thomas, 26, and Helena Rose Howard, 16, were found stabbed to death. high and eo was the fire hazard - the cost, when carelessness, tem-. perature. and hazard were combined, was high Within the. space-of - a. - very few minutes- -the- ministry of forests had received numeérnus reports of a fire near the Kitimat River Bridge on Highway 25. The first report was received at 3:30 p.m., 28 minutes ‘later the first fire sup- pression crews were It sent a pillar of smoke into thesky, flattening on top like the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb blast. “We've got our work cut out for us,” said Mike Dubina, regional fire boss with the provincial forest service. To the southwest, about half way between Fort McMurray and Edmonton, an even larger fire covering 21,000 acres. was being brought under control. A 400,000-acre blaze straddling the northeast corner of the province, . northwestern Saskatchewan and a small chunk of the Northwest Territories was - being monitored. Fire crews will deal with it once fires in preferred forest areas are dealt with. , “We try to concentrate on. areas that are of higher 2-hour period, but that an hour or two elther way would shift the reentry point and the track of debris. Skylab, which was an orbiting home for astronauts who performed experiments in space, girdles the world every 88 minutes, The orbit before the midpoint In NASA's latest re- entry esilmate would take the spacecraft over Western Africa and an orbit later over the Atlantic just off the coast of Brazil. “Tf the middle time frame holds good we are in an ex- cellent get af orbita," Smith NASA has the option of. delaying the re-entry b repositioning the spacecr so that it will have léss drag when It hits the atmosphere. Such a manoeuvre, if it's required, would cause ‘the spacecraft to begin tum: ' If the manoeuvre is not needed, Smith said, NASA will induce a tumble when. Skylab is about 138 Kilometres high so engineers can better predict the re- entry: : “Tf the middie time frame holds good forthe next few hours we are-in for an ex- cellent set of orbits and manoeuvre won't be , Smith aaid. At the 13¢-kilometre height Skylab has about 744 to eight hours of life. When It slams into the atmosphere, if the predic- Kat fire devestated a large area here arriving on the scene. However, final control’ of .the fire wasn’t recorded until August 15, when. rain finally came. - ‘The fire, of course, was the Kat Fire, which -destroyed.3. 569. hectares ‘of: forest “land, often threatened homes and prope fid)when the final ay Wise in, cost taxpayers $3,680,000 to extinguish. _ “One of: the most significant factors in this fire is that it was caused by human carelessness,”’* . value, whether it's timber, recreation or watershed,” said Vern Danes, planning | - Ghief for the, forest service Asmall crew waa sent up for four days last week, however, tohelp the owner of a fishing lodge at Andrew Lake keep flames away [rom the lodge. an At the main firefighting area, crews set up pumps in lakes and bogs to pour water. on hot spots. Dublna and Danea hoped for a break in the dry weather. “When a break develops, crews will be sent in to chop fire breaks to further retard the advance of the fire,” said Danes. : . “Right now, it’s dangerous to have men at the front of the fire.” The slightest gust of wind can whip a wall of flames right at them., tions hold, Skylab will have completed 34,-981 revolutions since it was Jaunched in 1973, Most of that time it has been in orbit about 430 kilometres above earth but It has been drop- - ping steadily and on Monday the orbit was about 190 ~ kilometres. The orbit on which Skylab would - re-enter over, Ascension Island takes the spacecraft over the northern United States beginning just north of Everett, Wash., across the Rockies and the Canadian prairies near Win- nipeg and eastward just above Montreal south of Nova Scotia southeastward across the Atlantic. “Remember 20 hours is nearly one day,” Smith sald, cautioning that the midpoint of the period when Skylab could . fall was not necensarily a firm predic- on. NASA pianned to refine its’ forecasta continuously until the spacecraft comes back. Pravioualy, NASA has sald the chances of anyone being injured by Skylab debris are about one in 150. Smith said that if Skylab falls during one of the orbits now con- sidered moat likely, the odds would drop to one in 1,500. “The set of orbits that have the least population do overfly the United States and Canada and go over the Allantic to the West Coast of Africa," he said. and - Airlines OTTAWA (CP) — Air "Canada and CP Air were says Orval Gorley, Regional Director of Forest Protection. “Rehabilitation of: this burn will take years,” he adds, ‘‘and will be very costly.” por Nyt Bp Taste ? th and 38- 44 collectively. : . proposed ” regulations. a figeo i a r le aw slam deal A aneneie ween i ay col EY LOOK FOR MANY WO You'll be delighted with this graup of Blouses, T-Shirts, Tank Tope, Shells, Tunles and Blouson’s all at one LOW LOW Price. Size: 5-M-L accused Monday of trying to delay implementation of alr charter _ George Finlayson, counsel for Wardair, made the complaint as the alr tran- sport committee began ‘ public meetings on 16 proposed changes to ease regulations on internatlonal charters for 1880. - - Air, Canada lawyer: Colin Irving touched off an angry exchange when he asked the committee to produce any documents or other material -dealing with an earlier Wardair application for ‘ easing of charter regulations for this year. Hearing on that ap- , plication did not take place ‘but Irving said the: air transport committee and its staff held meetings or ex- : changed -correspondence with Wardair, _ . ‘He said there was the possibility that some ‘of"the :16 proposed changes in might have . charter flights come from these Wardair and committee exchanges, _ If this were so, it was an _ abuse of the committee's - regulatory ..powers, : said, The proposed c . should be for the benefit of Fire hazard higher : - information the committee Irving han all charter carriers, not just Wardair.. Irving also said Air jogalin ‘Canada’s position on the proposed changes might be different, depending on what might make public on its dealings with Wardair. ‘He said that apparently Wardalr had-tdld the com- mittee of financial troubles -and Air Canada.didn’t want to see Wardair in trouble. ih LADIES’ “CANADIAN MADE” PANT TOPS Many ttyleato choose from in polyester and polyester gotten ery aye sators, Simm S