4 d 4 eee ene ally tald SECOND SECTION _ Fire hazard bad in Canada Canada’ 's forest . “fire situation is as varied as the weather. In the British Columbia interior, a series of weekend lightning storms ted 90 forest fires as a dry apell continued to Increase the hazard, But .in_ northwestern on. tarlo, Manitoba and the Maritimes, cool and wet weather was - preventing fires and making the job of firefighters easier. . A massive 730,000 acre fire was one of 131 burning Inthe - Northwest Territories on ‘Monday,. but the forest was mainly without commercial Three million acres ; fave burned in S07 fires in the territories so far, this A: spokesman ‘for the British Colurnbia --forest service agid that all the new fires in that province were under contro] although a fire covering about 2,700 acres in WINNIPEG (CP) — Eight Metis from Norway House, . Man,, will probably resume a protest vigil in front of the “Manitoba legislature today after failing to convince Finance Minister Don Craik that the government should negotiate with the Manitoba Metls Federation (MMF). “I'm sure they will be back,’* said federation president John Morrisseau. ““They’re going to continue to ‘sit there until the province recognizes the Manitoba Metis fet began th ‘al C) t began the vy: last Wednesday to publicize demands fcr financial. and housing aid for’ Norway House, a Metia community 440 kilometres north of Winnipeg. They have been Sicamous in the province's northeast was causing some * problems. Sixty men and .19 bulldozers were working to get that fire under control, ‘the spokesman said. - ’ Eighty-six fires have been in the Penticton, 'BE., forest ‘district since. April 15, 9 marked increase: over the 71 recorded for the entire fire season in 1978. The entire province has had. more than 2,600 forest fires so far this year. ‘A spokesman for the Ontario ministry of natural resources said 162,000 acres of forest - mostly spruce, balsam and ackpine « have burned in 1,990 fires in the province since April 1. This is about the average number of fires for Ontario tothis point in the season. Northwestern from Thunder Bay to the Manitoba border suffered abeiating on water and ban- nock sitce then, They were joined briefly Monday by about 200 demonstrators who had threatened to occupy. the legislative building unless Craik took their demands se- riously. _ -After meeting with the Protestors, Craik repeated Premier Sterling Lyon's comments of last week that ‘the Progressive only work through the elected community council on Gevelopment proposals. * “The MMF is recognized asa catalyst, not as a jurisdiction with which we will enter agreenients,” said Craik. The Norway House Metis Ontario Con- clai servative government would ° most of the damage. Cool and wet weather was’ -helping to keep the 12 fires burning in the province Monday under control. . . Fite officials In Manitoba reported that 10 of the 45 fires burning Monday were out of control, but cod] weather and rain in many parts of the province was making it wasier for firefightera. Among. the trees being destroyed were jackpine and spruce. Nova Scotia, Prince Ed- ward Island and New Brunswick were doused with five dentimetres or more of tain over the last few days and officials say the fire hazard is low. No fires were burning in Newfoundland, ‘Nova Scotia or Prince Ed- ward Island. . Two small fires were burning in northern New Brunswick on Monday. Quebec’s department of lands and forest Teported one also want the province to finance feasibility studies on establishing a pulp and lumber mill and. a fish processing plant in their: community. And they want the provincial government to prod the federal government into hastening the con- struction of a proposed Metis social and recreation centre and settlement of native land ims, Oliver Monkman, president of the federation’s Norway House local, said Monday the centre — to house business offices, meet: ing rooms and lounge and catering facilities — would provide about 20 permancz jobs for the community. Lyon has agreed that quick Oil threatens | U's beaches | CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, (AP) — Ina reversal of their previous optimism, sclen- tista warned Monday that oil || from a huge Mexican spill might wash ashore within 24 -hours. in the heaviest con- centrations ever on US. beaches... A computer’ study in-- dicated the oll should wash ashore on a. Padre island: beach, but scientlsts said they hoped a “reverse current” would push most of the ail farther offshore, A U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ministration ‘computer predicted that at least one of . Several large sheen patches ‘would wash ashore ‘in the next day,” said John Robin- son, scientific co-ordinator with a special U.S. govern- ment oil spill cleanup group. ““] believe it is going to get a little worse,” Robinson said. “It does appear that In _ the next day, we will have . greater shoreline Impact. serious fire in the Gaspe peninsula involving 182 acres of pine and evergreens. The fire, however,’ had been contained. Quebec has had 559 fires since the start of summer destroying about 30 square kilometres of forest, com- pared with 60 square are this time’ last alberta, reported 442,182 acres of foreat burned in 732 fires this year. There were 13: fires burning. Monday, only one out of control. The largest Alberta fire burning was 165,000 acres in the northeast part of - the province. Forests. in southern Alberta were dry,. and there was a ban on open fires, In Saskatchewan, 15 fires were burning, moatly spruce. and pine. But officials said they were only. smouldering’ and were being left alone for the time 2 being. action is needed to improve housing in Norway House. But other issues must be discussed with the. elected: community council and the local Indian band. Lyon also has said he will not be persuaded by con- frontation tactics to deal | with the Metis, The demonstrators were urged to move into the legislative building after Metis negotiator Don Melvor of Thompson, Man,, reported to the group on a unfruitful meeting between himself and David Thompson, a special appointee of the premier, Morrisseau said counter- offers made by Thompson “watered down” the Metis’ demands. Actor fights for his wall — while jogger wants to run ‘SAN DIEGO, Callf. (AP) | — The fate of actor Cllif Robertson’s three-metre wall is up before the California Coastal Com- mission : The San Diego Coastal Commission approved amendments to a coastal permit for the wall at Robertson's La Jolla seaside home. But the design called for 70-per-cent open lattice while the wall turned out to be solid. . After the city commission refused to e Onl to tear the wall down, a neighbor appea state. The case is to be taken up Tuesday by the coastal. commission, LITTLE ROCK, Ark, (AP) — Sally Miller Perdua has what she calla a great American dream.. The 40-year-old mother of two, who was Misa Arkansas in 1958, wants to jog along . the 2,-400-kilometre (1,600- mile) Great Wall of China. But Ms. Perdue has a problem. The Chinese government won't recognize the .. her requests for a visa. So far, she has not even seen the 2,100-year-old structure. But-why does she want to? Tt started in 1948, when Ms. Perdue was in the’ fourth grade, she said. Her fourth grade geography book . eontained a photograph of the Great Wall and a short passage about the structure. “f became obsessed with it,” she said, ‘‘I tried to learn as much as possible about t.”* A Kidney lines 18 years ago surgery that doctors predicted would partially cripple Ms. Perdue. To prevent it, she started walking for exercise, then ’ jogging. She now jogs in the morning and evening, aver- aging between 16 and 25 kilo- metres a day. About six years ago, it oc- curred to her that probably no one had jogged the length of -the Great Wall. She- decided to do it. ’ But her attempts to go to China and first study the wall have been Ignored. Chinese businessmen whem she has asked for help have — “called her an "insane female," she said. 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The trip in -olved about 100 flying hours. aan , 48 Parr (5 hd Ad wer ‘spewing from ’ [ousranteed 24 months or 24,000 Beyond that, the future is hard to predict,’’ Robinson said northerly , ' qurrents conforming to the curving Texas coastline were keeping most of the oil offshore, but added that afternoon winds would drive some of It to the coast. The patches of surface oil, sometimes kilometres long, have been lurking about 30 kilometres otf the Texas coast. Scien- tisis say the surface sheen might be an indication of ‘ subsurface oil. barren stretch several kilometres north of: the tourist-filled resort area on the southern tip of Padre Island. - Thus far, Padre Island has suffered little from the oll from a runaway Mexican offshore well that blew out June 3. Smail tar balls have washed ashore, but they were quickly cleaned up near the resort hotels, ’ The scientists have dis- patched a U.S. Coast Guard belicopter to scour water off the coast for a “reverse current'' that: _have Indicated ere, “Somewhere between here and -Galvestan, we hope. ta find the reverse current,” Robinson sald. ‘There should be one out there somewhere. We're ho that will carry it (the oll) farther offshore.” Coast guard officials sald the edge of-the sheen has . moved more than 160 kilometres north of ‘the Texas-Mexico ‘border and was off Corpus Christi early Monday. Aé a precautionary WS Save $50. Sears rebuilt engines miles. Enjoy brand new engine performance. -Shop Sears foday! ; . 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