Weekly Fire Report

A lightning “‘sleeper" on
a Nass ‘River logging
operation was the sole new
fire last week, A nearby
logging crew contained the
fire at a size of only 3 hec-
tares, Small crews continue
to mop up the “Kat” fire at
Kitimat, also the “Stok” and
“Ben” fires at Atlin. Six
other fires are still burning,
but very quiet, and are under

observation, The cool, damp *

weather of the past two
weeks has been invaluable to

forest fire contra]. .

Repair of . fire-worn
equipment is making good
progress. Contract aircralft,
4 DC 6 tanker and a Bird
Dog plane, are on call at
Smithers,

The moat visible parts of
airtanker operations are the
tanker and the Bird Dog
planes. The ground support
crews rarely share any of the
limelight. Hawever, without
them, the entire operation
would quickly grind to a halt.
The jobs are seasonal,

_LUNDUN (AP) — Archae-
ologists gasped and whistled
like delighted children.

‘Monday at the sight of tomb
.treasures buried in Greece
2,300 years age,

- After slides of gald coffins,
silver and bronze vessels,
weapons, jewelry and ‘wall
paintings were flashed on a
lecture hall: screen, the
scholarly audience gave an
ovation to the man who
excavated the treasures,
Manolis Andronikos of

Salonika University.

The bearded, 59-year-old
Greek professor said his
recent finds in the northern
Greek village of Vergina
establish that the site is the
cemetery of the ancient
kings of Macedon. He said
one tomb was that of Philip
Tl, who ruled from 359 BC to
336 BC and was the father of
Alexander the Great.

After the lecture, British
archaeologist John Bryan
WardPerkins, presiding over
the convention of 1,000 ar-
chaeologists from 40
countries, said: "These
really are extraordinary dis-
coveries,. and we are
fascinated tg, hear there

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usually employing students;
the workload varies from
almost make work situations
during low activity periods
to what must seem like a
never. ending parade of
airtankers during high fire
activity periods.

In the control center at
Smithers Tanker Base, .a
large map of the entire
province takes up one wall: A
teletype § machine,
telephones and a multitude
of radios and a large counter
use up most of what space is

left. The functions of this
hive of activity is to keep
track of aircraft, dispatch
them, ° and control
movements of fuel, retar-
dants and maintenance
material between the
satellite bases at Burns
Lake, Terrace and Watson
Lake, Janice Himech and
Linda Goudy of Smithers
share the office worklnad.

Sam Erlenbach of
Smithers is foreman of the
ground crew and is

possibly are mere to come.”

Andronikes told The
Associated Press he is
returning to Greece after the
convention to continue
digging at Vergina. He has
yet to publish his scien-
tifically-detailed report. of
the excavations, which he
said will answer some Greek
scholars who dispute his late
4th Century BC date for the
tombs,

Critics say the tombs may
be royal but they doubt that
of Philip If is among them.

Organizers of the 1ith
International Congress of
Classical Archaeology chase
to open the six-day con-
vention at London University
with the Andronikos lecture.

“T think he must be right
that they are royal tombs but
there is some slight doubt
about their date—it's not all
that easy to be sure,” said
Oxford University ar-
chaeologist Martin
Robertson.

Robertson, a leading
British historian of ancient
Greek art, said: “If Ap-
dronikos is correct on his
dates, then it must be Philip.
Ml, but it might be later,.that,

“ATI in the head”

MONTREAL (CP) —
-People who suffer from
chronic pain generally have
trouble communicating their
true feelings.

They tend to be hard
workers who rarely miss a
day of work or who keep the
house spanking clean, But
they can’t relax.

This is the profile of an
average chronic pain suf-
ferer painted by three
doctors who run separate
pain treatment clinics in the
United States and Canada.

In interviews during the
recent Second World
Congress of Pain here, Dr.
Richard Catchlove of
Montreal, Dr. James Kwako
of Wisconsin and Dr. Lorenz
Ng of Washington, D.C.,
agreed that almost all of
their pain patients have psy-
chological and physical roots
to their problem.

“Five years ago, most
doctors thought emotional
problems were a reaction to
the pain patients felt,”
Catchlove said. We used to
say, ‘Well, you'd be
depressed if you were in pain
toa ,

“But now some of us
recognize when patients
complain of pain there is
usually something else
besides pain bothering
them."

Temporary pain is
necessary and normal as a
natural warning device to
‘alert people. to disease or
physical damage, the doc-
tors said.

But pain that persists year
alter year despite treatment
may mean the patient is
unconsciously ‘abusing his
body's warning system,” Ng
said

Chronic pain sufferers
seem to be addicted lo the
sick role because it offers
them an excuse to escape
unpleasant responsibilities,
‘such as a demanding job or
an unsatisfactory marriage,
he said.

Catchlove said a recent
study of 45 patients at
Montreal’s Royal Victoria
Hospital clinic revealed only
16 per cent had purely
physical causes for the pain,
3) per cent had mental
reasons for it and 70 per cent
had a mixture of both.

“Pain often serves as a
way of expressing the inner
difficulties that the patients
have trouble expressing
(verbaily),"" Catchlove said.

Chronie pain patients tend
to be the type of people who
hold in their anger, irritation

or sadness, he added.

“They aren't demanding
types. On the contrary, they
are rather self-effacing and
self-denying. Many have a
perfect work history—they
have worked for 20 years
without missing a day’s
work,” .

The housewife who suffers
constantly from pain tends to
work hard at keeping the
house clean, helps others a
lot and accepts self-sacrifice
without complaint, Cat-
chlove said.. .
NOT REALLY HAPPY

They often have long-
lasting marriages which
they say are happy until,
when doctors scratch below
the surface, they admit
unspoken, but deep marital
misunderstandings.

They are locked into a pat-
tern of behavior and they
figure “maybe if] get sick, it
will make things change,” he
said.

The three pain specialists
had slightly’ different ap-
proaches to curing the
problem but all emphasized
changing
lifestyle.

The 12-day out-patient pro-

gram offered in.a La Crosse, -

Wis., clinic teaches people
how to relax their bodies
through biofeedback
methods and counsels them
on how td resolve social
conflicts without seeking
refuge or attention in illness.

Both doctors practising in
the U.S., Kwako and Ng, say
mest of their new patients
are addicted to pain-
relieving narcotics,
dispensed too freely by pre-
vious physicians.

In contrast to the US.,
drug abuse is not a problem
for Canadian pain sufferers,
Catchlove said.

“There seems to be a
greater resistance among
Canadians to taking
medications,” he said.
“They don’t like being
dependent on something.”

The Canadian National
Institute for the Blind’s
Employment Services
Department is designed to
broaden the base of , job
opportunities for — blind
Canadians. In 1918 the
number of positions open to
the visually handicapped
could be counted on the
fingers of one hand. Today,
60 years later, over 40 em-
ployment fields have been

opened.

the patient's

responsible for the quality,
quantity and delivery of
retardant to the airlankers.
The retardant is basically a
fertilizer with a dye added to
colour the material to enable
the Bird Dog Officer to

- assess the effeciveness of the
drop and a thickener to hold
the load together after it is
released from the plane. If
not enough thickener is
added, the load dissipates
and vaporizes; if too much is
added, the load comes outin
a solid mass and does not
spread or penetrate the juels
eunough,

The moment an airtanker
taxies on the apron for a
reload, the ground crew
must connect the 3 inch hose
to the special fitting on the
side of the alreraft, pump in
the 800 to 2,500 gallons of
retardant (depending on
type of airtanker), discon-
nect and clear out of the way.
The operations takes about 3
minutes for an 900 gallon A-
26 and about 8 minutes for
the 2,500 gallon DC-6.

Greektombdiscovered

of successors of Alexander
the Great.”

In his lecture, Andronikos
said ancient Greek ruins and
a tomb were first discovered
in Macedonia in the mid-
1800s and excavalions at
Vergina began in 1937. It was
only last November that he

found the royal tomb in an -
earthen mound at Vergina, -

the capital of Macedon when
it was called Aegae.

He said he believes
cremated bones found in a
golden coffin are the
remains of Philip I], who
was assassinated while cel-
ebrating his daughter's mar-
riage.

Andronikos showed the
convention color slides of
finds from a second royal

grave he uncovered at’

Vergina last month, in the
same moundas that of Philip
and likewise missed by tomb
robbers. The pictures
showed a painted frieze of a
chariot race, silver vases, an
iron and silver lamp stand, a
clay lamp, a silver pot
holding cremated bones, leg
armor, the remains of a
,@ress, and’ a Spear. with,a
Gilded wood handle.

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~ FORT McMURRAY, Alta.
(CP) — The giant Great
Canadian Oil Sands Ltd.
recovery plant near this
northeastern
community shut down early

Monday after union workers.

went on strike.

The 950-member Mc-
Murray Independent Oil
Workers Union called a
strike effective at 12:01 a.m.
loca] time Monday to support
a demand that the company
delay a shift change in one
area of its operation. The
company responded by
locking out the union,

There were no formal
plans for a meeling with
union
company spokesman said.

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Alberta

representatives,

Points to
setback

Gerard Docquier,
Canadian national director
of the United Steelworkers of
America, saifl federal wage
controls presented the most
serious setback organized
labor has faced in many
years.

‘He said wages and benefils
that should have gone to
working people “ended up
staying in the coffers of the
corporations and were then
paid out as dividends ‘to
stockholders.””

Tom Mayo, president of
the Newfoundland and
Labrador Federation of
Labor, said workers should
prepare for confrontation
and struggle in the year
ahead.

“Workers and  non-
workers alike have watched
as their incomes and savings
are reduced and eroded as a
result of government policies
which have led to higher
prices, record profits, ever-
increasing unemployment,
galloping
reduced funds for education
and other social services,”
he said.

Clifford Pilkey, president
of the Ontario Federation of
Labor, said 1978 will godown
as a “year when the cost of
living rose 50 per cent more
than the increase in average
weekly wages.”

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Broadbent attacks

By THE
CANADIAN PRESS

A number of Canadian
political and labor leaders
used their Labor Day
messages to criticize the
federal government's eco-
nomic performance, which
they said helped to cause
high unemployment and
economic uncertainty.

But, John Munro, federal
Tabor minister, said partisan
criticism of the govern-
ment’s economic  per-
formance does nothing to
help renew confidence in the
Canadian economy.

“T don’t question that the
situation is serious, but | do
question the exploitation of
our economic situation in
some quarters," he saidina
statement. ;

_ Munro also paid tribule to
workers, saying the
reduction in man-days lost
due to strikes and lockouts
during the last year was
indicative of the concern
organized labor has for
Canada’s economic health.

Ed Broadbent, federal
New Democratic Party.
leader, said the federal
government should provide

Jobs immediately for the

more than one million people
out of work in the country.
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Labor Day rally and spoke at
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Dennis McDermott,
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McDermott said
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