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1 of aiming to break an aroundthenovit : os bat and you need a fuel right pack on track. ‘sironger ‘dollar ‘in July yes ~~! made. up of. dollar. \

1 ofapeed record and'ralse $1‘ million: for | °° ms i LU MONTREAL (CP). 5 highways} alliwed the government to : foreign currencies, gold end © The. prosenl “devel: caf co
_ _fsancer research’ were behind schedule '|,° alegh en ‘the pilots ‘were ied: a bre r~ Streets and highways endl J) repleniah: tte holdings of special drawing rights, a” reserves is 9948 million”

a fodoy alter running into some unexpected {\ routes hecause of the tense sltuation | into Montreal were without traffic’ jams : international” reserves “by paper—currency’ of the -above the 19year-low. of

; snags Tuesday, - iy ~dauthe Middle Bast. The Israeli-Paleatinian -. | “relieved cominiters (ook buses and the- su AP  Ga.7 1US. Finance. ‘Injernational. Monetary $7.307 billion set. July, 1088.
_/\ Montreal pilot Andre Daemén, 22, "snd! ‘0 i “Mork for thé first time in six.daya. 20827 -} Department: figures’: Fund. A the dollar:at that’.
Vf 5 ae, . a et: “Also: interrupted radi. con "This lfy’s 4200 bus and subway operators ried | epar men gures’ - ‘rum on the. at ;

Don Muir, 26, of Sioux Lookout; Ont.; were © mm
|. delayed in Madrag, India, lwe houra while: | -

* released: today. shaw. ; time wae responsible. for Ag

-. ta work thls morning ln obedience to'a Quebec cabinet -.

: _Moniforing. theitrip here’ paid.

.” .alepart aftictals tricked ‘down 480 litres of.”
fuel for the’ next: leg of: their. ‘journey ‘to

“Kuala Limpur and. Manila,” vofficlale.
They evenutally obtained their fuel and

‘lett, landing in Kuala Lampur at 2: 30 '8.m.:

the Went coast of India; aesapas, mh .
on to Madras in tha east; But Genest said.
the: fuel delay and head: winds have now

“order, ending &atrike that brotaght Public transit to a.
~ hale last Friday;

“Two weeks Ls betler- than iothing,” one “pubiway
“rider commented. He was referring to the time given .
fea government-appointed investigator ‘to determine.
|. what essential services must, be ‘thaintained if the .

EDT. They were expecting to arrive in ‘schedule.

» Manila, the next scheduled stop, at ui | _ ta

pm. EDT. |. os ". But ‘he added: “It - ‘they keep within.
_ The dirport officiais in Madras first nent general scheduled hours they should

an. emergency message saying the-fuel .
__W88 Dot available and then saldit could be ©:
provided at a cost of $600 ~~ about $500
‘more than anticipated, flight organizer .

Donald Genést said,

We ‘know: you have wo “tip in some -
countries,” Genest sald: “They're Dot

arrive a whole day ahead of the world
record,”

Mulr,a a bush pilot, and. Dabmein, a flying

_. Mark set by an American pilot in 1978.

River. threatens supply

GRANDE PRAIRIE,
Alta. (CP): -— ‘The water
supply of this northwestern

Alberta city is being -
threatened for the second
time In, three weeks. by a

" rapidly-rising river.

Heavy rains have chumed
up the waters of the -Waplti
and South Peace Rivers,

- threatening the city of 24,000 °
residents, 460 kilometres.

north of - Edmonton, that
only last week got its taps

" flowing from the last flood.

A raln-swollen Wapiti
flooded ‘a water treatment
Plant 16 kilometres south of
the city July 16. Health

’ officials forced bars and
restaurants to close, water -

rationing was imposed and

hotels had to use disposable -
plastic cups and paper.

plates. -
Water service returned to

“normal July 26, But owners —

of hotels, restaurants and

and surrounding area, say
“Alberta. ~ Environment
Depariment officials:

But environment and city
officials were confident the
steady rains would not force
the river into the treatment
plant. .

Residents in a four-block assistance. would :
area of the city watched as-- provided | to’ Taadownere
their basements-flooded for flooded last month. But he

The Wapiti rose about six
metres during the last flood,
smashing bridges.

major. power line.
Munieipal

the second time in three said the government would |
fot cover- “prospective

weeks,
Many, \ were planning to’ business losses.”

mave Aap they remembered The Grande - Prairie

water levelsofuptoametre weather office forecast

"put tiem more thant two hours behind

_ instructor, left on the 13-atop voyage from ¢
Montreal at 9:05 a.m: ‘EDT on Sunday and,.
- hope to beat ‘the seven-and-a-half day.”

and”
wiping out rail lines and a. .

Affairs —
Minister. Marvin Moore —
announced Tuesday thet

in towrihouse basements
during the last flood.

Bill Kuhnke, an
‘Environment Department
engineer, said: the Wapiti
rose by almost two metres
Tuesday morning and is
expected to rise another 1.5
to two metres before sub-
siding. It was five metres

another 20 millimetres of

‘rain would fall before the.

storm tapered off. into

scattered showers today. .
‘About 4.8 millimetres of
rain had fallen up to |

Tuesday afternoon, about 42.

millimetres higher. than

average for August, ;
Flooding has already

high later in the day, 20 been reported in forests -

umes higher than it should south of Grande Prairie.

125 millimetres of rain have
- fallen on Grande Prairie

' size since a. 364,000-hectare fire that swept through the

forest.
‘tling the large fire, equivalent to about one-third the area of

_ acre) blaze in the Caribou Mountains north of High Level .

~ the community — should be under control by this evening.

” favorable’ winds were helping firefighters in northern-

"course things could change at any time.”
a hectares since it began June 24. The province began

- _ when 250,000 hectares of forest wag burned.

. economic value.
~ “The timber could be considered, not really scrubby, but |

“it's.on permafrost,” Pashnik said. -

_ Alberta to date, covering sr, 520 hectay ;

bars estimated they lost $1

million during. the shut-
down. .

Since Sunday, more than

be at this time of year.

“A flood ia a certainty,"
said Kuhnke. "But .... it's
hot going to be as ign a
flood as it was a couple of
weeks Ago. ae .

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some control

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Athabasca Forest last summer.

Although the fire line is of such magnitude. that all of it
cannot be covered Leary said firefighters have made good .
progress since cooler weather set in.

"It’s (weather) really.given us great assisiance for the
first time this year,” hesaid, “We've had up to 1% inches of

Nineteen campers were
alrlifted from Musreau
Lake, 72 kilometres south of
the city Monday, when a
Smalt bridgé was washed
out on Rat Creek, =;

‘The rain has flattened
- grain. crops and several

farmers ‘still: ‘had !-rot
° bbought fa" thelr’ Hay,” sald
' district agriculturist ‘Bill .
“Smith. But he said the rain.

would be good for pastures _
and second-cut crops. = —-.

The Alberta Forest

‘Service welcomed the rain, -

which helped bring several

large forest fires in the area .

under control.
 “Tt'g a beautiful r. ;*
said spokesman Keith
Langille. .

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voked- Bill 72

Work,

eo.

an’ emergency

600,000 users.

‘4--Tush-hours on
businesses.

17."
On Sunday,

subway service. -

“Voking bee aw.

‘atrike Bn
ship.

~ legislation.

Arivers.

’ drivers. strike again.
_ Ina special session on ‘Tuesday, the cabinet in

— ‘the’ province's. recently-passed

Essential Services Act _ — sending the drivers back to

. Meanwhile; the drivers’, union and ‘the Montreat
Urban Community Transit Commission met with a
Quebec-appointed concillator.,to ‘discuss what Conte
stitutes essential services.

“Thope the people of Montréal will understand. that.
they'll have their buses, but there’s still no collective
agreement and God knows when there'll be one,” paid
union vice-president Jim Fiynn.

Flynn made the comments Tuesday evening after
Meeting of the union exécutive |

recommended that members respect the law and

report to work at 4 a,th, EDT today, - ae
The drivers, without a contract since January,
-»regaln the right ¢o strike-in two weeks 48 long they
Agree to provide services deemed essential by the
conciliator, Montreal labor lawyer-Bernard Bastien.
‘The strike's end brings relief to the transit system's

‘The disruption — the third this year and the 3ird_
since 1965 —-. caused massive traffic snarls during ;

Monday and ‘Tuesday and hurt

-McDonald’s’ Restaurants. reported a 2 per cent
- drop:i in business volume during the strike, -

“The impact on sales [s“sécondary. though," said
* Armand’ Benny, operations manager. ‘The major
problem is that m
work, especlally. in

The United Theatres movie chain said-it lost.40 per
cent of its regular customers. qi

The cabinet also ordered the commission's 2,100
mechahics and 435 office workers, ‘who are in a Jegal
position to strike, not to walk off the job before Aug.

of our employes can’t get to
downtown stores.”

Quebec Labor Minister Marols

threatened to suspend the drivers' right to strike if
‘they refused to provide essential services including .
transportation for the handicapped and Tush-hour

. The strikers restored partial. bus service ‘for the’
handicapped Tuesday. Buses were available. for
‘disabled: people who had to go te work, medical ap-
pointments or school.
* But the union refused ta provide rush-hour service, ~ .
which itsald was ‘merely an inconvenience’ and not___
“a detriment to public safety or health.

Marois told reporters in Quebec. that cabinet had

hiaichareny definition, of: public, health, and... mp

in ‘recent legal judgments in in-

He said he spoke with Montreslers affected by the
d determined it was a real source af hard-

Contract talks broke off Monday evening with the —

‘drivers charging that the - transit -commission -
“deliberately provoked'’ the stalemate to push the ;
Quebec government into imposing dack-to-work

Negatlations have stalled “over a ‘commission .
demand that, it be allowed to hire 400 part-time

” billion U 8: the government
repaid: half the ‘#15 billion:

U8. it: borrowed ° ‘dn June, -

"from: foreign © banks tor.

; bolster depleted: reserves.

* Reserves are’ used ‘to

--atabillza the. value. of the

‘dojiar..The government,.
through the Bank of.
Canada, eels reserves and
buys lars to

’ support. the value of the’
' currency and does the
” opposite to hale the value of

* the dollar down.” .
Figures are quoted in U.S.
funds because they

VANCOUVER(CP)—
The federal Conimlssion of

“Inquiry into Part-time Work
will

begin

Commissioner Joan
Wallace of Vancouver said
Tuesday bearings will be
held here Oct. dand5.

‘The commission, ap-
pointed in February by
Labor Minister Charles
Caccla, will examine all
aspects of part-time work
and report’ back to the

_government early next

Wallace said the fastest
growing sector of the work
force in the last six years
has been part-time workers
who Have increased 55 per
cent.compared to a growth

“: 16:86 “eenta..

its . public” epara

an -ail-time’ |
‘U8.,:

“government - ‘ittempts: to.
“hall that slide proved: very”
expensive. Tt was fereed to

borrow a staggering $2.45 - ‘credit with: ‘foreign banks

billion which it added to its
depleted reserves.

However, the dollar in

"July gained atrength-as U.S,

interest rates ‘slid and. in-
vestments in Canadian

dollar securities became
more altractive,

‘This allowed the govern-
ment to exchange Canadian

dollars for regerves as well ©

as pay off part of the debt it

begins
molllion women part-timers
are single; while another
68,000 are divorced,
ted or widowed.”

The Jargest segment of
women part-time workers -

‘g® per cent - are found in the

service. producing — in-
dustries, primarily in

community, business..and

personal services -and in
trade, she said.

During june the . dbilar ‘.

‘debt on its $¥-billion line of
and a $000-million ‘debt on

its $3.5 billion Line of credit. .

with Canadian “chartered
banks,

Further, it owes $750
million, which it raised on
the European bond market.

nto the” renerve;.

juttueting, a $75million °°

to defend the dollar during -

June.

A breakdown of the -

changes in the reserves
through July show U.S.
dollar holdings. were up
$47.6 million to $2.0067
billion; other foreign
currencies - were . $18.6

_ million, up $4.1 million; gold

$778.1 million, ‘yp alightly
from $778.0 milllon; special
drawing rights unctianged
“at $70.1 million and the

- reserve position in the IMF,
down -

$366.5. million, -
marginally from
million, .

There are ‘reports that
Ottawa is also seeking to,
extend its line of credit with ;
foreign banks by $2 billion to
$5 billion,

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rate. of 18 per cent for the
work force’as a whole.

“Women dominate the
‘part-time work field:

- Wallace said that women

workers make up 4) per
cent of those employed but
24 per cent of these. work
part-time compared to only
63 per cent of all men

‘workers: Waren parttime’

_ workerg grew from 687,000"
in 1975 to aver a million, in

—e

This means that 72 per -
cant of all | part-time

“workers are women, with

the remainder being either
young | men,: students or
alder workers, she said.

“The. prevailing myth:

_ that women work part-time
to buy extras is completely | .
"untrue.

One third of the

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rain in the southern forest and one inch in the northern

“But it's still not-the amount we need to put the fires out
campletely.’’ :
Leary said fog haz lowed’ all but 75 of the. 250 men bat-
Prince Edward Island, to take a break.
“We're starting to mop up and It looks pretty good." |
Leary said the two other fires -~ a 10,900-hectare (27,000-

and a 3,400-hectare (8,400-acre) fire 95 kilometres north of

- Meanwhile, cool weather; occasional showers and |. -

British Columbia gain control of the second-largest fire in
the province's recorded history. ~

“Conditions have really changed in our favor,” Paul
Pashnik, regional protection officer with the B.C, forest
service in Smithers, said Tuesday, “We're optimistic, but of

. The fire, near the B.C.-Yukon border, has burned 160, 000
recording fires,in 1952 and the biggest since occurred in 1956 |

Pashnik said the wind shift had moved the tiny resort
community of Coal River out of danger. The town’s ‘handful
of residents were allowed to return to their homes Tuesday, ;
“after being ‘evacuated last Thuraday.

The current fire was started by, lightning near Egnell
Lake; The timber burned in the fire ia only of marginal |

poor quality because the growing coniitions are poor and

Howard Gray, an Alberta Forest Service spokesman,
said of the 29-forest fires burning in northern’ Alberta
Tuesday, seven were designated as out of control. . oo

a iM cooling down pretty, good now," he sald. “We! ve
managed finally to get some precipitation up, there. ”

The forestry service hae recorded, z}ylA0: fires ‘across |
5 Gray said.

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