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imulate a Boeing 737. 2000 allons of contaminated uel, rejected from air- Janes during maintenence, was pumped around, to over an area 50 feet by 100 eet.

A fireman wearing his rotective asbestos sui! tarted the demonstration y throwing flaming rags into the gas-soaked area. He got out of there as soor as

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Ina matter of seconds, the dry chemical truck pulled up near the fire with the wind atits back. The fire is fought so that the heat will be carried away, by the wind.

If a jet had actually crashed, the fire mkwtment would have been told about

it beforehand and trucks.

would have been just as close as they were in the demonstration.

The dry chemical truch has a 1,00 pound supply of potassium chloride to spary

om a nozzle on top of the truck cab. This supply runs out in 25 seconds, but is only intended to beat down the flames.

As soon as this was done, in to prevent the fire from reigniting. It4taid down a foam blanket made from protein products like animal intestines and metal

“This builds a resue area for survivors to come out of the aircraft,” said George Wright, the fireman in charge of the demon- stration.

“We are not attempting to ut the fire out,but to build a able rescue area” he said.

“Once a plane has crashed, it has been stressed, 'so badly that it can’t be used again anyway.”

Saturday's demonstration fire took about 15 seconds to put out, but 5 five hours to clean up after. The Trucks have to be reloaded after every use, then washed down.

Although the foam truck looks messirt, it's cleaner to reload. On tank is filled with water and the other with dehydrated solids. The two are mixed and ex- panded with air by the nozzle at the fire.

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hand filled using 50 pound ils. Twenty bags of the ust-like solid fill the tank.

After showing -off their truck to about 100 interested onlookers, the firemen discovered why the coffee still wasn’t feady-- somebody plugged in too many pots and dlew a cir- cuit.

The crowd benefitted from this mistake though. Instead of huddling inside the garage, Crew Chief Wright lit some more fires, and invited volunteers to put them out.

“It’s easy” he said as he escorted a lady from the audience. Sure enough it was. She had it out before

she knew it.

Wright warned people about fire extinguishers with gauges. ‘All too often they freeze showing full. When you pull one off the shelf, it might work or it

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Alternative extinguish ranging in size from five 30 pounds alive pressuriz cartridges. It works just well and is easier ti tell if is depleted. Just weigh t extinguisher from time time. If theweight noticebly different fromt original weight, it’s time t gyqace the cartridge. Thi can be done at the firehall

were judged as the top cre staffing a non-internation airport of its size in bot B.C, and Canada, The

Doc Quely trophy which is replica of a fire bell. They also received a honourable mention in th Howard Green hi

Campagnolo toasts Queen at dinner

OTTAWA (CP) — Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip lunched Saturday with some 300 Canadians, mostly amateur or professional

-F. Prystay passes in Vernon

Fred Prystay, a former Terrace resident, died in Vernon Saturday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Prystay arrived in Terrace in 1928 and he was one of the founding members of the Terrace Co-op.

They moved te Vernon four years ago on his retirement,

He is survived by his wife, Anne, five children, 16 grandchildren and two great

andchildren.

angements are ain care of the Vernon Funeral Home. Internment is at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

He is survived by his wife, Anne, five children, 16 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Arrangements are in care of the Vernon Funeral Home. Internment is at 10 am. Tuesday.

athletes, who ranged from 11 to 102 years old.

The 102-year-old was Herman Smith-Johanssen, a cross-country skier who lives in the Gatineau Hills north of Ottawa,

He sat at the head table between Olympic medal winner Nancy Garapick, a teen-age swimmer from Halifax, and Diane Jones Konihowski of Saskatoon, Canada’s competitor in the Olympic pentathlon last year.

Fitness Minister Iona Campagnolo proposed the toast to “la reine du Canada’'—the Queen of

an ada—and Queen Elizabeth's speech on physical fitness during a 1959 visit to Canada.

The minister said Canada’s progress in sports has been slow but the country is getting there. Canada had ranked an over- ail tenth among countries at the 1976 Olympics compared to an average 40th place in previous years,

Campagnolo remarked upon the fitness and discipline of the Royal family and added that

Prime Minister Trudeau, a.

head table guest, had always been and still was an example of physical fitness.

CHATTED WITH QUEEN

The audience sang God Save the Queen, then ap- plauded lustily and later chatted with the Queen and Prince Philip informally.

There were people like SmithJohanssen, who skis not competitively but for the pleasure of it. And there were others like Toronto

hockey broadcaster Foster

Hewitt and Father David Bauer, who coached Canada’s national hockey teams in the 1960s.

Cc a m pa gn refused to issue a guest list and it was difficult even for some of the athletes to recognize one another ‘‘in Street clothes. Many were amateurs in their teqys, including young swimmiers like Garapick and Bildir

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Tucker of St, John's, Nfid., who sat at the Queen's right at the head table.

Among those in the audience were Clyde Gray, the Nova _ Scotia-born Commonwealth wel- terweight boing champion who now lives in Toronto. Former world-class sprinter Harry Jerome was another guest.

z minutes until Monday.

Bennett nearly provokes second ferry strike

Brn oes Ee bin 'Berry Corp. workers verged on a second illegal strike in one. week Friday as Premier Bill Bennett and his cabinet ministers repeated their claim that the company has not given up its right to take legal action against the union for last week's strike.

But Bennett's arguments

seemed to be contradicted by copies of the back-to- work settlement released by the B.C. Labor Relations Board, which indicated that only the attorneygeneral’s department retains any legal options.

As Bennett, Labor Minister Alan Williams and Transport Minister Jack Davis disputed board chairman Paul Weiler's interpretation of the set- tlement, talks under special mediator Clive McKee were held up three hours by a dispute over midmonth pay

cheques.

Leaders of the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union,

2 seeking a first contract with % the crownowned company, = said Friday that union. members almost walked out

a second time when the found that pay for the work stoppage had deducted

cheques rather than the end:

chegues. “Just one word from us

= and they would have heen > out,”

said a union spokesman. “But so far we've, managed to hold

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Bennett said in an in-

= terview Friday and before a

news conference Saturday that the ferry corporation has retained its right to take legal action against ferry workers for the seven-day strike which ended“ Thur- sday at midnight. * The company ‘“‘only

agreed to bring about reprisals on the job,’

Bennett said, something itis alrerady compelled to do by aw.

Bennett repeated earlier statements by Williams and Davis that the government is studying proposals to impose tighter controls on ublic sector unions and roaden the definition of essential services in the wake of.the strike.

But Bennett's terpretation of the set: tlement was contradicted by

t leased by_the forme he included a

written statement by board

chairman Weiler.

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were the basis of the union’s

decision te-return to work,

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action, but the government itself could still prosecute the union throught the at- torneygeneral's depart:

ment.

The documents show that the company did not directly waive its right to sue its employees, but Weiler’s statement noted that the corporation did not take the necessary legal first step of asking the board to file its back-to-work order of Oct. 8 in the B.C, Supreme Court.

The result, Weiler wrote, was that the doors to legal action by the corporation were closed, because it had not asked for permission to sue, nor had it given any indication that it would do so in future.

‘“Accordingly,’’ wrote Weiler, ‘‘in the specia‘, circumstances of the case: and on the assumption that the trade union forthwith directs its members to return to work and that the union members do in fact comply forthwith the board’s order of Oct. 8, the board would be of the view that this matter (egal action against the union) is and would remain closed.”

Nonetheless, nothing in the agreement protects the union or its members from prosecution by the attorney-

eneral’s department for efying the back to work order.

SUITS POSSIBLE

Under the labor code, union members are liable to fines of no more than $1, while the union may be fined $10,000.

The union could aiso face damage suits from third rties, such as the tourist industry, if the courts decide the code permits such suits. Bennett said Saturday that the corporation retained the right of legal action. . = “The ferry corporation did proceed to ack the LRB to refer its order to the courts for contempt pur- poses. That application still exists and is still before the LRB. Management has not backed off from the appli- cation. . The union is seeking retention of current over- time, . an seniority. rovisions in the new coti- act, The company has pro- posed to eliminate overtime except after’ 1,750 hours work in a year and wishes to- increase the period of. temporary employment to, three years from two. :

CONTROL NEEDED Bennett said the govern-: ment is concerned that it was unable to control events ' during the strike, which. began after Williams im- posed a 90-day cool-off. period. : Both the LAB and the ferry corporation were immune from government interference, he said, “but in the final analysis, we (the government) are the ones accountable to the public.”

“This dispute shows how the government created for itself an inability toact... it's frustrating.’ ;

Bennett said the govern- ment’s decision to proclaim the cooling-off period was the ‘only option we had” to avert the strike, and_ the government anticipated the ruling would be obeyed.

Once the order was defied and the LAB direpied. the: workers’ to ‘relirn, to “theiy; jobs; itwas‘up to.the ferry; Oopar tion —not government—to proceed against the union, Bennett said.

| Waterland predicts pulp

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. CP-Forests MlInister Tom Waterland Friday predicted expansion of pul mills in this Central Interior city area and construction of at

least three thermo- mechanical pulp mills in the province in the near future.

In aninterview prior to a tour of logging operations, Waterland also confirmed

Noranda back

GRANISLE, B.C, (CP) -—- Operations at Noranda es Ltd.’s Bell Copper Division returned to normal Sunday following a walkout last Wednesday over the dismissal of a probationary

employee.

e employees, members of the Canadian Assocation of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers Union,

‘voted Friday to return to

work if the dispute was

‘handled through recognized

grievance procedures. Noranda applied Friday to the British Columbia

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Labor Relations Board for a cease-anddesist order to halt picketing at the mine site at Babine Lake, 220 kilometres northwest of Prince George, B.C. The

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Al Harris, chief shop steward of Local 10 of the wiion, said the union did not

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‘picketline set up by em- ployees.

_ Unity pleas heard in church service

OTTAWA (CP) — The Queen and Prince Philip heard pleas for nation unity and harmony Sunday at an outdoor Parliament Hill church service held in a stubborn drizzle.

The royal couple was pro- tected from the rain by a red and white striped awning over the specially- constructed stage but MPs, senators and repre- sentatives of foreign em- bassies and several thousand onlookers had to bundle up in raincoats and huddle under umbrellas.

The bilingual service included a Bible reading by Prince Philip, whic pleaded ‘Love each other as

much as brothers should and have a profound respect for each other,”’

“Do all you can to live at peace with everyone. Never try to get revenge. Leave that, my friends, to God's anger.’

Rev. Edward Scott,

rimate of the Anglican

urch of Canada, read a passag in heavilyaccented

rench, in which he said “we sense the danger of di- visions.”

TONGUES DIFFERENT

“We seem to be speaking with different tongues. Tha’ makes us tired of building roads of common consent and commitment.”

The Queen's six-day visit has been described by some as an important gesture towards Canadian national

unity,

The Queen joined in some of the singing of the inter- denominational hymns and sat stiffly on a red leather chair listening to the prayers and readings.

She was dressed warmly against the ch'll day in a maize colored coat and a matching tam-o-shanter with light-colored gloves.

Later she walked down a red carpet to view the Centennial Flame, built in

1967 on the country’s 100th birthday.

The crowd which pressed 10 dee against the barricades smiled and

waved and took photos. Many waved Union Jacks.

Three blocks away at the national archives, at least 1,000 people braved the rain to watch the Queen enter the building where she viewed 18th century oil portraits of North American Indian chiefs.

The exhibition, titled The Four Indian Kings, was painted by John Verelst. The Mohawk chiefs had travelled to England in 1710 to ask Queen Anne for an

increase of military support and missionaries.

Also on’ display was the Bible and a set of silver communion plates the chiefs had given Queen Anne. Queen Elizabeth signed the Bible for her third time.

Modern Mohawks from the Bay of Quinte in Ontario were presented to the Queen at the archives. Their gift to her was a quilt hand made by Helen Spencer of Brantford, Ont.

On the quilt was the tree of life and Mohawk clan symbols: the turtle, bear, wolf and eagle. A buried hatchet symbolized peace.

- industry growth in interior

that a major German in- dustrial concern is looking at pulp mills construction in British Columbia and talks are going well with the

company which he did not’

name.

There should be an up .swing in the currently depressed pulp markets in the mid)1990's and industry officials are preparing for that, he said.

Thermo-mechanical mills, which use mehenical rather than chemical processes to manufacture pulp, will produce low-grade pulp for sale to paper companies.

Waterland said Dome Industries, in its bid for

timber rights on the West

Coast, indicated it would build a thermo-mechanical mili as well as sawmill facilities.

Since it would cost about

$300 million tobuild one new * , ‘kraft mill, which would use’ chemical to produce the ..

higher grade of pulp, ex- nsion sf the mills is more ikely to occur,he said.

Waterland also said that | early feasibility studies .

show it would be beneficial for timber companies to build a resource railway west of Quesenel, 48

kilometres south of here, to replace more than 140 + kilomtres of all-weather - logging road into the Nazko -

valley. Waterland said

2,500 cunits of timber a year.

A cunit if 100 cubic feet of

timber.

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