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NOW HEAR THIS
   The forecast for tonight calls for mostly cloudy skies with a few showers. Thursday should be cloudy with sunny periods, scattered showers in the afternoon and the chance of thundershowers in the early evening.
   The expected high today was 21, the low tonight 8. Thursday’s forecast high is
 20.	The high Tuesday was
 21,	the low 11. On this date last year the high was 25, the low 12.
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FLAMING SKYLAB DEBRIS PLUNGES HARMLESSLY INTO OCEAN
Plop-plop, fizz-fizz
WASHINGTON (AP) — Skylab, a ghost ship with a proud tradition, plummeted back to earth like a flaming meteor today. Trackers said tons of molten debris fell into the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia.
No one reported any pieces falling on land.
About 20 tons of fiery metal were scattered over 5,920 kilometres of the Indian Ocean, the North American Air Defence Command reported.
NORAD said the largest pieces of Skylab apparently hit at the front of the 160-kilometre wide corridor about 320 kilometres from the southwestern Australia city of Perth.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it received reports that the flaming laboratory was seen plunging through the sky from several points in southwestern Australia, including Perth, Kalgoorlie, Esperance and Albany.
It was night there, which made the flaming pieces clearly visible in the atmosphere.
Sightings of 20 to 50 pieces were reported from Perth at 12:33 a.m. Thursday (12:33 p.m. EDT).
A space agency spokesman said a tracking station at Ascension Island in the south Atlantic off central Africa confirmed at 12:07 p.m. EDT that Skylab’s solar panels were ripped away by the thickening atmosphere at a height of 110 kilometres.
•	About 500 pieces of the 77.5 ton spacecraft, including a 5,100-pound airlock shroud and a 3,900-pound lead safe which protected film from radiation, were expected to splash into the ocean.
Skylab’s last signal was recorded at 12:11 p.m. EDT by the Ascension Island tracking station.
The space ship began its final plunge after the space agcncy
oh, what a relief it is
sent it into a tumble to steer it away from North America.
In a final prediction of a long vigil, trackers forecast at 11:25 a.m. EDT that Skylab would plunge back into the atmosphere between 12:01 p.m. EDT and 12:53 p.m. EDT.
The announcement came as Skylab was on the last ot the 34,981 orbits it has logged since it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., six years ago.
The Skylab control centre reported that the spacecraft had dropped below orbital speed and “is indeed on its re-entry.”
The final orbital path passed over the north Pacific, the northwest tip of the United States, north of Everett, Wash., south central Canada, north of Montreal and Ottawa, and the state of Maine, north of Augusta.
Earlier today, when it appeared Skylab would shower pieces on North America, the space agency ordered it to start tumbling in space. This reduced the drag on the spacecraft
and extended its life long enough so that it would clear the continent.
  A radio signal was sent at 3:47 a.m. EDT today to fire nitrogen gas thrusters which started the 77.5-ton craft "wobbling and rolling" as it passed through an altitude of 92 miles.
  Confirmation that the manoeuvre worked came 30 minutes later when Skylab passed within range of a tracking station in Madrid.
  The decision to start the craft tumbling was made after NORAD. which had been tracking the spacecraft, issued a revised re-entry prediction at 12:35 a.m. EDT today. It forecast Skylab was likely to re-enter over the north Pacific, posing a potential threat to North America, primarily Canada.
  Skylab was launched May 14, 1973, and was inhabited by three different teams of U.S. astronauts for periods up to 84 days. It has been floating around as a piece of space junk since the last crew abandoned it in February 1974.
20c Copy Prince George. British Columbia
              Wednesday, July 11,1979 Vol. 23; No. 134
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Pulp unions    
back on j job  
at two mi ills 
            by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter
  Prince George and Intercontinental pulp mills were to start operating again today after the Canadian Paperworkers Union, Local 1133, voted to return to work.
  But the Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 9, representing about 850 employees at both mills served 72-hour strike notice today.
  Another vote by Local 1133 members on the industry’s last offer will be conducted later today.
  The 70 paperworkers, walked off their jobs Monday over what they said is a lack of compensation for shift workers.
  Local 9, served the strike notice in anticipation of a membership rejection of the latest offer by the industry.
  The vote will be conducted Thursday at 9 a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. at Vanier Hall.
  But there is some confusion whether the union would be in a legal position to strike once the notice expires Friday.
  The union and the companies have an agreement which states that termination of a contract requires 10 days written notice and this notice has not been received by the firms.
  Usually, the termination notice and the strike notice are served at the same time.
Northwood back to normal
 Hair is here. . .
     There will be a touch of the elegantly bizarre at Thursday’s premiere of the movie Hair in Prince George. Page 3.
 Esks show their stuff
     The Edmonton Eskimos got off to a good start in the Canadian Football League Tuesday and the B.C. Lions will try to do the same tonight. Page 13.
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   Meanwhile, at Northwood Pulp and Timber, the situation returned to normal after a pic-ketline was set up Tuesday.
   Striking members of CPU Local 1133 set up information pickets, apparently without sanction by the union.
   They were joined by PPWC pickets, again without union sanction.
    The company called in officials of the Labor Relations Board and started to shut down some major machinery.
    The afternoon shift workers honored the picketline and day
 Police back in Bathurst
   BATHURST,N.B. (CP) -For the second time in 12 hours striking city policemen decided today to end their seven-day-old strike and return to work.
    Talks between city and its striking police and outside workers broke off about noon today and the outstanding issue was turned over to the provincial government for settlement.
   Blair Boucher, chief negotiator for the police, said it was decided the rank structure issue which was holding up agreement would be submitted to binding arbitration.
   Immediate efforts were started to advise policemen and get them back to work by late afternoon.
    “The men want to go back to work,” Boucher said.
  shift workers stayed on their jobs.
    While there was no official comment by unions, several workers said the PPWC pickets were in support of the CPU at Prince George and Intercontinental mills and at the same time probing whether CPU members at Northwood would observe the line.
   The employees of Northwood are represented by CPU Local 603.
    This local will vote today at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday at 9 a.m. in the Prince George Hotel on the latest offer by the industry.
    The offer is for 90 cents an hour increase in the first year of a two-year contract and 9.5 per cent or a maximum of 90 cents in the second year on a current base rate of $8.16 an hour.
   The CPU, which had announced earlier it would recommend acceptance of the offer, now says it has withdrawn this recommendation and says the terms will be presented without endorsation.
    The change in attitude was prompted by the strike of two locals in Mackenzie.
    The Mackenzie workers are seeking a northern isolation allowance, which they term a local issue.
    However, a spokesman for the Pulp Paper Industrial Relations Bureau said in Vancouver it was not a local issue but would affect the whole of the industry.
    The 230 Mackenzie workers have been on strike since Monday.
Earlier story page 7	See also page 3
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Cttfarn photo by Dong Weller
        . ,	. Fish and wildlife officer inspects McMillan Creek, lo- highways has caused damage to the fisheries Habitat
 Creek damaged cated parallel to the Old Summit Lake Road in the by widening the road. Story, page 3.
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TARIFF AGREEMENT
  Lower prices at last?
Consumer group wants bottle ban
  OTTAWA (CP) Industries, farmers and fishermen will face tougher competition from abroad as a result of major reductions in import protective duties announced today.
   In return, exporters should find it easier to sell their products in foreign countries because of reduced tariffs agreed to in international talks concluded in Geneva.
    The net result, federal trade officials say, should be lower prices for consumers and increased efficiency by producers.
   Trade officials say the agreement, released in capitals around the world today, calls for reductions in Canadian import duties averaging 40 per cent, to be introduced over eight years beginning Jan. 1, 1980.
   Canada’^ major trading partners—the United States, Japan and the nine-member European Economic Com-
 munity (EEC) - will cut their tariffs on Canadian goods by, about the same amount.
   The cuts are part of the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) started in 1973 in an attempt to lower some of the barriers that inhibit world trade.
   Mutual tariff cuts agreed to by Canada and its trading partners affect nearly every sector of the economy, although officials say that Canada was more successful in some areas than others in the negotiations.
   Officials say major gains were made in obtaining reduction or elimination of tariffs in such items as forest products, machinery, chemicals and plastics, agriculture machinery, transportation equipment and aircraft, furniture, fish, agricultural products and non-ferrous metals.
   Officials say Canada made major gains in obtaining reduced tariffs on agricultural products sold to Japan and the
 United States and more limited gains on farm products sold to the EEC.
   The fishing industry, which has been growing quickly since the imposition of the 200-mile limit, is expected to get a further boost from significant tariff cuts on exports to the U.S. and Japan.
   The EEC has agreed to tariff cuts and quota increases on 12 items.
   The booming forest industry, which has seen exports surge in the last two years because of the lower value of the Canadian dollar, will get further help from major tariff cuts in the U.S., Japan and the EEC.
   The cuts in.U.S. tariffs on more highly-finished wood products “should encourage further resource upgrading in Canada prior to export,” the trade department said.
Hospital
scanner
arrives
   The long-awaited CAT-scanner has arrived at Prince George Regional Hospital.
   To be used primarily as a diagnostic tool, the CAT-Scanner (CAT stands for computerized axial tomography) can tell the difference between blood, fat, gas or tissue, unlike traditional X-rays, which show bone in great detail but lump everything else together as “soft tissue”.
   The scanner cost $175,000, of which $85,776 was raised in the Shrine-CKPG Telethon held in February.
   Operating costs are estimated at $60,000 annually, including staff and supplies.
  It was ordered in January, arrived at the hospital today and will be in operation within three weeks.
  OTTAWA (CP) - The Consumers’ Association of Canada has demanded that the federal government ban sales of all brands of 1.5-litre soft drink bottles.
  Association President Yvonne Miles said in a statement Tuesday that a voluntary recall urged by Consumer Affairs Minister Allan Lawrence has failed and that only an immediate prohibition of sales will sweep them from the shelves.
   Lawrence made the request at a J une 28 news conference at which he announced that new bottle design standards will be created by the end of the summer.
   The association said at the time that the recall might help the department move rapidly towards the new standards without having to institute a ban requiring extensive technical justifications under the Hazardous Products Act.
  But last week Lawrence hinted that he may exercise his
  power to ban if bottlers and retailers fail to comply with his request.
   Mrs. Miles said the association has received many reports that the torpedo-shaped bottles, which have injured at least 54 persons recently, still are on many store shelves.
   Although several companies have begun to recall their products. the operations manager for Charles Wilson Ltd. in Toronto said the company still is filling orders from retailers.
   “It’s amazing the number of people who want these bottles,” he said. “Our sales have tapered off a little, but we’re still getting orders.”
   The company bottles Wilson’s ginger ale, Hire’s root beer and Crush soft drinks.
   Mrs. Miles also said that contrary to department tests, the bottles used by the Coca-Cola, Schweppes and Sprite bottlers are just as likely to explode as any other 1.5-litre bottles.
  • Homeowners who missed the opportunity to check out the B.C. Hydro thermograph display in the Pine Centre Mall which illustrated how well or poorly homes are insulated here can still collect the evidence. The thermographs are available for viewing at B.C. Hydro’s main offices on 22nd Avenue and The Bypass.
  0 Allowing small guests to help you in the garden has its hazards, as one city woman discovered this week. Her three-year-old niece insisted on helping to weed. She plucked the nearest, large green stem, brandished it at her, roots dangling, and asked: "Is this a weed?” It happened to be the only tiger lily in the garden.
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