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Police dogs are a little tougher than (pit bulls).” BUCKET BRIGADE Ward said Toro, who house blaze in Save the Watermelon competition. Ac- weighs 23 kilograms, inher- +. Robson firemen rush to put outa tion was part of the Robson Volunteer Fire Depart- ment's annual firemen’s competition. — CasNews Photo by Doug Horvey ited the guard dog’s job when pinscher diedorouageater ALLEGIANCE TO QUEEN 10 years of service. A guard dog is required to patrol the pound’s kennel area at night to prevent dog owners from breaking in and liberating their impounded dogs, "Ward said. PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Ed Press, a truck driver who refuses to swear allegiance to the Queen, has been fired by the provincial Highways Ministry. Welfa re “A letter of dismissal has gone out,” ministry Province fires driver Sheila Fruman, union spokesman in Vancouver. “He has to initiate any action and so far he has chosen not to do that.” Press said people have sent donations to help his cause but he will be using mostly his own money for his trip to Ontario. ISSUE GROWS His campaign began as an attempt to keep his job but spokesman Charlie Shave said in a telephone interview rates up Tuesday from Victoria. Press, 48, of nearby Chetwynd, had worked for the VICTORIA (CP) — The allowance for welfare recipi- ents living in special care facilities will increase by $5 to $60 a month in August. Social Services Minister Claude Richmond said Tues- day the increase will help people meet their personal needs. The government's budget for the “comfort” allowances is $4.1 million this year. ministry for six years before he refused to sign an oath promising “to faithfully execute his duties as a servant of the Crown or to bear true allegiance to her Majesty and her successors.” He was first asked to sign the oath 3’ years ago and received several warnings. He was suspended without pay July 13. Press said as soon as he gets the letter of dismissal he will travel to Ottawa to picket Parliament and the Governor- General's residence. The B.C. Government Employees’ Union has promised to support Press if he files a grievance, but he said Tuesday he will lobby in Ottawa first. “The union would be prepared to initiate a grievance but we can’t guarantee what the outcome would be,” said has become a personal crusade to ban the monarchy. He has taken his message to talk shows and through newspaper interviews. 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Institute or Community College. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m weekdays Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training Skilts for Lite Press said he has political and religious reasons for not signing the oath. Youth missing in river accident KAMLOOPS (CP) — A 14-year-old Kamloops youth is missing near Mount Rob- son after falling into the Fra- ser River above Overlander Falls at the base of the mountain. RCMP in Valemount, about 40 kilometres west of the tourist site, said the boy fell into the river Monday afternoon. His name is being withheld by police pending notification of next of kin. Reports indicate the youth may have jumped into the river to try to save a pet dog that had fallen in. Police were providing no details of the incident. A search team including a helicopter, search-and-rescue ground crews, a boat and divers and trained dogs combed the waters Tuesday below the waterfall. Overlander Falls is a pop- ular tourist spot that re- quires a short hike from the highway. 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Canadians can expect to start seeing ads with the same kind of upbeat tone later this year or early next year. The advocacy ads, sponsored by the Canaian nuclear industry, will promote nuclear power and try to head off any fears that a reactor dome on the horizon might inspire. They'll likely resemble the ads on television and in now pi ing the use of or natural gas. SPEND MILLIONS The nuclear industry has stepped up its public relations program during the past year. Ian Wilson, vice-president of: the Canadian Nuclear Association, says the association is expected to commission a major public information campaign this fall. He says the advertising and promotional blitz could cost up to $20 million over the next five years. The future of nuclear power in Canada may depend on whether that campaign can sway the public and reduce opposition to the industry's hopes for expansion. BLAME BAD NEWS Accidents eight years ago at Three Mile Island in the United States and last year at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union; cracked pr tubes in Canadi: i Candu reactors; the Ontario Liberal’s government’ promise that the Darlington complex now under construction will be the ’s last nuclear plant — all are part of the bad press that has contributed to the decline of the Canadian nuclear power industry. Many in the industry suggested the recession that coincidentally followed Three Mile Island was the main culprit in the industry's decline. But the recession is gone and the industry is realizing there’s more than just economics involved in the lack of orders for new reactors, says James Donelly, president of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. “The opposition is real,” he says. “It’s certainly delaying the recovery .. . “We would be seeing some orders if it hadn't been for the loss of public confidence in the security of nuclear power.” REVENUES DROP Canadian industry revenues from building and maintaining nuclear power reactors are down to a fifth of what they were only four years ago and dropping. If the decline isn't reversed soon, the power reactor sector of the nuclear industry could be in big trouble. “You would not want to go on indefinitely, working at 10 per cent of capacity,” Donelly says. Business levels are down to “a level that we really never foresaw when we went into the business.” Bob Donovan, president of Babcock and Wilcox, says he doesn’t know of any company that’s gone out of business because of the decline. But many companies in the nuclear industry are much smaller than Babcock and Wilcox, which has built more than 200 steam generators for reactors around the world. MANY GET OUT Many firms have simply stopped considering nuclear power as a source of revenue and dropped that part of their business. Even at Donovan's company, nuclear work now represents only about five per cent of total business compared with 70 per cent at the start of the decade, and if the reactor market doesn't rebound quickly, the company may find itself out of the field. If Babcock and Wilcox gets an order for reactor steam generators “in six months from now,” Donovan says, “our nuclear staff will be totally absorbed into other work and would require major reorganization. Even now it would take a fair amount, because 70 to 80 per cent of our nuclear staff has been reassigned.” The industry's hope for the future is tied to recognition that the continent's electricity-generating facilities are operating almost at capacity. “We're heading for a fairly serious generation crisis in North America,” says Donelly. MUST DECIDE New facilities are required. They could be nuclear reactors. They could be plants that burn coal, oil or gas. They could require the construction of dams that flood river for society,” says vice-president of Ontario Hydro and former chairman of the Canadian Nuclear Association, “is to make an informed decision about which route they want their utilities to follow. “Do they plan to change their lifestyle and do with less energy?” Horton asks. “The indication is that they do not. “Do they trade their fears (of nuclear power) against some known environmental problems with burning fossil fuels? “Are they prepared to look at high costs for development of remote hydro sites? Flooding of lands? “How do they trade all of these things off?” The industry hopes an informed public will decide that nuclear power is the best choice. It recognizes that it has to change its image, hence the massive information program. 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