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. In the: -¥emote ‘event that’ something ‘hits: you . : _ with a heavy. and-unexpected bonk onthe head '‘g

one day between July 4th and 28th — not to worry. - |

One of Vic Walton's. best: men will be at your side. -

in a flash to minister—comfort,’ barid-aid and compensation for any “inconvenience ; ‘suffered.

Should you need further help; he can call on the - |

full resources of the RCMP, the Canadian Armed Forces, Customs and Excise, Transport Canada, National Health ‘and | Weltare, and External Af-

fairs. So just relax,

Mr. Walton - “works” jn -

Ottawa, where he is Director General of a ‘body known. as Emergency” ‘Planning _Canada. Last week he issued "a lengthy. press

plans. for dealing with any bits ‘or pieces_of Skylab

which may. ‘decide ‘next. ‘month’ that. Canada looks

like.a nice place to settle.

Skylab, yéaill recall, is the 85- -ton hunk of NASA . hardware which the U.S.

launched into orbit earlier in |

this decade ‘to. gather all kinds of fascinating. data about space. Some time ago

Skylab. ‘began to run.out of. steam ‘(or whatever they use - to. keep . it” going) .and it’ “became only a matter of.

time before the = fine: ‘fell back to Mother Earth.”

The boffins have now calculated there’s a 95 per

cent chance that this will.

happen sometime between

July 4th and. 28th, with July.

16th named as the even-odds date. Just how. much ‘of

Skylab will be burned. up as"

it- enters ~ the © ‘earth’s at-

mosphere _ and . where the

residue will: fall’ ‘are still, apparently, anyone’s guess.

The William Griffin pool in North Vancouver is one of 20 community recreation facilities at centres throughout B.C. to receive a grant from the provincial government under Victoria's recreational facilities assistance program.

The pool will receive $113,333 towards its planned extension, Provincial Secretary Hugh Curtis announced last week.

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London Drugs apologizes for any inconvenience ‘these errors may have caused our customers.

release ° - describing his department's ~

‘measures begin

° Department,

-immediately, * “Walton's. boys, to provincial

«aEspONSE”

But Mr. Walton and his Ottawa colleagues are taking no: chances. If any Skylab

says, the federal government “has made arrangements to ensure.. swift. and efficient response.”

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A slice: word, * “response” oS though just how you--talk—_

back to a hundredweight of

metal descending from 10.

miles up at the speed im- posed by gravity’ is not quite clear, -

‘There are other in- terpretations of the word, however, as Mr. Walton

-explains in his handout.

‘His contingency with the RCMP, which has told all its divisions about Skylab and is

“ensuring: their capacity to respond quickly.” Then there’s the National Defence which will receive tracking information from NORAD and pass it on ‘via Mr.

governments. ~

-The.* ‘Canadian. Armed - Forces’ will be! oni: ‘standby i in

case their help jis needed, complete with search and rescue — crews and helicopters.

U.S, space experts ob- viously have a Vested interest in any Skylab fallout, so Revenue Canada (Customs and Excise) and Immigration Canada have been told to let any NASA team and its equipment into the country pronto — no fooling around

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Affairs Department is ready to go to bat for you right away with, the U.S. government. -

With so many precautions

already Chicken -

in. “hand » > even Little © - - might.

conclude there is no real.

cause for panic about the sky falling in. Moreover, the

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- The dying. space station, |

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‘on a course between 50. -

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Canada being: roughly” Eager * 4,000: miles wide as. ‘the

satellite flies, it follows that the odds against’ a Skylab souvenir falling within’a mile of you are roughly 200,000 to

one, Getting out of bed in

the morning may well be. a

greater danger. “ All (the ‘same, one -remembers the Russian

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led some of ‘us: to. wonder

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Skylab. Let’s: leave -the final comment on. ‘this situation: to

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