Red Deer Advocate from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada • 1

Med Deer Advocate 4lV5 INSIDE LINE Pilots prepared to strike want to spend less time in the air. The union says the industry average is 75 to 78 hours of flying time a month, but at Air Canada the average is 7d to 85 hours and sometimes as high as 90. In the leadup to a possible walkout, Air Canada is trying to find alternative transportation for the 60,000 passengers who tly the airline daily. If there is no agreement, planes in the air at midnight Tuesday will fly passengers to the first scheduled stop hut no further. On the union side, pilots were sent videos on strike procedures and a strike headquaiters was set up at the associations Toronto offices.

A walkout would hurt pilots in several ways because 1,500 of the 2,100 pilots are also shareholders in the airline, which made a profit of $427 million last year. We didn't have to go this route, Belanger said. Our demands are reasonable. Air Canada spokesman John Hamilton said the airline remains very hopeful the dispute will he resolved, but he suggested passengers with reservations on flights between Wednesday and Sunday try to arrange to fly with another airline. Please see STRIKE, on Page A2 Starting Monday morning, all the way to Tuesday night, we could have a tentative agreement at any time, or talks could fail at any time, he said, So it's hard to tell.

We dont want to go on strike unless its the only choice we have. The key issues are pay and working conditions. Pilots earn between $32,000 and $200,000 a year which the association says is 30 to 50 per cent le--s than the pay of comparable U.S and European pilots. The Air Canada pilots want a nine per cent raise each of the next two years. As for working conditions, the pilots TORONTO i('Pi Progress was slow Sunday in contract negotiations to keep Air Canada jets the air, the airlines pilots association said Sunday.

With a strike deadline looming at midnight Tuesday night, management and the union continued bargaining under mediator George Adams, a retired judge of the Ontario Court, general division. Negotiators for Air Canada and the Air Canada Pilots Association, meeting at a downtown hotel, were working around the clock, and theyre making progress," said Jean-Marc Belanger, chairman of the union which represents 2,100 pilots. Even cowgirls get their dues Back to school New schools are working out nicely for children forced out of City Central School last term, say their parents. All-female rodeo tall in the saddle By BRENDA KOSSOWAN Advocate staff Raymond Yeldham, avid Royal watcher Collector cant get enough of Diana A Rolling Stone Shania Twain, featured on the August cover of Rolling Stone, insists shes more Nashville than New York. (j A little girl rides up to her mother, a look of deep despair clouding her small face.

She jabs her heels into the saddle a couple of times in an effort to emphasize her point. This horse wont go fast enough, she exclaims, the frustration rising as she tries to pump some spirit into an animal that apparently would rather be catching a nap in the shade. But mom isnt offering much advice, and daughter rides away to join other girls warming up for their next event. Barrel racing, breakaway roping, team roping and cow riding were among the events included at the Spruce ViewHale Lake rodeo, held a couple of kilometres northwest of Raven on Saturday afternoon. This is rodeo for women.

The money isnt much and most of the bleachers are empty. Thats no surprise and it doesnt really make a lot of difference to the competitors, said De Winton barrel racer Bobbi June Radford. The purses typically run at $250 or less. So while standings are based on money earned, there isnt a lot of cash there, said Radford. Like her mother, Isabella Miller, and her daughter, Skylar Manlier, Radful rides rodeo because she loves it.

Any money she takes home will help cover some expenses and buy a few extras. You cant make a living at it, hut it can be a darn good hobby, she said, straightening out a bit of gear as she and Miller prepared for their next event. Please see RODEO, on Page A2 By BRENDA KOSSOWAN Advocate staff 1NNISFAIL lie has a collection of Diana mementos stretching back to the announcement that Prince Charles was engaged. English-horn Ravmond Yeldham, 27. considers himself a great fan of the young woman whose sudden death broke hearts around the world Yeldham said he feels sadness hut no profound sense of grief' on the anniversary of the traffic accident that claimed three lives, including Diana, Dodi A1 Paved and their driver, Henri Paul.

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Inside the collection, Hughes found a photo album full of pictures that appear to have been taken in Shanghai and the surrounding countryside between 1937 and 1910, whim Japan invaded China. 1 lughes collection is rich with images of blown-out buildings, bomb victims and attacking infantry. In one picture, a soldier stands alone on a hilltop, thrusting a defiant fist into the air. Others show seemingly endless lines of infantry marching along the Great Wall. j.

jm There are field guns and cannons, mounted soldiers and soldiers firing Ill's. Please see PHOTOS, on Page A2 Some of the pictures are so graphic, she doesn't like to show them, never mind talk about them. Nila Hughes, a young Red Deer homemaker, is Irving to determine the origin of a Hioebox full of old war pictures. She and her husband brought them home from his fathers house at Christ mas tune, relies collected by his grandmothers hoy friend during the Second World War. I've been told theyre historically priceless." Hughes, who has recruited help from sources including a military historian win king in tttawn.

I lughes said she knows very little about the pictures, except that the boyfriend wanted to write a hook about the war. Ironically, alter surviving the battlefields, he was struck and Low tonight: 9 High Tuesday: 30 Mainly sunny Wind light Tragedy remembered A2 1 think It came us more of a shock. It's lull'd to believe that someone with her status, that something could happen like th.it It's sad. hut it's one of those things, really But then. Yeldham has all this stuff Yeldham said he cant really put a price on the Diana things he has been collecting since ltlht), when the Queen annoumed that the heir to her throne had found a bride.

The burgeoning array of tea sets, plates, trays and other commemorative items is in an unoidercd set of boxes, ui lunged throughout Yeld-hiilli's home But the now jewel ol his collection is the memory of walking through Al-thorp, the estate where Diana grew up and was buried. Some ol the Hems he brought home from the July visit to England are available onlv at Althorp. such as the expensiveh produced hook on the house and its treasures, he said. Yeldham is especially proud of the luket itsell, which cost him about $22.50 and 30 hours on the phone, trying to compete with thousands of other callers ho were alter the same thing. lie sat through the night, dialing the numhci over and over, hoping to get thiough.

I' in. illy, at 55 the morning, he was able to push his wav to the front of the elect I nine queue 1 thought, Ive got through now, Im not hanging up I dont care if I'm late lot in An in il.il mu to the home arrived in the mail a lew das la I ei signed by Diana In ol her, I lie Hui I ol Spencer The tlikel 1 1 I anised a loupie of weeks heloie Yi lilh, nil was due to leave lor England Please see DIANA, on Page A2 INDEX Two SOI lion'. 45c HOME DELIVERED GST Inclijulo A few of the Second World War photos Nita Hughes is trying lo identify V. IJKJfi'j.