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Show inipi mumwin utimumm.. t.i. nj.m ,t.virmm"W ' ' "'.-W"IHi ; '' mm.m mj. j n 11 m man . i iauwoo i "S$l No More... fc;J jlZm? V"j Up in northcrn Manitoba, ""S iTSj-'Jy , f Canada, they have a new kind "K.Ty' (Vl'l of snowmobile called the ( f 1 .- 3 "Bombardier", the proponents wmm" w .wwwwi Xfj or which claim it will go any- r y ? i ' V-; r j where on snow or ice at a ' ' Vt -'l i ( j mile-a-minute clip, regardless - VA H k of snowdrifts. '; "t'-i ' ''A And the word around the I , ? J ' ' ' 1 JjV s frozen wastes of the North is 'i,1 , ?f 's 1 that this snow-travelling con- is f A ' 1 I traption soon will supersede . ' 1 J (fJ;$i the dog teams and sleds which , . ' I 'M,. for generations have been the V . , Jf'! ' s 0BV practicable means of f J .i f "J S" -v is I-""."" . -j transportation in the aurora C W I'J nrVv.:" M J ) borcalis county. (k Vl i-ryi (Incidentally, the fresh- L &v ' cheeked young thing sitting on (.. -I M i-JS ' . 3s !'iXlf ' he ice man's lap is Shirley T'S. ,tmm.x,M:!e&'CZt&ii,M Cane of Alberta. She's a r? -X i'!fri skier and really doesn't belong Kf 1 A rvl with the rest of these pictures; rit.";' 1 LiV iOJ but it's all right, isn't it?) IS2 iifVj At the right is a man whose storied occupation apparently is -S- " destined for extinction. He is a dog team driver a figure right out of the gripping history of the North and ha stands bundled against the minus-50-degrees temperature in layers of leather, fur i.1 and wool, protected from mishap by the polished trophy foot hanging frf' in, nttiv" rV n-A around his neck. ! owDumimwup ijiiiii iiti puiiup;iiKiiip)iMiiiiuiiiiiipiM'iiic,wK''r iy Bulwarked against the rigorous onslaughts of the northern winter by steel, a gasoline engine and all of man's ingenuity, the Bombardier Bombar-dier stands ready to zoom over Canadian snowfields. Six rubber rub-ber tires propel a highly flexible flex-ible track, and steering is controlled con-trolled through two front skis. Capable of making a 300-mile run and back in two days (it takes a dog team 10 days), the Bombardier already has changed the living habits of people formerly dependent on the once-a-month dog team mail delivery. C " ZV VvrjiY; A sinewy team of inl- rg;.vi:tr; -i O r feGS1 hgent huskies pose for St "-'.-?JZr-f ' ijT . V'-Xi, posterity. Hardened to snow, .Wr- ice and winter wind, they have ""'V ' w---,. "''.ryP ' '..vSv -' been more than a friend to man in Ss'. ' f'J 'v ' ; 'tA ! northern Canada. Now mechanization '.:f.icj. r,l.L; is outpacing them. |