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Show tJi' M .hi il ft : - V I i i 1 i & -$ Mush No More . . . Up in northern Manitoba, Canada, they have a new kind of snow-mobile called the "Bombardier", the proponents of which claim it will go anywhere any-where on snow or ice at a mile-a-minute clip, regardless of snowdrifts. And the word around the frozen wastes of the North is that this snow-travelling contraption con-traption soon will supersede the dog teams and sleds which for generations have been the only practicable means of transportation in the aurora borealis country. (Incidentally, the fresh-cheeked fresh-cheeked young thing sitting on the ice man's lap is Shirley Cane of Alberta. She's a skier and really doesn't belong with the rest of these pictures; but it's all right, isn't it?) t ' ' ' ' I .' I i? - v jrnj At the right is a man whose storied occupation apparently is destined for extinction. He is a dog team driver a figure right out of the gripping history of the North and he stands bundled against the minus-50-degrees temperature in layers of leather, fur and wool, protected from mishap by the polished trophy foot hanging around his neck. 1 1 , 1 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. - . T- ' J -a, , I " - M i r- v fTt t t - " " i - - - - j '.; r-, 'i s. " " ' "4 4. - "x " -4 " i A sinewy team of intel-- .J - ; -' , V'" J ligent huskies pose for , - v-" s V " i posterity. Hardened to snow, ' ' C H ice and winter wind, they have been more than a friend to man in " v " . , $ northern Canada. Now mechanization ' ' I ' , ' is outpacing them. ' m,., |