Snowmobile Fatalities Increase....

More than 43 deaths involving 34 drivers

and nine passengers of snow vehicles have
been recorded during this winter season
from September, 1972, to the present date,
in the Province of Ontario.

The greatest loss of life froma single
cause occurs when machines travelling on
lakes and rivers crash through the ice.

In the majority of cases multiple deaths

involving both drivers and passengers are
the result. To datel7 persons have died
in only 11 separate sinkings.

In spite of constant warnings operators
fail to recognize obvious dangers and the
inevitable tragic outcome. The shock of
being plunged into ice cold water and the
rapid paralyzing effect on the body are
quick to render the victim helpless. Add
to this, the overpowering weight of heavy,
water-soaked winter clothing, and you
complete the fatal combination.

The obvious danger periods are most
certainly at the beginning and end of the

season, or during prolonged periods of mild-

er weather. However, other factors also
influence the thickness, quality and the
presence of ice:

of ice fields. There can never be any
period of guaranteed safety.

The 0.P.P. urge the drivers of snow
vehicles to exercise the.utmost of caution
when driving on ice. You can never give
too much respect to those things that will
take your life.

OF INTEREST...

NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
9000 YEARS AGU...

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
as described in the Bible is remarkably
like what today would have been taken for
a description of the effects of a nuclear
explosion, The inhabitants were warned
of the danoers.of death (from the air
blast), blindness (from the intense flash)
and injury (from penetrating radiation),
Ve learn that a thick layer of earth.
provided protection from these danaers,

fast moving current, under
-springs, pressure cracks and the separation

that the blast produced the characteris-
tic column of fire, smoke, dust and
debris; we are told of the extent of the.
damage and that the whole area was un-
inhabitable for some time after the
explosion (because of radtoactive con-
tamtnatton),

Following is the way it is narrated in
the Book of Genesis, Chapter 19: Then
the angels (emtssartes from other planets?
said to Lot, ''Have you anyone else here?
Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone
you have in the city, bring them out of

‘the place, for we are about to destroy

this place''...''the LORD has sent us to
destroy it'',

When morning dawned, the anaels urged
Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife and
your two daughters who are here, lest

‘you be consumed in the punishment of the

city.'' But he lingered; so the angels
seized him and his wife and his two
daughters by the hand, and they brouaht
him forth and set him outside the city.

‘And when they had brought them forth,

they said, ''Flee for your life; do not
look back or stop anywhere in the valley,
flee to the hills, lest you be consumed'',

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and
Gomor'rah brimstone and fire from out of
heaven; and he overthrew those cities,
and all the valley, and all the inhabit-
ants of the cities, and what grew on the
qround,

And Abraham went early in the morning
to the place where he had stood before
the LORD; and he looked down toward
Sodam and Gomor'rah and toward all the
land of the valley, and beheld, and lo,
the smoke of the land went up like the

smoke of a furnace,
So it was that, when God destroyed the

cities of the valley.

\hen the debris settled after the
explosion, Lot went up out of zoar where
he had hidden from the blast and dwelt
in the mountain, and his two daughters
with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar;
and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two
daughters,"'- - - - - ?