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ute angle, and you either forsake the pole,
“the boat forsakes you. Cecil could pole
ith the grace and abandon of an expert
stersheller flipping out pearls, and, like
can of spork in a refrigerator, he was
ways cool and contained. He could read
d water like a Hebrew scholar could read
snskrit, and patching a holed craft, or re-
iring an asthmatic carburetor was as
sy for him as it was for me to be always
1 the poopdeck when I should have been
ugging the bowsprit and vice versa. It
sed to take 18 hours of hard going to buck
1e 65 miles up the Finlay to Fort Graham,
nd only five hours to: come down again. I
ked the coming down part of it, éven if
1e boat did jump the fast water like a
roncho, and the white bleached arms of
eacherously drifting trees were always
vaiting to entrap. But Cecil Muirhead was
lways master of the situation, and it was

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DICK’S BODY WORKS

“If we can’t fix it, it can’t be

fixed”
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Corner 7th Ave. and Victoria Street

KAMLOOPS, B.C.

a great comfort to a chechako to have him
to rely upon.

There are many more—some promoted,
some enjoying well-earned retirement, but
still spoiling at times for another whirl at
one of the most diverse and exciting of
occupations. Passing parade! The boys who
scoured around Parksville for the brutal
attacker of Stoddart, the aged Victoria
jeweller. The boys under Sergt. Bert
Stephenson, who went up the west coast

on the old Maquinna, to hunt the wilderness
above Nootka for the man who ran amok
and shot three to death before he turned
the gun upon himself. Many an epic story
could be written, not only of those who
carry on, but of those who have gone to the
Valhalla of good fellows.

By fairy hands their knell is rung,

By forms unseen their dirge is sung:

There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,

To. bless the turf that wraps their clay.

Sergt. Joe Louis of the U.S. Army, Detroit’s Brown Bomber, stopped off at Dawson Creek recently
on a tour of U.S. Army establishments along the Alaskan Highway. Joe made a great hit with
Canadians and Americans alike. He is pictured here amid an admiring throng of Canadian airmen,

alongside Provincial Police Corporal George MacAndrew.
of Dawson Creek detachment uw

Corporal MacAndrew recently took charge

ander Sub-Inspector H. H. Mansell.

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KAMLOOPS, B.C.

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