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OIL BURNERS Oil Burners for Furnaces and Boilers EXPERT SERVICE TO ALL MAKES OF OIL BURNERS, ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES, A. E. LePAGE 23 Elm Street TOMLIN ELECTRIC SERVICE 320 Bay Street Large Canadian Manufacturer INSTALLATION AND SERVICE BY ~ _ GEORGE 1. GEDDES MEMBER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BOARDS Foresight is indclispensable for security. Never in history has it been so mbuhmdw with the resources of today. And that is exactly what you do when you) become a policyholder of the SUN LIFE OF . CANADA PLUMBING AND HEATING W. L. HIGGINS Specializing In SUN LIFE BUILDING Phones: Bus., 7â€"3618; Res., 7â€"5518 PHONE 659 â€"â€" ‘Telephone AD. 5861 Main 8t. E., Grimaby Indestructible Man TOUGHEST THING ONEARTH TO KILL IF HE HAS WILLTO Sunday Sun) I "A man," said Vic Ingraham, "is the toughest thing on earth to kill. If he‘s got the will to survive, about the only way he can be stopâ€" ped is by something as final as a bullet through the heart." Vic Ingraham speaks with auâ€" thority. He earned that right by an almost incredible feat of surivival in the Arctic wilderness. In 1922 Vic Ingraham went north from licking youngster, whose imaginaâ€" |, tion had been kindled by stories of | , newly found gold in the Northwest | , ‘Territories. In those days an amâ€"}: bitious prospector couldn‘t charter | a plane and drop down convenientâ€" | ly on one of the lakes bordering the vast, oreâ€"bearing pliateau. Beâ€" sides, Vic didn‘t have money to spare. So he mushed behind a dog team through uncharted wilderâ€" ness to Great Bear Lake, acquired a small boat, and started hauling freight. In the next ten years he had built up a tidy business, and had taken Stewart Curry into partnership. In 11933 he and Curry were on their tug on Great Bear Lake. Behind them trailed a barge loaded with supplies and 11 men bound for Port Radium. Only a man as tough as Vic Ingraham would have tried to make that trip. It was October 26, (Condensed from ‘The Baitimore mm-mmmw with the temperature below zero | kn and steadily sinking. Cim Great Bear Lake is larger than | co some of the Great Lakes and a| ba screaming gale was piling up heavy | se seas, keeping the lake open. Ingraâ€" | _ ham was gambling on making that | of last trip with badly needed supplies | OW before the final freezeâ€"up. of l-vt_fivmcflu tanks from the drums of H gas slopped over the deck as the | {} tug rolled and ducked in the waves, | t< On one sudden lurch some of the | 0 gasoline sloshed agninst the redâ€"| ¢ hot exhaust pipe. In a matter of | f seconds the tug was ablaze from | C bow to stern. Curry seized an axe and cut the | 8 cable to set the barge free. The | 2 wind would carry it ashore and the | _ men aboard would have at least a fighting chance for their lives. Inâ€" graham plunged down into the enâ€" gine room of the tug to rescue the two men below. A blazing hell drove him back to deck, but not before his hands and feet were bady burned. A few minutes before the tug ‘\ blew up and sank, Ingraham and m-du-mdhhlmb- ber life raft built for one. For two days and a night they drifted in the iceâ€"edged gale, before their frail craft reached shore. From the ward, sheathed for several hundred yards in glareâ€"ice where the spray had frozen. For hours they inched their way up the steep incline, slipâ€" ping back time after time when they had almost reached safety. Finally, drenched to the skin and utterly exhausted, they pulled themselves over the top. By this time the temperature had dropped to 30 degrees below. If Mmhhmum fire. Snow was falling, the sodden jack pine and spruce, but Ingraham had in his pocket the stub of a candle, a pencil and a tin box of matches. With infinite care they whittled the pencil to shayâ€" ings. Then they lit the candle and ‘ with it lit the shavings. Gathering | the driest bits of wood, they nursed n.uqmwumun three foodiess days they huddled beside the fire taking turns sleepâ€" ing. They knew that if they both was denied them. Thes for the first GRIMSBY time Providence seenud to interâ€" cede. On the shore jut short of the point they found the barge, its 11 survivors buddled aroud a fire beâ€" hind a tarpaulin shelter. All the food, however, had been lost when the barge crashed ‘ashore. Oue of the men had managed to save his rifie, but even that offered littlee hope, The caribou nad long since gone south, and no othergame eXâ€" isted in that desolate coutry. °_ ‘There in the wilderne: where BO| L caribou should have ben, a lone| Y\ straggler from the migrathin showâ€" | ¢ ed up. They promptly shot it and | g :-:--n-';::nzs less than the hand of Cod guided| that caribou. C ‘The men rolled V+% in blanikets, more dead than alive.Â¥Yet even. the | narcotic of oblivion vas denied him. | Except for brief monents of fitful | ; sleep, he never lost consciousness. | | ‘The tug had Yhun up on October | |26. Eighteen da;; later, on Novemâ€" ber 13, a search piane found them | and landed Onthe lake. They flew | Vic to the hosRtal at Aklavik, at | the mouth of th. Mackenzie River. ‘| There he hoverq petween life and | death, receivingpiood transfusions : | and, lnater undeyoing a long series | of operations. L the spring he Was ; | flown to Minncinglis for even mOre ) | surgery. .| At the end Of & »mar and a half, ,| Vic had lost both jegs below the o | knees and the firs point of three fingers on each nand. And of n | course he WASproke. No one could a | have blamed Bm if he had started y | selling pencil=on a street corner. of tougher stuff.on crutches, withâ€" | out even Waltng to learn the use of his new Artricial feet, he turned his face againtoward the North His ambitionwas unshaken, and a fierce involved, He had to go back that the demâ€" ons of frostand cold had not lickâ€" ed him. He took» job as the agent for a transpOtstion company at Great Bear Lâ€"ke. In 1987 therewas a gold strike at Yellowknife. The news spread, and the rusiwas on. In the midst INDEPEND ENT ‘s apirit â€"â€"_ ¢uwmhfl'¢""“‘. ..uualntl"'"" start as a free agent. *Â¥e set up as a trader, and PrOS~ IP "* * 7 CS uttle hotal He sot UP "* * *~~ O uséts b n‘lfifllfil“”w u‘lw&lfi'“-"’" C ‘.,‘u-h“m is now _ TL 1 ccodetemenic es he built a large one. He is NOD | m*m"""‘“w‘ on the newly plauned .:‘ n-(hllt-,‘u‘-' built up a substantial fortune. He mhmw "B C CA ols a# domales m-muâ€""â€"' pany, operating a fleet of trucks nduwm'llfll C er, he operates Yellowknife‘s PC er aystem. They are in gold mining .dth_il’“ Some time during that period wwmulumw umu-t--fi"“"" ammhmcfl Vic driving a heavy truck the 200 -l-“aobdmflm u.,-gw'“‘“ W C ._ Luthem snff Vic smorted, "Hell, I‘m 90 than you are â€" my feet Sreeze." As to his hands, he says, \ singers are not much good 1 | thing but maybe typewritin erwise they only get in you! \ Last summer a neighbor : | Vic‘s home stopped to stare .\ Vic was sitting on his from ub&nfi.hm'l- mmfl”””w thing but maybe typewriting. Othâ€" erwise they only get in your wayâ€" Last summer a neighbor passing Vic‘s home stopped to stare at him. | Lfle-“â€"&fi‘” looking down at his feet and vock» ."nm.“lo-ldhl- dang mosquitoes," ‘he chortled. "They‘re trying to bite my artifi~ clal legs. At last I‘ve put one over on those little soâ€"andâ€"s0‘s." "When anyone talks of the frailty of man I thing of Vic Ingrabam. By every rule of the book he | should, if he survived at all, be a 'w.flnifldnm”‘ 'Ml‘.hlfll’fllfihw‘ | ordinary book. It is the rule goverâ€" ned by that unconquerable spirit of .\ man, which makes the frail buman |“~MW p Amgmvflth‘l'eb ronto, remarked, "T‘d like to take a whole shipload of disabled war vetâ€" erans down north to Yellowknife, tell them the story of Vic and then character in action. I think i would do more for them than all the sermons, treatments and advice mdm." right. Many select that side just because they want to be on the m"â€""fi.m' But not this free verse kind. 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