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MOST DANGEROUS AREA B.C. Proves Graveyard For Many Aircraft VANCOUVER (CP)--For 20 years, a twin-engined bomber has lain in a rain forest 300 miles north of here, silent mon- ' gment to a missing crew. HD 319 is a Mitchell medium bomber of the type used in the famed raid om Tokyo led by Jimmy Doolittle April 18, 1942. Since 1944, Hd 319 has been a testimonial to some of the worst flying conditions on the conti- nent. : In the last 25 years, 256 air- planes have vanished over Can- ada's Pacific - coast province. Some, like Hd 319, lay undis- covered for years and 73 have never been found. Pilots run greater risks in British Columbia than in other parts of Canada, says Fit. Lt. _ Gordon Duffy, a controller at the RCAF's Air-Sea Search and Rescue Co - ordination Centre here. Once a pilot gets into bad weather and poor visibility in the province's 366,255 square miles of mountainous terrain, "he's not going to go far with- out hitting something." ; The same hazards compound! the work of search and rescue.|@ "On the Prairies you can see a downed aircraft for 10 miles," says Fit. Lt, Duffy. "But * The centre is notified if a! craft don't leave much 0 mark in this country, not un- less they burn a swath through the-trees. But then the people are usually dead." LOST IN FOREST hit a hill, broke up and plunged into thick forest on north Van- couver Island, On Sept. 20, 1960, prospector Magnus Bartman came across the wreckage and his find was reported to the authorities, Be- cause of the dense forest and the length of time that elapsed between crash and discovery, positive identification of HD 319 took more than a year. | What became of its four-man crew likely will never be known, One or more may have sur- vived the crash only to perish in a futile fight against the for- est. | But post - mortem investiga- \tions of long-ago crashes with- out hope of finding survivors form part of the routine of the search and rescue centre estab- lished here. in 1946 to co-ordi- nate efforts previously splin- \tered among the navy, army lend air force, the department 'of transport, other government |bodies and civilian groups. The Vancouver centre, one of lfour such in Canada, controls all search and rescue opera- ions in British Columbia and in coastal corridor of ocean stretching 800 miles offshore. NOTIFY CENTRE irate communication "THE OSHAWA TIMES, Weenesdey, July 13, 1764 , 21 plane is half an hour overdue and the officer on duty runs a communications check. If he fails to raise the missing plane, he calls in a searchmaster, an RCAF officer with special train- ing. The searchmaster, working with centre liaison officers if necessary, can set up field headquarters to direct the search operation anywhere in the proviince. At the call of the officer on duty are military and civilian planes, virtually all military personne] in the area, volunteer mountain rescue teams, pleas- ure boats and even itinerant freighters. Two 95-foot cutters of the Ca- nadian Coast Guard at Victoria bolster the centre's seaward reach and since 1961 Capt. W. H, Dale-Johnson has been at- tached to the centre as coast guard representative. Co-operation between volun- teers and the centre is excel- Complete records of wrecks, searches and missing planes are on file, The walls are cov- ered with maps, one of them studded with colored pins show- ing the estimated location and japproximate date of all known crashes. Although the centre is respon- sible only for mishaps requir- ing search dr rescue, it handled 843 reports during 1963 ranging from missing aircraft to Sunday sailors in distress, Some of the seemingly clear- cut cases can develop into a -- headache for the cen- A TCA Lodestar, Flight 3 from Toronto with 15 aboard, circled Vancouver International Airport preparing ot land April 27, 1947, and then vanished. It was never found, prompting Carleton C. Taylor Jr. of Kent, Wash., to offer the use of his divining rod, A' TCA North Star carrying 62 struck Mount Slesse just east of Vancouver Dec. 9, 1956. The wreckage was not located until the following May. But seven out of 43 were saved Jan. 19, 1952, when a Northwest Airlines DC-4 plunged into the sea off Sandspit air- Istrip on the Queen Charlotte Islands. lent, says Fit. Lt. Duffy. The RCAF supplies fuel to private! pilots taking part in a search. The centre can handle three) searches simultaneously. Three| chairs, each in front of sepa-| facilities, | are the focal point of the cen-| tre's headquarters here. BUSH BARS RESCUE Even when search and rescue jlocates a ¢rash quickly, nature) sometimes balks efforts to find survivors. survivors of a United States Air Force B-36 which disappeared over the Queen Charlotte Is- lands Feb. 14, 1950. '"The under- brush is unbelievably dense." At least 12 of the 17 aboard the B-36 parachuted to safety. The rest may have jumped, but they were never found. Long-lost planes also present problems in the centre's record- keeping department. A wreck- age report can often be ticked off by its location as a known and investigated crash, But if the location of a find does noi match one of the colored pins in the wreckage map, the site must. be investigated. Sometimes the wreckage turns out to be a known crash in which the location was Inac- curately plotted in the first place, Then the record. is wreck moved. A fisherman reported finding an airplane wreck off an island in the Gulf of Georgia in Au- gust, 1955, Investigation showed it to be an RCAF Liberator which had crashed in 1945 and was already recorded, Shifting seas and tides had changed its position, | Helps You Overcome [FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry | No longer be annoyed or feel tll-at- ease because of Inose, wobbly faise | teeth. FASTEETH, an improved alka- "It would be possible to walk fine (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on within 10 feet of a wounded sur- vivor if he were too weak to your plates holds them firmer eo they fee} more comfortable. Avoid embar- rassment caused by lonse plates. Get lspeak," reported a searcher for| FASTEETH today at any drug counter | MEN'S FOOTWEAR HD 319 is a case in point. CHILDRE N'S SHOES The Mitchell and its Royal Air WOMEN'S SH Force crew took off from Ab- botsford air field near here July 14, 1944, on @ navigation exercise. Soon after, the plane UN Veterans Medals Pose Dress Problem OTTAWA (CP) -- Canadian soldiers have served in s0 many United Nations peace- world that the army has had | keeping operations around the | | | to issue an order of prece- dence for the wearing of UN | medals and ribbons. With thousands of Second World War veterans still in the services now putting in their final years in uniform, the Canadian public soon will be seeing little else than UN "fryit salad" on servicemen's of the ribbons is UN blue. Some 35,000 Canadian serv- fcemen, mostly soldiers, now are entitled to wear UN med- als and ribbons. This doesn't include the 1,200 soldiers now in Cyprus earning the new | UN medal for that operation. The UN struck medals for Korea and the UN Emergency | Force in Egypt and devised | appropriate ribbons for them. | | HAS NEW MEDAL | Now it has struck a new | medal to cover six other UN | peacekeeping operations and | devised four different ribbons | to go with it, depending on | the theatre of operations. | The UN ribbons are worn after campaign stars and war | medals but ahead of any com- | memorative or long service award. Order of precedence for medals and ribbons is: Korea, | Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, | New Guinea, Kashmir, The Congo and Yemen. Cyprus re; | mains to be officially added Some Canadian soldiers ar chests. The dominant color in each | | | already entitled to wear as | many as six UN medals or | ribbons, Over Half Canada's MDs Drop Smokes TORONTO (CP)--Canada's doctors are showing a trend to giving up smoking, the cur- rent issue of the magazine Modern Medicine in Canada reports. The magazine says it estab- lished this "definite conclu- sion" after conducting a sur- | THURSDAY, 9:00am. vey among all of Canada's | doctors to which 5,545--about | one-quarter of the entire pro- fession--already have replied odern Medicine, which circulates in English- and French-language editions to every doctor in Canada, says | tabulation of the first 5,000 re- plies to its questionnaire shows that 25 per cent of the respondents have given up smoking entirely, out of 47 per cent who have changed | their smoking habits. Although 79 per cent had smoked at some time, the number still smoking cigar- ettes was down to 25 per cent. Twenty per cent still smoked pipes and 13 per cent cigars. 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