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Chief Dan George and Har wey Rourke, dressed as Cap tain George Vancouver, watch tn ‘dismay as eicht of 18 war eandéstaking-part~in-a--Brie~ tish Columbia centennial pro- ject. sink slowly out of sight. The ‘canoes filled with water”

Prospectors Abandon Mules For Helicopters

By STEPHEN SCOTT

when the prospector heads into | the bush leading his trusty mule | is slowly fading.

Today he will quite possibly hop~ into a $130-an-hour _heli- | copter and fly to the area. he hopes to find minerals.

pensive than a mule. but -he can get in and out quickly,” ‘a spokesman for Okanagan’ Heli copters Ltd. said in an inter- view Tuesday night.

Chamber of Mines says about 125 .helicopters are flying over the province this year on. work

connected with British Colum. |. Okanagan was formed tn 1947, -- bia’s continuing mining boom:

Okanagan, with 68 machines | om of the largest helicopter eompanies in the world, is do- Sie ON OF

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revenue eomes from mining ex- ploration, staking and proving

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In a day some 30 machines might be doing that work alone, some of them ‘chartered for three or four months by a com-

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a. major company. If it is in terested, it will fly somebody tn to look at the area staked.” . by Carl Agar, still honorary chairman of the board, primar- ily as a crop dusting company. It expanded: into geological ex- 'ploration” and timber “cruising | and then a wide variety of work - :

Tt operates from 10 hases fm B.G~ and, in’ the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. It has a {small _ operation at Montreal’s Dorval Airport and briefly was supplying drilling rigs in the

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~ American Scientist Thinks - Beis Are Not Ahead

By IAN MacKENZIE

HALIFAX ‘CP) — A United States scientist said here he does not think the. Soviet Un- fon’s oceanographic -research program is much advanced over that of the US

‘We have almost-as. large a fleet of oceanographic vessels Charles Freas @aid in an interview. ‘and we have the advantage of better technology and scientific equip- ment.’“

Two US. oceanographic ves- eels-currently visiting Halifax are examples of the increased emphasis the U.S. ts putting on oceanographie_and—hydrographie research.

The ships—the Bertha Ann and the Seascope—are owned by Alpine Geographical Associates and are surveying the ocean bed from the Bahamas to Nova Scotia up to 1,000 miles from

shore under contract to the U.S.)

Navy

Mr Freas said the US. .-has been steadily increasing ~ its oceanographic and hydrographic Programs since President Ken- nedy in 1961 called for increased emphasis on research in these fields.

It was about that timé that

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activity has been seen so far -during this survey, but he be- lieves there is a trend in the US. to try to co-operate with the Soviets on such projects.

He added that the group he

heads—seven scientists on each |.

of the two vessels—has not been working in conjunction with sim- ilar Canadian groups. However, any information gathered would: be available to Canada through the national oceanograpuic data centre in Washington

One result of the greater push for oceanographic data. in the US. has been-the Increased par- ticipation of commercial firms inthe field: ‘

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The Alpine group. which- pre vides personnel and equipment | for research. and undertakes | surveys under contract; and | Texas Instruments Inc are two! ‘of the major companies doing such work

Alpine has ‘seven available. The Bertha Seascope expect to—finish—the current survey. around August and then undertake similar “sur- veys in the northeastern Pacific,

Meanwhile. Tex’asr Instry- ments “is surveying the seabed along the western

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