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Incredible cold gripped the Whitehorse Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway, the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear...
...peacetime use for the 600-mile pipeline from oilfields at Norman Wells, N.W.T. across the Mackenzie Mountains to a refinery at Whitehorse, Yukon. Neither has Canada. So Canada agreed to let the U.S. sell its plant and pipeline to private buyers-if it could find any. In two years' time, if there are no takers, the plant and equipment will be abandoned...
...General of Canada, pictured the "Headless Valley" on the remote South Nahanni River. Behind Buchan's lines lay 40 years of mystery, yet little has been done to explore the fantastic legends that came from the 200-mile gorge in the limestone mountains, 300 miles east of Whitehorse, Yukon. Last week Nahanni was back in the news again. A group of amateur explorers was preparing to go over it from one end to the other...
...name stuck. Prospector Martin Jorgensen, who went in after gold in 1910, was also found dead. The bones of another prospector, Yukon Fisher, were discovered near a creek in 1928. Three trappers vanished in the valley. In 1945 Woodsman Walter J. Tully came on the body of an Ontario miner, Ernest Savard, in his sleeping bag, his head all but severed...
...reporters knew that the General had more on his mind than fishing. As chief of the Canadian Army's Western Command, embracing British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, he has stated bluntly that he considers the area "vulnerable." Among its military assets: the deteriorating Canol pipeline, 120 bridges on the highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, a lot of abandoned Army camps, at least four big airports, a latticework of communications. Liabilities: long winter nights, frozen lakes and ground inviting airborne invasion. Perhaps a quick run over the area might uncover some fresh viewpoints on defense...