Whitehorse Daily Star from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada • 20

Page 4a The Whitehorse Star Wednesday February 7 1973 tHMU y-y 8 Mi if 4 4 it li Vf '4 V' Avalanche on Chilkoot Pass Killed 60 Men in 1898 At noon on April 3rd 1898 disaster struck an avalanche that began just above Stone House thundered down the trail and buried everything in its wake A small army of rescuers from Sheep Camp rushed to the scene to dig out survivors from their snowy graves Although there were sane miraculous escapes when it was all over more than 60 were dead This however did not deter the stampeders and before long they once again resumed their headlong msh to reach Dawson In an attempt to divert business from DyeaTSkagway entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to publicize the tragic event as a warning of the dangers in stpre fa anyone using the Chilkoot Pass Never one to ignore the profit motive Soapy Smith or so it goes was semenow appointed coroner and proceeded to strip the corpses of any valuable personal effects Yukon Archieves Photo: A Vogee photographer ft ft? 9i 'V 4 il ft Sff -V ft i- vAWfViVWiV ATV Survey of the Yukon NWT Nfld and Northern Quebec By DENNIS SENGER STAR REPORTER were Frobisher Bay NWTJ Goose Bay Labrador and Giur-chill Manitoba Those communities will receive their programming out of Halifax on Atlantic Standard time And then came Anik ori Monday February 5 Now Yukoners in Whitehorse Watson Lake Faro Clinton Creek and Dawson City can watch 14 hours of CBUT channel 2 in Vancouver because of the direct feed from Anik The real clincher will come Saturday night when Hockey night in Canada will be seen live for tire first time north of the 60th parellel As for now public affairs and news programs will keep almost all Yukon residents up to date on what is happening in the world a luxury which was only provided Dy radio in tije past Network news programs used to be fed a day later on the Whitehorse cable system but then nothing vas staler than yester- nev WHTV is now pushing ahead to supply all its subscribers with tlyee new television channels Those channels vi 11 carry full pTV ABC NBC and CBS programming The monthly fee is 15 a month The other remaining channel will be devoted to local programming and educational television programs Thus television viewers in Whitehorse will enjoy the same volume of television programs enjoyed by residents in Vancouver i But the network programs aside from CBC whicn is also transmitted over cable for residents in fringe areas will be subject to a delay Programs for WHTV are recorded on video cassettes and then air freighted to Whitehorse each day CBC said Monday that their full service was extended to 10 communities in the Arctic and sub-Arctic and would be extended to other communities during February and reach about 36 communities in die north by the end of 1973 CBC said it was pleased with the quality of die initial transmissions but emphasized diat the service would be subject I to testing and adjustment for a number of weeks The colour signals in White-horse were almost par to those provided by the caole service The new service provides 14 hours a day of programming compared to the four hours given in the past Those four hours began with Sesame Street The 14 hours begins with Mr Dressup Communities now receiving CBC Vancouver on Pacific Standard time include Whitehorse and Watscn Lake Yukon' Inu-vik AklaVik Pine Point Fort Resolution Hay River Yellowknife and Fort Smith in the NWT and Fort Nelson in north- -cm The service will be extended Cassiar Uranium City Saskatchewan Faro Dawson City and Clinton Creek in Yukon today Also scheduled to start receiving full live television today Whitehorse may soon begin to feel more like a suburb of Vancouver than ever For years the White Pass and Yukon Route transportation company has supplied the majority of goods for the territory through its shipping routes out of Vancouver to Skagway Alaska and then by rail to Whitehorse Then several years ago WHTV was formed in Whitehorse to supply television programs to Wnitehorse residents via cable The- company taped programs in Vancouver from the Seattle television stations and the two Vancouver stations It was a viable if not refreshing change from the four hours a night delayed programming which was provided by CBC -Frontier Package And Whitehorse residents on cable could watch three different television channels During the upcoming months live television service will include the Yukon communities of Elsa Mayo and KenoHill and Norman Wells Fort McPherson Fort Simpson and Rankin Inlet in the NWT Also scheduled to receive service are Poste-De-La-Baleine Fort Chimo Fort George Sch-efferville and Iles-De-La Madeleine in Quebec and Labrador City Churchill Falls and Ppit au Port Newfoundland Then during the rest of the year live television will also go to La Ronge Saskatchewan Lynn Lake Manitoba and Foft Mac-Murray Alberta Those communities will receive their programming via micro-wave star lions.