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the georgetown herald wednesday july 27th 1944 m totja of a kotdjn jaspek national fakk alberta darius the summer of 1943 a blade bear in jasper national parte alberta 1ma four cubs three brown and one suok an unusual occurrence oneied quite an attraction not only r visitors but also for the residents jtt jksper aa soon as the cubs were big ano to come to town the mother baar proudly paraded them through the streets and down to the railway atsttnti where the travellers passing tbroath jasper could also see them tbe cubs quickly became accustomed to nn who fed them countless eboobbtte bars biscuits and other tid- men waif rontul pep vim vigor omuwx tool tablet romun luatnt amno- kmmlthab ouelum huwknrimi ta bits hundreds of feet of qlm were ex posed showing the public feeding and petting the cubs and sometimes child ren rolling on the grass with them this summer these cute little clowns of the forest will have grown to good- sized powerful bears limy will have become professional beggars preferring the easy way of ketthut their food to the natural way of hunting for it in the forest xf sufficient food to their llfctag is not forthcoming when they require it they will take ll anyway they will raid kitchen larderabasenients cars tents and garbage can complaints will be numerous and eventually the park warden will be asked to shoot these cute little cubs of 1m3 that is why visitors to the national parks are being urged to refrain from feeding or petting the bears it is dan gerous for the visitors and is usually fatal to the bears army officer gives account of invasion the following is a copy of a report written under ore by oapt p la- belle oc the advanced public rela tions tjhlt on the invasion front to u ool r a malone assistant direc tor of public relations with the french invasion army the report which is from an officer to his com manding officer has been passed by the censor but has not been edlted and it gives an interesting account of the duties of pubuc relations officers wkh forces in tfceatres of war it is released for publication in newspapers of june 3bth ih and afterwards the report may be published in whole or la part or may be kept for reference all personnel and vehicles of public fteltvtyons landed safe and sound at different points of the normandy beach head and different times extend ing from h plus 12 minutes to thejearly hours of d plus 2 there were many close shaves and we consider oursetvea very lucky not to have lost some of our boys transmis sion of copy started as soon as warcos contacted the beach pr personnel by pigeon and- or surface craft i shall start with the story of the pr people who were with me on the transport major oliver messrs matt halton cbc and charlie lunch reuters after a comfortable crossing we lay at anchor about five miles out at sea the two warcos got first hand in formation right in the ship reading incoming reports from the beach head and listening to the bbc they wrote some copy that we tried to send back to the uk via landing craft but we did not succeed we landed on the outer beach after wading from an loa that bad picked us off the transport there were explo sions in the negbjborhood but we could not say exactly what they were the ah was full of dust and smoke and k smefied cordite there were bodies lying in the sand treading cautiously in one others footsteps behind amphibious tanks we reached the first coast road where i bpoke to my first civilian who turned out to be an italian and who understood italian better than french somehow i dont seem to be aweto gei away fromthe wops- maj oliver and i set up camp in a cosy and clean jjttle house we left halton and lynch there and proceed ed to find mbss the pr rendezvous point which we found some three and a half miles to the north we were shelled on the way that shook me a bit but maj oliver never show ed signs of nervousness as i entered the hotel belle three bombs fell in the vicinity which prompted ralph allen of the glob and mail to call me jlnz we were soon satisfied that quite a number of warcos fotogs pr ocers and all four censors had landed and were already at the hotel as will be explained in the following pages so we started looking for decent billets where all our group could be sheltered in the odn yi of advance this we found in what used to be the german kvimiw gtit r f large ra solid stone house and a garden under which the germans had built steelreinforced concrete shelters we found tfaa plstte by accident civilians bad told us then were ger mans in the courtyard we went in and without aa moon as a word they tons of food are goi ng to waste in this district mm less you act mowf men of georgetown its up to you h there is not available at this momant on half ihe farm help required to save the abundant food crops ready for harvest on farms in this community yet these crops must be saved to feed our invading armed forces to whom food is as vitally important as ammunition they cant win if they dont eat the success of our invading armies depends more and more upon us at home as our armies advance further into enemycontrolled territory more sup plies must be kept flowing to them and parti more toad liberated people starved under nazi domination must be fed canada is the storehouse which must provide much of that food supply but canadas stockpiles of food have been drained and have to be replenished after a light crop last year from ontario farms this years abundant crops are doubly important unless every available man in this community wffl give his spare hours evenings weekends half- days holidays thousands of bushels of grain will waste in the fields of this district food that is vitally needed for victory ias wr council r tho woight of yowr official inhueacm by appoab to yovr fownsaon by proclqlmtng a holp th farsmr holrdar ltva- rion domandij by porotrttlng monld polity vonldai ta transport co to and fropj form by gtvtng loodonfclp n argoo- uohon work k employers y 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commando hiatfouaktitt clare wilson v dmtlet ovr troops dow hwt day 195 mw 46w georgetown onf central newsroom a1 tobonto studios cdc these are editors and writers of the by trained radio announcers the i obc central newsroom at toronto stu- ture shows senior news editor dies see illustration it is their job hogg taking a call at ala desk in th to prepare the days happenings for left hand comer reading clockwise the air over their teletypes and around the table from left foreground through monitoring posts at ottawa are philip oaracauen matt smith toronto and dartmouth oome the re- bruce sutton laurence duffy and bd- porta from the world battle fronts as well as the human in stories from outoftheway places and it is the newb staffs task to study and rewrite this stream of news for presentation ward dlx not shown are night editor bob bryden who hanrflftd the first flash on dday and editors margaret tanton jean penny angus bnrna margaret phillips and jim orandall surrendered maj oliver took two away to a pow erfdosure on the beach and left me to look after the other three two of the latter being wounded after serching them and making sure they carried no weapon i called on a jeep driver who happen ed to stop opposite the courtyard to keep them covered with his steil then explored the fprenusea and grounds in case there were hostile people about when maj oliver came back he was accompanied by stretcher bearers who took care of the two wounded with the help of the third unscathed german we then ex plored the place more thoroughly and went back to the village where halton and lunch had been joined by capt ooldlng bill stewart cp and joe wtmlcombe ins we used press bags as unit signs on the garden gate and that attracted visitors amongst whom were some of our photographers that night there was a vicious air in the morning major oliver went forward sent halton to the tj k with capt naylor to do a special broadcast and brought the whole group to our headquarters the other group was also moved there aa there was only one jeep available we had to organize a shuttle service but its only a matter of a couple of mile to our itq from che two other towns in the german shelters we found plenty of canned food and we had a good lunch up to then we had lived on 2 hr ration packs we learned that four chickens had been killed on ar air raid marcel oulmet bought them from a farmer and the next day we had a chicken supper the cook pte monk has done an al job with the help of two italians who do not understand a single word of english he cannot be praised too highly we now draw camp and he jiexveswny tasamr lromi out of these ratlona tomorrow we mcxpe to a castte a huge sprawling thing five french men are now cleaning it and ten sap pers will go over it tomorrow morn ing in search of booby traps the censors and the wt operators and sets will arrive tomorrow for army with maj oliver each night our present location is under threat of bombs and flak but we sleep underground last night antiperaonncl bombs punctured tires and one radiator only one jeep was grounded however and it is now in the hands of an lad now about other landing groups i shall deal with each one separately on the strength of what i heard from each one joe wllllcombe of hns landed alone at about 0630 on d day as the beach was being mortared and mac hinegunned capt ooldlng and bui stewart of cp joined him here about an hour and a half later and they dug in capt ooldlng did a grand job looking after his two warcos and try mg to contact other pr personnel stories were written in the allt trench capt godding met us with lt don grant still fotog formerly photo graphic officer pro mj 2 and stayed with us for the night with his warcos on tbe beach joe willi- oombe helped carry wounded to the rap things were erplodlng all around him before and after ooldlng and stewart joined him oapt oomforth landed about 1030 hrs on d day with ralph allen and marcel oulmet obo as they draw near the shore 88 shells were falling ail over she place but this aheulng stopped before they set foot on french aoh about half a dosen laoj blew up on mines all around a bren car rier also went up bbat war three oc cupants being drowned oujmet found the hotel belle and the first copy room in france was set up oapt naylor and lionel shapiro at maoleans drifted sox six ttours and landed at two different tfcriat mr shapiro hopping on to a duck abd landing about u90 hour that m on the beach wfeere a few pr pera bad already gaared mr shapiro made the third prea beg of iaa 6sf about 00 hours with his copy am two beaa went oj soao 1400 boon oapt tfupori wbn done a most monderf ul job all around wading to surface craft to deliver th bags sgt roos cinecameraman was the first pr to land he got oflf at h plus 12 minutes his loa struck a mine be jumped overboard and waded hur riedly ashore as the beach was be ing machinegunned his camera and film were drenched he dug mmbfrtf silt trench near a groyne and started shooting pix hoping against hope that they would turn out ojk he photo graphed vehicles going up in the ah then for about three hours he looked for stretchers found many and helped cany casualties to an lot he then looked for the mb6s and found it in a village where he went on foot lt don grant landed at about h plus 16 minutes when he pushed the loa doors open he fell m the water his craft was swept by mb are he did not dig in but clung to a sand dune without beng able to move an eyelid as he was constantly covered by sni pers somehow he managed to shoot a picture ot his friends clinging to tftirj same sand dune for this he used an extra camera he had with him lt duberville and sgt grant both pr fotogs had a dry landing coming ashore an sp gun they photographed a carrier exploding their plx we not hear were a world scoop they sent their film back by lot they had landed right at the mbss about 59 minutes after h au photographers have since been roughing lt with tho front line- troops at this stage in case i forget to mention lt later i should say that our photographers will do anything for a good picture the night before last capt coun mcdougall lt grant and sgt rios spent hours on our roof ex posed to flak and bombs to photograph the fireworks in an air raid capt mb- dougall is well liked by his men a the same risks as they do tn his dealing with the conducting section he la most cooperative lt bell add sgt orayston photo graphers landed near the mbss about 60 pjn in d day they went fonrant with drv troops and spent the night with them in a field capt mbdougao met them on a beach the next vrniftrg oapt mcdougall was on the drifting rhino with mr shapiro capt mmylor dvr tregansa pte monk the cook and others they experienced ah- raids as they drifted along the beach trying to land capt mcdougall spent th night on the beach after inpdg about 2300 hrs on d day ll currle an other dvr had mordttn hjsjeep when he drove ashore with water over thv seats they missed a mine by a hair breadth currie and monk started de-water- proonlng ther jeep as soon as they landed they then made for a transit camp where they were uvebombed they finally reached the hotel dvr dennis oonductlng cpl brown and sgmn lancaster wt sec and a dr pte ctregan landed about 3 ajn on d plus 2 they had ft dry landing while afloat they ex perienced air raids and shelling m soon as they landed they looked for os we had already been bunting for th all over the front they finally arrived about noon on d plus 2 at the kom- mandantur dvr farrow oond pte clarke dr sgmn clifford and stephenson landed about ajn on d plus 2 there were alr raids while uhey were afloat they landed dry at a transit camp they were mortared as the farrows trader shows clearly oapt ooidmg on the lookout for them picked them up aflrt brought them to prhq about noon warcos tell me tftey are ff but td rather let them say the sazna ta you one sure thing is that on the whole they seem genumety satisfied may i add that maj ourvr baa bean of tremendous help to may and that ha has bean working night and day wtth great initiative and i a census taker an saktga woman bow old aba was recerred itii tnwp mt answer do you know bow old tbt wb tfrls are next dogrt- wttet be rapttad- ggp tm olds they t old