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NEWS & HAPPENINGS

TO THE RESIDENTS OF MID-CANADA and the ARCTIC.

THE MID-CANADA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, INC. intends
to submit a brief to the Federal Government concerning
the Benson White Paper on Taxation and the new Credit
Restrictions. Among other things the brief will deal
with the need for incentive income tax provisions for
residents of the North (Mid-Canada and the Arctic.)
The foundation requests the views of the readers of
this newspaper on the following questions:

1. Are residents of Mid-Canada and the Arctic
penalized by way of cost of living, income taxes,
transportation and other costs?

2. Should special income tax policies and provisions
apply to residents of Mid-Canada and the Arctic
to equalize their opportunities with the residents
of Canada South; and/or should residents of Mid-
Canada and the Arctic not only be equalized but as
well be given income tax incentives. What should
these incentives be?

3. Should the residents of Mid-Canada and the Arctic
be exempt from the new credit restrictions imposed
by the Federal Government?

4, What specific incentives should be considered for
small businesses, secondary industries, and service
industries in Mid-Canada and the Arctic?

Submissions should be sent to:

Mid-Canada Development Foundation Inc.,
General Delivery,
Inuvik, N. W. T.

(This message is printed as a public service by
this newspaper. )

CASSIAR-STEWART ROAD

We have been sent a copy of a letter and a map by
Frank Calder, M.L.A., Atlin. We quote part of Mr.
Calder's letter to Mayor Ian McLeod, Stewart, B.C.

QUOTE - "With reference to the interview, the
Minister informed me that a quarter of a million dollar
glu-lem bridge will be constructed this year over the
Nass River at the south-east end of Meziadin Lake.

The completion of this bridge will provide access
between Stewart and Terrace (Highway 16) and when the
remaining 25 mile gap between Ningunsaw and North Bell
Irving is completed, the bridge will provide access
between the state of Alaska and the state of Washington"
END QUOTE. And of course, with Lil’ Old Canada in
between.

The map sent to us indicates that the road does not
go direct to Stewart but to Terrace. The Stewart road
will turn off some miles east of Stewart, near Meziadin
Lake.

Of interest to all of us is that the Highway Dept.'
survey crews have been noted working on the Cassiar
Road in the section 2 or 3 miles south of French Creek
through to the Blue River. The impression we have is
that work will be done in that area this summer.

OPERATION - BLUE RIVER BRIDGE

10 G.I.C. (atco) houses, half a unit per load,
20 loads, bridge not wide enough to allow
passage.

PROBLEM:

SOLUTION: Raise bridge deck 19 inches to allow clearance
over railings.

Allow 2 days - 1 - prepare, pre-assemble (and
don't forget anything ... you're 67 miles from
Cassiar). 2 - close the road for 8 hours to
complete the job.

PROGRAM:

The general program was laid on by Lothar Tischler,
Foreman of the Surface Dept., who had the full co-
operation of the B.C. Highway Dept.

Lothar chose a “crack team" made up of Morris Bisson
to lead, with Lennox Quash, Wayne Arnold and Valdimar
Isidore.

They started at 9:00 a.m. and did they finish on t
time??? THEY SURE DID --- at 3:15 p.m. the first

vehicle, driven by Frank Stewart, with 2 horses aboard,
Completed.

drove across and, - at 4:30 p.m.? "Ho Hum,

let's go home".