Canada’s Treasure Chest of
Resources Developing Fast
By LARRY STANWOOD
Canadian Press Staff Writer
VANCOUVER, B.C., UPC-'The
treasure chest of British Colum
bia’s northland—mysterious, elu
sive and challenging—continues
to dare man to rip off its lid and
clutch the wealth within.
The pounding on the strong
box of natural resources is grow
ing louder:
1. A billion-dollar plan to de
velop a 40,000 square mile tract
known as the Rocky Mountain
Trench, stretching from Prince
George in the middle of the prov
ince to the Yukon boundary, an
nounced recently by Swedish
financier Axel Wenner-Gren.
2. Agreement by the federal
government to share the cost of a
$12 million highway to a point
near the Yukon border, opening
the western half of the north.
A few corners of the strong-box
have been pried apart and some
of the riches have spilled out. But
Nature fights back the invaders
with the same resources that con
tain her wealth: rocky peaks and
glaciers, muskeg and rampaging
rivers.
British Columbia reaps from
agriculture, fishing, forestry and
mining—developed mostly in the
southern portion—an annual in
come of more than $1,350,000,000.
Of the total, more than 60 per
cent comes from the forest.
In addition, about $80 milllion
worth of aluminum a year is pro
duced at the Kitimat smelter of
Aluminum Co. of Canada. By
1959, production is expected to be
$150 million annually.
On the heels of Kitimat in 1952,
Frobisher-backed interests came
up with plans for a $700 million
metallurgical - chemical - forestry
center in northwest B.C., but the
ambitions plan hit snags.
The Wenner-Gren proposal, es
timated to cost an ultimate $2 bil
lion, calls for construction of a
monorail railway up the Rocky
Mountain Trench to join the Pa
cific Great Eastern Railway with
the Yukon border; pulp mills,
steel mills and other metallurgi
cal industries; and model commu
nities complete with schools, hos
pitals and technical institutes.
The area includes an estimated
$100 million worth of timber,
$750 million worth of hydroelec
tric potential, and unknown min
eral resources.
Voteless Minister
Withholds His
Income Tax
ANCHORAGE—A Methodist
minister from Moose Pass has
taken up the cause of taxation
without representation.
Rev. Norman C. Middaugh kept
back 25 percent of his federal in
come tax return. Purpose was to
force the issue of taxing voteless
Alaskans.
Mr. Middaugh wrote to the In
ternal Revenue Service that the
following questions were raised
in his mind as he computed his
tax:
“1. Should a citizen of the Unit
ed States with overseas service in
the parachute infantry toe de
prived of a vote?
“2. If he is in good standihg and
is deprived of a vote, should he
be required to pay a federal in
come tax?
“3. According to the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights, it is against
the Organic Law of the land to
tax one who does not have voting
representation. In view of this,
will I be correct in expecting the
Internal Revenue Service to re
turn the tax which I have en
closed?
“4 The federal government al
lows a 25 percent cost of living
allowance to federal employes
working in Alaska, if they are
hired in the United States. This
25 percent is not taxable. In view
of this policy, which the federal
government itself has established
am I permitted to deduct this 25
percent from my income tax?
The government, by granting the
i allowance, has already admitted
that the higher living cost existed
and has further granted its em
ployes this privilege. Does the
federal government permit the
rest of us voteless citizens to de
duct the 25 percent, or does it
discriminate against us? Please
inform me as to the page of your
instructions on which the answer
to this question may be found.
“5. If your instructions do not
’ deal with this matter, perhaps
you may be able to correspond,
giving me some reasonable an
swer as to why I should forward
the withheld tax return to you.
“6. As a Methodist minister, I
am interested in the moral as
pects of this situation. The policy
on the part of the federal gov
ernment to interpret the Organic
Law on the basis of expediency,
rather than according to the
rights granted by the Constitu
tion, concerns me deeply.”
207th and 208th Scout
Battalions Finish ‘Best
Camp in ANG History’
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Alaska Na
tional Guard infantrymen from
central and southeast Alaska
completed their “best infantry
camp in Alaska National Guard
history” this weekend by van
quishing aggressor forces in over
night field exercises and then
breaking camp for the homeward
movement tomorrow.
Units of the 207th Infantry
Battalion from Anchorage, Fair
banks, Seward, Homer and Ko
diak and of the 208th from Ju
neau, Kake, Hoonah, Sitka and
Kecthikan have been at Camp
Denali, Fort Richardson since
April 7.
An extra-curricular highlight
of the encampment was the all
Alaska Ntaional Guard Basket
ball tournament involving com
petition of infantry, Scout and
Air Guard teams for the Officers’
Assn. Trophy. This was won by
the Headquarters Detachment
team of the 1st Scout Battalion
from Nome.
Otto Geist
To Be Honored
At U. of Alaska
FAIRBANKS, UP)—1Two non
Alaskans and one Alaskan will
receive honorary degrees at the
University of Alaska’s 35th an
nual commencement exercices on
Monday, May 13.
Honorary doctor of laws de
grees will go to Dr. and Mrs. Gil
bert H. Grosvenor.
Dr. Grosvenor has been. editor
in-chief since 1903 of the Nation
al Geographic Magazine, and di
rector of the National Geograph
ic Society since 1899 and presi
dent since 1920. He is known the
world over as a geographer, edi
tor, writer and conservationist.
Dr. Grosvenor’s wife, Elsie
May Bell Grosvenor, has worked
closely with him in his various
endeavors and has gained similar
recognition. She is the daughter
of Alexander Graham Bell, in
ventor of the telephone.
Otto William Geist, longtime
research associate in paleontol
ogy at the university, will receive
an honorary doctor of science de
gree in recognition of the arche
ological and paleontological re
search in the territory which has
gained him worldwide acclaim.
At present he is traveling in
Europe and lecturing at various
universities and before learned
societies.
Man-Made Island in
Atlantic To Be Visited
On TV Show Tonight
The first Texas Tower built for
our aircraft defense system in the
stormy waters of the Atlantic
Ocean 110 miles east of Cape Cod
is visited in Issue 297 of Industry
on Parade, scheduled for telecast
April 22 at 7:15 p.m. over KNOM
TV, Channel 4.
An unscheduled bit of dnama
occurs when a sailor, injured on
a destroyer in the area, is trans
ferred to the tower and picked up
by helicopter for delivery to a
hospital on the mainland.
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