1958-12-20 — Page 15

"THE","CHINA'"`MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1958. *!

SOMETHING BIGGER THAN GOLD IS THE LURE IN

1956

THEY'RE HITTING THAT YUKON TRAIL AGAIN

Ottawa.

JUST 60 years ago the Yukon echoed with the ery of "Gold" and the rush was on. A handful of men made fortunes. A multitude found nothing but hardship and suffering. Some found death.

After the Brat frenzied bonanza hod spent itself the Yukon became part of the forgotten Deep North,

Today, and the credit is largely Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's, although the Liberals under St Laurent did make a few tontulive pushes, the North is being remembered again and rediscovered.

Just before he left for his ang North and a new province world trip Diesendbaker thunder. is being hewn out of the 11

ed: "Canada's Northland o and now.

lange safe deposit box of minerals

that represent the title deeds to freedom's survival."

On this vish I have found the Government offlehtis more

This fancy language, but it bullient and optimistic than the

could be true Culi's much on the explores and en-

Rineers'

minerals

CANADA

by DON IDDON

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winds nox an

zine, lead. copper.

other

engineers zurveyors, and the officers whi 12. the DEW OR

Early Warning! radne -Cottons that dot the Azete.

trust Ime Minister.

TR rom

his chief.

Affais

platinum, tunguien, erat, end-e Minister of Northern

mlum.

silver. All these end'Alvia Hamilton is considered athers have been discovered

a vistomary, but rates in 2 mar

pimistical 1244

4.

the Yukom, perhaps richer minerals than any other part of sense. He is employed with the Conada.

Government's "Rond

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Starting

the

HUDSON

Russin has ten towns with more Thon 10,000,

At present, however, it is the weroplane and the hellcopter, particularly the helicopter, which are being used to open up the Yukon and North-West Terri- tory. During the summer the Government, proud of its north- CIA development programma, few groups of observers lo Frobisher and Fort Smith, but the present blizzard has made

rips at this time impossible.

Prying open the secrets of the Aretic is swallowing huge sums, Last summer an actial survey ví

Arctic islauda the

Cust the Canadian taxpayer $10,000,000. th When

aub- Sixty-five U.S.

men dying camera- atomic

bombers Marines

under navigated

Mosquito the equipped the hoped to got in two full months they falar e

shattered

survey during July and sion of an Impenetrable polar rea, and demonstrated that the August. Actually they managed

to get in only Ave days. Arelle cart become the Medler- cangan of the northern world.

Pacing his office as the showe E: The remorselessly outside www! the cuplial is muffled by Ne continuing storus, Flamalton

Spurred by Diefenbaker's statees" programine, and Buys: "The North is a land what

vision the Canadians are press cought Te infection

(-) arvelopment has hardly began

ROUND-UP

MOTOR CRUISER

T ABGEST plnette boni in the world has just It is been launchett at Shorebanan, Sussex & moter cruiser with a fibreglass hull, 56 leef The buat long and 15 feet ove the betum. displaces 15% tom ane lo state of as si Re swu 165-hp engines will oropel it at 17 kouty Plazile was chosen for the hull by the designer breuse it can be moulded into any sape There is sleeping accommodation for ten people. Two steering positious, un atdomalte pikut. water-pressure agredometer and ship-tneshore radlo ne provided. The bout im been orice for a German engineering Bem.

SENTENCE OF DEATH

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VER as Alsatian dog named "Lassie," sen- tenced to death because it insisted on chusing motor-cycles, Sir Jocelyn Lavas. Con- servative M.J. for Partsmouth South, hopes to obtain leave in the Commons to Introduce bill amending the law as it affects court orders for the destruction of dogu. It is thought that the Government would give any such Bill the necessary facilities to become law. The set- tenced dog has been given away by her owner 10 an animal sanctuary The sangtuanry refuses Lo surrender "Lawsie" and the police have no powar la enter the premises to collect her. Meanwhile, the original owner of the dog is liable to panuity of £1 for every day the dog lives. khas ptrendy incurred tines of ever £100.

HIDDEN TREASURES

EST their temples by desceraled and their treasures stolen by the devoteer of the ex- panding Christian religion, the priests at the London Temple of hithras hid marbles auri other Items of value in bales within their temple, Proteser William Grimes, who was in

chares of the 1964 Temple excavations, sug- Kisted at the Treasure Trove" inquest on a small en bosed silver canister and a strainer Inud on this te m the City of London, The coroner fleclared the easter and the strainer as "Treasure Truce declaring "I seize them both en behult of Her Majesty'" When it wil Aliscovered in October 1954, the canister with

the atrainee made was on top of a crumbling wall from which modern foundations had just been dinged by crane. The Ands were “in a wonderful condition" said Professor Grimm,

--

a vidence of the rare which had been taken in fracking them The strainer was perfectly pre

Eved. The chnister was decorated with Ngures which included an hippo, elephant, fon and various ather kinds of by ents together with a Stuke and the mythical" winged" beast, “The

Cirimu.

STREAMLINING

D

DRITAIN'S few streamlined" Navy will con- D than to have aircraft carriers as its core xity: Jane's Fighting Ships 1958-59 Jus! julished. It is intended that in 1080-70 there will

150 ships with nuclear-powered machinery plants, 200 ships armed with guided missiles. All combatant ships will be armed with anti-submarine missiles or equipped with anti-submarine aircraft. By 1987 ft is planned there will be a fleet of 75 nuclear-powered sub-

marines. View given in the foreword to the volume says submarines are coming to be re- garded as the "capital ships" of the future. Re- Terence is made to notable advances in the technical development and operational capabili- ties of US submarines, Activity "points to the certainty of intensive sub aqua warfare in any Future hostilities. It also indicates the trend of future naval planning and warship design. Naval atticers attach tremendous importance to the submarine as an attack weapon, as a defensive wenyon.

as an anti-submarine weapon."

and

"The real lesson of the under sea voy ages of the Nantous und Slate is that there now exists 425 rur disposat a new brecit of ship infering from its predecessors as

ach

stram from suit.

In Our ifetime the new breed of ship may revolutionise maritime transport For Caneda 1 vistas one of hecess to the great tanules of our Arctic Coastal lands and off-lyhng Can-

nemal Shelf

"It may be fanciful, but eer-

not tairly it i

fantast a 1 visualise submarine cargo shipp on the world's oceans willur en conservatively — 20

+

more

years.

Pet plan

"We tre in touch with British dras who pleady have sub- marine tinkers and ore enfriers

on the cogmeering drawing- boards. The carriers are speck- fly contemplated for ship- ping Hudson By tron."

As for the road to the Demp North-Dierenoaker's pet pra- ject-a network costing imont 180,000,00 has already been lat:nched.

we

Hamilton queles his chief, Diefenbaker: "In the pust in the future we must be." have not always been dynamic.

area

The fez hal Soviet Russin In has 4,500,000 people settled

emilor to Canade' North, which has population Di only 35,000, rankles with the Canadians In the Government LATES here. Ticy Soy: the Russians van de R we can."

Actually, Canada

has only the town of over 100 population north of the Arctic Circle, while

The Far Nurth is not going to incender easily. Charl: King. explorer and writer, who made an extensive jour of the Cand. dian North this summer, is very blunt.

The adventurers who are there now have nn partienlər aesire to be part of the Diefen- baker land of the vision. The men are there for a variety of reasons. The DEW ire people the hard cash and the job of taking part defence.

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the country's

"The Eskimos because they there first and have no- where else to go. And the Reyn Canadian Mounted Police and Government's Northern Affairs Department people are there to do their job and per- baps beenuse they like the emptiness.

"No one who knows is looking to the day when skyscrapers will Lise and big cities looms. The Most optimistir foresee an definite future of fantastically expensive exploration and de-

velopment."

Expensive

In-

I had not realised how ex He in the Canadia pensive Aretic can be. Petrol is almost £1 a gallen, diesel fuel is searly 30s. Almost everything but the fish in the sea has lo be brought at huge expense from 1,000 miles to the routh. The cost of living for the white man in put a ten times the com- parable Agure in the Canadian South,

-

Somewhere between the vision

Diefenbaker and the thusiasm of his Ministers, and the scepticism of old Yuko hands lies the truth about the Canadian Deep North and its future.

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