Islanders Are Counting On The $105 Million Causeway To End

LONG LINE OF CARS CAN MAKE GETTING ON AND OFF ISLAND TEDIOUS TASK

Island MPs

Jubilant

Over Announcement

CAPITAL BUREAU

OF THE GUARDIAN OTTAWA — Prince Edward Island Members of Parliament were jubilant here Tuesday afternoon following Prime Min- ister r’s announce- ment that the government plans to with the construction of the Northumberland Strait

causeway.

Cabinet minister Hon, Angus MacLean said he has known for some weeks that the an- nouncement would be forthcon ing but the welcome mews ap- parently came as a delightful surprise to the other three Is- land MPs, Mrs. Margaret Mac- donald, Dr. Orville Phillips and Heath Macquarrie BANNER DAY

“All Island members agree that this is a banner day 9

there would be no detrimental effects to fishing if the cause- way was solid, Now that it has been decided ol — _the causeway with som sect- ions, the danger to " idine was negligible, Mr. MacLean said.

TIME ee ae He said that estimates saci the length of the building time at some seven or eight years, so that it will not be ready for the celebration of Confederation. He also esti- mated that it might take a full year engineerit plans drawn ready for a tender call. jarrie

Heath Macqu that |in terms of long range economy jthe causeway announceinent

| was most impressive. He said experience has that

all ferry replacements by per- manent structures that it was

get this project approved,’’ Mrs. Macdonald said.

Dr. Phillips said that the causeway would not only bene- * —. oe would aid farm- |

rmen who would

. a pv send their pro- aan, such as fresh vegetables | and live lobsters, to market aoe et tied to the ferry

a a be pointed out that this is not a cost-sharing plan,” Mr. Mac said. ‘‘It is a ied- eral responsibility and will not add any additional burden to the incial - tion, However, the assumption is that the causeway will have

tolls comparable to the present ferry tolls.

WOOD ISLANDS TO CONTINUE

Mr. Macquarrie said that the causeway would ove what scribed as ‘‘the ferry

phobia”’ for Island citizens. For those who still wanted to make the trip by water, the Wood Is- lands ferry service was expect- ed to continue to operate to serve that end of the Island, even though the causeway was in existence. Dr, Phillips said that as far as the plans of the West Point oe people for an additional ferry service to that

OTTAWA (CP) — Text of Prime Minister Diefenbaker's statement in the Commous Tuesday on the Prince Ed- ward Island causeway:

two or three an- nouncements I wish to make

| the rest of Canada now wanted o join it by means of a cause- y.

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wer ll have to start varee on |

| one for Kings County, too,” sug- | today. The first has to do with

gested Mrs. Macdonald. “T | the Northumberland Strait | should also point out that ap- | causeway.

parently {t took a woman in As the House knows, com-

| Ottawa from the Island to , Put prehensive studies were au-

th's great project through.” | thorized by the government in

| January, 1958, into the whole

T D e | 9 question of the building of

wo rivers The government now has

° /.¢ decided that a causeway will

Fined In S SIGE be built between New Bruns-

this causeway.

wick and Prince Edward Is- |

SUMMERSIDE — Several persons charged with driving while their abilities were im- paired by alcohol appeared be- | departments, consulting en- fore Prince County Magistrate | gineers and the National Re- W. Chester S. MacDonald yes- | search Council. An important terday, including two persons | Part of the work was the con- who paid $75 fines after pleading | struction of a scale model of guiity and three others who en-| the area by the National Re- tered pleas of not guilty and Search Council. ber the cases adjourned. he fines were paid by Wil- undertaken has been to deter- live Basil Noonan, Albany, af-| mine whether the project | ter he was apprehended by Cst. | would be feasible from ar en- Allan Burchill of the Borden gineering point of view and

lan Studies to date have in- volved several government

e purpose of the studies |

Announcement Text

justified from an economic point of view ANSWER R ‘YES’

The answer in oh cases is in the affirmativ:

The most Sina cross- ing for road and rail traffic appears to be a combination causeway with navigation locks and a bridge between Jourimain Island, N.B., a Borden Point, P.E.I. The esti- mated cost is $105,000,000

Opposition Leader Pearson: I am sure all members of the House on the eve of the elec- tion will have

me Trade Minister ies: “Ex.

| cept the Liberal party.

Mr. Pearson: The announce- ment of the prime minister in regard to the causeway, some- thing that was promised by this government during the last election. It is to be hoped that the cost of this cause- way and other great national undertakings in the future will not have to be paid out of increasing deficits.

. Hees: How about those sour or.

WwW; rridge, CCF-NDP House ster: It is obvious that there is an urgent cause for the causeway.

| upwards though when

Charles Provost, of Searitown. The latter accused was ie a

RCMP detachment, and Leo [DATE AT

fhe Guariian, Charlottetown, Wei. April 18, 1963. £

the summer of 1956 that a quick | calculation indicated project would be financially | feasible at a cost of $70 million, although further study would be needed before a more definite assessment of seem. ane bility range could be m Estimates of cost at rig tim

proximately $79 million.

Cost estimates were revised it was learned later several bridges or | openings would have to be pro- | vided in the structure, to pre- vent damaging tidal variations that wild develop, if a solid causeway were built.

One sensational Toronto story had placed the new cost sg mate as high as $400 millio

B. TEST BORINGS

Test borings were initiated in the summer of 1956 to determine the availability of sufficient rock fill in an area close enough to the New Brunswick side to keep the project within the reach of financial feasibility. (The cost of construction rapidly if the fill had to be hauled for any considerable distance. )

The fact finding sifrveys were

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Fisheries Minister Angus Mac- |Lean, who was a member for | Queens when the causeway was | first proposed, said at one stage |

|that if the causeway were prog there would be nothing in world to compare with it,

e : : : vanaad feo S60 aillicn to an. considering its length, and the

tide and ice conditions that ree have to be overcome.

interim reports from tuum federal spokesmen gave | Islanders reason for qualified optimism as they awaited the final summation which ' came | only yesterday.

Major General H.A. Young, deputy works minister said here in May of 1960 that there "| was enough rock fill available

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LIBERAL MP

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heavy ice pressures that would | in nearby N.B. areas to com

struct the Proposed structure.

| for optimism when he indicated

that the project was feasible from an engineering standpoint }on the basis of surveys which were still incomplete.

Best prophet cial field was Hon Henry i minister of welfare tas abo! fais last year Mr. Wedge predicted the causeway project would be declared feasible—all the signs point that said—and undertaking to build

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it would

| come this summer.

“T thought at the time the election would not be neld until September’, he told this paper last night as he expressed his delight over the announcement.

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Edward Island,” cheaper from a transportation ed following an incident at W to the contrived uncer-| were allottin ’ ; - g the amount of | MacLean told the Ottawa Bur |point of view. Ferries becoi vey the = would heve S mot on April 10, driving a | (Continued from page 1) tauty surrounding the date of 000 to cover the cost of the eau of The Guardian. Th ¢ | increasingly costly to Sandal oe as re-stud m the oa wand icle with no brakes | New lero gig Pay ‘o and | the elec study and the report. Recent | By Ralph Cameron will finally fulfill one | traffic increases and the ferry inces as the Adjournments until the ar | Social Credit ei of government | statements have suggested more

way will mean a lot of employ- ment for Island people during construction, and much heavy mee will also be employ-

ur, MaaLean said that causeway would be an aid to pes Island’s tourist industry as will it make it easier tnd faster to travel to P.E.L., but the causeway in itself would represent a traction that a lot of people will want to see,

The he understands there are louger causeway existence, but no other one con- structed in open sea under com- parable conditions of depth, ice. and tides. Mr. aan sald that at one was some fear ex- |

fisheries officials

sequent studies indicated that

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NEW FERRIES UNDECIDED

Whether any more ferries will be built for the Island run is still not decided, the MPs said. It would depend to some extent

on the build up of traffic in the few years immediately ahead.

Mr. Macquarrie recalled in 1908 the Island members of Parliament couldn’t even get to

Fisheries Seve gor said | Ottawa for about a month due

to transportation problems, This

fit into the ‘national pattern of development can be con- pared with the South Saskat- chewan dam.

Mrs. Macdonald recalled that her husband, the late John A. Macdonald, fe MP for Kings, had played a leading role in advocating the cause way.

“T am naturally very happy see the culmination of his and other’s people’s efforts

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ant ma - people of the Isiand | than announcement of the ead aditia date. ELECTION EFFECT “I am not sure what effect, if co the causeway announce- ment might “have an the elect- ion on the Isl Mr. Mae- Lean said, — beneficial effect for fu- Conservative a, anee the causeway is a reality. It is fair to say that dan of | the Island members s

staked their an career on the fact that announcement comes when |

it does. All four members are confident of the outcome of the | vote on June 18 regardless of the Cc ” Mr. Macauarrie agreed,

ing that Ottawa's aaaieah. ot the Island since 1957 has been outstanding long before 2.30 p.m. Tuesday, the time of the cause- | Way announcement in the Com-

| With a smile, Dr. Phillips said that Prince had ob- viously improved so much under

to ‘a Conservative government that

- png have ‘a |

House. In 63 days of sittings, 27 days

| new licenses just over one week speech debate, two days on a |ago, several persons were supply motion and only 25 days

j ed that this year’s license was | three Commons vacancies.

| going to be a costly one for (This was an apparent slip. them. Instead of paying $20 for | The byelection date was Sept.

| the license each person was as- 10.)

sessed a fine of $10 plus $3.50) The prime minister's state- |

| costs sl still had to purchase oe was repeatedly inter- | the licens | rupted by shouts.

| places. All were fined the usual | struction ' $20 and costs. | Mr. Pearson said the Liberals

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| senators at | of parliamentary constituencies and | ceed with the business of the

been spent debating esti-

| With the deadline for getting | mates, eight days on the throne | tion

| but retroactive legislation would | the new Parliament.

| Mr. Di | wouldn’t be time for Parlia- | ment to deal with the measure |

said Paul Hellyer (L— |

and of the conditions of confederat- | Gcficits would be bound to rise | [land ferry operated could be heard, were given to ; MEETS PEARSON measures will die on the order | than $600,000 have been spen ; is pasures : en t fon, that there should be a con- | gver the years. On the other ae MacLean a the ina Allan Richard MacDonald, Sst. | Mr. Diefenbaker’s announce: paper with dissolution. | in all. E tinuous communication and link hand, once causeway is wen announcement by the Prime | Fjeanors, until May 29, and | ment at the opening of Tues-| They include the tax-change| ‘The provincial POs here used very MON. - WED. - SAT. with the mainland. The cause- | built, the soanallad costa — ster was even more import- Waldo Russell Stewart, Borden, »day’s House sitting was pre | proposals introduced in Finance | g “Party of the “Causeway”

Minister Fleming’s budget April | 10, the plan for retirement of age

measure to have redistribution

slogan in Sepiember 1959 as they fought their way to their first victory at the polls since 1931.

i although the Liberal 7 position used it as a scourge to beat them with ever since. HARASSED GOVERNMENT Fed ae opposition members

carried out by an independent commission. This last measure | was introduced Tuesday, follow- | ing the prime minister’s an- nouncement, with Commons: ap- | proval of a preliminary resolu- | hara government inter- mittently on the causeway survey report which was promised originally for as early as | March 1959 and was not eeues ly completed until the Prim | or. nouncement erday.

Early ideas of a solid cause- way across the nine-mile Strait from Cape Jourimain (just off the sharp turn in the road at

| Legal authorities said the |

budget’s tax changes would go | into effect in the meanwhile. have to be introduced again in Zor

efenbaker said there

‘or an age limit on Senate ap-

pointments — now lifetime ap-| pa ld, some eee that the issue | Ties en Pieneadiens os.

ill be dealt with by the voters Borden, opp in the election. aa eee

SOME BIG ISSUES would have much t ef- Some of the main issues that f€¢t om the tides than had been will be fought over during the | ticipated at first

election campaign, including un- | It was said that the tide dif-

employment are the series of | ferential on opposite sides big budget \deticite, the state of | the causeway would be as ae Canada’s economic health since | as 10 feet in some spots, and the 1957, trade problems raised by thinking was changed to a cause- the "European ‘ommon Market | way with several spans or and the question of acquiring | bridges to allow passage of the nuclear warheads. water.

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Opportunity

The last election March 31, 1958, gave the Conservatives the largest Commons Canada’s history—208 m rs eight CCF members

Since then, byelection the shift of Hazen Argue from CCF House leadership to Lib-

eral ranks have left House

208 Conserva- tives, 51 Liberals, and eight CCF - New Democratic Party

members. There are three va- cancies.

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compared with 49 Liberals and

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SCALE MODELS MADE This raised the probiem of the bridge piers withstanding the

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Grade IV: 1. Francis O’Don- nell

Grade III: 1. Charlotte O’Don- nell, 2. Roland Kern, 3. Donna Gallant

Grade Il: 1.

Lorraine Roach, | 2. Marian O'Donnell Grade 1: 1. Gerard O'Donnell,

Y First permanent settlement in 2. Rita O'Donnell Alaska was started by Russian — at Kodiak Island in| Lorraine Roach — 93.2

Highest average in all grades percent. Mrs. Allan Hughes, Teacher.

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