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THIS IS a view of Mont St. Anne, 2,600 feet high, from the

Plan To Convert Quebec Mountain

nto East's Best Skiing Location

By GERRY McNEIL BEAUPRE, Que. (CP)—Hew- ers of wood and drawers of

blueprints are at work this win- pared projects ever submitted | said Agriculture |

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turning 2,600-foot Mont Ste. Anne into what may becor-e the

ern Canada.

Beaupre national sk

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in this centuries- calls it “our moun- and it actually is : the best part legislative act, little Beau- (population: 2,700) last was granted rights that it to expropriate a strip miles long by 1% miles to develop a year-round

Beaupre has leaned heavily,

and ingeniously, on the Agricul- tural Rehabilitation and Devel-

finest skiing territory in East-|bec, turning over a $219,190 | al . and there will also be rid-| 40d steals it. smart rose design; rose, blue, yellow. ; : ‘te ARDA cheque a couple of ling ‘and hiking trails around the | Word of the theft is flashed * A good wéight cotton, 136 thread ne “By 1966,” says Mayor Louis- | months ago. | mountain. | over the police radio network. Sale Prices: ae oer RE . Be te peer le 2 Phillippe - Antoine Belanger of | Beaupre expects the Munict+ | For 20 years, private devel.| | Fight-hundred policemen tn , bleached white, Hemmed ends. i& , ‘we will have inter- |Pal Development Loan Fund to|opers have had their eye on it; 40 patrol cars get the mes- 7 wT RAS 4 i competitions on our |Cover a $500,000 bank loan, |but were unable to get farmers | 548e. So does the young thief. ¢ ed in pairs. Size about 55x90". . . bi Bath Towels, 22 x 42”. : wees eee amet =

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Mr. Belanger, Creditiste

funds, Beaupre actually has to put up only $600,000 of the first $1,000,- 000 necessary to develop Mont Ste. Anne.

COMMENDS INITIATIVE

example of municipal initiative hopes to attract 10 per cent of | them to a scenic $1 ride on the

by senior governments.

| ‘This is one of the best-pre- | chair lift.

to ARDA,”

Miister Alcide Courcy of Que-

meaning Ottawa will write oft |$125,000 of this amount and |financing costs on the rest.

| At present the 83 men clear. of the mountain are being paid

ing from Ottawa and Quebec.

| By next summer, a 7,600-foot

ldouble chair lift — easily: the| Estimates are the project will, thing happens elsewhere. $130,000 im annual rev- | will be, installed and later two jenue forthe Beaupre treasury, | spotted going full tilt in and rapid land develop-| out of several streets in the

longest in Eastern Canada—

| T-bars about 4,000 feet long will |as well as |ment in the rustic area. Land |

go up. Skiers will find the longest slopes and biggest drop in East- ern North America at Mont Ste. Anne. The drop will be 2.050 feet, higher than Stowe, Vt., Mont Tremblant or Mont

in the Quebec City area, the lcity is only 24 miles southwest \of here by geod highway, and the sport is growing in popular- ity.

LURE FOR TOURISTS

The commission will build an | artificial lake and a golf course | on the lower meadows eventu-

Then

| Beaupre

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ies of- existence:

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to sell out. Last year, Beaupre | itself was interested, the idea | being that the municipality | would -expropriate the land for of it, {img the snowy, coniferous slopes | private development.

langer thunder -the--winter--works~—pro-}-what-must-have—been-the—best-+__T'wo_cars_spot_what the y gram, most of the money com-|idea economically to occur in| think is the stolen one. They during its four centur- |

values already are rising.

Anne has possibilities ‘of aj tured. ¢

first - class ski development, ' te’s booked on theft {

which, if laid out properly,| charges. The police depart- |

would be far superior to Mount | ment settles down for the SALE PRICE, ’

St. Castin at Lac Beauport, and nigh pats jw ©

even better than Mount Trem- | en, somebody. remem-. i st ng, : Pair

blant and Mount Orford. bers. adh So s : Each “I know of no better place in| Another ae \y

ithe province for holding major

\ski eg

Si Dawes, former pres- The Commission due Pare du |ident of the Canadian Amateur

Meanwhile, Beaupre’s exam-|Mont Ste.-Anne notes that 1,-|Ski Association, also has said ple th drawing on these pro- 500,000 tourists visit Ste. Anne-/the mountain is ‘admirably grams to develop a natural re-|de-Beaupre, only three miles | suited” to become a major ski |

source is being hailed as an/away, each summer and it |centre.

Electrical Generating Capacity — Is Scheduled For Big Increase

By ALEX MORIN OTTAWA (CP)—The increase

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The statement said the ad- vances in transmission potential also affect consideration of a power grid that would tie the various power systems together.

“to determine the physical and economic possibil-

Canada grid.”

Nuclear power will make its first functional appearance in 1965 with the opening at Doug- las Point, Ont., of a 200,000 kilo- watt plant by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. An experimen- tal plant has been operating at

New owatts;

SEES AS SUPERIOR Norwegian expert Herman Johannsen has said Mont Ste.| escape. on foot, but is cap-

ity to about 6,000,000 kilowatts. Other 1965 hydro increases

forecast by provinces are: Brunswick 35,500 kil-

tario. Apart from the 200,000 kilowatt nuclear power in- crease, there will be a 300,000) kilowatt increase at the Lake-

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MONTREAL (CP)— a policeman’s nightmare a third - class movie-writer’s

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give chase —and catch two other policemen. The same

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Ten cars give chase. thief smashes the cruiser into two parked cars, tries to

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