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Story PAGE-TEN THE DAIL? TIMES-GAZETTE ime ------ gthy History Of Times-Gazette Founded Packed With Interest in 1871, Paper's Files Hold 'Away back in 1871 when men * 'wore beards, took their politics with 'grim seriousness and Oshawa was "still a village, Abraham Farewell, the local member of the provincial "**house, decided that his Reform party needed a newspaper to coun- "feract the. Conservatives who were Daily Times-Gazette, one of 'then - publishing The Vindicator 'here. .. It was this decision of 'Farewell', 7 years ago, which resulted in The the leading dailies in Canada. For through the trials and tribulations of wars and depressions, the un- broken line can be traced back to the old Reformer, as Farewell call- ed his paper. - By modern standards, the Re- former, frankly a partisian news- .; style was pedantic, its paper, would be hard to read. Its sentences .-dong and its "news items" slanted $0 its politics. ¢ But, as time went on, partisan- gave way more and more to rei and moderation in political affairs: and this was reflected in the changed attitude and policies of the publishers. This emancipa- tion was hastened during World War I when a Union government was formed in 1917 and party poli- tics were largely. forgotten. 'The -fame of the publication was chang- ed on July 1, 1927 to the Oshawa ~~ Times, & name deemed nfoere appro- priate for a non-partisan newspa- per. "The change in name does not indicate, any change in the policy of the paper," the proprietors stat- 2d at that time. "On the contrary, the new name is intended to re- present more' correctly the policy -- which has prevailed for the past ten years during which the Reform- er has been independent of any of County news relating to one political party lor sectional group, but all the news. ! Whether or not The Times-Gaz- etre agrees with the policies or aims of all various local groups or organ- izations, it is its stated policy to re- psrt and publish accounts of their meetings and activities as a legi- timate news service to its readers and the community. W. R. Climie First Editor First editor of the Reformer was W. R. Climie of Bowmanville and the first issue, a four page sheet, came off the press on the first Fri- day in April, 1871. Oddly enough the first issue was secured by the late W. F. Glenn, a prominent member of the Conservative party and bitter foe of the Reform party. Ang stranger still, it was the same Mr. Glenn, who, about a year later, bought out the Reformer although he had staunchly opposed its es- tablishment in the first place. Under the management of Mr Glenn the newspaper and printing plant flourished for three years un- til a great depression hit the .na- tion. In 1875 he sold out to Samuel Luke and J. S. Larke who also pub- lished the rival Vindicator. The Reformer weathered the great depression under the manage- ment of Messrs. Luke and Larke, but on July 1, 1879, they sold it to the late Edward Muady, who pub- lished and held a controlling inter- est in the paper for more than 40 years until his death in 1921. In 1905 he took into partnership with him, his son, Charles M. Mun- dy and they successfully operated {under the firm name of E. Mundy {and Son until 1910 when E. Mundy |and Son sold out to the Reformer | Printing and Publishing Company {Limited with Edward Mundy still | president and his son secretary- |classed as one of the leading dail- 'es the province. died in 1943. A. R. Alloway, in 1919, succeeded Mr. McLeese as editor of the Re- former and at the same time the newspaper began publishing as a. semi-weekly, A year later it be- came a tri-weekly, publishing on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. | The tri-weekly was published un- til 1925 when the Mundy Printing | Company, Limited was established and took over the Reformer, It then began publishing as a daily Mr. Alloway and his associates, gained rapid headway until it was ith rapid development in the newspaper field and in job printingy the building which 'was erected in 1914 to house the enterprise was taxed to capacity and in 1927 it was decided to build a large addi- tion to the south of the existing property. A year or so after the outbreak of World War II, shortages of manpower and material cut deeply into the printing and publishing business. Newsprint and other items necessary in the publication of a paper became increasingly scarce and coupled with that the numer- ous enlistments of 'Times men left a depleted staff. Canadian firms were asked to help in the all-out war effort by simplifying and re- stricting their operations in every possible way. Due to the necessity of effect- ing war-time economies, the Times reverted back to a tri-weekly in 1942 until such time as it was feas- ible to publish a daily again. A further economy was made possib- le by the amalgamation of the Times with The Whitby Gazette and Chronicle, to form one news- paper to serve both communities. The amalgamation and reversion and under the able editorship of | The Times-Gazet| equipped. Above Agi to a tri-weekly were announced at the same time and the first issue of the new Oshawa Times-Gazette appeared on January 3, 1042. Becomes Daily Paper geographically, eocially and in many other ways, they would be best served by a single, well operat-- subsequent history shows that this feeling was well justified. A sec- | their way.' It was felt that since the two might communities were so closely linked (worthwhile newspaper. lof the paper will be open tion of the Times-Gazette is daily (times ded in the pr The motto Is one that well be adopted by any "Such comments as may be made editorially will be the opinions of the paper's publishers and editors ed, long established newspaper and [and will be offered as such without {rancor or prejudice. The columas at all for similar expressions of has its own photographic depariment, completely ff photographer-reporter "Mickey" Carlton inspects a negative for density prior to making an enlargement. The Times-Gazette photographio darkroom is equipped with the latest type of equipment required to handle the vast number of news and advertising pictures of a daily newspaper. After pictures are taken, they are developed and printed with remarkable speed. Flin Flon, Man.--(CP) -- In this northern Manitoba mining town they're chuckling over a story which appeared in the London Daily Mail April 4. The story arose from the recent discovery of uranium ore near here. It resulted from long-distance tele- phone conversations a Deily Mall reporter had with George Brans. combe, co-discoverer of the uranium deposit, and Cyril Steventon, mayor of Flin Flon. Said the Mail's story: "Over the Transatlantic 'phone last night came the Canadian voice of Mayor Cyril Levinson (should be Steventon). "It sald. 'We sure are booming.' "This was the voice of Flin' Fin, base of uranium rush which is tak- ing men and women from all over Canada to a get-rich-quick pros- pect at pine.ringed Lake Judick, 30 miles away." 'The story went on to quote Mayor Steventon as saying: "Hundreds of 'em are coming in; some have got their tucker and kit and some of 'em haven't. Some've got ski cars, some dog teams, and some'll just have to walk, and it'll be mighty hard going. If many more light in here to Flin Flon, we won't know where to put em." The Mail then attempted to des- cribe the boom area: "On the shores of Lake Judick, tents, bivouacs and log cabins are going up on claims which their | owners hope will make them rich (overnight. Their food, stores and equipment go by sled from Flin Flon, London Paper Scoops Uranium Rush of 1948 frontier town of wooden buildings housing 7,500 trappers, prospectors and ranchers." Then there was a reference to the Canadian government's announce- ment of the find. Some residents of Flin Flon (pop- ulation 10,000) said it appeared the English reporter shared the belief of many of his countrymen that to be a real Canadian one must have'a ranch somewhere in the offing. The story concluded with a' re- mark attributed to Mr. Branscombe: "But it takes a long time working a uranium mine, and thar"s a power of these get-rich.quick boys who-are going to be disappointed." Australia Now Gets Softwood From New Zealand » » By LESLIE BRODIE Canadian Press Correspondent Brisbane, Australia--(CP) -- Aus- tralia has turned to New Zealand for the softwoods she received from Canada before the war, An agreement has been signed whereby Australia will exchange hardwoods for New Zealand soft- woods. DoNar shortage and shipping space is given as the reason for the barter agreement, New Zealand plans to export around 35,000,000 board feet of pine to Australia during the current year. logged in Australia in 1939. The New Zealand government planted huge areas with pine before the war and now has 800,000 acrés of softwood forests giving her enough to supply home needs and leaving sufficient for a valuable export trade. Australia's own softwpods forests are threatened with extinction with- in 'the next six or seven years. But by. world standards softwood tim- bers grow quickly in Australia and today's plantings should yield sub-" stantial quantities within 10 or 12 years. Australia has about 230,000 acres under forests, according to latest figures available, and with Queéns- land's p ogram to plant 200,000 acres with hoop and cypress pines it is hoped that the leeway can be made up with only a few lean years in the early 1950s. The present shortage of softwoods has been caused by the indis- criminate logging of native timbers on private properties. No attempts have been made #0 regenerate the natural forests and, as they were on private property, the forestry de- partments were unable to interfere. Before the war the Queensland forestry department had an ambi- tious plan to make Australia in- dependent of imported softwoods but it had to be shelved when war broke out and the country lost five years' planting. In the 200,000 acres' Queensland is planting will be some Canadian and American speeies of pine. Cana- dian pines have been planted along the banks of the Mary River and in the Glasshouse Mountains district in Queensland. Roads are being built through the timber nursuries and adequate funds have been allotted by the govern- ment for the reforestation of both soft and hard woods. Times-Gazette classified ads pay This is almost a quarter of the total | --Why not try ome today? -- devoted to news of Whithy. At the time of the amalgamation of the Oshawa and Whitby papers, the management said of the new Times-Gazeite: "Its first obliga- tion will be to publish the news, all news, without color or comment. As a rule we believe the people them- selves are the hest judges of any situation, providing only that they have all the facts before them. The motto cf a great chain of newspa- pers in the United States is 'Let ia the light and the people will find opinion on any current topic by any of its readers. In fact, such ex- pressions of opinion will be invited and welcomed." Only this month, a new company | with an Ontario charter, the Osh- | awa Times, Limited, took over the publication of the paper from the Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, Limited, with A. R. Alloway as pre- sident, T. L. Wilson as vice-presi- dent and managing director and V. A. Henkelman as treasurer and bu- siness manager. political party. The publishers have | treasurer, and still in control of felt for some time that a name hav- |the company. ing a distinctly political signifi-| Owing to advancing years, Ed- cance was not appropriate for a 'ward Mundy - retired from active newspaper that was seeking to give [editorship of the pgper at that political parties equally fair and [time and was succeeded by F. M. impartial treatment. The new name | Chapman and later by A. 8. Me- will, it is heped, completely remove | Leese. The newspaper and job the ambiguity which has existed." |printing plant continued to flourish Aad today, more than ever in its | under the new comrany and fol- history, the newspaper, now known | lowing the deatth of Mr. Edward . 88 The Times-Gazette, feels that |Mundy, control passed into the "the essential function of a news- [hands of his son who continued as paper is to print news, not merely | president of the company until he y Hi Rp ---------------- ALDERMAN CLIFFORD HARMAN ALDERMAN SAMUEL JACKSON JR. i ifs 4 ! f wre TO THE "OSHAWA TIMES LTD. ON THE COMPLETION OF THEIR NEW MODERN BUILDING ALDERMAN : ALDERMAN RUSSELL D. HUMPHREYS ALEX, S. ROSS The Council of the Corporation of the City of Oshawa joins with the citizens in extending congratulations to the manage- ment and staff of The Times-Gazette on the occasion of the completion of their new building additions . . . the growth and is repr tative of the expansion of our own daily newspap development of our city and we sincerely hope that during the days that lie ahead The Times-Gazette will continue to render the same efficient services to the cily in all its ramifications, and that as a result both the newspaper and the city will con- tinue to grow and develop in stature and in national prominence, Arvond Agel allens MAYOR, CORPORATION OF CITY OF OSHAWA ALDERMAN ALDERMAN RUSSELL G. SPROULE RAE HALLIDAY HOUSEWARES REE EI TY SEE EEL LL LTt re hn rat er Tid fea da tat als Te th part ta (ARAL TT TOT SUE RE WTSI ALUMINUM HOUSEWARES .-- STEP STOOLS IRONING BOARDS - KITCHEN & PLAYROOM STOOLS * MADE IN OSHAWA BY COULTER MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. OSHAWA -- ONTARIO PRET RIALIMN TS RIESE RRRER OLE) TY LER FELL LL Iona eT IRE Tar rE RR I ey ALDERMAN LDERMAN i MRS. EVELYN M. BATEMAN ALDERMAN MICHAEL STARR WILLIAM J. LOCK ALDERMAN G@EPHAS B. GAY